They COULD be here. But at each point in space time, there they are, in some way or another. And with 109 degrees showing on the thermometer, I can only dream of the Green’s function that will propagate us to a different bit of space time.
Birthdays today include a spy who was certainly not a cat; a champion cyclist; a famous Jew-hater; the creator of a SoCal amusement park; a pianist whose work I love; a bass player whose work I love; a singer/songwriter of very modest talent who made a career out of being a lesbian; an actor who made a career out of being a flamboyant gay; a bizarre and usually unfunny chick who was in my favorite Jerry Lewis film; and a guy who was in the worst film about wine ever made.
Oh yes, potentially there’s Links.
Jews and their March of Hatred.
Social signals for everyone! Yayyyy!!!!
Democracy. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Please! Please! Please! Please!
Because fuck the constitution, amirite?
Old Guy Music features a rather interesting lineup. Makes you wonder what Rod Stewart could have done had he stayed in the blues genre…
“Democracy. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
It’s the Guardian. They don’t know English.
“Even as the coronavirus retreats, the pandemic of Trump’s “big lie” about a stolen election spreads, manifest in Republicans’ blocking of a commission to investigate the insurrection.”
No, whether the election was stolen, and investigating what happened at the capitol, are two different things. Also, it wasn’t an insurrection.
Anyway, there should be an investigation. Who were those people with ear pieces removing barricades?
Conflation is par for the course in the media.
False equivalence for the win.
TMITE.
Yeah, I would think that Democrats’ attempts to block any investigation of the election would be more relevant to finding out what happened during the election but I’m not a fancy journalismer so what do I know.
“Perhaps more insidiously, Trump supporters who tried to overturn the 2020 election are maneuvering to serve as election officials in swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.”
How is fortifying those elections insidious?
If Joe Biden looses the next election to whomever, there will be no “this read free and fair” coming from the establishment. In free and fair elections, only Democrats win.
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA
From the Arizona reporter story, somebody needs to tell that guy non-reporters have the same 1A rights.
Whenever reporters whip out ” we’re the only profession constitutionally protected” I want to go full Auth-right.
Jim Acosta named his penis “we’re the only profession constitutionally protected”.
They would love for there to be government issued journalism licenses.
Didn’t Diane Fienstein propose such a law?
There actually used to be; they were called press passes. The government issued them to “legitimate” journalists in the form of wallet ID cards.
I thought they were traditionally stuffed into the hatband of the reporter.
Clergy? Gunsmiths?
Abortionists?
Speaking of English…..
“We have an option of a candidate who can center people, racial justice, economic justice, and climate justice…”
WTF does that even mean?
Minute to minute, whatever they say it does?
Suthen gets it.
It means if you’re a productive member of society you’d better grab the lube.
“Open your wallet and give everything in it to these people over here, racist bigot.”
Sideways will always hold a special place in my heart because my dad made a pretty penny selling one of his paintings to the production designer for use in the film.
Which scene? I’ll look for it.
Sideways was hilarious. Hit a little too close to home maybe?
NO FUCKING MERLOT!
It encapsulated everything I dislike about the fine wine “culture.” And glorified it.
Not to mention ruining a once-decent wine producing area.
It had an effect on product? Did demand change after the movie? I’m curious.
Two things: yes, demand for that area went up, sharply, as did prices; $150 a bottle for a Santa Ynez Pinot Noir or Syrah is beyond ridiculous. And the wineries transformed to a more overtly commercial style, pretty much ruining the distinctiveness of the wines. Try finding a Santa Ynez Pinot at less than 14.5% alcohol. Terroir is a dim memory.
Admittedly, I’m a totally unschooled barbarian when it comes to wine. If it tastes good, I’ll drink it is about the only thing I know.
It is grape juice and you have it right.
OK, Jack. 😉
It had effects beyond Santa Ynez as well. Across the country, wine drinkers who were perfectly happy with $9 merlot suddenly discovered that only rubes drank merlot. So they all decided that they wanted to drink Pinot Noir. Problem is, Pinot is a rather finicky grape when it comes to where it’ll grow, and it’s more difficult to vinify well than merlot is. Ergo, it costs more to make.
The retail consumer didn’t get this, and some of them got cranky. “Whaddya mean that a decent Pinot goes for $22? Can’t you get me a good one for $9?” No….
Producers responded by planting Pinot in places where it shouldn’t be, then flooding the market with cheap, watery crap. It’s rubbish, but it satisfies the type who wants the label to read Pinot Noir while keeping their skinflint sensibilities intact.
La Versant Pinot Noir -$10 a bottle and very good. Bonus, it’s French so I don’t get headaches from it.
Noted
Heh. My dad’s office partner was a professor of Onology.
He was from the hills above Fresno.
I’ve heard this a few times. I was a lot younger when i first watched it, not a single chuckle. Maybe now that I’m a bit older it might be a bit more amusing. I’ll have to give it another try.
Sideways was basically Clerks, transplanted from a New Jersey convenience store to the Napa Valley.
I still maintain that the worst movie about wine is Bottle Shock. Even Alan Rickman couldn’t save it.
You’re dead to me.
