It’s futile to try to exercise off the excess caloric intake of the past few days, but Yahweh help me, I’m trying. Part of that effort is doing an eight mile circuit through nearby towns, and some of the images I’ve captured along the way are things that amused me. A lot of the themes have to do with the pedophile character I created, which SP assures me “is not at all funny.” I smile and tell her that she’ll get it when she’s a grown-up.
Notable birthdays today include (((Baruch Spinoza))); ragman Scott Joplin; writer William F. Buckley, Jr, the sound of whose grave spinning is audible even from here; and fun guy Ted Bundy, who was tragically born too early to be a fixture on Tindr.
On to the news!
What happens when a bunch of GS-12s, contractors, and grantees feel that their power, influence, and funds for grifting are being threatened? Report Of Doom, that’s what. Here’s a nugget:
Farmers will face extremely tough times. The quality and quantity of their crops will decline across the country due to higher temperatures, drought and flooding. In parts of the Midwest, farms will be able to produce less than 75% of the corn they produce today, and the southern part of the region could lose more than 25% of its soybean yield.
Try to ignore the recently set records in agricultural output. We’re going to starve. Any day now, you’ll see.
OK, nothing that newsworthy here, but I just loved the headline.
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to be in a classy drinking establishment, taproom, or winery when a bachelorette party descends, you’ll have more than a little sympathy for the supposed bad guys in this story.
I think the writer of this story is showing a little more glee than objective journalism calls for.
“Work accident” or Pope Jimbo fart-lighting gone terribly wrong? We report, you decide.
I’ve heard of “self-hating Jews,” but this one is… special.
Old Guy Music! Why is it that the bounciest, happiest song I know is titled Sad Sad Sad Sad? I have no idea, but you’ll love it.
When you’re dead in 100 years then you’ll know they were right.
OK, nothing that newsworthy here, but I just loved the headline.
Father Loves Beaver
Old Guy Music! Why is it that the bounciest, happiest song I know is titled Sad Sad Sad Sad?
Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um
I spent some time working at a marital-aid/bondage/fetish-wear store on Bourbon Street. Bachelorette parties, particularly of the Southron variety, are fucking awful. Sheltered, nit-witted debutantes tittering at all the merchandise and trying on all the clothes but not buying a damn thing – [slurring] “Hey y’all, hey y’all! They don’t sell stuff like this in Chattanooga y’all!”
Trying on the clothes? Did they test drive anything?
I enforced a strict You open it, you’ve bought it. policy so that was only an issue with the ladies a couple times. Drunken college louts were the big problem (boys breaking ladies clothes when drunkenly trying them on, stupendously ham-handed shoplifting attempts, etc.) but we did have to stop selling nitrous oxide chargers and *nitrate poppers because folk kept imbibing in the store.
Try to ignore the recently set records in agricultural output. We’re going to starve. Any day now, you’ll see.
Prices are too low. Global warming will save the farmers from penury.
I find that full beaver moons were more full in the 70’s.
This immediately came to mind
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xBYV_7a0FQs
ha
What the fuck did I just listen to?
like they do on the discovery channel?
IIRC parts of N America were covered with hundreds of feet of ice. Good thing it warmed up.
It seems like someplace would benefit, maybe more rainfall, even if almost everywhere got worse. Therefore it would simply require crops to be grown in a different region.
This is a country of over 350 million people. If ‘thousands’ die, I would be very skeptical that you could pick out a single one of those deaths caused by climate change. We could go back to hundreds of feet of ice and the MSM would keep reporting warming and how it’s still almost too late.
Climate change, or the government’s efforts once leftists get their way in that area?
kill thousands
Obviously can’t be the government, because this would be kill millions while wrecking the economy.
“She decided to write a brief Facebook review around 11:42 a.m. that morning, because she felt “like it was crappy customer service” and “ the women didn’t get it or care at all.”
“Rude and incredibly unprofessional office staff. Does not adhere to ACOG and FDA recommendations for well-women visits and prescription renewals,” wrote Pierce, who founded The STD Project website.
