I’m in The Big City this weekend with Tomb Raider. It’s more “meet the family” stuff, but larded with the sensory blandishments offered by the glittering metropolis. There’s a lot of fucking Jews here, I am not even vaguely alone, this is something I’m not accustomed to. There’s a lot of crazy, but you knew this. And we’re coming back here again for Thanksgiving. That might be a bit more city life than I’m comfortable with, but my tomb needs frequent raiding.
And there’s a lot of birthdays today, including the guy who inspired my nickname for my first wife (“Porlock”); a guy who was no prize, but went out with a bang; perhaps the greatest tenor in American history; a guy who was tedious, entertaining, and made me understand Carroll; the musician whom I’ve probably seen live more than any other; a writer who bores the shit out of me but everyone else thinks is great; the best buddy of Barack Obama; a crashing mediocrity who lived off willingness to trash her dad and take her clothes off; and a chick who blew Warren Beatty and Paul Simon, though not simultaneously that we know of.
OK, we shall Link.
Local news. This is why I avoid the student bar, but the ethnic mix of the perps is heartwarming.
I’d vote to acquit, but I’ve had experience with “family court.”
Team Red clowns are hilarious.
So who bribes donates more, Pfizer or Moderna?
I know it pisses people off when the Old Man Music is the Beatles. But if you complain about this, you’re a moron. The harmonies here are amazing and incredibly creative. Ditto the chord changes- this should be one of the Beatles songs everyone knows, but for some reason…
Good morning, Old Man!
Great song. The haters are ‘tards.
I don’t hate the Beatles… they just don’t do that much for me on a typical day. Some of their songs I enjoy okay – but I don’t really seek them out.
I’m so gauche I’m much more likely to queue up a selection of The Monkees, in fact… (who if nothing else, had show producers that knew how to find good songwriters I suppose…)
The Beatles were just fine once they got out of their earlier bubblegum phase. Love Me Do my ass.
More or less
I was more thinking, that sentence reads a lot differently with a strategically placed comma.
Let’s eat, Grandma!
He eats, shoots and leaves?
He helped his uncle Jack off a horse.
Well, I have MS, so I am therefore ENTITLED to hate the Beatles, for I am a ‘tard.
But, seriously, fuck the Beatles.
I’ll play the heel: it’s barber shop quartet harmonies, nothing over which to get lathered up. And it takes balls for a guy who wrote that song to bitch about anyone else writing “granny music.” If I wanted to wank myself over vocal harmonies in ’60s pop music I’d listen to some boomer explain to me why Pet Sounds is the greatest album ever written and Brian Wilson is an underrated genius for the 87 thousandth time.
(de gustubus etc etc; the above statements do not necessarily represent the views of this website, its owners, or even the person who posted them)
Not the restraining order?
That’s for the elementary school lemonade stand. The college kids are way too old.
a chick who blew Warren Beatty and Paul Simon
Van Damme would like a word…
While Fisher was in Chicago filming the movie, she choked on a Brussels sprout
Van Damme blew Beatty and Simon too? Wow… the things you learn ’round these parts…
*Shades eyes, peer high off in the distance*
Well, that one is out of the park.
Family court is the bane of our “justice” system.
Yeah — I think I read that update on Townhall or RedState this morning — and it was all reporting from the wife’s perspective.
Which may be 100% true — maybe he was a controlling, violent asshole who deserved to have his wife and kids brought out from under his abuse. My thinking was just that “We don’t really know” and it seemed to be 100% taking a side. You’d think after the Gaza hospital flip-flop media would keep in mind that maybe checking to make sure there isn’t a whole story would be a good idea.
We’ll probably never actually know — if the cops catch up to the guy, I expect he’ll take himself out before going down (just seems the likely psychology at this point) and the reporting will just be “Caught the guy”.
And that’s assuming the cops aren’t completely wrong about him doing it anyway. Who knows….
Ask the kids.
Family Court cost me a lot of money and heartaches but a change of judges, from a catholic to a jewish judge changed everything.
the best buddy of Barack Obama;
Happy birthday Barack Obama!
