The second seder has passed and our first born still appears to be alive, so we did something right. I’m not sure if Mormons do the Easter sunrise thing or not but the neighborhood is very quiet. And that means ADHD folks like I am can type away and not get distrac… hey, what’s that? PIZZA?? I’M SAVED!!!
Todays birthdays lead off with The Other Lizzie; religious slaver James Dobson; everybody’s hero and the greatest Stooge since Jerome Horwitz, Iggy Pop; and the surprisingly best NFL commenter ever, Tony Romo.
Oh yeah, let’s link!
This is extremely ominous. If it really is a sign of the return of the Tigers, Sri Lanka is in for a long and horrible ride.
Eco warriors doing what they do.
Return to segregation and apartheid in the Age of Trump.
There’s so much going on here that this is a perfect Glibertarians story.
You want it, take up a collection. Or find a rich patron. It ain’t yours.
“ME! ME! ME! LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!”
Everything’s better with mankeys.
Ever nail a Filipino or Filipina?
Answers to the name of “Lucky.”
Old Guy Music continues in my violin groove with an absolutely astonishing performance by Sugarcane Harris on a rare night that he was more sober than George Jones.
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That really should be a Little Caesar’s.
It looks as if it has pepperoni on it, which I think is slightly less than kosher.
Easter bro. The law is fulfilled.
Jesus ain’t deliverin’ no deep dish
I saw a commercial where Domino’s was reimbursing people for buying any pizza from anywhere, but then they said it included Deep Dish…
Never saw Jesus claim that, though I admit less familiarity with the sequel than with the original. If memory serves, that was a Paul thing, and Paul was a major asshole.
John was the asshole.
Perhaps we should all listen to Ringo.
Savvy recruiter though.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” — Matthew 5:17, NIV
Paul was still under the law, as were all the jewish Christians. The big debate was whether gentiles had to first convert to judaism, and then be under the law. That was answered with a No. Primarily by Peter.
How could you forget Anthony Quinn?
The heart wants what the heart wants.
>>Planet of the Apes test mixing human DNA with monkeys will bring ‘unintended consequence’
STEVE SMITH BEEN MIXING DNA FOR CENT-UR-EES
Steve Smith invented aids?
No, Reagan did. Everybody knows that.
Reagan and Dobson
Some say affinity housing reinforces division, arguing that having minoritized students cluster in one space would be harmful to the broader campus community.
Bet auto correct had that as “minotaurized”. Makes more sense.
Orwell would be proud.
I’d feel a little bad making the old “you know who else rounded people up based on racial traits and herded them to safe spaces?” joke. Too obvious.
FDR?
Woodrow Wilson?
NASCAR
” I’m not sure if Mormons do the Easter sunrise thing or not but the neighborhood is very quiet. ”
While, of course, we do celebrate Easter I was telling my wife yesterday that I wish we did commemorate more during the holy week. I think that it might culturally stem from most early members being Protestant and not Catholic.
But after reading that Philippine article, maybe I’m glad that we are more reserved.
Heading off for vacation – enjoy your time here at the asylum.
If you see any news about an epic car chase, it’s probably EF and I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlSMrxXrba0
I’m sure we’ll enjoy our time without you. :-p
We fly the Rapine skies. /SkySMItH!
I don’t know. Suicide bombing is the TT modus operandi, but the peace process seemed to be going pretty smoothly for all intents and purposes with no indications otherwise. Could be ISIS trying to get another front going – apparently no claims so far.
According to the BBC: Announcing the curfew, Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardane said: “We will take all necessary action against any extremist group that is operating in our country.”
He also said that “all the culprits” had been identified and would be “taken into custody as soon as possible”.
We’ll find out soon.
Also, the archbishop of Columbo just said that, “Only animals could behave like that”. I believe that means he just called all Tamils subhuman.
ISIS makes more sense. Why would the Tigers target minority Christians? Have they in the past?
“Prepare for our next war”
It’ll be a cakewalk. Not like a desert. We have lots of jungle experience and stuff.
