Ach….tung!
Grüezi mitenand. Linkings are here. And at 1500 precise. As sharp and timely as Glorious Reform Russian Military Victorious Assault Plannings!
- Wanna see some grand editorializing in a “news story”? You cannot get through the first sentence of this one without colliding with it.
- It’s turning the frogs bankrupt!
- Shanghai is still hellish.
- International soccer is soooo clean!
The comments are yours.
Bonus Update: Yearning to breathe free?
L O L.
The Doctor has regenerated into a member of the Q Continuum!
Were I that elephant, I’d probe much differently.
That was foreplay. You never go straight at it.
An elephant never forgets.
I don’t think Mrs. Elephant is going to let him forget.
Everybody knows elephants have really good mammaries.
They have a trunk full.
lmao. I’ve always felt that elephants and humans have a lot in common.
Good afternoon Switzy. Good to see you again.
Feed that cow, it’s skin and bones.
I saw that on the front page and figured Swissy was mad at us for all the pun threads he never replied to over the past week or so.
Glad to see he has no beef with us before I hoof it out of here to go run some errands.
Hate to horn in, but you’re really milking it.
Udderly ridiculous.
Better hoof it on out of here.
Steering this in the wrong direction Tonio
See, what you really need is a mule butt option instead of cow or cat… that mule keeps thinking we’re making fun of him, after all — but he’s never the butt of our yokes.
He finally wants to dive a steak into these pun threads.
I’d like to dive into a steak.
UCS, do you have my email? I took some pictures, not like Swissy’s.
If not, I’m a latvia2212at the yeho
Nice to see the punster back.
How much to they have to pay those guys to wear those ridiculous outfits, anyway?
20 Swiss Francs, same as downtown Geneva?
[golf clap]
Truly, that answer was gold.
So, currently about USD 400.
Swissy will be doubloon down on the narrowed gaze if you’re not more careful.
“Bronson Face,” to coin a phrase.
https://www.forces.net/military-life/fun/welcome-swiss-guard-worlds-smallest-army
1500 Euro/mo. But no taxes.
Huh. Less than $20K/year. Seems way too low. If that’s a full time job, its less than $10/hour. Sign spinners make more than that.
Agree it’s too low, but it’s Europe, they’re poor.
Also, they do get free housing.
And papal blessings!
Plus they get to wear that cool hat.
Why is that guy pushing the other guy on the handcart?
The love that dare not speak its name?
Im guessing a WH staffer was stuck in the bunny suit cause the shooing away from the press is just too weird.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/easter-bunny-tells-biden-where-to-go/
Best timeline ever! Which Whitehouse staffer was wearing the Bunny Suit? Maybe if we’re all very good, Sug will reveal this on Wednesday.
I prefer the bunny from my avatar.
It’s Bunny Suits all the way down
It should have been Frank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw9YfZF48_U
I prefer to think it’s KK’s friend.
What a joke
I like the part where Biden thinks the bunny is asking for a hug.
Remember back when the Eastern Bunny didn’t have to step in to prevent the senile President from groping kids?
“US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of President Donald Trump”
When is the last time you saw a story where the second paragraph begins with:
US District Judge Jane Doe, an appointee of President Barack Obama.
Seems to be standard these days to identify which president put them on the bench. I’ve seen references to Obama’s judges recently.
NYT:
Better yet she just said “follow your own rules for rule making” and everyone is losing their shit.
BUT IT’S AN EMERGENCY!!!!! WHY DO YOU WANT GRANDMA AND BABIES TO DIE?
The Brits… so cute thinking they might be players again. Sorry, your power started to wain in 1776. When you get rattled by someone like Argentina you know you’re toast.
It is true that when heavy machinery was introduced into the agriculture scene that its power waned on the farm.
Dammit.
I couldn’t resist and know very well my mistakes 😉
Party on, Wayne.
Maybe — I think it was a toss up until the late Victorian period (when they started to realize they had to shift their alliance system to let France handle the Mediterranean so they could keep more ships for the Home Fleet against Germany) or entering World War One. If they had been ruthless enough to hold onto India and other parts of the Empire and hadn’t lost so much in human and non-human capital in the Great War (such that they were definitely on the way down by WW2), I think we’d be having a very different discussion.
The lesser of two weevils…
There used to be a documentary series up on youtube about how the Brits almost lost the Falklands War. The documentary makers interviewed bigwigs who were involved on both sides, but mainly British bigwigs.
I poked around youtube to see if I could find it, but I couldn’t. Shame. It was quite interesting.
You could say the same thing about anyone who gets rattled by Afghanistan: The USSR, The East India Company…
If Macedon could capture and hold Afghanistan, what’s everyone else doing wrong?
Not marrying off our women.
Setting aside the snark before I really do go run errands, the Shanghai situation makes me very glad I live in the country I do. Looking at China and then Australia and then us as a spectrum, and being pretty sure the Santa Clara county health people (not my county, but given that’s where my “office” is I pay attention to it) and Gavin would be more than happy to lock us away as would tin pot dictators like Whitmer — I just can’t imagine people here putting up with it to the point of starvation. Well, some of them maybe — but not people as a whole. And there’d be a better chance of breaking out if it came down to it, which I think does matter.
Of course, then I remember Canada and the financial ruin the despots can bring at a whim and get depressed again.
Also, also — to be fair, I can’t imagine living in a city in general — much less in a city with the population of Florida — so I’m already unlikely to really grok the Shanghai position.
