Lovely, but no passing
Thr Stars salvaged some dignity. And for the lone basketball fan, so have the Celtics. Now they’ll both chase improbability. ManUre thumped Chelski. And it’s Monaco weekend!!! Which means to watch qualifying with at least as much interest as the race. They need to consider dumping that track or setting up special, smaller cars just for it. And that’s it for sports.
Seems legit. Remember this the next time a rapist or armed robber gets a year or less in jail.
Wow. Some common sense. I’m actually surprised.
Oh well.
“Forced”? Nobody was forced. Remember, protesting is supposed to make people uncomfortable. Sometimes that discomfort is financial. If you don’t like those rules, thank a leftist politician for parroting them for four straight years.
I wish her middle name was Elizabeth. That would make this even funnier.
This might be a bit tone-deaf. I hope they never find out my youngest’s middle name or they’ll come for me and Banjos too. (They killed the link. So here’s some weird shit while we wait to see if they put it back up.) Apparently DM isn’t a fan of linking to their stories today. They’re both broken.
Has he never heard of Uber? What a maroon.
Never again
LOL, sure they do. Stop trying to sell this bullshit, ok?
These guys missed their calling. They should be running the Social Security Administration.
Is this the end of the road? We won’t have to wait very long to find out.
Here’s some 80s gold. Not too bad. And this one is fantastic. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this holiday weekend. Remember the men and women who gave their lives in war for your freedom.
Millions worldwide have had long COVID, with dozens of widely varying symptoms including fatigue and brain fog.
Biden has long Covid?
I thought it was bad Karma from a life of lies and criminality.
for decades
We used to say those symptoms were due to another Chinese virus called Dragon Ass.
I was born with a condition called dick. I’ve had it for decades now.
Is that panda pic on the post from when it crossed the southern border along with a whole lot of males of military age coming from China?
I recently saw a bumper sticker for the WWF which had two pandas on it, one about to hit the other with a folding chair.
From dedthred: Action Pistol match.
However… Mike is considering adding PCC (or as he calls it “PC9”) to it next season. I have a feeling he’ll do it — he seems to be wanting to bring in more people (or rather more entrance fees).
I have to check to see which court the current crop of lawsuits are at.
Here’s the thing tho: AFAIK, unlike with handguns, you can loan out semiauto rifles to someone without a permit.
Unfortunately all of mine are set up for southpaws. Except for my 10/22, which considering KF&G allows .22LR handguns, they very well may allow that.
My understanding of the law as it stands is the longarm ‘permit’ (that you can’t apply for on its own) is a permit to purchase, and not requried for carry or possession. So that would imply loaning is still a ‘loophole’ as far as the state is concerned.
But you know I already have a 10/22 if that’s an option.
I’ll ask Mike tomorrow.
I was wondering why we hadn’t seen any Juneteenth stuff yet. LOL
Because it’s memorial day weekend.
And Flag Day is next.
Army’s 248th birthday. A trans cake this year?
SOS and powdered eggs that identifies as a cake?
“Don’t mess with my SOS”
That’s a platform I can support unreservedly.
One of the staple foods like chili mac and yakisoba.
Food? I thought you were talking about Steel Wool
I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself, don’t you, Clark?
Damn you, Rat! I had put aside the memory of Army Chili Mac…now I am reliving the horrid burps and terrible farts that stuff caused.
Would you prefer the ham slice MRE?
Frankfurters, anyone?
That one was horrible cold, but if we had time to heat it, it was pretty good, unless my memories are liars.
The only one that improves with heat was the rice. Everything else was better cold. Ugh, that heater smell and then the food smell of the ones who wanted hot mres.
Open pouch sideways, insert spoon.
The water heater worked pretty good and we also made pepper bombs out of them with the tabasco sauce.
Snuck into the battalion commander’s tent to put tabasco bottles in his yuke. He was not happy at the end of day after it was fired up.
Also Arctic MREs were the best.
I wish we could just say “because it’s ahistorical and fake.”
It’s a day off work. I don’t have to celebrate a damn thing, but at least I don’t have to come into the office.
Um, rainbow month is before flag day.
““Forced”? Nobody was forced. Remember, protesting is supposed to make people uncomfortable. Sometimes that discomfort is financial. If you don’t like those rules, thank a leftist politician for parroting them for four straight years.”
Nothing is more frustrating and hyper aggravating to leftards than their enemies playing by the same rules they do. That is why they want to ban “debates” and “misinformation”, label anything they don’t like as fascism, and go nuts when the other side is accused (falsely) of also doing “peaceful protesting” which they then label insurrection. Now suddenly one of their most valuable and powerful weapons, the ability to financially impact corporate entities if they don’t do whatever criminal shit the left wants, is being used against them.
They already lost the power of calling people racists, homophobes, or fascists because of false use, and losing the power of boycotting is really going to be painful when the ESG graft is so important to the government’s agenda of picking winners & losers.
Compare this to the coverage of Germany finally going after the econazis, and how much the press is trying to soft-pedal them.
Late to the party, so this may have been covered already, but the NBC news article is deliberately misleading.
Target announced Tuesday it was pulling some LGBTQ-themed items from stores following what a company spokesperson described as “threats” to employees over this year’s line of Pride Month merchandise.
That makes it seem like the problem was random, glittery, rainbow-themed merchandise with the word “Pride.” The problem was children’s swimwear with a trans-friendly tuck pouch. And the QUILTBAG mafia later tried to retcon those pouches as labia-containing pouches.
For the sake of argument…do female children on a whole suffer from flabby labia that they need to have a special pouch for?
I don’t know. My assumption is that it’s rare in pre-pubescent girls and only really common among women who have given birth.
If there had been a need, it would have been developed already in woman’s clothing. The fact that this is popping up now is a tell of how disingenuous they are being.
It is so disingenuous to link this to gay pride. It is transgender freakiness. Nobody wants a giant photo of a man in a woman’s swimsuit, bulge out, while shopping with their kids. I also found an article last night that said AP News stealth edited their article to remove such language as “threats” and “confrontations” and also removed references to this happening “in the South.” The damage is done though, the original article has been copied all over. Fucking fuckers.
