U.G.L.Y.
The Bears beat the Vikings in what can only be described as an ugly game. The transfer portal is about to be flooded, which is a sad consequence of what college football has become. And the Champions League is back for the next two days as we get down to the nub to see who gets through to the knockout rounds. And that’s it for sports.
OK, neat. Wake me when this woke assclown stops being a hypocrite and starts accepting a ton of refugees inside his city-state.
Bundestag
I wish we had that law here. Sadly, they are still spending tons of money on stupid shit. But at least they have a hard limit.
I’m old enough to remember when the Feds said they do not talk about ongoing investigations. It was as recent as the last time some leftist nut job did something bad. So it was less than a week ago.
I’m shocked! LOL, just kidding. This is the least surprising link I did so far.
$400k for that?
What a fucking joke. You know, they could just let people do what they want with they own property without incentives or penalties and everything would be fine without some people getting subsidized and others getting taxed to death to do it.
Wait, people are still taking tests for this? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard.
We’re almost to Year Zero. Soon they will have everything renamed and everyone something was named for before that will have been forgotten. Idiots.
Vote early and vote often. Just kidding. It doesn’t matter who votes there so long as the people counting them remains the same.
Here we go. Yeah, that’s the stuff. What a gem of a song. And here’s another. What great band. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this chilly Tuesday, as we will here as our sweet, little Liberty celebrates her 10th birthday.
Then they should probably reverse the polarity of the neutron flow or something.
Morning, Sloopy! Morning, all!
If you put another transfer portal immediately after the first one, they’ll build up speed until they go relativistic and experience Lorenz contraction. Then you can fit in arbitrarily many.
“Lorenz contraction”
Eww.
How you tailored that comment was observed.
It’s an old joke, though there’s a lot of conflicting information about exactly how old.
Very nice, all of you. I can’t come up with a contribution — but at least I was first past the Post this morning.
Kansas St lost 3 QBs to the portal already.
I can’t believe these players are not loyal to these programs. Colleges are solely about education and these players should be more grateful.
Yeah — not really pushing the “electric cars are for the rich” thing there, Pope Francis.
And I might add, as a (lapsed) Catholic… have to admit these two passages always bother me regarding the Church, its legacy and its hierarchy.
Just sayin’.
Dangnabbit… munged the second link — should have been : https://biblehub.com/matthew/6-5.htm
Constantine making Christianity the official religion of Rome was one of the most damaging events to Jesus’ message and the development of Christianity afterwards
The Western church hooking up with Charlemagne may have been worse.
The Empire was holy. It said so in the name.
Certainly there are many things, but Constantine essentially ended Christian pacifism, chained the immorality of the state to the church like a millstone and would allow the state to scapegoat the church when looking at the ills of historical events in the past, and beaurocrats an in to enrich themselves
Yes, but it gave one sect the power to crush the heretics!
Watching mainline Protestant denominations be skinsuited right now is pretty disturbing too
Re: your link. Its one of the things protestants were protesting. Not that they have always done better.
We’ve been lapsed since COVID. But on Sunday we got to be godparents again (for me it’s 5 or 6 godchildren). It was a lovely ceremony and one of the best I’ve attended.
I feel you — but I’ll also point out we have parts of our Constitution which use the clear language of “shall make no law” and “shall not be infringed”… and they work around them constantly. I seriously doubt a limit to the pork trough would last in the face of their lust and greed.
You don’t get elected on austerity. Everyone wants their share (fair or otherwise).
Arguably Milei got elected on an austerity platform in Argentina. I also think that support will last 2 days.
Milei, and how many members of the legislative branch?
Milei’s party controls just 38 of 257 seats in Argentina’s lower house and eight of 72 in the senate.
Hence the 2 days prediction.
You’re such an optimist, not even 2 minutes.
All of these problems are self-imposed so yeah, derisive laughter is very much called for.
Half hour?
Sad!
Look, we can’t all break out the Key to Time to dilate the proceedings and enhance our performance…. (insert joke about why Romana had to regenerate here…)
It’s Giving Tuesday, which means my company will match donations I make! I can donate to so many approved charities in the following categories!
-No Poverty
-Zero hunger
-Good Health and Wellbeing
-Gender Equality
-Quality Education
-Clean Water and Sanitation
-Affordable and Clean Energy
-Decent Work and Sustainable Economics
-Reduced Inequalities
-Sustainable Cities and Communities
-Responsible Consumption and Production
-Climate Action
-Life Below Water
-Life on Land
-Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions
-Partnerships for the Goals
Oddly enough, Institute for Justice is not on the list. Whichever office is responsible for this list must have atmospheric smugness levels that are recognized as causing cancer in the state of California.
“I’m sorry, I do my charity in person, not by funding leftist grifters”
^^^THIS^^^
“-Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions”
Well, there you go! Oh, wait, it is only grifters that they approve?
“Life on Land” sounds like it can cover for any actually worthwhile charities.
The Human Fund?
‘Zackly.
Donate to a pro life charity, to really make their heads spin.
“Climate Action”
So, the nice folks who block traffic and graffiti tag works of art? I would expect the usual anodyne lefty claptrap but promoting radical commie assholes seems beyond the pale to me.
