Leave me alone, Tonio!
Alright. I admit it. I screwed up last weekend and didn’t change the date for Sunday morning links when I wrote them the night before. Our dear friend Tonio caught it but damn, that dude has been flogging me all week.
[Birthdays can kiss my ass]
Can we all agree that news has really been sucking ass recently? I mean more than it usually sucks ass? It makes it easier to turn off. Links, anyone?
I find feathers in my yard all the time.
Walking past the jewelry story on a galactic scale.
That’ll teach that racist rock.
I’m going to bed. A little Thin Lizzy for a Sunday morning. Throw a little whiskey in your coffee and put your feet up.
Roll me over, and turn me around,
that Ibanez is unforgivably ugly
Thin Lizzy has always been one of my favorite bands. Phil lived and died like a rockstar.
Great song. For some reason FM radio played exactly two of their songs and ignored the other great ones.
Pegging aficionado status confirmed.
From the Ded Thred,
“limey on August 8, 2021 at 7:00 am
The only good disc is a ???”
Flying, the answer to everything,
Flying crabs?
It’s a short hop from flying crabs to sharknados.
At least they can only fly sideways.
Gamera! Flying Turtles!
Compact one hanging from you rear view mirror?
Is that like a signal to other swingers that you’re down to party?
Dunno, but there was quite a few of them back in the early nineties.
I hung a giant Gumby from my 4×4’s rear view mirror when I took the top off, got some looks there,
/in the 90’s
How many quadrillions would it cost to mine the asteroid? I didn’t RTFA because the GDPR popup was annoying, but my guess is, way more than it’s worth to bring anything back in any meaningful quantity?
How much to terraform the asteroid and just set up shop there instead?
+1 here’s your pound of weed, sorry no baggies.
I couldn’t RTFA because that website is a hot garbage mess of jittering text.
The rock seems smarter than the people removing it.
Someone really missed an opportunity there not painting a sad face on it beforehand. That would have made the article pictures so much better.
Heh. I have a distant cousin or somesuch that taught there, he was the type to spearhead this BS.
Ain’t that the truth.
I haven’t watched a single moment of the Olympics. In my case, I think it’s largely due to the COVID nonsense and the IOC’s caving to the tranny athletes, but the “I’m ashamed of the country I’m supposedly representing” crap sure doesn’t help.
I’m not sure if there’s a connection, but it seems like the whiny assholes tend to lose a lot more too. Funny that.
The connection (at least the one I expect to be true) is that every moment youre bitching at a press conference is a moment your competition is gaining an advantage. See women’s soccer. They spent so much time bitching that they took the team with the most raw talent to a disappointing bronze, losing to the gold and silver teams along the way.
Almost like having pride and good morale is an essential part of being a successful competitor.
Victor Davis Hanson mentioned this recently.
/conservatard
Hanson’s a smart guy who’s viewpoint I consider even when I disagree with him.
That’s pretty much where I am with him. I like that he’s come around on various issues around the MIC/war machine.
Fun fact; twenty five years or so ago, Hansen hired my then girlfriend to be an adjunct in his dept. at Fresno State. She was a half Palasinean poststructuralist Ph.D. but he wanted to keep his classics dept. a center for challenging views. I had beers with him a few times, a really good guy.
Does he regale you with tales of Athenian democracy and other deep whatnot in normal life or is he more down to earth?
Mostly we talked about James Ellroy’s novels. He was a big fan.
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Plus, as we have seen recently in politics, being a butthurt asshole nudges people into failing spectacularly.
I always figured that the whinny, wolk bs was a cover for being second-rate players. But, it could be the thing that holds people back, indeed.
To compete at that level takes not only physical prowess but serious mental fortitude. These wolks don’t have that. They have excuses.
The intellectual greats of modern times, Einstein and Oppenheimer and the like, didn’t spend a whole lot of time dilly dallying with frivolities outside of their fields of expertise and their work benefited accordingly. The sports competitors should take a page from their books because the wokeism seems to be hurting their focus and even the sense of shame they get from losing.
Sports have always been escapist and the removal of that aspect makes them tiresome.
Yeah I’m done. I quit following [MLB franchise] earlier this year after they introduced a read on the broadcast that starts out good talking about how small businesses have really been hurt by the covidiocracy, but then tanks it saying their support will only be for “women and minority owned businesses”. Once they bought into the stark racial/sex preference trash like that I had enough. If there was some godawful nonprofit running ads in between innings that’s one thing, but when it’s the organization itself, I’m not okay with that.
Yeah, no reason to support someone who hates you because woke.
IJS, that’s all.
Yep. Strip away all the bullshit and sports is nothing more than entertainment, that’s it.
I’ve never found being preached at particularly entertaining.
This really gets to the heart of it. I’ll add that I enjoy watching excellence and seeing teamwork.
Once those same people tell me I’m bad, the whole edifice falls away. They reveal their shallow venality. I’m not watching that.
Walking past the jewelry story on a galactic scale.
Relevant. (And nice hair.)
So how many people who caught Covid at the outdoor concerts croaked? One of those people is hospitalized but not dead so it looks like zero. It’s something to be mildly concerned about I suppose but a big deal it is not.
Zero mention of Lollapalooza. It’s only backwards assed country hick fucks who spread it.
I noticed that too.
Uffda. My home town is wrapping up its big giant country music fest today.
If getting the Rona is the price to pay for seeing a bunch of cute girls in skin tight jeans, tank tops and cowboy hats, I think most guys will be ok with that.
Remember when AIDS patient zero was allowed to travel the world infecting every gay man he came across? Now we all have to stay home to avoid the sniffles.
Either way, people are getting fucked in the ass.
This
Public health experts — and some locals — worry the rally will again play host to coronavirus infections, after hundreds of rallygoers were infected last year.
