Something, something, kids, business, tired, something something.
Sloopy and Banjos are trying to take care of bidness, and get some well needed rest. So yeah, here I am, with the links you wanted last night, today!
I’m thinking 5-10, as long as it’s in general population, and not protected custody.
Cool! Now we have two companies working on putting chips in our brains!
With your first cup of coffee.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out there is corruption in government giveaway programs.
There’s a lot of Idahoans that will be really pissed if they have to drive even farther to buy their devil’s lettuce.
Okay, this is a throwback to heading out on a Friday evening of cruising the main drag, getting ready for an epic evening of stupidity. I mean seriously, they made a gazillion with soaring guitar riffs that were so epic, every song sounded the same and they still rocked. Crank it.
I am calling both of my soccer predictions from the other day accurate:
1. Spurs to Europa Conference seems pretty darn likely, unless Arsenal beats them out for it.
2. Everton beats Man City and still finishes 8th on goal differential.
Both could still be wrong.
Bless you heart, for your continued interest in this season.
I suppose I should be following Liverpool’s antics… LOL I didn’t know they played yesterday. Stupid schedule.
Liverpool are sadly still finishing third.
I’d rather Spurs drop out of Europe (but stay above Arsenal). A season without Europe (and Kane) to lay a new foundation.
I just saw this. Yesterday I went to the Big-Y in town, didn’t wear a mask (all the people there were) and nobody said a single word to me. I did get a few Karens to give me dirty looks to which I just smiled. They no longer had the sign up saying masks had to be worn, BTW, but everyone on the staff wore one so the Karens would not freak out.
“…I’m thinking 5-10, as long as it’s in general population, ”
Under those conditions 1 to 2 years will probably be more than enough. They’d be lucky to make it 6 months.
How can we care about the homeless assholes when we’ve voluntarily turned ourselves into a world full of trash diggers? I long for the good ole days when we only recycled things that were valuable enough to justify it, like aluminum (which apparently is no longer valuable enough, for some reason, maybe because we don’t do much casting anymore and it all has to take the boat ride to China.)
Eh? it all goes to the same landfill anyway, so I only ‘recycle’ cardboard because it’s a pain to get it into the bag and can.
We recycle cardboard up here. And by “recycle” I mean “stuff in the burn barrel and light on fire.”
Carbon unsequestering.
I’m thinking of the joyous world of Transmetropolitan set in the distant future with the ability to do genetic alterations, matter replication, and other super-science stuff. There was still an underclass (couldn’t afford the basics), a middle class (collected garbage to feed their matter replicators), and an upper class (crony capitalists and politicians).
One of my eye-opening moments came during Bloomberg’s first term. He ending recycling of items which lost money. The entire media and political establishment naturally went apeshit so it wasn’t long before he caved and it was back to sorting cans and glass or whatever.
That told me everything I needed to know about the true purpose of recycling.
+1 I’m Helping patch
Is recycling mandatory? I’ve heard of places that will fine you for putting recyclables in your trash. At my last place, recycling had to be sorted, so much of it went into the trash. Here it’s single-stream recycling, so I recycle more.
It’s “mandatory” in NYC but in an apartment building how are they going to punish you? I assume whatever fines are imposed, are built into the rent. So really, there’s no point to the whole exercise. And I do find myself tossing stuff I’m too lazy to clean out, say, a jar of peanut butter..
Some recycling is useful. It’s just a question of what you’re recycling.
Drawn by generous fees for each loan processed, Kabbage was among a band of online lenders that joined enthusiastically in originating loans through their automated platforms. That helped millions of borrowers who’d been turned down by traditional banks, but it also created more opportunities for cheating. ProPublica examined SBA loans processed by several of the most prolific online lenders and found that Kabbage appears to have originated the most loans to businesses that don’t appear to exist and the only concentration of loans to phantom farms.
In some cases, these problems would’ve been easy to spot with just a little more upfront diligence — which the program’s structure did not encourage.
You’re not supposed to care where the money lands when you throw it out of the helicopter.
Borders should be adjusted to reality occasionally. Especially those made on a whim (“let’s draw a straight line here”) instead of arising organically as happened with many state borders.
So we can kick Toledo over to Michigan?
/looks back to the Ohio-Michigan war, wonders if that was “organic”
If this becomes a real movement, I can see Minnesoda dwindle to just the 7 county metro area with the rest of the state fleeing to the Dakotas, Iowa and -shudder- Wisconsin.
It is a real tribute to King Walz that eastern counties might find Wisconsin to be a better fit for rural counties.
That cheese-head shit is indeed one hell of a indictment, your holiness….
*shudders*
I’m thinking I would like to be Mike S. s neighbor. No more Vikings or Twins or Gophers (and their stadiums). I’d have to learn the accent but By Golly, I could do that.
Yeah, I could do that too.
Do we have any SoDak Glibs?
Lurkers?
‘The former Colorado cops who roughed up a 73-year-old woman with dementia over a $14 unpaid Walmart tab – for merchandise she put back – have been criminally charged.
Austin Hopp and Daria Jalali, both directly involved in the June 2020 arrest of Karen Garner, were charged with felonies and misdemeanors. They were first placed on leave and then left the police force, along with Tyler Blackett. The three, along with colleagues, later mocked Garner while viewing video footage of the arrest in Loveland, a city about 50 miles north of Denver.’
Some websites probably find this story “Too local”.
I am pretty sure I was in that Walmart in April.
Roughed up??? More mendacious wordplay. They broke her arm and dislocated her shoulder! The cunte that wrote that should get a taste of roughed up.
My thoughts exactly. The broken arm etc weren’t brought up until deep in the article.
I really, really, really hope this sends a message and signals a sea change in the law enforcement field. But somehow I just don’t see it happening.
Because of the crazy shit going on with the marxists, actual serious police reform is simply not possible, even by accident, at this point. And that is what pisses me off the most.
I got some really angry people at work yesterday, practically all libs that were complaining, when I told them I was fine with defunding the police. My explanation that I chose to live where I do and am armed, and never expected the cops to be needed to protect myself, left them pissed, because they all lived in urban areas that would be prime real-estate for the “marxist peaceful protesters” once they decide the good loot is in the urban neighborhoods the libs live in. When I pointed out that they should fight back against their party – by not voting for these assholes – I was told that was not an option. The conversation ended when I pointed out that if they were more concerned by someone that did mean tweets about how stupid they are (see their problem with the peaceful protesters for proof) than the fact this led them to put people in power that would be fine with the shit now scaring them to death, because these people in charge were not concerned with the peaceful protesters coming to their properties…
Karma is a bitch, yo…
I’m not going to tell my coworkers that I may or may not own firearms. I am what is known as ‘a private person’. I’m annoyed that they know which city I live in. I think I’ve successfully concealed my birthday from them (or they’ve gotten the hint that I don’t want to be pestered over it). I’m sure as hell not going to tell them I enjoy shooting guns.
With my background the option of them not knowing was moot, so I just talk about it when they bring up stupid shit.
It’s pretty common knowledge (at work) that I am armed while at work.
Firearms can be freely discussed in this workplace.
Same here. Well, at least about freely discussing – I can’t carry into my workplace.
I’ve been to the range with about half of my staff. Several of them planned to hole up with me if things got serious (they live closer to town, and I have a couple of acres).
It’d be nice if the Karma for their window licking were just limited to affecting them.
I feel sad for those that know better but get caught in the usual destruction these idiots inflict on humanity Cy, but at this point, I would recommend sane people still living in places where the woke own the decision making look at options to leave, and if they have that, do so. Reality is that there is no way to even get enough momentum to get people to want to fix the problem left other than giving these progtards what they ask for good an hard.
It’s almost like when an actual opportunity arises to reform the ever burgeoning state, someone on high pushes a narrative certain to derail the effort. Almost.
Statistically, your “almost” seems to certainly lean towards “its a fucking certainty”….
The state wants to keep and expand its power, and anything that gets in the way of that, always seems to go in the direction where all that happens is things get worse…
“Some websites probably find this story “Too local”.
My first thought exactly.
Words can’t describe my disappointment in TOS selling out to the left.
Police reform = accountability. You can see that plainly in places where the police are held accountable (Louisiana Sheriff’s offices) vs. places where they largely are not (Louisiana metropolitan police departments) . Death to police unions would be a very good start.
‘Words can’t describe my disappointment in TOS selling out to the left.’
