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Monday, October 09, 2017
Ah, Football
Shit makes ya bold. And stoopid.
Bye, Coach.
Y'know, the NFL already has a pretty full plate. Substance dependencies, and juicing, and the slow-moving disaster of brain injury, and domestic abuse, and and and.
With all that, it seems like they're going outa their way looking for something to be cranky about. I wonder if that's part of the plan. Distraction and misdirection.
BTW - here's a DB/Special Teamer named Michael Thomas.
Thomas did the kneel-down thing for the whole season last year, and again in London when the Fins played the Titans a week or so ago(?). The picture in that tweet doesn't look like any of the troopers are taking exception to his actions.
Now Thomas says it's had the desired effect - people have heard the voices they needed to hear, and there's been some progress (in certain areas) towards some kind of solution - at least a start down that road.
“Everybody who sees what’s going to come out of it will see that it was never about actually protesting the flag, that it wasn’t about disrespecting our military, but it was about trying to bring light to the issues that are going on in our communities. … The league heard us, and it’s going to be good.”
Thomas has said he'll prob'ly stand from now on, but yesterday, he and a coupla mates stayed in the locker room during the anthem.
Anyway, the kicker is that 45* seems to think the protests are dying down, and so it's time for him to do The Daddy State Shuffle, where he tries to take credit for it.
It becomes a variation on "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" aka "False Cause".
Here's an illustration of the point (paraphrased from a comedy bit by Kearsarge and Landry, about 400 years ago, when I was a teenager):
1: So you're a farmer?
2: Sure 'nuff.
1: What crops do you raise?
2: Buck wheat and radishes.
1: You do pretty well with it?
2: Buck wheat's great, but them radishes - that's a dead loser.
1: So why do you grow radishes?
2: Got to - been plantin' them radishes for generations now.
1: But why?
2: Keep the wolverines away - can't have them wolverines on your land, y'know.
1: So you've got a wolverine problem down here in west Texas?
2: No, dummy - we got radishes. Ain't you listenin'?
So it works pretty well on people who prefer being intellectually lazy enough not to look past that false front. And anyway, it rankles "the Libruls", so it's gotta be a good thing, right?
Bye, Coach.
This is the video supposedly of Dolphins offensive line coach Chris Foerster snorting coke before a meeting pic.twitter.com/L7ZsdZMH7U— Ollie Connolly (@OllieConnolly) October 9, 2017
Y'know, the NFL already has a pretty full plate. Substance dependencies, and juicing, and the slow-moving disaster of brain injury, and domestic abuse, and and and.
With all that, it seems like they're going outa their way looking for something to be cranky about. I wonder if that's part of the plan. Distraction and misdirection.
BTW - here's a DB/Special Teamer named Michael Thomas.
Loved this photo of the "unpatriotic" Michael Thomas. pic.twitter.com/I5GVAFHcYH— Shandel Richardson (@ShandelRich) October 9, 2017
Thomas did the kneel-down thing for the whole season last year, and again in London when the Fins played the Titans a week or so ago(?). The picture in that tweet doesn't look like any of the troopers are taking exception to his actions.
Now Thomas says it's had the desired effect - people have heard the voices they needed to hear, and there's been some progress (in certain areas) towards some kind of solution - at least a start down that road.
“Everybody who sees what’s going to come out of it will see that it was never about actually protesting the flag, that it wasn’t about disrespecting our military, but it was about trying to bring light to the issues that are going on in our communities. … The league heard us, and it’s going to be good.”
Thomas has said he'll prob'ly stand from now on, but yesterday, he and a coupla mates stayed in the locker room during the anthem.
Anyway, the kicker is that 45* seems to think the protests are dying down, and so it's time for him to do The Daddy State Shuffle, where he tries to take credit for it.
It becomes a variation on "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" aka "False Cause".
Here's an illustration of the point (paraphrased from a comedy bit by Kearsarge and Landry, about 400 years ago, when I was a teenager):
1: So you're a farmer?
2: Sure 'nuff.
1: What crops do you raise?
2: Buck wheat and radishes.
1: You do pretty well with it?
2: Buck wheat's great, but them radishes - that's a dead loser.
1: So why do you grow radishes?
2: Got to - been plantin' them radishes for generations now.
1: But why?
2: Keep the wolverines away - can't have them wolverines on your land, y'know.
1: So you've got a wolverine problem down here in west Texas?
2: No, dummy - we got radishes. Ain't you listenin'?
So it works pretty well on people who prefer being intellectually lazy enough not to look past that false front. And anyway, it rankles "the Libruls", so it's gotta be a good thing, right?
Today's Tweet
That shit we keep hearing from the "conservatives" about how everybody's on their side?
Yeah - looks more like bullshit practically every day.
Veterans "take a knee" during the Pledge of Allegiance at today's city council meeting to support athlete's protests against injustice. pic.twitter.com/qg1v7Quj4B— Joe Michaels KFBK (@RadioJoe1530) October 4, 2017
Sunday, October 08, 2017
A Tweet Thread
There's no good reason to feel at all sorry for GOP politicians who have "suddenly" discovered they represent a political party that panders to the darkest instincts of American Populism.
It's been going on for 30+ years, and we got here because this is where Radical Right Republicans have always wanted us to be. (see driftglass)
This is something of a reckoning, and while it seems kinda fun to watch, this shit puts us in grave danger.
Senator Bob Corker "begged" me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said "NO" and he dropped out (said he could not win without...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2017
It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) October 8, 2017
Today's Tweet
Politicians keep telling us we don't trust the press - some politicians lie.
And I don't wanna name names or anything, but the name of the biggest lying-est sack of shit of 'em all kinda rhymes with Fondled Rump.
Is there any trust left in journalism?— PressReader (@PressReader) July 13, 2017
Read more in #TheInsider: https://t.co/MANqAhfxmw pic.twitter.com/vOqq79bnzB
Saturday, October 07, 2017
The ProLeft Podcast
...Roger Ailes set up an entire apparatus so he could slander people like me. He set up his own little sexual predator petting zoo ... so his sexual predator viewers could get a half-mast over blonde cooch sitting on the crotch couch.
Today's Tweet
What made you think this would end up any other way?
"Religious Freedom" means you can't be forced to deliver a wedding cake -- just a rapist's baby. #HandsOffMyBC pic.twitter.com/eiVCwh7bbg— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 6, 2017
Blame The Brown People
History does not repeat itself - but it sure as fuck rhymes.
Jana Winter, Sharon Weinberger, Foreign Policy:
The report, dated Aug. 3 — just nine days before the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly — appears to be the first known reference to “black identity extremists” as a movement. But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists.
A former senior counterterrorism and intelligence official from the Department of Homeland Security who reviewed the document at FP’s request expressed shock at the language.
“This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis,” the former official said. “There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this.”
A former senior counterterrorism and intelligence official from the Department of Homeland Security who reviewed the document at FP’s request expressed shock at the language.
“This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis,” the former official said. “There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this.”
The concept of “black identity extremists” appears to be entirely new. FPfound only five references to the term in a Google search; all were to law enforcement documents about domestic terrorism from the last two months. One of those online references is to law enforcement training on identifying “domestic terror groups and criminally subversive subcultures which are encountered by law enforcement professionals on a daily basis.”
"Criminally subversive" - that language is unmistakably Daddy State.
La Musica
Joan Shelley w/ Nathan Salsburg
"Easy Now"
"Affirmed"
"Stay On My Shore"
"Not Over by Half"
Nathan Salsburg
"Affirmed"
"Eight Belles Dreamt the Devil Was Dead"
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