One time several years ago SP and I were taking a trip and after a lovely time in Wheeling, West Virginia, we decided to get pizza. We found a great little place just across the border in Ohio. We ordered. I go in and pick it up. I set it on the hood of the car (because we’re classy), and we open the box. And inside we found a “pizza” with unmelted mozzarella on it. Like…what? We were dumbfounded. We thought it was a mistake. The bottom of the crust was done though? And kinda crisp. Almost charred. So that part of the pizza was cooked. But then there was this pile of unmelted cheese? SP suggested we go back in and ask them to melt it, but then we found their Yelp, and we learned…it’s a thing. We ate it anyway. It was not delicious.
A Politico piece about the white working class
An Irish take on our new “abortion problem.”
A delicious pudding recipe provided in PDF form from Fortnum & Mason. A copywriter created this recipe and it beat out all others in a competition for the Queen’s Official Platinum Jubilee Pudding.
A really bad day to be on this semi truck
John Eastman’s phone was seized by the FBI, and they apparently got access to his email. I’m curious since it’s an iPhone 12. Did they compel him to open the phone or do they have some new iPhone entry capability?
I would like to introduce you to my new favourite artist, Alex Schaefer, pictured below.
Spotted at my local walmart…
(This meme caused some tension when I shared it among the staff and someone confessed to not liking dogs.)
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Melty, slightly browned mozzerella is one of the most delicious things out there. Why would you deliberately go with raw instead?
It’s a strange style. From what I’ve heard about it, the thought process is that it’s designed to be taken home, and the residual heat from the crust and sauce will be enough to melt the cheese. In practice, every time I’ve seen Ohio Valley Pizza, it’s a big pile of unmelted cheese on a thin crust with sauce.
I live in the Ohio Valley in PA and thankfully, as far as I know, that monstrosity has not made its way here.
What’s the first thing you do when you get a pizza home from the shop? Check to see if it’s hot enough. Putting unmelted cheese on a hot pizza is guaranteed to take it to a temperature that is disgusting. It’s not just the cold cheese, it’s the energy that goes into the phase change–it cools the rest of the pizza down even more, and while you might get melted mozarella if the energy balance is just right, you sure as hell won’t get the best part: the browned cheese and its tasty, tasty Maillard products.
It gets even stranger when the one place rolls out their food truck. The girlfriend and I went down a bit where a city was doing a pizza cookoff, there were a handful of participants. One of which was Ohio Valley Pizza. They were handing out pizza with flat out cold cheese on it right from the truck. The sauce was still too damned hot to eat, the cheese was cold, it was like a hot pocket in real life… that they handed to people who were selecting the best pizza.
Used to eat at a place in Easton PA that made their pizza with the sauce on top of the cheese. It was strangely good.
Sounds reasonable; Chicago style? Which type of crust?
Not Chicago. Relatively thin crust.
http://www.colonialpizzaeaston.com
Don’t order any chicken or pork items.
This is an assault on culinary etiquette and good fooding! A TRAVESTY!
What’s next? Pineapple and avocado pizza on raw cheese?
Or clams on pizza??? Like, WTF? 😉
White or red sauce?
Red sauce, no clams, mozzarella, pepperoni
The cafeteria here does that, among other things.
They do that in New Haven, also Providence.
Blame another unusual apizza style for that.
My wife is from ‘apizza’ country and it’s quite good.
One of the owners/brewmasters of a local brewery went to school out there, and that’s the pizza style that’s for offer at their restaurants. I have not braved the clam one yet, but I’m not a big fan of shellfish to begin with.
Area Four’s clam & bacon pizza is glorious.
Two thoughts:
There’s a reason why regional styles stay regional.
This is why travelers eat at McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Olive Garden, etc.
^THIS^
When I used to travel for work all the time, I made a point of eating at local establishments. Most of my colleagues were happy with Applebee’s. I prefer the variety, others prefer consistency and that’s why those chains are successful.
while I _understand_ why people don’t want to take a risk and go for consistent mediocrity (especially when they have kids), I’m 100% with you and will go for a local place every time.
You and me and Ralph Nader.
I was on a work trip a couple months ago with another guy. We decided we were going to get steak one night. I looked up steakhouses. He said no to every single one until I started naming chains like Longhorn and Outback. I don’t mind those, but I wanted to try something new. I guess some people just don’t like that.
There’s the risk you might get something worse than one of the national chains. The fear of that outweighs the reward of potentially getting something superior at the local place.
Again, I totally get it if you have kids with you – if you _know_ they’ll eat X at Red Robin, great. You try the local place and they refuse/hate what’s there and you’re dealing with a whole headache.
That’s what the Yelp is for!
I have much better luck with TripAdvisor these days, but yes.
If only it was that easy.
And that’s how regional styles survive.
Same here. I’ve always tried to avoid Generica(tm) and find the neat local places when I was traveling a lot.
For every time I ended up regretting it, there were five times I was delighted.
I once regretted it for three days on the bathroom floor of my suite at the Waco Residence Inn (really bad cheesesteak at a sandwich shop near the Baylor campus) but most of the time I was delighted.
Getting a cheesesteak outside of the Philly area is unwise.
There’s a great little place in a town near here that’s run by a Philly expat. Great cheesesteaks.
I grew up with it and like it.
But when we make pizza at the house, we cook all of it together as God intended.
Piling un-melted cheese on things seems to be an Ohio specialty.
An Irish take on our new “abortion problem.” – europe seems very invested in the US abortion issue… weird. Also it was like days ago can we move on?
hmm article written by an american
Abortion was illegal when I moved to Ireland in 2000.
Proving the stereotype of the ugly American abroad.
She went to enlighten the Irish, and drive the unwanted fetuses into the sea.
Those Irish Catholic IRA soldiers fought all those decades for a free Ireland – that’s ruled by the EU, no longer Catholic or Irish.
By an Indian.
It always strikes me as odd it happened that fast.
In overturning Roe, the Trump-appointed trio was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, conservatives who rely heavily on the literal language of the constitution. – which is what I would expect from a judge
Now that the US constitution no longer provides protection for abortion rights – did it ever?
Corporations that once shied away from mentioning it as “too controversial” are now stepping up to pay for employees to travel out of state for abortion services. – I thought corporations were suppose to keep out of women uterus, if I remember the hubbub around that hobby store decision. You Americans confuse me
No, no it did not.
That abortion right was pure made up bullshit. The left had decades to codify this need to murder infants all the way up to and past birth into law, but realized putting in writing what they really want to do would hurt them (see old Virginia gov on killing babies). They didn’t expect this day to come because they thought they could intimidate and rig the system so they would never have to worry about their abuses of power. But I doubt they even realize that their current extracurricular activities to abuse power can and will be turned against them sooner than later, as they keep acting as if they will never have to pay any price for being a crime syndicate.
The Mississippi law is 15 weeks plus longer for life of mother and extreme circumstances- more generous than many Euro Countries.
And nobody is getting prosecuted for crossing state lines. Just like nobody got prosecuted for using an escort service in Vegas, for gambling in Atlantic City, for going to an orgy in San Franciso (pre Lawrence), for shooting guns that are legal in one state but illegal in another, etc.
As far as I know, anti-abortion laws are aimed at performing abortions, not receiving them. The criminal is the doctor, not the birthing person.
This is still the part I find most amusing. If the Mississippi law is not challenged, we still have Roe v Wade.
“conservatives who rely heavily on the literal language of the constitution”
They are originalists, not textualists.
Europa wishes she had access to abortion back before her colonial children began to get uppity.
eh a poor backwater like the US is of limited concern. There is little there besides poverty racism and cruelty to turkeys
Don’t forget tractor pulls.
And monster truck shows!
Yee-haw!!!!
*shines belt buckle*
School Bus Racing!
ok that look awesome
Combine derby!
F1 cars on a figure 8 track.
‘Murica! Fuck Yeah!
Not enough carnage.
TRAKTOR PULLZ?
I wonder if joe is doing ok.
Bruh, if you’ve never been to a tractor pull, you’re missing out.
I haven’t seen one since I was a kid. I remember them being loud as fuck.
Would watch again.
Combine Demolition Derby
That’s was cool, but not as exciting as I thought it might be. Granted I did not watch the end to see if anyone fell into the combine machinery.
