The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

Fani Willis and her use of taxpayer's money as a personal slush fund for sexcapades and Caribbean cruises, and then claiming racism when caught, is just the latest example of a shameless society that has lost much of its sense of morality, responsibility, correct behavior, and simple honor.

Drooling Joe Biden hysterically blames Trump for the current border crisis, and the bald-heading freak in charge of the Department of Homeland Security refuses to take responsibility for the catastrophe for which he has personal control.

Merrick Garland sends SWAT teams to arrest abortion clinic protestors who have already offered to surrender themselves, then fails to take responsibility for his decision...blaming procedures, and the safety of officers!

Boeing builds planes that can't fly without complex software, then screws up the coding. Then they simply fail to build those same planes correctly, but the CEO who is responsible for the continued decline of a famed company chugs along and blames others for his failure, while enjoying his $22,400,000 salary.

Norfolk Southern ran trains that were unsafe, and decimated East Palestine PA. The federal government regulators failed to do their jobs, and the emergency response was pathetic. Yet no one was held accountable!

The FIU bridge collapse was a colossal engineering and construction screw-up, but the company responsible just keeps on truckin', leveraging political clout to cover up its failures. Broward County Awards $29 Million Contract to Builder Behind FIU Bridge Collapse sounds like a joke, but it isn't.

I could spend the rest of my life listing recent failures that caused real pain and suffering. And next to each event there will be a name or a company that avoided the simple response that we all know to be correct.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

-- Mark Twain

America does not demand perfection, but until recently we did demand responsibility for one's actions, and a clear and unequivocal acceptance of the results of those actions. We have moved far away from that simple requirement, and whether that is cause or effect of our current existential issues is a distinction without a difference.

As a friend pointed out, we do not expect ritual suicide over a cost overrun building a widget, but we do desire a society in which the default is not avoiding all responsibility in a fanatical attempt to retain power and prestige and wealth. The word "honor" has lost its power, and is used too often in the breach.

Can we blame the progressive movement and the slide toward socialism as the root cause? No...there are too many examples of this degradation across the political spectrum. Apparently, "Yes, this is my fault" is no longer a part of American speech! It has been replaced with a smug arrogance that every action by our elites is, a priori, perfect.

But they aren't, and until the American people no longer accept the arrant nonsense that all decisions made above a certain level are beyond reproach, we will continue to slide down into mediocrity...or worse. We have to hold them accountable until they are replaced by people who, with prodding, hold themselves accountable.

That's a sea change in our current culture that will not occur without pain, but do we have a choice?

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

2 We're screwed

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 11:01 AM (Akjoo)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

4 But they aren't, and until the American people no longer accept the arrant nonsense that all decisions made above a certain level are beyond reproach, we will continue to slide down into mediocrity...or worse. We have to hold them accountable until they are replaced by people who, with prodding, hold themselves accountable.

That's a sea change in our current culture that will not occur without pain, but do we have a choice?

Posted by: CBD
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The elite are held together by a pack of lies that they call values.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:03 AM (9FrDg)

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Responsibility without consequences isn't responsibility.

Posted by: Auspex at February 13, 2024 11:04 AM (j4U/Z)

6 it seems to me that the abandonment of responsibility for one's actions took over society in lockstep with the adoption of contraception. if someone's not responsible for his or her sexual activities, it's not such a big deal to avoid responsibility in other areas. Paul VI called out a great many consequences of contraception in Humanae Vitae that are obvious today, but that's one he seems to have missed.

Posted by: DenverGregg at February 13, 2024 11:04 AM (ccqW3)

7 As a friend pointed out, we do not expect ritual suicide over a cost overrun building a widget, but we do desire a society in which the default is not avoiding all responsibility in a fanatical attempt to retain power and prestige and wealth. The word "honor" has lost its power, and is used too often in the breach.
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Dishonor abounds, but honor has been degraded. The way to achieve honor is no longer clear, and the incentives to encourage honorable behavior are vanishing.

Unhonorable or dishonorable. I guess we might get choose between them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:04 AM (yjAVs)

8 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2024 11:04 AM (Wnv9h)

9 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 13, 2024 11:04 AM (Wnv9h)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Stop thinking that the point of any government organization is whatever the claimed reason. HUD cares little about housing. The EPA cares little about the environment and so on.

The point of the federal government is to take as much money and as many freedoms as possible from the citizenry and these organizations are merely a means to do so and enrich the people working in them.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (ibTVg)

11 But they aren't, and until the American people no longer accept the arrant nonsense that all decisions made above a certain level are beyond reproach, we will continue to slide down into mediocrity...or worse. We have to hold them accountable until they are replaced by people who, with prodding, hold themselves accountable.
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Accountability is gone until externally enforced. And the external enforcement is very likely to come in the form of catastrophe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (yjAVs)

12 foxnews.com
Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says
President Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, the White House stated on Monday.
3:49 PM · Feb 12, 2024

Wendy Kortepeter @WKortepeter
Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says
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A really good look. It would be one thing to deny taking it publicly [we'd still know why of course] but at least it' somewhat defensible; but to not take one at all.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)

13 Heh.
People hate it,I mean really hate it when you point out just how disrespectful, unethical, and downright ugly their actions are. And they cannot argue for it because they know you are right.
And that saddens me.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (W/lyH)

14 First phrases..."can I have..." and "not my fault..."

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

15 Went into my Office in NJ early AM, before 6, and it was basically OK.

2 hours later, assistant who should have cancelled all patients yesterday could not get in. Fine I get it, so I cancelled all the patients who would have cancelled anyway and I am home now.

Stopped at a supermarket to get wings and a few other things.

Now I have all day to go Judenrat Hunting on X

Kirby and Biden throwing more Blood Libels at Israel this AM
I hate those SOBs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (PQ4m2)

16 First phrases..."can I have..." and "not my fault..."
Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)
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The First Law of American Business and Government:

1. Ascertain that it is someone else's fault.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (yjAVs)

17 We really are a downward slide towards Terry Gilliam's dystopian "Brazil."

Incompetence and mediocrity will become the norm, rather than the exception, if they haven't already.

A lot of tasks do not require all that much in the way of skill--just a diligence to do the job well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (7fElN)

18 The other choice is failure and decline. And it has been chosen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (xcxpd)

19 Has anyone told Garland that hell is real and is his apparent destiny?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (zssUw)

20 I blame the decline of Judeo-Christian religion for a lot of our current moral irresponsibility. If you don't think you're accountable to God for your actions, you certainly aren't going to think that you're accountable to other humans.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (9yWhg)

21 >>The elite are held together by a pack of lies that they call values.

Exposing the lies is paramount. The vast majority have no idea of the size and scope of the corruption but they need to be forced to see it if we have any hope of turning things around.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (LkLld)

22 No one actually likes to admit to error, even when provably unintentional. That's why we used to learn the importance of such admissions at our mothers' knee. But wait: Are there still mothers, or has that category been abolished along with the original two sexes?

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (Nmmyc)

23 I have a friend that lost his job (thanks Bidenomics!) and he had to file for food stamps.

They demand a million forms of ID but have a helpful note that if you are a "migrant" you don't need ANY form of ID to apply...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (ibTVg)

24 I believe this is because the left is winning the battle. The left is against personal responsibility.

Everything is someone else's fault. Sex shouldn't be "punished with a baby." Laziness should be rewarded with welfare.

The only reason it crosses the political spectrum is because there's no such thing as a 'right wing' politician anymore. They're all RINO's or trojan donkeys.

It's a long, uphill battle to get this thing back and on track to greatness again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

25 America does not demand perfection, but until recently we did demand responsibility for one's actions, and a clear and unequivocal acceptance of the results of those actions. We have moved far away from that simple requirement, and whether that is cause or effect of our current existential issues is a distinction without a difference.

I was surprised you didn't mention Biden's attempt to shift the blame for the classified documents stored in his garage to his staff.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (CsUN+)

26 Accountability is gone until externally enforced. And the external enforcement is very likely to come in the form of catastrophe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (yjAVs)
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I suspect it will be a long series of catastrophes like planes dropping out of the sky before anyone starts to care enough to fix it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (7fElN)

27 FDA and CDC Could Soon Employ 'Indigenous Knowledge,' Documents Show

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You know who's crazy? Those snake handling religious nuts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (FVME7)

28 There was an inflection point in all of this.

After Waco, Janet Reno said "I accept full responsibility"...

And then went on like nothing happened. No resignation, no investigation. NOTHING.

This was the point where the liberal belief in the power of magic words became ascendant. ACTUAL consequences don't matter. Just spout the magic words.

Self-destructive empires like this can go on for a long while, but the correction will be much worse the longer it goes on.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (zjgNU)

29 First phrases..."can I have..." and "not my fault..."
Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

So, they're all Leeroy Jenkins?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

30 "The FIU bridge collapse was a colossal engineering and construction screw-up, but the company responsible just keeps on truckin', leveraging political clout to cover up its failures."

Plenty of fault and blame to go around in that disaster. Literally everyone who touched that project was criminally negligent, from the construction company, to the subcontractors, to the engineer who designed the bridge, and of course the University itself and -- shocker -- the Florida Dept of Transportation. To my knowledge, not a single person was ever held accountable for this deadly disaster.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

31 Name one institution led by people you believe to be good, honorable, decent people.

I'll start: Lingerie Football League. At least they gave the people what they wanted.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

32 It's not only about shirking responsibility. It's a deep psychic aversion to any inkling that one might not be perfect.

Holding me responsible for my mistakes is tantamount to putting me in chains and selling me in the public square. My mommy and all my teachers said i was perfect and if you say otherwise you're a filthy liar who's just trying to destroy me because you're an istophobe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (9UlRk)

33 Good enough for government work is now the standard for everyone.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (bWsRe)

34 Biden's upcoming physical exam will not include a cognitive test, White House says

It's like the parent who's had his kids seized by CPS for neglect/abuse and won't take a drug test as part of reobtaining custody. We all know what inference is to be drawn.

Posted by: He's just too busy ... shitting his pants and getting lost on stage at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (pjs7m)

35 I suspect it will be a long series of catastrophes like planes dropping out of the sky before anyone starts to care enough to fix it.

Good thing we don't have any aqueducts.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

36 the Florida Dept of Transportation. To my knowledge, not a single person was ever held accountable for this deadly disaster.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:08 AM (iFTx/)

Democrats. They will kill you by any means necessary.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

37
The FIU bridge design company was contracted for the twin spans over the Houston Ship Channel. Construction was well along on the first bridge before it was determined that design flaws would make the it unsafe. The work done to date had to be demolished.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (MeIaQ)

38 No one actually likes to admit to error, even when provably unintentional. That's why we used to learn the importance of such admissions at our mothers' knee. But wait: Are there still mothers, or has that category been abolished along with the original two sexes?
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (Nmmyc)
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I suspect that *fathers* play at least as important a role in teaching children about consequences.

