STEVE SMITH NEED COFFEE.
STEVE SMITH SLOW GOING MORNING. HIM FIND WHISKY BARREL WHEN IT FALL OFF TRUCK THAT GET STUCK IN SNOW. STEVE SMITH TRY HELP DRIVER, BUT DRIVER RUN, SCREAMING. SO STEVE SMITH TAKE BARREL TO CAVE. IT DELICIOUS, BUT NOW HIM NEED COFFEE. LUCKY STEVE SMITH FIND SOME IN CAMPER HE VISIT NIGHT BEFORE. BY VISIT, MEAN RAPE. CAMPER. AND CAMPERS IN CAMPER.
BUT YOU NO HERE HEAR STEVE SMITH GRUMBLE. YOU COME FOR LINKS! STEVE SMITH GIVE LINKS. HAVE FUN COMMENT. ON LINKS.
- STEVE SMITH GREATEST TRICK, MAKE WORLD THINK HE NO THERE.
- STEVE SMITH SAY “NO THANK“. HIM STAY WITH BEAVER, MOOSE, BIRD, DOUBLE WHOPPERS. OR WHAT FIND IN CAMPER FRIDGES.
- COUSIN SEA SMITH BUSY AGAIN.
AND NOW, SPECIAL FEATURE! STEVE SMITH GIVE ADVICE! HIM READ “ASK AMY” AND SAY ‘HER SILLY’. STEVE SMITH DO BETTER (EVEN IF IT OLD RERUN!):
Q: I have a good friend who is very nice, very thoughtful and very dependable. Whenever anyone needs to reach her, my friend is just one text message away. But that is just what seems to be the problem — she is always reachable, and her phone is always there, ringing with text messages.
I feel as though when I hang out with her that I am really hanging out with her phone. What is the best way to approach her about this?
A: THIS EASY! TAKE PHONE, SMASH WITH BIG ROCK.
SMASH IPHONE!
THEN TELL FRIEND LISTEN AND TALK OR GET SMASH WITH BIG ROCK NEXT. SINCE SMASH PHONE, HER NO CALL 911! MIGHT BE LAST CONVERSATION WITH FRIEND. BUT HER ANNOYING ANYWAY.
FREE CASCADIA. AND PASS COFFEE POT.
there’s a whole lot of Steve Smith-ness ’round here recently…
I’m counting it as personal growth that STEVE SMITH is eating beaver. Nice that he is engaging in a bit of foreplay and not rushing right into the RAPE.
I was wondering when someone would make that joke.
*narrows gaze*
[golf clap]
Should a shaved beaver really be called a beaver? ‘smore like a big rat mole or something
Now this is a philosophical article one of the Glibs here should write about.
One of our Russian speakers can confirm/deny what I was told: that the Russian equivalent is “squirrel”
Now we need all the Deutch, Nihongo, Korean, Thai, Tagalog, Dravidian, MSA and whatever other speakers we have in these parts to chime in with whichever small furry mammal is used in those languages.
Considering that Thai ones tend not to be very furry, the common term is usually “clam”.
I am guessing that link is NSFW…
Yohnee is from Thai? Interesting.
@Jarflax
No, the other way around. With its long history of cultural contact with India, a lot of Thai words are Pali and Sanskrit derived.
On the other hand, “bong” is a Thai word.
As in, please don’t hit me over the head with that marijuana pipe!
Bong!
I say we make people stretch themselves. Jesse should write this one. OMWC should write one on the Lovely Ladies of AARP, Swiss should pen the Punster’s Playhouse.
Now we are talking..
Will SF pen the one about people that do Elder gods?
SF will be hosting our purity club.
Unbearded Clam?
BY SMITHNESS, MEAN RAPE?
VILLAGE SMITHY ALWAYS POUNDING
Under the spreading chestnut tree?
STEVE SMITH PART OF YOU. PART OF TREE. PART OF ROCK.
SP takes some time away and look at what the place turns into.
She is the only one who can keep the cryptids in line.
The threat of Web-Dom looms large.
True…SP does have back up.
STEVE SMITH NOT BAD DREAM. STILL HERE WHEN WAKE UP
Look, I prefer beaver, too, but the lab-grown meat is intriguing.
So, what are the ethical consiterations of lab grown steaks?
As long as you don’t fantasize about killing vegans while you eat it, it is ok
For me, none at all. No consciousness or sentience, so no moral qualms.
what if it is made to taste like human meat?
Would you recognize it?
ehm… not me but a friend?
Do I HAVE to say it? –
Soylent green….
That would be intriguing and delightful. Pair with a nice Pinot Noir, perhaps a Savigny-les-Beaunes.
You too good for a fine Chianti and Fava beans? Oh wait. that is for when you eat census workers.
Also, liver tastes completely different from muscle meat.
Merlot – the meat loaf of wine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXXDC5FarhE
Delicious when sliced and fried for a sandwich filling?