I will be very disappointed if one of them isn’t painted up like a graveyard and named “Harvester of Sorrow.”
Only because db mentioned ‘sorrow’, some Faith No More.
That song slaps, as the kids say.
Harvester of Sorrow
🙂
@slumbrew: I’ve never seen that video before. Cool homage.
I drive by one that draws a crowd of what looks like a couple thousand on my way to the girlfriend’s house. Sometimes it’s perfectly times so I can see the tractors roar down the stretch as I drive by. I am curious, intrigued even.
I have been. The one at the local Steam Show is awesome–they have an antique division for steam tractors. And a lawn tractor division.
The majority brazenly overturned nearly 50 years of its own precedent simply by asserting that the US constitution contains no mention of abortion.
And that’s a factually true statement, although I’m sure some “fact checkers” have asserted otherwise.
*EDIT FAIRY HELPS YOU*
It doesn’t matter what the Constitution says, what matters is what the Court says! /retards of various stripe
Since Wickard v. Filburn, I can’t say that the retards are entirely wrong.
you careless use of tags can cause confusion.
Ugh.
you’re one to talk!
Oh my gosh. I exact same thing happen when I was playing in a baseball tourney when I was younger. We stayed at Liberty University in the dorms and snuck out. We got the pizza and took it back because ‘it wasn’t done’.
I guees it was West Liberty Univ because it was in Wheeling. I’m assuming it was the same damn pizza place.
I wish I’d had the foresight to get pizza from here or here when UCS visited. Just to gauge his reaction on pizza cut into squares as opposed to the traditional slice.
Donato’s>>>>>Cassano’s.
There. I said it. Call me “Hometown Traitor,” but it’s true. I’ll happily sing a classic Cassano’s jingle all day long, but give me Donato’s for dinner.
I haven’t had Donato’s in so long. It was so much better than the national chains!
I like Donato’s more when I was younger. I’m not sure if they cooked the pizza better then or of my tastes just changed. But it seemed like the pepperoni was crispier when I was younger, and there was more of it. I’m willing to try again. Feel free to order one to my house so I can test.
Now that you say it, I vaguely recall ordering some Donato’s one time when I was home from college and it wasn’t the same. Hopefully that was just a fluke.
I imagine it’s probably location specific and how fast they pull them out of the ovens. Probably best to order during the day when they aren’t rushed.
A delicious pudding recipe – I thought pudding was supposed to be boiled in a cloth
Pudding as in dessert generally, in this case.
Jeez, seven separate recipes.
Words should have fixed meanings. Some English are very annoying using pudding for desert, as in “I had cheesecake for pudding tonight.”
Hasn’t Biden’s brain been through enough?
“A Politico piece about the white working class”
The dumb thing here is the belief this is a white working class problem. It is a working class problem period. Democrats hate the working class, especially the lower middle class that has not been indoctrinated in college, with a passion, because these people will not play nice with the idiocy that permeates democrat urban white women dumbasses.
It is a working class problem period. – this is what the classic commies keep telling the woke commies.
Libertarians of course do not acknowledge the concept of class
Well, I do acknowledge that when I went to school there were classes there… These days they are online when I try to maintain all these certifications I need to keep my pimp hand strong…
I acknowledge it.
I’ve got class; you don’t.
My music links have class, too.
That stuff you are smoking is some real awesome shizz…
The classiest.
“Classhizz”” is the name of my fusion jazz band’s upcoming album.
I’d give it a listen.
Sadly, for the Democrats, it is a structural problem within the party that impedes their ability to make that working-class a voter bloc they can again take for granted.
They don’t remember Reagan Democrats?
They have been trying real hard to make those Reagan democrats forget why they did that, but did it all in the wrong way…
Au contraire, they can’t forget them and still want them punished.
Related just via terminology – the younger people in my org (like up to about 30yo, but smart Engineer-types) are flabbergasted when us geezers point out that the standard political defintion of Trump for pretty much his entire existence was “Clinton Democrat”.
Why would they have ever grasped anything about the Clinton era Democrats of their childhood? They would’ve been at most 8 or 9 years old at the end of his administration.
Yup. My squishy-liberal Dem Bubble colleagues were annoyed when I pointed out that policy-wise, Trump was just Clinton with a bad haircut.
Well, Trump wasn’t getting his hair cut by Christophe on the tarmac.
Including the ass-grabbing.
They don’t accept what you would consider the “working class” as such, but instead consider them to be actual or at least wannabe bourgeoisie (of the petty/lesser kind). Though this doesn’t mean they aren’t also hypocrites, as their perhaps single largest base of support comes from the professional-managerial class of laptop workers and email jobs, who would for much of Marxist history have been considered bourgeois (and of a higher tier) as well.
They haven’t actually read Marx.
I have found that more than 65% of the marxist moronocracy never read Marx. Out of those that did read him, I find that 99.99% didn’t understand what he was actually talking about. That small 0.001% that did understand him and still went with marxism, tend to end up being the political and leader class, from which those running the marxist paradise – Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Kim, Chavez, and so on – come forth. All other readers of Marx that understood him tend to be violently anti-marxism.
Reading Marx in a historically appropriate context is passé. It’s better for them to get the distilled form, filtered through 150 years of postmodern deconstruction, understood by cultural osmosis and cursory readings of Wikipedia.
Cause otherwise they might pick up Marx was one heck of a demented evil fuck that wanted to kill people until the ones that were left conformed to the social systems we see in the insect world?
The average Marxist has about the same grasp on Marx that that twitter-chick did on JusticeDankula.
the working class are (is?) plagues with false consciousness to be fair
The paradox of “false consciousness” is that, going back to Lenin, the “solution” has been to terrorize the falsely conscious Kulaks with the devoid-of-class-consciousness-altogether lumpenproles. Perhaps the single best distillation of the problem of communism is that it finds criminals and wastrels more useful than shopkeepers and skilled tradesmen.
Honestly, anyone talking false consciousness as a serious concept should be excused from the conversation.
Excused with extreme prejudice.
“You’re excused, ******** ******** and ****** and *******. You, too, *******; you know there’s a reason that it takes ******* five of you to change a ******** lightbulb.
“the belief this is a white working class problem”
Which he indirectly referenced with the hispanic vote drifting more GOP.
The working class hispanics are going to the GOP, much like the Cubans in Florida already are.
whaddup doh’
women losing their tights and and impending economic crisis that is whaddup. And it is all the fault of the extreme libertarians secretly running the world. that or the (((you know who))). or maybe the lizards. circumcised libertarian space lizards that breath fire.
From the prior linked article- this broad is GLIB af.
6:58 p.m. A 73-year-old woman who suspected she was continuously being robbed told law enforcement she was rigging her back door with a shotgun so the next person to open it gets shot.
That will get you jail time.
women losing their tights
Ensuring nothing is left to the imagination.
That trifle recipe looks amazing. But way, way, involved.
I’m hoping you guys let/encourage/force l0b0t to make one.
Sometimes Malice just has a knack for trolling
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1541612359302668288
As related to the phone story, the standard rule is if someone has physical access to a device, they will find a way past any security on it.
There’s 69 in every one of my passwords. “You must include a number.” Like I wouldn’t have anyways.
Good general rule.
It is why copy protection doesn’t work for movies and etc. If I can display it on my screen, I can make a copy.
That features seems like a bad idea to me. Really, I’d prefer if my phone did full two-factor – fingerprint+PIN.
Easily abused, as evidenced here.
Obligatory XKCD.
Real life sucks…
It can really get you into trouble
Desi wife angry at her guy for doing the needful? Dang.
Wouldn’t Desi wife be Lucy?
*narrows gaze*
Never use the fingerprint. Law enforcement can force you to use biometric information to unlock a device, but cannot compel you to reveal a password or PIN.
My password is “FuckoffSlaver69”!
“69Yours3|Fs|4ver”
PicsOfYourWife
Three wrong finger attempts locks it down to a passcode.
Electric shocks to the ballz will make you share that code….
That escalated quickly.
I always thought that biometrics were dumb, but this proves it.
I should say, they …cannot *lawfully* compel you…
I don’t see how that’s possibly legal.
You think you can sue the cop who does it?
Once again, the accurate prediction of the future
You should set it to the face of the hobo you beheaded and are storing in the crawlspace.
