aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
CBD:
cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com
Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton:
sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com
It's Time For A National Conversation On Taking California Away From Californians
Feel like getting depressed? Here is a map of every county in California, showing how abysmally bad the education of our youth has become in what used to be the greatest state in the union. Percent of Students Meeting or Exceeding Standards on Latest Annual State Assessments (2017) has two pull-down menus in the upper right, with two categories of standards (English language arts/literacy and mathematics) and various ethnic groups.
What is really shocking is that the data are from the educational establishment, which has a vested interest in making themselves look at least minimally competent. Although...a really pessimistic and suspicious interpretation is that they are happily destroying public education in California so that they can clamor for more funding. Either way, it's awful. The soft bigotry of low expectations indeed! [Hat Tip: Jay Guevara]Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 10, 2018 12:07 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 10, 2018 12:09 PM (di1hb)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 10, 2018 12:09 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 12:10 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2018 12:11 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:11 PM (gjGvH)
But yeah, they need to have their statehood revoked.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 12:11 PM (sdi6R)
It must be a flash.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 12:12 PM (n3xLS)
Posted by: pookysgirl at June 10, 2018 12:12 PM (XKZwp)
How about a nice amicable divorce. California is just not that into us.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 10, 2018 12:12 PM (+Tibp)
But, if you're teaching English proficiency and Math, there's no time left to teach about global warming, gender fluidity, and SJW concerns, and socialism, and what a crap country America is, and islam.
and those are the things that are really important for children to learn.
So, it's a wash.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2018 12:12 PM (9q7Dl)
The decline of education in CA is horrifying.
And its coming to all of us soon.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 10, 2018 12:13 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:14 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Grimaldi at June 10, 2018 12:14 PM (CxVWA)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 12:14 PM (pHfeF)
I think it's only fair, and
no CaliContamination for the rest of us.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 10, 2018 12:14 PM (9q7Dl)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 12:15 PM (n3xLS)
Bingo!
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 12:16 PM (7LY+6)
The problem is as others have said: they ruin a place then flee like locusts and for some asinine reason people listen to them when they go somewhere else.
"Lets do what we did to the last place!"
"Durrh, okay mister!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:17 PM (39g3+)
In the public sector, failure is always due to a lack of money. Never, never is it because of incompetence, laziness or putting the interests of employees over the public they're supposed to serve.
So cough up, you fascist Tea Baggers! And where's my fat pension check?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:17 PM (LsBY9)
Ok, missed the book thread but the word of the day made me think of a new one - tittidiot - A man who lost his thought because of the presence of boobs.
Also sidebar pic of G7 actually made me laugh out loud. Still laughing.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 10, 2018 12:17 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:18 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 12:18 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 12:18 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:18 PM (pw+jk)
--California Teacher's Unions and school administration
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:18 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: jdgalt at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (3SFo/)
I don't want California to secede. I want the idiots who are destroying the state to emigrate to a foreign country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (LsBY9)
Right now I am reading another crappy "thriller" book. Two nights by
someone or other. Pretty formulaic. Taking a break between buckets of
Wodehouse and tackling Tom Jones.
Take Robert Mitchum from
the Big Sleep, turn him into a kick ass bullet dodging girl , who takes
on two guys at once with debilitating dislocation moves. Get shot in the
shoulder and drinks beer and coffee a recuperation process. Half way
through we find that the bad guys are basically Chirstian "survivalists"
who accidentally bombed a Jewish elementary school while trying to bomb
a mosque or a muslim grocery store. Turns out some little Jewish kid
found the abandoned backpack bomb and decided he wanted it and without
looking into it, brought it to the school. Throw in some white supremacy
.......... still have a dumpster fire to go.
This is the seconf
piece of popular "American" fiction that basically christians, whites,
and Americans as the monster. Meanwhile Janie, McToughgirlpants, is
walking all over town as a private investigator shooting the shit out of
people in hotels, and the cops are like, "Hey, try not to do that so
publicly, next time. Paperwork you know. But yeah kill them.because we
all know they are the worst."
Now we know she was hired by some
rich Jewish lady to find the killers of backpack boy, yeah he blew
himself up with the appropriated backpack".
The way this novel reads, I can guaran-damn-tee you that ugly old Fagan like Jewish lady will be behind it all.
So
that is three for three on "modern crime thrillers" that basically
paint the average American "Moron" as evil incarnate who gets to be
hunted like dogs by Janey McToughgirl pants"
As window into the
cluttered attic of a leftist mind, its illustrative, not a bad read,
cause talks like Mitchum in Big Sleep, but coo coo for cocoa puffs on
the ideology.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2018 12:18 PM (9dzlp)
My magnum opus got willowed on the book thread, so I brought it forward, because it was soooooo, good.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (9dzlp)
Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (B4gUo)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 10, 2018 12:12 PM (+Tibp)
And New Yorkism, New Jerseyism, and Massachusettsism are spreading all throughout the East Coast into the South.
The residents of all those states are fleeing elsewhere and many bring their voting habits with them.
I've suggested, tongue in cheek, that perhaps the master plan of the Left is to turn their states and cities into such hellholes that the residents flee to neighboring areas and turn them Left as well.
But that is exactly what is happening, and it couldn't be any more efficient if it *was* planned.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 12:20 PM (sdi6R)
I chuckle every time I see that.
We've gone from "reg Penn dept of ag" to "California is magic"
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 12:20 PM (7LY+6)
"Educators". They like to be called "educators".
Posted by: tu3031 at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (O5Q3r)
Some are, but others are propagandists.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:21 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 12:21 PM (WFV7d)
Kalifornia is making lots of millionaires. Every single teacher and state worker will be one. A friend is a teacher and he tells me that the pension administrators tell him his pension is north of three million dollars.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:22 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 12:23 PM (7LY+6)
1. Accelerate the glorious transformation of California into the Progressive Promise of the Glorious Future!
2. People flee, to the backwards, bitter-clinging enclaves of imperialist white-supremacist capitalistic cisheteropatriarchal haters.
3. Those people infect and agitate for the glorious policies of the PDRK, Kalifornicating the locales they land in.
4. Victory!
Posted by: People's Democratic Republic of Kalifornia at June 10, 2018 12:23 PM (DMUuz)
Ok, missed the book thread but the word of the day made me think of a new one - tittidiot - A man who lost his thought because of the presence of boobs.
Also sidebar pic of G7 actually made me laugh out loud. Still laughing.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 10, 2018 12:17 PM (r+sAi)
------
Thank you. My wordpower has been enriched!
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 12:23 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 12:24 PM (7LY+6)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:24 PM (pw+jk)
Kalifornia is making lots of millionaires. Every single teacher and state worker will be one. A friend is a teacher and he tells me that the pension administrators tell him his pension is north of three million dollars.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:22 PM (pw+jk)
It's good to be in the Nomenklatura, eh comrade?
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 12:24 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2018 12:25 PM (B4gUo)
I'm fine with Mike Hammer doing this because he's big, tough, and was in the war. But having a woman do this just means she's a dude with boobs, and that's boring and lame. If you want to write a guy, write a guy. I know its harder to get published unless you have a tough grrl protagonist who beats up all the boys and out manly's them, but for crying out loud, why even write a female character if she's not going to be in any sense of the word female?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:25 PM (39g3+)
his pension is north of three million dollars. "
Guaranteed by whom?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 12:24 PM (7LY+6)
========
The government, which the schmucks that have to pay taxes... particularly property taxes.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:25 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 12:26 PM (LBSeG)
couldn't hurt.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 10, 2018 12:26 PM (Pg+x7)
They probably don't mention how Jim "Flavor Ade" Jones was a big friend who helped him campaign.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:27 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (z2FAZ)
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (gjGvH)
Or read or write cursive. Or read a clock with hands.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (9TR2V)
Signed into law by Ahnuld, Commiepenis celebrates Harvey Milk Day in it's K-12 schools
They probably don't mention how Jim "Flavor Ade" Jones was a big friend who helped him campaign.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:27 PM (39g3+)
Drinking the Kool-Aide in Kalifornia.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (gjGvH)
Unsurprising, though. The culture that has grown up around ethnic groups rather than being broadly American is so destructive to kids. Its weird because regional differences are disappearing as TV and movies create a sort of general USA accent and culture, but ethnic ones are becoming stronger and more divided.
There's more difference between a white kid and a black kid in one neighborhood than there is between an Oregonian and a Arkansian these days.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:29 PM (39g3+)
his pension is north of three million dollars. "
Guaranteed by whom?
Posted by: Anon a mouse
President Bernie Sanders
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 10, 2018 12:29 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2018 12:30 PM (JFO2v)
Get shot in the shoulder and drinks beer and coffee a recuperation process.
I'm fine with Mike Hammer doing this because he's big, tough, and
was in the war. But having a woman do this just means she's a dude with
boobs
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:25 PM (39g3+)
Transgender? Even Better. And I see you're using the proper gender identity as well.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:30 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:30 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: jdgalt at June 10, 2018 12:31 PM (3SFo/)
Nope, I shouldn't say it as she's a nice girl.
Posted by: Dick at June 10, 2018 12:31 PM (SRarZ)
14 No, they can't read or write in Spanish either.
Or read or write cursive. Or read a clock with hands.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (9TR2V)
THIS. Cursive is almost a lost art with the current generation of school kids. Hell, some don't even know how to properly tie their shoes.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:32 PM (gjGvH)
There's a few in L.A.
