The Loudoun County School Superintendent Who Covered Up the Sexual Assault by a Trans Student Has Been Indicted by a Grand Jury, But Only on Three Misdemeanors

It's cobalt blue northern Virginia. This is the most they'll do against one of their own.

The school's public information officer also got indicted for perjury, which is tougher charge.

A special grand jury in Loudoun County has indicted former Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler on three misdemeanor charges, a week after issuing a scathing report detailing the school district's misdeeds in responding to a sexual assault.
The office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who had impaneled the grand jury, announced Monday that a Loudoun county judge had ordered three misdemeanor indictments against Ziegler to be unsealed. Loudoun County Public Schools Public Information Officer Wayde Byard was also charged with felony perjury.
Ziegler was charged with one count of misdemeanor false publication, one count of misdemeanor prohibited conduct, and one count of misdemeanor penalizing an employee for a court appearance. The charges carry possible jail time of up to one year. Byard's perjury charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a school board member on a three women, one transgender man, one straight man panel announced that she would not vote for the cis white male for school board president, because that wouldn't be diverse.

Despite the fact, as Karen Townsend points out, that one cis straight man is bringing the actual diversity to the three women, one transgender panel.

In this case I think the biggest disqualifying maker for Gregory D'Elia wasn't his skin color or sexuality but his gender. He was the only cis, white male on the board. Ironically his presence was the very definition of diversity on the board. The others, apparently, are either female or perhaps the male seen in the video is not cisgender.

The racist, anti-white, anti-male school board member conceded that D'Elia would be an "excellent" president, but announced that if we are to "practice what we preach," we have to take the commitment to racist, sexist total exclusion and denigration of white men seriously and put CRT theory into praxis.

"I believe that Mr. D'Elia would make an excellent president," Upper Moreland School Board member Jennifer Solot said during the vote on Tuesday in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. "However, I feel that electing the only cis, white male president of this district sends the wrong message to our community -- a message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish."
She added: "I think it's important that we practice what we preach and that our words have strength when they are spoken, whether we speak them from the neighborhood sidewalks or from behind these tables."

🚨 @UpperMorelandSD Board member, Jennifer Solot, says she is against electing the only, “cis white male on this board,” as president of the district because it, “sends the wrong message to our community.”

Wow. Saying the quiet part out loud. pic.twitter.com/stEMoeUExS
— Megan Brock (@MegEBrock) December 10, 2022

That witch has now been forced to resign.

Elliott and Stainbeck threw Solot under the bus, rightly so, and said her comments were "solely hers and were not intended to represent the opinion of the entire UMSD Board of Directors or the district as a whole." To me, that screams please don’t sue us, but your mileage may vary.
Solot was a school board member for five years. I wonder if her comments track with her previous years of service. Did she usually speak like this or is this a new development?

I imagine she spoke like this a lot, though she's been emboldened to let her Kill All Men flag fly by #MeToo and, weirdly, the George Floyd death, which bitter catpiss-reeking white leftwing feminists have, as usual, turned into their Empowering Moment.

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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2022 02:59 PM (Wnv9h)

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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2022 02:59 PM (Wnv9h)

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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2022 03:00 PM (Wnv9h)

4 OK...off to nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2022 03:00 PM (Wnv9h)

5 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2022 03:00 PM (Wnv9h)

6 I swear I saw a felony perjury charge against him this morning. I will look around.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2022 03:00 PM (uNylN)

7 *manspreads*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2022 03:01 PM (Wnv9h)

8 rookie!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 13, 2022 03:01 PM (6/hMO)

9 >>>6 I swear I saw a felony perjury charge against him this morning. I will look around.

against the public information officer. I just highlighted that in the post.

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2022 03:01 PM (C1Zwz)

10 He'll spend less time in jail than the folks who peacefully wandered through those buildings some 100 miles from him one January day.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (z9kgd)

11 Chuy! You feeling better?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (PiwSw)

12 Wow, she looks like my toilet bowl after I've eaten Taco Bell

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger Who We Do Not Speak Of at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (VTu1l)

13 remind me: is cis white male = heterosexual white male?

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (mnUzy)

14 He swears he will never do that again.

"See to it you don't!" said the Judge.

Now, back to the subject of terrorists at school board meetings!

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:03 PM (krQz2)

15 The racist, anti-white, anti-male school board member conceded that D'Elia would be an "excellent" president, but announced that if we are to "practice what we preach," we have to take the commitment to racist, sexist total exclusion and denigration of white men seriously and put CRT theory into praxis.
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It's more direct and less sophisticated, but no different in essence from what the GM of my division said during a meeting earlier this year. When talking about hiring and the DEI targets and the challenges those targets presented, he said, "It is not about getting the best candidate for the job, it's about getting the best candidate for the job who contributes to our diversity."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:03 PM (t0OGg)

16 Did anyone really think this guy was going to get into any real trouble?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2022 03:04 PM (flINI)

17 Lube, garden hose, bullet ants. Some assembly required.

Posted by: It's what he deserves, but not what he'll get at December 13, 2022 03:04 PM (HwoXV)

18 remind me: is cis white male = heterosexual white male?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (mnUzy)
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Bootyjudge is a cis white gay male.

So, no. That doesn't mention orientation.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:04 PM (krQz2)

19 Did anyone really think this guy was going to get into any real trouble?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2022 03:04 PM (flINI)
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The father or the rape-apologist?

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:05 PM (krQz2)

20 Society to white men: drop dead

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 13, 2022 03:05 PM (0D0Oa)

21 "I think it's important that we practice what we preach

IIRC the nuns made sure we could practice arithmetic before doing any preaching.

Posted by: DaveA at December 13, 2022 03:05 PM (FhXTo)

22 15 ay yi yi. No. So many nos, this is how to get sued, however.

Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2022 03:05 PM (ZdaMQ)

23 Society to white men: drop dead
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 13, 2022 03:05 PM (0D0Oa

Just don't quit working. We need your tax dollars.

Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (7QcSf)

24 Two slaps on hand and a mean talking to then

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (xhxe8)

25 That fat cow looks like John Candy in some cheap Second City TV skit, "Jenny Solot, Skool Board FemiNazi".

Fuck her fat ass.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (Spg0+)

26 >Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (mnUzy)

"Cis-" means you don't try to be a gender that you are not.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (0D0Oa)

27 There is no such thing as reverse discrimination.

There is only discrimination.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (dGQu9)

28 remind me: is cis white male = heterosexual white male?
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 13, 2022 03:02 PM (mnUzy)
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No. "Cis" in this case was invented by the trans lobby so they could use their weird academic language to describe normals. In your head, just replace "cis" with "normal" or "real."

Trans-woman: a fake woman that likely has a ladypenis.
Cis-man: a regular, old-fashioned man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (t0OGg)

29 These people would make good members of the Council for Public Safety.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (krQz2)

30 In a just world this clown would have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (flINI)

31 Why can't they say heterosexual instead of cis-?

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

32 Thought I read the Loudon Superintendent also got fired.

It's not much but it's at least something.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (BTgKJ)

33
The way they treated the girl's dad, the guy would probably be safer behind bars.

In his shoes, I'd be bashing a knife against a curbstone and then leaving it in the rain for, you know... the thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (oINRc)

34 >Fuck her fat ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (Spg0+)

Not even with ace's

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (0D0Oa)

35 There is no such thing as reverse discrimination.

There is only discrimination.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (dGQu9)
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Boy, I went *off* on that exact topic at a bar once when I was out with colleagues. I got some weird looks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (t0OGg)

36 I am so all in favor of this prosecution. These people must pay for their sins.

Now, do the prosecutor who tortured the girl's father.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2022 03:08 PM (Y5fDH)

37 Society to white men: drop dead

I got this message loud and clear while trying to stay employed during the dogeater regime years.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 13, 2022 03:08 PM (xmxy/)

38 That fat cow looks like John Candy in some cheap Second City TV skit, "Jenny Solot, Skool Board FemiNazi".

Fuck her fat ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (Spg0+)
***

Uglier than the east end of a westbound skunk.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2022 03:08 PM (anj39)

39 The Loudoun County School Superintendent Who Covered Up the Sexual Assault by a Trans Student Has Been Indicted by a Grand Jury, But Only on Three Misdemeanors
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A leftist could murder three people with a chain saw and in a leftist-infested state would only be charged with littering.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (YqDXo)

40 Okay so cis- is a way to get around calling people normal and abnormal.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (eGTCV)

41 Fat pasty bigoted school board members gotta be fat pasty and bigoted.

Posted by: I predict she will be devoured by her 18 cats. at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (HwoXV)

42 Why can't they say heterosexual instead of cis-?
Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)
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Because "cis" is the opposite of "trans". Where "trans" means "across", "cis" means "same as".

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (krQz2)

43 I'm getting an Altas Shrugged vibe of moochers and looters in all levels of government.

Who is John Galt?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (u82oZ)

44 Way to go reich-wingers. Now, the terrorists have won.

Posted by: Merrick Garland at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (ppBhU)

45 I'm not sure that the law allows them to be any harder on someone who failed to suspend a student and lied to people about it. This may be the full extent of its punishment. Something that probably ought to be looked into.

Boy, I went *off* on that exact topic at a bar once when I was out with colleagues. I got some weird looks.

I used to have fun pointing out to people that discrimination isn't bad in and of its self, its even a virtue if used well. Most people have grown up thinking of discrimination as an evil in all instances without even considering it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (0hOvj)

46 >Just don't quit working. We need your tax dollars.
Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (7QcSf)

True enough. They want us to be ultimate beta males that give them all of our resources and don't dare to let out the tiniest bit of protest.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (0D0Oa)

47 Trans woman = chick with a dick.
Cis man = normal fella what don't wear dresses.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (Wy1BU)

48 Jennifer Solot looks exactly like I expected her to.

She couldn't get a date on an asteroid prison colony with the key to an X-wing tied around her neck.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (wb1YC)

49 I guess we're all Cis Lords.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (0chEi)

50 ||Did you know Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Lunatic) has a new movie out? Don’t feel bad. Neither did anyone else. Her Climate Change (which is a hoax) documentary grossed just $81 per screen.

