Happy Tuesday afternoon, Glibs. It was so quiet here, I actually did some work. Don’t tell anybody.
Pagans hold religious services on US Naval Vessel. Maybe the armed forces could use a few more pagans.
Fuck cancer! But it has been killing fewer people for each of the last 25 years. Let’s shoot for a day when it only kills shitbirds who’ve overstayed their welcome in elected government.
Guys! Guys! I found a place for Libertopia! Its just as realistic as every other strategy we have. Seems nicer than Somalia. Uh, downside is we have to cooperate for 226 light-years before we can fuck off and leave each other alone.
Lol. Posting this for the graphic alone. If Trump declares a State of Emergency to build the border wall, it will join 31 other currently active SoE’s dating back to the Carter presidency.
Bonus link: Florida Man denies ownership of 3 syringes in his rectum. I’m sure whoever he was holding them for doesn’t want them back.
This came on the radio today, and I thought, you know, that’s not a bad song. Bonus that you get to see where the look of the Hanson Brothers came from.
Flawless execution today, Brett!
Great links topped by a great song and movie clip! For extra fun, mute the video and watch it with Elvis singing. Sublime.
It only took my little finger to play this song. Imma fan.
I saw him back in November. 40 years after that video, he still kills it. Amazing dude.
I think I first saw him live in 1988 when he was already considered a dinosaur. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen (so much for being fossil fuel fodder). A couple of years after that, he toured reuniting with the Attractions, and he was even better. Best memory of all, a small charity event in San Francisco about a decade ago, when he and Nick Lowe played together, but Nick sang the Elvis songs and vice-versa. We were about twenty feet from the stage in that one, just incredible.
I don’t like musicians to be live jukeboxes. Elvis reworked his old stuff to perfection. Different key, different rhythm, etc. The crowd was funny as they tried to make out which song he was playing, then went nuts when when it became clear. The dude next to me looked like he was in a trance the while time, just smiling and singing along with every song.
Such a pro. I left feeling like I got way more than my money’s worth.
I actually got dragged to see the Police at the Hollywood Bowl back 07 and he opened. Barely sat through the Police they sucked so bad, but Elvis ripped it up. Totally showed up the main “attraction” harhar.
Redaction error in court filing says Manafort shared polling info with ex-employee linked to Russian intelligence
He shared polling data! The monster! Lock him up for life!
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve certainly got the vapors.
What you need are some new clear days.
This has gone beyond ridiculous. How many of the things they are trying to hang on Trump are actually against the law?
“linked to” is that like the 6 degrees of separation game with Kevin Bacon?
Shortly after the election Hillary was giving a speech where she said something like “We now know that that the troll farms knew where to target their ads based on information from the Trump campaign.” I suspect this is will be used to boost that argument. Nevermind that those ads were ridiculous. It also makes me wonder how “we now know”. If this is true, what info did she have and how was it obtained?
You mean Trump isn’t literally supported by Jesus?
No, Hillary might be a Satan.
Not just ‘a’ satan; ‘the’ Satan.
Should that be: You mean literally-Hitler isn’t supported by literally-Jesus?
I’m taking Millennial as a second language as a summer course
And how the hell would you know? Have you talked to him?
RE: National Emergencies. I read over that list, and *none* of them seems to be an emergency at this point. In fact, most of them seem like things that ought to be handled as legislation, if at all.
I had a similar thought. National Emergencies should be like the War Powers Act. The President has 90 days to sell it to Congress, and then its a dead letter.
Most of those emergencies seem to be addressing problems in other countries. Which seems an odd emergency for us.
That’s what I meant by “if at all”, though I didn’t really put as much weight behind it as intended.
“Continuation of Export Control Regulations”
You want export control regulations to end? Well, do you?
Yes, badly!
/patent attorney who has to deal with that shit all the time
I don’t think you grasp the severity of this emergency.
If we end these obviously benign and necessary controls some teenager in the middle east might get a PS4 for their birthday! This will obviously doom us to endless war in the… oh wait.
“Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Nicaragua”
Otherwise known as a Bill of attainder if it was passed by Congress.
ought to be handled as legislation
How quaint.
Uh, downside is we have to cooperate for 226 light-years before we can fuck off and leave each other alone.
Yeah. Everyone on board would be dead within a month.
I think I could get along with you Tundra, as long as you stayed on your side of the imaginary line.
SLUG BUG!
See? It starts innocently and pretty soon there is blood everywhere.
The line’s not official unless it’s yellow tape
VW ran a serious of ads that played on the Slug Bug theme. One of the best had Stevie Wonder slugging one of his assistants just before a VW rolled by on camera.
Month? Wow, you ARE an optimist.
I don’t like nobody touching my stuff! Just keep your meat hooks off. If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you.
Lighten up
FrancisScientistI’m optimistic! As long as we have our own bunks and a twice daily Q link. We might be able to make it longer (pun intended).
Screw that I am kicking all of you off the ship and taking the ladies in the Q links with me!
Related to the last thread:
What about DIY legal?
I’ve been seriously remiss in getting a will and living will put together. Do services like legal zoom work, can I just write it up myself? I may have enough assets at this point that it makes a lot of sense just to get a lawyer’s help. What would that typically run you?
We tried to do this a while back, and get it notarized at the bank. They wouldn’t notarize a DIY will.
Damn, that sucks. Now, I’d be wary of a DIY will unless it was totally straightforward, but still…
They’re supposed to notarize signatures, not the contents of the document.
– Form Notary Republic
Ding Ding Ding. The notary only validates the identity of the person signing, not the quality or effect of the document being signed.
National banks mostly won’t even notarize a quitclaim. They claim there is ‘liability’, which is code for some in house lawyer was asked to draw up a “policy’ and decided to take the favorite path of bank in house counsel. That path is list any situations the lawyer thinks of, consider each, if there is possible liability the policy forbids that particular item, if the lawyer cannot think of any liability but is not sufficiently familiar with that area of law to be 100% sure there is none the policy forbids that particular item, if the lawyer is 100% certain there is no liability the item can be allowed. If the particular item was not on the list the lawyer initially thought up it is forbidden.
This is what we argued; they still wouldn’t do it.
That’s ridiculous. There are online notary services, maybe they would do it.
I would hire a lawyer – someone who specializes in estate work. A big part of the job, obviously, is protecting your assets. They can also help with medical directives, etc.
Given that the legal system is designed to incentivize the use of a lawyer, you may want to consider it. That said, be careful, I’ve seen at least one lawyer/executor clean out his client’s estate.
Checks and balances. Never make lawyer the executor. They can still collude, but less likely.
