It’s been an eventful week. I became a grand-dad, our little shop passed health inspection, we had massive snowfall, I spent some time in Prime pursuit, and our university went into a panic (“If you are approached by an ICE agent, do NOT speak with them, call campus security,” this needed because of the massive number of illegal aliens flooding into a remote, frozen, and obscure western NY village). So situation normal. Health inspector said that we were the cleanest place in the county, Spud and I have been competing to see who can dodge total hepatic failure first. Massive snow and ice making travel an unwanted adventure. Things with Prime are going apace, and we’re just enjoying the hell out of one another’s company; yesterday’s venue was this.
Great birthdays today are thinner than usual, but let’s not forget a guy with a perfect Jules Verne name; the coiner of a famous stock phrase in biology; a guy who was famous for his lips moving; the greatest TV dad ever (and whom my father tried to pattern his parenting after, but his kids were not exactly the same as ideality); the reason why all politicians should ski more; the guy who made air filters famous; a perfect example of Trump picking his enemies wisely (and I love Wikipedia’s bland description of “American attorney and pundit”); and of course, The Bus.
And while I listen to the sound of intense freezing rain ahead of the major snowstorm we’re getting later today, let’s see what’s in the news.
I ranted yesterday about censorious academia directed at Jews. It’s also directed at heretics.
It’s not much but it’s a good start.
Hilarious and tragic all at once.
More panic amongst the Euros. I fail to see the problem. And they may have inadvertently figured out why.
More editorials disguised as news stories.
Oddly, back in my teen years, The Old Guy wrote a novelty song that we’d close every gig with. The Chicken Song, it resembled this a LOT but had some LSD involved. It was a good song, but theirs is better.
Yeah — from what we saw with the PPP administration, you’d need to be a small town in a swing state to really merit it. Other than NYC for the swanky hotels, I doubt they were focused on flying too many in.
Your university is (as I’m sure you know and were saying [don’t explain the jokes, SDF!]) virtue signalling like crazy.
Morning, all! Loving the life affirming bundle of joy pics, unsurprisingly.
And jumping ahead before I read links… okay… I’m going to have to listen to the Old Man Music based on the title alone… but don’t get full of yourself and start to crow about it. Folks can be so cocksure in their musical tastes…
Ok… as a lover of the original — that was good. Love the host breaking down repeatedly during it too… pure poultry in motion.
Birds of a feather something or other.
My town – bit east of Glib’s Gulch but also a college town – is the same. It’s hilarious because there are so few members around of the various “protected classes” that the lily-white activists like to drone on about.
Happy birthday William H Macy?
Happy birthday Garrett Morgan?
the guy who made air filters famous
I once used one of my sister’s banana hair clip to make the joke.
Happy birthday Liz Cheney?
Happy Birthday Bryan Cranston?
Happy birthday Carroll O’Connor!
Happy Birthday Ed O’Neil as Al Bundy.
I was thinking Fred MacMurray but not jokey enough.
Bob Belcher!
Happy birthday George HW Bush?
Ok — you really went easy on us with that one. Way too obvious.
Serious reaction: Nice one.
Less serious reaction: Happy birthday Gene Kranz?
Given the timing of the series, I contend that the design was inspired by the banana comb.
Great minds think alike.
Well, The Stupid Party and The Evil Party are already taken. The Malevolently Retarded Party?
I honestly don’t get what the hell they think he’d bring to a new party at this point. For all his bluster and populist rhetoric he obviously neither buys what he’s saying (growing richer and richer as a “public servant” and “man of the people” in fine Dacha style) and votes lockstep anyway despite being “Independent”.
Buy a clue, people. He’s a useful way of channeling the left’s discontent right back into the Evil Party coffers.
The left is obsessed with the idea of parliamentary systems (Europe has them, so they must be better), but doesn’t realize that they just move coalition forming to after an election, as opposed to our system that has it before an election, ’cause that is how it works.
Please let that happen. That would make it easier for centrist and conservative candidates to win. Hell, if they fiddle with election laws and house and senate rules that would also create an opening for the LP, which the LP would promptly fuck up.
