Category: Society

First thing: this boy is going to have a rough time in prison.

The story (from the Smoking Gun) : After being derided as a “limp dick” in need of Viagra, an ex-con named Nurdin retrieved “a pink dildo” from a bedroom shelf and battered his girlfriend.

Nurdin became upset upon being told that he needed erectile dysfunction medication to address his sexual shortcomings.

Nurdin allegedly then took a dildo and shoved it into the 37-year-old victim’s mouth. The woman also told police that he punched her in the left eye.

A judge has barred him from having any contact with the woman he is alleged to have battered. Additionally, if he secures his release on bond, he will be fitted with a continuous alcohol monitoring device.

Second thing: First I’ve heard of something called a ‘Continuous Alcohol Monitoring Device’. Where is this thing mounted?

Looks to me like global warming has sucked the life out of Maine.

Linked here.

I’m pretty sure that anyone who stumbles across my small corner of the interwebs knows that I’m quick to point out when someone, normally a liberal, is being played. By ‘being played’ I mean that the article is tickling an itch it’s audience has already developed by taking a shot at the fools on the ‘other side’ (R if your a D, D if an R, D and R if your a I). When the purpose of an article is to incite more than it is to inform, when you agree with something/some one without thinking then there is a good chance someone somewhere is playing you a tune.

Think it can’t happen to you? Consider this from Breitbart

I don’t like Austin. I’m not going to run down all of the reasons why but I will suggest that if having ‘no respect for Biden’ means you should be fired, then half of the country would be looking for work right now. Having ‘no respect for Biden’ rehabilitates Austin’s image, at least in my eyes, somewhat.

I really don’t like being played.

We’re told that the Saturday game between KC and Miami, at KC, will be one of the coldest games ever played. Sub zero at kickoff. Four games in NFL history have had below zero kickoff temperatures::
— 1967 NFL Championship at -13
–1982 AFC Championship -9
–2016 wild card game -6
–2008 NFC Championship -1

My money is on these overpaid social activists finding a way to weasel out. If however, they man up and you’d like to watch, Peacock will be carrying it live. Yes, Peacock is a real thing and is a streaming service you must subscribe to. One can always subscribe and cancel after the trial period I suppose…..that is if the Chiefs and the Dolphins can get their game face on.

He didn’t just kill him, he misgendered him and then killed him. That’s painting well outside of the lines there Brian.

Here is how you know that we have an incompetent government (as if you needed further proof). How in the world can the Sec Def go missing for nearly a week and no one in the administration notices?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding it.

I wonder who figured it out?

Got a few extra buck lying around? An ‘ Elite Package’ allows you to genetically engineer the embryo before implanting it into the artificial womb. Everything from eye and hair color to strength, height, and intelligence can be chosen, and inherited genetic diseases can be avoided.

It sounds terrible and impersonal, but before passing judgement consider this:

Say what?
byu/sotobet0509 infacepalm

Remember the posters in the barber shop?

When they said they needed you, they didn’t meant by you recoding the evidence
byu/Knight_TheRider infacepalm

SiCk DoGs EAT a HuMaN ChiLd
byu/Startrail_wanderer inPeopleFuckingDying

Is this how it begins anew? Are we at the beginning of the next revolution of a slowly turning wheel in time where enough of the past has been forgotten that we can stumble into repeating failures. Have we totally lost our awareness of how dangerous the world really is?

What the hell has happened to our collective memory? Here is a sampling of the major digital news outlets for today, Pearl Harbor Day

Not a word. Not a photo. The collapse of our national memory puts me in mind of the 18th Sayings in the Gospel of Thomas:

The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us how our end will be.”
Jesus said, “Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death.”

So, ‘the day that will live in infamy’ existed only as long as our ADD’d society could hold the thought. I’m guessing there’s a new terrible event just over the horizon, something we swear we’ll never forget and then let it also slip into the dustbin of history.

As an afterthought it occurs that there are also slices of our society that are being stripped from our collective conscious by the relentless march of time. Some may take comfort in a little reminder of our simpler life by Shorty and Slim:

There’s a stench emanating from what should be our shining city on a hill. It proceeds from the rot that permeates a government that has become self serving. A place where honor and patriotism have fallen away and a perpetual political class manipulate the levers of power to confuse and gaslight the balance of the nation. We should decentralize the government and take a wrecking ball to the marble palaces they have dedicated to themselves and their posterity.

A prime example of the mischief these inbreds scatter about like pixie dust is the letter 4 of these creatures crafted to tamp down on the story about a dope snorting, prostitute whoring, money grubbing, golom looking son-o-joe named Hunter. Remember?

More than 50 former intelligence officials then published an open letter on October 19, 2020, that argued that, based on their experience and expertise, the story about Hunter’s laptop came from the Russian government.

