One year ago today, SP and I rolled into town awaiting our new adventure. Yeah, it was a bit more adventure than planned, and not just in the obvious ways. I was done with doing science, done with the grind of working for someone else, ready to be amused at the silliness of the PC liberal arts university and help WebDom build her business in a delightful and lovely little village.
Men make plans while the gods laugh.
Today’s anecdote was a stand-up comic playing an on-campus show. Partway in, he referred to an audience member who made a loud quip as “White Boy.” The guy was white. And amused. The authorities were not, so quickly killed the mike, killed the lights, and ushered the audience out before more horribly damaging words were perceived by their delicate ears. And then refused to pay him the agreed-on fee. The rumor mill started, and by the time it circled back, the story transmuted to him using a common and nowadays unprintable slur to a black guy.
Welcome to modern Progressivism. John Cleese and Dave Chapelle are soooo right on. I love this place, but sometimes…
There’s some fun birthdays today, including a guy with a wonderful name; a guy with one too many commas in his name; a guy who would be beyond delighted with the world of 2022; Duncan Renaldo’s Sancho Panza, who seems to have a beach in Santa Barbara named after him; a guy who created a miracle by being a careless slob in the lab; a local girl who inspired one of the greatest pieces of sculpture ever created; a guy who was Snoop Dog before it was cool; a guy responsible for thousands of hours of my youth wasted in rapt fascination; the guy who put the scare quotes in “artist”; a pretty fucking awesome and under-appreciated bass player; the definitive sitcom wacky neighbor; an interesting and creative guy demonized by our government; and a guy who killed Bruce Willis.
And now to the Links.
Hopefully, the appeal lawyers will be smarter and Alex will leave them alone to do their job.
Vicious Jews attack peace-loving bombers. Peace-loving bombers take pride in their impotent response.
Fucker is going to make me a Packers fan.
Indians are as stupid as we are. This is something of a relief.
I was playing some old stuff the other day and remembered that I had forgotten how much I loved the Guess Who back in the day. So suck it up, Buttercup, that’s today’s Old Guy Music.
Glass raised.
::raises mug of iced coffee, wishing it was from TCCH::
Treasure Coast Community Health? There’s no accounting for taste, I suppose…
“The rumor mill started, and by the time it circled back, the story transmuted to him using a common and nowadays unprintable slur to a black guy.”
Was the comic black?
White as can be.
In that case he deserved what he got. A white boy calling another white boy white boy is the most white boy a white boy could do.
like totally cringe man
You sound white
SHUT UP WHITE BOY!
you guys sound like a bunch of crackers
Uhm, actually sir, you’re not allowed to call me “cracker”. That’s our word. You can say “crackA”…
I prefer “saltine american”
Dream on, white boy… 🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTULqzrhBWA
How damaged were the Sandy Hook parents by Alex Jones? He’s not the government stooge who shot their kids.
“Alex Jones says his defamation trial was ‘CORDINATED AND RUN’ by billionaire George Soros and accuses judge of being corrupt in diatribe video after he’s ordered to pay Sandy Hook victim’s family nearly $50 million in damages
The host also accused Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of being a ‘blue-haired SJW’ and insinuated that she was corrupt by saying that she ‘altered the record of the trial.’
The host also took aim at Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis’ main lawyer, Mark Bankston, calling him an ‘ambulance chaser.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11086517/Alex-Jones-says-defamation-trial-CORDINATED-RUN-billionaire-George-Soros.html
How can anyone really be defamed by a lunatic?
He’s more often right than wrong.
Well, when you talk so much shit, you’re bound to get lucky some of the time.
I don’t watch that much of his stuff, but I enjoy Alex Jones in the same way I enjoyed the guests on C2C AM in the old Art Bell days.
I’ve listened very little of Alex Jones, but my impression has always been that he’s a smart guy who found a niche to exploit. The whole show is an act and Jones plays his role as an actor, almost a deliberate caricature. There’s a nugget of truth in a lot of what he weaves into the act, just like the Babylon Bee does in their parodies. The craziest thing is how many conspiracy theories that we would have laughed down just a few years ago as being beyond hyperbole have turned out to accurate foreshadowing.
He was quick enough with that Epstein and the Clintons line in court. That was almost as funny as watching the ATF coward cry out “my wife is pregnant” as the local cops tased him.
Not sure about that, but he has been right about some pretty big things (Booosh wars, Epstein)
Dare I say… based?
China cut off contacts with the United States on vital issues Friday — including military matters and crucial climate cooperation – ah yes China that paragon of climate cooperation
*adds “crucial” to the long list of words that no longer have any meaning*
If they don’t pollute their climate manufacturing shit for us, we have to pollute our own climate to manufacture our shit, that makes us look bad.
Maybe those invisible slaves are too far away for a ghost to haunt
The goal is to leave us without any shit.
The shelves at Wal-Mart and various “Dollar Stores” will certainly be bare.
Happens pretty shortly after we’re left without any food.
Those Chinese are being very naughty, and will be getting lumps of coal for Christmas.
