I see that things have gone partially to shit with SP occupied trying to get us moved in. Where’s the evening posts? Meh, no one reads it anyway. Nor the links. And this morning, Sloopy suddenly found himself hors combat, so I have to drop what I’m doing and throw something together. And it will show. Call it a “bare bones post.” And recall the line from Office Space about what you’d think of someone who just does the minimum.
My regular Saturday morning links tomorrow will be up to my usual standards, I promise.
One of my childhood heroes passes. I watched him play during the ’60s. Besides being a great hitter and very good base-runner, he was a fearless fielder, routinely falling into the stands in pursuit of foul balls. There are players that, along with being great at what they do, carry a certain aura, that change the entire feel of the game. He was one of those. He was overall the best baseball player I ever saw. (Surprisingly, I am too young to have seen that other Baltimore legend, that Ruth fellow)
At least we still have Boog Powell and Lou Reed.
Remember how any Bush appointment to the Supreme Court would end abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I’m no fan of religion, and of Islam particularly, but this seems terribly wrong. And the excuse, “Well, we employ a Christian, but no-one else, and it’s gotta be an employee” seems even wronger on many levels.
As creepy as I find the idea of using a hooker, this is even creepier. I’d advise customers to carry in a black light.
When this is inevitably shown to be a hoax, will taxpayers get a refund for the investigation cost? Ima guess no.
And a brief musical interlude Old Guy Style, from my favorite jazz drummer, Roy Haynes, with Tommy Flanagan doing his usual thing, and Roland Kirk yet again making me want to smash my flute and give up.
The answer to that question is always “No”, so you don’t have to ask it.
But I have faith the Chicago Police Department will do everything they can to make the guy’s life a living hell.
I wish in this case they really would, but I bet the SJW will make sure that doesn’t happen, because he was doing all this fake shit so we could start a conversation about this frequently happening, racist MAGA hat wearing, attacker problem…
“will taxpayers get a refund”
That’s a laugh-line, UCS.
*does not compute*
UCS cracked a smile once. He never bothered getting it fixed.
Apparently people mistake my “Don’t rip their heads off” face as a smirk. It doesn’t help my restraint any when they respond with “Oh, I think I see a smile!”
Assault smirk…that Covington kid learned it from you Dad!
They might take it out of Smollett’s ass.
From what I gathered, he might like that. NTTIAWWT…
If the Chi-town police dept has their best men on it maybe case closed already.
John “penaltax” Roberts, another Bush appointee who has “grown” to become a liberal, ignoring the actual constitution to preserve the leftists status quo.
This ruling, while tangential to the abortion debate, is more about regulation.
“I don’t want to make the Court look politically partisan” Roberts. It’s Congress’ fault in a way for abdicating so much of their responsibility and leaving it up to the SC to essentially legislate
There is more truth to that than you may care to admit. Madison must be spinning in his grave.
Robert’s legal theory seems to revolve around preserving his likability to both sides of the political line.
Cocktail parties are a powerful lure?
^^^GETS IT^^^
Nononono, see, those parties are just a myth! That Esquire article I posted yesterday about how Trump is just ruining the DC cocktail party circuit is just pure fiction!
Legislatures are all-powerful and must be deferred to at all cost, except when they aren’t.
I couldn’t pick OMWC out in that drawing… maybe I need to go back and look harder.
It’s a political cartoon, I can never recognize anyone in those.
That’s why TOS included lots of labels on theirs.
He’s the one with the hook nose and sleepy eyes.
He’s minding the Congressional daycare center along with Joe Biden
I’m just excited to learn that DC has a Jewish Conniving Room. Do they offer tours?
Don’t be silly.
It’s not even open to all of (((Them)))
Ironically, it’s the only place to get a decent BLT in all of Washington, DC.
Bagel Lox Tomato is a good sammich
Miracle Max: Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT – mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky, I love that.
((((They))))) all look the same anyway.
Unfortunately not all Jewesses look like Bar Rafeli.
When you’ve lost Fat Matt…
Fine, Matt, give me anything you have containing GPS. Oh, and anything that relies on sattelite relays. It may not have been the least expensive option, but we did learn a lot from the process.
Funny how those (and the internet) came out of defense-related R&D, and it’s defense spending that the lefties hate the most.
They only hate it when it gets in the way of having more money to buy votes from loafers. when it buys them votes, they are totes for it. Queue any blue state pol with a defense industry base.
It’s important to note that the Internet only came about once the government basically gave up trying to find a practical use for it. The modern Internet exists in spite of the government more than it does because of it.
My wife and my best man argued about NASA very often. His point was often the latter, and her rejoinder was something along the lines of, “If you want satellites, just build satellites. Going to the moon to develop GPS is like buying a million dollar yacht to wreck it on the coast of France so you can accidentally learn French.”
I’m ambivalent. She was a teacher, so pretty much any tax money that doesn’t go straight to public schools is a waste in her opinion. Myself, I think exploration is worthwhile, but I’m doubtful that it required a federal initiative, as my friend tended to argue. As part of the budget, though, NASA gets peanuts, so I tend to take the position that there are plenty of other wasteful line items to attack before we get to the point where NASA is on the chopping block.
“I tend to take the position that there are plenty of other wasteful line items to attack before we get to the point where NASA is on the chopping block.”
Um… you don’t have to do them one at a time. If it is wasteful, cut all of them at the same time.
Yeah, but you have to make the argument. NASA tends to be regarded by the public in an almost entirely positive light and doesn’t cost much, so if you go after it you sound like the Grinch.
The problem with NASA these days is that it doesn’t have enough Nazi’s.
I’m on the fence concerning NASA.
I’m much more comfortable with NASA undertaking the type of exploration that involves significant risks like the moon or Mars than I am with their current climate obsession.
Or their outreach programs to specific religions the SJW types want to whitewash…
And cutting out that second candy bar every day isn’t going to make a morbidly obese person thin, but if you can’t do without a second candy bar, you probably ain’t ever going to get fit.
Fair point. I just think that as a strategy, knowing that you’re going to be resisted in making budget cuts, you start with the easiest wins you can and build on those.
“No, we have already made devastating cuts!”
I can see the purpose of such an agency/department from a national defense perspective. I definitely don’t want some totalitarian country (USSR) having the ability to rain weapons down on our heads and our not having the ability to protect against that.
Eh, I think his point is still valid, even if not the worst example of government success.
I was more amused that she said the interstate highway was a success. You know, the big reason we now need to do other things because of it’s contribution to warming.
The Interstate system might have been more of a success with a better design. It shouldn’t have gone THROUGH any cities, just hit them on a tangent on the ring roads (larger cities).
Bowling Green got lucky, it was small enough at the time that the interstate just went “nearby”. We have 5 interstate exits now, but their is still very little development on the east side of 65.
I kind of like the convenience here in Cleveland, between 2, 90, 71, 77, 490, and 176 (4 of which are interstates) it’s easy to get almost anywhere in the city fairly quickly (with the exception of rush hour). Expanding out to the suburbs adds 480, 80, and 271 to the mix.
Looking at the map, I would have built the 480/271 ring and no interstates inside it.
That would make navigating the downtown area hellish. There’s only a couple of wide roads (6 lanes+) into the area, most of the bigger roads (322, 20, 6) are 2 lanes in either direction with a turn lane in the center.
1. The lack of interstates doesn’t stop the city/state from building roads, they just wouldn’t be part of the interstate system.
2. Arterial design is part of the traffic problem. In many places (I havent looked at Cleveland’s layout), you don’t need many larger roads if the entire network allows thru traffic. 20 parallel equivalent streets are better than one wide arterial. Especially in the case of an accident, much easier to route around.
And more expensive to maintain/difficult to expand.
Of course I just like giving you shit about your ideas on roads.
Speaking of circular roads, I ran into another problem with roundabouts – snow. In the unplowed, half-plowed and partially-plowed states, the constant change of direction causes the average idiot (most common form of driver) to end up at near zero speed for whatever portion of the circumference they had to navigate. During the recent storms, I saw the lower-traffic roundabouts backed up six or seven cars in each direction, while similarly plowed regular intersections cleared heavier traffic loads because of the people fighting to get around the pointless circle had clogged them.
What your commentary on roundabouts has taught me:
The average KYian is smarter than the average NYorker.
Since the NY average includes Karla Marx, I can’t actually argue with that.
But it doesn’t change the fact that roundabouts are stupider than a New York voter.
In Brooklyn, there is a 4-lane roundabout with only yield signs to enter but lights at every exit from the circle. It is, shockingly, often a mess.
I drive through the roundabouts at 40 mph if there’s nobody in front of me to slow me down
/WRX STI with Sottozero Serie 2
On a rainy, dark morning in England, I once failed to notice the existence of a small roundabout (concrete hump) and drove straight through the middle of it. Big big big noise from the bottom of the rental car. Dropped the keys in the slot at the Manchester airport and left the country.
Sottozeros are nice tires – wife had a set on her MINI that gave some very nice winter handling/traction.
Now she is on Blizzaks – good traction but nothing like the handling of the Pirellis.
@Pine_tree – during my first visit to the UK I saw two kinds of roundabouts. One was the laughably small where they took a regular intersection and painted a white circle in the middle. The other had traffic lights to control entry.
The Blizzaks seem to wear better, as well.
By “drive through” I assume you mean a straight line from the entry lane to the exit lane, none of this pansy-ass merry-go-round bullshit.
These people are not bright enough to figure this shit out UCS. Shit, we got TANG out of that whole adventure and that made it worth it!
Glad somebody is getting some. *kicks pebbles*
You know, it doesn’t cost that much to buy.
But OMWC thinks it’s creepy.
Every time we’d get high and eat Tang straight out of the can I’d always think of Neil Armstrong.
*cue ‘America the Beautiful’ in background*
“DUDE, THEY’RE DRINKING THIS SHIT IN SPACE RIGHT NOW!!!”
I saw the Ancient Aliens episode where they gave the aliens some, and that made them decide not to turn us back into the slaves they originally created by genetically modifying monkeys so they could get cheap gold mining laborers…
TANG saved us!
I know POON-TANG saved me…
Has anyone ever had HOT TANG*?
*- not a euphemism, although feel free to use it as one.
Sorry, I haven’t gotten that far in knifemaking.
Florida Man’s Russian Tang Recipe:
1 4oz bottle 40 proof “orange wine” from the local gas station
2 oz Russian vokda
Fill a glass with ice, mix ingredients. Drink 2 and you’ll be in orbit
A regular glass of Tang with a couple capfuls of Everclear?
The interesting thing to me is that the moon shot was a contained goal, a fairly straightforward engineering problem that did not have recurring costs.
The lack of recurring costs is what makes is politically undesirable these days. There needs to be an unending gravy train or it won’t happen.
Don’t forget that pouring money into that will not allow the people that want to over turn the current order that requires people to show some degree of competence and replace it with one where it is about grandstanding and yakking ad infinitum so they can cash in, to loot the system.
Yes, it was technically feasible and grounded in reality. The GND is pure fantasy based largely on magical thinking and/or ignorance.
The moon landing accomplished its goal entirely. It demonstrated to the world that we could deliver our nukes anywhere we wanted much more effectively than the Soviets.
Not just nukes to USSR targets, but content in orbit too.
“By the end of this decade, we will develop a missile delivery system so advance, we can wipe those commies off the map if they so much as look at us sideways.”
Nope, doesn’t have the same ring to it.
“Moon landing”. Suuuure
someone’s been listening to too much Owen Benjamin.
Astronauts to the moon?
BREAKING: He’s still an asshole.
“Venezuela has a lower top marginal income tax rate than the United States”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1093850772977139712
How do you tax starving unemployed serfs?
Corvee labor.
Is that related to the robot sex workers post?
He’s all over the fucking place this week.
Replace your own damn windows.
A top marginal income tax rate of 100% would be vastly preferable to Venezuela’s de facto 100% tax on wealth, when they have repeatedly gone and stolen 100% of various businesses by the government taking them over, to the point that everyone else with any sense bails out of said country.
Gulag Barbie’s 3% (to start — once you’ve established the principle that it’s OK to loot in a particular way, the next round of theft is more far reaching) theft of assets pales compared to 100% theft.
The 3% thing was Fauxchahauntas’ plan.
Gulag Barbie wants 70% income tax.
I thought it was 95% and no billionaires.
For once, the government did something it set out to do without missing the deadline!
We used to dream. Now we navel gaze.
Well after two and a half days, I finally have power again – the cat is happy, the dog is happy, I’m happy. We’re all happy. Especially with the 15F degree weather this morning.
Congratulations.
You know who else was happy to have power again…
The White New Deal?
Nancy Pelosi?
Grover Cleveland?
Snap!
He-Man?
Napolean?
Nice
“Well after two and a half days, I finally have power again ”
That was just a practice session, comrade. /AOC
That’s what she means by going green: the only people with power, access to transportation, and the ability to move without first seeking state permission, will be the elite like her.
Alex, I think you are overreacting.
There won’t be any restrictions based on class for who gets power. Everyone in Panem will have all the green power they need regardless of their position in society.
But I live in one of the other districts!
Britain’s
descent to full-on fascismtransition to progtopia continues apace.Children as young as 12 could be hit with social media bans, curfews and potential prison time under new measures being introduced by the British government to curb rising knife violence.
The UK Home Office announced Thursday that people suspected of carrying a blade could face orders to keep them off the streets, geographical limits and social media sanctions in a bid to prevent disputes among rival gangs.
Any breach of the measures will be a criminal offense and could see the child face up to two years in jail, the Home Office added.
“This new deterrent can be imposed on any person aged 12 or over to prevent vulnerable young people from becoming involved in knife possession and knife crime,” it said in a statement on the new police powers, known as knife crime prevention orders.
The civil orders can be imposed on anyone suspected by the police of carrying a knife, “habitual knife carriers,” or someone with a previous knife-related conviction, it said.
“The police already have a range of measures they are using to keep our streets safe, but there is more we can do to help them in this battle. I … will be introducing these new orders to stop gang members carrying knives in the first place,” Home Secretary Sajid Javid said in a statement.
“It is vital we continue to focus on improving the law enforcement response while at the same time steering young people away from criminal activity in the first place.”
Something something rights as englishmen…
After careful study, I conclude that, no, there will not always be an England.
When Britain first, at heaven’s command,
Arose from out the azure main,
Arose, arose from out the azure main!
This was the charter,
The charter of the land,
And Guardian Angels sang this strain:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
Now the nation not so blest you see
Has, in its turn, to tyrants fall,
Has, in its turn, to tyrants fall.
While thou shalt not flourish great or free:
The dread and envy of none at all.
Be Ruled, Britannia! Britannia, are but knaves!
Britons ever, ever, ever shall be slaves.
Rvisimo!
Marco PIerre White and Gordon Ramsay hardest hit.
Oh, boy. Knives are the new guns, eh? Give it a minute and we’ll work all the way back to the Stone Age, where they’ll ban chipped obsidian and stout branches. What the fuck is happening over there?
What you are seeing is a once-mighty civilization committing suicide. A warning for us.
“warning to us”
WTF are talking about? We have a dumb cunt Muslim as a member of the House. Girl scouts are boy scouts. Cutting your dick off and calling yourself a woman is heroic
What the fuck. This country isn’t going to last 300 years.
Let me grab a fainting couch for you.
I do and do not have a problem with girls becoming boy scouts. On the one hand, I don’t like women horning in on men’s spaces, and vice versa.
However, girl SCOUTS exist, but they don’t actually do what the name implies that they do. If girl scouts had done its job, girls wouldn’t need to become boy scouts to go camping and learn basic life skills.
But noooooooo. Girl scouts are selling cookies and learning how to be SJWs. Girl scouts haven’t SCOUTED in decades.
I’m a Cub Scout Den Leader… As a practical matter, at least for our Pack, girl siblings participate with us all the time so the only real difference is now they can be actual Scouts. The bigger problems I see are a majority of our Den Leaders are moms who are hyper focused on checking all the boxes for advancement instead focusing on doing cool shit.
We do Scouts through the church (LDS), so girls in boy scouts are verboten by default, but the church has split with BSA.
