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So we’re in the worst parts of the 70’s and the 80’s?
I’m pretty sure this works better then snakes on a plane.
Why couldn’t they just use a Sharpie on him?
In confusing to me local news.
I may not be a golf fan, but I’d probably like this guy.
If you just had 36 cases, you too can receive a cash payout.
Since I have certain standards to uphold, after the girlfriend tasted one of these, she asked for more.
I understand that there are traditions, so let’s give you a music link for a lunch idea. As the Cleveland Oktoberfest is going on, have some bonus music.
So we’re in the worst parts of the 70’s and the 80’s? – no. pass. booo
I’m pretty sure this works better then snakes on a plane. – sounds pointless on first thought… I know there was a bourbon aged on ocean but most reviews called it overpriced.
Maybe they should move the trains at relativistic speeds to age the stuff more quickly by our standards.
whisky should be aged in a warehouse in Scotland, like god intended
Kentucky works too.
not as well, but yes
It works much better. It only takes three or four years in Kentucky to age as much as 12 years in Scotland.
no need to rush the good stuff.
Are we still talking about whisky? Or the people?
A lot of drugs will do that.
Is it the meth?
It would age slower.
How about saving money and just using a paint shaker?
I can see agitation making a difference in the fluid movement through the pores of the wood, but probably not enough to make a big difference given how long these are usually casked. Also, a mechanical agitator at a warehouse would probably be cheaper and with as well or better for this effect. In Friday sense, definitely a gimmick.
Akvavit is supposed to cross the Equator twice to be considered the good stuff, by the same people who think lutefisk is food.
Now, nearly 30 years later, could the wine cooler break back into the market again, albeit with a slightly cooler reputation? Several signs, including the Bartles and Jaymes relaunch in recent years, point to yes.
Yeah, it’ll be a trend for the sorority girl – basic twentysomething set for a couple of years, if it takes off at all.
Bartles and Jaymes was the chick magnet.
Im certainly not ready to get back to wine coolers (like in high school). But I did have one of my sister’s White Claws.
Those things arent too bad….just not very manly.
At least they’re not as sweet as WCs.
“Seeeea-gram’s Golden Wine Cooler / It’s wet and it’s dry / My my my my” 🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4U3W2d0LA
https://youtu.be/w3LkWVqYecE
Remember when White Claw was branded Zima?
Zima, because zhit happens.
It’s got what plants crave. – but is the amount of grain needed to create the amount of ethanol lower than the extra production? does it output more than the inputs?
That first song is wonderful! Thanks! In my case these days, “liquid lunch” means an Atkins shake. 🙄
Cleveland’s Oktoberfest is going on already? Afraid you’ll be frozen over by, you know, October? At least Dayton waits until the LAST weekend in September! 🍻
rockabilly
could be awesome; still is in places
Billy Bremner
Elliot Easton
The Rum Swizzle is the national drink of Bermuda. It’s enjoyed in bars across the island nation and has become a staple on Tiki bar menus across the world. Swizzles have taken different forms over the centuries, with references to the drink dating back to the 18th century, but the Swizzle Inn, which houses Bermuda’s oldest pub, is associated with the modern version of the cocktail.
Sounds tasty. My go-to from that part of the world is the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club.
Sounds tasty – no it doesn’t. Its juice with some alcohol that you probably can;t taste. What you can probably taste is pineapple which is disgusting in any form.
Even on pizza?
Since I have certain standards to uphold, after the girlfriend tasted one of these, she asked for more – more what?
More standards, obviously. 😉
So we’re in the worst parts of the 70’s and the 80’s?
So middle-class women have found something to replace White Claw?
ain’t no laws when youre drinking claws
…and middle-aged women wallow in nostalgia?
[Gender Traitor runs from room quietly sobbing]?
I marvel at the grown men buying cases of White Claw at the grocery store and their lack of dignity. I want to hand them a box of tampons to go with it.
I dislike seltzer so White Claw isn’t my thing. But I do sometimes buy a case of it for my wife. Same with Goldschlager.
However, my wife has kindly gone into the ABC liquor store 9 months pregnant to buy handles of bourbon for me. So there’s a bit of turnabout there.
On one hand, you lose man points, on the other you gain them. I guess it’s a wash.
Same. I have had to buy the wife White Claw and tampons at the same time. I Am That Man.
I’d say that buying what you enjoy and ignoring the haters is a masculine trait.
☝🏻 Zima fan
If you just had 36 cases, you too can receive a cash payout.
Relevant
Alarming
Former President Donald Trump gave his first public speech this weekend since President Joe Biden warned Americans in a televised address that “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” And how did Trump respond? By proving Biden 100% correct.