Unless you have something complex to do – DIY is usually fine. When you want to do anything like a trust, or do anything other than just say “everything to X, if X is gone, then to Y and Z in substantially equal shares” – lawyer it.
I may have to get a lawyer then. My beneficiary, assuming me and my wife both died would be my infant son, and I would think a trust would be the way to go. Hm.
You want a lawyer without a doubt (also with regard to potential guardianship issues if the child is that young).
Yes, we had several levels of contingencies if we tipped before the kids were grown.
Think very, very carefully about who you trust to take care of them and the money.
Then think some more.
to take care of them and the money
exactly; in my early wills, these were always different people: an experienced, sweet, well-meaning aunt and numbers guy, respectively
Yeah, thinking about the guardianship was what prompted me to ask, but I managed to forget about it by the time I started posting.
Disregard what I said below. That needs lawyering. Your situation might be good for a family LLC, too. There’s a lot of (complex) ways to skin that cat; get a lawyer WHO DOES THIS REGULARLY.
I may have to get a lawyer then. My beneficiary, assuming me and my wife both died would be my infant son, and I would think a trust would be the way to go. Hm.
That’s a fairly common situation, and you just need to name a trustee to handle the assets until a certain age.
I’d still recommend that you talk to a lawyer just to make sure that every contingency is addressed. Last thing you need is a family member taking advantage of the situation and cleaning your kid out.
We went with a living trust. Not a lot of assets but to insure that our wishes are carried out in regards to the passing of one generation to the next. My two kids are not always on good terms with one another so we opted for a third party to administer the whole thing. Hopefully they may become friends as well as siblings. Expensive, yeah, but if it resolves conflicts it becomes cheap.
Also remember that estate law varies quite a bit from state to state.
For a very straightforward will, I have used Quicken. What it spit out was just fine with no changes by me. That was years ago, I expect it should be even better now.
Depends on the lawyer (and market). If you know and trust a good lawyer who does wills as part of their practice, getting one from scratch might run you a couple thousand, or a lot more, maybe a little less.
For a living will, I strongly recommend that you do a medical power of attorney instead (and supplement it, if you want, with a living will). A medical power of attorney appoints an actual person to sign off on any health care decisions if you are incapacitated, and can cover a much wider range than just a living will, which typically only specifies when to pull the plug. The living will can be useful as a supplement to an MPOA as it will confirm what your wishes are, and health care agents and other surrogate decisionmakers are supposed to make decisions that are consistent with your wishes. That can be helpful in some end-of-life situations. Of course, you need a health care agent you can trust.
Some states also require a separate, specific authorization for a health care agent to admit you for inpatient psych care. Doing so is an excellent idea; otherwise, if you need it but don’t have it, you will probably be stranded in an inpatient medical unit in a hospital more or less indefinitely.
Any hospital or decent primary care practice should have medical power of attorney and living will forms, and should be able to help you with them. If you go to a hospital, just tell them you are thinking about having some elective surgery soon at their facility, and want to get your paperwork in order in advance. They should help you.
Legal Zoom is cheap and has a “real lawyer” check the forms. I think $250 for a will and a living will. Where they really get you is the $120/year to have a laywer on call. But once you have the documents, I suppose you can drop the service.
Here’s what you do. Leave a video will telling your kid you’re giving him 30 days to spend 30 million dollars, and he’ll inherit your remaining 300 million. But he’s not allowed to tell anyone about the arrangement. If he fails, all the money goes to the trustees. It’s ironclad.
Finally some good advice. Sheesh.
Every state is different.
There are websites that have forms where you just fill in the blanks and then it generates the documents. We just had an estate planner update a bunch of things and he was impressed with the POA I had put together at e-forms.com.
Joining this party late, but let me second those who said that you need a lawyer, and one who works in the estate world regularly. Trust law is a mixture of State law and Federal Tax code issues that change frequently and where ‘minor’ drafting errors can leave the estate with major tax consequences or other difficulties. A good estate lawyer will be able to get you to think through possibilities you probably would never consider otherwise. When you have minor children you are trying to create a plan that reacts to a decade or two of surprises and life issues as close to the way you would have if you were still around; it’s a bad area to wing it.
This article on Antifa by KDW has been around for a while, so it may have been posted here before, but I didn’t Glib as much over the holidays and may have missed it. The funny part is at the end:
As the march began to peter out, a group of Antifa loitered for a bit on a street corner, and I loitered with them for a while, observing. And then I got tired and decided to bring my labors to an end and go on my merry. As I walked off, a contingent, apparently believing that we were once again on the move against fascism, began to follow me, pumping their fists and chanting, until they figured out that I wasn’t leading them anywhere. And thus did a National Review correspondent end up briefly leading an Antifa march through Portland.
Of course they followed me. They’ll follow anything that moves.
They aren’t paid to think.
///NPC
If Trump declares a State of Emergency to build the border wall, it will join 31 other currently active SoE’s dating back to the Carter presidency.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the State of Emergency.
Deep State of Emergency
The Hanson Brothers shoulda played for the barbaric Philadelphia Flyers 1973-77.
MMM-Bop would have brought the house DOWN!
Hot damn, I love that movie.
You feel shame.
It just never gets old.
Fun trivia facts: Bruce Boudreau was in the movie and his actual apartment was used to as Reg Dunlop’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxD4MqBLGd0
I’m laughing here in the office.
Fucken machine took my quarter…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuuUX-4_K-A
Last time I saw it on a cable movie channel I learned there were some very nice tits in that movie. 70’s and 80’s “R” comedies were great.
Yeah. Ralphie’s mom plays Hanrahan’s wife who banged Paul Newman but liked to lick pussy. I love that movie.
She was also the little kid’s mother in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but her greatest role was as John Lithgow’s wife in Harry and the Hendersons, of course.
He was one of the Hyannisport Presidents, I believe.
Ogie Oglethorpe was played by Ned Dowd, a minor league hockey player whose stories of life in the minors inspired his sister Nancy to write the screenplay.
He is a criminal element…
“Oh this young man has had a very trying rookie season, with the litigation, the notoriety, his subsequent deportation to Canada and that country’s refusal to accept him, well, I guess that’s more than most 21-year-olds can handle… Ogie Ogilthorpe!”
Scouts??
A Clearwater man says three syringes removed during a strip search at the Pinellas County Jail do not belong to him.
“Cops planted that shit, yo!”
“I wondered what that dang itchy feeling was from?!”
I feel like something is poking me.
I think there is something in the water in Clearwater.
Xenu comin’!
I’m telling ya, baby, that’s not mine!
Way to, um, smack that ass.
