Tennis continues without drama queen
Tampa is taking a 2-0 series lead home. the Celtics season is finished, the Suns are a game away from winning a playoff series, and poor Naomi Osaka is dealing with depression/anxiety over press conferences, so she pulled out of the French Open. I hope some of the $55,000,000 she made last year will ease her pain. And that’s sports.
Cheesy
Big birthdays today are libertarian icon (I keed!) Marquis de Sade, composer Edward Elgar, baseball player Jack O’Connor, swimmer/actor Johnny Weissmuller, the first black pro golfer Charlie Sifford, hurlers Larry Jackson and Jim Maloney, drummer Charlie Watts, child actor Jerry Mathers, idiot involved in hockey Gary Bettman, pitcher Mike Stanton, and self-absorbed assclown Abby Wambach.
OK, on to…the links!
FACT!
Ah yes, the old “wait two weeks” scaremongering is back. Here’s a newsflash for you, CNN: go fuck yourself.
Way to go, Joe! This is gonna do wonders for Americans at the pump. In his defense, at least he didn’t say “black people could be oilmen as well, but they don’t have access to schools and lawyers and accountants and stuff like white people do”. But don’t worry, he might say something that racist (again) today.
What the hell’s a “semiofficial news agency”? Whatever it is, I’m probably at least as skeptical of Reuters and CBS’s reporting as I am from the Iranian sources.
Man, she really got into her work. Or did work really get into her? Either way, that’s naaaaasty.
Ex-BLM leader Rashad Turner
Man, I could have told you that a year ago. But I guess people have to find out for themselves that groups like this always end up being “run” by grifters. Good for him for being a voice of reason.
I guess the mayor hates democracy. Otherwise, why would she be bitching about people choosing their own school board rather than letting her and the teachers union handpick a bunch of cronies to continue fucking things up?
I guess they’ll just steal water. I have no idea what other solution exists, since they have basically no de-sal plants in the state.
Just as soon as they get their permission slip from Daddy Sugar, they can go back to work. That’s some bullshit. I’m not a cruise ship person, but they are being hamstrung while every other mode of transportation are opened back up on their own terms.
I haven’t played this song in some time. Well, not here anyway. Enjoy it.
Now have a great day, friends!
Man, she really got into her work. Or did work really get into her? Either way, that’s naaaaasty. – is this gonzo?
Also would not
That’s why she’s on radio.
an excerpt of the broadcast for those interested
Somebody was quite vigorous.
Well, yeah. Sex in public means you have to put on a good show for the crowd.
Man, I could have told you that a year ago. But I guess people have to find out for themselves that groups like this always end up being “run” by grifters.
To be fair, griftin aint easy…
I’d reckon it’s a lot easier than Pimpin’. Just ask Big Daddy Kane.
that song is very problematic
Love of a square is very different than the love of a imp, yo…
Well duh!
For one thing the physical limitations of Tyrion Lannister is going to ensure that his loving is different than your loving.
You remember how he had to correct the cock merchant?
Speaking of which, that is a profession this world of ours sorely needs… I think I need to start telling my ladies that’s my profession even though I only have a single unit to sell.
“Buy once, cry once”
It can only be leased…
“This is without precedent,” Newsom said from the cracked bed of Lake Mendocino in April. “Oftentimes we overstate the word historic, but this is indeed an historic moment.”
Who needs solutions, when you can preen in front of the cameras and moan about the problem?
Maybe they should have been stockpiling more of the water they diverted for the delta smelt. Or building desalination plants while their population exploded.
Nah, it’s easier to blame “climate change” for causing a drought in an area where droughts are somewhat commonplace.
They could also bring back Tulare Lake.
I am now almost certain that the global warming shit is nothing but a cleverly put together catch all bullshit item that allows the inept and corrupt credentialed elite leadership class to blame all the problems their stupid policies and ideas have caused on, as well as propose solutions that would allow them to double down on these stupid ideas and policies so they can stay in power despite wrecking everything…
It’s also an excuse for voters to support candidates they know are terrible.
In 2016, I would try to explain to “progressives” how Hillary Clinton is basically George W. Bush with ovaries (allegedly) and they’d readily concede that she’s awful in countless ways. But they’d always toss up their hands and say, “But she’s better on climate change, and that’s really the most important thing. Even if she has some bad policies, we can fix those things later. We can’t fix the planet if we destroy it.”
We can’t destroy the planet.
And we can’t fix anything if we’ve been driven to destitution and imprisonment.
More like histrionic moment.
I will say it was the driest winter we’ve ever had in 35 years living in California. We never had one good rainstorm. It was annoying, when it was a beautiful day in January, because you couldn’t enjoy it as you would have preferred it to be raining. It’s going to suck trying to keep our landscaping from all dying off.
On the positive side, you can plan events months in advance without needing a bad weather option.
As historic as hurricanes in Florida, tornadoes in the great plains, and flooding in the flood plains.
Aren’t those 200 year events fairly common, like every 20-25 years or so?
*Ahem*
That’s enigmatic composer Edward Elgar.
We really need Pomp under these circumstances.
“Enigmatic” should require scare quotes.
Baseball birthdays missed:
Raul Ibanez and Sloppy Thurston. The latter is there just for the name, but he was 4th on today’s WAR list and well ahead of O’Connor and Stanton.
Leana Wen, physician who became Baltimore health commissioner (there’s an oxymoron for you) who became a paid cable news scaremonger. Shilling pays better than curing I guess.
Damn straight -George Stephanopoulos
“Most of them were very positive, they thought it was brave and cool,” she reportedly said.
Okay, then.
Is this from the swinger, or the Iranian sailors?
fortify the fortification
I bet the fact checkers will “debunk” the idea that someone was trying to tamper with or remove the ballots, they were probably really after all the gold and silver known to be stored with voting records and ballots.
An alarm went off where the ballots are stored.
This is still under review by law enforcement.
But they are “3,000%” certain absolutely nothing else happened.