Director Rachel Lears’ To the End screened at Sundance, features AOC and made its weekend debut on 120 screens.

On those 120 screens, it grossed just $9,667, which averages to $81 per screen.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (Vwz3I)

51 A conviction, even on a misdemeanor, will likely save his life.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (hNicz)

52 Speaking of

Ace, you might be interested in this. I don't think I saw it here. It's an advertising specialist (and I think black man) who is writing about the problems of pretending that everyone is black and gay in commercials, and putting white men in roles of criminals and bumbling fools.

"If you only watched TV, you might think that white people (including fumbling, bumbling white males) are a minority in the United States. Depending on the commercial break, you might even guess that the population is nearly 70 percent black and 30 percent “other.”

https://tinyurl.com/2mewdr8q

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (dGQu9)

53 "I think it's important that we practice what we preach and that our words have strength when they are spoken, whether we speak them from the neighborhood sidewalks or from behind these tables."

Hmmm. She clearly sees herself as some Mary Sue Hero Declaiming Her Manifesto from "the Street" into the Halls of the Patriarchy,

or some such stupid fucking thing.

I suppose this is the ESGization of every fucking thing from GM to eating an ice cream cone. Everything must funnel into into the Left's wants, desires, and pocketbook. Everything and everyone else must be destroyed.

Welp, I hope the proper laws are on the books so they can be sued into penury. Otherwise, Our Late Great High Trust Society simply devolves into a violent, grubby multi-group scrum.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (KLPy8)

54 Way to go reich-wingers. Now, the terrorists have won.
Posted by: Merrick Garland at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (ppBhU)
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Don't worry, Merr-Bear. You can still send your jackbooted thugs after your political enemies. Nothing has changed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

55 How in the hell does what he did constitute only misdemeanor charges?

Weren’t there any parents on this stupid jury?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (atmen)

56
After the school board had the irate (but orderly and nonviolent) father dragged away from the school board meeting and arrested by the cops, their spokesman said:

"Dog-whistle politics will not delay our work, we will not back down from fighting for the rights of our students and continuing our focus on equity."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (oINRc)

57 A special grand jury in Loudoun County has indicted former Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler on three misdemeanor charges, a week after issuing a scathing report detailing the school district's misdeeds in responding to a sexual assault.
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Ya mean rape. It was a rape. Say "rape".

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (krQz2)

58 I'm getting an Atlas Shrugged vibe of moochers and looters in all levels of government.

The best way I have head it put is that we are at the "loot the treasury" stage of empire.

Unrelated:

The NYPD evidence compound has gone up in flames

https://tinyurl.com/yr7u5s7r

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (0hOvj)

59 Boy, I went *off* on that exact topic at a bar once when I was out with colleagues. I got some weird looks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:07 PM (t0OGg)
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One of my kids did a poster making this point for a Martin Luther King Day contest at the local university here in town, aimed at elementary school kids. She was very confused not to win anything. I told her this is a good lesson, teaching that some home values are not necessarily universally held as true, and some people believe racial discrimination is a good thing. We call them "asshole, bigoted, Democrats".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (Y5fDH)

60 I rule that a Public Information Officer is a paid government liar so cannot be reported for perjury.

Case dismissed.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (FZWRZ)

61 "I imagine she spoke like this a lot . . . ."

I'm sure she's said much worse. If she's willing to say this publicly, on video, image what she's saying in private or at least not while being recorded. We are constantly being lectured that white people who make even the slightest racially-tinged remark in public are actually raging racist KKK grand dragons in private. Same rules, right?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

62 True enough. They want us to be ultimate beta males that give them all of our resources and don't dare to let out the tiniest bit of protest.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (0D0Oa)
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Except even worse, because it doesn't involve the occasional bout of obligatory pity sex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (t0OGg)

63 you might even guess that the population is nearly 70 percent black and 30 percent “other.”

https://tinyurl.com/2mewdr8q
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:10 PM (dGQu9)

From what I see on the teevee, only black men do dishes and laundry now. Seems kinda racist.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (xPJvm)

64 Imagine being the black woman who gets the job while knowing that the white guy was the one who was qualified.

hahahaha, just kidding. We've been there for a while.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (dGQu9)

65 That fat cow looks like John Candy in some cheap Second City TV skit, "Jenny Solot, Skool Board FemiNazi".
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You know, looking at her, and seeing her usage of "cis" makes me wonder: is she a sister of Sappho, or am I mistaken?

Also, what's the over/under on how many cats she has?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (YqDXo)

66 Society to white men: drop dead

Just don't quit working. We need your tax dollars.

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They can't live with or without us

Posted by: U2 at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (VTu1l)

67 Axeman

We know they are not organic chemists, who updated cis and trans to E and Z.

Z, from German zusammen = together or the opposite sides E, from German entgegen = opposite of the double bond.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (u82oZ)

68 Didn't we already have a thread with numerous comments about her looks? She's a racist bigoted gay woman. Having seen a number of weirdo leftists on Tik Tok video.a number of them are young, and Slim and aside from being over pierced are reasonably attractive. The gay woman mayor of my township who implies everyone at 1/ 6 was a terrorist and reputedly harasses (not sexually but Is just nasty to men and hard to work with) is a slim attractive woman in her forties so I have no definite expectations as how people will look based on their political opinions

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (Z/7YA)

69 Wow, she looks like my toilet bowl after I've eaten Taco Bell
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger Who We Do Not Speak Of
.......

You might need a fusion powered bidet.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (v0R5T)

70 There is no such thing as reverse discrimination.

There is only discrimination.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December

Same applies to hate crimes. There are no hate crimes, just crimes.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (kts79)

71 25 That fat cow looks like John Candy in some cheap Second City TV skit, "Jenny Solot, Skool Board FemiNazi".

Fuck her fat ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (Spg0+)

Said in an earlier thread that it's amazing to me, and oddly funny, how many liberal women either look like Chris Farley or David Spade.

Posted by: Little Tortilla Boy at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (KbCG3)

72 Did the Board fire the Superintendent without cause? Is that why he retained his salary? And, if they did, was it done before he was charged to ensure he retained the salary? I don’t trust anyone to do the right thing anymore.

Posted by: EveR at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (MUpk6)

73 The NYPD evidence compound has gone up in flames

https://tinyurl.com/yr7u5s7r
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:11 PM (0hOvj)
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Alvin Bragg didn't want to prosecute those cases anyway.

By the way, where was Bragg when the fire started?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (Y5fDH)

74 AG Miyares should send the state SWAT team in and arrest him for felony child abuse. Crack his head open a little while they're at it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (pb6ET)

75 From what I see on the teevee, only black men do dishes and laundry now. Seems kinda racist.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
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He makes an interesting point in the article. You can no longer cast black men as the robbers in commercials for companies like Simplisafe.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (dGQu9)

76 The superintendent may not get criminal charges but surely he's facing a whale of a civil suit?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (JMPQm)

77 This woman is so fugly she wouldn't have been allowed into Plato's Retreat

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

78 Society to white men: drop dead

Just don't quit working. We need your tax dollars.

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

They can't live with or without us
Posted by: U2

Fuck 'em. Then they live without us.

I'm/I've gone a Galt as possible.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2022 03:14 PM (62GsC)

79 If the evidence locker is burned up isn't the Trump Tax Records charcoal too?

I'm really suspicious because they haven't leaked them already.

Posted by: torabora at December 13, 2022 03:14 PM (FZWRZ)

80 Imagine being the black woman who gets the job while knowing that the white guy was the one who was qualified.
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That would take quite a bit of self-insight, and intellectual honesty.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:14 PM (YqDXo)

81 Libs 2010: Teach boys not to rape.

Libs 2020: We can't say xe's a boy, so it's not rape-rape unless xe identifies it as rape.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:14 PM (krQz2)

82 TexasDan

The father of the raped girl has a very strong case.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:15 PM (u82oZ)

83 Teachers and school admin used to be low ambition layabouts. Now they are freaks that hate normies. Our school system is overdue for a serious purge.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at December 13, 2022 03:15 PM (wpJDK)

84 Or maybe he made the "criminal" point in the comments. Regardless, it's a good read down to the end of the page.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:15 PM (dGQu9)

85 Remember the NHL idiot tweet about trannies? In response to someone mocking their all sex tranny tournament?

Yeah, about that

According to journalist Jonathan Kay, writing for Quillette, player #91 on Team Black, a self-described female-to-male transgender player, was pushed to the ground by player #90 of Team Pink, who self-describes as a "bisexual trans woman"...

It reportedly took more than 17 minutes to get the player stretchered off of the ice.

She was diagnosed with a concussion and muscle strains in her left neck, shoulder, and back. They pitted "trans women" (men) against "trans men" (women). The men crushed the women.

https://tinyurl.com/3ymf5kn6

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:15 PM (0hOvj)

86 Deplorable Jay Guevara

Gresham's Law of Organizations, or the Iron Law of Bureaucracies. Same thing, really.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:16 PM (u82oZ)

87 Imagine being the black woman who gets the job while knowing that the white guy was the one who was qualified. ...
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022 03:12 PM (dGQu9)
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How would she know? She got the job. Everyone told her she was the best candidate. She probably never met the other candidates, or knows who they are.