Pierce added that the clinic was “run by antiquated, backwoods rural, close-minded women who lack empathy and who are not interested in helping people deal with highly stressful or stigmatized diagnosis.”
Within an hour, the clinic’s Facebook page replied, “Jenelle, we are very sorry we missed the mark. Someone from our office will be reaching out to you to get this issue resolved.”
But when Pierce appeared for her 1:45 p.m. appointment, she says two cops walked in and told a receptionist that the clinic’s office manager had called for them. The manager opened a glass door to the exam rooms and let the officers inside, according to Pierce.”
Wow.
But calling them “backwoods rural” and “close-minded” isn’t bullying at all, no sirree.
“Why would they have gone on with the appointment, if they truly did not feel safe?” Pierce wonders of the clinic. “I think they wanted to humiliate me.”
You tried to humiliate them; why shouldn’t they defend themselves?
I still think calling the cops over a Facebook post is ridiculous.
Just cancel the appointment. Don’t call the cops. Assholes.
This. And if it is true they brought the cops into an exam room while she was disrobed then they bought themselves a lawsuit.
Wait. Are you saying you don’t believe the women in the bar room story?
Also, reviews on websites have to be taken with a grain of salt. I love hotel reviews by people with obvious OCD. You can tell some people are hyper-picky. I’m a picky guy but it would take a lot for me to get pissed off.
I always take a UV light with me and post photos. My last hotel stay at a Quality Inn, it looked like Jackson Pollack.
You can’t buy that kind of quality. (well you can, but I think most Pollacks cost millions)
Pollacks worth millions?
I’ll go with Screen Door on Submarine.
Heh. I do the same thing. Which one do you have?
There Were Seven In Eight
I assume you’re doing before & after photos.
Oh what a coinky-dink. Just so happens to work for the website that wrote the story. Wonder how that happened..
Yeah, that jumped out at me, too. I’m sure the DB staffer can vouch for the entire group’s courteous and responsible behavior.
Uh, isn’t that a bloody beaver?
“REVEALED: Black military man, 21, shot dead by cops in Alabama mall shooting did NOT fire gun as police reveal the gunman is still loose”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6423265/New-video-shows-Alabama-mall-shooters-body-shot-dead-cops-gunning-children.html
Do they always happen to mention race?
Um, have to
Jesus, what a cock up.
Only if it’s black.
Beloved hero in blue shoots beloved hero in green?
/Conservative heads begin to vibrate and smoke
I’m not hearing a denial.
Yeah, that is called a sign.
What a maroon.
No doubt he’ll try to blame it on NoDak Mike.
Why can’t it be both?
Because Jimbo’s wife is Korean, meaning he eats lots of kim chee, meaning he farts a LOT.
It’s science!
Nah, that’s Payne avenue. His Holiness has standards, man.
I’m actually surprised anyone noticed the explosion. There used to be a club down there called the Payne Reliever. A strip club with live hair bands like Dare Force!!
I’m reading that they are attempting gentrification. Too bad.
“Fashion brand Dolce & Gabbana has cancelled a major show in China after controversial videos and offensive private Instagram messages, allegedly sent by co-founder Stefano Gabbana, went viral on social media. The Italian designer has denied writing the messages.
Amid accusations of racism, and boycotts from models and celebrities, the fashion house postponed its Shanghai event Wednesday night — just hours before it was due to start.
The controversy began with a series of promotional videos, released by the luxury brand on social media, that feature an Asian model struggling to eat Italian food with chopsticks. Screen captures appear to show a series of direct messages on Instagram in which Gabbana complains about criticisms of the videos. The Italian designer is then accused of making derogatory remarks directed toward China and Chinese people as he defends the ads.
Both Gabbana and the luxury brand have since posted messages saying that their Instagram accounts had been hacked. On his personal account, Gabbana pasted the words “not me” over images of the alleged comments.”
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/dolce-gabbana-shanghai-controversy/index.html
TW: Autoplay, cnn
If it were me, I’d move the show to Taiwan and refer to it as the other of the two Chinas.