Like the “experts” who came out the morning after the election to assure us it was absolutely secure and beyond reproach, this declaration seems premature.
Strange, wasn’t Fulton County where a judge ordered election officials to preserve voting machine data and an IT tech “accidentally” wiped a bunch of them?
So many unfortunate and random occurrences in that county.
They want to finally outshine Dekalb.
Oooh… very nice, Fulton. Shortly before that, they got rid of the private security hired by the plantiff in the election integrity lawsuit because their county staff supposedly felt “intimidated” by them.
And then the Fulton County deputies who were supposed to be guarding the building (this is all apparently one of those court orders thtat the ballots be guarded at all times) just happened to leave 20 minutes before the alarm.
I suppose having another water leak would have been too obvious.
What the hell’s a “semiofficial news agency”?
CNN and NPR, for example. They allow the regime to plant stories and information with people they trust to not ask the hard questions, with the added advantage that the regime can always later deny the story. We used to not have those here, but now I think it’s time to start referring to those, and similar lapdog media shops, as semiofficial news agencies.
This is pretty much the truth.
More importantly, they follow directions on what not to report on.
They parrot the same talking points. Just watch a mash-up of news and they all say the same fucking thing, right down to the specific words and intonation. Someone has to kill that shit because TMITE.
^This.
Dan Bongino proposed, with some examples, of how the big tech fact checkers are informing the media, then the proggie politicians are informed by the media.
Teaching toddlers about butt-fucking is totes woke, though. Catholic high schools in Ontario raised the Rainbow banner yesterday. Fucking clown world.
” Catholic high schools in Ontario raised the Rainbow banner yesterday.”
That is hilarious, and sad. Official church policy is that homos are fundamentally disordered.
Right? I’m an atheist so I’ve got no dog in this fight. Belly up to the bar, Boys!
Maybe someday they will raise the atheist flag.
Is that a blank white flag or a blank black flag?
Clear cellophane.
there’s a Star Trekifiied A in a circle version. They should fly the rainbow version to check both boxes.
It’s no flag, whatsoever. Do what you will, mortal being. We don’t need a flag.
Re: CA water…its like it isn’t a public good.
Water is both rivalrous and excludable.
/looks north and south and east
I think we’re good here.
Yep. It makes absolutely no sense for areas awash in water to have to follow the same water use restrictions as places like California. But it’s not about science and logic, it’s about control and worshiping at the altar of consensus.
If water was treated as a private good (which it is) everywhere, it would be cheap in some places and expensive in others and the market would reach an equilibrium (with people using it as a factor in where to locate). Same for things like flood insurance. Before subsidized flood insurance, people didn’t build the same way. Or in places like, well (looks around my neighborhood), here.
Compare the old beach houses on Nag’s Head (if you can still find one that hasn’t been torn down and rebuilt) with what exists in Duck. They built disposable houses in hurricane zones in the past. Because that is what the market could bear.
Yep. Water prices need to reflect scarcity and the true costs to build and operated the treatment plants. Historically, the true costs are covered up by big, government-funded major infrastructure projects, and the prices per unit volume don’t even really cover the true O&M costs. So the infrastructure degrades and can’t keep up, so we get another round of government funded emergency capital works to patch the old system again and again, and no one ever really keeps track of what it costs to build and maintain the system.
If it were truly privately handled, pricing would reflect the true costs, and keep the system well maintained, operational, and allow it to scale.
Tougher to skim in private owned/operated facilities, that’s why we need grants for upgrades of government owned facilities. Brothers-in-law gotta eat too, ya know?
Water for farming isn’t a matter of economics in the West, it is holy writ. Thus, farmers get water for pennies to dump into the desert to grow water-intensive crops.
Incentives, how do they fucking work?
libertarian icon (I keed!) Marquis de Sade
Speaking of, the LP Mises Caucus is having a little bit of an identity crisis as the virtue signalers are already trying to grab ahold of things with rainbow Mises logos and the sort. Nothing like a refocus on woke messaging to generate conflict in a group that’s supposed to be about the NAP and natural rights.
FTR I’m not equating de Sade with woke, just the unfortunate trend in the LP towards the celebration of libertinism.
Do wokesters like Quills?
Rights are only for activities you support.
Not what I’m saying. Toleration and endorsement are two different things.
Embracing the celebration of identity groups distracts from the core principles of individualism, natural rights, and the NAP.
Rights exist for asshole neo-Nazis too. It doesn’t mean I endorse their lifestyle.
The cynic in me says that it’s a play to the lowest common denominator who can’t differentiate between toleration and celebration.
The pessimist in me says that we’re in a cultural moment where any institution not directly and primarily opposed to wokeism will be skinsuited by wokesters in no time flat.
It’s both really.
The LP Mises Caucus was supposedly created to oppose the woketarians and get back to fundamental principles instead of LP Lite, but new members already grabbing onto the woke messaging and when confronted are reacting as expected “Why do you hate the gays?”
They can never accept the answer of “I don’t, but that’s not why we’re here.”
Silence is violence.
Toleration and endorsement are two different things.
Too many “rights” organizations disagree.
Past research has found that experienced well-being does not increase above incomes of $75,000/y. This finding has been the focus of substantial attention from researchers and the general public, yet is based on a dataset with a measure of experienced well-being that may or may not be indicative of actual emotional experience (retrospective, dichotomous reports). Here, over one million real-time reports of experienced well-being from a large US sample show evidence that experienced well-being rises linearly with log income, with an equally steep slope above $80,000 as below it. This suggests that higher incomes may still have potential to improve people’s day-to-day well-being, rather than having already reached a plateau for many people in wealthy countries.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118
That’s just lining up an argument for maximum wage. They can fuck right off.
The science proves that nobody needs more than $75K annual income.
They haven’t met Mrs Fourscore, she can explain it better than I can.
The élite get an exception, but NOBODY will be allowed to make more than the political class gets paid…
The biggest problem, pointed out by another commenter on the econlib site, with a lot of that type of research is that happiness (or whatever) is typically measured on a closed scale while income is obviously open-ended.
