Well, the Old Man is back from a week in Miami Beach and actually survived the experience. I don’t know which place I dislike more, Miami Beach, Atlanta or Las Vegas, so I’ll make that an “all of the above.” The exhibitors at the trade show I attended were probably 60% Israeli, the guy I was with is Israeli, so I spent hours listening to heated political discussions about the upcoming elections there, with the disputants flipping back and forth between Hebrew and English. All spoken rapidly and with, ummm, emphasis. They were all ex-IDF. It was exhausting. And it’s safe to say that there’s not much libertarian slant to their opinions, but I can say that they love Trump, they love Joe Arpaio, and they love to ask probing and personal questions (“So tell me what you think about abortion.” “Can we talk about deep dish and circumcision instead?”).
Birthdays today include decomplexifier Maimonides; the real Gomez, John Astin; Turkish delight Turhan Bey; and the very good but vastly overrated guitarist Eric Clapton.
The news awaits.
The Middle Eastern equivalent of, “Hey, y’all, watch this!”
This is just getting started. Holy fuck, we’re in for a lot of entertainment.
“Fuck you, cut spending” has not quite sunk in.
There are visuals you just don’t want.
And there really are some jobs Americans won’t do.
Sometimes, there actually IS good news in this world.
“See, you need the secret decoder ring.”
Some people really will fuck anything.
Say what you will about his idiot politics, this guy is a fucking genius.
And Old Guy Music is a classic with the masters. And really, who could ever combine brilliant composition with brilliant playing in a totally individual voice as well as Monk? No-one, that’s who.
Spring Break Woooo!
P.S. in case I’m sounding a little loopy, we’re in the airport on a layover to the Caribbean after an overnight redeye flight. Our son is complaining that he doesn’t like the airline club food and wife is complaining about waiting for the bar to open for Bloody Mary’s. Woohoo spring break.
My family was bitchy this morning as well.
Therefore, I am at Lowe’s.
I’ve never met your wife, but she sounds pretty cool.
I have a 5 day weekend starting today. I like the Bloody Mary’s idea:). Need to get some stuff done first.
I think we all knew George was an asshole.
Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.
+1 ADA
+1 Gun Control
GHWB proved that you can never give them enough. His was the original assault weapons ban – done by executive fiat – and all it did was fueled their taste for more.
Sigh… woke up to a flat tire. May I go back to bed?
Even better, buy some of that fabulous Michelin aerosol flat tire repair. Buy two. Maybe 3. Shit, buy all you can find, then demand more.
It will also make your penis larger.
Anything Anderson is an ass.
“Smollett is nominated for the 2019 NAACP Image Awards, scheduled for Saturday. Six-time host and “Black-ish” star Anthony Anderson told Variety on Wednesday that he hopes to see the controversial actor there.
“I hope he wins,” Anderson added. “I’m happy for him that the system worked for him in his favor because the system isn’t always fair, especially for people of color. So I’m glad it worked out for him.” “
Anthony… I hate typing on phones
For someone who built his career out of Law & Order, he’s not really in a position to complain about the justice system fucking over people (which happens despite the color of their skin).
He was only in one episode, ironically enough of SVU? I’d say he’s not in a position to complain about the justice system as he’s had 4 separate accusations of rape/sexual assault leveled against him and walked every time.
An act of self-sabotage of almost Palestininan proportions. What the hell is wrong with them?
Black* advocacy orgs are built for exactly this kind of person. They’d be falling down on the job if they didn’t throw their support behind a wealthy, famous, obviously malignant black guy.
You can insert any intersectional identity here.
Fuckn phone
Good morning glibs.
Guten Morgen!
Yo.
Is that original artwork or just found somewhere else?
Arte trouvee.
Thankfully no IRS penalty for me this year, despite owing over $2500. Fuck the IRS for penalizing owing any significant amount of money.
It was for some trivial amount 3$ or so but I made some overpayment so they credited me and I didn’t count the credit correctly so they fined me, essentially because I gave them 46$ too much. They should really just round everything to the closest hundred why waste the paper and time over 3$?
The IRS kept sending me a check for over 5 years. I never cashed it. I just enjoyed the idea that the IRS was trying to send me money.
