Happy Tuesday, back to work, back to work. Unless you’re snowed in or frozen in. I was up pretty late drinking and reading Azure documentation. So I guess I just need to be properly buzzed for the test next week. Thank God for Uber, right?
Prudish scolds shouted down the Library of Congress for noticing (as our own Sloopy did) that Stonewall Jackson (a pretty good American soldier before he joined the Confederacy) happened to be born on the same day his conquerors (or re-conquerors) government chose to honor Dr. Martin Luther King’s contribution to America. I kind of wonder who Dr. King would identify with more being Southern, a gun owner, and having experienced the oppression at the hands of government agents. I guess I should text my wife and tell her to prepare for my doxxing.
How likely are you to live to 90? If you’re a woman, be tall and thin. If you’re man, its pretty much a crapshoot (t/w CNN, but currently featuring a Warty approved picture)
Riven — I have found your retirement career.
SEALS needing electroshock therapy to be normal? Anyone surprised? Kidding aside, its really electro-stimulation and anything that helps alleviate PTSD and other mental and TBI damage effects from war is good.
The article for Riven put me in mind of a certain album cover, and this song seems like something Florida Man would come up with.
The rate Im going, I’ll be lucky to see 55.
Go ahead….inspired by the previous thread: hit that motherfkin’ THEME MUSIC !
Thank god….I thought it was gonna be a link to I Can’t Drive 55
Sammy Hager is a walking hate crime perpetrated against my ears.
-1 Blonde Mane
AHEM! DON’T TELL ME WHAT VAN HAGAR CAN DO:
https://youtu.be/SXbL-qQKv9c
That which is understood need not be discussed.
No love Red ? Or some Three Lock Box ?
What’s a Standing Hampton?
What you do in Long Island when the beach is full? I dunno.
Drink some ice tea obviously.
$20, same as downtown.
I never thought I would yet here I am. Ya’ never know.
Yeah, I thought so too, although I still have a ways to go. And things could change.
Did business today with a 94 year old man. I thought he might be in his early 70s when we first began to talk.
At one point he told me Im older than you think I am. Im a lot younger both mentally and physically than I actually am.
When he said 94 I couldn’t believe it.
He is wanting to remodel one of his houses, interior and exterior.
At 94!!
There was a time when I seriously doubted I’d see 30. Not sure why I would want to make to 90 unless they come up with some serious rejuvenation treatments.
See above
and anything that helps alleviate PTSD and other mental and TBI damage effects from war is good.
Unless it’s MDMA, then it’s fuck you, GI.
Weren’t they looking at changing the scheduling on that stuff or was that shot down?
They’ve gone to Phase 3 medical trials in Canada, but it is still Schedule 1 in the US.
It’s got some good company:
Slavers.
So 3 of those 6 have potential therapeutic use, and a fourth is basically an old drug that would work perfectly fine except that there are better alternatives.
Peyote is for desert vision quests, dammit!
I would say ‘proven’, but yeah. It’s fucking unconscionable.
Yes, but someone, somewhere might enjoy themselves in an unapproved manner, therefore they are the worst kind of drug.
Yes. Its in a Stage 3 clinical trial, and one would assume that it would be no more than Schedule II in that case. Although I would think Schedule III is more in line with where it belongs. But then again, Ritalin is Schedule II.
Here’s nice results from a recent Phase 2 clinical trial, but it’s still a long way from being rescheduled. But at least the FDA is permitting the studies, which is a big change from their past:
Adding 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also known as ecstasy, to intensive psychotherapy can significantly mitigate symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), new research confirms.
One month after MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, 43% of patients no longer met criteria for PTSD, and 12 months after MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, 76% of participants no longer had PTSD, according to results of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—regulated phase 2 clinical trial.
“The long-term results are the most significant finding from this latest trial, the largest ever completed of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD,” Brad Burge, director of strategic communications for the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which funded the study, told Medscape Medical News.
“The finding that about three quarters of participants no longer had PTSD a full year after receiving their last treatment with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy suggests that the treatment is not just ameliorating symptoms and is instead addressing the root cause of PTSD — specifically, a person’s inner relationship with their past traumatic experiences,” said Burge.
This treatment has the potential to “greatly improve the lives of people suffering from PTSD, regardless of the source of their trauma,” lead investigator Marcela Ot’alora, of Aguazul-Bluewater, Inc, Boulder, Colorado, added in a news release.
“After treatment, a great majority of our participants have reported feeling more connected to themselves and to others, more joy, more compassion, and with new skills for facing life’s challenges,” Ot’alora noted.
The study was published online October 29 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology
Well, obviously we can’t let them get well on a cheap chemical that can be taken in 3-4 guided sessions over a few months.
And lessen the need for the VA!?! No way.
Plus they may have had a threesome while under the effects of the drug.
So says a friend.
Connecting with others? Compassion for others? Bah!
We discussed earlier – Nathan Phillips never went to Vietnam. He’s a Vietnam Era Vet, like that rat-bastard Blumenthal.
I thought he was a Force Recon Ranger.
The long, glorious history of the Marine Rangers will never be fully told.
Or like “Gulf War era veteran” Kos.
And I’ll still be interested to see what comes back on the FOIA regarding the nature of his time in the Green Machine.
Kos was in an MLRS unit in Germany…livin’ the life. The minute war reared its ugly head, he suddenly changed colors and left.
During the run up to Iraq War 1.0 my friend was in a BDE where the Commander tried to court martial the women in the Support Battalion who came up pregnant after the unit was alerted. The Generals in no uncertain terms told him “Hell no you won’t!” So he didn’t listen to the advice of his attorney and S1 (my friend) and screwed up 100% if the Chapter paperwork (“discharge paperwork”) and left his lesbian very good HHC 1SG as the trail party NCOIC with the word she could go downrange once the actions on the shirkers was complete. They all got out, missing one or more stripes, but the process wasn’t smooth or happy. After we all got back from our various adventures my buddy said the remaining women in the DSB would have killed for that commander, they were thrilled at what he did. Said one (paraphrase after all these years) “Those no good pussy ho’s got off, but COL X made sure they didn’t skate. I worked too hard for too long to be associated with that type of trash.”
My battalion commander had a couple of folks in the support company tell him that they decided they were gay. His CSM said “We’ll deal with it when we get back, now get on the bus.” After we got back, the CSM had the same folks in his office to start processing the paperwork. He asked them if they still thought they were gay and were told by each “Nope.” He told them to get back to work.
Soldier: Sir, I’m gay. I can’t go to war.
Battalion Commander: ok son. Suck my dick and prove it.
November 1990. I was in the Company CO’s waiting room with another Radio Operator. We can here that exact conversation through the door. It ended with “I don’t care if you blow the whole battalion, your going with us” (to Desert Sheild).
I’m stealing that bit.
Stanisheva explained in the footage that Phillips had been sent to a Catholic boarding school at the age of five. From the sound of it, he resents the experience.
“Nathan’s past is a difficult one. He was forced out of his family at the age of five to be integrated into a Catholic school — like so many other Native Americans — not being allowed to see his family for ten years,” Stanisheva stated.
So now we have motive.
This episode has really convinced me that the people I already thought were garbage proved that they were garbage. I’m loving Balko lose his mind. His jaw must be hurting him from all that deep throating he’s been doing on a collapsing progressive narrative over the past two days.
His latest argument is that he swears he sees some kids doing the “white power” symbol in some video that was supposedly at the high school. That symbol? A three-point sign with your fingers. So Balko has obviously not seen a sporting event, which is not surprising.
The Scout Salute?
I’m thinking it was the shocker.
Three to the dome, baby!
Yup. A Nazi
He may as well have a white hood on.
[Scene from Super Troopers]
>”Hey Farva, what’s that symbol people make after they score a 3-pointer?”
>”You mean this one”
> “OOooooooooohhhhh” *holds out pistol*
They’re really running with that one, which is kind of hilarious considering they’re supposed to be the hip ones down with the youth culture while the right are the out of touch fuddie-duddies. Guess they haven’t seen a basketball game in the last 15 years.
Yes, it’s the signal that referees give to the scorer’s table to indicate that a shot counts for three points rather than two.
Who knew that basketball referees were instead giving the white power sign all this time?
Good thing not too many blacks play basketball or there might have been trouble.
Also, has none of these ‘pundits’ yet realized this was never a white power symbol, only a very effective trolling by 4chan crazies, and they look stupid every time they try to claim it’s evidence of racism? Wow, they must think that when Buckwheat looked at Spanky and said “O-tay”, he must have been betraying his race and bowing to white supremacy. Sheesh.
Only white guys shoot three pointers, so obviously racist.
Stephen Curry begs to differ.
Half-white, then.
They do all the work. The plantation, I mean team, ownership is white.
*Picks up goal post*
But why are these white kids playing basketball?
*Drops post, backboard crushes skull*
Wait, is it the OK sign or the Serbian Three Finger salute, or the “points at fingers on the photo of corrupt sheriff, counts of ‘K-K-K'” scene from Mississippi Burning?
This was the same racist symbol that the ghastly woman seated behind Kavanaugh used during the Senate confirmation hearings.
FTFY
I’d give her a three-finger salute IYKWIMAITYD.
It’s baffling to me that I can so strongly agree with him on one thing, and so strongly think he’s retarded when it comes to just about anything else.
So Steph Curry and Klay Thompson are white supremacists?
It’s different for them because reasons.
Speaking of Steph, this is a tremendous article.
Some parental excellence and cool thoughts on perseverance.
I read somewhere Nathan said he was “Viet Nam time vet” and it was a “reporter” that turned that into “Viet Nam vet”. Mebbe not his doing.
Jesus H Criminiy fuck the fucking flu and fuck everything it’s been 10 days and I still want to die.
Now.
But for video. Look, cops, you’re supposed to “accidentally” turn your body camera off and claim it wasn’t working. Covering it with your hands while your partner kicks a suspect won’t work.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article224680225.html#wgt=trending
You know why Border Patrol agents call migrants/illegal immigrants/lizard people “toncs”?