Whoever that guy is he used to do cocaine and blow in a limo has a sad now. (I can’t be bothered to go look it up….)
But yes, you’re almost certainly correct.
“…used to do cocaine and blow…” they’re the same thing. Kidding, but seriously, I thought the coke guy blew Barry. That was the weird(er) part of the story.
I thought all of his boyfriends to date have been Hillaried.
perhaps the greatest tenor in American history;
Happy birthday Lou Christie?
Our dog is slowly getting acclimated to the cold. Sure we had cold snaps in Vegas and it’s only high 40s but the old dog is just curled up in bed looking at me like I am insane to ask him to go outside.
Cold?
That’s short sleeve weather.
If Animal has a dog or dogs you know they’re just thinking… “Wimp!”
a writer who bores the shit out of me but everyone else thinks is great;
Happy birthday Stephen King!
I was thinking J. D. Salinger.
Don’t know why I can’t remember a word of Catcher just a sense of being bored to tears… but in the same time frame I was loving War and Peace and Crime and Punishment (I should re-read some of that ilk at some point…)
Now *that’s* a tag fail… and an interesting idea for a literary universe crossover, I suppose.
goddamn, phonies, lousy, Christ, kills me…
Like a more profane Wally Cleaver.
Oh, and crumby.
“(I should re-read some of that ilk at some point…)”
Good God man, why?
I actually enjoy Dostoevsky whenever I get around to reading him?
Mwa-ha-ha-ha, I suppose?
I don’t remember much of it either but I do remember liking it.
“The US supports Israel because of ‘Jewish wealth’”
Partly true actually, if there wasn’t a powerful Jewish mostly proIsrael lobby in the US the support would likely still be there due to strategic and cultural considerations but it’d be nowhere close to the level we see now and like it or not wealth does purchase political influence in democratic systems.
Israel’s money is as green as anyone else’s, basically. It’s too bad there was nobody around 60 odd years ago to warn us about the dangerous incentives created by marrying industrial expertise with geopolitics.
Of course he had been a great proponent of it, so it was kind of a Doctor Frankenstein realization.
Zeal of the convert and all that.
I was thinking more along the lines of my god, what have I done.
Of course, the road to Damascus moment has to precede the conversion. People rag on hypocrisy as if it were the worst thing in the world, but at least the hypocrite has some standard of conscience to which he’s failed to live up, and is capable of recognizing it and expressing contrition. The amoral sociopaths and the true believers with the assurance of their good intentions are the most dangerous.
The amoral sociopaths and the true believers with the assurance of their good intentions are the most dangerous.
[The Bundy brothers have entered the chat.]
C.S. Lewis had something to say about the tyranny of good intentions.
I hear they make good paving stones.
You beat me to it Beau Knott
Dwight’s brother Milton was the president of Johns Hopkins, Penn State, and Kansas State. I don’t remember if that is the order, but I remember that Dwight’s time as US President and Milton’s time as University president overlapped.
Dwight made sure his brother’s universities got hand outs from the Feds.
I said the same thing about Upstate, except it was fucking white people. Holy crap, I haven’t seen so many of us in one place in decades.
It is different worlds. Upstate and Downstate should not be the same state.
MN metro vs the rest of the state.
Yeah, my wife says the same thing about Oregon, now that we are out of the Bay Area.
On the flip side, we do have the oldest Jewish cemetery in the state though: http://albanyhebrewcemetery.org/
This is how I felt moving from Houston to Austin.
It was kind of weird at first seeing white people doing jobs that white people don’t do in NYC.
Bus driver, selling liquor, any position in a grocery store, etc.
I dunno….the Beatles wrote some decent stuff but their performance…the nasally pommy accents….
I may have posted this before, not sure but my latest kick – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj7Oe9_qr8Y
That girl…her voice is better than whiskey and honey.
Good morning all. I slept in. I didn’t wake until 4
I’ve found that other bands’ covers of Beatles tunes trounce the original performances in a lot of cases.
Too high frequencies for a duffer. Sounds without words
That’s not a bad cover.
