I hope all of our Kaleforniuh Glibs are safe, after the earfquakes and aftershocks. A lot of ill-will is sent CA’s way on these pages, but I would think we could all agree that we don’t want people hurt and things broken.
There, with the kind thoughts expressed, time to link (not so kindly):
- Yes, because Georgia is clearly looking to pick a fight with its smaller neighbor… Russia. Like the Russians need some cheap excuse to pry another piece off of the “near abroad”. @#$% slavers.
- Looks like UK Labour has decided to mimic TEAM BLUE here in the US. What on Earth is the matter with these people?
- No word if STEVE SMITH has vacationed in the Balearic Islands.
- Yes! Let all the clowns into the circus.
- I. Am. Wary.
Music – old song, woman with a delightful voice.
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Tom who?
Rich. Enviro-scum. Wants to be Green King of us all.
Green King
Reminds me of a card game the girl just got Sleeping Queens. The queens need to be woken up by various kings you get in your hand. Chess king, Tool king, Bubble Gum king… Green king could have very easily been on that list I think.
Fun game for kids to.
CK: Garry Kasaprov
TK: Danny Carey
BK: William Wrigley
GK: Snoop
That is, like, so problematic I can’t even.
Wasn’t Epstein a self described billionaire environmentalist, too?
Apparently he does like them “green”.
In a perfect world, 15 would be legal.
I’d rather settle for The King In Yellow than any of that lot.
“No mask? No mask!”
-1 Carcosa
When you think the world can’t get any crazier along comes another election
“Billionaire Tom Steyer to join crowded 2020 presidential race”
Another rich white guy. Yeah, he’s got a chance. *snicker*
Honk honk!
“Hey if Trump can be president, why not me?”
HOLD MY FRUITY ULTRA-HIPPY BREWERY BEER AND WATCH THIS!
Monday sucks.
Only if you don’t count Tuesday-Thursday. Friday mornings are bad, too
/remembers the ‘old days’
Ah. Good old “Thirsty Thursday” has indeed ruined many a Friday morn for this fellow…
Not to mention Tipsy Tuesdays… Munted Mondays… Wasted Wednesdays…
Saturday is my favorite. Wife and I are both retired so one day is like another but for some reason Saturday is the day we do nothing, have a few good shows recorded and I habitually call my brother on Saturday.
Yeah, Monday sucks, this one in particular.
How’s the arm? I noted that you mentioned something disturbing about a “flap of flesh” yesterday. *shudders*
^^This. Heard about your arm, hope it’s recovering okay, man.
It is recovering just fine. No pain and no sign of infection but I have to stay on top of it.
Today is the day we put the dog down. I hate that so bad. I am gonna consult with the vet and see if there is any way we can get around that. If there is any way at all I will take it.
Glad your arm is recovering smoothly. Oh jeez though, hope they don’t have to put ’em down, but damn.
The wound news is positive but other than muzzling or drugging, I can’t see how you can make the situation work with the doggo. All my best to you and the Missus, regardless.
Thank you. I am just gonna have to suck it up and do what needs to be done. I will make a last ditch effort to get around it but I am pretty sure nobody is gonna take this guy.
Suthen, it’s a very tough thing to have to do. We had to euthanize one of our original dogs due to a similar incident- she attacked one of our other dogs out of the blue, biting my wife in the process. For our dog, we think it was due to pain (she was very arthritic from two knee surgeries), but we knew we couldn’t risk it happening again. Toughest decision I’ve ever had to make.
I’m sorry about your dog, that’s a really, really tough decision to make. I know there are some rescues that specialize in “problem” dogs. Maybe the vet knows of one around you.
Sorry, Suthen.
Yep – back at the grindstone after 9 days of boozin’ and tokin’. Needless to say I had a hard tine falling asleep thinking of all the junk I have to work on when I get back.
Ugh. I’ve suffered from Sunday night insomnia since I was five years old. Just a fretful guy.
That’s my nature too – hard to shut off that plannin’ and a schemin’ brain of mine. I usually fall asleep while planning the next chapter of a book I’m working on, or the next car mod, or the work I need to do around the house. I need those “distractions” from my real job which requires a lot more brain power than the hobbies in my life.
Here’s what works for me when I can’t sleep, which is rare. I just run this song through my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp_djIuQ2Cw
I usually do this song,,,,,
I love freedom of choice!
Gabunia also called Putin “an occupier” and said he and his “slaves” should get out of Georgia
Stonewall Putin.
So when is his statue gonna be vandalized?
Poor Mick met some “Back Door Men”.
The Taliban’s relationship with Al-Qaeda was the main reason for the US invasion nearly 18 years ago
That relationship is old enough to be legal now.
Kids are training that weren’t even born when we first invaded. Ridiculous.
Just one more surge and we’ll have it!
Hey-yo! So too old for OMWC?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/world/europe/kosciusko-belarus-memorial.html
“He belongs to the whole world as a true democrat and a fighter for freedom.”
MS named a city for him; Oprah was born there.
I have it on good authority that it’s pronounced “kozzy-US-ko”.
That’s what most attempt, but we usually only manage kozzy-ES-ko. In MS, the laziest method wins most things.
Here in NYC they say “ko-SHOOS-ko”. I only knew the Aussie pronunciation before I moved here.
Highest mountain in Australia
That Blossom Dearie tune is catchy. The oldies station here plays a couple of her songs.
Mad Magazine once had a fake album by her, “Blossom Dearie Plays for the Weary”.
Dwyer’s campaign will focus on how the economy isn’t as good as people think.
I actually agree with this, it is funny though since a lot of democrats (Krugman for example) claim that the boom is all Obama’s doing coming to fruition
Steyer’s*
My phone really doesn’t like his name
Maybe your phone is foretelling Steyer’s future, a la Bud Dwyer.
Yeah, they said that about Jimmy Carter too. I am not sure if they believe their own bullshit or if they think we do.
*makes jerkoff motion and a raspberry*
They’re all just paving the way for the triumphant return of Hillary who will ride in on a white horse to attempt to save the Democrats from themselves.
^This^
I’d put money on it.
Every time I tell myself “they can’t be stupid enough to run her again” I have to remember that they ran her last time when it made about as much sense as it would now. At this point I’m just wondering about the timing.
And then promptly stroke out on stage, torpedoing her campaign.
The question is, will she bet on a brokered convention and wait until then? Or enter just in time for Iowa and New Hampshire?
Hillary on Heroin?
I’m reconsidering my vote.
He had 8 years. Unless he fucked around the first 6 and only did stuff at the end, he can’t take any credit.
