Not a prop from Eraserhead. Look up “Prince Rupert’s Drops” on YouTube
Working on glass projects has changed my perspective a bit regarding temperatures. Everything now has a comma and a bright red glow. The grad students still don’t quite know what to make of me. The campus is relatively quiet because of summer. And I’m learning to keep my mouth shut, nod, and smile when dealing with academics. The prof I’m working with got an email from HR after I was done my intake. He said, “HR says all your paperwork is in and approved. And so far, they’ve only had one complaint from a female student. Congratulations!”
Birthdays are hot, too, including an appropriately named architect; a guy with a good, healthy glow; the author of arguably the most prescient work in the English language; what Woody Allen wants to be and never will; a guy who made the accordion cool; mother of the hottest woman to ever appear in an American TV show; an amazing and versatile multi-instrumentalist; a guy who ran a single word into fame and fortune; a massively overrated writer and chef; and a TV guy who I’m supposed to know who he is but I don’t.
Let’s get to links, shall we?
Twenty years. Holy fuck. Still the greatest TV show ever made.
I remember when this was a science magazine.
“This time, we got him for sure!”
After my first week in my new profession, there really was only one choice for Old Guy Music.
“And so far, they’ve only had one complaint from a female student. ”
Those are rookie numbers.
He’s just getting settled in. I believe in him.
Nah — I figure they’re way too old for him to notice anyway.
Jimmie Walker is still hawking some Social Security scheme in cheesy ads on daytime TV. Joe Namath does ads for the same company,.
About 20 years ago JW came to town to play standup at a local pizza place.
Oh, my, how the mighty had fallen.
It’s Medicare. After Biden did away with the limited period to join, those commercials came back with a vengeance. If you watch a lot of old-people television like I do, there are like ten different ones and you will encounter them dozens of times a day. Jimmie seems to have deliberately made his comeback commercial as gob-smackingly annoying as possible.
If you want background TV check out exptv.org
Call Now!
MUN-nee! 🧨
*leaps for the remote*
Yep.
Damn straight. He is annoying as hell. Watching his commercial for 500 years is probably a punishment in purgatory.
Should I be afraid to?
It’s as if… you don’t trust me.
I have a sad.
As you get into your work and it really becomes part of your core, I assume we’ll get this?
Well, that WAS going to be Old Guy Music tomorrow, but you fucked THAT up for me. I hope you feel satisfied with yourself.
You’ve got admin rights… just delete it quickly. 😉 Nothing to see here, no sir!
I looked it up.
It’s OK.
Good hazy and smoky morning to all Glibs!
Smoky? Making bbq? Getting high? Why not both?
Wildfire on the edge of town.
I should get a smoker. Dang, I need a smoker.
Sounds to me like you should get the hell out. 😱
It’s contained. Probably a homeless camp caused fire since it has rained maybe twice since April. A whole bunch of fires across the state are also having their smoke come to town.
My plans to come home and lay in the sun were cancelled due to the haze yesterday. So I went to the bar after work and turned lemons into lemonade.
I was at a fire at a homeless camp under an overpass in the Bronx. After it was out we were spreading all the garbage around so they could douse it again to make sure it was out. I saw a huge rat and I tried to stab it with my hook but I missed. Thing disappeared and about a minute later I realized it had scurried up my bunker pants and was up to my asscheek. Never took my gear off as fast as I did that day. When I pulled my feet out of the boots and pants, not one, but two rats came running out of them. Nobody knew why I was ripping off my clothes until they saw the rats. Good times.
And lemonade into Tom Collins?
hotbox brisket
I smoked a 20 lb packer yesterday evening and then into the oven overnight. I hit convection accidently so it finished a couple hours early. I woke up to the smell of brisket everywhere and I’m not sure I’ll be able to wait until lunch.
Like a Donkey Punch but in the other hole.
I once tried the ATK (or maybe Alton Brown) method of oven smoking, using sheet pans and Lapsang Souchong tea. The brisket came out so smoky as to be almost inedible and the overwhelming kitchen aroma put me off Lapsang Souchong for many years.
Heh. One of my favorites.
“I remember when this was a science magazine.”
There are a couple dozen abortion articles there. Although this one wins:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-quantum-mechanics-can-teach-us-about-abortion/
The use of ‘we’ or ‘us’ in media articles really sticks in my craw. Who the fuck is ‘we’ or ‘us’?
We must end poverty in America. Okay, agreed, but again, who is responsible?
What COVID can teach us about ___________. I already learned I all I need to know from you scum.
Right-thinking people.
It’s beyond condescending.
… And we’ll force those wreckers to do their fair share.
For at least a decade now, most major publications have been interchangeable for the journalist class who work at them, a temporary stopping point on the road to something better (read: pays better and is more “prestigious”), where the history and stated purpose of the place they work is just there to add some flavor to their writing, and the demands placed upon them are so low that even Hunter S. Thompson would probably consider the “gang of cruel faggots” of his day to at least have had some standards.
Random thought: Could Hunter Biden be the love child of Hunter S. Thompson? The name and behavior check out.