I can fix her. – if you people used kilometers instead of miles there would not be so many car accidents in the US
If we used kilometers instead of miles, we would all be Communists.
at least healthcare would be totes free
Hopefully, the appeal lawyers will be smarter and Alex will leave them alone to do their job.
there was a joke on the internet along the lines “it is not possible to get the death penalty in civil trials but Alex Jones may manage to do it”
“The act has historically been stigmatized, but has increasingly gained acceptance within the cis-hetero community, thanks to rising cultural visibility via shows like Broad City and movies like Deadpool.”
What about Weeds?
Not this member of the cis-hetero community.
It’s an exit, not an entrance.
Led Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door is a secret tribute to sodomy.
So is Brown Eyed Girl
“Stinkfist” by Tool went the other way (pun not intended) where sodomy is the metaphor for addiction, as opposed to something PG being used as a metaphor for sodomy.
Also, Crystal Gale’s Don’t It Make My Brown Eye Blue.
Happy anniversary, Old Man!
“He also discovered the enzyme lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus Lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.”
Those Brits sure are a snotty bunch.
“Micrococcus”
Any relation to Biggus Diccus?
Micrococcus is my porn handle.
Cut off from the Diccus will I believe. An embarrassment to the family.
No – he’s the guy who embarrassed himself running for prez in ’88.
[rimshot]
Ouch. Just… ouch. – gay
There are no more genders, so nothing is gay…or something. I dunno. It’s all very convoluted.
I didn’t know they added a 2nd statue that actually resembles her, unlike that 1st abomination.
I rolled my eyes so hard I can now trim the hair on the back of my neck without a mirror.
Yea, we all know how much straight men in America look up to British royals as trend setters.
Good morning, Old Man! ::hug::
Awwwwwwww.
Thanks so much for letting us all invade your space last weekend. TT & I both had a wonderful time, enjoying TCCH’s lovely beverages, AAAAAALLLLLL that food, and all the delightful company! I do hope we can visit your place again…if you don’t post pictures at the door under a “Do Not Admit” warning. (Was that the purpose of that group shot?)
There was a group shot? That was totally for the FBI.
DEA, TSA, CIA, DHS, NSA, DIA, BATFE and a few others I’m sure I’m forgetting. Just how many lists are we on anyway?
Considering Bearded Hobbit’s post last night and the topic of OMWC and SP’s arrival in Butlertown… today marks twenty-eight years since The Bosslady said “I Do” in front of God and everybody. Poor thing. I think she blames the alcohol. I know I would if I were her.
I’m slowly catching up on emails… you are not ignored.
Thanks! I’ll give you folks a bit of warning when I’m on my way.
Congrats!
Woman accuses her bunny of acting like a dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yogLC9MfkA
You said old man yells at clouds but the first Republican mentioned is an old woman.
Don’t assume her gender, you bigot.
Don’t assume her gender, you bigot.
Assuming pronouns, are we?
“Capitol attack convict Brandon Straka weeps in a cage as he brings his January 6 ‘silent disco’ performance art to CPAC – and Marjorie Taylor Greene climbs in to pray with him
Straka, the founder of the conservative ‘#WalkAway’ campaign, pleaded guilty last September to misdemeanour charges of ‘engaging in disorderly and disruptive conduct in the Capitol Building or grounds.
He avoided jail time and was instead sentenced to 90 days of home confinement and three years’ probation.
He did not enter the Capitol itself and maintained that he was there to film what was happening. But he admitted shouting, ‘Go, go, go,’ as the mob tried to storm the building.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11085929/Capitol-attack-convict-Brandon-Straka-weeps-cage-January-6-silent-disco-performance-art.html
This will be dismissed as a cringeworthy publicity stunt by the same sort of people who retweeted photos of AOC weeping in front of a 3 foot section of chainlink fence 20 miles from an empty
refugee facilityconcentration camp.Go fuck yourself. Hundreds of political prisoners are still locked up and don’t think it can’t happen to you some day.
Ray Epps could not be reached for comment.
https://electrek.co/2022/08/06/alibaba-backwards-electric-car/
You know you want one.
because you people keep posting obscure music, some came across my youtubez and so I am gonna post it
Jazz at LACMA—John Tegmeyer Quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosWp8I32PU
Nice one, Pie. I guess there is a special mask exemption for clarinetists.
eh it was in the unenlightened times of 2021
Who posts obscure music? You mean you’re not familiar with this hit song?
In further evidence that the universe is fucking with me, that band just announced a show in Cleveland. The same day as the Browns opener, the Bombpops, and the fucking Descendents. How the hell do we get three different bands scheduled on the same day?
Well, Cleveland *does* rock, after all.
Maybe, but this made the better Drew Carey Show intro.
I ❤️ you, GT!
I love how the blonde woman dodges Mimi.
😘
And just like that, I now remember that Drew Carey exists and once had a sitcom.
Mr. Wick had a talk show! With puppets and robots! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P4SxtphJ4
I prefer the way Drew looked when he was fat. 🙁
that is thinphobic
Yeah, he was kinda cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Bt-q_pRh8
Someone I know in that business says he is shy.
