The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Before you set your hair on fire; yes, the author is a leftist. He also is reflexively anti-Trump, sounds like an anti-Semite, comes off as a smug academic, but also has some genuinely interesting interpretations of the current Woke malaise we find ourselves enduring.

Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law

People have generally misunderstood wokeness as a purely cultural phenomenon. It does have a cultural component, of course, but it is important to also understand wokeness as something that has been law in the United States for the last half century.
The triumph of this ideology over the last 10 years in public discourse is simply culture catching up to law. To reverse what has happened, one needs to know a bit of the history, and how every major institution in the country came to act and think in the exact same way.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) are obvious progenitors of the insanity of the last 10 years, but Hanania also blames presidential executive orders and most of all a federal bureaucracy that is entrenched and always expanding its reach into boardrooms. He links the rise of Human Resources (always the farthest left of anyone in business) in American corporations to the increase in regulations governing all facets of hiring and conduct. Since the government regulations are chaotic and ever changing, it behooves the typical corporation to follow the herd, and the herd has stampeded to draconian restrictions on what used to be private behavior. Hostile work environments, disparate impact, equal opportunity, affirmative action, and the rest of the litany of government-driven initiatives that have entered our culture as axioms.

The article is long, but worth a read, especially because the author suggests a way of this, and it doesn't include simply ranting and raving at every Woke insanity we are subjected to every day.

Taking apart disparate impact and repealing affirmative action executive orders should be litmus tests for Republican presidential candidates in the same way taxes and abortion are.
Why hasn't this happened already? Probably because the payoff to fighting wokeness is more long term. People seek immediate gratification; you can change the tax rate or how many immigrants you let in immediately, while it's hard to convince people to have a political fight today in the hopes of having an uncertain effect on culture years or even decades down the line. Moreover, it's hard work to go to war with an entrenched bureaucracy that has the media completely on its side, especially if you haven't explained to your voters why doing so is necessary. Nonetheless, I'm convinced there is no short-cut to changing the culture.

No, there is no short-cut. But there also isn't an option. We either fight back or cede this country to the left. And not the Woke left...I mean the real left of labor camps and state-sanctioned murder and misery and starvation.

The willing fools of the Woke left should read more communist history and fewer sociology textbooks. Trotsky and Kirov and Bukharin come to mind, but Stalin killed about 1/3 of the communist party to consolidate power during his "Great Purge," and the hysterical wokesters will surely be among the first victims in an American Great Purge.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 First

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:00 AM (axyOa)

2 Woohoo!!!
I gotta first!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:01 AM (axyOa)

3 Howdy monkey!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 31, 2021 10:01 AM (qe5CM)

4

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 31, 2021 10:01 AM (K2SnJ)

5 Roomy in here it is!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:01 AM (axyOa)

6 The willing fools of the Woke left should read more communist history and fewer sociology textbooks. Trotsky and Kirov and Bukharin come to mind, but Stalin killed about 1/3 of the communist party to consolidate power during his "Great Purge," and the hysterical wokesters will surely be among the first victims in an American Great Purge.

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They were all written by wreckers, hoarders, and counter-revolutionaries. Filled with nothing but lies about glorious revolutions, there's nothing to learn from them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:01 AM (LvTSG)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at August 31, 2021 10:03 AM (OUYz8)

8 Munkey!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2021 10:03 AM (m+jkK)

9 If our glorious leader Stalin killed a mere 60 million people, just think how many Drumpf would have killed if Biden didn't save our glorious nation?

Climate Change alone will probably kill at least a trillion!

Posted by: First ones against the wall at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (HK8/E)

10 The neighbors and I were talking last night about how we are going to fight back. What methods, lifestyles, hills to die on, etc.

It's noteworthy who is now talking this way in the 'hood. At least they are talking. Step 1.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (mD/uy)

11 Yeah, how do you get the kids to see the light. The old are lost, but the kids are the ones being impressed upon.

Answer: take back education

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (2o90I)

12 9 Climate Change alone will probably kill at least a trillion!
Posted by: First ones against the wall at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (HK8/E)

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A trillion a day for centuries unless we give more money to oligarchs through cap and trade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

13 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:05 AM (Zz0t1)

14 >>>G'rump928(c)

Us? Set our hair on fire?

(kidding)

Posted by: m at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (cME97)

15 Come on planet 10!

Posted by: Archer at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (gmo/4)

16 TWENTIETH!!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (W+kMI)

17 Not so fast Sponge.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (axyOa)

18 Cut and paste fail.

>>>Before you set your hair on fire

Us? Set our hair on fire?

(kidding)

Posted by: m at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (cME97)

19 I think you can sum it up all in one word.

Lawyers

Posted by: Just a side note at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (2DOZq)

20 Greetings:

"The Age of Entitlement" by Christopher Caldwell has a similar thesis, basically that the 1960s civil rights law undermined our original Constitution and has now pretty much replaced it with a Civil Rights Constitution.

Posted by: 11B40 at August 31, 2021 10:07 AM (uuklp)

21 When a company gets to be a certain size HR becomes arrogant IMO. It appears to me if a company stays smallish, about less than 2,000 people, HR does what it's supposed to do and stays inside it's lane, but when a company hits critical mass, they explode and become a huge pain in the a$$ for everyone involved. You know you have issues when you start most of your conversations with, let's run this past HR and see what they say.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:07 AM (JUOKG)

22 I think you can sum it up all in one word.

Lawyers
Posted by: Just a side note at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM

We're right over here, you know.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2021 10:07 AM (m+jkK)

23 15 Come on planet 10!
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Do we really want to mention the existence of Mondas right now?

Posted by: exdem13 at August 31, 2021 10:08 AM (W+kMI)

24 The Devil's on my side. He's a good Communist.

- Stalin

Posted by: Archer at August 31, 2021 10:08 AM (gmo/4)

25 Hiya

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2021 10:08 AM (arJlL)

26 Hiya Moonbeam !

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (arJlL)

27 This certainly isn't the hill.

Let's work with our friends across the aisle!

Posted by: GOPe at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (RxHR8)

28 "It's noteworthy who is now talking this way in the 'hood. At least they are talking. Step 1."
*****
Same here. I'm somewhat shocked at who I'm hearing talk about what may have to happen.

Posted by: Cosda at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (/AQFY)

29 I've been saying for years once the "stakeholder" battle regarding corporate governance was lost in the 90s, the die was set. All corporate entities at that point became part of the State.

Posted by: MAGA (stop the steal link in this nic) at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (eMEkg)

30 The neighbors and I were talking last night about how we are going to fight back. What methods, lifestyles, hills to die on, etc.

It's noteworthy who is now talking this way in the 'hood. At least they are talking. Step 1.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (mD/uy)

This.
Get to know your neighbors. Who can you trust? Who you cannot. Start getting organized.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (axyOa)

31 How about Planet Claire?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (fJEY4)

32 Not so fast Sponge.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:06 AM (axyOa)

Always. Just ask my wife.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)

33 I would be very curious to see what the compelling argument is to gain support for this very necessary correction. Given that actual results don't seem to matter to leftists as long as the intent is found to be good - for example $15/hr min wage.

Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2021 10:10 AM (DibdT)

34 How about Planet Claire?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (fJEY4)

I'm not sure. After all -she drove a Plymouth Satellite.

Posted by: Archer at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (gmo/4)

35 He's wrong. He's assuming -- as unfortunately many people do -- that wokeness is a universal or near-universal phenomena. It's not. It's strictly limited to mostly East and West coastal blue cities, which include the media, advertising, and most corporate boardrooms. Unfortunately this cult wields incredible political, legal, and cultural power. Outside these leftist cults, however, the vast majority of normal Americans reject it. Even most minorities reject it. It's not "culture" catching up to law. It's a fetishistic counter-culture being forcibly imposed by on a mostly unwilling population. If indeed this was culture catching up to law on a wide scale, then the cult wouldn't have to be so iron-fisted in dealing with dissenters. You don't have to force medicine down people's throats if they are already willing to take it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (iFTx/)

36 HR became like they are to protect the company from lawsuits. Now that focus has fed upon itself to create the HR monster.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (2DOZq)

37
They were all written by wreckers, hoarders, and counter-revolutionaries. Filled with nothing but lies about glorious revolutions, there's nothing to learn from them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:01 AM (LvTSG)

Yes there is much to learn. Starting with what we can look forward to in the near future. Many Americans are illiterate when it comes to what the totalitarians did, not just killing millions but making life horrible for those who weren't killed or sent to camps.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (S1hrL)

38 37 Yes there is much to learn. Starting with what we can look forward to in the near future. Many Americans are illiterate when it comes to what the totalitarians did, not just killing millions but making life horrible for those who weren't killed or sent to camps.
Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (S1hrL)

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-----> The Joke

Ziba

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:12 AM (LvTSG)

39 HR became like they are to protect the company from lawsuits. Now that focus has fed upon itself to create the HR monster.
Posted by: Just a side note

True. An attentive observer could have noted this when the Department changed it's name from - 'Personnel'.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2021 10:13 AM (mD/uy)

40 Remember when the biggest scandal in the country was a Peloton commercial?

Posted by: blaster at August 31, 2021 10:13 AM (mbFEM)

41 Affirmative action, disparate impact, all of it - don't exist because of HR or some vague thing like a big bureaucracy. They exist because the judicial system is a farce, with respect to its constitutional watchdog function.

And, crucially, because of race grifters quite happy to "benefit" from these and all kinds of disastrous, essentially racist absurdities. And the endemic racism and victimology of "minority""communities", and the inexhaustible supply of dumb faux-guilt-ridden suburbanites, and the tiny characters in public office terrified of these things.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 10:13 AM (OTzUX)

42 Good thing I'm Tsar of all the Russias.

Posted by: Archer at August 31, 2021 10:13 AM (gmo/4)

43 And again, thanks to the Horde for all the kindness. A balm for my soul.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at August 31, 2021 10:05 AM (4l77G)

I read your post last night and was at a loss for words. No better today, other than I'm deeply sorry.

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2021 10:14 AM (Ed8Zd)

44 When a company gets to be a certain size HR becomes arrogant IMO. It appears to me if a company stays smallish, about less than 2,000 people, HR does what it's supposed to do and stays inside it's lane, but when a company hits critical mass, they explode and become a huge pain in the a$$ for everyone involved. You know you have issues when you start most of your conversations with, let's run this past HR and see what they say.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:07 AM

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HR can wreck much smaller companies than that if senior management supports it. I worked for a company of 300 employees that had woke management and the HR group was as bad and as influential as any megacorp.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 31, 2021 10:15 AM (G/mW5)

45 It's not "culture" catching up to law. It's a fetishistic counter-culture being forcibly imposed by on a mostly unwilling population.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (iFTx/)

When the majority of Americans are employed by or have to deal with on a regular basis corporations that embraced Woke Culture or government that is even more enthusiastic, your point is a distinction without a difference.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2021 10:15 AM (Q9lwr)

46 Get to know your neighbors. Who can you trust? Who you cannot. Start getting organized.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM (axyOa)

Not so easy to get to know your neighbors for some.
Depends on the neighborhood if there is one.
Lived in my environs for 20 years and some neighbors we still don't know other than waving. to as we drive by.
Have encountered a lot of paranoia and anti-social behavior generally.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:15 AM (S1hrL)

47 Schools Out...Alice Cooper. D minor

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 31, 2021 10:16 AM (nOOFl)

48 Anything based upon lies and more lies is destined to fail.

Sooner or later.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2021 10:16 AM (/1l9x)

49 And again, thanks to the Horde for all the kindness. A balm for my soul.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son

I was in my local chapel this AM and said one for you and the soul of your Dad.