"Just wait until your father comes home!" used to be the standard cry whenever kids got into trouble....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (7fElN)

39 31 Name one institution led by people you believe to be good, honorable, decent people.

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Us of course! Send $10 now.

Posted by: GOP at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (bWsRe)

40 istophobe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko

???

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (9yWhg)

41 ... is just the latest example of a shameless society that has lost much of its sense of morality, responsibility, correct behavior, and simple honor.

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Make Seppuku Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (MRwxT)

42 Commenting present, but shouldn't be up yet

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (fwDg9)

43 I blame the decline of Judeo-Christian religion for a lot of our current moral irresponsibility. If you don't think you're accountable to God for your actions, you certainly aren't going to think that you're accountable to other humans.

If we assume religion isn't real the first question anyone who can think should ask is...what is the point? Almost every society has been organized around a religion so it isn't a fluke...

And I suspect the materialistic reason for the existence of religion is that it provides a moral framework that provides a reason for people to do "the right thing" even when there is no possibility of punishment from your government or society. Pharoah, or the king, or the electorate, depending on your society, might not be watching while you loot the treasury but God or some god is.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (ibTVg)

44
Nobody works for the government to be held responsible for anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (MeIaQ)

45 Ayn Rand preached it.

Posted by: Eromero at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (NxC5+)

46 Accountability is gone until externally enforced. And the external enforcement is very likely to come in the form of catastrophe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Well said. Our current elites are similar to the nomenklatura of the late Soviet system which produced Chernobyl, nuclear subs that caught on fire underway, jets that crashed, etc. Their elite were unaccountable as well.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (9FrDg)

47 Are there still mothers, or has that category been abolished along with the original two sexes?
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto

Birthing people.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:11 AM (bWsRe)

48 31 Name one institution led by people you believe to be good, honorable, decent people.

I'll start: Lingerie Football League. At least they gave the people what they wanted.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

*Perks up*

In that vein, the Tilted Kilt breasturaunt chain.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

49 I disagree. We can and should blame the American communist movement called progressivism. Give me an example of recent American failure and I will link that to progressivism in at most two jumps.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 13, 2024 11:11 AM (17s+e)

50 I'll start: Lingerie Football League. At least they gave the people what they wanted.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

*Perks up*

In that vein, the Tilted Kilt breasturaunt chain.

In both cases the theory is much better then the reality.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (ibTVg)

51
In that vein, the Tilted Kilt breasturaunt chain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:11 AM (xcxpd)

Do those still exist? We had 2 around these parts, but they were both gone within a couple years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Their "elite" were unaccountable as well.

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (CsUN+)

53 There is the Leftists theory nothing you do isn't caused by the actions of others.

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (fwDg9)

54 FDA and CDC Could Soon Employ 'Indigenous Knowledge,' Documents Show

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Big Pharma will never allow this to happen. They'll pay some lip service to using 11 herbs and spices like ancient Natives did. But doctors will still be prescribing all sorts of pills.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (bWsRe)

55 But wait: Are there still mothers, or has that category been abolished along with the original two sexes?
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (Nmmyc)

Parent 1 and Parent 2, in WA state court system

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (xcxpd)

56 Are there still mothers, or has that category been abolished along with the original two sexes?
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto

Birthing people.
Posted by: Montec

Front hole breeders.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (R4t5M)

57 Give me an example of recent American failure and I will link that to progressivism in at most two jumps.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 13, 2024 11:11 AM (17s+e)

Oh...I don't doubt the correlation. It's close to 1:1. But the real failure was our permissiveness in allowing progressivism to take hold.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (gSZYf)

58 There is the Leftists theory nothing you do isn't caused by the actions of others.
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (fwDg9)
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If weren't for the hoarders, wreckers, running dogs, etc., all the plans would have worked brilliantly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (yjAVs)

59 I blame the decline of Judeo-Christian religion for a lot of our current moral irresponsibility. If you don't think you're accountable to God for your actions, you certainly aren't going to think that you're accountable to other humans.

If we assume religion isn't real the first question anyone who can think should ask is...what is the point? Almost every society has been organized around a religion so it isn't a fluke...

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It wasn't very long ago that even the Hells Angels had enough fear of God to know you didn't curse around little kids. They weren't worried about parents or other adults. That wasn't what was stopping them.

Now you can go to any elementary school sporting event and hear the F-word left and right from parents driving $100K cars.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (WF0+t)

60 Accountability is gone until externally enforced. And the external enforcement is very likely to come in the form of catastrophe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:05 AM (yjAVs)

For almost 200 years, we had the external accountability of being a Christian (or needing to APPEAR to be one) and following Christ's teaching, knowing (or acting like you believe) that your actions will one day be judged.

GOOD THING WE GOT RID OF THAT, HUH?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (zjgNU)

61 56

Birthing people.
Posted by: Montec

Front hole breeders.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (R4t5M)

Thought it was "Bonus hole" breeders

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (N39Ws)

62 38 No one actually likes to admit to error, even when provably unintentional. That's why we used to learn the importance of such admissions at our mothers' knee. But wait: Are there still mothers, or has that category been abolished along with the original two sexes?
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at February 13, 2024 11:07 AM (Nmmyc)
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I suspect that *fathers* play at least as important a role in teaching children about consequences.

"Just wait until your father comes home!" used to be the standard cry whenever kids got into trouble....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (7fElN)
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For my family it was the reverse. My mom was the head of the family and the disciplinarian. My dad was not weak by any means. He was a successful lawyer and athlete. But other than truly manly things like cars, stereos, TVs, and stuff like that, all important decisions were made by my mom.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

63 Can we blame the progressive movement and the slide toward socialism as the root cause?

We certainly can, IMO. Socialism by its nature denies God. When you deny God, you remove any rationale for acting honorably or putting others before yourself.

YMMV.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (Q0kLU)

64 I saw the Front Holes open for the Breeders at the Ogden back in '96.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (yjAVs)

65 61 56

Birthing people.
Posted by: Montec

Front hole breeders.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (R4t5M)

Thought it was "Bonus hole" breeders
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (N39Ws)
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[Giggles]

-- Fani Willis

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

66 They're all RINOs or trojan donkeys.
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Or oily sheiks.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (2yu8s)

67 We have to hold them accountable until they are replaced by people who, with prodding, hold themselves accountable.

Step one towards this is the acceptance that they claim themselves to be without flaw because the outcome they are are working toward is not the one we believed it to be.

The desire of the globalist elites is that the rest of us be poorer, less safe, more obedient, etc. Fani Willis? Forwards the goals of the uniparty. Biden/Myorkas? Open borders forwards the goals of the uniparty. Garland? Terrorizing the normals forwards the goals of the uniparty. These are the easy ones to see.

Boeing, Norfolk Southern, FIU? Normals cannot expect to fly safely. People who live near rail cannot expect to live safely. People who walk places cannot expect to be safe. All this forwards the goals of the uniparty. That is not to say that these failures were deliberate, but they're not seen in the same light we see them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (GYIa4)

68 There is the Leftists theory nothing you do isn't caused by the actions of others.

Alex O'Connor, who is becoming the leftwing Jordan Peterson, argues there is no free will. People do what they do because they can do no other.

He still makes the argument that "society" should go do things to minimize the impact of negative things that people do without any form of punishment though I think he also sort of gets that if individuals have no free will then neither does society either...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (ibTVg)

69
Please check all that apply

[ ] Wreckers
[ ] Kulaks
[ ] Foreign spies
[ ] Hoarders
[ ] Counterrevolutionary elements
[ ] Rootless cosmopolites
[ ] Unbridled capitalism
[ ] White Supremacy
[ ] MAGA insurrectionists
[ ] Traditional Catholics

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (MeIaQ)

70 Too many on the Left want to appear to be righteous & noble, fighting with Marquess of Queensberry rules, while Republicans engage with a street fight mentality doing anything to win.

...Along with this even-handed nobility is Merrick Garland who appoints Trump nominated and lifelong Republican Robert Hur as special counsel...Biden needs to be let loose to campaign with a fire in his belly, kicking ass and taking names. His administration needs to stop protecting him because that only makes it worse.

since McGovern lost to "I am not a crook" in a landslide. Ever since then, timidity rules. We're terrified that they'll call us bad names, so we self-censor and hand over the goods before they even demand them.

Let's hear specifics, instead of this generic "Dems should fight" silliness. President Biden won in 2020 with an excellent campaign team and a great rapid response team, he didn't have to "fight dirty". With the exception of Biden's inexplicably low polling averages, 2024 is not as different from 2020 as many proclaim.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (JCZqz)

71 Thought it was "Bonus hole" breeders
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 13, 2024 11:13 AM (N39Ws)

I can't keep up with the lingo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (R4t5M)

72 I blame the decline of Judeo-Christian religion for a lot of our current moral irresponsibility. If you don't think you're accountable to God for your actions, you certainly aren't going to think that you're accountable to other humans.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (9yWhg)

Ah, I see someone beat me to the observation.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (zjgNU)

73 There is the Leftists theory nothing you do isn't caused by the actions of others.
Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (fwDg9)
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If weren't for the hoarders, wreckers, running dogs, etc., all the plans would have worked brilliantly.

*whistles nonchalantly*

Posted by: Rootless Cosmopolitans at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (CsUN+)

74 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (T4tVD)

75 It will get worse. Engineering based on woke math? Yea, the bridges, buildings, vehicles and a host of everyday structures of technology are failing. And there will be no one alive in 20 - 30 years who knows how to fix anything remotely complicated.

I fixed an oven a few weeks ago that had a busted baking element. Took half an hour and cost about $90.

I do not think there's a person alive today, under the age of 30 who could/would do this on their own.

Imagine them trying to fix an elevator or airplane.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

76 I suspect it will be a long series of catastrophes like planes dropping out of the sky before anyone starts to care enough to fix it.

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Small price to pay for social justice.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:16 AM (FVME7)

77 Thought it was "Bonus hole" breeders

Bonus Pole > Bonus Hole

Posted by: David French at February 13, 2024 11:16 AM (ibTVg)

78 >>Alex O'Connor, who is becoming the leftwing Jordan Peterson, argues there is no free will. People do what they do because they can do no other.