“If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this,” they wrote.

The good folk over at the New York Post circled back around yesterday and Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary, John Brennan a former CIA director, Mike Hayden, a former CIA director, and Jim Clapper, a former director of national intelligence — who all once said The Post’s reporting had ‘all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,’ — declined or did not respond to request for comment about whether the latest disclosures had changed their opinion.

Perhaps the J6 fiasco is/was designed to draw attention away from the real usurpers. There’s been a real stench coming out of Washington for the last 6 years or so. God help these folk when the winds change.

One shouldn’t end a Saturday evening pondering on his place in this universe, the frailties of life or wondering what cryptic meaning exists in words jotted down some many hundred upon hundreds of years ago. It’s not right and just ain’t healthy.

So, in the interest of your health and well being, I give you Bernie Mac. But before slapping the start button on the video consider the context in which Bernie is performing. He is just starting out and really is unknown. The venue is Def Comedy Jam and the crowd is notorious for ripping comics apart. The comedian that performed just before him was Martin Lawrence and they ate him alive. Lawrence was unable to calm the crowd and walked off of the stage.

And then Bernie appeared.

If you can see beyond the profanity he was a loud but good man (by all reports) that died far to young at 50. The wiki people have a good write-up on him here.

Enjoy. You can thank me later.

It’s no mystery that the Church Fathers undertook extraordinary efforts to squelch what they viewed as heretical teachings. They were more than just a little good at this and did a bang-up job of deep 6ing the Gospel of Thomas. Here is how good a job they did: for more than 1,500 years no one, absolutely no one knew of it’s existence.

I’ve been thinking; if it had not been for it’s vanity (and those pesky Muslims) the Church really could have succeeded in becoming the only world power and we would all be it’s subjects. The Nazi’s were bad, but they were saints compared to the crazy bad these holy folk demonstrated during the inquisition(s).

The entire volume of this gospel is a giant riddle that begins with the prologue and continues through what the smart minds believe is the 114th saying. (Which of course itself a suspect number if one includes Saying 1 as actually being a portion of the prologue.) It’s not a set of riddles in the same vein as Revelations, rather It’s a scratch your head kinda thing over something as innocuous as the mustard seed in saying 20 (Smallest seed? Nope. Shelter for ‘birds of the sky’? Nope.) Surely the author knew this was not so, so why state it?

Here is another example: Saying 6 and Saying 14. In 6 the apostles ask 4 questions that Jesus (seemingly) does not answer. In Saying 14 he answers the questions asked in 6. Why in the world would someone write a testimony this way?

I’ve merged (and edited) 6 and 14 below
Question from 6
–Response from 14

Should we fast?
— Fasting begets sin.
How shall we pray?
— Prayer begets condemnation
How shall we give alms?
— Giving begets harm
What diet shall we observe?
— It matters not.

I’ve taken liberties with the balance of Sayings 6 and 14 and came up with a very short 2 part saying. Again, Saying 6 statement followed by a Saying 14 statement.

Do not tell lies.  Don’t do what you hate. 
— This world cannot defile you, but you can defile yourself.

Finally, here is the bottom line (again my paraphrase) from 6:

— — — All things will be known. — — —

Coming full circle on all of this: The bottom line statement of Saying 6 is so poignant considering the resurfacing of the Gospel of Thomas. Just another part of the mystery of Thomas.

This just in from the world of fantasy: The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance had the potential to reap mega earnings from Terra’s UST algorithmic stablecoin before it crashed last week, along with its sister cryptocurrency Luna. 

In 2018, Binance put $3 million into Luna and received 15 million tokens in return. At Luna’s price peak in April, those tokens were worth $1.6 billion, Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao said in a Monday tweet. At Luna’s price now, the tokens are worth about $2,391. 

Last week, Terraform Labs’ algorithmic stablecoin UST, which was theoretically tied to the price of the U.S. dollar, tanked to about 13 cents. As a result of the crash, Luna, the cryptocurrency that was meant to help the UST stablecoin keep its dollar peg, also collapsed. Luna went from trading at a high of around $119 just last month to being worth a mere fraction of a cent.

I was scanning the news this morning and ran across an article on an old time cowboy named Frank Bogart. He was being erased and part of that erasure is to remove a statue in his honor from it’s place of honor in front of the city hall.

I wondered what great shame Frank brought on himself and the city of Palm Springs. There was not much darkness in Frank’s life. Could some small slip somewhere in his past tripped him up? Nope, what brought about Dead Frank’s downfall is/was his manliness.

Here are extracts from the biographical sketches that the mayor and city council(men) have posted to the Palm Springs City website:

OBTW, an interesting aside on Ms Christy, her bio states that she lives with her husband Adam Gilbert and their newborn son. How fucking embarrassing that must be for Adam to have his wife openly advertise that she entertains affairs outside of the marriage (else wise how could she be bisexual?).

