Tomb Raider left me alone this weekend. Bad idea, since Spud is in town and… well… that’s an invitation to trouble. I won’t go into details, but this time, we only ended up with some TROs and liver damage. She’ll be unamused on her return. Fortunately, there’s no Palestinians near her dance festival- that wouldn’t end well, other than possibly opening her eyes about the useful idiots she’s chosen to associate with. In any case, cue the old engineer joke ending with, “Great, now I can get some work done.”
Birthdays today include the Godfather of Baroque music; a shining example of the economic theories of Schumpeter; the true inventor of HAL; the inspiration for “I’d Walk The Line”; a true Star of physical chemistry; the spiritual father of Alex Smith; a guy who actually got a pejorative phrase named after him; a stupidly great clarinetist whose wind blew good; a shitty pianist, but don’t tell her father; the only NFL Hall of Famer killed by Nazis; a guy whose life was the perfect arc of successful leftist hustle; some basketball player; and some chick with documented indifferent sex skills.
Mine are, of course, documented, and so are Links.
How about, I dunno, “stay the fuck out of this” as an option?
Dude, Lesson One in dealing with Twitter mobs- never apologize.
On the same topic, our Governess finally says something sensible, so is of course walking it back.
Fuck the Quakers and their stupid oatmeal.
Personally, I preferred Girl Scouts, but chacun a son gout, n’est-ce pas?
Everything is better with monkeys.
The academic version of “hide the salami.”
“Hey, Old Man, you keep posting weird jazz and bluegrass and prog rock and folk stuff, what we want is roots!” said exactly no-one. So here’s some roots.
Good morning, Old Man! Taj is always a great way to start the day! 😁🎶
Taj is the baddest-assed janqui of all time
his Statesboro Blues is legit
Morning all. I, too, can get some work done this weekend. My wife is at some sale and my 1099s have arrived. Time to do taxes….
My sympathies! Don’t know that we’ll use them (as longtime TurboTax users,) but I do like Tax Act’s current ad slogan: “Let’s get them over with.”
Taxes are the one bill that the two of us share that I don’t handle.
Mostly because I wouldn’t handle it well. Fuck You, Cut Spending!
I do the taxes because I’m considerably better at math than Mrs Prole. Irritating stuff to do, but gotta play to your strengths.
I’m still waiting on some paperwork to get my taxes done.
I did them 3rd week of January. Barring selling stock options when they vest (and that HSA stuff always seems to be worded to confuse you if you need to report things differently) my tax scenarios are pretty simple once I get the paperwork in hand.
Schwab always takes until about now to get their 1099s out, for whatever reason. Just received them Wednesday.
Yep, plus waiting on some other miscellaneous documentation.
Same. Our mortgage interest dropped below where the standard deduction covers it several years ago, so itemization isn’t worth it. Between Trump’s deduction increase and paying off the mortgage, I don’t see us going back to itemization except for some one time events.
Think I’m going to get hosed on owing though. Incentive pay increased over the last half and the withholding tables suck for multiple income streams.
I currently have the SiriusXM classical channel rewound to my favorite “early music” show, but guess who’s coming up on “Baroque and Beyond”?
Ahhhhh……Bach
Mornin, Old Man!
Fuck the Quakers and their stupid oatmeal.
That is not very nice! Some of my best friends are Quakers!
That which was done by you was seen.
I don’t think “antiwar” is word they’re looking for.
But never change, The New York Times.
“Semite” is not spelled “w-a-r”, NYT.
For being so anti-war, I’ve never heard anyone on the left demand Hamas that surrender. That would end the war pretty quick, no?
Well the Denver to Santa Barbara flight last night was canceled….so my flight this morning was canceled. Notified at 10 PM last night.
Thankfully the United app actually functioned pretty well and I was able to get SBA to LAX and LAX to Dulles confirmed without any additional costs. This is just a really long week.
Get home tonight – hang out a bit tomorrow then down to Norfolk on mon afternoon for all of next week/end.