Even better, refer to it as “the real China”
“Romaine lettuce is too dangerous to be in stores, but guns are still available 24 hours per day”
https://twitter.com/thinkprogress/status/1066138134889590784
There is a 24-hr gun shop?
I sure hope so!
The replies are pretty good.
“bump stalks”
LOL
Now that’s some false correlation right there.
I remember some guy bragging about how he was so smart because he read ThinkProgress.
reads. Anyway….
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
From TP an exchange:
“Replying to @thinkprogress
“Transgender guidance?” What does that even mean? More special rights?
Jennifer McClintock”
“You could read the article to fine out. Badically, it means offering them basic dignity.”
Answer one vague term with another.
What does ‘basic dignity’ mean specifically?
Lately I’ve been trolling people who scream ‘Literally Hitler’ about Trump asking for specifics about how he’s Hitler.
It’s a blast watching squirm, deflect and then pull a ‘if you don’t know Hitler then I can’t help you’.
A well regulated diet, being necessary to the health of a free state, the right of the people to keep and eat romaine, shall not be infringed.
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. IT’S NOT THAT HARD.
Ok, TP, fair point. I’m willing to permit the government to issue a warning regarding any production lines of firearms that happen to be contaminated with salmonella.
Identity politics? That’s what Trump does.
But these days, politics is no longer downstream from culture. It is culture. Democrats might have recaptured the House by talking about health care and economic fairness, but the national conversation continues to feel existential. Trump has tapped into our cultural anxieties so deeply that many people, experts included, are now ascribing enormous meaning to identity, race, and gender as we think about who can best defeat him.
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Make no mistake: thanks to Trump, the issue of race matters more in political campaigns than at any time since the 60s. This is especially true among younger voters who are coming of age when cultural combat feels like the dominant vocabulary of our time. Race also matters in a Democratic primary. A Democrat cannot win the nomination without establishing a durable connection with African-American voters, as Bernie Sanders learned painfully in 2016. Race is an inescapable riptide as we look ahead to the presidential race. But as the term “identity” creeps more and more into our elite political conversation, the complexities of race and gender risk being sanded down into glib pundit-speak, power ranking-style, with little correlation to real-world behavior. People might have a tendency to vote according to their identity in general elections, but the idea that blacks vote for blacks and whites for whites and women for women cannot possibly be mapped onto a Democratic primary that will be historic in its size, diversity, and unpredictability. Moreover, it’s an idea that ignores how voters actually behaved at the polls just more than one week ago.
“Democrats might have recaptured the House by talking about health care and economic fairness”
Really? They might have, but I don’t think they did. Unless “Republikkkins will put you back in chains” and “Republikkkins wil force you into rape camps” or Republikkkins will make you wear pants and pee standing up” qualify as talking about health care and economic fairness.
The whole thing is a bunch of gibberish. If I understand it at all, it’s about how the Democrats don’t *really* want to base their entire political philosophy on identity politics, but Trump forced them to. Democrats are the party of freedom and justice, unlike those rotten old blood sucking Republicans.
Two more years of this mendacious blather. I can’t hardly wait.
The Democrat who won in my district ran on a campaign that the incumbent Republican was going to take your health care away. So yeah, that sort of fearmongering helped them to a majority in the House.
That and wanting to force everybody into Medicare for All, but how dare you call it a government takeover.
All the Dems who won in the Philly area used the “he’ll take away healthcare” or “he’s against insurance for pre-existing conditions” memes. I don’t think the suburbs were any place for “he’ll keep us in chains” but there were some ads about “equal pay for women.”
All I saw around here was “STOP TRUMP!” – the issues didn’t seem to matter.
Yeah, I got about 10 mailers a day saying things like “[Republican candidate] believes if your child ever uses an inhaler they should never ever be able to get healthcare again ever!!!”
Actually I agree, the only place race matters in politics is the Democratic primary.
It’s like the 8 years before Trump of making everything about “race” never happened.
