Things are unusually positive overhead. Yes, we still have the Jupiter and Saturn retrogrades dragging things down, but the rest looks good, particularly with MERCURY RETROGRADE ending. Things are looking particularly auspicious for those Glibs who identify as female, and if any of those happen to be born under the sign of Cancer, buy yourself a lottery ticket. Venus and the moon balancing around the sun means that Lady luck will be a lucky lady for the ladies, as mentioned in previous sentence. Branching off of that, Mercury and Saturn retrograde indicate news of a major new beginning. At different times in the Mercury orbital period, this could also indicate extremely bad news, calamity etc. but occurring so soon after Mercury returns to direct motion makes it much more positive in context.
Another great week for Leos, the smug bastards. Having both Venus and Mars indicates completion/perfection, rescuing the damsel, all that storybook stuff. The moon in Virgo adds to the whole GRRRL POWER! thing that the other planets have going on as well as success in water-related activities. And finally, Cancer benefits from the burst of good luck that happens when Mercury goes direct. Everyone else gets some added security this week.
OK, so the cards are back to being glib-typical after last week’s, with five of the twelve being swords. Sometimes when I’m reading these each week, I can’t see how they can apply to you. You guys do an excellent job of pretending to be good people.
Leo: The Emperor – Stability, power, aid, a great person, reason (drink!)
Virgo: Knight of Coins – Utility, service, rectitude, responsibility, interest
Libra: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division
Scorpio: 2 of Swords reversed – Misguided vengeance,imposture, falsehood, disloyalty
Sagittarius: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, doubt, fear, shame
Capricorn: Ace of Swords reversed – Pyrrhic victory, great force in love and conflict with disastrous results
Aquarius: Temperance – Economy, frugality, accommodation, management, moderation
Pisces: 5 of Swords* – Degradation, destruction, infamy, dishonor, loss
Aries: 7 of Wands – Valor, discussion, worldly strife, competition in trade or business
Taurus: The Hierophant – Alliance, captivity, servitude, someone to who you have recourse, inspiration, mercy and goodness
Gemini: Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition
Cancer:The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, unreasonable caution, fear
*I’ve been using the classic readings here prior to getting the Glib Tarot printed, but this reading is just bullshit. It’s so disingenuous that I have to believe it’s one of those deliberate distortions I’ve mentioned before. Yes, all of those things are in this card, but they are aspects of the background characters — the foreground guy is completely smug after having beaten up those background guys and taken their stuff. To the extent that the reading applies, it applies as happening to other people as a result of your actions.
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225 responses to “IFLA: The “I’m Cautiously Optimistic” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of August 4”
What, exactly, do you have against Gemini s
The Ace of Wands (the phallus) reversed (inverted, negative aspects of) also has a particular negative meaning in your case I’m afraid. Still, it will provide good material for your upcoming ethnography.
Sigh
On the plus side, the meals they take you out to will be excellent. And they’ll pay.
Come on, we get to be decadent this week!
You guys do an excellent job of pretending to be good people.
Never been accused of that before.
Aries looks pretty vanilla. I think I can cope.
But my Capricorn husband will bear some watching…
Do not search for images of “penile fracture.”
That’s a warning that should not be needed.
Leo: The Emperor – Stability, power, aid, a great person, reason (drink!)
Dunno how “aid” got in there – not really how I roll. The rest is pretty spot in for a typical week on Planet Dean.
As a Leo, I find the hardest thing about most of my days is just being so right all the time.
The struggle is real, my friend.
Sagittarius: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, doubt, fear, shame
Yay
Cancer:The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, unreasonable caution, fear
Uhm…doesn’t sound great. ?
Samesies.
Also, “fear is the mind killer” – a very boring book.
That’s not so good. Sounds like my last girlfriend.
‘Imprisonment, doubt, fear, shame”
Fuck.
Sounds like a typical Sunday.
Wot? ‘Reading’ tarot just involves looking at the pictures and making up shit?
Pretty much the same as playing poker?
Not so! There is also numerology involved.
If it’s not backed up by Phrenology, I’m calling bullshit on the whole thing.
In order to properly examine your skull, we’ll have to boil off the flesh.
Get your damn pistol license!