It's even worse this way, of course. The better candidate who was the wrong color or sex thinks he's inadequate and the worse candidate who was the right color or sex thinks he's more valuable than he actually is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2022 03:16 PM (t0OGg)

88 He makes an interesting point in the article. You can no longer cast black men as the robbers in commercials for companies like Simplisafe.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022

Looks like the Beagle Boys are going to make mint doing commercials instead of trying to steal Scrooge McDuck's money.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 13, 2022 03:16 PM (kts79)

89 I spent three years going Galt to avoid Obamacare premiums. Paid $1.79 a month. Yes it wasn't easy. Nip and tuck until medicare.

Posted by: torabora at December 13, 2022 03:16 PM (FZWRZ)

90 I think the real central question is does the alleged assaulter identify themselves as a "rapist"?

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:17 PM (krQz2)

91 When will some of these people get thrown under an actual bus?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2022 03:17 PM (63Dwl)

92 Eddie Baby

The Dignity Canal needs workers. Da!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:17 PM (u82oZ)

93
When will some of these people get thrown under an actual bus?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2022 03:17 PM (63Dwl)

Eventually.

You can't run a regime like this forever.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (oINRc)

94 These imbeciles enjoy the civilization that was built by "cis white makes". Do they really think they can run it without them? They would still be shitting in the front yard and dying like flies of a multitude of diseases.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (QSjkU)

95 The modern world would not exist if not for straight, Christian white males. Period. They built the entire thing. All of it.

I point this out to everyone who dares mention any of this crap to me.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (lTGtQ)

96 Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Real bus drivers like FenelonSpoke's husband would get indignant. A bullet is cheaper.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (u82oZ)

97 He makes an interesting point in the article. You can no longer cast black men as the robbers in commercials for companies like Simplisafe.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 13, 2022
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Racist casting has moved to the real-crime tapes people are getting from the streets.

That's gotta' stop.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:19 PM (krQz2)

98 The Left wants to Stop the Engines of the World.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:19 PM (u82oZ)

99 Raped her. like with a penis?

Posted by: hILLRY o O at December 13, 2022 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

100 Patch profiles Jennifer Solot, an incumbent Upper Moreland School Director who is seeking to be reelected.

Party Affiliation
Solot: Democrat

Family
Solot: Married with three children, two currently enrolled at UMTSD

Does anyone in your family work in politics or government?
Solot: No

Education
Solot: BS Accounting; MS Taxation

What else would you like voters to know about yourself and your positions?
Solot: This is me. I am who you see at these meetings. I am who you see at District functions, like the inflatable bear at the Trunk and Treat. I am approachable and welcome the interaction with everyone. We are all part of this community and my children know your children and will grow with them. Together, we can do it right!

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2022 03:20 PM (RHGPo)

101 I used to have fun pointing out to people that discrimination isn't bad in and of its self, its even a virtue if used well. Most people have grown up thinking of discrimination as an evil in all instances without even considering it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (0hOvj)
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It used to be a compliment to characterize someone as "a man of erudition and discrimination." No longer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:21 PM (YqDXo)

102 Hillary Clinton

Ah, the really scary one has arrived. A great Old One from the outer cosmos.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

And the answer is yes. Disgusting crime.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:21 PM (u82oZ)

103 These imbeciles enjoy the civilization that was built by "cis white makes". Do they really think they can run it without them? They would still be shitting in the front yard and dying like flies of a multitude of diseases.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (QSjkU)
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To be a liberal is to think you can be a civilizational mechanic. Marxists think they can take it all apart and put it back together. Atheists think if they just remove the God parts, it will run fine. And the empty-headed youth of today absorb that "modern" attitude.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:21 PM (krQz2)

104 Upper Moreland, PA, Willow Grove SD: Montgomery County, a blue shithole.

I'm glad they forced out the biatch.

freaking parasites.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2022 03:21 PM (dCxaZ)

105 Solot: Married with three children, two currently enrolled at UMTSD
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Married? To whom?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:21 PM (YqDXo)

106
the George Floyd death, which bitter catpiss-reeking white leftwing feminists have, as usual, turned into their Empowering Moment

Ace - you might have missed my comment a couple days ago, but the position that George Floyd was placed into on the ground is referred to as the 'recovery position' for people with breathing issues. We know that Floyd had covid at the time, and was apparently in distress from that.

As far as knee on the neck, from a different camera angle I see the policeman with his knee on the shoulder. Ineffectual counsel, imho to not have medical personnel present this during the trial.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 13, 2022 03:22 PM (enJYY)

107 They would still be shitting in the front yard and dying like flies of a multitude of diseases.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (QSjkU)

It may just have to come to this.
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Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2022 03:22 PM (dCxaZ)

108 These imbeciles enjoy the civilization that was built by "cis white makes". Do they really think they can run it without them?

For every discovery or achievement by a white man, some historian is able to dig up a woman who was at some minor level even tangentially involved and they make a movie about her, making her seem much more important.

In a world she never made, Jennifer Colson found herself cleaning the underwear of Thomas Edison."
*scene of a man condescending to her*
"Soon she was wrapped up in controversy when it was revealed that she cleaned the desk on the day that Edison discovered the correct filament to perfect the light bulb!"
*scene of her being fired for 'trying to be above her station*
*scene of crowd of white male protesters with signs yelling at her as she leaves*
"But she endeavored to persevere, and with bold strength she overcame their opposition to become the first woman scientist in human history"
*scene of Edison praising her and giving her all the credit*
That's all these twerps know about history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:22 PM (0hOvj)

109 A friend that is a teacher in a Montgomery County, MD high school talks about the collapse of secondary education. But he still gets paid.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:22 PM (u82oZ)

110 These imbeciles enjoy the civilization that was built by "cis white makes". Do they really think they can run it without them? They would still be shitting in the front yard and dying like flies of a multitude of diseases.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 13, 2022 03:18 PM (QSjkU)
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Just look at the success of female- and/or black-run cities. There ya go.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:23 PM (YqDXo)

111 For those of you who know who it is, Popehat has now quit Twitter because Musk is a dangerous Nazi and stuff. (He was previously best known for blocking like 3/4s of active accounts and shrieking lamer-than-Kristol NeverTrump things).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

112 La Ow Dun.

Posted by: gp Declines 2024 Nomination at December 13, 2022 03:23 PM (24fqN)

113 I wish we could edit comments

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:24 PM (0hOvj)

114 95 The modern world would not exist if not for straight, Christian white males. Period. They built the entire thing. All of it.
*******

Some white Jewish males also participated.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at December 13, 2022 03:24 PM (4zxRq)

115 Solot: This is me. I am who you see at these meetings.

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2022 03:24 PM (RHGPo)

116 These imbeciles enjoy the civilization that was built by "cis white makes". Do they really think they can run it without them? They would still be shitting in the front yard and dying like flies of a multitude of diseases.

The goose that laid the golden eggs is a cautionary tale for a reason. Elites through time think they can take advantage of progress while eliminating the people and conditions that created and maintain it.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:24 PM (ZGrMX)

117 I used to have fun pointing out to people that discrimination isn't bad in and of its self, its even a virtue if used well. Most people have grown up thinking of discrimination as an evil in all instances without even considering it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:09 PM (0hOvj)
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I still point out to people that "to discriminate" is simply to tell the difference. The 14th says that if race or ethnicity is the only difference, then it can't be the basis of law or protection of the law.

If you can't discriminate the road from the sidewalk, then you can't drive.

But you'll always get certain reactions from people who think they have a better understanding of the word because of all the people they've heard abuse the word over time.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:24 PM (krQz2)

118 95 Some Jewish white males were involved as well. But still white males.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2022 03:25 PM (atmen)

119 Deplorable Jay Guevara

That take reason and observational skills. A cult religion will have none of that!

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:25 PM (u82oZ)

120 Household Wealth Plummeted by $13.5 Trillion This Year.

“The 8.6 percent drop from January to September is the second fastest decline on record, behind the financial crisis of 2008/2009. Record-high inflation under the Biden administration is causing a decrease in the purchasing power of assets and liabilities.”

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2022 03:25 PM (RHGPo)

121 Ace, further updates from Loudoun County. The grand jury wanted to indict the school system's lawyer for obstruction of justice or witness tampering, but couldn't find a state law that fit the facts.
The school board is up for elections next year. Two seats were on the ballot this year, for some seats that had interim appointments. They had managed to recall one member and another died. One guy was somewhat liberal but independent, to the point that a Republican member was made school board chairman despite only two of nine members Republican since 2019.
Instead of endorsing that guy, the Democrats put up an activist just out of college. So many people voted party line for him, that the Republican won the seat by about 100 votes.

Posted by: MikeN at December 13, 2022 03:26 PM (HVIzT)

122 Bulgaroctonus

George Washington Carver and Frederick Douglas have entered the chat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:26 PM (u82oZ)

123 Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

Gaslight Inc. has gotten their latest talking points on how to deplatform twitter:

Elon Musk is the boss of Qanon

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2022 03:26 PM (dCxaZ)

124 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 13, 2022 03:26 PM (IXZGh)

125 That take reason and observational skills. A cult religion will have none of that!
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at December 13, 2022 03:25 PM (u82oZ)
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They failed because the white man didn't position them for success.

Same thing with Liberia, in fact. And now, South Africa.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:26 PM (YqDXo)

126 Why would you form a grand jury for misdemeanors?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 13, 2022 03:27 PM (IXZGh)

127 Some Jewish white males were involved as well. But still white males.

It was a mix of all sorts, Arabic, African, Chinese, whatever. Male and female. The world built as a community.

BUT

The greatest majority of contributors by a huge margin were white Judeo-Christian males. And their contributions were usually the greatest, farthest-reaching, and most impactful sort.

