Just a quick look at the dangerously batshit ideas of rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy.
38-year-old GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is full of…ideas. He wants to raise the voting age to 25, believes the “climate change agenda” is a hoax, suggests 9/11 was an inside job and has likened civil rights leaders to KKK grand wizards… to name just a few. And now, he’s rising in the polls. Here’s why that’s dangerous.
Video: Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy Anyway?
Answer: An asshole.
Video: Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy Anyway?
Answer: M. Nightmare Shamadamamadman
This whole GOP slate is more insane than I’ve ever seen and that’s sayin’ something.
Oh my. Matt you naughty Schlapper!
CPAC founder Schlapp slapped with new allegations involving two younger men! 😵💫
He just can’t keep his Mickey’s Banana Flip in his pants!
Earlier this year, Schlapp was sued for alleged sexual battery and defamation by a Republican campaign operative who claimed that the CPAC leader groped his crotch during a campaign trip last fall. Schlapp has denied the claim.
In addition to that lawsuit, some board members and staffers have been told about other incidents involving Schlapp, 55, and two younger men, multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation said.
In one incident, a staffer said Schlapp attempted to kiss him while drinking late after a work function in 2017. The staffer also provided documentation from that night to The Washington Post showing physical contact that the staffer said was unsolicited.
In another incident, Schlapp allegedly made unwanted physical advances on someone else’s employee during a CPAC business trip in Palm Beach, Fla., in early 2022, according to multiple people informed of the incident. The alleged victim did not respond to requests for comment.
Schlapp did not respond to requests for comment.
“I will continue to pray that the difficulties they are encountering will be dealt with openly and honestly,” Gerow said in a statement released after his resignation. “I am calling on my former colleagues to authorize an independent investigation into the charges against Matt Schlapp, to conduct an independent forensic audit of the organizations finances, to obtain a written opinion of counsel that the organization is in full compliance with its own bylaws and all applicable law and to thoroughly review all the exit interviews of the large number of staff who have recently left.”
CPAC did not respond to requests for comment on the new sexual harassment allegations. But in response to Gerow’s resignation, CPAC said in a statement on Friday: “CPAC remains committed to compliance. Having a board that is unified toward the goal of defeating the left and winning on important issues and in the next election is critical to saving America.”
Normally I’d say, “too soon.” But, I think Bob would actually appreciate this joke. #ripbobbarker https://t.co/cyHegOY1Vu
— Dayna Roselli (@DaynaRoselli) August 26, 2023
Another Bob Barker/Adam Sandler fight skit.
RIP Bob Barker, can’t forget Adam Sandler and him meeting again. pic.twitter.com/GqdLir93lt
— Dom (@Underrated_Dom) August 26, 2023
A student was killed at the Oklahoma football game yesterday.
re: #8 A Cranky One
You caught me off guard with that and now I got to wipe coffee off my monitor.
re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅
Video: Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy Anyway?
Answer: M. Nightmare Shamadamamadman
An ignorant Libertarian Dudebro.
I think all of you will like this: WFAA reported that the Republican candidates were back on trail, and when they reported on Trump, they used his mugshot.
Is anyone following Jacksonville?re: #9 Belafon
A student was killed at the Oklahoma football game yesterday.
Gun?
“The real malady,” writes @RadioFreeTom, “is the deluge of narcissism in the modern world, especially among failed-to-launch young men whose injured grandiosity leads them to blame others for their own shortcomings and insecurities”: https://t.co/YloIYHmgsZ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 26, 2023
Tactical gear
AR 15
Manifestos
Same pattern over and over— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 26, 2023
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re: #17 nines09
Who groomed him?
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That’s pre-beard and before he gained 60 pounds. He looks even more like a dick in that photo than he does now.
CNN says 3 dead in Jacksonville.
Three people were shot and killed Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in what law enforcement described as a racially motivated incident.
“This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference. He said the shooter, who is White and shot himself after the attack, left behind evidence that outlined his “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive in the attack.
All three victims were Black.
The shooting happened blocks away from Edward Waters University, a historically Black school where students living on campus were told to stay in their residence halls.
The gun violence in Jacksonville marked one of several reported shooting incidents in the US over two days, including in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. Shots rang out across several cities, bringing a startling halt to normal summertime activities like high school football games and weekend shopping.
In Boston, at least seven people were injured Saturday morning in a shooting that interrupted a popular parade, police said. A high school football game in Choctaw, Oklahoma, took a deadly turn Friday night after a possible argument led to three people being shot, authorities say. One of them - a 16-year-old boy - died. And Four people, including a 17-year-old, were killed at an apartment in Joppatowne, Maryland, Saturday morning, officials said.
re: #15 HRH Stanley Sea
It’s almost like some group of people gave them a sense that they were owed something.
Could non-Trump Republicans, those that have been part of the last seventy years of messaging about how society functions, possibly know anything about where these young men came about the idea they were owed deference and respect?
Possibly we should investigate who’s been telling young men that guns empower them, and that violence is redemptive if it can be positioned as a kind of collective self defense. See where they got their notions that women and minorities should be harmed, that white men had a patrimony they’d been cheated of such that bloodletting is the alternative.
There is, of course, no correlation between social precarity and deaths from despair rising as material conditions worsen for people, and the number of men who are radicalized by simplistic social theorems in which all problems are solved by well-aimed violence.
re: #9 Belafon
A student was killed at the Oklahoma football game yesterday.
16-year-old dies after shooting at Oklahoma high school football game
Gunshots were fired on the visitor’s side of the stadium at Choctaw High School during the third quarter of their game against Del City High School on Friday. At least four other people sustained injuries as a result of the incident, according to police.
They have video. I was impressed with how quickly and spontaneously the players and coaches cleared the field when the shooting broke out. Yep, high school students in 2023 know what to do when they hear gunshots, having undergone active shooter drills since they were in kindergarten.
Jennifer C. Martin is an ex-Evangelical (but still a Christian). She has a Substack blog about various aspects of Christianity, frequently going after its Evangelical strain. (Dirtbag Christian, August 22, 2023)
Getting Mad at Evangelicals for the Wrong Reasons
“When religion, culture, and politics are this intertwined, it can be difficult to know exactly who — or what — is to blame.”
White conservative evangelicals in the United States are likely one of the most dangerous sociopolitical groups ever to exist, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries. Their immense power affects the country and the world at large in nefarious ways, from propping up greedy billionaires to stalling any meaningful response to manmade climate change to spreading anti-LGBTQ propaganda everywhere in their wake.
However, I notice quite often — even among those of us who were once evangelicals ourselves — that so much of the rage is misdirected and misplaced. There’s no exact pinpointing of what “conservative,” “evangelical,” or “fundamentalist” means to each person, including me, and often our anger is geared toward individuals rather than collective, systemic oppression being enforced by governments and societies at large.
People raised in more liberal and/or secular households may not comprehend exactly what evangelicals believe or what they’re talking about. I recall a journalist on Twitter in 2016 who asked why evangelicals were “still supporting Trump” after Pope Francis came out with a statement against things he was saying; meanwhile, I knew Pentecostals who believed Catholics are going to hell for “worshiping Mary” and “worshiping saints.”
Awareness of the actual implications of the modern evangelical Christian movement has improved in recent years with the rise of deconstruction and exvangelical communities, but there’s still some work to do in media literacy. I don’t think I can do anything to help improve the mainstream media (unless one of you wants to hire me to write about religion — a dream job!), but I do think that I can help anyone reading better suss out the real dangers of evangelicalism.
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Eagle snatches fish and swallows whole while flying.
re: #23 The Ghost of a Flea
Simple answer = YouTube.
re: #29 HRH Stanley Sea
Simple answer = YouTube.
When my mom died, my young college attending nephew tried to show me, many times, this video on YouTube showing Hillary & the cabal. In 2020. Many young men are poisoned.
See a similarity here?
Reporter Rania Dridi from Al Jazeera was live reporting in Arabic from Sankt Petersburg regarding a Wagner Memorial when a Russian attacked her, demanding her to speak Russian.
She was admitted to a hospital with bruises and a concussion.
Source: Al Jazeera#Russia #PMCWagner pic.twitter.com/rHpCk1Uw8N— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) August 26, 2023
re: #26 jaunte
Remember when Obama was “out to destroy our freedom”?
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Hell of it is, I really like Henry guns, and have for a long time. I have two of them, an AR-7 US Survival rifle and a .45/70 lever action rifle. They do not make the AR-15 or anything like it, nor do they make handguns. None of their products are in any way threatened by any kind of gun control legislation. Yet they have to join the Crazy Chorus or be excluded from the industry. As gun Lizards have noted before, it is just a fact of life that you will have to deal with 2A crazies at some level if you are going to have, and use, firearms. The owners of shooting ranges, gun stores, and gun manufacturers buy into the NRA’s stupid and lethal propaganda practically without exception and they compete with each other shouting it from the rooftops.
re: #29 HRH Stanley Sea
Simple answer = YouTube.
Will suing them help? It’s happening, from a shooting a year and a few months ago. This is from the Moms Demand Action email I got:
The two new lawsuits allege that gun dealers and manufacturers, social media companies, and the shooter’s parents each played a role in enabling or failing to prevent this tragedy.
The allegations in these suits include:
MEAN LLC. sold an easy-to-remove magazine lock, which the shooter quickly removed from his firearm. Doing so allowed him to possess a fully functioning assault weapon that is illegal under New York law.
RMA Armament manufactured and sold the shooter combat-grade body armor, without any verification or vetting. As a result, he was emboldened and protected from defensive fire from the store’s heroic security guard during the massacre.
Vintage Firearms, a licensed gun dealer, sold the shooter the illegal assault weapon he used in the mass shooting.
YouTube is a defectively designed social media product that addicted and radicalized the shooter. It also educated him on how to remove magazine locks and defeat enemy fire.
Reddit is a defectively designed social media site that also facilitated the shooter’s radicalization. In addition, it supplied information to him that prepared and equipped him for the shooting, including how to get combat-grade body armor.
The parents of the shooter knew more than enough about their son’s violent tendencies and access to firearms, but failed to intervene.
This is an article I find a little better than the one linked in the email.
Son of Buffalo mass shooting victim, 16 Tops workers and customers file lawsuits
Got hooked on “Who is Erin Carter?” on Netflix yesterday. It’s a bit cringe in places but it has so much heart and so many inventive plot twists I couldn’t stop until I’d binged it all, damn the cringe, full speed ahead.
re: #33 wrenchwench
As long as there are six assholes on the corrupted Supreme Court who are in the pocket of the NRA nothing will be allowed to stop the gun industry from feeding a constant stream of blood to the tree of liberty.
Imagine a gun manufacturer suddenly coming out and saying, “I like my guns and believe in responsible gun ownership but I am a human being, I am tired of children being massacred and I think it might be time to consider doing something about these semi auto rifles.”
They would instantly be inundated with death threats and boycotted, if not literally bombed, out of existence in a matter of days. Retailers would yank their products off the shelves and pretend they never existed. Owners of their products would be harrassed at the ranges and forced to retire the tainted guns they already owned.
Like the Republican Party of which it is a key component, the gun culture is a death cult.
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Imagine a gun manufacturer suddenly coming out and saying, “I like my guns and believe in responsible gun ownership but I am a human being, I am tired of children being massacred and I think it might be time to consider doing something about these semi auto rifles.”
They would instantly be inundated with death threats and boycotted, if not literally bombed, out of existence in a matter of days. Retailers would yank their products off the shelves and pretend they never existed. Owners of their products would be harrassed at the ranges and forced to retire the tainted guns they already owned.
Like the Republican Party of which it is a key component, the gun culture is a death cult.
Remember what happened to the gun dealer who expressed an interest in selling a gun with a built-in trigger lock that would not fire without a separate sonic key.
