Yes, I’m drinking beer today.
Howdy kids! Let’s depress ourselves, shall we?
THE FUCKING MOUSE THAT BUILT THE COMPANY IS BLACK!!!
If you want to see the future, read old sci-fi.
“Looking for love in all the wrong places.”
We lost her. What a rollercoaster life.
RIP Tawny.
Wow, that mask story…So fucking stupid.
From the dead thread:
Let’s hear your take on the Sig fanboys.
The only fanboys with grayer hair shoot 1911’s
Ruger: Bill’s dead so now we can build anything, including Kel Tecs!
S&W: At least we’re not Colt
Colt: I can’t hear you complain over this pile of DOD contracts.
Beretta: The cops said I was too dumb, the Army said I was too fat…or…I wish they issued me one in Afghanistan.
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KelTecs with Ruger build quality and customer service? Where’s my R-KSG dammit!
Right?
I am very much a Ruger fanboi.
It’s infuriating, but if you keep bending over and spreading your ass cheeks, you will keep getting it good and hard.
Went to a nearby popular Tapas joint for the first time last evening. They were half- full 20 minutes after the doors opened. By the time we left, people were lined up for an hour wait. Not.one.mask.in.sight. First time I’ve seen that since April 2020.
Even here in progville, demand is sky-high – waiter at the Mexican place next door said they did 350 covers last night, which is impressive given how much they had to reduce their inside seating (they have tables both in front and out back now too).
Still, most everyone is wearing a mask outside – I keep shaking my head at the number of people walking by themselves, wearing a mask.
I’m hopeful people will unclench as the weather continues to improve, but I dunno.
It should. It happened here last summer.
Unless people are more beat down than I thought.
Last summer the governor’s edict on mask wearing outdoors was exactly the same as today: not required if you can distance yourself. Still 95% of locals wore masks everywhere outside last summer. Now it’s starting to get better: this share went down to 80-85%. This is the first time it happened in the last 12 months.
In my Brooklyn neighborhood it was down below 50% last summer.
Don’t you live surrounded by Trump supporters? This is the headline from yesterday’s Boston Globe article:
The outdoor mask mandate has been loosened. So why is everyone still wearing them?
Fear of looking like a Trump supporter. Confused about the new rule. Clinging to our security blankets. Masks, we can’t quit you.
There are Trump strongholds nearby and Dem strongholds too. My immediate neighborhood is about 50/50, and a mix of recent immigrants and lifers who never went suburban. But a lot of both groups are sick of this crap. The true believers are in the trendy neighborhoods which this one is not.
I’m not terribly surprised. I read about these rules for college students last summer. All Tufts students here have been wearing masks constantly everywhere.
Another example of the state getting its nominally independent organs to do their dirty work for them.
So fucking stupid.
You can say that again.
Disney is colluding with Chinese genocide abroad and advocating for destructive policies at home. The civilizing effects of free trade everyone!
I am becoming skeptical at the power of free trade to spread a more free and tolerant way of life.
Some people don’t want freedom. Some don’t want individualism.
And some people are asshoe.
Some? Goodness, you’re too kind.
The main argument as far as I can tell is that prosperity it good, we need creative destruction for prosperity to occur and we need freedom for creative destruction to occur properly, ergo prosperity leads to freedom.
But what if people don’t like prosperity or think that we can prosperity with freedom? The Chicoms appear to have done the latter while many modern politicak movements don’t like the former.
*can get prosperity without freedom*
appear being the operative word.
This comes up a lot, but I think there is a very important step that gets missed, especially when we talk about a place like Afganistan or China.
They never had democracy, and the concept is quite foreign to them.
But, if you look at a place like Inda or Hong Kong, where a group like the British were in charge for a very long time and instilled a lot of basic ideas, albeit they didn’t go the full mile, the totalitarian ideas of CCP or the Taliban come to a lot closer to what they have always had; tribalism or feudalism. It’s why Russia didn’t become a libertarian paradise after the Soviets were done. They went from serf to communist and had no idea how a truly free electoral system worked. They were just too used to a strong man of some sort a la Putin.
Like I have said before it is really is an overgeneralized and overly simplistic analysis of English and Dutch history. And overlooks the US influence on Taiwan and South Korea post-WWII as well.
Then lay it out. What, in your opinion, keeps so many of these places back, vs. ones who can make the leap?
Enough people who support freedom?
And how do you get them there?
Follow-up question; why Hong Kong and not mainland China? What is the driving factor?
I do agree with your remarks about China and Afghanistan. Hong Kong being under British colonial rule for 150 or so years did give it a British influence that did not happen mainland China.
Another big reason China dif not democratize is that the rich urbanites fear the rural and urban poor who outnumber them so they don’t want democeacy and instead support the party that supports their interests.
And how do you get them there?
That’s the rub. I don’t know?
The public school system and the universities were supposed to but they didn’t.
Did the memories of the wars of religion and a specific brand of English nonconformist dissident Protestantism that arose in the 17th century help explain it?
Well, those specific memories are part of what I think motivates it, and you can see the differences in the various colonies and the relationship they have to free enterprise.
Another factor in this is that we, along with Britain, are backsliding. And this is the general bitch hereabouts. And this beggars the question of why? What is the force that encourages a regression to the mean of history? There is always going to be a trade-off between freedom and security, and capitalism and its driving force, free enterprise, while dynamic can lead to great losses, which terrifies people. And this leads to the greater loss of rights to the Leviathan, State.