Shy? Awww!! That makes him even more endearing! 😊
The music rights are supposedly what’s keeping the show from it’s rightful place on streaming services. The bar used for the exterior shots of the Warsaw tavern in the show is a real bar in Parma. It is… not as nice inside as the show would lead you to believe.
Now I want to tour Ohio. All those C cities. Never been.
I also hear that Diedrich Bader is very sweet and humble.
It reruns on the Rewind channel. Boy, Susan St. James’s niece is neither a good actress nor funny. (Meow, sorry.)
Oh, if you come to OH, you MUST come to the D city, too! REAL birthplace of aviation (Suck it, NC!) and all sorts of innovation! Best city by a dam site! If you come during the season, I’ll take you to a Dayton Dragons game!
Toxteth:
Come on over to the CLE, we’ll introduce you to Polish Boys, Cleveland style BBQ, overstuffed corned beef sandwiches, breweries, and fancy cocktail bars. Or if you’re more high browed, you can check out the museums and monuments.
I wouldn’t skip Dayton! Joe Gillis’s hometown.
Your state was frequently represented in TV for two decades there; how accurately, I don’t know.
I haven’t vacationed in ages. When am I going? Must see Christmas Story house too.
I am one of the five people who saw that in the theater. “It’s so funny! You have to see it!” I think my acquaintances didn’t listen after I had said the same about E.T.
Ohio is an underrated destination.
Toxteth, go tour it.
Toxteth:
That’s entirely up to you. Hot and humid in the summer, cold and windy in the winter. If you want to see street festivals and the like, those usually happen during summer (with some exceptions). If you want, you can actually stay inside the Christmas Story House (or the neighbor’s house), as they have an AirBnB there. Every year there’s a story of some family who booked it for their dream Christmas vacation. A couple weeks back was Christmas in July as well. There’s a sand castle competition going on today at one of the beaches that the girlfriend and I may swing up to check out, next weekend is the Feast of the Assumption in little Italy, as well as the Last Stop Willoughby festival.
Is the festival referencing the Twilight Zone episode, or is it purely coincidental?
Pat:
Very much referencing the Twilight Zone episode. Rod Serling lived in Ohio for a while, and they’ve managed to bring some of his children back to talk about the Twilight Zone in the before times.
There was a train that ran through Willoughby, though it was more freight. The station had been converted to a brewery (Willoughby Brewing Company), that unfortunately didn’t last through the past couple of years.
I am a near-religious Twilight Zone fan, and that’s one of my favorite episodes.
Neph did you see the Columbus concert with Joe Walsh, the. Reeders, Black Keys, and NIN?
Veterans Benefit:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/08/01/joe-walsh-james-gang-columbus-ohio-nationwide-arena-november-13/10200079002/
I think I saw that. NiN isn’t quite as popular up here in Cleveland to people of a certain age from specific subcultures. Trent was (and potentially still is), an asshole.
I’m also not a big fan of the arena shows, House of Blues style is about my limit for “big” venues these days.
I just want to see James Gang. I really dig Joe Walsh.
I understand the arena phobia for music. Most of the time there are more issues than benefits.
Prince Whoever-he-is can shove a running outboard motor up his ass, for all I care.
Just as long as everybody in the media copycats him.
Or a rusty chainsaw.
No idea if the Prince William pegging article is truth or not, but I do think Kate has had to put up with some cheating on his part. It’s like marrying into the Kennedy clan; you just have to accept it quietly and continue on living the “good” life.
I do like Kate though. I hope for her sake it’s all rumors, and if not, I hope she divorces his ass and takes the kids.
Maybe she’s planning to do just that as soon as Elizabeth Regina pops off.
Cheating on your spouse is de rigueur for the old money, institutionally wealthy types, regardless of sex. They probably both have at least a half dozen lovers that the other knows about, plus some extras.
Hope that doesn’t happen until the kids are all grown.
Hang in there, Lilibet!
I’ll console her in her time of despondency.
I can fix her.
We can rebuild her. We have the technology. We can make her better, stronger, faster.
Saner?
AI is in its infancy at this point. So no.
I laughed.
But we can’t fix the crazy.
I remember thinking $6 million was a lot. These days the DOD contract would be for about $6 billion.
Power outage seems to have destroyed our ac unit. Waiting for the landlord’s HVAC guy to get back to us. High temp of 91 today so I may be shopping for a window unit.
Any advice or recommendations?
*braces for the usual sarcasm*
Did you check the thermostat?
I’m just sick of the humidity here. Another day where we were above 90% humidity, with temperatures just in the 70’s.
85% humidity with expected high of 93. I hate Chicago’s Death Valley summers and Arctic winters.
here we have 33 C (91F) with 35% humidity. I dont like it. way too hot.
Yeah, those are the worst.
Is it autumn yet? My next electric bill is going to be… interesting.
Humidity here will only be 70% today with temps pushing 90 (for the next 3 days).
Sounds familiar.
Keep your receipt.
I like my Whynter portable unit.