And the Horde too, of course !

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2021 10:17 AM (arJlL)

50 40 Remember when the biggest scandal in the country was a Peloton commercial?
Posted by: blaster at August 31, 2021 10:13 AM (mbFEM)

Yeah. It shows how f'ed up we've become as a nation.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:17 AM (S1hrL)

51 It appears to me if a company stays smallish, about less than 2,000 people, HR does what it's supposed to do and stays inside it's lane...

I'd say you're optimistic by an order of magnitude, maybe two. My company is fewer 100 and "HR" is one person but she is very woke and the CEO does pretty much whatever she tells him to.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 31, 2021 10:17 AM (nfrXX)

52 Ten days ago, Jen Psaki estimated between 10-15,000 American citizens at risk of being left behind in Afghanistan. She said that number range had physically contacted the embassy in Kabul or contacted the American military directly. Since then, the administration says they got 6,000 out.

Forget the "several hundred" number the Centcom commander was referring to, because he might well have been referring only to those left at the airport itself.

Jen Psaki suggests the right number is between 4-9,000 people left to the mercy of the Taliban, who are even now conducting house to house summary executions, according to Lara Logan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 10:17 AM (Hxve0)

53 26 Hiya Moonbeam !
Posted by: JT at August 31, 2021 10:09 AM

Howdy JT! Are you going to get rain from Ida? Sad to see that it's going through that area of Tennessee and western NC that was so badly hit with flooding last week. Prayers!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 31, 2021 10:18 AM (qe5CM)

54 Yeah, how do you get the kids to see the light. The old are lost, but the kids are the ones being impressed upon.

Answer: take back education
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (2o90I)
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Find a "Moms 4 Liberty" group in your area.
If there isn't one, volunteer to be a founder of one.

Mrs. Reason is.

Posted by: reason at August 31, 2021 10:18 AM (ePZfA)

55 Pug Mahon, I am so sorry for your loss. Prayers.

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 31, 2021 10:18 AM (yG0tW)

56 True. An attentive observer could have noted this when the Department changed it's name from - 'Personnel'.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2021 10:13 A

War Department name changed to Department of Defense was a telling moment also.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:18 AM (JUOKG)

57 40 Remember when the biggest scandal in the country was a Peloton commercial?
Posted by: blaster

I remember the unfortunate actress, simply working a gig, was smoking hot.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2021 10:19 AM (QFVV9)

58 Howdy JT! Are you going to get rain from Ida? Sad to see that it's going through that area of Tennessee and western NC that was so badly hit with flooding last week. Prayers!
Posted by: Moonbeam

Yep !

Mucho raino.

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2021 10:19 AM (arJlL)

59 And obvious critical reform (really too elevated a term for purging racist unconstitutional nonsense) doesn't happen because .... the payoff timeline is too long?

That's not meant to be humorous I guess.

The political landscape is littered with leaders who didn't go near any of this (other than to pander and add more to the fire) because .... the payoff timeline is too long. OK. That's the planet I live on, too.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 10:20 AM (OTzUX)

60 My house in South Alabama got 5" of rain in 24 hours which is not bad for around here. No winds to speak of from IDA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2021 10:20 AM (yQpMk)

61 The Wokesters might be the first purged ... AFTER the effective America First legions are destroyed. There is already an active purging of Americanism Patriots ongoing in the few institutions that have some good people remaining (military and police).

The purge (from society and corporate level jobs) is also taking place in what they perceive to be a resistance ... those that won't be forced to get the jab. ...

The purge also took place decades ago in another sense ... those that depend on government for grants must bow to the global warming mantra, or they get fired and removed from academia, even removed from regular jobs.

But AFTER they get total control and have exiled or killed of "deplorable Christians", then there might be some purging of the useful idiots. We the deplorables will probably be cut off from alternative media by then, so won't get any joy in their demise.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 10:20 AM (Cus5s)

62 Peace and love to
You and your family, Pug.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2021 10:20 AM (XncsH)

63 The Left has an astonishing record of success. That whole take over beloved institutions and destroy them thing is effective. I mean, conservatives dislike the military now.

Posted by: blaster at August 31, 2021 10:20 AM (mbFEM)

64 52- Jen Psaki suggests the right number is between 4-9,000 people left to the mercy of the Taliban, who are even now conducting house to house summary executions, according to Lara Logan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 10:17 AM

I wonder who is getting the deluxe dangling helicopter rides.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 31, 2021 10:21 AM (qe5CM)

65 The risk in small companies is centered on outside consultants. Once you let an outside consultant in and get a list of recommendations, your natural instinct to protect against liability in employee disputes is to follow the recommendations. That, at least, gives you a defense, "hey, I did what the HR consultant told me was best practice". Courts give that defense credence, because you made an effort to learn and follow up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 10:21 AM (Hxve0)

66 Yeah, how do you get the kids to see the light. The old are lost, but the kids are the ones being impressed upon.

Answer: take back education
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (2o90I)

Only by suffering the consequences of their positions. Unfortunately we have to suffer with them. Young and dumb is an accurate axiom.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 31, 2021 10:21 AM (2DOZq)

67 The rise of HR departments is one of those things with lots of causes ... complexity of US anti-discrimination laws is probably main reason. I mean, even if the law was just "You gotta have at least 13% black employees," then HR wouldn't have gotten so big since it's the uncertainty that matters.

But don't undersell the fact that HR is one of the few fields corporate executives in many type companies can hire attractive women fresh out college to hang around corporate HQ and no one will bat an eye. Dude executives at Tech Giants or mining companies or whatever don't get many opportunities for that otherwise.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 31, 2021 10:22 AM (dYe5S)

68 Newsmax had a guy on this morning who claimed his private group had gotten 700 people out of Kabul this past week, with no help from our government, indeed, the government interfered as much as they dared.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2021 10:22 AM (yQpMk)

69 WE abuse you because you make us abuse you...

Posted by: HR Manager at August 31, 2021 10:22 AM (flINI)

70 Yeah I work for a small company and our now fired HR person was woke. She made sure that her pronouns were on her email signature. Oh and they had to renegotiate the union contract and the one thing she made certain of in the new contract was to make sure all the "he or she" was changed to "they." She was terrible at all other aspects of her job.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 31, 2021 10:23 AM (G2zl5)

71 Has Wolfus Aurelius been heard from since Ida struck? I hope he made it out of Nola ahead of the storm.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (Hxve0)

72 And again, thanks to the Horde for all the kindness. A balm for my soul.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son

The Horde was extremely supportive when my mom passed. It's what they do.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (OCTRt)

73 Taking apart disparate impact and repealing affirmative action executive orders should be litmus tests for Republican presidential candidates in the same way taxes and abortion are.

Serious question - at this point, do "litmus tests" even matter? It is axiomatic that a Rethuglican will say anything to get elected, will refuse to do anything regarding the electorate's wishes and then, when up for re-election, vomit out a litany of excuses as to why abortion or lower taxes or "that danged fence" was blocked by the evil left, and if you'll only VOTE HARDER!, your candidate will run back to DC and "fight" for you.

Save for Trump, it's a shell game. I don't trust any GOP stooge to do anything outside the proscribed limits the CoC / CCP set down.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (2JVJo)

74 Newsmax had a guy on this morning who claimed his private group had gotten 700 people out of Kabul this past week, with no help from our government, indeed, the government interfered as much as they dared.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2021 10:22 AM (yQpMk)

I thought Biden put a stop order on contractor removals and private flights out of there. Can't make his regime look bad, ya know.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (Zz0t1)

75 Substack has rapidly become an important place for substantial and (so far) unfettered discussion. So. How long before it gets shut down?

According to whois, the server is Amazon. The owner and CEO is Chris Best, and he writes

Substack is different from social media platforms. ... We believe that hosting a broad range of views is good for democracy. ... Writers can choose to leave the platform at any time while retaining ownership of their content, mailing list, and payment relationships.

Yeah, until Bezos decides to pull their plug.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (F0YaR)

76 Why hasn't this happened already? Probably because the payoff to fighting wokeness is more long term.

And it would involve foregoing cocktail parties immediately.

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (pbStR)

77 I think critical mass for HR is over 200 or so. Depends on the type of business and what gender is dominant in numbers.

And Yes I agree with this. I was fortunate to get a job that I liked and was paid well for almost 20 years. It was during this time (late 80s on) that the HR dominance rose to its current heights.

Where the person who needs the help doesn't vet and interview the prospects but someone straight out of college who's major makes them unemployable in that field. So they get hired because of a degree and since more women get degrees (because of the way education is done and also special consideration given females) why of course they're mostly female. And some of them can be really really annoying. Arrogant youth after 4 years of college means they know everything and are always right.

When I tried to get work for the few years till retirement, I ran into HR people for the first time in my life. It did not go well.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (++Sf8)

78 57 40 Remember when the biggest scandal in the country was a Peloton commercial?
Posted by: blaster

hold my football

Posted by: Tom Brady at August 31, 2021 10:25 AM (uCLWI)

79 Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd
The fact is the most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership on Afghanistan over the last 19 years was the last two weeks or so. Don't we want leaders to tell us the truth and serve the public? That is exactly what president Biden did.

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That's some light of a thousands suns level gaslighting right there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 10:25 AM (d9FiS)

80 I checked Sky News Australia and didn't see any stories about the trucking strike that was planned. Did everyone back out?

Posted by: PabloD, make commies fly again! at August 31, 2021 10:25 AM (b65b7)

81 Might as well expect more fear. Maybe we can't change fear but we also need to cultivate everyday life

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 31, 2021 10:26 AM (nOOFl)

82
It's strictly limited to mostly East and West coastal blue cities

Who else is there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2021 10:26 AM (63Dwl)

83
Recycling plastics is a big thing, right? Unfortunately, any recycling takes them down a step in where they can be used.

Many years ago, I had the idea of just tossing them all into a refining process and break them back down to their constituent monomers. After all, they couldn't be worse than some of the heavy stuff refineries deal with.

I brought the idea to the big boys, who said, no, couldn't do it, it wouldn't work. Now I'm doing a search for a client on catalysts for taking big 'uns and busting them into small 'uns. What do I see among the results? Disclosure after disclosure on breaking down plastics in refining processes.

Premature innovation never pays. And it's not for the first time this has happened.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:26 AM (/U27+)

84 I read one of the above links as 'Just Civil War' and started nodding. Then read it again.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (V6f9+)

85 Have the commies kill the Wokesters.
We will deal with the commies.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (7WQ6X)

86 The Horde was extremely supportive when my mom passed. It's what they do.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:24 AM (OCTRt)

One of the many reasons I've been hanging out here for so long. And having met a bunch of 'rons and 'ettes in real life only solidifies my love of this goofy place.

Can't wait for Texas this fall.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (4l77G)

87 Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd
The fact is the most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership on Afghanistan over the last 19 years was the last two weeks or so. Don't we want leaders to tell us the truth and serve the public? That is exactly what president Biden did.

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I remember when she used to be Maureen Dowd.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (VxC1e)

88 Sadly, I agree with MP4 - it is a litmus test that current GOP officeholders consistently fail - implement the actual policies we want or be voted out. They've always gotten by on one or two token actions and the sheer horror of voting for the D alternative...

Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (DibdT)

89 I mean the real left of labor camps and state-sanctioned murder and misery and starvation.

___

Don't forget on-site executions!!
- Woke TikTok Army Girl

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (GQ5VU)

90 I checked Sky News Australia and didn't see any stories about the trucking strike that was planned. Did everyone back out?