At his rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, Trump was not content to serve up more lies about the 2020 election that he lost. He did far worse: He used his platform to demonize the FBI, Justice Department and the federal magistrate who signed the warrant authorizing the August 8 search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. These are among the officials seeking the return of classified material and other government documents that Trump took with him when he left the White House.
Trump’s remarks are even more alarming given the unprecedented spike in threats against the FBI since the search of Mar-a-Lago. These threats have been so concerning that federal prosecutors recently asked a federal judge to redact the names of FBI agents and any others who provided relevant information to the bureau before publicly releasing an affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant.
Brave defenders of freedom need a cloak of anonymity to carry out their official duties.
The article my local newspaper’s website copied from a wire service or another paper had another of those mythical lifelong Republicans who voted for Trump but can’t vote or Oz because reasons.
I mean, if the names of the secret police are to be found in sworn warrant applications to a federal magistrate, then they’re no longer secret police. You lose the whole intimidation factor there.
That’s quite the circle-jerk.
And how did Trump respond? By proving Biden 100% correct.
Criticizing the current regime means you are an extremist.
‘So we’re in the worst parts of the 70’s and the 80’s’
*Looks at inflation*
It all checks out
We’re getting there. The local graffiti artists are so far confining their efforts to the walls of the subways. They still haven’t come up with spray paint capable of defeating the stainless steel subway cars, but I am confident that a solution is right around the corner. Peak 70’s requires this:
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/photos/flashback-subway-graffiti-in-the-early-1970s?image=1
“Houdini49”? Was that the tagger’s screen name?
And all the usual suspects pine for those days.
“Three cheers for Terry Gilliam!” – rave reviews for a musical the Old Vic tried to cancel
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-cheers-terry-gilliam-rave-reviews-musical-old-vic-tried-/
Last year, the Old Vic cancelled Monty Python star Terry Gilliam’s production of the Stephen Sondheim musical, Into the Woods, after the venue’s sensitive younger theatre staff – along with a group of ‘emerging artists’ recruited to the theatre’s Old Vic 12 project – said his perfectly lawful views on trans rights made them feel “uncomfortable” (Times). The decision to cancel Gilliam came shortly after the acclaimed film director committed the “unspeakable crime” – as he himself put it sarcastically (Independent) – of [gasp!] taking to Facebook to defend artistic freedom of expression and throw his weight behind “socially aware, dangerously provocative and gut-wrenchingly funny” African American comic Dave Chappelle, before urging people to [splutter!] watch his contentious Netflix show.
Responding to his cancellation, Gilliam said it was “very sad that a great cultural institution like the Old Vic allowed itself to be intimidated into cancelling our production”. Likening the younger members of staff who lobbied Old Vic bosses to scrap his show to “Neo-Calvinists”, he added: “They are totally closed-minded. [To them] there is only one truth and one way of looking at the world. Well, ‘f*** you!’ is my answer to them.”
I hope the production is so successful it goes on tour and comes to the States! I want to see it!
I wonder if they realize how many skits the members of Python did dressed as women.
Humorless assholes seem to be the norm these days.
Leni Reifenstahl’s early comedy two-reelers are severely overlooked. Only serious film scholars know about them.
Might as well go straight to “Communists” because that is what they are.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Thanks for the lynx, Neph. That Cannabis scholl actually looks pretty cool.
https://cannahubedu.com/mfp/
I’ll bet the ROI on their program beats the hell out of a degree in victim studies. If you can’t get a job, at least you can become a breeder.
Our continuing ed office runs weeklong seminars on cannabusiness. We started back before covid and it still gets 50+ registrants every semester. It’s a pretty good moneymaker for us, and surveys of previous participants say they have been successful at getting into the legal weed game (self-reported).
Linky here
All that notwithstanding, Trump stirred more anger toward law enforcement, prosecutors and our judiciary in Saturday night’s speech — and even used dehumanizing language to describe them. “The FBI and the Justice Department have become vicious monsters, controlled by radical-left scoundrels, lawyers and the media, who tell them what to do,” the ex-President said.
Trump then falsely declared that the search was “one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history,” painting a fallacious picture of what was widely considered a measured and reasonable undertaking.
Fetch me the smelling salts!
“measured and reasonable”
Half the country thought it was outrageous, but only the half that doesn’t count, apparently.
That’s the half that gets to go to camp.
Why would you subject yourself to Dean Obeidallah?
For the laughs, I would guess.
Trump stirred more anger toward law enforcement
Just the Feds.
and even used dehumanizing language to describe them.
Brandon literally did that to half the country.
Trump then falsely declared
Stated without evidence.
And yet Trump still can’t acknowledge the actual truth. These organs of the state didn’t just become this way, they’ve been that way for years. And neither is it because they’re being controlled nor are they truly controlled.
There were many mornings back in the earlier days when waking up and wishing that I was dead were not unusual. Then anther weekend would come.
