That goal was a screamer!
The Chiefs are looking strong again. The Browns will be taking applications to play this weekend in the stadium parking lot. (Note: applicants must have a BAC between .05 and .15 to be considered.) Ohio State -Kentucky is off for this weekend. Liverpool won while Chelsea and Everton drew. The other game was cancelled, as are some for this weekend already. Expect more to come on that front, including a potential complete shutdown. Why? Because “science” or something. And Max Verstappen was given the World Champion trophy yesterday in Paris. You know, because he’s World Champion. Sir Lewis didn’t attend the ceremony because he’s a salty bitch. And that’s sports.
Multipass!
Big birthdays today include porn magnate Bob Guccione, commie Pope Francis, funk pioneer Art Neville, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, leg-tingling guy Chris Matthews, comedic actor Eugene Levy, actor Bill Pullman, pitcher (and the only reason I remember him is how slow his pitches came in on the old Nintendo “R.B.I. Baseball” game but how hard they were to hit) Bob Ojeda, douchebag fed Christopher Wray, the lovely Milla Jovovich, boxing great Manny Pacquiao, and baseball player Jesse Barfield.
Not a lot there. Anyway on to…the links!
Oops. We guessed wrong (again). But don’t despair. They’ll just blame it on another disease…like last year.
Somehow I doubt they’ll figure out the cause for this. Hint: it’s the government.
A man
Yeah, it’s “transphobic rhetoric” that’s the problem here. It couldn’t possibly be that a dude who swam collegiately for three years took a year off and then came back as a “woman” (after physically developing as a man “her” entire life) and then destroyed every record in the books.
Wait, they’re just now trying to look at it? Is it common for a shooter’s phone to not be looked at for 8 full weeks after a shooting occurs where the trigger man admitted he was holding the gun? Or is this case special?
Oh, it’s coming. And I’ll be laughing my ass off…unless they all flood here instead of Florida. Then I won’t be laughing.
No idea what’s happening
Is this what passes for leadership? First off, he’s scientifically wrong. Second, he’s spreading a message of fear instead of hope. Third, he’s a fucking mush-brained imbecile. We’d be better off with literally anybody else in charge right now.
I like how they don’t name the guy. I’m sure it is just an ethical standard and doesn’t have anything to do with maintaining access to the city government. Also, he did previously admit to supplying her with drugs, so why no charge there? Oh never mind. I know why.
I’m shocked they waited this long. You can’t be a global leading brand unless you spread constant fear, after all.
The city is gonna get theirs one way or another. Still, it’s a positive sign that the fourth largest city in America is booming with nightlife while the top three do everything they can to shut it down. So…silver lining?
Here’s an absolutely lovely song. A perfect band existed for a moment in time. But just for a moment. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this Friday and the coming weekend, dear friends!
The NFL cares so much about player safety that they’re going to fly a team into the hotbed of COVID that is Cleveland. There’s already been several jokes locally that if you’re going to the game, please wear a jersey as you may be required to get on the field and play.
/looks to last year when the Browns were without their receivers for a game, the Broncos had no quarterbacks for a game, and the Ravens/Stillers game was postponed multiple times
Ha!
Entire Browns coaching staff fully vaccinated, 90% of players vaccinated or in final process, GM says
Since there is no final process to being vaccinated, and nobody can ever be fully vaccinated, I doubt this.
The final process is when they convert you to soylent green.
Yeah. That’s from back in July. Local news is saying that speculation is that there’s only 1 unvaccinated player on the team.
As long as we have at least one person to blame.
Roger Goodell. The name you’re looking for is Roger Goodell.
Here that name is usually
HitlerArt Modell *spits*.Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame.
But it’s their own damn fault, right?
When the Browns all die, who will be the pallbearers?
It’s turtles all the way down
Clones of Lou Reed?
‘For the unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death,’ said Biden.
The wages of sin is DEATH.
Fucking snakehandlers is what they are.
I’ll take my chances.
“The wages of sin is DEATH”
I’ll owe you but I pinky swear I’ll take care of my bill.
Defying the will of the governette is defying the will of God.
Dylan Thomas would like a word with her.
If i was smart….
I would setup the FJB Winter of Death grand tour 2021-2022 t shirt.
Good music choice.
Thank you. What a magical time it was when that album was released.
That was a strange in-betweeny time for me. I’d just left Podunk for the city to pursue a relationship. It was like trying to grasp sand once we both realized we weren’t on vacation, anymore. That album leaves me cold for highly personal reasons. Why the hell was Jeff Lynn on that record?
Because the entire idea was his and Harrison’s when they were planning on the recording of George’s studio album.
I know that but E.L.O. guy? Frankly, Tom Petty didn’t belong there.
Sorry about the negative vibes, Sloop. That album triggers some bad juju for me. The Soundtrack of Confusion. I don’t care much for Xmas tunes either, I meant no insult.
None taken. I was just explaining how Lynne’s involvement came to be.
The one exception? The person who would directly take over from Biden.
^ This guy gets it.
Odds that Harris would have pushed back on the withdrawal from Afghanistan?
I bet we would still be there indefinitely if she were in charge.
Yeah, she would’ve half pulled out, and then when the Taliban took over, she would have flown in a couple divisions to re-take Bagram & Kabul, causing huge casualties all around.
I thought everybody in the NFL was vaxxed. That makes them impervious to the snifflecooties, right?
Right?
I’d say the fact they’re freaks of nature, young, and in good shape makes them impervious… but what do I know.
Just one unvaxxed person and the whole thing unravels. Science.
No, no, no! How many times do we have to tell you guys? I mean from the very beginning we have said that you will still get the Rona, but the severity will be diminished. Always. That has always been our story.
In fact we like it so much, we are deploying it to our other vaccines:
Since when have they ever claimed that the flu vax will prevent severe illness for the wrong strain?
“they are still likely to prevent severe illness.”
Well, it could. See, all those that were vaccinated and didn’t get the flu are proof that the vaccine is working.
Never.
A spokesperson for Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE.
Do not dare to question the Great and Powerful Oz.
It’s interesting to see what Apple would be like had Jobs not passed.
ZOMG such racism! The example of a fake profile in my sibersekuritee training was a Nigerian nurse!
I’ve heard Nigerians are yuge MAGA types.
Hand over fist adoption of MAGA ways.
I am suspicious about this warning about malicious haxx0rz engaging me in conversation, tailgating into my place of business then haxx0ring an unattended workstation. I’m not sure that’s ever actually happened off-set.
Tailgating into the building or the parking lot? Because on colder days, I’ve definitely chatted someone up to get them to let me into a building behind them instead of waiting outside to get buzzed in.
It’s anti-haxx0rz training. They have a little animation of a red silhouette following the black silhouette into the building, going to a desk, and sending little pixellated red skull-and-crossbones all over the place.
Alright, so into the building. Won’t matter, the weakest point in all security is the human element.
Surprised they didn’t make the evil hacker a white silhouette instead of a (RACIST) red one.
You’d think that they could teach security to ban people who are carrying laptops with skull and crossbones logos.
“CEO fraud is becoming increasingly popular”
I’m sure it is. But perhaps not in the way you’re describing it.
Lol. The only example where you’re actually supposed to click on the link is when the email is from HR demanding that you review the sexual harrassment policy.
Perfect excuse to never check your mail?
No matter how many times it’s in my training, I refuse to believe that anyone has unironically used the word “smishing.”
It’s a perfectly cromulent word.
HR called me in for a talk about why it was inappropriate to go on a smishing trip. I guess the women in the office are giant prudes.
Just nod and smile and check all the correct answers.
And pretend that you’re totes going to grill any strangers trying to “tailgate” you. ?
I hate his guts, but don’t say that. Cuomo wasn’t as bad as Hochul, and I think the same could be true of Kamala.
I didn’t mean “literally”.
Ok, actually I did. And I was probably wrong. You guys have come up with some real fucking losers.
Gotta be good at something, even if that thing is called sucking.
Kamala agrees.
You just forgot you were dealing with politics. Biden’s about 4 or 5 standard deviations down in effectiveness from your average jail inmate, so I get where you were going with that.
But there’s always someone worse in politics.
Yeah, wait ’til the next election.