If someone is making $60k and rates their happiness at 6/10 and later they are making $120k, they cannot rate themselves at 12/10 on happiness. And it would be better to calculate the happiness or well-being or contentment or whatever instead of it being self-reported.
So two problems, not open-ended and self-reported.
The latter is possibly less important but probably still a factor. They former was what was pointed out on econlib and makes me question the entire field.
Also, I suspect that as one goes up the income scale one has less time and inclination to answer a bunch of damn fool questions from strangers.
^^^THIS^^^
Wouldn’t the experiment be to slash the salary of anyone making more than $75K and then ask them how happy they are?
If happiness doesn’t increase, then their rating should stay the same even after their salary goes from $130K to $75K.
If I did not get value out of an increase in income, I would not do the things necessary to increase my income.
Separately, I was pretty happy when my income was low enough to get the EIC. I was also young, unmarried, no children, little responsibilities, a long way to retirement, … Did they compare high and low income by age?
Bullshit. My experienced happiness would be vastly greater if I could afford 2000 rounds a month of 9mm.
And a nice stone wall around my property.
And a live in maid/prostitute.
Bullshit – well this study says happiness does increase with money
And a live in maid/prostitute. – it is not illegal if you pay the live in maid enough to fuck you
Ah, I was too focused on the “experienced well-being does not increase above incomes of $75,000/y” bit.
All sex is paid for…
People forget that civilization exists because guys are always competing to be more attractive to a mate, and wealth remains the most important factor impacting those that unconsciously choose a partner based on what security that partner can provide them and maybe offspring (human nature despite what they have filled people’s heads with these days, and the main reason so many women are unable to find a good man).
You mean the data is bad but still being used?
well this study basically says that the studies saying happiness doe not increase with more income are wrong. It has nothing to do with data use
I thought it indicated that the data set the other studies used was flawed.
well yes
That’s pretty much horseshit in so many ways.
If I made $75K per year, then our household income would be sufficient to buy the nice new house on several acres in the country that I’ve been wanting. That would make me happier.
But Wen cautioned the US will have to wait to see if the protection of a country still not fully vaccinated can overpower the risk of forgoing masks and engaging in public settings.
Even if cases plateau or taper off from their current falling rate, Wen said she worries some communities will remain vulnerable.
She worries her fifteen minutes are going to be up.
2 weeks to flatten the curve.
Maybe California could buy water from Louisiana. I hear they’ve got some to spare.
They can have half of SC’s humidity, it wouldn’t be missed.
While Memorial Day was a milestone for a return to a sense of normalcy from the Covid-19 pandemic, it could take another two weeks to determine where the US really stands, an expert said.
Just two more weeks, comrade. And then two more. And two more…
And we’re only 32ish just another two weeks into the five year plan.
Today’s the big day here. Officially the state of Ohio has restrictions only for nursing homes/retirement villages. I’m looking forward to see what the places around look like come this weekend.
In Licking County (east of Columbus) it looks like most people are already done with masks. Weekend of May 24-25, the stores that I go to most frequently, mask wearing was about half. “Masks required” signs were gone, sometimes replaced with “masks recommended for non-vaccinated.” This last weekend, only a handful still wearing masks. My wife pointed out that the checkout lane at Kroger’s no longer had a plastic partition in front of the cashier.
Most of the places up here had already shifted to masks recommended, and only one of the bars that I asked was not looking forward to the mandates going away. Good thing I’ve got plenty of options that are ready to tear down the plexiglass. Masking was at about 50%. Outdoors at the rib cookout Monday, masking was about 15%.
Mehul Patel, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues used a mathematical model to simulate a coronavirus spread within the population of North Carolina.
They found that infections, hospitalizations and deaths would continue to rise if pandemic precautions such as quarantine, school closures, social distancing and mask-wearing were lifted while vaccines were being rolled out.
According to my model, the Devil is going to steal your soul if you don’t join my doomsday cult.
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So I guess reality has been disproven by their model?
Reality didn’t use the right assumptions.
Charlie Daniels says, “Bring on that ol’ North Carolina devil, we can handle it here”
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2021/06/01/pa-lawmakers-sponsors-bill-that-would-allow-teenagers-to-get-vaccines-without-parents-consent/
OFFS.
I don’t need it and I’m older than three high school students stacked up atop one another. Why are they doing this to the youngsters?
I’ve seen that video.
I saw this when I was twelve. https://youtu.be/xh-dSR1xcys It was educational.
That guy from CNN is an expert. I’m going with his take on the situation. Nice links, Sloop!
This suggests that higher incomes may still have potential to improve people’s day-to-day well-being
No shit, Shirley?
It’s up there with the study purporting to show that too many cereal brands (or whatever) causes anxiety to shoppers, and therefore we really ought to rethink this wealthy capitalist system.
“Freedom means more than 50 kinds of breakfast cereal”
Ex employee Amy Black
A song from the best vampire movie ever made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMu-VbXOJBY
A better song from the best vampire movie ever made. Because 80s Sax Guy.
Any my brother an I have been arguing about the best soundtrack of all time. We’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a toss up between this movie and Vision Quest.
I still laugh out loud at the sax-playing clip in that movie. It’s the hip-thrusting that makes it work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuwcINDHnQ
Ha!. That is hilarious.
No sax before a fight
“Heavy Metal” throws it’s hat into the ring…
I love that whole soundtrack.
Also, 80s sax guy is still dining out on that schtick.
the best soundtrack of all time.
Repo Man was not a vampire movie.
How long ’til Uncle Joe bans wells?
I’ve said for a long time that one day the state will put a meter on wells, people are getting away with free government water. They are already licensed and registered in MN.
A presentation circulated among top executives this year, seen by the Financial Times, says only 37 per cent of Nestlé’s food and beverages by revenues, excluding products such as pet food and specialised medical nutrition, achieve a rating above 3.5 under Australia’s health star rating system.
https://www.ft.com/content/4c98d410-38b1-4be8-95b2-d029e054f492
I assume the star rating is nonsense and the percentage is worse
You mean milk chocolate bars and instant coffee aren’t health foods?