It is only when people see their specific rights being torn away that they start to worry. So, yes, to your last part. The further we remove ourselves from a great conflict which directly affects us, the more we allow the concept of rights to fall away. And, along with having a strong tradition of rights, this is a deciding factor. But foremost is that history of rights.
Free trade certainly didn’t make Winston any less of a raging asshole.
They still name themselves after Amherst?
Well, the town hasn’t renamed itself so far.
But Jeff himself is right out.
I’m the firstingest firster that ever firsted. In first place. What joy I feel!
Tawney Kitaen. What kind of last name is Kitaen? Sounds made up.
Johnny Crawford, who played Mark on the “Rifleman,” died too. There were 168 episodes and some researcher once counted that Lucas killed more than 200 people during the run of the show. I wonder what kind of wacked out adult “Mark” would have been after seeing his Paw kill that many people.
There is a kill count video on YouTube.
Insty dubbed her “Jaguar’s best salesperson”.
That video probably sold more than one.
Sadly, she thereafter put a Jaguar worth of cocaine up her nose.
When I read about her divorce from the baseball player I knew she was in trouble. She had to be a major problem for him to file for divorce.
She was super hot as the star of a movie called “The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak” which came out in the early 80s. Some stoner buds and I actually went to see it as a lark on a Saturday matinee the weekend it opened. It’s actually not a bad movie for the genre, some good laughs, and a lot of full frontal Tawny.
That story about the macaw makes me sad.
I know I shouldn’t anthropomorphize animals (they hatethat) but I can’t help it.
Poor lonely critter.
they hatethat
Thass just the wuns wut can’t reed gud.
It’s very sad.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-its-hard-hard-times-in-newfoundland-and-it-doesnt-look-hopeful?fbclid=IwAR3oaHIUjyYLENbydmCUSXUbptc6EOFMSdY2htFjlgjdZ69P25LxJORScGQ
Newfoundland is gutted. It is on the splitting table. If — to change the metaphor only slightly — it does not chop all future budgets for years to come, decimate public services, and bend to the imperatives of the financial markets, its situation is desperate. I cannot think of a more devastating moment in Newfoundland public affairs since the collapse of the cod fishery
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Bleak? Bleak doesn’t do it. One of the notes in Greene’s report is quite shocking when you step back from it. It is that Newfoundland and Labrador has escaped the skeleton hand of bankruptcy thus far only because the federal programs to combat COVID-19 brought new cash into the province. It is not a good thing when a pandemic is the reason a province is not in bankruptcy.
Her prescriptions are brutal. I don’t think she left anything out except perhaps selling Signal Hill and the rock on which it perches, and transferring Gros Morne National Park to Bill Gates or Elon Musk for a handful of their billions. I can just hint at a few, there are so many. New taxes on almost everything, slashing the provincial budget for years to come, selling off Nalcor Energy, selling the provincial liquor corporation, cutting university funding, increasing fees on everything that moves … it goes on and on. The summary state of Newfoundland comes in one compressed statement that “the province also has the oldest population, highest unemployment, highest per capita health-care spending and the poorest health outcomes in the country.”
First goes the Newfield then the rest of Canada
Don’t forget the main reason Newfoundland joined Canada was Free Shit. Hell pretty much free shit, taking Indian land, and not being America are the only reasons Canada was created for in the first place and still exists at all.
That’s bleak indeed. Sounds a lot like the old coal towns in Appalachia that now have no industry and no jobs.
Should they be propped up by welfare and thus allowed to continue living there?
Or is it better to let it collapse and thus force people to move out? One-time Fed benefit of free use of a moving truck and crew.
Maybe turning it into a tax haven and regulations free zone would bring back investment and jobs. HAHAHAHAHA.
“Or is it better to let it collapse and thus force people to move out? One-time Fed benefit of free use of a moving truck and crew.”
Where would they go and what would they do when they got there?
End of day now and got the smoker rolling at 190 degs for some hot smoked bacon. Kids at work and wife and I look around and think…what could two grown folks do at this time?
The answer is nothing. Its quiet and stressfree. Nothing is the answer
Nice Sheela Na Gig on the title page.
Of course, wouldn’t be complete without Peej
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbmt1IK40Q
I went to a comedy night Thursday at the local golf place whose kitchen recently reopened under new management. The chef appeared on a couple of chef Ramsey’s shows and she charges top dollar, which is a bit out of place at this location.
Anyway, there were three warm-up comedians (including the emcee) and the main act. Only the second comedian was good: funny, fast on his feet with incorporating real time events, etc.
The main guy was apparently a hopeless liberal fresh down from LA. His team failed to relay to him the information that San Diego North County is not a blue stronghold. His jokes (which presupposed the audience was pro-mask, anti-“racist”, pro climate change) fell flat and eventually even the polite applause died down.
This little corner of Commiefornia is not going back to face masks. They ARE getting more political. We’re still outnumbered but I can dream.
which presupposed the audience was pro-mask
I assume the comedian was wearing a mask and the whole audience was too?
No one but the servers had masks on. He put his on when it was meet snd greet time afterwards.
I wanted neither to meet nor greet so we left as soon as the show was over.
There are a surprising number of people at my workplace that have let out the secret signs that they aren’t going to ago along with the progressive utopia.
