Good morning my glib gluttons, and what a glorious morning it is as the government is still partially shutdown.
As he personally predicted, Roger Stone has been indicted by Mueller for witness tampering, obstruction, and false statements. Still waiting for proof of collusion, which is still not even a crime.
Digital media is dying as fast as print with recent layoff at Huffpo and Buzzfeed.
Three year old who went missing found alive after two days being tangled in shrub.
House Democrats upset that White House officials are refusing to be a part of their dog and pony show. Why won’t these assholes let them mock them for hours on end with heavy-handed politically-motivated questions which sole purpose is to give their base a hard on? Those bastards.
The US patent office will have to cease operations after the first week of February if the shutdown does not end, the Trademark office has until April. The USPTO is completely funded by user fees, but congress still has to appropriate the money the office collects.
Trying to outdo her crazier leftwingers, Warren wants a wealth tax, a tax for anyone with net assets above $50 million.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song, go clean up the puppy shit in the hallway (I really need to just leave him outside) and move on with my day.
Digital media is dying as fast as print with recent layoff at Huffpo and Buzzfeed. – dreams of memes are being dashed
10 ways to collect unemployment benefits! You’ll be amazed by number 8!!!
How many sanctimonious assholes churning out the same vacuous derp do you need? Seems like you could replace them all with a derp/TDS generator.
It is almost as though they are CGI characters forwarding a narrative in a game.
And yet pay sites like the Athletic seem to be going great guns.
Hmmm. I wonder if giving consumers what they want plays into this somehow….
Imma say many of the “successful” places are successful because one or more benefactors are propping up their pet project[ion].
Like everything on the web, digital media depends on clicks. You can get clicks by producing a quality product that people want. Or you can use the National Enquirer method and get clicks by being outrageous and divisive. The latter is a race to the bottom, which is a race nobody wins. Good riddance.
Am I crazy for thinking that this is somehow related to Patreon’s deplatforming of Suthern, Mile, and Sargon?
I think it’s a natural contraction. There’s only so many bullshit cat articles that can provide value.
As he personally predicted, Roger Stone has been indicted by Mueller for witness tampering, obstruction, and false statements. Still waiting for proof of collusion.
Hacked and stolen
“hacked”? Podesta was a fucking phish. it’s not even social engineering. it’s natural selection.
Think of it as evolution in action.
Awesome book
Yes.
The Niven/Pournelle partnership worked.
And how exactly do you “hack” an email? It doesn’t do anything. It isn’t a system that you can subvert or alter to produce different results. For all my life it has driven me absolutely nuts when people take a word they don’t understand and then use it to mean whatever they want it to mean as if they’re right. “Life hack” I’m lookin’ at you, here.
Somebody defined a hack 20 years ago as a shortcut.
Lying to congress. That one always makes me laugh.
John Brennan and James Clapper are laughing, too.
Don’t forget me !! – Jim Comey
What about the Kabuki show with armed SWAT types to go after a guy whose alleged crime is not giving the democrats dirt they would use to overturn an election they thought they had rigged for Clinton? Did anyone else go WTF? Did they expect Stone to come out with evil single minded assault weapons that would all on their own suddenly start killing people willy-nilly? Or was this just candy for the dnc operatives with bylines that pretend to be unbiased media to give the blood thirsty proggie idiots that send money to the dnc and spend every day hoping that the election will be overturned?
Yeah, I thought the squad was a bit much.
Sending a message. And how did CNN know to hang out in front of Stone’s house before sunrise? Someone wanted the perp walk televised.
As I asked: was this so CNN could throw the red meat at the idiots that watch it and are becoming dispirited because Mueller’s witch hunt still has not made Hillary president?
A bit?
They could have had some gratuitous explosions, tanks, and helicopters firing off missiles to give it some pizzas…
Tom Tucker has it covered.
He lied to the liars in congress!
Not that any more evidence ought be necessary, but doesn’t this entirely undercut the Dossier? Why would the Trump campaign send Stone to nose around and find out what Assange has and when he plans to release it, IF Cohen/Manafort/Page/Trump worked directly with Russians to orchestrate the theft?
You and your insistence on logic and reason..
That’s not how you defeat the unwashed hordes that should just shut up and do what their credentialed elite betters tell them.
Trying to outdo her crazier leftwingers, Warren wants a wealth tax, a tax for anyone with net assets above $50 million. – 2% seems quite reasonable. I say we can do 3
There’s enough money in this country to pay workers what they deserve, guarantee health care for all and stop the climate crisis.
Sorry Romanian glib. But this is for your own good.
*euthenizes pie*
Did you put garlic in his mouth?
Otherwise it won’t take.
I knew I skipped a step.
Yes, but it’s in the clutches of those immortal bloodsuckers and they don’t like to share.
It is 3% over a billion.
The Washington Post reported that the proposal involves a two percent wealth tax on those with more than $50 million in assets, along with an additional three percent on those with more than $1 billion in assets. – I thought is was 5% over a billion reading this and concluded it should be enough so I did not comment
Why not take everything and hand them out an allowance? After all, it is the government’s money because government made the roads and these billionaires didn’t make shit!
Assets include things like stock and property, so we’re talking about Jeff Bezos having to pay more than 4B in the first year.
He could liquidate the Washington Post for the full price he paid and cover about 5% of what he owes.
Or he’d be forced to immediately liquidate about 0.5% of Amazon ($5B) if that sale didn’t affect the stock price. Of course that sale would probably drop the sell price by 10% and “destroy” 100B in economic assets across millions of retirement accounts.
Now multiply that across the thousands of millionaires that own smaller chunks of every major industry in the US.
Good plan.
As is said often, most people think of themselves as middle class, with those who make more than them rich, and those who make less then them lower class. It also helps to prove that most people are morons.
The common clay of the new West.
I consider myself middle-class but look at the real numbers, our household is in the top 5-7%.
I’m not even convinced that I’m actually middle class. I still feel poor. *hides older comments about intentionally paying down principal on loans above required rates*
Easy-peasey. Raise minimum to 25M and hour and we’re already there. Problem solved.
I had someone tell me long ago that the government prints the money so they could give everyone a million dollars and we would all be rich.
So why can’t I buy anything with my $110Trillion Zimbabwe Dollars?
People’s number one mistake with economics is conflating money with wealth.
And it is an old mistake.
I am still reading A Splendid Exchange, and was reading the chapter on mercantilism in England last night.
People literally believed that the wealth of a country was determined by the amount of gold and silver sitting in vaults.
Fortunately, even a century before Adam Smith, there were some people pointing out the truth.
Not that it has mattered.
You expect the average proggie idiot that thinks capitalism is evil and has less than zero understanding of the principles of economics and human nature to actually understand that that paper is worthless if if can’t be backed up with something of worth? I wonder if you should not just give up writing and go into standup with stuff like this UCS…
*monotone* My delivery is not very good.
worked for Steven Wright
*monotone* I… also tend to… get a verbal… cadence… much like… and overacting captain.. when thinking… and… talking… at the same time.
Think of all the tax money the government could then get!
“wealthy people have no incentive to minimize their tax liability”
/no wealthy person ever
I wonder what Fauxcohontas’s effective tax rate is.
Probably files as “Indian not taxed” – the only line she can remember from the constitution.
Let’s ask the army of accountants that do her taxes?
*looks down at reading on scale*
*walks away*
I’ve gone to a keto-esque diet and I’m down 3.5 pounds in 4 days. Now … that may just be an anomaly and the sample size of days is tooo small. But I don’t feel as hungry after cutting carbs and adding protein.
Water at this point. Higher fat, lower carb means you will feel fuller longer. A buddy of mine lost 13 lbs over the last two weeks.
It works.
Who is Roger Stone, and why do all the ‘news’ outlets seem to assume I recognize the name?
From that name, I’d guess a gay porn star.
Wouldn’t that be “Roger Stones“?
Stone Rogers. Roger Stones is a judgmental ass who runs around punishing adultery.
He’s the guy who ran GM into the ground and Michael Moore tried to find, right?
>>Warren wants a wealth tax, a tax for anyone with net assets above $50 million.
Well we knew that one was coming. If enacted – I’m sure that number will begin to slide down the scale. Or, with time & inflation, will begin to ensnare more and more tax cattle.
Of course the peeps making $49.9M can slide on by. Incentives, how do they work?
This isn’t even ‘Making’. This is anyone who owns property that can be imputed to be worth $50m or more will have to pay that tax year over year until they move their assets out of the country.
So more trusts get created holding property amounts of ~$45m (you want some buffer room), and only those who hit a really big lottery payout get hit with the tax.
You just have to spend big on Christmas before the tax bill gets measured on Jan 1.
Missed that. Yikes.
Employing tax accountants, lawyers, and more IRS agents to argue about the value of something is a very productive use of time.
until they move their assets out of the country.
I think I read that they want a hefty tax for doing so. They think they own you.
Someone rich enough to worry will be able to afford people who can plan such a transition to avoid such a tax.
^^^THIS^^^
And the people proposing these taxes know this. Their intent is to destroy the middle class and bring in the commie age of the two class system: the oligarchy running the show and the serfs. And everyone knows that under marxism only the powerful will have wealth.
No big deal, once you get close to $50M, you liquidate and go offshore.
And then you do what? Live here in constant fear that they will discover your assets (which they will because under FACTA both you and any bank or financial institution overseas are obligated to report such accounts? Or give up your citizenship and flee?
Renounce citizenship is what I was going for, before you exceed the penalty threshold.
With 50M in assets, I’m pretty sure I could find a better place to live out my life than this progressive shit hole.
They implemented FACTA to track any such movement. At the time the ‘conspiracy nuts’ warned it was step one with wealth taxes and barriers to export of capital as 2 and 3. Do kids ever say “It’s a free country anymore?”
I was told specifically at the time to be quiet, the adults were talking.
The effects on real estate valuations alone should be catastrophic.
I mentioned yesterday that in 2011, LIzzie was worth something like $14.5M. So $50M leaves her plenty of safety.
How much crazy downright evil shit involving confiscation of other people’s wealth will all our collectivist 2020 candidates dream up in the pursuit of the “vote for a living” and SJW block’s vote?
On the plus side, once Warren is done ruining the economy, no one will have $50 million in assets.
FTFY
You’re both wrong – Everyone will have more than $50million in assets – the dollar just won’t be worth the fabric it’s printed on.
Love – Minnesoda style
Nutsos get married on the lake. High temp that day was 1F.
I expected them to be in swim-wear, quite honestly.
Hey, saved on boat rentals.
They should have waited a day. -27 this morning
Now I’m just picturing them getting stuck to the ice and needing rescue.
x3 dog-dare
Digital media is dying as fast as print with recent layoff at Huffpo and Buzzfeed.
That’s weird. I mean, all of the big 3 browsers with their built-in fake news detecters say HuffPo and Buzzfeed are reliable, trusted sources of quality reporting. Probably the users are just ignoring the sensible warnings and guideposts. I think we need a law…
“Digital Media” is not dying. Outlets that do not produce worthwhile content are dying.
So, anything other than Fortnite streamers.
What? Glibs has laid off staff? Who got let go?
Yeah, Google doesn’t try to control the narrative at all.
Read the first few paragraphs of this Wikipedia entry. You learn zero about what happened, but a narrative is set about how you shouldn’t think unpure thoughts about this particular case.
Mueller knew at least a year ago that there was no Russia “collusion”. Since then the whole thing has been aimed at covering up Obama Administration crimes committed by Clinton and even Mueller, and revenge against the outsiders with the nerve to challenge the deep staters for control.
^this
Squared.
Let’s not kid ourselves that Stone wasn’t a sleazebag. Still, this investigation shouldn’t have started in the first place and I see any crimes of lying to the FBI in this whole shitshow as illegitimate.
As uncivil said above, I’m not really sure who Stone is. These stories are like Us Magazine covers – I have no idea who they are talking about.
Perjury is a crime because you have sworn to tell the truth and been notified that penalties apply. Lying to the FBI does not meet that standard and should not be a crime.
Pretty much. The only question left is if the IG has been investigating. We’ll see in time. I’m optimistic. All those FBI agents being fired or retiring has to be mean something.
As someone pointed out on MLK Day, King himself was targeted by the FBI, bugged, and accused of working with the Russians. It’s like they aren’t very creative.
If they were creative, they wouldn’t be working at the FBI.
The USPTO is completely funded by user fees, but congress still has to appropriate the money the office collects.
Lol
Trying to outdo her crazier leftwingers, Warren wants a wealth tax, a tax for anyone with net assets above $50 million.
So… the estate tax and AMT?
