I’ve noticed recently that people like my Golden Retriever more than they like me and I’m thinking perhaps I was always meant to be a Golden Retriever instead of a standard model guy with a manual transmission. The non-stop hugs from pretty girls is very appealing, but I’m not thrilled about the food prospects. I’ve not yet committed to the transition. Would Medicare cover it?
Now that their home season is complete, the Dodgers have cracked the 4-million mark in attendance for the first time in franchise history.
Since Joe Torre took over as manager of the Dodgers 17 years ago, the Dodgers have won the NL West 13 times and are three wins away from a 14th title. Winning your division 78 percent of the time is quite remarkable considering that in 32 seasons the Rockies have never won it. In that stretch there were 16 non-covid seasons and the Dodgers drew over 3½ million 14 times. As a comparison, the Angels have NEVER drawn 3½ million in a season.
“One way to discourage the handful of young men who commit these kinds of crimes would be to make clear that if convicted to life in prison“
UT has the death penalty, Steve, by firing squad. In this specific case, UT’s DA has already asked the state for the death penalty. certainly that’s one way to discourage young offenders-and if the death penalty is consistently applied in cases such as these.
And of course with the death penalty consistently applied, young people won’t get to use their phones either—permanently
“But the Trump administration will likely need to justify its crackdown by all the bad things that Antifa have been up to over the past ten years or so, rather than by this particular assassination case“
The federal government needing to justifying its actions? (to whom is not clear in this passage). Steve, your natural noticing oftentimes borders on standup comedy that would make George Carlin proud. But that line was indeed a funny one. Remember to keep it in your repertoire for future events, no matter the administration.
> "there still isn’t much evidence that Charlie’s killing had much to do with left-wing movements besides transgenderism."
Maybe, maybe not: we don't know what the authorities have. But in any case, transgenderism has become a core tenet of leftism, such that the rest is commentary anyway. As you note in the next sentence, "you don’t even have to be terribly left-wing to be into trans": if you accept a little leftism, you accept a lot of transgenderism, so which is dog and which is tail is practically moot.
Fortunately, we don't have to interpret the hermeneutics of the suspect's trans fetish. M. Gessen is hardly an outlier among Mainstream Media. Their almost universal lockstep supposition is that mild mannered Charlie Kirk deserved assassination because he declined to accept Leftism as his Lord and Savior. Then they rely on Antifa generally, or loose-screwers like Robinson or Routh individually, to carry out the logical consequences of their implicit supposition. They are the terrorists they accuse others of being.
The most important thing to understand, not just from the last two weeks but from the last two decades, is that the political and thought leaders of the left do not believe anyone but themselves has the legitimate right to rule society. They often bleat about “our democracy” but when they lose, it is never treated as an acceptable outcome of a two party system or a genuine expression of the majority of the public that the left’s priorities our policy outcomes are unsatisfactory. No, it means dark and hateful forces have pushed the country off of the path the Arc of History intends us to be on.
What Steve says about the trans movement is broadly true of the left - it’s made up of smart, nasty people driving the herd of dumb or gullible masses on multiple cultural issues, since the left really doesn’t care about economic ones anymore. And although they are on the wrong side of public sentiment by lopsided margins on trans, immigration, crime, DEI they obviously have no intention of backing off, and if they regain political power we are getting the Biden Administration on steroids. Knowing that, I think a growing share of Americans are open to unorthodox measures to prevent a return to power of the left at a national level.
I’ve noticed recently that people like my Golden Retriever more than they like me and I’m thinking perhaps I was always meant to be a Golden Retriever instead of a standard model guy with a manual transmission. The non-stop hugs from pretty girls is very appealing, but I’m not thrilled about the food prospects. I’ve not yet committed to the transition. Would Medicare cover it?
Have you seen what people feed their dogs these days?
O/T
Now that their home season is complete, the Dodgers have cracked the 4-million mark in attendance for the first time in franchise history.
Since Joe Torre took over as manager of the Dodgers 17 years ago, the Dodgers have won the NL West 13 times and are three wins away from a 14th title. Winning your division 78 percent of the time is quite remarkable considering that in 32 seasons the Rockies have never won it. In that stretch there were 16 non-covid seasons and the Dodgers drew over 3½ million 14 times. As a comparison, the Angels have NEVER drawn 3½ million in a season.
“One way to discourage the handful of young men who commit these kinds of crimes would be to make clear that if convicted to life in prison“
UT has the death penalty, Steve, by firing squad. In this specific case, UT’s DA has already asked the state for the death penalty. certainly that’s one way to discourage young offenders-and if the death penalty is consistently applied in cases such as these.
And of course with the death penalty consistently applied, young people won’t get to use their phones either—permanently
Sure. But their parents might be less likely to turn them in.
That’s a crime too.
Quickly and consistently.
Amen
“But the Trump administration will likely need to justify its crackdown by all the bad things that Antifa have been up to over the past ten years or so, rather than by this particular assassination case“
The federal government needing to justifying its actions? (to whom is not clear in this passage). Steve, your natural noticing oftentimes borders on standup comedy that would make George Carlin proud. But that line was indeed a funny one. Remember to keep it in your repertoire for future events, no matter the administration.
I guess we're not going to learn much more until the trial or plea bargain, or does Utah have public preliminary hearings like California?
> "there still isn’t much evidence that Charlie’s killing had much to do with left-wing movements besides transgenderism."
Maybe, maybe not: we don't know what the authorities have. But in any case, transgenderism has become a core tenet of leftism, such that the rest is commentary anyway. As you note in the next sentence, "you don’t even have to be terribly left-wing to be into trans": if you accept a little leftism, you accept a lot of transgenderism, so which is dog and which is tail is practically moot.
Fortunately, we don't have to interpret the hermeneutics of the suspect's trans fetish. M. Gessen is hardly an outlier among Mainstream Media. Their almost universal lockstep supposition is that mild mannered Charlie Kirk deserved assassination because he declined to accept Leftism as his Lord and Savior. Then they rely on Antifa generally, or loose-screwers like Robinson or Routh individually, to carry out the logical consequences of their implicit supposition. They are the terrorists they accuse others of being.
Today's Antifa are so historically ignorant that they use a symbol from their ancestors' avowed enemies as one of their own today.
The most important thing to understand, not just from the last two weeks but from the last two decades, is that the political and thought leaders of the left do not believe anyone but themselves has the legitimate right to rule society. They often bleat about “our democracy” but when they lose, it is never treated as an acceptable outcome of a two party system or a genuine expression of the majority of the public that the left’s priorities our policy outcomes are unsatisfactory. No, it means dark and hateful forces have pushed the country off of the path the Arc of History intends us to be on.
What Steve says about the trans movement is broadly true of the left - it’s made up of smart, nasty people driving the herd of dumb or gullible masses on multiple cultural issues, since the left really doesn’t care about economic ones anymore. And although they are on the wrong side of public sentiment by lopsided margins on trans, immigration, crime, DEI they obviously have no intention of backing off, and if they regain political power we are getting the Biden Administration on steroids. Knowing that, I think a growing share of Americans are open to unorthodox measures to prevent a return to power of the left at a national level.