Did the dnc J6 asshats “Clinton” this guy to keep him from wrecking their desperate reality shitshow TeeVee crapola any further?
Stop pretending Britain is America
Sometimes things just aren’t about us
https://unherd.com/2022/06/stop-pretending-britain-is-america/
I’ve been thinking about Lieutenant-Colonel Applin ever since the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, apparently filling millions of Britons with existential horror. I thought of him when I saw the former tax accountant turned Corbyn economic adviser Richard Murphy tweeting: “Where the Republicans go the Tories follow. We take the right to abortion, contraception, gay rights and same-sex marriage for granted now. We shouldn’t. Very soon Tory think tanks will have their sights on all of them. Fascism is on the march.”
In a sense, it’s for the United States, it’s not for the UK,” Boris Johnson told CNN. Alas, he just couldn’t help himself: “But the Roe v. Wade judgement, when it came out, was important psychologically for people around the world…”
We’ve been here before, of course. When a Minneapolis policeman killed George Floyd in May 2020, thousands of people defied Covid regulations to demonstrate in British cities, while The Guardian’s Afua Hirsch insisted that “the racism that killed George Floyd was built in Britain”.
Clarence is giving me a boner when he talks like this..
‘Libel of a public official was deemed an offense “‘most dangerous to the people, and deserv[ing of] punishment, because the people may be deceived and reject the best citizens to their great injury, and it may be to the loss of their liberties.’
Eh, not sure I buy this. Especially coming from judges, etc. I think Clarence has some personal reasons why he feels this way. I might agree that damages would be higher, but that doesn’t speak to the standard of evidence. I think actual malice may be the wrong standard though, but only because it’s almost impossible to prove, and anyway I don’t see the basis for having two standards for the same tort.
You must force two countries into a union with each other. Your goal is to make both of them as angry as possible with your selection. Which two countries do you choose?
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1541508276537348096
Democrats and Republicans?
North and South Sudan. What could go wrong?
Mexico and Canada.
Iran and Saudi Arabia.
India Pakistan a close second.
I’d flip-flop that, what with the whole nuclear power thing.
China and Japan
Anyone else in Asia and Japan.
“But then there was this pile of unmelted cheese? SP suggested we go back in and ask them to melt it, but then we found their Yelp, and we learned…it’s a thing. We ate it anyway. It was not delicious.”
Who would win the Italian-Ohioian War?
There are various factions of Italians in the Ohio valley. They all have very strong opinions about what constitutes proper food.
The more proggie cities (lookin at you Columbus) would fall quickly into a pile of soy latte, skinny jeans, and old gun-control posters.
Those of us in the more rural parts would be fine.
David Simon really is a cunte – shit-talks “mayor of Baltimore” but won’t say his name.
The show made team blue urban policy look bad and the people peddling it evil? Go figure..
DAMMIT! I forgot to say this last time OMWC was gushing:
The Wire is the most overrated show ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRs3g2AnxA
Go eat your pineapple pizza dipped in mayo, you fucking monster.
That sounds amazing. I have some pineapple pizza in the fridge that I’m going to heat up for lunch. Maybe I’ll try dipping it in mayo, although I suspect it’ll be better with Ranch dressing.
It’s America now that is going against the global trend, shrinking rights while the rest of the world expands reproductive freedom.
Irish people were not so ignorant.
“reproductive freedom”
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Abortion is Reproduction
“However, some anti-abortion states are threatening to ban travel for abortion services through enacting specific legislation (Missouri) or by construing abortion travel as a conspiracy to do an act in another state (Alabama) or as aiding and abetting someone to commit a crime.”
Commerce clause?
Those will be struck down, as Dobbs mentioned. I guess furreners can’t read.
At least 46 people were found dead Monday in sweltering conditions in a semitruck in San Antonio, according to authorities, in a scene the mayor called a “horrific human tragedy.”
A full truck wouldn’t have this problem.
Stories like this should be told to all the fucking asshats that complain about America’s evil ways….
These people are willing to die to come to a shithole the left hates and wants to fundamentally transform into a new version of Hades.
Other Politico article of possible interest.
You tried this in ’16 with Trump; oh he’ll be so easy to beat! I will vote for the extremist Republican for PA governor even though I don’t much care for him. Fuck Shapiro, and the Democrats and their high-handed asshattery.
The left plays to win, which means they will cheat and rig the game if allowed to. And man, they hate it when even after they rig shit the people beat the margin of crookery built into the pie and stump them. See 2016 election, and how blatant they had to cheat and then punish anyone pointing this out after they had to go into overdrive to bag the 2020 election.
^^
Indeed.
“If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying!” LT, talking about the Pat’s cheating ways…
The IL Governor TEAM RED primary race is seeded with Dem stalking horses. Not that Fat Boy stands a chance of losing in Bluelandia, but still…
That only works with open primaries, I guess?
Closed primaries here.
No, they promoted the guy who won the Republican nod for governor because they think he’ll be easy for Shapiro to beat. Primaries here are closed (and hence I don’t vote in the spring elections).
Huh. I guess we’ll see how that works out for them, after spending the last few years working hard to tear the country apart.
I don’t think he’ll be that easy to beat. The folks behind him who grew out of Reopen PA have influenced two statewide elections so far: The referendums on the constitutional amendments reining in Wolf and the primary that Mastriano won. Can they do it a third time? We’ll see.
And yeah, I’m biased, I’m a Mastriano fan because of what he did to push back on public health fascism. Yes, he’s not libertarian.
Apropos
From the Politico article.
Ultimately, of course, Vance traveled far from his modest roots to graduate from Yale Law School and become a venture capitalist. For this success, he credited the hard work and boot-strapping mentality he learned from his grandparents. What Vance didn’t credit — not explicitly, anyway — were the structural forces that benefitted him and his grandparents. For Vance, these included an undergraduate degree from an excellent public university (Ohio State) and opportunities in the military. For his grandparents, these included that good union job at Armco Steel—even as Papaw complained about the union.
And public roads, lets not forget about the roads.
So he did not build that ?
Stupid Pawpaw with firsthand experience didn’t know how great unions are. Someone who never had to put up with their bulls hit knows better.
Look, pawpaw was an idiot. He didn’t go to YALE! So he doesn’t know shit. people who went to YALE!!! know what’s good for him.
I love the deus ex machina of structural forces and obstacles.
Why I Left Fightback
Content warning: abuse, sexual assault, transphobia, violence
https://jamiegraham.substack.com/p/why-i-left-fightback?sd=pf
In early 2018, I joined Fightback/La Riposte Socialiste, the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency. I was in my first year of university. I had seen the grief, misery, and exploitation of capitalism firsthand, and I was excited to join an organization of other like-minded people working to overthrow this system and build something better. Unfortunately, my ability to participate in the organization was disrupted by numerous experiences of harassment, abuse, and violence. These experiences on their own would not have necessarily made me resign – I understand that socialist organizations exist within the broader context of capitalism, and that this makes interpersonal harm inevitable to a degree. However, after witnessing the completely inadequate, misogynistic, and careless ways that Fightback’s leadership responds to allegations, I felt that I was unable to continue my involvement in good conscience.
I was in my first year of university. I had seen the grief, misery, and exploitation of capitalism firsthand
lol
I always wonder how people that make bad life choices with seriously negative economic consequences, consistently and constantly, find it so easy to blame capitalism for their idiocy…
College freshmen are too young to have even had the chance to make many bad life choices.
Well they might have made a bad life choice, but the full consequences haven’t yet hit them.
Taking on a mountain of debt on par with a mortgage in most cases, to study what they love – which always is some shit that will never allow you to do a any kind of job that actually involves adding value to an employer, and thus, getting real compensation in return – is to me about the most idiotic mistake a human can make these days.
Well, it obviously countly be their own fault, so something must be to blame.
I understand that socialist organizations exist within the broader context of capitalism, and that this makes interpersonal harm inevitable to a degree.
This person literally thinks that she can make violence and abuse go away by overthrowing capitalism. And I don’t mean the new definition of “literally”. Wow.
The only violence that occurs under socialism is to those who deserve it, comrade.
And when those who deserve it are gone, all will be glorious!
