Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what am absolutely beautiful morning it always is!
Project Veritas is at it again.
IRS struggling to hire customer services reps.
Good thing I already buy foreign cars.
A lot of people are concerned about a housing crash. Personally, I’m more concerned about a currency collapse.
NCAA ‘Unequivocally’ Supports Transgender Student Athletes.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
The housing market can’t crash ’til I sell this place.
If it crashes hard enough I might just step in and snap up something cheap for the future.
Previous to the lockdowns, I was contemplating picking up some properties nearby to set up as rentals. With the eviction “moratorium” and all the rest of the fun uncertainty, that’s been put on hold.
Same…
It should crash the day I sell so I can then buy low…
It can’t crash in NJ as long as DeBlasio and Cuomo run NY.
Good morning, Glibernam!
Nothing much to say today, other than that I can kinda-sorta pick out the Peter Gunn theme on my guitar now. Small victories…
Have an excellent day!
DUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH NUH….
Nearly as annoying as someone playing “Smoke on the Water” over and over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDkWRP67Es0
Yeah, but it’s a good picking and finger-stretching exercise. I don’t plan on doing it in public, that’s just gross…
“In the Hall of the Mountain King” is another good one for that.
That would be a good one, but it’s probably a little beyond my reach at present…
The Kreutzer etudes for violin are a classic for a reason.
Or, ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’, if you are a masocist.
LOL. Just spoke with an employee who quit without giving notice.
He wants his job back and he wants a raise.
Gotta admire his chutzpah.
“How about no?”
This is why graceful exits are preferable.
“Want in one hand and squat in the other. See which one fills up first.”
That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!
“Security is coming to escort you off the premises.”
+1 red Swingline stapler
“Didn’t pass the drug test at the new place, huh?”
Dinsdale?
Goatse in a mirror shot is the correct answer, my good man.
Everyone here has got it wrong.
You need to Pull a Trump Romeny.
Suggest (in a non leagally binding way) that you’ll bring get him the job with higher pay. Wine him, Dine Him, tell him he has to go through the same interview process.
And then drop him like a bag of bricks.
Oh, I’m hiring him back. No pay bump though, that’s absurd. I told him I would review his pay at 90 days.
Unfortunately, it’s next to impossible to find labor these days, so if you’ve got a warm body that was showing up to work every day then sometimes it makes sense to suck it up.
Everywhere I go I see help wanted signs. We’ve got record unemployment yet employers can’t find people willing to work.
I make more than that
running for the buson unemployment!Passed one yesterday advertising $16-20/hr starting pay.
LOL. When I worked at a startup we had an employee like that. We hired him as a favor to a friend of a friend. We tried to make him into a developer, but he was obstinate and an ass. Never wanted to listen.
Finally we had it out with him and we all decided it wasn’t working and he was going to go work somewhere else. We agreed to give him a month to wrap things up and to find new employment.
At the end of the month, he came back and told us it was a lot harder to find a job that he liked than he thought it was and had decided he wanted to stay. This was after he spent maybe 20 hours actually working on wrapping things up and the rest of the time job hunting. The look on his face was priceless when we told him that a deal was a deal and the month was up so turn in your key.
Everyone imagines that they are irreplaceable and the entire place would collapse without them. The only person no-notice quitting really hurts is the one doing the quitting.
whaddup doh’ ?
Short Cans!
Car makers. What’s the opposite of shrugging?
And fuck anybody that thinks mental hospitals are a good idea. Besides, the vast majority of the “houseless” are just lazy drug addicts. We like to assume they’re mentally deficient because we can’t imagine making the choices they make. Most of them are not. The old model of mental hospitals was some fucked up Mengele style evil.
The old state hospital systems were in need of reform. Dumping the “patients” out of the street was not the answer for most of them.
Just like the homeless, these “patients” are not a monolith. Some of them were all fucked up and others were just a bit odd. Many were there just because they inconvenienced somebody. The people affect by the mental health industry needed their rights protected, very badly. It’s an unmitigated good that we made it harder to lock people in those hell holes. Anyway, now, in the present, it’s very easy to find a bed for someone who needs and wants care for mental problems. You just can’t force your kid who’s acting up to live out his days drugged out of his mind and being experimented on by ghouls.
Is there anyone you would say needs to be committed?
B.F Skinner was all the rage back when they started doing this. Problem being, Humans are not lab rats and operant conditioning doesn’t work very well with anyone that has free will. I went to school to learn this bullshit and saw it play out in the real world. His theories amount to nothing but slow-drip torture for the clients. I lasted two years in that field before I burned out.
“You just can’t force your kid who’s acting up to live out his days drugged out of his mind and being experimented on by ghouls.”
Quite often the parent doesn’t have a choice if they want the kid to go to school. And if they refuse they can be threatened with charges of neglect.
That doesn’t make it morally or ethically right. If I had a kid that wouldn’t conform I’d find another way if I could. Drugging kids is Bad, Mmkayy…
So how do we get rid of the Tent Cities that have sprung up all over the place?
“Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets”
“Besides, the vast majority of the “houseless” are just lazy drug addicts.”
In my experience homeless fall into four categories.
1) People with chemical dependency problems
2) Mentally ill who just can’t function in normal society
3) Temporarily out of luck, but won’t be homeless for long
4) People who like the lifestyle
Don’t know what the solutions are, but there’s more going on that simple drug addiction.
I’ve said it before, but I sort of admire the addicts. They’ve really stripped their life down to the important things.
Me? I’m a chump, I’ve gotten trapped by things and people around me. Sure I’d love to start drinking when I wake up at noon and sit around all day with my buddies. Unfortunately the wife, kids and banker who owns my house would frown mightily. Like a sucker, I crumble under their judging eyes and drag my sorry ass to work.
i agree with sarcasmic’s breakdown although it may be a Venn Diagram of those catagories.
When I lived in LA and encountered them on a daily basis I had some similar thoughts. I does seem to be a worry-free lifestyle. However I don’t really want to live outdoors. And sooner or later the society I’m mooching off of may get sick of my mooching.
I knew a guy who made sure to always have a warrant for his arrest, so in the event of a snowstorm or arctic bubble he had a warm place to sleep.
“ Besides, the vast majority of the “houseless” are just lazy drug addicts.”
Pretty broad generalization, there. Drug addiction my be the result of poor mental health and healthcare ; i.e. self-medication. Drug usage may not be the cause of “houselessness”. I’m sure there are lazy drug addicts in the mix, but maybe try a more nuanced argument?
A plurality of the ones that I see are incapable of fending for themselves. Does that mean that we, as a society start rounding them up and putting them in camps? Of course not. I forget which Iron Law it is that you get more of what you promote. Don’t mind me, if I’m commenting here I’ve been drinking.
“You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.”
— First Iron Law
Thanks, BEAM, I’ll try harder next time, honest and for true! 😉
I can’t tell corporate PR bullshit from campaign speech bullshit anymore:
““Our nation is strongest when we stand together,” the corporations said in the joint statement. “We call on our elected officials to adopt these principles as they proceed in the spirit of inclusion and equality.””
Yeah, well, I’m going to start my own company that builds cars for the people — the people’s cars.
You know who else made cars for the people?
People’s Auto Assembly Plant #47 in Vladivostok?
Henry Ford.
Duh.
John DeLorean? Preston Tucker?
Завод имени Сталина?
Ric Ocasek?
I love Godzilla and the way he deals with shit..
Edsel? What a wierd/cool design.
(I saw one of these on a used car lot for several months and I am kicking myself for not getting it, I imagine parts would be hard to find and/or very pricey though.)
Yugo?
Like this guy?
The D&I crackpots are running the show now, it seems.
It is utterly baffling that they are involving themselves into this crap. Why?
I honestly believe that they do it because of internal pressures from the woke workers. I don’t think it is because they really care about people outside the company. Sure, since they have to placate the yahoos internally, they might as well spin it as best they can.
The execs at my company are true believers and among the strongest supporters. I think Trsh mentioned the same at his. Just two anecdotal experiences but I have no doubt the top is driving this.
Makes sense. The execs at these companies are coming from schools that might as well be Maoist indoctrination camps. We’ve come pretty far from a free market system and these large companies work hand in hand with the government now.
Maybe that is what throws me. When I was a consultant, I worked with a lot of c-suite people and none of them ever seemed like true believers. They were all closer to sociopaths who were completely focused on their own success at any cost.
