I would say, based on news reports and memory, that way more than 50% of drowning deaths in Michigan come from the 14% of the population that is Black. But that is merely a relatively useless comparative statistic.
What is more interesting is when you can find the "contributing factors" (Really variables, but hell the media types never understand the difference between variable and factor). Among them, "boating (including fishing), drinking, and/or not wearing life jackets (while not knowing how to swim" and "letting children under age 10 who don't know how to swim" 'play' in large bodies of water and having raucous parties while drinking heavily and allowing unattended children to roam at will late at night. Some have even died in backyard pools owned by their own family.
Statistically, if you have a pool and a gun at your home, someone in your family is about 100 times more likely to drown in the pool than to be killed by your gun.
I think that, now that we've reached the post-De Facto Candidate stage, and having had already established that Fetterman doesn't hold a single principle or ideology of his own, it seems likely that she was the source of all of "his" positions.
He's just an empty hoodie and Dems and the MSM filled him up with their own desires.
“ Whereas it’s not racist to believe it happened because somebody ate a bowl of raw bat assholes in a filthy wet market.”
You can tell it’s a Friday because you just went yard with “a bowl of raw bat assholes”
“And while we did not want the mansion, that mansion came with a pool... And the dream was to open this pool and make it a public pool, turn it into the people’s pool, …”
Right, so whatever happened to that dream? Did she save all the poor, non-swimming black Pennsylvanians? I just love white, liberal saviors. Like black people just can’t live another minute without them. Life for black folks would be a lot better if these mighty saviors would just mind their own business. We good.
Are we sure there's not a flock of Black Pennsylvanians frolicking in her pool as she speaks? Or is the another one of those Progs who believes that saying things is totally better than doing things?
The latest. Biden tells us “The American people are seeing the benefits of this economy that works for them. Families have more net worth today than they did before the pandemic."
I wonder more about those who just accept his lies. Not the media. I fully expect those scum-sucking Dem toadies to just yell "BOHICA!" and let him get on with it.
But any family that actually has some idea of what their net worth was BJ (Before Joe, you dirty-minded horde) and compares it to now should know how incredibly untruthful that statement is.
FWIW my family's net worth is currently down about 20%, so we're doing better than average I think. We spent many years paying off mortgage and all other debt and trying to build a retirement fund. Lyin' Joe and his Lefty pals just swiped 1/5 of all that work.
That's seriously sad. I do hope you have time to build at least some wealth. My extended family (from my parents) started "without a pot to piss in, nor a window to throw it out of" and we all learned early to scrimp and save when at all possible. And even that isn't always possible for everyone.
I returned to grad school in my 40s, and one of my then grad classmates and now long-time friend told people that he never really understood the concept of "genteel poverty" until he saw how I handled going to grad school and living on less than the poverty level while taking no student loans at all.
I truly hope your situation improves, and soon. We spent 35 years (our 30th anniversary is in a couple of weeks), and it was a slow slug. We "lived poor" a lot. It was not real fun, but we were happy.
I'm very glad to hear that. The mere idea that we would someday have truly liquid wealth (above some small checking account) seemed pretty far-fetched back in 1988, when we became a 'serious couple'. We married in Nov 1992. We share everything jointly. We came with no real debt to speak of, and back then I could keep pre-1985 cars running cheaply for a long time.
When I finally graduated in 1999 (just before my clock ran out) I got my first full-time professor gig and doubled our income (to 30K/yr). We had around 50K in medical bills due to an especially tricky health issue she had.
Then I got a somewhat, in some ways, a better job and we moved to Metro Detroit and both had professional jobs. 22 years later I'm still not convinced that my lovely wife truly understands what "liquid wealth" is nor that she's not burying money in tin cans in the back yard to "hide it from the Cossacks" as her Grandma did.
But we scrimped to buy a house, and to put extra funds into 403b and 401k plans. We caught one hell of a run up before the recent downturn. And we had fun doing it.
