Some of us are off today, perhaps taking a moment to reflect and thank the first wave of Antifa, back when that was a good thing. Whatever you do, know that you are NOT ALLOWED to enjoy your day off AT ALL.
I hadn’t actually heard of these people until yesterday, but this seems like big news in the Evangelical/Diet world, which is apparently a thing.
Christian diet guru and ‘Tarzan’ actor are among 7 presumed dead in plane crash
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/30/us/nashville-tennessee-cessna-plane-crash-sunday/index.html
They look one step removed from the Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
Didn’t I just say yesterday how we can’t even take a holiday from horrific gun violence?
Two dead and more than 20 injured in Florida banquet hall shooting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/30/two-dead-more-than-20-hurt–florida-banquet-hall-shooting
The fact that this guy has 6 kids with multiple women just boggles the mind.
Catholics question why Boris Johnson was able to marry in church
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/30/boris-johnson-carrie-symmonds-married-catcholic-church
Sprots!
Naomi Osaka fined $15,000 for skipping French Open news conference; Grand Slams issue warning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/30/naomi-osaka-french-open-fine/
Stonks!
The stonk market is closed today.
Have a day.
I’m surprised JoeMyGod didn’t mention how hot Joe Lara was in his Tarzan days:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CHRNFc1DleI/WvdmRPXRo-I/AAAAAAAA-sk/uxAZDStRVW40IPo8sXPxpNnr6IgMBZkxwCLcBGAs/s1600/T1JoeLara.jpg
Yes, this is definitely the most relevant takeaway from the story. In that JoeMyGod thread someone quotes an FAA official who stated that no one aboard the plane was qualified to fly it. Presumably the Ministry owned it and relied on God to be their co-pilot?
Does Jesus take the wheel apply to airplanes?!?
Apparently not! I don’t want to spend much time delving into the weird world of dieting-related Christian cults but what a strange combo. Is it like praying the gay away except with pounds/body fat? I was raised a Christian but in a very mainstream, superficial way. With each passing week I find it more and more strange. I remember when Sarah Palin was a thing and they showed footage of a service at the church she belongs to. I remember saying, “That’s not what goes on in a Christian church” and a couple of my friends laughed at me.
The South is chock full of crazy churches like these. Lots and lots of cults of personality. One of the more famous ones is New River which was started by Michael W Smith who is like the Taylor Swift of Contemporary Christian music.
“Jesus, grab my stick!”
– Billy Graham’s failson, not on a plane but in a cockpit
“Xenu, grab my stick!”
– Travolta, most days
(Crashes into golf course)
– Harrison Ford
I dunno about the wheel, but he DOES offer a whole-plane parachute…
I never quite understand why a “church” that’s willing to shell out for an airplane *doesn’t* just buy a Cirrus, or *at minimum* retrofit with a full-plane chute system.🤔
Okay, thanks for the reminder. I do remember this series. It was one of the syndicated hero-type things (like Xena and Hercules) if I remember correctly. I was wondering what Tarzan they were talking about. As an ERB fan, I typically check out most interpretations. I may have sat through an episode. FWIW, Lucy Lawless is the only alumna of those shows who is: A. sane and B. done anything else noteworthy with her life.
Add my bemusement to everyone else’s about “Christian diet guru.” There’s literally nothing these hucksters won’t pervert for a buck. That said, I do remember some church-based Weight Watchers groups from my youth, but I had the impression they were just using/renting the space, not that it was affiliated with the church.
I just figured it was some variation of “Jesus wants you thin because your husband doesn’t like a fatty” sorts of bullshit that gets used to control women in Christianity.
That show was NOT good, but it WAS fun, and he was sooooo pretty in it!😉
Boris Johnson looks like a Troll doll. I imagine the analogy carries forward to when he’s naked as well. Hope you’re not eating breakfast.
So, after clicking on that Nikki tweet, it’s clearly obvious that repubs will attempt to troll over ANYTHING. It’s really pathetic.
Right? It’s so fucking desperate. It reminds me of a John Scalzi post:
Biden at 100 Days: Boring as a Secret Weapon
I can’t bring myself to read anything from those vapid shitbags. I assume Nikki had a shit fit because Kamala wasn’t appropriately rending her clothes and reminding us all to be fucking miserable today as the only appropriate means of observing Memorial Day. Didn’t DJT do something very similar to Kamala’s tweet over Memorial Day?