I can’t find four people to attest to my character.
I just don’t know that many real people.
I’m sure you could find three other glibs willing to lie to the NYS government about what a great guy you are. They’d probably do it for the lulz or a truly nominal bribe at worst. .
I bet Rhywun would do it for a bottle of Bulleit Rye.
I bet I would.
I would vouch that you are a character
Thanks, Fourscore, but the paperwork requires the personal references be NY residents of the Capital District with certain residency requirements. So I don’t think even Rhywun or Ted’S would qualify for the purpose of the paperwork.
It’s almost like they don’t really want you to have one…
It’s almost as if I really, don’t you know, want to end up in prison because of the humorless fucks who run law enforcement.
They have to be Albany County? I thought it was just NYS residents.
Albany County Clerk says “Capital District, whatever the fuck that means.
This sounds like a textbook example of “infringed”.
I love blatant Constitutional violations that the hooded idiots hand wave away.
I don’t have the ready cash to be a test case to get it challenged.
Not to mention, being a state employee, they have some extra leverage to make your life hell if you did.
*clicks link*.
That’s some bullshit right there.
Yep. That’s worse than Saratoga.
Although the references part seems easier. In Saratoga County, you submit four stamped envelopes addressed to your references. Then the county fills those envelopes with some sort of questionnaire that they have to fill out and mail back. This one just looks like you have to collect signatures.
Welp, I was wrong about only needing signatures.
http://www.albanycounty.com/Libraries/County_Clerk/Pistol-Permit-CityOfAlbany_Instructions.sflb.ashx
I wonder, does the fact that I’ve never been to Chez UnCiv disqualify me? And I wonder if it is required to say “no” to all of the answers or if answering “Yes” to the drug one with the explain lines filled out with “applicant had vodka at his prom when he was under 21” would make it seem like the rest of the application was more honest.
It’s a bit more convoluted, as the specific requirements and forms differ based upon what part of Albany county the applicant resides in.
In that case, I guess it adds up.
It’s a force multiplier.
Aquarius: Temperance
Sure…
How steaks changed U.S. history.
Things are looking particularly auspicious for those Glibs who identify as female,
I thought there were no female libertarians?
Identify as. Identify as.
Jeez, it’s not that hard.
Jeez, it’s not that hard.
I think there is a joke in there somewhere…
As for “identify as”, I’m not woke. I don’t go for the “identify as” bullshit.
Doesn’t the whole all-women-on-the-internet-are-actually-men thing predate wokeness?
Yes, it does.
.
Watch out bitches, here I come!
I have bad news – you’re a background player.
*feels bumps on skull for confirmation*
The U.S. House has passed common sense gun safety legislation.
Perhaps, but even if it is “common sense” it doesn’t make it legal from a constitutional perspective.
Whose side are you on? The NRA’s or the people’s.
The NRA, like Trump, lives in leftist minds rent-free.
It also doesn’t guarentee that the “common sense” gun safety will actually work. Many of the school shooters would not have been caught by the “common sense” gun safety legislation. Others should have been caught using existing rules but either the system didn’t work or the system was manipulated in such a way the shooter got through.
True. But my concern these days is that people do not consider what actions the government has legal authority in which to engage. Whether some policy/law regarding private firearms would “work” or not is not the relevant question according to the founding charter of the federal government and those of the several states*.
*I only know explicitly of a few but I assume most/all state constitutions have a provision regarding privately held weapons.
Things that are completely different about living in Upstate NY than TX number n+1:
I spent five hours outside in August yesterday. Not only did I not die, I didn’t even get a sunburn.
“Virgo: Knight of Coins – Utility, service, rectitude, responsibility, …”
Boooring.
But my Grandmother would be so proud.
Get your damn pistol license!
A what?
Something that the gun store keepers want to see in order to sell you a gat that has a manufacturer’s warranty with it.
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Our country is under attack from white nationalist terrorism, inspiring murder on our soil and abetted by weak gun laws. If we are serious about national security, we must summon the courage to name and defeat this evil.
On a certain level his characterization is correct. Actual neonazis and white-nationalists are socialists. So in that regard, a person such as the El Paso shooter, who holds typical modern, American leftist positions on the economy and social programs while hating Hispanic immigrants* fits their narrative, just not how they (Democrats) mean.
