Sorry to have been scarce recently- just finished my last few days of work at Megacorp. One consequence of leaving was having to turn in both of my company-issued laptop computers, so for the moment, I have to post from a desktop computer in the basement, and consequently I have become a stereotype. O tempora! O mores!
This, of course, will not prevent me from posting my usual weekend links, for better or for worse.
And as is my custom, I’ll start with memorable birthdays on this, the fifth day of January. And those include group theorist Camille Jordan; notorious psychic Jeane Dixon; ubermensch and Tarleton twin George Reeves; the better of the two Reagan wives, Jane Wyman; brilliant actor Robert Duvall; brainless erstwhile hottie Diane Keaton; and one half of Americana power couple Iris DeMent.
On to today’s news.
Labor participation and unemployment setting more new records. Minorities hardest hit.
The battle between Team Red and Team Blue to see whose boondoggles will prevail continues apace. The Old Man predicts the inevitable compromise: we’ll get both Blue and Red money-pits.
So wait, that whole TSA “strike” panic was Fake News to exaggerate the effects of the government “shutdown”? Of course, it’s hard to judge between two competing lying liars, CNN and TSA management. And either way, I’m unlikely to get my wish of massive cuts at that largely useless agency.
OMG OMG, TRUMP SAID “FUCK” IN A PRIVATE MEETING!!!!!!
Not enough, but it’s a good start, anyway.
From my soon-to-be home state, one of the creepiest things I’ve read about. I think Arizona Man may be giving Florida Man a run for his money.
And let’s not leave Arizona Woman out. To be fair, she WAS from Florida.
Louisiana is still a tough competitor, though. But I’m going with Arizona for the win, with Florida to place, and Louisiana to show.
We’re all familiar with SWATTING, but this may be going a bit far.
Think this is a dodge to try to get out of liability lawsuits? Perish the thought!
Team Red makes a useless gesture.
Team Blue says, “Hold mah beer!” And for whatever reason, people still pay attention to Occasional Cortex’s historically ignorant brain lint. No idea why any of this is taken seriously, but I guess people need a bogeyman.
Oh wait, another useless gesture, complete with “journalist” panic.
And Old Guy Music, featuring birthday girl Iris DeMent, showing more than a bit of her country side. What a voice and what songwriting talent! If more country music sounded like this, I’d listen to more country music.
Labor participation and unemployment setting more new records. Minorities hardest hit. – So trump did not destroy Obamas good work
For being the world’s biggest racist, Trump certainly has some funny ways of showing it.
Orange Man Bad bro, obviously these minorities are working against their will and all that.
They did say he’d bring back slavery.
Exactly this. If not for all these jobs and higher wages, minorities would not be wage slaves. They would be free to become artists, just like Nancy envisioned. If only there was a shiny new hero comparable to Lincoln or FDR who could bring us a Green New Deal and 70% income tax.
Participation rates record levels.
So participation rates have been at record lows. Where the fuck did 10s of millions of thrown away men just suddendly appear? Why aren’t wages rising cuz if participation rates were at record levels there be a shortage of workers.
Bullshit!
That does sound a bit fishy. I’m not sure we’ve seen tens of millions of new workers entering the workforce in the last year.
however, I can confirm that there is a labor shortage. I was just talking with my brother-in-law about his difficulties obtaining labor. He runs a big real estate firm. The labor market is so tight he had a concrete contractor walk out in the middle of a job to take a higher-paying job in another city. They just got up and left in the middle of a contract. He had a tough time finding another company with capacity to finish the job.
Well, wage growth is up around 3.2, which is some kinda record, i believe.
From my soon-to-be home state, one of the creepiest things I’ve read about. I think Arizona Man may be giving Florida Man a run for his money.
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Luckily this was covered yesterday. Are awake 9 year olds morally superior to comatose adults?
It’s for your own good, comrade.
No VPN?
The worst part of the writing is they say police are investigating possible sexual abuse. Seems pretty clear to me.
Louisiana is still a tough competitor, though. But I’m going with Arizona for the win, with Florida to place, and Louisiana to show
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I like this one. Short and to the point
Think this is a dodge to try to get out of liability lawsuits? Perish the thought!
They should sue Exxon for climate change
They must have a long extension from the ISS to the ground.
In all seriousness, they must use The iridium network. I always still imagine that the radio to NASA is still thier only method of communication.
goddamnit you just had to butt in
STEVE SMITH NOT BUTT IN. USE THIRD LEG IN.
Team Blue says, “Hold mah beer!” – what % of gun sale ballpark are without background check?
And for whatever reason, people still pay attention to Occasional Cortex’s historically ignorant brain lint. – stop that
>>checks on all gun sales, including private transactions.
Yeah good luck with that. You want black markets? This is how you get underground gun sales.
Private individual to private individual sales (usually between family or friends) does not require a background check, but if you sell more than…uh…some number of guns per year, more than 12 or so I think, then you are considered a dealer and must get an FFL and do background checks on all sales. The percentage of sales done without a background check is very low.
Gun grabbers lie. Everything they say is designed to deceive. There is no gunshow loophole. Very few sales are made without a background check. There are zero assault rifles in unlicensed civilian hands.
If they told the truth, well, they wouldn’t be gun grabbers. Truth: They want to disarm the population so that we cant defend ourselves against the state.
“They want to disarm the population so that we cant defend ourselves against the state.”
Yep, as long as you view all their proposals through this lens it all makes sense, even the stuff that doesn’t make sense.
There are zero assault rifles in unlicensed civilian hands.
I find this hard to believe. Certainly, assault rifles have been stolen and black market purchased. Or are you using the ‘there are no such things as assault rifles’ argument?
how are assault rifles defined? I assume with possibility of fully automatic. I also believe there are probably some unlicensed but the question wild be is the number significant and would gun control change that? Given how jihadists get AKs in Europe unlikely. Also I assume they can be manufactured like in Australia
The number of fully automatic illegally owned rifles is pretty low. The number of crimes committed with fully automatic rifles is so low as to be nearly non existent.
Point being, no matter how many illegal machine guns are in circulation here, it doesn’t matter because none of them are being used in crimes.
I dunno suthen.
Most of my firearms were purchased without a background check, and I’m not the only person who prefers to operate in this fashion.
That said, most guns are purchased with a background check, but not nearly all.
