Crushed the Commodores
Looks like the luck is running out for the Canadiens. Good. They only got in the playoffs because of the “all-Canada” division crap. I look for Tampa to win that series in 5. Phoenix is moving on to the NBA Finals for the first time in almost a generation. They’ll be facing Atlanta as soon as the Hawks win theirs against a depleted Milwaukee squad. Vandy got their shit pushed in by Miss State in the CWS final. Trevor Bauer is a bigger choker than I thought. Literally. Wimbledon continues today with not really any matches I’m excited about. And We’ve all got to wait until tomorrow for Euro 2021 to kick back into high gear. If the quarterfinals are half as exciting as the Round of 16, we’re in for a treat. And that’s sports.
On a mission from God
Calculus dude Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born on this day. He shares it with the French military leader that helped the US become a country Comte de Rochambeau, founder of a university with a stupid football team Thomas Green Clemson, baseball HOFers Roger Connor, John Clarkson, and Ben Taylor, actor Charles Laughton, makeup entrepreneur Estee Lauder, lovely actress Olivia de Havilland, bluesman Willie Dixon, actor Jamie Farr, awesome singer Debbie Harry, white nationalist assclown David Duke, actor/musician Dan Aykroyd, Princess Diana, speedster Carl Lewis, “actress” Pamela Anderson, and another actress Liv Tyler.
That’s a decent list. Now on to…the links!
“Maybe you should have built better infrastructure”. At least that’s what people from that part of the country were telling Texas when a freak winter storm “killed” a few people. Me? I don’t wish ill on them. I hope they all stay hydrated and keep cool until this passes.
Let the political prosecutions begin. Weird that the IRS has had no problem with the same form of accounting. But Manhattan prosecutors gonna do what they do, which is go after their enemies. And grand juries will do what grand juries do, which is indict pretty much anybody who has a complex case brought in front of them.
Rolling out of prison like…
Justice is served! I have no idea if the guy is guilty or not, but the prosecutorial malfeasance in this case was so unbelievable, this is a just outcome. I’m not gonna say “good for him” IRT Cosby, but good for the system for correcting a horrible wrong in the way this case was handled by both prosecutor and judge.
This is the least shocking thing I will read all day. Of course she’s a complete asshole to her staff. She’s a complete asshole to everybody she can’t screw to advance her career.
FREE BRITNEY! And get her a new freaking lawyer. Jesus.
Lightfoot! Lightfoot! Lightfoot!
I expected the race card to be played, but come on! 99%?!?! Shouldn’t she have doubled down and said half because she’s black and half because she’s gay? Never play one victim card when you can play two. Jeez, it’s like she doesn’t even know how to play the victim of oppression game right.
California isn’t going crazy statewide…yet. Well, they are, but not in this one specific instance. But wait around a few days, because it’ll probably change.
Punch that thing in the face for Steve Irwin. ::pours oil can of Fosters on curb::
I’m breaking one of my unwritten rules with this song. And it’s worth it. What a set of pipes.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
“He shares it with the French military leader that helped the US become a country Comte de Rochambeau”
He kicked King George in the nuts?
No, that was George Washington.
Oh sure, everyone forgets his less successful brother Roger Washington
I thought he was a cartoonist who did a strip about a mischievous boy and his walking hammer who built a wall…
…no, that was Roger Watterson
Phoenix is moving on to the NBA Finals for the first time in almost a generation. They’ll be facing Atlanta as soon as the Hawks win theirs against a depleted Milwaukee squad.
1. Suck it clippers
2. I would not rule out Bucks yet, we see who outinjures whom
3. Hawks Suns finals would be weird af
I find it slightly odd that our Ukranian member seemingly knows and follows the NBA much more than almost any other commenter. The NBA seems almost dead in my world at least.
Ukranian? Are you saying coconuts ^W vampires migrate?
Sorry to our Romanian, I hadn’t had coffee yet.
Looks like the luck is running out for the Canadiens. Good. They only got in the playoffs because of the “all-Canada” division crap. – but did they not win in the playoffs?
Yes. And their first two rounds were against subpar teams from the Great White North while American teams were playing better opposition and getting banged up.
Well serves American team right for probably stealing Canadian hockey players or something. Also I assume some US teams have an unfair tax advantage over Canadia
It’s pretty much because Canada is still a prison state while the US fans can attend games at full capacity.
But they feel safe which is what matters in the end
Indeed, it is critically important for hockey players to feel safe at all times.
It’s why they have those big plexiglass sneeze shields around the rink — to protect them from the gross spectators.
Vandy got their shit pushed in by Miss State in the CWS final. – this has to be homophobic or something
It was 9-0 and they only got one hit. That statement stands.
Leibniz and Newton both invented differential calculus at the same time, something I always though was spooky. That that they did it in different languages and from different conceptual starting points make it even more amazing to me. Leibniz ultimately made the more useful calculus and his notations survived instead of Newton’s. I wonder, is the era we are in now still part of the enlightenment? What comes after the enlightenment?
Newton was psychic and stole Leibniz’s thoughts
That’s cause Aliens never screw around and chose to have a backup in case something went bad, yo!
The endumbening and we’re living through it.
You talk like you are gay and your shit is all retarded, yo!
Have to push Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. It may be 90% fiction, but it’s an extremely entertaining way to cover the whole timeline.
Thanks, I should check it out. I really need to read more fiction anyway.
It’s super long and Stephenson couldn’t write a denouement to save his own life. Lots of cool ideas and side-tracks, though.
What comes after the enlightenment?
The Era of Corruption. It’s the time where everything good from the Enlightenment is tossed out or perverted to sate people’s greed.
The Dolezal Era
Justice is served! I have no idea if the guy is guilty or not, but the prosecutorial malfeasance in this case was so unbelievable, this is a just outcome. I’m not gonna say “good for him” IRT Cosby, but good for the system for correcting a horrible wrong in the way this case was handled by both prosecutor and judge.
I don’t know much about the case although guy did seem guilty but there is this meme
https://twitter.com/LibertarianRed1/status/1410364378822627328
He seemed guilty of other crimes that were inexplicably tried by this prosecutor rather than having evidence of this specific crime being exclusively presented as evidence. And that’s a big no-no. The prosecutor knew it. The judge knew it. And that’s why Cosby is chilling at home with a jell-o pudding pop as we speak.
Based on what I read some say even this release was not according to the law… But again I don’t know enough.
The PA Supreme Court begs to differ.
The Democrat controlled PA Supreme Court.
The one that decided to ignore the pennssylvania constitution that said the legislature had the power to draw districts and ordered them to use a map they’d drawn up instead (actually drawn by some democrat party organ, but same thing)
That’s the one.
Well the argument was that the PA Supreme Court made an illegal decisions, which supreme courts are wont to do
He admitted to committing a crime. This is really just another failure of government to properly prosecute someone who is actually guilty.
But not that one. The SOL had slid by on the others. Government fucks up, BS walks.
We just got a new policy at work. They are going to have a mandatory survey and make people who don’t lie about the vaccine still wear masks. Not sure what I’m planning on doing. Probably just wear the fucking thing until they move to another form of torture and/or the next crisis. Don’t want a shot and I ain’t all that excited to lie. Not that they don’t deserve it.
Oh, and fuck the whole conservator scheme. It’s used mostly for evil and theft. If someone wants to blow all their cash, you shouldn’t just let their parents steal it all instead.
Identify as a US govt official and lie your ass off.
Religious objection.
I’m not kidding – that’s probably the way I will go if pressed.
My religion doesn’t believe in masks or being experimented on.
I went up to NoVA for a multiday meeting. They had signs that said masks required for the non-vaccinated. Nobody checked vaccination status, so no lying required.
If they push that shit at my workplace I am definitely quitting.
Yes.
They have a decline to state option, but I’m pretty sure it gets you treated the same as admitting you are not vaxxed.
I’m facing the same dilemma, blackjack, although my parent company is mandating the vaccine. My immediate employer is not yet mandating it, yet (a) they’ve sent multiple e-mails asking if we’ve got it, stating only a few HR folks will read the response (yeah right) and (b) as with you, non vaxxed people need to wear masks upon returning to the office.
they’ve sent multiple e-mails asking if we’ve got it, stating only a few HR folks will read the response (yeah right)
That email would very quickly be incorporated into my auto-delete rule.
Want me to disclose my vaccination status? Fine, I’ll have that conversation on a recorded line with my direct manager present. By the way, you’ll have to fire me before I disclose my vaccination status. MYOFB, assholes!
This might be coming soon at work. Mask mandates end for vaccinated employees on the 4th. So far they have not asked anyone their status (employees or customers). If they ask me a question they have no business knowing, I feel no obligation to tell them the truth. I considered going the religious exemption route, but they could still probably force you to wear a mask.