First, for maligning Bottle Shock, which I loved, but also for claiming that ANYTHING is beyond Alan Rickman’s capacity to save.
That wig, tho…
“González was arrested April 30, a day after Officer Chris Farrar and a Gilbert police officer were struck by a stolen vehicle driven by a wanted felon. Farrar died, and the other officer was critically injured before the suspect was shot and taken into custody.”
So maybe it wasn’t a “good shoot”? Why would they arrest a journalist if they weren’t trying to hide something?
Because they are petty tyrants?
It looks like a gaggle of idiots, including the reporter.
Because they dislike reporters, and they dislike latinos, so a latino reporter is too tempting a target to pass up?
Although the reporter bitching about some cop calling him, “Compadre” makes me think that the entire situation is 100% assholes…
It’s Sunday morning, and I am not prepared for differential equations, even ordinary ones. Keep your Dirac in your pants.
Math is hard?
“The lesson Republicans have learnt from that is they don’t really suffer any electoral consequences from their base pursuing this kind of thing. In fact, they’re rewarded for it. That’s very ominous because that suggests they’ll continue to try to do this until they pay an electoral price for it, and so far they don’t sense they’re paying an electoral price for it.”
If voters believe their representatives are acting in their (the voters’) interests, they’ll keep electing them?
Shocking.
Remember, underwear then pants. Whoever wrote this seems to think democracy is politicians controlling their base, not the other way around.
Which might explain some aspects of the Democratic party these days.
Democrats spent four years claiming Russian collusion and it didn’t hurt them electorally.
“We have an option of a candidate who can center people, racial justice, economic justice, and climate justice that didn’t just come up to run for mayor, but has experience,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Justice for everybody!
Sounds like it’s time to get out of NYC. If she wins she’ll make the current basket case look like Giuliani.
Living in th NYC Metro does have its challenges; however, this is somewhat offset by the entertainment value of local politics. A guy named Brad Lander is running for comptroller, and has gained the endorsements of AOC, Liz Warren, and Jerry Nadler among others. His campaign ad featuring thse three proclaiming, in rapid succession, “I’m with Brad!” is everywhere. Comedy gold.
https://mobile.twitter.com/bradlander/status/1394247539185029120
It’s hard to believe NYC was once a dynamic business environment.
I grew up with a very ingrained view that nothing was made in cities. You couldn’t build a factory there, and they were too expensive anyway. Everything had to be made out in the country. Plus, no one could possibly live in cities because no jobs were there and so no one was paid enough to afford it.
I was a child at the time, in the rust belt, so it all added up.
Still can’t figure out why anyone would stay in a city if they could get out.
Counterpoint – I mowed the lawn this morning and now am sitting on the porch enjoying a cocktail. My view is resplendent with the Summer parking wars as folk hunt and jostle for spaces near the beach. We are one of the few surfing beaches so I get watch the fit ladies change into and out of their wetsuits on the sidewalk. Sometimes NYC is good.
You have a lawn and a beach view in NYC? How much money have you got?
“True, it was a small lawn….”
Dude… Rockaway Beach is whole different world. Also, we rent. Even if I could afford to do so, I would never buy property in NYC.
Where is this authoritarian ecosystem heading? For many, the nightmare scenario is that Trump will run again in 2024 and, with the benefit of voter suppression, sneak a win in the electoral college as he did in 2016.
That’s funny.
The authoritarians are definitely not the ones that have turned DC into a recreation of Gitmo, nor are they the ones that are telling you to stay locked in your house, to force medical treatment on you, and to wear facial coverings.
Everyone’s entitled to their worldview.
To some it was a nightmare senario where lax voting laws allowed Biden to sneak a win in Democratic controlled population centers.
It’s not a moral imperative for me, that we avoid these outcomes, simply because people will not like them.
“sneak a win”
“Jews and their march of hatred”
“Stop trying to kill us” is apparently hatred.
“Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem that day.” – Rockets paid for with American taxpayer dollars. Thank you Obama. What a fucking shitweasel that guy is. He should be in a gibbet.
Social signalling…if you have to tell people how virtuous you are…
The democracy story…it is all projection all of the time with the left.
We should get more AOC endorsements so we know who not to vote for. I don’t have to read beyond ‘AOC endorses xyz’
Reporter story: The dumbass crossed a police line into a crime zone. That is not a constitutionally protected right. I guess the bright side is that the cops are equally as stupid in what they are doing. No good guys in that story.
Good God, we are drowning in an ocean of barbarism and stupidity. If it would quit raining here I would just go back to cutting grass and ignore it all.
I’d be happy with a bit of rain. The 108 degree temp is not improving my mood.
Relax, sit back, and just enjoy the shitshow. Better for your blood pressure.
That sounds like good advice. My only problem is with more than a month of rain the grass has grown waist high and some plant, I am not sure which species, has an irritant that has caused a nasty rash on a couple of my dogs. The lawn needs a trim.
Speaking of, I’m going to go mow before it gets oppressively hot.
I got a mow in right before the storms last night. Had to skip a couple areas because of standing water, but it was ridiculous that I had only mown once this year before yesterday.
46 at this exact moment here in the Susitna Valley.
