On the road to recovery.
JJ Watt went to the Cardinals. Bama will probably have a full football stadium this fall. And Tiger is in for a long and painful recovery. And that’s about it for sports.
Hopalong
President Sam Houston was born on this day. He shares it with Pope Pius XII, writer (some are trying to cancel) Dr Seuss, baseball legend Mel Ott, actor Desi Arnaz, actress Jennifer Jones, economist extraordinaire Murray Rothbard, commie failure Mikhail Gorbachev, football great Howard “Hopalong” Cassady, the late, great Lou Reed, TNG actress Gates McFadden, rocker Jon Bon Jovi, actor Daniel Craig, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
That is quite the list right there. Now on to…the links!
I guess women really can do anything men can do. Wow, what a weird story.
Yeah, she sure looks comfortable.
Women are lining up to accuse Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct. And the latest one has the receipts.
Speaking of the aforementioned Dr Seuss. We really need to start dividing people into groups: those who would ban books and those who would not. It would make figuring out who is an asshole so much easier.
Get a load of this thin-skinned asshole. She needs to spend less time bitching on twitter, that’s for sure.
If only he was embarrassed about, you know, being a war criminal and illegally spying on Americans without a warrant. But I reckon those are his proudest achievements. Christ, what an asshole.
Yeah, this won’t prevent any perverse incentives or be ripe for abuse. Here’s a better solution: tell the teachers union to fuck off and fire them all.
“But it’s different for my kids!”
Speaking of union teachers: it appears at least one of them is a hypocrite. Christ, what an asshole.
And speaking of assholes, I wish this one would go away. I guess he isn’t aware of the fact that people are free to make whatever movies they want and employ whoever they want to act, direct, produce, or be a grip (whatever that is).
This’ll get your blood pumping this morning. Hope you enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
JC Watts > JJ Watt
Watt about James Watt?
Watt watt, in the bot?
what you did there elicited a sensible chuckle
“Do they speak English in Watt?”
“Say Watt again…I dare you!”
Ricky Watters was no joke either.
Whatcha talking about Willis?
Ethel Waters was pretty tough, too.
I met JC Watts back in my college days. Good guy, though I disagree with some of his political positions.
Re: books,
Anyone else have some sort of weird semi-religious hangup about them? I’m decluttering as part of the puppy-proofing, and I’ve got some books that just suck, but I can’t being myself to throw them away or *shudder* use them as tinder for the burn barrel. Oddly enough, turning Shelters of Stone into a storage container doesn’t seem like desecrating it the way that tossing it into a bag with coffee grounds does.
*raises hand*
I get worked up when someone dog-ears a paperback.
What? You don’t tear tiny pieces off the corner of the page and chew them! *fun fact* I did that when I was wee. It explains a lot.
My mom despaired that I preferred to chew on the new TV Guide and not last week’s. New cover pic, yum! https://cdn.wallpapersafari.com/26/43/YvGs3z.jpg
It’s how I gained my magical knowledge.
Books that just suck:
Skipping to Gamorrah
All of the Brian Herbert “Dune” books
All of the Earth’s Children series
The Shattering
I prefer Skipping to Gamera.
Lol
This made me squint.
Frank Herbert Dune books as well. Remarkably awful.
*disappointed sigh*
Gaaaahhh
I think what we have here, is a failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach.
Bruh
I’d rather donate books than toss them or use them for fire starting.
Unfortnately there’s no HPB here, or that would have been the solution.
Goodwill or the Salvation Army will take them. And you’ll get a tax deduction!
^This, a couple of boxes can add up to a nice chunk of change.
Thrift shops seem to be oversupplied in the last year though, at least locally.
Freecycle / Craigslist free / et alia?
And then they throw them away.
Once I found out librarians and thrift stores throw books out, I got over it and allowed my inner minimalist OCD out.
I will not throw out a book or burn it if I think it has some value to someone somewhere, but yes, I will throw them out.
Also, there is nothing so beautiful as a banged-up, dog-eared (hardback) book that someone obviously loves/d. Bonus for margin notes.
Unless a book is printed on archival paper (which very few are), its got a definite shelf life. Its paper; ultimately, its disposable.
I get it, it pains me to throw out books. But frankly, most of the books that I have thrown out have been paperback fiction; light entertainment. No great loss, really.
And thus is the magic of the ebook.
Mohhje! ?
Yeah, once I saw the library’s heaving recycling bins I became more careful. Shades of Grey can be recycled.
Toxteth!!!
Yeah, I even recycled a bunch of copies of the first edition of my own books when I re-edited and re-published it. If it had an old cover, out it went. It was painful, but it had to be done.
However, someone bought the bound galley that I used for final proofreading.
I am not parting with my stock of dark cover edition Shadowboy paperbacks.
I’ve got some philosophy books like that.
My favorite is finding things that people have tucked inside the book. I started a collection of these things:
– A Polaroid photo of what looks like a high school prom
– A memo dated 1971 regarding a meeting of board members for a local factory
– Some flower petals in a book from the 1850s
Yeah, burning or even just throwing away books, makes me feel real bad. I have donated tons of books to my library.
Little Free Libraries. Those are a thing in the suburbs, don’t know about elsewhere. It’s a self-serve kiosk that folks setup on their property lines and stock with books. Random people borrow, return and contribute books. Might shake them up to get some libertarian friendly books. Generally it’s the SJW virtue-signalling crowd that have those.
There’s a handful of them in our neighborhood and town. I look occasionally to see what’s in there, and the selection is mostly garbage. But I guess reading Sue Grafton is better than not reading at all.
They’re practically outnumbering mailboxes around here, some with more turnover than others. One has a mini dollhouse in the “attic”.
Otherwise, Books by the Yard? Don’t know how one sells to them.
I like Sue Grafton. You could do a lot worse.
Grafton’s publishers refuse to believe xylophone deadly.
This line:
Her “Alphabet Series” mystery novels have sold over 11 billion titles worldwide, next only to prolific page whore Dean Koontz, who has sold an estimated 156 trillion books.
Made me laugh.
LOL
Janet Evanovich. Now that is worse.
We have one at work and there is a lot of Sue Grafton and other mid-tier bullshit. Why do people want to read the same fucking story, over and over and over again?
I’ve probably re-read far more than I’ve read new. Some people are different than others. Go figure.
I rarely re-read, and only then, years after the first read.
And it has to be something that I really enjoyed the first time.
Also I like Sue Grafton. She hasn’t made it onto my re-read list, but her books are entertaining. I don’t need to read Pulizter Prize literature every day.
It’s literary junk food. Janet Evanovich says hi.
Because they like it and it’s comfortable.
Not just suburbs. There’s one around the corner from me.
Yes, me. I have at least ten copier paper boxes full of books that I don’t know what to do with. I should take my own advice and disseminate them among the LFLs around town. Practical problem – removing my name and/or bookplate from them is time consuming.
I did throw away a box of first reader catholic stories from my childhood (Hi, Eddie), but even that made me a bit sad. I had considered turning them in to nightmare trauma collage art, but that sort of thing just isn’t me. Have a piece like that done by crazy xbf; still in storage.
I keep telling myself I need to pare it down to an essential library of reference books and essentials like Orwell, in case something happens…
Speaking of exs and forms which make you not destroy things,
It took me YEARS to finally throw away this shitty cheap mass-market Teddybear that an ex-gf bought me.
Heh. I still have a pair of one ex’s panties out in my memorabilia bin along with a bunch of old letters from when people used to hand write to each other and my year books, old photos and such what not. I’ve been meaning to toss that shit in the fire pit for about twenty years. This Spring is gonna be the time. I’m done with my past, have been for a long while. I don’t have anything familial to pass along.
Poignant, Festus.
It just seems self defeating to hang on to the past. My past was mostly not very happy and who the hell wants to read old letters from my friends who have mostly forgotten me? There’s a reason that I put that bin up on the highest shelf in the shed many years ago. I didn’t want to revisit it and poison my present.
Yeah, I really hate the idea of damaging or destroying books. There are some that wouldn’t kill me to part with, such as Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Commie Mars” trilogy (although the first book wasn’t bad), but I’d still feel bad throwing them away.
Donating them makes more sense, especially to small local libraries that don’t have great selections, however, I also feel bad about sending shitty books to libraries. Shitty, in this case, meaning both bad writing and bad content. Like, I’d feel bad if I found out that the next commie dictator of north america got his start by reading a book I had donated to his local library.
Don’t you people have used book stores?
The ones around here will give you store credit for your stuff. Then you get more books!
They have standards, and won’t buy just anything.
They have been struggling of late and fell on really hard time with the ‘Vid.
I broke down and threw out a bunch of books I no longer want.
I kept meaning to take them to used book stores, but as the used book stores around here are disappearing, that avenue has gone away.
In the trash.