This is what the left has bargained for, what with all the idiots doing shitty things in the name of the cause du jour. Throwing paint on people? Totes OK, cause oil. Chaining yourself to block streets? Sure, why not, ’cause George Floyd.
They set the pace for extra legal political operations, and now they are reaping what they sowed. And the sad part, beyond the fact that they will never admit to the fact that actions they supported are a huge chunk of the reasoning behind this, is the damage that this will do to some legit things, such as Gay rights. The trans shit is going to be the what puts many “back in the closet”.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for leading a far-reaching plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power
Except there was no plot to do any such thing.
after he lost the 2020 election.
Debatable.
“What we absolutely cannot have is a group of citizens who – because they did not like the outcome of an election, who did not believe the law was followed as it should be – foment revolution,” District Judge Amit Mehta said before handing down the sentence. “That is what you did.”
That is not what happened. And are judges always this “impartial”?
“I dare say, Mr. Rhodes – and I never have said this to anyone I have sentenced – you pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country,” Mehta said.
I’d argue that the “justice” system poses an ongoing threat and peril to
our democracy and the fabric of this countrythe republic. But it’s nice to know that in USSA dissent will not be tolerated.IF that judge really wanted this sentence to stick, she wouldn’t have said anything. Now she’s pretty much set this up to be struck down on appeal.
I want to believe.
Bless your heart.
Kangaroo trails to add the veneer of legitimacy when the state locks up enemies of the state.
“I wish her middle name was Elizabeth. That would make this even funnier.”
Team blue: Who paid for these people to do the sound effects? We should demand our money back!
Land of the free
Home of the brave
“I believe this country is incredibly divided. And this prosecution — not just of me, but of all J6ers — is making it even worse,” Rhodes said, according to Reuters. “I consider every J6er a political prisoner and all of them are being grossly overcharged.”
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta firmly rejected Rhodes’s assertion as he handed down an 18-year sentence.
“You’re not a political prisoner, Mr. Rhodes. You’re here because of your actions,” Mehta said, according to The New York Times.
“You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the Republic and the very fabric of our democracy,” the judge added.
Rhodes did not physically enter the Capitol on Jan. 6, instead directing members of his far-right extremist group via walkie-talkie as they made their way into the building in a military-style “stack” formation.
This just makes me sad.
It makes me cynical and angry.
Ya know, if the sentence, even if bullshit, was 5 years with time-served I would have tended to agree with the judge it was not political. 18 years…there are people who rape babies who spend less time in prison
It sort of removes the incentive for surrendering peacefully when the same sentence is handed down either way. 18 years might as well be a life sentence for Rhodes.
Walking in a pattern is now punishable by the State. Don’t let a DC jury see how government schools line up kindergartners cause those also look like they are clearing a room.
It’s also what you’d get if you asked everybody to stay orderly, not look like a mob, be safe, etc. Way past banana republic state now.
A military formation of unarmed people. WTF?
Land of the free
Home of the slave
Fuck the Celtics.
protesting is supposed to make people uncomfortable
Only if you have the “correct” views. “Incorrect” views make you a violent, bigoted terrorist.
“Has he never heard of Uber? What a maroon.”
I am glad I reread this thing cause at first the headline looked like it said he had ridden some black ho he had stolen (from a pimp) all the way to the airport for some reason…
Wow. Some common sense. I’m actually surprised.
I don;t know the trans sports thing is a source of much amusement for me and hope it goes on. And I can laugh at some woke-ish friends from England if their daughter should ever want to partake in sports. Though it aint the kids fault, to be fair.
Banning the trannies now will only perpetuate the drip drip drip. You need to let them smash women’s sports so we can rebuild it.
I thought you might clap for that
You thought wrong.
“I’ve visited red states and blue states and I’ve found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions,”
You don’t actually believe this banal, horseshit platitude.
New Proposed UK Machete & Large Knife Law (Ban) – Your Action Needed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7_vb2_YBKE
BAN THEM ALL. Also re scholagladiatoria, no one needs to do HEMA or to sell antique swords like old Matt Easton.
Machete, MACHETE!
Where is Danny Trejo when you need him?
Selling donuts.
But several mainstream brands have publicly supported LGBTQ people for years. So what’s different now? Advocates and marketing experts say it’s the growing power of a vocal minority of far-right political commentators, conservative politicians and religious legal groups, which have led the calls to boycott the companies while these right-wing groups and individuals also support a historic wave of state legislation that seeks to restrict LGBTQ rights.
Oh, I see. There you were innocently minding your own business, when suddenly a MAGA lynch mob rode up and tossed a rope over that tree limb.
Must be the fucking Chicago branch of Smolliet MAGA monsters…
Those dudes only come out in blizzards at 3 in the morning.
“So what’s different now?”
Extremist freaks and perverts took over the movement and are going after children, that’s what’s different now.
LGB should never have let the P into their movement. But they did.
“LOL, sure they do. Stop trying to sell this bullshit, ok?”
Went to the physician for my annual check this week. The question of the Kung Flu came up. Was asked how many shots I took and from which quacks, then asked if I had the Kung Flu. The doctor let it slip that he was glad I had not taken the Merc shots and told me I am lucky to only get a cough from the Kung Flu. He then jokingly asked – while telling me he was joking – if I wanted boosters or a flu shot. He saw my fascial reaction and told me he was required to ask this by the government.
The fucking assholes are still pushing that poison.
About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that aims to help unravel the mysterious condition.
Sometimes colds are persistent. Take your vitamins and get over it.
Sufficient Vitamin D and low obesity are key in avoiding bad symptoms.
10%? Sounds like BS to me.
Im going to play Legacy Media here and just say “[s]omewhere between 5 to 10 percent of people are thought to have hypochondria”
I don’t know. 1/3 of the population is male, 1/3 is trans, and 1/3 is female (approximation using Netflix and Amazon originals as a guide). if 1/3 of the women are Karen-types that drove the covid madness, then 1/10 seems about right.
