Tomb Raider decided that for my spring break, we’d take a run down to New Orleans; we’re both music geeks, so a music-oriented trip seemed in order. Austin was out because of impending SXSW (which is a shitshow), Chicago out because of the ever present danger of sudden blizzards and ice storms, New York City out because I’ve had my fill of that place for quite a while to come. So we were pretty much left with this. I’ll be there all week and certainly try to do a “New York Jew In The Mist” kind of observational article.
Also observed are birthdays, and today’s include one of fathers of libertarianism by way of Kropotkin; a guy whose contributions to knowledge were seemingly infinite; a guy who needed Watson even more than Holmes did; the creator of Social Security; a guy who actually couldn’t break the laws of physics; the daddy of all flatpickers; a guy who was never late for the trane; a woman who made raincoats famous; and Team Red’s even dumber idea than running a quack.
Laissez les bons Links rouler!
“We have to do this! It’s the only way we can get more weapons smuggled in!”
Because it’s much harder to do this way. I do have a vision of Wile E. Coyote and a boulder…
I would support a constitutional amendment allowing Argentinians to be the president.
Another reason I didn’t want to go to New York City.
The Old Man had a great Peter Green cover yesterday. What could be better than that? A Peter Green original. Three lead guitars is an invitation to chaos. Three lead guitars guided by a genius is a path to Heaven.
Good morning all!
Safe travels OMWC and Tomb Raider. Hope you get lots of good music and good food!
Good morning, Beau!
What’s Spanish for “I have a pen and a phone”?
Plata y plomo?
Interesting variation, but I prefer the classic plata o plomo.
hahaha – not enough coffee ‘o’ indeed, not ‘y’
We don’t need no stinking badges?
Yeah, that was my first thought.
On the other hand, as I understand it, the Argentine president actually has legal/lawful/constitutional powers to do what Milei is doing unlike the US president.
For later trips, I’d think Memphis would be a great destination for a music-oriented vacation. (As far as I’m concerned, though, one could skip Graceland without missing much.)
I would say Nashville, but these academic types don’t like that kind of music. 😆
I was highly unimpressed by Nashville. Ultra slick and commercial, every bar and club band was doing listless covers. No desire to go back. Austin would have been perfect except for SXSW and ACL weeks.
Is anything left that’s worthwhile in Memphis?
Or was it all left in Texas?
Don and his wife introduced me to Central BBQ, and then later Don and I went out drinking to High Cotton and Flying Saucer. All three are great places.
I noticed places on Beale close early. I think most were closed Sunday.
Flying Saucer
The best thing in Memphis was the Hunt-Phelan home. It had belonged to the same the family from before the Civil War, and in the mid-90’s they turned it into a museum, managed by the Graceland foundation.
Most house museums have antique furniture to show what it could have looked like. The Hunt-Phelan home had the actual furniture that people used in everyday life for more than a century.
The owners got mad at Graceland, auctioned off all the furniture, and turned the house into a bed and breakfast.
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There is a Bass Pro Shop in the Pyramid.
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You can’t tour the FedEx hub anymore, unless you are a FedEx Vice President
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The Memphis Belle got moved out of town
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I hear that Gus’s fried chicken is good, but I’ve not eaten there
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The other house museums that are interesting are the Magevney House and the Mallory-Neely House, both on Adams Avenue, and each showing a different economic/social class. Magevney was lower middle class, while the Mallory-Neely house was upper middle class. Eugene Magevney did become a millionaire, though, through land speculation, and added a room or two to his small house.
Often, the city doesn’t have the funds to keep the houses open, so it’s hit or miss if one can visit.
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The one museum that visitors should go to is the Pink Palace Museum. Back in the 1910’s, a guy named Clarence Saunders started a business you might have heard of: Piggly Wiggly. He became rich, and started building a mansion using pink Georgia marble. He lost his money in the stock market before he could move into his house. He built a second fortune, lost that one in the Crash of ‘29, and, starting with nothing, again, was working on his third or fourth million when he died.
The bankers turned the house over to the city, which turned it into a museum. In then60’s they expanded with a new, two-level building; the lower floor is the natural history of the region, and the upper floor is the cultural history. In my opinion, it is a better museum than any of the Smithsonian ones, excepting the Air and Space museum.
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The Spaghetti Warehouse is gone. I think there is still one in Ybir City, in Tampa
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The Rendezvous is still there, near the Peabody Hotel.
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The Peabody Hotel still does the March of the ducks every morning and evening. I took my wife to the restaurant there, once. It was called “Chez Philippe” at the time.
