The power couple with the unusually named daughters have quietly retired to their cabin to see if they can make any more. They’re as bad as that Connie Barrett woman I keep hearing about, something about a judge. So y’all are stuck with my meager selection today. I’ll try my best to pare it down to interesting ones.
Speaking of interesting ones, there are interesting birthdays today, and those include a guy to whom we’re indebted for the oldest and worst pun involving rabbits; a guy who many think ruined architecture; a woman who personified, “If it happens in Vegas, it stays in Vegas”; the original ignorant slut; the greatest wrestler ever, bar none; a guy who was a real blast; a Ferenghi; one of the few remaining honest liberals who won’t shut up (and that’s a good thing); and Team Red’s Gabby Gifford, but with a full brain.
Let’s talk news now.
I, for one, look forward to our Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.
Speaking of which, here’s Creepy Joe!
This looks like pure Preet-level prosecutorial dickishness. Woodchipper needed.
Jesus H. Titty-fucking Christ.
Old Guy Music today is craven. I was not a fan of Eddie Van Halen and am still not. His music didn’t move me at all and still doesn’t. I get through about a minute and just walk away. But everybody is expecting a Van Halen song today because the dude snuffed it, so I’ll cough up this furball. And wish that every time he did the tapping thing, he’d toss a few bucks at this guy.
I, for one, look forward to our Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. – oh you would complain about decency for children
Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders.
Someone needs to keep our family friendly rating intact.
I think the rating site died, or I’m just having the darndest string of troubles trying to get there.
I mean, I keep getting this message:
2020 may have claimed another victim. Nothing can be friendly to families in the “new normal”.
/spits
Crap. One of our best jokes ruined.
That’s what he does… THATS ALL HE DOES..
/Michael Biehn doing the speech
Jesus H. Titty-fucking Christ. – titifucking Eskimos can be difficult at time all those layers
A few weeks ago, one of my colleagues forwarded me some especially stupid email from higher-up, and I responded with JHTFC.
he said “I get everything except the T” so I had to explain it to him. Now it’s a standard reply.
I need to come up with some alternative meaning in case someone asks.
Kind of like “QEDMF”…I tell students the MF stands for “mas fuerte”. A few of them believe me.
The universe keeps winning in the battle between creating stupid people and some of us insulating stupid people from the consequences of their stupidity. And I am talking about your students that believe MF stands for mas fuerte… Maybe you should keep it all in latin and tell them it is mens fugit.
Jesus H. TransFiguration Christ?
That’s what whale blubber is for, brah…
Not to mention the threat of well, you know.
Boycotting ice cream companies makes it easier to cut down on consumption. I should have thought of this ages ago.
They are all evil – same with Big Bread / Deep Carbs.
https://rebelcreamery.com/
Keto ice cream. Problem solved.
That sounds disgusting.
If you think it sounds disgusting wait’ll you taste it!
The mint chip was decent. The flavor was spot on, but the texture was a tad off. A shot of whipped cream made a world of difference.
I have a container of the salted caramel that I haven’t opened yet.
The camel chocolate flavor sucked balls. I have 3/4 of a pint in the freezer that will probably never be consumed.
I would assume the camel flavor would suck, even with chocolate.
Some people really like camels. I remember hearing someone say that they’d walk a mile for one.
Look, Crump is the black Gloria Allred, but still, these cops should be prosecuted. They staged a home invasion. – I am still not sure I understand whether the cops did anything illegal
*lightly taps on dor, whispering ‘police’*
*smashes through ediface with battering ram*
*blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam**blam*
that does not answer the question…
You didn’t ask a question. You made a statement.
it was implied
You’ve been…ACKTCHUALLIED!
There was a whole string of illegal acts, starting with the perjury process which resulted in the warrant, the dissembling about the entry, and the immediate escalation of violence.
I would also strongly advocate the impeachment of the judge who issued the warrant.
It’s too early for that level of optimism. The lack of officials getting impeached is always a disappointment for me.
And whoever initiated the warrant process, which I am assuming is where the typo got introduced.
This was truly a nightmarish Tuttle/Buttle situation.
Judges are high and holy. How could you suggest such a thing?
My biggest objection to all the recent “accountability” noise is that it leaves judges out of the loop. They routinely rubber-stamp bad warrants without even reading them. I am not shocked when police push the boundaries on warrant applications…they are wolves, doing what wolves do (this is not to say I think they should get away with it). But I expect judges to do their jobs, which is to act as a check on the process. It has gotten to the point where, in the last few elections, whenever I encounter “Shall Judge X be retained?” on the ballot, I automatically vote No.
well then they should have been prosecuted for it
Many cop-suckers fancy themselves good shooters, so I just ask how they feel about cops who do mag-dumps – missing the guy shooting at them every time but killing a bystander and sending rounds flying through other residents’ apartments. (In the middle of the night, dressed in plainclothes)
So I don’t get where the “perjury” stuff is coming from. My read of the evidence is that the police were trying to “roll up” a pretty big drug ring in one night. There are a lot of recorded phone calls showing that the dealers regularly used Taylor and others to carry large amounts of cash or drugs. Having read through the evidence on this, it seems to me that the police had a legitimate case that she had evidence at the house- enough for a search.
To me, this is straight up a problem with a society that feels it is so important to get evidence for drug crimes that we tolerate or even encourage kicking down doors in the middle of the night. Everything from that night is the expected result when armed men crash through a house in the middle of the night.
Morally, the entire system is violent, unjust, and stupid. But it wasn’t illegal- whether or not they announced themselves, these police weren’t required to by law. And in that situation, everything that happened was an unsurprising outcome. They need to change these laws.
This. ☝️
^^
But everybody is expecting a Van Halen song today because the dude snuffed it, – according to the late trade one Johnny Nash also kicked the bucket
Two great tastes that go great together?
NEEDZ MOAR LEECHES
“The shouting creates a lot more aerosol, so it makes these droplets finer, so they can linger in the air longer and potentially infect people,” said Peter Chin-Hong, a professor of medicine who specializes in infectious diseases at UC San Francisco.
——-
“This is about understanding possibly one of the largest super-spreading events — and certainly the most high-profile one — in history,” she said. “This is a scandal of epic proportions.”
Neha Nanda, an epidemiologist at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, said the time frame for contagion is not fixed. “It’s very nuanced, and it requires an expert opinion to decide whether the patient is ready to come out of isolation,” she said.
I wouldn’t let any of these quack medicine men pull a splinter out of my paw.
Naw, it’s not leeches, this patient has too much bile.
USC’s Keck School of Medicine
2020, am I right?
E Pluribus Honk Honk
“It’s very nuanced, and it requires an expert opinion”
So not science then.
SCI-UN-TI-FIC CON-SEN-SUS!
And if this is true it also indicts the protests. Lots of shouting going on there.
Oh give me a fucking break
It is because they want it to be that way….
Like the Russia claims everyone not part of the stupid brigade now knows was a attempt at coup…
“This is a scandal of epic proportions.”
It really isn’t.
The couple contends that protesters broke through an iron gate, ignored a “No Trespassing” sign, and screamed threats of arson and rape at them, while protest leaders say that the march was peaceful and no threats were made
Democracy means they’re lying.
Good morning, Old Man!
Thanks for pinch-hitting!
…a guy who many think ruined architecture…
I was expecting Gehry.
His music didn’t move me at all and still doesn’t.
I saw VH back in 1984 and it remains one of my favorite concert experiences. An amazing spectacle!
Enjoy Little Guitars. I know I will.
Have a fantastic day, gang!
Haven’t heard that one in ages, Diver Down used to be my favorite of their albums.
For you, then:
Where have all the good times gone?
Of course we can’t forget Fair Warning.
Mean Street
^this. Right here.
I know it’s the wrong lead singer, but I’ve always liked this one.
Little Guitars is my favorite VH tune and the one I used for my Facebook tribute. Excellent choice!
I wasn’t a big fan of keyboard Van Halen, with one notable exception, I’ll Wait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CIE041T954
I would also strongly advocate the impeachment of the judge who issued the warrant.
I want a do-over on annus horribulus, 2020. And this time, I get the pony i always wanted.
Trump tweeted Tuesday that he was looking forward to the debate. “It will be great!” he said.
How can you not like the precious little scamp?
Mark and Patricia McCloskey were indicted Tuesday on charges of unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence, according to their attorney Al Watkins.
The DA tampered with evidence. This is some horseshit.
Projection.
I would love a good Federal prosecution of the St. Louis DA. “Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Rights”
^^ this. There is no faster way to make the 2A a dead letter than to charge people for arming up when an angry mob crashes down the front gate and comes streaming into the front yard.
Time for DOJ to investigate prosecutor torturing couple who used guns to protect their property
Author makes good points that he quickly tarnishes with Soros and “Floyd OD’d” bullshit.