Hey, but they are low fat and gluten free.
A lot of metrics like that are complete bullshit that are obviously designed to get a specific result. The Tyranny of Metrics was a good book on the subject and definitely worth reading.
N- E- S- T- L- E- S-
Nestles makes the very best!
Nest- les!
DEMOCRACY! means everybody has to do what I want
President Biden zinged Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin during a speech Tuesday — insinuating that they align themselves more with Republicans than their own party — while calling for Congress to take action on legislation to protect voting rights.
While he didn’t name them, Biden indirectly referred to Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sinema, D-Ariz., as “two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
“I hear all the folks on [TV] saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’” he said at an event in Tulsa, Okla. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”
Seditious insurrectionism is a plague upon the land.
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50% is a mandate, don’t ya know…
mandate
How dare you use such gendered language. (And I’d prefer a woman date.)
Why let a slim majority stop you from transforming the country? It’s time for more EOs that can’t be repealed by other EOs.
Just push harder Joe and maybe they’ll show their true colors and defect.
Joe is going to end up with a cabinet full of Manchin family members by the time this is over.
And those ingrates balk at kicking back a 10% fee for the Big Guy.
You know, Joe, you could try pushing legislation that both Ds and Rs support.
Not that bipartisan bills have a good reputation either.
Bipartisan doesn’t mean it gets votes from across the aisle. It means that they cook some polls saying everyone wants it.
Sure, but I meant real bipartisan stuff, like the declaration of war against Japan.
Vote was 82-0 in the Senate and 388-1 in the House.
The 1 was Jeanette Rankin R-MT. “As a woman, I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.”
After the vote, reporters followed her into the Republican cloakroom, where she refused to make any comments and took refuge in a telephone booth until United States Capitol Police cleared the cloakroom.
Was that an insurrection?
Or they trade horses. “I’ll vote for your crappy bill if you vote for my crappy bill”
THAT was eye-opening as a wide-eyed, innocent 16 year House page.
Bipartisan is government speak for a compromise on 2 bad ideas.
Stolen!
Stop, Thief!
I always liked: “we have a stupid party and an evil party, sometimes they come together for something stupid and evil, and that’s called bipartisanship”
Don’t know who said that first.
Lost in all this is the concept that members of a representative government are elected first and foremost to represent their constituents, not vote with their party.
Oh, sorry, I guess I’m in the wrong timeline again.
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White-supreme terrorist confirmed.
“I hear all the folks on [TV] saying…”
I think I’ve identified one of the problems.
insinuating that they align themselves more with Republicans than their own party
They are supposed to align themselves with their respective states that they ostensibly represent.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
That Danish journalist? Probably would but I’d need a lot of beer and an exit plan if things went awry. I’m Dick Slashballs!
I’d need a lot of beer – beer is expensive in Denmark
Morning glibs!
I know some of you can’t get past listening to music made by people with bad politics, so you can ignore this. Moby released a “Reprise” album on Friday with a reimagining of some of his greatest hits. Some a good and some I don’t like as much as the original, but here’s one that really hits the mark.
https://youtu.be/72oDquo0tuc
The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a drilling program approved by the Trump administration and reviving a political fight over a remote region that is home to polar bears and other wildlife — and a rich reserve of oil.
1) Reduce/Eliminate American energy production.
2) Support the Russian Nordstream project.
3) ???
4) Profit.
Gas hit 3.23 at my local Walmart (the cheapest place around). I guess Joe wants it to get to 4.50.
3) Pass laws requiring green energy to combat a contrived oil crisis, run a skim off the funding.
4) Profit (like a motherfucker)
Hunter now has a resume as an accomplished executive in the energy industry.
He’ll be set up to really rake in the money now.
“You want to get a drilling permit? We have a suggestion for an addition to your Board of Directors.”
Sigh. I remember the good old days and how easy it was to get a drilling permit during the Clinton administration.
A box of cigars and a chubby lobbyist was all you needed.
It’s all part of their plan to reduce immigration pressure on our southern border. Crash the economy, remove the incentive to move to a prosperous country.
I took a large position (for me anyway) in Valero in January. Several investing friends asked why and said I was nuts. Well, I bought at $59 and it closed at $82.18 yesterday. Made my year already and Joe’s still busy causing the type of “supply crunch” that tends to put upwards pressure on prices.
That’s another good tune, Sloop!
Politics
Last month, Republican lawmakers decried critical race theory, an academic approach that examines how race and racism function in American institutions.
“Folks, we’re in a cultural warfare today,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said at a news conference alongside six other members of the all-Republican House Freedom Caucus. “Critical race theory asserts that people with white skin are inherently racist, not because of their actions, words or what they actually believe in their heart — but by virtue of the color of their skin.”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., added: “Democrats want to teach our children to hate each other.”
Republicans, who are fighting the teaching of critical race theory in schools, contend it divides Americans. Democrats and their allies maintain that progress is unlikely without examining the root causes of disparity in the country. The issue is shaping up to be a major cultural battle ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Academics, particularly legal scholars, have studied critical race theory for decades. But its main entry into the partisan fray came in 2020, when former President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal contractors from conducting certain racial sensitivity trainings. It was challenged in court, and President Biden rescinded the order the day he took office.
Good old Trump. Where would we be without him? What would we talk about?
“an academic approach that examines how race and racism function in American institutions”
Bullshit. CRT is a postmodern framework for accomplishing the ends of equity thru means that violate the rights of individuals.
If CRT is a major element of the election, the results will be telling.
I have no faith that the majority of the population is not still easily cowed by being called a racist because they have white skin.
I believe there is a term for casting judgement on people based on their skin pigment.
Progressivism.
And yet, race relations made incredible progress in the latter half of the 20th century without CRT. Weird, huh?
