Its hump day. I can tell because I been humpin’ all over the place trying to get work done. Come on, cocktail hour!
Damn. Nobody beats Alabama Woman in her kitchen.
When vegetarians turn into butchers (no this is not about the Earth Day founder guy)
Oh man, I eagerly await all the news outlets abasing themselves for misgendering a murdered trans-man
This guy is about to be unpersoned
I think I like this song.
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It’s not Thursday?
I was aiming for the first first while masturbating. A literal one-handed post. You ruined it for me. Now I can’t even ejaculate.
I’m sure Q will be along in a few minutes to assist with that
Dutch rudder?
When vegetarians turn into butchers (no this is not about the Earth Day founder guy)-
This is our version of “I use to be a libertarian”.
NYT, so I didn’t click.
You get an equal amount of facts either way.
eh, -x < 0
From the article:
Well, that’s not hard to explain – A lot of vegitarians/vegans don’t pay enough attention to the nutrients they’re cutting out with the animals, and fail to replace them. So they’re slowly starving.
Humans and rabbits took to different evolutionary paths. One pretending they are the other doesn’t usually work very well.
I was a strict vegetarian for eight years and was very healthy at the time (e.g., able to easily bicycle 50 miles in two hours). But then I got a craving for pork egg rolls and McDonald’s. I still feel great, but man, there is nothing like a rare plus, fillet mignon bleeding into a mound of truffle mashed potatoes. The only downside to being vegetarian was that my fingernails weren’t as strong as they were as a meat-eater and I play guitar.
I’m not going to read the story but surely there’s a “to be sure” in there somewhere?
Would
+1
Not afraid to comment on the appearance of a redhead holding a knife. Found the guy who didn’t grow up an Appalachia.
OTOH, she knows how to handle some meat.
That article is as painful to read as I thought it would be.
People believe yo
Start again.
People believe that you cut your risk for heart attack by losing all those animal fats when you go vegan/vegetarian. Turns out the number one killer for vegans/vegetarians is heart disease.
“trying to get work done”
Rufus says otherwise.
Naming heat waves? Christ.
I was already pissed when they started naming snowstorms.
The only storms that should be named are tropical cyclones.
Except for the NW Pacific, which should go back to numbers as it was before 2000.
They are going to ratchet up the drama and public fear-mongering about anthropogenic catastrophic global climate warming change whenever possible.
HEAT WAVE TONY COMIN’ IN HOT AND READY, BITCHES!
Not like it’s ever been hot before.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/stories/Extreme-Weather-History-Battle-of-Monmouth–431377553.html
On topic: HUMP DAY!
http://archive.is/eZk8S
Cleverly concealing a link to “July 2019 hottest month on record” hysterics.
Unseasonably cool here this year after an rare early heat wave. I don’t think it even cracked 100, whereas we usually a couple of days of triple digit highs.
The United States overall has had a cooler than average year.
Comment: So this is your opinion. But what is the consensus of the rest of the Accuweather science team?
VE MUZT HAVE CONZENZUS
OFFS. People really don’t like having their religion challenged.
Well, if you open that article and look at the masthead on the right side, it is all white guys. Easily ignored.
According to media reports, Cofer, 22, was the sibling of shooting suspect Connor Betts, and was the first victim in the mass shooting in Dayton’s Oregon district that left nine dead and 27 wounded. It appears that Cofer was out as a trans man to only a handful of people, and there is no indication at this time that his gender identity was a motivating factor in his death.
A close friend of Cofer’s—who wished to remain anonymous—confirmed the authenticity of several social media accounts to Splinter, saying that he was trans and preferred being called Jordan.
This is completely unsurprising, based on a photo in some news report I saw.
Also- re: El Paso:
What is the deal with the soldier with a concealed carry permit who “saved children”? Did he save them by leading/carrying them to safety, or by laying down suppressive fire?
Inquiring minds, et c…
I got nuthin’
Really? I was thinking the shooter’s sibling being trans was a data point in favor of “mental health problems run in families”.
Environment versus heredity. Probably a mixture of both.
Yeah, who cares. Unless it turns out that Mr. Antifa targeted xer for it – and then holy hell, look out.
What is the deal with the soldier with a concealed carry permit who “saved children”?
Its just counter-programming in a failed attempt to head off the gun control frenzy.
I mean, good on him and all, but I haven’t anything that indicates his gun or permit factored into what he did at all.
Exactly
On the radio he said he carried children to safety.
He pulled his piece and made entry several times to take children out.
Phrasing.
Damn. I didn’t even try to do that.
Here in San Antonio the radio interviewed him.
He says he saved children by carrying the out of harm’s way.
Heat guy watches Tony Heller videos
“A failure by the media to convey the severity of the health risks from heat waves, which are becoming more frequent due to climate change, could undermine efforts to save lives this week as temperatures climb to dangerous levels.”
I long for the olden times, when weather was not climate.
I thought the latest target was air conditioning?
Never gets old.
As good as that is, it’s rivaled by the parts with the Queen of Hearts, IMO.
An amazing work.
‘sup
Muddafuggin’ theme music?
TURN THAT ISH TO 11 !
The trans community also has a right to account for its dead. There’s been no indication thus far that Cofer’s murder was a transphobic hate crime, but it serves as an important reminder that trans people are more than the transphobia society visits upon them. Everyone who spoke with Splinter for this story felt it was important for his true identity to be accurately reported in the press, without sensationalistic or political sentiments.
“Hey, make some room. I want to stand on that dead body, too.”
Have we confirmed the shooters are white males? Talk about making assumptions.
They identify as transracial otherkin.
Have we confirmed the shooters
areidentified as white males?We left behind the part where anything but your feelz matter awhile ago.
There’s been no indication thus far that Cofer’s murder was a transphobic hate crime,
So you’ll shut up until there is?
“The trans community also has a right to account for its dead. ”
Fuck you I’m not part of your
Group. Seriously this is balkanization, where groups try to claim responsibility for someone they don’t know and don’t care about other than to use as political leverage over someone else. If I wanted to be afilliated with you then I the individual would have signed up for your newsletter.
When I die, if anyone claiming to be from the white cishetero shitlord community comes forward to “claim” me my children will, per the instructions I’ll be leaving them, present them with the bill for the cremation.
This.
You didn’t get shot. You didn’t bleed out. You just saw it on TV, yet you want sympathy because you supposedly share extraneous characteristics with the actual victim.
You mean the community that is murdered half as often as the cis community?
From the annals of leftist anti-Semitism.
http://carolineglick.com/associated-press-is-targeting-pro-israel-jews/
I notice some sort of pattern among the U.S. states that I’ve never visited.
~ef~
Their lack of sugar? Oh wait, the link is hiding in there.
Worked for me.
Grrrr.
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AK-AZ-CA-CT-DC-FL-GA-HI-IA-ID-IL-IN-LA-MA-MD-ME-MI-MN-MT-NC-ND-NH-NJ-NV-NY-OH-OR-PA-RI-SC-SD-TN-TX-UT-VA-VT-WA-WI-WY
Mine, but no pattern
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AK-AZ-CA-CO-DC-FL-GA-ID-IL-IN-KY-LA-MA-MD-MN-MO-NC-NV-NY-OK-OR-TN-TX-VA-WA
No pattern for me. Some gaps that need to be filled though: Create Your Own Visited States Map
Huh. Look at that. I chose my name well. The majority of mine are defined by and south of the Mason-Dixon.
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/
According to that map, you haven’t even visited Louisiana.
Blank
Ok, so I am also a half-drunk idiot.
Everything south of Mason-Dixon coast to coast. Then everything straight north of Louisiana including Tn. and Mi.
Too much trouble to go back and figure out what I did wrong.
maybe this is it?
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AL-AR-AZ-CA-FL-GA-IA-IL-IN-KY-LA-MN-MO-MS-NC-NM-NV-OK-SC-TN-TX-WI
Thanks, that’s a fun site.
