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Only decent shows on my local NPR station are that car talk show and the BBC world service. Everything else is straight trash. BBC world service is surprisingly unbiased (not totally, but surprisingly mostly) and actually has a range of people as guests larger than Communist to socialist.
Posted by: deepelemblues at July 17, 2020 07:44 PM (ryr6F) 2
Driving is stressful enough. I cannot image adding in this vapid lefty shit.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 17, 2020 07:44 PM (ExV1e) 3
Awwww...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Who can fight the beast? Revelation 13:4 at July 17, 2020 07:45 PM (HaL55) 4
I only get exposed to NPR because I listen to classical music.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 07:46 PM (Dc2NZ) 5
Taxpayer funded partisan radio unaffected by collapsing ratings...story at 11.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 17, 2020 07:46 PM (ExV1e) 6
National Propaganda Radio.
Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (l3+k2) 7
Do they still do 'Click and Clack', or was that somebody else?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (3D/fK) 8
NPR is pure poison. My neighbor listens to it loud while gardening. It literally makes my ears bleed. Feel like drinking poison directly into my brain.
They use "soothing voice" hypnosis techniques to brainwash people in internalizing the most toxic leftist assumptions. Posted by: zombie at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (HEEq1) 9
The thing about NPR is no matter what happens, they aren't going anywhere because congress will keep funding them. If they complain about lack of funds, they can do a fund drive and every limo lib will open up the Scrooge McDuck vault and pour some into the NPR coffers.
Congress should have shut down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a decade ago. Its just tragic now. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (KZzsI) 10
In other news, AOS readership is steady, and ad revenue is up so much that Ace can afford a third screw to hold his tv mount to the wall.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (dNzKv) 11
One unforeseen bonus of retirement is that I no longer have to hear coworkers say "So I was listening to NPR and..."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (Dc2NZ) 12
Haven't listened to a single second of sports radio since February when The Yellow Peril struck.
The only sports I miss are the ones my 13 year old daughter was playing: softball and basketball. Just when she was getting REALLY good at both, of course, Our Idiot Masters decided to shut everything down. Posted by: Sharkman at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (BM2fS) 13
Car Talk was fun. Most of the rest was complete crap.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (ejd/p) Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (0IMgo) 15
Pete Schweddy hardest hit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (3D/fK) 16
It's more complicated than that, but if you're into the origins of food, it's actually quite interesting.
Posted by: zombie at July 17, 2020 07:45 PM (HEEq1) Kewl ! Posted by: Adriane the Subtitled Movie Critic ... at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (LPnfS) 17
The funny thing is that the guy who designed and set up NPR's entire feel and culture (particularly All Things Considered, which he created) now runs Mars Hill, a Christian broadcast that is very intellectual and thoughtful, with very much the same feeling format.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (KZzsI) Posted by: irright at July 17, 2020 07:49 PM (RVcmP) Posted by: Sharkman at July 17, 2020 07:50 PM (BM2fS) 20
One of the local NPR stations down here plays straight ahead jazz. It's all I listen to whilst driving. And they're all in this together, too.
I don't want to watch TV if everybody's wearing a SubmitMask. I don't want to hear radio when everybody's talking about a fake pandemic. I don't want to be preached at and I damned sure don't like being propagandized by bullshit. Birds are still interesting to listen to and watch, tho'. Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Who can fight the beast? Revelation 13:4 at July 17, 2020 07:50 PM (HaL55) 21
A sports guy that has been at wbap for 30 years is gone. I don't care about sports but I liked this guy because he rode cutting horses and did a ton of charity events.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 07:50 PM (rMtbr) 22
You arrogant ass- you have killed us!
Posted by: DB- just DB. at July 17, 2020 07:50 PM (iTXRQ) 23
13 Car Talk was fun. Most of the rest was complete crap.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (ejd/p) Car Talk is fun because it's deliberately non-political and the hosts are amusing. Look, they're working-class stiffs but in a non-threatening way to your left-wing sensibilities! Posted by: deepelemblues at July 17, 2020 07:50 PM (ryr6F) 24
my heart just bleeds for them
Posted by: vmom 2020 's tale of teigen twitterazism at July 17, 2020 07:51 PM (TOyHQ) 25
Wow, I feel better after reading this.
Posted by: WeBoned! at July 17, 2020 07:51 PM (8k7U7) 26
11: 11 One unforeseen bonus of retirement is that I no longer have to hear coworkers say "So I was listening to NPR and..."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes My co workers say that at least once a day. I'm 'essential' so I have to go in to work. They listen to NPR, watch MSNBC. They are slightly to the right of Stalin. Have I mentioned I work for the DoD? Posted by: Puddleglum at July 17, 2020 07:51 PM (sahF+) 27
IIRC one of the Car Talk guys. (Click and Clack) passed on.
They were great fun. Posted by: attilla isn't so bad, really at July 17, 2020 07:52 PM (w7KSn) 28
If no ratings, why are we still paying for them?
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2020 07:52 PM (6f16T) 29
I feel kind of bad for the hosts on those new sports tv channels like MLB network. What are you gonna talk about? What are you gonna show, since you refuse to crack open the vaults containing film of every baseball game since the late 30s?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:52 PM (KZzsI) 30
Is Pacifica Radio still around? Those guys sounded like they were broadcasting straight from Moscow.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2020 07:53 PM (xPl2J) 31
NPR is surely one of the most dumbifying and toxic of the dumb and toxic "press" institutions, if judged only by what Adriane referred to above: "this morning on NPR I heard .....". For the very, very large and very important suburban, "educated", not stupid but stupid as hamsters when it comes to almost all public policy, demo, NPR is key.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 07:53 PM (OTzUX) 32
NPR is like a 78 being played at 33 1/3.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 07:53 PM (rMtbr) 33
Had one co-worker couldn't start the workday saying that he heard on NPR.....
Wanted to kick him in the nuts every time he started in. Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at July 17, 2020 07:54 PM (7TrJF) 34
Makes me feel all tingly in the man-bits.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 17, 2020 07:54 PM (NWiLs) 35
My local Tacoma NPR station plays jazz and also a 6 hour blues show on Saturday and Sunday nights. Music is outstanding for the most part. But when I get in the car the next time and NPR news is on because I didn't change it, I just sit there, dumbfounded at the rampant ignorance bubble they live in. Their falsehoods are actually dangerous for the public, many of them actually believe this nonsense. Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 17, 2020 07:54 PM (sy5kK) 36
SchadenBONER
Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with comprehensive surveillance and subcutaneous chips! at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (BRkq2) 37
The legacy media of radio, tv nightly news, magazines, and newspapers are collapsing. What makes it worse is the woke Techlords are determined to stamp out any attempts by someone to replace it, even more so if they are conservative.
But, each stamping out basically is destroying any support for the Techlords--they have the money but no one likes them and eventually they will get gutted like a fish--either the leftists are going to nationalize them or the right is going to get them as enemies of the state (if a Franco comes) or more gently by destroying their monopolies via legal actions. Posted by: whig at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (pv2s8) 38
Wait.. they don't have commercials, do they?
Why would revenue drop just because no one is listening? Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (CjFDo) 39
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 07:48 PM (3D/fK Did you read what the Navy wants to do at Promotions Boards? Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (85Gof) 40
It's, "Educational Radio," so if you listen to it you are automatically smart/superior.
Posted by: davidt at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (l3+k2) 41
Nice segue from bbc to npr.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (s7y11) 42
NPR's usual roundtable on execrable shows like 1A:
Left-wing host Center-left journalist Center-left internet-based journalist Socialist journalist That really represents the public lmao Posted by: deepelemblues at July 17, 2020 07:55 PM (ryr6F) 43
The only thing more annoying than "soothing voice" on NPR is smug laughter. Gave up on them a long time ago.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 17, 2020 07:56 PM (C1Lsn) 44
That is the problem NPR presents its self as the intellectual version of the news, so people get this elitist sense despite it being the same dumb crap on CNN but delivered with a breathy voice by Christiane Amanpour instead of Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:56 PM (KZzsI) 45
I am fascinated by all the lost revenue that will result from Hollywood producing a never ending stream of Woke movies from now on. Talk about timing! Might as well burn pallets of cash in the middle of a studio lot.
Posted by: Max Power at July 17, 2020 07:56 PM (q177U) 46
Um ..... BBC World Service is OK? You mean there's been a 1,346% change since I last heard it, or talked to senior editors in London to correct an outrageous error?
Great moments in NRP/BBC "dead air". IDF representative being interviewed by BBC morning news hour anchor, during an Israeli operation in the West Bank (late 90s?). IDF rep. clearly native Hebrew speaker. Anchor asks, re IDF operation then ongoing in a major West Bank town, "so, you'll stop the operation when you've killed enough people?". Dead air. 99.98% chance the IDF rep, not being a native speaker, hesitated, as he couldn't believe what the anchor had said. He then mumbled some kind of answer (narrator: it WASN'T that the IDF would stop when "they'd killed enough people"). Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (OTzUX) 47
NGU, they want your 2,000 word essay on wokeness?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (rMtbr) 48
"Did you read what the Navy wants to do at Promotions Boards?"
No...what the hell now do they want to do? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (3D/fK) 49
Scott Adams has said that he doesn't expect to have a career as a cartoonist anymore because local newspapers are being decimated.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (xPl2J) 50
When we lived there, the University of Cincinnati NPR station unloaded all the dreary leftist stuff onto the Xavier University station and went to an all classical music format. That's when we started contributing. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (mht8P) 51
Worth pointing out that NPR is also a festering helldump of sexual harassment, as we discovered a few years ago. But also not really worth pointing out, because leftist, so goes with the territory.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (t+qrx) Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 17, 2020 07:58 PM (iZJLA) 53
I don't listen to the AM outlet of WOSU. The FM is classical music 24-7and I have no issues with it. The hosts keep their personal beliefs to themselves and do what they're supposed to do and that is talk about music.
Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 07:58 PM (gLRfa) 54
My NPR station does classical music. I am always seriously not listening during the propaganda portion. The smug and arrogance oozes from the speakers if I accidentally have it on.
One of the Click and Clack Bros passed a few years ago so no new programs are available. Even the reruns were funny before they stopped them. Their fundraising drives are utterly annoying. Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 17, 2020 07:58 PM (d9Irc) 55
BBC hasn't been worth a rat's ass since they quit "John has a long moustache".
Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 17, 2020 07:58 PM (C1Lsn) 56
46 Um ..... BBC World Service is OK? You mean there's been a 1,346% change since I last heard it, or talked to senior editors in London to correct an outrageous error?
I listen to it every night, maybe once an hour do I roll my eyes. That's about 1000x less than if I spent an hour with any other MSM. Posted by: deepelemblues at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (ryr6F) 57
NGU, they want your 2,000 word essay on wokeness?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (rMtbr) 48 "Did you read what the Navy wants to do at Promotions Boards?" No...what the hell now do they want to do? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (3D/fK) Well Pictures are out again. But get this: Now they also are considering removing all names and sex. Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (85Gof) 58
That is the problem NPR presents its self as the intellectual version of the news, so people get this elitist sense despite it being the same dumb crap on CNN but delivered with a breathy voice by Christiane Amanpour instead of Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:56 PM (KZzsI) "Brian Stelter's Breathy Voice" would be a terrible nick, so nobody use that. Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (t+qrx) 59
There are silver linings to this ChiCom WuFlu shit: people are a bit more conscious about cleanliness now. Parents are figuring out that their loinfruit are better off without being brought down to the lowest common denominator student in the classroom. A lot of jobs can be performed at home, much to the anger of all the control-freaks in bidness these days.
The Democrat Parti is imploding. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Dem mayors and governors are recalled and/or kicked out of orifice this fall thanks to their tyranny over what is turning out to be just a pretty bad flu season. The government may be forced to become smaller thanks to greatly reduced tax intakes. PDT's support is holding steady and many minority groups are catching on that he wants to improve their lives, but the Progs are keeping him from it. We could wind up better off after all this is over. Maybe. Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Who can fight the beast? Revelation 13:4 at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (HaL55) 60
Great moments in NPR dead air:
Day of first terrorist bombing of Iraqi police recruiting stations in Baghdad, 2004. NPR anchor asks field reporter in Baghdad, "so, this must have hurt police recruiting". Dead air. Reporter, presumably searching for a "no, dumbass" tone and wording, then very matter of factly says, "no, actually, the lines were longer at the recruiting stations this morning". Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (OTzUX) 61
Why would people listen to that crap on NPR during commute?
I don't get it. It would provoke road rage in me. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (6JYGT) 62
I cancelled satellite radio a couple years ago. Then I realized I could only get NPR in northern NH. After listening to it for a while I resubscribed to sat radio. Patriot channel is my go to.
Posted by: RI Red at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (KTbq2) 63
Hoisted on their own petard
Posted by: Hands at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (786Ro) 64
48 "Did you read what the Navy wants to do at Promotions Boards?"
No...what the hell now do they want to do? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (3D/fK) If they wanted to make all of the male candidates wear a dress and sing the "Black National Anthem" it wouldn't surprise me. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (V2Yro) 65
What the hell happened no TuCa today?
Posted by: Pliney at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (nzKWW) 66
By the way, China has started releasing water on the Yellow River, millions of gallons at a time. Wuhan is flooding
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (KZzsI) 67
>>>9 The thing about NPR is no matter what happens, they aren't going anywhere because congress will keep funding them.
Yep. The same fraudulent "budget hawks" who oppose increased spending on things such as border security would never cut off funding for NPR or other seditious government funded programs. Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 17, 2020 08:01 PM (d9Cw3) 68
Wasn't there a theory that if people didn't have to go to work they would all have more time to take part in the media instead, either as producers or consumers. It turns out everyone is a media producer and far less a consumer when they have time on their hands.
Posted by: Decaf at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (4D+FL) 69
66 Wuhan is flooding. A few bottles of clorox might help.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (C1Lsn) Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (oIv1v) 71
Wuhan is flooding
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (KZzsI) Well that would wash a way the evidence Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (85Gof) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (aKsyK) 73
House Dems to introduce emergency spending bill to save NPR (supported as well by GOP) in 10,9,8,7....
Posted by: Hands at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (786Ro) 74
Inquiring minds want to know... who is the mysterious Buck Throckmorton?
We really need some sort of a bio. Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (wiXsO) 75
Have I mentioned I work for the DoD?
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 17, 2020 07:51 PM (sahF+) --- I know and feel your pain, Puddleglum. ((hugz)) Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (Dc2NZ) 76
"Well Pictures are out again. But get this:
Now they also are considering removing all names and sex." actually, not a bad idea. 'We have no need for anything that identifies race or sex. Simply rack and stack 'em according to experience, expertise and accomplishments. Kinda like the Masked Singer. Only find out at the end if you picked the correct color or sex. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (3D/fK) 77
And don't forget, the garbage for clueless "educated" people from NPR comes to you courtesy of executives in public broadcasting with salaries that would astound most corporate executives.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (OTzUX) 78
I love when people say npr is unbiased news.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (s7y11) 79
49 Scott Adams has said that he doesn't expect to have a career as a cartoonist anymore because local newspapers are being decimated.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (xPl2J) can't argue with him on that. Well, he made his money while he could. Posted by: Tom Servo at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (V2Yro) 80
So sad. I haven't listened to NPR in ages. Gave it up when the Marx to Mozart ratio went sky high.
What to do with the unemployed and unemployable journolists? They are far too dumb to learn to code. They think that means solving a Jumble. Which they can't do. I doubt they can find the spout on a coffee pot. Posted by: Eeyore at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (LMs+g) 81
NPR during fund raisers: "We get almost nothing from the government!" NPR before Congress: "If you don't give us money we can't continue!" Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (mht8P) 82
What's not profitable about "we will only publish the news that supports our politics, refuse to allow comments on our websites and force online readers to pay to read our content?"
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (Efi2P) 83
Honestly, if it wasn't for liberals co-workers trying to appear smart by talking about NPR, I wouldn't even know they exist.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (HmZuC) 84
"Morning Sedition" and "Some Things Considered" took my Eisenhower Republican parents and turned them into Mondale voters in about 5 years.
I hope Radio Beijing on the Potomac has a stroke and dies. Posted by: Dad of Six at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (XrTBx) 85
''By the way, China has started releasing water on the Yellow River, millions of gallons at a time. Wuhan is flooding''
There's a poster on Insty's overnight open thread that's been all over the 3 Gorges Dam story for a couple of weeks. It ain't pretty. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (gLRfa) 86
rhomboid, I did not hear that but I did read about the Iraqi's lining up.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (rMtbr) Posted by: MiklosMedia at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (QzkSJ) 88
51 Worth pointing out that NPR is also a festering helldump of sexual harassment, as we discovered a few years ago. But also not really worth pointing out, because leftist, so goes with the territory.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 07:57 PM (t+qrx) Antisemitism as well. Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (2RP9p) 89
9 The thing about NPR is no matter what happens, they aren't going anywhere because congress will keep funding them. If they complain about lack of funds, they can do a fund drive and every limo lib will open up the Scrooge McDuck vault and pour some into the NPR coffers.
Congress should have shut down the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a decade ago. Its just tragic now. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (KZzsI) _______ I'd like to see how many of the Republicans' spouses have been put on the local NPR boards. A lot, I'd guess. Posted by: Eeyore at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (LMs+g) 90
'We have no need for anything that identifies race or sex.
Simply rack and stack 'em according to experience, expertise and accomplishments. Kinda like the Masked Singer. Only find out at the end if you picked the correct color or sex. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM And when looking only at credentials and performance produces the "wrong" mix of promoted officers, that policy will be quickly tossed. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (ejd/p) Posted by: DB- just DB. at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (iTXRQ) 92
>>>"Brian Stelter's Breathy Voice" would be a terrible nick, so nobody use that.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 07:59 PM (t+qrx) It was coming from under the bed... Posted by: Max Power at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (q177U) 93
Only find out at the end if you picked the correct color or sex.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (3D/fK) I have a hard time figuring out how they would pull that off. Reviewers and presenters would have to know. Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2020 08:05 PM (85Gof) 94
I mean, all things being equal, I like the idea of NPR. Sort of. A radio program discussing serious topics at length is not a bad thing in theory.
But they don't really do that in practice. They just deliver the same left wing talking points you can get 20 other places, and they use their reputation to try and make you feel like a Neanderthal for disagreeing. So yeah, it's hard to feel much sympathy there. Posted by: Dr. T at July 17, 2020 08:05 PM (eXYC7) 95
Pete Schweddy hardest hit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice Scion of the Schweddy-Ballzch Family, hailing of course from Schleswig-Holstein, and famously the makers of athletic protective cups, chastity belts and fully functioning medieval trebuchets. Posted by: Sharkman at July 17, 2020 08:05 PM (BM2fS) 96
One of the NPR complaints is that their podcasts have taken a beating. Could it be because people have time to listen live they don't need to listen later?