I watched some videos on telegram’s Covid Red Pills channel of what is going on in Shanghai. I regretted watching them. Some disturbing stuff.
“Florida Judge” is the headline I’m seeing on the mask thing.
I guess we’ll find out if anyone is brave enough to fly in the face of certain death.
I’m flying on Wednesday. I’ll report if I’m no longer special and there’s somebody else onboard without a mask.
The immediate question is if the airlines will change policy. Because post-9/11 and heavily abused in the last couple of years, there’s still the whole “PEASANTS MUST OBEY THE AIR WAITRESSES AT ALL TIMES OR WE DRAG YOU TERRORISTS OFF THE PLANE!” problem. If the flight crew insists on it, you may have legal recourse much after — but I don’t think it will matter in the moment unless you like TSA probing.
That will be it. However, they are going to weigh saying “Its federal law” (which it isn’t, just the obey portion is) and having to kick off a bunch of folks or just let people decide on their own comfort level.
The only time when an entire plane was told to stay seated on arrival and I was escorted from the plane for a “talk” happened in August 2020, before the federal mandate was in effect. I’m fully aware of this. Before the installation of Biden in the White House an announcement sounded like: the CDC strongly recommends face masks, it’s the airline policy to wear face masks, it’s against a federal law not to comply with anything required by pilots and flight attendants.
I’m just assuming that providers will still be free to muzzle their guests and you can be damn sure that nobody in my area will let you breathe free.
Maybe I’ll just continue to work at home and walk back and forth to the supermarket once in a while… forever.
Regardless of how this shakes out, I still plan to drive to FreedomFest 2022.
Air Waitresses
Hah! Knew it!
Best album name of all time.
Flying to Orlando tomorrow.
Hopefully mask free, but we will see.
The wife is flying in May for the first time in over two years, also to Orlando. She was quite pissed about the most recent mask mandate extension. Hopefully it’s done since even airline CEOs want it gone.
I realize they don’t do shit, but I love wearing a mask for the anonymity it provides when out in public. I’m surprised wearing masks isn’t a must have libertarian fashion accessory. You can have my mask when you pry it offa my cold dead face.
It has helped in my side gig as a getaway driver for sure
Like so?
Exactly
I, too, have read Heinlein’s I Will Fear No Evil
Swissy!
Thanks for the lynx.
Yearning to breathe free?
I have a flight on Thursday. What are the odds this gets overturned by then?
Related musical link!
Now why did you have to remind me of tribal tattoos? Meh, good song anyway.
Here is another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ7nLOafpfE
Is the unmasking mandate retroactive so my wife wouldn’t have wear one last Feb? What about the people that got the Big C with a mask on, who can they sue?
How can the vaccines be undone for those that didn’t want them or thought they were a panacea?
Some how the mischievous Gov Walz will have a work around, a person will need a mask driving to the airport.
Probably something like “The CDC can’t require it, but we can!” Signed, FAA, OSHA, NEA, IRS, State Teachers Union, etc.
‘Yearning to breathe free?’
God bless America.
Now do it in Spanish and a lot of other languages. The missus was green card, became an illegal (before we were married) when the green card expired.
She hid by going to school and not reporting her address to the authorities. Truly a scofflaw.
“The United Methodist Church, the second largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., is on the verge of splitting, the culmination of a years-long debate largely over Trinitarian doctrine.”
Just kidding, the debate is largely over “LGBTQ rights.”
“A new, more conservative denomination, the Global Methodist Church, is set to launch May 1, and congregations are debating whether to join.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/methodists-focus-on-easter-amid-schism/ar-AAWgOAq
Not surprising at all.
“the culmination of a years-long debate largely over Trinitarian doctrine.”
Someone needs to tell these Luddites that the doctrine is settled:
– XX
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You misunderstand — the debate was whether Morpheus was a better character to drive Neo’s story arc and if the tacked on romance and lack of chemistry was why the ones that (supposedly) happened after the first (only) movie were part of their poor reception.
LOL actually had me going for a (split) second there.
EVERY denomination is splitting over the woke stuff. The “liberals” want the “menu” interpretation of the Bible – where you pick out the stuff you like. The traditionalists / conservatives want to keep the whole thing.
We left Presbyterian Church USA behind in NJ. They have gone woke, covid crazy, and broke. The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the bible-based alternative and their churches are growing around here. The Lutherans already split – Missouri Synod = bible based, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has Satan’s (rainbow) flag flying out front.
There are even an Anglican Province of America church nearby that split from the Episcopalians and still uses the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer.
There’s an Episcopal church at which my son plays that I’m surprised hasn’t switched to the APA. I think it’s only because the monied members are afraid of the social fallout.
Our denomination (OPC) left PCUSA nearly 100 years ago when they started down the Modernist path. PCA’s way bigger, but (sadly) seeing an internal fight now on the proggie front.
Something like 20 years ago there was a reformist group in the UMC called (iirc) the Confessing UMC. I had a friend who was interested so I read up on it at the time but lost track over the years.
Those Anglicans may as well join the Romans.
With the commie Pope, it might be the other way around.
Even seeing it in Church of Christ circles. The balance is different given the more conservative nature of the denomination, but we just had a blue hair children’s minister bolt for more progressive pastures because she wasn’t allowed time at the pulpit. Our head of adult curriculum and his wife are public school bureaucrats who make clear that their worldview is different from everybody else’s, and there are a few other schoolteachers (some literal blue hairs) in that clique.