I would like to point out that background checks do absolutely nothing to stop violence or prevent anyone from obtaining a firearm.
You seem suspicious. I will report you to the FBI. As details are scarce I will tell them “There is a guy in Arkansas that has guns”, I hope that narrows it down enough can’t be more than 3 or 4 of you.
what % of gun sale ballpark are without background check?
This is nearly impossible to quantify.
>>I have to post from a desktop computer in the basement
I’m posting from my basement too – and by basement I mean the lowest level of this bi-level. I really don’t have a “basement” at all, which kind of sucks since I have no man cave. My stereo is ::kaff:: is shared with the family. I have to build stereo gear in the tiny spare bedroom. Oh the humanity.
*sheds a single tear for LH*
Is is bad that I just saw geese flying south in January?
did you manage to shoot any?
No it was just shocking on a quiet morning.
Climate Change is turning the geese gay!
Well Joe Bastardi is predicting epic cold weather for the states late January an February maybe that triggered the geese
You can share my basement. It looks like what you would imagine a 150 year old field stone basement would look like however.
So lots ‘n’ lots of spiders?
It looks like the dongeon from the Munsters minus the smoke.
Dong-eon? Sounds very Warty-esque
Men are more disadvantaged than women in the UK, US and most of Europe, scientists claim
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/04/men-disadvantaged-women-uk-us-europe-scientists-claim-8309361/?ito=twitter?ito=cbshare
I’ll be sure to mansplain this to my wife. She has a tough time understanding things if I don’t bring it down to her level. The same goes for her PhD cohort.
“Most European countries with the exception of Italy were deemed to be better for women than men.”
What’s da matter, Toots? You know you like it like that.
Was watching some freedomtoons and one of the comments on one of their more recent videos was from a “steve smith”. Which one of you chuckleheads did this?
HIM SAY “FREE CASCADIA”? IF NO, NOT REAL STEVE SMITH. UNLESS MENTION RAPE.
Ades, who is being held in a Maricopa County jail without bond, has pleaded not guilty to charges of stalking and criminal trespassing. Her trial is scheduled to begin next month.
They should let her be her own court stenographer.
Brooklyn lawyer arrested for three cold-case sex crimes
In my hometown, we call that “First Base”.
silly things to go to jail for
He does sound like a fourth grader on a playground.
Not really what i think of when someone says sex crimes, but yeah, disgusting.
What’s the appropriate punishment for this? Couple years in prison?
An ass whipping by one of the women’s husband/father/brother should suffice.
I would think that raping that veggie woman is the very definition of a cold case sex crime.
I am still amazed how many don’t realize Old Tits McG is a parody account
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1080919365162217472
“OMG OMG, TRUMP SAID “FUCK” IN A PRIVATE MEETING!!!!!!”
Sounds like they need to impeach that motherfucker.
I love how they can simultaneously defend one and decry the other.
Whataboutism!
I love click-baity titles. On Yahoo’s home page you see this headline: Warren visits Iowa, ignites pent-up voter frustration
c;licking on the link brings you to the real article which has a different headline:
Warren’s trip to Iowa tests themes for a likely 2020 run
Maggie is curious, eh? Hawt.
“We need somebody who is focusing on our generation,” Bashore said. “We need someone who knows we’re going to be the ones taking care of the planet.”
Hooray public
educationfear mongering.Economic fairness eh? I presume everyone paid their fair share for pizza and/or beer at the bowling alley.
at a bowling alley. She planned further appearances over the weekend.
I don’t roll on Shabbos
Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Top Tax Rate Is a Moderate, Evidence-Based Policy
Your daily derp.
Seventy percent seems a tad high. What’s to keep the wealthy from taking their assets somewhere else?
Forget it Stinky, it’s socialismtown.
Should 5% appear too small, be thankful I don’t take it all.
5% LOL – such innocent times.
The 5% is your cut 😉
Exactly. Tax rate for the Beatles was 95%, thus the song.
Ah. I thought wha was joking. Jesus.
No joke.
The 1% for the most part have little to no income.
This tax rate wont hurt them.
It will hurt the upper middle class tremendously though.
Yeah. It will certainly suck for professional athletes.
The use words that I don’t think mean what they think they mean
they found that the furthest left option — establishing a maximum annual income of $1 million (by taxing all income above that at 100 percent) — was the third-most-common choice, boasting four times more support than the Republican Party’s 2012 platform on taxation.
The most effective people enjoy working for free. It’s known.
State lotteries hardest hit.
So if I sell a business for more than $1M – I get nothing after that? Or will there, like it was back then, loopholes galore?
give you didnt build that why should you get more? Oppressing the workers should not lead to profit
The state oppresses the people, and look how much they profit.
The state does it for the common good. Why do you hate children and the homeless?
Why do you not hate children and the homeless?
I honestly cannot see how one can argue economics with the left… I mean they claim all these things as proven when they are nothing of the sort. But you cannot really get through to them
That would have been great if someone put a story about that in the Links. Oh, wait…
Her opening salvo on her first day is 70…so going down to 55 or 60 will seem reasonable and a concession to bipartisanship
She also mentions directly taxing wealth in her manifesto.
The problem with living alone – my couch turned into a storage heap. As I remove each layer and put the items in their real spot on the shelves, I find an impossible number of new layers of stuff idly thrown on the couch underneath.
Pictured: UCS at home
I kid, of course.
Not enough warhammer boxes.
Fake news.
He’s not even wearing his hoarding gloves.
It appears that all flat surfaces in most houses accumulate items and junk mail.
I just found my ugliest tie. It’s a metallic orange vine pattern on dark blue. I forget what I had gotten it for, but I remember that when I’d planned to wear it, I couldn’t find it. I think it was for a joke of some sort.
I forget what I had gotten it for
Autoerotic asphyxiation? There is no judgement here.
Naw, I’m not into your scene.
It’s a never ending battle.
The day after Christmas I spent a good hour and a half going through several years worth of shit I had placed on top of my gun safe. I threw away most of it.
I live alone and have no such problem. Then again I am naturally orderly and have gone through a lot of de-cluttering last few years
Compulsive hoarders tend to be women. I may have married one. I love her to death, but holy shit is it annoying.
Same here. Just pick it up off the floor and put it away. Between the daughter’s toys and my wife’s stuff, I look like a bank vault thief just trying to take a piss at night.