Ladies and gentlemen, that’s how you pun.
*vigorous clapping*
I’m going to assume the needles were still capped.
/trying to make “cap that ass” work…
He put a cap in his ass?
Because “Florida Man” is known for personal safety?
Don’t let the imperfect be the enemy of the terrible!
It is an approach meant to treat students as investments rather than cash cows — a fundamental shift that could finally lift the crippling debt load we routinely push onto students. But it also comes with a peculiar kind of danger: By seeking safe investments, programs like this could cast aside the strides made to expand educational opportunities to higher-risk students and reduce the appeal of educations that focus on noble, but lower compensated, professions.
At Lambda, students pay nothing upfront. But they are required to pay 17 percent of their salary to Lambda for two years if they get a job that pays more than $50,000. (Lambda says 83 percent of its students get a job with a median salary of $70,000 within six months of graduating.) If they don’t get a job, or their salary is lower, they pay nothing. Payments are capped at $30,000, so a highly paid student isn’t penalized for success, and if a student loses a job, the payments pause.
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“There are no schools that are incentivized to make their students successful anywhere,” said Austen Allred, co-founder and chief executive of Lambda. “The schools get paid up front, they get paid in cash, whether that’s by the government or whether that’s by an individual doesn’t really matter. At the end of the day, the schools get paid no matter what.
“I think in order to create better outcomes the school has to take the hit,” he said.
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Whether this model can — or should — be applied to the larger education system remains an open question. It clearly improves the financial incentives for the school and the student. But, if expanded more widely, it could press programs to ignore a traditional liberal arts education, where the earning power is reduced. If a student dreamed of a major in Russian literature, she may struggle to find a school that sees a knowledge of Tolstoy to be particularly marketable.
Indentured servitude, is what it is. We cannot allow people to willingly sell themselves into bondage. And besides, who will provide Starbucks with medieval French poetry scholars?
“If a student dreamed of a major in Russian literature, she may struggle to find a school that sees a knowledge of Tolstoy to be particularly marketable.”
Because it isn’t.
it could press programs to ignore a traditional liberal arts education,
And that would be a crying shame.
If a student dreamed of a major in Russian literature, she may struggle to find a school that sees a knowledge of Tolstoy to be particularly marketable.
That would be a luxury degree. One that in the right hands could be used to culturally enrich the world, but a luxury degree nonetheless, and if you want luxury you best be willing to pay for it.
From what I’ve heard from pagan servicemembers, pagans and atheists are overrepresented in the armed forces because they are basically left alone there. MMV, of course.
Military as Libertopia?
Haha.
No.
It’s a good way to teach people to hate our leaders though.
^this, this, this^
I remember another friend of mine getting assigned to write an essay as punishment by our instructor in basic avionics school. He wrote it about the irony of us being the defenders of the republic while belonging to an organization which is a totalitarian dictatorship for its members.
It was funny too because he was most non-conformist Marine I ever knew while looking like a recruiting poster Marine – 6’3″, about 220 pounds of pure muscle. With the blonde hair and blue eyes, he looked like Thor if Thor had a high and tight. Dude got chicks wet just by breathing.
I don’t remember where I read/heard it, but one Marine sergeant explained it to his guys as: “You are to protect democracy, NOT to practice it.”
The foxholes disagree! 😀
Pagans =/= Atheists
And the Norse pagans are probably not hiding in foxholes, as they can only enter Valhalla if they die in combat.
And because it’s a way to show individuality in a sea of conformity. See also Hitler-staches.
It’s because mainstream Western Christianity has been thoroughly pussified.
Very true. I had an Evangelical upbringing. I am still very much a Christian. Most of modern Christianity seems to be appeals to emotion with a healthy dose of pop self help thrown in and thus has little resonance with me.
I remember a friend of mine being denied when he tried to get them to list Pagan as his religion on his dog tags. He wasn’t actually anything, just an agnostic type who liked pushing buttons.
A buddy of mine had ‘Hedonist’ on his dog tags.
Note – Your registered religion is what they put on your dog tags.
OT: I’ve run across two statements:
* Illegal immigrants are twice as likely to commit crimes as those here legally.
* Illegal immigrants are much less likely to commit crimes than comparable Americans.
Now, normally, you’d think only one of those two statements could be true. But, that’s not the case. The trick is the comparable in the second statement. Illegal immigrants are much more likely to be poor. And poor people are much more likely to commit crimes. So, even if they’re much less likely to commit crimes than poor Americans, they still might commit more crimes than all Americans. (Note, I’m not saying one measure is “better” than the other. It depends on what you’re trying to talk about.). It’s a trick I see played out time and again in the media. They’re not lying, per se. They’re just using a highly selective set of facts to arrive at a pre-ordained conclusion.
It’s a technique that is especially common with regard to President Trump. Now, I’m not saying the President is particularly honest. Obviously, he’s not. But, his critics in the media are equally reliably dishonest in their assertions. I’ve seen a rash of news articles on DerpBook insisting that President Trump’s predecessors never called for a border wall. He’s obviously lying they insist. But, this seems to run counter to documented evidence Trump and his supporters have posted. Ah, but you see, they never called for “a wall”. They insisted we needed “a fence” or “substantial physical barriers”. So, yeah, technically they’re right. What he’s saying isn’t the truth. But, it’s only false in a negligible sense. What they were calling for was substantially the same thing.
The media has insisted we should hold everything Mr. Trump says with skepticism. But, I’ve become just as inclined to take everything they say with a grain of salt.
Also, they are less likely to commit crimes than those at the same income level because crime rates ARE NOT a measure of crime. They are a measure of CRIMES REPORTED. Hence why the gap narrows the more severe the crime is (people are less likely to fail to report a SEVERE crime).
When all is said is done, they are likely no better or worse than anyone else.
Plus, crimes committed against other illegals aren’t reported by the victims, and illegals with knowledge of crimes don’t report that, either. And crimes committed by criminal organizations are also underreported, so those MS13 illegals are going to be able to commit a shitload of crimes that never show up in the data.
they are likely no better or worse than anyone else
I was in federal court a couple months ago (as an observer!). The judge was banging down immigration cases. I watched three that were almost certainly just some poor schlub who came here for work, and one that the guy just had to be a narco. Caveat: totally random and statistically insignificant sample, I know, but I’m not so sure that a group that is willing to break our immigration laws is going to be just as law abiding as the general population. There is likely some self-selection going on.
The judge recognized one of the schlubs as someone he had jailed and deported a few years ago. He gave him double the sentence he got the first time (which he had actually warned the others he would do if he ever saw them again.
