Random thoughts from the Sunshine State.
March in Del Boca Vista is…bland. It’s just…pleasant. It’s not horrible, it’s not great. It’s just unremarkable.
Day after day, the same weather, the same activities, the same people. Which, according to OMWC’s (((Mom))), is just the way they like it. (The only mystery around here is how such a lovely lady could have spawned OMWC.)
OK, Webdominatrix is enjoying the lack of snow. I am enjoying the lack of Chicagoland traffuck.
Whenever I come to DBV, I am struck by the fact that nearly everyone I see is an oldster. The grocery stores are filled with elderly people in motorized carts blocking the aisles. The parking lots are filled with giant cars with NY Giants bumper stickers. The restaurants are filled with senior citizens enjoying the ubiquitous Early Bird Discounts. The swimming pools are filled with…well, I’ll let your imagination be your guide there. Let’s just say, tattoos are generally not attractive on 85 year old bodies.
There is nothing wrong with free association, but it pulls me up short when I realize I’ve gone days without seeing anyone under 70 who isn’t a server or health care aide.
Much as I love my MIL, I’ll be happy to get back to the nonstop excitement of living with OMWC.
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221 responses to “Greetings from Del Boca Vista!”
Cocoon: brilliant, or genius?
I’m gonna go with visionary.
And Wilford Brimley.
Brimley was also quite good in his small role at the end of Absence of Malice.
I can’t believe you guys didn’t repost Brimley’s most legendary utterance.
Hi. This is Wilford Brimley. Welcome to Retardation: A Celebration. Now, hopefully with this book, I’m gonna dispel a few myths, a few rumors. First off, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it. Nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
I’ve never seen that show and I didn’t know that was a Wilford.
This is definitely Brimley’s best scene: I’LL KILL YOO!
It’s been too long since I saw it to remember anything beyond Wilford Brimley being in it.
Eat your oatmeal.
It’s The Right Thing To Do.
Especially if you’ve got the diabeetus.
Back! Back to the Collective Brimely! You’re scaring the mortals.
You don’t remember Raquel Welch’s daughter in that?
*narrows gays*
Metaphorical.
March in Del Boca Vista is…bland.
You’ve given UCS ideas.
He is looking for a place to move to.
I’m thinking of marketing a condiment like ketchup, but even more bland. Maybe there’s an untapped market here.
Miracle Whip is already a thing.
Two weeks in a row with multiple days doing non-drill reserve work (conferences and classes).
Did knock out another vid….in which I review odd European comics only now being translated and released in the US (all highly recommended). https://youtu.be/q-AzYQq92dI
May get another comic vid done later this weekend – here till Sunday – then back on Mon night. Easier to knock out a handheld vid than anything more complicated re: editing.
You’re living a Seinfeld episode. Oh my God.
Let’s just say, tattoos are generally not attractive on 85 year old bodies.
My mom got a couple of southern Irish themed tattoos in her 60s. They looked incredibly tacky on her. Thankfully she died of a heart attack before the dementia could turn her into an 85-year-old vegetable.
As a young lad, one of the members of the local church was a grizzled Korean War navy vet with faded tattoos covering his flabby, wrinkled, liver spotted arms. Put me off tattoos entirely. He was great guy though.
Heh. I had a roommate way back whose grandfather was extremely anti-tattoo. Said grandfather had a giant tattoo of a naked woman on his arm, which apparently was a good idea when he was 19 years old and making regular flights over Germany and probably wasn’t going to live to be 20.
Two things I think about when I think about getting a tattoo, my dad’s uncle who wasn’t allowed to take his shirt off in his own house for 50yrs because he had another woman’s name (not his wife’s) tattooed on his back; and ‘Saved By The Bell: The College Years’ When Bob Golic talked about how he got a tweety bird tattoo on his ass, but now it was Big Bird.
Every time I see a young woman with one of those full sleeve tattoo jobs, I think about she will look like when the bingo wings sprout.
I saw an attractive woman earlier with a tramp stamp and was immediately put off. They’re like the patterns on butterfly wings meant to ward off predators, or in my case men averse to sticking it in crazy.
Tats on Women just don’t work, tats get old and fade, which is OK for a Man, but Horrid for a Woman
I keep wondering if the tatt trend will ever die out and it doesn’t seem so.