And if it happens to a true believer, well, that’s just the effects of residual capitalism that must be further rooted out. If only comrade Stalin knew of the conditions in the camps, he’d never let s good communist like me rot with all the wreckers.
Dumb people love to misdiagnose shit so they can then pretend their horribly stupid beliefs & ideas should be seen by others as having merit.
*explosive bouts of laughter*
Sounds like a cult to me.
“An Irish solution to a US abortion problem”
And see here I was expecting somethin more Swiftian from the FT…
And I’m still trying to figure out what the solution is. Sue in in an international court?
I was thinking whiskey dick.
Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar 1973
https://youtu.be/6WDSY8Kaf6o
^^
“https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/06/27/thomas-when-oh-when-will-we-finally-revisit-sullivan-n479045”
Passive aggressive marxism… That must leave you feeling used like the lady that gives a guy a blowjob expecting something in return and he just rolls over and goes to sleep after without even saying thanks…
Not sure why the hell my copy-pasta failed and I added the link from cache here… Damn, I need to proof read shizz.
George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
Anyone who wants to lead the Democratic Party has got to show battle readiness. That means a willingness to go to the mat with the GOP on the question of abortion rights.
To. The. Mat.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1541757126904881154
Give me Warp 3, Mr. Sulu.
Has George caught monkeypox yet?
Is he saying he wants MMA matches added to debates?
He just wants to see sweaty guys rolling around on a mat…
I’d love to see some Soy Boy vs some big country boy. I have a feeling things wouldn’t work out the way George imagines.
Careful… All George wants is some event that gives him motivation to fap it…
Oh, my…
Everyone knows how important abortion rights are to gay men.
That was what amused me.
Like Vance, settled white workers tend to see themselves living a version of the American dream grounded primarily — if not entirely — in their own agency. They believe they can survive, even thrive, if they just work hard enough.
Not just whites. Asians, Hispanics, blacks, you name it.
And some of them are doing just that.
Tens, nay hundreds of millions of examples over the decades. It’s almost as if that “get as much education as you can, work hard, live below your means” thing works. Of course, when you do that, and look down on the people who ignore that advice and go on the dole (and other social pathologies), you become the enemy of one of the Democrats’ natural constituencies.
The evolution of the Democratic constituency and the refusal to really grasp what that means. The author wants to dance right up to false consciousness and yammer on about structural this and that, but can’t just honestly realize that Democrats don’t represent these folks.
More screenshots from the Barbie movie. Kind of make my eyes hurt
https://twitter.com/cravemedia_/status/1541592086620712960
I’m just shocked that they actually allowed Barbie to be a white, presumably hetero blond.
asexual I presume, asexuals need better representation in media IMO. Hell I don;t even know what color they have on the QWERTY flag
Of course she’s asexual, she doesn’t even have a vagina . . . .or a penis . . . or and anal sphincter.
You can’t fool me, that’s a picture from 1993
I think that was the outfits they wore for the roller blade Barbie. It might just be a very realistic representation (of something released in 1993).
Ellen Kurz
@EllenKurz
Making abortion a felony when most states don’t allow felons to vote is effectively reversing the 19th Amendment.
https://twitter.com/EllenKurz/status/1541603540396716033
so there are also good sides of the decision
Also, can’t punish criminals if they are parents because it hurts their kids.
The 19th Amendment allowed doctors to vote?
Bad news for her theory in TX. Only the provider gets charged, not the person getting the abortion.
And all the other states.
“Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger – who was in charge of Capitol security on January 6 and who blamed ‘professional agitators’ for the riot – dies suddenly, hours before TODAY’s committee hearing to present ‘newly uncovered evidence'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10959599/Senate-sergeant-arms-Michael-Stenger-charge-securing-Capitol-dies-suddenly.html
Nothing to see here. move along…
So Hillary was orchestrating it?
That can’t be a real thing, right?
At what point do conspiracies stop being called conspiracies?
Well you have to include Mitch McConnell in this one, as he was the Majority Leader in ’18 that promoted Stenger to Sgt-at-Arms.
Conspiracy theory, spoiler, same thing.
I wouldn’t put it past the J6 clown show to know he already passed and then claim they had new evidence and oh he just died!
They are desperate for media coverage and to be back in the newscycle
The “new” evidence is someone who’s already testified 3 times. So I guess maybe they have some new script she’ll be talking from.
Shouldn’t have put yourself in such a sticky situation.
Sorry, that doesn’t work. French police swiftly remove Green activists who had glued themselves to the pavement in Paris
Must’ve been some fancy “environmentally safe” glue
No, looks like it was stuck on pretty good. I don’t know why everybody doesn’t just do what the French cops did and rip their hand (or whatever) off the pavement. They glue themselves down, they get to deal with getting unstuck.
Saw that yesterday and LOL’d.
I had not considered strippers as the canaries of the economy but perhaps they are a strong indicator of discretionary spending amongst lower to upper middle class men
https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1541503972657307648
When you ain’t got the singles to tip the strippers, you know the economy is fucked.
Wife and I went to a restaurant Friday @ 7.
A place that was normally full had maybe 1/5 full. Had no baked potatoes….
Seriously screwed up.
That’s how a potato famine begins.
With inflation, I’m assuming you need 5’s and 10’s now.
That’s if you go to the more upscale places. If you go to the ones where you get old grannies with gunts and droopy tits hanging down to their knees, you still can get away with singles..
Even back in the early 21thC, the ATMs at the clubs dispensed $2s.
Was Macron telling our resident idiot that his energy policy is DOA and that the US should start producing their own energy, or else?
or invade Canada and steal theirs
Dead thread replies
She hasn’t gone away and gotten a real job yet. She’s still making bank on being a politician without office and a pundit.
Lisa Murkowski sez hi!
“Elizabeth Warren and AOC call for Biden to set up ’emergency’ abortion clinics on federal lands – including national parks – but Kamala says administration is ‘not discussing’ the idea right now and would rather wait until midterms are over”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10959487/Elizabeth-Warren-AOC-call-Biden-set-emergency-abortion-clinics-federal-lands.html
I guess that could also include Post Offices?
I would like a couple of stamps and the coat hanger treatment?
Back in high school, we used to go to the store and try to buy the most ridiculous combo of things. Examples include: a box of condoms, wire coat hangers, and lube or a cucumber, condoms, chocolate syrup, and a baby outfit.
I know we had better combo’s than that, but I struggle to be as demonic as I was back then.
On Halloween, buy a bag of apples and a box of razor blades.
It gives “going postal” a whole new meaning.
It did already mean a pretty bloody affair.
Al Bundy: You know what I would do if I was President? I’d take a big empty state, that nobody’s using, y’know, like Idaho, and I’d pack every pregnant woman in the country into donut trucks, and convoy ’em all to Boise. And since Idaho means nothing anyhow, I’d change the name to Preg-naho.
Al sure was a wise philosopher way ahead of his time….
Actual lol. Pie, you’re hysterical.
But…but…all the polls say that abortions are super popular! Why wouldn’t the Dems be rushing to endorse any and all policies to expand access to them and be waiting until after the midterms to discuss such things?!1/?
Republicans in many states passed laws that went into effect immediately once Roe was overturned. Dems, as many have pointed out, could have done the same at a number of points over the last half century. They’ve been in the majority in congress throughout much of that time, had larger majorities than the right has enjoyed. And they didn’t do that.
The progs love to repeat how utterly and obviously popular all their policies are. It’s just strange how scared they are to actually vote for those things when the time comes (or how reluctant Americans are to vote for them, for that matter, outside their few blue enclaves).
But but, our (obviously compromised, propagandistic) polls show 70% approval!!!
“yeah, I’ll take a book of stamps, a small priority mail box . . .oh and a 9 week mutilation. Do you keep the remnants or can I have them shipped to my house?”
One fun, too local fact: the North Dakota trigger law was sponsored in the house by a Democrat. And the current ND Democrat
sacrificial lambcandidate for US House is anti-abortion.Gee, I wonder why?
Maybe Lizzie can get the Medicine Man to start performing abortions on the Rez at the casino.
Can’t wait to change our lactating room to an abortion room here at the tower.
Revelations like this one make me believe the concept of Karma is real. This bitch deserved exactly this for being a statist sellout.
I’m sure she’ll be happy with the peanuts that Kristol can shower on her for writing for the Bulwark!