Thousands dead. Mass graves on the prairie.
All credibilty is gone, I believe nothing about CCP virus any longer and tune it out.
Yes, it’s real, so’s the Flu.
I’d forgotten about Sturgis, I assumed no one was left alive, after last year.
But this maskless party was totes okay.
Our betters can do things they won’t let us do because they care about us.
Hilariously tone-deaf. They just can’t help themselves.
Why didn’t they ask the “aerosol expert” about airplanes?
You know- where are the millions of dead people who flew commercial a year or more ago prior to President Biden’s life saving mask requirement?
How about some Sunday morning hate reading? Francis Fukuyama shows his authoritarian tendencies and complete lack of understanding of the term “Fascist”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-06-09/pandemic-and-political-order
All because OMB failed to violate the constitution the way Biden is happy to.
the entire thing sounds like a divisive piece, of Shit!
“politicized the distribution of aid”
Wasn’t there a Biden Admin devised aid distribution scheme for farmers that got shot down by the courts that explicitly excluded white male business owners and white male farmers? If that’s not politicization I don’t know what is and as for allowing governors leeway based on specific circumstances and the erosion of the unearned credibility of international institutions, well I’m for those.
I thought that guy had something interesting to say a couple decades ago, but in hindsight he was hilariously wrong about “the end of history”. Now, apparently, he’s just another hack-y asshole. SMDH.
Zimbabwe style
“but its current highly polarized society and incompetent leader blocked the state from functioning effectively”
No, that was the 3-letter agencies, the FDA and CDC, that blocked testing.
“vast potential state capacity”
Yikes.
“pushed responsibility onto governors for making key decisions”
Federalism: how does it work?
He, David Brooks, and Thomas Friedman would make a nice throuple.
It’s a fucking rock.
I didn’t know he fought for the confederates.
Lincoln may have freed the slaves but he didn’t like black folks enough apparently.
The rock is smarter than the students. There’s no other explanation.
The racist rock is also an illegal alien. It should be blown up to send a message to all the other undocumented boulders.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZS_EfoYpA
Cars Of The Future from 1948
Markie Post, 1950-2021.
Most of you will remember Markie from Night Court, but she got her start on game shows as one of the dealers on the original version of Card Sharks, and made several appearances on the 80s version of Pyramid.
Loved her as the mom in There’s Something About Mary…RIP.
Sad.
From the sidebar: https://deadline.com/2021/08/trevor-moore-the-whitest-kids-u-know-41-obituary-1234811024/
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rurBHWxYaR0
Eh, The Whitest Kids Uk Now were the beginning of the end for the IFC being a channel about independent films.
I remember the channel promoting a documentary about the iniquity of the MPAA movie rating system, ending with one of the Kids saying something to the effect of “Rate this!” and flipping the camera the bird. How tedious, regardless of what you think of the MPAA.
That’s sad. She was great.
I remember her from The Fall Guy as well. RIP.
I’m going to start holding rallies until they remove Brazil Nuts from stores.
“It’s a seed! How dare they culturally appropriate nuts!”
Waitress! There’s a hair on my Brazil Nut!
For those who don’t know, there is a colloquial term for Brazil Nuts that I’m guessing will get it cancelled.
I’ve never heard anyone say that.
It was common when I was young.
A supervisor at a previous job went on a rant about how everything is politically correct these days and “we’re supposed to call them ‘Brazil nuts’ now because it hurts someone’s feelings”.
Uuuuh, I hate the PC garbage as much as anyone, but I didn’t think avoiding “nigger” in casual conversation was too much to ask…
well, then it must not be true.
the last person I heard utter it died in 1998 in MS
its current highly polarized society and incompetent leader blocked the state from functioning effectively.
Like Australia, for example? Howe awful, to think we squandered the chance to go full iron fisted totalitarian Defcon Eleven when the opportunity presented itself.
Too bad Trump wasn’t a lifelong public servant, like Hillary.
America’s Generals Lied, Lost Wars, And Looted The People They Claimed To Serve
“American officials, in private admitted that at least 40 percent of the $103 billion in reconstruction funds spent in Afghanistan went into the hands of insurgents, Taliban, and corrupt “allied” warlords.”
[…]
“Instead of profiles in courage, America’s military leaders deserve profiles in grifting. Current Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made $7 million once leaving the service. Gen. James Mattis is reportedly worth $5 million, including $150,000 annual payouts from Theranos for serving on their board. “
Aren’t generals just colonels who are good at politicking and kissing ass?
I was too late to that part
Finally I understand why Stalin had a bunch of his generals shot.
Coming soon,
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1424063969799675908
It already happened to me, you’re next!
Down a little ways are vaccinated Italians burning their vax cards in a show of solidarity with those who didn’t get vaxed and the tying of status to civil liberties. We need more of that here but we’re so divided we can’t agree the sky is blue.
Well. This will get interesting.
You could say the same thing about gun laws and drug laws, but no one on the left cares.
I am starting to think (hope?) that the left overplayed its hand. They are losing the effectiveness of their favorite propaganda machine and people are starting to not buy the BS fearmongering they sell.
STFU Trump
Former President Donald Trump estimated up to 100 million people would have died from COVID-19 without his administration’s efforts to spur the development of vaccines.
If not for Operation Warp Speed, which was the name of the Trump administration’s initiative to develop vaccines quickly to protect the public from the coronavirus, Trump said the health crisis death toll would be similar to that of the Spanish Flu pandemic more than a century ago.
“I think if we didn’t come up during the Trump administration with a vaccine you could have 100 million people dead just like you had in 1917. You take the Spanish Flu, 100 million people — up to 100 million people died. I think we’d be in that territory,” the former president said in an interview with Fox News host Dan Bongino that aired Saturday night.
