Unlike most of you assholes, I didn’t get a 4 day weekend and I am resentful. So no entertaining anecdotes, personal stories, dirty jokes, or trenchant observations. Just links.
And birthdays, of course. Like the artist with the best mustache; a guy who was one of my great inspirations (“That’s it, Buffy, pretend it’s candy!”); one of the most evil humans in my lifetime, who I hope is roasting in hell; a terrifically talented drummer; and my favorite model for garden gnomes.
The quakes, they keep on comin’.
This is at once concerning and hilarious.
Old Guy Music features birthday boy Louie Bellson blasting his way through a standard, and not only keeping up with Oscar Peterson, but maybe driving him a wee bit…
They should change it to Chicken Head Rd.
Chicken and Veal Dinner with Baby Seal Fritters Rd
That should be a song as well
So, Chicken, Alaska is on the chopping block then
Winner! Winner! Rd.
She looka lika mon.
The way the industry treats chickens is inhumane, she said, because they are “confined to crowded, filthy sheds with tens of thousands of other birds, where disease, smothering, and heart attacks are common
AOC photo op?
Easy enough – just find a parking lot with a chain link fence.
Marathoner Frank Meza found dead in river after being disqualified for cheating
Disqualified for taking a shortcut?
They never find them alive in a river.
That’s cause no one ever checks cause they don’t want to get wet. They just call 911 and wait a half hour for the cops who then call someone else to pull them out 4 hours later.
I guess he couldn’t cheat death.
Yyyyyyyeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!
*reads article*
Huh. Well, a pattern has been established.
He had some hot details on Hillary.
Ethonal subsidies?
What is OMWC’s opinion of Nazimova?
Or Jane Wyman?
At least she kept her mouth shut.
She was good in Escape (the Piña Colada Movie).
Hot.
whaddup
Two things.
1. Caillou needs to be banned. I swear that show taught my son to how to fear things he had no idea he needed to fear. “What’s this stuff about monsters under the bed?” Send him back to Canada!
2. The HOA and the Virgin Mary. Good friend of mine at work who is Italian called some those statues of Mary – “Mary on the half shell” – which I’d never heard and thought was awesome. They may be an east coast -metro NYC thing. Aka “Bathtub Madonna”.
You know who else wanted to ban something?
Nancy Reagan?
Every single politician?
The deodorant division of KAO Corp. ?
All Statists and nannies.
Re: Virgin Mary statues in the front yard, It’s interesting now many things NY Eye-ties and TX Mexicans have in common.
It wasn’t until I moved here that I met a white guy named Salvatore.
We have tub Blessed Virgins in west Michigan too.
Here in Cleveland as well. More in the Eastern European neighborhoods then the Irish ones.
Yup. Neighbor has on here too.
Also a giant creche at Christmas. Never occurred to me to be offended by it…
They are also sprinkled around the frozen plains of North Dakota.
My wife and I absolutely loathed Caillou. Whiny little shit on a horrible show. I’m against all forms of censorship, but Caillou really tests my principles.
I’ve seen the Bathtub Mary statues in a few Boston suburbs. I’ve never seen them until I moved to New England.
Next LP candidate?
Only total destruction can save California.
Speaking of Islamaphobia. Where is Tlaib and Omar to denounce this guy?
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/07/05/son-hamas-founder-racist-terror-organization-know/
Look man, if it weren’t (((those))) aggressors, they wouldn’t be driven to make their organization.
Blergh, when can Tlaib and Omar get voted out of office?
weren’t for*
They were busy writing a really informative article about the Declaration of Independence and how much it sucked.
Just read that Salon drivel.
Barf.
T shirt ? for OMWC?
https://www.shirtpunch.com/awws
Upskirt.
*snicker*
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-toy-story-2-blooper-removed-disney-john-lasseter-20190703-story.html
Seems pretty inappropriate for a kids movie. Now if it was Toy Story: Vibrator Marathon then….
I always imagine Laura Ingalls in the loft of that little house on the prairie listening to the bumping and grinding from Charles and Caroline that produced Laura’s younger siblings.
Of course you did Ted. Lol.
Well, the idea that kids were somehow shielded from the idea that anybody ever had sex back in those days is, I think, off base.
By the same token, I remember hearing a report on Radio Poland’s English service some years back about environmentalist types being pissed about a law that would make it easier for children to go hunting with their parents. Apparently these idiots didn’t think about kids on farms in the old days having to deal with animals getting slaughtered and whatnot, because going hunting and seeing dead animals was somehow going to traumatize today’s kiddies.
First I heard that it was first inappropriate. Toy Story 2 wasn’t seen as being rather raunchy way back when.
Which letter in B-B-Q don’t you understand? And when someone considers you light work that his girlfriend can handle maybe you should turn in your man card.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/07/05/dnc-communications-guy-harasses-tourist-wearing-maga-hat-nazi-gets-ratioed/
Are you telling me that this guy is an asshole? I just can’t believe it.
The assault finger points, man. THE ASSAULT FINGER POINTS.
“Just got thrown out of Hill Country DC for standing up to a Nazi. Don’t go there ever again. They support Trump and Nazis,” Helmstetter wrote. Asked for additional details by the Post’s Dave Weigel, he added, “Guy wears MAGA hat at my favorite restaurant. I say ‘hey are you from dc?’ He says ‘no.’ I say ‘we don’t tolerate racism in this city.’ His girlfriend then physically jabs fingers into my chest and starts threatening me. Management tells me to leave, not woman who assaulted me.”
Helmstetter is delusional, but I’m stating the obvious.
I’m wondering what should the hospital have done? Police bring in a guy who’s battered beyond recognition and hook him up to life support. Cops assume he’s a criminal and identify him using mugshots. I think taking a DNA sample in this case would have been illegal, and they said fingerprints are useless if the guy’s not a criminal (although if you use fingerprints and don’t find a match you at least know not to try to ID him from your collection of mug shots.)