I was bitter at first. My first avatar here was a picture of Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters as a jab at TOS. After a few months I got over it and now, frankly, I forget TOS even exists more often than not. Who needs them?
Thus. I think it helped that the prevailing narrative at TOS was the commenters were better libertarians than the writers. Made it so much easier to come to a site where it was only the commenters.
This*
Yeah, pretty much.
Regarding the cops that roughed up the old lady with dementia, they should also fire who ever hired them. This kind of behavior is not likely an isolated incident.
Regarding the farm PPP loans. I also think I’m too honest for this country sometimes. There seems to be loads of money out there if you are a piece of shit and don’t mind being unethical. I must be a sucker.
I must be a sucker
Welcome to the club.
*increases extra withholding (again) so next April’s buttfucking hurts less*
Fuck that. I can do better by keeping my money and investing that during the year since the IRS doesn’t pay me any interest to keep that extra withholding. I have been sending them a big check every tax day for decades, and while it pisses me off (not that I have to send the check but that I pay so much in taxes to get buttfucked by government anyway at every point and time), I know I did better, and keeping the money and sending it on tax day, compared to those that opt to have the IRS send them back the overdraft they did, works better.
I would love for us to get someone to pass a law that stopped automatic withholding and required everyone earning a pay check (and even collecting free lucre from government) to send a monthly or quarterly payment. I think the tax hikers would be done in a couple of months, and things would immediately change.
Concur. This is the first year they owed me in a long time, and of course it’s the year they’re running so far behind that they haven’t even gotten to my return after over 2 months.
The underwithholding penalty scares me. Yeah, it’s not that big of a penalty, but I don’t want to give them a penny more than I owe.
It is now over 6 months since I submitted my 2019 return and according to the IRS website they have just started processing it.
They owe me 10k.
And on the other hand, i owed money for 2020 (as I always do), and sent in my taxes with the check last week, and my online bank statement shows that they’ve already cashed my check.
Oh, absolutely.
I have an employee who sent her 2019 return in last July and they cashed the check immediately, but didn’t process her return until last month.
I have never been hit by it, and I am always underwitholding, to the point that my payday checks are always over $5K. Then again, I have never been late on my payment either, so they really have no reason to be pissed at me related to paying my fair share (their words). I have been careful to never end up having to mail in more than 15% of what I owed that year, so maybe that’s also why they have not tried to fuck me over yet.
A few years back I was discussing this with an old army buddy, how we missed out on the “Arms for (your favorite ME country) scam. He pointed out we didn’t have contacts, etc.
I explained we didn’t need any since we weren’t gonna provide any, maybe a few pawnshop pieces of junk. We’d just forfeit the contract and walk away with millions. Wouldn’t be worth chasing after us.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gaine the whole world, and lose his owne soule?”
One cannot make it in this world without soul.
I don’t know, but I been told
A big-legged woman ain’t got no soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl6s1x9j4QQ
Dueling brain chip companies! See, and I thought the Butlerian Jihad was just a clever plot device – turns out Herbert was a prophet after all.
*snorts a line of spice*
Yup
*sips spice coffee*
Quite so.
Unfortunately for some, there are no thicc Fremen.
the thicc ones are freTHEM now…
The got thick once they became the all soft and water fat.
When I was a kid the chip in the brain sounded great. Unlimited access to information. Now that I know it will just be used by Amazon and Google to bombard you with tailored ads I’m thinking hell no.
It would be a great idea if I thought the people doing it could be trusted half as far as I can spit…but yeah, they cant be.
So much this.
And don’t forget this wonderful experience that would be made possible by Big Tech: “This thought is being erased due to violation of our community standards on hate thought.”
It would be easier to just build a wall around Portland.
Hundreds of PPP Loans Went to Fake Farms in Absurd Places
Clearly we need a another few trillion in gov’t funny-money handouts.
At the rate we’re going we’re going to double Nigeria’s GDP through fraud alone.
There’s a lot of Idahoans that will be really pissed if they have to drive even farther to buy their devil’s lettuce. – I very sincerely doubt anyone in politics wants this precedent created so assume no chance in hell…
Probably true. But, people in politics are really stupid, power hungry and short sighted. So Democrats might think “this guarantees the senators from Oregon will be blue and the Idaho senators would have been red anyway” and go for it just for simple short term gain.
I think not. The blue believers don’t really want people to be able to flee the betterment program of the left. You must be remade and not simply allowed to go your own way.
Exactly this. Authoritarians, whether left or right, want control. Anyone going their own way is antithetical to that.
Baseball birthdays is a long list today:
Ken Boyer, HoFer Hal Newhouser, David Wells, George Grantham, Bobby Murcer, Jayson Werth, Joe Harris, Todd Stottlemeyer, a Ramon Hernandez, and Austin Kearns.
Story time about Kearns. In 1998, Kearns was the Reds 1st round draft pick. Adam Dunn was round 2. A pretty good year of drafting for the Reds. In 2001, Dunn comes up to AAA (I had season tickets at the time) Louisville. He was a beast for 55 games. There was a carousel just beyond the right field foul pole, I thought he was going to kill a kid sometime that summer. He finally got the call up the bigs and the rest is history.
The next summer, Kearns gets the call from AA to AAA and spends 1 (one) game in Louisville before going on the big league team. He looked like he was going to eclipse Dunn. He would end up spending 25 games in 2004 and 28 games in 2005 back in Louisville before finally being a full time MLBer (and getting traded to the Nationals).
Two stars that diverged at a certain point. Kearns made $23MM in his career, so it wasn’t like it was a bad one. 13.0 WAR. But it wasn’t Adam Dunn. Actually, they are surprisingly close in WAR, Dunn at 17.9 because Dunn was an absolute liability as a defensive player. His bat made Dunn over $112MM however.
One of my favorite cranks does a deep-dive into Joe’s head so we don’t have to, and it’s not pretty.
Speaking of the 2020 campaign, I remember during the primary debates, one of the moderator asked by a show of hands which candidates were for free sexual reassignment surgery for illegal immigrants and every single candidate raised a hand.
I always assumed Biden was just pandering to the left. But I think in the case of this issue, the DC establishment likes lefty environmentalism because it requires massive increases in government spending.
It was really clear that Biden would do whatever Biden was told to do to become President. What isn’t clear, is how in the fuck he got to the top of the ticket. There was never some ‘aha’ moment. He never won a debate. From a bird’s eye view, the only explanation for Joe Biden being the Democratic Nominee is corruption. Which surprised exactly no one.
But yeah, he won the election in the most secure vote count EVA!
During the Dem primaries, it looked like Trump would win in a walk, so they nominated a throwaway candidate.
Then the ‘Vid hit, and they saw a path to winning, but it was too late to change the nominee.
The real mystery is, why put the un-(re)electable Harris on the ticket?
They thought they could destroy Trump and keep him from running, put a team red shadow government approved candidate in the game, but so far Trump cock blocked them. I believe that the reason Kuh-Muh-Loh is there is the the same logic Obama used when he picked Biden: they don’t want anyone to think killing the sitting prez is anything but a step down.
Well then the answer is simple – take out all of DC.
I pray for that. A lot…
Here comes Preet.
The media spun a fairy-tale that Biden was the “statesmanlike moderate” and low-information primary voters took it from there.
You are giving these people way too much credit. The dnc primaries are nothing but Kabuki theatre. The voters lose to the establishment. Don’t take my word for it. Ask Bernie.
And I suspect most of the people that voted for Biden (minus the large number of fake voters of 2020) would not have cared if Biden was a baby eating, devil worshipping, messican butt seks loving, parmesan cheese smoking, maniac, because they were told that the orange guy was literally Hitler because of the mean social media presence. In other words: stupid people.
Stupid people? You give them too much credit.
That, and it gives people who are skeptical of Deep State candidates like Hillary Clinton an excuse to vote for them anyway. In 2016, I would spend hours of my life trying to show people how awful Hillary’s positions and statements are, and they wouldn’t even disagree, but they’d just cop out with some variation of “Well, she’s better on climate change, so I have to go with her. Whatever she screws up, we can fix it later, but we can’t fix a destroyed planet!”
Our track record shows that it’s easier to fix the planet.
Hell, we can’t even seem to break it very well, everything just seems to grow back.
“If there is any concern that existing federal law prohibits discrimination in federal grants on the basis of race or gender, nothing here suggests it. ”
There isn’t. There are plenty of programs that only apply to “minorities”.
