I ate a whole bunch of Easter candy and now that its gone, I’m going on a Breatharian diet until my kidneys an pancreas stop hating me. So hopefully just until tomorrow.
Jared Kushner says Middle East peace plan to be unveiled after Ramadan. In a quote I totally just made up, he said: “We think that the Muslim stakeholders will be much more agreeable if they can eat during the daytime.”
Say it ain’t so, Joe. Say it ain’t so!
The Easter Bunny has a hard time making ends meet during the rest of the year. Of course he lives in Pasco county.
Texas is getting ready to kill another one of those shitbirds who gave us the Federal Hate Crimes statute. I hope the painkillers fail and it hurts for a while.
Boy that chick was cute… 25 years ago?!! Holy shit! That can’t be right, can it?
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I think you probably it the Ramadan nail right on the head. Used to watch the construction workers north of Kabul get really surly, and occasionally brawl because hangry.
My wife would murder me if she couldn’t eat all day. I would definitely have to time it so I didn’t have to speak to her or accidentally make eye contact until after she had eaten.
It’s stories like this that make me glad I’m an atheist. The gods are nuts. Or at least the people that hear him and make things like this a thing.
About a decade ago a young Muslim man installed a large and heavy piece of carpet in our basement during Ramadan. Poor bugger was sweating like a marathoner and obviously exhausted by the end of the job. It hurt just to watch him, and I hung around while he and one other guy did the work just ’cause I was worried he might collapse or injure himself.
Doing manual labour during Ramadan sucks.
I’m just going to leave this cheeseburger here, no questions asked
*wink wink*
Bacon cheeseburger?
Used to watch the construction workers north of Kabul get really surly, and occasionally brawl because hangry.
Shouldda had a Snickers.
Mazzy was cute, but I preferred the slutiness of Liz Phair
Liz had a filthy mouth.
Which made her more attractive.
That and the fact that she can write some seriously good pop songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzayDpWoI
^THIS
and Angry Johnny
I am still kinda angry that Poe didnt become more popular than she did.
“Boy that chick was cute… 25 years ago?!! Holy shit! That can’t be right, can it?”
Hope Sandoval was straight fire for college aged PBR. Great song also
I was out of school, but otherwise PBR speaks for me.
Gone Away
Gone Away
(with special tribute to Jimi Hendrix)
‘Biden has been mulling the decision to enter the race for months, sustaining hits like accusations of making women uncomfortable with his touchiness, but still consistently leading the polls with his hypothetical candidacy.’
If Biden won the (D) nomination and Trump put out an ad showing a montage of Biden groping children set to George Michael’s Father Figure I think I would be forced to vote for Trump.
The groping accusations haven’t even moved him one notch down in the poll.
They’re coming from farther left democrats. Data suggests they’re trying to get more moderate candidates to drop out.
He’s their best shot though and still leading polls head to head against other Democrats and trump.
Data suggests they’re trying to get more moderate candidates to drop out.
Which is the dumbest strategy possible for anyone looking to win. Logically, they should be looking to make other hard-line proggies to jump out. Right now, Biden is the strongest candidate because the left-wing vote is split five or six ways.
Got a recent Biden v Trump poll? A quick Google just shows old stuff.
Obama’s Third Term.
Beat that as a campaign slogan for Democrat primary.
Friggin hilarious. There was a Pittsburgh newspaper article yesterday that said Biden was considering announcing his run in Charlottesville tomorrow. (denied from some sources already – the traffic would suck – but the optics would be absolutely hilarious).
So Biden now has a good excuse to plagiarize Jeremy Corbyn…
I was thinking Marion Barry… “Bitch set me up”
I ate a whole bunch of Easter candy and now that its gone, I’m going on a Breatharian diet until my kidneys an pancreas stop hating me. So hopefully just until tomorrow.
I’m having mint chocolate chip ice cream for lunch.
I’m on a business trip and right next to my hotel last night was a Five Guys. I had a hankering for ice cream and had never tried one of their milkshakes. So I had one and OMG that was so damn good. But the sign said I had just drank 850 calories.
So my question is, how long do I have to go breathatarian before this new spare tire that suddenly appeared around my waist today disappears?
But their burgers are awful, so you can ration your calories by not eating one.
She looks like a hybrid of a couple of girls I dated.
You dated pre-teen boys?
/Homer scream.
I am awaiting the libertarian case for Joe Biden. I mean he did give us Obamacare and Trump is terrible for not repealing it but is he part of the libertarian wing of the Democratic party?
The thing is, Trump is the most libertarian president we’ve had since Reagan. I know damning with faint praise for both of them.
The lulz.
More lulz than Trump?
The lulz.
I think you mean “owning the cons”. And yes, I wanted Biden/Trump debates since 2015, and looks like I’m finally getting my wish!
(If this gets P.Brooksed, it’s because all of a sudden ‘Reply’ button reloads the page and punts me to the bottom text box, but still has the right comment in the URL so let’s see).
No, I meant that he’d do such a terrible job that we’d be laughing as the entire country burns down around us.
Look, as a man living under Zoolander Regime, I’ve found that not very bright, narcissistic and lazy people aren’t a huge detriment to the country. Just send him on a four-year goodwill tour to rebuild relations abroad after Trump Disaster and he’d go for it.
Say what you will about Obama, he would have been a better president if he toured more.
Every time Obama went golfing I thought to myself “The Western world is safe for at least one more day.”
Now he Tweets stuff. Social media is perfect for his empty platitudes.
EASTER WORSHIPPERS!
I am awaiting the libertarian case for Joe Biden.
Just give Gillespie time. Just give Gillespie time.
NAFTA, Mexicans, Ass-Sex. Boom. Even Weed might come soon…
I didn’t know you worked for WaPo, CNN and NYT.
Speaking of which, every five minutes on CNN there’s another “town hall” for yet another Democratic presidential candidate. Did I miss four years ago when CNN offered the same courtesy to the 18 Republican candidates?