I’ll help: Maya Wiley is a far-left loon in the Deblasio mold (she worked for him). I don’t think she stands a chance but nobody thought Bill did either. But the way the Machine works is that a few thousand votes in a primary that only a tiny percentage of True Believers pay any attention to can guarantee you the election, so who knows.
I only know her from Roseanne where she was fantastic.
If you haven’t seen King of Comedy, put down your keyboard NOW and go watch it.
You should get cancer. I hope you get cancer!
Panic du jour
“There just aren’t enough teachers. There isn’t a big pool to pull from. Retirements are through the roof and people are leaving the profession even more than they were due to all the havoc from Covid,” Prijatelj told NBC News. “It’s dire.”
The decline Prijatelj has seen in his district mirrors a national trend, according to federal data and analysis of that data. And as President Joe Biden pitches universal preschool and free community college as part of his plans to overhaul a coronavirus-ravaged economy, education experts see teachers as the linchpin. The $9 billion that Biden’s American Families Plan would set aside to address the country’s increasingly acute shortage — one that was worsened, though not created by, the pandemic — represents a critical investment for the White House to make good on many other parts of his domestic agenda, these experts said.
“If you think about it, what is education? It’s teaching. You have to have a teacher to do the teaching. You can’t get anything else done without a teacher in the classroom,” said Georgia Heyward, a research analyst at the Center for Reinventing Public Education, an education policy analysis center at the University of Washington Bothell.
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To further address the shortage of teachers of color, Biden is proposing another $400 million to fund teacher preparation programs at historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions.
Only about 20 percent of teachers are teachers of color, while students of color make up more than half of the overall population of all K-12 schools, according to government data.
“The scholarships that they say it will offer to address the pipeline of teachers of color is going to be critical,” said Eric Becoats, superintendent of the 5,000-student William Penn School District outside Philadelphia.
During the 2020-2021 school year, just 20 percent of his district’s teachers were teachers of color, while its student population was more than 96 percent students of color.
“The supply chain of teachers of color is not nearly as strong as we need it to be,” he said.
We’re terribly terribly concerned about the supply of quality teachers. So concerned, we will throw a giant pile of money at genetic traits which have nothing to do with ability or job performance.
White people have no business teaching minorities. You ought to know that.
Sure you can. LAUSD hasn’t had teachers in classrooms for a year and a half.
Probably not the greatest example of getting things done…
Looks like the cat is out of the bag.
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!
This is the real reason for pushing critical race theory. It’s not about equity, it’s a BIPOC jobs program.
Now do male teachers.
Boys make up around 50% of classes, whats that percentage of male teachers?
Good to see Edward G. Krebs getting some love. Must have been tough to live in the shadow of his more well-known son Maynard.
Heh. Haven’t seen that show in ages.
An underrecognized classic. Preshipwreck Gilligan was great.
Tuesday Weld.
Young Warren Beatty.
And then…
“A lot of educational investment in the past 20 years has been about building out administrative infrastructure in schools, deans, coaches, a lot of accountability measures. But there hasn’t been a lot of investment in teachers themselves or in creating a supply of teachers that allows schools to really get the best fit teachers or in retention strategies that allow them to keep teachers. That is integral,” she said. “That helps everything that comes after that.”
We have been spending vast amounts of money on things not integral to the mission of training competent teachers. That’s why we need more money.
Oops.
What “journalism” has become
Hussman is sickened by large surveys showing the vast majority of Americans no longer believe most news outlets play it straight with the facts. More recently, bias has given way to corruption where inconvenient facts are distorted or ignored to serve a predetermined narrative.
That is the essence of woke journalism, and Hannah-Jones is its queen. She is a good writer and an even better polemicist, with her Pulitzer essay making her sound like a black nationalist whose view of history is shaped by prejudice.
Her most outlandish claims, that America was not a democracy but a slavocracy and that the Founders declared independence to protect slavery from British abolitionists, are so preposterous that the Times later slightly softened them.
Hannah-Jones also declares that “Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country,” and says her father’s patriotism, which included voluntary military service, “deeply embarrassed me.”
Worth a read in total.
TMITE
Sounds like she has severe Daddy issues
“…the vast majority of Americans no longer believe most news outlets play it straight with the facts.”
If you dont like being called a liar, stop telling lies. I know, that is a real brain buster so let it sink in for a bit.
She is brown and has maroon hair. That’s really all that matters here, because that is where we are now.
But can I touch her hair?
Do it and report back.
Scruffy is actually Joe Biden? Who knew?
I’ve never seen them together in the same room.
Great song from a great era with great musicians! Thanks
Injudicious opinion
The opinion reads like it’s written “by an AR-15 salesman rather than a constitutional analyst,” said Larry Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard Law School. “The bias fairly drips from the opinion, and the analysis certainly does not follow from the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about the Second Amendment.”
And what about those heart rending “for the children and grieving mothers” opinions upholding gun bans, Larry? Totally rational, logical legal analysis, I suppose.
Larry Tribe, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard Law School.
Why should I give a shit what you have to say?
Larry is lying, probably both to himself and to us.