The problem is that you guys are awash in too much freedom. Unlike those CHI-NEE!!
(Okay, just kidding. That’s the last time I drop that joke here.)
…But it seemed a propos and I’m going to be moving for the next week or more, so that’s my drive-by snark.
Be well, Glibs. Hang in there. Enjoy what little liberty you have left – because that wheel isn’t turning the other direction any time soon.
Good luck, Ozy!
See you when you get back!
Thanks, Tundra!
See you around the water cooler. Hope your move is going well, also.
My employer sent out a similar memo a couple of weeks ago – Provide proof of your vac status and you don’t have to wear a mask at the office. No proof – you wear the muzzle. Termination if you’re caught lying about your vac status. Office is still not officially open but more people are going in. Rumor has it that the office will reopen in September. I don’t plan on going back – either I work from home or I retire.
“SHouldn’t she have doubled down and said half because she’s black and half because she’s gay?”
Wait, she’s gay? Anyway, isn’t being undead more of a minority? I mean, not among Chicago voters, but in general?
She looks like what happens when you watch The Ring tape but are only half paying attention.
lol
::rousing applause::
el oh el
*doffs cap*
She is not only gay, but a self hating black gay Beetlejuice-like entity with a honkey girlfriend….
This thing is the best example of the entitled people’s mentality that anyone that calls them out on their bullshit is doing so because of evil motives…
[golf clap] for first sentence.
I am trying on doing the whole woke left abuse of language thing to paint the people you want to fuck with as negatively as possible, Tonio… I find no fun in it, but I am trying to understand…
Embrace the suck, bro. Thanks for doing the hard work. Making it into snark helps me deal with the unfolding horror of the current times.
Lightfoot, Lightfoot, Lightfoot
…
OH MY GOD, NOOOOO! TELL MY FAMILY I LOVE THEM!
So… does she have a cameo in the upcoming Candyman movie?
“she can’t screw to advance her career.”
One would think that at a certain level screwing people no longer helps your career. Maybe she is a hollow person and can’t help herself.
I stand corrected.
These announcements created some confusion and led many to wonder if more changes were coming to mask rules.
Also led many to wonder how a bunch of demonstrably incompetent morons managed to acquire so much power.
Megadittoes.
I was wondering what Megiddo had to do with it.
Debbie Harry…the biggest knock-out beauty of all time. What a shame…isnt she the one who made famous the line “You cant hug your children with nuclear arms”? Talent doesnt mean brains.
Up since 3:30. These three badasses will brighten your day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhicDUgXyNg
That’s disappointing. One of the few celebs I’ve been in proximity to. She used to frequently attend one of the “alternative” dance clubs I hung out at in the late 90s. Treated like royalty, of course.
I will give her this. Her BF came down with Sarconoma and she put her career on hold to stick with him until the end. She is a hero in that respect.
Even absent that story, I’ve known a couple of people who’ve met her. My understanding is that she’s a genuinely nice person, and not just to the people who can do something for her.
Being a decent human being will get you a lot of credit offsetting any dumb ideas you might have in my book. Fifteen minutes after I’m dead, I doubt anyone will much care if I was the smartest person in the room or not. They will remember if I was a good guy or an absolute shite.
Penn Jillette has a lot of stories about the times they would hang out with each other in NYC. His stories all make her seem like a nice (and smart) person. Of course, Penn always says nice things about people.
Penn says nice things … unless they are Trump.
She was a hero to 10 year old PM. Many times over. IYKWIMAITYD.
A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia.
The hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, is equipped with a BMW engine and runs on regular petrol-pump fuel.
Its creator, Prof Stefan Klein, said it could fly about 1,000km (600 miles), at a height of 8,200ft (2,500m), and had clocked up 40 hours in the air so far.
It takes two minutes and 15 seconds to transform from car into aircraft.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57651843
Cool! The future is finally here.
But I’d be happy with just the air car part — less to break, fewer sensors to get cranky and lock out the flight system, etc.
OnStar has just detected you abusing language and has shut your engine down……
Cool! The future is finally here.
Next up, cold fusion powered engine?
Well I would fly six hundred miles and I would fly six hundred more.
“I can’t wait to see the piece of paper that says this is safe to fly and safe to sell.”
Sheesh.
I know you are, but what am I?
CNN and other news organizations have reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that a Manhattan grand jury indicted the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg, on Wednesday. It’s now a safe bet to expect former President Donald Trump to go on his usual rampage — an all-out verbal assault on prosecutors, judges and the court in his desperate attempt to discredit the case. Make no mistake about it, Shakespeare was right when he wrote, “What’s past is prologue.”
One must have been sleeping through the Trump presidency not to expect that a wounded Trump will do and say anything to prejudice the fair administration of justice. Now, the district attorney should ask the judge at the arraignment to impose a strict gag order restraining Trump, the Trump family, prosecutors, defense attorneys and all witnesses from making any public statements intended to prevent a fair trial, free of prejudice. A violation of a gag order is the crime of contempt of a court order with a potential one year in jail.
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From the US Supreme Court to state and federal district courts, judges have affirmed their inherent power to control their courtroom by forbidding participants from making public statements whenever they have a “reasonable likelihood of tending to prevent a fair trial, free of prejudice and properly administered.” The New York Rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys codifies restrictions on lawyers’ out of court statements by prohibiting an attorney from making any statement “ordinarily likely to prejudice materially” a criminal matter — namely, influencing jurors to affect the outcome of a trial. Without a court-ordered gag order, Trump will likely set out to demonize witnesses, cooperators, prosecutors and the judge in his effort to delegitimize the entire criminal justice system, a bedrock American institution that reflects this nation’s principle of impartial justice that is based on evidence and truth.
We don’t have to guess what Trump will do and say in his assault on justice. On the eve of the indictment being filed, he gave us a clear sign of his strategy when he released the following statement:
“Radical Left New York City and State Prosecutors, who have let murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and all other forms of crime skyrocket to record levels, and who have just announced that they will be releasing hundreds of people involved in violent crime back onto the streets without retribution of any kind, are rude, nasty, and totally biased in the way they are treating lawyers, representatives, and some of the wonderful long-term employees and people within the Trump Organization.”
It’s perfectly acceptable to have prosecutors making wild accusations about the guilt of their political targets, but any attempt to present a counter argument must be ruthlessly squelched.
Preservation of the official narrative is paramount.
Jesus. Couldn’t they just say they hate the First Amendment and be done with it?
Why stop there? They hate the whole Bill of Rights.
Speaking of hating the BOR, have you seen the new bill Markey is presenting?
He wants to eliminate the first amendment in order to infringe on the second amendment.
https://twitter.com/senmarkey/status/1409936073359245312?s=21
I’m sure hell be cool with warrantless computer searches being used to find violators as well. Because fuck the fourth amendment too.
No, I had not seen that. Lord these people are evil.
At least the responses are pretty good.
They ought to add a clause to compel citizens to testify against themselves and have different court proceedings for different racial groups. I think you get more tickets to cash in at the congressional prize counter if you get a five amendment streak.
I think they might be alright with the Third Amendment, other than that, yeah.
The truth hurts.
“…citing people familiar with the matter…”
More specifically “We pulled this straight out of our assholes”
Now, the district attorney should ask the judge at the arraignment to impose a strict gag order restraining Trump
Not a political prosecution at all…
Your kid friendly music for the morning
https://youtu.be/Uk18bFIgOS4
That’s hilarious.
Thanks for the laugh 🙂
“Bungling BBC journalist confuses Bill Cosby with Bill CLINTON as she reports on entertainer’s release from prison – forcing Huw Edwards to make an embarrassed apology to viewers”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9743273/BBC-journalist-confuses-Bill-Cosby-Bill-CLINTON-reporting-entertainers-prison-release.html
Easy mistake, really.
Because everyone thought America’s first Black president would be Bill Cosby?
That would have been a better timeline.
“A pudding pop in every icebox.”
Or any other type of box.
“Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer choked a woman unconscious during intercourse and had non-consensual anal sex with her, according to a domestic violence restraining order filed by the woman and obtained by DailyMail.com.
Bauer, 30, has denied assaulting the woman, claiming that she asked him to be rough during consensual sex.
The 27-year-old woman said had sexual encounters with Bauer in April and May, but that both episodes turned violent. She claimed that after the second encounter, Bauer left her with injuries that required hospital treatment, including a concussion.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9744869/Dodgers-pitcher-Trevor-Bauer-strangled-woman-passed-new-court-papers-claim.html
Second encounter????? !!!!!
#believeher
She only decided to do it a second time because she felt he would realize how special she was and get over his desire to smack his bitchez around….
Changed his pitch up, smacked his bitch up?