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at June 10, 2018 12:32 PM (9TR2V)
Posted by: tu3031 at June 10, 2018 12:19 PM (O5Q3r)
So back in 80s the education dept at Utex was so bad the Liberal Arts College broke it off into its own college. Back in my days about 1200 to get into Tex Biz school and about 875 to get into education.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2018 12:33 PM (JFO2v)
but they're no good against taxpayers who have left the state, or who no longer have anything to give because they've been taxed to death.
Exit taxes. Like Germany did to emigrating Jews.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:33 PM (LsBY9)
Yeah, but students in Glorious Pipple's Republic of Kalipornia are first in world at denouncing all whites as racists, heaping criticism upon Wester Civilization, still fighting the War of Northern Aggression and acting like slavery still exists 150 years after we had a devastating war to end it, and putting condoms on bananas.
All of which are great resume enhancers for future employers. Hire one today!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2018 12:33 PM (HaL55)
interest in a So Cal meetup, mostly San Diego County Centric. It anyone
is interested, please send me a note at the sidebar on the main page.
sandiego_socal_meet at hotmail dot com.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (gjGvH)
======
Little far for me.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:34 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:27 PM (39g3+)
Let alone the fact that Milk was a pederast.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 12:34 PM (WFV7d)
Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2018 12:35 PM (B4gUo)
left the state, or who no longer have anything to give because they've
been taxed to death.
Exit taxes. Like Germany did to emigrating Jews.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:33 PM (LsBY9)
====
It will be everything you own but you will be glad to pay it.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 10, 2018 12:36 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 10, 2018 12:36 PM (r+sAi)
There's a few in L.A.
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at June 10, 2018 12:32 PM (9TR2V)
There's "Deplorable Jay Guevara" who's in N. San Diego County based on the "Thread before the Gardening Thread" yesterday. A few others showed up in that thread including rhomboid.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:36 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (SiINZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:30 PM (39g3+)
I don't care what you stupid capitalist cerdos think. That Canadian boy is NOT my son! Fake eyebrows? Not my son!
Posted by: Zombie Fidel Castro at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (z2FAZ)
how come they get their own category separate from Asian?
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (hMwEB)
I'm trying to gauge the interest in a So Cal meetup, mostly San Diego County Centric.
Thanks. Awfully nice to offer, even though I'm in Texas. But I figure there's a non-zero chance the state will confiscate my bank account "because we need it more than you."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (LsBY9)
JACKSON, Miss. - School- and district-level passing rates for the first administration of the 3rd Grade Reading Assessment are now available to the public. The passing rate report is posted on the Mississippi Department of Education website.
Statewide, 93.2 percent of 3rd graders passed the test. The initial pass rate has increased every year since the test was first administered, rising from 85 percent in 2015, to 87 percent in 2016, to 92 percent in 2017.
More than 60 school districts had a pass rate of 95 percent or higher.
The Literacy-Based Promotion Act requires 3rd graders to pass a reading assessment to be promoted to 4th grade. Students are provided with three opportunities to pass the test.
Now, to check out the CA results...
Sheesh. I'm sorry I looked, CA morons. Y'all be fucked.
Bu remember, MS is a conservative backwater hellhole, and CA is Oh So Enlightened.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (0ogQG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:33 PM (LsBY9)
I thought "death taxes" were exit taxes.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (y8Foj)
Or read or write cursive. Or read a clock with hands.
Ask me how I know.
Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (9TR2V)
At least half of illegal immigrants are high school dropouts in their country. At least half of best of the best, DACAs, are functionally illiterate in English. And these people are going to vote? fix social security? become productive citizens? HA fukn HA HA.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (JFO2v)
I'm trying to gauge the interest in a So Cal meetup, mostly San Diego County Centric.
Thanks. Awfully nice to offer, even though I'm in Texas. But I
figure there's a non-zero chance the state will confiscate my bank
account "because we need it more than you."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (LsBY9)
Don't worry, they're already confiscating mine. One of the highest State tax rates in the country.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (hMwEB)
Get shot in the shoulder and drinks beer and coffee a recuperation process.
I'm fine with Mike Hammer doing this because he's big, tough, and
was in the war. But having a woman do this just means she's a dude with
boobs, and that's boring and lame. If you want to write a guy, write a guy.
I know its harder to get published unless you have a tough grrl
protagonist who beats up all the boys and out manly's them, but for
crying out loud, why even write a female character if she's not going to
be in any sense of the word female?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:25 PM (39g3+)
Nail on the head. Not a bad character, except it's clearly a dude with boobs and a girls name.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (9dzlp)
Except for my signature, I haven't written anything meaningful in cursive in... decades?
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:40 PM (z2FAZ)
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:28 PM (z2FAZ)
how come they get their own category separate from Asian?
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (hMwEB)
I don't think Asians consider Filipinos real Asians. And Asians have a lot of pull in Caliphornia.....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:40 PM (y8Foj)
Cursive is useless. That style of writing existed because people wrote
in continuous streams of ink using quills, etc. In a universe of Bic
pens and mechanical pencils, there is no point.
Except for my signature, I haven't written anything meaningful in cursive in... decades?
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:40 PM (z2FAZ)
Kids today can't write cursive, but they can sure talk it.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:41 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2018 12:41 PM (B4gUo)
Except for my signature, I haven't written anything meaningful in cursive in... decades?
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:40 PM (z2FAZ)
But you CAN if you have to.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:41 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 12:41 PM (LsBY9)
Apparently he does. Makes me wonder what other work he's had done to look 20 years old when he's in his 40s.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)
I don't regret it. It had turned into a cesspool of indifference, Democratic tyranny, crime, high taxes, and illegals.
Prettiest sight I ever saw was California in my rear view mirror after 32 years.
Posted by: mpfs, Out of work RUSSIAN spy! at June 10, 2018 12:42 PM (79p/O)
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at June 10, 2018 12:42 PM (DxWUs)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (JFO2v)
Here in NJ, you'd be surprised how many Spanish-speakers CAN'T write in Spanish.
Or maybe you won't.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:43 PM (y8Foj)
By the educuators OWN DATA, in all but a few places White and Asian Students meet or exceed all State Standards in almost every county.
Latino students, statewide, a very poor to mediocre. And black students are the absolute worst of all, in spite of their supposedly knowing how to speak English.
Yes, bringing in a bunch of illegal aliens has really dragged down California. But although they're a problem, they are not actually the biggest problem California has. We're scared to admit what the biggest problem is, even though it jumps right out of the data when you look at it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2018 12:43 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: William Hailey at June 10, 2018 12:43 PM (XCAJd)
49 And Asians have a lot of pull in Caliphornia.....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:40 PM (y8Foj)
In the University of California (UC) system, they don't. They are considered "over-represented" and thus get penalized for doing so well academically with reverse affirmative action.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (gjGvH)
Sure. But re: "have to," in what possible scenario is writing in cursive necessary?
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (z2FAZ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)
I've seen guys in their 40's--even 50's--who look like their in their 30's.....
Posted by: Bob Costas at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)
I've seen guys in their 40's--even 50's--who look like their in their 30's.....
Posted by: Bob Costas at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (y8Foj)
Me too!
Posted by: Tom Cruise at June 10, 2018 12:45 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:42 PM (39g3+)
I've seen guys in their 40's--even 50's--who look like their in their 30's.....
Posted by: Bob Costas at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (y8Foj)
Me too!
Posted by: Tom Cruise at June 10, 2018 12:45 PM (y8Foj)
It's possible. But eventually, time will catch up with you....
Posted by: Zombie Dick Clark at June 10, 2018 12:46 PM (y8Foj)
At least half of illegal immigrants are high school dropouts in their country. At least half of best of the best, DACAs, are functionally illiterate in English. And these people are going to vote? fix social security? become productive citizens? HA fukn HA HA.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (JFO2v)
They're going to vote. That's all that matters.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 12:48 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Apostate
Passing notes in class. The 'educators' can't read them.
*Personally, I don't care if they phase out cursive, but it does help in learning/controlling fine motor skills for your dominant hand.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 10, 2018 12:49 PM (0ogQG)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2018 12:49 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:50 PM (/LIOp)
Sure. But re: "have to," in what possible scenario is writing in cursive necessary?
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (z2FAZ)
I don't know. But it's like being able to tell time from a hand clock or to multiply and divide numbers without a calculator. Or recall phone numbers from memory.
Just something many younger people have no idea how to do.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:50 PM (y8Foj)
Except for my signature, I haven't written anything meaningful in cursive in... decades?
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:40 PM
Teaching 'fine motor skills' like cursive writing teaches to young children is not without value.
I'd prefer a surgeon with extremely fine motor skills to excise my inevitable cancerous growth, thank you very much.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at June 10, 2018 12:50 PM (LOgQ4)
Right, it was a way of writing that didn't require you to lift your pen very often, thus reducing splotching and dripping. But is an attractive style of writing, and these days its almost a secret unbreakable code like a manual transmission.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:50 PM (39g3+)
77
At least half of illegal immigrants are high school dropouts in
their country. At least half of best of the best, DACAs, are
functionally illiterate in English. And these people are going to vote?
fix social security? become productive citizens? HA fukn HA HA.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (JFO2v)
They're going to vote. That's all that matters.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 12:48 PM (sdi6R)
There have also been pushes from time-to-time to extend to vote to 16-year-olds, and you guessed it, a Dem was pushing this. Dems in Cali also want to extend the franchise to former felons as well. I guess anything to increase the number of Dem voters. I guess the dead aren't enough anymore.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:51 PM (gjGvH)
*Personally, I don't care if they phase out cursive, but it does help in learning/controlling fine motor skills for your dominant hand.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 10, 2018 12:49 PM (0ogQG)
Oh, I'm sure many male morons here have FINE motor skills in their dominant hand.....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:51 PM (y8Foj)
Yeah its not impossible but given this event one does have to wonder. Even Cruise and Costas has work done to stay like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:52 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 12:44 PM (z2FAZ)
You could use it to pass sensitive information
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at June 10, 2018 12:54 PM (czkHE)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:54 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:52 PM (39g3+)
No doubt. But the trick to pulling off looking younger than your years is keeping (most) of your hair.