#TeamAbrahms! The name suits, she is built like a tank.
I am related (by marriage) to someone who thinks Abrams is great and should be our next president.
Luckily they cannot vote.
I too, am related to some mentally ill people.
Yeah, the NY city council has 45 or so of them jockeying for position at any given time.
Unlikely, what with the pre-existing snowbirdng infrastructure.
I dunno, housing prices in Florida are wild right now. That might have changed my mind had I realized how fast prices were going up.
Yeah, but Texas is an icky hostile place. In FL, there are areas where it’s like you never left NY, culturally.
Does Austin not exist?
As proggie as the Austin government is, it’s nothing like NY. For one thing, lap dances are only $20.
“…never left NY, culturally.”
Yep. The entire East coast from Jacksonville to Miami.
I’ll take NY culture if it comes with no lockdowns or stupid feedbag theater.
New York culture is degenerate and decayed. I’ve grown sick of it.
“I miss New York and I miss the music
Me and my friends, we miss rock ‘n’ roll
I want shit to feel just like it used to
And, baby, I was doin’ nothin’ the most of all
The culture is lit and if this is it, I had a ball
I guess that I’m burned out after all”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ggD0rXjNI
But this isn’t about season fleeing. It’s about complete relocation. Florida can only handle so many before real estate prices completely outpace reality. Eventually they’re gonna want to land somewhere with cheap prices. And Houston metro still fits that bill.
I’m getting worried the scumbags will start heading this way en masse.
Right, but TX is lacking the massive pre-existing population of NY expats. Which isn’t to say you can’t find a decent bagel in Houston, just that it’s not as easy.
Also, as a non-native, the amount of “THIS IS TEXAS, BEYOTCH!” self-propaganda is offputting. I can only imagine that for someone from a conflicting self-propaganda culture, it’d be worse.
#TEXASSTRONG
Seriously. Even nationwide fast food chains will rename products sold in Texas to incorporate the word “Texas” into the name.
I had friends that asked me if they had Dairy Queen in MN. They didn’t believe me when I told them that’s where it’s headquartered (or was, I think it’s Omaha now) since DQ does such TX forward advertising.
Big Tex Mac?
My old business partner is building a house in FL and plans to “relocate” there for tax purposes. According to him, just the tax savings will cover the cost of the new place in 10-15 years.
Of course, we were talking about all the things he should do to “prove” he was in FL for 6 mo. +1 day. I guess the Minnesoda IRS is pretty vigilant about shit like that.
Figures that we can spend 100’s of millions on IT projects to manage car licensing and it doesn’t work, but the tax men have a system that is efficient in tracking snow birds.
If by now you have not noticed that the only parts of the system that work are the ones that allow the machine to fuck over the little people, while the siimplest problems go unsolved – by design – then you are not paying attention…
Come back to Texas
It’s just not the same
Since you went away
Before you lose your accent
And forget all about
The Lone Star state
There’s a seat for you at the rodeo
And I’ve got every slow dance saved
Besides the Mexican food sucks north of here anyway.
It just never ends
[Insert anecdotal sob story]
Portable generators can save lives after major storms by powering medical equipment, heaters and refrigerators when the grid collapses. But desperate residents who rely on the machines to keep their families safe sometimes end up poisoning them, instead.
The devices can emit as much carbon monoxide as 450 cars, according to federal figures. They kill an average of 70 people in the U.S. every year and injure thousands more, making them one of the most dangerous consumer products on the market.
As climate change and the country’s aging infrastructure combine to cause worsening storms and longer power outages, experts warn that more people are turning to portable generators every year — a trend that benefits manufacturers’ bottom lines while putting more people at risk.
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The federal government identified the danger of portable generators more than two decades ago. But regulations that would force companies to reduce generators’ carbon monoxide emissions and make the machines safer have been stymied by a statutory process that empowers manufacturers to regulate themselves, former government officials and consumer advocates say. That has resulted in limited safety upgrades and continued deaths, NBC News, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found.
Obviously, we should ban generators powered by internal combustion engines, and make them all run on electricity.
Catalytic converters for jennies obvs. There will be no problems with this.
Flywheel generators
Only the functionally retarded.
Ang the generators don’t kill anyone. The morons kill themselves.
Guns don’t kill people,
Alec Baldwingenerators kill people.^This. We have become a nation of risk averse bubble people who cannot accept even one death. This corona crap escalated that 100 fold. Now the press is already seizing on flu season, since Omicron isn’t panning out. Gotta keep that fear alive! Find that next boogeyman and let Big Daddy Government save us! Oh! Scary generators! Big Daddy Government, do something!
Ha! California beat you to it.
Because of course they did. The state has *such* an abundant electrical grid, there’s ample stable power — and the utilities aren’t trying to force mandatory fees to ensure anyone with solar pays them their high profits anyway.
Shhh, one day MN will figure out a way to bill the rural folks that are getting their well water for free , according to some thinking.. I would not be surprised if well water users would get a meter installed so we don’t steal the state’s water .
You do realize that the rain that falls from the sky in Oregon does not belong to the homeowner who might choose to capture what falls on his roof.
Are these seventy fucking morons keeping the generators inside their homes?
Paging Dr. Darwin. Dr. Charles Darwin, please pick up the black courtesy phone.
It’s like when I heard someone was suing some weed killer producing company for the cancer he supposedly developed from using it.
“Was he bathing in it?”
During one of our regular bad storms back a while ago, I had to explain that to a new neighbor whom turned on his genny in his garage, proceeded to close the garage door, and was on his way back into the house, that was a surefire way for him to kill his family. He complained that if he put the genny outside it would get rained on and risked having a tree fall on it or something.. Once I explained CO and what it does – by bringing over my CO sensor and plugging it in for him – he eventually complied and moved the genny outside. I got a real expensive bottle of bourbon from him a few days later, and we never discussed the subject again. I think that’s why he gave me the present: I was not making fun of his mistake..
The devices can emit as much carbon monoxide as 450 cars
How many devices and over what time period and how is this relevant to proper use of said devices?
The devices can emit as much carbon monoxide as 450 cars . . . making them one of the most dangerous consumer products on the market.
*sweeps tens of thousands of automotive collision deaths under the rug*
De Blasio doubles down vax mandates: “We’re not pushing hard enough. We’ve gotta go further.”
🙄
For uppity marxist leftist tyrannical idiots, the answer to a failed and stupid policy is NEVER to admit it was wrong and disastrous, but to double down on more of it. That’;s why you had Krugabe tell us that Obama’s 2 trillion pissaway failed because he didn’t double the money being pissed away and not that government policies to pick winners & losers and push insane amounts of tax payer lucre to connected political agents and democrat campaign coffers is a really stupid and evil thing.
From the NBC article on the trans phobic hysteria surrounding trans athletes:
*Trans people make up 1% of the population.*
Not a chance.
Now, I have not taken any wide surveys… But I have been at several large companies, totalling well over 1,000 employees in direct contact. When I was running a 50 person department, I probably interviewed another thousand people. I did not encounter any trans men or women in that cohort.
I have known a small number of trans people over the course of my life… And I just don’t see anything close to 1%. Probably not even a tenth of that.
I don’t get the media. The job is to get the story, starting with the facts. Who, what, where, when… That is an easy one. Some activist type says 1% … Just look up some real studies.
1% would mean 3.5 million Americans. 30,000 gender assignment surgeries per year? A quick Google search says there was a huge increase in 2016.. To 10% of that number.
That took me less than 30 seconds from saying “hmmm…. That sounds off” until I had a number to compare.
Which is why I am so firmly convinced that the media is lying all the time about everything, on purpose.
It is a nothing story with easy facts, and they still write it as an editorial and fill out the details with make-up “facts” … But present it as news, which the tech giants are treating as the touchstone of reality. Disagree and you shall be banned. Because the trusted news source has declared 1% to be reality…. When 0.1% is likely to be a high number.
It only doesn’t make sense if that is your (incorrect) assumption.
There you go.
But don’t worry, the next generation is going to be 30% trans, at least in the commie states. One more factor for moving the hell out. These societies are child abuse.
Yeah, LOL.
I’m perfectly fine with the propaganda except that they’re trying to pass it off as “fact”.
BELEIVE MY SOLIPSISM!