The dealer received multiple death threats and a boycott organized by the NRA and the even more radical Larry Pratt and Gun Owners Of America said they would take him out of business. His business dried up…
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
inundated with death threats and boycotted, if not literally bombed, out of existence in a matter of days
NOW THAT’S WHAT WE CALL FREEDOM!
re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Hell of it is, I really like Henry guns, and have for a long time. I have two of them, an AR-7 US Survival rifle and a .45/70 lever action rifle. They do not make the AR-15 or anything like it, nor do they make handguns. None of their products are in any way threatened by any kind of gun control legislation. Yet they have to join the Crazy Chorus or be excluded from the industry. As gun Lizards have noted before, it is just a fact of life that you will have to deal with 2A crazies at some level if you are going to have, and use, firearms. The owners of shooting ranges, gun stores, and gun manufacturers buy into the NRA’s stupid and lethal propaganda practically without exception and they compete with each other shouting it from the rooftops.
I can’t bring myself to get past the ads to even consider Henry anymore. If I were to buy a new lever anytime soon, it would be either another Rossi or a Mossberg.
What’s really depressing to me is how utterly down the toilet Ruger has gone since Bill Ruger died. I do keep hoping that CZ will bring a small measure of sanity to Colt, but I doubt it simply due to the insanity inherent in the US market.
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Imagine a gun manufacturer suddenly coming out and saying, “I like my guns and believe in responsible gun ownership but I am a human being, I am tired of children being massacred and I think it might be time to consider doing something about these semi auto rifles.”
They would instantly be inundated with death threats and boycotted, if not literally bombed, out of existence in a matter of days. Retailers would yank their products off the shelves and pretend they never existed. Owners of their products would be harrassed at the ranges and forced to retire the tainted guns they already owned.
Like the Republican Party of which it is a key component, the gun culture is a death cult.
Remember what happened to S&W when they put in their safey lock? I know idiots that STILL won’t buy their products.
Vivek is auditioning for Fox News, that’s all.
re: #30 HRH Stanley Sea
When my mom died, my young college attending nephew tried to show me, many times, this video on YouTube showing Hillary & the cabal. In 2020. Many young men are poisoned.
Yeah, but they’re available to be poisoned because they’ve been taught a series of lies designed to make them work incredibly hard and constantly feel shame in the hopes of a payout in cash and love that’s not arriving.
Youtube reactionaries provide answers that are congruent with what they have learned from conservative society. For there to be a plurality of “normal” social conservatives that merely want the state to do violence against inferior castes the system regularly outputs people that follow the presented logic—existential threat from inferiors—to it’s natural end.
Which is why conservatives will only address terrorism and stochastic violence as indicators of failing personal virtue if it was done by one of their own—that was No True Scotsman, pay no attention to how his murderer’s logic is lock-step with my cops-should-murder logic.
It’s horseshit
and the fact that they’re trying to sell their failed system using the suffering and corpses of people killed in accordance with their failed system’s valuing of lives as lesser and cheaper should always be stated aloud.
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Conservatives might even have to divide their forces from bombing abortion clinics.
I distinctly remember the wingnut boycott of Dick’s Sporting Goods when they said they would no longer sell semi-automatic rifles and sought the ATF out for the legal way to destroy the guns they had in inventory.
Wingnuts threatened all sorts of stuff against Dick’s. So far, Dick’s is doing fine.
You don’t have to tell me about it. Now I have grandnephews who worship Andrew Tate and are in Hustlers U.
As for grandnieces they are rabid antiabortionists who follow their Pulpit Pimping Priests in the Cult Of The Fetus as they picket outside clinics.
re: #45 The Ghost of a Flea
I have no solution. He’s my nephew. My hope is that he meets & falls in lurve with a wonderful progressive woman who will enlighten him & grow him up. He’s graduating with a science degree. 🙏🤞🏼
For @X @Support such vile, vulgar, antisemitic, and hateful Holocaust denial posts do not violate reglations and do not break safety rules.
cc: @elonmusk @lindayaX pic.twitter.com/ucx2owqVdL— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 24, 2023
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Got hooked on “Who is Erin Carter?” on Netflix yesterday. It’s a bit cringe in places but it has so much heart and so many inventive plot twists I couldn’t stop until I’d binged it all, damn the cringe, full speed ahead.
Enjoyed the show thoroughly. Similar overall plot to a bunch of other shows/movies, but a fun watch.
re: #49 HRH Stanley Sea
I have no solution. He’s my nephew. My hope is that he meets & falls in lurve with a wonderful progressive woman who will enlighten him & grow him up. He’s graduating with a science degree. 🙏🤞🏼
As for me, I cut all of my family off except for my sane brother in law.
I live in Texas. I was born in Texas. With the exception of a couple of ill-advised Oklahoma years, I have lived my entire life in Texas.
I am currently in the middle of trying to get my driver’s license renewed. Because I renewed my license online the last time around, I am being forced to do it in person this time around. One of the conditions is that I have to supply a copy of my birth certificate. I don’t possess such a thing, so I have to petition the state — the SAME STATE — for a copy of my birth certificate. You would think that Ellen at the DMV could just call up Ernie at the birth & death records department and get their respective ducks in a row, but NO. NONONONO. I have to request a copy of my TEXAS birth certificate so that I can submit it to the TEXAS DPS.
This will allegedly take “20 to 25 business days”.
Once I have my birth certificate in hand, I can go to the DPS office to get my driver’s license renewed, MAYBE. I had to make an appointment to do that, and the soonest appointment available was in late October. Of course I’m losing time off work for all this.
Without any exaggeration, I can attest that it was easier and less of a hassle to get a Texas license to carry a concealed firearm than it is to get my fucking driver’s license renewed. Make of that what you will.
Blah blah blah, rant over.
re: #26 jaunte
Remember when Obama was “out to destroy our freedom”?
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re: #21 Joe Bacon ✅
The gun violence in Jacksonville marked one of several reported shooting incidents in the US over two days, including in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. Shots rang out across several cities, bringing a startling halt to normal summertime activities like high school football games and weekend shopping.
Now I’m really confused. These things keep happening in both large cities and in small towns. It’s almost as if that song doesn’t mean anything at all.
One time Mom wanted to make banana pudding but the local A&P was sold out of Vanilla Wafers. BUT—they had Pepperidge Farm Chessmen Butter Cookies.
Mom knew how much Dad and I loved chess so she figured why not use them?
So it required a square dish for the square cookies…
40 butter cookies (such as Chessmen™)
1 (5-ounce) box instant vanilla pudding mix
1 1/2 cups milk
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups whipped cream—NO COOL WHIP!!!!!!
4 medium bananas, sliced
Line the bottom of an 8x8x2-inch baking dish with the butter cookies. You should be able to lay down 20 cookies in a 5x4 layer.
In a bowl, combine the milk and the pudding mix and blend with a handheld mixer until smooth.
Let the pudding mix sit for a few minutes to thicken.
In a separate bowl, combine the cream cheese and the condensed milk together until smooth.
Fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture
Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture, stirring until well blended.
Pour 1/2 of the pudding mixture into the baking dish
Top the pudding layer with the sliced bananas.
Top the banana layer with the remaining pudding mixture, smoothing it out evenly.
Top the pudding with another layer of the butter cookies
Chill for at least 2 hours.
Serve and “checkmate” your guests.
re: #59 Joe Bacon ✅
Another recipe to bookmark!
Sounds delicious
re: #46 silverdolphin
I’ve always thought we should use more conventional means and tbh I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already. If you have/own guns you pay more in insurance, all kinds, home, life and auto. It’s already a fact that guns are an issue, might as well make ‘em pay for their fetish. They already do for trampolines and obesity and other lifestyle choices….
re: #89 ericblair
I’m the worst Europhile, but I have no illusions about Europeans as a group. When I started reading Dutch newspapers, I ran into an oped writer who referred to Greta Thunberg as a Klimmatsmurf. Very charming.
(Of course, I read French news all the time. I’ve seen too many opinion writers who miss Maréchal Pétain. Oh, mon Dieu…)
Image credit: @happytoast on xtwitter
re: #1 Ace Rothstein
Video: Who Is Vivek Ramaswamy Anyway?
Answer: An asshole.
Rando:
The implosion time of new phenoms seems to be shortening. I’m not sure I could have picked him out of a lineup before Wednesday and he’s already done.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Sydney Powell’s costume is far less bizarre than her business attire.
re: #64 Charles Johnson
Where’s Adam West when we REALLY need him?
Hmm. Seems YouTube sez I can’t post comments. Apparently one of the (literal) Nazi’s I told needed to have a Nuremberg rope complained and I got smacked rather than the hate monger.
re: #65 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Rando:
The implosion time of new phenoms seems to be shortening. I’m not sure I could have picked him out of a lineup before Wednesday and he’s already done.
How long was that in Scaramuccis ?
re: #54 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I live in Texas. I was born in Texas. With the exception of a couple of ill-advised Oklahoma years, I have lived my entire life in Texas.
I am currently in the middle of trying to get my driver’s license renewed. Because I renewed my license online the last time around, I am being forced to do it in person this time around. One of the conditions is that I have to supply a copy of my birth certificate. I don’t possess such a thing, so I have to petition the state — the SAME STATE — for a copy of my birth certificate. You would think that Ellen at the DMV could just call up Ernie at the birth & death records department and get their respective ducks in a row, but NO. NONONONO. I have to request a copy of my TEXAS birth certificate so that I can submit it to the TEXAS DPS.
This will allegedly take “20 to 25 business days”.
Once I have my birth certificate in hand, I can go to the DPS office to get my driver’s license renewed, MAYBE. I had to make an appointment to do that, and the soonest appointment available was in late October. Of course I’m losing time off work for all this.
Without any exaggeration, I can attest that it was easier and less of a hassle to get a Texas license to carry a concealed firearm than it is to get my fucking driver’s license renewed. Make of that what you will.
Blah blah blah, rant over.
tl;dr: Conservatives think it should be easier to own an implement of death than operate a motor vehicle.
Well, I expected that The Joker would have hit the $10 million mark by now but he fell short.
Trump raised $7.1 million after Georgia booking, mugshot
The former president raised $4.18 million on Friday alone, the single-highest 24 hour period of his campaign to date.
The campaign’s fundraising has been powered by merchandise it has been selling through his online store. After Trump was taken into custody, the campaign began selling shirts, posters, bumper stickers and beverage coolers bearing Trump’s scowling mugshot. The items bear the tagline “NEVER SURRENDER!” and range in price from $12 to $34.
The campaign has also been prodding online donors with emails and text messages. And on Thursday night, while flying back from Atlanta to Bedminster, N.J. Trump sent out his first tweet in more than two years directing supporters to his website. The site’s landing page includes the mugshot and asks supporters to “make a contribution to evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House and SAVE AMERICA during this dark chapter in our nation’s history.”
The fundraising blitz illustrates how Trump has parlayed his four indictments into campaign cash, rallying his hardcore supporters.
Trump’s campaign says it has raised nearly $20 million in the last three weeks, during which time Trump was indicted on charges related to his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and for trying to overturn the Georgia vote count in the 2020 election. That figure is more than half of what Trump raised during his first seven months in the 2024 race.
Private, non-political organizations have also been trying to monetize the mugshot. Barstool Sports, a prominent sports and pop culture website, for instance, has been selling its own Trump mugshot t-shirts for $32.
re: #15 HRH Stanley Sea
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And there are always excuse-makers for them. This article from 2012 has stuck with me forever in all its vomitous glory:
Guns and the Decline of the Young Man
The angry white man has usurped the angry black man.
I would argue that maleness and whiteness are commodities in decline. And while those of us who are not male or white have enjoyed some benefits from their decline, the sort of violence and murder that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary will continue to occur if we do not find a way to carry them along with us in our successes rather than leaving them behind…
Can you imagine being in the shoes of the one who feels his power slipping away? Who can find nothing stable to believe in? Who feels himself becoming unnecessary? That powerlessness and fear ties a dark knot in his stomach. As this knot thickens, a centripetal hatred moves inward toward the self as a centrifugal hatred is cast outward at others: his parents, his girlfriend, his boss, his classmates, society, life.
A partial solution to these toxic circumstances could be a coordinated cultivation of what might be called an empathic habit…
re: #70 Targetpractice
tl;dr: Conservatives think it should be easier to own an implement of death than operate a motor vehicle.