“…the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about the Second Amendment”. I think Sotomayor made the claim that deciding the constitutionality of any given law was a ‘novel approach’ for the SC. Why should we pay attention to anything they have to say?
There was a loud crash noise upstairs last night. We went to investigate and found one of the closet organizer shelves pulled away from the wall and hit the floor. They came with the house. It appears this one was overloaded (not by me) and the supports failed and some of the fasteners pulled out of the wall. *sigh*
I guess I know what I’m doing today. ?
On the upside, I got prepaid for my labor this morning. ?
Yikes!!!
I like the big stainless free-standing racks. You can always lag them into a stud for stability, but they provide all their own support, go together faster and more flexibly than closet systems, can be removed quickly should needs be, and can go with you or be re-dedicated when needs change.
In almost all things, I tend to tool for flexibility and durability (trucks, guns, women).
I see what you did there.
You should get double time for working on Sunday.
Follow up:
“FBI now WITHDRAWS its request to subpoena USA Today’s records that asked to see who’d clicked on a story”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655835/FBI-WITHRDAWS-request-subpoena-USA-Today-whod-clicked-story.html
So I’m going to praise USA Today: good on them for not just rolling over. The request was insanely broad.
NSA already got them the info.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/06/06/dunkin-donuts-fairhill-manager-killed-robbery/
Sad.
Things are getting bad when people can rob donut shops.
How stupid do you have to be to rob a retail establishment? Care to guess how much fiat currency is in the cash register at any given time of day? You are going to throw your life and possibly someone else’s for that? Worse than that the robbery was early morning….you know, before they had the chance to build up any cash in the register. Maybe he was just after the custard and strawberry filled donuts?
She was shot in the head over pocket change.
Not to mention get yourself on a clear surveillance video doing it.
This guy is probably a few knives short.
I am betting dope has something to do with it.
I am not trying to start a debate on the issue, it is one for another time, but I recently argued that the problem with dope and self ownership is that the dope greatly diminishes one’s agency…eventually. I have seen it many times.
Yes, that is another valid possibility.
If dope were legal, and not burdened by a bunch of regulations and taxes, it would be cheap.
Alcohol can also lead to bad judgement, but I don’t recall ever hearing about a drunk robbing a place to buy booze.
Being psychologically dependent on anything, greatly diminishes one’s agency. Drugs are not unique in this.
There’s a bit of a chicken-or-egg question in there. Do drugs make people stupid, or do stupid people use drugs?
Hell, why not both?
Not to mention cops frequent donut shops.
I have spoken to a few guys who were locked up for robbing stores. First, in their subculture, incarceration is seen as a badge of honor. Second, the few hundred dollars they might get probably seems like a lot to them since they’ve never had a decent job. Third, the act of armed robbery itself is glorified in songs like Kodak Black’s Stick and Move”.
Relevant
I was expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP05iSzpz94
Eventually the chickens come home to roost.
I may be the only person who will come out and say this, but, boy is that movie stupid.
Hi, we have AR’s and Armani’s, don’t we look fucking cool in blue light!
No, if you want a good shot out scene, this is the one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J0ecKnEzvU
I dont get it. We have always had those people and yet the ones from the past are romanticized.
The settling of the old west was mostly done by people trying to escape from the law…thugs. Old west gun fights are romanticized in movies. Those people were mostly scummy thugs. That is why they robbed, raped and settled their problems with guns rather than their heads. Those old western movies were about the same kind of people that made up the prohibition era gangs and the gangs we have today.
Maybe we should stop romanticizing them. That behavior and lifestyle is not romantic. It is not glorious.
It is ugly and disturbing.
I’ve been reading some good libertarian literature:
https://www.amazon.com/Not-So-Wild-West-Economics/dp/0804748543
The “Wild West” is largely and invention of dime novelists and later Hollywood. Despite a few violent outburst and some truly horrific total war against the western tribes, the ‘settling of the western frontier’ was one of the most peaceful mass migrations in human history. Much of the gunfighting was exactly in line with “an armed society is a polite society.”
What’s ironic is that most of the large scale violence was perpetrated by government or feuds representing different sides of opposing political factions.
It comes as no surprise that one of the best arguments for peaceful anarchism has been mythologized into ‘and then the government finally showed up and made things civilized’
Thanks for the pointer to this!
Jesus…that vid was, uh, something else.
The third point is the big one. It was a little shocking to me, the number of multiple armed robbers out there who had straight jobs. They were ripping places basically for fun. Instead of career criminals, they were recreational criminals…
Keepin’ it real
If you dont like being called a liar, stop telling lies. I know, that is a real brain buster so let it sink in for a bit.
That might work for some people, but we’re talking about Journalists, from organizations like the New York Times.
Can’t
understand
Normal
Thinking
“What happened to ‘congratulations’, Joe? Biden tells US graduate class of 2021 that systemic racism is one of ‘the greatest crises of our time’ and compares it to the VIETNAM WAR”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9656185/Joe-Biden-tells-class-2021-graduates-systemic-racism-one-greatest-crises-time.html
CWAA
He ought to know.
