Buenos dias. Esta mañana yo voy a practicar mi Español. ¿Por qué? Porque esta articúlo mio, y porque quiero hacerlo.
Okay, I’m done, now for the links from down south….further south.
Nicolas Maduro closes the border with Brazil. Not to keep Brazil out of course, rather to keep Venezuelans in. Not to worry, Brazillian Trump (aka Bolsonaro) only encouraged Venezuelan’s to flee.
Presidential spokesman Gen Otávio Régo Barros said on Tuesday that, in co-ordination with the US, food and medicine would be available in the border town of Pacaraima to be collected by “the government of acting President Juan Guaidó in Venezuelan trucks driven by Venezuelans”.
A prominent Mexican environmentalist found shot in the head. Unlikely this was a suicide, being he was shot in the head twice.
Mr Flores was a longstanding opponent of the Proyecto Integral Morelos (PIM), a development project that includes two new thermoelectric plants and a 150km natural gas pipeline in the state.
Activists fear that the pipeline will contaminate the local water supply, which would predominantly affect the indigenous communities who live in the area.
The project is due to put to a referendum this weekend – and environmental and human rights groups in the state believe that Mr Flores’ death is linked to this vote.
You have got to be kidding me…
In Utah last year, the Public Employee Health Plan took this idea to a new level with its voluntary Pharmacy Tourism Program. For certain PEHP members who use any of 13 costly prescription medications — including the popular arthritis drug Humira — the insurer will foot the bill to fly the patient and a companion to San Diego, then drive them to a hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, to pick up a 90-day supply of medicine.
A transgender woman from El Salvador was killed shortly after being deported from the US. She(or he whathaveyou) applied for assylum to the US.
¡conseguir un poco!
A German court convicted two former employees of (in)famous gun maker Heckler & Koch for illegal arms sales to “troubled” Mexican states.
The court said the company delivered 4,219 assault rifles, 2 submachine guns and 1,759 ammunition magazines to Mexico, and they were sold on by the central purchasing body there to Jalisco, Chiapas, Chihuahua and Guerrero states. The exports took place in 2006-2009.
It found that the exports to Mexico in and of themselves were covered by German government permits, but that they were fraudulently obtained through knowingly incorrect information based upon unreliable declarations from Mexican authorities on where the weapons would end up.
Human rights groups say firearms delivered to Mexico often end up in the hands of drug cartels.
Easy enough to facilitate given the Mexican army issues the HK G-3 rifle. Make of that as you will.
I know local records are thin on the ground, but does anyone know of a good source for information on precolonial sub-saharan africa?
They were all Kangz an’ sheeit!
It was all Wakanda before the white devil stole it all with Tricknology.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6732151/Offset-pictured-four-beautiful-children-time-debut-album-Father-4.html
Borderlands?
Don’t worry about fact-checkers. Write your truth!
As long as you’re morally correct, the facts are irrelevant.
*finger snaps*
But he cares, Finger, and that is where the canker gnaws. There is nothing worse than having a plot dependent upon something then finding that your something isn’t really defensible and that ignoring that causes other problems.
Never stopped Elmore Leonard.
The scriptwriter with a name like a victorian spinster? What’s he got to do with historical research into subsaharan africa?
It did stop Larry Niven back in the day. Reportedly, he wanted to return his payment for one of his short stories because it was dependent on a tidally locked Mercury. That was the current belief at the time he wrote the story, but either shortly after or just before the story was published it was found that Mercury rotates.
Wasn’t that Pluto not Mercury and the story “The Coldest Place? I think it was his first short story to be published?
Shit it was Mercury. Did he change it in later versions?
I don’t believe so. I have it in a collection I picked up in the 90’s (IIRC), and it was still set on Mercury. I do recall an apology in the forward for the error though.
I all ways picture OMWC as Larry Niven.
That is the first time I’ve heard that accusation.
Sad confession: I am absolutely incapable of writing fiction.
OMWC doesn’t strike me as enough of a comic book geek to be Niven. I remember reading somewhere that Niven preferred comics over graphic novels because the glue to graphic novels has a tendency to melt when read in a hot tub, while staples had no issues.
My taste in comics runs more to strips and panels. But I will cheerfully admit to loving the comix of the late ’60s, especially anything by Crumb, Shelton, or Clay Wilson.
“Sad confession: I am absolutely incapable of writing fiction.”
I imagine that you, and everyone else here, will learn how to do so before April 17th. Really, really boring fiction, the point being to have it so boring that it won’t be read by anyone.
This is a physical picture in my head not a literary one.
https://futurism.media/interview-with-larry-niven
OMWC is more Robert Silverberg than anything else, but cosplays as Piers Anthony.
OMWC is more Robert Silverberg than anything else, but cosplays as Piers Anthony.
Then how did he drive to AZ?
Have I mentioned that Niven is my favorite SF writer?
Probably, but worth mentioning again.
Sometimes he needed Pournelle to keep him on the right path, but I like his solo work a lot. More than Pournelle’s solo work.
Fun fact: Niven wrote in Pournelle’s universe (Mote was in it, after all), but Pournelle wouldn’t write in Niven’s. Unless he broke down at some point and wrote a Man-Kzin War story, which I think he would have done well.
I’m a big fan as well. Pournelle wrote several Man-Kzin Wars books. Some of my favorite in the series. Man Kzin 2 was Pournelle.
I’ve only read Ringworld and the first sequel (twice) and greatly enjoyed them. Would gladly read more.
1. Any/all of his short story collections.
2. Protector – Ringworld is his classic, but I love this one for some reason.
3. A Gift from Earth – this would make a great movie, IMO.
That is from his solo stuff. Everything he wrote with Pournelle is excellent. Generally avoid Niven’s later stuff. Except “Choosing Names”, one of his late 90’s Man-Kzin stories.
If the only thing Niven ever wrote was this, he’d still be one of the greats.
I knew what it was before I clicked.
Same for Joe Walsh, this alone makes him a genius.
doG I love this place. You people started my day with a laugh.
Start with the national museums and history departments of the national universities of the contries in which you are interested. Also sure that lots of US academics have gotten PhDs in precolonial (pre)history of everywhere.
Also, a lot of work was done during the early colonial periods by missionaries and explorers. While those countries may have been considered British (or French, or Belgian) possessions, most of the natives in the interiors didn’t even know they were someone’s colony. So: Richard Burton, Mungo Park, David Livingstone, et als.
Jared Taylor?
Toto
Leo
Nice
:Ear Perks up:
I found an academic paper on agricultural patterns in precolonial africa…
The author had to drip some climate change gobledygook into the abstract. Charitably, I’m assuming this was to get it published because of the sorts of people who “peer review” papers these days. Uncharitably, I’d think it’s because he thinks it’s relevant.
Here’s one I read a couple of months ago:
McKissack, Patricia (1994). The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay . Square Fish. Kindle Edition.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-4259-7 / ISBN-10: 0-8050-4259-8
It was sort of meh, but it has an OK bibliography. It’s kind of old, but you might find something useful.
Here’s one more, which I haven’t read. But it is more recent…
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
by Michael Gomez
Publisher: Princeton University Press (January 1, 2018)
Publication Date: January 1, 2018
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073RSVFYF/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb
|A prominent Mexican environmentalist found shot in the head. Unlikely this was a suicide, being he was shot in the head twice.