(sigh)
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:54 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Zombie Uncle Karl Marx at June 10, 2018 12:54 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 12:55 PM (H5knJ)
But some people can't even write recognizable upper and lower case letters.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 12:55 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:51 PM (gjGvH)>>>
The voting age should be set as Camera Hogg's age +1.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:55 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2018 12:56 PM (B4gUo)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2018 12:49 PM (NL6wI)
Funny. I can write in cursive, but practically never do, as even I cannot read the resulting scrawl. All through university, and all through my work career, note-taking was, and is, done by printing. Printing slows me down, and gives me a chance to form the letters better.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 12:56 PM (WFV7d)
Sure. But re: "have to," in what possible scenario is writing in cursive necessary?
Posted by: Apostate
Why require any kind of writing? Use your phone.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 10, 2018 12:56 PM (IqV8l)
And dying it black. I'd look a good 20 years younger if I dyed my hair and beard but I worked hard for years to get this way. Damned if I'm gonna hide it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:56 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bob Costass at June 10, 2018 12:57 PM (Tyii7)
I'd prefer a surgeon with extremely fine motor skills to excise my inevitable cancerous growth, thank you very much.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at June 10, 2018 12:50 PM (LOgQ4)
Proper penmanship is just as good for "fine motor skills" and has the added benefit of not devolving into undecipherable chicken scratch.
Also the merit of teaching something to everybody, solely to possibly slightly benefit the 0.01% of people becoming surgeons is very questionable
Posted by: Sjg at June 10, 2018 12:57 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:58 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: Frankly at June 10, 2018 12:58 PM (I+2UP)
If your argument for teaching cursive is about surgery, time to just
give up the ghost. Cursive was a waste of time back when I was a kid,
and that was quite some time ago.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 12:55 PM (H5knJ)
It would be hard to read old family letters without cursive. I suppose for historians it would be necessary. I also find writing in cursive a whole lot faster; I used it exclusively for note-taking in college (granted I was too poor to do it any other way). Call me archaic, just like my Constitutional beliefs.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 12:58 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:59 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:00 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 01:00 PM (LBSeG)
And they have a different alphabet, of course. In the process of learning to write in Russian and not using cursive since grade school I kind of... lost the ability to write in English clearly using cursive. I'd mess up and mix in cyrillic characters to the point I just gave up trying.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 01:00 PM (39g3+)
Fine motor skills in six and seven year olds isn't just for future surgeons. It's so that they can tie their own shoe laces. Pick up an expensive cell phone without dropping it to the floor. Hit the correct keys on a keyboard.
I suspect more than a few of you are lying about being 29 years old. Stuff which involved using your tiny little fingers was tough back then. I took practice to make the brain/finger connection work.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at June 10, 2018 01:02 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 01:05 PM (H5knJ)
The poor education is intentional. If they can't read, they will never realize the lies they are being told.
Posted by: PJ at June 10, 2018 01:05 PM (qlTN9)
Arabic is like that. I was demonstrating cursive English writing (probably to an Arab, but I forget) and slipped into Arabic, which is also written in a continuous flow.
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:05 PM (z2FAZ)
Posted by: Bob Costass at June 10, 2018 01:06 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Picric at June 10, 2018 01:06 PM (NnLR6)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 10, 2018 01:06 PM (/qEW2)
We're just better off distributing a flaming bag of excrement for every California resident / porch and letting them slide into fecal oblivion.
Posted by: Fritz at June 10, 2018 01:06 PM (J7XgW)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:50 PM (/LIOp)
Hey, that's *our* excuse! Californians need to come up with their own!
Posted by: Florida at June 10, 2018 01:06 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 01:07 PM (H5knJ)
(sigh)
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 12:54 PM (y8Foj)
Or, if that's not possible, going full Agent 47 and shave everything but the eyebrows. I'll consider trying that if I ever see massive GAINZZ and finally drop the excess weight--otherwise, I'd resemble PVT Pyle from Full Metal Jacket.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2018 01:07 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:08 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 01:09 PM (39g3+)
I've heard this defense from Californians before, blaming the rest of the country for their insanity (which is very Californian). But it ain't the case, man. Crazies went to California because crazies were in power, there. The crazies had already taken over and were welcoming more crazies.
There was no magic telepathic signal that made every leftist nutcase in America go to the same place. They were drawn there, deliberately.
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:09 PM (z2FAZ)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 10, 2018 01:09 PM (r+sAi)
The poor education is intentional. If they can't read, they will never realize the lies they are being told.
Posted by: PJ at June 10, 2018 01:05 PM (qlTN9)
Perfectly emblematic of the Democrat party.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 10, 2018 01:10 PM (5jVnA)
Which can all be developed by regular penmanship.
Posted by: Sjg at June 10, 2018 01:10 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:11 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: josephistan at June 10, 2018 01:12 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 01:12 PM (7LY+6)
That actually does sound similar. A whole host of Arabic letters (half or so? more?) are only differentiated from one another by the presence or absence of little dots or lines, which are often half-assed or skipped. Also, they have this bizarre habit of stacking letters vertically (in a language which is obviously meant to be written horizontally) so a little jagged lightning bolt with some squiggles around it supposedly represents, 2 to 3 similar (but phonetically different) letters.
Their "calligraphy" is a nightmare. Most Arabs can't even read it unless they're told ahead of time what it's supposed to mean.
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:12 PM (z2FAZ)
This could easily be presented in the form of a table which would make it easier to digest the trends.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 10, 2018 01:13 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at June 10, 2018 01:13 PM (Tyii7)
There was no magic telepathic signal that made every leftist nutcase in America go to the same place. They were drawn there, deliberately.
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:09 PM (z2FAZ)>>>
First of all. Fuck you. Second of all. You're saying the same thing I am. Some nut jobs get control in SF and draw enough people here to dominate the whole state. Now they're allowing the US to import people from third world countries and going to do it to the US as a whole.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:13 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:14 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:11 PM (yQpMk)
I complain about cursive because duplicating the written form on your language is a waste of time and effort, and the lazy and sloppy writers of cursive quickly devolve into something that is difficult for anyone else to read.
Posted by: Sjg at June 10, 2018 01:14 PM (gDSJf)
My kids are homeschooled (they're in CA after all), and I am having
trouble seeing the point in being able to write much at all. Everything
is electronic nowadays. After seeing how absolutely atrocious their
writing is, however, I've broken down and made them start doing
"penmanship," though mostly printing.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 12:58 PM (/LIOp)
good clean penmanship is a mark of clear thinking and dedication, and education.
Ain't necessarily true, but it is one of the things people use to judge
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 01:16 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at June 10, 2018 01:16 PM (Tyii7)
Bought a small shed at Lowe's yesterday. Came home, assembled it. Without looking at 40 page long instruction manual once.
I have a few parts let over.
But am procrastinating looking through the 40 page instruction manual.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at June 10, 2018 01:17 PM (LOgQ4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:17 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:17 PM (LsBY9)
In the coming Dark Age, there will be a need for trained scribes.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (PqlHO)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 01:16 PM (2K6fY)>>>
True enough, but how often do you actually see someone write something?
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (/LIOp)
I have a few parts let over.
But am procrastinating looking through the 40 page instruction manual.
Posted by: Forgot My Nic at June 10, 2018 01:17 PM (LOgQ4
++++
You're the man. Plus, this is so funny.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (dJklA)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 10, 2018 12:37 PM (0ogQG)
-----------------------------
There no reason to suppose that those CA and the MS students are taking the same test.
And to be honest, any standard that 93% of kids in MS can fulfill or excel has got to be absurdly low. You can't overcome the demographics of the state.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (/qEW2)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 01:18 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:19 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2018 01:19 PM (6Vmzd)
Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2018 01:20 PM (6Vmzd)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:20 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:20 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 10, 2018 01:21 PM (PqlHO)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 01:21 PM (H5knJ)
I was gobsmacked.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:21 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Your Shed at June 10, 2018 01:21 PM (Tyii7)
I was able to handwrite all of my notes in college in normal print. So it was plenty fast enough for me.
I suspect if people put as much time into practicing normal letters and learning and writing cursive there would be very little difference in speed.
Sort of like the Dvorak keyboard. Sure you can type faster after switching, you've just put a few hundred hours of practice that you never wouldve done otherwise.