“long covid” sounds more hip and trendy than “lingering effects of pneumonia”. Cuz only people who do the wrong things get pneumonia.
kilkerran 12 is bloody expensive. Fucking supply and demand, There ought to be a law. Great scotch mind, but kinds pricey… In old Romania is even priocier as it is rare, and ends up costing as much as Ardbeg Uigedail.
You should do Ripple and Mad Dog 20-20!
“I combine champale and ripple. Its called Cham-pipple.” -Fred G. Sanford
🙂
That hasn’t made them immune to backlash that has been intensified in part by internet-fueled conspiracy theories and a wave of anti-LGBTQ bills in statehouses.
Ari Drennen, the LGBTQ program director for Media Matters, a liberal watchdog organization, said a common thread connecting firestorms around Target and Bud Light’s campaign with Dylan Mulvaney is Matt Walsh, a political commentator for far-right website the Daily Wire.
“He’s been one of the most strident voices pushing this forward,” Drennen said. “Now, they’ve been picked up kind of more broadly throughout the right-wing media from people following that lead, but he’s been the person who’s really been pushing this kind of aggressive boycott tactic.”
Biased news reporting? Outrageous!
How dare they cock-block our lucrative racket?
Fox reports it as a 9-0 decision, while CNN reports it as 5-4.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/supreme-court-wetlands-authority-epa/index.html
Yeah, CNN or FOX are both dubious, but I have to wonder what the agenda here is for either, unless it is to whine about this graft loophole being shut down.
FOX reports it correctly – 9-0 decision with split opinions from the majority, but nonetheless, all in concurrence that the EPA stuck its dick in the legislative’s business. CNN and others, knowing no one is going to even both read the actual ruling, use the split opinions to report 5-4 to give their masters fodder for the sheep.
9-0 is consistent with normal reporting. There are plenty of cases with concurring opinions grouped into sides. They all ruled for the plaintiffs.
The WSJ editorial celebrating the decision still wrote 5-4.
Yeah not sure that was what Rat was getting at but even updated to today:
LA TIMES – In a 5-4 decision
People – It was split 5-4,
Reason! – The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5–4 decision
BBC with probably the clearest…
“All of the justices agreed that the wetlands on the couple’s property were not subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act.
But the justices split 5-4 in the reasoning behind the ruling”
Nobody gives a fuck about the plaintiff. What they care about is the EPA, therefore the relevant metric is how/who limited the EPA’s righteous wrath.
Thankfully Twitter is adding community notes to anyone reporting 5-4.
A Belfast student has called for Of Mice and Men to be removed from the GCSE English literature course.
The novel, by Nobel-Prize winning author John Steinbeck, was written in 1937 and portrays life in the 1930s.
Angel Mhande raised concerns about racial slurs used in the book, including the N-word.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-65700288
First of all, I’m amazed that an Irish school would be teaching American English literature.
American English literature can be just as boring as regular English literature
Yabut, you’d think that NI would teach HRM’s English.
“This and other messages/themes from Of Mice and Men reminds the reader of the struggle for racial equality and the importance of equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion in today’s society.”
But Angel said that reading the novel and listening to some of it being read in class had a negative impact on her.
“The impact that it’s had is that it just makes you feel weak, really,” Angel said.
“It doesn’t sit right.”
In Ireland. Which has zero history of slavery (other than the Irish who were enslaved at various times, none of whom were black).
I am starting to wonder if the inherent tribalism of humanity makes multi-racial and even multi-cultural (in the strong sense) societies viable in the long run.
Multi-cultural societies tear themselves apart at the seams until one group or another has been crushed. Small minority enclaves can persist, if they’re willing to deal with scapgoating and the occassionall mass murder.
That would be called the “ghetto.”
I would say it’s possible, as people can belong to multiple subcultures. If there’s enough overlap between the groups, there should at least be a second thought at ostracizing a single group. I’d say the modern issue is that the progs have built themselves into an evangelical puritanical cult.
There’s a difference between mutlicultural and a culture with subcultures. Members of a subculture are still members of the overall culture and share norms and cultural touchstones with that larger group. It can be the result of an integrating minority group, but it is still part of the umbrella culture.
Multicultural is the situation where you see sharia patrols in no-go zones in otherwise western nations – ie, a separate separated set of cultures vying for the same territory.
I’m thinking specifically voluntarily joined subcultures, as an example Creosote Achilles BDSM subculture, Phish/Deadheads following the band on tour, the extreme freegans, and even groups such as this one.
The key there is “sub” culture, which implies that it is a compartment of their lives and not an autonomous culture unrelated to the primary culture. It’s all continuums, so asking for bright lines is a fool’s game, but I think the general point stands.
I guess this makes me a deep libertarian, but I don’t think a society can be healthy and sustainable without a strong substrate of shared beliefs, attitudes, and even language. Otherwise the gravitational pull of tribalism fractures it into hostile, well, tribes.
I finished wondering.
You are weak Angel. Whiny and stupid too.
What was the Stalinist term – a useless eater?
whaddup doh
yo whats goody
Looks like the people that build whole cities with nobody living in them are gonna have to crack that nut…
“Amid China’s housing market downturn, many real estate developers are in turmoil. Chinese real estate giant KWG Property released an announcement (pdf) on April 28 saying it had failed to pay 212 million yuan ($31 million) of principal due on that date. The delinquency triggered another 31.2 billion yuan of debt (about $4.36 billion) becoming payable on demand. Two weeks later, the developer defaulted (pdf) on a $119 million redemption payment.”
If these are the numbers reported, you can bet things are worse. Honesty in accounting is not something these people care much about.
What indeed?
“Growing power” just means more people agree with them. And that happened when men started competing in sports against women, wanted to use their bathrooms, and most of all, gender identity nonsense and early sexualization started being pushed on kids. It doesn’t really have anything to do with LGB at all, lumping it all together is just a lie.