This is why we need an automatic weapons ban!
“Botched robbery”
He was remorseful for having disappointed the Clintons?
Unlikely this was a suicide, being he was shot in the head twice.
You don’t have to make it worse for him by drawing attention to the fact that he’s a bad shot.
Adding insult to injury is one of many services offered here.
It’s a lot harder than it looks.
Not such a bad shot. He simply was very determined.
being he was shot in the head twice.
He crossed the Clintons?
It was just a random robbery! Where noting was actually robbed.
Dang it, WTF!
Rival concerts will be held on both sides of a bridge linking Venezuela and Colombia later on Friday.
Duelling pendejos.
Kudos for coining “shenis” the other day Straff!
Not sure I wanna own that, but thanks.
Until now I always thought “kudos” meant something good, but from the context here I now realize it actually means “fuck you”.
Bless your heart.
You could read it as “Kudzu” for the same effect.
Honest question – how often has it actually happened that the local water got contaminated? I’m so used to the knee-jerk responses of greenies in the states that I don’t have perspective for other parts of the world.
I read a day or two ago that 110% of drinking water in the US is contaminated.
We may need that pipeline to import water.
Of course it’s contaminated. SEA SMITH is everywhere.
Do Mexicans drink the water in Mexico?
Yes
Correct. The issue is typically due to enteropathogenic e. coli, which Mexicans have developed immunity to, but gringos have not.
Really? I had always thought it was amoebic dysentery. Interesting.
Same thing with fruit. If the peel is edible…don’t eat it.
We’re in the midst of a kerfuffle over a nat-gas pipeline here. Every tribe along the route has signed off save for one clan of a larger group. The clan in question claim to be the hereditary chiefs as opposed to the elected council. Royal Family for the win!
I don’t see the kerfuffle. It is their* land, they can decide. Route around them and make them no money.
*assuming the clan has the legal power they claim.
I’m guessing here, but if it’s a clan of a tribe, claiming to be the heredetary rulers of the tribe, you’d have to route around the land of the whole tribe, wherein the rest of the group has already agreed and seems to think that their elected council is in charge.
Yes, that is what I meant. Route around the whole tribe.
What? Because of some cunts who aren’t actually in charge making false claims? Fuck them with a rusty backhoe.
Are we still talking about Chicago? I got lost in all the false claims department
Mountainous terrain. They’ve claimed a critical choke-point. There really isn’t any feasible end-around so they’ve got a multi- billion dollar project by the shot and curlies.
Now, who actually owns the land? From context I’ve been assuming it’s owned by the tribe. If it’s owned by the tribe, who is their recognized representative? I’m guessing from context it is the elected council. Of both of these are true, you already have the assent of the people who can make decisions about the land use, give the clan the finger and build on.
If either of these is not true, the situation changes.
Agreed, hence my footnote above.
They’re still negotiating. They’re always negotiating.
Their protests are simply a tactic in obtaining a larger payout.
Yes.
Send them some blankets, and then wait a year.
She(or he whathaveyou) applied for assylum to the US.
Front door didn’t work
Damn your nimble fore-claws! I was gonna ask “Typo or John-o?”
I was going to point it out but I don’t want it corrected.
To keep Venezualan’s what in?
Major League Baseball?
Grrrr. Fixed.
Thank you.
Fun with selfies
You guys don’t even read each others OT links in the posts, do you?
*narrows gaze*
I figured it happened again and was pleased.
Sometimes?
To be fair, clicking links in the comments is a dubious proposition at best.
I don’t think HM or SugarFree had posted that one.
Hover over them.
He tried, but he’s using the detonator phone to post and ….
The only links I click on are Q’s.
Hey, I bitch about the repeat links during the weekend posts, too.
Premature detonation – Redux!
Thanks, Not Adahn, for your thought-provoking article last night. Your ideas are fascinating, do you have… Oh, wait. LOL
One addendum:
Virginia has something called a Special Conservator of the Peace which is a private cop with limited police powers. You have to get the blessings of the Va Dept of Criminal Justice Services.
While that would improve my personal freedom, I don’t know that we could use that as the basis for a money making venture that would net millions in “administrative fees” right up to the point that a mall ninja with a SFPTTCMWB certificate shot up his neighbor’s house over a leaf-raking dispute.
Obviously, shell corporations, overseas bank accounts and asset/identity concealment would be an important part. RC works for a hospital, I figure that’s pretty much the same thing.
I recommend that the first thing you do is put in a morgue. We have one, and I find it surprisingly useful.
You should prominently label one of the drawers “Employee of the Month”
Heh
Special Purpose Entities. Three little words that tell plaintiffs counsel there’s nothing to sue here.
Special Purpose Vehicle also might be a term you…
uh
never mind.
*runs out door*
Sorry, bigots, but I’m not sorry for once trusting Jussie Smollett
They desperately needed vindication to prove that bigots aren’t as bad as people think they are. They needed someone they could, for once, point a finger at for the infectious venom spewing from our nation.
Who was it that said we had a problem of the demand for racism exceeding the supply?
That’s why it costs $3,500 now. Used to get it for pennies.
I saw that little zinger about 50 times on twitter yesterday, including in full meme form. I’m not sure who gets the credit for originating it, I think it’s pretty clever.
And unemployment is so low that you have to hire Nigerians to oppress you.
“Believing is half the battle!”
FAKE NOOSE
I larfed. No gaze-narrowing here.
You win the internets.
Good sir, might I be allowed to continue perusing this internet which you now own?
Assertion without evidence. Needz citashunz…
And if it’s so commonplace, why is it that the “hate crimes” pimped by the media generally turn out to be hoaxes? Where are all the real ones?
The Right Wing media just sweeps them under the rug.
The right wing conspiracy really is that vast!
“It would be in the bigots’ best interest if no one pointed out that the number of hate groups operating in America reached a record high last year — more than 1,020, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. It would suit them just fine if everyone ignored the fact there had been three years of decline in the groups under President Barack Obama, but since Trump launched his presidential bid in 2015, the numbers have grown for four years straight.”
“…according to the Southern Poverty Law Center”
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
But all the new ones are I HATE TRUMP groups
It would be in the SPLC’s best interests if no one pointed out that their list is libellous bullshit.
I don’t know man, I think James Dobson and the Family Research Center are just waiting for the right opportunity to strike.
SPLC? I hate those guys!
Right! That’s it, you’ve just made the list!!
– SPLC
I’m curious, Has anyone checked to see if we have shown up on their list yet?
This is why they keep me off the Glibs Twitter feed.
And yet there she is saying it freely from a major newspaper.
Whatever happened to editors saying “Nah, we’re not going to print that”?
Editors?
I wouldn’t turn down a piece with infectious venom spewing in it.
Who needs editors when you have Twitter likes, Grandpa?
What’s your ratio?
I think journalism schools turned “Network” into a training film.
^ This fellow has done his homework.
The sex scene between Faye Dunaway and William Holden probably made me the screwed up man I am today.
The fact that it didn’t actually happen just proves how racist you all are!
The fact that it didn’t happen doesn’t mean that this act of bigotry isn’t a cause of concern!
“We live in a country where bigotry is commonplace.”
And yet, despite this rampant bigotry, I have driven all over Deplorables TM country with first a Vietnamese GF and later an African-American fiancee, and have yet to see any unambiguous manifestations of that bigotry directed at us.