So. A retard.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:17 AM (nSDU/)

79 My dad was not weak by any means. He was a successful lawyer and athlete. But other than truly manly things like cars, stereos, TVs, and stuff like that, all important decisions were made by my mom.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

Same here. And even the "manly" things were kind of a joint decision between the two of them. I don't think I ever saw my dad hold a hammer either. Which is why I don't know one end of a hammer from ther other myself. My wife on the other hand does and is the "man of the house" when it comes to stuff like that. That's because her dad was like that and she picked up on it.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:17 AM (bWsRe)

80 Such much for "the buck stops here". Way too many people passing the blame.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 11:17 AM (xT7BI)

81 Thx CBD, good post. Babs Streisand is upset that Republicans are interrupting Fani's private life . Story at Twitchy. She might be able to sing(not my style) but politically a putz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (DgSZ/)

82 Alex O'Connor, who is becoming the leftwing Jordan Peterson, argues there is no free will. People do what they do because they can do no other

Basically, an animal.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (R4t5M)

83 Growth requires the humility to know that you can grow, that you're not perfect as is. That you don't know everything. That you're not always as noble or as hedgerows as you imagine yourself to be.

But there is this pervasive idea from the bowels of '70s pop psychology that any form of criticism or self reflection is dangerous and will immediately lead to a mountain of neuroses if not aggressively pushed back. Especially when it comes to children.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (9UlRk)

84 >>I suspect it will be a long series of catastrophes like planes dropping out of the sky before anyone starts to care enough to fix it.

We are ALL Willy Loman.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (nSDU/)

85 We ate at a buffet style restaurant a few days ago. There was a large party that was using three separate tables. Men at one table, women and young kids at another table, and the third table was a bunch of teenagers. Everyone at these three tables was loud and rude. No one controlled the little so they were laying in the walking space between tables. The teenagers were amusing themselves with a competition to cram as much bread as possible into a drink glass that was half full of soda. These people made a huge mess and the "server" that refills drinks and bread was being harassed by the teens. None of the alleged adults did anything about the behavior. The group left a huge mess this lady had to clean up and didn't leave a tip.
We were as polite and friendly as we usually are and this lady literally thanked us for being kind to her. Hubbymayhem gave a big tip and she almost cried.
People are awful. They have no decency, courtesy or kindness. And some wonder why I hate people.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (cRrcX)

86 How executive compensation is determined:

Board's exec comp consultant: Your CEO's total compensation package is at the median.

BOD: Our CEO is not a median CEO - raise is pay to the 75th percentile!!! (Cheers and high fives)

One year later

Exec comp consultant: Your CEO's total compensation package is at the median...

Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (ogTiX)

87 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (JCZqz)

Is it...aflatoxin?...are they eating tainted bread?

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

88 I suspect that *fathers* play at least as important a role in teaching children about consequences.

"Just wait until your father comes home!" used to be the standard cry whenever kids got into trouble....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:10 AM (7fElN)

I remember the last time my mom spanked me.

I don't remember what I did, but I defiantly spun around and said "Didn't hurt!"

She calmly replied: "Ok. Wait till your father gets home."

Boy was I stupid and learned SEVERAL lessons that day.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (zjgNU)

89 Verse for the Day:

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers."

–Psalm 1: 1-3

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (IaTa3)

90 He still makes the argument that "society" should go do things to minimize the impact of negative things that people do without any form of punishment though I think he also sort of gets that if individuals have no free will then neither does society either...

Lol. Right? "You can't punish him, he has no free will," says asshole with no free will, speaking to others with no free will. But other than that, it's a great take on life.

Posted by: Don't blame me. I had to type this comment. at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (pjs7m)

91 I do not think there's a person alive today, under the age of 30 who could/would do this on their own.

Imagine them trying to fix an elevator or airplane.

http://tinyurl.com/5n8pcfpz

Posted by: Archimedes at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

92 Name one institution led by people you believe to be good, honorable, decent people.

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For the most part, the closest I can come up with maybe is conservative talk radio -- owing much in part to the great El Rushbo and his example.

And of course, our authors here at AoSHQ ... if not yet considered an institution, perhaps they should be considered for institutionalization? I keed, I keed ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (zI+sH)

93 Merrick Garland sends SWAT teams to arrest abortion clinic protestors who have already offered to surrender themselves, then fails to take responsibility for his decision...blaming procedures, and the safety of officers!

"Officer safety" is what leads to blind men being arrested for having a cane, old senile women getting their arms broken for absentmindedly walking out of Walmart with $13 of unpaid merchandise, blowing up toddlers with flash bangs, and 7-year-old girls getting shot in the head.

Posted by: Blue lives matter WAY more than ours at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (/IAkV)

94 Imagine them trying to fix an elevator or airplane.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

They're out there. They may not be loud and conspicuous, but they're out there, and they will rule the world one day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (9UlRk)

95 I fixed an oven a few weeks ago that had a busted baking element. Took half an hour and cost about $90. I do not think there's a person alive today, under the age of 30 who could/would do this on their own.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

I'm sure there are plenty. There's an entire industry of tiktok and youtibe DYI people. That's not geared towards you it's geared towards the yuuutes.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (bWsRe)

96 Great summary of our current mess, CBD.

Posted by: caf at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (/+mVZ)

97 82 Alex O'Connor, who is becoming the leftwing Jordan Peterson, argues there is no free will. People do what they do because they can do no other

Basically, an animal.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (R4t5M)

This is also the 'moist robot' boring idea Scott Adams pitches.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:20 AM (xcxpd)

98 But there is this pervasive idea from the bowels of '70s pop psychology that any form of criticism or self reflection is dangerous and will immediately lead to a mountain of neuroses if not aggressively pushed back. Especially when it comes to children.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (9UlRk)
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Ironically, the people pushing this ideology are indeed full of neuroses and have created generations of neurotic children and grandchildren.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:20 AM (7fElN)

99 50 I'll start: Lingerie Football League. At least they gave the people what they wanted.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

*Perks up*

In that vein, the Tilted Kilt breasturaunt chain.

In both cases the theory is much better then the reality.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:12 AM (ibTVg)

I see you've never found yourself on the right end of an LFL YouTube rabbit hole.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:20 AM (KbCG3)

100 >> FDA and CDC Could Soon Employ 'Indigenous Knowledge,'

They are big fans of the Indigenous Cure for AIDS that was popularized in Africa and DC Dinner Parties.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:20 AM (nSDU/)

101 With the exception of Biden's inexplicably low polling averages, 2024 is not as different from 2020 as many proclaim.

Yep, that's a head-scratcher all right.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2024 11:21 AM (sNc8Y)

102 My dad was not weak by any means. He was a successful lawyer and athlete. But other than truly manly things like cars, stereos, TVs, and stuff like that, all important decisions were made by my mom.
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Same here. And even the "manly" things were kind of a joint decision between the two of them....

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It's weird, but it's almost like men and women are supposed to compliment each other in relationships, not compete with each other in relationships.

Yay independent women!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:21 AM (WF0+t)

103 Alex O'Connor, who is becoming the leftwing Jordan Peterson, argues there is no free will. People do what they do because they can do no other

There's a school of thought that holds that, since everything in the universe, including our brains, is ultimately based upon particle physics, over which we have no control, there is no such thing as free will. The brain just does what its physics and chemistry tell it to do.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

104 And some wonder why I hate people.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (cRrcX)

Not Da Horde, right ?

Posted by: JT at February 13, 2024 11:22 AM (T4tVD)

105 Part of the problem with exec pay is correlation with stock performance. Stock up, you get paid more. But in an up market everyone's stock price hoes up so every CEO not matter how shitty, gets paid.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:22 AM (bWsRe)

106 But they aren't, and until the American people no longer accept the arrant nonsense that all decisions made above a certain level are beyond reproach, we will continue to slide down into mediocrity...or worse. We have to hold them accountable until they are replaced by people who, with prodding, hold themselves accountable.

That's a sea change in our current culture that will not occur without pain, but do we have a choice?

The big problem is that the Left has been totally successful in turning America and Americans from a

Judeo-Christian style Guilt Culture into a Socialist/Communist/Islamic style Blame Culture.

Not sure how you get that Guilt Culture back without a massive Judeo-Christian religious revival (Spoiler: Unlikely)

There is too much money and too much potential reward in never accepting responsibility. And Shame Culture is way way way to useful to the Left.

Even that stupid "Wash Feet" commercial at the Super Bowl from the "He Gets Us" Jesus dealio missed not only Christian doctrine/message by a gazillion miles but was strictly yet another message about how white, middle/working class normies were the villains of the world. Accept your shame, normies!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 11:22 AM (nFnyb)

107
People are awful. They have no decency, courtesy or kindness. And some wonder why I hate people.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

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We have a favorite Cajun restaurant we go to because Her Majesty loves their chargrilled oysters. We know what we want, use indoor voices, treat the staff with respect and humor, tip well and leave when we're done. We get treated like royalty when we step inside.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:22 AM (MeIaQ)

108 70 Let's hear specifics, instead of this generic "Dems should fight" silliness. President Biden won in 2020 with an excellent campaign team and a great rapid response team, he didn't have to "fight dirty". With the exception of Biden's inexplicably low polling averages, 2024 is not as different from 2020 as many proclaim.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (JCZqz)

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Is calling your opponent a racist and Russian cockholster Queensbury Rules?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 13, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

109 Biden needs to be let loose to campaign with a fire in his belly, kicking ass and taking names. His administration needs to stop protecting him because that only makes it worse.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (JCZqz)

It's kind of funny when sports fans get all upset that a coach won't use a particular player more or in a certain way.

My retort is always, "That coach sees everything that guy does, in practice and games. There's a reason he's used the way he is."

I mean, maybe Biden's admin doesn't actually want to win in 2024 and is working against the vegetable's best interests, but...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (KbCG3)

110 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (T4tVD)

111 Lol. Right? "You can't punish him, he has no free will," says asshole with no free will, speaking to others with no free will. But other than that, it's a great take on life.

If you want to avoid accountability for your actions it is perfect though isn't it?

Oh and O'Connor had a debate with Peterson. One of the interesting takeways was O'Connor agreeing society would probably be better objectively if it was Christian in the traditional sense but...still claiming he can't supporting Christianity because he doesn't believe in it.

Obviously it was just luck that Christians happened on the recipe for a good just society and not Odin followers or Muslims, or Ba'alists or whatever...

Posted by: David French at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (ibTVg)

112 Determinism is boring moldy leftover nineteenth century will to power claptrap, using thousands upon thousands of words to say "i can do whatever i want without feeling guilty".

It's not your fault you're a hoarder and wrecker. It's not my fault i let you starve and freeze in a prison camp. It's just the wonders of nature working their way out as scripted.

Claptrap.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (9UlRk)

113 You can use the Golden Rule. OR, the Categorical Imperative.

Religion isn't what's missing.

Personal Responsibility is what is missing.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (nSDU/)

114 I do not think there's a person alive today, under the age of 30 who could/would do this on their own.

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I saw a commercial recently where there's some sort of subscription service to help people fix things so they don't have to bother searching youtube videos for themselves.

