Hopefully your national holiday of sticking it to your boss went well. I spent mine sleeping in, seeing that Chinese Marvel movie, and grilling some burgers. Later my wife found Seaquest streaming somewhere and it occurred to me that show was just Star Trek underwater.
Here’s a few links!
The big news today: Former Trump advisor, Jason Miller, detained briefly in Brazil.
Biden um…considers a um…version of um…the um….remain in…um….Mexico…policy. Anyone wish to venture a guess why?
Elsewhere in Mexico, they are preparing for the annual maltida critobál colon day.
Bolsonaro cracks down on big tech.
Today is the day! This will be interesting how El Salvador fares. Here’s a firsthand account, which seems to have gone pretty well.
No matter where in the world you go, you’ll find soccer hooligans.
Here’s some tunes. Have a good afternoon.
Wait, what just happened?
Yeah, I’m a little confused.
Animal had a glorious first, but it was erased from history like an unpopular pharaoh. I suspect Brochettaward had something to do with it.
Nothing. Nothing at all. Why do you ask?
?
I know what I saw.
Nothing? Absolutely nothing?
What happened? I didn’t First and it pains me. But I have to conserve my strength.
FIRST!
I saw the local (reliably lefty) paper in the supermarket today, and the main headline, referring to past few months for the Biden administration, was “A Summer to Forget”.
I’m sorry I didn’t take a picture.
I’m sure the leftoids would like us to just forget the catastrophically bad domestic and foreign policy activities of the Biden administration.
And a substantial percentage of the population will.
I was thinking of the irony of that headline as it pertains to the president’s dementia.
Bitcoin dropped 10% today. What did you do El Salvador!?
Now that a national government will accept it as legal tender, Bitcoin’s lost its cachet as the “bad boy” of currencies and people are piling out of it to something darker and more brooding.
What? Quit lookin’ at me like that.
What did you do El Salvador!?
Buy the dip?
That was solid. From what I gather there was some hiccups in the rollout initially which may have caused some panic, but it has since recovered.
Definitely planning on buying some gold soon
Copenhagen or Skoal?
Check out Rockefeller over here. It’s all about Grizzly.
Mr Bolsonaro said a change of regulations was needed to combat the “arbitrary removal” of profiles.
He said the new legislation would help protect freedom of speech.
Hmm… big tech firms to leave Brazil and block Brazilians access?
A fight broke out shortly before the end of the first half when fan clubs from El Nacional invaded an area where Santa Fe supporters were sitting. Dozens more stormed the field after, forcing a delay of about 50 minutes.
We all know the real problem. They might have spread the ‘Rona!
“WhatsApp’s promise of private messages with end-to-end encryption appears to have been false, an investigation revealed.
When Facebook purchased the popular WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, both companies assured users that their data could not be accessed by either company, but reporters for ProPublica found that the claims were not true.
Facebook has not only hired 1,000 workers since then to sift through millions of messages on WhatsApp, which has two billion users around the world, but it also shared some of those messages with law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Justice to help put people in prison, the ProPublica claims. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966435/Facebook-hired-1-000-workers-examine-millions-pieces-content-WhatsApp.html
IG hookers hardest hit?
Yeah, anything with the stank of Facebook on it is inherently untrustworthy.
I’m gonna be really bummed in a couple years, when a similar article drops about Signal or Telegram.
Yup.
Relevant
OMG guys stop planning anything on the “encrypted” internet, and plan them with your local FBI plants like god intended!
Doesn’t surprise me at all.
“Brazen Oregon Lowe’s shoplifters push carts laden with $2,000 of copper cable in latest example of ‘legalized stealing’ in lenient Dem states”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9965833/Shoplifters-steal-thousands-dollars-worth-electrical-wires-Lowes-Oregon.html
Seriously, who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
Hundreds of politicians, judges, and lawyers? And all of them mysteriously at about the same time?
Interesting thread here:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1435222209832890381
Some of the replies make me despair for humanity.