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The Panchos restaurant closed. I think the original one in West Memphis is still open. You can buy Pancho’s salsa and Pancho’s cheese dip at grocery stores now.
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The Mall of Memphis was torn down years ago
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The Raleigh Springs Mall was torn down years ago
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Beale Street is still there, of course. The only thing interesting to me on Beale Street is A. Schwab’s, a general store that’s been around since the late 19th Century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Schwab's
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Audubon Park is probably still open, but the Lichterman Nature Center burned down years ago.
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I think Sun Studios is still open.
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The zoo is pretty cool. They made all these themed areas for the animals—Big Cat Country, Primate Canyon, the Farm (a petting zoo), the Northwest Passage….you don’t have to pay an extra quarter to get into the tiny aquarium, anymore.
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I never visited the Chuckalissa Indian Village, and don’t know if it is still around.
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There’s Graceland, of course, but the only time a Memphian goes there is when a friend from out of town pressures him to visit Graceland. I’ve been thrice. It is both more interesting, and less interesting than one would think. If you are an Elvis fan, and have the time, you might as well take the two hour drive to Tupelo, Mississippi, and see that town. There are signs and plaques up everywhere, about where Elvis ate hamburgers, where he got his guitar, etc.
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My dad, a Baptist Pastor, attended Mid America Theological Seminary, back when it occupied the original Children of Israel Temple. It was really cool-looking inside. That building is still standing (I think), and is now where the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering is located.
Mid-America moved east.
The original Jewish Synagogue had built a new building in 1884, but that second building has since been demolished. The Temple Israel synagogue now meets in a nice looking but bland building somewhere out in east Memphis.
Gus’s is consistently the best fried chicken I’ve ever had. I’ve had it in Memphis and we have one in Austin.
Would one find good blues clubs on Beale Street (or in the general vicinity,) and would the area be reasonably safe in the evening for naive tourists?
Last time I went it was safe enough, but plenty of grifters and pick pockets.
It’s plenty safe because there are a ton of people.
I don’t go to clubs, so t he only recommendation I can make is to try them all.
Since Beale is a major tourist attraction, the city tries to make sure its safe. It didn’t used to be.
By the way, the Hunt-Phelan Home is on Beale Street, further east (away from the River), if you want to look at it.
I forgot to mention some other stuff:
Mud Island! How could I forget Mud Island? I think it’s because the museum there is closed. Can you tell I am a history buff? The River Walk is still there, with “the Gulf of Mexico” as a giant swimming pool at the end.
Memphis is not a pretty city, but viewed from the Rover Walk on a clement day, you see it at its best.
Overton Park has a nine-hole golf course that is pleasant, on a clement day, excepting for the giant wasp swarm on the first green.
Near the entrance to the golf course, on Poplar (I’m doing this from memory, so my geography may be off), is the book store that gave John Grisham his first break.
Somewhere nearby, at the edge of the park, is the Brooks Museum of art.
East Parkway has nice homes to look at.
The area around the Pink Palace is a neighborhood called Chickasaw Gardens. It is a pleasant place to walk, on a clement day.
Memphis gets hot, soupy air hot, in the summer. Spring or Fall are definitely the recommended times to visit.
Two or three hours to the east of Memphis is Shiloh Battlefield. Seeing General Grant’s ghost in the upper window of the house is by appointment only. The place is not commercialized like Gettysburg supposedly is.
A nice place to have a cold fried chicken and fruit turnover picnic.
When I was there, there was a heavy police presence when the clubs were open. Note that the clubs are not open hours like the bars on Broadway in Nashville are. Some nights they close early. Poking around, it looks like I’m wrong about them being closed on Sundays.
I stayed at a hotel near the convention center. Convenient for FreedomFest 2023. I’d walk between my hotel and Beale St/the downtown area. The most derelicts, whether day or night, I ran into were closer to the hotel. There are some churches near the hotel. The churches feed the derelicts.
I don’t remember if Don gave me any recommendations for music when he and I were out. I talked with a local that worked at my hotel who said that BB King’s is not the tourist trap you might think it is. I went there one night with a date. Both us liked the band.
Oz or Walker – man that is a tough call on who was worse.
? Trump cost both of them a seat in the Senate, which led to more Biden nonsense.
Republican party movers and voters are the ones responsible for them being on the general election ballot. Make stupid primary choices…
OMWC
Sadly Sir, I cannot meet you and Tomb Raider in N.O.
I had forgotten that I am scheduled to be a lab rat this week. It is going to eat up my entire week.
Last visit to Doc-
Doc: “So Mr. Suthenboy you are here to….”
