The irony of this tweet is off the charts.
Thursday, October 31, 2019
ANOTHER HALLOWEEN POST
Upscale liberal edition.
I live in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country, but on one of the more “modest” streets—mostly doctors and lawyers and family business owners. (A few blocks away are billionaires, families with famous last names, media moguls, etc.) I have noticed that on Halloween, what seems like 75 percent of the trick-or-treaters are clearly not from this neighborhood. Kids arrive in overflowing cars from less fortunate areas. I feel this is inappropriate. Halloween isn’t a social service or a charity in which I have to buy candy for less fortunate children. Obviously this makes me feel like a terrible person, because what’s the big deal about making less fortunate kids happy on a holiday? But it just bugs me, because we already pay more than enough taxes toward actual social services. Should Halloween be a neighborhood activity, or is it legitimately a free-for-all in which people hunt down the best candy grounds for their kids?
I live in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country, but on one of the more “modest” streets—mostly doctors and lawyers and family business owners. (A few blocks away are billionaires, families with famous last names, media moguls, etc.) I have noticed that on Halloween, what seems like 75 percent of the trick-or-treaters are clearly not from this neighborhood. Kids arrive in overflowing cars from less fortunate areas. I feel this is inappropriate. Halloween isn’t a social service or a charity in which I have to buy candy for less fortunate children. Obviously this makes me feel like a terrible person, because what’s the big deal about making less fortunate kids happy on a holiday? But it just bugs me, because we already pay more than enough taxes toward actual social services. Should Halloween be a neighborhood activity, or is it legitimately a free-for-all in which people hunt down the best candy grounds for their kids?
AND NOW...IDIOTS
You mean the guy who damn near died after he was shot BY A LEFTIST??
Egg, do you have any conception how stupid you look right now? Shut it down, pinhead.
Egg, do you have any conception how stupid you look right now? Shut it down, pinhead.
OBLIGATORY HALLOWEEN POST
One of the things that I hate about today is adults who put on costumes. This day has always been summed up in two words (free candy) and should be entirely left for little kids.
But there are exceptions.
But there are exceptions.
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| Father of the year |
FIXED IT FOR YOU
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| Explaining to some college kid 6, 7 years down the road why nobody will give him a home loan. |
KATIE BEAR?
You misspelled "I was stupid enough to let myself get filmed doing this crap." Also, you forgot the part about you banging your staff.
NEVER FORGET
Big Pharma is EVIL.
A new cystic fibrosis therapy dramatically improved patients’ lung function and showed clear signs of targeting the genetic root of the disease, instead of just alleviating symptoms — a breakthrough so long-sought that many doctors and patients are moved to tears when talking about it.
The data, being unveiled Thursday at a national conference in Tennessee and simultaneously published in two leading medical journals, was so persuasive that the Food and Drug Administration last week approved the three-drug combination, called Trikafta — five months ahead of the agency’s deadline. The drug could benefit 90 percent of patients with the disease, a major advance over previous drugs that worked in a tiny fraction of the people with the disease or had more modest effects.
“I’m overjoyed,” said Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, who was part of one of the teams that in 1989 discovered the gene defect that causes cystic fibrosis. “Thirty years along, with many bumps along the road and so many people waiting and hoping that something like this would happen — and here we are.”
A new cystic fibrosis therapy dramatically improved patients’ lung function and showed clear signs of targeting the genetic root of the disease, instead of just alleviating symptoms — a breakthrough so long-sought that many doctors and patients are moved to tears when talking about it.
The data, being unveiled Thursday at a national conference in Tennessee and simultaneously published in two leading medical journals, was so persuasive that the Food and Drug Administration last week approved the three-drug combination, called Trikafta — five months ahead of the agency’s deadline. The drug could benefit 90 percent of patients with the disease, a major advance over previous drugs that worked in a tiny fraction of the people with the disease or had more modest effects.
“I’m overjoyed,” said Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, who was part of one of the teams that in 1989 discovered the gene defect that causes cystic fibrosis. “Thirty years along, with many bumps along the road and so many people waiting and hoping that something like this would happen — and here we are.”
49ERS
I have lived nearly all my life in California, and my love for this place and its people runs deep and true. There have been many times in the past few years when I’ve called myself a California nationalist: Sure, America seemed to be going crazy, but at least I lived in the Golden State, where things were still pretty chill.
But lately my affinity for my home state has soured. Maybe it’s the smoke and the blackouts, but a very un-Californian nihilism has been creeping into my thinking. I’m starting to suspect we’re over. It’s the end of California as we know it. I don’t feel fine.
It isn’t just the fires — although, my God, the fires. Is this what life in America’s most populous, most prosperous state is going to be like from now on? Every year, hundreds of thousands evacuating, millions losing power, hundreds losing property and lives? Last year, the air near where I live in Northern California — within driving distance of some of the largest and most powerful and advanced corporations in the history of the world — was more hazardous than the air in Beijing and New Delhi. There’s a good chance that will happen again this month, and that it will keep happening every year from now on. Is this really the best America can do?
Deprived of luxuries like power and freedom, more and more Californians are being forced to run extension cords over to their neighbors in adjacent states.
A caravan of migrant Californians was seen traversing the deserts separating the state from its eastern neighbors, towing hundreds of miles' worth of extension cords.
Californians knocked on random Nevada and Arizona residents' doors and asked if they could borrow some power to charge their cellphones, power their espresso machines, and run their tanning beds. They were surprised to discover how nice people were in other states, saying things like, "Sure, neighbor!" and "No problem. Do you want to borrow any guns or cactuses?"
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
ARBEIT MACHT FREI
Mr. President? If you'd like to decide 2020 right now, you need to completely withdraw the US from this Nazi revival and make a point of expelling this obscenity from these shores.
A group of 54 United Nations members issued a statement Tuesday defending China for building over 1,000 concentration camps to imprison, torture, indoctrinate, rape, and kill Muslims, crediting the camps with building “a stronger sense of happiness” in the country.
“Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers,” Belarus said, using China’s preferred term for the concentration camps. “The past three consecutive years has [sic] seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security.”
Despite the Chinese regime severely limiting the entry of foreigners or other Chinese people from elsewhere in the country into Xinjiang, the note said the countries “appreciate China’s commitment to openness and transparency,” referencing a staged “media access” tour China organized for the state media of various friendly countries.
The statement concluded by condemning those standing up for human rights and demanding they “refrain from employing unfounded charges against China based on unconfirmed information before they visit Xinjiang,” which they cannot do freely.
Watching American media heads explode would make it all worthwhile.
A group of 54 United Nations members issued a statement Tuesday defending China for building over 1,000 concentration camps to imprison, torture, indoctrinate, rape, and kill Muslims, crediting the camps with building “a stronger sense of happiness” in the country.
“Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centers,” Belarus said, using China’s preferred term for the concentration camps. “The past three consecutive years has [sic] seen not a single terrorist attack in Xinjiang and people there enjoy a stronger sense of happiness, fulfillment and security.”
Despite the Chinese regime severely limiting the entry of foreigners or other Chinese people from elsewhere in the country into Xinjiang, the note said the countries “appreciate China’s commitment to openness and transparency,” referencing a staged “media access” tour China organized for the state media of various friendly countries.
The statement concluded by condemning those standing up for human rights and demanding they “refrain from employing unfounded charges against China based on unconfirmed information before they visit Xinjiang,” which they cannot do freely.
Watching American media heads explode would make it all worthwhile.
LENINISTS GOTTA LENIN
Economic moron announces homelessness expansion initiative.
Let me see if I can explain something to you, Communist.
I live in an apartment. At my last lease renewal, my rent went up a good bit. I can still afford to live here but I don't know for how much longer.
But that's my problem, not the apartment complex's and certainly not the government's. Know why that is, Communist?