Conservatives think it should be easier to own an implement of death than acquire a legal ID to present to exercise one’s right to vote. Difficulty regarding legally operating a motor vehicle is merely collateral damage.
Journalists: the Jacksonville mass murder was not racially motivated violence, it was RACIST violence. We must be specific and direct with our language.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) August 27, 2023
A lot of Conservatives on X responding to the Jacksonville mass shooting with “what about black on black violence?” Disgusting.
re: #36 wrenchwench
I think George Takei was reading you yesterday.
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Hey, Paul Lynde doesn’t deserve to be center square with that bunch of treasonous assholes, though I can imagine he’d be taking the piss mightily out of all of them.
re: #75 DodgerFan1988
How about this stupid take:
You realize there is more to this story don’t you? Black people rally behind trump after his arrest. Coincidence?
— Jason Hunte (@jayhuntenow) August 27, 2023
My city recorded an all-time record high today: 107 F.
That’s the hottest we’ve been since record keeping began in the late 1800s.
Previous record was 105, set over 100 years ago.
re: #76 TedStriker
Hey, Paul Lynde doesn’t deserve to be center square with that bunch of treasonous assholes, though I can imagine he’d be taking the piss mightily out of all of them.
I posted my favorite memory:
Peter Marshall: “Paul, a recent survey has revealed that contact lens wears are most likely to lose a contact where?”
Paul, in his sassy voice: “On Miss July.”
re: #78 Eclectic Cyborg
My city recorded an all-time record high today: 107 F.
That’s the hottest we’ve been since record keeping began in the late 1800s.
Previous record was 105, set over 100 years ago.
We broke another one here in DFW, the tenth this month, at 110F.
re: #68 William Lewis
Hmm. Seems YouTube sez I can’t post comments. Apparently one of the (literal) Nazi’s I told needed to have a Nuremberg rope complained and I got smacked rather than the hate monger.
Perhaps if you’d have said they should have the Mussolini treatment it would have passed muster.
Smart contact lens battery charged by human tears
Cool idea but I wonder if it will ever be commercialized?
Not entirely true but funny all the same.
re: #85 darthstar
Not entirely true but funny all the same.
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More accurate would be “You need a masters degree in computer programming and five years experience working with a computer program that’s only existed for 2 years to get a job working in a mail room.”
Donald Trump Committed a Crime, Over 60 Percent of Voters Say
92% of Democrats. Not too surprising. But 2/3rds of Independents say he committed a crime. and even 30% of Republicans do.
I expect that these numbers will increase as the year goes on and we see some of the evidence. If Trump loses Independents, he loses. This is one reason I think something like No Labels will actually pull more away from Trump.
re: #74 A Three Hour Tour
Conservatives think it should be easier to own an implement of death than acquire a legal ID to present to exercise one’s right to vote. Difficulty regarding legally operating a motor vehicle is merely collateral damage.
That’s because right now suppressing the vote is to their advantage
And because everyone knows the 2a is God given
re: #84 silverdolphin
Smart contact lens battery charged by human tears
Cool idea but I wonder if it will ever be commercialized?
It would make quite a spectacle
(C’mon it was a grapefruit pitch)
re: #89 silverdolphin
Donald Trump Committed a Crime, Over 60 Percent of Voters Say
92% of Democrats. Not too surprising. But 2/3rds of Independents say he committed a crime. and even 30% of Republicans do.
I expect that these numbers will increase as the year goes on and we see some of the evidence. If Trump loses Independents, he loses. This is one reason I think something like No Labels will actually pull more away from Trump.
And in the face of this, the best argument the GQP think they can make is that Joe Biden is a criminal because he might have known about Hunter’s business deals and might have gotten a few million dollars in bribes for actions that they cannot prove he ever engaged in to cause damage they cannot prove ever occurred. Oh, and that he’s old…even though they’re running a candidate who is only 3 years younger.
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“This was the defining decade for divorce as the numbers reached an all-time high.”
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re: #91 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
It would make quite a spectacle
(C’mon it was a grapefruit pitch)
If it shorts out in your eye, do you have a wet cell?
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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One of those things I shall forever curse the asswipes at Twitter for is blocking me from such treasures as this Twitter user:
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— 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) December 11, 2015
re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(Ham and banana hollandaise)
Wut.
That’s got to be, like, banana lobby propaganda. FRIEND COMPUTER SAYS USE MORE BANANA.
Amusingly, if you check YT for videos on Hams and Bananas Hollandaise, you’ll find several videos and shorts of people who’ve made the recipe, with the general review falling into the category of “strange but tasty.”
re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅
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Family folklore:
Mom was getting help from my older brother, making a cake. ‘Let me see you crack an egg into it.’ Which he did, and asked, ‘whites, too?’ “Yes.’ So he throws the shells in.
re: #93 Targetpractice
And in the face of this, the best argument the GQP think they can make is that Joe Biden is a criminal because he might have known about Hunter’s business deals and might have gotten a few million dollars in bribes for actions that they cannot prove he ever engaged in to cause damage they cannot prove ever occurred. Oh, and that he’s old…even though they’re running a candidate who is only 3 years younger.
They want to make people think they are both crooks so a pox on both their houses. Do not think it will work because Biden is so obviously a decent person. My God, they tried to make the viseo of him petting a dog a thing.
re: #104 wrenchwench
Family folklore:
Mom was getting help from my older brother, making a cake. ‘Let me see you crack an egg into it.’ Which he did, and asked, ‘whites, too?’ “Yes.’ So he throws the shells in.
My aunt, when a teen, was making blueberry muffins from a mix. In those days the berries were canned and had liquid in the can. She didn’t drain the can. Needless to say the muffins didn’t come out very well. It was quite the family story for years.
It wasn’t something recognized back then but she was known to be “slow” and looking back now I realize it was probably a classic case of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as my Grandmother was a very hardcore alcoholic by the time of her youngest’s (that aunt) birth.
Report: World’s fossil fuel subsidies surged to $1 trillion after Ukraine invasion
Some context on today’s IMF report from February.
Everybody’s doing subsidies to keep prices down, but developing countries with manufacturing are spending especially big because they’ll be hurt more by the inelastic demand of transporting stuff and powering things through burning fossil fuels.
re: #105 Joe Bacon ✅
They have gone too far with this Barbie stuff.
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re: #111 The Ghost of a Flea
If only the nations of this planet had spent that much each year for the past 10 years, on moving to transportation that did not depend upon petroleum, we all would be much better off today.
Electric vehicles are expensive but they are no more so than internal combustion vehicles, if one takes into account the long-run costs related to petroleum.
Indeed he is! That this happened here is heartbreaking but sadly not surprising. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Axe Handle Saturday but Ron doesn’t want that history taught. 🤬 Thankfully Jacksonville now has a mayor who gives a damn.
— Fully-Vaccinated Mask Wearer 🏴🟦🟧 (@janmjax) August 27, 2023
re: #115 Captain Ron
DeSantis would be supporting the shooter if he learned the guy gave twenty bucks to his campaign.
re: #11 austin_blue
An ignorant Libertarian Dudebro.
Even worse- he’s a Pharma-bro.
He’s made his fortune on speculation in bio-tech, another one of these assholes that fails upwards by bankrupting various companies, failing to produce any actual useful products, yet somehow comes through with massive amounts of personal gain while contributing NOTHING to society. And in the meantime, he is more than willing to sell everyone out and promote naked white supremacism safe in the belief he will in the end come out on top or somehow be insulated from the human tragedy that unfolds.
In other words, a 100% sellout asshole.
Yep:
Around like 2016 I used to think man I can’t wait until I don’t have to pay attention to politics anymore. Increasingly I’m realizing two things: I will never not be able to pay attention to it and I was extremely privileged to feel like I could in the past.
— Jean-Michel Connard 🎃 (@torriangray) August 24, 2023
I just need to figure out how to make it only take up 5% of my life.
re: #108 silverdolphin
They want to make people think they are both crooks so a pox on both their houses. Do not think it will work because Biden is so obviously a decent person. My God, they tried to make the viseo of him petting a dog a thing.
Because that’s the only strategy they have anymore: “Yeah, our candidate is a walking dumpster fire of a human being with a soul blacker than a moonless night, but THEIR CANDIDATE IS JUST AS BAD!!!”
It worked with Hillary because they’d spent two decades destroying her in every way possible in the eyes of the public so that just taking a drink of water was seen as shady and immoral. It’s failing to work with Biden because even no matter how hard they work they can’t convince enough people that Joe did anything more than what a grieving father would do for his wayward son.
re: #118 Florida Panhandler
Even worse- he’s a Pharma-bro.
He’s made his fortune on speculation in bio-tech, another one of these assholes that fails upwards by bankrupting various companies, failing to produce any actual useful products, yet somehow comes through with massive amounts of personal gain while contributing NOTHING to society. And in the meantime, he is more than willing to sell everyone out and promote naked white supremacism safe in the belief he will in the end come out on top or somehow be insulated from the human tragedy that unfolds.
In other words, a 100% sellout asshole.
IOW, he’s the browner version of Willard Romney.
Headlines from the NYT today.
Ramaswamy, the Millennial Candidate, Has a Lot to Say About His Generation
We’re Done Waiting for Trump’s Arrest. Our Waiting Has Only Begun.
Can Liberalism Save Itself?
The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes
The Ohio Ballot Board approved language Thursday for a fall measure seeking to establish abortion access as a fundamental right, but one Democratic member blasted it as “rife with misleading and defective language.”Key among opponents’ objections is language developed by Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose, an abortion opponent, amid warnings the language could face a legal challenge even before the proposal goes before Ohio voters in November.
Among the new language, the word “fetus” in the Democrats’ proposal was changed to “unborn child” in the ballot measure.
The original summary language seeks to assure access to abortion through what is called viability, when the fetus is able to survive outside the womb. It stated, “abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability,” but not in cases where a treating physician deems the procedure necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.
LaRose’s summary turned that section on its head. It now says the amendment would “always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability if, in the treating physician’s determination” the life and health exception applies.
“The entire summary is propaganda,” said Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights.
She noted that the state’s Republican attorney general, Dave Yost, certified the group’s original wording as fair and accurate and that 700,000 Ohioans read it when they signed petitions to get the measure on the fall ballot.
“The amendment that is put forward is clear about reproductive freedom and reproductive health care decisions that Ohioans should be able to make for themselves, and that is ultimately what the vote in November will be about,” she said.
The measure, as initially envisioned, seeks to establish “a fundamental right to reproductive freedom” with “reasonable limits.”
The planet is alive and she’s still got a bad case of indigestion.
re: #113 darthstar
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Uhm, some beautiful machines there but where did that quote come from? Personally I’d love to have that wall in my living room but I’d need more income to deal with the electric and cooling bills 🤣
re: #125 William Lewis
Uhm, some beautiful machines there but where did that quote come from? Personally I’d love to have that wall in my living room but I’d need more income to deal with the electric and cooling bills 🤣
I’m guessing the OP made it up as ‘dialog’…back around 2000 when I was in my first IT job, one of our clients was boo.com - a wannabe online market for everything (Amazon succeeded in becoming what Boo wanted to be). In their ‘server room’ the had a bank of Sun Sparc stations. but as they had so much hardware and VC money and poor management, the developers turned a considerable amount of that compute power into a private DOOM gaming network and spent their days trying to slaughter each other.
boo.com failed.
re: #122 Amory Blaine
The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes To Lose Even Worse In 2024
re: #127 jaunte
The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes To Lose Even Worse In 2024
Which is why I’m okay with him being the candidate.
re: #127 jaunte
The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes To Lose Even Worse In 2024
And that the rot goes all the way to the core.
And that they are a cult.
re: #122 Amory Blaine
Headlines from the NYT today.
Ramaswamy, the Millennial Candidate, Has a Lot to Say About His Generation
We’re Done Waiting for Trump’s Arrest. Our Waiting Has Only Begun.
Can Liberalism Save Itself?
The Republican Debate Proved That Trump Has What It Takes
NYT: “It’s a horse race! HORSE RACE!! WHY WON’T YOU READ US?!?!?!”
re: #129 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The Trump fans in my neighborhood tell me we’re not doing enough research.