Had a bunch of gay guys dancing around the lady after she was shown how to change the light bulb in her oven and she was celebrating being able to do it because she was independent. Or something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (WF0+t)

115 In my own engineering profession that has been a marked deterioration in quality work product and people. I do not live up to the standard set by the gray beards when I first started… and really everything has gone downhill. I see people at the working level and I’m actually surprised they got out of HS. I’m not sure why it all happened… but it did

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (1jdMT)

116 81 Thx CBD, good post. Babs Streisand is upset that Republicans are interrupting Fani's private life . Story at Twitchy. She might be able to sing(not my style) but politically a putz
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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Her time in the spotlight is done. Tay Tay is the new celebutard crown of the music division.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (9FrDg)

117 It's kind of funny when sports fans get all upset that a coach won't use a particular player more or in a certain way.

My retort is always, "That coach sees everything that guy does, in practice and games. There's a reason he's used the way he is."

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Bro I watch ESPN and NFL Network 12 hours a day. I know more.

Posted by: Sportsball Fans at February 13, 2024 11:24 AM (bWsRe)

118 85 We ate at a buffet style restaurant a few days ago. These people made a huge mess and the "server" that refills drinks and bread was being harassed by the teens. None of the alleged adults did anything about the behavior. The group left a huge mess this lady had to clean up and didn't leave a tip.

People are awful. They have no decency, courtesy or kindness. And some wonder why I hate people.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (cRrcX)
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"buffet style" . . . I think I see the problem. But seriously, rude and unruly and disgusting people have been the bane of restaurants for decades. I was a waiter back in the day at a chain restaurant with a big buffet section and you would not believe what absolute disgusting pigs people are. I'm sure it's even worse now.

And then there was the incident when a clearly mentally ill guy went literally nuts, had a nervous breakdown, and locked himself in the bathroom crying naked on the floor . . . because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

119 Thx CBD, good post. Babs Streisand is upset that Republicans are interrupting Fani's private life .

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hahaha, Streisand? The lady who literally has a phenomenon named after her because she couldn't leave well enough alone?

Yes please.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (WF0+t)

120 75 It will get worse. Engineering based on woke math? Yea, the bridges, buildings, vehicles and a host of everyday structures of technology are failing. And there will be no one alive in 20 - 30 years who knows how to fix anything remotely complicated.
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Add to that the proggies are tearing down any thing that works like dams, bridges, airplanes. It is proggies that are taking us back to the misery and suffering of the 18th century thinking it is virtuous.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (17s+e)

121 "Even that stupid "Wash Feet" commercial at the Super Bowl from the "He Gets Us" Jesus dealio missed not only Christian doctrine/message by a gazillion miles but was strictly yet another message about how white, middle/working class normies were the villains of the world"

Insty has a link to this article about that.

http://tinyurl.com/5xyxd93z

I sent ittoour 25 year old son, who responded with..

"Pretty much hit the nail on the head."

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (a1415)

122 FDA and CDC Could Soon Employ 'Indigenous Knowledge,'

Out: Using IVM as an off label treatment for WuFlu

In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (ibTVg)

123 The First Law of American Business and Government:

1. Ascertain that it is someone else's fault.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:06 AM (yjAVs)

First law of office management. Nobody in a position of authority is ever at fault, it's the new hire who had nothing to do with it. Or the sun got in their eyes. Anything but accountability.

Posted by: The blaaaaame game at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (/IAkV)

124 37
The FIU bridge design company was contracted for the twin spans over the Houston Ship Channel. Construction was well along on the first bridge before it was determined that design flaws would make the it unsafe. The work done to date had to be demolished.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:09 AM (MeIaQ)

I thought I remembered that. Was about to look it up.

Posted by: javems at February 13, 2024 11:26 AM (f4tcA)

125 How executive compensation is determined:

Board's exec comp consultant: Your CEO's total compensation package is at the median.

BOD: Our CEO is not a median CEO - raise is pay to the 75th percentile!!! (Cheers and high fives)

One year later

Exec comp consultant: Your CEO's total compensation package is at the median...

Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2024 11:18 AM (ogTiX)

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CEO kicks back 10% to Exec Comp Consultant annually.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 11:26 AM (zI+sH)

126 LFL > NFL

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:26 AM (xcxpd)

127 My 'space' bar really sux.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (a1415)

128 Is calling your opponent a racist and Russian cockholster Queensbury Rules?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not Queensbury but Queen Rules which require bitchy, unhinged, acidic, snarky, and poncy behavior.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (9FrDg)

129 There's a school of thought that holds that, since everything in the universe, including our brains, is ultimately based upon particle physics, over which we have no control, there is no such thing as free will. The brain just does what its physics and chemistry tell it to do.

Yes this is basic materialism. Which in theory almost all leftists believe in. They just refuse to take it to the logical conclusion.

Either there is something outside of pure materialism...like Christianity or there isn't in which case O'Connor is right.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (ibTVg)

130 I gotta go engage on Snow removal.

Posted by: JT at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (T4tVD)

131 And then there was the incident when a clearly mentally ill guy went literally nuts, had a nervous breakdown, and locked himself in the bathroom crying naked on the floor . . . because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Hold on - let's not be too quick to judge. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (IaTa3)

132 First law of office management. Nobody in a position of authority is ever at fault, it's the new hire who had nothing to do with it. Or the sun got in their eyes. Anything but accountability.
Posted by: The blaaaaame game at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (/IAkV)
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"It's my first day!"

Posted by: New COB at AoSHQ at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (7fElN)

133 I guess some Indian ex-pats built a Hindu temple in the UAE.

I give it less than 5 years.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (R4t5M)

134 What! Taylor Swift in the Lingerie Football League? A time and space as we know it will cease

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (DgSZ/)

135 "Even that stupid "Wash Feet" commercial at the Super Bowl from the "He Gets Us" Jesus dealio missed not only Christian doctrine/message by a gazillion miles but was strictly yet another message about how white, middle/working class normies were the villains of the world"

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IIRC the He Gets Us bunch is the Hobby Lobby family.

It's getting to where there's not going to be anywhere to shop.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (WF0+t)

136 127 My 'space' bar really sux.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (a1415)

No matter how hard i mash it, I'm still here.

Don't get me started on that Escape key, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (9UlRk)

137 When they interred Elizabeth II they used Queensbury rules.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (9yWhg)

138 Alex O'Connor, who is becoming the leftwing Jordan Peterson, argues there is no free will.

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Not even buy one, get one free?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (FVME7)

139 No matter how hard i mash it, I'm still here.

Don't get me started on that Escape key, either.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (9UlRk)
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (yjAVs)

140 Is calling your opponent a racist and Russian cockholster Queensbury Rules?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Or...trying to put him in prison and remove him from the ballot.

Remember Trump merely talking about investigating Hillary's admitted felony was "banana republic stuff" then...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (ibTVg)

141 >>Either there is something outside of pure materialism...like Christianity or there isn't in which case O'Connor is right.

O'Connor can be wrong in the absence of Christianity. And he is.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (nSDU/)

142 On the afternoon of July 11, 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower came across a forgotten note tucked inside his wallet. He called in his naval aide, Capt. Harry C. Butcher, who, taking the paper, read:

"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that Bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."

More at: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1142906/posts

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (XeU6L)

143 My 'space' bar really sux.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

My 'Enter' key is on the fritz. Sometimes a space, sometimes no space.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (IaTa3)

144 fwiw, its the women, affirmative action was a bitch because there were so many unqualified minorities, but it is because there are so many unqualified women that things are fuckd.

there are bunches of super smart women but there are bunches of women that just got hired because theyre women.

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (IJMww)

145 Indigenous knowledge="good thing we didn't step in it"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (DgSZ/)

146 Add to that the proggies are tearing down any thing that works like dams, bridges, airplanes. It is proggies that are taking us back to the misery and suffering of the 18th century thinking it is virtuous.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (17s+e)

I'm amazed here in Michigan.

It seems some of the younger proggies in power recognize they will be facing a reckoning if they keep pushing the green crap as is. (Older ones don't care as they will be dead)

How do I know this? Governor Wretched Whitmer wants to spend state money to reactivate a nuclear reactor.

I'm shocked.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (zjgNU)

147 There's a school of thought that holds that, since everything in the universe, including our brains, is ultimately based upon particle physics, over which we have no control, there is no such thing as free will. The brain just does what its physics and chemistry tell it to do.

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Did any of them ever get around to explaining how structure and order fell into place from chaos?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (WF0+t)

148 Fixing things is not much of thing anymore because in a lot of cases, buying new makes more sense. Does anyone fix TVs? No. Because TVs are practically fee nowadays. Appliances aren't quite like that, but relative to fixing major appliances, it's often more cost effective to buy a new one. I had a dryer that needed fixing. I was quoted $400. $300 for the part and $100 for labor. A new one was $750. The old one was approaching 10 years old. So I said fuck it, buy a new one. It's like do I want to invest more than 50% of the value of a new item into an old item? No, that's a bad allocation of resources.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (bWsRe)

149 Just in case there is someone who has not seen this before, here are the "6 phases of a project"

1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the Innocent
6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants

Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (ogTiX)

150 In my training as an engineer, It was ingrained in me that mistakes kill people and cost fortunes, and therefore were to be avoided through extreme diligence. Looking at what passes for engineers these days......Well, engineering school ain't what it was.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (pohLc)

151 No skin in the game.

We live in a country where entire classes of people are given huge amounts of power and money and zero responsibility for their failures. The managerial classes have spent decades perfecting this system.

This was predicted.

Posted by: 29Victor at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (M+gBW)

152 As a friend pointed out, we do not expect ritual suicide over a cost overrun building a widget

...but we WILL entertain the idea!

Posted by: t-bird at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (3l0s/)

153 Honestly we would be far better off as a culture if everyone had access to a Siccario or two who could rectify failings like this for, say $5k. That'd bring back honesty real fast. At the very least it would get rid of the worst liars.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (i9ffA)

154 Too many on the Left want to appear to be righteous & noble, fighting with Marquess of Queensberry rules, while Republicans engage with a street fight mentality doing anything to win.

Anyone who 'thinks' this shouldn't be allowed to handle anything sharper than a rubber ball.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (Q0kLU)

155 I keep hearing about backlash. Is it still on the menu or no longer in stock?

Posted by: TC at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (FjlUt)

156
The grimly amusing thing about the anti-religious is that they think they just invented it, instead of reflecting on its long and miserable history. All those "officially atheist" states disappeared, having produced nothing and leaving only a ruined nation and people. And now that Europe has de-Christianized and de-Judefied itself it's become a backwards land, a nothing in world affairs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (MeIaQ)

157 days......Well, engineering school ain't what it was.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (pohLc)

"Whatever, they were gonna die anyway. You couldn't have done otherwise. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (9UlRk)

158 130 I gotta go engage on Snow removal.
Posted by: JT at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (T4tVD)

Free the birdbath!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (xcxpd)

159 Did any of them ever get around to explaining how structure and order fell into place from chaos?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow?