Must have just got lucky. Or my Bigotry-dar is so broken that I can’t sense the unspoken, subtle, ambiguous stuff that the author alleges is rampant.
Well, I’ve sent plenty of bigotry – against whites, men, and conservatives. Though I suspect that’s not what the author meant.
White people can’t pick up on racism, it’s like a dog whistle, only POCs… wait…
And yet, no one seems to know why…
Its the same reason gas is cheaper in Mexico, silly. The government subsidizes it! //Derp
Also, with the insurance thing, is it really necessary to bus all these people down there? Can’t you just, send someone? Or import them? Or force the pharma company to charge less? Don’t insurance companies set prices all the time?
Reimportation of pharmaceuticals is illegal. They’re probably taking advantage of a loophole that allows people to bring their own personal medications.
If only there were a link to an article discussing this ‘loophole’, maybe the question could be answered.
But then I’d have to follow the links and read the articles and see if the surmise was covered.
I’m commenting in between emails here. I have to look like I’ve got shit to do.
Your government worker in New York State. You can’t be fired.
older hippie version of Panama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgB-3aANe0
I was hoping it would be Peter Rowan, then clicked. You did not disappoint.
Great lynx MS, however you neglected one very special anniversary.
I still get chills.
Kids in the future will think Miracle on Ice is The Smollett Story.
Theres no hockey in Mexico.
I still tear up.
Russians were gassed. No bounce. Holding. Desperation bombs from outside their zone.
Human rights groups say firearms delivered to Mexico often end up in the hands of drug cartels.
Paging Eric Holder. Eric Holder to the courtesy phone.
ZING!
Govt officials approved, procedures were followed…
Amazing German technology! Not only do German firearms walk but apparently they swim too!
Confederate monument vandals take aim at wrong Lee statue in Dunn
was Lee a white male oppressor? GUILTY!
They’ll go after this one next.
Maybe Nazis did it
Maybe its all that purple dye leaching into their craniums? Ah, who am I kidding? These people are nit-wits.
Since they no longer teach actual academic disciplines outside of STEM, These nitwits likely don’t know the difference between the Civil War and WWII.
When are you people going to understand, the course in Ancient History is an option not a requirement. /modern-academic
Charles Barkley jokes about Jussie Smollett, Liam Neeson controversies during TNT’s NBA halftime show
“Jussie, you wasted all that damn time and money. You know what you shoulda did? Just went up to Liam Neeson’s neighborhood. You coulda solved all your damn problems.”
Random and not really about basketball, but hilarious.
Yet another reason why Barkley is the GOAT.
“Mama, I AM the rich.”
That made me my night a whole lot better. LOL.
Chuckles can pull out some zingers sometimes. I think I’d like to have a couple of adult beverages with him and shoot the bull.
My wife met him when he was still a player. He was sitting in a restaurant and the wife unit and her friend were whispering to each other “Is that Barkley?” a little too loudly. He just turned around and grinned.
In the mid-90s I I had a summer job at a country club – maintaining the carts, driving the range cart, washing range balls, etc. Sir Charles came once to play at a charity tournament held by VCU coach Sonny Smith, who had been his coach at Auburn. I was the one who picked up his clubs, set up his cart (plenty of beer!), got him a couple of buckets of range balls. He was very funny and a very generous tipper.
A friend of mine worked at a country club here and came across Chuck. Apparently Chuck gave him a $50 tip because he felt sorry for him, as he was one, “ugly mothafucker.”
Huh….well, I guess that explains the tip!
Mrs. Crane, I’m looking at you… You wore green so you could hide…
I saw him at a strip club in Philly while attending a friend’s bachelor party. I would have had no idea who he was, but a few of the party goers pointed him out to me.
He’s shorter than I would have expected.
Yes, I’m as tall as he is (6’6″). (That’s where the similarity ends.)
Bird and McHale probably gave him the cash for the club. Barkley had no ability to guard Bird outside or deal with McHale low-post torture-chamber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IETKp56oM84&t=92s
Wait I though you were a Chicagoan? I know Barkley liked to shoot the Bulls, but…
They actually got the better of him.
Barkley always cracks me up.
https://www.teewony.com/campaigns/-/-/tags/Outdoors/cp-070119-go-outside-1?retailProductCode=5759D62647F5A6-9C7CDBFD0BE3-GS0-TC4-BLK&ase_source=tag
bigfoot-related swag
STEVE SMITH GET ROYALTIES?
Isn’t he an attorney of some kind? I smell a lawsuit.
I still have season 1 of STEVE SMITH: SASQUATCH ATTORNEY on VHS.
HIM PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER!
Worst case scenario? STEVE SMITH SAY FAKE NEWS!
STEVE SMITH NOT KILL! STEVE SMITH BEFRIEND HOOMANS AND BY BEFRIEND, MEAN…
STEVE SMITH LOVE A SPECIAL KIND OF LOVE, NOT LIKE A SQUARE’S LOVE….
Combining links 3 and 5, I should set up a “Gun Tourism” program to bus Americans to Mexico to buy cheap HK’s.
But then you have the problem of getting past DHS’s gun-sniffing dogs.
Unless Jeeves and Wooster lied to me, the trick is aniseed.
Personally, I’d use star anus!
Maybe a note from Eric (Fast and Furious) Holder?
You’d probably find some venture capital around here.
Massive—and unconstitutional—beach access fines threaten family home
I wonder how that’ll shake out in light of the Timbs v. Indiana ruling.
I think the CCC may find that the current, or future, SCOTUS may not take well to their heavy-handed tactics.
Considering SCOTUS just unanimously incorporated the 8th amendment prohibition on excessive fines, that $4M fine should give the property owners standing to sue.
Fuck that Commission you had 20 years where you failed to remedy the trespass on your easement. I’d say you lost it.
Sounds like adverse possession to me.
Which is a five year statute in Cali. In Ohio the 20 years would leave them a year to contest the adverse possession. 21 year statute here.
Let it be noted that adverse possession rules do not apply to government property. Yes, they’ve rigged the game in their favor.
They’re willing to ruin lives over this?
Names and faces please. We need to see what evil looks like.
Equity loans! What could possibly go wrong with throwing cash at any NGO that claims they are helping minorities?
For instance, we gave one shyster $2M for an agency that helps black men get jobs. During a time we have record low unemployment rates.
I translate “slower-than-usual service” to mean “they blew all the money we gave them and for the life of us we don’t know what on”.
They’re all grifters.
I mentioned a few months ago about a dear friend that made a career out of working for groups like this. She’s in the clink for embezzlement. Oh sweet Kama, what the fuck happened to you?
sweet Kama
Isn’t she running for President?
Ultra-prog farm girl. Straight shooter. One of my best friends from my ill spent youth. Lived with her and her family for three years.
lol. I thought you meant Karma and dropped the r accidently.
Freaky Friday: Warty at School
Is that Jerome Powell?
Maria Butina, The Spy Who Wasn’t (Scott Horton’s podcast):
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/scott-horton/the-scott-horton-show/e/58934999
Too Long Didn’t Listen: It was a frame job.
It absolutely was. There is nothing she did that was illegal. It was purely set up as a distraction and “proof” of results of the Mueller investigation.