As already pointed out, wouldn't NPR be all for end to shutdowns and back to normal? Posted by: Decaf at July 17, 2020 08:05 PM (4D+FL) 97
''Wuhan is flooding
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (KZzsI) Well that would wash a way the evidence'' That's the speculation as inspectors are supposed to go in soon to start tracing the transmission of the virus. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:06 PM (gLRfa) 98
>>By the way, China has started releasing water on the Yellow River, millions of gallons at a time. Wuhan is flooding
Central China has been flooding for weeks on an enormous scale but there has been little reporting. If the 3 Gorges Damn fails, and many believe it will someday, it is going to be an enormous catastrophe. Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2020 08:06 PM (ZLI7S) 99
Have you checked on the children? Very scary movie.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:06 PM (s7y11) 100
I would tolerate the existence of NPR if they would drop the Kung Flu Freakout. But they cannot.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 17, 2020 08:06 PM (1g7ch) 101
What the hell happened no TuCa today?
Posted by: Pliney at July 17, 2020 08:00 PM (nzKWW) He's on vacation this week. Lisa Boothe sitting in today. Much better to look at than Kilmeade or Tucker for that matter Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2020 08:06 PM (oIv1v) 102
In a furring location, which was a yuuuge ongoing global story at the time, a BBC reporter who was rotating through briefly took me aside, very furtively, at a big event I was managing and said "I can't believe my colleagues here, almost all agencies - they're treating the terrorists and our side as moral equivalents, if they were in Europe in 1945 they'd be talking about the Allies and the Nazis as moral equivalents". He was completely stunned.
I toyed with him a bit, mostly about how he could be with the Beeb for years and not understand the intellectual rot and moral inversion. He literally looked around, as if someone would overhear us. Very nice guy, did of course a great job during his rotation. Never did follow to see what happened with him at BBC. Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:06 PM (OTzUX) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM (+y/Ru) 104
"furring location" would be, of course, a "foreign" location.
Though it does raise questions about what a "furring" location might be like. Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM (OTzUX) 105
I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM (JKNZq) 106
What the hell happened no TuCa today?
Posted by: Pliney He's on vacation. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2020 08:02 PM (aKsyK) ********** He'll be back on Monday. Another favorite of mine is Pete Hegseth who will not be hosting F & F tomorrow as he he going across the country in an RV. Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (wiXsO) 107
Show us on the Elmo doll where karma touched you...
Posted by: Hands at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (786Ro) 108
Miklos Media, a newsletter, a podcast, and janitorial service.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (rMtbr) Posted by: pornhub at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (59YkD) 110
Okay, we got nooded while I was typing, so I'm going to move this up here;
I missed the thread below about the mangy douche that crashed his mom's van into the church. I have no info about this particular incident but I do know the church. I have moved a few instruments in and out of there. Queen of Peace is out among the retirement communities on SR200. It is pretty big. It has been a few years since I have been over there but every time I was, there was always someone arguing. I used to call it "Our Lady of Discord". Behind the altar are (or were) paintings of different scenes from the Bible. The stand outs were Ezekiel and the wheels within wheels that looks like a scene from Close Encounters in pastel -there is even a mesa in the background that looks like Devil's Tower. And then there is Abraham and Isaac. It is the usual Isaac laid out and Abraham holding the knife and the angel staying his hand portrayal. The thing is Abraham looks just like Tim Allen in The Santa Clause. It is possible the little maggot is just a misguided art critic. Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (3DZIZ) 111
The more things come to light about the poor management of so much of the media you can't help but think they are not very bright. Even with the steady decline in the last fifteen years nobody is interested in the disaffected audiences.
But they have a society to remake so sacrifices must be made. If it's just the media people, I'm OK with that. Posted by: Decaf at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (4D+FL) 112
Antisemitism as well.
Posted by: Emmie at July 17, 2020 08:04 PM (2RP9p) Also goes with the territory, but I hadn't heard about that specifically. Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (t+qrx) 113
All Things Distorted
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2020 08:09 PM (aKsyK) 114
Central China has been flooding for weeks on an enormous scale but there has been little reporting. If the 3 Gorges Damn fails, and many believe it will someday, it is going to be an enormous catastrophe.
Posted by: JackStraw It's on;y to deal with the Armyworm and African Swine Flu infestations. All is well. Posted by: Miklos, Lao Peng Jo at July 17, 2020 08:09 PM (QzkSJ) 115
One of the vloggers I watch, Brucke, is in Japan. They had to evacuate people in his area due to flooding. He had a video of the downpour. It was pretty impressive. (He didn't get flooded.)
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:09 PM (JKNZq) 116
I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM I actually used to enjoy that back in the 90s. Then Bush was elected and Garrison Keillor lost his ever loving mind. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (ejd/p) Posted by: pornhub at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (59YkD) 118
Cartalk is re-runs. Tom, one half of Tom and Ray, passed away some years ago. They were lefties, but pretty old school, not what anyone would call PC especially. That's what made the show entertaining to some degree.
I'm surprised they still broadcast it. Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (i9Gy2) 119
I will quote the great philosopher Nelson Muntz : Ha Ha
. Posted by: ggm at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (2BLzg) 120
Aren't these hamsters paid for by us anyway?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (cI3Q7) 121
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Posted by: Ben Had Oyster shucking WEEKENDS ONLY Posted by: Multifaceted Miklos at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (QzkSJ) 122
It always pissed me off that "All Things Considered" is the title of my favorite collection of Chesterton's essays.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (LMs+g) 123
What a shame.
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (Ed8Zd) 124
In Wuhan, the flood washes away the crud.
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (XhWtx) 125
Central China has been flooding for weeks on an enormous scale but there has been little reporting. If the 3 Gorges Damn fails, and many believe it will someday, it is going to be an enormous catastrophe.
Posted by: JackStraw This is 2020, so I'm going to go ahead and designate "someday" as next month. Posted by: Dr. T at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (eXYC7) 126
Driving is stressful enough. I cannot image adding in this vapid lefty shit.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at July 17, 2020 07:44 PM (ExV1e) ----------------- I listen to podcasts during my work commutes, people like Andrew Klavan, James Delingpole, even alexthechick and her sidekick. Posted by: Decaf at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (4D+FL) 127
''105 I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious''
It used to be funny when Keillor thought of himself as an entertainer. I think the 1980's was its high point. Then politics reared it's ugly head. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (gLRfa) 128
>>> 119 I will quote the great philosopher Nelson Muntz : Ha Ha
. Posted by: ggm at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (2BLzg) Needs repeating. HA HA. Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (0ReGO) 129
I sure hope that there's a webcam downstream of 3 Gorges, that's gonna be orders of magnitude beyond epic.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (0IMgo) 130
I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM I actually used to enjoy that back in the 90s. Then Bush was elected and Garrison Keillor lost his ever loving mind. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (ejd/p) I used to listen to that with dad on the Technics receiver back in... mid 1980s, I guess, through about early 1990s. Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 08:11 PM (t+qrx) 131
See, what we're really hoping for is a Sugar Daddy. If we can get a Silicon Valley vaporware company that has tricked other industrial Sugar Daddies to overfund our flavor of the week tech start-ups, then they'll fund our vanity projects and Woke-anda. We actually prefer NOT to have an audience because then we'd have to accommodate the smelly, contemptibles that infest our public spaces. If Sugar Daddy arrives, we need but please xim/xer.
I mean, look at the Washington Post. Or the New York Times. Money bleeding out the ass, but Bezos and Carlos Slim are there to buy our loyalty. It's really a pragmatic approach to our business model. Posted by: Woke Media at July 17, 2020 08:12 PM (HhXSr) 132
Oyster shucking WEEKENDS ONLY
Posted by: Multifaceted Miklos But shucking clams is FULL TIME! Alright alright alright Posted by: Rachel Maddow at July 17, 2020 08:12 PM (SfYbS) 133
The problem with Garrison is that he started sneering at his creation. it didn't start out that way. It was more like him talking about the people he grew up with.Then he became oh so superior to those rubes.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (JKNZq) 134
Lisa Booth is a cutie. She got the upper lip plumped. Hope it doesn't mess up her smile. Posted by: pornhub She used to continuously show her teeth. It annoyed me. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (aKsyK) 135
''I listen to podcasts during my work commutes, people like Andrew Klavan, James Delingpole, even alexthechick and her sidekick.''
The best podcast I've ever listened to was "The History of Rome". Kept me busy to and from work for months. Absolutely loved it. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (gLRfa) 136
I sure hope that there's a webcam downstream of 3 Gorges, that's gonna be orders of magnitude beyond epic.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez Ride that one sweet wave for, like, 1000 miles, dudes. Posted by: Mr. Miklos Spicoli at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (QzkSJ) 137
"I have a hard time figuring out how they would pull that off. Reviewers and presenters would have to know."
It was fun when sitting on shipboard ranking boards. You could always spot the one who just insisted on pointing out if someone was a single mother, or worked on the Black History Month committee. And other crap which usually correlated with Sub-par professional performance or rate knowledge. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (3D/fK) 138
When did Maddow become that guy from Dazed and Confused?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (cI3Q7) 139
I think all the media folks have forgotten they need to have an audience. They live in such a bubble they think everyone thinks like they do. So they make no effort to get anyone else to listen.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (JKNZq) 140
Interesting that those former listeners aren't listening at home. Or are they getting the broadcasts online, and that doesn't count in the ratings?
Whatever. I haven't had to wake up to NPR in months, so it's good for me. Posted by: Weak Geek at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (IUJ6R) 141
The best podcast I've ever listened to was "The History of Rome". Kept me busy to and from work for months. Absolutely loved it.
Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (gLRfa) Have a link for that, Tuna? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (cI3Q7) 142
If you read your local paper you will likely find that it is entirely focused on Covid fear-porn, shaming of people who are not staying home, and outrage at businesses and churches that have not permanently shut down.