What precisely do these evil slime think will happen to the economy when they eat all the capital. That pool of wealth is what produces our standard of living. Income taxes are only disincentives to growth; wealth taxes are eating the seed grain.
You assume they think, or understand economics.
They don’t have an incentive to care about the havoc this would wreak. They have an incentive to say or do anything that gets them elected to the office they seek.
I think it says something about their primary election base that Warren thought this would be considered a good idea.
It does, and she was right that they will consider it a good idea.
These people think that the economy is driven only by consumerism and that capital held as wealth is “hoarding”.
Why do you not care about FAIRNESS?!?!??!111???
Bug, not feature
For one, the shutdown is not a minor event for the dozens of communities with large proportions of federal workers, or a large number of businesses that rely on federal contracts. This is crystal clear in Trump, Ross, and Kudlow’s temporary hometown. Everywhere you go in Washington, you see a miniature recession. The blocks surrounding the Mall, filled with half-shuttered federal buildings and empty cafes and darkened museums, are in a recession. Office parks in Reston are in a recession. “Roughly 7 percent of the daily economy is at risk” in the Washington region, said Stephen Fuller, an economist at George Mason University. “It is having an effect that cannot be made up and can be measured.”
The economic pain is diffuse, as well as acute. The federal government is so big, its reach so vast, its spending so extensive, that the shutdown is slowing down thousands of communities and business sectors a little bit as it also slows down a few of them a lot. “It does affect every single sector,” Fuller said. “Farmers are feeling it a little. The airline industry is feeling it a little. It begins to look like an interest-rate increase, or some other financial change that makes the economy grow more slowly, since such a broad range of services and contracts get curtailed.”
Maybe a national government with its tentacles in everything is not beneficial, in the long run.
Oh, who am i kidding?
The blocks surrounding the Mall, filled with half-shuttered federal buildings and empty cafes and darkened museums, are in a recession. Office parks in Reston are in a recession. “Roughly 7 percent of the daily economy is at risk” in the Washington region, said Stephen Fuller, an economist at George Mason University. “It is having an effect that cannot be made up and can be measured.”
Aren’t these the same sneering cunts who told everybody concerned about immigration and trade related job losses that they were leeching pieces of subhuman shit that needed to suck it up, learn advanced computer science, and move to Silicon Valley because their blue collar utopia was never coming back?
Huh. The company I work for has some government support contracts, and I haven’t seen any e-mails or chats about a negative impact from the shutdown. And Cleveland today looks pretty much the same as Cleveland from last month, and six months ago, and a year ago (with the exception of seasonal changes).
Office parks in Reston are in a recession.
Bullshit.
/works in Reston
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN… DAY 5479
IF ONLY!
Maybe a national government with its tentacles in everything is not beneficial, in the long run.
“But you have to have centralized control. It’s the only way!” -> Things that have actually been said to me.
Somehow I got lost in the mix. Unemployment is 4 %, roughly 6 million unemployed. Every day those 6 million are either eating or dying in the streets (looks out window, sees the body pick up crew working). Those 6 million are somehow living, paying their bills or not but pretty much going on with their perhaps difficult lives, looking for work or waiting until their benefits run out. n any case, we hear not a peep out of them but federal workers, OMG, we’re all gonna die!
The
Propaganda MinistryNews Media has a better card board sign than the dude on the offramp.My thoughts exactly. I’ve been through a couple layoffs in my career, and nobody was lined up to give me free shit to “get me through” and they sure as shit didn’t guarantee me back pay.
If you work for the fed gov and didn’t put aside a couple months worth of core expenses to cover the entirely predictable budget cycle, fuck you.
It tells you something that we’re basically at full employment and hundreds of thousands of federal workers continue to show up at their unpaid jobs everyday. They literally have zero other marketable skills (in which case they would be snatched up quickly by private employers) or their job is so damn cushy that it’s worth keeping even if that means not getting paid for a month or two.
I can tell you that if my employer missed a single payroll I would probably not go back.
Countries surrounding DC are the richest in the nation. They should just use some of their hoarded wealth to alleviate the pain.
“We need structural change. That’s why I’m proposing something brand new – an annual tax on the wealth of the richest Americans. I’m calling it the “Ultra-Millionaire Tax” & it applies to that tippy top 0.1% – those with a net worth of over $50M.”
–just the tip. come on nothing else, I swear. just-the-tip?!?
Happy Friday Glibs!
http://archive.li/vxUkz
And something special for Swiss since I think he’s been feeling left out.
http://beauty-around.com/en/tops/item/1300-most-beautiful-swiss-women
Not left out….over-included.
Yeah, no thanks.
I only got maybe…1 out of those three. Talk about high maintenance, yeeesh.
*tugs collar*
I’m definitely special.
You rode the short bus?
That makes her sound like a Nazi gold digger.
What you just did there…it was noted.
*narrows gaze*
35>9>22>1
The Swiss list is illegitimate. Not a single banker or ski instructor.
They did have a Bond Girl, and that has to count for something.
According to 23andMe I’m 15% Swiss. Do I get 1/7 of that Swiss gold now?
Nope.
Damn.
*shuffles off to work*
2, 5, 11, 44. Ho boy, time to dry up.
Got stuck in moderation, so my top three, shown one at a time:
First — don’t normally go for skinny blonds, but wood:
https://archive.li/vxUkz/0b329aede2d7f778dbc56cedf894d2d3becc08d7
Second — thin thicc:
https://archive.li/vxUkz/6d96ebdbe8293c27fe5a32b1030799f59d3a1a27
Third — thicc!:
https://archive.li/vxUkz/2a3aa5bb77abdf2c5b2fd038926093905dc37994
First — don’t normally go for skinny blonds, but wood:
https://archive.li/vxUkz/0b329aede2d7f778dbc56cedf894d2d3becc08d7
Second — thin thicc:
https://archive.li/vxUkz/6d96ebdbe8293c27fe5a32b1030799f59d3a1a27
Third — thicc!:
https://archive.li/vxUkz/2a3aa5bb77abdf2c5b2fd038926093905dc37994
Oh come on, a couple of those allegedly Swiss women weren’t even blonde. #fakenews
Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Wealth Tax’ Is Unconstitutional
Its prohibition on “direct taxes” mean that a ‘clean’ wealth tax set simply by percentage is impossible. To remain constitutional, a wealth tax would have to take on a deeply distorted form, one that would place a heavy burden on poor states.
Without an unlikely constitutional amendment, this is what would happen. Because a direct tax must be “apportioned among the several States” according to “the Census or Enumeration herein”, the total revenue of the tax would have to be decided beforehand by the government, and then apportioned to each state by population, not by any wealth-related measure. So if a state contains 10 percent of the national population, it will pay 10 percent of the tax, regardless of wealth.
Eh, I’m not convinced it wouldn’t be shoved through.
It’s a tax you say? Looks good to me.
Chief Justice Roberts
Fuck that asshat and his shit moves…
Exactly. The concept of amending the constitution is dead. Much easier to just game the SC until you get what you want.
Well, if we can’t even get the governments to obey the 2nd amendment, what good is a 28th?
Actually, this unconstitutional bullshit is exactly what the 2nd amendment was intended to address.
Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You’ll Get Away With It
Only if you also meet the parameters of the people in these major cities doing the shooting.
Snitches get stitches, bitchez.
Seth Rich agrees.
Clearly the solution is more gun control.
Like bussing, maybe the police should randomly shoot wypipo for equality.
Gun crimes are hard to solve. Guns don’t leave fingerprints and mostly look a lot alike, especially from a distance, so it’s hard to ID the perp.
“mostly look a lot alike”
RAAAAACIS…. oh you mean the guns. RAAAAAACIST anyway for good measure.
BLACK GUNS MATTER!
Ha ha! A law to make every gun a different color!
In many (if not most) cases, when a gunshot victim comes into the ER, he was SOCMOB (Standing On Corner Minding Own Business) and his assailants are only described as “these two dudes.” That’s if the victim talks to the police at all. Not much to go on for our nation’s heroes in blue (detective division).
So, basically, without DNA evidence, police are really bad at their job.
FIFY
My guess is they don’t care much about solving gang murders as long as they are restricted to other gangs. Keep it to the underworld, have a few cops on your payroll, and all’s good. It’s only when innocent tax-payers are involved that the local gov really has an incentive to solve the crime.
Exactly. Gangland Chicago and Baltimore are Containment Zones
I’d think who the victim is and where it took place has an influence on how easy it is to solve.
A murder in a home in a middle class part of the city with no sign of forced entry is probably domestic or close associate which narrows the potential suspect list. Interview five or ten people and you’ve probably got a suspect and plenty of evidence.
A murder in a gang shooting you could interview everybody in a one mile radius and have no actual leads.
Plus those middle-class probably suburbanites are more liable to talk to the police. No one saw nothin in the gang shooting.
>A murder in a gang shooting you could interview everybody in a one mile radius and have no actual leads.
Good thing we haven’t turned non-externality-having behaviors and substances into contraband, thus inculcating an us-vs-them attitude among both the police and the non-violent potential witnesses, thus ensuring that when actual bad shit does happen the police have the support of the communit…
Oh wait. Should we not have done that?
Clearly proof that the cops are racist…..
Or maybe just indicator of a broken inner city minority culture that would rather protect a murderer than help the cops catch him.
Good morning Banjos!
Mornin’
Nail, head.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/the_democratic_party_is_alienated_from_and_hates_the_usa.html
Most salient points:
“those who identify with the unworthy Democratic Party often see the Democrats as merely trying to correct inequities in ‘the system.’ The Democrats have successfully sold the view that they are more compassionate and concerned for the “downtrodden” than the Republicans[…]They do not realize and do not believe that the Democrats are now driven by a cultural Marxist and deep-seated ideological commitment to overthrow capitalism. Democratic voters do not understand that the leaders of their party want to so control the U.S. wealth as to in effect collaborate with the titans of finance in a kind of syndicalist (fascist) venture in order to feather their own nests. Their motives are impure, and their goals are unrealistic”
The one issue I have is the constant conflation between the deism of the Founders and Christianity. Yes, there were a lot of similarities and Christianity was the dominant religion, however their invocation of higher powers had more in common, IMO, with AA’s invocation of higher powers. It’s a minor quibble, but I think an important one.
their invocation of higher powers had more in common, IMO, with AA’s invocation of higher powers. It’s a minor quibble, but I think an important one.
I think invoking a higher power is essential when framing a natural rights theory. Without the higher power, what makes the natural rights theory any different from any other framework of governance?
That sounds like a utilitarian choice to me.
I agree 100%. I’m just saying that the higher power invoked in our founding documents is never explicitly called out as the Christian G-d. It’s the AA higher power “as you understand it”. It doesn’t make a functional difference, but I think it still matters.
Fair enough. I agree that CHRUSHTHUN NEASHUN is a bit obnoxious. (interestingly, I’m reading Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, and he was making fun of those who believed that Britain was a Christian nation.) OTOH, I don’t think I agree that a generic call to a higher power is enough to distinguish natural rights theory from any of a smorgasbord of utilitarian theories, including Marxism.
There is a totally non-higher-power rational for natural rights. I should know, since I believe in a higher power, I believe in natural rights, and I believe that the one *does not* flow from the other.
Or do you think OMWC and other non Xtians needn’t observe your natural rights, since they don’t believe in (the divinity of) XP?
Natural rights are those constraints on behaviors that are necessary for a just society. No sky fairy required.
Or do you think OMWC and other non Xtians needn’t observe your natural rights, since they don’t believe in (the divinity of) XP?
Belief in =/= existence of. Whether or not a serial killer believes it wrong to kill and dismember his victims, it is wrong.
My point is that a framework without a foundation is a framework without a foundation, no matter what its core principles are. What makes the “just society” of natural rights theory more favorable than “social justice” from the postmodern theory?
You can unwrap layer after layer of the philosophical onion, but you just end up with more onion. My point is that without a metaphysical foundation, the strongest critique you can give a philosophy is “this makes me feel bad” or “this makes me feel good”. Anything beyond that just begs the question.
What makes you think that god provides either a stable or valid metaphysical foundation? YOu can’t prove it exists, you can’t prove that your moral principals are actually in accordance with it/it’s wishes/dictates even if it does exist.
You are confusing sophistry with truth. Plato, Aristotle, and Adam Smith all put forward some very good arguments that no, you don’t end up with more onion when you dig down. But what they don’t put forward is observations that can stand up to sophistry, because truth is no firewall to sophistry.
I can’t tell you what justice is. I don’t think that you are a fundamentally broken human being, so you don’t need to be told, anyway. It is part of you as a human. There are many logical sounding arguments against this truth, but falling for those arguments doesn’t make them correct.