I recently got a letter from the state dept of administrative services saying that last year I underpaid (i.e. they underwithheld) my health insurance premium by…wait for it…5 cents. For the whole year. They were going to recover it through payroll deduction. I seriously considered asking them to spread it out over five pay periods, but got distracted and decided not to spend any more time on it.
On the plus side, our admin asst started an office Go Fund Me to finance my repayment, and I ended up collecting *twelve* cents, so fuck you, Admin Services!
re: creepy Uncle Joe. I wonder how many women coming forward it will take before he “decides against running for president due to family considerations” or some such bullshit excuse.
Wait till the stories start to come out about the stuff he tried to pull in the back seat of his Trans Am. The one with the bumper sticker saying “Ass, Grass or Gas, nobody rides for free.”
Here’s the forward to his autobiography:
Nobody Rides For Free https://youtu.be/ViacJVSfKJM
I am disappoint.
That song blows. I stand by my choice.
If he runs, WHAT WILL PEOPLE TELL THEIR DAUGHTERS!?
To this day, the urge to punch something – anything – hearing that ridiculously stupid phrase.
From the Buttigieg article:
‘He’s also hard to pin down politically. He wants to abolish the Electoral College and is even open to the idea of packing the Supreme Court. He’s a supporter of Medicare for All, though not for abolishing private insurance. An advocate of “democratic capitalism”’
It really isn’t that hard.
Some ‘genius’.
Yawn.
Genius ain’t what it used to be, eh?
That’s got to be a typo.
That is how you gaslight.
“The Washington Post wrote that Fitzgerald ‘has served president-elect George Bush in a variety of positions’.”
Oh, the little rascals at TDM.
Va-va-va-Voom!
A border agent that was an illegal alien?
America lost the plot. Build the damn wall already and reform immigration once and for all.
Fricken babies.
Nope. The elite will continue to circumvent the supreme law of the land in their quest for cheap labor and convenient voters. All the while claiming every opponent to their Plantation tactics is a racist or fascist or white supremacist. In the end, I think they’ll win and face zero repercussions for their actions and tactics. The amount of illegals living and breeding in the USA will outweigh any actions of their opposition.
Well then you have no dignity or regard for the sanctity of your own borders.
Weak and disgraceful if you ask me.
It would be great, though, from now on to say to my lefty friends advocating against the wall “you just want these people for your cheap under the table plantation labor, you racist” and see what happens.
He didn’t say they shouldn’t face repercussions or be stopped, just that they wouldn’t.
They should, but they probably won’t. The elite set the punishments for behaviors, and there’s no incentive for them to punish their own behaviors. Consequences are for the plebes.
Of course, reality itself will ultimately punish them when the house of cards comes crashing down, but unfortunately it’ll hurt everyone else in the process. Must be our collective punishment for our failure to do anything about a small group of people crashing the train.
The Smollett thing should slap people right in the face about two-tier justice regardless of race or color.
Like when Bugs Bunny (HM’s favorite) puts a brick in his glove.
Fuck Bugs Bunny.
I have the feeling you and I are probably on the same side of this issue. I just think we’ve already lost. Everyone wants to keep talking about it, meanwhile the other side keeps winning quite literally in droves.
This is just my outsider perspective. Seems to me, despite all the yapping, America is waving the white flag. I see weakness and cynicism. I could be wrong. Trump gives the impression he wants to do something. It may be theater or sincere but it amazes me how much energy is needlessly expunged on this. Just build the wall already.
I can’t digest Reason’s position on the matter. I think they’re being unrealistic.
He’s also hard to pin down politically.
Sure he is.
“It’s all about me. Me me meeeee.”
Dumbo?
They should do a stand alone movie of Slow Poke Rodriquez and Speedy Gonzalez. Because Trump and racism and political correctness. Just to piss all kinds of people off.
Yikes. I have the worst Best Score in the bracket :/
Can you do me a favor and drop the link for that here? (If you are talking about Don’s Glib bracket) I didn’t bookmark it.
http://glib.mayhem.cbssports.com/
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Yeh, what does that figure mean exactly?
I don’t quite grasp the calculation of all this.
IANAL, but it means the best score you can possibly end up with given the current situation.