The overly-detailed refutations by Bauer’s lawyer lead me to believe that this is a woman who wanted rough sex but now thinks money is better.
“Punch that thing in the face for Steve Irwin. ::pours oil can of Fosters on curb::”
I was on that exact tour a couple of weeks ago. I caught one trout and way too many damn hard heads.
I did catch a stingray off the beach but she wasn’t very big.
Dumb question: Why wouldn’t you throw the Stingray back? I mean, what the hell are you going to do with it?
Great set of links this morning.
No surprise about Kamala. She has bitchy boss written all over her face.
Fishing in the gulf near Port Aransas was an eye opener for this fresh water dude. Everything in the ocean has big teeth, even the trout, ask me how I know. You never know what the hell you will catch from the shore, could be a fish, shark, or porpoise. The first sting ray I caught felt like a 50 lb sand bag on the line.
Leave Brittney alone!!
Heh. Speaking of Wimbledon all of the commentary about Serena and the grass is utter bullshit. I watched the match for what it was worth. Serena was a B-17 and her much more sprightly opponent was dancing around her like a FW190. She was getting embarrassed so she quit.
Appended – I will be happy if I never see Serena in a tennis skirt again. She looked like the Yamato trying to fight off swarms of dive bombers.
I only caught snatches because I flip away when players I don’t like are on the court but yeah, watching her it’s amazing that she can even hustle that bulk around the court at all.
“I only caught snatches…”
What, we arent doing euphemisms anymore? I cant keep up.
I thought the occasional flash of upskirt was why women’s tennis is more widely viewed than women’s soccer.
playing the soundtrack of a Sharapova match is better than any porn.
Or so I’ve heard.
Up-skirt and all… I won’t even try to infringe on SF’s territory.
South Park did angry cootch – https://youtu.be/vp-Hmq_54Mw
“America’s first black billionaire says taxpayers need to ‘pay out of their paychecks’ and fund $14 TRILLION in reparations for descendants of slaves if they really want to make atonement – and he wants a check, too”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9741169/Americas-black-billionaire-says-taxpayers-need-fund-14-TRILLION-reparations.html
CWAA
‘If you’re a successful black business, the idea is you’ve had enough,’ Johnson told Vice in a recent interview. But no one would ever say that to a wealthy white business owner, he said. – LOL how about the entire global left?
What could be wrong with logic that tells you that people like Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, LeBron James, and Chris Rock are all oppressed, while a demented honkey crackhead shitting on the streets of San Fran is their oppressor?…
I oppress minorities all of the time by scrubbing their shit from toilets.
[standing ovation] That is perhaps the best comeback, ever.
Find me some living former slaves and I’ll be happy to say they deserve reparations but this guy and others like him can go get fucked. If things aren’t handled in a manner that’s a win win for society instead of punitive and dubious bullshit against white people nothing meaningful is ever going to get done. Stuff like this is actually counterproductive.
I’m sure there are some draftees still around.
But that’s not slavery they want to talk about because they can’t leverage racial animosity with it.
Who said I want to make atonement?
Go sit on a sharp stick motherfucker.
What? You mean my German, Eastern European, Irish, and Scottish ancestors who all came here after 1900 weren’t responsible for chattel slavery in the US?
Never mind that most of them weren’t considered “white” when they showed up either.
I’m pretty sure that we are all descendant from slaves and slave owners seeing as it has been practiced in all cultures all throughout human history. Additionally, people alive today are not guilty of the sins of their fathers. Additionally additionally, for all we know this asshole is descendant from kente cloth wearing west-African slave traders. So he can fuck the hell off.
If reparations meant Robert Johnson’s head would end up on a pike, I’d consider it.
“America’s first black billionaire” is a laundered reputation. He made his fortune selling hedonism, ignorance, dependence, and petty criminality to black people and convincing many of them it was their true culture.
He made this deal down at the crossroads?
I think people need to recognize this unfortunate aspect of mainstream black American culture and consider what effects it might be having. Practically every behavior that is fucking up the black community is encouraged by that culture.
But that’s way too close to racism for most people, so it just gets pushed under the rug.
I’ll also never forgive him for putting Peter Popoff back on television
Unless he is prevented from commenting on the case and evidence against his company and associates and is restrained from assaulting the integrity of those who oppose him, count this nation’s commitment to a fair trial, free of prejudice as Trump’s next victim.
Hate speech is not free speech.
We should just toss him in the hoosegow and make him prove he has committed no crimes. That’s what they really want.
First, that is terribly unclear prose. Second, if I do read it right, they are blaming Trump for politicizing the trial?
The concept of reparations is retarded. That is all.
This reparations racket is the new Nigerian Prince needs you to send him money to help him get the oil money the bank is holding and will share half the lucre with you….
No serious person thinks that reparation hasn’t already been happening for decades and that doing it more/harder means an end to it. It’s a pointless discussion, reparations are eternal because slavery is our nation’s original sin.
I have told several people asking for it that if they want reparations I am amenable to fixing what I see is the biggest wrong done to minority communities: the public school system racket. A shit ton of money is spent on minority schooling while doing so in a way that guarantees these kids always remain disadvantaged. Break that chain and let parents choose where to send their kids, with the school money following the kid…
But the people telling you you should pay reparations, and especially the white women, really don’t want any of this, cause it actually helps and hurts what they do want: keeping people dependent on daddy government.
If spending money could have fixed the problem it would have been fixed one hundred times over by now.
Hundreds of deaths have been reported across the Pacific Northwest and Canada amid the unrelenting heat wave that has also swept through parts of America’s Northeast.
At least 486 sudden deaths have been reported in Canada, a 195% increase in deaths that would typically happen in a five-day period.
I’m pretty sure those are all Super Mega Delta Death variant convid deaths.
This is Alice Prin (1901-51), also known as the Queen of Montparnasse, and Kiki de Montparnasse. She was a artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist and painter.
Thread!
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1318992213225934849
nsfw
A special grand jury in Manhattan voted Wednesday to indict Trump’s firm and its chief financial officer.
I don’t see what is so special about them.
They don’t even like ham sandwiches.
Another take on Vice President Shitshow
“People are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it’s an abusive environment,” said another person with direct knowledge of how Harris’ office is run. “It’s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s—.”
The dysfunction in the VP’s ranks threatens to complicate the White House’s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president’s agenda. It’s pronounced enough that members of the president’s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris’ staffers are treated.
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Harris and Flournoy’s defenders also note that women in power—Black women in particular—are subjected to standards that men often don’t have to clear. A tough and demanding office environment may be seen as a virtue for one and a sign of disorder and lack of leadership acumen for another.
But for some of the people who know Harris best, it’s become an all-too-familiar pattern for a politician who has churned through several iterations of staff on her rise and took office with a team almost entirely new to her.
Get it together. You’re making Joe “I’m an EXCELLENT President” Biden look bad.
“We have created a culture where people, if there is anything anyone would like to raise, there are avenues for them to do so. Whoever has something they would like to raise, they should raise it directly.”
Two very different statements with different meanings. Either they have to follow the winding Avenues of reporting up or they raise the issue directly, which is it?
These are the kinds of things people say that sound nice while the truth is people are terrified of being punished for stepping out of line.
No one likes a “get it together” Gabby
Who’s pushing this narrative and why?
My guess is somebody is angling for Biden’s soon to be abdicated throne, and they need Kamala out of the way. If that’s the case, I’d expect to see a ratcheting up of negative hit pieces on her over the next 6 months, followed by a damning revalation that gets her canned.
Anonymous sourcing is anonymous, regardless of the target. Yeah, somebody is trying to get a new narrative going here.
It sounds truthy, because it’s what I/we want to believe. But the sourcing is still garbage.
Sometimes TMITE has to make things up to get something to stick. Sometimes they just have to pull the curtain back and show what happens behind the scenes. Either way, it’s done purposefully and in furtherance of somebody’s agenda.
we all know this was Astra doing the leak.
The ghost of Spiro Agnew.
Kremlinology in the USA.
How the country has fallen.
Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his 2018 sexual assault conviction, upending the first high-profile case of the #MeToo era. Cosby, 83, was convicted of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, at his home in 2004.
All he did was offer up his jello pudding pop.
A bombshell Politico report published Wednesday describes Vice President Kamala Harris’ office as “chaotic” with a “tense and at times dour” atmosphere — a place where, as one source memorably put it, “people feel treated like s–t.”
So she is Hillary 2.0, but with a way more annoying demeanor and voice.
Hillary without any charm…. And Hillary was anyone else without charm…
Do that math you racialist!
Hillary who didn’t marry her Willy
Britney Spears FAILS in her bid to remove father Jamie as sole conservator despite her explosive testimony last week because her court-appointed attorney waited MONTHS to file crucial paperwork
Leave Britney alone!