I hadn’t head that before. It’s disputed, but most likely the sound of a Maglite flashlight blow to the head?
Lovely.
They were just called “bodies” when I worked for Border Patrol (ARNG) in 2007. I did hear the thing about “tonks” from a BP agent, but I never heard it actually used in practice.
Well, let’s not jump to concl-
As Adam delivers his kick, someone can be heard saying, “I’m gonna kick you in your f—— mouth, you f—— piece of s—.”
Oh.
I love how the IA guys just say “well, there wasn’t conclusive evidence that he actually made contact”. Motherfucker. Its like they’re the goddam college football review team. “Not enough evidence to overturn the default call of innocent”
There wasn’t clear evidence to overturn the call on the field. The call on the field stands – the kick to the face is inconclusive.
If you think that by now all propaganda apparatchiks have switched to the CYA mode, think again. This was published in the Boston Globe this afternoon.
Ok, but the Kovington Kidz are still just basically this guy.
How else are you going to get to go to Ohio State? It’s on the application forms.
Fair enough.
Are you a Ken White sock puppet?
Ha, no. Why, what’s his take?
C’mon. Everyone knows Ohio U is where the real party’s at.
I’m going to trot this out next time a youth of victim status gets caught on camera doing something mildly untoward.
If anyone dares say anything slightly critical about Piggy and his merry band of gungrabbers, the conventional media take is that it’s horrible for adults to attack children.
The media is more upset at some white teenagers for being teenagers than they were at the Dallas shooter.
It’s fucked up.
Or the softball assassin.
Considering all the millions that have died since the tax cuts and net neutrality ending, that was basically self-defense.
This is crazy. How in the fuck were they racist?
Because some fool equated MAGA with the KKK without a shred of proof?
This is NUTS.
This is a huge problem – especially that Boston Globe title – because kids ARE KIDS. They’re going to do whatever they do and now white kids are in the crosshairs of the degenerate progressive left.
I hope this blows over before another incident.
Because they painted their bodies black for a blackout night at a basketball game. And by “they”, I mean different students at the same school eight years ago.
“stared down”
The fucking guy marched right up to him and was banging a drum in his face. The kid showed admirable restraint – I would have had difficulty fighting the urge to slap that fucking drum out of his hands. What exactly gives this guy the right to invade the kid’s personal space like that, and why is the kid supposedly obliged to move for this professional protestor? Oh right, he’s an “elder”. The fuck? I’m not an Indian – he ain’t shit to me in that situation than an unwanted, unwelcome intruder.
What’s ironic is the kids acted with maturity while the adults (including the idiots defending this Nathan guy) behaved like immature twats.
And it’s the kids who are taking the beating because of a stupid fricken hat and for being Catholic.
“What exactly gives this guy the right to invade the kid’s personal space like that”
DUUUUUUUUUH
He’s an oppressed, intersectional POC and that “kid” is a subhuman, white, male, privileged cockroach that should’ve been aborted.
And (cough) a ‘Nam Vet (cough)!
A war hero.
Who wants to bet Sandman has better grades than Hogg?
Who wants to bet he ain’t going to Harvard?
I will, but only with 50-1 odds.
The thing that strikes me, in listening to so much of the rage machine, is that, for the left, Sandemann’s greatest sin isn’t anything he’s done, or even his facial expression. It’s how he looks. He looks like a preppy young white guy (and probably is). That, in itself, is a crime for these sociopaths. They really are moving from “principals over principles” being a self-serving excuse to justify hypocrisy to seeing good/evil, guilt/innocence or worth/non-worth as a function of who you are.
Hey, at least its started a conversation.
Yeah, it started a conversation in which all doubt is removed from exactly who the Nazis and their collaborators are in this country.
That, and the MAGA hat. A white preppie kid in a MAGA hat deserves everything bad that happens to him. That’s the honest belief of leftists.
The flip side of “if you don’t want to be treated like a thug, don’t dress/act like a thug”, no?
It’s the exact same concept. People are assigning some communal blame on these kids
The side that screams never judge and always believes turns silent when convenient to the cause.
Hypocrites be hypocritin’
Pretty much. The only difference I’d assign is that you should probably omit the “act” part from the comparison. As I said, their issue seems to have little or nothing to do with his behavior.
I find it easy enough to just not give a shit about of it. This story would be too weak to be front page news in bumfuck, but somehow it is national news.
Few things grind my gears more than a haughty, misapplied [sic].
Brahmins tryna be British.
Every once in a while they get one right. Credit where credit’s due.
Ya know, this is really how you get more white supremacists. If you’re going to treat “all” white (male?) teenagers as evil, horrible human beings, then a small percentage of them just might find a message in the White Power movement.
I think that’s the goal of many of them. It’s a mistake to think that they’re actually interested in a clear picture of reality; really, they want to make the reality. And no one cares about causal timelines after a while. “They exist now, so maybe they’ve always existed.”
I think I need a whole new purpose.
A special purpose?
I had faith one of you old people would get it.
Dude, you know how many suckers an octropus got?
Bow chicka, bowchicka, bow bowbowww
Supreme Court to hear a gun-rights case. If you are a peasant in NYC, you are prohibited from leaving your feudal lord’s lands with a weapon.
I’m cautiously optimistic this is good news for 2A.
I had no idea this was an option.
…
…
I need to rethink my life.
You just know this guy fucks the octopodes.
Japanese culture is not there for his fetish!
(Anime was a mistake)
Fisherman’s
WifeMistress, I guess?You think a hand job is good, try eight tentacles with suction cups.
…octopodes.
Oooh. Fancy!
Friends with benefits are the best kind.
I’m skeptical that MLK had nice thoughts about the CSA…
I should also point out that the “purge the CSA” types think that libertarianism is white supremacy and will point out Locke’s involvement with the slave trade. Oh and they are nationalists too. So siding with them to take down Confederate Battle Flags and Statutes was such a swell idea.
Columbus getting some more hate too.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/notre-dame-to-cover-up-murals-of-columbus-in-the-new-world
An octopus story? Go with this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5K_w9Tbhoc
Needs more EIchenwald.
So who coined the term “kulturkampf”? It was an anti-Catholic classical liberal mind you…
Was it Hitler? It’s Hitler, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow
Funny thing about that, a super smart progressive journalist today said that Hitler was brought to power by the strong support of Catholics in northern Germany. The only problem, of course, is that (A) Catholics in Germany overwhelmingly voted Centre Party ever since the Kulturekampf and Nazis did the worst among Catholics as a result of that and (B) Catholics were in the south of Germany.
The super smart progressive journalist deleted the remark real fast after people mocked him
I use to be furious about this Covington thing, now I’m just laughing. Our journalists are unbelievably dumb, I think Trump is smarter than them, which I think is insane.
They’re all children
Who was that?
Some writer for HuffPo. I’ll see if anyone did a screen grab.
If they were historically literate, they would have brought up Cardinal Stepinac instead.
They would have brought up anything that made sense. Instead they went with insanity
If they were historically literate, they would have brought up Cardinal Stepinac instead.
#titodidnothingwrong
Well the Centre Party did give key support for the Enabling Act in exchange for promises that Hitler never followed up with.
That said theonly parts of Germany to vote against the Nazis in 1933 were the Catholic parts of Rhenish Prussia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election
Also I pointed that George Will said that SDP and Christians Democrats “created” the welfare state which is false since it was created by Bismarck who hated the SDP and the Centre party (the ancestors of the Christian Democrats).
Bismark played the parties against one another. That’s why he dropped the Kulturekampf- he needed the support of the Centre Party for his government. The Centre Party was almost exclusively created as a result to the Kulturekampf.
Seems a bit of a stretch to call him a classical liberal. He sounds like an early progressive.
I never heard anyone refer to Bismark as a “classical liberal”. That’s a massive stretch
I was referring to Virchow, not Bismark, as a “classical liberal”
Ralph Raico had some nice things to say about Eugen Richter.
Well they called themselves the “German Progress Party” which I suppose makes them the original progressives. And they were called the “left-liberals” since the “right-liberals” supported Bismarck and his welfare state and tariffs.
Oh, Winston, stop Virtow signaling.
Well, it was Winston who said “You must sink the Bismarck!”
Everyone out there looking for Hitler, and we have two in this thread. For shame!
Hitler and Bismark in one song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTuaqL-eD4&app=desktop
The Blues Brothers also sang this in Bob’s Country Bunker but it was dropped from the movie. Occasionally it shows up on YT.
Uffda. I can’t believe the stupidity of the Minnsoda GOP. When even the main DFL guy in the state Senate knows gun-control will get his ass fired why do you even entertain the possibility of working “across the aisle” for common sense new laws?
I can’t believe the stupidity of the Minnsoda GOP.
I can.
Me too.
Local 2A group is all over it though. They can keep babbling about commonsenseguncontrolwhataboutthechildren, but there will be pushback.
Why would Minnesoda GOP be different than other GOPs?
They have a shot at winning now and then, unlike the Oregon or Washington or California GOP, which pretty much exists to take money from rich suckers.
The metro area is blue but a lot of gun owners none the less.
Speaking of urbanization hasn’t social media and mass communication eliminated one of the supposed benefits of urbanization: being able to get away from judgmental strangers? You know in the old days if you didn’t fit into a small town you could move to the city to get away from all that. Now you can’t anymore.
Still plenty of “forgotten” people in cities. The majority of them are poor.
Well, the good news is that any one of these forgotten people is one stupid Twitter kerfuffle away from being a nationwide celebrity.
If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere!
Joy Behar, the human stopped clock:
So she’s willing to throw some teenage boys under the media bus because she hates Trump.
That’s not a good look there Joy.
The truth just jumped out of her mouth, totally by accident.
I don’t want to think about how they’re going to react if he wins in 2020.
How do they top their performance since 2016? Where do they go from here for an encore?
The old will become new again.
I hear you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades
Know what else? They’d accept their new roles without a hint of shame.