I worked in the bookselling world for a decade-plus, have kept my books to mostly hardcovers, and am down to around a thousand at this point. And yes, I have been dragging boxes of books all up and down the west coast at this point. The answer to getting rid of the ones you don’t want is to 1.) talk to a few used bookstores and see if you have anything they want. 2.) Amazon does buy back books, and this is a good way to get rid of technical books, as there is often a demand for those long after publication. 3.) libraries often accept donations for friends of the library programs, and they then resell them for additional funding. 4.) thrift stores (Goodwill, St. Vincents de Paul, etc.) will take them, but might toss out the ones they don’t think they can sell. But it does take that decision out of your hands, Judas. And lastly 5.) little libraries as Tonio mentioned are a great place to subversively place libertarian literature.
I am very against destroying anything other than mass-market paperbacks, as they are just cheap pulps, and other books can survive centuries. I have handled incunabula (pre-printing press books) that are centuries old, and have found incredibly valuable books in the most innocuous locations (a Rockwell Kent illustrated Moby Dick at a Thrift store, a first of Butchers Crossing at an estate sale).
The University of Oklahoma’s History of Science collection was donated by some hyperwealthy eccentric back in the first (pre-Middle East) oil boom. Some of those books are amazingly tough. They have a first edition of Gallileo’s Discourses… with his notes in the margin for the second edition.
The Rockwell Kent illustrated edition of Moby Dick is valuable?
I used to have that edition. A relative gave me a copy, with dust jacket intact, a long time ago. The dust jacket disappeared a few years afterwards. I know I had the copy when I moved to New England. I don’t know if I still have it.
Yes, but I discovered that getting rid of books is much easier when you need the shelf space for something else.
My bookshelves are in my small home studio. I have about 70 guitar pedals and needed a place where I could access any of of them at a moment’s notice, and the bookshelf is the obvious space. Once that became clear, getting rid of books I know I’ll never read again, such as old college/grad school textbooks, and consolidating became much easier. I was able to get rid of nearly an entire shelf’s worth of books, all donated to Goodwill.
sup’ Sloop
O-H…
I-O!
Will we ever win another basketball game this season? The last ten days has sucked.
Ive been paying more attention to UD than to tOSU. And my Flyers wrecked St. Bonnie last night
But this CoVID shit ruins everything…Car Show was supposed to be last weekend
Anthony Grant was a great hire. He’ll continue doing well, but last year was their big chance and Covid fucked it up.
Go Bobcats!
On a related note — these were being sold in Ireland prior to the GT-BC game in 2016 in Dublin.
The only ones purchases were purchases ironically.
https://thecomeback.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-01-at-10.16.17-AM.png
s/purchases/purchased/g
Still no mention of racist caricatures of the Japanese on his WW2 propaganda posters.
And no mention of the 5000 Fingers of Dr. T!
*immediately texts siblings to find out where our childhood copy is so we can auction it off*
That “Mulberry Street” book was one of my faves when I was 3-4 years old! Those books helped me to read. Noooo!
I guess the offensive imagery is too shocking to bother with providing an example for us to judge ourselves.
Have faith and obey the priests.
You know you’re a racist if…
#374
You look at silly illustrations meant for kids in a Dr. Seuss book and see racist stereotypes.
My daughter likes Mulberrry Street.
Out of stock already on both Amazon and BN.
I am wracking my brain trying to figure out what is offensive about those 2 books.
Re: The Sarah Lawrence prostitution ring, I think that was originally described in Woody Allen’s Whore of MENSA
Also, I lived with a woman who went to Sarah Lawrence, then dropped out to go travelling with her drummer boyfriend and became a stripper, so maybe there’s something in the water there?
Pics or it never happened
It’s Sarah Lawrence.
There’s one out there, I’ll let you find it.
Phillip Rothfus had some sort of contest where people would send in pics of them reading his Kingkiller books, and the winner would get a silver pipes pin.
She won.
She’s topless, hanging upside down on the pole, reading the book using it and her arms to keep it family friendly.
That, sir- is a skill
Well, she did attend Sarah Lawrence after all.
That tale is why I can’t quit you Glibs!
Good morning, Sloopy!
What a great song! Blood is pumping.
So, is Cuomo getting torched to prepare the way for a more acceptable Gov?
It’s so enlightening listening to the newpersxns phrase things. Caesar’s response was described as “paritally answering” the accusations. They haven’t gotten to the point where his responses are described as “debunking” “unproven allegations” yet, so he’s not out of the woods.
He’s getting torched because it’s better than talking about his criminal negligence with the nursing home situation.
^^^THIS^^^
Yep. The nursing home debacle almost certainly involves a number of other people.
The sexual scandal thing is Cuomo’s own personal disaster.
Very good point. It’s a shield for others, a deflection from discussion of bad policy, and a ritual sacrifice.
I mentioned that earlier to a friend via text, when Sean posted the article
“Do you want to be remembered as some horndog that wanted to stick his dick in anything, or the guy that killed 14,000 old people” ?
I’m thinking…
To head off a Harris primary challenge. Someone else here said that the other day.
I, at least, said that, but I’m probably not the only one. I think that, plus they want to get AOC some executive experience. “They” being not the Dem establishment, which needs to consider their reputation country-wide, but the new socialist wing, which is well represented, probably in the Northeast.
AOC
Dems are sacrificing the entire state of New York to their worst ideas?
is that so unbelievable?
Why not? They already did it to california.
It might not be working out there.
Only because the Republicans are blocking and sabotaging all of the Democrats’ great plans.
And Cuomo was a good idea?
They seem to have some self-awareness that you never go full left.
But then again last year happened.
*stares out the window*
Yes, the AG is going to replace him … STRONK WOMYN!
Called that one weeks ago. Democratic Socialists Pounce!
I thought Brennan was a committed subversive for a while, now I’m beginning to think he’s just a needy asshole.
I think he is both.
Didn’t he also convert to Islam as a way of distancing himself from Western whiteness?
Kind of messed up his thinking on Middle East issues.
It’s hard to believe we let someone like that run the CIA.
guy can’t keep his mouth shut and he was top spy.
Both. See also, Fauci, Dr. There have been a handful of people the last 20 years I legitimately hate in public policy because I can’t even respect their sick grift. Fauci and Brennan are both near the top, as neither can stand being out of the fucking spotlight for a second.
I wonder whether Fauci is enough of a megalomaniac to believe he’s saving lives, or just doesn’t give a fuck about the lives he helped ruin.
Probably the answer is yes.
It’s yes. He sleeps very soundly every night knowing he does the right thing.
People like Brennen and Fauci are such swamp people that they can only think of which way the wind is blowing first, and doing the actual job comes last. But, as they get old and slow, they lose any skill they might have had at that and they just look like clowns.
/
I went to a live performance of that. I mean a no shit actual performance in a real auditorium with a full orchestra. It was free. I reject postmodernism.
The links today. My goodness. I can’t even. My teacher friends are not looking forward to having to go back to work here. They are genuinely working to actually teach and do some worthwhile lesson plans for the kiddos rather than just look on helpless as the kids draw MS Paint style penises on all the class notes during zoom lessons. So, there is that. Teachers’ unions here are at least not quite as crazy as their yank counterparts.
*hyperventilating*
Need more covfefe and good vibes. I’m off to try and pull off this ramshackle teams chat meeting with the screen sharing not loading and the confusion and glayvin and the gloyven ayayay.
I’ve performed 4’33” a cappella.
I was touring the Peabody Conservatory with my son and they were bragging about how Cage performed that piece right there in their hall.
It was all I could do to not laugh out loud and make a snarky comment.
Ha Ha! “Sonny” Cuomo getting me-tooed is peak 2021! He’s done. Wish it would have happened to Fredo.
Without his brother’s gigglefests, he is less useful.
They did have a few good months of prop comedy. That’s something.
We’re not getting cash, but the local school district has been giving bags of food out to anyone that wants it for the past year.
They’re doing that in some places around here as well. With no tax or grant money.
The school cafeterias here hummed along throughout the lockdown. They provided meals for the students starting with pickup at the schools, then changing to delivery by schoolbus.
The few students that do go in (teacher’s kids and special education) get free meals at school. The food pickup program is a drive through open to anyone.
Same here. They hand out bags of groceries instead of meals. We don’t take them, but a neighbor dropped one off for us unasked. The bag had a large block of cheese, a bag of onions, frozen meat, apples, and some dairy.
I was surprised to see it was mostly basic ingredients and not already prepared meals. I’d much rather they keep this approach, handing out bags of cheap basic ingredients to anyone who wants to expend the effort of getting one, and ditch EBT cards. Of course, they’ll never end the food stamp
graftprogram so now we have both.They do that here in Oregon, but its paid for by the tax cattle.
Myomer?
Lyle Alzado sheds many tears
I’m afraid I don’t understand the connection for your reference.
Also Ron Gant, on baseball birthdays. I am glad you called Ott a legend, I was going to call him “criminally underrated”. At the time, he wasn’t, but he seems to be lost to history compared to other greats of his day.
No discussion of the EPL match from yesterday?
Everton is now 5th if you adjust the table to pts/game, as they have a game in hand over everyone above them. There is a serious 4-way race for the last Champions League spot.
EPL – who gives a damn?