*I haven’t seen new info, some said his “manifesto” was #fakenews, any new info on this situation is appreciated.
My guess is that his problems stem from “never touching a vagina.” I’m going out on a limb there.
He is a registered Democrat.
My God.
I haven’t seen Mojeaux around for while. Where’d she go?
It’s Sunday so she is telling penis jokes in church.
She is awesome like that.
That’s why I miss her!
She went underground for a bit because of a creative binge, is just starting to emerge. If everyone here with the Twatters pings her account @MariahJovan…
OMG! I don’t think I’ve ever wanted a firearm more than i want one of these, particularly the version chambered in .22lr. I just love the mechanics of this. Szecsei & Fuchs Double Barrel Bolt Action Dangerous Game Rifle
.22LR for dangerous game? That’s some balls right there.
Depends on definition of dangerous.
Venomous snakes are dangerous, but can be taken down by a .22lr
I don’t think snakes are considered game.
Sure they are.
https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/65231.html
Nope. Some frogs and turtles are however.
I don’t recognize the DEC definitions.
When is the last time a peasant got hanged for poaching the King’s snakes?
Trick Question, royalty love getting their “snake” “poached”.
Nutria are dangerous game, aren’t they? Seriously though, I love shooting, but I don’t really care for shooting at animals.
Yeah, I hate having to deal with corpses.
Which is why AP, challenge steel, and clays are so great.
The sound of a good steel target getting pegged is most satisfying. I am though, a SW Florida redneck at heart (my dad always kept his Taurus .22 revolver in the center console of his truck, for the sole purpose of plinking at stop signs); give me a good fill-dirt berm and a few dozen old spray-paint cans to send to the Great Beyond and I’ll stay busy for hours and hours.
*feels slow rage building*
/Township Supervisor
Have you seen this abomination?
https://youtu.be/89tPawOn7go
If it weren’t illegal in multiple different ways in Canada, I’d carry one.
Wow, that’s a terrible idea.
Actually, Ian McCollumn says it’s actually a pretty well thought-out gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slp9pAEk1Ns
I’d buy one for fun if it was $100 or less.
I like double barrels and I like wheel guns, this, I like the idea, it’s just ugly. I don’t understand how you can have two rounds per pull and skirt the machine gun registration. I thought that was the primary criterion.
Probably because it’s manually actuated. Like how a gatling gun is legal as long as it’s hand cranked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoPovsM-GM
I think the rule is one pull, one bullet. like this.
The out is the “without manual reloading.” Revolvers have to have their chambers reloaded manually.
It’s not the revolving thing, it’s the two rounds per pull. Gatling guns fire one round per revolution (or partial revolution.) Revolvers fire one round per pull. Machine guns fire more than one round per pull. This one fires two rounds per pull. Dunno if it’s because they fire simultaneously or if it’s two stages to affect a firing.
Further down: “A non-machine gun that may be converted to fire more than one shot per trigger pull by ordinary mechanical skills is determined to be “readily convertible”, and classed as a machine gun”
I’m pretty sure it has to do with the manual reloading. Non auto-loading pistols aren’t covered by the machine gun rule.
Think about double-barreled shotguns. It could be “converted to fire more than one shot per trigger pull by ordinary mechanical skills” trivially, but those aren’t classified as machine guns, because you have to break open the action and reload them manually.
No, sir. if a double barrel shotgun has two triggers, you must pull each once a piece to fire both. If it’s switched, it won’t fire both at once.
And if you connect the triggers with a bar so pulling one pushes the other back?
You don’t need to, on a double. They’re side x side, just like the barrel. You can pull both at once and fire both barrels, but technically, you’re making two pulls, one per. It was legal to use bump stops and , I think, they had rotating eccentrics which would fire faster, precisely because it was one shot per pull. Speeding the pull was OK, just not multiplying the shots per.
Clarification: the eccentrics could be used if you manually cranked them, powering it with a motor or outside force would equal machine gun.
If a double barreled shotgun has two triggers, it could be converted to fire both with one trigger with “ordinary mechanical skills.” Therefore, it would be a machine gun– if manually loaded firearms were covered.