It’s almost like there might be some other factors involved besides racism. Hmm, I wonder if some black guy from Harlem spent a large portion of his career studying this exact question and writing books about it….
Found on Reddit. Don’t @ me.
What does that even mean?
“Don’t @ me”?
Means, don’t argue with me. It’s just a joke because people gonna people.
Oh. Okay.
Beyond full ROM: 3 Lessons about stretch-mediated hypertrophy
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For us rubes who never took latin, is that fancy talk for some gal (femoris) winning an award(hypertrophy) at the AVN for best anal scene(rectus)?
Thanks, Edit Fairy!
Maybe some day I’ll get a new keyboard.
I’m always amazed that the environmentalists keep trying to shut down oil rigs completely. (or pipelines).
They seem to really think that if they whine hard enough, that oil will just sit in the ground forever. That people will go back to riding horses rather than pull that oil out.
When the price of that oil gets high enough, the Establishment is going to give the oil companies permission to go in there and get it. That permission will also allow them to extract it however they feel like.
If enviros were half as clever as they think they are, they’d be saying “we’ll go along with any plans to extract oil from ANWAR as long as these safeguards are taken to minimize the impact”.
It’s not so much about protecting the environment as it is imposing their will on people and organizations they don’t like and allocating redirected money to those they do.
I think it is a lot like the unions. The leadership and the membership have wildly different ideas of what is good for them.
I think a lot of the people who join the Sierra Club and throw them some dues really do want to protect the environment. The leadership of the Sierra Club? Stinky described them pretty accurately. Those fuckers haven’t been out in the Great Outdoors since the time they passed out on the National Mall on the way back from an expense account funded bender with a bunch of Senators and Congressmen.
Ah, so kind of like the NRA.
In the last decade the oil extraction in western NoDak has fucked up hunting for me. The increased activity has caused the sharptail grouse and mule deer populations to decrease. (or maybe they all just get further back into the badlands and away from the roads).
As much as it annoys me to be personally inconvenienced by them pulling that oil out of the Bakken field, I understand that the rest of the world really doesn’t care. Virtually the entire world will never visit that area and won’t even realize that extracting that oil disrupted that region to a degree.
A lot of the locals (who were affected even more than me) actually welcomed the disruptions because it brought a lot of economic growth to the area. And western NoDak is insanely populated compared to ANWAR.
Finally, the activity comes from the initial installation of the infrastructure. Once the rigs and pipelines are in, the activity drops by a lot. The last few years we have been hunting there, the wildlife seems to be coming back.
Nature/vacuum, how does it work?
Man, she really got into her work.
That’s one way to get the deep thrust of a story.
I’m not eating that Danish.
What if I put a schmear on it?
/throws flag.
What? Are you saying that my comment was meaningless pap and not worthy?
I heard she was deep undercover.
Nearly half of the speakers at the Republican news conference in May invoked Martin Luther King Jr., expressing their desire to be judged “by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”
But Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a sociology professor at Duke University, said King’s dream was about the future. “He didn’t say, ‘We are now in a colorblind society,’ ” he said.
Bonilla-Silva, whose book Racism Without Racists critiques the notion that America is now “colorblind,” says he too shares King’s dream, “but in order for us to get to the promised land of colorblindness, we have to go through race. It’s the opposite of what these folks are arguing.”
He says the idea that American society is post-racial is nonsense.
“We are not, because we watched the video of George Floyd, and we are not because we have the data on income inequality, on wealth inequality, on housing inequality,” he said.
And your ongoing obsession with the color of your skin guarantees we will never get to that future.
CRT explicitly rejects any possibility of colorblindness, even as an ideal.
Yep, colorblindness is just white people trying to deny the worth of nonwhites and is racist on its face.
If we get there he won’t be able to sell books.
If a black man is every killed by cops, it means that we aren’t in a post racial society.
King’s dream was about the future. “He didn’t say, ‘We are now in a colorblind society,’
Dems/Leftists are seeing to that.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, a sociology professor at Duke University
Why should I give half a shit what you think?
It’s all part of their plan to reduce immigration pressure on our southern border. Crash the economy, remove the incentive to move to a prosperous country.</em
"They hate us for our freedoms. We should destroy freedom so they'll stop hating us!"
Bipartisanship at its DC best!
For some reason the danish reporter made me think of Jane Krakowski with a thyroid disorder.
Ex-BLM leader says he quit after learning the ‘ugly truth’ about the organization and claims they have ‘little concern for rebuilding black families’
According to the “about” section of their website they are explicitly against black families.
Yeah. Don’t know how you could have missed that one.
I thought I read they removed that explicit language last year.
You are correct
https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-lives-matter-disrupt-nuclear-family-website
Good catch, they’re anti nuclear family. Gotta replace that shit with the state and they make no bones about it.
I thought you replaced the nuclear family with the solar (or wind) family.
What about the wind family? Are we back to discussing OMWC’s flatulency problems?
He’s had enough of the left-wing grift (or they’ve had enough of him), so now he’ll start talking family values and border security and economic populism and grift the right for awhile.
(I have no idea whether that’s true, but it’d be funny.)
Doesn’t mean they don’t continue to want to “disrupt” families, but they apparently don’t explicitly claim it anymore.
Barf, I hate “all hands meetings”
This one is particularly stiff
Are they jerking you around?
“World’s largest meat supplier JBS shuts ALL of its US beef plants after Russian cyber attack: Government asks other producers to pick up slack to avoid meat shortages and 30% price hikes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9640689/Some-shifts-canceled-U-S-Canada-meat-plants-JBS-cyberattack.html
Yikes!
I’m getting so conspiratorial minded. I find these “Russian Hacks!” To explain “shortages” and “price hikes” all to convenient.
It’s bullshit…or it isn’t…all I know is that I don’t trust the intelligence agencies or law enforcement when they tell me the sky is blue much less this.
Another ransomware attack? Or was this those radical Russian vegans?
Maybe reduce the regulatory system that pushes local meat packers out of the supply chain – then the system would be more decentralized and less vulnerable to “hacking”.