Because this apartment complex, like every other apartment complex everywhere, IS A BUSINESS. You go slapping some kind of governmental limit on what this place can charge people and one of two things will happen.
Either the people who run this complex will decide that running one of these things just isn't worth the trouble and my home will close down. Or this place turns into Pruitt-Igoe (look it up) faster than you can say Felix Dzerzhinsky.
The term "housing project" has a negative connotation for a reason, Bolshie. But I guess that doesn't mean anything to you, what with those three dachas of yours.
One more thing. Vladimir Ilyich Sanders here also thinks that this country should bail out violent anti-Semites who lob rockets into Israel on a regular basis. Good luck with that, Dems.
Let me see if I can explain something to you, Communist.
I live in an apartment. At my last lease renewal, my rent went up a good bit. I can still afford to live here but I don't know for how much longer.
But that's my problem, not the apartment complex's and certainly not the government's. Know why that is, Communist?
Because this apartment complex, like every other apartment complex everywhere, IS A BUSINESS. You go slapping some kind of governmental limit on what this place can charge people and one of two things will happen.
Either the people who run this complex will decide that running one of these things just isn't worth the trouble and my home will close down. Or this place turns into Pruitt-Igoe (look it up) faster than you can say Felix Dzerzhinsky.
The term "housing project" has a negative connotation for a reason, Bolshie. But I guess that doesn't mean anything to you, what with those three dachas of yours.
One more thing. Vladimir Ilyich Sanders here also thinks that this country should bail out violent anti-Semites who lob rockets into Israel on a regular basis. Good luck with that, Dems.
FISH IN A BARREL
It HAS to be CNN "journalists," Double C. No question about it.
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| Hell @Acosta works there. Who else could it be? |
LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN
If you don't want to lose your job over whatever crap you enjoy doing in your off-hours then here's a suggestion.
LOOK INTO THE IDEA OF NOT TAKING PICTURES OF IT!!
And yeah, it would have happened to a man. A man as stupid as Miss Hill seems to be.
LOOK INTO THE IDEA OF NOT TAKING PICTURES OF IT!!
And yeah, it would have happened to a man. A man as stupid as Miss Hill seems to be.
PSSST
Archbishop Ussher was right. Pass it on.
“Our argument will be that space is not real. It’s not real. Science, technology, it’s all fake. It’s a projection of white fantasies that has worked to control our interpretation of how the world works.” That’s the statement of a college debate professor talking with his class. He added, “None of us have had the privilege of going to f**king space to verify that there’s these stars and these galaxies and these planets.”
So let's toss in a little out-and-out racism while we're at it.
“Imagine someone who grew up inner-city, Kansas City for instance, who never left a 20-block radius,” the professor suggested. He continued, “They can’t even fathom that there’s mountains in the world let alone that there’s something outside of that…And so structural inequity, to some degree, because of our lack of privilege in terms of mobility determines what we can understand to be real and falsifiable.
CUZZZZZ folks in "inner-city, Kansas City for instance" are too stupid to learn about mountains, too dense to understand, "Get in your car and drive to Denver." Yeah, run with that one.
“Whiteness then works and then appropriates science and technology to say ‘This is true while this is not true because it’s not verifiable.’…It’s a hyperfocus on the experiential for those who does not capitulate with whiteness.”
FYI, this "the moon shot was staged and everybody knows it, wake the hell up" conspiracy theorist "teaches" at Weber State in Utah in case you need yet another reason to talk your kids out of attending American colleges.
“Our argument will be that space is not real. It’s not real. Science, technology, it’s all fake. It’s a projection of white fantasies that has worked to control our interpretation of how the world works.” That’s the statement of a college debate professor talking with his class. He added, “None of us have had the privilege of going to f**king space to verify that there’s these stars and these galaxies and these planets.”
So let's toss in a little out-and-out racism while we're at it.
“Imagine someone who grew up inner-city, Kansas City for instance, who never left a 20-block radius,” the professor suggested. He continued, “They can’t even fathom that there’s mountains in the world let alone that there’s something outside of that…And so structural inequity, to some degree, because of our lack of privilege in terms of mobility determines what we can understand to be real and falsifiable.
CUZZZZZ folks in "inner-city, Kansas City for instance" are too stupid to learn about mountains, too dense to understand, "Get in your car and drive to Denver." Yeah, run with that one.
“Whiteness then works and then appropriates science and technology to say ‘This is true while this is not true because it’s not verifiable.’…It’s a hyperfocus on the experiential for those who does not capitulate with whiteness.”
FYI, this "the moon shot was staged and everybody knows it, wake the hell up" conspiracy theorist "teaches" at Weber State in Utah in case you need yet another reason to talk your kids out of attending American colleges.
STUDENT COUNCIL?
Quick thought.
MAYBE DON'T TAKE THOSE PICTURES IN THE FIRST PLACE, MORON!!
Then there's the whole "banging the staff" thing which I thought was wrong and evil and stuff but I guess the details are still being worked out or something.
MAYBE DON'T TAKE THOSE PICTURES IN THE FIRST PLACE, MORON!!
Then there's the whole "banging the staff" thing which I thought was wrong and evil and stuff but I guess the details are still being worked out or something.
SMOD*
I was made fun of when I was a kid. As of today, I'm 64 but I can still remember how much it hurt and hurt in the worst way possible. They don't like you, they're not your friends and they never will be. And if they ever started being nice to you, you emotionally kept them at arm's length.
When are they going to hurt me again?
So you started keeping everybody at arm's length.
But during all those years, I don't remember, hell, I couldn't have CONCEIVED of any kid my age ever doing something as horrible as this.
Diego Stolz was a skinny 13-year-old boy attending Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, California. Last month, he was sucker-punched by a couple of classmates on school grounds. He fell and hit his head on a concrete pillar and never regained consciousness. Nine days later the hospital removed him from life support. At a press conference earlier today, attorney Dave Ring announced the family was filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the school.
Good.
When I wrote about Diego last month, I assumed this was a case of bullying which no one at the school could have predicted or prevented. That was tragic enough. But according to Dave Ring, the story is much, much worse than that. Not only did the school know about the bullying, they had specifically promised to do something about it just days before the attack.
I prefer to run a clean site so let me apologize in advance for all the F-bombs that I so desperately want to drop right now.
“This school knew that Diego was targeted to be beat[en] up,” Ring said. He continued, “They were told by three different people days before this happened. They were told by a teacher. They were told by Diego’s adult sister, Jasmine, and they were told by Diego himself. And they allowed this to happen. That’s what’s unbelievably devastating to this family, that this could have been prevented.”
See? That's what running one of these things can do to you.
Ring said that Diego had been bullied by these same boys the previous year. His mother (who is actually his aunt, because his mother and father had both died) went to the school when he was in 7th grade to talk to someone about the bullying. As Diego began his 8th-grade year, the bullying started up again.
Momma and Daddy dead. Bullied in school. School didn't give a crap. Good God.
“On Thursday, September 12th, Diego was accosted by these boys and a teacher learned about it,” Ring said. He added, “And the teacher saw how upset Diego was and the teacher went and told an assistant principal that something was going on, that they needed to pull the security footage, and that they needed to do something because this kid was being physically confronted. And the administration didn’t do anything that day.
There's a shock.
“The next day, Friday, September 13th, Jasmine, Diego’s adult sister, brings Diego into the school first thing in the morning and meets with this same assistant principal. And Diego goes back with the assistant principal for 20 or more minutes and tells her what was going on. And the assistant principal comes out and tells Jasmine, the adult sister, ‘We’re going to take care of this. We’re going to change the classes of these bullies and we’re going to suspend them.’
Lying bitch.
And she said ‘I want Diego to go home…I don’t want him to come to school today. I want him to go home and relax and he can come back Monday and there’ll be a fresh start.’
Monday is when the poor little guy was murdered.