Democrats have had decades long control on the most dysfunctional urban centers in this country. Any racism claims should land solidly on them. Somehow, that doesn’t seem to be happening.
“‘RIP the Queen’: Chinese troll army floods the internet with vile claims monarch has died after British embassy’s post commemorating Tiananmen Square massacre is censored within 20 minutes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655641/Chinese-troll-army-floods-internet-vile-claims-Queen-died.html
China is asshoe.
“Anonymous was forthright in its frustration with Musk.
‘Millions of retail investors were really counting on their crypto gains to improve their lives. This is something that you will never understand because you were born into the stolen wealth of a South African apartheid emerald mine and have no clue what struggle is like for most of the working people in the world.
‘Of course, they took the risk upon themselves when they invested, and everyone knows to be prepared for volatility in crypto, but your tweets this week show a clear disregard for the average working person.
‘As hardworking people have their dreams liquidated over your public temper tantrums, you continue to mock them with memes from one of your million dollar mansions.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655941/Hacking-group-Anonymous-issues-warning-Elon-Musk-claiming-power-influence-Bitcoin-prices.html
The crypto volatility kicked off by Musk’s brain farts ought to give pause to the crypto dabblers. If one man’s off the cuff tweets can send your investment into the stratosphere or the toilet depending on the tone then maybe it’s not the best store of wealth.
of course
but I read them another way: just another day when someone can attribute their failures to someone else’s behavior
at this point I’m surprised that being totally insulated from any and all consequences of one’s actions (all all other phenomena, natural or man-made) hasn’t been codified via constitutional amendment
Give it a little time.
Oh, there’s definitely an element of displacement of responsibility as well. If you’re putting all of your eggs in the crypto basket and you lose your shirt it’s partially on you. That being said, Musk’s pronouncements do have an amazingly outsized impact on the crypto market and he’s certainly aware of that and is using his influence to alternatively boost and crash the market as he sees fit for whatever reason. He’s sort of doing them a favor though by revealing a considerable flaw in the system before crypto becomes truly ubiquitous.
If you’re putting all of your eggs in the crypto basket and you lose your shirt
Those people are fucking morons. At their absolute best, crypto investments are currency trading. You don’t do your retirement investing in the currency market if you’re sane.
People who have a substantial amount of money tied up in cryptos boggle my mind. I have a few hundred in the market that I diverted from… ahem… high velocity lead investments. I can’t imagine putting more than $1k into cryptos, even with it coming from that particular line item in the budget. Way too risky to put significant balances into.
crypto volatility
The biggest thing that gives me pause with cryptos is the way they’re all loosely linked to bitcoin. The price trends may diverge momentarily, but if you expand the view out to months or years, the price curves all look about the same.
Volatility doesn’t scare me as much as the linked trends. That has me thinking that valuations are wildly off on most cryptos.
As someone who has gone heavy (but not all in) on crypto, my response would be; whats the alternative?
Saving fiat: a losing proposition thanks to the Fed and their printing press
Property: prices manipulated by the Fed and doomed to bust as we see in the current market. Also comes with a nice annual tax for as long as you own it.
Stocks: Also a rigged game that is essentially gambling your $. Best you can hope to do is get lucky timing the market.
Gold: a good store of value but difficult to trade, store and comes with high fees when traded through an intermediary
While crypto is far from perfect and we are very much in the early and chaotic stages, I see huge potential if Satoshi’s vision doesn’t get absolutely crushed by the leviathan.
In volatile times you invest in steel. (and lead, and brass, and carbon…)
Crypto has no more instrinsic worth than any fiat, and because it’s all “digital wizardry” less trust.
Fuck crypto. I can no longer acquire a decent graphics card to use for actually displaying graphics without taking out a mortgage.
This X10000!!!
I’m at the point where I need to start thinking about an upgrade but I just perused Newegg and found to my horror that my current card, MSI R9 390 8Gb purchased brand new from Newegg 3 years ago for $320, was now going for $748. HOLY MACKEREL!
Assuming you can actually find one. Youngest patzer is attempting to build a new rig using the ill-gotten gains from his summer research project (just got a check for half the total amount). He’s been camping out at Microcenter most mornings for two weeks hoping to find the elusive treasure. No dice.
Microcenter has been surprisingly good with in-store deals (open box and such). I’m about equidistant from the ones in Brooklyn and Westbury, Lawn Guyland so always check ’em out.
Thee Brooklyn location is weird. It’s on 4th, at the remodeled wharf and I remember that neighborhood as nothing but docks, a Federal Prison, muffler shops, and dirty-book stores.
Old Guy alert. Back in the 50’s before the Verrazano Bridge was built we’d pile into the Chevy and take the ferry from Bay Ridge to go to the drive-in in Staten Island. Saw “Lady and the Tramp, 6 yrs old
Good times.
The cicadas are real loud in our neighborhood. My wife was interested in them initially, but they’ve gotten so numerous that the novelty has worn off. She is done with them and wants them to end. I commented that since the noise is from their mating call and the noise will end after they have sex, lay eggs and then die, she basically wants them to “Fuck off and die!”
Heh.