She was sacrificed so they could drag it further, beyond the mid-terms.
Forty days in solitary and then sign a statement. Who are the authoritarians again?
Yeah, sure bud. Like shit like that would fly in the Land of the Free.
Next you will tell me that some govt hack would lock up a filmmaker to prop up a govt lie about one of its policies gone wrong.
It definatly wouldn’t send out its Brown-Shirted Marshalls in the middle of the night to arrest a man as a fall guy for their failure to defend the embasy.
I for one applaud the decision of this judge to toss a case of a male student being rail roaded by Title IX
The reason I applaud is because I hope more parents realize what a crock universities have become. I want them to realize that the school can be as arbitrary as it feels like and then let the economic chips fall where they may.
If he didn’t want to get railroaded in a kangaroo court he shouldn’t have gone to college.
Freaky Friday: Receive Blessings From Your Robotic Lord and Savior
I’m waiting for robot Luther to tweet his theses.
Will he demand that the gospel be printed in ascii so that it accessible to all robots. That will get him in hot oil with the robot pope who insists that the gospel only be printed in binary.
It will certainly need help from the altar boys with cable management.
Uffda. Are you trying to cover up the scandal involving altar boys and male to male adapters?
“Scientists recreated the face of a 9,000-year-old Greek teenage girl”
https://twitter.com/nerdist/status/959909374230777857
Que?
Interesting bit of trivia – Facial dimorphism has actually increased over the past ten thousand years. Skeletal remains show fewer differences between male and female facial structures in older bones than modern ones.
Jezebel Headline:
Pervy Incels Go back 9,000 years to Gawk at Teenage Girl.
In the dark all teen-aged cave girls are grey.
And have resting bitch face.
IT DARK. CAVE SMITH NO CARE!
She’s, erm….cute.
The go-to when I was a teen and some girl was trying to fob you off on her beastly friend was “She’s got pretty eyes!”
“What, a jar of them in her bedroom?”
Yes, and your hazel orbs would be a nice addition to her collection! (Not much of an exaggeration *shudders*)
This happened to me once. But you know, she really did have pretty eyes, lol.
Hence the sobriquet?
“For a fat girl she doesn’t sweat much”
“…and a great personality”
:Hoots and whistles, bangs head on the doorpost:
Love the replies: “What’s Greek for Glenn Danzig?”
Yeah, that’s totally Danzig.
Didn’t know John Travolta was THAT old.
It’s what he looks like inside because of Scientology.
if she’s 9000 years old, how can she be a teenager?
Ummmm… did they ASK xir how xe identified?
Nicolas Maduro closes the border with Brazil. Not to keep Brazil out of course, rather to keep Venezuelans in. Not to worry, Brazillian Trump (aka Bolsonaro) only encouraged Venezuelan’s to flee.
Luckily that could never happen here. It’s not like we have politicians who praised and still won’d denigrate Maduro running for president. BUILD THAT WALL!!
A little zinger for our Minnesoda contingency
“Nicolas Maduro closes the border with Brazil. Not to keep Brazil out of course, rather to keep Venezuelans in. Not to worry, Brazillian Trump (aka Bolsonaro) only encouraged Venezuelan’s to flee.”
Socialism is so wonderful, comrade, that we will allow — OK, insist — that you remain immersed in its awesomeness.
At gunpoint.
(Those last two words should end every sentence describing what a particular government is doing.)
You know what is worse than a NoDak? A snooty SoDak.
South Dakota DNR gives Moorhead Minnesoda wild turkeys the high hat
Of course, even below the snooty SoDaks are the Moorhead city council who is bothering to relocate turkeys instead of simply killing them.
simply killing them
To be clear I meant the turkeys and not SoDaks.
Why would a turkey need a Do Not Resuscitate order?
Because like many fowls they are prone to choking. Like chickens
Too urban? Is that some kind of dog whistle? Or a turkey call?
An entirely on topic post, since Q has wisely refrained from provoking the wrath of the mighty Swiss Servitor:
Venezuela is now so poor that people can hardly afford fishnets to catch fish.
America is so rich that thots wear fishnets:
https://thechive.com/2019/02/21/the-mesh-express-is-back-and-that-is-real-good-news-30-photos/
If you want to usurp the crown you need to archive, Friend.
I have no idea how to archive, and I don’t know why that is needed, and I’m only posting cause Q is apparently taking a break.
right here my man.
Thanks. Takes a while to archive, but here’s the archived version:
http://archive.is/Co00A
That’s the ticket! And #15.
3, 5, and I think I can praise the Lord with 24. RIP to the King for now.
They kinda frontloaded the best pics. I liked 4 the most:
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/sierraaaskyee_42177416_247326229313112_844072501997709710_n.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
But 5 was my second fav:
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/083e4829aac3722f83f25df9d1e63976.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
And 21 for the best booty pic:
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/8c36d7ec1ad8d412c01425c7a2f89836.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
Oooh, she looks great too.
1 and done.
Uffda. Do the rest of you people really not know what a meat raffle is?
I haven’t been this stunned by how backward the rest of you are compared to Minnesodans since I joined the service and discovered that some of you savages didn’t even know what “uffda” meant.
Don’t you people have schools?
Fun Fact – One of Wifey’s horsey friends had an elderly Finnish father and “uffda” became a common utterance in the Festus abode.
Raffle? No thanks, gambling is bad for the soul.
Bingo is A-Okay.
Poker’s an honest trade, only suckers buck the tiger, the odds are all on the house
What about Turkey shoots? Do you except games of skill from your ban?
I had to look up what “uffda” means. I’d been winging it based on context. According to Wikipedia, it’s almost as versatile a phrase as “fuck”:
“Uff da can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment, exhaustion, relief and sometimes dismay. Within Scandinavian-American culture, Uff da frequently translates to: “I am overwhelmed”, somewhat similar to the Yiddish phrase oy vey.”
Yup, it is a catch all phrase. Depending on how you say it, it means whatever you want it to be.
Hoping that MN Nice saves me from ostracism I admit to not understanding the Meat Raffle game. Somehow, in my cheap ass mind I don’t understand how the bar/charities can make money ‘giving’ away meat. There has to be losers to make winners. I know, I know, my friends are all winners at the casinos and the Indian Gaming Commission is a big charity. Everyone wins playing the stock market.
But yet, there is something about no free lunch that keeps popping up. Maybe M. Friedman is wrong?
It’s the psychology of it. They go in drop a dollar on the raffle, don’t win anything and shrug it off, it’s just a dollar. but when they go in drop a dollar on the raffle and happen to win – it’s suddenly “Look what I got for a dollar!” There are more people shrugging off their small loss than the cost of the prizes.
I guess so. Every time I don’t play the lottery I’m a loser, I coulda won, big time.
I think Mexico has phased out the .308 G3 for 5.56 rifles like the M16 or the HK equivalents. Which means there are tons of old G3’s to be had by the drug cartels. The U.S. should do the right thing – buy them all and sell them to us through the CMP.
*shrugs*
Last time I went to Mexico, the army had G-3s. That was last summer.
I was there about 10 years ago – their Marines at the port had M16s and M4s. Maybe their services have different weapons.
Looks like they are in the process of replacing the G3 with a homegrown 5.56 rifle called the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl. They were supposed to finish the transition last year.