Do yourself a favor.
Pretty tone deaf considering who his fans are. They’ll forgive him though but he does need to zip it.
I don’t think his supporters are against the existence of the vaccines. They are against vaccine mandates, which Trump also opposes.
^ this
Well…to be fair, if Trump likes something then the Dems will hate it. On the face though, it doesn’t appear to help him.
I almost wish he would publicly say that everyone should mask up to stop the spread and that every single American must get the vaccine. The Democrats would outlaw masks and order the FDA to destroy the entire vaccine supply and arrest the scientists who developed it.
His ego won’t let him.
That’s probably what he was told, over and over again by the world’s greatest “experts” and he is just claiming the vax as his own. I agree he’d have been smarter to tell the truth.
He’s trolling. Let’s hear the left admit they’re not *that* effective.
Seek, and ye shall find
Los Angeles County health officials on Saturday reported 4,283 new coronavirus cases, the largest daily number reported in months and which public health officials attributed to the continued high rates of transmission of the Delta variant and significant increases in testing.
Although Department of Public Health officials expressed concern for the increasing case numbers, they cautioned that some of it could be attributed to more adults and children headed back to work and school and getting screened for the virus.
“Routine testing programs are increasing at businesses and schools in L.A. County,” officials said in a statement. “As a result of increased screening testing programs, there will be quicker identification of asymptomatic people infected with COVID-19.”
County officials said the latest surge is showing signs, maybe not of letting up, but of leveling off somewhat. The daily test positivity rate on Saturday was 4.7%, a small decrease from last week’s rate of 6.3%. The daily positivity rate is defined as the percentage of all coronavirus tests reported that are positive, officials said.
~5 out of 100 people test positive randomly. How may have symptoms?
There was a 3-4 month period where testing was super hard to find in L.A.. I know, because I had to get one during it. My kid tested positive, had no symptoms and I tested negative after spending ten days right next to him. I don’t care how many swabs say +.
A good tagteam interview with Larry Elder from The Sacramento Bee (about 53 min):
https://youtu.be/oQWc_ttA4n8
I’m not that familiar with the guy but he’s impressive here.
And-
Though it’s still early, Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said there are promising signs that the county’s order issued in mid-July requiring everyone, even those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, to wear masks in indoor public spaces may be having the intended effect.
“It’s hard to say with 100% certainty that this was the factor that tipped us to have a slightly better slowing of spread than other places, but I know for sure it contributed, just because the data [are] really conclusive on the importance of masking indoors and how that does, in fact, reduce transmission,” Ferrer said.
Really? Where is that “data”? How was it acquired? Can the results of this “study” be reproduced, or is it just more wishful thinking and baseless speculation?
On the radio, they call her Barbara Fuhrer. For a reason.
Hey…masks forever…on a hunch…with no data…
Or maybe people have decided on their own based on info given to voluntarily avoid the situations that might result in transmission. It could be that too, couldn’t it, but that explanation softens the authority boner.
‘What we did last week, that is already showing positive results. What people who don’t wear masks are planning to do next is already showing negative results. #science’
It is just more wishful thinking and baseless speculation.
My back has had it, the leg gave out in the shower and I ate shit. I took me 5 minutes to crawl out, and dry off. Engage Exoskeleton!
Oh, poor Yusef!
JFC, that sucks. Have you considered changing your handle to “Job”? Srsly, hope you find a way through this.
Maybe if you make few calls and explain the situation, you could see someone sooner?
The county also reported an additional 13 deaths related to COVID-19 on Saturday. Of those 13 reported deaths, three people were older than 80, four were between 65 and 79, four were between 50 and 64, and two people were between 30 and 49.
In a county which elsewhere in the article is said to have 8.3 million residents. That’s some wholesale devastation, right there. There will be no one left alive in a matter of weeks.
Back of the envelope: Yesterday’s report, 100K new cases
That’s a million every 10 days
36 M a year
10 years every American will have had will have the Big V and we’ll all be immune, toss the vaccine into the mix and it screws up all the math.
Something else to panic about
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can voluntarily share their Covid-19 vaccine status with administration, but those who show up on campus unvaccinated or choose not to disclose their vaccination status will have to get tested for coronavirus weekly.
When apprehensive students started approaching Benjamin Meier, a professor of global health policy at UNC-Chapel Hill, about their peers buying fake vaccine cards, he began to worry about the effectiveness of university policy. Classes at will begin on August 18.
“(Students) explained to me that they can easily purchase fake vaccine cards,” Meier said. “I asked, ‘Do you know students who have submitted these to the university?’ Every one of them did.”
Fake vaxx cards? The person sitting right next to you could be spewing deadly germs, and you won’t know until it’s too late.
College students rebelling against authority? What kind of craziness is that?!?!?!
They are a smaller portion than in the past and there proportionally more snitches.
Ratting out those with fake papers. Good little [anti-]fascists.
HitlerBiden is proud.Nothing a few soap bars in a pillowcase wouldn’t solve.
Something happy, We can,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXgkuM2NhYI&list=RDK_tyWt_9Bfs&index=4
Many of these universities also have vaccine exemption applications for students with religious or medical opposition to getting vaccinated, but students ideologically opposed to the vaccine could face disciplinary action or be barred from enrolling if they do not provide proof of vaccination and are not exempt, according to policies at Duke and the University of California system.
Ideological nonconformity, at an institution devoted to education and intellectual curiosity? Questioning authority and generally accepted beliefs? Not acceptable.
“REVEALED: Woman, 20, who is jailed for life for the death of her ex-boyfriend’s mother had plotted the ‘twisted killing’ with her new fiance who she had only met ONCE before”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9872725/Woman-jailed-20-years-killing-exs-mom-new-beau-met-ONE-day-prior.html
“Forget money or sex! Loving your in-laws is what saves marriages, says study defining 11 ‘partner traits'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9872403/Forget-money-sex-Loving-laws-saves-marriages.html
Something about the duality of man.