Me, cutting him off: “No, actually I am here to see you about this horrible noise in my ears that I cant get to stop. It is worse than my tinnitus.”
Doc: “What? I am a gastroenterologist. Your ears? What does it sound like?”
Me: “It sound exactly like my wife chewing my ass constantly about not coming to see you.”
Doc: ” I see. It is a common condition. I know an effective treatment for that. You will have to undergo the XYZ examination.”
Me, under my breath through clenched teeth: “Goddammit”
My apologies to you both and thank you for the invitation.
Kosher Cajun? Now there is an oxymoron if ever I saw one.
Heh. My restaurant suggestion didn’t have one thing he could eat.
What’s wrong with blackened catfish on a bagel?
Oh, right, catfish on anything.
Frankly, I wanted to see her shock and horror at our conversation. 😉 Next time.
I was also looking forward to Mrs. Suthenboy’s amusement. Still, we would have to be cautious, dont wanna get her cranked up. She would make us look like moderate peaceniks.
the daddy of all flatpickers;
Happy birthday Ingvar Kamprad!
Oh, you said flatpickers.
On Birthdays –
My knowledge is limited on the subject of set theory yet I somewhat remember Russell’s paradox.
I have to chuckle when I think of how we congratulate ourselves on how much we ‘know’.
Bell: Best example of how most human advances give birth to themselves?
Ponzi: Best example of humans avoiding being productive at all costs to live at the expense of others?
Laws of physics: You seem be be implying that the whole EV scheme is a scam.
Links-
“They’re your people Joey.”
Wizard of ID: “The peasants are revolting!”
Stampede: Ok, and?
Surprisingly I am gonna go with Bro from the dead thread: Time to quit fucking around. Hamas and the culture in Gaza is unadulterated evil. It must be stamped out, fuck what anyone thinks about that. Cry all you want, they have to go. Do not give them an inch.
On airdrops: Stop giving them aid.
Scam artists: That is what they do. They would lie if the truth served them better. Every bit of the left’s agenda are deceptions calculated to disarm us and subject the populace to their will. I am still puzzled that this con hasn’t run it’s course yet.
Pols talk a good game here but this guy is putting his money where his mouth is. One can hope Argentina is the first domino….yet I am so accustomed to disappointment.
Remember ‘Escape from New York’? People used to make cynical quips about that….not so funny now, is it?
Russell’s “paradox” seems to be about inaccurate definitions of what is a member of a group, at least from the barber’s paradox given in Wikipedia.
My example: Glibertarians is a libertarian website. Libertarians believe in free movement of people and capital and goods. Yet most glibs are in favor of highly restricted borders. So these libertarians aren’t libertarian.
Resolution: either the definition of libertarian website here is wrong, or the definition of libertarians is wrong, or the assumption that people are consistent in their ideology for all subjects is wrong.
Or all if the above.
Given that I’m at least more of a “conservative that leans libertarian” than a True Libertarian ™ [whatever that is, frankly]… I’d take door number one — just because this is a “libertarian website” doesn’t mean all participants meet some libertarianism purity test.
There are no absolutes in reality? Is that what y ou are saying? I am gonna have to chew on that for a bit…
As for any puns that may derive from my statement I say….neigh!
My suspicion is that if Latino voters started voting 51%+ Republican, the GOP and this site would do a hard pivot and become pro-more-open-borders. The stated opposition here for the most part is that the people streaming across the border are hardcore statists on average.
The voting patterns of Cubans in Miami make me skeptical of that narrative, at least for the Venezuelans fleeing their socialist paradise.
“My suspicion is that if Latino voters started voting 51%+ Republican, the GOP and this site would do a hard pivot and become pro-more-open-borders.”
Not me. Voting is secondary to assimilation. I want restricted immigration for a period of years so we can digest the nearly 20% of the country that wasn’t born and raised here.
I am not open borders nor have I ever been anti-immigration.
Choosing carefully who comes here is more of a concern for me. We will take all of the best and brightest. Hell, I will stand at the airport myself and shake their hands.
Hordes of illiterate criminals and hard-core statists? Hard pass on them.
What is happening now is an invasion of such types facilitated by a govt. that sees it as a ticket to all power, all of the time, forever. Fuck that.
As I understand it, most of us are that open borders and government benefits to illegals are incompatible, unsustainable, and wildly unfair.
Open borders yes, but no benefits.
Benefits, but only after you have come walked the valid path to citizenship and gained it.
I always saw Open Borders as a two way street. Now, apparently, it’s now a one way freeway, no exits.