¡conseguir un poco!
I’m glad it took me a second to realize i had to translate this back into English to get the joke.
Why isn’t this train the subject of an MS weekend booze review?
Denver pair executed robbery witness after court system mistakenly released his identity
The Denver Post reported that discovery documents, which provided evidence in the robbery case, were erroneously mailed to someone in the investigation. That person called Terance Black and told him ‘the mechanic’ was talking to police, the Post reported.
Oops. My bad.
Procedures were followed, mistakes occured. Move along now.
Also i’m sure this is going to do wonders for their Robbery case, but i wonder how it plays out in the Murder 1 Case?
Any case that includes a mechanic will never result in justice. Everyone knows that in a case like that the fix is in.
A few hours in the clink might change your tune up.
When they need someone to put the squeeze on they’ll bring in the vice cops.
SEE Q! See what you have done?
You drove Swiss off in a huff and now no one is getting the narrowed gaze that they earned.
*narrows gaze*
Hmm, appears I wasn’t in the field of vision. la de da de da
Odd that they don’t say who got the documents and told the killers. At least, not that I saw on a quick read.
Never. Talk. To. The. Cops.
Youtube decides to show us once again why you NEVER go full retard.
I don’t speak Twitter. They’re banning a video because of the comments? And, you can’t say “Pony”?
Bronies, you always ban Bronies.
That is, you ban them if you a shred of humanity left.
Videos on youtube can get demonetized now not just because of your uploaded content, but also if your commentators are toxic/bad enough.
Why not just kill the comment system?
No. Don’t do that. YouTube comments are a honeypot for idiots. If you ban YouTube comments, they will run rampant on the rest of the Internet.
Same thing with Twitter and the Ford Taurus. Don’t stop idiots from self-identifying!
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1098764223923044353
“Jussie Smollett should have known better. Making false police reports based on race is something that suspected white supremacists are only allowed to do. What the hell was Jussie thinking?”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1098621869232599040
Thats… I don’t even think… :walks away:
I want to say people can’t possibly be that knowingly stupid, but every day is another let down.
I am pretty sure it is illegal for anyone to file a false police report. But what do I know?
Oh yeah. I have a great Florida Man story about that. Guy gets in an argument with his gf while he’s at the county jail to do his daily breathalyzer test for probation. She hits him with her car. He’s doing the abused partner thing — “she didn’t mean it. It was an accident.” The cop says to him, “I’m going to give you one chance on this. You’re already on probation. If you sign this document right now, the next thing I’m going to do is arrest you for filing a false police report and you just caught a slam-dunk felony while on probation. Let’s put this one aside and we’ll fill out a report that doesn’t get you arrested.” And that’s how his gf got convicted of aggravated assault and domestic violence.
Data Shows Democrats’ Increasingly Rabid Leftism Is Driven By White People
In other headlines, water is made of hydrogen and oxygen.
What do wypipo not ruin am I right? /rolls eyes
Atonement.
Bible-thumping
Man, that takes me back. Whatever happen to Chumbawamba?
They got knocked down.
I heard they got up again.
You’re never gonna keep them down.
And they’ll be surprised when they lose more of the black vote in 2020.
“Increased liberal identification has been particularly pronounced among non-Hispanic white Democrats, rising 20 percentage points from an average 34% in the early 2000s to 54% in the latest period. By contrast, Gallup trends show a nine-point rise in the percent liberal among Hispanic Democrats, from 29% to 38%, and an eight-point increase among black Democrats, from 25% to 33%.
But i’ve been assured that the Democrats are importing the Hispanics so that they can win, because they are more susceptible to the socialist message.
Not mutually exclusive, as liberal identification also rose among Hispanic Democrats, and Hispanics vote Democratic 2 to 1 whereas it’s about evenly split among whitey.
I’m more going after the line of argument that we need to limit immigration because South American Culture is pre-disposed to commie/authoritarianism, When it is clear that “American” culture is just as pre-disposed to it as well.
See, I’m still stuck on how much (if any, I suppose) immigration from South America is actually in the “general welfare” of the US. That’s a debate nobody is really having, it seems.
We’re supposed to let people in, or not, based on whether it benefits the citizens of the US, not whether it benefits foreigners.
I think the effects of Immigration are generally ambiguous (from an economic standpoint). It clearly benefits some people and hurts others. How much and what not is not something we can know a priori.
Meh, I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable to expect that people from authoritarian or failed states might bring some of their political inclinations with them. It certainly seems to hold true for emigres from our domestic authoritarian failed states. And there do happen to be a whole lot of authoritarian failed states in SA. South Americans probably aren’t necessarily uniquely susceptible to socialist rhetoric, but they do vote overwhelmingly Democratic, so there’s certainly a strategic value for Democrats in increasing immigration among that demographic. I think you’d have to be hopelessly naive to think that doesn’t play a role in the party’s immigration policy.
On the other hand, Democrats get 90% of the black vote, and have actually managed to stagnate the rate of population growth in that demographic through abortion policy. So maybe they’re not that clever.
It’s the white man’s, er, person’s burden.
The tolerant left will not tolerate your “intolerance”
A conservative student at UC Berkeley was assaulted on Tuesday while recruiting for the conservative non-profit organization Turning Point USA. The unprovoked assault, captured on video from two angles, shows a man wearing a black shirt and pants accosting UC Berkeley student Hayden Williams, angrily shouting obscenities at him, knocking his phone out of his hand, and punching him in the face. The assailant accused Williams of “encouraging violence” just before attacking him.
Fascinating.
The man can be heard in the video muttering “f*cking c*nt” while walking away.
Here is the altercation from my friends perspective. Conservative activists, take note. This is exactly the right thing to do, and I am so proud of him for recognizing the situation and not retaliating with violence. pic.twitter.com/QEuJWEQtz8
— Brad Devlin (@bradleydevlin) February 21, 2019
While all this was happening, a number of students were standing around doing nothing. One woman can actually be heard congratulating the assailant, saying, “You won this fight, dude. I’m with you.” Students at other tables were laughing as the assault was happening, the victim told Campus Reform.
The unidentified assailant left the scene and has not yet been apprehended by police.
None call it assault.
“f*cking c*nt”
And now it’s a Hate Crime.
Who doesn’t step in when something like that happens?
Never justified, of course, but I honestly cannot comprehend why in the fuck anybody with a right-of-Marx bent would actually attend Berkeley.
While all this was happening, a number of students were standing around doing nothing. One woman can actually be heard congratulating the assailant, saying, “You won this fight, dude. I’m with you.” Students at other tables were laughing as the assault was happening, the victim told Campus Reform.
The unidentified assailant left the scene and has not yet been apprehended by police.
I get that this source may not be unbiased, so taking it with a grain of salt. This reads like how every Leftist thinks it would go down with a white guy assaulting a Black guy. All the white people cheering or laughing.
What a bunch of assholes. And yet they’re the ones saying THE RETHUGLIKKKANS are killing everybody and being the fascists. Absolutely disgusting and disturbing behavior.
Just remember, every German participating in the Holocaust justified it as self defense; that as awful as it was, as gruesome as it was, the blame solely lay on the Jews’ shoulders because the Jews’ crimes against Germany were so awful that it necessitated such terrible defensive actions.
That delusional pattern shows up again and again in the worst forms of mob violence. The mob truly believes their victim has it coming.
