I’ve Locked The Liquor Cabinet
Time for a few days off, I think. A long weekend. Play nicely. Use coasters.
Update: Above, Derwent Dam, as seen by your host and photographed by The Other Half.
Time for a few days off, I think. A long weekend. Play nicely. Use coasters.
Update: Above, Derwent Dam, as seen by your host and photographed by The Other Half.
‘Poll of note’
https://twitter.com/DamCou/status/1433168998884069376
Bug pronouns.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1433202674401529856
Bug pronouns.
She doesn’t look the type.
Don’t forget the doilies
‘Poll of note’
Honkx, honkicies.
Bug pronouns.
Interesting, but not new, anyone who has seen a movie with Marine basic training knows “maggot” has been a perfectly comulent pronoun for decades. In her case, however, does it have to be generic “bug”, or can we be more specific like “Drosophila melanogaster”?
Some good news.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/09/01/antifa-high-school-teacher-suspended-will-be-fired-n413201
More of this.
If the principal and related administrative staff who obviously had to know something was wrong there are not fired as well, it’s still a win for the commies. They’re just learning where the boundaries are so that they can now devise a more subtle plan to push them further. It’s a strategy many successful people, organizations, military, etc. have used often.
Fun with the Mercator Projection.
So, er… any outrage from the comrades on teh Twitt0rz about this, then?
Ah, but it’s not real communism, of course.
So, er… any outrage from the comrades on teh Twitt0rz about this, then?
Related, “social tumors”, China not fond of insufficiently revolutionary celebrities. Who says Hollywood can’t teach anyone anything?
Also related, a real shocker, Marcel Duchamp’s urinal* failed to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan. If only they had tried some performance interpretive dance the Tollybon wouldn’t have had a chance.
*(if nothing else, scroll down to the video at the end)
In case you hit your limit on American Spectator articles…here’s a link to just the video. The expression on the afghan women’s faces itself is worth the click…
https://youtu.be/wdrvpSfJM1w
From the American Academy of Pediatrics, no less…
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/4/e20154154
Promoting breastfeeding as “natural” may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that “natural” approaches are presumptively healthier. This may ultimately challenge public health’s aims in other contexts, particularly childhood vaccination.
They go on to note that this matters because a preference for natural things might then lead to other unhealthy preferences such as organic food, unfluoridated water, and even homeschooling.
The Long March never rests.
Oh, and “may inadvertently endorse a controversial set of values about family life and gender roles,” too.
Of course.
“Promoting breastfeeding as “natural” may be ethically problematic, and, even more troublingly, it may bolster this belief that “natural” approaches are presumptively healthier.”
Over the course of my lifetime so far, formula milk has gone from being officially superior, to frowned upon by all right-thinking people, to, it appears, officially superior. I think I’ve probably got enough time left for it to fall out of favour again.
Always trust The Experts™.
The Long March never rests.
Children don’t stop pushing boundaries until they find them.
Cockroaches don’t stop living somewhere until they are eradicated.
The solution to our current problems lie somewhere between.
So in the interest of content…Odd real estate listings being a thing here…now this place is kinda the opposite of what we generally see here. This place, the inside is very nice. Not exceptional, cheap appliances and such, but a good bit of money was poured into this, formerly commercial, building. Wife tells me the former business sold hiking related products. For $399K in this area you can find much nicer properties. Maybe not quite as big but definitely sufficient and in a much nicer location with a much nicer view and still close to town if that is what one needs. OTOH, this place is right next door to the post office and the local supermarket is right in your backyard.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/130-N-Main-St-Hiawassee-GA-30546/2071663343_zpid/??utm_source=txtshare
…may inadvertently endorse a controversial…
Translation: “We might get shrieked-at, stalked or actually attacked by crazy people, so let’s do what they want.”
For $399K in this area you can find much nicer properties.
If it was on the lake, maybe, but the chicken wire chifferobe is an interesting touch…
So in the interest of content
That is cheaper than my 350 sq ft Outlying Island flat in HK. Downside – just polishing the floors would be a 24/7 job but at least there’s no garden to worry about.
You cannot begin to fathom my astonishment at this revelation.
No one can say the federal government isn’t always on top of important crises.
Give us this day, our daily pills
And lead us not into infection
But deliver us from all risk.
For the country, the power, and the culture are yours
now and for ever. Amen.
The Holy Lord Pfizer prayer, circa [current year]
Marcel Duchamp’s urinal* failed to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan.