I don’t know if we will continue. It’s an expensive endeavor, but XY really likes doing cool shit.
The bigger problems I see are a majority of our Den Leaders are moms who are hyper focused on checking all the boxes for advancement instead focusing on doing cool shit.
This. It has been this way for 20 years at least. No, I don’t want to build a popsicle stick and hot glue model of the alamo, I’m a 7 year old boy, I want to throw rocks into puddles of water and learn how to shoot a BB gun.
Hrmm… I only have a pellet rifle. It takes a bit of force to build up the pressure in the mechanism. Not sure if a 7yo can handle that part. Aim and shoot sure – if they’ve got ear protection. It’s as loud as my .22s
back in my day, Cub Scouts were BB guns with teeny target at 15′
*ties onion to belt*
Girls and boys will be separate troops in the new Scouts. There is no co-ed.
I’ve got no issue with this, in fact, I welcome it.
The Girl Scouts are pretty lousy and expressively political these days, rather than being a development organization for young women.
‘ow to defend yourself against fresh fruit!
I believe that was mocking civil defense warnings about how to survive a nuclear attack.
Next you’ll say that 1984 wasn’t a how-to manual.
*pulls lever to release tiger to devour Tonio*
Sorry switzy, the tiger budget got cut. That lever doesn’t do anything anymore.
Western Civilization is dying.., quickly.
You want roving gangs of knife-wielding 11-year-olds? This is how you get roving gangs of knife-wielding 11-year-olds.
Wow. No lessons learned. How long before they ban pipes and slingshots?
As creepy as I find the idea of using a hooker, this is even creepier. I’d advise customers to carry in a black light.
It definitely feels creepier somehow at a gut level, but if you think about it, you’re probably less likely to get cooties from a hosed down silicone doll than you are from your average Tinder date.
Nope, nope, it’s still wrong.
Pat nails it.
One example where I would prefer to own the depreciating asset.
Can’t spell ‘romantic’ without ROI.
Appropriate reaction.
As long as I’m spared the meandering, pointless small talk.
I love the idea of making women superfulous. Can we get one of these to replace all the cunts in HR?
The alleged attack has not been seen on any surveillance video so far.
Subpoena Alan Funt.
If the CPD is to be believed, the claimaint was only out of view of surveillance for sixty seconds, didn’t have his phone call interrupted, and managed to retain undamaged ownership of his sandwich. This last part is not hard to believe, it was Subway, after all.
You saying it was not Jarred?
Alleged victim is too old for him.
Well, and he’s sitting in prison in Indiana.
And getting foot-longs during shower time?
Yes, meatballs.
Tube steak?
How Our Administrative State Undermines The Constitution
In short, the administrative state is illegal.
Marini’s new book, which is edited by Masugi, is Unmasking the Administrative State: The Crisis of American Politics in the Twenty-First Century. The collection of essays provides a critical analysis of how the administrative state has undermined America’s constitutional order and threatens to replace self-government with the rule of unaccountable experts.
In the chapters of this book, he argues that the administrative state—the centralized institutions of the federal bureaucracy—has produced a regime change in America. It has overthrown the Constitution and seeks to replace it with the unlimited authority of a bureaucracy ruled by an intellectual elite. In practice, the administrative state, not Congress, now exercises the power of making the laws under which we live.
TLDR: Fuck you Nixon
Look, what does any of this have to go with me getting my free healthcare rights?
i wish critics like this would stop using words like “experts” and “elite”. They’re clerks. They’re not experts. The fed bureaucracy is stuffed with people who graduated with a BA or maybe a BS, spent a summer as an unpaid intern at a government department vaguely related to their new job, and now they’re government bureaucrats. They may pretend to expertise, but few have any, at least in any field that’s not ‘bureaucratic paper shuffling”. I get that they’re trying to use a class war insult (oooh, “the elite” vs you deplorable) but honestly it just makes these people more important than they really are.
They sure as hell think they are the smart ones and part of the elite. Unlike the unwashed deplorables that have not checked off the right credentials they have!
Walmart In The Firing Line For Selling ‘Nazi Pillow’ Adorned With Swastika And Hitler’s Face
Who doesn’t want a little snuggle with the Fuhrer?
I didn’t see a pic of the pillow.
Something like this?
Real pic
Is that a visual depiction of the German’s invading force that caused Paris to crumble?
The little eagle is the problem? (I mean, I see a swastika too, but I wouldn’t get upset like a hyper-emotional pansy.)
Jesus, I had to look hard to see it.
The postage mark and stamp. Seller must have just found a postcard from WW2 and put 1973 on it. It’s a nice troll job
Waifu body pillows: not just for weebs anymore.
What did he think he was getting when he ordered the “German occupation commemorative cushion”?
Newman discovered the Nazi symbols and face of Hitler on the pillow by accident… he could see it featured images of a bicycle and the Eiffel Tower, but he was unaware of the soft furnishing’s darker elements. He would remain ignorant of the pillow’s sinister side for two months as it sat inconspicuously in his family home.
he feels “outraged and violated” that friend and colleagues could have sat next to the “Nazi pillow.”
The company have since removed the offending item. They also state that the pillow was listed by a third-party seller.
What a fucking pussy
Yeah, outraged and violated. Fuck off guy, just throw the thing in the trash and go on with your day like a normal person.
What a fucking pussy
He bought a throw pillow.
The neighbors appreciate. Muffles the RHEEEEEEE.
he feels “outraged and violated” that friend and colleagues could have sat next to the “Nazi pillow.”
Sometimes I think that modern man hasn’t advanced a whit over his primitive ancestors. This sort of thinking would be right at home in a shamanistic society.
He should probably write a book about this. Maybe something like “My Struggle”
Nobody is down with that.
You’re just trying to goose us into a series of bad puns.
A pillow like that would make it hard to concentrate.
I wonder if the pillow is sold stuffed, or whether it has a hollow cost.
For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world visit Mein Pillow dot com.
And there’s my LOL for the morning. Well done Ted.
I’ve posted this story before, but it’s relevant, and frankly, hilarious.
“The ad shows Hitler in a khaki uniform and black jackboots, his right arm raised high in a Nazi salute. Above him is a slogan that says “Declare war on the cold front!”
There are no swastikas in the ad, but the Hitler figure wears a red arm band on his left arm with a white circle bearing the German manufacturer’s name.
Shen Yu-shan (沈昱珊) of the K.E. and Kingstone trading company, which sells the German heaters in Taiwan, said the company designed the ad campaign, which began this month.
“We decided to use Hitler because as soon as you see him, you think of Germany. It leaves a deep impression,” said Shen, who works in the company’s planning and design department.
Shen said the company had not been worried that the public would have a negative reaction to an ad that features a man who oversaw the killing of millions of Jews during World War II.
“Most people in Taiwan are not that sensitive about Hitler,” she said.”
Well of course not, they had Mao, so Hitler was just a wannabe mass murderer.
It’s Taiwan, so the KMT and the White Terror.
I wonder if they sold a Stalin pillow with a red hammer and sickle on it, if that would be a problem? What about a Mao pillow?
I’ve had this hanging up since I was a surly teen. https://goo.gl/images/fGhEVn
Nice
This pleases mein wiener-schnitzel.
That would go nicely with my Eva Braun sex robot.
I don’t know if it’s proportionality or hypocrisy that I can laugh at Nazi pillows and the Hitler Heater, but people unironically calling others Nazis, or comparing border detention to Dachau, or bleating about Trump’s brownshirt army showing up to rallies in the dozens (dozens of them!) make me want to tear my hair out. I guess it’s one thing to make light of a horrible thing, but the reverse, making ordinary political expressions out to be monstrous, on par with Nazism, is exasperating. (And yes, I would call White Power rallies ordinary. They’ve been going on for decades, it never attracts any support, it’s not the resurrection of the Klan, or if it is, it’s not a Klan worth getting worried about.)
Is men’s make-up going mainstream?
Maybe for poofters and fruits.
Real men wear rouge!
/pajama boy
Back in the early ’80s a male Austin employee always came to work with “just a hint of rouge”. No one cared…
My cock used to wear lipstick. Then I got married. 🙁
Rainbow parties were just a moral panic.
Shh… don’t tell anyone, but it got there because Straffin painted it there.
Can’t find the video, but I’m sure Jussie roofied me.
The answer is still no.
Lets examine the instances cited.
Most of them are a small subset of their societies, far from “Mainstream” who daubed themselves as a differentiation from the people who made up the mass of the populace. And the dandies of Louis’ court were not well regarded by the mainstream. The closest they get is in citing war paint, which has an entirely different role – symbolizing team and chosen for psychological impact. Day to day, the picts did not wander about painted blue.
^This.
Thanks for the clarification. In this moment, your pedanticality is appreciated.
The blue face paint served as a de facto uniform, allowing one to immediately identify who was in your army.
Like I said.
I couldn’t decide between Fancy Lad or Fop. ¿Por que no los dos?
Tippy tops.
I’m a Dapper Dan man!
Say what you will, the Dandy movement had a philosophical underpinning and wasn’t just poofs.
*adjusts corset*
The ability to regurgitate and remix defunct postulates and respun platitudes in coffee houses does not a philosopher make.
*Remark is on dandies and not the person quoted, whose name is unfamiliar.
Unfamiliar with Albert Camus? And you call yourself a writer?
I went to public school.
You never read Camus? Existentialist frog, I find him a touch less bleak than Sartre but in a similar vein. Highly regarded by the sort of folks who claim to have been at Woodstock.
Everything you just said makes me glad I’ve never been subjected to his work.
I liked reading Sade’s work…
See, I thought UCS was saying that Camus was a Stranger to him.
I liked reading Camus. I did not like Sartre, who was a full-on socialist.
I was too young for Woodstock, but I do own a pair of knee-high leather moccasins with fringes.
Public school made us read Camus.
And you actually did it?
I skipped all the assigned reading and bullshitted the exams.
UnCiv avoided it like the plague.
“Therefore he must take himself in hand” Teenage boy
*Middle-aged man furtively looks around and nods*
I’m seriously disappointed nobody else posted this in response.
+1 Motley Crue, 1984
Well, there is the sudden surge in interest in wearing blackface in certain circles.
I predict that in the future, whores will be recognized as craftspeople and artists. Just as there are celebrity luthiers, gunsmiths, painters, musicians, and chefs, there will be celebrity prostitutes who will command ticket prices and waiting lists like Keller or Morimoto.
We as a society would have to let go of the puritanism.
I predict in the future, once New England and the Middle Atlantic states have split off from the U.S….
We’ve got our moral panics and puritanism here in the Midwest as well.
You mean porn stars?
The future of 1990AD
Porn stars are more like ballerinas or gymnasts. Sure, you can review their performance from a bystander’s perspective, but you can’t truly experience it the way you should.
So you are saying you think the future will repeat the past. There have been many times and places where this has been the case, even in societies that disapproved of prostitution and held the practitioners in low regard.
If the Courts could have an iota of intellectual consistency here, i’d Fully support them. Of course, that would mean the deregulation of medicine.
What exactly does “admitting-privileges” mean?
Pure Imagination
It means you have done a deal with the hospital to be allowed to send patients to them and to direct the treatment of those patients. As opposed to just showing up in the ER and having the ER doc admit you (or not). By this logic oral surgeons should also have to have admitting privileges since they also do surgery in their clinics. Etc.
Basically, this is just using regulation to try to achieve a goal they cannot achieve through other means.
Thanks. (Willy Wonka SMDH). I figured it was some regulation that provided protection to hospitals and clinics and their ability to charge more.
It drives up the per-procedure cost, particularly in rural areas where there is not enough demand for a full-time abortion clinic. So let’s say you have a doc who practices in Town A on Mondays, Town B on Tuesdays, etc. That doc would have to get admitting privileges at multiple hospitals.
By this logic oral surgeons should also have to have admitting privileges since they also do surgery in their clinics.
There’s a colossal difference between, say, medical abortion, first trimester abortion, and late term. It might make sense for a provider of riskier and more surgically invasive late term abortion to need admitting privileges, depending on the state’s regulation of other similarly-situated providers. I’m not certain whether or not it’s required, but most outpatient surgical facilities have admitting privileges at a local hospital as a matter of good practice anyway. Hell, my GP has admitting privileges at the hospital about 2 miles from his office.
For clarification for other readers, “medical abortion” is the one using drugs only. It’s a two-dose procedure. The first dose is generally administered in a doc’s office (purely for profit reasons), then the woman is sent home with the second dose. There is followup only in the case of complications. This is a very early-term procedure.
By this logic oral surgeons should also have to have admitting privileges since they also do surgery in their clinics. Etc.
True. But that’s what bothers me. The Courts wouldn’t bat an eye at a law like that on oral surgeons.
But the MD racket would never allow that. Oral surgeons are DDS, not MDs.
Active medical staff membership. It’s a pain to get, costs a few to several hundred bucks. Means you can admit patients to a hospital. Needed for “privileges” to provide specific kinds of care, like surgery, etc.
Admitting privileges are too onerous for abortion providers to comply with. Meanwhile, you’ve got a guy in Virginia who’s spent the last decade trying to get a certificate of need to open a medical imaging office.
No one needs 2 medical imaging offices, children are starving.
Damn hospitals own the board that review the licensing applications. It’s corrupt through and through.
^This
Cronyism at its finest. And yet the progs ignore this, even cheerlead it.
Based on my very recent experience
MRI at Sentara hospital – $5,000
MRI at Riverside hospital – $2,000
MRI at independent imaging clinic, billed thru insurance – $1,000
MRI at independent imaging clinic, cash up front – $150
Guess which one I picked?
The guy in the back alley with a pair of magnets and an etch-a-sketch?
And rubber gloves.
That’s a hard call to make….
Anything that improves medical care as-is must be opposed. Progs don’t cheer about lower carbon emissions courtesy of natural gas, either. You’d almost get the impression their priorities are other than what they claim.
Pat, this is exactly correct. Striking down this law is the correct action. It needs to be expanded to second-class medical treatment like cancer treatment, orthopedic treatment, dental treatment, cardiac treatment, barber shops, sinus-infection treatment. Right now reproductive services are first-class medical treatment, and everything else is second-class medical treatment. The protection on abortion providers should be the minimum, not the maximum, in the system.
If abortion should be outlawed, it should be clear and direct, not through these chickenshit “regulations.”
Note that this is the exact same argument about the RKBA that most people here are on board with.
Here’s the two things at odds in my opinion. I don’t disagree that similarly invasive medical procedures should be treated the same. I also see the need to remove a ruling that invented a ‘right’ from whole cloth based upon spurious interpretations of the constitution.
I would be perfectly happy with being able to write the law as “No, you can’t kill the child unless the pregnancy is going to kill/maim the mother”, which meshes better with my moral opinion on the matter.
How do we get there from here?
Striking down this law is the correct action. It needs to be expanded to second-class medical treatment like cancer treatment, orthopedic treatment, dental treatment, cardiac treatment, barber shops, sinus-infection treatment.
I don’t disagree, but it goes without saying that will never happen. You’ll just get special exemptions and privileges accruing to abortion providers through the course of further judicial intervention.
As far as the issue goes, I’m so fucking over the abortion debate that at this point I really honestly and truly don’t give a flying fuck about full dismemberment of the non-entity up until its 10th birthday if that’s what suits you. The cost/benefit to society of an aborted fetus compared to the social dysfunction and expense when the unwanted little bastard gets out into the general population undoubtedly tips toward the abortion side, and we’re far, far past the point where it’s worth pretending we place any value as a society on human life. It’s only the double standard that gets me.
University academic stages defiant naked protest
Look, lady, we don’t care if your an exhibitionist, just stop inflicting it upon captive audiences on your work’s dime.
1. would not
2. If that don’t cancel brexit nothing will
3. nudity to draw attention to women’s rights. – in Saudi Arabia I assume
At a certain point, doesn’t a bush prevent you from being truly nakers?
I can’t get to the link, but I bet it is yet again one of the people NOBODY wants to see nekked.
Most people have done worse.
There’s worse out there but yes.
Rule 34 suggests SOMEBODY wants to see it.
I wasn’t repulsed but then again I did grow up in the hippie era.