And, yeah, that lawyer really dropped the ball. It probably drives her crazy…like she just can’t speak…and I am sure it is exciting, but he was in too deep.
Her father should be horsewhipped out of town and any shrinks profiting off of her forced therapy should have their licenses revoked. Regardless of the ridiculousness of the situation this kind of thing shouldn’t happen to anyone.
See in anarchy there would be nothing to protect people like Britney from her father this is why government is essential
Well done.
Government is just the gaslighting to hostages we do together.
I’m not saying anyone should be controlled the way she apparently is, but there must be more to this story than ever gets reported. Multiple judges have apparently decided this is the best course of action. Again, not saying it’s right, just that we only get one side of the story.
I think she is batshit crazy. I am sure she is being taken advantage of, but she strikes me as someone that if left to her own devices will end up killing herself and/or her kids in a bout of depression/anger/alcoholic stupor…
Judges use the information they’re given by experts who are partially payed by the conservatory and the proceeds from it. If you’re interested enough here’s a couple of lawyers discussing it (about 20 min):
https://youtu.be/QT_66rj71vc
I was dismissive at first too but what’s happening to her really does seem to be a travesty.
That matches my first thought — if they have control of her finances, how exactly is she supposed to pay for an impartial lawyer? Anyone she hires — that paycheck is being approved by the people they’re suing in the first place.
She gets controlled – but bums can shit on the street, shoot up and go crazy and be left alone…
Welcome to my world. We even have to collectively pay for it.
Well, you wouldn’t want her to waste her money on dumb things like fancy cars, drugs, and houses.
And the bums get controlled as well, for their valuable votes.
Chicago Mayor Lightfoot says 99% of criticism she gets is because she’s a Black woman
Or because she is just awful, regardless of her skin pigment or sex. But what do I know?
That checks out, I always assume people that don’t like me just hate people with green eyes and not the fact that I’m an asshole.
And it’s not like Chicago hasn’t had a long line of awful mayors of every hue and pigment.
(Even if she probably IS worse than all of them.)
Dafydd Ap Gwilym (c.1315-50) is one of the leading Welsh poets of the Middle Ages. He wrote about love, nature, & beauty. He also wrote this amazing poem about his penis.
https://bodyliterature.com/2012/10/30/dafydd-ap-gwilym/
This is not a Whores of Yore link.
you have a good eye for links
Second, if I do read it right, they are blaming Trump for politicizing the trial?
Precisely. Any attempt by Trump to point out the utterly political nature of this “investigation” and prosecution means he would be politicizing the situation in an outrageous attempt to pervert justice.
Listen, the good people at CNN always put minor tax evasion (at the state level, no less) cases up as the lead story on their website as well as on TVs through airport terminals across the country. They’re not politicizing this at all. Only a guy who’s not even named personally in the indictment could be politicizing it.
It’s going to be really weird when they switch targets from Trump to the next guy without skipping a beat.
I assume there’s no mention of the fact that the DA explicitly campaigned on “going after Trump”.
He also wrote this amazing poem about his penis.
I’ll, uh, take your word for it.
California isn’t going crazy statewide…yet.
I am just waiting for the Free State of Jefferson to secede.
“Seventeen people have been injured in Los Angeles after a cache of homemade fireworks exploded as it was being destroyed by a bomb squad, damaging cars and smashing windows in homes.
Police called in a bomb squad on Wednesday evening after a tip led them to seize some 5,000 pounds of illegal home-made and China-manufactured pyrotechnics at about noon, police said.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore said three box trucks and a 53-foot trailer were brought in to load up the fireworks and move them to a safe location. However, ‘improvised explosives’ also were found that were too dangerous to move….
The LAPD initially said the cause of the explosion was unknown, but later confirmed that it had occurred as the bomb squad was detonating the explosives in the vehicle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9744491/Seventeen-people-injured-controlled-detonation-illegal-fireworks-LA-goes-terribly-wrong.html
“Fire in the hole!”
Qualified Immunity has it’s perks!
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1410439895814873093
+ vid: https://twitter.com/JessicaOhTV/status/1410430115306086404
Won’t load for me — going to be a bit disappointed in the internet if it wasn’t this.
Courtney Allegra | Resort 2018 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwwAEDV4lKI
creech on June 30, 2021 at 5:30 pm
On the other hand, I don’t think any of us would like to see the Capitol graced with statues of George III, Benedict Arnold, or Banastre Tarleton.
I think it would be more like if the British had won and erected statues and likenesses of Washington/Jefferson/Adams and company. Lincoln is George III in this scenario.
Or us putting statues of Sitting Bull and Tecumseh in the Capitol.
Brigham Young has a statue.
Re: Les Canadiens – fuck them! When I was a kid there was one season that they only lost seven games all year. It’s a bunch of pathetic bandwagon jumpers up here. Hipsters wearing their “Habitant” gear to the pubs with their hot girlfriends in sundresses… Hate that fucking Anglophobic team.
I do hate The Colonel too, with his wee beady eyes…
Don’t talk about The Pentavarate on a public forum, they’re dangerous. And holy shit, looks like a TV series based on that is going to be released probably in 2022:
https://www.looper.com/432388/the-pentaverate-netflix-release-date-cast-and-plot/
Well, I am of Scots decent, so…
“Don’t listen to her, Your Honor. She’s crazy.”
Good morning, Sloopy!
I’m glad you broke your rule.
This is for you.
Gracias! She was a lovely.
I saw her in a “concert” at a winery maybe 12-13 years ago with the Go-Go’s. She was awesome. The Go-go’s were awesome. And the wine was awesome.
Wish I’d have seen her in her prime.
You’d have come up to her waist. Sloop.
Her is one I like. https://vintagenewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2.bp_.blogspot.comdebbie-harry-new-york-cit-e44ae801920bde62a2c45d6d117bea3d2cc78721.jpg
Love it!
Here’s Malice’s contribution.
Interesting. Nice picture as well.
More like, “Maybe you should be relying on Big Daddy (Central) Gubmint instead of trying to fend for yourself.
And I do with them ill. No, let me clarify, I don’t with them ill, I wish them a lot of discomfort but no harm — maybe it will make them shut up for a while.
+1 Mike Tyson
Egregious lie, or merely a complete lack of self-awareness?
Becca Lewis, a Stanford doctoral student in communication theory who studies rightwing media, characterized these dynamics as an example of “network propaganda”, a theory developed by researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for for Internet & Society. “Conspiracy theories aren’t more likely to emerge on the right or the left,” Lewis said. “The difference is that on the right you have this whole ecosystem that amplifies the conspiracy theory and turns it into generalized knowledge, whereas in the mainstream media, what you have is outlets that try to quell them.”
It’s only propaganda when they do it.
NPCNN/MSDNC et al could not be reached for comment.
So many stolen bases just in that short quote.
Methinks my definition of a conspiracy theory and hers differ by quite a bit.
“what you have is outlets that try to quell them”
Yeah, they really tried to quell the Trump/Russia story.
For a good take on the bipartisan nature of conspiracy theory, Jesse Walker’s, “United States of Paranoia” is excellent.
The proggie leaders in Minneapolis are losing their grip on the tiger’s tail
“You’re only supposed to use those tactics against people who aren’t me. Not cool people.”
CrimeWatchMpls broke that story days and days ago.
They love dunking on local media.
Holding someone against their will and forcing concessions out of them? I’m sure the DA isn’t ok with Kidnapping. An investigation will follow and I’m sure they will be brought to Justice.
She was in her car, and people standing outside her car held her hostage?
Did they steal her car keys? Cause otherwise, I’d fire up the engine and put it in Drive and slowly release the brake.
And you’ll get life in prison for murder 1 if someone were hurt.
So… off topic question for the lawyerly folks here (understanding that any responses are not legal advice). Got a random phone call yesterday from a law office asking me to call them back to discuss an accident I was a witness to (and went in and filed a police report about later that week). They did not mention who they were representing (but reading between the lines, it sounds like the at fault person is fishing for some cash).
Ignore the message, or call them back?
Personally (not having any particular insight as a lawyer, I don’t do that kind of law), I’d wait for a subpoena before talking to anybody. Assuming that you put everything you remembered into the police report, that should be plenty sufficient to do the talking for you.
IANAL,
But, I wouldn’t do anything unless subpoenaed. You gave a statement, that’s all they need for now. If they are the person at fault, they probably want to hear you state something differently so they can use it as an inconsistency to foster doubt, I’d leave it alone.