The most likely explanation is that this definition was central to Mueller’s conclusion that he could not establish “coordination,” and thus it was necessary to put that conclusion in context. Had Barr not clarified that “coordination” meant “agreement,” the public might assume that coordination meant something less formal, like cooperation or interaction, and infer that Mueller found no new evidence of such conduct. Which means if Mueller did find such evidence and it became public, Barr’s letter could be deemed misleading. By including the footnote, Barr gave himself cover by clarifying that Mueller did not clear Trump of coordination in the everyday sense of the word but in a more legalistic sense that requires some form of “agreement.”
This suggests that there may have been enough evidence implicating Trump to make this distinction material—material enough for Barr to include it in his otherwise perfunctory letter. And this in turn suggests that Mueller’s findings regarding collusion might not be the “total exoneration” for Trump that he has claimed. Mueller’s inability to establish Russian coordination could have equally stemmed from his legal concerns about proving an “agreement” than from a genuine lack of evidence of collusive behavior on the part of the Trump campaign. That would certainly explain why Barr felt inclined to preview the issue in the letter’s sole substantive footnote.
Like a dog chasing its tail. Someday you’ll catch that thing, Sparky.
An idea which occurred to me:
Trump should have told the Special Olympics kids, “I’d like to be able to afford to help you out, but we spent that money on Mueller’s fishing expedition. Get it from him.”
Mueller Apologetics
That Slate article strikes me as filing under ‘Stretching Things’.
“Until Barr releases more details from the report, it will be impossible to know just how close Mueller came to establishing an agreement under this test. Mueller might have uncovered little new evidence of coordination and never seriously considered bringing charges. But he also could have uncovered significantly more evidence and still determined it was insufficient to establish an agreement. Given Thursday’s reporting from the New York Times that Mueller’s report exceeds 300 pages, it seems at least plausible that Mueller discovered important evidence the public is yet to learn.”
Look for those subliminal messages!
The comments aren’t as unhinged as you’d expect from progs but they still believe too many aspects of this crap that simply were not true or political poison for partisanship.
I have no doubt that once the Democrats and the press gets a hold of the report, after careful consideration of the facts listed in the report, will find that Trump not only colluded with the Russians but obstructed justice as well.
Wait. Did Captain Ahab get Moby Dick?
Welcome to this week’s instalment in alternative narrative endings. The show that lets you rewrite it all!
In the 1930 movie, he did.
I also believe it will happen as NOE writes, and it is the reason behind all the “entire report must be released” voices. They will find some oddly phrased line somewhere in the 400 pages,
and the TV pundits will pound this relentlessly until the national understanding of the report will be that it showed Trump was guilty of both collusion and obstruction, but got off because of (pick your prediction) either a technicality or crooked Republicans protected him.
I was just on a physician website a few minutes ago and one doc was linking a story about the “dangerous rise in neo-nazis in America” (all 50 of them) and another doc responded, “what do you expect, when after Charlottesville the President said “some Nazis are good people”.
I thought about posting to clarify but I know better, even as jet lagged as I am right now. Try to point out the truth about such things will invariably make people think you are a white supremacist or Nazi sympathizer, and I need my job.
Re Brexit. As far as I can tell, the losing side is saying dumb Brits were fooled into voting for ‘Leave’ thus fooling themselves into thinking they have a ‘duty’ (or moral right) to prevent its fulfillment.
This ‘tampering with the elections’ stuff is becoming a bit of a convenient excuse at this point. Wouldn’t surprise me if this is used in our elations in the fall later this year.
Nonetheless, the point is it’s wiser and safer, for the sake and sanctity of a democracy in the long run, to accept the legal result of a democratic referendum rather than deny it.
Undermining a democratic vote is a baaaaad idea.
Theresa May and the other sabatuers should be locked in the Tower of London so they can do a no deal Brexit and get it over with.
Couldn’t they have just stopped paying EU union dues and then gone on about their business?? Why all the “negotiations “??
Apart from all the BS from the anti-Brexit people, etc., etc., the biggest concern was that even most pro-Brexit people wanted some kind of favorable trade deal with the EU. They were worried that, without that, Britain would lose enough trade that it would have a big effect on their economy. Again, some of the people publicly worrying about this were just saboteurs, but there was genuine concern. And, then, the Irish border question is/was a big issue for historical/cultural reasons.
I find it rich that the biggest skeptics of the ECC and later the EU (France under De Gaulle not wanting them in didn’t help) who had no interests whatsoever in joining the Euro are acting like they somehow can’t live without the EU or that they’re somehow integrated into it like the continental ‘Big Three’.