Yep and we got a boatload of false flag/hoaxes intended to rile up the mobs and pave the road to Kristallnacht.
The second punch in particular.
This is nuts. The people who did nothing are just as appalling in their faux-virtue cowardice.
A lone attacker back in the YAF days? He gets tackled by the other YAFers and held for cops to arrive. And he probably “falls down the steps” at the station house before being booked for assault.
I note that these sorts of assaults don’t seem to happen in states with concealed carry (or constitutional carry) laws. Wonder why that is?
Rufus might be onto something with his constant quoting of Barney Fife (“Nip it in the bud”).
Maybe if we had made an example of Al Franken who tackled a guy at a political event in the name of “free speech” this shit wouldn’t have gotten out of hand.
Should have been charged with assault. Or at least gotten a snake put in his mailbox.
Jesus. The dude looks down at his phone and gets sucker punched. Some of those internet sleuths on that one website (4chan?) will identify the assailant and make his life miserable, though.
In other news, Portland is a complete shitshow:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1098775143554310144
The mayor is a commie asshole who has covered for Antifa which does not want a reduction in violence. The “right-wing” groups are simply trying to organize protests and stay within the bounds of the law and receive police protection for a peaceful event.
At what point though does the Mayor get arrested for supporting a terrorist organization against peaceful protesters?
At this point I’m wondering if it isn’t the correct decision to let the leftists have the city and let it crash and burn.
This.
That mayor needs to get his ass canned and thrown out. I feel for any of the conservatives or anyone right-of-marx who are stuck in that literal Liberal Hellscape.
I moved to the burbs. And I’m working on getting the hell out. There are things I love about living here. The quality of life in the city is on a rapid downward spiral. In the 6 or so years since I moved to the area, it’s shocking how badly it’s gone and how badly it is accelerating. The city proper, esp. the core is a fucking shitshow.
That’s what happens when you don’t nip shit in the bud.
About 5 years ago my wife’s company had an opening for a position my wife was interested in at their Portland location
Oh how glad I am that we decided not to go for that position. Especially considering the next position to open up that she was interested in was at the corporate headquarters in a small town in a sensible state.
I’d move to Syria before I’d move to Portland
Oregon seems pretty nice.
It’s basically thousands and thousands of miles of Ted Kaczynski compounds, and Portland. Guess who gets to make all of the laws and political decisions.
Go check out what happened to Benchmade (knife company) yesterday. Oregon City PD just accidentally destroyed the company (who apparently deserved it) by thanking them on Facebook for destroying a bunch of firearms for them. Pic was an 870 getting cut.
Wow, that’s not knowing your customer base at all.
Details and statements
This is how not to handle PR.
Well, Benchmade knives have a good reputation. I’ve thought about picking up one or two of their knives, but damned if I’m ever going to buy one now.
Yeah, my EDC has been a Benchmade for years. I need to check and see whether there’s some of that lifetime warranty work that I can take advantage of (both out of principle and while they’re still around).
I’d like to see a couple thousand local gun shops all return their inventory and demand full-price refunds on the argument that they’ve devalued their own brand, so what’s on their shelves isn’t worth it anymore.
What’s more, their political contributions are extremely suspect. Going back to 2010, they’ve given more than $1000 to four politicians. They are all Dems, and three of the four have abysmal stances on the 2A: Ron Wyden, Martin Heinrich, and Mark Udall.
Hey, if you take away people’s guns, they still gotta carry something for personal protection. Baptists and bootleggers and all that.
Holy shit….there’s no white privilege quite like a white woman calling a black woman a race traitor
In Utah last year, the Public Employee Health Plan took this idea to a new level with its voluntary Pharmacy Tourism Program. For certain PEHP members who use any of 13 costly prescription medications — including the popular arthritis drug Humira — the insurer will foot the bill to fly the patient and a companion to San Diego, then drive them to a hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, to pick up a 90-day supply of medicine.
Don’t get me started. This years legislature session has been non-stop Statist Bullshit see libertas institute
“ANTIFA Creates Fake Anti-Ilhan Omar Rally in Mpls to Incite Violence
On Feb. 17, an event titled “Rally Against Rep. Ilhan Omar” took place in Minneapolis. A Facebook video shows that the event was a hoax by ANTIFA to incite violence and scare those who do not support Representative Ilhan Omar.”
https://alphanewsmn.com/antifa-creates-fake-anti-ilhan-omar-rally-in-mpls-to-incite-violence/
Do these nincompoops comprehend that they are pouring gasoline on an already volatile climate?
That’s the point.
Where’s those hate crime laws now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=g-7JMo0BCio
Lara Logan is still smoking hot even though she’s pushing it a little with the plastic surgery. Obviously, after what she went through in Egypt she’s allowed a little extra slack.
Them bewbs real?
she was always endowed but those are inflatables.
pre-
https://goo.gl/images/NBQt6d
She’s definitely older than me, but totally #would. I can imagine Mike had a hard time staying focused.
Oh yeah. She’s dressed for success!
I had not read a detailed account of what happened in Tahrir Square. It was worse than I thought. Made me want to clusterbomb the place.
#metoo
#methree
And I worry about her more now since she essentially is persona non grata to the mainstream media.
She reminds me of a bustier version of Naomi Watts so…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz9WNuiW0AEhZ5R.jpg
LOLOLOLOLOL
I totally want to buy that guy a beer.
Just give him half of yours.
Lol
Damn, that was perfect.
It found that the exports to Mexico in and of themselves were covered by German government permits, but that they were fraudulently obtained through knowingly incorrect information based upon unreliable declarations from Mexican authorities on where the weapons would end up.
Parsing that i could read:
German Government said it was ok, but only because you told us information you knew was incorrect because you based it on people who were not sure we could trust…
Something Something, the Buck Stops at Your Ass, not mine.
I can parse it – they legally sold the guns to the Mexican govt and we are too chickenshit to openly call that govt corrupt.
This
And when Mexico buys new guns, the old ones go right the backdoor for cash.
“How to Succeed in Advertising Boycotts Without Really Trying”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/21/how_to_succeed_in_advertising_boycotts_without_really_trying.html
These “boycotts” are really just corporate culture conformity. Red Lobster didn’t pull ads from Carlson out of any genuine concern that the people who eat in their restaurants would stop doing so because they run ads on the most popular opinion show in its time slot. If boycotts actually worked then the religious right would have shut down the entire porn, motion picture, and music business 30 years ago, and Target would be bankrupt after the tranny bathroom thing. This is social bullying at the upper rungs of major corporate culture. If you aren’t with the cool kids then you had better have a real good retirement plan after your stint at Bumpkin Inc is up…
In more LOL news – USA trolled through piles of old yearbooks looking for racist dirt on other politicians they can destroy. Instead they found (very minor) dirt on their own editor.
Thank Goodness the only thing they will know from my yearbooks was that i was an Awkward looser.
heh the only thing they would know about me is that I was a ROTC geek.
I’m the only person who got my yearbook pic done in uniform and the only other place I appear is escorting the Homecoming queen to the center of the field for some ceremony at the homecoming game also in uniform.
Course I suppose wearing USAF Dress Blues might be considered Hate Speech to some
You should have made a more progressive choice, like the Navy.
I think HM’s cat might make that choice.