My mom was a hoarder. When she went in the nursing home my sister came up to clear out the back bedroom, and used about 40 of those 33-gallon garbage bags to get rid of stuff.
My parents were n hoarders really but threw away a lot of food. This was due to communism experience, when you found food you bought as much as possible. When the system changed the habits lingered
Well that clear it up. I thought your place was clean because Romanians didn’t own any stuff.
Like Pie, I also have no such problem. I am convinced my sister and her husband will end up on that hoarders show after her last kid leaves home. It’s both of them, but he’s worse. She at least tries to throw stuff out.
My actual problem is that I don’t want to bother putting things away. I don’t have too much stuff, but it just sits around where it shouldn’t be.
#meneither
One thing I got from my mom is tidiness. When I was a young teenager I was the opposite. She taught me a lesson one day by emptying the contents of my room into a gigantic heap in the middle of the floor and making me clean it up 🙂
That would have made me even more of a cleaning procrastinator.
Yay. I reached the couch cushions. Now to deal with the stuff that can be trashed.
You’re not done yet. Time to clean under the cushions too.
You never know how much change will be there – maybe enough to fund Ocasio-Cortez’s plans.
None. No one ever uses the couch. The change is in a jar on the desk.
My baby daughter hides an extraordinary amount of stuff under and in our couch. A man never knows fear until he’s been in a silent house with a conscious baby somewhere in it.
Dammit, I made one clean spot and I had to keep going because it looks wrong to have a little clutter around a pristine space.
Pour gas on it all. Light a match.
Okay…
The argon appears to have put out the flame.
Overwatch team discovers female player was an imposter
Amid claims it was all a “social experiment”.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-01-05-overwatch-team-discovers-their-female-player-was-an-imposter
I don’t get video games…
Competitive gaming is one helluva drug. I for one am gladly content with just my single player games and occasional chill multi-player fps sessions.
The vast majority of gamers I know who use female avatars, do so because of the extra benefits they get from other players. Just on the off chance that they might actually be a female.
Back when I used to play a lot of Left For Dead – hardly anyone took the female character unless there was no other player available. Perhaps it was my imagination, but it seemed more likely that you would have a better chance of survival if you did. ie, the players were more protective of the female character of the squad.
The kids these days are playing fortnite. From watching my kids play, I would say the female avatars are fairly popular. They all seem to switch back and forth relatively frequently.
Don’t know what “Instagram” is, but looks better than Facebook.
Right? Lots of nice amateurish models that just post pics there all the time.
They don’t look too closely at the pics before posting either it appears.
A common refrain I keep hearing from the guys I work with regarding this government shutdown-
“We need to stop paying the congresscritters. That will get them to act and end it.”
I have pointed out several times that cutting the congressional salary to zero will do absolutely nothing to any members of Congress. It’s not like the salary paid to them. Y the government is where they get their money. Its painfully obvious that senators are taking in far more than the couple hundred grand that is their salary.
I hear the same gripe regarding healthcare.
“We should make Congress buy Obamacare plans. That will get them to fix the health care mess.”
I highly doubt this for the same reason.
I like to point out that making them more desperate for resources also makes them more susceptible to corruption.
Taking elected officials from “Gee, I could buy a beach house with that bribe.” to “Little baby Mary will be able to go to the doctor if I take this bribe.” is extremely fucking stupid.
I’ve heard similar theories about the VA, if they were forced to use it they would fix it.
…right.
Are you implying that them climbing over each other to donate their salaries to charity during the shutdown is not evidence of their selfless public service? That’s crazy-talk.
Looking at the various planks of the Democrats it is terrifying to imagine them getting their way. We would turn into Venezuela overnight. They would completely destroy the greatest country in the history of the world.
Various planks of the Republican platform look pretty appealing. However with 2 years of total control of the federal government, they managed to accomplish almost none of it. I imagine a fully democratically controlled federal government would be worse because unlike the Rs, team D aren’t a bunch of hypocrites. They are serious when they talk about policy.
That’s because they had evil filth like McCain in their slender majority.
Bingo. The Never Trump crowd shoveled enough sand in the gears to plug up the Mississippi. This does not discount what Lachowsky said. You can count the R’s with some principle and spine on the fingers on one hand.
Yeah, what scares me about Republican platforms is everything on there is a lie. What scares me about Democrat platforms is that they’re telling the truth.
It’s interesting to see what’s going on with the Dems. They’ve pandered to the psycho leftists and now the sane ones like (I can’t believe I’m saying this) Pelosi and Feinstein are going to have to attempt to put the genie back in the bottle. It’s going to be a strange next couple of years.
It’s going to be swinging between entertaining and infuriating to watch.
From a distance it’s more entertaining. *Munches dried squid*
Maybe if you worked on your foreplay game a bit more Straff your wife wouldn’t be so dry when you went down on her?
*spit take*
… wow. Jimbo bringing the heat early today.
“sane ones like (I can’t believe I’m saying this) Pelosi and Feinstein”
1. Words I never thought I’d see on a libertarian comment board.
2. Words I never thought may turn out to be accurate.
3. I blame Trump.
OMG.
If the TSA strikes, who will grope me at the airport and flag my steel toes boots for special inspection.
My God, someone might get on an airplane with a 22oz bottle of shampoo.
why do you have steel toed boots on an airplane?
Because that’s what I always wear and I’m not buying special shoes just because the TSA thinks I should.
you do not seem very stylish. You don’t get in the best cocktail bars in work boots
It is fairly standard attire in this part of the country.
*looks down at steel toe boots, jeans, plaid shirt*
Yes, I am a stereotype.
Boots don’t work for me, but I do wear steel toe shoes everyday.
They’ve failed miserably every there’s a test of their system. Now it’s just nut-squeezing as a demonstration of government power.
The TSA is 100% unnecessary post 9/11. The jihadists made it impossible for anyone to ever hijack another airliner. The passengers will never again allow it.
It’s a combination of window dressing and a jobs program for people who would otherwise be unemployable.
It’s disturbing watching little kids just soak it in as a ‘regular’ thing. The government won that battle 10 years ago.
Which was one of the points of the TSA.
If the TSA strikes, who will grope me at the airport
Jesse? Rhywun? Hayeksplosives? Steve Smith?
OJ?
Steve Smith. It’s always Steve Smith.
Don’t look at me. I wouldn’t make it past lunch at that job.