Great insight on the hypocrisy of the left from the linked article:
Something about the end justifying the means perhaps.
If it was on the lake,…
Heh. That’s the even better part. It’s not even on the other side of the highway that the lake is on. To get to the lake, you cross the busy highway, past the hardware store and the church that sits between the archery store and the guns/ammo/fishing store, walk past numerous other businesses, city hall, the old jail, and about another half mile down to the end of a lakeside road. And I think that’s just a boat dock access. If this were on the lake and still close to the busy highway, you could get $500K for it. There’s a similar size property, though with added garage space and dock and such that is right off the highway, on the lake, with much nicer appliances and much nicer interior and much nicer curb appeal from the outside that sold for that much last year. Though I suppose there’s someone stupid enough, with that much money, that might buy it. I just don’t get who/how someone would have sunk that much money into risking it though. Just typing this out, it just occurred to me that the city got some insane improvement loan as part of this covid insanity to develop a ridiculous piece of commercial property nearby there that itself is a huge waste of money. A very ugly space, a “historic” building, crammed between two crappy old buildings, that last I heard they were going to put an open air rooftop bar or restaurant in. Because “historic”.
The Afghan modern art course video was the most convincing evidence we are living in a clownworld simulation I’ve seen to date. It’s a f*cking comedy sketch but the punchline is how much taxpayer money / inflation theft paid for the whole enterprise.
… but the Ivy League diplomats…
Take up the faculty lounge burden,
Send forth ye profs and TA,
Go with the NGOs fantasize,
Of genders and pronouns,
But wonder at the end of day,
That Afghans think you clowns.
(Apologies to Rudyard)
Sam Duncan: ’ I think I’ve probably got enough time left for it to fall out of favour again.’
The Long March never rests, indeed. Partly because it’s pushing that Wheel.
Play nicely. Use coasters.
“I saw her standing on the corner,
a yellow ribbon in her hair…
Looky there”
Oh, wrong Coasters…
but the chicken wire chifferobe is an interesting touch…
Maybe they raised chickens?
This is my shocked face.
“I saw her standing on the corner,
a yellow ribbon in her hair…
Looky there”
“Young blood, young blood, young blood
I can’t get you out of my mind”
I’m old but not that old. Some songs just stick with you.
Time for a few days off, I think.
Good for you David. Me, as well. I hope you have a lovely time off.
A new plot twist for the new Texas abortion law.
You cannot begin to fathom my astonishment at this revelation.
This is my shocked face.
Related:
It is possible, of course, to believe that concerns about pedophilia are disproportionate, and one might wish to discuss policy about related issues in a disinterested way. For example, many people have noted how travesties of justice like the McMartin Preschool Case were fueled by exaggerated fears, fueled by nonsense theories of “suppressed memory,” etc. But it is a completely different thing when, as in the case of Noah Berlatsky, someone starts arguing that the real problem is not pedophilia, but rather the “stigma” attached to pedophilia. Really? You want to destigmatize pedophilia?
Give us this day, our daily pills
Wow! Social media’s resistance to allowing COVID treatment discussions is suddenly making a lot more sense 🤔
travesties of justice like the McMartin Preschool Case were fueled by exaggerated fears, fueled by nonsense theories of “suppressed memory,” etc.
It’s significantly worse than that. The children in question testified to multiple things that were physically impossible, and yet law enforcement and the DA investigated them as if they were unvarnished fact. That case is (now) a textbook example of the state run amok, and in retrospect it is obvious that the whole thing was started by a bitter ex-wife making false accusations to wrench custody away from her ex-husband. Why anyone took her insane claims seriously from the get-go remains a mystery.
From wikipedia: Johnson also made several more accusations, including that people at the daycare had sexual encounters with animals, that “Peggy drilled a child under the arms” and “Ray flew in the air.” Ray Buckey was questioned, but was not prosecuted due to lack of evidence.
…of flying, one presumes.
a textbook example of the state run amok
Indeed. Unfortunately not in a good way.
Not a cult, someone actually published this.
Not a cult, someone actually published this.
Remember those very young school children being taught to sing songs praising Obama? Entertainers posting videos in which they pledge allegiance to Obama? Art portraying Obama as a naked or near naked hero?
A new plot twist for the new Texas abortion law.
“I, a transwoman…So while I can’t get pregnant, I’m still a woman, thus believed inferior.”