Rural Oregon counties look to join more conservative Idaho
Secession and consent of the governed are racist, or so I am told.
Sing it, sister.
True story.
Biden should be relaxing on his ranch in Delaware growing whatever it is they grow in Delaware.
🙂
Higher gibberish
After a year of increasingly severe and frequent attacks against Asian Americans, experts say it will take systemic change to make lasting improvements.
A good place to start, they say, is at higher learning institutions.
Asian American faculty members are taking steps such as creating educational resources for students and the public, and speaking out about the “model minority” myth that can lead to damaging consequences for Asian American students.
“Universities are really critical, because young people are the base of the movement to fight racism,” says Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American studies department at San Francisco State University.
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Experts note that the Asian American community has faced discrimination for centuries, in part because Asian Americans are left largely out of U.S. history books, and most colleges don’t offer courses in Asian American studies.
That could be about to change, though.
“There’s kind of a disjuncture between the ways in which Asian American history and Asian American studies don’t often get taught in higher education, whereas the model minority discourse kind of frames Asian Americans as heavily tied to upward mobility through education, right, so there’s kind of this disjuncture there,” says Lily Wong, an associate professor and faculty affiliate of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center (ARPC) at American University.
One of the first of its kind, American University’s ARPC was founded to generate research, educational tools and policy analysis “geared towards dismantling racism in its many forms.”
“The center does provide a very particular space and resource, and it has a very unique mission,” says Wong. “It gives us in academia some space to connect with the public, and I think that is what most [Black, Indigenous and people of color] BIPOC faculty really want to do — to give back to the community.”
“Give back to the community.”
Right.
Does anyone have a reputable link to the stats on this increase in violence towards Asains? Not saying it’s completely a myth but I’m curious if it’s exceeding the rise in violent crime across the board. I’m guessing if it is, it’s negligible…but I guess when the DNC sees a minority group beginning to wander off the plantation any narrative to corral them back in will do.
I don’t have a link but it wouldn’t surprise me if the rate has been rising for real. Many Asians have shops in certain communities where other groups avoid doing business and they’re standout targets in areas where crime is increasing. I’d bet that accounts for most of it.
That, and some people will blame the Chinese government’s incompetence and/or malice for the virus (which is fair) but then take the dumb thought process to blaming all Asian people for that. The Left really can’t complain since this is the type of racial collectivist thinking that they encourage.
Something in the NYT (which is untrustworthy to begin with) said that hate crimes against Asians are rising faster than hate crimes against other minority groups. Given that “hate crimes” occur in tiny numbers to begin with, it’s hard to conclusively say that there’s a nationwide trend of attacking Asians. I think they’re basically counting an Asian person being attacked as an automatic hate crime, even if it’s committed by a person with mental illness who has a history of attacking random people on the street.
And to add some fluff and filler to their “evidence”, the NYT threw in statistics from surveys about experiencing racism, which can be a highly personal and subjective thing (didn’t get the job you wanted? Must have been because of racism!) Surveys prove nothing except what people believe. A survey with Asians self-reporting more racism could be because there’s more racism, or it could be because anti-Asian racism is all over the headlines and people are on high alert about it.
The most maddening part is how they place 100% of the blame on Trump calling it “the Chinese virus”. Zero proof whatsoever. It’s a big proper hoc fallacy.
Does anyone have a reputable link to the stats on this increase in violence towards Asains?
Trump +5 in Asian demographic compared to 2016
Biden -4 in Asian demographic compared to 2016.
It’s the only stat that matters.
Exactly this
If there were any doubt that the corporate media exists to promote the interests of the DNC, this should dispel it.
^Yeah this
No, there’s also the stats of better outcome than whites in education achievement and so on. It puts a monkey wrench in the whole systemic racism myth that’s been pushed for the last year if there are other reasons for underperformance.
‘All
Black PholxLatinxxesAsientals are the same! If you don’t agree, you’re racist!’ Anti-racists 2021I’m not sure there are many groups more racist than Asians are to each other. The Koreans hate the Japanese who hate the Chinese who hate anybody not Han, etc…
I see that amongst a lot of Central and South American people as well. Nicaraguans hate El Salvadorans who hate Costa Ricans who hate…
That’s most of the world. But only in America do people hand wring over shit that looks like weak tea to these other people of the world, instead of saying you just move on and do YOUR thing and fuck the idiots standing in the way….
To indulge in a generalization: The average American is one of the most tolerant people on Earth while constantly being painted as one of its most Bigoted.
My metal roof was installed by Ecuadorians. Contractor said he’d worked with other groups but now is sticking to the “Es”
What?! You didn’t insist on a crew that was properly proportioned by ethnic group to America’s general population?!
You monster.
The Koreans hate the Japanes
That isn’t true. The Koreans hate everyone. Even other Koreans. My wife has told me that North Koreans are no longer “real” Koreans anymore.
Good morning Spud!
Thanks for pinch hitting.
For all the Boston hate, it’s important to remember that they sold like 70 million albums. So my guess is that Sholz gives not one fuck. And yes, that song does bring back some Friday night memories.
I hope y’all have a great day!
For all the Boston hate, it’s important to remember that they sold like 70 million albums.
So did The Archies.
Another selection of stickers observed in Central London this afternoon
https://www.samizdata.net/2021/05/another-selection-of-stickers-observed-in-central-london-this-afternoon/
the feeble resistance to the inevitable I assume
Is it better to just stay quiet?
My favorite
Is it better to just stay quiet? – it’s the same really… not better or worse… I suppose one might was well have some fun
My vote for the best goes to the last one.
The weather is not cooperating with my need to mow my lawn when I have time available. bah.
Tell me about it. Worse here my 20 yo Kubota died and I am choking on the price of a new John Deere. Nice machine, but damn. I guess I am a cheap SOB.
No. You’re not cheap. The world has just lost it’s mind when it comes to buying/pricing anything of value. The true cost of inflation in a world where the producers are looked down on.
If wanting great value for your dollar makes you cheap Suthen, then color me cheap too…
Yup, too hot here as well. And supposed to be in the 90s when I need to this weekend. I guess I am getting up early to do it before the heat gets up.
I wish the story on the loans had covered the backers of Kabbage.
Can you imagine Trumpalumazine doing this after killing an American pipeline, and having another held hostage by foreign actors without letting the world know that doing this is a death sentence for the perps and the people behind the perps, and not being accused of being an agent of the foreign state?
Fuck me, the world is upside down.
Don’t believe your lying eyes. Everything is normal, return to your daily activities citizen.
Yes, Friend Computer!
*rictus grin*
I’m sure it’s being done for some awful realpolitik reason, but the US government should not be sanctioning anything at all much less power generation. It’s a rare right thing to do to end sanctions. Kind of like Obama’s “stopped clock” cancelling the Constellation program.
35 spineless, weasel cucks don’t want to keep their jobs.
The House passed H.R. 3233, the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act, with 252 votes in favor and 175 votes against the bill.
While the bill featured strong Democrat support, the legislation also had surprisingly strong support from House Republicans.
Thirty-five House Republicans voted for the legislation, even though House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) came out against the bill. He criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for not negotiating in good faith.
The Republicans are a bunch of worthless turncoat douchebag losers and the party needs to be thrown into history’s landfill.
The problem is they are in effect a permanent opposition party – they have no program of how they themselves would govern if in power. They used to talk about smaller govt but there wasn’t any profit in it for them.
Since FDR, the only times the Republicans have been a ruling party (at the national level) have been under Eisenhower, Bush the younger, and Trump, none of whom were really champions of small government. It’s almost like the voters don’t want small government, since they never seem to empower the champions (real or purported) of that philosophy.
The problem with voting for the lesser evil is you are still voting for evil.
“We will repeal Obamacare if you just vote for us” – worthless, spineless fucktards
Does anyone have a reputable link to the stats on this increase in violence towards Asains? Not saying it’s completely a myth but I’m curious if it’s exceeding the rise in violent crime across the board. I’m guessing if it is, it’s negligible…but I guess when the DNC sees a minority group beginning to wander off the plantation any narrative to corral them back in will do.
I assume they have expanded the definition of anti-Asian hate crime in exactly the way they expanded the definition of sexual assault, to the point of meaninglessness.
Maybe they mixed some of the numbers from “violence against (cauc)Asians”. That might pump the numbers up a bit.
The panic is starting.