I’m still trying to figure out why (even if every part of the Russiagate story were true) putting out factual information that exposes a candidate’s wrongdoing is “interfering with an election”.
If anything, I’d say that blocking out information from non-MSM sources is interfering. A democracy cannot function if a cartel of ass-kissing media empires control all the information that the public receives.
There may have (hell, probably was) astroturfing and shit like that on Facebook and all, but they don’t seem as concerned about that. They shouldn’t be, because it’s a private platform, but regardless, that would be where the suspect or “fake news” was happening. The DNC shit was real. Those were the actual emails being sent around that proved the primary was rigged. But Rachel Maddow doesn’t cry about that.
Yeah, it’s been bizarre for me to hear some of the smart (and I mean that sincerely) people I work with make statements about this. Someone the other day wondered aloud to me how the British government could keep citing the “will of the people” on the Brexit vote when it’s well documented that the Russians interfered with the vote.
And, a year or so back, I watched one academic explain to several other academics the sad truth that a handful of FB ads had caused “us” to vote the wrong way in the presidential election. As another of my non-Koolaid drinking friends observed, “it doesn’t say much about your democracy if a few FB ads swung an election.”
Anything that affects the vote at all is interference. But we live in an era of abundant prosecutorial desecration, so its interference is only something to complain about when said interference goes against the desires of the speaker.
Its one more stop on the train of democracy. We’re almost to the destination where we can safely jump off.
“A democracy cannot function if a cartel of ass-kissing media empires control all the information that the public receives.”
That’s the point. The people were never supposed to be informed.
Nonetheless, the point is it’s wiser and safer, for the sake and sanctity of a democracy in the long run, to accept the legal result of a democratic referendum rather than deny it.
As I recall, Nixon had much greater reason to suspect foul play in the ’60 election than Hillary did in ’16, but he declined to make a fuss because it would be bad for the country.
Our new and improved political swamp creatures couldn’t give a fuck less about the country.
Tear gas is nasty. I accidentally ended up next to a column of yellow vests between Louvre and Point Neuf.
Today is finally yard work day (perfect combination of weather and time). May be “late” – but I’m only working on the grass, so I don’t really care. Did some raking and leaf blowing yesterday. Gonna go pick up some de-acidifying fertilizer for the back yard and shade fescue seed and then a couple jugs of that Thompson spot repair stuff. Will probably pick up a small aerator I can roll around too. Probably done by lunch with this small plot, but one and done for the year or so is good for me. (actually do need to pick up some clippers/trimmers, and do a little weed whacking on some of the busier bushes too).
Must be nice to be done with it for a while. Here in So Fla, yard work is a year-round thing. It’s just a question of more or less at any given time.
In the summer our grass will grow 6-7 inches a week.
Cutting grass is the most wasteful use of time. I fricken dread pulling that stupid thing out to cut lousy grass.
I’m gonna go get some crepes for breakfast. Then hit the butcher shop to stock up on quality meats. Get home around noon. Play guitar and sip bourbon. And see where the day takes me.
Sounds perfect. I’m gonna get out for walk with the dog, run a few errands and get a few racks of ribs going in the early afternoon.
Spawn heads back tomorrow so I gotta get my fix in today.
Have a good day, bro.
Good Day
Tranquil Day https://youtu.be/qTyQyWMYfGg
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Awesome billboard although I would check the fine print.
That time in the ‘40s a mental patient accidentally killed 47 other patients by putting sodium flouride into their dinner:
http://www.offbeatoregon.com/1211c-asylum-kitchen-mixup-killed-hundreds-with-scrambled-eggs.html
General Ripper was right.
Have some preposterous self-serving claptrap, to go with your toast and jam.
BuzzFeed explained its decision at the time by noting that “BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.” I explained why I disagreed the same day. First, I noted that it was unfair to Trump, or any public figure, to respond to allegations that might be entirely scurrilous, and which the reporters, by their own admission, had not verified. Moreover, it was an abdication of journalistic responsibility. I wrote:
“The reporter’s job is not to simply dump as much information as possible into the public domain, though that can at times be useful too, as some of WikiLeaks’ revelations have shown. It is to gather information, sift through it, and determine what is true and what is not. The point of a professional journalist corps is to have people whose job it is to do that work on behalf of society, and who can cultivate sources and expertise to help them adjudicate it. A pluralistic press corps is necessary to avoid monolithic thinking among reporters, but transparent transmission of misinformation is no more helpful or clarifying than no information at all.”