It was Karl Marx.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (FVME7)

160 135 "Even that stupid "Wash Feet" commercial at the Super Bowl from the "He Gets Us" Jesus dealio missed not only Christian doctrine/message by a gazillion miles but was strictly yet another message about how white, middle/working class normies were the villains of the world"

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IIRC the He Gets Us bunch is the Hobby Lobby family.

It's getting to where there's not going to be anywhere to shop.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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The values of the market are not the values of the Lord. Scourging of the temple is simply one example in the good book.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (9FrDg)

161 O'Connor can be wrong in the absence of Christianity. And he is.

You are correct. Judaism, or Islam, or Odinism, or whatever could also be right and O'Connor wrong.

But if there is no metaphysical reality above the physical world of *any* sort...just "physics and chemistry" then he is right.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (ibTVg)

162 "The word 'honor' has lost its power, and is used too often in the breach."

Likewise, the word "shame." Shame needs to make a comeback in society. It is a very useful tool in correction. Of course, it is always held up at the extreme to be blamed for stunting individuality or freedoms. But shame and honor go hand-in-hand to craft the kind of society worth living in.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (0Id0S)

163 Snow removal is soon, on bright side it is supposed to get sunny and 40s

Posted by: Skip at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (fwDg9)

164 Also that feet washing video is awesome and hilarious because it uses and promotes the heck out of stereotypes.

The gay dude at the end with full-blown AIDS out rollerskating?

*chef's kiss*

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (WF0+t)

165 It was discovered that our county manager had been embezelling funds. When it came to light, our Progressive Chairman uttered the magic words, 'I accept full responsibility'. Except, of course, he accepted no responsibility, and has since been reelected.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (XeU6L)

166 I can't recall a single time when federal gov employees have screwed up even unto causing a death or deaths where the employees are held accountable.

Posted by: vic at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (A5THL)

167 But there is this pervasive idea from the bowels of '70s pop psychology that any form of criticism or self reflection is dangerous and will immediately lead to a mountain of neuroses if not aggressively pushed back. Especially when it comes to children.

**"I'm, OK, You're OK" has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (Q0kLU)

168 it is the word "deserve" that is the bane of the modern world.

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 11:32 AM (IJMww)

169 OOF! Barbra Streisand Out-Stupids Even HERSELF Defending Fani Willis for 'Trying to Have a Private Life'

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On the public dime.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

170 140 Is calling your opponent a racist and Russian cockholster Queensbury Rules?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Or...trying to put him in prison and remove him from the ballot.

Remember Trump merely talking about investigating Hillary's admitted felony was "banana republic stuff" then...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:28 AM (ibTVg)

Queensbury Rules clearly dictate that it is perfectly acceptable to use the official government Christmas card to castigate the unvaccinated and blame them for untold numbers of deaths that have not yet occurred.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (KbCG3)

171 Look if you are talking about the LFL why not just watch beach volleyball or similiar? Football just isn't feminine...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (ibTVg)

172 95 I fixed an oven a few weeks ago that had a busted baking element. Took half an hour and cost about $90. I do not think there's a person alive today, under the age of 30 who could/would do this on their own.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

I'm sure there are plenty. There's an entire industry of tiktok and youtibe DYI people. That's not geared towards you it's geared towards the yuuutes.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:19 AM (bWsRe)
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I could do it on my own. But I wouldn't touch anything that was connected to gas or certain electric. I'd let a pro handle that. But otherwise, I'm pretty handy for a guy who was never around that or taught that growing up. I installed and wired a 20-speaker home theater and audio system in my place, including drilling through walls and closets and handing speakers on the ceiling. Gotta be 600+ feet of speaker wire. All by myself. Lots of yelling and cursing, but I did it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

173 >>But if there is no metaphysical reality above the physical world of *any* sort...just "physics and chemistry" then he is right.

Nope. The Categorical Imperative qualifies as well.

'Ought' implies 'Can'. And the choice between is the choice of Free Will.

No appeal to a higher authority or structure.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (nSDU/)

174 Add to that the proggies are tearing down any thing that works like dams, bridges, airplanes. It is proggies that are taking us back to the misery and suffering of the 18th century thinking it is virtuous.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (17s+e)

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Predicted in 1971 by Ayn Rand's take on what was back then called The "New Left" in her essays -- compiled into a book called "The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 11:34 AM (ODCxE)

175 156
The grimly amusing thing about the anti-religious is that they think they just invented it, instead of reflecting on its long and miserable history. All those "officially atheist" states disappeared, having produced nothing and leaving only a ruined nation and people. And now that Europe has de-Christianized and de-Judefied itself it's become a backwards land, a nothing in world affairs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Materialism is akin to nihilism in that do as thou wilt underlies both philosophies.

Exact opposite of holding religious faith.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:34 AM (9FrDg)

176 > The FIU bridge design company...
__________

How about the design/engineer detail that went into NASA's Artemis spaceship? The one that's supposed to take the woke to the moon and beyond? The capsule they had to disassemble because a failed part was inaccessible until nearly the entire thing was taken apart?

That's some top notch work ain't it?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)

177 There is no "free will" in the sense of making purely independent choices free of any influence that predispose one to make the decision they did. Hundreds of thousands of prior events, decisions, indoctrination, education or lack thereof, experiences, environmental and genetic personality factors, and a whole host of other things led up to that moment and brought that person to make that decision. There is volition and consciousness, but no free will. We don't wake up blank slates every day.

Posted by: Free will costs at least a buck o five at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (/IAkV)

178 I could do it on my own. But I wouldn't touch anything that was connected to gas or certain electric. I'd let a pro handle that. But otherwise, I'm pretty handy for a guy who was never around that or taught that growing up. I installed and wired a 20-speaker home theater and audio system in my place, including drilling through walls and closets and handing speakers on the ceiling. Gotta be 600+ feet of speaker wire. All by myself. Lots of yelling and cursing, but I did it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

What I've learned by trying to do things like this: it makes the next project far less intimidating.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (KbCG3)

179 Heh. Yutes getting rowdy in restaurants and disrespecting the staff. There was a 24 hour joint in my home town that was very popular at bar closing time. Lots of young 'uns, myself included, usually a bit el drunko. Never a lick of trouble, always treated the wait staff with respect, tipped. We knew who owned the place. Consequences like a ride in a car trunk to long term parking somewhere.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (0EOe9)

180 Babs and her diseased brain makes sure the jewish ladies stay firmly on the plantation.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (R4t5M)

181 Did someone say government incompetence?

"This Atlanta woman’s home was demolished by mistake — and then the city threatened to fine her for the mess.

Susan Hodgson, of Atlanta, recently received the type of call homeowners dread while on holiday: a panicked neighbor, calling her up to ask: “Did you hire somebody to tear your house down?” The family property, which had been boarded up but diligently cared for over the last 15 years, was mistakenly demolished after a local construction company went to the wrong address."

This woman is getting fucked every which way. Meanwhile, if you're a bum who shits on the streets of Atlanta every day, no harm no foul.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (bWsRe)

182 But if there is no metaphysical reality above the physical world of *any* sort...just "physics and chemistry" then he is right.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:31 AM (ibTVg)

Except he isn't.

Even by the grim unyielding lights of Actual Science, nature itself is not deterministic.

His position reduces to either "you have no choice over the choices you make", which is an absurdity, or "the choice you made is the choice you made", which is trivial. You don't need any recourse to metaphysics or the spiritual or psychic to say he's a dimwitted pseudointellectual dandy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (9UlRk)

183 I'm in a great mood today! Lookin' good,, feelin' good!

LETS DANCE!

http://tinyurl.com/4pmaz537

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 13, 2024 11:36 AM (X4yCj)

184 >>We don't wake up blank slates every day.

You are misunderstanding Free Will.

It does not require the Tabla Rosa.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:36 AM (nSDU/)

185 106 >>>Even that stupid "Wash Feet" commercial at the Super Bowl from the "He Gets Us" Jesus dealio missed not only Christian doctrine/message by a gazillion miles but was strictly yet another message about how white, middle/working class normies were the villains of the world.

Not The Bee has an article up now featuring an ad someone made that *should* have been the one run on tv. It's quite good.

Posted by: red speck at February 13, 2024 11:36 AM (0Id0S)

186 Nope. The Categorical Imperative qualifies as well.

Physical reality provides NO option for free will. None. Absent something more then the physical world your mind is just your brain and your brain is just an organ processing various inputs and producing various outputs. Like your heart or liver or such though more complicated...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:36 AM (ibTVg)

187 **"I'm, OK, You're OK" has entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

A friend of mine in the military retitled it, "I"m OK, You're All F***ed Up."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (9yWhg)

188 It seems some of the younger proggies in power recognize they will be facing a reckoning if they keep pushing the green crap as is. (Older ones don't care as they will be dead)"

There was a long piece out yesterday in some online source about how Germany has completely destroyed it's industrial base, and it is not going to come back. It's energy prices are the highest in Europe, and the manufacturers that typified German engineering are all closing down or leaving the country for good.
What's even worse, starting about 8 years ago their investment in new tech began to crater, so they don't have anything to switch to.
Typical of their disastrous policy - last year the German Govm't announced a new multi-billion euro initiative to build a new Hydrogen Powered electricity system, which would be "green" and replace nat gas. Nuclear and nat gas were shut down in anticipation. Suddenly, the Hydrogen initiative is cancelled, for lack of funds, yet the nukes and the nat gas is still turned off.

The Greens have managed to destroy everything and create nothing. And Germany is Tot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (i9ffA)

189 But if there is no metaphysical reality above the physical world of *any* sort...just "physics and chemistry" then he is right.
Posted by: 18-1
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Conscience itself is something that biology, physics and chemistry cannot explain. Pretty big void there in materialism.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (9FrDg)

190 The man is a genius, I tell you!

Breaking911
@Breaking911
OOF! As his poll numbers plummet, Biden posts video of himself buying fried chicken for black kids
Who thought this was a good idea?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)

191 I had that "Everything is Broken" essay saved somewhere.

Anyone recall that? From 2021
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news /articles/everything-is-broken

Just sad.
Like the reports from the late Roman Empire, lamenting he had to travel the long way by ship because the roads were no longer safe ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (cSaKW)

192 1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the Innocent
6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants
Posted by: Oglebay at February 13, 2024 11:30 AM (ogTiX)
++++
Heh. Right now, I am on my first ever project (well, first project that I don't personally own) where I was *not* brought in at step 3.