Just like when Lincoln freed the slaves
Starting immediately, an applicant for a U.S. passport can simply check “M” or “F” as their gender – without needing to provide medical certification if that gender doesn’t match their other documents. And soon, applicants will have the option to select a gender option that isn’t male or female, the State Department said Wednesday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the changes as “further steps toward ensuring the fair treatment of LGBTQI+ U.S. citizens, regardless of their gender or sex.” They will also fulfill a Biden campaign promise.
It will take some time to create a third gender option on passports, the State Department warned. People can not yet apply for a passport with a nonbinary, intersex, or gender nonconforming gender marker.
“The process of adding a gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons to these documents is technologically complex and will take time for extensive systems updates,” said Blinken.
Rome wasn’t burned in a day.
From Conquest to Centralization
https://broadstreet.blog/2021/06/07/from-conquest-to-centralization/
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the siege of Tenochtitlan, the final battle of the Aztec-Spanish War.
Like Columbus’s voyage in 1492, the fall of Tenochtitlan has come to symbolize the Spanish conquest of the Americas and everything that came with it: the destruction and abuse of Indigenous societies, the political and economic transformations of colonial rule, and, as written on a plaque in the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Tlatelolco, “the painful birth of the mestizo [mixed-race] Mexico of today[1].”
How did the Spanish Crown extend its authority over this faraway territory? How did colonial institutions evolve over the first century of Spanish rule? What general lessons can we learn from this case?
To do this, the Crown effectively outsourced the task of conquering territory to freelance “conquistadors” and relied on an institution of indirect rule, the encomienda, to administer these new holdings. Through the encomienda, local elites (encomenderos) were granted the right to extract labor and tribute from the population in exchange for providing for local defense, collecting taxes from Indigenous caciques, and promoting Christian conversion. This feudal-like institution was first employed during the Reconquista of the Iberian peninsula in the prior century. In central Mexico, the Crown adapted the encomienda to local Indigenous institutions, which were already organized to provide tribute and taxes to the Triple Alliance
Though the encomienda provided a low-cost way of bringing populations under Spanish rule, it had considerable economic and political costs for the Crown. Because of their feudal-like privileges and autonomy, encomenderos were able to retain a sizable share of local revenue and came to be seen as a political threat to royal authority. As political control grew less tenuous, the Crown sought to centralize control
We examine the effect of the catastrophic collapse of Mexico’s Indigenous population during the first century of colonial rule. Though figures vary, it is estimated that the Indigenous population of Central Mexico declined by up to 90% during this period, primarily due to disease. The severity of the collapse varied considerably across space and shaped the Crown’s ability and willingness to centralize power in different regions.
The sharp decline of the population had numerous consequences for the political economy of Mexico over the long and short term. We argue that it facilitated the transition to direct rule
No mention of all the other native tribes who joined Cortez?
The Spanish had technical superiority, but nowhere near enough to overthrow the Aztec empire on their own. They merely galvanized the tribes that the Aztecs had been oppressing for years.
It also needs to be pointed out that the majority of deaths were caused by diseases – which despite what we have been told – are not racist.
“Indigenous population of Central Mexico declined by up to 90% during this period, primarily due to disease” – they do point this out
are not racist. – if whitey never went there he would not spread disease
Can’t find the video of Debbie Harry frolicking at Coney Island so this will have to do – https://youtu.be/FtjsArPdl-s You’re welcome gents!
THIS is Xi-N-N
The Chinese Communist Party is about to turn 100 but Xi will be the real star | Analysis by @Ben_Westcott
https://cnn.it/3w77vs6
The piece itself is just generic pablum, not exactly straight PRC propaganda. But I think the real tell is that the Kuomintang is 2 years older but didn’t get any attention on its 100-year anniversary like this.
Remember the NYT doing their 100 years of communism? I’m surprised they didn’t parade around Duranty’s Pulitzer too.
How do you say “Fuhrer” in Mandarin?
Chow Mein Fuhrer
“the decade of mayhem under former Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, and the millions who starved to death as a result of disastrous CCP economic policy decisions.”
Funny how all the deaths are presumed (they aren’t really presumed, they know better but lie of omission) to be all due to economic mismanagement and I’ll just assume as an uninformed reader that the mayhem of The Cultural Revolution was kind of like the mayhem we saw here during the ‘60s. CNN really is terrible and they prey upon the ignorant and the stupid.
NPR was using their “happy, gushy” voices when covering the CCP anniversary this morning.
Of course they were
I really despise those twits
Why is this the one time I’m pretty sure the actions of the pols won’t lead to unintended consequences?
I’d put money down in Vegas that this HR department will exist only to thwart the voters from finding out what their representatives are up to. The HR dept will never decide that legislators need to do mandatory yearly security training, mandatory sexual harassment training, or any of the other wonderful HR activities the rest of us get to enjoy.
Wouldn’t the voters be the HR department for the legislators?
Of course, many would point out that this just more evidence that we have oligarchy, not democracy.
Look privacy is important for the right people.
This guy gave me a boner…
Fraud or incompetence?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/new-york-citys-mayoral-primary-vote-count-voided-after-135000-ballot-discrepancy_3881027.html
Credit card companies handle ~100,000 transactions/minute. Telecom companies build architectures that route millions of calls and texts per day with high availability. Cybersecurity firms analyze millions of records/second. Yet, we’re supposed to believe that tallying a few thousand (or few million) votes is an impossibly difficult and complicated task that requires days and weeks of effort and is unique susceptible to confusion and error. How is it that any number of third world shitholes can have simple, accurate and legitimate elections yet somehow the most powerful country on Earth can’t?
At this point I’d almost prefer it be fraud because if it’s not the people running our elections are so stupid that they’d struggle with bagging groceries for a living.
Both, incompetently executed fraud.
Why not both?
At this point I’d almost prefer it be fraud because if it’s not the people running our elections are so stupid that they’d struggle with bagging groceries for a living.
Hanlon’s Blunt Instrument: In reality, it’s almost always both malice and stupidity
Hanlon’s Blunt Instrument? Excellent, I’ll remember that one.
“The New York City Board of Elections said on June 29 that 135,000 test ballots were accidentally included in a preliminary tally of votes ”
this is fraud. You don’t make a test ballot that doesn’t have Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse as the candidates.
Interesting; I hadn’t considered why their “test ballots” would have the names of actual candidates on them.
…and that’s like the *first* thing I should have asked.
Exactly. If it wasa few ballots, I could see it as, “we wanted to test with our actual ballot to make sure the system worked”. I’d still say that that would be reckless and close to fraudulent. But running a hundred thousand real ballots as a “test”
Please.
honest mistake.
Twiddle your no-no spot with Thot Thursday!
https://archive.li/3b6F1
My guess is somebody is angling for Biden’s soon to be abdicated throne, and they need Kamala out of the way. If that’s the case, I’d expect to see a ratcheting up of negative hit pieces on her over the next 6 months, followed by a damning revalation that gets her canned.
Six months in, and she has already outlived her usefulness. Somebody didn’t do their homework.
*Who DIDN’T say “WTFSRSLY?” when they announced Harris as VP candidate?
Well, given that Biden said he was going to pick a POC woman, her competition was Susan Rice and Stacey Abrams (and Abrams didn’t want to give up her cushy Governor job).
I didn’t. She seemed like she checked all the boxes. I didn’t know anything about her other than she locked up potsmokers and laughed about it. It seemed on-brand for Team Joe if I’m being honest.
Jim Acosta still being Jim Acosta and getting what Jim Acosta deserves.
CUCK ACOSTA: Watch as Jim Acosta makes a fool out of himself by getting BOO’d during Trump’s border tour
While migrants are being human smuggled via Border Crisis in real time, this moron decides to make Trump’s border visit about Jan 6th
Welcome to the Democratic People’s Republic of Canada.
Last week, Canada’s Liberal Party headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed new legislation to criminalize “hate speech” online, punishable by a $50,000 fine (roughly $40,000 U.S.D.), paid to the government. Government officials, including the attorney general and the minister of public safety, announced the new bill on Wednesday.
“Canadians expect their government to take action against hate speech and hate crimes. These legislative changes would improve the remedies available to victims of hate speech and hate crimes, and would hold individuals accountable. The actions we are taking today will help protect the vulnerable, empower those who are victimized and hold individuals to account for the hatred they spread online,” David Lametti, minister of justice and attorney general, said in a statement.
Lametti introduced amendments to Canada’s Criminal Code, the Canadian Human Rights Act, and the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Lametti and his allies justified their Orwellian move by claiming that “hate speech” online can turn into “offline hate.”
“Too many people and communities in Canada are harmed and victimized by hate speech, which is often amplified and spread online. Online hate can turn into offline hate with devastating impacts on communities and families. We have a responsibility to victims to take action to combat hate online and continue to build a more inclusive Canada,” the Justice Department explained in a statement.
Church goers & priests?
