That “86” Thing

A whole lot has been said about former FBI Chief Thug James Comey’s X-post featuring this picture, and his coy little observation:

Needless to say, this silliness found immediate favor with the Perpetually Indignant (Rightwing Division, even John Kass), who claimed that the “86” is code for “kill” or “assassinate”.

No it isn’t.

“86” means to dump or throw in the trash — in restaurant terms, it also means “not to mention (to customers)”, and back in my executive days, we used to use “86” to mean “forget about it” — e.g. “86 that idea, dummy”.

In other words, it’s a completely innocent term.  It does not mean anything sinister.

I don’t care that the .dotmil uses “86” to mean “kill”, either.  The military (and government, for that matter) has a long and storied history of using the English language to cover a whole panoply of ugly shit (e.g. “Terminate With Extreme Prejudice”), and I don’t care about any of that either.

Now far be it for me to come to the defense of that treacherous lizard Comey, but seriously?

Current FBI Director Kash Patel announced that his department is in communication with the Secret Service over Comey’s social media post “directed at President Trump” on X Thursday evening.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem added in her own X post that the DHS is investigating Comey’s post as well.

Noem appeared on Fox News Thursday night, saying she believes Comey “should be held accountable and put behind bars for this.”

“The rule of law says people like him, who issue direct threats against the president of the United States, essentially issuing a call to assassinate him, must be held accountable under the law,” she said.

FFS, grow up, you assholes.  Your reaction to this is actually in the dictionary, under the word “Overreaction”.  Get a clue, and stop being so hyper-sensitive.

This is just as bad as those foul pricks on the Left complaining about Sarah Palin’s “crosshairs” comment.  It was bullshit then, it’s bullshit now.

Yeah, I know Trump has already survived two actual assassination attempts and everyone’s hyper-sensitive about anything that might hint at another.  But wait… we’re talking about jailing someone for a fucking Twatter post?

And yet we (quite justifiably) mock the BritGov when they send the rozzers over to threaten people over Fecesbook ramblings that run afoul of the dreaded “hate speech” rules?

Fuck off, all of you — and yeah, I’m including Superhero Kash and St. Kristi here — because this is absolute bullshit.

Look, the whole “86” thing may be in poor taste;  but the last time I looked, “bad taste” is kinda protected by the First fucking Amendment.

I know, the Bill of Rights can be a somewhat inconvenient at times — the Second as much as the First, ask any gun-confiscator — but that’s the exact purpose of the Bill of Rights:  it protects us from government.

And as much as I hate to say it, that shitbird Comey gets the same protections as the rest of us, even if he himself is a prime candidate for “eighty-sixing” — i.e. should be dumped in the trash heap of history and forgotten.

Fach.

Random Totty

Okay, I’m pretty sure we all remember the adorable “Lily” from the awful AT&T’s TV ads:

Well, then there’s her real-life persona, Milana Vayntrub:

All grown up, she has.


Yeah, I know that she’s reputedly a foul socialist, but that’s never stopped anyone from looking at Susan Sarandon’s boobs, has it?

Quote Of The Day

From Insty:

“In the past, there were periodic scandals about a journalist who was caught fabricating or massively distorting news: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Brian Williams. But the past four years have exposed virtually the entire industry reporting on the Beltway as repeated — and quite shameless — fabulists.”

News Roundup

In related Health News:

Biden’s doctor “missed” Stage 5 Cancer For Years
...really?  How conveeeenient.

So if we’re going to look at areas where over 2,000 other doctors have fucked up:

Why Butter, Cheese and Ice Cream Could Help You Live Longer
...but we all knew that already In fact, denying yourself all that lovely stuff just makes you not want to live longer.


...but sadly, it’s not going to submerge Portland under a 300-foot tidal wave because it’s not that kind of eruption. [pout]

Some news from The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©:


...good grief, man:  if you let the people vote on something like this, you’ll only end up like the rozzbiffs:


...never mind all that “democracy” bullshit, the Party always knows what’s best for you, you bloody peasants.

Back here in MAGA Land:


...as the legacy media tries to hide its deep disappointment, and fails.

And from one of our favorite Trumpistas, a double shot:

Tulsi Gabbard Ends Biden-Era Domestic Terrorism Policy

Tulsi Gabbard Fires Anti-Trump Deep State Officials Who Were Politicizing Intelligence

And as for deportations:


...to the amazement of Democrats and media.  [some overlap]


...the hits just keep on coming.  And as for this one:


...stop/start stop/start?  GTFO.

But elsewhere, in Democrat Cuntry:


...yet another exercise in failure.  Ain’t never gonna happen, assholes.

And in sillier news:


...I do believe I first saw that claim in 1981.


...I report, you decide:
  #Florida


.fucking hell, why not just make it four weeks off?  Then we can hire a man to replace you and actually get the job done.

And now, in the very bowels of 

 

While walking down :

Salma Hayek On Cover Of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue At 58 
...here ya go:

And a couple others taken during the shoot:

...and a few from the archives:

Handing Over The Future

Last week I talked about a serious young teacher quitting her job because of A.I. and how said excrescence was affecting her students.

Here’s another take on the same topic, courtesy of Insty (thankee, Squire):

“We’re talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here,” said Green, the Santa Clara tech ethicist. “It’s short-circuiting the learning process, and it’s happening fast.”

Perhaps? 

From a student:

“I think there is beauty in trying to plan your essay. You learn a lot. You have to think, Oh, what can I write in this paragraph? Or What should my thesis be? ” But she’d rather get good grades. “An essay with ChatGPT, it’s like it just gives you straight up what you have to follow. You just don’t really have to think that much.”

As for the teachers:

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate, both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

“How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?”

Well, yeah.  Perhaps [gasp!]  not all kids are college material.  And I think this A.I. cheating thing is proving the point.

And then, from the teechurs:

“Every time I talk to a colleague about this, the same thing comes up: retirement. When can I retire? When can I get out of this? That’s what we’re all thinking now,” he said. “This is not what we signed up for.” Williams, and other educators I spoke to, described AI’s takeover as a full-blown existential crisis.

Of course, this whole situation is fixable — there’s always a solution to a problem of this nature — but don’t expect the current crop of teachers to figure it out.  Especially if it takes actual hard work and thought.

Small wonder their students are screwed up and hopeless.

Read the whole article.  It’s worth it.