But, nahhhh…
Russian cyber attack
State or private?
find these “Russian Hacks!” To explain “shortages” and “price hikes” all to convenient.
The “muh-Russia” narrative must persist, comrade.
Weird youtube recommend of the day. This was surprising because after watching it I clicked the about and found out it is a Romanian channel. Most Romanian youtube channels rarely go in the hundreds of thousands of views for multiple videos territory, let alone 5 mil for one video. I watched a couple more out of curiosity and it seems a trademark is drinking whisky and smoking during a haircut, though I would expect hair would get in the whisky
ASMR – How to Get THOMAS SHELBY HairStyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflgK2eK18g
After clicking a link the other day, I keep getting European pole vaulters popping up on my phone.
You could your cookies but why would you want to do that?
“China’s ‘artificial sun’ nuclear fusion reactor sets a new world record after running at 216MILLION°F for 100 seconds – as the nation inches closer to its goal of ‘limitless clean power'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9643419/Chinas-artificial-sun-sets-new-world-record-running-216MILLION-F-100-seconds.html
So ten years away?
I don’t trust China. Or any of their claims.
“Friend! Benefactor!”
I’m assuming that they generated that temp from Lena Dunham’s thighs rubbing together as she ran on a treadmill?
Frankly, I’m stunned that they maintained it for 100 seconds. I don’t believe that system can be run for much longer than that though.
p.s. Anyone else worried about the same country that let the Rona escape one of their labs because of shoddy processes is now trying to build an artificial sun? I mean what could go wrong?
I had the same concern.
Ditto…
Yeah, that duration is incredible.
Not really, since the process is not self-sustaining. You could kill everyone in the room or who didn’t have enough neutron shielding, but that’s about it.
If it really is a superconducting Tokamak and they can keep it running for a week without spontaneous quenching, that would be a breakthrough.
You talk like a fig and your shat’s all fucked up.
Don’t bother me with facts! I wanna get my racism on and worry about those wily Chinese.
How does a fig talk?
God hates figs.
Bravo!
Festus:
It’s even Biblical!
Also, a Steven Crowder shirt.
Today in everything is racist:
“‘No physician is racist, so how can there be structural racism in health care?’: Editor of prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association is hounded out after outcry over tweet promoting podcast on racism”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9641607/Editor-prestigious-medical-journal-forced-resign-tweet-claiming-No-physician-racist.html
JAMA is a rag anyway. After they went full political on HCQ, they should have been shut down.
Now do reparations.
“Google’s head of diversity is slammed for saying ‘Jews have insatiable appetite for war and killing’ in 2007 blog post which argued they should have more ‘compassion’ because of the Holocaust
Google’s head of diversity has been slammed for writing that Jews have an ‘insatiable appetite for war and killing’ and arguing they should have more ‘compassion’ because of the Holocaust.
Kamau Bobb, who is also an ‘Equity in Computing’ don at Georgia Tech, wrote a 2007 blog post, which remains on his website, titled: ‘If I Were A Jew.’
Bobb writes: ‘If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering of others.’
He evokes the memory of Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom against Jews in 1938, and Holocaust victim Anne Frank to question why Israel lacks ‘compassion’ towards Muslims in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank.
‘My greatest torment would be that I’ve misinterpreted the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human compassion with self righteous impunity,’ the academic wrote.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9643469/Googles-head-diversity-slammed-saying-Jews-insatiable-appetite-war-killing.html
CWAA
‘My greatest torment would be that I’ve misinterpreted the identity offered by my history and transposed spiritual and human compassion with self righteous impunity,’ the academic wrote.”
Who else might lack compassion as a result of misinterpreted identities resulting in an attitude of self-righteous impunity?
(Not saying it’s a credible argument either way, but I doubt he’d apply his thinking more generally.)
“Kamua”. Yep.
“Diversity Corp Goon” is just a way for people to get their legit Racist on. I think some white supremacists would be ashamed to say this shit.
But when your collectivist, is it hard to resist the racial temptations?
And one more thought. If you are going to talk about someone’s “obsession” with violence, but admit it is in self defense, then maybe you should focus if the people who are provoking the defense?
In addition to being anti-Semitic, the whole viewpoint is stupid and contradicted by the fact that a significant portion of the American Jewish population oppose the current actions of the Israeli government.
He treats them as a monolithic block, kind of like an actual racist would do.
Good morning, Sloopy!
What a fantastic song!
Here’s some rare live footage.
I was always sad to not get to see them back in the day. I thought musicians took drugs to obviate stage fright!
Ass Wednesday will do your taxes for only $9.99!
https://archive.li/VbgON
Regarding the tennis chick, I can’t drag on her overmuch. I also have suffered SAD in the past and present. Just let her play the game. Shit, I haven’t done Xmas for a decade and this is with people that are actually fond of me.
So I’m not alone, Festus, you have others that think you are groovy?
I think you’re groovy.
.
I prefer athletes that just play the game.
“I & other AAPIs are increasingly concerned that speculation over the lab leak theory will increase anti-Asian hate.
As we embark on a full scientific investigation, we must take actions to prevent the next escalation of anti-Asian racism.”
https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1399823180991242241
WTF does that even mean? We should facts that might make the Chinese look bad? Not that eating diseased bats was a good look in the first place.
“Words matter.
If people are speculating about negative actions of the Chinese government, they should say that rather than use blanket terminology to criticize “China” or “the Chinese.”
Questioning government authorities should not be equated with hatred of Chinese people. /6”
https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1399824084645646337
Yeah, OK, but “fuck the Jews” is just criticizing the Israeli government?
Yeah, they can get back to me when American citizens abroad don’t have to worry about being attacked in retaliation for the US Government’s actions.
Since America is a democracy, it’s their fault for not voting harder.
It means that they are back-peddling furiously away from the received notion that someone ate a pangolin. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. TMITE.
I know people that deny biological race exists because they don’t like that some people are racists.