So yeah, we got algebra from the al-andalus Muslims, but calculus from a white Christian dude, and so on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:27 PM (0hOvj)

128 When will some of these people get thrown under an actual bus?

When sane people have finally decided they can't take anymore of this garbage. Don't see that happening in the near future.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:27 PM (Xrfse)

129 Fact: Household Wealth Plummeted by $13.5 Trillion This Year.

Why didn't I hear about this in that endless stream of campaign commercials leading up to Election Day ?

Fire all the political consultants

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2022 03:27 PM (RHGPo)

130 126 Why would you form a grand jury for misdemeanors?
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Appetizers are usually served before the main course.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 03:28 PM (0chEi)

131 Solot: See me. Feel me. Touch me. Heal me.

Listening to you, I get the music
Gazing at you, I get the heat
Following you, I climb the mountain
I get excitement at your feet

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 03:28 PM (4I/2K)

132 As to the mother of the misunderstood Person of Ladydick:

"He's a 15-year-old boy that wanted to have sex in the bathroom," she stated, seemingly neglecting the fact her son had been convicted of rape, "And they're twisting this just enough to make it a political hot button issue."

You see... the father of the raped girl was angry about the rape. But that's political. Political is bad.

And when the cops drag him away for complaining about it in an open forum, they're just doing it because he's trying to force the school board to "back down from fighting for the rights of [their] students and continuing [their] focus on equity." But that's not political. That's good.

Being in a position to situationally determine the meanings of the all the words is TIGHT.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:28 PM (oINRc)

133 Ugh, still posting under a Pablo Francisco joke.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 13, 2022 03:28 PM (KbCG3)

134
The Indianapolis Public Library’s Board of Trustees picked Dr. Gabriel Morley to replace the library’s interim CEO Nichelle Hayes, with a 4 to 2 vote. The announcement was made publicly last Thursday, which was immediately followed by booing from several members of the public in attendance.

A group protested outside the city’s library Friday demanding the board to reverse their decision. The group also collected over 1100 signatures for an online petition demanding Nichelle Hayes become the fulltime CEO.

According to WFYI one of Hayes’ supporters asked board member Hope Tribble ‘why they passed over a Black woman for a position that is open because of accusations of racism.’ Tribble said the boards job is to simply chose the best candidate.

Dr. Morley turned down the position amid the outcry Friday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (63Dwl)

135 As to the mother of the misunderstood Person of Ladydick

I mean, putting aside how she's defending her underage son trying to get laid in school, its a mom, they always defend their sons. Its inevitable, and you just pat them on the head and move on. No mother's son is ever a bad boy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (0hOvj)

136 The greatest majority of contributors by a huge margin were white Judeo-Christian males. And their contributions were usually the greatest, farthest-reaching, and most impactful sort.

So yeah, we got algebra from the al-andalus Muslims, but calculus from a white Christian dude, and so on.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:27 PM (0hOvj)

Much of the world was in reasonable parity with each other 500+ years back, the Great Divergence is what sets the modern stage. I tend to attribute this to a later impact of Aristotelian approach to science and the patent system.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (eYoxG)

137 Funny story. Close relative worked at a small school district in NY. They needed a principal. Instead of hiring someone local, they decided to hire a woman of color from Detroit (I believe).

Thing was, she was in a lawsuit with her previous district at the time of being hired. Didn't take too many brain cells to figure out how this would end.

And predictably, it did, though faster than I would've imagined.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (KbCG3)

138 I mean, putting aside how she's defending her underage son trying to get laid in school, its a mom, they always defend their sons. Its inevitable, and you just pat them on the head and move on. No mother's son is ever a bad boy.

But I thought he was her daughter.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 13, 2022 03:31 PM (eGTCV)

139 Some white Jewish males also participated.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol

Yes, I should have said Judeo-Christian

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:31 PM (lTGtQ)

140 127 Well, said Christopher. You refined what I was thinking but did not express due to my impatience to post.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2022 03:32 PM (atmen)

141 Alvin Bragg didn't want to prosecute those cases anyway.
By the way, where was Bragg when the fire started?

No Bragg, just fact.

Posted by: Will Sonnett at December 13, 2022 03:33 PM (w9Wax)

142 By the way, where was Bragg when the fire started?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2022 03:13 PM

Don't blame me. I'm an innocent man.

Posted by: Billy Joel at December 13, 2022 03:33 PM (xttsV)

143 The dunderheaded view of "discrimination" has gotten so bad that people insist that "equality" should be the default model.

Add to that you're a bad person for trying to make a case for superiority of any one thing over another, and you have this thoroughly modern idiocy.

This has birthed this "anti-hierarchy" thinking, that even if it were a valid criticism 95% of the time, would still only point out the superiority or greater relevance of a discipline against hierarchy. It would be a hierarchy against hierarchy. And the way to rationally resolve that conflict is to consider that some hierarchies are mistakes, like when children tell each other that no other flavor of ice cream is better than chocolate.

One would still need to discriminate useful hierarchies from hasty ones.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:33 PM (krQz2)

144 113 I wish we could edit comments
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:24 PM (0hOvj)

I think that's a Diamond Level Membership, and if you have to ask, you can't afford it. (Neither can I.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2022 03:34 PM (BTgKJ)

145 Elon Musk is the boss of Qanon
Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2022 03:26 PM (dCxaZ)

Q anon Elon on his way to the fair

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at December 13, 2022 03:34 PM (M+Lyo)

146 Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

147 Wasn't Cobalt Blue one of the characters in Zoolander?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (flINI)

148 You refined what I was thinking but did not express due to my impatience to post.

Its kind of a flaw with this format. It takes time to type, usually more time than to speak, and there are time constraints; an idea can be lost in the continuing flow of conversation so by the time you respond everyone might be on to the bust size of an actress.

Plus, we tend to use shorthand when we talk about commonly discussed subjects. Its frustrating sometimes because you can say "women are x" and at least one woman will say "I'M NOT!" which is beside the obvious point: nobody has time or inclination to type in every possible disclaimer, clarification, or precise definition every post. We use short hand and usually people understand that, but sometimes they do not and we end up with 16 posts on a simple, basically clear and obvious statement.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:36 PM (0hOvj)

149 Household Wealth Plummeted by $13.5 Trillion This Year.

“The 8.6 percent drop from January to September is the second fastest decline on record, behind the financial crisis of 2008/2009. Record-high inflation under the Biden administration is causing a decrease in the purchasing power of assets and liabilities.”
Posted by: SMOD
........

So what are you trying to tell me, the Inflation Reduction Act didn't work?
I feel deceived.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2022 03:36 PM (v0R5T)

150 Regarding diversity hires, my team at work had the good fortune of getting a female black employee who was brilliant. The reality is because of affirmative action and DEI horseshit everyone assumes she's a diversity hire and therefore incompetent and stupid as all fuck (even the woke know this but won't say it out loud), so she has to work twice as hard to overcome that prejudice. I'll bet my lunch money that she's not a fan of DEI.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger Who We Do Not Speak Of at December 13, 2022 03:37 PM (VTu1l)

151 I think that's a Diamond Level Membership, and if you have to ask, you can't afford it. (Neither can I.)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2022 03:34 PM (BTgKJ)
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Ace could launch his sex cult on the proceeds from just one Diamond membership.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:37 PM (krQz2)

152 Events like this "cis white guy" one are only important in that they show us how far gone we are.
In this case, there was enough outrage that at least the sexist racist had to resign. But the next one? Don't bet on sanity prevailing. We're running out of it.

Posted by: Wally at December 13, 2022 03:38 PM (mXHGG)

153 Much of the world was in reasonable parity with each other 500+ years back, the Great Divergence is what sets the modern stage. I tend to attribute this to a later impact of Aristotelian approach to science and the patent system.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (eYoxG)

There is a book specifically reviewing this called The Wealth Explosion, The Nature and Origins of Modernity by Stephan Davies.

There are a number of contributing elements, including the mixing of formal theorizing on the world with pragmatic mechanics, urbanization, trade in fairly free markets, property rights and specialization.

Davies does not do any original research here, this is mostly a review of other people's works, and it is a good jumping off place for anyone interested in the subject.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2022 03:38 PM (xhaym)

154 146 Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

The next time it dries out a bit around here, we are going to mow again. It mulches the leaves so they can break down easier and make nice soil. Also keeps them from blowing into the neighbor's yard, which would not be appreciated.

Posted by: Emmie at December 13, 2022 03:38 PM (Emce2)

155 >>>According to WFYI one of Hayes’ supporters asked board member Hope Tribble ‘why they passed over a Black woman for a position that is open because of accusations of racism.’ Tribble said the boards job is to simply chose the best candidate.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (63Dwl)

Guess she found out about the "Trouble with Tribbles"

Posted by: Boswell at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (+Cgut)

156 So what are you trying to tell me, the Inflation Reduction Act didn't work?
I feel deceived.
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2022 03:36 PM (v0R5T)
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Hey, none of the craps I've taken in the name of reducing inflation seem to have worked either.

It's almost like you can't just name something for a cause and get make progress!

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (krQz2)

157 You guys playing cards?

Posted by: Genghis Kahn at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (4I/2K)

158 I tend to attribute this to a later impact of Aristotelian approach to science and the patent system.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (eYoxG)
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Make that "Baconian approach to science" and you've got something. Aristotle actually held back science for quite a while with his "a priori" approach. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626; I looked it up) advanced science with his "a posteriori" or "empirical" approach that freed science from the Aristotlean approach.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

159 Cis-normative cats aren't all bad.

Posted by: Felix the Cat at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (a3Q+t)

160 If he's only charged and convicted on misdemeanors, it'll be easier to appoint him to a state or federal level gig.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (e2NDC)

161 Got an email today from HR advertising "Diversity 101: DEI in the Academic Workplace"

Reading the blurb, it's exactly as "woke" as you'd expect:

"In this highly interactive online course, you will gain knowledge, awareness, and communication skills for providing leadership around diversity and inclusion issues; working more effectively with people from backgrounds different than your own; and for making our campuses more welcoming and inclusive for everyone."