These guys say there’s a multiple barrel exception to the “one bullet per pull” rule.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tEYcUSQDyw
sexy fucks rifle?
Oh yes, this is a cool gun.
This is actually a reasonable twitter thread on the recent gun shootings. So of course it will be ignored by most.
That escalated quickly from just a toe.
The manifesto is PART of the trolling.
Possibly. And the thing about the Christchurch shooter is that his government did exactly what he wanted as a result.
These shitposters **know** how the mainstream media reacts to one of these mass shooting events, how both sides immediately start poring over the manifesto, scouring the social media, each trying to say to the other “AHA! HE BLONGS TO YOU GUYS!”
As if CNN cares about the ramifications of their coverage of such events.
He likes to have a ship in every port!’ Billionaire ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, 64, is dubbed ‘New York’s hottest bachelor’ amid claims he’s ‘dating a lot of women’ – despite still being married to his wife of 39 years
An inspiration to us all. Now all I need is a dozen billion or so…
So there’s another one.
Nine people were killed and dozens were hurt when a suspect wearing body armor opened fire outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday before responding officers shot the armed assailant to death less than a minute into the rampage, according to officials.
It was the nation’s second mass shooting in less than 24 hours after at least 20 people were slain in El Paso, Texas.
The Dayton Police Department said on Twitter the incident unfolded at 1 a.m. in the city’s Oregon District near downtown, but officers were nearby and “were able to respond and put an end to it quickly.”
It would have been more quickly or never initiated had it been a hard target. But, anyway, wtf is with people this weekend?
Some crazy shit. I was on that very street buying a new hat last weekend.
Headline on googlenews:
Police officer shooting at dog accidentally kills woman
Charges of manslaughter involving “depraved indifference” will be filed, right?
Right?
Earth to Libertarians: Immigration Hurts American Workers
thank you. I am now dumber than before
It is sad that utopia is just not having your shit stolen from you without just cause.
Check out this guy with his Libertarian propaganda. We’re on to you.
Mpls is closer to communism than to libertarianism. I was born there as well.
if that is the case why are all Minnesota congresspeople libertarians?
Pro-Somalia isn’t synonymous with Libertarian.
Through purity tests.
New trade minister Liz Truss had private talks in US with libertarian groups
We’re taking over the world!
Truss has made no secret of her interest in cutting the size of the state. – how very dreadful
Seems brexit can’t get any respect .. one minute it was gonna be responsible for financial armageddon, and then next it’s been downgraded to possibly letting a few not-sufficiently-regulated foodstuffs enter the market.
Chlorinated chickens! It’s mustard gas all over again!
Let the chickens go swimming, I say, what with all this global warming that we’re seeing in some places.
Thanks, but I’ve had my fill for the last week or so. Next!
Requiem for White Men
Tarantino’s movie, which is excellent by the way, is a throwback to a time when movies were a part of a conversation (other than when you geeks wet your pants over fat Thor making a dad joke), but part of the conversation is forcing your political narrative into a film.
“Don’t cry in front of the Mexicans,” Wow, I’ve never heard such offensive language!
She’s only complaining about Boomer porn now?
Sounds about right.
Racism and denigrating things because they’re associated with something outside of your favorite cult of personality are two of the most effective ways to make me immediately assume the speaker or writer is an idiot not worth listening to. This means I usually shut off as soon as someone starts getting into social justice or why, for instance, Trump tweeting about the enormous rats in Baltimore is racist.
In The New Yorker, Richard Brody called the movie, Tarantino’s biggest opening ever, “obscenely regressive,” a phrase that could easily be applied to the man in the Oval.
That almost makes it sound like it doesn’t suck.
You can’t fool me, though. Tarantino sucks.
It’s okay to be wrong. You aren’t carrying that burden alone. Not only did I think Gary Johnson was a good political candidate, I also thought the Jonas Brothers had no staying power.
You live and learn, Brooks.
I saw Reservoir Dogs and liked it, but I thought Kill Bill was corny as fuck. Then I saw the fucking disaster Deathproof, and I decided that I no longer trust this man to not waste 2 – 3 hours of my time. I’ve never watched one of his films since then. I did stumble across a Django Unchained clip on YouTube, and yep, I was right. His movies are definitely not up my alley (except Reservoir Dogs).