And you were just this close to the best BBQ in the country! Next time you are in Santa Barbara, head north about a 1/2 hour to Santa Maria, and then west to Jocko’s
https://jockossteakhouse.com/
Flew out of SBA. I was in Oxnard/Port Hueneme all week. I hate driving in CA.
My old stomping grounds; I lived in Ventura for about a decade. I used to fly out of Oxnard, and it was a great airport for practicing when I was getting flight instruction.
Some great restaurants, etc in the area. Posted about Red Tandem brewery a couple nights ago. Also enjoyed the Korean Ramen joint Poke Ramen. Guess they had just opened a little before my 2018 trip out there – ate there a couple times then and again this week. Also Saigon Pho was excellent.
whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
I hope “The Biden” forgets about Russia when he wakes up. Domestic problems are a cop’s worst situation.
Bend over or don’t bend over?
Alhough Biden does probably ache all over from being played like a fiddle so hard, he probably won’t even feel another bend-over – unlike the rest of us.
I’m expecting an old man shaking fist at cloud speech and an escalation of the war.
I’m not understanding why anyone bothers to assassinate someone in an arctic gulag.
Pour encourager les autres.
We don’t know fuck-all what happened but don’t let that stop Joe and his warmongering cronies from shooting off their malignant mouths.
Perhaps, he wasn’t assassinated at all. In Russia they are talking about a blood clot.
We will never know, probably.
Complications from accidental polonium ingestion no doubt….
“We’re not allowed to say DEI anymore,” said one staffer identified as being from Texas A&M University at Galveston. “They just rebranded, so we’re still doing the same work. We just can’t call it that.”
Surprise, surprise.
Old Guy Music is good.
Who couldn’t see that coming?
It’s hard to believe anyone could be dim enough to think you can get rid of wokism without firing the wokists and eliminating administrative departments/positions dedicated to wokism. But, legislators . . . .
Ok. Figure out what they’re calling it next and kill that too.
You can play whackamole ad infinitum. Fire the wokists. Eliminate their positions.
One thing the March Through the Institutions has shown is that personnel is policy, and entryism works to take over and maintain control of an organization. Either the Remnant Culture adapts by adopting strategies and tactics that are proven to be effective, or it will continue its slide onto the ash heap of history.
We should absolutely do that and I’m
comfortable playing whack a mole. They should be ones in retreat and hiding.
The baseline answer, as always, is smaller government.
Then it is nobody’s business how a private institution misspends its capital.
All the rest is drama for drama’s sake and identity politics. Our time would be better spent reviewing the latest episodes of La Reina del Sur.
This message brought to you again and again by a guy who would vote Republican if they really believed and did any of the things they say and purport to stand for.
If they had been as committed to abolition as they are to smaller govt, we’d have slavery in every state.
Private institutions solve this problem.
Until they capture the government….
Consider this anecdote about conservatives.
During the Lil Rona Panic, I posted on Reopen NH and Reopen PA groups about the right way to deal with the government forcing masks on kids and the infiltration of woke ideology is to have private schools, i.e. no government run schooling. Then parents have full control over what happens with their kids. If they don’t like how the school is treating their kid, they pull their and their money out. I also said attempts to prohibit schools
Libertarians in both states got it, but that is expected. Conservatives in PA not only got it, but seemed excited and enthused about shutting down government run schools. Conservatives in NH responded with, “But what about school taxes? We’d still be paying them.”
Yeah, they’re just going to double-down on all of it. These types love to be martyrs for the cause.
From reading the article, the UT Board of Regents is prepared to martyr the fuck outta anyone trying to skirt the law, by firing them.
Any day now, I’m sure . . . .
Well, maybe they’ll surprise me. But the Board of Regents is part of the Dominant Culture, so I’m not optimistic.
This is Texas. For now at least, the dominant culture ain’t what it is elsewhere. And the people running off their mouths and trying to obstruct the law are jeopardizing funding for any campus not complying with the law.
So I’m a tiny bit hopeful that this shit stops, at least until Texas goes Blue again.
They will not stop until Texas is blue. The only question is how long will it take.