Burrito appropriation is peak Portlandia.
I read the headline and thought, “again?”
Then I checked the date.
Best-of link, I guess.
So this is post peak?
Wow, my brain doesn’t go back that far.
But yeah this is hilarious. Everyone stay in your own lane. Divide and conquer. Straight out of the commie playbook.
If your going to do a old link for peak Portlandia, this one is seasonally appropriate
https://youtu.be/UPTt6MgsOt8
#MeToo
Doing the jobs Mexicans won’t do in Portland, apparently.
I hear H&R Block does a pretty brisk business this time of year. Of course, you actually have to perform work and probably won’t get any opportunities to shoot anyone with your company-issued sidearm…
I think there are at least a couple options floating out there for reducing the need for IRS workload in tax season. I doubt OMB’s will happen (switching FedGov back to tarriffs for income) but a flat percentage eliminating all the stupid loopholes the lobbyists have put in that complicate the tax code would address the problem.
Either way — I strongly suspect “Think of the poor IRS auditors we hired to look into every one of your Etsy transactions!” isn’t a real political winner.
Yeah, I’m not terribly interested in any tax reform that doesn’t begin with “The Internal Revenue Code and all associated regulations are hereby repealed in their entirety”.
Unfortunately, Trump’s instincts seem to run in the opposite direction. He campaigned on more of the targeted deductions/exclusions that are a big part of the problem.
I used to think this, but considering the public reaction every time any reform of the IRS or income tax system is proposed, I’ve come to suspect that most people will gladly support the status quo if they believe there’s even the faintest chance that the system will eventually be turned against their neighbor with a nicer car and bigger house.
At this point, I wonder how much of any “public reaction” has been manufactured by the Blob.
the best answer for anything
Completely getting rid of income tax is as much of a fool’s errand as getting rid of public education. Not gonna happen, and pinning hopes and dreams on is a waste of time.
I didn’t say anything about getting rid of the income tax. I agree that you’re not going to get a federal tax system without an income tax. Just that it’s past time to scrape off the festering garbage pile of complexity and graft that is our current tax code, and start fresh.
See, also, Medicare and Medicaid.
My AppleTV Youtube recommendation feed for my “anonymous” watching pointed me at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg"this yesterday, and I of course thought of your postings (different field, similar issues). Have to confess I easily fall into the “I assume I’m too stupid / ignorant of the field to appreciate how this will pay off in the long run… assume improving the theoretical basis of our understanding will pay off in quantum lithography, optics, etc.”… but if true (and we just have to take her word for it.. so….) hearing it bluntly described as essentially welfare for particle physicists is either depressing or annoying or some mix thereof… in any event, thought I’d add it to the grist mill here as topical.
Oh for the love of f’ing all that is holy maybe I could learn to type one of these days. Obviously I meant to link better.. Jesus wept repeatedly at my incompetence.
Clenched Mouth is reliably awful as soon as she steps away from her actual field. And within it, it’s hard to separate true criticism from her own deep bitterness at her failure to establish herself.
Thanks. Appropriate boulder of salt taken.
I’ve come around to OM’s view on Sabine. Her climatista views were the clincher.
Not to dig at OMWC, but having been around professors my entire life, this is generally true of the entire profession.
“Heretics” is the perfect word.
They are blaspheming one of the left’s highest dogmas. (The other being – at present – “transgenderism”.)
When one side makes their war on your livelihood way too obvious (energy prices, inflation, undercutting the labor market) and then really rubs your nose in it by giving tons of benefits with no strings to illegal immigrants (undercutting their normal LBJ-designed voting blocs) it isn’t surprising that people across the board find that more important than the race baiting.
I’d like to hope folks continue to realize how the identity politics are just meant to divide and lock in the victim mentality — but I strongly suspect that’s way too optimistic and when the economy starts coming back so will the willingness to believe the crap.
It’s coming right for us!
I thought it was coming from inside the house.
The house was coming right for us!
“During the next race riot we spark up, we’re boycotting looting Foot Locker!”
I’d like to shop from that list but I’m not giving that racist outfit any clicks.