Inheriting all the susceptibility towards substance abuse and none of the talent? Maaaaaybe….
Same here, that shit gets my back up immediately. I might still read it because I realize authors often don’t title the articles, but I’ll be reading with a critical frame of mind.
Blame it on the editor.
clumps of energy?
I don’t think you need quantum mechanics to understand vagina vacuums.
I saw Vagina Vacuums open for NOFX back in the day.
Speaking of NOFX…
This may be Tres Cool’s theme song.
Error? What, Me?
“A member of the Democratic Socialists of America and the first woman of color to represent her district in Boston’s city council, Lara took office earlier this year. She previously held a senior position at Resist, a nonprofit co-founded by influential Jewish left-wing and pro-Palestinian activist Noam Chomsky.”
OFFS!!
I never would have guessed that background.
Noam Chomsky defined as a Pali activist. Wow. Never thought I’d see that.
Cool stuff OMWC. Are you now soaking your self in fictive temperatures and Tg’s or the hands on side?
One of the neat things is being able to estimate temps by color without using a pyrometer. I’m really out of practice.
Tgs for sure, and they were delighted that I knew how to run a DSC, but most of my stuff will be effects of processing on ambient mechanical and optical properties. I’ll be spending time today setting up an ultrasonic system to shake ‘n’ bake melts with on-the-edge phase stability.
So technical glasses not art based processing. Very cool…or hot. I haven’t run a DSC for about 25 years.
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I believe the acceptable word list includes words that will never be answers, I think that’s mostly a bullshit move myself. I guess there may be times when an acceptable/non answer word may be helpful in eliminating multiple options at once, so there’s that to consider.
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Captain Meh is my superhero name.
Draggin’ the line.
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It’s been interesting to listen to and calmly discuss the Rowe V Wade reactions of my more “progressive” friends and family. Most are upset without knowing anything about the ruling, others are going to the Handmaiden’ Tale route.
I could use a Handmaid myself I’ll be honest with you
So when did Mike Rowe sue Dwyane Wade?
“Why do so many men have so few friends? When MAX DICKINS planned to marry, he panicked because he couldn’t think of anyone to be his best man. It was a realisation that triggered a poignant – and very funny – odyssey to solve the eternal mystery”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10951335/MAX-DICKINS-men-friends-one-proposal-led-search-best-man.html
Is that his pornstar name?
> All-male organizations and events become declassé, homoeroticized, criminally suspect, institutionally disincentivized, and/or illegal
“Why do men have no friends?”
Weird. It’s a mystery.
All part of the plan.
To keep them from forming dangerous militias and going off insurrectioning.
Monkeypox prevention?
*polite applause*
Back in the day most middle class men either joined the local country club, Moose Lodge, VFW, both, or a similar social club. Now we watch TV and bitch on the internet.
Certainly would make me wonder when he asks me to meet him at the pub for a few drinks — no wonder he’s worried about it being taken for a date.
And I can relate. I’ve had two close friends in my life total. One told me to go the hell away because I was just too negative to be around (alternately ticked him off because my idea of hitting a city on a vacation was to do it quickly and get the hell out of there, and I think he had other ideas but didn’t say anything until after). The other I haven’t called in years — because we’re both just really rotten at picking up the phone. Everyone else is a work acquaintance, you reprobates or my wife. I figured it was just because I’m by nature an introvert and all and resigned myself to it years ago.
When I lived in Civilization the only people I knew were co-workers. Now my friends are old classmates or the kids of old classmates. If we were neighbors, -7, we’d be acquaintances and maybe you’d take me fishing.
My wife enjoys the solitude as well. She won’t pick up her phone unless she recognizes the number and doesn’t want the names showing. If anyone wants to talk to her they call me and I have to tell her to answer her phone.
/Recluse
Everyone else is a work acquaintance, you reprobates or my wife. I figured it was just because I’m by nature an introvert and all and resigned myself to it years ago.
Ditto-ish. Lots of acquaintances from lots of different areas of life. Not a single one that I’ve called to do something outside of their respective context. I think it’s a combination of there being more important things that get in the way and men generally not being equipped to develop deep relationships in the ways available to us.
I think of the few friends I’ve developed over the past decade, and the formula is similar for each. External factors (and/or wives) force us to be in proximity to one another for an extended period. We figure out that we get along with one another. We start doing things outside of what is mandatory. We go our separate ways as our lives diverge. We text or call once in a blue moon.
External factors (and/or wives) force us to be in proximity to one another for an extended period. We figure out that we get along with one another. We start doing things outside of what is mandatory. We go our separate ways as our lives diverge. We text or call once in a blue moon.
I’ve noticed a similar pattern at work, with new hires. Don’t really get to know many of them until there’s a project or major issue, until them it’s like a superficial meet and greet.
I don’t know. I think I have several close male friends, 3-5 depending on the definition. Two are hide the bodies level and the 3 others are one that I don’t see often but would do nearly anything for.
I’ve stopped making friends at work once I reached the 5-10 year mark.