The Demand curve slopes downward.
Not bad for a brit, particularly an academic.
Seriously I don’t get the critics given we know from “Brit” she has to overcome generations of inbreeding.
She’s a easily a British 7.
Nothing says Serious Academic Who You Should Listen To like stripping off to your middle-aged, saggy bare ass and giving an impassioned plea.
Imagine Freidman doing that.
No, I will not.
I think my inability to match these names to faces/liknesses has shielded my mind from a great deal of unwanted imagery due to the reflexive result of reading.
“Why this mum breastfed her daughter until she was nine”
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/mum-breastfed-daughter-nine-233920571.html
WTF?
The lengths feminists must go to be objectified these days, after having painted themselves into the “hello, I’m up here” box.
Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America
I doubt kleptocracy came to America recently
Note how the proposed solution is always to give the state more power to fuck up people’s lives.
As if most of the corruption doesn’t come from the state picking who gets to win and who doesn’t, too…
FATCA is one of the most evil, intrusive, economically harmful regulations ever implemented. It needs to be repealed now.
Amen. My wife had an account in her home country to handle transaction she had there. We decided to close it due to FATCA. We figured holding on to the account would just open up a Pandora’s box.
We have a friend who is Swiss but lives here. Her bank decided to close her account rather than deal with the requirements.
None of us are fat cats, but we are the ones who got screwed.
“Financial imperialism” is exactly right. One of the advantages of the nation-state system used to be that any country’s laws and jurisdiction stopped at its borders. Now, the US asserts universal jurisdiction, and (so far) has the muscle to back it up.
Yeah, that’s a pretty powerful strain alright.
As creepy as I find the idea of using a hooker – leave the sex to the professionals
SkyNet wants a word with you Pie…
I am working from home today. I have a nice 2 inch think Delmonico sous viding as we speak with some garlic butter and thyme in the bag.
I think I need to buy a second wine cooler.
“I think I need to buy a second wine cooler.”
Nah, just drink moar and faster.
Don’t be silly. Buy less.
The still make those Barclay’s wine coolers? They had those in High School and they were the preferred drink of the girls. Damn, you are older.
I thought it was Bartles and Jaymes.
Does Pie know about this stuff or did he start learning English after the wine cooler fad? I’m assuming he was using “wine cooler” to mean a small fridge to keep the wine at a specific temperature.
I thought he was talking about an insulated box which you threw ice in at dawn and pour the water out of at sunset.
You’re right. I think they still make them
It is not about drinking. In Romania it is impossible to find a red wine from a smaller winery older than 2 or 3 years. So I either age them myself or only drink wine way before their best.
Right now I was looking for Feteasca Neagra Crama Bauer 2015 and you cannot find it anywhere anymore.
Also if you find something older even in reputable wine store it is a gamble because you are not sure it was stored properly.
You drink wine coolers? Does Romania not have Zima?
*shakes fist*
Ceaușescu’s last words.
Zima, because zhit happens.
Beer before wine not fine, scientists find after vomit-filled tests
“We debunked the saying. It’s not true,” Hensel says. “You’re going to be the same whatever order you drink these beverages in.” He stresses that the study only compared beer with white wine, and did not include red wine, spirits or dark beers.
Flawed study – I will volunteer to try with red wine, spirits and dark beer.
Beer
before winenot fine, scientists find after vomit-filled testsFixed it for you.
I thought it was beer before liquor, never been sicker?
Well there was that one IPA I tried… It tasted like someone had found a way to super conentrate the distilled essence of hops to the point that it was more effective that ipecac.
The problem is they don’t understand the WHY.
If you drink beer first, you will drink the spirits too fast afterword, because you are still drinking at beer speed.
If you drink the liquor first, you will sip your beer slower.
Sip? Sip beer? Do that with your pinky extended?
You sip beer?
Fag Alert! Fag Alert.
My son-in-law, while a sterling lad in many ways, has execrable taste in beer.
In spite of my efforts to educate him he still drinks Busch Natural Light.
But he gains points for having emergency beers stashed around his house.
I am jealous. A lot cheaper to be happy with BNL or such.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Exposes The Dark Side Of Politics In 5 Incredible Minutes
During a hearing, the freshman lawmaker created a game in which she pretended to be “a really, really bad guy” who wants to abuse the system as much as possible. Then, in a series of questions, she exposed the world of payoffs, dark money, PACs and more. She even revealed how it was perfectly legal for a lawmaker to invest in an industry, then write laws to benefit that industry and increase the value of the investment.
The Green New Deal has not completely killed off the AOC craze.
This is news to her? How did she think her friend Bernie got rich? Or her frenemy Nancy?
If she really wanted to impress me, she should propose members of congress divest in all of their holdings and only hold TSP funds, or even better government securities only, while they hold office and 2 years after exiting.
*two years per term served after exiting.
Excuse me while I go laugh for a few minutes.
Well, she is very busy trying to save us all from the apocalypse.
I believe that entire concept just wooshed right over her head.
Yes. Require a vow of poverty to join the DNC!
One of the funds in the TSP (Thrift Savings Plan, the 401k equivalent for federal employees) invests only in government securities – the G Fund.
The only way she could impress me would be to get the NFA repealed.
GOA has a lawsuit going that could rip a hole in it. (People made and sold silencers without registration, got federal convictions, are challenging the law)
“She even revealed how it was perfectly legal for a lawmaker to invest in an industry, then write laws to benefit that industry and increase the value of the investment.”
They really don’t do irony at all do they?
Like Solyndra?
From the comments:
omfg. Does anybody really believe Biden wouldn’t sell out if he could, the man is too retarded to be corrupt.
Nobody would trust him to keep his yap shut. He’d blurt out, at some inopportune moment, the company(ies) that have given him money over the past decade.
It’s why he’ll never be a major presidential candidate. Can’t raise the money.
Every Senator from both Parties in the last 30 years with the exception of Joe Biden that went into the Senate Middle Class became a multi-mullion 1%er within a decade
Well, not every Senator, but there’s a nugget of truth in there.
Awhile back, the WSJ (I think) did an analysis of the ROI for Congressional investment portfolios. It was ludicrously high, the kind of rate of return that gets other people investigated for fraud and insider trading.
The currency legislators get paid in isn’t cash, its inside information. The lobbyists pass along hot tips and great opportunities, the Congressholes make bank, everybody wins.
Except you. You never win in DC.
Joe has not become rich because he knows if he has money the women he molests might decide to file civil cases to get some of that loot. The guys is a fucking genius!
My life in sex: ‘We tell each other everything about our sex with other people’
Fine and dandy until you introduce kids into the equation.
God willing, they shan’t have any.
Give Rasilio a break on this stuff. As I said before, I’m more than willing to see how this stuff plays out as long as it’s people doing it honestly. The way the open marriage started in that story above certainly sounds fucked up and I don’t hold out much hope for them.
It’s up to them how they conduct their marriage. Just because I don’t think kids and an open marriage works in general doesn’t mean it can’t work in specific.
Hell, most marriages end in abject failure anyway simply because the individuals involved view the marriage as a means to gratify themselves more than a partnership and united front against the hardships of the world.
I’ve changed my mind on marriage since I’ve moved here. The divorce rate is still extremely low and couples that don’t really like each other anymore just find a way to spend their time apart. It’s like a business contract. Once you have kids, you really need to put your needs second and sometimes the best solution is just to gut it out. The willy nilly divorces I see in the states make you wonder why they even bother getting married in the first place.
Marriage is a business contract centered around bringing up the next generation, and organizing accumulated assets. The problem is people have forgotten that.
My wife and I used to talk about this when the parents of friends of our kids got divorced and it was a shitshow. We agreed that, if we ever got to that point, we’d do exactly what you’re talking about – stay married, live together (because, Christ, supporting two households would be an enormous waste of money), and treat everything like a business partnership where the investment is our kids.
You also may find out in a few years that you were being unreasonable for whatever reasons and patch things up. People screw up (I sure have), but as long as it isn’t anything unforgivable like violence, it’s better for the kids to stay together most of the time.
I have two nieces who have both gone thru two divorces each and are both on their third relationship. One is getting married again and the other is cohabitating (with three kids by two other dads).
Both of the girls (I use girls even though they’re thirties) subscribe to the “marriage is about me and my dreams” theory, it just doesn’t work. Meanwhile, their parents got married at 18 and have been together for over 40 years.
The thing is I have long believed that part of the problem with marriage that leads to this idea of “marriage is about me and my dreams” is the idea that the person you are married to has to be the one and only person in your life who can help satisfy your needs, sexual or otherwise. So your spouse has to be the perfect complement to you and be everything you need in your life, not just in bed but everywhere. No sometimes that works out over the long run, usually however it doesn’t.
Once you acknowledge that it is ok for both your partner and yourself to find someone else to fill important roles in your life and that doesn’t mean your marriage is doomed or that one of you is about to leave and that your relationship is exactly that, a partnership against the world it becomes much easier to accept that one or both of you getting some of their sexual needs satisfied outside of the partnership is ok as well.
Open relationships are not for everybody and they clearly do not always work but when they do work they result in much stronger relationships than monogamous ones.
I don’t have any issues with that, but I would wager that your approach to an open relationship is not typical and as I said above, most marriages don’t meet the standard of being a true partnership.
All women are crazy and almost all are narcissistic. But Jesus the American model of the Human female out does them all. American women are also one of top 5 countries that murder thier own kids. American woman are so awesome. Plus, nowadays, there is so much more to love. So the idea that these spoiled children are gonna share needs to be recalibrated.
All women are crazy and almost all are narcissistic. But Jesus the American model of the Human female out does them all. American women are also one of top 5 countries that murder thier own kids. American woman are so awesome. Plus, nowadays, there is so much more to love. So the idea that these spoiled children are gonna share needs to be recalibrated.
With well reasoned, rhetorically brilliant takes like this you should have a newsletter to which I would consider subscribing. I wouldn’t actually subscribe, but I would consider it.
Once you acknowledge that it is ok for both your partner and yourself to find someone else to fill important roles in your life and that doesn’t mean your marriage is doomed or that one of you is about to leave
But….what exactly IS marriage then? What’s the point in that case?
Cake?
And wedding gifts too, right LH?
Really? It isn’t clear?
It is a partnership. For all intents and purposes the two of you form a corproate bond to better face the struggles of the world, raise children, and accumulate assets.
You do not need your partner to be a fan of the same college football team and accompany you to tailgate at every home game or spend all day saturday by your side at the antique fair to accomplish this. You can each have other people in your lives to meet those needs for cameraderie and provide a sense of community in the things you love and then come home and spend the evening with the person you have decided to actually make a life with.
Similarly sexual exclusivity is not required by this form of partnership either (it may be required by the individuals in the partnership but the relationship style itself does not compel it). Basically marriage is an agreement to always be there for the person, but that does not mean that you have to be everything for that person.
But if you don’t have that sense of closeness with your wife, why is she your wife? Why would you have chosen that person as the one you’re building your life with? The entire concept is just alien to me. My marriage isn’t based on sharing everything in common – we have some enormous differences as well as some major commonalities – but rather a mutual acceptance of the differences we have as being an acceptable price to pay for each other’s love. Despite the fact that she thinks I waste too much time on sports and music and I don’t have an obsessive need to clean the house like her, and despite the fact that I think she’s OCD about the house and is terribly overprotective of the kids…..even then, I’m with her and she’s with me, 100%. Wouldn’t want it any other way.
I don’t know, maybe the fact that we’re both at least mildly misanthropic makes it work.
If your marriage is successful you will eventually end up stuck all day everyday together as the rest of the world becomes too difficult to navigate with your frailties and as people forget about you or die. You best be able to stand being with only that person.
Basically marriage is an agreement to always be there for the person, but that does not mean that you have to be everything for that person.
I can get that from a dog, and the dog doesn’t create nearly as much drama when I’m boinking the secretary.
No, there’s something more to marriage than just staving off the loneliness. If there wasn’t, then it would’ve gone away long ago.
Stripping away my religious/spiritual beliefs about marriage, I just don’t see the benefit of getting married. You could get more and more interesting sex outside of marriage. You could get a roommate and ditch a bunch of married drama and still not be lonely. You could hire a maid to take care of the household stuff you don’t want to do. The single parent stigma is gone, so you could have kids without a boat anchor of a spouse. Hell, you could volunteer at the ymca and not even have to take the kids home at night. All that and you don’t even have to think about other people when planning your life out. Want to live on a beach in Mexico? Sure! Want to live as a hermit on 100 acres? Fine!
Seriously, the commitment makes sense to me in a spiritual and religious context where sex is verboten outside of that commitment, but when I look through a secular lens, marriage seems like cultural inertia from a time when birth control was less effective.
She might be having kids. Not necessarily his though…
You know, I’m not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but does it seem like the mainstream media has developed a real fascination lately with the whole cuck fetish thing?
It’s the sort of people drawn to that type of career.
I was thinking the same.. It’s almost like it is being promoted and they are telling people to just be OK with this stuff or be square.
They’re just looking for the next underdog to champion after they’re done with the trans thing. Given how much more open society is today than in the past, the options for new causes gets slimmer and slimmer. Eventually all they’ll be left with is running stories on how brave SIV is for being true to himself.
What’s that bit all about?
Link to another article that got copied over in my blockquote
Tulsi Gabbard Is Driving The MSM Bat Shit Crazy
When Tulsi Gabbard announced her plans to run in the 2020 presidential election, I predicted that it would disrupt war propaganda narratives and force a much-needed conversation about US interventionism, but I didn’t realize that it would happen so quickly, so ubiquitously, and so explosively. Gabbard officially began her campaign for president a mere three days ago, and already she’s become the front line upon which the debate about US warmongering is happening. Even if you oppose Gabbard’s run for the presidency, this should be self-evident to you by now.
This dynamic became more apparent than ever today in Gabbard’s appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, hosted by spouses Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. It should here be noted since we’re talking about war propaganda that in 2009 Scarborough turned down an easy run for the US Senate because he decided that he could have more influence on public policy as the host of Morning Joe than he could as one of 100 US senators, which tells you everything you need to know about why I focus more on US mass media propaganda than I do on US politics. It should also be noted that Brzezinski is the daughter of the late Carter administration cold warrior Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose influential ideas about US world domination, arming extremist factions to advance US interests, and hawkish agendas against Russia continue to infect US foreign policy to this day. Mika is part of a political dynasty, with both brothers being US political insiders as well.
Who? who? and who? Wait, I see a name I recognize, but the story isn’t about Carter.
The MSM was already batshit crazy. Maybe not peak batshit crazy. But you never know if you reach a peak. Maybe you will surpass it in the future.
Morning Joe’s pile-on against Gabbard began when the subject of Syria came up, and panelist Kasie Hunt instantly began losing her shit.
“Do you think Assad is our enemy?” Hunt interrupted during Gabbard’s response to a question about her meeting with Syria’s president in 2017, her voice and face both strained with emotion.
“Assad is not the enemy of the United States because Syria does not pose a direct threat to the United States,” Gabbard replied.
“What do you say to Democratic voters who watched you go over there, and what do you say to military members who have been deployed repeatedly in Syria pushing back against Assad?” Hunt replied, somehow believing that US soldiers are in Syria fighting against the Syrian government, which would probably come as a shock to the troops who’ve been told that they are there to defeat ISIS.
Journalist Rania Khalek summed up this insanity perfectly, tweeting, “The journalist interrogating Tulsi seems to believe that US forces in Syria are fighting Assad. Tulsi corrects her, says those troops were deployed there to fight ISIS. These people don’t even know what’s happening in the places they want the US to occupy.”
“This is such an embarrassing look at the state of corporate American regime media,” tweeted journalist Max Blumenthal. “@kasie doesn’t know the most basic facts about Syria and along with the smug co-hosts, doesn’t care to learn.”
Jeez, this thing is putting me on the same side as Max fucking Blumenthal? Ugh…..I need to shower now.
“What do you say to Democratic voters who watched you go over there, and what do you say to military members who have been deployed repeatedly in Syria pushing back against Assad?”
“What would you have me say to military members who have been repeatedly deployed overseas to fight people who pose no direct threat to the United States?”