I dont think they are even pretending anymore. We all know it, they know we all know it and they know we know they know it.
I was thinking something similar. It sure does appear they picked sides.
According to sources familiar with Kushner’s thinking, he said, “We think that the Muslim stakeholders will be much more agreeable if they can eat during the daytime.”
My wife would murder me if she couldn’t eat all day. I would definitely have to time it so I didn’t have to speak to her or accidentally make eye contact until after she had eaten.
My ex girlfriend used to get incredibly crabby if she went too long without eating. I don’t get it. Working all day without meal breaks was no big deal for me.
My wife gets like that too. She is one of the chillest people I know but if she goes a couple of hours without eating something, her bitch mode is activated.
Yeah, discovered that about my spousal unit a couple of months after the wedding. Keep her warm, dry and well-fed has been a mantra of mine ever since.
But never feed her after midnight?
Logically, it’s always after midnight.
Didn’t someone sing about that?
“…give her inches and feed her well…”
For Germans they did an excellent double entendre in English
Scorpians.
I truly had a gf once where I carried caramels in my pocket to give her once she started becoming bitchy. And she was always accepting and her mood brightened every time. Wish all problems were so easy to solve.
Now that is funny.
“Who’s a good girl?” *gives treat* “You are! You’re a good girl” *gives another treat, ruffles hair*
Patting a girl on the head in 2019 = guaranteed #MeToo.
This is surprisingly effective…
OMWC’s go-to move.
Wait, you dated a horse?
Damn! Candy, little girl?
I believe that’s all blood sugar related.
training penny
Haha I was just about to link that. I gave the show a try that season and didn’t really like it, but that one was funny.
Yep. So many times it’s been just the 2 of us at the end of a hectic day. I say “let’s just skip dinner I can’t be bothered.”
She looks at me like I’m possessed and starts leafing through takeout menus.
(this really feels like it’s going to be Brooks’d)
I have threatened/promised my wife I’m going to start carrying an EpiPen of liquid Jolly Ranchers; that “I’m sorry for what I said when I was hangry” t-shirt was essentially made for her.
It’s genetic, apparently – apparently, her father was also an irrational bear when he got hungry.
My wife turns into a raging demon when she has too much sugar. Sometimes I’ll come home and she’ll be watching TV and there will be an empty bag of Sour Patch Kids on the table. I just back right out the door. It’s safer to just be elsewhere for a few hours.
Breathertarians = grifters
Middle East Peace Plan. Yeah, right.
I didn’t think Joe would be the first to step aside for Herself.
Violent bunny. No surprise. Guys that get into brawls like that…it’s not usually their first rodeo.
I agree on the execution, I hope is slow and hurts terribly. *I am still against the death penalty in practice but not in principle.
Hope springs eternal. She has aged fairly well.
I had the Mazzy Star CD. For those of you who only know the one song, rest easy, you’re not missing anything.
Truth.
I prefer Tuvian Throat Poems or Death Metal Chicken…
Her stuff with Jesus and Mary Chain wasn’t bad.
Bummer. Really good song.
I think the problem was the one song with her voice, the mood and tempo of the music and the words added to her looks and demeanor made for one hell of a seductive package. After that it was impossible not to have your expectations disappointed.
mood and tempo of the music
I was impressed with the Martin 000 and bass. The 000 doesn’t ring high (as it should), but that could be the stage, miking, and mix: they’re meant for parlors, not stadia.
Respectfully I totally disagree. I listen to So Tonight That I Might See all the time.
Into Dust
Man… the stuff I did to that song.
To the Burning Man chick, no less.
I’m eating peanut butter on matzo at my desk for lunch. That’s kind of the same thing.
“Nacho” and “Matzo” rhyme.
This has cultural significance that should be explored further.
This has cultural significance that should be explored further.
Sounds like someone is getting a grant application ready.
Wife had trial this morning, so I had the kids for breakfast. Plated them some top shelf breakfast burritos. Then I get the call “reminder, it’s passover”.
So I had 4 burritos, and they had matzah with butter.
Some days it’s good to be goy!
Father of the Year.
When I lived in TX I had a breatherian working for me in Austin. Needless to say he was very thin and not very strong. We were moving a record rack and he dropped his end on his foot. Ow, I bet that hurt. Obviously he must have ate something but still…
There were Breatharians in Austin ?!?
/picks jaw up off floor
I know, who would have even suspected something like that in Austin?
Austin – the California of Texas. A college friend and I decided that Austin and Bakersfield (his home town) were switched at birth.
As a Californian by birth, I’d trade back. No love for Bakersfield here.
Almost every state is like that:
AUS vs TX
PDX vs OR
ATL vs GA
MSY vs LA
ORD vs IL
MSP vs MN
BWI vs MD
DTW vs MI and of course:
MEM vs TN
Posited: the only thing worse that a mixed up state is a monolithic one
MSM = AL
LIT = AR
OKC = OK
*Tulsa nonchalantly goes about its business*
I guessing that there is a lot of cheating on that diet.
I would just assume everything they said after that to be a lie no matter the subject.
A cheat day every day.
Had another guy that was a vegetarian but he could eat chicken, “’cause chickens don’t dream”
Beef doesn’t dream either. At least, not after it becomes beef.
“Nigerian brothers at heart of Jussie Smollett case break their silence to SUE the Empire star’s lawyers for defamation and insist that he ‘directed every aspect of the attack including the noose’
The Nigerian brothers who say Jussie Smollett paid them to beat him up have sued the Empire star’s lawyers for defamation and revealed startling allegations they say were made against them including that Smollett might have had a sexual relationship with one.
Abel and Ola Osundairo have filed a lawsuit against Smollett’s attorneys Mark Geragos and Tina Glandian who they say maliciously painted them as liars in the public after Smollett’s high profile criminal case was dropped.