Posted by: Sjg at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (huVNL)
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (thv/P)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:23 PM (LsBY9)
Could others read them?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:23 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:24 PM (pHfeF)
I do it nicely with the right hand
I scrawl like a first grader with my left hand
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:24 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: starbucks at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (PqlHO)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:20 PM (2DOZq)>>>
Most of people in California from out of state don't have (many) kids. They rely in the federal government leaving the borders open in order to import the kids that will support them and indoctrinate the rest through the failing schools. We're only a couple of generations away from Ronald Reagan being governor. And about 3 times as many people voted Republican in a low turn out primary for Governor than did in Georgia.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (/LIOp)
How did you come to have this skill?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (yQpMk)
Usually it's a broken hand.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (LsBY9)
https://youtu.be/6qoLYYBj4Yw?t=6m53s
Posted by: Grimaldi at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (CxVWA)
This could easily be presented in the form of a table which would make it easier to digest the trends.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 10, 2018 01:13 PM (/qEW2)
Agreed. I wish there were at least a separate page containing a tabbed set of tables. There's a "Download Workbook" button, but the downloaded file is in "Tableau" format which would require my installing an application to read it.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:23 PM (yQpMk)
Yes, because even if a bit sloppy, normal print is the dominant form of writing. So even slight mistakes are easily recognizable.
Since cursive is incredibly rare now, almost no one is used to seeing even slightly deprecated forms outside of their own. So imperfect cursive quickly becomes more illegible than print.
Posted by: Sjg at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (gDSJf)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (pV/54)
I (mostly) blame the changes on mass immigration.
And free lunch.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (0jtPF)
It is certainly a lot safer.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (yQpMk)
------------
Reading the manual is for wusses.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (K2jyi)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (2DOZq)
Ugh, does that mean I would have to move back?
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: J Trudeau at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: josephistan at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (ANIFC)
I can eat with both hands.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (LsBY9)
++
I can't. I am left-handed and it is annoying for people who are right-handed to have to sit next to me. (Or I believe it is, no one has ever said.)
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (dJklA)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (H5knJ)
I'd happily give the "new" country of California a trillion dollars to leave the USA as startup capital.
Posted by: Jackso at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (8QdWH)
Posted by: Ignoramus
-----------
This is about my forehead implant, isn't it?
Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (K2jyi)
I have a flying right elbow when I set to at the the table. You don't want to be on that side.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:30 PM (yQpMk)
I (mostly) blame the changes on mass immigration.
And free lunch.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 01:27 PM (0jtPF)>>>
Yes. Your welcome. Imagine how much your state would suck otherwise. And, you're not wrong on immigration. But it's only a part of it.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:30 PM (/LIOp)
SUPER Californian, with a hint of NJ.
*three paragraphs of anthropological analysis of Californian cultural pathologies deleted for the sake of harmony; pretty interesting, though*
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (z2FAZ)
I'd happily give the "new" country of California a trillion dollars to leave the USA as startup capital.
Posted by: Jackso at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (8QdWH)>>>
Can't get rid of San Diego. Has too many bases, military, etc. Plus it's awesome. But coastal LA to Marin should definitely be let loose.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (pHfeF)
I can eat with both hands.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (LsBY9)
++
I can't. I am left-handed and it is annoying for people who are right-handed to have to sit next to me. (Or I believe it is, no one has ever said.)
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (dJklA)
Don't know why it's looked down upon, but I'm one of those guys that eats with the fork upside down in my left hand after cutting the meat with knife in the right hand.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (2DOZq)
*three paragraphs of anthropological analysis of Californian cultural pathologies deleted for the sake of harmony; pretty interesting, though*
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (z2FAZ)>>>
Insult me, I'm going to insult you, douchebag.
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (/LIOp)
Posted by: gm at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (/LIOp)
Back then, California was still a great state to live in. Reagan was Governor. Pete Wilson was Mayor of San Diego, my original home town til my junior year of high school. It was still a rat race and the best thing we ever did was move from there to WNC.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (thv/P)
My daughter coined a word when she was 3 or 4 and I was putting together some complicated toy - "Why don't you use the constructions?"
I have used the word constructions ever since.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (r+sAi)
I am left-handed and it is annoying for people who are right-handed to have to sit next to me. (Or I believe it is, no one has ever said.)
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:29 PM (dJklA)
I'm just plain annoying to sit next to.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (LsBY9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (39g3+)
I always read them.
Pro Tip : Just throw them on the back of the John. They'll get read.
Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (6Vmzd)
Posted by: Grump
--------
Hmm. Might be a catchy name for a restaurant, "Flying Elbows". Or, a biker bar.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at June 10, 2018 01:33 PM (K2jyi)
*I don't envy the CA 'ron's and 'ette's, and they would be welcomed in any other state should they decide it's time to flee.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 01:33 PM (W+vEI)
Far more important is vocabulary and the ability to communicate what they mean. Which is also not really being taught or learned.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:34 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2018 01:34 PM (vV/gB)
How did you come to have this skill?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (yQpMk)
Usually it's a broken hand.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (2DOZq)
Yup!
Broke my wrist in 3rd grade. Still had to do homework.
Sat next to a girl who broke her leg.
I felt lucky, comparatively.
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:35 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (LsBY9)
+++
You are a dear, a favorite here, one of the smart and funny ones. Don't know why you beat yourself up so.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:35 PM (dJklA)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2018 01:35 PM (Evws/)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (2DOZq)
Same.
I'd offer a fork-weirdo fistbump but I don't know which hand we're supposed to use.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:36 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:36 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: colfax mingo at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (MFFyI)
Hell, no! They don't get to secede just because things aren't going their way politically. Too many other states have suffered with the activism wrought by the progressive CA a$$holes who ruined their state (see: Apple CEO boycotting Indiana over bathroom legislation, Google/facebook/youtube censoring conservative voices, etc.).
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Hadrian the Sixth at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (6Vmzd)
It reminded me of my personal note taking for classes where for example, I would use "fr" to stand both for For and From since they were similar consonants but could be determined by context.
However, these systems are much better thought out.
I love the idea of something that fast that is all in the head instead of using some sort of stenophone computer program.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (2K6fY)
Always wondered how I would have turned out if he had accepted.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (2DOZq)
David Brooks: Guys like him get more feminine as they get older.
Well, when you start with low-T ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:38 PM (pV/54)
California Reconstruction General Law No. 1: No current officeholder nor anyone employed by them is eligible for election or appointment to the new California government or employment or contract with same.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:38 PM (LsBY9)
The problem is as others have said: they ruin a place then flee like locusts and for some asinine reason people listen to them when they go somewhere else.
"Lets do what we did to the last place!"
"Durrh, okay mister!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 12:17 PM (39g3+)
Sort of how the Soviet Union was a "useful experiment". Today, Eastern Europe is the only sane areas on the continent after decades of the miracle of Communism. Maybe that enlightenment will happen to America and Western Europe.....Naaahhh.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 01:38 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (2DOZq)
Same.
I'd offer a fork-weirdo fistbump but I don't know which hand we're supposed to use.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:36 PM (fZuhk)
My grandmother taught that it was acceptable to cut the meat with the fork in left and knife in right, but then to eat you switched to the fork in right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:38 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at June 10, 2018 01:39 PM (H5knJ)
My grandmother taught that it was acceptable to cut the meat with the fork in left and knife in right, but then to eat you switched to the fork in right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:38 PM (ycWCI)
Knife? Fork? What are these words you speak?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (LsBY9)
Don't know why it's looked down upon, but I'm one of those guys that eats with the fork upside down in my left hand after cutting the meat with knife in the right hand.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:31 PM (2DOZq)
I'm left-handed and I use the fork in my left hand and the knife in my right. Easy Peasy.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:36 PM (hMwEB)
Rafael Nadal is right handed except for tennis.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (2DOZq)
There's an even bigger fall-off in reasoning skills. Even in our colleges.
It's led to why I call this time The Sleep of Reason.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (pV/54)
...because he'll never amount to nothin'!
Posted by: Hadrian the Sixth at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (6Vmzd)
+++
LOL.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (dJklA)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 01:37 PM (2K6fY)
I've never found a computer text entry system - aside from a real big-boy keyboard with full-travel mechanical keyswitches - that was half as fast as Graffiti for the old Palm Pilots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (2DOZq)
he just won again, didn't he?
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (hMwEB)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (thv/P)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2018 01:42 PM (wt+j+)
Well, when you start with low-T ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:38 PM (pV/54)
David Brooks always struck me as one of those types that couldn't wait to get old. I remember seeing him on television when he couldn't be much older than 40 and he already looked like he was in his 50's.....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 01:42 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (39g3+)
Is "divine intervention" a code word for "nuke them from orbit"?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 01:42 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (2DOZq)
he just won again, didn't he?
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (hMwEB)
11th French Open title. Amazing dominance.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:43 PM (2DOZq)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (
That brings back memories.
Posted by: Emmie at June 10, 2018 01:43 PM (m8Z4o)
Both Mrs. Franpsycho and I have worked professionally with SFUSD and we have served on site council and PTA.
You can be assured this is not so.
In fact she reports there is a major exodus underway, to private, charter, and parochial schools.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 10, 2018 01:43 PM (EZebt)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (thv/P)
You can breathe underwater, for starters.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:44 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2018 01:42 PM (wt+j+)
+++
This is the truth.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 01:44 PM (dJklA)
A chart of quality vs cost in both systems would be eye opening I presume.
Posted by: PhilD at June 10, 2018 01:45 PM (Acr76)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:43 PM (2DOZq)
and so handsome
*sigh*
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:45 PM (hMwEB)
Yep. Way better than being just an herbivore or carnivore.
Posted by: garrett at June 10, 2018 01:46 PM (6Vmzd)
A chart of quality vs cost in both systems would be eye opening I presume.