This from a denomination that has, in the past, had debates on whether putting up a projector for song lyrics was too much of a departure from tradition.
Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines. If you haven’t read it yet, find a copy and read it. He has the single best approach I’ve read to the critical theory cultural movement.
I was a member of “The Falls Church” (in Falls Church) back in 08-09 when they were splitting from the Episcopalians (and a whole bunch of lawsuits over who would keep the building, etc). Initially the new American Anglicans fell under the Bishopric of Nigeria (Council of Anglicans in North America) – assume by now they’ve got their own domestic bishopric.
Interesting times – good folks though. It wasn’t just LGBT issues (even though that was after some related discussions) – but when the head of the US episcopalian church is basically hand-waving away the divinity of Christ and getting wishy-washy on a lot of other critical doctrinal issues – it was pretty bad.
That’s what I see in a lot of these splits. The LGBT issue is a catalyst, but the deeper split is people who believe the Bible versus people who want to glean the “moral truths” and toss the icky stuff and the supernatural stuff.
I gather something similar happened when First Parish in Plymouth, MA (the one established in 1620) went Unitarian around 1800ish. I think the U’s kept the building, the silver, and the membership rolls with all the Pilgrims, and the Congregationalists that split off built their building right next door. (When I visited sometime in the late ’80s or early ’90s, both churches had plaques claiming to be the TRUE descendants of the Pilgrims.)
I hope that mask mandate is really gone. I’m flying on Thursday and I’d love to breath something other than my own recycled CO2.
Everyone else’s recycled CO2?
Kidding aside, I’ll be flying next month and hope this is the case as well.
Turning citizens against each other. It’s like out of the commie playbook or something.
Well that was a painful tax day.
But it’s done now. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
We hung out with Neph and GF for a bit over a mid morning breakfast, Irish Coffees and laughs.
🙂
Probably some new found land or close unto it….
Thank you for being a net giver instead of a blood sucking entitled parasite.
Free at last, free at last, thank god almighty I’m free at last, until next year, mid-April.
At least it AM free if future California taxes!!
Good, let Newsom enjoy his destruction of a once beautiful place.
So tragically true.
For the first time in at least a decade, I got mine done the day before it was due.
I take a long weekend in March to do my taxes. But then mine are fairly simple.
My people (Turbo Tax) are doing a heck of a job, I was done in Feb or early March.
If not for the two-states thing, I’d be on the 1040EZ now that the standard deduction is higher than the state and local taxes that was the single item I used to itemize.
I was two states hopefully for the last time.
And the high standard deduction makes mine relatively easy too. Since I only have 8 mortgage payments this year, I probably will be using standard deduction again.
Might be back to itemizing for 2023. But 2020 I was only about $400 or so over the standard deduction, so it will be close again.
Well this is interesting.
God, I’d love to see this go down. It would be fascinating to learn what is really going on there.
‘Britain should be a great power’
I like the bank-handed admission that Britain is not a great power.
A federal judge in Florida ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to lift its mask mandate for airports, planes and other forms of travel Monday, saying the agency had overstepped its authority.
🙂
A country that was conquered by it’s own empire.
Aussies have guns
“Community safety for everyone,” Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan said, as he introduced his proposal to rewrite his state’s gun laws, adding that it was important to ensure “[we] prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands.” According to a government statement, “Western Australians now own more than 349,000 guns – a 60 per cent jump in the number of licensed guns compared to 13 years ago.”
Seems the Aussies have a solution to that problem in their hands.
Confident prediction: The new laws will do nothing to prevent guns from getting into the wrong hands.
Narrator: The wrong hands are anyone’s but the government’s.
The opposite of what I think whenever I see news from Australia.
o.O
The government is alarmed by the increase in government-permitted guns? Is it just me, or does that make no rational sense at all?
Is pants-shitting ever rational?
It’s not just you.
They’re alarmed that there are more people who want guns every year even though they’ve been trying to program Aussies for decades to not want ’em. See the same thing in Canada all the time.
a 60 per cent jump in the number of …
More guns or more licenses?
RE FLM quashing the CDC mask order: “The judge sent the order back to the CDC ‘for further proceedings.’”
So she’s giving them an oppo to explain why they think they have the authority to do this, the grounds on which they did it, etc. That’s a better move than outright nullifying the order. Just as plaintiffs are supposed to exhaust all administrative remedies before suing the FedGov, she’s saying that the CDC (and by implication other FedGov agencies) must come correct with USC (US Code of laws) citations, instead of just “because we say so, also crisis.” (IANAL)
That’s a better move than outright nullifying the order.
She vacated the mask order. I guess theoretically she could reinstate it, but I think its pretty much nullifed now.
I shouldn’t be happy about someone’s failure.
But I am.
“The show’s first episode was seen by just 180,000 US homes in the first week it debuted last fall, measurement firm Samba TV said. That number dropped to 78% to 40,000 by its fifth episode, which aired in early March.”
Wow.
“Made for Apple TV” is like watching constant reruns of Aaron Sorkin series, but especially The West Wing.
CNN+ without all the laughs.
And even more liberal smug.
I forget. Is his mouth, Colbert’s cock-holster or the other way ’round?
Stewart is Chin for Ball Rest, Colbert is Ass for Dick Holster.
I thought Chinballs was one of those weedy Brits who ruined the Doctor Who reboot?
You should be happy that he now has new *opportunities* to do a better show.