I’ve met hundreds of people, maybe thousands over the years. I’ve personally known ONE transgender person well enough to know that they were transitioning. F/M, oddly enough. So your data and mine seem to align.
You shitlords!
I have known TWO real trans people. And I sort of feel bad for them now. They legit were trans and were just trying to live their lives the way they wanted.
Now they are being lumped in with a bunch of crazies.
When I worked the renfair circuit, there was “Miss Terri.” However, if you weren’t there to see that she lived as a woman during the times when the fair is closed, you might have thought she was just crossdressing to entertain the crowd. The pun name didn’t help. Then you start wondering about sideshow performers.
#metoo
It was college suite-mate.
There was also one I suspected at work a few years ago. That gal clomped around like a Clydesdale.
It was the linebacker shoulders and size 12 shoes that gave it away, right?
No, it was the fact that this new lady, all decked up in makeup & jewelry but still looking like a dudely hag, repeatedly farted so loud that every cube in a 1/2 mile radius heard it, followed that up with a loud “Fuck me!”, and then those of us that smelled it had to emergency evacuate,
There are beaucoup transmen here. One is so well done you don’t clock him until he says something.
Transwomen seem more attracted to software jobs.
The root problem is that too many people fell for the Gay Agenda. On a more serious note, I do think that the MSM and the Left thought that they had decades to milk the gay oppression franchise. Then the stupid rubes figured out that the gays were pretty much like them and were getting a raw deal and changed their minds.
How the fuck did those stupid homophobes change their minds?
So they went to the Trans oppression narrative. The good thing about the trans is – like you said – there are so few that most people really haven’t met anyone that is truly trans. So you don’t have to worry about the squares changing their minds again.
The other good thing about the Trans is that they seem to be asking for special treatment. With gay rights, they just asked for the same thing as everyone else. On paper it may seem like Trans folk want the same treatment as the rest of us, but deep down I think most people know that it isn’t right to have men competing agains women.
If the Trans people were just saying “I want to live my life” and that was it? Probably broad acceptance. But this “You have to let me compete!” and “If you won’t date me now that I am wearing a dress, you are a transphobe” bullshit is a step too far.
It’s all gaslighting being whipped up by the leftist machine. I am certain that most real trans types do just “want to live their life” but many of them got snookered into “activist” BS by a bunch of leftists who couldn’t give a shit about gays or trannies or any of that. Hell, they’re already moving on to pedos now.
Much better and more succinct explanation of what I was trying to say.
Hence the B added to DEI. You must make us feel that we belong.
Fuck that noise. I can tolerate pretty much any human being, that doesn’t mean I like them or particularly want to hang with them.
Dagmar was his name – https://youtu.be/RrKKt6NprVM
“….sir Richard Pump-a-Loaf the tale of a demented bread-boffer”
ZAPPA IS GENIUS!
I hope you are feeling better, friend Tres!
Another facet is that it’s now trendy among the youths to be “trans”, so you have a bunch of teenagers declaring themselves such. I have the feeling it’ll be the next generations LUG’s.
Im hearing that a lot of kids are claiming to be pansexual these days. I’ve heard about at least 10 of them in my daughters middle school. 5th-8th grade pansexuals. Strange times.
With schools and other social activities being closed, they’ve had to resort to experimenting with kitchenware.
*polite applause*
Who posted this yesterday?
https://i.redd.it/93mr60qejql61.jpg
Savage.
That’s just perfect!
I’m sixty years old, have met and interacted with thousands of people, and I’ve met two trans people. Anecdote, not data, I know, but still. I don’t buy 1%. Not even close.
I’m a generation older and have never met any trans (but how would I know?) I’m still so naive I think binary and I am satisfied with that.
As a faculty advisor for over 20 years, there were 3 students out of maybe 500-600 that were trans (all M2F). So 1% may not be that far off, at least for people under 40.
What this town needs is an
enemamoar compassion.It sucks to say it, but incarceration – even for kids – who are committing multiple armed robberies, car jackings and shootings is the correct “intervention”.
Obligatory
Some interesting information was relayed during post-testimony discussions between Kim Potter’s attorneys and the judge in her case regarding Duante Wright’s previous interactions with police, and criminal behavior. While none of that plays much into the question of what happened when she shot him (it was asserted that she knew some of his history, but not nearly all of it), it’s enlightening. While it was already well known that Wright was driving, without a license, a car with expired registration tags with marijuana residue and a small digital scale in the front seat area (he must have been a libertarian!), what I didn’t know already was that he was involved in at least five other pending criminal matters and had successfully fled from cops several times, including once after waving a gun around in public.
Wright also is suspected of shooting a man in the leg, and, only a few weeks before his death, shooting another man in the face. At least one of these cases is the subject of a civil matter in which the victim is suing Wright’s estate.
The defense brought this information up to the judge (not in the presence of the jury) in response to a use-of-force “expert” witness for the prosecution testifying that the cops should have let Wright run away and that he could have been caught later. The defense said they prosecution had opened the door with that statement to them producing evidence of Wright’s prior criminal behavior and flights from police, but the testimony was disallowed by the judge (and probably MN court procedures).
The big case against Wright was that he pulled a gun and strangled a woman and tried to rob her of her rent money. I think that was the warrant that the cops had for him.
I’m local and I hadn’t heard about the two other people he actually shot. TMITE
So everybody was a cunte? Color me stupified!
Challenge accepted!
/Kammy
Maybe a ‘walk on’ candidate? Open try outs this week end
It may as well be the Cheer Team from random high school, USA at this point. “Beto! Beto! He can Run! Rob your kids and take your gun! Gooooooo Beto!!!!
Hilary: “ahem”
I think any of those charges of being a “transphobe” should get the counter-fire of “misogynist”. They are – they hate real women and want to see them crushed by the freaks.
You are right about that. People hate what they cannot have. The invasion of women’s sports is literally deplorable yet their allies just can’t see it.
According to the documentary I saw – “What does this guy do? He covets.”
“How do we first start to covet?”
” – We covet what we see… – Every day.”
With fava beans.
The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School
LOL.
Whoever called this first, it really does look like The Media/DNC complex is trying to de-panickify the population.
There’s still a lot of mixed messaging.
Plenty of doompanicporn stories and MOAR restrictions.
Up here it’s condition “Red”. Of course, we don’t have separation of powers, perse. Just a rubber-stamping mill for the Liberal Party. I hate this country, sometimes.
I love stories about immigrants fitting into the American culture.
The back story is that a Hmong immigrant who was the superintendent of a charter school, lost $5M (that was supposed to be used to build a new school building) with a hedge fund.
Having assimilated…..
Nothing says “America!” like sucking tons of money from the education racket, failing and then taking even more money on the way out.
How can they be guaranteed payouts after they committed crimes in the course of their work? Geeze.
I am sure that there isn’t a single educrat out there who wants to set a precedent that said incompetence/criminality could result in you getting fired without a payout.
Catalytic converters for jennies obvs. There will be no problems with this.
Yes! And engine management systems equal to the latest EPA motor vehicle specs.
Before you know it, the problem will have solved itself, because those dumb poor people won’t be able to afford a $15k generator, and will just huddle safely in the dark and cold until rescued by Big Nanny.
This is called “nudging” and is the Official Libertarian(r) Market-Based Approach to Social Engineering(tm).
Funny, but “nudging” seems to inspire “punching” as my response, aimed in particular at large noses butting into other people’s lives.
How many airbags does that thing have?
There appear to be people/projects out there that modify films in interesting ways: take a shitty movie and edit it to be more coherent, maybe have a movie tell a different story by cutting the scenes differently or removing parts, even switch the genre entirely.
Is anyone aware of groups that take films that are generally regarded as excellent/classic/award winning and cut them to be utter crap? Maybe take a serious drama and turn it into a hammed-up sob fest? Remove crictical scenes/dialogue to make the rest of the movie unintelligible, in the way that some shitty movies never put them in in the first place? Convert a popular action movie into a slog?
I’ve seen a few that did so, but I’m pretty sure they did not mean to do so. There is chronological cut of Pulp Fiction that renders it almost unwatchable. Heavy Metal Star Wars replaces Williams’ scoring with the rock & roll music that the kids like. I have yet to sit through this, and I likely never will, but there is a 50 hour cut of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, where every scene from every movie is in chronological order.