This David Graham guy has severe (potentially fatal) case of TDS. He’s pissed because Buzzfeed pulled back the curtain by publishing the Steele Dossier, which exposed the “press” as the venal Deep State sycophants they truly are.
But it’s all Buzzfeed’s fault:
Of course, we don’t know what else the public will learn about the Mueller probe when the report itself is released, or from other investigations. But the consequences of the shifted goalposts are already in effect. In the aftermath of the Barr summary, the White House has signaled that it will ratchet up its demonization of the press, if that’s even possible. Much of the press coverage of the administration has been solid, and to hear the Trump White House howl about distortion of facts is to hear howls of hypocrisy. But BuzzFeed, and others afterward, published a dossier of unverified, damaging allegations about the president—making it hard to claim that the press is not willing to publish unverified but damaging allegations about the president.
“Much of the press coverage has been solid.” If you consider wounded screeching and inchoate rage to be what constitutes solid reporting, I suppose.
This is my shocked face.
It was while he worked at the loan
Liason office so…
I love being a regular at a restaurant. My friends and I meet at a breakfast spot every Saturday at 10. When any one of us arrives there is coffee and iced tea for me waiting for or arriving within seconds.
We tip very well because it’s breakfast (cheap) and they give us special treatment. We are vulgar and abit loud, so we are isolated to the area near the bar/toilets. We have never been told to pipe down or keep it civil as we self police.
There’s a bar we all used to go to in our rowdier days in town, but stopped about ten years ago. Now I go maybe once or twice a year, but without saying a word, once I sit down there’s a Natty Boh draft in front of me. The place has declined in recent years, but stuff like that makes me think of it fondly.
Here comes a regular.
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Dingy Bars Suck https://youtu.be/pgFUtNSDm9s
Re: Denisovans. Probably aren’t as mysterious as the article implies. We know that H. erectus spread into Eurasia early on, getting as far as Indonesia and eastern China. It’s likely the Denisovans are remnant populations from those migrations that were isolated and began either allopatric or (more likely) peripatric speciation. That accounts for the diversity between separated populations and from the Neandertal.
In other news, I suddenly wish I had a spare fifteen grand sitting around.
Are the Aboriginals in Australia Devonians? I remember reading that they have almost no Neanderthal DNA.
Aboriginals are H. sapiens, just like us. I don’t know about Denisovan DNA, but I do know that sub-Saharan Africans have essentially no Neandertal DNA.
So your saying that they are Superior to the mixed races?
Probably not, the mixed DNA would have been weeded out if out was detrimental. I’ve heard some good arguments for it being helpful to the new h.sapiens populations as the previous hominids had already adjusted to the differing climate. E.g. the gene that helps people in the area of Tibet withstand high altitudes.
In other news, I suddenly wish I had a spare fifteen grand sitting around.
Me too!
Have you checked your couch yet?
I found a dime, a peppermint candy wrapper and the damn Roku remote that’s been missing for three weeks.
But we live in an era of abundant prosecutorial desecration
You can say that again.
Then we might as well eliminate State boundaries.
THERESA: Do you believe that there should be some type of reform to the Electoral College, or should it remain as it is?
BOOKER: Theresa, thank you for the question. I believe very simply that in presidential elections, the person with the most votes should be the president of the United States. But I want to tell you, for us ever to get to a point where we can address that issue, we have got to win this next election under the rules that are there now.
The movement for the abolition of the Electoral College is not a new one, but it has been gaining steam ever since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election (Trump won the electoral vote 304 to 227, while Clinton won the popular vote 65.7 million to 62.9 million).
As the movement to abolish the Electoral College has developed, many high-profile Democratic politicians have begun to publicly support the cause.
The National Popular Vote (NPV) compact is an effort to circumvent the Constitution by having states enact legislation that “would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.”
Some states do not want the votes of their citizens to count.
I’m sure it violates a few clauses of the Constitution. In particular the fact that you are allowing other residents to use the states votes and the compact clause.
I’m sure it violates a few clauses of the Constitution.
As if it would matter to scotus. I am not optimistic.