And coincidentally, those last two he had a total R congress, meaning he was least likely to get anything he wanted.
TW: Daily Beast
How Socialism Made America Great
game set match
financial crisis of 07-08 (that’s 2007 mind you) says hello.
I personally never recovered from the last melt-down and will never retire. Changing career paths at a later age only to see your industry pretty much wiped out in a matter of months will do that to a guy. I’ll probably die with a mop in my hands.
Yeah, it pretty much took the wind out of the sails on my career path just as I was about to peak. Only recently age and real experience seems to be getting valued again for expats in Asia (judging from the experiences of other silverbacks I know) so hopefully I can grind something out of the years I have left.
Best of luck to you! I moved from forestry to commercial construction supplies in 2007. When the bottom fell out I had no tickets, no diplomas and an aging body. Too late to qualify for retraining and set in my ways. I’ll dither on, just like I always have.
For my industry, things moved sideways after the post 9/11 and never really came back.
Tour Guide in the Afghan-Pak border area?
Durand Tour Lines?
I’ve worked for corporate profiteers for the last 25 years. It’s worked out well. I could retire right now, but I would have to cover my healthcare costs, so I’ll wait another three years or so.
Well yes, it usually winds up making a country into an authoritarian dictatorship one (Venezuela) or one that ends up realizing they were better off with a freer market (Sweden).
Adaptive in the ways the authorities would kill people?
Inclusive in the wide range of groups being killed?
That’s not real socialism!
You’re right. Needs more bodies.
Shorter Jack Schwartz: “I am ‘tarded” *dances around waving arms wildly*
^^THIS^^
Freaking stupid scros..
They’re just pissed that Snidely Whiplash and friends built schools and libraries before hero bureaucrats got around to it.
Damnit! Foiled again by 8th grade American history.
This drives me insane when someone believes they are intellectually superior to you by spouting off the government drivel they were taught in jr high.
I caught on early that 8th grade civics class was pretty much propaganda
Yeah, when they taught that WWII got us out of The Great Depression, I started getting suspicious.
That BS has been around a long time. Roosevelt saved us, according to my Mom and the teachers reinforced it.
Well, there is some argument to be made that when the rest of the industrialized world’s manufacturing capacity was bombed into oblivion, and the US then got to take up the slack after the war ended, it was a big boom for the economy. But the argument that it was the war that did it is certainly misleading if you don’t explain why.
Agreed. I didn’t know of the “broken window fallacy” at the time, but that was the gist of my feelings toward the idea that a war could boost an economy. Later I learned what you’re talking about.
Yup. I am with you. And the people that sell the broken window fallacy have a vested interest in you not realizing that this was more luck than anything else. They also leave out that while the period after the war was a boom for US manufacturing, that changed a few decades later as the countries that had had to rebuild their manufacturing sector back up from scratch, often with US aid – like Japan and Germany – ended up with far more modern manufacturing capabilities that then really derailed that free ride.
Also add that the war motivated the government to ease off on the regulatory regime in order to get the factories producing at peak capacity, and they never returned to that level of meddling when peace came and all of America’s competition had been destroyed (as you mentioned), meaning the beast had been unleashed at a prime opportunity.
Top down economies suck, but the people that want them will never give up on them, because there is power in that. Whether they do it under the guise of picking the winners and losers or for whatever other reason, the motivation is always power and making sure that only those they approve of do well. They know their system is a failed and broken one, as you can see whenever someone comes along that decides to get rid of that top down control (whether it is because you need peak capacity for war or you don’t buy into the SJW bullshit).
“the rest of the industrialized world’s manufacturing capacity was bombed into oblivion”
This is always exaggerated. Factories can be rebuilt pretty quickly.
The fact of the matter is half the planet after WWII chose centrally planned economies and therefore made themselves even worse off than before war. But the reduced competition certainly helped the US and the parts of the world that retained market economies.
So in that sense socialism DID make America great for a couple decades after WWII.
In one sense the war did get the US “out” of the GD – especially when it came to jobs.
BUT, the war did not “fix” the economy. In fact, there was a lot of fear around that there would be a massive downturn in 1946 or 1947, to the extent that some government economists were advising against demobilizing large numbers of troops because of the employment issues it would create.
As Bob Murphy points out, conservatives who argue that WWII “fixed” the economy are just as much Keynesians as those progressives who supported the New Deal.
In some ways I believe it could be argued that the GI Bill was a major component of how well the US economy performed post-WWII. It gave the returning GI’s something else to do for a few years before returning to the workforce. And when they did return many of them had much more useful skills to apply.
I think there’s some good evidence for that. Added to it was the jump in jobs in both high schools and colleges as more people sought more education. And the WWII vets then pushed more of their kids to go to college. Of course, it wasn’t sustainable and the 1970s was largely the unraveling of the 1960s economic problems. It lasted for so long because of the economic illiteracy of at least four presidents.
“as more people sought more education. ”
Another exaggeration.
To reduce job competition for returning vets, compulsory education was extended from 8 years to 12. “Free High School” and propaganda like that. Anyone born before WWII remember when two-thirds of secondary school students were learning trades of some sort, only about a third were going for general studies and only about a quarter had any post-secondary schooling plans. People weren’t seeking more education, they were being forced into it. The armed services were a rite of passage for most males from 1945-1965 or so. The Viet Nam debacle is what changed that – college enrollment meant draft deferment.
I’m sure someone could write something worth reading in which they quote Gore Vidal favorably, but I’ve never seen it happen.
Look at all that unfettered free marketing.
Thoughts from the Gold Cup Final:
Michael Bradley sucks.
Gregg Berhalter sucks.
^^^THIS^^^
I swear it seemed like every pass he made went right to a Mexican player and he generally had no clue where to be. It really says something about US soccer that he continues to make the team 🙁
Driving around yesterday I learned from ESPN that having two other soccer matches on the same day as the Women’s World Cup finals is a complete travesty. No one should ever schedule anything else on that sacred day. Only Shitlords of the Patriarchy would have the gall to play their stupid soccer games.
I swear at least three different ESPN radio shows had people on to rant about how great the US women’s team was and how we don’t appreciate them enough.
I wonder what the ratings were for the different soccer games.
At least the Fox commentators weren’t having any of that.
PS. The gals didn’t get prime time, as I’m sure they will be happy to point out to everyone in the coming days.
I missed a lot of the gold cup games because they start too late for me. The women’s game was on at 11 am (in the good time zone) on Fox and the men’s game didn’t start until 9 pm on FS1. Wouldn’t that boost the women’s game rating?