Surprising me given out NYC office I’d say roughly 40% of my team is non-believers. However, it took years to figure out until the the plague hit. It became obvious quickly at that point.
Unfortunately, my work place (IT) is still full of Branch Covidians. Rarely does a conference call go by without someone announcing their newly vaccinated status, and questions about parts of the world are always coached in the thoughts about the vaccination rate.
Does that have to do with the fact that most IT people are barely functional socially and would rather never have to talk to a live human again if they could help it?
Or are they actually afraid of the covid?
Hey… I resemble that!
Too many for my tastes have bought in to the fact that this is the worst plague ever, and only vaccinations and isolation will save us. These are mainly North and Central American workers for the most part. Those in other places haven’t really brought it up.
The guy I mention below who is a true believer lives in southern Florida. He must be freaking out.
There’s very little of this in my (also IT) world. Only one guy who has brought this crap up more than once.
And no, most of us are pretty normal. That one guy is probably the only one who matches that stereotype.
Most of my team did get vaccinated. I’m only unsure on one person.
Part of the reason I did so was less crap from my family and so I didn’t get BS at work. Given my location, public transportation, etc I did the risk calculation and was OK with it. I think others came to the same conclusion.
Our only work discussions about it came about finding locations when it was scarce for elderly relatives and the like as well as side effects until we got better data.
So enraging but I’m almost blasé about the creeping totalitarianism at this point.
The kids will grow up when they hit the real world.
“Hey, buddy: stop doing that.”
That student is ready for his/her next dose of indoctrination.
I do commend the journalist for writing down the word “like” in the published quotes. They shouldn’t try to make these airheads sound more reasonable than they are.
OT- they still want to drag you back to the office or have they backed down?
Still June 1st as far as I know.
Sept for us. Likely not full time.
No date at all for my company (or the one I support), and the longer it gets pushed out, the less likely we’ll need to go back into offices at all.
Oh, one new twist is that they said all the desks are “more than six feet apart” so you don’t have to constrict your breathing all day.
I see a handy excuse to tell people to stop bugging me. Of course, the last time I was in that office – almost three years ago as I was carting out my belongings – they had already canned almost all the IT folks. There is only one person I will likely interact with, and that happens to my new boss, same as the old boss.
More than one coworker bitched “why couldn’t it be after summer?”
How’d that get here?
Lol!
It’s a Saturday, and I’m down to just a minor sleep debt.
So, have a link to the Zoom/Happy Hour/Attempt to deflect work for tonight (and most Fridays and Saturdays). I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Watching Coming 2 America? I ❤️ Wesley Snipes. He can do anything.
Except pay his taxes. 🙂
???My hero???
Glad the smirk and wink came through correctly. It’s been a long day.
LOL
Isn’t it strange that we all know OJ Simpson’s lawyer and his family, but Robert Barnes, a true American hero, is relegated to doing vlogs with some Canadian.
Snipes is easily the best part of that meh movie.
Is The Mouse being black the cause of Disney being against ((them))?
Mickey Farrakhan?
Helicopters on Mars, a plan to keep the planet Marxist free?
The Libertarian Party of California has its convention next weekend. I read the platform.
Most of it is pretty solid libertarian fare. They get a bit too crunchy granola here and there, but it’s California.
What will become problematic is how much depends on private companies doing certain tasks. For example, the LP wants to prevent the government from regulating a business or travel security etc. But the way it’s phrased is that private companies or corporations can best self regulate.
But as long as the govt is in bed with corporations, they are going to do the govt bidding. I certainly don’t want Disney and Facebook determining censorship.
But as long as the govt is in bed with corporations, they are going to do the govt bidding. I certainly don’t want Disney and Facebook determining censorship.
This is a problem. Libertarians for a long time assumed Big Business would never support totalitarianism. Corruption and cronyism yes but not totalitarianism. It was assumed they would oppose totalitarianism out of a sense of self-preservation. You know a totalitarian government would likely nationalize them and try to expropriate their wealth so better support freedom.
And big business would never support totalitarianism is a key plank of the “free trade will liberate China” belief. What pray tell were the Rich Chinese Businessmen and their Western trading partners supposed to think about the Chicoms after all?
I certainly don’t want Disney and Facebook determining censorship.
That train has sailed.
I don’t have a problem with their ability to engage in self-censorship or the censoring of their users although I think it’s wrong, I do take issue with collaboration with each other and the government to crush those alternative platforms that don’t censor. I’d say they can follow their naive principles into irrelevance but as Cali Libertarians they’re already irrelevant so no harm done.
My concern is the solutions I’ve seen to these nebulous threats to freedom of speech are bigger threats to freedom of association. The trade off isn’t worth it.
You have a point and I struggle with the balance, there are certainly trade offs either way.
My bigger problem is what to do with the “anti-competitive” coordination. I’ve always had a problem with trust busting as a strict free market principle, but the past couple of years have shaken that in me.
We hear over and over “go make your own platform (or TV channel or newspaper or whatever)”. But that’s exactly what happened with Parler and the SV totalitarians coordinated to destroy it right as it was getting traction. Not sure what to do about that in which the cure isn’t worse than the disease but I don’t like it one bit.
I like the idea of trying something different, seeing how it goes, and punting if it’s worse because what’s happening now is problematic to say the least.
As Mae West said in Klondike Annie, “Between two evils, I like to pick the one I’ve never tried before.”