In historical days we could drift across the border at International Falls, paying a bridge toll to a private company. Drink some refreshments, and come back. Canadians could come shopping, buy gas by the gallon, get a Dairy Queen and return.
My bee partner’s mother didn’t like the doctors in I’nat’l Falls so he was born across the border. Held dual citizenship until he was 16 or so and had to declare allegiance to the US IRS.
Agree with Moj
In the case you cite, I’d say ‘none of the above’. The logic assumes an axiom that is not correct. “Libertarians believe in free movement of people and capital and goods”. You object to the current situation, therefore you can’t be a libertarian. The unseen assumption there is that we are witnessing the “free movement, ….” – What we are seeing (and what is objected to by most libertarians on this site) is not FREE movement of people and capital and goods. It is manipulated movement of people via governments and quasi-governments and the forced redistribution of goods and capital by same. I suspect absent that aspect, most libertarians on this site would be all for ‘free movement of people and capital and goods” – no contradiction and none of the 3 resolutions is the correct one.
Renaming the site gliberconservatarians seems a tad wordy, if more accurate. 🧐
If it’s conservative and not libertarian to object to forced redistribution of goods from one group of people (here broadly citizens) both to new arrivals (here broadly immigrants/asylum seekers) as well as to NGOs facilitating the movement of same, we have a different definition of libertarian. I’d argue we (I actually – I SPEAK FOR NO ONE!) have a different view of what it means to implement libertarian ideas in the real world, not that this site is more properly called ‘gliberconservatarians’. But it’s a bit of a semantic argument. As I tell my bosses – I don’t care what you call me, just keep paying me!
Several “alternative journalists” have been documenting the industrial scale machine that is moving people from the south across the border.
They have networks of camps from Ecuador all the way to the border. Some have documented the harrowing ordeal of crossing the mountains and jungle in Panama where there is no road. Apparently murder, robbery and rape are common.
Surprisingly, there are Chinese camps with 20 something Chinese men who are reticent to speak and whose camps are closed to outsiders. For some reason China is pipeline people across the border illegally.
Inside the US they are picked up by secret NGO operations that ship them around the country. O’Keefe has been documenting that side, among others. It involves NGOs funded by the US (including the CIA) and local government agencies and their employees.
The movement of illegals into the US is a vast and sophisticated operation. This is not just poor families sneaking across the border.
a guy who was never late for the trane;
Happy birthday Willis Carrier!
Happy Sunday everyone! It’s going to be near 70 today. So of course the missus has me doing yard work.
Huh, it snowed here last night, and the night before. And I get to finish unloading the bags of soil and fertilizer that my wife had a pallet of loaded into the bed of my truck yesterday.
LOL peak NYC.
They should have let the grenade blow in the middle of the protesters.
One grenade? Those little fire-poppers do a lot less damage than they are typically portrayed as doing.
It’s New York city. It already blows.
“Some of these mines is inert and some of them is ert.”
…from “Private Benjamin”
Morning folks. Nice and foggy today. Hockey game o. Friday night was a blast. Got to teach a new fan the game as was her first time ever.
Ah, virgins…
Sweet – who’d you see?
Local AA team…the level I stopped playing. It’s a fun time with cheap food and cheap beer
Foggy here too. That means it will be 66° tomorrow 👍
https://sauconsource.com/2024/02/21/upgraded-movie-theater-experience-coming-to-quakertown/
Huh. Apparently we’re getting an upscale movie theater. Too bad most movies suck balls.
Dune part 2 was extremely well made. Even if you don’t enjoy a Scfi movie, it is essentially a swords and sorcery movie mixed in with some Laurence of Arabia.
I would recommend seeing it in the theaters, preferably a HD one. The sounds and visuals were incredible.
Noted.
I have it running across the street at the “arty” place. Haven’t seen the first one yet.
It’s well worth watching and available on Max.
I do think that the choice of Walker as Emperor was poor. The only one of the casting choices that doesn’t work.
“a guy who needed Watson even more than Holmes did”
Francis Crick?
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Anti-Israel protestersActual Neo-Nazis that the MSM has been shitting their pants about for years block police from reaching grenade in Uber during Times Square march”Fixed it for them.
Ha! I’ll bet not a single newsroom has thought about it that way.
Beacon of freedom
Port-au-Prince — Gun battles across the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince Thursday left four police officers dead as a prominent gang leader said a coordinated attack by armed groups was underway to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Shots were heard across the city as authorities battled assailants who had targeted police stations, including two that were set on fire, as well as a police academy and the Toussaint-Louverture International Airport.