-No poverty?
Is there some definition of poverty other than merely the bottom end of the income distribution?
Yes.
and No.
When I use a word…
Not for a while now.
Too bad for anyone in Minnesoda. Our free lunch and breakfast at school program has solved both hunger and poverty here.
Maybe you can give to a pro-life charity instead?
This shit really annoys me. A parent’s first job is to keep their kid fed, clothed and housed. Expecting the govt to feed your kid is shit parenting.
Plus the poors already get food stamps to feed the little ones. Whatever are they doing with them?
If you go by what these poor supposedly did when they got credit cards loaded with cash after Katrina, you will know these things are always used for other things…
Free breakfast is bullshit, but I’ve come around on the free lunch as long as attendance is compulsory. Someone remarked here not too long ago that if the government is going to force children to sit for 8 hours in a prison like environment, the least they can do is feed them. Even prisoners get that.
When the free money ran out the local schools stopped handing out food to whoever stopped by. Now only kids who attend the schools get free meals.
“Affordable and clean energy”
“You forgot to include donations to the Let’s Go Brandon Initiative under this category!”
At this point and with this administration — I’m only shocked that it wasn’t puppy play or some stupid crap.
What? And remove a good chunk of the joy of power for them? Heresy!
I want to see NYC stack tiny houses on top of each other.
Part of me wants them to at least live long enough for the next generation to pick apart their every flaw by whatever new standard they come up with and maybe understand that people are products of their time and environment as well as their nature, that mankind is flawed and all — but hell, they don’t learn from it when it happens to people quickly much less across the next generation.
Here’s hoping we have the modern equivalent of monasterys on the down low to help restore history after the Dark Age they’re trying to build here.
LOL it’s a trap!
Sure, let me pay to build some Section 8 housing in my back yard.
Sure it does — voting early and often helps them not have to be quite so obvious on election night and keeps the icky Far Right Extremists from having anything to try to sway public opinion with. Fortification works, but works better if they have plausible deniability!
So you are saying canceling people and silencing them on social media didn’t work as the people that needed to hide the fact they stole an election wanted it to?
Admittedly the Burlington shooting does appear to have been based on the fact that the three dudes shot looked Palestinian.
But the article claims that the shooting is part of “surge” in Islamophobia.
Is there any indication of such a surge, outside the Burlington shooting?
Is there any indication of such a surge, outside the Burlington shooting?
No, no there is not. There is however a real and well-documented surge in anti-Semitic incidents. But they won’t mention that.
Well, CAIR used an assault in a Cleveland suburb to showcase the rising Islamophobia. Just one little problem with the “assault”.
Such racist policing, charging a guy for starting a conversation.
One is a trend.
Some kid was murdered too but kind of surprising how that left the news so quickly.
Served it’s purpose before reality set in.
TMITE has been reporting a surge in anti-Muslim hate crimes for seven weeks now. And here we have a perfect example. This means they’ve been telling the truth all along! It’s one of those quantum retrocausality things. Why do you deny SCIENCE?
‘Admittedly the Burlington shooting does appear to have been based on the fact that the three dudes shot looked Palestinian.’
I’m not ready to admit to that. It may be the case, but we haven’t heard anything from the alleged perpetrator. The ‘we were just minding our own business, smoking cigarettes’ story sounds unlikely for a bunch of ~20 y/o men with not much to do.
Two of them were dressed in Yassir Arafat cosplay, so there’s that. And apparently they all went to high school in the West Bank.
Another local news story that’s finally getting some facts leaking out started off as “Mass Shooting at Tree Lighting Ceremony Downtown”, which then changed to “Two Teens Wounded, Suspects in Custody”, which then changed to “Mass of Juveniles Fighting Before Shooting Happened”, to finally “Bunch of Teens Were Fighting, Two of Them Got Shot by Other Combatants, Shooters Arrested, Wounded in Hospital”.
Happy birthday, Liberty!
While most of you only have to deal with the Liberty Mutual ads, those of us in the Greater Cleveland area also have to contend with the Liberty Ford jingle. It’s not quite as ingrained in local memories as Garfield 1 2323.
969-5214 RETS
As far as I know, they went out of business about 1990.
They are closed, but I think they lasted much longer, I can’t figure out when. And the last phone numbers listed arent the one engrained in my brain. It was a vocational school, mainly electricians, I think.
+1
That’s wonderful! Good work Sloop, and happy birthday to Liberty.
He told them there was a gun but refused to say if there were more than one? HOW DARE HE WASTE VALUABLE TAXPAYER DOLLARS LOOKING FOR MORE GUNZ!
I’ve heard of those! Those are Red Talon Teflon(tm)-lined armor piercing cop killer bullets! Ban them!
Sounds like ultra-MAGA to me.
Oh wait, rural? Managing livestock? Icky. Definitely MAGA white trash racist.
“Brain crystals” is code for “Jewish Space Lazors.” MAGA confirmed.
Obvs, speeding tickets need to revoke 2A, 4A and unapproved 1A activities.
One every three years stopping in 2016? That’s hardly even a problem driver.