It neatly elides the fact that almost all of the attacks on Asians in this country are committed by people who are unlikely to be influenced by the news.
speculation over the lab leak theory will increase anti-Asian hate
Not Asians, just the CCP. Besides, Asians hate each other enough anyway.
“other AAPIs”
I hate this shit. Tongans and Mongolians have very little in common.
Age of Invention: Did the Ottomans Ban Print?
https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-did-the-ottomans
“I don’t have a boyfriend, that definitely made it a lot easier”
ok…
“My mother just thinks it’s funny and laughs, my father thought it was really cool.”
wut
Mom and dad are swingers?
STAY OFF MY PR0NHUB CHANNEL !
“My mother just thinks it’s funny and laughs, my father thought it was really cool.”
wut
Sunny Lane’s parents managed her porn career.
“The bees are free, you can just take them home”
https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1399885193800867845
I kept waiting for them to sting her to death, but it never happened… Lame.
Several lies will not die.
Biden took the opportunity to compare this heinous attack to… the Capitol Riot on January 6 and Republican election integrity efforts. The president tried to connect the Tulsa massacre to the Charlottesville riot in 2017 and then the Capitol riot.
“We must address what remains the stain on the soul of America,” Biden declared. “What happened in Greenwood was an act of hate and domestic terrorism, with a through-line that exists today.”
“Just close your eyes and remember what you saw in Charlottesville four years ago on television. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists lighted torches, the veins bulging as they were screaming. Just picture what it was,” he began.
Then Biden quoted Viola Fletcher, known as “Mother Fletcher,” one of the last survivors of the Tulsa massacre who recently turned 107.
“Well, Mother Fletcher said, when she saw the insurrection at the Capitol on January 9 [sic], it broke her heart,” Biden said, mis-stating the date of the riot. “A mob of violent white extremists, thugs. She said it reminded her of what happened here in Greenwood 100 years ago.”
Still conflating the Charlottesville groups and I guess a few rowdy, not observably racist people taking an impromptu tour of the capital is the same as actual racial violence.
“Look around at hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Jewish Americans. Hate never goes away. Hate only hides,” Biden said. After the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, the president said, “I thought we had made enormous progress.”
And who is primarily responsible for this?
“But you know what? I did not realize hate is never defeated; it only hides. It hides. And given a little bit of oxygen… it comes out from under the rock as if it never went away. So, folks, we can’t, we must not give hate a safe harbor,” he insisted.
Thought-crime, here we come!
“As I said in my address to the joint session of Congress, according to the Intelligence Community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaeda, white supremacists. That is not me. That is the intelligence community,” he insisted. “My administration will soon lay out our broader strategy to counter domestic terrorism and the violence driven by the most heinous hate crimes and other forms of bigotry.”
“Anyone that disagrees with me and/or is skeptical of government is a white-supreme terrorist.”
I really despise him and his handlers for being such dishonest and malicious cuntes.
““Look around at hate crimes against Asian-Americans and Jewish Americans. Hate never goes away. Hate only hides,”
But he’ll justify taking all rights away so that we can end hate.
”
white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaeda, white supremacists”
I would expect someone who helped fund Al-Qaeda and ISIS to downplay them.
I was told climate change is the biggest threat evah!
Yes, because the “intelligence community” boasts an unblemished record of nonpartisan truthfulness and factual accuracy.
The intelligence community largely consists of people who are very good at lying in order to achieve their goals. There’s no reason to believe a word that comes from them anymore, and a lot of good reasons not to.
Remember, the problem is the public has lost trust in institutions, not the untrustworthy behavior of institutions.
They are propogandists. I imagine that there used to be a CIA vs Military struggle, but the military has been thoroughly taken over by the types who lean the same way as the CIA.
Both sides have always meddled in politics mind you, just not always on the same side.
heh….reminds me of the end of Clear and Present Danger:
Felix: “Whatever this man has told you is lies. He lies for a living.”
Ernesto: “He is in the intelligence business”
Felix: “Exactly”
Ernesto: “YOU’RE IN THE INTELLIGENCE BUSINESS!”
I’ll look forward to the official list of ideas that oxygenate hate and must be suppressed.
Obviously production of CO2 (which has more oxygen) will bring the hate out more then CO. That’s why we need to halt production of CO2!
CO2 molecules identify as successful white males?
The irony is the double whammy of ignorance here. Ignorance that this is exactly why you can’t fight hatred with censorship and ignorance that many of the prejudices of the Progressive Era are being dusted off, tweaked for modern ears, and sold under the woke banner.
WMD in Iraq, regime change in Iran, killing Qadaffi and fucking up North Africa, Gulf of Tonkin, and pages and pages more all brought to you by the intelligence community. Fuck those lying blood drenched sacks of shit. Taking what they posit and thinking the opposite is a good rule of thumb.
I’m surprised there are any actual survivors. I wonder how many there are.
Three, apparently.
It’s a Panderdemic.
good use of meme
https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1399871194396987398
“Here’s an email that shows Fauci knew, worried, then lied about what he publicly called a baseless conspiracy theory. But do go on about how he’s a truthful beacon of light.”
https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/1400078109735489545
“The Fauci emails just show that Fauci consistently took the path of least resistance: downplaying the Wuhan lab leak theory, flip-flopping on masking, militantly fighting Rand Paul over post-covid immunity even though he knew better (Paul was right).
Fauci wasn’t following science as a primary goal. He was a bureaucratic institutionalist, which is precisely what you would expect from a career bureaucrat. Which is why it was insane for the media to saint him as a groundbreaking truthteller just to spite Trump.”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1400075444322455554
militantly fighting Rand Paul
Saw a lot of Fauxchi #DESTROYED Paul. I would like to point out that stating “I disagree with you” is not an argument.
“So far, the Fauci FOIA emails show:
-He had some urgent, time sensitive discussions about gain of function.
-Told colleagues retail masks don’t work due to size of virus.
-Ignored scientist who told him China was lying about virus and data.