Lived/Worked:
Visited:
Huh, that’s the lived/worked map.
I’ll get back to you.
Pattern. I don’t get around.
Heh, one cross-country trip?
Heh, pretty much. Except I did actually live in CA and ID.
Using trashy’s definition below of “overnight stay or non-airport meal”, we arrive at this barebones effort.
<a href="Create Your Own Visited States Map” title=”” target=”_blank”>Mine
Somehow I’ve missed Oklahoma
I wouldn’t say you missed it, Bob.
Ugly, but it works
Not for me, the site itself fails to load.
And it makes A liar of me
Definitely a pattern here (although not a conscious one)
Create Your Own Visited States Map
I’ve been more places than I thought. Although several of those visits were quite brief, and I’m not entirely sure that I haven’t been to Vermont and New Hampsire.
But how does one define having “visited” a state?
I mean I had a stopover in detroit once and it is the only time I have ever been inside of Michigan, does that count as visiting the state? How about New Mexico? I’ve driven through it 3 times, twice eastbound and once westbound. Outside of stopping for Gas/Food I never got off the highway, does that count as visiting the state?
Using the most permissive definition of set foot inside the state boundries I’ve got…
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AL-AR-AZ-CA-CO-CT-DC-DE-FL-GA-IL-IN-KS-KY-MA-MD-ME-MI-MN-MO-MS-NC-NH-NJ-NM-NY-OH-OK-PA-RI-SC-TN-TX-VA-VT-WI-WV“><img src="https://map1.maploco.com/visited-states/ml/AL-AR-AZ-CA-CO-CT-DC-DE-FL-GA-IL-IN-KS-KY-MA-MD-ME-MI-MN-MO-MS-NC-NH-NJ-NM-NY-OH-OK-PA-RI-SC-TN-TX-VA-VT-WI-WV.png
Using a more realistic definition of having actually traveled to that state for some period of time longer than it takes to drive through it I have…
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AL-AZ-CA-CO-DC-DE-FL-GA-IN-KS-KY-MA-MD-ME-MN-NC-NH-NY-OH-OK-PA-RI-SC-TN-TX-VT-WI-WV
Using the most restrictive definition of having spent at least a week at a time in the state results in…
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AL-AZ-CA-CO-DC-FL-GA-KS-KY-MA-MD-MN-NC-NH-NY-OH-OK-RI-TN-TX-WV
Meh.
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AK-AL-AR-AZ-CA-CO-CT-DC-DE-GA-HI-IA-ID-IL-IN-KS-KY-MA-MD-ME-MI-MN-MO-ND-NE-NJ-NM-NV-NY-OH-OK-PA-SD-TN-TX-UT-VA-WA-WI-WV-WY
Not sure what counts as visiting vs just driving through so here’s where I have dropped a deuce
Overnight stay or (non-airport) meal is my minimum.
Sit down meal or does gas station sushi/chili dog count?
Taking a dump on Kazakhstan has been on my bucket list for a long time.
Been to NM. Don’t Recommend Farmington.
I stopped for gas in Gallup, NM once around 1 am.
Couldnt get out of there fast enough.
the name ain’t about polling.
Links don’t work there?
Not following.
They are diabetic?
Huh. I haven’t been to more states than I would have thought.
On second thought, I’ve been to every state in New England. In my defense, I was going to law school in Boston.
“I went to law school in Boston” is literally the worst possible sentence you could formulate to excuse, like, anything.
I didn’t say it was a good defense.
I hope it isn’t homophobia, because Kentucky is gay as shit.
As someone that spent a lot of time working in Paducah- will confirm
Certainly not. Just regular flyover states with the exception of the ones on the way between Boston and Calgary.
When I was a Masshole I took great pride in saying I’d been in every state but Hawaii and Rhode Island (RI was like 40 mi from my house). Then I made the mistake of taking the train to NYC – It stopped in Providence. Does it count if I didn’t get off the train?
I actually enjoyed Providence a lot. Federal Hill and some great minor league hockey.
No, I wouldn’t count it. I didn’t count Colorado even though I transferred in DEN several times. I didn’t count Delaware because I didn’t leave the car to pay the exorbitant tolls to drive 2 miles through it.
I don’t get the hate hurled at RI. Been to Newport and Providence. We enjoyed both. Even though Providence is wokeville.
My wife’s good friend lives in Providence and is enjoying having moved there for work from Mtl.
Disclaimer: There may be *some* bias as my wife’s maternal family come from Pawtucket.
Then OzyMandias forbearers proudly hails from Little Rhodey. I remember my dad’s company picnic being at Rocky Point park. Lincoln Chaffee was the Senator then and he would show up and shake hands. Electric Boat/General Dynamics @ Quonset Point employed a TON of people back in those days. My dad welded hulls for nuke submarines. At those picnics at Quonset Point I first fell in love with Naval Aviation watching the Blue Angels at the air show in August, with a piece of corn in my hand; they were flying the old A-4 Skyraider in those days.
I lived in Providence for Middle School; I was one hill over from Federal Hill, past Valley Street and up to Mount Pleasant Ave. We used to go to “the Hill” for the St. Joseph’s Day parade, back when Buddy Cianci was the Mayor… the First Time! (Before he put the cigarettes out on his wife’s paramour).
https://m.maploco.com/visited-states/mine.php?states=AL-AR-AZ-CA-CO-CT-DC-FL-GA-IA-IL-IN-KY-LA-MD-MI-MN-MO-MS-NC-NJ-NM-NV-NY-OH-OK-OR-PA-SC-TN-TX-UT-VA-VT-WA-WI-WV
Create Your Own Visited States Map
Mark Twain has a sad. *books riverboat trip*
Also, the irony is that even though my ancestors landed in North Carolina (after a brief stint in PA), I haven’t been there.
Accuweather is already unpersoned by Right Thinking Individuals.
Trump should propose Anthony Watts or Tony Heller for that position, then “compromise” with Myers.
Almost like each person has their own individual dignity and not just a replaceable exemplar of whatever class you assign them to. Weird.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST
Red Flag.
Weaponized hysteria?
Police outside Washington have said there is no threat to an office building that is occupied by USA Today and its publisher, Gannett, after the building was evacuated following reports of a man with a weapon.
Fairfax County Police Chief Col. Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said Wednesday afternoon that authorities had received a 911 call that an ex-employee was in the building with a weapon. In a second press conference later on in the day, Roessler later said he was “grateful” to report the incident was a “non-event.”
“We do not have any evidence that a crime occurred,” he said.
Roessler said the person who police had been looking for was located in a different part of Fairfax County and police were talking with that individual. He said there was no evidence that person had committed a crime.
Who could possibly have seen this coming?
Hide your kids! It could be a Satanic cult intending to steal them and murder them!
Hence USA Today.
It was my go-to newspaper when I was 4 years old and learning to read.
I guess false alarms are just the price we pay to make the media dial back the hysteria.
That’ or some other catastrophe, like a plane crash or clowns or Tide Pods.
This was also at Splinter:
The Terrifying Economic Risks That I Hope Are Keeping You Up at Night
Catastrophic Climate Change Risk. I’m not talking about some “Oh no, in 100 years we shall be flooded” thing here. Forget what happens to your damn grandkids. I’m talking about right now. The right kind of natural disaster could easily have enormous national economic consequences due not just to the impact of the disaster itself, but to the dawning realization on the general public that things they thought were safe are not in fact safe at all, sparking a panic. My personal favorite scenario: a huge hurricane hits Miami, destroying tens of billions of dollars of real estate value, causing all ability to insure Florida beachfront property to disappear, immediately sending the resale value of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of real estate plummeting towards zero, thereby devastating not just real estate owners but also lenders and the tax bases of state and local governments. This is not unlikely! You can run these scenarios with wildfires, too. Hey, sunshine.
OMG! Hurricanes never hit Miami and there were never any wildfires before the Global Warmings!