I noped out at “Marvel Cinematic Universe,” but that sounds like an incredible act of masturbation for whoever created it.
Try Steve Martin’s Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.
They take old Detective Noir films and splice footage in with original footage with Steve Martin doing Steve Martin things back when he was still funny.
Excellent movie, plus it has Rachel Ward. Hnnngghhhhhh…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkbudWbQ9A
I still occasionally ask my wife to be my little heinermacherfrau, which pisses her off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkbudWbQ9A
And of course…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeWKicZo3N0
I LOVE that film! Nice pull! Pennies From Heaven is really, really good, also.
His three great movies from that era are all worth seeing.
Roxanne is the most accessible and has some perfect moments. It is on my extensive “10 best movies of all time” list. “Oh, I’ve been a lot braver since then” really touched me, being a teenager who had been on the wrong end of similar conversations recently at the time.
Pennies from Heaven is a masterpiece. I couldn’t stand Bernadette Peters before that… Always showing up on variety shows and aways shows, and I couldn’t understand why. I fell in love with her in that movie.
And Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid…. Wow. It is exceptionally weird, so not for everyone. But just fantastic as a piece of film art. If you love film noire, it is a must see.
I would find it more interesting if they took bad movies and made them good.
Why would you want to increase the amount of utter crap in the world?
Kung Pow: Enter The Fist
That you, Betty?
Bruce Leroy in The Last Dragon…. A great terrible movie. And Vanity… Oof-duh!
See also – New York Ninja, the footage was basically found in a dumpster, unedited loose reels of film with no sound recording, so Vinegar Syndrome (G/d bless ’em) hired voice actors and wrote a script and made a movie.
https://youtu.be/5jPtkjxU5jg
Apocalypse Now Redux
Just a trailer, but brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW1scLlKLMQ
Even King would have to laugh at that.
James Aubrey?
I like this idea. Making things crappier is certainly within my skill set. Also, George Lucas / Star Wars original trilogy would be my first answer to your question.
I regret that I was unable to get a pic of this but…
There was one of those cubical car-thingies like a Scion xB or a Honda element done in one of those pseudo-camouflage pattern of earthtone paint blobs.
On the driver’s side, the brown paint blobs clearly spelled out “F J B”
No matter how many times it’s in my training, I refuse to believe that anyone has unironically used the word “smishing.”
Hulk SMISH!
Hulxxor SMISH!
Yeah, it’s “transphobic rhetoric” that’s the problem here. It couldn’t possibly be that a dude who swam collegiately for three years took a year off and then came back as a “woman” (after physically developing as a man “her” entire life) and then destroyed every record in the books.
From the article:
“A swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania is the latest target in the culture-war debate over whether transgender girls and women should be allowed to participate on female sports teams. ”
eh is it though a culture war debate, or a basic biology debate?
Biology is a social construct.
There appear to be people/projects out there that modify films in interesting ways: take a shitty movie and edit it to be more coherent, maybe have a movie tell a different story by cutting the scenes differently or removing parts, even switch the genre entirely.
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
Great song, too.
How each Northern Va. jurisdiction fares in vaccinating kids 5 to 11
The table show why I don’t want to be redistricted into a district that includes Loudoun.
Holeeee sheeeeiiit
That’s ground zero for batshit crazy in America
Even the most sane area is still at 14% of people who like to abuse their kids. Seems pretty high.
Progs are concentrated, but not confined to cities. I still don’t know why they are so low considering they may have voted 2-1 D in 2020.
If the Trans people were just saying “I want to live my life” and that was it? Probably broad acceptance. But this “You have to let me compete!” and “If you won’t date me now that I am wearing a dress, you are a transphobe” bullshit is a step too far.
They tell me there are millions and millions of trannies out there. There must be more than enough to have their own leagues.
A League of Zere Own.
Starring zis person?
“A swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania is the latest target in the culture-war debate over whether transgender girls and women should be allowed to participate on female sports teams. ”
Does he still have a dick?
One of the controversial swimmers still swims topless IIRC.
Don’t know, but it’s quite apparent that he is a dick.
You misspelled “hero and pioneer”.
This doesn’t end until all the records are smashed, at this point it’s better that we just lie back and let them finish.
XD
Even, or especially if we take them at their word.
I’ve been mulling an issue over lately. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the Michael Savage line that “Liberalism is mental disorder.” I don’t buy it. I think the idea of ascribing views one disagrees with to mental illness is ridiculous.
That said, I can’t help but notice the remarkable number of hardline progressives who do, in fact, suffer from actual mental disorders. And they advertise it. On their social media profiles. They’ll tell you all about it. Even if you have no interest in hearing about it.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that people who suffer from mental disorders are somehow bad people. But, there is a reason we call them disorders. They’re recognized as disorders because they interfere with the person’s ability to function as a happy functional person. So, if we shouldn’t shame such people, we shouldn’t celebrate their disorder, either.
Yet, these are some of the most adamant that they have the proper program to re-order society and people’s way of life. You’d think that their self-recognized dysfunctionality would give them pause about dictating to others. But, that doesn’t seem to be the case. I mean, if a multi-billionaire who was a perfect physical specimen, married to a supermodel, had a genius-level IQ, and whose every relationship was happy, meaningful, and fulfilling came up to me and said he’d like to restructure my life, I’d still probably tell him to get bent because my life is my own. But, I’d at least have a good reason to give what he was saying some consideration. But, a college student cat-lady-in-training with self-identified psychological problems?
I really don’t understand how we got to this point. When did it become fashionable to say that you were completely dysfunctional and therefore an authority on how the rest of society is supposed to act?
When weakness, victimhood and failure became seen as righteous.
???
Not so much righteous, but conferring moral authority and deference as a form of social currency.
Well ok, righteous.
Yeah, this…incentives incentives incentives.
Ayup.
Marxism used to be considered a virus of sorts. Carlin discussed the use of Marxists as psy-ops warfare to bring down the Tsar. I may not remember the details exactly right, but I think Germany loaded a marxist group on a train to Russia and actually sealed the doors shut to prevent unintended contamination on their trip to Russia. Snow Crash went into viral ideas as well.
Something to ponder. It does seem like certain people are more susceptible to poison like Marxism, cults, etc. than others.
Lenin, particularly, was delivered to Russia by Germany from Switzerland, where he had been living.
So, Germany was responsible for most of the worst things of the Twentieth Century, directly or indirectly.
The Germans in WWI engineered the passage of Lenin from Switzerland to the Swedish/Finnish border, in a sealed train. It may well have been the first act of bio-terrorism in world history.
In my view, the Covid moral panic put in plain view mental illness is a serious problem in the West. I’m reading the ‘The Poisoned Needle’ (1957) and it says by the 1950s, 55% of Americans were on anti-depressants – which is likely very similar here in Chinada.
I am convinced Justin Cuck Trudeau suffers from some kind of mental illness. His behaviour in the last few months has been appalling – which only goes to show there are enough Canadians who probably have similar issues to give him minority support. His mother is bi-polar which only adds to my suspicion.
That’s an interesting observation. Years ago, I read a book about eccentrics. The book pointed out that eccentricity isn’t just quantitatively, but qualitatively different from mental illness. And, in fact, eccentrics were less likely to suffer from mental illness than the general population. Perhaps it’s Waylon Jennings’ “I’ve Always Been Crazy, But It’s Kept Me From Going Insane” writ large. Maybe the post-WWII regimentation of society (and, sorry, but “rebel” youth culture is among the most conformist elements) breeds mental illness or at least breeds people to treat their foibles and oddities as mental illness (which becomes effectively indistinguishable from mental illness itself).
When ‘anxiety’ became a condition that needed therapeutic intervention, that was the beginning of the end.
So I like deBoer even when I disagree with him. It isn’t hard to conclude that what he sees afflicting the left also afflicts the right (and vice versa for that matter, as you could call the progressive sphere a death-cult just as easily as he says of conservativism).
Lots of good stuff in there, you just have to work around his own ideologic blinders.
All commies must fucking die.
Its self defense at this point. Commies will kill you, so you might as well defend yourself now.