She seems… you know.
Like a moran?
Awww tru-luv
“EXCLUSIVE: Awkward! Obama runs into Nancy Pelosi following a round of golf with Don Cheadle after she was DISINVITED from his ‘scaled down’ 60th birthday but showed up to Martha’s Vineyard anyway”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9872709/Obama-runs-Nancy-Pelosi-DISINVITED-scaled-Marthas-Vineyard-party.html
Sad!
That’s junior high level stuff right there.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/mediaviewer/rm1722342913/
lol
The SF socialite part makes it especially apt.
What a racist, having BLAQ caddies.
I can’t even.
At least the douchebags are self identifying.
Holy shit a picture of Finnegan Biden. I thought SF made her up.
“A wild confrontation erupted between a transgender councilwoman and a Star Wars store owner over a sign that she claims is transphobic.
In a video, councilwoman Tiesa Meskis got into a five-minute shouting match with Don Sucher, the owner of Sucher & Sons Star Wars Shop in Aberdeen, Washington, on Thursday, over his sign that reads: ‘If you are born with a d**k, you are not a chick.
Meskis can be heard yelling: ‘Trans women are women. That sign is bulls***t.’
‘You’re nuts,’ Sucher yelled back. ‘I’m telling you that as a man, that’s bulls**t.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9871831/Transgender-woman-gets-wild-confrontation-Star-Wars-store-owner-offensive-sign.html
Retard fight, but it seems these loud, confrontational assholes, are always “transgender women” who haven’t transitioned.
Is it a “Retard fight”? I’m becoming more and more leery of this sense of false equivalency we seem to have to engage in. One of these people is correct, one is wrong. Why do we have to assign the one who is correct the equivalent level of retardation as the one who is bat shit insane? Granted it’s a ‘shouting’ match in the public square here, but this mentality is also evident in more calm discussions. Why am I required to say “I’m not a conservative, those guys are assholes, but…” or “I’m very very progressive and I never agree with X, but….”, “Rand Paul is a crazy right wing nut job, but…”.
“A pox on both their houses” is not a appropriate when one house has a couple of skeletons in their closet and has some bad ideas, but the other house is a hall of mirrors with dismembered bodies strewn about and an elevator straight to the bottom of Dante’s Inferno.
I mean, if the guy wants to interject his personal opinion into his business, he’s free to do so. The left does it all the time and obviously not just at the mom and pop shop level. I also reject the notion that not believing an obvious lie makes one “anti-trans.” I don’t have to believe in your gender identity bullshit to respect your rights or even you as a person.
In the PNW, so many people are so fucking crazy, I can understand your desire to proclaim your sanity in the face of it. The asshat tranny is an actual city councilman. That his intentionally going to this particular store and confronting the owner, when he could just go down the street to “Trannies are us” where he’s welcome, marks him as a total douchebag.
I bought a Spaceballs poster at that store. His gimmick is “everything 50% off today only”, every day.
I wish I could tell you that most Americans are freedom-loving folk too busy learning, creating, building, and selling to give a shit about what victim-less and consensual behaviors other people indulge, but……………..
it’s totally possible to not care what people do in private and be offended by the butchering of normal language and the forcible manner in which this particular lobbying effort is attempting to destroy people for wrongthink. I have nothing against furries, but they don’t viscously attack people who don’t dress up as hamsters for sexytime. Look what happened to the middle aged moms who got pissed that the dude was swing his junk around the women’s locker room in front of their daughters. Antifa tried to make them all bleed for it. That’s what is driving the backlash, not some deep desire to make sure you limit your kink to those that these people approve of.
Agree on all points.
My sense of something being off comes from your point about the left injecting opinion into business. They are not only injecting opinion (and un-scientific nonsense) into business and social life, they are increasingly doing so with threats of state violence and the forced exclusion from civil society. And yet one who uses whatever small platform they might have to object must be tarred, even by those of use who agree with them, with the label of being engaged in a ‘retard fight’. Or when one defends them in a public discussion, must ritualistically be dismissed with “this person is icky and unsophisticated, I’m in no way associated with them, I’m a good person just like you, but…” You’ve lost the battle already. And I’m increasingly convinced this is a battle. Right now the way to fight is to vigorously defend truth and not back down or dissemble and try to stay in the good graces of the apparatchiks, but to confront them with intellectual force and conviction. Otherwise the battle will move to other, less pleasant fields.
“One of these people is correct, one is wrong.”
I’d say they are both wrong, or at least obnoxious, in their actions.
I’d also say they are both wrong in their opinions. Star Wars nerd doesn’t understand what “trans women are women” means, and the councilperson doesn’t understand how it doesn’t apply to “her”.
“Trans” women are not women. They are men trying to emulate women. if we concede that it’s possible to transform into the opposite sex, we might as well proclaim loudly that 2+2=5 and even believe it.
“transform into the opposite sex”
See, again, that’s not what it means.
Yes, some people conflate sex and gender, even deliberately, but like this most unladylike politician, they aren’t helping either side.
So, “trans” is not a reference into transforming? Or “woman” is not a reference to the sex which they desire to be? WTF?
“Trans” is a reference to transitioning, and the gender “across from” their biological sex.
Woman is a reference to the gender which they desire to be.
Man they are so far beyond a man (sex) wanting to wear a dress and have tea parties (gender) it’s not even funny. The state of California is now putting biological males in women’s prisons where they rape the women and impregnate them. It’s so common, the prisons are handing out condoms. Would that it all so peaceful and accepting as the oversimplification you are offering.