Insider track; even blue state universities are looking to drop this shit. They know the lawsuits are coming, and the big hold up is so many profs/grad students are true believers. It really depends on where they are with grad student unionization.
The correct solution is to kill all of the ____-studies departments and return to a world where liberal arts progams are mostly populated by the idiot sons of the idle rich.
Texas A&M
the 17th freest state doesn’t put up with that commie janqui lib shit
Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn are The Most Conservative Dudes Ever™ and would never let a nickel of your tax dollars be misspent. We all thank the Baby Jesus that Obama didn’t let any of his tranny army come in here from California and corrupt the birthplace of John Wayne, Winchester Repeating Rifle, Colt and Company, the Ford F100, fish tacos, boob jobs, and all things decent in this country.
That overall freedom ranking is … weird. 6th overall in economic freedom, dead last in “personal freedom”, which has some components that a fair number of Glibs would not consider freedoms.
In retrospect, though, FL might have been a better place to have put down roots.
The freedom ranking was done by Cato, who is still pretty libertarian, I think.
As an Aggie it doesn’t surprise me at all they’ve gone all in on DEI. As a school they’ve always had a little brother syndrome with Texas, which means moving left while shit talking it at the same time.its not the same institution it was 20 years ago, when I was there, and I’m sure the old Ags would say the same about my time (I mean, i was in a coed corps outfit. Imagine that!)
A plan to establish the largest monkey-breeding facility in the US, which would allow 30,000 macaques to roam within outfitted warehouses in Georgia, is facing a furious backlash from animal rights groups and some local residents.
Negotiations to get that place built will involve a fair amount of gibbon take.
Rhesus christ.
That’s gonna make Swiss let out a howler two.
He’ll discreetly avoid the shit-flinging.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=don%27t+monkey+with+another+man%27s+monkey%2C+yputube&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIr5NgjW5ja0
How soon before everyone starts to ape that joke?
Anybody who steals my schtick can suck macaque.
He didn’t mean to… He’s just a chimp off the old block.
Given the deteriorating state of the military, training monkeys in gorilla warfare might be prudent.
That is how you get Planet of the Apes.
Do you want Planet of the Apes? I didn’t think so!
Escape… From the Planet of the Apes.
“I am sorry that the truth hurts.”
Holy shit… if I were Jewish I would seriously consider hightailing it out of Europe soon. We all know where this is going.
Yeah, the apologizing is just throwing chum in the water.
To be fair, though, this appears to be a case of “don’t wade into politics if you’re running a business. Sell to everybody and STFU about anything remotely politicsl.”
Fair enough but where does it end? To me it seems to end in the elimination of all wrongthought because everyone is too afraid to say what’s on their mind. (Yeah, I’m aware we’re 1/2 to 3/4 of the way there already….)
I’d be more concerned about a low level employee getting canned, rather than someone who represents the leadership.
But yeah, your private views should not be punishable in a better world than we suffer under.
Powerline fun
Heh, this matches my experience: https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-12-at-11.54.49%E2%80%AFAM.png
Too many good ones today
Good morning! It’s a sunny but cold day here. We’ve been watching that Chosen series, anyone else like it?
I’m a big fan of The Chosen, yes. I could probably blather on about it — but I’m a kernel engineer, not a TV critic, Jim! Or something like that. Suffice it to say I like it and I think it strikes the right balance of avoiding “Buddy Christ” but still showing the infinite mercy of God. Which is nice.
Morning, all. Re: getting work done… IT messed up my preferred way of working (yay… I’ll spare y’all the details), so I’ll be putting more RAM and a second nvme m.2 in my work laptop so I can use WSL2 to have some sort of usable work environment and re-arranging what’s plugged into what … doesn’t that just sound terribly fun and exciting? Maybe next weekend I’ll watch paint dry or something….
We’re fortunate in that we get a choice of laptops – Mac, Windows or Linux.
(overwhelming choice is Mac, with an engineering VM to go with it).