And referring to discount Andrew Yang as “the Millenial candidate” for any reason other than age is an absolute joke. You check the polling and he is so far outside the majority opinion of my generation that he might as well be on Mars. He’s out there spewing shit about the Dems being the “modern day KKK” because they don’t treat him like a rare and exotic animal, that you should be 25 and pass a civics test to vote, is a 9/11 truther, and is a “states rights” fucker arguing for 6 week bans because he’s “pro-life.” He’s a young guy running on an old man’s platform.
re: #133 Targetpractice
I think his name is Andrew Yang.
re: #132 jaunte
The Trump fans in my neighborhood tell me we’re not doing enough research.
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What newspaper printed that drivel?
re: #135 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The local weekly La Grange Texas advertising vehicle “The Fayette County Record.” I get a free copy once a month as part of their effort to get new subscribers. The letter writer is a regular feature of the editorial page, and apparently a local Republican party operative.
Tropical Update.
Tropical Depression Ten is now entering the Yucatan Channel. Tropical Storm Warnings are up for Yucatan and western Cuba. The storm is drifting south-west and is expected to meander around for 24-36 hours before turning north toward Florida.
Explosive growth is expected. By 7am Tuesday EDT, the storm is expected to be a hurricane halfway between the Yucatan Channel and Apalachicola Bay. The cone of uncertainty stretches from south of Tampa to the western Florida Panhandle.
Afterward, the storm is expected to accelerate through Georgia, South Carolina, and exit the coast of North Carolina as a tropical storm.
Tropical Depression Ten Predicted Track (NHC)
Arrival Time of Tropical Storm-Force Winds (estimated) (NHC)
Cancun Weather Radar (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de México)
re: #135 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
She’s an example of the kind of thinkers who would sign up to be fake electors for Trump.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tropical Update.
Tropical Depression Ten is now entering the Yucatan Channel. Tropical Storm Warnings are up for Yucatan and western Cuba. The storm is drifting south-west and is expected to meander around for 24-36 hours before turning north toward Florida.
Explosive growth is expected. By 7am Tuesday EDT, the storm is expected to be a hurricane halfway between the Yucatan Channel and Apalachicola Bay. The cone of uncertainty stretches from south of Tampa to the western Florida Panhandle.
Afterward, the storm is expected to accelerate through Georgia, South Carolina, and exit the coast of North Carolina as a tropical storm.
Tropical Depression Ten Predicted Track
Arrival Time of Tropical Storm-Force Winds (estimated) (NHC)
Cancun Weather Radar (Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de Mexico)
The two remaining insurance companies offering homeowner’s policies sigh and prepare to watch their finances dip for yet another year.
re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ll try to collect the most frothy letters to share.
Yeah, I lived in an ideological leftist paradise growing up in the mountain valleys that had the big ski areas.
My Dad is a consummate Boomer, and he beat me when I was a kid. He’s also a renowned teacher in the community. Yes, humans are fucked up and weird. I’ve never hit my Dad but he’s hit me several times.
re: #123 Belafon
So that is how the Republicans are going to sabotage this? They are maliciously changing the language of the amendment to cause it to fail? Is there anyway to stop them from proceeding with this?
My Dad is dying of cancer so I’ve been spending a lot of time with him lately. I’ve been cooking his dinner for months.
“What if I were gay?”
Dad said “No matter. You’re my son.”
The whole thing is complicated and makes me sad.
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
So that is how the Republicans are going to sabotage this? They are maliciously changing the language of the amendment to cause it to fail? Is there anyway to stop them from proceeding with this?
They’re using the Frank Luntz tested language to get their radical Xtian base to the polls to vote this down. And I fear not only that they will succeed but also that Sherrod Brown’s days in the Senate are coming to an end from that Jesusland state.
re: #113 darthstar
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TOS and Lower decks detail how this will end up. “You are the evil!”
re: #144 Hecuba’s daughter
So that is how the Republicans are going to sabotage this? They are maliciously changing the language of the amendment to cause it to fail? Is there anyway to stop them from proceeding with this?
A lawsuit, and putting out statements about what Republicans are doing.
re: #147 Joe Bacon ✅
They’re using the Frank Luntz tested language to get their radical Xtian base to the polls to vote this down. And I fear not only that they will succeed but also that Sherrod Brown’s days in the Senate are coming to an end from that Jesusland state.
Once again, they have tried that language in other states and it has failed. They even tried that language to get people to vote to allow them to restrict citizen let ballot amendments and it failed.
We don’t need to be all doomy all the time. This is just going to piss Ohioans even more.
My Dad BEAT me, grabbed me by the feet and held me upside down and whacked my ass. I was six years old.
I love my Dad and today I could kill him very easily.
re: #146 teleskiguy
My wife and I have been talking a lot lately about our fathers, and how they grew into adults with no particular tools to use in being helpful as fathers. The biggest mistakes I made as a father were the times I fell back on the family’s hand-me-down methods of trying to discipline children.
re: #132 jaunte
The Trump fans in my neighborhood tell me we’re not doing enough research.
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Says a letter-writer whose “research” appears to have been merely rummaging through a bunch of right-wing blogs to collect enough stale tropes, hack memes, and trite cliches to fill up a column?
I’ll give them the credit for being a tad more coherent than many of these LTE screeds, but SRSLY….
My Dad knows he was a bastard. When I punched him in the face during a party he held in the early 90s he did reign himself in. No more hanging out with students. Which he never did again.
re: #150 Belafon
Once again, they have tried that language in other states and it has failed. They even tried that language to get people to vote to allow them to restrict citizen let ballot amendments and it failed.
We don’t need to be all doomy all the time. This is just going to piss Ohioans even more.
Is it the actual language in the amendment they are changing or is it the description on the ballot? Republicans are irredeemably vile.
Just got around to reviewing the pass-on notes from my coworkers and see we had one of those “So what if I nearly killed other people? You can’t kick me out!” guests.
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re: #146 teleskiguy
My Dad is dying of cancer so I’ve been spending a lot of time with him lately. I’ve been cooking his dinner for months.
“What if I were gay?”
Dad said “No matter. You’re my son.”
The whole thing is complicated and makes me sad.
Forgiveness is hard, but it is healing. You’re doing the right thing by him to be there for him in his last days. You’re a good man. Peace.
re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter
Is it the actual language in the amendment they are changing or is it the description on the ballot? Republicans are irredeemably vile.
The description on the ballot. For example, they are replacing fetus with unborn child, and the middle three paragraphs above indicate that the summary is trying to scare voters into voting against the amendment:
The original summary language seeks to assure access to abortion through what is called viability, when the fetus is able to survive outside the womb. It stated, “abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability,” but not in cases where a treating physician deems the procedure necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.
LaRose’s summary turned that section on its head. It now says the amendment would “always allow an unborn child to be aborted at any stage of pregnancy, regardless of viability if, in the treating physician’s determination” the life and health exception applies.
“The entire summary is propaganda,” said Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights.
re: #154 teleskiguy
yes, I punched my own Father. It was ugly. But my own Father had a problem with this So here you go…
nevermind, I’m surrounded by a bunch of fucken dorks
re: #136 Targetpractice
You should put that behind a spoiler. That could set off someone with epilepsy.
re: #80 wrenchwench
I doubt going to morgues would change Republican minds but I understand the sentiment. Unfortunately, too many voters are okay with the carnage and thus vote for the party controlled by the NRA.
August 26, 2023
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
On this date in 1920, the U.S. Secretary of State received the official notification from the governor of Tennessee that his state had ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify the amendment, and the last one necessary to make the amendment the law of the land once the secretary of state certified it. He did that as soon as he received the notification, making this date the anniversary of the day the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.
The new amendment was patterned on the Fifteenth Amendment protecting the right of Black men to vote, and it read:
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
“Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
And the history from pre Civil War follows.
re: #158 Belafon
The description on the ballot. For example, they are replacing fetus with unborn child, and the middle three paragraphs above indicate that the summary is trying to scare voters into voting against the amendment:
That’s the GQP through and through: They rammed through a 6 wk ban against the wishes of the majority of the state’s voters, tried to sabotage the petitions to get the amendment on the ballot by spreading BS, tried even more far-reaching sabotage by trying to make it almost impossible to pass ballot initiatives in the state, and now are left trying to shame voters into opposing the amendment by again by putting blatantly false information on the ballots.
re: #54 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I live in Texas. I was born in Texas. With the exception of a couple of ill-advised Oklahoma years, I have lived my entire life in Texas.
I am currently in the middle of trying to get my driver’s license renewed. Because I renewed my license online the last time around, I am being forced to do it in person this time around. One of the conditions is that I have to supply a copy of my birth certificate. I don’t possess such a thing, so I have to petition the state — the SAME STATE — for a copy of my birth certificate. You would think that Ellen at the DMV could just call up Ernie at the birth & death records department and get their respective ducks in a row, but NO. NONONONO. I have to request a copy of my TEXAS birth certificate so that I can submit it to the TEXAS DPS.
This will allegedly take “20 to 25 business days”.
Once I have my birth certificate in hand, I can go to the DPS office to get my driver’s license renewed, MAYBE. I had to make an appointment to do that, and the soonest appointment available was in late October. Of course I’m losing time off work for all this.
Without any exaggeration, I can attest that it was easier and less of a hassle to get a Texas license to carry a concealed firearm than it is to get my fucking driver’s license renewed. Make of that what you will.
Blah blah blah, rant over.
I wasn’t born in Texas, I was born in Oceanside, California, when my Da was a Marine Air Liaison officer at Camp Pendleton. So when I went to college at Tulane, I went with a copy of my birth certificate and it went went into a safety deposit box which cost me $50 a year. It had some other stuff in it, but basically it was a birth certificate repository.
I used it to get my first passport in 1978, which I used to go on vacation with my college girlfriend after graduation in Venezuela and also smuggling $50,000 into the country and delivering it safely to her mom and her Columbian husband in Valencia, which was in the State of Carabobo.
Yes, it really means “stupid face”.
re: #167 So Cal Greek Hippie
Cool! Looks like an Andalusian.
re: #168 retired cynic
That guy riding is amazing. My wife the equestrian expert says he has a really great seat and hands. I once saw him take this horse at full gallop across a huge fallow field that had just been plowed. A breathtaking thing to see.
re: #167 So Cal Greek Hippie
FYI they are growing raspberries in those plastic huts behind the road
re: #169 So Cal Greek Hippie
Right. He is seated perfectly in the strongest point of the horse for carrying a rider, and his shoulders, hips and feet are on a vertical line. Takes YEARS of work to get your body trained and strong enough to do it. Impressed.
Welp, I’m off for the rack.
International Play on the Porch Day was a rousing success, lots of attendant neighbors and musicians on hand to play and enjoy tunes.
You all should do it next year, even if it includes hammered dulcimers. They really are quieter than war pipes.
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Kellyanne Conway wasn’t the first Republican trotting out “alternative facts.”
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The media has spent decades conditioning us to believe that crime is rampant and nothing can be done about it, so the GQP keeps capitalizing on it no matter what the statistics say:
re: #166 austin_blue
I wasn’t born in Texas, I was born in Oceanside, California, when my Da was a Marine Air Liaison officer at Camp Pendleton. So when I went to college at Tulane, I went with a copy of my birth certificate and it went went into a safety deposit box which cost me $50 a year. It had some other stuff in it, but basically it was a birth certificate repository.
I used it to get my first passport in 1978, which I used to go on vacation with my college girlfriend after graduation in Venezuela and also smuggling $50,000 into the country and delivering it safely to her mom and her Columbian husband in Valencia, which was in the State of Carabobo.
Yes, it really means “stupid face”.
I got my first passport in 1975 (well, my mother did), so I don’t know what went into that.
I never had a copy of my birth certificate (I’m not sure how the Navy verified me in 1977, maybe my mother had a copy).
I first tried to obtain a birth certificate when I moved to Oklahoma to be with my wife. I’d lost my driver’s license in Florida from epilepsy and right to vote due to homelessness, so it had been years since I’d done either.