/tries on dark colored jungle fatigues, hmmm, don’t fit anymore/
Nah, it’s in Africa. Look at the response to the Rwandan genocide.
Ironically, in this case it would take racism with denial to get the feds to get a libertarian outcome of the NAP.
Tip-toeing around the 48 hour rule.
Stephanie Washington, 22, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries following ”
Bad shoot, you’re supposed to kill the girl so she can’t testify.
‘Police have not said why the officers deployed their guns. ”
It’s stuff like this that makes me think that privatizing the police may be the easiest thing to argue. If police had to compete do you think they would get away with this crap?
Something about that use of the word “deployed” irritates me.
Writing school for cops: always use the passive voice. Shootings always just happen, and police just happen to be there.
Their guns came out of their holsters and went off.
If we’re doing phrasing anymore, “the officer’s weapon was discharged.”
They don’t issue jungle boots anymore, and I can tell you that those dessert boots are garbage in the jungle.
When I first heard “Extinction Rebellion”, I wasn’t sure if this was nuts from the far left or far right.
The comments on the mankey article shows that the experiment has been running for a long time. Toxic.
Many protesters involved in the march have demanded that the Government limit how many times individuals can fly each year.
Sounds reasonable.
Next up – limiting driving cars.
Considering its Europe, they’ve already started on that.
When I was there, I’d ask for directions and people would explain how to catch the train to my destination. I’d then tell them to assume I was going to use the car I was behind the wheel of…
The UMC’s largest church — the 22,000-member Church of the Resurrection with four locations in the Kansas City area — is among those applying financial pressure. Its lead pastor, Adam Hamilton, says his church is temporarily withholding half of the $2.5 million that it normally would have paid to the UMC’s head office at this stage of the year.
Franchise fees? I had no idea.
It’s big business
Re the UMC dis-Uing:
This is one area in which I guess I am legitimately conservative. The UMC has a doctrine. It’s not secret, it’s written down, you can easily obtain copies. I have a copy on my bookshelf now. If you don’t believe in that doctrine, you are not a Methodist Let the church name (and property, which is of course what this is really all about) stay with the people who actually believe in what the church purports to believe.
I mean, if someone said “I’m a Catholic, but I don’t believe in the Resurrection, the Immaculate Conception, or Petrine Supremacy, so we should have a vote and change those things” woudn’t that be seen as just as ridiculous?
I (not a Methodist) agree. But like you say it’s about the name and property. It’s like the socialists trying to get socialism into the librarian party platform. They are trying to take over the established name.
Do they have a newsletter? *adjusts glasses*
SHHHH! the first rule of the librarian party is talk quietly.
You know that the Secretary General of the Librarian Party is SugarFree, right?
Dewey finally get the decimal system?
So, like the Supreme Court?
According to the article the American part of the UMC is going to use their version to override the votes of the unwoke brownfolk.
My mother is UMC and proggie, she thinks it’s a bad idea that Africans can vote in how the American UMC does things. She also believes that the Electoral College should be abolished. I pointed out this discrepancy to her, and she agrees that it’s contradictory, but that both things should be done because it would give the right outcome. She’s thinking of converting to Congregationalism because they’ve been modern-woke since the ’50s or some such thing.
Once again, Yes Minister is on topic.
https://youtu.be/-nrZBtKWSfs
Reminds me a lot of the Episcopalian split about 10 years back. I was attending The Falls Church at the time and the Episcopal church doctrine shifts were absolutely nuts – so TFC and a number of other churches split to rejoin the Anglicans under the Bishopric of Nigeria (pending the re-establishment of a US conservative Anglican organization).
Naturally, many many lawsuits regarding church property, etc. Not sure why the church finally lost after a number of initial successes.
https://www.newsweek.com/cnn-analyst-april-ryan-slams-mike-huckabee-accusing-her-inciting-murder-1402052
I’m confused at what constitutes inciting violence.