*Sigh*
I… Uh….
STEVE SMITH DO OPERATION FOR FREE. AND BY OPERATION MEAN….
Wtf?
Y’all post strange stuff here, but that…wow.
Well then…that is…a thing, yes that’s a thing.
That’s some grade a crazy.
Maybe they should give some attention to the contaminated parts of her brain?
That’s it. I don’t understand who would buy fucking alcoholic still water? For fuck sake’s people, vodka is still a thing, right?
I guess vodka has too much flavor for some people.
But… it’s flavored water, with alcohol (and a splash of coconut water). I thought the spiked seltzer was one of the dumber things to be released, I can’t even guess what the next thing will be.
I’ve bought spiked seltzer from Trader Joe’s – it’s actually good for summer events, or taking to the neighborhood pool. You can enjoy some alcohol without it looking like a can of beer.
I drink that all the time. Nobody seems to notice its alcoholic when I drink it while driving.
So, UCS
There’s a sucker born every minute.
white women on a diet?
The TSA is 100% unnecessary post 9/11. The jihadists made it impossible for anyone to ever hijack another airliner. The passengers will never again allow it.
Exactly. In the good old days, people were told they should just sit quietly with their hands folded in their laps, because the worst thing to happen might be an unscheduled stop on the tarmac in some shithole like Havana. But not now.
Disband the fucking TSA and give everybody who wants one a baseball bat as they board the plane.
The jihadis really fucked up the airline hijacking industry for the worlds less suicidal terrorists.
D.B. Cooper would be beat to death before he ever had a chance at parachuting if he tried that shit today.
This was meant as parody, but it made perfect sense to me.
Lear thought that type of thinking would repulse Americans. Ha, ha *points at Norman*
Easier, cheaper, and more effective than a multi billion dollar federal agency.
Also, no one gets their dick grabbed by a functional retard with a blue shirt.
Three dead in national parks as shutdown wears on
Three days after most of the federal workforce was furloughed on Dec. 21, a 14-year-old girl fell 700 feet to her death at the Horseshoe Bend Overlook, part of the Glen Canyon Recreation Area in Arizona. The following day, Christmas, a man died at Yosemite National Park in California after suffering a head injury in a fall. On Dec. 27, a woman was killed by a falling tree at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which straddles the borders of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Dont you know that park rangers follow around every single person in ever national park at all times so that they can prevent falls.
They wear special idiot catching mittens.
These were all due to gravity, not the absence of park rangers.
This is why we need more democratic lawmakers. When the republicans wrote the laws of physics, they were in the pocket of big gravity.
#ban electoral college
#ban the Senate
The Electoral College thing is… well OK, it’s not dumber than banning the Senate, but it’s just as dumb. If you really want to start a hot civil war, right there is how you do it.
Park Service employees would have prevented those accidents but that fucking Drumph closed all of the phone booths.
Given the behavior I’ve observed there, I am surprised more people don’t fall off the Horseshoe Bend Overlook.
Following the Post’s logic, I suppose the tourist who fell off in 2010 was Obama’s fault, right?
“that there aren’t more people who fall off” – grammar fail…sorry.
Sure! Just the same way that I did a double-gainer off a perch that I wasn’t meant to be on and landed in the river. I was young and limber so the only thing hurt was my pride.
Double gainer. Jack knife. Can Opener. We used to have the best names for dives, didn’t we?
Well, you try to describe an uncontrolled fall to the chicks that just watched it happen! It’s more like legs and arms akimbo and a splash if you were lucky.
No because if the Park Service had been funded at the levels Obama wanted, instead of at the levels the Republicans would allow, then the tourist wouldn’t have fallen.
I like Iris. The best part of “The Leftovers” was their use of her tune and also that of The Pixies. I watched that entire series and still don’t know what the fuck happened.
I’ve used a few songs by her husband, Greg Brown. “Ships” is my favorite. Maybe I’ll do another one tomorrow.
Yay!
So I looked into him after your music today, Do not watch the song on the front page of his official website! He gets a bit of a pass because he’s a folk singer and folk singers are supposed to sing protest songs but man is that a bad song, dumb theme or no.
From LJW’s NY magazine link, above:
America’s 160,000 richest families now lay claim to 90 percent of its wealth.
I’d be interested in the methodology underlying this claim, or even their definition of “wealth”. But broad unsourced assertions are the order of the day, in Trump’s America.
Whatever the methodology still bullshit like all that oxfam crap about 90 people owning as much as 505 of the world
Even if that is the case. So what?
UK decides someone shouldn’t entertain in a shed (done up to look like a pub). Kind of sad he didn’t put real taps in though.
That’s a nice set up he has there.
‘Following our recent visit to your property to inspect the large building in the rear garden, it appears you have built a micro bar and it is apparent that this is not being used for personal use.’
IOW, they think it looks like a pub, so tear it down. Bollocks.
“Jo Fieldhouse, head of locality for Bromford, said: ‘All customers are required to obtain written permission when planning alterations to their home and this is something which every person living in our homes agrees to as part of their tenancy agreement with us.”
Yikes.
Subpart D, Line 1,833 of the social contract
I hope they find the killjoy who said they were selling alcohol. I’m pretty sure that almost every basement in my neighborhood has a bar in it.
I was half-assed raised by Brits. John and Mo would be rolling in their graves over this bullshit.
And then, this:
As we’ve already established, there is nothing substantively extreme about Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal.
*throws flag, blows whistle*
Illegal shift. No, you did not establish that in any meaningful way, you lying sack of shit.
When I was a younger feller I might have gone along with her retardation just to get a whiff but I’m older now and everything’s changed.
I would’ve watched her titties bounce as she danced ala breakfast club and said ” sure honey, whatever you say..”
Didn’t you see all of the examples of the great prospering nations who have 70% tax rates, they showed us? Oh wait… they have nothing.
So there is this Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu and now the Romanian press keeps covering her cause she be of Romanian origin. Small frustrated country bullshit.
Andreescu was born in Mississauga and is of Romanian descen
What the fuck is a Mississauga anyway?
Funny. The Japanese don’t do that so much with people of Japanese descent if they aren’t citizens of Japan. Can’t say I blame them given how weird it is to meet some guy named Hiroyuki and he greets you with, “Hey, Man. Wassup?”
*googles*
That’s a man with boobs.