That was the first time I ran into a state requirement for a birth certificate to get a driver’s license or to register to vote. I had to cough up $35 to the State of Michigan for a raised-seal certified copy (any ol’ copy wouldn’t do for Oklahoma).
For the first time that I can remember, I had a guy come in here in the middle of the night and not just check-out over the loud thumping of some asshole’s custom audio set-up in the parking lot across the way, but also demand a number for corporate with the obvious intent of making a complaint. I’m unsure what he expects to say, that we’re responsible for his being unable to sleep because I didn’t call the cops and have them issue the inconsiderate fucker a citation for disturbing the peace?
re: #176 Targetpractice
For the first time that I can remember, I had a guy come in here in the middle of the night and not just check-out over the loud thumping of some asshole’s custom audio set-up in the parking lot across the way, but also demand a number for corporate with the obvious intent of making a complaint. I’m unsure what he expects to say, that we’re responsible for his being unable to sleep because I didn’t call the cops and have them issue the inconsiderate fucker a citation for disturbing the peace?
We had several guests complaining that we ran out of pool towels. Some willingly accepted that we had no more of them and took the bath towels offered in their stead. But this one… Karen for lack of a better word… got in a high uproar over how that was unacceptable considering we were charging $200/night (on the average to low end in this city at this time of year but I digress) and that the guy before me writing down her complaint, as I’d just instructed him to, had a horrible attitude as well. But I was ok because I was listening to her? SMDH. She got a biz card for the AGM and we wrote all her whines down and I avoided offering her some cheese and crackers to go with it… O_o
re: #177 William Lewis
We had several guests complaining that we ran out of pool towels. Some willingly accepted that we had no more of them and took the bath towels offered in their stead. But this one… Karen for lack of a better word… got in a high uproar over how that was unacceptable considering we were charging $200/night (on the average to low end in this city at this time of year but I digress) and that the guy before me writing down her complaint, as I’d just instructed him to, had a horrible attitude as well. But I was ok because I was listening to her? SMDH. She got a biz card for the AGM and we wrote all her whines down and I avoided offering her some cheese and crackers to go with it… O_o
Earlier in the year we got bum-rushed by a sellout weekend because none of us had been aware (or at least prepared for) all the local colleges hosting their graduation ceremonies on the same weekend. So it’s after midnight on Friday, I’ve been dealing with various complaints and requests for over an hour, and this guy comes up and requests blankets and pillows for the pull-out beds in five rooms. When I explained to him that unfortunately I only had one set because it was a sell-out weekend and everybody was asking for pillows and blankets, he first presses me to come up with a solution, then proceeds to lecture me on how unprepared we were and how poor it looked on management for allowing that to happen. Oh, and telling me (wait for it) that he’s had years of experience in the service industry as a manager and he’d never let such a situation happen on his watch.
Yes, I did want to reach across, rip his nuts off, and ram them down his throat. But management frowns upon such righteous retribution so I settled for a sarcastic “I’ll pass that on to management” as I bid him good evening.
re: #11 austin_blue
An ignorant Libertarian Dudebro.
He sees the party splitting along the lines of Fundamentalists/Trump-Foreverers and the more cynically amoral Libertarian Hard-Core Free-Marketists and is positioning himself to lead the latter
re: #30 HRH Stanley Sea
When my mom died, my young college attending nephew tried to show me, many times, this video on YouTube showing Hillary & the cabal. In 2020. Many young men are poisoned.
That was about the time that my ex-GF went down the rabbit hole, telling me about how Hillary was responsible for the assassination of Seal Team Six to cover up the botched Bin Laden raid.
re: #57 Ace Rothstein
I remember the death panels.
I remember Wayne LaPierre telling us that just because Obama did not touch gun rights at all during his first term, that was not reason to be lulled into a false sense of security during his seconed when he did not have to worry about re-election
re: #178 Targetpractice
Yes, I did want to reach across, rip his nuts off, and ram them down his throat. But management frowns upon such righteous retribution so I settled for a sarcastic “I’ll pass that on to management” as I bid him good evening.
I interpret “I’ll pass that on to management” as equivalent to “bless your heart.”
re: #105 Joe Bacon ✅
They have gone too far with this Barbie stuff. (Barbie pierogis)
How about Oppenheimer pierogis filled with habanero paste?
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If only the nations of this planet had spent that much each year for the past 10 years, on moving to transportation that did not depend upon petroleum, we all would be much better off today.
Electric vehicles are expensive but they are no more so than internal combustion vehicles, if one takes into account the long-run costs related to petroleum.
and the military/political clusterfuck that they bring about
The Pink News, August 26, 2023
Alice Cooper dropped by makeup brand after anti-trans comments
US rock star Alice Cooper has been dropped by Vampyre Cosmetics, a gothic makeup brand, after his comments about the trans community sparked backlash.
Cooper, known for being a ‘shock rocker’ who built a career partly out of playing with gender expectations through theatrical shows, said that gender-affirming care for children is a “sad and dangerous fad”.
He also called the trans rights movement “laughable” and suggested that trans people being able to use toilets that align with their gender identity is dangerous.
Vampyre Cosmetics announced they would no longer be collaborating with the 75-year-old rocker just one day after he made the comments in an interview with Stereogum on Wednesday (23 August).
The “School’s Out’ singer, who is always seen with his trademark black eyeliner, had signed a deal with the goth-themed makeup brand to sell a collection of mascara, microphone-styled lipsticks and guitar and amp-shaped makeup palettes.
Vampyre Cosmetics, which describes itself as “proudly women owned, disabled owned and LGBT+ owned”, shared a grid post on Instagram announcing they were cutting the collaboration “in light of recent statements”.
The brand wrote: “We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare.”
(more at the link)
re: #183 ericblair
I interpret “I’ll pass that on to management” as equivalent to “bless your heart.”
Oh, very much so. Any time I deal with someone who tells me that they’ve “years of experience” in the service industry, nine times outta ten that “experience” is either ages out of date or is so removed from their complaint that they might as well be telling me about their years as a lion tamer.
This douchebag in particular grated on me because he swore that not only had he worked for this particular brand, but had done so as a manager as recently as in the last 3 years. I bit my tongue instead of calling bullshit and telling him if he’s personally familiar with what’s been going on in the industry since COVID struck then he should be showing me some sympathy rather than offering bad faith “constructive criticism.”
re: #124 darthstar
The planet is alive and she’s still got a bad case of indigestion.
They say that JRR Tolkien’s visit to Stromboli is what inspired Mount Doom and that the islet of Strombolicchio inspired the Black Tower.
Good Morning from #Germany where the industry has been stuck for years. Overall industrial production is at the same level as in 2007. Of Germany’s 6 major industrial sectors, only electrical industry managed to rise above its pre-corona level in 2019. Germany’s flagship… pic.twitter.com/ojbRlsaUeo
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) August 26, 2023
Fantastisch. And now Germany is finally getting officially worried about its dependence on trade with China, which is now looking at a possible economic implosion from the real estate bubble.
Germany has been completely wrongfooting itself on strategy for decades. It closed its nuke plants and increased its reliance on Russian gas just in time for Russia to invade Ukraine and fuck everything up. Its foot-dragging on helping Ukraine, partly justified by guilt towards Russia over World War II, just made the same sort of genocide easier for Russia until Germany finally came around and began sending aid to Ukraine after getting mauled in the press.
The German elite has some very fundamental ideas about Russia and trade that have been fucking things up badly for the country for a while, but just can’t let go of.
re: #128 darthstar
Which is why I’m okay with him being the candidate.
If he runs, he has the nomination.
At which point his party will have to redouble its efforts to secure a win that does not involve the popular vote count (which will be fraught with such massive voter fraud that it will have to be disregarded)
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Pink News, August 26, 2023
Alice Cooper dropped by makeup brand after anti-trans comments
(more at the link)
Never fails to amaze me how many “shock rockers” and various other “bad boys” of yesteryear have grown into the very same bitter old fucks that used to bitch about their music and accuse them of tempting youngin’s to “sin.”
re: #146 teleskiguy
My Dad is dying of cancer so I’ve been spending a lot of time with him lately. I’ve been cooking his dinner for months.
…
The whole thing is complicated and makes me sad.
Condolences.
re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No surprise, he’s been that kind of twit for a very long time if you looked behind the image. I never cared for him as a result.
re: #189 ericblair
The German elite has some very fundamental ideas about Russia and trade that have been fucking things up badly for the country for a while, but just can’t let go of.
Think of all the money they literally sank into the Nordstream 1 and 2 gas pipelines that are now just lying at the bottom of the Baltic with big holes in them …
re: #191 Targetpractice
Never fails to amaze me how many “shock rockers” and various other “bad boys” of yesteryear have grown into the very same bitter old fucks that used to bitch about their music and accuse them of tempting youngin’s to “sin.”
First, Santana. Now Alice Cooper. Do these guys not know how to read the room. There audiences do not overlap much with Ted Nugent.
AC/DC had better not turn this way. It was often suggested their name was about bisexualaity.
re: #191 Targetpractice
Never fails to amaze me how many “shock rockers” and various other “bad boys” of yesteryear have grown into the very same bitter old fucks that used to bitch about their music and accuse them of tempting youngin’s to “sin.”
More from the article:
Cooper went on to criticise “woke” healthcare-inclusive language, called the trans-rights movement “laughable” and a “huge comedy”, and attacked trans people using toilets that align with their gender identity, saying: “A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’, and have the time of his life in there.”
“Somebody’s going to get raped, and the guy’s going to say: ‘Well, I felt like a girl that day, then I felt like a guy’. Where do you draw this line?”
There is no evidence of course that trans women harass anyone in toilets, but there is plenty of evidence that women harass cis women in toilets thinking they are transgender.
There also seems to be an uptick in male “toilet guardians” (perverts) who want to check all the women going into the toilet.
re: #189 ericblair
I guess I find more problematic an underlying assumption of that tweet. Specifically, the idea that “growth” is something that can eternally happen.
It’s an absurdity of the pop-economics culture that thinks “growth” is simply an number, an index to something which magically returns money on an investment.
However, in reality, if a population is somewhat steady in its size, and without fundamental technological change in a lifestyle, the output of a society - that which it creates - won’t grow for ever and ever.
This of course upsets the cart of all of those who think of life as a perpetual motion machine, that something can go on and on and on ….
In practical terms, if Germany is not meaningfully growing in population size, and lacking any inventions that change the way a life is lived day to day, why should the German output of anything “grow” significantly?
Here in the US we are so used to growing in population that we think economic growth is just a given.
I don’t know how much longer that can go on, but we can probably expand our population for some time.
Contra the xenophobes who want to shoot people at the border (see DeSantis and his Republican supporters), we can continue to take in immigrants, at least for a while.
Immigrants = growth, though you couldn’t get that from the last Republican stage show on Fox last Wednesday.
Yet we have to peel back our expectation of “growth”. It won’t continue for ever.
And those countries who are stable in population or declining: “growth” is not really a thing, in substances. Numbers (indices) can grow via inflation, but the real physical increase is stuff is not something for which to wish.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More from the article:
There is no evidence of course that trans women harass anyone in toilets, but there is plenty of evidence that women harass cis women in toilets thinking they are transgender.
There also seems to be an uptick in male “toilet guardians” (perverts) who want to check all the women going into the toilet.
The old bathroom panic. I wonder how they feel about gender-neutral bathrooms? One of my favorite restaurants redid the male and female bathrooms into a set of 8 gender neutral rooms with locked doors and individual toilets and sinks. Much nicer than before too. A lot more privacy for everyone.
re: #197 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I guess I find more problematic an underlying assumption of that tweet. Specifically, the idea that “growth” is something that can eternally happen.
It goes hand-in-hand with the notion that wealth and prosperity are to be measured in terms of how many resources we consume, not in the quality of life we derive from them.
re: #195 silverdolphin
First, Santana. Now Alice Cooper. Do these guys not know how to read the room. There audiences do not overlap much with Ted Nugent.
AC/DC had better not turn this way. It was often suggested their name was about bisexualaity.
Also Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley.