Have you read The Abolition of Man? Its like the waterfall. One can make very sophisticated arguments about how the waterfall is mundane and not worthy of awe. But that doesn’t make it not worthy of awe, and believing in these arguments leads the student from the truth.
And importantly, this is an example made by CS frikin Lewis, a hard-core Xtian believer who never shied away from rendering unto God what was God’s.
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Now, to look at it another way, Natural Rights are not a product of Christianity because Christianity calls to be and actin ways that are uncoupled from natural rights. Importantly, this uncoupling is in harmony with natural rights (IE none of the callings happen to be in opposition to natural rights) but the callings bear no relationship to natural rights.
That means that some callings align perfectly (Don’t use your authority to collect taxes to oppress people.)
That means that some callings imperfectly align (Do unto others as they would do unto you – sometimes that’s aligned with natural rights. But it also means to smile at a stranger and make them feel welcome when you walk down the street. That’s not a natural right)
That means that some callings are completely orthogonal with natural rights (Eat bread and drink wine and think of XP when you are having dinner with friends has no relationship with natural rights.)
In Christianity, there is no delineation between these things. Formally said, Christianity is not able to discriminate (in the formal sense) between natural-rights-aligning callings and non-rights-orthogonal callings.
As such, Christianity can not be the basis of natural rights. Since Christianity is the only divine power I think you believe in the existence of, I won’t go into other supernatural possible origins since I don’t expect you to believe that they are the source of natural rights.
With the higher power what makes it any different?
I cannot prove whether there is a god or not but I can pretty conclusively prove that any conception of god you choose to dream up has no rational basis for believing it is the one real god or has any meaningful existence outside your head. By invoking a higher power all you are doing is handwaving away the problem of providing an objective rational basis for your firs principals. The problem is there is no objective proof that your god even exists, there is no objective proof that you actually are capable of intrepreting it’s will even if it does exist.
This isn’t an arguement against god it is pointing out that invoking god simply does not help resolve any of these ethical questions.
No matter where you draw the line and say : This is my set of axioms, on these rocks I build my philosophy. It is always possible to point out that those axioms are without a foundation and argue that this other set of axioms from one reversion further are therefore better. It’s a bullshit argument; axioms are by definition without foundation as they are foundational.
In other words basing natural law in theology is neither a better nor a worse argument than in basing natural law in necessary conditions for human thriving, or in essential characteristics of reason. Aquinas, Aristotle and Rand can argue this forever.
Lack of evidence =/= insufficiency of argument. Assuming that a higher power exists and assuming that the higher power is the supreme good means that you can build a philosophy off of the edicts of that higher power.
We can argue until the cows come home about the evidence for or against that higher power, the supreme goodness of that higher power, and the validity of those edicts, but if true, it’s sufficient foundation for an ethos.
The same is not true for a person’s feelings, except in certain situations that are very distasteful to most humanity (the abyss of nihilism, egomania, complete rejection of all egalitarian principles, various forms of “might makes right” relativism)
I think you are strawmanning here. I listed two non-feelings based arguments for Natural Law that are not theolgical. (one of them is the source material)
“thriving” is certainly feelings based. A eugenicist has a very different definition of human thriving than a Catholic. Who breaks the tie?
The “essential characteristics of reason” argument is interesting, do you have some reading material you could point me to on that one?
Essential characteristics of reason is Rand’s argument. To paraphrase, Human’s survive by use of reason, reason can only function to allow survival if the reasoner is free to think, inquire, plan and act.
Aristotle is human thriving (happiness actually, but since he then defines happiness are flourishing/thriving…)
But that is just it you can’t. First, assuming that there is a higher power is in no way shape or form the same as assuming that there is a supreme good. It is entirely possible that the highest power is separate from and possibly even antithetical to the supreme good. In otherwords it is possible that god is not in fact god, god is merely powerful. It is also possible that either could exist without the other. There is an even more fundamental problem in the assumption however. It is impossible for you to know if your assumptions about the actual nature of that higher power and supreme good bear any actual resemblance to them.
See the problem is saying that grounding your philosophy in the assumption of the existence of a higher power and a supreme good has no defense against Islamic Jihadis. They believe in a higher power and believe that higher power represents the supreme good and that when they rape infidel women and behead apostates they are serving that higher power and implementing the supreme good.
See, saying that a belief in a higher power is necessary to ground your philosophy requires you to actually define your higher power and demonstrate that your conception of that higher power is objectively more true and real than all of the competing conceptions of a higher power with differing dictates as to what consititutes the supreme good and there is no way to do this without falling back on the same kind of ungrounded apriori assumptions that non thiests use to ground their belief systems.
Basically unless god chooses to make itself known to us in an unambiguious way the concept of god provides no more secure of a grounding for a philosophy than simply leaving your foundation ungrounded from any provable objective basis, you are merely trying to obscure the fact that your are as ungrounded as any athiest with a curtain of faith.
It is impossible for you to know if your assumptions about the actual nature of that higher power and supreme good bear any actual resemblance to them.
Again, lack of evidence =/= insufficiency of argument.
I could be wrong about the higher power, but that doesn’t change the fact that a higher power who is the supreme good and lays down edicts of what is good is a damn solid foundation for morality.
Human feeling is categorically incapable of being sufficient foundation for morality, except in the very few cutouts I’ve mentioned.
I’m coming to the table with schroedingers cat in a box. The cat may be alive, the cat may be dead, but there’s a cat in the box. You’re essentially saying that because it’s unknowable whether the or not the cat is alive, it is the same as coming to the table with an open and empty box.
Ah, I see where the disagreement between ourselves is. This is a [citation needed] line. To me (and the others I mentioned above) “Human feeling” is how we perceive the influence of something real that we can’t directly observe, and its that not-directly-observable thing that is the basis of justice.
No I am saying you have a box that you are utterly incapable of opening but you think you have a cat and a sample of a radioactive isotope in it.
Yes, IF the higher power exists, and IF the higher power represents the supreme good then yes it is the only viable foundation for morality. But we are not arguing what the best foundation for a moral philosophy is, we are arguing over which if any moral philosophy is best/which is closest to the highest good.
The problem with your analogy is that the higher power is the cat and the supreme good is the radioactive isotope but all you have is a box which you are incapable of opening, you don’t know if either of them exists or if either of them is actually in your box and not someone else’s. You just think you have a shroedingers cat experiment, all you really have is an unopenable box and you want to use that box as the foundation of your moral philosophy and that is all well and good for you but you see Mohammed over here also has a box that he says has a cat and radioactive isotope in it and thinks we should use his box as the foundation and over there there is this Hitchens guy with a completely different box saying the same thing and you know when I look around I see millions of different people all with boxes that can’t be opened some of which are radically different from all the others while some are similar to each other but no 2 exactly the same and all of them think their box should be the foundation. How does the argument that we think that one or more of these boxes contain a cat and a radioactive isotope inside them help us to decide which one is the best choice?
To me (and the others I mentioned above) “Human feeling” is how we perceive the influence of something real that we can’t directly observe, and its that not-directly-observable thing that is the basis of justice.
This is where I have a hard time walking the line sometimes. My personal view, taking into account my Christian beliefs, assigns the same value to feelings that you describe.
However, either through my lack of exposure or through the rarity of it, I haven’t been exposed to a serious rationalist/materialist argument for feelings being anything more than whims of fancy. It’s just sort of assumed that if a bunch of people feel very strongly about something, it must be important, and important feelings are what we call morals. Any of the more serious arguments I’ve read have devolved into some concept of divinity or into might makes right. Without assuming my worldview, I’ve yet to see a path to giving feelings any more weight than the materialists do.
Ignore the rationalists and the materialists.
If you want to read about justice, I read Jordan Peterson, CS Lewis, Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiment, Aristotle, and Plato and think they are all helpful. But go in the opposite order that I just listed them in.
If you want to read about feelings being more than just “something in your head,” I read the Stoics, practice mindfulness meditation, and have been reading a number of journal articles about pain management. These are all things that are “in your head,” but that doesn’t make them not real.
“Just” as in “just in your head” is the mind killer. Lots of things are “in your head.” Doesn’t make them not real.
Love. Hope. Faith. Fear. Regret. Fatherhood. Duty. Pain. Mathematics. Music. Those are all in your head. You wouldn’t call them not real. They are a data state of the universe’s most complex computer, produced as a function of inputs and the precursor to specific outputs in the form of bodily activity.
Its no more a whim of fancy than a state machine controlling a robotic arm in response a sensor array.
Yes, IF the higher power exists, and IF the higher power represents the supreme good then yes it is the only viable foundation for morality.
^^ This statement right here is the cat. The cat is alive only if all of your capitalized IF statements are true. The cat is dead if either of them are false.
The cat is in the box, and for the purposes of this analogy, it doesn’t matter whether the cat is a calico (Christian), a tabby (Muslim), a siamese (Jewish), or some other breed.
This is the only box with a cat in it. There may be a box with an armadillo in it (hellenism, as an example where the deities aren’t the Supreme good). There may be a box with nothing in it (materialism). There may be a box with a robot in it (AI singularity) However, I’ve not found a convincing argument that you can build a morality on an armadillo or on nothing or on a robit. The only one that seems to stand up is building it on the cat.
If the cat is dead, then I have never come across a seriously defensible foundation for morality. If it’s alive, then we will still never know what breed it is (we won’t know which religion to practice).
meh I doubt a large party is uniformly driven by anything exept self interest. So I think this is to quick to scream cultural Marxist
The pledge of allegiance is an abomination. It was composed by a socialist, imposed by FDR as a drive toward the sort of ‘solidarity’ popular in Italy and Germany at the time, and is anathema to the idea of a Union of Sovereign States, founded on the concept of individual rights. Also Jefferson was a deist, Franklin maybe, but Adams, Washington, and virtually all the rest were Christians, so minor quibble with you minor quibble.
I’m sorry no American Patriot should ever recite the pledge. It is utterly antithetical to the ideals of the founders. We do not owe our allegiance to the American State, the American State owes it’s allegiance to us and rote recitations of oaths of allegiance to the state are the fare of fascist and communist states which have no place in a nation of free and sovreign people.
The one issue I have is the constant conflation between the deism of the Founders and Christianity.
Part of the reason of course is that the Founders represented a spectrum of beliefs. Many of the leading lights were deists, such as Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin, while others were conventionally religious, such as Adams and Washington, and still others were devout, such as Patrick Henry. Thus everyone can see what they want to see by focusing on the people who align most closely with themselves.
Woman busted for DUI — of vanilla extract\
https://nypost.com/2019/01/24/woman-busted-for-dui-of-vanilla-extract/
Are we talking real vanilla, or imitation vanilla?
I’ve always wondered how that got an exemption from liquor laws.
Too ordinary.
The good news is, if they ever de-schedule opium, laudanum will be in every grocery store.
You can already by rum extract.
No, I don’t understand why that exists either.
What are they extracting, and what do they leave in?
I strongly suspect it is for making rum-flavored confections without the same alcohol content.
Since the largest ingredient by weight is listed first, that means it has to be at least 50 proof.
https://www.mccormick.com/spices-and-flavors/extracts-and-food-colors/extracts/rum-extract
… then just buy Rum.
And the site contradicts itself.
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On the same page!
Okay, sitting there, it could be possible to have a total reduction in alcohol content by way if concentrating the ‘rummy’ flavorants. They assert a 2:1 to 6:1 ratio depending on the type of rum being emulated.
Rum tends to be 40% ABV (80 proof). I doubt the ‘rum flavor’ and ‘natural flavor’ components add up to 50%, or even a large fraction of weight. So the extract my in fact be a similar ABV, if not more alcoholic. but the differential would allow a lower total alcohol content of the finished piece.
But it’s simpler just to buy the rum.
I don’t know for sure, but my guess is that it is cheaper to produce than traditional rum. Source food-grade ethanol, source food-grade water, source cheap flavors that taste like barrel aging that you can legally call “natural.* Source 1% more than that of unaged rum. Figure out cost. Compare with rotgut.
*As opposed to what, ectoplasm. Fuckin a.
Leap, Artifiical flavors are synthesized from chemicals (typically petrochemicals) directly in a factory. Natural flavors are processed from biomass that has lived much more recently and doesn’t require extensive synthesis.
Artifical Vanilla flavor is derived from the secretions of a Beavers anal glands
Beavers anal
This kind of talk is how you get wrong hole violations!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge heartily concurs.
As a 14 year old dishwasher, I took the mint extract challenge. 1 teaspoon of mint extract down the hatch without puking. My breath was minty fresh the rest of the day.