There hasn’t been freedom of association since the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Granted , and this was a thing that libertarians use to bitch about, now they use it as an excuse to force people to accept their vision of ‘free speech’ enforcement. “They did it so we should to”, is a horrible argument.
To me, Tawny will always be the girl that screws the boy in a bubble.
She’s the one who printed the card to say “Moops”?
“Crystal Heat”, 1986.
Heart not Heat.
Just making the obvious Seinfeld reference.
I know the Moops thing, but dont get the connection.
Apparently a failed attempt at a joke.
You mentioned screwing the boy in the bubble. The misprint of Moops on a card screwed over the boy in a bubble in that episode, hence my poor attempt at a joke.
I got it.
Thanks Plinker762, I appreciate it.
Like Rebecca De Mornay will forever be the girl who had sex with Tom Cruise on the “L”?
Yes, exactly like that.
She was hot in that one but she was good in, well…I can’t remember the names of any of the other ones. I guess you’re right.
Hand That Rocks The Cradle is great.
+1 so nineties
Oh man it’s been many years since I’ve seen that. I’ll have to find it again. I barely remember it.
That baby who was sucking Rebecca De Mornay’s boobs is thirty-years-old now.
Thank you so much for that news, O harbinger of mortality.
I remember Q (ST:TNG, not our beloved purveyor of boob pics) played a creepy rapey OB-GYN who had to off himself after being publicly disgraced.
The rest of it was basic predictable thriller pap.
Rebecca De Mornay is the one who meets Geraldine Page on the trip to Bountiful.
Any good?
I think so, but it might not be the sort of movie people here like. It’s one of those “little” movies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1391134624093458434
Well we got cops arresting priests for illegal church services. Soviet Canuckustan is real folks. But hey they at least have legal pot.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1391171521692028929
My kid has another volleyball weekend, this time in Amish country (Indiana). This is the first place I’ve been where 90% are not wearing masks indoors. It is fantastic.
It’s Silicone Saturday so it must be tits!
https://archive.li/1jKJM
“NYC teacher caught sucking topless man’s nipple during Zoom class
A spicy slip of the tongue led to a Spanish teacher being yanked from her classes after investigators found she performed an “inappropriate sexual act” during a Zoom lesson.
As students at the prestigious Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering remotely watched a “live” class, Amanda K. Fletcher, 37, “appeared to suck the nipple of an unidentified topless male” while “gyrating” or “rocking back and forth,” according to the Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools.
Before that, students watched Fletcher “eating spaghetti” with the shirtless man behind her, the SCI says in a report, dated Oct. 29, 2020, obtained by The Post.
After taking her mouth off the man’s chest, Fletcher “resumed teaching and discussing a worksheet,” a student told probers.”
https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/nyc-teacher-caught-sucking-topless-mans-nipple-during-zoom-class/
que?
No video of the incident in the article? Come in NY post do your job!
I’m sure Daily Mail is working on it.
Come on* stupid autocorrect
What would be an appropriate sexual act?
If he were sucking her nipples.
Dude sucking her nipple.
Should have refreshed page, obvious response.
The teacher they need, not the teacher they want.
“a Spanish teacher”
Well, say no more, guv’nor.
I heard a Latin American author confide that though she used English for some things, she made love in Spanish.
Freedom or democracy.? Neither is like the other.
We often hear politicians link them together, talking heads as well.
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
He forgot “I’ll take democracy for $200, Alex”
This bugs me too, fourscore. Democracy without protections for individuals’ basic rights is just mob rule.
Much like antifa.
I’ll pass.
Charleston let the mask mandate expire today.
Why aren’t lawyers lining up to sue these woke companies? Telling emoyees they have white privilege is text book discrimination.
Who funds these lawyers? And what will their law schools and the bar associations say?
Dean said a while ago that in a blind justice system it’s a slam dunk hostile work environment suit.
Unfortunately we don’t have a blind justice system.
It also requires a willing plaintiff. Eventually, someone woke will get screwed, have an epiphany, and then file a lawsuit.
Judge Hero: Your case was well argued and legally sound, but you brought this shitshow on yourself with your woke nonsense. i find for the defendant. Reap what you sow, bitch.
Turntable porn … expensive turntable porn.Most of the cost is in the hardware but still.
It’s nice but I’d rather have a 2017 Toyota Corolla.
Eeeeeewwwwww. Weirdo.
I don’t miss my turntable for an instant.
OTH, the loudness wars damned near wrecked the CD.
Now we have both the loudness wars and lossy compression for the death of hifi.
And let’s talk about autotune…
Give Tidal a try, if you can stand the price it sounds damn good.
Agreed. My issue at this point is the source material.
I have something like 500 plus CDs I’ve ripped to FLAC. So old albums I’m generally covered and new ones the mastering and studio processing drive me nuts.
Hence my love of classical and going all in on J Pop. If I’m going to listen to music processed within an inch of its life from someone with minimal talent at least she will be cute and the music and lyrics written by professionals.
Or lyrics you don’t understand.
That overprocessing is part of why I can’t stand K-Crap. Well, that and the cookie-cutter nature of it and the foppish, androgynous guys trying to put on a phony attitude.
Well there is this…
https://youtu.be/ShVRP09NCO4
I watched the whole thing. Although I’ve never even come close to that level of craftsmanship, I do miss woodworking.
I can’t wait until Disney’s wokeness makes its way into the Parks. That will cost them real money.
