Good morning my Glibs, I hope you are having a fine morning. I know I am as the Federal government is still partially closed. USA today, which is just a step above Highlights magazine, is lamenting about beer labels and how ever will they be approved without the Federal Government and other such things? I have a solution.
Where are the white women at? Not having babies that’s for sure.
The DOD has $27.7 billion in unused funds that they soon will be forced to fork over back to the Treasury unless they find a use for the funds, like say for example if the President declares a state of emergency and needs the money.
So many crap shows on cable will last for years but the same crap shows quickly die out on a platform where you can more easily track exact viewership. This in addition to the crap cable channel it’s on can’t be packaged with more successful channels.
Tapas and cocaine is a good name for an album.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and take off.
“Experts say this is likely due to the fact that the large proportion of native-born women are having fewer children than before, while the much smaller proportion of immigrant-born women are having more children.”
BREAKING: Someone at the Daily Mail can sort of do math.
‘It’s certainly from Mormonism,’ Dr Kenneth Johnson, a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, told DailyMail.com
‘The concentration for so many Mormons in a state is why the fertility tends to be higher.’
Currently, nearly 63 percent of all Utahans identify as Mormon in comparison with two percent of the US population.
‘We’re not quite Japan yet,’ he said, referencing the Asian’s country struggling birth rates. ‘But this definitely makes the case for why we need more immigrants.’
It seems to me, and just bear with me for a second, this could be solved by Forcibly relocating Mormons. It’s not fair that on state has 63% of the countries Baby making machine.
Equalize the Birth Gap?
Don’t forget the “boom in jobs for white Americans in the energy industry”.
If this was anyone other than the Daily Fail I might think they wrote that on purpose.
“It seems to me, and just bear with me for a second, this could be solved by Forcibly relocating Mormons”
As someone who is technically still counted as a Mormon on the LDS membership rolls, I can assure you that the First Presidency’s plan is to have enough Mormons breeding like crazy in all 50 states that the overall fertility rates will exceed 2.1 births per woman, given time. They intend to become the dominant religion everywhere.
Where are the white women at? Not having babies that’s for sure
The pregnancy rate at my wife’s moms of preschoolers group at church has eclipsed 60%. Granted, the group about 1/3 ethnic Chinese and 1/4 Hispanic, so its not all white women.
Methinks this is a statistical artifact caused by the massive cultural divide between New Feminist Woman and Barefoot Oppressed Christian Slave Girl
“Barefoot Oppressed Christian Slave Girl”
Stop going through my porn folder.
I have no idea what you mean.
*deletes browser history*
Who narrows a gaze at the gaze narrowers?
You wouldn’t know it looking at my neighbors’ families. There’s quite a few in the area with 4 -5 kids. We’re the odd ones out with just the one kiddo.
The DOD has $27.7 billion in unused funds that they soon will be forced to fork over back to the Treasury unless they find a use for the funds, like say for example if the President declares a state of emergency and needs the money.
I don’t like the precedent of declaring a “state of emergency” to then spend Money any way you want. Congress was given the power of the purse for a reason. This is as bad as “Pen and Phone”.
What kind of crazy-ass budgeting ends up with $27B in “unused funds” ?
Bear in mind that only represents like 3% of the DOD budget.
I’m wondering what person at DoD is getting reamed for letting it out that they had that much left over.
It’s only “approximately 1 percent of our overall budget,” Pentagon spokesperson Chris Sherwood…. “It’s not as big as it may seem.”, c’mon Count ,27B? Chump change.
Hey, 27 billion here, 27 billion there; pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
They never think tax money is real money.
I think… I think that that is like when Trump said he had a modest loan of 1 Million. The fact that 27B is only 1% of your budget is a big part of the problem.
The old Spend It or Lose It budget trick. How are you gonna get more if you stay within your budget? Supplemental is better than good management. Forgiveness/permission
“The Defense Department has relinquished over $27 billion to the U.S. Treasury since 2013 simply because it couldn’t spend the money quick enough, according to a DOD Inspector General report released Tuesday”.
That’s only like $4-5B/yr. Mothing to get excited about.
Where are the white women at? Not having babies that’s for sure.
The future is Mexican Mormons.
Didnt he try to run for President already?
Thanks, I think.
It is “opera applause”. So, yes.
Speaking of this, in celebration of the greatest day in TOS history, are you all going to open up images and the blink tag for just one day sometime?
The Glibs’ rules already state “Please: no NSFW images or gifs”, despite the fact that only moderators have the ability to post such things. I think they know better than to experiment with your idea.
Considering who the moderators are, they need that rule.
And it wouldn’t be an experiment, it would be a celebration of the anarchy that existed on that reason thread. Its not an experiment when you already know how bad the result will be.
If they are getting so smart about scheduling good shows why did CBS cancel Scorpion. My son and I are still heartbroken over that cancelation.
I gave up on that show when the Asian mechanical genius said something to the effect of, “I like tools. You know a half inch wrench goes with a half inch bolt.”
Uhmmm, no, sweety. Every 1/2 inch bolt I’ve seen required a 3/4″ wrench to turn it.
She looked good saying it, though. I guess that’s what counts.
She’s an engineer. She designs shit, she doesn’t get her hands dirty building shit.
That is what did it? Not when they saved the ATC system at LAX by downloading uninfected code from a plane by dropping a cat5 cable from the plane to Walter and Paige who were driving underneath it in a race car?
Maybe one of the best episodes of TV every aired.
“The Surge” (AKA What Really Happens During A Government Shutdown?)
Nice.
Kek. thanks, man
Great vid, my dude.
Well done.
“Thoughtful conversation”, “diverse points of view”…LOL, sure.
No; no, I don’t need to understand that.
was more than a comedy show. It was a conscious effort to make the country a better place.
I can’t see why it wasn’t more popular. I for one like to listen to harpies when i need a good joke.
“The 25-year-old then dished the dirt on the entire, glamorous influencer industry, claiming she’s not the only “influencer” that follows the same diet.
“I need to be careful what I’m saying here, but in the influencer industry, everyone loves the baggie,” she told fans.”
First you get the coke, then you get a smartphone, then you get the followers.
Instagram is the Fedex of dealers.
Don’t forget the tape-as!
Most people can’t afford the product, the craving, or the come-down, but nearly everyone likes the rush.
OK, confessing my ignorance: what the hell is an “influencer”?
Someone with a lot of followers on social media. Companies will give them free shit so they can “influence” their followers to use those brands.
A vaguely pretty girl, usually with a little family money, who Instagrams herself consuming various products and services–always of the rich-white-girl-spending-daddy’s-money sort–as stealth advertising for those products.
They can also be someone like Casey Neistat who has done work for Samsung through his drone videos and product reviews.
True, but I’d say most people who would refer to themselves as “influencers” are more the type I describe.
It’s all a weird part of the new economy to me, like ASMR and unboxing videoes.
It’s all a weird part of the new economy to me, like ASMR and unboxing videoes.
Nice try, but we all know you are one of those people who makes ASMR unboxing videos. We will leave unsaid what you are unboxing.
“Today I am unboxing a sheep. Please turn down the volume on your speakers for this first part.”
That is the part I turn up the volume for.
LOL that’s Crazy Russian Hacker (a gun-toting libertarian, I might add) in a nutshell.
Don’t mess with success
“Business is very, very bad,” said Johannes, adding that he pays about $525 in license and other fees every three months, besides food costs. “If it continues like this another two, three months, I’m looking at another job.”
This in an article bemoaning the consequences of the govt shutdown.
I was going over the budget again last night, and just being reminded how much i pay in taxes…. With Property, state, FICA, Federal Income, sales and Gas taxes it is without a doubt the single largest expenditure that I make. But yeah it’s terrible that the government is shut down because businesses can’t do business without the government around.
You know, I think someone with Trump’s ear needs to suggest that instead of paying back the furloughed government workers, they take that money and distribute it to the tax payers. Trolling and buying votes, and we’ll all get some peanuts.
While this would be a great idea, sadly I don’t think we’d run a surplus even with keeping the government “closed” for a few months, so returning taxpayer money wouldn’t be a positive thing.
When City Departments clash
Some bastard owns an old apartment building that recently suffered a fire. City inspectors are demanding he demolish it because it is a nuisance. Hold on says city preservation board, you fix it up and you suck for letting it deteriorate.
As long as the city is telling him two different things, he doesn’t need to do anything.
The fun s tarts when both start fining him on a daily basis.
Well he still needs to pay the city. I’m sure both city departments agree on that.
Love the idea that if you buy a house and decide not to live there you need to pay $7K for some reason.
I thought the article was gonna be Mark Davis and Oakland-Alameda County Stadium
The old Silverdome in Detroit sold for $500K in an auction. At the time a bunch of my buddies and I were pissed because we could have pooled some money and bought it and then had our own personal Thunderdome.
…hahahaha, he said ‘Detroit’…
Trump dubs media the ‘Opposition Party,’ accuses press of working with Democrats
They say this as though it isn’t actually true.
According to this email list, that’s a damnable lie straight out of hell.
I’ve read three articles on the meeting Trump had with The Dems. They all described Trump as “storming out of the meeting” and they did it without the quotation marks. Setting the narrative.
What I heard is that he basically just said it was a waste of time and then left. He probably did so assertively, hence “storming” out. Narrative of a belligerent Trump set, indeed.
And narrative of Trump being the inflexible, refusing to negotiate one.
Although it seems to me he asked if they were willing to negotiate and they said no. I mean, what else is there to talk about? I want to buy this car but I won’t pay the sticker price. If the salesman on the lot says they won’t negotiate price, I leave. Am I storming off the lot? No, I’m just not wasting my time when the other party isn’t willing to find an acceptable outcome to both of us.