It shouldn’t be too surprising. Stewart was the king of a particular genre – the sneering progressive approval-clapper. Hell, he pretty much launched the careers of a lot of the big names in the segment. But, then he dropped out. That was six years ago. And the world moved on without Jon Stewart with a bunch of other people doing his same schtick. Now, he’s yesterday’s news just one of a bunch of guys doing the same thing.
Really, it’s like the high school football star trying to relive his glory days when everybody else is out of college.
4 touchdowns in one game!
Oh! Al!!!
I didn’t watch any of it, but just from the pictures – he looks terrible. Either he’s ill or boozing/drugs, because that is not a healthy look at all.
Why not both?
Love this from our glorious Speaker:
I would love to add a corollary with the word away. Also on Politico was a note about Pelosi endorsing Crist for FL governor (in the Dem primary) – amazing how in love with the smell of their own farts they are, or do Florida Democrats all fall into line when Madame Speaker speaks?
Ah well, never interrupt an adversary when they are making a mistake, right?
So how does that work when somebody is elected in Muh Democracy? Does that mean the voters aren’t giving someone any power, but that the elected official is taking power from the voters?
Seems Nancy is saying the quiet part out loud.
Same with big investment gains in the market.
Visited one of those churches. They seemed really serious about church in Sunday morning AND Sunday night.
Same with my old Baptist church. And yeah, I went twice on Sundays (plus Wednesday evening Bible study).
Is Charlie Crist out of the closet yet?
“Ohio university pays out $400,000 to Christian professor ‘for violating his First Amendment Rights’ after he was investigated for refusing to use transgender student’s preferred ‘she/her’ pronouns
‘The First Amendment interests are especially strong here because Meriwether’s speech also relates to his core religious and philosophical beliefs,’ Judge Jamal Thapar wrote in the decision.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728699/Shawnee-State-agrees-pay-400k-professor-refused-use-trans-students-preferred-pronouns.html
No pictures of the student.
Parasites
Some of the nation’s largest retailers have been using soaring inflation rates as an excuse to raise prices and rake in billions of dollars in additional profit, a corporate watchdog group charged on Friday.
Companies such as CVS Health, Kroger and T.J. Maxx parent company TJX appear to have raised their prices unnecessarily in 2020 and 2021 at a time when Americans were dealing with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Accountable.US said in a new report. Instead of keeping prices stable for struggling families, corporations have overcharged Americans and prioritized profit, the group claims.
Accountable.US said it examined the financial statements of the nation’s top 10 retailers over the past two years — including Lowe’s and Target — and found that they collectively increased their profits by $24.6 million for a grand total of $99 billion.
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To be sure, inflation is rising sharply due to a number of underlying economic issues, such as supply-chain bottlenecks, labor shortages and strong demand from consumers. Inflation in the U.S. reached a new 40-year high in March, with consumer prices jumping 8.5% in the last 12 months — the fastest annual rate since the Reagan administration.
But in many cases, retail executives have been open about their ability to hike prices. Kroger Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip said during a 2021 earnings call that the grocery store chain is “passing along higher costs to the customer where it makes sense to do so.” Also last year, TJX CEO Ernie Herman told investors that the company “strategy to surgically raise retail [prices] on select items is well underway, and we believe it is working very effectively.”
Some companies have publicly blamed inflation for their own price increases, but Accountable.US and some lawmakers argue that those increases are well above what companies need to cover their own increased costs.
Whom shall I believe?
passing along higher costs to the customer where it makes sense to do so
We just need to send out more stimulus checks.
“…they collectively increased their profits by $24.6 million for a grand total of $99 billion.”
Without context this means absolutely nothing, it’s just a string of big numbers.
Also remember that the average woke journalist that neither understands basic economics or bothers to fact check outside of taking an explicitly propagandistic organization’s word for these numbers, never correctly uses the term “profit.” I see these 1/20th wits use profit when they mean gross on a regular basis. They don’t understand that gross means literally nothing without accounting for all expenses. Excuse me for being a bit incredulous on a claim that combined retail net profit has seen a 4000% increase in two years despite an increase in every conceivable cost.
Ah, let’s pretend those numbers are absolutely correct.
These witlings are upset at an increase in these companies’ corporate profits of approximately 0.025%.
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
I feel fine.
Because it is every business’ responsibility to “keep prices stable for struggling families”.
JFC.
This is their goal. A managed economy with the veneer of ‘free market’ slapped on top of it.
That can’t be. I’ve been reassured by the name of the militant arm of the left that they are opposed to fascism. Pay no attention to the fact that literally every Bernie or Warren proposal is about government being able to micromanage or outright seize private business.
To be sure, inflation is rising sharply due to a number of underlying economic issues
Somebody’s stealing Robby Soave’s shtick!
All those CEOs who played along with the government during the lockdowns are about to get thrown under the bus.
^^^
Didn’t they already try the “it’s teh EVUL corporations” bit a few months ago and surveys revealed Americans just didn’t buy that shit at all?
Most Americans don’t follow politics or the news, but they aren’t stupid enough to think all the companies just got greedier.
It depends on how desperate the Democrats get. But it will be hard to make that play in the corporate media since there are opposing incentives at work there.
I was 64 years old before I learned that I was driven by thymotic desires.
Dreher quoting Brooks (no, not our Brooks – gods what an improvement he would be over that David one):
Which it turns out is another piece of garbage from that hack Plato (the division of the soul into three parts).