I’ve only made three brief trips to NYC, and even the latest was a long time ago. I might consider a return visit if I could be beamed directly to the front steps of the Met Museum. At Christmastime. Otherwise…
We had pizza last night. Made it all worthwhile.
Was it folded into an origami swan?
An Origami Rat is more traditional.
Or a rat just takes the pizza.
This and a hot dog off a street cart.
I delivered furniture there as a teen in the ‘80s and was treated to a front row seat for two goons viciously pounding each other over a minor traffic dust up. That was it for me.
If only you’d realized at the time the business opportunity you’d missed.
I own that on DVD. *hangs head in shame*
Mornin’, GT.
I might consider a return visit if I could be beamed directly to the front steps of the Met Museum.
Mom worked at 1002 5th Ave., right across the street from the Met, when I was a very young Patzer in the late 50’s and early 60’s. I spent a number of Friday afternoons on those very steps waiting for her to finish working and head for NJ to visit relatives.
In keeping with the “lots of Jews” theme, this was her
exploiteremployer (they’ve since moved to nicer digs).https://ats.org
Were you ever tempted to move into the Met?
Not really.
She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because he was a miser and would have money.
Unfortunately I was an only child. And if I’d had any siblings there was no money to be saved.
Artifact of the “franchise” system. If they were centrally owned, there would be either no “message” (the old days) or one “message” (current year).
So are we all relieved of not having to live through the nightmare of a Jordan Speakership?
It used to be the Republicans couldn’t run government, now they can’t even run their own party.
Maybe they can accidentally shut down government?
Sadly I see the Appropriating Republican faction deciding to support a Jeffries Speakership as more likely.
They aren’t called the stupid party for nothing.
I’m hoping for gridlock neverending.
This guy gets it!
As my dad says “Government works best when it doesn’t work at all.”
Them not joining the lockstep hivemind is a good thing. Congressional political consensus is a recipe for national disaster.
It’s almost like a Parliamentary system when the majority coalition fractures.
I care not a whig for the GOP falling apart.
I imagine the Democrat coalition is no less fragile, just not subject to the same pressures at the moment.
Here’s the sad reality. There will never be a coalition ascendant that represents us, or even the middle. There is no intense desire to impose that will on others, and that is what drives both the retards of the right and the lunatics of the left.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo
ISWYDT.
I might have taken notice but I had a lock of hair over my eyes.
Denny Hastert and Nancy Pelosi occupied the position for 10 of the 18 years I’ve been eligible to vote. There doesn’t exist anyone who could even theoretically be less qualified. And I couldn’t give a runny shit about our cherished institutions. Jordan’s asshole fits the seat as well as anyone’s.
Ugh. The fucking news. Killers, devils, liars, scoundrels and human garbage of every sort.
I feel like we are living in some bizarro funhouse mirror image cultural, political and militarily of the lead up to WWII.
Fucking idiots never learn I suppose.
There is nothing to figure out regarding the Israel/Iran conflict. It isn’t a puzzle. There is no brain-buster. One side is a civilized nation, the other undiluted evil. We have let the creepy pestilence of hate infest nearly every aspect of our civilization. There is only one solution to this, only one right side to be on.
I remember a bit from the movie ‘The Postman’ where the protagonist and a young woman flee into the mountains from the strife that was tearing the world apart. He had peace, quiet and privacy and life alone with a woman. In the end of course she has to pry him away from that life with a crowbar so that he can head back into the fray (while he is sleeping she packs his bags and sets the cabin afire). That is me. I am tired of the fray. It is the same old shit-show over and over again. Every time one fire is extinguished some loon lights another. It never seems to end. I have my cabin in the woods. I have my life with a woman. I want the world to leave me the fuck alone. I draw the shades, light the fire, turn on the hallmark channel and head to the kitchen. I am happy. Today I think I am going to make country fried steak, a mornay sauce (gotta use that gruyere before it goes), cajun dirty rice and salad for my wife.
That brings another thing to mind. I am not the only one.
We keep seeing these comically amusing stories about some woman who is found out to have a sexy time web site making tons of money. I used to. know one of those women. She would take requests from her fans and make videos, photos etc.