24% at least part time? Yeah, given that Minneapolis doesn’t have enough cops working and violence is way up, I don’t see people from the burbs clamoring to go back downtown. This is complete spin by flacks trying to pretend that all is well.
It’s a shit-show down there. The Downtown Council.
I saw that happening live when I was out there last year, Tundra! Didn’t realize you were there documenting it!
Local news had their own spin on it:
Will we shake hands again? Whether you’re burning your mask or need space, expect anxiety as COVID restrictions end
Freedom! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FREEDOM!:
Or… if you’re that concerned, you could home school your kid, not go to the Indians game, and buy your own elliptical machine to keep in your house.
Freedom is slavery!
Before last spring we had a few terms that encapsulated this phenomenon: hypochondria, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder…
People who suffered from these maladies were pitied and treated with therapy and drugs. Now it’s seen as prudent and laudable.
Dumbass human shit.
People who suffered from these maladies were pitied and treated with therapy and drugs – nonsens snowflakism was on the rise before the pandemic. Mental health issues were and are a badge of honor.
^^^THIS^^^
When you go from empathy/sympathy towards people with dysfunctions to actual worship of said dysfunction, expect more people with dysfunctions.
My wife has been mad at me since this shit started because I still shake hands with people.
We had our driveway redone last year. The guy who got the bid walked up and shook my hands with no hesitation. One company sent out some young guy who tried to elbow bump me. I think he knew the bid was doomed when I looked at him and said “seriously?”
Elbow bumps are more pretentious twaddle than masks if you ask me.
Jimbo, I haven’t used the stuff you gave me, if you can use it you are more than welcome.
C’mon man! Just snort a bit of it. I swear you’ll love it.
People cant figure out how to get an ID, now you want them to figure out where to find an eliotical machine?
Elliptical. Maybe.
I think it’s spelled elote you bigot! And I don’t really think a special machine is needed to make it.
One thing I’d like pointed out is if it’s super racist to ask for a free state provided ID for voting, how is it not racist to ask for a free state provided vaccination passport to do anything?
One advocate for the expansion of ethnic studies curriculum is Jeung, who said that area of study is intended to “expose the roots of racism and to build racial empathy and a renewed sense of justice and equity.”
Build empathy through fingerpointing and recrimination.
Works like a charm.
Mary Ann Ahern
@MaryAnnAhernNBC
As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews – only to Black or Brown journalists
It’s not racist when leftists do it.
Exclusion of melanin deficient peoples is a badge of honor for some now.
I heard that at least one minority reporter canceled his interview with her because he didn’t want any part of such nonsense.
A Chicago Tribune “Hispanic” reporter said “nope” and cancelled his interview. Look for “white Hispanic” in his future.
Good on him though.
It would suck if he got fired. With his demonstrated principles he probably couldn’t get a job at TOS.
So far he seems to be quite supported.
In other (not) shocking news:
Third dose of Covid jab to be trialled in UK
Why stop at three? Why not quarterly?
What a fucking scam.
I very much find the term “jab” to be offputting.
Where the hell did that come from, anyway? Until WuFlu, I had never heard a vaccination called a “jab” in my life.
Britspeak.
Ah, so it’s the media’s fawning adulation of Britishness at work.
Bandersnatch Cumberbritches is just so dreamy.
Jewish American Binary?
A booster then…this isn’t surprising at all and you’re correct, this is a boon to big pharma like no other. Get your twice a year shot or be excluded from society and that’s if you’re lucky.
Excluded from society? Oh my, whatever you do don’t throw me in the briar patch!
Right there with you Suthen!
Why are we still doing trials. IT’S SAFE!!! YOU DON’T WANT TO KILL GRANDMA DO YOU YOU FILTHY PLEB!!??!?!
They ran out of steam with that tetanus thing. Only every 5-10 years? Big Lockjaw is weak.
Thot Thursday, rinse, repeat.
https://archive.li/aint9
Thinking about the TZ fetal heartbeat law.
I hate the fact that abortion exists and that the left wants to promote it as no big deal, a rite of feminist passage, or the equivalent of getting a mole removed. It’s not; it is ending a human life, and that sucks.
However, I know the definition of life is highly contentious and that we will always have abortions demanded in this country.
So why in the world must the conservatives in the GOP prioritize outlawing abortion whenever they get the reins of power?
It kills all other possible agenda items they might otherwise have been able to pass.
It kills all other possible agenda items they might otherwise have been able to pass. – like what? I doubt they actually want to pass anything economically libertarian
It seems like viability would be far more appropriate.
My take on it is that it is a wedge issue. From a cynical perspective, it appears that most, if not all, politicians (and maybe more to the point, political parties) seek out wedge issues to drive into a constituency. If they can identify a solid block of voters that can be separated from the whole with one wedge issue, that block can be considered safe as long as the party/politicians make the right noises to keep the block convinced that their interests are at least being represented. It’s why we end up with voting blocks that cover large swathes of issues that make no logical connection to each other.
That is a question I’ve grappled with a lot.
Morally speaking: if you believe that abortion is murder then you probably should prioritize it over everything else.
Politically speaking: it’s about as dumb a move as you can do.
“Morally speaking: if you believe that abortion is murder then you probably should prioritize it over everything else.”
Understanding that an issue is complicated and both sides have a valid argument, regardless of your personal feelings, I think that is more of a priority.
I don’t see an alternate universe where the government doesn’t crush the lives of select young women if abortions are made illegal. Every abortion can become a murder case. The wealthy and well connected, will never be prosecuted. I think the line for life should stay where it has traditionally been, at birth. The moment we move that line somewhere into the woman’s body, things get very grey and the people who carry guns, run courts, have ulterior motives and like to take feet for every inch, will.
Understanding that an issue is complicated and both sides have a valid argument, regardless of your personal feelings, I think that is more of a priority.
But that’s just begging the question. You could say that about any of the insanity the left is pulling to get to the same conclusion of “don’t stand up for cause X because you’re gonna waste too much political capital”. Why waste effort on fiscal conservatism? Why waste effort on lowering taxes? Why waste effort on personal freedom? The left feel they have valid arguments, it’s a contentious issue, let’s just focus on the areas where we can actually make progress.
“Why waste effort on fiscal conservatism? Why waste effort on lowering taxes? Why waste effort on personal freedom? The left feel they have valid arguments,”
Because the arguments against them aren’t valid or really even complicated.
If we’re going to bring up feelings, abortion is the one where most conservatives wear their heart on their sleeve. The argument of when and where life begins has been a very recent moving goal post merely to make it a legal life and justify the control of someone else’s body. The hypocrisy of redefining basic definitions is usually more of the left’s tactic.
You’re pretending like pro-lifers don’t actually believe what they say. You’re wrong.
It’s not “…merely to make it a legal life and justify the control of someone else’s body.” It’s the certainty that the State is either failing to punish the murder of innocents, or outright condoning it. If the State should do ANYTHING AT ALL, it should do that.
And under the heading of “all’s fair in love and war”, messing with legal terminology and toting goalposts around is fine with me. You can accuse somebody (your last sentence) of being more like the left, but whatever. The usual complaint is that folks like me lose in the political game because we’re not fighting ENOUGH like them.
I think the line for life should stay where it has traditionally been, at birth.
Except, at least in the English legal tradition (from which the US legal tradition descends), this is not true. Traditionally, life begins at quickening. And even that was not settled, as some argued that is should begin at formation, but the consensus was quickening. Which is why pregnant women convicted of capital offenses were granted stays of execution until they had given birth.
Quickening = when the fetus moves (enough for the mother to feel it). Typically between 16 and 25 months. Not a bad proxy, pre-NICU, for viability.
16 to 25 months?
Months, weeks, whatever. I’m sciencing here.
Well I hope the kid is moving at 16-25 months.
So why in the world must the conservatives in the GOP prioritize outlawing abortion whenever they get the reins of power?
Cynically… it solidifies a large portion of their base with minimal effort..
Naively…. they believe it’s a genocide, and ending genocide is more important that the other BS.
I’ve been open that ending abortion isn’t exactly the single issue I vote on, but it’s non-negotiable for me. I would be very happy if Republicans used up every last ounce of their political capital on purging this country of that barbaric practice.
I heard this appalling stat recently at church: 1 in 4 women between ages 16 and 44 has had an abortion. So much for that “rare” part.
Wuestion – is that 1 in 4 number derived by dividing the number of abortions by the number of women? I strongly suspect they are not evenly distributed.