Paul Johnson, I think, called Plato the first intellectual, which Johnson defined as someone more interested in ideas than people.
Johnson also said Plato gradually turned the historical Socrates into a Frankenstein monster whom Johnson calls Platsoc – a Weekend-at-Bernie’s mouthpiece for Plato’s own (worse) views.
Not sure if Plato was a frustrated playwright or he didn’t want the powers that be “cancel” him. He seems to be saying you can’t kill me. I’m not the one who said these things.
That sounds like Popper’s views on Plato
All I know about Popper is that he and Redenbacher collaborated very effectively.
Efficiently, too. They really did spin up their partnership in a jiffy!
Swiss is going to be salty about this one.
He didn’t give Redenbacher the runaround?
Something about the software industry that drives people crazy?
The comments are yours except Paronomasia. Attempt no landings there.
Calembour is a nice place to visit.
What you did there was seen.
Kan Israel’s English program last night had a really interesting interview with the author of Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.
You can find the interview here.
Er, here.
I’m sorry guys I can no longer be a libertarian. Their arguments are too good and just destroy any that we may have.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/libertarian-taxation-property-rights?fbclid=IwAR1U3fAznPFG9OApIC2a8LbQGrroavc5r5wcNpFnYHdODwajiFCVNbjsjz0
He actually admits he debated Dave Smith, I figured he would memory hole that.
I notice he didn’t admit he got his ass handed to him and took a victory lap on Twitter anyway.
He should debate STEVE SMITH
Wow. They really think that’s an argument?
I tried to read the article, but it was the same stupidity he was trying to use against Dave.
Remember, this is a professor of Logic and Rhetoric.
Willing to bet he consulted no classical sources on either of those.
No, he isn’t a professor (implying tenure at a 4-year institution) – he is an instructor at a community college.
“It’s far from clear that it even makes sense to talk about committing “violence” against inanimate objects. Is shooting empty beer cans for target practice violent? When you eat a piece of pizza, you’re breaking it down into its component particles — literally annihilating it as completely as it’s physically possible to annihilate anything — but it seems wrong to say that you’re committing violence against the pizza.”
Hey Ben Burgis, why don’t I come over to your house and start lobbing Molotov cocktails at it and then I’ll put some bullets in your car and piss over every inch of the interior. Then you can look me in the eye and tell me that I wasn’t being violent towards your property. Violence against pizza? What a stupid fucking asshole.
Ben assumes he will be taken care of by the State as he is one of the enlightened.
Ben’s problem is that he assumes he’s not retarded. He’s bordering on Richard Wolf levels of stupidity with these arguments.
Violence against pizza is when you put pineapple on it.
I can’t bring myself to read anything that cites Breunig. It hurts my brain.
Gah!
I read a little of it. Lizzie is using the same legal argument that the civil asset forfeiture assholes use, but broadening it to philosophy.
There are actually people who consider libertarianism a greater threat to the Republic than socialists like this (and their somewhat milder counterparts).
It’s like lecturing a fat guy about the dangers of dyslexia (libertarianism in this analogy).
Not dyslexia, the other thing, the thing where you don’t eat and…anorexia!
The government is alarmed by the increase in government-permitted guns? Is it just me, or does that make no rational sense at all?
Too many loopholes. Close them.
First you register them, then you take them.
Announcing the scary numbers is just the precursor to the taking step.
Just got back from my last time in my office cubicle, and hopefully my last time riding the hellscape that is Metro. Woooooot!
Did you wave to everybody like Richard Nixon before getting into the helicopter?
*Happy Dance***
Cool
Congrats!
Go you!
Go Kampered Kristen!
*celebratory gunfire*
Congrats!
Yay! Good on you.
? Golf ? Clap ?
Awesome!
I’m gonna have to make sure that the Spousal Unit never interacts with you, since what you’re doing is pretty much what she wants to do (and is impossible in the vast majority of Canada for most of the year due to that little thing we call “winter”).
A pair of woke activists in Arizona… accused a black entertainer hired for a local school event of wearing wearing blackface. Turns out he’s black.
https://www.theblaze.com/furnace/woke-diversity-activists-accuse-black-dj-of-wearing-blackface
Did drugs fall out of their asses too?
Can a black guy sue someone who falsely accuses him of being a white blackface performer?
I sure hope so.
This is why I don’t take arguments about local school funding seriously.
Just got back from my last time in my office cubicle, and hopefully my last time riding the hellscape that is Metro. Woooooot!
Sweeeeet.
https://brownstone.org/articles/is-liberalism-a-lost-cause/
Why was he so certain that Free Speech was one of those old ideas that would never be dismissed as outdated and reactionary.
There were plenty of warning signs but they were mostly right-wingers so it was ignored…
Tucker strikes me as less than fully honest here. I seem to recall his cheering on the removal of, say, Alex Jones or people bordering on “alt-right” (whatever the hell that ever was) from social media as fully appropriate market solution to people spreading toxic ideas. It seems the only thing that’s changed here is now Tucker’s ideas have been deemed toxic. That is to say, Tucker’s fault was something a bit more than naivete.
The smug is off the charts.
“Continue reading”
I’ll pass.
They released lists of the books, and I bet it wouldn’t be hard to find examples.
Nice try, social justice warrior. I know the indoctrination is there because I’ve done my research by watching Fox News, the network that taught me long ago that “2 + 2 = 5” and that anyone who says otherwise is a socialist.
Aaaaand done.