Kiss star Paul Stanley blasts parents who support trans kids - and everyone’s making the same point (The Pink News, May 1, 2023)
Well I think KISS and Cooper suck. So they can piss off. Disappointed about Santana though.
re: #198 silverdolphin
The old bathroom panic. I wonder how they feel about gender-neutral bathrooms? One of my favorite restaurants redid the male and female bathrooms into a set of 8 gender neutral rooms with locked doors and individual toilets and sinks. Much nicer than before too. A lot more privacy for everyone.
The smaller businesses here either have only one bathroom, or if they have two, they’re not marked by gender. A few even use the European model (a common wash area and private water closets).
Larger businesses (like stuff down by Interstate 80) have typical men/women multi-user rooms.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
This whole GOP slate is more insane than I’ve ever seen and that’s sayin’ something.
As unimaginable as it seems now, it is certain that that next GOP presidential candidate after Trump will be worse than Trump. Having the entire GOP degenerate into a cesspit of freaks, crooks and cranks is part of that process.
re: #201 GlutenFreeJesus
Well I think KISS and Cooper suck. So they can piss off. Disappointed about Santana though.
R&B singer Ne-Yo is also caught up in this.
After “think of the children” statements, an apology appeared on his Instagram page. He then deleted that, said it was his publicist, and doubled down.
He said: “First and foremost, I did not apologise for having an opinion on this matter. “I am a 43-year-old heterosexual man raising five boys and two girls. That’s my reality.
“If my opinion offended somebody, yeah, sure, I apologise for you being offended because that wasn’t my intention. My intention is never to offend anybody.
“However, I’m entitled to feel how I feel. I am absolutely entitled to feel how I feel, the same way you are entitled to feel how you feel.”
He reiterated that he had “no beef with the LBGTQIA+ community”, adding that they can “do what you want to with your kids”.
But he added: “I will never be OK with allowing a child to make a decision that detrimental to their life. I will never be OK with that.
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Ne-Yo retracts ‘publicist’s’ apology for comments on trans children: ‘My opinion is mine’ (The Pink News, August 8, 2023)
re: #203 EPR-radar
As unimaginable as it seems now, it is certain that that next GOP presidential candidate after Trump will be worse than Trump. Having the entire GOP degenerate into a cesspit of freaks, crooks and cranks is part of that process.
DarkShikari’s Theorem in real life:
Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.
re: #204 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Never heard of him and I don’t intend to remember him tomorrow. 😂
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
DarkShikari’s Theorem in real life:
Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.
They started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom to see who could be the most radically conservative. They are not even halfway down.
But they are already at the point that any primary candidate who is conservative enough to win the primary is going to be too conservative to win the general.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
More from the article:
There is no evidence of course that trans women harass anyone in toilets, but there is plenty of evidence that women harass cis women in toilets thinking they are transgender.
There also seems to be an uptick in male “toilet guardians” (perverts) who want to check all the women going into the toilet.
You could create another internet “law” based on this shit, something like “The longer an argument with a transphobe goes, the greater the likelihood they will espouse a belief in rampant bathroom rapes.”
In a FOX News Channel poll surveying 1,003 registered voters on April 26, 2023 (conducted with live telephone agents and not a robot), on page twelve of the transcript they ask those polled what they think the most important problem facing the United States is today (further down they compare that with previous times they asked the question).
Economy or jobs scored at the top at 24%.
Second was inflation or the cost of living at 16%.
Third was gun violence and gun control at 12%.
“Wokeness” and transgender issues scored a whopping 1%. Not sure about any issues scored higher than that.
(I seem to recall James Carville in the Nineties saying “It’s the economy, stupid.”)
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
FOX News Poll (PDF, twenty pages, April 26, 2023)
re: #208 Targetpractice
You could create another internet “law” based on this shit, something like “The longer an argument with a transphobe goes, the greater the likelihood they will espouse a belief in rampant bathroom rapes.”
There is a series of Internet feminist laws, many of which directly port over to discussions of racism as well. (A discussion of racism will quickly cause a pile-on of racist commentary.)
The same applies to music, such as the musicians above revealing themselves as chuds. That brings in Moff’s Law about pop culture:
As comments continue in a feminist [social justice] discussion of pop culture, the probability of someone saying ‘why do you have to analyze it? it’s just a movie/cartoon/book/video game!’ approaches 1.
re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As comments continue in a feminist [social justice] discussion of pop culture, the probability of someone saying ‘why do you have to analyze it? it’s just a movie/cartoon/book/video game!’ approaches 1.
Same can go for any commercial product, from light beer to snack foods…
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In a FOX News Channel poll surveying 1,003 registered voters on April 26, 2023 (conducted with live telephone agents and not a robot), on page twelve of the transcript they ask those polled what they think the most important problem facing the United States is today (further down they compare that with previous times they asked the question).
Economy or jobs scored at the top at 24%.
Second was inflation or the cost of living at 16%.
Third was gun violence and gun control at 12%.“Wokeness” and transgender issues scored a whopping 1%. Not sure about any issues scored higher than that.
(I seem to recall James Carville in the Nineties saying “It’s the economy, stupid.”)
The GQP’s solution to this conundrum? Declare that all of America’s problems are due to “wokeness” or “woke policies” and thus the answer to solving those problems is supporting “anti-woke” Repub candidates.
Then you ask them to define “woke” and they sputter before just repeating the old “socialist” definition in a different set of clothes. And what are their “anti-woke” solutions? The same reheated leftovers they’ve been selling us since the Reagan years.
The Dirtbag Christian, August 3, 2023. I think I have to clean out my non-existent gutters on the day of this “debate.”
When I saw this poster come across my feed, I assumed it was fake. It seemed ludicrous.
But it’s real.
All these “leftist” women will be debating the sexual revolution’s merits live on September 13. I do not consider these people leftists, and I strongly doubt even they would identify that way (more as alt-weirdo centrists who want the benefits of intellectual attention without any actual ethics to give a shit about), but to the average conservative, it probably seems that way.
While the urge to endlessly and individually rant about Grimes, Sarah Haider, Anna Khachiyan, Louise Perry, and especially Bari Weiss is exceptionally strong, I’m not really up for that kind of drama or being known as a “callout” writer. So that’s not what I’m here to do. I am here to defend the sexual revolution and decry the anti-sex, anti-feminist attitudes that seem to be popping up in culture these days.
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When Fundamentalism Comes From Non-Religious Women
“It’s the horseshoe theory, but for sex.”
re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There is a series of Internet feminist laws, many of which directly port over to discussions of racism as well. (A discussion of racism will quickly cause a pile-on of racist commentary.)
The same applies to music, such as the musicians above revealing themselves as chuds. That brings in Moff’s Law about pop culture:
“As a discussion about pop culture continues, the likelihood that the conservative(s) in the crowd will respond to examples of how their beliefs are increasingly unpopular with ‘WHY YOU GOTTA BRING POLITICS INTO THIS?!’ will increase exponentially.”
re: #215 Targetpractice
“As a discussion about pop culture continues, the likelihood that the conservative(s) in the crowd will respond to examples of how their beliefs are increasingly unpopular with ‘WHY YOU GOTTA BRING POLITICS INTO THIS?!’ will increase exponentially.”
“I just want a space opera! I don’t want all that woke socialist garbage in my Star Trek!”
re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“I just want a space opera! I don’t want all that woke socialist garbage in my Star Trek!”
Then you ask them what’s “woke” about modern Trek and they inevitably cite the same two examples: A black female as a series lead and an openly gay couple (with mention of a second in DISC’s second season’s premiere). The truly stupid ones try to point to some episode plot and scream that it’s nothing like what Star Trek has done in the past, then you remind them that TOS had an episode back in the 60s that such a blatant allegory on race relations in America that the major characters of the episode had their faces painted white and black.
re: #217 Targetpractice
Then you ask them what’s “woke” about modern Trek and they inevitably cite the same two examples: A black female as a series lead and an openly gay couple (with mention of a second in DISC’s second season’s premiere). The truly stupid ones try to point to some episode plot and scream that it’s nothing like what Star Trek has done in the past, then you remind them that TOS had an episode back in the 60s that such a blatant allegory on race relations in America that the major characters of the episode had their faces painted white and black.
Not to mention “Balance of Terror” which was a riff on both the Cold War and racism which also brings to mind “Far Beyond the Stars” with Captain Sisko seeing himself as a black sf writer in 1950’s America and finding how ugly that really is.
Funny they don’t have as much trouble with Captain Sisko as with Burnham…
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’, and have the time of his life in there.”
I wonder what he thinks happens in the women’s bathroom. Like, does he think we run around naked, or what? I mean, when guys pee you could see naked body parts, if you were so inclined. In the Ladies, we go into stalls and close the door.
If he thinks THAT’S gonna give anybody “the time of their lives” he’s living wrong.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’, and have the time of his life in there.”.
Only the kind of guy who spent his adolescence jerking off to a “being invisible in the women’s bathroom” fantasy.
re: #218 William Lewis
Not to mention “Balance of Terror” which was a riff on both the Cold War and racism which also brings to mind “Far Beyond the Stars” with Captain Sisko seeing himself as a black sf writer in 1950’s America and finding how ugly that really is.
Funny they don’t have as much trouble with Captain Sisko as with Burnham…
The same sort of people who’ve never read a single paragraph of Tolkein’s actual writing but believe they know that he would have been absolutely outraged at the idea of dark-skinned elves. Or the ones who think that there’s absolutely no way that Ian Fleming would have been cool with the idea of a black James Bond.
re: #221 Targetpractice
The same sort of people who’ve never read a single paragraph of Tolkein’s actually writing but believe they know that he would have been absolutely outraged at the idea of dark-skinned elves. Or the ones who think that there’s absolutely no way that Ian Fleming would have been cool with the idea of a black James Bond.
If I have a problem with casting choices (to me, a black Snow White does not fit either the title nor the description of the figure) I see it as an aesthetic disagreement and not an ideological one. And certainly not a reason to feel outraged or offended.
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom to see who could be the most radically conservative. They are not even halfway down.
But they are already at the point that any primary candidate who is conservative enough to win the primary is going to be too conservative to win the general.
We need to stop calling them “conservative.” They’re not trying to conserve anything.
I’m with Buckley’s definition: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.” That’s not at all what these revanchists are trying to do.
re: #223 sagehen
We need to stop calling them “conservative.” They’re not trying to conserve anything.
I’m with Buckley’s definition: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.” That’s not at all what these revanchists are trying to do.
They would like to undo all the progress we have made over the past decades in personal freedoms, women’s, minority and LGBTQ rights.
To them, it has all been downhill since we expanded the voting franchise beyond land-owning white males.
re: #219 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I wonder what he thinks happens in the women’s bathroom. Like, does he think we run around naked, or what? I mean, when guys pee you could see naked body parts, if you were so inclined. In the Ladies, we go into stalls and close the door.
If he thinks THAT’S gonna give anybody “the time of their lives” he’s living wrong.
In the episode of Marvelous Mrs Maisel that I just got to, Miriam comes out of the bathroom stall to find a man (coded as gay) at the sink. She asks “am I in the wrong place? I was looking for the ladies room”. He tells her “no, I’m in the wrong place. I just prefer to use the ladies because it’s usually cleaner and smells better.”
re: #225 sagehen
In the episode of Marvelous Mrs Maisel that I just got to, Miriam comes out of the bathroom stall to find a man (coded as gay) at the sink. She asks “am I in the wrong place? I was looking for the ladies room”. He tells her “no, I’m in the wrong place. I just prefer to use the ladies because it’s usually cleaner and smells better.”
I was at Prestwick Airport in Glasgow on our way back from a family wedding with my two young daughters. As I did not want to wrinkle my kilt by packing it (or risk losing it in the Ryanair luggage), I chose to wear it on the flight.
My daughters needed a diaper change, and it turns out the only changing table was located inside the ladies’ room. So I figured I was perfectly fine taking them in there.
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was at Prestwick Airport in Glasgow on our way back from a family wedding with my two young daughters. As I did not want to wrinkle my kilt by packing it (or risk losing it in the Ryanair luggage), I chose to wear it on the flight.