Trump has tapped into our cultural anxieties so deeply that many people, experts included, are now ascribing enormous meaning to identity, race, and gender
Methinks somebody confused cause and effect
But Ivanka used private email. Stick to important stuff, please.
I’m actually kinda proud that I’m so unplugged that your comment makes zero sense to me.
It seems like someplace would benefit, maybe more rainfall, even if almost everywhere got worse. Therefore it would simply require crops to be grown in a different region.
There you go, with your lies and alternative facts, trying to cover up for Trump.
pedophile character I created
Wait, what? You’re not a aged Jewish pedo?
This whole site is a tissue of lies. LIES!
Next thing you’ll tell us Swiss is not really aus der Schweiz and Jesse is not gay.
“I don’t agree very often with Chief Justice Roberts, especially his partisan decisions which seem highly political on Citizens United, Janus, and Shelby.
But I am thankful today that he—almost alone among Republicans—stood up to President Trump and for an independent judiciary.”
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1065981195148804096
Well, he would know what partisan is. That is his whole shtick.
Trump, a politician, isn’t supposed to call the courts political, because that’s politicizing the courts. But it’s okay for a judge to stump for the supposed apolitical nature of the courts, because judges aren’t political.
Nailed it.
It is not unusual for someone to contradict what they have said or did in the past. But for someone to do it in a single tweet — that takes rare talent. I don’t think our President — or he who tweets continuously — has that level of talent.
I bow down to our superior in contradiction.
So what you’re saying is anonymous reviews aren’t actually anonymous?
Doing the Lord’s work
Firefighters responding to reports of an electrical fire at a Houston church found no signs of a blaze, but instead discovered an illegal game room inside, authorities said.
Four people were found Friday trapped inside a room containing 100 gambling machines at the Word of Life Church, KHOU-TV reported.
The person who reported the fire told authorities he was locked in by an electronic door lock, KTRK-TV reported.
Harris County Sheriff’s deputies led several people out of the building in handcuffs but later released them. One person was arrested for an outstanding warrant.
At least they don’t have to worry about tax evasion.
Hmmm… if there were no signs of a fire, wonder who reported it… Also, if no signs of a fire, how did they discover this illegal game room? I mean, no fire, make contact with the owners, be escorted around the building, right?
“A lot of the themes have to do with the pedophile character I created, which SP assures me “is not at all funny.”
Yesterday I was talking to my father on the phone. He was describing an industrial accident that happened long ago at a refinery where he was working. They had a couple of multi-million dollar pressure tanks where they were producing carbon monoxide using charcoal and CO2 by heating under pressure. The tanks blew sky high and no one but him could figure out why (he is a metallurgical engineer but took the equivalent of a doctorate in inorganic chem). I happened to mention you OMWC and told him what your shtick and screen name is. He thought it was pretty funny. He laughed his ass off. My wife, on the other hand, saw your screen name once while I was sitting here and was horrified. I think it is one of those male humor things that the womenz just dont get.
I can only speak for mhyself, but after a decade on Usenet, I assume all usernames are tongue-in-cheek. Mr. Mojeaux just laughed.
Years ago, I did a quick search on my previous handle which I chose just because I just like silly sounding names. I did not come up with anything. Then, awhile back, someone commented on my handle, so I searched again. This time, I got an immediate hit. WTF.
*blushes
Here’s the thing: Back in the HnR days, I used to post under a handle that was close to my name. And it linked to an email addy with my name. Because I owned my own business and DNGAF. That handle got banned.
I came back with edna, a women who could only quote ee cummings, don marquis, and kd lang, because she had a congenital birth defect of no thumbs and couldn’t work the keyboard that way. I got tired of it, no one thought it was funny, so OMWC sprung forth. And the assholes there thought it was funny. Funnier than (((renegade))), anyhow. No idea what the fuck I was thinking.
Now, where’s the Brownies?
Crowder paints Mohammed.
That takes balls. But man was I laughing.
Puts those jerk off PC pussies like Colbert, Meyers, O’Brien, Oliver and Kimmell to shame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7PpE15yh58
That is hilarious.