Didn’t Pelosi go meet with Assad when Bush was president? Why is that ok but Gabbard’s visit isn’t?
I just love seeing how warmongering and morally depraved the MSM is.
Anti Russian xenophobia and warmongering have become the defining characteristic of the Democratic Party. The peace stuff was the one thing they consistently used to get right.
It’s almost like they don’t have a guiding principle other than raw power.
Idk. Looking at the major wars the US was involved in the last century, they were carried out mostly by Democrat CnC’s.
Which is an impressive record, considering the Rs held the presidency for a slim majority (52 years) of the 20th century. In fact, I believe every 20th century D except Carter started, joined, or escalated a war.
The Peace stuff was about not standing up to communism.
#Resist was always #War. Any movement that embraces the likes of Bill Kristol, Max Boot, and Jennifer Rubin, while praising the FBI and the intelligence community is only interested in one thing.
This being Lew Rockwell I keep waiting for the punchline where it’s all the Zionist Entity’s fault.
*Winston signal lit*
Hey now. That’s more of the commentators than Rockwell himself
Part of the cause of the rising antisemitism today. The Left’s alliance with Muslims, the Paleo-Right’s exacerbation with neo-cons’ forever-war ideas that always seem to align more with Israeli’s interests than ours.
I guess the Left now thinks that Syria is “the good war” not because it is good for the U.S. or Israel, but because it might get us into a wider war with Russia.
^This.
I don’t hate all Jews. I love Jewish janitors. I love Jewish Carpenters. I love all Jews who ever appeared on Rowe’s Dirty Jobs.
You need to be a bit more subtle. Trolling works better if it isn’t completely obvious that you are Full Of Shit.
I don’t hate jews. I hate one particular jew who thinks it’s acceptable to try to strike up a conversation in a public bathroom. Shut up, I’m busy.
Sounds more like homophobia than antisemitism. You’re a monster either way.
Stage fright?
Where does a tip to an Amazon driver go? In some cases, toward the driver’s base pay
So, exactly the same way restaurants work.
Always tip in cash. Always.
I usually tell people my tip is that they should buy low and sell high so they make a profit and don’t go broke.
I take it you have issues with the urine content of your soup and the added saliva on your burger.
Not really. I have no recipes that require I add either of those when I cook…
Amazon driver? My mailman?
So, they guarantee $18-25/hour *inclusive of tips*.
Well, that sure is a major scandal. #latestagecapitalism
True enough, but it sounds like they may not have been completely forthright with the drivers or the customers about how the tipping system works vis-a-vis the base pay. As Scruffy says, always tip in cash.
It’s probably specified somewhere between pages 30 and 40 in the agreement they have to sign.
Exchange I saw:
#1: “Manmade” climate change nothing more than an attempt to transfer wealth grab control………’
#2: “You have nothing to back up that assertion. It is wishful thinking.”
Personally, I thought it was self-evident.
Manmade” climate change nothing more than an attempt to transfer wealth grab control
Well, let’s see what the proposed solutions are:
(1) Increased government regulation of the energy sector and of energy usage. Sounds like “grab control” to me.
(2) Massive international payments and domestic subsidies. Sounds like “transfer wealth” to me.
Tell me one major proposal by anyone who thinks we need to fight manmade climate change that doesn’t fall into one of these two buckets.
Well, there was the “Genocide 90% of the planet” plan.
I played one game last night, lost 3-0 to Tampa bay. Playing in a few hours vs Anaheim this morning.
Throw some avocado toast on the ice when they come out of the tunnel.
Here’s a PSA from the Great One…
Good luck. First game jitters are gone now.
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Megyn Kelly’s career immediately ended for merely saying blackface was ok when she was a kid…
How are any of these Virginia politicians still in office?
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How are any of these Virginia politicians still in office?
They have a ‘D’ next to their name.
One of the possible outcomes is that all three resign, and that House Speaker Kirk Cox (R) becomes governor.
But once that happens the Virginia dems are going to start quietly purging the party and by 2020 will be solid prog.
So, we’ll have (almost) four relatively good years following by our fall into deep blue status. NJ, MD now VA. Watch out, NC.
Kelly shouldn’t have lost her job for that (and arguably it was only a pretext). Neither should the VA politicians. Not that I mind seeing the Dems hoisted on their own retard.
The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged
Within Britain’s elite occupations, the advantages of class are still mistaken for talent.
When you replace a true meritocracy with a system that values credentialing, you get the shit we have today. Our ruling elite are ineffective, down-right destructive, morons that checked right boxes to get their leg up. They now control who gets into the special club. But the god damned socialists tell us government (where most of these douchebags end up if they don’t go into other useless shit like academia or HR departments), should be given more power to control who wins and who loses. All in the name of fairness, of course. Fucking asshats.
This. So much this.
Not everyone can get one of those 200k Officer of Diversity or compliance officer jobs
Compliance Officer. Who can look themselves in the mirror and say, “yeah narking on people over stupid rules I don’t believe in”. Can call themselves a productive member of society?
No you are fucking parasite. And it seems well over halfs the jobs are for parasites.
Wealthy people are able to obtain advantages for their children. Footage at 11.
Not woke!
hah….top reply:
Heh.
Millions of men aged 18-45 sleeping on cots and eating gruel. WW2 for the economic win.
+1 rationing
SUCH BLASPHEMY.
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The huge irony in @AOC claiming that all Latino people are somehow natives of the continental US is that she shares a last name with the most famous conquistador in history. But she doesn’t seem like much a history buff so I guess I can’t expect her to know that.”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1093680184555958272
Funny that the “party of science” thinks any human is native to North or South America.
History for the poor opressed nonwhites didn’t start until the evil european oppressors uncovered them and imposted neurotypical concepts of time on their utopias.
OMWC is back!
http://archive.li/GINJi
14 and 55. Those two groups looked like a lot of fun to me.
related: Let’s just give Liz Katz the cosplayer of the year award now
Stupid adblocker.
Incognito Window, dude.
Wingman?
– The Most Interesting Man in the World.
Also, I can neither confirm nor deny being the real-life inspiration for The Most Interesting Man in the World.
-Mike Pence
13>40>9>31
49 had the best booties, IMO:
https://archive.li/GINJi/913397afc63dbdc4407a812a052f433cacf97ec8
“Replying to @Neoavatara
Same people:
“You cant build a 2000 mile long wall, its not practical”
“Lets build train tracks across the ocean”
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If Trump has put forward a plan on anything as vacuous as this Green Deal, we’d spend a week talking about how much of an idiot he is, unfit for his job.”
https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1093574339671326720
The first comment is from ‘Evan’ who tried to put Paul Ryan’s budget on the same level of stupid.
smh
I know AlexinCT linked to it just wanted to show it was part of the same Tweet.
I messed that up good! Sorry Alex!
Never apologize man. It makes the woke fucks smell blood and come in for the kill!
To be fair, we are going to spend a week talking about how much of an idiot AOC is, unfit for her job. I suppose who the “we” is being the only difference between the two.
Then the tart wonders why everyone ‘obsesses’ over her.
Even at his incoherent worst, Trump never claimed to build a 2000 mile long wall. Yet, you keep hearing that thrown out so often that you could build the wall out of all those strawmen.
Alinsky rules man.
And even then, 2000 miles of wall is not some fantasy project, especially when the wall is really a large metal fence. The Great Wall of China, a much more substantial wall, was twice as long and built with much more primitive methods.
…several times. The wall people know today is the Ming wall, built to replace the older iterations.
True, it’s estimated they built something like 13,000 miles of walls all told, but as that was over centuries and not all in use at one time I felt it would be cheating to use that stat.
Somebody was reminiscing the other day about Paint Shop Pro, a small but effective little graphics program I still use. You can find it and other past software gems here.
winamp baby, it lives!
Winamp has taken to freezing my computer lately. I haz a mad.
I’ve still got Paint Shop Pro installed. Think it’s been a few years since I actually fired it up, but great little piece of software.
Re the zoning discussion yesterday:
There is something that many of you didn’t seem to grasp about what I was saying. You seemed to think I was saying that the suburban municipalities were being subsidized somehow, I was not. I said the suburban municipalities were themselves subsidizing the homeowners in those communities and they were doing it by failing to tax at a high enough level to cover their ongoing maintenance costs. Here is another link to a strongtowns article that lays it out in some detail…
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/22/the-more-we-grow-the-poorer-we-become
So when I said that the average home would have to pay 10 – 15% taxes to generate enough tax revenue to cover ongoing expenses including the future maintenance and replacement costs of the infrastructure that supports them it did not mean that ALL homes would have to pay that much in taxes just that the majority would. The infrastructure costs produced by a 4000 sq ft home on a 2 acre lot valued at a $1,000,000 are not double those of a 2400 sq ft home on a 1/3rd acre lot valued at $500,000 so the million dollar home could pay it’s actual fair share (not the leftist concept of fair share, but the actual concept of it, which means it generates enough tax revenue to cover all of the current and future expenses it imposes on the community) with a much lower tax rate than the half million dollar home.
The key point is that America was fucking stupid coming out of WW2, they believed they had entered a brave new world of eternal rapid growth and wealth an so they prioritized that without ever really thinking about long term costs. The same kind of thinking that produced this issue is what made those morons in the 60’s think that LBJ’s great society programs were so great and all of it is what is driving the impending economic collapse.
I have been critical of strong towns regularly for focusing on the revenue side and not giving good cost side estimates, as the net for properties is what matters. Apparently the cost side is hard, so they tend to use things like revenue/acre as a measure, which turns out to work pretty well, but has obvious flaws in certain obvious situations.
When that does work is things like this [going with an old, old example] where the blocks are so similar and near each other.
I ended up reading a ton of the stuff on that site last night following the discussion.
I like what the founder had to say on a lot of things, but a lot of the other contributors seemed to be garden variety urbanists who just want their pet projects built at taxpayer expense. Kind of a weird dynamic where I was nodding to the things he was saying, and then I’d click to another article and it was full of derp.
Be thankful it was merely derp. You could have gotten SugarFree.
That is accurate.
So this is another of those urbanist types that thinks I’m going to walk everywhere on 95 degree/80% humidity summer days? I don’t fucking think so.
“I said the suburban municipalities were themselves subsidizing the homeowners in those communities and they were doing it by failing to tax at a high enough level to cover their ongoing maintenance costs.”
And I don’t find that to be true. Of course this is the problem with making overarching statements and then responding with overarching generalizations, but from the municipalities that I look at for work, the vast majority of suburbs have good infrastructure and low taxes, because they operate more responsibly than their urban peers (also, suburban finances tend to be less convoluted than cities, which is due to the size difference between the two).
“When a community builds a new road, that piece of infrastructure comes with a future obligation for maintenance. Local officials can estimate, with a good degree of precision, when that obligation will come due and roughly how much it will cost. In normal accounting terminology, that would be considered a future liability. In the magical world of municipal accounting, however, that road is labeled an asset.”
I fear that the person who wrote this is not familiar with GASB standards and he fails to mention that the value of all assets are discounted over their useful life. Further, I’ve never seen a local government use a road as an “asset”, because most roads are constructed by states or a single-purpose special district that covers multiple municipalities. I think this guy should look at more governmental balance sheets.
https://www.strongtowns.org/contributors-journal/charles-marohn
I’m thinking that he has looked at more than a few governmental balance sheets.
His point about it falling on the asset side of the ledger was not that towns were taking out loans against it or anything but that they were not accounting for the ongoing maintenance and eventual replacement costs. Depreciation does not account for these either. All that is doing is accounting for the fact that the value of the asset decreases over time but there is no inherent assumption that you will need to replace the asset.
As far as the suburbs you look at having good finances, maybe they are among the exceptions, maybe they are simply rich enough to have a high enough tax base to overcome this (not too hard in a community of million dollar homes) or maybe the effects of this have yet to take root as this disease has a 40 – 60 year incubation period.
Finally yes this is hardly a problem that us unique to suburbs, cities suffer from it as well (see Flint Michigan) and have a host of other dysfunctional problems piled on top as well. However unlike suburbs cities at least have a rather large and varied tax base giving them many channels to collect from and are far more likely to get bailed out/be subsidized by the State and Federal governments. Suburbs on the other hand pretty much only have property taxes, mostly on homes, and whatever retail happens to be located within them and so the tax effects of this are very much concentrated in the form of a subsidy to the homes
“His point about it falling on the asset side of the ledger was not that towns were taking out loans against it or anything but that they were not accounting for the ongoing maintenance and eventual replacement costs.”
Again, though, suburbs and communities in general don’t usually build their own roads and therefore I don’t think I’ve ever seen one put it on their balance sheet. He’s a Civil Engineer and based on his remark I don’t think he’s familiar with how local government or governmental accounting standards work at all. His example is rather laughable.
You’re going to need to provide a better example than roads, which local governments don’t usually build nor list on their balance sheets nor are required to repair or replace (that’s a trickier category, because local governments are usually responsible for snow plowing and fixing potholes on their local roads, but overall replacement and major repairs are usually handled by the state or a larger municipal single-purpose entity). And even if this were true, I’m not sure how this makes suburbs look like rent-seekers, but not cities? Are we pretending like cities set money aside for these undertakings? Again, it doesn’t matter, because none of what he said is true or makes a lot of sense.
https://emma.msrb.org/ER1136815-ER889568-ER1290163.pdf
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. I randomly picked a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the City of Coon Rapids (within the Twin Cities Metro of MN). If you look at their balance sheet there isn’t even a line item for “roads” under “capital assets”. If it is not its own line item than it cannot be a significant part of your balance sheet. It should also be noted that the balance sheet doesn’t mean much with regards to a community’s actual financial position.
Also, it should be noted that while property taxes comprise roughly 50% of total revenues (a similar percentage for nearly all municipalities- City or Suburb) sales taxes and other use taxes are also a large part of their budget.
“However unlike suburbs cities at least have a rather large and varied tax base giving them many channels to collect from and are far more likely to get bailed out/be subsidized by the State and Federal governments. Suburbs on the other hand pretty much only have property taxes, mostly on homes, and whatever retail happens to be located within them and so the tax effects of this are very much concentrated in the form of a subsidy to the homes”
There are a massive amount of generalizations being made here. For instance, I know a suburb within the Chicagoland area that has virtually no property taxes on residents, because it is close to O’Hare and therefore all of their taxes are levied on hotel occupancy, sales taxes, and property taxes on business. We kind say “suburbs are like this” and “cities are like this”, because there is no one category that defines these words.
Depreciation is a concept related to cost allocation, not a measure of value.
I said the suburban municipalities were themselves subsidizing the homeowners in those communities and they were doing it by failing to tax at a high enough level to cover their ongoing maintenance costs.
If these are ongoing maintenance costs that are being paid now, then where is the money coming from? If its from outside the town, that sounds like a subsidy. If its from borrowing, I struggle to call borrowing a subsidy.
But it sounds like they are future maintenance costs. So, those future costs will be paid either by borrowing when they need the money (ideally, if the maintenance is capital improvements), or raising taxes when they need the money (ideally, if the maintenance is ongoing operating costs). Where’s the subsidy? Why should current homeowners fund maintenance that some of them won’t be around for?
If you say current taxes should fund future expenditures, you are saying the government should build a big pile of cash to pay those costs when they are due. I’m not a big fan of governments raising taxes now to build a kitty to pay future expenses. First, the odds that money won’t be diverted are low. Second, a big pile of cash in government hands is corruption bait.
“Meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Republicans Secret Weapon For 2020”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-07/meet-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-republicans-secret-weapon-2020
Until yesterday I thought she might actually be a threat. Man, was I ever wrong.
Others were saying earlier she just had to be a Repub plant. If only the Repubs weren’t the stupid party, I’d believe that.
Last night I posted that article showing she once was a free market supporter. While I’d like to think she is a plant, I highly doubt it. However it does show what a destructive environment college has become.
Agreed on that, I’m still a bit surprised myself that I didn’t end up eating the whole bait, line and sinker. I would’ve been in college around the same time she was.
Not only that, she has a degree in economics and I doubt she’s capable of balancing a checkbook.
How can I be broke when I still have checks in my checkbook?