And fuck these people for making defend Trump again.
The media just trusted Schumer’s version and framed it that way. Makes you question the narrative.
“I want to buy this car but I won’t pay the sticker price. If the salesman on the lot says they won’t negotiate price, I leave. Am I storming off the lot? No, I’m just not wasting my time when the other party isn’t willing to find an acceptable outcome to both of us.”
I had almost this exact experience. The Sales manager came out as i was driving away, practically pleading to get me to stay and look at other cars. “No, the car you advertised is no longer available. It was the only car i was interested in looking at. Good day”.
Should have gone fully Willy Wonka on him.
Should have gone fully Willy Wonka on him.
Feed him something that makes him swell and turn blue and then have a bunch of your haired midgets shove him down into the plumbing while singing hastily lyricized songs?
Hired*
Oompah Loompahs are slaves raised in petri dishes, but are not as effective as orphans because they lack the manual dexterity.
refusing to negotiate
He has stated what he wants and that is after making concessions. Negotiation has to go both ways, but Team Blue is used to getting everything they want from squishy Republicans.
True, they are used to the Repubs folding in the face of the constant media beat down. They are finding out Trump doesn’t give a shit.
It’s strange, but when you have been nothing but hostile to a guy for 3 years, he seems to not care what you think or say.
“So this means you’ll unban me, then? You claim to support free speech, but banned me for retweeting a meme that was clearly a joke.”
https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/1083293070609788929
“Today I’m going to show you another example of Sleeping Giants / Deplatform Hate’s nonsense.”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1057320180005642243
From the replies:
It’s good to rub that in their faces, but i don’t like the direction conservatives are going with it. I don’t believe that Making these companies live by the same accommodation rules as other businesses puts pressure on the government to rescind the accommodation rules at all. It’s unjust and wrong, but i don’t see how making it unjust and wrong for everyone will be a benefit.
^^
My guess is, and they probably aren’t wrong, that you will never get government to rescind them.
Because public accommodations laws are well on the way to being rescinded 50 odd years after the fact…
I guess the only benefit would be to level the playing field, since currently these accommodation rules are never enforced against the left, but are freely used by the left as a bludgeon against the right to force conformity with leftist agendas.
I do not see it as intellectually inconsistent to oppose the laws in principle and simultaneously demand that they be applied equitably.
Exactly.
In fact, the equitable application of the laws may lead to their rescission as it makes them more unpopular with their supporters.
“In fact, the equitable application of the laws may lead to their rescission as it makes them more unpopular with their supporters.”
That’s the only argument I’ve seen where it seems consistent to oppose the law but argue for it’s equitable application. But i don’t believe equitable application will actually lead the their rescission. In fact it is probably more likely to be rescinded when it is not equitably applied because it can be shown that it is arbitrary.
But anyway the big difference here is “protected classes” which basically means, we can discriminate against you for your political views but not for these codified reasons.
I think the real challenge here are the disparate impact laws that allow the government to pick winners, losers, victims and victimizers. That is what enables the law to be applied unequitably and leads to further corruption of the state.
Yup, By creating “Protected Classes”, the government has elevated some groups of people over others.
Me either, but I doubt that’s the message the conservatives are going with.
Probably not, assholes to the left and SOBs to the right.
I thought it was assholes to the left and dicks on the right. Making us….The taint?
I don’t think it is wrong to say that “none of these laws should exist, but if you insist on having them, they need to be enforced against everyone.”
I agree that it is naive to think that equal enforcement will lead to the laws being repealed. Nope, you will just get a new layer of laws the codifies that “bakeries are included, twitter isn’t”. These carve outs are what gives the pols so much leverage to extort money.
But at least the carve outs wouldn’t be “settled case law” and could be challenged on constitutional grounds, such as equal protection, etc.
Consistent or not, nothing’s going to change anyway so sometimes you just enjoy the schadenfreude and let the cognate dissonate.
Looks like maybe some companies are realizing enforcing their political ideology is…expensive! I also think of the video floating on Youtube of Milton Friedman explaining why you don’t want equal protection laws. It looks like all this banning nonsense might turn out to be a great real world example in support of his point.
The DOD has $27.7 billion in unused funds
So you’re saying we can build a wall with money left for a moat filled with sharks with frickin’ lasers attached to their heads.
If you let the DoD guys handle it 27.7 will be enough to get you a 3 foot high retaining wall from El Paso To Brownsville.
But everyone on the project will have 3 hours of sexual harassment training.
Bullshit. The ACoE couldn’t produce the environmental impact study for that cost.
You read the spec wrong. That would be a 3 inch high wall.
+1 Spinal Tap
The Texas part already has a moat.
Hence the need for the sharks with friggin laser beams.
Trial set for woman charged with burglary at Tempe mosque
Gonzales’ friend, Elizabeth Dauenhauer, has pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal damage for taking down announcements on bulletin boards in the mosque’s members-only courtyard.
….
Even so, Gonzales faces charges of permitting life, health and morals of a minor to be imperiled by neglect, abuse or immoral associations.
So he’s being charged with “Being a bad influence”. Sounds like he’s corrupting the youth, and their is only one appropriate form of punishment for that…
You know who else had immoral associations?
Us?
Sorry. I’ve tried to but work has been a bit too busy recently.
Hey! (Not that you’re wrong)
Me?
“Model Ruby Tuesday Matthews has shocked fans Model Ruby Tuesday Matthews has shocked fans…”
Is Ricky Bobby her Dad?
Conceived in a bathroom at a well known chain restaurant, maybe
Or maybe parents are Rolling Stones fans.
They were the only one that could hang a name on her.
“A Man Allegedly Killed His Brother With A 4-Foot Sword Because He Thought He Was A Lizard Person”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/blakemontgomery/man-brother-murder-charge-sword
Well, was he?
Based on the picture, that’s a mistake anybody could have made. I’d acquit him.
Obviously the product of some neo-Nazi breeding program.
His name is Buckey Wofle?? Get outta here….
Good enough for me
Good enough for reasonable doubt. Innocent!
We need Mr. Lizard to confirm if he was one of their own.
I’m sure his brother would still be alive and basking on a warm rock in the sun if the fucking NSA hadn’t prevented common sense sword laws from being passed. He could have filed an emergency red flag petition to have his brother’s sword confiscated.
Killed by the Tang.
Meant to include the quote. Apparently he was gripping it by the blade.
That’s what you do when your opponent is armored. Bludgeon them with the hilt.
There’s only one way to be sure.
Here’s what happens to the economy if food stamps are halted for a year due to the shutdown
Must be the reverse-multiplier effect.
Here’s what happens to the economy if food stamps are halted for a year due to the shutdown
Cool story Hansel. Why are we talking about things that will never happen.
As though the government giving away free shit at taxpayer expense somehow grows the economy. Because taking water from one end of the pool and dumping it in the other end increases the amount of water in the pool.
Except in this case the gov borrows water and makes water out of thin air so that the pool does get deeper.
Well sure, if you accept the premise of pretend water by fiat.
Do you even Keynesian dude?
y=c+i+g+(x-m)
Don’t forget the bits that slosh around out of the bucket while you’re carrying it.
So if people have a greater currency, like say vouchers or.. I don’t know… let’s say cash, they buy more of the stuff they want , which is postive for the economy. So.. tax cuts = good, yes?
No, because the only way this work is if government first confiscates money from the productive then gives it to the unproductive to spend. Without that step, there is no economic growth…
That’s tantamount to saying that if a company reduces overhead, they have a lower output.
Surge in marriages? All those unmarried moms might be more interested in holding their baby-daddies accountable for food costs if Uncle Sugar falls behind in his payments.
Not to mention many of them might opt not to drop so many puppies…
It’s crazy to me that there are 40 million people receiving funds from SNAP.
Would it surprise you to know that SNAP has a budget for promoting its services? That they robocall homes and actively push to get more people on their program?
That last bit I was entirely unaware of. The whole thing is pretty clearly evil. I remember when I was a young prog, I was dating a single mom and she qualified for something like $250 / month in food stamps. This was a huge boost to her. She was a work horse though, took on a second job without consulting the government and lost her benefits. Even then I was appalled that the system would be set up to punish you for trying to become self-sufficient.
Maybe that’s the advantage of growing up poor, even though my politics at the time insisted on a heavy welfare state, I could see those programs for the trap they are just from what I saw around me.
Bureaucratic empire building is a real thing. The more people on the program, the more invulnerable it becomes to dissolution and the more money passes thru the coffers.
The people on it would go out and work?
what happens to the economy if food stamps are halted for a year due to the shutdown
Tens of millions of able-bodied people decide to be more self-sufficient in order to survive?
WASHINGTON ― Democrats on Wednesday introduced legislation that would give relief to furloughed federal workers who are unable to pay rent or repay loans as a result of the ongoing government shutdown.[…]
*EDIT FAIRY SAY “OH YEAH”?
That’s right, I don’t close my tags and you can’t make me, slaver.
So, a bill to allow federal workers to steal from landlords and creditors.
They’re usually not so obvious about it.
Please let them keep defending the government workers who are bitching before they’ve even missed a paycheck. Can we get some news channel to do a little spot:
“It’s 10:00 PM, did you know your government is still shut down?”
Any private money is money stolen from the government anyway
This is what the left actually believes.
Oh, you don’t work for the gubmint? Sorry chump, you can pick your shit up out on the sidewalk.
This will do wonders to increase Joe Sixpack’s sympathy for those poor, downtrodden public servants.