The answer is simple: More people are realizing that unfortunately the gay movement has been hijacked by people that want to use it as cover to groom their children and/or make sex with minors legal/OK, and that was a couple of lines they should never have crossed.
But the LBG leadership assured us for decades this wouldn’t happen, and it started happening 15 minutes after the Obergafell party was over.
As a SOCON – we told you so.
Conversations about LGBTQ people, at a time when LGBTQ issues are more visible than ever, “become distorted quickly,” he said. Witeck added that LGBTQ advocates are likely to continue filing legal challenges against anti-LGBTQ laws because they violate the Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, a 2020 ruling holding that gay and transgender employees are protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The decision galvanized many grassroots conservative activists.
How could we have possibly gotten here? You pushed and pushed, and now people are pushing back.
If aggressive militant queers are going to get special protected status, it would make more sense to do it under the mental illness umbrella of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
And a lot of that pushback is coming from the LGBs against the TQs.
I have said that this and will repeated it here: the greatest victims in this trans movement and the people demanding they be allowed to groom kids and make sex with minors legal cult will be the gay movement itself. I hope the gay community refuses to let itself be hijacked by people that want that shit.
Hahahahahahaha. Not in my corner of the country. The T, and P are just one more part of the alphabet family. I’d love to see some evidence of the pushback.
Ok, groomer.
CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage.
This isn’t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country.
Wake up America.
This doesn’t stop here. You’re black? You’re Asian? You’re Jewish? You’re a woman?
You’re next.
In his dreams.
“Let’s you and him fight.”
Vote for me, I will save you!
I believe the decision was 9-0 and they disagreed on the reasoning/extent 5-4.
This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws.
Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands.
We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters.
Eroding our environmental laws? I thought only congress could write laws. Not some unaccountable government entity like the EPA. This ruling was against the EPA writing laws which is why it was 9-0 (even the fucking leftists knew better than to not assert congress’ power in this space).
The memo went out about a year ago. Affix MAGA to anything and everything that is a perceived danger to their Marxist ideals.
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Disgusting. I dont know how the court can decide the EPA laws.
LOL.
That should be framed with a caption of “People like this is how we got here”
I think I’m in the replies to that jackass.
The Road To Serfdom revisited: was Hayek right?
https://iea.org.uk/the-road-to-serfdom-revisited-was-hayek-right/
“Nonetheless: Hayek did get a few things wrong in The Road To Serfdom. Wrong for perfectly understandable reasons, given the circumstances of the time, but wrong nonetheless.
For a start: for the next three and a half decades after the publication of the book, Britain continued to travel further down the road that Hayek had described as a road to serfdom. Just as he had feared, the post-war economic settlement locked in a lot of the wartime economic planning.
And that was a bad idea. It led to a period of relative economic decline, and to a squandering of Britain’s post-war economic opportunities. But it was not a road to serfdom. It was “just” a road to less prosperity. Britain, in 1979, was a country that fell far short of its economic potential. But it was not any less of a liberal democracy than its peers. It had not become fascist, and it had not turned into the Soviet Union.”
Pie (because some people are confused at what are my comments) : not any less of a liberal democracy than its peers is faint praise. the 70s were not exactly a time of liberty
“For Hayek, the rise of National Socialism was not some freak accident, but a culmination of a much longer process. I think that’s wrong. Not everything is determined by big, structural, economic forces. Sometimes, outcomes really are driven by more mundane things, like basic human errors of judgement. We could imagine plenty of realistic scenarios in which Hitler does not come to power, but which do not involve anything approaching Hayekian liberalism either.”
Pie: yeah I disagree somewhat, it was not a freak accident as fascism rose at that time in many countries
Fascism promised it would fix all the inherent and unsurmountable problems of doomed from the start systems like marxism (where you can’t solve the dichotomy of power having to be consolidated in the hands of those faithful to the cult which clashes with the marxist premise the smartest and best will do the central planning) by having government control the private sector – indirectly – through legislation and edicts. It’s just a slower road to the same hell. But one of humanity’s greatest weaknesses are people that have remained unable to register the fact that selling your freedoms for the false promises of security is dumb and destructive.
Fascism was seen by many smart people of the era as the successor to liberal democracies, and the alternative to Marxist movements.
That would include FDR, who pretty much Americanized European fascism with the NLRA/NLRB (setting up the third leg of the fascist triumvirate of state/capital/labor), public works, and huge expansion of federal power over the economy.
Impossible to critique because the definition of “fascism” has been so twisted. By the traditional definition, the USA and much of Western society is indeed fascist; meaning that the government exercises power far beyond established limits by utilizing private entities (corporations, the press, academia, non-profits) as proxies. The racist qualities of Nazi-ism are not part of fascist economic and political philosophy.
When the left accuses someone of fascism today what they are saying is that person or entity is evil because they disagree with it. Fascism just means you are not one of them, with them being idiots on the left.
Orwell said that fasicism meant “people I disagree with.” It ain’t anything new.
Marxists instinctively hate and try to oppress the ethnic majority of the counties they take over. Russia, Weimar Germany, the present day UK and U.S. (the Oathkeepers guy is today’s exhibit 1).
Fascists do the opposite. That’s the difference.
Marxists oppress everyone. Same as Fascists.
Same with Democrats, Labour, and Republicans.
So he thinks that Hitler alone was responsible for the rise of the Nazis? That’s ridiculous.
Don’t want to acknowledge it was backlash.
Martin Amis, by a woman who loved him
The men have had a lot to say about Martin Amis. His obituaries have tended to fall into two categories: tender reminiscences from other male novelists who knew and admired him, and tributes from male critics whose praise is always qualified by mentioning that he was, of course, a misogynist who fell out of fashion. There has been an insulting tendency, too, to claim that Amis will be remembered more for his criticism than his novels.
These caveats are presumably meant to reassure sensitive readers that, unlike Amis himself, his literary undertakers have perfectly conventional views on gender and bog-standard contemporary taste.