Don't forget the front-page hagiographies of those brave "front line heroes," too. Because actually showing up to do the job you're paid for is now something akin to storming the Normandy beaches in this America. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (2JVJo) 143
I used to listen to that with dad on the Technics receiver back in... mid 1980s, I guess, through about early 1990s.
Posted by: hogmartin AoS Where all commenters are above average. Posted by: Miklos, well BAC anyway at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (QzkSJ) 144
>>> 80 So sad. I haven't listened to NPR in ages. Gave it up when the Marx to Mozart ratio went sky high.
"The Marx to Mozart ratio..." Now that's funny. Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (d9Cw3) 145
I mean, look at the Washington Post. Or the New York Times. Money bleeding out the ass, but Bezos and Carlos Slim are there to buy our loyalty. It's really a pragmatic approach to our business model.
Posted by: Woke Media Maybe NPR could land that blonde chick who fleeced all those Silicon Valley simps with her fake biotech company? Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (SfYbS) 146
Speaking of shucking.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (rMtbr) 147
One of the Click and Clack Bros passed a few years ago so no new programs are available. Even the reruns were funny before they stopped them.
- They had a comical news quiz show on that I liked but, SURPRISE!, during the 2016 election campaign they became so viciously anti-Trump slobberingly sycophantic to the Beast, I just couldn't take it anymore. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (+y/Ru) 148
Fatal Motorcycle Crash Listed As Florida Corona Death
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (59YkD) 149
Just had a commercial
All Lives Can't Matter Until Black Lives Matter. Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (6f16T) 150
Ride that one sweet wave for, like, 1000 miles, dudes.
Posted by: Mr. Miklos Spicoli I thought Charlie didn't surf... Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (SfYbS) 151
Did an NPR talk show once. It was a call-in format, but not long after we got going - just the host talking to me - the host hurriedly talked to his control room and said "no calls" for this show.
Heh. I know exactly why, though he never even bothered to explain. His fairly typical dim NPR audience, brimming and exploding with nonsense imparted by NPR, NYT, et al, would be calling in, indignant, and get eviscerated. Wouldn't have been a happy situation. As I said above, taking all the sources of false frameworks, disinformation, and toxic distortion into account, NPR is one of the most pernicious. People who aren't very bright in general, and certainly clueless when it comes to public policy, actually are greatly influenced by NPR. Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (OTzUX) 152
Three Gorges Dam? Flooding? Obviously the fault of Climate Change (the science is settled! ), which is the fault of Trump for pulling the US out of Paris Climate Accords
-- The MSM, taking a few moments away from WuFlu mask panic to report other news Posted by: Hands at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (786Ro) 153
can't argue with him on that. Well, he made his money while he could.
Online comics do quite well, with advertising and selling book collections. David Trampier, of D&D art and "Wormy" fame was just starting to get back into doing art when he died a few years ago. An online Wormy would have been huge. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (KZzsI) 154
Have you listened to the British History podcast? It's really good.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (JKNZq) 155
It is possible the little maggot is just a misguided art critic.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (3DZIZ) *********** Nope. He's sold his soul to Satan. Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (wiXsO) 156
Have a link for that, Tuna?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (cI3Q7) I believe it's just thehistoryofRome.com, and it is a very good podcast. I highly recommend it. Posted by: Dr. T at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (eXYC7) 157
Just collateral damage from the push to cancel ORANGEMANBAD!!11!!!
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 17, 2020 08:17 PM (CLteG) Posted by: Miklos "Barbara" Billingsley at July 17, 2020 08:17 PM (QzkSJ) 159
Gary? Reynolds is Car Talk every Saturday on wbap.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:17 PM (rMtbr) 160
I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM --- It used to be great, before Garrison's Great Political Awakening. I even caught his show ages ago when they came to Honolulu. Is he still alive? He must be insufferable now. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 08:18 PM (Dc2NZ) 161
People who aren't very bright in general, and certainly clueless when it comes to public policy, actually are greatly influenced by NPR.
And because they listen to NPR, they think they are educated and well informed beyond the average bear, and sneer at others. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:18 PM (KZzsI) 162
Just saw an Abeka homeschool curriculum commercial.
They sang this Little Light of Mine and showed moms and dads teaching happy kids. More , please. Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:18 PM (59YkD) 163
130 I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM I actually used to enjoy that back in the 90s. Then Bush was elected and Garrison Keillor lost his ever loving mind. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (ejd/p) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Same. I really enjoyed PHC until Keillor lost his mind post-Bush-Gore. His audience became a more dignified version of Jon Stewart's clapping seals, as the show became all anti-Republican snark. Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 17, 2020 08:18 PM (d9Cw3) 164
WuHan was flooded with 4 feet of water, over a week ago I heard that. The latest I heard they've opened all the spillways, everything and water is going over the dam. Don't know if that's true, or not. They can't do anything more at this point.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 17, 2020 08:19 PM (i9Gy2) 165
I thought Charlie didn't surf...
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable They hacked our database years ago. Posted by: SurfTech Inc. at July 17, 2020 08:19 PM (QzkSJ) 166
"If you read your local paper you will likely find that it is entirely focused on Covid fear-porn..."
Yep. Literally true. Months and months of page after page of Covid Coverage. Not a section unscathed; not a story devoid of the word. Quite incredible, really. You wouldn't know the planet existed but for Wuhan Flu. It's a real puzzler as to why consumers might be losing interest. The horse is so beaten that Chick-Fil-A has disguised it as an entree for nuggets. Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2020 08:19 PM (HhXSr) 167
And because they listen to NPR, they think they are educated and well informed beyond the average bear, and sneer at others.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:18 PM (KZzsI) This ever so this! Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2020 08:19 PM (oIv1v) 168
I am fascinated by all the lost revenue that will result from Hollywood producing a never ending stream of Woke movies from now on. Talk about timing! Might as well burn pallets of cash in the middle of a studio lot.
Posted by: Max Power at July 17, 2020 07:56 PM (q177U) ------------------ Go woke, go broke. And I hope they do but they will give themselves every award going and there will be ribbons to be worn at these self-congratulatory events. We saw it all before with the anti-war-on-terror movies during the Bush admin. Posted by: Decaf at July 17, 2020 08:19 PM (4D+FL) 169
>>I sure hope that there's a webcam downstream of 3 Gorges, that's gonna be orders of magnitude beyond epic.
It better be on a drone because anything it the path of that flood will be washed away. The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down. It's not nice to fuck around with Mother Nature. Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (ZLI7S) 170
OT: I'm watching Space: Above and Beyond and these space jarheads have very UNSAT haircuts.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (Dc2NZ) 171
Wasn't prairie home companion a sow in Minneapolis?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (s7y11) 172
show
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (s7y11) 173
[i/NPR is pure poison. My neighbor listens to it loud while gardening. It literally makes my ears bleed. Feel like drinking poison directly into my brain.
They use "soothing voice" hypnosis techniques to brainwash people in internalizing the most toxic leftist assumptions. Posted by: zombie at July 17, 2020 07:47 PM (HEEq1) I used to carpool with a lefty teammate to our baseball games, and he insisted on playing that shit when he drove. Drove me wild. That "late night jazz DJ" soothing voice, as though you're hearing the voice of indisputable pure reason, especially pissed me off. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (6JYGT) 174
NPR is like a heroin fix to the left. It feeds them their lies in the dulcet tones of a reasonable Big Sister.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (CLteG) 175
as David Harsanyi came up yesterday or the day before, I thought this piece about the "Lincoln Project" was worth mentioning:
The media can keep calling you "Republicans," but if you support Democrats, take Democratic Party positions, make voting for Democrats all the way down the ticket a binary choice and moral imperative, and then take most of your money from big Democratic Party donors, you're a Democrat. from Nat'l Review: https://tinyurl.com/yxq34mpx Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (4a9Vv) 176
That is the problem NPR presents its self as the intellectual version of the news, so people get this elitist sense despite it being the same dumb crap on CNN but delivered with a breathy voice by Christiane Amanpour instead of Brian Stelter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 07:56 PM (KZzsI) They all have the most annoying speaking voices, complete with unprofessional speaking tics. Posted by: Captain Hate at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (y7DUB) 177
deplorable, Abeka has some great stuff, bluebell recommended them.
My Constitution class got waylaid but my source material is Abeka. Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (rMtbr) 178
109 COVID fear porn
Yep. You want it with midget clowns or without? Posted by: pornhub at July 17, 2020 08:08 PM (59YkD) Lesbians. Asian. Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (NWiLs) 179
I love when people say npr is unbiased news.
------- I 'love' it when tweeters say the NYT and CBC et alia are right-wing! Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (TZi47) Posted by: Flyover at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (Rbu5d) 181
The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down. It's not nice to fuck around with Mother Nature.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2020 08:20 PM (ZLI7S) Damn. I hate resetting my clocks. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (6JYGT) 182
NPR at least plays classical music sometimes.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (4a9Vv) 183
Correction, Civics 101.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (rMtbr) 184
"The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down. It's not nice to fuck around with Mother Nature."
That's kind of awesome, actually. Posted by: Chris M at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (6XZdO) 185
If Three Gorges does go, it'll have to be the biggest disaster in recorded history. I've read that 400 million people will be flooded out.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (sWM8x) 186
Oh yeah, also re: Three Gorges Dam.
If that baby collapses, look for the MSM for fresh stories along the lines of "are U.S. dams really safe?", or "whistleblower claims Trump Admin. ignoring crumbling dam infrastructure", etc. Posted by: Hands at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (786Ro) 187
I cancelled my local paper today when the bill came. The propaganda sucks. Last week when I had to file a Public Notice for publication, I found out they had changed their system. Now they are like the courts. You go to a website, log in, do all their work and they approve or deny, then you have to pay before they will print it. I hate the media.