Considering lots of players from other countries go there to play if they can, I am going with “everyone”.
I’ve lost all interest, much like most of the Liverpool team.
I’m still salty that the dirty play in the first Everton match is what started to derail Liverpool’s season.
#metoo
That was disgusting.
Bullshit, it was a 50/50 ball, nothing dirty, Pickford just sucks. Should there have been a red card? Probably.
It was far less dirty than the Son play that injured Gomes, and an announcer literally said that Son was taking longer to recover from that than Gomes. Also BS, Gomes is still not the player he was before the injury, and Son’s totally deserved red card got rescinded.
You know what play in that game was dirty and wasn’t called? VVD injuring James Rodriguez. It wasnt as long lasting (just months), but it was intentional and out of the run of play.
Van Dick got karmaed.
Sigh, this again. Son’s red was rescinded because he only got the red after the ref saw how bad the injury was (after originally only getting a yellow). He committed a foul you see in every game but because of a cleat stuck in the turf in turned nasty.
Also, not sure why it was even brought up in an Everton/Liverpool argument.
Also also, Gomes was never good.
Because announcers keep bringing it up. Yes, it turned much worse than expected, but ditto for Pickford on VVD, for that matter. It was a foul (well, not really, offside first, so no foul) but nothing out of the ordinary except VVD got hurt bad. For some reason, no announcers are saying that Pickford is suffering worse than VVD.
Leicester are fading pretty quickly, I don’t think 3rd has been locked up yet.
Question:
how do you call this in americanese?
https://p1.akcdn.net/full/591490737.color-expert-spaclu-maner-lemn-40-mm.jpg
It is a tool used to scrape things usually for painting and cleaning and such
Paint Scraper
Or putty knife, depending upon context of use.
Flexible joint knife, flexible scraper, mudding knife, taping knife, flexible trowel.
I would have thought it has a better name than paint scraper…
Some times you need to forgo evocative terminology for a blunt descriptor.
Lamellar separation plane?
Looking at online shopping, scraper will do.
Romanian Prostate Scalpel?
It’s a tool of the Patriarchy.
A tool of white supremacy. It’s for removing color.
OOoohh.. That’s funny
Could also be called a “joint compound knife,” for use with (obviously) joint compound, patching compound or drywall compound (all the same thing, more or less). One that small would be for very small repair jobs on drywall.
Putty knife
Re: John Brennan…I’m increasingly embarrassed that he’s a white male too. That Easter Island headed piece of human garbage is one of the most odious motherfuckers on the face of the planet.
What’s amazing is that you’ve managed to paint him in the best possible light.
The man’s a whiny, catty, mendacious, corrupt, sanctimonious, obsequious, surprisingly unintelligent sack of monkey shit and he’s parlayed all of those negative traits into success. I just don’t get his appeal but whatever.
I don’t get it
https://twitter.com/xbradtc/status/1366370009279127556
I don’t know if you are serious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_von_Count
I know literally nothing of the muppets besides the fact there was a frog and a pig
If you like Bugs Bunny and company (most people do) you would probably like Muppets. Go watch The Muppet Movie immediately! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079588/
Disney just released all the seasons of The Muppet Show and the kids have really enjoyed it. It’s over 40 years old but still has timeless appeal.
Several of the episodes do have trigger warnings, but I view those now as recommendations to watch. The episode where Muppet samurais sang Okrahoma might have needed an extra one.
(However, the fake-fur casts of Sesame Street and the Muppet films are mostly different.)
You have to differentiate between The Muppets and Sesame Street. Both are by the same creator but Sesame Street is a children’s show. The Muppets are a bit more subversive and violent.
Early Jim Henson works were awesomely violent.
https://data.junkee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/count.jpg
I just quoted an Iron Law on econlib.
I also followed it up with this: any intelligent, thoughtful current proponent of the minimum wage is a racist.
Why are you commenting on econlib? Is gliberarians not enough for you?
Sure… say that and bring your Twitter links all over the place here. 🙂
I am not commenting on twitter as I do not have a twitter account
Not enough professional economists posting here.
professional economists – why on earth would anyone listen to one of those?
That’s some fine police work Lou.
Wrinkled pants! When will ball squeezers learn not to leave damning evidence like that?
I know you’re supposed to paint Elvis on black velvet, but what is the preferred subject for metal?
Ozzy.
SP paints OMWC on her collection of rusty can lids.
I understood that she used OMWC to paint her collection of rusty can lids.
And the latest one has the receipts.
Who needs receipts when we are supposed to ///BelieveWomen?
W T F ?
DC is a bureaucratic shithole and this is not surprising in the least.
They don’t hire anyone based on their capabilities.
Yeah none of that is actually true. My wife is the head of contracting for the National Guard bureau. They have had IG down there for 4 weeks and they are completely unable to substantiate any of those allegations. The issue is that the Michigan leadership promised their troops per diem (another $96 per day in addition to the BAH DC locality that they are getting) without consulting with NGB and now that they are be provided meals (very good ones btw) which precludes per diem they have egg of their face and are sabotaging the mission with these claims.
^^ Great info. Thanks!
Gateway Pundit untrue?
Unpossible!
The media had every opportunity to debunk the claims being made but as usual decided to go with the more sensational headline. It is really amusing to look at in abstract. The protections that are in place for the food are pretty astounding.
The vendor is checking 20 percent of the food as it comes out of the ovens in addition the NG has food service personnel embedded at the vendor and at the distribution points (DC Armory and the Capitol) taking temperatures and logging the timestamps on the cartons from the vendor. In addition my wife has her contracting folks embedded at both locations talking to soldiers and eating the meals. This includes all the way up to her deputy a Brigadier General going down there and doing rotations as well as herself a tier 2 SES.
In addition the MA IG has been investigating ever since the two pictures of the undercooked chicken started to circulate on Feb 11 at her behest. DC IG is taking over now that the MA contingent has rotated home. They have been completely unable to substantiate any of the claims of sick soldiers with MedCom or with unit commanders or local hospitals. I think the MA IG said he talked with 2000 soldiers trying to run down all the claims of bad food and has had no luck.
They did a moral meal on Sunday which was Papa Johns Pizza and hamburgers as well as Buffalo wings. Unfortunately one of the vendors subs messed up the a batch of hamburgers and they were undercooked so they had to substitute the Pizza for the 300 undercooked burgers. I am sure the casualties from that event were huge.
As a bit of a maddening tidbit the vendor can no longer deliver to the capital complex as once congress was back in session they were annoyed with the extra congestion and wanted all deliveries to go to the DC armory. This means that the Capital troops have to drive over and pickup their meals at the Armory in batches. Not much NG can do about that.
I stand corrected.
*readies tanto for seppuku*
Six Dr. Seuss books pulled for racist images
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said Tuesday.
So you are saying it is time for a good, ole fashioned book burnin’.
“We hate a lot of what the guy did and stood for but we’ll still capitalize on his name.”
Wait for updated versions like “And to Think That I Saw It on Chicago Avenue”.
A Duke professor says she felt “violated” by ESPN college basketball analyst and radio host Dan Dakich after he used the word “bitching” and made what she called a “sexualized” reference in a Twitter argument that has since sparked a network investigation.
Don’t be such a little bitch about it.
You bastards and your mockery fucked up the livelihoods of Minnesoda influencers! Minneapolis City Council nixes plan to pay social influencers $2000. Which now brings their communication plan budget to a nice, reasonable $1,188,000.
*sad trombone*
BREAKING: People support taxes they think they don’t have to pay, and oppose taxes they think they do have to pay.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1366684625561649160
Twitter is when you’re extremely picky about the correct definition of “socialism”, but very generous when it comes to the definition of “fascism”.
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1366676151825928192
We all pay the inflation tax.
The only thing that gives me solace these days is the fact humanity has always been this way.
Someone buy that guy a pint.
Someone has never seen Jonathon Pie before.
*Googles*
I guess I haven’t.
He’s kind of an angry, British Dennis Miller
“…the late, great Lou Reed…”
LATE? Why was I not informed?
I’m sure he’ll show up eventually.
Fake news.
I really start to wonder what the reaction would have been if Trump in January 2020 decided to limit to non essential travel at borders and impose a 14 day quarantine on all entering the country like Taiwan basically did to fight to cough. I wonder if he did that and was rebuffed, as he would have been, people would still say on twitter he is responsible for every single death.
Pullleeeeeeeeeze!
Trump was going to be blamed for any death no matter what. The Dems needed that to have any chance to win. If his policies had stopped the Rona cold in the US, he would have been blamed for not doing more to keep our NATO allies safe from the Rona too.
Why are they punishing this entrepreneurial girl in Tampa? She should be lauded for starting her own business and at the same time for helping kids protect themselves from the Shambling Blue Curacao Monster.
No reselling loicence?
She obviously hadn’t renewed her FFL.
Good ol’ Joe
The White House, meanwhile, was undertaking a legal review to ensure any statement would be consistent with the president’s commitment to maintaining the independence of the National Labor Relations Board. Officials would not say when the review concluded. However, Klain privately indicated last week that he was looking to feature the president in a video message. Outside pressure for Biden to engage only grew from there.