No clue. I trust the source to be technically correct, but I don’t expect they did any deeper research into the issue.
This is where I think a lot of people have rose colored glasses. There are women who have had over 30 abortions. There are women who have them like hair cuts. There are women who have them for all of the right reasons and also all of the wrong reasons.
Often the left is accurately mocked for projecting. This is the subject the right is really bad about projecting. The reality of a lot of these, would be pregnancies going to fruition, is not a great reality for anyone involved. Oddly enough, a lot of the counted terminated pregnancies wouldn’t happen because she would either already be pregnant or not mating as often for other obvious reasons.
The reality of a lot of these, would be pregnancies going to fruition, is not a great reality for anyone involved.
Big meh on this. Pre-emptively “mercy killing” people strikes me as a particularly awful way to avoid suffering
Those would be the rose colored glasses I mentioned earlier. I hate to think about how horrible my life would be with out a family. Growing up and having your parent look at you with hate in their eyes is bad enough. I can’t imagine how horrible my life could’ve been and what a violent predator version of me would be like.
Do you live in a ghetto? Like a real actual ghetto?
Have you spent a lot of time in ghettos?
Have you been violently robbed? Assaulted? Raped? Hunted?
Do you think the people that treat our society like a jungle and they’re the predator’s got that way in a vacuum?
So that’s it… just a big ‘meh’? Everyone else has to deal with the repercussions because I live far away from where this decision would have a massive and real affect?
I did. I even had a mob try to break down the front door of my home while I lived there.
I’m not seeing how you get to the emotional tangent you’ve leapt down. There are as many or more instances of people changing when forced to face responsibility for another life.
The inbuilt assumption that every child not aborted in these circumstances would be stuck in a life not worth living is as facecious as pretending they would all be in idyllic homes.
What needs to be looked at just as much is adoption reform. It should not be easier to adopt foreigners than someone from our own country whose parents are unwilling or unable to care for them.
There’s more than one facet to the problem.
So why in the world must the conservatives in the GOP prioritize outlawing abortion whenever they get the reins of power?
I mean, it’s not like they do nothing else. In fact, the TX legislature legalized to-go alcohol before they got around to placing more restrictions on abortion, so I would hardly call their anti-abortion push a priority.
It kills all other possible agenda items they might otherwise have been able to pass.
This is incorrect. Since abortion has become such a partisan issue, wherever a state legislature passes an anti-abortion law, you can be assured that the GOP are quite capable of passing whatever else is on their agenda. Abortion law just makes the headline news, unlike deregulation, tax-cuts, and other more mundane items that get regularly passed.
Mask fun facts: there is an erotic massage parlor in Bucharest in which some customers demanded the masseuse wear a mask. She was literally rubbing her naked oiled body to theirs what the fuck would a mask do?
Cover her face so you don’t have to see the pain and deadness inside.
There is not much pain and deadness if you avoid the wrong places
I mean at least when they are 22 and making twice the money a senior engineer makes
And in Romania at least it does seem to give sociology majors a steady income
But the
lap danceerotic massage is so much better when thestrippermasseuse is crying.“Maskplay”
could be…
My goodness, what’s the name of this horrible place so that I might avoid it if I ever find myself there?
And do they have a website?
yes
Hide that thing on her face.
Hide the ugly part.
“Cover her face so you don’t have to see the pain and deadness inside.”
“And in Romania at least it does seem to give sociology majors a steady income”
These are so funny because they are true.
Ronald Reagan, 77, versus Joe Biden, 78.
People are saying Bumbling Biden plagiarized here but to be fair he did say “quote” before delivering the quote. Though it would have been nice for him to attribute it to Reagan who in turn was quoting an aide, apparently. You know, for unity and healing purposes.
Fuck, this is how you troll assholes….
Interesting. China forbid financial institutions from trading or doing business in virtual currencies on May 18th.
The crypto market is crashing as a result. If you’ve got money in there you might want to take a hard look at selling before it gets worse.
Up sharply this morning.
^^^THIS^^^
Don’t fucking buy this stuff unless you are in it for the long haul. If you are day-trading crypto you are going to always lose to the agents that manipulate these currencies.
I bought while it was low yesterday (missed the trough, but didn’t do too bad), I’m already up $150 on an investment of $300.
I’m holding for the long haul, so we’ll see how it goes.
It’s bottomed out already…I think.
There’s been so much mania around crypto I can’t make sense of it. How are there now? I think it’s in the thousands.
Just like the stock market, each is a little bit different. Some are unique. Some are bog standard. Some are big. Some are small.
I have a small amount in bitcoin because I think it’ll keep going up for a while. I still can’t shake the feeling that bitcoin is the MySpace of cryptos, so I kept the investment small. Most of the upside is already realized.
I have more in ethereum. Everywhere I turn, anybody doing anything in crypto is doing it on the ethereum blockchain. A lot of the smaller currencies operate on the ethereum blockchain. Even though ethereum blew up before I bought, I still think there’s an upside. When the winnowing phase starts, I expect ethereum to sweep up the users who are now dabbling in the small ethereum based cryptos.
My biggest gamble is in Stellar Lumens. The biggest risk is the SEC regulating it out of existence, but I see the use case as very interesting (frictionless international money transfer). Will it take? Dunno, but there have been some good institutional investors.
All that said, I’m not betting the farm on any of this. Its a few hundred coming from my ammo and disc golf budget.
I have some $ in telcoin because of the work they are doing in Nebraska getting crypto banking established.
A youtuber I watch occasionally did a video where he bought all* the crypto currencies for sale on some exchange website and is tracking them. The ones that have been giving him the best return so far are the fan cryptos for various Euro soccer teams.
*All only includes those that were purchasable in dollars. Apparently there are cryptos only purchasable with other cryptos, and this youtuber didn’t have the patience to mess with those.
My cynical take is that in a week or two, China’s official policy will “soften,” having given the right people in China the chance to buy the dip caused by a panic exit, after which it will continue on an up slope. If I’m wrong, oh well, most of what I have in there is fun money anyway. It’s only down 25% from the previous stable high, and only down 14% from last week’s dip. (which makes one even more suspicious about who knew what, when, about China’s move this week)
I know what side Roberts will take if this makes it to the SCOTUS.
We’re getting a new penaltax?
“Black Americans have suffered extreme injustices throughout this country’s history, from enslavement to Jim Crow to institutional discrimination, up to and including the present day.”
We still have slaves and segregation? Wow, who knew?
Well, we’ve offshored our plantations, and the segregation is being implemented/enforced by the people bitching about it.
You ignoring the welfare state?
Cause that is slavery, not just of blacks, but of us all. The people that feel it is easier to just get whatever the can from government are enslaved to the political class that delivers their free shit. Those that produce are enslaved because government gets to decide how much of what they produce they get to keep in order to accumulate enough cash to then pay off the people that vote for a living…
It’s more akin to serfdom than slavery.
Don’t black people still enslave black people in Africa?
Brown people do it too.. And not just in Africa….
Mauritania currently leads the world in per capita slaves. Probably because they only got around to criminalizing the practice of slavery in 2007.
Another solid piece from Jeffrey Tucker.
Why the Sudden CDC Turnabout On Covid Restrictions?
Hint: it wasn’t science.
I don’t think anything we saw from the CDC, around this whole Kung Flu scamdemic, unless purely by accident, had any science behind it.
Ayup.
But we got rid of bad orange man, what’s your point? I mean, it worked. SCIENCE!
It’s all quite transparent and quite maddening.
This cunte is still talking?
“I really believe that Donald Trump is going to turn. You always get shocked when I say things, Joy. I believe that Donald Trump cares for only himself. He realizes his goose is cooked. When he turned around and gets questioned about what you were asking about, inflation. It wasn’t me. It was Allen. It was my accountant. It was the appraiser. It’s never Donald.”
Cohen said, “He’s going to turn on his accountant and point the finger. He’s going to say Don Jr. handled that, Ivanka handled that, Melania, he’s going to tell them to take everyone except for himself.”
He added, “I do have to say that my credibility, I believe, is going to end up getting Donald, Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Allen Weisselberg, his kids, some orange jumpsuits.”
Your “credibility”, LOL. And I highly doubt Donald would turn on his family.
Misery wants some company?
I’d trust a methed up Hunter Biden over Cohen. Not only is he the epitome of the sleazebag lawyer, he’s a snitch.