If they can’t get it fixed right away, buy a cheap-o styrofoam cooler, a couple 2-3 feet of PVC or ABS pipe 2″ in diameter, two 90 degree elbows to match the pipe, a small desk fan, and several bags of ice. Cut 3 holes in the lid of the cooler: two on one end, just large enough for the pipe to fit snugly, and one large one on the other end for the fan. Cut four sections of pipe about 6″ in length (depends on the depth of your cooler), stick them into the 90 degree elbows, then stick the pipe into the holes you cut in the lid of the cooler. Fill the cooler about halfway with ice. Secure the lid, place the fan over the other hole, turn it on, and point one pipe at you and the other at a friend. Should look something like this
Good morning all.
It’s a steamy day here in my slice of Glibertopia.
After last weekend the Mrs. read her first SF Subaru theater of horror.
I sent it to her last night and forgot about it. This morning I head her yell to me, “ the neighbor killed her kid???!!” “What?!! Who killed their kid, our neighbor?”
“No the one in the Subaru dog story.”
So another satisfied customer.
OMWC,
Great musical choice. The Guess Who, No Sugar is a great tune.
Great musical choice
Agreed, the Guess Who were the best thing to come out of Canada since maple syrup. I kinda like this one too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPHAhpEoWdU
That’s a good one.
Another good one.
Now that I’ve met her (delightful woman!), I can totally visualize the scene.
Thanks OMWC. She had a great time meeting everyone as did I.
You started her with THAT episode of SHT???
Pretty brutal, man!
As if easing in would make it any better?
Just ask the Prince.
I needed to give her one without much gore and a dog was the hero.
I’d have picked the one where the parents tried to get older daughter to push younger daughter off the cliff.
I think it was a good choice.
“Bottom line is we’re going to continue our efforts to keep opening lines of communication that are protecting our interests and our values,” Kirby said. He declined to speak about any damage to long-term relations between China and the United States, calling that a discussion for later.
Diplomacy for Dummies.
I’m not a Trump fan, but wasn’t he supposed to be the loose cannon. I think the Chinese actually were afraid of Trump, no one is afraid or respects the current leadership in the USA.
Trump trash-talked and then negotiated behind the scenes.
These idiots are physically crossing red lines.
I still assume the Chinese own the Bidens.
There’s value in going crazy every now and then. It lets people know what you’re capable of. I don’t know if Trump did that intentionally, but it had that effect.
Isnt the one-China worldview official US policy? Going to Taiwan to see how your new investment in computer chips shouldn’t draw the ire from CCP but I believe she met with Taiwan government officials, which, I don’t know who in the State Department allowed that to happen.
the biggest threat to ukraine isn’t russian bombs, it is memes that support ukraine
the twit here is an answer to the previous twit
https://twitter.com/SevaUT/status/1555637507253063689
my question is does this qualify as a godwin?
Wasn’t that Star Wars actress shitcanned for drawing a comparison between contemporary politics and the Holocaust?
Drawing a comparison between contemporary politics and the Holocaust to make a point against the shitlib mainstream narrative.
FTFY
The director of Marvel’s She-Hulk has responded to the internet backlash towards the show’s CGI.
https://twitter.com/GameSpot/status/1555349113968807936
lol
What a tool.
I started watching the Corridor Crew Visual Effects Artists React series on YouTube by way of their Stunt Men React series. Being VFX guys themselves, they’re typically nauseatingly obsequious about big studio effects even when they’re shit, but even they had some criticism for that one.
“My movie flopped because the fans are stupid racist woman-haters.”
Kamala Harris nods in agreement about Democratic primary voters.
There was a SheHulk movie?. It looks like a live-action Shrek reboot.
No movie, it’s a Disney+ series that starts in a couple weeks.
Long term, a significantly more confrontational relationship between China and the U.S. threatens an equilibrium under which Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s governments have sparred on human rights, trade, competition and countless other issues but avoided direct conflict and maintained occasional top-level contacts toward other matters, including cutting climate-damaging emissions.
A joint U.S.-China deal to fight climate change struck by Xi and then-President Barack Obama in November of 2014 is credited as a turning point that led to the landmark 2015 Paris agreement in which nearly every nation in the world pledged to try to curb emissions of heat-trapping gases. Seven years later during climate talks in Glasgow, another U.S.-China deal helped smooth over bumps to another international climate deal.
China and the United States are the world’s No. 1 and No. 2 climate polluters, together producing nearly 40% of all fossil-fuel emissions.
Ominously, experts in China-U.S. relations warned that China’s diplomatic and military moves appeared to go beyond retaliatory measures for the visit and could open a new, more openly hostile era, and a more uncertain time for Taiwan’s democratic government.
China-U.S. relations are “in a downward spiral,” said Bonnie Glaser, head of the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund.
Nuclear winter: the ultimate cure for global warming.
That sound you heard was hundreds of warboners ripping through their pantsuits at State.
We need a good war in order to suspend the upcoming elections. It’s the only way to save our democracy.
OFFS. Anyone who thinks China ever had any intention of helping us “heal the earth” needs to have their head examined.
You jest but…
And here I thought having a WEF-sucking proto-corpse so far up Xi’s asshole you’d need a gastroenterologist to pull him out was supposed to ease us back into the normalcy of slave labor camps after 4 years of antagonism from orange Hitler.