Posted by: PabloD, make commies fly again! at August 31, 2021 10:25 AM

That was just internet rumor.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:28 AM (JUOKG)

91 The Civil Right Act is unconstitutional.

It has, in practice--as intended--nullified the First Amendment.

That is the uncomfortable reality that no one can speak publicly.

Unless you want to be permanently branded a racist, bigot, etc., unemployed and driven from society.

Posted by: Lrrr at August 31, 2021 10:28 AM (POhPv)

92 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 10:25 AM (d9FiS)

Baghdad Bob couldn't have said it better.

Posted by: Just a side note at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (2DOZq)

93 The greatest benefit from the Chinese cooties was essentially eliminating our HR Department. I am still smiling months later.

Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (MVjcR)

94 Can't wait for Texas this fall.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at August 31, 2021 10:27 AM (4l77G)

No kissing!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (Q9lwr)

95 It has, in practice--as intended--nullified the First Amendment.

Posted by: Lrrr at August 31, 2021 10:28 AM (POhPv)
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Surely, you're overvaluing the Bill of Suggestions.

Posted by: Judge from Hawaii at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (XHhHI)

96 Disclosure after disclosure on breaking down plastics in refining processes.

Hadrian the Seventh

What does this mean? It can't be done because of legal wording?

Posted by: Iris at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (DibdT)

97 Glenn Beck
@glennbeck
The State Department says only a few hundred Americans are still trying to leave Afghanistan. I'm sorry, but that's a LIE. We have WAY more requests than that coming in from people begging us to help them escape.

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Who you gonna believe? The White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, every other government official, the media, the movers and shakers or some nut on the radio?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (d9FiS)

98 Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd
The fact is the most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership on Afghanistan over the last 19 years was the last two weeks or so. Don't we want leaders to tell us the truth and serve the public? That is exactly what president Biden did.

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Has Biden said outright that he doesn't care if we leave Americans behind to be murdered? I might have missed that news snippet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (LvTSG)

99 45 It's not "culture" catching up to law. It's a fetishistic counter-culture being forcibly imposed by on a mostly unwilling population.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 31, 2021 10:11 AM (iFTx/)

When the majority of Americans are employed by or have to deal with on a regular basis corporations that embraced Woke Culture or government that is even more enthusiastic, your point is a distinction without a difference.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2021 10:15 AM (Q9lwr)
________________________

I'm not disagreeing with you, but my point remains that the guy is wrong that culture is catching up to law on some widespread scale. If anything it's the opposite. It's LAW (and power) being used to impose a counter-culture on an unwilling population.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 31, 2021 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

100 Jen Psaki suggests the right number is between 4-9,000 people left to the mercy of the Taliban, who are even now conducting house to house summary executions, according to Lara Logan.
Posted by: Huck Foll

Thats quite a range of American souls in imminent peril.

Whats her plan to save them ?

I crack myself up

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2021 10:30 AM (Ed8Zd)

101 French news coverage of Kabul Airport shows a barren airport devoid of people, trash, body parts, etc.

American helicopters and humvees are hanging around.

You'd never know there had been thousands there just days ago. Surreal.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:30 AM (S1hrL)

102 Has Biden said outright that he doesn't care if we leave Americans behind to be murdered? I might have missed that news snippet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:29 AM (LvTSG)

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On one hand you got yer honesty. On this other hand, you got yer "too much honesty."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 31, 2021 10:31 AM (VxC1e)

103 "Why hasn't this happened already? Probably because the payoff to fighting wokeness is more long term."

Nah. The GOPe has zero interest in doing this. They were not, and are not, on our side. My family is GOP pols and it's gravy trains, country clubs, and suit snobbery as far as the eye can see.

We're slowly drifting into a world where well meaning conservatives are put into the position of arguing, "a real constitutional representative republic has never been tried!"

Posted by: somedood at August 31, 2021 10:31 AM (c3dw6)

104 Bill Maher nails it....again.

https://tinyurl.com/28cwdsx7

Gets good at 2:00

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 31, 2021 10:31 AM (GQ5VU)

105 Beck recently claimed they had gotten 5000+ out (Christians, or Americans?) ... just a day or two before he said something like 2200 (I forget his exact number). .. I have no idea what other routes are possible, but there seem to be some covert efforts continuing (maybe by Black Rock, despite Team Biden state department threatening them with legal action if they save Americans)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 10:31 AM (Cus5s)

106 Had a restless night, thinking about and worrying about the military dogs abandoned by these feckless, unaccountable assholes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 31, 2021 10:31 AM (V6f9+)

107 ... is simply culture catching up to law.

*****

It's not that simple though. In healthcare at least, there is an intricately interwoven network of effects in a sequence over 2-4 decades. It perhaps started with culture, but then was enacted into legislation (HIPPA, EMTALA, etc.), leading to a need for regulatory compliance that was tied to revenue (Medicaid, Medicare, etc.). This then combined with a concerted indifference from physicians who abdicated their role as decision-makers and deferred to the hospital administrators and bean counters. Once doctors realized what was happening, they had been relegated to even less than stakeholder status, and had become mere employees. Now they are being held hostage, with threat of losing licenses or being denied compensation for services if they don't toe the "woke" line. (see COVID protocols, puberty blockers, etc. etc.)

It used to be that hospital administrators' chief function was helping doctors provide better medical services. Now, administrators work within a government-industrial cooperative to maximize their revenue streams by offering "service lines" of care.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (m45I2)

108 MPPP, a very good description of what's really broken in the "system" - the buttons and levers of representative government are generally no longer connected to anything. So when a desperate and furious majority, even, votes X - they rarely get any, or much, X.

Political integrity. Doing, or trying to do, what you say.

On the national level, Trump has the highest score in that key respect of any figure for a very very long time. Hence his popularity and intensity of support - actually it's also important that what he stands for and did are popular, sensible, and successful.

There's a complicated mix, though, of levers being disconnected from actions, and voters who simply will not revolt, who will Vote Harder and remain locked in their mindless tribal/partisan framework. And a de fact two-party system simply traps many, no real choice.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (OTzUX)

109 Are we talking about Americans? or Afghan Americans? Forgive me in advance.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (S1hrL)

110 98 Has Biden said outright that he doesn't care if we leave Americans behind to be murdered? I might have missed that news snippet.

none were left behind. however, some chose to remain.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (oY6Yp)

111 Might as well change sig, doubt anyone's going to see The Suicide Squad anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (V6f9+)

112 Nor will the objective of the Civil Rights Act ever be met officially.

Not because there are not measurable benchmarks that have already been met.

No. It gives government unlimited power to rule over innocent men. So it will always be expended to find ever more thought-criminals to punish.

Posted by: Lrrr at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (POhPv)

113 Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd
The fact is the most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership on Afghanistan over the last 19 years was the last two weeks or so. Don't we want leaders to tell us the truth and serve the public? That is exactly what president Biden did.

The moment you know you're a dog who's ass was shaved and taught to walk backwards........

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

114 The law of variables.

The prisoner will now roll the dice.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 31, 2021 10:33 AM (nOOFl)

115 It's LAW (and power) being used to impose a counter-culture on an unwilling population.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 31, 2021 10:30 AM (iFTx/)

The author makes a cogent argument for the opposite. A tiny counter-culture is powerless until government diktat forces it on the rest of us, and he suggests that it originated in government.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2021 10:33 AM (Q9lwr)

116 Answer: take back education
Posted by: artisanal ette at August 31, 2021 10:04 AM (2o90I)

There is a surge in interest in home schooling, and it is nationwide. Businesses that sell lesson plans say their phones won't stop ringing. Enrollments in kindergarten are way down so far this year as well.

It's a start. Now, I haven't read CBD's linked essay yet, but one of the planks Rs ought to be running on is ending public employee unions. Period. Outlaw them. They are nothing but a cancer.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 31, 2021 10:33 AM (F0YaR)

117
What does this mean? It can't be done because of legal wording?

Posted by: Iris

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Just the concept of taking solid plastics like polyethylene, PET, polystyrene and the like, tossing them in a refining process and getting liquids and gases back out. Plastics are no worse feedstock than heavy oils that are routinely refined into gasoline, diesel and heating oil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:33 AM (/U27+)

118 She made sure that her pronouns were on her email signature.

**************

I see this in signatures as well, including people who cold approach me for business. My response is typically:

"I might have been interested in a partnership with your brand but because you put pronouns in your signature I can neither take your or your company seriously. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your souls."

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (hQVBP)

119 Had a restless night, thinking about and worrying about the military dogs abandoned by these feckless, unaccountable assholes.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 31, 2021 10:31 AM (V6f9+)

Well, at least they'll likely get their pound of flesh before they're gone.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

120 "Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd
The fact is the most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership on Afghanistan over the last 19 years was the last two weeks or so. Don't we want leaders to tell us the truth and serve the public? That is exactly what president Biden did."

I'm impressed by Biden not taking questions because his handlers tell him not to. That is straight up, fearless leadership, the type this country needs and deserves.

Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (MxEKc)

121 You'll be the first to go
You'll be the first to go
You'll be the first to go
Unless you think

Posted by: Jello at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (KAi1n)

122 106 Had a restless night, thinking about and worrying about the military dogs abandoned by these feckless, unaccountable assholes.

no dogs were abandoned. however, some chose to remain.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (v3pYe)

123 If the DOD was going to leave the dogs I would have preferred they shoot them instead of leaving them locked in cages for the savages to torture and kill slowly. Assholes.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (/Kt3K)

124 @matthewjdowd
The fact is the most honest and competent moments of presidential leadership on Afghanistan over the last 19 years was the last two weeks or so. Don't we want leaders to tell us the truth and serve the public? That is exactly what president Biden did.

**

It's better to have a good man be able to tell you that thousands of people are being executed by terrorists and women and children are being sold into slavery after the good man surrendered to those terrorists rather than having a bad man be responsible for thousands of people living in relative peace while holding the terrorists at bay under threat of violence.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (+MSSo)

125 18 months ago if someone would've suggested the possibility of camps in the US I'd have immediately thought them loony. Now? After everything that has transpired... I'm not so sure.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 31, 2021 10:35 AM (pcsoT)

126 Just catching up...condolences, Pug. I pray his memory is a blessing in years to come.

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at August 31, 2021 10:35 AM (OUMaO)

127 I checked Sky News Australia and didn't see any stories about the trucking strike that was planned. Did everyone back out?

I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 10:35 AM (2JVJo)

128 111 Might as well change sig, doubt anyone's going to see The Suicide Squad anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at Au

Will probably watch it on dvd

Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 31, 2021 10:35 AM (yG0tW)

129 118 I see this in signatures as well, including people who cold approach me for business. My response is typically:

"I might have been interested in a partnership with your brand but because you put pronouns in your signature I can neither take your or your company seriously. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your souls."
Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (hQVBP)

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Weirdest instance of this I've seen: Kevin Smith released a behind the scenes image from the nearly completed Clerks III. It was an image of the playback screen he sees while filming, showing the two stars recreating a shot from the first movie.

Around the image, on the box, were the names of some key personnel like boom operator, and they each had their pronouns next to them. They were all, of course, generically male and female names with the generically male and female pronouns next to them making the whole thing seemingly pointless.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

130 The GOPe has zero interest in doing this. They were not, and are not, on our side.

...

There's still a lot of people saying, we're so going to win in 22!

Win what?

Posted by: I guess I'll tell them at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (Bi6Uw)

131 Mark, so did I. I've been weepy about it ever since I saw it on Gateway Pundit. Now this morning they have a picture of beagles undergoing research testing. I can't take Gateway's crap lately. There are some things that so upset me I just can't take it.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (/Kt3K)

132 To paraphrase Mark Twain, put a cat on a hot stove and it will never return to it. But every stupid young generation is seduced by Communism.