Both games appeared to be sold out FWIW. Although the men’s crowd was heavily pro-Mexico (in Chicago).
Maybe, esp. for a Sunday. I’m a night person so my thinking might be skewed.
The game was played at, what, 5 PM in France? Not technically prime time, but a good Sunday afternoon time.
The NFL, who knows a thing or two about scheduling, doesnt schedule Sunday playoff games during prime time. The premium game is Sunday late afternoon.
Yeah, I didn’t think of the “France” part. I’ll go to the back of the class now.
From what I know, Europe rarely holds sporting events on Sunday evenings.
Wait there was a women’s world cup? I could care less unless they were stripping on the field…
11 girls and one cup?
*narrows gaze*
Somewhat in comparison: Egypt were eliminated in the last 16 of AFCON by South Africa. The manager was fired the next day and said “of course I am responsible.” The president of the Egyptian FA resigned the same day the manager as fired saying he had a “moral obligation” to do so.
Saw that. It was a home game and they were expected to win the whole thing. I snickered a bit at their expense.
But yeah, I can’t imagine, say, Jill Ellis getting sacked if something similar happened. For some reason US soccer always holds onto managers well past their sell-by date. Maybe lack of willing talent?
Maybe.
There was an interesting read from the AFL when Carlton sacked their coach last month. Amidst the speculation about who would take over, the talking heads also speculated on which team Brendan Bolton would end up as an assistant for the rest of his career. Apparently very few AFL coaches who fail in their first job get a second chance.
That’s interesting.
Even in Europe, it’s musical chairs for soccer managers.
*wonders where Mourinho will land next*
He’s likely waiting until October to be picked up.
Apparently turned down an 88m pound offer from China: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48904007
He was worried about Chinese censoring of his particular porn interests?
Does anyone happen to know how a fallow field in otherwise active rotation for the plow (That is, a field during its ‘resting year’) serves as pasture compared to dedicated pastureland that doesn’t fall under the plow?
Livestock wanders around gleaning the shoots and shits all over the place providing fertilizer for the next crop?
Yes, but in terms of how much food there is for said livestock to eat on these fields.
Some might get fancy and setup fences to force the animals to fully graze a particular area before moving the fencing.
This might help… https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/41882/30078_arei4-2.pdf?v=0
That says nothing about how good it is as pasture while ‘idle’.
Well, I don’t know if it’s good for the livestock, but it’s good for the land.
In my past experience, fallow fields are pretty good at producing a bumper crop of thistles (which cows won’t eat) but not very good at producing grass or alfalfa.
What about sheep?
Sheep won’t eat thistles either. Our sheep loved getting in the corn, the hay field and the oat field.
We never had goats, but I have heard they’ll eat anything.
Including cardboard, aluminium cans, and most assorted inorganic trash….
This one includes sheep… https://www.no-tillfarmer.com/articles/7629-crop-rotation-grazing-rebuilds-soil
I’m trying to calculate the number of sheep a particular manor would reasonably have running around growing wool, which means I’m trying to get data on the number of AUs per acre a fallow field can support. (Sheep are 0.2 AU in trms of forage needs. 1 AU is a cow)
https://www.sfa-mn.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Grazing_Cover_Crops_Fact_Sheet_2013.pdf
Goats will eat thistles. Sheep only eat thistles when they are shoots.
Twelve year old pistoffnick’s job was to mow down the thistles that were taller than he was.
Beautiful plumage, but man, they bite!
Artichokes are a member of the thistle family.
lol. My mom has a picture of me dressed up in a raincoat, ski mask and mittens to go cut thistles when I was 8 or so. Like you, I had become tired of being gouged by the thistles.
Watch out for the nettles, ouch!
i played in the creek at some friends’ house and got into patch of stinging nettles. Once.
And it’s strange that you can ingest stinging nettle as an anti-inflammatory!
They are surprisingly delicious
I just moved my garden from 25 years of use to a new spot, untouched by the tiller. I dragged a bedspring around the old garden to level it off. It sprung up with young tender new grass (weeds) immediately. The deer have visited but they aren’t much into grass this time of year. I’m guessing cows would be happy as pigs in shit, though.
What frustrates me is how difficult it has been to turn up numbers for something that should be amply documented over the past few thousand years.
It varies, a lot, based on rainfall, soil quality, and what kind of grass grows there. There isn’t a rule of thumb except very locally.
I should at least be able to get numbers, and averages. People do tend to keep records.
What RC said.
My old garden area had been fertilized over the years, heavily mulched with leaves and garden debris, it was far from original.
The new garden is now being fertilized/mulched and irrigated. Though it is almost beach sand, water, fertilizer and sunshine produce near miracles.
Generations of illiterate lazy shepherds standing around doing nothing. WHYCOME NO RECORD KEEPING.
Wool is and was big business, especially in England for much of its history. Even if the guy out in the fold with the flock couldn’t write, the landholders would have wanted records.
I doubt the wool business was sustaining itself in any large part on fallow fields. My guess would be that fallow fields were mostly grazed on by the personal livestock of the farmers (those raised for utility, not the markets), and therefor outside of the concern of the record keepers.
The information I’ve come across so far indicates that the landholders encouraged the shepherd to come down from the un-ploawable pastures to the fields both fallow and gleaning time to fertilize them. So there should be information on number of forage days per acre of each state of field.
…landholders encouraged the shepherd to come down from the un-ploawable pastures to the fields both fallow and gleaning time to fertilize them.
Interesting. But that also sounds like the sort of ad-hoc type of deal that would be unlikely to be recorded. Maybe you’ll get lucky and some monk was interested in documenting the minutia of animal husbandry, but that doesn’t strike me as the type of thing that book-keepers would be recording.
Looks like CPRM will be a bit late on his next cartoon. His antics got him in a bit of hot water
“Are you sure I don’t need to talk to a lawyer?”
Ahh, LaCrosse north side… When you want a little taste of big city slum life but not too much as to be life threatening.
Are the grain silos painted like a 6 pack of beer still there?
It has been a while since I’ve been through LaCrosse.
You betcha. Updated wrapper from what you may remember (Old Style cans).
Where I live
whenif I run around naked there is no one to see and call the cops.As a Florida Man(tm) this strikes me as a bug, not a feature. What’s the point if you don’t make the news?
He would join an already crowded Democratic field with front runners such as former Vice President Joe Biden, California Senator Kamala Harris, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
“I’m crazier than all of them put together. Vote for meeeeee!”
More like vote for RHEEEEEEE!
It’s friggin nuts how much deeper they want to dig.
Well, Bernie was their point man. After that it seems they all figured the further left, the better.