Among the suggestions the lawyers made was that the brothers, who Smollett knew because he had enlisted them for personal training, might have been wearing white face when they attacked him on January 29.
On April 6, Glandian also claimed in a podcast that they trafficked Nigerian steroids and that Abel, the younger brother, spent the night at Smollett’s apartment.
She offered the theory that Ola, the older brother, wanted to ‘test’ Abel before they went to Nigeria by attacking Smollett who is openly gay.
They say all of the claims are not only false but defamatory and unnecessary because the case had already been dropped.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6951061/Nigerian-brothers-heart-Jussie-Smollett-case-sue-lawyers-defamation.html
Nigerian brothers at heart of Jussie Smollett case break their silence to SUE the Empire star’s lawyers for defamation and insist that he ‘directed every aspect of the attack including the noose’
Good. Goooooood.
/Emperor Palpatine
Yeah, this is the story that keeps on giving.
PS. “Nigerian steroids” lolwut
Did it ever get addressed where, how and by who Jussie the Liar got his face smashed up?
MAGA!
HONK, HONK!
The funniest part of this whole case was the OUTRAGE that was shared by the Mayor of the most corrupt city in America and the Chief of Police of the most corrupt police force in America at the antics of the (gasp) apparently corrupt City Prosecutor.
This is why I’m switching to Team Jussie. He fucked you in fair game by your rules, bitches, so no good whining afterwards and demanding extra overtime.
Geragos and Glandian are both incredibly shitty lawyers.
Their only advice to Smollett after the charges were dropped should have been “Take a 6 month vacation and SHUT THE FUCK UP. We’re doing the same.”
Instead, they all took a victory lap that enraged pretty much everyone.
This woman, Rana May, was Just named the Twin Cities’ best comic. Never head of her, but she is pretty funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXLMklMzok8
That’s your best comic?
That shit was the Bugs Bunny of stand-up comedy.
Now, Andrew Schulz, that’s a funny guy.
Bugs Bunny? Referenced a guy who played a Confederate Soldier and another guy who quoted that song title that got Kate Smith Cadaver Synoded?
Fuck Bugs Bunny.
I take it you’re a fan of…erm what Looney Tunes character is woke?
Bugs Bunny is a tranny.
Drag rabbit might be more on target.
Pepe LePeu? He was all about that trans-skunkist cat. A little Biden-handed, but willing to love her for who she showed herself to be.
#Meowtoo
You had to bring Pokemon into this?
Yes.
This is hilarious too
“A single Twinkie for breakfast and cardboard boxes for beds inside ‘large smelly tents’: ‘Starving and mistreated’ Coachella guards reveal their ‘jail-like’ conditions while working the festival”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6951021/Coachella-guards-claim-starved-mistreated-working-festival.html
Maybe this is true. But, why would someone volunteer for it then? And keep in mind that the expose writer is an LA screenwriter.
It’s a paying job, although not a good one.
Coachella is one fucked up place to get blitzed and sleep in a tent for three days. People die out there because they ran out of gas and had to walk. I’ve stopped to give broken down motorists gatorade so they’d be OK. It’s scary how messed up they can be after a half hour of no A/C or water. Shouldn’t really surprise anyone, though.
Isnt that the one where everyone was stranded on a hot Bahamian beach for two or three days with no food or water?
That was the Fyre Festival.
Ah. I dont keep up with that stuff but the big scam event stuck in my memory.
I was out there a few weeks ago (not for Coachella) and one of the workers died.
Is Jussie Smollett a libertarian? Hates Trump, He’s gay and black and doesn’t want to go to jail?
Mexicans, Winston. Pot, ass sex and Mexicans.
Didn’t John think that up? Whatever his numerous faults that one was gold as it sums up Official Libertarianism 1960s tunnel vision.
One should always strive to separate the art from the artist.
Yeah, pot, ass sex, and Nigerians just doesn’t have the same panache.
Gee, I don’t know, Winston.
It’s their own business if they want to be stupid and….
*checks picture*
AW FUCK.
Pregnant. Of course.
I think they might be lying.
Unless the laws of physics are suspended in their house, yes, they’re lying.
I ate a whole bunch of Easter candy
Peeps are terrible. That is all.
Peeps are great. Have to let them sit out until sugar coating starts to get crunchy. I had no Easter candy this year.
There is something seriously wrong with you.
You have no idea.
Sure I do. You hang out here.
Peep lovers always trot out this line. The candy sucks if it needs to get stale first.
You see… Peeps are like a fine wine…
You microwave your wine?
^^He’s right you know.
Hope is still gorgeous.
And she’s still making good music.
Hillary Clinton: Anyone Else Would Have Been Indicted After Mueller Report
Shereally want to go there?
Yup. She’s gonna go there.
Its okay buddy. We’re sending someone for help.
Nah. I got it.
What acts?
Modus operandi of the left is to always project as hard as possible and tell outlandish lies that are plainly in direct conflict with reality.
Even though they were very clear that wasn’t why they didn’t charge him with obstruction, the Big Lie has its boots on and is making the rounds.
Not only that, they didn’t send obstruction directly to Congress at all. They sent it to the AG, who made his Deep State deputy AG sign off on the refusal to prosecute.
Stricker. Lol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48027190
You’d think if they were serious, they’d focus on some hard-core PT. Look at the gut on the guy in the battle shirt. He thinks he’s going to be able to outrun and outgun a Secret Service member in his prime?
That mug shot looks like the end of a 20 year bender just before the DTs start to really kick.
But right-wing militias are an existential threat to this nation.
Is it fair to refer to a 40 foot intermodal as a “residence”?
If its a reefer with the A/C attached, yes.
If there is love, there is a home.
That made me chuckle.
Sometimes they slip the FBI handler’s leash and do something truly reprehensible.
Trumbo doesn’t need them anyways. Surprised this video is still up.
https://youtu.be/7Ewe74xOlkQ
Dalton?
The trumpinator was much better..