My Grandpa Bill was basically poor all of his life. But he had loving family around him, and he always said, "I guess most people are about as happy as they'll let themselves be." I'm convinced he's right. (See, for instance, a great many people on Twitter and on the Left generally.)
I'm just here waiting for Elon and Jack Dorsey to come out with a joint statement saying "Twitter was a mistake and we're turning it off forever, now". That would be the most tremendous mental health boon in the world right now.
Actually, you *should* care about Trump's Twitter status. Even if you disagree with and hate everything he says, as long as it's legal he has as much right to be an a$$#01e as you do. And you have certainly upheld that right admirably! <insert smile emoji>
Speaking of the bat flue, I read sci-fi stories where people are just living with germ warfare and plagues, and now I'm living it. I was more optimistic about the future when I was a kid.
So were we all, I expect. At least those of us where were kids before so many adults went to trying to scare all kids to death 100% of the time. I remember the original "duck and cover" and I was still optimistic.
Who thinks Paul Pelosi’s hammer attacker will get cashless bail and be right back on the street?
Rather, they have apparently and miraculously changed all the laws in San Francisco just over the period of one short night (wink wink), so they can now charge this dude with attempted murder - unlike the recent hammer attacker in Mickey-D’s in NYC who just got a free ride downtown then found himself right back on the street - probably with a shiny new hammer.
If the Pelosi hammerer attacked a Republican, San Fran would have bought him his own house! This guy said he actually wanted to hammer Nancy - first guy who’s wanted that in a very long time!
As for the Twitter takeover, before getting too happy, Elon really has to thread the needle more delicately than usual on this one. The advertisers are a fidgety bunch just looking for legitimate-sounding reasons to take away his financial support and make themselves look a little more self-righteous. Twitter needs to stay in the spotlight to make the media goofballs look like the mutants they’ve made themselves. I’m still going to bet Twitter will be a better bet than Kanye’s Parler. Right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if Kanye changed the name Parlor to “Jew-hater.” It’s like watching a train wreck. Social media is great at letting us watch some of those with psychological issues totally unravel in front of the world. I’m no Kanye fan, but this can’t be a good thing for anyone.
Just wondering - whatever happened to all the apoplectic fact-checkers during the daily Biden BS? Instead, just like they treated Fetterman after his Oz debate debacle, they just pat Biden on his head like a harmless little zoo animal and write their daily drivel on some newly dreamed up Republican atrocity (“Ted Cruz misuses pronouns again!”). I honestly will not be surprised if Biden starts coming to the podium and walking to his helicopter on a leash. Jill will just have to give him a little tug (different from the kind he and Hunter are used to getting) and wave the colorful ice cream cone a little more obviously.
"...people of colour are more adversely affected..."
People of color make out just fine, though.
I would say, based on news reports and memory, that way more than 50% of drowning deaths in Michigan come from the 14% of the population that is Black. But that is merely a relatively useless comparative statistic.
What is more interesting is when you can find the "contributing factors" (Really variables, but hell the media types never understand the difference between variable and factor). Among them, "boating (including fishing), drinking, and/or not wearing life jackets (while not knowing how to swim" and "letting children under age 10 who don't know how to swim" 'play' in large bodies of water and having raucous parties while drinking heavily and allowing unattended children to roam at will late at night. Some have even died in backyard pools owned by their own family.
Strange how that happens. Damned systemic racism!
I sense a theme. *unscrews lid on officle whiskey*
Statistically, if you have a pool and a gun at your home, someone in your family is about 100 times more likely to drown in the pool than to be killed by your gun.
- Freakonomics, Steven Levitt https://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2001/07/27/levittpoolsvsguns
Full Disclosure: This article was the last straw on my journey to political agnosticism. I like to say I'm a recovering Democrat.
The cure was reality.
I think that, now that we've reached the post-De Facto Candidate stage, and having had already established that Fetterman doesn't hold a single principle or ideology of his own, it seems likely that she was the source of all of "his" positions.