I spent a couple of years living where there are no cicadas. At some point near the end of that I was watching “The Last of the Mohicans” and in the background of one scene I could hear bluejays calling and cicadas buzzing. I got so homesick I could hardly stand it. I thought “I have to go home.”
Flipped to the Memorial golf tourney yesterday. Cicadas stole the show, and as a bonus forced the commentators to speak above a whisper.
HFS
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cyber-polygon-will-next-globalist-war-game-lead-another-convenient-catastrophe
Link for the above quote. I hope it’s all crazy nonsense and I’m just too hungover to find the plot hole.
I know people have been calling for this for at least 40 years but I never thought enough people would be crazy enough to support it or enough people stupid enough to fall for it so I never thought it would happen.
I should pour a drink.
Straight from the horse’s mouth as long as you aren’t too hungover to follow the various links:
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.
Is it possible this is all coincidental?
No.
Of course none of this has anything to do with public health and everything to do with power. Power, being a fixed pie, is what the powers that be want to take from you to the point that they would rather knock your ice cream cone out of your hand than let you eat it. They are truly the worst kinds of people.
Pie…icecream…whatever.
It’s incredibly fucking fishy, I will say that.
99% of the time things are exactly what they look like.
When everything we thought was “crazy nonsense” keeps turning out to be true, maybe it’s not crazy nonsense any more.
Yeah, we passed my line for “Crazyville” around the time of “The intelligence community was running operations on a sitting President knowing it was based on garbage intel / oppo research, and NO ONE CARES”.
If the establishment can swing that, I don’t know what they’d actually be called on the carpet for. Sigh.
The only solution is to crush the free market, all civil rights and institute international socialism.
Event 201 has come up often among the more conspiracy minded Reopen folks.
Almost every aspect of the Covid event has played out exactly as was practiced during the WEF war game.
Except for the “wholesale death” part.
Do better, global elite technocrat overlords.
By ‘better’ I hope you mean ‘fuck off and die in a fire’.
Sigh — gorram son of a rabid weasel bat apparently doesn’t think 2 years is “emergency” enough.
Shouldn’t be surprised — but really thought this crap was finally officially ending and was looking forward to not having to worry about what businesses expect what, etc.
Jerk.
A guy who looks and sounds like a bioengineered cross between a used car salesman and a televangelist is going back on his word? Not surprising, unfortunately.
Has he forgotten about the recall?
Sounds like a lock for the recall election.
Seriously, I bet he wins it. Just like Cuomo will win another term.
The vast majority of misery in the world is self-inflicted.
Congrats blue voters.
Meet the Press is on the cybercrime beat. Solution: ban cryptocurrency!
Also, ban Rooooshuh!
In regard to the conversation above about Elon crashing crypto. The Cathedral has done more to undermine and fuck with crypto in the last few weeks than Elon could ever do through tweets. From the constant concern trolling in the media to Uncle Sniffy and the IRS desperately trying to figure out a way to tax and regulate the shit out of it, seems to me that Anonymous would be far better off to turn their attention elsewhere. That being said it strikes me that Musk is creating a convenient distraction for the government to come in and shackle what has been a very free market.
Russia is a criminal enterprise.
Hey- maybe Congress should just ban cybercrime.
There oughtta be a law!
“”150 days since the worst single act of political violence since the Civil War, and the man who incited it is crying about being kept off social media.””
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1401006015898959877
The worst single act of political violence since the Civil War??
Yeah, sure, why not?
Wow. That’s unhinged even for him.
The rioting in the months of May through Aug and continuing in Portland, fort express political purposes was not violence. Violence is when it affects the political class, everything else is just a fairy tale affecting the little people.
The worst single act of political violence since the Civil War??
It’s like this guy never heard of the MLK riots, the LA riot of ’92, the George Floyd riots, or that Tulsa
RiotRace Massacre that the media are currently using as a cudgel against wypipo.I was going to mention that to, along with all the lynchings in post reconstruction South. But the point is, he’s a propogandists, not even he believes it.
Somewhere in hell, Timothy McVeigh just got a tingle in his leg…
The World Trade Center happenings could be rolled into the list as well.
Even if we limit the scope to direct attacks against the US Capitol? You still have the PRNP shooting up the House of Representatives chamber back in 1954, and the Weather Underground bombing the Capitol building in 1971.
Nixon’s comment after the Capitol bombing was pretty much on point.
“We must not allow this kind of an incident to close these great public buildings to the people. . . . [T]he greater risk is to close these buildings, to be too afraid of this. That is what violent people want. They want to frighten public officials and the American people into the place where we will not have the open buildings, the open society that we do have. They would like to keep the President in Washington rather than come out in the country. Well, it won’t work.”
Don’t forget 1983!
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/bomb_explodes_in_capitol.htm
Anderson Cooper? Brian Stelter? You might as well listen to a chicken clucking.
It all reminds me a lot of the free kick wall in soccer where the players keep creeping forward using baby steps to see just how much they can get away with before the ref steps in.
Spoiler: the ref is on the take.
Another spoiler: nobody watches the game anymore because they know it’s rigged
I’d like to see Stelter’s head make a guest appearance on the Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube.
There are easier ways to make mashed potatoes.