Since he died I’ve wanted to read something about his work by a woman who loved it. I couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I thought I’d better write it myself.
https://capx.co/martin-amis-by-a-woman-who-loved-him/
Today in random Pie reads an obituary by for an author he never read.
I’ve read Pregnant Widow by him; I found it to be a low-rent knock off of The Elementary Particles. It’s another criticism of the sexual revolution but not nearly as cutting or well-written IMO.
Daily Quordle 487
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Blossom Puzzle, May 26
Letters: A C E L G R S
My score: 324 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Play Blossom:
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My longest word: 10 letters
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Play Blossom:
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All rise for Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/a3n8V
https://www.wsj.com/articles/did-merkel-pave-the-way-for-the-war-in-ukraine-4abef297?st=080ycxcct5v7khi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s almost like it’s a good idea to make your country energy independent.
Periodic reminder.
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1661418732868993052
You haven’t tried OUR communism!
No no, robots and AI will do all the hard work, and everyone else gets to have UBI. No word on who will build the robots and AI though.
I was listening to I.G.Y by Donald Fagan which has a lyric about the machines… “programmed by men with passion and vision”. I thought to myself, Hitler was certainly a man of passion and vision. I’ll cut a musician some slack, but anyone with more of a functioning brain ought to realize how overblown their faith in expertise is, but even worse, believing in passion and vision.
Agreed. If I hear one more brain-dead college student talk about their “passion” for “changing the world” . . . .
HAH! I would not be surprised to find out the reason we are not being told who this was is that it was an FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS/DOJ inside job and they want to keep that fact from us.
do not look into something unless the outcome is what you want
At this point what major issue is NOT driven by one of those agencies?
You keep using that word…
George Floyd’s murder exposed for many what Black and Brown communities have long known and experienced – that we must make a commitment to ensure that America lives up to its founding promise of fair and impartial justice for all.
Today, three years after his murder, let us build on the progress we have made and recommit to changing hearts and minds as well as laws and policies.
Now do black on black (and everyone else…) violent crime and the mass destruction caused by the summer of riotous love by BLM, including violence against minorities and minority owned businesses in the name of St. Floyd of Fentanyl*.
*You are more likely to create another bogus holiday.
https://www.ammoland.com/2023/05/new-jersey-politicians-enact-largest-gun-ban-us-history/#axzz82lH00tQX
Sounds about right.
We just need convict somebody and let the person stay in jail for a decade or so until it gets sorted out by the SC.
Malicious legislation is malicious.
AYFKM?
Yet another reason they’ll never get another dime from me.
https://hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2023/05/25/commencement-2023-main/
Nice to see he’s got free time these days. 🙄
Hollywood awards season must be over.
“This century will be our century, a century where freedom, innovation, and democratic values reign,” Zelenskyy said. “A century where tyrannies that repress their own and seek to enslave their neighbors will vanish from us once and for all. But all of our tomorrows, and the tomorrows of our children and grandchildren, depends on each of our todays.”
He is going to dissolve the Ukrainian government?
The constant push of narrative over reality is exhausting.
Someone posted the wrong 80s “Round and Round”. I will fix it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8teXR8VE4
Theater
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo sat down with her Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Washington D.C. on Thursday to discuss “concerns” surrounding bilateral trade.
Marking the first cabinet-level exchange between the two countries in months, the U.S. talked about American companies operating in China.
According to a readout by the Commerce Department, “The two had candid and substantive discussions on issues relating to the U.S.-China commercial relationship, including the overall environment in both countries for trade and investment and areas for potential cooperation.”
Raimondo also “raised concerns about the recent spate of PRC [People’s Republic of China] actions taken against U.S. companies operating in the PRC,” it said.
The bilateral exchange between Raimondo and Wang comes as market observers keep a close eye on whether the U.S. will curb American investments into China, as relations between the world’s largest economies sour.
Didn’t Joe just say our relations with China are good, and getting better? He has too much to lose by letting things get out of hand.
Clap on! Clap off! The clapper!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22460105/contact-ex-contracted-chlamydia-stirred/
Beta.
”I’ve been heartbroken for the past month. I also noticed it hurt when I peed.” LOL
do not look into something unless the outcome is what you want
Don’t ask questions if you don’t want to hear the answers.
NEW YORK: “Through auditing the voter roll databases, obtained directly from state and local boards of elections, we have uncovered millions of invalid registrations, hundreds of thousands of votes cast by legally invalid registrations, hundreds of thousands of votes cast by legally invalid registrants, massive vote discrepancies, and the clear presence of algorithmic patterns we reverse engineered from within the state’s own official records. To be absolutely clear, there is no known innocent purpose or explanation for why these algorithms exist. I am told by cyber-intelligence experts they indicate a ‘Total Loss of Control’ data breach, the most severe kind of data breach recognized by our federal government. The law says it renders the affected NYSVoter database completely untrustworthy.”
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1661839242782228481
nonsense. every vote is valid.
My shocked face: 😐
It doesn’t matter who votes. What matters is who gets to count the votes.
The NYS Voter Rolls have been junk for years. I’m fairly sure I’m still on the rolls in two counties. One year I drove my mother to the pollls after having voted in my locale and found myself still listed at the station she was voting at.
That’s not even counting the dead and fake voters.
When I left Wisconsin and moved back to Kentucky, I was still on the rolls there, so continued voting as if I had never been registered anywhere else.
I dont know if WI didnt send the info to KY, or KY ignored it. Or both.
Interstate is one thing, but In a non-corrupt system, a changed registration address within the same state would remove your entry at the old address.
Yes, I know why the system is set up to not do that.
…and nothing else happened.
A Cambridge University Press published study by Göttingen University has concluded that up to 10% of people in prehistoric Europe probably identified as non-binary, because some female skeletons were “interred with masculine goods such as fishing hooks”
The final paragraph of the 11,000-word research project, which states that up to 10% of prehistoric Europeans were probably non-binary, acknowledges that the data used for this was “insufficient, unverifiable and biased” and the methodology used was “rather ineffective”
https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1661971225789308928
Or, more likely, you’re full of shit and pushing nonsense.