A true double edged sword.
I’m sure someone will post the list. And remember, a dollar spent makes far more difference than a website clicked.
“Spud and I have been competing to see who can dodge total hepatic failure first”
Don’t you mean “achieve total hepatic failure”?
“we’re just enjoying the hell out of one another’s company; yesterday’s venue was this.”
Excellent. I like the beer line-up; sours and fruit/berries can be a topnotch combo.
“Bernie finds a new grift”
Other than hanging an (I) rather than a (D) after his name, in what way is he not a Democrat?
He’s Social!
He’s in parties, he’s in the can!
I’m amused that “progressives” are pushing him to do this.
You know, the people who already took over the Democratic party.
Fair point — we haven’t really heard any interest in actual police reform (the FBI reform is more from an IC vantage, imho). Thanks again, BLM you grifting weasels….
I don’t even know what “reform” is supposed to look like.
The Dems are literally pro-crime now.
The other party has a habit of swinging too far in the opposite direction.
A 2017 burrito doesn’t age well regardless. (I knew that sounded very familiar).
The Euros would dislike my simple clear foreign policy (if God help the universe I were somehow POTUS in some cosmic joke) even less: “Stand on your own two feet already, we’re out.” Be happy Trump is willing to talk to y’all at all, you weenies. Especially after your (for the BBC) government actually sent people to actively campaign for his rival. If he was one tenth the narcissistic baby you keep painting him as he would have thrown y’all out and cut off all aid just for that. Wankers.
JD Vance has signed the death warrant of the status quo
Never mind how much of a role our own govt has played in propping up the European ordure.
Well, yeah. But let’s turn the spigot off already.
See: the OMB vicious racist link for a similar take on a similar phenomenon.
Turning the spigot off means complete withdrawal from NATO. I’m all for that, but good luck with it.
giddy up, but not because I think NATO was a terrible idea in slightly more black-and-white times
UK, France, and Germany are better than Russia, and yet, I have zero intentions of my son taking a bullet for the bobbies who arrest facebookers for wrongthink while punks on the dole are raping and murdering their way across Birmingham, Bordeaux, and Berlin. I ask again: what does an ally even look like?
Yeah, I had my fantasy hat on for a moment there.
There is no more likelihood of the US removing its dick from Europe than a there is of a revival of Douglass-style self-ownership the good reverend wishfully advocates.
lol I’m stealing that.
Yeah, that left a mark.
Good article. Nice to see that some Euros get it.
OMG, after reading that quote from the Vance speech I clicked through and am listening to the speech. That’s a major foreign policy speech and well delivered. He fucking TOLD them. Thanks for the link to the excellent Spiked piece.
Not bad for a weird hillbilly from Middletucky, OH, amirite?
Well, it’s like I said (clumsily) last night. Vance is exactly what’s needed, but he’s a statesman, not a showman like Trump. I mean, nobody IS (looking at you, Poopy Joe), but can Vance deliver the soundbites? Can he troll the left? (Well, yes, but it’d be subtle.) Can he fire up a fan base? Will he have to? I don’t know. The left has four years to adjust rightward and find somebody who can beat Vance in a popularity contest and the left has a built-in fanbase for progressivism, and the right doesn’t have a built-in fanbase nearly that large. Trump won because the left had gone batshit. That’s what I’m worried about.
Yes, he’s a statesman, and a damn good one. That annoys the shit out of ppl.
Ask Margaret.
So far, the D leadership seems to be either clueless or in deep denial about why they lost. Whether they correct course may depend on whether they listen to Carville, the voice ragin’ in the wilderness.
Of course the EU failed to Trump-proof – they’re commies, they fail at everything.
How would they even “Trump proof” the continent? And what does that even mean? They use a dental dam?
It means continue to hide all the graft and corruption from the ignorant masses.
I think they meant “become more self sufficient for national defense, become more energy independent, strengthen trade relations with each other and with non-US countries” so that a cut off of military aid or an increase in tarriffs would mean they could flip us the bird and carry on.
But they aren’t free traders, don’t want to make energy because it’s not green, and don’t have the money to build armies.