I got to the gym today at an unusual hour on an unusual day and every single thing I wanted to use was taken so I left and am annoyed I did not get a workout in.
Money shot:
Before January 6, one could dismiss Trump’s words as heated political rhetoric. But in a post-January 6 America, we ignore Trump’s words at our own peril — and that of our democracy. Biden raised alarm bells in his speech on Thursday about the threat posed by Trump and some members of the MAGA movement. “History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy,” the President said.
Biden is right. The only question is whether it will take another January 6-style attack before enough Americans understand the real threat that Trump poses to our democratic republic.
Wipe that stuff off your face, Dean.
Biden then demanded blind loyalty as his Sturmabteilung continued to burn down Portland nightly and threaten other cities.
And tossed another dozen people who strolled through the Capitol into solitary confinement.
Hundreds of political prisoners could not be reached for comment.
Muh democracy!
But in a post-January 6 America
This is not a thing.
History tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence
This is literally the left’s m.o.
Biden is right.
Go fuck yourself.
“The voting rights activist who bought an allegedly stolen Dominion voting machine on eBay is still waiting for authorities to contact him about the purchase. Last week, Harri Hursti, a Connecticut-based computer programmer and activist, said that he bought the machine on the online marketplace for $1200. He went on to say that he contacted authorities in Michigan, where the machine originated, to tell them about his purchase. Hursti told CNN at the time that the machine was still sealed in its box in his home. On Sunday, Hursti told DailyMail.com exclusively that the box is still in his home and that he hasn’t heard from authorities since last Monday. The Finnish native explained that if the machine is stolen, as is claimed by Michigan officials, it would be first ever stolen voting machine in US history. Hursti said that while there is a documented history of voting machines being left behind in places or not being picked up after elections, there is no record of one being stolen.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11179915/Man-bought-stolen-election-machine-says-authorities-havent-bothered-CONTACT-him.html
Why are these secret black boxes even allowed?
Inside a $4,000,000 Lakefront MANSION in Wisconsin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WvAqr9OXl8
house looks nice but am unsure I like how it is structured on the inside
Too much noise from the boats, jet skis, etc. I like peace and quiet and a lot more privacy.
I know someone who has a similar but a bit more modest lakehouse in upstate NY. In winter they put blankets over the windows to keep the cold out. The heating bills on this place, which seems to be 1/4 glass, must be insane.
good thing energy is cheap in the US unlike Europe
Warm up round… meh. Actual Quordle round… meh, felt like UR was going to get me to Chumptown….
Daily Duotrigordle #187
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 08:29.22
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Picked a good second seed word for a change.
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Shitty
Walkin’ the line.
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Daily Duotrigordle #187
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 06:31.99
that was pathetic.
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Bam!
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Rolling Stone weighs in
Greene indulged in more anti-trans hate during the interview. “How do you guys feel about Dr. Rachel Levine?” Greene asked rally attendees during the pre-speech interview. Levine is assistant secretary for health, a pediatrician and a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She is also a transgender woman.
“That’s a man, not a woman,” one rally-goer said. “We know the difference,” another added.
Greene then misgendered Levine while spreading lies, saying, “He supports children having sex change surgeries. This is what [Democratic senate candidate John] Fetterman supports. I don’t think that’s mainstream, do you? It’s child abuse.”
But Levine has not publicly supported gender reassignment surgery for children. As Reuters put it, “There is no evidence to support this claim.”
An admiral, you say. How many boats does it command?
“According to definitions laid out in a fact sheet from Levine’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March, “gender-affirming care” includes social affirmation at any age, puberty blockers during puberty and hormone therapy starting during early adolescence. Irreversible surgery is “typically used in adulthood or case-by-case basis in adolescence,” according to the agency.”
Sounds like public support for exchange surgery to me.
Prima facie evidence is for fascists.
Populist energy is still there, it seems.
My Fire tablet hates Nitter.
I guess you could take the Twitter handle (after the /) and actually use Twitter to watch the video. I’m suspended so I can’t even scroll the website.
Here’s another “gem”. Apparently Matthew Yglesias, who used to get mentioned on TOS all the time, is a vocal proponent of virtual kiddie porn. Blech.
81 million totally legitimate votes…
Biden likes the intimacy of small venues like his basement.
https://www.ammoland.com/2022/09/atf-pistol-brace-amnesty-registration-program/
I haven’t seen this here yet but is major news. Some documents were leaked that the ATF is planning on moving ahead with labeling pistol braced handguns as SBRs under the NFA. According to the GOA, there are between 20-40 million American gunowners with pistol braces, all of which will be turned into felons overnight. Very ominous with the recent news articles going around about the warrantless door to door searchers of gun owners by plainclothes ATF agents. It’s tax-related as well so maybe at least somewhat related to doubling the size of the IRS.