In US vs Europe, left and right opinions are reversed on NATO.
My guess: the left in Europe sees NATO as a vehicle of American power, the right in US sees it as a way for Europeans to gain at the expense of the American taxpayer.
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1541457290867482624
The Euros want the American tax payer to pay for shit they want but don’t want to pay for, and also to retain the right to not allow Americans to then demand a say in what they are doing after they sink all their cash into defending Europe.
I mean, people got furious at Trump when he told the Germans to pay for their defense and to stop paying Putin money he used to rebuild his military capability. He was called a dumbass for not seeing the nuance in the German realpolitik. Then we got Biden and exactly what trump told us would happen.
^^^This. The US picks up the defense bill and it allows lefties to expand their social spending programs.
NATO is simply a veneer put over American power to make it look like it’s some kind of partnership where everyone gets a say. It’s the entrenched state in the US making all the important decisions, but the Euro wienie class gets to pretend they are important. Kabuki.
I disagree strongly with you if you think our wienie class isn’t strongly influenced by their Euro counterparts. They very much look up to and admire their European counterparts. They live to please them, with rare exceptions (usually when a Republican president goes off the reservation, see Iraq 2.0 post 9/11 – resistance wasn’t in style yet and wasn’t going to happen anyway after that happened). It’s our blood and treasure subject to their whims.
The relationship is more complicated than that.
1. People closely connected to predominantly American universities and decision-making institutions decide something is good
2. American politics, which is generally contentious and sclerotic, can’t implement it (yet)
3. European politics, which was set up by primarily Americans to be different from their own, can and does
4. The American bureaucrats feel embarrassed that the Euros got there first
5. The Euros have an unearned sense of superiority for doing what the Americans thought of first
This is broad strokes of course, but when Europeans go off script, like Poland with its judiciary or Hungary with Orban, the friend-enemy distinction closely tracks with ideas that originated in American institutions
You’re calling the US wienie class a group of people with inferiority complexes and I’m saying they’re psychopaths and malignant narcissists. I’m going with more evil option just for the hell of it.
Embrace the power of both…
I’m sure it’s a mix, but I’m doing broad strokes, dammit.
Just keep going around and fucking up the shizz with impunity, Straff.. It works for me.
+1 Okinawan base complaint to Tokyo.
Kishida at Davos (or whatever global leader circle they’re doing now) looks like a complete toady.
I think the G7 are in Germany if I remember right.
In the above I was more referencing how Okinawan resident complaints fall in deaf ears in Tokyo. It amps up the whole Japanese “I’ll think about it” response to another level.
“Kishida at Davos”
Darmak and Jalad at Tanagra?
I have that T-Shirt
Shakha when the walls fell…
Zulu or Khan?
Shaka Laka Boom Boom
The A in NATO stands for Asia
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/06/28/national/politics-diplomacy/fumio-kishida-japan-nato-china/
Not “Africa”?
/AFRICOM
Make AntarctiCom Great Again!
“It’s America now that is going against the global trend, shrinking rights while the rest of the world expands reproductive freedom.”
Bull. Shit.
The US was one of only six countries in the world that allows abortions past 20 weeks; and now post-Roe Blue Death Cult states like Cali and NY will probably allow them up to 40 weeks. In practice, prior to this ruling, the US had some of the most lax laws in the world federally, now it’ll be limited to some of the most lax laws in the world at the state level.
So, reproductive freedom to these morons means the ability to make other tax payers pay for abortion as contraceptives? Yeah, I am not for that kind of freedom at all, cause there is no freedom in that idiocy.
but, but, but – you want people to suffer consequences for their actions? You BRUTE!!!
Yea, but like…some people will have to travel really, really far to get an abortion now. I mean, you can’t even count on black people to get government ID’s because it’s too expensive to travel 10 blocks to a DMV. Now you want them to travel to another state to abort their babies? You racist son-of-a-bitches!
New York was a step ahead and already allowed abortion up to birth if the mom wasn’t feeling it.
Scott Shapiro
@scottjshapiro
Amazing how Originalism tracks the political positions of the Republican Party
https://twitter.com/scottjshapiro/status/1541429523354378248
very suspicious
I’ll respect the originalists when they revisit all the case law that laughably expanded the commerce clause and which allowed the government to tax people for breathing, possessing a substance the government doesn’t want them to have etc..
Hell, even Thomas isn’t consistent. No justice ever is.
No, but his dissent in Raich is still brilliant. And exactly what Brochettaward is calling for.
This.
Agreed. I really wish that would happen as well.
So I saw on the internet that for the Jewish the possibility of having an abortion is a religious right and was wondering if this is universally true of all or depends on sect/rabbi?
I’m fairly certain that if you told an Orthodox Jew that, they’d want to fight you. There is no one honestly reading the Bible and trying to faithfully interpret it who could believe in abortion. Secular Jews are pro-abortion. Trendy “christians” are pro-abortion. Neither group is practicing what their religion teaches.
well the argument made was that in Old Testament times law, hitting a woman and causing a miscarriage did not count as murder so it means it is not taking a life.
It’s a bullshit interpretation of exodus.
When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm,[a] then you shall pay life for life,
– Exodus 21
“We’ll just leave off verse 23 and see if anyone notices.”
I quoted the ESV, but the NASB puts their bullshit interpretation even more to the lie:
Yup. It’s pretty damn clear.
Using just verse 22 to show the “Bible allows abortion” is ignorant or disingenuous to the extreme, depending on their forehand knowledge. Even a hardcore abortion ghoul who wants so bad for the Bible to confirm their opinion should view verse 22 with suspicion and wonder if there may be more to it. But, bias is a hell of a drug.
I’ve also seen twits claim that Islam also allows abortion, but from what I’ve seen (someone here linked to an article on it) only very early in the pregnancy, and only for a very good reason.
Progressive Jews not reify ancient blood libels challenge (difficulty: impossible)
This the same battle that animates the US on abortion. Jewish law, and I am sure the old man and Chafed can confirm, is to first do no harm. And, this interpretation is split over what harm is, to the mother or to the unborn. Reform Jews don’t like to admit there are differences in the opinions of Orthodox Jews.
If Titty Tuesday’s a-rockin’ don’t come a-knockin’.
https://archive.ph/mqTsK
Given the childhood trauma associated with his mother’s behavior, it’s perhaps not surprising that Vance came to emulate his grandparents’ judgmental stance toward the hard living.
Perhaps?
He didn’t really live that experience.
What you did there, saw it
Crane drops tank with poisonous gas in Jordan’s Aqaba port; at least 10 dead, 251 injured
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1541471360681234432
shit… Chlorine gas, per local media
I’ve worked around a lot of chlorine gas cylinders, never any of the intermodal size like that. Usually what gets delivered to water treatment plants are cylinders about 8 feet long and 3 feed in diameter. They’re forged in a way that the domes are welded in place and then the cylinder sides are formed around them so that the pressure in the cylinder acts to seal the ends rather than open them up. Those cylinders are designed so strongly because Cl2 is an extreme respiratory hazard.
I feel for those guys at the port who were exposed. The ones who didn’t die have a long road ahead of them, and their lives will never be the same.
Picture of the size of the tank here.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/jordan-promises-inquiry-into-deadly-blast-at-red-sea-port/
I can’t see that one (it won’t let me without disabling ad blocking), but from the video, the tank that was dropped was a large cylinder about 8 feet in diameter by about 30-40 feet long, in an intermodal transport cage. The tanks usually hold liquid diatomic chlorine at pressures over 100psi (to maintain the liquid state at ambient temperatures). That’s a LOT of chlorine gas, once it vaporizes.
https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/urn-publicid-ap-org-ec0dac253d89bdcb5639de13c8ee15f7CORRECTION_Jordan_Gas_Leak_01340.jpg?d=768×512
See if just the pic loads.
OK, 8x8x20 feet. huge amount
I’d guess that cylinder was carrying around 20-30 metric tons of chlorine. that’s a really bad day
Damn, that’s bad.
That looks awful.
Minnesoda Vegetarian Salad
https://giphy.com/gifs/what-the-fuck-wtf-ukGm72ZLZvYfS
THAT is a horrendous salad.
That gal is from Frazee a town 10 miles from where I grew up.