Didn’t they all move to Canada already? Two years is a long time to get political asylum. Maybe I misunderstood and am thinking of something else. OK, OK, they deserve another chance.
Mass suicides, hopefully. Like 20 Japanese schoolgirls jumping in front of a bullet train all at once.
I’ve seen that movie.
[splash]
I don’t remember that part. Was Tom Hanks or Darryl Hannah driving the train?
It had to be John Candy.
He was translating the term bukkake you Philistine!
I saw what you did there, because I got some of it in my eye?
“…how they’re going to react if he wins in 2020.”
Think of chimps tossing feces.
I’ve talked to hardcore progs recently who really optimistically believe ‘all the investigations’ are going to lead to his ejection from office. They recalled their despair after the 2016 election and their increasing optimism since. (It had nothing to do with the debate we were have about art criticism, so I realized continuing a structured discussion was pointless and just conceded to their incoherent ‘point.’ Progs, whaddyagonnado.)
If he wins again, it won’t be pretty.
Blonde babes brining it hot n’ heavy for your Titty Tuesday.
http://archive.is/37orU
Bonus for the fan of those who prostitute themselves to child abusers.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqtSToQAXH2/
Oh, I saw you pondering a MAGA hat in the morning links.
Can I suggest instead a high-quality MAGA PRIME hat?
I’d order one but fuck shipping to Canada.
Not my go to here – mostly skinny blond women – but here goes top three:
46 – pretty face, nice boobs
19 – pretty face, nice butt despite on the skinny side
21 – the lone thicc busty one
I smell a rat.
We went from best airport times on Jan 14 to the worst in a week?
I think the local TSA goons must have read the glowing report on 1/14 and decided it was time for the public to get it good and hard.
I’m sorry to go OT early. I’m just floored right now. I was awarded a prestigious honor by a medical body for some innovative work I did. It appears my employer will not allow me to go accept it. I offered to use vacation time and pay my own way if budget was a concern because this is such a big deal for me. That was not well received, and I was told doing so would not end well. As best I can tell, this appears to be some departmental pissing match between two VPs about company priorities and my lowly ass is caught in the middle.
Let’s see, wife is going down to part time hours and new baby due any day now. Guess I’ll just bite my tongue, grit my teeth, and start reaching out to recruiters.
Assholes
Polish that resume.
Thanks. I’s already up to date but now I have that award to add. Tomorrow will start the new job search.
“Polish that resume”
Not a bad idea considering the wife is likely out of commission for a while.
Oh, geez, that really bites. I’m so sorry.
Thanks
You mean accept it in person or not accept it at all?
Just in person. I understand they may not want to pay for the trip, but I offered to handle it myself.
How many conferences and trade shows does the company do each year?
A lot. They’re actually sending a bunch of sales people to this one.
I saw that.
Do you have any allies in sales/marketing? I would use them to pressure management. Having a star in the show benefits them as well.
That is a good idea and is my next step.
*salutes Tundra’s wisdom*
“As best I can tell, this appears to be some departmental pissing match between two VPs about company priorities and my lowly ass is caught in the middle.”
That sucks. I was in between some garbage like that before.
Sorry to hear that, but like you said, with a new baby you kind of just have to take it. That’s what being a man is all about “sometimes doing things that you don’t want to do”
Exactly right.
#maleprivilege
The best a man can get?
Just take PTO for those days, don’t say anything about going, but go anyway.
Wow. Your boss is Nancy Pelosi?
Shitty that they’d deny you that honour. Not much of an honourable company.
Thanks. That’s what I’m learning now. I’m a slow learner after 8 years of loyalty, but there it is.
Loyalty.
Lol.
Get a load of the naif.
Can you send a representative?
Short-sighted and inappropriate bridge-nuking idea: “Mr SpartanDad regrets that he was unable to attend. Unfortuantely, his employer, [Employer] informed him that this conference was not one they wished to have their name associated with, a decision that is so obtuse that initially he thought they were making a bad joke. Mr Spartandad would quite understand if any of the attendees choose to not do business with [Employer] as they seem to be abandoning this [market space].
What’s Sacheen Littlefeather up to these days?
The thing is my employer is already sending a bunch of sales people to this conference and spending big bucks on advertising. It is such a ridiculous situation.
OK, so they are just being assholes. Wow.
During your exit interview emphasize this was the reason you chose to leave.
Seems like that awards ceremony would be a good place to network…
^^ This ^^
That’s definitely my plan if I get there.
“You know what, my mom is in the hospital, I have to go be with her.”
Hah, my wife told me something along the same lines but they’ll see me there.
Groucho glasses.
Pull a full Tony Clifton, ridiculous suits and all.
Most importantly, congrats! Despite the bullshit, it’s great to be recognized for being awesome.
Thank you. I was very surprised because I beat out all of our commercial competitors and academic centers who have entrenched MDs and PhDs competing for this.
Have them send the award to you in a box labeled “Fragile”
Not a bad idea.
Its Italian?
Lol
That sucks. Will the company’s not letting you accept the award affect your marketability?
No, I can still put in on my CV. They won’t let me physically accept it and present my work at the podium before the industry. It’s a bit of punch… like why the fuck am I working here then.
Maybe you could put your work into a paper or something to boost your industry profile?
That’s my plan. I’ve already got a first author paper under the review and more to come.
In that case, if it were me I would send a note to the organizer/contact thanking them for the honor and excuse the public presentation with something like “you’ll be unable to accept it publicly or to present your work as you aren’t able to obtain permission from your employer” and thank them again.
That sort of thing will quickly start making the rounds. If asked in public, be very gracious and don’t bring up the departmental politics portion, just that you’re unable to accept it publicly. Smart people will read between the lines and realize there’s a poaching opportunity. And you don’t look bad by bad mouthing the employer.
And I’d definitely pay my own way to that conference.
I’d really like to go, but it will destroy my career at this company if I go against the VP. If I can land another position than I’ll pay my own way before then in a heartbeat.
Maybe combine sending your wife to accept it an sending a note to the organization politely saying what Gustave suggests and she will accept it on your behalf. I think Gustave is correct about good opportunities following.
Fu*k the ivory tower.
This is corporate America, but I can still get behind you sentiment.
Can you go over the VP(s) head(s)?
Not in this case. I’m going to try and jump to a different department where the VP doesn’t give a shit about all of this and wants me on his team. That is, if I can’t get a job somewhere else.
Wow — doesn’t the company see the huge benefit of your award to their PR?
You’d think they not only would have you go, but pay for it and send out a bunch of press releases.
Fuck. Bean-counter management. You are 100% right. A smart company pimps the living hell out of SSD.
Thank you both. That was my thought too but they aren’t looking ahead, just to their own fiefdoms. The departmental infighting has reached proportions now that I haven’t ever experienced before.
Let me guess. The company’s conference attendees are heavily stacked toward one of the two VPs’ people and one either wants credit for any sales or feels like his status is being threatened?
Very close.
Fuck I feel for you SSD. I’ve been through shit like that before and it totally sucks.
Yeah, the best you can do is to find a new gig and just move on. Life is too short to a) work at a place that is that shitty and b) get caught up in the internal politics yourself.
As tempting as it is to join up with the VP who wants you to get your award, it is a lost cause. The good VP might win, but you just burn up so much of your soul getting into pissing matches like that.
Congrats though! Personally if I ever won a major award, I’d get more satisfaction about telling you Glibs than I would by telling my coworkers.
Thanks Holiness. There are two other departments at the company, completely isolated from this bullshit, that are trying to get budget to poach me. One was jumping up and down over the award and volunteered my travel out of their budget. If I stay, I’m going to do my best to make that lateral jump happen.
Yes, that felt good sharing it with all of you. I wish I could have shared more details, but if I got doxxed, my company would drop me faster than that school did those kids.
Don;t be shocked when your employer brags in their next marketing letter about your award as an example of the great team of employees they’ve assembled.
Get out before they use you some more.
Yes, that will definitely happen.
Congratulations on the award.
Looking for a new job is a good idea.
Thanks. I agree and am starting tomorrow.
Agreed. You unfortunately may already have a bullseye on your back even if you don’t get up on the stage.
Yeah…what DEG said.
Get a list of companies attending the conference where your award will be announced. Search their websites for open jobs.
That’s a good idea.
When you’re interviewing and get asked why you left your previous job, tell them you got fired because your previous bosses wouldn’t let you pick up that award even though they were sending other people to the trade show, yet you went anyway.
Ideally I would have another job lined up first, but that I’ll remember that for ‘just in case’.
Thank you all. I don’t really have anywhere to vent except for our Glib community here. I feel a little more centered now and appreciate the kind words and solid advice.
Congrats…
and also a What the Fuck? If I had won an award for “Best EDI Coordinator” in the world by AIAG, my company would be trumpeting it all over.
Thanks. Oh they’ll be definitely be trumpeting the award, they just don’t want me physically going to receive it even if I pay my own way (internal optics of the department makeup of the attendees).
Go anyway.
“I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude for this singular honor. (Flesh out your speech here.) In conclusion, it was suggested to me by my current employer that my decision to travel here and accept this award in person may have put my correct position in jeopardy. That’s regrettable, but I thought I’d mention it in case anyone here might be interested in having my talents be made available to them. Again, thank you.”
It would burn my bridge while I’m still on it, but I’m going to try to line something up before then.
Is it a leg lamp?
I won a Silver Lion at Cannes. Of course, I didn’t actually go to Cannes to get the award. Other longer-titled people went. That was at my old job.
I was awarded a prestigious honor by a medical body for some innovative work I did.
EXCELLENT!
(don’t let the bastards grind you down)
Thanks Brooks.
So she’s willing to throw some teenage boys under the media bus because she hates Trump.
Those eggs were broken for a good cause.
Smugly Smirking Smartypants, live on stage, tomorrow night. Bring a friend.
Love and Saucers. Which one of you guys is David Huggins?
What’s a good nickname for Nathan Philips? Because fuck that asshole.
Let’s have fun at his expense.