The icing on the economic crap-cake.
https://prospect.org/economy/bowman-proposes-bill-to-recommend-price-controls/
Sigh… the classics endure.
Fuck off, commie.
They redesigned the predators in ‘Prey’. And it looks fuckin terrible.
https://twitter.com/WeaponizedRage/status/1555756856215310336
Best comment:
“That looks like an infected butthole.”
The monkeypox has become sentient.
I wish The Predator franchise would hunt down all the other franchises and kill them all before committing suicide. All of these continually rehashed movies fucking suck.
Imagine if Hollywood didn’t hate Larry Corriea, John Ringo, David Drake, Larry Niven….
I think we need to protest that movie. Thry have a sioux woman playing a comanche and I just can’t even with that cultural appropriation.
The icing on the economic crap-cake.
Paywalled.
Utopian fascism, here we come.
The CDC obviously just doesn’t give a shit anymore and is outright fabricating numbers.
https://kathrynhuwig.substack.com/p/new-math
“ So, the CDC is telling us that they are ‘estimating’ that there were 161 new admissions in Franklin County over one week. Real number of resident admissions?
Three.”
They were only off by a gross and a few dozen so excuse me Mister Perfect.
Reality doesn’t fit the model. The model is perfect. Therefore reality is incorrect. QED.
What difference, at this point, does a couple of orders of magnitude matter?
off grid living in Romania. the talk is all romanian but the images do not require knowing language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnfqUxqCRM
Aren’t coffins in dungeons technically “off-grid”?
you are just jealous Romanian wildlife is better than American. Especially the bears.
You’re thinking of Tonio.
So Ceaușescu didn’t hunt your bears to extinction.
nope we probably have most bears i Europe not counting The Great Enemy. they really are getting to be a problem in mountain towns.
That’s awesome. The town I lived in when I was young was famous for being near one of the few remaining populations of bears in Western Europe (the Marsican brown bear). I’m glad to see that the shittiness of Communism didn’t destroy the wildlife in Romania.
Top notch journalisming
Death Valley National Park, famous for its parched, otherworldly landscapes, closed completely Friday due to historic rainfall and flash flooding, trapping about 500 visitors and 500 staff members in the park after the closures.
No major injuries were reported, though about 60 vehicles were damaged.
The park experienced “unprecedented amounts of rainfall” of 1.46 inches measured at Furnace Creek, which caused substantial flooding. The rainfall total is just below the previous daily record of 1.47 inches.
“Unprecedented” you say. Almost as much as the time before, you say.
Buy a dictionary.
It’s the most since the last time it happened!!!
“A Royal Rumor Might Be Inspiring Straight Men to Get Pegged, and That’s Beautiful”
Our morally bankrupt betters telling us it’s desirous to be fucked in the ass by a woman wearing a strap on with the implication that being repelled by this indicates homophobia. We really have gone off the rails.
This article sponsored by the American Proctology Association
I suspect the only men that’ll inspire to get pegged were already into it anyway. Oh, and fuck the royal family: a bunch of German perverts the lot of them.
I hate to be an old fuddy-duddy, but it’s starting to look like maybe the bigoted Christian rednecks were on to something 15 years ago when they insisted it wasn’t going to stop at gay marriage and that tolerance would not be sufficient to placate the activists.
I would have been terrified by drag queens story hour as a tiny kid.
I’m coming around to that view myself, the slippery slope is both sloped and slippery (and real).
Like with a 55 gallon barrel of lube?
activists can never be placated because tis the way they get their corn pone . But ht issue with conservatives was they said allowing gay marriage would lead to this shit, and I believe we would have gotten this shit regardless, so strategically it would have been better to be more open to gay marriage because they would have a stronger position now. or not. fuck knows.
Possibly. But I don’t think we get from California voters rejecting gay marriage in 2008 to school administrators in Virginia covering up trannies sexually assaulting students in the bathrooms in 2021 without the shift in social attitudes we picked up at the Obergefell rest stop in 2015, particularly since all of this is continually couched in “rights” language.
I personally doubt Obergefell caused any paradigm shift in social attitudes that would not have happened anyway. I don’t see why it would have.
Legal recognition was important as a social/moral victory. That’s why it was pushed so hard by the activist class and established by judicial action rather than gradually through voter initiatives or the full faith and credit clause. That’s what I was getting at with the “rights” language. Once gay marriage was a legally recognized right, anyone who failed to acknowledge it as such was ipso facto a bigot. It pretty much shut up anyone who wanted to stay within spitting distance of the mainstream. With that having been accomplished, every subsequent gear in the ratchet is pitched as a new “right”. And do you want to be like those bigots who denied the right to gay marriage and ended up on the wrong side of history? Well do ya?
That’s one interpretation, anyway.
Funny how that didn’t work with gun-related civil rights.
Funny how that didn’t work with gun-related civil rights.
I see the gun orgs as being grifts first, activist groups last.
*cue SF’s AR story*
tis the way they get their corn pone
I see what you did there.
To Pat’s original comment, I remember that too.
Make Weimar Great Again.