She is the gift that keeps on giving. Scott Adams claims that she has that Trump factor. I don’t see it. She’s relatively good looking and young. Wait till she ages a bit and is still saying that stupid shit and that cute aura will dissipate in a flash.
This. She has a shelf life of about 3 years.
That’s 3 years too long.
Fast forward her about 30 years and you have Maxine Waters.
So… like a female porn star? Will be doing MILF videos soon?
She’s a female version of Trudeau and he made it to PM and unleashed a wickedly retarded ideological program on Canada.
Tread carefully my American friends. Don’t take it for granted ‘saner’ heads will prevail.
People thought the same thing with Trudeau deluding themselves that somehow an inner-cabal of Liberals would stop him from doing crazy shit. Next thing you know….crazy shit.
It doesn’t help you guys that the parlimentary system makes it harder to dislodge individual politicians. Even if a primary challenge is unreliable (and often futile) it is still something.
The difference is Trudeau had a famous, well-loved name to trade on. If AOC’s last name were “Obama” or even “Clinton” I’d be worried, but as it stands I’m not.
The similarity is in the “Doesn’t give a shit” response and counterattacking critics.
The fact that she’s spewing ideas disagreeable to a vastly larger segment of the population separates the two. By policy, Trump is centrist.
Adams is right. When she starts up with the “Socialism just means I want people to not starve and have good healthcare”, it resonates. Not with me, but with a lot of people.
She’s the human equivalent of that “Math is Hard!” Barbie.
A lot of the left media that made fun of Palin seems to be either silent on her or agrees with her.
I got an interesting glimpse into what is happening behind the scenes at our biggest online providers this morning.
I was using someone else’s tablet to read the news. Someone who does not read libertarian sites and does not follow the news.
So I start typing in the URL to get to reason. And when I had typed “reason.c” Google’s suggest offer this: “reason.com bias” as the only suggested search term.
Hmmmm…
So then I proceeded through my usual route of political sites. I type in CNN oh, no problem. I go to Huffington Post, no problem.
Then I type in Drudge. It suggests drudge space report, so I just tap on that which brings me the Google search results page.
The top result is the Google ad. Then the Wikipedia page.
Then a slew of fact check sites. The first one labels Drudge Report as biased and unreliable because of its use of questionable sources and Reporting fake news and conspiracy theories..
Drudge almost exclusively links to articles at other news sites. They just slap a provocative headline on there and post the link.
Remember when trusting your search results meant that when you clicked on a link you wouldn’t end up at a llink farm search list?
Google is techie for “fascist”
I disable the use of search engines from the address bar – the two don’t go together.
I also make good use of bookmarks, they were invented for a reason.
Also, google is dying, bail on them.
I typed Ralph Northam pic into my search-bar in image search and blackface/klanhood didn’t come up on the first page. I had to specify Ralph Northam blackface pic.
Wow. That is pretty telling.
Try using it to find any science that is critical of man-made global warming claims.
Welcome to the Goolag…
I think its been pretty conclusively proven that Google exerts direct ideological control over a lot of political(ish) searches. Far more insidious, IMO, than the DemOp Media propaganda.
Anyone who has not read the Green New Deal needs to. It is beyond hilarious. It reads as if a fourteen year-old kid wrote it after taking a course on climate change. It reminded me of grammar school when we learned about the metric system and a girl said “why doesn’t the president just mandate that we all use the metric system?”.
All children are authoritarians, but usually they grow-up. But, not socialists. They remain children forever.
The financing of it all was the best part. Print it! Gee, why didn’t anyone else think of that?
We just need a train full of these.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Zimbabwe-100-Trillion-Dollars-banknote-AA-2008-P91-UNC-inflation-currency-bill-/252048078439
If you have one (either a bill or a train full of bills) , will the people that want to ban billionaires demand you be banned?
I’m not a billionaire – I’m a trillionaire!
The reference to “cow farts” was my favorite part
The sober adults in the room, unlike the childlike Trump.
Not that Trump isn’t often childlike, but still, fuck these people.
Most of Trump’s opposition is so much worse than Trump. Primarily because Trump is perhaps the weakest president we have had in the past thirty years or so.
When he was elected, I figured we were done for: he’d leave such a bad taste in the mouths of voters that the Dems would walk it in in future elections. All they’d need to do is look credible while Trump punched himself out. But they took the wrong lesson: they took it as permission to go crazy and advance lunatics to the front of the party. They aren’t playing good cop to his bad cop.
Speaking of climate nonsense, has this farce made the rounds yet?
That’s gonna be on an infomercial channel?
Albert Finney, 1936-2019
🙁
Huh….thought he was already dead.
Just pickled, like any good Irishman
ADVENTURES IN BUREAUCRACY!
Here in NYC, there is city agency with a 24 hour emergency number to report your address if your rental unit is without heat or hot water (other than for non-payment). Yesterday, wifey receives a call from a city apparatchik at that agency, contacting her about our emergency complaint (building had a broken boiler and landlord was a skinflint – no heat or hot water for 2 weeks). He was the very first person to EVER contact us about this issue and he was eager to drag the landlord through the punishing process that the city provides for scofflaws. The problem, however, is that we filed the complaint in 2007 and haven’t even lived in that borough since 2011. Sigh…
That’s Terry Gilliamish.
“Your landlord, a Mr…Buttle is it?”
Dang, that’s hilariously bad.
For OMWC for stepping up to the plate – https://youtu.be/whhaO9ZYJYI
Festus, you and OMWC have good taste. Thanks for something current.
It’s what all the swingin’ daddies are into these days…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wipes away tears at protest to defund US border agency: ‘They don’t deserve a dime’
Meanwhile, in AOC’s district…
Holy shit.
I’m sure that some of them are good people… This week has been “Berry, berry good” for anyone to the right of Mao.
Life imitates Seinfeld
If being an Assman is wrong I don’t want to be right!
That’s poetry right there..
The preeminent morticianary in my town for fifty years was “Assman’s Funeral Chapel”.
My ex’s home town had a couple of those right across the street from each other, and the local joke was that they had stiff competition.
Golf clap for the Dad joke.
Heh – one of my Dutch ancestors has the Assman name. And – ironically? – I’m an ass man.
Good day!
Russia’s propaganda machine discovers 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard
This is what happens when you don’t toe the party lines.
Wow that’s an actual NBC article. We are most definitely fucked.
They aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they are the propaganda wing of the Democrat party.
They are the propaganda wing of the War Party. This is the biggest reason why the corporate press deserves nothing but derision. Recall how much the NYT and WaPo were pimping the War in Iraq. And then remember that the only time Trump has ever gotten good press has been when he bombed Syria. The corporate press is worse than shit.
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If AOC challenged the bipartisan foreign policy consensus in any meaningful way, as Tulsi Gabbard has been doing, the media honeymoon would quickly end and she’d ultimately be castigated.
War is the consensus position. That’s why they hate Tulsi
Not true. Pointless, counter productive war is the consensus; you would see less support if the war was necessary and fought against a communist aggressor.
Fair point
Remember, the Obama administration policy was, effectively, that we should only fight morally pure wars (“responsibility to protect”), and that any war in our national interest was not morally pure, so we should not fight wars in our national interest.
Thus, the continued presence in the Middle East, the ouster of Khaddafi, etc.
They called her abortion and gun stances less controversial than her stance on syria. Right.
Directed at Apologist, but anyone feel free tup come in. … would?
I’d tup a Tulsi, with vigor!
“I’m no fan of religion, and of Islam particularly, but this seems terribly wrong. And the excuse, “Well, we employ a Christian, but no-one else, and it’s gotta be an employee” seems even wronger on many levels.”
It’s disgusting. The state claims the authority to put someone to death and then refuses to allow the condemned access to a religious cleric of their choice. Prisons are required to provide halal meals to Muslim inmates (along with Kosher food for Jewish inmates and any other dietary requirement of different inmates), but they can deny a man about to be put to death a cleric of his choice?
I was about to quip that is was barbaric but remembered that the Mongol Hordes were rather tolerant of people’s faiths. They did not care which religion you practiced so long as you included a prayer for the good health of the Khan. Congratulations Alabama, you’re being morally bested by 13th century Steppe People who left piles of human skulls in their wake.
Damn. That’s brutal.
But inaccurate.
See the problem wasn’t that they gave a damn what faith he practiced. The issue was that his chosen cleric wasn’t part of the corrections officer’s union and on the prison’s org chart. You can either pick one of the staff chaplains or sign an affidavit attesting that the prison needs to hire more chaplains and thus justify the increased budget and higher pay grade for the chaplain supervisor.
Faith has nothing to do with it.
I say good. Fuck Islam. Hey you want whine about barbarity how about all those innocent children American women like to murder. At least this guy got the appearance of due process.
[YOU ARE SO CLOSE…]
Go away Tulpa.
Was wondering if this was some kind of performance art. Unhinged seems more likely.
I am pretty sure FOS stands for Full Of Shit and is a troll account. Either that or someone from Stormfront who believed some leftist web review that accused Glibs of being Nazis.
You look at all the comments and you have some serious discussions mixed in with some silly jokes. And then you have this one dude saying crazy shit. Makes us look better by comparison. Trolling grade: F.
Yeah, doesn’t pass the smell test. FOS is Tulpa.
Ooooh! Haven’t seen one of those in a while.
Because FYTW?
It’s horrific. But it’s in line with what I’d expect the state to do.
Summary execution by cop neatly disposes of all these indignities.
Agreed. I don’t believe the state should have the power to execute someone, but if you’re going to grant them that power then I would think that respecting their legitimate spiritual concerns would be a moral requirement. It would certainly be the Christian thing to do, since they seem to think that’s important.
Situations like this are not suppose to happen in the US, because of our religious accommodations. Shit like this happens in Europe, because their version of religious liberty is no different from what it was in the 1500’s. It does not bode well for religious people that the Supreme Court choose to take a pass on this case.
The scary thing to me about this is that whatever your personal beliefs you should recognize that the deliberate, cold-blooded taking of a human life is a very serious thing, and in light of that you ought to give whatever consideration you can to the person whose life is being ended, if you give even half a shit about human rights, or dignity, or anything in that vein. Not bothering to make an accommodation for the final moments of a person’s life says that not only do you not particularly care or take it seriously but you’re not especially worried about any negative consequences. If the state can behave so cavalierly towards prisoners who are in their immediate power, what’s stopping them from behaving with similar disregard to suspects, say, or to just anyone who happens to have the misfortune of interacting with law enforcement?
Rules were followed. Proper protocols were adhered to. Go back to sleep, Kamerad.
The state claims the authority to put someone to death and then refuses to allow the condemned access to a religious cleric of their choice.
It’s a bit more grey than that. He was given access to his cleric of choice right up until entering the execution room, at which point the cleric had to wait outside. Yeah, they should have given him access in the execution room provided he cause no trouble if they provide the same access to people of other faiths, but it’s not as great of an affront as it first appeared.
But I was a mail order groom.
They do not need to worry. The women in that picture are not my Asian fantasy.
They’re not wrong. I mean, if I was paying for a mail order bride as a sex toy to cure my yellow fever I’d at least spend enough to make sure I got a cute one.
Let me guess Straff, the company told your wife “No refunds”?
She hasn’t even opened the box yet.
404
It was a small image of frumpy college girls holding up a poorly handwritten sign ranting about feminist talking points.
You didn’t miss much.
Saw someone on Twitter compare the Houston police shooting to the murder of Kathryn Johnston by Atlanta police. That might be right. Damn.
That Jussie Smolett noose thing reminded me of this for some strange reason:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/blog/afp_Bullet.htm
What percentage of journalists can spot the issue in that picture? 2%? 5%?
All I get is a page whining about the fact that I don’t let mystery sites run JavaScript.
She is holding up two different rifle cartridges, both pristine and unfired.
As Pat points out, they technically didn’t have to be fired to have hit the house.
Maybe they hit her house after the picture was taken?
Hey, she only said they hit the house, not that they were fired from a gun.
I find throwing cartridges around by hand to be a very effective technique.
It gets rid of that dangerous muzzle flash and all the noise.
Be like my drunken adolescent buddy and throw a handful of .22 lr in the bonfire. Hilarity ensues!
Too much tumbling
They fell out of the helicopter?
Hopefully not in someone’s pocket…
It is hard to tell because I can’t judge perspective/lighting, but they appear to be different calibers
Looks like they were trying this method with bullets instead of mortar rounds:
https://youtu.be/oGhPsfITYm0
Yep, these are those. They ricocheted off the chandelier, through the master bathroom door and would have hit my husband if he hadn’t been sleeping on the floor.
Tread carefully my American friends. Don’t take it for granted ‘saner’ heads will prevail.
It’s never happened before. Why would I pretend it will be different, this time?
Who wants a sex dungeon in Suburban Philly? If you answered that you want it, have I got the house for you!
https://www.redfin.com/PA/Ambler/1612-Norristown-Rd-19002/home/38907751?utm_source=ios_share&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy_link&utm_nooverride=1&utm_content=link&fbclid=IwAR1kJbUBY1B9l45WbCch7gfw6IC_9drXLuoxFK2Xt3xf1gyxOf7NhI8QhcU
riiiight
“Full finished walk-out basement w bilco doors, includes a gym or 5th bedroom and also is a private adult sexual oasis. It can be converted back to a typical suburban basement. Home currently is being offered as an Air B & B rental @maisonxs that gets $750 a night on weekdays & $2000 a night on the weekends for private parties or entertainment.”
Anyone wanting to live in Philly would have to be a masochist, but at $750K you could mortgage it with a positive cash flow.
But it’s Philly.
you could mortgage it with a positive cash flow
have you accounted for the expense of cleaning an AirBnB sex dungeon? Because I am pretty sure people renting a house for their weekend freak are going to leave you a mess.
No Germans allowed!
Way too bright and shiny for a sex dungeon. Can’t even get good sex dungeons anymore…
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We work hard!
I do like the white dungeon walls and floor.
“Until my thorough investigation is completed, I will be suspending myself at full pay”
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1093878787551432704
I will be consulting with a 5 o’clock friend, possibly for some time.
There may be some hilarity and shenanigans going down at the Whitaker hearings. There are reports he told the Democrat committee chairman that the chairman’s five minutes were up.
RESIST!
Or resist?
Sometimes you just have to say: “Fuck off.”
I don’t know anything about Whitaker, but he’s touting increases and historic levels of arrests/convictions as a good thing. The numbers are never indexed against the number of those crimes committed to give a percentage or rate of “success” and so they’re meaningless to me. The success of the Justice Department, IMHO, would be zero crimes *committed*.
That being the case then, once again, the Dems (& many Rs) are missing the point. I believe Whitaker is being questioned today about Russian collusion.
Speaking of the NGD: https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1093575524503441410
“I’m proud to co-sponsor @AOC and @EdMarkey’s Green New Deal. We must aggressively tackle climate change which poses an existential threat to our nation.”
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1093573105912610816
It looks like the Democratic primary is turning into the Special Olympics, where the winner is the fastest retard.
So how is a person unwilling to work receiving a check going to save the planet?
That comment killed me.
They’ll work whether they want to or not – digging trenches to dump all the corpses in.
No, they’ll be digging their own mass grave, just like the old Gypsy woman foretold.
Bitch set me up!
Get with the times, Man. It’s now “Fuck that bitch!’
“What, again? Oh, that’s right, the first time you just forced her to blow you. Never mind.”
Yo Marion, where is that crack pipe brah? Puff, puff, pass dude!
This right here. On the plus side, they won’t ever have to another job after that.
have to do*
Well, if they were unwilling to work in the first place we’ll just call it a silver lining, if you will.
The lazy bastards all lie down on the job.
I think I may have found their theme song for 2020.
The politics of failure have failed. We must make them work again.
“Roger Stone: Security footage shows CNN arrived 40 mins before FBI and set up their camera 10 mins before raid began”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1093893382278209536
This type of coordination is terrifying.
Yet not a peep from the MSM. You’re right to feel the fear.
They are now propaganda agents of a certain segment of the deep state, and they love it.