She said Pie’s head should be lopped off evidently. Ironically,Huckster had said a couple years ago that Ryan should be gutted like a deer. Nice regular folks.
It’s hyperbole and the unjustified usage of fainting couches all around.
Of course it is.
The “inciting murder” thing is just stupid. What I find more interesting is calling for a press secretary to be fired for misleading the press. When did we start caring about that? I thought that was their job?
Nature of politics. Everyone on the other side must be destroyed.
Walk the straight and narrow
Encouraging the faithful, Francis said: “Why not prefer Jesus, the true light, to the glitter of wealth, career, pride and pleasure?”
Spurn the temptation of wealth. Give it all to me.
OT, but since I know a lot of people here like cooking, I was just listening to an interesting year-old interview with the author of The Flavor Matrix.
The interview, with Radio New Zealand, is here; you can either do streaming audio or download a ~21MB MP3.
I have no idea if the book is any good, but the interview is certainly interesting.
Ooh, thanks
Thanks Ted!
I’ll just borrow UCS’s copy…
Thanks, Ted!
I see what you did.
If you don’t believe in that doctrine, you are not a Methodist
Exactly. You’re in, or you’re out. No quibbling.
With us or agin us…
Waaaaa! The left started it! *Faceplants off moral high ground*
Supposed to be a response to leon’s Huckabee link. *Faceplants off broken reply button*
Exactly. I might be unfair, but Huckabee is the king of this. If he can use tu quoqe as an excuse he goes for it.
but they were outvoted by U.S. conservatives teamed with most of the delegates from Methodist strongholds in Africa and the Philippines
Further proof that liberals can’t stand blacks and Hispanics.
Sure they can. They love Beto.
One quick joke and back to the 48 hour rule. The fact that BLM is protesting seems to be a good leader that the person shot might have deserved it.
Yeah, track record on picking martyrs is not good. Which is weird since there are so many unjustifiable shoots to choose from.
Controlled opposition.
track record on picking martyrs is not good
Surely this is intentional, no? The goal is not to reach any consensus on police abuse, it’s to further polarize the various parties. Protesting a shooting that everyone agrees was a bad shoot is not productive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal.html
When did Moral Clarity become radical?
I guess Moral Clarity is when you conciously choose to ignore the moral issues your plan had and just say that you have the moral high ground. Who wants to tussle with the tough moral issues, when you can just say that the only moral option is to do what you say.
Bonus: In the 80s climate legislation was seen as viable so why do they think to GND is politically dead?
I welcome the Dems’ embrace of the Green New Deal as it’s a political loser that makes them less likely to win national elections and it has them laying all of their cards on the table. That nonsense flies in deep blue districts and that’s about it.
Just wait until their national convention this year. Every candidate will be tripping over themselves to out prog the other. Green New Deal, all in for socialism, VAT taxes, tax the rich, tax every fucking thing that exists, reparations, all of that stuff full on batshit crazy.
It makes them less likely to win but if they do we’ll be well and truly fucked and you’re right, their convention is going to be a shitshow.
GND = stupidity, poverty and starvation. Fuck AOC and the horse she rode in on.
Huh.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/moderation-in-the-defense-of-diversity-is-no-virtue/
No surprise really.
You want it, take up a collection. Or find a rich patron. It ain’t yours.
Paleontologists are up in tiny arms about an ebay T-rex sale?
tiny arms
zing!
They might have trouble grasping this.
They can’t seem to get their arms around it.
Just out of reach.
*narrows gaze*
Like some Queen of the Pleistocene https://youtu.be/5LtmAfOXWDo
All the porters with looking glass eyes?
*chuckle*
Happy Easter y’all. Speaking of which, yeesh them filipino(a)s who got nailed to crosses, big ouch. I love Jesus too, but ouch.
Happy Easter. I had completely forgotten about it untill someone mentioned it a couple days ok. Going to grill out.
Very nice, hope you have some nice good times grilling the good stuff.
