Alcohol-related events are my favorite events. I had snagged two seats at the 2022 vintage preview at my favorite winery in Finger Lakes and had planned to take an NPR Lady. A few days before, she called apologetically and told me her kids were coming to town and she’d have to beg off. We made some alternate plans to get together, but still, I had an extra seat. So of course I called the other NPR Lady orbiting Planet OMWC. “Oh, shit that sounds great, but I’m supposed to be in Montreal that day.” Well, fooey. But she helpfully added, “I bet your daughter would like to go…” Nice idea, I asked WebDom and she responded, “Will there be drinking?” “Of course.” “I’m in.”
So she was clearly my third first choice. That’s my story and I’m sticking by it.
Birthdays are a reason to celebrate, and today’s include a guy who made a deep impression; my favorite of all the popes; another one of our local heroes (and if you visit us, check out the museum); a guy who always behaved; possibly the dumbest person ever elected to the senate; a guy who pitied us; a guy who, in a just world, would have been on Food Network; and the next mayor of Buffalo.
On to Links.
Welcome back my friends to the grift that never ends.
WaPo helpfully tells you what to think.
These guys descended into parody in, what, maybe 1968? It’s always tough to figure out what to do in the decades after you achieve your goal but the mansions still need to be paid for.
Middle Eastern drama queen culture is always entertaining to outsiders.
The sooner this shit blows up, the better for all of us.
Old Guy Music is a live cut from a group that seems to have unaccountably slipped into obscurity. My band covered this song and trust me, it was fun to play. And seriously, if you’re going to do a shredding solo, it ought to be on a Flying V, right?
whaddup doh’
Morning, Old Man.
This seems too early to be awake on a weekend.
Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders.
Gott helfe mir, Amen.
All I see is one paragraph trashing Trump. Never change, WaPo.
“extremism”
🙄
“…the ACLU said that during the operation in late August 2017…”
Oh, those wheels of justice and how slowly they grind.
Al “trunk ballots” Franken has a lot of competition for the title.
But they’ve honed the game since then.
*their game
I’m only on beer #2, too
“possibly the dumbest person ever elected to the senate”
Not even on the short list, really.
Well, maybe the short bus?
be free from these unconstitutional searches and seizures in Woodstock until January 1, 2025
Injustice delayed is injustice denied!
Justice Survivor
Reality TV provides a guide to life.
What? Not the current iteration of Naked and Afraid, subtitled Last One Standing?? Now, THERE’S some serious lessons to ponder. 🙄 [Disclaimer: I have never watched any version of Naked and Afraid and have no intention of doing so. Sitting through the promos while I’m watching Oak Island or BattleBots is bad enough.]
Survivor is a joke. Put those assholes in a public park in Bemidji MN for a month in January and tell me how they fare.
Midwit confirmed.
South Park offers more insight into the human dilemma.
One of the birthday boys with one of the most touching love songs of all time.
In other news, I’m trying to decide if it’s warm enough to go out to Tranq Base. It’s sunny and lovely, but 52 degrees so far.
Do it. Its up to 54º. I was just outside with 2 puppy doge.
The GSD has a “herding ball”.
Done, after a change into slightly warmer clothing. Quite comfy and lovely out here.
The sooner this shit blows up, the better for all of us.
The sooner paywalls blow up, the better for all of us.
I got around three of them today, and they’re getting better at getting around my adblocker.
Ive been having good luck with 12ft ladder.
It’s because they’re commies first, then whatever flavor of non-conformist they’re claiming.
Cut from the same cloth as the commies who foment race riots across America.
Stirring shit up is what they do. A sort of Grand Unified Theory of communism.
It’s got to be plainly obvious by now where the greater danger is coming from.
but THEOCRACY!
I remember Sullivan as the nutcase trying to prove that one of Sarah Palin’s kids wasn’t hers.
He’s another one of these old-ish school lefty journos who’s smart enough to be red-pilled but can’t quite come to terms with it. Like someone raised in a religious cult who now sees how destructive it is but just can’t seem to shake it because the programming is so deep.
Like why I participate in Lenten rituals but never set foot in the Catholic church.
Yeah, Sullivan is a sanctimonious POS of the highest magnitude. He wants to have his cake(?) and eat it too.
I have a slightly different take on the “why” of the escalation from “gay people should be able to marry each other” to “six year olds twerking for dollar bills” in the hopper at Glibs. In a nutshell, wokism is a purity spiral that must necessarily escalate constantly.
Our own cultural revolution.
THIS IS THE POINT.
It isn’t about communism, it is about revolution – it is about destroying the existing with the blind hope that some utopia will replace it. The fucking French did this before Marx was even born.