“Today, we announce that all armed groups are going to act to get Prime Minister Ariel Henry to step down,” gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherisier said in a video posted on social media before the attacks began.
“We will use all strategies to achieve this goal,” he said. “We claim responsibility for everything that’s happening in the streets right now.”
Compared to El Salvador, it’s a civil rights paradise.
I have told this story before, I think….
A friend of mine was working in Jamaica. He and the other ex-pats lived in a hotel that was shaped like a square C with the rooms all facing inward to a courtyard.
The open end of the C was shielded from street view by a wooden fence with a gate in it.
Their usual routine after work was to gather in the courtyard, play music on a record player, drink, dance then wander off to their rooms to screw. One late afternoon there was a knock at the gate. Three or four dudes with AK’s came in and waved their guns around.
“Ok, this is a revolution! You are all hostages!”
One of the guys, a scarred up Welshman, stepped forward to the leader of the ‘revolution’ and extended a highball to him.
“Why dont you boys put those rifles down, have a few drinks with us and dance a bit. See that little cutie over there? She needs a good poke.”
The revolutionaries mumbled amongst themselves a bit then put their guns down and joined the party. One of them eventually took the Karaoke mic and did some reggae.
Vive la révolution!
Tits abound on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.is/13Fm6
Some looking for contacts/work emails work emails to send; psych appt at 5; and I’m gonna make myself do *A* thing to help my loneliness:
I’m gonna find a place to go out tonight. Don’t really care what. Bars are cool but not drinking. (Oh, I’ll be loose.)
I’m sitting on a damn solid hand. I’m fairly Unicorn-ish. Fit, single, 36, no kids, cute, got a more interesting story(ies) than near everyone my age… Except the no real-job, living w parents, recovering from some messed up shit, etc. I’m not really looking for The Gal, or, any really. Meeting people, possible future friends, just seeing shit, is needed. Tons o’ of new material to learn: ”
The Strange Habits of Ev’s Generation in the Wilds of America. Dammit. Worth a shot.
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People typically fuck prostitutes precisely to avoid this kind of insanity.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/sex-worker-brooke-ariel-grace-baker-filmed-client-court-docs/
Going down on a prostitute seems unwise.
Like gas station sushi?
I didn’t care for it.
Puttin’ down, rather. Nor the banging. Pesky ‘neighbors’ and the bad actress. Hrm.
But apparently he was really good at it.
Are we mis-gendering my date?
HRM?!?!
Never lick a gift whore in the mouse.
Ancient Bolognese Sauce in an Emilian Michelin restaurant with Massimo Spirgaroli – Pallavicina*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R-GR_qijQ0
Happy Sunday all,
Sitting on the side porch looking at the blue sky and clouds while drinking coffee.
Not a bad way to spend a morning.
Good morning, ‘loosey! Not quite time for that here in SW OH, but I’m eagerly anticipating opening up Tranquility Base for the season.
Same here, cigars and coffee, watching the joggers go by.
My strawberries are already fruiting and the tomatoes are just kicking into high gear.
I love this place.
Cheers!
Cheers Yosef.
“Finance guru Suze Orman says climate change will stop Americans wanting to own homes as it is causing insurance costs to soar – as she faces $28,000 A YEAR premium for modest Florida condo”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/property/article-13132935/finance-suze-orman-climate-change-insurance-florida-condo.html
That’s retarded.
It ain’t the climate change, it’s that perennial threat.
“Modest” ocean front condo. Uh huh…
If I want info about any earth science, practical or otherwise, I always go to a finance guru.
In case any of you had lingering doubts that insurance knew what the fuck it was doing.
Won’t someone please think of the beach front property owners?
“Charlize Theron is every bit the proud mom as she attends her daughters’ basketball game in Los Angeles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13148959/Charlize-Theron-attends-daughters-basketball-game-Los-Angeles.html
So another male playing girls sports?
That’s a hard looking 48.
First photo…daughter’s body language is reminiscent of Creepy Joe’s girls having their hair sniffed.
I wonder what that means?
Strongly disagree. Needs to eat more, but, hey. Could legit be for a role. Or all that blow she’s doin’ off me.
(She doesn’t share as much as I’d like.)
I know the oldest daughter is trans. I’m not sure about the younger one. I heard they both are, but I’m too lazy look, as most articles don’t want to mention it.
Sitting on the side porch looking at the blue sky and clouds while drinking coffee.
It’s a little too chilly for that here. Also cloudy and snowy.
Race hate is now mandatory
Last year, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, signed legislation that banned public colleges from using tax dollars to implement or promote DEI initiatives. The Florida board of education followed suit, defining DEI as “programs that categorize individuals based on race or sex for the purpose of differential or preferential treatment”.