There was also the eat a pint of ice cream, drink a quart of milk, then play one – on – one soccer. First person to score 2 goals without puking wins.
I was not successful with that one.
Not sure if covered elsewhere, but Anti-vaxxers’ children suffer an outbreak of measles.
Squirrel: Nut. Clock: Broken.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/01/22/duterte-communism-rotten-ideology-leading-mass-insanity/
He took a break from killing drug users to say something sensible.
It’s a pretty big nut, it’s hard to not find it.
You know who else found big nuts?
Nurse Ratched?
Roger Stones?
Stormy Daniels ?
Dammit, that what I get for not refreshing.
Happens to everyone, Trashy
Stormy Daniels?
something something great minds
Boy, I sure love videos that not only autoplay, but reflexively clicking to pause them instead turns the volume on.
Douglas County teacher on leave after viral comments on social media about ‘Hitler Youth’
Douglas County is one of the few places in the universe that has disempowered its union. Teachers receive merit pay and the unions are largely neutered when it comes to protecting assholes like this woman. Naturally, it has the best schools in the region. Not to worry though, she’ll be welcomed by DPS with open arms after DougCo fires her.
exactly. the NEA/AFT is going to call for a favor.
That sounds like a great county, jeebus. Please may more counties do the same.
Christ what assholes the school district are.
At least that’s how they come across in the news clip.
Leftist imbeciles are going to make ironic Naziism fashionable.
Our move from a dignity culture to a victim culture has been an unmitigated disaster. Under a dignity culture, people still took pride in doing their job well, being an expert teacher (in this case) or whatever. Their dignity was treated like a precious commodity, and doing a great job was part of that. Now, under victim culture, that’s going away.
I was involved not too long ago in an open source curation project – we didn’t write the code, but we curated, cataloged, and indexed the plug-ins that others wrote. This was not a particularly ethically fraught operation, most of the plug-ins involved moving bits around in memory. One plugin was closely tied used in the processing of animal products (I can’t imagine it was used anywhere but a slaughterhouse.) One of the curators decided that this was a violation of her vegan ethics.
OK, so far so good. I’m not a vegan, I’m actually not even sure that all those animals on my plate and in my boots would prefer to have never been born as opposed to living in a factory farm. But I can understand why others might disagree.
However, instead of withdrawing from the project, this curator just decided to do an ethics audit of every plug in. She removed a half dozen plug ins from the index, which royally fucked up the livelihood of a number of small business, most of which had nothing to do with animal processing.
I couldn’t convince her that this made her a good vegan but a shit project administrator. A good vegan and a good admin would find a replacement and announce that for ethical reasons she could not longer be involved with the project. Instead, this to her was me oppressing her vegan..hood? ness? Victim culture.
But why are so many of them the worst sort of control-freaks?
Is that an attempt at sarcasm?
Its not about everyone being a victim. Its about the mechanism for societal order.
–In a Confucian Culture, people behave according to their Confucian role, or the person next up on the ladder slaps them down.
–In an honor culture, everyone has a strict set of taboos about what can be said or done to them, and a violation calls for either restitution or vengeance by the offended party or their family/clan/group. Think revolutionary era US and GB, the clannish Middle East, US city gang culture.
–In a dignity culture, escalations of conflict are publicly called out and shamed, while deescalation are publicly called out for praise (because conflict is beneath the dignity of the offended party.) Ghandi basically forced GB to confront the fact that they had moved from an honor culture to a dignity culture. MLK forced the US to confront the fact that we had done the same.
–In victim culture, violations of the moral code of behavior are adjudicated by appeal to an (allegedly) disinterred authority. This requires public announcement of the impact of the violation on behalf of the violated, in order to cause the authority to overcome their alleged disinterest.
As such, victim culture *requires* authority. Authority attracts control freaks. The control freaks install themselves as moral authorities, and then appeal to each other when they feel the moral code is violated.
Woah – good post. Never looked at it that way.
+1 Thanks, Leap!
People lacking impulse control probably shouldn’t be entrusted with managing classrooms.
It’s ok if you hate Trump though.
I wonder why Dems hate unpaid Feds so much? Lamar Alexander has a bill that would pay Feds who are still on the job. Dem Leadership is not thrilled at the idea.
I’m torn on the idea. On one hand, I sort of agree that if you are working, you should be paid. Also this would drive a wedge in the solidarity of Fed workers. The downside is that it provides a huge incentive to classify more workers as essential and this becomes a de facto government startup.
If you’re forced to work, you should be paid in a timely manner.
Fuck off sla… oh. Nevermind.
I agree that you should be paid for working.
If a private sector employer quit paying their employees a)employees would quit coming in and find new jobs, b)get sued for back pay. I’m fine with both scenarios.
In this case they are guaranteed pay, whether they worked or not.
If you are producing you should be paid. Government “working”and producing (something people would voluntarily buy are two different things?
My orphans get their gruel everyday. Twice on Christmas.
Do they get salt with both servings on Christmas? I think you may be violating the covenant not to raise orphans expectations.
Well the gruel is mostly salt, old Wall Street Journals, and water. The day after Christmas they all get a good beating so I think I’m within the guidelines.
That’s why it’s called “boxing day.”
I went through a couple TSA checkpoints last weekend it was almost tolerable. It seemed like the workers have switched their loyalty from the government that doesn’t pay them to the people going through their checkpoints. Basically just half-heartedly pushing people through the old metal detectors as fast as they could. Pay those people.
Say, that’s a great idea.
On Sunday, Sara Nelson, the head of the flight attendants’ union, gave a rousing speech at an AFL-CIO dinner, denouncing the government shutdown for endangering airline security and forcing workers to labor without pay. “Go back with the fierce urgency of now to talk with your locals and international unions about all workers joining together,” she told her fellow labor leaders, “to end this shutdown with a general strike!”
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A general strike to demand the reopening of the government so federal workers will get paid would similarly emphasize the needs of communities. Demanding higher wages and better benefits could divide these workers from average Americans, but nearly everyone wants the government to open and federal workers to receive paychecks. Fully staffed airports and functioning national parks are not controversial goals, even if the tactics to achieve them might be.
Nelson is not arguing that government workers themselves should engage in a strike without support from private-sector unions. The workers she represents labor for the airlines, not the government. Labor law has declared sympathy strikes largely illegal, which helps explain the lack of general strikes since 1946, but the National Labor Relations Act allows for strikes when workers face extremely dangerous conditions, which the airline unions are already claiming have resulted from the shutdown. Even so, it is illegal for federal workers to strike, but that has not always stopped them. In the 1970s, there were dozens of federal workers’ strikes, kicked off by the postal workers’ strike in 1970, which won significant concessions from the Nixon administration. That era ended abruptly when Ronald Reagan fired the air-traffic controllers during their 1981 strike.
By all means, a “general strike” in support of a bunch of TSA parasites will show the public how much you care about them. Maybe you can toss in some stuff about bathroom justice, a $20/hr minimum wage and mandatory 50% female representation on corporate boards, too. Just to show everybody where you really stand.
Fully staffed airports and functioning national parks are not controversial goals, even if the tactics to achieve them might be.
Begging the question
I see no need to staff “national parks” and little need to actually have them at taxpayer expense.
Airports should be private ventures, period.
Republicans should introduce a bill that funds the TSA and national parks only.
Republicans should introduce a bill privatizing the TSA and selling the national parks at auction.
I’m still in favor of requiring all federally held land not currently in an active military base be sold at public auction, with all proceeds direclty going to paying down the debt – nowhere else.
Wouldn’t a general strike just increase the number of people not getting paid?
Yeah, it works just like an embargo.
When we go to war with you, you send gunships and embargo our ports to ruin our domestic industry.
When there is piece, we do the same thing with our own gunships to grow domestic industry.
#logic
Hitler’s train was a rolling fortress named after America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vTKmVvyNRc
“We’re gonna run train on the Nat Soc Agenda”
I think Trump should return the favor and rename The White House to The Eagles Nest. He should also replace the Secret Service with all women dressed in sexy SS uniforms.
… go on.
Nah, Wolf’s Lair
“Hitler had named the train for the destruction of Native Americans by western settlers.”
I would love to see the primary sources on this. No doubt the US did terrible things to the Natives, the Nazi’s loved the US because they had a rich communication with American progressives and learned all about the theories leading to the master race, final solution, and eugenic ideas from them.
As I said a few months ago, when Mueller turned his attention to Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi, it was quite obvious he had nothing. Those two are fringe characters who have literally hosted InfoWars shows with Alex Jones before.
Basically, we’re setting a precedent in which working on the “wrong” president’s campaign is illegal. They’ll come after you until they catch you in some ridiculous process crime.
It’s worked to suppress third parties, why not a major one?
I don’t know – a quick glance at my Facebook wall seems to signal that it’s all over for the 45th Preezy of the United Steezy.
Democratic members of the House — from its rank andfile to its leadership — have amped up their rhetorical attacks on Donald Trump’s presidency, calling it “lawless” or likening it to an autocracy…
On Thursday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, fumed at the Trump White House over Azar’s and Mnuchin’s decisions to not testify.
“It’s what I expect from people who think they are authoritarian leaders of our government — and it starts with the President of the United States,” Hoyer told CNN.
Such projection. Just issue a dammed subpoena if it is so dammed important and stop with the hysterics and theater.
Tsk, Tsk. The hysterics and theater are the important part of the play.
Didn’t Eric Holder refuse to testify before Congress about something? Or am I dreaming that?
Why the fuck would anyone voluntarily submit to a hostile Congress instead of demanding a subpoena?
IIRC there is incentive to be subpoenaed.
Those subpoenaed are granted government paid for legal representation.
> Democratic members of the House — from its rank andfile to its leadership — have amped up their rhetorical attacks on Donald Trump’s presidency, calling it “lawless” or likening it to an autocracy…
Which is why the government is running strong, everybody is being paid, and the wall is under construction, despite Democratic opposition. Sucks living in an autocracy.
I sorta remember some officials taking the fifth from the last administration. Lois Lerner Springs to mind.
Phoenix City Council approves $230 million Phoenix Suns arena-renovation deal
A nice welcome to town for OMWC and SP.
I mean one of the top teams in the league deserves a better arena
They can pay for it themselves.
“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it”
Anyone want to take odds that this deal will actually remain in place untouched, without replacement or renegociation for more payola, until 2037?
$230m? Wait, we said $650m.
SHERIFF SMITH GOING TO CLEAN UP THIS TOWN
Liverpool Street revealed as ‘worst UK transport hub for sex attacks’ with 211 reports in five years amid soaring reports of abuse at stations across Britain
But do the trains run on time?
No, they run on tracks.
Do the perpetrators have anything in common, besides being rapists? Perhaps certain cultural affinities? It’s a mystery. I suppose we’ll never know…
“youths” ?
“The unnamed man was convicted of two sexual assaults and sentenced to 200 hours’ community service”
He then asked if he could do 100 more hours as payment in advance for this girl he’s had his eye on.
Is this what she meant by run train?
I dont even know what to say. Why are the people who orchestrated the mass migration not stretching ropes right now?
Don’t you think you’d try avoiding pot just as an experiment if you were this sick?
https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/ny-news-cannabinoid-hyperemesis-syndrome-marijuana-pot-smoking-vomit-20190124-story.html
In the 60’s and 70’s, cultural pot use made people think Cheech and Chong where funny and Hot Tuna was worth listening to. I have no doubt that a heavy pot user would be too stupid to figure this out herself.
Man told his Trump shirt made local gym goers ‘uncomfortable,’ was asked to not wear it to the gym anymore
I bet he wore his Obama shirt to work for 8 years. Probably still does.
Some little dipshit at my gym was wearing a t-shirt that said “Obama is still MY President” or some such shit.
The rest of us there managed to accomplish our workouts without breaking down into tears .
Obama didn’t represent racism. Anyone expressing beliefs I disagree with are practically the KKK.
The owner “wants” to be apoltical, but is forced to pick a side. Either he says “you can’t wear that”, or “buck up buttercup”.
“Sir, your untreated stockholm syndrome is worrying people. Would you like a referral to some mental health professionals?”
Professionals? Like these?
https://www.adutytowarn.org
Not going to click. Wil assume lysenko psychologists.
“Asked”?
“Could you please not wear that hateful shirt here anymore?”
“Could you please fuck off?”
“I could cancel your gym membership.”
“Show me where in the contract I signed that I can’t wear this shirt, or STFU.”
Me: “Okay” Goes on Trump site and orders 3 different colored shirts.
My gym has a little sign by each tv saying that they won’t show the national news (it either non-ESPN sports, or HGTV,) and informing gym-gowers that they should leave their political shirts at home. Its a good rule.