I understand that there are people who just want to engage in this course of action and be left alone. There are a lot more people who want to break open the skulls of women who reject the idea that full grown men can parade around in front of young girls with their man junk at will. We didn’t start the fire.
I disagree. Words have meaning. Trans women are NOT women, certainly not in the sense that trans activist use the formulation. Otherwise, one doesn’t need the the modifier; the fact that you need a modifier to avoid a tautology tells you the implication the activists are trying to normalize is wrong, on a fundamental, biological level.
“or at least obnoxious” – disagree there as well. Demanding that others accept and proclaim falsehoods, or at the very least refrain from pointing out falsehoods is obnoxious. Pointing out falsehoods is not obnoxious. And our apparent need to put them on the same level lest we appear unsophisticated does not lead to a good place.
Perhaps I don’t understand your underlying premise – Why do you think Star Wars nerd doesn’t understand what “trans women are women” means? What do you think it means, or what do you think is the underlying reason for phrasing it that way?
Good point. It’s reached the level where I cannot determine exactly what they are talking about by the words they use. When they say, “trans woman” do they mean a woman who is transitioning into a man? Or a man who has transitioned into a woman? I have to read further to find some other context to make the call. There have been instances where no further context is present and I just don’t ever know. This is why it’s important to have words which mean what they say, plainly.
He’s obnoxious to put that sign on display IMHO. That’s assuming this was reported accurately and he had placed it in public view – I mean who does that?
It’s maybe sort of the way it was said. Hey man, your shirt’s on inside out versus hey shithead, your shirt’s on inside out: same meaning but different delivery the latter of which is counterproductively antagonistic. You do have some good points though.
How nice do you have to be when you say “A=A” to people who are trying to force you to disavow that? I have nothing but understanding for the Star Wars geek being pissed about this. I am too.
“Otherwise, one doesn’t need the the modifier; the fact that you need a modifier to avoid a tautology tells you the implication the activists are trying to normalize is wrong, on a fundamental, biological level.”
The modifier should tell you that it’s not on a biological level.
“Demanding that others accept and proclaim falsehoods, or at the very least refrain from pointing out falsehoods is obnoxious. Pointing out falsehoods is not obnoxious. And our apparent need to put them on the same level lest we appear unsophisticated does not lead to a good place.”
Whether or not anyone thinks it’s a falsehood is irrelevant. Both putting up political signs in a place of business, or getting into a shouting match over them, is uncouth. It’s a matter of civility, like the old adage about not talking about politics or religion in various social settings.
It also seems stupid in that it’s better for a retailer not have his potential customers think he’s a bigot, and a politician not have their constituents think they are an unhinged lunatic. They both have plenty of better ways to express their opinion.
Listen, in the PNW, there are roving bands of armed and dangerous violent thugs routinely attempting to enforce a massively dishonest adjustment of what words mean. Standing up to these thugs is crucial for the survival of everything a reasonable person should hold dear.
It’s possible to have confusion over which sex and or gender you wish to be and to attempt to emulate the other one without being a fascist nazi about it, and doing so would be met with widespread acceptance by most normal people. Unfortunately, that is not the approach that these leftists are taking. In the face of a massive degradation of actual words and their meanings, it’s important for people to resist. Failure to do so will lead to our destruction and it’s well on it’s way to doing just that.
“It’s possible to have confusion over which sex and or gender you wish to be and to attempt to emulate the other one without being a fascist nazi about it, and doing so would be met with widespread acceptance by most normal people. Unfortunately, that is not the approach that these leftists are taking.”
I agree. Antifa doesn’t care about trans people, any more than BLM cares about black people.
Some activists are literally claiming that trans women are biological women.
I don’t know if that is the case here or if the two are arguing past each other or what.
But the fact remains that lots of them have given up the “gender” confusion angle and are claiming they are the sex of “woman”.
Those activists are assholes, and I suspect most of them aren’t actually trans.
Sorry, checked out. Someone *finally* woke up (in the literal sense) so it was time to make breakfast. And now it’s time to do something constructive with my day, so I probably won’t follow up until this thread is long dead.
And were I inclined to continue, would continue to argue that “trans women are women” is a false statement at every level, but I don’t have the time to elucidate, so we’ll just have to agree to disagree that that statement has any value. And I’m willing to concede you might be able to convince me it does!
I will just leave it at I’m willing to be civil. But I am no longer willing to be quiet. And I will not condemn people who point out lunacy in their place of business either. The totalitarians are making their points in the public sphere very vocally, and much more concerning, in the legal and political realm. Anyone brave enough to face very real legal and social consequences to point out the insanity, even if ‘classically’ obnoxious, will not get my approbation anymore.
Thanks for engaging.
Are we sure the reporter transcribed that comment correctly? Did he say “You’re nuts” or “Your nuts”?
Google nes headline:
“Anti-vaxxer who died of Covid was brainwashed by social media, says family”
It’s not fair when people let the wrong TEAM brainwash them.
Did he die OF Covid, or did he die after having a positive Covid PCR test at some point in his life?
Branch Covidians act like I’m being unreasonable and contrarian when I automatically ask these questions, but it’s entirely the fault of the government-media complex for being so shady and misleading with the Covid stats. I may not be the Most Exalted Lord High Doctor of Truth and Science (peace be upon him) like Fauci, but when someone/something lies to me, I question everything else they tell me from then on. That’s perfectly reasonable.
The woke links are a stark reminder that as dumb as I think the people who employ me are, there are in fact deeper levels of derp out there.
Antifa attacks a Christian prayer group. And nothing else happens.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1424171542729080838
Someone needs to shoot those fuckers.
I was going to say that I wouldn’t mind if they were massacred. Utter filth.
When you show up in masks with shields and sticks, you have announced that you intend to commit violence.
These are the real domestic terrorists.