The education board also said that a “principles of sociology” course could no longer be taught and would be replaced with a general American history class.
“Higher education must return to its essential foundations of academic integrity and the pursuit of knowledge instead of being corrupted by destructive ideologies,” Florida’s commissioner of education, Manny Diaz Jr, said. The actions, he added, would ensure taxpayer money won’t be spent on DEI and “radical indoctrination that promotes division in our society”.
Equity is no more. Back in chains for you.
They’re losing. Even New Yorkers are pushing back.
I actually think they are too, but I get blackpilled from time to time.
NOLA – I love that filthy dump. In 2006 I went with a group of friends and was assigned to wrangle a friend and his brother back to our hotel room who had drank too much and were done for the day, by 4:00pm. Whilst wrangling, one dropped behind and got caught at a busy intersection and I had to leave one brother, with instructions to stay put, while crossing a busy street to get the other brother. By the time I got the lagging brother back across the street, there was a hooker propositioning the first brother and they were about to leave when I stopped them. The hooker asked “are y’all together?” I responded “yes” too which she replied “if it’s gonna be all y’all, I gotsta charge more.”
How much did she charge for ‘all y’all’?
Same as downtown
No bulk discount?
I was their post Katrina, like a couple months after. Still had a blast and Gulf Coast was hit way harder
I was driving around 15 years later and there was still search marking grafiti on buildings. Caught out of the corner eye and did a double take, was my NG battalion’s.
Florida’s move comes after the New York attorney general, Letitia James, said on Friday she would take legal action against Long Island’s Nassau county if it failed to rescind an executive order restricting transgender women and girls from participating in athletic events.
James said that an order issued last week by Nassau’s county executive, Bruce Blakeman, to prohibit athletic events that allow transgender girls to participate in accordance with their gender identity was “transphobic and blatantly illegal”.
Ms James needs to be fitted for a straitjacket ASAP. She is unquestionably a delusional psychopath.
Interesting that she apparently thinks AG means she’s the sole determiner of law for the state. Who needs those pesky governors, judges or legislatures? The state… is her.
“Interesting that she apparently thinks AG means she’s the sole determiner of law for the state.”
Nobody seems to be telling her otherwise, probably because she’s Trump’s Grand Inquisitor. She will milk that privilege for all it’s worth.
I hope she continues to do so. Let everyone see the end game. Only then will the average person GTFO.
The corporations GTFO will be a bigger impact.
Who can do business where the law will be wielded as a blunt tool to punish ideological opponents?
“delusional psychopath”
There is a lot of that going around these days.
Hope it’s not contagious, I don’t need no stinkin’ vaccines
Let’s see her litigate against someone with competent lawyers.
She’s even going after a meat producer that’s not headquartered in NY. Does she really want food producers/distributors to stop doing business in the state?
Under the order, athletic teams, leagues, organizations and programs are required to “expressly designate” participation based on members’ sex assigned at birth. It said transgender athletes, regardless of their gender identity, would still allowed to compete in all-boys or coed leagues.
In a cease-and-desist letter, James’s office said the Nassau order violates New York’s human rights law. “The law is perfectly clear: you cannot discriminate against a person because of their gender identity or expression. We have no room for hate or bigotry in New York,” James said in a statement.
Unless your name happens to be Trump, that is. Or you’re a white male capitalist.
Or you’re a Jew. Or you oppose “hate” speech laws. Or you have a clear understanding of biology. Or …
No room, because I’m the most bigoted hater in this state and there’s no space left.
Bluetooth vulnerabilities in Android, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows can be exploited to pair an emulated bluetooth keyboard and inject keystrokes without user confirmation :
https://twitter.com/binitamshah/status/1764278987444924869
i remember before work fro, home my workplace did not allow wireless keyboards
Imagine my surprise when I looked up the song and found out this was the Serbian zoomer tiktoker singing about retaking Kosovo
https://twitter.com/TrueSlazac/status/1764238352289517863
would?
No.
Irredentism is popular worldwide? Well, I never.
It’s been popular for a long time. Remember Abraham Lincoln?
Horrifying
From the Ambien and Dramamine in millions of bathroom medicine cabinets, to the sugar substitute that makes diet sodas sweet, to the first-ever birth control pill, some of America’s most common medicines and supplements can be traced back to the G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company.
Now, more than a century after the company’s founding, the massive family fortune built from those scientific advances has emerged as a major benefactor of the right, mostly out of the public eye.