Peccary + armadillo = peccadillo
Two words: three way.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/14896759/boyfriend-cheated-on-me-with-sister/
Another one with no pictures.
Heh, also courtesy of The Sun:
“LOAD AWAY Stunned man discovers secret dishwasher in flat he’s lived in for two YEARS”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/14871003/man-discovers-secret-dishwasher-two-years/?rec_article=true
All the news that’s fit to print.
Once more: Sun readers don’t care who’s running the country…
He looks like he hasn’t eaten a meal in two years either.
He looks fine. I wish there were more guys with his BMI. This country would have lost fewer people to COVID.
It was a joke 😛
‘Disney says America has a “long history of systemic racism and transphobia.”’
Yeah, all those 18th, 19th, and 20th century trannies. Who could forget them?
The whole world has a record of transphobia, nothing unique about us. Come to think of it, that holds true for racism (or bigotry at least) as well.
Much like…the world?
People complaining of American attitudes from 100-300 years ago don’t bother reading enough history to know that all of life was pretty damned difficult back then.
And the assertion that America was built “on” racism is just laughable.
I wish that Americans could turn back time and not have participated in the slave trade. But we can’t and we did.
There are a lot of African Americans aggrieved today about things that happened in America not to them but to their ancestors. Do they imagine they’re worse off here now than they would have been in the Ivory Coast or Nigeria?
The really tragic part is that some of these descendants of slaves started out life happy and hopeful, and it took the leftist institutions to strip them of agency and the sense that they could make it in America.
Submitted without comment.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/porn-actress-suspect-in-poisoning-of-japanese-real-estate-mogul/
Well I know what my conversation with my friend who lives close to where he did will be tomorrow.
More:
“Real estate mogul Kosuke Nozaki claimed in his autobiography that he had spent US$27.5 million on wooing 4,000 women in his lifetime”
That’s $6875/woman. The women aren’t the only ones getting screwed… hey-ohhh!
He got a better deal than Gates or Bezos and I’d bet a fair number of them were good looking.
At the same price/woman, Bezos would have sex with 14 million women.
Let me help you. Put this in your image search engine of choice.
須藤早貴
My guess? She had done the math and saw that she was giving him a better price-per-shot over time than the random pay-4-play pick-up he was used to so she terminated his contract – with prejudice.
“She has white skin with a firmness that repels water”
I think something got lost in translation.
Kinda fucked up given the source material but goddamn adorable.
Can somebody more plugged into TMITE than me tell me what the latest covid panic is that made me the only person at the grocery store not wearing a mask and that caused wal-mart to switch back to masks Required?
Just 2 weeks ago, masks were getting increasingly rare.
Probably India, they have a variant you know…
Who knows? Don’t take behavioral cues from sheep.
Certainly not. Just surprised that we’re backtracking here in TX.
You have failed your governor and must be taught a lesson.
Screw that guy, he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Don’t be rude, the guy’s on a roll.
Walmart could be a nationwide policy.
This makes the most sense.
“Looking for love…”
I thought that story was going to be about STEVE SMITH.
splosives says “Most of it is pretty solid libertarian fare ” in reference to the LP of Cal. platform. I thought the general consensus is that the LP has drifted far from libertarian principles (or never espoused them to begin with) and wasn’t worth supporting? Sure, everyone of us would change some particular platform plank, or tell a candidate to emphasize another issue or decide the LP has become much too radical for the average voter or too pragmatic for anarchocapitalists to support.
I think that, over the years, the LP has done a pretty good job of walking the line between too radical and too concerned with realpolitik (and the slogan “the Party of Principle” hasn’t really ever applied.) That it will ever average 5% of the vote in meaningful races is a pipe dream, but if it could, then one or other of the big parties will seek to co-opt libertarian policies.
The platform of the national LP isn’t half bad either. Of course, whenever one of their leaders open their mouths, woke shit tends to come out. When the rubber meets the road, the LP shacks up with the prog-fascists.
…other wise known as being coy
Yep, this is it in a nutshell.
Tom Woods had a recent episode where he and his guest discussed the horrible state of the Nevada Libertarian Party. The LP openly mocked the non-aggression principle (!!) and made other very un libertarian stands.
Then a new batch of “Mises” Libertarians swept into power just in the last week or so, so that is a good sign.
I agree the LP won’t win major elections but the LP can at least influence discussion topics if they don’t sell out and become Leftist Lite.
The big L party’s near silence over the stripping of our liberties in the name of Covid has been a major disappointment.
So Mickey was Walt’s token black friend? Did Donald et al go to Walt’s exclusive parties while the Mickey didn’t get an invite? Did Pluto and Goofy ever get it on? Were Walt and Scrooge McDuck neighbors?
I loved those simple comics as a young kid. I attribute my love of reading and reading skills to comic books, especially the simple and easy to understand kind.
I really feel sad for those people whose life depends on destruction and hatred. Some day even their cell phones won’t work in their Luddite world. Consumption depends on production.
Even the Chinese don’t work for free.
i really feel sad
I wore a chin mask to the grocery store. Nobody said a thing. We’re still 95% mask compliant in this city, everyone’s an obedient masker, but not confrontational about it, I guess. Nobody has the courage to take off the fucking mask, and nobody has the courage to scold me for taking it off. Bunch of fucking pussies.
Sorry to hear this as your neck of the woods is the area I generally spend my time in the US and I would like to hope (dream?) that they would be a little less proggy/more independent after this year+ of authoritarian over-reach. Bleah….