Why is the Soros part bullshit? He’s spent millions on DA races. He didn’t do that because he just couldn’t think of anything else to do with his money, did he?
^^This
Why is the Soros part bullshit?
Because if Soros was wiped from existence tomorrow, not a single thing would change.. The prog/socialist support network is much bigger and much more sophisticated than that, and where soros would leave a vacuum, it would be momentary and unnoticed after the financial and operational support from 1000 other soroses comes flooding in.
tl;dr: soros is a drop in the ocean, at best, and the only reason to mention him is because he’s a convenient boogeyman.
But he is part of the machine that seems to want to shred the social fabric of our country. To what end I am not sure. That does seem to be the goal, though. He has pumped loads of cash to causes that are dedicated to infusing antipathy towards all things American and that wish to remake the country into, IMO, something that does not resemble the fruit of the enlightenment that is America (warts and all).
I am not sure that Floyd OD’d but you can brt that Chavin and company’s leagal teams are going to leverage the hell out of that to create. what I high degree of reasonable doubt. Given the fact that the DA’s leagal reasoning was something along the lines of, “People are really angry and I won’t get reelected unless I go for murder one.”, it is probably is going to work because the facts don’t remotely. fit the Minnesota statutory definition of the charges. So there is agood chance they are gonna walk, unless the jury pulls an OJ.
Here is a pretty good breakdown done using primary document:
https://youtu.be/uBkKsQL5RlY
To be clear, I don’t doubt that there are mitigating circumstances based on Floyd’s fentanyl levels.
I also think it’s a non-sequitur after watching Chauvin sit on his neck for X minutes. Whether or not he died is irrelevant to the fact that it was shit policing, and those who push the “he died of a drug OD” narrative automatically go in the TEAM Uber Alles bucket in my mind. There’s no reason to bring it up except to score political points.
Fair point. The thing that is really frustrating is. that since the DA decided to go for the 10,000 point hole in prosecutorial ski ball, no justice will be done for everyone and the police department will see no need to change their practices or change their training and all of the BLM types will freak out and we will have to put up with their crap all over again.
everyone = anyone
I need to fire my copy editor.
Yep, I like the skiball analogy. That’s exactly what’s happening, and all sides except for the rational one are cheering it on
The news on this case is confusing. The article in the links makes it sound like the grand jury was deadlocked? But the judge moved the case forward?
Other news says they were indicted by the grand jury. Any glib lawyers know what’s going on?
It sounds like in this case the confusion is by design so they can hide the fact criminals in government working to overthrow an elected president that threatens their criminal enterprise are punishing people that dared to interfere with their agenda and actions.
Will the CIA Director comply? A good public firing would be fun to watch.
If you go and read some of the documents, it’s clear that this should be the biggest story in the country. And it’s not even on CNN’s homepage anywhere.
For that crowd the story here is how they keep people from seeing it until at least after they help Biden get over the finish line. At that point they can create whatever narrative they want and nobody will be able to dispute it.
Why would you expect news on CNN. This is all debunked conspiracy.
See here’s the play: at the beginning of the allegations, claim it is debunked. Then as more info comes in, continue to point back to your “debunking” as a reason to ignore any new evidence.
Debunked! is the play Biden went with during the first debate. He experienced zero pushback.
So what I get from the Baby Shark story is that I should move forward with pressing cruelty charges against my 2 year okd
How deep are your two year old’s pockets?
Pennies to her bane
Name
Never sue a poor person. That’s like Law School 101.
Yeah, but if you sue the child, you might be able to get garnishments when they start working. Do it to 2 or 3 kids and it might make a solid retirement plan.
Where else are you going to find 10% annual interest?
OMWC today. Tomorrow…?
The world!
Iron Rules say me.
You had best hope that STEVE SMITH doesn’t draw Links duty then…
OMWC today. Tomorrow …The Children Fight Back!
The naked mole-rat, or sand puppy, is undoubtedly not a handsome animal, but it can’t feel pain, it resists to cancer and it’s the only cold-blooded mammal [read more
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1313781380480983040
The naked mole rat is nether a mole nor a rat. But it is naked. Like all animals. No need to put that in the name
It’s called ‘naked’ because it is furless. The same way humans are somtimes called ‘naked apes’ despite being the only apes to wear clothes.
Plus they pop out of the ground randomly in the worst places. Fuckers are hard to hit with a pistol.
I just knew someone would make a Fallout joke. Well played, sir.
I’m a low hanging kind of guy
But they get to hang around Kim Possible, probably caught her changing a few times.
I think I’m gonna pull a Q and just check out. This hysteria is just too much at this point.
Fuck every single retard politician who has fuelled the hysteria and may they all one day rot in hell for their lack of courage.
I’m starting to see people outdoors cover their mouths with their hands now in public if they don’t have a mask. It’s just beyond reason. I don’t know how this remedies itself. The longer it goes, the more it embeds itself.
“Masks may be helpful as they remind people not to touch their face.”
“Make sure to touch your face between every bite of food to protect yourself from the virus.”
That’s even worse than wearing a mask. The point is to not touch your face. Both make you touch your face more.
Feature, not a bug. Gotta keep those positive test numbers high!
Stick around, Friend. The alternatives are worserer. Jesus, we can’t even watch or play sports anymore and every entertainment has either been shut down or become so woke that it is unpalatable. We need your bitter, concise reportage from the front lines of Canada’s hair on fire moment!
F1 hasn’t been too bad if you just watch the race. Yes, there’s the trite “EndRacism” hash tags and the “WeRaceAsOne” rainbow in various places — but they’re pretty innocuous for the most part. And the commentators certainly aren’t bothering to say anything about it.
Granted, I haven’t cared to watch pre or post race interviews — I’m sure Hamilton is shooting his mouth off (given he loves coming over here and schmoozing with NYC/Hollywood folks), but you can still just enjoy the race in peace.
Indycar hasn’t mentioned politics at all. I hope like hell that continues.
I haven’t noticed too much during the Browns games. And most of the bar bitches about the pre-game stuff anyways. It’s still strange to see a bar forced to turn people away during a game because of capacity limits. And watching through a layer of plexiglass sucks.
Yeah. Prisoners. Like that poor fucker from “Midnight Express” trying to kiss boobage.
Festus: It has changed what are considered the good seats. The one bar side used to be optimal, because you could see the three TV’s over the bar, the screens on either wall of the bar, and the big screens on the other side of the bar. Now, if you’re sitting on that side, it’s all through a layer or two of plexiglass (they have hanging dividers around the bar.
The other side of the bar now has clear lines of site to the big screens, so it’s where I’ve tried to get seats now. Sunday walked up with the girlfriend and got there about 20 minutes before the game, and had to deal with the small table right in front of the big screens.
At least there’s still cheap beer and wing specials to celebrate the Browns winning.
Neph,
Drop me a line.
sugarfreejay(at)gmail.com
SugarFree:
Done.
Ditto on F1, although I think the Hamilton thing is funny since he’s English, and we all know that slavery, racism and oppression only existed in America.
A few seasons ago the organizers of the Spanish GP were sanctioned because the fans had put up a couple of racist banners to taunt Hamilton.
you should just drink more whiskey
Same as it ever was.
Was on a call where people were talking about how they couldn’t wait for a vaccine so they could go do things. **Checks my August-September calendars** Like taking the kids to Disney World, the beach, kids birthday parties, having the neighborhood kids over to swim, and taking road trips? Its not hemorrhagic fever. Go outside. Do stuff.
I’ve got a co-worker who has canceled his whole life based on the say-so of his favored politicians. He was aghast when I mentioned that we flew up to Vermont recently. After that, I neglected to mention all the picnics and breakfasts I’ve attended over the summer.
I really think the people who are sacrificing their lives are not seeing the reality–plenty of people (young, old, doesn’t matter) are out and about, living their lives as normally as they can, but there are people who are just sitting around locked away, reading the internet and watching the cable news, who are immersed in the terror, and when they hear that some people aren’t also wearing the sackcloth and ashes, they refuse to imagine for a second that it may be because the threat, while real, is way less likely, and with lesser conequences than they believe.
I have friends in their 70s and 80s who have decided they don’t want to spend the rest of their lives being miserable shut-ins, and have elected to keep living.
It’s sad, thinking of all the life people are sacrificing to stay alive.
I had a co-worker who was afraid to turn on his AC (in Tennessee) because he didn’t want to risk that blowing “the virus” around.
I have acquaintances who are in their 30’s and 40’s who have stayed on full lockdown mode since fucking March.
The girlfriend’s aunt is refusing to come to Thanksgiving because we went to Put-In-Bay.
I guess there is a bright side to all of this after all…
^^
This. It makes me sad to see the destruction that politicians have wraught just so they can get more points on the other team.
Politicians would have less influence if we had fewer cowering morons in the population.