When I joined the original company (before a merger or two into the multinational we now are), Mac was not just an option but preferred. No one cared if you put your own Linux on (which is what I did). Current multinational is (not my department) one of the major retailers of business and consumer PCs and has a long, cozy relationship with Windows… so you can imagine how that flipped post-merger.
Supposedly (for the past 2 years) they’ve been working on an IT-tolerated if barely supported Ubuntu image… but they insist on having to install it (instead of just giving an install image) and getting through that process is roughly akin to the old “File cabinet in the basement behind the ‘Beware of the Leopard’ sign” process. Those who have managed to run it have been broken 3 times in the past 2 months that I know of due to IT doing “Everyone runs Azure AD now, right?” things… so I don’t expect it to stay useful as they keep pushing that way.
I really don’t get the concept of “farm out IT to someone else’s cloud so they can data farm all the email / whatnot that passes through their servers”… but it probably saves a dime per Windows OEM license or something stupid.
I don’t know the numbers but there must be some business reason to do it… otherwise, why is everybody doing it? I’m assuming we employ lawyers to actually read the contracts we sign for that stuff. I mean, data breaches are not cheap and it actually is in these companies’ interest to keep the data secure, I would think.
Running server farms is expensive. So much easier to just connect all the clients to MS and open tickets with them when something breaks.
Although the move to Apple Silicon really messed up my workflow, since I was happily using Virtual Box and Vagrant; I’ve more or less settled down w/ Podman on my engineering VM (some legacy packages I need just aren’t compatible w/ the ARM chips, so even getting VMs going on the laptop doesn’t help).
You have to be within the top two or three rungs of the ladder to get anything that is not the standard Windows 10 machine here. Some “designer” types get away with the tired old stereotype that “designers use Macs”, too. Even though we are a “Microsoft shop”.
Great show. Still need to pick up S3 on blu-ray. Not sure whether S4 is on the app yet. My folks watched the first couple eps in the theater.
I’ve been thinking, aren’t there enough republican AG’s to sue Biden and other democrats for $300 million? There have to be some bullshit lawsuits they can come up with.
Yes but will the Democrat they sue be a massive dipshit whose incompetent lawyer forgets to file for a jury and mouths off to the judge 30 times?
Joe Biden?
He’s much too old to stand trial.
If you are being railroaded and the court’s decision is all but preordained, you might as well make as much noise about it as possible and use it as an ad hoc campaign event.
Also gullible republican donors are going to wind up
paying your bills anyway.
If they can prosecute Trump for actions taken as President, suing Biden to be personally liable for the expenses of the states for illegal immigration given his EOs caused it seems legally plausible. Just have to make sure you don’t file in DC.
That ought to damned well be more than $300 million.
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Bonus word was easy today, jumped right out.
Agreed.
That was neat. And the plural.
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Took way longer on the last 10 words than it should have.
“I’d like to buy a vowel, Pat.”
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Those “White House officials” acting outraged about Navalny’s murdering are tone-deaf about the left’s orchestrated attempts to eliminate the U.S. opposition leader by bankrupting him, removing him from the ballot, and jailing him if they could pull that off.
Lawfare versus murder is a matter of degree, not some completely different thing. Either way involves taking out the opposition and making an example pour encourager les autres.
You expect nuanced thought from those high on outrage?
Oh I’m sure they’d murder him if they thought they could get away with it…
“hide the salami”
Silicone Saturday on topic!
https://archive.is/NuKDs
And a bonus:
https://archive.is/PSNJc/4a9fd7bda06d3e12adf1d50ed422e0f17ce68634.webp
Prost.
something… something… “thirsty”
“If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I’m sorry, my friends, there would be no Canada the next day,” Hochul said in a portion of her speech on Thursday at an event for the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York.
“That is a natural reaction. You have a right to defend yourself and to make sure that it never happens again. And that is Israel’s right.”
Governor Buckteeth must’ve had a rare moment of common sense, since it appears that she was channeling a better governor.
I’m enjoyed this small rift in the democrat party.