I assume “coke and whores” distraction was a key part of the plan.
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, and his group United Constitutional Patriots, also plotted to target Hillary Clinton and billionaire George Soros, according to a tip received by the FBI.
Totes credible.
I’m sure after the FBI plant in their organization suggested it, everyone thought it was a great idea.
The Arby’s gift card only sweetened the deal.
For a bottle of Ol’ Grandad, that guy they arrested looks like he’d agree to let those same illegals go at his daughter like he was Lot and they were townies in Sodom.
Sounds like he read “The Art of the Deal”.
Don’t rag on their 5 for $5 Beef-N-Cheddar.
Not sure that’s beef, and I know that’s not chedder… yet oddly I’m still willing to eat the sandwiches.
its beef. I knew a (((girl))) in high school that always had like 20 of those.
The smoked brisket sandwich is surprisingly edible.
These guys always turn out to be low-rent grifters with double digit IQ’s often with a little crazy mixed in.
The militias or the FBI?
Yes.
Oh my fucking god!
This man has a Youtube channel, and it is glorious!
He ain’t Barry Sadler…
Holy Gods that is….just wow.
Good lord. This guy needs a job or a hobby. And, no, the militia doesn’t count as a hobby.
This Song first played on the radio back in the Vietnam war era.
This video is only an old man reliving his big hit now that he is in his 70s.
Cut him a little slack.
Sorry for OT already, but Holy. Shit. The cognitive dissonance of this woman never ceases to amaze me.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-anyone-other-than-trump-would-have-been-indicted-for-obstruction
Girl, don’t go away mad. Girl, just go away.
If anyone should know.
YEAH!!!
Scroll up….
To where your totally readable, unedited link is?
Scroll up…
Scroll up
Scroll up
Scroll up
and see the shoooooooowwwwww….
Boy that chick was cute… 25 years ago?!! Holy shit! That can’t be right, can it?
She still looks great.
https://medium.com/@ajvenigalla/-8077517af9f1
I find it interesting how he tries to suggest that liberalism’s failures might be the fault of it’s opponents resisting. If those deplorables didn’t oppose us we wouldn’t have to kill them!
Now to be fair he does call out the Jacobins, the Reign of Terror and the War in the Vendee for the awful things they were but this line is interesting since liberalism has always had an issue with dissent. It ends up with either repression or digging its head in the sand.
Revolutions can never be over. If you dont have counter-revolutionaries then you must create them.
+1 Chesterton
Here’s the short story: the egalitarian and anti-poverty measures that the peasants and poor people hoped for from the Revolution were not materialized enough, and thus the Committee of Public Safety was formed in April 1793, headed by militants from the Jacobin Club.
That alone will get /r/badhistory to shred this thing.
The said Committee was formed because goddamn revolutionary army was losing a battle after battle, in a war they fucking declared on Austria. Austria was quite content to let France weaken itself, sister of the emperor notwithstanding, but the Girondines figured, easy war is what the populace needs.
For in Robespierre we see a culmination of both a betrayal of the Revolution and an elevation of its worst traits. In a sense, Robespierre could be called the secularist neoconservative.
Ah, here we have our Stalin Who Ruined Everything. Guess what? He was against war with Austria, some neocon.
lso, it was a sort of beacon for the classical liberal ideals throughout Europe, spreading the ideas of liberalism throughout Europe. Whether or not some of its methods were justified, the Revolution certainly spread liberal ideas throughout Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and even to some extent Germany.
Fuck me, yes, overthrowing old regimes and plundering their countries to feed the ever-growing armies of France certainly spread the liberal ideas into areas that were…already familiar with them? Leading to decades of repression and counter-liberal revolution after Napoleon rampaged over them, not to mention destruction of lives and property that twenty years of constant warfare inflicted?
The major reason most of these revolutions failed in bringing greater moves toward liberty is because oftentimes these otherwise largely libertarian movements did not always act in consonance with libertarian principles.
OK, this has to be Geoffrey Elwick of anarchism. This is equivalent to calling Ataturk an “otherwise largely theocratic Muslim who did not always act in concordance with principles of political Islam”.
Winston, you find the stupidest stuff, it must be admitted.
It is interesting how this often glossed over. Or they will blame this on Pillnitz Declaration. And Paine was a Girondin by the way. Not sure if he voted for war though…
Until he came to power that is. I guess this makes him a proto-progressive? Though the neocons really do have a fondness for spreading democracy through force.
Ralph Raico is one of the few people to acknowledge that those wars helped tar liberalism with the odium of French imperialism which was a major factor (along with the economic devastation caused by the wars themselves) that drove counter-revolution in such places like Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
If you know where to look or the right search options you can find quite a lot of derp.
OT: Lord H and I are doing well in Asheville. A lot of … Walking… and beer… and food. Some shopping and mountains are thrown in for good measure.
Lord H got a Yeti hat as a sacrifice to STeve SmItH! To stop Him From Chasing us in Pisgah forest.
I realize I spend 80% of my time
(while working) trying to solve pointless problems… then I vacation and wonder… why?
I hope so you can vacation in nice places.
This. I keep plenty of vacation pics around to remind me why I do this bullshit.
Yeah- pretty much! Plus I do about 3 vacations a year lately… so the bullshit is worth it… right?
Absolutely. Have a great time!
Love Asheville and the Pisgah and Blue Ridge Parkway. Fun place.
So Jimmy Kimmel’s All in the Family is just a live special recreating an old episode? I’m teh disappoint. I was expecting a full reboot complete with Archie being a Trumper and getting into arguments with his gay black genderqueer Muslim Democratic Socialist life partner of Archie’s non-binary child all of the time. And seeing the media lurving it, the SJWs bemoaning how evil Archie is and giving him a platform is terrible, and youtubers bemoaning how woke and political All in the Family has now become.
I got a sensible chuckle out of that line.