I would completely believe that execs are acting like true believers if they think there is some advantage to it. But just because they actually do believe in the cause? That is what I find hard to believe.
I find it far more plausible that execs are towing the lion because they fear that not bending the knee will be used against them by other execs or by some hungry underling who wants their spot.
They are sociopaths focused on profit. Fail to go woke, face the PR disaster of the Twitter Mob. Go woke without taking meaningful action – be left alone to pursue profits.
They want a reason to move to a right to work state.
This man is a wise Man.
“One of the surveys found a 15-point gap between black respondents who agreed they “could make their life plans work out” after reading a passage from black pessimist writer Ta-Nehisi Coates (68%), compared to those who didn’t read the passage (83%). ”
Respondents also developed a strong desire for cake.
People are impressionable, no fucking way!
Count Potato primed you to say that!
“https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/irs-hiring-struggles-customer-service-reps-pandemic-unemployment”
Abolish this evil entity already…
It would be easy if we didn’t treat taxation like a monarchical prerogative – reward the crown’s friends and punish their enemies.
What good is a government entity if it won’t allow the megalomaniacs in politics to use it to punish and reward? How the fuck do you run a good grift if you can’t extort people into paying you for favors to avoid trouble with government entities like this one?
The irony in Italy was the mob was more honest than the govt.
“I’m surprised it’s this low.
That’s because of how they asked the question…
You can’t do any sort of legal money transaction, you can’t even collect welfare or cash a fucking check, today, without some form of picture ID to set it up.
But when it comes to voting we get told minorities don’t have IDs..
These people want no transparencies and the ability to cheat, because they need it to keep winning.
And they have, predictably, flipped the narrative that ballot security and election integrity is somehow cheating. Yet they are the ones blatantly introducing BS which invites and enables cheating.
Why do you think that people doing this demand this?
There was an article two days ago on the actual
number of people without ids in Georgia.
It was a pittance.
It wasn’t enough to have changed the result of any major election in the last 100 years.
You have to show ID to get The Cure.
No wonder the Rona is affecting blacks and minorities more than the white eyes! They keep getting turned away by the folks at the vaccination sites because they have no ID.
Well, anyone who lives in Portland should be in a asylum because you would have to be crazy to live there.
Much smart
Last weekend, more than 100 business leaders held a rare online meeting to discuss what action they should take in the wake of similar voting bills being considered in states across the country. Lynn Forester de Rothschild, founder of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism and one of the three people who helped coordinate the meeting, urged Biden to be more vocal about his desire to work with business leaders.
“My inclination is to trust him to not be in the pockets of corporations at the expense of people and planet but he definitely wants to have a vibrant business community that takes care of our society,” she said in an interview.
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Though the White House has looked to leverage the fallout between Republicans and corporate leaders, officials there remain cautious of not upsetting progressives and union allies. In recent weeks, Biden took the unusual step of encouraging an unsuccessful bid by Amazon employees in Alabama to form a union. And weeks later, when discussing corporations that paid little or no federal taxes, the president singled out Amazon by name — though largely as an indictment of the current tax system. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos responded by saying he supported some higher taxes.
“He’s kept our big and restive [Democratic] coalition together without turning off the CEOs,” Matt Bennett of the center-left group Third Way said of Biden’s approach. “He hasn’t bashed anybody or tried to play one off against the other, which is smart.”
Biden’s ambitious infrastructure package could test his ability to keep that coalition together. CEOs and business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, which represents leaders of more than 200 companies, have largely rejected the American Jobs Plan, criticizing the proposed corporate tax hikes that would pay for the projects. The Business Roundtable, which is running digital and radio ads against it, declined to offer an official to be interviewed for this story. “We have an open line of communication and good engagement with the administration,” is all the group would say in a statement. The Chamber of Commerce, similarly, did not make an official available.
Businesses are warily considering their options? No kidding.
Stay out of the mob’s crosshairs, if you can.
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to the rest of you groovy babies.
I read that CJ article last week, and it’s a good one, but I think the mental hospital conclusion is too simple of an explanation. I think you gotta look at bigger picture societal breakdowns, especially replacing the family with the State. There is also that pesky Iron Law to contend with. It’s a big fucking mess, though.
Day 3 of “mostly peaceful” protests saw a neat caravan of NG trucks rolling into Brooklyn Center. Wow! Like a real war zone!
I am not a TH fan, but this works.
Have a great day, people! Why the fuck not, huh?
‘I am not a TH fan’
Well, screw you too, buddy.
*runs from room while sobbing*
I told you he wasn’t all there.
The Talking Heads are one of my favorite bands. I got into them because Adrian Belew played with them for a while and I really dug him.
I was listening to King Crimson the other day and the GF asked “is this Talking Heads?”
Upwards of 60 people arrested in Brooklyn Center last night.
Hoping that they let them cool their heels in jail for a while. It would set a good example for the yahoos waiting for the Chauvin verdict. No more getting let go the next day.
“So we’re going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him and make it so that it can’t be buried and just like settled outside of court and just like, you know if we keep pushing that, it’s helping us.”
Grown men who talk like vapid teenage valley girls make me cringe.
That’s all I got this morning, see ya!
[Furiously scribbles notes for future Zoom prank to annoy Hippie]
Sksksksksksksk!
Save the ???.
Scrunchies for all!
He wants his job back and he wants a raise.
Comrade Biden paying him more to stay home?
Probably found out you aren’t eligible for unemployment if you quit.
Mornin’ Banjos! I believe that your homepage GIF has captured the Glib ethos better than words could ever say. Bravo to you, young Lady! I doff my hat and tug my forelock to thee. *does flourishing bow*
Priceless…
And fuck anybody that thinks mental hospitals are a good idea. Besides, the vast majority of the “houseless” are just lazy drug addicts. We like to assume they’re mentally deficient because we can’t imagine making the choices they make. Most of them are not. The old model of mental hospitals was some fucked up Mengele style evil.
Bring back flophouses. Make at-will day labor a viable option.
^This. But nobody wants flophouses in their neighborhoods and operators of traditional motels fight against rooming- and boarding houses.
The advocates for “affordable housing” are the same assholes that advocate for closing flophouses, SRO’s, and old motels. The only logical conclusion is that they either want more homeless people or they want to go back to the wonderful world of public housing high-rises.
Besides, the vast majority of the “houseless” are just lazy drug addicts.
This was probably mostly true as little as five years ago. Nowadays? Not as much. I’m seeing a lot more working people who just can’t keep up with rent, food, and medical expenses all at once, so rent is the first thing to go.
I grew up watching westerns where the sheriff would shoot a man wanted for armed robbery the moment he didn’t cooperate – and nobody cared. Now we have arrived here – Daunte Wright protesters leak killer cop Kimberly Potter’s home address online forcing Minnesota cops to erect fence and guard property.
Meanwhile – Judge refuses to sequester jury in George Floyd murder case. Want to bet their addresses being leaked if they rule the wrong way? Welcome to mobocracy.
“This isn’t a matter of being cozy” with corporations, said Jarrett. “It’s a matter of appreciating the importance of the impact they have on the economy and that it isn’t an ‘either or,’ having a relationship with business or labor. It’s ‘both and.’ ”
Robert Diamond, who served as director of private engagement in the Obama White House and is now a lobbyist, said corporate America is generally supportive of Biden’s top three priorities: combating the pandemic, infrastructure investment — though not the corporate tax hikes — and tackling climate change. In that sense, the political stars have aligned for the current administration, giving them an agenda that appeals to big business while maintaining credibility with their Democratic base.
“It’s a unique situation in that three of the big things the administration’s coming out of the gate with, I think there’s really broad support for in the business community,” Diamond said.
Stronger together.
One hand washes the other.
And it doesn’t matter what those priorities are.
Funny how that works.
I’s almost like… Cuddly-Fascism.
“Hug me Daddy, I need some love”.”
“Here you go, child, some freshly printed (digital) cash.”
Who was it that said fascism with a smiley face?
The favored companies in 1930’s Italy were big supporters of the Fascist party, too.
Baseball birthdays:
HoFer Greg Maddux 106.6 WAR
non-HoFer Pete Rose 79.6 WAR
Dave Justice 40.6 WAR
Brad Ausmus 16.5 WAR
Steve Avery 13.8 WAR
Lots of 90s era Braves on the list. Avery looked like a HoFer after 1991. Peaking at age 21 is rough.