<em.Those “White House officials” acting outraged about Navalny’s murdering are tone-deaf about the left’s orchestrated attempts to eliminate the U.S. opposition leader by bankrupting him, removing him from the ballot, and jailing him if they could pull that off.
If they ever got a criminal conviction, they’d put Trump in the deepest darkest maximum security dungeon we have, “for his own protection”.
The iron fist of righteousness
Donald Trump’s way of doing business is a window into his soul.
So his devastating loss Friday in a New York fraud case that threatens the empire on which he built his art of the deal mythology encapsulates more than a legal defeat.
It offers a character study of the behavior, beliefs and worldview that define the DNA of an irrepressible figure and unchained force who is again tearing at American unity, institutions, democracy and the rule of law as another contentious election looms.
A trial, which Trump tainted with histrionics and contempt for the judicial system, and Judge Arthur Engoron’s final, stinging judgment, revealed four foundational codes that explain Trump’s tumultuous path through a life that he simply sees as an endless stream of business and political deals he must close.
Trump thinks rules are for other people. He will always break them in seeking more wealth, more attention, or more votes.
If reality doesn’t get the ex-president what he wants, he conjures a new one.
Trump is compelled always to fight — even when stepping back would be smarter.
And when accountability finally arrives, he sees justice as an act of persecution by his enemies.
These Trump traits leap out of a staggering 92-page ruling handed down by Engoron, which left Trump facing a half-billion-dollar hole in his finances because of penalties and obligations in this and other cases.
He was not on trial for his actions. He was on trial for the crimes he committed in his heart and in his soul.
He repudiated The Body.
And to think that some CNN flunkie had that turgid, completely self-unaware mess ready and waiting to press “Print”.
Ugh, the left is going to run with this dialed up to 11 until they manufacture the next shiny object.
I think these people actually believe their own bullshit. I suppose that is easier than looking in the mirror.
*Lent a copy of Atlas Shrugged to an acquaintance once. They had asked for it because they had always been told about and wanted to see for themselves.
A week later I asked what she thought: “I didn’t get through the first chapter. I dont know….it just made me feel very uncomfortable.”
No shit you proggie twit. It’s not a novel, it is a mirror.
The judge encapsulated the former president’s brazen refusal to play by the same rules under which everyone else must live — and that in this case are the key to a functioning banking and economic system — with the words: “ The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience.”
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The climax of the case deepened the extraordinary legal morass facing Trump who is embroiled in multiple cases and faces the first of his criminal trials next month. The judgment portrays Trump, his adult sons and the Trump Organization, flouting business ethics, rules and laws to pull valuations for their property assets out of the air to get favorable loans, and then even more remarkably, refusing to accept the facts of their conduct when confronted with the evidence.
Most shocking of all is his lack of contrition.He steadfastly refuses to throw himself on the mercy of the court. He refuses to confess his sins and beg for God’s mercy and forgiveness.
Engoron, meanwhile, marveled at the ex-president’s audacity in flouting business ethics in inflating the values of his real estate and then his refusal to accept the truth of his actions when confronted with the evidence. “Defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways. Instead, they adopt a ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ posture that the evidence belies,” he wrote. Engoron explained that such a crushing verdict was necessary to account for Trumps ill-gotten gains — because he believes they will continue in the absence of a painful price: “Donald Trump testified that, even today, he does not believe the Trump Organization needed to make any changes based on the facts that came out during this trial.”
We’ll show the upstart who’s boss. Might makes right.
Any explanation about why the 10,000 sq ft condo became 30,000 sq ft? Other valuations are subjective but a measurement shouldn’t be off by so much.
Fucking grafiti criminals* have put up “Free Gaza” crap up. I want to append “from the Pali terrorists”.
*fuckers should be hanged from the nearest lamppost with a rattle can shoved down their gullet
During the lockdown years, there were news stories about racists defacing murals and street paintings with phrases like “Stop killing each other” and “Get drugs out of the hood”. The story was quietly swept under the rug when it turned out to be a black guy painting the phrases on them.