This gym owner fucked up by calling the Trump shirt racists. Should have just said people get stupid around politics and she doesn’t want it in her gym. But she got down in the slop and wrestled with the pigs.
Indeed. A bar I worked at was a popular haunt for motorcycle enthusiasts; we maintained a strictly enforced No Colors rule but it was in no way a value judgement about the specific colors it was an effort to keep a neutral atmosphere that was focused on slinging drinks and not stupid beefs.
“No shirts no shoes no service”
“Pants around your waist or no service”
I see signs like this every day. The guy should have simply taken his business elsewhere instead of running to the press to whine.
Something about sticking it in crazy.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/sugar-daddy-lifestyle-turned-deadly-when-stripper-killed-pharma-exec-prosecutors
That’s an elaborate suicide.
Holy shit, that was in Bucks County. That state is like 85% white trash, and 15% WASPy. Bucks County is the WASPy area, but this story is straight outta Butler County.
Only 85% white trash? You honor us, sir.
Pennsyltuky is the place for me.
I still have the accent.
I say yins sometimes. I still call it Carnaggie. I still call overpasses by their PA name: “used appliance and broken bottle collection areas.”
“Warren wants a wealth tax, a tax for anyone with net assets above $50 million.”
It should be fifty thousand. I mean how much do you greedy motherfuckers need, man?
Don’t worry. That number will drop quickly once it becomes law. See the income tax for example.
The science of Marxism is undeniable Onwards to revolution
https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right
This twitter account is gold
Parody? Sincere? Who can tell anymore.
Neah not parody to many tankies in the feed
holy crap.. that twitter account is not parody!
That people like this exist is why I know an extinction level event has to be on the way… Nature does not tolerate stupidity of this level for too long.
How in the world do Americans tolerate the banana republic tactics of this clown Mueller?
Seriously. The fucken guy hands out indictments as if it’s a “50% off” coupon.
Roger Stone is one of the world’s biggest dick waggers but I can’t help but like the guy. I hope Trump pardons him preemptively.
I don’t know the particulars of this case, but anytime I see a bunch of indictments for violating process and nothing for any underlying crime, i immediately become suspicious. I’m 70% in the bogus camp right out of the chute, simply because of that observation.
Federal prosecutors are just the worst. They are absolutely soulless and evil. Getting a conviction is the only goal, justice doesn’t even enter the picture.
Nailing people with process violations rather than actual crimes is a nasty business, and it seems like it’s only getting worse.
The ruling class is hell bent on making sure that the unwashed masses know its place and will not simply accept the deplorable’s verdict that these credentialed elite scumbags are a bunch of inept, ineffective, and corrupt fucks, that resulted in the Trump election. No sir. They will make sure everybody knows that there will be hell to pay for challenging their grip on power.
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BOGOIOGO”We had 8 years of Obama to get used to banana republic government?
Larry Correia gives a NY Times article on manliness a good fisking.
Robby has a sad.
that NYT writer is the type to be used for currency in one of Larry’s series.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx. Sorry about the incontinent puppy.
It’s my fault. I wake up and get my coffee and let him out to piss. I’m usually in a rush to get on the links so I get him inside right afterward. Then sometime while I’m writing the links he takes a shit in the same spot. I really should just leave him outside until I’m done with the links.
How the heck does a person with 15 000 votes have this kind of power?
https://nypost.com/2019/01/23/ocasio-cortez-was-the-only-dem-to-vote-no-on-bill-to-reopen-the-government/
So as this beautiful shutdown keeps going, how many people have realized that what the fight really is about is the credentialed elite class that wanted Hilary because she represented them basically undermining the elected candidate from the working class from accomplishing anything in order to make sure the unwashed masses realize that the credentialed elite overclass has no intention of simply accepting the rebuttal that they do not dererve what they have because they are both inept and corrupt?
I was going to sign up for global Entry and found a warning on the website that it was not being manned because of the shutdown. For most people that shows how the government needs to get back to work. For me it is a reminder that the fedgov does too much.
You should see the heads of your average proggie asshat making that argument to me about how people are suffering because of this when I tell them exactly what you said: that to me this is a sign government does too much and we need to roll all that shit back.
Weep. AOC’s constituents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdylK3Rq9cw
“It’s important to be morally right. If we can get our facts straight, then great, but we make mistakes.”
Josef Stalin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, and Fidel Castro give a standing ovation. That constituency does deserve her and I hope she shafts them as hard as humanely possible.
Except they won’t realize it.
Really dumb people. I mean, really not bright.
It’s like a retard principal ruling over retards.
+1 Inmate running the Asylum
The gift that keeps on giving.
CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta is authoring a book about the Trump administration and its battles with the news media.
The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning. Harper says Acosta will share “never-before-revealed stories of this White House’s rejection of truth, while laying out the stakes for how Trump’s hostility toward facts poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy.”
The book’s title is “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.”
The first part, of course, comes from the president’s own rhetoric against the press corps. The subtitle comes from a speech Acosta gave at San Jose State University last year.
“This is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America, but the truth is bigger than a bully,” he said.
Acosta started to gather material for a possible book during the 2016 presidential campaign, and he signed the book deal with Harper last fall, before the 2018 midterm elections.
That means that the book was in the works well before Trump singled out Acosta and banned him from the White House grounds the day after the midterms. CNN and Acosta challenged the administration’s action and won a temporary restraining order from a federal judge. The White House then reinstated Acosta’s press pass.
“Simply put, I am writing this book to share what I’ve experienced covering President Trump during his first two years in office,” Acosta said in a statement on Thursday. “This sobering, bewildering, and sometimes frightening experience has made it absolutely clear that this is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America.”
Yea, sure. It is so dangerous that you can report basically anything you want without retribution going so far as to write a book about it, also, without retribution.
It’s a dangerous time to be a high school student in a red hat, that’s for sure.
Dear Diary,
Today I was face-to-face with the President and I told him how much of a big mean bully he was before he shut me up. Why do the bullies always win?
Jim Acosta
big mean xenophobic racist bully*
this is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America.
It’s so dangerous that they haven’t done it because they’re so terrified of what might happen.
Find someone who loves you as much as Jim Acosta loves himself.
How the heck does a person with 15 000 votes have this kind of power?
Democracy- good and hard.
Closer to 16,000 primary voters, but sure.
Do the math: About 711,000 residents per congressional district. So, she was basically elected by about 2% of the citizens in her district.
Welcome to “representation”.
City government at it’s finest.
Clearly they’re not a full-time municipal worker. A full-timer would have sat in the truck and said “waiting for tools” counts as work.
Lol.
A coupe of weeks ago a Mustang got stuck in snow near my house (rear wheel drive is a bitch in snow). He was in an awkward spot as he was blocking a city snow removal truck doing his rounds. After a few times he came out to try and shovel around the wheels, I leisurely prepped myself to go out and help in case (but my neighbour was already outside having just come from work and was shovelling so he wasn’t alone) but I noticed the driver just sitting there hand in chin watching the ordeal.
I felt he should have gotten out if anything just to offer. Anything. Just stand there if you have to but just show you care.
But hey. It’s not in the ‘union contract’.
Are we talking a classic mustang, or one of the more recent ones?
More recent.
It should be noted he got out.
Of the car? Or of the snow?
/cracks knuckles. Narrows gaze.
Da sa-no.
Do your felt fists even have knuckles?
I drive a Mustang in the winter… on a set of Michelin X-Ice tires. Haven’t been stuck yet. Also drove a RWD BMW 325i on Blizzaks and also never got stuck. Winter tires, who whudda thunk? The lower powered BMW was actually the trickier vehicle to drive – weighed less and had something closer to the 50/50 weight split, so it liked to pivot a lot. Traction/Stability control, however, kept the nose pointed in the right direction.
Not here it ain’t gonna work. Maybe our weather is still more treacherous or something because even with those tires – and I’ve done it – it ain’t happening. Especially the weather we’ve been getting here. Absolutely brutal.
We get lake effect snow here. It’s horrible in West Michigan.
https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/city/michigan/grand_rapids
I’m just used to driving RWD cars/trucks ever since I got my license. And when you’re 16 years old in a 1984 Nissan 2WD truck, a pesky ice storm isn’t going to stop you from visiting the girlfriend who lives 10 miles away.
In a couple of the suburbs here, the plows will just plow the cars on the street, burying the car in snow. Doesn’t matter if you’re in the car or not. There’s a reason most of the suburbs ban street parking if there’s a prediction of 2″ of snow or more.
Every year, our wonderful NYCDOT puts permanently affixed plastic barriers at dozens of intersections to keep people from leapfrogging slower traffic (it was a 4 lane highway, now 2 lane 20mph with offset parking pedestrian lanes and bike lanes… in addition to the sidewalk and beach boardwalk it parallels) and every year the fine folk at DSNY plow those barriers into oblivion at the first snowfall.
I use Neutrogena T-Gel on my beard; not for dandruff but to keep it soft. I use it on my pubes for the same reason.
Which got me thinking: why don’t pubes get dandruff? Or do they and I’ve just never encountered it?
Always asking the important questions, Q.
I dated a girl with the most sensitive skin. Any stubble/beard would cause her skin to break out im hives, mostly on her chin.
Tried all sorts of beard softener products but concluded it was all over priced BS. Tried normal hair conditioner but not sure if it helped at all. Never heard of trying TGel
I picture you leaving the house with white residue all over your face.
That’s the cocaine. Totally unrelated.
Pubes get smegma…
Head hair is round, body hair is elliptical.
So if I got a transplant I could have curly hair (on my head) and no rejection problems?
Off the top of my head, I would think perhaps pubic hair being kept in a more humid environment would have something to do with it. Also, try Paul Mitchell’s Leave-In Conditioner; keeps beard soft but doesn’t smell of coal tar.
What? You don’t like the smell of coal tar?
*sniffs*
Okay I can see that.
uh… uhm… ::leaves room before being noticed::
The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers announced the book on Thursday morning. Harper says Acosta will share “never-before-revealed stories of this White House’s rejection of truth, while laying out the stakes for how Trump’s hostility toward facts poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy.”
The book’s title is “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.”
How else can he keep himself occupied? He’s being held in solitary confinement in a black site prison, right?
All Star Games are thoroughly retarded.
The last time they were good was in the 80s when the Conferences were appropriately named.
I haven’t watched it in over 25 years. I only like the baseball ASG.
It’s shinny. No one wants to watch these Prima Donnas play grab-ass like they were in the NBA. It sucks the joy out of the season. Ban them all, sez I!
Looks like anyone associated with Trump who testifies before congress ends up indicted by Mueller. Now they are refusing to testify? Shocker. If they are compelled they should take a page from the Lois Lerner playbook.
These guys are nothing but banana republic thugs using banana republic thug tactics. Is Mueller one of the shitweasels that lied to the FISA court? If it was up to me he would get the same treatment (pre-dawn SWAT raid) and frog marched out of his house barefoot, in cuffs and his underwear in front of cameras then grilled and proded with threats to prosecute his family until he rolled on every one of the crime syndicate that is the Democrat party.
You want a banana republic? Here you go Sunshine. Enjoy.
Mueller was the Asst US Attorney for Boston when the Boston FBI office was knowingly providing the MA state courts perjured testimony that was keeping three innocent men in jail for a murder the FBI knew they hadn’t committed. The FBI agents were perjuring themselves to keep an informant who had actually committed the murders out of jail.
While I cannot prove it, I fully expect that Mueller was in on the deception, given the close relationship between his office and the corrupt FBI agents that were his office’s investigatory arm.
Mueller, like Comey, are Boston criminals. The FBI in Boston is about as corrupt as they come.
So- if I read the beginning of that Roger Stone story correctly, Mueller is trying to criminalize opposition research.
Do they really think that’s a road they want to go down?
When have the Dems every been hoiseted by their own retard?
Also criminalizing sharing of leaked material.
Why isn’t he going after every journalist who published links to the emails?
(rear wheel drive is a
bitchblast in snow)This. Except I have to turn off the traction control.
It only turns off temporarily in the F150. Fuckers! I grew up driving RWD car in the snow. Don’t have to dumb it down for me.
True, but at least Ford put it front and center – along with the kill switch for that fucking auto stop/start “feature”.
Yep. It’s how I learned. Hard lessons, but I learned.
Entrepreneur helps homeless transgender teen panhandling on highway
What a truly selfless and totally not media orchestrated act of altruistic altruism.
“She was homeless for the first time and trying to get to Los Angeles so she could make art and create a company.”
Lol. Yeah-k.
I bet all of the people who worked for USSR Pravda are kicking themselves.