CNN and so many other major media outlets continue to operate under the woefully mistaken belief that they’re the only ones with the cameras. Ring and Nest doorbells are probably a bigger threat to traditional “journalism” than the most ruthless Saudi goon squad you could imagine.
There’s gotta be a way to work Trumphitler into this story
For his part, AMI’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, notes in his correspondence with Bezos that the private photos he got his hands on were “obtained during our newsgathering.” Really? If AMI paid someone to hack Bezos’s devices to steal photos and texts, or if AMI received purloined photos and texts from a third party, then I wouldn’t call that “newsgathering” – in much the same way that I wouldn’t call Russian hackers burglarizing the Democratic National Committee’s servers “opposition research.” I’d call both things for what they are: theft.
Bezos has undoubtedly exercised bad judgment and camera skills in all of this, and he has possibly caused his wife acute pain. Working conditions at Amazon have also drawn criticism recently and the company’s size and reach need monitoring. But Bezos has also chosen to joust with the most powerful man in the world and with a potent publication that aided and abetted the president’s ascent. And he’s doing so in the service of the straightforward and indispensable idea that people are entitled to have private lives and private moments that strangers can’t pickpocket.
Three cheers for Jeff Bezos.
It were Trump what dunnit.
He set the whole thing up as payback because The Washington Post, of course, has published seminal and award-winning coverage of Trump’s political and business dealings as well as his shortcomings, legal perils, and personal life.
The pieces all fall into place.
Heh. Shortcomings -1 mushroom penis.
Reporters use material stolen by their sources all the time. They rely on people who criminally leak information all the time.
No shit. You can get on your moral high horse when you refuse to publish anything leaked to you with a national security clearance, anything confidential given to you without the permission of the owner, etc.
+1 Gawker
“Pennsylvania College Paper Runs Racist Op-Ed Saying White Boys Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Speak During Class
Titled “Should White Boys Still Be Allowed to Talk?” by a student named Leda Fisher, the article claims that “American society tells men, but especially white men, that their opinions have merit and that their voice is valuable, but after four years of listening to white boys in college, I am not so convinced.”
“In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk. It feels incessant. From classes and lectures, to the news and politics, there is an endless line of white boys waiting to share their opinions on the state of feminism in America, whether the LGBTQ+ population finally has enough rights, the merits of capitalism, etc. The list of what white boys think they are qualified to talk about is endless,” the article continues.
The racist text goes on to say, “to all the Chrises, Ryans, Olivers, and Seans out there, I encourage you to critically examine where your viewpoints come from, read a text that challenges you without looking for reasons to dismiss it, and maybe try listening from now on.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/pennsylvania-college-paper-runs-racist-op-ed-saying-white-boys-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-speak-during-class/
Ms. Fisher sounds like a lovely lady and I’m sure she’s the life of the college party.
The cats will get a bitter final meal.
“to all the Chrises, Ryans, Olivers, and Seans out there, I encourage you to critically examine where your viewpoints come from, read a text that challenges you without looking for reasons to dismiss it, and maybe try listening from now on.”
I’m not projecting, you’re projecting!
Get stuffed lady.
Thanks to the miracle of the Internet, prospective future employers will have a golden opportunity to dodge the bullet that is Leda Fisher.
Prospective future… jesus.
*goes to thaw brain*
That’s all right, Tundra, we got the gist of it.
Here, have a bottle of rectified spirits.
Everclear might do it.
You want… less alcohol in the bottle?
They have a 95%.
*checks catalog*
Oh, so they do.
Pure ethanol is a bitch to store.
Why do you think I give it away so readily?
She’ll have a job a the Huff… Oh wait they cut their opinion staff. Learn to code?
*BANNED BY TWITTER*
In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk.
How many chicks have you heard talking? The odds are, your eardrums have been assaulted by more female chatter than male chatter. Because when I think of “incessant talking”, I don’t think of young men.
This chick: “I don’t want to listen to what them white boys have to say.”
Also this chick: “I could talk to my non-binary friends about gender for hours.”
*puke*
For some reason I’m thinking of the anecdotes in whatever Article he’s responding to.
No shit.
Although, if it was possible to talk even less in a class, I’m all for it. I hate hate hate doing that. Also, questions. 9/10 if the person just STFU and waited 20 minutes, the instructor will usually answer their question just delivering the material without the interruption. Things I learned from the Army #1431- there are dumb questions and dumb people asking them.
“In my time at Dickinson”
You don’t fucking say.
finally has enough rights
We all have the same rights. You are referring to privileges.
And as to the rest of your racist screed, MLK would be very disappointed.
Sean Combs has a sad.
In my time at Dickinson I have listened to probably hundreds of white boys talk. It feels incessant.
I’ve got some bad news for you, Shirley.
They really haven’t ventured far from the days of The SCUM manifesto, have they? Hey, lady quit corpse-fucking 60s lefty radicalism. It’s so stale it’s not even gross, just dusty. Get some new material, this bit’s dead. Or learn to code.
*ALSO BANNED BY TWITTER*
There’s too many angered up humours in the blood this morning! Have some of this to rectify – https://youtu.be/rAMmi4NxXrk
Nice ass.
I feel better now.
It’s all this talk of urban planning. It’s tearing us apart.
Oh, sorry. I thought this was sim city and entered the code for a godzilla attack.
It’s all Rasilio’s fault!!
Now, now, lets not go about worrying about who stabbed who…
I’m married so I’m used to it being my fault
It just never ends, with these people.
What accounts for this and many other such imbalances in the upper chamber of Congress? The answer, sadly, is that the Senate, which has always given outsize political clout to smaller, rural states, has become increasingly dominated by this constituency. And these days, most of these small states lean conservative, giving them far more power than the Founding Fathers intended or than their relatively smaller share of the population would suggest.
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The compromise was a House of Representatives derived strictly from population, and a Senate that conferred equal representation on large and small states alike. That meant that even though each decennial census from 1790 onward would alter the number of representatives from each state, the number of senators would always remain the same: two.
The result is that today a voter in the state with the lowest population — Wyoming, with 573,000 people — has approximately 70 times the influence in the Senate as a voter in the largest state, California, where the population is 39.5 million.
Though shocking, it’s unclear whether this imbalance is all that different from the way the Senate has distributed power in the past. Perhaps this has always been the case, and if so, tradition should probably stand. But if the Senate has become increasingly undemocratic in the way it shortchanges large states (and privileges small ones) then reform may be necessary.
And then, he POUNCES!
While it’s unlikely that we’ll be passing a constitutional amendment to fix the problem, the nation is overdue for a nonpartisan debate over whether there are limits to the extent to which the largest and smaller states can diverge in size.
For example, states once had to meet a certain population threshold in order to gain admission to the union; what if states faced the prospect of losing statehood if they fail to maintain that threshold?
Haha, we’ll fix those hicks, once and for all.
How long must we continue to permit those inbred dunces to stand athwart the tide of progress and keep their enlightened coastal betters from bringing forth a socialist utopia?
what if states faced the prospect of losing statehood if they fail to maintain that threshold?
I mean we have given up on the idea that States are Sovereign themselves. Honestly i doubt the writer has ever even considered that idea.
wasn’t that threshold something like 30,000 people?
Didn’t we kill a shit ton of people because they wanted to leave the Union? Now we are going to kick out a bunch of states because they don’t have enough people?
Uffda, that is one of the stupidest ideas I have seen for a while (and I actually got to scan AOC’s FAQ page about the Green Deal before she spiked it).
So what happens when you kick out the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming and their populations spike because they don’t have a WoD, or an out of control regulatory system? Do you force them back in?
I don’t think they intend to kick any state out. You don’t increase your control that way. Rather, they want them absorbed by other states.
For example, states once had to meet a certain population threshold in order to gain admission to the union; what if states faced the prospect of losing statehood if they fail to maintain that threshold?
How about we go in the other direction? If you go over a certain population, then you’re big enough to be your own nation, and we kick your ass out.
Suddenly California wants to bring back the death penalty. And expand it.
As we’ve seen, the northern coastal elites have always been trying to dominate the hicks. Slavery was only a canard – the coastal elites are happy to have the poor totally in bondage to them – they just didn’t want them bonded to any hicks.
Ironic? Cause the Senate was made specifically to protect those states.
Civics is no longer taught, and History reads from Zinn’s lies.
Here’s my measured response – go fuck yourself, prog asshole.
I agree. The larger states should get more control, let’s switch from a system based on population to one based on land area. Fuck those small states.
Only if size is measured in square miles per person.
Sorry, Vermont, Delaware, and Rhode Island – you’re too small and must dissolve.
So the plan is to round up the wrong thinkers in the big cities and put them on trains to Wyoming?
giving them far more power than the Founding Fathers intended
Nope. But since the founding we have turned it into the second HoR. Perhaps we should go back to the old ways where the House is the house of the people and the Senate is the house of the States.
has approximately 70 times the influence in the Senate
Well, there was never supposed to be direct election of Senators, see the reason above.
what if states faced the prospect of losing statehood if they fail to maintain that threshold?
The States are sovereign and only joined the union upon ratifying the federal Constitution. This person is dangerously ignorant.
states once had to meet a certain population threshold in order to gain admission to the union; what if states faced the prospect of losing statehood if they fail to maintain that threshold?
I prefer financial criteria. Any state that has obligations (including future obligations) that exceed a certain dollar figure per resident is reduced to a territory and put under territorial governance until its finances are squared away. At which point, it can rejoin the union. The territory can also opt to become an independent nation via referendum, but any counties that are contiguous with another state can opt to join that state, as can counties that are contiguous with those counties, etc.
And, the clincher_
And there is a problem.
What began as a commendable effort to compromise over two centuries ago has introduced a powerful distortion into our system of representation, one that the architects of the Constitution did not anticipate, and most likely, would not have approved of — unless, of course, they were from Delaware.
Odd, he dosen’t mention the intentional differentiation of purpose between the Senate and Congress.
Willful ignorance, FTW!
nd most likely, would not have approved of
Yea, what they were going for is direct democracy that only allowed things that leftist want, inevitably leading to a total State. They just implemented it wrong.
Looks like Northam will do anything to take his mind off his “issues”.
https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/republican-leaders-cut-deal-with-northam-to-return-million-to/article_1aa8273c-bae4-53cb-94bd-0b6a3cb1e5f9.html
As NRO puts it: “The October tax rebate will help the GOP incumbents in this November’s state legislative elections, while GOP challengers will be running ads “Senator/Representative-so-and-so opposed the tax rebate you’re now receiving.”
“Unintended consequence”?
Score.
Yeah, my federal refund is a lot less this year after the changes (although via Reserve stuff, I think my overall income was comparatively less too), but my state refund is already more than last year – and getting another $110 back later in the year will help. (Will probably cover one payment of my county property tax).
By “increasingly undemocratic,” mean “increasingly unDemocratic.”
Brooks’d it!
Brooks is already Brooksing himself up above. Now your adding fuel to the fire. Do you people want anarchy?
You must not remember days of old when there was no comment threading.
Damn kids
*looks for lawn to yell at people to get off of*
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Written by a guy who, by all accounts, broke the law.
From the comments to that Bloomberg nonsense (same person, two comments):
The Senate should be disbanded or neutered like the house of Lords. At this point it serves no legitimate function if it doesn’t represent the will of the majority.
And…
This isn’t the situation. Large cities are extremely underrepresented in this country. It’s a huge problem because it thwarts the will of the majority of Americans.
Awesomely ass backwards. On the state level large cities dominate policy decisions over the objections of everybody else: Colorado, Washington, Oregon, come immediately to mind.
What he is really saying: “Democracy is broken, because I don’t always get my way.”
What a dope.
Soon they’ll be calling for another amendment that grants 3/5 citizenship to any one living in flyover country. I’m only half joking.
That many? I was expecting them to switch the election of all members of congress to national popular vote.
They act as much. “Democrats won the national popular vote in the midterms, but don’t get the representation”.
national popular vote
Speaking of things that really grind my gears…That’s. Not. A. Thing.
doesn’t represent the will of the majority.
sigh…
You know i wouldn’t mind Jefferson’s quote about the Constitution needing to be re-written every generation, if the people who quoted it so often also held the Jeffersonian idea that any state or group of people could leave the country if they so desired. You want you majoritarian hell-hole. Fine go ahead. You deserve every ass-fucking you get. But leave me and mine out of it.
That’s just it. They want to lord it over you. Being able to tred upon you is the goal, not a side effect.
Large cities are underrepresented? Are you effing kidding? Maryland would love to have a word. As I’m sure would New York, California, Colorado…
For reference, less than 10% of the national population lives in cities and between 1950 and today, the ten largest cities in America have grown a total of less than 1%. The notion that cities are underrepresented is more dubious than the notion than the argument that major cities have too much authority over the political representation of others.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/975811235873685506
Iowahawk destroyed this argument a while back
Are we defining ‘city’ to only include those people who explicitly live within its bounds, also or those who would not live in the viscinity of not for the presense of the city? The divide between “the city” and “upstate” for example is “Metro area versus everyone else” rather than those strictly housed within the boundaries of the city. Though since so many urb/suburb debates going on of late, that political line on the ground is more visible at the moment, even when it’s invisible when driving along the road. (my commute passes through three ‘Cities’ that are one contiguous urbanized zone)
Manhattan considers us in Ulster County upstate; we’ve always considered ourselves part of the Hudson Valley or Catskills with “upstate” being more or less the 518 area code. (Of course, folks up in the North Country might not consider themselves upstate, or folks in the Southern Tier either.)
I draw the line by extending the longest line of the pennsylvania border across to the eastern edge of New York.
Are we defining ‘city’ to only include those people who explicitly live within its bounds, also or those who would not live in the viscinity of not for the presense of the city?
I would assume that we only count people who live in the city limits as people who live in the city.
Suburbs are not the city. In fact, the people pushing urbanization and density will chew your ear off about how they aren’t.
To be fair, many of the countries that do it either have a mixed system (say, half single-member districts and half PR), or divide the country into regions that are apportioned based on population. In Finland, for example, Helsinki is its own district.
True. However, most of these countries are not federal governments. Having a legislature that represents sovereign states in addition to a body that represents population is a pretty common feature among federal republics.
For a good chunk of this nation’s history, I thought I saw somewhere that nearly 10% of the population lived in NYC.
Any country with a large urban population. Canada faces the same woes. They just tried to change to proportional representation here in BC for the third time and it failed again. Fringe parties seeking a hammerlock on power.
If it’s all about the will of the majority, abandon representation altogether. Torches and pitchforks will do just fine.
serves no legitimate function if it doesn’t represent the will of the majority
It’s legitimate functions are detailed in the governments founding charter, and those functions do not include “represent the will of the majority.” Seriously, these people are dangerously ignorant.
For even more fun, ask them if it would be a legitimate function of government to outlaw abortions and gay marriage if that was the will of the majority. Because when they were legalized, and arguably to this day, that is the will of the majority.
New Zealand guitarist Peter Posa (of whom I had not heard until today) died this week. Here’s a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fhePAc11_I
It saddens me that this is true. I am a fan of old comedy, and the revelation that practically everything that used to be really funny today would be considered taboo and destroy the comedian’s career. I watched some HBO dreck the other night that hat a couple of minority female comedians whose whole skit was about being mad at people they felt owed them an apology for some of the usual perceived slights these modern feminists, and especially minority feminists women studies types, and I found nothing funny about it. Nothing. It was depressing.
I asked yesterday if it might be the best movie ever made. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen it and it still holds up.
Scenes like this help.
It falls apart at the end once they break out of the studio. So it’s out of the running for “best ever”.
Brooks has two of my favorite movies ever made, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Animal House when I was 13. Apocalypse Now when I was 14 (on Xmas Eve no less) That was a fun family outing…
I can’t help but laugh every damn time.
*commits twitter sepukku*
Sorry, Vermont, Delaware, and Rhode Island – you’re too small and must dissolve.
Dissolution? Never. They must be taken under the wing of a larger, more benevolent and just state, like Massachusetts.
Well, that’s implied. I wasn’t thinking they’d turn into territories or something.
They split from Massachusetts centuries ago.