Terrifying undercover video by Project Veritas of a Communist high school teacher in California and his unabashed campaign to indoctrinate.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (zts5x)

133 Biden NSA Doesn't Rule Out Giving Aid Directly To The Taliban

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It's only money.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (d9FiS)

134
I missed the news, Pug. Her Majesty and I send our condolences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (/U27+)

135 Anyone remember me?

Posted by: Popcorn Lung at August 31, 2021 10:38 AM (f/evC)

136
Biden NSA Doesn't Rule Out Giving Aid Directly To The Taliban

_________

Terrorism is infrastructure!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:38 AM (/U27+)

137 Might as well change sig, doubt anyone's going to see The Suicide Squad anymore.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at Au

Will probably watch it on dvd
Posted by: vmom sic semper stabbicus (oEn12) at August 31, 2021 10:35 AM (yG0tW)

Yeah, good call. Should be a fun movie night flick if you don't have little ones

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:38 AM (V6f9+)

138 Mark, so did I. I've been weepy about it ever since I saw it on Gateway Pundit. Now this morning they have a picture of beagles undergoing research testing. I can't take Gateway's crap lately. There are some things that so upset me I just can't take it.
Posted by: Jaimo at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (/Kt3K)

It's going to be hard to focus on boobs and guns. I mean, I'll try but it'll be harder than usual.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:38 AM (V6f9+)

139 New Study: "Overweight or obesity increased among 5- through 11-year-olds from 36.2% to 45.7% during the pandemic"

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2021 10:38 AM (RHGPo)

140 137 Yeah, good call. Should be a fun movie night flick if you don't have little ones
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:38 AM (V6f9+)

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Dolley had the great idea of trying to show Shaun of the Dead to 7-year old Junior. I knew it was going to be a bad idea, but I let her live with her choice.

There's a lot more cursing in there than she remembered. A lot.

He did not finish the film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

141 Emerald Robinson continues to harpoon the sellouts. tinyurl.com/ysa4z6da

MOAR PLEASE.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:39 AM (y7DUB)

142 >>Biden NSA Doesn't Rule Out Giving Aid Directly To The Taliban

I think those detailed kill lists were a good start. Saves them a lot of time hunting and interrogating.

Posted by: Roy at August 31, 2021 10:39 AM (Ti+Tv)

143 There's a complicated mix, though, of levers being disconnected from actions, and voters who simply will not revolt, who will Vote Harder and remain locked in their mindless tribal/partisan framework. And a de fact two-party system simply traps many, no real choice.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (OTzUX)

This. Even here, we have well-meaning posters talking about how "we" could have a majority if a few seats flip the GOP way, without recognizing the reality that it makes no difference at all if the GOP has a majority or wallows in the minority. McCarthy has already said that impeachment of Stinkfinger is completely off the table - what more evidence do you need that the party has no interest in its ostensible voters and will only react to every single one being thrown out of office?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 10:40 AM (2JVJo)

144 Well, at least they'll likely get their pound of flesh before they're gone.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

I hope so, buddy. I hear such terrible stories about how the Tali treat military dogs. I cannot conceive of leaving these pups there....but the Military does this shit over and over.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:40 AM (V6f9+)

145 It used to be that hospital administrators' chief function was helping doctors provide better medical services. Now, administrators work within a government-industrial cooperative to maximize their revenue streams by offering "service lines" of care.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 31, 2021 10:32 AM (m45I2)

And, as Artisanal 'Ette implied, education fell into the same pit. Administrators in colleges control the purse-strings, the relationships with government, and the students. Because they teach people who are legal adults, they can work their 'magic' without parental influence; all they want from the 'rents are their tuition payments.

In government, we've got the Administrative State. Insulated from both politicians and voters, they are the 90% of the iceberg that is running this country - into the ground. The rot is complete, and all-encompassing.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2021 10:40 AM (mdjgu)

146 It's only money.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (d9FiS)

And other people's.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 10:40 AM (zts5x)

147 No special pronouns for quite heterosexual but just happens to be in between life long loves??

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 31, 2021 10:40 AM (nOOFl)

148 67 But don't undersell the fact that HR is one of the few fields corporate executives in many type companies can hire attractive women fresh out college to hang around corporate HQ and no one will bat an eye. Dude executives at Tech Giants or mining companies or whatever don't get many opportunities for that otherwise.

one of the true tragedies of the dearth of women in the stem fields.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at August 31, 2021 10:41 AM (sGtp+)

149 Around the image, on the box, were the names of some key personnel like boom operator, and they each had their pronouns next to them. They were all, of course, generically male and female names with the generically male and female pronouns next to them making the whole thing seemingly pointless.

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I hope I can retire early, because I'm very close to the point of violence every time I see this crap.

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 31, 2021 10:41 AM (hQVBP)

150 Dolley had the great idea of trying to show Shaun of the Dead to 7-year old Junior. I knew it was going to be a bad idea, but I let her live with her choice.

There's a lot more cursing in there than she remembered. A lot.

He did not finish the film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

I have friends that saw a lot of really fucked up shit on dvd or on HBO when they were young. It had some impact, dunno how much.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:41 AM (V6f9+)

151 101 French news coverage of Kabul Airport shows a barren airport devoid of people, trash, body parts, etc.
American helicopters and humvees are hanging around.
You'd never know there had been thousands there just days ago. Surreal.
Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:30 AM (S1hrL

Probably pretty easy to empty out the airport when they stop sending in planes and the Taliban tells everyone if they go there the only ride they'll get is hanging from a helicopter.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 31, 2021 10:41 AM (G2zl5)

152 I checked Sky News Australia and didn't see any stories about the trucking strike that was planned. Did everyone back out?

Did you hear beeping?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 31, 2021 10:41 AM (a3Q+t)

153 150 I have friends that saw a lot of really fucked up shit on dvd or on HBO when they were young. It had some impact, dunno how much.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:41 AM (V6f9+)

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He mostly didn't finish the film because he was bored. For all the cursing Dolley does flippantly every day, the kid has picked up surprisingly little.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (LvTSG)

154 I see Marxist's acting as if they can control and use savages for their own ends...

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (6Je/Q)

155
I hope so, buddy. I hear such terrible stories about how the Tali treat military dogs. I cannot conceive of leaving these pups there....but the Military does this shit over and over.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at August 31, 2021 10:40 AM (V6f9+)

it's horrible.......Our military used to be such an awesome thing, now it's been infiltrated by commie fuckballs and it's ruined. NO WAY those dogs should be abandoned.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (Zz0t1)

156 HR became like they are to protect the company from lawsuits. Now that focus has fed upon itself to create the HR monster.
Posted by: Just a side note

True. An attentive observer could have noted this when the Department changed it's name from - 'Personnel'.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2021 10:13 AM (mD/uy)

That's not even what it's called anymore. Now it's "Human Capital Resource Management."

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (cvNl1)

157 She made sure that her pronouns were on her email signature.

My pronouns?
If you are female: Master
If you are male: Your Highness

Refusal to address me as such will result in lawsuits.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (OCTRt)

158 The scene in Shaun of the Dead where a hungover Simon Pegg goes to the local deli is priceless. Captures the obliviousness of being hungover perfectly

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (ZHVt1)

159 Re: Biden Watch
Parents of the sacrificed soldiers are saying he looked down at his watch every time a coffin was unloaded. Was it a "watch-watch"? Or was it an "AppleWatch-PortableTeleprompter"?

Posted by: Downcast at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (4Js9k)

160 one of the true tragedies of the dearth of women in the stem fields.

************

That's why we need gender studies, instead of going into STEM, women can major in that so they can make a living complaining about how there aren't enough women in STEM.

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (hQVBP)

161 "Disparate Impact" is probably the most powerful legal construct, and it needs to be destroyed promptly and completely. It is utter insanity and abject evil and should never enter into decision-making.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (Jsjd7)

162 it creeped me out from day one; "human resources" sounds like a phrase albert speer or even mengele might have used.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (YjYuE)

163 What Muldoon, and Darrell, said.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (OTzUX)

164 162 it creeped me out from day one; "human resources" sounds like a phrase albert speer or even mengele might have used.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (YjYuE)

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"Head of People" is a newer construct that I find weirder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:43 AM (LvTSG)

165 There were a few pics of trucks stopped on the highway but the Gov knew how to stop that by not allowing the news to be broadcast to the public.

No news, no preference cascade. There's a reason for censorship and it's not just to stop people from talking but to stop them from gathering and realizing they're not alone and outnumber the Gov.

This is why Twitter et al is so sinister in this land that was once free.

Free speech the very first enumerated right. Removed by an unelected secular monopolist.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 10:43 AM (++Sf8)

166 Australia clamping down maniacally on their citizens now that COVID (a prevalent respiratory virus) has gotten a foothold in the general populace is much like a young woman from Yonkers trying to reclaim her virginity after Fleet Week.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (m45I2)

167
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He mostly didn't finish the film because he was bored. For all the cursing Dolley does flippantly every day, the kid has picked up surprisingly little.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (LvTSG)

Have a friend who's from NYC (Italian) and he drops f-bombs everywhere. His kids never said anything like that growing up. The daughter still doesn't, but once the son turned 18, boy howdy.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

168 That's not even what it's called anymore. Now it's "Human Capital Resource Management."

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM

Better than that lean six sigma garbage the Navy was pushing when I retired.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (JUOKG)

169 I checked Sky News Australia and didn't see any stories about the trucking strike that was planned. Did everyone back out?

Did you hear beeping?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (OCTRt)

170 The Civil Right Act is unconstitutional.
It has, in practice--as intended--nullified the First Amendment.
That is the uncomfortable reality that no one can speak publicly.
Unless you want to be permanently branded a racist, bigot, etc., unemployed and driven from society.
Posted by: Lrrr at August 31, 2021 10:28 AM (POhPv)

Concur.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (/1l9x)

171 "Has Wolfus Aurelius been heard from since Ida struck? I hope he made it out of Nola ahead of the storm."

I thought he was staying, then evaluating whether to leave. Most of the West Bank was safe, but they lost power (for weeks?), so he probably left.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (Cus5s)

172 "Hey, what time is it, Joe?"

"...and now?"

Posted by: The Voices In Joe's Head at August 31, 2021 10:45 AM (vOGqy)

173 @107 re doctors abdicating their role as decision makers...

I know many m.d.'s and they had no options fighting against the HMO's that took over. Many I know closed their private practices because they could not compete. No decent doctor willingly gives up his/her decision making powers. The indecent ones might, but not the good decent ones. Medicine like all other institutions was overtaken years ago. It's rote, cookbook medicine like taking your car to the mechanic. Corporate wokeness rules.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:45 AM (S1hrL)

174 Parents of the sacrificed soldiers are saying he looked down at his watch every time a coffin was unloaded. Was it a "watch-watch"? Or was it an "AppleWatch-PortableTeleprompter"?

Posted by: Downcast at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM

Pretty sure it was an apple watch and they told him to look at it every time a coffin was unloaded for instructions on what he was supposed to do.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:45 AM (JUOKG)

175 it creeped me out from day one; "human resources" sounds like a phrase albert speer or even mengele might have used.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM (YjYuE)
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Back when they were the "Personnel Department," they were a subservient administration role to handle a function and otherwise stay out of the way.

Now that they're HR, they're different. And entitled to run everything. Just ask your company's "Chief People Officer."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (Jsjd7)

176 There were a few pics of trucks stopped on the highway but the Gov knew how to stop that by not allowing the news to be broadcast to the public.

No news, no preference cascade. There's a reason for censorship and it's not just to stop people from talking but to stop them from gathering and realizing they're not alone and outnumber the Gov.