The joke’s on them, it looks like the Romans might not have used nails for the arms at all:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/crucifixion/roman-crucifixion-methods-reveal-the-history-of-crucifixion/
Thanks for the article, it was a good read. Still wouldn’t like to go by that method though, yeesh.
Happy Easter, Raphael!
Congo certainly has enough of our oil.
Took me a minute, well done. *golf clap*
Happy Spring Spheres. Ya’ll be cray-cray.
FBI arrests leader of armed group stopping migrants in New Mexico
Hands off my voters! /democrats
“the rule of law should be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials”
Law enforcement doesn’t give a crap about rule of law.
Note the discrepancy between the complaint and the charges. They went looking for a reason to arrest him, and they found one.
That quote from Balderas doesn’t fit with the rest of the article. Idiot or liar?
Rehabilitation
The release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe report has some journalists in apology mode, saying they paid too little attention to Mitt Romney’s 2012 observations about the Kremlin’s threat to U.S. interests.
Back in 2012, Senator Romney. R-Utah, was running for president. And he tagged Russia as the United States’ greatest geopolitical foe.
Back then, Romney “was broadly mocked” over that position, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Friday. “I was among reporters who should have given it more weight.”
New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow also joined in. So did Washington Examiner correspondent David M. Drucker, who said he wanted to “reset” his 2017 op-ed titled, “Romney was right about Russia.”
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Their comments came as Romney caught heat for criticizing the president over claims made in the special counsel’s report. “I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land, including the President,” he said in a statement tweeted Friday.
One of us! Gooble gobble, one of us!
has some journalists in apology mode
How about apologizing for running the Trump-Russia lie for 2 years?
Haha, you made a funny!
How about apologizing for political office?
They were in desperate need for a new hero, seeing as Stormy Ho and her whoretorney, Mueller, and all the rest just sort of failed. It’s Mitten’s turn.
has some journalists in apology mode
Not the ones I heard on NPR this morning. They claim the Mueller report justifies their Pulitzer’s. Pretty much claiming everything in the report has been in the news. Funny they leave out how it all started. No interest in going there.
Not only that — and I know this is going to shock every single Glibertarian out there –but the New York Times thinks the Steele dossier may have been fake and that there were questions raised about its authenticity from the beginning.
The New York Times is also shocked that other people and organizations used the information contained in the dossier as facts which of course the New York Times never did.
China quietly snickers.
So far, no evidence has been presented to the public that agents of the Russian government took direct action to interfere with the U.S. government, any of the 50 state governments, the Democratic National Committee, or the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or for that matter any of their Republican counterparts.
What we have is a partially redacted IC report whose unredacted portions indicate that the Russian government and its media instruments (e.g., Russia Today) spread propaganda and that a bunch of Russian military and intelligence officers were indicted in the U.S.
The best claim put forth so far is that the DNC and DCCC were phished, but no evidence connecting that phishing back to the Russian government has been made public.
“I heard you sleep with a Glock on your nightstand so the Glock doesn’t get scared”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chuck-norris-slammed-for-becoming-the-face-of-glock-so-sad-to-see-youre-just-a-sponsor-now-160931110.html
This really is disappointing…. that Norris is pimping combat tupperware*, instead of one of any number of deserving 1911s.
*I don’t really have anything against glocks, but “combat tupperware” is funny and apparently stirring shit is in my nature.
Nothing that JMB designed was bad.
One thing that irked me about season 2 of The Punisher is the scene where he’s going to storm the bad guy’s hideout… with a pair of 1911A1s. This guy is supposed to be uber-tactical, and he’s planning on facing literally dozens of opponents, but he’s planning on needing to reload every eight shots?
As far as that thing some people did in Sri Lanka, here is a really bad take.
Only read it if you have low blood pressure.
You know… For something that would normally get my riled up, I’m not. Perhaps I am extra charitable today, but I can only feel pity for somebody so lost.
Ya, that dude has issues.
I think you may have unearthed the most horrible human inhabiting our country.