That’s what the primary voters want. Lunacy.
Let Steyer waste his money on a campaign, he will do less mischief elsewhere.
At some point, during my early morning sleep mode malfunction, I thought I heard somebody on the teevee say something about Trump and the womynz soccer team. Something like Trump asking why they thought they would even get an invitation to the White House.
I watched his tarmac briefing and he had nothing but warm words of congratulations and support for the dykes in white.
He already said he would invite them, but Miss Thing is gonna cajole as many as she can into not showing up.
What absolutely boggles my mind is that they are acting like Trump is anti-LGBT. Fuck Trump has been cool with the gays since forever. It was Obama and Hilary who had to “evolve” on the issue.
If that was the only thing about Trump that they were trying to misrepresent, then I would agree with you his holiness, but in general they are against anything Trump is for unless it doesn’t fit the narrative, in which case they misrepresent what Trump is for so they can avoid that minefield.
AFAICT, it’s entirely about military trannies.
You mean about making US tax payers being made to pay for the trannies medical work?
^^wants to deny abortions to the testicullarly-burdened/ovary-challenged.
#PeakShitlord
She will accuse Trump of being an attention-seeking egoist and the irony loop will be complete.
and the universe will fold in on itself?
*crosses fingers*
No it won’t because it is my simulated reality, and I am not yet done playing.
*screencaps game map resembling a linen napkin in one of those fancy napkin rings*
I took the entire week off since it followed a paid 4 day weekend. I’ll be letting the booze flow continue.
A man with a plan! I knew I liked you, you dirty Wop!
Wait, there are clean Wops? Ma va fare un culo!
*raises glass*
The Crystal Healer to the Hollywood Stars Tells All: ‘People Are Really Suffering’
sounds legit
That crap is the kind of scam that Paltrow was born to run.
I think they should learn to “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow”.
H/T Jon Pertwee.
There goes my, “You know who else used crystals?” joke.
Hitler?
Folger’s?
Superman?
Honestly, anyone who shells out cash for this stuff deserves to lose their money. It’s sillier than buying magic beans which you can at least eat when they don’t do anything.
Back when I lived in Boulder, and when New Age was really going gonzo, there was a crystal shop on the Pearl Street mall. There would be a small knot of people outside the store, arms outstretched, getting their crystal power fix. Even 20yo me was rolling my eyes at the stupidity.
I did bang a lot of patchouli smelling hippies by playing at that game…
Have you no standards?!?! 😉
Et tu LH?
I had an aunt (crazy) get into aroma therapy in the late ’90s. When I first heard about it, I thought “good for her” for scamming a bunch of gullible people. However, at a family gathering later, I learned that she actually believed in the BS she was peddling. She had paid the owner of the shop a bunch of money to “train” her and then to let her apprentice at his shop.
Uffda. It was very hard to keep a straight face while she was telling me all this stuff. A few years later, the same aunt told me about her big plans to learn Fortran and get in on the Y2K craze. That was at Thanksgiving of 1999 and she had just started classes.
>>Fortran
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.
HAHAHAHA, I remember that! I had one friend who planned on making a killing fixing banks’ software after teaching himself Fortran after high school. I believe the idea was to make a bazillion dollars in a couple of years and then retire and laugh at all the suckers going to college. It didn’t work out.
Make rich quick schemes never work as expected…
I’ve never been known for being an especially wise person but even at 19 it struck me that by the time you see “FORTRAN Y2K PROGRAMMING FOR DUMMIES!” books on the shelves in the mall, the ship has sailed. Like every gold rush, the real money is in mining the miners.
Oh, I am in agreement. What baffles me are the number of people looking for the opportunity to mine the miners. So many people out there think they can come up with that next scheme/scam that will make them rich promising a quick money making way to others. Getting rich, unless you win the lottery or inherit, requires work and time.
“Make rich quick schemes never work as expected”
Uh….they work exactly as expected.
I was among the last engineers trained in FORTRAN instead of C+ to meet the programming requirement for graduation. Wasn’t the length of the statements defined by what could fit on a punch card?
I imagine if you learned Cobol in the mid 90’s prior to Y2K, you could have a few great years.
FORTRAN was the “main” programming language in use at the college I went to. The year I graduated they switched to Visual C++.
FORTRAN to Visual C++?
I knew a bunch of COBOL programmers back around ’96 – ’99. They were all desperately trying to get out of COBOL and into some other language (like Java) that was “cool.”
We still have COBOL running in our infrastructure.
For some reason, it’s integral to some elements of PeopleSoft.
It is likely the case that no one alive can figure out what that code does and it just works do they don’ dare touch it
At my last place we were pulling people out of retirement to provide fixes and updates to systems they created decades earlier.
I hope all you Glibs had a great 4th, and were able to stretch it into a 4 day weekend like I was. During all this down time, it occurred to me how nice it would be to take a 3 or 4 month paid sabbatical right now. Unfortunately that’s not in the cards for me.
Even with all the excess leave I get, three or four months is more than I can take off and still both be paid and expect to have a job when I get back.
Same here. I’m sitting on weeks of paid vacation. The strategy around here is to take a few days here and there and maybe a full week twice a year. Working for the university doesn’t pay well but good God do they shell out the leave.
Best thing our company overlords did was institute a floating holiday that would bridge these Tuesday or Thursday holidays into 4 day stretches. It doesn’t take much to keep the peasants happy.
We have a couple floating holidays as well. I didn’t use mine last Friday because there was only one other person on my team who didn’t take the day off and he works remotely. Since I wasn’t heading out of town, I figured why waste a day off?
how nice it would be to take a 3 or 4 month paid sabbatical right now
Is there ever a bad time for a long paid sabbatical?
When you’re going to spend it getting nagged by the wife and kids?
I always did kind of identify with Nicholson’s character.
NOLA recommendations, please… I lived outside New Orleans for a few years and left right before Katrina. Has much changed since Katrina? Looking for food and jazz recommendations. Heading there with a female friend for a 4-day this weekend.
Go to Seither’s Seafood. Seriously, Jason Seither is simply amazing in the kitchen.
Dinner at Brigtsens.
https://www.brigtsens.com
WWOZ’s Livewire music calendar
https://www.wwoz.org/calendar/livewire-music
When I was there last about three years ago, there was still signs of damage from Katrina. Strangest one was driving down the street, looking over at some unrepaired house, and realized the search markings were from my National Guard battalion’s sister battalion.
Yeah, I’m guessing it’ll be trippy re Katrina. Looking at my old house on Google satellite, I see my fence and a tree blew down, are gone.