I’m an extrovert, but I find that I can’t maintain more than a couple close friendships. That said, hockey is a much needed fix of guy time. As is hitting the local with a couple of my neighbors to have a few beers and shoot the shit. The only thing I miss about my old gym is seeing my people. Community is important.
Let’s ask his new best friend: Heywood Jablome.
My dad was a member of the Legion, the VFW and active in ham radio. He met his best friend when he was about 9 and they remained friends the rest of his life (my godfather). So this makes me sad.
I was kinds disappointed with Biden’s post roe response.
Hear me out…..
I was expecting him at the very least to have federal employees access to abortion in other states guaranteed. I am hopeful that I can get paid for a vacation to another state. Not ever having babies, or ever menstruating does not matter with these new rules of “what is a women”. So i should be able to get an abortion as well. When the doctor says I cant have an abortion because I don’t have a uterus, I will call him/her/they a horrible bigot.
The new rules can be fun…..
In all seriousness, I cant believe how weak his response was.
If administrations get epitaphs — that’s this one’s.
That is one confusing epitaph.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IvoRpWhOXUs
I wonder if you have to bring back “evidence” for HR.
Those rain god altars aren’t going to sacrifice themselves….
Glad your dream of creating vacuum tubes from scratch is one step closer.
Episcapol Presiding Bishop grieved by Dobbs decision
JFC
These idiots are basically parodies of themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq5uY4XjHhE
Speaking out for those who cannot speak for themselves. Outstanding.
The Catholics and Orthodox should patch up their comparatively minor differences and declare a new Crusade against the mainline Protestants.
Need to do some house cleaning in the Catholic Church first.
Oh, the pedos get to be the cannon fodder in this arrangement.
I was thinking more doctrinal, but that too.
Presbyterians express sadness, anger and frustration
PC USA – This crap is why we left.
PCUSA is as christian as Bill Nye is scientific.
And I tapped out.
We need someone to make Christians Christian again.
Well, the Orthodox peeps never really stopped.
Mornin’, OMWC.
“I remember when this was a science magazine”
Oh, it still is, it’s just that science has evolved; the scientific method can now be applied to address a wider range of issues:
“After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion, protesters and supporters of the ruling gathered at the high court’s building in Washington, DC, and in other cities nationwide.”
Science was required to find the right to abortion in the Constitution. It is right there in plain sight for the scientifically inclined; unfortunately those neanderthals in Black robes refuse to acknowledge it.
10 Great Chenin Blancs for Every Budget
https://www.winemag.com/2022/06/15/best-chenin-blanc-2022/
No box wine?
does the cold burn of your taste buds? just asking…
In this economy, you gotta stretch every dollar.
pony keg?
He definitely hoodwinked me. I just have to come to understand that people with Ds next to their name get away with everything. Tough pill to swallow.
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/durham-played-you-for-a-fool?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I expected nothing from him, especially after the election — but was prepared to be pleasantly surprised. Definitely have not been surprised, much less pleasantly.
Just reinforces my conviction that the entire intelligence community needs to be fired and the ground salted. Not that it will happen, obviously — but that’s what needs to happen. Well, that or time travel to detail to the voters in 1916 (or back with TR?) exactly what Wilson had in mind and try to nip it in the bud when the country still was persuadable as a whole.
They’re all company men, even when they’re not Democrats. You can’t pull one thread very far without risking unravelling the whole tapestry. Their actions are never isolated, the email trails go much deeper than is initially assumed, and discovering the nexus of bad actors and bad behaviors that go largely unpunished is like looking upon an iceberg from above the surface.
The primary purpose of classifying and hiding information in practice is exactly the reason it isn’t supposed to be used: to cover up crimes and embarrassment. When they do get caught, even if it’s only for small things, then they start acting obtuse, riding Hanlon’s razor into the ground, and claiming the law doesn’t say what it says. One set of rules for thee, another set for me.
“Q” started posting again yesterday.
I expected nothing from Durham. It seemed to me like a variation on the QAnon psyop.
Kristian Niemietz,
Hadn’t seen anything in that genre in a while.
Kristian Niemietz, \
Yep, that happened.
https://twitter.com/EmilyDreyfuss/status/1540377620054806528
Kristian Niemietz, 🇱🇮 state-affiliated media
@K_Niemietz
Before we rush to conclusions, let’s ask ourselves: What would Pol Pot do?
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1540625795466625024
Safe and accessible reproductive health care is a basic right that is supported by science, medicine and respect for human dignity
And that’s as far as I got.
Without reading it, I suspect you could probably use the same arguments made in the article more effectively to support duelling.
only with swords like real men, not with guns
Edged weapons are gay.
Real men swing their balls around.
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/24tributes24authors/images/1/1b/Triple_Ball_Medieval_Flail.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120811040841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDsn-RRmDXU
What are the psychological affects to an abortion? Surely, there must be some remorse? Even with a happy outcome there are times when late night bar closings resulted in some ‘after thoughts’ in the morning. I can’t imagine that an abortion would be an event with cake and champagne but what do I know?