He’s a Limey.
What a fucking puke. Someone should screen grab that – it’s definitely gonna be yanked.
Assholes gonna asshole…
I know nothing about the man, so I can only presume, but I’d guess if someone handed out food and said “let me tell you about a man named Karl Marx and how if we followed his ideas, nobody would go hungry” it would be okay.
The ‘but rule’ applies.
Poor Chuck Todd. He just can’t let go of that Russia story. Trump and the Russians stole the elections.
Face it, Chuck. Your candidate lost. On her own merits.
Daily reminder, A) it is still at best ambiguous who did the DNC and Podesta hacking (or in Podesta’s cast “hacking”) and B) They “stole the election” by releasing 100% true and accurate information. Normally that would be a good thing.
Oh I have no doubt Russia or agents there of hacked the DNC. I got a wrinkled ten China did too. There is no proof that they were the ones that gave the info to Assange though.
I can’t take it anymore. The hot takes I have read just keep pushing the parallel universes that have emerged where a Trump surrogate speaking to a Russian, (about anything) is potential collusion, but a Clinton surrogate speaking to a Russian is opposition research. (which is never even brought up anymore) When that became clear two years ago (?) is when I wrote off all of it as BS. It is fascinating how the parallel universes still exist and are now established.
Nice image. That’s the LP freak, correct?
Spawn 1 sent a screen capture of some email he got from the LP. He commented that “they are definitely the party that’s closest to my beliefs” but so far the candidates all seem pretty lame.
He asked if this were always the case. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, so I just said there is room for improvement.
If the LP ran Drew Carey or Mike Rowe, suddenly they’d be significant contenders. This is the era of politics-as-entertainment, and they are not only entertaining, they’re very smart.
Catch-22: Too smart to ever run for office.
And we’ve seen that an outsider of any stripe immediately inspires swampy biapartisanship.
Trump’s a bad apple. We all know that. He must be removed by any means necessary. That’s what democracy means.
Well they don’t seem to want to do that by running anyone with sane ideas against him in 2020. Reparations, government run healthcare, gun control, free money for people who don’t want to work, no fossil fuels. Good luck with that.
They continue to believe that Trump will insure them victory, so they can throw out the maximum prog wish list and get it because orange man cannot win. It’s funny how allergic they are to learning.
Gearing up for 2024. Politics on a continuum. Sure 2020 may be lost to dems but time keeps draggin’ on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkrVSB4uAw
Nadler: “If proven.”
What he means, of course, is, “Unless the President can unequivocally prove his innocence, we will proceed on the presumption he is guilty.”
OT but may be of interest to some here. I work for a regional grocery chain, specifically in the meat department and one of our competitors, Stop and Shop, has been on strike since Monday (as far as I know, they’re one of the only unionized grocery chains). Now all of those customers have to go somewhere for their Easter hams and lamb, so we picked up quite a bit more business than we were expecting. As a result, we sold out of our hams much earlier than expected, much to the annoyance of our customers. I explain to people that the strike situation screwed everyone because the hams that were going to be sold by Stop ad Shop are rotting in their coolers and unfortunately, our Easter ham orders were written months ago and it’s not possible to get more at this time.
Some City Market stores are union. They were going to strike here awhile ago. Having a strike over probably the third most eatingcentric holiday in America doesn’t sound too smart if you want the people to back your union.
Most people have had the “well this is what you get when you mistreat your employees” response. I won’t pretend to know all the details of the disagreement between the union and the business, I’m sure there’s plenty of blame on both sides here, but the timing of the strike is pretty clear to get as much leverage as possible. I have heard that Stop and Shop wanted to get rid of time and a half on Sundays and pensions. Pensions seem to be going the way of the dodo in most businesses anyway, not just the grocery business, but getting rid of time and a half on Sunday is a bold move considering it’s one of the only incentives to get people to be available to work on what is most stores’ busiest day of the week. I believe Mass law prohibits employers from requiring people to work Sundays.