Just too much goodness in one article not to share.
NYC socialists are seizing the means of reproduction at a lefty singles mixer
I’d rather see a repeat performance of the Libertarian Party dude stripping off on C-Span than attend such an event.
Imagine the fun you could have talking to people there. That would be a hell of an article. I guess I think too much like OMWC.
When I was dating Tomb Raider, she was involved in protests about the electric utility in Rochester, where there was apparently some talk about privatizing it.
I asked, “I don’t really know much about this, what are the pros and cons of privatizing versus public utility?” Hemming and hawing before admitting she didn’t know.
“What are the driving forces here regarding privatization?” Hem, haw, no idea.
“Under this proposal, would they have a monopoly or would competitive sources of power be available?” Uhhhhh….
Eventually, we got to the reason for her participation: the “progressive” organization she was active in gave the marching orders and she accepted that they knew best.
Political activism, isn’t it wonderful?
Down with this sort of thing!
Well if things with Prime don’t work we’ve found a new organization for you to consider…
Funny how few people ask questions like you mentioned. Our new world consists of if Team X wants it I must be against it.
Is it still RG&E? That is what I grew up with. No idea if it was “public” or “private”. But it was unique to Rochester and a monopoly. We had a unique phone company too (not Bell).
Our new world? Isn’t us and them about as old as humanity?
@ Pat: 🍻 ☘️
people who know how sausage is made, especially people who have actually made sausage, are superior citizens to the talking classes
the thing about the strong-men/weak-mean cycle is that western civilization is so powerful and rich that a full 2/3 of its membership are utterly ignorant and useless; in lesser society, they would starve; in our times, they poison the well with dumb ideas, and the rest of us are left to pack our sausage while weakened by their diseases
lol
It’s not easy being
greenblue.No thanks. Too much insanity for me. I cant make any sense of half of that. It might as well be written in Martian.
Trans money
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/interviews/the-dark-money-behind-the-trans-movement-investigative-journalist-jennifer-bilek/
It is funded by rich leftists.
No kidding??
I have been saying the Democratic Party is dead. I am right. Of course they want Bernie to form a new party. They died because people finally see what they are…and they think coming out of the closet will save them. Ok, I am on board with this.
This is at least the 5th time in my life that I have heard one party or the other was now dead. Enjoy the moment but politics is a pendulum not an arrow.
ballot access: the gift that keeps on not giving
New parties aren’t going to change the positions of the American people. We’re a tiny fragment of the electorate and wildly unrepresentative.
Jar is right. There will always be left leaning people, and there will always be right leaning people, and while the mushy middle will waver back and forth, it will always waver between those poles.
To be fair, it may well have been correct all 5 times, it’s just that we keep the same names rather than organize new parties, like a band that continues touring and recording after every single founding member has left. The Democratic and Republican parties that existed when I was born during Reagan’s second term don’t have much continuity with their modern incarnations.
In our system we form coalitions inside the party as opposed to between multiple parties once elected. The balance of power between the segments of the two parties does change over time and segments do occasionally switch between the two parties, but there is institutional continuity overall. Ideology is a tool of the parties, not the reason for their existence, and the shifting internal power structure sometimes throws up odd ideological results. We have had the same two major parties since Lincoln, and unless a single issue comparable to slavery in its ability to organize us around two poles arises, and the two major parties come down on roughly the same side, I don’t see that changing. The populist nationalism that Trump represents could have been that issue, but enough of the Republican Party saw the writing on the wall to adopt MAGA as a new, dominant part of their coalition. So, yes, there are definitely sea changes in the party platforms.
JI and Pat: Yes, killing parties does not kill ideas. The Democratic Party is dead but we still have too many democrats. We are still stuck with those awful people. Specifically Pat – I was born long before you and have the same observation. The parties that existed in my youth and the parties that replaced them and the parties that replaced those are all long gone. A D or an R today has nearly zero resemblance to the ones farthest back that I can remember.