From the constant concern trolling in the media to Uncle Sniffy and the IRS desperately trying to figure out a way to tax and regulate the shit out of it
Looking for ways to conduct business out of the view of government tax-and-regulate-agencies? That’s seditionist insurrection, straight up. Nothing outside the state.
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1401177517659234304
wow
The rioting in the months of May through Aug and continuing in Portland, fort express political purposes was not violence. Violence is when it affects the political class, everything else is just a fairy tale affecting the little people.
Sacred Temple of DEMOCRACY!
“Milo Yiannopoulos says that as soon as he became “ex-gay,” dogs stopped barking at him, which he believes is a sign from God.”
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1400901820122271746
Milo also says things he knows to be nonsense in order to get a rise out of people. It’s sort of his shtick.
I laffed at this one. Well played, Milo.
Milo has a history of being deliberately misquoted, so I’m gonna pass on specific comment.
But man, I would really prefer to believe that folks outside the sexual mainstream are *not* generally mentally ill…
Well, there is a video there.
Also, he still seems kind of gay, ngl.
Now that moron Granholm is puking up her two cents’ worth.
I walked a mile along the wildlife preserve. The only wildlife I saw were chipmunks, robins, tree rats, and hate birds.
I had an hour before the Trolley museum opened, so I drove randomly just to see what there was to see. Ended up passing hrough Kinnebunkport. I do not like the look of that place, feels artificial. Plus there was no free parking.
My random driving actually deposited me right at the gates of the trolley museum, but they were still requiring masks, and I was feeling dehydrated, so I didn’t take the tour. Got some water and stumbled on to a flea market. Being maine, all the vendors were old white folks, except the old guy selling rugs, who could have been from anywhere between northern india and anatolia.
I retreated to my hotel to rehydrate, maybe see if there’s a zoo around where I can see wildlife that doesn’t wander my neighborhood on a daily basis.
PS I did get some fantastic pictures of the scenery. While it’s unfit for traversal, the coastal marshes are prett.
Damn, the zoo is either still mandating masks or didn’t update their website.
Gotta think of something else to do.
Kennebunkport is where the Bush’s have their summer home.
They’re welcome to it. That town just doesn’t feel right. It’s like a tourist trap for the 10%
Movers come on Tuesday. Today is packing day ( we have most done but 80/20 rule). Tomorrow is resumes in the morning and then packing until done.
I took tvs down today, we have sold them, being picked up this afternoon, along with a love seat and matching chairs.
We are doing good this time at “is it worth moving?”
The feeling after a pre-moving purge has me half believing in that ASMR crap.
We went through that too – moving is when you take the effort to apply the Great Filter, and move only what you need to. For us it was family heirlooms, personal keepsakes and a few odds and ends that would cost more to replace than to move. Still ended up being a lot of stuff, but there you are.
I’m not doing this again. Only way they take me off this place is in a body bag.
It’s the law.
TRIGGERRED!!!!!!11!!!!!!1
One thing that pisses me off about hanging around with the mask-free groups, health freedom groups, and the Reopen folks is all the dipshits that go on about “It’s not a law!” concerning mask ordinances/orders/what-have-you. “An ordinance isn’t a law!” is another good one.
Recently, someone on a PA group related to defying the governor’s orders asked about the announcements stating something along the lines of “wearing a mask in an airplane is the law.” Is it really a law?
I did some digging. I found the USC making it a crime to interfere with flight crew. I also found Biden’s EO on masks, which has some vague references to laws and regulations but no actual citations. Then I found the CDC’s actual order about masks on transportation.. It includes a link to 42 USC section 264. I read that USC which opens with:
The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.
Later, it includes the most beautiful legal statement ever:
and other measures, as in his judgment may be necessary.
So, yeah, flight crew stating wearing a mask is a law as that order from the CDC is made pursuant to an actual USC.
The usual idiots come out of the woodwork saying “It’s not a law!”.
Time to read the links.
I think the question to ask would be “Is any government authority authorized to make any ordinance/law/whatever limiting the freedom of movement or of free association of people not convicted of a crime?”
I am one of the usual idiots as I think that all of the measures taken by government so far are crimes committed by said government.
So basically, the Surgeon General is the supreme ruler of the United States. Nice to know.
When most people say, “It’s not a law!” they mean either 1.) the law is unjust, or B.) I don’t give a fuck about the law. Both opinions are entirely admirable.
The constitution is a contract between the people and the government. The lines between what the people agreed the government has the power to do and what it is not are very clear. Government has been overstepping those lines since day one so much so that I dont really consider the government legitimate any more.
I would add that our constitution has some flaws, rather glaring ones, but it is the best one every conceived. A low bar I know, but it is what we have.
These aren’t most people. They really mean what they are saying.
Good choice for morning music, OMWC.
I’m in a dark bluesy mood this morning, so I was listening to Justin Johnson and his guitar.
It’s a work day, so I can’t put whiskey in the coffee, sadly.
“The heart of the issue is the fact that the student did not follow the established dress code for the event and detracted from the importance and the solemnity of the ceremony,” officials said in one of two statements. “Our dress code is in place to ensure the dignity of the event is upheld and is fair to all students.”