I can’t believe that hasn’t been removed.
LOL
Not sure if this has been covered – NY State bill proposes three year internet/social media review as part of gun background checks.
The measure requires, “social media and search engine reviews prior to the approval of an application or renewal of a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver; requires a person applying for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver or a renewal of such license to consent to having his or her social media accounts and search engine history reviewed and investigated for certain posts and/or searches over a period of 1-3 years prior to the approval of such application or renewal; defines terms.”
https://wset.com/news/nation-world/state-bill-would-review-social-media-internet-as-part-of-background-checks
I notice it is written so that no one has any idea what they are looking for. Who the hell are they kidding? The people granted licenses in NY are the connected anyway. This is a trial balloon for non-NY states.
And how do you search 3 years of search engine history? I use several computers, am not registered with Google or any search engine, etc.
No search-engine history = up to no good. DENIED.
Get the ISPs involved and you can do all sorts of dystopian things.
This is very creepily headed in the direction of China’s new social credit score system. And the dems are salivating over it. You know, because no way any of them are actually caught up in their own dystopian dreams.
Imagine checking three years of social media before allowing people to vote.
/clears throat.
/Yells. Fuck Off Slaver
Damn Rooskies
Amid all this chaos created solely by the president, it’s strangely reassuring to know an investigation of Trump grinds on quietly and methodically, even if it results in a constitutional crisis for this country. We can only make educated guesses about what comes next from the probe headed by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, but with the midterm elections nearly three weeks behind us and the president seemingly in a state of rudderless panic, the signs point to an imminent spate of plea deals and indictments.
Law professor and former Justice Department official Harry Litman warns that not even the president’s most diehard supporters will be unable to trivialize what comes next for Trump:
There are concrete indications that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is now about the business of laying down the last big pieces of the puzzle of Russian intervention in the 2016 election.
Yeah. Maybe one of those guys will roll over and spill the beans about how Putin spat on a New York sidewalk. After Mueller extradites him and puts the screws to him, we’ll finally get to the bottom of things.
TDS is a hell of a thing.
Those Paris riots look pretty hardcore.
“I don’t understand why these rubes won’t shut up and fund my bullshit ‘renewable energy’ schemes like I tell them to.”
link
It’s the French. They have had a lot of practice.
Global warming: I heard that exact same prediction 30 years ago. The gulf coast states turned into a desert in 2000, or so I was warned in the 1980’s. What a bunch of horseshit.
The house explosion: That was a pretty big whoosh. From the remarkable amount of energy and the short duration of the flame I am guessing nat gas.
The sperm donors: Isnt that the old joke about the guy standing on the street and asking every woman that passes “hey, wanna fuck?”
Jewish anti-semite: There aint no shortage of crazy out there.
CO2 and Food Supplies
From a 2009 blog post, but relevant, considering the first link.
Linked in the Yelp story:
You’ll never guess what the “slur” is – hint: it only became “anti-transgender” when humorless SJW scolds took over the media.
Tranny?
Men’s room?
Since it be paywalled:
“Restaurant reviewing app Yelp allows users to filter for gender-neutral restrooms. The company also scored a perfect 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, which measures the LGBT-friendliness of workplaces.
But until earlier today, the Yelp search box across multiple devices would make suggestions that included the anti-transgender slur “tranny.”
The search behavior was first highlighted on Twitter Monday night by the transgender personals website Transgenderdate.com.
On devices tested by The Daily Beast Tuesday morning, beginning to type “tran-” in the Yelp search box brought up the suggestion “Tranny Bars” right after “Transmission Repair” and “Transportation.”
Typing out the full term “tranny” revealed another suggestion: “Tranny Massage.”
And a user typing “black tr-”—perhaps in search of some black truffle pasta—might have come across the suggestion “Black Tranny Bars” instead.”
There is a new American probe landing (hopefully safely) on Mars on Monday. This is a good explanation — not dry nor too technical.