[With apologies to Terry Stafford]
♪♫ Progjection, torments my heart.
Progjection, keeps us apart.
Progjection, why torture me?
Does it come with its own mechanic?
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-jaguar-xke-roadster-41/
It sounds like it had a complete restoration. Also, a 1967 is pretty simple. You’ll just need to buy a set of stupid wrenches if it’s your first old British car.
Shit, that could have been Dirty Lemmy’s jag. It was in Arlington and looked just like that.
What’s wacky about British fasteners? Half mm increments, stone-inch torque settings on wrenches?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Whitworth
Whitworth
Would
No music with the links, so here’s one appropriate for the last link.
Have you listened to the new Pink Floyd song they did to protest Ukraine. If you haven’t, run away like it’s the plague. It will retroactively ruin their back catalog for you and make you question whether they ever had any talent. Stay naive if you can.
FFS why? Waters was bad enough during the 80’s.
The production is so amateurish and the lyrical content is so juvenile that I literally cringed with embarrassment for them. I cannot believe they would risk their legacy and mystique by putting it out there.
It can’t be as bad as Imagine.
Isn’t it some sort of collaboration with some no-name Ukrainian rock band Waters met at some Euro-cocktail-party/fundraiser?
I’m a big PF fan, but I’m utterly not surprised that Gilmour and/or Waters would hack together a dumb political song.
Does it come with its own mechanic?
I’d rather have a girl in a mini skirt.
OK, but she’s 73 now.
Champ(s)
grrizzly 18
l0b0t 18
Tundra 19
TARDis 20
MikeS 21
Scruffy Nerfherder 21
Rat on a train 22
kinnath 23
Sean 23
whiz 23
Not Adahn 24
Ted S. 24
one true athena 25
The Hyperbole 25
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Grumbletarian 115
JG43 115
db 116
Ghostpatzer 116
Dr, Fronkensteen 117
SDF-7 118
Translucent Chum 120
trshmnstr the terrible 123
Bobarian LMD 124
23 players today. Average score of 59.56521739. Ouch! You know it’s a tough day when there are more chumps (9) than players at or under the Tundra line (7). Today’s champs Grrizzly and l0b0t are both off to a strong start on the week, can they keep it up and end Ted S.’s streak as weekly champ? Stay tuned to find out, same quordle time, same quordle channel.
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Folk still around? I’m very oddly up early. Wrote an essay. Probably should be a submission, but I wasn’t writing it for Glibs. I had fun talking to my parents and was given a challenge to write. Dad suggested writing about Jackie Robinson. I was going to focus on meritocracy, and how sports and music are the best examples. No one gives a fuck as long as you can play.
I put that aside and expanded on a FB conversation (with a guy that is an actual, honest lefty). I spent a long time editing it. Pretty happy to do something productive for the day. Practice is practice. If I can find some art I think it would be something I could whittle down (you don’t need my notes to my parents) and submit.
Lady is asleep. I can leave in exactly 3 weeks.
“I was going to focus on meritocracy, and how sports and music are the best examples. No one gives a fuck as long as you can play.”
Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing this morning.
That was gonna be the crux of my argument. Yeah, Jackie Robinson was a novelty. He faced taunts and threats. Dealt with them with PROFOUND discipline. But at the end of the day, he was a helluva ballplayer.
Batting average .313
Home runs 141
Runs batted in 761
Um. Damn. That’s fucking solid. They let him play because he DESERVED to play. He handled with aplomb that I can’t possibly fathom. I say that as a person that’s lived his entire adult life as a complete outsider in foreign countries.
I should write more.
I’m under the impression (quite likely from watching Ken Burns’s Baseball) that Satchel Paige was probably an even better player than Robinson, but was thought to have too “hot-headed” a temperament to tolerate the inevitable hostility expected to be directed toward the “first.” Your thoughts?
I wasn’t nearly alive then, but that’s the general idea. Paige was TREMENDOUS. They purposefully chose Jackie, not only because he was damn good, but because he could handle the taunts and threats. Was also a 6-time All-Star and helped the Dodgers win the World Series.
It’s hard to compare the two. One was a pitcher and the other wasn’t. Harder to be a position player when you’re playing ~162 games a year instead of starting ~30. Always out there for all to be seen. It’s deserved that 42 is Officially Retired throughout MLB. That man put up with a hulluva-lotta shit and could fucking play. His wife played a huge role in that. Sad family story, sadly. But hats off to the people that earn it.
Fun fact. Jackie had an older brother, Mack, who took silver in the Olympic games behind Jesse Owens.
https://around.uoregon.edu/mackrobinson
That is fun! I had no idea. Damn. Well, if you’re gonna lose, best to lose to the King. Didn’t underplay, just got outplayed.
Also this morning (OK, some time yesterday)…
“Shhhhh. It’s “Those Right People” not being diverse. It’s OK when they do it. They have the best intentions. Unlike us white folk. Shhh, now. *Pats rhywun’s head”
Good on them. To me it’s always been so simple: In baseball, ya need 18 guys, with 18 gloves, plenty of bats, lots of balls, shin guards, EVERYTHING. In soccer, you just need grass and a ball. In basketball, ya just need a small spot, a ball, and a goal. Soccer and basketball are FAR cheaper. That’s why soccer is the biggest global sport. Ya just need a place to kick a ball. Don’t need much money. Same-same with basketball in America.
And, duh, governmental policies kept blacks poorer than others. Of course they focused on the cheaper sport. And excelled at it.