Of course, it is Twitter, so I should not be surprised.
woops! gilmored
Christ you think the media would be all over that story.
I know i slay you guys.
People that recycle copper for money?
Progs.
They pitched this as a remedy for the perceived inequity in arrests and sentences for Bipocs. I can’t figure out whether they were trying to smuggle reparations in through the back door with this, or whether they didn’t foresee the consequences of their actions. Probably a bit of both.
Stealing isn’t legalized statewide here (yet). Keizer is in Marion County not Multnomah (Portland). It also helps to dial 911 when the crime is happening, not the next afternoon.
There is a weird idea that runs through the thought process of liberals/progressives that all issues stem from legal disparities, for lack of a better term. It is this that causes the left to go all-in on things like no cash bail, defund the police, and so on. That the only reason for disparities stems from “the Man” keeping his thumb down, and that there are no downsides to crap like this. See NYC in the seventies for these policies writ large.
Getting excited for Gov Kotex?
“Smoking cannabis nearly doubles the risk of a heart attack in adults under the age of 45, study suggests
Overall 1.3 per cent of cannabis users had experienced a heart attack, compared to 0.8 per cent of non-user”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966313/Smoking-cannabis-nearly-doubles-risk-heart-attack-young-adults.html
Maybe they ate double the amount of junk food?
About like smoking cigarettes, then.
Or a lot of people in not so great health smoke it for health reasons and that fact shows in the heart attack stats.
If slightly more than 50% extra is ‘almost double’. scaremongers.
Also, if you’re just comparing the two populations without any controlling for other variables, that is a fail to then say it caused it.
“Affirmative action for male students has become the new ‘dirty little secret’ with US colleges ‘worried’ that men are abandoning courses in record numbers – but are afraid to speak out amid the glare of gender politics.
Women now make up an increasing proportion of the student body across America, in part driven by a trove of recent initiatives aimed at improving gender equality.
Data from National Student Clearinghouse reveals female students accounted for 59.5 percent of all college enrollments in spring 2021, compared to just 40.5 percent that were men…
Affirmative action for male students has become the new ‘dirty little secret’ with US colleges ‘worried’ that men are abandoning courses in record numbers – but are afraid to speak out amid the glare of gender politics.
Women now make up an increasing proportion of the student body across America, in part driven by a trove of recent initiatives aimed at improving gender equality.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9966167/Affirmative-action-male-students-new-dirty-little-secret-colleges-worried.html
No one could have predicted this.
Bah. Because of the Patriarchy, college degrees will become more and more devalued as they become associated with womyn. Rape culture apologists will come up with some nonsense about “fields of study” or “practical value” to justify it.
The
gendersex breakdown across subject areas would be more interesting.Probably unchanged, as there has been an explosion in useless “_______ Studies” degrees.
That’s my general suspicion
Maybe young men are starting to figure out that there are financially superior alternatives to spending north of $200K for a wokeness certificate?
Especially if you’re going to then compete with women who end to have lower salaries. Supply certainly swamping demand in some areas.
I also think this means that college debt forgiveness will continue to be more likely, society loves to baby women.
We’re one currency pop away from a whole bunch of those jobs that women are attracted to just disappearing.
What are Mexians doing with their colons today?
Oh, this must be their Libertarian “weed and buttsex” festival.
Sure, they do that after they tear down Columbus.
Some of them live there?
Seaquest? NO!
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was Star Trek underwater.
That flying submarine was cool as fuck.
My uncle had that model, which I think I broke in the bath-tub, when I was probably 4 years old.
Understandable when you also have a model SEA SMITH.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was great and silly. I saw an episode the other day where for some reason, the sub was transporting an Egyptian mummy. Naturally the mummy came to life and menaced the crew.
I remember watching reruns of that when I was a little kid. I loved it, but it could be a little scary sometimes, at least for kids.
Seaquest DSV was more like Star Trek: Deep Sea Nine.