Him with Drum.
What would Leslie Howard Saunders say?
And when we finally need him, Mike M. is nowhere to be found.
Rufus explicitly asked for “a good nickname”…
Now I know why Americans are dysfunctional.
Yeah, I don’t know if we could get much use out of something like Batehand Biglips, or whatever.
I laughed. That’s good.
LOL
Chief Nose that Grows
Pounding Snake
Two
Dogs
Fucking
Cum Guzzler.
For some reason I was prompted to read up on Comanche history a few weeks ago. One famous (infamous) medicine man was named “Coyote Vagina” (probably sanitized by Wiki).
From Coyote Cunt?
SOMEONE HAD TO ASK.
Dances with Altar Boy
Chief Drum Like Asshole
Sitting Bullshitter
+1
Passenger forced flight attendants to strip him in a toilet and wipe his backside:
Okay then
A cunning ploy.
Did they tell him Donald Trump was impeached before they wiped?
31 stone = 435 lbs.
So I assume his arms were trapped by his sides?
WTF?
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has expressed interest in the Trump campaign’s relationship with the National Rifle Association during the 2016 campaign.
“When I was interviewed by the special counsel’s office, I was asked about the Trump campaign and our dealings with the NRA,” Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, told CNN.
The special counsel’s team was curious to learn more about how Donald Trump and his operatives first formed a relationship with the NRA and how Trump wound up speaking at the group’s annual meeting in 2015, just months before announcing his presidential bid, Nunberg said.
Nunberg’s interview with Mueller’s team in February 2018 offers the first indication that the special counsel has been probing the Trump campaign’s ties to the powerful gun-rights group. As recently as about a month ago, Mueller’s investigators were still raising questions about the relationship between the campaign and the gun group, CNN has learned.
“We find this free speech business confusing and scary.”
Criminalizing political support for the opposition is the only way they’re going to win.
Hey, they had the fix IN for Hillary. There’s no way she loses unless the other side cheats even worse!
Don’t you see? The Russians supposedly donated to the NRA and had an advisor take a role there –for some reason I’m thinking the same woman from the adoption rule meeting/ Fusion GPS operative– or something, I’m not going to look it up. Next, Trump speaks in front of them before announcing, something most repubs would love to do? Obvious collusion.
The NRA spent more than $30 million to back Trump’s candidacy — a stunning sum even for an organization known for its political might.
It was more than the NRA had spent on all races combined — presidential, House and Senate — in the 2008 and 2012 election cycles, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
That’s inexplicable. Unless Putin told them to do it.
It was that red headed Russian woman who got them to do it right?
Hillary is not a redhead.
The most searched words of 2018 on dictionary-dot-com.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/most-searched-words-2018/?param=hp
Apparently a whole bunch of people didn’t know what “shithole” means.
Finally, the news cycle gives me the excuse I need to find out what the internet has to say about “cunt!”
To group of blokes: “Any o’ you cunts want a drink while I’m up?”
Sometimes, it’s a death trap.
Shithole = Venezuela.
Venezuela = Ocasio-Cortez.
And at # 10 is pissant, the same word alleged to have been said by Jesse Helms describing Paul Wellstone, as in “Will someone tell that little pissant to sit down and shut up”
Just for giggles I Googled “c–t”. Yes, literally with the dashes in there. The result had a lot more C-Span in it than I expected.
London river’s record-high levels of cocaine could make eels high
Coked out eels… Attach laser beams to their heads and you’ll have quite the army.
Now that’s a party!
Throw Radiohead in there and depress them.
Throw the actual band in? Or just play there music near the river?
Their*
Yes.
My hovercraft is full of coked-out eels.
Coked Out Eels … band name, right?
So speaking of Hitler one of the many things glossed over about was how the Reichstag had been sidelined in the years before Hitler came to power and Hindenburg had been ruling by pen-and-phone (well considering his age maybe not…). Hmmm…
Also before he came to power the Prussian state government had been ousted by decree after a clash between Nazis and Communists that left several dead. This put the Prussian State Police under Federal Government control. And when they came to power the Nazis were supposed to be powerless figureheads but who had control over the Cops? Well the Nazis of course!
Ummm. I… *backs away, desperately tries to cover digital trail here*
Just don’t smirk at anyone…
And take off that damn hat!
Merrie Olde England, showing us the violence inherent in the system.
£5 says the guy was mouthing off at the guy with a large stick and never expected he might end up eating his words.
Wound down his window for a chit chat and then got out? Yeah, I’m sure it happened just like that.
Sorry to tell you this…
Hey, hey, a construction worker is a skilled craftsman and would have been a guild member in Middle Ages! Certainly not a common villein!
Will no one save the widow’s son?
Speaking of the Nefarious Ratfink Association…
“Today, the men and women of the NRA honor the profound life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” the pro-gun advocacy group tweeted Monday. “Dr. King applied for a concealed carry permit in a “may issue” state and was denied. We will never stop fighting for every law-abiding citizen’s right to self-defense.”
That’s not fair!
King did apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in 1956, after his house was bombed. UCLA law professor Adam Winkler noted that after the denial, King “gave up any hope of armed self-defense and embraced nonviolence more completely.”
“Okay, if the sheriff says I don’t need it, that’s good enough for me.”
I’m not sure that’s 100% accurate.
gave up any hope of armed self-defense and embraced nonviolence more completely
Well, at least it worked out for him in the end.
So King isn’t just a martyr for civil rights, he’s a martyr for gun control. GFY, HuffPo.
They won’t let me physically accept it and present my work at the podium before the industry. It’s a bit of punch… like why the fuck am I working here then.
“We’re not paying you to upstage your superiors.”
“We’re not paying you to upstage your superiors.”
Bingo. I had a similar issue with my old hospital several years back.
I had won a statewide award which was to be a surprise, and the organization asked my department Chair if he would present it to me at the event, which we were already slated to attend.
He was furious, apparently thinking it should be me presenting an award to him, if anything. He then refused to attend the ceremony, and I found out later that’s when he started to tell others in the department that ‘we really need to get rid of Anacreon’.
Fortunately I got away to greener pastures before he could inflict any damage on my career.
Jesus. What an asshole.
I worked for a consulting firm where one of the VP’s was a major in the air national guard. The head of our industrial hygiene department was also a major in the air national guard.
The non-VP major got promoted to Lt. Col. The VP major found a reason to fire him.
Pure pettiness.
In all seriousness, I have to say, I thought this stuff was stuff that only happened to women (by women).
I too am astonished that these petty assholes are so prevalent. Wouldn’t have guessed it.
I’m with the ones who would celebrate my employee’s honor and use it as both an ad for my company and an encouragement to other employees that good work will be celebrated.
I love it when one of my direct reports makes good—sometimes they do something so brilliant I think “Holy crap—I’m glad he’s on OUR side!”
I thought petty officers were in the Navy, not the Guard.
I checked in too late to comment on the poster’s visit to New Mexico. There were a lot of good suggestions, thought I’d chime in.
Cuisine: I like to travel on my stomach. There are a lot of places to sample NM’s best. Have the enchiladas at Andele’s in Mesilla, or a burrito from Maria’s in Santa Fe, or the carne adovada from Rancho de Chimayo east of Espanola. Careful, a lot of places don’t tone down the chile for visitors. If in doubt, order it on the side. And be sure to sample a green chile cheeseburger before you leave. I like the Rockin BZ in Alamogordo or the Owl Cafe in San Antonio or El Farolito in El Rito (if you can find it)
Indian culture: Lots of places throughout the state. Gila Cliff Dwellings is fun but a bit hard to get to. Folks mentioned Bandelier and Puye, also check out the Salmon Ruins in Aztec.
Technology: Bradbury Museum in Los Alamos or the planetarium and space museum in Alamogordo.
Natural History: There is a great natural history museum in Albuquerque, also a surprisingly good aquarium. The Capulin Volcano National Monument is a bit out of the way but very interesting.
Deadhead mentioned that several posters live here and we would be glad to share a beer with you.
Ditto on the aquarium.
Also, under the technology heading, the Trinity Site is open to the public on the first Saturday of April. It is where the first atomic bomb was tested, SE of Soccoro.
Trinity Site is impressive and sobering. Do not pick up the fused green glass there and put it in your front pants pocket (aka Trinitite) ) since it is still radioactive
They had some of that on Storage Wars.
It still exists? I thought it had broken down by now.
I have some. It’s been through enough half lives to be OK now.
Thanks y’all. That was me the other day.
I was reading Dan Mitchell on the Green Deal. There is a lot of stupid to cover for him, but this stood out to me:
a portion of every dollar raised by a carbon tax in a Green New Deal would be invested in two new community colleges and high-speed broadband in rural areas of every state.
What is green about building 100 community colleges and building out high-speed networks in rural areas?
Because the Green New Deal is about more than the environment. It’s about social justice too. And money. I think that’s the green part.
They just can’t stoop jizzing at the thought of having a blank check. Ungh Ungh ohh, carbon credits…. Ohhhh ohhhh electric infrastructure… Oooh yeah wind turbines… Oh I can’t just stop there! Mmmmmm trains… Uhhh uhh yeah baby yeah ugh ugh FREE INDOCTRINATION CENTERS!!!
Because, like the original New Deal, it’s basically about soaking taxpayers for a massive pile of unrelated federal spending packages that won’t pass on their own.
So Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga got Oscar nommed for the playing the same Characters that got Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, James Mason and Judy Garland Oscar nommed for. Who says originality is dead?
I thought I’d heard that Lady Gaga movie was a bomb. So despite that it gets tons of Oscar nominations? Why not the Will Ferrell Sherlock Holmes flick, reportedly one of the worst movies ever made — that should make it a serious contender too, right?
In what sense? It made plenty of money and has a good Rotten Tomatoes, whatever that is worth.
You must have that confused with a different film, as that one was quite successful at the box office.
I don’t think Lowell Sherman or Constance Cummings got nominations.
Neil Hamilton has a sad,
Also you mean Constance Bennett. I’m not a Mind Reader.