I popped out against Avery as a freshman call up for the state playoffs in high school. He was killing it his senior year. We lost 3-2, but I get to say he couldn’t strike me out.
The only MLBer I ever batted against has a career -0.8 WAR.
We were on the same team for two years and I never faced him in other years, so only batted against him in practice.
Nice!
That is pretty cool. Given how pretty much every kid that ends up a pro athlete in any sport is absurdly dominant in high school, that is impressive. This is true of even marginal journeymen players and Hall of Famers both.
As someone who left urban America for rural America, I would like to advise my urban progressive acquaintances that Mr. Nolte’s characterization couldn’t be further from the truth. Rural America is all COVID-infected, religious fundamentalist, KKK members firing off their AR-15s at anything that moves. It’s too late for me, but for for the love of God and all that is holy, SAVE YOURSELVES!!! Stay in your cities!!
To my urban conservative friends, we can talk offline.
^^^THIS^^^
I don’t want these fuckers moving in.
I have 27 real nice people on my street that all get along well and are polite, neighborly, and decent after the one liberal crazy bish living next to me moved out some 15 years ago. We span the political spectrum, but most of us are from one of the generations before people started giving out participation trophies and telling kids they were important even if they were just booger eating whiners. There is one asshole on my street now. They moved in a couple of years ago and are rabid liberals. Tell these fuckers to stay where they come from, cause it only takes a few of them to really ruin everything for everyone.
Nary a mention of a single MILF. Sounds barren.
Never shit where you eat….
I only date MILFS from other towns, and then, only the ones that are not married… And I go to their place…
I “learned” early on that when they know where you live you are at risk of property damage when you tell them it was real, it was fun, but it was NOT real fun sticking it in crazy.
Replacing a tire that costs $700 each cause some angry woman stabbed it ( was having work done on my long driveway and was forced to park out on the street instead of the garage, so my bad), twice, thought me a lot. That and the lawyer that used her divorce detective to find me after I never called her back after spending the weekend at her 8000 sq foot home which was being paid by the three previous husbands, and wanted to kill me…
Hmm, I just never attracted that kind of crazy. I guess I didn’t miss much.
Don’t stick it in crazy.
Don’t bring crazy home.
Sounds like you need to install a cowcatcher on that bad boy.
LOL!
After my divorce, I had to discover the hard way that at my age there is are reasons that good looking women are single, and it isn’t that there aren’t a ton of guys looking for something that is pleasing to the eyes.
Evil Festus thinks those impure thoughts from time to time but I guess I’m just a creature of my better nature. The subterfuge would drive me nuts. I have a problem telling even a little white lie. What if it escalates? Ten minutes of primal lust/25 year relationship. Festus is waiting for the old folks home when he’s a bored, lonely, single Senior before any of that nonsense.
My street has Confederate flags on every house, raised pickups in every driveway, nooses in every tree, people carrying fully semi-automatic assault weapons as they walk their attack dogs, a KKK parade on the first Monday of each month, cross burning on alternate weekends, …
There is a house near me with two flagpoles — one has a US and a rotating other flag (sometimes Gasden, sometimes ones I can’t identify). The other had the rebel battle flag.
I’ve seen vastly more homes flying rebel flags in upstate NY than I did in Austin and Houston combined.
I have three neighbors who fly flags–one had a Trump flag for a while, but then switched to USMC, the one across the street from them flies the Gadsden flag, and the one next door to Gadsden flies the US flag. I don’t actually know any of my neighbors, but they seem interesting. My house came complete with a 15 or 20 foot flag pole and a concreted socket in the ground for it with buried wiring for a flood light, but I took it down when we moved in.
I suppose that if you want to be subversive by flying the stars and bars there is not as much to be subversive against in the south as there is in upstate NY.
Years ago I would see a Confederate flag in the neighborhood mixed in with all the other flags. Now seeing any flag is rare. I think there is one house on our street that regularly flies the US flag. I used to fly a mix of flags regularly. Now I only occasionally pull out the Philippine flag.
I still don’t understand the purpose of pledging allegiance to a fucking flag.
A colorful rag? Unfurled?
What you did there was seen, through the eyeglass in reverse.
“-And to the Republic, for which it stands.”
It’s as if you’re being willfully obtuse.
So they can yell treason when you vote against them?
And you’re not even based in the really rednecky part of the state, but I suppose you’ve probably traveled west and basked in that glory.
JFC. Anyone check the price of 1/2″ plywood lately?
Pre troubles, we’d pay ~$16 and change. Today it’s $59.55.
HRM. Wasn’t meant to go here.
“Today, she has dirty hair and cracked skin, but it’s easy to see that she was once beautiful. Officers told me that her mother once came looking for her and brought an old high school portrait of Hannah with long hair and intricate makeup—but when the mother eventually found the daughter on the streets, she told everyone that Hannah was her boyfriend’s responsibility and promptly left town. Now Hannah is stuck on the streets and, when her methamphetamine addiction and bipolar disorder manifest as violence, she ends up in the city jail.”
Sad.
“To illustrate how challenging it is to secure an involuntary commitment, crisis workers told me that they once found a woman eating a dead rat in an alleyway, but this did not qualify her as “gravely disabled”; the reaction from relevant officials was that “at least she’s eating.””
Yikes!
The pendulum never rests, it just swings from one unpleasant extremity to the other.
Yes, and every time it swings, another chunk gets cut out of the middle. I’m thinking more in terms of individual rights and freedom here.
Well, we are thankfully removed from 3 generations of imbeciles are enough, and I don’t think we lost much in getting away from that.
Chauvin trial update:
Chauvin Trial Day 12 Wrap-Up: Defense Use-of-Force Expert Witness Falls Short
Branca is really good. His updates are extremely helpful, particularly as most media are objectively awful.
They are doing as intended. Creating a narrative to support their goals.
Project Veritas is at it again.
Getting the receipts on what we already knew.
So now corporate speech is good? I really cannot keep up with this. Just to fuck with em, we should take a hard 180 and say Citizens United was a bad idea, lets shut all this speech down!
I now understand the zeal that people like Teddy Roosevelt had when it came to trust-busting.
We still haven’t reached peak derp yet.
Nope considering those companies didn’t see any risk from their investors to make this leap.
I don’t know about “We” but R’s are doing just that, and not ironically.
Speaking of at-will day labor… do guys still hang out at Home Depot and suchlike spots looking for temporary work?
I expect Ballgag Joe to announce a new program involving IRS SWATters forcibly collecting tax information from anybody looking to make a buck.
Just send a van over to Home Depot and hand them all $600 checks if they agree not to work for the day. Basically what NJ is doing with illegals.
“If the agenda say, is to like get, like Matt Gaetz right now,” Chester says, “he’s like this Republican… So it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out.”
Someone is going to be paying out more “nuisance money”.
Agency struggles to hire customer service reps despite pandemic unemployment
I, for one, am shocked that the IRS is not popular.
Good thing I already buy foreign cars.
It will be a shame if Honda goes woke and starts sticking its dick into American politics.
But will it be pixelated?
Conservatives hate knowledge
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The House on Tuesday rejected legislation to pay $1.1 billion to Idaho’s K-12 teachers amid concerns about what is being taught in schools.
Lawmakers deadlocked 34-34 in a tie vote that means the bill fails to advance. The defeat means the bill must now go back to the Legislature’s budget committee to be redone and then returning to the House for another vote. It’s not clear how long that will take.
Opponents of the bill said they respect and support teachers, but the legislation needs to have language prohibiting teaching of some ideas.
Opponents specifically targeted critical race theory, which examines the way race and racism influences politics, culture and the law.
“Critical theory is political in nature, and it violates our Constitution, and how are we as a Legislature going to stop that violation of our Constitution?” Republican Rep. Priscilla Giddings asked her colleagues. “We have to do it with the budget, and we have to include intent language specifically saying critical theory will not be advocated for by our teachers or upon our teachers.”
Opponents reiterated several times they want to add intent language to the bill, not cut the budget for teacher pay.
Last year, then-President Donald Trump cracked down on diversity training at federal agencies that employed critical race theory. Trump’s memo came after the U.S. spent a summer reckoning over racial injustice in policing and other spheres of American life. The theme has been picked up in Idaho. Trump carried the state in November’s presidential election with 64% of the vote.
They hate teachers because Trump told them to. They hate justice because Trump told them to.