Maybe it is the bit of boobs Halep cut off. Maybe that is the source of power.
Her reduction was a crime against humanity.
I don’t want to fight her!
It translates as “Here there be Herpes”.
“Slavery used to be legal, and hardly anybody complained. Just because a few people have to surrender their freedom to make the rest of us better off, that doesn’t mean we should just dismiss the whole idea out of hand.”
Sexy Saturday bombards you with beaucoup boobs and tons of tits!
http://archive.vn/EaN38
30 is straight to the point. 37 is a repeat but exquisite. Road trip with 98!
97. I scrolled that far
Question:
I got into a conversation about rights with an acquaintance and his claim was that public defenders already constitute a positive right, so why should health care be any different. The only response I could come up with is that a public defender is in service of an actual constitutional right to a fair trial and that right can’t be fulfilled without one.
Thoughts?
Public defenders are an offset to the burden that the state imposes by being the sole arbiter of criminality.
I don’t perceive it as being much different than the requirement for the state to feed and provide health care for prison inmates.
I like this idea that it is meant to offset the fact that the government has a monopoly on “legitimate” violence. I could work with that…
That’s my tack too. It’s not so much a right, as a compromise with the government.
A fair trial is also a positive right. As long as there is a state that is the sole provider of courts, there is no way for the court system to be run without positive rights.
This is pretty much what I told him. He came back and said that the Constitution guarantees “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and it can’t be fulfilled without free healthcare.
I said that it’s only the guarantee that the government can’t deprive you of those things without due process; it doesn’t grant you anything.
In any case, the fact that there’s anything at all that can be interpreted as an existing positive right is a problem for our side (IMO) and we should think about counter arguments.
He came back and said that the Constitution guarantees “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
It does not such thing, of course. That phrase is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. And even in the Declaration, it means pretty much the opposite of “the government guarantees.”
It is a statement of individual rights, that are held by individuals, and that may not be taken from them by government. These are negative rights, not positive rights. As you said, these are things that the government may not take from you without due process.
The defender might also be a cunt and not have his client’s best interests in mind. Maybe he wants to cut out to do a bowl and 18 holes with his pals. Who knows?
Well that’s a given. Public defenders basically exist to cut plea deals for impoverished idiots. Still, it’s a “free shit” guarantee with ostensible constitutional backing.
“I got into a conversation about rights with an acquaintance and his claim was that public defenders already constitute a positive right, so why should health care be any different.”
This seems pretty apples to oranges to me. One is to counter an intelligent and malicious government. The other is to counter bad choices, bad genetics and fate.
That last word in your comment? That’s the one.
You are accused of a crime you haven’t had your 1A curtailed. You can communicate with others to gain counsel. This is not a positive right. Your friend is juggling apples and oranges.
The 6A is pretty clear on this.
I’d turn the argument around: “Do you believe that ‘free’ legal representation is right that should extend to all citizens? Do you believe that the legal profession should be socialized?”
(I think there’s a decent case to be made for that, but it will make a statist unhappy)
The government has unnaturally throttled the availability of lawyers. Many people who are MORE qualified than some public defenders are prevented (by penalty of criminal prosecution) from representing defendants. If you’re going to create the need for a lawyer and then narrow the choices (simultaneously dramatically increasing the price ) then you have the responsibility to provide a minimum fighting chance to the person you have thus imperiled.
More briefly, if you socialize prosecuting people, you had better socialize defending them as well.
You don’t have to accept a public defender. You can go into debt and hire your own or even defend yourself.
If it was a positive right we would all be forced to use one. Even OJ.
1. You’ve apparently met Tony in real life.
2. The Sixth Amendment doesn’t actually guarantee any such thing as the public defender. It says you have the right to assistance of counsel in all criminal prosecutions, which actually meant you could not be denied a lawyer, not that the state had to provide you with one. It is the courts that turned it into a positive right.
3. The positive right to a lawyer in all cases comes from Gideon v. Wainwright which was decided in 1963. While there were a few years of decline after the case, a decade later the incarceration rate in the U.S. started exploding and has lately been almost 4 times what is was before Gideon. There is a similar trajectory for costs after every major government intervention into the healthcare market in the past. There may be some government somewhere that is competent enough to effectively regulate the healthcare market and ensure everyone has a minimum level of care, but ours is not that government.
If the government want’s to prosecute you, they better fuckin’ a make it a fair fight. If the system is so complex that only a few can effectively navigate it, why should one be forced to do so all on his own? Especially considering the government has unlimited forcibly acquired resources. If the defense wants to use an expert witness or do some investigating, they have to find a way, the prosecutor? They just take more money from the public and go right ahead. The prosecutor has unlimited access to the police who are investigating the allegations, defense does not. Every advantage is with the government, supplying counsel to the defendant seems like a bare minimum to me.
Letters to the Local Rag: Proffers, I Hate Proffers
It should be noted that for every bathroom/kitchen/toilet fixture installed in a building in that particular county, there is a $500 fee. An employee just rebuilt his home after a fire and it cost him $5,000 in fees to the county just for the damn fixtures to be permitted.
public defenders already constitute a positive right, so why should health care be any different.
If the government is poisoning you, they should provide an antidote. That’s as close as I can get.
Good analogy.
RE: Congressional term limits.
Too bad it’s an empty gesture since it’s something that actually would benefit the country. Cruz certainly isn’t wrong when he says that long-term politicos have fucked things up (not that short term ones would necessarily be any better, but their scope would be more limited).
I attended the local GOP fundraiser last night. My previous rep (gerrymandered out of my district) made me aware of some interesting initiatives to claw back congressional authority over the administrative state. I don’t think they’re going to have much success, but at least somebody seems to care in DC.
I dont see term limits as solving anything at all and might actually make things worse.
Term limited senators who no longer have any reason to be accountable to their voters may very well be influenced more by whoever provides financial incentives for their post office careers than they otherwise would have been.
It’s possible, but I don’t see it as any worse than permanent incumbents who are already beholden to their donors to keep getting reelected.
We have term limits in the state legislature here and I like it because it eliminates the permanent incumbency advantage.