The requests were not the kinds of things you would expect. They were mostly very mundane. ‘I want to see you fresh out of the shower standing in front of the bathroom mirror brushing your teeth’. ‘I want to see you cooking in your underwear and dancing to song X’. Things like that.
It made me sad. Her fans were obviously very lonely for whatever reason (unattractive, divorced, widowed or whatever) and were desperate for ‘life with a woman’. I think that is what makes most men happy but few find it. Very sad.
There are my brain farts for this morning, a meandering rant. I am sure I will have another one later.
There was a Viktor Frankl quote that just came my way recently:
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Unfortunately, the most dedicated political partisans believe they possess a deep sense of meaning, and that motivates them.
I quoted Mencken yesterday. The desire to save mankind is a mask for wanting to rule mankind. It seems inevitable. If you want to save the world you have to change it to what you think it should be. In such a person’s mind people just become inanimate game pieces to be moved about on the board.
It is like being granted three wishes by a genie. No matter how carefully you plan your wishes it becomes a disaster.
“Hell is having your dreams come true.” – My Grandfather
How about feed your family, keep a roof over their heads, raise your children not to be thugs, leave other people alone to do the same. It is a simple life but avoids the horrors we are seeing now.
See, I think Frankl has it ass-backwards. Zealots have deep senses of meaning. Someone that just wants to enjoy life probably isn’t too motivated to fuck with yours.
“Won’t you be my neighbor?”
How I found peace in the woods. Being alone and lonely are two different words.
I love the idea of creating my own reality that way a-la Man In The High Castle, but I don’t think I’ve got what it takes to disconnect sufficiently from modernity to pull it off. And anyway, I haven’t got enough money for it yet.
From my observations, this seems to be even more the case with the younger generations that never experienced life without internet porn. By the time they were 12 they’d seen all of the sort of degenerate shit it would have taken the most dedicated pervert 20 years to accumulate in the olden days. They’re basically desensitized to that. The mythological “tradwife” becomes the antithetical ideal for some of them.
The woman I share my life with is anything but a tradwife. Highly intelligent, highly educated, good sense of humor etc.
She spent her career as a department head at one of the largest hospitals in Louisiana (read: solving other people’s problems)
so she is worn out on that shit as well. We get along so well because we both want the same thing. Peace, quiet and left alone to do our thing.
I noticed Dr. Frankenstein mentioned above. That is her. I was a baloney and cheese guy before I met her. After she got hold of me I have turned into something of an epicurean.
I like country fried steak, but never learned how to make it.
That is my next culinary quest.
It’s freaking chicken fried steak ya damned Yankees bastards. It’s cube steak dipped in batter, breaded, then fried. Ya know, like fried chicken.
For a hundred years, freaking toothless hillbillies understood how that worked.
Then some marketing genius thought people would be confusing to the Ashley Simpson crowd and renamed it to country fried steak. (What country? Well probably Germany, since it’s weinerschnitzel without veal.)
“ ‘Can’t be real’: Homeless pedophile camped near San Fran school with signs for meth and ‘free fentanyl’”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/19/homeless-sex-offender-camped-near-san-fran-school-with-free-fentanyl-sign/
The fuzz says he’s not violating the conditions of his release. Call me crazy but it seems like they could get him on something.
🙁
I’m finding grease spots under the air fryer, and I can’t figure out where it’s getting out of the interior, because there’s nothing on the surface of the exterior that indicates leakage.
This is driving me mad, because if I can’t find where it’s coming from, how am I supposed to keep this clean (and sanitary)?
*Incoherent rage noises*
It’s dripping out a seam in the outer casing of the air fryer. Which means it’s getting inside the shell. Which makes the whole thing a fire hazard.
Cheap garbage!
Can someone recommend a model that keeps all the splatter where it can be reached and cleaned?
I’m sick of cheap crap making my life worse.
Buy a new one, they are cheap for a reason
Very brief rating from September’s Consumer Reports: “Extra large & easy to clean” – Beautiful by Drew Barrymore 19089 (9 qt.) $140.
“Drew Barrymore” makes it sound more like a fire hazard.