CRT doesn’t “examine” anything. It argues by assertion, and then its proponents attempt to punish dissent.
I don’t have a huge problem with CRT taught as one way of looking at things (to sufficiently critical kids). That isn’t what they’re doing though.
Sierra Farrell is awesome. Her voice is reminiscent of those blues singers from the 20’s. De-instituntalising these people unable to care for themselves was a very, very bad idea. I saw this coming back in the 80’s. Not saying that insane asylums are any great shakes but, hell, at least they get three squares and cot. Now they get to die on the streets.
Sorry for the misspell, I’m drunk.
LOL.
OFFS! This is what it’s come too? I want off the tilt-a-whirl now, Mommy!
Wait a second… so if I have black friends, eat Caribbean food, listen to ska and reggae, etc… I’m more black than Idris Elba?
Fuck you whities! Give me my reparations!
for not being sufficiently ‘black’
Meghan Markel doesn’t stand a chance.
Things that movie producers think make you black:
– eating Caribbean food
– voting for Joe Biden
The chicken isn’t the only thing that is a jerk.
I like to jerk my chicken. Am I black?
I like Caribbean food. Am I 50% black?
There was areally good Jamacian food truck next to Planet K in East Austin. I miss it.
Stereotyping is in style when we do it.
This isn’t a plantation, no! It’s a lovely farm with happy laborers – well housed, well fed.
This reminds me of the first season of SCTV, where the Canadian Broadcast Company authorities warned them they had to have X number of minutes of “identifiably Canadian content.” The cast (almost entirely Canadian) thought this was ridiculous, but Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas concocted a solution. And thus Bob and Doug McKenzie were born.
IOW, Idris Elba should be allowed to be exactly as “authentically black” as he thinks he should be and fuck you for demanding otherwise.
Pardon my pedantry but Rick Moranis joined in the 3rd season. I think that was the year the show moved from Toronto to Edmonton
And got exponentionally funnier.
Why didn’t she go on about fried chicken and watermelon?
Fried food is authentically Scottish!
Now I’m hungry.
White liberals want to punish racism more harshly than blacks do
They believe in thought-crime but you are the fascist, you dirty Trumptard.
I’m thinking blacks might have a little historical knowledge of what happens when the government decides to splice up the populace among racial lines.
Department of Education nods its head silently
Ah dang, you said that they might have…not that they might not have. Oh well.
We’ll bribe them to behave. It’s a proven strategy.
Speaking of former President Donald Trump’s pledge to withdraw US forces by May 1, the source said, “We inherited a deal to leave… and the United States does not walk back any commitment,” adding, “If we withdraw May 1st, we would be in a shooting war with Taliban again, and that’s not what we wanted.”
Asked how they would make sure a full scale shooting war doesn’t break out when the US leaves just a few months later, the source insisted US financial, diplomatic and humanitarian support to the Afghan government and its security forces would continue.
The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, in retaliation for Al-Qaeda’s attack on America, which was planned and executed in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Asked how the United States could be sure a resurgent Taliban would not allow Al-Qaeda or other anti-American terror organizations to regroup there, the source said, “We think they are not as potent or as capable of organizing an attack on the homeland now.”
The source went on to say that CIA Director Bill Burns and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines will be publicly laying out their assessment that today “threats are much more diffuse, and the US must make sure they are not over resourcing in one country.”
And besides, we have all those white power insurrectionists to keep an eye on here at home. And tax cheats.
$1,400 checks and enhanced unemployment for everyone?
Know what? I could give less than a shit what happens there when we pull the troops. Forever fucking war.
“The NCAA Board of Governors firmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports. This commitment is grounded in our values of inclusion and fair competition,” the NCAA said.
So you are saying that female college sports is dead.
Is it comedic or tragic Irony that Title IX is going to be used to kill Women’s Sports?
it is an unironic tragic comedy?
The classical distinction is whether the hero lives or dies – so who exactly is the hero in this?
If Womens Sports is the Hero of the story, then this would be tragic, as it is killed by the tool used to achieve its peak.
If Title IX is the hero, then it is Comedic, as it blindly squashes everything in its path, destroying it’s own reason for creation.
I’m looking forward to the day when all barriers are broken and I can enjoy watching men who identify as disabled women dominate at the Special Olympics. Also adults in little league. The quality of play compared to adult leagues is poor.
You can bet money that they will immediately start awarding sports scholarships to MTF trannies because they’re discriminated against and so brave.
We’re watching western civilization come completely unglued as the effects of postmodernism really take hold.
This is awesome. I want to see shit like this. Let’s make it happen. I also kind of want to see Minneapolis set back to the stone age.
We still haven’t reached peak derp yet.
There’s no such thing as Peak derp.
A quick perusal of the intersectional minefield you have to navigate to get a script approved at Lionsgate Studios:
https://youtu.be/PVdlDJqmJlk
I look forward to not consuming their product.
“Cuomo ‘compared himself to violent Godfather character Sonny Corleone and bragged about his sexual prowess’ damning new profile claims – and Joe Biden ‘told aide that the Gov. has absolutely enormous balls'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9467501/Cuomo-compared-Godfather-character-Sonny-Corleone-bragged-sexual-prowess.html
Well, that would make his brother Fredo.
“The source says the Gov. stated that he had ‘a gift’ and had been told by women that ‘he was excellent at oral sex’. The Cuomo spokesperson told The Times that that comment was never made, and labeled it ‘a disgusting and defamatory lie.'”
So does that mean he’s actually really bad at it?
I can see Cuomo been awesome at sucking dick…
Italians don’t eat pussy. It’s too submissive.
And it’s Wed. Heaven Help us on what kind of SF story we are going to get today.
I sense a last minute addition coming…
Jerked from the headlines, as it were.
I’m disappointed in all of you that no one linked any version of this (Pietasters version).
Ass Wednesday is mildly suggestive.
https://archive.li/ODleH
“Pete Buttigieg is mocked for claiming ‘racism is built into US highways'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9468855/Pete-Buttigieg-claims-racism-physically-built-highways-drawing-Republican-ridicule.html
Then how come they’re black?
CHECKMATE LIBTARDS!
Must be the same argument that they use to tell morons graft money is infrastructure spending…
In this case, Buttigieg is not entirely wrong. It is more anti-low income neighborhoods, but those do happen to be largely black in major cities.
The original design for the interstate highway system was to have the interstates tangent to cities. The modification to go thru cities instead was horrible for many reasons, some of them marginally racist.
Where possible, this should be fixed. Loop roads around cities with interstates north/south interstates being on either the east or west side and east/west interstates being on either north or south side.
Lets use Atlanta for an example. Keep the perimeter where it is. I-75 should merge into the west side of 275, and I-85 should be the east side of 275, crisscrossing on the side side forming the south side of 275. The north side of 275 would be I-20. The connector would go away (or become some sort of state road like GA-400).
Then build a continuous wall on the city side of the beltways with manned security points…
Part of me wants to add the traditional “then fill it with water” or “just nuke it from orbit” line here, but I have at least one dear friend who lives in there…
hey, now!
< lives ITP
My hometown is tearing down an “Inner Loop” that’s mostly unused anyway since so much of the business and population left.
I-285 already kind of does this. Trucking by mandate (if it’s not destined inside 285 you are required to go around) and accepting ignorance, by choice for commuters. WTF would you get on the connector (or 285 for that matter) unless you have to? In the before times, I went in early and actually did a bit south on 85/connector to blast north on 75 in the morning and then decided in the afternoon what was likely to be the least painful route.
Yes, so why build the connector in the first place?
I used it a lot since my 5 years in ATL I lived just North of North Ave, but the interstate highway system shouldn’t be prioritizing getting people in and out of downtown. Let the state/city take care of that and let the highways move.
The connector predates 285, no (or at least some version of 75/85 going through town? I’m sure when the feds were throwing around cash to build the interstate and mentioned they wanted to go around major cities, the cities and states had nothing to say about that.
It’s a regular conflation in American life (this affects poor people, lots of black people are poor, therefore…). Maybe Buttigieg should read Dombey and Son, though I don’t wish Dickens on anyone.
Morning Glibs, ‘fore i saunter off to work here’s a wake up call.
As for a thought of the day: This morning i was perusing some YouTube vids and saw one talking about a coming clash between Pelosi and Sanders over healthcare. I was a little bemused at anyone on the left thinking Bernie is interested in actual results. Pelosi is by far the better politician, and will easily crush any clash. And IMO, that is why there is a chance of a clash. Bernie exhibits the disticnt pattern of only fighting when he knows he can’t win. It betrays either cowardice or a false belief in his own ideas.