Constance Cummings works in other genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benn_Levy
Streisand got the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Cher, Diana Ross, Oprah, Jennifer Hudson, Lady Gaga… It’s almost as if acting isn’t that remarkable a feat, considering non-actors come in and effortlessly nab a bunch of awards.
Meh, being a pop stars/rock star is acting, if accountants or shoe salesmen routinely waltzed in and acted their way to an Oscar you might have a point.
Maybe. Accountants and shoe salesmen aren’t already famous, so they’d have no easy path to acting in major productions (the kinds of films that awards focus on), so it’s not accurate to say that that proves that they couldn’t perform.
Those people won awards because they’re high-profile stars and acted sufficiently well. But lots of people act well and get overlooked. Hell, go to local professional theater productions, and you’ll see people who are as good as anyone.
There are plenty of good actors. And way, way more bad actors.
It is a skill, if not a particularly remarkable one IMHO.
You could throw Bette Midler in there too. In fact, her first movie (IIRC it was called “The Rose”) was a thinly veiled remake of “A Star is Born” as well.
I believe the reason why very popular singers are able to transition well to movies is that there’s a lot of great singers out there too — and it’s something about these particular singers onstage that elevate them to the top of the crowd. Some mixture of charisma, ease, attractiveness and likeability that very few people have. And I think that directors spot that and can see certain singers in a big role they have in mind, plus they know that the singers’ popularity will immediately bring attention to the project it might not have gotten otherwise.
Now, singers playing a singer in a movie — essentially playing some twist on themselves — probably is not a real stretch of acting talent, so I’m surprised when someone like Gaga gets a nomination, no matter how good they appear to be in the one role. It’s the singers who do well in roles completely off their path that are impressive. Cher did this in Moonstruck, so I had no problem with her winning the Oscar — and indeed, long before movies, she had already shown that magnetism in her tv shows. Diana Ross, not so versatile by comparison.
I also love that Andrew Dice Clay is playing the May Robson role.
New York- soon to be awash in guns
With the Supreme Court now having five justices who are less likely to approve of gun regulations and laws, it granted a major gun case Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade.
The court granted a right-to-carry case out of New York that that pits the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association against the City of New York. New York bans transporting permitted handguns outside city lines, even if the gun is not loaded and is locked in a container. The guns currently can only be taken to the handful of shooting ranges within city limits.
The case could have wide ramifications for gun rights and gun restrictions across the country, depending on how broadly the court rules.
Good grief, what a bizarre and idiotic law. That’s the first time I have seen a reference the actual law in question. I thought it was something about the mag capacity limits.
It is time for Michael Bloomberg to take up the burden once again and save New York for the second time.
That guy can’t die fast enough.
you forgot “and painfully.”
“The right to keep and bear arms is apparently this Court’s constitutional orphan,” Thomas wrote.
The court has enough constitutional orphans to rival my salt mine.
They really need to nuke that law and in their opinion say “WHAT DON’T YOU GET ABOUT THE 2A? NO FUCKING LAWS!!!”
Of course, the SC still thinks that there is wiggle room in the entire BOR, so some adjustments by Top Men is fine.
So, the City of New York says you can’t take a handgun outside of city limits? Isn’t that exactly where their ability to tell you what to do ends? Am I not reading this right?
Like all other laws of man, it’s only enforced if you get caught. So if you get pulled over, you have a gun, and you’re not going directly between your home and an approved bang bang place, you’re fucked.
depending on how broadly the court rules.
You mean assuming the court rules that words mean what they say.
I had that same mildly affronted smirk when I was sixteen and standing at a campaign rally for Howard Dean, watching a crowd of pro-Bush voters demonstrate. But the Covington kid, unlike me, actually deserved to feel a smidgen of personal superiority: those demonstrators had done nothing to me. They certainly hadn’t gotten in my face. I was just being a self-assured shithead.
Oh I remember how Howard Dean was supposed to be somewhat libertarianish. He did oppose war and support civil liberties, at least when that was expedient for him.
I’m an idiot—I meant Kerry, not Dean. Pretty sure this was toward the end of summer in 2004. I was a know nuttin’ prog at that point.
Why the heck did Dean’s “YeeHaw” become a campaign killer? Look at all the shit candidates from both parties get away with now.
It followed what was expected to be his coming out as the contender, where instead, he shit the bed in the Iowa caucuses.
He wasn’t exactly winning IIRC, but for some reason the YAAARGH stuck, making him look like a madman. I’ve heard his supporters complain that from a different camera position, it didn’t sound too loud or deranged like most of the videos.
I guess he wasn’t the correct answer DNC wanted so, by any means…
Yeah, I don’t buy that his yell just spontaneously killed his campaign. The media forced the narrative. (Shocker.)
Bobarian’s post made me go to Wikipedia
I dunno, the yell may have played on the TV but he already fucked himself in Iowa. Still, it could have been a simple “yeah, he has no chance, kill it off now for good of the party”.
The Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
A lot of derp, but this:
McElwee’s attendees — over a dozen — were scattered in pockets around the bar, some seated at a corner table, others hanging out closer to the kegs. Apparently the New Republic and The Nation both had parties that evening, McElwee told me later, so the turnout was pretty decent, all things considered. The conversation spun from rifts in the leadership of the Women’s March to the war in Yemen to how one woman at the bar had to take the day off after Ocasio-Cortez was elected because she had been overcome with emotion.
A prog I used to work with had to take the day off when he found out that Paul Wellstone had died in a car crash. In fact I think he took the whole next day off too.
A friend of mine had to leave school when he found out John Lennon died. Years later I heard him making fun of all the kids wailing over Kurt Cobain.
I had a writer friend who had a complete meltdown when Michael Jackson died. I think she took to her bed for 10 days to 2 weeks. She was a popular writer at the time in indie circles, so her absence was missed. When she got back online, she turned her blog into a wailing wall for weeks.
You were lucky, you got a day off from that guy.
“car crash?” Not a plane on the Upper Range? Whatever, hope the funeral was nice.
Sorry it was a plane crash.
Perspective!
Plane crash?
Psst. Plane crash.
Bullshit! Wellstone’s car was forced off the road by a roving pack of Catholic school punks wearing MAGA hats! You can’t disprove any of that!
Some people drive to the beat of a different drum
These people are fucking loathsome.
So some fat white guy was the main activist in the story linked above. Let’s see if you can stomach this:
“I’m like Radiohead for donors — you can’t really explain why I’m good but everyone knows that I’m good at it,” McElwee shouted over the din of bar talk at one of his happy hours on a recent evening in New York City. “The thing I try to say is, ‘Look, I don’t know what to tell you, I wrote a report on the Green New Deal three months before the Green New Deal was a thing. I tweeted about abolish ICE before abolish ICE was a thing. I fucking raised $850,000 for down-ballot candidates from small dollar contributions.’ I’m not sitting around telling you how the fuck I do it, I don’t have time to do that.”
I couldn’t make it past the third word.
a pretty good American soldier before he joined the Confederacy
And a pretty good general after.
I kind of wonder who Dr. King would identify with more being Southern, a gun owner, and having experienced the oppression at the hands of government agents.
Hell, they might be friendly.
Stonewall was an actual criminal. He and his wife broke Virginia law, before the Civil War, by establishing a Sunday School class for black slave children at Lexington Presbyterian Church and teaching them to read and write. Oh, and he, not Bobby Lee, had the vision to see how the South could win their independence.
It was just coincidental that the South won all the battles he was involved in.
Malvern Hill? Antietam? [O.K. Antietam was really a draw but Stonewall, with McClellan’s caution, kept it from being a disaster from the opening salvos.]
Freya latched some of her 2,240 suction cups onto Menashi’s arm, using their powers of taste and smell to gather information around the 84-year-old man known as the octopus whisperer — and the seafood treats he was bearing.
He, too, knows the Shape of Water.
SEA SMITH KNOW SHAPE OF WATER TOO!
A musical balm for all the outrageous-ness out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSzL5-SPHM
*grooves happily*
Thanks, Raven.
“A professor at Shawnee State University is suing his employer because of internal discipline procedures after he refused to call a student by the student’s preferred gender pronoun. The student, who was born male, insisted Professor Nicholas Meriwether call him by his preferred feminine pronoun. When Meriwether refused, the student was upset and told administrators, who then punished Meriwether. The punishment was to force Meriwether to conform to gender pronouns, which he refused to do on the principle of freedom of speech.
The plaintiff, Professor Meriwether, will be receiving help from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which is a Christian legal group that helps people on freedom of speech, expression, and religion cases.”
IT’S MA’AM!
Transgendered rights leading to suppression is happening a lot quicker than I thought…
It took, what, 24 seconds before Bill C-16 lynched Lindsey Shepherd?
CUCK
https://www.foxnews.com/world/u-k-businessman-learns-hes-been-infertile-since-birth-and-sons-from-21-year-marriage-are-not-his
The King of the Cucks.
I would have liked a pic of the woman because I’m shallow that way.
1821 years,1821 yearsShe got one of your kids, got you for
1821 yearsWith the growth of genetic testing, I gotta believe there are a lot of nervous people out there.
I actually feel sorry for the guy, though.
“…When Richard Mason’s doctor informed him in 2016 that he had cystic fibrosis, he also noted that his patient was unable since birth to have biological children because of the condition. The infertility came as a shock to Mason, who had – or thought he had – produced three sons with his ex-wife, to whom he’d been married 20 years.”
/playing with paper on doctor’s table listening to news.
‘Huh? Wha?’
‘I said you’re a cuck’
‘I thought you said I can’t have…..children?’
/eyes widen.
‘You mean…..’
‘Yes, you’re a CUCK.’
“Mason, who is a 55-year-old founder of the comparison site moneysupermarket.com, sued his ex-wife, demanding the roughly $5.8 million he paid her in their 2008 divorce settlement. He also wanted the matter of paternity fraud addressed, though it is unclear in what manner.”
Ouch. Good luck with that.
I mean it. The guy was duped.