Following in Europe/UK’s footsteps.
Free speech was a nice experiment while it lasted. But The People are morons so not much you can do about it.
I’m sure anyone who calls Trudeau “PM Blackface” will get guy with a hate speech violation.
“claiming that “hate speech” online can turn into “offline hate.””
So what? Why should I care what some asshole believes in the privacy of his own diseased mind? As long as there isn’t a concrete action to injure someone else it shouldn’t fucking matter.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/california-triplets-pregnant-same-time
Those poor husbands. I’d get in so much trouble.
I’m hoping this was some kind of eclectic group thing and they don’t know which baby corresponds to which father because there was so much semen being flung around.
The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever
He’s so-connie, but not wrong about the motivations of the CA government.
The old drug war was justified as a battle against a serious social ill, while the new drug war is just corrupt rent-seeking.
Speaking of stolen bases…
The good kind of ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw6xB7f2LEs
Nothing a few windmills and solar panels won’t fix.
JUST IN – New York City mayor urges citizens to reduce electricity use “IMMEDIATELY” to avoid blackouts.
something something what did commies use before candles something
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1410445556749529094
You know who else was a bigger choker than originally thought?
Jeff Toobin?
Mama Cass?
Hitler!
This dishonest cunte is still talking?
Anchor Lawrence O’Donnell asked, “Does this feel like an inevitable turn of events for someone who has behaved the way you have seen him behave up close in the presidency?”
Schiff said, “Yes, this is a grifter from start to finish. He brought his swamp from New York with him to the Oval office. This is a guy who used his charitable foundation as a personal and political slush fund. Can we really be surprised that the same organization, albeit the business end, not the foundation, would now be the subject of indictment? At the same time while I thought the indictment of the corporation was likely. I still think it is a steep hill to climb to indict a former president. The quality and the quantity of the evidence will have to be very significant.”
He added, “Everything about Donald Trump’s life, everything about his every day in office spells corruption. None of this is surprising. It is just the same sort of grift in private practice he imported to the White House.”
Oh my god! Can you imagine if someone in Washington set up a charitable foundation but only used it to enrich themselves?? Nobody but Trump ever did anything that heinous!
Translation: He didn’t give us a cut.
Planted a weeping willow in the backyard yesterday. Hoping the forecast rain today and tomorrow gives it a good start. Maybe pics in the next week. We’ll see.
In my garden there were a lot of seeds that didn’t sprout. I took advantage of a whole week of on and off rain, and planted more seeds between storms. I really didn’t feel like watering every few days. Thanks, Mother Nature.
Yeah, some of my sprouts were looking a little dry yesterday (I’ve only been watering my anti-mosquito planters on the porch and haven’t dragged the hose reel out back recently). But this summer, I planted things a little late to begin with – just really getting my feet wet (so to speak) this summer – and looking at ideas/exp for the future.
My zucchini never sprouted. I bought more seeds to try and replant, but forgot. Now I’m wondering if it’s too late to try? the spot is open, I guess I should try anyways.
You should be fine. Go for it.
Is there any wind in the willow?
Ooh! Is it next to a stream or pond? I love weeping willows by water!
Not per se, but I have a lower part of my yard next to my neighbor’s “retaining” portion that had standing water all winter and was really damp most of late last summer. Hopefully should do the trick – i know a bunch of other neighbors also have willows and they all seem to be doing decently this summer.
You should move to lakefront property
I live about a block from the Potomac.
Potomac – sounds dismal
I’m about to pay a thousand dollars to have two willows that are dying cut down.
Grow fast, die fast.
Fuck willows.
My mom’s willow is from 2011. I hope we get at least 100 years out of it.
It was planted to close to the lake in an area which the lake occasionally flooded but we added a bunch of dirt and rocks (probably illegally) to extend the land over the lake and now it seems solid,
Also everyone who ever planted a bradford pear.
Congress Park has some willows around the pond that look straight out of Dagobah.
I have a stream in my back yard, and there are a few older trees near it that have been dying. I want to plant a willow in that area; I think it would thrive, although it doesn’t get the most sun.
I love those trees
Scum of the earth
With uneven vaccination rates across the US and a the Delta variant now spotted in all 50 states, a health expert is warning the federal government’s mask guidance should be more focused.
“Part of the problem is that the CDC is trying to use a one-size-fits-all recommendation for the country rather than being a bit more surgical in identifying hot spot areas where transmission is accelerating,” Dr. Peter Hotez told CNN’s Jake Tapper Wednesday.
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The CDC’s current mask guidance, which says fully vaccinated people do not need to wear a mask indoors or outdoors, needs to be more specific with the Delta variant in mind, Hotez said.
“I think that’s what we need from the CDC is to be able to cut it a little finer, come up with … a force of infection map that combines those two variables: the low vaccination rates, high Delta. Those places are at great risk for lots of transmission, including some vaccinated individuals who will have breakthrough infections.”
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Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Infectious Diseases, told CNN Wednesday that children not yet vaccinated should still mask up, even if they’re around fully vaccinated people.
“The vast majority of new infections are occurring among unvaccinated individuals and creating a ‘pod’ of vaccinated individuals around young children, as well as continuing them to mask and distance in indoor settings and among crowded settings, will be important in keeping them safe,” Maldonado said in an email to CNN. “For these unvaccinated children, masking, distancing and avoiding large crowds is recommended.”
Maldonado noted that there is not much information available yet on how the Delta variant may affect children.
Hotez echoed Maldonado’s stance on children wearing masks.
“I would say right now, if your kids are old enough to wear masks, then they should when they’re indoors, at least until we can get our arms around this Delta variant,” said Hotez, noting that parents should take their area’s vaccination rate and variant levels into account.
The power has gone to their heads, and they never want to lose that feeling.
The reek of desperation is overpowering.
at least until we can get our arms around this Delta variant
But what are we to do about the inevitable Echo variant?
Nothing, because by then Foxtrot will be on our heels
Is that coming before or after the bread lines?
I think you are all in de Nile about the Delta variant.
That pun gives me the blues.
Submitted without comment.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15445464/pooed-during-sex-and-boyfriends-ghosting-me/
He didn’t dump you because you pooped a little during sex. He dumped you because you’re the kind of crazy that poops during sex and then writes a public letter about it to someone neither of you have ever met.
You’re 23 years old and you don’t know to use the bathroom before fucking?
I have heard of squirting. Even seen someone do it once. But this is interesting… I am sure there is some detail here that if shared would make this more plausible.
Like my Messican buddy from my younger years that was 5 foot 0 inches tall and all of 135lbs that had a thing for huge women that made the mistake of telling us his story. He got one of these ladies stupid drunk and was doing some of his favorite 69ing (with the woman on top) in the back seat of his car when the girl passed out and took a dump on him ….
Talk about being trapped..
She’s just establishing credentials for her application to migrate into Germany.
No ones going to make the obvious statement? Fine.
I thought guys liked fucking the shit out of women.
Who says the left can’t learn from Project Veritas.
Exxon Disavows Remarks After Video Shows Lobbyists Dismissing Company’s Climate Stance
Something the movies got wrong — Arwen is not supposed to be hotter than Galadriel.
Yes. I think Cate blanchet wasn’t the first choice for the role.
Liv Tyler has not aged well.
neither did her father…
Todd Rundgren?
Her beauty was stolen?
Large study indicates left-wing authoritarianism exists and is a key predictor of psychological and behavioral outcomes
https://www.psypost.org/2021/06/large-study-indicates-left-wing-authoritarianism-exists-and-is-a-key-predictor-of-psychological-and-behavioral-outcomes-61318
Not that I have much use for sociology but I don’t get how the fuck someone can believe there is no left wing authoritarianism.
There are people who believe in central economic planning, too. Belief isn’t rational. That’s why they call it ‘belief.’
I think the vast majority of people I know just equate “authoritarian” to “right wing”, while also equating “libertarian” to “fascist” or “crazy”.
I can’t believe the woke mobs haven’t torn down this sculpture
Right, but who made the NFT of it?
I cannot imagine anything more entertaining or amusing than the the contortions and doublespeak required on the part of the DNC to push Our First VPOC out the window as she screeches and claws desperately at the sill.
Not one likely to go quietly, for the good of the Party, Kamala.
Something bad would have to happen to push a VP out of office. It is such a bad look that would fracture the party for the following election, that such a cost would need a good benefit.
I think the bad press is more about twisting arms and applying pressure, than an attempt to remove her.
The party worships her really.
I think the Kamala neutering isn’t about dumping her midterm but from Joe’s puppet maters and staffers wanting to hold onto power now that they’re in. Second theory is replacing her with someone else in 2024.
Officer safety!
