Follow up: the armed vigilantes walked up to cops with their guns in hand and got treated to free bottled water. If this ain't white privilege, then nothing is.
Yep, the alt right is already treating this kid like a hero. I wouldn’t be surprised to see similar type shootings occur. The alt right and conservatives are convinced they property is more important than life.
I am sure glad the Founders decided at the last minute to write life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness over life, liberty and property. If they hadn’t then protesters would face the very real threat of getting shot at every protest.
Partly that property is more important and partly that anyone at these protests is a dangerous proto-terrorist and almost certainly an enemy of all true Americans. I mean that’s what people say in all these feverish corners of Facebook and such
Given that even “normal” conservatives have decided that BLM is a terrorist organization rather than loosely locally organized events, I fully expect to see more reactionary / far right vigilantes shooting protestors as time goes on.
The only ones I remember visiting were when I had an event in Paris last year. My mom came along because her sister lives in Paris. She and her sister went to Istanbul when I had my event but I stayed almost an extra week. we went to visit my cousin that lives near Tours. We went and visited a couple of small castles in the Loire Valley. They were pretty cool.
I'm sure we visited some when we had a family trip when I was young but I don't remember any of them.
I took a trip a few years back to London and then wandered west toward Wales. Stayed/visited a few castles, but our stay at Thornbury Castle was exceptional. 19/19 WB
"It is not a true military fortress but rather an early example of a Tudor country house, with minimal defensive attributes. It is now a grade I listed building."
Reading about a castle I visited, then reading one I haven't:
"The Normans introduced the Jews to Norwich and they lived close to the castle. A cult was founded in Norwich in the wake of the murder of a young boy, William of Norwich, for which the Jews of the city were blamed.[13] In Lent 1190, violence against Jews erupted in East Anglia and on 6 February (Shrove Tuesday) it spread to Norwich. Some fled to the safety of the castle, but those who did not were killed in their hundreds.[14] The Pipe Rolls, records of royal expenditure, note that repairs were carried out at the castle in 1156–1158 and 1204–1205.[15]"
One of my favorite activities when I was a kid in East Anglia was exploring castles, neolithic sites, and cathedrals. In 2006 took the wife and daughter on a tour of past stomping grounds, Cambridge, Ely Cathedral, Lavenham, Bury St. Edmunds, Framlingham Castle (built by a powerful baron, keep destroyed by the King to keep him in check) Orford Castle on the coast, (built by King John, the keep remains nearly intact, outer walls long gone).
Caernarfon Castle? I drove around it when I was driving from England to catch the ferry to Dublin, but didn't have time to get out and explore. Super impressive from the outside.
Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, southwest of Munich. Gorgeous castle built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and is a tribute to his favorite composer, Richard Wagner. Incredible depictions of Wagner operas inside. It was also Walt's inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland.
Visited it when I worked for a couple weeks in Munich. Did a day trip on the weekend and there's a couple other castles you can walk to and visit the same day. Nice area for walking around even if the castles weren't there.
I’m a fan of the genre of “small Scottish castles that are moments away from dropping into the sea.” This example is Tantallon Castle about 35-40 miles from Edinburgh
RNC Speaker: Nikki Haley "Democrats call America racist. That's a lie. America is not racist" and then immediately tells a story about how they were discriminated against because of their ethnicity.
Basically, you just say whatever allows you to "win" the argument in the moment, and it doesn't matter that none of it adds up to any kind of consistent philosophy or belief system. Just own the libs.
RNC Speaker: former Florida AG and registered foreign agent Pam Bondi criticizes Biden for corruption. I mean, never mind that Trump was impeached over it, but hey, look over here... (whistle)
Just got a robo call from a number that shows up as Jack Burkman. The voice on the message is an African American sounding woman's voice saying she is calling on behalf of the civil rights organization founded by Burkman and Jacob Wohl. She is discouraging voting by mail because the information will be used by bill collectors, the police to pursue outstanding warrants, and the CDC for mandatory vaccines. Finishes by saying not to give my personal information to "the man" by voting by mail.