Those were the before times. In the long, long ago.
Massive destruction is the best thing for an economy. / Pauly Krugnuts
Happened in 1926. Missed happening in 1992 by like 10 miles. Happened in 2004 and 2005.
Getting rid of that subsidized flood insurance for those beach front condos would be a good thing.
Also, it’s not generally accepted that climate change increases hurricane incidence (even among people who otherwise accept the theory). I read today in fact a post about how climate change may have a negative correlation with hurricanes.
it’s not generally accepted that climate change increases hurricane incidence
Well, I hope not, since they were more common before the Global Warmings.
It’s likely, for example, that the 1933 season (which had held the record with 21 known tropical storms/hurricanes until 28 occurred in 2005) was just as busy as 2005. During 2005, there were 7 storms that didn’t reach 60 degrees west longitude – zero such known storms in 1933.
Until the satellite era (and really until the late 1970s) we know very little about what truly happened during hurricane seasons because we couldn’t see every storm and we couldn’t see the strength of every storm. Without satellites, for example, Subtropical Storm Andrea wouldn’t have been seen this past May (and until about 15 years ago, wouldn’t have been named anyways), Hurricane Barry’s 6 hours as a hurricane wouldn’t have been noticed, and Tropical Depression 3 wouldn’t have been designated as such either. So we’re at 3 storms (2 named) and about average ACE (accumulated cyclone energy) for the season, where under other circumstances we’d be at 1 tropical storm and below-average activity.
(Note that we’re probably below average now, and the modeling for the next month does not exactly look very busy in the Atlantic (the Pacific, on the other hand…))
Actually, scratch that. ACE is currently less than half normal than climatology for the Atlantic Basin through August 7 (3.6 vs 9.6 average). http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/
I think I was recalling the stat that we are having fewer major storms making landfall, in direct contravention to an olde Klimate Katastrophe talking point.
There were almost no head injuries in military hospitals before WW1, before the metal helmet. With helmets soldiers once killed had a chance to be merely wounded and live long enough to die in a proper hospital and get on a proper KIA list.
False flag?
https://www.infowars.com/death-camps-for-trump-supporters-fliers-posted-in-new-york/
Certainly could be, there are victimization glorifiers on all sides.
Probably, though with the rhetoric about immigration camps and how Trump Supporters are evil I wouldn’t say it’s completely out of the realm of possibility.
The oppressed upper middle-class. You don’t understand, those deplorables offend their secular faith
I have software that monitors all apps for in/out traffic and that site – uniquely – sets it off. I don’t know what they’re trying to shovel onto my computer but it’s not getting in.
The message reads something like “certain incoming data packets, e.g. in a connectionless protocol such as UDP or ICMP, it automatically denies these packets…”
I wonder what it is.
Russians. Gotta be the Russians.
I should add when I say “uniquely”, I mean that is the only website that sets it off. New apps & updated apps set it off until I approve them, etc.
The Man is completely screwing over local Minnesoda Woman.
Story is about a adopted girl who is fighting the bureaucracy to recognize that she is half Indian (the shitlords insist that she is 100% black). The root of the problem is bad paperwork when she was adopted. Half the bureaucrats keep telling her that they will fix it, the other half tell her that it cannot be fixed.
Of course the reason she wants to get her indian on is to get into more govt programs.
Something Something Easier to get a lake recognized as Indian than a black person in Trumps America Something something
And her adoptive parents are evil white devils I assume? How dare they sully the beauty of her POC-ness with their colorless subhuman existence. No white vermin have business caring for, loving and raising a precious POC soul.
No, I think it was her aunt who adopted her. Of course her adopted father also abandoned her (and the aunt) when she was young. So she is going to have some daddy issues that some shitlord in college will take advantage of.
All this and no Elizabeth Warren joke?
it’s implied
“When I was in school, we had to take a government class and the teacher was always talking about how the government helps you,”
Public schools are cancer.
Tricknology Level: Master
That poor black kid never had a chance.
I mean, good on him and all, but I haven’t anything that indicates his gun or permit factored into what he did at all.
That’s what I thought, but for some reason the permit seemed to be a prominent feature of a couple of stories I saw (sorry, no linkage).
I wonder if they are preparing the ground for a flurry of, “See? Guns won’t help. A good guy with a gun can do more good by leaving his gun at home” stories.
“See? Guns won’t help. A good guy with a gun can do more good by leaving his gun at home”
Now do cops.
I hope Alabama woman has a plan for when that dude gets out.
Dammit why do cheese curds start at ~$8/lb and go up from there?
Because good curds are worth it?
What is this I don’t even
Tell that to the Turks
It’s Istanbul, not Constantinople.
I routinely buy smaller blocks of actual cheese that cost 8bucks. First time grocery shopping?
He’s frustrated by basic tasks like circuit breakers and buying his own food.
Thatsa a spicy meatball!
I routinely buy blocks of complete cheese for far less than that. $8/lb is high for cheese, especially in a cheese producing region (NY/VT border)
$8 cheese is like an $8 hooker man.
*snicker*
Lies.
Admit it UCS. You buy blocks of cheese because you want to slice it yourself.
Pre-sliced cheese bugs you doesn’t it? You stay up all night wondering who cut the cheese.
Dude it is basic economics. Until peace returns to the Mid East (and Iraq in particular) Kurd prices are going to remain high. The nonsense in Turkey isn’t helping you either.
Face it, if you want your curd sandwich, you are gonna have to pay for it.
No Whey man
I’ll clabber the both of you.
You guys are gonna milk this for all its worth.
Y’all are gonna get in trouble. Just wait til Swiss shows up.
Which brings up the question: Is it better to buy cheese or just rennet and let it age?
So we are sticking with this line/lie I guess.
Saying that President Trump has “fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation,” Democratic presidential primary front-runner Joe Biden on Wednesday sought to directly link the president to the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
“The danger that Donald Trump and the alt-right pose to this nation isn’t hypothetical,” Biden said.
The charges by the former vice president – during a speech in Burlington, Iowa – came on the same day that Trump was traveling to El Paso to visit with law enforcement, first responders and victims of the shooting, which left at least 22 people dead. The president also stopped in Dayton, Ohio, the site of another mass shooting this past weekend.
They think this is going to get them votes? I wouldn’t count on it.
“We must root out an ill defined leaderless group and gin-up national fear about this unlikely problem”
War on Terror 2.0 {Soy Boy Edition}
“This Time It’s Gender Neutral”
I’ve been to all of the states that matter (the contiguous 48). What have I won?
Hawaii and Alaska matter.
https://news.yahoo.com/2-8chan-owner-called-u-004137145.html
8chan owner called before Congress and the site has lost its second hosting service.
Just so I understand (because there are a lot of “libertarians” who just shout “freedom of association” with regards to this topic, although they were singing a very different tune when we were talking about a small private bakery), in hindsight book burnings were fine so long as the people burning the books owned them?
Kabuki theater.
Also: the dood lives in the Philippines; if he refuses what are they gonna do? Send US Marshalls to drag him in?
Words are dangerous, Q. If a crazy person wrote something that makes your site worse than Hitler. Also, publishers shouldn’t be held responsible for what commentators write. Wait…I just contradicted myself.
That’s different because shut up.
Also, it should be noted that if the FBI is going to try tracking lone wolves, wouldn’t it be easier for them if they had a place to congregate? It’s going to be hella difficult to stop such attacks if they succeed in silencing people in the planning stages.
Should I keep hot grease on the stove all of the time?
It takes a long time to heat up. Longer than loading a musket, anyway.
Get yourself a concealed carry hot oil permit.
Sexy.
Keep the grease there, raise the flame, and if it starts boiling too much just throw water on it.
You’ll want to accessorize your hot grease with an iron skillet and a silicone pot holder.
I get my money from grease. What’s the problem?
Dinner at The Bachelor Farmer tonight. Damn!