Throw the cops out and when they don’t leave, shoot them in self-defense?
The hospital is just an ATM for these two families to grift on. They’ll get their payoff, blow it on stupid shit, and that’ll be that.
RI’m confused about the part where the requested family could not identify, and the hospital went with it.
R.C Dean and other hospital types?
Odd, but he had serious facial injuries, was intubated, and just being near death changes your appearance and color.
Plus, if the other dude’s family was prone to drama/hysterics, that doesn’t help, either.
Yeah. I think the family that killed him are insane to try to cash in on it too.
911 what’s your emergency? This is Starbucks, we just got robbed! Click.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/starbucks-shop-boots-police-officers-because-customer-did-not-feel-safe-reports
But they won’t think about why people don’t feel safe around cops
Nope, they’ll just retreat even deeper into their us vs them mentality.
“Some police officers in Tempe, Ariz., say they were asked to leave a Starbucks coffee shop on the Fourth of July because a customer complained they “did not feel safe” with the cops present, according to reports.
Five officers were drinking coffee at the Starbucks location prior to their shift beginning when a barista asked them to move out of the complaining customer’s line of sight or else leave, the Tempe Officers Association wrote in a series of Twitter messages.
Neither the barista nor the customer who allegedly complained were identified. Starbucks would not say whether the barista would be disciplined in connection with the case.”
Something is missing from this story.
The cops were wearing MAGA hats?
Or, more likely, combat gear more relevant to a special forces unit in Afghanistan.
We had a “unity in the community” festival a few years back, designed to promote common cause among various groups and races and the police. So the Sheriff’s office shows up in their black uniforms with bullet proof vests, combat gear vests, combat pocket-pants and all sorts of gear hanging off. Nice. That’ll show we are all on the same team.
Then they all hung out in groups of five or more, walling off any chance interactions and friendly moments.
Finally, they held a demonstration of their SWAT capabilities using their million-dollar mini-tank used for breaching buildings. The thing looks like someone armored a bobcat and put a big shield and platform on the arms where the bucket goes.
Talk about tone-deaf…..
The guys in the Sheriff’s dept around here like to hang out in their riot gear. It seems uncomfortable to me, but they’ll wear all of it while hanging out at McD’s for lunch.
Finally, they held a demonstration of their SWAT capabilities using their million-dollar mini-tank used for breaching buildings. The thing looks like someone armored a bobcat and put a big shield and platform on the arms where the bucket goes.
Even our peaceful small town cops have a killdozer they’ll never use.
*”peaceful” modifying small town, not cops
Tolerance & inclusivity training?
I was thinking that word doesn’t mean what it used to.
Divisiveness and Exclusion
The barista’s dog?
Cops who drink Starbucks must be overpaid?
You mean they’d hang up instead of coming to file a report and then do nothing?
Sigh… I hate cops. But I also hate people who go out of there way to harass others (hence my extreme displeasure with cops). I don’t find the cops a sympathetic target, but I find this practice of going molesting people anonymously to be disgusting.
Remember this is the same company that fired a manager for kicking out two non-paying stiffs for loitering.
Look, everyone has a right to feel safe. And everyone who agrees with them politically has a right to define what “safe” means.
I agree but with the caveat that if their or anybody’s continued patronage begins to negatively affect your profits by driving away your loyal customer base than tough titty for the cops or anyone else. Free association over public accommodation and all.
Something about this story doesn’t add up. The cops didn’t tase the barista for lack of deference to a cop?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/were-in-an-anti-liberal-moment-liberals-need-better-answers/2019/06/21/5f276b26-91f7-11e9-b72d-d56510fa753e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.79b8f49a225a
And what shall be the God of this new religion?
I’m putting that one up for Oxymoron of the Month.
good catch.
I don’t understand this obsession with “the gap between the rich and the poor”.
Lamenting the notion that the gap between rich and poor might be greater now than under feudalism is missing the forest for the trees. By their measure, if one dude had 50 trillion dollars (in today’s money) and everyone else had a lifestyle that afforded them every need and comfort they could imagine, it would be massively unfair and a complete failure. But a world in which everyone lives with equality in 700 square feet per person and subsists on a small government subsidy would be great.
“: It is a set of dilemmas about how to balance freedom and the common good,“
Really? Cause the solutions presented always end up trampling over freedom.
Modern leftists are about as connected to JSM as I am to a black American slave.
Quote “It also, many conservatives say today, promotes hedonism, nontraditional sexuality, abortion on demand and an unhealthy focus on self-expression.”
Um….is this guy for real? Isn’t that precisely what they promote?
There is no liberalism except in his own mind.
And if he thinks voting Democrat is a smart play, he’s a bigger fool than he thinks.
I’d also like to point out it’s interesting he pulls out classical liberalism when this is the very ideology the modern left is at war with. Dead whypippo slave holders and all that.
They pick and choose their arguments which makes it very hard to follow their thinking which really has degraded itself into sophistry.
“classical liberalism when this is the very ideology the modern left is at war with”
This. They denigrate them as now-liberals
Is Tlaib retweeting another Congresscritter claiming the Declaration was a ‘racist’ document in the tradition of John Stuart Mill?
OMWC, you continue to impress the Hell out of me. Family Affair was a childhood favorite of mine. Also, both Sebastian Cabot and Zero Mostel (maybe, perhaps, on a good day Dom DeLuise) are the only humans who could have successfully portrayed my hero and guiding star, Ignatitius Reilly.
I was always trying to figure out which episodes Buffy was on quaaludes.
I was likely too busy touching myself inappropriately whenever Kathy Garver was onscreen to notice.
You guys are weird.
Like Prince, but angrier
And less dead.
“Cheerleader accused of killing her newborn daughter, burning her and burying her in her parents’ backyard asks the court for THREE separate trials to deal with charges
Skylar’s defense attorneys have blasted prosecutors for ‘a false narrative’ that sensationalized the case.