Was talking to young lady the other day and she mentioned that flights to the city were going for $87 but SHE would never get on a plane. She was maybe thirty years old? The fear is a built in feature, not a bug.
I would never get on a plane either, but for very different reasons, Im sure
#metoo
Stop the mask bullshit on planes and I’ll consider flying again.
I have been flying all through this Kung Flu panic, and I got to tell ya, I am loving the fact idiots like this lady are not flying, because it now means my chances of having some fat guy or gal crowding me is absolutely zero.
*sits too close to Alex*
And of course, the people reporting the news aren’t doing any sacrificing.
Hehehe…. wanna get pissed more a little bit this morning? Look at what I finally found about our nice province :
https://www.inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/donnees/age-sexe (French only, of course)
What they are doing to kids is simply inhuman.
But as my GF told me ”If you show this to people they are just going to be reinforced in their belief that this is actually dangerous” ”See ! One kid under 19 died of it!!!!, Told ya it is dangerous!!”
Same as the 4 kids that had Kawasaki syndrome.
If it saves even one life….
If you think you need to take a break to keep your sanity, do it. Do what you need to. These are trying times.
“Well, I think if he still has Covid, we shouldn’t have a debate,” Biden told reporters in Maryland. “I think we’re gonna have to follow very strict guidelines. Too many people have been infected and it’s a very serious problem.”
He doesn’t, or won’t by then.
Additionally, I have been assured, particularly by NPCNN that Trump is faking it in order to get out of the debates since he was clearly curb-stomped by Biden in the first one.
I hope he gets some coaching for the next one. There were a metric shit-ton of kill shot opportunities that he missed.
Yeah, about that “Coaching” idea… It would be really great if you could clear your schedule for the entire week-end…
Eskimo Pie to become Edy’s Pie: Rebranded ice cream bars expected to arrive in early 2021
Just another product for me not to use, though I never eat things like this anyway. I did, however, use Aunt Jemima syrup and Uncle Ben’s rice. But if the companies are too racist to sport black mascots then they are too racist more me.
Land O’ Lakes box looks naked without the maiden.
Land O’ Lakes kicked out the Native but kept the land and the lakes.
They should rename it ‘Land of Colonialists’.
for*, even.
52 comments? What is this, Hit & Run?
Man, they really hate your links.
Just following Cuomo and DeBlasio’s lead!
They just hate me because of my indifference to Van Halen. Tough titties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvAGBz4ZJm4
you talk a lot of titties today. Maybe you need to wait a bit for em to grow is all I’m saying
No, he loves them tough, like real tough, like licking boob jerky.
You should have played one of the sappy Van Hagar tunes from 5150 to really tune ’em up.
Fuck that shit! I love OMWC links but I can’t delve into them like I usually would because it is not the weekend. Some of us work for a living.
Shut it all down.
The IRS is under investigation for buying Americans’ smartphone location data from private surveillance companies
Your tax dollars at work…against you.
Almost makes me want to ditch the smartphone.
Location data….to what end?
Yeah… that was my first thought, too. NSA, FBI? I could see it… IRS?!? Just what exactly would that tell them? State/City taxing authorities — maybe the whole “did you work in our boundaries”… but I never thought the Feds would care enough to do the work for those folks.
Maybe they just wanted blackmail material to smooth their audits? Weird story…
To the bitter end. Disability and welfare cheats, Antifa, BLM members, Proud Boys, sovereign citizens, abortion activists pro and con, basically any wrongthinker of any persuasion. Different regime? Rinse and repeat. Once the power is granted the ability to act on that power is never going away. This ain’t a political struggle, it’s a human rights struggle.
OMWC. Why are (((you))) serenading that Pickaninny? It’s obvious that wee Gary Coleman is having none of that!
WOW. It isn’t just in the U.S. where negative opinions of China have soared. It’s all across the developed world.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1313682271379943425
UnsurprisiObligatory.ng.
Whoa.
So this exists.
“Welcome to the party, pal!”
Huh I wonder why?
Top 3 most socialist countries according to…
REPUBLICANS
Flag of Venezuela
Venezuela (60%)
Flag of China
China (57%)
Flag of Russia
Russia (57%)
DEMOCRATS
Flag of Sweden
Sweden (43%)
Flag of Denmark
Denmark (43%)
Flag of Norway
Norway (42%)
https://twitter.com/YouGovAmerica/status/1313144936360009729
Republicans are retarded because they can’t remember Cuba.
Democratic taking points have clearly worked on the shift minded members of the party.
And North Korea
That and Russia isn’t any more socialist than most of Europe, maybe even less because they can’t afford to be.
Russia is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a country.
Should ev been nuked in WWII but you Americans pussied out
We didn’t even need the nukes.
We had all the remaining industrial capacity of Germany to back it up as well. Didn’t need nukes, just a shitload of bombers and ordnance.
The morality of that kind of warfare is atrocious, but knowing what Communism wrought post-war, would the death toll have been lower overall?
Note, I am not a utilitarian, so I’m not advocating that that kind of death arithmetic justifies pre-emptive war.
-Augustine
Fuck bitches make money – Genghis Khan
On Cuties, I can’t say. I haven’t seen the movie. I am not sure if the movie or the law is the problem. I lean toward the law being the problem. It is too vague.
Creepy Joe is creepy.
The jail thing is almost funny. Jailers administering medieval torture….not funny.
The DA in the McCloskey case needs a woodchipper. If we dont start doing that soon these cases are going to be legion.
It doesn’t matter if Joe debates or not. He is going to lose sans massive voter fraud.
I dont understand why the depiction of anyone not-white is considered racist.
I am not going to weigh in on the Taylor shooting. I dont trust a word anyone has said about it yet.
BTW, those are October 6 birthdays, not today’s.
You forget, he uses the (((calendar))).
Not kosher
De Blasio literally “rounding up the Jews”
But they will still vote for him right?
Not (((those))) ones, just (these) ones. Every time.
You just need more outside money. Get Bloomer on the phone.
“It can, and in part, because Texas is, so voter suppressed. It has become very hard to count Democratic voters. So in 2018, most polls on the eve of the election had me down by eight or nine points to Ted Cruz. I ended up losing by 2.5. Most polls had Hillary Clinton losing by double digits in Texas. She lost by nine points. There is typically an outperformance of the polls by Democrats of three to four points. So I would say those races are much, much closer. MJ Hegar can beat John Cornyn, and Joe Biden can win this state.”
He added, “In fact, on the eve of early voting, on the 12th of October, we’re going to have a million-voter phone bank. Our volunteers are going to call a million voters to get them to commit to voting on the first day of early voting. The Texas Democratic Party, the candidates, everyone’s doing their part. I think we can do this, Joy. I think we can end this on the third. You know, Pennsylvania will take days or maybe even weeks to count those ballots. Texas, we’ll know on the third. If we win Texas, it is over mathematically. It is over psychologically. We can turn the page on Trump and Trumpism and begin the next chapter for this country.”
If your state doesn’t vote blue, that’s how we know it’s voter suppression.
“…the next chapter for this country.”
Which is what, exactly?
God, I hate that slimy fuck.
Biden defines $400,000 a year as ‘wealthy.’ In big cities, it only makes you upper middle class
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1313489245823283201
wait is upper middle class not wealthy? is wealthy a different class? If there is no aristocracy why even have class designations?
First of all, income doesn’t make you wealthy. Or maybe, that’s the point. If you make $400K in Ames, Iowa, you can probably live in a mansion and send your kids to private school and retain enough money to retire and continue that lifestyle. In New England or West Coast cities, $400K will let you live in a nice place and send your kids to private school, but not retain enough wealth to become wealthy if you choose to do so.
$400k in Brooklyn is equivalent to $218k in Ames (source: nerdwallet).
Either will get you wealthy pretty fast if you arent a spendthrift.
While I don’t believe it, apparently the Charleston SC cost of living is 3% lower than Ames. May explain why my neighborhood is filling with New York and New Jersey expats.
Condolences on that.
Does that include the tax overhead?
Apparently no:
NerdWallet excluded state and local tax data because tax rates vary by state and metropolitan area, and sometimes within metropolitan area as well. Due to the plethora of state taxes, local taxes, jurisdictions and assessment procedures involved in the assessment of income, property and sales taxes, local tax rates cannot be accurately calculated.
People might not spend their entire income living in a city you say? We need another tax for this.
$4ooK in NY, LA, Boston, DC, or San Fransisco means you are living comfortably. Unless you have a very frugal lifestyle, you are not saving or accumulating much wealth. In any of those places, expect to pay about 35% of that income in federal, state, and maybe city income taxes.
Seriously, 400k is high in DC, LA etc.
yep. Even in silicon valley, $400k/year can get you nice accommodations and enough money to put away some serious wealth.