Now do the reason why grocery store shelves are empty.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (OCTRt)

177 Obama was a Constiutional scholar. He believed a few words in the 14th Amendment overrode everything else.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (ZHVt1)

178 After the fall of freedom of speech.... the freedom of association..

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (6Je/Q)

179 Has Biden blamed Trump for his offensive watch watching?

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (cSyAR)

180 It was quiet like you see the light of a nuke before the blast wave hits.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (nOOFl)

181
Did you hear beeping?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

ISWYDT.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:44 AM (OCTRt)

Watch out Dad!!! She's backing up!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (Zz0t1)

182 179 Has Biden blamed Trump for his offensive watch watching?
Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (cSyAR)

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"I was checking for Trump's offensive tweets about dead soldiers."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (LvTSG)

183 There's video of the new management walking around a hangar with Chinook helicopters, 5 or 6 of them. Coulda been Bagram, not sure (though the lights were on).

Is it asking too much that such aircraft be demo'd as we leave? WTFF? Not that they'll ever be able to operate them. Hard to imagine these were intended for Afghan army use.

And I still want to see the equipment draw-down plan, and where we stood as of 2 weeks ago - which was very close to the actual end-date for our engagement there. No excuses about events.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (OTzUX)

184
Hate to disillusion everyone, but abandoning war dogs has been the rule throughout the years, not the exception.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (/U27+)

185 After the fall of freedom of speech.... the freedom of association..
Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (6Je/Q)
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And the right to silence. That one is a major battle front.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (Jsjd7)

186 The willing fools of the Woke left should read more communist history and fewer sociology textbooks.

Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago should be required reading for every young person in this country. Reconcile that to Zinn's fiction.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (m29VP)

187 When people are treated as units and things and not as flesh and blood then they are being "distanced" so that the worst can be applied with no emotional debt paid by the distancer.

It's the beginning of the othering. Once all humanity is removed then they can be discussed as one would about a brick or a piece of lumber and disposed of with little concern about it's destination.

And too many of us might soon be headed for the reclamation facility.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (++Sf8)

188
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"I was checking for Trump's offensive tweets about dead soldiers."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (LvTSG)

I seem to remember the media came up with some bullshit about Trump trashing soldiers lost on the battlefield once or twice.......

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

189 178 After the fall of freedom of speech.... the freedom of association..
Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (6Je/Q)

Yup. VDH said it right at the beginning. Social distancing was really nothing other than anti-social distancing. Nothing to do with covid.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:48 AM (S1hrL)

190 " The Civil Right Act is unconstitutional.
It has, in practice--as intended--nullified the First Amendment.
That is the uncomfortable reality that no one can speak publicly.
Unless you want to be permanently branded a racist, bigot, etc., unemployed and driven from society.
Posted by: Lrrr at August 31, 2021 10:28 AM (POhPv)
"

We're taking an awfully long time for people to figure out there is no peace with the wokesters.

Posted by: somedood at August 31, 2021 10:48 AM (c3dw6)

191 Parents of the sacrificed soldiers are saying he looked down at his watch every time a coffin was unloaded. Was it a "watch-watch"? Or was it an "AppleWatch-PortableTeleprompter"?

Posted by: Downcast at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM

Pretty sure it was an apple watch and they told him to look at it every time a coffin was unloaded for instructions on what he was supposed to do.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:45 AM (JUOKG)

Guys in the black van next to the hanger were frantic. They kept sending him "DON'T LOOK AT THE WATCH" over and over again.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:48 AM (axyOa)

192 Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago should be required reading for every young person in this country. Reconcile that to Zinn's fiction.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (m29VP)
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If you make Solzhenitsyn required reading - and I think it should be in the typical junior/senior HS curriculum - you'll also need to have a whiskey ration issued to the students. Getting through it will essentially compel you to imbibe the occasional stiff drink.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:48 AM (Jsjd7)

193 104 Bill Maher nails it....again.

Boy. that bastard is hard to listen to.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 31, 2021 10:49 AM (a1ycR)

194 185 After the fall of freedom of speech.... the freedom of association..
Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (6Je/Q)
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And the right to silence. That one is a major battle front.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:47 AM (Jsjd7)

Bingo... that is a " freedom" that so many Christians, of so many stripes, have long thought of as their Safe Rooms...

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:49 AM (6Je/Q)

195
Weirdest instance of this I've seen: Kevin Smith released a behind the scenes image from the nearly completed Clerks III. It was an image of the playback screen he sees while filming, showing the two stars recreating a shot from the first movie.

Around the image, on the box, were the names of some key personnel like boom operator, and they each had their pronouns next to them. They were all, of course, generically male and female names with the generically male and female pronouns next to them making the whole thing seemingly pointless.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

To be fair, Kevin Smith proved himself unworthy of serious thought long before pronouns became a thing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2021 10:49 AM (n+4am)

196 There were a few pics of trucks stopped on the highway but the Gov knew how to stop that by not allowing the news to be broadcast to the public.

I said yesterday the government would find a way to strangle the baby in the crib.

I don't always get a pleasure out of being right.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 10:49 AM (2JVJo)

197 Reading blogs is great but how many here are willing to "act"? (Join the pta, stop buying amazon, write a letter, primary a RINO, etc). No matter how small, are you doing something to move the ball?

Posted by: Two Weeks at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (ELnqd)

198 "Disparate Impact" is probably the most powerful legal construct, and it needs to be destroyed promptly and completely. It is utter insanity and abject evil and should never enter into decision-making.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:42 AM

Stuff like that creeps into law on purpose. Same as the left when they kept trying to get "weapons of war" associated with the AR-15/AK-47 in lawsuits. If you do it enough it eventually gets into common use in lawsuits and then becomes case law and remains there forever. Fortunately one Federal Judge told them "nope not in my courtroom" and it seems to have stopped.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (JUOKG)

199 How can Solzhenitsyn be required reading when most HS students, through lousy education standards, cannot read past 5th grade level?

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (S1hrL)

200 Los Angeles teachers union president: "Its OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables...they know the different between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup."

https://tinyurl.com/2sma6stj

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (DXFDM)

201
one of the true tragedies of the dearth of women in the stem fields.

___________

God almighty, if you want to go into STEM, go into STEM. Just be ready to work your ass off, likely fail at most things you try and not be heralded for anything you accomplish.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (/U27+)

202 I said yesterday the government would find a way to strangle the baby in the crib.

I don't always get a pleasure out of being right.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 10:49 AM (2JVJo)
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Unless they try again and keep it up. They can suppress the images, but they can't will goods to appear on shelves or traffic to move.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:51 AM (Jsjd7)

203 202 Unless they try again and keep it up. They can suppress the images, but they can't will goods to appear on shelves or traffic to move.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:51 AM (Jsjd7)

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Maybe they can pass a law that says that shelves are never allowed to be empty. That should fix it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:51 AM (LvTSG)

204 Can you believe the social media DemoTechnoFascists have started taking down and or obfuscating the video of the mother of the fallen Marine taking a 2x4 to The Meat Puppet and his Junta.

Rat Fucking Bastards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2021 10:51 AM (SrK3u)

205 141 Emerald Robinson continues to harpoon the sellouts. tinyurl.com/ysa4z6da

MOAR PLEASE.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:39 AM (y7DUB)

Great essay on Substack. It's great that she tells NR that she 'has the receipts' about the Google payoff, and none of those lackeys has the nerve to respond. I feel like a chump for subscribing for all those years. The only consolation that I get from this is that I stopped after Christopher Buckley endorsed The One. I couldn't believe that betrayal of the movement.

(I wonder what happened to Christopher. He disappeared without a trace after that incident.)

One of the comments at the end of the article mention Ace, saying that he's been on this beat for YEARS.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (mdjgu)

206 After the fall of freedom of speech.... the freedom of association..
Posted by: kraken

Which will result in me exercising my God given freedom of expression, in a decidedly unconventional and antisocial way.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (m29VP)

207 131 Mark, so did I. I've been weepy about it ever since I saw it on Gateway Pundit. Now this morning they have a picture of beagles undergoing research testing. I can't take Gateway's crap lately. There are some things that so upset me I just can't take it.
Posted by: Jaimo at August 31, 2021 10:36 AM

I would be somewhat skeptical on this. I find it hard to imagine that, in its first week after taking on the responsibility of an entire country, the Taliban gets down to business doing experiments on animals. Also, there were several pictures of this sort released in the 2001-2003 era. I think I saw those on GP back then as well. Having said that, seeing the barbaric and sadistic treatment they are willing to impose on humans, I certainly fear for the animals.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (qe5CM)

208 Can you believe the social media DemoTechnoFascists have started taking down and or obfuscating the video of the mother of the fallen Marine taking a 2x4 to The Meat Puppet and his Junta.

Rat Fucking Bastards.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2021 10:51 AM (SrK3u)
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Easy to believe. Default assumption, really.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (Jsjd7)

209 Serious involvement in your local community is a good step... this can be in any number of ways.

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (6Je/Q)

210 Los Angeles teachers union president: "Its OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables...they know the different between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup."

https://tinyurl.com/2sma6stj
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (DXFDM)

And the bitch was proud of it.
WTF???!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (axyOa)

211 I'm curious how the Taliban chased the worlds most powerful military out of their country without HR diversity, gender and inclusion experts.

Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (MxEKc)

212 "199 How can Solzhenitsyn be required reading when most HS students, through lousy education standards, cannot read past 5th grade level?

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (S1hrL)
200 Los Angeles teachers union president: "Its OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables...they know the different between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup."

https://tinyurl.com/2sma6stj

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (DXFDM) "

these !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 31, 2021 10:53 AM (YjYuE)

213 America is currently functioning under two Constitutions - the original one and the Civil Right's Act of 1964. One guarantees certain freedoms & rights and the other takes them away. This conflict has been the source of a myriad of problems in the US for the last 60 years, not just the last 10.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2021 10:53 AM (BJKQV)

214 210 And the bitch was proud of it.
WTF???!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (axyOa)

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It really sounds to me like she's saying schools are unimportant as long as kids have access to Leftist Twitter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

215 Now do the reason why grocery store shelves are empty.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:46 AM (OCTRt)

Apparently the lack was not bad enough to trigger the citizens.

Besides they're not allowed out much so they might not see the lack of stock on shelves or think that it's lack of employees to restock the shelves.

I'm just responding to the question about whether the truckies (aussie for truckers here) actually did what they said they will do.

Probably no enough independent drivers and/or the cops came and started ticketing and arresting. And all of that won't be on the news either.

This is why when the infotainment industry becomes cooperative or coopted by the Gov't the population is at a distinct disadvantage.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 10:54 AM (++Sf8)

216 Greetings:

Yonkers is beautiful this time of year.

And if you ever need a good elevator...

Posted by: 11B40 at August 31, 2021 10:54 AM (uuklp)

217 Major American cities are now experiencing their own version of Archipelago. What used to be confined to ghettos - governance , culture, is now in charge if those cities. Population is now prisoner to that.

Posted by: runner at August 31, 2021 10:54 AM (IF7/S)

218 Hate to disillusion everyone, but abandoning war dogs has been the rule throughout the years, not the exception.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Which is why I'm dead set against sending dogs to so something dangerous. Their only reason for doing it is to please. Sorry, if you won't do it, don't send a dog.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 10:55 AM (OCTRt)

219 Serious involvement in your local community is a good step... this can be in any number of ways.
Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (6Je/Q)

Got a suspect city council? (Silly question...they almost all are) Get ten folks together and go to the next city council meeting. Walk in together. Sit together. Don't speak. Just watch. And then walk out together. Do that over several meetings and see what happens.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:55 AM (axyOa)

220 Posted by: Two Weeks at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (ELnqd)

Takes too much courage to boycott Amazon?