I would like to think that this is terrible optics that will draw a severe backlash but the media propaganda/narrative machine is strong.
https://gizmodo.com/report-of-bounty-hunters-buying-phone-location-data-lea-1831626333
Senator gets mad that Phone companies sell data to Bounty Hunters. To be fair she was kinda against section 702…
She’s a hypocrite, but at least she’s right on this one.
Thot Thursday is here to titillate you with tremendous tits.
http://archive.is/t4xzf
6 and 39 will do nicely.
25, 35, and 54. They need to share the wealth.
38>43>12>3
Feedback: Hey Q, the Girls Dripping Wet set from last night was even better than usual.
36 > 6 (cause thicc af) > 54 > 2
Dems Say They Aren’t Refusing Their Pay During Shutdown Because it Would be a ‘Distraction’
So far, more than a dozen lawmakers have voluntarily declined their paychecks due to the ongoing shutdown. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) has reintroduced the No Budget No Pay Act and announced that he would send his payment to the U.S. Treasury until the government reopens.
“I will not accept any pay during any government shutdown. I am not delaying my pay; I am sending it back to the United States Treasury. And I am urging all my colleagues, both Republican and Democrat, to do the same. Let’s send a message to the extreme partisans on both sides: do your job or don’t get paid,” Fitzpatrick said in a recent statement.
“That’s why I reintroduced my ‘No Budget, No Pay’ proposal to prevent members of Congress from being paid if Congress fails to pass a budget or allows a lapse in appropriations. This measure would dock pay for time without a budget as opposed to simply putting member salaries in escrow until end of term,” he added. “It requires complete forfeiture.”
Interesting move on your part. I fully support this.
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) explained why he would not decline his paycheck during the shutdown.
“That’s an individual choice by a member of Congress but it’s also, frankly, a distraction from the real issue. We are not in the business of adding to the ranks of the unpaid. We’re in the business of getting everybody paid fairly,” Connolly said during a press conference today with other Democrats who urged Trump to reopen the government to alleviate the financial pain suffered by federal employees.
“This question gets asked, not only with respect to the shutdown, but shouldn’t you not be paid if you don’t pass a budget? Shouldn’t you not be paid if the DREAM Act isn’t passed? You know, go down your favorite list,” he added. “And the Constitution mandates it. We’re here doing our job. We’re here trying to reopen government. We respect individual choices but, frankly, we think that is a distraction from the issue here before us.”
There are others currently working without pay. Perhaps you should lead by example.
ep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said he agrees with Connolly’s position on lawmakers continuing to accept pay during the government shutdown. Beyer added that members declining pay gives Trump “more leverage” in negotiations over funding for border security and the rest of the federal government.
“I respect the ones who give it up and I don’t criticize them at all, but I also think we have to think about how not every member of Congress is wealthy. There are quite a few members of Congress who are living paycheck-to-paycheck too and a lot of them – I’m easy, I live right here – but so many of them sleep on their couches because they can’t afford to maintain a family back in Texas or New York or California and also afford a place here. The ones that do have places here tend to be four to an apartment. So, I think we need to provide a little cover for the people who can’t do that,” Beyer said.
Salary of 170 something thousand a year and you’re “paycheck to paycheck”? Cry me a river.
“y. There are quite a few members of Congress who are living paycheck-to-paycheck too and a lot of them – I’m easy, I live right here – but so many of them sleep on their couches because they can’t afford to maintain a family back in Texas or New York or California and also afford a place here”
If you can’t afford it, maybe you should just vote over skype and stay home.
Bull shit. Get a fucking roommate then.
They whine about that too. Let me guess. Four to a four bedroom apartment? Whycome they have to wait until they leave office to buy a mansionette and host dinner parties like the ones they go to?
Amazon already tried that show.
We’re supposed to believe that Chuck shares a house with those two? GTFO.
so many of them sleep on their couches because they can’t afford to maintain a family back in Texas or New York or California and also afford a place here
I seem to recall a lot of outrage from the Dems when some new Repub Congressman was going to sleep in his office. Unsanitary, a violation of the rules for the office building, stuff like that. Ya know, if they wouldn’t completely contradict themselves on damn near everything, I might be inclined not to assume every damn word out of their mouth is a lie.
“a distraction from the real issue”
Yes you getting paid to do shit and ruin the countries financial situation is not the real issue.
From last night’s rice cooker thread, for The Hyperbole:
It is of course possible to make perfect rice with a pot. It is also possible to make shitty rice with a shitty rice cooker.
My Zojiroushi has one major advantage, and for me it’s enough of one — the rice doesn’t just cook perfectly, it stays cooked perfectly for literally hours. Like I’ve left rice in it overnight and it was still perfect in the morning. Or I can start the rice when I leave for work and have it ready when I get home if the topping is something I’ve already cooked. I’m very picky about my starches, so it’s nice to not have to worry about timing so the rice isn’t underdone or overdried.
Which is good, because the inital cooking step takes longer than a pot on a stove.
“BREAKING: ANTIFA POSTS HOME ADDRESSES OF DAILY CALLER STAFF AMID OCASIO-CORTEZ FAKE NUDE SCANDAL
An Antifa Twitter account has posted the home addresses, phone numbers, and social media accounts of what appears to be the entire staff at the Daily Caller.
The collection of personal information belonging to those at the Caller was posted hours after Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Republicans have been circulating a fake nude photo of her, which she said was subsequently published by the Daily Caller.
The website had published a story about how people on the internet were claiming a not-so-scandalous photo of legs in a bathtub was of the New York Rep., but later corrected the article to clarify that it was not her.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/breaking-antifa-posts-home-addresses-of-daily-caller-staff-amid-ocasio-cortez-fake-nude-scandal/
Those pesky yellow-vest protests in France are continuing – so the government is now talking about a crack-down.
Let me just say how much I hate spammy recruiters. Look you dumb ass, I’m not interested in a 6-month contract job with an hourly rate that’s less than half of my current pay. I’m especially not interested because it’s on the other side of the state.
My least favorite recruiter is a local guy who refuses to a) listen to what my demands are, b) send me the details in an email and c) constantly spams me with demands to call to talk about the opportunity.
If I do call him, it is always an “opportunity” that doesn’t meet any of my demands but he thinks he can talk me into it. It always ends with me laughing at him and him hanging up in a huff because us developers are prima donnas.
Now that I think about it, I haven’t heard from him for more than a year. Hope nothing bad happened to him.
But yeah, I have learned to be a mercenary fuck and ask about the rates right up front. “Don’t tell me anything about the job yet, what are you paying?”
Well demanding to be paid for your work instead of being cattle for the recruiters to make money, seems to be the way this model is designed to work as…
“You know Javascript and Java are two totally different things, right?”
“Oh. Well, this particular client is really just looking for someone with significant web development experience for a three-month temp-to-hire contract in Annapolis Junction. That’s where you live, right?”
“No, I live in Annapolis. Annapolis Junction is like an hour north, near Columbia.”
“Yeah, they’re in Columbia.”
“Yeah. Do they know the difference between Java and Javascript?”
That’s where the call really starts to break down. I try to be nice to recruiters, but I’ve never gotten a job through one in ten years. Half the time they’re people who have no idea about the jobs they’re recruiting for and just need to put up numbers, like any sales gig. I sympathize, but I also don’t want to waste my time.
““Yeah. Do they know the difference between Java and Javascript?”
I have a co-worker who still, despite me correcting him everytime, says: Hey somethings wrong with the java on that webpage.
I think I’d have a seizure.
Now you know how I feel whenever you people abuse apostrophes.
I have a recruiter that I love working with. He is smart and knows everyone. If I’m serious about needing a new gig, he will come back in a week with 2 or 3 solid leads that meet all my requirements.
For the last five years or so, I give him a hard time because of how LinkedIn has changed recruiting. I tell him that if I didn’t already know him he’d have no chance of meeting me because my new recruiter policy is they have to be a young hot gal with a good photo on linkedIn.
He sighs and says that all the new hires at his recruiting firm are all young gals who are right out of college. When he really needs to get a response from someone he doesn’t already know he has to ask one of them to make the introductions.
Poontang sells…
Funny, I’ve noticed that myself. Honestly, I’d rather some crusty old geezer who knows the business contact me than some cute 20-something from out of state who doesn’t know where Virginia is. I’m being hyperbolic, but only slightly; I’ve had a few recruiters contact me after I’d specified I wanted at least a one year contract if not a permanent regular hire within 30 minutes of Annapolis, MD who offered me six month gigs in, say, Reston, because they knew Reston was in Virginia and Virginia is next to Maryland, so it must be close.
A large recruiters office is in the building next to mine. My god, those women are crazy hot, especially in their business professional attire.
+1 (or should that be -1?) pencil skirt.
I read some click bait that purported 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Really? Does this sound possible?
I’m no Warren Buffet but I haven’t been dependent on my next check being there on time since I was a teenager in the Marines. Even going to school on the GI Bill and a scholarship I always had funds set aside for a rainy day.
Does this pass the sniff test to y’all?
I used to work a part-time job at a restaurant and lived in a townhouse with two other roomates, but not once during that time did I feel I was living paycheck to paycheck. Always had enough and some spare dough.
used to work…at a restaurant…Always had…some spare dough
Well, of course you did.
It’s hard to believe, but i don’t think it’s entirely possible.
However this will be trotted out to say how bad the situations is for the common man, when in truth it wouldn’t matter how much money most of these people make, they would spend it all anyway.
*imposible
I know quite a few people living the high life – the $750K house, the expensive cars, the three vacations to exotic places a year – types that would be dead meat if one of them lost their job as their extravagant lifestyle revolves around their ability to show off to the Johnes’ how successful they are…. Me, I like to not have to worry about missing another car, mortgage, insurance, or other payment and just live life.