It’s a symptom of something more systemic. The lack of any kind of traditional mooring to a community has left many people drifting; alienated, lacking identity and hollow. It’s a very obvious, in your face way of trying to communicate individuality and identity. Same goes for the ever multiplying LGBTQA+++ stuff. It’s trying to differentiate oneself and also integrate into a tribe when typical civil society is circling the drain.
If that analysis is right, tattoos are only going to get more prevalent.
Why, I never!
Rhywun and Q both need a pair of lawn chairs and canes.
Sign me up for Del Boca Vista.
What are those kids doing across the street?
They’re just playing.
*narrows eyes* I’m not so sure about that….
I remember integrating into a tribe of New Wave kids with the haircuts and earrings and shit. And then it was dead five years later. I joined one or two other tribes over the years, and then I got tired of the whole thing. I was never very good at “look at me!” in the first place.
OTOH, a lot of my peers kept it up, became proto-hipsters, and were in on the ground floor of the tatt craze. I go to parties full of middle-aged people comparing their tatts. Oy.
Eh. I have a large one on my upper arm. Unless I’m shirtless or sleeveless you can’t see it. I got it because I thought it would look cool, and the components are all related to home, which I miss. It’s an expression of who I am and where I’m from in much the same way clothing can be. Sure, when I’m 80 it’ll be a faded blotch of ink on wrinkly loose skin, but even then I can look at it and remember that I had a kick-ass tattoo. It really isn’t very in your face. Though I admit that chicks do seem to dig them and like to trace their fingers over them for some reason. But i run with a punch of perverts in Portland.
What I’ve noticed with the current tattoo trend is that people are jumping to very visible tattoos (forearm/hands/neck) right away.
Back in my day (GenX/90s) we got our first tattoos on areas that could be covered with jeans and a t-shirt. If you see someone in their 40s with a forearm tattoo, I guarantee that either they’re working on a full sleeve or it’s their first tattoo and they got it <5 years go.
Sounds lovely, except for all the people (not just the olds, but everybody).
P.S. My aspiration is to grow up to be like Ouiser in Steel Magnolias
Ive been spelling it Wheezer!
Obligatory Ouiser.
Me too. Awesome character.
Have you introduced the in-laws to our little slice of heaven here?
I have an uncle who has a house on the bay in Gulf breeze, Florida. That’s just across the bay from Pensacola. I have really enjoyed the times I have gone to visit him there. He lives in a pretty upscale neighborhood. Mostly middle aged engineers, doctors, or other professionals.
SP, they aren’t old, you’re just young, and they Hate You for it, Welcome to Stupidville!
Ever heard of Slab City? it’s an abandoned military Base near the Salton Sea, that has since developed into a Snowbird/Anarchist land. I went there about 30 years ago and I’m going back this weekend to check it out. I’m hoping to get a new article out of it, Wish me Luck, it can be Dangerous,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeZ3rHCc-PE
Nuts to that noise. You packing?
Yes… and My Son is going with, also packing
I’m taking as much video/media as possible, and some “products” to induce a few interviews, but the place is truly the Wild West, So i’m planning escape routes, etc. seriously, it could be fun, or….
God bless. That looks like my idea of hell.
The Desert below the I-10 freeway is considered the Sonoran Desert, While everything North is the far colder Mojave Desert, I’ll be going South along the Eastern edge of the Sea, so Maybe hot, but probably not at this time of year, Hell? oh yeah…
I meant hell in other ways.
Yeah, I need someplace with four seasons, woods, and mountains.
Running water and electricity would be nice too.
We *do* have those in Catskill Park, you know.
Looking forward to the article (s) and video. A couple of Glibs are researching retirement homes.This should help them.
This place is Somalia
No shit. Be careful, bud.
Ah the locals out there are strange but they aren’t too bad. Check out East Jesus – I got out there a couple of times back when Charlie was alive.
So a Libertarian paradise,then? Sweet!
Whatever you do. Don’t buy her a new Cadillac.
And spring for the Wizard rather than that generic Willard.
The swimming pools are filled with…
You guys aren’t gonna take a swing at that?
Baby Ruths?
Know the movie, but I can’t even remember what those taste like.
Chlorine.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article205249624.html
“While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities,” de León said in a news release. “Ms. Mateo is a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country.”
In a statement, Mateo said she welcomed the opportunity. “While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,” she said.”
Riiiiight.
“they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,” she said.”
You mean Mexico?
Absolute insanity. We live in a world in which down is up and up is down.