Depends on what sort of jazz you’re looking for but, I went to Dragons Den when I went to NO for a bachelor’s party. They’ve got swing dancing upstairs every Monday night. I’m not 100% sure, but I seem to recall they had a live band when I went. Even if you’re not into swing dancing, the music is pretty enthralling, and they’ve also got a small outdoor area.
http://dragonsdennola.com/
Most likely the more chill jazz playing the classics. She’s a classical musician from New York. But I’ll def check out Dragons Den. My favorite was The Funky Butt but it appears to be closed now.
STEVE SMITH REOPEN FUNKY BUTT SEVERAL TIMES A DAY
Thanks for the recommendations!!!
Sharp jab
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., sought to separate herself from some of her Democratic presidential rivals on Sunday by arguing that while others are making “bigger promises,” she’s the candidate best positioned to achieve her goals in office.
“There are a lot of people making promises, and I’m not going to make promises just to get elected. I am not running for chair of the Democratic National Committee, I am running for president of the United States. And that means you bring people together,” she said during an exclusive interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Zing.
Whelp, I’m done. Glib on, Friends!
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Wellness check on Festus!
He went to bed…
This guy must smell bad or something. Not only couldn’t he get some loving from SEA SMITH, he also seems to have struck out with STEVE SMITH.
>> fishing while fully nude
something something barbed hooks
So a DIY Prince Albert isn’t your thing?
I watched a live Prince Albert piercing a Seattle Public Access Cable TV back in the 90’s. I couldn’t look away. It was fascinating and looked very painful.
I don’t understand, but hey, fly your freak flag…high.
Did you watch because of the procedure or cause you like looking at…
Never mind.
It never occurred to me that a person should have sparkles on his wedding tackle. Especially with the amount of pain that must have accompanied it.
Seattle public access cable was a learning experience for a simple country boy who grew up with a 13″ black and white TV that got 3 channels at most:
https://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2013/10/09/the-90s-when-seattle-got-weird-and-naked-on-public-access-tv/
“I swear I had something for this…”
I saw a Prince Albert performed live at a bar in Chicago in the early 90s. They rolled the dude out on a gurney. There was much groaning from everyone.
So were the fish hitting worms that day?
I thought this was a no kink shaming zone.
Behemoth’s Nergal Catches Couple in Sex Act During Roskilde Performance
The bird of love is the dove, but the bird of true love is the swallow…
I can’t even imagine something more metal than that.
What if he was plowing her in the can??
ah, nothing like a good, deep Oscar The Grouch-ing.
She was humming along to the music
NOW I understand the Metal, growl-vocals.
I went to the Roskilde Festival in the mid-90s. A short walk to the shower and there’s dozens of Scandinavian beauties naked waiting for an open stall. I saw a guy pee into his girlfriend’s mouth. He advised me to date a Hungarian woman.
A lot of ill-will is sent CA’s way on these pages, but I would think we could all agree that we don’t want people hurt and things broken.
Agreed, with the possible exception of a very small and very specific part of Sacramento – a few buildings there could do with being damaged such that they can’t be occupied for normal business. All sympathy to the rest of California.
I have nothing but good feelings about California’s geography, and once you account for the flakiness of some southern Californians I like the people, too. It’s the government that I think should be swallowed up by a massive sinkhole.
I think the editors of my hometown’s newspaper worked extra hard on this story just to come up with a reason to publish a pic of a cute local gal holding beers in Germany.
I doubt that if I had sent them a pic of me in various bars in Pohang, Korea that they would have printed any stories about my antics.
A cute ginger that likes German beer. That is a solid would.
I thought to myself, yeah, she’s pretty cute. Then I got to the byline picture and realized I needed to adjust my scale.
The 20 year old Fourscore was in Germany hittin’ the gasthauses and beer gardens but the pictures, the hangovers and my memory have all faded, fortunately.
>>I. Am. Wary.
At first I thought you misspelled Warty.
“I am become Warty, destroyer of ass.”
SQUAT MOAR.
We’re all sons of bitches now.
Mammary Monday resumes following a holiday break.
https://thechive.com/2019/07/08/flbp-is-best-thing-to-binge-on-every-monday-50-photos/
remember q fewer lower back problems, more flexibility
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1147935738559946752
Opportunity zones. For PROFITEERING!
The program allows investors to defer and potentially lower their capital gains taxes in exchange for investing in designated low-income neighborhoods.
But critics of the “opportunity zones” say residents in those communities could actually may be harmed, rather than helped, because wealthy investors getting tax breaks could enjoy more of a benefit than local residents.
Supporters of these zones on both sides of the aisle say they are creating jobs and making a difference in places that might otherwise be left behind.
President Trump often refers to the program when talking about what his administration has done for struggling rural and urban communities — and as a part of his outreach to black Americans.
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But the federal law does not specify how those funds should be used; investors might build affordable housing — or they might build high-end apartment buildings.
In other words, some fear, the government’s attempt to spur development in poor neighborhoods could wind up pushing out poor people to make room for more expensive new developments.
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“It’s attracting the wrong kind of investment — large-scale investment which may lead to far greater gentrification and removal of people rather than the original intent of the enterprise zone idea,” Butler said.
It’s not fair. Those investors are stealing money from poverty advocates.
“But critics of the “opportunity zones” say residents in those communities could actually may be harmed, rather than helped, because wealthy investors getting tax breaks could enjoy more of a benefit than local residents.”
Straight up envy. We can’t help those people because someone icky might be helped even more.
That housing that’s gone to shit was probably nice when it was built by investors looking to make a profit a hundred years ago. This idea that anyone is going to build “affordable” housing out of the goodness of their heart is a more recent fantasy that has resulted in the government building slums that are worse than the housing it replaced. Those residents would be better helped by switching places with the people who are going to move into any new housing that gets built there, you know, they way it worked throughout history before the additional fantasy that they “deserve” to stay there in perpetuity became dogma.
Private developers have historically built affordable housing, though. The supply side of the market for affordable housing has just been devastated by government policies. For the most part, affordable housing is composed of rental properties. And in most urban markets, building for rental to the bottom half of the market has been made an utterly losing proposition. A builder is at risk of his properties having rent control imposed, of having a nightmare trying to remove non-performing tenants, and of having to comply with building requirements completely incompatible with low-priced properties.
Sort of. They built lots of “middle class” housing. Now that the middle class is going extinct in these areas, when they say they want to build “affordable housing” today, they mean subsidized housing.
But yeah, you are right that governments have made it all but impossible to build “middle class” housing in these areas. It’s all either luxury housing or subsidized now.