We're skipping right over steps 2-4. It's highly efficient.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (yjAVs)

193 88
‘ but I defiantly spun around and said "Didn't hurt!"

I approached the same situation differently when I was a kid. I acted like her mom-spanking still hurt.
I wasn’t as good an actor as I thought I was and she turned me over to my dad from then on.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (jbnUc)

194 Yes this is basic materialism. Which in theory almost all leftists believe in. They just refuse to take it to the logical conclusion.

Either there is something outside of pure materialism...like Christianity or there isn't in which case O'Connor is right

In the end, I think this no-free-will talk is just lowkey racism: those poor, swarthy people can't be held accountable as they have no choice. No one could or would apply this to their own affairs, accepting every wrong with resignation. I'll bet Captain Determinism would get really into free will and personal responsibility if I started banging his wife.

Posted by: Don't blame me. I had to type this comment. at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (pjs7m)

195 >>Physical reality provides NO option for free will.

That's retarded, sir.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (nSDU/)

196 @Breaking911
OOF! As his poll numbers plummet, Biden posts video of himself buying fried chicken for black kids
Who thought this was a good idea?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)
++++
I'd make the standard, "what if Trump did this" crack, but I don't need to LOL.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (yjAVs)

197 190 The man is a genius, I tell you!

Breaking911
@Breaking911
OOF! As his poll numbers plummet, Biden posts video of himself buying fried chicken for black kids
Who thought this was a good idea?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)

I thought it was funnier that he pointed out he got himself a hamburger...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (exHjb)

198 Breaking911
@Breaking911
OOF! As his poll numbers plummet, Biden posts video of himself buying fried chicken for black kids
Who thought this was a good idea?

He rides a bike damn it.

Posted by: MSNBC at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (bWsRe)

199 171 Look if you are talking about the LFL why not just watch beach volleyball or similiar? Football just isn't feminine...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (ibTVg)

I like fit girls and the LFL has very pretty, very fit girls. They're basically wearing sports bras, helmets and thongs.

Wonderful.

Nothing against women's Beach Volleyball though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (xcxpd)

200 I saw Dimwitted Pseudointellectual Dandies open for Sting at the Omni in '91.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (T+Iwg)

201 **"I'm, OK, You're OK" has entered the chat**

That was so long ago that I had forgotten about it. But you're right; the mentality (or whatever it is) that CBD describes has been building for at least two generations. Who was it that said something to the effect that any accomplishment can be erased in three generations?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (sNc8Y)

202 131 And then there was the incident when a clearly mentally ill guy went literally nuts, had a nervous breakdown, and locked himself in the bathroom crying naked on the floor . . . because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Hold on - let's not be too quick to judge. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 11:27 AM (IaTa3)
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He was my customer too. He was a regular. Always came in with his young son who was a yuge Mets fan. I assumed he was divorced and this was his day with the kid. He was always a bit "off," but up until that day he was a good customer. Never bothered anyone, left a nice tip, but he did LOVE those potato skins.

Then one day we were out of skins. The guy totally lost it. Started sobbing, then crying, then running around the restaurant, then ran into the bathroom and locked the door. We finally got the door opened and he was lying in a fetal position on the bathroom floor, most of his clothes off, and just sobbing.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

203 OOF! As his poll numbers plummet, Biden posts video of himself buying fried chicken for black kids
Who thought this was a good idea?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)

Did he forget the watermelon and grape Kool-Aid?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (R4t5M)

204 CBD cites the FIU bridge collapse. Harris County, Tx hired the engineers that designed that masterpiece do design the new bridge over the Houston Ship Channel that would parallel the existing bridge in order to increase capacity. The county Toll Road Authority was so impressed with the proposed design that was supposedly so awesome it led them to declare once the new bridge was built they would replace the original one with an identical new one.

They were very deep into the first structure when the FIU bridge collapsed. It was decided to inspect and analyze everything. It was concluded they had a bag of shit on their hands. I know construction stopped but since I moved out of there I haven't kept up with it.

Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (8uzBS)

205 167 But there is this pervasive idea from the bowels of '70s pop psychology that any form of criticism or self reflection is dangerous and will immediately lead to a mountain of neuroses if not aggressively pushed back. Especially when it comes to children.

Proper criticism and self-reflection are absolutely necessary. However shitting on everything your kid does, making them believe nothing they do will ever be good enough, that they can never be good enough, demanding instant perfection, and screaming at them that they are the source of all your problems will indeed give them a mountain of neuroses.

Posted by: Too far in either direction is no bueno at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (/IAkV)

206 They are big fans of the Indigenous Cure for AIDS that was popularized in Africa and DC Dinner Parties.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:20 AM (nSDU/)

Raping virgins?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (GYIa4)

207 The Greens have managed to destroy everything and create nothing. And Germany is Tot.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Reminds me of Kipling's poem--The Gods of Copybook Headings.

Leftism lives in a dream world that requires hell on earth to reach utopia.

Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (9FrDg)

208 Catechism of the Catholic Church
Para 299 Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: "You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight." The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the "image of the invisible God", is destined for and addressed to man, himself created in the "image of God" and called to a personal relationship with God. Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and his work. Because creation comes forth from God's goodness, it shares in that goodness - "and God saw that it was good. . . very good"- for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him. On many occasions the Church has had to defend the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (IaTa3)

209 122 FDA and CDC Could Soon Employ 'Indigenous Knowledge,'

Out: Using IVM as an off label treatment for WuFlu
In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.
Posted by: 18-1

Nonsense! Crystals are just rocks...they don't interact with people or influence them at all. Sounds waves produced by tuning forks however, influence the human biofield, which my super-scientific research indicates is responsible for memory, health, and energy!!!
http://tinyurl.com/3v7wjj4k

Posted by: Competing Woo Charlatan Grifter at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (JCZqz)

210 This bespectacled blonde has not only given up looking for anything approach accountability or honorable behavior, she has come to expect buck-passing and dishonorable behavior in all cases:
http://tiny.cc/kx7uwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

211 hey were very deep into the first structure when the FIU bridge collapsed. It was decided to inspect and analyze everything. It was concluded they had a bag of shit on their hands. I know construction stopped but since I moved out of there I haven't kept up with it.

women

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (IJMww)

212 197 190 "Pvt Snowball, you'll find our messhall doesn't serve fried chicken and watermelon on a regular basis".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (0EOe9)

213 But take heart, the government predicts that the wheat harvest will be a record this year. Potatoes are going to be great as the collective farms are beating all records for the 1960 harvest. Did I get the year right, right? President Biden

Posted by: Colin at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (/z/eU)

214 Please check all that apply

[ ] Wreckers
[ ] Kulaks
[ ] Foreign spies
[ ] Hoarders
[ ] Counterrevolutionary elements
[ ] Rootless cosmopolites
[ ] Unbridled capitalism
[ ] White Supremacy
[ ] MAGA insurrectionists
[ ] Traditional Catholics

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 13, 2024 11:15 AM (MeIaQ)

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You left out rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

/Obligatory

[And I find your hash suspicious.

]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 11:41 AM (sWbnM)

215 Just went over the updates for repair tickets we have with a big phone company. Ticket after tickets saying "this is not assigned for dispatch. We arr looking into it"

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 13, 2024 11:41 AM (USTAS)

216 OOF! As his poll numbers plummet, Biden posts video of himself buying fried chicken for black kids

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I'll say it again. He doesn't know any black people, he has never worked with any black people, he has never lived around any black people.

And I guarantee the n-word is a routine part of his vocabulary.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:41 AM (WF0+t)

217 why would somebody rape virgins, who wants to do crime for bad sex?

I am not for the rapey thing but if you are going to do it do a whore

Posted by: N at February 13, 2024 11:42 AM (IJMww)

218 178 I could do it on my own. But I wouldn't touch anything that was connected to gas or certain electric. I'd let a pro handle that. But otherwise, I'm pretty handy for a guy who was never around that or taught that growing up. I installed and wired a 20-speaker home theater and audio system in my place, including drilling through walls and closets and handing speakers on the ceiling. Gotta be 600+ feet of speaker wire. All by myself. Lots of yelling and cursing, but I did it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

What I've learned by trying to do things like this: it makes the next project far less intimidating.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:35 AM (KbCG3)
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100%. The first speakers installed were the hardest. The last few? Not so much. Last summer, I put a new 2.1 system on my roof deck, which also required drilling, running wires, etc, and it was easy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

219 They are big fans of the Indigenous Cure for AIDS that was popularized in Africa and DC Dinner Parties.
Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:20 AM (nSDU/)

Raping virgins?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

African villagers- but all the adult women have already been raped! What are we to do?

I have a suggestion....

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

220 I watched some episodes of Ice Road Truckers. It's a dumb show but whatever, brain sugar is fun sometimes. It's from the late 2000s. And it's crazy how there's zero DEI on the show. All the characters are middle aged white guys, who swear a lot and give no fucks about PC.

An era gone by.

Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:42 AM (bWsRe)

221 Free Will thread.

I'll take the over on 1000 comments.

But sadly i must vamoose

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:42 AM (9UlRk)

222
In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.
Posted by: 18-1

It only cures Indigenous cancer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2024 11:43 AM (63Dwl)

223 One of the interesting takeways was O'Connor agreeing society would probably be better objectively if it was Christian in the traditional sense but...

And no one pointed out that if no one has free will then it doesn't matter?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 13, 2024 11:43 AM (GYIa4)

224 Out: Using IVM as an off label treatment for WuFlu

In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (ibTVg)
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Not even the best healing crystals can revive a burned-out turbo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:43 AM (yjAVs)

225 Looked at the list of 22 R Senators that voted for the $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with no border funding. I think 21 out of 22 of them come from red states. Gateway Pundit has the list.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 13, 2024 11:44 AM (MvF+J)

226 Out: Using IVM as an off label treatment for WuFlu

In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.
Posted by: 18-1

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I wonder how they'll try to spin that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 13, 2024 11:44 AM (WF0+t)

227 Hmmm...I can't recall. When did Systems Engineering become the best thing since sliced white bread?

What has it been good for lately? The US designed and built the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, the largest Navy that will ever exist, a zillion aircraft in WW2, A-Bombs, Hydrogen Bombs, F-86s, F-4 Phantom IIs, B-58s, X-15s, B-70s, and the Apollo-Saturn V vehicle, all without a bunch of people having dedicated Systems Engineering degrees and corporations putting them in charge of projects.