Eh. I’m willing to break our laws as well. Our laws suck and are made by the corrupt and evil.
Illegal immigrants are much less likely to commit crimes than comparable Americans.
The study I have seen on this was presented as if they are comparing crimes by illegals, but it was actually comparing crimes by all immigrants.
That was the study the MSM was crowing about in the early part of last year.
The next breath was usually something about ‘Trump hates immigrants!’
Depending on what is meant in the first statement, that can be applied to those who have immigrated legally. I would be willing to bet that their crime rate is significantly lower than the American average as well.
Also, I’d be applying much more than a grain of salt at this point. YMMV.
I usually retort that 100% of illegal aliens are criminals.
That reminds me of a City Pages article I read yesterday that said Somali immigrants aren’t sitting back collecting benefits at a higher rate than the rest of Minneapolitans. They said that census data bears this out. And I thought, wait a minute, I thought the census doesn’t ask if a person is a citizen. And while I never fill one out, I don’t recall them asking me my sources of ncome.
The census proper might not, but the American Community Survey asks for both place of birth and income/earnings.
Illegal immigrants have already committed a crime.
Improper entry is defined as a crime, but unlawful presence is not.
Interesting. Is being here without a valid visa a crime?
It’s a civil offense, not criminal but still illegal.
Right. It’s illegal in the sense that parking in a fire zone is illegal, but I doubt anyone would consider that a crime.
Cuz if being an asshole was criminal, we’d all be serving time.
I’m trying to find the relevant sections of USC, but my daughter keeps interrupting me with various nonsense. But in the meantime, someone could be in country without a valid visa either due to falling “out of status” (aka unlawful status or due to unlawful presence). Either way, alone these are violations that are punishable by civil penalties alone.
Disclaimer, I’m not an immigration lawyer, just someone who has to advise international students and be up on SEVP regs.
This squares with all the training I’ve received from immigrant advocacy groups. They refer to it as a “status violation”.
Whether that applies only to overstays and not to border hopping, I don’t know.
From what I understand, border hopping, as well as marriage fraud, are forms of improper entry, which is misdemeanor (marriage fraud is a felony, it seems).
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Is that true? I thought the majority of illegal immigration occurred due to visa overstays.
Some illegal immigrants and more illegal immigrant-y than others.
I thought the majority of illegal immigration occurred due to visa overstays.
I wonder how we would even know if most illegals crossed the border illegally or overstayed a visa?
Tag and release?
Is anyone going to actually watch Trumpy’s speech tonight? Anyone? At all?
No chance.
There’s a Wild game.
And socks to sort.
And drying paint that needs watching.
I will read the summary from both left and right outlets and laugh at both. So I will not watch it but I will be entertained by it nevertheless.
#MeToo
this is my general approach to everything: Reuters, BBC, NPR, the Economist, Glibs
I don’t think I’ve watched a televised presidential speech since GHWB.
I’ll be at the gym preparing for Ragnarok.
What he should have done was live stream it and call out the MSM for their boycott.
Yep. The WH has said that it will be about eight minutes long. I can hang for that long. It also portends pronouncement as opposed to blah, blah, blah.
Bama fans have something to ease the pain, only to have it taken away.
I remember once an Oscar Mayer truck overturned on an Interstate and canned hams were all over the road. Drivers stopped, naturally, and the truck driver reported that even the Smokies were loading up their cars with the spoils.
Whenever I hear “canned hams” I think of this, from the National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper parody (mostly done by P.J. O’Rourke). Look across the top banner for the putative cartoons that are inside (none of them are, but there are some great parodies of well-known newspaper comic strips in there), the comic “Canned Hams” is right between “Captain Clown” and “Big Chief Six-Pack”.
The prime of the NatLamp is still unparalleled in humor. And beyond the obvious Animal House etc, the mag also brought us the original Saturday Night Live and countless other amazing comedy efforts. Even the Simpsons, starting over a decade after the true demise of the mag (though it continued for a while with crap writers) had several classic National Lampoon alumni scripting the show.
Looks like Florida’s new governor is actually going to do one thing that makes sense. Looks like one of his first acts will be to remove Scott Israel as Broward County Sheriff.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article224080655.html#storylink=latest_side
No news on who’ll replace him, but literally anyone else that lives in this county would be better.
Even Piglet?
David Hogg?
Somehow, yes.
I don’t think you fathom how terrible Scott Israel is.
We once had Nick Navarro as Sheriff (you may remember him from a 2 Live Crew Song) and the guy who was Sheriff when I moved down here ended up in federal prison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jenne) and he’s still the worst one we’ve ever had.
Meanwhile our somewhat new governor is cheerleading for elimination of the voter ID requirement and trying to bring back the asinine one-handgun-per-month restriction. Fuck Virginia, good and hard.
Virginia – or as I call it New Jersey circa 1985. Enjoy the ride, you know where it goes.
Of course, it will never happen, but I wonder if a federal law requiring certain kinds of election security for votes to be valid for federal office would be allowed by the courts. It seems nuts, to me, that a government would have no ability to control its own elections, but a federal law requiring basic election security (voter ID, no mail-out ballots, absentee ballots must be picked up in person, periodic scrubbing of voter lists, and requiring some basic post-voting controls over ballots and counting) would probably be quite popular.
absentee ballots must be picked up in person?
So are you disenfranchising the military, Mr. Shitlord?
How many officials are actually elected on the federal level? Aren’t they all sent by the states via some mechanism or another?
Yes. That is why States decide their rules for elections. The ‘United States’ is just that, the plural of the States united. ‘United States’ is not supposed to be a singular entity. But that’s how it has been treated for a long time.
+1 These United States.
+50
“one-handgun-per-month restriction”
That is asinine, since straw purchases are already illegal.
And yet we already had that stupid law once, got rid of it, and now the scumbags are trying to revive it.
And how is it not a 2A infringement?
I know that is rhetorical, but it is nestled safely in the FYTW clause.
Incidentally article 1, section 13 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth is pretty explicit on some things unmentioned in 2A.
That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
No, fuck all the carpetbaggers.
Our wonderful Gov. Mumbles is getting a tongue bath from the mayor of Minneapolis.
The picture of Mumbles perfectly represents his leadership.
So, stealing from the suburbs to give to the cities.
Couldn’t they just install some more electronic pull-tabs?
“Dayton made good on his pledge to build a better Minnesota –and millions of Minnesotans, including the people of Minneapolis, are better for it,” Frey said.
Except, ya know, for those whose businesses bailed out because of his fucked up tax climate.
DWS?
Where You Should Move to Make the Most Money: America’s Superstar Cities
In case anyone is interested in really bad advice…
They’re not big believers in the whole “buy low sell high” paradigm, are they?