Oh the inconvenience, the expense....

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 10:55 AM (S1hrL)

221 >I find it hard to imagine that, in its first week after taking on the responsibility of an entire country, the Taliban gets down to business doing experiments on animals.
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (qe5CM)

It's probably talking about Facui's outfit doing that, not the TB.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:56 AM (DXFDM)

222 Many I know closed their private practices because they could not compete. No decent doctor willingly gives up his/her decision making powers.
Posted by: Ziba

*****

I think you are correct in that. Part of my point was that the process began gradually and incrementally. Doctors by and large want to practice medicine. So as the administrative regulatory compliance and complexities of getting reimbursed grew, doctors were more than happy to cede those functions to administrators. Somewhere along the way the roles flipped and the doctors became beholden to the administrators rather than the other way around. By the time most doctors realized it was happening, it was a fait accompli. This is why I use the term 'abdication'.

Is it reversible? I don't know. I do know that doctors under age 40 or so have no recollection of or first-hand experience of the alternative.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 31, 2021 10:56 AM (m45I2)

223 >And the bitch was proud of it.
WTF???!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 10:52 AM (axyOa)

It's almost as if the intention is to produce a populace of ignorant, perpetually aggrieved peons who are only trained to execute leftist political/social campaigns.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:58 AM (DXFDM)

224 I feel like a chump for subscribing for all those years.

Don't. I did the same thing with the Rear Admiral and Hayes. For some reason Buckley's bullshit didn't work on me; I always thought that's where the old folks gathered.

Not to sound like a shameless suckup but the Ewok has been skewering them for years.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:58 AM (y7DUB)

225 199 How can Solzhenitsyn be required reading when most HS students, through lousy education standards, cannot read past 5th grade level?

that's what those illustrated classics comic book versions are for.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at August 31, 2021 10:58 AM (v3pYe)

226 rrrrrr news is Wolfie isn't giving up on ruling us - coming out with his own "mask mandate" for all schools and daycares at 2pm today

no emergency declaration any longer and he can't really enforce this but he'll use the PA Dept of Health

I was so freaking happy to see all the kids this morning at drop off! normal! free faces!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2021 10:59 AM (j9HX3)

227 Los Angeles teachers union president: "Its OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:50 AM (DXFDM)
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Nobody is paying her to make that determination.

Literally nobody. She's the head of a workers' group to advocate for teachers in their employment.

And the teachers don't even make determinations about what kind of schooling is enough. The board doesn't take from the teachers what's "OK" in schooling.

Posted by: Judge from Hawaii at August 31, 2021 10:59 AM (XHhHI)

228 How can Solzhenitsyn be required reading when most HS students, through lousy education standards, cannot read past 5th grade level?
Posted by: Ziba

Both my kids read it at the age of 14, one of my infrequent contributions to their homeschooling. They both astounded me in their grasp of what was said and the possibilities of the use of that in our own society. We too often underestimate the abilities of kids to perceive what we assume are "adult " topics.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 10:59 AM (m29VP)

229 227 The board doesn't take from the teachers what's "OK" in schooling.
Posted by: Judge from Hawaii at August 31, 2021 10:59 AM (XHhHI)

===========

"You sure about that?"
-Reality

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 31, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

230 How can Solzhenitsyn be required reading when most HS students, through lousy education standards, cannot read past 5th grade level?
Posted by: Ziba

My daughter was reading at college level comprehension in 6th grade. Yes, its a public school. No, people may not accuse me of child abuse for sending my kids to the only school within 20 miles of my home.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (Vxu+H)

231 Not sure who these guys are but a note from an army buddy of mine say the Military Working Dog Team Support Association, Inc., says that NO Military Working Dogs were left behind. Aparently there is a picture of some empty dog kennels and a helicopter that generated a lot of anger. They cannot verify when that photo was taken, but the Association says no dogs were left behind.
For what its worth.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (axyOa)

232 Hate to disillusion everyone, but abandoning war dogs has been the rule throughout the years, not the exception.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Then we've been conned by the enemedia, including entertainment shows, into believing otherwise.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (y7DUB)

233
If anyone on the Left should be reading up on Sergei Kirov, it's DR. Jill - her husband's husk runs a distinct risk of ending up the same way as him. And then she'd be a liability, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (rZA2o)

234 It's almost as if the intention is to produce a populace of ignorant, perpetually aggrieved peons who are only trained to execute leftist political/social campaigns.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 10:58 AM (DXFDM)

A Cultural Revolution, if you will.

Posted by: Archer at August 31, 2021 11:01 AM (gmo/4)

235 "Join the pta, stop buying amazon, write a letter, primary a RINO, etc"

Ha! Mrs f'd was president of the PTA the year before we pulled out kids out to homeschool. It was hopeless.

I don't buy from Amazon and utoob, fakebook, and twatter are banned on my network.

No f'n way I would run for any office though.

Posted by: AoS HR Team at August 31, 2021 11:01 AM (Tnijr)

236 I'm at a speech therapy clinic partnered with a local hospital, and they've got a screen up showing info about the clot shot. Literally every statement on the screen is a lie (except for "you can get it at Walgreens"). It even says the shot prevents you from spreading covid, which we all know isn't true. All lies! It even says it's completed all safety trials. Really?? Including the ones for myocarditis and safety in pregnant women??

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 31, 2021 11:01 AM (9+VWm)

237
Hate to disillusion everyone, but abandoning war dogs has been the rule throughout the years, not the exception.

***

Norms restored!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at August 31, 2021 11:01 AM (+MSSo)

238 Ziba , an alternative would be to make it a graphic novel or better yet, a video game.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 11:01 AM (m29VP)

239 dammit off stupid sock

Posted by: f'd at August 31, 2021 11:01 AM (Tnijr)

240 The mother of the fallen soldier or Marine in Afghanistan seems to be putting it all on the line in her personal war against Biden.

If she was a mother doing this against Trump she'd be a media hero. As I understand it she's been kicked off every social media platform.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 11:02 AM (zts5x)

241 "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) are obvious progenitors of the insanity of the last 10 years"

Tell it, brother!

Posted by: You're Gonna Need A Bigger gp at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (qpX6U)

242 Posted by: Muldoon at August 31, 2021 10:56 AM (m45I2)

appreciate the clarification. No, I don't think the situation is reversible. Many traditional doctors have retired or planning to do so early. It's all about coding and checking off boxes on the screen now.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (S1hrL)

243 Not sure who these guys are but a note from an army buddy of mine say the Military Working Dog Team Support Association, Inc., says that NO Military Working Dogs were left behind. Aparently there is a picture of some empty dog kennels and a helicopter that generated a lot of anger. They cannot verify when that photo was taken, but the Association says no dogs were left behind.
For what its worth.
Posted by: Diogenes

Working dogs got out.
There was a group similar to the ASPCA that was rescuing dogs in general. Those didn't.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (OCTRt)

244 "Bill Maher nails it....again."

the only good point I saw was he pointed out how we are relatively safe, and he can do his "comedy" without fear of "being dragged behind a Tacoma".

But he is a leftist ... how safe are "deplorables" when Antifa/BLM are protected by cops? How safe are patriots when the DOJ/FBI are conspiring against them?

Maher showed the Afghan babies being handed over the razor wire, then said "we should take Afghan refugees into our homes, into our neighborhoods".

No, Maher doesn't get it.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (Cus5s)

245 #236
The vaccina th ion is not 100% effectivevery very few things are 100%

Posted by: Kurt at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (Usf1B)

246 Regarding the dogs in Afghanistan. Someone posted on the Tech thread a tweet from someone who said that there is confusion over the service dogs. All 51 are being cared for by a USA service and are out of Kabul.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (16lCD)

247 >>>If she was a mother doing this against Trump she'd be a media hero. As I understand it she's been kicked off every social media platform.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Of course she was. I still don't understand why people enable social media by joining the platforms.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 31, 2021 11:04 AM (XSRBF)

248 I'm at a speech therapy clinic partnered with a local hospital, and they've got a screen up showing info about the clot shot. Literally every statement on the screen is a lie (except for "you can get it at Walgreens"). It even says the shot prevents you from spreading covid, which we all know isn't true. All lies! It even says it's completed all safety trials. Really?? Including the ones for myocarditis and safety in pregnant women??
Posted by: Mrs. Peel

It's all lies.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 11:05 AM (OCTRt)

249
And yeah... if I'm the Party apparatchik in charge of - you know, the thing - there's about fifty ways I could rid myself of this turbulent Porridgehead when the time comes.

But I'd see the Kirov Option as a top contender. It's risky, but it could be played for a huge advantage in the short-run under Harris. I may be more of a gambler than many of these people, though.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2021 11:05 AM (rZA2o)

250 I hate taking my kids to a doctor appt and having the doctor spend the whole time looking at his computer. The kid is over here, jackass.

OMG the sign just cycled around. I missed the part before where it says the shot protects against Delta. That is NOT remotely true. It also says it prevents development of variants. How the hell does selection pressure on a virus to evolve away from a particular mutation come from people who are NOT immune to it? DO YOU EVEN SCIENCE, BRO

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 31, 2021 11:06 AM (9+VWm)

251 "very few things are 100%"

100% dick

Posted by: f'd at August 31, 2021 11:06 AM (Tnijr)

252 Draw your own conclusions.

Mothers and Widows of the fallen Marines = Mothers and Widows of the Kursk Sailors.

Posted by: Archer at August 31, 2021 11:06 AM (gmo/4)

253 Translation: Government having total control over your lives is wrong and bad. Corporations having total control over your lives is ok and good.
Notice no mention of limiting power and size of corporations.
Also notice how she is attempting to subvert America First.
Why vote for anybody who refuses to use the power of government? What's the point of having power and being elected?

@KristiNoem
As conservatives we are called to limit the power and size of government. Govt mandates of any kind are not a tool that any America First Conservative would or should consider. We should not be in the business of forcing behavior of any kind on to the people.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 31, 2021 11:07 AM (RuK4k)

254 If any of you are considering writing a history of the Biden PR response to the Afghanistan debacle, I have a title for you, Malice In Wonderland.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 11:07 AM (d9FiS)

255 Not sure who these guys are but a note from an army buddy of mine say the Military Working Dog Team Support Association, Inc., says that NO Military Working Dogs were left behind. Aparently there is a picture of some empty dog kennels and a helicopter that generated a lot of anger. They cannot verify when that photo was taken, but the Association says no dogs were left behind.
For what its worth.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (axyOa)

I'm not sure how this factors in, but apparently these were CWDs (Contractor Working Dogs) and not MWDs (Military Working Dogs). The former are privately trained and owned, and contracted to the military. The latter are owned by the military, and have their own ranks and such.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 31, 2021 11:07 AM (Ez6QX)

256 "Our Babies"

Herein lies the source of the problem.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2021 11:08 AM (BJKQV)

257 No, there is no short-cut. But there also isn't an option. We either fight back or cede this country to the left.

I think things have to get worse, much worse, before they can get better.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 31, 2021 11:08 AM (QU5/8)

258 Through out Gulag Archapeligo Alexander continually runs into people stuck in the Gulag yet are sure they are going to be cleared and freed very soon.
Leftists are hard to get to see the light.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 31, 2021 11:08 AM (Tkx8L)

259 The mother of the fallen soldier or Marine in Afghanistan seems to be putting it all on the line in her personal war against Biden.