If the guy shot them, I hope he gets convicted. But I’m not a fan of the government doing everything they can to pervert a potential jury by selectively releasing details of the investigation to influence public opinion against a defendant in some cases but withholding it in other cases.
“It’s just ‘nudging!'”
-TOS staff
“The Government has 1A rights too!”
-Ken White
Tell me about it.
/Derek Chavin
Speaking of Chauvin: are the usual suspects now also trying to murder him in prison so his appeals stop happening? Cause the whole charade about Floyd being a hero seems to be unraveling and that is making them all look like scum.
Half the country (and every institution) has way too much invested in that mythology for the unraveling to have any impact.
We got played by BLM and the damage will take decades to recover from, if at all.
Why do you hate prosecutors with ambition for higher office?
And that's how the indulgence gets made.
The Newest Airline Climate Solution? Burying Sawdust
Carbon dioxide isn’t a pollutant, it’s plat food! Whycome you hate plants?
LineX?
With a climate blessing!
Won’t this jack up the price of briquettes?
But only poor people use those, good people use lump charcoal so w/e.
I take that stuff and till it into my garden so it does decompose and fertilize the soil.
So literally digging holes and then covering them back up. This is the key to wealth.
Top Pentagon official, 64, who oversaw the entire US military schools system is busted ‘paying undercover agent for sex in motel room where he asked “can we do a half hour”‘ – before claiming to cops he was only there for a massage
An “old-fashioned”, I presume.
Whatever makes him happy.
So, a crime without a victim. We’ve come a long ways.
I dunno, those shorts are a fashion crime.
Who did he piss off in the deep state?
Wait, people are still taking tests for this? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard.
– My anxiety ridden, kool aid drinking neighbor still tests although I think she finally learned to stop after being stuck with both her kids for 10 days because she tested one of her kids when she had the sniffles and the kid was positive. Then she REPORTED it to her progtard preschool (which has drag reading hour by the way). The preschool told her neither kid could attend for 10 days even though the younger child had zero symptoms
“But at least they have a hard limit.”
[standard libertarian disclaimer]
Thinking about this recently, I could get behind a constitutional amendment that capped Federal spending at 15% of GDP and Federal revenue at 16% of GDP.
[/sld]
The sld is because that is still too damn high.
And they’d change how they measure/estimate GDP immediately (“Oh, we’re including unrealized gains!” “The potential productivity matrix is integral to the nation!” “Argle bargle blarg!”) or other semantic games.
Again — if “shall make no law” results in an ever increasing stream of laws… I have zero confidence they’d hold to this. There’s no enforcement or negative feedback mechanism for overreach.
I agree entirely.
And I see what happens with Tabor in Colorado. They just can’t stand the idea of collecting money then having to give it back.
In local news, the US Customs and Border Protection agency will send some consultants to help the locals in the main Romanian port of Constanta.
I wonder if this is a desire position for some or they are forced to come. I know embassy positions in other countries can be desirable. I assume even as a customs consultant you get some perks to go to another country…
They’re just there to get the chance to whip brown people.
I wonder if it has anything to do with the Romanian people smugglers they recently arrested along the Canadian border.
I could easily imagine there are some at State that are constant in seeking that position, yes.
I don’t know why they’d want to go there. The people are unattractive — short, fat and bald.
I assume you are an expert in short, fat and bald
I’m not short!
Depends on the country and how good the local whores are.
the local whores are pretty good I would say.
That’s obviously why they want the post then…
You may have Secret Service showing up soon…
Romania? It just shows that CPB are just a bunch of blood suckers.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Cool! I am spoiled, on our big tournaments the Hockey Hall of Fame sends trophies for display. I’ve seen the Stanley Cup a half dozen times. Two weeks ago they didn’t have the Cup, but all the other trophies (Hart, etc.). No line because everyone’s seen them all. I’ve talked to Phil, the Keeper of the Cup, a few times.
Another easy day — though my bonus word count is pitiful and will be shamed by the rest of y’all, I’m sure:
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What is with cough drops that are a hollow shell around some medicated liquid? It is the worst of both worlds. The saliva-generating properties of the slowly dissolving mentholated mass are what I’m looking for, a slow release of medication to suppress the urge to cough and encorage the sinuses to drain. But no, these last five minutes them pop, one big dose of something and it’s gone. What a waste of money.
Get you some Ricolas if they still make them. Best cough drops ever.
These Are Ricola.
And Ricola is second best behind Fisherman’s Friend.
I’ve never found a cough drop that doesn’t end up making the cough worse, after the initial soothing effect wears off.
That’s odd. There are two times when they’re really effective – when I need to break the cycle of new coughs irritating the throat and causing more coughing, or when things are winding down and strong meds are overkill to not cough.
I’ve never once had a rebound to a higher state than pre-cough drop. Are you using proper high-menthol drops, or just menthol-flavored candies like Halls?
Oh FFS… speaking of no negative feedback mechanism for overreach. This fucking tyrant administration never met a policy they couldn’t claim was covered by the “Defense Production Act” apparently. Building national strength by adding one stick to the bundle at a time indeed.