That didn’t exist at either of the unions I worked for. Then again, neither did full-time positions.
*I take some of that back. Hotel work is generally full-time. I was recalling grocery store work.
I got a ham from these guys: https://oscarsadksmokehouse.com supposedly they’re very good. The thing better be for the price I paid for it.
One of my customers was the head of the meat dept. at a Ralphs 10 years ago when they had their strike. He said everyone who worked there was pissed that they struck. People lost their houses and after it was over, they got the same bump they had before, just a bunch of new member to pay dues.
I worked at a car dealership many years ago and remember how pissed the older mechanics were when the union would vote to strike. One of the guys told me it was all the young guys who wanted a vacation.
I’m where I am today because of a union and a strike. I could write a short article about that…
Do it!
Yes.
Ahold Delhaize, which owns Stop & Shop, also owns Giant-Landover, which is unionized, along with Giant-Carlisle and Food Lion, which are not. I bet their American division has fun meetings.
One of the big chains I worked at in Buffalo was unionized. In exchange for slighter higher pay, all of which went into dues, we got less flexibility and the folks who had seniority treated you like trash. It’s almost like the SEIU is just a scam allowing its operators to skim wages and live the high life.
From what I’ve heard, the UFCW shops are similar. If you work there for years, you can have job security and halfway decent pay. But you’d better be on good terms with the shop steward, and you’d better not criticize the union. If you’re just starting, or don’t plan to keep the job for long, you’ll be making less than you would at a non-union shop, after dues are taken out.
Right, UFCW. SEIU was the hotel I worked at in San Fran. Exact same conditions and results.
It actually works pretty well for us having a competitor be unionized. We get all their young employees that left because no matter how hard they work, it didn’t matter because of seniority.
When I worked at the prison, the non-officer staff was under the SEIU. What I remember most was a nurse who refused to carry out a routine order from her supervisor, got in a loud verbal argument in front of a bunch of inmates (extremely unprofessional especially in that setting) then went whining to her union rep and got to go on “stress leave” with full pay and benefits. She was laughing and smiling on her way out the door, talking with her co-workers about how nice it will be to just stay home. Someone asked her how long she would be off, and she gleefully threw up her hands and said, “Dunno… As long as I can!”
She ended up being off for six months. Taxpayers of Ohio, this is where some of your money went.
Rudy Giuliani is muddying the waters by not accepting the NBC News interpretation of the Mueller report at face value. What a bastard.
That Old Guy music is live?!? Holy shit, that’s even more impressive.
The keyboardist part at around 10:00 is almost Zappa-esque. Good drummer, too.
Reading Krugman’s execrable nonsense and Mrs. Winston’s Mom’s fine takedown, something occurs to me. Paul Krugman is spreading fake news. The President never said there were good white nationalists. He’s not given them any kind of encouragement despite the constant attempts to manufacture it by the press. Everyone who repeats this is as guilty of spreading false information as flat-earthers, 9/11-truthers, lizard-people theorists, Trump’s tweets, etc.
Yet, they won’t be called out for it. No disclaimers will be automatically placed on Krugman’s column thanks to an algorithm. His publisher the New York Times will not correct or chastise him. He won’t be presented with a message the next time he goes to write a column that he’s not allowed to write anything again until he corrects or deletes what was wrong. People who repeat what Krugman said on YouTube or Facebook won’t be censored. Snopes and Politifact won’t stop fact-checking obvious satire long enough to address it.
The best I can figure is it’s a combination of two factors. One, Krugman is a Top Man and as long he doesn’t stray too far from the approved narrative, he won’t be treated like one of the plebes. Two, people are so blinded by partisanship and a need to maintain the narrative that they refuse to recognize when their own side spreads lies. Of course, there’s also a potential three, they’re all lying sacks of shit, and the more they talk about facts the more you know they’re lying.
That last one may be the simplest explanation.
Yes, that falsehood is now mainstream. If something is repeated enough it becomes fact. We all know Krugman is a liar so it’s expected. What I didn’t expect was that Winston’s Mom is hawt!