Dems get hung up on Wyoming and California. A quick glance at the 15 delegations with 3 reps or fewer and it is a 7-8 split Dem/Republican. This really shouldn’t be popular in any small states. The fact that some small states have signed on to the national popular vote compromise shows that the people in those states are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.
National Popular Vote Rhode Island, Vermont, and Hawaii are the three states that have sold out their voters to California and New York.
That would be an interesting court battle for the state that directs it’s electors opposite what the residents voted…
States can decide how to allocate their electors. I think anyone who would sue would lose pretty resoundingly.
Unless you can show that such an action disproportionately impacted a protected class and therefore violated the Voting Rights Act
I think it would be interesting to see if it could be challenged on the prohibition of states to form confederacies.
It does seem to be a violation of that rule.
Remember, it has to be a “protected class”. Disenfranchising white people or people with families (both constituencies most likely to vote Republican) does NOT violate a “protected class” and therefore would not be in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
I suppose maybe the “one man, one vote” principle established by the Supreme Court might be violated.
Good Review of the current status of the Compact Clause
You think the constitution says what it means? The courts don’t seem to agree.
Even in the Senate, I think the number of small-state Reps outnumbers small-state Dems by like 1 or 2.
And I think the big-state breakdown is also surprisingly close. I did the math after the last election, but don’t recall the details.
There is a reason why the US is called a FEDERAL republic. These people are being willfully obtuse
Some humor for the day
http://imgur.com/gallery/gnLGYKd
Yep. Fuck bears! I hate those cunts.
Ha! Awesome.
Back to this idiocy:
Large cities are extremely underrepresented in this country. It’s a huge problem because it thwarts the will of the majority of Americans.
If the residents of Chicago, or San Francisco. Miami want to impose restrictions of any sort upon themselves, while I remain free, I say, “Have at it.”
But that won’t do, because their messianic fervor will not be satisfied until I am no more free than they.
Your keeping guns in your house and occasionally going to the range is the reason for Chicago’s gun violence. Ditto your car commute and climate change, your comfortable job and their underemployment, your reasonable mortgage payments and their exorbitant rent, your generally conservative outlook and their paranoia for oppression. That you exist is an affront to their health and wealth. You must be crushed, made to learn to obey, to acknowledge their superiority.
Class warfare-loving NYT columnist gets put in his place
Journalists really don’t like being reminded that they’re terrible at their job and bad people in general
I have no idea who the tweeter is but he did a great job. Some of the replies… make me worry.
Yeah, it’s illustrative of just how pervasive and I daresay inherent envy as a policy position is in the world. And it’s sad, because the guy does a fantastic job explaining just how idiotic the Marxist point of view is.
Fuck you, pay me.
I am way too nice. I thought I’d gotten rid of him, but I had to be a bit more forceful. Of course, telling people they did a good job and they just need to find the proper tool to finish it only gets me a “Hey, will you teach me how to do this?”
No. Google is your friend. Plenty of bloggers want to give their knowledge away for free.
I once learned a valuable lesson from my karate teacher (the owner of the studio) who told me I needed to charge people for the lessons I was giving them. He said, “You poured your blood, sweat, and money into learning this; why give it away for free?” Well, because of the way I was raised I was shocked and said something like, “Knowledge shouldn’t cost anything!!!” Well, he was a lawyer. He looked at me with great pity. (I also learned not to be caught in the sway of a charismatic older attractive man, but I was 18 and stupid and 1200 miles away from home, so I think I can be forgiven.)
I have never forgotten that, but I never really know when to stop letting them pick my brain. Usually it’s at the point I know they can’t go any farther without me. And, because I’ve been burnt already 3 times last year, I’m no longer willing to bend to “I’ll pay you whatever you want!”
Fuck you, pay me.
Because they say they will, pay me up front, but then back out on the deal when they get what they want or get mad at me and file a complaint with Paypal.
I’m fortunate enough that almost all of my house credit customers are repeat business. If they burn me, quite often they have no other alternatives for my services.
But I feel your pain.
Threatening me with Paypal is pretty serious. Two out of three of them have done that. The first one I sued in small claims court, so Paypal took my side. Also, I put a shit-ton of money through Paypal each year AND I have been with them for 20 years.
The second one, I did make ONE mistake, though it was fixable. But he threatened me with Paypal, so I just gave him his money back. He protested my price to begin with, which should have been my first clue. He got his work done for free, just like he wanted to begin with, but I don’t want trouble with Paypal.
I used to be in the same position (bent over, ready for action) whenever my girls needed work done on their vehicles. Of course I never expected payment but I got pretty miffed when they just expected me to fix things for them. “Brakes? Yeah I know brakes. Tomorrow? Ahhhhh, I suppose. Oil change too? Sure.” Thanks be to Moloch they outgrew jalopies and now drive modern cars that nobody can work on.
Dad’s in the same position vis-a-vis owning a truck and a lot of construction tools, and dating a woman whose children and grandchildren are a ceaseless whirlwind of destructive dysfunction.
Now I’m just being reminded I’ve got completed works (some edited) sitting on my computer waiting to be monetized.
Some are just too short to monetize alone.
I put random short stories I wrote way back in the day on my website as free reads. They are unrelated to my fictional universe. I just don’t think they’re worth much.
I’ve given some away. But I keep asking if I shouldn’t do that.
I guess it depends on whether you’re willing to market them or not. I’m not.
Well, I’m still trying to figure out why the the anthology sold less.
Is this a collection of extras from your universe?
Mine (all extras from my universe) doesn’t sell that well, but I don’t expect it to, either.
Pretty much, though the title story is technically verbose enough for some organizations to call it a novel (45k words).
Pffftt. Short-ish story.
Don’t blame me, my bar is close to the 100K mark for ‘Novel’. That’s why it’s in the anthology.
*mind wanders backed to unfinished short stories*
I need to complete “Doomclacker”, and “Mystery Man”, and “Henchman”, and…
I COULD do one romance in 90k (first book has 3 romances for 270,000 words), but I like to read long books, so I write long books.
That’s a trilogy, not one book.
Yanno, I struggled with the decision to make it one book, but all the romances intertwined with the overarching plot, and book 1 would have been a spoiler for books 2 and 3. I really couldn’t separate them.
Pirate novel is 270k, one romance.
Current Prohibition book will be around 200k, one relationship (not gonna call it a romance, because it’s not very romantic).
I’d run out of living cast members if I aimed for that length. /joke
It doesn’t help that around 100k of reading, I’m looking forward to changing plots, possibly genres. So yeah, I write for my reading preferences. I can’t chastize other people for doing the same.
But that doesn’t mean I won’t tease.
It took me too long to figure out. I’d go looking for a good stopping point a third of the way in, insert a break there, then split the larger chunk roughly in half. I finally realized you were thinking about splitting lengthwise and following one romance each book over the same time period.
Maybe it’s because I write sequential adventure stories that lend themselves to chronological intermissions.
I don’t aim, LOL. It just happens.
My writing process is 1: get some idea of a character or story I want to work with. 2: let it ferment in my head for a while 3: start writing out an intro and see how much I trip up. 4: from the progress made, get an idea of how much stuff is needed to bring the seed to fruition. 5: If it looks like too much or too little, look at where trimming or additional exploration of concepts can be done. 6: write until the story is done or problems arise. 7:if problems arise, let them ferment in my head for a while. 8: repeat steps 6 and 7 as needed. 9: send book to editor. 10: get cover artist to take my money.
Yanno, I struggled with the decision to make it one book, but all the romances intertwined with the overarching plot, and book 1 would have been a spoiler for books 2 and 3.
Sounds like you were trying to separate out each romance, when instead you should’ve taken the Lord of the Rings route where you keep the whole story as is and just chop it up into three books. Add cliff hangers to the break points for maximum effect. People love soap operas, so I think you could swing the cliff hanger in the romance genre.
Cliffhangers of that sort are near-verboten in romance. Readers expect a complete story with the romances all tied up happily ever after at the end.
The book is 11 years old now, anyway, and my readers expect long books from me, so it worked out.
I don’t have skills anyone wants, but I have a drinking buddy from high school who occasionally hits me up for favors or cash, or rarely to come shoot the shit. (“Can you bring beer?”) He used to be doing well enough in the working class sense, but he fucked it up like he always does and ended up back at his parents’ house. I visited once, then swore him off. I have a difficult enough time maintaining equilibrium when I’m not exposing myself to that state of degradation.
Anyway, he texted me this morning. Sigh.
I’m sorry. I got rid of all those people long ago.
Now it’s just people who get my name off a list of ebook formatters and bug me.
I haven’t spoken to any of my old pals for ten years. It ain’t them, it’s me.
My best friend is a doc and we live in a smallish town. We work out with a trainer in the evenings. You’d think it would be perfect time to blow off steam and be left alone. He constantly has people coming up to him in the middle of our workout asking medical questions. I told him he needs to start billing $65/question and give them the invoice right then.
“Can you take a look at this rash?”
*already tugging down sweatpants*
“No” *turns away*
Get business cards printed up that are actually a tiny invoice. Easier to carry around that way.
I have been guilty of doing this to a professional person.
Once.
Then I realized how gauche it was when she chastised me for it.
Reminds me of this story.
A Small town doctor was talking with his lawyer friend about how annoyed he got with people soliciting free advice. He asked if the lawyer had the same problem. “I do said the lawyer, but it’s ok”. “Really? Why?” asked the doctor. “I just drop off an invoice at their house the day after”. “Brilliant”, replied the doctor, who immediately set off to drop of some invoices. The next day when he went to check his mail, he found and invoice from his friend.
When I worked on the help desk, I would have random people from the call center asking if I could work on their personal machines after hours. I had burned up some CD’s with Firefox, a free AV software, and a free malware software on it. I would hand them one of those, and say install all of it, update it, and run scans until their clean. If that doesn’t work, find a local shop and take it to them. One of the other guys on the help desk figured working on these machines would be a good side job for him… until a hard drive failed, and the person blamed him for trashing their machine. It doesn’t help that most people think that all IT skills are interchangeable.
My husband is afraid this will happen, which is why he doesn’t charge for the (lots of) work he does for people, even though he’s never botched anything.
“My Macbook won’t turn on, can you help?”
“…do you turn it on with JavaScript? Then no, sorry, can’t help you.”
Now it’s just people who get my name off a list of ebook formatters and bug me.
“I’d be willing to take a look at it. Here are my rates.”
*easier said than done.
“Please send me your materials and I will get you a firm quote and turnaround time.”
“But your website says X.”
“Yes, those are my base rates, and then it lists add-ons, all of which you’ve asked for.”
Amazon said to be reconsidering New York City headquarters
Amazon may not deliver a new headquarters to New York City after all.
Amazon is said to be reconsidering its plans to open up a new campus in New York City’s Long Island City neighborhood after facing backlash from local residents, according to a Washington Post report on Friday.
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If the deal does fall through, some fear it could have broader repercussions on New York’s ability to attract top corporations. “It’s setting a bad precedent,” Scissura says. “This is getting the business community very worried about the future of New York. ”
I’d say that’s long overdue. If one major bank decamped to Charlotte, Nashville, or Miami then a small stampede would follow.
I am shocked that there are kkkorporations out there which don’t want to be a piggy-bank for lefty activists!
Even the ones full of lefty activists are apparently getting tired of it.
And not to let Amazon completely off the hook, I am happy their rent seeking backfired. I’m sure they’ll do okay wherever they land.
If you didn’t learn from the last like 50+ years, you probably aren’t ever going to take the hint.
Did they land on NYC for HQ2 before the SALT repeal?
It was even after they knew NYC would be underwater in 10 years.
Ahh, so they’re global warming denialists, too. No wonder the good people of the Bronx don’t want them around.
Interesting read . Regarding the Senate discussion above. it seems that if Democrats organized a corollary project of the Free state project, they wouldn’t need to make hay about the Senate.
Bill Weld leaving the LP and re-joining the Republican Party is utterly humiliating for the Weld defenders within the LP. The unending humiliation of people like Nick Sarwark is probably the best thing happening in this country right now.
The people who were all-in on Weld and were making preemptive excuses for him being a horrible human being with a history of horrible policies are often dismissively called “cosmos” or “woketarians” or just “progressives”. But, in reality these people represent the very “conservative” brand of libertarianism that is always trying to appease status quo opinions. They should be derided for being Mitt Romney Republicans.
That’s exactly what they are.
Or, the Nick Gillespie of libertarians.
“the Nick Gillespie of libertarians.”
Beautifully said
I’m only surprised that he went Rep. and not Dem. He could probably get a job on the next failed Hillary campaign.
Remember, Ron Paul had more Electoral Votes cast for him than Gary Johnson in the 2016 election
Footage for next Glib meet-up! https://youtu.be/CMCIEtC-tJk
Pelosi playing 5-D chess?
Ha! Little wonder she was trading uppers and lowers during the entirety of the State of the Union. Trying to get at that one caraway seed, as it were.
Most Democrats are vehemently opposed to a border wall, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has said she’s staying out of the conference committee negotiations, has stated that won’t be part of any final deal. But in recent weeks, Democrats have shown a willingness to discuss funding for some physical barriers, namely fencing, in the interest of getting a deal.
They’ll cave. And if they are really so against a barrier, shouldn’t they be advocating that the existing barriers be removed?
What they really are against is this their stupid resist the wall having any kind of result, because that will make them lose a ton of campaign contributions from morons that suddenly think this is the hill to go burn good cash on.
Yeah, it was never about the wall in the first place. It was only ever about #resist.
They cut off American noses to spite Trump’s face. “Those grapes were probably sour, anyway!” So childish.
And if they are really so against a barrier, shouldn’t they be advocating that the existing barriers be removed?
I really think both parties, when they are in the majority, should have an afternoon a week when the stupidest ideas from the minority party are brought to the floor for a vote. You could even just do resolutions, if there isn’t an incredibly stupid bill in committee somewhere you couldn’t vote on. In the Senate, I would bring a resolution to defund and dissolve ICE, courtesy of Ocasio-Cortez, and to tear down all existing barriers on the border with Mexico.
Think of it as housecleaning. Get these stupid ideas out of the discourse by putting up for a vote. They fail, you can safely ignore or disregard them forevermore.
Amazon is said to be reconsidering its plans to open up a new campus in New York City’s Long Island City neighborhood after facing backlash from local residents, according to a Washington Post report on Friday.
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If the deal does fall through, some fear it could have broader repercussions on New York’s ability to attract top corporations. “It’s setting a bad precedent,” Scissura says. “This is getting the business community very worried about the future of New York. ”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Delicious.
You can’t build anything bigger than a bread-box here without some sort of carve-out for whatever the loudest “activists” are demanding that day – “affordable housing”, jobs for “locals”, more money poured into the maw of public-sector unions, and on and on. Then the same people turn around and complain that the only thing getting built is luxury condos and Chase Bank branches.
I liked the premise of this article. I think where the author went wrong was in the assumption that the socialists somehow accidentally saw the pie as being fixed. There is no accident there. by default socialist ideas will stop the growth of the pie and even shrink it. See Venezuela.
Some busybody in my neighborhood (via the Nextdoor app/site) is advocating a ban on plastic bags at all local retailers. Another person chimed in that plastic bags are a high cost to the environment. Any suggestions on a response?
Identify them and give each a heavy-duty plastic bag over the head?
Remember a shovel and tarp, and pick a spot distant enough that it won’t be uncovered.
No, he needs to send a message. Truss ’em up fully wrapped in plastic with a message: “BROWN BAGGERS BEWARE.”
You’re trying to get plastic bags banned, aren’t you?
I’m not being eliminationist. We’ll keep some around as breeding stock. Kids will always need paper sacks for wrapping up their textbooks.
Bagger, please.
Nothing suitable for a family-friendly website.
1. Fuck off
2. You first (stop using plastic bags)
3. No
Donkey punch them.
I’ve gone with “I use those grocery bags as trash bags. If they are removed, I’ll have to buy plastic trash bags which use a lot more petroleum to make.”
Note: I actually do this.
I don’t know who doesn’t use grocery bags as trash bags for small waste baskets.
busybodies who have germ-stained “reusable” bags smearing their produce with last week’s pork drippings.
Have you EVER?!?