Someone, the courts maybe, needs to nip this in the fucking bud. This could be worse than the interstate commerce bullshit if it’s allowed to fester.
Not content with being compared to Carter, Biden wants the Nixon comparison (wage and price controls) too?
Pentagon guy hiring hooker who turned out to be a snitch: Ought to be legal, don’t care…
Be shouldn’t be doing anything that could lead to him getting blackmailed.
Needs to be fired really badly, even if legalized.
So tedious, so disingenuous. I’m sick of all this bullshit about free speech from people who have been all too quick to try to suppress others’ free speech. Local kids sue because they were suspended from the richest high school in the state for chanting “From the river to the sea” at a protest at the school.
I’d take CAIR’s love of the 1A more seriously when they start acknowledging that people can draw Mohamed if they want.
Also allowing people to point out that Mohamed had a proclivity for fucking kids.
So if they were criticizing passages of the Talmud that would be appropriate? I’m wandering what the standards are here, because they don’t seem consistent.
You can already piss on all other religions these days except for the one of the people that saw off heads, so I am not sure where you are going here.
Palestinian doesn’t equal “Muslim”. It’s a testament to American propaganda that they have been able to convince people to view “Muslim”, “Palestinian”, “Hamas”, “Hezbolah”, “ISIS”, and “Al Qaeda” as interchangeable synonyms.
Much like viewing “Israel” and “Jewish” as one in the same.
Frankly, I could care less about the rich eating each other over a degenerate culture they have created, but there are some obvious double standards being employed here.
Me, I don’t care much for people that elect leadership that is homicidal and suicidal and openly admits their end goal is to murder non muslims. You can call that whatever you want.
Your contention is that CAIR is an instrument of American propaganda?
Which is more probable? That any given member of Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS or Al Queda is a Muslim, or that someone trying to draw the oh-so-important distinction is an apologist for one of the aforementioned organizations?
Rich Westerners should stick to their prevailing anti-Christian bigotry. It’s the singular most defining feature of the rich Westerner. We can play games or we can accept that those kids would have never gotten in trouble if they mocked nuns, Catholics in general, the Pope, Evangelicals, and basically any Christian denomination that has held a belief for more than a week.
I agree with you Pope, but would further state that there isn’t any case for the school district. They have no right to police student’s speech. Fuck them.
A Labor Strike Over Shoplifting
But insurance (meaning all us law abiding idiots) pays for that shit!
Not Minnesoda Nice
Why this lady (and the good neighbors don’t have the right to know who the accuser is sucks.
Confidential informant?
If she runs out of rocks I know where some may be available, the price is right
Any glibs need a dream job?
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/638596100
🤣
Is this some job to manage the gentlemen that like other grizzly gentlemen referred to as bears? Or are they talking about real bears?
Grizzly bears usually like to go straight to court, they don’t go for mediation
They are a bit litigious.
“Individuals assigned male at birth after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. To verify registration visit SSS.gov.”
I knew about selective service, but I’m old enough not to have noticed this twist.
No dogsled? I am disappoint.
…thanks?
Tell me the job isn’t in NY without telling me the job isn’t in NY.
Oh, but this is a Federal Agent job, so you get the government agency exception to the laws.
‘cultural conflicts’
STEVE HELP WITH CULTURAL CONFLICT, BY CULTURAL CONFLICT MEAN…
Where is Tonio?
Of course WE all know how monolithic and driven by the extremes the entire left-of-center is. This is why I find it useful to dip into some other bubbles. Oh, TLP gives you plenty of standard left-leaning perspective, but not DU or Nation level. These people want to be a winning Democratic party, not a bunch of progressive purists.
Progressivism is a mental disorder. And it attracts people that see it as their new religion.
You’re awfully close to describing any religious affiliation as a mental disorder, which would be strange since it is the nearly default condition of humanity.
There sure as hell are some cults out there that are mental disorders for sure.
All are heretics or infidels that do not worship the true God as I do!!!
EXACTLY!
Which is the root disorder we are talking about.
It really is just a case of magical thinking, in that almost all of the big ideas of the left are pie in the sky type bullshit. They are downing in them (read: there is a reason Trump won in ’16 and is leading in the polls right now) and they have no idea how to move forward. They are the dog that caught the car.
“I’m just a dog chasing cars.” /Joker
I read a book review yesterday that specifically was talking about late Victorian and Edwardian progressives (in an English context) and they used the term Magical Thinking, and it really stopped me for a second. Because, when you really think about it, that is what all of these ideas are: Climate, Unions, Vegetarianism, Public Transportation, Abstinence, the lot of them. In every case, they do not take the actual wants and need of the public into considerations, but are all head-in-clouds schemes concocted by people who don’t really like the public, and have little idea of what motivates them.
And every so often, we seem to circle back around to this.
https://thecritic.co.uk/a-s-byatt-and-the-follies-of-magical-progressivism/
Book review: “Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution” by Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson (Part 1)
https://iea.org.uk/book-review-slavery-capitalism-and-the-industrial-revolution-by-maxine-berg-and-pat-hudson/
I try to judge a book not primarily by whether or not I agree with the authors’ main conclusions, but by whether or not it has improved my understanding of the subject area. A good author should be able to teach you something about their subject – on which they will usually be far more knowledgeable than you are – that you’ll consider useful even if their main goal is to win you over to a particular viewpoint, and even if they ultimately fail in that endeavour. One can, for example, learn a great deal about the history of the Soviet Union from Eric Hobsbawn, even if one rejects his socialist interpretation of it.