Paging Dr. Peterson to the white courtesy phone.
What you don’t realize is that these people problems are all caused by society being meanies, and if we just overturned the entire order of society, they’d have it made. *eyes roll into another dimension*
I use the term “leftist” because self-described “liberals” are anything but.
I’ve been recognizing this a lot recently as well. Too much of our public policy, regulations, and government direction are not based upon what makes the most sense for the populace, but rather in response to the loudest whinings from people with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Pffft, as if you’re qualified to make those sorts of judgements.
For what it’s worth, I recently saw a study that showed far left political ideals correlated somewhat with mental illness. In my life I’ve worked in well north of 30k homes and apartments and it’s given me the chance to see a whole lot of quick but fairly close glimpses of the lives of others. Surprisingly, even here in SF, full on proggies are not the majority I would say. Anecdotally, I have seen far more neuroticisms among those whose homes or themselves tell me they are far left. I think the phenomenon is similar to the one that happens with more nutty people taking psychiatry and psychology courses and getting into that field (with the obvious exception of our esteemed Dr. A). I think it is easier for progressives to want to set about radically changing others lives as they see their own as disordered.
Leftyism goes against human nature. Its why they are said to have mental defects.
Their policies seek to enslave the World whether they will admit it or not. Narcissism with an unhealthy dose of sociopathy.
From CPA’s Atlantic link:
The agency’s decision to trumpet the study’s dubious findings, and subsequent lack of transparency, raise questions about its commitment to science-guided policy.
[insert expostulation of stunned disbelief]
Yeah, the Atlantic of all places has run a number of anti-hysteria pieces.
I know it’s hard to remember, but before Obama The Atlantic was actually really good.
“From our lab-based studies it looks like a major mismatch,” Scott Hensley, a professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania who led the study, told CNN.
Anti-vaxxer.
Health ministers from G7 nations met on Thursday and concluded that the Omicron variant was the ‘biggest current threat to global public health’ after Columbia University researchers found the variant was noticeably resistant to vaccines and even a third booster might not fully protect against it, as President Joe Biden warned of a ‘winter of severe illness and death’ for those who were refusing to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Go fuck yourselves.
Midtown would have what’s called a Parking Benefit District that would eventually take portions of the revenue generated and use it on public projects of all kinds.
“Parking Benefit District”? Using money on public projects? What could possibly go wrong?
The G7 are a threat to public health.
It’s a fascinating thing to observe watching one bad person get replaced by someone worse. As is the case with Andrew Lunkhead Cuomo with Hochul. Bitch be totes crazy.
Or Dorsey with that new nitwit who take over Twitter.
The credentialed elite class, after decades of policies that promoted people not for ability or effectiveness, is now showing us all how dangerous this ideology that promotes based on physical or ideological characteristics is. I remind you all that the fascists were marxists that realized the most important thing about marxism – the need to put people in charge of decisions that were loyal to marxist ideals and their leaders (and often just the later) – made it impossible for any government put together in that way to have people with the right expertise at the right level to make decisions possible. That’s their socialism kept the private sector under the control of private sector expertise but then used the power of government to pick which entity won and which lost based on what the fascists wanted to have happen. Unfortunately for us the morons in charge, which for some unexplainable reason still have a boner for marxism, ended up forgetting that lesson and here we are.
When your system is run from the top to the bottom by idiots, all you get is idiocy.
Friday Funbags but at what cost?
https://archive.md/TkTnR
Someone decided to buy in bulk and save.
That link is a prime example of quantity not equating with quality.
I think Germany loaded a marxist group on a train to Russia and actually sealed the doors shut to prevent unintended contamination on their trip to Russia.
That package was Lenin, I believe.
Dan Carlin on Hardcore History has called that incident “intellectual contagion” (or something close).
They sealed the train to make sure Lenin’s arrival in Russia would be a secret, so the Czar would not prevent it.
But the commie contamination thing was funny.
Keene, NH passes mask ordinance
City councilors voted Thursday night to require face coverings in all indoor public spaces in Keene, opting to fine repeat violators rather than penalize businesses that fail to enforce the new rules.
Officials from Cheshire Medical Center had requested the city-wide mask mandate to help curb a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, which they say has strained resources at the local hospital, forcing them to transfer some patients out of state and cancel non-essential procedures.
Councilors voted 10-3 to approve the ordinance, which exempts children under 10 and anyone with a medical or developmental condition that makes wearing a mask unsafe. The measure goes into effect Monday and will be reviewed by the City Council for possible termination at least every 60 days.
What is wrong with these people?
where to start? alphabetically?
It’s Keene.
That only tells me that it’s the closest NH town to where I am.
It’s a college town.
Wasn’t Keene where the FSP was based?
Peterborough, I believe.
Oops, no. it looks like it’s in Manchester now.
https://www.fsp.org/
I could be wrong on this, but I think it was never based in Keene.
There is an offshoot of the FSP based in Keene. They are rather…. vocal. Often non-Free Staters think of that group when they think of the FSP. There is an element of the FSP that doesn’t like folks in Keene.
On a related note, Sununu is OK with municipal mask ordinances.
He dreads being called “uncaring”.
I’m going to assume, again, that the “recent spike has strained resources” line is lies and obfuscation.
That’s my assumption.
Based on what I’ve seen in various forums (news, NH subreddit, one Board of Health meeting I attended, and other “stuff”), it boils down to whom you believe.
If you think the medical establishment in NH is credible, you’ll believe the hospitals are overflowing and strained due to Covid. If you don’t find them credible (like me, I think they’ve shat all over their credibility during the last two years), you think either it is horseshit or it’s their own damn fault (firing staff who won’t get vaxxed, failure, to plan, etc.).
The measure goes into effect Monday
Why so Keene on waiting?
A dilemma
https://twitter.com/Nickro666/status/1471823764589527045
When is Rand Paul gonna stop showboating and grandstanding and actually send his evidence to the Justice Department to investigate Fauci?
There is no doubt in my mind having read up on The Keebler Elf that he’s one of the most wicked megalomaniacs ever where his actions have caused the misery and deaths of millions during his long, corrupted, failed, and criminal tenure at NIH.
It’s enough with this psycho.
You don’t need to lock up Fauci.
A crueler punishment would have the FCC issue a ruling that said anyone who put Fauci on the air would have their broadcast license revoked. The gnome would never be able to go back to obscurity.
When is Rand Paul gonna stop showboating – never?
Never.
Would it do anything if he did?
Show-boating keeps him elected.
Show boating at least keeps people aware of the issues.
Whenever he tries to push anything, the assholes in his own party are faster to vote against it than the opposition.
Leah Torres, MD
@LeahNTorres
Apparently people do *not* know this?
“Reverse racism” is NOT a thing.
“Racist against white people” is NOT a thing.
Racism is a power dynamic of oppressor over the oppressed, and guess what…
White people are the oppressor.
There’s no other version of the dynamic.
https://twitter.com/LeahNTorres/status/1470528331401641990
From the replies:
Question:
“What makes you think racism only exists in a power dynamic?”
Answer
“There are sociologists and other researchers who have been studying this for a really long time. If you have questions about it, a good term to Google is “reverse racism.” It’ll answer questions.”
well this settles it then…. there are sociologists who have studied this…
Got news for you sugartits. Adding that MD to your name doesn’t provide you with any credibility.
Eric Hoffer was a simple longshoreman and was more intelligent than 99.999999% of the population.
HE WASN’T CREDENTIALIED!!! I HAVE CREDENTIALS!!!!!
I used to have some respect for credentials. I now assume you’re just an idiot until proven otherwise.
Well she’s still a bigot and I don’t buy into that doublespeak definition of racism either.
Ha!
They really think they can just define reality into existence. Clearly they never attended an ‘inner-city’ school as a white. Fuck off asshole.
Heh I did and I could tell some stories but what would be the point?
#moveon
“Reverse racism” is NOT a thing.
Indeed. Racism is racism.
Racism is a power dynamic of oppressor over the oppressed, and guess what…
Don’t tease me!
White people are the oppressor.
Oh, really? Tell me. Who are you allowed and not allowed to make fun of and or deride for their skin pigment (or lack thereof…)?
So explain to me exactly how whitey is the oppressor in west Baltimore?