Still reading this, it is loooong…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207970/
“conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism will ultimately prevent us from being in true solidarity with both Jewish people and Palestinians.”
Tbh, this doesn’t seem that bad a statement
I have rarely seen anti-Zionism be anything else than antisemitism
I never have. The Sharansky 3 D test works every time.
I’m sure that’s pretty common, but they aren’t the same thing. I’m allowed to criticize the Russian government without being accused of being anti-slavic
being anti-slavic – NTTAWWT
but they aren’t the same thing – for practical purposes in the real world, sometimes they mostly are
Criticizing the Israeli government is different than opposing Jews having their own country taking up 0.3% of the Middle East.
Being Zionist is different than wanting US involvement.
^ It’s strange to see Westerners so invested in anti-Zionism. Reminds me bit of the Left’s infatuation with Ukraine, though for different reasons.
I’m referring to actual anti-Zionism, not non-intervention by the US in foreign affairs.
What if I don’t want to be in “solidarity” with any foreign regime?
Now *that’s* a controversial statement!
I’ll be spending time today setting up an ultrasonic system to shake ‘n’ bake melts with on-the-edge phase stability.
Can you use it to burn ants on the sidewalk?
a guy who made the accordion cool
Happy birthday Lawrence Welk!
Bruce Hornsby?
Weird Al?
The demonstrations come after several Arizona abortion providers said they preemptively paused abortion services due to lack of legal clarity on the matter, according to posts on their websites.
It’s my abortion, and I want it now!
Some nice palate-cleansing humor and great art for the weekend.
https://twitter.com/studionice2011/status/1540499869651312640?t=ugzFkEYHpCQFVrvDGR93Xw&s=19
Another rendition of “Vincent”/Starry Night for Yusef (from his links last night): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgRGD3xDqE
Good morning….all of you! (Too many of you to name individually in my customary “Reverse Walton.”)
Happily, there are no protests taking place on my back patio, though someone off in the not-nearly-distant-enough appears to have started up some sort of power tool. ::glowers:: I care little – I’ll fire up either the SiriusXM Jazz channel or the classical channel’s “Baroque and Beyond,” but first, I’ll indulge in a little tribute to one of the birthday boys (and a delightfully uptempo rendition at that) from one of my favorite albums of all time.
Meeting sisters and a cousin’s family for dinner this evening at a place with a “Spaghetti Western” theme. Looks to be fun, but I rather hope my BIL isn’t there, as he’d reportedly already gone off the deep end politically even before the Nazguls’ most recent rulings.
Good morning GT! Always enjoy your morning greetings to everyone, even when they’re in the dead thread by the time I usually wake up.
Good morning, GL! I enjoy doing it, but I “overslept” a bit this morning, so there was no way I could’ve kept up with all the names popping up.
When I stopped having to run around taking all my coworkers’ temps at the office every morning, I found I kinda missed the excuse to go around saying “good morning” to all of them.
Disclaimer: after saying hello to all my onsite coworkers daily, I’d just as soon they leave me alone the rest of the day.
We had a protest in our bed at 6:30 this morning — our cat was poking me, wanting to be fed.
For a moment there, I thought this was a new euphemism.
I wish.
At 6:30 this morning
We had a protest in our bed.
Our cat was poking me,
Wanting to be fed.
As Episcopalians, we pray for those who may be harmed by this decision
That is truly impressive. Just when you think they can’t get their heads any farther up their own asses…
What if I don’t want to be in “solidarity” with any foreign regime?
Leave them alone? Deprive them of our moral guidance?
Back to the bowels of the earth, foul fiend!
The origin of Zionism was just an attempt by European governments to sweep (((them))) under the rug.
Discuss.
I thought it dated back to the Roman expulsion or even the Babylonian captivity?
What about (((they/them)))?
I think they saw it as killing two birds with one stone: humiliate the Ottomans and get rid of the Jews.
The view from atop this pile of bodies is fabulous
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in Washington.
“God willing, it’s going to save a lot of lives,” Biden said at the White House as he finished signing the bill.
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And when the real world effect proves to be nil? What will we do? Repeal?
I crack myself up.
Unless CNN is hiding something, this bill seems pretty empty. It throws lots of money around and tweaks some definitions, but nothing anywhere near like what they wanted. And that’s not counting the SCOTUS decision, which still seems like a net win even with this bill.
It does seem pretty weak. Let’s see how badly it gets abused in commie states.
there you go. That is exactly what will happen and will begin to make states polarize. That isn’t a bad thing – part of the laboratory of our politics. Red states will become
Much more red, blue states will become much more blue as people move about.
Unless CNN is hiding something, this bill seems pretty empty.
Its a turn of the ratchet. Support for red flag laws is now part of federal law. What will the next turn be? Federal red flag laws? Requiring states to have red flag laws to obtain some major piece of federal funding?
I look forward to R AGs/DAs declaring they will not enforce. That’s how it works, right?
In NH, Sununu signed the bill prohibiting the state government and subdivisions of the state from helping the Feds enforce Federal gun laws.