I’ve no shit delt with homeless kids kicked out for homosexuality. It’s sad. But let’s clarify what Abuse was. Because refusing a permanent treatment to alter a child is not abuse
and the set it up on the tee for us.
So dude with money picked up a tranny runaway and then took pics? Hey Sugarfree can we get “The Rest of the Story?”
Wait a minute. All week I’ve been told that smirking is bad.
Entrepreneur? You mean a capitalist?
“She was homeless for the first time and trying to get to Los Angeles so she could make art and create a company.”
America; land of dreams.
Movies coming out in 2020. Not a lot of originality as expected.
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Movies-Coming-Out-2020-45572209
Anyone have the address of a Hollywood screen writer I could mail a few decent original sci-fi books? They would probably fuck it up anyhow.
They have warehouses full of fantastic scripts. That isnt what the movie industry is about.
They would probably fuck it up anyhow.
I mean, they did a great job with Starship Troopers.
If they called it “Bugs, Guns, and Titties” you’d think its the greatest movie ever.
I am not looking. Lemme guess, comic book sequel pap, remakes of remakes of remakes and proggie propaganda.
ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.
But how could you skip this? Lol
“the first live-action Barbie film is underway for a tentative 2020 release. The plot will reportedly follow Barbie, expelled from the picture-perfect realm of dolls for being imperfect, as she journeys into the real world.”
Very easily.
There’s a show called “Barbie: Trapped in the Dollhouse” that is actually rather good. Its five parts lampshades, one part dadism. I doubt they’ll make the movie like that, but if they do I’ll go and take my daughter.
Avatar 2, as if the first one weren’t enough of a crime against humanity.
Streaming is where originality is happening.
CNN aired video of the raid at Stone’s Fort Lauderdale home, showing FBI agents in body armor using large weapons and night-vision equipment, running up to the home and banging repeatedly on the door.
“FBI open the door!” one shouts. “FBI, warrant!” Stone could then be seen in the doorway in his sleepwear before he was led away. He is expected to appear in court later Friday.
Truly, I could not be more proud to be an American.
That guy looks really dangerous. Thank goodness those heroes made it home safely.
Not wishing harm on anyone but imagine if one of those roid cowboys’ gun had discharged and killed Stone on his doorstep. Talk about bad optics and provocation.
They blew away a woman standing on her own property while she held a fucking baby in her arms and nobody gave a fuck. Just sayin’.
Timothy McVeigh had some fucks to give.
Sure, but it certainly didn’t animate the popular sentiment.
It’s a shame McVeigh didn’t go with his original idea of just assassinating Horiuchi.
Which he gave by blowing up kids.
Yep, and he was punished appropriately for it.
The motherfuckers who murdered women and children at Waco either died in bed or are living on a fat federal pension.
Did you see my link yesterday? Trump’s about to nominate as AG an FBI lifer who organized the campaign to protect the sniper who murdered her from being held accountable.
Seems weird there would be video of a raid. /s
Anyway. Wouldn’t it be normal to just call his attorney and let them know he was being indicted and needed to show up for processing?
Which part of Kabuki theater do you not get?
Wouldn’t it be normal to get on a plane without being groped after being unconstitutionally detained in a long line?
Seems “weird” that the FBI told CNN about the raid (with Stone’s home address), but not Stone’s Attorney.
Aren’t we supposed to sympathize with the FBI Agents though since they’re working without pay?
“That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song, go clean up the puppy shit in the hallway (I really need to just leave him outside) and move on with my day.” Banjos, don’t know how old your dog is but training your dog is the way to go. If you leave him/her/ze outside the entire neighborhood will be serenaded by the barking.
It’s a time problem. He poops the same time everyday and it happens to be around the time I’m doing the links. I take him out first thing in the morning to pee, which he does, but he waits until I’m doing the links to shit. I’m thinking of just leaving him outside until I’m done with the links.
Nah. We can hold it. You take care of the pooping pooch.
This is what hot looks like for me:
https://archive.li/tsu5I/c60720e9e416393866c43ac9d0fab960eb979e92
That’s what they call, Muy Caliente. Nice stuff, compadre.
I’m not into the bubble butts but still would.
Nah, a bit much but I’m a child of the 70’s so my odometer varies.
Yeah. Shes fine. Sorry, foine.
Stone has publicly denigrated the Mueller investigation and echoed the president’s descriptions of it as a witch hunt.
Unforgiveable.
What could have been… no heavy, overpowered M14. No unreliable poodle shooter M16. The British EM-2.
Army ordinance sabotaged the testing so they could continue to foist shitty rifles on soldiers for generations.
I love the M14 in its M1A garb, but then I never had to hump it in the field either
I like it too – and asked for one when deploying in 1990. The Armorer would have given one to me – but old Vietnam Vets had already drawn them all.
But even better would have been a 7mm rifle that outruns the .308 at the kind of distances we were fighting at in the desert with half the recoil.
^this^
I have never been a .308 fan. It is essentially a short range round in my estimation. yeah, you can hit at 1000 yards with it loses a lot of energy at that range and doesnt shoot that flat. Same weight in 7mm is much more aerodynamically efficient.
Would.
Trying to read these fine links and then out of the blue I hear high pitched squeals coming from the next room. “What the fuck is going on in here?” I ask as I burst in the room. The wife and daughter are having a blowout argument over her lack of practicing the electone (piano/organ thingy). Cost us a few grand two years ago and she promised she’d practice everyday if we got it for her. She kept her bargain for about a year or so, but lately she’s slacking off because she spends her time after school playing with her friend. The wife just laid into her tonight and… well HOLY SHIT can females be nasty to each other. They are eyeballing each other like cell block enemies in the cafeteria. I make a schedule with the kid for when, how long and which songs to practice for this week. Check the box after you practice and sign. Done. If after a week you haven’t done this, we know you don’t really want the electone and we can get rid of it. I honestly don’t get the screaming and poisonous glares they can give each other. My nerves are frazzled and I’m going pour myself some whiskey to chill TFO.
Veteran of three daughters. I feel your pain… *shakily reaches for another beer*
“well HOLY SHIT can females be nasty to each other.”
But they are all about toxic masculinity…
I should have replied more succinctly – *triggered*.
*Cheers boys* Gotta laugh when they think men are the only source of trouble in the world.
I experienced this female cattiness first hand at my kid’s after school program. My ex signed me up for the board of directors. Won’t bore you with how she tried to sign me up for anything and everything because she was worried that because I didn’t sleep more than 3 hrs a night I would get myself into trouble or something. But I get there and it is 14 people. Myself and one other gentlemen – the board prez – and the rest are 11 women that have broken apart into 3 cliques and the actual manager of the program (also female). The guy was the prez because he was the one that kept these hags focused on the work they needed to do instead of them going after each other for perceived slights for the 2 hours every week they met. Needless to say, as soon as I came on board he announced he was leaving and not even a month after I was elected the prez by these women despite each clique putting one or more candidates forth, to my surprise. When I asked how come one of them with more time was not elected, they had no compunction admitting not a single one of them wanted to take the risk that one of the women would win. I spent the next 3 years winning the job with a vote count that would make banana republic dictator jealous, and most of my effort was in corralling these hags whenever their personal issues reared their ugly head and they started going after each other.
I have also worked with women, and while I might be recalling this incorrectly, I can’t remember a single one that didn’t hate or refused to work for other women precisely because of this. I believe that the fictional matriarchal societies we get told were/are so good were done away with, not because of men using force, but because practically any entity that is a clique of women, will sooner than later turn into a vindictive and downright destructive entity. I see it daily when I have females talking about their female bosses or female coworkers. And these women spend more than 60% of their daily effort on this shit instead of work. But we keep getting told that women don’t have the top jobs, or are unequally represented in some fields, or make less than guys, because of guys.
Yeah, sure.
AlexinCT, Cat-Herder, Esquire.
Trust me, after having gotten a first hand glimpse at how women work together, I have been weary of any entity run by a group of women unless they have a guy that can keep them from just degenerating into a vindictive mess where all their effort and time is spent figuring out how to get that other “bitch/slut/whore” or complaining to their clique about that other “bitch/slut/whore”…
Men fight and then usually get over it. Women never forgive or forget, and they will always want revenge.
Our new female department member has picked a fight with another woman who works in our Ohio plant. It has gone on and on – I’ve been involved in meetings to revoke some of the ERP access on the latter woman (for good reason), and the look of triumph on the former’s face is kind of scary.
This is the same woman that senior management wanted me to report to – thank goodness the new IT director squashed that idea (so far).
I actually dated a chick that was in a thunderdowm fight with a coworker about nothing of importance. While she was hawt, awesome in bed, smart enough to converse about things other than her clothes, shoes, or makeup, and usually fun to be with, the constant demand I agree with her no matter how fucking insane the daily story about the things she had done that day in response to something that “other bitch” had done to her, eventually wore me down.
My ex used to come how with stories about the “other mean women” she worked with too. And if I ever dared to say anything other than “I feel your pain“, I was in trouble. Me, being not just a guy but one that values logic, I always looked for a solution. I simply don’t comprehend the mentality that you want to just bitch about things and get sympathy rather than advice on how to fix the shit.
If they fix the shit, they’ll have nothing to bitch about.
There are only 2 men in my wife’s lab (she’s one of the lead techs) and she hates overseeing a bunch of women. She says the exact same things as you’ve all described.
Neuter the man, drive him off, single motherhood is life-affirming and sets a good example for little girls.
Yeah man, it can be pretty brutal. I lived in a house with just my mom, grandma, and sister for about…10-12 years and oh boy the fights. Thank God I had my gameboy, books, and headphones. Hope it works out for you and your kin though, man. Cheers and I’ll drink to you right now.
Avoid eye contact
Now that Spawn 1 is gone I’m stuck in a house with two women. It is… interesting.
Fuck. I just realized I’m going to be in the same boat when Thing 1 goes off to college. My wife and Thing 2 get along like to cats in a wet burlap sack full of staples and razor blades.
Had mom or my sister told me the sort of things they’ve told each other, I wouldn’t speak to either. They still routinely have spats over fights they had when she was a teenager, and will go years without speaking. This as a thirty-year-old and a sixty-year-old, or, in the parlance of our times, grown-ass adults. But you have ostensibly grown-ass adults calling teenagers “Hitler youths” for wearing hats to a big prayer-in, so maybe being a grown-ass adult means not much at all.
My daughter, with 3 daughters (all teenagers at the same time) would email me in tears over some of the internal encounters in her household. I could only smile to myself as I reflected back on her childhood. The kids are now young adults and slowly coming back to being human again. OTOH their childhood was no emotional picnic in that household either.
In retrospect, the popularity of Gilmore Girls makes sense.
Somehow your toxic masculinity infected them. It is not their fault. You should be ashamed of yourself
That so many women want to pretend the problem is guys and women are actually wholesome saints just makes me wonder how mentally unstable they are…
I live my life absolutely petrified of what is to come when my daughter hits her teenage years. The hysterical fights she gets into with my wife already at age 8 are bad enough. I’m expecting DEFCON 1 by 2023.
My daughter is close in age with yours. Want to go halvies on a cabin in the woods?
No Homo!
He didn’t say it would be a log cabin!
Sold!
My daughter turned 8 last month and my son turned 5 yesterday; y’all got room for a third?
This has the makings of a sitcom.
“They’re on a one-way trip to WACKINESS!”
Narrows gazeCut. It. Out.Probably more like Too Many Cooks
With women, a fight like that usually means it’s about more than just the issue at hand.
“This sobering, bewildering, and sometimes frightening experience has made it absolutely clear that this is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America.”
Jim Acosta is like a 21st century Nathan Hale.
Jim Acosta is the pudgy kid that was always too slow to catch the ice cream truck.
I noticed SJW/progs are appropriating another term invented by conservatives….are you ready?
‘Facts don’t care about your feelings’. I just heard some idiot on YouTube mocking people criticizing the Gillette ad use it.
I like to imagine a similar ad that encourages blacks not to stay in schools and not commit crimes – or Muslims not to rape and commit terrorists acts.
“Turnabout is fair play!” said every unbearable person, ever.
“If you’d presented facts, that might be relevent. Your code needs tweaking.”
I’m rubber and your glue.
So you are rubber cement owned by Rufus?
They tried it with “snowflake,” too, and it was… underwhelming.
Lack of application of logic. Snowflake fit because it described a set of people trying on additional labels and ‘identities’ in attempt to be the most unique and oppressed. It did not work out so well when thrown at their critics.
