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Crid at July 18, 2019 11:18 PM

Let's enjoy this once again, because it is a thing that is AFU.

By the by, is there anyone reading this blog comment who hasn't heard of Thalidomide? Not judging, sincerely curious.

Crid at July 18, 2019 11:22 PM

The Twitter redesign is both editorially fascist and aesthetically oblivious. There's a place in Hell for @jack, and Louie's Fire Ant Demon eagerly awaits this incoming denizen. Eagerly.

Crid at July 18, 2019 11:59 PM

PS— That Yeyo tweet was via @KayHymowitz

Crid at July 19, 2019 12:44 AM

She does good work. Consider the roaring ironies of this retweet about a "Socialism Conference 2019 which was held at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago."

Crid at July 19, 2019 12:46 AM

Consider the roaring ironies of this retweet about a "Socialism Conference 2019 which was held at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago." ~ Crid at July 19, 2019 12:46 AM

Corporate sponsors for a socialism conference? Lenin was right, the capitalists will supply the rope with which the revolutionaries will hang them. Useful idiots, indeed.

Conan the Grammarian at July 19, 2019 6:09 AM

By the by, is there anyone reading this blog comment who hasn't heard of Thalidomide?

I wasn't sure, it sounded familiar. Once I looked it up, things came into focus. Can we just skip forward to the time were puberty blockers given to children is classified as child abuse?

Or is that transphobic? it isn't phobic if it is a rational fear.

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 6:48 AM

TBH, I don't remember this. Calvinball at its finest.

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1151878944922177541

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 6:56 AM

More Calvinball, this time from CNN.

Many people seem surprised that CNN gave a platform to white-supremacist Richard Spencer this week. They angrily decry the outrageous hypocrisy of the Left putting Spencer on the national airwave when it routinely de-platforms those on the Right for far less than giving voice to self-avowed neo-Nazis. But why? Don’t you know the rules?

https://amgreatness.com/2019/07/17/stiffening-the-backbone-of-the-right/

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 7:02 AM

Immigration fraud can get you sent back home.

https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/ilhan-omar-happened-because-media-chose-to-lie-to-you/

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 7:18 AM

https://twitter.com/hollymathnerd/status/1151876274694041600

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 7:37 AM

Hmmm...

Karol Markowicz: The Times’ obscene attacks on the Apollo program. “‘Cosmonaut diversity was key for the Soviet message to the rest of the globe,’ the writer, Sophie Pinkham, wrote. Her piece reads like something from an old issue of the Soviet newspaper Pravda boasting of the achievements of the Soviet space program.”
Or maybe she’s a closet alt-right operative, comparing the failed-but-diverse Soviet program with the white-male-dominated American program that actually landed men (!) on the Moon. Best to un-person her just in case.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/336452/

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 7:45 AM

This is a good way to get thorough beating. The other passengers where quite restrained.

A woman who stormed a cockpit while yelling “I’ll kill you all!”

https://nypost.com/2019/07/18/passengers-mid-flight-meltdown-caused-hijack-scare/

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 7:48 AM

...where the woman was arrested after she was restrained aboard by fellow passengers. ~ from the link by I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 7:48 AM

"Restrained aboard by fellow passengers?" Hmmm.

Were these fellow passengers trained in restraining passengers? Were they "adequate replacements for trained air marshals" who "presumably ... would have received proper training in how to restrain a violent passenger...?"

Conan the Grammarian at July 19, 2019 8:56 AM

Conan has questions

“A big guy then literally threw her down to the floor and there was one person holding one arm and another person holding the other,” she said. “Then a man sat on her and one person was holding her leg and someone else holding the other one."

So no, no training involved.

Steven Brown, 58, a former bouncer who tackled the unhinged woman, said she kicked, punched and screamed at the flight attendants
“She was only petite but she had the strength of a fully grown man. The only time I’ve seen anything like that was when someone had just dropped acid, she had super strength,” he said, according to The Sun.

Fortunately, she tried to open the cabin door. I don't care how strong you are or think you are, that door isn't going to budge.

Remember, if you're present when the fecal matter hits the rotating impeller, you are one of the first responders. If you're lucky, you can run away. In this case, you can't.

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 9:19 AM

Of course, it's a study, so my skepticism is on point. But I like it for confirmation bias.

Can’t help but shout an expletive every time you stub your toe? Don’t feel too bad, you may actually be doing yourself a favor. A new study finds that swearing when injured has a measurable effect on pain tolerance. In fact, dropping the F-bomb specifically when in pain increases tolerance by up to 33%.

https://www.studyfinds.org/dropping-f-bomb-increases-pain-tolerance/

So, what happens if I use "fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck" does that get it up to 35%?

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 9:24 AM

Quinnipiac has some 'splainin' to do.

https://twitter.com/kcjohnson9/status/1149085143853916160

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 9:37 AM

Conan has questions ~ I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 9:19 AM

No. Conan is mocking Artemis/Orion's response the last time Amy posted something about passengers restraining an unruly passenger. Check the link.

Conan the Grammarian at July 19, 2019 10:47 AM

I have classified Artie as "mostly harmless" and ignore s/h/it's postings...but mocking them is good, too.

On the other hand, a bouncer may have had training.

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 11:13 AM

Yipes.

https://youtu.be/y3dbKitC3Ns

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 11:33 AM

After reading Guns and Self-Defense, the wise reader will likely wonder why compelling and inspiring stories like this so rarely make it into the national news stream. I believe they are suppressed because they belie the standard media narrative that ordinary people have no need for defensive firearms.
Why else would such riveting, life-and-death dramas be ignored? Almost any of them could be easily turned into a profitable made-for-TV movie or at least a 60 Minutes segment if our media were not so biased and agenda-driven.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-12-lessons-of-guns-and-self-defense-by-robert-a-waters/

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 11:40 AM

Oh, Florida Man.

https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchDaily/status/1152208309195120641

Punch line: Florida Man attempts to steal car, can't drive a stick. Whoops.

I R A Darth Aggie at July 19, 2019 1:36 PM

I see Hollywood has decided to bless us with with 'Top Gun 2' and 'Cats'.

Yay.

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at July 19, 2019 3:51 PM

Imagine those men in that State Farm helium truck accident commercial saying "Gender bender" over and over in those high, squeaky voices.

City of Berkeley Bans Gendered Words Like ‘Manhole’ and ‘Manpower’ From Code Book

mpetrie98 at July 19, 2019 5:38 PM