Yesterday sloopy and I tuned in to the College Football National Championship game on a lark to see how empty the stadium was when we witnessed an outright raping. Someone needs to call a representative of the #Metoo movement. I haven’t been this happy to watch a college football playoff since Ohio State destroyed Alabama in 2014. It was fanfuckingtastic to say the least.
In other news, for a second time, a dead male prostitute was found in the home of a Democrat party super donor. You’d think he would have started to be more careful after the first time.
Sometimes it’s fun to play rightwing version of reality versus leftwing.
I’m starting to believe Democrats when they say we have a Russian bot problem as they appear to be the ones hiring them.
I genuinely have no idea why you CA Glibs haven’t gotten the hell out yet.
That’s quite a downward spiral.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and skedaddle.
I’m so glad that Bama was able to win the national title again on the basis of having only lost to the team that beat Bama.
*head explodes*
“SEC! SEC! SEC!”
What did the Securities and Exchange Commission do?
Watch Porn
we witnessed an outright raping. – this kind of language is unacceptable in 2019.
I sincerely apologize. I forgot it was current year.
Sorry. An “Inleft raping”
It takes a lot to motivate someone to leave their home, despite the common refrain of “just move”.
Why? I’ve done it many a times.
I don’t understand how you could do such a thing, let alone more than once.
They’re gypsies
In about ten days time, I quit my job, packed up my house and rented it out and moved to CA to be with sloopy. I’ve lost track of how many times we have moved together since. We’re planning on doing it again soon.
I am betting on Romania
Find them a nice home, Pie.
In ten days time I wouldn’t even have scratched the surface of the planning necessary to relocate.
Depends on how much stuff you feel compelled to take with you. My next to last move, I packed two suitcases, shipped my car from Hawaii to the Mainland, and left everything else — including the future ex — behind.
You can get more stuff.
When that ‘stuff’ consists of material you’ve invested hours of meticulous labor in for each individual item, it’s not so easy to cavalierly toss aside. I’d sooner buy a replacement car than try to rebuild everything I have made.
Some people have a social support system that they can’t really afford to lose. Others jobs they don’t want to leave. Etc, etc. An in-town move is a pain in the ass, let alone a cross-country move. That having been said, I’ve also moved around several times and will again as soon as I’m able to afford it.
I think my first cross country move was the hardest. The second hardest was living in the Bay Area for a summer without my wife. Equal parts because I was living in the Bay Area and because my wife was 1500 miles away.
Escorts to expensive like everything else in the Bay Area I see
I feel ya. It does suck when your wife crowds you like that.
Nyuk, Nyuk.
Not all people are the same. Some move easy some do not.
For example, the obese.
I’ve moved a bunch of times, including 7 times in a 9 year period. We moved here in 2011, and I really don’t want to move again. We moved here because the job market in Pensacola sucked and because my family is here. At the time, Virginia was still a perfectly decent state to live in. It has careened far to the left in the ensuing eight years. I’m getting to the point that I want to jump ship, but on the other hand I spent almost all of my 20s and half of my 30s living far away from my family, and I really don’t want to be far apart again. Plus my wife doesn’t want to uproot the kids and make them move to a new school, have to make new friends, etc.
It’s a difficultt decision.
NOVA is an interesting place to live. We’ve been here 2 years, and I really like the scenery and nature and weather. DC, even in the exurbs where we are, sucks. People are unfriendly, superficial, and pretentious, the infrastructure is 15 years behind the growth, the cost of living is stupid high, and they’re building fucking townhouses everywhere (even where we are, 30+ miles out), contributing to the further erosion of any positive culture.
Were seriously considering moving back to TX, either to Dallas or Houston. However, the tradeoff of shitty city versus shitty weather/nature is a tough one.
If I were single, I’d move another 50 miles west and enjoy the mountains without having to deal with the daily hassles of DC. My wife isn’t interested in small town living, so were stuck in the suburbs.
Man, if I lived in NoVa I’d just shoot myself. I hate that place with the intensity of the sun. The problem is that Richmond is becoming more and more like NoVa every day, right down to the explosion of townhouses crammed into every decent-sized plot of land. That’s why you’re starting to see “DON’T NOVA MY RVA” bumper stickers.
I’d love to move out to the sticks in, say, Louisa County or even further west in the mountains, and my wife would love it. Problem is a)schools b)I’d have a helluva commute since there isn’t much in the way of employment out there.
Highland County has some of the best schools in the state and needs students. Employment is going to be a real bitch though.
I had to look up Highland County, never heard of it before. Yes, it would definitely seem like a job would be tough to find.
It’s a dry county?! Holy shit, I had no idea there were any dry counties in Virginia anymore.
Man, if I lived in NoVa I’d just shoot myself. I hate that place with the intensity of the sun.
There are still nice spots left, but they are few and far between. Even in the 2 years we have been here, vast portions of fields and woods have been turned into row after row of the most boring little townhomes for even more people to escape places like NY and MD and bring their shitty culture and politics along with them.
Thankfully, my area is an oasis (for now). The gadsden plates still vastly outnumber the proggie bumper stickers.
Yep. I’d love nothing more to pack up the car and head West. I’m not going to throw away my financial future to do it just yet.
Wait you want to move to California?
Yes, er, well Well about 1000 miles NE of there
So Canada?
I knew with the pedants around here I wouldn’t get away with that. I guess it depends on where you measure from. CA is a big state after all.
I guess it depends on where you measure from.
That’s what she said.
Measurement officially starts from behind the balls
Length x width + yaw
“Measurement officially starts from behind the balls”
Damn! That’s the best news I’ve had in weeks!
An old Irishman and Scot are sitting in a pub when a cat strolls through the door. The Scot turns to the Irishman and says, “I’ll bet ya’ ten quid my dick is longer than that cat’s tail.” The Irishman yells “I’ll take that bet!” and grabs a ruler from behind the bar.
He measures the cat’s tail and announces “Six and one half inches! Now whip yer pecker out and we’ll see!”
“Only five inches you old Scottish coot, you owe me ten quid!”
The Scot asks “Wait a damned minute, how did you measure that cat’s tail?”
“From the tip of his tail to his asshole of course.”
“Well then, I expect the same courtesy ya’ Irish bastard!”
I’ve moved out of state – once. And came right back within a year. Michigan, for all it’s faults, is still my home where I have (some) friends and family.
I’ve moved in city 5 times, twice it was within a few blocks. After a few years I tend to get bored of the place I’m living in but the current neighborhood feels like we’re going to be here for a while.
Moving in-city has fewer variables, as you are already familiar with most of the aspects of the area. It still took me several months to move from my apartment to my house.
I’ve moved over 28 times for my career. Over 34 in my lifetime. I have 8 packed waterproof bins ready to roll. I’ve lived in my current house with my wife for over 4 years. It’s the longest I’ve ever been in one place.
My travels have a lot to do with my libertarianism. From living in meth shocked rural BFE eastern Washington to living in the ghettos of San Bernardino to living in rural Mayberryville Wisconsin to Suburbia DFW, you learn.
That is insane.
I’m not quite at your level yet, but this upcoming move will be SP and my fourth state in ten years. Yeah, living in a variety of places gives you an interesting perspective.
meth shocked rural BFE eastern Washington
Nice, I grew up in Spokane.
Ever been to Wishram?
Never got down that way. I think Kennewick is probably the closest I’ve gotten from the Google Maps view.
Damn. Is your wife in one of those waterproof bins or something?
No. We just got married a couple of years ago. She’s only moved twice in her entire life. The second move was into our current house when she bought it in ’06.
That doesn’t sound like the best timing, but I hope it didn’t lose too much value.
No offense on the wife joke, Cy. Enjoy your digs.
“No offense on the wife joke, Cy. Enjoy your digs.”
None taken. I just had an incident on the territory I’m working. My day went from meh to busy really quick.
After graduating college in 1982 until I retired from the Army in 2012 I never lived in any location for more than 2.5 years. Several times I moved three times in 12 months or less. I have lived in my current location for five years. Putting down some roots, however shallow they are, has been interesting.
I go where the work is. For 35 years, it was in California. Unfortunately, now it’s in Arizona, so… that’s where we’re going.
I’ve heard great things about AZ. None of those great things take away from my first experience in Arizona.
I stepped out of a pick up truck at a gas station on I-10 and took a deep breath to stretch, as you do when traveling. I then proceeded to throw up from the 125 degree air I had just mass sucked into my lungs. I hadn’t checked the temperature gauge on the truck before stepping outside. Holy mother of god, no man should live in that place.
“I’ve heard great things about AZ”
From the Meth heads? / ducks
A rookie mistake I made in Arizona – we were working hard one day packing up the AC units before we deployed to Iraq. It was about 110 out, and I was dying. I had a big bottle of water in the fridge inside the radar building, and when we were done I went inside and starting guzzling this ice cold water. As soon as that water hit my stomach, it caused the mother of all stomach cramps. That was incredibly painful.
Great things…like Sheriff Joe?
He’s out of office now – you can’t slag Arizona because of him anymore.
Ditto. Though this job seems to be more stable than the others that took me across Texas.
Unfortunately, now it’s in Arizona
I would have accepted “Unfortunately, now its in Phoenix”. 😉
Arizona has a lot of . . . quirks. The heat and the desert landscape in the southern part of the state, a lingering “wild west”/”still has the bark on” culture or attitude that opinions can definitely differ on. Of course, like differing opinions everywhere, some of those opinions are wrong.
Arizona is outstanding. Our constitution… also outstanding, if you’re progressive.
Nah. Some people just like being in a totally new place. So I’ve heard.
I lived on the road for about five years, at times a different city every night. It gets old, which is why, now that I have a house, I have not moved in 33 years and will eventually be buried in the backyard in the same grave as my first German Shepherd. Currently, I grill over top of her. Damn that dog loved a rare-plus fillet mignon.
I’ve been watching a lot of Ray Donovan lately. Apparently the Dems can find the real world equivalent to fix their dead hooker problems.
*cant
I genuinely have no idea why you CA Glibs haven’t gotten the hell out yet. – I blame the weather
Nope. Not enough snow and rain to motivate me to stay.
You should totally make a pass at Shirley Manson
In other news, for a second time, a dead male prostitute was found in the home of a Democrat party super donor. You’d think he would have started to be more careful after the first time. – why if nothing happens after the fact?
And literally nothing will happen. Gotta love our two-tier justice system.
You think there are only two tiers? There are gradients and spectra, man.
This is 2019 maaan nothin’ aint binary no more
+10
“In July of last year, prosecutors declined to file charges against Buck in the death of Moore. According to a coroner’s report, Buck’s apartment was full of drug paraphernalia, including 24 syringes containing brown residue, five glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, a plastic straw with possible white residue, clear plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag containing a piece of crystal-like substance.”
When they don’t charge someone on the dead male hooker OR the multiple drugs in the house, you know those huge checks they cut to powerful politicians come with a literal get out of jail free promise.
I’m sure the police will look into it until the public’s attention is drawn elsewhere.
They’l just have to summarily execute some black guy and everyone will forget.
Plus how can you spend valuable manpower and resources prosecuting victimless crimes like murder when ylthere are people out there using drugs!