Posted by: Infidel at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (Tt+tJ) 188
On short errands in the car I've now found I can't listen to almost anything on the radio - it's all, to varying degrees and in varying ways, intolerably stupid.
The local "conservative" talk show hosts are vapid beyond belief. Discussing things at what I'd call an 8th grade level ...... 8th grade in the 70s, that is. Not now. They're as bad as Hannity. The "news" is often idiotic and infuriating, even the 2-minute updates. It's a miracle the country functions at all, has electricity, etc., given how uninformed, and misinformed, so many people are about just about everything. Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (OTzUX) 189
Covid fear porn = lockdowns and masks. You VILL COMPLY, subjects!!!
Posted by: Mookie at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (3vIkC) 190
I drove over the road for a while and the only radio you could reliably get was NPR.........and Rush.
Posted by: Javems at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (+N0R/) 191
Fortune noticed we weren't grateful for 3.5% unemployment?
Posted by: Eve at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (L5yo0) 192
It calms me to think of The Soothing Voice choking on its blood from a knife to the throat. I'm just funny that way.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (CLteG) 193
182 NPR at least plays classical music sometimes.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 17, 2020 08:21 PM (4a9Vv) Rip classical music from YouTube, load it on an MP3 player, play it over your car radio. Problem solved. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (6JYGT) 194
This video rates a WOW.
A Marine faces his final hill to take. You will probably need a few moments to collect yourself after it gets done playing. I did. https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/ 1284254823341101056 via The Last Refuge's twitter. Posted by: filbert at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (NiXyF) 195
It is possible the little maggot is just a misguided art critic. Posted by: the guy that moves pianos (meh, it's a living) That little maggot got his own jet airplane. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (aKsyK) 196
I believe it's just thehistoryofRome.com, and it is a very good podcast. I highly recommend it.
Posted by: Dr. T at July 17, 2020 08:16 PM (eXYC7) Thanks. Bookmarked. Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (cI3Q7) 197
I saw 2012, and the dam burst was awesome.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (rMtbr) 198
NPR before Congress: "If you don't give us money we can't continue!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (mht8P) If they would cut the propaganda and just play classical music -- and maybe some jazz and blues on the weekend for my dog LeftCoast Dawg -- the whole operation would cost about 5 cents. Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with comprehensive surveillance and subcutaneous chips! at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (BRkq2) 199
192 It calms me to think of The Soothing Voice choking on its blood from a knife to the throat. I'm just funny that way.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (CLteG) Damn. I wish I'd thought of that. I was probably light purple after 45 minutes of listening to that blatant crap. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (6JYGT) 200
my source material is Abeka.
Posted by: Ben Had I am passingly familiar with them. Another interesting commercial on FOX, right after Abeka homeschool: Back9Greens. A company that can turn your back yard into a putting green or a multi-hole golf course. Those guys are probably cleaning up right now. Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (59YkD) 201
''156 Have a link for that, Tuna?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (cI3Q7) I believe it's just thehistoryofRome.com, and it is a very good podcast. I highly recommend it.'' I just picked up from Apple podcasts. Mike Duncan is the guy who did it. Just a guy who did his research and did an amazing job. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (gLRfa) 202
The 3 Gorges Dam. When it was built (late 90s) there was a great cartoon showing Bill Clinton thinking it was the 3 Gorgeous Dames and yelling, "WHERE??"
Posted by: Mookie at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (3vIkC) 203
I used to like Prairie Home Companion. Then it got tedious.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:07 PM I actually used to enjoy that back in the 90s. Then Bush was elected and Garrison Keillor lost his ever loving mind. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2020 08:10 PM (ejd/p) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Same. I really enjoyed PHC until Keillor lost his mind post-Bush-Gore. His audience became a more dignified version of Jon Stewart's clapping seals, as the show became all anti-Republican snark. Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 17, 2020 08:18 PM (d9Cw3) I always found it boring in an annoyingly fake elitist way. Posted by: Captain Hate at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (y7DUB) Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (xPl2J) 205
It's a miracle the country functions at all, has electricity, etc., given how uninformed, and misinformed, so many people are about just about everything.
Posted by: rhomboid Give it a few years for the momentum to slow, indoor plumbing may become a luxury. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:24 PM (SfYbS) 206
sometimes, the worst people you will meet are the ones who did really well in school because they could memorize everything without thinking about anything.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (4a9Vv) 207
Hadrian's Classical music selections- all you will ever need.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (rMtbr) 208
Why is NPR still receiving taxpayer funding? I can see no justification for American state-sponsored media.
Especially in a world that is super-saturated with media. NPR can put out the same product without the subsidy, with just a bit of belt-tightening. This is something Trump could fix in two minutes. Posted by: gp at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (qpX6U) 209
Fatal Motorcycle Crash Listed As Florida Corona Death
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:15 PM (59YkD) It is not untrue that it was "COVID related" if he tested positive before or after the crash. For some bizarre reason people keep drawing the conclusion that "related" is the same as "cause by". Maybe because they keep pushing that statistic as if it were meaningful. Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (1g7ch) 210
NPR before Congress: "If you don't give us money we can't continue!"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2020 08:03 PM (mht8P) Best argument ever for shitcanning their subvention. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (6JYGT) 211
For decades I subscribed to two local papers and the highlight of my week was leisurely reading the Sunday editions over breakfast. I thought I would do that for the rest of my life. But, of course, it mutated from reading leisurely to reading liesurely. So newspapers, DIAF.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (+y/Ru) 212
"The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down. It's not nice to fuck around with Mother Nature."
https://tinyurl.com/y39ko5tm Posted by: Miklosian Margarine Brands, LLC at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (QzkSJ) 213
This is horrible news. Now where are stroke victims who can barely talk going to find work as prominent radio personalities?
Posted by: No one at July 17, 2020 08:26 PM (/UgyY) 214
The local "conservative" talk show hosts are vapid beyond belief. Discussing things at what I'd call an 8th grade level ...... 8th grade in the 70s, that is. Not now. They're as bad as Hannity. The "news" is often idiotic and infuriating, even the 2-minute updates.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM (OTzUX) We have Steve Gruber in the morning in mid-Michigan, he's not bad. And Mark Levin is always good, even if his voice makes him sound like the lead singer of The Vindictives. Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 08:26 PM (t+qrx) 215
CH, it was unbelievably corny.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:26 PM (s7y11) 216
"The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation
to slow down. It's not nice to fuck around with Mother Nature." Cannonball!!! Posted by: Big Booty Lady from Prior Thread at July 17, 2020 08:26 PM (q1Pj5) 217
The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down.
The bones of dissident babies is what gives it that extra resilience. Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:26 PM (59YkD) 218
It's a miracle the country functions at all, has electricity, etc., given how uninformed, and misinformed, so many people are about just about everything.
Posted by: rhomboid Given the state of science education, I'm amazed we don't have departments of phrenology or of dowsing in universities. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:27 PM (6JYGT) 219
Best argument ever for shitcanning their subvention.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara Franking Privilege! Posted by: Rep. Miklos Jackson-Lee (D-mented) at July 17, 2020 08:27 PM (QzkSJ) 220
Jeebus, filbert. I'm not crying, you're crying. Bless that man.
Posted by: Infidel at July 17, 2020 08:27 PM (Tt+tJ) 221
141 The best podcast I've ever listened to was "The History of Rome". Kept me busy to and from work for months. Absolutely loved it. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (gLRfa) Have a link for that, Tuna? Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 17, 2020 08:14 PM (cI3Q7) This one? https://tinyurl.com/y32j6ahn What is linked is part 6, but you can easily go back. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (ufFY8) 222
24 my heart just bleeds for them
Posted by: vmom 2020 's tale of teigen twitterazism at July 17, 2020 07:51 PM (TOyHQ) ...do I detect some insincerity? Posted by: Flyover at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (Rbu5d) 223
''182 NPR at least plays classical music sometimes. ''
Here in Columbus our NPR split between AM and FM. As I said above, FM is devoted to music. No politics. I do not listen to the AM anymore and as long as FM stays apolitical I'll continue to support it. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (gLRfa) 224
It's a miracle the country functions at all, has electricity, etc., given how uninformed, and misinformed, so many people are about just about everything.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM Eventually, the Machine stops. Posted by: Zombie E.M. Forster at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (786Ro) 225
I listen to Howie Carr on the way to/from work. When I am homesick, I will stream WGAN out of Portland. NYC sux
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 17, 2020 08:30 PM (4vNgL) 226
Local papers are dying because they exist on ad revenue from small businesses.
The same small businesses that our so called Elected Leaders have shut down. Why advertise when you can't do business in the first place? Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2020 08:30 PM (NgKpN) 227
NPR is the most sleep inducing swill I've ever listened to. They barely speak above a whisper and it's all lefty rubbish Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2020 08:30 PM (oIv1v) Posted by: Mookie at July 17, 2020 08:31 PM (3vIkC) 229
NPR is just propaganda for the Democrats, they will never let it go.
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2020 08:31 PM (6f16T) 230
the best thing about NPR is that they'll never go away and we get to pay for them hanging around!
poor business model? no problem, the taxpayers will cover those losses! dying industry? no problem, the taxpayers have your back! wee! Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at July 17, 2020 08:31 PM (k/MuV) 231
#212 I'm on a tablet so I don't 'feel' like hitting a link but someone at Insty's said it slowed down the rotation by 0.006 (or 0.06??) microseconds!
Did I remember correctly?? Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2020 08:31 PM (TZi47) 232
NBA Star James Harden Wears Blue Line Mask Then Apologizes After Getting Bullied
Comrade Stalin would be so proud Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 17, 2020 08:31 PM (85Gof) 233
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaHA!!!