If she was a mother doing this against Trump she'd be a media hero. As I understand it she's been kicked off every social media platform.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 11:02 AM (zts5x)

Here would be a perfect opportunity for the GOP to prove they aren't treasonous sellouts:

Blow her rant up into those stupid yuge cards they use whenever trying to gull people into approving some POS legislation. Read it into the Congressional Record. Every. Single. Day. 24/7.

Do not vote, quorum or otherwise participate in any Democrat-led theatrics in the House or Senate. Bring the fucking congress to a complete standstill.

But they're a bunch of nickelfucking cowards, so they won't.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 11:08 AM (2JVJo)

260 We too often underestimate the abilities of kids to perceive what we assume are "adult " topics.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 10:59 AM (m29VP

Good point. I wasn't referring to them understanding the "adult topic," though. I was referring to them being able to read, period.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 11:08 AM (S1hrL)

261 Ah the art of the clueless denial.

The official word is that the "US military did not leave any dogs in cages at Hamid Karzai International Airport"

When, apparently, most of the reports were of those simply released into the airport. So no, not "in cages".

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2021 11:09 AM (XHhHI)

262 If anyone on the Left should be reading up on Sergei Kirov, it's DR. Jill - her husband's husk runs a distinct risk of ending up the same way as him. And then she'd be a liability, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (rZA2o)

I saw the Kirov on the Black sea once. Beautiful ship.
Last view was of the ship grounded and abandonded up in the Barents I think. Sad in a way.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:09 AM (axyOa)

263 But they're a bunch of nickelfucking cowards, so they won't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 11:08 AM (2JVJo)

Watch every single one of them run in the opposite direction from this mother. They should be championing her.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 11:10 AM (zts5x)

264 Have not followed this part of the story but I found, and find, it nearly literally impossible to believe that the kind of military working dogs I am familiar with (and their handlers) would be left behind.

Handlers risk their lives to save and protect their dogs, they break rules and have rules bent for them to take their dogs with them when they leave service or are disabled in service - they're like children to these guys.

And none of it makes any sense. The "exfil" was completely permissive. There was plenty of space. Why the F would dogs be left behind?

May be I'm unaware of some key factoids that would explain it, but on its face it's literally not believable.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 11:10 AM (OTzUX)

265 Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (axyOa)

The report that was linked yesterday by one of the morons said that contract working dogs were left behind. Those are the dogs used by contractors to support operations, and were allegedly left behind in their crates on the tarmac. The military working dogs were apparently evacuated with their handlers.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 31, 2021 11:11 AM (GI9K/)

266 Working dogs got out.
There was a group similar to the ASPCA that was rescuing dogs in general. Those didn't.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (OCTRt)

Ahhh...that clears things up a bit. thanxs.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:11 AM (axyOa)

267 Oh, and to repeat what I have said before - I use Amazon as a platform for my books because no-one else will publish them. If any of you know a publisher who wants a mystery series with a silent film star as the heroine, let me know. Otherwise, I am stuck.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 11:11 AM (2JVJo)

268 "Bill Maher nails it....again."

the only good point I saw was he pointed out how we are relatively safe, and he can do his "comedy" without fear of "being dragged behind a Tacoma".

But he is a leftist ... how safe are "deplorables" when Antifa/BLM are protected by cops? How safe are patriots when the DOJ/FBI are conspiring against them?

Maher showed the Afghan babies being handed over the razor wire, then said "we should take Afghan refugees into our homes, into our neighborhoods".

No, Maher doesn't get it.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (Cus5s)

Gotta agree with you, illiniwek after watching the clip. Such a smug pr*ck.

Posted by: Pony Tail at August 31, 2021 11:12 AM (tzZq2)

269 OMG the sign just cycled around. I missed the part before where it says the shot protects against Delta. That is NOT remotely true. It also says it prevents development of variants. How the hell does selection pressure on a virus to evolve away from a particular mutation come from people who are NOT immune to it? DO YOU EVEN SCIENCE, BRO
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 31, 2021 11:06 AM (9+VWm)

Some higher-up in our state health department said the virus will continue to mutate until "enough of us" are vaccinated.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 31, 2021 11:12 AM (Ez6QX)

270 rhomboid I have a link in my nic to an update on what happened

looks like these dogs were assigned to the Afghan Army (why?!?!? why did we bother!!!) and the photo was accurate but now they are just roaming around Kabul airport. the lady who is doing this rescue of American dogs and working dogs left behind is still trying to get them out. She had kibble piled up around the airport where they were released.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2021 11:13 AM (j9HX3)

271 From the sidebar:

"This venue is unusual and wonderful. I will tongue kiss Ace if I ever meet him. He might even like it.
-- Pug Mahon"

"Might?"

-Garrett

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2021 11:13 AM (mdjgu)

272
Only American TV viewers can be this pig-ignorant.

We watched over the last couple of *weeks* as our Afghan """allies""" abandoned their posts, stole all our shit, and crossed over to the enemy in droves.

Now we're supposed to feel bad for them and bring them here. And Karen will eat this up. All you can do is laugh.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (rZA2o)

273 This makes my heart a little happier, to see how tony Jackson Wyoming welcomed Riley McCollum home.

https://tinyurl.com/aunzvx5

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (Hxve0)

274 The vaccina th ion

Posted by: Kurt at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (Usf1B)

That's quite a lisp you have there bucko. Have you considered therapy?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (Q9lwr)

275 -
No, Maher doesn't get it.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (Cus5s)
Gotta agree with you, illiniwek after watching the clip. Such a smug pr*ck.
Posted by: Pony Tail at August 31, 2021 11:12 AM -
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All that smugness, and yet so little (heh) to be smug about.

Posted by: Gals Who've Seen Little Bill at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (8rX4S)

276 -
All that smugness, and yet so little (heh) to be smug about.
Posted by: Gals Who've Seen Little Bill at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (8rX4S)

To be fair, there was a point in his life where he banged Playmates.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

277 the lady who is doing this rescue of American dogs and working dogs left behind is still trying to get them out. She had kibble piled up around the airport where they were released.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2021 11:13 AM (j9HX3)

Charlotte Maxwell Jones. She and her dogs did not get out, were apparently turned away by US authorities. Last I heard (last night) she was still there.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 11:16 AM (zts5x)

278 The mother of the fallen soldier or Marine in Afghanistan seems to be putting it all on the line in her personal war against Biden.

If she was a mother doing this against Trump she'd be a media hero. As I understand it she's been kicked off every social media platform.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 11:02 AM (zts5x)

But her words are being reposted everywhere I look. They will not be able to silence her.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:16 AM (axyOa)

279 BlackOrchid, thanks. While my familiarity with contractor dogs is less extensive, even those being left behind I find stunning. Outfits I ran into were similar to military working with their dogs, very devoted to them.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 11:16 AM (OTzUX)

280 Maher is.... Maher.... I gather he has been saying some inconvenient, for the Marxists, things of late... good, but I still know him for what he is.

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (6Je/Q)

281 Mrs Peel - really? This ludicrous fiction is actually part of an "official" presentation on the vaccine? Wow.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (OTzUX)

282 Maher has been anti-woke bullshit and anti-cancel culture for a long time. He is your ally in this fight. But as is typical with people on the right, it's all or nothing. he has to agree with me 100% or he is my enemy.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (GQ5VU)

283 "Pro-voting" Jenn Rubin tweeted this:
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It might be time to stop treating the GOP as a normal political party and its hateful rhetoric as just politics. The party and its echo chamber remain a threat not only to democracy but also to the safety and security of those they demean.
---
Hey, I know it *sounds* crazy, but maybe we should create a *legal* difference between two political parties.

Maybe the government, largely in the hands of the Democratic party, should discriminate between a political party like itself and its major opposition!

I know it sounds drastic, but this might be the time!

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (XHhHI)

284 If she was a mother doing this against Trump she'd be a media hero.

No way, man!

Posted by: Cindy Sheehan at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (QU5/8)

285 "I hope you burn in hell!", she screamed at the Resident.

Newsworthy? Apparently not. Only the Daily Mail picked it up.

https://bit.ly/3mLVszp

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (DMQdU)

286 Maher is.... Maher.... I gather he has been saying some inconvenient, for the Marxists, things of late... good, but I still know him for what he is.
Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (6Je/Q)

Yeah, this....

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

287 Man oh man Emerald Robinson has really got it in for Jonah (Sandwich) Goldberg.

Is it ace in drag? Or are they buddies? She really takes a paddle and whips ol' Jonah like a rented mule.

Plus NR. Good to see these facts become known. No one can now ignore that what they hear from these guys is nothing but liberal/leftist propaganda.

it's sad really. I used to eagerly buy each issue of NR to see how they'd gotten after the left's stupidity and the Democrats willingness to ruin life in the US.

Now? They're part of the wrecking crew.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (++Sf8)

288 https://tinyurl.com/aunzvx5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (Hxve0)

Thanks for the link. It brought tears to my eyes.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (S1hrL)

289 A working dog is a working dog. I don't care if they're working directly for the military or through a contractor.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2021 11:18 AM (zts5x)

290 Always wonder what Mo had stuck up his butt about dogs

Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 31, 2021 11:18 AM (Tkx8L)

291 @MrAndyNgo

"I have an antifa flag on my [classroom] wall"

"I have 180 days to turn them into revolutionaries"

Gabriel Gipe, an #antifa member & teacher at
@NatomasUSD, was secretly recorded admitting to indoctrinating students to want to overthrow the government.

Project Veritas Video:

https://tinyurl.com/yfpyqa8d

Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2021 11:19 AM (cF8AT)

292 No, I don't think the situation is reversible. Many traditional doctors have retired or planning to do so early. It's all about coding and checking off boxes on the screen now.
Posted by: Ziba

Had an interesting and long discussion with my nephew who is in the intern phase of his medical career. Very sharp kid in many aspects but completely clueless, IMO, in areas that mattered most. I told him at the end of the conversation that essentially, he was Hippocrates the accountant, in love with his spreadsheets. Pissed his mom off. She still gives me the stinkeye when I see them.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 11:19 AM (m29VP)

293 The Project Veritas video that dropped this morning will get your blood boiling. If I was a parent and had a kid in this guy's classroom, I'd pull his arms off and beat him to death with them.

https://youtu.be/83b_u5V51U8

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 31, 2021 11:19 AM (wAnMi)

294 >Always wonder what Mo had stuck up his butt about dogs
Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 31, 2021 11:18 AM (Tkx8L)

Dog alerted potential victims to the banditry of Mo's raiding party.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (DXFDM)

295 290 Always wonder what Mo had stuck up his butt about dogs
Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 31, 2021 11:18 AM (Tkx8L)

Common view in the Middle East from time immemorial it seems... not viewed as man's best friend there, for sure...

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (6Je/Q)

296 No, I don't think the situation is reversible. Many traditional doctors have retired or planning to do so early. It's all about coding and checking off boxes on the screen now.
Posted by: Ziba

My GP of 20+ years did that about 7 years ago.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (OCTRt)

297 >>"I have an antifa flag on my [classroom] wall"

None of these kids has access to a lighter?

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (f/evC)

298 So when does joe come on to tell us he is a hero? I heard he was supposed to let us know why he was completely right to do this this way.. His Pee wee Herman defense... I meant to do that

Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (L91xj)

299 So sorry for your loss Pug!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (NpAcC)

300 https://tinyurl.com/aunzvx5
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 11:15 AM (Hxve0)

Thanks for the link. It brought tears to my eyes.
Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (S1hrL)

Damn dust in here!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:21 AM (axyOa)

301 294 >Always wonder what Mo had stuck up his butt about dogs
Posted by: Skip's Phone at August 31, 2021 11:18 AM (Tkx8L)

Dog alerted potential victims to the banditry of Mo's raiding party.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (DXFDM)

Now do cats....