Unless they are shooting up in San Fran.
Those streets won’t shit themselves.
Gotta love our two-tier justice system.
No kidding. For the first one, they had testimony that he was supplying the drugs the guy OD’d on. They waved the dead guy off as an accidental overdose. A mere prole who supplies illegal drugs that kill someone doesn’t get a pat on the head and a free cup of coffee at the precinct house. Did they toss his house? Did
And just think how secure he has to feel in his privilege and immunity that he keeps on doing the exact same thing that killed a guy. Its hard to say that his belief that there will be no consequences for his incredibly dangerous, dare I say immoral, and certainly illegal behavior, isn’t justified.
My personal experience with well-connected Democrat criminals in California is that they are untouchable.
I’m aware of a few lawyers/party fundraisers that have made a career out of stealing money from the elderly by placing a “nurse” in their homes, drugging their patient, and getting legal control over their estate.
I think you’re suggesting that Democrats are selling indulgences.
“You’d think he would have started to be more careful after the first time.
Cut the guy some slack, how’s he supposed to have a super strong orgasm if he can’t see the life draining out of some addict’s eyes?
*slowly backs away*
For me, I’d probably consider having a dead hooker (No Cyril, when they’re dead they’re just hookers) in my house rock bottom.
You are obviously a pleb not an aristocrat
Definitely not an Aristocrat. Much more of a punk.
Strike “rock” and I fully agree.
Dead hooker cowgirl would be challenging.
+1 suspension rig
There would be some challenges, no question. I suspect waiting until rigor mortis sets in would probably address the main ones.
So I randomly ran into this twitter thread
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1082226696059789312
Various comments whatever
But there is one there Nualpha Omegam that keeps relinking the same thread imo dumb thread about how printing money totes worked during the world war so it will totes work during peace. and there is the great “The point remains-balanced budget orthodoxy was abandoned so that a large scale emergency could be dealt with. Why can’t we do the same with climate change?”
I am in awe of such things. I truly am.
I remember reading in the past similar comments about England in the First War: They totes printed moneys and it worked so printing money causes no issues. Also Continental Script.
That author omitted the essential component of England’s WWI financing: war bonds. A quick search indicates that the UK printed an additional $300M first but then also borrowed four times that amount through bonds, many of which bonds were not fully paid back to the holders until 2015.
I don’t think for a second they truly believe that unless they are functionally retarded. The ones that aren’t know that collapsing an economy is a great way for the state to take over huge portions of the private sector.
“…unless they are functionally retarded.”
I recently tried to explain the concept of homeostasis to a proggie. He was complaining about a free market’s boom bust cycle. I used a float valve as an analogy to illustrate how homeostatic systems work. That is pretty simple and visual, right? I got a blank stare in response.
I might as well have been talking to a pine stump. The instant the words ‘printing money’ came up he started marveling about giant washing machines that newly minted bills are washed in. You cant make this shit up.
I just said “Yeah? Well they should be prosecuted for money laundering.” and changed the subject.
You can be pretty bright about some topics, and completely ignorant about others, including the nature of politics.
Case in point: Fiancee’s car wouldn’t start yesterday morning. AAA comes out, when they’re done they point out garage smells like gas.
Except, you know, they’ve been running a car in a confined space for a while.
They say, maybe car is running a bit rich.
I go inside, tell the fiancee that her car is working, but it may be spewing unburnt hydrocarbons.
Blank look. “Try again?”
Tell her that some of the gas is not firing in the car’s combustion chambers because possibly the fuel mix is a bit rich.
Another query about what that means.
“Some of the gas going into the engine is coming out of the tailpipe unburnt.”
Still not sure she understands wtf any of that means.
Also relevant is that much of politics is a play to emotion, not intelligence. It doesn’t matter how smart you are if you are using your emotions to feel toward an answer on the topic.
One of the smartest guys I know (called me up one day during grad school after a 600 level math class and said “oh, this must be what normal people felt like in high school math class”) has the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. Every time he discovers something new for his life, it’s the best thing in the world and everybody should do it. Everything bad that happens to him should be illegal and is evil.
The guy is really really good at using his rational brain, but he uses the override switch a bit too often.
That sounds an awful lot like the behavior of someone with borderline personality disorder. It will only get worse as he gets older.
Tell her the only way to fix it is with sex.
And I bitch about the rates at my auto shop.
A: It’s not a large scale emergency, or even an emergency. B: Ever heard of ‘hyperinflation’? It’s something that regularly befalls those currencies where the government tries to print their way out of fiscal problems. It’s worse than the government being out of money – everyone is suddenly out of money.
It’s a good thing we have central banking to smooth out the business cycle and tame the animal spirits.
I spent several weeks reading some MMT a few years back. To my untrained eye, it doesn’t seem to be much different from Keynesianism.
The key difference is that Keynes argued for monetary intervention only during recessions followed by austerity during expansion. Essentially you pay for your profligacy in response to the recession with belt tightening and taxation during prosperity. MMT suggests there’s no need for the austerity and you can spend as much as you want in perpetuity because central banks can’t go broke.
There was a monetarist who like to troll TOS, drago or something like that. Mentally obtuse is how I would describe him.
See, running a perpetual money printing machine doesn’t really hurt the kind of connected people who can get the inside info to stay ahead of the inflationary curve.
And those are the only people that matter, right?
Here is the thread that proves everything
https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1081677347525410816
Some guy named Matt Stoller from someplace called Open Markets Institute
a large scale emergency could be dealt with
Would somebody remind me what the large scale emergency of the last 40 years was?
Those darn bitter clingers.
DRUMPF!!!!
Climate cooling.
When Lena Dunham tried to weigh herself?
printing money totes worked during the world war
The U.S. Government primarily funded its war deficits by selling bonds that into private hands at face value. This didn’t create any money. Many of those bonds went unclaimed, making at least part of it a voluntary tax. The Fed and Treasury jockeying numbers today is not the same thing.
“The point remains-balanced budget orthodoxy was abandoned so that a large scale emergency could be dealt with.”
Leaving out how the hyperinflation from the Weimar Republic was a contributing factor to the rise of a certain Austrian corporal.
Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% tax plan gets fierce response, but even Warren Buffett says rich should pay more
The classic but Warren Buffet says we should! That’s great nothing is stopping him from paying more taxes voluntarily. Something tells me if taxes were raised he would still find a way to get out of paying them.
The kindly old rich dude saying the rich should pay more is probably just buying indulgences from the online leftist mob.
All the while poor McAfee gets audited.
Who gives a damn what that cronyist thinks?
Buffett would kill and eat his own grandchildren if he thought it would earn him a better return. That SOB has actively lobbied for estate taxes for decades so that he could sell insurance policies designed to offset said taxes. He’s a rentseeking asshole.
I’m suspicious of Buffett when it comes to the taxes. Every time it comes up he sides with higher taxes. He really shouldn’t give ACC the ‘see even Buffet agrees’ rope. He knows damn well what that entails.
So how exactly would he profit off this? I ask because I agree something’s up but where does he gain?
He advocates higher income taxes. Most of his money gets taxed as Capital Gains.
^This. I forget who it was but there was some CEO a year or two ago who said he’d cut his salary to either nothing or some token amount, and it didn’t matter because his real money was in various investments. And the distinction between the two gets lost on Joe Voter typically because most of their income is, well, income, not earnings on investments. So when these people start talking about “the rich paying their fair share”, they mean people making $150k a year in salary–a very nice income, but hardly Louis XVI.
I’m surprised they haven’t attacked earned income yet. They do at the periphery talk about going after dividends and capital gains but not enough….yet. But that’s coming.
The Liberals here stated. They are spenders and need money. So since incomes taxes are not enough they need more. Hello. Income splitting, dividends, capital gains etc. get marked for death.
All stuff the middle-class (all classes really) use to create wealth. But it’s your security, see? It’s for the common good.
It still blows my mind how people don’t see this.
It’s like they’re zombies with their pockets sticking out saying, ‘come get it as long you provide more brains!’
Who would this tax really hit other than professional athletes and lottery winners? Anyone else who makes that kind of money is too rich or too smart to pay income tax.
He doesn’t profit. Everyone else loses. Buffett has all of his money well protected. At that level of wealth, it no longer becomes about making another dollar, it’s about beating everyone else.
And looking like the good guy.
What a plan!
So how exactly would he profit off this?
Life insurance is a key feature in a number of tax shelters.
It’s funny how the super wealthy who want more taxes also have an army of tax lawyers on retainer to make sure they pay not one cent more than they are legally required, if not less than that.
It’s even funnier that the Political rich don’t pay any taxes and get away with it, while waxing on and on about how we need to soak the “rich”
I think people forget something very important about Mr. Buffet when he speaks in public. He’s the chairman and CEO of a publicly-held company (that’s not the forgotten part). The thing is, all of his public statements MUST (SEC) be for the enhancement of Berkshire-Hathaway shareholder value.
So when he makes a public pronouncement, that’s what it’s for – it’s not because he’s a kindly and smart uncle who’s saying things that everybody should thoughtfully adopt because he’s been successful. It’s because it’s his job to advocate for things that enhance BH shareholder value.
He knows this perfectly well, and as historically been really good at his job. So when he says something about tax policy, for instance, it’s because he believes adoption of the policy would benefit his shareholders. And that’s great – he’s supposed to do that. But folks shouldn’t think he’s saying it because he thinks it’s somehow morally or holistically best for the country.
And I wish I was making this post “as a BH shareholder….” but alas I’m not.
Well, yeah, because Buffett is never going to have to pay those taxes. And it’s not about paying taxes to support government infrastructure and programs – taxes are about punishment. Punish rich people. Punish rich people who aren’t as generous as you think they should be. Any rich person screaming for higher taxes knows they won’t be paying those taxes.
I’m starting to believe Democrats when they say we have a Russian bot problem as they appear to be the ones hiring them.
Progjection. It’s what they do.
Uffda. This is the kind of leadership that Minnesoda provides the rest of the nation.
Betty McCollum is urinated off that the Dept of the Interior honcho has told park managers that they can dip into entrance fees to pay for cleanup.
Shouldn’t places that charge entrance fees be funded exclusively through entrance fee revenues?
Pshaw, it’s like you don’t even believe poor inner city dwellers should subsidize playgrounds for white hipsters.
Use fees are the least objectional means of funding. Those who want something pay for that thing.
Look after those hipsters get done paying for their NorthFace clothes and Trek bikes they don’t have any money for entrance fees.
I wonder what the pain threshold would be.
We usually buy a National Park annual pass for $80. It’s laughably cheap and there are military and oldster carveouts that are even cheaper. When you factor in all the other costs of travel, it’s not even a blip.
We do the parks pass also, though it usually just equals what we’d usually pay by doing individual park entrance fees.
Regardless, I travel cheap (camping), but even when travelling cheap, the entrance fee to parks is a pittance.
Canada does it right
The one and only time I ever left the US was to spend a few hours at Waterton Lakes NP in Alberta.
Parks Canada charged by the head, per day to get in. I think it was $8 US for each of us, though I think they have a family day pass or something like that as well.