I expect his pet AG and some of the usual suspects will finds ways to ignore that law.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/the-week-in-pictures-liberal-hubris-edition.php
I’m not up on philosophers… but why are Marx and Wollstonecraft punk?
Wishful thinking on leftists’ part?
The package represents the most significant new federal legislation to address gun violence since the expired 10-year assault weapons ban of 1994 – though it fails to ban any weapons and falls far short of what Biden and his party had advocated for, and polls show most Americans want to see.
“While this bill doesn’t do everything I want, it does include actions I’ve long called for that are going to save lives,” Biden said. “Today, we say more than ‘enough.’ We say more than enough. This time, when it seems impossible to get anything done in Washington, we are doing something consequential.”
Biden added, “If we can reach compromise on guns, we ought to be able to reach a compromise on other critical issues, from veterans’ health care to cutting edge American innovation and so much more. I know there’s much more work to do, and I’m never going to give up, but this is a monumental day.”
It might not do
everything we wantedanything, but it’s a symbol, and that’s what we live on.We’re going to turn this ship around. Progressive Utopian Wonderland, next port of call.
And the ratchet continues to move one direction.
Any chance of repealing
Brady Bill
Lautenberg Amendment
GCA
NFA
*crickets*
We have obvious data like this pouring in.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/a-foia-request-came-in-for-nova-scotia?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
But they are still putting this into toddlers arms.
And just like the Russia scam, nobody will ever be held accountable.
I preferred Maren to Anne.
Jeri Ryan, in spite of the role she played getting Obama elected.
SFW meme:
https://imgflip.com/i/6kud6z
LOL and so true.
I actually often think about how Jeri Ryan refusing to fuck other men in front of her husband is linked to much of CURRENT YEAR dysfunction and chuckle to myself.
The Butterfly Effect (concept, not movie) seemed like a dumb idea at first, but I’m starting to think the world is actually governed by it.
I was thinking in terms of the birthday girl playing a mother character, and I wondered to which of the daughters from Lost in Space he was referring. Then I remembered who was speaking and thought, “Well, the younger one. Duh!”
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, holding that there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion, protesters and supporters of the ruling gathered at the high court’s building in Washington, DC, and in other cities nationwide.
There never was because it has always been a state issue. But freak out anyway because reasons.
So how does:
Square up with Sexual Harassment Panda in the video?
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there is no longer a federal constitutional right to an abortion
The Court giveth, and the Court taketh away.
“Removing rights” only applies to law derived from ones rear end.
Busty babes with bountiful breasts await emission of your Prince Rupert Drops.
https://archive.ph/jCVo8
Silicone Saturday.
Federal agents searched a former top Justice Department official’s home and seized records from key Republicans in at least five states linked to Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, in what were clear signs that authorities are ramping up their investigation of associates of the former president.
Totally not banana republic behavior.
mother of the hottest woman to ever appear in an American TV show
Lassie?
I’ll allow it.
At the end of the story in OMWC’s Insurrection! link they have a box for women to type some words answering this question:
Isn’t that just a bit sexist?
No, you bigot. Don’t you understand that we men are living the cushy life on the backs of the poor wimminz?
I am so lucky I found a woman who has zero fucks to give about that shit. It would never occur to her that she is carrying an undue burden. Warrior.
World Ends. Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.
–NY Times
Baffling incoherence
Germany is facing a sudden acceleration of its gas crisis. A 60% drop in Russian supplies since early June threatens to plunge Europe’s biggest economy into severe economic shock. But Berlin’s confusing response to Moscow’s latest move, its hesitations on energy policy, and its attempts to delay the impact of higher energy prices on the economy risk making matters worse.
Whatever its disputed causes, Gazprom’s (GAZP.MM) sudden slowdown of its contractual deliveries has forced Berlin to declare an emergency. Economy Minister Robert Habeck, a leader of the Green Party, has ordered increased usage of highly polluting coal in power stations. Meanwhile, liberal Finance Minister Christian Lindner has suggested delaying the planned closure this year of the country’s three remaining nuclear reactors in order to help absorb the shock. He was promptly contradicted by advisers of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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The crisis throws a harsh light on the coalition government’s economic policy. Berlin decided this week to upgrade to the “alarm” mode of its emergency response to the gas crisis. But it has refused to allow power producers to pass higher energy prices on to industrial consumers and households, thus depriving itself of a powerful incentive to reduce consumption.
The government could do the sensible thing and let price signals work, while using its budget to initiate transfers to lower-income households or small and struggling businesses. But its dogmatic adherence to strict budget discipline, even in the midst of a major crisis, might prevent it doing so. Germany was already on track to have one of the slowest growth and highest inflation rates in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It is now at risk of letting a good crisis go to waste.
These fucking hysterical morons are terrified of global warming, and its deadly potential effects, but show little or no concern about Russians and Ukrainians blowing each other up in the here and now. Truly, the world is a strange and wondrous place.
Disgusting. Never change, Reuters.
What if scotus levied an opinion…
Today the Supreme Court rolled back the rights of millions of Americans, disregarding their interests and — more importantly — their lives.