Posted by: PhilD at June 10, 2018 01:45 PM (Acr76)
And 'real' cost would be an interesting comparison. I am betting even with tuition, the private schools might be cheaper from a 'total cost to society' standpoint, considering how much money is poured into public education.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:47 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2018 01:42 PM (wt+j+)
I think the teaching method is only 2nd on the causation list. The complete abandonment of classroom control of the disrupters is the primary reason for the decline IMO.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:47 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:48 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:48 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:40 PM (LsBY9)
so fancy
wait until they start bragging about plates and glasses too
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 01:48 PM (hMwEB)
aside from a real big-boy keyboard with full-travel mechanical
keyswitches - that was half as fast as Graffiti for the old Palm Pilots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:41 PM (fZuhk)
I can't find any links, but that reminds me of the script used with the Roman wax tablets. The script was modified because it was gouged into a wax surface and certain lines didn't take.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 01:48 PM (2K6fY)
The sinister side.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:49 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:48 PM (pHfeF)
They are so creative! /s
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:49 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:49 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: PhilD at June 10, 2018 01:49 PM (Acr76)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 01:32 PM (39g3+)
Is "divine intervention" a code word for "nuke them from orbit"?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 01:42 PM (9BLnV)
Yeah, let's incinerate millions of innocent people because of a relatively small coterie of leftist assholes....
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 01:50 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (pV/54)
http://bit.ly/2HDMko1
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (yQpMk)
If California were to just be honest and call them "first-run general elections" then that would be fine (with the parties able to hold their own primaries before that to pick who they want to participate in the general elections representing them) but California doesn't do that and, instead, lies about these being "primaries", which they most certainly aren't, and in doing so stops parties from holding their own actual primaries.
One of the federal government's few actual jobs is to insure that states have this sort of Republican government so it is within the power of the feds to do all kinds of shit to the California political system to get it in line with the Constitution.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (ZxqOz)
1st day in Senior English 1967
Teacher; I just returned from teaching at Kenyatta College in Kenya
If you don't want to learn, GET OUT
Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (wt+j+)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (pV/54)
Probably still is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 01:50 PM (y8Foj)
Better safe than sorry!
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 01:52 PM (9BLnV)
http://bit.ly/2HDMko1
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (yQpMk)
Dear Lord. Hush, Francis.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:52 PM (ycWCI)
I found I paid more attention to letters written with good handwriting. My mom had beautiful Palmer script, I think my Grandmother had copperplate. They both were teachers.
I wrote in block print and broke their hearts, but I started teaching and practicing cursive about 15 years ago.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 01:53 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:53 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Under Fire NOt Sporting Eyebrow Toupes at June 10, 2018 01:53 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (pV/54)
Probably still is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (ycWCI)
Only when he masturbated. For everything else, he used Reggie's.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 01:53 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (pV/54)
Meh. I'm right-handed and I'm more coordinated with my left hand than Barky is.
Barky is no-handed. He's an uncoordinated mess.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 10, 2018 01:53 PM (ZxqOz)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:53 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Emmie at June 10, 2018 01:43 PM (m8Z4o)
Every few months I poke around to see if someone's published a custom keyboard for iOS that mimics the old Graffiti digitizer.
So far, nothing
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 01:55 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 01:48 PM (pHfeF)
When I become dictator, you'll hold your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right.
So let it be written; so let it be done.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 01:55 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 01:57 PM (39g3+)
I dug out my Zire71 this week. I'm going to start using it again. I forgot how much I enjoyed writing on it. They changed iOS for larger screens and it's hell to use on my smaller screen SE.
I have all my cool programs on the Zire. It was like a time capsule from 2008. And I still think the camera is cool.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 10, 2018 01:57 PM (Lqy/e)
http://bit.ly/2HDMko1
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (yQpMk
And here I thought the Onion only dealt in satire.
/s
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 01:58 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 02:00 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 02:02 PM (LsBY9)
My guess is he means that he hears from what the Roman Catholic Church refers to as Saints, who are presumably immortal at this point.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 02:02 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 02:02 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Skip
It makes sense that we left-handers wind up ruling, though... lefties are 10% of the population but 20% of Mensa members.
I don't think we're smarter on average, but, like "being white" or "being male", "being left-handed" puts you on a broader bell curve, so you have a better chance of being a super-genius or a super-idiot, rather than an average Joe/Jane.
Fortunately for y'all, I have all the charisma of a baked potato, so I won't be dictating or tyrannizing anyone.
Posted by: mikeski at June 10, 2018 02:02 PM (JGBbg)
Palm had to get rid of the original Graffiti after a lawsuit. I use Teal Script (which you can still buy) which lets you train the program in how you want to write the letters.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 10, 2018 02:02 PM (Lqy/e)
A chart of quality vs cost in both systems would be eye opening I presume.
----
In Ontario the parochial RC "Separate" school system is fully funded like the secular public system and even though the RC schools only get about 50% of the funding per student as the public system, they usually do better scholastically. (Not that it's perfect either as there's plenty of p.c. and liberal junk there too.) I don't think there's much difference in teachers' pay but I don't know for sure.
(RC Quebec and Protestant Ontario agreed to treat each others minorities reciprocally in education I think for both when the two colonies were turned into one colony, and carried on later when Canada was created from four of the original colonies. Certainly from Canada's creation in 1867 anyway.)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2018 02:03 PM (Evws/)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 10, 2018 01:57 PM (Lqy/e)
And I bet Graffiti came right back to you as soon as you picked up the stylus. It's just like learning to steal a bike.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 02:03 PM (fZuhk)
The abysmal proficiency of blacks? That's only counting the ones that didn't drop out.
50%+ of black men aren't even getting a high school
Posted by: Moron Robbie: I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 10, 2018 02:03 PM (vDapD)
Posted by: ERC at June 10, 2018 02:04 PM (fE9cf)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 02:04 PM (pHfeF)
If you credit Secretariat as an athlete, he's the best of all time. I'm fascinated by his Triple Crown run, where he still holds all three course records.
His Belmont run was an amazing statistical outlier. It's not that the field sucked. Most Triple Crown winners would have been back with the pack had they run that day. American Phaoroh was closest and would still have lost by ten lengths. The jockey didn't use his whip on Big Red. He was just baggage.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:04 PM (pV/54)
Pope Francis Clarifies That God Just One Of Many Immortal Beings Who Speak To Him Every Day
Remember, the reporter who wrote the story is likely a half-wit and the editor of the headline is likely a quarter-wit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 02:05 PM (LsBY9)
---
And 30% of Who's Who of High School Students.
Posted by: Moron Robbie: I choose to live my life as a black woman at June 10, 2018 02:05 PM (vDapD)
There is a commenter here, a dear lady named Willow who became more or less infamous for commenting late on threads, usually when everyone had moved to the next new post to comment on. So the term became "willowed" when you would post too late when few were around any more on a post.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 02:06 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: ERC at June 10, 2018 02:04 PM (fE9cf)
To draft a really nice post that you think will start some good discussion or respond to a question with a considered and detailed response only to realize, after refreshing a few times after posting, that everyone moved on to the new thread about ten minutes ago.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 02:06 PM (fZuhk)
couldn't hurt.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 10, 2018 12:26 PM (Pg+x7)"
You know, that would be an interesting thought experiment we could run. Semantics is subtle and very powerful. Words have meanings.
Leftist corruption of the language over the past century is shaping the way we think about everything; something like this could change the way we think about the problem(s).
Might be fun, too ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at June 10, 2018 02:06 PM (GNCPT)
Posted by: DaveA at June 10, 2018 02:07 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 10, 2018 02:07 PM (+Tibp)
( haven't a clue. Just throwing out right handed propaganda)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 02:07 PM (2DOZq)
Remove the malevolent shitwipes from their respective positions throughout government and install people who are competent.
This can be done when the state collapses. although I'm unaware of any example.
State can't be allowed to secede and become an independent entity, the Union MUST remain united.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 10, 2018 02:08 PM (S/hVx)
If you credit Secretariat as an athlete, he's the best of all time. I'm fascinated by his Triple Crown run, where he still holds all three course records.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:04 PM (pV/54)
Wow. I didn't know that.
The Belmont video is mind-blowing, and I never get tired of watching it.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 02:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2018 02:09 PM (Evws/)
The jockey didn't use his whip on Big Red. He was just baggage.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:04 PM (pV/54)
Big Red was coasting at the end. Listen to Chic Anderson and you can hear him becoming more and more incredulous toward the end. "Moving like a tremendous machine!" ought to go down as one of the great announcer lines ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 02:10 PM (LsBY9)
------------
Reading the manual is for wusses.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc, etc. at June 10, 2018 01:28 PM (K2jyi)
and the manual would be only three pages, if you took out the French, the Spanish, the EPA disclosure, the OSHA bumf, and the warranty exclusions.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 02:12 PM (WFV7d)
==
It's the Onion
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 02:12 PM (hMwEB)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpIiPWwZ_Y
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 10, 2018 02:12 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Left side of brain controls the right side of body.
Right side of brain controls left side of body.
Therefore, those of us who are left handed, are the only ones in our right minds.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2018 02:12 PM (J/LQs)
Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2018 02:13 PM (Evws/)
Because unlike all other Asians they used to be colonists of the US. Same deal for Puerto Rico, and until 1959 for Cuba, which is why the USG got so pi**ed at Castro.
Posted by: grayishpanther at June 10, 2018 02:13 PM (ty9Ew)
Posted by: Ben Had at June 10, 2018 02:13 PM (wt+j+)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 02:14 PM (LsBY9)
----
They control the weather too!!!