All this musing made me come up with a little nugget of a truth, that isn’t fully formed, but i thought i’d submit to the glibs for review. “One of the halmarks of a grifter, is that he is practical when he ought to be principled, and principled when he ought to be practical.”
“I was a little bemused at anyone on the left thinking Bernie is interested in actual results.”
Bernie does want results…
He wants to loot those more successful than himself because he feels he deserves the wealth they created more than they do by virtue of him being a marxist cunte…
Replying to my own comment. Lame.
But i thought of a better formulation.
A Man who is Practical, when he ought to be principled, or principled when he ought to be practical, is either a fool or a liar.
Bernie exhibits the disticnt pattern of only fighting when he knows he can’t win. It betrays either cowardice or a false belief in his own ideas.
Or it’s all theater. Bernie acts a lightning rod to keep the hard left progressives within the Dem party. None of the party leaders are stupid and every action is carefully scripted to funnel money and power towards themselves.
The false belief thing is something I was getting at the other day. None of them actually believe what they say… they are actors who say whatever they need to push towards their goal.
Fox News reported that their newest show, Gutfield! Is averaging 1.6 million viewers since its premier of April 5, allegedly much higher than every CNN program.
Fox pulling out the Gutfeld card, hoping it’s viewership will forget how it’s still corporate media that will sell out again when push comes to shove.
“The several trillion dollars that we poured into the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, our now competitor China has instead poured into rebuilding and modernizing their armed forces, into being our peer competitor in manufacturing and innovation,” he added.
The source familiar with Biden’s thinking said, “We know that China would like nothing more than to see the US fighting over every last hill in Kandahar.”
“Source” “familiar” “thinking”
What if we stay in Afghanistan and build high speed rail lines?
Related:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/11/02/pentagon-afghanistan-gas-station-boondoggle/75037032/
Hell, for that money the U.S. could have funded a couple of traffic lights in Massachusetts or a new boat ramp in Lake Michigan.
Wonder if the generals will disobey Biden like they did with Trump.
The Cuomo spokesperson told The Times that that comment was never made, and labeled it ‘a disgusting and defamatory lie.’
The governor doesn’t GIVE head. He TAKES it.
I’m pretty sure this is how you get Godzilla.
BREAKING: Japanese government will release treated Fukushima nuclear power plant water into the sea. The International Atomic Energy Agency says there will be no negative impact on humans or the environment.
I would be okay with Godzilla. If the world is doomed, let the form of the destroyer be a giant fire-breathing lizard…
At least one pre-teen Japanese boy’s dreams will come true!
“The cast of characters in Sergeant King’s world is a difficult one. Hai air-fights through the streets because he believes monsters in the ground want to enter his body. Michael, an old man, calls 911 many times per day but doesn’t qualify as “gravely disabled.” Suburban Gary lives in a broken-down Chevy Suburban full of trash but refuses all offers of housing or services. And John, wheelchair-bound and covered in sores, huffs paint in front of officers because he knows he’s “untouchable”—the hospital will not take him, the prosecutor will not move on his criminal cases, and the psychiatrists cannot send him for involuntary treatment.”
Not to sound insensitive, but this seems like a problem that solves itself eventually.
Fuck sensitivity, that is exactly correct. But these will die off, get a pauper’s burial and be replaced by more – and dammit that offends our sensitivities. It reminds us of unpleasant realities, and so by god we need that to go away so that we are no longer disturbed by such scenarios.
Mark of the beast.
President Biden’s proposed American Jobs Plan could cost taxpayers upward of $666,000 per job created, according to analysis by The Washington Post and CNN.
The plan, which is slated to cost $2 trillion, will help create 2.7 million jobs. That number comes from analysis by Moody’s Analytics, which found that the plan would add nearly 3 million jobs to the roughly 16 million jobs that would have been created even if the plan was not enacted.
This figure would put the cost per job at $666,666 if a rounded-up 3 million were created. If the estimated 2.7 million jobs were created, the cost to taxpayers would total $740,740.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that House Democrats hope to finalize the legislation by July 4.
Huh. It’s Sic semper tyrannis day. How are you celebrating?
Freaking out because i forgot to do taxes?
I think you have one more month.
I did my taxes back in Feb, with Turbo. To make a long story short I added the same stock sale twice, Turbo didn’t catch it. I ended up over reporting my income by a whopping 43K, both fed/state. I sent it in via Turbo, couldn’t sleep that night because something didn’t seem right.
The next day I rechecked and found my error but had already paid for the over reporting. I sent in an amended form right away, like 2 days later, but by snail mail. Figured it would take a long time (or never) to see my money back.
About a month later my checking account was made whole again. In spite of my other pains in the ass, this one was totally my fault but thank dog the IRS must has been sleeping that day the accidentally did something right and expedient.
We can start by a good old tar and feathering.
https://twitter.com/saralhernandez_/status/1382324202368303107
Ann needs to slap up a sign over that one, saying “My neighbor upstairs is hiding Jews in her attic.”
PornHub.
Killing some commies for our mommies was how we used to….
Watching a play.
Hope the dog comes with a Kevlar vest.
https://twitter.com/ATFNewYork/status/1382042992907784196
I notice that they’re not allowing replies for some reaons.
NEEDZ MOAR RIOT SQUAD
U.S. Capitol Police officers were hindered by leadership decisions and equipment deficiencies that left the force ill-prepared to respond to the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to a new watchdog report, which found that some advance intelligence offered a “more alarming” warning ahead of the day’s events.
The detailed, 104-page review was launched by Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton in the wake of the January siege and was completed in March. NPR reviewed the report on Tuesday ahead of its public discussion as part of a House Administration Committee hearing on Thursday.
The panel’s chair, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, called for the hearing after receiving a briefing from Bolton last month. Lofgren, D-Calif., said his findings “provide detailed and disturbing findings and important recommendations.”
Bolton’s review outlines a wide range of concerns, including inefficiencies facing Capitol Police when it comes to a fragmented approach to tracking intelligence and a lack of related training.
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Bolton’s review also faults Capitol Police for not prioritizing its Civil Disturbance Unit — also known as its CDU. The division plays a critical role in the response to such emergencies, but the majority of its officers had not completed required annual training for the last few years, the report said.
“USCP did not have adequate policies and procedures for CDU defining its responsibilities, duties, composition, equipment, and training,” the report said. “CDU was operating at a decreased level of readiness as a result of a lack of standards for equipment, deficiencies noted from the events of January 6, 2021, a lapse in certain certifications, an inaccurate CDU roster, staffing concerns for the unit, quarterly audits that were not performed, and property inventories not in compliance with equipment.”
A good dose of grapeshot will show those civilian vermin who’s boss.
End result with be a quasi-standing army in DC.
Odds that there will still be guardsmen in DC by Midterms? 2024 Election?
High. Its no longer part of the news cycle and thus…has become the new normal.
ill-prepared to respond to the Jan. 6 insurrection
The insurrection that never was?
a lapse in certain certifications, an inaccurate CDU roster, staffing concerns for the unit, quarterly audits that were not performed, and property inventories not in compliance with equipment
Waiving people in, adhering to the velvet ropes and shooting a chick go unmentioned.
I count four paperwork problems, and one demand for more money.
RIP in Bernie Madoff. Your Ponzi scheme has been dwarfed.
It’s Sic semper tyrannis day. How are you celebrating?
That would be telling.
The watchdog report also noted a series of leadership directives that it said ultimately set back police response the day of the insurrection, such as a decision on less-lethal weapons and a lack of police access to critical equipment.
Okay.
I wonder how NPR would have reported the story if the Capitol Police had killed dozens of people. A triumph for the rule of law?
“The Republican Governors Association pounced on Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday following revelations of a settlement of at least $62,500 with a former campaign staffer who accused the first-term Democrat of grabbing his genitals.”
https://twitter.com/thenewmexican/status/1382035473309298692
REPUBLICANS POUNCE!!!!
How dare they pounce on a governor accused of Sexual Assault. Who do they think they are?! Sexual assalut is a weapon to be used by Democrats!!!
It’s still funny how fast #metoo boomeranged back on the Dems.