Something utterly wild going on internally at Polygon. Ben Kuchera was fired, and apparently his kids were sexually abused.
https://twitter.com/GamesNosh/status/1555728666495225857
The man who bought Judge Dredd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xz1BwbOH4I
Success
President Biden on Friday touted U.S. job growth, which unexpectedly accelerated in July, saying “more people are working than at any point in American history,” and using jobs numbers to prove he has kept his campaign promise to “rebuild the middle class.”
Employers added 528,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department said in its monthly payroll report released Friday, blowing past the 250,000 jobs forecast by Refinitiv economists. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, edged down to 3.5%, the lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than two years ago.
“Today, the unemployment rate matches the lowest it’s been in more than 50 years: 3.5%. More people are working than at any point in American history,” Biden said in a statement. “That’s millions of families with the dignity and peace of mind that a paycheck provides.
“And, it’s the result of my economic plan to build the economy from the bottom up and middle out,” Biden continued. “I ran for president to rebuild the middle class — there’s more work to do, but today’s jobs report shows we are making significant progress for working families.”
Rebuilding the middle class.
*squints*
Biden said in a statement.
Ah so his lips weren’t moving.
LOL no you didn’t.
Remember “I will destroy the fossil-fuel industry”, you lying sack of shit?
The job growth defied fears of a slowdown in hiring, even as the labor market confronts twin threats of scorching-hot inflation and rising interest rates.
The U.S. has now replaced all of the jobs that were
lostdestroyed by government diktat during the pandemic.And, of course, the specific jobs which were destroyed did not “come back” and the lives damaged for no good reason have not been made whole.
But the senile imbecile gets to totter around having photo ops in union factories pretending he knows what the middle class is.
Their internal Chinese language messaging is effective, but the CCP isn’t good at arguing in English.
Partly because their interface to the outside world is monetary & (increasingly) martial, not moral.
Their moral argument is “China should be #1” which only works within China.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1555617428100743168
Yeah, as it turns out, your moral arguments don’t actually have to be that good when the rest of the world has spent 3/4 of a century making themselves your utter and complete bitch with no ability to stand economically without you. In fact, they hardly really matter at all when American companies with market capitalization in excess of a trillion dollars lobby their own government to prevent it from passing a law making it illegal to use actual slave labor in China. “Fuck you, you’re no better” works just fine.
Thanks so much, Henry Kissinger.
I wouldn’t mind taking a road trip to piss on his grave, but the miserable old fuck will probably outlive me.
“We were going to liberalize them” [having lit the Winston signal dashing for the door]
Their moral argument is “China should be #1” which only works within China.
Now do the United States.
That actually used to work for the US outside of the US because we stood for an ideal or appeared to at least. That veil was lifted a long time ago, think Vietnam or thereabouts, though.
Vietnam? Try WWI. The Wilsonian crusade to remake the world.
My wife gets annoyed when I start railing on about how we’d be better off if the USA just went away.
It’s time to move on.
By that I mean DC, of course.
actually the US always had a moral argument of freedom and democracy besides the ‘merika
Ask Donald how that plays out.
We are more likely to elect leaders who actively hate the United States and average Americans.
They don’t actually hate America. They love the power it affords them.
They just hate the people in it.
I love the people (well some of them anyway) and have come to hate the ruling apparatus.
I thought Bill Daily played the neighbor. Peter Bonerz played the dentist.
Orthodontist. But he did rent an office on the same floor as Bob Hartley, so they were office-neighbors.
On the mend
“It’s been an extraordinary few days for the nation,” he told a virtual gathering of Democrats on Wednesday.
Left unsaid was how extraordinary those days had been for Biden himself, who oversaw almost all of it from the White House residence, isolating alone with only a bare-bones, in-person staff.
The brutal months that came before had lent the Biden presidency a sense of gloom, fueled by high prices, abysmal approval numbers and swirling questions about the President’s ability to lead. Many problems — like a growing outbreak of monkeypox, the war in Ukraine and shortages of baby formula — still persist, and a new crisis is emerging with China. Democrats running for office this year are still putting distance between themselves and the President.
Yet Biden and his allies are now enthused at the string of victories, which includes passage of major pieces of legislation, a long-sought agreement on a climate and taxation bill, a steady decline in the price of gasoline and a surge in hiring. A primary election this week in Kansas also gave Democrats new hope for the midterms.
Biden is preparing a victory lap of sorts, with major White House bill signings scheduled for several days next week in the Rose Garden — the type of ceremony that had eluded him for much of the past year — once he tests negative and leaves isolation.
Like a freight train. Unstoppable. Watch your ass, History.
Meh, it’s CNN…if Biden shit in his hand during a presser and started eating it they’d be talking it up.
Biden’s not doing “laps” of any kind. Except maybe in his Hoveround.
We are more likely to elect leaders who actively hate the United States and average Americans.
But they will not hesitate to behave as if the world is our dominion.
Ohio shooting leaves 4 dead, prompts manhunt for person of interest
Heads up for our Ohioan glibs.