I don’t think we’re terribly progressive, just obedient. And in fairness, this is a university part of town. But yes, it’s pathetic. I’ve mentioned before seeing joggers at the UNM golf course wearing masks, and it hasn’t changed since the CDC relented on that bit of nonsense. That they even needed to be told not to wear a mask while jogging alone hundreds of yards from anyone and they’re still abiding by the old conformist position tells me that it’s nothing but fashion for these twerps. The rest of us, we’re going along to get along.
I probably have a skewed perception of the area due to my ultra-proggy step-mom, who lives there, and her circle of friends who end up being the largest chunk of people I get to meet when visiting. She moved there when my Dad retired from working in DC for decades and she has done her level best to meet and retain friends who mirror her political values.
https://twitter.com/ComradeToguro/status/1389765397868695552
I doubt that is really the Sandy hook shooter.
Weird cameo from George Lucas.
Hey Winston, I found your answer
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E04cILmVoAkMbML.jpg
For those of us for whom a simple boating accident might not be enough to explain what happened to some previous purchases…
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-5th-fleet-seizes-weapons-shipment-stateless-dhow-arabian-sea-2021-05-08/
Any of our more knowledgeable folk want to define WTF a “stateless” vessel is?
I would say that means it didn’t have current registration with any nation. Possibly it was purchased by one entity and physically changed hands without that entity filing the paperwork to establish registration.
this is interesting. The key bit:
It’d be like renouncing your US citizenship without having some other citizenship. In theory, it sounds cool, in practice you have zero recourse if anyone starts messing with you.
Maritime law is incredibly interesting to me – my sister briefly worked for a maritime law firm and mentioned this case:
A container ship was delivering cargo from San Francisco to Tokyo. However, they planned to first head to South America (Peru?) to fuel up – it was so much cheaper it was worth the extra time and distance and they could still make it to Tokyo within the agreed time.
They hit a huge storm heading south and end up losing a bunch of cargo that was lashed to the deck.
Are they liable because they didn’t head directly west to Tokyo? Or is that that just an act of god while they’re following a routine operational course?
(I don’t know how that ruling ended up)
Lawyers of the sea
I knew 3 stateless humans in Stockholm. They were part of the same electrical engineering program I was in.
2 Latvians and one Lithuanian. They were born in the aforementioned Baltic states but were born to Russian parents.
After the fall of the USSR, Russia wouldn’t give them Russian citizenship, and Latvia and Lithuania wouldn’t grant Baltic country citizenship.
They had UN passports. They were pretty cynical about life, politics, and patriotism at the tender age of 22.
Goals.
Just went out to start the mower. Success! A little brake cleaner in the carb and vroom!
Hooray!
One pull! *dusts fingernails*
Phrasing?
Huzzah! Spent the afternoon in the backyard and it was good therapy.
Always burn or drain the excess from the tanks in the Fall.
Spent a delightful evening eating BBQ and listening to excellent live music in Richmond, Indiana, just over the state line from Ohio. IN’s statewide mask mandate has ended, so it’s now up to counties and municipalities to decide whether to require them. As far as I can tell, Richmond is NOT forcing face diapers – at least there was no sign to that effect on the door of our destination. I think perhaps only the hostess who seated us was wearing one – purple with sequins. (Stylin’!) Saw several friends and got to reconnect with them face-to face!
Did you bring back a gun?
Wrong end of the state! 😀 All the guns in IN are crammed into the NW corner just to brazenly tempt the peaceful, upstanding citizens of Chicago. 😉
I’m reading a book “How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam Is Dying Too)”.
There’s plenty to quibble with, as the author makes some bold assertions and is clearly writing from a Judeo-Christian point of view.
But there is also plenty worth reading and considering.
This gist is that most great civilizations reach a point where they simply quit reproducing. They get comfortable, lose their religious faith, lose cultural confidence, and commit slow cultural suicide.
With Islam, the author points out that they are going from women having 4-6 kids on average to fewer than 1 in a record short time, just a few decades. This will lead to desperation and instability, which will affect the rest of the world.
He also points out the importance of the thirty years war in European and thus world history, and of the failure of early Christian missionaries to fully evangelize the Europeans. This left the “lightly baptized” Europeans able to retain some pagan traditions and to form Nation States that rivaled or co-opted their new faith.
The only western cultures still reproducing at replacement rate or more are Israel and the United States.
An interesting read for sure; just be prepared for an editorial, not a dispassionate accounting.
Just read an article about that book. Probably the same one.
I thought the US reproduction was below replacement rate & the only think keeping us from circling the drain was immigration.
A quick search shows multiple source citing the U.S. at < 2.1 children per person, but perhaps I'm looking at the wrong things.
Anyone about?
Ish.
Hello, Friend! I get that reference, by the way…
I’m glad you get it. That makes one of us..
Supermarket sweep is so much better drunk.
Nah (to be read in The Critical Drinker’s voice).
Actually, yeah, but probably not for much longer.
Sorta. I thought you’d all be on zoom.
I don’t feel like getting dressed and acting civil so I’m not.
Who says you have to do either? (In all seriousness, you don’t have to turn on the camera.)
But it’s midnight here in EDT Land, and I got up early, so I’m going to bed. Nighty night, all!
‘Night, Red!