Heh, that thing has a grill like a Buick.
Peter Lorre looked like death warmed over in it.
Noone picked up on my House of Cards reference in the previous comments. Sad. That or I’m too unhinged to reply to.
*twitches and yaps like a chihuahua*
Don’t make eye contact.
No, you’re fine, really. It wasn’t you, it was us. [backs away slowly]
You might very well think that but i couldn’t possibly comment.
In local news:
“An unpaid restaurant bill led to gunfire Sunday night in downtown Walnut Creek, according to city officials.
Police were still looking for the suspect and had not made any arrests by Tuesday morning.
…
The owner chased after the couple as they headed to their car across the street, Burkhart said. He confronted them, and the man eventually paid before getting into the passenger side of a black Kia.
The car drove away, and as it did, the man pulled out a gun and fired into the air at least three times”
Yusef and his PYT going on a crime spree like Bonnie and Clyde?
I wonder if restaurant bills – which are typically under $950 – are included in California’s law that makes such thefts a misdemeanor.
Which reminds me… misdemeanors are punishable. Why is nobody doing it?
It’s probably racist, or something.
Can’t let people get da covid over such minor crimes.
Fucking Walnut Creek?!? Holy shit. That’s the last place something like that should happen. I lived in that area for 30 years, that shit doesn’t happen.
There have been a few incidents lately including a murder in July.
Well dang, now I’m going to stare at the Mexican chicks cheeks rebounding from the slap for the rest of the afternoon, thanks!
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the Columbus statue on the Paseo de la Reforma, often a focal point for Indigenous rights protests, would be replaced by a statue honoring Indigenous women.
1) If you had asked me what city in North America had a mayor named Claudia Sheinbaum, I would’ve guessed something like Teaneck, NJ. Mexico City would’ve been way down on the list.
2) I have it on good authority that erecting statues to the side that lost a war is just a participation trophy.
Will the statue show the woman with her rib cage cracked open where the Aztec priest removed her heart?
LOL
It was quicker to go under the rib cage instead of cracking it open.
There were a ton of Alemanian (German) immigrants to northern Mexico pre-turn of the century, mostly Mennonites I believe. It is why there is so much good Mexican beer. It is not uncommon to come across people with the name Adolf from those parts, which is no longer a common name, IYKWIMAITYD.
Right. Just ask these guys,
https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-richmond-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-virginia-6fe850aff69b858d99b34436b9b87d8b?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
“The Confederate Insurrection” they call it.
“White residents celebrated the statue, but many Black residents have long seen it as a monument glorifying slavery.”
Oh, you know, just the Associated press trying to coax a race war.
something something history is written by the winners
But democrats lost civil war 1.0
Something something rattenlinien something.
Damn, Señor. That gif.
Thanks for the lynx, too!
Interesting to watch footage of the crowds in Brazil. Yuge!
That Carl’s Jr commercial is most excellent
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All of the Brazilian mainsteam media outlest I know of are CNN clones. So if they say anything, I take it the same way I do what CNN says. If they say the sun still rises in the East, I have to get up early to check.
I’ll relay this to my BIL and see what he has to say.
https://twitter.com/JACKSONLUIZGOM2/status/1435294382748409858
My wife is in Recife right now, she said there were huge rallies there.
Here’s the reply:
Quite simple. The man who ordered this is a supreme court justice, an arch enemy of the president and the author of several arrest warrants with blatant violation of free speech rights and due process. About the same thing that happened last year over there.
As assumed.
hey Rhy,
Are you still having trouble with the Hide/Show (H/S) button? It’s working fine for me, but I hacked together the fix, so it’s possible I missed something.
Yeah, it doesn’t do anything for me.
Hmm… I’ll poke around and see if anything seems off in that code. I didn’t really mess with the function of any of the buttons, just anchored them to a different element on the page.
As always, it may be worth clearing your Glibs cookies and seeing if the functionality returns.
Oh.