So much this. The cognitive dissonance on the left is incredible.
Colonel Cooper has the answer:
Some of the replies, oy.
Idiot 1: “Russian Orthodox. Heard of it? Very catholic which last I checked was a christian belief system. Any idea where communism became super famous? China and…. There is no logic to your claim at all. Just vitriol.”
Idiot 2: “And “antifa” just means “anti-fascist”. So *you* are either antifa or you’re fine with Nazis.”
Ngo has regular following of those who throw doubt on his reporting. It’s a tactic. Don’t believe your lying eyes.
Guess my troll meter needs recalibration.
“Idiot 2: “And “antifa” just means “anti-fascist”. So *you* are either antifa or you’re fine with Nazis.””
Communists have been using that tactic for a very long time.
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1416373661892812801
Ah, the mask comes off and ANTIFA is anti-christian. *searches desperately for shocked face*
Within 5 years, public exercise of faith is gonna be dangerous in most major cities.
“A Washington man serving time for a wild police chase found himself sharing a cell with the convicted child rapist who had once victimized his sister – so he killed him.”
https://twitter.com/FOX13News/status/1424051471973236736
“Man gets 25 years for murdering sister’s rapist after meeting him in jail”
https://www.fox13news.com/news/man-gets-25-years-for-murdering-sisters-rapist-after-meeting-him-in-jail
See, now, that’s a jury I’d like to be on because there’s no chance in hell I’m convicting. They can lock me up for all I care.
Also, seems like a pretty big oversight on the part of the people running the jail. But I doubt they do put much if any actual thought into where they throw people.
It might have been intentional
Possible, but doubtful. Like I’d give it less than 1% chance of being intentional. The pedo/rapist or whatever he was was in jail for another offense and not for the one related to the guy’s sister. The people in charge of the jail aren’t putting that much thought into roommate assignments let alone running background checks.
They most certainly do. At least, back when they routinely put me in jail for no good reason, they did. They had a two day intake process which included taking pictures of tattoos and determining which/if gang you might be in, how serious your charges and whether you’d ever snitched in any serious way. That determined where they would send you. And that was just county jail back in the eighties.
“watermelon slices were served to staff and performers for dessert”
https://nypost.com/2021/08/08/dj-posts-pics-of-obamas-birthday-party-before-being-forced-to-delete-them/
RACIST!!!!
“Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Jennifer Hudson, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Bradley Cooper, Don Cheadle, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Bruce Springsteen Erykah Badu, Steven Colbert and John Kerry were just some of the celebrity guests at the seaside affair.”
That sounds really “scaled down”.
Any remaining doubt as to whether Obama is a principled politician or an actor playing one?
Honestly I think they did nothing wrong and the Obamas — as much as I may not like them — aren’t big covid hysteria spokespeople … so whatever.
Ahem! This?
393 views in a month, 6 ?, 26 ?, comments disabled.
There’s at least a little bit of hope that people are sick of being lied to.
Old Man Music, racist edition
And brownies: super racist! (Is that a brownie next to the shrimp? ? )
Yeah, that seemed a really odd pairing. If they were British I would think it was some kind of blood pudding.
One plate ( / skewer / spud) per serf?
I wonder what the celebrities got.
To Bee or not to Bee ? That is the question.
Let those bitches try to forcibly innoculate me. I would take the needle and jam it in their eye.
Guarantee a few of those injuries and nobody would try to force anyone to get the hysteria vaccine.
Antifa attacks a Christian prayer group. And nothing else happens.
Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.
The way the whole country has always seen California? That’s the way California sees Oregon, now.
When you have Californians ridiculing you, you’ve hit rock bottom. We’ll evacuate all the West Coast Glibs and build a wall along the Sierras and the Cascades.
Let’s do the Superman Lex Luther idea.
The continental divide has the word
divide right in it. Sorry to westernsloper.
Meh, he can join in with the Deseret Empire.
I appreciate being let out before construction.
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.is/nOxt9
Many of those lovely ladies are certified GlibFit.
Who what now?
In recent weeks, DeSantis has veered further to the right by reiterating his disdain for Covid-19 restriction measures. He held a secret meeting with anti-mask medical professionals, signed an executive order that gives parents the final decision on whether their children will wear masks in school and promised to cut off state funding to any school district that forces children to put on face coverings.
A secret meeting with anti-mask medical professionals? I guess that was to protect them from having their licenses revoked for their heresies.
Didn’t the CDC’s own science show masks slow the spread of covid by 1% at most?
If it saves just one onerous regulation, then it was all worthwhile.
Hey now. It was 1.2%. Denier!
No. It showed that mask mandates slowed the spread of covid by minimal amounts:
However, it didn’t control for enforcement, level of compliance, dining conditions, social distancing, and many other factors.
It seems like one could just look at the places where there were no mandates and IDK, just see how they did in comparison.
Go seek out Marge Inovera.
*faints*
Inorite? Allowing parents to make parenting decisions is far-right Naziism at its worst!
I am absolutely livid at the new mask mandate here and the fact that my kids are going to have to wear them at school in a couple weeks. Even though they go to a Catholic school, it is going to follow the CDC bullshit. I really see now that my worst predictions at the start of this thing are coming true. They are never going to give this shit up.
I’ve been under a mask mandate at work since the beginning. Distancing, quarantine protocols, special steam misters for the common furniture, bi weekly testing, you name it. Two guys out of about twenty still managed to get it and despite my having been right next to them and even shaking hands with them, I never did. Pretty much what would have happened if we were in Florida and none of the bullshit was required. It’s all so crazy, it can’t even be considered somewhat reasonable.