He's just an empty hoodie and Dems and the MSM filled him up with their own desires.
And a fine fall weekend to you, too, Lillian!
“ Whereas it’s not racist to believe it happened because somebody ate a bowl of raw bat assholes in a filthy wet market.”
You can tell it’s a Friday because you just went yard with “a bowl of raw bat assholes”
“And while we did not want the mansion, that mansion came with a pool... And the dream was to open this pool and make it a public pool, turn it into the people’s pool, …”
Right, so whatever happened to that dream? Did she save all the poor, non-swimming black Pennsylvanians? I just love white, liberal saviors. Like black people just can’t live another minute without them. Life for black folks would be a lot better if these mighty saviors would just mind their own business. We good.
#FreeTheBee
Are we sure there's not a flock of Black Pennsylvanians frolicking in her pool as she speaks? Or is the another one of those Progs who believes that saying things is totally better than doing things?
Maybe Fetterneck was using his shotgun to invite the young man to a pool party… 🤔
The latest. Biden tells us “The American people are seeing the benefits of this economy that works for them. Families have more net worth today than they did before the pandemic."
I wonder more about those who just accept his lies. Not the media. I fully expect those scum-sucking Dem toadies to just yell "BOHICA!" and let him get on with it.
But any family that actually has some idea of what their net worth was BJ (Before Joe, you dirty-minded horde) and compares it to now should know how incredibly untruthful that statement is.
FWIW my family's net worth is currently down about 20%, so we're doing better than average I think. We spent many years paying off mortgage and all other debt and trying to build a retirement fund. Lyin' Joe and his Lefty pals just swiped 1/5 of all that work.
It'll suck more when you net worth doubles then.
That's seriously sad. I do hope you have time to build at least some wealth. My extended family (from my parents) started "without a pot to piss in, nor a window to throw it out of" and we all learned early to scrimp and save when at all possible. And even that isn't always possible for everyone.
I returned to grad school in my 40s, and one of my then grad classmates and now long-time friend told people that he never really understood the concept of "genteel poverty" until he saw how I handled going to grad school and living on less than the poverty level while taking no student loans at all.
I truly hope your situation improves, and soon. We spent 35 years (our 30th anniversary is in a couple of weeks), and it was a slow slug. We "lived poor" a lot. It was not real fun, but we were happy.
I'm very glad to hear that. The mere idea that we would someday have truly liquid wealth (above some small checking account) seemed pretty far-fetched back in 1988, when we became a 'serious couple'. We married in Nov 1992. We share everything jointly. We came with no real debt to speak of, and back then I could keep pre-1985 cars running cheaply for a long time.
When I finally graduated in 1999 (just before my clock ran out) I got my first full-time professor gig and doubled our income (to 30K/yr). We had around 50K in medical bills due to an especially tricky health issue she had.
Then I got a somewhat, in some ways, a better job and we moved to Metro Detroit and both had professional jobs. 22 years later I'm still not convinced that my lovely wife truly understands what "liquid wealth" is nor that she's not burying money in tin cans in the back yard to "hide it from the Cossacks" as her Grandma did.
But we scrimped to buy a house, and to put extra funds into 403b and 401k plans. We caught one hell of a run up before the recent downturn. And we had fun doing it.
My Grandpa Bill was basically poor all of his life. But he had loving family around him, and he always said, "I guess most people are about as happy as they'll let themselves be." I'm convinced he's right. (See, for instance, a great many people on Twitter and on the Left generally.)
This is my new favorite sentence of yours.
“The Lord might say, “Stay out of this, vengeance is mine,” but I can still make popcorn and watch.”
That’s golden right there.
He has a real gift for one-liners.
"Journalism is all about deciding which facts to report because they might reflect poorly on Democrats"
Not a direct quote, from memory, but it's a really good one.
"Modern Journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn't know because they might reflect badly on Democrats."