Hopefully someone remembers there’s .305 meters/foot
If the Left gets everything they want, those crop yield predictions may not be far off. See? Should have listened.
Travesty
A Wisconsin high school will not be punishing students who made what appeared to be a Nazi salute in a junior prom group photograph, because doing so would violate their First Amendment rights.
The picture showing around 60 students from Baraboo High School, some raising their arm in a Nazi salute, went viral after being posted on Twitter earlier in November.
Photographer Peter Gust–who took the picture—has claimed that the students were waving, an account disputed by one student in the picture who did not raise his arm.
The Auschwitz Memorial said the images showed the “danger of hateful ideology rising,” and there were calls for the students to be punished for making the gesture.
In a letter to parents Baraboo Superintendent Lori Mueller said the district can’t punish the students because they are protected by the First Amendment.
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In a November 14 statement it said “We understand the moral responsibility we have to be relentless in our work to create a culture in which racism is not tolerated…. We are so very sorry that the actions of some of our students so understandably and deeply hurt people around the world.”
It announced a series of community meetings where parents and other residents would discuss the issue.
Group hugs for some, mass graves for others.
As if being a bunch of white dudes isn’t hateful enough, they’re Nazis too?!
Ah, what a culture we’ve created. Harmless, if distasteful, high school pranks become national news.
But it’s emblematic of a deeper, broader, and very dangerous trend. Or it will be once the supposed anti-fascists amp it up to eleven and make it one.
The ability to get your prank known far and wide will in no way incentivize juveniles to do, well juvenile things.
I believe the photographer.
I’m thinking that when you are pushing a rising hateful ideology (socialism), it’s probably best to invent another hateful ideology to shine attention on.
In case anyone else was intrigued by the photo of “Pervert Dave“, Ive enacted the labor for you with a quick search.
⬆ Worth reading.
Thanks Tres. RIP Pervert Dave
“The story of Thanksgiving is the story of a migrant caravan”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1065620968196980736
No, it isn’t.
I wonder what the Injuns would think of the left lionizing the Pilgrims and their genocidal invasion of the Americas.
Leftists:
On the U.S.: People should be able to cross the border whenever they please.
On the Sentinelese: invaders deserve death.
CNN: Look at those people. They’re uneducated and dumb. They’ll believe anything we say! Only 8% of our current thankless population love us. Let them in!
Dear God. The comments people are making about that Christian missionary murdered by that Sentinilese tribe are chilling. It’s disturbing how evil people are. The same people who would, rightfully, decry a U.S. policy of shooting illegal immigrants at the border to prevent their entry celebrate the death of this man with comments like “He was an invader and deserved it.”
Goddamn, I hate leftists. They are scum leading the Anti-Enlightenment we find ourselves in.
The good news is, they are suicidal and will willingly hang themselves with their own rope. The only thing to worry about is them taking the entire place down with themselves. We should have never let them take over the media and education. Evil never sleeps.
I want a noble-savage get-out-of-jail-free card so I can murder with impunity. OK, no I don’t.
I’m conflicted. On the one hand, there’s a shit ton of “hurr durr stupid Christian deserved to die” that shows off the total moral corruption of our culture. On the other hand, he was either a blazing idiot or he knowingly went into a very dangerous situation and came out on the losing side. There has only been one successful contact that has happened with the Sentinelese in the modern times, and it involved years of incremental contact before they allowed the anthropologist to visit them. The fact that he just tried to canoe onto the island without some sort of incremental contact plan makes me think that he wasn’t very well prepared for this assignment.
Also, relating back to my “radical individualism” article, I’m not sure that I can make a philosophical difference in my mind between the Sentinelese shooting at everybody who attempts to land on their island and a homeowner shooting at anybody who attempts to break into their house.
That isnt a bad analogy. Primitive tribes are very communist in nature so every one is a bit different in the way they treat strangers. They are also very territorial. They also dont usually have the notion of private property. The analogy works in one way, and not in another.
This relates back to my article about immigration where I argued that we have more freedom of movement in the world today than any time in history.