Trump wants people to die!
queue Remy
Conveniently forgetting to mention what the certainly non-zero death rate is in national parks when they are fully funded.
Is seven higher, lower, or the mean number of people to die in said parks in a comparable period?
Looks like 6 per week normally. So lower.
These numbers just sound like the amount you’d expect to keel over just from a random selection of that volume of people in the general population.
Add in the elderly skew of the visitor demographics, the fact that said elderly are hiking around steep and sometimes slippery paths and accident and heart attack rates are predictably going to increase.
New York meteorologist fired after using racial slur on air
One helluva slip…
and helluva funny. “Coon Park”. Why am I lol’ing at that?
I am laughing because the guy was stupid enough to let that slip out on air.
It’s just so absolutely wrong. And yet no one died from it, but that don’t mean a thing anymore.
“The mayor and city council called for Kappell’s termination”
Which is a million times worse than a racial slur.
Yes, yes it is.
The guy just caused an entire demographic to stop watching that station. No one should have to call for his firing. If I ran the station I would have fired him on the spot.
Yup. It only serves to signal their “virtue”. It’s almost more infuriating when minor government officials feel the need to swing their dick around when it was never needed. Kinda like when someone gives you advice as you are doing that very thing they are advising. “I know how to do my thing fucker, don’t tell me how to do it.”
This seems to happen surprisingly frequently. I don’t think it’s because there are a lot of people who say “Martin Luther Coon” on a regular basis in their day-to-day lives. I think two things are happening:
1. They’re rushing between “King” and “Junior” in their minds and stumbling over the end of “King”.
2. It’s the “Don’t think about pink elephants” thing; every time something like this happens, someone gets fired, so everyone’s afraid they’ll do it. So, they keep telling themselves, “Whatever you do, don’t say ‘coon’.” Which is a virtual guarantee they’ll say ‘coon’.
Titspervert
That park was called “Manhattan Square Park” when I grew up there. I see its official name is now “Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Park at Manhattan Square”. How do they expect anyone not to muck that up?!
This story covering John Bolton’s statements in Israel really piss me off.
Basically he said that while Trump may have said that we are pulling troops out of Syria, he didn’t mean right away. And that they won’t leave until Isis is completely defeated (so never).
This is just like the time that Trump ordered all the FISA documents declassified and then rescinded the order the next day after the Deep State lackeys convinced him that it would embarrass our allies. This is why Trump sucks as a president. He makes a decision I really like, but then lets himself get talked out of it.
Deep State?
SHHHH!!!!!!!
Maybe he’ll fire Bolton. Tillerson made a similar mistake shortly before he got canned if I remember correctly.
Tillerson didn’t have that manly womb broom on his lip like Bolton.
A man can dream
This is actually a legitimate was Trump is like Hitler. The reason Martin Bormann was so powerful in the Third Reich is that he controlled access to Hitler, and in most cases the last person to lobby Hitler was the one who got what he wanted. Cutting off your opponents’ access to Hitler was a key part of getting what you wanted in that government.
Trump likewise seems to just roll with whatever he was told most recently.
“Give Swiss Servator a pile of cash, a limo and general’s stars.”
“Switzy says he wants more cache, a lime drink and general tso’s”
Gov. Gavin Newsom promises a ‘progressive, principled’ California
You can have one or the other, but not both.
The new governor promised to offer “an alternative to the corruption and incompetence in the White House. Our government will be progressive, principled and always on the side of the people.”
Lol. This guy…
“always on the side of the people.” A specific people – which is not the taxpayers of California.
Taxpayers = subhumans
When a politician talks about “the people” he’s not talking about you.
Exactly – And if the “people” disagree?
Then keep holding votes until they agree.
Referenda 1-27 were merely advisory. Referendum 28 is now binding.
I guess corruption and incompetence at the statehouse is technically an alternative to corruption and incompetence elsewhere.
When you are a terrible person, kids are never to young to use as props.
Not planned at all. Totes accidental.
I hate politicians.
They should arrest his wife. She apparently lost sight of her kid and he was able to just wander around, unattended. Who know what terrible things could have happened??!!11?!?
He named his kid after Reagan?
25-minute address
Why so long? ///thatswhatshesaid
He could have just said “moar free shit”.
Former Hugo Boss and Emporio Armani model declared himself a white supremacist before kicking a one-year-old black boy while shouting the n-word in early morning grocery store attack
I am pretty irritable before I have my coffee as well, but jeez…
You know who else wore clothing designed by Hugo Boss?
Hugo Subordinate?
*narrows gaze*
Hugo girl, givin out those narrow gazes like they are going out of style.
Hugo Waynow, please.
From the new Hugo Minion line, with built in GPS trackers.
They got the chinese school uniform contract?
Speaking of retard twitter I just have this internal need to periodically link it
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1081679862736142336
Tankies and Commies are the kinda derp i really can’t stand. I’m not sure why, but i think it’s a mix of their religious devotion to a murderous ideology, and the fact that they try to claim the moral High-ground.
That’s got to be either a parody account or someone with a derangment that thinks there is a secret libertarians conspiracy behind everything. It’s flattering that they think we are so important.
I have been linking to him in the comments once a month roughly. Not a parody
I’m grateful for the rent free space he affords us all in his head. Very egalitarian of him/her/Xer.
Lots of space. No clutter.
That statement doesn’t even make sense. I’m guessing no actual examples were provided to elucidate on the claim.
Ya see, first you take the orchard from the owner and give it to the workers and then the workers own the orchard and they can pay…
Nevermind. You’re right.
I don’t even know what he’s getting at? As Straff points out. This seems very much like a Fascist/Communist system
Because it is.
Nice forced binaries this guy loves to make.
I honestly don’t know what that means.
I honestly don’t.
Someone from Spain said he refers himself as a “Libertario.” I like it. Sounds almost gangsta.
Titty Tuesday getting your juices flowing all over the place.
http://archive.vn/yyIlw
Have mercy 4. The gif for 11 is even better. 18’s not fair to the
other girls. Both sets of 84’s eyes are mesmerizing.
51>45>30>43
2, 8 ,100. Hot dayum, son.
37 wins the best pose.
66 best lingerie.
Overall, 24 > 30 > 5.
Re the model: Was that Buckwheat?
O-tay!
I got into watching old little rascals on YouTube a while back and was ROTFL at some of the gags. That show would throw a SJW into epileptic spasms.
Come to Ohio! We have lots of places to drink alcohol!
Don’t you also have atrocious liquor control laws that make New York look lax?
That would be PA. Ours aren’t great, but aren’t the worst. Anything over 21% Alcohol must be sold at a state liquor store, anything under that can be sold anywhere with the appropriate license. There’s no ABV cap on beer anymore, breweries are allowed to self distribute, and liquor stores can set their own hours (within a window allowed in the law). Prices are set by the state, so there’s no deal hunting (unless something is being sold off through clearance). However, the fixed pricing leads to some strange things, such as a 1 liter bottle of Bulleit costing $29, while a 750 mL bottle costs $24.
From Wiki, but:
And further down it says you can’t buy wine in grocery stores? Plus, looking at the NY state site, it looks like the wholesalers can set the retail price.
Its not entirely clear that it’s the wholesalers posting the retail prices or that tool is exclusively for the wholesalers and not both wholesalers and retailers.
The ‘No Wine in Grocery Stores’ was never a big deal to me. Licenced liquor stores are a step better than state owned liquor stores. Better still would be the proper no licencing required, but I never said New York’s laws were good, just that Ohio’s were worse.
The Ohio stores are licensed, not owned by the state. There’s state rules as to when they can be open, and the prices set (and liquor is cash only).
No, it’s not clear from the site, I saw it mention the retail prices as required to be sent in as well. I don’t have the time (nor desire) to fully research the NY alcohol laws. Suffice it to say the three tier system is crap and should be purged.
If it’s merely licensed, it’s not a state liquor store. I was going off the description you provided (and the fact that there are states who do run the retail storefronts made that seem like the logical conclusion).
Understood, but the signs say otherwise, they all have to have a sign up that states they are a “State Liquor Agency”. So they get referred to as the State stores (or liquor stores) here. The grocery stores are starting to get into the market now, so they’ll have a small State Liquor Agency inside the grocery store (with different hours then the main grocery store). While I’m not a fan of the state setting the prices, that seems to be fairly common.
Tard Tuesday: Caption Contest
Siamese tampons.
Better Red (and sustained on hatred for, jealousy of, and thieving from, the competent producers of wealth) than Dead.
What is wrong with people that they create cults of personality around elected officials? Ugh.
Ummmmm…. I’m no expert, but this sounds bogus to me.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/07/global-warming-of-oceans-equivalent-to-an-atomic-bomb-per-second
Speaking as someone who studied physical oceanography, albeit thirty years ago, this smells like rank bullshit. There’s a bazillion assumptions built into that and the ocean systems are wildly chaotic. It’s another computer model gone wrong.
If we know what the sea surface temperature anomaly was in 1871 – we do not
we can figure out how much it contributes to the warming in, say, the deep Indian Ocean in 2018 – bullshit
It smells like rank bullshit for a reason.
Who knows. It is irrelevant anyway. The same as a Manhattan of ice (the place not the cocktail)
More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the seas, with just a few per cent heating the air, land and ice caps respectively. – I have yet to see solid evidence of this
The ocean is a giant salty club soda.
The Ocean Breaths Salty
I was literally seconds away from linking that song.
I’m glad i wasn’t the only one. Everyone here seems to like music, so i always worry when i link to music.
Linking to music is bad – when I’m at work.
The evidence is that the models predict warming, they can’t find enough, so therefore it must be hiding in the ocean.
So it’s Dark Warming?
The Electoral College Must Remain
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., recently introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would eliminate the Electoral College. This was obviously done in response to the fact that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election despite winning nearly 3 million more votes than President Trump. According to Cohen, the Electoral College is outdated and distorting.
In a recent Fox News article, Cohen was quoted as saying, “Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office. More than a century ago, we amended our Constitution to provide for the direct election of U.S. Senators. It is past time to directly elect our President and Vice President.”
They shouldn’t because that is not how it works. If they do, then there has been a failure in Civics education. The US is not a democracy and we should not strive to make it one.
According to HistoryCentral, “[t]he Electoral College was created for two reasons. The first purpose was to create a buffer between population and the selection of a President. The second as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states.” The first reason revolved around the possibility that a candidate could manipulate public opinion to such a great extent that it would lead him to secure the presidency. In other words, the Founders did not believe that the citizens could make the right decision on their own. Therefore, the electorate served as a system of checks and balances. This does not appear to be as much of a concern today.
Team Blue doesn’t like those pesky checks and balances. They want to be able to manipulate the emotions of the masses to get elected, hence the desire for direct democracy in presidential elections.
While the Electoral College is not perfect, it is the most legitimate system. It is in line with the intent of our forefathers, protects the smaller states, and helps to protect against the possibility that several very densely populated cities will decide the presidential election for the entire nation
That, and it is supposed to be the States that elect the president of the States (the president is not the president of ‘the people’…).