You’ve obviously never had my mom’s meat loaf
/hurl
Anything from the chateaus of Graves would pair well.
*cannibalism joke implying lack of consciousness and sentience among our own species*
Well… spongiform encephalopathy is spread through cannibalism.
I would say that depends on what raw materials are used to “grow” those steaks. I’m not sure how they synthesize biological proteins from basic molecules – it seems those proteins would come from some bio source.
Legumes?
I’m not sure how they synthesize biological proteins from basic molecules
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis
Lab grown meat always reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezEMnzmDYZU
I was thinking the same thing, Pie.
Here’s the teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLExLUvfqW0
Shame they cancelled that show. One of the few I actually enjoyed.
Yes but I wonder if it would not fall victim to PCness.
I remember the episode where everything in the company was sensor activated and sensors did not see black people so the company hired minimum wage white people to follow the black people around and activate things for them.
I think you meant this.
There seems to be a need by some for beaver tail, NTTIATWWT
Queue de castor is a tasty treat.
Hmm. I set up Rufus, and he’s not even here to swing at it.
I wonder if he’s working?
French Free Friday. Rufus ain’t takin’ no calls in French
That’s a terrible thing to say about Rufus.
Look, I brag on my old lab a lot, but I would never claim that he would be anything but a disaster at raising farm animals for meat.
If you want him to retrieve meat, he’d be good. But if I wanted grown meat, I think border collie grown meat would be much better.
I briefly dated a farm girl who had a pair of border collies that could perform their herding tasks completely independently. You could just tell them “bring in the” (insert particular livestock here) and they would go out and drive them into the correct enclosure.
Unfortunately, we broke up before the litter of pups were weaned and she reneged on her offer of one.
What? A bitch?
Easier story than letting you in on the bidding war.
Can the kosher Jews finally eat a cheeseburger?
Does SEA SMITH wear Bermuda Triangle shorts?
No clue if he does, but he does cause extinction…
If only that was in the Links…
*narrows gaze*
We can’t relink the links man!
Serious question for the commentariat.
How do you find out if a dentist is any good before you make an appointment with them?
For context, I had the same dentist for years, a very competent guy good at his job who probably wouldn’t recognize me if we ran into each other in public. I had initially lucked into finding the guy, as I’d picked the office for proximity to my apartment at the time. But, he went and retired, selling his practice to a local group. The problem is since he’s retire, I’ve never seen the same dentist twice, never seen the same hygenist twice, heck, I’m not sure I’ve even seen the same desk clerk twice. Worse, there seems to be a serious pressure to upsell patients on procedures they don’t actually need. One visit there will be some problem that “you really should get taken care of”, I’d demurr as there were no symptoms whatsoever. The next visit, that dentist would not see anything of the sort, but come up with an entirely different problem that “you really should get taken care of”. The hygenists were never terribly thorough either.
The last straw was the most recent visit the dentist saw that I still had my wisdom teeth and tried really hard to convince me to have them extracted. Mind you these are fully in-place, with ample room in the jaw and haven’t moved since well before my dentist retired. The first excuse was “Oh, there’s some ‘discoloration’.” Well, of course there was, unlike every other dentist in the world she did the exam before the cleaning. Then she tried to claim I wasn’t even using them to chew and the gap between them made them useless. Nevermind the fact that I can feel my teeth with my mouth closed and the upper and lower wisdom teeth are no further from each other than any other molar pair. I forget the other bullshit, but she was trying to pressure me into removing entirely asymptomatic teeth with no actual indicators of decay or abcess. I’m not undergoing unnecessary medical procedures with irreversable impacts on my body just to meet your upsell quota, bitch.
So I’ve decided to find another dentist’s office. I know the odds are against the next one in rotation being as pushy, but I’m fed up with this place.
So how do I weed out bad ones before sitting down in the chair?
They’re all bad. They’re all a bunch of scammers
In Romania it is one area where it sort of works. I usually went by recommendations plus talking to the guy to see what impression I get.
Romania is also a place for dental tourism from other European countries. There are dentists everywhere.
TRY STEVE SMITH, DDS. EXPERT AT FILLING CAVITIES. WORK WITH ALL INSURANCE PLAN. BY WORK WITH, MEAN RAPE.
My dentist will ask you if it’s safe.
Golf Clap.
Get recommendations from a friend… or read online reviews.
I’ve been going to the same dentist for 25+ years. I fear the day of his retirement since he is competent and only does required work.
Where are there online reviews?
Google the name? Yelp? Angie’s List?
Healthgrades, Vitals, Zocdoc, Yelp, Google. It’s tough if you don’t know many locals. I really lucked out with the guy I go to. It’s the only thing I’ll miss when I move.
I recently needed a new GP. The guy I settled with had bad online reviews. But as I read them, they were all along the same lines as “smart, straight shooter, but is too direct and brash.” He also has no problem telling someone they are fat and need to lose weight.
I met him and thought he was great.