I was going to make fun of you for going to a place that bills itself as an “eco-friendly” “experience” but they have whipped pork fat on the menu so you get a pass.
Nice! I heard it was good but a little precious. From their site:
*barf*
But I am interested in your impressions.
I need to eat a deep fried Twinkie to cleanse myself from that passage.
“pasture-raised chicken”
How exotic.
I’m turning 40 in a month, and my wife offered to take me anywhere I want for dinner. I need to start planning now.
Is the Bunny Ranch an option?
Haha. Great minds and what not.
Vegas is an option.
‘But Playa, there’s no restaurant called The Mud Pit In The Back Yard.’
Bunny Ranch?
Not sure I’d want to eat anything there.
The Bachelor Farmer is run on 100% Minnesota wind energy.
He must have one hell of a battery bank.
And electric stoves. Which I have never seen in a commercial kitchen.
Maybe they trade indulgences for reliable energy.
One prime carrot coming up – that’ll be $29.95.
Nothing says thoughful like demanding that your wine comes from grapes fertilized by a by an unshorn hippy casting a spell and burring crystals in the ground to invoke the cosmic powers.
Do they bury deer bladders at the end of each road by the light of a full moon? Are women on their period forbidden from entering the winery?
If not, then GTFO. It’s not biodynamic.
*row*, not *road*.
Marianne W concurs.
I’ll give you that their rhetoric is silly, but the food and wine are really, really good. That’s why I go there. That, and the gir, who nbrings out the groaning board is hotter than hell. Damn!
They raise, slaughter, and serve their own homegrown meat. I’m fine with their rhetoric.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7331299/Demi-Rose-PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Model-flaunts-assets-taut-midriff-plunging-black-bikini.html
When Brett posted a link about some lady throwing around a vat of heated fat, I thought maybe he took over your job.
Not so. The heated fat in Brett’s link was good for something.
I’m not going to sugarcoat this. Special K is not a) attractive or b) sincere looking in this picture.
She looks like she is going to throw a shit ton of binders at some poor assistant who fucked up and scheduled her to take this picture.
She has brass knuckles hidden in her purse and she’s got a craving for the feeling of an intern’s cheek getting shattered.
I bet she freezes the muffins so they do more damage.
Her nose looks like a penis with genital warts.
And how would you know what . . . . never mind.
Did Warren try this horseshit? “See, I am a genuine person with some of the same pursuits as you and not a total sociopath that spends every minute of every day seeking MOAR POWER. Look at my muffins.”
She will probably publish a cookbook of Granny’s recipes now (plagiarized from other run of the mill cookbooks).
Look at my muffins.
Ewww. Pass, Granma.
Worse than trying to pretend that she is a regular gal, Suthen.
Some staffer thought it would help her win votes if she would regularly announce that she just loved some dish from some shop in a small town. She agreed and then the staffers picked out some restaurants spread out in Minnesoda.
They tell the owner of the small bakery and the local media about how much Special K loves their muffins and that she will be posting some social media about it. The owner of the bakery gets all excited and the local media gets excited too.
Then the staffer tries to take a pic with Amy and the muffins and you can tell how pissed she is about having to pretend that she cares. Her disdain for the rubes of her state is pretty clear.
Who do you think you are .. her daddy was a NEWSPAPER MAN. And what are you? A nobody.
Klobuchar has visited all 87 counties in Minnesota and after tasting favorite local foods, she decided to showcase these Minnesota specialties-
87 counties and muffins is the best Minnesota can do? SAD.
At least she was smart enough to avoid lutefisk.
She looks like a member of the 7.
7? What the heck? Do you have Kavanaugh level beer goggles on? She’s a 3 on her best day.
Her policies are bad enough without ad hominem attacks on her looks. She just looks like a politician who can’t believe she has to do that (or at least feels she has to).
How Climate Change Is Becoming a Deadly Part of White Nationalism
While I hesitate to call it a trend, there are growing signs the right-wing populists are leaning into climate change and other environmental crises as a way to drum up support for their policies of exclusion and hate. Fox News and the president have had an undue influence on fueling anti-immigration hysteria, creating a dark kind of symbiotic feedback with the rising tide of hate in the U.S. While climate denial is still en vogue on Fox News and in the president’s addled brain, it’s fair to wonder if we could see ecofascist ideas start to slowly creep into more open public discourse.
*facepalm*
I was going to say “oh, did you train one of those AI text generators on” whatever website that’s a link to. Then I saw its a link to Gizmodo. WTF?
Did Jeff Tucker write that?
Except he would think that the solution to eco-fascism is laissez-faire economics.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
it’s fair to wonder if we could see ecofascist ideas start to slowly creep into more open public discourse.
You mean, like the Green New Deal?
/thread
Or GMO labeling, or pesticide bans, or hybrid car subsidies, or mandated percentages of solar and wind power, or…
Don’t read the comments.
Sweet Lord of Relish. Awful.
I would like to learn butchering practices, but alas my gnarled hands are of no use for finesse work.
I strongly urge you to try whatever art interests you. Some coordination is innate, but much more is crafty, and a great deal can be learned. That is to say that there are tricks to most things that can give you at least access if not mastery. There is craft in the tool itself, in how it is held, how the hand and the work are both fixtured, and the nature of the stroke. Then there is the art between you, the medium, and your audience; as an artist, you know that people are easily lead, that they see what you want them to, that as much can be implied as actually drawn and shown. So it is with most things and even at the butcher shop; think how easy it is to butterfly pork and know that much of the rest probably falls along that line.
And you can eat your mistakes.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/08/07/sanity-not-everyones-buying-frank-figliuzzis-theory-that-trumps-half-mast-order-is-white-supremacist-code/
Wait, wut? Trump putting flags at half mast over the shooting victims is a secret signal to Nazis? Signal for what?
I guess doing crazy aint got no end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNHDKxNghM
8th letter H; 8/8 so HH, Heil Hitler naturally follows. If only you weren’t blind so that you could see.
Holy shit! I married my first wife on 8/8. I never realized until now that I was a secret Nazi. They were right! They were always right!
Yeah, but who cuts your hair? I need pics to make a judgement.
That is just pathetic. And they have the balls to call Alex Jones a conspiracy theorist; that’s at least as nutty as anything he’s said.
*gay frogs hop away to hide*
RE: The rising tide of white supremacy!!!
This is a fully rhetorical question so feel no obligation to answer. If Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, racists, etc. etc. are becoming so numerous and powerful, how is electing a Democrat going to solve that? If a Jackass ascends to the throne, will all the haters just burst into flame?
Yes, just like killing the head vampire.
how is electing a Democrat going to solve that
Two step solution:
(1) Data-mining to identify deplorables. Facegoogleter will be delighted to assist.
(2) The camps.
1. call half the country deplorable
2. lose election
3. call half the country literal nazis
4 …
5. profit?
I know this is going to come as a surprise, but the people stoking the flames are lying and they know they are lying. The people that claim to believe the lies, are lying too.
The government will finally be able to round them up into camps, duh.
https://www.aier.org/article/fight-hate-celebrate-capitalism
FYI this is Tucker favorably quoting David Brooks.
I stopped paying attention to Tucker after he thought it would be cute to insult a man (who at one time he considered a friend) after he had just died. No one will remember Tucker in five years, people will still remember the man that he mocked
What incident are you referring to?
Justin Raimondo passing away. Tucker decided that that was the opportune time to announce that Raimondo was “divisive” for not just selling out on that issue and instead talking about the therapeutic value of markets or some other new age crap that Tucker is always going on about now.
I’m sure it really eats at him that he could disappear and no one would care, but Raimondo was mourned by people on the Left and Right.
Do you have a link?
I see the words ‘David’ coupled with the word ‘Brooks’ aaaaaaand….. I am done.
Eh this sort of pluralism sounds more like a very conformist, very statist brand of upper-class urban cosmopolitanism. And where is this pluralist rejection of “racial labels”? They seem to defend the “check you white privilege” nonsense. And if “settled truths” are bad then isn’t proclaiming the glories of “pluralism” a “settled truth”?