Shooting of Cleveland police officer that officials pinned on Cleveland man was friendly fire, ballistics show
OT – any thoughts if STIR/SHAKEN as of today is going to stop my 10th phone call today about either my car warranty or saving on my electricity provider?
My expectation there is a whole the size of cow in the thing that will quickly be exploited.
It may slow them down for a brief time (company I support has had some issues with what they were sending as outbound ANI’s to certain local telcos that were getting their calls dumped at the telco level), it’s a decent thought, but it’s way too late in the game for it to make a lasting difference.
Best case is it should stop the local call masking (where the caller spoofs the area code and exchange of the number they’re calling).
I’ll happily take the inability to spoof the area code and exchange.
Hopefully works for toll free area codes too.
Bet he doesn’t think it’s friendly.
A South Side alderwoman on Wednesday rejected Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s claim that 99 percent of her critics are motivated by racism or sexism.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Los Angeles County updated its masking guidelines earlier this week, calling on all people, regardless of vaccination status, to put their masks on indoors in public places due to the Delta variant spreading across the L.A. area.
Go Fuck Yourself.
Any day now, the masks are going to do something. They haven’t worked yet, but if we all clap our hands and believe, they soon will.
You know what’s frustrating. Sitting at home waiting for an AC tech to check your system (that he previously told you was broke – verified leak in coolant), so he can put in a new ticket with the warranty. And not being able to even get an estimated time that he’ll show up so you can let your manager know whether you’ll be in the office at all for the day….
6 fucking hours of meetings today. Finally done.
Also Texas fucking Instruments needs to be a little less efficient others are trying to compete round here
You could try being productive like them instead of being in meetings all day.
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They make those kinds of instruments too?? I thought they just made calculators.
Texas Instruments invented the Integrated Circuit and made a bunch of microprocessor advancements. They’re famous for their calculators, but they make a bunch of other stuff.
Thanks! ? [Insert “The More You Know” GIF]
My wife’s grandfather was one of the engineers who was on the IC team. Fascinating fellow to chat with.
Productivity?! We don’t need no stinking productivity! Meetings all day!
I was not productive anyways these week. I have something to do that I really don’t like doing.
Fair enough. I’m simultaneously slamming you for this in two sub-threads rn but your candid answer has made me feel slightly bad about that.
I personally enjoy meeting for six hours of fucking, but w/e.
what do you do for the other 5 hours and 57 minutes?
Talk her out of calling her lawyer and/or the police.
I don’t know if I feel like eating in or out. I have some cooked food left but it would be the second time today eating the same thing.
Delivery!
Carnivora.
If I am going to waste calorie budget on pizza I aint buying delivery crap
I thought you Romanians just take a lonely waitress home to drink.
Oh Thank Yahweh! Our daytime temps are going to be back into the 80’s and 90’s. God be praised! If we can keep from getting engulfed in flames from the lightning storms, we will feel some relief!
It’s been too hot to take the pup to the dog park, so she’s been super destructive. Chewed the paint off of one of the walls.
Would it be better to get a new can of that color, or would the old paint from when the wall was originally painted match better? And does paint go bad?
Paint is fine so long as it doesn’t freeze. Older cans might need a jolt of thinner and a vigorous shake.
Okay, the source is FrontPage, hardly the most credible. But it does hit on something legitimate. The California experiment in marijuana legalization almost certainly is so hobbled by rent-seeking from various government hangers-on that it effectively negates the social benefits of legalization in the first place. I remember getting a gander at this at a talk I’d heard at my club. The entire “legalization” proposal was all about which favored interest groups would be allowed to reap the benefits. The legalization advocates were even bigger opponents of “Big Pot” than your average social conservative drug warrior. It almost leads me to think that the best thing for the marijuana business would be for a deep red state to go the legalization route and let them actually run things like a business, like tobacco or whiskey. Although it would be pretty funny if, thirty years from now, the capital of the marijuana business was in the middle of the Bible Belt.
“Legalization” isn’t , at least not as practiced.
It’s still illegal to grow, sell, purchase or consume cannabis, except under extremely specific circumstances. Deviate from those condition in any way…
It’s safe and easy to buy weed in some states, like WA and CO, despite the best efforts of the lawmakers to fuck that up.
Is that worth having a deep Blue gungrabbing, rights violating legislature that would pass that? Fuck no.
Its an open secret that pot business are making much more pot in Oklahoma that is being used by Oklahomans. Supposedly being financed by Chinese money.
Here the license is by the facility, not per plant.
Isn’t that what this rent seeking in the pot industry is? Sin taxes, Distributor models, etc?
We know he did something to somebody
In vacating Bill Cosby’s aggravated assault conviction on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court also overturned what had been considered a milestone win in the long, difficult battle for dozens of women who had accused the comedian of misconduct.
Sixty women have accused Cosby, 83, of a variety of offenses, including groping, sexual assault and rape as far back as the 1960s.
Cosby has repeatedly denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex and did so again on Wednesday after his release from prison.
When Cosby was convicted in 2018, activists considered the jury’s decision a landmark in the movement to hold alleged sexual predators accountable.
For all but one Cosby accuser, the statute of limitations had passed by the time a deluge of accusers went public in 2014 and 2015. That was Andrea Constand, who accused Cosby of drugging and molesting her at his Pennsylvania home in 2004.
There were less than two weeks before the statute of limitations expired in Constand’s case when Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele filed charges against Cosby. A decade earlier, prosecutors had declined to press charges.
Steele was likely motivated to bring Constand’s case to trial, despite prosecutorial difficulties, in part because of the dozens of women who came forward against Cosby, NBC News legal analyst Danny Cevallos said.
“This was probably seen as a piece of symbolic justice,” Cevallos said. “That if they could find one person for whom it might quietly vindicate or somehow bring justice to the women who could never bring their case because the statute expired.”
They let him off on a technicality. What a tragic miscarriage of justice.
If “technicality” means “the law, as written and enacted”, then sure.
It wasn’t the statue of limitations that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was upset about, it was the fact the prior DA said he wouldn’t prosecute Cosby in order to force Cosby to testify in a civil case. And then the next DA used that testimony to convict Cosby.
Apparently, the 5th amendment of the US Constitution should not apply for really bad defendants.
Many are now urging PA legislature to eliminate statute of limitations for sexual crimes. Why should the ability to bring a complaint be unlimited? How can an accused defend himself over something that is alleged to have happened forty years ago? Most of us can’t remember what we had for lunch last Wednesday, let alone what one might have said to a co-worker or date decades ago. Someone commits a crime against you, unless you were in a coma, you should get no more than two years to report it and toll the incident.
Random question for the shooters:
Thoughts on S&W .40 caliber?
Always buy your ammo in millimeters
It’s not really ever in metric. You really think someone thought that 7.62mm was better than 7.5 or 8.0?
There is nothing but 7.62x54r.
That ship has sailed.
*sad trombone*
I think the 74 you shot was $389 when I got it. Price them now. Eek.
Fine, 10mm. Happy now that I have used your euro-fag units?
Don’t you know that we civilized peoples use the physical dimensions of dead monarchs to determine our units of measure?
/sarc, in case it wasn’t clear.
I want the sights marked in arshins.
So long as we measure muzzle velocity in rods per jiffy.
It gives you more points in Limited, which is good.
Most of mine were police turn ins (good deals).
I don’t mind the caliber.
I think that was one of the first semiautos I ever had. A police trade-in, IIRC. Don’t remember if I still have it – went to mainly Ruger 9 mm for carry & practice. (Woefully out of practice now. ?)
Red carries? Tumescence forthcoming!
Yessir! Card-carrying! Here’s one from even before my time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PjgqQcKE3DY
Not sure if it really gives enough of a performance boost from 9mm. Originally, there was a distinct terminal ballistics performance gap between 9mm and .45 ACP, but I believe that gap has largely closed as 9mm rounds have been improved.
I wouldn’t get one, because I already have 9mm and .45 ACP, and don’t need another caliber.
Both out of a 5″ barrel (data from Quickload), both loaded to 85% of max pressure spec:
9mm loaded to +P with a 147 grain HP: 1011 fps, 452 J muzzle energy
.40 S&@ loaded to SAAMI with a 200 grain HP: 952 fps, 545J muzzle energy
I’d say 90 more J (20% increase in muzzle energy) is a significant boost over the 9mm.
I want to say I saw an article comparing terminal ballistics performance in gel (not muzzle energy), which found that there’s really not a big difference between .40 and 9mm, but I can’t be arsed to try and dig it up.
What does Quickload have for comparable data on .45?
I could see it if I didn’t already have a 9 or a .45, or enjoyed “caliber creep” ammo stocking.
I had to use a different powder to keep the pressures in line (Winchester 231 vs Hodgdon Titegroup for the 40 and 9).