Chinese Social Media Giant Weibo Ordered to Crack Down on ‘Soft Porn’
https://www.xbiz.com/news/263662/chinese-social-media-giant-weibo-ordered-to-crack-down-on-soft-porn
Chinese Q hardest hit?
They’re also cracking down on any news that isn’t “everything for the state, nothing against the state”.
Dark times ahead in that forsaken place.
I’m no public health bureaucrat, but it seems to me that when you make a “vaccine” that targets one very specific spike protein, natural selection will cause the virus to mutate so it doesn’t have that exact spike protein. Am I wrong about this?
No. Smarter people than us have been saying this for decades.
Utterly predictable
A self-replicating entity that mutates at a given rate and is narrowly filtered by its host selects for those mutations which escape the filter.
We’ve known this about antibiotics forever and they are far more sterilizing (broader filter) than these vaccines.
Yeah, but that would only happen in unvaccinated people. Get the jab, peasant!
Bro, do you even Fucking Love SCIENCE?
Gah! 20 below American degrees and 18 inches of snow to fall tonight! That should be nice for my commute today and my coerced trip into the city on Saturday. I’ve got four wheel drive. I will abide.
Run your car AND generator all night. That should cause enough pollution to warm up the planet to the point where all that snow will melt. BONUS: you can wear shorts and a t-shirt on your trip to the city.
Sweet CO lull me to eternal rest
Colorado isn’t that bad.
There is no snow. Not any more. It has ended.
Like “Althea”?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17061508/call-my-girlfriend-names-during-sex/
Call her by her sister’s name while doing doggy and let the rodeo begin!
+8 seconds
I think that dude is the one who is being bent over when they do it doggy style.
Calling her names isn’t as sexy when she has her strap on in his ass.
Ask your partner if she’d like to try talking dirty – and ask what words would be off limits and what she’d like to hear in the moment.
Yeah, it’s all fun and games until she starts calling him “bitch”.
Mark Normand had a bit about how he saying “you slut you whore” is well received during sex but not “you’re a bad driver”
Conor McGregor’s trainer claims the Irishman has put on two-and-a-half STONE of muscle in just SIX months… as fitness experts insist it’s nearly impossible to pack on that amount in that time-frame!
Conor McGregor has gained two-and-a-half stone of muscle in just six months
The Irishman’s trainer revealed how he did it as he lines up a return to the UFC
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-10312857/Conor-McGregors-34lbs-muscle-gain-six-months-impossible-people-experts-say.html
How he did it is probably liberal amounts of Vitamin S
MMA should just merge with whatever they call wrasslin’ now. Seems just as fabricated, pointless and stupid.
The kidnapping case is falling apart: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/fbi-michigan-kidnap-whitmer
Props to buzz feed for doing the right thing. Last organization I’d think that would do that. Hell even fox news has stayed quiet on this.
Fox is just another propaganda mouth of the state. The manipulators play one side off the other as it suits them.
Tucker spoke out about it.
Some even baselessly assert that the Michigan investigation was a test run for what they claim was a false flag operation conducted on Jan. 6.
Emphasis mine. Still a little of this sort of thing sprinkled in there. Buzzfeed can’t help it.
That’s an amazing article. Recommended.
Racism is a power dynamic of oppressor over the oppressed, and guess what…
White people are the oppressor.
There’s no other version of the dynamic.
Nice capework. Conceal the class-based dynamic of wealthy white liberals working diligently to oppress poor white people as you prance around the ring.
Ole!
Excellent point.
I’d also note, “power dynamic of oppressor over the oppressed”. That idiocy only works if you assume that all people exist only as molecular components of the collective. Saying “White people have more power in our society.” obscures a tremendous…diversity in the degree of power enjoyed by individuals of each race. The CEO of my company is a black woman. Does that mean somehow I’m the oppressor with power over her? Hey, if so, that’s great news. I’ll march right up to her office and demand she rescind the company’s vaccine mandates. Since, you know, I’m the oppressor with all the power here. But, joking aside, this is the sort of insanity that gets people to believe that Joe-Bob, the son of an unemployed Appalachian coal miner is “privileged” versus, say, Sasha or Malia Obama.
Yep, in fact that is one of deBoer’s examples – telling white poor people how they are oppressors. Can you believe, someone on the left that doesn’t fall for that bullshit?
Freddie is a polite, self-consistent unrepentant commie. He literally believes that there is no individual, that our lives are predetermined by social forces so there is never a justification for reward or punishment, that meritocracy is a lie perpetuated by the ruling class and the only just social structure is absolute equality of everything.
Meritocracy is a lie from the ruling class – he isn’t wrong on that one.
Good morning, Sloop!
And good morning to the rest of you shiny, happy people.
What’s the good word?
Rachel Ward is the good ward this morning.
Oh, you said word…
what is the good word
“TAZER”
– Kim Potter
Fun fact – The name ‘taser’ was derived from ‘Thomas A Swift’s Electric Rifle’
TaserFace
Tundra,
Saw your question about the movie version of Hogfather last night after the thread was dead. It’s got the low budge special effects one would expect from British television. They streamlined some of the plots, some of the characters will look nothing like what you expected (at least if your experience is anything like mine), but the story is all there and solid.
Grazie! I will seek it out.
…some of the characters will look nothing like what you expected…
Please tell me Susan is a smoke-show.
I’ll leave that up to you.
After The Watch I have given up on hoping for a decent adaption of Disc World books.
Sorry. Going Postal wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t great, but was at least watchable.
After just reading the synopsis of the Watch I noped the fuck out of it, reading reviews (and Rhianna disavowing it) have helped me be sure I made the correct decision.
There’s also a not horrible (but not great) adaptation of the Color of Magic.
“What’s the good word?”
Legs.
Spread the word.
Canada is the second country to have built a nuclear reactor. ZEEP is the first non-US reactor. These are true ways to recognize the historical significance of ZEEP. Calling it the “second nuclear reactor, after CP-1” is just not true
https://twitter.com/nuclearkatie/status/1471492676008615938
Silly Canadians
Fun with numbers
New York City’s Covid-19 positivity rate doubled in just three days as the city battles a virus surge ahead of the holidays, Dr. Jay Varma, a top health advisor to Mayor Bill de Blasio, tweeted Thursday.
“Um, we’ve never seen this before in #NYC,” he wrote.
From Dec. 9 to Dec. 12, the percentage of positive tests in the city spiked from 3.9% to 7.8%. “This is #SARSCoV2 evading both vaccine & virus induced immunity against infection unlike any variant before,” Varma added.
Hard as this may be to believe, measurements without a solid baseline are pretty much useless.
But don’t let that stop you.
Sigh. Climbing over all the dead bodies to get to the supermarket is going to ever so much more tedious than last time.
You know things are bad when they have to switch from scaring you with case numbers to scaring you with positivity rates.
Maybe people are done getting tested? I know several people who have gotten ill and said “yeah, I think I had it but never got tested. Just stayed home and took a couple days to recover”.
yeah, I think I had it but never got tested
Raises hand. The only reason I’m 90% sure I had it was the total loss of smell for 2-3 days. Not like the stuffed nose have to breathe through your mouth congested loss of smell, but 100% clear, no breathing issues, freshly chopped garlic 1/4 inch from my nose hole, type of loss of smell. Other than than, kind of your standard mild winter cold. In July.
At least among my coworkers in NYC that’s a “no”.
Younger coworker – triple vaccinated – caught the dreaded ‘VID. Only reason he knew was one of his coworkers is required to be tested. His symptoms are bad cold.
He was going to get a PCR test to confirm his store bought tests, but said there was 7 hour wait time at the places he checked out. He decided not to bother…
I’m skeptical about the flu story.
Mostly because I refuse to believe that they are so efficient as to know about the mismatch now.
I think I’ve told the story about trying to add IoT functionality to the machine that does the flu testing. Short version is that the project worked from a technical point of view. All human intervention was removed from the process and results could be sent directly to the state health department and the CDC, but the project failed overall because the customer (state dept of health) didn’t exactly want to streamline things.
At the time the lag time between a test being done and the results showing up at the CDC was about six weeks. The health people acknowledged that the lag meant that the data was only useful for post mortem analysis.