They say the teen didn’t kill her baby, and that an expert witness concluded there was no sign of burning or of trauma that would have caused the baby’s death.
Authorities first learned of the baby from a doctor that Skylar had first visited a few weeks before she gave birth.
When she visited him again, Skylar said that the baby had been stillborn and she had buried it. The coroner’s office contacted police.
After police arrived at her home, Skylar told them that she had given birth to a baby girl – who she named Annabelle – around 3am on May 7, 2017.
She said her daughter never opened her eyes and Skylar cradled her for hours, hoping she would show any sign of life.
When none came, the teen buried her in a spot in the yard that she would be able to see from her bedroom window, digging the hole with a small garden spade.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7218091/Cheerleader-accused-killing-newborn-daughter-asks-court-THREE-separate-trials.html
“The former high school cheerleader, then 18-years-old, is accused of killing her newborn baby “Annabelle,” burning the remains in the family’s fire pit and then burying the remains in the backyard.”
https://www.fox19.com/2019/07/03/skylar-richardsons-attorneys-claim-prejudice-baby-death-trial-ask-separate-trials/
Sounds like the back story for a horror movie.
But the baby actually lived…..
And it goes around killing cheerleaders while they’re having sex.
Hawt.
Utopia! TW: TOS
https://reason.com/2019/07/05/venezuelan-government-uses-arbitrary-arrests-torture-and-death-squads-to-keep-order-u-n-finds/
When you’ve lost the UN…. Now do China.
It’s Maduro’s cop ‘stache that makes them as nervous as a Starbucks’ barista.
Off to load up some mags for the range. Have fun Glibbies.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/07/disney-deletes-a-scene-from-toy-story-2-in-a-post-metoo-edit.html
Interesting how the only constant value is of the benefits of censorship. How is that social tolerance going?
Interesting that they thing a joke about the casting couch is an endorsement.
A mural critical of George Washington from a communist perspective is now endorsing racism and slavery. These types have completely lost the plot.
Letters to the Local Rag: Like Every Other Showman Before Him?
Yes; that’s pretty much what every other candidate does at campaign rallies.
“always puts bleachers behind his podium with adoring stooges”
Like every other president?
“Do we need to flaunt our military power to the world?”
If it can serve as a deterrent. Besides, what the hell do you think airshows are for?
He doesn’t flaunt it right. A right thinking, good leader would just drone bomb countries that we aren’t at war with to teach them a lesson.
Letters to the Local Rag: Somebody Understands the Important Issues
Hush puppies. Ultimate stoner food? Discuss.
Red Lobster?
Too upscale
You could try to bring back Arthur Treachers.
We still have a couple down here. They partnered with Cassano’s pizza in some stores
https://www.cassanos.com/
“BEST GYROS”??!!! Arthur Treacher must be spinning in his grave!
I know… it should be kebabs, right?
There’s a franchise in Roosevelt Mall out in LawnGuy Land. I’ve been a couple times out of nostalgia but there are better chippy shops to be found. What i REALLY miss is Lum’s. Mmmm… hotdogs boiled in beer.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/05/donald-trump-dictator-not-enough-laugh
I guess every other president in my lifetime (including and especially the light ringer) is/was an evil wannabe mass-murderer of immigrants since they all spoke essentially the same as Trump on the issue while in office.
*inserts video footage of previous presidents’ statements including Obama and Clinton*
Nah, man, it’s only Agent Orange who’s doing this.
*raises finger* Um…
Uhm… I don’t think any of those things are the hallmarks of a dictatorship.
It is pretty easy to figure out who the dictator is. He’s the one who wields ultimate and sole power over the state, without consent of the governed.
Let’s turn to the dictionary:
dic·ta·tor
/ˈdikˌtādər/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
synonyms: autocrat, monocrat, absolute ruler; More
a person who behaves in an autocratic way.
(in ancient Rome) a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.
Yeah. Not actually those things listed at all.
Particularly galling when they cite his ” refusal to accept the results of the election.” You know who else didn’t accept electoral defeat ?
Letters to the Local Rag: Sounds Reasonable To Me
Unfortunately, we will never know who actually started the institution of slavery.
I see you never read that Orson Scott Card book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus
Don’t give them ideas, then they’ll just start demanding all reparations come from ((them)).
https://prospect.org/article/neoliberalism-political-success-economic-failure
Yes, abandoning Bretton Woods was the crowning achievement of libertarian economic theory.
I have yet to see anyone present a coherent explanation as to why income or wealth inequality in itself, is a Bad Thing.
Yeah. It only makes sense if you assume a fixed pie.
There is an utilitarian argument that goes: the marginal utility of a dollar in the hands of a poor person is way higher than in the hands of a rich person, so therefore money should be moved to where it generates the most utility. Of course, that assumes a dollar is worth just as much if you disincentive people who generate real wealth from creating real wealth to spend that dollar on.
“marginal utility of a dollar in the hands of a poor person is way higher than in the hands of a rich person, ”
I know you’re not espousing this, but Bob Murphy does a good job dismantling that. First of all it assumes you can compare preferences and utilities across people, which you can’t.
Oh, I in no way endorse that argument. Just saying that is the only (not retarded) argument I’ve heard from people who believe wealth inequality is bad per se.
“marginal utility of a dollar in the hands of a poor person is way higher than in the hands of a rich person, ” – assumes that the poor person will spend each dollar wisely because that dollar is so scarce to them. This disregards the fact that, in many cases, they are poor exactly because they spend most of their money on stuff that doesn’t help them. They spend more than they should on the worst food out there and blow through cash on frivolous trinkets. I have close relatives who have lived this way even though they had a solid breadwinner in the house. I grew up with friends who were poor and – in retrospect – can see why they were that way.