I’m also waiting to hear about de Leon being exposed as running a sex trafficking operation of illegals.
These progressive saints are always covering up some horrid skeletons.
You mean Kevin de León or
Kevin Alexander Leon
Fucking Posers!
+1 leyland yee.
Mexico is taking California back in interesting ways, eh?
It’s not just that. How is this even remotely legal? Is there the rule of law in California?
It’s the Bizarro world. I’m having a hard time seeing how this can end well.
Stringing up California politicians?
It’s going to happen here first IMO,poeople are really fed up with all the Crap, and most can’t affect elections so War?
IPhone games and apathy.
you realize most Cali residents aren’t Coasties? We have real jobs? We don’t have time for I phones or apathy, Please quit Shitting on us,
Dude, that is everywhere, not just California.
I tend not to judge people by their Geographical roots, Just say’n….
Public choice theory. The payoff for being informed is minimal for the average person. Unless you’re a weirdo like one of us.
There was a book called ‘While Canada Slept’.
You can update it to, ‘While California Slept’.
I’m a dissident living in the PRC, don’t out me Man!
Ummmm no. There isn’t any rule of law. Well the rule of law for some. If you make less than 50k, oh fuck yeah there is rule of law. If you forgot to get permission and renew the tags on your car we are gonna give you the rule of law good and hard. If you are James clapper, a Hillary Clinton, a fucking DREAMER, not so much the rule of law.
This culture.. This whatever the fuck it is, is quite insane.
P. S. The 50k # is just a number that I pulled out of my ass.
Laws are for the little people. This is known.
$50K in Fresno, multiples of that for every 10 miles closer to the coast.
All students remain underrepresented where decisions that affect them are being made.
Holy shit. This is Kevin De Leon. I remember this retard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmFEv6BHM0
And Kevin Leon is running for Governor. He’s going to force me to vote for some other (slightly less) awful Democrat just to block his commie ass.
Is Warty still here? I’ve been struggling to get a handle on Hang Squat Snatches – always feel my weight come forward onto my toes instead of back on my heels. Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong…
I dunno how to do that fancypants Euro trick lifting. Your shoulders probably aren’t flexible enough to keep the weight over your center of mass at the bottom of the squat, maybe. That’s all I’ve got.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of this crossfit-esque shit. Gonna say fuck it and do something else instead.
Del Boca Vista. Where (((they))) go to die.
“… Not you!”
What is dead may never die…
Can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong…
I’d say you done fucked up when you asked for help in a thread where HM has shown up and left a ‘Hang Squat Snatches’ just hanging over the plate.
If millennials were lumberjacks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlTGRlF_zSI
I’m a lumberjack and that’s OK
Does the fact that I hate the elderly so much that I basically start sounding like 1922-Hitler when I rant about them make me more or less libertarian?
Just don’t advocate action T4 and you will be okay.
Unfortunantly, as a libertarian who resents the fuck out paying several hundred dollars a month into social security, my prefered solution to the problem would probably have some seriously negative effects on our nation’s senior population.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/EuthanasiePropaganda.jpg
Ya, you get over that as you age. You eventually move past the anger of the theft as you eventually inch closer to hoping you live long enough to get to fuck over the next generation the same as the one before who fucked you over. Life, as it pertains to SS, is not a circle. It is a straight line drawn across the contours of wrinkled skin on a bad tattoo until there is no tattoo left. Which generation is left with no tattoo remains to be seen.
SS is, of course, a Ponzi scheme.
That’s kind of an insult to Ponzi schemes. Ponzi schemes are usually voluntary.
It was guaranteed to fail the day it was signed into law. I’m sure that fucker FDR knew that too.
Would’ve taken a lot longer if not for LBJ and his “Great Society” Medicare benefits.
I have a strong suspicion that people my age (30) are not going to get jack shit out of all the SS taxes they have already paid.
I’m 48 and I’m not counting on it either.
I make my plans under the assumption that SS doesn’t exist. I’ll be less disappointed that way.
Smart cookie.
Maybe, maybe not. I thought the same thing when I was 30. I do however, and no offense, hope I live long enough to spend your money. You can rest assured it will be spent on important things like cheap booze, really cheap hookers and most likely some illegal drugs.