No, sweetie, we don’t think you’re inferior because you’re a woman (which you aren’t.) We think you’re inferior because you’re batshit insane.
Remember those very young school children…
Yeah, but Joe? C’mon man…
“I think every South Australian should feel pretty proud that we are the national pilot for the home-based quarantine app.”
Odd take.
Oh. Imagine my surprise.
Odd take.
Oh. Nevermind.
Now that Australia has taken this step will it ever be able to stop? Seems unlikely. Assuming Covid is resolved, politicians and authorities will find endless reasons for it to be used forever.
Also, “forced” is a negative term. No one will be forced. Your phone will just automatically download the app. Future phones will be preloaded with an undeletable version.
“Be happy in your work.”
In the interest of providing our own content…
Probably known by some here, maybe even posted here before but hey, fun story…
https://guernseydonkey.com/the-one-man-invasion-of-sark/
someone actually published this
… by a “New York Times bestselling author” …. and published a sequel too
Undercover white superiority?
https://imgbox.com/rHBduCWV
his favourite railroad
Hmm. Britspeak or actual quote?
Part noir thriller and part bromance novel
It could be worse. Don’t click that.
Actually it’s probably more of a lateral move, quality-wise.
favourite
Britspeak or actual quote?
Dunno, I copypasted it from library catalog, which I presume copypasted from publisher’s description. But the publisher is Quirk, based in Philly; and a not-too-cursory glance at their website I don’t see any more Britspellings. Must be gremlins.
Customers who bought this item also bought
Part 2! You. Fucking. What?
Don’t click that
Hover is my friend. I didn’t click.
If David were here he’d say, “The gods, they mock us.”
Not quite the burn Maddow feelz it is …
fun story…
The outer islands and Crown Dependencies, still generating Ealing comedy scenarios as late as the 1990’s. For my fantasy Ealing film, I cast: Peter Sellars as Gardes, John Gregson as Constable Perrée, Muriel Pavlow as Mrs Perrée, Raymond Huntley as the Magistrate, Richard Wattis as The Man from the Foreign Office, and Stanley Holloway as the Seigneur.
“If women can’t back out of pregnancies, men shouldn’t be able to either.”
Who wants to tell her about child support?
I’ve become too cynical, but does the timing of the Supreme Court’s abortion decision in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle strike anyone as odd? The software-company slack group I use for my leftwing pulse taking was suddenly silent the past few weeks, and just today have relished having a government grievance to discuss again.
strike anyone as odd?
Well, you’d have to back up a bit and realize the timing at SCOTUS had everything to do with Texas Gov Abbott’s signing of the bill.
Also, I bet none of the foaming-at-mouth pro-abortionists have taken 30 seconds to realize that SCOTUS did NOT rule on the bill, but it has everything to do with a procedural issue.
Even without this latest kerfuffle, the Pravda Media was already pivoting from Afghanistan. The Feds are “cleansing” the internet of any documentation of military hardware left behind and stories of the dead 13 are only appearing in local media. And not one story, video showing all those rescued Americans returning home.
This has got to be memory-holed and a Biden success narrative created in time for the mid-terms.
The software-company slack group I use for my leftwing pulse taking
Every day I thank my lucky stars I work for a company owned by an income trust that cares about profit first, foremost and f*ck your virtue signaling.
The last quarterly meeting the CEO said explicitly that the company will never ask you for your vaccination status nor make anything contingent upon it.
Now that Australia has taken this step will it ever be able to stop?
No, but the secret is never getting tested but if you have to, making sure your phone has an unfortunate wallaby accident.
Future phones will be preloaded with an undeletable version.
Future being now. I recently had a friend whose phone was on its last legs and as he is not particularly tech savvy was helping him get a new one (an Android phone) as private as possible. However, when the sim card was put in, he hit (despite my telling him it was not a wise choice) the “update” notification and a ‘rona tracking app was installed. Time for Lineage on that phone.
Not quite the burn Maddow feelz it is …
In much the same vein…
What? Options? Unpossible.
This has got to be memory-holed and a Biden success narrative created in time for the mid-terms.
Consult your crystal balls and put on your Kremlinologist hats everyone. Will the coof-doom propaganda in the US:
a) Ramp up ahead of the midterms, allowing election fortification but inviting blame for not mitigating the worst virus ever
2) Lessen in the meantime, allowing Biden to put his foot on the coof dragon’s corpse and claim temporary victory
D) Keep up until they can find something to replace it with for a couple months
Make your predictions now or miss the opportunity to revel smugly in your superior foresight!