Posted by: vivi at July 17, 2020 08:32 PM (11H2y) Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:32 PM (gLRfa) 235
It's a miracle the country functions at all, has electricity
Posted by: rhomboid at July 17, 2020 08:22 PM Electricity is racist! Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:32 PM (6JYGT) 236
Sinatra sxm channel is great for driving
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:32 PM (s7y11) 237
Why is NPR still receiving taxpayer funding? I can see no justification for American state-sponsored media.
It shouldn't be. The original goals and justification for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR and the rest was to raise the quality and education value of television and radio by providing content that wasn't around then, more educational content than say, Green Acres and Hogan's Heroes, and to give artistic voices a platform. All of which is done through the internet and tens of thousands of television channels now in existence. Everything they set out to do is being done a hundred times more and better by thousands of other outlets. Even if there had been the slimmest constitutional justification for taking tax dollars for this government spending at one time, there is no justification whatsoever for maintaining it any longer. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:33 PM (KZzsI) 238
The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down. It's not nice to fuck around with Mother Nature.
Pikers Posted by: Superman at July 17, 2020 08:33 PM (786Ro) 239
Eventually, the Machine stops.
Posted by: Zombie E.M. Forster This is why we are very nice to AOP. Posted by: Miklos Meineke's Shade Tree Transmission Service at July 17, 2020 08:33 PM (QzkSJ) 240
Buck Throckmorton stole my childhood.
Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at July 17, 2020 08:34 PM (EgshT) 241
The Three Gorges Dam makes the Yangtze's ass look big?
Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2020 08:34 PM (XhWtx) 242
sometimes, the worst people you will meet are the ones who did really well in school because they could memorize everything without thinking about anything.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 17, 2020 08:25 PM (4a9Vv) Every pre-med I knew. Good for them. Now shut up and give me my script because in just about every other country in the world I could just go by it without your permission. Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 17, 2020 08:34 PM (1g7ch) Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 17, 2020 08:34 PM (2JVJo) 244
Eventually, the Machine stops.
Posted by: Zombie E.M. Forster at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (786Ro) We could buy a new one, if only they had them for sale. Posted by: hogmartin at July 17, 2020 08:35 PM (t+qrx) 245
Anybody know the Chinese word for ark?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:35 PM (rMtbr) 246
"Hadrian's Classical music selections- all you will ever need."
He has put a lot of thought in to these. I consider myself no slouch in terms of my classical music familiarity, but he has selections I have never heard before. And artists. Kudos to Hadrian. Posted by: attilla isn't so bad, really at July 17, 2020 08:35 PM (w7KSn) 247
I think one of the things keeping papers going is that you have to post legal notices in them.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:35 PM (JKNZq) 248
Call your representatives in Congress and insist they support the Bill converting NPR into MPR.
Thank you for your support. Posted by: Miklos Public Radio at July 17, 2020 08:35 PM (QzkSJ) 249
This video rates a WOW.
A Marine faces his final hill to take. You will probably need a few moments to collect yourself after it gets done playing. I did. https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/ 1284254823341101056 via The Last Refuge's twitter. Posted by: filbert at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (NiXyF) ******** Wiping the teardrops. Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (wiXsO) 250
And class action lawsuit ads.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (s7y11) 251
#234 Still sharper than Biden! Woohoo!
Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (TZi47) 252
By the way, you know what the latest racist thing is?
... Sleep https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6jt5lez Teen Vogue which... I don't think any actual teen girls read, much less anyone else, has an article entitled "Black Power Naps," which argues that blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (KZzsI) 253
''Now shut up and give me my script because in just about every other country in the world I could just go by it without your permission.''
My sis lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years. You can walk into a pharmacy and get whatever you want. She used to bring me back tubes and tubes of Retin-A. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:37 PM (gLRfa) 254
Deplorable Jay Guevara: "Electricity is racist!"
Exactly. Why don't the protons ever give up their space to the electrons? Make them remain at a distance like that, stopping integration. It's just horrible. Posted by: Candidate Neutron (D - Nucleus) at July 17, 2020 08:37 PM (HhXSr) 255
Tucker Smallwood! An unfortunate name for a very manly actor.
Before the HQ and the strange days in which we re living, I never would have thought about it. The past is a different country. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 08:37 PM (Dc2NZ) 256
"Hadrian's Classical music selections- all you will ever need."
I have to figure out a way to transfer it all to my ipod. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 17, 2020 08:37 PM (2JVJo) 257
**hoists glass of Bushmills**
Work is done. Weekend is here. Cheers, Horde! Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing I want to see the kids doing that and back at school! Posted by: Miklos, former Educator, as the aged children call it at July 17, 2020 08:37 PM (QzkSJ) 258
Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again............
Posted by: James "Buster" Hymannd at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (qM84C) 259
This one?
https://tinyurl.com/y32j6ahn What is linked is part 6, but you can easily go back. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (ufFY Who does it? Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with comprehensive surveillance, communist allies, and fake "science" at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (BRkq2) 260
Have a wonderful evening horde. Going to meet some morons in meat space.
Posted by: Infidel at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (Tt+tJ) 261
Sleep
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6jt5lez Teen Vogue which... I don't think any actual teen girls read, much less anyone else, has an article entitled "Black Power Naps," which argues that blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (KZzsI) Que? we solved zat problem. Siestas. Posted by: So Slow Rodrigex at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (NgKpN) 262
Teen Vogue which... I don't think any actual teen
girls read, much less anyone else, has an article entitled "Black Power Naps," which argues that blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (KZzsI) That right there is fucked up. Posted by: Stan from South Park at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (ufFY8) 263
''Hadrian's Classical music selections- all you will ever need."
He has put a lot of thought in to these. I consider myself no slouch in terms of my classical music familiarity, but he has selections I have never heard before. And artists. Kudos to Hadrian.'' The best 3 elective courses I took in college were on the history of music. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (gLRfa) 264
My sis lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years. You can walk into a pharmacy and get whatever you want. She used to bring me back tubes and tubes of Retin-A.
Posted by: Tuna "In America, you need to go to a doctor to get prescription for drugs. In Tijuana, you are a doctor." -Dave Attell Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:39 PM (SfYbS) 265
MP4, I hope you have a glorious weekend.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:39 PM (rMtbr) 266
NPR should start an OnlyFans site
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at July 17, 2020 08:39 PM (h1jJh) 267
Why is NPR still receiving taxpayer funding? I can see no justification for American state-sponsored media.
It shouldn't be. The original goals and justification for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, NPR and the rest was to raise the quality and education value of television and radio by providing content that wasn't around then, more educational content than say, Green Acres and Hogan's Heroes, and to give artistic voices a platform. Now I won't stand for anyone dissing Hogan's Heroes, but let that pass. Here's my modest proposal: the content of PBS, assuming we can't lance that boil on the buttocks of American society, should be controlled by whichever party does not control the White House. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:39 PM (6JYGT) 268
Shark grabs 10 year boy off of boat near Tasmania. Dad jumps in and gets him back. Global warming or toxic masculinity?
Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at July 17, 2020 08:39 PM (BJcQt) 269
"...reparations must be given in the form of time off from work."
These requests are begging to be shoehorned in to every ancient stereotype that I thought we had all progressed. Posted by: attilla isn't so bad, really at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (w7KSn) 270
''Who does it?
Posted by: Gilded Age II, '' Mike Duncan. He made a name for himself with that podcast. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (gLRfa) 271
I saw Black Power Naps open for Green Helmet Guy at the Rialto in '86.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (59YkD) Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (oVJmc) 273
Popcorn futures.
Posted by: Super Mario at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (yshFD) 274
259
This one? https://tinyurl.com/y32j6ahn What is linked is part 6, but you can easily go back. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2020 08:28 PM (ufFY Who does it? Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with comprehensive surveillance, communist allies, and fake "science" at July 17, 2020 08:38 PM (BRkq2) Mike Duncan. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (ufFY8) 275
"In America, you need to go to a doctor to get prescription for drugs. In Tijuana, you are a doctor." -Dave Attell -- I also miss "Insomniac". What a hilarious show. Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (Dc2NZ) 276
I think one of the things keeping papers going is that you have to post legal notices in them.
Posted by: notsothoreau at July 17, 2020 08:35 PM (JKNZq) ----------------------- There has been a movement afoot to substitute "publishing" legal notices online on whatever government website the legal notice pertains to, rather than have to publish on paper with a newspaper. So far that's a hill the newspapers are willing to die on, because it's the very last of their guaranteed income. Posted by: Boots at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (oGBso) 277
Never mind. I should just listen to one and see what is what.
I see they are doing the Russian Revolution now. Thanks to also to Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:13 PM (gLRfa) Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with comprehensive surveillance, communist allies, and fake at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM (BRkq2) 278
NASCAR fans are back at the track. They really love Bubba Wallace. LOL
https://tinyurl.com/yyugukxf Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2020 08:41 PM (xPl2J) 279
Teen Vogue which... I don't think any actual teen
girls read, much less anyone else, has an article entitled "Black Power Naps," which argues that blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (KZzsI) I'm guessing drive-by shootings, drug use, smoking, and morbid obesity didn't warrant a mention in that article. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:41 PM (6JYGT) 280
NBA Star James Harden Wears Blue Line Mask Then Apologizes After Getting Bullied
Yes, and CBS Sports scolded him because they found one cop who also had to kneel to the mob and apologize for it. I give you West Virginia University Police Chief W.P. Chedester - "I understand now that it represents something else to many others; something that I now know was traumatic to some of our community tuning in for our Conversation. I sincerely did not have any intent to suggest that police lives matter more than Black lives nor was I intentionally trying to cause any harm or offense." Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 17, 2020 08:41 PM (EgshT) Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:41 PM (KZzsI) 282
This video rates a WOW.