Yes, I have eaten my fair share of apple salads that were smothered in cool whip as a kid.
It’s delicious.
You Minnesodans are a few beer cans short of a 30 pack, brah…
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Meh. My concentration sucks today.
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Rationing
Some large drug store chains are limiting purchases of emergency contraception to three pills per customer, company representatives confirmed to CNN.
“Due to increased demand, at this time we are limiting purchases of Plan B contraceptive pills to three per customer,” Alicja Wojczyk, senior manager of external communications for Rite Aid told CNN in an email.
Though CVS has “ample supply” of Plan B and Aftera — two types of emergency contraception — the company is limiting purchases to three per customer “to ensure equitable access and consistent supply on store shelves,” Matt Blanchette, senior manager of retail communications at CVS Pharmacy told CNN in an email.
Emergency contraception reduces the chance of pregnancy after unprotected sex, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Common situations when it is used include after forgetting to take several birth control pills or when a condom breaks or falls off.
Panic buying? Maybe the left is prepping for a massive fuck-in to protest the end of unlimited free abortion.
I thought women were going on a sex strike, a la Lysistrata?
That protest technique has a long history of success
I should think that only the liquored up would want to…
Huh. I guess it depends on whether you think “contraception” is properly applied to preventing fertilization of an egg, or implantation of a fertilized egg.
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Terrible.
This may be the most retarded thing I read all week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-constitution-was-literally-written-by-slaveowners-why-is-america-obsessed-with-upholding-it/ar-AAYVMRi?cvid=8b89252822954af2b2665452dad16125
And given the week we’re having, that’s really, REALLY saying something.
t’is but Tuesday
That is an impressively high pile of stupid.
How do you argue with this level of sophistry?
By remembering that the sophist is only human, and if you hold their head in the toilet long enough, they too will drown.
+1 LA Confidential
Yes, the conservative justices fully realized that their ruling won’t stop abortions from happening, you dimwitted cunt. In fact, that’s the entire point. What they ruled is that this is not an issue for the courts to decide whatsoever, that it is in fact something for elected representatives to decide because the constitution says nothing on the matter and was never intended to do so by any of the people who wrote it or those who amended it in the proceeding years. They were incredibly aware that their ruling would allow abortions to continue legally in much of the country.
Now, let’s play a game here. Let’s pretend that conservative justices acted in the manner of their progressive counterparts. Does anyone think for a second that they wouldn’t have issued a far more sweeping and broad ruling that would have in fact outlawed abortions, as you fearmongers are trying to pretend they did? The answer is no. 50 years ago, no progressive had any issue with an activist court of all men ruling that abortion was somehow a constitutional right that no one who amended the constitution realized existed for nearly a century.
I’m speaking to the choir, but responding to the stupidity even a rhetorical sense is somewhat cathartic and makes the pain from the stupid sting somewhat less…
“the pain from the stupid sting somewhat less…”
Wait until 5pm, then try a bolus dose of whisky.
Intravenous? Anal absorption?
Does anyone think for a second that they wouldn’t have issued a far more sweeping and broad ruling that would have in fact outlawed abortions,
If you start from the premise that personhood begins at conception, then its a pretty short trip through the Equal Protection clause to get to this ruling.
I know. No unreasonable search or seizures was written by slaveowners. 5A – slaveowners. The Constitution is invalid.
I have had that St. Louis style pizza. Blech.
Well all American food is bad, why would that be any different 🙂
You’ve never been here, we keep the best stuff for local consumption and send the shitty stuff to the euros
But you wont eat the best stuff.
I’m saving it for later.
A week ago I was warned by my neurologist to be aware that I can’t do everything I used to. But I’m stubborn. So yesterday I ticked off a major bucket list item and climbed the Chief. #IamALS
https://twitter.com/neil_emms/status/1540755342035824640
the comments seem split on whether this is a good idea
Plot twist: he’s not doing it during sex.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19009040/husband-grunting-like-a-gorilla/
She just wants to complain about her husband and have a reason to not put out…
I see you’ve met my wife.
Carmen Sol Swimwear Fashion Show – Los Angeles Swim Week 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1sRsFLQPQg
Altoona pizza is bad, but no one calls it Sicilian. Altoonians refer to that type of crust (thick, almost bread-like) as Sicilian for some reason, but Im not aware of anyone claiming Altoona style to be Sicilian. My wife grew up in a adjacent to the Altoona Hotel.
Also, The founders could never have foreseen modern abortion practices when they wrote it into the Constitution. Only methods that were around at the time, like gut punches, are Constitutionally protected.
And TOK is correct, St Louis style pizza is bad as well.
Credit Suisse vows to overhaul its risk management after a litany of scandals
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/28/credit-suisse-to-overhaul-its-risk-management-after-archegos-and-other-scandals.html
This time we really, really, really mean it!
And the idiots cheer it all on…
I am sure the Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht will do better this time.
NO WAY!
I’d SCOTUS smacks down the EPA also, this will be one of the most significant stretches where they actually thought about how our government is structured.
It has the potential to be a sea change. Possibly the most significant decision of this term, if not the last century.
Nothing is more important than putting the women back in chains, db.
It is the blows to the leviathan we never thought would happen. I am not counting on Roberts for this one though.
5-4 will suffice.
Yeah, no way Roberts reins I’m the administrative state.
Feeling the heat
Less than a year ago, a GOP Senate victory in deep blue Washington state would have been unthinkable. But now, Democrats are spending millions on advertising in several once-reliable Democratic strongholds, including Washington, as Republicans build national momentum and push for new Senate pickups.
There’s a similar panic in Colorado, where Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary has also drawn millions of dollars in Democratic-funded ads to boost a far-right candidate, a massive last-ditch campaign to keep a moderate Republican off the ballot this fall.
Washington’s Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, meanwhile, has spent more than $1 million on television ads in recent weeks, including two attacking her Republican opponent, Tiffany Smiley, in a state President Joe Biden won by nearly 20 points.
Both sets of ad buys suggest that Republicans are pressing to expand the number of Senate races in which they might pick up a seat in the narrowly divided chamber — and Democrats are worried they may be becoming even more vulnerable.
Murray’s scramble to boost her standing months before the November election — and to attack Smiley on her stance against abortion rights — comes as new polling shows the blue-state race has tightened even before Smiley begins her own advertising on air.
It’s not fair that those ignorant hicks in eastern Washington get a say in who represents the state in the Senate. They might queer the deal for the progressives.
*glares menacingly*
At least they are honest that they believe democracy means they get what they want and the others better fucking bend the knee..
As someone who was born in Eastern Washington, albeit the one tiny sapphire island, the hate that comes out of Seattle for the rest of the state is something to behold.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments on my article yesterday. I have fun writing those. There’s not much hockey to write about until fall, but I have some other ideas I’m working on.
“I have some other ideas I’m working on.”
GOOD.
In her nearly 30 years in the Senate, Murray has faced tough elections before. She weathered the tea party wave of 2010, beating her Republican challenger Dino Rossi by less than 5 points. Washington state hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate since 1994.
This time around, her campaign has geared up for a fight in another midterm year where Republicans are poised to make gains. Despite inflation and disappointment with Biden looming large in voters’ minds, Murray is banking on abortion to energize her base, reminding voters that Smiley identifies as “pro-life.”
“Senator Patty Murray will be fighting tooth and nail to ensure women in Washington state and across the country can make their own reproductive health care decisions without extreme anti-abortion politicians like Tiffany Smiley and Mitch McConnell interfering,” Helen Hare, Murray’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
Smiley’s polling, though, shows the lagging economy remains Washington voters’ No. 1 concern. Goeas’ firm asked voters which one issue was the most important to them: 44 percent said inflation and cost of living, while just 10 percent ranked abortion their top issue.
“Pro life” is a pejorative. An epithet. Out of touch? Democrats?
A report from my GOP contact in PA: The GOP’s internal polling over the weekend shows that, in governor’s race, D Josh Shapiro is now ahead of R Mastriano by 11% (it had been 8%).