Agreed. It’s not literal, economic communism, though I suspect many of them want just that.
Cultural communism?
CULTURAL MARXISM IS A MYTH!
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL IS JUST A NEOFASCIST FAIRY TALE!
They think they want economic communism, but they love, love the fruits of capitalism: iPhones, travel, restaurants, and so on.
Ever seen “I Love You, Alice B. Toklas”, where a crowd of hippies flops in the lawyer’s bourgeois apartment? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063115/quotes/?item=qt0151305
That too.
Particularly when it comes to sexual issues, they simply cannot draw a line on behavior. When your worldview is defined by rebellion against the status quo, you have nowhere to go except to the extremes.
whatever flavor of non-conformist
Which oddly enough ends up with the most rigid conformity being demanded of adherents.
This was posted in February, but I never saw it here before.
“Due to this sustained, blatant, relentless and systemic attack on democracy and civil rights, the NAACP hereby issues a travel advisory to African Americans, and other people of color regarding the hostility towards African Americans in Florida,” the group added.
I hear they have slave auctions every Tuesday.
Biden warned Republicans would put blacks back in chains.
I hear they have slave auctions daily in downtown Tripoli, thanks to Hillary destabilizing the entire region.
WDATPDIM?
The one true Wishbone.
Crambone > Wishbone
Widows and orphans, dying in the street
President Joe Biden said Sunday the GOP’s current stance on debt-ceiling talks was “quite frankly unacceptable” before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington DC, dropping an optimistic tone as negotiations continue to flounder.
“Now it’s time for the other side to move from their extreme positions,” President Biden said during a press conference before his departure from Hiroshima, where he spent recent days meeting with world leaders at a G-7 leaders summit.
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A key sticking point among many in the talks: spending levels.
The GOP proposal passed in April would cut discretionary spending to 2022 levels and then impose a 1% cap on future increases.
It’s a clear sticking point with McCarthy saying Friday if Democrats “think we’re going to spend more money next year than the year we did this year, that’s not right and that’s not going to happen.”
Heartless cruelty, it is.
They’re going to push grandma off a cliff.
Increasing our spend rate of money we don’t have by only 1% is literally worse than the Holocaust.
They’re going to push grandma off a cliff.
And drag her back up and push her off again next year! That’s what stopping the growth in spending does!!!
Pretty soon we won’t have any grandmas to push over the fiscal cliff!
Also known as “massive spending cuts” as stated by whomever writes the teleprompter stuff for the network newstalkers.
“The GOP proposal passed in April would cut discretionary spending to 2022 levels”
Locking in the “emergency” spending from the pandemic.
And does anyone, anyone at all, take seriously the “1% cap on future increases”?
If it’s not a cap of total spending at 1822 levels with no inflation adjustment, we’re spending too much.
Cut.
And all spending is discretionary. The legislature can repeal the laws that pretend to bind them to spend funds that the government doesn’t have.
^^^ this guy gets it
“President Biden will not accept a wish list of extreme MAGA priorities,” said White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt.
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The talks have also been hampered by partisan divides across a range of issues, from new work requirements that the GOP is proposing around social programs to energy permitting reform to efforts to “claw back” unspent COVID relief money.
They want to destroy Uncle Joe’s legacy.
Um…his legacy is destruction.
And he’s just getting warmed up.
🎶Sunday, Slutty Sunday🎶
https://archive.is/T8o6X
Good showing
“the backlash is quite obviously a reaction to the capture of the gay rights movement by queer social justice activists”
Not just captured, queer SJWs are openly hostile to “regular” gay people. Being a gay man is so horrifying, we need to chop off your package, load you with estrogen and give you breast implants so you can pass as a woman. I don’t remember where, but someone posted on here an article saying the Iranian mullahs have adopted a similar approach to gay people. Fitting I suppose since SJWs are our very own homegrown Taliban.
“straight who defied heteronormativity”
https://i.imgflip.com/7mkpct.jpg
Dave Chappelle said something along the lines of “sucking dick in jail isnt gay….its just how you pass time, nigga”
Genocide
A transgender girl in Mississippi is not participating in her high school graduation ceremony because school officials told her to dress like a boy and a federal judge did not block the officials’ decision, an attorney for the girl’s family said Saturday.
Linda Morris, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, said the ruling handed down late Friday by U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel in Gulfport, Mississippi, “is as disappointing as it is absurd.”
“Our client is being shamed and humiliated for explicitly discriminatory reasons, and her family is being denied a once-in-a-lifetime milestone in their daughter’s life,” Morris said. “No one should be forced to miss their graduation because of their gender.”
Maybe the school is saving it from being booed.