And Modernity. Isn’t this the sort of Hegelian historical determinism that Tucker complains about? And isn’t it nothing more than yelling “It’s Current Year” which has always been a awful argument. And the notion that things evolve and change and we ought to try new things but we will somehow end up believing the same things never made much sense to me.
How so? Are you saying the fact that I refuse to state that I love one of my parents more than the other by only recognizing his or her contribution to my heritage is me being conformist and statist?
I concede the upper-class cosmopolitan, as I just bought a new pair of Sperry Topsiders.
I think this line is the key, “We treasure precisely the integration that sends the antipluralists into panic fits.” Do we embrace pluralism because it is an effective system of people getting along and cooperating, or do we do it because the people we don’t like hate it?
OWN THE NATPOPS!
I am talking about David Brooks: He of the Obama’s creased pant leg and “down with freedomists”. Whatever sort of “pluralism” he advocates is basically the views of the proggie New York Upper-classes. You know statist and conformist.
Fair enough.
There is also the whole “people should live how they want, where they want, do what they want and think what they want but they better live in upper-class parts of New York and not dissent from their betters”. How Plural!
Jordan Peele said that was the message of his first film, “Get Out,” taking the whole Looks Exotic, Thinks Exactly Like Us thing and making it into a horror film…but no one got it.
Interesting, HM. I may give it a watch now.
The “good ethnic food” kind of pluralism, if you will. It’s both true that a strict anti-pluralistic order never really existed (and the times it was attempted, the results were catastrophic), but it’s also true that a high-minded wishy-washy self-indulgent pluralistic order never did, either. When Richard and Mildred Loving got the support of all the wheel-heeled liberals, they themselves were still marrying in-group only.
These movements are reactions against the
diversity, fluidity and interdependent natureinstability, uncertainty, and meaninglessness of modern life.Antipluralists yearn for a return to clear borders, settled truths and stable identities. They kill for a fantasy, a world that shines in their imaginations but never existed in real life.
Uh, that wasn’t a fantasy. All of those things used to have greater purchase than they do now.
We pluralists do not believe that human beings can be reduced to a single racial label.
Except white people.
Pluralists believe in integration, not separation.
Well, not counting the safe spaces and [insert POC] clubs and organizations.
Shhhh…Tucker is trying to be “respectable”. Which explains why he could give a damn about war now and entirely focuses on the therapeutic healing offered by free markets or something.
Get that Koch cash, Tucker
They may have had greater purchase, but that doesn’t mean they were real. Proof of this can be found in any history textbook. I mean, geez, doing some family tree research, my maternal great-grandfather’s immigration record states he was born in Horodenka, Austro-Hungarian Empire, his WWI draft card – Horodenka, Poland, and his death certificate, Horodenka, Ukraine. In one man’s lifetime (really only the span of 50 years), his birthplace jumped across borders three times. To be honest, history would be rather boring if it really were just a story of “clear borders, settled truths and stable identities”.
That’s true, and a good counterpoint to any claim that the world was so anti-pluralistic before, but after the war ended, nationalism became a big thing. Even after the next war ended, it remained the dominant mode of operation for much of the world (the U.S. notably excluded) for several decades (and still continues, e.g. in Japan).
Indeed. Ironically, I believe the UN had a lot to do with that, with every little group wanting their own flag and seat at the Assembly. There is also the Cold War, with the West encouraging nationalist movements to fight against the spread of a global Communism, and vice versa, with the USSR encouraging nationalist uprisings to chip away at the Commonwealth and French colonial holdings.
That having been said, Pan-Islamism, as represented by al-Qaeda and ISIS represent the first, credible threat to the modern-nation state ideology. Islamist thinkers have capitalized on the sense of resentment the Muslim world feels towards their place in the world and blame the fracturing of the Caliphate, post-WW1 by Western colonial powers into nation-states as an intention action to weaken global Islamic power. They view the Arab Revolt as a.) a mistake and b.) a Jewish/Masonic conspiracy.
Does that mean the Ottomans are getting rehabilitated among the Islamists? I thought the empire was seen as a phony Muslim charade perpetrated by Turks to keep the “true” Muslim Arabs down.
Pretty that is the case with Erdogan. Doesn’t he claim heir to the Ottoman. Of course he has no agenda of using that as an excuse to justify Turkish influence in the Middle East, right?
Holy Shit I fucked that up:
*Pretty Sure that is the case*
*Ottoman Empire?*
Among some, yes! For a taste, read the comments of any Youtube video of mehter songs.
As an aside, my good Somali friend, who is no Islamist, in fact he studies how to defeat radicalization, named his latest kid Erdogan.
They may have had greater purchase, but that doesn’t mean they were real.
I think the “reality” of things like “clear borders, settled truths and stable identities” is, like abstractions in general, largely determined by how much purchase they have.
In one man’s lifetime (really only the span of 50 years), his birthplace jumped across borders three times.
Well, I was thinking about the US borders, and not the borders of the Bloodlands during the disintegration of the A-H Empire and the world wars. Still, point taken that political borders are not eternal truths.
To clarify the first sentence is Tucker, the rest is David Brooks.
What is the problem with “stable identities”? Is Brooks talking about transgenderism, mental health or interracial children?
a symphony of identities.
He’s talking about his multiple personalities.
Because it represents stagnation. Are you the same person you were 10 years ago? 20 years ago? I hope not.
Eh don’t the reactionary Blood and Soil types also go on about the need to grow up and become real men and self-actualize yourself?
I would agree with all of that except the “self-actualization” part. In developing that concept, Maslow cribbed notes from Jung, whose theory of individualization was explicitly anti-fascist. Jung said of Hitler that he “seemed like the ‘double’ of a real person, as if Hitler the man might be hiding inside like an appendix, and deliberately so concealed in order not to disturb the mechanism … You know you could never talk to this man; because there is nobody there … It is not an individual; it is an entire nation”.
For collectivists and authoritarians, maturation is the process of forging one’s self into a useful cog for the collective. As you are part of the “organic” nation – a mere organ of the body politic. If identities can change, then there is a chance that such growth could prove “cancerous” (i.e., uncontrolled by the powers that be, if you will allow me this metaphor). As such, it is to be discouraged and prevented.
I should also point out that Brooks speaks of “interdependence” and “integration” which could easily mean becoming “a useful cog for the collective”.
Because it represents stagnation.
It can, I suppose, depending on what you include as “identity”. My identity as a white male American is unchanged, for example. If that’s stagnation, then so be it. I tend to view identity as core (self?) concepts, and not relative ephemera like jobs, political opinions, etc.
Stable doesn’t mean unchanging, either. I think the concept allows for some change, just not whiplash reversals on a whim.
Yes, your identity, that is how you construe the totality of what makes you, you, does include immutable characteristics – but it also includes things like “father” or “husband” – which you were not born as. I agree that stable doesn’t mean unchanging, and I don’t think Tucker was suggesting otherwise.
People also have class identities. (working class, ‘white collar professional’, etc.)… a pluralistic society allows for greater social mobility. I’ve lived in countries where if you were born a farmer, you’d die a farmer. You could have a doctorate in astrophysics, but if you didn’t have the right family name, you’d never get a job in any field “above your station”. Even compared to the UK, the instability of class identity in the US is exceptional and praiseworthy.
I dunno I think it’s still a penis going into another orifice, usually a vagina.
https://www.askmen.com/sex/sexual_experiences/then-now-20-years-of-sex-toys-positions-and-slang.html
“Bootie Ring (a cock ring and butt plug hybrid)”
Uhhh…
Also I should point out that Locke and Robespierre were perfectly willing to suppress and kill “enemies of liberty”. Liberalism has always had a weakness for the notion that in order to be free we can not tolerant those who oppose freedom and we might have to censor or even kill them if necessary.