Leftist propaganda like Star Wars, Star Trek and the Twilight Zone are still leftist propaganda. Shocking!
Who woulda thunk James Bond might go woke after GoldenEye?
Though Mortal Kombat going woke is in fact really silly.
As a big fan of The Twilight Zone I wouldn’t classify it as leftist propaganda. Yes, Rod Serling was very against the Vietnam War, but that stemmed from the fact he, himself, served in a unit that was basically cannon fodder in the Pacific theater of WW2. He suffered from physical injuries and PTSD for the rest of his life. Likewise, his WW2 experiences made him despise racism, as well as all forms of totalitarianism left or right. He was also a devout convert to Christianity from Judaism, and Judeo-Christian religious themes are present in much of his work – all of these themes converging in the episode (The Obsolete Man), one of his best, imo. Also, I don’t think leftist propaganda would have an episode where Fidel Castro commits suicide.
If anything, I would argue that Serling’s views, as represented in the show, could best be described as Eisenhower Republican: Support for free enterprise, but also government as builder of infrastructure for both defense and commerce; the US should support and model capitalism, personal liberty, and civil rights to counterbalance the spread of Communism, etc..
Very interesting read, and it fits the impressions I get when I watch the twilight zone. However, I’m still not clicking those links.
Better?
“Opp-solete!”
Love that one. “Eye of the Beholder” is another favorite with some thematic overlap.
Support for free enterprise, but also government as builder of infrastructure for both defense and commerce; the US should support and model capitalism, personal liberty, and civil rights to counterbalance the spread of Communism, etc..
Which is also original Star Trek. Even if he found giving weapons to one side in civil war distasteful, Kirk still did or the whole planet would fall to Klingon domination, and Klingons started it.
But no, if you have any political subtext, you are propaganda. If that subtext is not a guy screaming “Kill all commies”, you’re leftist propaganda.
If that subtext is not a guy screaming “Kill all commies”
Hey, what’s wrong with screaming “Kill all commies”?
Erm yeah?
Roddenberry was a hippy atheist.
It’s interesting to compare the two’s WW2 experience and wonder how they influenced their worldviews.
Serling was a paratrooper who went through the island hopping meat grinder that was the liberation of the Philippines and beyond, leaving with, among other awards, a Bronze Star.
Roddenberry was an Air Force pilot who flew bombers in the Pacific. In 1943, after fucking-up a landing and killing two men, he was reassigned to the States and served the rest of his time as (get this) an plane crash investigator.
True, I sometimes forget, even though I should know better, that Rodenberry didn’t have full control over the TOS, and, after the first one was…not a flop, but not a critical darling or mega-success, over the movies, too.
Cool background and good stories. Thanks for the links.
The terms you guys are looking for are “Cold War Liberalism”. They were anti-commie, and big believers in how America (at least under Democratic Presidents) was Great and how technology was great and very optimistic about the future.
Even the Commies could be nationalistic as times: see Dalton Trumbo’s The Remarkable Andrew.
And don’t forget how TNG’s attitude toward the US, capitalism and the Cold War was very different than TOS.
Yeah, I’ll agree with that.
With Russiagate that sort of attitude is making a comeback.
Though I would amend it to “moderate” Republicans as well.
First Season and a half at least, some of which is Rodenberry’s fault, some of which is just a mismatch of TNG characters shoved into scripts made for TOS crew in a revival series that didn’t happen. I mean, I grew up on actual communist propaganda, and I still don’t see it when I think of my favorite TNG eps (“Chains of Command pt2”, “Frame of Mind”, “Darmok”, just about any Borg thing, any episode where Patrick Stewart plays someone else, “All Good Things”…)
Examples: Compare The Omega Glory to the Last Outpost or the Neutral Zone or any early TNG shots at the Cold War and nationalism.
What about comparing it to the (what passes for, granted) plot in Data’s Day, where he discovers that the Vulcan official they are transporting is in fact a Romulan spy?
Note that TNG stepped off the “20th century people so dumb” train because neither writers nor viewers enjoyed it and have complained about it. As it id so, its viewership took off and it was more popular than any subsequent Trek, even though DS9, had it as a lead-in, had the highest-viewed Trek episode since the TOS Pilot, and all the good writers from TNG staff.
The funny thing about All in the Family is that, for all his faults, and they were myriad, Archie was fundamentally a better man than Mike Stivik, Lear’s stand-in. Here was a guy who took his daughter’s boyfriend/husband into his home, even while that guy perpetually insulted him. While Archie was undoubtedly a bigot in broad general characterizations, he was one who, on a personal level, accepted people of other races, ethnicities, or backgrounds because “I’m not talking about him“. From show to show to show, it was consistently Archie who learned something, who grew as a person. Mike? Nah, he just coasted along living off his wife’s father, secure in his presumption of moral and intellectual superiority, never questioning his premise of his own enlightenment.
Yeah, if the show was trying to get us to side with Meathead, they did an awful job at it.
From what I remember reading (take that for what it’s worth), not only did they want you to, they kept writing Archie as ever more stubborn and bigoted because people were not siding with Meathead.
I’d heard something like that before. My thought is that Mike Stivic really was a stand-in for Lear and the writers. What anyone else would recognize as good qualities in Archie and bad qualities in Mike went over their heads in the same way that Archie’s good qualities and Mike’s failings and foibles never really occurred to Mike.
There was one episode where Mike believed that he was due for a promotion in his department and instead a black professor got the job. Mike instantly thought that the black professor got the promotion based on his skin color and not his skill set or intelligence.
I don’t know if this was intentional on Lear’s part but he exposed the hidden racism of the Mike Stivics of the world. Something that I’ve learned about the Left is that for all their show about abhorring racism, but when you scratch the surface, they hold paternalistic views towards blacks.
I think that was probably on purpose. After all, how hard would it have been to make Archie say that instead?
I swear I remember the same plot only it was Archie at the plant who got passed over for a promotion.