While the Electoral College is not perfect, it is the most legitimate system. It is in line with the intent of our forefathers, protects the smaller states, and helps to protect against the possibility that several very densely populated cities will decide the presidential election for the entire nation
The most common objection I’ve seen is that its not fair for smaller states to have a bigger say. But that disregards two things, if having and infinitesimally larger power is that important to you, then you can move to Wyoming. Also seeing as Mr. Lincoln saw fit to make sure no one ever gets to leave, having protections for smaller states from concentrated geographic centers is a big deal. Honestly if states were allowed to leave freely, their would be much less concern over the Electoral College.
if states were allowed to leave freely
One might say that this is the entire principle established in the American Revolution and destroyed by Lincoln.
Leftists are just cherry picking random statistics. For example, the assertion that states with teeny populations are all Red and this gives Team Red an advantage?
Red states in 2016 with 3 or 4 electoral college votes: 6
Blue states (plus DC) in 2016 with 3 or 4 electoral college votes: 7
Can’t recall the details, but when I looked at the Senate delegations from the ten smallest states, I think the Repubs had an edge of 1, maybe 2 Senators.
The odd thing is that the Electoral College could probably use some reform, in that the electors themselves don’t really have a purpose anymore. But the use of electoral votes assigned to states is the only thing people talk about.
Americans expect and deserve the winner of the popular vote to win office.
When the majority of the voters have voted against you, I’d hardly call you a winner. That’s the thing about the electoral college (as well as many of the other systems in our government): it’s designed to promote consensus. You have to win a majority of electoral votes, meaning you have to build a coalition that encompasses the broadest cross-section of the people. There has been only one instance where a candidate actually won (got a majority of) the popular vote yet did not win the election, and that was back when the Republican party was literally holding several states (and therefor their electoral votes) hostage during reconstruction. Every other instance of the winner of the electoral college not being the person who got the most popular votes was an instance where neither candidate was able to win the confidence of the majority of voters. In such cases, it is entirely reasonably to have the presidency go to the person who was able to build the broadest base of support, as measured by the electoral college, which reflects the Congressional strength of the states. When there’s no clear winner, the tables are stacked to favor the candidate who would have the most support in Congress and therefor have the most stable, consensus-based government. This is an entirely reasonable system.
They don’t want reasonable, they want to be able to ballot harvest in their strongholds with 140% voter registration numbers and simply invent enough votes to win without fretting over those filthy flyover states.
Therefore, the electorate served as a system of checks and balances.
No, the electorate is no such thing. The checks and balances are institutional arrangements intended to, among other things, mitigate the whims of the electorate.
“The country is watching us. The world is waiting on us.”
Not in the way you think Governor.
I’m waiting for them to secede.
Jimmy Kimmel Promises to Put to Work Federal Employees Impacted by Trump’s Government Shutdown
Prison guard union president. Could you have found a bigger scumbag, Jimmy?
JHTFC, that’s a tell.
The prison guard unions have run California for what, three decades now? It was probably their idea to put him on TV and sent the orders thru the party structure to feed it to Kimmel. Talk about getting used, what an idiot.
a bigger scumbag
Well, Jimmy Kimmel is also regularly on his show.
That’s what I was thinking. It would be hard to come up with a less sympathetic “victim” of this shutdown. I hope it had the opposite of the intended effect.
Did he do this when Obama shut the government down?
Or did the GOP shut it down is the story?
Silly Rufus, it’s ALWAYS the GOP’s fault.
Even terrible shit the Dems did decades or centuries ago are the GOP’s fault… somehow.
THEY SWITCHED SIDES!
THEY CHANGED! CAN’T YOU SEE THE STITCHES?
Yup they changed sides. Granted the switching was after a large chunk of the atrocities occurred.
THEY SWITCHED SIDES!
I hate this talking point. It ain’t true. Republicans were and are the party of mercantilism. Democrats were co-opted by socialist, which took them leaping to the far left over the GOP.
The only “side switching” that happened was the virulent racists in the south started dying off, and the younger, less racist southerners stopped holding Reconstruction against the Republicans.
^This^
The GOP has been a surprisingly consistent party. It’s pretty much always been the party for mercantilists, nativists, so-cons, businessmen, and traditionalists. And they have a consistent streak of being much more principled in rhetoric than in action.
What’s funny is, the Dems voted against the Civil Rights Act in a bigger proportion than Repubs. Shortly after, the South started going Repub.
How that somehow becomes the South went Repub because the Dems weren’t racist enough, I have no idea.
Yep. Right around 1965 there was a big game of “Red Rover” on the White House lawn, and the GOP called for all the racists to come over.
That wasn’t Obama’s fault, it was the Republican Congress that wouldn’t work with him to keep the government open.
Of course, don’t dare apply the same logic here. Democrats won’t work with Trump.
Because the wall is immoral. Lol.
“Do you object to being used as a pawn in this fight over a wall?”
That’s why you jumped at the opportunity to be on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
So am I to understand that due to the government shutdown, there are no federal prison guards in federal prisons? Because I find that a liiiiiiittle hard to believe.
Then why are you doing interviews with left-wing talk show hosts?
“I’m supposed to be a Rook, not a pawn.”
Funny, I read that as Kimmel using the guy as a pawn. Nahhhh.
Masculinity is a mental illness.
https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guidelines.pdf
Soviet-style psychiatry FTW!
TL;DR…..for realz
My response to this paper.
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/00/0057ad94e5b623c951f1da56ab50624f7594bab9397e8a145bffe5eb5011586d.jpg
Thank you for reminding me more reasons why I quit my attempts to enter the field of psychology.
The paper itself is business-as-usual SJW horseshit. What I find most interesting about it is the usage of “cisgender” in an official guidebook published by the APA. This is a term and a concept that was invented by online prog communities like Tumblr and it’s been wholly accepted by supposedly educated professionals.
SMH.
It’s nuts, I only graduated about 5 years ago from the psych program and they weren’t peddling the tumblr cisgender stuff at the time (they were hella race-baiters then though).
“This is a term and a concept that was invented by online prog communities like Tumblr”
That isn’t true.
I only skimmed through the opening pages and already I noticed they bought into the terms and narratives.
Wow.
This is why we’re fucked. When authority organizations and figures start to push these things, it becomes an accepted norm because people submit to authority figures are *supposed* do know these things and *help* people. In other words, people trust them (blindly?).
Privilege is a myth, but at least they acknowledge that men have specific pressures and expectations based on the fact of their being men, that most societies expect men to do the working, fighting, earning, and dying, and to do it without complaint. But we’re also entitled shitlords who exude oppression, of course.
Ugh.
The intro tells you everything you need to know. Start off with a reference to intersectional politics and close with the implied suggestion that they would be better served if they just accepted that it may be their gender identity that’s causing their problems.
Critical psychology?
If men are having issues it is because of shit like this. Leftists deny human nature at everyone’s peril.
How about stories of divorce where the wife is the higher income earner but the husband has to pay alimony or child support?
That alone would drive me bananas.
These same assholes at their annual conferences:
“Why don’t men seek help for their mental health issues?”
It’s because their Masculinity drives them to not seek help. It’s a vicious cycle.
Because these same people concocted the red flag crap and a lot of men enjoy visiting their local gun store.
The German Antifa are getting serious. AfD headquarters bombed and a conservative member of the German parliament beaten almost to death.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/breaking-german-conservative-afd-politician-beaten-near-death-in-bremen-political-assassination-3-days-after-afd-headquarters-bombed/
To be fair, the Germans have a long, well-established history of leftist violence.
It was only a matter of time before someone decided the Baader-Meinhof Gang was a good role model.
I don’t… why would anyone decide Communist violence is a good model for German politics? If there hadn’t been violent Commies, the Nazis could never have credibly blamed the Reichstag fire on them.
Seems like victim blaming to me. You can’t hold Violent Commies Responsible for the Actions of the Nazi’s, even if they played off the commie violence.
They were a lot closer to the communist/fascist violence of the 20’s back in the 60’s when the RAF came into existence. If they didn’t see it for what it was back then, they’re certainly not going to see it now.
It’s a good thing. We don’t want another group of Nazi’s to take over.
Punch a Nazi!
And I fully expect the American MSM to cover this closely.
KristalKNFO.
That’s the thing. If you went around punching actual for real Nazis, they would have killed you and your entire organization.
Will this left on left violence ever end?
Who knew that “its only a problem if its a dead woman/live man” still ruled in politics?
“Whew. Thank God it was a dead gay hooker, or I could be in real trouble.”
Of course since most organized Jewish groups have chucked Judaism in lieu of progressive politics, I wouldn’t expect to hear any large-scale objections to this.
https://www.jns.org/opinion/is-it-okay-for-congress-to-target-catholic-groups/
Especially when Democrats continue to elect more and more open anti-Semites to office.
Depressing. What the hell is religious freedom or freedom of association anymore?
But whatever we might think about the horrors of the Crusades
You mean the series of campaigns that were a response to Muslim aggression and expansion through conquest?
Intentions != Outcomes
Especially when the fourth such campaign resulted in sacking a bunch of Christian cities and fatally weakening the only Christian bulwark in the East against the Muslims.
I see no need to defend or mitigate what the crusades were. They were Brutal, murder campaigns. And for what it’s worth, while the Muslims did force conversion of Pagans, they did not do so to Christians or Jews, so the whole “response” to Muslim aggression angle is overstated for countries coming from Catholic Europe.
Setting aside that the Muslims waged the same war of conquest against Christians as they did against Pagans, dhimmitude is not all roses and sunshine. Jews and Christians were, besides being taxed more heavily, often excluded from opportunities in Muslim society, and even in peaceful places and eras still faced some threats from the mob. There were lots of Christian societies that were no better to Pagans, Jews, and Muslims, of course, but that doesn’t make the Islamic way any less aggressive.
The various Islamic caliphates after the death of Muhammad fought wars of conquest to expand Islam’s territory. Right from the get-go Islam was understood as both a religion, a political system, and a nation, which is to say that there was a single prescribed state. The caliphates conquered existing peoples in Spain and drove the Byzantines out of the Middle East by force. None of that is disputed even by Muslim scholars. You might make the argument–in error, I believe–that life as a Christian under Muslim rule was better than life as a Muslim under Christian rule, and you can certainly say that some Christians behaved more brutally than some Muslims, but to argue that the Crusades were several hundred years of bigoted European pogroms is not supported by the evidence.
“but to argue that the Crusades were several hundred years of bigoted European pogroms is not supported by the evidence.”
We’ll it’s a good thing no one was arguing that.
I took this
to mean that you were arguing something along the lines of the position you see frequently that the Crusades were pretty much an unprovoked invasion by European barbarians who hated all the algebra and respect for human dignity that was happening in Damascus, as opposed to a response to the subjugation of Hispania and Byzantine territory and reports of the harassment of Christian pilgrims and Christians native to the Middle East. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
On second reading, that came off a lot cattier than I intended. I really don’t mean it that way.
I wasn’t trying to excuse Muslim conquest, only pointing out that it was pretty much par for the course, and that the Crusades were not a response to abnormal aggression of Muslims to Christians (as you point out a similar level of discrimination was faced by Jews/Muslims in the christian world) but more a response to the loss of control in the Holy Land.