Jason Stapleton made this observation on his most recent show: if a state which has signed up to the NPV, and 60% vote for Candidate A but Candidate B wins the national popular vote, then the middle finger is extended to that 60% of the state’s residents.
Exactly.
They designed this system so that you wouldn’t have major population centers lording over the rest of the country by sheer numbers.
Hey Lefties, if the federal government had stayed within its Constitutional limits, the voting patterns of those “hicks in flyover country” wouldn’t affect you so much. But you wanted it this way, so shut the fuck up.
Democrats support a change that would make rigging elections easier. Shocking.
That’s some scary shit.
Try it, fuckers. Let’s find out who wants what.
Yeah, I don’t think a Constitutional Convention would work out how they want. Maybe they’ll get a strenghthened 2nd Amendment and and a constitutional end to abortion instead. The media creates a pretend bubble around democrats so they think everyone agrees with them about everything.
I don’t get how they plan to change it within the rules the Constitution lays out now. You’d have to amend it and while a few states might go ahead for politics, it would fail.
They don’t think that far ahead.
BOOKER: Theresa, thank you for the question. I believe very simply that in presidential elections, the person
with the most voteswho wins in New York should be the president of the United States.FIFY
New York and California.
New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago aka The Axis of Evil.
“BOOKER: Theresa, thank you for the question. I believe very simply that in presidential elections,” Democrats should win, and whatever rules are in place at the time that prevent that from happening should be changed.
Exactly. Why not just make a law that your EC votes go to the Dem no matter what? Just as blatant and has the advantage of actually being honest.
My kind of car.
Cool.
How about these?
So they were very Jewy Jews.
Back in January I was in a meeting with three Israeli’s. Brutal. It was not contentious, but everyone was screaming and disagreeing and then agreeing and then making jokes and then getting upset. I wanted to kill myself. Plus there was a big dead cockroach near my foot and it was so gross.
Just thank your lucky stars you weren’t in a room with three old Jewish women.
I am a big fan of the 6 series BMW. Never owned one, though. Mine were ’70s cars. Three 2002s and a Bavaria.
Some states do not want the votes of their citizens to count.
Something something noble sacrifice for the greater good.
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PS: Archive works again!
At this point, I’m thinking that W. is probably the only President in recent history that wasn’t a massive poonhound. And that’s only because he used to be a poonhound then sobered up and found Jesus.
Every. single. thing. men do they do to get laid. Becoming President is the ultimate alpha move. If you’re not going to leverage that to get pussy, what’s the point?
I don’t know. There were an awful lot of ambitious and conniving eunuchs throughout history. Were they just compensating? Vengeful?
They were just channeling their inner female (since a eunuch essentially is a female); passive aggressive, devious, eager for power as a social tool.
a eunuch essentially is a female
*backs slowly away from Q*
THICC.
What’s your theory on the gays?
A hole is a hole?
Butt pussy?
They make Jesus cry.
Just like (((us))).
(((Jesus))) was totally gay.
And Jewish, let’s not forget.
Wasn’t that (((implied)))?
They barely mention that George denied to the day he died and his supposed mistress still denies it. And there are no quotes at all from the Bush family. All the other quotes (except from the author) are anonymous. I’m not so sure this is strongly sourced.
And many (all?) of the “corroborating” quotes are; “they spent so much time together they had to be having an affair.” Not, I caught them in bed together, or one of them admitted it, or even that anyone as much as saw them holding hands. Just, “they must have been!”
Is Reagan recent history? He is to me, BYMMV.
Wait, Obama certainly is. Is there reports of him poon-hounding?
+ 1 Reggie Love
*quick internet serch*
Huh. I don’t remember hearing any of this. So, Obama is on the down-low?
There are also theories about him experimenting in college.
If you’re choosing your romantic partners based on the opinion of the Woke Squad, you are weak, pathetic and stupid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/style/modern-love-race-i-broke-up-with-her-because-shes-white.html
Grow a pair and learn to say “fuck off it’s none of your business”.
The irony of courting the approval of the Tolerance Police by doing the most racist shit you can think of never ceases to amuse.
Evidently the only way they know how to fight racism and sexism is by being racist and sexist.
I think you have to take a step back here and look at this in more of a general sense. The domination of institutions has given the left powerful control over what is or isn’t socially acceptable. That was the entire point of taking over them in the first place.