All of this brings us back to poor Dead Frank. His crime was being a straight white male cowboy with his statue on the doorstep of the House of Queer.

Sorry Frank, the age of masculinity has ended in Palm Springs.

Think that folk in our gubbermit aren’t totally wacked out? Here is a neat little proof of point put out by a PSYOP group.

It’s damn scary the way these folk view themselves and the world.

If ever there were a mom that needed baby formula, it’s our vibrant and out of the closet Secretary of Transportation.

His response to the crisis that moms are facing with empty formula shelves? “The government does not make baby formula.”

This entire administration is a startling array of idiots and freaks. Damn, we are in a dangerous place as a nation right now

Don’t worry about Matt being embarrassed by the near total collapse of the product he had been hawking, he got his money. No, those most deserving of ridicule should be all of those ‘more than mere cocky’ assholes that bought into this obvious pyramid scheme. Bitcoin and other make believe currencies have always been nothing more than a gamble. I could never really understand what underlying value exists in these non-existent ‘coins’. If you thought paper currency is/was a shaky proposition, what of a ‘currency’ that only exists in the notional world of cyber?

These currencies, BTW, are not a single product pyramid scheme, there is a whole world of gambling behind a vast array of ‘coins’ in this fantasy world. Here are a few of the valueless products available. Place your bets folks.

Here are just a couple of charts that demonstrate the pain:

There are a whole lot of folk that got extremely rich working this scheme. All of those folk that set up the markets and sold the vapors to a population eager to see double (and sometime triple) digit returns are sitting pretty. As for the smucks left holding an empty bag here is a little free advice:: “a fool and his fortune. . . .”

Oh what an absolutely fucked up population we’ve created

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rSKisP6ZQXk

Yes he is trying to demonstrate how asinine the conversation has become, but the ideas that he is articulating are ones that are on the lips of the protected classes.

I’m out of the market.

I heard that it did real well yesterday.

Today it looks rough. Some -1,000 Dow rough

Over the last 3 months some NASDAQ Techs are in a painful place.

Be careful out there, some folk are betting heavy on the downside.

There is no doubt about it, you folk that are still doing the daily grind need to put your nose to the stone and shoulder to the wheel. Those of us that have baled are counting on you and the tax dollars you generate!

Here is how poorly you’re doing: productivity fell 7.5 percent in the first three months of this year, the sharpest decline since 1947. NINETEEN FORTIE SEBEN ! Here is how bad 1947 was:

Not only are you not getting shit done, stuff built or papers passed from one desk to the next, you are charging more for not doing it. Labor costs jumped 11.6 percent in the last year. That’s the largest gain since 1982. Remember 1982? That’s the year Reagan finally made headway against the malaise the Jimmy Carter introduced. Let’s not forget how that communist SOB tried to lead us away from a competitive economy with his socialist drivel.

WTF, are we really are back to that shitty economy of the Carter years?

I guess a shitty economy and the promise of WW-Three is about all this ass-hat and the crowd of clowns that infest this administration can muster. Here’s the good news, should his last few brain cell vaporize we all get the consolation prize:

Well, I’m scheduled to have fiber optic cable completely installed in my home this coming Wednesday. Until then I’m still hamstrung by both very expensive HughesNet satellite service and total systems failure due to rain or clouds or whatever atmospheric anomalies parade themselves between the dish adjacent my home and a satellite some 22,000 miles (or so) above my head.

Here is a recent speed test.

I had to double check my math on the download speed. It’s 680 K. It’s 680 K most of the time when it works. Once a month my usage meter resets and I gain high speed (supposedly 25 Mbps). but that last for about 2 days as which point I’m throttled back again.

The ‘ping’ and ‘jitter’ figures are terrible. Shit don’t happen anywhere near real-time on my system!

Hughes is charging me a little more that $100 monthly for internet access and VOIP telephone service. My new cost will $90 with unlimited long distance. Importantly the speed is an unlimited 250 Mbps (both ways). The speed of fiber optic means that I can now stream vice pay Dish Network $150+ monthly for their lousy TV Line up (190 channels of Home Shopping Network and Come to Jesus TV). A Youtube Live package is $65 monthly and covers all the stations I need covered.

All and all a no brainer, more than 10 times the speed day in and day out while reducing monthly costs by almost a hundred bucks. There will be a small fee for equipment rental tagged onto the bill for the modem, but I’m willing to spend the 10 bucks or so just to be able to check email without taking a nap between the send/receive cycles.

Patience.

When I think about military heroes, images from movies about Audi Murphy and Alvin York come to mind. Until yesterday I thought that the highest/most decorated US serviceman was Audi Murphy. Then I stumbled across this write up at a site dedicated to verifying the service claims of US Special Forces operators.