There will also be amnesty period, where you can be grandfathered into the NFA by registering your pistol as an SBR and sending a picture of your braced handgun to the AFT.
It’s suspected this rule will be implemented in December after the elections are over and before a new Congress is installed.
So with any luck the rule lasts ten minutes? Either that or the Republican’’s have their first landmine.
Let’s say there’s 60 people on the plane, and they all got a $10 drink. So $600. Not too crazy expensive, and a fun memory for everyone involved.
But on Ryan air there is like a 200 euro limit on spending per person on drinks
That’s a wild amount for one person, but then again it’s an Irish airline. I guess if you’re buying for a bunch of people you just run the card a few times.
not really because there is a per card limit. I know this because on my flight to Madrid there was a group of people and one had a card, and bought for everyone until the card was no longer accepted. The issue is that not all cards work I am unsure why I think some like Revolut require your phone app to have internet or something.
“Chile voters overwhelmingly reject left-wing constitution: ‘a path of hope’
Chile voters rejected replacing a 41-year-old charter with a progressive constitution
With 96% of the votes counted in Sunday’s plebiscite, the rejection camp had nearly 62% support compared to more than 38% for approval amid what appeared to be a heavy turnout with long lines at polling states. Voting was mandatory.”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/chile-voters-overwhelmingly-reject-left-wing-constitution-path-of-hope
Chile hasn’t mastered the mail-in ballot system yet.
Be careful what you wish for
After a drawn-out contest, the country’s ruling Conservative Party on Monday picked Liz Truss to be its new leader and the U.K.’s new prime minister.
Truss, until now the U.K.’s foreign minister, beat rival Rishi Sunak, the country’s former finance minister, to win the leadership race. With members of the Conservative Party asked to vote for their favorite candidate over the last few weeks, 81,326 members voted for Truss while 60,399 members voted for Sunak.
Turnout was 82.6% and, roughly, Truss has taken around 57% of the vote while Sunak achieved 42% of the vote.
Truss took to the stage to thank her supporters and ostensibly mentioned Boris Johnson, her “friend.” Saying she will govern as a Conservative, Truss said she intended to deliver “what we promised voters in 2019″ and said she would push a “bold plan to cut taxes” and grow the British economy. She said she will deal with long-term issues regarding the country’s energy supply too. Truss told delegates that she would deliver a victory for the party at the next election that’s expected in 2024.
Here’s your shovel. Get to digging.
she is evil because the guardian says she she said it is normal if some people pay most tax, a tax break will benefit those people more.
China… a drone with a loudspeaker and camera pointed at you appears: ”This community is in total lockdown now! Stay in your room! ”…
If you need a visualization of Orwell’s 1984, this is probably as close as you can get…
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1566320157160382464
https://nypost.com/2022/08/06/thousands-of-nypd-cops-quitting-before-getting-their-pensions/
Cops are quitting en masse. Maybe they’ll be replaced by hired security that doesn’t have sovereign immunity. Libertarian moment achieved.
NYPD officers already don’t have qualified immunity since last year.
20 years for a full pension. Wtf
openly french-canadian
https://twitter.com/lily_lxndr/status/1566466424717152260
Tabernac!
It’s mind-blowing how rapidly population is going to crash in some places unless fertility recovers. For instance, in South Korea, the population is projected to halve by the end of the century. There is going to be ghost towns and abandoned buildings all over the place.
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1566402000627056640
I blame every glib who ever set foot in Korea and did not impregnate at least 10 of the local women.
If only I was approved for the Korean TDY.
“Once in power, Liz Truss will likely be forced to take more drastic action to prevent winter supply shortages,” Eurasia Group’s Mujtaba Rahman and Henning Gloystein said in a research note last week.
“Alongside her “fiscal intervention,” Truss is also likely to unveil an energy package, which while aimed primarily at domestic consumers, will cover questions like storage, raising production, and ensuring that the UK’s Norway stream is secure.”
“With little policy action undertaken so far, it seems likely that more significant steps will be required during the fall and winter, including nonessential industries being ordered to temporarily shut down or, curtailments on public energy use in order to avoid the worst-case scenario of rolling heating or power outages,” which they gave a 70% probability.
There is only a 30% chance that the U.K. “can get through this winter without additional severe measures to reduce consumption,” the analysts said.
Nonessential.
As defined by experts.
Yep. Those dipshits, despite the evidence most recently a mere two years ago, think they can turn the economy off and on like a light switch with no repercussions.
I mentioned getting a good photo of my dog yesterday. I finally got it off the phone, which was a bit of a pain because apparently my new phone’s camera won’t let me resize the photos and the original size was too big to send as an attachment:
Sonny, on a leash because he’d go running off otherwise
Handsome pooch!