I would say that it went beyond the ability to just build middle class housing when government policies have all but “suicided” the middle class.
Zoning laws and building codes have destroyed rural youngsters from getting started in a trailer house and working their way up.
building requirements completely incompatible with low-priced properties
Is it possible to build high-rise residential crammed cheektojowl on the cheap? How much of the construction cost is just making a structure that wont burn down the neighborhood the first time someone’s dung-cookfire gets out of control? Is it even possible to ascertain amid the requirements for fresh vegetables and access to sunshine.
I forget the show I was watching, but it was in Honk Kong and the host introduced by saying something like “with a population of X millions, people love living here”. Clearly, people Fucking Love Cities, they aren’t there solely for the economic opportunities that were the driving factors leading to urbanization in the first place. Ignore the fact that anyone with the means moves to the suburbs.
It’s difficult to build them. There is a slight loophole in the building code that has allowed for the explosion of four story mixed use residential/commercial apartment buildings over the past fifteen years. They’re all wood stick with apartments over commercial. I consider them firetraps.
well to be fair government attempting to spur anything is bad economics.
You win the internets…
The concern voiced by some critics is that these rules create more of an incentive for wealthy people to focus on their own profits than the needs of those in the opportunity zone.
“People who were going to invest anyway are now getting a tax break and maybe you’re going to get shifting of investment from outside of the zones to inside of the zones,” said Timothy Weaver, a political science professor with the State University of New York at Albany who has studied these types of programs. “In either case what you’re likely to see are rents going up for everybody.”
Haha. He said rents.
I left prison a virgin after 28 years. Now I am struggling to have sex
Virgin? Prison? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
At the risk of pulling back the curtain, let’s just say I have it on good authority that this cannot possibly be the case.
Don’t pull it back to far. Some things can’t be unseen.
35 years of masturbating
pulling back the curtain
Are we back talking about the gal who was lamenting the fact that the Patriarchy made her get plastic surgery on her labia because they made her feel ashamed of how big they were?
I don’t see her problem. I would bet $1000 that there’s at least one fetish site where she could easily make a healthy living, or at least meet a gentleman who was in the market for that. When life gives you lemons, etc.
Some people like their roast beef thin sliced, and others want it thick like 1 inch pork chops…
howabout large clitorises? ::bad high school memory coming in at warp speed::
Yeah, if it is too big you have to wonder if you are dealing with a hermaphrodite.
If you are into that sort of stuff more power to you, but it is not the same for everyone..
Involving the tent poles was initially arousing, but I could never get the damn thing assembled properly and took me forever to find my way out of the collapse.
And it never goes back together quite right when you’re ready to pack it up.
far stronger closer than my getting lost in the canopy, well done.
Maybe he doesn’t consider taking it up the ass as sex? Aren’t there a bunch of gal’s who think the same thing?
So as long as his dick has never been in another person, he thinks he is a virgin.
Maybe he is not into women and just has not admitted that?
I am wondering what he did to get 30 years in the clink.
Incredibly, masturbating.
Yeah, to get that sentence at age 18 I would think it would almost have to involve a killing.
Maybe he needs to find a woman with “man hands”?
Bum fight!
rump made the comparison during an interview for the book American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Politico’s Tim Alberta. The book is scheduled to be published July 16 but the Guardian obtained a copy and published some excerpts in which Trump claims he first noticed Ocasio-Cortez during the 2018 primary race against incumbent Joe Crowley. Trump was allegedly watching television with advisers when the young politician caught his eye.
“I see a young woman,” he says, “ranting and raving like a lunatic on a street corner, and I said: ‘That’s interesting, go back.’” Trump then “became enamored” and “starstruck” by Ocasio-Cortez, according to Alberta. “I called her Eva Perón,” Trump says. “I said, ‘That’s Eva Perón. That’s Evita.” When Ocasio-Cortez won the primary, Trump saw it as an example of how he is “good at talent” because he “spotted talent.” When speaking to Alberta, Trump tempered that praise, noting that while “she’s got talent” she also “doesn’t know anything. She’s got a good sense, an ‘it’ factor, which is pretty good, but she knows nothing.”
Ocasio-Cortez linked to a story about the report and wrote a quote that she attributed to the former first lady: “I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.” She quickly followed that up with another quote: “I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina’s wealth and power in their hands. So the government brought in an eight-hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go.”
Two narcissists enter…
Best case outcome? Neither survives.
Count on Ocasio-Cortez to come up with the stupidest possible response.
Michelle Obama reveals how she felt during Trump’s inauguration
“And then we had to meet the Trumps. That day was very emotional and then to sit at that inauguration and to look around at a crowd that was not reflective of the country, and I had to sit in that audience as one of the handfuls of people of color, all that I had to hold on to over those last 8 years, and it was a lot emotionally,” Obama said
Fuck you Michelle. You’re a despicable nag and a crook. You should be reviled alone for your lecturing Gabby Douglas.
Also fuck you for putting neighborhoods into lockdown every time visited your POS brother who only kept his coaching job because of his family relationship.
You know, I’ve always felt that insulting Michelle Obama on the basis of her appearance was tacky and unfair. Having seen her utter lack of class and character since her husband left office, however, I think she deserves whatever she gets. What a cunt.
I never thought Michelle Obama was either as ugly/mannish as some critics said or as beautiful as her fans said. She seemed like a standard issue wife for a pol. OK looking but nothing spectacular.
But like Bill said, her personality is horrible. She is that hot nurse in Shallow Hal.
Waaaaaaahhhhhhh….
And then I had to submit to a bazillion fawning magazine profiles and some good old fashioned god worship by the media.
It must have been awful for you, ma’am, just awful. Having to see someone else take office while you sat in an audience, with the hoi polloi, in a crowd of people that didn’t match your preferred ethnic profile? The mind recoils.
Gosh, what an unexpected thing for her to say. How insightful!
That’s nothing compared to how I felt during her husband’s inaugurations.
look around at a crowd that was not reflective of the country
Since inauguration crowds tend to be full of people who voted for the winner and lacking in people who voted for the loser, they are by nature “not reflective of the country”.
Stand firm, brothers and sisters. Together, we shall ove5rcome the colossus.
On July 15, employees at the Shakopee facility plan to strike for about three hours at the end of the day shift and for about three hours at the start of the night shift. In the afternoon, workers also plan to rally outside the facility, located about 25 miles from Minneapolis.
In an effort to show solidarity, a handful of Amazon’s white collar-engineers intend to fly to Minnesota to join the demonstration, where activists will demand the company take action against climate change as well as easing quotas and making more temps permanent employees. “We’re both fighting for a livable future,” said Seattle software engineer Weston Fribley, one of several employees from the group Amazon Employees For Climate Justice who will be making the trip.