So for them to be saying they have figured out this crap already makes my bull shit sense tingle.
skepticism is a form of denial. You need reeducation.
Dusty in here this morning… got some in my eyes…
Nice. And not remotely woke.
Only imaging what horror SF would turn that into if it was a Subaru.
Stop that shit. You’re killing me! Prickly eyeballs and everything!
I’ve seen the shortened, commercial version of that — nice! *sniff*
Sappy, but well done.
But, joking aside, this is the sort of insanity that gets people to believe that Joe-Bob, the son of an unemployed Appalachian coal miner is “privileged” versus, say, Sasha or Malia Obama.
“Daddy, some bitch at work said I wouldn’t even have this job if my daddy wasn’t the former President of the United States. Can you still get the IRS to audit her?”
But did Joe-Bob ever get microagressed? was his name mispronounced?
Joe-Bob OD’d. He ded.
well it is his own fault really for squandering his white privilege
No, you’re thinking of his brother, Jimmy-Bob. Joe Bob’s in college right now, but he’s fighting an expulsion order because he called somebody by the wrong pronoun.
Why is it that so many foes of US “imperialism” and “warmongering” have never met a mass-murdering totalitarian regime they didn’t want to shill for, as long as it was anti-American
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1471604000822861827
They hate themselves. They are American. Therefore…
From my CNBC link:
There is a video with this title.
The CDC Expects Between 600,000 and 1.3 Million New Covid Cases by Christmas
Give or take half a million? That’s some hard core SCIENCE!-ing.
I think the public is starting to catch on to this “case-demic” game.
Better eighteen months late than never, I guess.
Cases! CASES! CASES!
Seems like there are a lot of commercials out there this year of people coming together to help each other out.
Not as much woke BS as before. Maybe the tide is turning?
Uffda. This was supposed to be a reply to SDF-7-sy.
And that commercial hit too close to home with me. My dad had a hard time when Mom passed away. Of course, neither Dad nor I would have cared a bit about a car, but replace the car with a shotgun and it fits.
Do not watch that video just before connecting into a zoom meeting.
My Dad suffered a stroke a few years back. It was touch and go — and he still isn’t 100%. Good days and bad days.
Before the stroke, he spent a good deal of time refurbishing my original car, a 1980 Monte Carlo that caught on fire when my wife was driving it. I’ll never daily drive it again, but I know he did it purely out of love for me and my appreciation of that car. So that commercial hits close to home for me in more than one way.
Hope you and the Pope Emeritus enjoy each other’s time and company as best you can, sir — best wishes.
I honestly think it is. I’ve noticed a much different vibe, even amongst my proggies. I talked to my dad for almost an hour the other day and there was exactly zero politics discussed.
I think people are tiring of the freakout.
I dunno about “wokeness.” Many, many commercials feature interacial and/or gay couples, not traditional nuclear families, etc.
NTTAWWT.
Yeah, if you watched commercials you’d think that there were exactly 0 all white nuclear families left in America.
For some reason, I am not swayed by the ad man’s pitches – out of solidarity – because they show a lot of half-breeds.
exactly 0 all white nuclear families
The proggie wet-dream right there. They imagine they can make it so.
Harvard University won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026, a landmark step in push to limit role of standardized tests in admissions
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1471631834056380418
SATs are meaningless you need a proper baccalaureate
you need a proper
baccalaureateletter of recommendation.I’m not clicking on a WaPo link but we already know why they’re doing this.
I’m no public health bureaucrat, but it seems to me that when you make a “vaccine” that targets one very specific spike protein, natural selection will cause the virus to mutate so it doesn’t have that exact spike protein. Am I wrong about this?
You’ve got that backwards. I have been assured repeatedly that the unvaxxed are the true breeding ground for newer, sneakier, more deadly manifestations of God’s wrath.
Harvard University won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026, a landmark step in push to limit role of standardized tests in admissions
Get back to me when they adopt a fully blind lottery.
fully blind lottery -just no Asians and no Irish
Never happen. They literally could not care less about academics.
They only thing they care about is quotas.
>Miss Universe of Yugoslavia, with a MiG 21, 1968
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1471720720841465858
Yum.
The plane or the …
Never mind.
Pussy Galore!
Oh yeah. Between Susan Sto Helit and her, my bank has been recharged for the day…
Oh, no
Sacramento County relies on businesses and the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health to enforce the county’s indoor mask mandate because the sheriff has refused to do so, the county’s public health officer said during a briefing on Thursday.
California reimposed an indoor mask mandate for most counties on Wednesday for the first time since June, citing rising COVID-19 cases and worries over the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant across the world. The mandate is set to last for one month in the hopes of slowing the virus’ spread.
Sacramento and Yolo Counties already had an indoor mask mandate in place.
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones responded to the new state mandate by noting that his office’s position “remains unchanged.”
“We will continue to deploy our scarce resources for our primary mission of protection of life and property,” he said Wednesday. “While dining, shopping, entertainment and other indoor venues may set their own requirements, no law enforcement resources will be used solely to enforce mask or any other COVID-related mandates within the jurisdiction of the Sheriff’s Office.”
I wonder if this has anything do do with that fact that sheriffs are elected and “public health experts” are not.
Silly idea that police should be responsible for law enforcement, of course we will hand that over to corporations. What, you say there is a word for that? Starts with an f?
*phone rings*
Me: Hello?
HR: Hi. I understand that you had lunch with your department yesterday.
Me: Yes.
HR: Well, *coworker* tested positive.
Me: For what?
HR: For covid…
Me: Oh.
HR: Have you been vaccinated?
Me: Sure, for all sorts of things.
HR: For covid…?
Me: No.
HR: How far from *coworker* would you say that you were sitting?
Me: 4 feet.
HR: Oh, well, you are considered exposed and we’ll have to send you home.
Shaking my head…rolling my eyes…
One of the main circulating influenza viruses has changed and the current flu vaccines don’t match it well any more — an indication they may not do much to prevent infection, researchers reported Thursday. But they are still likely to prevent severe illness.
That’s because everything is convid now. Not that flu vaxxes were ever particularly effective (IMO).
Not that flu vaxxes were ever particularly effective
(IMO).That’s not a matter of opinion.
What difference at this point does it make? -St. Dr. President Hillary Rodham Clinton The First of Her Name
“HR: Have you been vaccinated?”
THAT is none of your business. Kindly fuck off!
Ivy League swimming champion becomes target of transphobic rhetoric
More like: “Man with long hair who is dominating women’s swimming becomes target for people who don’t want men destroying women’s sports”
Or is this case special?
Two-tiered justice system. Besides, I’m sure he has nothing to hide.
As a Chiefs fan, I’d like to nominate Brandon Staley as the coach of the year.
We couldn’t have won without him.
We – what is this we ? you did not do anything
You didn’t hear me cheering… on my couch?
So…..
Let’s Go Brandon?
Staley was sure the 3rd time would be the charm.
If Hochul pushes the lockdown panic button
I think that is a foregone conclusion.
We’d be better off with literally anybody else in charge right now.
Someone forgot that Kamah-la is VP.
G7 brands Omicron ‘biggest threat to global public health’
*rolls eyes*
before Biden issues grim warning of a ‘winter of illness and death’ for the unvaccinated
Except for the fact that the fake vax doesn’t work and is likely more harmful than the commie cough for any recipients under the age of 50. IOW, kindly fuck off.
“Don’t move, don’t move, don’t move…”
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1471122096147378176
That tiny calf is moving too much to make good veal.
With anxieties over the omicron variant mounting, Apple has pushed back its in-person return to office to a date “yet to be determined,” reports Bloomberg and the Verge.
‘Member when flu season was just flu season and we didn’t freak out about it?
New Pew poll on patriotism: Most Americans say America is “one of the greatest countries in the world”. Democrats age 18-29 are the exception; a majority says other countries are better.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1471580889414975489
Can we take up a collection to buy these nitwits some one-way plane tickets?
In a poll of people who have for the most part never been outside of their own country…
Bring back the draft!
That is the best way to get this kids to tour foreign countries.
^^^
Democrats age 18-29 are the exception; a majority says other countries are better.
*points outside of country*
There’s the door.
Great. Fucking. Great.