Nice.
Cute doggie, thanks!
Has that “Why me, Lord” look
The Airbnb we are staying in has a TV with like 1000 channels, but none of them are real channels. One of them only shows “Family Ties” and one of them only shows episodes of “That Girl” [!] and some of them seem to just show YouTube videos. The “That Girl” channel has Meta ads.
https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/1566566169737306115
what is the definition of a real tv channel?
Sounds like Pluto.
Find the one with Baywatch and you will be set.
Don’t let big booze fool you. I’ve got what plants crave.
Beer, processed through your digestive tract?
Nitrogen?
BLM leader accused of stealing $10 MILLION from group, using donations as ‘personal piggy bank’
I’m sure y’all have seen this headline. But the details are pretty hilarious. Apparently the IRS is getting involved, and the big players at BLM are accusing one another publicly.
I thought this was just a way to decolonize charitable giving
Black Lives Matter-Grassroots vs. Black Lives Matter?
We need the Judean People’s Front.
That’s comedy gold.
There is no difference between the two and I refuse to pretend there is.
The people putting BLM signs on their window and on their social media get to be conflated with the people that wrote the manifesto and the people that embezzled charitable contributions.
We get one jackass at a libertarian convention with a stars and bars bumper sticker and get to be conflated with the Nazi Party. They use the same name as the commie-scam-artists and get a pass? No.
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Violating my Ignore Matty G rule, but:
I was vaguely annoyed when Heinlein’s Friday was whitewashed (on the book cover).
I was vaguely annoyed when Earthsea was whitewashed.
I was vaguely annoyed when Middle Earth got Diversified. For the same reason, to the same degree.
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1566504358061248513
I did not much care about the diversity issue although it was weird how a small and reclusive tribe of hobbits had a bunch of people clearly of different ethnicity and different accents.
But I think it is facile for the left to scream racism at the diversity thing. But if my memory serve me, the diversity thing was not an issue when it made sense or in a good story. It only became a problem when the studios started screaming how they are increasing diversity. And no longer care about the quality or if the story was good. People are annoyed by what they percive is politics being forced down their throats.
The lefty scream the “art was always political”. yes but the point was to create good art and seamlessly blend some message in that. Not to create crap and slap a manifesto on it.
Anyhoo after the first ep of rings of power I decided I will no watch a second one
I remember watching a couple of things where it was clear they inserted a black man into it for political reasons. Some silly comedy about Catherine the Great, and there is a black guy running around in the background. And I kept thinking, every time he showed up (and he really didn’t have any lines or a major plot point) “how did he get there, and why would he be there?” It took me out of the scene every time he appeared. Also, a BBC thing of Willkie Collins’s The Moonstone had a black butler in the cast. A major plot point, but Victorian England was a pretty racist society, and no gentleman or peer is going to promote a Jamaican to the top of his household staff if they even hired one in the first place.
The only reason I could think to do this was to whitewash the production, but this does a disservice to every black person because it really does cover up the racism that was prevalent.
Rights are created and granted by the state
The defeated constitution would have been one of the most progressive in the world, giving the state a front-line role in the provision of social rights.
What could possibly go wrong?
nothing unless you hate the poors
Normal people read that sentence and find it terrifying. CNN finds it aspirational.
Extreme widespread poverty?
The British actor Laurence Fox (who, by the way, was in an excellent highly recommended miniseries about the German occupation of the Channel Islands called Islands at War) has been dipping his toe into politics of late. He’s sort of a conservative type. Now he’s playing Hunter Biden in a thing called My Son Hunter.
DailyMail.com got a sneak peak at the fictional movie on President Joe Biden’s son – with scenes including conversations with Ukrainian firm Burisma, sexual activity with prostitutes, conversations with strippers and use of illicit substances.
Hunter, played by British actor Laurence Fox, is portrayed having sex with prostitutes as he closes a deal with Ukrainian firm Burisma in a scene from the upcoming film. And in another scene breaks the fourth wall to tell the audience he was paid millions of dollars for ‘consulting’, while in partial view he can be seen engaging in sexual activity with another prostitute.
That’s by the married Irish couple Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer who made the movie about Kermit Gosnell, crowdfunded but not picked up by any distributor because even though it was about Gosnell’s horrific crimes, lefties were concerned that it portrayed abortion in a bad light. Good movie, BTW. Free online.
I will definitely watch their Biden movie.
Bartle and Jaymes should get together and do a cross-promotion with Orville Redenbacher and Colonel Sanders.
Lou Reed and David Bowie can do the music.
I prefer James Brown.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAPXUMpO_Y
COVID is winding down. Monkeypox doesn’t seem to be an existential threat. But look out, here come the killer tomatoes. We’ve got to do something!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/09/02/tomatoes-California-highway-second-time-one-week/3561662145866/
Heh. I remember driving that same section of the 5 after a donut truck crashed and donuts were everywhere on the road. It was kinda funny, but it fucked up my commute at 6am.