Son speaks out. Plus pics!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/10/richard-mason-paternity-row-son-breaks-silence-claim-millionaire/
Life is bullshit.
Yeah it’s the UK.
Fuggeddaboudit.
well close enough.
THE VIDEO IS SHORT B/C MY FRIEND WAS TOO SCARED FROM THE BOYS DOING NAZI SALUTES AND LIGHTING CROSSES ON FIRE BUT IT REALLY HAPPENED YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT ANYWAY I HAVE TO GO TO BED K THX BAI
https://twitter.com/roflinds/status/1087538929224638465?s=19
Talk about hoisting yourself on your own petard.
Who’d a thunk that men would rationally protect themselves from a guilty until proven innocent culture?
https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/nejm-commentary-mens-fear-of-mentoring-in-the-era-of-metoo
So why is the Pence rule mocked? Seems like self-preservation to me.
That’s why!
If you will just abide by the rules that we can change at any moment and apply retroactively, everything will be fine!
Oh, and be a Democrat.
Ah, Gillette. You have inspired the masses.
And your competitors.
“Stop LOLing everything”
LOL
Bah. Details.
If they’re smart, they’ll relaunch it tomorrow.
So true. They really should. I just shared it to FB.
Dammit.
I approve of this message.
Haha… nice find.
They really need to re-run this ad.
https://jacobitemag.com/2018/03/18/against-libertarian-robespierres-2/
This was always a key aspect of the “libertarian moment” but I always wondered how this actually worked. How does being able to create your own Facebook account and label yourself in whatever way you want really lead to laissez-faire economics, Fuck You Cut Spending and Limited Government? Does being gay or an immigrant automatically you a libertarian since being discriminated against always make you a libertarian?
How “tolerance” and “openness” turned out to illusory is pretty obvious: society is still intolerant and closed to groups it hates but those groups society loves and hates are different or are now hated for different reasons (See Catholics).
Poland:
Hot women, unpronounceable names and marginally less reprehensible politicians.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/22/polish-legislator-invites-wrongfully-accused-maga-boys-to-address-parliament/
Less reprehensible?
Do you even Janusz Korwin Mikke, bro?
TW: Sargon narration.
But, he is certainly an inspiration in some ways: He and his third wife, if the image works…
“I wipe with your Declaration of Human Rights so often that I’ve obtained multiple copies.”
Be still, my heart.
Huh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_C._Gillette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Drift
That’s depressing. Even if there were no Marx something like Marxism would have been tried. With all of its parade of horribles.
I wonder how many scifi stories that spawned.
I know, it’s a setting just begging to be used, right?
I first thought of those capsule hotels they have in Japan, then the slightly bigger apartments they have in The Expanse.
Not a direct correlation, but the world Asimov created for Caves of Steel has similarities.
Or the world of Logan’s Run.
Logan’s Run without Jenny Agutter’s legs.
This would be a world not worth living in.
Don’t make me have to mention Michael York’s strategically ripped tunic again.
I wish I could write scifi. I would totes do something with that.
Well, at least we still have Gillette, Wyoming.
Gillette, the best a kook can get.
Well how about that…
At least the shitshow is great meme fertilizer.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DBloom451/status/1087842549824401410
And Mike is having fun.
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1087552343514718208
Nice
So Much Sciencing From Ocasio
I wonder where she gets the 12 years from.
I believe it was “like, 12 years”.
or whatever.
Yeah, whatever.
Her age of cognitive development?
I think it said “12 years” in one of the recent sky-is-falling articles.
Or, she put on her climate-scientist hat and crunched the numbers herself.
Her economics numbers are so good, how could I ever doubt her climate change numbers?
A bottle of whiskey?
Ack, that video has apparently been taken down. The only other one with the correct scene seems to be this, but the video quality is horrendous.
She gets it from tried and proven marketing strategy. “In twelve years, we’re all gonna die” is followed by ” “how can you possibly be asking how much this will all cost?” Traditionally, it goes something like this:
“Well, I don’t know. A concrete and steel reinforced backyard bomb shelter seems a bit overkill. And won’t it be expensive?”
“Sir, before you ask me how much it costs, let me ask you this – how much is the livelihood and well being of your family worth to you?”
I’ve seen people speculate is from the IPCC that said it is 12 years from 1.5 deg C increase in temperature. That is supposed to be some sort of tipping poing.
Uhm…okay, if it’s such a threat, then lets begin switching over to nuclear. Reduce emotions and the technology is ready. And before you start with how dangerous it is (it isn’t but let me pretend it is), is it more dangerous than LITERALLY THE ANNIHILATION OF THE HUMAN RACE IN 12 YEARS. No. Cool.
Mariano Rivera first unanimous HOF inductee.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG_Gtp5DUls
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTirIk75vg
Hell, one more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENCVFVkzRVw
“There goes [Mariano Rivera], the best there ever was in this game”
Normally, I don’t approve of relief pitchers getting in the HoF, but Mo had a greater WAR than Whitey Ford, Sandy Koufax, and many other HoF pitchers, as almost exclusively a relief pitcher with less than 1300 innings. That is mind-blowing.
His latest argument is that he swears he sees some kids doing the “white power” symbol in some video that was supposedly at the high school. That symbol? A three-point sign with your fingers. So Balko has obviously not seen a sporting event, which is not surprising.
Link?
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1087756288111587335
Courtesy of Just Say’n in the previous thread.
Ugh, this:
https://twitter.com/BarnasJoe/status/1087784017049669633
Balko has lost the plot.
It’s so sad how all of these public figures I used to appreciate have let the TDS turn them into raving lunatics.
Radley Balko
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I’ve also seen the blackface photos. The photos of the basketball team flashing white power signs. The tomahawk chop videos. The other video in which they’re screaming at a woman. Are all of those fake, too?
No but they also are not racist.
Except for the tomahawk chop, maybe not “racist” racist, but mocking and disrespectful.
Give me a break.
Then why do all the MAGA hat kids apologists leave that part out of their rundowns? Honestly, the lefts focus on the smirking kid really did the right a huge favor. And I’m not saying that fake warcries and tomahawks chops directed at injuns is grounds for societal ostracization but at the same time if my nephew was doing that I’d swat him upside the head and say “stop acting like an ass” That’d be the end of it.
“MAGA hat kids apologists”
Are you actually fucking kidding?
with that phrase, yes I was yanking chains, but I do marvel how even the side that has the majority of the facts on their side (and in this case it is the MAGA hat kid apologists who have them) resort to hyperbole and weaseling, early on I heard how the injun “Marched” “Stormed” “Rushed” etc the kids, he walked, hell I’d call it a saunter but walk is sufficient. see also “Banging a drum in his face!” “assaulted the yutes”. Finally just to hit all bases, the “They’re children” bit, Fuck sake, the infantilization of America proceeds at pace I guess. Funny how when Roy Moore wants to fuck them there ‘legally past the age of consent’ but criticize their actions and it’s ‘leave ’em alone their just babies.”
The hyperbole often gets irritated when the mainstream/prog narrative is challenged.
And I marvel at how in a situation where young men (happy) are accosted (or is that too hyperbolic) by multiple different agitators trying to get a rise out of them, that there are still people who will put their behavior under a microscope in order to find anything they did wrong in a hectic situation in order to appear to be an enlighten intellectual above the fray.
But sure, the young men didn’t react perfectly to a situation many would have done much worse under. Let’s talk about how they need to mature now, but make sure you point out you’re not attacking them, just tacitly endorsing some, but certainly not all, of the blow back they are getting.
Rhetorical tendentiousness and sophistry isn’t all that ‘marvelous.’ I’d be surprised if most people tried to give sober, boring accounts of events that are politically-driven.
However, while the “he was banging a drum two inches from his face” stuff was, ahem, hyperbolic and missed what’s important (i.e. the fact that this became newsworthy at all, and why), it was a direct response to those clutching pearls over The Smirk Seen Round the World. It was to say “Smirking is probably the tamest response to someone banging a drum in your face. Shit’s annoying.”
Of course, he was smirking because he was listening respectfully—clearly not upset about the drumming. So none of the rhetoric was even relevant.
I’m not tacitly endorsing it, I’m outright endorsing any criticism that says “dudes, you were acting like asses, grow up” if that’s attacking them then yes I’m attacking them. I’d imagine the Black Hebrew assholes would have benefitted from a few of their elders telling them the same thing when they were young bucks. And no I’m not comparing the MHK to the BH, I’m stating that you get what you expect out of people (kids included), treat them like they have no agency they’ll act that way, expect/demand manners and propriety and they’ll behave accordingly.
This is the point: The asshole is the man with the drum who walks up to the group (and then lies about the entire incident to the media). The man who invades my space is the asshole. But you’re saying, “How dare you not be perfectly polite to him”? They were pretty fucking polite regardless.
Give me a break.
Fuck that. Those kids acted like perfect gentle…kids. If some assholes were shouting taunts at me and my friends when I was that age I’d have gotten right in their faces. Then, some whack job starts aggressively banging his toy drum in my face He’d have gotten an earful too. Both of them would have deserved it. Those kids bravely stood their ground without lifting a finger or making a sound at both the aggressors.
‘Aggressively‘
riiiight.
Those kids bravely stood their ground without lifting a finger or making a sound at both the aggressors.
One kid (Smirky McSmirkpants) did, the first kid turned away like a coward* and the rest hooped and hollered and high fived and tomahawk chopped. Thanks for giving proof to my statement above that the left focusing on the smirking kid has done the right a huge favor. And how the side that has right on their side will lie and wheedle anyway, even though they have no need to.
* I’m kidding he’s only a coward if you contend that the other kid was brave.
So if the Left had focused on the other kids, their narrativizing would’ve gone over better? Because a bunch of teenagers acting like teenagers is a major story?
Yeah, they did the Right a huge favor by making this into a story and skewing the facts. By, you know, lying.
Which is the real story: the fact that it’s a story at all. But you’re intent on missing the forest for the trees, because some people refuse to accept your contention that these kids deserve criticism at all.