My daughters needed a diaper change, and it turns out the only changing table was located inside the ladies’ room. So I figured I was perfectly fine taking them in there.
This is a distressingly common thing, as if women are being implicitly told that it is their job to change babies’ diapers. I’ve done my fair share (actually, probably not quite fair, I probably could’ve done more) of diaper changes in my kids’ younger days, and I strongly resent that implication. Good parents share workloads.
re: #227 Nerdy Fish
This is a distressingly common thing, as if women are being implicitly told that it is their job to change babies’ diapers. I’ve done my fair share (actually, probably not quite fair, I probably could’ve done more) of diaper changes in my kids’ younger days, and I strongly resent that implication. Good parents share workloads.
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Well did my good deed for the day. One of the drunken idjits left his debit card in our ATM the other night. I tucked into our cash drawer and just a moment ago I saw them heading out for their day of work (resurfacing a high school gym before classes start tomorrow). He hadn’t even realized he’d misplaced it. Ah well. Hope he dries out before too late…
re: #227 Nerdy Fish
This is a distressingly common thing, as if women are being implicitly told that it is their job to change babies’ diapers. I’ve done my fair share (actually, probably not quite fair, I probably could’ve done more) of diaper changes in my kids’ younger days, and I strongly resent that implication. Good parents share workloads.
Among all their other progressive history, Dodger Stadium was the first major league ballpark to put changing tables in the mens’ rooms.
Tropical weather update:
Franklin is now a hurricane. Rapid intensification is expected, and Franklin should become a major hurricane by 2am Monday. The National Hurricane Center bends the storm further right (away from the United States and toward Bermuda). At the end of the forecast period, Franklin is still predicted to be a hurricane at the latitude of New Jersey and well south of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, accelerating toward Europe.
Tropical Depression Ten’s track has been moved slightly left (west) by the National Hurricane Center. The storm is ashore in Mexico, having just moved over the Island of Cozumel. The storm is moving south at 4 knots.
Predicted Track of Tropical Depression Ten
The change in the track forecast has been changed slightly toward the end of the period. Currently Ten is moving south, but the National Hurricane Center predicts with high confidence the storm will start moving north within twenty-four hours and become a hurricane over the very warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. This will bring the storm north of Tampa with the mostly like strike around Apalachicola Bay.
It is important not to focus on the exact track of the hurricane as effects will be widespread. The most dangerous portion of the landfall in Florida will be to the right (east or south) of the landfall.
The rest of the NHC shows the storm crossing Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, emerging into the Atlantic Ocean as a tropical storm. The Eastern Seaboard should monitor the progress of Ten.
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re: #191 Targetpractice
Never fails to amaze me how many “shock rockers” and various other “bad boys” of yesteryear have grown into the very same bitter old fucks that used to bitch about their music and accuse them of tempting youngin’s to “sin.”
“Rebels” that their image is I suspect that inside of them they are and have become their parents.
A bit of a stereotype that the rebellion period is a phase and then the teen turns into an adult and returns to the fold of their parent’s (and associated group’s) outlooks on life. But I had an acquaintance from college that was declared atheist, declared liberal, and within five years of graduation had full-bore returned to his orthodox Jewish roots and family. Was interesting in how about half his expressed opinion sets changed while the other half remained rock solid the same as they’d been expressed in college.
re: #219 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I wonder what he thinks happens in the women’s bathroom. Like, does he think we run around naked, or what? I mean, when guys pee you could see naked body parts, if you were so inclined. In the Ladies, we go into stalls and close the door.
If he thinks THAT’S gonna give anybody “the time of their lives” he’s living wrong.
Apparently conservatives have a pee fetish. /s
re: #223 sagehen
We need to stop calling them “conservative.” They’re not trying to conserve anything.
I’m with Buckley’s definition: “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop.” That’s not at all what these revanchists are trying to do.
They are conservatives. For centuries their pundits and apologists have defined conservatism as “conserving and gathering power.”
re: #198 silverdolphin
The old bathroom panic. I wonder how they feel about gender-neutral bathrooms? One of my favorite restaurants redid the male and female bathrooms into a set of 8 gender neutral rooms with locked doors and individual toilets and sinks. Much nicer than before too. A lot more privacy for everyone.
And it’s pretty much the solution. But you don’t see the cultural warriors advocating for it since it appears that the kerfluffle and screaming are more important than having any sort of equitable solution that serves their “concern” which means they can then go about accepting other people for who they are and want to be.
I’m going to meander off to bed. I left it somewhere behind me.
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Only the kind of guy who spent his adolescence jerking off to a “being invisible in the women’s bathroom” fantasy.
And the whole thing behind the popularity of “Porky’s” and “American Pie”. Gross sexual humor playing to male adolescence fantasies and given the fig leaf of being a comedy.
re: #187 Targetpractice
Oh, very much so. Any time I deal with someone who tells me that they’ve “years of experience” in the service industry, nine times outta ten that “experience” is either ages out of date or is so removed from their complaint that they might as well be telling me about their years as a lion tamer.
This douchebag in particular grated on me because he swore that not only had he worked for this particular brand, but had done so as a manager as recently as in the last 3 years. I bit my tongue instead of calling bullshit and telling him if he’s personally familiar with what’s been going on in the industry since COVID struck then he should be showing me some sympathy rather than offering bad faith “constructive criticism.”
Because nothing unplanned or unexpected ever happens. Especially at night. //
re: #227 Nerdy Fish
This is a distressingly common thing, as if women are being implicitly told that it is their job to change babies’ diapers. I’ve done my fair share (actually, probably not quite fair, I probably could’ve done more) of diaper changes in my kids’ younger days, and I strongly resent that implication. Good parents share workloads.
My brother and I once took my three-month old niece into a bathroom in a restaurant in Warsaw, NY to change her. Apparently word got round the place that *the men had gone and changed the baby* so I guess we caused a little bit of a buzz in rural New York state.
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They started an attention-grabbing race to the bottom to see who could be the most radically conservative. They are not even halfway down.
But they are already at the point that any primary candidate who is conservative enough to win the primary is going to be too conservative to win the general.
Which is a great way to run a major political party.
(If you’re a Dem watching)
re: #219 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I wonder what he thinks happens in the women’s bathroom. Like, does he think we run around naked, or what? I mean, when guys pee you could see naked body parts, if you were so inclined. In the Ladies, we go into stalls and close the door.
If he thinks THAT’S gonna give anybody “the time of their lives” he’s living wrong.
Doesn’t take a lot of incline
re: #243 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Doesn’t take a lot of incline
Takes a bit of incline, like the galvanized trough in my favorite pub.
re: #197 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
In practical terms, if Germany is not meaningfully growing in population size, and lacking any inventions that change the way a life is lived day to day, why should the German output of anything “grow” significantly?
Germany is a major exporter. For the short and medium term, Germany not increasing output means that it’s being supplied by some other countries.
Domestically, “inventions that change the way a life is lived day to day” is exactly what is and should be happening. Investment in alternative power, better heating, more efficient appliances and machinery to do the same tasks with less resources, better healthcare, better and more efficient and less polluting transportation.
In the general case, unless you believe that all the people of the world have all they will ever need right now, we’ll need growth to provide it. It doesn’t mean you have to only measure how much oil gets burnt or trees that get cut down. There are more complex and better measures of environmental-economic accounting that have been standardized to guide and measure this.
Missed the coin flip - so par it is.
Keep the place tidy while MrsTarH and I are away. Maybe send a pic if one of us hits a Royal Flush.
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Or see a comic, cartoon, meme, etc
And think I need to post this to LGF.
Then I realized *I am* reading it on LGF.
re: #249 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
If available, will choose the stall every time. You are basically peeing on yourself at a urinal from the backsplash.
re: #219 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I wonder what he thinks happens in the women’s bathroom. Like, does he think we run around naked, or what? I mean, when guys pee you could see naked body parts, if you were so inclined. In the Ladies, we go into stalls and close the door.
If he thinks THAT’S gonna give anybody “the time of their lives” he’s living wrong.
Because he’s like most conservatives, he repeats a talking point without putting any real thought into it. And conservative “logic” these days is as simple as “trans woman = man in a dress.” Thus they genuinely believe that being “trans” is as simple as throwing on a dress and telling everybody you’re a woman, they also believe that many others just go along with this for fear of being socially ostracized as “transphobic.”
re: #252 Targetpractice
In the men’s toilet on a Italian turnpike, there will probably be someone handing out towels and toiletries for a few Lira. Just as likely to be a woman as a man. Italy has not collapsed, though most of their towers lean a bit.
re: #253 Decatur Deb
In the men’s toilet on a Italian turnpike, there will probably be someone handing out towels and toiletries for a few Lira. Just as likely to be a woman as a man. Italy has not collapsed, though most of their towers lean a bit.
Yeah, these are the same asshats who used to argue that others were afraid to report on “terrorist activity” they witnessed for being of being labeled as “Islamophobic.” Or tell you without the least bit of shame their genuine belief that cops will let a black man go after witnessing him commit a crime just to avoid being accused of “racism.”
re: #253 Decatur Deb
In the men’s toilet on a Italian turnpike, there will probably be someone handing out towels and toiletries for a few Lira. Just as likely to be a woman as a man. Italy has not collapsed, though most of their towers lean a bit.
In rural Japan the cleaning woman won’t warn you. She just comes in regardless of whether any men are peeing and will pick up the trash or mop or whatever. And it’s ok. In my nearly 6 decades of life I have never seen another man’s penis in a restroom.
re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It goes hand-in-hand with the notion that wealth and prosperity are to be measured in terms of how many resources we consume, not in the quality of life we derive from them.
re: #252 Targetpractice
Because he’s like most conservatives, he repeats a talking point without putting any real thought into it. And conservative “logic” these days is as simple as “trans woman = man in a dress.” Thus they genuinely believe that being “trans” is as simple as throwing on a dress and telling everybody you’re a woman, they also believe that many others just go along with this for fear of being socially ostracized as “transphobic.”
What they “believe ” is the issue panic, not a solution, is good for their politics
re: #255 Barefoot Grin
In rural Japan the cleaning woman won’t warn you. She just comes in regardless of whether any men are peeing and will pick up the trash or mop or whatever. And it’s ok. In my nearly 6 decades of life I have never seen another man’s penis in a restroom.
Well, not unaccompanied…
In absolutely unrelated news, Wagner’s troll factory payments are going thru a “critical phase”.
Your Prez is sure you’ll all miss his very accurate predictions. https://t.co/MxBurK41Og— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) August 26, 2023
There are some segments of the economy that are in a bit of trouble right now, happily.
Oooh, critical phase, scary shit bro.
re: #260 jeffreyw
What’s the diff between bucatini and spaghetti and meatballs? Is it the same thing with a cooler name?
re: #260 jeffreyw
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re: #261 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
What’s the diff between bucatini and spaghetti and meatballs? Is it the same thing with a cooler name?
re: #262 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Bucatini: how do they drill a hole through each of those spaghetti strands ??
Simple: they drill the hole through a very long section of the bucatini, then cut it into sections for cooking…..
re: #264 Jay C
Simple: they drill the hole through a very long section of the bucatini, then cut it into sections for cooking…..
No, they roll the pasta around a 46 gauge guitar string, then remove the string once it’s hardened. Then cut into sections.
re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If he runs, he has the nomination.
At which point his party will have to redouble its efforts to secure a win that does not involve the popular vote count (which will be fraught with such massive voter fraud that it will have to be disregarded)
The popular vote doesn’t determine the winner. And the GOP won in both 2000 and 2016 without winning it. Never forget that if Biden had 40,000 fewer votes in a few key states — even if he had won 2 million more in blue states — Trump would be president today. The EC will destroy us all. The Trump cult remains strong and our future is very uncertain and insecure.
re: #218 William Lewis
Not to mention “Balance of Terror” which was a riff on both the Cold War and racism which also brings to mind “Far Beyond the Stars” with Captain Sisko seeing himself as a black sf writer in 1950’s America and finding how ugly that really is.