Lol well you don’t get to pick which branch of the service runs the ROTC program at your local High School. That said Chair Force would have been my first option anyway as I enlisted in it before I graduated High School
Halloween used to be fun before the KKK took it over and ruined it.
In the 80’s we tried to make our costumes as inappropriate and offensive as possible. A friend at college went to the Halloween party one year as a used tampon.
Seen it, lived it, loved it!
Poor baby
Like rain on your wedding day.
https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-et-mn-times-up-ceo-borders-20190221-story.html
“Time’s up, Lisa!”
Another one hoisted by their own petard.
Borders suddenly found herself at odds with the core mission of Time’s Up because of a desire to stand by a man — her son — facing allegations of sexual misconduct.
But no one else deserves the same benefit
How long before they start aborting male babies?
“We’re waiting till birth to
learn the genderdecide whether to abort.”Maybe the US and China could hold a baby swap meet.
My Ex went back to school in the early nineties for her Social work degree. Some of the utterances of those crusty second wavers sounded suspiciously like you know who.
Falco?
A money makin playa that ain’t with us no mo!
They’ll make Baby McNuggets out of them if they can find a market.
The resulting sex imbalance would necessitate a return to polygamy. Which would, ironically, probably usher in a new age of patriarchy.
+10 Dr. Strangelove
“Healing” session from a photographer? He probably figured she understood what that meant. I mean, who is that stupid?
He was just trying to cure her hysteria with some clinical manipulation. Totally above board.
You misspelled “clitoral.”
Maybe?
Idaho teen donates $7G after he makes $35,000 in four days plowing snow in Seattle.
If the IRS reads Fox News, you better plan on tithing the same amount to the kingdom of the State.
That’ll be the last job he has in Seattle, so drink it up.
i would say out-of-state snow plowers are now fucked but that would require city employees getting off their asses and checking business licenses in the snow at 4AM.
Just plow their driveways last.
Fight for $750!
Seems a bit high for a living wage to me.
i keep telling my boy to get his arse out there on snow days. i used to make bank when i was 12 shoveling porches and walks in my townhouse community. we had 360 units and my friends and i probably shoveled 1/4th of them for $5 each. that was the easiest cash money a kid could make.
Our big paydays were roofs. You’d just walk the neighborhood with a shovel and gauge the depth of snow on the roof. Hundred bucks per house in 1979 money went a long way. Mucho vinyl, mucho weed, mucho pairs of jeans from “Bootlegger’!
? you’d shovel the roof?
Five or six feet of snow on a roof is no laughing matter.
East Coast liberal kids show up evil western capitalist kulak
Seriously, good on these kids. I used to shovel the walk for the old lady across the street from my house. Not because I was remotely good, but because my parents told me to do it if I wanted to sleep inside.
Truth.
Good kids but sad that such a thing now gets on the news.
Where are parents like that these days?
How The Weed Tax Shortfall Taught California Democrats The Logic Of The Laffer Curve
I’m shocked they didn’t raise taxes even higher to crack down on the black market.
I recall Ontario once actually cutting a draconian cigarette tax due to all the bootlegging. Of course, that was 30 years ago. I imagine the lesson being lost in the mists of time by now.
No kidding snow out at the Casa Dean this morning. And, the last road to and from had water running across it. Probably not staying at the office past lunch so I can be sure to make it home. The good news: I am driving Mrs. Dean’s FJ today, lifted, armored up, and supercharged. Pretty much the ideal tool for crossing a flooded street.
They were calling for a dusting here but all we got was a little frost on the car.
I was bummed when Toyota discontinued the line.
I really miss the small trucks that used to be sold. Rangers et al. I’m happy with my crew-cab Tacoma but those little fellers were a ton of fun and pretty handy to boot!
Yes! I so want the compact pickup to come back. Trucks today are just too damned big and expensive. I don’t need anything that huge and fancy. I just want something basic and reliable with a bed that doesn’t cost a mint to buy and operate. The original Toyota truck, the Ranger, the S-10, anything like that.
Hopefully with manual trans. There’s a market.
You’ll be shocked to discover that regulation killed the compact truck.
I already knew this but (sigh).
I’ve heard they are thinking about bringing them back.
Sales really crashed on that model in 2013 and 2014. I think because they are so overbuilt and durable that they last forever, and so everybody who wanted one had one.
My very first car was the small Nissan pickup circa 1987. Loved that thing. Built so tight your ears would pop if you slammed the doors. Had olde schoole 4WD that you had to manually crank the hubs for.
It is fun to cross a running wash, to a point. The point where the water takes the wheels out from under your car and you wreck. And maybe die. When the washes run, the water runs pretty hard.
I have a first model year FJ with the 6-speed manual. A car broker guy told me it’s worth quite a bit (like 25K).
The blue book is way less than that – for our 2008 with options (but no way to value the supercharger, the lift, or the uparmored bumpers) it shows $13K, maybe $15K if you buy it from a dealer. Blue book always runs low (IMO), but I think that the blue book was way low for an FJ.
That actually sounds like fun.
My understanding is AZ actually calls the fine for crossing a flooded area “the stupid tax”. I’m from SoCal originally, and learned early, do not cross a washed out stretch of desert.
Correct, the “Stupid Motorist Law,” basically says if they have to rescue you from a flooded wash, you’re paying for it.
knowingly incorrect information based upon unreliable declarations from Mexican authorities
I’m going to want something a little more specific. All declarations from Mexican authorities are unreliable.
On local News in the Cafateria:
“Prosecutors say the Legislature needs to pass the Hate Crime Bill”
Fuck Prosecutors.
More grand-standing opportunities for them in their aspirations to higher office.
There is a certain breed of prosecutor that is the lowest life form known to man.
There is a certain breed of prosecutor that is the lowest life form known to man.
Is there some breed that isn’t?
I’ve known a couple who were principled so I cannot condemn all of them.
I wasn’t.
*balls up fists*
I actually wrote a letter to my State Senator and Representative. I’ve never done such a thing.
“Prosecutors say the Legislature needs to pass the Hate Crime Bill”
Nothing from the local Association of Police Chiefs?
Headline I just saw:
“Isis Bride’s Dad Suing Trump to Let Her Back In.”
My response: “Okay, fine. We’ll let her come back, but we’ll take her into custody at her point of entry, and charge her with treason. Go ahead and send her a ticket.”
Unless she made a formal renunciation of citizenship in person at an embassy, she is still a citizen and the administration is in the wrong for denying her re-entry.
The correct course of action is to let her return and arrest her on the tarmac for treason.
Yeah. Lock Her Up.
Pretty much, let her come back and face the courts for her crimes if that’s the case. May she get the book thrown down hard.
Yes, but there is still some uncertainty over whether she is actually a citizen. Obama didn’t think so.
If the reports that she was in America are true, she’s a citizen.
If she was naturalized (which the administration should easily have a record of) then they can revoke her citizenship.
…born…
Her father was a diplomat, and may or may not have “quit” it just before her birth.
Her father was a recently released diplomat from Yemen when she was born. He was was in the country on a diplomatic visa but was no longer a diplomat when she was born.
Interesting opportunity for hair-splitting. If he was here on a diplomatic visa, would that mean he wasn’t “subject to the jurisdiction” even if he was no longer a diplomat in his home country’s eyes?