Here's what I want to see happen.
I want to see this "school" closed down and turned into a theme bar or something. I want the officials at this waste of perfectly good land sued into having to spend the rest of their miserable lives working McDonald's drive-through windows because those are the only jobs they can find.
I want the parents of these two pieces of crap to be sued out of their homes and everything else they own. And I want these two little pieces of crap to have to explain their felony convictions for the rest of their miserable lives.
And LORD? You may remember that I said a while back that when I was a kid, I couldn't have conceived of something like this ever happening. Things are getting worse and worse and worse here, Father, so You can't bring all this to a close fast enough.
Sorry. This one's personal.
*Sweet Meteor of Death
When are they going to hurt me again?
So you started keeping everybody at arm's length.
But during all those years, I don't remember, hell, I couldn't have CONCEIVED of any kid my age ever doing something as horrible as this.
Diego Stolz was a skinny 13-year-old boy attending Landmark Middle School in Moreno Valley, California. Last month, he was sucker-punched by a couple of classmates on school grounds. He fell and hit his head on a concrete pillar and never regained consciousness. Nine days later the hospital removed him from life support. At a press conference earlier today, attorney Dave Ring announced the family was filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the school.
Good.
When I wrote about Diego last month, I assumed this was a case of bullying which no one at the school could have predicted or prevented. That was tragic enough. But according to Dave Ring, the story is much, much worse than that. Not only did the school know about the bullying, they had specifically promised to do something about it just days before the attack.
I prefer to run a clean site so let me apologize in advance for all the F-bombs that I so desperately want to drop right now.
“This school knew that Diego was targeted to be beat[en] up,” Ring said. He continued, “They were told by three different people days before this happened. They were told by a teacher. They were told by Diego’s adult sister, Jasmine, and they were told by Diego himself. And they allowed this to happen. That’s what’s unbelievably devastating to this family, that this could have been prevented.”
See? That's what running one of these things can do to you.
Ring said that Diego had been bullied by these same boys the previous year. His mother (who is actually his aunt, because his mother and father had both died) went to the school when he was in 7th grade to talk to someone about the bullying. As Diego began his 8th-grade year, the bullying started up again.
Momma and Daddy dead. Bullied in school. School didn't give a crap. Good God.
“On Thursday, September 12th, Diego was accosted by these boys and a teacher learned about it,” Ring said. He added, “And the teacher saw how upset Diego was and the teacher went and told an assistant principal that something was going on, that they needed to pull the security footage, and that they needed to do something because this kid was being physically confronted. And the administration didn’t do anything that day.
There's a shock.
“The next day, Friday, September 13th, Jasmine, Diego’s adult sister, brings Diego into the school first thing in the morning and meets with this same assistant principal. And Diego goes back with the assistant principal for 20 or more minutes and tells her what was going on. And the assistant principal comes out and tells Jasmine, the adult sister, ‘We’re going to take care of this. We’re going to change the classes of these bullies and we’re going to suspend them.’
Lying bitch.
And she said ‘I want Diego to go home…I don’t want him to come to school today. I want him to go home and relax and he can come back Monday and there’ll be a fresh start.’
Monday is when the poor little guy was murdered.
Here's what I want to see happen.
I want to see this "school" closed down and turned into a theme bar or something. I want the officials at this waste of perfectly good land sued into having to spend the rest of their miserable lives working McDonald's drive-through windows because those are the only jobs they can find.
I want the parents of these two pieces of crap to be sued out of their homes and everything else they own. And I want these two little pieces of crap to have to explain their felony convictions for the rest of their miserable lives.
And LORD? You may remember that I said a while back that when I was a kid, I couldn't have conceived of something like this ever happening. Things are getting worse and worse and worse here, Father, so You can't bring all this to a close fast enough.
Sorry. This one's personal.
*Sweet Meteor of Death
THIS TAKES ME BACK
Specifically, to 1985.
Did you know that there is apparently some kind of baseball tournament currently going on? I was surprised to hear that since I've always been under the impression that they, whoever they are, never hold these tournaments at all unless the right teams are playing.
Learn something new every day.
Anyhoo, there may or may not have been a bad umpire decision in last night's match, the sixth of the tournament, and Twitter is incensed about it. We here in St. Louis know all about bad umpire decisions in sixth matches of baseball tournaments but we're not at all surprised that the rest of North America seems to believe that this sort of thing has never happened before.
At least if Twitter is an accurate barometer.
Golly, I'm glad Twitter wasn't around back then.
Did you know that there is apparently some kind of baseball tournament currently going on? I was surprised to hear that since I've always been under the impression that they, whoever they are, never hold these tournaments at all unless the right teams are playing.
Learn something new every day.
Anyhoo, there may or may not have been a bad umpire decision in last night's match, the sixth of the tournament, and Twitter is incensed about it. We here in St. Louis know all about bad umpire decisions in sixth matches of baseball tournaments but we're not at all surprised that the rest of North America seems to believe that this sort of thing has never happened before.
At least if Twitter is an accurate barometer.
Golly, I'm glad Twitter wasn't around back then.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
PROPOSAL
I'll make a deal with you, Stengel. I'll agree to this only if you can tell me EXACTLY what so-called "hate speech" is.
Everybody knows what rape, murder and arson, things like that, are. Burglary, theft, fraud too, for that matter and on down the line.
But what's "hate speech?"
Speech that pisses somebody off? Speech that makes someone declare himself "frightened" or "threatened?" Speech that "offends" some candy-ass somewhere?
I'm not giving up my rights that easily, Stengel. If you claim to be "offended" by what I write, don't read what I write. Anything other than that is authoritarian censorship, Stengel.
The "law" or the "government" taking it upon itself to decide what is or is not acceptable speech.
And that's all it is.
Don't start none, won't get none.
Everybody knows what rape, murder and arson, things like that, are. Burglary, theft, fraud too, for that matter and on down the line.
But what's "hate speech?"
Speech that pisses somebody off? Speech that makes someone declare himself "frightened" or "threatened?" Speech that "offends" some candy-ass somewhere?
I'm not giving up my rights that easily, Stengel. If you claim to be "offended" by what I write, don't read what I write. Anything other than that is authoritarian censorship, Stengel.
The "law" or the "government" taking it upon itself to decide what is or is not acceptable speech.
And that's all it is.
Don't start none, won't get none.
TWO HOURS?
Two whole hours? 120 MINUTES?
The city of Cupertino, California, will host a “Poverty Simulation” with two organizations designed to help the residents of Silicon Valley understand the poverty that surrounds the wealthy community.
The City of Cupertino and West Valley Community Services will sponsor the TWO-HOUR Poverty Simulation on Nov. 2 in joint partnership with Step Up Silicon Valley, an organization focused on reducing poverty in the community. The event aims to immerse participants in the “reality of a Silicon Valley that grows in disparity as much as prosperity,” according to its advertisement.
Come the end of December, I will be officially out of work for seven years. The only reason that I'm not currently out on the street is a small inheritance I got when my dad died which the finance guy I picked up when I was still working is transferring to my bank account a little bit at a time.
I seriously doubt there'll be much of anything left once Social Security kicks in, which I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be living on that for the rest of the way.
Oh well.
Know why I live where I currently do? Because I don't have anywhere near enough money to even acquire a functional (forget new) automobile, never mind keep one up. So I had to find a place that was close enough to a supermarket/pharmacy so I wouldn't have to call a cab every time I wanted to go to the grocery store or pick up a prescription.
I did find one. Eventually. For a few months, I was living out of various St. Louis-area cheap hotels and renting cars to get around so my credit card debt is off the charts.
The store/pharmacy's right across the street and there's another one a little bit farther up the street if the first one should go belly-up. Which sometimes happens. The neighborhood's not much to look at unless you enjoy bowling alleys and industrial-type stuff.