Access to abortion is a fundamental human right, and it remains safe, accessible, and legal in New York.
…and nothing in your state changed?
I’m 57 years old. And I could have never imagined we would see our rights contracted in this country by the Supreme Court.
In Illinois, we’ve expanded protections for reproductive rights and enshrined the right to choose into law.
We won’t go back in time under my watch.
I didn’t even really care about this issue until the left became to ghoulish on it. I also decided that I needed to have some logical consistency on my position (heartbeat seems to be how we determine if a person is dead or alive, so…). The histrionics are amusing but sad.
“I didn’t even really care about this issue until the left became so ghoulish on it”
QFT.
I was never a hardliner and was mostly go-along-get-along on the viability line in the sand. However, once the death cult masquerading as a political party decided that killing your children at any age was a Natural Right I started thinking a lot more about the issue and came to the conclusion that my original position was untenable ethically and logically. If the Left had left the issue alone, Pro-Life probably would have remained a “boutique” cause and the status quo could have continued forever.
Dittoes.
I wonder what “expanded protections for reproductive rights” is supposed to mean.
My primary motives here:
1. Slaying one of the left’s greatest idols
2. Turning the tide in the almost entirely one-sided Culture War
3. Taking away half the justification for MOAR IMMIGRANTS
100%. They convinced me that it is straight up murder.
Nice work, dumbshits!
Brain activity is how they often determine if someone is dead at the end of your life. If you apply that to the beginning of life, you get an abortion cut-off somewhere around 20 weeks.
Also roughly the viability line, which is where I still am.
Huh. I’m younger than that and I’ve gotten used to SCOTUS contradicting or failing to affirm my rights for quite some time.
Then where the fuck have you been the last 57 years?
“Ask yourself what Biden and his minders would have done differently had they actually intended to impoverish the American citizenry.”
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/bons-mots-and-bad-money-inflation/
Something I’ve been saying for a while.
And also tear us apart. I’m sure there’s more.
Something I’ve been saying for a while.
//MeToo
Leave the kids alone.
Biden Official Levine: Sex Reassignment Surgery Is “Life-Saving” & “Medically Necessary” For Kids
Fucking monsters.
Excellent Your Welcome with Blair White
I learned some things about the surgeries that I really didn’t want to know. Anyone performing them on little kids deserves a lead injection.
I’ve heard the general description. It’s sick.
This cannot be repeated enough. If the GOP was smart, (yeah I know, unlikely), I’d run this crap non-stop.
When it came to gay marriage, Obama and EVERY OTHER FUCKING Democrat could say they didn’t support it, while winking their eye. The LG community knew the truth and that they had an ally. The T community has ZERO tolerance for anything less than 100% support. You run ads highlighting this behavior from Democrats. The local candidate will be stuck trying to either defend it OR say they’re against it; which will get them immediate scorn from the T community.
I don’t see how this isn’t a winning strategy. Thus, the GOP is probably TOO stupid to do it.
Totally normal DOJ behavior.
Just yesterday, in an unprecedented move, our intrepid United States Attorney General’s office released a statement saying that the DOJ “disagrees” with the Court’s ruling securing Second Amendment concealed carry rights. …
Or you could follow the constitution.
Then, today, Old Man Merrick took things one step further. The DOJ issued yet another statement “disagreeing” with the Supreme Court, this time on their ruling against a Constitutional “right” to abortion. But this time, Merrick Garland personally issued the statement himself, which makes this escalation that much more dangerous to our Republic. …
1) It did no such thing. 2) Call me when men get a say in the matter, particularly pertaining to child support.
Good Lord we dodged a bullet with him on SCOTUS. One of the few good things McConnell has done.
Right?! What a POS.
Remember when we were supposed to believe Merrick Garland was the moderate compromise choice?
Would he say the same about Brown v. Board of Education?
Bring back Dred Scott
The Department of Justice remains committed to saving innocent lives by enforcing and defending federal firearms laws
The DOJ famously does not enforce federal firearms laws consistently. I have little doubt its to lay the groundwork for MOAR GUN CONTROLZ!!
a right that has safeguarded women’s ability to participate fully and equally in society
I was unaware that mothers were not allowed to participate fully and equally in society.
I was unaware that Court was not permitted to overturn one of its own decisions.
The Hill is Lumet’s best movie.
Oh…
Time to fight like hell in any way you know how. The American Taliban has taken over the Supreme Court.
I was under the impression that them was insurrection words.
Ummm…
On being told that slavery had in fact ended, Clarence Thomas’s grandfather remarked, “Not in my house”
Clarence Thomas is the black face of Christian white-nationalism. Or something.
Pay no attention to the Episcopalians or Presbyterians behind the curtain.
Let’s check in on what Muslims have to say about abortion:
40 days is about 6 weeks. 120 days is about 17 weeks. The pro-abortion zealots would be even more unhappy with a true “American Taliban” abortion regime.
Morons gonna moron.
Someone once told me that I look kind of like Mark Ruffalo. In retrospect, I should have hit him.