My biggest criticisms of this whole bullshit scare have been the lockdowns and the masks. I think the data is very much on our side on both of these and yet it has been derided and censored since the start. I have entered north of 1500 of homes, apartments and commercial spaces in this time and haven’t caught the Vid yet (although I do believe I had it in January of 2020). I got vaccinated back on April, not out of a fear of the Vid, but for other reasons. I am not going to patronize and business that asks me to prove my vaccine status. Fuck that noise.
I hate the masks. I will wear them under coercion. Putting them on children is child abuse. The teachers are about as evil as any entity can be during all of this. I hope they all rot in hell. Especially when my city has deemed me to be essential and made me show up all fucking year at the original point of entry of the ‘vid. And, taken money from all of us at my work to cover their losses from covid not withstanding the fact that the feds gave them even more money than they otherwise would have had. Yeah, the fucking teachers managed to parlay this bullshit into getting an additional 500 bucks or so for their own personal childcare expenses while simultaneously refusing to hold real classes where normal people’s kids could have been allowing them to return to work. Fuck teachers.
Abso-friggin-lutely.
At least at our school they have held in person full time classes since the beginning of last November. As both the wife and I work out of home that was a necessity. Don’t know how much longer I can stand them being masked at school.
Good morning, peeps!
Can we all agree that news has really been sucking ass recently?
Nope. It’s always sucked ass.
But who cares? We’re on the right side of the turf and the sun is shining!
“the sun is shining!” Somewhere, just not here, and boy is it getting soupy,
Cheers!
“We’re on the right side of the turf and the sun is shining!”
More of this, less of the black pill.
It’s nice enough for golf, that makes it a good day,
Enjoy Q!
Yeah, I ain’t the one!
Did he die OF Covid, or did he die after having a positive Covid PCR test at some point in his life?
Branch Covidians act like I’m being unreasonable and contrarian when I automatically ask these questions, but it’s entirely the fault of the government-media complex for being so shady and misleading with the Covid stats. I may not be the Most Exalted Lord High Doctor of Truth and Science (peace be upon him) like Fauci, but when someone/something lies to me, I question everything else they tell me from then on. That’s perfectly reasonable.
Somewhere this morning I saw a claim that “[random number] of children under 18 have died of the plague, which completely disproves the anti-vaxxer claim children have nothing to fear.”
Aside from the bogus “nothing to fear” assertion, which hardly anybody has ever made, what were the co-morbidities present in those unique cases? Leukemia? Other cancers? Congenital cardiopulmonary dysfunction? Autoimmune disease?
https://pix11.com/news/coronavirus/teen-twins-on-ventilators-with-covid-virginia/
Spoiler: They fat.
Ditto the scoffing TX councilman.
Stop asking pertinent questions. You’re harshing someone’s buzz.
Were Bill and Hillary at Obama’s birthday bash?
Transforming it into one of those murder mystery dinners?
We all know “who” nunnit……..
Read bfore posting!
ISWYDT?
I haven’t heard their names mentioned with Obama’s since he left office. I don’t think there is any love lost between them.
Gay.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15806776/i-developed-feelings-for-another-man/
NTTIAWWT
On behalf of our pal Fourscore, I am pleased once again to be shilling for the legendary Honey Harvest!
For any newbies or dementia patients, HH is an annual event hosted by Fourscore at his amazing compound near Emily, MN. Last year we had a terrific turnout, perfect weather, lovely people and NO MASKS! Honey processing, potluck, mead tasting courtesy of kinnath and so much more.
HH is held on the third Sunday in September, so the 19th this year. I maintain a list of veteran and potential Honey Harvesters. If you are interested, shoot me an email at:
minnetundra AT those evil fuckers from Mountain View.
Do it. You know deep down that you really want to meet Pope Jimbo.
Indulge your dirty secret!
Also, a HH tradition is that I will send out some update at some time telling everyone that it is the third Saturday of September. Disregard that. I’m never right, but my brain makes me send that out every year. Then Tundra gets to mock me for that.
Fun HH Fact:
At one point Fourscore was trying to turn it into a swinger’s event. People would come harvest the hives, have an orgy, then leave. You know….
Honey. Nut. Cheerio.
Never got enough takers, so he turned to even bigger degenerates and started inviting Glibs.
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As an alum of UW-Madison, I am saddened but not surprised that they moved the “racist” rock from it’s prominant place on Bascom Hill. Considering the racist activities of the Democratic party, I think they need to disband immediately.
I can’t help but LOL at that. A racist rock! *smh* G-d damn humans are fucking stupid animals. When the dolphins take over it’ll be a significant upgrade.
-1 Stone of Shame
Obligatory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTQ30iP1yQ
I know nothing about the university. Is it the Berkeley of the Midwest?
It’s the International Lenin School of the Midwest.
It’s the Democratic People’s Republic of the Midwest. So yes.
They missed a chance to turn that rock into a pilgrimage site like that rock in Mecca that represents the devil. Wokesters the world over could have come to Madison to throw rocks at it. They could have made a fortune.
Thanks for the music link Spud. I’m gonna have to go listen to a full Thin Lizzy album now as I don’t know much of their catalogue. It’s a real shame what FM radio has been over the last decades, you only really ever hear their two or maybe three hits. Recently I have been going back and doing full album listens and it is great. I love the first two Dire Straits albums, Lonesome O’nery and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes by Waylon and In a Silent Way by Miles.
My favorites – Southbound, Wild One, Solider of Fortune, The Emerald, Still in Love with You (live version).
The band evolved a lot over time from being really Irish (Whiskey in a Jar), to their unique double-lead guitar sound (Bad Reputation album). Then drug related health problems killed Phil.
Thanks D, they are now definitely on my albums to listen list. I dig the Irish thing as my family is all from there and I grew up going back every five years to visit. Sounds like Phil was deeply proud of his Irishness and used a lot of Celtic imagery in his lyrics. I always love encountering new (old) music.