Funny they don’t have as much trouble with Captain Sisko as with Burnham…
One issue that many had with Burnham is the sudden revelation that Spock was raised with an adopted human sister. It was widespread irritation about this change to established family background that irritated devotees of TOS.
re: #259 ericblair
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Oooh, critical phase, scary shit bro.
Kimdotcom going to jail for something soon?
Apparently there’s a musical movement in Peru called Qpop
It emulates the aesthetics and musical styles of K-pop, but it’s done by indigenous Quechua speakers
In an added twist the biggest band’s lead singer is named *Lenin* Tamayo
pic.twitter.com/OZpe7vrswe— Andrés Pertierra (@ASPertierra) August 24, 2023
In my 11+ years as a detention aide I’ve processed a lot of detainees and done a lot of mug shots. The body language in this particular mug shot is from someone who’s reluctant to hold up his head in order to show his face on camera. pic.twitter.com/PUmH6bsSvD
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) August 25, 2023
The levels of offensiveness is off the charts! This is high score reset the game type of foolishness
— kevin daniels (@kevinddaniels) August 25, 2023
re: #198 silverdolphin
The old bathroom panic. I wonder how they feel about gender-neutral bathrooms? One of my favorite restaurants redid the male and female bathrooms into a set of 8 gender neutral rooms with locked doors and individual toilets and sinks. Much nicer than before too. A lot more privacy for everyone.
A growing number of places in Los Angeles have gender-neutral restrooms. I’ve seen a couple places now labeling them as “relief chambers” which gets me to chuckle. And of course the Xtians don’t like that as the Pulpit Pimps recite the same Frank Luntz GOP talking points about “moral degeneracy”…
re: #248 TarHellion
Missed the coin flip - so par it is.
Keep the place tidy while MrsTarH and I are away. Maybe send a pic if one of us hits a Royal Flush.
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re: #272 Belafon
IF I remember correctly wasn’t Prager U fool CJ Pearson one of those Georgia “alternate electors”?
re: #275 Joe Bacon ✅
IF I remember correctly wasn’t Prager U fool CJ Pearson one of those Georgia “alternate electors”?
I can’t keep up with all the players.
re: #70 Targetpractice
Another way to look at it is: I had to pass an FBI background check to get the firearm license, but Texas is much more interested in giving the squinty stink-eye to people who want to vote.
Devastated to learn we’ve lost the brilliant Arleen Sorkin. Not just a wonderful talent, but a truly wonderful person. I’m grateful not only to have worked with her, but to have been her friend. 🙏 Sending my heartfelt condolences to her family & loved ones. 💔 pic.twitter.com/g1Mb3BWoKn
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) August 27, 2023
She was also Calliope on Days of Our Lives.
re: #272 Belafon
I’m looking forward to Trump writing his “Crazy Screed from Fulton County Jail.”
Photogallery of the overnight storm we had here in Ostrava:
This woke up my ass up around midnight, I’ll tell you what.
re: #273 Joe Bacon ✅
A growing number of places in Los Angeles have gender-neutral restrooms. I’ve seen a couple places now labeling them as “relief chambers” which gets me to chuckle. And of course the Xtians don’t like that as the Pulpit Pimps recite the same Frank Luntz GOP talking points about “moral degeneracy”…
Were there separate bathrooms in the bible?
re: #276 Belafon
I can’t keep up with all the players.
There’s no need to keep up now. Charges are filed, court dates will follow. The sooner we start treating this like a regular criminal prosecution the better. These people aren’t celebrities - not even Trump - they’re criminal defendants.
re: #262 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Bucatini: how do they drill a hole through each of those spaghetti strands ??
Why? That “hole” isn’t big enough to get sauce into it. What’s the point? (Honestly curious.)
Another birbie. 3 in a row means I broke my 4.
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re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why? That “hole” isn’t big enough to get sauce into it. What’s the point? (Honestly curious.)
Greetings from Newfoundland! Word is, the hole does let the sauce permeate it. (I’ve never had it.)
re: #279 Belafon
In the replies:
Wasn’t aware of this history until today: pic.twitter.com/uGVdhF9N4r
— Yambag Yahtzee (@SauronsBrownEye) August 27, 2023
re: #285 wrenchwench
Birdie as well.
1:28 on the mini Xword
Aced connections
re: #272 Belafon
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I don’t know why this trick works so well for conservatives, but they just love, love, LOVE these child preachers and pundits. I can’t think of a kid on the Left like this, save Greta Thunberg, who I think is probably sincere. Pearson, however, is just a guy who found a grift. There was a white kid who spoke at CPAC who grew a little older and completely denounced the right.
re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why? That “hole” isn’t big enough to get sauce into it. What’s the point? (Honestly curious.)
I wonder about that, myself. I grabbed a package by mistake. Not a fan.
re: #291 jeffreyw
I wonder about that, myself. I grabbed a package by mistake. Not a fan.
Capillary action - Bucatini is great with a red sauce. I actually prefer it to long spaghetti.
re: #284 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Why? That “hole” isn’t big enough to get sauce into it. What’s the point? (Honestly curious.)
Best guess, based on both physics and experience with materials, is the hole makes the noodle stiffer.
re: #290 wrenchwench
It looks like it’s been tread on.
Meh
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re: #85 darthstar
Not entirely true but funny all the same.
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re: #87 Targetpractice
More accurate would be “You need a masters degree in computer programming and five years experience working with a computer program that’s only existed for 2 years to get a job working in a mail room.”
You could always study Cobol. You’ll have a job instantly
re: #300 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
In the meantime, clueless repugs like Ramaswamy keep throwing gasoline on the fire by demanding that the voting age be raised to 25. I encourage them to continue.
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re: #297 William Lewis
First thought: “What the hell does he have that’s chambered in 17mm?”
I do like the color shots, and Tokina made good glass.
Russian air defense bagged Prigozhin but hostile drones continue to roam around at will above Moscow.
Moscow Airports Suspend Flights Following Latest Reported Drone Strike
re: #3 Charles Johnson
This whole GOP slate is more insane than I’ve ever seen and that’s sayin’ something.
New record for a late reply? Anyway, good morning to all from sunny SoCal. I see why the slate is so bad. It’s because the GOP is where fascists/would-be fascists went to try and be in charge of us all. Sadly, it is working way too well.
re: #297 William Lewis
Posted a few pictures from this morning on a new page:
Take a peak.
Love the barn. Left a small question for you there.
re: #306 Hecuba’s daughter
A week ago, when we were breaking temp records around 108-109 here in DFW, it was 4 degrees warmer in Des Moines. The heat dome goes where it wants to.
Hatchlings!
They’re hideable (upper left corner). I don’t know if they’ll hide themselves.
Click anywhere to unhide all.
re: #304 Decatur Deb
First thought: “What the hell does he have that’s chambered in 17mm?”
I do like the color shots, and Tokina made good glass.
I have an Anschutz in .17H2. Practically new.
For your weekend viewing pleasure, today’s film (and arachnophobes beware) is a 1977 made-for-TV film, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo. Starring Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters, Matthew Laborteaux and Pat Hingle. Directed by Stuart Hagmann. Original broadcast date was 28 December, 1977 on CBS.
This flick was nominated for a couple of Emmy Awards - Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Special and Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Mixing.
Also…pretty funky theme music composed by Mundell Lowe.
Chuck Todd to Vivek Ramaswamy: “Your argument comes across as blaming those that are trying to create equality for the rise in racism” pic.twitter.com/zla9JUMriW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 27, 2023
re: #310 jeffreyw
I have an Anschutz in .17H2. Practically new.
I was looking for something like .67. That’s getting into elephant guns.
re: #289 Unabogie
I don’t know why this trick works so well for conservatives, but they just love, love, LOVE these child preachers and pundits. I can’t think of a kid on the Left like this, save Greta Thunberg, who I think is probably sincere. Pearson, however, is just a guy who found a grift. There was a white kid who spoke at CPAC who grew a little older and completely denounced the right.
It’s a psychological coping mechanism to compensate for knowing they’ve lost future generations and minorities by finding and elevating rare exceptions. It’s the Principal Skinner “Am I out of touch, no it’s the children who are wrong” meme except it uses a handful of brainwashed child mercenaries as psychological counterweights for the ideological cantilever that conservatives stand on.
re: #316 darthstar
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re: #315 DodgerFan1988
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re: #301 Axolotl
I have made a good living with COBOL. I learned COBOL before I learned how to drive.
re: #324 Captain Magic
I have made a good living with COBOL. I learned COBOL before I learned how to drive.
*Looks at Captain Magic fingers*
You’re not kidding 👀
“His actions yesterday were not just a hate crime. They were a performance for all the world to see.” @JulietteKayyem on the horrifying message the Jacksonville shooter wanted to send: https://t.co/GVD1ZeBBnR
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 27, 2023
re: #166 austin_blue
I wasn’t born in Texas, I was born in Oceanside, California, when my Da was a Marine Air Liaison officer at Camp Pendleton. So when I went to college at Tulane, I went with a copy of my birth certificate and it went went into a safety deposit box which cost me $50 a year. It had some other stuff in it, but basically it was a birth certificate repository.
I used it to get my first passport in 1978, which I used to go on vacation with my college girlfriend after graduation in Venezuela and also smuggling $50,000 into the country and delivering it safely to her mom and her Columbian husband in Valencia, which was in the State of Carabobo.
Yes, it really means “stupid face”.
I see you’re familiar with Columbian banking laws and how $US were transferred in and out of Columbia.
Tropical Storm Idalia has formed in the Caribbean Sea.
Tropical Storm Idalia Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL102023
1015 AM CDT Sun Aug 27 2023…DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS TO A TROPICAL STORM…
Observations from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that
Tropical Depression Ten has strengthened into Tropical Storm Idalia.
The maximum winds are estimated to be 40 mph (65 km/h) with higher
gusts.SUMMARY OF 1015 AM CDT…1515 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…19.9N 85.8W
ABOUT 80 MI…135 KM ESE OF COZUMEL MEXICO
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…40 MPH…65 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…E OR 90 DEGREES AT 2 MPH…4 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…996 MB…29.41 INCHES
The National Hurricane Center has moved the track slightly right (south) toward the end of the period, with the centre of the track now coming out in South Carolina. Hurricane watches will likely be needed for western Florida from around Tampa to the centre of the Florida Panhandle.
nhc.noaa.gov (chart)
re: #268 Hecuba’s daughter
One issue that many had with Burnham is the sudden revelation that Spock was raised with an adopted human sister. It was widespread irritation about this change to established family background that irritated devotees of TOS.
Yes, but it detracted nothing from the backstory and added another layer.
And as someone pointed out, Spock would have kept any sister of his a secret to prevent Kirk from hitting on her…
re: #329 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s aimed at my mailbox.
Fox News hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy and Pete Hegseth expressed support for Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s plan to lay off 75% of the federal workforce.
Yeah…the MAGATS receiving Social Security and Medicare are gonna love it when Ramamlamadingdong contracts Social Security out to overseas companies.
Oh and Veterans will really love it when Ramalamadingdong fires all the staff and shuts down VA clinics and hospitals.
re: #198 silverdolphin
The old bathroom panic. I wonder how they feel about gender-neutral bathrooms? One of my favorite restaurants redid the male and female bathrooms into a set of 8 gender neutral rooms with locked doors and individual toilets and sinks. Much nicer than before too. A lot more privacy for everyone.
We need more of those type bathrooms around here. My wife lost her right leg about 7 years ago (childhood type 1 diabetes). About 2.5 months ago we lost the fight to keep her left leg. Since the operation to amputate her left leg her right stump has been so swollen that she cannot even get her old prosthetic on. And the left stump is not healed and shrunk enough to even measure for a prosthetic for that leg. So she really has no legs (even artificial) now. So I have to pick her up and move her wherever she needs to go (including the bathroom). If we are out anywhere and she has to go we need a family bathroom or a private one. I can’t go into the ladies room to help her, and I can’t take her into the men’s room. Can be a real pain in the ass.
re: #314 wrenchwench
I was in a covers band called The Dead Hedgehogs.
We mostly played middle of the road stuff.
and I suppose you all lived together and were flat mates
re: #119 Belafon
Yep:
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