I’m flagrantly averse to recurring payments. Id rather pay a premium and never have to pay again than have some recurring payment hanging over my head. My eventual goal for the future is that my only payments will be insurance, taxes, electric, phone, and internet.
Same here. It has been a long time since we had any debt other than a mortgage. Getting off the car financing merry-go-round was one of the hardest bits, because you really do need to have five figures in savings that you can spend, and that ain’t easy.
My hard and fast rule is that I will not retire from full-time work if I owe a dime to anybody. I’ve heard the argument that a house is just dead capital that you should free up with a mortgage, especially at today’s rates, but I’m just not buying it.
You have to live somewhere, and if I die, my family has to live somewhere.
I’ve heard the argument that a house is just dead capital that you should free up with a mortgage, especially at today’s rates, but I’m just not buying it.
I’d say that risk isn’t taken into account by these folks. Great, you just tossed a quarter mil of equity into the market. Now you have a $1000 a month payment, and all your means of paying it is tied up in the market. Hopefully the market doesn’t crash! Hopefully you don’t get sick right before the market crashes!
At least with the house paid off, you can go quite a long time before somebody (the govt) gets to missing their cut and kicks you out on the streets.
I’m not fond of leveraging basic necessities in order to play the market.
Unfortunately, it really does. I’ve heard people in a call center complaining about putting money into the 401k, “Because the market is just going down, and I’m just losing money.” Mind you, the company match was 100% up to 5%, so unless the market is going down by 50%, you’re still getting more money. Financial literacy isn’t that common.
I think you hit an important problem I have started realizing is driving the massive stupidity and appeal of marxism, and that is that so many people are just simply economic illiterates – be it on purpose or because our education system is there to guarantee that – that is plaguing society. I often shake my head at how ridiculously uninformed so many people are about some of the basic economic truths that facts, but I am starting to realize that without that, we would not have more and more people thinking a welfare state and marxism are the answers to all ills.
Considering average debt per household and abysmal savings rates it sounds perfectly plausible to me.
Yup. 78% sounds kinda high, but I’d be shocked if it was much under 60%. As far as I’m concerned, not paying off your credit card every month means you are probably living paycheck to paycheck, because you’d have to be an idiot to pay credit card interest if you didn’t have to.
Or, you could be an idiot.
If people didn’t have debt, more of them could probably stay out of debt and build savings so they aren’t living paycheck to paycheck. Once you are in debt though, its a vicious cycle.
If people didn’t have debt, more of them could probably stay out of debt and build savings so they aren’t living paycheck to paycheck. Once you are in debt though, its a vicious cycle.
This. Over the last 21 months, my family has paid $137k toward debt. $91k toward principal, $46k toward interest. If we had been a bit smarter about things a few years back when digging this hole, a significant portion of the interest (~$20k of it) could have gone to something like retirement. Or paying down the mortgage early. Or the emergency fund.
Thankfully were very much on task and will have everything but the house paid off in a couple years, but it’s really hard when you are meandering along financially with no plan.
With the system rigged to punish any kind of fiscal responsibility and rewarding those that make all the wrong choices – and not to mention a system where sooner than later the people up top will start having to confiscate the money of those that have chosen to do the economically right thing so they can keep the tax, borrow, and spend nanny state afloat – I now understand why so many people throw in the towel and simply do this shit. After all, our governments do it too.
I believe it. Most people are shitty money managers.
It depends what you mean by paycheck-to-paycheck.
Most people don’t have enough money put away for emergencies.
Consider even the plan of someone like Dave Ramsey. His plan is a 3-6 month emergency fund, but that is step #3 in his 7 steps. Step #1 is $1000 emergency fund while paying off non-mortgage debt (step #2). For most people, $1000 is less than a single paycheck.
But realistically, people can get by for a few paychecks even in that situation.
That’s our situation. My wife was out of a job for three months and that pretty much torpedoed our savings. She made just about half of the net household income. so losing that was a huge setback. Plus, we were diverting a lot of money that might go into savings towards paying off debt, so it’s not like we had a significant emergency fund built up. So we were paycheck-to-paycheck, got out of it for about a year, and are now right back to it again until she starts getting paid.
I think Dave Ramsey helps a lot of people, but I’d put financial security over having to pay off a debt really fast. Obviously if you can do both that would be great, but debt in of itself can be helpful in maintaining a Secure financial position. By taking a loan you don’t risk all your savings that you might need during an emergency. It’s always important that it’s cheapest to get credit when you don’t need it.
but I’d put financial security over having to pay off a debt really fast
Dave’s plan revolves around the idea that it should take most people 18 months to 2 years of extreme sacrifice to get completely out of non-mortgage debt. For that period of time, the laser focus required to get out of the debt means that you cant be splitting your priorities between retirement and debt payoff and emergency fund. Then, once you have those erosive monthly payments done and gone, it’s easier to make quick traction on the other priorities. Dave’s very much on the “duct tape and bondo” plan during the debt payoff phase. Pay the minimum required to keep your house/car/whatever from going to pieces until you’re no longer drowning in debt.
By taking a loan you don’t risk all your savings that you might need during an emergency.
Or, you could have a line of credit (a credit card even) that you carry with a zero balance (or pay off every month) so you can get cash in an emergency that has depleted your savings. I don’t really like the idea of paying interest on a loan that I have enough money in the bank to pay off, and borrowing while you have savings seems like that to me.
I took a 10K (in dollars) paycut last year. We still had no problem putting away a quarter of our pay each month. We just don’t spend much money.
“That’s the problem!”
/Bank of Japan
I bet most of those people have really expensive phones and data plans
I’ve been using mint mobile for a few years now and it has been great. When other people bitch about how expensive their phone plans are, I try to tell them about it but they are profoundly confused how I could be using something other than AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint. Plus apparently no one can prepay service for a year.
Unfortunately my house is in this weird dead zone that only gets AT&T, even though I’m not in the sticks.
Straight Talk uses AT&T towers. It all depends too on how many phones are on your bill.
Cricket does too. I’m paying $70/month for 2 phones with 5GB data each. Even with my corporate discount, AT&T was over $110 for the smallest suitable plan.
If my neighborhood wasn’t a T-mobile dead zone, I would be switching to Mint. Instead I am switching to Cricket to stay on AT&T netwrok.
I have a sister and grew up with a number of people who’s families will always be poor because they don’t have any sense about money. By total Effing luck that sister’s husband is a total IT geek since the 1970’s so he always has a paycheck – but they still live like refugees because they have no idea how money works.
I get that there are a lot of people like that. But this click bait article is claiming 78%. Basically 4 out of 5 Americans.
I just can’t swallow that so many people are really that stupid…
relatedly, less than 40% of Americans have $1000 to cover an emergency
I forget whether this study included credit cards in the analysis or not.
A quick skim shows they were talking strictly about savings:
Of course, that’s leaving out the idea that this is one of the purposes of a credit card.
You know what harms your financial security even more than emergency debt? Foreclosure.
Of course, that’s leaving out the idea that this is one of the purposes of a credit card
Yep. Even though we are mostly on the Dave Ramsey plan, one part I could never get on board with was cutting up the credit cards. We use cash/debit for most day-to-day purchases to avoid the temptation to overspend, but the idea of getting rid of access to $20k of emergency funding strikes me as penny wise and pound foolish.
I’d be interested to see a study of how many people have access to $2500 (a very realistic number for a typical financial emergency) in cash/credit available.
Considering you can’t take a piss without an 800 FICO score it’s even more stupid. When you can’t book a car rental or get a business loan because you cut up your entire credit history you’ll feel pretty stupid. Not everybody is sitting on fat stacks because an army of 10 million morons pays them for the most patently obvious and basic financial advice, Dave.
I agree with your overall point, but I’ve never had issue renting a car using a debit card. I don’t do it anymore because I want the cc points, but it was never an issue when I punched in the debit card number. Also, Dave would say he doesn’t give a shit about a business loan because he advocates starting businesses without debt.
advocates starting businesses without debt
Next to impossible in the age of super-low interest rates, at least for any business that has capital requirements.
Granted I haven’t rented a car for a good many years, but they insisted on a CC for the online booking the last time I did it. I had more in my bank account than the limit on that CC anyway at the time, so the joke was on them, really.
Also, Dave would say he doesn’t give a shit about a business loan because he advocates starting businesses without debt.
Yeah yeah, I know his shtick. See also:
“I lost money in real estate because I overexpanded on credit into a recession when I was in my 20s, so middle class people in their 30s should undermine their ability to ever borrow. Oh also, pay down your credit cards by balance rather than by interest rate, because saving thousands of dollars in interest is nothing compared to that sweet sweet feeling of closing another account and lowering your credit rating.”
Starting a business without debt is a noble goal. I worked for a guy who started a specialized WAN hardware/software/service company. He refused to take out a loan or get investors. The problem he ran into (and still is running into, apparently) is that while he makes a good living for himself and the company is reasonably stable he’s still extremely small, like maybe four or five clients for the hardware side, and let’s say about a hundred clients for local wireless access. His goal is supposedly to get noticed by a large corporation and then sell to them, but he can’t get enough money together to hire more than two other people, who handle dev, web dev, and tech support, and he can’t get his hardware costs down because he can’t afford to take advantage of scale. There’s a jump he needs to make that he can’t do without a significant outlay of capital that exceeds what he can make strictly through profit right now.
“I lost money in real estate because I overexpanded on credit into a recession when I was in my 20s, so middle class people in their 30s should undermine their ability to ever borrow. Oh also, pay down your credit cards by balance rather than by interest rate, because saving thousands of dollars in interest is nothing compared to that sweet sweet feeling of closing another account and lowering your credit rating.”