The only time I heard that asshole talk was when he was on Carolla’s podcast and I thought it was a bit for at least half the interview. The guy was so over the top slimy it was insane.
And I highly doubt Donald would turn on his family.
That’s what makes these claims unbelievable. Trump is a fickle person, and quick to blame others, but he does seem to stick by people who stick by him, and he seems especially loyal to his kids. I could see him letting everyone else take the fall for him, except his kids. I don’t know if I’ve ever even heard him blame any of them for anything, and some of them would indeed deserve a fair bit of criticism.
Zoomy ended after 13 1/2 hours.
***WILD APPLAUSE/STANDING OVATION***
We need to get some of the Europeans to join back in, we can aim for a full weekend Zoom if some people would just give up a little sleep for the greater good!
That was fun. I’m curled up naked in the bath tub with a bottle of gin and listening to this. Thinking how things could’ve been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2tsT32pHA&list=PLemLulPSDQ8uec7IBuwIQKswQKDZtEsp1
It’s OK Straff. You and everyone else in Japan will just have to get over Gakki’s sudden marriage.
For whatever reason a discussion in my class last night and a question from one of my friend’s this morning if I knew.
Actress Yui Aragaki, singer-songwriter Gen Hoshino to marry
I actually had no idea who the hell she was until last night… But I did know the “Koi Dance”!
That guy’s music is the equivalent of Backstreet Boys.
Yes. OMG…
And I say this as somebody that likes J-Pop.
I woke up to get ready for work and I could hear it going on downstairs. You people.
I learned it from you
DadPresident Biden!I can’t believe he didn’t call Biden as a witness for the defense.
Something must have spooked these dishonest, Democrat cuntes.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization, James’ office said Tuesday.
The attorney general office’s investigation into the Trump Organization, which has been underway since 2019, will also continue as a civil probe, but the office recently informed Trump Organization officials of the criminal component.
“We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA,” James’ spokesman Fabien Levy told CNN. “We have no additional comment.”
But Gov Cuomo getting millions of dollars for selling 50K of books (with a few questionable big bulk buys) is nothing to worry about? Or maybe probe into Cuomo’s cover up of Rona deaths?
Posted without comment…
California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner was met with furious backlash from a fellow famous transgender individual after reposting a meme from Donald Trump Jr. mocking the looks of Assistant Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine.
“It seems to hold true no matter what!!!! Conservative girls are just better looking… maybe that’s why the libs are always outraged for no reason,” Trump Jr. wrote along with a meme contrasting Levine’s appearance next to Jenner in a dress on a red carpet.
Jenner later deleted the post, but gossip blogger Perez Hilton took a screenshot and reposted it. In response, “Transparent” star Alexandra Billings, who is also transgender, blasted Jenner on Instagram and accused the former Olympian of “blatant transphobia.”
“Reposting @donaldjtrumpjr pic says volumes about both your self hatred and your blatant transphobia,” Billings wrote. “I know this rage. I lived with it for years and it is still a cacophony of voices that haunt me. But I am not running for a public office and I am not a self proclaimed ‘role model.’ You’re in a spiral of spiritual chaos and your search for admiration and public approval is just as transparent as your egocentric, pseudo-Republican, rich, white, privileged lifestyle you flaunt, pretending to be some sort of everyday citizen caring about everyday events.”
I don’t get the idea that Jenner is pretending to be an every day citizen.
That meme doesn’t seem transphobic. Uggophobic, sure, but it categorized both of them by their preferred gender. Are we now supposed to identify people by their preferred beauty identity as well?
Yes. You should regard my poato-shaped form as the epitome of rugged masculinity.
Terrifying prospect
Twenty-nine years ago, less than a year after he had taken the bench, Justice Clarence Thomas joined a dissent calling the landmark opinion Roe v. Wade “plainly wrong” and an “erroneous constitutional decision.” Over the years Thomas would say Roe had “no basis in the Constitution” and call out the court’s abortion precedents as “grievously wrong.”
He also took aim at challenges to the Second Amendment, accusing lower courts and his own colleagues of thumbing their noses at the right to bear arms, calling it a “disfavored right.”
Now Thomas is 72 years old with a head of gray hair and he is awaiting a new season on a 6-3 conservative majority court. The justices have agreed to hear a case next term that critics — and some supporters — say is meant to gut Roe. They will also hear a Second Amendment case that could expand gun rights. And Thomas, the longest-serving member of the court, will likely find himself in the majority.
All along, Thomas has been cultivating his jurisprudence, often in dissent.
Now, he’s lasted long enough to potentially see a shift not only in the areas of abortion and the Second Amendment but also in other key areas, including affirmative action and voting rights.
Pack the court now, before Justice Uncle Remus destroys civilization as we know it!
Abortion has always been a issue of “Is it murder or not?”
That question is explicitly left to states to decide. The feds stuck their big, fat noses in and screwed it up royally.
More fundamentally, “When does life begin?” That is the definition of a line-drawing issue left to the States in the Constitution.
Pondering that question is why I reverted to a more uncertain stance on abortion from my previous stance of “until the day of birth, a fetus is just part of a woman’s body that she can have removed if she wants to”.
If life begins at conception, the perfectly rational conclusion would be that deliberately terminating that pregnancy is murder of a human being. None of that requires “hating women” or any other smear that is used against anti-abortion people.
If life doesn’t begin at conception, when does it begin, and how did they determine that? And if it’s a gradual process with no clear demarcation of when life begins, how do they determine when abortion should be allowed? These are all very hard questions, and I don’t know the answers.
It’s amusing to hear someone talk about stare decisis in the context of a Warren court decision, given the contempt that court had for precedent. No, no, please go on with your hypocritical ranting.
stare decisis is a terrible reason to let a bad precedent stand.
It does more to undermine the court than saying “the previous ruling was in error.”
True. Back in the ’00s, when Bush got a couple of appointees, I had friends go on about not overturning precedent (w.r.t. Roe). The conversation ended fairly quickly when I looked at one and said, “so, you think Brown vs. Board was a bad decision?”
Plessy – which wasn’t even overtly over-turned by Brown, it was mostly side-stepped.
And yes, Brown was a bad decision exactly because it didn’t directly overturn Plessy.
expand gun rights
Curious phrase considering 2A is absolute regardless of whether or not it prohibition on the government is recognized by said government.
I’m thinking “reverse the subsequent curtailment of gun rights” would be more accurate. But I’m not a journalist (thank goodness!)
It would be more accurate, but so would “reduce planned budget increases” be more accurate than “budget cuts”, but, as you said, journalists.
From the Dept. of Shitty Excuses:
In all seriousness, I’m wondering how sketchy the guy looked because the guy seems like he’s being hassled by The Man
Remember to never talk to cops.
And that’s the downside to cycling in bib shorts!
STEVE SMITH NEVER NUDE! ALWAYS WEAR FUR SUIT!
There are literally DOZENS of us!
STEVE SMITH TALK TO COPS AND BY TALK TO MEAN RAPE
When detained and questioned, he admitted that he had stripped naked at one point to obey the call of nature.
I admit I do not make a habit of pooping in the woods, so I may be ignorant here, but does it really require stripping naked to perform properly?
“Las Vegas biology teacher, 37, ‘changed student’s grade from F to A after she agreed to have sex with him,’ police say”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9600449/Las-Vegas-teacher-37-changed-students-grade-F-agreed-sex-him.html
But did she learn more about biology?
Not as much as she learned from her math teacher about multiplication.
Is this an example of sciencing?
My buddy that teaches in Vegas doesn’t teach bio.
Now I’m just thinking about studying chemistry.
“F me until I get an A” is a game me and the gf play…but always in the context of college professor/student.
Thomas has also frequently written alone, provocatively planting more seeds for his colleagues to ponder. In 2019 he called for the reconsideration of a landmark First Amendment case, New York Times v. Sullivan, calling it a policy-driven decision “masquerading as constitutional law.”
Earlier this year, he suggested that Congress consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that he said have come to have “unbridled control” over speech.
In the voting rights context, Thomas dissented after the election when the court denied an appeal from Republicans challenging a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that allowed ballots received up to three days after Election Day to be counted to accommodate challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
“Because the Federal Constitution, not state constitutions, gives state legislatures authority to regulate federal elections, petitioners presented a strong argument that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision violated the Constitution by overriding the clearly expressed intent of the legislature,” Thomas wrote. Election law experts say that if a majority ultimately adopts that position it could have a fundamental impact on the power of state courts to have final word on their states’ voting rules.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I thought state legislatures, not state courts, were supposed to have the final word on electoral rules.