I mention that in order to make clear that while this review will focus on why I don’t buy the central thesis of Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution by Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, I am by no means saying that it is a bad book, or that I would not recommend it. Quite the opposite. If you want to know more about the history of the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath, about its role in Britain’s economic development, and about the debates surrounding it – get yourself a copy of Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. It is a thoroughly researched piece of scholarly work, which draws on mountains of academic literature, and condenses it all into a format that is both accessible, and relevant to present-days debates.
It’s marxist drivel for dumb people.
Disney’s ‘WISH’ underperforms on its opening weekend at the domestic box office.
The movie was tracking to open with +$40M but ended up only earning $31M.
The Zambezi Snow Ape
@TZSA_
Disney keeps making kids movies for 28 year old women for reasons I genuinely can’t comprehend without getting into deep state conspiracy theory territory
https://twitter.com/TZSA_/status/1729297340375134494
If I owned any Disney stock, I would be looking for a way to sue their fucking board of directors for making bad choices, on purpose, that have cratered my investment. The only way this shit stops is if these people are made to pay personally for these fucking dumb ass decisions they keep making.
‘Disney keeps making kids movies for 28 year old women for reasons I genuinely can’t comprehend’
It’s probably not that complicated. There are 28-year old women directing the creative sides of these, so their preferences are sinking into the final products.
Young girls don’t want to be princesses, they want to be miserable officer workers with cats.
Meet Ms. Monopoly (NSFW: language),
Soon reality will be outpacing the parodies.
I feel empowered already.
Exactly!
‘Vote early and vote often. Just kidding’
Last I heard, it being a joke is no defense when you are interfering with an election, Mr.
All-time move from Liquid Death just dropped
– Company releases iced tea/lemonade drink named “Armless Palmer”
– Arnold Palmer’s estate threatens to sue Liquid Death over the name
– Liquid Death rebrands the drink to “Dead Billionaire”
https://twitter.com/MorningBrew/status/1729223964621480217
There was a time where all comedian podcasters advertised for Liquid Death but it seemed a silly product to me. It is just water.
Army issues new doctrine of derp.
Bond villain
The trip, which at times resembled a state visit, was not without controversy. Critics of Netanyahu basked the Israeli leader and Musk for the image rehabilitation effort.
“Blatant antisemite & publisher of antisemitism Elon Musk should be persona non grata in Israel,” wrote Esther Solomon, the editor-in-chief of independent Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “Instead, Netanyahu — plumbing new depths of amoral sycophancy — gifts him a PR visit to the kibbutzim devastated by Hamas. Profane, venal, bilious, both of them.”
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“It all seems contrived for the cameras and to try and salvage relationships with advertisers,” Imran Ahmad, founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, told The Hill of Musk’s trip to Israel this week.
“It feels like a cynical corporate whitewashing of the fact that he has been integral in spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories himself and has turned Twitter into a platform where antisemitism can run rampant,” Ahmad added.
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“The trip seems less of a rehabilitation effort and more of a business deal,” said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel and director for digital justice and civil rights at the Free Press Action Fund.
“Musk has a long history of shutting down speech he dislikes and engaging with dangerous and extremist voices. With potential control of internet access in a war time region there are far bigger concerns beyond just the content moderation on a platform he has driven to the ground.”
Why didn’t Mossad black bag him and seal him up in one of those Hamas tunnels?
It really aggravates how they toss around accusations like anti-Semitism without ever having to provide actual proof of their assertions.
Imran Ahmad, founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate
Oh yeah, this asshole – the founder with only ties to extreme Labour politicians and no other footprint in the world.
https://twitter.com/GSVBemusementPk/status/1728984880984576400
BUFF
Hunter Biden agrees to testify publicly before the House Oversight Committee
Hunter Biden is open to testifying publicly before the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Dec. 13, his lawyer said in a letter sent to the panel Tuesday.
Now that’s entertainment.
The SF version is going to be priceless.
/starts imaging Hunter bringing out Cracky during the testimony.
[Hunter fondles Cracky like Capt. Queeg.]
Makes me look forward to Wednesdays.
“This past week, there were hundreds of bogus media stories claiming that I am antisemitic,” Musk said. “Nothing could be further from the truth. I wish only the best for humanity and a prosperous and exciting future for all.”
But tech and media watchdogs say Musk’s track record suggests otherwise, and as a result, the unpredictable billionaire is facing a major reputational crisis.
“After he engaged with that content, he obviously realized he needed to take significant action to publicly distance himself from that,” said Emerson T. Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council.
Mind readers and fortune tellers. Why aren’t they fabulously wealthy from picking lottery numbers?
I’m on Twitter. And I follow Musk. I still have no idea what crisis-inducing behavior they’re talking about.
Any posts he makes that don’t agree with them are crisis inducing.
Does this post make my butt hurt?