Beggars can't be choosers.
But it's a nice place. For me, anyway(just hope the rent doesn't go up too much next year). My situation being what it is, I learned pretty quickly that I can't go out and buy something just because I want it.
Like when my microwave died a couple months ago. Don't mourn too much, that thing was old when my dad died in 2001 so we got our money's worth. And I ordered a new, cheap one from Amazon (in my situation, you don't get top of the line) which arrived...several days back.
My TV died too. No picture but the sound comes in fine. That's not much of a problem for me since I don't get cable or Netflix or any of the rest of that stuff so the type of things I watch can quite easily be listened to. And I recently discovered Pluto TV and Tubi.
I watch both of those things on my smart phone which I wouldn't have one of unless my sister, who's always done rather well for herself, decided that I ought to have one, bought me one and put me on her family plan.
Which is something else for me to dread. My TV, my bank account, paying the rent, paying my electric and phone bills, basically my whole life is on that thing, thanks to those "app" things, so if something were to ever happen to that phone, I'd be screwed.
What am I getting at here [Damned if anybody knows, Johnson - Ed]? In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood, "A man's got to know his limitations." When you don't have all the resources in the world and you won't ever again until the day you go home, you quickly learn two things.
How to prioritize. And how to improvise.
As Mick Jagger once put it, "You can't always get what you want."
You're welcome, Cupertino.
The city of Cupertino, California, will host a “Poverty Simulation” with two organizations designed to help the residents of Silicon Valley understand the poverty that surrounds the wealthy community.
The City of Cupertino and West Valley Community Services will sponsor the TWO-HOUR Poverty Simulation on Nov. 2 in joint partnership with Step Up Silicon Valley, an organization focused on reducing poverty in the community. The event aims to immerse participants in the “reality of a Silicon Valley that grows in disparity as much as prosperity,” according to its advertisement.
Come the end of December, I will be officially out of work for seven years. The only reason that I'm not currently out on the street is a small inheritance I got when my dad died which the finance guy I picked up when I was still working is transferring to my bank account a little bit at a time.
I seriously doubt there'll be much of anything left once Social Security kicks in, which I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'm going to be living on that for the rest of the way.
Oh well.
Know why I live where I currently do? Because I don't have anywhere near enough money to even acquire a functional (forget new) automobile, never mind keep one up. So I had to find a place that was close enough to a supermarket/pharmacy so I wouldn't have to call a cab every time I wanted to go to the grocery store or pick up a prescription.
I did find one. Eventually. For a few months, I was living out of various St. Louis-area cheap hotels and renting cars to get around so my credit card debt is off the charts.
The store/pharmacy's right across the street and there's another one a little bit farther up the street if the first one should go belly-up. Which sometimes happens. The neighborhood's not much to look at unless you enjoy bowling alleys and industrial-type stuff.
Beggars can't be choosers.
But it's a nice place. For me, anyway(just hope the rent doesn't go up too much next year). My situation being what it is, I learned pretty quickly that I can't go out and buy something just because I want it.
Like when my microwave died a couple months ago. Don't mourn too much, that thing was old when my dad died in 2001 so we got our money's worth. And I ordered a new, cheap one from Amazon (in my situation, you don't get top of the line) which arrived...several days back.
My TV died too. No picture but the sound comes in fine. That's not much of a problem for me since I don't get cable or Netflix or any of the rest of that stuff so the type of things I watch can quite easily be listened to. And I recently discovered Pluto TV and Tubi.
I watch both of those things on my smart phone which I wouldn't have one of unless my sister, who's always done rather well for herself, decided that I ought to have one, bought me one and put me on her family plan.
Which is something else for me to dread. My TV, my bank account, paying the rent, paying my electric and phone bills, basically my whole life is on that thing, thanks to those "app" things, so if something were to ever happen to that phone, I'd be screwed.
What am I getting at here [Damned if anybody knows, Johnson - Ed]? In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood, "A man's got to know his limitations." When you don't have all the resources in the world and you won't ever again until the day you go home, you quickly learn two things.
How to prioritize. And how to improvise.
As Mick Jagger once put it, "You can't always get what you want."
You're welcome, Cupertino.
Friday, October 25, 2019
SAW IT COMING UP THE STREET
In an amazing turn of events, payback has been determined to be synonymous with a five-letter word that begins with B and ends with H.
East-Coast newspaper hardest hit.
East-Coast newspaper hardest hit.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
COMES THE DAWN?
Has Charming Billy and the rest of Professional ConservatismTM finally been pointed in extremely roughly the generalish direction, give or take a mile any way, of perhaps, with any kind of luck, keep your fingers crossed, finally figuring out Why They Got Trump?
Probably not. GOP? As far as Drew McCoy is concerned, you're going to keep getting "Trumps" again and again and again and again and again as long as you deliberately refuse to understand why you got the "Trump" you have now.
I'll give you two clues. The first one's John McCain. The second one's Mitt Romney.
Go.
Probably not. GOP? As far as Drew McCoy is concerned, you're going to keep getting "Trumps" again and again and again and again and again as long as you deliberately refuse to understand why you got the "Trump" you have now.
I'll give you two clues. The first one's John McCain. The second one's Mitt Romney.
Go.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
FRUMPY?
Can I remind you of something? Until that doddering old twit decided, for whatever addled reason happened to pop into whatever's left of her brain, to turn her into the Manchurian Candidate or whatever, NOBODY ANYWHERE KNEW WHO TULSI GABBARD WAS.
Seriously, dude. Get help.
Seriously, dude. Get help.
SHUT IT DOWN, JAKE
Nobody with a functional brain cell left in their heads is buying your crap anymore.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
DEAD HORSE
Looks like I have to go over this again and I'm getting really tired of it. Well, once more from the top (and dear Lord, I hope that Mr. and Mrs. French are reading this).
From the foundations of this country until the present day, every single person who has either won the office of president of the United States or who has tried to win it is exactly the same. Man, woman, Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter.
They're all sinners.
EVERY.
SINGLE.
ONE.
The president of the United States, whoever he/she happens to be, is this country's first civil servant, most emphatically NOT this country's presiding bishop. Whenever he/she decides that he/she should be the latter is when the United States runs into serious problems.
See Obama, Barack.
UPDATE: Close but no cigar.
From the foundations of this country until the present day, every single person who has either won the office of president of the United States or who has tried to win it is exactly the same. Man, woman, Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter.
They're all sinners.
EVERY.
SINGLE.
ONE.
The president of the United States, whoever he/she happens to be, is this country's first civil servant, most emphatically NOT this country's presiding bishop. Whenever he/she decides that he/she should be the latter is when the United States runs into serious problems.
See Obama, Barack.
UPDATE: Close but no cigar.
Monday, October 21, 2019
DAVE?
You and Mrs. French might want to keep something in mind. Donald Trump is NOT America's Presiding Bishop.
He is this country's First Civil Servant.
And that's ALL he is or ever will be.
Idiot.
He is this country's First Civil Servant.
And that's ALL he is or ever will be.
Idiot.
GOODBYE, WOMEN'S SPORTS
We hardly knew ye.
UPDATE: Come to find out that the man (sorry, I'm not playing that game) who won this event is kind of an asshole.
UPDATE: Come to find out that the man (sorry, I'm not playing that game) who won this event is kind of an asshole.
SHORING UP THE BASE
Cigar Store's all-in.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Saturday said that she was open to making aid to Israel conditional on whether the government ceases settlement building in the West Bank.
"Right now, Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, [but] that does not move us in the direction of a two-state solution," Warren responded when asked what her stance was on aid and settlement-building.
"It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table," she said, before repeating: "Everything is on the table."
Anyone dumb enough to believe in the possibility of a "two-state solution" in this day and age is literally too stupid to be allowed outside without adult supervision, never mind become president of the United States. The "Palestinians" have never wanted it and don't want it now.