Unless you pay it all to e-thot only fans and local escorts who charge triple for cosplaying elves…
Oddly specific.
there were a bunch of articles about cosplaying escorts making bank among the SV nerds
“People making between $400,000 and $700,000 are going to have a tax increase of only about 1% or less,” said Seth Hanlon, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think-tank. “The tax plan is really aimed at the very top — the top 1% or 0.1%.”
Is that even a plan? Why bother with such a small increase?
Because they are lying about the impact of the tax increase.
As well as who it will affect. Taxing only the rich isn’t going to make a damned bit of difference because there aren’t that many of them.
If you read the Biden 100 item plan, much of it is just delusional, stuff they wouldn’t get passed even with solid majorities in the House and Senate.
Democrat just can’t learn from past mistakes. Like Obama blowing all his goodwill and political capital ramming through ACA, Harris is going to do the same thing. And then I assume the midterms will be another slaughter without Trump to run against.
And then the GOP will do nothing….
You assume the Dems won’t mandate mail in voting, ballot harvesting, stop any clean up of voter rolls, etc. so as to give the Republicans a chance of retaking power?
For Democrats, it’s mostly about using anger and upset to drive turn-out. Without the 24-hour media outrage cycle, I doubt their turn-out will be high in the mid-term (just like it rarely is with a Dem in the White House.)
^^^THIS^^^
But is bigger than a lie. It is a despicable and blatant attempt to appeal to people’s sense of envy.
When you talk about billionaires and millionaires most people know that group is small, and while they want to fuck them over, they know – instinctively – these people somehow will rig the system. But mention people that make good money but not in the millionaire/billionaire club, and every idiot out there thinks that’s their fucking evil neighbor, and they want to stick it to them.
Sam Dogen, founder of the personal finance site Financial Samurai, calculated what $400,000 gets a family of four in a high-cost city like New York, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Washington or Honolulu.
Oh, that dumbass again.
$400k here in Ohio would probably get you classed as high income. Of course, the median household income through all of Ohio is under $60k (per a quick Google search).
If the rich avoid paying taxes, increasing the rates will have little effect.
Betrilbied neckbeard in a boog shirt assaulting a noble BIPoC with a banjo. The ISP is going to can this site any second now.
OT: I went off a bit on my girlfriend. She was aghast that Trump would say that no one should be afraid of the virus. I mentioned FDR and “fear itself” and was gobsmacked myself that anyone would think ill of what the president said about the fucking coronavirus. The goodthinkful view is to cower like a pussy for this?!
The last 7 months of 15 days to flatten the curve have been retarded.
I’m over it. I have no aversion to telling someone to grow the hell up anymore.
Our ancestors endured far, far, far worse so we could cower during what is effectively a bad flu season? We’re not even within an order of magnitude in severity when compared to the Spanish Flu.
Me too. I haven’t had that many opportunities yet but my plan has moved to “open mocking”.
I think I read somewhere recently in like the first 6 months of the spanish flu 1/10 people under the age of 25 died from it.
Cowards with no coping skills. It’s truly awful.
Lots of people who literally don’t understand numbers, much less statistics. That includes some of my family with graduate degrees who think covid is more likely to kill them and their kids than the flu, a house fire, or car crash. When I point out the mistakes in their risk assessment, they just go silent and reject the logic.
The goodthink view is to cower. Fuck these wimps and don’t let it dominate you is damn good advice.
https://mobile.twitter.com/themodalice/status/1313625630563418113?prefetchtimestamp=1602075484072
I rate this as unverified.
Anyway. I guess that puts a damper in the “make Puerto Rico a state” train
Today’s baseball birthdays, in descending WAR order include, the guy who gets confused with the actress, Evan Longoria, HoFer Chuck Klein, the other Mookie (Betts), and Jose Cardenal, who only played 1.5 seasons with them.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27891#fromrss
snake oil is still king.
All you have to do in Canada is look at any simple graph and you can see all of the bullshit old data they’ve dumped in multiple times. I don’t believe even the simplest numbers, it’s all “garbage in, garbage out” up here.
Classic correlation /= causation
They implemented the mask mandate in the middle of July. Just as everyone was going on holidays. While it was already on a slowing trend.
I wonder how they explain the rising number of cases we’ve had in the last few weeks?
Or maybe they are just full of shit.
Chris Hayes on dealing with people who don’t wear masks and slavishly follow politicized medical advice:
https://mobile.twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1313291524629770242
Huh, the media really is the enemy.
Hayes is a retard. It really is amazing that he has the job he does.
I don’t believe our chattering class are very intelligent in general. Being a propagandist is thankless work it’s like being having a thinking man among ditch diggers.
The much punchable face in show biz.
truth and reconciliation commission.
Ministry of truth.
I read: Round ’em up.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlenaLara39/status/1313524464257314816
LOL
60 Field Intelligence Officers apprehend an individual with this illegal firearm! #OneLessGun
https://twitter.com/NYPD60Pct/status/1313270260339019783
I am unsure if this is serious or trolling… I’m a go with trolling
From replies: “ Um, quick note: 60 Field Intelligence is a unit inside a division of the department.“
So probably not trolling.
I mean the look of the gun
*clicks*
LOL
Does that thing even work anymore?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/879973715
You can have your very own.
At least the one they’re selling looks like it can still shoot.
I can’t believe that thing is up to $185. That’s a $39.99 pawn shop special if I’ve ever seen one.
This is one of those specials you would never see if all gunz were banned!
Probably meant to type 60th.
That said, I’m not sure if they recovered a firearm or a boat anchor.
That doesn’t look operable.
Greg Ellifritz did a great article on the guns recovered from criminals while he was the department training officer. As many as 25% of them were either empty or completely non-functional. There were some interesting data points in there.
SJWednesday: 5 Bucks Says This Guy Is A Date Rapist
My money is on future skinsuit-wearing serial killer.
^^^THIS^^^
Start calling em Buffalo Bill.
“Future” or “Current”?
Well, one of those might be libel, the other simply prescient.
If this dude is truly not using drugs, he needs to start.
*cues up “Goodbye Horses”*
Sounds like the prose of a college freshman who found his roommate’s weed stash.
“I’m CIS male, in that I’m comfortable in my body and – after exploring this through meditation (to lower possible subconscious biases) – I feel romantic/sexual attraction to CIS females.”
He’s overthinking “pornhub gives me a boner” a little bit.
There is no angle that is too absurd for this shyster.
Host Wolf Blitzer asked Schiff about reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested that the steroid Trump is taking might be impacting the president’s thinking and what he thinks about this prospect.
Schiff said, “Well, you know, in my view, Wolf, on the best of days, the president’s thinking isn’t too sound, so if there’s any impairment, it’s a real problem. To me, this harkens back to the president proudly boasting that he’s going to take responsibility for shutting down the government. Well, he’s now proudly taking responsibility for denying the American people help in their time of crisis. Basically, today, Donald Trump told the country, if you’re a small businessperson and you’re going under, too bad for you, I’m not going to bother with it until after the election. If you’ve lost your job and you’re on unemployment compensation, your benefits have run out, that’s too bad. That doesn’t affect me. I don’t care. I’ll deal with that later. You know, this is so irresponsible, when millions are suffering. And, of course, politically, it makes no sense for him to do either. So, it does call into question his judgment, certainly, but whether he’s being impaired by these drugs.”
Trump should roid rage fuck both Shiff and Pelosi…
Adam Schiff has absolutely no credibility on anything and in a decent society would be a roundly-mocked figure of ridicule.
This
The man has been caught blatantly lying over and over and over. Not bullshit white lies, straight-up fabrications of truth with real-world consequences.
He should be tarred and feathered and sent to a remote island to live out his days harvesting clams for sustenance.
That lying and conniving is what makes him a great member of the democrat party. The republicans are morons. The democrats run a criminal enterprise.
He should have to watch election night returns like that Roddy in Clockwork Orange watching the movie. Then again, he always looks like that.
You’re right about John McWhorter, OMWC. He’s always an interesting interview and seems to hate Trump for the right reasons.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/elections/franklin-county-absentee-ballots-error/530-b71c199c-c4d8-43d4-9415-265a67761aa5
Huh.
huh…
1. Send 20% of [EVIL PARTY]’s requested ballots to wrong address
2. [EVIL PARTY] voters either forget or complain they didn’t receive their ballots
3. [EVIL PARTY] voters go to the polls on Nov 3
4. News reports [EVIL PARTY] voters attempting massive election fraud because they are trying to vote in person AND were sent absentee ballots.
oh, and also:
2B: Spend 4 weeks “working to straighten out” the situation
4B: Use the situation to justify stretching out the voting deadline by weeks and weeks
Jonathan Price Was Wolfe City’s Hometown Hero. On Saturday, He Was Killed by Police.