Finally, late Sunday, the president released the 2 ½-minute video. While he omitted the name of the powerful e-commerce giant, his remarks were seen as an unmistakable show of solidarity with a labor movement that failed to secure anything similar from his recent predecessors.
“This is the most pro-union statement from a president in United States history,” Stuart Appelbaum, president of Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, told POLITICO. “The workers understand who he was speaking to. That is a clear message and it’s been interpreted as such by workers, observers and the media.”
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But union officials said they believed the omission was intentional. By not explicitly telling workers to vote “yes” on the union, the leaders contend Biden was promoting the ideals of the National Labor Relations Act by allowing workers to decide for themselves whether or not to join a union.
“Biden’s fighting for workers, he’s not fighting against any specific company,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), said in an interview. Brown said it was obvious that the Biden statement was directed at the Alabama election. “Amazon executives understand this. Executives in my state understand. I always come down on the side of workers and Biden’s reputation is increasingly that he comes down on the side of workers.”
Let’s completely ratfuck the economy and destroy incentives for entrepreneurship and job creation.
Government jobs for everybody.
What could go wrong with a group of unelected swamp creatures that can force private enterprises to accept a shit deal with the unions?
We are supposed to register for the vaccine for work. The registration wants to know if we have underlying conditions (ok) or work in a high risk occupation including media. I don’t know what to say about that stupidity.
It’s all stupid. The news has been a flutter about “line jumpers!” the past couple days.
All while playing commercials about getting vaccinated, as it’s the right thing to do.
*facepalm*
What!? You don’t think Jim Acosta is the bravest of the brave? He risked everything to grandstand and say all the same things the rest of the media was saying.
Much strong. Very courage.
Interesting. Are they asking or telling you?
We’ve discussed this at my employer and we don’t think most employers are going to mandate it, just “strongly” encourage it by various means.
Messaging at my company has dropped the “at this time” from the we aren’t going to require it. Hopefully that was due to vocal feedback.
They are using the health incentives program to give money for getting vaccinated.
Can we burn Piketty’s book, while we’re at it?
See, that’s the kind of book, if I had a copy, I’d feel bad about destroying, but feel *really* bad about donating to a library.
Back in the days of outhouses, unwanted books had a purpose.
Just bury it then.
In response, Brennan said: ‘I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days, when I see what my other white males [are] saying.’
He continued: ‘It just shows that with very few exceptions, like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, there are so few Republicans in Congress who value truth, honesty, and integrity.’
While speaking on the issue of Republican lawmakers suggesting the capitol riot was blown out of proportion, Brennan said: ‘They’ll continue to gaslight the country the way that Donald Trump did.
‘And the fact that this has such security and safety implications for the American public, and for the members of Congress, again, as Claire [McCaskill] said, it is just a disgusting display of craven politics that really should have no place in the United State in 2021.’
This dishonest motherfucker.
Swamp gonna swamp.
Yes, a bunch of idiots doing what amounted to little more than a panty raid on the capital is way worse than attempting a soft coup against a duly elected president. Jackass.
One of the biggest mistakes Trump made was not going after the likes of Brennan and Clapper with everything he had in what I believe to be the misguided hope that they’d take it easy on him in return. Even having to deal with the mafia didn’t prepare him for the likes of those scum.
The mafia understands that the business has to keep running in order to extort money from them.
I don’t even think that calculation entered in his mind. He just figured most of this shit was for the cameras and behind the scenes it just worked like a business when he came in and people would just do what he wanted. His biggest mistake was getting rid of Bannon because he thought he wanted to wage too many internal wars with the bureaucratic class, but Bannon at least knew what they were up against.
This
The drunken hobo knew what was up.
Bannon has at least understands just how many rice bowls get upset with just basic policy or regulatory changes at this point.
Yeah, Bannon’s kind of an unappealing fellow but he’s nobody’s fool and he knows the game that’s being played. Smart guy…
There must be a lot of truth in this. In the private sector, you do what the boss wants or you look for a new job, mostly. There is some wiggle room to do things your way, but you need to be producing, especially if you work for a private company and the boss owns a large share. The biggest lesson Trump had to learn was that in politics, your underlings and their divisions can work directly against you and be insulated from consequences.
The fact that he never really learned this, or never found a way around it or addressed it effectively, was his downfall.
How is he not embarrassed a about being the incompetent jackass CIA station chief in Riyadh when the Khobar Towers bombing killed 19 U.S. servicemen? That kind of fuck-up gets people in normal jobs immediately fired.
He gets to play the “I remember when that happened, and we learned valuable lessons and will never let that happen again. Someone who hasn’t been through that kind of situation won’t know what to look for and how to recognize potential failures before they happen.”
In some cases, there’s some merit in that logic, but the particulars matter.
I don’t know what to say about that stupidity.
Tell them you conduct risk analysis, and find the “need” less than compelling.
Who wants to bet that the Biden administration has restored Brennan’s Top Security clearance?
You know because he is sooooo trustworthy.
Brennan said: ‘I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days, when I see what my other white males [are] saying.’
There’s an easy solution for that. Get some shoe polish and blackface up.
He could always take the Rachel Dolezal route and identify as black.
See, I was thinking he could do something about the whole “male” problem. Start hitting the hormones and book your surgery, or GTFO.
I don’t object to his skin color. Just to the fact that he is a fucking evil communist (red) Obama stooge that was part of the original criminal cabal that spied on American citizens and political enemies (I repeat myself) hoping to rig the 2016 election for the establishment approved criminal mastermind.
Why not just kill himself?
Speaking of the Minneapolis City Council…..
Whycome you guys want so many cops during the Chauvin trial?
Yes, Jeremiah Ellison is the son of Brother Keith our AG.
For a state to be so cold and so shitty at the same time, that’s hard to top.
I was listening to the radio the other day in the car–normally don’t, but didn’t have my phone to connect via bluetooth.
There was a commercial on, extolling the virtues of getting a vaccine, masking up, etc. The announcer was using an obviously fake folksy accent and tone. The effect on me was to immediately recoil from the message because of the delivery. I was imagining a coastal elite man, sitting in a studio booth with a checklist of accents, working his way down the page, telling all of us rubes in the flyover country what’s best.
As long as he ain’t in no way tarred.
I think the spelling closer to “tahrd.”
Ad Council / local health .gov? They are the only ones who can easily afford air time lately.
Toby Young has said that government have historically always been content to buy the full ad rate, whereas private companies would pay at most 10% or so of the nominal price.
Not sure. I shut the vehicle off before the ad finished, so I missed whether they identified the source. It definitely did not sound like one of the local health plans, which have distinctive branding and consistent announcers on their commercials.
LOL Yep, our local radio guy says they sound just like the train robbers at “Silver Dollar City” a damn funny ( unintionaly) commercial.
So, if you turned it off you missed the message that even though we have the vaccine we still need to social distance and wear the mask, now even saying that the “mask protects those who wear it and those around you”! Remember when you wore the mask only for those around you? I ‘member
I routinely hear that on the radio around these parts. It is very off-putting. And I am surprised it is even run on right-wing hate-radio.
https://twitter.com/ThisIsTheWorl18/status/1365275664136491015
was it anything like this?
That’s in Virginia right?
I despise that ad.
PA
It’s almost indistinguishable from the grainger commercial.
We have the same one in SoCal . Or at least it probably is. And yes it feels very manipulative.
“Peaceful protests also include Black rage from the ongoing trauma and pain that has been a result of structural and systemic violence, but that kind of emotional expression is very upsetting to Minnesota’s sensibilities … particularly with a negative emotion,” Cunningham said.
Arson and looting are therapeutic, you dumb crackers.
I hope you are not trying to say that Phillipe Cunningham is wrong! Cunningham is a black transgender person. Questioning his word is a trip on the express train to the camps.
Question: On the Intersectionality Score Card, do women who want to be men score the same as men who want to be women? I would think men->women would score more, but I am not an expert in the nuances of victimology.
Guy infiltrates online college meeting with TittyPussy meme:
https://youtu.be/Ipbj_DF3Zt8
I couldn’t find the original vid on Twitter but this covers it pretty nicely. Trolling is a bit passé nowadays but this was well done, the faces of the people on the meeting are priceless.
troops are being kept in dc for the state of the union which as of yet hasn’t even been scheduled and I’m not entirely positive Biden can even survive a two hour address without a teleprompter. My guess is they are waiting for something to distract from the fact it will simply be a letter published in media.
If only it would go back to the written format and stay that way.
hear hear!
Although, maybe forcing senior leaders to face the public and make a coherent presentation of their proposals and results might be a good thing. The SoTU address is probably not the right format and venue, however.
These fuckers need to be subjected to people who are willing to ask the tough questions and post the answers to YouTube.
Except we have Joe Biden now. We need to wheel him out and rub the voter’s noses in what they did.
Yeah, people need to be reminded of this as often as possible.