I’m not sure about the people who scarf down everything Krugman feeds them but he’s smart and informed enough to know he’s full of shit.
I don’t know. Assuming his wife doesn’t ghostwrite his columns, Krugman’s been wearing the mask for so long that I doubt he can take it off anymore.
I think Krugman IS pretty intelligent; it even shows if you read his works from before 1995 or so (he’s no Hayek or Mises, but he was a middle-of-the-road economist who understood that every policy has winners and losers).
My theory is that at some point, he decided he wants to be in a presidential cabinet, so he started kissing Team Blue’s ass in the hopes that President Hillary would appoint him as Secretary of Labor or something.
There’s no way he believes all his own bullshit.
People who repeat what Krugman said on YouTube or Facebook won’t be censored
As it should be.
Yet other things will be censored.
Everybody has the right to speak, except ______. It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
YouTube (and every underlying provider that colludes with them) is a private company, yadda yadda. One can observe the trend and not believe it is a good thing.
For an example of the parenthetical, look at Cloudflare. Ten years ago, you could’ve set up a competitor to YouTube and risen or fallen on market dynamics alone. Today, you have to please all the infrastructure gods, and they are jealous and vengeful.
How this all shakes out, I do not know. The only thing I am certain of is that the government getting involved would make the situation significantly worse.
Anyone else remember it differently – you know, before Antifa took it over?
The poors have false consciousness. Of course they were fighting against “wealth inequality”, if they knew what was good for them they’d never protest against taxes!
Something something, price of fuel, something something.
I wonder how secretly pleased Macron is that a middle-class protest against taxation morphed into the usual leftist rabble they’re so accustomed to. He was clearly scared shitless back when that all started.
Very much this. Had they gotten even a little organized it would have been a real threat to the existing order.
For Easter dinner I am foregoing the ham this year. I am doing a rack of ribs just like Jesus ate after emerging from the cave. I was going to do them on the Weber but it is raining so I am opting for the roaster smoker.
Rack o’ lamb here.
Hoping Lord H and I can find something open for dinner 🙂 and drinks in Asheville…
Speaking of food… Oh, shit, it’s Easter Sunday, isn’t it? The goddam grocery store is closed.
Drat!
Easter tits.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/19/start-your-day-right-with-some-sexy-smiles-54-photos/
Make sure something is risen.
Happy Religious Celebration Day(s) of your choosing. Me, I am doing something I have not done in 25 years; work o. Easter Sunday.
So Riven yesterday and today I get no love, either. Harrumph.
TIETANFL
Ugh e=y
You get some from me. 😉
Happy birthday! Make it a good one!
Your birthday? Happy Birthday girl Jesus!
Happy birthday, MoJesus!
happy bday!
(I didn’t get you anything, sorry)
Happy birthday! ? ?
Happy Birthday, My Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfy18ynhWNU
That was beautiful!
Happy birthday! May it be delightful.
Happy birthday!
PS, I got you the same thing as last year.
And belated happy birthday to Riven. Still want to meet you guys at the eatery in Edgar sometime.
Two birthdays on one weekend? Excellent! Means have to share the cake, the party, and the congratulations. Happy birthday Mojo & Riven!
Happy birthday, and many of whatever you drink in lieu of mimosas!
Mimosas…..damn, forgot those for today.
Happy Birthday!
Thanks, guys!
I’m now officially older than my dad was when he died, and I’m having a tidge of an existential crisis. Like, I never thought I would make it this far and now have no plans for the future. I didn’t bother to make any, because I thought I’d die before now.
Also, I still don’t know what I’m doing at this “life” thing.
I got a new garage door. Since Mr. Mojeaux got new plumbing on his birthday, I figured it was just right I should get something practical too.
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I was going to go with a garage door euphemism, but that is better.
No euphemisms. Our basement floor got jackhammered up, new pipe laid, and new concrete poured. Wasn’t the most romantic or exciting of “gifts.”