I’d like to apologize in advance for this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF_R2xeL5E0
Make your predictions now…
Given this gang that couldn’t shoot straight, I’ll go with: IV) All of the above.
You’d have to have a heart of titanium-plated tungsten to not laugh.
“California has the strictest and most comprehensive voting system testing, use, and requirements in the country, and it was designed to withstand potential threats,” Dresner said in a statement to the AP.
Yeah, sure, that’s the ticket.
California mailed out a ballot to EVERY registered voter (requested or not). We also can download and print ballots at home.
I mean, what could go wrong?
PS — ballots are returned via a prepaid envelope so no postmark BUT ballots will still be accepted via mail at the registrar’s office for a full week after the Sept 14 deadline …
The fix is in. No white supremacists in blackface will be allowed!
Guardian classy as usual.
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1433846426061008896
No white supremacists in blackface will be allowed!
You mean… Justin Trudeau can’t run?
‘Right-wing’, ‘far-right’, blah blah blah.
Guardian classy as usual.
Nice scare quotes.
“If a johnson is hanging out, it is a man no doubt”.
Benjamin Franklin
Are you implying that a “news” paper like The Guardian might not be “objective” in its reporting of the “facts?”
“If a johnson is hanging out, it is a man no doubt”.
Benjamin Franklin”
You forgot the proper attribution…
“Stuff Lincoln said on the internet, Vol. 23”
It was only a matter of time…
The software-company slack group I use for my leftwing pulse taking was suddenly silent the past few weeks, and just today have relished having a government grievance to discuss again.
A former colleague, who has worked on books with a prominent software guru, sort-of (likely former) friend, quasi-moderate-to-conservative (supposedly hates communism because his dad escaped from it), and owner of a small but profitable consulting business recently announced, out of nowhere, recently posted (now apparently deleted) how ashamed he was of his home state of Texas over this abortion thing. I’m thinking….Austin? You’ve lived in bloody Austin…and Portland, OR as well…but nothing going on there has embarrassed you? But this does…it’s bizarre.
As for predictions…I have noted for years that any time conservatives…”conservatives” or the GOP get any sort of cultural traction, the issue of abortion, abortion, abortion must be raised. If not by the D’s, the R’s are perfectly willing to fall on that sword. I generally don’t say these things this boldly out loud but that’s my prediction. Abortion from now until Nov. 2022. With some sort of gun violence related to it leading to weapons confiscation. With some extra helpings of squelching free speech. Because you gotta mix these stories up lest people catch on to what you are pulling. If you thought the last 18 months were bad…
Though I suppose there is the possibility that Islamic terrorism and such will knock them off their Narrative.
I would also throw in, should Biden die, much of the oxygen in the media space will of course be consumed with glorifying her and any criticism whatsoever will be written off to the sexist nature of Teh Patriarchy.
Though I suppose that part goes without saying.
Well alrighty then.
ManyGuns doesn’t like capital letters except for the word Indigenous, because oppression or something.
black and brown people of color who used to be capitalized hardest hit.
People in South Australia will be forced to download an app
I am South Australian. I will not download the app.
I will not download the app.
“Dingoes ate my cell phone!”
Seriously, though, if you have an Android phone you might want to look into whether you can switch it to run UbuntuTouch or Lineage OS in case they try to do a push. I doubt they have come up with a Linux version, and so far Lineage has been immune to the coof app pushed I mentioned above.
You can provide a photo that contains your face, your ass, and/or any other unsavory thing you want the popo to see. Given that it’s the Great Down Under, the popo may show up to beat your ass anyways.
My only issue with the Texas heartbeat law (which I have not read, so my issue may very well be moot) is that an older couple undergoing IVF may have decided to do so while the older rules were in effect. Couples going through that won’t throw away a potential baby away unless there’s something horrible in their future. (People like to throw out trisomy-21 as the primary reason for IVF couples to abort. Trisomy-18 is much worse, but I know a woman with a Rett Syndrome daughter [that’s an X chromosome linked genetic disease; males with that error don’t live long at all] who worries about what will happen to that daughter.) I would hope for a short grandfather clause (around 40 weeks, IIRC) to get around that.
OTOH, someone with the ducats to go through IVF might have the remaining ducats to go somewhere else to get a horrible deed done.