Wow, what happened to professionalism? There is currently a system wide email slap fight because someone wrote to all CRNAs & MDAs. Evidently some physicians take offense to being referred to as MDAs. Who knew or cares? Now another posted that he doesn’t want to be referred to as a provider because that’s literally nazism.
https://thedeductible.com/2019/02/08/if-you-call-me-a-provider-i-will-assume-you-are-a-nazi/
Have your slapfest in private, dummies.
Well, teacher, you have a block indentation indicating a quote, but no citation. You have a [1] indicating a footnote, but no footnote. You translate Behandler to provider, which is something that no native speaker would do.
Please let me sit at your feet and learn, teacher.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Physicians aren’t especially brighter than the average bear, they just want you to think that.
What do you call the guy who graduated last in medical school, eh?
“Dipshit.”
Depends on how he identifies, shitlord.
Senator?
I had a doctor sit in front of me last week and diagnose me with alcohol withdrawal based on a description of muscle twitching before I fell asleep, a slight hand tremor (observed for a couple of seconds and not something new to me – family trait) and the statement that I had recently stopped drinking for a month.
Never mind that this was 5 days after my last drink and I had been completely fine every day leading up to that, or the fact that the muscle twitching didn’t come anywhere near an actual seizure, no, he was bound and determined to diagnose me with alcohol withdrawal.
So he scared my wife into taking me to the ER, where the more experienced and competent doctors asked me the questions he should have asked, held me for observation for a couple hours, gave me an IV, and told me it was dehydration and I should go home.
A lot of doctors are idiots with a checklist in their head, an “every problem is a nail” mentality, and a complete assurance of their own ability.
Toubleshooting has patterns whether you’re troubleshooting tech, or humans.
Some people can’t go off script, others can actually think the issues through.
The annoying part of that is that all the ER docs did was follow the standard script for diagnosis. This guy not only couldn’t go off script, he couldn’t even manage to use the script right.
Yep, I’ve known those guys too.
Also, good to know it was just dehydration and not DTs
Yeah, DTs aren’t going to wait five days to show up.
You translate Behandler to provider, which is something that no native speaker would do.
Neither does Google, which lists handler, practitioner, therapist. Interestingly, it also lists “ernaher” as the German term for “provider”.
Google translate, so grain of salt, but this make it looks like the whole spittle-flecked screed is based on a big nothing.
someone in the comments literally calling him petite bourgeoisie and he feels the need to defend himself instead of calling the commenter a commie sack of shit, so sad
Not only that, he argues he’s not part of the petite bourgeoisie because he scrimped and saved his whole life to put himself through school. Which is the same as me saying I’m not a big fat dago, just look at all the sweat stained XXXL track suits in my dirty clothes pile, look at all the pomade I have in my bathroom, and look at this tomato sauce I am stirring right now.
Dammit, I so wanted that to say childcare provider.
TL;DR – “Respect mah authoritah!”
I don’t really get it. My job is part of my identity. It’s how I get money to buy things. Then again I live a full life and have people I care about so…I’ve got that going for me.
Is not part of my identity
What a dumbfuck. Nazis called Jewish doctors providers, so anyone who does so is a Nazi.
I’ve had doctors whine about it (I use it as a collective term for all licensed/credentialed health care providers). Don’t care.
You have a professional license that permits you to do certain clinical procedures. So do other people who have different licenses. You were not born a doctor. There is no religion of doctorism – believe it or not, nobody worships you because you have an M.D.. Its a job, and if it all there is to you, then you are a very small person indeed.
Oh, and guess what, “doctor”: I have a doctorate degree, too. If you insist on me calling you doctor because you have a doctorate degree, then in fairness you should extend me (and every J.D. and Ph.D.) the same courtesy.
No matter what she browbeats people into calling her to her face, I have a fair idea what they call her when back is turned ..
I always said the should identity themselves as physicians, since many other non healthcare related people are doctors and there are healthcare providers which aren’t doctors.
You’ve never been to a bar mitzvah, have you?
Another fair point.
Sounds like the asshole whose insists his first name is “Doctor”. Enjoy being a chained whore under single payer.
It Might Be Time To Cut My Right-Wing, Trump-Loving In-Laws Out Of My Kids’ Lives
Bonus headline, also from the top of the page:
GRIEVING CITIES BRACE FOR HATE PREZ
Residents Brace For Trump’s Visit To Mass Shooting Sites
I think you sugarfreed the first link.
Wow…. that was impressive. Not sure how I managed that. In fact, I am quite sure that if you challenged me to repeat that mistake I would not be able to do it.
Also, they may have realized that this is a screed to far, as it is not longer at the top of the page.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-cutting-off-relatives_n_5d448ed4e4b0ca604e31f5ba
Not worth a full read but if they’re as despicable as she’s making them out to be, why hasn’t she already cut them out of her life?
Because if they actually exist, they’re more useful as a virtue signaling opportunity.
“It Might Be Time To Cut My Right-Wing, Trump-Loving In-Laws Out Of My Kids’ Lives”
Sure if you want your kids to hate and resent you.
Also: WTF does your husband say about this?
That woman is a horrible human being. And I mean that sincerely. If you cut family out of your life over politicians who could care less whether you live or die, you are a horrible human being and people should remind you of that everyday.
I have no idea about the political leanings of half my immediate family, and the others are center-left to left. I cut politics out instead and it’s quite pleasant.
My brother turned me on to libertarianism, but he’s the only one I talk with about politics.
If a friend or relative cuts you off because of politics they’re unwittingly doing you a favor.
And she’ll be absolutely shocked and offended when they cut her and her kids out of their will.
And Andy would Ngo.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/06/dayton-shooter-may-be-antifas-first-mass-killer/
By definition, no.
You see, I’ve read up on this stuff, so I know how it works. Just head over to the ADL or the SPLC if you need pointers.
Here’s the basics: If a white guy can be linked to a hate group or ideology, then his crime counts as a hate crime. Even if he isn’t really a member of any groups per se, and even if the crime is not clearly a politically motivated crime – as in white supremacist dude shoots his parents.
Now, if a left wing activist type clearly expresses intent that his crime is political in nature and leaves a manifesto to that effect, it still might not count as left wing violence. As in, the shooting at the RNC baseball team. First, if you are not associated with an organized group, that is by definition the action of a lone wolf. Second, if Antifa is involved, there is no organized hierarchy or rules of membership, or even formal membership…. so by definition you cannot be guilty of political violence on behalf of Antifa.
See, once you are properly educated on these matters it is easy. Finally, when in doubt just use the quick rule of thumb – if it was a white dude and people are upset about it, it was a white supremacist hate crime of some sort. And if not… well, we need to implement gun control because there is too much gun violence It is all pretty simple, really.
I still don’t know how they manage to bluff the MSM into believing that whopper.
Because the MSM wants to believe it.
Exactly.
After their coming out party at Charlottesville, it took me all of 30 seconds searching on the internet to find their chat rooms and listen in on their conversations as they planned their attacks.
People believe what they want to believe.
Hang on, lemme see if my che shirt has anything to say about this ..
I think this is a stretch.
Michael Malice
“It makes far more sense to hold the press complicit for the innocents slaughtered in the wars they fomented than to hold gun owners complicit for the innocents murdered in the mass shootings they despise.”
Something something don’t stick it in crazy something
https://nypost.com/2019/08/07/georgia-womans-viral-rant-says-shes-infecting-men-with-hiv/
Somehow I have a feeling that the people who want to force vaccinations on everyone don’t think this woman should be held accountable for this stunt
I’m … not sure how those things are related?
(SLD: Vaccinations should not be mandatory. However, I reserve the right to call you a moron if you don’t vaccinate.)
There’s even a larger problem that there may not be a way around.
For diseases that have no animal reservoir, like HIV or HPV for instance, and have an available vaccine, things get complicated. Because a proper universal round of vaccination will completely eradicate the disease.