A Marine faces his final hill to take. You will probably need a few moments to collect yourself after it gets done playing. I did. https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/ 1284254823341101056 May St Michael the Archangel lead that man to his eternal reward. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 17, 2020 08:41 PM (2JVJo) 283
Christopher R Taylor: "...blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work."
Gotta admit, whoever made that up has some genuine verve. And sass. BS like that can only be described as performance art. Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2020 08:41 PM (HhXSr) 284
NASCAR fans are back at the track. They really love Bubba Wallace.
Yeah he did not get a standing ovation Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:42 PM (KZzsI) 285
I don't listen to podcasts. Find them boring.
Listening to talking heads on TV or the radio, no thanks to that also. I listen to mostly r&b nowadays. Just can't deal with people and their opinions nowadays. Posted by: SMH at July 17, 2020 08:42 PM (RU4sa) 286
Teen Vogue which... I don't think any actual teen
girls read, much less anyone else, has an article entitled "Black Power Naps," which argues that blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:36 PM (KZzsI) Great. Fire them. Sleep all you like. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:42 PM (6JYGT) 287
The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down.
Big deal. Lena Dunham's ass does the same thing. Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at July 17, 2020 08:42 PM (COzlW) 288
The funny thing about it is the track is probably about 20% full and it sounds like a sellout crowd booing.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2020 08:43 PM (xPl2J) 289
Maybe not good news - they'll probably get more of our money. Though I gotta admit, I would sometimes listen to their sports report. It's very high on the unintentionally funny scale.
Posted by: InCali at July 17, 2020 08:43 PM (9AFWN) 290
287
The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down. Big deal. Lena Dunham's ass does the same thing. Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at July 17, 2020 08:42 PM (COzlW) You ignorant fuckers. Posted by: Brian Dennehy at July 17, 2020 08:43 PM (ufFY8) 291
Yes, and CBS Sports scolded him because they found one cop who also had to kneel to the mob and apologize for it. I give you West Virginia University Police Chief W.P. Chedester -
"I understand now that blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah, and in conclusion, blah." Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:43 PM (6JYGT) 292
*fistbump to SMH on the R&B*
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2020 08:44 PM (rMtbr) Posted by: Gilded Age II, now with comprehensive surveillance, communist allies, and fake at July 17, 2020 08:44 PM (BRkq2) 294
Ha, ha. I'm watching the Mad Men episode set in '62 when JFK made his Cuban Missile speech. Roger Sterling is reading the NYT and one of the above the fold stories on the frontpage is "Chinese open new front; use tanks against Indians". Can't make out the headline's subhead though that's three lines long. Everything old is new again.
Posted by: andycanuck at July 17, 2020 08:44 PM (TZi47) 295
''I see they are doing the Russian Revolution now. ''
He started a new Podcast "Revolutions" sometime after the Rome thing was finished. Haven't listened to that one as my interests are mainly ancient and medieval history but I'm sure it's as well researched and presented as the Rome podcast was. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:44 PM (gLRfa) Posted by: 40 miles north at July 17, 2020 08:44 PM (o2vOl) 297
287 The 3 Gorges Dam is so big that it actually causes the earth's rotation to slow down.
Big deal. Lena Dunham's ass does the same thing. Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at July 17, 2020 08:42 PM (COzlW) Not true! She causes tsunamis when she slips in the bathtub, but she doesn't cause this. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:45 PM (6JYGT) 298
This video rates a WOW.
A Marine faces his final hill to take. You will probably need a few moments to collect yourself after it gets done playing. I did. https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/ 1284254823341101056 That was very intense and moving. Posted by: Max Power at July 17, 2020 08:45 PM (q177U) 299
I also miss "Insomniac". What a hilarious show.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 17, 2020 08:40 PM So who is garrett then? The wacky neighbor? Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at July 17, 2020 08:45 PM (COzlW) 300
So, have you guys covered Jeremy Roenick yet?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at July 17, 2020 08:45 PM (Wm5SB) 301
his video rates a WOW.
A Marine faces his final hill to take. You will probably need a few moments to collect yourself after it gets done playing. I did. https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/ 1284254823341101056 via The Last Refuge's twitter. Posted by: filbert at July 17, 2020 08:23 PM (NiXyF) Wow indeed. Thanks for posting that Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 17, 2020 08:46 PM (oIv1v) 302
MSM is gonna blame Trumps choice of Michael Pack as Foreign Broadcast CEO for the plummet in ratings....
Posted by: TXMarko at July 17, 2020 08:46 PM (2QCBw) 303
Sports radio has nothing to talk about except past glory
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2020 08:46 PM (6f16T) 304
Mark1971: "NASCAR fans are back at the track. They really love Bubba Wallace. LOL"
That was a lot of booing from essentially no audience. They clearly punched above their weight. NASCAR done screwed up. If there was supposed to be a fan base present (and it wasn't a quarantined race), then that was an ugly scene money- and interest-wise. Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2020 08:46 PM (HhXSr) 305
Miss Swimsuit UK Stripped of Title For Posting 'All Lives Matter' on Facebook, Questioning if George Floyd Was Innocent
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (lbPuN) 306
289 Maybe not good news - they'll probably get more of our money. Though I gotta admit, I would sometimes listen to their sports report. It's very high on the unintentionally funny scale.
Posted by: InCali at July 17, 2020 08:43 PM (9AFWN) Who else covers the pro hacky-sack circuit? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (6JYGT) 307
303 Sports radio has nothing to talk about except past glory
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2020 08:46 PM (6f16T) --- Watching youtube clips of old games > listening to boring guys talk about the glory days Posted by: SMH at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (RU4sa) 308
Sports radio has nothing to talk about except past glory
Posted by: Skip Thanks, now I have that shitty Springsteen song stuck in my head. Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (SfYbS) Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (3H9h1) 310
Christopher R Taylor: "...blacks have had shorter lives than whites because blacks were not permitted to sleep, and thus reparations must be given in the form of time off from work."
Reparations do not go far enough. Posted by: Barry Obamao at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (1g7ch) 311
BS like that can only be described as performance art.
It is truly impressive, but every day someone comes up with that kind of stupid at universities and it becomes mainstreamed until you hear it from congressmen. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (KZzsI) 312
305 Miss Swimsuit UK Stripped of Title For Posting 'All Lives Matter' on Facebook, Questioning if George Floyd Was Innocent
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (lbPuN) A career criminal, deadbeat dad, and druggie not as pure as the driven snow? Unpossible. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:48 PM (6JYGT) 313
NASCAR fans are back at the track. They really love Bubba Wallace. LOL
https://tinyurl.com/yyugukxf Posted by: Mark1971 Boo Boo Wallace Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 17, 2020 08:48 PM (+y/Ru) 314
NASCAR done screwed up. If there was supposed to be a fan base present (and it wasn't a quarantined race), then that was an ugly scene money- and interest-wise.
Sticking him into the pointless and silly All Star race was a major mis-step but they probably felt like they had to. Then he wrecked and the crowd cheered. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:48 PM (KZzsI) 315
''Sports radio has nothing to talk about except past glory''
Well hockey starts up again next month. Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2020 08:49 PM (gLRfa) 316
I saw at least a hundred nooses in the crowd!
Posted by: Bubba Karen-Wallace at July 17, 2020 08:49 PM (EgshT) 317
more:
Miss Swimsuit UK Jasmine Archer-Jones, 23, has been stripped of her title for posting that "All Lives Matter" and questioning the innocence of leftist martyr George Floyd. The swimsuit model is also under attack over her boyfriend's Facebook posts, including a meme that said "white guilt is real, white privilege is a leftist lie." Would love to have these kids over for grill and dinner. Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:50 PM (lbPuN) 318
Wow, that gamer girl video game in the side bar looks so bad it seems like parody. Holy crap thats' terrible, its as bad as some of those CD video games SEGA put out with the live footage mixed in with animation
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 08:50 PM (KZzsI) 319
We just herd from Senator Sanders that he introduced a bill to force the Southern Slave States must pay all persons of color $5 Million worth of reparations and also persons of color do not have to pay any Federal Taxes for the next 50 years. We are proud of Senator Sanders and what he be doing for persons of color in this country unlike Trump who is filled with HATE !!!!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at July 17, 2020 08:50 PM (qM84C) 320
One of the little bootlets has been receiving Cosmopolitan magazine for a couple of years now. It is trash, absolute trash on how to whore yourself out to strangers and which cosmetic products to use while doing so.
She refuses to look at it, wants it recycled without her name on it as soon as we bring in the mail. I just take off the name label and throw it in the trash where it belongs. Posted by: Boots at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (oGBso) 321
Prince Ludwig the Deplorable: "Thanks, now I have that shitty Springsteen song stuck in my head."
That doesn't narrow things down. It's like saying, "What's that song of his where his voice is all scratchy and he's wearing blue jeans?" Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (HhXSr) 322
Don't even find Mary funny anymore.
Posted by: SMH at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (RU4sa) 323
NPR news is corny and predictable. Ambient sound effects on radio storytelling--really? What is this, Orson Welles? The reason it works is those calm and soothing voices, which convince People of a Certain Stamp that it really must be quite profound.
Posted by: Caliban at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (QE8X6) 324
Posted this earlier, but this morning a Republican being interviewed about Biden's campaign strategy said they had to keep him from saying things like "You're not Black!"
Interviewer chick says "That is a reference to a comment Biden made on The View". No further explanation or context. Perhaps the biggest gaffe Biden has made in the campaign, and she obviously KNEW the NPR audience would never have heard of it! Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (7Ezdo) 325
The Christian school I grew up in used mostly Abeka. I thought it was good (though, I didn't have an alternative to compare to till I got to college. And this was many years ago.)