If it’s such a rotten job, why don’t you quit?
Bezos isn’t as tolerant as Sundar, they may be quitting without knowing it.
And ponies, we all want ponies to.
Amazon Employees For Climate Justice
If Amazon had any sense, they’d go ahead and lop off the idiots sticking their necks out like that.
Weston Fribley
You couldn’t get a name like that past an editor if you were writing fiction.
It does sound like Phillip K Dick character
Definitely sounds like a dick.
If that’s not an extra from the Diamond Age, I’ll eat my hat.
As sure a sign as any that Amazon can afford to downsize.
A smart HR department would create silly groups like this and note who joined so when layoffs were needed, they’d have a list of candidates available.
As over half of HR would join said groups, that would be great.
Why quit when you can be part of the layoffs when Prime memberships precipitously drop.
“take action against climate change as well as easing quotas”
Taking more time to do the same amount of work wastes energy and therefore causes climate change.
I would expect to be fired if I did such a thing. The white collar engineers should be worried come next performance review if not immediately once they get back.
A lot of “Big Tech” companies are so far gone, they’re encouraging this crap. We’ll see if Amazon is one of them or not.
And
a childan East African Muslim immigrant shall lead them….anyone who wears a yarmulke on the job. And I’d serve free pork based meals in the cafeteria. – those thingd dont work toghether
goddamn phone and I saw the damn typos as I pressed post.
Ah, religion in the workplace. Always a contentious issue.
Who let this guy out of his padded cell?
The impossibility of extracting untold riches from 16 Psyche teaches two important lessons about how wealth really works. First, it shows that a great deal of wealth exists only on paper — when you try to sell your assets, the price goes down. Liquidity — the ability to sell an asset for cash — is an important factor that tends to be forgotten when calculating net worth.
And second, this example shows that real wealth doesn’t actually come from golden hoards. It comes from the productive activities of human beings creating things that other human beings desire. De Beers’ fabulous fortunes ultimately came not from its control over a certain type of dazzling rock, but from its ability to convince the world that this rock could be used to communicate love and devotion.
If you want to get rich, don’t think about how to seize scarce resources. Think about how to use resources in an innovative way to make something people truly want or need.
Get Elizabeth Warren on the phone. And make sure there’s a fainting couch in easy reach.
Linked from your link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-08/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-is-a-worry-for-donald-trump
Epstein is a problem for Trump which is BS as far as I understand: he never went to the island and appeared on his jet’s flight log once when Trump hitched a ride back to NY. What a mendacious bullshit piece.
Oh, are we now suddenly interested in Epstein’s guests?
Well, Comey’s daughter is somehow attached to the prosecution. Maybe you don’t have to worry about him being legitimately implicated, but you certainly have to worry about him being illegitimately implicated.
How many white SJW warriors were saddened or hurt by this?
After all, virtue signaling opportunities like this are so few and far…
A lot of “Big Tech” companies are so far gone, they’re encouraging this crap. We’ll see if Amazon is one of them or not.
Somebody at Amazon had enough backbone to tell to tell the grifter mob in NYC to go fuck off, at least.
Howdy, glibs!
I successfully moved again.
40 hours drive time, 3 days.
I spent the fourth with family, and made it down to new Hampshire this weekend.
Hope nothing too crazy happened while I was gone.
Too Crazy by whose standards?
why did you leave old Hampshire ?
Too many old bitchez?
Good news, Doom!
Reuniting with Bridger must be special 😉
It was!
Glad you survived, Doom
Halep bear Gauff one more victory for Romania over USistan
beat goddamnit
How fucking fat and bloated are your thumbs Pie?
Do you need a special dialing wand?
never could get the hang of phone keyboards.
lolclassic
He washes himself with a rag on a stick, which already doubles as a dialing wand.
“Hockey stick chick”
A term my fellow shitlords came up with for chicks so fat that they had to wipe their asses with tp wrapped around the blade of a hockey stick.
“Ugh, that’s a Goalie right there.”
That Gauff has some moxie, though. Good for her to make it as far as she did.
Poor Michelle Obama. The 22nd Amendment is so racist.
Good morning, peeps!
A spectacular morning here in the sub-Arctic, wrecked only by my phone blowing up after several pleasantly quiet days.
My daughter has never spent a minute on this planet when we weren’t there. I find that I don’t give a shit about any of the rest, I just want us out.
so your daughter is barely legal?
Easy tiger. She’s 17 but with a mean streak of a girl ten years older.
Barely documented is the preferred term.
It’s Canada, isn’t it? Those bigots insist their citizens be fully documented.
It’s Canada, isn’t it?
Take it back, man.
I’d laugh at you Tundra, but then I remember that if Spitzy thinks you are a flappy headed Canuck, he must think I am one too because he knows we are neighbors.
No one calls me a Canuck!
So, Odyssius called you Canadian?
Yeah. Some kind of statement to the Taliban that, if they allow terrorist groups to operate on their soil there will be repercussions. Then out.
Everything they offer that is a promise after we leave is to be considered bullshit. They’re just trying to provide the USA political cover for the withdrawal. Once we’re gone, things will return to “normal” in Afghanistan.
That is not to say we shouldn’t leave. Just that it’s bullshit, much like the proposal to bring democracy to the Middle East.
My hope is that we simply cut and run. I’m worried that we are going to try to come up with some stupid plan where we promise to give them a bunch of money after we leave as long as they meet certain criteria.
With the right criteria, I wouldn’t have any problem with this promise. Because it would get us out, and the odds are quite good that they will go back to business as usual and fail to meet the criteria, so we could say sorry, a deal’s a deal, and you broke the deal.
We keep our money, we’re out of Afghanistan. Win. Win.
I think you underestimate our ability to accept that we can’t meddle and walk away. I’m sure we’d still give them a lot of money along with a stern warning to not do it again or next time there won’t be any money.
The enlightened folks at State would assure us all that we absolutely had to pay them something to keep our influence in the region intact.
But I’d even accept that. I’d rather dump money into that shit hole than lose any more lives there.
I’d rather dump money into that shit hole
That would be the way to make the payoff – in cash, scattered from altitude.
“Peace with an honorarium”
*honor-air-ium
“so we could say sorry, a deal’s a deal, and you broke the deal. ”
Name a post WWII POTUS besides Trump who ever did such a thing. I can’t think of one.
So I expect the deals to be broken the minute Trump is out of office and more money to be shoveled to the deal breakers.