The tendency of “progressives” to love humanity in the abstract while hating most actual people and the tendency of bigots to be nice to members of the groups they hate has been noted for some time.
I watched that show as a kid, and while it was obvious to me that Archie was a bigot and that he was wrong about a lot of stuff, I absolutely HATED Meathead.
Titty Tuesday bringin’ da pain!
https://thechive.com/2019/04/23/this-sex-appeal-goes-up-to-11-95-photos/
I wont say that beautiful women dont appeal to me, to my eye anyway, but I always look at the chive girls with a suspicious eye. How much silicone, narcissism and crazy am I looking at?
Wheelbarrows full, I’m afraid.
1, 16.
Fake news.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8923634/woman-shot-husband-porn-usa-murder-wife-arkansas/
Who pays for porn?
Love the paper straw article in the sidebar – Mickey D’s will shove those things down your throat no matter how awful they are, because what are they gonna do? Change their mind and piss off Gaia? What a world. That nine-year-old who kick-started this nonsense must be laughing himself silly.
I notice they are using a lot of kids like that these days because you cant tell a kid to go fuck themselves…right? I can. You are full of shit so fuck off kid.
George Kennedy Could
For some reason, the left is infatuated with the mythical wisdom of children. Obviously none of them have ever interacted with a child.
They are interested in their malleability, the superficial credibility and of course using them to bludgeon their opponents. Other than that, not so much.
They only see other people as objects or tools.
Do these paper straws come packaged in plastic wrappers?
I don’t get it. Go to prison for that? At that age?
Interesting ruling. They do that in our neighborhood.
https://reason.com/2019/04/23/federal-court-chalking-tires-is-trespassing-not-police-work/
Never heard of that. You’d think if space was limited, they would have come up with some means of rationing it.
Huh. They do that in my town but they do it with a parking patrol car that uses cameras to snag the plates. You typically get 2 hours max within a particular zone without a resident’s sticker. At any rate, it’s not trespassing by that ruling, presumably, and wouldn’t be impacted.
But asset forfeiture is okay?
The dumbest generation? – Climate fears: 20% of Millennials believe global warming will lead to the extinction of humanity within their lifetimes, survey says
So possibly a self-correcting problem.
How many hundreds of years do we have to listen to Chicken Little squawk before it finally sinks in?
22-28 is a weird time. My wife was… don’t fuck this up, Brett… 26? I mean 26! when she got pregnant and she was the first of her close peer group by a couple of years. Now pretty much all of them have at least one, and most have 2 or the 2nd is in the oven six years later. So, I’m not saying they’re wrong, I’m just saying that hormones are powerful chemicals.
So possibly a self-correcting problem.
Indeed. Even were the worst doom and gloom predictions to come true, humanity would still survive climate change with flying colors. Literally just retreat from the oceans and the desert, as human have been doing for the past 10,000 years as the glaciers have been retreating, and you’ll be fine. People who think 2^C will cause extinction are doing us all a favor by not procreating.
2^C is a big number.
Yeah. Getting warmer is nothing to worry about. We’re currently in an ice age, so even at the peak of an inter-glacial there’s plenty of headroom for more warming.
20%? That’s it?? You’d think decades of propaganda would be a little more effective than that.
This is bad, but it’s probably not vital (in the way that you get 25% of the answers on a multiple choice test right). As I’ve estimated here before, a full quarter of Americans are incapacitated by video games, drugs, unemployment, or debt. To have only 20% of people believe a stupid thing is really the bare minimum.
Along these lines: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/30/18-of-americans-say-theyve-seen-a-ghost/
This has always been the predicament; in today’s fashion: as a red stater, the vote of a global warming extinguishtist in OH is worth considerably more than mine.
see also: “liquidation” of SSA “trust funds”
“a facebook group I’m in is having a heated debate about whether it’s ableist to deny someone housing on the basis of being a capricorn”
https://twitter.com/kari_paul/status/1120371069984989184
“Capricorns need not apply: is it legal to pick a roommate by astrological sign?
A response to a housing inquiry went viral when the applicant was turned down for being a capricorn”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/22/roommate-astrology-zodiac-discrimination
It is impossible to know anymore if parody or not.
*throws up hands*
*pours a glass of bourbon*
exactly
but, of course, that was implied!
* burb *
Fucking Capricorns mess up the housing market. They all oughta live in tents downtown with all the polar bears who got pushed out of their habitats by GGW.
This is hilarious: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he intends to name a new settlement in the Golan Heights after US President Donald Trump. “
Trumplusalem, I like it.
Er . . . “Trump of Peace”? ”Peace Trump”?
That oughta have some of the Woke screaming in agony.
Mark Steyn:
Steyn doesn’t even mention “Easter worshipers.”
“from an eleven-year-old English boy and a ten-year-old Australian girl to three of the four children of Denmark’s wealthiest man”
Britain and Australia have slid so far down the retard hole, they’ll probably attack Steyn for even daring to say that. Islamaphobic, he is. Those poor Islamists didn’t mean to do bad. Was that bad what they did?
three of the four children of Denmark’s wealthiest man, retail billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen
If I was a billionaire and some savages killed three of my kids, I think I’d have a brand new way to spend some truly impressive amounts of money.
Steyn doesn’t even mention “Easter worshipers.”
Being Steyn, he goes for “Christian corpses” instead.
“Today, Canada released our new $1 coin, commemorating the legalization of gay sex.”
https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1120759355673063424
Really?
Also that is supposed to be two men?
An act passed by his father natch.
But where is the slot on the male stripper?
Did they use Trudeau as a model for that coin?
Did they use Trudeau as a model for that coin?
Well, the two-faced aspect of the coin certainly works.
Someone is trolling. The coin actually has and NPC and a clown on it? Gotta be trolling, it’s not real.
Oh, that’s the ten dollar thingy.
Oh, that’s the ten dollar thingy.