You do understand there’s more than one five out there.
That goes south from Elk Grove?
I don’t think so.
Years ago, a semi carrying a load of margarine dove off a highway overpass in Oklahoma and landed on Interstate 40 below, cutting across all lanes.
The Daily Oklahoman newspaper couldn’t resist and printed the picture and story with the headline “Margarine Clogs Major Artery.”
“So, while GIFs, memes, and videos may appear harmless from the perspective of non-Black people, it’s actually very easy to see how digital blackface perpetuates systemic racism.”
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a33278412/digital-blackface/
No, it isn’t.
“Think about it this way: A white woman can send a GIF of NeNe Leakes of the Real Housewives of Atlanta rolling her eyes without consequence. But in real life, a Black woman can lose her job for expressing her feelings in a way that others perceive as “sassy” or “angry,” Dogan explains.
And, as it has been proven throughout U.S. history, a Black man can be killed for demonstrating aggression, confusion, or even indifference. Popular GIFs of Kanye West looking serious, Nick Young with question marks around his face, and others, show Black men expressing themselves which, while technically be harmless, can oftentimes be fatal.
Digital blackface is also a form of cultural appropriation because non-Black people are adopting a Blackness that can be shed and taken on as they please, while actual Black people are forced to confront their race daily, without the privilege of letting it go when it’s no longer “cool” or convenient, Dogan explains.”
The biggest threat to innocent black people: GIFs, not the young black men who kill them at a frightful rate.
Clearly, the only way to be anti racist is to eliminate black people from the public square.
It’s for their own good.
The guy across from me told the park manager that he had a 42′ 5th wheel, but it’s really 46′. So now, in the pouring rain, I have to unhook my sewer and back up my rig so he can get out.
Maybe not counting the four feet that goes over the bed?
Make sure to spray a little something on him.
I’m wondering how this became your problem, or are you just being a good egg?
Well, I AM a good egg, but the park manager is going to have to handle the crap, as it were.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed…the way the spaces are configured, if the trailer behind me leaves, which he appears to be doing, then the 46′ may be able to pull around through the vacated spot.
Well, uncross your fingers and let him through!
Renewable Energy to Save the Planet? A Soho Forum Debate
8,791 views Aug 31, 2022 Texas A&M University’s Andrew Dessler vs. Steven Koonin, former undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy, at the Soho Forum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gICW2VL434
I am utterly unconvinced by the Dessler fella both in his catastrophic AGW shit but also in his no nuclear only solar/wind shit. And it is full of lies. The concept that solar is the cheapest power today is nonsense, not even taking into account most of the components are made with fossil fuel and what would happen if the metal and cement would need to be made with solar/wind. And most of his arguments are claims and telling the audience to google.
lots of emotional appeal as well
Sad. A&M is my alma mater, and locally “notorious” for its conservative bent. And this retard is representing us.
The draft put a strong emphasis on indigenous self-determination and on the protection of the environment, and would have dismantled the highly privatized water rights system. It had required gender equality in all public institutions and companies, and enshrined the respect for sexual diversity. It also envisaged a new national healthcare system.
But the project became bitterly divisive.
No
fucking
way.
Show your work…
The MAGA agenda represents an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.
It doesn’t respect our Constitution.
It doesn’t believe in the rule of law.
And it doesn’t recognize the will of the people.
…and take your democracy and shove it up your ass.
These cuntes are about to false flag some shit.
Joe is doing a great job bringing us together.
I am not a huge Trump fan, though I did appreciate his cancellation of several prior executive orders that had been hamstringing the free market, but I am seriously considering getting a Tshirt I saw that reads “I used to be a Deplorable but I’ve been upgraded to ULTRA MAGA.”
I’m so tired of being labeled by lefties.
https://truepatriotsupplyco.com/products/deplorable-promoted-to-ultra-maga-conservative-t-shirt?variant=43514006208745¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&utm_campaign=gs-2022-01-03&utm_source=google&utm_medium=smart_campaign&gclid=CjwKCAjwvNaYBhA3EiwACgndgnm1MusXJELhoYL1K7u0I66c6pRwvKzDK3w1tqTb9lhcjPcsCSWzjhoCGF4QAvD_BwE
Now, nearly 30 years later, could the wine cooler break back into the market again, albeit with a slightly cooler reputation? Several signs, including the Bartles and Jaymes relaunch in recent years, point to yes.
Good luck. It’s all about the seltzers now.
Just you watch! We will get SELTZERPOX soon, and everything will change. It will be the great drink reset!
Clearly, the only way to be anti racist is to eliminate black people from the public square.