Even if some weak-minded corruptocrat wrote the check anyway, we’d still be out.
And, set the deadline for the payoff before 2024, and odds are looking good it would be Trump who cuts them off.
Agree 100%
Interesting kind-of-long narrative of the Russian collusion hoax.
There definitely was a orchestrated attempt to entrap the Trump campaign people and it now is evident that it was not just the Clinton machine, but sanctioned by the Obama WH. They figured they would never get caught, and then Trump won the election they had rigged in Hillary’s favor and that all went out the window. They doubled down on the corrpution to do damage control. Now we are here today and they just keep digging.
Confident prediction:
The pending FBI OIG report will be a big dud. He’s delivered big duds before, and I expect past performance to be a predictor of future results.
The current prosecutors will come up with a handful of mid-level people to string up on minor charges.
And nothing else will happen. The Deep State will have learned nothing, and will forget nothing.
Very similar to what I’ve written here, though I never considered that the initial “hacking” might be an actual operation on the part of the DNC. I think that’s fairly unlikely, though possible.
Here is my earlier comment on this in April. There’s no question that the “story” we’ve been told, including the one in the Mueller report, does not add up:
Your timeline of Crowdstrike is consistent with the idea that this was a DNC op from the get-go.
I couldn’t find anything about rumored leaks beforehand, so it’s possible.
In fact, the DNC thing started with an emergency meeting of Wasserman and a Perkins Coie lawyer… who were involved in funding the fake Trump dossier. Perkins Coie suggested hiring Crowdstrike.
DWS, Perkins Coie May Have Engaged CrowdStrike Instead Of FBI Without Consulting DNC Officers
…and Hilarity ensued?
MIllenials start Fuck Trump chant on-camera after some soccer game.
Well, JOE, I’m also very embarrassed you’re an American, if that helps.
JOE is the interviewer, I think.
I believe you are correct, as my reading would need a comma after JOE.
“Hopefully in 2020, there’ll be a different story, because right now, I’m very embarrassed to be American,” the sports expert jock said thoughtfully. “it’s time for people in our country to stop believing all these lies. It’s really depressing that there are those that are so uneducated that they’ll believe everything he says.”
The rocket science continued with the next interviewee, who said that “so far as this tournament’s been going, I think it’s been huge for the women in general.” He also added that he thinks “this tournament and this game is just going to be very impactful.”
As that engaging fellow went off, presumably to chew on a pipe and contemplate the whirling, transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention that were aglow in his mind, the JOE cameras turned next to another American youth, this one in mirrored sunglasses, who discussed the increasing popularity of women’s soccer as evidenced by the fact he saw so many Americans there in Europe across “an entirely different sea.”
AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA
Mug government, my beautiful beautiful government
Historical amnesia and individualism have contributed to a third cultural condition, one that is more obvious but also, perhaps, more central to measles’ return and at least as worrying for society overall: diminished trust in government. For earlier generations of Americans, faith in mass vaccines derived in large part from the campaign to eradicate polio, in the 1950s—a time when the country’s victory in World War II and the subsequent postwar boom had boosted the public’s belief in its leaders. This faith made it easy to convince Americans to accept the polio vaccine, and the vaccine’s success in turn boosted confidence in the officials who protected public health. So popular was the vaccine’s inventor, Jonas Salk, that in 1955 officials in New York offered to throw him a ticker-tape parade.
In the 1960s, the Johnson administration made mass inoculation one component of the ambitious assault on poverty, ignorance, and disease known as the Great Society. In 1964—a year in which 77 percent of Americans told pollsters they trusted government to do the right thing most or all of the time—the surgeon general established a committee to determine how states should administer vaccines. There was little public resistance. By 1968, half the states required children to be vaccinated to attend school, and the rest soon followed.
As Reich details, today’s skepticism of vaccines has its roots in the alternative-medicine and self-help movements of the 1970s, which encouraged people to question established medical authority. This questioning coincided with a post-Watergate, post-Vietnam disillusionment with government that Ronald Reagan exploited when he declared in his 1981 inaugural address that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
As distrust of government has grown, so too has distrust of vaccines.
Whycome them no worship at altar of all knowing all beneficent Wise Men?
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HEPL!
PHEL?
Wow, love it at 3:20 when officer “It’s MA’AM” shows up.
It was kind of heartbreaking watching the toddler slap one of the adults.
Another generation is taught the dysfunctions of its parents.
Agreed on that. It also looked like, a little later, a bystander picked up the toddler to try to offer a little comfort.
I missed that one.
It is really sad that this is how people have learned to behave and that their children will pick it up.
The lady in the Rascal is a Boss.
Classy…
Family – what are you gonna do?
Holy Smokes.
Also, those two dudes throw some pretty weak looking punches.
They are more interested in hitting the women than each other. 🙁
It’s an aggression display. They don’t want to injure each other, because the clan would be weakened by the males being injured. Rather they just want to establish a new dominance hierarchy.
The women, on the other hand, are willing to sacrifice some of the males in order to establish their supremacy within the feminine dominance hierarchy.
The Happiest Place on Earth™
This is why I had hoped the US team would lose.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/soccer-fans-eff-trump-interviewed
…aaaaand again.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/aoc-2020-dems-seize-on-complex-world-cup-equal-pay-issue/
They aren’t getting as much as the men because they don’t generate the revenue. Period. Full stop. QED.
The numbers from the last World Cup were pretty informative. The Womens’ World Cup pulled in something like $70MM. The Mens’? $3 billion.
It isn’t even close.
You want to make the mens’ bank? Okay. Pull in the same kind of revenues. You know what doesn’t do that? Insulting half your potential audience. Especially when that half is probably a hell of a lot more correlated to the people who you need to pull in.
The Womens’ World Cup pulled in something like $70MM. The Mens’? $3 billion.
On that metric, the women should be getting paid something like 2.5% of what the men get paid.
The better metric, of course, is net revenue.
The men’s tourney goes through a lot of stretchers to cart the players off the field so that will dig into the revenue.
There is no comparison. This is an international event. People around the world don’t care about the Women’s team. They do care about the Men’s team, though. Sorry that the world is not woke.
They can’t beat 15 year old boys, but they deserve the same pay as some of the greatest players in the world who generate billions in revenue, Makes sense.
You can feel free to stay in France and wait it out.
I’m sure they all worked really hard to pay for their European vacations.
Woke America’s team. The rest of America could care less
They can’t beat 15 year old boys, but they deserve the same pay as some of the greatest players in the world who generate billions in revenue, Makes sense.
#BELIEVETHEM