They might raise the age to collect, but SS will be here forever. It is the herpes of entitlement programs. That is the thing with socialist ideas and why I disagreed with Jillette on the linked video yesterday. He said something like, ‘maybe give Bernie, who has some good ideas, a chance for four years, then he gets voted out and then we try someone else and their ideas……….’ Bullshit. Socialism inched in never leaves. Look at Obamacare.
As long as my money is going to a good casue, I guess I can’t bitch too much.
In honesty I don’t look at it like that but I do strive to be that kind of asshole. I see it as recouping some of the theft but I probably won’t live that long as that is how my luck works. The fact the asshats before us let them spend it all and grow the original SS/old age pension into what it it is today is what should have everyone pissed off. I have said it before and I will say it again, SS has grown to cover numerous other programs that are flat out welfare and not old age pensions. There should be no cap on contributions. It is the only tax increase I approve of. Let the gazzilioners pay that 15% on their total income and let’s see how long until they come up with an idea on how to end the ponzi scheme.
Behold the brilliance of Bob Saget. Starting at about 4:10 he really shows his knowledge and insight.
What a retard.
I listened for two minutes. Jesus. Do these people read at all?
Scared to hit the news alert button. lol.
Rubin had Shapiro and Peterson in one interview and musta been asking himself what the fuck is this?
I made it about ten minutes. Saget is too dumb to realize how bad he comes off. After giving a factually untrue rant, he asks Rubin, “Does that make any sense?”. Rubin, being the nice guy he is, responds, “Uh, um, yeah, uh…”. You just corrected him, Dave. Say, “No, your premises were wrong.”
He needs to start drinking again.
For you TL;DW watch people, Saget gets corrected by Rubin on the murder rate, poverty, drinkable water around the world and then goes on to say he gets his news from Maher, Kimmel, Colbert etc.
“gets his news from Maher, Kimmel, Colbert”
Oh FFS.
I have found Saget to be one of the most unfunny “comedians” for… my god, how many decades now.
Out with it, Rhywun. You loved ‘Full House’ and its reboot didn’t you?
Never saw a full episode. It was unwatchable even by late 80’s standards.
R, come on.
You’re among friends.
/gives comforting smile.
Family Matters FTW.
I started college in 1988. Family Matters started in 1989. I know of the punchline character but I’ve never actually seen the show.
Dangerfield, Rickles Pryor,Murphy, good Comedy ffs
Golden age. Kinnison, Hedberg, too.
I am eternally grateful my new freshman year friends dragged me to see Kinison perform in 1988 or 9. Even then it took me years to fully appreciate his genius.
I love hedberg. There has never been anyone quite like him.
Of the contemporary comedians, Ron White cracks me up.
I’ll check him out. Big fan of Regan, too. Not political and not blue, yet cracks me up. He’s what Will Ferrell would be if Will was funny.
Regan is clean too. Very funny.
Steven Wright.
And of course, always have to mention Norm.
Ferrell gets a lot of stick but I always found him pretty funny on SNL. Especially the recurring skit with him and the chest hair and the hot tub and shit – hilarious.
Having a permanently stupid facial expression isn’t comic genius. Put Ferrel in the correct skit and it’s funny, I guess.
Perhaps. I don’t consider him a “comedian” anyway.
Ferrel, prog that he is, had some funny movies though.
Semi-Pro, Step Brothers, Talladega Nights, Old School, his appearance on Wedding Crashers.
I’ve only seen Old School out of those and I thought it was really good.
Fair enuff. If it made you laugh, enjoy. I may be unjustly comparing him to Farley.
Talladega nights is funny as hell.
Talladega Nights is awesome. One night I’m going to have to have that idiot Tom Cruise NASCAR movie run on one TV and TN on the other – kind of like Monty Python’s Holy Grail and Excalibur.
If you like Old School, then you’re definitely going to like those mentioned.
TBH I don’t seek out such movies to watch. I only saw Old School because my roommate at the time was a movie nut and will watch anything.
Who’s that Aussie comic that seems to make his whole act about how stupid unwoke rednecks are? Jeffries IIRC. I’ve only seen a couple of his acts, but they were just filled with nasty insults.
Now here’s a good comedian.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenn-tisdale/my-amateur-porn-date-james-deen_b_4215113.html
If your career’s not going anywhere…
“Beej job”?
Looked it up.
Sad.
Come to think of it, I’m surprised Chelsea Handler hasn’t done this yet.
Give it time I suspect this lucky streak of her getting shows has to come to an end at some point, no?
Yeh he says it at about the 8 min. mark.