His friends, both Black and white, confront the reality of police brutality in their quiet hometown.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/jonathan-price-wolfe-city-hometown-hero/
For months, Jonathan Price had been watching the protests against police brutality with interest. But the 31-year-old’s reaction to the movement seemed to defy categorization. He prayed for George Floyd, but worried that “aggressive rioting” after his death would only lead to more racial profiling and violence. He believed in the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, but remained adamant that his own interactions with police as a Black man living in North Texas had been generally positive.
None of that mattered on Saturday night, when Price wound up at a local gas station he’d visited too many times to count. Friends and family members say witnesses told them that the beloved athlete was trying to break up a domestic dispute of some kind before Wolfe City police officer Shaun David Lucas arrived. A rookie, Lucas tried to detain Price, who resisted in a “non-threatening posture” and began walking away from Lucas when the officer tased Price and then opened fire, killing him, according to a statement from the Texas Rangers. (Witnesses claim he was shot in the back, but the Rangers haven’t commented on that allegation.) Price was unarmed before he was shot and the argument was over by the time Lucas arrived, friends and relatives said. Late Monday, the Rangers arrested Lucas, and charged with him Price’s murder. “The preliminary investigation indicates that the actions of Officer Lucas were not objectionably reasonable,” the statement added, noting that the Rangers are cooperating with the Wolfe City Police Department and the Hunt County district attorney’s office. Hunt County jail records show that Lucas was booked on a $1 million bond.
Oops!
Does Price have enough of a criminal record for anyone to care?
That is a bullshit story, slanted as hell. The author is trying to stir shit.
A domestic dispute with whom? About what? ‘Trying to break up’ means….what exactly? Who called the cops?
Cop arrives and the story jumps straight to ‘tried to detain Price’. What happened in between? Resisted how? Cop tases Price and then arbitrarily decides to shoot him?
Way too many questions left unanswered.
That’s by design….
The story has an agenda/narrative to make, so hence the gaps that would hamper that agenda/narrative…
“but worried that “aggressive rioting” after his death would only lead to more racial profiling and violence”
Feature not bug. I’ve been saying since this started that forcing this to be all about race, like always, is only going to get us meaner, more militarized, and unaccountable cops. Get ready for cops in tanks. Fuck, they might give them fighter jets, and they’ll at least get killer drones.
Hera ya go, JAFO..
Literally every single thing that movie warned about has come to pass.
A few of his buildings look suspiciously brutalist, but other than that, I mostly like his work. Even his art.
I think the problematic part of that is the handcuffing them and making them stand for hours, not the actual listening to it part.
So glad my kids are too old to have had Baby Shark. I had to deal with the Wiggles.
Now my children get to deal with Van Halen.
The big-name famous architects are almost always wanna-be totalitarians. There’s something about the role that attracts those who seek to impose their will on others and perfect their life choices.
I took a history of Architecture class taught by a professor who proclaimed to us that she was a marxist.
I wasn’t sure how that had to do anything with the history of architecture, but she made sure to bring it in to everything she talked about.
If you didnt denote gender I would have asked if you took my brother’s class thay he teaches. He is a marxist.
Do you remind him that if we lived under Marxism he’d be teaching people how to design public restrooms at the re-education camps and not fancy dachas for the party members?
Poor you. Holidays must be fun.
Did she whoop up the virtues of Platenbau?
They love them some seriously monotone concrete buildings where you pack the serfs 3 generations to a 2 bedroom appartment?
Very few people don’t seek to impose their will on others and perfect their life choices. Even I, a libertarian, would desperately like to more effectively direct my children’s life choices so they don’t fuck up the way we did, but it’s not working. People gonna people.
As for the architecture itself, buildings must exist and urban planning must be done if for no other reason than indoor plumbing and electricity.
With few exceptions (i.e., brutalism), I can’t think of one that manifests as authoritarian versus utility. I have never been in a brutalist building that was efficiently laid out. They’re mazes, designed to scare, intimidate, and confuse.
What do you think of Frank Lloyd Wright? It’s rumored he’s the one Rand based Howard Roark on. (I haven’t researched it.) Note: that is just me asking for curiosity’s sake and having a conversation, not trying to challenge you. As with any artist, he has some things I like and some things I don’t.
I like most of what Mies van der Roh did, particularly the Farnsworth House and the Barcelona style (Bauhaus).
I like the aesthetic of Wright’s work even though it wasn’t meant for me, being over 6 feet tall.
But by all accounts, he was a Grade A asshole with a mean streak a mile wide.
I thought she was a Richard Neutra devotee.
They have a similar style enough to be nearly indistinguishable, though FLW used warm woods and stone (and ventured into Prairie style) and Neutra largely used concrete.
“Wig-GLE, and LEARN, let’s have some fun!”
Do not miss the Wiggles.
the word “Eskimo” is commonly used in Alaska to refer to Inuit and Yupik people, it’s considered derogatory and was said to mean “eater of raw meat.”
Inuit also sounds like an eater of raw meat.
last I heard eskimo means maker of snow shoes.
SJWednesday: The New and Improved Communist Manifesto
I love Reddit. It keeps me from sinking completely into an intellectual bubble of cranky libertarian gun freaks, and it gives me a whole boatload of people to look down on.
See, I’m the opposite. I was happier when I didn’t know these people existed.
Meh. I was already around and aware of quite a few subcultures already. Diving deeper into some of them was of less than zero interest to me.
I made the mistake of getting to know some folks in Swing dancing outside of dances.
Pretty shitty people.
They shut down a couple of subreddits I went to because of wrongthink.
Furthermore, I’m tired of politics dominating every other fucking subreddit. Politics does not belong on r/crossstitch, and flowery “fuck the patriarchy” patterns aren’t quite saying what they think they’re saying.
I know that all of the TERF subreddits are gone and even mentioning that transwomen aren’t actual women will get you banned in short order.
It really is an example of democracy and bureaucracy in action. You simultaneously have people voting on everything of no importance whatsoever, and bureaucratic moderators that create the rules by which the democracy exists.
It’s our future.
It’s our present. The major political parties control which candidates you get to vote for, which issues the incumbents get to bring to the floor and vote on in the Legislature, and which appointees get confirmed.
Now, I’m not a huge fan of “Democracy” as it is generally understood these days, but what they’re selling ain’t what they’re delivering.
Fuck the Patriarchy literally means you are in bed with the Man!
Speaking of fabric arts, this place has a large BLM poster in the window.
Too bad about the BLM poster, because that place looks fabulous, especially for people who have no cutting tables. I am fortunate enough to have one of those long banquet tables I can set up and take down when I need it.
However, I do not have a serger (not gonna get one, either), so if I needed one that badly, I’d certainly drop in specifically to use their machine.
I know! Maybe someday we’ll use the dining room table for dining again.
Also for people who like to be social/semi social while working.
Reddit also has some good porn.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/gonewild-reddit-gone-wild-amateur-porn-history
There are a few subs that don’t suck, but I found people unnecessarily combative, even in relatively uncontroversial subs. Pedants and assholes abound there, and I already get my fill of that here. ?
The hell? Besides all the other crap — they don’t think the Industrial Revolution started until 1868?!?
I just started reading the Horowitz book ‘Radical Son’. First thing I’ve ever ready by him. The start of it is sort of like reading the linage in the Bible only in more detail than just ‘Begat’. I now know more about the history of this guy’s family than that of my own.
Anyway, the whole point of that seems to be the lying of a foundation for how Horowitz became a commie, like his father before him, and his father’s father before his father.
I started reading this because I wanted to see how the 60s relates to today in terms of how all this communism has infected all of our institutions. If I didn’t have to work today, I’d still be reading it, because the last paragraph I read before going to sleep was very interesting. If I recall correctly, it was talking about how the communist party, cannot remember the year, basically owned the local teacher’s union where he lived in NYC. That’s interesting, since the communist party apparently owns all the teacher’s unions in the entire country now.
Well that is some of the stupidest shit I’ve ever read.
“Argle bargle beeble bloop. Now let me tell you what you like and who you are.”
Or you could fuck off with your Tourette’s.
I don’t believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAGBndvUhZA
Something to give you a smile.
https://twitter.com/LibertyImpostor/status/1313529221663391745
Go ahead, pet it!
That would have been my reaction too…
That’s just a baby. I’ve held ones bigger than that.
That one is the general size of the ones my brother and I would catch and play with until mom got home from work and yelled at us about baby gators in the bathtub so we would go release them into the canals.
Baby reptiles in general are cute.
https://i.redd.it/lctr2jimbdd11.jpg
Baby animals in general are cute.
I love veal….
I was trying to come with a Well Akshuly response, but I got nothing. You are indeed right, baby animals are cute. Even the really ugly ones are cute.
I am disappoint.