Fight at Oak Park High School prompts closure. pic.twitter.com/NXGm6H3hi0

— Metro Detroit News (@metrodetroitn) April 27, 2022

There is a whole lot of WTF were you thinking in the DOT’s latest propaganda video, not the least of which is showing all of those employees crammed into cubicles with no chairs!

How about you guy’s (I use the term loosely considering Pete’s preferences) focus on fixing the shit you broke. Jeeez, this entire administration is a bad dream.

We're hiring! Rarely in U.S. history has there been such a fitting time to enter a career in public service. @USDOT is ready to bring on thousands of new employees.

Learn more: https://t.co/i95elZinKt pic.twitter.com/KhwIziSxue

— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) April 25, 2022

Don’t shoot the messenger .

Fucking insane: a woman identifying as lesbian argued with a counter-protester over trans inclusion in women’s spaces while a man carrying a hybrid LGBT/confederate flag joins in.

I can no longer keep track to which/what fuckeduppidness society has allocated the higher moral ground. It’s going to be Monday all day today.

The bill prohibits a school, political subdivision or government from “usurping the fundamental right” of a parent in raising their children, allows a parent to bring a civil suit against any government entity or official that violates the Parents’ Bill of Rights in Arizona law, gives parents the rights to all written or electronic records from a school about their child — including a students counseling records — and requires schools to notify parents before a survey is conducted of students, among other changes.

Once a few of these liberal idiots start paying dearly for unduly influencing developing minds, much of the bullshit will end.

When the world was a simpler and less gentle place I was a jumper. I didn’t go to school at Benning however, I attend a course steeped in pain and presented by the 7th SFG at Ft. Sherman in what used to be the Canal Zone. 400 folk showed up for the PT test on day one of the course. 200 passed it. All would have passed it, but the instructors/graders had a nasty habit of walking away while you were pushin up or sittin up and (given that the ‘rules’ stated he could only count a repetition that he saw were correctly performed) that doomed everyone that couldn’t do at least 100 of each. As I recall (which is a difficult task so don’t hold me to it) the minimum passing score for each was 40.

What the cadre knew and we did not was that they were limited to using one C130 and there would be a shitload of strap-hangers on the final jump. Their mission was twofold: cull 164 legs that somehow managed to squeak past the PT test and to embed enough rote/muscle memory into the class to keep them from splattering on the drop zone or affixing themselves to side of the aircraft.

Three weeks later we were down to 36 student jumpers and 20+ strap-hangers. We had the commanding general, his aide and COS. 8 SF instructors, an SF CO, CSM, 1SG, and believe it or not: the 7th SFG Chaplin.

Once my tour in Panama ended I moved on to the 82nd at Bragg. We jumped C130’s and 141’s. Always the door, never the ramp. Watching the next generation ‘hopping and popping’ out of C17’s is amazing. That door is huge. Only two fucking things to remember once the light turns green: control that static line all the way to the Jump Master and vigorously clear the aircraft.

How then can these folk not even fall out of the aircraft? Yeah I get it you have shit in your ruck. Well boo hoo, try carrying a medic’s ruck, that’s one heavy bag. There was a time when everyone I knew used short lengths of coat hanger to reinforce the rucks quick release so it wouldn’t fail because of the weight. I’ve seen jumpers jump PRC 77’s, secure sets, spare batteries for both, the cabling, head, and head elements for a 292, but I’ve never seen a jumper fail to clear the doorway. Never. NEVER.

Seems like someone needs a little remedial PT. Lets start off by beating your boots!

OBTW, here is what will keep you watching your static line: the SF Captain that honcho’d my jump school was once a ‘towed jumper’. Just before our first jump he removed his blouse and showed the class what a mangled mess a static line can visit upon the flesh. That’s all it took for me!.

Warner Bros. Discovery will reportedly shut down CNN+ 23 days after announcing the streaming service.

Warner Bros. Discovery will nix the streaming service on April 30 just after CNN after having fewer than 10,000 daily views, according to reports.

Celebrating the life of CNN+

Originally tweeted by Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) on April 21, 2022.

Axios reports that CNN executives believe the launch has been successful. Yeah, well, these are the same CNN execs who spent five years spreading:

the Russian Collusion Hoax the Jussie Smollett Hoax; the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax; the Trayvon Martin Hoax; the Donald  Trump Jr. Wikileaks Hoax; the 17 Intelligence Agencies Lie; the “Very Nice People lie; the Trump Fish Food Hoax; the Governor Cuomo Is on Top of COVID Hoax; the Republicans Funded the Russian Dossier Hoax; the Racist Covington Kids Hoax; the Brett Kavanaugh Rapist Hoax; the Melania Trump Is Missing Hoax; and on and fucking on.