Based on the social media posts of many of my friends, the pro-life movement is not, and never has been, about protecting life. Apparently, it is about making women subservient to men. Which, as a corollary, means a lot of pro-life women either want to be (or are) subservient, or are as dumb as a box of rocks.
Ah, the “if men could get pregnant, abortions would handed out like candy” crowd. 🙄
I’ve always replied “If men could be made to support a child for 18 years, child support would be illegal.”
Ok, this is pretty damn funny.
Beavis and Butthead learn that they have white privilege.
I think the problem is you’re just uneducated.
hahahaha
Based Mike Judge. Who knew?
Dunno if he’s still based, but this is a classic:
Today, in Worst Case Scenarios
In 2008, around eight weeks into her second pregnancy, Robin Wilson-Beattie began experiencing hyperemesis gravidarum, which caused her to have severe episodes of vomiting. She had gone through this condition as well as other complications, such as preeclampsia, during her first pregnancy four years prior and knew that she would likely become bedridden, but this time she didn’t have the support to help her through it.
With a 4-year-old son at home, she also didn’t know if she’d be able to raise another child, so she decided to get an abortion. However, when she arrived at the clinic to get an abortion, she was denied care because of her disability, which had resulted from a spinal cord injury.
“They were not comfortable giving me an abortion because I had a disability. [My] paralysis scared them. I don’t know why. The disability just freaked them out. They said I would have to go to a doctor and have it done in a hospital, so I had to go through health insurance,” said Wilson-Beattie, a disability, sexuality and reproductive health educator.
The landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide, was overturned by the Supreme Court on Friday. Though the court’s decision will impact everyone, disabled people, especially those with multiple marginalized identities, will be disproportionately impacted for a number of reasons, such as health care inequities, sexual violence, poverty and the loss of autonomy that they have historically experienced.
Apex journalisming.
These are the tearjerking anecdotal sob stories upon which American jurisprudence should be based.
wut
[My] paralysis scared them. I don’t know why.
L-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y
I want to hear the end of that story: did she eventually have the kid? If so, does she tell him daily that he’s not supposed to exist?
Future Caldecott Award winner: You Should’ve Been Aborted.
It’s hard to imagine any state banning abortion when the mother’s life is at risk. Hell, even the majority of pro-life people don’t support that position.
I think South Dakota tried to pass a state amendment or something to that effect in the last few years and it went down in flames.
That would scare me more than the paralysis.
Harvard soy cunte doesn’t understand American civics/history/government.
Nine unelected people, most of whom were appointed by presidents who didn’t even win the popular vote and were confirmed by a Senate that does not have representation for over three million Americans- should not be able to overturn a policy supported by nearly 70% of Americans.
Okay, I’ll bite, Maybe I just haven’t had enough iced mocha latte yet, but…WTF is he talking about??
Peurto Rico + Washington D.C. = about 3.4 million. Is that what this asshole is referring to?
And:
This fool has a lot of math to show.
That’s my thinking too.
Question is what percentage of the US lives in blue states with zero changes for women even with this decision.
Here in NJ Murphy is pushing not only free abortion on demand, but you get a check for your trouble as well.
However, for even the legislature here that is a bit too much.
The Senate is the house of the states but all he knows is “muh-democracy”.
Probably talking about the tens of millions of California and New York Republicans who have no voice in the Senate?
A. going to Law School doesn’t automatically make you an expert, Piglet.
B. you admit you don’t know the answer, yet you keep talking. STFU
So, if that’s true, it shouldn’t be a problem in the vast majority of states for those “70%” to re-instate abortion privileges. And imagine the size of the gofundme account that could be raised to pay travel and procedure costs for those few women “trapped” in Handmaiden states.
I agree with him. Let’s get rid of Kelo vs. City of New London, the third-party doctrine, Chevron deference, qualified immunity…
I learned some things about the surgeries that I really didn’t want to know. Anyone performing them on little kids deserves a lead injection.
Mengele was a dilettante.
Nine unelected people, most of whom were appointed by presidents who didn’t even win the popular vote and were confirmed by a Senate that does not have representation for over three million Americans- should not be able to overturn a policy supported by nearly 70% of Americans.
tl;dr-“Ice cream, Mommy! Ice cream now!”
My morning Bible reading included this particularly apt gem.
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 18:2 ESV
I didn’t even really care about this issue until the left became to ghoulish on it.
I have always been deeply ambivalent about abortion. Never say always, never say never.
But “ghoulish” is definitely the right word to describe the left’s obsession with it. Talk about painting yourself into a corner.
The “ghouls” appear to be hopping mad in the Philly burbs. Their energization will likely cause the GOP (?) seat held by Toomey to flip to BernieBot Fetterman, and Gauleiter Wolf will be succeeded by Gauleiter Shapiro. Will Friday’s decision wipe out all the remaining Purple states, making them Blue?
Is there any purple state that is so because it’s been trending red instead of because it’s been trending blue?