FFS.
I didn’t make it far.
Blammo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU
remarkably short on tits. 1/5
Okay I didn’t wanna be a whiney bitch but fuckk it IO’m drunk. I’m not even gonna correct the tpos that are redlined, thats how little of a shit I give. anyway if you are gonna ask for sbmissions and request pitches and say ‘we’ll get back to you’, then you should get back to people. ‘Hey, thanks for the submission but you’re proposal sucks ass’ is much better than nothing. I’d assume maybe shit gotl,ost in the ,ail but it’s been like three times now. I can take it , if my bllshit ain;t yo bag, groovey, but fuck sakes tell me to piss off the silen treatment just leave fuckers in the lurch nd nobody nees hat. fcks sake.
I like the animated gifs…
I get your frustration. I’ve had two subs disappear down the rabbit hole. Still not gonna complain, though. I wouldn’t be running the joint any better. They’re doing this in their spare time and I’m not gonna bitch about free shit not being good enough.
Honestly, we’re a fly by night operation and shit goes to the spam folder we don’t check send it brett_bolt@yahoo.com and I’ll look at it. Same for straffinrum. We don’t play favorites but nobody gets paid to mine the spam folder.
That goes for everyone. If you’re sending us stuff and we don’t answer we didn’t see it. Mention it here so we know to check our spam folder. Not that we put you ther, just the AI can be overly aggressive
Also we just confirmed several submissions in the junk folder. Again, we didn’t put you there. We’ll check it aggressively for a while. I will put up a mea (us-a?) culpa in the morning links. We’re not ignoring you, just lazy and dependent on our technology.
Thanks Brett, and please don’t think I don’t appreciate that you all have jobs and that Glibs is a labor of love. No need to apologize, that was simply my intoxicated way of giving whomever it may concern the old ‘check the spam folder, Yo.’
Sucks that your work didn’t get noticed, but damn your drunk rant is funny.
Pass the whiskey! Lol
If they run that rant instead, well, hats off.
My wife found this in my 5 year old’s backpack this evening
CPS will over shortly. Thanks for your contribution, citizen.
“be”. Jesus, now I’m drunk.
LOL
He’s clearly going to be a serial killer.
Wouldn’t surprise me
Good shot!
Me too, kid. Me too.
Perfect for a post about geriatrics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5506823/Hillary-Clinton-fractures-wrist-slipping-bathtub.html
Never change, Daily Fail.
I’m still waiting for South Park to spoof her.
Anthony Cumia had a picture:
NSFW or Sanity
Why wasn’t Huma there to catch her?
Wait a minute SP. You went to visit your MIL without your husband? You, madam, are the saint.
Well, she was groomed since she was like 4 for this.
You have no idea
My mom and my sister-in-law got along just fine. It does happen :O
My MIL is an awesome cook. I’d go visit her by myself just for the food she’d whip up.
That and asian women do seem to age well.
Not really. The wide jaws and bull legged stance turns them into drunk marionettes.
If that’s not your thing, I guess, don’t judge me!
Humans don’t age well. Whaddayagonnado? You can only hope not to creep the hell out of the young’ins.
My mom and wife get along once my kids are grown and my dad passes, I’ll have to be extra nice to the wife if I want to be in the will.
I haven’t kept up with the threads the last few days because of work, but has anyone mentioned the obvious reference to our very own jesse.in.mb on the series finally of Mostly Weekly from TOS?
dagummit, that link started too late, here.
That is the guy who would read the letters/comments (mostly from Gilmore) on The Independents.
I know him from Econ Pop, and Mostly weekly, couldn’t stand to watch The Independents, too much Matt and Kennedy, not enough Kemele.
Oh damn. I hope they used my affiliate link!
I mean, I can totally see using 45 gallons of lube. But 55? Seems extravagant.
It seems you got a shot with Heaton or maybe Austin. Now is your chance! Take your pick.
Where is Heaton going? He is (was?) one of the few bright spots at TOS.
The video doesn’t say, and that’s all I know.
Today, for some reason unexplained to me I did voice work for multiple radio ads in Mississippi. Station manager wanted one of our female announcers to do it, but she wasn’t coming in, so he asked me to. No idea if they will use, it’s very confusing to me.
Not easy, is it? Sounds odd, but the best tip I ever got was to keep my back straight, especially if you’re sitting down. Head up, feet on the ground.