Which we should totally do next — the clownification of our fiat currency continues unabated.
I still say our currency is the greatest practical joke every played:
“The age where a transwoman saying “maybe you should shave your beard if you wanna call yourself a transwoman” is considered transphobic.”
https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1120735245194551296
“You are literally saying that beards can’t be feminine, you’re basing validity on how well people conform to cis expectations, aka passing”
https://twitter.com/xtravisage/status/1120807043244412928
“If you aren’t virtue signaling as hard as you can by repeating leftist jargon, keep your fucking mouth shut.”
This is why we can’t have nice things.
We’re getting survey responses back for the kink convention. Of our 36 total presenters, fully half were either some type of minority or non gender conforming or a combination of both. The other half were wypipo whose gender and presentation match their genitals. Beyond that, in about half of the straight wypipo said wypipo was the assistant/secondary presenter who was being demo’d upon.
And yet, we got responses complaining that there weren’t “more” presenters and attendees who were whatever. My god, you couldn’t look around any room without seeing some fat, queer dangerhair of indeterminate race. And we don’t control who buys tickets or shows up. And if half the fucking presenters isn’t enough, fuck off. We also got complaints that myself and the lead director were white men. The other four people on the team were women, 3 of whom weren’t white and 1 of whom identifies as some kind of gender-fuck type thing. (2 guesses as to who did 95% of the work. That’s right, the 2 white guys and the one old white woman.). We actively recruited presenters to apply who are outside the box and had a low response, and many of them we did have had either no experience, or poor reviews from other cons, or were clearly not qualified to teach.
The kink con made Mos Eisely look like the local 1950s Elk Club meeting. And that’s not enough for some people. That kind of crap will drive a man to be a shitlord if they weren’t already.
72% of tv commercial feature biracial couples: 1000% inflation should be good enough for anyone.
Another statistics opinion: when you run a poll or post an opinion on facebook or rate a cafe on yelp or any of those sorts of things with great public access, you’re not measuring the value of the idea or product; rather, you’re measuring the distribution of people. Every curve is just a distribution of heaping, muddling mediocrity in the middle bounded by splinter themes and abilities on either end. Again: 20% of people (in pretty much every place and demographic) are just defective; but they still can fill out survey cards.
Crazy people can have good ideas, so don’t discount any reply out of hand. But DON’T weigh the distribution of the replies as a fair valuation of anything!
Source?
Tiger Woods counts at two.
oh, I totally made that up: thought it was obvious
I only went after commercials because the demographics are the sort of over-pandering that C/A’s crowd would say is never enough. So: silly example with a silly figure.
Ebony and ivory dishsoap couples are in, and cuddling lesbians are necessary, but, apparently, gay guys are still scary. But what do I know: I basically only watch MLB, HBO, and C-SPAN.
Someone forgot to tell Amazon that. I’ve seen everything up to and including the use of Alexa as a sex toy.
It seems the advertisers caught wind of the popularity of it at least among millennials.
Here is the link to the study they cite.
None of those links worked for me.
Dangit. How about now?
Better.
I’ve seen several new examples of guy-couple commercials in just the last few months.
I’ve noticed a few myself, actually. It seems like a few are still kind of subtle, like if you need to you can tell yourself they’re just really good friends. Or maybe roomies saving money by buying a mattress to share.
LOL, happens all the time!
Perfectly normal, perfectly natural.
I agree there are more commercials focusing on my origin story. I would chalk that up to the fact that as of 2015, 17% of marriages were interracial and that number is rising. I’m sure by 2020, we will have reached 1 in 5.
It would be interesting, though, to study the percentage of families in commercials that are interracial compared to families in commercials over all for a particular time period. If it’s less than 20% in, say, a 3 hour block of programming, then interracial couples are actually still underrepresented.
I would say that the reason it seems like a bajillion percent is because of our monkey brains. When a number goes from what was basically zero for decades to a non-trivial amount in a relatively short amount of time, there is an over representation perception bias in our psychology.
I’ll also note the 17% is just God-fearing marriage. The cohabitation rate is much, much higher.
agree with all that
I bet my tone and the lack of body language cues here gets me in a lot of trouble; no one could guess when I’m serious or not. I don’t have a guess about the actual ratios or whether they’re appropriate. I’m just cynical about the industry waiting for the wind to turn; the rush to this new thing is hilarious; my slapdash treatment of the topic wasn’t meant for more than whimsey.
Since design of experiments work in grad school and half a career in automotive, I’ve grown a keen distrust of perception; listen to what people say and then measure what they do all week and you quickly come to see that the things are barely related. The chain between phenomena, cognition, decision-making, and communication have long-since dominated my professional efforts and personal focus: that’s where the rub always is. Sizing engines and pumps and discounting cashflows are banal, boring, easy, but laughable when I consider the human factors that stand between some of the directions I get, the data I have, and muddy reality wherever it might be.
Well said.
I would imagine that the rate of increase is itself increasing. First, the onus against interracial relationships starts to break down and you get multiracial children. Presumably those children don’t develop a prejudice against interracial relationships as, by definition, any relationship they’re in would be interracial. Also, I’d assume that single-race individuals who are on the fence might have an easier time identifying with someone who whom they share at least some partial racial identity.
On a side note, it’s all kind of silly, really, but whatever.
Serious question because you know us both personally. Would SP and I count as a biracial marriage? I’m swarthy Turkish Jew semitic type, she’s pale Eastern European.
And of course, any marriage for WebDom is biracial because she’s whiter than Johnny Winter.
This is what bugs me about the social construct called “race”.
Like, what “race” was President Obama. He was half “black” and half “white”. The more people of different “races” intermarry, the more muddled it becomes. Is it “one drop and you’re a Negro” or “one drop and you’re white”?
How about just dropping the whole thing and treating everyone as a distinct individual that doesn’t depend upon secondary physical characteristics?