There has to be more to that story; it 100% is not as simple as “evil school and evil mean judge go out of their way to crush innocent transgirl’s dreams for no reason”.
There always is. Lies of omission are the media’s go-to method for distorting the truth.
My guess is just strict dress code of the event. You allow this one exception it open the floodgates for everyone.
Wear a kilt.
Cultural appropriation if not a True Scotsman!!
The littlest vigilante
A 3-year-old child shot and injured two people in Indiana on Thursday evening, which led to the arrest of a man wanted for murder in Illinois, law enforcement told CNN.
The child got access to a gun and fired one round, striking two people at an apartment in Lafayette, Lafayette Police Department Lt. Justin Hartman told CNN.
Officers responded to a local hospital where the two victims were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the shooting, Hartman said. One of the victims is the child’s mother, he added. Police did not say how the child was able to access the gun or what type of weapon was used.
The second shooting victim, identified as 23-year-old Trayshaun Smith, was a friend of the child’s mother who was visiting the apartment, Hartman said. Smith, a resident of Lafayette, was then arrested on an active murder warrant issued out of Cook County, Illinois, the lieutenant said.
He presents as a bounty hunter.
Three year old shoots people in a Lafayette apartment?
I want to be at that party.
“Friend”
Guns in Indiana have become so evil that they can now mind-control toddlers!
Definitely more to the story. The hands of a 3-year old aren’t big enough to hold the gun and pull the trigger, are they?
Whenever a story confirms so many priors, it is usually BS. My guess is that someone else shot them and doesn’t want to be a parole violator.
There has to be more to that story; it 100% is not as simple as “evil school and evil mean judge go out of their way to crush innocent transgirl’s dreams for no reason”.
The article says they let him sashay around school in a dress for however long he has been seized by the urge to be a female impersonator. Maybe they think ultra MAGA vigilantes will lynch him.
When I was in school, girls wore jeans and T-shirts.
They probably *hope* MAGA vigilantes will lynch him
Former-Evertonians who could help Everton survive:
Arteta sucked at his job. Moyes is, as ever, competent.
Thankfully Liverpool sucked out a point yesterday to give Newcastle something to play for tomorrow.
Click-bait too good not to share:
https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/static/video/v1679704700/ousa2zujkfod7h3tzzts.mp4
With the caption “Heart surgeon begs Americans to stop doing this to your fruit”. Stop doing what; fucking it?
“‘That’s discrimination’: Texas lesbian bar owner reveals the bizarre reason she was denied insurance coverage as state considers controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill
The owner of Houston’s only lesbian bar says her business was refused insurance coverage because it hosts drag shows”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12107479/Texas-lesbian-bar-owner-reveals-bizarre-reason-denied-insurance-coverage-state-anti-LGBTQ-bill.html
Sounds like bullshit.
“There are just two lesbian bars in the entire state of Texas”
Really?
There’s more than that just on 6th Street in Austin.
Yeah, horseshit.
She forwarded this email from an underwriter. … The first sentence in [the email] said, ‘We will not write this risk due to drag,” Mabry stated.
But don’t show the news that email, just say it.
I don’t know, getting sued for bringing minors into a bar? I can see that, and I can also see an insurance company saying “nope” to that.
Yep but they carefully didn’t talk about that. I
She says it’s over 21.
Months?
Well if your activist loudmouths go around warning folks that the magna-ultra-extremist – homophobe – etc. etc. people are burning down establishments that host drag shows, then don’t be surprised if insurance underwriters take you at your word and refuse to insure such an extreme risk.
She read the tea leaves on how the media will run with this without even digging if true.
+1 propaganda marketing skills I suppose.
Nearly all headlines are all based on her word alone.
Houston lesbian bar Pearl at risk due to anti-drag efforts, owner says
“possibly the dumbest person ever elected to the senate”
Fetterlump drools into his beer before asking you to hold it.
There’s a clip I searched for but couldn’t find of a Franken & Davis sketch where Davis tells the audience that Franken has brain damage and please act like he’s still normal and laugh at his jokes. Franken comes out, head wrapped in bandages, and he can only keep repeating the same punchline, “He gets to keep the tips!” It would be soooooo appropriate.
Not familiar with it so I can’t find it on NBC site or here: https://snltranscripts.jt.org/index.phtml
“Teacher of the Year is accused of having sexual relationship with 16-year-old student in Southern California: The third case of its kind from the same school in less than 10 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12107185/Teacher-Year-Southern-California-school-Tracy-Vanderhulst-sexual-relationship-16-student.html
What the hell is wrong with teachers?
One might ask what isn’t wrong with teachers.
“I’m hot for student!”
One of them was stupid enough to marry me. A confirmed atheist during our time together, after we split she went into therapy, found Catholicism, and now teaches at a Marianist school.