Yeah, straight diaphragm and all that, but in two years working there, this is only the second time I’ve been asked to do voice work; that’s where the shock came from, especially since I wasn’t given any info other than script.
I’ve always gotten the material weeks beforehand. If you don’t, it comes off as 棒読み or “bo-yomi”. Stiff reading. It’s unprofessional to ask someone to do it. Radio is a different animal, so I suppose you have to sometimes.
I mean, where they expecting it to a woman’s voice? And then they got my gravely voice of a pack and and half smoker? I did just ask the manager for work doing production work, I don’t even know how familiar he is with my on-air voice. Meh, I’m hourly, I got paid either way.
It’s similar to commenting on a site. At first you don’t notice the limited patterns you have, but then over the years you get bored of pulling the same tricks out the bag and try new voices. A patient, yet honest person to give feedback is essential.
speaking to VO work, have you seen my hat and hair cartoon? I can’t really remember who I’ve shown it to.
Yeah, I’ve seen it. Fun stuff. No idea on the technical side of it. Campy works.
What kept tripping me up is it’s called ‘Bolivar Medical Center’. Usually you know pronounced with a long o and an ar sound at the end, but they wanted it pronounced like Oliver with a B at the beginning, kept tripping me up.
Also, that Wisconsin accent is a bitch to drop.
I’m of the people with that non-accented type accent they teach news people; when I lived in Vegas and told people I was from Wisconsin they asked me why I didn’t have a accent. But I always think I sound like a stroke victim with slurred speech. Like I said, I’m hourly, so I got paid either way.
I had it, but lost it years ago. There’s only on word where it erupts with a vengeance even today. WisKaaahnsin.
I always found it odd that I knew very few people with a sconnie accent, but then anytime they interviewed someone on the Green Bay news it was all ‘Yah,I got ta feed dem cows, ya know. I don’t know much about dis here occident. I was just awn my way ta milk dem cows and den di car hit dat der udder car.’
SP insists she has no accent, then gets pissed when I mock her for saying, “…eeeeyind…” for “…and…”
As long as we are being Florida Jewish here, I might as well talk about medical problems. I am now sitting in the emergency department at Mercy Hospital with the Mr Splosives. He had an intrusive and painful exploratory surgery this morning and we go home from that around 3pm.
But at 1 am, he woke up in such awful pain that there was no option other than going to the hospital ER. So now he is happily sedated, about to be admitted for “observation”, and I guess I will have to go to work in a few hours.
At least he has good drugs now. Wish I did.
That sucks. Hope everything turns out okay
Thanks . Our medical expenses this year are going to be ridiculous.
Mr Splosives has a good Splosive on his teams. Take care.
Thanks. We are doing what we can.
That sucks, especially with everything else happening lately. Best of luck to you and safe journeys for the “Kilted One”!
Thanks! He is blissfully snoring away in the ER awaiting his room to be prepped. I am half dead with sleep deprivation.
Gonna be a sucky day. But this too shall pass ! 🙂
extra early links
Arm homeless with shotguns to reduce crime, US Senate hopeful says
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/16/arm-homeless-with-shotguns-to-reduce-crime-us-senate-hopeful-says.html
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A U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan has proposed a plan to arm homeless people with shotguns in a bid to reduce crime.
Brian Ellison, a Libertarian candidate who is expected to be the party’s candidate in the upcoming midterm elections, said homeless people are often at risk of becoming victims of violent crime and one way to prevent that is by providing them with firearms.
He would be challenging Democratic incumbent Debbie Stabenow for the U.S. Senate seat in November, if he wins the Libertarian Party’s candidate.
Ellison told the Guardian that although he thinks pistols for homeless people would be ideal, due to stringent gun laws, shotguns are the only alternative for them.
…
Ellison dismissed any criticism that giving shotguns to people at risk might be dangerous.
“Well, are you worried about the police being armed with military weapons?,” he asked. “I am. The world we live in is a scary world, where the police who used to dress in short-sleeved shirts and carry a revolver now have long rifles with scopes and bulletproof vests and armored vehicles.
“And quite frankly that scares me much more than a homeless person trying to defend themselves with a shotgun.”
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Isn’t a big part of the homeless population homeless because of mental health problems or substance abuse issues? Handing over shotguns to them doesn’t sound like a good idea. At all. Plus it kind of makes them targets for robbery. Nobody wants their shopping cart full of junk, but if they think they could score a gun, it could be trouble.
ding ding ding
Winner!