*shrug*
I guess I don’t really care. I’ll trade some electoral flippy floppy (in our deeply flawed and untrustworthy electoral system) for millions fewer killings of innocents.
I fear the killings won’t stop if the Dems get control of the Senate.
Fuck your sunny weather rino political friends.
Sure but, unfortunately, their votes count and continue to turn areas that have been Red since the Civil War into reliable Blue counties.
And yellow dog Democrats have been replaced with actual Republicans elsewhere.
This decisions isn’t turning your left leaning area left. That they are left leaning is turning them left.
Will Friday’s decision wipe out all the remaining Purple states, making them Blue?
I seriously doubt it. I suspect single-issue pro-choicers turn out pretty hard every election. I also believe that the short attention span of Americans will make this much less of a motivator in 4 1/2 months.
Yes. For this issue there is a small hardcore band on each side that will never change. Most voters don’t care about it when they vote. Gun control though – that’s a big one. More gun control always means more crime. And voters then flee areas like NY and Chicago.
I wouldn’t count Mastriano out yet.
Here in NH, I see no evidence yet that this will shift NH towards Democrat control. I expect some of the Democrat Federal delegation to get the boot.
Music for your Saturday delectation
Here in NJ Murphy is pushing not only free abortion on demand, but you get a check for your trouble as well.
They put a bounty on fetuses?
That’s some mighty canny politicking.
Jobs program?
I’m exaggerating, but “out of pocket” costs are undefined, but supposed to be covered.
So if a woman travels here you could interpret the travel costs would be reimbursed.
Literal “culture of death”. I can’t even.
And imagine the size of the gofundme account that could be raised to pay travel and procedure costs for those few women “trapped” in Handmaiden states.
Freedom Flights, FTW! This way to Salvation. All aboard.
Welcome to my world, Old Man. Not glass, and somewhat higher temperatures, but same ballpark. I love opening up continuous furnaces to observe the process inside and wondering which way the draft is going to be blowing this time.
Is there any purple state that is so because it’s been trending red instead of because it’s been trending blue?
That’s an excellent question. I suspect it would involve the emptying of blue cities in red states.
Perhaps Florida, Missouri, and a few others.
My feeling is that most politicians are opportunists who seize upon whatever team offers a better avenue for climbing and power. So in deep blue states, they flock to the Democrat party and in blue states, v.v. Few are truly principled public servants.
FL seems to be in an oddly stable purple equilibrium, whereas MO seems to have just flipped solidly from blue to red.
However, IA seems to fit the bill: a purple state that has trended red.
Tucker Carlson: It’s time to reassess our view of Kamala Harris
I’m growing quite fond of Tucker. (Currently listening to a couple of his books in audio form.) He has a good bad attitude.
“I didn’t even really care about this issue until the left became so ghoulish on it”
Today there is good reason to be optimistic, so I will be optimistic. This reaction from the left is going to turn off more and more people. And it’s not going to help them next election, it’s going to hurt them further. They keep demonstrating every day how out of touch they are with “normal” people.
I have no idea at this point.
Don’t tell that to Creech.
I guess it all depends on whom you are surrounded with. When your local newspapers and tv stations have all surrendered to the progs during your lifetime, it may color one’s viewpoint.
My entire congressional representation, statewide offices, and most of the local ones have gone from country club Republicans to leftist Democrats. And the ones thing I’ve seen over that entire time is trying to be Democrat lite will never win. The RINOs teamed up with the Democrats to defeat actual conservatives. Their reward? Getting knocked off next. Democrat voters used to say until they were blue in the face, if only the Republicans would run moderate mainstream candidates. They were, did, and the Democrat voters still would not pull the lever for them. Compromising with the progs and letting them win will never turn back their tide. Get over it.
You could also look at someone like Kinzinger, who was held up as a principled anti-Trump Republican that there should be more of. And his reward from the Dems was being gerrymandered out of office with the possibility of being the token Republican on CNN or MSNBC.
A Democratic member of Boston’s city council said she “should’ve known better” after tweeting an attack on “Zionists” after a federal court upheld an Arkansas law prohibiting Israel boycotts.
“Y’all are letting the Zionists SHAKE YOU DOWN,” Councilor Kendra Lara initially tweeted Thursday. She later deleted the tweet after receiving criticism, including from the director of the New England Anti-Defamation League.
She seems nice.
The reason for the search of Clark’s home was not immediately clear
The reason is simple. Intimidate outsiders.
Old Guy Music is good.
Extraordinary racism on display
https://twitter.com/johnVcorbett/status/1540679772719775744?t=wulUS3z30ZBXX2Bxwl4eig&s=19
Wow. What an asshole. And because he is a commie he will get away with it.
The New York Times wants to know if birth control is still legal.
Obviously not.
Weirdly, its been the Repubs pushing for OTC birth control, and the Dems opposing it.
There is a Perfectly Purposeful reason for that.
“Is there any purple state that is so because it’s been trending red instead of because it’s been trending blue?“
There is a fair bit of possibility that Texas doesn’t have a Senator Beto O’Skateboarder due to the amount of California transplants they got that vote Team Red.