If he were really antisemitic, the MSM would be celebrating him.
what the
https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1729308594720698449
what is the Official Glibertarian Position on time bandits and a tv show remake thereof
I fully expect the TV series to be a disaster.
Take away the midgets and the underlying religious context – neither of which you can do in Hollywood now – and you have not much left. The vacuum will be filled with woke nonsense.
Apparently nobody paid attention to the new Disney version of Snow White.
It’s going to suck balls.
Jermaine Clement is… good. But I question the sanity of anyone who would remake that movie into a TV series. It will become a biblical-level abomination in short order. I Have Spoken.
Judging from the people involved, it’s going to be both critically acclaimed and pretty awful.
‘The Late Show’ Canceled This Week After Stephen Colbert Ruptures Appendix
I thought if I did not rupture my appendix till age 30 it means I am immune. Shit what if this happens to me?
Where did you hear that? My FIL had his appendix out a few months ago. Turned out it was cancerous. And my wife’s friend from HS had his out a few weeks ago.
I think it was more wishful thinking than hearing it somewhere
I will say, in the past 10 years I have known a number of people who have had abdominal pain that turned out to be something serious. So I suggest if you ever do have abdominal pain, get it checked out quick.
I second this after my gall bladder experience.
However, one thing I noticed personally was that my own pain tolerance kept going up such that it never seemed as serious as the problem was getting because I’d acclimated to it over time. On the flip side, none of the doctors caught it even with a CT scan during the earlier warning signs.
Now, I understand appendix problems escalate more quickly, so that might not be as much of an issue.
I was always curious how you know if it’s your appendix vs. a normal stomach virus. Now that I have gone through it, it should be pretty obvious if your time has come. You’ll get no relief at the toilet from puking or sitting, plus I could not stop bending over grasping at my abdomen until they gave me morphine in the ER.
With my brother his pain would come and go. After a few months of trying a few different meds, the doc decided to operate where they discovered it was stage 4 cancer of the appendix.
My FIL’s was sudden. When they operated they found a mass, that was cancer. They removed it and now he’s on chemo as a precaution, but he’s not tolerating it very well. I had never heard of appendix cancer before.
Any tissue can become cancerous.
It’s probably closest to colon cancer, being part of the intestines.
Mine was removed last year at the age of 36.
Early 20s here. Went to the ER with severe abdominal pain and was sent home by the resident after reading my scans. After doubling checking the resident, the ER doc called me and told me to come back immediately because the resident had fucked up and the appendix had to come out.
My 55yo appendix is doing just fine, tyvm.
*knock on wood*
Reconcile those two statements.
Tiffany Haddish DUI: Comedian says she will get help after driving under influence arrest
I only clicked I wondered who she was and I why I should care.
Who?
Tragedy
Health and tobacco campaigners said Monday that New Zealand’s plan to repeal laws that would ban tobacco sales for future generations threatened lives and put international efforts to curb smoking at risk.
The country’s new center-right coalition will scrap the laws introduced by the previous Labour-led government, according to coalition agreements published on Friday.
The package of measures would have seen bans on selling tobacco to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009, reduced the amount of nicotine allowed in smoked tobacco products and cut the number of retailers able to sell tobacco by over 90%.
They marked some of the toughest anti-tobacco rules in the world. A ban on smoking for future generations was subsequently proposed in Britain, with other countries also considering similar rules.
“This is major loss for public health, and a huge win for the tobacco industry — whose profits will be boosted at the expense of Kiwi lives,” said Boyd Swinburn, co-chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa in New Zealand.
Profits kill.
Depending on which book you read, Prophets kill too.
Ban everything that’s the least bad for you for your own good of course. Tobacco today, alcohol and sugary food and drink tomorrow.
Weed is good though.
Weed and Oatmeal for Everyone!
Stop. Banning. Stuff.
So you want to ban banning? seems hypocritical.
Wait – THAT’S what irony poisoning means!?!?!?
That’s just the healthy epistemic process of compartmentalising potentially true but psychologically costly beliefs until you can refactor enough things to adopt them at less cost!!
https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1729501842432827674
Speaking of the evil of nicotine… lately i have been seeing anti-vaping ads which clearly imply vaping is somehow worse than shooting heroin.
why waste good bullets on heroin?
I heard one of those on the radio the other day and laughed out loud when I heard at the end that it was about vaping. The line before that was that it “drove me away from the people I love”. Vaping nicotine. The whole vaping thing has really been a boon to the anti smoking industry.
The concept that vaping is more dangerous than smoking is just mind boggling to me. I can accept that there may be unknown risks to vaping that we will learn about 10-20 years down the road, but to categorically say that it’s MORE dangerous than smoking (as well as putting other nicotine methods such as gum, snus, and the like into the same level of hazard) just makes me wonder who actually believes them.
I doubt there are anti-vaping ads in countries that don’t grow tobacco.
Back in Dec 2003, I was working a contract for an Ad Agency. A small part of my work was for a website for a new SNU product. I did the dynamic stuff, the artsy and text stuff was done in house. Every page of the website had to printed out on giant paper and sent to the company’s legal dept for approval. The edits came back between Christmas and New Year and everyone in the ad agency was off, so I got to make the final edits before the site went live in January.