Nope, still doesn’t work 🙁
FWIW all the other buttons seem to work.
I hadn’t upgraded to the new Eyepiece, so I’m still learning the new system, but the S/H are working. Mac with Brave.
Windows 10/Edge here.
I have to tell you, as a frequent reader of news aggregate sites like Realclear, it’s astonishing to watch The Guardian and the Atlantic try to outdo each other on who is the absolute lowest of bottom of the swamp dwelling trash. Every day they seem to sink to another low of lowest, with headlines like:
Dems Can’t Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Pack the Court Lawrence Douglas, Guardian.
Murphy, McAuliffe and the Trump Suburban Squirm Edward-Isaac Dovere, The Atlantic.
Don’t even try delving into the idiocy of the actual articles unless you have a really strong stomach for disgusting displays of human depravity.
And we thought that the trio of Friedman, Bruni, and Krugman were kings of stupidity. Move over NYT columnists, you’re but lightweights.
I still remember the article in the Atlantic in early 2017 talking about Hillary’s dumbass failures to campaign and how terrible her choices were. Actual journalism. What a shame they’ve turned into the same trash as the rest.
At this point I think I’d prefer Pravda- at least then we’d only have one site, not deluged with a hundred “different” websites that all recite the same things.
“At this point I think I’d prefer Pravda- at least then we’d only have one site, not deluged with a hundred “different” websites that all recite the same things.”
They’re all vying for the Pravda spot in the new USSA. It’s the only way they think that no talent scum like them can maintain any type of gainful employment. At least they have that right.
Nobody needs thirty different kinds of propaganda.
Or more than one kind of political party.
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/ideas/2021/07/16/reaching-our-potential-as-a-liberal-society/
Yep everyone got complacent after the USSR fell. The battle of ideas had been won and the Deep State had embraced neoliberalism so it was only a matter of time before we had enlightened technocrats slashing and burning the welfare state and regulations. I mean Bill Clinton said that “Big Government is Over” and Joe Biden agreed so of course we can trust the elites with total power over us…
When have the elites ever not tried to govern over every one?
After 5 years of wanting a small patio replaced I finally found someone this year that showed up and began work, after promising. He showed up, removed the old patio, suggested a cheaper way to fix the wall around the patio, hauled away the broken up concrete and put the form boards in, will be back on Thursday to pour the concrete.
One guy promised “First thing in the Spring” for 3 years. Next guy was gonna be out in a few days for an estimate. Never showed. This guy came out on a Sunday, came back in a few days with an estimate. Didn’t show but came back with a bag of filleted fish as a peace offering and then showed up as promised. Last guy complained that he couldn’t find an reliable help, no one was wanting to work. I’ll be happy,
it was the last big project I had on my list.
It would still be wise to make progress payments.
Never pay more than 20-30% before work is done. Many states have laws for contractors to put liens for work done. Its much easier for contractors to get paid than for homeowners to get refunds for uncompleted work.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-activist-ai-weiwei-says-credit-suisse-closing-his-foundations-bank-2021-09-07/
The civilizing effects of free trade…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doux_commerce
For rationalists who hate old ideas libertarians sure embrace old ideas with non scientific backing…
You mean Pax Americana was never going to last forever in some grand utopian scheme? People revert back to the mean after they lose the common ethic and worldview and start abusing one another for sport again?
*shock of shocks*
Also that destroying the society and culture that produced liberalism might in fact destroy liberalism as well.
And we need to get rid of all the old ideas except for things I like such as Doux commerce or inalienable rights…
once again, who wants to get rid of old ideas?
That is what social liberalism and opposing reactionary means…
Winston’s strawman.
Sometimes I think the only reason we lasted this long is that we had so much space to expand into before the city-states of America polluted the concepts of natural rights. We’ve lost the military to the true Nazis, so unless there is a rebellion, now it’s just a matter of time. But then, it always has been. At least someone tried tried a framework for individual freedom and self reliance.