See above where Blackjack claims these kids ‘didn’t lift a finger or make a sound’. That’s what I’m talking about, all the focus on Kid Smirks-a-lot and suddenly we can ignore/lie about all the behavior of the other kids, behavior that may be par for the course for obnoxious young adults, and while you may brush it off, as for me, I expect better of them.
You’re talking about when he walked into the crowd, right? How do you know their motivation? That chop is done at football and baseball games on a regular basis and it’s certainly not equivalent to throwing the white power symbol or the dressing up in blackface.
Maybe it’s not the slickest thing to do in that situation but it’s benign compared to the totality of what they’re being accused of.
Granted, but just because one is accused of doing worse shit than one did, one is not innocent of whatever lesser shit one did do.
And granted, what you say here is true but the Catholic schoolboys have been demonized completely out of proportion to their actions. The actual story isn’t the story, the reaction to the story is.
I only saw one kid tomahawk chop only to be told to cut it out by his peers. Is that what you’re talking about?
Man, you’ve got the “they musta done something wrong” thing going strong. What the fuck should they have done? What the fuck would 16 y/o you have done that would have been so superior? I would have reacted far more aggressively to such negative approaches from strangers who were obviously hostile to me. Never mind the fact that the injun lied and smeared them to the media after the fact. The real assholes here are the legions of scolds attempting to paint these kids as racists and bigots. The media and the twatter scum are the fucking bigots, point blank.
@ the aptly named Hyperbole
He’s a child throwing a tantrum. It’s pathetic.
Livestream from the latest Glibertarians meetup.
OMG. Ahahahaha.
+1 AHHHHHaaaaaaHHHHH
Glib Discord be like this
One of the best videos evar.
Too many women and they are too sober.
If you purchase a Gold Tier Glibertarians.com account, you get entry into those meetups.
The ones with too few women and too much sobriety?
Those are Platinum Tier.
Your sales pitch is… ambitious.
The Covington kid’s story actually got worse in my mind today. Those kids singing their pep songs on the steps while waiting for their bus is a tradition that goes back a decade AND, they were doing it to drowned out the black racist bigots that had been railing on the Injuns for an hour.
So the white Christian kids were trying to defend the Native Americans and the activist pos Indian got in their face, and then went on television and accused them of doing all the things the black haters had been doing for an hour before the white kids ever showed up and tried to support them. AND IT WAS ONE OF THE BLACK GUYS THAT YELLED “BUILD THAT WALL”!!!
Halos for the crackers and throat punches for everyone else involved.
Look, white kids were mean to me in high school and I heard about some white kid being racist to POC and they’re basically all the same, so these kids are obviously racist.
It’s pure envy that is fueling all the hatred towards the black Hebrew Israelites
Well yeah, because they can get away with all the crap they spew. They’re not wypipo.
How are people “getting away” or not “getting away”? The 1st Amendment is the 1st Amendment.
Has any Congressman called for Black Hebrew Israelites symbols to be banned like Yarmuth did for the MAGA hats?
What are Black Hebrew Israelites symbols? And you do realize that the ‘Total and complete shutdown” line was a jab at Trump’s immigration spiel and not a serious proposal?
Should be easy find if one wanted to look or just make it up.
That was one of two. The next tweet blamed their “appalling behavior” on Trump’s racism sounded rather serious.
Sounded less like satire and more like “this is what really requires a ‘Total and complete shutdown’ rather than the border”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepJohnYarmuth/status/1087008928909742081
Yarmuth’s tweet was not literal.
Can’t tell if serious.
Yarmuth cut and pasted from a Trump tweet, and changed a few words.
There should be press accountability for the whole incident. Reporters that called for doxing should be fired for sure and subject to suit.
You’re being obtuse. It has to do with how they are treated by other parties protected by the 1st Amendment compared to children who did nothing wrong.
You realize the Black Israelites are crazy people, right? That people take them as seriously as they do the Westboro Baptist Church?
Did you see anything in the media mentioning that fact? They were screaming at the “Indigenous People” for an hour before the kids ever showed up. Have you seen any reporting of that?
White males wearing MAGA hats, GET ‘EM!!!
Considering how seriously people DO take WBC as a symbol of icky-poo Christians, I’d say that people take BHI much less seriously.
The fact that people have to be told who they are because they haven’t been the subject of a media moral panic seems to bear this out.
Now, you’re being obtuse. Years before, Gilmore and I would share links of the BIs screaming at random people in Times Square. It’s not “news” that crazy hobos yell at things. But I still don’t understand what there was to “get away with”. Do you think any of them hold down regular employment? Do you think they are held in high esteem far and wide?
Real people or Twitter “people”?
Well, they haven’t stumbled upon disrupting funerals yet.
Now who’s playing city mouse, country mouse?
But the overlap of people who are actually part of the ruling class, those who want to be in the ruling class, and those who think it’s important that a ruling class exists with “twitter people” is a pretty good one,
Or rather that the set of twits encompasses most of the other three sets.
It’s not a matter of cultural division, but of numbers. We all know social media amplifies the voices of a small minority of perpetually outraged individuals (of every ideology). I still maintain that your average person knows WBC isn’t representative of Christianity.
Though it is fun to play with people’s heads and bring up the fact that Fred Phelps was a crusading civil rights attorney who got his head cracked open more than once while being called a “nigger lover” for working to overturn Jim Crow laws.
Also, what “wrong” did any of the three parties commit? The point is the entire affair was assholes being assholes to one another, which is all 1st A protected speech. Why anyone cares, much less feels obligated to take sides, is a mystery to me.
That’s the whole point. The party that was vilified the most was the party that did absolutely nothing wrong. In no way whatsoever were they being assholes, just the opposite. Yet now they’re facing doxxing and death threats.
I disagree. I mean, what red-blooded 16 year old shows up for a march/protest? Who does that shit?
And don’t tell me for the trim, as it’s an all-boys school.
Remember when assholes were able to be assholes to one another, then they just went home and nothing else happened?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Well, the drummer lied about the CovCath students to the media, kickstarting this whole thing.
I’d say that was wrong. I’d say he’s the biggest asshole by far.
God, I hate the Internet.
It’s a bit late to complain about that since it has become a international news story as proof of Trumpist racism.
I first heard about on the nightly news, in Canada, mind you, and my first thought was “why is this an international news story?”
They were there for the March For Life and were gathering at the Lincoln Memorial to for the the bus back to Kentucky. Just like they’ve been doing for the last ten years.
According to you’re thinking, going to a march and then being harassed while you’re standing around waiting for the bus is being an asshole?
I thought it was the chick that was filming that said they said racist things?
But yes, that is an actual moral wrong.
Yes. Just as obnoxious as those kids who walked out of school for “gun control” or other bullshit.
Raging against the storm is what I do, Winston.
I just gotta be me.
Maybe. I was more referring to his contention that they surrounded him. Maybe he was mistaken about other elements of the story, but I don’t see how that could be anything but an outright lie.
Looking over the video just now, you can see the kids do start to crowd around him. But it is clear that it’s more they wanted to get a better view of their friend while a crazy guy was drumming in his face, than they were going to attack the guy.
When people are accused of racism with no evidence or when the evidence contradicts the accusations, somehow it gets noticed. I’d think you, of all people, would realize it. For how many days did people beg you here to tell them who committed the horrible act of racism on the internet last year? But you refused to present any proof because either it was too flimsy or you feared that I (yes, me) would be able to miraculously exonerate any white racist with my supernatural debating skills.
Tell me, grrizzly, who did I accuse of racism?
So, you don’t know, I take it. So, my original question stands, why do you feel obligated to take sides?
But if you really, really, want to know, honey, you can ask jesse, who found even more evidence about the shitbag.
Happy now?
I still don’t know whom you had in mind. That’s what everyone wanted to know.
And I was reminded that this is SP’s site, and that is all that needs to be said about that.
Tell that to the catholic kids.
Just had to do the yearly dance with Comcast. “I’m paying too much”.
Actually ended up ~$10/m cheaper than last year. Yay.
I wish I had the intestinal fortitude for that. I’m tired of being ass-raped, but I lose it on the phone with them.
I dropped cable for YouTube TV. Has everything I want for $35. Have Google fiber for internet so streaming never bogs down. I highly recommend switching to one of the streaming services. HULU has a good selection too.
Yeah, I’m ready to make the switch now that I’ve tested the waters with ESPN+ and the streaming functionality is excellent.
The problem is finding another internet provider. I don’t know what Google Fiber is but it doesn’t sound like something available here. We do have “Optimum by Altice” – anyone familiar with that?
Welp, the Optimum website is so broken it won’t let me input my address to see if they serve it.
I guess that leaves Spectrum *sigh*.
I did the same. I tried Verizon Fios for a month, but it wasn’t worth it and their customer service was worse than any cable company I’ve dealt with. The only thing I occasionally miss is Comedy Central, but it was a couple months before I even realized we didn’t have it.
Less than 10 minutes. Michelle was very nice.
Wow. Last time I dealt with Spectrum (né Time Warner) I got the run-around for at least half an hour. And no deal.
Less than 10 minutes. Michelle was very nice.
That’s also a Jeopardy clue with the correct answer being:
“What did members of the Choom Gang say after sharing Barry’s girlfriend?”
Most call centers have a policy that they absolutely are not supposed to hang up on a caller ever. Keep this in mind when negotiating with them. Block out two or three hours on your calendar, call them up and keep chatting all the while maintaining your cool. Talk about anything you want. Let them feel the warm embrace of your life’s most mundane moments. They will eventually cave.
Wait..are you saying this could be free phone sex? Asking for a friend.
Only if you…err…your friend posts it to Soundcloud afterward.