The best bit was every reference to “tobacco” was changed to “tobacco satisfaction”.
The edits were literally the big pieces of paper with red marks.
As far as I can see, nicotine, in the amounts that would be normally ingested by a human, is not necessarily harmful to humans. I’ve even seen some evidence it can be beneficial. Frankly I think it has been evil what the government and the tobacco tax and settlement funded NGOs have done in regards to vaping. It seems to be far less harmful than smoking, but it looks like their real motivation is that they find it too icky and similar to smoking tobacco for their Puritan tastes. And of course the grifting aspect is far too juicy to be left alone.
But it is never racism when the right people are doing it!
I’m getting confused between race, religion and ethnicity.
/Circumcised black Anglo-Saxon
I read that article last nite and Menton is, of course, absolutely correct. The whole “settler colonialist” racist moniker has been used for a little while now in lefty university “studies”, but lately has really exploded into the mainstream. The left is really exceedingly good at getting their new terms pushed out there for all to hear.
linky no worky.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-11-26-the-lefts-distinction-between-good-and-bad-migrants-is-pure-racism
Apparently there is some big deal in France. A large fight and some stabbings (at least one fatality) at some sort of street party/festival.
The government now wants to ban “right wing” political groups.
Remember, the crime is not the problem, it’s telling people about it which causes trouble.
Yep. This is why the left everywhere loves censorship. I saw it described the other day: Governments around the world now see their own citizens as enemies.
They’re desperately trying to prevent the equivalent of the Dutch Farmers’ Party from arising elsewhere but it ain’t gonna work.
“Governments……. see their own citizens as enemies.”
That has always been the case. Less so here until fairly recently. The current crop of hired help are very clearly the enemy of the American citizenry.
Ireland too:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/councillor-calls-irish-protesters-against-open-migration-organized-far-right
The European ruling class has lost their Goddamn minds.
Wake me up when they lose their lives.
WWCMD…What would Charles Martel do?
Moderna keeps tabs on ‘high risk’ anti-vaccine celebs like Elon Musk, Novak Djokovic, Russell Brand: report
Nikki is still the worst.
It’s Nikkis all the way down.
Road map
The world’s most-developed nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat as part of the first comprehensive plan to bring the global agrifood industry into line with the Paris climate agreement.
The global food systems’ road map to 1.5C is expected to be published by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 summit next month. Nations that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake, while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming, according to the FAO.
From farm to fork, food systems account for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and much of that footprint is linked to livestock farming — a major source of methane, deforestation and biodiversity loss. Although non-binding, the FAO’s plan is expected to inform policy and investment decisions and give a push to the food industry’s climate transition which has lagged other sectors in commitments.
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The road map has the potential to offer a “shared direction of travel” for livestock companies and their investors, mirroring the role of the International Energy Agency’s net zero document for the energy sector, according to FAIRR Initiative, an investor network focused on intensive animal production.
“This road map is needed to bring clarity to both companies and investors so that they can plan for the transition,” said Sofía Condés, head of investor outreach at FAIRR. “The longer companies wait to act, the more drastic and potentially disruptive the transition.”
They only want what’s best for us.
Once they get around to banning international conferences, I’ll start listening to them. Maybe.
They can be like other religious pilgrims, and walk.
But last night I saw Ted Nugent on TV saying that feral hogs are the newest plague, good eating and great sport. Available in Texas and Canada and soon in MN, ND and Montana.
At least we have the shores of Lake Erie to protect us from the Canadian Super Hogs.
Super Hog Chili sounds pretty awesome.
/moves more pork from the freezer to the fridge to defrost
“…will be told…”
“…excessive appetite…”
…comprehensive global industry into line with the Paris agreement…
The arrogance is breathtaking. We really are going to end up having to shoot them, aren’t we.
Was there really ever any doubt? Rabies cannot be cured; this is mental rabies frothing at the mouth.
We really are going to end up having to shoot them, aren’t we.
Not that many, just a few. They’re basically cowards, they won’t fight if death is the stakes.
I’m getting confused between race, religion and ethnicity.
Bring back the Great American Melting Pot.
“Texas mom is fired from her job as school sex educator after she was exposed as convicted PROSTITUTE ‘who still works as an escort'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12800105/Texas-mom-fired-job-school-sex-educator-exposed-convicted-PROSTITUTE-works-escort.html
Wouldn’t that make her more qualified?
Seriously.
Hands on sex ed?
[insert Monty Python skit here]
Honestly though, if she’s avoided unwanted pregnancies and/or STIs, she’s exactly the person you want teaching sex ed.
“You don’t have to go leaping straight to the clitoris.”
CATCH HER SIDE is her real name?
She looks like the licensed companion / whore from Firefly.
Ban greedflation
President Joe Biden took aim at corporations Monday for charging prices he said were artificially high even though the rate of inflation has slowed and some shipping costs have fallen.
“Any corporation that has not brought their prices back down, even as inflation has come down, even as the supply chains have been rebuilt, it’s time to stop the price gouging,” Biden said at the launch of a new White House supply chain initiative. “Give the American consumer a break.”