So the current state of correct thinking is:
1) Vaccine mandates = A-OK
2) Requiring athletes who are being paid with tax dollars to show respect for their own national anthem = Literally fascism
You shouldn’t interfere with the right of athletes to compete for who can be the most ashamed of the country they trained for years to represent.
If they were competing on their own dime, I’d wish them all the best.
It grinds me to know end that these yahoos are paid for years and years to train and then protest at the Olympics. You know what would be a way more effective protest? Not playing (or taking their money).
Of course, then they’d have to go get a real job.
Tax dollars are used for the US Olympic team? Serious question.
I’d imagine they get tax dollars in some roundabout way if not directly:
https://www.gao.gov/products/ggd-00-183
That report addresses taxpayer funds when a US city hosts the games. I’m wondering about the teams.
I guess I assumed so. But to be honest, I have no idea or proof that they are.
Like Akira said, even if it isn’t a direct payment, I bet that all sorts of funds trickle down to them through various means.
Looks like no direct payment, but they get a tax subsidy.
1. Requiring an ID to vote is racist and evil.
2. Requiring a vaccine ID to leave your house is legal and necessary (unless you are an illegal immigrant, then it’s racist).
Also, conservative political rallies=superspreader events but BLM rallies are A-OK.
1. Requiring an ID to vote is racist and evil.
2. Requiring an ID to buy a gun is not enough. You should also have to pay lots of fees and get a permit from the govt.
Also,
1. Background checks for a job are racist
2. There should be a super-stringent background check before you can get anywhere near a gun.
1. We cannot allow kids to smoke or drink. Their teenage brains are not formed yet.
2. We need to keep those 18 year old kids in Afghanistan!
But they should be allowed to vote!
Some say as young as age 16, no less.
I like Thin Lizzy.
Health officials are investigating Covid-19 outbreaks tied to two recent outdoor music festivals in Michigan and Oregon, raising new concerns about the safety of events with tightly packed crowds, even outside, as live music surges back and the more transmissible Delta variant spreads.
Go fuck yourselves.
Organizers expect at least 700,000 people during the 10-day event that is a rendezvous for bikers, who connect over their love for motorcycles. For some, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime goal to make it to Sturgis; others faithfully make the pilgrimage year after year.
🙂
Also from the Sturgis article:
The rally is known as a place where people let loose, strolling the streets in minimal attire and body painting. On Thursday, one woman walked through downtown with a goat on a leash. A man sat on a bench with a rifle as passersby smiled and nodded.
🙂
NBC is giving advertisers who bought airtime during the Tokyo Olympics extra commercials due to underwhelming ratings for this year’s 2020 Olympic Games, fueled by a pandemic-weary population and backlash against woke athletes protesting the U.S. flag and national anthem.
Heh.
The University of Wisconsin removed a controversial boulder from its Madison campus Friday after the Black Student Union and other activists objected to its description nearly 100 years ago with a racial slur.
WTF?
I know, right?!?
Makes me want to go 1000 feet underground and work in 3.5 miles of tunnel.
Oh, wait—that’s an actual possibility if my dream job works out.
Hardrock miner? 😉
Sure, that’s the ticket!
Unlike Ted’S who is a crappy pop miner.
I pick songs that are lyrically appropriate, regardless of the quality.
And it’s not as if it’s any worse than the punk or metal most of you post.
I know. I’m sorry if that was mean. I was trying to make a joke.
I tried to explain, but somehow my post is awaiting moderation. I know why you pick the songs you do, and I actually enjoy it. I was just making a joke.
To be fair, if any of my musical choices make the rest of you recoil in horror, so much the better.
You are going to save a lot on sunscreen.
“a pandemic-weary population”
You’d think that would increase ratings.
Only if Fauci and the CDC were allowed to field teams in the competition. They could play the role of the bad guys the way the Russians used to.
So… more preaching? Yeah, that’ll draw more viewers. ?
Also, conservative political rallies=superspreader events but BLM rallies are A-OK.
Birthday Lives Matter!
The Exoskeleton worked well, I played 10 holes of golf before the rains came back, feeling pretty good!
Gamara!
We can rebuild him. We have the time. We have the money. We have the technology!
Germany’s oldest street legal car
“The exhaust is piped back into the cargo area, which can hold a number of people of dubious origin.”
I bet if we went back through the historical records, we could find some stories referring to the US Capitol by some un-woke term.
Maybe that is why the good thinking people of this country attacked it on 1/6?
They were just trying to start the process of healing for BIPOC of this country?
A ray of sunshine on a cloudy day:
https://www.aier.org/article/prominent-law-professor-sues-his-school-over-vaccine-policy/
Good to see some pushback, need a lot more of this.
Nice!
Don’t mess with the needle! I know!
On the local news today there was a Stanford professor saying both that the mask mandate in classrooms is good, and that ventilation systems in schools need to upgraded masks can’t filter out the small particulate matter from the smoke from the forest fires. The interviewer of course just nodded along and didn’t think to ask the obvious question.
That’s because the job of the media is to regurgitate government propaganda.
Double Think is a real thing.
? You may ask yourself…nothing ?
/talking head
Science!
On the local news today there was a Stanford professor saying both that the mask mandate in classrooms is good, and that ventilation systems in schools need to upgraded masks can’t filter out the small particulate matter from the smoke from the forest fires.
And, of course, smoke particles are gigantic in comparison to aerosolized snifflecooties.
But don’t worry, SCIENCE! knows best.
Only if Fauci and the CDC were allowed to field teams in the competition. They could play the role of the bad guys the way the Russians used to.
I’d like to see Foochy out there catching javelins.
You are all being deprived of opportunities to be Firsted with these lack of new articles. I am so sorry for all of you.
Be the first to submit an article, maybe?