We have only accomplished this once. Those of you who are on the younger side can look at your left shoulder and notice that you don’t have a round scar that your older compatriots all have. That’s because smallpox doesn’t exist in the wild any more, and nobody needs to be vaccinated for it ever again. Smallpox was easy to mobilize people against because it was unbelievably contagious and very damaging, and often fatal. So people who were familiar with a disease that killed some 300 million to 500 million people worldwide were not all that concerned about edge cases in theory of government, and the disease was eradicated.
We are very, very close to doing the same thing with polio. Polio put huge numbers of people into iron lungs. Back in the 50’s it was a visceral and close problem. So people got on board. But it isn’t anymore, because vaccination beat the disease back. And now crackpot conspiracy theories and tinpot dictatorships are holding up the last remaining reservoirs from being completely vaccinated. So we all have to get our kids vaccinated here in the US, just in case it breaks out again. (which it would, absent the immunity granted by the vaccine)
HPV is a virus that could be eliminated this way in a single generation. If everyone worldwide took the vaccine for one cycle of humanity, the virus would be killed off and nobody would have to get vaccinated for it again, and we’d eliminate huge numbers of cancer cases to boot.
But it only works if we get it all. Otherwise, everyone has to keep getting vaccinated while we wait for those last holdouts.
My piano teacher was a polio survivor .. and now I have to watch these know-nothings argue from such a position of luxury, having been completely insulated from the reality of that .. maddening.
I’m not sure it’s accurate to say HIV has no animal reservoir. The most common theory of its origin is a crossover from SIV. While the two are distinct, as long as SIV exists there’s a potential for HIV to reappear. And, of course, there is no vaccine for HIV.
Yet.
There is no vaccine yet.
But it does appear that there may soon be a treatment based on CRISPER technology that completely eliminates the virus from the body. No idea if it is ever going to be an actual treatment, but it is pretty damned cool biology either way.
Good summary.
It also piqued an old memory of little girl Hayek asking my mom what that circle on her left arm was. And she explained about smallpox and vaccines and how it all worked.
I was one of those “why?” “Why?” Kids, and I’m happy to say my mom was up to it. She didn’t have a degree but was smart, well-read and practical.
It was also a jarring reminder of the age gap when I first saw Mr Splosives smallpox vaccine scar.
This woman is willfully spreading disease. If you refuse to get yourself or your children vaccinated, then you are at risk of doing the same thing.
Or so the argument goes. I don’t know if any people actually exist who believe both that you have the right to infect others knowingly with HIV and also that you should be forced to get vaccinated, though.
When you sleep around like that while infecting others with a deadly disease and brag about it on camera you’re almost certainly going to be held accountable. If she doesn’t go to prison she’ll be found face down in a ditch.
That’s something that I often wonder about. Because if you intentionally infected me with a fatal disease, I’d seriously consider chopping you into little pieces and feeding that to the hogs. At least, I think I would.
But almost nobody ever does such things.
Guys get framed for capital murder and after they are exonerated they just walk away, happy to be free of the ordeal.
You’d think we were a lot more like a character in a Charles Bronson movie, but we really aren’t. Ron Goldman is about as close as we seem to get to going all “death wish” on somebody, and he managed to restrain himself and simply go after a civil judgement. (all though if OJ ever shows up chopped up and fed to the hogs, we all know who the prime suspect is)
I only know of one such case. It happened in Atlanta in the College Park area. Quick version – 15 year old girl gets raped. Police are looking for the guy, but 2 weeks along they haven’t found him. Finally, they break in with a story on the local news. Apparently the police have found him. Naked, in the middle of the busiest street in that part of town, badly beaten and with a pair of vice grips attached to the remnants of his junk. It seems that he was dragged to his present location by said pair of pliers.
And as the police lieutenant informed us in the interview with a bit of a grin – nobody saw anything at all. At noon. In the busiest area in town.
How often does a deliberate Typhoid Mary out herself though? It’s one thing to suspect someone of giving you, or trying to give you, HIV, it’s another thing to have to have those suspicions confirmed by a confession of the perpetrator. You’re right though, I don’t know what I would do in that situation until it happened but I suspect I’d be pretty pissed.
There is also good chance that guy was innocent.
As is often the case with lynchings.
I believe in not allowing them to be found anywhere.
+ 1 hole in the desert
Reminder: The Republican Party and the MSM were always terrible. Also many abolitionists had some pretty awful social and economic ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley
Nobody cares.
Thomas Nast has a happy.
At the time of the party’s founding, the Republican Party was the left-wing party (mostly). Of course, the political issues of the day did not reduce so easily to a left-right spectrum, but anybody who knows much about the Civil War should be aware of the existence of the Radical Republicans.
The Democrats were mostly capitalists until the 1930s (exception: Wilson), with the Republicans being mostly mercantilist until the 1970s (exception: Coolidge). Progressivism was a cross-party movement (and still is, to some extent).
“Progressivism was a cross-party movement (and still is, to some extent).”
Yup, they get both legitimate parties. The Dems and the Greens.
(read that in your best Blues Brother’s voice )
There’s progressives in the Republican Party, too. Before its recent demise in California, that state’s GOP was trending pretty progressive. But a triple whammy of Arnold’s affair, the jungle primary (RACIST!), and the local unpopularity of the national party did it in.
Now, you can typically identify the progressive Republicans 1-to-1 with the NeverTrumpers.
The progressive movement started in the Republican Party. Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive President.
Yes, but his immediate (and hand-picked!) successor Taft dialed it back substantially, and Wilson the Democrat became the arch-progressive (some say, due to his wife) before FDR.
Agreed. I just think it’s important that people realize the proggyism is rife in both parties, the difference lies in the type of government control each side wants.
Dr. Joel N. Myers, AccuWeather Founder and CEO<——my new hero
Coincidentally, or not, the estranged founder of the Weather Channel is also a climate denier.
Odd; I got the impression that Weather Channel is all aboard the AGw thang.
He sold them to NBC a while ago.
An Atlantic contributor has a wise suggestion for the current hysteria: Let’s Not Redo the War on Terror at Home.
“Chat rooms are full of people expressing sundry offensive—even reprehensible—political visions. ”
News to me.
You new around here?
I noticed a few years ago the desire among some on the left to turn the intelligence and counter-terrorism apparatus inward. I didn’t think they’d get so open and large a following so quickly, though. Now, there’s only a handful of (vocal) left-wing civil libertarians, but they all get accused of being Russian plants.
Heh, the intelligence apparatus has been chomping at the bit to do just that. They’re all top men after all.
Can you prove they’re not?
Thought so.
off-topic: do you notice how online, it seems like “proof” is often requested in lieu of actually engaging in argument? Say, I’m arguing that the blue color of the sky has some effect on somesuch, and comes the reply about [citation needed] on the blueness of the sky, and then what does blue even mean, really, if each of our individual existences is experienced only through the subjective lens of the self.
Yes, and it’s typically juxtaposed against a circle-jerking style of “argument” where “proof” is just everyone’s shared beliefs reinforced by agreeable “sources”.
Consensus!
And racists!
if each of our individual existences is experienced only through the subjective lens of the self
Ah, the poisonous narcissism of post-modernism.
It’s an easy sell to college freshmen.
I think the JP bit goes like “if you believe in post-modernism and the subjective nature of reality then you’re own beliefs are no more real or true than anyone else’s.” IOW, you cannot actually believe post-modernism, because post-modernism invalidates itself.
‘Cause Trump. When things get so bad we need TOP MEN to save us for the bad people.
It’s amazing how easily history can repeat itself. If we empower the state enough, this time it won’t be captured by reactionary forces!
Weird but I’ll probably give it a shot. Don’t have High Life but I have some Miller Lite. Close enough. I do have Aperol and lemons.
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/wet-city-brewing-spaghett
That actually sounds pretty good.
I’d probably up the amount of Aperol but that does sound refreshing.