Posted by: Gref at February 13, 2024 11:44 AM (5fDan)

228 225 Looked at the list of 22 R Senators that voted for the $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan with no border funding. I think 21 out of 22 of them come from red states. Gateway Pundit has the list.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 13, 2024 11:44 AM (MvF+J)

We've got the primary list...and now we know there are also 27 possible votes against McConnell in a leadership fight...and we only need 25...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 13, 2024 11:45 AM (exHjb)

229 I've commented previously that we've gone from a workforce that took pride in their jobs no matter how menial and believed the quality of the work was a direct reflection of them as a person to the 'good enough' mentality. That's the mentality in third world countries and a big reason they are third world.

Now I have to keep an eye on every vendor to make sure they don't take shortcuts or use bandaids.

It's like every job sector are now sleazy contractors.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 13, 2024 11:45 AM (w6AZl)

230 They have an unbending moral code. Shame is central to it. They love shame erotically, in a sadistic way.

Just because their morality is inverted and evil doesn't mean it isn't there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 11:45 AM (0FoWg)

231 He was my customer too. He was a regular. Always came in with his young son who was a yuge Mets fan. I assumed he was divorced and this was his day with the kid. He was always a bit "off," but up until that day he was a good customer. Never bothered anyone, left a nice tip, but he did LOVE those potato skins.

Then one day we were out of skins. The guy totally lost it. Started sobbing, then crying, then running around the restaurant, then ran into the bathroom and locked the door. We finally got the door opened and he was lying in a fetal position on the bathroom floor, most of his clothes off, and just sobbing.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

I certainly hope he sued you for all the mental anguish you caused him!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 11:46 AM (nFnyb)

232 224 Out: Using IVM as an off label treatment for WuFlu

In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (ibTVg)
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Not even the best healing crystals can revive a burned-out turbo.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:43 AM (yjAVs)
_________

"Amateurs . . . ."

-- Dilithium crystals

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

233 It is actually breathtaking to me to think of all of the crap going on in this country in just three short years. It isn't over yet. I am grateful that Mike Johnson so far has done a good job against the mob. The Senate passed the monstrosity of a foreign aide bill (nice of them to interrupt their Super Bowl Sunday to further screw America) which included kneecapping President Trump should he try to pull back funding.

Better an enemy in their own uniform than a traitor wearing ours. 22 traitors to be exact.

To hell with them all.

Posted by: Cheri at February 13, 2024 11:46 AM (oiNtH)

234 Finally the ice-fog is breaking.

Glad I don't have to commute in that shit.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 11:47 AM (nSDU/)

235 How many in the right were whining, and are still whining, that we should not have removed McCarthy?

Holding others accountable isn't cost-free.

The modern decline traces to avoidance by the enforcers of that distasteful duty.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2024 11:47 AM (cSaKW)

236 189 But if there is no metaphysical reality above the physical world of *any* sort...just "physics and chemistry" then he is right.
Posted by: 18-1
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Conscience itself is something that biology, physics and chemistry cannot explain. Pretty big void there in materialism.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:37 AM (9FrDg)

Another problem with believing that there is no metaphysical reality is that if that is true, one must accept that pure raw chance is only operating power behind anything. No matter what happens, or what anyone does, it's always just a throw of the dice, and they're guaranteed to come up snake eyes sooner or later. No purpose, no meaning, no direction, no hope.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:47 AM (i9ffA)

237 There's a school of thought that holds that, since everything in the universe, including our brains, is ultimately based upon particle physics, over which we have no control, there is no such thing as free will. The brain just does what its physics and chemistry tell it to do.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:21 AM
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I used to be pro-choice, but then I became a nurse. I am now pro-life. I changed my mind. It's free will.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2024 11:48 AM (xT7BI)

238 Great point, Whig.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:48 AM (xcxpd)

239 Great point, Whig.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:48 AM (xcxpd)
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This is a generally-applicable statement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:49 AM (yjAVs)

240 Better an enemy in their own uniform than a traitor wearing ours. 22 traitors to be exact.

To hell with them all.
Posted by: Cheri at February 13, 2024 11:46 AM (oiNtH)

I am incredibly disappointed that Kennedy from Louisiana voted with them. Not surprised at all that Cornyn did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:49 AM (i9ffA)

241 There are no more standards. From civics to hard science, From the bedroom to the board room, From how folks dress to how folks behave in public, it's all a shit show nowadays. Savages living on the civilization their ancestors built up.

I just sit back and enjoy the carnival as I don't give A Tinker's Damn anymore.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 13, 2024 11:49 AM (JF/W5)

242 Regard to Free Will I am of the Pachinko Theory.

Many many different paths that can occasionally be altered if God decides to intervene.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 13, 2024 11:49 AM (w6AZl)

243 231 He was my customer too. He was a regular. Always came in with his young son who was a yuge Mets fan. I assumed he was divorced and this was his day with the kid. He was always a bit "off," but up until that day he was a good customer. Never bothered anyone, left a nice tip, but he did LOVE those potato skins.

Then one day we were out of skins. The guy totally lost it. Started sobbing, then crying, then running around the restaurant, then ran into the bathroom and locked the door. We finally got the door opened and he was lying in a fetal position on the bathroom floor, most of his clothes off, and just sobbing.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:39 AM (iFTx/)

I certainly hope he sued you for all the mental anguish you caused him!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at February 13, 2024 11:46 AM (nFnyb)
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No idea what happened to him. That was the last I saw of him. It was the end of the summer and I went back to school. I never saw anything like that before, or even thought it could exist. But I realized there could be a lot of otherwise normal or semi-normal people out there who suddenly just go totally batshit crazy for no real reason.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

244 America does not demand perfection, but until recently we did demand responsibility for one's actions, and a clear and unequivocal acceptance of the results of those actions. We have moved far away from that simple requirement, and whether that is cause or effect of our current existential issues is a distinction without a difference.

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My feeling is when you see politicians getting away with crime after crime, not being held accountable then accountability is a fools errand.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2024 11:50 AM (++4z6)

245 I've met very few, if any, actual atheists in my lifetime.

I've met plenty of anti-theists.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 13, 2024 11:50 AM (pgwxJ)

246 My feeling is when you see politicians getting away with crime after crime, not being held accountable then accountability is a fools errand.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 13, 2024 11:50 AM (++4z6)

The buck stops WITH them. It never actually stops them.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:51 AM (KbCG3)

247 In: Healing crystals for turbo cancer.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 13, 2024 11:25 AM (ibTVg)
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Not even the best healing crystals can revive a burned-out turbo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

The Turbo Encapulator has entered the chat
https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag?si=gPR9yWPi3rQc9PFA

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 13, 2024 11:51 AM (gsAX+)

248 John McCornyn is on that list of RINOs. He re-upped his seat in 2022. I was an undercount for him in '10 and '16 but broke down and voted for him in 2022 when I noticed the county was about over.

I still regret that vote.

Posted by: DanMan at February 13, 2024 11:51 AM (8uzBS)

249 148
‘ . So I said fuck it, buy a new one. ’

Good thing you’re rich. I would have had to see whether I could fix it myself.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (jbnUc)

250 "Incompetence and mediocrity will become the norm, rather than the exception, if they haven't already.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

We are rapidly becoming like "1984". Only the secret police are well run and efficient.

Just look at what a great job they did rounding up the J6 protesters. No stone left upturned, no lead not followed up on. No allowance for DEI mediocrity when there is a threat, real or imagined, to the regime.

Posted by: Ripley at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (JojsZ)

251 The buck stops WITH them. It never actually stops them.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 13, 2024 11:51 AM (KbCG3)
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Hardly. The buck passes across my desk, sometimes more than once. But it never, ever stops. Not anywhere. The buck is in perpetual motion.

Posted by: Bureaucrat at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (yjAVs)

252 I tried to put it in a vertical list with their State but Pixy read that as spam. The only one that surprised me was Kennedy from LA. Good on grilling judges but zero on this.

Boozman , Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Cramer, Crapo, Ernst, Grassley, Hoeven, Kennedy,
Mc Connell, Moran, Murkowski, Risch, Romney, Rounds, Sullivan, Thune, Tillis, Wicker, Young

Posted by: Cheri at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (oiNtH)

253 I used to be pro-choice, but then I became a nurse. I am now pro-life. I changed my mind. It's free will.
Posted by: Darth Randall

Agreed. I do not agree with the materialist school of thought that I described.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (9yWhg)

254 The conservatives demanded a stand alone foreign aid package which should have been stand alone for each recipient.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (w6AZl)

255 because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

Your story reminds me of that video of the black woman who launched herself out of the drivers seat all the way through the drive through window, catching the cashier by the throat, because he told her they were out of chicken nuggets. That's what ya call Hangry!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (i9ffA)

256 Split senate vote here in Arkansas. Boozman, the real quiet one who goes about his business (sneaky) voted for it. Cotton voted against (wondering what deals he's trying to cook up).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2024 11:53 AM (0EOe9)

257 210 This bespectacled blonde has not only given up looking for anything approach accountability or honorable behavior, she has come to expect buck-passing and dishonorable behavior in all cases:
http://tiny.cc/kx7uwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

European styles

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

258 Musk has demonstrated reusable rocketry to be possible.

There's some engineering and design work that seems to be bucking the overall trend to failure.

But personally, I think any effort that has government involvement is doomed to failure and misery. *Although there are signs the B-21 Raider stealth bomber is slated to start production soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

259 And then there was the incident when a clearly mentally ill guy went literally nuts, had a nervous breakdown, and locked himself in the bathroom crying naked on the floor . . . because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

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The nah that broke the mammal's back?

/Yeah, I'm no Muldoon ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 11:54 AM (ir11T)

260 Well, as the snow has melted and the sun is coming out, of my own free will I shall now go for a walk.

Back later.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 13, 2024 11:54 AM (T+Iwg)

261 Her time in the spotlight is done. Tay Tay is the new celebutard crown of the music division.
Posted by: whig at February 13, 2024 11:23 AM (9FrDg)

spotlight, hell. Bab's time in the Crypt is long overdue.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:54 AM (i9ffA)

262 It's like do I want to invest more than 50% of the value of a new item into an old item? No, that's a bad allocation of resources.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:29 AM (bWsRe)

Except the new one won't last ten years, and when it does fail, it will be even less fixable than the old one was.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 13, 2024 11:54 AM (tkR6S)

263 CDC looks like it's going to get rid of the 5day quarantine after testing positive. Admitting to another screw up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 13, 2024 11:55 AM (DgSZ/)

264 http://tiny.cc/kx7uwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Fake blonde; botoxed lips.

1/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:55 AM (9yWhg)

265 How many in the right were whining, and are still whining, that we should not have removed McCarthy?

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Fewer than would have a few years ago.