Posted by: andycanuck at June 10, 2018 02:09 PM (Evws/)
ICATP*
I Chorfled At This Post
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 02:15 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 02:15 PM (dJklA)
------------------------
Yet you jerk off with your right hand and then go about shaking people hands with it. Nasty and demented.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 10, 2018 02:15 PM (vV/gB)
Posted by: irongrampa at June 10, 2018 02:08 PM (S/hVx)
Why?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 02:16 PM (9BLnV)
I've wondered for how long a young, mostly brown state is going to impoverish itself to provide incredibly good pensions to a bunch of old white people.
What we need is a Hispanic Ronald Reagan in California - the political agenda pushed by Tom Steyer is absolutely devastating to the middle-class Hispanic family in Bakersfield. There is a fundamental political disconnect in California between the gentry liberals who run the state, and the working-class people who actually have to live in the state. Somebody needs to exploit that
Posted by: The ARC of History at June 10, 2018 02:16 PM (dlwIY)
Posted by: grayishpanther at June 10, 2018 02:13 PM (ty9Ew)
well then, how come for college applications (and Affirmative Action) they get lumped in with Asians?
so inconsistent
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 02:16 PM (hMwEB)
------------------------
Yet you jerk off with your right hand and then go about shaking people hands with it. Nasty and demented.
Posted by: Puddin Head
Left hand stays clean for eating.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2018 02:18 PM (J/LQs)
Posted by: irongrampa at June 10, 2018 02:08 PM (S/hVx)
Why?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male
Voluntarily entered. Voluntarily leave. Constitution isn't a suicide pact.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 10, 2018 02:19 PM (J/LQs)
Posted by: pookysgirl at June 10, 2018 12:12 PM (XKZwp)
--------------
I'll counter that with, "yeah, I'm from California. Why do you think I left?"
I told my wife about the water bills signed by our Governor and told her that we're moving as soon as we can. Hopefully, about two years, give or take.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 10, 2018 02:20 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: ERC at June 10, 2018 02:20 PM (fE9cf)
Posted by: rickb223
Hey, wait....
Posted by: Survivors of War of Northern Aggression at June 10, 2018 02:20 PM (+Tibp)
I'm investing in Honky Re-Education Camps. Lots of Wrongthink (tm) out there that needs fixing. The curriculum is pretty straight-forward, mostly just scheduled beatings and leftover hospital food.Posted by: Burger Chef at June 10, 2018 02:21 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 02:21 PM (pHfeF)
==
It's the Onion
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 02:12 PM (hMwEB)
---------------------
20 years ago, one would have known that was parody.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 10, 2018 02:22 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: PLUM at June 10, 2018 02:22 PM (txDrA)
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman <<<
Better start saving your money. Saleability in CA is going down and prices in popular exile states are going up.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:23 PM (AEEhl)
Ane don't get me going about the financial implications. Britain can leave the Euro because it kept the pound. Italy can't without something like a war.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:23 PM (pV/54)
It's Time For A National Conversation On Taking California Away From Californians
I thought this would apply to general politics & social standards, but I see the post focused on education. Which is midstream between religion (upstream) and politics (down) as some bloggie said recently. So, vitally important.
In any case, I'd rather see taking back than ceding territory by separation as so many suggest. Not one square inch. Push comes to shove, those NWO socialized urban hornet nests are going to be a real problem.
Posted by: mindful webworker - not one cubic foot at June 10, 2018 02:24 PM (ECLlc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:24 PM (0/+vJ)
The United States
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:25 PM (AEEhl)
Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2018 12:56 PM
One of the reasons for that is some people on welfare still have enough motivation to shop for the best benefits.
They will ask where benefits are highest and, finding out that would be California, they move there. Sometimes they move back after finding out the cost of living there is prohibitive.
The government gets what it pays for and, if that is welfare cases, it will draw them like a magnet.
Posted by: Retired Gummint EE Who Made Referrals at June 10, 2018 02:26 PM (6kFCx)
Posted by: mindful webworker
DDT and D6s.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:26 PM (AEEhl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 02:05 PM (LsBY9)
It's the Onion.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 02:26 PM (WFV7d)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:24 PM (0/+vJ)
+++
I seem to remember in a book written about him that he also like to sleep lying down, which, I guess, is pretty unusual for a horse. Also that he was a bit of a chow hound.
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 02:27 PM (dJklA)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:23 PM (AEEhl)
--------
We own our house free and clear.
If we have to downsize to a mobile home in order to move out of state, we will.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 10, 2018 02:27 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:24 PM (0/+vJ)
Meh. It didn't help *me* much.
Posted by: zombie Chris Penn at June 10, 2018 02:27 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 10, 2018 02:29 PM (rnAwa)
Hidden behind the bitly-shortened link, I was expecting to see a "real, but highly-spun" article about how he confabbed with Mary and the various Catholic Saints.
Nope, pure Onion. (Even if missives from Loki would explain some of his other pronouncements.)
Posted by: mikeski at June 10, 2018 02:30 PM (JGBbg)
Try that again
America's founding - 80 years - Civil War - 80 years - WWII - 80 years - Current year
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 10, 2018 02:30 PM (rnAwa)
Heh
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 02:31 PM (7LY+6)
Because unlike all other Asians they used to be colonists of the US. Same deal for Puerto Rico, and until 1959 for Cuba, which is why the USG got so pi**ed at Castro.
Posted by: grayishpanther at June 10, 2018 02:13 PM (ty9Ew)
------------------------------
I dunno.
It may be other Asians that put them in a different category.
As much as they may dislike each other, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese consider Filipinos to be ....different.
(Cuba, BTW, was never a US colony.)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 02:31 PM (0jtPF)
You weren't as big as a horse and couldn't run like one. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:31 PM (0/+vJ)
There will be islands of opulence in a sea of swill.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:32 PM (AEEhl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 02:32 PM (WFV7d)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 10, 2018 02:33 PM (2CQCl)
Sadly I am watching Colorado follow California into ruin. Dem governor candidate #1. the NRA "sent* trucks to honk horns when we rammed thru a magazine capacity limit but I was not intimidated. eye roll. Dem candidate #2. She fought charter schools and prevented the closing of 380 (no doubt failing or under populated) schools to earn the NEA endorsement. Dem candidate #3. First openly gay parent in U.S. congress, uber progressive values but with name recognition he is not being as in your face about his socialist tendencies in his primary commercials.
Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at June 10, 2018 02:33 PM (r4KP2)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 02:21 PM
Wipe left, eat right. Which means it is an insult if a Muslim offers to shake with left hand. Knowing that can cause awkward moments.
A woman once shook my hand using her left. I was obviously surprised. Her husband told me she shook using her left because the left arm is closer to the heart. She appreciated the help I give her husband. Then shaking lefty did not seem so bad.
Posted by: Retired Gummint EE Who Still Serves at June 10, 2018 02:34 PM (6kFCx)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:32 PM (AEEhl)
So a perfect socialist state then.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 10, 2018 02:34 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 10, 2018 02:32 PM (WFV7d)
The U-Haul Index never lies.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 02:34 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:34 PM (AEEhl)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:34 PM (AEEhl)
Been around the Sacramento area lately?
"Will"?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at June 10, 2018 02:35 PM (7LY+6)
I do not believe, for many reasons, that there will be any actual "war" involving violent conflict, but IF there were, it would be much more like the English Civil War's of the 1640's, in which England split into multiple factions based on religion, class, and ideology. In town after town, the various groups would make war on each other, with the result that much of the country was burned to the ground by the time it was over.
Cromwell, who ended up in charge of it all, was an unheard of nobody when it all began, and little to do with it's start. He was just one of those people who had the ability to militarily defeat everyone who tried to go up against him, and by the end nobody was left standing but him.
That civil war has never been talked about much by anyone because it was so terrible, and because everyone on every side descended down into the depths of barbarity before it was over. Lower class mobs ransacked churches, murdered clergy, raped nuns. The nobility gathered groups of mercenaries and raced through poor villages in the night, slaughtering everyone they found. Anyone either side didn't like got burnt at the stake, just because.
There was no law, there were no courts, there was no justice, just chaos for year after year.
That's what a real civil war between the classes looks like. It was so bad that the Brits have spent the last 360 years trying to pretend it didn't happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2018 02:35 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: IC at June 10, 2018 02:35 PM (P34oj)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 10, 2018 02:35 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: mindful webworker - not one cubic foot at June 10, 2018 02:24 PM (ECLlc)
Look at it logically. Let them leave. In fact, put walls around them. Once they no longer have a reliable food and water source, their population will dwindle precipitously. Then you can just walk in, offer them PBJ sandwiches for the land and, Shazam, you've returned them to the fold. Of course, don't forget to shoot the survivors before you leave.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 02:36 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:37 PM (0/+vJ)
As much as they may dislike each other, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese consider Filipinos to be ....different.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 02:31 PM (0jtPF)
I said earlier that many Asians don't really consider Filipinos "truly" Asian. It was a Spanish colony for 400 years--and Filipinos have the surnames to prove it--and then won by the US in the Spanish American War.
Oh, and they are Catholic.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 02:37 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: Burger Chef at June 10, 2018 02:38 PM (RuIsu)
Instead, the Times has circled the wagons and is blaming Trump for a fundamental threat to press freedom.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:39 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:39 PM (pV/54)
So Trump grabbed her pussy too?
Posted by: JoeF. at June 10, 2018 02:40 PM (y8Foj)
Posted by: hussein obama at June 10, 2018 02:41 PM (Evws/)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 10, 2018 02:41 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:41 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 10, 2018 02:41 PM (Y9uH4)
Posted by: Pickles at June 10, 2018 02:42 PM (O6j88)
This of course presupposes they didn't know all along.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 10, 2018 02:42 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2018 02:42 PM (k1TUh)
Instead, the Times has circled the wagons and is blaming Trump for a fundamental threat to press freedom.