They found whatever they were looking for, and likely manufactured, but it is all for a good cause!
Yeah but they are full of shit and pushing nonsense while we(well not we in this case) pay for them to be full of shit and pushing nonsense.
Fresh water fishing is masculine? While they’re men are hunting wooly rhinos?
Just defund it.
It’s worse than a waste of money and resources.
“interred with masculine goods such as fishing hooks”
Women can’t fish?
More likely “We desperately need to show that women did ‘masculine’ things based on what we today consider to be ‘masculine’ to prove our batshit crazy push to destroy the human race”
According to some legend I read, they stopped them from fishing because they went into the water and then the fish started smelling like… never mind…
Women can’t fish? – fishing is for men to relax with no nagging
Women can fish just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdqbLMtlLjM
Inconclusive, more video evidence is needed
Women can’t fish.
White men can’t jump.
Charlie don’t surf.
Non-binary is bullshit.
I think I hurt my eyes from rolling them so hard.
Bill Lee, Jazz Musician and Father of Spike Lee, Dies at 94
The bassist for Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin scored his son’s classic first four films, including Do the Right Thing
https://pitchfork.com/news/bill-lee-jazz-musician-and-father-of-spike-lee-dies-at-94/
I’d like to think that Juneteenth is a holiday for all of us. White *and* black.
It’s a holiday for me this year. I lost Veterans’ Day, but who cares about those guys?
I’m just not sure how to celebrate. Am I supposed to go around congratulating black people? Eat traditional southern foods? Walk around in a Kufi and a Kente? Play rap music or sing plantation songs? I’m really not trying to be a jerk, but these are things people do on St Paddy’s day and Cinco de Mayo, or 4th of July or Thanksgiving.
What is the gorram protocol?
Line all the MLK Blvds in the country and grovel. In honesty, no idea, it has no tradition behind it other than an event.
The first year they announced it, I was in the middle of a project on my truck.
I almost said that I would celebrate the day off by slaving away on my truck, but I caught myself in time.
This year I will celebrate by taking my wife on an anniversary trip.
We had it off during the ‘vid and Riot season…but not anymore. They reinstated Martin Luther King Day instead.
That job sucks- I’d rather see you starve
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has vetoed a bill that would have set a minimum wage for rideshare drivers after Uber threatened to halt its operations in greater Minnesota — outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area — if the bill had been signed into law.
In a letter Thursday announcing the veto, Waltz said that “rideshare drivers deserve fair wages and safe working conditions,” but said that “this is not the right bill to achieve these goals.”
He also argued that the bill would have made Minnesota “one of the most expensive states in the country for rideshare.”
Fucking do-gooder “advocates”- what are the odds it was sponsored by the unions?
if the welfare state was good enough no one would starve.
If my grandfather had tits he would be my grandma?
Taking 2.4 mg of semaglutide (Ozempic) for 68 weeks is a reduction in food intake and a loss of nearly 17% of body weight
But the weight you lose from this drugs is different than the typical weight that’s lost from dieting or bariatric surgery. About 40% of it comes from lean body mass (which is mostly muscle) in comparison to nearly half that with calorie restriction or bariatric surgery (22% and 25%, respectively)
it also raises your fasting insulin by 15.5% – an unhealthy response. Heart rate also increases by 6-20 beats per minute.
https://twitter.com/raphaels7/status/1662008426124259329
Sounds like a perfect candidate to be mandated on to the people.
Better to go straight to a Fat Tax.
I just found out that other day that Japanese workers between a certain age have their waistlines measured annually. The employers are fined for any employees considered fat.
It gives a new perspective to the whole Japanese people are so much healthier than Americans point. Which is still true, but the Japanese fat tax on employers (lose weight or your fired incentive) is conveniently left out.
“The brand says it is ‘proud’ of its collaboration with K-12 education group GLSEN, which pressures school boards to allow children to secretly transition without their parents’ consent and make sexually explicit books available in classrooms.
It also provides instructions for teachers on how they can alter classes such as math and science to be ‘more inclusive of trans and non-binary identities’, including using ‘they/ them’ pronouns in lesson plans, reports Fox News.
‘GLSEN leads the movement in creating affirming… and anti-racist spaces for LGBTQIA+ students’, Target said. ‘We are proud of 10+ years of collaboration with GLSEN and continue to support their mission.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128229/Target-pushing-school-policies-allowing-children-secretly-transition.html
“GLSEN (pronounced glisten; formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is an American education organization working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression and to prompt LGBT cultural inclusion and awareness in K-12 schools. Founded in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts, the organization is now headquartered in New York City and has an office of public policy based in Washington, D.C.”
No, that’s clearly Gall Sin
pronounced glisten
Ew.
That’s gotta be up there with ‘moist’ for the ladies.
I’m just going to pronounce it as Throatwobbler Mangrove
“You’ve already had the operation, you strange person”.
They have two apples and them have three apples how many does xi have?
Xi has a banana shoved up their ass?
We’re not gonna fall for a banana in the tailpipe
USPSA Practical shooters: Warm up your “Open” jokes…
Something something ported barrels?
Multiple chambers?
A Cambridge University Press published study by Göttingen University has concluded that up to 10% of people in prehistoric Europe probably identified as non-binary, because some female skeletons were “interred with masculine goods such as fishing hooks”
That’s what casting the runes told us, and there is no more reliable means of divination.
USPSA Practical shooters: Warm up your “Open” jokes…
“Open to Anything” class?
Do they make special holsters for furry suits?
Well, the did remove the rule about a minimum number of belt loops required, so I don’t think you’d need one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBdaYXz8oNM
Seattle Firefighters Now Drilled on Ibram Kendi Before Promotion to Top Jobs
Lieutenants’ test includes “How To Be an Antiracist,” “Memoirs of a Transgender Firefighter,” and other woke tomes
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/seattle-firefighters-now-drilled-on-ibram-kendi-before-promotion-to-top-jobs/
Does anyone still listen to this lying commie cunte?