It’s almost like a guy who is opposed to debt does things that negatively impacts his ability to take on more debt because he doesn’t give a shit about his ability to take on more debt.
Sorry that his plan rubs you the wrong way, but it has worked for millions of folks, many of whom have become multi millionaires along the line.
While the math is bad, the psychology actually works. And if the interest rates are similar, the math isn’t even that bad.
A few years back we had some large medical bills on a payment plan. 0% interest, so there was no mathematical reason to pay them off early at all. We still did, because keeping track and making the monthly payment was driving my wife crazy.
Debt is risk. When times are good and you can arbitrage return on what you invested the debt proceeds in, you make more money than you would have otherwise. When times are bad and your cash flow is eaten up by debt payments, you lose more money, and possibly the entire business, than you would have otherwise.
Its no accident that nearly every business of any size that fails, does so because it can’t cover its debt payments. Small businesses have a different challenge, and tend to fail because they are undercapitalized (that is, don’t have enough working capital in the bank). You can try to solve your undercapitalization by borrowing, but that just ramps up the risk (and therefor the likelihood) that your business will fail.
I wouldn’t say no one should ever borrow to start a business. I would just say that they need to understand what that really means.
the psychology actually works
It doubly works in the context of Dave’s plan. You just woke up to the fact that your finances are a mess, and you’re beginning to establish the lifestyle habits that will get you out of the mess. What is going to reaffirm your habits better? Completely paying off your $500 medical bill at 8% over the next month or knocking $500 (minus accrued interest) off of your $15k debt consolidation loan at 22%?
The person paying off the consolidation loan had better have a shit ton of discipline in reserve, because they’re not going to get a “win” for a few years.
The principle is simple. Tackle the easiest task first.
Sorry that his plan rubs you the wrong way, but it has worked for millions of folks
His anti-debt shtick is way too rigid, is all. Particularly as it regards business. He was fortunate enough to strike it rich in the quasi-cult-leader field, but back here on earth there’s a time and place for debt in the business lifecycle. And it pisses me off that he makes a shit load of money encouraging people to get hosed on interest for the sake of arbitrarily closing up open accounts. He’s basically the Alcoholics Anonymous of finance. There’s nothing wrong with teetotalism per se, and the 12 steps have helped a lot of people kick an awful habit. It’s just not a one size fits all solution.
for the sake of arbitrarily closing up open accounts.
Except that its not arbitrary. Just because you don’t like his reasoning doesn’t mean that its arbitrary. As I explained above, his “snowball” methodology is meant to improve the odds of real life people in real life situations makingand maintaining a new and more sustainable financial lifestyle. The best way to do that is to see tangible results quickly to reinforce the sacrifices that you’ve had to make. Watching a number on a spreadsheet slowly dwindle down doesn’t have the power to do that.
He’s basically the Alcoholics Anonymous of finance.
I say this exact thing all the time. Here’s the thing, though. There are a whole bunch of people out there who are broke and leveraged to the hilt who look down their noses at Dave Ramsey for various reasons. However, you cant ignore the results. His plan, if followed in its entirety, will lead people to a much more sustainable and successful financial situation. Sure, you may quibble with something here or there. I certainly do. But, teatotaling works. Abstinence works. Debt free works.
We had near zero credit card debt but just got walloped with bills over the past 3 months, so it’s back up a bit.
1. Dog ACL tear surgery
2. 3 year-old dryer broke
3. 3 year-old car needed all new fuel injectors
4. Wife still has 3 baby teeth – it’s a hereditary thing – and one broke.
5. Same dog needs a tumor on lip removed (she’s only 8 and it could be a malignant melanoma)
OMWC approves
“Using a credit card was the second most popular answer, with 19 percent of respondents saying they’d deal with an emergency with plastic”
There’s your answer.
Dayum. If I had less than $1k set aside for whatever I would be doing anything – mercenary work, dangerous conditions, whatever – to get some cash built up in the very short term. I simply cannot imagine…
I thought it was common knowledge and practice to have a few months expenses available for emergencies.
It is neither common knowledge nor common practice. A whole bunch of people literally live paycheck to paycheck (as opposed to the broader definition that has come to exist as of late). As in, their balance is less than $100 by the time their next paycheck comes. Poor folks use payday lenders when SHTF. Middle class folks use credit cards when SHTF.
Basic financial literacy is not taught to most people, and more than a few are blown away when they’re exposed to common sense financial knowledge for the first time.
I’ll also add that there’s a discipline issue, too. It’s one thing to know what to do, but its another thing to actually deprive yourself and save for a rainy day.
Maybe it is part of living/working in Japan where I’m too busy to be out on the town, spending the equivalent of $70 to $100 on an evening, more than 2 or 3 times a month. My spending habits are minimal because I have little opportunity to be out there buying stuff. OTOH my wife and I made pretty good coin before the kids came and most of that went into paying off real estate.
It was true most of my 20’s – except when I was on active duty. I could blow my whole paycheck and still get 3 meals a day and no worries about rent.
Since then, the wife and I have tried to save some money so no paycheck would be unpleasant.
but wouldn’t break us for at least a year.
Yes, spend one afternoon listening to the Dave Ramsey show.
At our current expenses the OBE household probably could go on for 6 months sans paychecks. Of course we would drastically cut out all the goodies and probably stretch that to over a year.
I’m terrible with money but the wife…she tightens that purse at the sight of any possible rough waters.
I would venture a guess that the percentage of Americans that actually collect a traditional paycheck is less than 78%, so I’m inclined to call bullshit on that.
RE: Fertility rates.
I’ve discussed it before; the only reason the elites give two shits about this is that a stable (or shrinking) population will cause their welfare state pyramid schemes to collapse even faster. It will be quite interesting when, in 10 or 20 years, the progs turn on a dime and start lobbying to make abortion illegal. One of the first things the Soviets did when they seized power was make abortion-on-demand legal. 20 years later when the population was tanking, they immediately made it 100% illegal again.
To the extent the central planners give a fuck about population stabilization they wish to achieve it through migration for political reasons, so this is a win-win.
It works in the short term, but when they get their socialist wish and the economy eventually shits the bed the flow of people coming in will dry up. Their primary concern will shift to keeping people from leaving and trying to get them to breed.
Possibly, but the state of any western economy would need to collapse to pre-WWII levels before it would rival any of the “developing” shit holes where mass migration is coming from, so that’s a good century out or more I’d say. We’ll be two or three generations of central planners down the line by then, and who knows what will en vogue politically.
Looks at how fast Venezuela collapsed… Yeah i don’t know if it would only take 100 years. Even if our collapse wasn’t as fast Venezuela, look at Argentina. In 1904 it was one of the richest countries in the world. By 1950 it was already on it’s way to underdevelopment status.
That’s true. There’s a certain amount of institutional inertia in terms of international finance that would better insulate the western economies, but things can spiral pretty quickly.
Our economy (and the culture as a whole) is like a huge freight train. You have to lean on the brake for quite a while before it comes to a stop. This is doubly true because there are still people (the market) shoveling coal into the boiler as best as they can.
However, at some point you’ve clubbed enough firemen on the head, and you succeed at grinding the train to a halt.
I will say that we are lucky that a lot of other countries are doing the same stupid self inflicting wounds to their economies so we don’t look bad in comparison. If Europe was not doing the same thing they would advance faster than us. That probably is a big factor in the rapid decline of Argentina. They stopped progressing as fast or at all and the rest of the world kept chugging along.
Trsh just explained the plot to Fahrenheit Shrugged.
In the punchbowl of currencies, the dollar is still the best looking turd.
[insert image Swiss responded to me with here]
The big individual donors and corporations want population growth and they don’t care how they get it. Does it matter to Verizon if they sell a phone and plan to me, or to an immigrant collecting welfare? They get their money either way,
They like me because I pay my bills – but not as much as they like a caravan of migrants all wanting cell service.
Basically, you’re saying these governments are living paycheck to paycheck.
Bond offering to bond offering.
But the difference in this situation is the boss has no option to fire this bum and hire somebody else. This bum will keep showing up and collect his paycheck regardless of what the boss thinks.
China’s ambassador: why the double standard on justice for Canadians, Chinese?
The reason why some people are used to arrogantly adopting double standards is due to Western egotism and white supremacy. In such a context, the rule of law is nothing but a tool for their political ends and a fig leaf for their practising hegemony in the international arena. What they have been doing is not showing respect for the rule of law, but mocking and trampling the rule of law.
The pot calling the kettle yellow.
“not showing respect for the rule of law, but mocking and trampling the rule of law”
What’s a good word or phrase for when someone says something that is true, but that they are the worst perpetrator of it. This is more than mere hypocrisy.
Psychological projection. Carl Rove strategy #3.
“The cleverest trick used in propaganda against Germany during the war was to accuse Germany of what our enemies themselves were doing,”
–Goebbels
I am seriously interested in knowing what their official translation – English to Mandarin – is for the term “rule of law”. Intellectually, that should win an Olympic gold for a combination of gymnastics and yoga.
“Police in Canada can now demand breath samples in bars, at home
It may sound unbelievable, but Canada’s revised laws on impaired driving could see police demand breath samples from people in bars, restaurants, or even at home. And if you say no, you could be arrested, face a criminal record, ordered to pay a fine, and subjected to a driving suspension.
You could be in violation of the impaired driving laws even two hours after you’ve been driving. Now, the onus is on drivers to prove they weren’t impaired when they were on the road.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/4832762/impaired-driving-canada-breath-samples/
WTF, Canada?
Fuck you, eh
“Now, the onus is on drivers to prove they weren’t impaired when they were on the road.”