It doesn’t assume the poor will spend it wisely, it assumes they will spend it in a way that gives them utility. It assumes you can make comparisons across people and that the rich person gets, e.g. 2 utils and the poor person would get 4 utils. Therefore we should give it to the poor.
I’m not endorsing, just explaining that wisely isn’t part of the argument. Economists use efficiency. 1$ for 4 utils is more efficient than 1$ for 2 utils
I dunno. When the poor person runs out to the convenience store and buys a bag full of canned Pepsi, some Doritos, and some Wonder bread (at 50% more than the super market 5 blocks over) – without putting enough aside to pay the rent – can you really say they are getting more utils per monetary unit?
When I first got out of the military and started going to school I blew a chunk of my savings on a car because that was going to be needed and then I spent as little as possible on food for a while. 50 lb bag of pinto beans, 5 lb bag of flour, a couple pounds of hot dogs – and I could make Burritos for lunch/dinner for most of a month. We spent about $50 a month on food for the two of us until we saw where we could put more of the budget towards food. I was probably getting 20-30 utils per $1.
My sister and other people I knew always had sodas, beer, Doritos, VHS players, cable TV and other stuff I couldn’t afford. It didn’t take long to understand that they couldn’t afford those either – when I was asked to help them move out because they hadn’t paid the rent in months. They spent their money on stuff that had less utility to them (relatively high-priced, crappy food) which had less utility to them than on rent which proportionally had higher utility to them.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/07/cambridge-university-britain-slavery
Britain too is still stained by slavery…
It fails to occur to them that the state of the British economy and culture before slavery was introduced to the empire was far more advanced than the cultures they subjugated. Therefore, the “privilege” was a pre-existing condition that had little to do with slavery and everything to do with culture.
https://twitter.com/StopTrump2020/status/1147211040821776388
Stay classy, Democrats.
Those breasts. Noyce.
Apart from that, yeh, total degenerate hypocrisy.
First comment wins the thread.
I will just leave this here.
https://glibertarians.com/2019/07/saturday-morning-parents-warning-links/
Is that the link you meant to leave?
Apparently not. ugh.
https://imgur.com/oVHMdDZ
And just for fun
https://imgur.com/iEYBU1k
there is no higher honor than a crudly executed chainsaw stump carving
I’m partial to busts in brass myself.
Yikes.
That’s very weird.
What is she? The Elephant Man?
“The monument is set in the fields of Sevnica, the hometown of Mrs. Trump. As Breitbart News has chronicled, Slovenes have taken great pride in the small European nation’s most famous daughter and her journey from architecture student to fashion model to the wife of Donald Trump.”
They are called “Slovenes”?
Slovenese sounds better.
I thought it was “Slovenians”.
I seem to remember Slovak being used before.
Slovenia not Slovakia,
Slovenia ≠ Slovakia
AH, I knew that. I’ve even been to Slovakia – and I knew some people in grad school from Slovenia. For some reason I had mis-remembered that the first lady is from Slovakia…
Whatever they’re called it’s a picturesque village.
That looks like something that comes alive at the full moon and terrorizes rural villagers.
“BREAKING NEWS: Trump Might Make Porn With Mike Pence? ”
https://twitter.com/bot1926/status/1146918003147194368
Sources familiar with the President’s line of thinking have said…
Tunisia huh.
Huh.
That says a lot, no?
Will progs protest and ban Tunisia?
Hush puppies. Ultimate stoner food? Discuss.
I’m no stoner, but I could eat about a dozen of those Long John Silver hush puppies right now.
Even the Dutch are going woke…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/05/sex-tourists-amsterdam-red-light-district
“Miami Dolphins defensive lineman Kendrick Norton was involved in a serious car crash Thursday and reportedly had to have his arm amputated as a result.
The Dolphins announced Norton was involved in the crash. Multiple sources told Florida radio host Andy Slater that Norton had to his left arm amputated at the scene of the wreck.”
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dolphins-kendrick-norton-car-crash
Yikes
Did they tell him Trump was impeached?
At the scene. Jeebus. Even for a hardcore trauma crew, that would be rough.
As for our grinding dystopia of “free markets” and “unfettered capitalism”, I say this:
When I can go to Walmart and buy a bottle of laudanum and a case of dynamite, I’ll believe we live in a free market country.
I have yet to see anyone present a coherent explanation as to why income or wealth inequality in itself, is a Bad Thing.
NOT
FAIR!
*flops on floor, wails piteously*
Because people now have the time to ponder their lack of purpose in life.
Relevant: https://despair.com/products/mistakes?variant=2457302467
“Fourth of July’s ugly truth exposed: The Declaration of Independence is sexist, racist, prejudiced”
https://www.salon.com/2019/07/04/fourth-of-julys-ugly-truth-exposed-the-declaration-of-independence-is-sexist-racist-and-prejudice/
https://twitter.com/Salon/status/1146751564213817344
I’m pretty sure Salon is a Russian bot.
They just reprint that every year, don’t they.
I think they forgot “…and a poopy head!”
It’s the ‘all men are created equal’ part that they really hate.
I don’t think they like the purfuit of happineff part, either.
*ſigh*
That fucks
Fuckf*
Which brings to mind the scene from “Legally Blonde” where the SJW chick says she’s protesting the sexist language of the University. Instead of studying for a semester, she wants to change it to the ovester.
Prolly can’t make that joke in hollywood anymore.
Fuck the clippers. That is all
Snopes explains
This particular iteration of whataboutism was irrelevant, though, mostly because of the passage of time and intervening events. Although the Betsy Ross flag did adorn the stage during Obama’s second swearing-in ceremony, for some people the symbol has taken on new meanings in the era of his successor, President Donald Trump, during which far-right extremism has grown.
During the Trump era, what were once relics of the United States’ fraught history with violent racism have been taken up as causes for some far-right extremists. As white supremacists began rallying around Confederate monuments slated for removal, some tried to attach the Betsy Ross flag to their cause as a symbol.