Rand Paul talking sense
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/15/sen-rand-paul-why-cant-support-neocons-pompeo-at-state-haspel-at-cia-and-bolton-as-nsa.html
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Pompeo even called in a 2016 op-ed for Congress to “pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata, and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database,” and he has previously stated that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should receive the death penalty.
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Most disturbingly, Bolton recently called for preemptive war against North Korea, a massive undertaking with potentially horrific consequences for millions. He has doubled down on the decision to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, which I agree with President Trump only further destabilized the Middle East. And earlier this year, Bolton explicitly stated, “Our goal should be regime change in Iran.”
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Our best and brightest
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10647
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Fordham University students protested against “white supremacy” Monday, specifically citing an incident in which conservative students tried to buy coffee while wearing MAGA gear.
Fordham Students United (FSU), “an intersectional coalition of student leaders, activists, faculty & alumni,” staged the March 12 protest in an effort to “bring social justice on campus,” writing on the Facebook page for the demonstration that “white supremacy” is present on campus but the administration has “failed to publicly denounce it.”
The Fordham Ram reports that the protest, clocking in at an hour and a half, consisted of students shouting chants of “hate speech is not free speech” and marching with signs stating that “Racism is a Social Sin” and “White Supremacy Kills.”
“Fordham’s policies and protection of white supremacy is putting people at risk,” one student shouted into a megaphone, with another claiming that the goal of the protest was to inspire a response from the administration.
“We just want to call on the school to directly address that there is a problem of white supremacy on campus, to denounce it, and to hold the people who are propagating this message accountable,” student Reyna Wang told the Ram, while another claimed that she is “literally scared” by the situation.
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Us there anything more annoying than a “racially progressive” telling you that the reason you disagree with them is your skin color?
High school teacher put on leave after asking if school would allow a pro-life walkout
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/43036/
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A California high school teacher has been placed on leave after she wondered if her school would permit an organized walkout to protest abortion.
According to CBS Sacramento, Rocklin High School’s Julianne Benzel said all she did was have a conversation with her class last Thursday and Friday about the “politics of protest” — a lesson ahead of yesterday’s school walkouts. However, this seems to have angered some students and their parents.
Benzel said “I just kind of used the example which I know it’s really controversial, but I know it was the best example I thought of at the time—a group of students nationwide, or even locally, decided ‘I want to walk out of school for 17 minutes’ and go in the quad area and protest abortion, would that be allowed by our administration?”
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We need a national conversation… But not about that.
whine, whine, whine
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180314-why-lara-croft-is-no-feminist-role-model
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When the character made her video-game debut in 1996, she was marketed as a cyber sex symbol. The media focused on her rugby ball-shaped breasts, and a waist so minuscule she could have worn a wristwatch around it. But the game’s designers liked to point out that Lara’s IQ was even more stellar than her physical attributes, and by the time Angelina Jolie played her in two films, in 2001 and 2003, they could just about get away with calling her a feminist role model.
Fourteen years on, you might assume that she would be even more capable, and the casting of Alicia Vikander, a multi-lingual Oscar-winning Swedish actress, was certainly encouraging. But, despite the fact that people keep saying how amazingly gifted Lara is, she is so useless that you end up wondering if they are being sarcastic.
Are there really so many proficient big-screen action heroines out there that we now need one who is rubbish at everything?
We first see her in an East London gym, where she loses a kick-boxing match. She then goes on a bike race around the city, a race she concludes by crashing into a police car. And when her adventures eventually get underway, she is less like James Bond than Inspector Clouseau. In Hong Kong, she wanders around a harbour, bleating, “Excuse me, do you speak English?” She is saved from three muggers by a shotgun-toting sailor (Daniel Wu), and he immediately cracks a code that had baffled her. Some role model.
I appreciate that the Lara in this film is still a trainee tomb raider, so she has an excuse for not being the hyper-confident bad-ass played by Jolie. I also understand that this depiction is true to the game that relaunched the series in 2013. But it isn’t much fun to watch her obeying other people’s instructions, relying on other people to rescue her, and responding to danger with screams and yelps rather than snappy one-liners. Are there really so many proficient big-screen action heroines out there that we now need one who is rubbish at everything?
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True femenists can’t be attractive. Hence why Angelina Jolie as Laura Croft is totally a femenist icon.