Friday Ephemera (814)
Bait. || Old boiler. || Balloon surgery. || Coming through. || Choices were made. || Something is missing. || Incoming. || Question asked. || How to glue Styrofoam to fabric, and answers to other glue-related questions. || Just like a guitar, but with really hefty magnets. || Rather more leg than I was expecting. || The progressive retail experience, parts 721, 722, 723, 724, 725, 726 and 727. || I suppose we could call this irony. || School science project of note. || It’s hers now. || She’s called coconut. || Testing weightlessness, 1958. || “What animal is chicken?” || What do you mean, it’s distracting and inapt? What are you, sonny, some kind of bigot? (h/t, Smallish Bees) || Suboptimal solution. || May encounter fog. || All the fun of the fair. || And finally, incendiary felines to burn down your enemy’s castle, 1584.
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@David, the spam filter has quarantined my quote of your post.
Freed. T’was the number of links that did it.
Re: Retail experiences #s 721-727
*That’s* what I call disparate impact.
Thank you.
Yes, I realized that the moment I saw the warning message. I *knew* about that limit, but cleverly managed to forget while commenting.
It’s not fair that the Councilman has not been deported to Burkina Faso.
Yet another mentally-defective immigrant with a commercial drivers license.
And the bankers congratulated themselves on their superior morality.
Never mind Florida Man, it’s time for Chicago Man.
Leftist preachers are just as ignorant and foolish as leftist politicians.
…and when they’re the same person it’s even worse.
Karma.
Black bitch in a BMW. It’s an asshole twofer!
Do keep the bicarbonate handy.
Seems a bit misguided to blame bankers for the policies of grasping Marxists (in the case of African leaders) and addle-pated Western governments (in the case of . . . well, Western governments).
The only thing missing is precipitation.
The bankers acquiesced to the leftist activists and government assholes. They could have objected, resisted, etc.
Was popular in Colorado.
How? The laws effectively make banks subsidiaries of the government. Remember 2008 when Henry Paulson (W’s Treasury Secretary) forced perfectly stable banks to accept federal bailouts in 2008, putting them even further under government control?
Donner party was snowbound in the Sierra Nevada.
You may be thinking of Alferd Packer:
Septum ring? Check.
Clown glasses? Check.
Public psychotic break? My shocked face is unavailable for comment.
There is something disturbing about her facial expressions, almost as if there was something apoplectic going on.
As we saw quite vividly some years ago, there’s a sizeable class of leftist women who are just, well, broken. In weirdly uniform ways. Women who elevate their ludicrous politics to the status of something like a religion, one seemingly based on chronic rage, and who blame their own failures and dysfunctions – their unhappy marriages, divorces and estrangements – on the continued existence of Donald Trump.
I wasn’t even thinking.
But Donner Party Kebab is funny.
As I’ve said many times, if sociology as a field weren’t so ideologically captured, the above is the kind of phenomenon that you’d think might warrant some attention. An occasional paper.
Via dicentra:
Kentucky Man.
I was reminded of this, which serves a fairly vivid example, one of many in the archives, particularly,
Dozens of other examples are available:
And do note the pattern, seen in the link immediately above, of progressive women selling out other women, including teenage girls who’d rather not be perved on by creepy, cross-dressing men who keep asking about their panties.
All to retain their own status in the progressive pecking order.
TIL I learned that back in October James Likeks’ wife asked for a divorce, and he’s had to sell Jasperwood and now he’s emptied it out and vacated.
From the New York Times’ Ethicist column:
Yes. What this person is saying is that they hate Trump more than they love their “beloved” niece. Think about it – they are letting a person whom they know only through the lens of the media invoke so much enmity that they would skip out on a milestone like this. And for what? The person who is giving the graduation speech won’t matter in a relatively short amount of time whereas one would hope their niece has a distinguished career but most of all, remains in their life.
I am sure this person has, as so many of us have done, “zoned out” during a speech or particularly boring homily. Bring a damn book or earphones to withstand the ten or so minutes and then celebrate with your niece.
It’s called SACRIFICE. She is making one by becoming a naval officer. It’s the least you can do for her by showing up for her graduation.
It amazes me that this person would even ask the question.
A palate cleanser. The other evening I photographed marriage proposal #212. Yesterday, I got a call from the fellow of marriage proposal #88, way back from 2022, who was back in town and asked if I was available. I was and got to revisit that lovely couple plus their new addition to the family.
I love addenda like this to past stories.
That, as they say. I believe the word is selfishness.
By the way, I swapped out your paragraph of italics for blockquote. It’s easier to read, especially on phones.
You don’t get this quality service on any old blog, you know.
[ Whistles nonchalantly, wipes bar. ]
[ Weighs merits of fish and chips for lunch. ]
Very sad news.
I would probably already know except that I find his website awkward to navigate.
Remember. the job of an ethicist is to come up with rationalizations for things normal people consider morally repulsive.
We don’t get pickled eggs, either.
Old boiler.
Not the old boiler I was expecting…
I AM FULL OF FISH AND CHIPS.
That is all.
“cultural misunderstanding”
Seem to be having more of these for some reason.
Too busy making TikTok videos in their cars.
Metaphysics with an office.
People who fail to understand that abducting nine-year-old boys is unacceptable, supposedly due to some opaque cultural subtlety, should be pushed into the sea and allowed to float to some other part of the world where different rules may apply.
Wind and tide permitting, of course.
And inevitably,
This additional bare-faced lie should also have consequences.
This is your threadly reminder that the next elections (AFAIK) in this country are in Indiana and Ohio on TUESDAY, May 5. There are also ones coming up in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Oregon and maybe even other states on TUESDAY, May 19. Also May 26 in Texas.
Also June 2 in California (top-two primary; includes governor, U.S. House, and more), Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota.
Pro-tip that is apparently necessary for republicans…If you look at your watch and see that it is a TUESDAY, ask yourself…”Do I need to vote today? If not, what upcoming TUESDAY will I need to vote, who are the candidates, and what are the issues?” Hope this helps!
Although in this particular case the ethicist’s answer is halfway sensible.
Quirky design. Clumsy navigation. It always puzzled me that he couldn’t see this.
Understanding is overrated.
Is the judge assuming that assimilation has any meaning at all to these kinds of immigrants? Do they come to Canada because they aspire to be like the earnest kids on Degrassi High? Do they recognize that Canadians are a distinct historical people and that as newcomers they have to defer?
When the Indian is saying that something is normal in his culture, is this really an admission of his own failure: a failure to pick up on host country social norms (but he’s trying hard, and promises that if you give him a second decade in the country, he’ll have figured out the social norm of not cruising around to pick up nine year olds, even unprotected outgroup ones). Or is it really a claim that it’s a failure of Canadians and their authorities, a failure of their commitment to multicultural principles, a failure of cross cultural cringing second guessing towards himself and his people?
His actions were not innocent. He’s playing on our credulity.
And he is telling us that child abduction is considered acceptable in India.
That is worth some serious attention.
Current location of my grandson Nik.
“How DARE you talk about my wife that way!”