As I said yesterday when this was posted, progressive politics is largely driven by a herd mentality at this stage. Far more so than envy or greed.
Is herd mentality and cult mentality basically the same thing? They act like cultist but with cults the leaders are very obvious meglomaniacs. Seems like humanities professors and K-12 teachers coordinate a lot of this from behind the scenes although I admit that I’m not knowledgeable about the power structure of the identity movement. Almost seems like a (((secret nafarious cabal))) is in charge.
I posted that last night. My comment was that he should dump her because she’s stupid enough to date him, not because she’s white.
“Some people really will fuck anything.”
What are you supposed to do when they present like that? The original twerkers.
“Hey, y’all, watch this!”
Well he can look forward to his 6 kids repeating his mistake.
I have nothing against shameless cash grabs, but it bothers me that know one is calling Disney out for this racket. Dumbo actually has some human actors in it, I suppose, to go along with the worst CGI elephant possible. But the fucking Lion King? Not a single human in the entire god damn thing. It’s a bunch of CGI animals running around. That isn’t live action.
Where’s the government when you need it? If they can define what mayonnaise is or isn’t they need to put a stop to this fraud.
Does Dumbo identify as a mouse?
Eh, the dustbin of history will judge it in time. At this point, post ~2005 is giving the 70’s a challenge for worst movies era.
Ditto for music.
Truth. The have been a few bright spots but music has been in a slump.
Sly Stone would like a word with you but he is good busy smoking crack in a van down by the LA River.
Have I ever told you people how much I fucking despise Avatar? Because I fucking hate Avatar. It’s a movie solely about the visuals that you forget thirty seconds after leaving the theater. The plot is a cheap fucking rip off of Ferngully with a fraction of the character depth.
Yea, all I ever heard was “omg the GRAPIHXXX R so gud!!!!!111”
JacksFilms (on YouTube) did a funny video where they went around asking people if they could name one character from Avatar. Most could not.
Avatar is a dumpster fire of horseshit. I couldn’t agree more with your analysis.
And those fucking blue things pretty much defined the uncanny valley.
Yeah, that’s what what I told my wife when we left the theater. So basically a 3D Fern Gully. It was tripe. The tail on the blue chick was a nice touch though.
Blue chick from Avatar.
Would.
The 70’s were the last great era of films I would say. You had some great mainstream stuff as well as some truly weird and wonderful movies being made that would never, ever be allowed today. Star Wars, Blues Brothers, Jaws, French Connection, Godfather, Animal House, and Dirty Harry to name some of the better known bigger movies. Then you had stuff like Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Sorceror, Blazing Saddles, and Pink Flamingos to name some of the outlandish.
There were some gems buried among the rubble, but look at the Best Picture winners. 1968 and beyond are sheer and utter crap until 1986. I’d back up the current crap period to when Return of the King won for Best Picture.
Whoa, got some good pictures in that run of Best Picture winners from 1968 to 1987.
Godfather 1 and 2
French Connection
Patton
Sting
Out of Africa
I don’t think the post-1986 group is that much of an improvement, if at all. And there were some good ones after Return of the King:
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country for Old Men
Now, starting in 2009, you have movies I either have not seen, or was utterly unimpressed with.
There are lemons in every era, but I repeat myself 68-85 were uniformly crap.
This!
What do you do when you think everything’s been done before? I don’t believe that but it makes fun if hipsters which I approve of.
https://sites.dwrl.utexas.edu/visualrhetoric/2016/05/06/the-irony-of-postmodernism/
Good to see people getting pissed off about this.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8750077/thousands-of-pro-brexit-protesters-shut-down-westminster-on-what-should-have-been-our-independence-day/
, we can take the £39 billion which is going to vanish to Brussels in a flash and we can invest it in the UK.
We can recreate the EU bureaucracy with British bureaucrats!
“Replace French brandy with Aussie brandy. Replace champagne with English sparkling wine.
And we’ll still be subservient to EU AOC rules!
I’ll be really impressed if they start building guillotines.
https://www.sott.net/image/s25/501099/full/7228964_0_image_a_7_1544432941.jpg
Nice:)
The pic of the dude drinking the Stella Artois was kinda ironic.
Are there any lawn care experts in Glibertania? I am having grass issues. Not the smoky kind of grass, but the fescue kind.
I seem to be an expert at growing weeds.