Brennan said, “It is quite clear that Donald Trump’s retention of these documents was quite purposeful. And with an aim that is still unknown. How he was going to leverage the information in those documents that contain some of the most sensitive secrets of the U.S. intelligence and government. What would he do with them? What has he done already? The potential compromise of sources and methods, if you look at the classification markings, the code words on those documents. Some of the most sensitive — extremely sensitive – capabilities that we have.”
He added, “The thing about Trump, not only he doesn’t care about the implications and the consequences of his actions. I don’t think he fully understands. He was never really a student of the intelligence profession itself. So, therefore, who knows what he might have done. And I do hope, in addition to holding him accountable for the unlawful retention of these documents, that we really do get to the bottom of what he planned to do, what he might have already done, and go who might have had access to these documents that could have seriously compromised national security.”
Enough about boxes in a garage and not in a compound though..
Yeah. Who had access to the Biden documents and who were they sharing them with? I mean, the answer to that seems fairly obvious, but it’d be nice to put it out there in a broader context.
We don’t have confirmation that those documents didn’t contain nuclear launch codes, the names and location of US spies, and detailed plans of US military installations.
Actually, I recall hearing that there were, in fact, no nukular secrets at Trump a Lago.
Another great set of music, sloop. I remember when WXRT debuted Fine Time, I was on a longer car trip and I listened on my Walkman and was anticipating it all day. The second one is awesome, but the ending on the album version really made that song for me.
TODAY I LEARNED YOU CAN BUY RIGHTS TO FUTURE REVENUE OF GOVERNMENT PARKING METERS
AND UAE OWNS ALL THE PARKING METERS IN CHICAGO
UAE BOUGHT BOUGHT 36000 PARKING METERS IN CHICAGO FOR 1.1 BILLION
UAE HAS MADE $1.6 BILLION AND STILL OWNS THE PARKING METERS FOR 61 MORE YEARS
https://twitter.com/gurgavin/status/1661870666558197768
For a minute I thought you’d gone all “Zero Hedge commenter” on us.
The UAE royal family is been looking toward sources of mega-income not related to oil for a while now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mubadala_Investment_Company
The last Mayor Daley frantically looted the place before he left…that was the weirdest contract he threw out there.
The deposit glut: Lessons from the failure of Silicon Valley Bank
Guillaume Vuillemey /
25 May 2023
Recent years have been described as marked by a ‘saving glut’ and a recurring hypothesis is that the saving glut also spurs financial instability. This column tests this hypothesis in the context of the recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023. It finds that banks with higher exposure to local wealth inequality and higher exposure to intangible-intensive firms – both seen as root causes of the ‘saving glut’ – faced significantly larger stock price drops around the date the bank failed. The interaction between savings and financial instability has important implications for deposit insurance systems and large uninsured deposits.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/deposit-glut-lessons-failure-silicon-valley-bank
“higher exposure to intangible-intensive firms”
You mean to tell me that banks with customers that have highly volatile economics are at greater risk? Where’s my fainting couch?
intangible-intensive firms
Businesses with no real products but massive stock valuations, right?
With SVB, it was more massive piles of VC cash. A lot of pre-public companies, I believe.
+1 Roku
And I do hope, in addition to holding him accountable for the unlawful retention of these documents, that we really do get to the bottom of what he planned to do, what he might have already done, and go who might have had access to these documents that could have seriously compromised national security.”
Rather than go through a bunch of tedious fact finding, let’s just invent a scary campfire story out of nothing but innuendo and speculation. And then- off with his head.
I would like to get to the bottom of what Brennan and all his cronies planned to do and have already done.
But we all know that will never happen.
He’s been out of office for years. If he hasn’t done anything with them by now, he’s probably not going to in the future. Who the hell wants years-old secret documents?
It’s victims, all the way down
Portland will remove tents blocking sidewalks under a tentative settlement announced Thursday in a lawsuit brought by people with disabilities who said sprawling homeless encampments prevent them from navigating Oregon’s most populous city.
The federal class action lawsuit, filed in September, alleged that the city violated the American with Disabilities Act by allowing tents to obstruct sidewalks. The plaintiffs included a caretaker and nine people with disabilities who use wheelchairs, scooters, canes and walkers to get around. The settlement still requires approval from the City Council and the U.S. District Court in Portland.
The settlement comes as City Council prepares to consider new restrictions on camping. The updates to the city’s camping code would ban camping between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. in many locations, including sidewalks. Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to present the ordinance Wednesday. The City Council previously voted in November to gradually ban street camping and create at least three large, designated campsites where homeless people will be allowed to camp.
Under the tentative lawsuit settlement, the city must prioritize removing tents that block sidewalks and clear at least 500 sidewalk-blocking encampments every year for the next five years. If there are fewer than 500 such campsites in a given year, the city will be found to be in compliance if it clears all that are blocking sidewalks.
It’s a precarious balancing act.
Reminds me of when the Marine Mammal Protection Act covered seals were gobbling up the Endangered Species Act protected salmon in the Columbia River. Oh, dear, oh dear, however are we to know which takes precedence?
Good morning, Sloop!
Yeah, the hockey game was pretty good, but I thought using replay to call a penalty was pretty lame. Vegas should finish them off tomorrow. Panthers are happy getting a few more days of rest, I’m sure.
The distinction between Keynesians and Monetarists is obsolete
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/distinction-between-keynesians-and-monetarists-obsolete
Monetary theory is dead. I suppose Keynesianism is too.
A global communist dictatorship would be the ideal solution
“At its core, modern slavery is a manifestation of extreme inequality,” Walk Free Founding Director Grace Forrest said in a statement. “It is a mirror held to power, reflecting who in any given society has it and who does not. Nowhere is this paradox more present than in our global economy through transnational supply chains.”
Yes, of course. Capitalism is to blame.
Tips for parents:
If your daughter is not hysterically frightened of spiders and other insects, you should get her to an approved gender clinic before it’s too late.