That said, I don't think too much should be read into this. Cigar Store's only saying what the rest of the Democrats are already thinking. As far as Israel is concerned, Cigar Store can't go full-Trump and hope to have a chance of being nominated.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Saturday said that she was open to making aid to Israel conditional on whether the government ceases settlement building in the West Bank.
"Right now, Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, [but] that does not move us in the direction of a two-state solution," Warren responded when asked what her stance was on aid and settlement-building.
"It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table," she said, before repeating: "Everything is on the table."
Anyone dumb enough to believe in the possibility of a "two-state solution" in this day and age is literally too stupid to be allowed outside without adult supervision, never mind become president of the United States. The "Palestinians" have never wanted it and don't want it now.
That said, I don't think too much should be read into this. Cigar Store's only saying what the rest of the Democrats are already thinking. As far as Israel is concerned, Cigar Store can't go full-Trump and hope to have a chance of being nominated.
Sunday, October 20, 2019
ASK QUESTIONS LATER
Jake? This kind of thing tends to happen whenever "journalists" decide issues in advance. Or when they go to work for a network whose sole raison d'être seems to have become driving Donald Trump from American public life.
How fairly do you think you'll treat anyone who thinks, mirabile dictu, that you just might be, oh, what's that word...I just now remembered what it is...wrong? Do you think Republicans enjoy getting abused because they want something slightly more empirical than your word for it?
Why should any Republican ever talk to you or Sciutto or Hot Toddy or any other American "journalist" ever again? Intelligent people have long realized that most of you are biased; it'd be really nice if you guys could figure it out and admit it.
What happened to you, Jake? Trump's really messed you up, hasn't he? When you worked for ABC, you and I didn't agree all the time but I could and often did respect you.
I don't now. At all. CNN has sucked out whatever journalistic integrity you had left.
UPDATE: Tough but fair.
UPDATE: Andy's not helping your cause, Jake. You might want to have a talk with him.
How fairly do you think you'll treat anyone who thinks, mirabile dictu, that you just might be, oh, what's that word...I just now remembered what it is...wrong? Do you think Republicans enjoy getting abused because they want something slightly more empirical than your word for it?
Why should any Republican ever talk to you or Sciutto or Hot Toddy or any other American "journalist" ever again? Intelligent people have long realized that most of you are biased; it'd be really nice if you guys could figure it out and admit it.
What happened to you, Jake? Trump's really messed you up, hasn't he? When you worked for ABC, you and I didn't agree all the time but I could and often did respect you.
I don't now. At all. CNN has sucked out whatever journalistic integrity you had left.
UPDATE: Tough but fair.
UPDATE: Andy's not helping your cause, Jake. You might want to have a talk with him.
Saturday, October 19, 2019
COIN FLIP
You've got two choices, Skup. Get the Congress to issue a formal declaration of war so those young men and women sent off to die can know at least a little about why they died.
Or shut the hell up. Your call, junior.
Or shut the hell up. Your call, junior.
GIFT OF GAB
I'm not at all sure why Tulsi Gabbard is the hill on which so many leftists and NeverTrumpistanians seem eager to die but it's been fascinating to watch.
UPDATE: It's on. Still don't get it but golly, it's fun.
It looks like the “Queen of Warmongers” blinked.
A face-to-face confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard set for next week was averted when Clinton backed out of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, DC.
Clinton aides cited a scheduling conflict late Friday when she announced her withdrawal from a speaking slot at the annual event. One insider told Slate that Clinton dropped out to protest the inclusion of former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson on the schedule.
HAW, HAW, HAW, HAW, HAW...
But Gabbard is on the bill, too — and Clinton’s pull-out came just hours after the former Secretary of State accused the Hawaii Democrat of being the “favorite of the Russians” on a podcast.
UPDATE: Okay, that's just nasty, Masher.
UPDATE: It's on. Still don't get it but golly, it's fun.
It looks like the “Queen of Warmongers” blinked.
A face-to-face confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard set for next week was averted when Clinton backed out of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, DC.
Clinton aides cited a scheduling conflict late Friday when she announced her withdrawal from a speaking slot at the annual event. One insider told Slate that Clinton dropped out to protest the inclusion of former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson on the schedule.
HAW, HAW, HAW, HAW, HAW...
But Gabbard is on the bill, too — and Clinton’s pull-out came just hours after the former Secretary of State accused the Hawaii Democrat of being the “favorite of the Russians” on a podcast.
UPDATE: Okay, that's just nasty, Masher.
Friday, October 18, 2019
BACK TO THE FUTURE
I guess this is going to be the "legitimate" Democrat Party line through next year. I also guess that my "restart the House Un-American Activities Committee" crack is looking less and less like a joke and more and more like a prophecy.
MOMENTUM
You guys'll get 'em next year. #JUUUUUUUSTABitOutside
And you know the old saying. It's better to have loved and lost over 13,000 times than never to have loved at all. #HangInThere #IStillBelieveInYou #ParticipationTrophy
And you know the old saying. It's better to have loved and lost over 13,000 times than never to have loved at all. #HangInThere #IStillBelieveInYou #ParticipationTrophy
RED SCARE
It's good when seniors keep active. Gam-Gam picks up a fun new hobby.
UPDATE: Rep. Gabbard responds.
UPDATE: The Bee's in.
UPDATE: And did you know Trump is a monarchist?
"But more than that, there is this bizarre adulation Trump has for dictators and authoritarians. He dreams of being able to order people to do things and make them do it," she said. She continued, "He has no democratic instincts, really. And I saw that when I was Secretary of State and traveled to 112 countries. One of our big problems were people who got themselves elected and then became authoritarian and then did everything they could to rig elections, everything they could to make sure that they were never forced out of power.
"That is his game plan. That is what he's trying to achieve. And it's terrifying to me because scholars, like professor Timothy Snyder who wrote that great little book on tyranny, they've told us what the game plan is. But I still think people have a hard time believing that, David. It's like 'Really? Oh, come on…'"
Nanner McBotox to reboot the House Un-American Activities Committee in 5, 4, 3, 2... And if you're betting on how long it takes NeverTrumpistan in all its manifestations to loudly and unanimously declare that the best idea any American politician ever had, take the under.
UPDATE: Demented old woman has episode. Family and friends close ranks.
UPDATE: Whoa. Never saw this coming.
UPDATE: Ballgame. Thanks for playing. If you can read the following and still claim not to understand Why You Got Trump, then I don't think I or anyone else can ever help you.
Insofar as you already know damned good and well Why You Got Trump.
UPDATE: Raise your hand if you're surprised (my hand's not up). Egg? Stop pretending that you still matter or that anybody anywhere gives a crap what you think about anything. Damn. Looks like my House Un-American Activities Committee joke might actually not be.
UPDATE: Relax. The World's Foremost Authority has weighed in.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
END OF THE DAY
Looks like Dave Brooks REALLY likes the crease in Cigar Store's pantsuits. Dave knows full well that she'd be a REALLY horrible president with REALLY horrible policies.
For many, supporting Warren is too high a price to pay, even for ousting Trump. “There is no universe where I will ever vote for Donald Trump, and there is no universe where I could ever vote for Elizabeth Warren,” Jennifer Horn, a former chairwoman of the New Hampshire G.O.P., told The Washington Examiner.
Why is that, Jen?
First, there are Warren’s policies. On trade, she’s a protectionist. Her 10-year, $34 trillion health care plan isn’t paid for. Her student debt cancellation plan is a handout to the upper middle class. Her campaign seems to not acknowledge the inevitable trade-off between economic growth and high spending, high taxes and high regulation.
That can't be good. Anything else?