No Pulp Fiction?
Any time of day is a good time for pie.
From dusk till Dawn? Selma Hayek?
Your dead to me….
Hayek and the ZZTop soundtrack were the only redeeming features for that movie.
not all people appreciate quality
I restored about a dozen 70mm projectors for use in screening “Hateful Eight.” Got to see an advance screening at the Egyptian theater. I enjoyed it. Everyone gets veto power for their own tastes.
No True Romance love? Admittedly, only written by Tarantino.
“I like you Clarence. Always have and always will.”
*waves hand*
OT: Any truth to this?
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/08/04/media-and-politicians-dont-get-it-brian-cates-thread-on-the-gunmans-alleged-manifesto-is-a-must-read/
Yes.
Seems a bit far fetched.
I saw Reservoir Dogs and liked it, but I thought Kill Bill was corny as fuck.
Reservoir dogs was good. Pulp Fiction was okay. Kill Bill was pretty shitty. I didn’t make it ten minutes into Inglorious Bastards. No thanks.
I bailed on Basterds as well. Hateful Eight redeemed him in my eyes after that. Pulp Fiction came out just the right time in my life so I liked that. Reservoir Dogs not so much. Jackie Brown & Kill Bill we’re ok. From Dusk till Dawn isn’t a Tarantino movie and he was a better writer for True Romance.
I liked Inglorious Bastards.
I, too, liked Inglorious Basterds.
correct, correct, why did you do that to yourself, and you knew that from just the trailers
For Pie (and others): Romanian Mannlichers.
These people must be orgasmic at the opportunity to announce how triggered they are every 5 seconds. Point of Privilege? I thought privilege was evil?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-socialists-convention-erupts-due-to-sensory-overload-gendered-pronoun-usage
I’ve never been to a libertarian convention, but they gotta be more respectable than that, right?
Nothing but dignity and class.
https://youtu.be/9xaStuzYnAc
I see. Still better, though.
I’m so sorry, but I’ve got some bad news for you.
Socialism IS for retards.
Sen. Kennedy skeptical about moderates at Dem debate: ‘The lesser of two socialists is still a socialist’
Lol
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if there was any sense on the right – whatever that is – there would be an SNL-type sketch show that would lampoon this sort of thing, which would help make this shit more visible.
Then again they would need people with some sort of creative talent, while instead they seem to think people like Steven Crowder and Owen Benjamin are the epitome of humor.
They tried. there was that horrible fox news thing ten fifteen years back, god awful, Conservatives are horrible at comedy.
The people at the Babylon Bee seem like they could do it.
Interesting YouTube experience. They pushed videos for the TX shootings and I removed them from my YT feed. Today the OH ones popped up. Gee, must be tin foil hat realm to think they’re trying to ram a certain agenda down.
YouTube’s AI is scary. It knows I watch anime, but I’ve never searched or had an interest in JAV.
Naturally, this just popped up in my feed minutes ago
I got to interview my favorite Japanese ?∅????ạ? and…
No idea who it was or why YouTube obscured the actress Shibuya Kaho.
Her English is amazing. Makes me want to find her videos…
Limited to the data provided by my IP address, they don’t seem to get a very good profile on me, since most of their data collection hooks are blocked.
I essentially gave into the Borg. That said it’s the only service I’ll use other than linkedin for professional stuff. No other social accounts or services.
I’d also add that frequently it finds interesting content – so I’m getting value in return.
I’m a deranged quasi-paranoid embittered introvert. The trade-off you propose is not sufficient value for me.
“I’m a deranged quasi-paranoid embittered introvert. ”
IOW a Glib
It’s hot outside.
Meh, it’s not AZ, that’s for sure…
I’m redoing my cast iron griddle. Sanded down the built up oil crap and preseasoning that they put on now. Washed, oiled, and now in the oven for the first cycle.