Have I mentioned I really really hate Joe Biden?
And everyone in TMITE will bobblehead along with him.
Did he just confuse decreasing inflation with deflation?
Yes. On purpose. And most people will go along with that, except there’s this pesky thing called monthly bills that keep foiling the plan.
No one believes this.
If it weren’t for those darned meddling wreckers and kulaks…
Come on Jack, lower your prices and go out of business to make me look good.
Biden is a true scumbag of the highest order. If he was actually concerned about prices how about pushing on government entities and states to lower their prices. How about some pressure on California to lower vehicle registration fees and taxes on gas? Hahah, yes I amuse myself with that hilarious thought.
“Jesse Watters has revealed he was attacked by a dog over Thanksgiving – insisting the dog was Democrat-owned because the owner did not recognize him and drove a Subaru.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12798453/jesse-watters-bit-dog-thanksgiving-walk.html
LOL
#Paging Sugar Free to the white courtesy phone, Sugar Free…
One more Subaru story…
Wait, people are still taking tests for this?
The election variant is coming.
Somebody should make Ekgmowechashala their Glib handle.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/long-before-the-arrival-of-humans-a-strange-little-primate-populated-the
There are some who consider me a strange little primate.
Sounds like an insult Clouseau would use.
We’re almost to Year Zero.
The cultural revolution continues apace.
Consumers, said Biden, “feel like they’re being played for suckers. Which they are.”
True, but not in they way you intended.
What a tyrannical shithole Great Britain is.
Easily one of the top ten most totalitarian nations on earth.
In what world would you owe $1,328 dollars in tax for watching television? Fuck that guy. Poking around like you own the place is looking for a stomping.
“Take my television in payment “
*Sound of TV smashing into head
Yes you have to pay to watch TV in Britain.
I’d sooner burn down the BBC than pay them a farthing.
Yeah, that makes no sense. TV licenses aren’t that expensive. Are they trying to charge him for 10 years of unpaid licenses or something?
Word.
Always trust your gut. If you feel like they’re lying to you, they are.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12800319/Travis-Kelce-fan-Veronika-Rajek-people-thought-pretty-Taylor-Swift.html
*lights Q signal*
Who around here thinks the whole thing is fake? Looks like they are gearing up for a love triangle next episode.
Too pretty to exist? Nah.
Too egotistical to exist? In a just world, yes.
I’m one of the few here (the only one?) who doesn’t think it is fake. I get to out contrarian all of the contrarians.
“Who around here thinks the whole thing is fake?”
Well, a certain percentage of her, anyway.
bond villain, pt 2
More than two dozen House Democrats on Tuesday accused Elon Musk’s X of “profiting off violent content by a terrorist organization” and demanded that Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino address Hamas-related content on the social media platform.
“The platform has become a hotbed of misinformation and terrorist propaganda,” wrote the group of 27 Democrats, led by Reps. Dan Goldman of New York and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, in a letter obtained by CNBC.
The already “inexcusable” presence of antisemitic content on X, they wrote, had become “outright indefensible” since the deadly Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel by Hamas militants. The U.S. has labeled Hamas a terror group since 1997.
“Given the many flagrant examples of X profiting off this content, we need detailed answers from X in considering potential legislation that would prevent such activity in the future,” wrote the lawmakers.
I’m sure they have a clear and specific definition of “antisemitic content’ to guide their investigations, provided by the ADL.
*Elon Musk proceeds to ban the accounts of Tlalib, Cortez, Sarsour, Sharpton et. al.*
They’ve painted themselves into a nice corner. If Musk makes a big deal about taking down Hamas posts, the other half of the Dems will start crying.
In addition to the records, the House Democrats asked Yaccarino and Musk to detail how X plans to address Hamas-related content currently on the platform. They also want to know what changes the company “plans to implement to ensure that the harmful spread of terrorist propaganda does not happen again.”
I’m sure those congresstards sincerely believe comprehensive content control is possible. Just farm it out to the underpants gnomes.
Have you seen this new stuff about CTIL and the creation of the official censorship regime?
It literally is a bunch of Orwell disciples inside the government desperately trying to make 1984 a reality.
And not just here… collaborating across the globe.
That nobody us being arrested off of these documents should tell you just how powerful these folks are.
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1729537450752811097?t=j-3ZLXHnYAdS06aK6nvh5g&s=19
Not exactly news that plenty of 1984 envious folks trying hard, every single day, to make this happen. Such as the Disinformation Governance Board that existed for four months last year before pushback ended it.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/28/koch-backed-network-nikki-haley/
Libertarian-y as fuck. The Kochs are so principled that they refuse to endorse Trump, but will endorse Nikki Haley (aka Dick Cheney with a nice rack)
It’s fair to conclude that the Koch network’s (belated) criticism of Bush’s foreign policy was wholly disingenuous
I think the Koch libertarian ship sank for good with their sponsorship of the Stanford Internet Observatory.
Co-funding a CIA front for censorship of political speech is pretty much the opposite end of the diagram from Libertarian.
The only question remaining would be if it was a free choice.
CTL
Christian Temperance League?