Second, she’s one of the few Democrats who could actually lose. As Yascha Mounk notes in The Atlantic, Democrats won in 2018 because they won back a lot of nonpartisan suburban office park workers who found moderates they could vote for. When you remind independents of Democratic support for abolishing private health insurance and decriminalizing unauthorized border crossing — two key Warren policies — they become six percentage points less likely to vote for the Democrats. Trump will tell voters: You may despise me, but she’ll destroy the economy.
Which is probably right.
Third, a Warren presidency would be deeply polarizing and probably unsuccessful. Warren’s policy ideas would make any progressive-moderate coalition impossible. She’d try to govern with her 40 percent partisan base, just as Trump has, which is no way to pass big legislation.
Like, oh, I don't know, moving America's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Because that's what basically changed my mind about Trump. Interesting experience, having American politicians who actually do stuff, who actually accomplish things now and then, rather than relentlessly doing nothing other than talking about doing stuff and accomplishing things now and then.
Maybe.
I'm funny that way. But this is where the "And yet" goes.
And yet, if it comes to Trump vs. Warren in a general election, the only plausible choice is to support Warren. Over the past month Donald Trump has given us fresh reminders of the unique and exceptional ways he corrupts American life.
Dave? You just now gave us a laundry list of reasons why Cigar Store would be the most horrible president the United States has ever had yet we still have to vote for her because the Orange Guy "has given us fresh reminders of the unique and exceptional ways he corrupts American life," except that you won't say what any of those "unique and exceptional ways" are.
You’re either part of removing that corruption or you are not. When your nation’s political system is in danger, staying home and not voting is not a responsible option.
Does anybody besides me read that as anything other than complete and unadulterated scorn for the American electorate? For all practical purposes, Dave seems to suggest that American political life is "corrupt" because Donald Trump won in 2016 and for no other plausible reason.
And why did Trump win in 2016, Dave? Because conservative Americans stopped listening to "conservative" GOP cognoscenti like Jonah Goldberg, Dave French, Max Boot, Jenny Rubin, Charming Billy or Dave Brooks, who'd vouchsafed them John McCain and Mitt Romney in successive presidential elections, and opted for someone who could actually...you know...
Win?
Just tossing it out there, Dave.
For many, supporting Warren is too high a price to pay, even for ousting Trump. “There is no universe where I will ever vote for Donald Trump, and there is no universe where I could ever vote for Elizabeth Warren,” Jennifer Horn, a former chairwoman of the New Hampshire G.O.P., told The Washington Examiner.
Why is that, Jen?
First, there are Warren’s policies. On trade, she’s a protectionist. Her 10-year, $34 trillion health care plan isn’t paid for. Her student debt cancellation plan is a handout to the upper middle class. Her campaign seems to not acknowledge the inevitable trade-off between economic growth and high spending, high taxes and high regulation.
That can't be good. Anything else?
Second, she’s one of the few Democrats who could actually lose. As Yascha Mounk notes in The Atlantic, Democrats won in 2018 because they won back a lot of nonpartisan suburban office park workers who found moderates they could vote for. When you remind independents of Democratic support for abolishing private health insurance and decriminalizing unauthorized border crossing — two key Warren policies — they become six percentage points less likely to vote for the Democrats. Trump will tell voters: You may despise me, but she’ll destroy the economy.
Which is probably right.
Third, a Warren presidency would be deeply polarizing and probably unsuccessful. Warren’s policy ideas would make any progressive-moderate coalition impossible. She’d try to govern with her 40 percent partisan base, just as Trump has, which is no way to pass big legislation.
Like, oh, I don't know, moving America's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem? Because that's what basically changed my mind about Trump. Interesting experience, having American politicians who actually do stuff, who actually accomplish things now and then, rather than relentlessly doing nothing other than talking about doing stuff and accomplishing things now and then.
Maybe.
I'm funny that way. But this is where the "And yet" goes.
And yet, if it comes to Trump vs. Warren in a general election, the only plausible choice is to support Warren. Over the past month Donald Trump has given us fresh reminders of the unique and exceptional ways he corrupts American life.
Dave? You just now gave us a laundry list of reasons why Cigar Store would be the most horrible president the United States has ever had yet we still have to vote for her because the Orange Guy "has given us fresh reminders of the unique and exceptional ways he corrupts American life," except that you won't say what any of those "unique and exceptional ways" are.
You’re either part of removing that corruption or you are not. When your nation’s political system is in danger, staying home and not voting is not a responsible option.
Does anybody besides me read that as anything other than complete and unadulterated scorn for the American electorate? For all practical purposes, Dave seems to suggest that American political life is "corrupt" because Donald Trump won in 2016 and for no other plausible reason.
And why did Trump win in 2016, Dave? Because conservative Americans stopped listening to "conservative" GOP cognoscenti like Jonah Goldberg, Dave French, Max Boot, Jenny Rubin, Charming Billy or Dave Brooks, who'd vouchsafed them John McCain and Mitt Romney in successive presidential elections, and opted for someone who could actually...you know...
Win?
Just tossing it out there, Dave.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
INTERNET FUN
But there's another animal pictured here and its inclusion was not an accident. Can you see it? I'll give you two hints. Look at what isn't there. And it's Missouri's official state animal for which the great state of Missouri was once and, while I haven't kept up with innovations in this particular field, probably should still be greatly celebrated.
Go.
UPDATE: In the comments, Little Myrmidon got it right away. In the center, between the M and the U is head of a mule.
JOURNALISMING
NBC this time. When I was a kid, I strongly considered J-school.
Stupid me.
#WasteOfMoney
UPDATE: Can I call 'em or what?
Stupid me.
#WasteOfMoney
UPDATE: Can I call 'em or what?
RETURN OF THE COMMUNIST PLOT
CNN and The New York Times have in their hands a list. Hollywood's next reboot of Red Dawn has already begun writing itself.
CIGAR STORE?
FYI, that's a term made up by white leftist Anglos which quite a few Latinos are starting to find actually kind of offensive. #JustTryingToHelp #SuckUpMuch?
UPDATE: Speaking of offended ethnic groups...
UPDATE: Speaking of offended ethnic groups...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
DODGED A BULLET
My Birds are done. Four-and-out to the Washington Nationals. Oh well. That kind of thing tends to happen when you don't bring your bats with you. Kind of like the 2002 Super Bowl when Rams coach Mike Martz forgot that Marshall Faulk was one of his running backs.
Anyway, a ST. LOUIS BLUES*, for God's sake, Stanley Cup win covereth a multitude of sins, as Peter** would have put it. And I had to figure that two major world titles in this town in the same year would have been the signal for the New Madrid Fault to cut loose.
So if I go totally silent for a really long time, I'm dead for some other reason.
*Something I honestly never expected to live to see.
** They didn't have hockey back then, dumbass. I'm well aware of that but emanations, penumbra, that sort of pseudo-legalistic crap.
Anyway, a ST. LOUIS BLUES*, for God's sake, Stanley Cup win covereth a multitude of sins, as Peter** would have put it. And I had to figure that two major world titles in this town in the same year would have been the signal for the New Madrid Fault to cut loose.
So if I go totally silent for a really long time, I'm dead for some other reason.
*Something I honestly never expected to live to see.
** They didn't have hockey back then, dumbass. I'm well aware of that but emanations, penumbra, that sort of pseudo-legalistic crap.
Monday, October 14, 2019
SCENARIO 2020
Nate Silver's not wrong here.
In fact, I think this is far-and-away the most likely outcome next year. The American media didn't understand why Trump won in 2016 and for the most part, they haven't figured it out yet and don't look like they will or even care to. Since the President lives rent-free inside media heads for 24/7/365, they'll misjudge him yet again.
Granted, journalism is hard to do when you constantly have to fight off the effects of Trump Derangement Psychosis. And the media still thinks that "conservative" NeverTrump bitter-enders like Jonah Goldberg, Jenny Rubin, Dave French and Charming Billy still have actual influence so I really can't see this ending at all well for the American media.