I think Glenn Reynolds has that as a macro on his keyboard.
NottheBee has a great set of Musk/Twitter memes. https://notthebee.com/article/come-over-here-and-enjoy-the-best-reaction-memes-to-elon-musk-taking-control-of-twitter/
I'm just here waiting for Elon and Jack Dorsey to come out with a joint statement saying "Twitter was a mistake and we're turning it off forever, now". That would be the most tremendous mental health boon in the world right now.
No. Twitter has merely made it easy for the mentally ill to show everyone how crazy they are, not just those in close proximity to them.
Let them speak freely. I want to know who to avoid. Or attack.
Actually, you *should* care about Trump's Twitter status. Even if you disagree with and hate everything he says, as long as it's legal he has as much right to be an a$$#01e as you do. And you have certainly upheld that right admirably! <insert smile emoji>
"By the way, remember the pandemic that is both over and not over, depending on which one suits the White House at any particular moment?"
So, on the gameshow that Lil hosts, this was nothing other than "Gaslighting" from the get-go.
#BatAssholeLoMein
The "Schrodinger's Pandemic"? You won't know until you check your test strip?
"In the words of a noted 20th Century philosopher"
Flounder didn't become a full-fledged 20th Century philosopher until Bluto told him what he needed to hear:
"You F#@&ed up. You trusted us."
We all need to hear that sometimes.
I thought that was the Pres of the frat.
Otter and Boon ran the show, whoever held the office.
Speaking of the bat flue, I read sci-fi stories where people are just living with germ warfare and plagues, and now I'm living it. I was more optimistic about the future when I was a kid.
So were we all, I expect. At least those of us where were kids before so many adults went to trying to scare all kids to death 100% of the time. I remember the original "duck and cover" and I was still optimistic.
Pools are racist: Now that I’ve heard the context in which this insight was uttered, I know for sure this chick is bat-shit crazy.
Speaking of bat shit: “Raw Bat Assholes” is my new band name. What till you hear the title cut from our self-titled album!
Who thinks Paul Pelosi’s hammer attacker will get cashless bail and be right back on the street?
Rather, they have apparently and miraculously changed all the laws in San Francisco just over the period of one short night (wink wink), so they can now charge this dude with attempted murder - unlike the recent hammer attacker in Mickey-D’s in NYC who just got a free ride downtown then found himself right back on the street - probably with a shiny new hammer.
If the Pelosi hammerer attacked a Republican, San Fran would have bought him his own house! This guy said he actually wanted to hammer Nancy - first guy who’s wanted that in a very long time!
As for the Twitter takeover, before getting too happy, Elon really has to thread the needle more delicately than usual on this one. The advertisers are a fidgety bunch just looking for legitimate-sounding reasons to take away his financial support and make themselves look a little more self-righteous. Twitter needs to stay in the spotlight to make the media goofballs look like the mutants they’ve made themselves. I’m still going to bet Twitter will be a better bet than Kanye’s Parler. Right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if Kanye changed the name Parlor to “Jew-hater.” It’s like watching a train wreck. Social media is great at letting us watch some of those with psychological issues totally unravel in front of the world. I’m no Kanye fan, but this can’t be a good thing for anyone.
Just wondering - whatever happened to all the apoplectic fact-checkers during the daily Biden BS? Instead, just like they treated Fetterman after his Oz debate debacle, they just pat Biden on his head like a harmless little zoo animal and write their daily drivel on some newly dreamed up Republican atrocity (“Ted Cruz misuses pronouns again!”). I honestly will not be surprised if Biden starts coming to the podium and walking to his helicopter on a leash. Jill will just have to give him a little tug (different from the kind he and Hunter are used to getting) and wave the colorful ice cream cone a little more obviously.
"One time I even got suspended for directly quoting Busta Rhymes."
Some things just aren't forgivable.
I know I’m late here but why is Ms. deFacto candidate sitting in between the back seats of her car to Zoom - that’s just weird🥴