I like to think I had more of an impact and sent her to find Christ.
I wonder why they felt compelled to add “Yucaipa, located 10 miles east of San Bernardino, in San Bernardino County, California is a deeply conservative town.”
Huh.
Hmmmm wonder why, it’s a mystery, we are just reporting the facts
Read her name as “Wanderlust.”
“Look what you made him do! Massachusetts dad shells out $21,000 at the last minute so his daughter and her friends could go to Taylor Swift’s sold-out concert – after their original $1,800 Stubhub tickets ‘never arrived'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12107889/Massachusetts-dad-shelled-21-000-daughter-friends-attend-Taylor-Swift-concert.html
Teaching his kids the value of a dollar.
I got nuthin’… other than this.
https://twitter.com/AXSTV/status/1655361872432865281
“Dylan Mulvaney is exemplary of the new queer order: a femme gay man who had to take female hormones to stay relevant.”
It doesn’t look like Mulvaney is on hormones.
Diversity gap
The absence of women from the slate of potential Morgan Stanley (MS.N) CEO successors underscores the importance of cultivating and keeping diverse talent, corporate governance experts say.
Morgan Stanley co-presidents Ted Pick and Andy Saperstein, and head of investment management Dan Simkowitz, are the front-runners to succeed James Gorman, who said on Friday he plans to step down as chief executive within a year.
The most recent U.S. workforce diversity data comprehensively reported by the Wall Street banks shows women were less represented in leadership positions at Morgan Stanley than at other top U.S. banks as of 2021.
Morgan Stanley said 25% of those holding “executive/senior officials/manager” roles in the U.S. were women, versus 29% for JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), 36% for Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) and 38% for Citigroup Inc (C.N). Among major peers, only Morgan Stanley’s arch rival Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) had less female representation, at 23%.
Moreover, 80% of Morgan Stanley’s top leaders in the U.S. were white, more than the others, that reported such representation at between 67% and 78%.
Needs more quotas.
https://archive.ph/WIKe1#selection-775.0-816.0
Nothing is stopping you from sheltering your kids and enjoying your own personal lockdown….oh…you want someone to impose it on you and everyone else.
Most of these “things” can be easily accomplished if you actually want them more than being a social butterfly type. You want someone to stay at home with the kids? Prioritize that. You want family night? Prioritize that. You want to talk to other moms at a party? Well, you didn’t prioritize your family.
No, you want the gov’t to tell you what is OK. Fuck that noise.
What they want is a free lunch.
Eventually you run out of other people’s money.
This is the laptop class. They are the ones who got to, en masse, work from home. They didn’t get checks, they got clout.
And when they get replaced by AI, I will smirk.
Good grief, seek help.
Mary Beth Gallagher, director of engagement for Domini Impact Investments LLC, which invests with environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, said firms need to have a pipeline of diverse talent if they want to find diverse leaders, which would involve recruiting and career-building efforts.
“The logic is to ensure you have the right people with the skills sets and decision-making authority. You need to have cultivated those leaders,” said Gallagher.
To be sure, Morgan Stanley has several women in top roles, including Chief Financial Officer Sharon Yeshaya. She is one of three women on its 14-member operating committee. There are four women on its 14-member board of directors and four directors who identify themselves as ethnically diverse.
We need to press-gang women into the financial services industry. Letting them decide for themselves what career path to take is unacceptable.
Can I short Domini?
Maybe, just maybe, investment firms look at Domini, and others of the same ilk, and think “I don’t think so.”
Just a thought, but the older firms might be trying to skirt around this ESG junk, get their hands dirty as little as possible.
If you thought you were blackpilled, here’s somebody who puts you to shame.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/paul-craig-roberts-united-states-has-been-destroyed-its-ruling-elites
TLDR: DOOOOOOOOM
“presstitutes” lol
Gratuitous doge snuggle time pic
https://ibb.co/YdBLYZY
This place has gotten way to family friendly
Not on Zoom…
Awwwwwww!
“One reason I’m voting for democrats is because our most talked about scandal in the last 10 years was a tan suit.
As opposed to impeachment, indictment, sexual abuse and defamation.”
https://twitter.com/chrisdmowrey/status/1659966221754695682
Kids are idiots.
That one is, at least.
But he is “passionate about change”!
“When I was in high school, we heard from powerful guest speakers on why doing hard drugs had very serious (and potentially deadly) consequences.
Today in British Columbia, (and, in this specific case, a high school in the Cowichan Valley) they are handing out “safer snorting” kits to children as young as 15…”
https://twitter.com/AaronGunn/status/1660089243988017152
They don’t have pens in Canada?