With a 230 grain Hornady XTP bullet:
922 fps, 588J
With a 230 grain round nose:
918 fps, 584J
I probably ought to run the others with a slower powder to see if I get better performance with the same bullets and OAL.
These tests?
That right there is some of the most useful terminal ballistics data available to the public.
Great link; I’m going to spend some time reading it soon hopefully.
don’t need another caliber.
Those words are English but make no sense when arranged in that manner.
I’m currently maxed out.
Now is certainly not the time to entertain adding another.
One of my favorites. I used to be a .45ACP snob, but over the years have come to appreciate the .40 “Short and Weak” for its increased magazine capacity over the .45 and higher muzzle energy over the 9mm.
Probably the best compromise I can think of, for pistol cartridges.
Although the 10mm Auto is better than all three for those attributes.
It’s fine.
It meets the FBI ballistics test requirements with proper bullet design.
It has more recoil/muzzle lift, and less capacity in the same size gun, than 9mm Luger (which also meets the FBI ballistics test requirements with proper bullet design.)
During ammo shortages, .40 can sometimes be more available than 9mm.
I shoot a bunch of 40. My glock 23s are fun little guns, especially the modded one.
Definitely “snappier” than 9, but not offensively so, IMO.
“When an unconditional charging decision is made publicly and with the intent to induce action and reliance by the defendant, and when the defendant does so to his detriment (and in some instances upon the advice of counsel), denying the defendant the benefit of that decision is an affront to fundamental fairness,” according to the high court opinion authored by Justice David Wecht.
“For these reasons, Cosby’s convictions and judgment of sentence are vacated, and he is discharged.”
No backsies?
That’s an onerous burden for a government prosecutor.
I think I sold my S&W Sigma to a guy who wants something for bow hunting in bear country (Spoiler Alert: It’s all bear country, here). He originally asked if I knew anybody with a 10 mm for sale. The .40 and 10 are very similar, aren’t they? Wiki thinks so.
It sounds like they are but they won’t cycle correctly in an auto handgun.
They are similar to how a .38 special and a .357 have the same bullet but one with more powder and energy in the cartridge.
But as OBJ indicates you can and should not try to cycle a .40 in a 10mm or vice versa. .40 is a short 10mm.
40 is a ten with the case shortened, the ten properly loaded has a lot more energy. If you’re talking brown bears a hot loaded 10mm with a cast bullet is marginal but acceptable from what I understand. A .40 won’t cut it for reliable effectiveness but might be OK for black bears.
Is that one of the old 1990s Sigmas? The ones that cracked the frames and got recalled?
Holy cow. I knew to avoid Baltimore now, but MD Glibs is Annapolis now a no-go too?
Midshipman’s mother fatally shot while helping him get settled at Naval Academy, police say
Stupid auto correct. “now” = “no-go”
In my experience, the whole Baltimore-DC metro is a patchwork of regular neighborhoods and danger zones. It would be easy to unkowingly cross from one to the other.
Same. But Annapolis is more touristy.
It’s been years (pre-Obama) since I’ve been there, but it was mostly safe if you were smart.
Sounded like she was on a hotel balcony and was hit by a stray shot from a street over or something random.
Yeah.
I’ve just not heard of much random gunfire in Annapolis as compared to the much bigger and more economically diverse Baltiomore.
Was wondering if the was an anomaly or the new normal given the times.
I am not sure either, my SIL lives in Laurel but I have not been there in a few years.
I live north enough of Annapolis that I don’t know for sure what things are like there. I don’t go often, but that’s mostly because it’s not really on the way to anything except beaches.
Annapolis is the only real self-governing city in all of AA County (the other is Highland Park, which has about 100 people; there are no other organized municipalities), and it has been bright blue for a while. The county itself used to be red/purple but has also trended blue. The relatively low cost of living and doing business has attracted jobs and residents, many from other places in the state (Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties especially), who naturally upon arrival decide to change the place. Of course, I too am a transplant, though I’ve basically lived here all of my adult life.
All that having been said, I believe the Arundel Mills Mall, which is a bit of a hike from Annapolis, remains the premier high-crime area in the county. It was already so before the casino, but it certainly hasn’t gotten any better since. Relatively speaking, Annapolis would have to descend pretty far to approach Baltimore’s level.
Thx!
Private marijuana use is now legal in Virginia. Possession of under an ounce is no longer a crime. Possession of an ounce or more, public use, and sales are still illegal. It’s better than before, but get your act together Virginia.
I wouldn’t get one, because I already have 9mm and .45 ACP, and don’t need another caliber.
Which is precisely why I want to offload this thing, which I inherited from my brother.
I’ll relay the info about comparative ballistics. Thx.
I wonder if there is “+P’ .40 S&W”.
Maybe I’ll go look.
Buffalo Bore.
There isn’t an official +P spec for the .40S&W.
Even if there was, I don’t think it would gain you anything.
Just got my vacay pay in lieu. Holy shit I worked a lot of overtime last year. My five year came up last year so it went from 3 to 5%. Chunk of change. Don’t drink it all up, Darryl, don’t drink it all up!
Judi has the reins, probably parts for the truck, washer parts and some other amenities. She’ll funnel a bit to that ne’er do-well Son. You know, like a real vacation.
Mornin’ Festus! (Night to us, pox be upon that fireball in the sky!)
I dig your creativity, CPRM!
Buffalo Bore.
Saw that. I’d be inclined to go with a heavier bullet, but that’s just me.
When I talk to him again, I’ll let him know what I have learned. To be honest, I’m not sure anything has enough oomph to stop a grizzly, unless it’s really well placed. But if he’s bearing down on you, you do what you can.
Having worked in the bush for many years, Grizzly bears scare the shit right out of my poop-chute.
There was one site that I worked where I would walk in with the saw running and rev it from time to time. We left our gear there overnight and the Grizz fucked it up and shit everywhere. That was his spot.
No handguns, certainly. A shorty 12ga. loaded with Federal TruBall Deep Penetrator slugs would probably do the trick.
don’t need another caliber.
Those words are English but make no sense when arranged in that manner.
My oddball caliber is .38 super. I don’t need another.
Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well…
The best caliber is the one you can put on target under duress.
So .22LR?
Better than a miss.
I frequently carry a .22LR. I don’t feel even slightly undergunned with it.
I also often recommend a semi-auto .22LR rifle as a good home-defense gun for someone who isn’t going to do much training.
Interesting. I can’t carry in the People’s Republic of NJ.
My “compromise” carry would be .380ACP even after hearing all the good things on the compact 9mm. But I’ve no practical experience on either.
So I’m interested in your experience with .22LR if you’d like to share.
Seems like a sufficiently large magazine, or stack of spare magazines, would compensate for a lack of stopping power, even hampered by semi-auto instead of the sweet nectar of full auto.
Pretty much this. The .22LR is super easy to hit with, and only hits are effective.
My silenced M&P15-22 is the gun I give to my nephew or my mom in the event of a real civil emergency. “This doorway is your responsibility. Anyone tries to come through it who’s not wearing a uniform, put the red dot on their upper chest and pull the trigger until they’re on the ground.”
Word!!!
OMG, this just came across my desk:
We should regulate AI like medicine
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Because a chatbot will become Skynet, it is known.
And thanks for the recent tithe, the Hat will let you live, for now.
You’re welcome! Thanks for not sending STEVE SMITH to “extract” it from me.
Author has a PhD in philosophy granted in 2017 according to linkedin. I can’t find a CV as I was curious what other crap she published.
I’m enjoying the attention AI is getting when it makes politically incorrect decisions.
“At the moment, anyone can design an algorithm and use it to make important decisions about people — whether they get a loan, or a job, or an apartment, or a prison sentence [, what Google Search results they are show] — without any oversight or any kind of evidence-based requirement. The general population is being used as guinea pigs.” Right? (Bolding inserted by me,
‘Begging the Question’being an ass.Algorithms!? That’s it, everybody needs to get a license to do algebra.
For any that missed it (view count shows many) there was a new cartoon in the night thread. ME SAY RELAX, JUST WATCH.
Thank you sir! Wasn’t able to watch at the moment last night and forgot to go back.
STEVE SMITH SAY BETTER PIXELATE THAN NEVER
I’m debating if (and if I’d remember) to unpixelate it for the DVD release, so I could slap the ‘UNRATED’ stamp on there..
Don’t forget to put some lens flare in in post.
I watched it twice, you ingrate. Now your You-Tube has 54 views!
It was awesome!
Some wonderfully subtle lines.
And the Hat. The best star of any animated series ever.
One solution is to subject predictive algorithms to randomized controlled trials [before letting them be implemented].
Maybe we should do that with any computer models used by public health experts. You know, test them for accuracy against real world outcomes.