Just what Mexico needs. A horde of disaffected 18-29 yr-old Democrats.
Could that cohort even organize a caravan heading towards the border.
20’s Charleston Dance – “Black Bottom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH79MhBHN5s
After making a joke years ago I have hard time not hearing AC/DC’s Back in Black as Black in Back.
Once you go black in back….
What exactly counts as “black”?
Say it was more of a chocolatey brown?
Prediction: Natural immunity will be accepted as “vaxxed”.
I say this because I think most people are done with being tested for no reason. The companies who have been making bank on all those tests will lobby hard for allowing people who have got the Rona to be counted as vaxxed. BUT only if they have an official test result showing they had the Rona.
This will bring people back to the testing centers and milk the last of that govt money.
Genetic ‘X-factor’ may explain Japan’s success in combatting Covid
The nation with the oldest people in the world has lower serious infections and fatalities – scientists think they know why
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/genetic-x-factor-may-explain-japans-success-combatting-covid/
They aren’t fat? They eat a fairly healthy diet?
That is genetics?
I suppose “genetics” is the next word The Woke will redefine to mean any unprincipled thing they want it to.
That’s at least better than last year’s SCIENCE!
Why Speaking English May Spread More Coronavirus Than Some Other Languages
Reminds me of the scientists of Gulliver’s island, Balnibarbi.
Or maybe they had a first wave back in 2018/2019 and have immunity
“Enraged monkeys kill 250 DOGS by dragging them to the top of buildings and dropping them off ‘out of revenge’ after pups killed one of their infants in Indian village”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10320853/Enraged-monkeys-kill-Indian-towns-entire-population-250-DOGS-throwing-heights.html
So this is how it starts.
those must be some small dogs… I can’t see the type of monkeys living in india doing shit to a proper shepherd dog (not those silly things that run after sheep, the ones that fight wolves)
Monkeys are surprisingly formidable.
so are these guys
somehow the link to the Kangal disappeared…
Maybe the chemicals turned the dogs gay and the apes muslim?
So is that how Planet of the Apes happened?
Also admit it you were on the mail website searching for you know who
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Man’s Best Fwend
DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
My article ‘The Habsburg Myth and the European Union’, having won an award from the publisher, has escaped from its paywall
https://twitter.com/HelenHet20/status/1471802929174781954
Both the ideals of the European Union (EU) and the EU’s recent political difficulties have attracted comparison with the Habsburg empire. In recent years, some of those making comparison have turned to the Austrian Jewish novelists, Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, who were crucial to the imaginative emergence of the Habsburg Myth. This paper analyses their writings and those of Robert Musil and Gregor von Rezzori in relation to the Habsburg Myth as a story about European unity, about Austria-Hungary as a supranational polity and about Austria-Hungary’s self-proclaimed providential purpose in European affairs. It explores the dissonance between the Habsburg Myth and the EU’s territorial composition and argues that the Habsburg Myth is, nonetheless, revealing about the EU’s internal hierarchies and its geopolitical difficulties in relation to Russia.
I suspect you’ve lit the Just Say’n signal.
the Austrian Jewish novelists
Is their Jewishness relevant to the argument? Seems like an odd thing to shoehorn in.
*actually makes a minimal effort*
Roth shows that the Habsburg Crown, which is the source of unity in the Habsburg Myth, symbolically excludes its Orthodox, Jewish, and Protestant subjects.
So, yes, relevant.
“Chargers tight end Donald Parham, 24, is in stable condition in hospital after being stretchered off with his arms visibly shaking following awkward landing during touchdown play”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10319765/Chargers-tight-end-stretchered-field-arms-shaking-landing-awkwardly.html
That doesn’t sound good.
Saw that last night, scary AF.
I learned a new thing: https://www.healthline.com/health/fencing-response
“‘I’m not a little girl’: 22-year-old who is ‘stuck’ in the body of an eight-year-old struggles to live a normal adult life in new reality series that shows her pole dancing, drinking, and getting a tattoo”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10318603/22-year-old-stuck-body-eight-year-old-stars-new-reality-series.html
So that’s where SP has been?
She must be swamped with offers from CNN producers to come on their shows.
I couldn’t watch that.
“I didn’t mean to!”
If push comes to shove about the testing nonsense I have an in with the Union President at my site who will provide me gratis covid tests from his own, personal stash. Sometimes it helps to be friendly with the folks. Fuck You, conglomerate and Fuck You HR! They seem to have backed off and now are only requesting proof of my poison. It’s a Pyrrhic win but I’ll take it, for now.
To TPTB: I have a new post that is ready to go.
Good tidings to you fine, free thinking folk. I must abed.
‘Night Festus!
Peace out D!
“1,140 Cars Were Stolen in November Across Portland.”
https://www.wweek.com/news/2021/12/15/1140-cars-were-stolen-in-november-across-portland-mine-was-one-of-them/
Nuke it from orbit.
you americans are too attached to material things.
In the words of Seth Rogan
Seth Rogen
@Sethrogen
Replying to
@Casey
and
@LAPDWestLA
You can be mad but I guess I don’t personally view my car as an extension of myself and I’ve never really felt violated any of the 15 or so times my car was broken in to. Once a guy accidentally left a cool knife in my car so if it keeps happening you might get a little treat.
https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/1463674479272361987
Even for Rogan, that was a stupid, out-of-touch tweet.
Multi-millionaire says “you can just get more stuff. Just get a new car if it gets damaged”. Plus “cool, now I’m in possession of a weapon that was likely used in a crime”.
Also
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
I’ve never been a fan of car theft, but Subaru Outbacks with Bernie stickers in million dollar Portland neighborhoods has me reconsidering that stance
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1471521306051072003
Iowahawk is the only consistently good thing on twitter.
Mostly peaceful thefts.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/denmark-to-shut-down-public-venues-as-virus-infections-rise/article_ec6ae9c0-8fcd-51c7-9cf1-c62063d92845.html
Lockdown lite.
I guess we’re back to denying that most cases are caught in the home from your family members yapping for hours on end.
Denmark is having one helluva waive then again they are only 80% vaxxed
I’d say Japan did her a favor. What the hell does a degree that ridiculously specialized do for you. Let me explain. There are basically two intertwined faiths – Shintoism and Buddhism. Next…
‘Betrayed’: Japanophiles sour on muse as COVID isolation bites
a digital anthropologist
Why would one need physical presence?
Nice. You did make me look. Wiki says:
Never mind the lack of congruence between tradition, as expressed in the two religious doctrines, and the digital-era. This may actually represent the pinnacle of PhD irrelevance.
If she was surprised by this reaction from the Japanese, I would posit that she wasn’t all that familiar with Japanese people in the first place.
Digital dude! She only experienced Japaneseness virtually. What kind of anthropologist actually wants to deal with icky humans?
I see new dire warnings about omicron spreading quickly but no facts about whether that is even a problem.
Also the CDC is fretting about J&J vax again. Not enough elites own J&J stock I guess.
Well, every hospital is “straining” so just shut up and take their word for it.
I see Pie is on point this morning.
That Chevy commercial — Look. I really hate that I am as susceptible to blatant emotion manipulation as I am, but then I’m perpetually on the hunt for nostalgia that never was.
1% trans people — Well, a good 1% of my kids’ cohorts SAY they’re trans. I suspect they’re being told they are if they like even the littlest thing of the opposite sex’s. Tomboy? NO! Trans! Pink button-down? NO! Trans! Wear a dress if you’re gonna wear pink. I swear, just do it like they did it in the 80s. With flair, but no hormones, no surgeries, no coddling. I bet the urban have-not schools are having-not as many trans as the wealthier ones. These people need some reality in the trenches. IOW, the sexualization of children continues apace.
Mental illness — this is a chicken-and-egg situation. You have people who are mentally ill (maybe on, maybe off drugs) who are also bored and looking for meaning, and not trying to find coping mechanisms so they can at least TRY to not rely on their drugs (I didn’t fail without drugs, but I didn’t succeed, either–I struggled). Then you have mentally weak people who are susceptible to indoctrination who LOOK like they have a mental illness and proceed with their lives on that basis.
*sigh* Posting on dedthred as per usual.
I read your whole post, if it makes you feel better.
*sniffle* Yes, thank you. *sniffle*