I see what you did there…
Sorry but they’re all junk. If you look on Amazon it seems they’re all pumped out of the same factory and some company or the other slaps their name on it.
Sorry to hear it. Appliances built to save pennies but fall apart piss everyone else off too, I think (except for the CFOs who pitch for it because “What else are the proles going to buy?”)
Power went out here about a half hour ago. :-(. Supposed to be back by noon.
Power was only out for 40 minutes. Had to reboot the router, but first world problems….
So you can find the Cal score yourself?
The Cal Score is known to the State of California to cause Cancer.
I recently bought some flooring products and it seems MN is trying to horn in on CAs gig. It had a warning “for Minnesota residents only” regarding formaldehyde.
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Main one was fun once I started seeing the longer word paths. Screwed up the first one by simply misdragging and didn’t notice. So annoying.
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“Let’s be clear, Nancy Mace, it’s been a long time since she’s done anything productive to move forward this broader team,” Johnson said Friday. “America’s got real problems and this is a time where we need people who are interested in problem-solving, not self-aggrandizement.”
In reference to Mace and the other members who have effectively put a pause on the House for weeks, Johnson said he thinks there are always going to be people who are more interested in themselves than working as a team.
“I think Americans are sick of it and I know most members of the House are sick of it,” Johnson said. “It is time for big boys and big girls to stop with the nonsense and get back to work for the United States.”
Why don’t they just sit down and shut up and let Joe Biden run the country?
Or, kick them out of the party caucus if they aren’t team players. Membership in a party ought to mean something, and the party ought to control access to who uses it’s fucking label.
When I hear R’s use the nebulous words ‘productive’, ‘bipartisan’, ‘move forward’, ‘get things done’, ‘working as a team’, ‘problem solving’, etc. I start looking for some vaseline. Looks like this fucktard checks all of the boxes.
A congresscritter should have an office the size of a small closet, no windows, a single 40W bulb that flickers, one small desk, a non-working phone and a set of Legos to play with. They should be in session 2 weeks per year and all of their proposed laws should fit on a single sheet of 8.5×11.
There is no intense desire to impose that will on others, and that is what drives both the retards of the right and the lunatics of the left.
Nobody ever ran for office so he could leave me the fuck alone.
Anarchy!
Pizza: Neapolitan vs New York Style with Peppe Cutraro and Mimmo Tolomeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYr-aJOGeb4
The wonderful thing is that, just on this block, there are both.
Had a delightful Jura Gamay with it last night.
I am thinking of going to a blind syrah tasting with a few local ones, a north Rhone, an US and an Australian to see if I can get which is which
Oh great. You too?
Earlier I looked up gruyere to make sure I was spelling it correctly and the first thing I got was a large photo of a home made thing crust pizza…sauce, tomatoes, prosciutto topped generously with gruyere. My mouth started watering immediately. And now you with the pizza too.
Looks like my dinner plans are changed.
Yes Prime Minister On the Arabs and Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLg9zQH3vU
Excellent.
I should queue up some old episodes. It’s available on Brit Box.
a writer who bores the shit out of me but everyone else thinks is great; – I enjoyed what I have read.
Local news. This is why I avoid the student bar, but the ethnic mix of the perps is heartwarming.
This content is not available in your country/region.
too local.
It’s dripping out a seam in the outer casing of the air fryer. Which means it’s getting inside the shell. Which makes the whole thing a fire hazard.
Can you put foil on the bottom to catch the drippings?
*doesn’t even own a toaster
It’s not just the stuff that works its way out of the machine, it’s the stuff in between the walls that might catch fire when I’m unable to clean it out.
Though as a stopgap, I have put a sheet pan on the shelf below to contain any drippings. (Wire shelving is a kitchen godsend)
Oy. Tankie vs tankie
https://twitter.com/0K_ultra
shit wrong link
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1715614819489927199
Yeah… being a “racist genocidal dictator” is bad and all… but the REAL problem is that Saddam didn’t like Communists!
Do these people ever hear themselves?
Not clicking….another retard fight signifying nothing.