The comments are almost entirely savaging the sheer stupidity of that article.
Unmentioned in the article is that Huntsville Alabama is the third-highest tech city in the nation, and Seattle doesn’t even make the top 12.
Huntsville? I had no idea. What’s based there?
Huntsville, AL is the home of some major NASA stuff: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/about/visitor.html
And Redstone Arsenal
http://advantagealabama.com/county/089/madison
I’ve heard that Huntsville has the highest per capita percentage of PhDs in the country.
And yet we never hear about this, especially here near Silicon Valley. All we’ve been led to believe is all people in Alabama are high school dropouts living in trailers who married their cousins, aka Trump voters (hat tip: CNN).
West Virginians and Kentuckians marry their cousins. Alabamans are less hillbilly, more good ‘old boy, More Skynard, less Earl Scruggs.
went to FLA in October and I heard a fuckton of Skynyrd. Oddly it was the same three songs we all hear over and over on the radio.
I’ve heard that same statistic about Los Alamos County, NM
Interesting. Assuming they are both true, perhaps no one city in LAC has as many has Huntsville, but added together, they have the highest rate when looking at the county level.
I was trying to find confirmation but it is complicated by the fact that Los Alamos is incorporated as a county rather than a city.
I did find
Screwed that up.
I did find this which included
I have a brainiac friend who worked in Los Alamos just out of college. He described such scenes as the eggheads regularly getting together and pulling all nighters talking genius stuff. He missed it.
But yeah, Los Alamos and Huntsville seem like outliers to me, dominated as they are by a small number of very major institutions.
Huntsville is where we kept Werner von Brun and his buddies. Last I was there the place still had the best German restaurant I’ve been to in the US. Lots of NASA, US Army missile/ABM people and, of course, the tons civilian contractors to do the real work ( like Kristen).
I went to the second-best school district in TN once upon a time: annually bested in standardized testing by Oak Ridge.
Can it be they’re that out of it? Campus Reform read Democrat quotes on immigration but attribute them to Trump.
/face palm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrnfbN2_yG0
I still say my favorite one of those (which I think was on Reason) was showing up in DC with an “OBAMA IS A KEYNESIAN” sign.
I bet you could also read quotes from Obama about Middle Eastern intervention and national surveillance bullshit and get people to think that they’re from George W. Bush.
It fucking disgusts me to this day that people worship him when he’s obviously a two-faced, opportunistic, unprincipled totalitarian; a smooth-talking scam artist.
Tyler Cowen hasn’t *completely* lost his mind
One of my strongest political memories is of Democrats lamenting their loss to Donald Trump. How could this have happened, they asked. We won’t ignore the Midwest again! We’ll pay closer attention to the working middle class! Yet I now see Democrats making a similar mistake: They are talking about a 70 percent marginal tax rate in a manner that could not be better designed to split their coalition.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been promoting the idea of a 70 percent top marginal tax rate, and Paul Krugman has been defending it. Matthew Yglesias of Vox has written that 70 percent might be too low.
Call it the Trump re-election campaign.
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You don’t have to be an Arthur Laffer supply-sider to suspect that is bad economics. Nor do you have to be an especially close follower of the news to realize that it is also disastrous politics.
Plenty of never-Trump-ism in there (to be sure!), but at least he recognizes the futility of “soaking the rich”.
Sad Beard, huh? I know I prefer my tax policy analysis from a functional ‘tard with a fucking philosophy degree who’s never held a real job.
Its a gift to Trump. He’ll be able to torment the eventual Dem candidate by asking them if they support it. If they say yes, they’er fucked (because there goes the middle). If they say no, they’re fucked (because there goes their left wing).
Beating Trump in 2020 should be the easiest election the Democrats have ever had and they’re going to blow it badly.
2016 should’ve been the easiest election they’d ever had and they blew it, so.. yeah.
Perhaps they should spend less time actively insulting half the electorate.
This. Attack the candidate, not the voters.
see also: Al Gore, you had one job
Don’t be silly. Al Gore has never had a job.
It’s not about economics. It’s about “fairness”.
From the article: “But say you had a 70 percent rate at $500,000 and above.”
The salary of most congress members is $174,000 a year. So, $175,000 a year is the rich who they will likely propose soaking, if they take up the 70% thing. Expect somewhere around there where the marginal rates start rising well above current levels.
How nice! Add in California’s 13.3% income tax (state income taxes are never mentioned in the ‘too low’ discussion) and it would mean almost an 84% income tax rate. That wouldn’t even leave enough to cover property taxes!
As James Taranto siad, “If slavery is when the master takes 100% of your outcome, then what do you call it when they take 70%?
There’s a 3/5ths joke in there somewhere.
Indeed, that would be the punchline:
“If slavery is when the master takes 100% of your outcome, then what do you call it when they take 60%?”
“A 3/5ths compromise”
I’d almost give him a pass if a) Cowen hadn’t spent the last decade pushing big government libertarianism, nudgism, and liberaltarianism (until the leftists decided they no longer needed that mask and quite pretending to give a fig lead towards liberty) and b) promoting Sadbeard as some sort of modern intellectual rather than a room temperature IQ mouth breather that he is.
Some of our politicians have already claimed it. Better luck with the next one, I guess.
In fact, the US has been in a perpetual state of declared national emergency for four decades, and the country is currently under 31 concurrent states of emergency about a spectrum of international issues around the globe, according to a CNN review of documents from the Congressional Research Service and the Federal Register.
So you’re saying there is precedent for this president.
More Cowen:
Let’s consider the economics of such a tax reform. Most of the income of America’s super-wealthy comes not from labor but from capital. It can be earned through capital gains, exercising stock options, and from corporations with possible foreign domiciles. Raising the marginal income tax rate to 70 percent will not, for better or worse, squeeze them very much.
Who then is most likely to pay more? Well, it depends on exactly which income level the higher rate would set in. But say you had a 70 percent rate at $500,000 and above. The biggest losers would be high-earning professionals in major cities and suburbs. Think doctors, lawyers, business consultants and the like, mostly on the coasts. A lot of those people live in blue states and are highly educated. More and more of them are educated women. All of these groups tend to be strongly anti-Trump, often passionately so.
And they are not just voters, they are donors, fundraisers, organizers and prominent voices in their communities. Some of them are even columnists for newspapers and web sites, or TV pundits. In essence, the Democrats would be giving some of their most influential supporters a huge pay cut.
You’d have to be able to see the down-the-road consequences of your infantile dreams of “fairness” to understand it.