I’ve been on and off the fence about term limits for a long time. But I do think there should be some. Like maybe 4 terms in Congress. I still do not know if it will do any good. Because what you might get is instead of the 16th term Maxine Waters, is 4 terms of Maxine Waters and then 12 terms of Maxine Water proxies. Seriously, I don’t know how anyone cannot consider that a real possibility the way politics work. You have the Clintons around for 40 years now and you still cannot get rid of them. You have minions ready to sacrifice whatever to prop up these ancient mummies.
Well giddy-up on outta here! No one’s stopping you.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/245789/record-numbers-americans-leave.aspx
“40% of women under 30 would like to leave the US”
Great! Can we replace them with hot girls from the 3rd world?
I encourage them to try out Morocco, they’re very welcoming.
I challenge you to tell me where else in the world that girls can doll up, Groucho their eyebrows, duck lip and stick their fat asses in a selfie from a regrettable angle. America, FUCK YEAH!
I hear that a lot but how many are actually leaving? They can always meet up in Canada with all of the hollywood people that left after Trump was elected.
Huh. Seems to me that nearly all of the “talent” is still flowing south as fast as their hot little heels can carry them. Not much of a Northern Exodus…
“Great! Can we replace them with hot girls from the 3rd world?”
Points to immigration article from a few days back. in my opinion, definitely worth the hassle. The hot crazy matrix in the U.S. is all messed up.
Unpossible. California is a gun-free Utopia that serves as a beacon of gun control hope to the rest of the United States of Dumbfuckistan.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-torrance-shooting-20190105-story.html
If guns were illegal in Nevada, and Indiana, this would stop.
*opens gun store on AZ/CA border*
If we could carry guns, maybe the assholes who started shooting might have taken a few themselves.
Drat! too late for Xermas
Two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, some progressive parents (and savvy publishers) have turned to children’s books as a kind of palliative political education for the young during uneasy times. Among the recent offerings in this vein, there’s Jill Twiss’s A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, a defense of same-sex marriage and a satire of the children’s book written by Charlotte Pence, the vice president’s daughter, about the Pence family’s pet rabbit. There’s All Are Welcome, by Alexandra Penfold, a gentle and yet pointedly utopian portrait of a school day when children of all races and religious backgrounds assist one another in their tasks with kindness and tolerance. And of course, there’s Chelsea Clinton’s She Persisted, an illustrated homage to glass-ceiling shatterers such as Sally Ride, Sonia Sotomayor, and Hillary Clinton, the author’s mother. Oppositional politics, in other words, is now available in colorful, digestible tracts for even the youngest readers.
But if attempts to steer children toward politics through literature feel somewhat of-the-moment, they aren’t new: More than 100 years ago, British socialists undertook a similar, if decidedly more militant, project. A new book, Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories From Great Britain, exhumes several dozen fables and stories that first appeared in late-19th- and early-20th-century socialist magazines. The collection—edited by Michael Rosen, a British children’s author, political columnist, and (as it happens) the son of communists who fended off marching fascists at the Battle of Cable Street—contains an assortment of moral tales, mysteries, and reworkings of traditional folk legends by a variety of authors. Intended to educate and inspire children and adults alike, these stories, Rosen writes in his introduction, “reveal the fault lines and viewpoints that ran through the world of socialists then, but which persist today.” As plain-language, kid-friendly introductions to socialist politics, they are at once intriguing historical artifacts and, in a few cases, striking allegories that remain pertinent now, even on the other side of the Atlantic.
Raise your little revolutionaries well, wokesters. Put them on the path to the Workers’ Paradise. And don’t forget to praise them when they turn you in to the People’s Justice Cadre. You’ll have achieved perfect equality as you slump forward into the mass grave with a bullet in the back of your neck.
That may not have the effect they intend. See: Preacher’s daughter syndrome.
Same with the “Academy Club” in high school. Dirty, dirty girls.
a kind of palliative political education
What an odd word to use there. “Palliative” means, essentially, relieving pain without providing a cure.
I’m thinking the author doesn’t really know what it means. If anything, the kind of woke bullshit she details increases pain, rather than reduces it. Those infected with wokeness are in a constant state of anxiety and outrage, after all.
Five teenage girls celebrating their friend’s birthday Friday afternoon at an escape room in Poland died in a fire, officials said.
Police and fire officials are still trying to figure out how the room caught fire, killing the 15-year-old girls and causing one other person to be hospitalized with severe burns, according to CNN Polish affiliate TVN24.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/04/europe/teens-die-poland-escape-room-fire-koszalin/index.html
this is a shit way to die. I would have thought these rooms had emergency escapes
I recently did one of these. They’re death traps. A bunch of the wiring isn’t even remotely professional and it’s all tacked to, hanging on or smothered by flammable materials. These hazards are usually accompanied by multiple obstacles. It’s a new industry in it’s infancy. A dash of lawsuits followed by a good dose of public panic and backlash with a good fisting of regulatory capture and it’ll be interesting to see what’s left.
What the fuck is an escape room? asked the oldster.
Essentially a life sized puzzle. The one I did was called “The Pharaohs Tomb.” It’s fun, especially with some other drunk adults. You get to walk through an area solving puzzles and unlocking other areas as if you were Sherlock Holmes or Indiana Jones.
It’s usually $20-30 per person. Our “host” overseeing everything was high on cocaine and playing WoW in a room somewhere. We fell behind on the timer because he wasn’t paying attention and hitting the right button when we solved puzzles. It was interesting to see how very good friends of ours participated in a competitive cooperative puzzle game while inebriated too. Who gets to be the leader? Who can solve this puzzle? What do you do while somoen else is solving a puzzle? Do you advise someone or let them focus?
Sounds safe and perfect for teenagers.
*ahem* Your teenagers.
A coworker of mine works part time at one. They have an emergency door you can walk out at any time.
Emergency escape = cheat code
Moon Roof.
Wasn’t that Frank Zappa’s daughter?
The other one lives on my street.
“40% of women under 30 would like to leave the US”
Great! Can we replace them with hot girls from the 3rd world?
*raises hand*
Czech, please!
It seems tragic, but I’m will to take the Laos.
*willing
So close…
I’m very disappointed in myself right now.
You made a bad and you do feel bad so all is right in Glib-world.
I was going to say that it was a Thai, but then we wouldn’t be Finnished…
Goan…
He said 3rd world.
So I did note on NRO yesterday that due to the shutdown, the IRS isn’t accepting tax returns – much less sending out refunds. (admittedly I won’t have my corporate W-2 till the end of the month).