Sorry about cursing at everyone last night on the Zoom who has snow
/looks at the inch or two pilled up outside now
Say what now?
Snow? Not where I am… [current location – Virginia Key]
Back home, maybe.
Never apologize.
I just got back a week ago from Jackson Hole. First day conditions actually weren’t that great, it was icy and super foggy so hard to see the bumps. It was actually much better conditions at Squaw Valley the week before, spring like with decent coverage. The second and third day at Jackson were awesome tho, it snowed and by the third day we were tree skiing in waist high. That mountain fucking rocks, it is a Mecca for advanced skiing, lots of very steep stuff. I’d go back in a heartbeat, nice that it’s on the Ikon pass. We will be back with the kids skiing Squaw and Alpine in a couple weeks, should be good spring conditions.
🖕 😉
Heheh, got some new sticks as well, Volkl Mantra M6s. I went a bit shorter than my last pair and that has been a good idea as they go as fast as I want on the steeps and are easier to handle in the trees and moguls. Love em.
No justice, no trucks
The United Auto Workers union is threatening to go on strike next week at Ford Motor Co.’s largest and most profitable factory in a dispute over local contract language.
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The strike threat comes one day after Ford CEO Jim Farley told an analysts’ conference in New York that last fall’s contentious strike changed Ford’s relationship with the union to the point where the automaker will “think carefully” about where it builds future vehicles.
That commie attention whore Fain hasn’t been on the teevee recently. He misses all his adoring pals in the business media.
Not a violation of the contract they just struck for a few months back?
The NLRB says no.
Does their contract ban work stoppages? (Serious question. It’s standard contract language. If it not in there, Ford must have had different bargaining priorities over the years)
Related. Poor oppressed UAW.
“Employees of Stellantis NV represented by the United Auto Workers could see profit sharing checks of $13,860, though some could be more and some less based on hours worked, the automaker said Thursday.”
That’s $13,860 more in bonus money or profit sharing than I’ve seen in my entire career.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/chrysler/2024/02/15/stellantis-profit-sharing-checks-uaw-2023-earnings/72595398007/
My first year at [current employer], I got a princely end-of-year bonus of $25.
We do get to choose a turkey or ham at Christmas time. I usually go with the Christmas boneless (ham).
Glad I got my truck from KTP already. Couple of minor wtf issues, but it’s been great. So much better than the GM POS I got at work.
Kitchen Table Polyamory? How did that get you a pickup truck?
Well, Fred Williamson was the first NFL player to wear white shoes, and the shoes are in the hall of fame.
Whoops
The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.3% from December to January after having fallen -0.1% from November to December. Measured year over year, producer prices rose by a mild 0.9% in January.
Excluding volatile food and energy costs, “core” wholesale prices rose 0.5%, the most since last July. Compared with a year ago, core prices climbed 2%, up from 1.7% in the previous month.
Public frustration with inflation has become a central issue in President Joe Biden’s re-election bid. Measures of inflation have plummeted from their heights and are nearing the Federal Reserve’s target level. Yet many Americans remain exasperated that average prices are still about 19% higher than they were when Biden took office.
Some of the January rise in producer prices was driven by measurement quirks. They include an increase in the cost of financial management services, which jumped 5.5% just from December to January. In addition, many companies impose price increases early in the calendar year, which often boosts overall inflation measures in January.
The cost of financial services is rising? What could possibly be driving that? “Excluding” energy doesn’t work so well when those costs are baked into in the price of everything.
I’d say volatility is at least as much of an issue as simple inflation. Prices seem to be all over the place.
Some of Friday’s data is used to calculate the Fed’s preferred price measure, which will be reported later this month. That gauge has been running well below the better-known consumer price index. In the second half of 2023, the Fed’s favored measure, showed that prices rose at just a 2% annual rate, matching its inflation target.
We”ll just keep torturing the numbers until they tell us what we want to hear.
“ When the judge announced he would hear Terrence’s testimony in camera, Fani’s lawyers knew it was all over. They knew the judge would hear, albeit off the record, that Nathan Wade and Fani Willis were bumping uglies in 2021 — before Wade got hired. Even if that fact wasn’t later admitted into the record, the judge would know.