Wait, I didn’t have to melt it down and recast it?
https://youtu.be/ljSQrSoSYAE
Capital District
Texas has something like that in that Travis County has a parentis el mundo quality to its offices. The downside of that is that the Travis County DA, in addition to ham sammiches, can indict political opponents for anything that happened to have happened in Austin or within the jurisdiction of Austin even if it didn’t happen in Austin. I think Ronnie Earl indicted frer DeLay for violating Texas campaign laws just that way, a bit of brilliant political strategy or just old home-made, technical, petty partisanship depending on which side your tortilla is buttered on.
As for myself, I always enjoy getting a speeding ticket in Travis because you get a cool entry in the books that is titled The State of Texas v Mr Unlucky Sumbich or something along those lines.
Interestingly enough, I never got a ticket in Travis County. I have no idea how that happened.
I never got a ticket in Travis County either.
I’ve never been in Travis County, but I doubt that would have stopped them.
It’s exactly the opposite of Saratoga County — the things created by man are awesome, but the nature sucks.
Swiss may have his chance to be governor if Chi-town.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-illinois-state-secession-movement-0801-20190801-iesnu74ogvfjxfk35sn72lq7ya-story.html
“Combustion engines have helped create a climate crisis. The quest for oil has led our soldiers into war. And the road has become a setting for violent, systemic racism. Are cars worth it?”
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1157472856751710209
“For years, I counted this inability to drive as one of many personal failures. More recently, I’ve wondered whether I performed an accidental kindness for the world. I am one of those Darth Vader pedestrians who loudly tailgate couples moving slowly up the sidewalk, and I’m sure that I would be a twit behind the wheel. Perhaps I was protected from a bad move by my own incompetence—one of those mercies which the universe often bestows on the young (who rarely appreciate the gift). In America today, there are more cars than drivers. Yet our investment in these vehicles has yielded dubious returns. Since 1899, more than 3.6 million people have died in traffic accidents in the United States, and more than eighty million have been injured; pedestrian fatalities have risen in the past few years. The road has emerged as the setting for our most violent illustrations of systemic racism, combustion engines have helped create a climate crisis, and the quest for oil has led our soldiers into war……
Sane, upstanding pedestrians didn’t murder one another as they ran errands around town. Sane, upstanding drivers did, or might at any moment, and thus required a new style of policing. “How could a democratic society founded on self-governance depend on police governance and still be free?” Sarah A. Seo, a law professor at the University of Iowa, writes in her remarkable new book, “Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom.” “How could the laws be fashioned to allow the investigation of potential criminal suspects without harassing law-abiding citizens when everybody drove?”
Seo’s idea is that the problem of policing cars, far from being a remote corner of the law, is central to how the jurisprudence of the Fourth Amendment (searches and seizures) took shape during the past hundred years. Automobiles, after the Model T’s expansion of personal ownership, confounded the parameters of the amendment: a car would seem to be private property, but roads were public, and the conduct of cars—traffic, transport—was a matter of public concern. The issue became pressing, legally, during Prohibition, when smugglers began using privately owned cars to traffic hooch.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/was-the-automotive-era-a-terrible-mistake
What a fucking idiot, she needs to stay out of traffic
out of, or out in?
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?
No.
Next question?
The idea about how it limited freedom legally is interesting
https://twitter.com/Osama_BongLaden/status/1157867527667691520
“Day 2 Resolutions & Debates: DSA 2019 National Convention”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNTWBhJnrBU
Ah, now I see AlmightyJB already linked to it.
““You could call the killer who shot up a Walmart in El Paso evil […] But it would be an intolerable omission if we did not also call him a white nationalist terrorist. […] President Trump has a duty to thoroughly and roundly denounce it.” OUR EDITORIAL”
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1158063982562959360
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/trump-must-name-and-condemn-the-evil-of-white-nationalism
Why?
Why what?
Who where how when?
Sounds about right.
SHUT YOUR PIE-HOLE, PROG!
You want us to fly to Romania because the crypt door is open?
Because they need their kabuki players to create white nationalism out of whole cloth.
This whole thing is incredibly depressing. As someone growing up after the civil rights era where color blindedness and being judged by the content of your character was the ideal, finally racist policy such as quotas and affirmative action were being labeled as such, and then set back 60 or 70 years starting about 10 years ago. And worse yet, eliminating racial divisiveness isn’t the goal at all, the goal is foment it just like Profa and their thuggery.