Strictly speaking, the First Crusade was launched in response to the recent loss of (Byzantine) territory to the Muslims and the inability of Christian pilgrims to safely travel to Jerusalem. However, the end result was the establishment of Crusader states in places that had not been Christian for hundreds of years, and that in turn led to the Second and Third crusades to maintain/expand that territory. Although, the Third Crusade ended without retaking Jerusalem when Saladin agreed to ensure the safety of pilgrims.
It should probably be clarified that the governments of the places were not Christian, but there were still Christians living there. While many Christians died fighting and others fled to Byzantine territory, the Muslims were not as intolerant of those that remained as modern history might lead one to believe.
Not massacring all the dhimmis is not a very high bar.
I already mentioned that dhimmitude is no picnic.
Yeah. I don’t think anyone is arguing that it was sunshine and roses for Christians. I think the main point I wanted to get at is that there is no reason to get defensive about the Crusades. It’s like trying to pick sides in the Roman Civil War. It’s Ancient History and it is only beneficial in understanding what happened.
I agree about not getting defensive, but I think the popular conception of the Crusades is very one-sided. The Christians had what we would normally consider legitimate reasons, but things got out of hand quickly, and the Crusaders’ actions were ultimately not only barbaric but counterproductive. However, I also think a lot of people have this large gap in their understanding of history between “the Romans” and “the Crusades” and don’t recognize that the Arab Muslims waged a war of conquest against non-Arabs and non-Muslims for a long time.
The point I was hamfistedly trying to salvage above is that the Crusades were tied into the Reconquista as well, and that was 100% a response to Muslim conquest of Catholic Europe. I agree that the Crusades weren’t exactly what you’d call morally pure to say the least, but I think that whole period of back-and-forth should be understood in the context of both the vacuum created by the fall of the WRE as well as the drive within Islam to expand the borders of the Muslim world by the sword from time to time.
Really? This seems like a challenge to me. Are the Indian Scouts still a thing?
How do you define a “Membership Organization”?
Indian Princesses are officially the Y Princesses now, although we still use the tribal names (my daughter is in the Navajo, for example)
My name was “Bewildered Moose”, back when my daughters were in Y Princesses
Mine is Little Horse. Daughter’s is Hunting Fox – I never was prouder of her when she picked it because “All the other girls have stupid cute names, I want one that sounds tough”
Dad’s was Hawkeye. Mine was Red Bird.
Compared with Cub Scouts, Indian Guides was the bomb.
TW: Washington Post
If Trump declares a state of emergency, he might actually cause one
Godwin was invoked a lot more than 100 times in that article.
Totalitarianism rises out of a process, not a single event. Declaring a state of exception in response to a political impasse would be a big step toward degrading an already vulnerable system.
Yeah it’s a good thing emergency powers have never been used by any presidents in the past to accomplish their political goals without the consent of congress.
“Totalitarianism rises out of a process, not a single event.”
True, but you wouldn’t think that seeing the reaction the left had to Trump being elected. Which by the way, would be a good indicator that Trump is not on that path, since Hitler was, you know, pretty popular when he was elected.
Hitler was, you know, pretty popular when he was elected
Maybe. The National Socialists never won an outright majority and while they did gain a number of seats in the last election before they were handed total power, past that point their popularity was irrelevant as they could threaten, imprison, or kill any dissenters. Hindenburg himself despised Hitler before making him chancellor after the Reichstag Fire, and at the time it was Hindenburg’s popularity that Hitler needed, not the other way around. How things would have played out had the Enabling Acts not been passed is an interesting question.
It’s a tragedy he died in the Zeppelin Accident
When the Enabling Acts passed, let’s also not ignore the fact that brownshirts were standing on the floor of the Bundestag “helping” them vote the right way and all the communists were MIA thanks to Nazi machinations.
Those new chancellor powers were passed by force.
Germany was unable to do anything about an unsanctioned militia because their government and people were completely gimped by both the Paris Treaty and the failure of a weak-ass Weimar Republic.
True, and I got the order wrong: Hitler was appointed chancellor two months before the fire. But I think the gist of the point, that Hitler’s popularity was not as high as one might think is accurate.
Yeah.
You were right. This happens to be one of my trigger topics.
Also, here was this little group of people called the Hitler Youth. They were a bunch of snot-nosed punks who had nothing good to do with themselves in a depressed society. Similar to Antifa now, but less of a joke because they were 10X more popular, there was no armed citizenry, and there was also a weak government with no legal power to do anything.
They — later the brownshirts — were actually standing people at polls in significant places in Germany making sure people voted the right way and nobody was doing shit about it.
So there’s even a question of how legitimate the voting even was at the time.
I think Hitler’s takeover ultimately was a straight up coup.
I was under the impression the SA (Brownshirts) predated the Hitler youth, being a product of the party prior to the consolidation of power in Adolf’s hands. It was the leadership of the brownshirts that got purged in the Night of the Long Knives (among others) due to their questionable loyalty to the new leadership.
Perhaps.
It was the culmination of multiple coups, I think. Of the Bavarian and Prussian state governments, of the Nazi Party, of the Army, and of course of the central government.
I remember all the “this is exactly how Hitler took over Germany!” comments after Trump was elected. Really? Pick up a history book, assholes.
The National Socialists never won an outright majority and while they did gain a number of seats in the last election before they were handed total power, past that point their popularity was irrelevant as they could threaten, imprison, or kill any dissenters.
They were, however, the largest party, and it is rare in a multiparty system for anyone to win an outright majority. Hindenburg was already amassing dictatorial powers to himself due to the weakness of the Reichstag, so once the Nazis had the popularity to demand a significant role in government it just took winning over the army and waiting for Hindenburg to die and usurping his powers. It was a coup, but only made possible due to the popularity of the party.
Hitler was appointed chancellor (figurehead position) and then later given emergency powers by the German legislation.
I mean I actually agree that he shouldn’t do it, but where were they the last 700 times this happened?
Trump would just be using the Democrat playbook from House of Cards. Declare an emergency and use FEMA funds for the wall.
Writing a history of concentration camps around the globe
Relevance? And we seem to always forget that it was leftist hero FDR who put people into concentration camps. I am starting to think that leftist harp on this because it is what they want to do to the deplorables of the population.
Sure it is. they have said so many times.
Panic
Teen vaping has hit “epidemic” levels, according to federal health officials, with rates up by 78 percent over the last year alone. But strict laws on selling vape products to underage kids can reduce the number of teens who try e-cigarettes, according to research published Monday.
Teens living in cities or towns that more strictly policed retail sales of tobacco products were a third less likely to try cigarettes or e-cigarettes as those living in areas with more lax regulation, the team at the University of Southern California found. And they were half as likely to become regular users of tobacco, including e-cigarettes.
It supports what tobacco control advocates have been saying for years: strong laws, with equally strong enforcement, work to reduce tobacco use.
It’s an epidemic, I tell you.
You know how contagious vaping is. You see one kid doing it and bam, the next thing you know you got a vape in hand.
4 out of 5 kids get vaped
Treating nicotine and tobacco as if they were synonymous is stupid for basic linguistic purposes alone.
Shorter NBC: Cops need to strangle more black guys to death.
Guy who can’t imagine a real libertarian society says libertarians are childish because they don’t realize his concept of a libertarian society isn’t real.
Like others said before, the thing about libertarianism is that we don’t promise any kind of utopia. Liberty and Freedom are messy, imperfect, and beautiful. The guy I am sure will show us the way to a bright future led by our “top-men”.
To quote from another site (that isn’t libertarian): chaotic but smart is better than orderly but dumb.
I like that one, I’ll add that to the repertoire.
“Top-down innovation is orderly but dumb, bottom-up innovation is chaotic but smart.”
It is apparent Carlson’s Law, after Curtis Carlson.
“Wasting our money” is among the least of their offenses against the citizenry.
Everybody has a different definition of what “the job” that “our representatives do” is. And that is part of the problem. Everybody who thinks that our government just needs to get down to the business of doing the things they want it to do is missing the point. The “people” are not a monolith and do not agree. The government is one answer to a million different overlapping and contradictory problems. The primary “structural feature” of the bureaucracy is to maintain itself, and as long as people are more focused on other things, it will continue to do so.
Government is magically efficient and can make everything better is not childish at all
There’s a kind of motte-and-bailey argument common to anti-libertarian pieces. The motte is that the government exists, it is powerful but not totalitarian, it is (somewhat) representative, and it (sometimes) does “good” things. The bailey is that the government is hampered primarily by irrational doubt, skepticism, and opposition and that it could do better things if we all believed in it more strongly or gave it more powers. Attack the bailey, and the arguer retreats to the motte. Show all the ways the government is not representative, abuses its powers, or has done many things that aren’t “good” and you are deflected by the unassailable premise that the government has to have lots of power to get anything done.
“you are deflected by the unassailable premise that the government has to have lots of power to get anything done.”
This is where I assail the premise by pointing out some of the things the government does that the listener does not want done.
To which I have found the response to be, the government shouldn’t do those things, but it should still have the sort of powers that enabled the actions in the first place.
Japanese magazine apologises for a derogatory article on ‘ease of having sex’ in women’s universities
I’m going to need see this article for research purposes.
Same here. I am looking for my next job and well, let’s say I’m not ruling out the option of teaching English at a women’s university.
It was just a Ham Handed attempt to talk about the fact that 3/5 of women are Raped at college.
It’s 5 out of 3 dude. You got it backwards. Are you drinking already?
Sounds like they did everyone a public service. Avoid those universities if you want, or be like me and hang out behind the dumpsters until closing time.
Semi OT (i.e.it is Japan related) – I seriously wonder hat is it with Japanese TV where they act like learning English is utterly impossible.
https://youtu.be/IgQEVIOtZ8o
It is interesting because her English is more age appropriate than her Japanese, bits of slang and and “ahhs and ums”. Of course I’d still kill to be as fluent as she is.
TW: Kansai-ben speaking talking heads.
The old guy with the glasses is the only one I have trouble with. His accent is strooong. Also, love that the girl says she never looks up words in the dictionary.
I really enjoy Kansai- ben, when I can understand it.
The completely different pitch accent compared to the Japanese I’ve learned and speak.
So, they’re the Glaswegians of Japan?
The Kansai region is where Kyoto is. So as the capital of Japan moved to Tokyo, lots of Kansai dialect became part of standardized Japanese.
In English subtitles and dubs frequently a Texas or southern accent is used. That doesn’t work for me as the personality of somebody from Osaka is much more like that from New York City compared to the genteel US south.
Country bumpkin dialect in Japan would be Tohoku. Wow is it strong…
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TohokuRegionalAccent
Eyyy, Tohoku-ben, wussup? We have an off-shoot of that up in my neck of the woods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsugaru_dialect
Got a Tohoku ben gag for you to use. Next time you’re at a restaurant and taste something good say, “Beko maketta”. The Tohoku people will look puzzled. Then say, “Uma Katta”. Corny, but it’s funny coming from a foreigner.
Tsugaru – ben sounds like French to me.
It 100% incomprehensible to me.
I like that, Imma have to take a note of that and see if they get that up here.