They are (or at least were) hardline young-earth creationist in the geological and biological sciences, but I got more than enough evolution exposure from TV documentaries & science-y magazines that it wasn't an issue for knowing what the right answers would be in a state university science course. Posted by: ptschett at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (zB+vL) 326
Thanks, now I have that shitty Springsteen song stuck in my head.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:47 PM (SfYbS) Question - is there any non-shitty Springsteen song? Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (2JVJo) 327
Thank you to everyone who said something nice about the Official AoSHQ Classical Music Playlist of White Supremacy and Systemic Racism (TM) (http://soyaraborzoi.com/Playlist.htm). I find all 3000 tracks will fit on a 64 GB flash drive. If you want one, write me at monsalvat61 at gmail dot com with your mailing address. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2020 08:51 PM (mht8P) 328
"...blacks have had shorter lives than whites because
--because so many of them kill each other in their teens and 20s, lowering the average lifespan number. Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (oVJmc) 329
Goddaughter just tested positive for COVID. She has been crying all day. Makes me mad.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (s7y11) 330
I should have mentioned that the little bootlet never subscribed to Cosmo and has no idea how she ended up on their subscription list.
Posted by: Boots at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (oGBso) 331
Mark1971: "NASCAR fans are back at the track. They really love Bubba Wallace. LOL"
Bubba has done the impossible: He's less popular than King Douchebag Kyle Busch. Posted by: Mookie at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (3vIkC) 332
We just herd from Senator Sanders that he introduced a bill to force the Southern Slave States must pay all persons of color $5 Million worth of reparations and also persons of color do not have to pay any Federal Taxes for the next 50 years. We are proud of Senator Sanders and what he be doing for persons of color in this country unlike Trump who is filled with HATE !!!!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at July 17, 2020 08:50 PM (qM84C) Yeah, huge financial hit to the Treasury. And speaking of reparations, I'm a person of choler. Does that count? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (6JYGT) 333
My radio doesn't get NPR.
Posted by: Weasel at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (MVjcR) Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 17, 2020 08:53 PM (lbPuN) 335
329 Goddaughter just tested positive for COVID. She has been crying all day. Makes me mad.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (s7y11) Is she sick sick, or got a cold sick? And how old is she? Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2020 08:53 PM (NgKpN) 336
Nood
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable, Black Powder Matters at July 17, 2020 08:53 PM (SfYbS) 337
Yeah, huge financial hit to the Treasury.
And speaking of reparations, I'm a person of choler. Does that count? Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (6JYGT) Guess its time to work the the tan! Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (NgKpN) 338
Junior in high school
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (s7y11) 339
Question - is there any non-shitty Springsteen song?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing There is one, but that's because it was recorded by Manfred Mann Posted by: Hands at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (786Ro) 340
--because so many of them kill each other in their teens and 20s, lowering the average lifespan number.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2020 08:52 PM (oVJmc) Leading cause of death of black males 15-35? Murder, by other black males, per the CDC. But they're just guessing. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (6JYGT) 341
I am sad to say I found Prairie Home Companion entertaining back in the day. But, being the ass that he is, Garrison Keillor eventually demonstrated to me the ugliness of his heart so I turned it off forever.
Didn't even get a nifty tote bag for my trouble. Posted by: Tonypete at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (Rvt88) 342
Interviewer chick says "That is a reference to a comment Biden made on The View". No further explanation or context. Perhaps the biggest gaffe Biden has made in the campaign, and she obviously KNEW the NPR audience would never have heard of it! And it wasn't on The View. Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (oVJmc) 343
Christopher R Taylor: "Then he wrecked and the crowd cheered."
Tip o' the hat to Karma, over in the pits. Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at July 17, 2020 08:54 PM (HhXSr) 344
>> Southern Slave States must pay all persons of color
During the Summer I get pretty dark - do I qualify for 25%? Posted by: 40 miles north at July 17, 2020 08:55 PM (o2vOl) 345
The 3 Gorges Dam had opened all of its gates last week due to record rains, which began in late June. Go on You Tube and search "China flooding" and you'll see devastating videos of cars floating and submerged, houses falling in mudslides, bridges collapsing. My theory is that Xi doesn't want the dam to collapse, so the only option is to keep the gates open.
Posted by: fly gal at July 17, 2020 08:55 PM (6CtMt) 346
Questioning if George Floyd Was Innocent
- Questioning? The left is the side pointing out that he was ONLY hustling counterfeit twenties. Posted by: Charles Darwin Doing the Humpty Dance on the Interstate at July 17, 2020 08:56 PM (ENelr) 347
Chicago police are being attacked with bottles and fireworks as they protect the Christopher Columbus statue
Posted by: redridinghood at July 17, 2020 08:57 PM (wiXsO) 348
Covid fear-porn, shaming of people who are not staying home, and outrage at businesses and churches that have not permanently shut down
On that, 'Over half of coronavirus patients in Spain have developed neurological problems' - t.co/6QfTL1uerK?amp=1 You can't disprove accounts like this; easier to dismiss it as "fear porn" or "shaming" or "outrage". Eppur si muove. Posted by: boulder t'hobo at July 17, 2020 08:57 PM (ykYG2) 349
She is more concerned about being the reason for her friends having to cancel things. Her mom said she isn't very sick. She took her to be tested because she fear a headache for 3 days.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 08:59 PM (s7y11) 350
I listened to my local sportsball radio show and they were parroting the globohomorection line about the redksins "well, if you fans don't like that then fine, we can live without out you."
well, fine, I don't need sportsballtalk radio. Posted by: guest myspace user at July 17, 2020 08:59 PM (rnk6i) 351
282 This video rates a WOW.
A Marine faces his final hill to take. You will probably need a few moments to collect yourself after it gets done playing. I did. https://twitter.com/TAftermath2020/status/ 1284254823341101056 -------------------------- I hope Pres. Trump sees that. God bless that gentleman. Posted by: fly gal at July 17, 2020 08:59 PM (6CtMt) 352
had
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 17, 2020 09:00 PM (s7y11) 353
The research is varied; it includes investigations on how the virus changes a persons sense of smell and taste, research on headaches in infected healthcare workers, and a study into strokes in 1,600 patients with Covid-19.
-- Holy crap, some people who were working got headaches. Others had their sense of smell changed for a while. Posted by: Charles Darwin Doing the Humpty Dance on the Interstate at July 17, 2020 09:01 PM (ENelr) 354
Outside the Euro-scale teachers markets, NPR has had lasting support because so many local stations are still stuck in the Sixties, insisting on playing classical, jazz, and folk music instead of the propaganda. But this power play is pulling them down. The local station here, which was a pillar of strength in the programming, slipped over to all-afternoon national news a couple of months ago, starting with the governor's press conferences and never quite slipping back out of it. Needless to say, the audience has dropped off accordingly -- but like the Times, the handful they picked up are maniacal. It will be sad to lose the station, but we tried to warn them.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 17, 2020 09:01 PM (8IOEj) 355
You can't disprove accounts like this; easier to dismiss it as "fear porn" or "shaming" or "outrage". Eppur si muove.
Or prove. Its a claim, but is it valid or true? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 09:04 PM (KZzsI) 356
That's a neat link:
"Another large-scale study, this one with 909 coronavirus patients in Madrid, showed that 90% of cases simultaneously experienced changes to, or the loss of, the sense of smell and taste. In most of these cases, these changes were the only clinical expression of coronavirus or were accompanied by other minor symptoms" Posted by: Charles Darwin Doing the Humpty Dance on the Interstate at July 17, 2020 09:05 PM (ENelr) 357
You can't disprove accounts like this; easier to dismiss it as "fear porn" or "shaming" or "outrage". Eppur si muove.
Or prove. Its a claim, but is it valid or true? Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2020 09:04 PM (KZzsI) There are those that insisting that sciencey claims must be 'falsifiable'. I prefer a more direct approach - Those who assert an event occurred have the burden to prove that the event did occur and not rely on others to prove them wrong. -or- 90% of everything is shit. Posted by: Burnt Toast at July 17, 2020 09:07 PM (1g7ch) 358
"Another large-scale study, this one with 909 coronavirus patients in Madrid, showed that 90% of cases simultaneously experienced changes to, or the loss of, the sense of smell and taste. In most of these cases, these changes were the only clinical expression of coronavirus or were accompanied by other minor symptoms"
Posted by: Charles Darwin Doing the Humpty Dance on the Interstate at July 17, 2020 09:05 PM (ENelr) ---------------------------- It is infuriating that little details like that one will not make the headlines. Posted by: fly gal at July 17, 2020 09:10 PM (6CtMt) 359
345 "My theory is that Xi doesn't want the dam to collapse, so the only option is to keep the gates open."
I think your theory holds water... so to speak. I saw pictures last week that appeared to show the sections of the dam shifting as if being pushed by water pressure, but China claimed it was photo-distortion. Has there been further word on that? Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 17, 2020 09:27 PM (7Ezdo) 360
I've felt somewhat depressed about all the damage this shutdown has done and is doing to my community.
However, reading that NPR, the National Felons League, ESPN, and newspapers too are being destroyed restores a smile to my face. Posted by: PJ at July 17, 2020 09:36 PM (qlTN9) 361
So does anybody else think Three Gorges Dam is going to blow?
Posted by: PJ at July 17, 2020 09:41 PM (qlTN9) Posted by: Jmel at July 17, 2020 11:34 PM (bVhJi) 363
Rush Limbaugh has 70 million listeners a day.
Posted by: FretlessT at July 18, 2020 10:10 AM (uDTP4) 364
More people listen to the Albanian news media than NPR. If there ratings collapsed I guess their three listeners died.
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