Had to take a call and wasn’t feeling up to Zoom. It’s one thing to type and quite another to react in real time. I’m too fecking tired for the latter.
Third of a bottle in, so yes.
Turns out you can over brine chicken. It’s velvety and tender as promised, but saltier than a good example of something that’s salty.
It’s saltier than that scene from the end of that 90s movie Hocus Pocus where they bury the witches’ tome in a pile of salt, which I may be misremembering and makes no sense anyway, but I’m pretty sure happened.
Also, the cat reinflation scene was creepy for a kid.
Like last week when I drunkenly added soy sauce to Judi’s fried rice and barely peed for two days? That salty?
Listen, if you’d pissed on these chicken tendies, it’d only have diluted the saltiness.
And I’d be upset that you pissed on my chicken.
I don’t know that I’d call the police, but I’d be angry and confused. I’d be irate.
Did that require a trip to the doctor?
Saltier than Hillary voters in 2016?
Over-brining is indeed a thing.
It is, without a doubt, the highlight of my life that Hillary lost to Trump. Whatever comes, the nightmares we face, whatever new devilry Sean Bean has in store for us, I can at least smile and brace myself with the knowledge that Hillary lost to Trump.
I remember watching the election returns. I was just waiting for confirmation she won. Bit by bit it wasn’t happening. I remember the joy of knowing America had raised its middle finger and told her to get lost.
I still look at compilations of that night on YouTube.
That was when the lefties realized they’d need to step up their game for future elections, because clearly the basket of deplorables was deeper than they thought.
My buddy, the only conservative I know, and I watched it at a local place, resigned to deal with the triumphant proggies around us – the idea that the returns wouldn’t be on in every single place was a non-starter.
We started the evening resigned, then intrigued , then quietly giddy.
Things like this still make me grin uncontrollably:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiWY0iRLV94
(best part of that is the beginning with Gasparian’s totally-did-not-happen anecdote)
I’ll enjoy that memory in the camps.
I’ll note that the giddiness wasn’t because Trump won – neither of us voted for him – but Hillary was the personification of the authoritarian Left.
I texted my reliably proggy friend “FUCK” because I was legitimately dismayed that Trump won. I was a Cruz fan, given that Rand got no traction. I really, really wanted the Trump train derailed. And I still regret that fucking turd was elected.
The best part was when each of their foreheads grew ever more shiny as the night wore on.
I voted for GayJay and have no regrets. I have and had no love for Trump but Hilary was the worst.
They can take everything from us but they will never take our salty ham-tears!
As Festus so said…anybody about?
I down a bottle a night. There’s 5/8ths of a bottle to go. You tell me whether there’s anyone about.
*raises short can*
About to make some more coffee.
Bedtime.
*raises glass of pils*
Watching the third season of the F1 show, Drive to Survive (cheers slum!), that is featuring the Finnish driver. The Finns are a funny bunch.
Election night 2016 was indeed hilarious, even if I also did not vote for T Dog nor like him. Seeing that middle finger America gave to Hillary, The Dems, the media and the Hollywood elite, was wonderful. I have a feeling that it is not the last middle finger that will be given in this country. I know the past year has been utterly demoralizing for those of us who love human liberty. I know the prevailing sentiment here is that the Dems have managed to fix (fortify!!) the vote, but I have a feeling it is not going to turn out like they think. We may see a sea change in politics in the next handful of years. I doubt most of it will go our way, but I think the apparent stranglehold that progressivism has on our politics and culture is not as strong as they think it is. There is more than a chance that liberty hasn’t seen its best days.
I admire your spirit and optimism! *empties short can*
May all your dreams come true!
Jiminy Crickets!
*switches to pale ale*
I’ll drink to that.
One thing that is clear is that ordinary people going about their lives not wanting to think about politics all the time are really fed up with being told that they are racist, ignorant, sexist, transphobic, xenophobic, selfish (if they want to keep their money), and just plain stupid.
Turns out that’s not a winning message.
And it also turns out that voters don’t like candidates who act entitled to election victory.
I wish there was a way to translate this to prog-speak. We could get rich selling a clue to the TDS-afflicted mob.
Indeed. I think the Dems know that they are playing from a weak hand. They bought into the demographics as destiny line and are now seeing that slipping away.
I have seen Gretzky and I have seen McDavid. I will go on record that McDavid > Gretzky.
I don’t know. I think Paulina is hotter.
Kinda terrifying moment just now: the pet door is swinging, swinging, swinging, loud, loud, loud, I go to look and the cat is just staring at it, not moving. And there’s nothing outside.
Raccoon.
Or shoggoth. One of the two.
*cough* STEVE SMITH *cough*
I’m sure it’s nothing a 12 gauge won’t take care of.
My company should be re-named Snake-In-The-Grass Inc. They took my overtime Friday shift away and then requested that my trainee do my job. She was hired on to do anti-commie coff stuff. Now she’s doing part of my job on Fridays at the same pay-rate as before. I tried to fire her up about it to no avail. So sick of their duplicity. The last two weeks have literally been one fecking thing after another.
In my experience there are very few companies of more than maybe a half dozen people which are good to work for. I’ve worked for companies which often get those “best place to work for” accolades in the press and I always wonder how they find those few newbies who are still in their honeymoon phase. I have crossed paths with the regional HR head for one of those corporations – worked with her on a project for a few weeks – and she uttered a few things which stick with me to this day. Some of her expressed thoughts sounded like stuff from a script from some Hollywood movie about evil KKKorporations.