A lot of those people live in blue states and are highly educated. More and more of them are educated women.
A little factoid that is totally irrelevant to his point, but hey, its a “yay women you go girl” factoid, so throw it in there.
It actually is relevant to his point, since the point he’s making is how much this proposed tax would hurt a prime portion of the democrat base. Highly (formally) educated women are disproportionately Democrats.
Freezing fat may help some reach fitness goals
“A substitute teacher allegedly spread human feces over tables and grills at a Florida park to sabotage a 7-year-old girl’s birthday party
Police told WWSB that Carpenter was angry over a complaint with the school she was working at, Phillippi Shores Elementary, in Sarasota, Florida, and decided to sabotage the principal’s daughter’s birthday on December 1. The principal, Allison Foster, had invited all of the children in her daughter’s class to the party, police said. But ahead of the party, at 6:30 a.m., police said they received a call from a witness who had seen a woman in rubber gloves and a face mask putting fecal matter on seven tables and two grills at Urfer Park in Sarasota.”
https://www.thisisinsider.com/substitute-teacher-heather-carpenter-allegedly-sabotaged-girls-birthday-2019-1
I think she has a package.
“EXCUSE ME, IT’S MAAM!” ?
Macho, macho ma’am…
Until Q shows up — side boob!
No lobsters. Sorry.
https://thesexier.com/15-titillating-side-boob-pics/
5 and 7 are my favs
I think that the number one thing you can do to keep from getting cancer is to be a complete asshole. Ask yourself how often you hear about someone getting C and thinking “good! that fucker totally deserved it.” No. It is always the good guys getting cancer and bumming you the fuck out.
*John McCain is the exception that proves the rule and he had way too long of a run.
” number one thing you can do to keep from getting cancer is to be a complete asshole.”
I’ve been exposed. Glibs pick up on everything.
And Harry Reid
and Hugo Chavez.
Record Numbers of Americans Want to Leave the U.S.
While Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency focused on the number of people who want to get into the U.S., since he took office, record numbers of Americans have wanted to get out.
Though relatively average by global standards, the 16% of Americans overall who said in 2017 and again in 2018 that they would like to permanently move to another country — if they could — is higher than the average levels during either the George W. Bush (11%) or Barack Obama administration (10%).
Well…bye.
I’m always saying we need a thinning of the heard. I’m tired of waiting in lines.
I am strongly against the idea of what is called re-wilding. It isnt that I dont love open, empty landscapes because I do. I am against it because I think everyone should be able to live where and how they want. This could work without violating anyone’s right to gambol. Let the fuckers leave. More is better. Sooner is better.
Forty percent of women younger than 30 said they would like to move, compared with 20% of men in this age group.
Because they’re convinced they’re going to meet Prince Charming or be a global-wandering “free spirit” able to survive on donations for their awesomeness. People who actually have to think about how they’d go about supporting themselves aren’t so eager.
There’s a difference between tourism and emigration.
This was reported last week and the article admitted it had nothing to do with Orange Man if you read all the way to the bottom.
I know where there’s some space available in Morocco!
“‘You’re such a smart ass!’ Kellyanne Conway tears into Jim Acosta and says lots of White House reporters ‘don’t like you’ after CNN reporter who was once banned from the building demands to know if Trump will tell the truth in border speech”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6570269/Youre-smart-ass-Kellyanne-Conway-tears-Jim-Acosta.html
In other news, Jim Acosta beats off to videos of Jim Acosta beating off.
Smart ass is a shitty insult. It makes it seem like he says things that may have validity, but just in an impolite or sarcastic manner. I’d have called him a pompous douche.
Like my dad always says, everyone likes a little ass. Nobody likes a little smart ass.
Old guy I used to work with – “Three things nobody likes… wet toilet paper, warm beer, and a smart ass.”
if Trump will tell the truth in border speech
“Yes, he will, Jim. And that’s your question for the day. Next!”
“Somali region once riddled with pirates sees peaceful power transfer
GAROWE, Somalia Jan 8 (Reuters) – A region of war-ravaged Somalia elected a new president on Tuesday, a peaceful transfer of power in a part of the country notorious for piracy and Islamist militias.”
There goes Libertopia.
So now we can send all the “refugees” living in Minneapolis back?
Uffda. I make myself laugh. We’re still upset Trump wants to send back the refugees from El Salvador who are fleeing the disastrous earthquake 13 years ago.
This is why immigration policy is such a shit pile. Our betters tell us that we are only providing safety for some people who are in danger in their home country and that they will go back once it is safe. Then years and years later, we can’t get rid of them. And we get lectured on how horrible it is to even ask them to return.
There is no thing in the world that can’t be fixed by moving six billion people to my back yard.
You get the Dalmia award.
I tried to research Dalia myself but just found a cement company.
She actually had a piece at TOS today proposing that 2 million Kurds should be resettled in the U.S. First time I’ve been to that site forever. It really paid off.
Ten bucks says someone doxxed her in the comments.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-6569411/Somali-region-riddled-pirates-sees-peaceful-power-transfer.html
Yes, but how are the roadz?
Kamala Harris Defends Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Views
No, you know, I think that she is challenging the status quo; I think that’s fantastic. (applause and cheering) That, you know, I used to teach before, especially before in the last few years. And the thing that I always loved about teaching was when you teach, it requires you to defend the premise and it requires you to reexamine the premise and question, is it still relevant? Is it, is it, does it have impact? Does it have meaning? And I think that she is introducing bold ideas that should be discussed. And I think it’s good for the party and frankly I think it’s good for the country. Let’s look at the bold ideas, and I’m eager that we have those discussions and when we are able to defend the status quo then do it, and if there’s not merit to that then let’s explore new ideas.
I don’t think “bold” is the word I’d use.
If it wasn’t Harris, I would think she just mis-read “bad” on her teleprompter.
So socialism is this bold new idea that needs to be introduced to the American people. Go figure.
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6569613/Binky-Felstead-shows-abs-spends-quality-time-daughter-India-Mexico.html
I still don’t know why I know who Demi Rose is.
I dunno, some broad built like a pear.
Whoever it is, take the meth away from her and give her some food.
She sorta looks like Sean Young.
For real, she could use a burrito or something.
Paging Barfman…
“A Canadian woman has been found dead after she became partially trapped inside a clothing donation box in Toronto.
The death, which police believe was unintentional, follows a string of similar fatal accidents.
Several non-profits have removed their bins and some have called for a new or safer way to drop off donations.
The bins have teeth to prevent theft, but people can easily get caught on them.
Last week, The Canadian Press reported that seven Canadians have died in donation bins since 2015.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46801018
WTF, Canada?