Only when it suits the purposes of the DNC.
This shit is so blatantly transparent as to be almost unbelievable.
“Tim Tebow is back! QB-turned-minor league baseball player makes his NFL comeback official, signing a one-year deal with the Jags to play TIGHT END for his college coach, Urban Meyer”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9600443/Tim-Tebow-QB-turned-minor-league-baseball-player-signs-one-year-deal-Jaguars.html
Baked Penguin hardest hit.
/TOS reference that no one else will get
*Faints*
A Sacramento suburban school district said it has launched a “full investigation” following reports that a teacher at Rio Americano High School displayed a flag from Nazi Germany in their classroom.
San Juan Unified School District wrote in a statement Tuesday that the teacher had “several flags from Germany on display in their class, including a flag from Nazi Germany.” …
“The Nazi flag is a long-standing symbol of hate and does not represent the culture and values of our school or our district,” San Juan Unified officials wrote. “A full investigation is currently underway into this incident.
“We are looking into why the teacher thought the flags were appropriate to use and ensuring both the instructor involved and others understand that this is not an acceptable way to teach any curriculum.” …
“Further, we do not support speech or expressions that are hateful or derogatory,” Simmons wrote. …
“Even if it is for history multiple students have said it makes them extremely uncomfortable,” the anonymous Instagram profile wrote, urging students to contact the district.
Historical symbols cannot be seen and evaluated because ‘muh racisms’. I assume it is a history teacher (not mentioned in the article nor was the type of class if otherwise…), and never let these precious snowflakes watch a WWII documentary because they obviously can’t handle it. Besides it is not like there is anything of value to learn from history, right? RIGHT?
History is written by the victors….
Just Say’n
““Even if it is for history multiple students have said it makes them extremely uncomfortable,”
It is true but you are not allowed to say it.
Was this a lone teacher in a one room school house? Apparently had no colleagues and no supervisory management.
Uh oh. I’m giving a talk to a local AP History class next Friday. I think the power point includes an image of a Confederate flag. I better redact it before I trigger some 12th graders. Or treat them like adults?
Had a friend who received a student complaint because he showed a racist cartoon in class. That particular lecture was dealing with racist representations in the press in the 19th century south.
Why would you take that class if racist depictions upset you?
It’s a rhetorical question of course.
You could easily do an entire class on just the Confederate battle flag.
Showing the official flag and the battle flag, and talking about how over time people have started calling the battle flag the wrong name, and why.
Talking about the historical display of the battle flag, and the changing purpose of displaying it.
Discussing more contemporary displays of the flag – Dukes of Hazzard, etc. – and discussing the likely/predominant message it was intended to send.
Oh you mean like how it was depicted in Easy Rider as a symbol of [youthful] rebellion against authority? That might encourage dangerous thoughts.
Precisely. As someone who grew up in TX and spent my college and post-law school years in VA, I saw the battle flag constantly.
It was a freakin’ bumper sticker to signal exactly that. I’m sure there were a handful of white supremacist types that displayed it because they wanted to put the blacks back in chains, but people displaying it were no more likely to be racists than someone wearing a metal band t-shirt were likely to be Satanists.
Didn’t even need to be in Texas. Here on the east side of Cleveland there were two rival schools. Eastlake North (mascot of the Rangers), and Willoughby South (mascot of the Rebels). It was very common to see plenty of cars in the area decorated with the blue and grey confederate flag that the school used as a symbol.
They recently got rid of it, after years of having black students write in letters to the local papers about how they didn’t want it taken away from them, and that they were mature enough to separate it from the past.
RE: the dead thread
My daughter spent 4 months in a freezer…the wonders of IVF. Although I prefer the old school, “test tube baby”.
Also, when she asks me where babies come from, I will tell her the truth: A lab in Nashville.
Thank you! That puts my mind at ease regarding the >12-month pregnancy I was envisioning for your poor wife. ?
Well, technically…
My wife was only pregnant for 8 months, she was about 1 month old (5 months elapsed time) when implanted.
pronoun issues…she refers to my daughter, not my wife.
Had to get this in before UCS could comment.
I have two children who are fraternal twins – born two years apart.
My seed is so powerful that all my progeny comes from a single spurt.
Now I’m wondering – what’s the difference between fraternal twins and siblings?
Nothing. I think, technically, fraternal twins are carried at same time, so Tejicano is wrong.
Pretty sure fraternal twins are two eggs fertilized and carried at the same time. Now, could that have been from more than one spurt? Yeah. But c’mon, you’re giving him way too much credit there 😉
Anonymous sources
A statement released Wednesday on Capitol Police letterhead, said to be authored by multiple officers on the force, delivered a rare public rebuke of top Republicans for opposing a proposed bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that injured scores on their force.
The unsigned missive was sent to the offices of every member of Congress hours before the House was set to vote on legislation creating the commission. Both House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said this week they oppose the proposed panel, which they dismissed as an attempt by Democrats to politicize the investigation into the Capitol siege.
“On Jan 6th, where some officers served their last day in US Capitol Police uniform, and not by choice, we would hope that Members whom we took an oath to protect, would at the very minimum support an investigation to get to the bottom of EVERYONE responsible and hold them 100 percent accountable no matter the title of position they hold or held,” reads the letter, which was not written or issued formally by the department.
The department distanced itself from the statement, noting that it “has no way of confirming it was even authored by USCP personnel. The U.S. Capitol Police does NOT take positions on legislation.”
The identity of the statement’s author or authors remains unclear. It was distributed by the office of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), according to an email to House offices obtained by POLITICO. In the note, Raskin’s office said that the congressman — a lead manager for Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial — had spent months in discussions with Capitol Police officers who have experienced “mental anguish” from the insurrection before deciding to release the statement.
Raskin’s staff told fellow House offices that multiple officers were behind the letter and chose to remain anonymous “because they are afraid of retribution for speaking out.”
Bullshit. Put your name on it, or STFU.
Yep. ‘Anonymous source’ is using too many letters to spell ‘bullshit’.
Most likely a political staffer/speech writer wrote it
Sure, hold everyone responsible. Use video evidence to prove who did what, then give them the normal penalties for trespassing, vandalism, and disorderly conduct. Because those are the only things that went on that day.
Does EVERYONE include the yahoo officer who capped Ashli? What about those who waved demonstrators inside? Or those who held off calling the Guard? Or who otherwise failed to have adequate security outside the Capitol building? Or Nancy Pelosi who is ultimately in charge of Capitol police? Actually, GOP should be on-board with a full investigation and demand these kinds of answers.
You think they would get those answers? The commission will be about as “bipartisan” in function as the Biden-Harris *admin. is unifying. It will only be used as a propaganda operation for the Democratic Party.
Leaving aside knee jerk opposition, with Democrats in control and setting the framework for such a commission, it will never highlight or even fully investigate those things.
Trespass where?
Either we all own it, in which case none of us can trespass in it, or else it’s private property and thus the “attack” upon it is not the worst thing to happen since Hitler.
That comment wasn’t really directed at the person I was responding to. But the discrepancy of the general rhetoric about this is astounding. The only logic I can wring out of it is that the people who entered the Capitol were not in fact People in the “We the People” sense. Whether they were animals, subhumans, degenerates, lumpenproles, or outlaws has not quite been worked out yet.
US Government Property being closed to the proles isn’t new. Unfortunately.
I am okay with a commission but your commission already has its conclusion in its name and mission statement. That isn’t fact finding
But we still don’t know who
framed Roger Rabbitkilled Ashli Babbit.Fine, let’s have the commission investigate why the Capitol Police request for backup was shelved by the Sgts at Arms of the House and Senate.
The Praetorian Guard has spoken!
“It is inconceivable that some of the Members we protect, would downplay the events of January 6th. Member safety was dependent upon the heroic actions of the USCP,” the letter reads.
You’re a regular Patrick Henry, you are.
Inconceivable!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61bri%2BYNDjL._AC_SL1010_.jpg
Ashli Babbitt was murdered. That is all.
downplay the events
It was a small riot with some vandalism committed by a few individuals. By BLM/Antifa standards it was exceedingly peaceful.
How can you call it peaceful when nothing was burned?
Or looted!