Plumbing and garage doors (carports for Southern folk) are essentials. Get the garage door openers and you’ll never get wet going in/out but you already knew that.
There are certain milestones in life that we cross that seem to have more meaning than others. I remember being older than major league bb players, older than NBA players. What was up with that, guys making super money while I was still wandering around, trying to get enough money for a tank of gas and a cheap 6 pack? Then older than presidents? Wait a minute ! I know how I was at that age, still looking for that tank of gas and a cold 6 pack. Nothing had changed.
For me it’s “older than my boss”.
“Older than my doctor.”
“Older than Old Man With Candy.”
Whoa now, there, Buddy!
It gets fun when you realize you have been working longer than some of your co-workers have been alive.
Also, I still don’t know what I’m doing at this “life” thing.
I got a new garage door. Since Mr. Mojeaux got new plumbing on his birthday, I figured it was just right I should get something practical too.
Me too x2. I got a replacement stove vent years ago from my wife. It’s still there and going strong.
I remember turning 40 and being stunned by the sudden realization that I was older than Homer Simpson. And now he seems so young, lol.
Also, Happy Birthday to you!!!! ?
[hugs Mojeaux]
[gets in a surreptitious reach-around too]
Butt squeezer.
Happy Birthday! With emojis!
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Happy birthday, Mo!
And a belated happy birthday for Riven, as well.
Happy Easter and Pesach to everyone. Had a nice 2 day drive from NYC to Miami and once again, Kenley 95 truck stop was impressive as can be (all-you-can-eat bacon!). Also, Lazy Pig BBQ in Quantico is delicious. Seder was loooong but fun; our kids hanging out with their cousins was worth the drive.
There are some great beers down here. Having Bell Cow Milk Chocolate Porter from JDUB’S Brewing Co. in my old teen stompin’ grounds of Sarasota, FL. while I surreptitiously devour a box of Publix fried chy (the best restaurant chicken on Earth) as SiL’s house has been cleansed of chametz and non-Glaat goodness. Y’all have a wonderful day.
Not sure if serious or posting a 10 year old article for context? Don’t recall TT targeting churches before – mostly military targets IIRC, but it’s been a while since there was any current material to read up on.
Just the part about “first country to eradicate terrorism”. In fairness, five years ago I would have said that the US has eradicated a host of infectious diseases that are now spreading thanks to antisocial behavior by the the out of control homelessness.
Good points
Asshats. Yeah, just trying to put a cap on misinformation. Not trying to CYA at all.
I’m where I am today because of a union and a strike. I could write a short article about that…
You’re a Pinkerton?
It is a cold wet dreary day, here, so I got that going for me.
Sounds like excellent napping weather.
Poor Sri Lanka. I lived there for several years when things were still very bad – depressing to think that it might be starting again.
greatest Stooge since
JeromeSamuel HorwitzFixed that for ya.
YOU ARE DEAD TO ME, HOBBIT!! DEAD!!!!!!!
Sounds like excellent napping weather.
Very true. Unfortunately, NAPCAR seems to have taken the day off, too. There’s nothing like the drone of taxi cabs on a mile-and-a-half oval to lull me off to dreamland.
Late to the party, as usual, but this is an impressive array of links, Old Man
I’m sure my wife’s redneck ancestors are cheering on the new segragationists from the grave. They’re go to argument was always that segregation was our natural condition – “the Nigras just want to live with their own kind.”
Sometimes I don’t get the horoscope submitted until Saturday, so that makes it understandable that it wouldn’t be run through a gibberish to gliblish translator until later on Sunday, but this week I had it submitted by Thursday.
We have some very lazy editors. I kicked a few of them and, voila! there it is!
CNN: ‘God Allowed The Mueller Report To Test Our Unshakable Faith In Collusion’
Swedish moose TV
@Riven, I thought I had wished you happy birthday yesterday, but the comment disappeared (or I fucked up).
So happy birthday!