Yeah, that’s way “too local” for my taste. Not QUITE the same township, but…
Maybe I should be packing out here at Tranquility Base. 😳
Might make a good album name
Dayton is actually one of my areas of interest again now that Medicaid asset recovery is no longer an (immediate) concern. It’s hard to break away from the southwest climate though.
One caveat if seasonal plant allergies are a consideration: We don’t call it Sinus Valley fer nuthin’.
I’ve had mild to moderate seasonal allergies since I was a kid, and no place I’ve lived has been discernibly better or worse than another in that regard. My poor mom had never had allergies in her life until we moved to Las Vegas. The resolved when we returned to Washington State, and then recurred again when we moved out here to Pahrump. You wouldn’t think it since there’s little out here in the mojave besides sand and cacti, but we actually have pretty high pollen and other allergens as well.
::checks directions on map:: < 5 miles.
Well, shit. Be careful, and maybe keep an eye out for that plate number.
It would be less than 4 miles if a certain bridge weren’t under construction (for several more months,) which apparently Google Maps doesn’t know about but DDG does.
Today’s anecdote was a stand-up comic playing an on-campus show. Partway in, he referred to an audience member who made a loud quip as “White Boy.” The guy was white. And amused. The authorities were not, so quickly killed the mike, killed the lights, and ushered the audience out before more horribly damaging words were perceived by their delicate ears. And then refused to pay him the agreed-on fee. The rumor mill started, and by the time it circled back, the story transmuted to him using a common and nowadays unprintable slur to a black guy.
Oh boy.
“No Sugar Tonight” is one of my favorite Guess Who songs.
During the recent press conference, Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), a member of Republican leadership, said the GOP will be focusing specifically on areas like “energy, inflation, border and crime.”
How about firing Fauci, abolishing the CDC, abolishing the FDA, and abolishing the NIH?
China cut off contacts with the United States on vital issues Friday — including military matters and crucial climate cooperation
“Crucial climate cooperation”. Not vital. Not crucial.
Reynal objected to the decision, arguing that the verdict did not comply with Texas law, which caps the actual award at $750,000 per plaintiff. The judge acknowledged the objection and added that the law implies that in the state “we don’t trust our juries.”
The judge is either stupid or wants Jones to win in the end. I don’t think this is a case where one embraces the power of “and”.
I loved the cover of Canned Wheat as a kid. Today, that would be Bagged Wheat probably.
LOL. How many legislative limits on punishment and damages exist in our legal system? Thousands?
How about firing Fauci, abolishing the CDC, abolishing the FDA, and abolishing the NIH?
Those are the kind of actual, concrete goals that politicians avoid like the plague. Now “focusing specifically on areas like “energy, inflation, border and crime” are the kind of vague, indefinite things that politicians purely love, because they provide plenty of scope for graft, blamethrowing, and general evasion of responsibility that politicians crave.
Burn, baby, burn
Within hours of the announcement that Milwaukee would host the 2024 Republican National Convention, a coalition of liberal groups announced plans to demonstrate during the event that is two years away.
“Today we stand here with our coalition partners to make our intentions clear to the RNC and to the City of Milwaukee,” said Omar Flores, spokesman for the coalition. “We will not let the Republicans and their reactionary ideas flourish in Milwaukee. We will not let them visit without resistance and without letting it be known that they’re not welcome here, regardless of what our city officials said.”
The coalition is made up of groups including Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Students for Democratic Society at UWM, Reproductive Justice Action Milwaukee, Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, Leaders of Kenosha, Never Again Milwaukee, Midcoast MKE, Zao MKE and Community Task Force.
Flores said that while city officials say the event will be an economic boost for Milwaukee residents, people in underserved communities such as Milwaukee’s north and south sides are often overlooked.
Just think of all those broken windows.
Wrong thinkers are not even permitted to exist.
I wonder what heavy lifting “underserved” is doing in that sentence.
Anyway, the commies are grateful for your attention, MSM. Please be sure to plug “the resistance” more frequently as the day arrives.
Orwell would be pleased.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Because freedom is all about eliminating disagreement.
Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Because fighting Political Repression means no disagreement is permitted.
Students for Democratic Society at UWM. Where have you gone, Stokely Carmichael?
“Choose California. Choose freedom.”
In the fine print:
“Freedom is known to cause cancer in the State of California”
Maybe I should be packing out here at Tranquility Base.
You have your Glibertarian-logo kevlar lap robe, right?
Missed that on the Cafepress site. Just have the jammies – tee shirt and black & white plaid flannel comfy pants,
Probably not quite protective enough?
I just did Vivian’s weekly poop chute flush.
On that note, I have a variety of dried shrooms (the non-hallucinogenic kind from the grocery). What should I do with them? I was thinking some kind of soup or stew when the weather gets cooler.
Mushroom risotto
What’s in a name?
Looks up, ponders KK’s black avatar and new handle.
Love the new handle. KK identifies as Jane Curtin?
Risotto, sure. Or make a ragout with tomato and serve over polenta. Or chopped and stir fried with fresh corn kernels and scallions, very summer. There’s a lot of possibilities.
Stuff them in a pork loin with spinach or swiss chard, garlic, onions, and a good swiss cheese.
What’s in a name?