The woman with the Rett Syndrome daughter had had said daughter while young (mid 20s); I don’t think that anyone tested for that whilst she was pregnant. I realize that I’ve muddled the issue by adding her experience; she certainly did not go through IVF, so any such grandfather clause wouldn’t apply in her case.
And that daughter is still alive and she has absolutely no interest in changing that. Still, that daughter has been the focus of her life for 29 years now and she’s worried about what will happen to that daughter if she leaves this plane of existence prior to that daughter.
In my case, (you may think the following is bullshit; go ahead) I decided prior to puberty that I wouldn’t be banging anyone who I wouldn’t want to raise any resulting children; I never wanted to kill my children. Well, my experience tells me that if there is a god, it’s Loki.
On the off chance that any of you feel like posting sympathetic messages for my case, please don’t. It won’t make the guy who looks at me in my dreams with the acidic comment “So, the best thing you could have done to your daughter was kill her before she heard her mother’s voice or felt her mother’s touch? Yeah, she would have been crying the entire time, but you really don’t know why, do you?” go away.
We all have our crosses to bear. [ nods to bartender ] Maybe the whiskey will help dull the pain.
On a more cerebral note, it seems to be getting missed that the Texas law isn’t supposed to be good law; it’s SCOTUS-bait. It was designed to get challenged all the way to SCOTUS because now the right has control of the court, this is its best shot at getting Roe v. Wade overturned.
I believe your faith in Chief Justice Roberts to overturn Roe v Wade is flying in the face of all known evidence (also while Thomas and Alito are reliable I wouldn’t bet the house on any of the other 3 “Conservatives”).
True or false: the only major roadblock between Hillary and the Oval Office is Kamala.
And Kamala’s gone into hiding.
ManyGuns doesn’t like capital letters except for the word Indigenous, because oppression or something.
Today’s word is ‘pretentious’.
The more and more I see about this stupid Texas abortion law, the more I am (granted, early on…just one day into my prediction) confident that I am right. And stupid, stoooopid conservatives fall right in line, taking the bait on failure theater yet again. You would think you would learn but noooooo…. Hey let’s talk about repealing gay marriage laws too! And wouldn’t right now be the perfect time to greatly increase defense spending! Oh, wait…More stupid from the stupid party of stupid.
As our host would say, ‘always respect the media’.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1434154526169309193
Model citizen. Father of the Year.
“…Kamala’s gone into hiding.”
Who could blame her?
Gratuitous Phil Collins
Sound on.
Always respect the media…
https://twitter.com/TheCriticalDri2/status/1434229446056218629
Trained parrot speaks: …a self-aware man knows that he has it brainwashed into him…
Always respect the media…
At teh twittors a doctor says:
Gunshot victims wait…
…just standing casually around in line, in jackets, in Oklahoma, in summer.
Meanwhile at the article…
“Update”. Right, I’m thinking “delete” might have been a better option.
Trained parrot speaks:
Note the magic crystal hanging from her neck. She’s not brainwashed, oh not at all.
“Update”. Right, I’m thinking “delete” might have been a better option.
There is something to be said for keeping the original article up but prefacing it with all necessary corrections.
Res ipsa loquitor…Honk!
Gunshot victims wait…
What is scary are the responses to that tweet. Scary and yet predictably so. So many stupid people who are convinced that they are the smart ones.
So many stupid people who are convinced that they are the smart ones.
Indeed, anyone want to make book that this chap* has also claimed “men can get pregnant too”?
Additionally, in regard to photo inaccuracies, the RS article itself shows a picture of the oral form of ivermectin, yet this doctor’s absurd claim is that the (supposedly dumbass) people of Oklahoma are more comfortable with the idea of ivermectin because they soooo frequently accidentally stick themselves, and I suppose also stupidly press the plunger, when injecting horses such that…something about underpants gnomes goes here…they don’t worry about the dangers. One wonders how often this doctor “accidentally” injects himself with God knows what.
Additionally, in regard to photo inaccuracies…
Heh – they have already scrubbed the page, DXed the people standing and horse ivermectin photos for one photo of human ivermectin tablets.
Gunshot victims wait…
Rolling Stone and their writer Peter Wade could have avoided this screw-up by calling the hospital to check the accuracy of what their informant said. But Rolling Stone is a generator of propaganda, not news.
Remember the Rolling Stone rape hoax?