A buddy of mine did accessibility relay for deaf and blind people. He once made a call for a deaf person to some call center, reading from the chat log and relaying the call center girl’s responses. At some point during the call, the deaf guy quit typing responses. The relay staff aren’t supposed to deviate from the chat log unless to say that they have yet to receive a response from the client. But the call center girl couldn’t hang up until she’d confirmed the caller’s satisfaction. So it devolved into forty five minutes of the girl asking whether she had answered the caller’s questions, and my buddy reiterating that he hadn’t received a response from the client, until the girl broke down crying because her call metrics had been totally ruined.
Heh.
I dated a deaf guy once and found out just what it takes to ruffle the relay operator’s feathers.
My friend is a bit of a shut-in. Even at the time he worked this job he was in his mid-twenties and hadn’t learned to drive yet, still lived out back his parent’s house. So I take it with a grain of salt when he said deaf people are some of the bitterest souls he’d ever encountered.
Obligatory.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGVMtnxXEw
I recently did this too. Always go with the “Yeah. I’d like to cancel please… Why? Oh, well I’ve been satisfied but the other company has an introductory offer for $xx, which is enough for me to switch.”
This time they took $35 (!!!!) off my bill for 12 months.
“Great, talk to ya next year!”
I didn’t even threaten to cancel. I just said I was paying too much. I’m now ~$40 less a month than my new bill would have been.
BALLS. OF. STEEL.
I need an excuse because I’m weak
I even got a late fee back, cuz I didn’t get a bill last month in the mail and missed a payment. Always ask, especially if it’s legit. ?
My partner and I cancel cable and start a new service almost every year: taking advantage of higher internet speed, improved cable boxes and introductory prices for “new” customers.
How many operators in your area?! At my address I can only find one realistic choice (for broadband).
We lived for six years with just one cable company in the area. That’s why you need two adults with SSNs in the household to have a “new” customer every year.
Washington Post sidebar just now:
Five reasons Trump may be a one-termer
The shrinking possibility of a second Trump term
Shrinking according to the Washington Post, of course, insofar as their entire paper seemingly exists just to criticize him, make up things about him, and ignore anything positive he has done. Yet it may surprise them that the rest of the country doesn’t exactly see their publication as gospel. We will see.
Was that a troll ad?
Democracy better watch out or the WP will shiv its ass in darkness?
Eighteen months old, but Jeff Diest interviews Scott Horton for Mises Weekends on Horton’s book, Fool’s Errand.
I’m going to hear Scott Horton give a lecture on Saturday. I wonder if Jeff Deist will be there?
Well, I have almost everything necessary to do my taxes. May as well see what the damage is this year.
I still need to get more lube.
I ran 4 different projections in December. I’m fucked on all of them.
I just completed it. I’m still waiting for the 1098 from my student loans, but I did the math manually to get the interest number. I underwithheld a bit this year, which was surprising because not all that much changed from last year (Upon review, I had forgotten that I was unemployed the first 3 months of 2017, which is why there’s a difference). $2700 will be going to Uncle Sam, and $850 will be coming back from the state.
I can’t complain compared to most, but I shouldn’t have looked at my total tax number. It makes me angry to see just how much they’re taking to piss away on jellyfish mating grants, ineffective “charity”, and boots on the ground in 1000 different places around the world.
My accountant called today. It wasn’t pleasant.
I finally got one for the personal side. I did my own returns for years with Pro Series, but….. It’s really worth paying a professional sometimes.
Totally. I’m sure I’ve paid for mine many times over.
Still sucks, though.
Last year we paid a professional, and my partner still had to re-create his returns using software because the professional didn’t want to take responsibility for filing the right way. The issue was too hard for him. Like spending between 40% and 50% of the time in one residence vs. the other and still claiming it as primary residence.
That really does become an issue if you make enough money and own property in NYC. They will audit the fuck out of you and make you PROVE that you spent less than 180 days in the city.
Yeah, I’m calling in a pro this year what with moving from MN to CA and the big income change, new car, and all. Just no idea where to start.
The accountant suggested we buy my wife’s car through the company. Over 6000 lbs, so accelerated depreciation.
It’s basically a free car. I’m kicking myself for not knowing about this earlier.
A shout out to the southern Glibbies. I just cooked up my first batch of Carolina Gold rice and I may be ruined for life.
Doug Stanhope saying Doug Stanhope stuff about equality.
TW: Language very Stanhope-ish.
He can’t say that stuff. It was funny.
Nice:)
This just gets better and better:
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/nathan-phillips-rally-attempted-to-disrupt-mass-at-dcs-national-shrine-91038
Nathan Phillips has been a proggy douchebag for 30 years.
When I said it gets better, I meant WAAAY better.
https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1087881473225572352
Heh. So instead of a “recon ranger” he was a “freon ranger”.
He was doing something with the freon.
I know you guys aren’t supposed to “remote diagnose” people, but… What do you think his deal is?
This narrative could shift to “MAGA Kids taunt mentally ill Native American Elder”
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
Likely just an asshole.
*golf clap*
Four years and kicked out as an E-1?
Just an Indian elder trying to heal the community and totally not an attention seeking activist.
Reports have made much of his status as an Indian elder or a chief and a veteran. So what? How would the kids have known that, even if it mattered? He appears to just be an extremely annoying guy pounding a drum in a kid’s face. I wonder what would happen if, say, some white kid went up to Indian dancers in the Acoma Pueblo and held a boom box blaring rock and roll music in their faces?
That’s more of the Noble Savage trope that progressives love to cling to. Native American??? Why…. he must be a chief of some sort! I bet he was out hunting bison next to his sacred mountain last week!
And then traded his youngest daughter for a bottle of whiskey. Oh wait…
He knew better than to try that with the Black Israelites. I think a confused smile would have been the least of his worries.
“How it all went down. A viral story spread. The mainstream media rushed to keep up. The Trump Internet pounced.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/22/viral-story-spread-mainstream-media-rushed-keep-up-trump-internet-pounced/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.2ed3997fe844
I see that we’re still struggling with that whole reality thing.
Pointing out a blatantly disprovable lie is pouncing. Spreading lies is struggling to keep up.
Democracy dies in darkness.
We’re not fake news, Trump supporters just lucked out on one little story that we were just trying to keep up with! Never mind that one day earlier we fucked up commensurately on a different story. Never mind that we report hate-crime hoaxes as truth repeatedly, blowing them out of proportion as representative of some imaginary Zeitgeist that we’re intent on pushing, so this is nothing new. Shhhh, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
You know what’s terrifying? Ten to twenty years from now, all the context and controversy around these stories will be lost. The main stream articles will be the historical archives defining “what really happened back then”. And history text books will have a paragraph length blurb summarizing the narrative with a clip image from one of the articles and an editorialized caption.
The internet is the cause of the problem, but also the solution.
*cracks beer*
+1 that’s very clever
“And if you turn to page 153 class we will read about how Vladimir Putin himself broke into the central election hub and changed the vote count so KKK member Donald Trump could destroy the nation from the inside.”
“But Mrs. Smith, they didn’t have a central election hub back then.”
“Oh you and your stories. Remember when you claimed the New Deal didn’t end the Great Depression? It’s right here in the book Timmy.”
The Trump Internet? Good grief.
Al GoreVlad Putin invented the internet toprevent global warmingget Trump elected and discredit all of the truthful mainstream news sources using his Russian Internet bots.hmmm
I have this weird suspicion that the Dems might give in on the border wall this week. I have absolutely no facts to back this hunch up and I’m not even sure why I’m posting this. I’m neither thrilled nor dismayed by the whole thing. What are some of your thoughts?
I’m still waiting to hear the figures concerning the money we’ll save in Border Patrol workforce reduction due to the effectiveness of the wall.
I have some bad news, but I don’t want to be the one to tell you.
negative savings is still savings, right?
^Get a load of Ocasio-Cortez up here!^
I’d fuck me.
You’ve got a horse face?
Well, he may also have the cock that comes with it.
Goodbye horse-face
If they think they will win in 2020, including taking the Senate where the large majority of seats to be decided in this election are held by the Republicans, then they would be foolish not to take Trump’s three year DACA deal. In the catbird’s seat by 2021, they can change the deal to their heart’s content (probably have to change filibuster rule in Senate). If the “Wall” is going to end up costing $20-25 billion, then they just never appropriate the rest. So they may take the deal and the media will be sure to spin it as their victory and a compromise/defeat for Trump.
The wall (which I think is stupid) is small potatoes, but the Dems were so interested in dunking on Trump that they became waaaaay too fixated.
Trump is trying to fulfill what is probably one of his smallest campaign promises, and the Dems had so much fucking leverage. Pelosi could have gotten a lot for 5 billion dollars. That’s all pissed away now.
The Covington thing is worse than the Kavanaugh debacle.
Trump is holding all of the cards now.
When I heard what Trump was last offering I seriously thought that someone made it up and slipped it to the media as a prank. Pelosi is the alcoholic aunt at the casino with your money.
I read the kid wants to meet the Indian guy.
PEACE PIPE SUMMIT ON WHITE HOUSE LAWN IS COMING.
Beer Summit or GTFO
Fuck it. It’s the Trump era.
Peyote Summit.
What are some of your thoughts?
I want to totally pwn the
libsproggies.They’ll start negotiating when their federal constituency misses another paycheck or two and starts raising hell at them. They have to at least appear to be putting up a good fight.
I’m not sure they will. It’s about 2020 not the Wall or a shutdown.
I’m dismayed. Shutdown forever!
In case you thought the next two years were going to be just swell… well, let’s dispel that silliness right now.
The hits keep coming.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/second-amendment-maxine-waters-heads-key-house-committee/
Auntie Maxine doesn’t have backup in the Senate, or the WH, so the next couple of years is going to be more annoying for the financial industry than anything else.
Loan them vast sums of money they stand no chance of repaying? Sounds legit.
Definately one of the top five stupidest congresscritters, no small feat.
It is just amazing what rises to the top in that sordid swamp.
Alcohol post!>>>>
I ain’t drunk, I’m jes drinkin!
I just watched the Kentucky basketball game and was shocked at everyone openly flashing white power signs. I mean, it’s Kentucky, so no surprise that they’re racist, but it’s shocking that ESPN would give them a platform.