What type of snake is that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cepV5f2-MaU
That’s an albino Western Hognose snake.
too bad they grow up to be politicians or members of the media.
There’s a third option as well: alien invaders.
I want to date her… The things she could do with that mouth….
LOVE IT! It’s a practical effect, as well; Jane Badler with a giant latex appliance on her gob. Fuck CGI! Make model makers great again!
A local UHF station aired it every year or two as a week long event. I remember watching it as a kid and still getting creeped out by that scene and the first time the “fake skin” gets torn off.
This was also the last miniseries in which Robert Englund played a friendly and nebbish guy. His next role was as Freddy Krueger.
We already have one. It’s called the Environmental Protection Agency
I am going to admit that I when “the experts class ” told us this event would never happen, that they might have been right. But here we are, and the Arab world has lost its patience with most of Iran’s proxies in that area, and they no longer conceal it.
sounds like hes just being realistic about his assesment of palestinian leadership.
Reminds me of a certain third party I might have heard of once or twice…
The fact the KSA sent their chief spy to the US as ambassador is really making me giggle.
There have been some stories about polls putting Biden up 15%. That of course sounds very suspect, but I think it’s all part of the plan. The Dems have already said they would not accept a Biden defeat. So if Trump wins, they can say, “Biden was up by 15 POINTS and somehow he lost? The only way that could happen is if Trump stole the election!”
The polls are fake news now. And that’s exactly what they are gearing up for, Coup 2 Electric Boogalo. Get ready for 4 more years of the same.
It’s designed to demoralize Trump voters. Hence the polls with laughably off-kilter partisan splits.
Having paid attention to these occasional Biden bumps, I have to assume that they are precisely timed to help prop up Biden when he needs it most and nothing more. As far as them discouraging Trump voters, I don’t see that happening.
It may not be successful, but I guarantee that’s the intent.
It just pisses me off, like all the rest of the fake news. Because anyone who has ever followed politics, instinctively knows those polls are not only not correct, but are intentionally not correct.
I dont know. Vegas takes all this stuff into account and they have Biden as 2-1 favorite. I think we are looking at president Harris soon.
They had better terms for Crooked Hillary, didn’t they?
No, i don’t think so. I think that is mostly a mythos brought to bear by NYT style “97% chance” predictions. But the people who actually had to put their money on the line were never that bad. Biden has pretty consistently polled better than hillary did in 2016.
In regard to Hillary, that was before we learned of all of these silent Trump voters. Now Vegas is taking them into account and they still see Biden as a big favorite.
You may want to look at this:
Betting Odds
It’s designed to demoralize Trump voters.
True. But they can also do what ToK says.
Agreed. This is battlespace prep, both to reject voter fraud claims (“of course Biden won, he had a huge lead in the polls”) or to undermine the legitimacy of a Trump win (“he must have cheated again, Biden had a huge lead in the polls”).
Ok, Leon’s Discount Wax Paper Hat Time:
I think it might be the UN that defines a certain variance from polling to actual results as an indicator of an unfair election. So you could believe that some polls are being pushed into a “heavy biden” direction so that if Trump Wins, the left can claim that the election was fraudulent.
But i don’t know why they are so worried about the election when Biden clearly has it in the bag. He’s up 16 points.
If Trump spends more money on advertising with the media outlets commissioning those polls, the numbers will get closer, but not because the advertising will sway many voters.
https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1313610647561740288
Reading this thread, what is the Official Glibertarian Position on 3 strike laws… I find them to strict as a rule and expect libertarians mostly feel this way, but this guy is allegedly libertarian
I mean, the guy has a point.
I also find 3-strikes laws overly dogmatic and probe to misuse. But most of the opposition to them is rooted in what I consider a very unrealistic appraisal of persistent criminality.
“what is the Official Glibertarian Position on 3 strike laws”
It’s not cricket.
Now ask about the “6 fouls and you are out” rule.
They are bullshit.
If I ever wind up convicted of a crime, I want the specific circumstances considered during sentencing, not “Well, this sucks Mr. Hero, but my hands are tied.”
I didn’t have time to post yesterday or read the intertoobz, so I didn’t know that Eddie V had passed until my wife told me around 9pm. Very sad to hear that, damn commie cooties.
Nah, it’s those murderous guitar picks.
I thought you got throat cancer from going down on too many groupies?
Settler Anarchists Should Tread Lightly Around Indigenous Nationalism
https://c4ss.org/content/51335
To be an anarchist is to be anti-nationalist. It is no coincidence that national-anarchists have so often turned out to be white supremacists — the movement itself is crypto-fascist. However, our critique of nationalism and related critiques of things like in-group preferences must deeply understand the differing strategies behind largely distinct forms of nationalism if we are to not alienate our allies and relegate our dynamic movement to the ethical pit of genocide apologism.
Indigenous nationalism is not homogenous but generally it’s rooted in relationships to the land. It is almost exclusively not in line with the laughable “blood and soil” banter of white nationalists, but is tied to land in the sense of going to a specific place every year to engage in rituals which are fundamental to maintaining and cultivating the connections of networks. They’ve been doing this for longer than the idea of modern nations has existed.
Both before and after these forced relocations, Indigenous nationalism has always been much more fluid than settler nationalism. Generally speaking it is something much closer to the anarchist concept of cosmopolitan free affinity (Indigenous empires excluded).
Historically, in the land now known as the United States, the lines between many nations have often been quite blurry with people freely trading in elaborate markets, intermarrying, and even changing tribes
Indigenous nationalism is just gamboling about happily in unspoiled nature
I stopped their. When someone says crypto-fascist, what they mean is “I want you to hate this person, but have no solid reason for making you do so”.
But they’re crypto-fascist!
I would love to see a reaction video of present-day Cheyenne and Comanche’s having this essay read to them. I think they would lose their shit laughing.
“My ‘blood and soil’ is ok, yours is not.”
Yeah, whatever. Get a job.
Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings to create a mythology he felt was absent in Britain, give a setting to his languages, and cope with mortality. Now it’s owned by the richest man alive and they are adding sex to spice it up.
Capitalism is a plague that ruins everything it touches.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1313554221359222784
Its not capitalism that drives that, its culture. People want sex apparently constantly and un-nuanced on their screens.
It either get made in the dark and released underground under a repressed people or above board for a semi-free people.
It is not really healthy and is counterproductive to entertain the thoughts of crazy people and that guy is bark at the moon nuts.
He’s not wrong about the problem; they put a bloody car chase into the LOTR movie. He is incorrect about capitalism being at fault.
What? I don’t remember the car chase…
It was, IIRC, concurrent with the Battle of Helm’s Deep. It was wargs chasing one of the protagonists (Strider?) through a rocky, maze-like area and it was shot like the chase scene in Bullitt. It never happened in the books, and really broke my suspension of disbelief.
The Sultan of Brunei owns LoTR?
Yeah, monarchy and communism were real good at preserving dead men’s legacies.
The CCP asshats know they stepped on their own dick speeding up their plan to basically fuck the world over instead of waiting until China really had the military & economic advantage, got buttfucked by their attempt to hide their role in the Kung Flu, and now that it is all blowing up on them, are resorting to sabre rattling. This shit would work with an Obama or Biden for sure, but to bad orange man it smacks of desperation.
Don’t forget, they hate you and want you dead:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1313488729361788931
Or at least in prison…
Ahhh. I love this form of messaging the left has taken:
“To Be Clear: Outrageous Claim”
take whatever trump has done and try to cast it as the “WORST THING EVER”.
Thing is they could legitimately point out the war crimes he commits and pushes in Yemen and whatnot, but that would mean they would have to admit that Biden and Obama were also war criminals.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/10/07/john_brennan_nothing_at_all_illegal_about_clinton_effort_to_hype_trump-russia_scandal.html
Brennan wants you to know that what he did wasn’t illegal!
Well, he’s right, it’s not illegal for him, he’ll just plead the fifth, refuse to show up in court, and nothing else will happen.
And I’d like for people who are going to vote for Biden to know, if Biden wins, we get all of these establishment Bush holdover clowns back along with every far left radical loon in existence. You’ll have Brennan and Clapper right back in the mix, Hillary will be SOS again, Obama in SCOTUS, AOC, Beta, and the rest of the twat squad in cabinet positions. It will be a shit show of unprecedented clusterfuck.
Yep and from their public statements they’re champing at the bit to prosecute and oppress their political enemies which will absolutely will happen in an unprecedented fashion. It’ll mean the fracturing of the nation along with all of the nasty stuff that’ll come with that.
I think that is one thing. I do expect to see prosecutions of Trump, his family and others. And I don’t think there will be pushback from americans.
anyone who took a political job with the admin will be osterisized and removed from polite society possibly in prison. If biden wins prepare to see some truly bannana republic type shit.
Perhaps a shit show of unprecedented clusterfuck is exactly what we need…
Give him credit for staying on message.