Shapiro has been running ads that attack Mastriano for being against abortion even in cases of rape, incest, and mother’s health (which Mastriano acknowledged in his primary campaign, in which he won Trump’s endorsement and defeated a nine person field). An F&M poll showed only 14% of Pennsylvanians back this kind of total abortion ban. While there may be few single issue voters, Mastriano’s stance will effect the vote. Consequently, GOP fat cat donors are now going to move money from his campaign to R Dr. Oz’s for Senate in hopes of saving the seat for the GOP. Shaprio winning will reverse the trend of the state governorship changing parties every eight years, and will ensure that Penna.’s 24 week abortion window stays open, as he will be able to veto any GOP house bills that seek to close it in the wake of Roe v. Wade decision.
Concession speeches don’t deliver themselves.
affect the vote, I believe
Right. I’ll be more careful to tow the lion in the future.
Shaprio winning will reverse the trend of the state governorship changing parties every eight years
I’ll believe that when I see it. I’m not counting Mastriano out. I see the GOP Establishment as just as much of an enemy as the Democrats. The GOP Establishment does not like Mastriano.
The folks that grew out of Reopen PA influenced two statewide elections, and a good number of them hate the GOP Establishment.
I remember articles hinting that the RGA wouldn’t put any money towards Mastriano. Contrast with Sununu in NH where insiders tell me the RGA will do anything to get Sununu re-elected. It’s why the only Republican with a shot at primarying Sununu dropped out. Sununu is Establishment.
RGA is the Republican Governors’ Association.
I stopped reading that Irish hogwash when I hit this:
Can you even imagine? Using the literal language in a contract to determine a ruling?
One of the important things that we don’t teach in schools is that the Constitution is a binding contract that we used to grant the government limited powers. It isn’t supposed to be a list of the people’s rights.
Three generations of progressive imbeciles, and what can you expect?
conservatives who rely heavily on the literal language of the constitution.
So what they are supposed to do?
Come up with the right answer, duh!
*as defined by all right thinking people
Go by uptwinkles.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/27/democrats-have-become-a-serious-threat-to-the-republic/
David Harsanyi goes hard in the paint – “Democrats Have Become a Serious Threat to the Republic.” I didn’t see that one coming.
That Politico article comes so close, but you can see this kid is just propagandized so bad by his education that he can’t get himself to make that next leap. I found it funny throughout that he ultimately comes down to the fact that the Democrats’ problem is “messaging” – not, you know, actual fucking policies. That’s too bad – he’s so close, but, man, there are some funny lines where you can just see the eyes glaze over.
His obsession with the academe and journo-turds is so transparent. This is my favorite:
You see, Prole, your “lived Truth” doesn’t count until and unless both the academic class and the journo class document and study it. Until then, you’re just an “anecdote.” But those people in inner cities, well, their reality is REAL, man. The REAL real.
I think this needs to be a t-shirt:
Republicans = threat to democracy
Democrats = threat to the republic
Maybe it’s time to eliminate both threats.
Nice
I like that one.
Today I learned….The female hyena has an 8-inch clitoris—plus more animal genital trivia
Explains why they’re always laughing.
I bet there was some dude with tits out there that tried t convince some drunk guy his thing was also a long clit….
Ahh, the continuing education racket.
Ernst & Young to Pay $100 Million Fine After Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/business/ernst-young-sec-cheating.html
The ethics exams that Ernst auditors cheated on were part of a continuing education program offered by most states for accountants to keep their professional licenses, according to the commission. The S.E.C. said the cheating involved hundreds of the firm’s auditors from 2017 to 2021.
Forty-nine auditors at Ernst received the “answer key” to an ethics exam that is part of the initial process of becoming a certified public accountant, according to the S.E.C.’s administrative order.
Definitely a
scamracket.Also not hard to pass an ethics exam.
There have been CPA test prep courses as long as I can remember. And passing the CPA test is traditionally a lot more difficult than passing the Bar (as the general run of the mill lawyers performance can attest to.)
I’m not talking the CPA exam itself, but the CE. And CE for many professional designations is a racket.
I passed the CPA and now I comment on here with a butt wearing a top hat as my avatar.
Don’t forget the monocle. That’s what makes it classy.
Cheating on the ethics exam. That’s hilarious.
So did all the cheaters get their licenses pulled?
When you have no rooted foundation of basic human decency and are told meritocracy is bad, what’s a little cheating on ethics? They just get in the way anyway.
“Lagarde plays down recession risks, says ECB is ready to ‘move faster’ on rates if needed”
Doesn’t want to be a Laggard I guess.
*narrows gaze*
How do you fight inflation?
About 23 million California residents will soon receive “inflation relief” checks of up to $1,050 under a budget deal reached by Governor Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers on Sunday.
The checks are part of a $17 billion relief package that will also suspend the state’s sales tax on diesel fuel and provide additional aid to help people with rent and utility bills, Newsom and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in a statement.
Throw money at it.
He is going to run in 2024 on “I’ll give you free money”
Oh that would be epic – stomping on his fellow Californian Harris.
See her CNN interview where she couldn’t even hit the softly lobbed questions over the plate?
She couldn’t hit at T-ball unless she gets on her knees.
The Free Shit Army hoists its banner and follows Gen’rl Newsome!
Sounds good to us!
/ex-CA residents who moved northward
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/06/oregon-to-begin-sending-600-stimulus-payments-to-low-income-workers-this-week.html
*face-palm*
I’m reading the Politico article.
What Vance didn’t credit — not explicitly, anyway — were the structural forces that benefitted him and his grandparents. For Vance, these included an undergraduate degree from an excellent public university (Ohio State) and opportunities in the military. For his grandparents, these included that good union job at Armco Steel—even as Papaw complained about the union.
I’m tempted to tap out here, but I will keep going to see what this Politco author has to say.
Indeed, it’s true that many in the settled working class would benefit from big structural government interventions like single-payer health care, universal pre-K and other childcare supports, greater investments in education and broadband. They would also benefit if higher taxes on the wealthy paid for these interventions. That many white workers don’t see it this way leads to the oft-heard assertion that working-class whites vote against their own interests.
Those rednecks in the mist just don’t know what’s good for them.
Bias based on race and bias based on class are not mutually exclusive, and it can be easier to assume that racial animus is at work when in fact, it’s classist or cultural animus directed at those on a lower economic or social rung.
Wow. This is almost sensible.
OK. I read it. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It’s not good. The author is a condescending ass, but not as bad as I thought it would be.
Well, the audience is a bunch of majorly condescending asses, so of course the author has to try to reach them.
I did love the ‘messaging’ bit – if we can just say the right things to fool them once again!
^^^THIS^^^
Our credentialed political class thinks the problem isn’t that they keep fucking shit up, over and over, but that the dumb ass serfs keep not believing the lies they then tell to convince the idiot serfs that they shouldn’t believe their own lying eyes…
I loved that bit too.
Resentment and envy, the Democrat Party platform.
“ Elizabeth Warren and AOC call for Biden to set up ’emergency’ abortion clinics on federal lands – including national parks – but Kamala says administration is ‘not discussing’ the idea right now and would rather wait until midterms are over”
Wow, as we have been joking about the aborcation thing, these ejits are actually really diving in deep to it.
“While you are here for your abortion, remember that the bison are real, wild animals and will charge if approached. While you may want a selfie with one, please instead consider one of our scenic backdrops for your abortion. In addition to all of the iconic animals of the Park, you can choose Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake or the Painted Pots as a delightful background for your iconic abortion shot in one of America’s most scenic and storied National Parks.”
would rather wait until midterms are over
lol, well that says it all doesn’t it?
remember that the bison are real, wild animals and will charge if approached.
“Pregnant
womenbirthing persons should be particularly careful, as a charging bison could be dangerous to you or your baby… erm, I mean… uhh…”New business model for Indian reservations? Come for the abortion, stay for the dinner show?
Free drinks as long as you’re up in the stirrups.
Don’t forget your cheap cigarettes!
Tack it onto the casinos.
Here you go Pie:
that beats Q’s claim of “This may be the most retarded thing I read all week.”
That is good shit posting. I award Q’s link the winner.
He’s right about a lot of it, not sure on the food and weather thing though. That’s dumb.
The weather varies wildly.
A few years ago, I was in Vienna in October. Windy and cold. I left Vienna for Amsterdam on my way back to the USA. Amsterdam was sunny and nice.
There is good food and good coffee in Europe. Himmel und Äd is great. Wiener Melange is good coffee.