Nothing he could say would be enough for them anyway. Trump has repeatedly and unambiguously denounced white supremacy/Neo-Naziism and they persist in saying he never has, or that his words were insincere, or that he uses dog whistles or whatever else.
Or that he called them “fine people”.
And then fucking specified less than a minute later “and I’m not talking about white nationalist and neo-Nazis; they should be condemned”.
I accept that the media is biased. Media organizations are run by humans, and 99% of humans project allow their biases to spill over into the work they do. I’m not mad about that.
What makes me mad is that there’s still this perception – almost entirely among Lefties – that if you don’t believe every single thing you read on CNN or NYT, you’re just crazy. Irredeemably crazy. A tinfoil hat-wearing, Alex Jones-listening, lizard people-believing nutjob. Despite all the outright lies promulgated by the media, you’re written off as completely insane if you question their narrative at all.
I understood he was talking about some of the “fine people” on the side who wanted the monument left where it was. Those included a number of well-respected civil war historians.
Sweet Child of Mine cover
Man, that’s some fine oooompah. (The singer’s got a great voice, too.)
Why is that man drinking beer with a straw?
That is some oooompah. Here is another group doing similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvpHwoQfqk
Yes.
Newsletter?
I like Dirndls.
And that’s not a bad cover either.
This whole thing is incredibly depressing. As someone growing up after the civil rights era where color blindedness and being judged by the content of your character was the ideal, finally racist policy such as quotas and affirmative action were being labeled as such, and then set back 60 or 70 years starting about 10 years ago.
No kidding. Talk about making the ostensibly perfect the enemy of the good.
I don’t think “post-racial” America is an improvement.
If we were post racial, race wouldn’t be a checkbox on birth certificates, census, scholarship applications, or any other “neutral” form
It shouldn’t be.
France doesn’t (or didn’t, may have changed), but France is not post-racial
When I first entered grad school I refused to answer that question on my orientation forms. A week later, the admin office called me in and asked me for the information face-to-face. I refused. The (bitchy) woman said, “Well, it would really help us if you’d just tell us. Why wouldn’t you want to cooperate and help us?”
I said I’m not legally obligated to tell them anything and walked out.
A Pyrrhic victory is still a victory. FUCK YEAH!
Only if you’ve finished off the enemy completely, or you’ll lose the war.
“Bizarre fake police force included Kamala Harris aide, prosecutors say
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Roosevelt Johnson thought it was odd when three people — two of them dressed in police uniforms he didn’t recognize — strolled into the Santa Clarita station in February.
One man introduced himself as chief of the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and told Johnson this was a courtesy call to let him know the agency was setting up shop in the area.
This week, the three people were charged with impersonating police officers. They are David Henry, who told Johnson he was the police chief, Tonette Hayes and Brandon Kiel, an aide to state Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris.
It turns out Henry, Hayes and Kiel had allegedly introduced themselves to police agencies across the state, though it is unclear why. A website claiming to represent their force cites connections to the Knights Templars that they say go back 3,000 years. The site also said that the department had jurisdiction in 33 states and Mexico.
“When asked what is the difference between the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and other police departments, the answer is simple for us. We were here first!” the website said.”
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-aide-harris-accused-rogue-police-force-20150505-story.html
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1158129864626647041
Thaaaaaaaaat’s bizarre.
Bizarre?
Haven’t heard that in years!
I never knew it was a NZ band until now.
I should have guessed.
“LOOK: This is the line of *HUNDREDS of people outside of Vitalant in West El Paso waiting to donate blood following today’s shooting @KTSMtv
Volunteers are handing out pizza ? to people waiting in line
People are also dropping off water and Gatorade to help people stay hydrated as they wait”
https://twitter.com/sandraKTSM/status/1157764074157039616
It’s the magazines fault.
I wonder what they would think of my cans with 250rnd belts?
Wow, if you could make a list of qualities for someone I would never, ever hang out with, it would be pretty close to this:
“Board, @AllAboardOhio. Executive Committee, Cincinnati NAACP. Retired Cop. Former Union President. Urbanist. Transportation strategist. Car free!”
He’s just missing “teetotaler”.
Canny valley.
creepy