Fondly remembers this morning’s breakfast of toast spread with bacon fat and beef tallow and eggs fried in same.
CLEANSE THEM!
Tell them to go buy controlling shares in all the businesses and do what they want with their own property.
If I don’t have plastic bags, I’ll have to leave my dog’s shit on your lawn.
Ask about the clean water that will be wasted washing all of the reusable bags, and link to the outbreaks of disease tracked back to contaminated reusable bags.
Empty your cat’s litter box on their yard and leave a note indicating that this will be necessary when you no longer have plastic bags.
If I thought they’d listen, I’d say to go with the main points from here:
https://ecomyths.org/2014/05/27/myth-paper-bags-are-greener-than-plastic/
Paper bags are objectively worse and more wasteful.
But they won’t listen so just tell them you won’t support it under any circumstances.
Most of the “ban plastic bag” arguments I’ve seen advocate reusable bags not paper.
I’m too lazy to look it up but I’ve seen convincing arguments that reusable bags are also more wasteful, unless you never wash them.
Did your neighbor type the post using a paper keyboard?
Plastic bags are a byproduct of oil refining. What would they prefer instead? Burning the byproduct and using paper bags instead?
Is that actually true? Do you have a link you could point me to? I’d be happy to post such a link, along with Q’s link about paper vs plastic. Try to get my neighbors to think it through. I’d also want to address the point of not eliminating other people’s choices/freedom.
Great thinking on the left about how to increase the veneer of legitimacy of their desire to rob the productive they are jealous of…
Can’t parody this level of stupid.
Who will become the new Anastasia when all is said and done?
Shit, that’s a difficult one.
A billion dollars is wildly more than anyone needs, even accounting for life’s most excessive lavishes. It’s far more than anyone might reasonably claim to deserve, however much he believes he has contributed to society.
At some level of extreme wealth, money inevitably corrupts. On the left and the right, it buys political power, it silences dissent, it serves primarily to perpetuate ever-greater wealth, often unrelated to any reciprocal social good.
Except for all the investment in various products and services that make the average person’s life eminently better. (Never mind the fact that you do not have a right to steal that which someone else voluntarily acquired.)
Not even. After I buy Castle Hill in Austin, build a castle on it, and staff it, I’ll hardly have anything at all. I don’t think I’d be able to stock an armory or set up a hyper-canine breeding program.
A billion dollars is wildly more than anyone needs
Its like they think all that money is liquid. And even if you did confiscate all that wealth, it wouldn’t be enough to fund your pet projects. It would be at best a one time injection of money to the government. Because people would stop producing to the point that their wealth was confiscated.
“Its like they think all that money is liquid. ”
Money is liquid. Still, your post/point is 100% valid for wealth… /pedantic asshole.
Which one of you was this?
I’m half-ways there. I have been caught naked in a closet.
Why would you do this?
I watch a lot of true crime shows the amount of people who lack of survival skills and a security mindset never ceases to amaze me.
My situation was much less sinister. Comical, you might say…
Did she scream at you and tell you to put your pant’s back on?
No. I was boning my buddy’s cousin and thought that her Father was coming downstairs. I guess the clinking of the wire hangers must have given me away.
You end up getting an ass whooping?
No. Darren just made sport of my situation and made sure that EVERYONE else knew. I felt no shame nearly 40 years ago and still feel none today. Drinkin’ druggin’ and fuckin’ was all we did cause there was no work to be had.
If I have even an inkling that there’s a person hiding in my closet who isn’t a close relative or friend, I’m getting a Bowie knife at a minimum before I open the door. But then again, I’m “paranoid”.
I think it speaks to how safe people really feel in general. Most people just don’t believe bad things can happen to them. They don’t think about security in a practical sense.
As a for-instance, my wife and I are kind of casually looking at houses. You would not believe the number of houses I’ve seen with windows right next to the deadbolt on the front door, or great big sliding-glass doors on the side of the house. I’m not just thinking about burglars, I’m think about home invasion. I love great big picture windows, but every time I see one I immediately think, “That’s a great big thin transparent piece of glass and once the sun goes down we’re all in here, backlit, for anyone to see.”
Fuck that, get the hell out.
I am a retired Marine, 215 lbs (mostly) muscle and there is no way I would open the door with some creeper behind it, unless I had my pistol and even then I’m pretty sure I would not risk it.
Good point. If ever there was a time to call a friend with a shotgun from the front lawn, that’s the time.
“great big thin transparent piece of glass”
My MIL is paranoid about keeping the front door of the house locked at all times day & night and they live in a small town in the mountains of western Colorado with a crime rate of essentially zero. What makes the whole exercise hilarious to me is that the front door and panels on either side are glass. I was going to point this out to her one day and my wife firmly instructed me not to. She thought it would lead to massive remodeling of the front of the house.
That’s what I think whenever I see those front doors with the big, beautiful stained glass panel right in the middle. It’s really very pretty, and I’m sure the foyer gets a lot of light, but at that point you may as well trade the locks for a small sign that says, “Please don’t open the door.”
Hah, sounds like my wife. Back in my Marine days, I sprained my knee at PT early one morning – it being Arizona, we PTed at 4:30 in the morning because it was already getting hot as Hades by 6. Normally, on PT mornings I’d bring my uniform with me in the car and then shower and dress for work at the gym so I wouldn’t wake her up at home. Since I could barely walk and would be going to sick call, I just went home. I walk in, drop my gym back, hobble into the kitchen to get a drink, then limp up the stairs. Get to the bedroom, and the door is shut. I try to open it and it’s locked, and she starts screaming “GET OUT BEFORE I SHOOT YOU!” I yell back “It’s me! It’s me! Waht the hell are you doing??” Opens the door and there she is in her jammies with the .38 – “Why are you home now? You never come home now!”
That’s a good wife right there.
Yeah, we have lots of big windows (because we have lots of good views), but I have thought that its pointless to try to secure the house from any but the most casual intrusion.
That’s why I have defense in depth. Dogs, shotguns, handguns, and when those run out of ammo, swords and knives.
Well why didn’t you say so the first time?
Where are all those journos with those snarky fact checks?
The chants started in, lets see… 1979. That seems to indicate that the Ayatollah is attempting to decieve us.
How long until the protests and riots flare up past their ability to trample down again?
Last night I did not feel safe. I slept with my roommate in her bed.
Talk about burying the lede.
Yes, yes, I am a massive shitlord.
Damnit, misthread. Y’ALL LOOK ALIKE
I missed that part of the Ayatollahs speech.
Fuck those Ayatollahs with a rusty wood-chipper. My girlfriend from Grade 10 had to flee Iran with nothing but the clothes on her back in 1979. If you made Nadine cry, I will make you cry harder. Her Dad was an engineer but when the “students” ran rampant they had to flee in the middle of the night, leaving everything behind.
Need picture of Nadine in order to sympathize…..
It’s in my head and I’m not sharing. One descriptive would be “pert”. The kinda gal that retains a high and tight even after childbirth. We didn’t work out but remained friends for many years afterwards.
In all seriousness, it is depressing to watch our journalist class treat foreign monsters with more legitimacy than the victims of these tyrants
Lots of gorgeous Persian chicks out there – just use your imagination
“Men, younger adults and older adults reportedly have higher rates of suicide than women and middle-aged adults. The rate of suicide among women only exceeded men for the 15 to 19 age group, the study found, though the gap “narrowed between 1990 and 2016 to almost parity in 2016.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-02-07/global-suicide-rate-declines-while-us-rate-rises-study-finds
Equality!
Winning!
Privilege!
Any suggestions on a response?
Something something rhymes with “waver”.
“your wife, my D I gave her”
Her Dad was an engineer but when the “students” ran rampant they had to flee in the middle of the night, leaving everything behind.
I read that as “leaving everything but his beard.”
Naw, he was a Western contractor. Got a job at one of the local pulp mills.
I watch a lot of true crime shows the amount of people who lack of survival skills and a security mindset never ceases to amaze me.
That’s why I don’t watch horror movies.
“Don’t go in there.”
*goes in*
“Okay. But don’t come crying to me.”
I stopped watching The Walking Dead because I couldn’t stop rooting for the zombies. The idiots in that show all needed to be fucking put down.
I made it through three episodes.
But in real life it’s more like:
“I know he’s going to kill her, I just know it.”
*No one put a security system on her house, no one bought a gun and learned how to use it, no one changed their phone numbers to make the harassment more difficult*
*Act surprised when she’s murdered*
A billion dollars is wildly more than anyone needs
Fuck you, and the broom you rode in on.
It’s just piles of gold and precious gems!
For Mister Rodgers fans.
Which better be everybody over 35-ish. *stern look*
Mike, look me in the eye and tell me honestly that those puppets weren’t creepy.
Paging Rufus…
Paging Rufus…
We need an expert opinion here..
Lady Fairchilde was sorta creepy.
Oh, she was creepy. Also, I she looked like Phyllis Diller as a raging alcoholic.
He gave us the most precious gift of all: the courage to be kind.
How passe. Now courage means donning a mask and hitting strangers before slinking back into the crowd.
True story – while I loved Mr. Rogers as a little kid, my mother HATED that show and used to tell me “Mr. Rogers bites the big one”. Her exact words.
Welp, -46°F (-43.33°C for you Canadian/European Glibs) this morning. I think we’re the coldest spot in North America.
Actually that record low spot in NA is where ever my ex sees me and remembers she didn’t do well in the divorce…
Oooh… I’ve been there! Mighty cold!
Where you at?
Havre, MT. It’s the north-central part of the state.
Please don’t send it our way.
*checks weather*
Ahh…you’re talking windchill. Yeah, we have that, too.
Look at your NOAA link for February 7 at 8:08 am. It shows -41 without windchill. I remember seeing that yesterday morning on my thermometer.
Fair enough. We had it almost that cold a week ago. It hit -38 at my place. That shit is just brutal. I’m ready for spring.
We’re just now getting our share. -30 with a windchill for the last week and no end in sight.
When I hear about people living in places where it can get that cold, I assume that there’s either a secret network of thermal spas staffed by cocktail waitresses in bikinis that only long-time residents know about, or there’s some sort of blackmail involved keeping people from moving south.
It’s called “Other people”. Those sort who are naturally repulsed by humankind end up in these frozen spaces because of the pustulent mass of humanity crowding out roasted ones.
I’d rather have to put up with a North Dakota winter than a Florida summer
I’d like to point out that a Florida summer features a LOT more bikinis than a North Dakota winter.
Hell, a Florida winter has more bikinis than a North Dakota summer.
More opportunities to snuggle up close “for warmth” in No Dak
And I always have Q’S links if I want to see girls in bikinis
^ this ^
And Q’s girls won’t call the cops when you stare at them for 15 minutes straight.
I never make it past 6 or 7 minutes
Braggart.
How can those girls see you thru the frosted up glass?
This. Now, in fairness, I’ve never lived through a North Dakota winter, but I have lived through a bunch of Florida summers, and I am very glad I’ll never live through another one.
Norfolk VA was about as far south as I was willing to live once I had a choice in the matter.
Hah! Virginia was as far north as I could convince my wife to move. She truly enjoys being drenched in sweat, I guess.
Ironically, considering my build and ethnic background, I can’t stand the cold. I start sweating at around 70F, but I’m happy as a pig in poo up until I pass out.
Assuming your job and lifestyle is geared for the indoors, I suppose I could maybe agree with that. But just going outside in a Florida summer won’t literally kill you like a North Dakota winter will.
I was walking home from work in NOLA’s French Quarter one Labor Day at 4 am and it was 95°F with 97% humidity. Man was not meant for that. On the other hand, my grandfather worked in Antarctica in the 1950s and they had to wait until it warmed up to -50° before they could safely work outdoors.
Heh, several years ago I was in the French Quarter with my wife and brother-in-law on the way to Texas. It was probably mid-July. We went to this one bar, I think it was Coop’s Place, around maybe 1:00PM on a weekday, and for about ten seconds we wondered why there was nobody around. Then we walked in the sun on the road, and it was so damn hot it sucked the breath right out of me. I swear to God, it was like someone hit me with a hammer. We decided that the reason there was such a drinking culture in some places is because nobody can stand to be out in the sun for more than five minutes, so they just go from bar to bar until they get where they’re going.
I love their Jambalaya with rabbit in it, I always stop there when I’m down that way.
https://www.army.mil/article/186280/heat_can_kill_you
When I was a kid, I read a lot of westerns and some would talk about the desert and I never understood how a place could kill you just from being hot.
At 28 years old I was stationed in Twenty Nine Palms and I understood it on my first field op in July.
I spent 3 years a FT Irwin.
The worst was 130 with something like 3% humidity.
Swear to god, you thing chapped lips could cause you to die.
*think*
Sure it can, if you’re doing something strenuous.
Like breathing.
*sigh*
Yes, heat and humidity can kill you, too. But -30F doesn’t give two shits if you are well hydrated, over hydrated, in shape, out of shape, healthy and 25 or frail and 85. It will just plain kill you. In minutes.
there’s some sort of blackmail involved keeping people from moving south.
I’m just a masochist.
Back when I lived in Calgary, my niece (a Coastie) asked me why I lived there.
“Because the streets are paved with gold” I replied.
People can get used to a lot if there’s a good paying job to be had.
Warm home, warm truck, warm workplace. Cold beats the hell out of hot because we know how to dress for it.
+1 Carhartt Extremes
Welp, -46°F (-43.33°C for you Canadian/European Glibs) this morning. I think we’re the coldest spot in North America.
Not that cold, but windy, windy, windy. Single digit temp and ~50mph wind all night froze one of my goddam water pipes.
Yeah, I think most of Montana is reeling from bitter cold. I also did not factor in wind chill, although it’s been relatively calm up here.
Ummm, yeah, you did.
Huh, I could have sworn my source said the ambient temperature was -46. My bad.
Obligatory https://youtu.be/DAp7FvZ5Opw
I haven’t heard that song in years.
Always makes me laugh.
Do we have nobility in this country?
I saw a little on Fox news about this last night and the reporter apparently saw nothing wrong whith Digell taking his dad’s spot for 60 years and then his wife took it.
I guess someting’s wrong with me, because the whole story pissed me off.
Apparently it pissed me off enough that I can’t spell *with* or *Dingell*
It’s a Detroit tradition. Hereditary elected positions. At least we get to watch the relatives slag each other fighting for the spot.
Politicians in Detroit remind me of the last few emperors of the Roman Empire, fighting for scraps of a dying land.
It happens all too often in this country
See:
Illinois legacy politicians.
I hate Illinois legacy politicians.
I hate
Illinois legacypoliticians.With regards to that Muslim man not being allowed an imam at his execution and the Supreme Court saying “this is fine”, the one positive that I’ve seen is that National Review and the Washington Examiner (both conservative publications) have been denouncing the Supreme Court’s decision in that case. To be frank, I trust conservatives to defend religious liberty far, far, far more than I do progressives (of course) and libertarians. So, it’s good that they aren’t playing double standards with this double standard. This is pretty much the last thing that conservatives are good for. Other than that, they are useless.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-supreme-court-upholds-a-grave-violation-of-the-first-amendment/
Finally something to congratulate National Review about (other than the latest Kevin Williamson article)
Kevin Williamson and Charles Cooke are the only two things on National Review I pay any attention to.
I go Williamson and Michael Brendan Dougherty (he’s also a Tulsi apologist). Sometimes I like Cooke- sometimes not (I think it’s the English accent when I hear him speak that turns me off). Even this article pisses me off a bit because they have to begin by virtue signaling about how great the death penalty is.
Don’t any of you work?
I finished up a draft of a supplemental needs trust agreement while commenting here.
I masturbated like 7 times today. I’m spent.
900 comments? Nobody needs 900 comments.
It’s 28 degrees here and windy. The water is shut off because they’re putting in a new main. Do you know how many things you actually need water for to get done?
So yeah, I subjected myself to a couple of hours of the interrogation of the Acting AG that only had six days left. What a shitshow that was. Team Blue is completely unhinged. Team Red even gave up and left. I commend him from not throat punching some bitches.
She truly enjoys being drenched in sweat, I guess.
*whistles, looks innocent*