Fortunately, it's not mandatory (yet!)...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (YIVH2)

162 Scott Ziegler and Wayde Byard will more than likely server no jail time and probably resurface at some other NOVA public school or academic institution in the area to continue their dumbfuckery.

It is nice to see something of a price being paid for what they allowed to happen, but IMO it's insufficient.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2022 03:40 PM (Q4IgG)

163 I need to mow my estate too. Neighbor has trees on my property line that don't drop their leaves until mid December.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2022 03:40 PM (flINI)

164 146 is she wearing a bikini? Maybe there are ulterior motives.

Posted by: Piper at December 13, 2022 03:40 PM (ZdaMQ)

165 153 Much of the world was in reasonable parity with each other 500+ years back, the Great Divergence is what sets the modern stage. I tend to attribute this to a later impact of Aristotelian approach to science and the patent system.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (eYoxG)

There is a book specifically reviewing this called The Wealth Explosion, The Nature and Origins of Modernity by Stephan Davies.

There are a number of contributing elements, including the mixing of formal theorizing on the world with pragmatic mechanics, urbanization, trade in fairly free markets, property rights and specialization.

Davies does not do any original research here, this is mostly a review of other people's works, and it is a good jumping off place for anyone interested in the subject.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2022 03:38 PM (xhaym)

It's a topic that is difficult to reach a conclusion on as there are plenty of plausible explanations of positive benefits from one thing or another but nothing that easily satisfies as an explanation for such a large and enduring shift.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:40 PM (eYoxG)

166 "So what are you trying to tell me, the Inflation Reduction Act didn't work?
I feel deceived.
Posted by: wth "

Think about how bad it would have been without the Inflation Reduction Act.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2022 03:40 PM (iayUP)

167 A cis white guy, would that be what we used to call a sissy?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:41 PM (d4edd)

168 You can no longer cast black men as the robbers in commercials for companies like Simplisafe.
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Just wait until the EEOC hears about this, preventing black men from being employed in certain acting jobs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 13, 2022 03:42 PM (fs1hN)

169 Make that "Baconian approach to science" and you've got something. Aristotle actually held back science for quite a while with his "a priori" approach. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626; I looked it up) advanced science with his "a posteriori" or "empirical" approach that freed science from the Aristotlean approach.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

Say what you will about the man, he invented a heckuva sandwich.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 03:42 PM (4I/2K)

170 I take a Baconian approach to science. And breakfast.

Posted by: Wally at December 13, 2022 03:42 PM (mXHGG)

171 A cis white guy, would that be what we used to call a sissy?

Nope. It's the STEM-envy of the woke. In chemistry, "cis" and "trans" are (sort of) opposites, so "cis" became the designator for people who haven't chopped off their junk.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (ZGrMX)

172 The next time it dries out a bit around here, we are going to mow again. It mulches the leaves so they can break down easier and make nice soil. Also keeps them from blowing into the neighbor's yard, which would not be appreciated.

There are no leaves and there is no grass.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (Xrfse)

173 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (T4tVD)

174 Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

Meth....it's a helluva drug.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (Spg0+)

175 The woke grim show Wednesday Adams had a couple of black bad guys and the usual suspects went nuts on twitter (meaning like 4 people yelled really loud)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:44 PM (0hOvj)

176 Biden has cut back on SS pay outs, MyDoc says.
Says he's talked to native American 55yo doc who say they cant cover operating costs and are considering other gainful prospects.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:44 PM (d4edd)

177 Society to white men: drop dead
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

Just don't quit working. We need your tax dollars.
Posted by: Golfman

That's what I don't understand. If straight white men drop dead/don't work, who's the tax base for the globalist elites??

Posted by: Prime Sister at December 13, 2022 03:44 PM (tQL7r)

178 174 Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

Meth....it's a helluva drug.
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Most riding lawnmowers vibrate.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 03:44 PM (0chEi)

179 158 I tend to attribute this to a later impact of Aristotelian approach to science and the patent system.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:30 PM (eYoxG)
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Make that "Baconian approach to science" and you've got something. Aristotle actually held back science for quite a while with his "a priori" approach. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626; I looked it up) advanced science with his "a posteriori" or "empirical" approach that freed science from the Aristotlean approach.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

It'd be mistaken to think Aristotle opposed empiricism, "Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses". I believe his view of reality as a holistic piece with parts having purpose eventually became key to linking things together in a useful manner.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:44 PM (eYoxG)

180 Inflation Reduction Act worked well for the Leftists hand outs, and that's all.

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2022 03:44 PM (xhxe8)

181 The woke grim show Wednesday Adams had a couple of black bad guys and the usual suspects went nuts on twitter (meaning like 4 people yelled really loud)

Is it actually woke? All I've seen are wokies complaining about it. Apparently there are 2 girls who are friends but don't scissor, which is obviously wrong and offensive.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (ZGrMX)

182 Household Wealth Plummeted by $13.5 Trillion This Year.
........

Don't worry. Joe is signing The Respect for Marriage Act today.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

183 Meth....it's a helluva drug.

Heh. I'm coming to that conclusion.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (Xrfse)

184 Nope. It's the STEM-envy of the woke. In chemistry, "cis" and "trans" are (sort of) opposites, so "cis" became the designator for people who haven't chopped off their junk.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (ZGrMX)

Was it decided that "non-crazy" took too long to type?

Posted by: Wally at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (mXHGG)

185 That's what I don't understand. If straight white men drop dead/don't work, who's the tax base for the globalist elites??
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Quatamalans?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (0chEi)

186 There are a number of contributing elements, including the mixing of formal theorizing on the world with pragmatic mechanics, urbanization, trade in fairly free markets, property rights and specialization.

Posted by: Kindltot

Fernand Braudel wrote a three volume work on the rise of markets in the middle ages, which is very good. Free markets, the safety of transport, and property rights figure high.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (lTGtQ)

187 Since we are now using chemistry terms to describe sexual orientation, what are ortho, meta, and para?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (w9Wax)

188 I have to admit that I am puzzled by how a grand jury was formed to look at misdemeanors myself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:46 PM (0hOvj)

189 Fernand Braudel wrote a three volume work on the rise of markets in the middle ages, which is very good. Free markets, the safety of transport, and property rights figure high.
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That's a lot of reading. I read the first two.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 03:46 PM (0chEi)

190 Speaking of criminals, KJP answering a question about SBF's arrest.

Tom Elliott@tomselliott
“Ethics rules prevent me from disclosing whether the president will return the stolen money”

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I'm going to go with no.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2022 03:46 PM (FVME7)

191 174 Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
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My aunt was a bit *highstrung*. When that string got too tight she'd go fire up the mower and push it around the yard.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:46 PM (d4edd)

192 Nope. It's the STEM-envy of the woke. In chemistry, "cis" and "trans" are (sort of) opposites, so "cis" became the designator for people who haven't chopped off their junk.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (ZGrMX)
______________

As NaCly Dog pointed out, chemists don't use "cis" and "trans" much anymore (because it some cases the nomenclature is ambiguous), and so have turned toward "entgegen" and "zusammen" with the rules tightened up to render the nomenclature unambiguous.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2022 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

193
Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

Meth....it's a helluva drug.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:43 PM (Spg0+)

I had to explain to my wife that it would be bad to mow the lawn at this time of year, because she wants it kept at like no more than 1", ever. It's maybe @ 2". A little less. But if I mow it now, it's going to rip out the dead parts and it won't grow back right.

I think this is a woman thing, not a meth thing - but the compulsive behavior can seem similar to the male gaze.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:47 PM (oINRc)

194 Was it decided that "non-crazy" took too long to type?

It was decided that they needed to redefine the term "normal" by marginalizing normal people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:47 PM (0hOvj)

195 > Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
____________

To be honest I could probably cut mine here in the Bluegrass again. It's been mild enough to allow some of the grass to grow, but not enough of it to trigger my OCD.

Plus the mowing deck is in storage and no longer on the tractor. Not motivated for that chore either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2022 03:47 PM (Q4IgG)

196 Anyway, enough of my curmudgeonly bitching.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:47 PM (Xrfse)

197 I wish my parents had been supportive of my desire to get laid in High School.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 03:47 PM (xcxpd)

198 For those of you who know who it is, Popehat has now quit Twitter because Musk is a dangerous Nazi and stuff. (He was previously best known for blocking like 3/4s of active accounts and shrieking lamer-than-Kristol NeverTrump things).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 13, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

He'll be back. They can't quit the drug and they know it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 03:47 PM (eoQWY)

199 Aunt Cray-Cray don't like it when the minority party gets uppity.

https://is.gd/GCUJAS

What a despicable woman.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 03:48 PM (PiwSw)

200 When that string got too tight she'd go fire up the mower and push it around the yard.

Yeah that kind of thing can just be a pattern or escape to something soothing and routine to help relax and get away from stress. Does it need mowing? No, but its something to depressurize with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:48 PM (0hOvj)

201 190 Speaking of criminals, KJP answering a question about SBF's arrest.

Tom Elliott@tomselliott
“Ethics rules prevent me from disclosing whether the president will return the stolen money”
-----------------------

Isn't it rich?
They know who got the money and how much they got but nah ah, we're not giving it back.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:48 PM (d4edd)

202 154 146 Good grief. My next-door neighbor is mowing her lawn...again. It's 36 degrees out and the grass has long gone dormant. I don't get it.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 03:35 PM (Xrfse)
*****
People do not mow lawns because lawns need it. They mow lawns because *they* need it. They do yardwork because they are bored or otherwise feeling empty.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (4zxRq)

203 Would your neighbor be mowing the lawn to "rake leaves"? My lawn guys do that.

Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (NaH5I)

204 a posteriori" approach

Posterior? I love it when you talk dirty.