Imagine a world where everyone are like the Sentinelese.
And yet, somehow, Kashoggi is a tragic victim, despite seeming to have foreknowledge of at least the possibility that he’d be detained or worse. What exact marriage law was he so deeply determined to follow, I gotta wonder.
Or Americans shooting anyone who tries to cross the border without permission?
I saw a story about efforts to retrieve the body. I had to laugh. Retrieve it from where? The soup pot? I am sure it’s empty by now.
He was a dumbass but not an invader. Apparently the naive fool didn’t have a malicious bone in his body. I guess we could ask the Sentinelese.
They’re actually not cannibals. That rumor started because they wear the jawbones of their ancestors as a sign of respect.
I saw a documentary about a tribe in New Guinea. They swore they weren’t cannibals. “No way, not us. We used to but not any more. That was a long time ago.”
In the background you could see skulls on posts.
“Oh, those? Uh…uh….we haven’t been cannibals since then.”
Some of the skulls still had scraps of meat on them.
In related news, I saw an ad on facebook for a new brand of shoes called Kuru.
Seriously, if you make up a brand name, try Googling it first.
That’s funny.
Joking aside – Primitive tribes all have the same name: ‘The People’ in whatever language they speak. They dont see outsiders as humans. Only members of their own tribe are real humans. Thus they dont consider themselves cannibals for eating what they consider to be an animal.
There was a lot more of that shit going on historically than people are willing to admit.
To trshmnstr: A scene on the teevee just now – man walks in room catches wife in bed with another man. Wife sits up with a start and proclaims “It’s not what it looks like!”
Well, they do like pig, perhaps long pig is on the menu, too.
“The Pilgrims were queer.
Dig into the history and you’ll see plenty of early American colonizers were super gay—and their compatriots had views of it that were complicated, to say the least.”
https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1065605829175455744
No, they weren’t.
Homosexuals exist in every population. part of it is innate, part is cultural. I am sure they had some, of course. To generalize that they all were is absurd.
Next they will be goat fuckers, right?
Half the internet’s head just exploded.
It is also telling that the party of gay rights is increasingly using ‘you’re gay!’ as a slur against people they dont like.
“In this article, we apply the current cultural norms to a completely different culture to declare that a conservative religious sect was actually a bunch of flaming gays.”
Monsters
Since it was founded in 1994, Amazon has stubbornly suppressed any attempts for its employees to unionize. After its takeover of Whole Foods in 2017, leaked training videos showed how upper management sought to dissuade employees from organizing.
According to Gizmodo, viewers are told: “We do not believe unions are in the best interest of our customers, our shareholders, or most importantly, our associates. Our business model is built upon speed, innovation, and customer obsession—things that are generally not associated with union.”
“When we lose sight of those critical focus areas we jeopardize everyone’s job security: yours, mine, and the associates,’” the video added.
Amazon has also faced widespread criticism for the low rate of taxes it paid, both in the U.S. and abroad. This has made it a target of left-wing politicians and workers’ rights groups, who argue such a profitable firm should be able to offer workers better remuneration and contribute more to central government. The company, however, claims it is simply adhering to existing tax laws.
Whycome rich Mistah Bezos no gib me dat? Whycome him no just shovel money at nice gubmint mans?
Amazon worker: “We are not robots!”
Amazon: We’ve replaced you with robots. Now get the fuck out; you’ve been sacked.
Just… stop it.
“LINDA SARSOUR: A HISTORY OF BIGOTRY While it’s a good thing that some on the left have finally spoken up about the bigotry and antisemitism from #LindaSarsour and others in the Women’s March, it’s troubling it took this long despite Sarsour’s history. /1”
https://twitter.com/LaloDagach/status/1065372030210633728
Also, some Senator invited her to the Kavanaugh hearings.
“While it’s a good thing that some on the left have finally spoken up about the bigotry and antisemitism from #LindaSarsour”
Those failed the purity test and will be purged.
GO BUCKS! BEAT *ichigan!! Woot! Woot!
Here’s hoping. But if they play like they have been….