Freedom isnt free. Its a constant battle to protect your liberty and property from those few bad people who can rally the sheeple.
America will make it through civil war 2.0 but there will be bloodletting.
rationalists who hate old ideas?
Is it wrong that this made me smile?. https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden-heckled-in-new-jersey-for-abandoning-americans-in-afghanistan?utm_campaign=64471
Dayum. The Dems are in trouble.
As intended. They’re waiting to usher in Kamala, their true dear leader in waiting.
Popularity? Smopularity! Wait until you see voter fraud redux 2 mail-in ballot boogalo!
Nope. ?
No. Keep smiling. On our side of the imaginary line, The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ is starting to encounter people throwing stuff at him during campaign stops. Nothing serious so far, but he needs more affliction and less comfort, IYKWIMAITTYD.
I’m still holding out hope for Maxime Bernier.
I’m going to be let down aren’t I?
Sadly, yes.
I like the cut of Maxime’s jib. Most Canadians don’t “get” him, or the party he’s trying to establish. I’m gonna vote for the PPC candidate for Edmonton West.
I like him.
Arresting political opponents while they’re campaigning. I remember when that happened in places like Burma or Soviet controlled Poland.
Look, Slojo is failing for the same reason Mafiocuomo failed. Not woke enough. Kamala to the rescue!
No.
Smile!
Holy shit, that is great. Somerset County went narrowly for Murphy in 2017 but Murphy didn’t have Biden’s “coattails” to deal with then. The NJ gubernatorial election might get interesting.
*sigh* On the other hand, Manville went for the elephant by nearly two to one. Might not have been the best place for Biden to visit.
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/identity-politics-and-systemic-racism-theory-as-the-new-marxo-nazism/
Well at least there are no mean tweets…
And why are things so bad after the Great Enrichment?
will result in a fascist form of central planning in the United State
That train left the station a long time ago. But it was on time. Mostly.
So free trade is out and fascist-style planned economy and fiscal socialism is also out, what the fuck would you have us support?
I never said that free trade is bad but that free-traders seriously overdid the doux commerce arguments. Not only in China but in the world as a whole. They felt that with NAFTA and WTO the libertarian moment was inevitable but they were wrong. Also Trump’s protectionism is what really upset them so they seriously underestimate the damage that Biden would do.
See Boettke and Ebeling, both avid free-traders admitting that liberalism is in serious trouble.
Fair enough, but you can forgive me for thinking so when every other one of your post is bemoaning the failure of free trade to cure all of the World’s problems, and If you’ve offered an alternative I’ve missed it.
Free trade only works if all parties play by same basic rules.
Commies in china have no problem using biological weapons on the US economy because Trump wouldnt effectively bend America over for china.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/policy/international/570920-knives-taken-off-supermarket-shelves-in-new-zealand-after-terrorist%3famp
Number 1 on the Freedom Index…
The time is ripe for an armed invasion of NZ a lá Cortez. Who’d’ve thought that a people would disarm themselves back to the Middle Ages? War is Peace. Progressive is Regressive.
That’s definitely in WTF territory.
It’s par for the crazy course under that kind of mandarinate.
The whole knives thing is beyond bizarre here in the UK, too. Last I checked you can still buy a kitchen knife (if you’re over 18).
How about a Stanley knife? Or is any sharpened tool out?
Hell, I’d probably get arrested for carrying my pipe tool. Nice job, Brits.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/accessories/pipe-tampers-and-tools/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=267905
How long till the United States launches a full scale assault on Bitcoin just to bankrupt El Salvador and undermine confidence in crypto?
Tornados, they don’t call them that anymore, in Iowa and Nevada!
What even in the fuck was that? The middle of the country in Iowa and Nevada? Crops and wetlands in Nevada?
Jeebus, we are so fucked.
I don’t think the people who are actually in charge are any more cognizant.
From the replies:
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When the local weatherchicks start announcing “Enhanced Rotational Air Movement Event” warnings. maybe I’ll believe THAT much of what he said.