I haven’t read the novel yet, but this anti-woke shrieking over a retelling of 1984 from Julia’s POV w/comparisons to 1984-style history rewriting is super-idiotic. Um, you guys do know rewrites of classics from another character’s perspective are a common literary method, yeah?
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1715650531517988962
there is one thing to hawe a new take on a classic, there is another to make it a modern political hack job and say it is better than the original.
1984 was interesting until Julia showed up. Then I had to abandon it out of boredom.
Agreed. Julia was a Mary Sue whose only purpose was to be an object of Winston’s sexual desire. Orwell could’ve done a lot more with illustrating how personal relationships serve as a shield against the State.
Huh. Should have refreshed the page before replying.
Julia was someone trying really hard to appear to be zealously brainwashed while still harboring Crimethink. I thought she was an interesting character.
She was kind of the original manic pixie dream girl. Arguably necessary, but serving only really to advance the main character along his story arc. Without her, Winston hasn’t really lost all that much and the ending isn’t really very tragic.
Uh, the whole final act of betrayal to preserve himself???
A production line of Type 69-II’s in China. The left side was destined for the Iraqi’s, the right line was for Iran
https://twitter.com/Anthrax_In_UK/status/1715547168591741289
What’s a little back room arm-twisting among friends?
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked in full a lower court ruling that would have curbed the Biden administration’s ability to communicate with social media companies about contentious content on such issues as Covid-19.
The decision in a short unsigned order puts on hold a Louisiana-based judge’s ruling in July that specific agencies and officials should be barred from meeting with companies to discuss whether certain content should be stifled.
The Supreme Court also agreed to immediately take up the government’s appeal, meaning it will hear arguments and issue a ruling on the merits in its current term, which runs until the end of June.
Three conservative justices noted that they would have denied the application: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
“At this time in the history of our country, what the court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. That is most unfortunate,” Alito wrote in a dissenting opinion.
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A spokesman for the Department of Justice in Washington declined to comment.
The lawsuit makes various claims relating to activities that occurred in 2020 and before, including efforts to deter the spread of false information about Covid-19 and the presidential election. Donald Trump was president at the time, but the district court ruling focused on actions taken by the government after President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
And by false we mean contradictory to the officially approved narrative. OBEY.
That’s interesting, that the case is pulled immediately up – after all, the injunction was all that was disputed here.
I’m sure it comes as no surprise to anyone here the rampant antisemitism on the left, but I do find it just precious how many (((Reforms))) and other milquetoast Dems are pearl clutching. I mean, have you not been paying attention for the last 3 decades? I’ve mentioned here about how I stopped going to synagogue when the rabbi at the last (((Reform))) Temple I went to not-so-subtly compared Israel to Nazi Germany; and since I’m not really cut out for (((Orthodox))), I’ve been pretty much unaffiliated/homeless for 20 years.* The (((Reforms))) largely traded in any religious faith for leftist politics a long time ago so it’s increasingly difficult for me to give them any grace for their stupidity at this moment. They’ve been acting as de facto capos and giving a patina of legitimacy to lefty denials of antisemitism so all I can say to them is: you helped turn elite Western culture into a cesspool of Jew hate, you don’t get to act flummoxed about “how did we get here?!” All while acting as if Trump was the reincarnation of Hitler when he did more overtly pro-Israel and pro-Jewish things than any other president in my lifetime.
Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.ph/pCCMl
*Though I have gotten interested in the miniscule Karaite movement of late. It’s kinda tough to get real involved when there is exactly one Karaite synagogue in the US though.
I have likewise felt the appeal of Karaite Judaism. Fuck rabbis.
I know nothing of these things. You must tell me about it some Zoom time.
I also know nothing — so all I can wonder is if the yarmulke clashes with the gi.
There’s a reason that religion is dominated by priestly castes.
Yes. For all his many, many faults Trump was not antisemitic.
It was simply another means to bash him regardless of veracity.
but Palestinians get kicked out of their homes.
“Their homes” meaning “homes they didn’t own and the landlords sold them.”
that was before 1960 … after it is more murky
I appreciate the one that put her “Best by” date so prominently in the picture.