I’m old, I know this. I thought that after these many years we had gained some modicum of trust. Nope. Sorely disappointed. I’m wondering what the hell happens next.
I remember a number of discussions 15-some-odd years ago talking about a theory that democratization doesn’t work in nations that have a GDP of less than a certain number, somewhere around US$6,500 a year. The basic idea is that if the average person is not secure in his/her ability to feed his/her family for the next year or so they are not confident in putting their fate in the hands of some faceless political entity. They are more likely to stick with the hard authority of some local figure who they know something about rather than give that authority up to an organization which might not even know, much less care, about their personal plight.
Is Mexico safe to flee to? I’m asking for a friend.
A friend who lives in America and wonders whether Mexico is safe to flee to.
I know some Spanish. Miercolas. And sabado. And ich kann ein bissien Deutch sprechen. You know, in case there’s some Germans around.
I mean my friend knows those things.
I don’t think it’s even safe to visit yet – outside a few, narrow bands around the resort areas which the cartels own which are a gamble as well – much less move to.
I may need to move several people over the border, you understand.
What about Belize? They speak English.
Those belize girls
Oh I’m not going to pretend
Mexico can be as safe or as dangerous as the US. Totally depends on where you go and what you do. The murder rate, is of course, much higher, but that is mostly due to warring cartels. I’d recommend your friend bringing money, or having the ability to work as a digital nomad as most of Mexico is no longer dirt cheap.
I would say that if you know your way around it can be as safe as anywhere in the US. But where it is really dangerous being an obvious Gringo will be more dangerous than anywhere in the US.
And, yes, you will need money to maintain your safety. Maybe not more than you can afford but expect to be paying for safety. And have no delusions about being armed to defend yourself.
I’ll be there next month, in a house a couple miles out of a small fishing town on the Sea of Cortez. It’s one of my favorite spots in the world. Hoping it’s relatively normal in town.
Rocky point?
My supervisor rented a house south of Cancun.
It wasn’t at all like this. He said everyone was really friendly. But his wife speaks Spanish, so
As a SoCal resident (for as long as I can afford it), I’ve been thinking of learning Spanish. I don’t think I’d regret it. Just a matter of how I want to spend my time.
Of course I also used to think about learning sign language so I could teach the hard sciences/ engineering to deaf students. My brushes with the deaf community disabused me of that lofty goal.
Let me second the idea of learning Spanish. You’re practically immersed in it already so it would come faster than you expect it would. Besides, it mostly gives you a respite from the Woke world – as long as you stick to first generation immigrants.
Seconded. In SoCal you will use it as often as you want to. It’s a fun language, and about the easiest one to learn for an English speaker.
Baja, the East Cape area between Cabo and La Paz, been renting different houses there with my wife and kids for the past decade. Ive been in Mexico a dozen times over my life, in different parts of the Baja peninsula and south of Cancun near Belize, and Mazatlan on the Pacific coast. Never been to Mexico City, but it is very much on my travel list, just not with little kids. Three years of my life in total in Latin American counties, and yes, you can get yourself in trouble quite easily if not careful.
Lots of Americans have already fled there with scattered to clumped ex-pat communities all over.
Yep, hence the movement to beggar us all. Poors are more easily bought off and controlled.
+1 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Thanks! I was searching my drunken brain for that but apparently there was a hole in the sieve.
I raise a glass of water and two diphenhydramines to you all.
Can any of you history buffs recommend a good book on the thirty years war?
My questions go beyond the Wikipedia article.
5 AM, do you know where your kids are?
Another day a dawnin”. I don’t sleep well at night, in spurts only 1 1/2-2 hours a a time, last night was a total of 6.5 but an hour of that was awake fiddling with the bed, trying to find a comfortable position.
Good morning to all, in another hour I’ll get my first nap of the day. For now, catch up on the overnight happenings.
I’m awake when the pup is awake. We’ll see how long that’s sustainable.
Mornin’, Four!
I told you last night, NO!
— Homer Simpson
I found a morel in my woods!
Also some fiddleheads, but a) I don’t know if these are the edible kind and b) I don’t like fiddleheads.
That’s awesome! Morels are my favorite mushroom by far. I spend hours walking in the woods every spring looking for them on my property. Even if you don’t find any mushrooms it’s a great excuse to be out in nature.
Heard a disconnect noise from the computer, came in to find the mouse cord neatly sheared in half. Lily is getting really efficient at this biting thing. I’ll have to head over to Best Buy after steel this morning.
Mix cayenne pepper, Tabasco sauce and dish soap together and smear on things you don’t want her to chew.
She’ll learn when she starts getting electrocuted.
Straff- did your wife like the cake?
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/eastern-shore/bs-md-ocean-city-man-saves-todder-20210507-4x4evzwhf5g6vf5hq4cwqtldji-story.html
Hero.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/tomsriver/massive-waterspout-reported-near-seaside-heights-reports
Decent pic.
Yes, she was a pure hottie of her era, but do you think she’d be quite as famous or as memorable had she not been named Tawny Kitaen?
Interesting point.
Though, how do you square that with a bland name like Christina Applegate?
Well, first of all, she was on TV for years.
Second, her name is also a charged one:
Apple as in apple-bottomed
Gate as in gates of heaven.
Thus Applegate = someone who is best fucked from behind.
*golf clap*
Happy day to all the moms here.