I guess it makes sense to target Arlington because Burkman lives here, but around forty percent of the population of the county have advanced degrees so it's not like many are going to believe their crap.
Giants trailed in the 9th, 10th, and 11th, but pull themselves up repeated by the Belt. Belt was batting 0.121 15 days ago. Is now batting 0.313, 0.612 SLG, 1.007 OPS. Solano wins it with a walk-off 10-8 over Dodgers.
DBD AV club
Bill and Ted Face the Music releases on Friday.
My wife remains befuddled that I have not seen the preceding Bill and Ted films
As often as they are on TV, nor have I.
Trailer looked better than I expected
But, admittedly, I had very low expectations
I'll watch. I really liked 1. I think 2 was meh. I kinda remember watching it but not any of the details other than the game of twister.
why
$$$$
TIL: The Tesla Roadster that Elon launched into space is in solar orbit, not earth orbit. It is now beyond Mars.
https://www.whereisroadster.com/index.html
I hope it gets sucked into the sun and dies a fiery death
such a waste of a perfectly good roadster. I'd love to have one of them
my old roommate's dad lives in Danville and bought one from a lady in Az. She and her husband had two and his passed away so his dad bought one.
Go get it!
Website that finds name that bridges two different cultures
https://mixedname.com/
Elsewhere in college
10 days to the start of the college football season
https://twitter.com/American_FB/status/1298652201519321094
Towson has students come to campus + pay tuition and rent. Classes go online 3 days later.
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/08/26/coronavirus-latest-towson-university-moves-all-classes-to-remote-learning-for-rest-of-fall-semester/
Rude
Oklahoma FB has 17 active CV19 cases
Texas Tech FB has 21 active CV19 cases
https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/oklahoma-sooners/2020/08/25/covid-19-situations-at-oklahoma-texas-tech-beg-this-question-going-forward/
Ken Montgomery says fuck those kids. Play Ball
Oklahoma has an entire skill group reduced to 1 player.
Can we schedule them this year? Unless it's the TE skill group in which case that TE is going for 10/250.
If it’s their defense will anyone notice?
I didn't see this coming at all!
Hurricane Laura heading toward eastern TX, Western LA. Trump will use a sharpie to direct it back to sea.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/weather/laura-gulf-coast-weather-forecast-wednesday/index.html
Laura strengthens to 140 mph Cat 4 hurricane. Will be one of the biggest hurricanes to ever hit the US. Cue FEMA doing nothing.
My FIL (leads a LA-based FEMA team) flew out to Houston this morning in preparation.
BLM
Protesters shot & killed in Kenosha.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/26/jacob-blake-kenosha-police-protests/
Follow up: the armed vigilantes walked up to cops with their guns in hand and got treated to free bottled water. If this ain't white privilege, then nothing is.
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1298646698273603586
Story gets worse. Shooter is 17 year old from Illinois.
https://twitter.com/SulliTM/status/1298669499277807619
Here's the video of the back end of it. Really disturbing https://www.yahoo.com/news/kenosha-police-3-shot-2-101241058.html
Yep, the alt right is already treating this kid like a hero. I wouldn’t be surprised to see similar type shootings occur. The alt right and conservatives are convinced they property is more important than life.
I am sure glad the Founders decided at the last minute to write life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness over life, liberty and property. If they hadn’t then protesters would face the very real threat of getting shot at every protest.
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1298689606687260673?s=20
Partly that property is more important and partly that anyone at these protests is a dangerous proto-terrorist and almost certainly an enemy of all true Americans. I mean that’s what people say in all these feverish corners of Facebook and such
Given that even “normal” conservatives have decided that BLM is a terrorist organization rather than loosely locally organized events, I fully expect to see more reactionary / far right vigilantes shooting protestors as time goes on.
Milwaukee Bucks refuse to play, NBA cancels games: https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1298729514403594240
Brewers-Reds also not playing. Trumpy going to be pissed.