You just don’t understand the searing emotional pain caused by seeing Uncle Ben’s grinning visage on a grocery store shelf.
Wyoming’s Brush Creek Distillery is trying to tell a specific story with its new Railroad Rye, but perhaps the tale is more exciting than the whiskey itself. This a decent bottle of rye, and for good reason—it was distilled at MGP in Indiana, a master producer in the category, from two different mash bills and was aged between four and six years. But then comes a healthy dose of the previously mentioned whiskey trend, this time steeped in Americana. Eighty barrels were loaded onto a boxcar that then traveled 1,200 miles over about 30 days from Chicago to the distillery in Wyoming, where they were further rested.
Branding is fine as long as the product still is.
For example, recently BRCC forgot that they don’t sell coffee, they sell a brand. But recently they shit all over their customers and therefor the brand.
But their consultant told them that they’ll have a much bigger market if they can just get the stink of those icky deplorables off of them!
I just find it funny that the idea of middle finger punk rock political antagonism has gone from “fuck the system!” to “I will punch you in the face if you question the integrity of our electoral process!”
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1566537345133846530
And they’re besties with the FBI and CIA.
I saw Dropkicks live waay back when their singer was replaced by Barr. They were a bunch of cunts on the stage.
Sounds like they’re a bunch of cunts off stage, too.
Lol
This seems to be happening to a lot of supposed anti-establishment people.
There is a man on my flight who just announced to the plane he had his first hole-in-one today and is buying shots for everyone on the aircraft!
Gettin’ drunk on a plane.
Could already be seen but I just read this yesterday:
How Weed Became the New OxyContin
Reefer MADNESS!!!
“There is a definite withdrawal syndrome that includes irritability, anger, anxiety, massive cravings, can’t sleep, can’t eat,” said Stuyt.
Yeah, then two days later you’re perfectly fine. And nevermind the fact that withdrawals from weed are more mild than literally any other type of drug. I get more irritable from lack of coffee, for fuck’s sake.
Newton’s third law of politics
The Kremlin on Monday blamed the West for triggering the worst European gas supply crisis ever and warned the Group of Seven advanced economies that Moscow would retaliate over its plan to impose a price cap on Russian oil.
Since he ordered the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin says the United States and its allies have embarked on economic war on Russia with the most severe sanctions in modern history, warning that they will face a energy crisis as a result.
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“Problems with gas supply arose because of the sanctions imposed on our country by Western states, including Germany and Britain,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
“We see incessant attempts to shift responsibility and blame onto us. We categorically reject this and insist that the collective West – in this case, the EU, Canada, the UK – is to blame for the fact that the situation has reached the point where it is now.”
Actions have consequences? They don’t teach that at the Kennedy School, apparently.
The whole thing was stupid. Any country that imposed sanctions but relies on that country for its energy is led by functional retards.
And not very functional at that point.
Angela Merkel waves
I saw the UK’s regulator approved effectively doubling energy prices UK consumers will pay starting October 1 through the end of the year. After which, the regulator will increase prices again for Jan-March 2023.
Everything is being blamed on “Putin Man Bad”, but of course it’s really because Europe has destroyed their own ability to produce cheap and abundant energy. Russell Brand had an interesting show on the other way where he took the the more left-wing populist “profits over people” view of the fossil fuel companies. My knee jerk reaction was wrong, this is a supply and demand issue. But then I started listening and thinking through and realized RB is correct also. Shell in the UK is making record profits right now and then funneling that right back into the pockets of the UK politicians.
Europe and the US doesn’t have really a free market system anymore, at least not that level of Big Energy, Big Pharma, Big Military, etc. The large corporations and the government are working together to loot us. So yeah, why can’t it both be a supply problem and the government working with their owned suppliers to squeeze the citizens further and wash that extracted money through their family lobbyists, consulting agencies, donations, etc.
On that note, my electricity supplier is running ads about how committed they are to “100% renewables by 2030 (or some shit)!”
No mention that (1) it is not possible with current technology or (2) if it were, your electric bill will be 10x higher.
It’s utter madness.
watch the soho debate I linked. Solar is totes teh cheapest
Read about it here. TL;DR – the solar guy is cooking the numbers – they’re leaving out things like the cost of backup.
I think more important is the “how do we produce the panels / mills/ cement” with no fossil. Mine, refine, assemble, transport, install, maintain, dismantle, recycle. Will this entire process consume less energy than these things produce lifetime?
The US Dept of Energy even has a page pointing out the shortcomings of renewables. Don’t tell Biden or he’ll have the webpage removed.
It’s a good read with some hard stats.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliable-energy-source-and-its-not-even-close#:~:text=Nuclear%20energy%20is%20America's%20work,power%20to%20millions%20of%20Americans.