UPDATE: Down in the comments, Dr. Mabuse jacks one into the seats.
I've saved YouTube videos of election night 2016 media coverage, and one thing most of them said, once the incredible truth of Trump's victory sank in, was that the media had to re-examine themselves, in light of their complete misreading of the public mood. The Great Enchastening did not last long, however. That pensiveness was almost immediately replaced by rage, which has not abated. The media almost immediately forgot their resolution of seeking to learn what THEY had done wrong, and instead switched with relief to discussing what the voters had done wrong. That focus on other people's errors has continued without interruption in the 3 years that have passed. They don't even seem to see that they are actually in danger here; that not having corrected their errors the first time around, they could easily go ahead and do the same thing all over again.
To borrow Brecht's line, what must we do? Dissolve the people and elect another? Somehow find an American electorate that is once again worthy of the media that covers it?
In fact, I think this is far-and-away the most likely outcome next year. The American media didn't understand why Trump won in 2016 and for the most part, they haven't figured it out yet and don't look like they will or even care to. Since the President lives rent-free inside media heads for 24/7/365, they'll misjudge him yet again.
Granted, journalism is hard to do when you constantly have to fight off the effects of Trump Derangement Psychosis. And the media still thinks that "conservative" NeverTrump bitter-enders like Jonah Goldberg, Jenny Rubin, Dave French and Charming Billy still have actual influence so I really can't see this ending at all well for the American media.
UPDATE: Down in the comments, Dr. Mabuse jacks one into the seats.
I've saved YouTube videos of election night 2016 media coverage, and one thing most of them said, once the incredible truth of Trump's victory sank in, was that the media had to re-examine themselves, in light of their complete misreading of the public mood. The Great Enchastening did not last long, however. That pensiveness was almost immediately replaced by rage, which has not abated. The media almost immediately forgot their resolution of seeking to learn what THEY had done wrong, and instead switched with relief to discussing what the voters had done wrong. That focus on other people's errors has continued without interruption in the 3 years that have passed. They don't even seem to see that they are actually in danger here; that not having corrected their errors the first time around, they could easily go ahead and do the same thing all over again.
To borrow Brecht's line, what must we do? Dissolve the people and elect another? Somehow find an American electorate that is once again worthy of the media that covers it?
JOURNALISMING
American journalism continues its savage war against American journalism schools.
ABC News aired a video on Sunday that host Tom Llamas said depicted a Turkish attack in northern Syria against Kurdish civilians. Turkey is indeed pushing into Syria and slaughtering Kurds along the way, but the video ABC News played last night is from a military gun demonstration in Kentucky that was published to YouTube in 2017.
“This video, right here, appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” Llamas said on the October 13 broadcast as the video played.
But the explosions in the video are identical to explosions seen in a video titled, “Knob Creek night shoot 2017.” Knob Creek Gun Range, in the town of West Point, Kentucky, hosts a biannual event called the “Military Gun Shoot & Military Gun Show” where weapons are fired at night.
It’s unclear if the video may have been slightly manipulated before it was handed to ABC News. But the unedited video from Kentucky shows people holding up their phones to capture the destruction, while the video broadcast by ABC News appears to have colors that are less saturated than the original.
More here.
I'll just leave this here. Mere mind-blowing incompetence doesn't explain this. At least I'd like to believe that no one can possibly be this incredibly stupid.
I'll just leave this here. Mere mind-blowing incompetence doesn't explain this. At least I'd like to believe that no one can possibly be this incredibly stupid.
STOLEN VALOR
Here's a suggestion. Maybe WE should stop pretending to be Indians merely to advance something as trivial as OUR professional careers. "We owe them our respect," Senator? I guess we do that by faking an Indian nationality for our own benefit, minus, of course, all the crap thrown into Indian faces for over 400 years, give or take.
You really might want to sit this one out, Cigar Store.
You really might want to sit this one out, Cigar Store.
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| Read the comments here. Quite a few of these folks are still pissed. |
Sunday, October 13, 2019
MAYBE I'M MISSING SOMETHING
But I don't see this going over very well. Not when it would be a whole lot cheaper to holiday in Detroit or East St. Louis or a similar locale.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
ELLEN'S CHOICE
Comedian/talk show host Ellen DeGeneres attended a football game recently. She was seated next to former US president George W. Bush with whom she apparently got on really well. Ellen didn't throw red paint on him or hold up signs or anything like that. Which kind of pissed off The Washington Post.
But it wasn’t long before confusion transformed into outrage as detractors slammed DeGeneres over appearing to share friendly exchanges with a president who started the Iraq War and once endorsed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage. Some noted that Bush also lobbied for Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who faced multiple sexual misconduct allegations last year ahead of his confirmation. (Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.)
Sitting side-by-side in black padded seats with prime views of the cavernous stadium were former Republican president George W. Bush and liberal television host Ellen DeGeneres, an outspoken LGBT activist. The pair was joined by their spouses, former first lady Laura Bush and Australian actress and model Portia de Rossi. At one point, DeGeneres and Bush were caught on camera sharing a laugh.
The intense outcry prompted DeGeneres to take time to address her relationship with Bush on her show. In a joke-filled monologue scheduled to air Tuesday, DeGeneres defended her interactions with the former president and urged people to “be kind to everyone.” Bush was a guest on DeGeneres’s show in 2017.
But it wasn’t long before confusion transformed into outrage as detractors slammed DeGeneres over appearing to share friendly exchanges with a president who started the Iraq War and once endorsed a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage. Some noted that Bush also lobbied for Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who faced multiple sexual misconduct allegations last year ahead of his confirmation. (Kavanaugh has denied the allegations.)
Sitting side-by-side in black padded seats with prime views of the cavernous stadium were former Republican president George W. Bush and liberal television host Ellen DeGeneres, an outspoken LGBT activist. The pair was joined by their spouses, former first lady Laura Bush and Australian actress and model Portia de Rossi. At one point, DeGeneres and Bush were caught on camera sharing a laugh.
The intense outcry prompted DeGeneres to take time to address her relationship with Bush on her show. In a joke-filled monologue scheduled to air Tuesday, DeGeneres defended her interactions with the former president and urged people to “be kind to everyone.” Bush was a guest on DeGeneres’s show in 2017.
“During the game, they showed a shot of George and me laughing together and so people were upset,” the host said in an advance clip shared to social media late Monday. “They thought, ‘Why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative Republican president?’"
She later added: “Here’s the thing, I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different and I think we’ve forgotten that that’s okay that we’re all different.”
Here's the other thing. It's probably too late for 2020 but 2024 is wide open. So which approach do you think has a better shot at appealing to American voters? Ellen's? She's got enough scratch to pull it off. Or the default Democrat/leftist position these days?
Friday, October 11, 2019
CANARY IN THE COAL MINE?
Maybe I don't give Bobby O'Rourke enough credit. Dude seems to be entirely willing to publicly say what other Democrats are already thinking and apparently have been for quite some time. The most prominent member of the Fake Indian community comes out against Christianity.
THIS WON'T HELP, NBA
If anything, it'll make your current situation WAY worse. But go ahead and do you.
WELL SURE, BILL
If by "profound national humiliation," you mean the year that Americans finally decided to stop taking instruction and orders from the Professional ConservativesTM who gave them John McCain and Mitt Romney in successive presidential elections then I see you working, big dog.
Winning and, you know, actually being able to accomplish stuff that "conservatives" have claimed to support for I don't know how many years (in what city is America's Israeli embassy, Bill?) kind of kicks ass. But you do you. Granted, total irrelevance isn't all that much fun but...
Winning and, you know, actually being able to accomplish stuff that "conservatives" have claimed to support for I don't know how many years (in what city is America's Israeli embassy, Bill?) kind of kicks ass. But you do you. Granted, total irrelevance isn't all that much fun but...