My daughter never was, but my 20 yo son is.
Double surgery it is, I guess.
On a serious note, how is a 20 yo man scared of spiders?
I feel I failed as a father on that point.
I seem to have a knack for running into just-moulted spiders with a black window body shape. That shape in pus-white just always makes me jump back and avoid the thing.
Other spiders just doing their thing – so long as it’s not on me directly, we’ve got no problem.
I used to be better with mice before the protracted campaign to get rid of them in my house.
My daughter is scared of spiders and ants but loves snakes and reptiles. What to do?
Spiders and Snakes
I haven’t heard that in forever.
Good news, my youngest is terrified of any insect. And she’s 18.
Them Duke boys are at it again
Rubbernecking gave someone a rubber neck
Rubbernecking!
It ain’t no crime.
I will never admit that I have used the “ew, look at her outfit honey”
What could go wrong with this?
When my kid was about to graduate high school more than a decade ago, they instituted this shit that kids had to do 100 hours of community service (volunteer work) to graduate. My kid was active and already volunteering in several local things (Special Olympics. Lions, local Fire station & ambulance service, etc. etc.), but when I looked at their “approved list of orgs” I went to school and told them no fucking way will this apply to him unless they wanted me to sue the school.
I hope someone sues this fucking state for allowing this idiocy at UCONN.
Just lump all of it together and call it How Not to be a Dick 101; a study in parental failure.
A question for the fans of these kind of mandatory ideology courses – what’s the typical result when you force a teenager or young adult into therapy, and punish them if they don’t ‘succeed’ according to your standards?
Or, if you prefer, what’s the recidivism rate for court-ordered rehab patients?
The University of Connecticut (UConn) will officially make its “Anti-Black Racism” (ABR) course mandatory for all undergraduate students as part of the core curriculum’s new social justice requirement.
I can only assume they want students to be racist against black people.
Wonder how black students are going to process that class?
Also, as a general rule, 1ch classes are next to useless in trying to plan how to graduate.
‘Threats to employees?’ LOLsnort. What a great way to wring some virtue out of, ‘Our crap products weren’t selling…’
A bit tone deaf? Jeeze louise
I saw the “YOUR WELCOME” with Michael Malice #260: “Comic” Dave Smith & Konstantin Kisin on Ukraine podcast which was mentioned here and it is exactly one of those things where the followers of each person think their guy won the discussion and no one changes their mind on anything.
Isn’t that 99% of “debate” today?
yes
Excited about Monaco GP weekend, even though the race itself can be a procession, it’s still a beautiful circuit to watch the fast cars go round. The qualifying is indeed the main show and hopefully Alonso can pick up a pole position from it. That would be pretty sweet to watch them take on the course in super karts as a one off each year.
Balls!
Never change NYC, never change. Even if fully warranted do you think $11.25m might be a tad excessive?
Paywall
Monaco
Thanks! Bookmarked for after work today.
I wonder how many wetlands remediation projects were put on hold yesterday via late night phone calls as a result of the SCOTUS ruling. “Tell your boys they get an extra-long holiday weekend.”
Not enough.
Oops- sorry, that’s some sort of video game bullshit.
Videogame graphics have gotten pretty good lately. And a mostly rigid shape like a car is easier to animate, so racing games have gotten downright photorealistic.
Monaco real footage
Neat. F1 was cooler then.
And I need to add Monaco to my bucket list.
Those cars were amazing.
Good Lord don’t watch video. I’m warning you now.
https://www.njoag.gov/ags-office-releases-911-call-and-video-from-body-worn-camera-related-to-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-mantua-on-september-14/
Cop gets out of the car and mag dumps on the guy on the phone who called police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/nyregion/new-jersey-police-officer-manslaughter.html
“A detailed replica of a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun was found near Mr. Sharp.”
Drop gun? Or was Mr. Sharp an idiot?
See below. There are possibly two guns.
Unless they got a ninja cop, that gun was there in the video as they walk up. What a cluster.
Like I’ve told my kids, ALWAYS assume the cops will think you’re the bad guy, and act accordingly. This isn’t TV, they don’t have a script to tell them who the good or bad guys are. And if you get a lousy jittery cop like this one, things can get bad.
This is something that we went over extensively in Public Encounters – how to not get lit up by the fuzz.
If nothing else, remember this: when the cops arrive, do not have a gun in your hand.
Hell, be careful having a cell phone in your hand.
If it got to the point that I feel I need the cops I wouldn’t be outside. I’d let the guy take my car if I thought he was armed. I’m not getting into a gun fight over it. The house is different story…
Woman Enters 8th Hour Of Argument She’s Having With Husband Entirely In Her Head
Where did the replica come from?
The whole thing is a mess. Did the intruder have a gun the homeowner? What’s important is shoot everybody and let God sort it out.
Wild thread about the Chinese salvaging WWII shipwrecks for Low Background Steel:
https://twitter.com/CyberPunkCortes/status/1662105701982896128
Interesting stuff
Very cool!
I’ve heard of that with lead recovered from old shipwrecks, I didn’t know it was a thing with steel as well.
Neat
Those cars were amazing.
They were, indeed, as were the men who were capable of driving them fast.
Public Service Announcement: If you have an inactive satellite radio in your car (or elsewhere, I suppose,) you can listen to SiriusXM for free through 6/5. Just in time for that road trip! 😃🎶
Not to jump right into next thread, so this might be dead here….ill bring forward a bit later
Speeches of last night of a 2023 HS graduation were…normal. However a view in how the school sees its students, teachers and administrators the speech time counter was as follows:
Superintended: 5 minutes.
Valedictorian(s): 5 minutes each.
School principal: 15 mintues
President of the Board of Trustees: 11 words – “This is not my evening, I welcome the class of 2023” Thought that was classy.
To be kind you could say the principal was speaking for the whole school. Still 5 minutes too long IMHO.
Principal spent most of that time about the hardships of the Vid Years (which was right in the middle of 9th grade! for my teens).