Of course…that won’t stop them from taking the taxes out of your paycheck.
“Jacqueline Ades sent a man she met on a dating site more than 159,000 text messages — some of which were threatening — over the course of nearly 10 months, according to police documents obtained via a public records request.”
She seems a bit clingy.
“So watcha thinking?” about 150,000 times. That’s when jumping from a high place becomes your idea of freedom.
That’s one per minute for almost ten hours each day. Impressive.
“‘I hear the GOP thinks women dancing is scandalous…’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at conservative critics with ANOTHER playful video – filmed outside her new Capitol Hill office”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6558579/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-hits-GOP-filming-video.html
Tits or GTFO.
How about she go read a friggin book instead of wasting time with stupidities?
What the hell was that? Who thought that was scandalous? What the fuck is she talking about?
They’re astroturfing Republican outrage towards her dancing video. I fell for it too before I looked into it further.
Nobody thought that. I thought it was pretty lame but it had its charms. I think the youngin’s call this “gas-lighting” if I’m not mistaken.
“Media: AOC IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE! SHE’S SOOOO IMPORTANT!
Conservatives: Okay. That’s scary. Her policy is insane.
Media: LOOK, SHE’S DANCING! YOU HATE THAT!
Conservatives: Nah, her policy is just insane.
Media: WHY ARE YOU SO OBSESSED WITH HER?”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1081334030568570880
You laugh but the last line is an actual tactic.
I just faced it this past week. Someone I know is obsessed with Trump. He emotionally hates him to a point it’s not normal. The scary part is he’s literate, well-travelled and a doctor – I’ve mentioned him before.
I keep my distance but he likes me and engages. I don’t know what he expects because I always answer in a straight forward, non-emotional way. I try to keep it autistic. Of course, if it doesn’t confirm what he thinks then I’m somehow ‘a fan’ of Trump.
So the other day he said Trump is worse when it comes to sex/rape than Clinton who ‘just got a blow job’. This REALLY pissed me off. Never mind that the former did whatever he allegedly did as a PRIVATE citizen while Clinton was sleaze as a PUBLIC SERVANT. Call me old fashioned but there’s a difference there.
Also, notice how they attempt to split hairs based on who they like about what constitutes sexual debauchery/crimes. Trump is obviously a scum bag narcissist while Clinton was just having sex because….whatever. Boys being boys and all that. Plus he played the sax!
I responded simple with a link to Clinton’s sex record and ‘I think it was a tad more than ‘just a blow job’.
He then says along the lines of, ‘WHY DO YOU ALWAYS BRING UP THE CLINTONS? It’s like you were traumatized by them and Obama!’
This is where my mouth drops and realized to distance myself still further. Apparently, he alone is permitted to bring up people on his terms and if you dare challenge him you will be told you’re ‘obsessing’.
Nice intellectual racket they have going.
He’s so blinded and convinced he’s right it’s impossible to discuss in good faith.
And don’t get me going on my wife’s friend and their empty righteous views about Trump. Along the lines of ‘we’re not going to the USA and give him money! We miss Vermont!’
Dumb.
Whattaboutism is a hell of drug! You must seek help, Rufus and get the hell to work on this problem!
Its total gaslighting. If it isn’t actually a false-flag operation, then, at most, its a couple of aspie trolls. Saying “Republicans” (implied: all of them) care about it is absurd.
But, as a way to get eyeballs on something that actually makes Karla Marx more likable, its a great tactic. She’s cute as a button in that video and comes across as a totally normal college kid goofing with her pals.
What do Democrats propose in place of the EC?
And they really need to change their name. How about Communists?
They’re trying to play Trump’s game, clumsily. Newbies at the poker table being sharked by the old man sitting in the power chair. They don’t know what the fuck they are trying to accomplish but they will do their damndest to get there.
The abolishment of individual states.
Civil War II – Electric Boogaloo!
“What do Democrats propose in place of the EC?”
They propose that Cali and DC decide all national elections. Any more questions?
Should have been NY, not DC, but you get the point.
“‘I will eat till I die’: 700LB man, 34, who has to bathe in an outdoor TROUGH ‘like a pig’ reveals he spends all day playing video games NAKED while relying on his dad to take care of him
Casey King from Georgia is sharing his story on the new season of the TLC reality series Family by the Ton, a spinoff of the TLC reality series My 600-lb Life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6558445/700LB-man-plays-video-games-day-says-eat-dies.html
WTF??
Can I cleanse my eyes with bleach or will that permanently blind me?
I warsh myself with a rag and a stick! *polite applause*
HOLY NSFW!
Have you seen the other crap on TV? This is just mild derp compared to some of it.
Just scanning the show descriptions on that channel gives me the heebies. There was an entire show about skin lesions I saw on the schedule the other day. “Doctor Pimple-Popper” and not Marcia Cross from Seinfeld… Pass….
So help me out – multiple felonies on Sk8trboi there ultimately for refusing to be put on a list? I’m sure a few years of jail will totally set him on the right path.
“I’m reading a fascinating book about how our ideology influences what we *want* to see the world and how that interferes powerfully with the actual information hitting our eyeballs and I can’t think of a better example than this.”
https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1081107944563822593
Best response:
“Shorter version: A lot of people have forgotten what decency looks like in public.”
“The Irrational Allergy to the Wall
It’s a wonder that Democrats haven’t staked out a negotiating position demanding the destruction of already-existing barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Their opposition to Trump’s border wall (or, more properly, his so-called wall) is now so total as to be nearly indistinguishable from opposition to any serious infrastructure at the border at all.
The partial government shutdown is fueled by a clash of visions over, ultimately, the legitimacy of borders and, proximately, physical barriers to make our southern border more secure.
A wall or fencing is relatively mild as far as immigration enforcement goes. It doesn’t involve deporting anyone. It doesn’t separate families. It doesn’t prosecute and detain anyone. It doesn’t deny any illegal immigrant currently working in the United States a job. All it does is seek to avoid getting in a situation where any of these things is necessary in the first place.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/02/democrats-mexico-broder-wall-223648
They want commie voters and dont want Trump to have any kind of win.
If I were Trump I’d probably start doing unspeakable things.
“They want commie voters”
That part will stand on it’s own.