By ‘The Democratic Party is dead’ I mean mostly that they have ruined the brand so badly that they will have to dispose of the name. It also means that most of the apparatus they have erected will have to be disassembled. In the end they are like fire ants…stamp them out as many times as you like they just keep reappearing. Of course that doesnt mean we should quit stamping.
Speaking of which I need to make a round in the yard and put out some poison.
Lay off 100% of the IRS. Get rid of the income tax. They lied their way into it, were entrusted with power, used it to steal exponentially more power and use it as a full-on weapon against us. Kill it with fire. They abused the power, take it away from them.
With the revelations that basically all our taxes are used for scams, corruption, and programs we hate – a lot of people are going be questioning why exactly do we pay taxes.
Cultural appropriation is a major reason our culture is superior to all of the others. The notion of cultural appropriation as a moral crime is a direct attack on our own culture. The only appropriate response to such attacks is “Fuck off”.
Or perhaps, sometimes a burrito is just a burrito; good or bad all on its own.
I wonder who is going to tell them that ‘Mexican’ food is cultural appropriation by Amer-indians and the Spanish…both ways?
Dont even get me started on Tex-Mex.
Next thing you know you’ll be telling me that the Eye-talians didn’t bring Chicago deep dish pizza over with them at Ellis Island.
I had a client for whom I had to learn to format Chinese into an ebook. She wrote about the godmother of “Chinese food” in America, where “Chinese food” morphed into grocery store chicken nuggets tossed in liquid orange candy with sesame seeds Cecilia Chiang.
“You have to pull your own weight, we aren’t giving you boatloads of money anymore. Also, start respecting inalienable rights. ”
Right off of the bat they are lying. BBC…that is the state owned outfit that USAID gives money to, isn’t it?
This is not a mixed message.
lol The left is still pushing this nonsense? It’s just completely made up out of thin air. Not a shred of truth to it.
Never change, The Guardian.
There is a strong undercurrent of Gay men and women are just in denial about their gender in a lot of the trans talk.
Once you grant someone, anyone, the status of knowing what is best for you…
My personal breakdown:
Girls thinking they’re boys:
* don’t like puberty
* don’t like their new breasts being stared at
* are afraid of males
* may have been molested as children or sexually assaulted
* are tomboys and are told it’s not okay being a girl who likes boy things
* come to believe life is just easier as a male
* lesbians who are not allowed to like girls because it upends traditional sex roles
* deep general insecurity about who they are or want to become
* maybe it’s just cool
Boys thinking they’re girls:
* Munchausen by proxy
* boys not allowed to like girl things
* gay boys whose parents don’t want their sons to be into dick
Men thinking they’re women:
* porn-fueled autogynephilia
* attention-seeking
* narcissism
* (maybe) aimlessness
* (maybe) boredom
* a deep, deep hatred of women
* (some) violent tendencies
If you are approached by an ICE agent…
“Hola! Que tal?”
I have to say. Marty Stuart has always been an exceptionally good-looking man and he has aged VERY well.
Choctaw blood
my mamaw made 101 and kept house well into her nineties
his Neshoba abuts Winston where my mother’s clan had land grants before statehood; it is infamous for the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Well, they say “black don’t crack.” Blondish people don’t age particularly well. I’ve always noted that blond men especially don’t age well.
“I havent seen a blonde look that bad since Mickey Rourke was “The Wrestler””
@Mojeaux, someone is asking to read my Purim story. Loves all the other ones I’ve sent her…
EXCELLENT, SMITHERS.
But again, explaining Esther this way to a Christian is rife with landmines.
She used to teach Sunday School. Wait until I start in on the soi-disant New Testament…
As I said last night, I NEVER understood that story until I read an erotic short story with a Jewish heroine explaining it that way.
How did Esther get so beloved of the king with just scintillating dinner convo? Made no sense to me.
How did Esther get so beloved of the king with just scintillating dinner convo? Made no sense to me.
Tits, Esther obviously had a great rack. This is usually the answer to such questions. Esther used hers for good, Delilah and Jezebel used theirs for evil.
This erotic short story I read spelled it out that she was just THAT good in bed. 🤯
It all clicked.
Hah! She found it erotic!