Snowflakes melt when handled. That suits people who need safe rooms to hide from events taking place elsewhere on campus. People whose luminaries include screeching agitators like trigglypuff. I can see the logic of trying to turn it around on the anti-PC/SJW movement: I mean, yeah, tilting at windmills like a Gillette ad is pretty silly, if you back off a few yards. But nobody complaining about rampant anti-masculinity, anti-conservatism, and PC hucksterism is melting down in shrieking fits that would make messianic snake-handler evangelicals wince. And that’s where the reversal breaks down entirely. When the rubber meets the road, you get Proud Boys. They’re not melting down, they’re throwing punches, and not in masks under the cover of the crowd. Silly, sophomoric, worthy of censure, sure. But Jesus, compare your average Proud Boy meetup to that farcical photo of Evergreen larpers. Tell me which you want modeling for your speedmetal album cover.
That suits people who need safe rooms to hide from events taking place elsewhere on campus
FFS, they have to try to shut down Camille Paglia or Christina Sommers, and they’re both little grannies with reedy voices. And failing that, they hide out in classrooms watching puppy videos. One of the central tenets of their movement is universalizing the padded daycare experience for all. And their big-brains idea, get this, their gambit to win the intergalactic meme war, is to turn the snowflake epithet around and use it on the people who make fun of people who put a fifty-something year old professor in the hospital with a broken collarbone in their zeal to injure another fifty-something year old professor. BIG BALLS MOVES, GUYS.
Oh, they did more than try. They use it all the time – if I had a buck for every lefty take on the Gillette ad that called people who didn’t like it “snowflakes”, I’d be richer than Scrooge McDuck.
I thought that was just shapiros schtick
Up top I mentioned AOC is a retard principal for retard students. They all ride the retard bus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOcuEbUPyGU
Hey Rufus! Was it you that mentioned the other day about how our esteemed public broadcaster is covering the Venezuela kerfuffle? I heard it yesterday. No mention of Trudeau and most everyone else agreeing with Trump’s position, just Orange Man Bad. Same for the Covington kids. I feel shame.
Wasn’t me.
Pan most likely.
Prob’ly. Anyhow, I thought it was pretty funny/disgraceful.
that was amazing. i am going to try to play that during warmups at the rink. i’m guessing someone will want to have a word with me after.
Fighting climate change in Davos! With 1,500 private jets.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/22/1500-private-jets-descend-on-davos-carrying-globalist-elite-for-climate-talks/
“Well That’s Different!” xe shrieked.
Is Climate Barbie there?
I’d wager. With a suitable entourage.
One question I had last night and remembered now I want to ask this illustrious crowd is if it is my imagination or not, but the usual suspects that had coverage of the Venezuelan socialist experiment when Chavez was riding high seem to certainly not be covering Venezuela turning into the “Mad Max” world these days.
Maduro ruined the Chavez utopia.
Nono the US manipulating the price of oil did. Also some sanctions that took hold circa 2018
The fact that Chavez & Maduro both replaced all the top jobs in the Venezuelan oil cartel – the big money maker for that country – with inept cronies that had no clue how that shit worked but guaranteed loyalty and because of the big paycheck helped the Bolivarian socialist movement, only to watch said infrastructure implode in short order as these inept cronies raced each other to steal the money allocated to maintenance, repair, and improvement (as is always the case with socialist shitholes), of course, had nothing to do with it either…
“People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening… Fools said I you do not know, Silence like a cancer grows”.
How are people still getting the MAGA kid story wrong? Even Rogan is screwing it up completely and everyone on the planet knows what happened. Gotta give The Blaze credit for putting out the entire timeline. Now I’m praising Glen Beck. You see what you insane Twitter mobs have done to me?
Because the events are two fucking hours long, and nobody wants to spend that much time watching a video where jack shit happens?
Aint no one got time for that
Well there have been a lot of journalists who were laid off over the past two days, so I suspect they have time for that now.
Or it is a good time for them to start that post doctoral study of romcoms
Heh.
Gibberish
The work of the antidiet crowd asks anyone touched by diet culture to entertain the possibility that body weight doesn’t, in itself, cause health issues. Some activists challenge dieters to exit the cult of food restriction by doing rad things like skipping the gym and eating salty, fatty, sugary fast food (including McNuggets)—whenever the spirit moves you. As rites of passage into freedom go, this one is pretty great and includes the jubilant breaking of a legitimate taboo. For chronic dieters like myself, it also demands a measure of courage. Because, let’s face it, in eating trans fats you’re not just preempting your chances of ever matching Balenciaga’s beauty ideal. You’re crossing the World Health Organization, which still maintains that fast and shelf-stable foods are unsafe at any dose.
To me, the most staggering scientific suggestion in the antidiet movement is that there might not be a causal relationship in the familiar correlation between higher body weight and health issues. According to figures like Harrison, the one thing we can say for certain about people who get labeled “fat” is not that they have deposits of adipose tissue that interfere in observable ways with heart health and blood sugar. What we can say is that fat people in America, number one, experience weight stigma and, two, are always or often on diets.
Weight stigma can be brutal, dramatically affecting everything from work and travel to romance. At the same time—rather than sadistically goad people in bigger bodies into some mythical food regimen that turns them thin for good—it “poses serious risks to their psychological and physical health,” according to a 2010 paper in the American Journal of Public Health. The risks of weight stigma might even be greater than the risk of weight itself.
tl;dr- Dieting is bad for you (I think)
Gibberish, not even so much for whatever substantive thesis may exist (something about body shaming, I think), but because it’s written in a style which is largely impenetrable (to me).
Is this what they teach in “writing” classes, now? This pidgin-conversationalist style reminiscent of nothing so much as nattering teenagers trading gossipy secrets at the lunchroom table?
If I cared about the content of this article, it would be infuriating. As it is, my level of interest is pretty much what it would be if I had accidentally clicked on a breathless report about the latest Kardashian baby bump news.
MEGALINK!
To much link.
Also it is stupid.
Word salads prevail!
Excesive fat in itself does cause health issues. Also in a world that overeats it is no feat of courage to stuff your face
Excessive fat does. However, its much more than a lot of health nuts think. I think it is simple evolution, a little bit of fat protects you in lean times.
The longitudinal studies looking at life expectancy and BMI (which, yes is BS) shows an increase in life with weight until the top of the “normal” range, then a flattening until the “obese” range, then a rapid decrease in life expectancy above that.
So the right place to be is slightly overweight.
How much is ‘slightly’? You know these fat acceptance landwhales will say spherical people are only ‘slightly’ overweight.
Yes but bmi wise it is better to have higher muscle than fat. Some fat is not bad. But the body acceptance movement is not about some fat it is about very obese people.
I am 182 cm and 86 kilograms with some muscle as i go to the gym and i want to lose about 10 kg, but many people my size would not be too concerned abought weight and no body positivity movement is adressed to me. It is adressed to those 182 cm and 126 kilograms and more with no gym
What are those in real units of measurement?
6 feet 190 pounds you could have googled yourself mr snarky. Snark is literal violence you know
Food abundance is killing people!
We need a marxist system that makes food scarce again to save us all!
>>The risks of weight stigma might even be greater than the risk of weight itself.
Well except for that pesky type 2 diabetes, bad backs, sleep apnea, wear ‘n’ tear on joints, etc
TBH, I find myself being a little too far on the judgey side when it comes to these kinds of articles. I’ve always been pretty lean so I don’t have the experience of living that way. I mean, it’d suck to be fat but I’ve never been and I’m well into middle age. If I didn’t have to work as hard as I do I’d probably weigh at least 225.
I’m fat, and periodically get myself back in shape only to get fat again. You aren’t being too judgey. When my weight crosses a threshhold, (which is actually a good bit higher than the ‘obesity’ point in BMI terms) my sleep, resistance to illness, energy levels, go to hell and I start picking up nagging pains. Being fat is objectively, empirically less healthy.
Maybe it’s a defense mechanism on my part since I have so many other personal failings. To paraphrase – “Yes, Madam, I’m drunk but tomorrow I may be sober! You on the other hand will still be a fat-ass.”
You say cirrhosis
She says diabetes
Let’s call the whole thing off
Larf!
My brother tried “Why Not Both?” Didn’t last too long (but he did lose a lot of weight in 18 months before he left, looked good at his funeral)
I am highly judgemental being overweight myself and realizing that yes i have insufficient self control. And i actually mad quite the effort to keep some control of my weight. Lost 16 kilos in 3.5 months at a point
I have some sad news for you: the older you get, the harder it is to stay in shape.. Nature hates old fucks..
Sunnabitch, now you tell me.
/Buys more equipment/
Over the years I’ve lost ~40 pounds from my high – starts and stops and yo-yos too. It’s a struggle to keep my 190 pounds; after the holiday season I put on six pounds from all the good food and being home more often. Following my diet is a lot easier when I’m at work.
I have found a similar correlation. When I am really busy and am not home, I either am more diligent in doing my workouts and less likely to overeat.
Hurt feelings and broken self-esteem killz!
“Weight stigma”
TL;DR – People won’t fuck me because I’m a heifer and it’s not fair.
I don’t know if that’s what they teach, but it is how every story in Wired (and a thousand other purveyors of crap) is written nowadays.
That, along with the insufferable Buzzfeed-esque headlines, is reason enough for journalism to die.
It’s herding behavior.
These people are fucking poison, and the only good part about this “movement” is that it keeps these people from doing other things that could be more detrimental to society. We’d be better off if they where just digging proverbial ditches and filling them back in, as long as it was far enough away from other people that no one can hear them speak.
Social stigma didn’t give my knees tendonitis. Social stigma didn’t keep me from playing on the floor with my babies. Social stigma didn’t cause my back to hurt. Social stigma didn’t keep me from being able to purchase clothing at any brick and mortar store that has decent clothing. Social stigma didn’t make it so that no matress on the market was firm enough to give me a good nights sleep. Social stigma didn’t soften my palate, leading to sleep apnea, which robbed me of three decades of REM sleep.
Fuck you. Die in a fire.
Ironically, the movement itself is really tiny.
They mistook the meaning of the term “Critical Mass” and didn’t believe they needed as many people.
Oops. Edit fairy- cleanup on aisle 4, please.
*Nelson laugh*
STEVE “FAIRY” SMITH WILL FIX.
+1 Monkey’s Paw.
That’s gonna leave a mark…
How are people still getting the MAGA kid story wrong?
Something something willfully obtuse
I want it to be what the narrative says it should be. Fuck reality!
I make a spicy tuna salad I cribbed from my bestie. Every time I make it, I think it’s not spicy enough so I add more. Then I let it chill for a while. Hooo boy. (Not spicy enough for you people. I have the palate sophisrication of a 3yo.)
Straff, I have to yell at my daughter, but it’s my son and I who get into the knock-down-drag-outs. I didn’t start fighting with my mom (always fought with my dad) until my dad died and we had to finally forge a relationship.
Oedipus AND Electra? That’s a spicy tuna salada!
It may be a good cop/bad cop thing going on and not completely about the gender dynamics. I just don’t ever yell at the kid unless she’s doing something dangerous that needs to be stopped immediately. The wife is working too much and so I’m the main parent for the kid. She tries to make up for it by being overly involved when she is home.
Ugh… not a good dynamic brah.
She’s a tough chick. Honest, trustworthy and hardworking. It’s a small price to pay for me and since I still make more than her, I’m not too worried. I dated enough nutcases when I was single to know a bad woman when I see her.
I have dated a lot of nutcases since I got divorced as well, but I am starting to think it’s a lost cause at my age cause they all are. If they are good looking and seem successful and are not available, it usually turns out to be because they are seriously fucked up somewhere else. I am wondering if I should just accept that this is just the way it is, and accept that. Me not really wanting to get married – which seems to be the top priority with every one of these women for some reason (I will let you guess what) – also gets in the way. Consider yourself lucky sir.
Bide your time. In a few years you’ll be the Mac Daddy of Resplendent Villa.
Warren wants a wealth tax, a tax for anyone with net assets above $50 million.
I never want to hear another goddamned word from any progressives about how Warren is “economically sophisticated”. This has got to be the most batshit insane idea I’ve ever heard a politician propose. Basically, a tax like this would send asset markets into a tailspin. It would have to because massive sell-offs are the only way asset owners would be able to pay the tax. And pretty much kiss U.S. saving and capital accumulation good-bye if this were to pass. And that’s even assuming no unintended consequences (e.g. offshoring of the wealthy, asset trusts).
Seriously, even “economically sophisticated” progressives suffer from the Scrooge McDuck delusion. They think rich people simply have a big vault of money they swim around in, rather than productive resources that are highly valued.