Why no photo? I assume she’s hideous. Man, the tales I could tell you about the misbehavior of the entitled class when I was but a lowly busboy/waiter at the Country Club… It wasn’t just there either. Back in the 70’s and 80’s all those old dames thought it was totally kosher to grab a handful. Heck, when I was 14 one of my mother’s friends stripped naked in front of me in the changing room at a pool party. That behavior would probably be frowned upon now. Didn’t damage me in the least but the constant groping and grasping got pretty old, very fast.
No photo because the story isn’t about her, its about those dastardly pouncing Repubs.
As for her, I wouldn’t say hideous. More chubby and meh.
Nascent bingo wings. That’s a hard pass. Pace, Friend Tres!
She looks like the Karen to End All Karens.
And she governs like one, too. NM has had some of the strictest lockdowns in the country. She’s the one who was closing frickin’ grocery stores.
“Earth is overpopulated; there are too many rich people
To solve the climate crisis; the rich must be abolished”
https://twitter.com/ClaudiaWebbe/status/1382071591803174913
She seems nice.
We are going to be provided the chance at some real cosplaying, renaissance faire living with this.
I definitely look forward to being equally poor.
Because it could indicate that she seeks the elimination of the rich by killing them? I think that is exactly what she wants.
Well not all the rich, she wants to keep her power and wealth, but all those private wealthy people. They need to go.
You can’t show your hand early! You might clue in the clueless.
OK, Claudia, you go first.
Wokeism is intentionally antisocial, exhibit # (I’ve lost count…)
You mean jetting off to Davos every year isn’t environmentally friendly?
Odds that there will still be guardsmen in DC by Midterms? 2024 Election?
Tanks and armored personnel carriers on the Mall.
DEMOCRACY! is sacred, and must be preserved by any means available.
Defund the Capitol Police!
I’m completely baffled why Brooklyn Center police chief Tim Gannon resigned.
Is he negligent for not reminding his officers every day to not accidently pull their gun out when they meant to use their taser?
Seems like the mayor of Brooklyn Center is throwing everyone under the bus. He fired the city manager and I’m pretty sure he asked for Gannon’s resignation.
They said things such as “accident”, “due process”, and “riot”
I’ m with you on “riot” but the city manager should have been fired for saying due process.
I can be fired at any second for any reason by my private employer. The notion that government employees should get special protection at the same level that we provide to defendants in court is absurd and huge part of the problem with government.
The city manager should know the difference between due process and employment.
Agreed to that point.
I don’t know. Someone died, and he shouldn’t have. I don’t see why it isn’t inappropriate for a few heads to roll for that.
If someone died because of some failure in leadership/training or whatnot, sure.
Maybe the cop who fucked up was a total incompetent and everyone knew it? Then sure. But holding him responsible for someone doing something incredibly stupid seems wrong.
I’m sort of with OBE, I think he said a bad word (riot) in his press conference. It is telling that when he said that, reporters shouted out that it wasn’t.
That was ridiculous. It was immediate gaslighting by the Reporters. This is what the media wants to be now.
It was ugly and very telling. TMITE
Actually, I’m for reporters heckling pols and govt officials during press conferences. It should happen way more. But it should happen to everyone.
When Biden lies about Trump’s Charlotte speech, reporters should have been shouting “no it wasn’t”. Fauci shouldn’t be able to get a word in edgewise because of all the heckling.
The problem with this is a) it is obviously wrong there was a riot and 2) it is only applied to a very few speakers.
Yes the application of clarifying questions/heckling really only goes in one direction.
Well, first they would have to find and invite some reporters who might be inclined to heckle a Democrat.
I don’t see why it isn’t inappropriate for a few heads to roll for that.
I think it kinda matters that the right heads roll for it. No idea if the police chief and city manager are the right heads, but when two senior administrators are shown the door, there should be serious doubt about whoever is in charge, as well.
Sure. I’m not trying to clear the motives for the Mayor. He should resign too if he thinks all the people he hired failed, he failed when he hired, or continued to keep them. I was just making the argument that it isn’t unbelievable in my part that someone other than just the shooting officer gets fired, from a organizational and management standpoint. As a Manager you end up taking responsibility for things that your subordinates do, because in the end you have responsibility to make sure your subordinates don’t do stupid, (and lethally so) things.
Reading the tea leaves, he probably just wants out.
these will die off, get a pauper’s burial and be replaced by more – and dammit that offends our sensitivities. It reminds us of unpleasant realities, and so by god we need that to go away so that we are no longer disturbed by such scenarios.
Didn’t you hear? Saint Foochy (Bless Him and Keep Him) has banished Death.
We’ll all live forever.
We need a UBI if we are going to live forever.
Fuck that shit! I need to keep slaving away or I will turn into an abalone. If I didn’t work I’d wipe my ass with a rag on a stick.
A UBI like Obamacare will free us to work doing things we enjoy, like art, music, video games, porn, …
This is an interesting tidbit about the Brooklyn Center shooting that I hadn’t heard before.
That would help explain why the officer who was supposed to be cuffing Wright looked so clumsy and let him slip back into the car.
I spent a couple of years actually corralling recalcitrant people. He did everything wrong.
So the training officer grabbed her gun instead of her taser? If it had been the trainee, that would be bad enough, but this?
Jeebus.
I’m willing to bet this turns out to be her first ever use of deadly force, in 26 years. She was the fucking union president in the past, so she has no doubt been skating by on desk jobs and/or personnel rather than being an actual street officer.
I did wonder why she intervened when the arresting officer was having trouble; no wonder the stupid kid thought he could get away.
….he doesn’t have any black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic,” the BBC official said at a recent conference, as reported by the Times.
So, the Beeb is annoyed that he doesn’t eat enough fried chicken and watermelon. Maybe they’d be okay, if he dressed in a 1970s pimp outfit and spoke Jive.
Seriously, shouldn’t black people be offended by this crap? I mean, I’d think if I were black and someone was telling me I had to act “the part” or I somehow wasn’t legitimate, I’d want to, well, bi**hslap them.
I think this is some of that “American-style” racial BS that some in Europe have been bitching about lately. Especially France IIRC.
We’ve been perfecting this nonsense for decades. “Acting white” etc.
They are very offended by this stuff. And a lot of other things. They get ID and it’s not a problem. They don’t think voting reform bills are racist. They overwhemingly support school choice. But they are only 13% of the population, so the biggest grievance mongers among them move the needle.
A majority of you chuckleheads would purchase this unironically.
Admit it.
As if i would buy the version with that Mutt on it.
Put a Kitty on it and i’m sold!
This is as close as you will get. Cats are the ultimate ACAB animal.
Why do they all look like they’re cumming?
AMERICA
Now I can’t unsee it.
Thanks
That’s pathetically sad.
I’m not sure I even understand it. What is it supposed to be saying, “Pull the curtain on Blue Lives Matter and it’s all fundamentalist puppies”?
I thought it was something like, “pay no attention to that vicious attack dog behind the blue stripe that was sent to heaven early by the cops.”
Is there anything more glorious than Boomer Con kitsch?
Few things are. I just wish it was a t-shirt with “I’m a pipefitter and I love THREE things: my chihuahua, JESUS, and eating ass.” on the back.
What about fitting your pipe into various things?
I’ve found my T-shirt for the 2021 NRA Annual Meeting…
Well, I did purchase Jesse’s “armored kitten riding a narwhal” shower curtain so…
BTW, I posted my club’s casual practical match schedule on the formus if you’d be interested in attending.
Thanks! I’ll take a look.
What does that even mean? Sincere question.
As far as I can tell it’s a collage of what a certain demographic likes. That is, America, law ‘n order, Christianity, and chihuahuas. I’m not sure exactly what demographic that is, so let’s call it Generation WTF.
At least its a long-haired chihuahua.
That’s the part that made the least sense to me.
HM, I only like one of those and the rest are nasty, bitey, barky things.
HM, you must have a terrifyingly low opinion of humanity…
This was even in question?
If you’re an academic, and not a left, having contempt for humanity is pretty much default.
I can grok that.
He deals with the future of humanity – how could that not cause you to have no faith?
Sure would.
https://i.imgflip.com/55mkyb.jpg
Brilliant!
straff’s is definitely better.
Just don’t look too closely at my shitty photo shop.
You should have had a Godzilla doing the “Fuck this dog” meme…
I had a Chihauhua. He was a great little dog. Loved me to pieces but shit in the ex’s shoes on the regular. Used to shit on the brat’s pillow, too. By about 1995 we were practically soulmates. Had to leave him behind. I miss Opie!