C’mon man. Someone stole Pelosi’s lecturn. That’s like stealing the ring.
Suthen-
It’s good to see you haven’t been washed away (yet).
I’m flattered that my daughter thinks I have a 35 inch waist. But, if I wear these pants she bought out in public, I’m gonna get arrested.
I thought you could wear whatever you want in public in Japan.
If you don’t mind the subsequent arrest.
Skinny jeans should be illegal on this body.
Are you sure they didn’t just outlaw you?
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/chicago/news/press-releases/fbi-chicago-warns-illinois-residents-about-covid-19-vaccination-card-fraud
Get stuffed feebs.
As
Americanracist as apple pie.Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people.
Not that the recipe for apple pie is uniquely American. It’s a variant on an English pumpkin recipe. By the time the English colonized the new world, apple trees had become markers of civilization, which is to say property. In Virginia, apple trees were used to demonstrate to the state that land had been improved. John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, took these markers of colonized property to the frontiers of US expansion where his trees stood as symbols that Indigenous communities had been extirpated. …
Since this is quite a lot to acknowledge, it is easier to misremember. In the drama of nationalist culture, the bloody and international origins of the apple pie are subject to a collective amnesia. In the imagining of American community, the dish is transformed into a symbol of domesticity. By 1910, it’s possible for a theatre review to celebrate a wholesome play, “as American as apple pie”. …
It is clear, though, that tensions and imperfections and losses lie ahead. The US continues to spread its economic model internationally. While Joe Biden’s administration seems ready to infuse cash into the management of domestic hunger, internationally it’s agribusiness as usual. But as May Day reminds us, solidarity between workers need not be bounded by the nation state. The United States was made through global connections. It will be remade when those links are not ones of oppression, but ones of solidarity in the fight for food justice.
Of course, the Colombian exchange is not the same thing as the impact of colonization on the natives. The Colombian exchange included the transfer of plants and animals among the Americas, Europe, and even Africa.
Tedious monomania is tedious.
It’s truly bizarre reasoning. It’s like if X happened while something racist was occurring, X is racist.
Meanwhile, many of these same people are perfectly comfortable overlooking FDR’s explicitly racist imprisonment of Japanese-Americans so they can lionize him for “saving the economy” with the New Deal. There may be a few principled Leftists out there who recognize what a tyrant he was, but most of them are content to write off the internment.
“Not that the recipe for apple pie is uniquely American. It’s a variant on an English pumpkin recipe.”
The English were making apple pies long before Europe had pumpkins.
How to rile up a guido: point out that tomatoes are not native to Europe and pasta comes from China
The original fusion cuisine!
The whole Columbian Exchange is a really fascinating subject. It’s the same situation with potatoes in Ireland and chili peppers in Thailand. That’s why it’s so maddening for that writer to reduce it to “racism”. Sure, that was a component, but there’s so much more to learn about it. These people are going to turn history into a dumbed-down field that does nothing to build human understanding about the world.
I have a book about it (in my Everest-sized pile of books that “I’ll get around to reading sometime”) called 1493 by Charles C. Mann. Hopefully it’s interesting. I’ve noticed that most history books have a bit of a woke streak – Many of them go out of their way to talk about how terrible life was for women. One audiobook that I had about Vikings felt the need to devote an entire chapter to “transgressive identities” and obsessively dwelt for several minutes on a “male-bodied person” who was buried in female attire or something.
Can you imagine Italian cuisine without the tomato?
Don’t know if that’s Columbian Exchange related though.
Yea, I thought tomatoes didn’t appear prolifically in Italian food until the 1800s. I know Europeans believed them to be poisonous for a long time because of the dangerous reactions that can happen when you cook acidic tomatoes in copper pans and serve it on a pewter plate.
I guess they would have to be “exchanged” over to Europe at some point or another, but they didn’t immediately become the pillar of Italian cuisine (some regions, anyway) that they are today.
The emphasis on tomato and pasta is an American adaptation/affectation. In Italy, while tomatoes and especially pasta are part of the cuisine, it’s not as heavily emphasized as it is here. In various parts of Italy, the cuisine can seem more Mediterranean (esp. in Southern Italy) or more Swiss/German (esp. in Northern Italy). Central Italy, whence many American immigrants came, has an outsized influence on our sense of Italian cuisine, and even there today the tomato and the noodle aren’t quite king.
Do they have any proof that burial they gushed over wasn’t just some massive insult to dead dude they didn’t like?
Never change, The Guardian.
It will be remade when those links are not ones of oppression, but ones of solidarity in the fight for food justice.
WTF does that even mean?
Go to poor communities if you want to see fat people. There’s more food than ever being produced now, more choice than ever in variety and quality, and the “food desert” thing is beyond bullshit.
Nothing, it’s just Mad Libs.
The argument will be that they are fat because they don’t have “healthy choices” because their neighborhoods don’t sell them.
Why their neighborhoods don’t sell them is never asked, because of course the reason is the poor don’t buy them.
It is actually a pretty profound positive about capitalism and its largesse that the modern American poor are most “well-fed” human beings that ever lived.
THEY AREN’T EATING WHAT WE HAVE DECIDED IS GOOD FOR THEM!!!
Given the harping about May Day and the crack about the US “continues to spread its economic model internationally”, I’m translating that to:
“I’m a commie, and I want to bring the entire world under the communist boot”.
OFFS
I hope that author starves to death.
lol: https://twitter.com/Wu_Tang_Finance/status/1395203272361664515
I’d high five Musk for that.
“Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards
This op-ed argues that university boards are really in control of many core functions on college and university campuses.
Do American universities lack ideological diversity? Are they bastions of left-wing thought and hostile to conservatives? In early April, the Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University, published an article asserting that the university’s conservative faculty are “an endangered species,” which quickly animated establishment concerns about the alleged lack of ideological diversity on American college campuses. But the right is not underrepresented in higher education; in fact, the opposite is true: The modern American university is a right-wing institution. The right’s dominance of academia and its reign over universities is destroying higher education, and the only way to save the American university is for students and professors to take back control of campuses.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/campus-cancel-culture-university-boards
Teen Vogue is the leading intellectual magazine in America.
Obligatory disclaimer about taking Teen Vogue (tagline: Maoism for Idiots!) seriously. Nevertheless, this must be their dictionary entry:
right-wing, n., anyone who isn’t a communist
I can’t believe that anyone actually thinks that universities are right-wing institutions.
They aren’t run by workers’ soviets, ergo they are regressive and reactionary, ergo they must be right-wing.
That their members to a (wo)man vote for Democrats lockstep every election is immaterial, since of course every good tankie knows the Democrats are right-wing too.
I can’t remember where I read this (wanna say Slate or Salon) but someone made the case that since the Koch Brothers made a donation to Hillsdale College, the entire higher ed system has been hijacked by radical right-wing libertarians. No mention whatsoever of the huge numbers of professors at big-name universities who self-identify as actual Marxists.
In any case, don’t be surprised: Many people tell me that the media was unfairly critical of Obama, Hollywood is racist against minorities, and that the USA is horribly oppressive towards women.
Yeah, minorities are vastly overrepresented in Hollywood by any statistical measure. Except Asians.
I look forward to the introduction of the token gay character 5 minutes into any modern show.
There is a class distinction between the sort of people who get on corporate/nonprofit boards and the sort of people who work as professors. The distinction does not map neatly to national politics (they’re all Democrats) but nevertheless, it is likely what is being crowed about here. The professors are the upper working class of the academic world, while the board members are the upper rentier class of that same world. To round out this picture, adjuncts/postdocs are the lower working class* and bureaucrats/administrators are the lower rentier class. You’ll find many Marxist professors but not nearly so many Marxist board members. This class barrier is not impenetrable, either, as many people who work their way up the academic class system pass through professorship at some point, but the people who “stay behind” will label those who cross the barrier as sell-outs.
(*) = You’ll note this class system does not include service workers like cafeteria staff and janitors, as though there are occasional talks of “solidarity” with them, they are still a bit declassé even among the “proletariat” of lecturers and research assistants
Teen Vogue, the magazine favored by adolescent retards.
Of all ages, I would add.
If anything, the namesake age group is probably the least represented among whatever passes for sincere “readership” these days.
…favored by those who would prey on adolescent retards.
I think that’s called “having your blinders on.”
The right’s dominance of academia and its reign over universities is destroying higher education, and the only way to save the American university is for students and professors to take back control of campuses.
Wot?