Brooksed it. Meant as reply to Hype above.
I assume he’s talking about derechos in Iowa and Nebraska, but that’s because I sort of understand gibberish.
“Derecho” – probably one person in one hundred had even heard of the word two years ago. Also “BIPOC” – how many people can identify what it stands for?
LBGTQandsoforth? 99.9% had never heard of “Aleppo” either.
Don’t forget about La Tinks.
South Carolina: It’s Not Meth, It’s Bug Bites©
https://pasteboard.co/KjyQY46.jpg
Image not found.
I have no idea why Pasteboard doesn’t work for me at all regardless if platform or browser.
In the US the number of Covid cases is now 3-4 times higher than a year ago. The number of Covid deaths is 50% higher than a year ago. These vaccines are so effective. It would have been so much worse without them.
I’d be dead without mine.
Did you at least kill Grandma first?
I tried, but the old broads pretty spry for 98, I couldn’t ever get within 6 feet of her.
Is that because she’s 6 feet under?
That and “spry” don’t really go together in my mind, but whatevs.
Except in that Buffy episode with the resurrection where they forgot to dig her up first.
Ps that was a little harsh, Señor Roberto
Modern web designers need to be flayed alive then shot. What kind of idiot thinks only two results from a search should be on screen at a timeout of ten results? And the waste of space with the excessively large text in a not quite black text with cute san serif fonts aka totally illegible. They must be paid by the scrolled mile.
I have super fast internet but I dont know how folks with slow internet can even load modern web pages for companies. They have so much superfluous parts of their home page that just require more bandwith.
Scrollin’, scrollin’, scrollin’ on a web search
Latest Project Veritas video: Interview with Natomas Unified School District Superintendent Chris Evans about the fired leftist teacher.
Hmm. If anything, as this develops, it’s going to show that even when someone engages PV in good faith, they are still going to go very aggressive and just that bit too far instead of taking a moment to shut up and realise “hey wait a minute, this guy agrees with me on the fundamentals”. Sure, they’re on the right side of issues, but I don’t think they really know what to do when faced with this kind of situation. Maybe the superintendent knows that. To all but PV’s dedicated supporters, this actually doesn’t show them in a particularly good light.
There’s the smart way, and then there’s the all confrontational all the time way.
My son lived in Natomas (half the time) about a decade ago. Thank god we got him into the high school that the CA politians send their kids to. A lot less BS, plus the Deftones were alumni!
Of no real importance, but a book I’m reading centers around an aqueduct in Wales.
Turns out it’s a real place.
Helluva piece of engineering for 1805.
A Dick Slashballs story and the ass-paddling gif.
Today is a good day.
Well, I arrived in Roswell.
I found the changing landscape fascinating as we drove west. The hills only started to return a few miles away from the town, though the vegetation is still sagebrush.
Had lunch at a place in Amarillo (the Big Texan Steak Ranch) that really leaned into the theme. Soon we’ll go hunting for food in Roswell, but the idiots here have a mask mandate. The desk clerk at the hotel said nothing towards my noncompliance. But I’m not sure I won’t be hassled elsewhere.
Never underestimate the Old Man, i won my second tournament in 4 weeks, playing against Great players Half my age, I’m sneaky,
Old man strength is real.
Congrats!
Huzzah! Senior Citizen privilege!
Found a folded up scrap of paper wedged in my front door with “call or text me any time [phone number]” in feminine writing. I can’t tell if the single mom next door is getting exceedingly desperate or what, but I got a chuckle before throwing it out.
Maybe I need to start wearing my ring when I go on my morning walks.
Who cares what the links are the front page is the most callipygian gif to ever be gif’d.
Yeah. That gif is…just wow.
Be careful there. One can become a political prisoner pretty easily in third world countries when supporting the wrong guy. Kind of like here.
Are you speaking from experience?
Not yet.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1435384920512385024
Gee, I didn’t see that coming…