That’s okay. It’s not like your average worker is invested in any sort of wealth management scheme. That’s only for the richest 1%. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford the rent on their 1/2 bedroom Manhattan apartments.
I read this as half-bedroom and thought “yeah, that’s about right.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxtD-ZoWwAEi8H9.jpg
*taps mic*
Tulsi Gabbard is right about the need for the US to not intervene in Venezuela’s affairs and Trump is wrong and obviously listening to John Bolton again.
I’m curious to see what Rand Paul, Amash, and Massie have to say about this. Libertarians have a blind spot on foreign policy when it concerns socialist dystopias. On the one hand, socialists suck ass and are natural enemies. While on the other hand, we really can’t do anything to help the people that suffer under socialist regimes. We can only make the situation worse.
“We can only make the situation worse.”
Eh, SLD applies, but if someone put together a package containing
1. Everything a US Army infantryman carries.
2. An encrypted smartphone with a couple batteries and a charger.
3. A couple rolls of silver quarters.
and dropped about 100,000 of them on Caracas……well, things might change rather rapidly.
Call it Operation Hobbes! (it’s a shame Watterson won’t license, or we could put little Hobbes stickers on everything and have the best revolution ever)
She’s gonna get ground into hamburger by hard-Left activists in the Dem primary. Which is too bad.
Yes, but you can bet if by some fluke she became president, we wouldn’t hear any more talk like this from her. The cabal that runs the show behind the scenes wouldn’t stand for it.
Oh yeah. She’ll be a shivering alley cat and the DNC will be PETA. “Come on Sweetie, It’ll all be over soon”.
I don’t really see recognizing the lawful leader of a country the same as interfering for regime change. (I don’t know the Venezuelan Constitution, but this guy claims it gives him this power). It’s the opposite of what we did with Ukraine, where we supported an unconstitutional regime change.
The US endorsing the opposition candidate, though, discredits the opposition to an extent too. It bolsters Maduro’s absolutely moronic insistence that opposition to his regime is just American backed disinformation. The action taken is clearly not nearly as egregious as what the US and some European countries did to topple the government in Ukraine.
He has control of the narrative, we’re the bad guys either way. If he falls and we don’t recognize the new regime, then they are leary of us. If he stays in power it’s the same whether we recognize them or not.
That’s the same rationale that we used in Egypt and our thoughts on their internal affairs didn’t change anything and in some ways only made things worse. And that is a country that has been an American ally since the late 70’s
You mean when we supported an unconstitutional military coup in Egypt?
After supporting Mubarak stepping down and then recognizing the democratically elected government, but then realizing that that government sucked ass for our geopolitical purposes. We didn’t openly support the coup, we just shrugged.
What are we actually doing in Venezuela? I haven’t been following it other than that Maduro’s on the brink.
America will do the worst possible thing if the last 70 years are any indication.
Well, that goes without saying. I’m just wondering what has actually occurred to date.
Trump agreeing with most of the countries in the world, so far. Much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments from the usual suspects.
OK, so not much of anything really. So long as we don’t do more than talking about this thing, I’m fine.
Trump stated that military options are not off the table, and pro-regime propaganda outlets are making hay about it.
So the right place to be is slightly overweight.
We can quibble about what constitutes “slightly” but there is a lot of daylight between “sorta chubby” and “morbidly obese”. That brings up another of my pet peeves. There is a popular tendency, which runs in both directions, to ascribe some sort of extremist absolutism to the arguments of others.
If the author of that crappy Wired piece is saying, “You shouldn’t worry about being as lean as a Paris runway model” it’s one thing. If she’s saying, “Embrace your inner fat slob” that’s another.
That pendulum has swung and knowing the fitness level of the average North American ain’t coming back until famine strikes the hinterlands.
I liked the slightly (note – not John level) chubby girls in high school. Of course back then I liked any girl who was above a 7 in looks. But what works for a teenager doesn’t necessarily work for an adult, especially as it takes more ‘n’ more discipline as the years go by.
When we were super young (middle school for you guys) the most poular girls were the first to grow some tiddies, fat or not.
Thicc edit faerie is the ideal, then?
I liked the slightly (note – not John level) chubby girls in high school.
Hell, I still like ’em.
They try harder and you don’t have to hide them from your friends because they are like-minded.
Wait you like John-level chubby girls? 😉
The qualifier sealed the deal. Commodious is the new John!
The John/Commodious level chicks are not thicc, but actually fat asses, right? I just want to make sure I know the facts before I tackle this topic…
Dude, you are not a linebacker. Leave the heavy lifting to friend Commodious.
Demi Rose is my cutoff for thicc.
Well, no. That one gymnast chick is my cut-off. I’d call her slightly thiccer than Demi Rose.
We’re just joshin’ ya! Give us a smile, Sweety!
I’ve been with some heavy women in my life. Not real porkers, mind you. I’ve known real porkers who wanted a piece of me, and no length of drought could bring me around. I’m done with fat chicks. They were my personal Vietnam.
I’ve done things, things you wouldn’t imagine… https://youtu.be/VKcAYMb5uk4
I remember being in seventh grade and noticing that (with only one exception) every girl in my grade or higher had gotten extremely hot and I wanted to fuck them.
I think that was catching…
I was too discriminating. But I also went to a school where our graduating class was only 94 people.
If she’s saying, “Embrace your inner fat slob” that’s another.
That’s mostly what the article sounds like it’s pushing for. And it’s ridiculous.
Look, I definitely need to lose a few (okay, well more than a few) pounds. I know that, and I’ve started working on it. I’ve also told a doctor that she was talking out her rear end when she cited what the BMI said my weight should be (it’s a population metric, not and individual metric and misses huge amounts). As you suggest, it’s a matter of balance.
That said, all other things equal, it’s better to be fit than not. And obese isn’t fit.
Sit down, shut up, drink a case of Pabst and celebrate your inner beauty.
Wherein Chuck Todd compares spending trillions to combat Climate Change to finding God on your death bed:
NBC’s Chuck Todd defends not having climate change skeptics on ‘Meet the Press’ special
The secular Pascal’s Wager?
When someone uses plural pronouns for the subject of a personal anecdote, I assume it’s horseshit.
Oh, and: Did he tell his relative(s?) that Trump had been indicted, so they could die in peace?
Upon re-reading, he may be using his poor analogy in regards to how we can/could mitigate the symptoms of climate change, man-made or not. This is a conversation that I don’t think is unreasonable at all. Let’s talk about seawalls and the like. But the problem is that I assume it would quickly devolve into how to prevent man-made climate change with carbon taxes and the like.
Also; it was -24F last night. Global Warming can’t happen fast enough.
he may be using his poor analogy in regards to how we can/could mitigate the symptoms of climate change, man-made or not.
I don’t think he is. That would have been the proper lesson to draw from his analogy. But, honestly, I don’t think Todd is that bright. I think he’s arguing that reducing carbon emissions is the insurance (which it almost certainly wouldn’t be, if warming weren’t a consequence of excess carbon emissions). Remember, he’s trying to justify why he refused to include AGW skeptics in his discussion.
He is arguing that people should give away more freedoms, governments become more totalitarian, intrusive, and take more away from the productive, and for everyone to like that, all in the name of solving a manufactured and false problem.
and if it’s natural and we need to adapt, how will wasting capital on things designed to stop it change how allocate resources properly to adapt to it?
Because that wouldn’t turn you into a serf living the medieval lifestyle!
And it wouldn’t give people Chuck Todd likes tremendous amounts of power and control over resources.
+1500 private jets
When Chuck Todd gives away his car, never travels further than he can walk, starts growing his own organic produce, uses only the electricity he can produce himself via wind, solar, etc, maybe then I’ll pay attention to him.
You know who does all those things? Right Wing survivalists. You know what they’re called? Crazy.
Lol, good point. Totally stealing that.
These jerks could all take a page from Ed Begley, Jr’s book and actually walk the walk a little bit and look for constructive ways for people to reduce their own waste rather than shame and demonize people.
“…it’s changing right in front of us.”
Details?
spending any money on a solution that does not work is idiotic
Sit down, shut up, drink a case of Pabst and celebrate your inner beauty.
Don’t forget the pork rinds. Lots and lots of pork rinds.
Pork rinds are low carb.
I just ate some pig skin today. Off course here in Romania we eat it raw I assume you eat it fried or something
Of course we do. We have standards.
I dunno man raw is so good if you find the right one. The idea is that it should not be boiled as a way to remove the hairs but hmmmm I have no idea the English word the idea is use a straw fire and a knife to scrape the skin of dirt and hairs and then wash it with some hot water but do not boil the skin. anyhoo it is a whole ritual in Romania the Christmas pig slaughtering
Yeah, that just made the whole image worse.
What is the texture like? I’d imagine it very tough and chewy. Like eating the rind of a cheese wheel.
yup. tough-ish and chewy. That is why I like it. Your jaw hurts sometimes after eating it
*swallows vomit welling up in back of throat *
I… I’m glad you enjoy that.
*runs to bathroom*
Scalding doesn’t boil it. It is submerged in boiling water, but not cooked, just in there long enough to remove hair and debris. Your method would probably fall under dressing, as one does to remove the meat from wild game.
::barfs in a Romanian coffin::
*Just a side note, not sure if it’s your auto-correct or because english is your second language, but you say “off course” when you mean “of course”. Or maybe it’s a joke I don’t get. Just thought I’d let you know.*
typo mostly. I am not that careful when I comment
I mean when I think about it I know the correct way but usually I don’t think about spelling much when I comment. I am more careful in my posts but even then i miss some
Welp, there go my plans for lunch.
And every fond childhood memory of eating ‘crackling” from a pork roast.
Pork rinds are low carb.
I thought pork rinds were deep fried pig fat.
*shrugs*
No, they’re deep-fried pig skin.
The authoritarian political right has been engaged in a decades long war to kill the press, the only profession protected by the U.S. Constitution. They celebrate our destruction. They threaten our lives. And they play victims when we call them what they are. These are patriots?
https://twitter.com/lukeobrien/status/1088500236845285381
lol.
the FED hides in the shadows and laughs a devious howl.
The 1st amendment protects a tool. The second amendment protects a hobby. Only the sixth amendment protects a profession.
obviously “the press” refers to government-credentialed media employees.
“The authoritarian political right has been engaged in a decades long war to kill the press”
Assisted suicide at the most.
Not even that, imo. It’s more like ghosting your drug-addict nephew after that one time you tried helping him out and he pawned your power tools. This is how you want to behave? This is how you treat us? Well, enjoy your newfound irrelevance, you’re dead to us.
a grand jury refused to indict Love altogether on the first degree murder charge. After that, the assistant state’s attorney took the unusual step of re-filing the case himself.
huh? how does that work?
https://www.galesburg.com/news/20190123/passenger-in-truck-crash-testifies-in-love-murder-trial
The prosecution, feeling nervous about their case, reached out to Love’s attorney Tuesday with an offer of a plea bargain – 2nd degree murder. Love promptly rejected the offer.
Looks like the eye witness, the initial interview, and the available evidence all line up and point to self defense. So why are they after this guy? Is there something else going on here?
Here’s my question about the proposed “Wealth Tax”: how will the government know each person’s wealth other than self-reporting? Sounds like the “Use Tax” here in Ohio (other states have something similar) where you’re supposed to self-report how much you spent on out-of-state purchases that haven’t been taxed (sales tax).
“Use Tax” here in Ohio (other states have something similar) where you’re supposed to self-report how much you spent on out-of-state purchases that haven’t been taxed (sales tax).”
That stupid thing needs to go.
Oh, it’s going, all right. Just not in the way you mean:
North Dakota to collect online sales taxes
Correct. Michigan started doing this in the last couple of years. No more avoiding state sales tax at amazon, although smaller online retailers still don’t collect it (yet anyway).
I wonder if this has improved Best Buy sales in MI.
Ok, so the states are trying to force the retailers (the ones with “large” business in the state) to collect the sales tax. It doesn’t make the citizen self-reporting any different (or enforceable as far as I can see).
How would the federal government know what my wealth is? Assuming wealth is equivalent to net worth, that’s your assets minus your debts. Would they include lines in the income tax forms to list your assets and debts? Great – more data to enter into the damn forms.
All your assets would be registered with the state and stamped with tax stamps. The IRS will occasionally conduct audits of your property and your accounts and will seize anything not properly stamped. Why, got some sort of problem with that?
Good news everyone!
Have a few interviews for getting out of vt.
Hoping this works out.
Sorry I haven’t been around much to comment. It’s been busy here and I haven’t had as much time as I’d like.
Unfortunately everyone died due to the govt shutdown. Nothing left but a bunch of scavengers building hut cities out of scrap metal.