Posted by: Petey Bootyjudge at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (xmxy/)

205 It's a topic that is difficult to reach a conclusion on as there are plenty of plausible explanations of positive benefits from one thing or another but nothing that easily satisfies as an explanation for such a large and enduring shift.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:40 PM (eYoxG)

I like Joel Mokyr and Carlo Cipolla's approach (they wrote 40 years apart by the way) in that transformative change involves both a complete change in how the universe is understood, and a willingness to allow a society to transform along with the new possibilities.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (xhaym)

206 OT: Here's a question for you Texians and anybody else inclined to answer: what was the percentage of folks who wanted annexation versus those who wanted to remain an independent republic? Any bitter clingers after joining the states?

I just watched the old movie "Lone Star" and it got me to wondering.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (BPqio)

207 Its not warm out thar.

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (T4tVD)

208 I'm absolutely floored that a woman who would use a term like "cis-gendered" is a fat manatee. I'm gonna have to lie down for a minute.

Posted by: UGAdawg at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (tRd71)

209 That's what I don't understand. If straight white men drop dead/don't work, who's the tax base for the globalist elites??
---------------
Quatamalans?
Posted by: Puddinhead

Quat??

Posted by: Prime Sister at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (tQL7r)

210
Fernand Braudel wrote a three volume work on the rise of markets in the middle ages, which is very good. Free markets, the safety of transport, and property rights figure high.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (lTGtQ)

^^ I've read at least one of these. There was a chapter on the development of the fork.

Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (NaH5I)

211
@greg_price11
Lmfao Rep. Maxine Waters tried to end the FTX hearing before Rep. @Lancegooden got a chance to question the witnesses, who had to remind her that all the members of a committee are entitled to questions.
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Charlie Kirk radio said there's video of her blowing Tubby a kiss.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:51 PM (d4edd)

212 208 I'm absolutely floored that a woman who would use a term like "cis-gendered" is a fat manatee. I'm gonna have to lie down for a minute.
Posted by: UGAdawg at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (tRd71)

I enjoy the visual of a fat manatee. Like a manatee, but fatter. You have described her with 100% accuracy.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 13, 2022 03:51 PM (KbCG3)

213 Used to have a guy across the street who would only cut his grass after dark, sometimes really late. Weirdest thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: JmT at December 13, 2022 03:52 PM (KyGC5)

214
^^ I've read at least one of these. There was a chapter on the development of the fork.
Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (NaH5I)

Before this, nothing ever got done, because you didn't have anything to stick into it.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

215 ^^ I've read at least one of these. There was a chapter on the development of the fork.
Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (NaH5I)

Before this, nothing ever got done, because you didn't have anything to stick into it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

Nor did roads diverge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 03:53 PM (4I/2K)

216 Shadout Mapes

snort

Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:53 PM (NaH5I)

217 Guatemalteca

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:53 PM (d4edd)

218 214
^^ I've read at least one of these. There was a chapter on the development of the fork.
Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (NaH5I)

Before this, nothing ever got done, because you didn't have anything to stick into it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

And when there wasn't one in the road, what were you supposed to take?

Posted by: Yogi Berra at December 13, 2022 03:53 PM (BTgKJ)

219 a woman who would use a term like "cis-gendered" is a fat manatee.

I've haven't seen many of the "drag queen story hour" type vids, but each one I did featured fatassed whale mothers exposing their poor children to this depravity

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2022 03:53 PM (dCxaZ)

220 Isn't it rich?
They know who got the money and how much they got but nah ah, we're not giving it back.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 03:48 PM (d4edd)
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You know the rules: 10% for "The Big Guy."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 13, 2022 03:54 PM (YIVH2)

221 ....we have to take the commitment to racist, sexist total exclusion and denigration of white men seriously and put CRT theory into praxis.
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"But it's easy to talk about. It's easy to sum it up when we just talk about praxis. We're sitting here ... I'm supposed to be the kids' groomer, and we're in here talking about praxis. I mean, listen, we're talking about praxis. Not a theory. Not a theory. Not a theory. We're talking about praxis. Not a theory. Not the theory that I go out there and die for and groom every kid like it's my last. Not the theory. We're talking about praxis, man.

I mean how silly is that. And we're talking about praxis. I know I'm supposed to be fair. I know I'm supposed to lead by example. I know that and I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important. I do, I honestly do. But we're talking about praxis, man. What are we talking about? What are we talking about? Praxis? We're talking about praxis, man?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 13, 2022 03:54 PM (3peCf)

222
Used to have a guy across the street who would only cut his grass after dark, sometimes really late. Weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Posted by: JmT at December 13, 2022 03:52 PM (KyGC5)

Might have been when he had time to do it.

But... if you mow at night, and water at night, it can help keep the grass from getting scorched by the refraction, or from burning off pesticides/fertilizers you're using. Do you perhaps live in a hot/dry climate?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:54 PM (oINRc)

223
I have a friend who has a government appointed boss who happens to be a black woman and is completely unqualified for the positions she fills.

Her go-to is to be nasty and threatening.

To get her to sign off on the things she doesn't understand my friend and others resort to fake acronyms, abbreviations and invented terms while discussing projects.

She has never asked for explanations.

Posted by: Auspex at December 13, 2022 03:54 PM (j4U/Z)

224 Charlie Kirk radio said there's video of her blowing Tubby a kiss.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman

True, there is. I've seen it. Idk where.

Posted by: Prime Sister at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (tQL7r)

225 ^^ I've read at least one of these. There was a chapter on the development of the fork.
Posted by: Iris at December 13, 2022 03:50 PM (NaH5I)

Before this, nothing ever got done, because you didn't have anything to stick into it.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 03:52 PM (PiwSw)

Nor did roads diverge.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 03:53 PM (4I/2K)

Before the invention of the spoon, people used to say terrible things about how I laid next to my dogs.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (mXHGG)

226 Fernand Braudel wrote a three volume work on the rise of markets in the middle ages, which is very good. Free markets, the safety of transport, and property rights figure high.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (lTGtQ)

You might look up Carlo Cipolla, he focused on banking and markets in the late middle ages to renaissance in Italy.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xhaym)

227 Plato I think is the guy who tends to get a reputation as having set back science.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (eYoxG)

228 I have a neighbor who will wash his car, at night, when you can't see shit.

He has a harpy of a wife, our theory is that he does it to get away from her.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

229 Douglass North, Joel Mokyr, Rosenberg and Birdzell - all have written excellent books on how modern economic growth arose on the west - protected private property rights, the application of reason and science to practical technological problems, innovation, and capital markets.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at December 13, 2022 03:56 PM (4zxRq)

230 To get her to sign off on the things she doesn't understand my friend and others resort to fake acronyms, abbreviations and invented terms while discussing projects.

She has never asked for explanations.
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So she was prior military?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 03:56 PM (0chEi)

231 Shame Fettermonster got the Senator job, he would have been a great replacement for Raggity Karine
They seem to keep getting worse

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2022 03:56 PM (xhxe8)

232 OT: Here's a question for you Texians and anybody else inclined to answer: what was the percentage of folks who wanted annexation versus those who wanted to remain an independent republic? Any bitter clingers after joining the states?

I just watched the old movie "Lone Star" and it got me to wondering.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 13, 2022 03:49 PM (BPqio)

I haven't heard that it was unpopular to be annexed. Texas was worried about conflict with Mexico or even being taken over by a foreign power to some extent.

They also had a severe government debt and a condition of Annexation was to have the US take that onto itself, which was one of the reasons Annexation was not hugely popular in the US. That and a new place for a slavery issue to pop up, but this was surprisingly minor for the times because Texas was so far south and they covered the problem of breaking it up into lots of slave states at the start.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 03:56 PM (eoQWY)

233 Here's a question for you Texians and anybody else inclined to answer: what was the percentage of folks who wanted annexation versus those who wanted to remain an independent republic? Any bitter clingers after joining the states?

Posted by: All Hail Eris

I don't have any stats, but I would say the majority favored joining the union. Texas' war with Mexico was a close run thing, all things considered, and many expected another large scale invasion attempt.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:56 PM (lTGtQ)

234 Late to the thread, but don't discount the charges against the 2...the process is the punishment works on the left, just as much as the right. And convictions would exclude both people from ever working these types of jobs again, and would be an example to others to not F with parents.

All in all, the VA charges are a GREAT thing!

Posted by: Nova local at December 13, 2022 03:57 PM (exHjb)

235 Connections was a wonderful show demonstrating how little obscure historical events could lead to something wonderful.

But every nation had access to Aristotle and Archimedes, only a few took that and built on it to create skyscrapers and lunar landers, computers and artificial hearts. It was something other than some philosopher's thoughts that led to western civilization, or a significant collection of somethings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:57 PM (0hOvj)

236
He has a harpy of a wife, our theory is that he does it to get away from her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

She can't be worse than my old neighbor's wife. She'd just unload on him until he ran out of the house and then she'd stand in the street, hooting and hollering at the top of her lungs about what a bastard he was.

More than once, I thought about going over there with a bottle of whisky and a gun and telling him "settle this however you please. If you cack her, leave me a note about where to find my gun. If you take the gentleman's way out, leave a note for the cops to return the gun."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (oINRc)

237 I know it may be hard to believe, but within my lifetime, Loudon and Fairfax Counties were not blue. Hell, Loudon wasn't just red, it was redneck.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (KAi1n)

238 25 That fat cow looks like John Candy in some cheap Second City TV skit, "Jenny Solot, Skool Board FemiNazi".

Fuck her fat ass.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (Spg0+)
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Unfortunately that's her problem - no normal male wants to do her.