WE HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.
Apparently, if you’re made of cloth, being trapped in a clothes box isn’t that big a deal.
I just got it.
Took me a few.
Designed to raise the average Canadian IQ?
To pull further ahead of Americans? Booya!
https://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/countries-highest-iq-levels/#.91uiygcu8
Moynihan’s Law says: ove to Minnesota, dontchaknow
Nobody needs a donation bin with teeth.
I was unfamiliar with the concept of selling shoplifted meat until I watched an Intervention filmed in Canada. I mean, damn, Canada. That shit is low.
Charles Darwin strikes again!
Kellyanne won’t tolerate your shit, Jim.
“Kellyanne, can you promise the president will tell the truth tonight?” Acosta asked. “Will he tell the truth?”
“Yes, Jim. Do you promise that you will?” Conway responded. “The whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Am I allowed to mention God to you?”
“By the way, this is why I am one of the only people around here who even gives you the time of day … because you’re such a smarta** most of the time and I know you want this to go viral,” Conway responded. “A lot of these people here don’t like you …”
“Don’t you put it back in my face for all corrections your network needs to issue,” Conway continued. “I was on your network 25 or 26 times in 2018. I’m one of the last people here who even bothered to go on, and the disrespect you show to me personally, I’ll look past it.”
“Ma’am,” Acosta replied.
“Don’t call me ma’am,” Conway fired back.
Now tell us how you really feel.
Good for her.
Ang, yo, Kellyanne gives zippy fucks!
My greatest achievement in learning Hebrew came when I was able to read “Pastrami American Style” in Hebrew in a grocery store in Tel Aviv.
“Alabama Officials Urge Drivers to Not Eat Chicken Tenders Spilled on Highway After Crash”
https://people.com/food/alabama-officials-urge-drivers-to-not-eat-chicken-tenders-highway-crash/
Look, I see that headline and I just marvel at the thrifty nature of the native Bama.
A few weeks ago Mrs. Suthenboy and I went to the grocery store. There was a deer on the shoulder of the road that was obviously killed by a car only moments before. I bet my wife that when we drove home the carcass would be gone. Thirty minutes later we drove home. I was correct. We have a lot of stereotypes around here.
Picking up road kill was made legal here a couple of years ago.
As of Jan 1 here.
A Canadian woman has been found dead after she became partially trapped inside a clothing donation box in Toronto.
Shopping for some new duds, or looking for a warm place to sleep?
Someone is putting doughnuts in those bins.
National Patriotic Radio has an illegal alien on, asking her if a wall was acceptable, and listening to her demands for a DACA expansion. Gee what a shock. Of course, NPR never calls a spade a spade.
That’s cool. I have a few demands I’d like to make of Mexico if that’s how we do things now.
Let me know how entering or leaving Mexico without paperwork works out.
“Let me know how entering or leaving Mexico without paperwork works out.”
It’ll work out fine if you don’t get caught. If you do, however get caught, don’t expect a warm reception, a gift basket, and a ticket to somewhere nice to stay.
Sagarin has posted his
final figures for NCAA football
For you, based on your comments on the last thread:
Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen Drives Off 3rd Floor of Hollywood Parking Garage, Lands on Roof
Dude lived!
For $100k, the guy at least got something out of Daimler.
Volvo Truck was always my favorite client: you can’t change hardly anything going into their truck without their crash-testing it first.
For a good used one.
He could probably flip that thing over and drive away.
The Saudis are whining that the girl they weren’t able to hold prisoner in Thailand was able to keep her phone so she could tell the world about their plans to arrest her.
Why are we friends with these people again?
With link: https://twitter.com/DrTalebJawad/status/1082600848256049152
What’d she do again? Show off her boobs or something?
She wants freedom instead of free shit. She might learn to fear murrican feminists too.
tl;dr on that case: 19 year old Saudi girl becomes disenchanted from religion. Family wants to kill her for blasphemy. She manages to sneak away during a family trip to Kuwait and runs away. Arrested in Thailand on the way to Australia to seek asylum (Thailand is not signatory to international refugee conventions). Kuwait, Saudi and Thailand were all set to send her back to Saudi until she got on Twitter and it got viral. Thailand backed down from deporting her.
Ah, thanks.
Godspeed – she’s gonna need it.
Wasn’t she fleeing an arranged marriage?
This is a person I would have no hesitancy offering asylum to, but that is not how it works. The people pushing for flooding the country with immigrants want cheap labor and commie votes. They dont give a fuck about people like this. In fact they would probably deport her as she seems to have a skeptical mind and courage, thus probably wouldn’t vote correctly.
Arrest? Is that what they call it when your uncles throw you down a well?
Cheap oil
Pro tip to Saudi girl. When you get that sweet, sweet invite to come to the Saudi consulate in Thailand to sit down and discuss differences, don’t go.
OT: Got picked for jury duty in February, and I was thinking about how I would vote if it were one of the numerous victimless crimes for which the government throws people in prison.
My question is this: If the defendant did in fact commit the “crime” and I voted not guilty, what kind of resistance could I expect? Am I going to get sweated down by any court officials to see if I was corrupted in some way? Are other jurors going to give me a bunch of shit over it? Just wondering what to expect should this situation occur.
They ask you a bunch of questions. That’s how they keep libertarians from ever getting on a jury.
What will happen is the rest of the jurors will be related to cops and they won’t have any issue with locking the guy up. They’ll just want to go home and will not understand why you won’t just convict someone who everyone agrees broke the law, and they’ll think you’re just causing trouble, not standing on principle. If you stick to your guns, hung jury. Eventually they’ll find a jury that’s willing to convict the guy.
If asked after such a case, just tell them you didn’t believe the evidence proved the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Don’t say anything about not believing in the law or about jury nullification.
You don’t have to justify ANYTHING in the unlikely event you’re seated on a jury. You don’t have to answer any questions after the jury deadlocks. Don’t tell anyone on the jury about your political beliefs, just say something literally true like, “Something seems fishy about this case. I just don’t believe he or she is guilty.” Because some action being against a law made up by politicians doesn’t mean it’s what you or I would consider guilt.
There’s 13 judges in such a case. One judge, wearing a black robe, is protecting the government’s interests. The other 12 are supposed to be judging the government’s actions and holding the government responsible for any injustice.
Isn’t one of the first ways they weed out doubters by confirming you will blindly follow the laws? Seems to me you’d basically have to respond with a lie in order to advance.
They did not want my jury to follow the law. Only two of us did, the rest voted pure emotion and imputed the intent on the defendant. The prosecutor will probably never let another lawyer or spouse of a lawyer on another jury. Me (wife is a defense atty and does writs and appeals) and a civil atty were the only acquittal votes. The arguments from the majority were…not very rational.