And they won’t–consider how many gaffes and misstatements by GW Bush and Trump were continually highlighted in media vs how many of Obama’s, Clinton^2’s, and Biden’s are/will be glossed over.
Lest I sound like too much of a Trump fan, I have to say that I disliked his public persona and speaking style as well–his flaws deserved to be highlighted, but the media covered for Obama’s flaws incessantly.
“If, umm, umm, if if if if if if if if if, umm…
Greatest orator of all time!
TMITE
“It will simply be a letter published in the media”
Wrong motivation, right result.
It’s not a SOTU, it’s an address to a joint session of Congress.
/pedant
I’ve noticed its a SOTU (in the media) when a new Dem President does it, but a mere address to Congress when a new Repub President does it. Obama’s first speech was almost universally referred to as a SOTU by the media.
They should force every President to give the SOTU in the Thunderdome.
“Latinos are almost completely missing at the @goldenglobes – it’s unsurprising and unacceptable,” the San Antonio native politician said. “The film industry must address the pernicious lack of opportunity and representation of Latino Americans. The stories that Hollywood tells affect how entire communities are perceived.”
There are absolutely no famous Hispanic actors. None. No representation. ///GoldenGlobesSoWhite
Edward James Almost.
No one is stopping this person from making their own movie.
And AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is using the president’s new message to advocate for the swift passage of Democrats’ Protecting the Right to Organize Act. If passed, the measure would be the first bill to overhaul labor rights since the Taft-Hartley amendments of 1947 to the National Labor Relations Act, which outlawed some organizing tactics and allowed states to enact right-to-work laws. The new bill, among other things, would extend collective bargaining rights to gig workers, overturn state right to work laws, and allow the federal labor board to levy penalties against companies who violate federal labor law. Biden, Trumka wrote in a Monday statement, “has proven he’s willing to speak out and stand with us. Now it’s time to follow words with action.”
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Biden’s move could calm nascent fears that the Democratic Party is losing touch with blue collar workers, particularly around trade and immigration issues. He’s pledged to find a way to pass the $15 minimum wage, and also backed the Pro Act, the long wishlist of union priorities heavily opposed by business and Republicans.
DEMOCRACY.
Not as embarrassed as most of us white males are about him. Asshole.
Cunte
Maybe he can get on some blackface?
He’s not more embarrassed about being him than the rest of us are about him being a retarded dick, that’s for sure.
Yeah, it seems like he’s more embarrassed about his skin color than about being a moron who did a shitty job.
Oops. Stinky Wizzleteats anticipated my comment an hour ago.
Signing out now Glibs. Things are not good but we strive to recover! Best wishes, all!
*Lights Sean signal*
Back in November of 2020, poeple on the internet were left horrified when a girl on TikTok cooked a perfectly good steak in a toaster.
Obviously, this was a crime against humanity that had to violate more than a few laws. And if it didn’t, it should have.
That was the typical reaction to someone cooking a delicious, juicy steak in a freaking toaster.
Professional chef Craig Harker, however, was not one of those people who reacted that way.
Instead of filing some sort of injunction against the TikToker to prevent her from ever cooking anything ever again, he decided to try it out for himself.
In fairness, I don’t know that he saw the same video I am talking about here, but he does admit to the Mirror that he saw some video online of someone cooking steak in a toaster, and so even if it’s not the same video, my outrage still stands.
I saw that.
Faith in humanity gains a point.
Still would – the girl, not the steak.
*cue juvenile steak comment*
Catching up from yesterday, I clicked on Animals weekly article. The girl in the photo counting money is a girl I went to high school with. She moved to LA to
becomefail as an actress. Her name is Patty Guggenheim.“Andrew Cuomo faces investigation into alleged sexual misconduct”
Verdict: Not woke enough.
I gotta say, from what I’ve seen (and I haven’t studied it), its some pretty weak tea. The latest one seems to be a reporter complaining he and his staff weren’t nice enough to her. One of them was just a pushy come-on that apparently had no quid pro quo or even much follow-up. He’s a dick, sure, and another #metoo torpedo circles back on the Dems, but I’m getting tired of the clown nose on/clown nose off routine of these strong, accomplished, fierce women wilting like hothouse orchids under pretty meh conditions.
Sure. They have to cancel Cuomomafioso and replace him with someone more woke, like De Blassholio.
Rage is Peace.
Freedom is Conformity.
Weakness is Strength.
I agree. There’s some glee at watching it, but I loathe the idea that “He asked me about my personal life” is somehow painted as sexual harassment.
This media is trying to provide cover for themselves. They’re the ones that claimed Cuomo was a star because of his Covid response, only to be forced to show his evil incompetence. The media not take being made to look foolish by their own champion well, and this is payback. They could make this sexual assault stuff disappear in a flat second if they chose. That they aren’t means he’s now toast.
At a certain point, questions about one’s personal life can cross the line
Needz moar hobgoblins
Questions about the FBI’s preparations for the riot, and investigations into it, are expected to dominate Wray’s appearance Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He’s also likely to be pressed on how the FBI is confronting the national security threat from white nationalists and domestic violent extremists and whether the bureau has adequate resources to address the problem.
The violence at the Capitol made clear that a law enforcement agency that revolutionized itself after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to deal with international terrorism is now scrambling to address homegrown violence from white Americans. President Joe Biden’s administration has tasked his national intelligence director to work with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to assess the threat.
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Wray may also face questions about the FBI’s investigation into the massive Russian hack of corporations and U.S. government agencies, which happened when elite hackers injected malicious code into a software update.
Diligently searching for threats and scapegoats. That’s his job.
White domestic terrorism is so bad that even the cathedral notes the only death attributed to right wing terror since the beginning of the pandemic was a clear cut case of self defense.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/war-comes-home-evolution-domestic-terrorism-united-states
I smell bullshit, probably from the conflation of “plots and attacks”. We saw daily left-wing riots in major cities throughout the year. Were those not counted at all, not counted as “left-wing”?
Those were mostly peaceful protests…
Then why do I keep reading about dozens killed in the antifa riots?
Those aren’t considered terrorism by their reckoning.
The girl in the photo counting money
Very pretty, but kinda bony.
P. Brooks says:
https://memegenerator.net/instance/66413733/neckbeard-elbows-too-pointy-would-not-bang
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Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato head cancelled in the space of one week. What’s next? Space Ghost? Johnny Quest? The Beatles? The Wizard of Oz?
My entire childhood will be cancelled before this stupidest of stupid years is over.
The way you can tell if someone is on the right side of history, is that they’re the book burning advocates. We have to erase all history before we can recreate it to make Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot the good guys.
/welcome to the glorious woke future
Brian Steltzer got cancelled? How did I miss that?
Humpty has not been cancelled yet, woke enough.
Sounds like the avatar of woke progressivism.
The Wizard of Oz?
Did you see the way they used those
midgetslittle people?Horses of different color? Racist!
I met someone a few months ago with a John Galt t-shirt who said he was trying to memorize the big speech (about 70 pp.?). I thought he was odd at the time…
Mr. Potato Head is back.
“Capitol is on high alert with almost 5,000 National Guard troops on the streets amid bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory that Trump will be made president again in two days”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9315089/Capitol-high-alert-QAnon-followers-believe-Trump-president-three-days.html
Your tax dollars at work.
That’s some quality trollin there.
And they will continue to find new dates to continue this. Just like the WuWho Flu…people tolerate it
Rumors of a celebration of an armed revolution happening in July requires us to maintain a military presence in the capitol.
APRIL 15th! THE TAX DAY MASSACRE!
And nothing else happened.
Thank you, 8Chan.
It’s undoubtedly a sampling issue, but it seems as if I constantly hear about those fucking shots.
“Did you get yours?”
Are you gonna?”
Last night somebody asked me, and I said I’d let somebody else have mine. He didn’t know how to respond.
Just tell ’em you’ve been going to speakeasies and underground concerts and boxing matches all along and haven’t got sick yet, so why would you need it?
No need to worry about that here in deep blue Maryland, there ain’t no vaccines.
For my hobby painting work, I have little 0.4 oz pots of paint in a wide array of colors, some of which get used for the occassional small dot of pigment less than a milimeter across on a larger model. Because the usage rate is what it is, these paint pots sit around for a while and if not regularly shaken or stirred, the pigment tends to settle out.
For a while now, I’ve been wondering if an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner can re-integrate the settled pigment aort of like a paint can mixer in miniature. I wanted to sanity check the idea before running out and buying one.
Do you glibs think it would work?
Interesting question. I have an ultrasonic cleaner I could test it in, if I find an old jar of model paint lying around.
My surmise is that it might work on those paints where the pigment settles, or where it has thickened due to moisture loss (and been given replacement water) but not on paint that’s been able to fully dry out.
Huh. Look at that.
I just get a big giant red X on the screen.
https://smile.amazon.com/Robart-ROB411-Paint-Shaker-Powered/dp/B0006O7M9W
Maybe this will work for you. It’s the plug in version and little pricier than above.