We don’t know you weren’t driving drunk, so you must have been until you prove the impossibility of such
And I thought Utah going to 0.05% BAC was ridiculous.
They did? Christ, what assholes.
I’ll refrain from directly attacking
MormonsLater Day Saints in deference to Mojeaux and GadiantonMeh I’ll Do it (cause I’m a fairly active member). The reason why i think this law passed is that a lot of members of the church in Utah have little to no experience with drinking. Not just that they have never drank, but they have never been around someone who drank. I’ve dealt with a lot who think that you have one drink and immediately become retarded and have no memory of what is going on. I’ve never had alcohol in my life, but I also know that a few drinks does not mean you are all of the sudden unable to be an adult.
Thanks for that explanation. Makes sense. I mean, it’s a terrible way to make law, but I get it.
As a really inactive member, I’ll go with the simple one: LDS theology says no drinking, and so legislators and voters in Utah who don’t get how “agency” works decided to use to blunt trauma of the law to try to force people to follow said theology.
See also: marijuana policy since 1930.
Man, it’s hard times in a lot of the English-speaking world for individual liberty. Kind of scares me, to be honest.
The Day of the Rake can’t come soon enough
Makes me thankful for the tattered remnants of the constitution that we still have in place.
How would they know that you were driving, let alone on the road?
Accessing the data from your phone, GPS, or that gadget the insurance company installs in your car, maybe.
You have to prove you weren’t.
I couldn’t have been driving because I was drunk.
I pictured that being thundered across a courtroom in an episode of Perry Mason.
Venezuela jailing, torturing military officers amidst coup fears
At this point I’d be surprised if Maduro lasts out the year before being deposed Nicolae Ceaușescu-style. Of course, they’re going to instill an equally shitty government when they do it, but the world will be better off without him.
Let’s hope the purge lasts a little longer. Once Maduro goes down, all the rats who propped him up will flee. Better that Maduro axes as many as possible before he gets whacked himself.
I’ll contribute money to a fund for sending Chomsky to monitor progress in Caracas.
I’ll contribute as well.
Silverman had her own political talk show? I’m sure she was totes qualified for such a job. Michael McKean is outraged!
smh.
“In November, Silverman said that she felt lucky that President Trump didn’t make her wear a star on her clothes like in Nazi Germany.
“You know, in a time, Bill, where anti-Semitic crime is up 57 percent since this douchebag has taken office, it is not lost on me that I am very lucky that I get a star and I don’t have to sew it on my clothes,” the I Smile Back actress told Bill Maher on HBO.
During the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, Silverman wished for Trump to be “held down” and “violated.”
Gee, what’s the problem? It’s informed and witty!
They’re really trying to own the anti-semitic narrative eh? Sickening.
Yeah, most of that anti-Semitism asn’t coming from the right.
Now go clap for Linda Sarsour like a trained seal you stupid twat.
Mme. Naptown got drunk and dropped that “Trump is a Nazi supporter” line on me the other day. I said, “His daughter’s a fuckin’ Jew! His son-in-law is a Jew! His grandkids are Jews! If you’re going to say some shit like that then the burden is on you to prove it.” She trotted out his post-Charlottesville remarks as “evidence”. I went back to playing video games.
If all they’ve got is C’ville….then they’ve got nothing really.
He’s the most forthright, deliberate speaker when they need him to be, and just a confused old white dude they need him to be.
The ole Reagan playbook.
How dare he imply that the counter-protestors (protestors?) might have aggravated an already tense situation in such a way as to contribute to the likelihood that violence would take place!?
If you’re going to say some shit like that then the burden is on you to prove it.
Evidence is so passe’.
Bill Prady
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@billprady
You need to understand that @SarahKSilverman’s “I Love You America” was more than a comedy show. It was a conscious effort to make the country a better place. The loss is more than just the loss of some TV.
lol.
As you see it.
A conscious effort by bashing a President with ignorant nonsense and mocking half the population?
Yeah-k pal.
She should move to youtube and see if she can attract any viewers.
But then she’d have to compete with the likes of the white nationalist mega-anti-semite Pewdiepie!
Michael McKean is outraged!
Shut the fuck up, Lenny.
Bookmaker pays out hundreds of thousands to people who bet on Trump lying a lot in White House address
When you put on the sunglasses, the headline actually reads: “Bookmaker spends a few hundred thousand on marketing campaign, predictable results ensue”
Seem’s like they didn’t learn from the old adage, “How do you know a politician is lying to you…”
If the worthless bastard’s black, evil heart is still unfortunately beating?
Pfffft…
Washington Post “fact checker”
“The Washington Post’s fact checker…”
I dont even know how to respond to that.
Which six statements?
On my drive in to work today, I heard the local news brief. They said that per new Fed requirements, water department employees will soon be coming to people’s homes to see if they have lead pipes. Has anyone else heard this? I suppose the water utility has a legal right, because typically the pipes are their property up to the meter…after the meter is yours. And while the talking head didn’t explain which pipes, I assume they mean only up to the meter. Still, it bothers me that the EPA (I assume) can just decree that the local water employee gets to poke around my basement. I know…It’s For The Children™. Also; FYTW
“local water employee gets to poke around my basement.”
Rookie Mistake, the Lead Pipe is in the Conservatory with Col. Mustard.
STEVE SMITH POKE AROUND IN BASEMENT TOO.
The EPA employee was killed by-
MikeS, in the basement, with the lead pipe.
Now where did I put the wood chipper…
The only pipes made of lead are the wastewater pipes and there are few of those left. We stopped installing them decades and decades ago.
They are counting on people not knowing this so they can invade their homes and privacy..
Certain older cities have a lot of lead containing pipes in their infrastructure. DC has so much that they have a dedicated online map to help you figure out if you have a lead service line coming to your house or neighborhood.
https://geo.dcwater.com/Lead/
Anacostia is covered with lead service pipes, no surprises there.
Our house was built in the 1920s and has a lead main, just as every other house within probably a ten mile radius. You know what? It’s fine. There is so much sediment built up in the pipes that the lead has no chance of leaching in unless the pipe is disturbed somehow. People are freaking out over nothing.
I replaced a lead drain pipe in my Wichita house 15 years ago. The house was built in 1924. I wore a respirator and it hasn’t affected me yet! *sprouts a third horn*
They said that per new Fed requirements, water department employees will soon be coming to people’s homes to see if they have lead pipes.
“Get a fucking warrant. Oh, and if you try to shut off my water, before I’m done I’ll be garnishing your wages for the rest of your life.”
The problem with Twitter is that people are so stupid they make me defend Chelsea Clinton.
https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton/status/1083368489207902208
Nate must be one of those Internet Intellectuals. Profound:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna955946
DOOM! THE SKY IS FALLING! WHAT WILL WE DO!
but seriously, I cant tell the difference.
WHO WILL SPY ON ME, STEAL THE MONEY I WORK HARD TO MAKE SO THEY CAN BUY VOTES FROM LOSERS WITH IT, AND GENERALLY TRAMPLE ON MY RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS IF GOVERNMENT IS SHUT DOWN????
PAAAANNNNIIICCC!!!!!1!!eleventy
The country would face an economic hellscape if the government shutdown lasts “months or even years,” as the president has suggested it might, experts tell NBC News.
The doomsday scenario might be unlikely — the longest the federal government has ever shut down is 21 days, a record that will fall if the current closure lasts until Saturday — but it is chilling.
*faints*
Peter Jackson’s Restored WWI Footage Underscores The Flaccidity Of Today’s Culture
Reminds me of this: http://gallup-international.bg/en/Publications/2015/220-WIN-Gallup-International’s-global-survey-shows-three-in-five-willing-to-fight-for-their-country
To be honest I don’t know, but if some country actually was trying to invade the US and attack my family, I believe I’d get my ass on the first possible plane or boat back to the States.
I’m not a fan of either cultural mindset. Dying for your country isn’t necessarily a virtue.
Not necessarily, no. The circumstances determine. To the extent that dying for your country represents dying for a set of values that are more important than your temporal existence, it’s virtuous and honorable. Even dying as a conscript for a cause you couldn’t give a shit about shows a certain intestinal fortitude though.
We need to close the conscript gap. Einstein said that he didn’t know what would happen in WW3 but WW4 will be fought with sticks. I’m think WW4 will be fought with trannies.
In bathrooms?
+1 Swordfights
I wouldn’t die for the sake of the united states government.
I would die for my neighbors and family.
If the threat was grave to the U.S. government, I wouldn’t be concerned.
If the threat was grave to my family and neighbors, I’ll go to war
So what you’re saying is you’re ready to go to Syria?
As soon as the Syrian government becomes a threat to me, I’ll pack my rifle and buy a ticket to Syria.
I am imagining the customs questions you get when you land in Syria.
Do you have anything to declare?
Yes, war.
Do you have to bring paperwork from congress to make it legit?
Do you have to bring paperwork from congress to make it legit?
bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha. What does Congress have to with declaring war
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
….
To
declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and waterlook helplessly around and grumble about how Orangemanbad is using his warmaking power in badthinking badways, but they can’t do anything to stop it;I don’t think anybody thinks of themselves as dying for the sake of the US government. I think soldiers fight for, and die for, their fellows, and (sometimes) because they just fucking hate the other side.
If you get a chance to watch “Hunting Isis” (can’t recall which channel showed it, but I think you can still get it on demand), its really interesting. Its about some Americans who joined up with the Kurds to fight Isis in Iraq. They are quite self-aware of why they do it; they openly admit they miss the brotherhood and the rush of combat, and they talk about how freaking evil Isis is and how much they hate them and want to kill them all.