Jacob Blake's sister speaks: https://twitter.com/ArlanWasHere/status/1298427121023348736?s=20
I just uploaded a photo of a "smoke rainbow" - taken Sunday, all the colors of the rainbow except red are messed up.
CASTLES
The only ones I remember visiting were when I had an event in Paris last year. My mom came along because her sister lives in Paris. She and her sister went to Istanbul when I had my event but I stayed almost an extra week. we went to visit my cousin that lives near Tours. We went and visited a couple of small castles in the Loire Valley. They were pretty cool.
I'm sure we visited some when we had a family trip when I was young but I don't remember any of them.
I took a trip a few years back to London and then wandered west toward Wales. Stayed/visited a few castles, but our stay at Thornbury Castle was exceptional. 19/19 WB
https://www.thornburycastle.co.uk/
I imagine so, but:
"It is not a true military fortress but rather an early example of a Tudor country house, with minimal defensive attributes. It is now a grade I listed building."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornbury_Castle
Kind of like one we visited in Ireland, really a country house with pretensions.
A lot of “castles” in Scotland like that too. Wales definitely has your best “serious fortress per capita” going
The castle in the main body is Matsumoto Castle.
The overstuffed opulence of Hearst Castle tainted my assumption of what castle innards normally look like.
This conversation is giving me a severe case of wanderlust.
Reading about a castle I visited, then reading one I haven't:
"The Normans introduced the Jews to Norwich and they lived close to the castle. A cult was founded in Norwich in the wake of the murder of a young boy, William of Norwich, for which the Jews of the city were blamed.[13] In Lent 1190, violence against Jews erupted in East Anglia and on 6 February (Shrove Tuesday) it spread to Norwich. Some fled to the safety of the castle, but those who did not were killed in their hundreds.[14] The Pipe Rolls, records of royal expenditure, note that repairs were carried out at the castle in 1156–1158 and 1204–1205.[15]"
I don't know why, but I found that shocking.
love castles and always make it a feature of any trip I take if possible
One of my favorite activities when I was a kid in East Anglia was exploring castles, neolithic sites, and cathedrals. In 2006 took the wife and daughter on a tour of past stomping grounds, Cambridge, Ely Cathedral, Lavenham, Bury St. Edmunds, Framlingham Castle (built by a powerful baron, keep destroyed by the King to keep him in check) Orford Castle on the coast, (built by King John, the keep remains nearly intact, outer walls long gone).
Check that, Orford built by Henry II, Framlingham conquered by King John
Carnarvorn Castle in Wales. From whence Lord Carnarvon funded Howard Carter's search for Tutankhamun's tomb.
Caernarfon Castle? I drove around it when I was driving from England to catch the ferry to Dublin, but didn't have time to get out and explore. Super impressive from the outside.
We were planning to go there during spring break but oh well
☹️
nearby is Harlech castle which sits on a rock in the ocean and is only accessible by a foot bridge
Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, southwest of Munich. Gorgeous castle built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and is a tribute to his favorite composer, Richard Wagner. Incredible depictions of Wagner operas inside. It was also Walt's inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's Castle at Disneyland.
Visited it when I worked for a couple weeks in Munich. Did a day trip on the weekend and there's a couple other castles you can walk to and visit the same day. Nice area for walking around even if the castles weren't there.
I’m a fan of the genre of “small Scottish castles that are moments away from dropping into the sea.” This example is Tantallon Castle about 35-40 miles from Edinburgh
https://img.marinas.com/v2/f0d7b14e68d4ffa6a3014ca1762406d88ef4b586f9c12f7f58d22f7918b69534.jpg
Wife and I want to go to Scotland when conditions permit. I've been to Edinburgh a few times, but haven't ventured elsewhere. Any recommendations?
What sort of vacation activities tickle your fancy? Hiking and such, or casually enjoying some scenery from a restful spot?