Using the info from the URL I found the Manufacturer’s page and the first thing that came to mind was “On it’s side? The top will pop off and paint will go everywhere”. Especially because most of my paint pots have pop tops instead of screw caps. So I would worry about that particular implementation for that particular reason (accidentally opening the paint is one of the problems I want to avoid, since it has happened hand-shaking them)
Tape the lid on?
Can you wrap the paint pot in a heavy rubber band?
Maybe.
I know my phrasing could have been construed as rejecting the device, but I was just thinking
out loudin text. Better to have planned for it than to have to clean up afterwards.CivilServant?
Don’t blame me that upper management ignores our warnings about their stupid ideas.
These dorks say it doesn’t work very well.
https://swchq.proboards.com/thread/263/ultrasonic-cleaners-good-mixing-paint
They mention alternatives that work bettah
Get a shaker.
https://tactilehobby.com/acrylic-paint-mixers-and-agitators/
Fwiw I’ve tried the glass balls in the container and they don’t do anything from my experience.
Retard Grand Melee
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren faces an uphill battle persuading Washington to back her tax on ultra-millionaires — starting with convincing her own party’s Treasury Secretary.
Janet Yellen, whom Warren praised last year as an “outstanding choice” to lead the Treasury Department, fears a wealth tax would be too messy to implement.
“Then Janet and I need to have a conversation about implementation,” Warren told CNN Business on Monday after introducing her Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act.
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“We designed this wealth tax by building on the experiences of other countries that put together a wealth tax and weren’t always successful,” Warren said in the interview. “We saw where the mistakes were and made sure we tightened it up.”
Them rich folks will never outsmart her. She’s a Harvard professor.
“Then Janet and I need to have a conversation about implementation,” Warren told CNN Business on Monday after introducing her Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act.”
Here’s the conversation.
Lyin Squaw: Just remember, we’re not going to actually tax any millionaires, like you said, too messy.
ButchDykeCunte: Oh, yeah, that’s right, we’re going to tax the fuck out of that middle class.
Lyin Squaw: Yes, those making over $30,000 a year?
ButchDykeCunte: Exactly, that’s $15 an hour, that’s why we need to pass it, more millionaires to tax!
In unison: Cackle cackle, cackle, cackle!!!
I’m not sure the play is here. I think Warren is 100% acting and her whole “attack the rich” schtick is fake. She immediately dropped it to attack the reddit little people when they started bankrupting the wealthy hedge funds. That was telling.
My guess is that there will be plenty of provisions that shield and protect the ultrawealthy from any wealth tax. The real goal is to get it to implemented, protect the wealthy, and then drop the lower income limit until it starts soaking the middle class. It will also cause small, family-owned businesses to shutter left and right, which will consolidate businesses under the large corporations.
Nevermind, that’s the play right there… soaking the middle class and consolidation of businesses among gov cronies.
Warren is a grifter. You need look no further than the CFPB abomination to understand that.
“We designed this wealth tax by building on the experiences of other countries that put together a wealth tax and weren’t always successful,”
Always good when the starting point is failed policy.
Stalin could have made it work.
Critics argue that taxing wealth would be challenging, if not unconstitutional. In particular, there are concerns about how to value assets and prevent the wealthy from hiding cash overseas
Yellen, the former Federal Reserve chief, said last week at a DealBook conference that she isn’t planning a wealth tax like Warren’s because it’s “something that has very difficult implementation problems.”
“People say, ‘Well, rich people cheat so we shouldn’t even try to use a wealth tax,'” Warren said. “But if rich people cheat, that doesn’t mean we should just give up and let them pay taxes at lower rates than everyone else. That means we need to hire more enforcement and make them follow the rules.”
Warren’s wealth tax comes with teeth.
The legislation has a built-in audit rate of 30%, meaning every year nearly a third of all families would be audited. And the bill calls for boosting the budget of the IRS by $100 billion to build up the agency’s audit firepower and modernize IT systems.
The Warren plan also proposes a 40% “exit rate” on the net worth above $50 million of any US citizen who renounces their citizenship to avoid paying the tax.
“Once you’ve got the wealth tax in place, it’s not very hard to monitor year by year. If last year you owned real estate, this year you either better own that same real estate or have a lot of cash that you took in a sale,” Warren said
She finds our commitment to totalitarianism lacking in intensity. Believe, damn you!
It’s a good thing we got that authoritarian monster Trump out of there.
And the bill calls for boosting the budget of the IRS by $100 billion
There goes the revenue from the first, what, $3TT of wealth they will tax under this plan.
But none of this matters. This ain’t passing because the Dems are the party of the billionaires now.
Hurry up and finish that wall to keep the tax cattle in.
They are planning to tear it down, due to “environmental concerns”.
I can hardly wait for the back to back stories this summer of
(1) tens of thousands of illegals crossing the border and disappearing into the populace under catch-and-release avd
(2) footage of the wall being torn down.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Flight_Tax
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson–Vanik_amendment
One for you, nineteen for me.
There are compos mentis survivors of that policy who can describe the sequelae. Many of them are famous enough that they don’t need to be interviewed again.
We have to kill democracy to do it over again the right way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Flight_Tax
I had assumed that this had something to do with the Malevolent Midget.
I had too but it predates his power. But like many laws of Weimar Germany, it was fully embraced and utilized by the Nazis for their own ends.
Oh shit, just realized the Malevolent Midget probably referred to the one currently living.
“People say, ‘Well, rich people cheat so we shouldn’t even try to use a wealth tax,’” Warren said. “But if rich people cheat, that doesn’t mean we should just give up and let them pay taxes at lower rates than everyone else. That means we need to hire more enforcement and make them follow the rules.”
Rich people cheat, so we shouldn’t even try to reduce their influence on government.
let them pay taxes at lower rates than everyone else
Love the way she slipped that stolen base in there.
For income tax, they don’t. The only way you get to po’ folk paying rates comparable to rich folk is to include payroll taxes.
re: throwing away books.
I did not think there were books a thrift store wouldn’t take, until I tried to downsize my mothers collection of religious fiction (long story). My mother, bless her heart, has terrible taste in books.
Anyway, the people at the three different thrift stores didn’t even flinch when they said they wouldn’t take that stuff. They said they couldn’t give it away.
It costs money for them to process the stuff they get.
Plus, he’s talking about dangerous Christian literature.
Thrift stores got woke now too? It’s all over.
“Can’t give it away” suggests the market has spoken.
No doubt, good thing they didn’t take any Mr. Potato heads or Dr. Seuss books in there, they probably would have made her pay just to take them away.
Yeah, I have bought some books from online sellers that had library plates/catalog numbers in them…I’m pretty sure that when libraries prune their collections or receive new editions/cleaner copies of books they already have, they raise funds by selling what they can, and discard the rest.
No reason to think that thrift stores wouldn’t be sensitive to wasting labor or shelf space on processing things that won’t sell.
There’s no such thing as something that won’t sell. People will buy any damn thing.
So at the fourth one you Left those Behind?
Mo: Apparently, the market for this kind of thing is almost nonexistent. I was told that the little old ladies that read this kind of thing read the books and then pass them to their friends or put them on community donation/sharing tables. Which correlates with my anecdotal experience.
Hyp: I don’t think its about wokeness rather than they the fact that they just don’t sell. If you can get them for free off of a table or ten cents a pop at yard sales, why pay three dollars at a thrift shop? Gotta be frugal, if not parsimonious, don’t you know.
PT: Ha. Yes, you could say that.
Yeah, sure, right as flu season is about to ramp up again.
Emanuel responded, “Chris, if we were asking people to hang on for another year, right, next March, next March. I would understand that. But that’s not what is at issue. What is at issue is another couple or three months until we have enough people vaccinated that we can safely phase in more normal life. And by the end of September or October, have a real return to normalcy. That’s not too much to ask. And really, what’s at stake here by taking off that mask, by dining indoors is really thousands of peoples’ lives. That just doesn’t seem like a very big burden to save other peoples’ lives, and maybe even your own life, if you happen to get COVID and react badly.”
He further stated that the best and quickest way to get to normalcy is “to adhere to these public health measures, just a couple or three or four more months.”
It is just 2 weeks to flatten the curve, comrade.
It’s starting to feel like they’re preparing us for an alien invasion or something
Too late, the lizards are already in charge.
It’s not too much to ask from people who haven’t lost any of their fucking income.
yet?
All solutions involve getting more revenue. We can start with a $15 an hour minimum wage, then up that to $40 an hour and increase federal income tax to 60% and impose a VAT tax. That’s why in Europe everyone is happy and everything is free.
weeks could seem like years
By the book.
Look fats, if people start returning to “normal” too soon they might realize that hordes of people didn’t die. And then they might start wondering if lockdowns did any good at all. Can’t have the proles questioning experts.
The public health experts are hoping that they can convince us to stay locked down long enough for a face saving retreat.
Last year, the bottom 99% of households paid about 7.2% of their total wealth in taxes, according to Warren. The top one-tenth of 1%, however, paid just 3.2% of their wealth in taxes.
Wage and price controls would fix that.