Said almost every Confederate soldier. But then, of course, Abe Lincoln’s 75,000 volunteers weren’t a threat to “your” family and friends, just to those officials who manned the secessionist states. It wasn’t until much later in the war that one had to be remotely concerned about invaders burning your house and barn and molesting your family.
I reserve the to determine what foreign threat is scary enough to effect me and mine.
*right*
Understood and agreed. Hindsight isn’t wisdom, of course, but I kind of think 300,000 southern dead and a ruined economy in a losing cause might have prompted me, a northerner, to stand aside and let the fire-eaters duke it out without me.
“Can any culture—British, American or any other—raise “rough men” ready to defend it against a ruthless enemy when it cannot even fix in the minds of its developing youth what their sex is?”
I can’t do this right now. I don’t care how stupid the left is, this is just as stupid. War is not glorious, and those boys lives were thrown away. And for what? The glory, honor and dignity of some Royal families? The Dignity of some politicians who had mad secret alliances? WWI was one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, and a principle cause for much of the heartache of the rest of the century.
It’s up to the deplorables in flyover country to do the dying.
Flaccidity is a hard word to pronounce.
Just demonstrate it instead.
Just practice singing Queensryche
Ahem, Queensrÿche.
‘Murican English doesn’t need diacriticals.
*red-tailed hawk scream*
That was about 5 generations ago. The British Empire was still a thing, the English were still a proud and patriotic people. May as well be reading ancient history.
Empires take about 10 generations to go from Outburst to Decadence and collapse. The British Empire is long gone now and London is a Muslim city.
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf
This one grinds gears from both sides.
As a “millenial” I knew about half my high school that was rah rahed up to go join the army and kill some people cause Merica. Really no point to it, unless there’s a worthy cause. And it definitely messed up more than a few of them who weren’t as suited for it as they thought.
On the other hand broad stroking a whole age segment of us to pretend we’re all on our man periods and looking for a safe space pisses me off every time. That is a tiny sample size even on the college campuses it occurs on. They just happen to be loud on the Internet, most likely cause they don’t do anything in real life. Most people my age I hang out with now go about our lives same way our parents did.
Just fuck generalizations I guess would be the point.
You sound mad. Do you need a safe space?
That is a tiny sample size even on the college campuses it occurs on
Disagreed. In my experience (also as a millennial), there are a whole lot of people my age and slightly younger that are having serious issues with:
1) massive narcissism and the social/mental/emotional side effects
2) the partial or complete inability to function as an adult, including holding down a job, paying bills, basic home economics, etc.
3) depression/anger associated with the fact that they cant measure up to their more successful peers and their parents
Overgeneralizing sucks, but undergeneralizing threatens to ignore the broad factors contributing to these failures to start becoming much more commonplace.
In the span of 100 years, Britain has gone from producing men who were so eager to fight and die for their country that 16-year-olds lied about their age to enlist when the minimum age was 19, to teaching primary school boys that they can have periods just like girls and offering feminine hygiene products in boys’ bathrooms.
I agree with a lot of the folks here that the mush about the glory of war implicit in this is just plain silly. That said, I think there is a point buried in here somewhere. The generations of boys who signed up to go fight in pointless wars were the same generations of boys who gave us the Industrial Revolution, the English and Scottish Enlightenment and modern capitalism with standards of living that people today might kind of, sort of, recognize. That wasn’t an accident. The same constellation of masculine qualities that gave us one gave us the others. Just channeled differently. And, increasingly, those qualities themselves are being regarded as “problematic” by a cultural leadership that deludes itself that all of those things can somehow be maintained absent the qualities that made them possible in the first place. Much more than “rough men”, I fear for our civilization rendering itself unable to survive without any outside forces imposing it on us.
Our lives have become so good that we have forgotten how to be “rough men”.
Kids don’t die off in droves, so we become more attached to them than previous generations. We are used to eating well. Poor people in “food deserts” now have access to a greater variety of foods (and higher quality) than almost anyone in previous generations. Even MRE’s would seem like a total luxury to the people fighting WWI.
The list goes on and on. We’re pussies because we can be.
Read my link. Every empire in history went through the same cycle. After they (the British, Arabs, Greeks, Romans, Americans…) conquered huge swaths of territory and became incredibly rich, they gradually became soft, weak, and decadent. The collapse is always internal.
Up the stairs of civilization in boots, down the stairs in slippers.
The mighty have fallen.
On my drive in to work today, I heard the local news brief. They said that per new Fed requirements, water department employees will soon be coming to people’s homes to see if they have lead pipes. Has anyone else heard this?
I overheard a conversation one time, about how somebody had let the utility company come in to do an “energy audit” or some such thing. The guy snooped around and then wrote them up for a bunch of “code violations”.
“Where are the white women at? Not having babies that’s for sure.”
Hey, I’m doing my part with my white woman.
Way to take one for the team, Lach. Your sacrifice for the greater good is duly noted. You are a true hero.
For a Real-World Example of Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Proposal, Look to Sweden
The obsession with Sweden never ends…
I’m not going to read that whole thing, but I’m guessing they are comparing just one tax rate and ignoring a whole host of other factors that make Sweden what it is.
This is the end of the article. So everything the writer says in the article wouldn’t work and doesn’t justify Ocasio-Cortez.
“Economists say high taxes work in the Nordic region because the notion of state welfare is so deeply rooted in its culture. The region also has a highly educated population, multiple supports built into the labor market and a relatively high level of trust in government, which allows the system to work.
“No country can start with a clean slate,” said Karkkainen. “So taking the Nordic model and attempting to implement it in the U.S., which has a much larger population and very different history, it wouldn’t work there in the same way as it works here.’’
Thank you LJW, for saving me those minutes of my life that I would never get back had I read it.
Yeah. Just a reminder.
A country with about the population of New Jersey who’s population was, until recently, pretty close to 100% Swede and Sami.
This fellow decided to skip the tapas part and just go with a bit more coke.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HSAblEFCJ34
This asshat work for the IRS?
Unsigned artist?
You don’t say.
I watched a little bit and just kept thinking there is no way in hell that’s real.
He reminds me of the old lady I have to pay my property taxes to every year… she too wears bling and talks about breaking your kneecaps if you don’t pay her her money…
The doomsday scenario might be unlikely — the longest the federal government has ever shut down is 21 days, a record that will fall if the current closure lasts until Saturday — but it is chilling.
“We’ll be in no man’s land,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told NBC News.
Well, if Mark Zandi says it, it must be true. I’d better go dig a hole for somebody to bury me in.
Moody’s… you mean that ratings agency that should have been sued into non-existence after the mortgage meltdown?
Exactly what I thought. How do you downgrade a ratings agency to junk status? Geez.
I would go dig a hole for myself, but I was killed more than a year ago when net neutrality was not implemented.
My corpse was dug up and burned in effigy when the tax cuts were passed, so I cant even be reburied.
I assume all the posters here who lived in the American mainland are all just AIs with the algorithms of all you deceased.
Are you not already dead from Net Neutrality being rolled back and the tax cuts? I know I am!
Jesus Christ:
Sarah Silverman
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@SarahKSilverman
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Sarah Silverman Retweeted Donald J. Trump
You are amazing. Every single tweet you write projects your personal character and crimes onto others. Your twitter feed is a massive confession it’s stunning. Ps snort more adderall it’s not off putting at all
Sarah Silverman added,
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
The Mainstream Media has NEVER been more dishonest than it is now. NBC and MSNBC are going Crazy. They report stories, purposely, the exact opposite of the facts. They are truly the Opposition Party working with the Dems. May even be worse than Fake News CNN, if that is possible!
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A couple of things. She has 12.4 million followers. Second, the mainstream comedian community sure are coming out to support her.
What a bunch of fucken loons. They pretend to be ‘free thinking iconoclasts’ when in the end they’re just your run of the mill illiberal progressive smart-alecs.
https://twitter.com/SarahKSilverman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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I miss the show already! Loved it.
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Sounds like the ‘Bubble People’ on the progressive left miss it.
Proggie circle jerk
Too local, but I don’t care. And KK might be tangentially interested:
Cavalier, ND web cam racks up millions of views
F’d up the story link
I don’t care.
Fitting!
Shhhhhh! Anyone who puts up a webcam in Colfax is going in the bayou.
I don’t understand something about this border wall/shut down thing. Why doesn’t Trump just call everyone into a meeting and tell them, “Well, uh, I won”. And then he gets what he wants. I thought that’s how it works.
+1 The Art of the Deal
Man, that NBC article is really something. The fucking Earth will stop rotating without the federal government to turn the crank, apparently.
Even with no end to the shutdown in sight, Brusuelas predicted that public outrage will lead to one soon enough.
“Workers are going to start walking out,” he said. “People will take to the streets.”
Yes, yes, of course, teh peepuls will riot in the streets to get the government turned back on.
Is he saying there will be a General Strike because of the shutdown? Cause i doubt very many people realize that there is a shutdown.
Oh, do please yes. Go play in traffic. Use your paid furlough to make real workers hate you even more.
Belgium recently went 18 months without a government. And I believe don’t have one now, yet again.
You have more faith in teh peeluls than I do.
In the span of 100 years, Britain has gone from producing men who were so eager to fight and die for their country that 16-year-olds lied about their age to enlist when the minimum age was 19,
And then they were shipped off into a gigantic pointless slaughterhouse run by a bunch of incompetent buffoons. No thanks.
The UK is lucky their boys don’t have any balls. If they did, they’d have most of the ruling class in the Tower of London.
It isnt luck, it’s by design.
On the short-term, you’re right. Except how do they think they’ll be able to sustain their civilization and way of life without the sort who, under some circumstances, might turn their talents against the rulers?