The Searle Freedom Trust, a foundation funded by the company’s former chairman, has doled out more than $200 million in grants over the last decade, sending more money to conservative nonprofits than nearly any other private foundation in recent years, according to a CNN analysis.
This year, the Searle trust is poised to play an even bigger role as it empties out its coffers. Following the wishes of its founder, the late Daniel C. Searle, the trust is closing down in 2025 and planning to award most of its last major grants in 2024. That means a potential windfall during a key election year for groups that push conservative policies: as of the beginning of 2023, according to its most recent tax return, the trust had more than $59 million left to spend.
People using their own money in furtherance of their political beliefs.
This is why we need a global socialist dictatorship. Not only would vast family fortunes not be allowed to benefit conservative bigots and oppressors, there would be no vast family fortunes at all. Except for deserving party members, of course.
Researchers who study political nonprofits say that the Searle trust has had a major impact, even as the Searle family has stayed under the radar compared to more well-known conservative benefactors. And the trust’s influence is a key snapshot of how industrialists who amassed generational wealth can use it to shape political debates even long after their deaths.
Like Rockefeller and Ford?
Until their trusts get quickly skinsuited by leftists.
“The fact that our political system works in a way where wealthy people who died years ago can continue to have such profound influence over our politics and our beliefs about science and the world is just incredibly damaging,” said Galen Hall, a University of Michigan researcher who’s studied the flow of money from foundations like the Searle trust to climate change denial groups. “It’s one of the key aspects of American politics that makes positive change on issues like climate change so difficult.”
The horror of democracy. The shameful chaotic nightmare of a pluralistic society.
“Let me worship at the feet of Marx and Lenin”
Until their trusts get quickly skinsuited by leftists.
It sounds as if Searle did a better job of communicating his wishes (and locking them in place) than some other people.
Unless, of course, his noble progressive intentions were hijacked and perverted by the trustees. That must be it.
Guinea pig is found abandoned at London Underground station with heartbreaking note attached
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13150453/Guinea-pig-abandoned-London-Underground-station-heartbreaking-note-attached.html
right
Those things are food south of Mexico.
so are many other things. like tarantulas
I read native Peruvians believe black guinea pigs have magical powers or something.
“Last year, New York City banned the commercial sale of guinea pigs after some 600 of the pets were surrendered to overburdened city animal shelters in 2022.
Guinea pigs live for up to ten years, and there are a “very limited number of veterinarians” in the city that know how to neuter and spay them, Alexandra Silver, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare, said when the measure was passed by city council.”
Open a restaurant. Problem solved.
https://travelfoodatlas.com/peruvian-guinea-pig-cuy-recipe
To me, that’s too close to eating a dog.
Guinea pigs should exist mainly as metaphors for people who are the victims of unethical experiments.
Another of the Searle trust’s top beneficiaries is the State Policy Network, which has received nearly $9 million – in addition to other funds that went to individual organizations that partner with the network in various states. Around the country, SPN has worked to coordinate efforts to push for smaller government, including fighting Covid-19 restrictions during the pandemic, as well as redirecting funds for public schools to private education. Searle was the network’s second-largest individual donor in 2020 and third-largest in 2019, tax forms show.
*faints*
“Librarians in cities across the country have found themselves thrust onto the frontline and are now forced to grapple with issues ranging from homelessness and migration to the opioid epidemic and cultural conflicts.
As librarians navigate through the new complexities of their daily duties, a concerning trend has emerged – a surge in burnout attributed to the stress of managing what they describe as ‘traumatic’ encounters.
The pandemic has intensified the strain, with library staff reporting a significant deterioration in conditions since 2020.
Shockingly, in recent reports, some librarians reveal an alarming rise in verbal attacks, including racial, sexual, or gender-based hostility in states including California, Colorado and Oregon.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13084201/librarians-americas-frontline-workers-stress-pandemic-burnout.html
SugarFree keeps his pimp hand strong.
Interesting. Racist harassment in reliably leftist states out west.
This is Plant City, FL. Workers get up before the sun, ride school buses to the strawberry fields, pick all day in the heat, & ride buses back to their hotels/apts. They do backbreaking work all day long so you can buy strawberries for $3/lb at Walmart. But sure, tell me again about the illegal invasion that is killing america.
https://twitter.com/swd2/status/1763951076699496645
I’m completely in favor of all the immigrants who come here to work. Streamline the hell out of that shit.
“Comic predicts woke Seattle club that canceled him will not ‘stay in business that long’
A Seattle comedy club canceled four comics because they didn’t align with its neighborhood’s “progressive values” — leading one of the funnymen to predict the club would go out of business.
The Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, which celebrates the “vibrant voices of the queer community” with a weekly “Queers to the front” open mic. had booked Jim Florentine, Dave Smith, Luis Gomez and Kurt Metzger for upcoming dates before the about-face, which the owner said was to “maintain the harmony within our community.””
https://nypost.com/2024/03/03/us-news/non-pc-comics-blast-club-in-seattle-autonomous-zone-that-canceled-shows-in-name-of-community-harmony/
Fuck your “community”.
They can do that, but will the community show up? Leftists hate laughter and fun.
Well, there is this new “comedy” where assholes just rant leftist crap.
Another big focus appears to be groups that have advocated against policies to address climate change. The Searle trust gave more than $8 million in total over the last decade to groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Property and Environment Research Center, the CO2 Coalition and the Heartland Institute, putting it among the top funders of those groups.
“These organizations conduct ‘research’ that is designed to sow doubt about either the reality or the danger of the climate crisis, or about the viability of any of the most feasible solutions,” Hall said. “It provides the building blocks for a narrative that can be picked up by other conservative groups and ultimately by media organizations or politicians.”
Officials with the CO2 Coalition, for example, have briefed lawmakers and testified in recent years before Congress and state legislatures that, as executive director Caleb Rossiter put it in 2019, global warming this century will be “more beneficial than harmful for humanity” – an opinion in direct conflict with virtually all serious climate scientists. Members of Congress have used some of the group’s talking points in opposing climate policies.
And the Heartland Institute has mailed 350,000 copies of a book falsely arguing that climate change science is “deeply flawed” to public school science teachers around the country, in an apparent attempt to influence how the subject is taught to students. A Heartland spokesperson said in an email that the group and scientists it has worked with “do not share the alarmist conclusion that human activity is causing a climate crisis.”
Awesome. Read the whole thing. This guy Searle makes your top of the line Bond villain look like a rogue Campfire Girl.
“an opinion in direct conflict with virtually all serious climate scientists”
Serious means people who agree with me.
How convenient.
More Memphis:
Main Street was repurposed in the 70’s to be an outdoor mall—The Mid-America Mall. They reinstalled a trolley system in the 1990’s, and you can ride for a dollar.
The old places are gone, of course. There used to be a video arcade for adults on the south end. Not “XXX” adult, though. There was a hotdog shop called “Obleo’s” that turned into a Chinese and hot dog shop, then closed.
The Cotton Exchange Building is now an apartment building. The UP building still stands, but probably empty. The Morgan Keegan Building is some other business, now; it stands on the site of the original Piggly Wiggly.
There is a historical sign beneath the interstate for the Bell Tavern, where legendarily James Winchester, John Overton, and Andrew Jackson signed the charter for the establishment of the city of Memphis. The real charter is on display at the Pink Palace, upper floor.
There is a children’s science museum somewhere around MidTown.
Sadly, I cannot recommend one of my favorite local places to eat, because it was shit down: Mama Grazi’s. All-you-can-eat Italian food. Pizza, spaghetti, Lasagna. It was awesome.
If you go to Overton Square, you can view where my favorite barbecue place used to be: The Public Eye. I think there may be one still at the airport.
If you walk around the corner from there, you can eat at—scratch that, it’s closed. Melos Taverna, a place for Greek food. There are other restaurants, their, and I’m sure they are very nice.
The first time I went to Overton Square, it was at Christmas time, and they had street performers and puppet shows and stuff. I don’t think they do that, anymore.
If you do go to Memphis in the summer, and if they still do it, the Summer Movies at the Orpheum theater are fun. It’s usually old, black and white Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn type movies, with news reels and cartoons played before the feature. There’s supposed to be the ghost of a child that plays pranks on visitors, but I never saw it.
(I don’t actually believe in ghosts; but I have always been fond of the weird, the macabre, and the paranormal).
This guy fucks.
Not as often as I’d like. I hear it’s healthy.
A new Tennessee bill would make it a Class C misdemeanor to sell or distribute food containing vaccines without clearly labeling them as such. The bill was filed for introduction on January 5, 2023.
This bill adds to the list of prohibited acts constituting Class C misdemeanors the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of a food that contains a vaccine or vaccine material unless the food labeling contains a conspicuous notification of the presence of the vaccine or vaccine material in the food,” HB 0032 reads.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/multiple-states-preparing-for-vaccines
Arizona has a similar bill.
I’m hoping that a “Class C Misdemeanor” has severe punishment requirements, if convicted.
What Vaccines are consumed with food?
They are supposedly growing vegetables with the mRNA stuff that’s in the Pfizer shots