Where are ya and what’s the trouble?
I’m in the Nashville area, so borderline for fescue and Bermuda grass. Basically I can get the seeds to germinate in the fall, survive the winter, and even flourish some in the spring. By late May, I start to get some brown patches, and within a month or so I’ve lost nearly 100% of what I planted. I know my phosphorus levels are really high from a soil test (1600 ppm or whatever the units are). It’s a mix of sun and shade and the die off occurs whether it’s rainy or dry. I have the usual weeds and crabgrass, which despite treatment seem to come back every year. There is some moss as well, but otherwise it’s just dirt.
Cutworms?
Like grubs? I thought I had those but didn’t have the other symptoms that go along with them.
Yep. Neighbor had a grub problem that had the same symptoms.
I’d go scorched earth, treat, add dirt as needed and re-sod. Seeding never seems to work very well.
That’s what I can’t figure out. It looks like grubs but you can’t pull up the turf. Plus everything dies off, and not just patches. I’m stumped and frustrated. Maybe drinking will help…
A fellow Nash villain! If your neighbors aren’t taking care of their lawns, you’re screwed. Weed n Feed. Aerate and overseed. Hope for the best.
Howdy neighbor! Right now their lawns are better than mine and they don’t do anything.
I’ve found Vigoro to work better than Scotts here. But who knows?
If you’re interested, I’m doing a crawfish boil at my place on Easter Sunday. brethaas@gmail.com
Thanks for the invite. I’ll send you an email and if not for Easter, something else.
Two step method for solving any lawn problems:
(1) Liberal application of Round-Up.
(2) Spread 2″ of gravel over lawn.
You’re welcome.
Bonus: any weed problems you get through the gravel can be solved with a flamethrower.
Yes, walking barefoot in the gravel sounds idyllic.
It makes barefoot in the kitchen a more attractive option.
walking barefoot in the gravel sounds idyllic
I know, it does, but its actually not. Don’t do it.
Hey, you wanted your lawn problem solved. I tell how to solve it, with bonus flamethrowers, and all I get is grief.
Not mine. Mine is like a fucking golf course.
*looks outside*
Well, eventually.
“Two step method”
See this is why I want to get out of the suburbs so I can apply logical solutions like this.
I’ve been trying to get my lawn right since I moved in to my house. The last owner didn’t take care of it and the current neighbors don’t take care of theirs. So weeds creep across their lawns and on to mine. But I use the seasonal Scott fertilizers and it does ok.
Also you may want to reseed with a southern grass blend.
The United States of bacon is an actual tv show.
God bless America. ?
Interesting take on one of the questions about the Mueller investigation: when did Mueller know Russian collusion was all bullshit:
There is a reason why special counsel are supposed to have very narrow, specific charters – to investigate only named crimes for which there is some degree of probably cause. Mueller’s appointment was fatally flawed on two counts: there was no named crime (“collusion” is not a crime), and it contained an open ended provision to investigate anything else that took his fancy.
The entire operation, since at least September 2017, was a prolonged perjury/obstruction trap, an effort to get as many people on the hook as possible for pure “process” crimes after it was undeniable there was no basis to investigate anything to do with Russia.
One of the odd things is that some of Mueller’s decisions were the right ones – getting rid of some of the bad apples, not allowing the Steele dossier to be used in FISA applications, maybe a few others. Given that these happened in the context of other, bad decisions (using Carter Page as a pretext for warrants, making bullshit PR charges against Russians, hounding misc. Trump associates for things having nothing to do with Russia, etc.), I can only think he was trying to get rid of his biggest weaknesses in hopes of salvaging something to bring Trump down.
Helps to put the damn link in.
Democrats’ anti-Semitism continues apace.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/activist-who-said-jews-are-driving-wars-plans-senate-run/
Holy shit – Valerie Plame? There’s a blast from the past.
Running in NM, which manages to combine extreme poverty and a corrupt Democrat machine. On a purely tactical level, I like her chances.
I’m sure my uber-Prog (((sister))) will vote for her, but it will be interesting to see what kind of logical pretzels she ties herself into to justify it.
“Fuck Bush the Lesser”
Straff always stops for a beer (or two) before getting on the subway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmybeer/comments/b5l4s7/hmb_literally/
For month after month, the president was forced to govern under a cloud of suspicion.
Why?
It’s a mystery.