Don’t forget artificial shortages, that always helps too. Plus the bonus of, if we can just become more 3rd world, that might be like becoming less white.
I also paid many times what my cats are worth in taxes.
Now do income. Since that’s mostly what we tax. This is like complaining there’s not enough apples in orange juice.
of their wealth
Critical distinction there
And really, what’s at stake here by taking off that mask, by dining indoors is really thousands of peoples’ lives.
Lies, damned lies, and public health expert-ism.
I just dined indoors with no mask (just for the magical journeys to and from the table and the bathroom, where the Vid is known to strike quickly and harshly) and no one I know has died. Sad!
Our national nightmare is finally over! SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE BACK, CAN YOU FEEL IT!!??
The malthusians all committed seppuku to reduce their carbon footprints?
All solutions involve getting more revenue. We can start with a $15 an hour minimum wage, then up that to $40 an hour and increase federal income tax to 60% and impose a VAT tax. That’s why in Europe everyone is happy and everything is free.
I saw an article recently about “Low Wage America” and how the Eoroweenies look down on us for the shit wages people get paid here.
Not shown: The EU “Give with one hand while taking away with the other” model.
They may get a higher nominal wage, but by the time they’re done paying income and VAT, their standard of living is probably not not appreciably better than an American’s.
You may be surprised, but they actually get lower nominal wages, and have a noticably lower standard of living, when you start comparing apples to apples and lifestyle.
Outside of Scandanavia and Luxembourg, the gross median income in europe is lower than in the US.
Net of taxes, well, I’m not even sure those areas can stay ahead.
Living space, mobility, cost of living, etc, europe keeps falling behind.
Hours worked gets interesting because that’s a cultural issue too. We work more hours per annum than europeans (but less than koreans, etc)
The top countries for median income:
Luxembourg – $52,493
Norway – $51,489
Sweden – $50,514
Australia- $46,555
Denmark – $44,360
United States – $43,585
That is, of course, pre-tax. Most Euor countries have lower median incomes than the US.
Top countries by GDP per capita.
The standard of living in almost all of Europe is lower than the US, and has been for a very long time.
Well, compare the taxes on those incomes, USA, about 20% in total taxes, all those other countries, 50-60% + a 20-25% VAT on everything.
BUT FREE HEALTHCARE, DERPITY, DERP HURPITY DURR!!!
And people really do believe that you just walk into any hospital in Europe and immediately get any treatment you need completely for free. It’s a fairy tale version of reality. They never look at the problems with wait times. You have cancer that will kill you in six months, and we’ll get a specialist to see you in 18 months. But it will be FREE!! P
eople don’t get that every single healthcare system rations their care in some way or another.
“And people really do believe that you just walk into any hospital in Europe and immediately get any treatment you need completely for free. ”
Well, you do get it free, I mean for 50-60% of your income. As soon as some unelected bureaucrat decides you can actually have what you already paid for.
They ration it after you already paid out the ass for it. They leave that part out also.
Treatment is free, fast, and high quality.
GB is poorer than Mississippi a fact that never ceases to make me chuckle. Bunch of self righteous Inbred hillbillies those hideous islander are.
This quote keeps going through my mind.
Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.”
At some point the lower wage workers will have the today’s equivalent of 15$ or more per hour. But you can’t wave a magic wand and make it happen overnight. We have to let the free market make this happen.
Most stockings today are nylon.
To be fair, that’s probably what the Queen is wearing, too.
“how the Eoroweenies look down on us for the shit wages people get paid here.”
That’s why all of them will brag about having a better standard of living than all we lowly Murkins, but whine for a fucking week on Steam about paying $15 for a game, and threaten lawsuits against Valve and indie developers.
gah I hate that
They also comment a lot about our larger homes, cars, …
Yes, envy really sucks.
Simple geography and infrastructure. We have a LOT of space here compared to Europe. Even cities built in 1800 have wider thoroughfares and more space built-in than those built in 1300 or 1400.
My last job was for a big European country and I worked with lots of Europeans while there.
They loved to tell us how bad we were because we didn’t have govt healthcare. I would point out that even after we had to pay for health care we ended up with more money than they did.
I almost killed one of them via a brain aneurism when I told him “taxation is theft”. Definitely not part of his world view.
What I’ve also found is that they all seem to think that we drive around all day in giant SUVs with machine guns mounted on top in a modern day version of the wild west. Our 2nd amendment seems to terrify them for some reason.
For some I think it is like people that rage at you for not wearing a mask. There mad that they have to follow these rules and want to drag you down into the bucket with them. Many Europeans (wife is Greek so I know a few) seem to have an underlying jealousy that comes out in fake superiority about “civilized” society and how it is supposed to operate when discussing the 2nd.
I know a bunch of them as well. Most of them live in Germany, at least the ones I talk to all of the time these days.
I am always amused by how eager my “civilized” in-laws are to go to the range and shoot my barbaric overgrown penis extensions when they are in the States though. They never skip a beat in their condemnations about how we live here however.
Overheard at work during the initial ‘Rona panic when food was flying off the shelves and civil unrest seemed a possibility:
“I’m glad I’ve got some redneck relatives who own a shitload of guns. I’d never have one in my house, but I’m glad they do!”
A nice German co-worker asked both of the Americans (me and my writing partner) if we owned guns. We both said we did not because we didn’t feel as if we needed them. I am open to getting one (as is my wife) but it has not been a priority. I was thinking of simply a shotgun for home defense (I have been told that even the racking sound gets a lot of intruders out of the house quickly)
Discussion turned to flying country flags and he said he would never fly the German flag as it was a bit frowned upon by people.
I felt a bit bad for him.
The main downside of a shotgun in my opinion for someone that doesn’t have a lot of experience (I know you didn’t say that just assuming) is they do have substantial recoil even with lower power loads. That can discourage practice (assuming you can find shells lol) and lead to a lack of confidence. Just my opinion of course.
I can’t count how many times I have heard the line about coming to my house when things go south. I have food and supplies for my wife and two GSDs, you show up wounded and bedraggled on my door I will probably try and help you but you better pull your weight at some point.
I would recommend a 20 gauge for someone without experience managing a 12 gauge. I was somewhat taken aback by the recoil from my 12 gauge Benelli, and I’ve put a lot of 12 gauge shells through my Remington. The Benelli is lighter and its been awhile.
I would also recommend a semi-auto. Reliably racking a pump takes enough practice for muscle memory, especially in a high-stress situation. If you blow the rack, you might have to clear the weapon, and then you are screwed.
You don’t have the shotgun to scare them, you have it to shoot them. Scaring them is nice, and preferable, but I think picking up a gun as a prop rather than a weapon is a mistake. I am totally unconcerned about the fact that my shotgun doesn’t make scary noises before it goes bang. Any warnings can and should be optional and verbal, IMO.
It’s pretty brutal. And I have a couple more reasons that my shotgun is not the main home defense weapon:
– Lower capacity
– Less maneuverable in the tight hallways in my house
Oh yes, that has long been a taboo. Only very recently do I hear noises from Germans who might actually consider being “proud” of their country again and most of them are written off as, well, you can guess the rest.
we drive around all day in giant SUVs with machine guns mounted on top
That’s ridiculous. We only drive them on weekends, especially if there is a white supremacy rally.
This aged well.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evb78A8WYAU3a0x.jpg
Consider the source though (authorial, that is; don’t recognize the typeface).
It’s Molly Jong-Fast. She undioubetedly still is.
*googles*
That’s a dude.
///Cuomosexual
Speaking of books, and selling… Yesterday, I was doing a little research, trying to find and price something (aftermarket cylinder heads, not books).
Amazon’s “search” feature is so utterly fucking worthless it would be stupid to try to sell anything in any way out-of-the-ordinary through them. Nobody would ever find your product except by random happenstance.
If I ever get myself relocated and reorganized (*stifles guffaw*) I think I’ll give Abe(?) Books a shot. Amazon would be a wasted effort.
Amazon’s “search” feature is so utterly fucking worthless
No kidding. I can search for the make and model, and what I am actually looking for may not even be on the first page, what with all their “sponsored” bullshit.
You may be surprised, but they actually get lower nominal wages, and have a noticably lower standard of living, when you start comparing apples to apples and lifestyle.
That is not surprising. I have no desire whatsoever to go to Europe for any reason or any length of time, so I haven’t bothered to look closely.
Like it or not, I’m stuck here for the duration. Even on the downslope, we’re still far better than anyplace else.
It might be OK if you retire and just plan on sitting round the village all day, drinking beer and wine, and collecting government bennies. If you have to work and pay the taxes, no freaking way.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvbFp7GWgAIgToP.jpg
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
You start handing out drugs to my kids and we’re going to have a problem. That lunatic is worse than the corner drug dealer. He just wants to make money. That thing wants to validate its own shitty choices by destroying lives.
Theses people straight up no shit child abusers and they aren’t getting slapped down as the monsters they are.
It would not surprise me if Warren’s wealth tax is an opening salvo and bargaining chip for something which eventually becomes/includes a stock market transaction tax.