Posted by: Ciampino --- farces all of them at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (qfLjt)

239 I have a neighbor who will wash his car, at night, when you can't see shit.

He has a harpy of a wife, our theory is that he does it to get away from her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water
.......

The harping is always worse after dinner.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (v0R5T)

240 You might look up Carlo Cipolla, he focused on banking and markets in the late middle ages to renaissance in Italy.

Posted by: Kindltot

Thanks, sounds interesting. The Italians were a big part of the development; they invented double entry accounting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (lTGtQ)

241 Late to the thread, but don't discount the charges against the 2...the process is the punishment works on the left,

Yep. "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride"

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (dCxaZ)

242 He has a harpy of a wife, our theory is that he does it to get away from her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

I feel his pain.

Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (PiwSw)

243 So, what was Miss Sakimoto’s contribution to science?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (atmen)

244 Used to have a guy across the street who would only cut his grass after dark, sometimes really late. Weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Posted by: JmT

Bet he was nekkid.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (62GsC)

245 Would have been interesting if Texas had held out longer. Imagine some alternate histories with Texas as an independent nation between Mexico and an inevitably expanding US.

Posted by: JmT at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (KyGC5)

246 So, what was Miss Sakimoto’s contribution to science?

Blinding the scientist

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (0hOvj)

247 237 I know it may be hard to believe, but within my lifetime, Loudon and Fairfax Counties were not blue. Hell, Loudon wasn't just red, it was redneck.
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Yep, I remember those days. I also remember CNN being a hardcore blue dog Dem news show.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (0chEi)

248 So, what was Miss Sakimoto’s contribution to science?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

She made sammiches for the guys?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (62GsC)

249 Imagine some alternate histories with Texas as an independent nation between Mexico and an inevitably expanding US.

Almost certainly the Civil War would have included the Union invading and probably conquering Texas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (0hOvj)

250 He has a harpy of a wife, our theory is that he does it to get away from her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

She can't be worse than my old neighbor's wife. She'd just unload on him until he ran out of the house and then she'd stand in the street, hooting and hollering at the top of her lungs about what a bastard he was.

More than once, I thought about going over there with a bottle of whisky and a gun and telling him "settle this however you please. If you cack her, leave me a note about where to find my gun. If you take the gentleman's way out, leave a note for the cops to return the gun."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (oINRc)

Yeah, yours sounds worse. She confines her screaming to indoors. I think she's a little scared of me for some reason. Never answers the door when I knock.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (xcxpd)

251 White left wing feminists should meet George Floyd and his ilk up close and personal.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (rJ48h)

252 So, what was Miss Sakimoto’s contribution to science?

Blinding the scientist
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (0hOvj)

She was poetry in motion

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (mXHGG)

253 242 He has a harpy of a wife, our theory is that he does it to get away from her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 03:55 PM (xcxpd)

I feel his pain.
Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (PiwSw)

lol

good sock joke

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (xcxpd)

254 I know it may be hard to believe, but within my lifetime, Loudon and Fairfax Counties were not blue. Hell, Loudon wasn't just red, it was redneck.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 13, 2022 03:58 PM (KAi1n)
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And thus they voted for Dems.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (krQz2)

255 More than once, I thought about going over there with a bottle of whisky and a gun and telling him "settle this however you please.

Heh

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (Xrfse)

256 So, what was Miss Sakimoto’s contribution to science?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

She's BEAUTIFUL!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (BTgKJ)

257 WCPGW??

The UK is planning for more than 1,000 Bee Bus Stops. Bus shelter roofs will be turned into bee and butterfly gardens.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (4I/2K)

258 So, what was Miss Sakimoto’s contribution to science?

Blinding the scientist
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (0hOvj)

She was poetry in motion
Posted by: Thomas Dolby
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Heh.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at December 13, 2022 04:02 PM (LvUcv)

259 Yep, I remember those days. I also remember CNN being a hardcore blue dog Dem news show.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (0chEi)
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I think I remember that Rush would sometimes have Chris Matthews fill in for him.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (krQz2)

260 249 "Imagine some alternate histories with Texas as an independent nation between Mexico and an inevitably expanding US."

Almost certainly the Civil War would have included the Union invading and probably conquering Texas.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (0hOvj)

They probably would've been taken in the Mexican-American war.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

261 I never wash my car. That’s what rain is for.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (atmen)

262 The UK is planning for more than 1,000 Bee Bus Stops. Bus shelter roofs will be turned into bee and butterfly gardens.
Posted by: Count de Monet
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I'm sure the Brits currently freezing to death under a foot of snow and ice are happy to know this.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (LvUcv)

263 Would have been interesting if Texas had held out longer. Imagine some alternate histories with Texas as an independent nation between Mexico and an inevitably expanding US.
Posted by: JmT at December 13, 2022 03:59 PM (KyGC5)

"For Want of a Nail, if Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga" by a man named Sobol IIRC.

Britain wins the war of independence, the ex-Rebs go to the Texas area to escape hanging, while the rest sort of becomes a US/Canada hybrid. Toss in some wars in the disputed Rocky Mt Area, Texas annexing Mexico and you have two big powers.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (eoQWY)

264 The UK is planning for more than 1,000 Bee Bus Stops. Bus shelter roofs will be turned into bee and butterfly gardens.
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I guess this will please the Pakis?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 04:04 PM (0chEi)

265 The Democrats were largely pushing expansion during the 1800s, Federalists/Whigs and in consequence Republicans tended to have a negative view of it, favoring a smaller mercantile Republic. Arguably this role of expanding the global power and reach of the US continued in the 20th with Wilson and FDR putting the US on the global stage.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:05 PM (eYoxG)

266 257 WCPGW??

The UK is planning for more than 1,000 Bee Bus Stops. Bus shelter roofs will be turned into bee and butterfly gardens.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 04:01 PM (4I/2K)

"Brought to you by EpiPen!"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 04:05 PM (PiwSw)

267 Having dealt with alcoholics in my life and how charming and nice-seeming they can be to the rest of the world, as well as how insanely infuriating and tooth-gnashingly horrible they can be to family, especially a spouse.

So yeah, you end up screaming and throwing things and weeping ugly while the alcoholic goes into their "gosh, me what did I do?" hurt charming victim mode.

And it looks awful to the world, clearly this berserk screaming person must be the BAD GUY here right?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 04:06 PM (0hOvj)

268 I know it may be hard to believe, but within my lifetime, Loudon and Fairfax Counties were not blue. Hell, Loudon wasn't just red, it was redneck.
Posted by: SFGoth

I'd believe a lot of these purple and blue places are still red to this day. 2016 wasn't the Dems' first rodeo at "electioneering."

Posted by: Prime Sister at December 13, 2022 04:06 PM (tQL7r)

269 I don't know if you guys know it but ancient Rome never existed. They just made all that stuff up during the Victorian era.

https://bit.ly/3YkmAFW

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2022 04:07 PM (FVME7)

270 "Imagine some alternate histories with Texas as an independent nation between Mexico and an inevitably expanding US."

Almost certainly the Civil War would have included the Union invading and probably conquering Texas.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 04:00 PM (0hOvj)

They probably would've been taken in the Mexican-American war.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

There probably wouldn't have been such a war unless Texas was attacked by Mexico and the US pulled itself in. Then a hostile annexation of Texas would not have been in the cards, though a peaceful one might have been. Just Texas probably could not have conquered all of Mexico, or likely even as much as Texas took. The US might have taken California in a conquest war with Texas.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

271 NOOOD.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 13, 2022 04:07 PM (PiwSw)

272 Long ago neighbor ( long gone) would start cutting his grass at 9pm and go for hour to hour and half.

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2022 04:08 PM (xhxe8)

273 I'm sure the Brits currently freezing to death under a foot of snow and ice are happy to know this.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (LvUcv)

Heh. True.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 13, 2022 04:08 PM (4I/2K)

274 I don't know if you guys know it but ancient Rome never existed. They just made all that stuff up during the Victorian era.

https://bit.ly/3YkmAFW
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2022 04:07 PM (FVME7)

To be fair they did do a lot of fake ruins in England on estates. But they have a lot of real ones too.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:08 PM (eoQWY)

275 They probably would've been taken in the Mexican-American war.

Yeah, at the latest. Settling the border with Spain/Mexico would have been rough as well, possibly even losing that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2022 04:08 PM (0hOvj)

276 They probably would've been taken in the Mexican-American war.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (eYoxG)

There probably wouldn't have been such a war unless Texas was attacked by Mexico and the US pulled itself in. Then a hostile annexation of Texas would not have been in the cards, though a peaceful one might have been. Just Texas probably could not have conquered all of Mexico, or likely even as much as Texas took. The US might have taken California in a conquest war with Texas.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

Texas was a sparsely populated province of Mexico. I don't see how Texas could've handled Mexico by itself long run. They won independence because they were one of many states that revolted within Mexico.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:09 PM (eYoxG)

277 Elliot and Staknbeck did indeed throw the bitch under the bus.

They just want to get sued.

Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 04:09 PM (BLVc0)

278 Thanks for the responses. I should probably read up on this.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 13, 2022 04:09 PM (BPqio)

279 I'd believe a lot of these purple and blue places are still red to this day. 2016 wasn't the Dems' first rodeo at "electioneering."
Posted by: Prime Sister at December 13, 2022 04:06 PM (tQL7r)

ACORN didn't go away. They just got more organized.

Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 04:10 PM (BLVc0)

280 268 I know it may be hard to believe, but within my lifetime, Loudon and Fairfax Counties were not blue. Hell, Loudon wasn't just red, it was redneck.
Posted by: SFGoth
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The exodus of Yankees to the South started in 1969. It hasn't stopped. Pub v Dem does not explain the crazy. Yankee assumed moral superiority does. Tweak a Yankee's virtue meter and he will kill you. Its the Roundhead and Crazy Quaker point of view that sucks out loud.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 04:10 PM (0chEi)

281 They just want to get sued.
Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 04:09 PM (BLVc0)

*don't want to get sued.

Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 04:12 PM (BLVc0)

282 The exodus of Yankees to the South started in 1969. It hasn't stopped. Pub v Dem does not explain the crazy. Yankee assumed moral superiority does. Tweak a Yankee's virtue meter and he will kill you. Its the Roundhead and Crazy Quaker point of view that sucks out loud.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 04:10 PM (0chEi)

The DC money went wide. Simple as that.

Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 04:13 PM (BLVc0)

283 269 I don't know if you guys know it but ancient Rome never existed. They just made all that stuff up during the Victorian era.

https://bit.ly/3YkmAFW
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Wait till she finds out the Victorian era also never existed.

https://youtu.be/Vpqffgak7To

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 13, 2022 04:13 PM (sAmhv)

284 Texas was a sparsely populated province of Mexico. I don't see how Texas could've handled Mexico by itself long run. They won independence because they were one of many states that revolted within Mexico.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:09 PM (eYoxG)

Immigration from the US South, the way they won their first war of Independence. A treaty of defensive alliance with the US to enforce the Monroe doctrine would have sufficed to check Mexico.

Mexico only sporadically could manage to build up an army enough to even defend itself. France managed to rule the country via a proxy during the US Civil War because we were not paying attention. Gen Sheridan and a moderate army were sent to the Texas border right after the war to give the French a hint to clear out, after which the puppet got pulled down by local forces without a major struggle.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:14 PM (eoQWY)

285 I wish I could go back in time and tell Reagan and Buckley that conservatism's last chance to be relevant is to eradicate the scourge of drag queens. I wonder if they'd have even bothered.

Posted by: Broseidon at December 13, 2022 04:14 PM (xtzUS)

286 The exodus of Yankees to the South started in 1969. It hasn't stopped. Pub v Dem does not explain the crazy. Yankee assumed moral superiority does. Tweak a Yankee's virtue meter and he will kill you. Its the Roundhead and Crazy Quaker point of view that sucks out loud.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 13, 2022 04:10 PM (0chEi)

The DC money went wide. Simple as that.
Posted by: Golfman at December 13, 2022 04:13 PM (BLVc0)

You should read D H Hills (later a confederate general) school primer - there were examples of Yankee sharpers selling how many wooden nutmegs to customers.

Assumed virtue signalling was a national pastime since baseball wasn't a thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:16 PM (eoQWY)

287 284

Immigration from the US South, the way they won their first war of Independence. A treaty of defensive alliance with the US to enforce the Monroe doctrine would have sufficed to check Mexico.

Mexico only sporadically could manage to build up an army enough to even defend itself. France managed to rule the country via a proxy during the US Civil War because we were not paying attention. Gen Sheridan and a moderate army were sent to the Texas border right after the war to give the French a hint to clear out, after which the puppet got pulled down by local forces without a major struggle.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:14 PM (eoQWY)

There's no way the US would support them intact but not in the US. The expansionist attitude was very strong. Sure we can point to people like Lincoln and Grant in the opposition but they wouldn't be significant for nearly 20 more years.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:16 PM (eYoxG)

288 Fuck her fat ass.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2022 03:06 PM (Spg0

Apparently she's married-whether to a man or a woman hasn't been determined./So she probably doesn't need you to do that for her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2022 04:16 PM (0NXQC)

289 The education bureaucracy is even worse than the teachers racket. I graduated hs in 81 angd I can remember a principle, a vp,and a couple of guidance counselors. Naturally there was a central office but not that large. The minute Carter made dept. OF Energy a cabinet position, the spigot was opened and the bureaucracy boomed. Have the children become better educated? No. Cut out the DOE get rid of 75 % of bureaucracy and watch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2022 04:17 PM (5+3xu)

290 187 Since we are now using chemistry terms to describe sexual orientation, what are ortho, meta, and para?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 13, 2022 03:45 PM (w9Wax)
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para is opposite so that would be normal male-female attraction;
ortho is next to so that would be a queer;
meta - across, all the really mixed up imbeciles

Posted by: Ciampino - aromatic is not just Chemistry at December 13, 2022 04:17 PM (qfLjt)

291 Britain wins the war of independence, the ex-Rebs go to the Texas area to escape hanging, while the rest sort of becomes a US/Canada hybrid. Toss in some wars in the disputed Rocky Mt Area, Texas annexing Mexico and you have two big powers.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:03 PM (eoQWY)

I like the idea of retreat to Mississippi territory and later expansion to Spanish territory in Missouri. An initial "long trek" through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky would be perfect, with the follow up of being driven further West by Crown troops trying to clear the Ohio valley chasing them on to Spanish claimed lands

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2022 04:18 PM (xhaym)

292 There's no way the US would support them intact but not in the US. The expansionist attitude was very strong. Sure we can point to people like Lincoln and Grant in the opposition but they wouldn't be significant for nearly 20 more years.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:16 PM (eYoxG)

They did from 1836 to 1845. If the Mexicans had tried a reconquest earlier than that it would have been the USA's choice to intervene against Mexico or not. Given the close ties especially with the South, who were already more expansionist, and likely a Southern president, a bit of yellow journalism about the nasty Mexicans and their atrocities, with some anti-Catholic edges added could have swung the deal.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:19 PM (eoQWY)

293 Not big on how a woman looks in defining her politically, but one meme I saw the other day was a series of pictures of Arden the PM of New Zealand. She is actually turning into Gollum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 13, 2022 04:21 PM (5+3xu)

294 292 There's no way the US would support them intact but not in the US. The expansionist attitude was very strong. Sure we can point to people like Lincoln and Grant in the opposition but they wouldn't be significant for nearly 20 more years.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:16 PM (eYoxG)

They did from 1836 to 1845. If the Mexicans had tried a reconquest earlier than that it would have been the USA's choice to intervene against Mexico or not. Given the close ties especially with the South, who were already more expansionist, and likely a Southern president, a bit of yellow journalism about the nasty Mexicans and their atrocities, with some anti-Catholic edges added could have swung the deal.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:19 PM (eoQWY)

That was a temporary state of affairs before bringing them in as a slave state to shore up the political defense there. If the main advantages of protecting Texas are never expected to materialize(as far as the political factions involved are concerned), why keep defending them?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:22 PM (eYoxG)

295 Any significant minority support within Texas would've been used as enough grounds to bring them in after a war with Mexico.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:23 PM (eYoxG)

296 I like the idea of retreat to Mississippi territory and later expansion to Spanish territory in Missouri. An initial "long trek" through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky would be perfect, with the follow up of being driven further West by Crown troops trying to clear the Ohio valley chasing them on to Spanish claimed lands
Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2022 04:18 PM (xhaym)

I don't recall the details of the exodus to Texas area but I think there were several stages. Since at this point the UK was in charge they were fairly tolerant of the bad apples aside from a few examples fleeing the country rather than using force to expel them.

in the book, Missouri turns into a state that drew a lot of the slaves freed when the UK went anti-slavery (and caused a march into Texas for those who didn't like it) so Vandalia becomes majority black.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

297 >>>Almost certainly the Civil War would have included the Union invading and probably conquering Texas.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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It was too damn hot.
And Texans were not the people of the South.
Yanks were scared of Texans. Read about them holding Reb prisoners in Hempstead.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 04:24 PM (d4edd)

298 One can only hope Brandon ends up with a Crying Game experience at this wonderful celebration of the sanctity of marriage.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at December 13, 2022 04:26 PM (W7Wi6)

299 That was a temporary state of affairs before bringing them in as a slave state to shore up the political defense there. If the main advantages of protecting Texas are never expected to materialize(as far as the political factions involved are concerned), why keep defending them?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 13, 2022 04:22 PM (eYoxG)

I don't think there was that kind of planning involved, aside from normal worries about a powerful nation getting a foothold in America.

I've argued in other alt-histories that by 1846 the US was powerful enough that England couldn't afford a war here as we would have taken Canada and possibly the Caribbean off them for sure. It certainly would have been far easier to take Canada than Mexico City. But in the 1830s this wasn't as obvious to them who would have had to do the fighing.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:30 PM (eoQWY)

300 Leaving Mexico after we won the Mexican War was a big mistake. We had take it all the way to Mexico City and south of that were farmers who didn't have a dog in the fight.

We had to wait five days for them to put a government together. We should have kept it.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 04:31 PM (d4edd)

301 Leaving Mexico after we won the Mexican War was a big mistake. We had take it all the way to Mexico City and south of that were farmers who didn't have a dog in the fight.

We had to wait five days for them to put a government together. We should have kept it.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 04:31 PM (d4edd)

Polk wanted to, but his envoy cheated him and sent a treaty that just stripped the 48 state area. He was checkmated and could'nt oppose his own guy.

But taking Mexico likely would have ended the US as we know it. There's too much of a culture shock and too few Americans to absorb it. Hell, we are breaking down now partly because of trying to assimilate Latin Americans that don't have values.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:34 PM (eoQWY)

302 Yanks were scared of Texans. Read about them holding Reb prisoners in Hempstead.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 04:24 PM (d4edd)

Not really. Sure they were good troops but after 80+ percent of them were shot at Antietam they had trouble keeping up enough force to matter. Same thing happened to good Union troops like Wisconsiners. A few battles and there weren't enough left.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 13, 2022 04:37 PM (eoQWY)

303 By the end of the war most of the North Easterners were home. Sheridan's march through the south were Wisconsin and Minnesota farmers. Tough guys but fighting at 104° it would have been a pull.

Personally, I don't think that they GAS about TX and would have left it to rot.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 13, 2022 04:45 PM (d4edd)

304 No one really cares about Drag Queens. Otherwise it would have been stopped at the beginning.

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