They could also say that she had the requisite intent to revoke her citizenship when she joined ISIS, but that’s a real stretch, since I think you have to actually become a citizen of another country. There may be other provisions that would apply.
Won’t matter what the facts and the law are if they file in front of a NeverTrump judge. Which I am sure they will.
Wasn’t this the one who made a video of themselves burining their passport, or am I getting my ISIS brides confused?
She apparently did not ever have a U.S. passport. Kinda stupid to leave the country without one.
But the caliphate was going to take over the world, so she’d never need papers from those damned infidels.
UCS: in response to your book enquiry, try Reader, “Africa: Biography of a Continent.” It’s a big overview so detail is limited but good for the big picture.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio lays it out for you.
What is Mueller investigating?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller in the spring of 2017 to establish whether there were any links or coordination between President Trump’s campaign and the Russians who attacked the 2016 presidential election.
That there was an attack is no longer in dispute, and Mueller has shed a great deal of light upon it.
The Justice Department has charged Russian intelligence officers with allegedly launching cyberattacks against U.S. political targets and stealing embarrassing material and then releasing it to cause havoc.
Other Russians have been charged with using social media agitation to amplify controversy inside the United States and to pit Americans against one another.
“Releasing embarrassing material” is quite the war crime. I notice they don’t even bother to pretend it wasn’t factually correct embarrassing material.
And if “amplifying controversy” is a crime, the folks over at CNN and MSNBC have a lot of ‘splaining to do.
A recent false-flag incident intended to sow discord in a country overwrought with racial tension springs to mind, not to mention the intense, credulous coverage it was given by media figures now lamenting the fact that it turned out to be fake. In fact, “amplifying controversy” is stock in trade for our national media. So it’s firefighting for democracy when they do it to promote fake stories, but when foreign actors do it to embarrass Americans with authentic stories, it’s an attack on democracy?
We’ll charge the people for taking it but not charge the people responsible for making it so easy to take.
Good thing the US government never interferes in foreign elections!
Until that “embarrassing material” is actually classified (as it often is), it really isn’t a matter of national security.
That there was an attack is no longer in dispute, and Mueller has shed a great deal of light upon it.
Depends on your working definition of “attack” I guess.
The working definition of “attack” is when these sorts don’t get their way.
If crudely-photoshopped Jesus v the Devil memes aren’t a vicious attack, I don’t know what is.
And “dispute”. And “shed”. And “light”.
Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly
So we choose “condemned to repeat it” then?
Fuck experts.
Seems like it would be great for the Antifa to use to advertise their point of view to the people who might need to hear it.
What’s wrong with catering to history buffs who are interested in WWII?
The Antifa guys are obviously fan’s of Mussolini’s Black Shirts.
Benito Mussolini’s long-defunct National Fascist Party.
His progeny are legi8on.
fucking Illinois Fazis.
“defunct?”
“Wait…I am dead and my party is gone?!”
tuping is hsrd.
Tulpaing? Nah it’s easy, just make up a screen name and go to it!
libertarianism is authoritarian
Am I doing this right?
But tupping is fun!
With Mexicans and weed?
But of course my good man! *chugs more cut-rate local beer*
But tupping is fun!
Cow tupping, FTW!
Why not Both? Cow Buttuping?
“Israel Prepares to Launch Its Historic Private Mission to the Moon”
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1097685981145251840
time.com/5532137/israel-private-moon-landing-spaceil/
News in 50 Years:
Israel Launched a Rock from the Moon onto the Gaza Strip in retaliation for youths throwing stones over the border
/ducks
Duck and cover won’t save you.
Brings to mind this little gem.
She looks like somebody that one could have a long, proactive conversation with about the merits of pulling the legs off spiders.
*blink*
*blink*
It’s like when America pulled out of Queens because AOC pissed off Bezos.
I used to pull out. Chicks didn’t dig it.
The article indicates that it is a public-private partnership, so the wording, while obtuse, is accurate. They are also using a SpaceX rocket, which is interesting, and it sounds like the private side of the partnership is picking up most of the bill. They are also sending a Bible (Jewish version, I presume) to the moon, so I imagine if this venture is successful it can be used in a (((Tuesday))) post.
Sounds like a Mel Brooks “Jews in Space” skit.
Another little snippet from that NPR thing:
Skeptics argue it’s implausible that Trump couldn’t have known about the Russian outreach
I’d say those people are about as far from being “skeptics” as it is possible to be. They are, in fact, possessed with religious fervor by a faith which compels them to believe nothing but some nefarious outside influence could have prevented Hillary from ascending to the throne of ultimate power. They cling desperately to the thinnest of reeds, rather than accept the simple truth. Their candidate sucked.
Skeptics argue it’s implausible that Trump couldn’t have known about the Russian outreach
So?
(1) All of the “Russian outreach ” I remember hearing about turned out to have been false flag/sting operations run by Fusion GPS, US agencies, and/or foreign intelligence agencies. Meaning, what Russian outreach?
(2) Even if the Russians did reach out in some way, all I recall reading is that they got a hearing, and nobody from the Trump campaign really followed up on it. What’s wrong with Trump hearing “Hey some Russians were here and said they had dirt on Hillary. Pretty skeevy, we’re thinking we won’t really really take them up on it.”
Even if the Russians did reach out in some way, all I recall reading is that they got a hearing, and nobody from the Trump campaign really followed up on it. What’s wrong with Trump hearing “Hey some Russians were here and said they had dirt on Hillary. Pretty skeevy, we’re thinking we won’t really really take them up on it.”
what irks me about that is that it is a matter of public record that Hillary Hired a British National to “Dig Up” Dirt on Trump.
And passing off scuttlebutt he gleaned from Russian intelligence agents.
Their candidate sucked.
And now they have Harris.
I so want the compact pickup to come back. Trucks today are just too damned big and expensive. I don’t need anything that huge and fancy. I just want something basic and reliable with a bed that doesn’t cost a mint to buy and operate. The original Toyota truck, the Ranger, the S-10, anything like that.
You obviously don’t know what you want. You need a $90k pickup with leather seats (for seven) and mohair carpets and electric windows and a 31 speaker sound system. But don’t worry- the bed on your new pickup will hold almost as much as the one on that ’78 Toyota pickup you used to have.
I want to say I paid $9900 for my little Nissan, brand new, in 1987.
So how many years did you spend in marketing?
If it can fit a 12 foot boat tied down in the bed that’s really all that I need.
What’s wrong with Trump hearing “Hey some Russians were here and said they had dirt on Hillary. Pretty skeevy, we’re thinking we won’t really really take them up on it.”
“They’ve got dirt on Hillary? Wow. Who doesn’t?”
We can’t be safe until the dirt on Hilary is six feet thick.
Media bad boy Barstool Sports thriving in politically correct climate: ‘We’re pretty rare’
“My political party doesn’t exist,” Portnoy said. “I consider myself like a Libertarian, financially conservative and socially liberal, but Barstool has always stayed away from, for the most part, politics and religion.”
You were cool, then I found out you’re a Patriots fan…
Portnoy’s Complaint?
I actually read that book when I was eleven.
We also read Updike. Mom liked to put on airs.
Speaking of Patriots-
https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/22/robert-kraft-named-in-prostitution-sting/
Bobcraft arrested in a 75-100$ rug and tug pros sting.