That’ll show them rich bastards.
“Amazon tweaks app icon after comparisons made to Hitler ”
https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/amazon-tweaks-app-icon-after-comparisons-made-to-hitler/
So tedious.
OFFS! That’s it. Stick a fork in the world, we’re done.
Hey man, see something, say something! Safety first! Those who would put liberty before safety, want you do die!
Why would Hitler have a blue mustache and not a red one?
And CPAC broadcasted nazi symbols…
Does the Navy still have the swastika building on Coranado?
“Of the first sexual encounter between the now 52-year-old male and the then 15-year-old child, the victim told detectives, “It hurt, it hurt a lot and I started crying.” She went on to say that once she turned 16, her alleged abuser told her she was to “lay still and not get hurt” during sex going forward. A sperm sample later found by police on a flag kept in a book closet at the school (which the victim identified as having been used during her assaults) matched Powell’s DNA.
In April 2017, after Powell allegedly took the teen to a hotel room for sex, she conceived a child. Upon finding out, Powell took her to Planned Parenthood to force her to abort her child, where Powell posed as her father. Medical records have proven this claim accurate. The girl was given the abortion pill to chemically starve and destroy her baby, a form of abortion that has killed nearly four million preborn children and at least 24 mothers since it was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2000.
According to police, Powell “would groom young girls by promising to help them get a college scholarship.” Tragically, such accounts of older males grooming and sexually violating young girls are not unique. And Planned Parenthood is notorious for failing to report suspected or explicit incidents of child sex trafficking and sexual abuse. Live Action’s multiple undercover investigations behind the doors of Planned Parenthood have revealed that the nation’s number one abortion provider has repeatedly covered for child sexual abusers who use Planned Parenthood and abortion to cover their crimes.
Powell’s alleged victim said she wanted to tell her story to “make sure he does not do this to other girls.””
https://www.liveaction.org/news/school-security-guard-rape-abort-planned-parenthood/
Acceptability of consentless abortions by minor children has directly led to the chemical castration movement just above. Children can do whatever they want without parental control as long as it’s acceptable by certain fringe elements of society but try to live life as a responsible adult, then the age of majority is suddenly 26.
Especially because one of the explicit arguments used for consentless abortion is that it’s necessary to prevent abusive parents from stopping their children from having abortions.
Dishonest hackery is dishonest.
Probably means he was 15 and a half at the time.
People like John Brennan genuinely disgust me. He has led a charmed life. But, rather than take ownership and responsibility for it, he pushes it off on to the “white man” trope. Nevermind that the overwhelming majority of white men have had nothing even remotely resembling the degree of advantage he’s enjoyed. And nevermind that he’s shown a history of grossly abusing that advantage (he’s a perjurer who’s never been held to account for his offense, as just one example).
Yes, I’ve had some pretty good breaks myself. But, I’ve also worked damned hard and overcome some real obstacles. But, what I don’t do is try to play the moral high ground of pretending those breaks belong to people who haven’t been anywhere near as fortunate as myself.
Looking at Brennan’s career makes you think he was made by other deep state made men. He went from an obscure analyst to CIA Director in no time flat, while fucking up every step of the way.
You want to know how we get a Brennan? It’s a lot like this (and you may want to hold off reading this until you have a drink or two handy).
I am disgusted to be in any way categorized as similar to Brennan.
La, la, la, I can’t hear you, we aren’t to blame!
That article is fucking awesome.
I’d say it’s 100% true. Liberals didn’t ruin Cali. Leftists did.
^
I’m surprised they didn’t drag out Prop 13. They really hate not being able to tax the shit out of old people.
In all honesty I’m surprised they didn’t bring up Reagan.
That’s hilarious. But hey, the solution is simple, right? Just pass a monstrous tax on the tech industry so they move to other states, and then California will finally be the progressive utopia it was always meant to be.
Those same voters overwhelmingly voted for politicians that push those measures.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/541032-bidens-approval-tops-60-percent-in-new-poll
lmao how is this even possible? 31% of gop voters approve of his job so far?
Survey! It’s SCIENCE-y.
You get +2% public approval for every executive order you do, so that sounds about right.
Talk about the masks coming off! /derp warning
So requiring public school teachers to educate minority kids full time is structural racism.
I think that only works if full time public school education is harmful to minorities.
I can hardly wait for the articles 10 years from now wondering why the gap between white and minority kids grew so much.
Not one mention will be made about the teachers’ union locking poor kids out of the schoolhouse while rich kids went to private schools.
Whenever I read something about books being banned I always think of this quote from 1984:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
We have a huge school board election in a couple of months for a some seats on the board it’s an important one. Some of the candidates are woke as fuck and want to turn our school district into a machine of social justice activism while others want to actually continue to educate our children and maintain our high standards without the wokeness. One of the biggest mistakes that libertarians and conservatives is that we have allowed is the infiltration of our school boards by woke assholes. I’m just as guilty for not giving a shit about who’s elected but our apathy is how the Left has infiltrated our educational institutions.
I also recognize too that most of us have other pressing issues like providing for our families that prevents us from going to every school board meeting and waging a war against its members every time they implement something we don’t like. All we can really do is teach our children the tools to not fall for their shit and be independent thinkers along with teaching the values of respect for self and others, individuality, and hard work.
Allwe canreally do isteach our children the tools to not fall for their shit and be independent thinkers along with teaching the values of respect for self and others, individuality, and hard work.^This. Many libertarians and conservatives do not fight the school board because we don’t believe in the premise or legitimacy of the public school system itself. It’s not conceding…it’s a false premise to fight over.
Instead my wife and I teach our children ourselves to be independent thinkers and the values you mentioned.
My wife is a great person but she has a go along with the flow kind of personality whereas I was always the asshole who questioned everything and challenged my teachers whenever I felt as though their shit was bullshit. My wife used to see it as me being combative towards authority but I remarked once that some of the biggest atrocities happened in history because people didn’t ask questions and were too scared to stir the pot before it was too late.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. If you get ‘em young you can fill their heads with all kinds of craziness and they’ll buy in fervently.
Most of my friends who are teachers are people who you wouldn’t mind having a couple of drinks with but wouldn’t want them anywhere near your kid teaching them. And they are woke as fuck. The unfortunate part about teaching educators is that they are told that their job isn’t to merely teach students the content but also to feed their minds with progressive doctrine.
From the Dr. Seuss article:
“Critics also have faulted the “Curious George” books for their premise of a white man bringing home a monkey from Africa.”
LOL. I had a woke friend go off when I mentioned that my daughter watched Curious George. He went on a far fetched rant that Curious George was teaching our children that colonialism was okay and that the man in the yellow hat is evil.
You threw it back at him and pointed out that the man in the yellow hat is obviously China?
How can anyone be against China forging new ties with Africa to fight The Man?
The Chinese are Asian and Asians are the white people of minorities. Also, they are colonizing Africa. Sorta…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/what-is-chinas-belt-road-initiative
The Chinese aren’t the real white people of Asians, those are the Japanese and one of them Koreans.
Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey.
Who are the racists? I would argue it’s the critics.
Curious George isn’t even a fucking monkey, he doesn’t have a tail!
Isn’t he a chimp?
No, he’s a cartoon character.
LIEZ! He’s a picture book character.
You can have cartoons in a picture book, Mr. Writer sir.
Perhaps they’d be o.k. with “Curious George: Bush Meat?”
It didn’t mean much for old Joe ultimately, and he allegedly finger-bang finger-bang finger-bang finger-bang finger-bang finger-bang finger-banged a woman within the confines of the sacred tabernacle of DEMOCRACY aka the Capitol complex. Some people thought that might have killed the #metoo thing, but they forgot that #metoo was just a rebrand of something that had been going on since Bork’s nomination to the SC. Rebrand, relaunch, retreat, repeat.
#believeallwomenexceptfortheoneswhereit‘snotpoliticallyexpedienttodoso
Not very catchy I know.
Joe didn’t move his finger in and out on purpose, he just accidentally touched her there once, and then his stutter kicked in at an inopportune time.
Nothing will happen to him. They’ll replace him with a more woke version and he’ll wind up on the board of some multinational corporation in NYC.
And his only crime is that he called out one of their Wokepostles, the good uber progressive mayor of NYC. Sending a bunch of seniors to their death by confinement in nursing homes doesn’t bother them in the least. Neither do these #metoo accusations.
I thought you were having a stroke there for a second.
I loathe articles that tell you what some shitstain ‘hates’ or ‘finds offensive’ or accuses of being ‘racist’ without ever providing the offending thing for you to be able know what the fuck is going on.
Irony, thy name is CPRM?
Like Raiian on your wedding day, friendo.
No, it’s more like free riiiieeiide when you’ve already paid.
But, the question is, does Dave Coulier think about me or you when a woman goes down on him a theatre?
“Did someone say…wood?”
took that one to far, but it needed to be done.
It’s part of a greater trend of making moral judgements based on someone’s feelings rather than any objective wrongdoing.
Making someone from a protected group feel uncomfortable is the new standard of morality.