Tchaikovsky cancelled in Mexico.
Courtesy of Google Translate.
What is Spanish for “monkey see, monkey do”?
Tu madre.
Tu madre.
Your name must be Heather.
“YouTube removes Tucker Carlson interview with woman who detransitioned
Helena Kerschner spoke to Tucker Carlson, and when a clip of her interview was posted to YouTube, it was taken down for “violating YouTube’s policy on spam, deceptive practices, and scams.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/youtube-removes-tucker-carlson-interview-of-woman-who-detransitioned
The trans lobby is particularly effective. I’ll give them credit for that.
Unfortunately for them, I think they will push too hard, if they haven’t already done so, and inspire a reactionary movement that will not be good for anyone.
I’m having more and more trouble figuring out why don’t all collectively decide to move to a new platform away from YouTube. At least for political content. There’s no reason why we should be rewarding these platforms that side with and chose to center these fringe people. The fact that the western world is in mid collapse and still somehow we manage to spend 20% of our time discussing a mental disorder that effects like 1/100,000 people is completely insane. Trans issues do not effect nearly enough people to warrant them being central to the national political discussions in any way. They need to go the fuck away so we can at least pretend to try to address things that matter.
It’s almost like there is a vast cohort of people out there who do not want that to happen.
Rumble is growing leaps and bounds. I’m 50/50 at this point between YT and Rumble.
“deceptive practices and scams”
It’s like rain on your wedding day.
The ancient Greeks believed rain in the wedding day was an auspicious sign for fertility.
Bring the rain!!
What about a free riiiiide when you’ve already paid?
“Something borrowed” was supposed to be underwear from a woman who had already had a child.
“No wonder they refused to accept my wedding gift!”
/Japanese guy
I thought it was Sean’s ride.
Me, for a very long time now: “You can tell when people are not from the desert. They think that rain is bad weather.”
Ha, very true.
“Happy is the bride that the rain falls on”
Irish Wedding Blessing
Someone regretting transitioning is misleading. No
one ever does.
Especially at the mature age of 11. They all make sound decisions
It’s getting downright evil.
You can go through security without a mask right now!
Admin Official: “Today’s court decision means CDC’s public transportation masking order is not in effect at this time. Therefore, TSA will not enforce its Security Directives and Emergency Amendment requiring mask use on public transportation and transportation hubs at this time”
Take it off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54ktmAgrx8s
Thank. God.
Korea is obsessed with masks. (Granted the ’95 sarin subway attack in Japan made that common a while ago, but yeeeesh.)
It’s fun having hearing problems, needing to read lips to catch everything, and yet there’s always a sign language translator for every channel…when there’s CC available. It’s monstrous. Twenty-one days to go. I’m just glad I’ve got some….Hitler-Birthday Fun today. It’s rare. Crazy rare. Lady still looks after us.
How can you celebrate…oh, yeah, I get it, never mind.
Airlines are following suit which means they already knew their unions were si k of it. I wish they had the balls to tell the FedGov to suck their airliner’s balls before but can’t bite the hand that keeps you aloft.
Not linking to the Salon article:
lol salon
You know what’s not complicated? Binary thinkers.
https://www.salon.com/2021/12/26/best-of-2021-i-grew-up-in-a-christian-commune-heres-what-i-know-about-americas-religious-beliefs/
The only way I could see someone making that argument would be stating that God the Father didn’t do it, rather — God the Son as a separate aspect of the Trinity (there’s that debate again) raised Himself. Anything else is just moving away from the Bible anyway and might as well be “The Grobnaxians of Delta V did it!”
(not saying it was aliens….)
I can’t do Wednesday zoom, I have an appointment.
Hump day.
The news says that the Russians just nailed Lviv, Ukraine with missiles. You know, the place were we deliver them weapons. Who could have seen that coming?
I guess things are pretty hot in Donbas, too.
This is fucked up.
Apparently Zelensky ordered the final 4,000 or so fighters in Mariupol to fight to the last. Why, I have no idea. They’re done.
Which everyone knew a month ago. Fucking monsters.
Yes
The Ukrainian army in Donbas will be next. They’re just mincemeat for the propaganda grinder.
The grifter needs martyrs.
You know who else ordered a futile final stand?
Very brave of him.
Saw some stuff a little earlier about the UA busting East through the Russian Supply lines towards Mariupol – didn’t see a scale thing to see how close they were to the city though.
There are also reports of fighting between Azov and Ukrainian Army regulars as the regulars retreat. Western media coverage is abysmal. It’s so completely lopsided as to be useless.
Hey Ted – quick question. Just emailed Cinema Savant about it too.
Reread Red Storm Rising and came across the bit about the Eisenstein Film Festival on Soviet Satellite. I picked up the remastered Battleship Potemkin and Strike on blu-ray a little while back and watched them both last fall, but I haven’t seen any releases of Alexander Nevsky anytime recently.
Looks like Criterion had it in a DVD that was probably OOP at least 20 years ago…have you heard anything about upcoming re-releases on blu-ray or anywhere else?
Thanks
No I haven’t, but I have to admit I don’t pay that close attention to upcoming releases, unless it’s a movie I’ve got on my DVR and am holding off blogging about until the DVD is released. I could swear I saw the release of The Whistle at Eaton Falls get pushed back a couple of times.
Check the forum and see if that is something you would like. It’s a 1080p Bluray copy.
Haven’t seen my granddaughter in a week. She came over tonight and now she can crawl.