There’s another pun I found from your link that I can’t wait to try out. Hentaigana. Different Kanji from 変態, but I’m gonna make that work.
I just scanned the video, but it looks like they didn’t give her TOEFL score. Maxing out on TOEIC is one thing, but I’d be more impressed with a really high TOEFL. I believe it’s a lot harder to prep for TOEFL.
I caught the part where she said she didn’t use a dictionary, but my Japanese isn’t good enough to tell if she was trying to contextualize it.
For example the way that we all read words aren’t familiar with and try to infer the meaning from other context where they are used.
That’s exactly what she said she does. She sees a word repeatedly and then guesses what it means.
Her english is so smooth and natural, it’s really impressive.
Sure, you could pick on her, but given her age and that she learned the language (i.e. wasn’t part of a bilingual house) she simply seems to have a great aptitude for language.
Oh no, I ain’t picking on her at all. On the contrary, I’m honestly impressed and I find it reassuring.
That’s what I read from your comment. I was agreeing. Sure you could pick on some minor issues, but I didn’t think you were.
Ah all right cool, must be my tired brain overthinking shiz. In any case, I hope that girl goes places.
If there wasn’t seppuku involved the apology was insincere.
The apology from the publishing house of the magazine came after a woman launched a campaign demanding an apology on the list published by the magazine.
She must have attended one of the lower ranked unis on the list.
In a country of 127 million; .022% of the population get angry and they cave.
What’s the magazine’s circulation?
That’s the relevent number to look at. If they honestly thought they’d pissed off their actual customer base that’s something else.
I don’t know the target audience for “Spa!” magazine.
Uffda. Is the list still out there? I need to look to see if the university my wife graduated from is on there.
Faabulous!
Their high school dance teams let only girls join. So these boys are suing.
Start your own dance team you schmuck.
He may be trolling.
There have been a number of male-only organizations at schools which have been shut down or forced to accept women due to being ‘discriminatory’. I support seeing the rules applied equally until the people who pushed them beg for their repeal.
^^
What a stupid lawsuit, but I’m not gonna shed any tears when Title IX is weaponized against those it is supposed to benefit. I hope every female-only or female-preferential aspect of education is sued to oblivion using Title IX.
Yeah, agreed. One of the big ways evil laws remain unchanged is by applying them unevenly. If you can use the law to screw over people you don’t like (or at least don’t give a damn about) while engaging in the same behaviors yourself unmolested, you never have an incentive to stop screwing other people over. There’s no way , in principle, this should be anything other than a Title IX violation. If they don’t like this consequence, maybe they should reconsider Title IX.
That would be the appropriate life lesson his parents could teach him. But that would be too much work.
Better to sue. What kind of stupid message is that?
Little is more unproductive than people fooling themselves into thinking a law suit is taking a principled stance.
I’m not saying sometimes there is one but more often than not it’s along these lines where a better message could have been sent.
IE make your own dance team AND win.
Now that could make people rally around you. instead, you aim to use up the system and fool a judge into coercing action in your favour at the expense of another person or group.
That’s a sure way to not get people to support you.
“I was excluded for something I felt I couldn’t change”
Ughh, It’s 2019 and we still have this shitlord claiming that you can’t change gender?
What does xe mean by *I*? It’s current year and we identify as we/us. Xis exclusionary individualism is NOT OKAY. We DEMAND equal representation!
The Minnesota State High School League has no respect for the visionary C&C Music Factory’s command that everybody dance now!
That is ironic. When I was a sophomore in high school, the wrestling team was eliminated because they didn’t have money for Danceline and wrestling and some busybody was threatening a Title IX lawsuit if the girls didn’t get a Danceline team.
I’m struggling to see how excluding someone from a school program because of their sex isn’t a violation of:
Naturally, applying this as written would mean there should only be one intramural or competitive athletics program; no separate men’s or women’s leagues or teams. At least at the competitive level, that would mean very few women on any teams.
It took squads of intellectually dishonest lawyers to convert this to a program which led to closing many men’s teams, while simultaneously forcing the creation of more women’s teams.
“High school dance team”.
?
Is this what used to called “cheerleaders”?
No. They are separate. We had a dance team that performed with the marching band and wore glittery stuff. The cheerleaders wore the sweaters and skirts and did just cheering.
Woman calls JetBlue staff member a ‘rapist’ and threatens that she has a gun in viral video
Honest mistake if she mistook them for TSA.
It’s always the cute ones that are the craziest.
I don’t agree with her temper tantrum, but I do understand…
Can’t tell if she’s white or Asian.
That’s old school crazy.
Saban was trying to make his former assistant, Kirby Smart, look good with that fake FG attempt. In comparison, Smart’s fake punt was genius*.
*fun fact: I don’t know how to spell that word.
there’s no way to get around the difficult civic work that citizens must do in order to make sure that our representatives do the job we’re paying them to do and to keep them from wasting our money.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
The bottom line is this: the overwhelming majority of people want to control what others do. I’m not worried about “warlordism”. I’m worried about the goddam Nosey Parker busybodies obsessed with taking away their neighbors’ freedom.
Oh, no! Blight! There oughtta be a law.
Teen vaping! There oughtta be a law.
Freedom is scary! There oughtta be a law.
There may be no membership organization with a more politically incorrect name than the Knights of Columbus.
Not the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
“I love being raped by large black men” – Trace Riff.
Have fun little bitch.
If CNN says it, it must be true
The majority of Americans are against Trump on the wall and the shutdown
Of course, for a President who has been satisfied with being popular only among his base, Trump having only the support of Republicans may be all he needs to not give into Democrats during this shutdown. On the other hand, Democrats have no reason to give into Trump with the public on their side.
The result could be an extended shutdown.
Yeah, okay.
I need a citation on that. Did they conduct a poll around the newsroom to reach that conclusion?
They took a nationally-representative poll of likely voters. It’s not their fault that Democrats have a 2-to-1 advantage in voter identification.
(probably not literally in this case, but it’s how they fucked up the election polling so severely)
The majority of Americans have always been against the wall, including people who voted for Trump. I was really fascinated by that election cycle. Most people just don’t think it’s a good idea.
But.
1) Trump’s hardcore voters REALLY want the wall.
2) Trump’s general attitude towards immigration is a winning political position. It may be the most popular political slant you can have in America. 70% of voters want to do something about illegal immigration and Americans are very conservative on the subject.
70% of voters want to do something about illegal immigration and Americans are very conservative on the subject.
^This^
Regardless of whether they support a wall, the debate serves Trump very well. A large portion of the people skeptical of the wall still want something substantive about illegal immigration. And Trump getting the Democrats to say no way, no how to any substantive border security sets them up defending a position that really doesn’t have much popular support.
I would say the “very conservative” position is “virtually no immigration” which I don’t think is a majority position. Most Americans want illegal immigration curtailed (although there is little agreement on how to do it) and you could probably find a plurality or slim majority for “immigration, legal or illegal, should be reduced”. But America is one of the more liberal countries immigration-wise to begin with. Our rules are convoluted as all hell, and the process of legally immigrating can take a long time, but high latency != low throughput. The U.S. gains about a million citizens each year through the (legal) immigration process.
Correction: the U.S. gains about a million citizens or legal residents each year
Fair point.
More conservative than what we have now.
My wife’s best friend from college is a federal immigration judge. If you ask her, the main problem is:
1) Illegal immigrants get a trial when their visas are expired or when they are caught in the country illegally.
2) They get access to great lawyers who are familiar with the current “winning” legal strategies. These lawyers have an extremely high success rate. As soon as a case wins for refugee status, every new case immediately copies said strategy according to her. There will be a “run”.
3) If they are unsuccessful — which happens less often than you would think — they are given a date to show up to be deported.
4) The flaws in #3 are really obvious.
I’m not sure how you solve this, frankly. Don’t give illegal immigrants a trial? Stronger immediate deportations?
You dont want to work with the system? The system doesnt work with you. If you are caught in the country illegally you are deported immediately.
And that is really the only thing that will do anything.
Unless you’re willing the fix the above, nothing will change.
Yup. Make your case that you should be allowed in the country from outside the country. The only issue should be “Are you here legally today?” If the answer is no, then away you go (unless you have committed a separate crime, in which case we lock you up for that crime). And this is, or should be, a simple inquiry: “Do you have a valid, unexpired visa?”
The potential drawback here is that it creates a revolving door – get caught, get deported, come right back, rinse and repeat. To prevent that from happening, our current system of jailing people for being here illegally is a deterrent, but it also creates due process rights. Its a conundrum.
Simple Mandate than at claims for asylum/refugee status must be made at the consulate/embassy closest to their home and that no one will be granted refuge more than one country away from their home. Anyone caught in the country without legal status is given a hearing so that they have the opportunity to show that they do have legal status. If no legal status, immediate deportation from the courtroom.
I don’t think there’s a good solution because there is no option free of undesired consequences. It’s true that the legally “easiest” solution is to keep people out to begin with, but that is looking at ease on just one axis. You can strengthen the border, but some will still get through (you can’t search every car, you can’t find every tunnel before it’s complete, you can’t patrol every mile every minute of every day, etc.). People got through the Berlin Wall and that was a much shorter and was meant for the opposite purpose.
This is not meant to say there’s no point to building or strengthening border defenses, but rather to note that the law of diminishing returns applies.
With all this talk about tunnels, it’s clear to me that what we actually need is an underground wall.
There’s no one fix, but a well-defended border, strict enforcement against those caught, and removal of benefits or hand-outs will combine to reduce the problem from “Big enough to shift national elections” to something managable.
Scott Adams has a good piece on taking Trump seriously vs taking him literally particularly wrt a “wall”.
“polls”
CNN doesn’t name their source.
538 thinks perhaps the winds are shifting a bit:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-public-blamed-trump-for-the-shutdown-but-that-may-be-changing/
i went searching and found a HuffPost/Yougov poll from late December that played the “somewhat responsible” blame. it has Trump at 51%, Dems at 44%, GOP at 36%.
https://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/athena/files/2019/01/03/5c2d57e8e4b05c88b70597f6.pdf
obviously, that’s not what CNN is saying.
“Hillary has a 97% chance of winning! Polls prove it!”
Shit in one hand and grab a poll with the other and see which one is more useful.
I completely ignore polls.
Oh, please don’t throw us into that briar patch!
That is why he was elected after running on building a wall.
Logic.
“according to a CNN poll”
Coaches who have beat Dabo Swinney head-to-head more than once:
Nick Saban – 2 times
Jimbo Fisher – 4 times
Steve Spurrier – 5 times
Paul Johnson – 5 times
I don’t see anyone getting to 6 anytime soon. I believe Fisher has a chance to get to 5 next year, but I doubt they will play much, if any, after that.
Woman flips out at airport, calls JetBlue worker a ‘rapist’
I once went through three days in a row of unexplained flight cancellations. #metoo? Am I doing that right?
Again? That lady is menace.
Ah dang it missed that link above
Alderman Ed Burke who spent half a century fleecing Chicago taxpayers… was a staunch supporter of gun control measures, but turns out he owned 23 guns.
Yellow Vest protests continue in France. This isn’t going away. I wonder if it would be a quick civil war if they had guns.
Guns are extremely easy to obtain in France.