There are a certain number of people who've spent a lifetime investing time, money, labor and emotional commitment to the Republican Party. These people have grown to conflate the interests of the Party with their own interests, my interests, and everyone's interest. It's a form of sunk cost fallacy where admitting the Party sucks cock would invalidate their own considerable efforts.

For them, nothing a McCarthy or a McConnel or whomever ever does is enough to merit punishment, because the (R) label is sacrosanct. 11th Commandment, after all.

But it takes a lifetime to get there, and nobody under 65 can see any appeal in this slimeball fake Party, and they never will.

The GOP dies with them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 13, 2024 11:55 AM (0FoWg)

266 All of our government regulations that are supposed to protect are actually used just to keep use in line. Our country is run by a bunch of gangsters.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at February 13, 2024 11:55 AM (ssSph)

267 257 210 This bespectacled blonde has not only given up looking for anything approach accountability or honorable behavior, she has come to expect buck-passing and dishonorable behavior in all cases:
http://tiny.cc/kx7uwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 13, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

Well kids. I'm off to the Oregon coast for a few days. Be good.
With any luck I'll see her at the bar.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 13, 2024 11:55 AM (W/lyH)

268 Hope that potato-skins guy sought professional help.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 11:56 AM (9yWhg)

269 No such thing as free will? Bullshit!!

Posted by: Zombie Neil Peart at February 13, 2024 11:56 AM (MtueO)

270 Honestly I can see National Security reasons for aid to Taiwan and aid to Israel as our ally fighting Muslim terrorism but throwing money away by giving it to Ukraine where a significant part of it will be misused is ludicrous.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 13, 2024 11:57 AM (w6AZl)

271 265 How many in the right were whining, and are still whining, that we should not have removed McCarthy?

I'm more angry we removed Santos... Yeah, he's a creep but they could have let him stay till the term was over.. Now today that seat will be going to a Dem...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 13, 2024 11:57 AM (Akjoo)

272 Your story reminds me of that video of the black woman who launched herself out of the drivers seat all the way through the drive through window, catching the cashier by the throat, because he told her they were out of chicken nuggets. That's what ya call Hangry!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (i9ffA)

I think Fast Food Places make folks Hangry because deep down in their pores they know it's crap they are buy and eating but they cannot help theyselves so they eat it, detached from everything that makes someone a human being. Hardest hit are the low IQ and smooth brained as they do not even know how to cook anything except meth.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 13, 2024 11:57 AM (JF/W5)

273 268 Potato skins guy was just bucking for a cabinet position.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2024 11:57 AM (0EOe9)

274 I am my harshest critic. I ask myself if I was paying for this job would I gladly pay this bill. This ethos has kept me self employed for 50 years.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 13, 2024 11:58 AM (WgujY)

275 Douglas Hofstadter wrote a book called "The Mind's I" desperately groping for a purely mechanistic explanation for consciousness. Kind of a fascinating read, but ultimately a bit of a circle jerk if you think too hard about it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 11:58 AM (9UlRk)

276 I watched some episodes of Ice Road Truckers. It's a dumb show but whatever, brain sugar is fun sometimes. It's from the late 2000s. And it's crazy how there's zero DEI on the show. All the characters are middle aged white guys, who swear a lot and give no fucks about PC.

An era gone by.
Posted by: Montec at February 13, 2024 11:42 AM (bWsRe)
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The ice doesn't care about your feelings. Either you deliver the load or not.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 13, 2024 11:59 AM (7fElN)

277 It's not going to change anytime soon.

Remember The Red Nation’s Indigenous Socialism?

Indigenous knowledge, another BS phrase made up by the O & Joe Administrations, to indicate certain other groups - also 'indigenous' to this nation, or the world, or whatever nonsense being employed this month - will have little to no shot at being in the mix to 'rise' because of intersectionality & government playing entirely to the masses.

See: Share America dot gov, managed by the Bureau of Global Affairs, nested beneath the U.S. State Department.
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John Mattone dot com: In part, "Organizations propel incompetent people to leadership positions as they care too much about first impressions and rely too much on intuition. We see traits like narcissism, unsubstantiated confidence, and raw charisma as relevant leadership traits. Instead of relying on our instincts, we should focus on leadership qualities like humility, competence, and integrity."

“Weak and incompetent leaders act like strong leaders.”- Tom Pepinsky.

Posted by: L - And now the King of BS can't remember last evening so let it go at February 13, 2024 11:59 AM (GshMh)

278 274 I think every person needs to be their own harshest critic. That's one of the benefits of religion -- you can realistically see your flaws and work to fix them, while knowing that God will forgive you for them if you only ask him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 12:01 PM (9yWhg)

279 He rides a bike damn it.

Posted by: MSNBC at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (bWsRe)

I've seen a chimp ride a bike.

Posted by: BignJames at February 13, 2024 12:01 PM (AwYPR)

280 278 ask Him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 12:01 PM (9yWhg)

281 255 because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

Your story reminds me of that video of the black woman who launched herself out of the drivers seat all the way through the drive through window, catching the cashier by the throat, because he told her they were out of chicken nuggets. That's what ya call Hangry!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:52 AM (i9ffA)
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You don't keep black people away from their fried chicken. Nor meek, middle-aged Jewish guys away from their fried potato skins. (The guy in my story above was a little Jewish guy, a bit nebbish. But don't mess with his skins!)

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 13, 2024 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

282 >>He rides a bike damn it.

Much in the same way that Ace rides a Vespa.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 12:02 PM (nSDU/)

283 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

284 Maybe it's all the chemicals ingested with fast food that's making people at the drive thru insane? Or addicted to it.

*eyes Chick-fil-A

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 13, 2024 12:02 PM (Q4IgG)

285 276 Surprisingly, The Weather Channel has some entertaining shows when nothing else is available. The wrecker driver shows and the shipping to remote locations in Canada are pretty good.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 13, 2024 12:02 PM (0EOe9)

286 nood

Posted by: vic at February 13, 2024 12:02 PM (A5THL)

287 I liked Ice Road Truckers. Not as good as Deadliest Catch, but the same masculine ethos.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 13, 2024 12:02 PM (9yWhg)

288 We're living in a country and a culture in precipitous, calamitous decline.

I don't see that changing.

As best you can, take care of yourself and your family. There's nothing more you can do.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 13, 2024 12:03 PM (woPEM)

289 >>You don't keep black people away from their fried chicken. Nor meek, middle-aged Jewish guys away from their fried potato skins. (The guy in my story above was a little Jewish guy, a bit nebbish. But don't mess with his skins!)

He was Jewish?

That explains it.

At least, if the Potato Skins had Bacon Bits on them.

Posted by: garrett at February 13, 2024 12:03 PM (nSDU/)

290 So the Munilla engineering firm has morphed from "All-Women" to "political and hispanic" without us even skipping a step.

Must credit grumpy grampas for a level of flexibility.
Bet they're all under 70, the little bastids.
Keep hunting; there might still be a Jew in there.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 13, 2024 12:03 PM (zdLoL)

291 The fuck is it with aging politicians riding their stupid bicycles in their mom jeans and sped helmets?

You're taking half my fucking paycheck to pay for your motorized cavalcade of nutsacks in Escalades. Fucking use it, Corky, or give me my damned money back.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 13, 2024 12:03 PM (9UlRk)

292 279 He rides a bike damn it.

Posted by: MSNBC at February 13, 2024 11:38 AM (bWsRe)

I've seen a chimp ride a bike.
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I've seen monkeys ride a Border Collie.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 12:04 PM (Hpgos)

293 there was the incident when a clearly mentally ill guy went literally nuts, had a nervous breakdown, and locked himself in the bathroom crying naked on the floor . . . because we were out of fried potato skins. Not joking.

Posted by: Elric Blade

And my administration is going to take on the restaurant industry for the American people! Too often, customers who are just trying to feed their families are given excuses: we're out of that item, it sold out or, worst of all, our ice cream machine is broken.

We're going to fight for the priorities of the American people, to deliver the promise of the American Dream from our Founders, and....well, you know the thing....I should stop now.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 13, 2024 12:05 PM (4WYNo)

294
European styles
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 13, 2024 11:53 AM (xcxpd)

You must be seeing another photo of her, in order to see her unshaven pits.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 13, 2024 12:05 PM (n+4am)

295 291 The fuck is it with aging politicians riding their stupid bicycles in their mom jeans and sped helmets?

You're taking half my fucking paycheck to pay for your motorized cavalcade of nutsacks in Escalades. Fucking use it, Corky, or give me my damned money back.
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You will never see Trump riding a bike. He is driven about in a limo. Stud move.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 13, 2024 12:05 PM (Hpgos)

296
I am incredibly disappointed that Kennedy from Louisiana voted with them. Not surprised at all that Cornyn did.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Kennedy was also opposed to releasing January 6 video to the public.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 13, 2024 12:08 PM (63Dwl)

297 Another problem with believing that there is no metaphysical reality is that if that is true, one must accept that pure raw chance is only operating power behind anything. No matter what happens, or what anyone does, it's always just a throw of the dice, and they're guaranteed to come up snake eyes sooner or later. No purpose, no meaning, no direction, no hope.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 13, 2024 11:47 AM (i9ffA)

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Interesting novel along those lines back in the day (1971):

"The Dice Man" by American novelist George Cockcroft, writing under the pen name "Luke Rhinehart".

"The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a diсe."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 13, 2024 12:09 PM (ir11T)

298 Jesse Lee Peterson has been making a great point:

Affirmative action, preferences and reparations are white supremacy.

Because if blacks were equal to whites, they wouldn't be begging for all that from whites.
They wouldn't be begging for hand-outs, freebies, or benies because equals won't need or want that.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 13, 2024 12:10 PM (cSaKW)

299 Trump should announce that he will form a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and encourage those who"fortified" the 2020 election to confess now, and ask the forgiveness of the American people.

He should also make the point that, to paraphrase another President, he will have less flexibility after the election!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 13, 2024 12:20 PM (8Ta2Y)

300 The Boeing example isn't the best one. The CEO at the head of it's decade+ long decline (and I would argue at fault for the major issues) got to retire before the MAX issues hit the fan. The next CEO (who might have actually fixed things) did end up taking the fall for it and getting outsted. They can't afford to fire the current CEO, he already isn't really appropriate for the position, but they don't have anyone else even halfway competent/experienced to take over. The whole leadership system is broken, not just at the top, and that's part of why they get away with it. There is only failure at almost every level. There are still amazing folks at that company, but they stall out well before they hit the top.

Posted by: Very Long Time Lurker at February 13, 2024 12:20 PM (lICDY)

301 Garrett,
Does that mean the ice-fog is heading my way (Bozeman)?

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