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 11:21 AM (6Je/Q)

302 Just my opinion, nothing more, but we're mostly inhibited from having the "what to do about it" conversation because it's distinctly unpleasant and involves voting as a last resort only. It does involve very unpalatable and unpredictable (in terms of consequences and results) degree of, I guess "pushback."

Posted by: ErikInTexas at August 31, 2021 11:21 AM (M9SBl)

303 Common view in the Middle East from time immemorial it seems... not viewed as man's best friend there, for sure...

Somehow to them dogs are un-clean.. I know... The irony

Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2021 11:21 AM (L91xj)

304 Joe. Fucking. Biden.

'The checking of his watch, that didn't happen just once,' said Hoover regarding a picture emerging of the president glancing down at the clock on his wrist.
'That happened on every single one that came out of that airplane. It happened on every single one of them,' he said in awe.
'They would release the salute, and he would look down at his watch on every last one, all 13, he looked down at his watch.'

'As a father, you know, seeing that and the disrespect...'
Schmitz added: 'I leaned into my son's mother's ear and I said, I swear to God, if he checks his watch one more time - and that was probably only four times in.
'I couldn't look at him anymore after that.
'Considering especially the time and why we were there, I found it to be the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen.'

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

305
@ByronYork
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Combining Blinken, McKenzie numbers, totals are: Coalition airlifted 123k people out of Afghanistan. US military planes airlifted 79k. Of them, 6k were US citizens. For the 73k non-citizens, unclear what vetting process being used, where all are headed

----

But a week ago we were told there were 10-15 thousand Americans there. That would leave more than a couple hundred stranded.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2021 11:22 AM (BJKQV)

306 >Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2021 11:19 AM (cF8AT)

That goes nicely with the story I posted. The left certainly does attack from all angles.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 31, 2021 11:22 AM (DXFDM)

307 This makes my heart a little happier, to see how tony Jackson Wyoming welcomed Riley McCollum home.

https://tinyurl.com/aunzvx5
Posted by: Huck Follywood
___

Wentzville, MO did the same for Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, 20.

Wentzville is a suburb of St. Louis.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 31, 2021 11:22 AM (osTz+)

308 231 Not sure who these guys are but a note from an army buddy of mine say the Military Working Dog Team Support Association, Inc., says that NO Military Working Dogs were left behind. Aparently there is a picture of some empty dog kennels and a helicopter that generated a lot of anger. They cannot verify when that photo was taken, but the Association says no dogs were left behind.
For what its worth.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:00 AM (axyOa)

They were NOT empty...

https://tinyurl.com/yz4d8ust

Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2021 11:23 AM (cF8AT)

309 The vaccina th ion

Posted by: Kurt at August 31, 2021 11:03 AM (Usf1B)

That's quite a lisp you have there bucko. Have you considered therapy?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I've heard waterboarding is very effective.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Aut cum scuto aut inscuto at August 31, 2021 11:23 AM (m29VP)

310 >>>Always wonder what Mo had stuck up his butt about dogs

When you rape them, they bite.

Unlike the goats.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2021 11:23 AM (f/evC)

311 No, I don't think the situation is reversible. Many traditional doctors have retired or planning to do so early. It's all about coding and checking off boxes on the screen now.
Posted by: Ziba

I belong to what they call a "concierge" medical service, so I have constant access to my PCP and visits are usually wide-ranging and take a couple of hours. I'm satisfied so far.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2021 11:23 AM (2JVJo)

312 Always wonder what Mo had stuck up his butt about dogs
Posted by: Skip's Phone

Supposedly, a dog scared off an angel coming to see the pedo Mo.

Like an angel would be afraid of a dog. Ignorant goat fuckers.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (OCTRt)

313 Education being what it is today I'm not pleased that I can say that I learned enough genetic science in my HS biology course year to refute most of the nonsense they spout on TV. And follow those that are concerned when they speak about what those concerns are.

We are reaping two different attacks on our culture. One is our patriotism and nationalism and the other is our education.

Our children have been/are being indoctrinated and at the same time being ill taught basic subjects of vital interest towards anyone wanting a basic understanding of how the human race got to where it is today. And also how other plant and animal life evolves and is modified.

It's really sad and makes me angry but I'm about worn out as so much does that to me these days.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (++Sf8)

314 "Maher has been anti-woke bullshit and anti-cancel culture for a long time. He is your ally in this fight. But as is typical with people on the right, it's all or nothing. he has to agree with me 100% or he is my enemy."

It is good to see the enemy fight among themselves, but a few anti-Woke comments does not make him my ally. ... He has a platform where conservatives/patriots get censored, blacklisted.

There are always "shades of gray" and it can be useful to quote Maher bashing Wokeness ... but "we should take foreign cultures (Afghans) into our homes"? ... I don't need 100% agreement from anyone ... not even my patriot friends. But Maher is more like "controlled resistance" (or maybe just marginally less maniacal than some leftists) than like my ally.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (Cus5s)

315 None of these kids has access to a lighter?
Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2021 11:20 AM (f/evC)

I don't know what grade he teaches, but I can tell you any year I was in HS that thing would have been gone. Sadly, this guy is not anywhere near unusual.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (wAnMi)

316 Wentzville, MO did the same for Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, 20.

Wentzville is a suburb of St. Louis.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at August 31, 2021 11:22 AM (osTz+)

That's good to hear. It's the site of our next home.

Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (cF8AT)

317 Angel... Djinn... hmm...

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (6Je/Q)

318 NOOD Joe/Beau

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 31, 2021 11:24 AM (LAm9Q)

319
https://youtu.be/83b_u5V51U8
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 31, 2021 11:19 AM (wAnMi)

I see a dude wearing that shirt, he's not going to know what hit him.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

320 Maher has been anti-woke bullshit and anti-cancel culture for a long time. He is your ally in this fight. But as is typical with people on the right, it's all or nothing. he has to agree with me 100% or he is my enemy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (GQ5VU)
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I take exception to this comment.

Maher is not our ally in this fight, no matter what he says now. His issue is now how far wokeness and cancel culture is going, but there is zero evidence he objects to the underlying cultural shift that produced these facts. He has been increasingly vocal against extreme cancel culture and censorship, which I ascribe to self-interest an not ideology (as you imply).

As far as your offensive broad brush generalization about "the right" goes, I think it reveals more of your own prejudice than it does the perspective of someone actually arguing from the right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 11:25 AM (Hxve0)

321 Forget the "several hundred" number the Centcom commander was referring to, because he might well have been referring only to those left at the airport itself.

Jen Psaki suggests the right number is between 4-9,000 people left to the mercy of the Taliban, who are even now conducting house to house summary executions, according to Lara Logan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 10:17 AM (Hxve0)

How many of those "Americans" left behind are genuine born-in-the U.S.A. Americans who don't flop on their bellies when the muezzin yodels?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2021 11:25 AM (O6wQf)

322 The CDC decided months ago to block animals coming into the US from over 100 countries. Dogs rescued from the meat trade in Asia, or the dirty streets of Romania? Sorry. Dogs rescued from the hellhole of war in Afghanistan? Sorry.

Posted by: JuJuBee at August 31, 2021 11:26 AM (mNhhD)

323 Shannon Bream
@ShannonBream
Latest security alert on US Embassy In Afghanistan website: "Make contingency plans to leave when it is safe to do so that do not rely on U.S. government assistance."

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We took the lifeboats. Hope you make out OK.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at August 31, 2021 11:26 AM (d9FiS)

324 285 "I hope you burn in hell!", she screamed at the Resident.

Newsworthy? Apparently not. Only the Daily Mail picked it up.

https://bit.ly/3mLVszp
Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (DMQdU)

I checked out the article, and I noticed a screenshot of FOX's Brian Kilmeade interviewing a family, and one of them had a Black Rifle Coffee shirt on. Curious about whether they had a comment on recent events, I checked their website. No postings on the tragedy as yet.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2021 11:27 AM (mdjgu)

325 I seem to remember the media came up with some bullshit about Trump trashing soldiers lost on the battlefield once or twice.......
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at August 31, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

Never mind that we have Biden on video saying the things Trump was accused of, without evidence.

Posted by: Emmie at August 31, 2021 11:28 AM (6RgRK)

326 How many of those "Americans" left behind are genuine born-in-the U.S.A. Americans who don't flop on their bellies when the muezzin yodels?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2021 11:25 AM (O6wQf)
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good question, and, no idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2021 11:30 AM (Hxve0)

327 If there's one bright spot in the covid disaster/plandemic is that the teachers laziness and recalcitrance has caused a lot of parents to shift the schooling of their children to more friendly venues.

And Home Schooling is soaring all over the country. This is good and will weaken the power the Teacher's union has over the country and of course it's education.

This is one way to walk the march of the left thru the institutions; discard the institutions and substitute others leaving the left controlling a useless shell that no longer can hold the local schools hostage.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 31, 2021 11:32 AM (++Sf8)

328 They were NOT empty...

https://tinyurl.com/yz4d8ust
Posted by: Tami at August 31, 2021 11:23 AM (cF8AT)

Yeah. Tami, I had to look closer as I was researching the photo.
A damned shame, no matter who's dogs they were.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 31, 2021 11:32 AM (axyOa)

329 I brought the idea to the big boys, who said, no, couldn't do it, it wouldn't work. Now I'm doing a search for a client on catalysts for taking big 'uns and busting them into small 'uns. What do I see among the results? Disclosure after disclosure on breaking down plastics in refining processes.

Premature innovation never pays. And it's not for the first time this has happened.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2021 10:26 AM (/U27+)

Being a chemist, you know that plastic is basically just polymerized hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are good fuel. Just shred the plastics up, and burn them to fuel power plants. One potential problem is PVC, because of the chlorine in the molecule. You'd need some sort stack scrubber to deal with chlorine combustion products.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 31, 2021 11:32 AM (O6wQf)

330 I, too, hope Biden burns in hell and the rest of his shit family join him. Fucking loathe some assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2021 11:33 AM (m2u+o)

331 Gabriel Gipe's FB page identifies him as a hater of Israel too

Posted by: CN at August 31, 2021 11:33 AM (ONvIw)

332 Do have ro start hanging teachers too?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 31, 2021 11:37 AM (nOOFl)

333
Maher has been anti-woke bullshit and anti-cancel culture for a long time. He is your ally in this fight. But as is typical with people on the right, it's all or nothing. he has to agree with me 100% or he is my enemy.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 31, 2021 11:17 AM (GQ5VU)

He's no ally. He's antiwoke and anticancel because he thinks he's directly threatened by them. Like all commie cocksuckers, he has no problem with things like this when they're pointed at us unpeople from Jesusland.

On the other hand, he CAN be used against his fellow commies. But that doesn't make him an ally. As always, look to the 70 Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries.

Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 31, 2021 11:43 AM (n+4am)

334 He's no ally. He's antiwoke and anticancel because he thinks he's directly threatened by them.
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So what? He is on your side on this. And you still shit on him. This is why we will never win the long war.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 31, 2021 12:07 PM (GQ5VU)

335 "[...]especially because the author suggests a way of this, and it doesn't include simply ranting[...]"

I think you meant to write

"[...]especially because the author suggests a way out of this, and it doesn't include simply ranting[...]"

SG

Posted by: Sargent T. Grammer at August 31, 2021 01:51 PM (7pJ2h)

336 Communists always use fools, till they no longer need them. Then they kill them. Look what they did to the communists in South Vietnam.

But we have Vichy Republicans like Buckley who never met a social conservative he couldn't wait to silence.

Posted by: Harry at August 31, 2021 05:55 PM (EcD5Y)

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