That’s awesome! Now will she be working on textiles or in the mine?
Probably start her out on textiles.?
Awesome! Those first couple months where they’re mobile are one of my favorite ages.
Some airlines have already dropped the mask requirements. Masks are coming off in the air.
I think it’s done. The political cost to pursue this is going to be too high.
Saw that. They started asking the airlines earlier and some kept it initially while they discussed it (i.e., United, America) and by now United has already dropped it. It’s done.
I wish I worked for the Post, Guardian, or Atlantic, so I could start writing articles encouraging the dems to go full on Shanghai. I mean you know they are already in a massive circle jerk just pining to do so.
Channeling my inner Henny Youngman…
I see the White House has a Easter Egg Roll.
Why not just boiled eggs in decorated shells? That would be more popular than an egg roll.
Are they trying to pick up the Asian vote?
“I see the White House has a
Easter EggSpring Sphere Roll”Good I was around to correct your Nazi Racism before you do massive damage to the innocents.
Sphere?
What do you expect from someone who drinks White Claw?
Not since yesterday, having a Truly today.
I don’t get why you call it hipster juice. I thought IPAs were hipster juice. You’re drinking white-girl punch.
IPA is the original hipster juice. The hard seltzer is a joke between my son and I. Basically hipster juice is whatever is the local favorite of dirty obnoxious yupsters. You know the ones that are in Whole Foods and haven’t bathed for a year, if ever, so you have to stand at least 6 feet behind them in the checkout line? And they put their produce on a filthy converyor with no bags, one item at a time? And then you see them in the local pub drinking their hipster juice and pretending like they are sophisticated? When my son was living in Seattle it was Pabst Blue Ribbon, seriously.
Gotcha. Yeah, well then sours should be the new hipster juice. I was pleasantly surprised to see the numbers of IPAs breweries had on tap starting to decline…until I noticed it was only because the sours (and their bastard children) were multiplying.
The PBR thing was funny. Like in a SMDH kind of funny.
Sours are fucking delicious.
Yeah, the sours seemed to be getting popular the last time I was at the local pub, which was in 20, because the idiots around here destroyed most small businesses with the Covid mania. There was a deli and package store about a mile from me in the other direction that had been there for 60 years and they killed that off. There was on Oyster bar that I loved in the opposite direction, we would walk all of the time, it was like our fav place, they killed that. The local pub and burger joint which was very good, yeah they killed that too. Now there is nothing around here noe except a few groceries and package stores.
It’s the same argument I made for years about IPAs: Sure, some are. But when half your tap rail is devoted to one style (or variations thereof) of beer, you are turning off a lot of customers.
Plus it’s really fucking annoying.
But when half your tap rail is devoted to one style
And it’s fucking never Hefe’s!
That’s what pisses me off the most.
Lok they got Blue Moon, what more could you want?
Good afternoon, Glibs, wokesters, swillers of the hipster juice, and neo-postciv-stoics.
The flight crew on AlaskaAir when I was on a flight a week ago was so Done with it, I’m not surprised they were first. I have a flight to Dallas in a couple weeks, so I’m excited no mask theater for that. Or at least on the flight – I guess the airports can continue to require it? I’m sure Barbara Ferrer will poke her head out of her coffin and continue it for LAX, the ghoul.
Anyone have any recommendations for my free day in Dallas? I haven’t been in twenty years.
The important thins is that Xi and Klaus are pleased with your behavior, get in line, wear your mask, and control your urge for freedom, comrade.
What part of Dallas?
Convention center. But I’ll have a car.
What interests you? Me, being a nerd would send you to nerdy things like National Video Game Museum. But maybe your interest is food, or culture. I find Dallas lacking and would still send you out to Ft. Worth to check out the Ft. Worth Zoo’s MOLA, or to Rick’s Chophouse for steaks.
Did someone the other day say that you can’t call SiriusXM and get the promo price? I used their chat with every intention of canceling my two vehicles’ subscriptions and they are giving them to me for $6/month each for 12 months. It still works. Don’t give up the fight!
I’ll have to ask wifey to try that, I think we’re paying like $30 a month now.
Yeah. I hated doing it over the phone, so I let it slide for too long. But now you can just do it in the chat.
I hate calling people on the phone, period. But my wife calls people all day long on the phone for work and negotiates things with them. We had a problem with an insurance company we were dealing with at the end of last year over a payout and I just kept contacting them and they just kept fucking around and I’m thinking I wil never get the money. She sent them an email and then called them. I don’t know what the hell she said, but there was a check in my mailbox a few days later for the full amount.
My wife does the same. I’ve been arguing with the company who installed my solar panels for 16 months about the battery not working. Wife called. Truck came out the following week and installed the import/export meter they never installed when the system was put in. Boom. Battery works.
Every woman has a Karen inside, yearning to be free.
yearning to enslave everybody else.
Karen or ruthless mafia like tyrant. I ask my wife ir she told them that Guido and Tony are coming over to break their knees. She’s of like 50% Sicilian descent anyway, she’s mean, lol.
Meanwhile in metro nyc
https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/mta-amtrak-and-nj-transit-keep-mask-mandate-despite-judges-ruling
No. Way.
Way.
I am so shocked.
Apparently the law no longer applies to goverment agencies and universities.
But you can be in room with a few thousand of your closest friends, all packed in like sardines, for hours at a time, and you don’t need to wear a mask. Apparently there is something about trains that make them superspreaders.