Well, not a tweet, but Captain Combover made his sentiments clear:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
I remember that one, but I thought he’d sent a tweet that said something like “Happy Memorial Day!”
I’m 99.78% sure you’re right. There’s always a tweet. It’s just a septic tank that I don’t wanna wade through right now.
Luckily, someone else did:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2o7ClZXwAAhIar.jpg
And, then, as a special “bonus”:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2o5LiIX0AMhUF0.jpg
The thing I’ve learned about GOPers and a lot of hardcore right wingers is that what they call their opponents is usually what they are.
But being unprofessional and unfit was never really a secret when it comes to Nikki Haley.
Settle an argument: My wife says Memorial Day isn’t a drinking holiday like St Patrick’s Day and I say it is. AITA?
Gonna thread the needle here. Drinking, yes. Raucous partying in bars until 3 am, no. Drinking should be respectful and dignified on Memorial Day.
So don’t invite farscythe over.
hey!
yeah..okay…fair enough
I think it is situational. If you are visiting the grave of a veteran then no. If you are at a Memorial Day cookout then yes. If you are at a Memorial Day parade could go either way.
So – hypothetically – if I have the ashes of my war-hero uncle here in the backyard near the grill, can I start popping the hard seltzer yet or no?
Oh definitely. You have, in a way, invited your uncle to the cookout.
It’s a few beers and a BBQ day. The drinking day was YESTERDAY! Because you don’t have to get up and go to work. If you treat today like St. Paddy’s day, then you are screwed because that Tuesday morning alarm is going to get ya!
It’s more of a party at home day than a pile into a bar to drink day. People still get sufficiently shitfaced though, just over grilled meats.
Back in the pre-COVID times, I would have no problem going to a bar and having a beer whilst waiting for takeout.
I try to plan ahead and have leftovers or even cook from home on St. Patricks Day, Cinco De Mayo, Halloween, and New Year’s Eve. That’s when it’s alcohol amateur hour, and everyone and their entire social circle is out drinking to see who can vomit the most the earliest. no thanks.
So, I think you can drink, but it’s not a blackout vomit fest like those drinking holidays.
As someone from a Catholic family, I don’t understand the question.
All holidays are drinking holidays, right???
Not in the bars, that’s too expensive plus no family time.
THIS JUST IN: The weight loss loon was a big Trump supporter and the gang was going to a MAGAt event in Florida.
I’m shocked that a Xtian fundie grifter cum big hair zombie and her man Tarzan would be MAGAts.
This is my shocked face :/
Regarding Naomi Osaka, I just read what came off to me as a douchey hot take on deadspin… I won’t link it. I’m not a big sports watcher but when I do catch a game it’s usually hockey, tennis, or F1. Are player press conferences really that much of a draw to viewers? Their answers always sound forced or rehearsed which is understandable because the athletes are tired and coming down from the high of the match. I’m sure they would rather be showering, or celebrating with friends and family. Really they hardly ever have anything insightful to say.
What I’m trying to ask is whether you think the player press conferences format needs an overhaul?
I watch all the sports like a nut, and I don’t think I ever watched a press conference with an athlete who wasn’t Mike Tyson.
If I had Osaka money, I’d regularly skip em. Problem is it looks like they’d gladly escalate from a fine. I don’t watch sprots so i can’t say who actually cares about pressers besides the stuffed shirts that hold them. I wonder if she can get away with attending and pulling a different Naomi and just say “I don’t want to be here, i am here under duress” for every question.
Osaka should just do the Marshawn Lynch “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” press conferences.
For an introvert, even one-on-ones can be stressful and takes a lot of mental energy to reset into work mode (tennis, in this case). If you’re expending all that energy, you’d want it to be worthwhile. Osaka is on the way to getting the same patronizing and barely deniable racist treatment that the Willaims sister get.
All the takes have been whether Osaka is right or wrong. Haven’t seen much deep engagement with the media and organizer side of things.
Correction to my comment: here’s a guy asking the pertinent question.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2021/may/31/were-not-the-good-guys-osaka-shows-up-problems-of-press-conferences?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Yes! Great article! That’s exactly what I was thinking but unable to put to words.
I do not know what a Christian diet is. Is it anything like Jordan Peterson saying he won’t eat vegetables anymore because they’re feminine?
im assuming its a diet consisting only of those dry cork like bisquits they hand out in church and wine
which probably would lead to weightloss…so hey it works!
Weightloss AND Drinking!
So it works ×2😉😁