The underlying reason that the powers that be hate Putin (and this holds true for Trump as well) is he is showing how hollow the dreams of internationalism really are. That there are huge swathes of the world that think the generic liberal dream of green socialism is just bullshit. You can’t rely on a distant nation for your energy and remain a first-world nation. You cannot rely on ancient agricultural techniques to feed your people and not be a third-world country.
And most of all, you cannot count on those third-world countries wanting to stay undeveloped to fuel your eco fantasies.
the powers that be hate Putin – on thing I share with the powers
Commieday tits seize the means of erection!
https://archive.ph/wip/SEwi0
Enjoy your Mammary Monday off.
“If you thought “yeet the teats” was bad, meet Dr. Giancarlo McEvenue.”
https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1566091712073588737
I’m hoping that’s fake. Although, it probably isn’t.
This political ad was played during the Cards/Cub yesterday, it’s pretty good, curious if it’s being played in other parts of the country?
https://youtu.be/GEA72wFG6o4
I’ve seen it online. But I don’t watch tv.
It’s being shown during sporting events primarily. I had an article on it last week. Cannot locate. I wish it was on everything including The View.
Brandon’s Lincolnian Speech Against MAGA
The art of the troll.
“If ‘low ratings’ CNN ever went conservative, they would be an absolute gold mine, and I would help them do so,” Trump wrote.
Never hit a man when he’s down.
Kick him.
😂😂
Why the fuck is Ofest achedulwd Labor Day Weekend?
achedulwing is difficult
So is typing on a phone.
From the fine print
Another major impact of the proposed payment plan is that borrowers will no longer accrue interest on their loan as long as they make their qualified monthly payment, which could be $0 for those with low income.
That’s “a really big deal” for low-income borrowers, Peller says: Currently, if a borrower’s income is low enough, their payment may not cover the monthly interest on their loans. If that’s the case, then the remaining unpaid interest gets capitalized and added to the loan principle. This “essentially balloons the payments and puts people in a cycle of never being able to make forward progress on their student loans,” Peller says.
Getting rid of accruing unpaid interest means that “unlike other existing income-driven repayment plans, no borrower’s loan balance will grow as long as they make their monthly payments,” the White House said.
Eliminating unpaid interest could help Christian Blair, 29, an attorney in Houston. He graduated from law school at the University of Kansas in 2018 with roughly $170,000 in federal student loans, though some of that also came from his undergrad years.
Since taking out those loans, though, unpaid interest has tacked on another $30,000 to his principle.
College Barbie saying your debts is hard.
glibs who payed their debt are suckers?
The technical term is “chumps”.
‘GRAIN SLAVES”
So he’s been working for four years, and paying what per year? What’s his salary? $170k for 7 years of schooling. Maybe he should have gotten a job rather than going straight to law school.
If you never make any payments on the principal, the loan never goes away?
That’s not fair.
College Barbie saying your debts is hard.
Derp- edit fail.
College Barbie says paying your debts is hard.
“If I make qualifying payments and my balance doesn’t keep going up, and those payments are less than 10% of my discretionary income — that’s a better deal than most private offerings, particularly because of the interest that would accrue,” Blair says.
“I was going to refinance, but not anymore,” he adds. “And I think that should be the case. I shouldn’t have to go through a private solution to get a better loan than I can get through the government.”
Land of the free.
Home of the brave.
if on ly you went to law school, you would not cheap government loans are a constitutional right.
Honest Trailers | Top Gun: Maverick
General Milley’s Resignation Letter to Trump Raises Questions
Quite the rant.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
Yeah, but it’s a Youtube rant. Once again I’d rather read the blog post.
NY Governor Says Her Rights As Governor Trumps Constitutional Rights To Conceal Carry
A point could be made that it is the peoples’ rights, but definitely not hers.
I recall the founder of the Democratic Party saying “[The Supreme Court] made [its] decision, now let [it] enforce it.”
Not much activity in this morning’s links
oh today is your Labor Day thing
But I’m not laboring at all.
As Jim Davis put it in a Garfield comic strip once:
“Labor Day, Schmabor Day.
What a dumb day.
To hire some jerk,
Then send him away.
To celebrate work
By playing all day.”
Problematic
Boy arrested after shootout at Huntington Harbour jewelry store
A male juvenile has been arrested on suspicion of robbery after the owner of a Huntington Harbour jewelry store exchanged gunfire with armed robbers, authorities said Sunday.
Detectives would only confirm that the boy had been arrested, offering no further immediate information, a Huntington Beach Police Department watch commander told City News Service.
Who you callin’ boy?
Whonyou callin male
I watched 12 monkeys (Bruce Willis version) for the first time yesterday.
Gillian is a talented mother fucker.
Police: Driver thought license obtained via Facebook was legit
These people vote.