Sadly most girls dont know there is a ‘best by’ date until they reach it.
A 32yo woman once told me “When I hit 30 I noticed all of the men were hitting on 19 year old girls and wouldn’t give me the time of day”
She was almost in tears.
I dont get the appeal of leftist politics for jews. I really dont.
Who is responsible for the oppression, genocide, and general anti-semitism? What the hell is that?
So have Catholics and most of the Protestant sects. I’m not religious or seeking but if I was, I am pretty sure I’d be homeless too.
The district court ruling was on hold while the Supreme Court decided what steps to take.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in court papers that Doughty’s decision was “an unprecedented injunction” that “flouts bedrock principles” of federal law.
“The court imposed unprecedented limits on the ability of the President’s closest aides to use the bully pulpit to address matters of public concern, on the FBI’s ability to address threats to the Nation’s security, and on the CDC’s ability to relay public health information at platforms’ request,” she added.
Bullying pulpit, you say? That’s some mighty fine Constitutional jurisprudence. She’s obviously angling for a spot on the short list to replace Thomas.
Now do alp those nationwide injunctions lefty judges did to Trump executive orders.
would you eat this after a few beers
https://twitter.com/messedupfoods/status/1715564060643606974
I’d say the person who came up with the idea had had more than a few beers.
Thing I dislike most about those videos is the food waste
Gah! Maybe until the pineapple and was that mayonnaise?!?! Otherwise, it was just a too-greasy overkill “cheeseburger pizza” to that point. Not my preference, but in small sections probably tolerable.
Cuck.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-husband-lets-bonk-men-31245248
I lost count of the times I. heard someone in an open relationship say ‘It’s no big deal’ and then in short order find themselves in divorce court.
People keep saying the Speaker of the House is not necessarily required to be a sitting Member. Maybe if they asked really really nicely Liz Cheney would consent to be Speaker. She could get votes from both sides of the aisle. Then we could get some bipartisan progress on the pressing issues of the day.
Yeah.
This fight is really shining a light on the hypocritical get-along repubs who would do anything to prevent a real opposition to the progressives.
Don’t joke, we’ll probably end up with something very much like that.
Thanks to everyone who showed up last night for the Texas Glibs meetup! A good time was had by all and a brief article about a bone marrow whiskey luge will be written.
“bone marrow whiskey luge”
Remember to use a condom.
I got pictures. The family-friendly rating will never be the same.
Mrs Prole and I showed up for a while, until we headed back home to Austin. Got back around midnight.
I was … surprised … to hear that this website has been closed off to new commenters. Seems like a slow doom, not having anyone new join while the regulars drift away or disappear one by one. Why wouldn’t it be open to anyone, with the proviso that if someone acts like a troll or arsehole they get booted?
wut?
Not intentionally. SP had the approval keys and we can’t access them now.
😮
Same here. It used to be that anyone could register with an email, like most other sites. Last I checked, you had to submit two possible user names to webdom. I think the previous way was better. More inviting, and I don’t remember this place having much of a problem with trolls or spam.
🙂
Sensory hiking and ancient wine: Why you should visit these European villages in 2024
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/10/19/sensory-hiking-and-ancient-wine-why-you-should-visit-these-european-villages-in-2024
I can’t get past the silliness at the beginning.
Tourists make you rich and you have to audacity to bitch about it. SMFH.
Quibbles
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a key ally of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), declared Friday that President Biden’s $100 billion foreign aid and national security funding request is “dead on arrival” on Capitol Hill.
“President Biden’s slush fund proposal is dead on arrival, just like his budgets,” Cotton said in a statement.
“We will not spend, for example, $3.5 billion to address the ‘potential needs of Gazans,” he added, arguing that humanitarian assistance to Gaza could inadvertently fund “a resupply line for Hamas terrorists.”
Cotton balked at spending $11.8 billion to fund Ukraine’s nonmilitary needs, such as retirement pensions for Ukrainian government employees.
“Nor will we spend $4.7 billion for housing, transportation, and ‘services’ for illegal aliens in the United States rather than deporting them,” he warned.