Bad Orange Man is Bad. He make everything bad. Evil via osmosis. We miss Ascended One. Sad. So sad.
“for some people the symbol has taken on new meanings in the era of his successor, ”
And as we know, we have to validate every lunatics beliefs.
You know what is true LT terrifying? The symbology of the Democratic Party. Your know the party that intered the Japanese. And the party of Jim Crowe.
I don’t get the willingness to empower the white supremacists like they do. All they have to do is pick a symbol and use it for a bit and it’s off limits forevermore? That’s bullshit.
No they have to pick a symbol of American Pride. In that sense I think FDR is a prime pick for a white supremacist troll symbol.
I think they could appropriate the rainbow flag and that’d be off limits the way things are now. It’s ridiculous.
I wish they would do this. I’d love to see the mental gymnastics as to why we now need to fight them instead of giving in and banning it.
It never ceases to amaze me how they can write crap like this without any realization that they sound like Calvin playing a round of Calvin-ball. They just change, amend, and outright make up rules as they go along.
When the lightbringer did it that was a good thing and in no way was he pandering to people with traditional, conservative values – he was being inclusive! That’s the ticket! But when Orangeman does it, OH NO! AHHHGGGG
And I used to respect snopes. It’s not whataboutism. whataboutism is saying yes it’s wrong, but what about this other thing that’s wrong. That’s not what’s happening. People are saying there is nothing racist about the flag and using Obama’s inauguration as a citation.
Speaking of citations: “Some tried to attach the Betsy Ross flag to their cause”. Citation needed.
Maybe they did try to attach the Betsy Ross flag to their cause but so what, why let them define it?
*gives Stinky the Okay hand gesture*
??
So what would they do if the alt-right, white supremacists, and literal Nazis started to use the donkey as their symbol?
40 acres and a, well, mule is close enough. I can see a 4chan prank based on that.
On the other hand, at the 4th Celebration in Pompano Beach someone put up a newly purchased Betsy Ross flag. I walked over and it was two little old ladies decked out in stars and stripes regalia from head to toe.
Not everyone is being taken in by this nonsense.
“…far-right extremism has grown.”
Citation?
Snopes is basically Vox at this point.
If A, then alligator
Wage inequality in America falls especially hard on many women of color. While white women make 77 cents for every dollar a white man makes, black women make 61 cents, and Latina women make just 53. Now Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has released a plan aimed at closing those gaps.
The proposal, announced on Friday in an op-ed in Essence and fleshed out in a Medium post, includes a series of executive actions designed to hold companies that contract with the federal government accountable for how they pay women of color.
Why don’t we just establish a single national wage rate for every citizen? That should fix the problem nicely.
The pres can write an EO for just about anything they please but that doesn’t mean it’ll hold up in court.
It’s a TEAM BLUE president, so yes, it will hold up in court.
“While white women make 77 cents for every dollar a white man makes”
I have determined that everything else you are going to say is a calculated lie. There is ample enough evidence that this is a statistical lie that in writing this paper with any amount of intellectual honesty you would have found it.
While white women make 77 cents for every dollar a white man makes, black women make 61 cents, and Latina women make just 53.
I wonder why they never compare earnings of white women to black men.
I think if you compare black women to black men, they are actually making more than a dollar.
I blame the jews and asians and I think persians or what are the top earning groups?
holy crap, they are still peddling that horseshit? It has been debunked 10,000 times.
Shorter Warren — Government can solve all problems, even invented ones.
OFFS
The passage of time
Brooksed a Brooks. That was for the Betsy Ross flim-flam.
Speaking of hot, um, Slovenes.
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1146109112528146432
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ScG5Kv_B24
“‘Breatharian’ lives on oxygen and fasts for 97 days”
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1145001516194914306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGlvzBHvec4&feature=youtu.be
Breatharians?!? WTF!?! I thought they folded in the early 1980s when founder Wiley Brooks was caught at a 7-11 in Santa Cruz consuming Twinkies, hotdogs, and a Slurpee.
Your comment brought memories of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnIL-XPerQ
I thought of this!
Go on, vote for Trump. We don’t need you, you racists.
There are a myriad mathematical ways Democrats could win in 2020 without winning back any of the estimated 6 million Obama-Trump voters, by turning out the 65 million voters who cast ballots for Clinton — combined with a share of those who voted for third parties in 2016 — or making inroads with the electorate that didn’t cast ballots at all in the 2016 race.
The Post’s Dave Weigel said in a tweet last Saturday that, for example, “Democrats could win in 2020 by taking the Clinton 2016 voter and 2/3 of people who voted third party in 2016 — and not a single Trump voter.”
“Trump’s base won’t be as static,” Weigel said, “but they don’t *need* Trump voters.”
Number crunching geniuses, they are. They’ve got it all sussed out.
And I could be elected President if I could just get enough people to vote for me.
I’m no genius but I’m pretty sure a significant number of white males voted for Herself in 2016. I wonder how many of them have enjoyed being explicitly demonized for the last few years.
Well, they are complete morons so it is unlikely that they understand.
If they’re cucks, they don’t mind.
I’m just gonna say, if your plan is all about getting people to vote for you from a pool of people who would rather vote 3rd party than vote against trump or just not vote, your strategy is weak.
I’m gonna go ahead and say that if everyone who didnt’ vote in the last campaign votes for me, I’m in!
And Trump won’t pick up a single new voter. Because he’s Prange, and bad, and a man.
I know this because all my friends at Starcucks say so.
Over five million of them voted for either Gary Johnson or Evan McMullin. Good luck getting many of them to vote for whichever socialist loon makes it out of Survivor: Gulag.
Proud to say I own a Louie Bellson CD.
And, of course, the vote counters, while doing their mumbo jumbo conjure show,, completely gloss over the fact that those voters are going to be pulling (or not) the lever for a specific individual candidate, not Magical Generic Good Guy Democrat.