-Was well aware of possible lab leak.”
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1399925035943485448
Never forget that the mask flip flop was a triple flop. He didn’t have any issue with the CDC guidance for an influenza pandemic that included face masks from 2007-2020 or attempt to change it (since he’s the leading infectious disease specialist in the world, or in history) during that time.
This is a durian:
“Thousands of emails from and to Dr. Fauci reveal the weight that came with his role as a rare source of frank honesty within the Trump administration’s Covid-19 task force”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1400055865181356052
…genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory is a bit of a “wow” for me.
At this point I have so little confidence in those people, and that man in particular, that I could easily conclude that he had no freaking clue what he was talking about at any given point during all of this, and that he was wrong, mistaken, or dishonest about it all, or most, or nothing at all. It’s a complete mess.
does this count as cosplay? NSFW
https://twitter.com/LlamasArePink/status/1399629286655467525
It’s not cosplay if you can’t bring yourself to masturbate to it.
I think that’s called tactiporn.
Regarding the drought, I went up the central valley in 2019, and it was already dead, uprooted piles of almond trees, and a wasteland of dust, I took a bunch of pics, maybe Ill post them
Parts of it, especially along I-5, yeah. There were dessicated orchards and signs ascribing blame to various politicians due to water rights disputes going back well before 2016, if I recall correctly. Market to the captive eyeballs, I expect — not that it did much good that I can tell.
There are still orchards, fields, irrigation, etc. going on — pretty sure I’m not in the middle of a wasteland at the moment, anyway.
“In some ways, this was the first big stress test,” CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen said. “We have restrictions lifted en masse, people going about their normal lives. We know that in the past after major holidays and an increase in travel that we then had a substantial uptick in the rate of infections.”
“Uptick in cases”? I don’t remember seeing that on Tom Woods’ charts, and I think he uses NY Times data.
Rashad Turner, who founded the local BLM chapter in St. Paul in 2015, released a video last week titled ‘The Truth Revealed about BLM’.
In the video, the 35-year-old said he eventually came to the realization that BLM had ‘little concern for rebuilding black families’.
Speaking about becoming the founder of the local BLM chapter, Turner said: ‘I believed the organization stood for exactly what the name implies – black lives do matter.
‘However, after a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding black families and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis.’
Countdown until he is cancelled?
Sen. Robert Martwick, D-Chicago, said his amendment to House Bill 2908, one of the bills circulating in the General Assembly to create an elected school board for Chicago Public Schools, “ensures the city will have democracy over its schools, but it’s just the first step.
How about abolishing the public schools?
It’s one of the formalities that’s needed before cruising starts again, and involves the CDC’s acceptance of an agreement for Carnival to use Port Canaveral’s facilities.
The cruise line must complete a test cruise before it can carry paying passengers.
Let me guess: The test cruise will be full of CDC folks travelling at Carnival’s expense?
I’ve decided I need to get out of town. I’m going to Maine this weekend. (Biddeford, because it’s cheaper than Kinnebunkport). Any recommendations from NE Glibs?
Since you are a hiking man now, I would give AllTrails a look. It’s been helpful for me in new areas.
I don’t go to Maine all that much, so… beyond stopping in at Kittery Trading Post I have no recommendations.
I don’t know the current status of face diaper mandates/ordinances/orders/whatever in Maine.
They went to ‘CDC recommendations’.
Funny you should say that. I’m currently working on a book by a client who is 72 who hiked the Appalachian Trail (section hiking over 8 years, not thru-hiking). He mentioned that trading post. I just proofed that section yesterday.
Sorry, we usually do midcoast and further north.
It’s okay. I just don’t want to drive more than six hours each way.
Understandable. I’ve spent a little time in Portland but it’s been a while (and would mostly be restaurant recommendations, like Fore Street and Eventide).
Alright, I’m out. Gonna eat some rib-sticking food and hit the hay. Good day Glibs!
G’day
Bye Festus!
“Q: How many January 6 protesters have been charged with treason, sedition, insurrection or domestic terrorism?
A: The same number of Americans as were charged with criminally conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election:
ZERO.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1400098533735383045
And right on cue, the Greenwald Hate Club swamps the reply section.
Heretics really get their dander up.
The dumbest ones are the ones calling him a Trump fan. Do these people have any idea how ridiculous they sound?
‘However, after a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding black families and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis.’
Honestly, I do have a good degree of sympathy for this guy. I mean, if I were a black guy, I’d probably be more than a little annoyed. An outsized number of black people do run into aggression from the police. Now, as others here have pointed out to me, whether that’s due to racism or due to more black people are poor and therefore likely to have problems with the police would be, from their perspective, a distinction without a whole lot of difference. Add onto that the fact that if you’re black and poor, there’s a better than average chance your schools suck and give you a third rate education. Yeah, it’s entirely understandable you’d want to see some pretty damned serious reform.
And the “reform” group that comes along? It’s pretty much a commie front that doesn’t give a brass farthing about making your life better. Their “solution” to the problem is idiotic crap like getting rid of police (as if black people don’t have anything to worry about crime) and creating some sort of “equilibrium of privilege” between mostly rich black people and rich white people.
And also moronic Leftist policies that chase away entrepreneurship, discourage employment, and dissolve the family unit – e.g. everything that’s been fucking up the black community for decades.
How many January 6 protesters have been charged with treason, sedition, insurrection or domestic terrorism?
…and creatin’ a nuisance…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
Don’t forget heresy and blasphemy in the People’s Temple. Burn the infidels.
“I’m not a cruise ship person, but they are being hamstrung while every other mode of transportation are opened back up on their own terms.”
To be fair, a cruise isn’t just “a mode of transportation.” A cruise ship is the destination, with quick stops in cool places for a few hours at a time. You’re living there temporarily.
That doesn’t excuse and hamstringing, but a cruise isn’t a plane or a train.
It’s a floating, moving hotel. Are hotels open?
However, it’s a fair question to ask if cruise ships are any more or less likely to cause problems.