Loved me to pieces
butand so he shit in the ex’s shoes on the regular.Sounds like a good dog.
One of our pit pups did that to my wife’s boss, who kept an extra pair of shoes in her office.
I still miss my little dog. It’s been decades but it hurt to leave him behind when I left. My first real Dog of my own.
If you don’t love that flag then you dirty hippies can smoke your weed in this one!
I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean. Don’t shoot dogs?
K9s4Jesus?
DA FUQ HM?? Et tu?
Would? Already did.
Wife has been looking for what to fly below the star spangled banner, I’m definitely showing her this.
HM! Good to see you.
That is hilarious. How do you find this stuff?
Wait, don’t answer that.
The dog is dead, right?
That’s the way I took it. Pull back the curtain and it’s dead puppies.
Property owners should be allowed to shot looters.
Rooftop Korean doctrine. Right up their with the Castle doctrine.
With you on that one. I won’t go so far as to support the county office offering a bounty on looters ala gophers.
If the cops won’t do the job, people have to be able to protect themselves and their property.
Property owners should be allowed to shot
lootersrioters who trespass on their property.So, the Beeb is annoyed that he doesn’t eat enough fried chicken and watermelon. Maybe they’d be okay, if he dressed in a 1970s pimp outfit and spoke Jive.
Would it help if he shot heroin and played a trumpet in the wee hours of the morning?
“My Funny Valentine….” What a cunte.
If everyone is googling about the real estate bubble, it means that they are aware that it exists and there is a risk in it?
So when it does pop, I don’t have to worry about reading sob stories about people losing their life’s savings? Because they knew they were risking it. And we won’t have to bail anyone out because they knew they were gambling and sometimes when you gamble you lose.
I would be worried about buying a house.
But i was worried about it when i did it 3 years ago, thinking i was going to be buying myself into a hole when the market collapsed.
As always it depends on where you’re talking about. Some markets are wildly inflated, others are still perfectly reasonable. There is absolutely no national bubble.
Bubbles are almost always driven by debt. I’m mixed signals from the mortgage market. Rates are stupid low, given the ever increasing risk of inflation, but apparently you need a good credit score in order to get the good rates. People are complaining that their crap credit history means they aren’t getting the advertised deals.
Tucson, which has had a boom/bust cycle in the past, is definitely seeing prices go up across the board. Up to and beyond what they were at the peak of the last bubble. Some of that, maybe a lot, is due to CA refugees. I’m seeing more CA plates on the road than I can ever remember.
The better price for our house, and the likelihood that Tucson will get even more Californicated, is one reason we are looking at selling a house we really like and moving to a smaller town.
I’m happy with my 3.5% fixed. I have a lousy credit score (only 818, used to be better). but I am down to about 1/3rd of my initial mortgage principal after just shy of five years.
I am looking to bail from New York, but don’t want to just leap blindly into a new area and hope someone will hire me with my lousy resume.
I’ve been following rentals in the area, and the rents are going up while the available homes are going down. On a search of my area (same school district), I get anywhere from 0 to 9 hits. Today, it’s 1, for a fleabag rental at $400 above what it would have been last year.
Who is it that owns a pet grooming business? I need a recommendation for getting pitch/conifer sap out of puppy fur.
Hoppe’s #9 and a razor.
* just kidding, don’t use either of those things on your puppy. Maybe try vodka?
She says try dawn and a cat flea comb…never ran into that. Might need to trim away some too.
where is it located at?
There are little flecks of pitch around he muzzle from her playing with pine branches, but those seem to just go away in a day or so (I guess the fluff has enough oil on it?) The ones I”m concerned about are on her legs and butt from when she sits on things and gets leaf litter concreted into it.
Thanks!
She’s being bratty enough that I might enjoy combing it out.
Only about half of my back yard is cleared, so this is going to be an ongoing concern.
Lock down the gyms and parks!
A recent study of nearly 50,000 coronavirus patients found that those who were consistently inactive were at greater risk of death due to the virus than those who engaged in exercise. The study, which relied on the “Exercise Vital Sign” measurement developed by Kaiser Permanente Southern California, found that even those who were active on an inconsistent basis were at lower odds for severe COVID-19 compared to those who were inactive.
“This is a wake-up call for the importance of healthy lifestyles and especially physical activity,” Robert E. Sallis, M.D., a family and sports medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, said, in a news release posted to EurekAlert.org. “Kaiser Permanente’s motivation is to keep people healthy, and this study truly shows how important that is during this pandemic and beyond. People who regularly exercise had the best chance of beating COVID-19, while people who were inactive did much worse.”
Sallis said that walking at a moderate pace for 30 minutes daily could “give you a tremendous protective effect” against the virus.
The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, focused on 48,449 adults diagnosed with COVID-19 between January 1, 2020 to October 21, 2020 who had at least two measures of their “Exercise Vital Signs” between March 2018 and March 2020. From the data, researchers found 6.4% of patients were consistently active, while 14.4% were consistently inactive.
We can’t risk allowing people to expose themselves to the snifflecooties. Prevention is a better pathway than treatment. We know it works. We have overwhelming proof.
So when it does pop, I don’t have to worry about reading sob stories about people losing their life’s savings? Because they knew they were risking it. And we won’t have to bail anyone out because they knew they were gambling and sometimes when you gamble you lose.
You slay me.
Mick Jagger and David Grohl with a song about the lockdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN9YLLQl7gE
Not a great song but hey a couple of legends just jamming.
I still think it’s cool that the Devil played David Grohl in the movie the Pick of Destiny.
Not a great song but the line “Bossed around by pricks” is … fantastic.
Game of Pricks.
For those confused by the flashback to USA Hat mentioning ‘Gerry Ford’s Lost Gold’ in last night’s clip show, I know you all remember ‘Wannfud?!’, it was introduced in that same story line by SF.
The Hat and The Hair: Episode 116
I remembered that. Festus remembers everything that didn’t happen yesterday. I might have an issue…
Pepperidge FarmsFestus Remembers.OFFS!
M365 trainer is extolling the virtues of being able to search Twitter from inside Sharepoint.
FFS why?
Did you say “I’d rather have clippy back”
Honestly, that should be the first sign that America’s IT lead is falling away.
I mean FFS, why would anyone want to access Twitter while working. Anyone with any sense knows work time is when you should be commenting on Glibertarians.
Why would anyone want to access twitter.
No need to add the “while working”.
Is that the Hipster begging for a punch in the nose?
Different “Customer Success Trainer,” but still someone from MS’s Boston office.
Wait, these are Microsoft official trainers? I thought it was some freelance yahoo your own management stumbled onto.
Yeah, me too. I can’t believe MS is pushing that silliness. They didn’t buy Twitter while I wasn’t looking, did they?
What is the supposed benefit? Isn’t the point of Sharepoint to have an INTERNAL store of documents?
Allah only knows what kind of access you are giving Twitter to your Sharepoint site when you do that.
Hmm, it appears all of our proprietary documents have been exfiltrated to China. How could that have happened?
“What surprised me most from this study was the strength of the association between inactivity and poor outcomes form COVID-19,” Deborah Rohm Young, Ph.D., a study co-author from Kaiser Permanente Southern California Department of Research & Evaluation, said in the news release. “Even after we included variables such as obesity and smoking in the analysis, we still saw inactivity was strongly associated with much higher odds of hospitalization, ICU admission, and death compared with moderate physical activity or any activity at all.”
No shit, Shirley?
Yeah, why on earth would anybody be surprised at this?
Oh, wait. The answer’s right there after her name.
Piled Higher and Deeper.
What’s really strange is that Kaiser is usually pretty good on the basics of public health. You know, diet, exercise, no smoking, etc.
straff’s is definitely better.
“Buy this narrative, or we’ll shoot this dog.”
I saw a car yesterday with a Bernie sticker and a vanity plate that said “SOCLIST”. The car was an Acura, which means it was likely built in a non-union plant. How hard is it for a socialist to buy a comparably priced union-made car in the US? Not fucking that hard, especially since the UAW publishes an annual list.
You don’t understand, KK.
Socialism means you believe in ROADZZZZZZ
With Socialism, roads feel you!
He’s not kidding.
You should have car-jacked him. You know, “For the People.”
I think it’s called “material restitution” now.
All true socialists drive cars from the 1950’s. At least that is what cuba shows.