- - - - -
Leaks win Pulitzers, and the NYT knows this from their own award-winning journalists.
That, and it's always opposite day with the Resistance. If Trump is against it, they are for it.
However, I would not be surprised if she's quietly reassigned to something boring...
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 02:43 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
++++++++++++++++++++
Excellent story about perseverance, luck and a hell of a trainer. I think jockey's were the original 'rons.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 10, 2018 02:44 PM (Y9uH4)
I stole it first. It's from an art work by Goya
The sleep of reasons breeds monsters.
https://tinyurl.com/y9mdo2b2
If we look back 50 years from now, things like CAGW are going to look silly, if not tragic.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:45 PM (pV/54)
I'm not into horse racing and I don't ride horses, but the stories were just so compelling. I think I've read it twice or three times by now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:45 PM (0/+vJ)
savecigarcity.com
just sayin.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 10, 2018 02:45 PM (2CQCl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:37 PM (0/+vJ)
+++
That's the one I read. Not Secretariat at all. What a moron (ette) I am!
Posted by: washrivergal at June 10, 2018 02:46 PM (dJklA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2018 02:49 PM (39g3+)
This was all happening during the depression, and Seabiscuit was a rock star. Once you win over regular people, the world is yours.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 10, 2018 02:49 PM (Y9uH4)
There is a Secretariat movie...
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 02:49 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:49 PM (pV/54)
But those are luxury cigars, smoked by rich white one-percenter males! Why, those poor women cigar makers are metaphorically grabbed by the p***y every day!!one!1!
Posted by: mikeski at June 10, 2018 02:50 PM (JGBbg)
People often make that that comment on here about the states which they don't like; It gets tiresome and of course, NJ has had Republican governors and may again if Murphy continue to be tax & spend liberal who supports sanctuary states. I also appreciate what youhave said about quaint little little historic towns and rural places in NJ. The taxes and traffic are terrible, but people who have only travelled into Newark airport and flown out of there don't really know about the state. It would be like me saying all of Michigan looks like the bad parts of Detroit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:53 PM (0/+vJ)
Blowing an old guy to get real-time classified information. Running regular co-ordinated efforts to solicit leaks of classified information. How is that different from a Russian black op?
At least the Russians would vet what they got, and wouldn't just make shit up.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 02:55 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at June 10, 2018 02:33 PM (r4KP2)
-----------------------------------
Breaks my heart.
Colorado was the first place we lived after immigrating (LEGALLY!!!) to the US. How it has changed! *sigh*
Ah well. Virginia, where I've lived for ages now, is descending into idiocy too.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 02:55 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 02:49 PM (W+vEI)
I saw that. I liked it. I think there is also a movie about SeaBiscuit based on the book, starring Tobey Maguire (sp) but I didn't see that
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 02:55 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2018 02:57 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 02:49 PM (W+vEI)
I read for that part!
Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at June 10, 2018 02:59 PM (oVJmc)
Our founding fathers were still affected by the aftermath of the English Civil War. It was part of the culture of their parents and grandparents. One reason the Constitution came out the way it did.
The British Army is still the British Army because of the beheading of Charles the 1st and the English Civil War. That monarchy can call a regiment or branch of service Royal, like Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, or Queen's Royal Hussars, but not the Army.
A great memory, the Windsors.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 10, 2018 03:02 PM (hyuyC)
savecigarcity.com
just sayin.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 10, 2018 02:45 PM (2CQCl)
-------------------------
Thanks for sharing that.
I hope the business can be saved.
Damn the bureaucrats. Damn them.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 03:02 PM (0jtPF)
>>Breaks my heart.
Mine, too. We finally left.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 10, 2018 03:02 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: TANSTAASFL at June 10, 2018 03:04 PM (Wa5hI)
Posted by: mikeski at June 10, 2018 03:04 PM (JGBbg)
step 1: everyone who wasn't born here in #Failifornia just GTFO. i don't
care if you're from New York or Nuevo Loredo, or any other shithole
around the world.
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 10, 2018 01:22 PM (huVNL)
That would kick out my parents and one of my brothers.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:05 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:06 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2018 02:42 PM (k1TUh)
Nah, that was God's factotum, Igor.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 03:07 PM (9BLnV)
I can eat with both hands.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (LsBY9)
I'm quite ambidextrous at...well, nevermind.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:07 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 03:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:10 PM (0/+vJ)
The forerunner of the Union Jack predates the Act of Union that legally united Scotland with England, and was used by the Navy because it was the sovereign's fleet and he/she had the crowns for England, Scotland and Ireland. The Union Jack superimposes the flags of all three.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 10, 2018 03:10 PM (pV/54)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:10 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 02:32 PM (AEEhl)
I prefer my swill with opulence.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 03:11 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 03:11 PM (9BLnV)
LOL.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:12 PM (0/+vJ)
How did you come to have this skill?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:25 PM (yQpMk)
Usually it's a broken hand.
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 01:26 PM (2DOZq)
Born left-hander, forced to be right-hander in Kinder. Used to be able to write equally will with both hands until 3rd or 4th grade, when I went right-handed for good. Can eat using knives, spoons, forks, chopsticks with both hands.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:14 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 10, 2018 03:14 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:06 PM (0/+vJ)
Why take a chance? - Remo Gaggi
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 10, 2018 03:15 PM (9BLnV)
Posted by: Burger Chef at June 10, 2018 03:15 PM (RuIsu)
273 Pope Francis Clarifies That God Just One Of Many Immortal Beings Who Speak To Him Every Day
http://bit.ly/2HDMko1
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (yQpMk)
Dear Lord. Hush, Francis.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:52 PM (ycWCI)
What has he been toking?
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:18 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 10, 2018 03:18 PM (IqV8l)
367
Look at it logically. Let them leave. In fact, put walls around
them. Once they no longer have a reliable food and water source, their
population will dwindle precipitously. Then you can just walk in, offer
them PBJ sandwiches for the land and, Shazam, you've returned them to
the fold. Of course, don't forget to shoot the survivors before you
leave.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male
Newsletter?
Posted by: Under Fire Will Never Sport Eyebrow Toupes at June 10, 2018 03:18 PM (r9UYA)
Can I still come to the annual diner? I like greater Eurasian food. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:19 PM (0/+vJ)
273 Pope Francis Clarifies That God Just One Of Many Immortal Beings Who Speak To Him Every Day
http://bit.ly/2HDMko1
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 01:51 PM (yQpMk)
Dear Lord. Hush, Francis.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 01:52 PM (ycWCI)
What has he been toking?
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:18 PM (gjGvH)
Witch one does he listen to?
Posted by: Pickles at June 10, 2018 03:19 PM (O6j88)
It's an article from "The Onion", apparently.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:20 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Ali Watkins Commemorative Hallway Stain at June 10, 2018 03:22 PM (Nh1kM)
It's almost like that's the real story behind the "abysmal" test scores of "American" students.
Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at June 10, 2018 03:23 PM (fdjeU)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 03:24 PM (2DOZq)
That's what I get for thinking.
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:25 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at June 10, 2018 03:26 PM (eAMlh)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Ask Me About SMR & Ancient Slavonaut Theory at June 10, 2018 03:26 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:27 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:25 PM (LBSeG)
It is an insalubrious habit.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 03:29 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 10, 2018 03:29 PM (hyuyC)
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:18 PM (gjGvH)
-------------------------
Yeah, it's the Onion, but the fact that so many of us believed it speaks volumes for this pope!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 03:31 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Count of Monte Dracula at June 10, 2018 03:24 PM (2DOZq)
The French revolution was also not exactly a cakewalk. I think when it comes down to it though, the Russian revolution ushered in a Terror that did not end for 80 years.
But that also brings us to the Chinese revolution. Hmm, seems like there is a theme here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 03:31 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:32 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at June 10, 2018 03:33 PM (r4KP2)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 03:33 PM (hMwEB)
I didn't read it, but in just hearing the headline I thought it meant asking for the intercession of the Saints and Mary for intercession. I was thinking he was praying to Allah or Vishnu or something.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:34 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:34 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 03:34 PM (AEEhl)
Meant asking for the intercession of the Saints and Mary in prayer. I WASN"T think he was praying to Allah or Vishnu or something.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:36 PM (0/+vJ)
Corker and Toomey need to eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:32 PM (LBSeG)
Nah, they might enjoy it.
Posted by: jim at June 10, 2018 03:37 PM (gjGvH)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:37 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 03:34 PM (AEEhl)
Well, it's a LONG flight from Canada to Singapore. I;d be tired too and I'm more that 10 years younger than he is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:37 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:38 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:39 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:37 PM (0/+vJ)
♪ To the sweetest girl I know... ♫
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 03:40 PM (fZuhk)
It's almost like that's the real story behind the "abysmal" test scores of "American" students.
During the period where the Wisconsin Democrats fled the state legislature, the Wisconsin teachers union proudly pointed out that Wisconsin's student test scores were better than the student test scores in backward, troglodyte Texas.
It was pointed out that the test scores for white students in Texas were better than for white students in Wisconsin, the test scores for Hispanic students in Texas were better than for Hispanic students in Wisconsin, and the test scores for black students in Texas were better than for black students in Wisconsin.
It's just that Wisconsin had mostly white students, and Texas had mostly minority students - adjust for that, and Texas did considerably better.