You mean they won’t just vote for “what’s behind door number 3”?
Dems tend to vote Dem. R’s tend to vote R. Everyone else tends to vote on principle. This does not bode well for the party of ‘fuck America’.
“Festival charging different prices based on race… ?? Well done intersectional radicals. You’ve become the very racists you claim to stand against. So woke… So very woke.”
https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1147480262307192832
“WHY DO WE HAVE POC(PEOPLE OF COLOR) AND NONPOC(WHITE PEOPLE) TICKETS? I’M GLAD YOU ASKED!
EQUALITY MEANS TREATING EVERYONE THE SAME
EQUITY IS INSURING EVERYONE HAS WHAT THEY NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
OUR TICKET STRUCTURE WAS BUILT TO INSURE THAT THE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES (PEOPLE OF COLOR) ARE PROVIDED WITH AN EQUITABLE CHANCE AT ENJOYING EVENTS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY (BLACK DETROIT).
AFFORDING JOY AND PLEASURE IS UNFORTUNATELY STILL A PRIVILEGE IN OUR SOCIETY FOR POC AND WE BELIEVE EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO RECEIVING SUCH.
WE’VE SEEN TOO MANY TIMES ORGASMIC EVENTS HAPPENING IN DETROIT AND OTHER POC POPULATED CITIES AND WHAT CONSISTENTLY HAPPENS IS PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITING MOST FROM AFFORDABLE TICKET PRICES BECAUSE OF THEIR PROXIMITY TO WEALTH.
THIS CYCLE DISPROPORTIONATELY DISPLACES BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE FROM ENJOYING ENTERTAINMENT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES.
AS AN AFROFUTURIST YOUTH LEAD INITIATIVE THE VOICES OF OUR YOUTH INFORM OUR RESISTANCE.
HERE’S WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY
” IF YOU DON’T SEE MY BLACKNESS, YOU DON’T SEE ME. PERIODT!””
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrofuture-fest-tickets-64562699773
TFW you create elaborate theories to justify your racism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madison_Grant.jpg
That sounds like fun. Where do I sign up?
Interestingly, my (POC) ex-wife and I used to regularly attend the Jazz festival in downtown Greensboro, NC. A free festival celebrating a uniquely African-American art form in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. She was one of the few African-Americans in attendance every year.
There were more African-American performers than attendees.
So maybe price isn’t the thing.
(parenthetically, I have never been able to figure out how the memo gets passed around about who is allowed to attend these sorts of events. In addition to the all-white jazz festival crowd, we routinely showed up at pop music events where I was the only white dude in the crowd, despite fairly mainstream acts. I think there must be a bulletin board somewhere that has people posting these notices and I just wasn’t paying attention the day they announced where it is.)
I’m pretty sure they have a theory about when the festival is held, the fact that white people attend, etc that makes poc feel uncomfortable etc.
Nothing adds to one’s credibility like writing in all caps. Yep. NEEDS MORE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!!!
so basically
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SASUEbuCnzA/maxresdefault.jpg
I’m thinking about getting a big Betsy Ross flag decal for the tailgate of my pickup truck.
you own a pickup truck? lame and bad for the envioroment
Yeah, but it’s about the only vehicle that’s practical for mounting a belt-fed machinegun.
try finding a parking space in any of the hip neighborhoods of the cool cities in this world
Please. I can park mine atop a half dozen Smart cars.
Smart cars are life rafts for pickups.
LOL from this SmartCar commuter whose misses my pickup.
…and no one in your neighborhood is offended but every 3rd person wants to know where you go that, asking for themselves…
Oh yeah? Well, this asshole got a 5 day weekend.
I’m on a 3 week vacation, you suckers.
“Donnie Yen used the Force for his #BottleCapChallenge. My goodness!”
https://twitter.com/LightsCameraPod/status/1146425291511947265
BTW, if you have not seen “Ip Man”, please watch it tonight.
Buongiorno, peeps. I hope everyone is well this morning!
Some great lynx, Old Man, but that Louie Bellson clip was absurd. All three of those guys were cooking! Who’s the bass player?
That’s Oscar Peterson’s long-time bassist, Niels Henning Orstead Pederson.
Circling the drain
Sen. Ted Cruz is not apologizing for quoting Frederick Douglass after Mara Gay, a member of the New York Times editorial board, said the Civil War-era abolitionist’s “name has no business in your mouth.”
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“Frederick Douglass is an American hero, and his name has no business in your mouth,” Gay tweeted in response.
“You respond to any view you don’t like, not with facts or reason, but w/ ad hominem attack,” Cruz tweeted back. “And you seem dismayed that I linked to Douglass’s entire speech, so readers can judge for themselves. You represent your employer well.”
How dare you treat Frederick Douglass with respect? That’s, like, cultural appropriation in the third degree. Thank the stars above we have the stalwart heroes of freedom at the NYT to defend our rights.
That’s so gay.
Cruz has been on fire lately.
Ten bucks to a hole in a donut that Mara Gay, exposed to Douglas’s ideas without citation, would scream something about white supremacy or any of th e laundry list of commie grievance mongers.
He’s not allowed to say nice things about a fellow Republican?
Hey l0b0t!
I saw your response regarding the ribs and forgot to mention that I smoke them over pimento wood. It’s not cheap, but it makes a big difference. I get it from these guys:
https://pimentowood.com/.
Also, when I do jerk chicken I also grill them on a bed of pimento leaves.
Fucking delicious!
My only experience with pimento is the absolutely amazing treat that is Pimento Cheese from the Publix deli. I’m fascinated by smoking and have a some familiarity with it from previous restaurant jobs (smoked amberjack, cream cheese, lime juice, and capers makes a nice dip) but I have a problem. Wifey’s palate is rather particular; there are several things she will not even consider eating that I consider staples – mainly cooked fruit and smoked food of any kind (I haven’t baked a decent pie in decades). We once tried to do some Brooklyn apartment smoking – in the oven, using finely ground Lapsang Souchong tea, but I (admittedly) overdid it and the smoke flavor was dominant to an obscene degree. She has, forevermore, disregarded anything smoked.