I’d say not too long ago going outside of your ethnic group was viewed much like outside of your race more recently. Ethnicities have really become mixed in the US at this point I think. Very few people with “pure” bloodlines.
95% of statistics are made up. If you dont believe it watch the polls up to November next year.
I’m not. It’s just infuriating that some of these responses are also from presenters. Wanna guess which ones? If you guessed the cis white women presenters you’d be correct.
The overall response is actually really positive. Consistently getting 85-90% Agree or Strongly Agree that overall the education was great and most of the classes individually it’s in a 70-85% Agree or Strongly agree the classes were good. And the positive comments outweigh the negative by a huge margin. Rather it is a lesson in ‘Some people are never happy and will keep crusading regardless’.
We have had some useful feedback too about how to improve some things. But other stuff that reinforces your point about heaping, muddling mediocrity, like someone complaining “The class filled up before I got there and should have been in a bigger room” when it was a class held in the biggest room we had and we repeatedly encourage people to show up early if it is a class you really want to go to as they can fill up. Motherfucker, we work with what we got. Yes, some of the rooms are noisy and the seating is uncomfortable. We’re trying to provide 60 classes to 1500 people over 3 days in an Expo center.
cis white women
#resist !!1!!
Like in my earlier John Wayne crack: notions are brands, now. Today’s woman clings to #Resist the way my mom stood by Tide. Like stereotypes, these mental shortcuts save a lot of thinking energy!
If you guessed the cis white women presenters you’d be correct.
“When you go to a woman, do not forget the whip. Unless it’s a dangerhair white woman, when why are you even going to her in the first place, idiot?”
Friedrich Nietzsche, “So Spake Zarathustra”, 2019 updated and expanded edition, probably.
It’s far easier to be outraged and/or concerned than it is is to be competent and/or industrious.
“a Breatharian diet”
Their comrades in Venezuela are in bad need of their little secret.
““Humans can easily be without food – as long as they are the connected to the energy that exists in all things and through breathing.”
Prove it, you foolish hippy. Place yourself under the supervision of a lab somewhere, where you can be constantly monitored and abstain from food and water for a few weeks. You may go a few weeks without food and survive it, but you’ll die in less than a week without water.
Rule of Threes: three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food — any one of these will kill you.
The last two are supposed to be extremely painful deaths, as well.
Ever been thirsty? I dont mean ‘I sure wish I had a coke’ thirsty. I mean ‘I have no problem drinking my own piss or cutting someone’s throat for their blood’ thirsty. It isnt just physically painful it puts your head in a very bad place. You become increasingly desperate and increasingly insane.
I would say thirst is the worst of the three.
They always say they eat a fruit cup once a week or something like that. I have no idea how long you can subsist on that, but I’m betting it’s not nine years.
The pictures say they are eating more than that. They would be extremely emaciated and start suffering from all sorts of serious maladies from lack of minerals and vitamins. They are however, full of shit.
You are spoiling her energy flow, Man!
Here’s the secret: They’re liars.
^^^This. They’re hucksters.
Animal wins one internets.
*shocked face*
Drive by!
– I ate way too much chopped liver during the Seder. Every year: “I won’t fill up on chopped liver”. Every year: “I’m not even hungry for the entree”
– trying to be productive, so aiming not to
wastespend much time here this week.– The ‘Charmed’ recaps are amazing and a must-read for me. Thank you, MLW!
– I didn’t realize what a smokeshow the Mazzy Star was – this still gives me chills sometimes
– Go Bruins!
Please tell me someone else is watching the Bruins game – how did that puck go in? Kitty Pride playing for the Bruins, I think.
Someone else is watching the Bruins game. Not me, but someone is.
First goal or second?
First goal – it appeared to phase into the net.
That was the first goal in the series that the TV commentators blamed on Andersen. Apparently, he didn’t make any mistakes until now. LOL.
Leafs do not appear to be ready to concede this one.
Great forecheck and goal by Tavares.
Things are getting a little frisky. Rask is earning his paycheck.
How long does it take for Valium to kick in?
*asking for a friend*
Remember when we were measuring things in someone’s lifespan? Who was that ?
2 microevans
So, *counts toes*, 16.3 minutes.
Sorry, 2 microevans. So, about half an hour.
LOL I was actually spitballing but we might be right.
Yeah, no voter fraud here in Minne.
Minnesota Secretary of State Unwilling to Provide Public Data to Minnesota Voters Alliance Despite Court Rulings
Throw his ass in jail.
Did they do their time? I can’t find a clear answer on whether that matters. If it’s a lifetime ban, that’s Not OK.
How about lifetime ban on government employees voting?
Sadly, I have to disagree with that too. I think.
How many legions does the court have?
So is the death penalty okay when it is used on white racists?
No.
The death penalty is ok, period. Some people just need killin’. The problem is that there is no one competent to decide who gets it, most of all that applies to government.
What Suthen said. i’d prefer it be handled privately and the person or people who carry it out face a jury of their peers and prove that such person “needed killin’”, but giving the statists ammunition to slave on is what makes me root for botched and painful.
That isnt exactly what I meant. No one is qualified. Not victims, victims families, mobs, private companies…nobody. And once you have made a mistake you can never un-make it.
If we had a magic ball we could look into I would be ok with it. Otherwise, no death penalty.
*Story not told – Not long after the dragging death in Texas a black man in…uh…Portland?…went to a store alone at night. Three peckerwoods confront him in the parking lot and start taunting him with their rotty and racial slurs specifically threatening him with “Nigger we are going to drag you like they did that nigger in Texas.”
Not thinking that sounded like much of a good time he drew his pistol, shot their dog and then held them until police arrive. No charges filed against him. I wonder why that story never got any press. Any ideas?
So PEI election: 12 PC, 9 Green, 5 Liberal with one seat to be held later.
the gay Liberal Premier has been defeated in his own seat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_MacLauchlan
Coalition government. The Greens and Liberals are gonna run PEI (even further) into the ground.