After the mass-shooting there I think last year there was a nice couple of articles on just how easy they are to obtain for undercover reporters and such. And there are just tons of assault weapons confiscated.
Don’t overestimate how much they’ve got that shit locked down. It’s a very bureaucratic and shitty government.
Unpossible – I’ve been assured by gun grabbers that illicit firearms would be nearly impossible to obtain if they were banned.
France has never been quick about their revolutions.
Halp! Halp! Save meeeeeee
Marilynn Leggio, 71, brought her teenage granddaughter with her to an Elizabeth Warren rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa, last Friday evening.
Leggio says she has “no doubt” the Massachusetts senator would do a “good job” as president, but given Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, she’s not sure whether the country will take a chance on another woman in 2020.
“I think there’s a lot of men out there that would never vote for a woman,” said Leggio. “I hate to say that, but I think that. Especially a woman that’s strong, very opinionated. I think a lot of men think she’s pushy.”
Like many Iowans, Leggio says the most important criterion she’s looking for in a presidential candidate is someone who can beat President Trump.
“I want somebody to get Trump out of there,” she said. “Big time.”
Trump’s America is not a happy place, what with all the Nazis and totalitarianism and such. Free us from tyranny, generic Democrat.
“I think there’s a lot of men out there that would never vote for a woman,” said Leggio. “I hate to say that, but I think that. Especially a woman that’s strong, very opinionated. I think a lot of men think she’s pushy.”
I’ll happily vote for a woman candidate. I will NOT vote for a woman who is the female reincarnation of Woodrow Wilson, our most evil president.
Not FDR?
FDR built a house on the foundation WW built.
Agreed. The funny thing to me is that Ms. Clinton’s campaign pretty much tried to argue that people should vote for her because she’s a woman. If Hillary Clinton were a man, nobody would have heard of him. She got where she got by having the right husband. And people’s problem with Elizabeth Warren is that she’s only slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders.
“I’m with Her.”
A politician who actually cared about people and not just themselves would’ve used the slogan “She’s with me.”
FDR would like a word. Maybe from a Japanese-American concentration camp.
Go read Wilson’s “The Study of Administration”. The dude predicted and was advocating for the modern bureaucracy back in 1887.
“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. It its elasticity lies its chief greatness” – WW
“The trouble with the theory [of a limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.” -WW
“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this” – WW
And on and on. If FDR was stalin, WW was Lenin. Who’s more evil? The one who fundamentally transforms the society, or the one who extends that transformation to its logical conclusion?
Dishonest Abe could not be reached for comment.
I think we can all agree that the Best President was William Henry Harrison.
Yes
“she’s not sure whether the country will take a chance on another woman in 2020.”
They still have no idea why they lost.
“but given Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, she’s not sure whether the country will take a chance on another woman in 2020.”
I dunno, we still keep electing presidents despite it being demonstrable that we would be better without one.
I think a lot of men think she’s pushy.
She does seem kinda bossy.
“I think there’s a lot of men out there that would never vote for a woman,”
Or they just don’t want a shrieking harpy.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Health-Care-Guarantee-Mayor-de-Blasio-504046171.html
What could possibly go wrong?
So, Bill, what are you cutting to fund this?
Funny how when the left starts calling something a positive right shortly afterward only the rich and connected have it.
See: Toilet paper.
It’ll cost about $100 million, Politico said.
The rollout alone will cost more than that, and that says nothing about what is actually spent on care. Even if the average usage is only $1000 per person, with 600,000 covered, that’s $600 million per year.
At current usage. Let’s see what the usage is after they roll out the carpet.
NYC can’t print its own money and despite the virtue signaling I doubt that many people will buy bonds to fund other people’s healthcare. Like many European countries, the city government will be constrained by its ability to raise revenue, which will apply a pressure on what they can spend, leading to rationing. I don’t know where exactly that limit will lie, though.
“…leading to rationing.”
Funny how when the left starts calling something a positive right shortly afterward only the rich and connected have it.
Worth noting that rationing of healthcare is the perfect excuse for CONTROL.
“We are going to have to stop treating people who smoke or are obese because we cant afford it. Now we have to ration food and ban tobacco.” – NHS
We have to pay for your health care, so we need to regulate what you eat, when you eat it, how much you exercise, and so on. Also, dangerous activities like motorcycling, hang gliding, rock climbing, water skiing, snow skiing, hunting, hiking, and getting in and out of the tub will have to be banned. For your own good.
Just raise the cigarette tax to a hundred bucks a pack, duh.
Payable only in live, organically raised, free-range deer.
New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone’s ability to pay or immigration status
Hurrr, immigrants don’t get welfare, durrrrrrr
This isn’t welfare. It’s a cost efficiency measure to streamline medical care costs.
/Shikha.
$100M in a city of almost 9 million, so they’re projecting spending about 10 bucks a person.
Sounds legit.
Yeah, that was weird until I realized he meant per person.
The article says 600,000 are not already covered by Medicaid/Medicare or health insurance, and it reads to me like $100 million is the rollout cost (setting up the infrastructure) not the cost of direct spending on care.
You read the articles???
Articles?
I guess the “infrastructure” isn’t a place to mail letters to every health care provider in the city limits that tells them to send bills to city hall.
I’m sure whatever they come up with will be convoluted and needlessly expensive, but in this day and age postal mail is not the cheapest or simplest solution anymore.
Where’s my free gun you dumbfuck
“We’re going to going to build a universal healthcare and Trump is going to pay for it”?
It’ll cost about $100 million
I think you are missing a few zeros.
” It’ll cost about $100 million, ”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I have faith that Deblasio’s legendary laziness and incompetence will protect us from this idiocy.
The funny thing is, MassCare and OCare were both supposed to cut down on expensive ER visits by the uninsured by paying for their primary care. Guess what happened?
ER visits by the uninsured skyrocketed.
New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone’s ability to pay or immigration status
Think how much they’ll save on paperwork if there is no need to verify eligibility. It’s genius.
Don’t laugh. I’ve seen variants of just this argument offered a number of times.
Show us the bureaucrats you’ll be firing…
What happened to the Glib poster, Alex in CT?
Maybe he ran off with #6?
Taxed out of existence?
(Hopefully just busy)
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6567269/Model-Sahara-Ray-flaunts-bountiful-booty-G-STRING-bodysuit-prepares-hit-slopes.html
“NEW VIDEO: Reacting to “Transgender Is Misgendered In Gamestop And Flips Out” …and it’s a mess”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1082366265526706177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vu2q5Qn30U
I’ll admit it – I laughed my ass off at the He-Ma’am graphic
At work, so no audio. But I will add that I finally saw the original video. Had I been there, there would probably been an assault charge added to the guy’s problems – because I couldn’t help but burst out laughing when he bellowed “I’m obviously a woman”.
Look, it’s not gay if it’s a woman’s cock. Why can’t people stop denying science?
He is misgendered alright but not by the Gamestop clerk.
Macho Mam Tranny Savage
Perfidious treason. MURDER!
When they thought no one was looking on the Friday before the New Year, Trump’s EPA decided to cheat the American public in favor of polluters, by exaggerating the price tag of environmental regulations while minimizing their benefit.
In rolling back the tight Mercury and Air Toxics Standards finalized under President Obama, the Trump administration created a fundamental shift in the federal regulatory framework as it seeks to undo each building block of environmental regulation developed over EPA’s 49-year history.
This move would only consider countervailing risks while disregarding the full benefits of adopting pollution controls, especially in considering ancillary or “co-benefits.” Co-benefits are the indirect benefits of a rule, or the added gains that EPA’s rule was not designed to create.
No cost is too high. No benefit, however tangential or theoretical, is too small.
Trump is wrecking Obama’s legacy, because he hates black people.
What’s scary is that in reality the Trump administration is still probably underselling the costs and exaggerating the benefits. Just simply not as much as they want.
“When they thought no one was looking on the Friday before the New Year, Trump’s EPA decided to cheat the American public in favor of polluters, by exaggerating the price tag of environmental regulations while minimizing their benefit.”
Well i’m sure they were very Irate when the Obama administration, contrary to regulation, used a lower discount rate to over emphasize the Social Cost Of Carbon.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the
timegetting your ass blown away by a homeowner.BTW, reading another story about this, the guy boo-hooing about his dead criminal grandson left out the fact that one of the three burglars was carrying a knife.
Are we talking carrying in hand in a threatening measure? Or carrying in pocket as one might any other tool?
They don’t specify, just say that a knife and brass knuckles were recovered at the scene.
There is a very easy way to not get shot to death by a frightened resident : DON’T FUCKING BREAK INTO SOMEONE’S HOUSE! If you break into my house when I’m home, I have a 12 gauge ready and waiting, and I absolutely will try to kill you.
I am not arguing they didn’t deserve to get shot. I just have a need for accuracy.
“Schumacher does say he supports the right to bear arms and protect your home. But he doesn’t agree with shooting and killing intruders.”
That makes perfect sense.
They brought weapons because they intended to hurt people.
So, how are you supposed to protect your home if you’re not allowed to shoot people who have broken in?
Or were at least willing to hurt people if the need arose. Fuck the grandson and his friends – they got what was coming to them.
Seems like the Grandfather is trying to pass it off as teen hijinks almost rather than an attempt at a violent robbery.
I’ve noticed this angle being taken quite a bit by the families of young hooligans who get smoked when they break into houses. It’s particularly galling when they inevitably resort to “They’re kids – didn’t you do anything stupid as a kid”?
I did a lot of stupid things as a kid, including trying to jump over a bonfire (got a bit singed), accidentally hitting a parked car within a week of getting my license, and occasionally shoplifting a candy bar. What I did not do – felony B&E.
“They’re kids – didn’t you do anything stupid as a kid”?
Yes, but it did not include armed robbery.
So you break into a home with brass knuckles and it’s just an innocent romp?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
“What part of ‘not their house’ do you not understand.”
This is why my version of Goldilocks always ends with her getting eaten.
*Waits for HM to post a link to a Goldilocks cosplayer getting her ass eaten*
“Don’t follow HM Links” – Glibs survivial guide.
who was afraid for their life
Well, initially, the homeowner. Very briefly, the dead guy.
Hope that clears things up for you, Schumacher.
I spent 15 years in Wagoner county. Never shot anyone.
I did beat someone with a frozen cow leg though.
That had to be heavy to swing.
My first reaction was more of “Why?”
I was a little kid. I was at a nearby ranch playing with their youngest son (who was a year older than me) and somehow we got an argument (le plus ca change). We started fighting in the front yard. It was winter. They had a cow leg (hoof to knee only) that their dogs were using as a chew toy. I grabbed it while we were wrestling. I was never allowed over again.
/rural childhood
But it wasn’t udderly impossible.
If an article for Glibs doesn’t come out of this revelation, we wuz robbed.
Who is the idiot journo who shoved a microphone in the idiot grandpa’s face? I can perhaps understand the grandpa saying these stupid things being that he’s grief-stricken, but there’s some moron with a microphone and a pen that’s trying to turn this into a gun control debate. They should be named and shamed.