It all sounds lovely until you realize you’ve bred a nation of serfs barely fit to plow a turnip patch.
The appalling misuse of those young men doesn’t change the fact that Britain needs their kind and doesn’t produce them anymore.
Over 2 years after voters passed medical marijuana with ~60%, we are only a month or so from the first dispensaries opening. Except…oops, not many doctors want to prescribe it.
Dispensary licensing process for medical marijuana in ND beginning
Wait a minute, wouldn’t the best care be patient driven or am I missing something?
You will do what the TOP MEN say and you will be happy about it!
Ooooh. UHF is on Amazon Prime. Love that movie so.
And it could never be made today, if for nothing else then the Supplies! gag.
Most of my favorite comedies could never be made today.
Not many comedies from the 1970s or 1980s could be re-made today.
Not many comedies from the 1970s or 1980s could be re-made today.
And if the Ghostbusters reboot taught us anything, it’s that even if they could be re-made today, they shouldn’t be re-made today.
Same with the slasher films. The time honored boob shot has been left out of far too many modern comedies and horror films. I blame the internet.
I have not watched that Ghostbusters remake specifically because I was worried about a gratuitous boob shots. It is one thing to see Sigourney Weaver’s stuff, but the hags in the remake would make me loose my lunch.
Just watch the Cinema Sins take down of the Ghostbusters remake on Youtube, you’ll save yourself over an hour.
“SUPPLIES!”
That still cracks me up.
I still use it on my Japanese wife all the time. (No matter what she says, it never gets old.)
Raoul’s Wild Kingdom probably wouldn’t fly today, either.
+100 flying poodles
Forgot about that one. I might have to watch that movie again.
+1 marble in oatmeal
You get to drink from….THE FIRE HOSE!!!!
A true cinematic gem. I can remember seeing this one in the theater with my father – we laughed until it hurt. We were alone in the theater which makes me think we were the only people in Charlottesville who paid to see this movie.
Tried to show it to my wife but she doesn’t get it. It might be a deal breaker.
I’m thinking of sumthin orange….
Heard this on the radio yesterday morning on KBEM Jazz. It’s from 1972. The DJ said it is one of the earliest recordings of what is considered disco. Both the music and the video are amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0CeFX6E2yI
Excellent track, I’ve got that album around somewhere. You might also try some King Sunny Ade.
Disco sucks!
(just kidding, I actually kind of like disco, even though I am neither flamboyantly gay nor came of age in the 1970s)
Disco here, disco there, disco everywhere???
More on the DL huh?
Thanks for linking that. Mesmerizing song and video.
I think Michael Jackson heard that song.
I’m still trying to track down what the first legitimate techno song is. I don’t know if Kraftwerk would count.
My gut tells me it might be this.
Cybotron’s Alleys of your Mind and Sharevari were also released in 1981.
the first legitimate techno song
I guess it depends on the definition of techno. Tangerine Dream was one of the pioneers of electronic music, and I think even had the first all-synthesizer album, but it wasn’t dance music.
That’s my issue with TD and Kraftwerk — they pioneered electronica, but not specifically techno.
Honorable mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1xOZyBc2Ck
Come to think of it, that’s actually kinda close to a four-on-the-floor beat.
I’ve definitely heard that, but that beat is more house-like to me. Fun stuff.
My coworker today showed me the pics from his New Year’s vacation to The Philippines. One picture of him is at the gun range and he’s shooting some handgun. The next picture he showed me was of a small, dirty chicken coop with a bunch of roosters. The sign on the coop said “500p” (pesos, evidently). I asked him why he took a picture of a chicken coop. “Oh, that was at the gun range. You can buy one for target practice.” They don’t even bother eating the things when done. My old man would beat me senseless if I did something like that.
Reminds me of this.
https://youtu.be/GTFtwn-mdbk
I lived in a small town (the same one with the frozen cow leg) that had an annual festival based around the disposal of surplus roosters.
Yesterday, as I was headed toward town, I saw a bizarre and amazing cloud formation. If I had had my phone with me, I would have jumped out of the car and taken pics.
It undoubtedly was created by “winds aloft”. The best description I can offer is it looked like two sloppily constructed layer cakes pushed together. At one point, one side of it looked eerily similar to the Guggenheim Museum. And, of course, it was highlighted by the sun. Amazing.
You gotta stop washing down your peyote with absinthe my man.
Something somewhat similar to this
Those are clearly angels rushing to help R. Kelly is his time of troubles.
You’re talking about lenticular clouds.
You can buy one for target practice.” They don’t even bother eating the things when done.
Sounds like the fighting cock retirement home.
All aboard!
A growing number of Democrats considering a presidential bid have signaled support for the sweeping “Green New Deal” pushed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other liberal lawmakers, underscoring how the 2020 field is being pulled further left by the influential progressive wing.
An analysis by Fox News shows at least eight potential Democratic candidates have voiced support for or touted aspects of the proposal, which amounts to a drastic overhaul of the U.S. economy and government benefit system.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., 37, who says he is looking at a 2020 presidential run, told Fox News he was “excited” to support the proposal and be a part of the process.
“When it comes to climate change, we need to advance policies that don’t ask Americans to choose between their jobs and clean air and water,” Swalwell told Fox News this week. “We can do that by greening the grid with investments in renewable energy and a wage and skills guarantee for any displaced worker.”
He added: “It’s time to go big on this issue with bold solutions. I welcome a Green New Deal and am excited to offer additional ideas to create meaningful jobs and address the crisis of climate change.”
Higher-profile potential candidates ranging from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Sen. Cory Booker also have voiced support.
Get on the Crazy Train, Demos. Pour on the coals.
What could go wrong?
” Pour on the coals.”
Seriously? Why do you hate Mother Gaia?
You don’t think they’d leave such an important project to “solar” or “wind”, do you? *snort*
The expansive Green New Deal proposal has floated in Democratic circles for years but was given new life by the Sunrise Movement and liberal lawmakers like Ocasio-Cortez. The package would focus on income inequality and climate change, combining ideas incorporated in former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signature New Deal, and modern ideas like renewable energy and resource efficiency.
A draft text of the plan has circulated around Congress and laid out a framework that includes eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and agriculture and “dramatically” expanding energy sources to meet 100 percent of power demand through renewable sources. The proposal describes this as a “historic opportunity to virtually eliminate poverty in the United States and to make prosperity, wealth and economic security available to everyone participating in the transformation.”
Sounds legit.
“If we tank hundreds of billions of dollars of existing infrastructure, everyone will be rich!”
If I don’t get a pony as part of the deal I can’t support it.
Trump to offer dems to build several thousand windmills. On top of the wall.
That would be hilarious.
“eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and agriculture ”
I envision starving waifs scratching in the dirt with sticks because that is exactly what this means. Remove the words ‘greenhouse gas emissions from’ and the phrase has the same meaning.
Sounds legit.
Sounds like thinly veiled marxism.
A truck driving down Main Street is probably the loudest thing you’ll ever hear in Cavalier, a northeast North Dakota town of around 1,300 people.
But that’s exactly what’s drawing people in.
On a busy day, more than 27,000 people are watching a livestream from a webcam that sits just above the town’s main drag.
If you want to watch nothing happen, I think there’s webcam in Cooke City, Montana.
Or I could just look out my window.
Oh, you never know what might be out your window.
Your kitty is cold. You should let her in.
What ever happened to the “knee to the nuts” response?
A top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign forcibly kissed a female staffer during the Democratic National Convention in 2016, the staffer has alleged, Politico reported late Wednesday.
The unidentified woman and three other people who reportedly either witnessed or learned of the incident told Politico that Robert Becker told the woman that he wanted to have sex with her and referred to riding his “pole,” according to Politico.
Becker later approached the woman, grabbed her wrists and forcibly kissed her, putting his tongue in her mouth, the woman and other sources told Politico.
The woman, who was in her 20s, never reported the incident because it occurred at the end of the campaign, Politico reported.
I’m not sure I can accept this “attempted rape” story at face value. I guess I’m a misogynistic asshole. That doesn’t mean she wouldn’t have been justified in slapping him.
never reported the incident because it occurred at the end of the campaign
That . . . makes no sense.
That was my thought. You’re supposed to cover up things during the campaign. Haven’t they learned anything from Hillary?
I don’t understand her objection. She had loads of female sexual companionship just in herself. Becker had none. All he did was use redistribution to resolve that tragic condition of inequality. It’s just outrageous of her to insist that the distribution of her sexual attention should be solely a function of her own selfish wants and needs, rather than the greater collective good.
Comrade Sanders should have a talk with her.
Nobody needs 23 different brands of deodorant!
Matt Ridley: To cover just the 2% annual growth in energy demand, we’d need 350,000 new wind turbines covering an area the size of Russia, and that gets us to 2070.
But think of all those green jobs!
And then the jobs created when they burst in flames!
https://youtu.be/wfzgIxMEo8g
Exactly this. Environmentalists are absolutely willfully obtuse when it comes to capital costs and longevity issues. My 96 Suburban may not be fuel efficient, but it’s been on the road for 23 years and hasn’t been replaced with multiple new “fuel efficient” vehicles that each has a capital investment in terms of money and environmental impact.
Oh, you never know what might be out your window.
SWEEEEET!
Also out my window.
“Yo, where yo azaleas?”
It’s pronounced “azaleas”
Eaten by the fucking deer.
Actually, they just don’t make it here. The deer don’t do much damage at all to our plants; the closest they have come up is hopping the wall into our backyard on occasion to eat the rose hips.
Its the damn javalinas that will wreck your landscaping.
Officially approved to keep fucking the corpse for 6 more years baby!
I like the picture of Bolivar in the background. He doesn’t look pleased.