Oh yeah, oversmoking is a thing. My daughter is extremely particular about smoke, so I tend to be quite conservative with it. The pimento doesn’t overpower, but it definitely brings out the awesome allspice and cinnamon flavors. I only use a small amount and it really turns out great.
Also, I don’t use a dedicated smoker, but my Weber and the fabulous Slow n Sear.
you own a pickup truck? lame and bad for the envioroment
*strokes mustache, chortles evilly*
Scheissebox porn
Yeah, I’m watching that.
This one ended at $58K yesterday.
I really like them.
I’d like both.
Jumpin’ Jimminy! Those really push my buttons and I would gleefully make either a daily driver.
Thank God Leonard made a decision and signed with the Clippers sparing us a summer of stupid helicopter coverage and ridiculous offers. The coverage over this was retarded and the city of Toronto treating him like some sort of heroic hero to obscene levels was way over the top.
Poor Jalen Rose. He said it was ‘99%’ sure Leonard would sign with the Raptors.
D’oh!
Fuck that guy and his delaying shit.
The Lakers FO look terrible imo. Everything went bad for them and they get no respect and cannot make any good deals.
A circus it was.
I love it. The Lakers get punked for their AD trade. Oh, you got two stars? Well, we got two stars and a great supporting cast. XOXO LA Clippers.
and sadly kuzma is done… rumored to be a romantic interest to kendall jenner
So what would they do if the alt-right, white supremacists, and literal Nazis started to use the donkey as their symbol?
An elephant never forgets.
Never forgets? That sounds vaguely familiar… OMG copyright infringement!
“E-Thot Sells Her Own Bathwater, Breaks Up Relationships
Every day we stray further from God’s light.
A 20-year-old cosplay “influencer” with 4 million Instagram followers is selling her own bathwater, causing girlfriends to break up with their boyfriends who buy the product.
The utter state of modern masculinity.
Belle Delphine, a self-proclaimed “gamer girl” makes money by convincing desperate men to give her beta bucks via Patreon.
In return, she offers little but racy photos of herself dressed up in skimpy outfits as well as “premium Snapchat” interactions.
That is until she began selling small pots of her own bathwater at $30 dollars a pop.
“Bottled while I’m playing in the bath,” states the description. “This really is bath water.. disclaimer: This water is not for drinking and should only be used for sentimental purposes.””
https://summit.news/2019/07/05/e-thot-sells-her-own-bathwater-breaks-up-relationships/
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1147157203524231169
Then he goes on to quote /pol e-thot Brittany Venti?
hey I linked this days ago
Maybe the link got jet lag.
Meh… I prefer a relic with power. Or, perhaps, some Sweat from The King.
dbleagle and Ryhwun: The other day, I missed your short numismatic convo until too late.
My 2 cents: I think the Morgan Dollar is the most beautiful circulated US coin. The Oregon Trail Memorial half is my favorite US commemorative.
Speaking of old coins…
A couple years ago was the first time I used an automated check-out at a military commissary here in Japan. I purchased $1.95 in merchandise, put two bills into the machine, and got a 1936 “buffalo” nickel in change. What a bizarre time warp….
The Morgan dollar is a classic for sure but for pure aesthetics I still place Walking Liberty above it. I don’t own nearly enough, but I keep working on it. Not long ago I actually got both Franklins and a Walking Liberty is a bank roll.
The Buffalo or Indianhead is another classic design. I knew a guy (now dead) who used to buy rolls of them with their dates worn off (not uncommon) for slightly more than face value. He would use them mixed in with normal change to give people a chance to find a cool older coin.
I’m sober and managed to fat-finger my password twice. I got a little worried.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Southern California on Friday night, the second major temblor in less than two days and one that rocked buildings across Southern California, adding more jitters to an already nervous region.
I hope the southern California glibs are OK.
However, the group’s “Declaration of Easements, Covenants and Restrictions” found online notes that “no lawn statues, ornaments or outdoor art shall be placed on any lot without prior approval” which may be withheld for “purely aesthetic reasons.”
Samona said the family is considering taking legal action.
But one real estate lawyer said the case might be complicated.
“It would only be illegal if the homeowners association was arbitrary in its enforcement of the rule,” said attorney Mark Linton of the Advanta Law Firm in Southfield. “They have the right to prohibit homeowners from putting up these items in their yards.”
Since aesthetics are subjective, it sounds like the HOA has every right to be arbitrary.
Our HOA is quite diligent about sending nastygrams to our landlord when the yard needs mowing or isn’t green enough. I have a slowly boiling rage at the pointless waste of maintaining a South Florida golf course like lawn on a North Atlantic beach facing property.
That’s ludicrous.
To be fair, the common areas all look immaculate. They have lawn guys here 3 days per week maintaining them. I can’t afford that level of lawn care and, regardless, I wouldn’t spend in that direction if I could (let it grow wild, like nature intended is my choice). The only option is, oddly, completely paving the backyard; which many neighbors have done. I would love it but landlord is penny wise/pound foolish and won’t stomach the cost.
thus never join an HOA.
“Another huge earthquake in LA. I have to stop dropping my dick.”
https://twitter.com/RealRonJeremy/status/1147345331077537799
[golf clap]
The Tommy Robinson conviction has me kinda freaked out; the UK is scary.
It is.
It’s nuts. They’re gonna make an example of him one way or another.
And then in 20 years people will be all like ‘why did we let that happen?’
Like Duke lacrosse. Only they won’t learn and hit back twice as hard like #metoo has.
Messed up.