Damn, I may have found a great one.
w000 h0000!!!
I should send you the dinner table conversation I wrote in Magdalene where my heroine lays out the Esther story and why she went into prostitution.
There is a strong undercurrent of Gay men and women are just in denial about their gender in a lot of the trans talk.
What could be more homophobic than declaring, “I’m not gay, and I’m going to join a bizarre vivisectionist cult to prove it.”
Nothing says mentally stable like hysterical self-mutilation.
Not so much a cult as a simple social contagion, kind of like people pretending that superhero movies are worth their time but way more damaging.
On science:
Government money and personal concerns have turned most of scientific inquiry into a shitshow. Being over-supplied with agenda driven money allows too many people into the field of theoretical science. Most of the people engaged in it now would have their talents better applied to practical science (put it all under the umbrella of engineering, including physicians). Not only would they not starve but we would all benefit more.
Maybe I shouldn’t pull on this thread. I can sit around and dream up ideals all day long only to get lost int he weeds.
Any time science is unduly influenced by practically unlimited money and the individual research team’s horizons are restricted by “allowable” results the findings are going to be a muddled shitshow.
From Eisenhower’s farewell speech, January 1961
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
That’s from his MIC speech then? It’s telling that the guy who was the Allied commander during The Big One was on top of things but was too afraid to do anything about it other than tossing a couple of grenades into the room on his way out.
I had the impression the MIC was already too entrenched for him to do anything about it, so he gave up and went golfing.
Sanders, the longest-serving independent in US congressional history with close ties to the Democratic Party, announced this week that he will be embarking on a National Tour to Fight Oligarchy that will begin this weekend in Omaha and Iowa City.
Omaha? Will Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett be participating?
Good old Sellout Sanders. I wonder what his position is now on going after millionaires or are only the billionaires the problem now?
“Rural Americans are getting excited about the possibility Donald Trump will end a controversial firearms restriction.
The president has hinted he would scrap the 91-year-old legislation on suppressors, and in his first administration ended a 20-year ban on selling silencers to foreigners.
That ban, implemented in 2002, was intended to prevent terror groups from gaining American-made silencers.
But the Trump administration argued that reversing the ban would benefit American manufacturers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14402517/Trump-lift-restrictions-gun-suppressors-silencers.html
Doubt.
We got bump stock bans the last time, and I don’t think gun law is really even on Trump’s radar between do-something-ism national-headline-making shootings, so I’ll believe it when I see it.
Yet, polls from Real Clear Politics, which creates an average from about half a dozen other reputable polls, found that Sanders would have beaten Trump in the 2016 and 2020 general elections.
Sounds legit.
We should all be encouraging whatever proggie friends we have to abandon the Democrat party and jump on the new Sanders’ Party bandwagon. While the LP has always claimed it takes votes equally from both sides, I kind of doubt that would be the case with the Sanders Soviet Party.
“In his post, Yiannopoulos claimed that St. Clair ‘plotted for HALF A DECADE to ensnare’ Musk.
After seeing his response, St. Clair wasted no time firing back at Musk, stating that she has not heard from him since the news broke.
‘Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded,’ St. Clair wrote, taking aim at Musk’s alleged lack of engagement on the matter.
‘When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old?'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14403031/elon-musk-ashley-st-clair-tirade-milo-yiannopoulos.html
How did he get the pictures in the first place?
Yeah, that is a good question. AI?
I would love to have access to the kind of resources Musk does but the circling sharks would get very tiresome very quickly.
Rip Rafterman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevyn_Major_Howard
For anybody who cares:
1. Mom is doing much better in skilled nursing. She was barely on her feet before we took her to the hospital on Jan 4, and she had been declining for at least a year until all she could do was get herself from her room to her car, where I met her at her destination and wheeled her around in a chair. Every-6-week pain clinic visits where their treatments (except for the verboten fentanyl patch) and one thrice-a-week PT stint for 4 weeks in 1 year did NOTHING for her. I think if she keeps doing this well, she’ll surpass where she was before her decline started. Fentanyl patch and intense therapy #FTW! (Mind you, I’d been after her and them for six months for these two things.) She can stay there with Medicare paying as long as she is showing improvement. Too bad she had to almost die to get where she needs to be and wrangle the rest of her life from her cunty sister’s grasp. Now, she is the most disciplined woman in the world, but she’s still discouraged, thinking she’s not doing enough. *sigh* So her.