Ok now I have the line “I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” going through my mind. Thanks for that ear worm.
Don’t look back, you can never look back
Hey! Haven’t seen you around for a few! Hope you’ve been on a delightful road trip to Mask-Freedonia.
It’s also the upscale Honda. Very bourgeois.
I saw a car yesterday with a Bernie sticker and a vanity plate that said “SOCLIST”. The car was an Acura, which means it was likely built in a non-union plant.
It should be driving a Yugo.
Or a Trabant.
Except like all commie kitsch, Trabis are cool again.
The owner shouldn’t even have a car. He should be riding a train.
Or a helicopter.
Muh narrative!
People infected with the U.K. variant of the coronavirus didn’t experience more severe symptoms and weren’t more likely to die from this particular strain, according to a new study of hospitalized patients published Monday.
The strain, called the B.1.1.7 variant, remains more contagious than original strains of the virus however, according to the study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
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Scientists sequenced samples from 341 patients and found 58 percent were positive for the B.1.1.7 variant. The other 42 percent were infected with a different strain, according to the study. Researchers compared the severity of symptoms between the two groups and found those with the B.1.1.7 strain were not particularly worse off than those with other virus variants.
Isn’t that pretty much what the past few centuries of experience would lead us to expect?
Osterholm haz a sad.
Its the way to bet. There’s no guarantee that a given variant will be less virulent, but the less virulent ones tend to win out in the long run.
https://twitter.com/catboyballing/status/1382054258661539845
I’m confused to why this person, other than trying to be a troll, could think that this was a good gif to display there beliefs? Left can’t meme and all.
This (obvious) ATF Agent knows that Thanos was the Bad guy right?
Every villain is the hero of his own story. Just like the guy who took down Vicki Weaver.
And everyone is the villain in someone else’s story.
Not true. I’m the villain of my story.
I can only hope I’m the hero of someone else’s.
Well, you are. If you have helped even one person, even if you don’t know it, you are a hero in their story.
Personally, I find “everyone is a villain in someone else’s story” to be comforting. I am not alone in my villainy. I know I’ve helped people, but I don’t much remember those. I don’t much remember things other people have done to me, or I remember them as “Eh, people gonna people.” I DO remember the cringe and cruel things I’ve done and make me the villain.
Then I think, “Everybody has those” and I feel better. I’m not special in being a villain to someone.
The ATF only allows those mentioned to reply. I thought that was unconstitutional.
I have zero problems with funding funny farms through taxpayer dollars. Those are people who can’t take care of themselves and whose relatives are ill-equipped to care for them.
This is one area where I might not be as hard core libertarian as some of you. I don’t have a problem with safety nets like this. The main problem I do have is that programs will inevitably lose focus on their mission and become a jobs program for pencil pushers.
Yes, that’s true.
My aunt (we’ll call her Aunt #1) is in a group home for the severely developmentally delayed. Her sister (Aunt #2, the one who just died) tried to take care of her in their home, but Aunt #1 tried to kill Aunt #2 several times and would have succeeded if she’d tried hard enough. Retarded yes. Strong as an ox and just as willful with animal-cunning and a desire to hurt her family members, also yes. Aunt #2 didn’t WANT to put her in a home, but her life was at risk. Now my cousin has guardianship, but she doesn’t want Aunt #1 anywhere near her grandchildren.
I have a few relatives like this, too. Our family just can’t take care of them.
When I was in high school and college, I received a monthly disability check. I used it to pay for college and I saved some of it. When I got a full time job, I called to cancel. The guys said they could just reduce my benefits, but when I told him how much I was making, he said never mind, that’s more than they allow. But it was a big help for me and I know it is for other *actually* disabled people. I know of healthy people taking advantage of the system and it makes me sick.
I’m okay with a hand up and out, but it’s almost never that. Grifters gonna grift.
The problem is they all end up that way.
Maybe with the exception of Social Security which is the least administrative heavy of the bunch but S.S. has its onw problems.
Speaking of rents and rental properties- around here, vacation rentals are an extremely popular hobgoblin.
“Those assholes are stealing homes from our kids. Just because they own that house doesn’t mean they should be allowed to decide who gets to live in it (or how much they should pay).”
That job your kid has? If nobody stayed in those vacation rentals, they wouldn’t have it.
My kids are in a have/have-not high school. It seems to me the only kids who work are the have-nots who are not necessarily college bound. I don’t know how looked-down-upon these kids are, though. This past year, it hardly matters anyway.
One of the hidden blessings of my small-town upbringing was that there was one junior high and one high school for the whole town. I grew up going to school with the entire social spectrum, absent a very few kids who went to what I think was a single, small Catholic school. I’m pretty oblivious, but I really don’t recall a big social stratification. The blacks tended to hang with the blacks, the latinos with the latinos, the whites with the whites, but even then I don’t recall any racial tension. Much as I dislike the overemphasis on high school sports, it was definitely a racial melting pot.
And this was in Texas in the 70s.
My kids’ high school isn’t exactly what one would call racially diverse by any stretch. Just socioeconomically diverse.
Sounds like life as an enlisted Marine. Leaving aside the general positive and negative aspects of military service, it does a fantastic job of exposing a young man to as wide a range of people as you could imagine.
Last link: I worked in a state mental hospital for a decade. That article is spot on. I watched it happen in real time. ‘One Flew Over the CucKoo’s’ nest was horseshit propaganda. We took very good care of our patients and if any staff abused patients they were promptly reported. I reported a few myself.
Often when patients approached being discharged they would deliberately do something nuts to keep from being discharged. The world is a scary, dangerous place for anyone, much less for the mentally ill. They were safe, cared for, fed and housed in the hospital. They did NOT want to leave. We rated #1 in quality of care of all the hospitals, private and state, in Louisiana every year I was there.
This quote “In the name of compassion, we have built a system that may be even crueler than what came before.”
Leftist programs in a nutshell.
There were undoubted a few rotten institutions, but the press in the 70s and 80s used those to discredit all mental institutions regardless of merit.
You and I have lived some parallel existence. Takes a wiry man to do that chore. Last comment as well, I’mma go sleeping. Best wishes to all!
As you may remember, we had to put down our little dachshund two weeks ago as her kidneys were failing. We all felt that getting another dog would be a good thing, and we lucked out as the first shelter we saw had a totally adorable 6 month old puppy that had just been cleared for adoption that day. Man, I forgot how much damned work a puppy is! Our previous two dogs were both pretty small (mini doxie and a chihuahua/whippet mix), this one is already a good bit bigger than either of them at 40 pounds. Appears to be a redbone coonhound/retriever mix. 95% of the time, she’s very sweet, docile, and friendly, albeit still high energy. The last couple of days, though, she has brief spurts where she gets completely out of control. She tries to play very roughly with the kids – usual puppy stuff but more intense, jumping on them and nipping at them – and I can’t really calm her down in those times. I try to put her outside until she relaxes, but she’s damned fast and races around the house barking when I try to catch her. Big problem is my daughter isn’t used to a dog like this, and she reacts exactly the wrong way. She screams and tries to run away, which of course just gets the dog more hyper. Hopefully the adjustment period won’t be too long, because she really is a great pup most of the time.
That’s the wrong dog for your family. Sorry, Friend.
Nah, nothing some training (for both human and canine) can’t fix. It’s already getting better. My son has already gotten the hang of how to handle her when she gets overexcited. Just need my daughter to figure it out. She’s almost 11 so it’s not as if she’s a toddler – she is capable of this, just needs to get over her fear.
Bingo.
I recall when our massive (100 pound) male pit got out the front door and made a beeline for the local park a few blocks away. I got there just in time to see him running full tilt at a group of grade schoolers. A little girl (I’m not good with ages, maybe 8 – 10?) stepped out, put her hands on her hips, and raised a hand with her index finger in the command position. He hit the brakes and immediately sat down.
Its all mental.
Dogs need a purpose. If that dog is part retriever..it will want to retrieve. To break the dog out of the spazzing, retrieving a ball will snap her out of it. Maybe have your daughter can play fetch with the dog to develop a repour and set a level of hierarchy so the dog understands it’s place in your pack
she’s damned fast and races around the house barking when I try to catch her
She screams and tries to run away
Congratulations. You are both playing the puppy’s favorite games.
That job your kid has? If nobody stayed in those vacation rentals, they wouldn’t have it.
Bullseye.