The whole issue strikes me as a bit absurd. The Democrats don’t really have an argument, and there already is a wall for all practical purposes. There is nowhere on the southern border that is both a) possible to cross without risking your life and b) not already covered by a checkpoint, walls, fences, drones, and/or regular patrols. And despite the dead-end proposals to “abolish ICE” the Democrats don’t actually want to get rid of border controls. It’s all posturing.
“Former NY Times editor rips Trump coverage as biased
A former executive editor of the New York Times says the paper’s news pages, the home of its straight-news coverage, have become “unmistakably anti-Trump.”
Jill Abramson, the veteran journalist who led the newspaper from 2011 to 2014, says the Times has a financial incentive to bash the president and that the imbalance is helping to erode its credibility.
Abramson describes a generational split at the Times, with younger staffers, many of them in digital jobs, favoring an unrestrained assault on the presidency. “The more ‘woke’ staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump’s presidency obviated the old standards,” she writes.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-n-y-times-editor-rips-trump-coverage-as-biased
That rag has been pretty bad for a long time but their crossword puzzles were top-notch until I learned the code and got bored. Good for her!
Has anyone pointed out what these ‘dangers’ are?
Orangemanbad?
Just for fun.https://youtu.be/owJkc3JNGq4
Catch the fever
It would be nice to think that America is protected from the worst excesses of Trump’s impulses by its democratic laws and institutions. After all, Trump can do only so much without bumping up against the limits set by the Constitution and Congress and enforced by the courts. Those who see Trump as a threat to democracy comfort themselves with the belief that these limits will hold him in check.
————
This edifice of extraordinary powers has historically rested on the assumption that the president will act in the country’s best interest when using them. With a handful of noteworthy exceptions, this assumption has held up. But what if a president, backed into a corner and facing electoral defeat or impeachment, were to declare an emergency for the sake of holding on to power? In that scenario, our laws and institutions might not save us from a presidential power grab. They might be what takes us down.
—————In the past several decades, Congress has provided what the Constitution did not: emergency powers that have the potential for creating emergencies rather than ending them. Presidents have built on these powers with their own secret directives. What has prevented the wholesale abuse of these authorities until now is a baseline commitment to liberal democracy on the part of past presidents. Under a president who doesn’t share that commitment, what might we see?
Imagine that it’s late 2019. Trump’s approval ratings are at an all-time low. A disgruntled former employee has leaked documents showing that the Trump Organization was involved in illegal business dealings with Russian oligarchs. The trade war with China and other countries has taken a significant toll on the economy. Trump has been caught once again disclosing classified information to Russian officials, and his international gaffes are becoming impossible for lawmakers concerned about national security to ignore. A few of his Republican supporters in Congress begin to distance themselves from his administration. Support for impeachment spreads on Capitol Hill. In straw polls pitting Trump against various potential Democratic presidential candidates, the Democrat consistently wins.
Obviously, Trump will declare a state of emergency and and suspend normal operations of the government.
Next stop, Hitlerville!
Get a load of Jim Clancy over here!
Also, we get this:
Trump has long signaled his disdain for the concepts of limited presidential power and democratic rule. During his 2016 campaign, he praised murderous dictators. He declared that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, would be in jail if he were president, goading crowds into frenzied chants of “Lock her up.” He hinted that he might not accept an electoral loss. As democracies around the world slide into autocracy, and nationalism and antidemocratic sentiment are on vivid display among segments of the American populace, Trump’s evident hostility to key elements of liberal democracy cannot be dismissed as mere bluster.
He hinted that he might not accept an electoral loss.
That never gets old.
#notmypresident
“Holy Fever Dreams Batman! Whatever shall we do to save Democracy?”
First I have to throw some shade on my otherwise impeccable Glibs cred and admit that I have only watched about 15 minutes of Zardoz before I gave up on him as a movie star (still love him as a blogger/advice columnist!).
That is why I was surprised to see this warning today.
I hope that Zardoz dedicates at least one of his columns on address this issue. I’m already sartorially challenged, this seems like it is going to get worse for me.
Zardoz takes places in 2293.
I feel like a kid waiting for Xmas.
“Patreon Purge: PayPal & MasterCard Collusion?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZdXolMeWBY
One more shot of Doomsday porn”
On the eve of the election, the cases reach the Supreme Court. In a 5–4 opinion written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Court observes that the president’s powers are at their zenith when he is using authority granted by Congress to protect national security. Setting new precedent, the Court holds that the First Amendment does not protect Iranian propaganda and that the government needs no warrant to freeze Americans’ assets if its goal is to mitigate a foreign threat.
All that’s missing is the part where Trump’s own Secret Service security detail enter his bedroom as he sleeps, bind and gag him, and hand him over to the mob so that he may be hung by his heels from a lamppost.
And then, they triumphantly acclaim Obama, who has been begged by the True Patriot Movement to come out of retirement, President for Life.
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End.
The Democrats would never pull something like that.
I’ve mentioned here before that I overheard some of my cow-workers talking about impeachment as if once he’s gone, Hillary will become Prez. These are literate people that manage to wipe their own asses and show up for work when commanded. I just don’t know, anymore.
You mean federal elections don’t work like the Miss America pageant?!
Now that you mention it…
Tax all of my income over a million dollars? I’d work to earn the million and then stop working for the fiscal year. If I was a business owner is work to earn the million then close down for the year and furlough my employees. People proposing that are 1) wannabe slavers and 2) idiots.
https://twitter.com/MatlockFletcher/status/1081348860893634560
LOLOLOLOLOL
Tax all of my income over a million dollars? I’d work to earn the million and then stop working for the fiscal year.
If I understand what these nitwits are saying, they basically want a tiered system in which each dollar is taxed at a different rate, depending on when it was earned and its marginal effect on the total.
Big Tax Accountancy rejoices.
A great duet featuring Iris DeMent:
In Spite Of Ourselves
A favourite of mine.https://youtu.be/DEy6EuZp9IY
This one too!https://youtu.be/HdzdEQOHL_I
Yes! Excellent!
One of my favorites.
That album was my introduction to Prine, so I like basically the whole thing. Lake Marie is a masterpiece.
Ha ha. Wifey gets to drive out and attempt to put a blankey on a skittish filly today. I shouldn’t laugh but she has a stomach bug and spent most of yesterday moaning and groaning. I’d help but I’m useless. Fucking horses, man…
Grooving on this! https://youtu.be/5AVH663V2ag