Christ I hate that guy.
*She Guevera nods in agreement*
Governor Jay Inslee
@GovInslee
What aircraft carriers were in World War II, masks are today.
Only used on the open sea or at a pier?
Holy shit is that stupid. Just damn…
On the upside, it’s not any stupider than everything else they say.
The downfall of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere?
Bombed by the Japanese?
A useful tool for destroying cities and subjugating the population?
And staying six feet apart is island hopping, putting sick people in nursing homes is strategic bombing, and cordoning off sections of NYC where a certain religious minority lives is… um…
Also, those plastic face shields are the Doolittle raid.
BLM riots are Lend-Lease to the Bolsheviks?
Nancy Pelosi urging people to go to Chinatown is the Phony War, followed by two weeks to flatten the curve being the Battle of Britain.
This is getting fun.
De Blasio rounding up crowds of Jews to prevent them spreading diseases is…nevermind, I thought maybe there was a parallel, but…
*shocked face*
Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
@NBCNews featured a pair of “undecided” voters during a network town hall earlier this week who had previously declared their support for Democratic nominee
@JoeBiden on the network’s sister channel,@MSNBC.
I heard the townhall was basically a Biden Infomercial (which is to be expected, anyone who thinks those things are “real” needs to grow up). I don’t however get why campaigns and news feel like that is necessary? Kinda like with the Polls. That would only make sense if you believed that the polls caused outcomes.
YEP.
The sad thing is that my reaction was not surprise that this was done, but surprise at people acting as if it was news the dnc propagandists with bylines did this, Have they been sleeping for the last 12 years?
Well shit. Looks like there’s even some pushback happening in Ohio:
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was asked recently is the 10 p.m. alcohol restrictions for bars and restaurants across the state, which took effect in July, will be lifted soon..
Whatever.
“Today, once again, President Trump showed his true colors: putting himself first at the expense of the country, with the full complicity of the GOP Members of Congress.
“Walking away from coronavirus talks demonstrates that President Trump is unwilling to crush the virus, as is required by the Heroes Act. He shows his contempt for science, his disdain for our heroes – in health care, first responders, sanitation, transportation, food workers, teachers, teachers, teachers and others – and he refuses to put money in workers’ pockets, unless his name is printed on the check.
“At the same time, the President is abandoning meeting the needs of our children as they adjust to learning in-person, virtual or hybrid. Instead, Trump is wedded to his $150 billion tax cut for the wealthiest people in America from the CARES Act, while he refuses to give real help to poor children, the unemployed and America’s hard working families.
“Clearly, the White House is in complete disarray. Sadly, they are rejecting the urgent warnings of Fed Chairman Powell today, that ‘Too little support would lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship for households and businesses. Over time, household insolvencies and business bankruptcies would rise, harming the productive capacity of the economy and holding back wage growth. By contrast, the risks of overdoing it seem, for now, to be smaller. Even if policy actions ultimately prove to be greater than needed, they will not go to waste.’”
Why would they get the extra mentions?
Circuit malfunction? She had a doozy a week or so ago where her brains reset on live television.
Teachers are a hardcore Dem bloc. You cater to your blocs.
Just when you think it is at its peak the screeching, howling and shit-flinging intensifies. I guess that is all they have got. They have to know by now that it isn’t going to work, yet they double down.
*sigh*
‘They have to know by now that it isn’t going to work, yet they double down.’ — Suthenboy
Disagree. Primary objective: D House, D Senate, D White House. Secondary objectives: Move Left elected Rs. Move Left agencies do without significant pushback.
Donation not taxation.
It really is the ‘we should just make a law against the virus’ line of thinking that we mock, but I guess this author believes.
The only way the virus gets “defeated” is to let it run its course so we can get herd immunity.
On the local covid front after a couple of weeks open indoor bard and restaurants are closed again
Sorry to hear that Pie. Sorry for the owners of the bars and restaurants as well.
Ok Glibs Opinon Polling time:
In Your opinion which of these would do the most to protect and reclaim liberty in our nation?:
– Abolish Income Tax
– Abolish Sovereign Immunity (of all flavors)
– State Appointment of Senators
Income tax. Starve the beast.
Seconded
^This but any would be good. We’ll get nothing and like it though.
Starving the beast doesnt work, but getting rid of income tax would still be best, as whatever tax replaced it would be more clear.
Abolish income tax.
Income Tax
You don’t even need to abolish the income tax, just make it payable, quarterly, no direct withholding, cash or check only.
Not quarterly. Payable upfront on the day before elections.
Okay boomer…cash or check. Pshaw!
I agree though if we can’t abolish it, then it needs to be felt. Isn’t withholding the way they finally sold it..or at least one of the biggest reasons it was finally accepted?
I would LOVE for this to be the way taxes were paid….
I guarantee you that when people had to write a check to Uncle Sam they would be far, far, less inclined to give away their money without getting fucking mad..
This. Its an issue of transparency, which is why it’ll never happen.
damn refresh.
And banks or employers/payroll vendors step in to provide escrow deductions out of each paycheck so there isn’t an unpayable waterfall due.
Repealing direct election of US senators would revert to how it was becoming before, rubber stamp of the public’s choice in state elections. Meanwhile proportionate representation requirements in state legislatures have destroyed anti democratic bulwarks in those institutions.
I’d be fine with that, as long as the money was in a savings account that could be accessed for any purpose, and the taxpayer still had to write a check (or authorize a direct payment) on tax day.
Kind of like a HSA?
The tax
I thought there would be more variation. I lean towards abolishing sovereign immunity, keep state actors from being able to violate your rights with impunity.
you don’t even need to abolish the income tax to reclaim liberty I’d settle for abolishing withholding.
Abolish sovereign immunity. Abolishing the income tax would just shift the state’s focus to transaction or property taxes, which is a marginal improvement at best.
Without some limitation on issuing debt, abolishing the income tax starves nothing, and likely advances the day of monetary reckoning.
‘In Your opinion which of these would do the most to protect and reclaim liberty in our nation?:’ — leon
Donation not taxation.
Leon, not on list, should consider:
Converting regulatory agencies to certification agencies. Example: Company A wants label US EPA certified eco-friendly obeys EPA.
Donation not taxation.
State appointment of Senators. The Senate is supposed to be the house of the States and a check on whims of the masses that affect the House.
Straff recommended Tom Woods’ show from yesterday and it’s really goddamn good.
Here you go.
This story https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/california-gp-readers-send-photos-flawed-mail-ballots-anyone-else-seeing/
I would normally think might be true…might not. It is. My ballot from LA county has no way to vote for president, either one of them.
That is some shady shit cause we know that election officials would follow the Florida “we infer they wanted…”
Is this one of the places where they let non-citizens vote? if so then they would have to segregate ballots between State and Federal.
Nope general election ballot…has local, state and federal offices except office of the president. Huge misprint and of course tax payers are on the hook.
Of course.
It does make me wonder about the jurisdictiosn that had OK’d voting for non-citizens. The “Ballot in every Mail box” initiative that the gubbmint has gone with seems like it would be a problem. How do they track who can and can’t vote for whom?
Pffttt…
Who the fuck wants to track that stupid shit….
/progtard
Not only that, but it’s racist if you ask about citizenship.
A pretty good new Van Morrison antilockdown protest song:
https://youtu.be/FYrjD0dtZa0
Give it a thumbs up if you head over there, it looks like it got review bombed at the request of some douchebag bootlicker website of some sort or the other.
I saw Van Halen in concert in Des Monies, must have been 1978 or 79. Great show, and a great guitarist. 65 is way too young.
*Des Moines. Damn the lack of an edit feature!
I like Des Monies better, may be they should consider a name change.
All Des Monies, all Des Wimmins, all Des Cars
then you get des powers *temples fingers*
wait, no…
65 is way too young.
About the average life expectancy when I was born.
Fuck, what am I saying, it was like double the avg when some of you were born.
Yeah, it was just a year ago wasn’t it that Eddie and Roth were still doing concerts? I didn’t even know he had cancer.
Get out the vote.
Look, folks, I’m going to be honest: we’ll try pretty much anything to get you to vote this election. My team spun up this quiz to match your personality to an easy voting option. Check it out — but more importantly, vote!
What?
Im gonna take that quiz on my government phone and report back what it is
LOL that was interesting. Questions like “Its the weekend and you are” Out with friends (socially distanced), Binge watching Netflix, There are weekends?
Another question: “Its your best friends birthday, what do you do?” Send an e-card, surprise Zoom party, call them.
At the end, it of course wants information, so I gave them my gov number (probably violated Hatch act) and I received a text “We know you like to be on time, so make sure you take advantage of Nevada’s universal mail in ballots and get it in on time!”
I’m trying to imagine the kind of beaten, broken personality that would respond to this patronizing finger-wagging.