Interestingly, when I was up for jury duty (British Columbia), the only questions they were allowed were name, occupation and if there’s a reason you can’t/shouldn’t be on the jury. And yet each lawyer duly used up their quota of objections to a juror.
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/feb/16/jury-nullification-crucial-check-government-power/
I wouldn’t admit any such thing under any circumstances, but I can see how you might have trouble rationalizing your vote in an open-and-shut case.
My guess is that any victimless crime will be accompanied with other crimes. At least if it’s a drug case.
I just completed my jury duty. I was in a two person minority for acquittal. The other ten basically did a reverse nullification. One element was flatly not addressed and the majority just imputed it on the defendant. It was misdo child molest, basically titty twisters. It had to be motivated by unnatural or abnormal sexual desire for the victim. No evidence was presented to prove that. We hung the jury and it was a mistrial. I would’ve nullified had it been a victimless crime, but I was denied the chance.
Giving Pagans a bad name.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/31/white-supremacists-love-vikings-but-theyve-got-history-all-wrong/
Of course the article uses an Antifa site as a reference so…
Romanian ammo, older than Pie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrI_-W2rIX0
Comment: “As a Romanian, I can immediately tell it’s made for export. All of our domestic ammunition is made of silver.”
paging Anaceron….Dr. Anaceron
In case you (or the rest of you lot) need to get a classic Lampoon fix: ftp://ftp.libgen.io/comics0/_COMICS_RELATED/National%20Lampoon/
I binged on it between Christmas and New Years. For an *.io domain, its as safe as someone (like me) that climbs smokestacks for a living knows. YMMV.
This song came up on my YT playlist. The video ends abruptly, but I’m assuming he beats the shit out of her, rapes her or both. At least that’s what it implies, no?
Well, as beatings go, she’s no Aimee Mann
The drummer looks like he could protect her.
Are you kidding?
“The song was inspired by Mann’s breakup with ‘Til Tuesday drummer, Michael Hausman.”
Aimee Mann got better looking with age.
Bruh.
Maybe Tyrone jumps in. Splice that together, please.
How was your relationship with your mother?
I’m thinking anally rapes, murders then cannibalizes. Whatever’s left over he encases in concrete and throws in the river.
The fall of ’69 lyrics?
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/13/13331109f39ef1262b056ee94537ee347f7f5310d2e41ce7ec61f4e31ecd2700.jpg
Titty Tuesday swings low, sweet chariot.
http://archive.is/ZVWyx
3, 4, 5, 11, 26, 31, 33, 35.
I want the backstory on this one.
As in, the gun held to her head out of frame?
If you are just going to list them all, why bother?
It’s like trying to pick a favorite gun in the safe…
13, 16, 26, 33.
‘“I recognize that many in our rural communities believe that Sacramento doesn’t care about them — doesn’t even really see them,” he said. “I see you. I care about you. And I will represent you with pride.”’
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/01/07/gavin-newsom-california-governor-2/
Now hand over your guns and prepare for a 100% tax increase to pay for “green initiatives”, useless public transit and services for illegals.
In case anyone was wondering. A 2012 jeep wrangler has an oil filter bypass valve that sits inside the old filter housing. Best I can tell, its purpose is to allow oil to continue to circulate in your engine if the filter becomes completely stopped up. It consists of a spring and and a small plastic seat.
Today when changing my oil, when I removed the oil filter from its housing, the spring and seat flew out because the plastic retainer had broken. It hit the hood of my jeep and then fell back down into the oil housing and came perilously close to falling down the hole and into the oil pump outlet line.
Anywho. After calling several parts stores, the closest I one I could find with on in stick was 40 miles away and I had to pay 30 buck for a piece of plastic.
Frustrating, to say the least.
I am glad you told that story. Mine is a 2007 so I have no idea if the design is the same, but it is good to know. Now I have to figure out my fuse problem.
Latch has the newer 3.6, with cartridge style filter. You likely have the 3.8 V6 or possibly last of the 4.0 I6 in yours, either of which is slow but sturdy, also, canister style filter.
“I had to pay 30 buck for a piece of plastic.”
Typical auto parts store purchase. I remember when this little plastic elbow broke off my windshield washer line on my 2009 Pontiac G6 GT. You have to buy both sides, because. $34 for two tiny little plastic pieces.
Back when I was an active AMSOIL dealer, I learned that all oil filters had a bypass valve built into the canister.
That said, the oil filter on my Cherokee is a weird looking thing with no room for a valve so I don’t know about modern stuff.
Not true. Motorcycle filters do not. The pressures are high enough that you would not need to worry about using a car (valved) type on a bike. I’m not sure about using a MC filter on a car, It’s possible it could clog and KAPOW no more motor!
Respectfully, you’re paying for design time and expertise (including, to some extent, past failures mistakes and warranty!), tooling, storage and finance, market and other risk premia, logistics, sales and other overheads.
FWIW I don’t quibble with my AC guy or my dentist over their prices; I do shop around, but I know there’s a lot more going on than an hour’s labor when dood charges me three prices for a capacitor.
I get it. Frustrating none the less. I know that the injection molding machine tha makes the part costs 100s of thousands of dollars. Also that mold is expensive to build and that someone had to engineer the thing in the first place. I get it. I still dont like paying the price.
As an aside: Yes, it’s amazing how much work goes into logistics alone. One of my previous jobs was with a major auto manufacturer in the department that deals with service parts (those shipped to a dealership or auto repair shop to be replaced on a customer’s vehicle).
My job involved warehousing space and shipment of parts to regional hubs which would then ship them to the dealerships/repair shops. They mapped out their warehouses down to the fucking square inch; every shelf was built to very specific dimensions, and they had to store parts on the shelves based on how fast the turnover was. I ran daily reports that involved a shitload of complex math to determine how many of each part should be shipped to each hub based on historical demand for that particular month.
What the…
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/681599/Extreme-plastic-surgery-smallest-waist-woman-has-ribs-removed-boob-job
Rib removal. For when corset training just isn’t enough.
They call it Adam’s revenge?
I’d feed her a ton of bran. For lulz.
Gross.
Having a large time, listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXkYr7Ebd1w&index=9&list=RD77Q7j6s_OKg
Hey lawyer glibs,
If any of you happen to know a Massachusetts barred trial lawyer you can refer to a worthy glib-approved client, can you send me an email at the below address? Obviously, I don’t want to blast the details on here, but we can discuss via email to see whether you know anybody who could help.
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