Posted by: The ARC of History at June 10, 2018 03:40 PM (dlwIY)
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 03:40 PM (MVjcR)
Should have put the meetings off for another day. Jackwagons in the media will talk about how tired Trump is. Like Hillary would be less tired??!!.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:41 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:39 PM (LBSeG)
On the other hand, I bet riding in AF1 is a bit better than flying United in coach. More leg room, I'll bet.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 10, 2018 03:41 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:38 PM (pHfeF)
Was just passing by fox news. He and Corker are amending the Defense bill to limit PDJT's ability to affect trade agreements.
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:41 PM (LBSeG)
I'm sure this thread is almost dead, but I would like to put in a plug for cursive for (relatively) normal people. I am mildly dyslexic and cursive does *wonders* for keeping all the letters going the correct direction.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 10, 2018 03:41 PM (rp9xB)
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 03:43 PM (MVjcR)
How have you been? Haven't seen you in a while. I was expecting you to turn up in the gaming thread to recruit new
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 03:43 PM (fZuhk)
The Chinese might beat out the Russians in civil war killings when the Communist took over.
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:37 PM (pHfeF)
Only because the Khmer Rouge had a much smaller initial population pool to start with.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 03:44 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:44 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 10, 2018 12:39 PM (hMwEB)
Fake country's fake leaders.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (AEEhl)
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 03:43 PM (MVjcR)
Same, sometimes on the same page. And my lower-case 'd' looks like a backward numeral six, and lower-case 'f' looks like a long 's'.
Ain't special though.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (fZuhk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (0/+vJ)
True, the US excelled in casualties, but for door-to-door, brother-to-brother butchery, Spain was .....interesting.
The divisions there were more like what we would see in a civil war here between lefties and contras. A few regions as lefty strongholds, a few contra. But much of it urban vs, rural.
And the American Left would doubtless expend a lot of energy on internecine fighting, just as the lefty Spics did, dividing the spoils before they are won.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (0jtPF)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:46 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 10, 2018 03:46 PM (huVNL)
Same, sometimes on the same page. And my lower-case 'd' looks like a backward numeral six, and lower-case 'f' looks like a long 's'.
Ain't special though.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (fZuhk)
--------
That 'f' is holding you back, bro!
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 03:46 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:46 PM (pHfeF)
Pretty good. We're going to be moving soon, my parents are coming to TX and leasing our house while I buy sister's house and she and her husband and 5 new kids 20-2 years old get a *new* house in the same neighborhood. It's exactly what we wanted but I'm not online nearly as much since I have actual meatspace stuff to take care of.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 10, 2018 03:47 PM (rp9xB)
Apparently Macron tried to squeeze Trump's hand really hard. left a mark and then winked at someone/ What a bunch of sophomoric world leaders
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:47 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: redc1c4 at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (huVNL)
Ain't special though.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 10, 2018 03:45 PM (fZuhk)
Try transcribing atty writing. Makes my head hurt sometimes.
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (LBSeG)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (pHfeF)
Thanks in advance ...
Posted by: ShainS at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (BiLU+)
Posted by: Braenyard at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (AEEhl)
Posted by: Weasel at June 10, 2018 03:40 PM (MVjcR)
Take off, eh.
Posted by: Justin Trudeau's Eye Merkin at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (5jVnA)
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:41 PM (LBSeG)
Well, that's just peachy.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 10, 2018 03:48 PM (NL6wI)
It's fine, red. I think you may be the only gentleman here who's concerned about my sensibilities. :^)
(Although i don't think I heard that phrase before I started posting here but I've heard it a lot now.).
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:49 PM (0/+vJ)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 10, 2018 03:49 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 10, 2018 03:50 PM (rp9xB)
Our primary is coming on Tuesday, and I've got to decide which sack of manure I'm gonna vote for guv here in SC.
Any body want to tell me who I ought to vote for. Henruh McMastuh sort of chaps my behind. Some (dirty) old man at the barber shop said he was gonna vote for Catherine Templeton, 'cause "she's purty". Should I follow suit?
It's likely going to be run-off between her and Foghorn Henruh.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 10, 2018 03:50 PM (8O3HH)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:50 PM (pHfeF)
The Communists were in a vicious fight with the Anarchists, and the Anarchists thought it was important to first defeat the Nationalists first.
While the Anarchist militias were guarding the frontiers the Communists first arrested all the Anarchists they could find, then called back the militia officers and imprisoned them, and then broke up the militias and started arresting the individual militiamen if they decided to.
Later, and this is not covered by Orwell but third hand oral history, the Nationalists took each town, recognized that the majority of the prisoners in the big prisons were Anarchists, and shot them out of hand.
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 03:50 PM (2K6fY)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:51 PM (pHfeF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2018 03:47 PM (0/+vJ)
----------------------
The bombastic salesman who is our president is the adult in the room?
Good grief.
I use "bombastic salesman" in the descriptive, not the pejorative.
Posted by: Blake - used bridge salesman at June 10, 2018 03:51 PM (WEBkv)
The cobs are celebrating James Monroe's b'day.
Posted by: JT at June 10, 2018 03:53 PM (ooaiz)
Posted by: Kindltot at June 10, 2018 03:50 PM (2K6fY)
--------------------------
Yep. Have done so.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 10, 2018 03:55 PM (0jtPF)
The original writing was actually made for left-handers (right to left). This is because these writing systems came from etching, first, which is done from right-to-left naturally for right-handers (holding the chisel in the left hand and hammering with the right moves naturally from right to left). But when they advanced to writing from etching they brought over the direction (right-to-left) which for writing is more natural for a left hander. So some of the oldest written languages got stuck with a left-handed writing direction.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 10, 2018 03:56 PM (ZxqOz)
Posted by: Apostate at June 10, 2018 01:09 PM (z2FAZ)
No. There was Scott McKenzie and his poxy song, news coverage of the "Summer of Love," and any number of movies glorifying the California lifestyle.
Economic opportunities and the lifestyle attracted the best from the country and the world.
The hippie crap attracted the worst, the crazies (hello, zombie Charles Manso (OH)n and Jim Jones (IN)), the druggies, the fruits (e.g. Harvey Milk, from NYC), and the hard-left types from all over the country.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara, now with a spark of divinity at June 10, 2018 03:56 PM (+CzJu)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 10, 2018 04:05 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: MW at June 10, 2018 04:48 PM (wNx6K)
Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2018 03:38 PM (pHfeF)
Was just passing by fox news. He and Corker are amending the Defense bill to limit PDJT's ability to affect trade agreements.
Posted by: Infidel at June 10, 2018 03:41 PM (LBSeG)
Is Toomey up for re-election? Does he want me to vote for the Democrat?
Because that's how you get me to vote for the Democrat.
What a POS cuck he is.
Posted by: rickl at June 10, 2018 05:08 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Internet Tough Guy at June 10, 2018 05:20 PM (y3aQB)
I second that this is essential reading for anticommunists, especially in the Hispanic tradition. Like Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' need to be read by anticommunists in the French tradition.
Posted by: starbucks at June 10, 2018 05:29 PM (/Gyw3)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo hopes he's not turning into chemjeff at June 10, 2018 05:30 PM (/Gyw3)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 10, 2018 05:31 PM (/Gyw3)
What about ancient Greek which went both ways?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 05:40 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 10, 2018 05:40 PM (yQpMk)
Greeks going both ways is a bit of an improvement over their natural tendencies.
As to writing, the Greek alphabet came much later. They took it from Hebrew (and they screwed it up, too, thinking that some guttural consonants were vowels, so the Greeks put actual vowels into their letters, which was something totally new and a huge improvement!).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 10, 2018 05:52 PM (ZxqOz)
Posted by: strawdog at June 10, 2018 06:00 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: Under Fire Will Never Sport Eyebrow Toupes at June 10, 2018 06:15 PM (r9UYA)
I think California is a useful experiment, showing what happens when you
give the radical left too much power. This is what you get, people.
Don't listen to them. Its tyranny + failure.
Actually, the results in California are the result of allowing the voting rolls to be hopelessly corrupted by introducing the Motor Voter Act and not checking their nationality before they vote.
Yes, the cause IS this simple. Most of the disasters are because of non-citizens voting. One side approves and embraces illegal voting, the other side is too nice to make an issue of it. Because those that are stealing and their supporters will call them racist, or something.
The same thing is starting in Seattle en masse, and got it's start also because of Motor Voting supporting Leftists.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 10, 2018 07:10 PM (UsCnO)
How many 'immigrants' live in California?
From which nations?
Posted by: The Hot Gates at June 10, 2018 07:24 PM (+/OBU)
Respectfully I differ. Cuba was ceded to the US by Spain per the Treaty of Paris in 1898, and declared independence FROM the US in 1902, but "Under Cuba's new constitution, the U.S. retained the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and to supervise its finances and foreign relations" (Wikipedia) and when its postal system was established, at first it used US stamps and stamped envelopes surcharged with values in centavos. I'll accept the contention "Cuba wasn't a US colony FOR VERY LONG," but honestly, sounds pretty colonial to me.
Posted by: grayishpanther at June 10, 2018 11:13 PM (ty9Ew)
But the Blue Authoritarian State govt is coming for our water rights.
Posted by: DrDeano at June 11, 2018 01:26 PM (didR+)
Processing 0.05, elapsed 0.065 seconds.
14 queries taking 0.024 seconds, 508 records returned.
Page size 258 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.
Real Clear Politics
Gallup
Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement
Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band
AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection
AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings)
George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)