The White House is defending the Inflation Reduction Act against a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that suggests the legislation will not meaningfully lower inflation in the coming years.
“Could you address the new CBO analysis about the Inflation Reduction Act that says it would have almost no impact or negligible impact on inflation in 2022 and 2023,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked during a Friday briefing.
Jean-Pierre responded, “You know, leading economists have said that this Inflation Reduction Act that’s been analyzed by them, that’s been looked at by these economists, will indeed reduce inflation.”
Jean-Pierre was then asked if her answer means she is “dismissing” the CBO report and whether it is fair to call the legislation the “Inflation Reduction Act” when the CBO is saying inflation will not be meaningfully reduced.
Mark Zandi approves. What else do you partisan hacks want?
Might as well ask a geranium about quantum entanglement.
Can you please name those economists so we can talk to them?
Video of rare jelly fish
There have been only two documented sightings of the elusive Chirodectes maculatus, a large, soccer ball-sized jellyfish with distinct spotted markings, the second of which was captured late last year by divers from Scuba Kavieng. In what is believed to be the first recording, the video shows the extremely rare animal, which has four clusters of striped tentacles, rings covering its body, and a pulsing patch of red on its bell that’s likely a digestive cavity, as it swims near the coast of Papua New Guinea.
*shudder*
One of the Old Ones.
The Old Ones, indeed. Now I feel the urge to smoke some of this.
Noooooope.
That’s phenomenal.
Thank you for sharing.
Jean-Pierre was reacting to a report this week from the CBO that said the bill would have a “negligible” effect on inflation.
“In calendar year 2022, enacting the bill would have a negligible effect on inflation, in CBO’s assessment,” the office said. In calendar year 2023, inflation would probably be between 0.1 percentage point lower and 0.1 percentage point higher under the bill than it would be under current law, CBO estimates.
Jean-Pierre’s defense of the legislation comes the same day Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said that a group of 230 economists who are warning that the legislation will increase inflation are “wrong.”
“They’re wrong..I don’t know who that list was… it’s as plain as the nose on your face,” Schumer told reporters.
The economists wrote in the letter that the U.S. economy is at a “dangerous crossroads” and the “inaptly named ‘Inflation Reduction Act of 2022’ would do nothing of the sort and instead would perpetuate the same fiscal policy errors that have helped precipitate the current troubling economic climate.”
It’s right there in the name. What more do you want?
Well, entering California this afternoon. Personally, I think the “ag inspection” stations should be on the other side, looking for fleeing Califucktards to turn around. Visit but don’t stay.
entering California this afternoon
Be strong, grasshopper.
*checks surroundings* Oops, I appear to be in NJ. Silly me.
Good ol Governor Don’t-Californicate-Oregon
Not to worry, as soon as the hateful dyke from out of state assumed her anointed role, the waters will begin to be healed.
Yeah, I wonder what ol’ McCall would think of contemporary Oregon; he was a Republican after all.
Welcome to the dark side.
Unexpected
As eastern Kentuckians continue to search for missing loved ones, muck out their homes and prepare for more rain, they are beginning to ask who could be at fault for this past week’s deadly flooding and whether it was a natural disaster or one caused by the coal mines that have drastically reshaped and scarred the landscape.
Compacted dirt, destroyed mountaintops and deforestation in eastern Kentucky have often been left ignored by the coal companies that mined there, despite legal requirements that they attempt to return the land to its natural state when mining concludes. In recent decades, that spurned responsibility has, at times, turned heavy rains into floods and caused local residents who once counted on mining for jobs and prosperity to bring litigation against their former employers in Appalachian courtrooms.
Lawyers who have pursued these cases in the past said it is still too early to pursue a case in the most recent flooding, as studies need to be conducted and claimants contacted, but interest in holding someone to account for the lost homes and at least 37 dead is growing.
“It may be too early to tell, but I’ve received a couple phone calls already,” said Ned Pillersdorf, a Kentucky lawyer in Prestonburg who has successfully sued coal companies for flood damage in the past. “No one is denying the amount of rain we had — it truly was a 1,000 year event — but did the strip mines contribute? Absolutely.”
The search for the deep pocket never ends.
I can hear the cash registers ringing from here.
It’s raining, sort of. More of a drizzle. I bet the guys who were just starting to get their wheat in yesterday are not amused.
The loss of the natural ridge lines, vegetation and trees, and the cracks in the mountains that are largely owned by companies often funnels rainwater into the thin valleys, or low-lying hollows, where most eastern Kentuckians make their homes.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but water runs downhill, doesn’t it?
To be fair, heavily vegetated land has less run off. Its entirely possible the coal mining has had some effect. But when I hear “record rainfall”, I think “flooding no matter what”, so . . . .
Google Hurricane Camille sometime. Heavy rain in the mountains = Flooding
Only corporate water…
Oh dammit, wife was trying to buy something online and the website was hacked. She wasn’t paying attention and the checkout was redirected to another website, now I’ve got to cancel the credit card yet again.
Just for Mojo:
Mormon Wedding Turns Into Wild Rager After Someone Slips Some Caffeine Into The Punch