2. Bro1’s laparoscopic surgery to resect his colon cancer did not go—well or otherwise. His tumor is so wrapped up in mesentery and lymph nodes, they closed him up and said, “Welp. Chemo for you. Then we’ll take another stab at resection.” He turned 51 yesterday. It’s surreal, going your whole life being told your family legacy is heart disease, young deaths from massive heart attacks, with a little minor cancer in the octogenarian range that are inevitable, to finding out there really IS cancer in your family history. Or at least, there is now.
3. Talked to the chosen realtor yesterday about the property. Mom and I clued her in about the legal entanglement, and said, “Well, if you’re willing to take this on, your job will be to keep [Cunty Aunt] Susie’s delaying shenanigans to a minimum.” Apparently, this is hard to do when the owner is living in the house, but she said she’d do her best. Cunty Aunt Susie’s attorney is a very young estate attorney. Now, OUR estate attorney wouldn’t touch the property issues and referred us to a real estate attorney. Susie’s attorney drafted this silly little agreement that we were noncommittal about but Susie’s kids took as assent. Well, we already knew our attorney was going to double down on the motion to partition (we made mistakes with the view we’d hire an attorney to fix it) by naming Cunty Aunt Millie as a month-to-month renter without a lease (we presume to forestall squatter’s rights) and the mortgage company. Now, we wait.
Re #1-3: The waiting is the worst.
Agreed, waiting is the worst.
Glad for the good news. Sorry about your brother. Good luck with the real estate wrangling.
The ice isn’t as bad as I feared. Only took eleven minutes to clean off my car. It’s not dry pavement for roads, but I’m going to wait before heading out, as I don’t expect to need as much travel time given conditions as I’d feared.
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward companies that haven’t pulled back from diversity, equity and inclusion programs under conservative pressure, and the nation’s oldest civil rights organization is listing which brands have stood by — or reversed — past commitments to DEI.
The NAACP says the spending guide it published Saturday is needed because DEI initiatives promote the social and economic advancement of Black Americans, who are projected to consume nearly $2 trillion in goods and services in nominal dollars by 2030, according to the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility.
REAL AMERICANS BUY WHAT THEY WANT
-old bumper sticker
To think there are millions of people who actually believe this.
Why can’t reporters/journalists ask the most obvious questions? Sen. Kaine (D-blueVA) was on a Fox Sunday morning show lamenting Trump’s
decision to fire a bunch of “Inspector Generals.” Kaine gave a “heartfelt” observation that these are precisely the people who root out waste and corruption in government and that firing them was foolish and counterproductive. Reporter babe didn’t ask Kaine “Well, evidence suggests that they weren’t doing their job. Why shouldn’t they be fired and replaced with inspectors who will do their job?”
DEI policies are a catchall term for programs meant to promote fair treatment, impartial hiring and cooperation between people from different backgrounds. Such policies vary wildly but often include anti-discrimination mandates and training meant to inform people about how to promote inclusive values. Some institutions hire staff who focus on implementing DEI policies.
The advisory looks at which companies are backtracking on prior commitments, including by eliminating diversity officer positions, ending hiring practices meant to boost staff diversity or supplier diversity standards, or reducing investments in Black communities such as support for historically Black colleges and universities.
A roundabout way of saying “quotas”.
Those serious about DEI would marry someone of a different racial group and/or sexual preference.
Up is down, left is right.
Buffett has the money, Sanders has the time.
They went honky-tonkin’ and had a time
They got married and started a brand new political party
The study by McKinsey also found that Black Americans are more likely to live in communities that lack access to the goods and services of major companies.
Schroedinger’s Negro. Black people simultaneously exist in dense urban environments and are isolated in inaccessible bayou swamps or the hardscrabble mountains of Appalachia, as the narrative demands.