UPDATE: Of considerable interest.
LOST CAUSE
I think Bobby O'Rourke has finally figured out that he's never ever going to become the president of the United States so he can safely go ahead and say whatever stupid, brain-dead, wildly unconstitutional, Episcopalian crap happens to jump into that empty head of his.
Beto O’Rourke said he thinks that religious institutions should be stripped of their tax-exempt status if they oppose homosexuality.
While at a CNN candidate forum about gay and transgender issues, moderator Don Lemon asked the 47-year-old former congressman whether he supported revoking the tax-exempt status for religious institutions such as churches, colleges, and charities, if they don't support gay marriage.
“Yes,” O’Rourke responded, to much applause.
“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break, for anyone or any institution, any organization in America that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us,” O’Rourke said. “And so, as president, we’re going to make that a priority, and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans.”
Best of luck explaining that one to the Muslims. Candy ass.
UPDATE: Figured that one out a LONG-ASS time ago, Josh.
Beto O’Rourke said he thinks that religious institutions should be stripped of their tax-exempt status if they oppose homosexuality.
“Yes,” O’Rourke responded, to much applause.
“There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break, for anyone or any institution, any organization in America that denies the full human rights and the full civil rights of every single one of us,” O’Rourke said. “And so, as president, we’re going to make that a priority, and we are going to stop those who are infringing upon the human rights of our fellow Americans.”
Best of luck explaining that one to the Muslims. Candy ass.
UPDATE: Figured that one out a LONG-ASS time ago, Josh.
Thursday, October 10, 2019
KRISTALLNACHT
How old am I? I can remember when St. Louis had an NBA team, the Hawks (the ones currently playing in Atlanta). Late 50's (when they won a title from the Boston Celtics), early 60's, they owned this town in the winter/spring period.
Why'd the Hawks lose it? It pains and embarrasses me to admit this but, well...racism. When the heroes of the Hawks, white guys like Bob Pettit, Cliff Hagan and Ed Macauley, began retiring, they were replaced by players with dark brown skins.
Right about then, the Blues got started. A winter sport without a black face to be seen.
Do the math.
I always wanted another pro basketball team back here. They tried it in the 70's with the ABA's Spirits of St. Louis but despite the fact that the Spirits had the coolest uniforms in the history of all professional sports everywhere for all time and the fact that they gave Bob Costas his start straight out of the 'Cuse, it didn't work.
Also, the people running the Spirits were idiots but that's an entirely different story.
I'd still love to see a professional basketball team in St. Louis but I think this area is probably too small for another winter/spring big league pro team (unless the owner of that team doesn't mind losing a TON of money). But to be quite honest, after reading what's been going on with it over the last several days, I don't care if the NBA ever comes back here.
The Portland Trail Blazers announced that they have severed relations with a company that does business with Israel following a pressure campaign by activists tied to the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
As the NBA is facing outrage after the general manager of the Houston Rockets capitulated to censorship by the Chinese communist government, the Trail Blazers quietly severed ties with the manufacturer Leupold, which has a contract to produce accessories for the Israeli Defense Forces.
Trail Blazers president and CEO Chris McGowan recently announced the decision to bow to pressure from BDS activists, telling a reporter for the Bleacher Report that "Leupold is no longer a part of the organization."
Yeah, great. Take orders from the world's premier authoritarian nation and piss all over the Jews. Count me in, bitches.
On second thought, go to hell.
Why'd the Hawks lose it? It pains and embarrasses me to admit this but, well...racism. When the heroes of the Hawks, white guys like Bob Pettit, Cliff Hagan and Ed Macauley, began retiring, they were replaced by players with dark brown skins.
Right about then, the Blues got started. A winter sport without a black face to be seen.
Do the math.
I always wanted another pro basketball team back here. They tried it in the 70's with the ABA's Spirits of St. Louis but despite the fact that the Spirits had the coolest uniforms in the history of all professional sports everywhere for all time and the fact that they gave Bob Costas his start straight out of the 'Cuse, it didn't work.
Also, the people running the Spirits were idiots but that's an entirely different story.
I'd still love to see a professional basketball team in St. Louis but I think this area is probably too small for another winter/spring big league pro team (unless the owner of that team doesn't mind losing a TON of money). But to be quite honest, after reading what's been going on with it over the last several days, I don't care if the NBA ever comes back here.
The Portland Trail Blazers announced that they have severed relations with a company that does business with Israel following a pressure campaign by activists tied to the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
As the NBA is facing outrage after the general manager of the Houston Rockets capitulated to censorship by the Chinese communist government, the Trail Blazers quietly severed ties with the manufacturer Leupold, which has a contract to produce accessories for the Israeli Defense Forces.
Trail Blazers president and CEO Chris McGowan recently announced the decision to bow to pressure from BDS activists, telling a reporter for the Bleacher Report that "Leupold is no longer a part of the organization."
Yeah, great. Take orders from the world's premier authoritarian nation and piss all over the Jews. Count me in, bitches.
On second thought, go to hell.
DEAR ROBERT TRACINSKI
I'll explain this to you once you understand why you got Trump in the first place.
I'll start you off. Remember 2008? That was the year that Professional ConservatismTM finally seized control of the Republican Party back from the Bible Thumpers who gave us Reagan and W. That year, the big-time GOP selected John McCain...conservative...ish...as its presidential candidate.
McCain lost, of course, but he was running against the Black Guy who kind of had to win. So no real surprise there. The fact that this country's "news media" then spent the next eight years reverently kissing Obama's genitals was also not a surprise.
Which meant that the GOP'snot even remotely "conservative" candidate for 2012, Mitt Romney, never stood a chance, no matter how "conservative" the GOP assured us he was. I really don't like quoting myself but I'm going to anyway.
But if you run John McCain for president and then follow him up with Mitt Romney, it doesn't seem like actually winning the presidency is a high priority with you.
That's where Trump comes from, Bob. The idea of actually getting things done. The idea of winning once in a damned while.
I'll start you off. Remember 2008? That was the year that Professional ConservatismTM finally seized control of the Republican Party back from the Bible Thumpers who gave us Reagan and W. That year, the big-time GOP selected John McCain...conservative...ish...as its presidential candidate.
McCain lost, of course, but he was running against the Black Guy who kind of had to win. So no real surprise there. The fact that this country's "news media" then spent the next eight years reverently kissing Obama's genitals was also not a surprise.
Which meant that the GOP's
But if you run John McCain for president and then follow him up with Mitt Romney, it doesn't seem like actually winning the presidency is a high priority with you.
That's where Trump comes from, Bob. The idea of actually getting things done. The idea of winning once in a damned while.
DEAD TO RIGHTS
PEOPLE WHO CAN READ: Liz Warren lied about being fired because she was pregnant.
LEFTISTS: No she didn't.
PEOPLE WHO CAN READ: She clearly did, it's right there on the...
LEFTISTS: NO SHE DIDN'T!! SOME WOMAN SOMEWHERE GOT FIRED FOR BEING PREGNANT SO IT HAPPENED TO SENATOR WARREN TOO!! YOU OBVIOUSLY HATE WOMEN!! WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN?!!
UPDATE: Kinda lookin' that way, innit?
UPDATE: Bwannette's all-in.
LEFTISTS: No she didn't.
PEOPLE WHO CAN READ: She clearly did, it's right there on the...
LEFTISTS: NO SHE DIDN'T!! SOME WOMAN SOMEWHERE GOT FIRED FOR BEING PREGNANT SO IT HAPPENED TO SENATOR WARREN TOO!! YOU OBVIOUSLY HATE WOMEN!! WHY DO YOU HATE WOMEN?!!
UPDATE: Kinda lookin' that way, innit?
UPDATE: Bwannette's all-in.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
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