Huh. My old high school would have done the same thing. I think if someone had violated the dress code, been denied his/her diploma, and gone public like this, that person would have been mocked. The school probably would have been quietly and privately mocked about “the dignity of the event” and “fair to all students”, but parents would have publicly backed the school.
Voting rights are threatened across the US and Trump allies are vying to control elections in multiple states. Can US democracy survive the post-Trump onslaught?
Concern troll is concerned.
“We have an option of a candidate who can center people, racial justice, economic justice, and climate justice that didn’t just come up to run for mayor, but has experience,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
That is some authentic Proglodyte gibberish.
“It’s unacceptable that the Gilbert Police Department is unlawfully violating Mr. González Cortés’s constitutional rights as a journalist. The Police Department’s violation of his constitutional rights diminishes the rights of us all.”
But what if he was just an ordinary person?
Old Guy Music is good. I never knew Rod Stewart did any Blues work.
Dumbass kid makes graduation ceremony all about him. CWAA.
They should have given him his diploma and then make him run a gauntlet to get out.
If anything, he got a nice lesson about the real world.
This can’t be good.
Yikes.
The Chinese bio weapons claim is bad enough but the fact that important justice/defense agencies don’t trust their own organizations to go through the official chain is deeply disturbing.
Considering the number of Chinese spies that have been busted working in Secret and Top Secret settings, National labs, and as top aids to politicians, the spooks are probably correct though.
But what do we do about it? Openly discriminate against Chinese applicants to sensitive govt jobs?
It is important to distinguish between culture and race. Chinese born and raised? Maybe yes. It isn’t a good idea to put them in positions to get sensitive info. Chinese race born and raised here? No. They assimilate quickly because they know a good thing when they see it.
A few decades ago, I’d have agreed about the “American born and raised” thing, but now kids grow up hearing the message of what an evil, racist, lazy people we Americans are, how America has wrought nothing but evil in the world, etc.
I could see how one’s loyalty could become realigned with the cultural heritage of 2000 years of continuity through one’s Chinese DNA.
The resegregation of America on racial lines will be our downfall.
I would not be at all surprised if the Chicoms were targeting Americans of Chinese descent.
We could start by actually trying and executing spies like in the old days.
Brooksy – your comment above reminded me of an old joke/morality tale in Marine Corps’ aviation about how the respective services work. It goes like this:
When Congress appropriates money for the defense budget, and specifically for the Air Force, the USAF first builds base housing, then the golf course, then the bowling alley and all of the associated troop services, the O’ and E’Club, and then looks and says, “ZOMG!! We’re out of money!!” So they go back to Congress and get money for the airfield.
The Marine Corps builds the airfield and then has no money left… and then it makes the troops sleep in tents next to it, dig slit trenches to shit in, and begs to get some MREs from the Army.
In a just society, the head of the DoEd would have committed ritual seppuku decades ago in light of a graph of expenditures vs. results. I’m only half-joking. Try to imagine what would have happened under the Tokugawa shogunate if they’d appointed someone to be in charge of compulsory education and that person had produced the same results as our DoEd. That dude wouldn’t have lasted three years before he would have had to publicly disembowel himself from the shame of the results.
On Gavin Newsom’s latest power trip:
This motherfucker just cannot stand the little people. He was flippant and sarcastic through the whole press conference. What an asshole.
If your emergency lasts more than a year, it’s not an emergency.
The only thing more bizarre than extending the emergency orders past June 15 is that he didn’t release the news through a formal statement or a special press conference; he just dropped it casually during a press conference announcing winners of a cash prize lottery held as a vaccine incentive.
I got the impression that he made up the extension of the emergency orders right there on the spot because he didn’t feel the reporters were showing him proper respect.
Even Caitlyn Jenner is sane by comparison:
There is no science behind it. The whole cootiebug circus was a power grab. Of course the people running it aren’t going to let go of that power….ever….unless they are forced to.
Yeah, that’s one of the things that drives me nuts about all this.
The obvious definition of Emergency Executive Powers should be those that must be used because of a sufficiently widespread crisis AND the inability of the Legislature to meet and pass any new laws needed to handle the situation. Full stop. Anything else is just usurping the power of the Legislature (and the Courts) to the Executive / Regulatory State for some undefined period.
I seriously can’t understand why Legislatures and Courts aren’t screaming bloody murder about this — all this does is make them irrelevant.
Ok… I can understand it in California — they’ve made themselves pretty much irrelevant with the pandering to the lobbies / unions that run the state anyway. But other states? Makes no sense…
A classic: L. Neil Smith on “Why Did It Have To Be Guns?”.
“What his attitude—toward your ownership and use of weapons—conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn’t trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?”
He stole that from me, didnt he? This guy’s jib, I like the cut of it.
Thank you for posting that. I am going to save it.
You’re welcome!
It’s been a while since I’ve read the TLE. I used to read it in the late 90s and early 00s. It’s good to see the TLE is still around. I think I read this essay when Smith first published it.
That website looks like it’s from the 90s. Has he ever thought about improving the readability?
Geocities lives!
I can read English just fine
Unreadable is what most websites are today.