People that want to wrap another layer on to fully cocoon themselves in their ideology?
I hate when they do that. It’s always VOTE! Why the fuck can these cunts not be honest and just say ‘support communism, vote for democrats’?
Poor Joe.
This is elder abuse.
Good lord. I guess Wallace forgot about that at the debate.
Oh, I am sure he didn’t. In fact he was very careful to not create any situations where things like this in Biden’s past could come up…
If the deep state gets their way and Biden wins, we won’t have to worry about these difficult choices. They’ll pick some candidates that we are allowed to vote for. Their words, not mine.
Sean on October 7, 2020 at 7:25 am
https://rebelcreamery.com/
Keto ice cream. Problem solved.
The mint chip was decent. The flavor was spot on, but the texture was a tad off.
Is it just me, or is the texture of ice cream wrong nowadays? Not crystalline anymore, all goopy. Bryers, Turkey Hill, Hagen Das. Overwhipped, too much texture-modifying alginates, I dunno….but ice cream should break off when you scoop it. It’s all taffy now.
Talenti’s gelato is the only product that still resembles what I grew up understanding as ice cream.
Talenti’s dairy-free peanut butter fudge gelato.
I think I ate two pints before discovering I’d been inadvertently purchasing the dairy-free product. I don’t really know, It’s that convincing a replica of dairy-based dessert. Pretty sure I got one pint of the normal PB-Fudge gelato, then the next two were dairy free. Wasn’t till the 3rd when I was like, “did this melt and refreeze?”, and finally REALLY looked at the container closely enough to discover my mistake.
4/5, only slight texture deviation from normal
H-D is still free of fillers. Five ingredients in the basic flavors. But yeah, the nut-based nondairy varieties can be very convincing.
The sugar alcohols in low-carb ICs upset my stomach.
(Wylie, was it you who mentioned “zaftig” the other day? If so it means juicy.)
Was me.
It was both of us. I joked whether the Germans intended the term to sound “inflated”.
When the word “zaftig” comes out of my mouth, instinctively, I want to blow my cheeks out, arms englobing and start waddling around in my best blimp impression.
I just think of high ABV beer when I hear Zaftig.
I don’t drink enough beer anymore to retrain my mental association, dangit.
Juicy sounds completely unrelated to blimps, German makes no phonetic sense at all.
I eat ice cream because I want creamy, fatty frozen goodness.
Keto? Fat free? <—– not ice cream.
That's like no-salt or low fat Ritz crackers. I eat the damned things because I want buttery, salty deliciousness. Throw the rest of that trash in the garbage.
Lately I’ve been aggravated every time I pull out the half’and’half and read the “Original” on it, and think, “original? oh yeah, because of the fat-fre..FAT FREE HALF AND HALF, WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THAT?!??!”
Someday I’ll look at the ingredients and figure out what the halves are in that product.
Soy, and sadness.
I hadn’t noticed before, but yeah, you’re right.
However, fresh homemade ice cream is also all goopy until it’s been frozen *in a freezer* for a few hours. Then it’s hard as a rock and you need a flamethrower to soften it enough to get a good spoonful.
Tales from the ice cream works. During my employment with Ample Hills, they were trying to achieve national distribution. I was surprised to learn that all nationally distributed ice creams are made in only 5 or 6 blending factories across the US. One must contract with and give one’s recipe to these blending firms and they crank out the product. The factory Ample Hills built in Red Hook will be used for regional distro, but new owner (Ample Hills sold for only $1 million in bankruptcy liquidation) Schmitt Industries is still trying to get national sales. On the factory side, after churning, product goes into a -20° freezer until the -40° blast chiller has space for the batch. It spends 5 hours at -40°, then back into -20° for storage until shipping to scoop shops, retailers, or mail-order customers.
Huh. The more you know! ?
Blue Bell is hard as granite when you scoop it.
Whatever you do don’t let modern mass produced ice cream melt. It turns into a frothy and slimy mess that in no way resembles what you’d think the ingredients should be.
That’s an issue with any ice cream. If it melts completely, it needs to be rechurned again to whip some air into it.
It’s exactly what carrageenan and guar gum sound like they would resemble though.
Gwar Gum NSFW/language
I’m a big fan of Rebel ice cream. Thanks to Sean for recommending it. Sure, it’s low carb but it’s the opposite of fat free.
I learned about it from C. Anacreon.
I may give it a try. I like ice cream but don’t often eat it, mostly sticking to dark chocolate for my sweet-tooth.
Not crystalline anymore,
That means its been in the freezer too long.
Hmmmm, you’re going to have to explain how more freezing undoes crystallization. Unless it’s an auto-defrosting-freezer issue (gradually turning the ice cream from microcrystalline to glassy with each defrost cycle?)
No idea. I just know that ice cream that has been in the freezer too long develops an unappetizing texture of noticable ice crystals, and even an icy crust.
Ugh. Ice cream should be creamy. Not crusty with and shot through with chunks of water ice.
Just run of the mill freezer burn
“Look under the protective ice.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3SGIHbvcTRc
Mother.
also, by “anymore” i meant, “in the past 10-20 years”, not “since I bought a particular tub of ice cream”.
I toss ice cream that doesn’t get eaten within the month. Frost accumulation. Bang-up job there, Auto-defrost.
“Auto-Correct, brought to you by the makers of Auto-Defrost!”
“Keto ice cream. Problem solved.”
Oh boy, I cannot wait to try the liver flavor ice cream.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8814919/Demi-Rose-poses-topless-new-video-luxury-break-Maldives.html
Someone is paying the DM to publish her. Does anyone know what she does other than appear in the DM?
Am I a patriarchal shitlord for thinking “Go down on photographers”?
If calling things what they are makes you a shitlord, then yeah. Yeah, you are.
In 2020? That’s almost certainly what it means 😉
Ok, I looked her up. She is famous for being in the DM and being photographed.
I hope she is socking it away because that aint gonna last.
“The name Edy’s Pie was chosen in honor of one of our company’s founders, candy maker Joseph Edy, as well as a form of tribute to the entrepreneurial origins of this treat,” Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing for Dreyer’s, said in a statement to USA TODAY.
huh. What does Edy have to say about the name change?
Why couldn’t it just be an inuit pie?
Because they don’t want to have to change the name again ten years from now.
When an Edy Pie ends up being worse than an Oreo…
Klondike or GTFO.
I’m sure there’s something problematic with that name too.
Capitalistic rape of the environment in the Gold Rush.
This is how you troll fucking libtards!
Impressive in that they hauled up those letters and got them up without no one knowing? Or is it on private property?
Private Property? California?
The people’s property may as well be private, nobody’s looking after it.
Private property, still quickly taken down. Point made, anyway.
President Trump Buys HUNDREDS of Pizzas for his Supporters Outside Walter Reed Medical Center
Why wasn’t it Stuffed Crust?
Or, mayhaps it was Dominos?
I thought he was broke.
He put it on Putin’s Charge Card.
Today is Putin’s birthday. OMWC looked at a wrong date for birthdays.
“You know it is from Trump because there is meat on it!”
Priceless.
The left should see if that breaks some corruption laws.
Then we could have Pizzagate 2: Not the Kiddie Diddlers this time.
It must violate the Hatch Act, everything else he does seems to.
Well, at least for values of “seems to” that encompass “cannot possibly, because the Hatch Act doesn’t apply to the President”.
Yeah, but like the staffers he used to deliver the pizza, and pay for it broke the hatch act.
LISTEN HERE FAT! IT WAS RGB’S DYING WISH THAT IT DID!
It was RBG’s dying wish that we get global communism, so we have to do it!
Perfectly illustrating the irrational nature of TDS. The president and Vice President are specifically exempted and the law is generally considered unenforceable.
The closest violations I see are what Obama, Clinton, Comey, Brennan and company did. Insurance policy indeed…
I am certain the HVAC guys thought they were ‘over selling’ us when we bought our new system. I am glad they did. Damn that system cools the house fast and as well insulated as we are it hardly ever comes on. You could hang meat in here and our electric bill is down by almost 50%. I love this new set-up.
On the outside compressor unit the air coming up from the cooling fan used to be hot as hell. With the new unit being nearly twice as big the air is barely warm. I also love the new not-in-the-attic 80 gallon water heater. I can sit in the shower all day if I want to. I think it heats water as fast as I can run it out.
Two houses ago, we got a quality HVAC unit and the next door neighbor insulated the house (the ducts were 4 feet wide when he was done with them). We were hardly breaking $100 electric bills mid-summer in TX.
Ouyr HVAC units are probably getting close to end-of-life. They are 12 – 13 years old, and they have to frickin’ work hard in Tucson. I do not look forward to the bill for replacing them, but hopefully the new ones will be more efficient and we can save some bucks on the back end.