I shudder to think.
Democrats having massive circle jerk
It’s almost like the periodic stories I see about “increasing freedoms” in China are some sort of fake news or something.
Increasing freedoms…
As I noticed two weeks ago when I was in China, highly-rated (for China!) VPNs no longer worked there. Three years the Chinese government cared much less about the internet, so pretty much any VPN program worked without an issue.
I took a vacation there 17 years ago. Fuck if I’d go there now.
30 years ago I spent a month backpacking around the southern half of China. I pretty much stopped trying to learn that language after that. I don’t mind going back for short biz trips but I don’t want to tie my career to being there for any long period of time.
They are making the bold assumption they will be the ones controlling the rating.
And they are probably right.
Zardoz (HAIL ZARDOZ!) posted this last night. Talk about a lefties wet dream. Instead of just the holidays they can lecture you year round and report on any badthink or any unapproved speech, art, literature, etc.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighur-muslim-people-move-homes-xinjiang-china-religion-a8648561.html
Right now China is behaving very much like Nazi Germany. They are putting minorities in internment camps, reeducation camps, work camps, whatever you want to call it. Concentration camps. A large percentage of them die.
Then we have leftist cheesedicks like Thomas Friedman praising them and saying we should be more like china. Seriously, fuck that guy and his ilk.
I can’t shake the feeling that we’re in a transitional period similar to the interwar period.
https://twitter.com/CursedAds/status/1065704954374033408
Que?
Lol, whut?
That can’t have been serious.
That is beautiful
Yays! I can log in from my laptop PC again. I hate texting from a phone.
Tryptophan is a helluva drug.
As a luddite, I use my phone for 2 things only. Making calls, and texting my idiot friends.
My work cell phone also delivers emails and calendar reminders, so I use those features quite a bit.
It is funny that my younger colleagues text me a bunch. Ah, millennials!
I thought it was weird when my ex-roommate and his girlfriend only ever texted each other. Never once saw either of them use the ‘phone’ function on their handheld texting devices.
Even my customers have started texting me. I kind of like it, as it takes a lot less time than an email.
One of my high school friends shared a tale about telling her twin daughters (10 years old or so) about how phones used to be connected by a cord to the wall.
They absorbed about half of her tale, then said, “You mean, you had to stand by the wall to play games??!?”
Cracked me up.
I can’t be the only person who finds phone games completely underwhelming. Tried a few and I was like “I’d rather be playing a real game on a real screen with real controls”. SMDH
I hear you clucking. I don’t play phone games or any computer games. I’d far rather hang out around a table playing Hold ‘Em or trivia or whatever with friends.
Games, to me, are just an excuse for hanging out with people and creating conversation.
Games, to me, are just an excuse for hanging out with people and creating conversation.
Well, look at the extrovert over here!
Games, to me, are just an excuse to get away from people and avoid conversation.
Oh, I like computer games. I just don’t think the experience translates to tiny little phone screens but everyone around me tap-tap-tapping away at them seems to enjoy it. I don’t get it.
“Well, look at the extrovert over here!”
Guilty as charged!
Probably why they made me a manager. Few engineers actually want to connect with employees on a personal level.
Games, to me, are just an excuse for hanging out with people and creating conversation.
Yep.
Like this one.
We played it with a group that included teenagers to old fuckers (me), and it was fun as hell.
‘I deal with the goddam employees so the engineers don’t have to!’
Heh, sounds like my boss. He spends as little time as possible actually managing (which is nice), and I talk to him (besides hello/goodbye) maybe 2x/week. He sits about 10 feet from me.
My next phone is likely going to be the old school flip phone, where the slot in the side isnt for an SD card- its where you insert the coins.
I dont have any friends. I make calls and play WordWarp when I need to kill time.
“The pedophile character I “created.””
Uh huh.
Sounds like we’re going to need more subsidies!
And then the blonde German stewardess broke down crying, and then Chuck Norris burst in and kicked the guy’s ass.
*cue kick ass synth music*
Okay!