Probably would go for 10 days or so, so would have a little from column a and a little from column b. But castles are definitely on the list
we're going to do something similar at some point. Its high on our list of travel priorities
Keiss Castle
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Old_Keiss_Castle_ruins_-_geograph.org.uk_-_574566.jpg
OUR WOBBLY REPUBLIC
RNC Speaker: Nikki Haley "Democrats call America racist. That's a lie. America is not racist" and then immediately tells a story about how they were discriminated against because of their ethnicity.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1298283584029995014
Yeah I found that funny. American isn’t a racist country even though she and her family experienced said non existent racism.
This is one of my favorite videos laying out how conservative arguments work these days: "The Card Says Moops"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4
Basically, you just say whatever allows you to "win" the argument in the moment, and it doesn't matter that none of it adds up to any kind of consistent philosophy or belief system. Just own the libs.
Pompeo offers Sudan to get off list of states that sponsor terrorism for a $330m settlement despite al-Bashir being overthrown last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/26/us-propose-to-remove-sudan-from-terrorism-list-for-330m-compensation
Nothing like a good shakedown of a developing country. At least with the Chinese you get a road in return for being placed under an imperial umbrella
Road and sometimes even a port if you have a coast!!
Gotta have a convenient way to get the extractable minerals and other resources back to China.
It worked like a charm for the British in South America
Department of the Interior breaks law by producing this blatantly partisan campaign video for Trump.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=759596168193731
RNC Speaker removed from the agenda after tweeting anti-Semitic QAnon BS.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/politics/rnc-mary-ann-mendoza-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory/index.html
RNC Speaker: Jack Brewer has an insider trading charge against him
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/905953942/rnc-speaker-facing-federal-charges-of-insider-trading?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=politics
RNC Speaker: former Florida AG and registered foreign agent Pam Bondi criticizes Biden for corruption. I mean, never mind that Trump was impeached over it, but hey, look over here... (whistle)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/pam-bondi-rnc-ukraine/
OAN correspondent gets appointed to communications role at FDA
https://www.salon.com/2020/08/26/former-one-america-news-correspondent-emily-miller-gets-senior-fda-post/
Just got a robo call from a number that shows up as Jack Burkman. The voice on the message is an African American sounding woman's voice saying she is calling on behalf of the civil rights organization founded by Burkman and Jacob Wohl. She is discouraging voting by mail because the information will be used by bill collectors, the police to pursue outstanding warrants, and the CDC for mandatory vaccines. Finishes by saying not to give my personal information to "the man" by voting by mail.
Burkman and Wohl are like a real time three stooges short.
These guys are not subtle and they can’t get enough of those almost-crimes!
I guess it makes sense to target Arlington because Burkman lives here, but around forty percent of the population of the county have advanced degrees so it's not like many are going to believe their crap.
Nobody said those guys were smart
TODAY IN COVID-19
The countries Americans can travel to without restrictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ieW6tz87-Q&feature=youtu.be
So sad
CDC revises testing guidelines. Does not recommend testing if you've been exposed to an asymptomatic carrier and you are not showing symptoms.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html
CNN: Revised guidance was forced via White House, not CDC
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/26/politics/cdc-coronavirus-testing-guidance/index.html
@I'm shocked@
Gosh, anyone would think they were trying to reduce demand for testing to get the delays down.
PRO
Messi Divorce: Lionel prefers Man City
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1298437004254879745
Pirates are bad. Also, they become a victim to a 13K CG No-Hitter by CWS' Giolito
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1298460800093425665
Because... Mets
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1298475852439715840
A's make the most of their 8 hits and 5 walks. Beat Rangers 10-3.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401226126
And this uplifting piece
https://twitter.com/byalexcoffey/status/1298524212047552517
Giants trailed in the 9th, 10th, and 11th, but pull themselves up repeated by the Belt. Belt was batting 0.121 15 days ago. Is now batting 0.313, 0.612 SLG, 1.007 OPS. Solano wins it with a walk-off 10-8 over Dodgers.
https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1298503520857907200
ugh...that was ugly. Giants must have had the lead off batter on at least 8 of the 11 innings.
Cal
Go Bears!
CAL
Go Bears!
Larry Scott laid off 88 staffers today.
https://twitter.com/johncanzanobft/status/1298683301561958401