Damn I love the Babylon Bee, part a lot.
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-legislation-targeting-violent-gun-wielding-groups-accidentally-bans-government
That’s good.
They have a whole slew of awesome new ones today.
Including this gem:
https://babylonbee.com/news/why-cant-we-return-to-how-peaceful-the-world-was-before-guns
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-aides-forced-to-use-the-spray-bottle-again
I linked to a feminist opinion piece today that was almost that exact view on history, minus the guns and plus some mushroom worship
Trump’s genitals!?
Even dumber than that
https://babylonbee.com/news/proud-mom-declares-son-to-be-transgender-after-he-briefly-walks-through-barbie-aisle
“Kale” – LOLOL
Is the bird headed to the USSC ?
https://appellate.nccourts.org/opinions/?c=2&pdf=37953
PS: NC is dumb
What a crock, flipping someone off is neither a crime nor an indication of a crime having been committed. This is nothing other than a judge bending over backwards to justify an unlawful stop.
The appropriate judgement would be for the judge to flip off the cop right there in the courtroom and rule in favor of the person stopped.
But then the judge’s kid would have to get a DUI charge like an ordinary peasant.
“I never liked her anyway”
The more I see it, the more I think “totality of the circumstances” is an actual FYTW clause.
Work can be better for kids than school. No doubt.
https://fee.org/articles/work-can-be-better-for-kids-than-school/
No shit, Sherlock. They actually had to study that.
Time to do the proper libertarian thing and pull the kid out of school to go work in the coal mines.
“Intersectionality is increasing white nationalism.”
https://twitter.com/DrDebraSoh/status/1156330016881434624
“Intersectionalism Is Nonsense. But the Backlash Against It Is Very Real”
https://quillette.com/2019/07/30/intersectionalism-is-nonsense-but-the-backlash-against-it-is-very-real/
“To be clear, I share the intersectionalists’ abhorrence with actual white nationalist and white supremacist ideas. I’ve realized, however, that everyone who is categorized under these labels does not belong to a single homogenous group. Some don’t, in fact, think less of minorities, or believe that white people are superior. Their political activism, in this case, is motivated by a desire to support a group (their own) that they believe has been demoted to the bottom of society’s status totem pole. To the extent that these nationalistic activists argue there should be no totem pole whatsoever, they are at least nominally basing their appeal in the liberal notion of individual equality. Their slogans and behavior often aren’t polite or excusable. But understanding how they come to their views is a more effective response than simply denouncing them as Nazis, an approach that has made it impossible to have any sort of logical or constructive dialogue.
Some well-known “intersectional” journalists have even taken to smearing mainstream media outlets that publish anything they disagree with—including Quillette—as “white nationalist” journalism. But a reasonable person might ask: If that’s the case, why does Quillette have an Asian woman (i.e., me) as one of its few regular columnists? Ask this question in a public forum, and the response from intersectionalists will be—I promise you—to bring up examples of Jews acting as Nazi collaborators. More broadly, those of us who are not white, but who question prevailing orthodoxies about race, often are dismissed as “useful idiots” and media “opportunists,” instead of being considered independent thinkers. Who is the real racist here?
“Everyone I don’t like is Hitler” used to be a funny internet meme. But it’s become a fairly accurate description of intersectionalist rhetoric—a phenomenon that isn’t funny at all. This kind of rhetoric doesn’t mend divisiveness within society. And doubling down whenever anyone questions it only serves to alienate potential allies who oppose racism and reverse racism alike—myself included.”
To be clear, I share the intersectionalists’ abhorrence with actual white nationalist and white supremacist ideas.
The bowing and scraping in failed attempts to keep the woke mobs at bay is very tiresome.
And pointless. They’re going to come for her scalp anyway.
What’s infuriating about that statement is that intersectionalists don’t abhor those ideas, they just don’t like the “white” part of them. They subscribe fully to the concept, they just root for a different team. And the thing is, outside of a particular minority of people, pretty much everyone abhors white nationalism and white supremacy. I’ll go out on a limb and say that most people who aren’t victims of some sort of trauma and also aren’t assholes abhor racial or ethnic supremacy, period. So saying it in such a way that you’re ascribing those values to a specific group, particularly when that group doesn’t really feel that way, is real, real annoying.
If you read the whole paragraph, I think it is clear she isn’t doing that.
Delete the sentence, and it doesn’t affect the rest of her arguments at all. It serves no other purpose that I can tell.
She is making a distinction between sets of ideas.
That Twitter thread is a cesspool. From apologetics for Arab slavery practices to the proposal that identity politics is only used to heal.
Fixed.
“The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.”
Yes, of course, you have no agency in your own identity. This totally explains the explosion of identities over the last two decades. The oppressors are investing massive effort in generation an endless supply of identity groups so they can properly keep them down.
Herein lies the problem.
“Criticizing racism does not spawn racism.”
They do not perceive that they use racism as a substitute for actual argumentation in almost every facet of life and politics. If you disagree, you are racist, end of story. So naturally, they are repelled by the idea that their over application of the term is helping to radicalize their opposition.
I like to point out that Richard Carranza thinks that “individualism” is “White supremacy”. So literally disagreeing with them on anything makes you a racist who deserves to be censored.
If you think it’s appropriate for blacks or other racial groups to form collectives to agitate for preferential treatment, then have to expect that whites will respond in kind
It’s a system designed to generate strife and ethnic bloodshed.
The idea is that white people are “privileged” so discriminating and hating them is a good thing.
Considering how hatred of a “privileged” ethnic group has caused exactly that then yes. See the Holocaust, Rwanda or attacks on Chinese immigrants…
That guy is so toxic I think even “mainstream” New Yorkers are turning on him.
“This is what an updated Home Alone would actually look like.”
https://twitter.com/IncredibleCulk/status/1159215737006804993
LOLOLOL
Damn you!
Whatever else is goin’ on with that dude these days he seems like a good sport.
He actually looks healthy. Which is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBYmWHwMC30
Disney wants to reboot Home Alone. What the fuck? How will they deal with cell phones and internet which severally undermine the credibility of an already very unrealistic premise? And they will likely tone down the violence and eliminate the BB gun which destroys much of what made the original so popular: wish fulfillment and slapstick violence. And leaving children unattended is much more ostracised then in 1990.
Well Kevin will probably be a black girl with a single mom so all will be good.
https://twitter.com/IncredibleCulk/status/1159215737006804993
INT. NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE – DAY
We briefly see NOSY NEIGHBOR dialing the cops.
A title card appears reading “Five minutes later…”
CUT TO:
EXT. THE KID’S HOUSE – DAY
The front door is open.
BLAM-BLAM-BLAM-BLAM!
-Fin-
Ok, but is the girl and/or mom hot?
No, since that appeals to the Male Gaze. Need to make her a mannish, nonbinary person.
It’s still Hollywood, dude.
True story, I had a fairly horrific car accident while on the way to see that movie when it was released. I got off lucky.
John Hughes doing somersaults in his grave.
Also I don’t think Disney will let me see George White’s Scandals anytime soon. Oh the irony.
And will The Littlest Rebel get censored?
An interesting website I ran across yesterday while doing a search related to the swords thread that sells ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and other artifacts for not an insane amount of money:
http://www.ancientresource.com/index.html
I’m thinking a nice amulet of Priapus would be just the thing to spiff up my house.
You know you can just order some Viagra from the Philippines for less money, right?
I figure just giving him a grape on the way out the door every morning would be cheaper.
Jeez, that looks like a site you could get lost for a couple hours in.
I missed my opportunity
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/76/8/g-young-engraved-colt-millikin-dragoon-revolver
That’s really nice. I would have thought the price would have been higher.
Some of that shit is pretty cool.
Damn you, Stinky.
VW is going to dial back their current excellent 6/72 warranty in 2020. If you’re in the market for a new v dub, do it this year.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/07/29/vw-reduces-warranty-coverage-period/