Daily Quordle 155
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4️⃣7️⃣
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Also fyi i posted my score in the AM links yesterday. It was missed in the roundup yesterday.
Daily Quordle 155
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=Sub-20, I’ll take it.
“settled” vs. “hard living” seems like manipulation of the discussion by the labels applied. Seems to me that that 2nd-quintile people who have, by dint of hard work and discipline, dragged themselves out of the bottom quintile could be accurately described as “hard living”, and the people living on public assistance could be described with a more explicit and less euphemistic label.
Also, campaigning to people that actually work is somehow exploitative? Jeebus.
Moochers?
Minnie hit hardest.
She looks pretty good for 80+ years old
Sugar Babies? Kept Women?
Vox knows what’s good for you
There’s an important lesson in this data. Climate policies can pull double-duty to both tackle fossil fuel pollution and help people become more self-sufficient from oil during its booms and busts.
Countries have still not learned that “part of what we’re seeing here is the cost of reliance on fossil fuels,” Ori said. But clean energy isn’t a panacea either. “Once you’re in the [energy] crisis, it’s too late,” he added.
Yet there’s a real opportunity to break the cycle of instability, even though the US risks doubling down on dangerous policies as Biden ups the calls for more oil production.
In the long run, investing in fossil fuel infrastructure can seriously backfire by raising energy costs for Europeans and increasing reliance on Russian gas. LNG will always be the more expensive option because of its processing and transport. “By locking yourself into a gas-powered future, you’re locking in higher costs for the long haul,” Williams-Derry said. “There’s not a good alternative to Russian gas if you want to have inexpensive gas in Europe.”
“If you’re going to double down on gas, essentially, you’re doubling down on Russia,” Williams-Derry added.
The biggest risk is if the US and Europe respond to this crisis by overinvesting in the future of fossil fuels. Actions like building LNG terminals and approving new leasing don’t help in the short term when people are struggling to pay high bills. It doesn’t achieve energy independence. But it would lock the world onto a dangerous path for climate change.
Everything will work itself out if we just get over our addiction to fossil fuels. We’ll never learn to run the grid on banana peels and coffee grounds until we have no alternative.
https://www.filmfreunde.net/wp-content/uploads/fusion03.jpg
After communism, and this is just another communist racket to begin with, the green movement is one of the most evil rackets foisted on humanity. these fuckers are literally using a made up crisis to do some of the most obscene and evil wealth transfers ever, while leaving us with so many engineering problems and a massive deficiency in energy generation, that the body count could surpass the 120 million marxism killed in the last century.
And when, a hundred + years from now, it is all obvious it was a racket there will still be apologists who claim Al Gore and Greta and the like were all “well-intentioned” or “duped by evil (((capitalists))) or right-wing white supremacist insurrectionaries.
Nah, their names will disappear like those of famous Phrenologists.
I think they’ll think it was funny that we were so worried about it.
We suddenly have concerns about digital privacy: The #1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand Over Data Without a Warrant
Anyway: Update: Following Motherboard’s request for comment, on Monday afternoon, Stardust said that it updated its policy; it now says it will “comply with or respond to law enforcement or a legal process or a request for cooperation by a government or other entity, when legally required. Any Health Data that the Company is legally required to share cannot be linked to you and will remain anonymous.”
But that’s not what the headline still says.
I don’t know if it’s been noted here among the Supreme Court wins this week for liberty, but a pretty big one flew under the radar. This one concerned a couple doctors who were charged with overprescribing opiates. It was a 9-0 win for liberty and the concept of mens rea needing to occur in charging defendants (at least in this context, I don’t know how broadly this will apply). One great quote from the decision, “the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly or intentionally acted in an unauthorized manner.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-sides-with-doctors-challenging-opioid-convictions-2022-06-27/
Yes this slew of opinions have been favorable
Still hoping for a little more with West Virginia.
Also (kulturkrieg hat on) it’s hard not to hopefully remember Churchill’s quote about El Alamein. Yeah I know – not really likely, but it’s nice to see a change.
One wonders how, in 9-0 decisions, the lower courts were so ignorant of the unconstitutionality of cases brought before them (or of prosecutors who thought they might win by appealing to the Supremes). Maybe heads should roll when 9-0 decisions expose the incompetence of those who bring such cases?
Yeah the lower courts whistling right past the ‘good faith’ argument shows it was a ‘we did something about opiates!’
Radley Balko used to be so good at covering the state’s war on medical pain management. Has he, too, gone over to the Dark Side?
About 5 seconds after he left reason.
Fucking cocktail parties.
Dunno. Something happened to him – and Ken White, and at about the same time – and I haven’t read them in years.
Used to really like reading their stuff. Never understood what blew up.
I would suspect a far outsider (Trump, doesn’t matter who really) really upset the established teams, roles and how DC operates. People do not like change.
Good morning, WebDom!
Thanks for filling in. I enjoyed the pizza article and may have to seek out the so-called “Colorado Style”. With pineapple, of course.
The migrant story, however, sucks. I wonder if there wouldn’t be a more sound immigration policy that didn’t, you know, kill people. We may never know.
I would be quite suspicious of anyone who doesn’t like dogs. I prefer them to cats, but I would indeed pet a crocodile if it wouldn’t bite me.
Have a great day, peeps!
I’ve noted before that while I like dogs, I don’t want one, especially as a single person. Taking care of two cats by myself for fifteen years was a trial, I can’t imagine one dog.
That’s me. I like pretty much all animals, but I really don’t want a pet right now.
Although every so often I see a particularly pretty Texas Rat Snake and I reconsider…
All the pretty lizards live in the backyard. I like to visit them. I do not wish to own them.
Saw a beautiful bull snake again the other day. Fucker must have been 6 feet long.
Fun to borrow, like grandkids or nieces / nephews.
Color me suspicious. Do. Not. Like. Dogs. Unfortunately, dogs seem to like me.
There are breeds that my wife will not take. Not because they are dangerous, but just something with her and that breed don’t mesh.
Yeah, I’m not in that camp that says, “If my dog doesn’t like you, there’s something wrong with you.” Some dogs are stupid and others are bad and still others have bad owners.
I’ve said it before, but I like the platonic ideal of a dog much more than I like actual dogs I’ve owned/met/interacted with.
Dogs are at their best when very well trained and given a job. The “fur babies” in the suburbs are a nuisance, at best.
The “fur baby” is our cash cow but we know when we move to the sticks, ain’t no one paying $75-150 to wash their dogs. That’s what the lake is for.
Plop your mobile grooming (?) van in a different suburb each day of the week, watch the cash flow in, and then roll out!
Advertise via social media, like a popup food cart.
^^^This is the way.
Just last week I posted that Ford delivered it first customer truck.
Ford recalls EV F-150 Lightning pickups
https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/ford-recalls-ev-f-150-lightning-pickups
Can I code rant?
Master was the name of the authoritative repository branch for a long time. Virtue signalling people want to change that to main. We have a code repository with many projects that started before the wokeness. New projects have continued to use master to maintain a standard. Now someone wants to change to main because that is now the “industry standard”. So much effort was expended advocating for the change so we can follow the standard against statements that we would have to update every bit of code that references master just to have a different name. At least I’ve won for now.
Advocate for changing it to Daddy and any forks called bottom bitch.
So stupid. Any coder pushing for that change is probably an unproductive slug.
Next time, tell them that vilifying the word “master” is BDSM exclusionary, and you won’t stand for such bigotry.
Wasn’t this an L.A. kvetch circa 1999? Maxine Waters was probably involved.
obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwVaTfXT1fo
At my previous job, we went through the “woke renaming” exercise which included renaming “master” to “main” for the source code repository.
A VP claimed customers wanted it. I was… skeptical.
also obligatoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvfofcIE1Q
Someone is going on the
blackdisallowed list for wrong think.My favorite was when the Agile Gods decreed that “grooming” sessions would become “refinement” sessions because grooming means that you are
a public school teachera pedophile setting kids up for abuse.Think of the poor embedded device developers who have to deal not only with “master” but “slave” when writing mesh networking code. Can you even imagine the trauma that must cause them?
Its a List of Color.
Amen.
I just requested a new repo, and it came with “main”.
I pushed my code with Visual Studio (2019, so not woke) and it created a “master” branch.
*face-palm*
Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent
I think I just found my next book.