Trying to make allowances for Grandpa here because his teen grandson just got killed, but the line about brass knuckles vs AR 15 makes me so mad I want to mock his pain. You admit your worthless slime of a grandson was armed during his home invasion, and think the defender was unjustified in shooting? Screw you, the world is better without your grandson.
“Its a good thing someone blew away your chickenshit grandson before he hurt anyone”
More:
But today’s EPA wants to abandon all that. It has prepared us for the turnaround by criticizing the use of co-benefits in a series of actions it has taken over the past two years. If the consideration of co-benefits is abandoned in EPA rule promulgation, it would affect the analysis of regulations by every U.S. government agency.
It would, in effect, be an attack not just on environmental regulations, but also on all rules that protect people at the expense of profit-makers and could be employed to undermine all rational cost-benefit calculations by the federal government.
Co-benefits are an important by-product for all federal regulations. In a surprising contradiction to Trump’s anti-regulatory agenda, the most recent OMB report found that the annual benefits of major federal regulations from 2006 to 2016 were between $219 billion and $695 billion, while the annual costs were between $59 billion and $88 billion. Most of the benefits cited are due to EPA’s Clean Air Act rules and are calculated from co-benefits.
For many rules, co-benefits are larger than the benefits of the rule itself.
” rules that protect people at the expense of profit-makers ”
Uh huh.Now, we’re getting somewhere.
At least they’ve got their numbers nailed down.
“Co-Benefits” sounds more like “Numbers pulled out of our asses to hide the fact that this is really going to hurt the fisc”
Well, there’s that. They sound awfully second and third order, and thus speculative to a significant degree.
There’s also the issue that the EPA is tasked with improving environmental quality, and not tasked with providing all these co-benefits. Their rules should stand or fall solely on environmental quality. Otherwise, you have now empowered the EPA to pass rules on anything and everything as long as they can show some benefit, of any kind, from the rule.
“Look, this rule will save one delta smelt, at a cost of $2bb dollars, but it also completely changes water management in the Western US with projected benefits of $2.1bb dollars. Rule affirmed on cost-benefit analysis.” Now the EPA is in the business of water management in the US, as long as they can show some environmental benefit, however small and outweighed by the cost of the rule.
First thing we do is kill all the profit-makers.
/prog
And co-benefits are completely cooked up out of the thin air by the bureaucrats. They are what they say they are.
To be fair, all their numbers are cooked. It’s impossible to accurately measure the effects of a change made to a complex system in an uncontrolled way, and it’s even harder to predict what the potential effects might be. Add in the fact that the employees of regulatory agencies are biased in favor of regulatory changes having more benefits than costs and the numbers are worse than meaningless.
could be employed to undermine all rational cost-benefit calculations by the federal government
It’s not a cost-benefit analysis if you only look at the benefits. The problem with “co-benefits” (second-order beneficial effects) is that they are either ignoring or downplaying “co-costs” (second-order detrimental effects) to make every regulation look like a net win.
rules that protect people at the expense of profit-makers
In so few words this person says so much about their misguided and wrong world view.
“Men ‘face MORE discrimination than women’: Global study claims males receive the raw end of the deal with harsher punishments for the same crime, compulsory military service and more deaths at work”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6564767/Men-face-discrimination-women.html
Warren Farrell, the spiritual founder of the Men’s Rights movement, has been making precisely these claims since the 1980s (at least). What took this “global study” so effing long?
The harridans had to shred the gains from their own propaganda and make people sick of their shit to the point where such stories seep through the media cracks.
They had to pick the right metrics to get the results they wanted. Seriously, I question the methodology of a study that concludes that Saudi Arabia is biased towards women.
They’re well protected and until recently chouffered everywhere by other people.
…and more deaths at work.
Well, to be fair, where you work is a choice and not discrimination.
Hey, if we measure discrimination by “disparate impact”, then this is a legit metric. If you don’t want to use disparate impact for men, don’t use it for anybody (meaning, among other things, you get to shut up about the wage gap).
Um. Why isn’t Ginsburg resigning?
Give it up already. You served. You’re ill. Time to do the right thing.
I suspect she has nothing else to live for. If she retires, she’ll be dead in a week.
^This.
She’s probably framed her whole life as one big “struggle” to implement leftist legal solutions in society. In essence, it’s her religion, the “canopy of meaning” she’s overlaid on her life. Without her judicial activism, she’s meaningless.
And without meaning, people give up.
I assume she’ll die in office trying to get to the next election because nazis.
That is my guess as well. She believes she can last until after the election which everyone knows Trump will lose and Clinton will rise to glory.
“America Needs Virtue before Prosperity
A response to Tucker Carlson
This week, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson generated a veritable firestorm over his pitch for a new brand of American populism. In truth, his brand of populism isn’t particularly new — it’s a merger of Pat Buchanan–era paleoconservatism and Bush-era compassionate conservatism. It’s an attempt to rally government behind preferred conservative causes — rebuilding the family chief among them — rather than recognizing that government is typically an obstacle to those causes; it’s an attempt to fill a gap in the soul with a policy-based solution.
Without religion and morality we could, for a time, remain rich. But we would then begin to subject our freedoms to our own tyrannical impulses. In the founding view, the chief threat to freedom came from lack of virtue; perhaps the chief threat to virtue came from desire for material gain, disconnected from the virtuous social fabric. If we became addicted to stuff rather than to virtue, if we began to think that stuff could replace virtue, then we would inevitably undercut the basis of our own commercial republic.
Ironically, though, Carlson’s claim that material gain isn’t enough to provide happiness doesn’t lead him back to virtue, which would bolster additional freedom. It leads him to the same material solutions that undercut virtue in the first place.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/tucker-carlson-populism-america-needs-virtue-before-prosperity/
I got livid listening to the Tucker Carlson bit. Especially the part where he goes of on Marijuana. He even mentions that pot is less dangerous than alcohol, but i guess since good white christian folk drink alcohol it’s ok, but teens are doped out all the time. Fuck You Tucker.
I’ve noticed the resistance to legalization is stiffening. A bunch of “pot is totally going to make you schizophrenic!” mentions lately.
Meh, I’ve noticed all the conservatives around me, even the old, loosen on MJ the last ~10 years. Of course, there has also been a correlation in them watching less Fox News…
I do know my dad doesn’t seem to give a damn about it anymore, returning to his youthful Deadhead roots.
Of course the puritan minded were going to push back against legalization. They are going to lose. There is too much money in it.
Wife and I both were railing at the TV when he did his maryjuwana speal last night. What a bunch of horseshit.
“First things first: if you booed Jackson on Sunday, shame on you. That dude is the face of the franchise and he’s the youngest quarterback ever to start a playoff game and he’s getting booed by his own home fans? Come on. ”
I CAN’T FRICKEN STAND WHEN SPORTS WRITERS ACT LIKE MORALISTS.
Fuck. You. If they want to boo, they can boo assholes. They pay the damn money and they can express themselves however they see fit. Except for actions that endanger anyone of course.
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoffs-chargers-knew-60-to-70-percent-of-ravens-offensive-plays-before-they-happened/
Like throwing batteries at Santa Claus?
Correction; snowballs.
Why are you throwing batteries at snowballs?
THEY HAD IT COMING!
After the game Jackson even said he understood the booing and had no problem with it. I think he has the right attitude, namely that the fans pay to see a team play well, and if you want to keep them from booing, win.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fake Nude Photos Debunked By Foot Fetishist”
https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fake-nude-debunked-foot-fetishists-1282672
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1082411621350289409
Ok…
Ummmmmmm….I got nothin
But foot fetishists from the site WikiFeet…
The internet is a wonderful thing.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…Nude Photos
Would be the best contribution she could make while in office.
Local news
According to a study done by United Van Lines, 55% percent of moves in the state of Montana in 2018 were outbound.
In the same study, Montana ranked #9 on the most outbound states in the nation. Yet even though more people are moving away from than moving to the Treasure State, Gallatin County continues to grow.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gallatin County is the fastest growing small county in the country and is expected to grow by more than 50,000 by 2045.
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According to the study, the top 10 most outbound states in 2018 are:
New Jersey
Illinois
Connecticut
New York
Kansas
Ohio
Massachusetts
Iowa
Montana
Michigan
Seeing Montana on that list is surprising, but aside from a couple of boom towns (like Bozeman), Montana’s economy seems pretty stagnant. I wonder if the rampant anti-business sentiment has anything to do with that.
How are they counting net outbound? Residents of any stripe? Legal residents? Taxpayers?
What I’m asking is how did California not make that list?
All Right, Iowa is ranked higher than Montana.
The UHaul Index has different values.
“Illinois was 50th on the list for the third time in four years, outpacing No. 48 California and No. 49 Michigan for net departures among out-migration states.”
No California on the list? I am calling bullshit.
I suspect they are counting departures minus arrivals from both other states and from foreign countries. CA has been “replacing” many of its departures with foreign immigrants for years now.
Since no one’s likely to keep checking the early posts now that we’re over 400 comments – Scruffy, the more I read about Highland County, the more awesome it sounds. Too bad it’s so far out in the middle of nowhere that there’s almost certainly no jobs I’d want within 100 miles.
Watch out you puny little states. Here comes…MEGAKOTA!
That’s just stupid.
If you’re going to merge two names with compass directions in their names but the same root, you just drop the compass directions. The merged state would be Dakota.
Like they would willingly give up 2 senators.
I don’t think the merger would actually take place, but It’s a principle.
Dakota has been proposed in the past. Something along these lines comes up every few years…usually by people that aren’t residents of either state. Also, the originator doesn’t seem to be 100% serious about the whole thing. His persuasive argument is:
I can already tell that Ted will be against it.
Remember when Obama Promised to seriously look at any petition that got enough support on there? I wonder how many he actually did. And I don’t get why that website still exists. Also also, the merged state should be called Bad Land.
Hmmm… a possible Dem strategy – combining low population states – to lessen the effect of the Electoral College (maybe not) and/or Senators?
Wydahotana is next?
MainVerHampshire?
Oh, wait, plenty of low pop Blue states too.
I think we should join, and then split into East and West Dakota. The east halves of both have more in common than they do with their western halves.
That’s silly, split into Southeast Dakota, Southwest Dakota, Northeast Dakota, and East Montana.
Huh, some proggie asshole that I work for sometimes just mentioned combining exactly those states just a few weeks back to me.
You should have countered with the proposal of separating San Angeles from real California.
Next time you see him tell him this NoDak says “fuck off and mind your own business”.
I actually thought of you and my buddies in Montana when I basically told him that. It ended up in a 30 minute political debate while I did my work in which he changed the subject every time I nailed him on some idiotic proggie logic. He finally gave up with “well, I see your mind can’t be changed about anything”. Projection total.
Consort with damn southerners? *spit*.
What I’m asking is how did California not make that list?
Excellent question.
When I left Cali in 1995, my Orange County boss was considering moving operations to Nevada. Even back then, he told me there was a long line of businesses moving out.
I would love to see the State of Jefferson become a reality. I know it is highly unlikely to happen.
if you want to keep them from booing, win.
Wait, what?
Wydahotana is next?
Make it sound all indian-ey: “Why-da-HOE-tuh-naaaah” and it’ll work.