So Terrence had to be destroyed.
The monotonous energy of the long, dull, privilege-related afternoon suddenly shifted and electrified everyone watching. It started unexpectedly when Fani’s lawyer peered at Nathan’s poor former law partner and sweetly but explosively asked her next question, something like, “You left the firm under bad circumstances, didn’t you?”
Oh, no.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/privileges-saturday-february-17-2024?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Later in the post (after discussing a particular interview by Tucker Carlson):
“If learning Benz’s explanation feels overwhelming instead of empowering, stop thinking of winning in terms of a single apocalyptic battle. Try thinking about winning a war of inches, a guerrilla war waged in a thousand thousand tiny battles, from the halls of Congress right down to Penciltuckee’s School Board meeting room. Or if it ever comes to that, think about winning as a war of quiet resistance and stubborn noncompliance.
You can be quietly stubborn, can’t you?”
“Alexei Navalny’s ’cause of death’ revealed: Russia claims opposition leader died from ‘sudden death syndrome’ in prison – but his body is MISSING while ‘killers cover their tracks’ ”
sudden death syndrome???
It’s a common disease among political prisoners and Canadians.
Also called Epstein’s disorder.
“New details are emerging about the Canadian tourist charged with abducting and raping an 80-year-old grandmother with Alzheimer’s at a luxurious Bahamas resort.
Gordon Wilkie, 61, of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, was arrested and charged with rape in the shocking incident on January 28 at the Warwick Hotel Paradise Island Bahamas.
DailyMail.com can confirm that Wilkie is a faculty member at Novia Scotia Community College, where he specializes in renewable energy and has been placed on leave following his arrest.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13092919/Canadian-professor-Gordon-Wilkie-rape-Bahamas.html
Not to jump to conclusions, but he sounds like an asshole.
Well, he *is* Canadian….
Revelatory
The Beyhive is busting out its cowboy hats and breaking out in line dances.
After the singer debuted two country singles, “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages,” on Sunday during the Super Bowl, some country enthusiasts hoped that Beyoncé’s star power would help bring more recognition for Black artists within the genre. Many people also pointed out country’s roots in the African diaspora and believed Beyoncé’s venture into country would be an act of reclaiming the music, which has often been perceived as a genre for white men.
Obsessed with race? Us? Never!
Charley Pride and Darius Rucker would like a word.
Francesca T. Royster, a professor of English at DePaul University and the author of “Black Country Music,” said that Black musicians’ contributions to the country genre have historically been made invisible by the industry. Modern country, she said, was born out of minstrel traditions that used blackface and turned Black music into a joke for white audiences.
As the music became mainstream, its origins in Black culture and creativity were erased, Royster said.
Oh.
Black people secretly invented everything. It is known.
“Don Henley can be grilled about 16 year-old prostitute OD’ing at his LA home in 1980 by lawyers for men he claims stole lyrics from Eagles’ Hotel California album
Attorneys for Kosinski will introduce a statement from 1981, seen by DailyMail.com, written and signed by singer Henley in which he admits to trying to have sex with the underage girl and that he shared cocaine with her before she overdosed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13093449/Don-Henley-grilled-underage-prostitute-overdose-LA-home-lyrics-Eagles-Hotel-California.html
In the future, lawyers will be replaced by archeologists.
My husband somehow decided it was a good idea to wander into a bitchfest on Facebook about Travis Kelce’s abuser ways and how he triggered every female assault victim everywhere when he went after Andy Reid. There was fear expressed for Tay-Tay.
I’m like, “Don’t go there.”
He said, “I already did” and it was the usual stuff SJWs throw down and he walked right into the talking points. *sigh*
I’m tempted to go into that thread and say, “It’s up to you to mitigate your own triggers. Why are you watching things where big men get mean?”
Because there is no violence in football?
Not enough for my taste.
mitigate your own triggers
Bully. Victim-blamer.