Cotton’s tough talk signals a difficult negotiation ahead on Biden’s request for emergency funding for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
Once we strip out a couple billion dollars of non-essential “humanitarian” stuff, we can claim to have done our job.
Difficult negotiations? Nah.
Administration: “Waaa waaaa waaa wa wa wa wah more money.”
Me: “No”.
See, that is not difficult, it is very easy.
I’m liking Cotton more today
Of course, he’s probably happy to send bombs tomorrow.
And even the crazies know the city is turning into a shithole.
Maniac accused of blinding straphanger says NYC needs more NYC subway cops to combat crazies
More mental health beds, too. JFC how is that guy even out on the street?
Both the Epoch Times and a former FDA official have submitted FOIA requests, but the FDA has been slow walking on providing the data.
Hmmm. I wonder why.
What could it be?
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) praised Biden’s request for sending a “clear message” to “friends and allies that we have your back.”
“This package demonstrates America’s commitment to supporting democracies across the world and above all ensuring that America’s families are safe here at home,” he said.
He reiterated that the Senate would move first on an emergency spending package because of the ongoing fight over electing a Speaker.
“This legislation is too important for the House to settle their chaos,” he said.
Biden has requested $61 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for military aid to Israel and another $14 billion to address the migration surge at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The president has also asked for $10 billion in humanitarian assistance and $2 billion for Indo-Pacific security.
All vitally important to the national interest.
Money is just a form of magic pixie dust. You sprinkle it liberally until your problems disappear.
This week’s Powerline fun.
In the latest news on the “Pie’s dinner” front, Pie has grilled a steak. In silly measurements 11 ounces for 10 dollars, so bout one dollar an ounce. The one that costs two dollars is more tender. But this one was not bad. Also I need a new grill this one is fucked after I forgot to turn it off one afternoon and it burned for 14 hours.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/oD6m57JrFJ23KZA28
This is a fine dinner. I am at my daughters soccer match. I dream of steak.
Where’s the ketchup?
eewww
When do you plan to finish cooking it?
More seriously, what’s in the jar?
Hobbyhorse cavalry, assemble!
As results from Poland’s Sunday election began pouring in, Hubert Sobecki watched in disbelief as it started to dawn on him that the right-wing Law and Justice party would not be governing the country much longer.
“It’s like living in a toxic household with a violent partner, and suddenly you’re free of them,” says Sobecki, a spokesman for Love Does Not Exclude, an association representing Poland’s LGBTQ+ community. “How can you learn to live again?”
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“I’ve seen so many governments coming and going and different parties, and they’ve all been quite arrogantly, brazenly, openly ignoring LGBTQ+ people in this country,” he says. “So, again, I try to dare to hope rather than hope from day one.”
Sobecki says the majority of those in the opposition who won Poland’s election are old guard politicians like former Prime Minister Donald Tusk, with whom his organization has already tried to negotiate equal rights when he was in power.
“And he was not a very good partner to discuss it with,” Sobecki remembers. “He always treated us like a problem rather than a social group with whom he can meet. He never met with us in person. Never.”
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A few neighborhoods away in Poland’s capital, Natalia Broniarczyk was unpacking from a trip to Strasbourg, France, where she accepted a European Union award for her work on abortion rights, when she heard the election news.
“You can see that I’m quite cheerful, but I’m also a realist,” she says. “So I know that we still have so much work to do.”
Three years ago, Poland’s government further restricted abortion to include cases of malformed fetuses.
“We were breaking the law many times to save someone’s life,” says Broniarczyk. “We were sending pills to hospitals, which is illegal. We were calling to hospitals and threatening doctors that we will send TV if they will not do a procedure.”
Why can’t Poland be just like San Francisco?
it lacks the climate
“This has all been about keeping promises, leadership, and doing the right thing for the people we represent,” she wrote in a statement. “If my colleagues want to vote against the will of the people who elected them that’s their call. But unlike them, my ‘broader team’ is the people of South Carolina, not anyone in Washington.”
I mean, that’s a good response.
Re: family judge.
I’d need to hear the details.