“An attempt to cut through the fog of the Andy Ngo situation — and figure out what’s really going on in this conversation”
https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1146409035882782720
Cut through the fog, asshole?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/3/20677645/antifa-portland-andy-ngo-proud-boys
“reportedly sent him to the hospital”
Reportedly?
“But according to a second narrative, offered primarily by less well-known left-liberal writers and social media accounts, the mainstream media is getting it all wrong. Ngo is not an innocent victim but a far-right sympathizer who has doxxed antifa members in the past, potentially facilitating their harassment, and provokes them so that he can broadcast the result. The outpouring of sympathy for Ngo, in this account, is actually evidence that the mainstream media is falling for Ngo’s grift — funneling money to his Patreon and legitimizing a right-wing smear campaign against a group that’s working to protect people from the threat of violence from groups like the Proud Boys.”
So reporting the identity of masked criminals is doxxing and facilitating their harassment? That’s great news for bank robbers.
He’s a degenerate punk this guy. Still not an excuse.
And in case you thought Portland City Hall is getting the message think again.
https://twitter.com/eileenparkpdx/status/1147278935303966720
What in the heck? Are they for real?
This Wheeler guy is a coward and not a leader. He really needs to man up or resign.
And this was before the recent fiasco
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/11/15/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-mutters-that-he-cant-wait-for-his-term-to-be-over/
The sad thing is, when Wheeler was the county chair, he was the adult in the room on a dysfunctional board and putting the brakes, somewhat, on the insanity and spending. Sadly he swung even further leftward after he was elected state treasurer and the Portland mayor.
Sounds like nobody wants to be mayor there for long. I can’t imagine why.
Unfortunately it has less to do with Portland being ungovernable (and it is as the politics of the city lurch leftward into fantasy realm), but that most of the mayors since have been egotistical grifters.
“All of the bad guys are on the right, it’s just a few bad apples on the left. Plainly. Who ya gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”
“The violence against the right is justified, but so far we’ve been heroically holding back. But there’s a growing hunger for violence, so you better watch your ass.”
Progjection
That damn MSM alt-right alliance again.
Um… they already have been. Try to catch up.
They’re a fucking street gang. We have street gangs here and there’s very little difference.
Can you imagine some of these Antifa pussies actually getting prison time?
They’d probably sit down next to the blacks or Hispanics and ask for protection from the Aryans, babbling off all kinds of racial studies nonsense while the gangsters are just sitting there imagining all the kinky stuff they’re going to do to this skinny middle-class white boy later on.
The New AC unit did its job too well. I slept till 11 am.
Sounds like a winner, UCS, now you can adjust the temps to your comfort level. Glad that it worked for you.
“Nike Releases Bernie Sanders Signature Shoe That Helps You Survive Under Socialism”
https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-releases-new-patriotic-bernie-sanders-signature-shoe
Skunk in the live trap this morning
Lots of pictures of a fox on the game cam
Bear had his picture taken on the game cam a couple days ago, July 4th
Life goes on…
Do you release the skunk or kill it (I have no idea if they are nuisance animals or not)? If released, do you do it without being sprayed?
I consider them vermin, but I think some states treat them as “fur bearing animals” which usually have different regulations.
The only nuisance I have known skunks to engage in is stealing chicken eggs. Other than that they are pretty harmless.
For some reason that brings to mind an old college girlfriend’s chocolate lab that delighted in searching out all the places the free-range hens laid eggs and rolling around in them until she was a yolky, muddy mess.
Also, please accept my most heartfelt sympathy for the ridgeback situation.
thank you. This morning my arm looks like a sack of potatoes but there is no sign of infection around the bite wounds. It is going to be a pain in the ass…arm…for a few days but it is going well so far.
As for Charlie Brown, the dog, he is being crated but given lots of treats including chews, peanut butter sandwiches and roast beef with sharp cheddar. His passing will be peaceful and his last meals delicious. Poor guy. If there is any way I could avoid it I would but this dog is dangerous and unpredictable.
God bless you for trying. The fact that I’m getting weepy thinking about a dog I’ve never met is a perfect example of why I’ll never be a hunter.
Skunk has gone to heaven. They are a pest in the garden. They dig all over the yard looking for grubs, leave divots. Along with coons and woodchucks are destructive in the garden. No rabbits here so that’s not a problem.
Thanks. I’ve only met skunks out in the woods.
How do you get a skunk out of a live trap without getting a shower?
One of my grandfathers trapped a skunk. He wanted to get rid of a groundhog, but got a skunk instead.
What he did was he covered the trap in a heavy blanket. He put on some heavy leather gloves. He had another blanket at the ready. He opened the trap, reached in, and drug the skunk out into the other blanket. He wrapped the skunk up in the blanket. He picked up the skunk, carried it into the woods, unwrapped it, and backed away slowly.
He didn’t get sprayed.
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That would be my preferred method, as well.
How do you keep bears out of your beehives?
I got a super 25 mile fence charger, moved the fence out about 5 feet from the hives so the bear can’t reach into them (again). About a 12 X 12 area
and the bear walks around the fence but I think he has gotten bit by the new charger so he stays away. I moved the game cam back to the hives, see if he is still visiting.
I’ll take the raccoon family that came by the window and said hi to my dog over a skunk any day.
Skunk in the live trap this morning
Hands</strike Tail's up, don't shoot!Oh, well
Ever go spotlighting ? Maybe it was an Okie thing.
You drive around in a 4 wheeler at night with a spotlight, see a skunk and chase it. They can’t spray while they are running, so the trick is not to stop for any reason.
Kind of all-terrain game of chicken
Shining for deer was a thing here but the poaching laws and the price of hamburger has pretty much stopped that. The penalties are serious and the economy/welfare ability has lessened the incentives plus kids are afraid the dark.
Good article on earthquakes in Eastern CA
https://www.wired.com/story/walker-lane-move-over-san-andreas-fault/