As CPA says, you have to actually read the reviews and take into account the ways in which you are different from the kind of people who leave online reviews of dentists. I have found that just looking at the number of stars someone has is useless, because I am an alien and value things differently than the people who post reviews.
That said, I lucked into my current dentist after going without one for a decade. My girlfriend found him after getting scammed and ripped off by her previous dentist. He’s great, and is actually a friend now.
I have met vanishingly few doctors who had a problem telling me I was fat and needed to lose weight. The problem is that is pretty much the least helpful “advice” you could possibly give. Yes asshole I KNOW I am fat and need to lose weight, but unless you happen to know something which I could reasonably implement in my life that will help the STFU about it
“I’m writing you a scrip for “eat less, exercise more”.”
Sorry my insurance doesn’t cover that and I can’t afford it out of pocket
I think there’s some yelp-y thing for dentists and doctors. Probably several.
How do you find out if a dentist is any good before you make an appointment with them?
Hang out around the place, look at the clients teeth. If everyone has fantastic teeth, run the dentist will be pressuring you to make some money. If it’s full of Brits: RUN his other clients aren’t doing any serious to take care of their teeth so he will REALLY be pressuring you to get some money.
My rule of thumb is to avoid any dentist named Ian, Graham, or Nigel.
Oi! Do you ‘ave a loisence for that cavity?
My rule of thumb is if the dentist sticks his up your bum you’ve probably gone to the wrong floor.
Word of mouth.
Also, reviews. I think Angie’s list does medics of various types.
What you did there…I seen it
There is a bit of tooth to it though.
I have been looking at ‘Zocdoc’ myself – it seems a little less sketchy than Yelp or Google – but I hadn’t thought of Anglie’s List. Will check.
Regarding “procedures”, seems to me when you get old enough, you’re going to need everything anyway. Maybe they’re just being proactive. The good ones will space it to fit your insurance and pressing needs.
If you see any billboards by an ambulance chaser right next top the dental practice, it is usually a sign you might not be dealing with a good one.
If he’s having a tough time, just use the one with the cute hygienists.
Best advice right here.
Ask your doctor
I’m going to want a second opinion.
“Ask around” is how we usually do it, but assuming you have dental insurance your insurance provider might have a directory of providers which might also include patient ratings/feedback. I was in the market for a cardiologist recently and the anthem provider search was actually fairly useful.
My provider search from the insurance company only lists the most basic pieces of information. It’s Emblem rather than Anthem.
The last dentist I like came from my dad’s breakfast group. He was great. Spent the entire time telling jokes.
So wander into where ever it is that 50 year old men hang out for breakfast and ask if anyone is a dentist.
Tim Watley?
I ask other medical professionals. Often, nurses and other middle-of-the-totem-pole people. You’ll have to be sociable and make friendly with them, because there are two kinds of nurses – the ones who think MD’s are greek gods, and the ones who think MD’s are over educated, ignorant, lazy, egotistical dicks. You want to ask the second kind.
Don’t ask who is good. Ask who is bad. Any red flags, eliminate them from your pool of considerations.
Then, for any dentists with no red flag, go and see if you like them. If you do, keep going. If not, go somewhere else.
This is generally how I find any competent service provider, either in my personal or professional career.
I go to their websites and find the one with the best looking hygentist.
One of you pointed me to the Short Circut podcast, which has been great. But i’m listening to one where they have a guest from the ACLU and I had to roll my eyes when he off hand talked about suing a restaurant for kicking out a Trans Person for using the Woman’s Bathroom. I get that the ACLU only recognizes the civil right to be a Democrat anymore.
And then a hard core identity politics marxists democrat. Anything else they see as the bad people. But considering where the ACLU came from, this is par for the course.
1) that may or may not have been me. I know I’ve dropped a link here a few times.
2) somehow, I may have missed that one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-restricted-flow-border-more-migrants-trying-sneak-through-undetected-n976356
Man those doctors and engineers sure are good climbers!
I’m wondering about that pic, it sure looks like a segment of that wall is down not 50 feet away, and yet there they are all climbee-upee.
You’d think they’d at least crop out the broken section of fence for their staged photograph.
“Asylum seekers”; they should more properly be referred to as asylum scammers, since they really don’t have any legitimate basis for claims of asylum.
They want free shit paid for by the productive American workers in return for illegally voting for democrats.
Undocumented immigrants are increasingly choosing to cross the U.S. border illegally rather than waiting in line to claim asylum at legal ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by NBC News.
Immigration lawyers and rights advocates say asylum seekers are opting for illegal crossing because they are growing frustrated with waiting lines caused by Trump administration policies. Advocates say immigrants who might otherwise have presented themselves at legal ports are now going between entry points where, if caught, they can remain in the country while awaiting an asylum hearing.
Interesting way to frame it…
Why? What reason is there to believe that prohibition in the labor market would work any differently than prohibition in the alcohol or drug markets?
AND NOW, SPECIAL FEATURE! STEVE SMITH GIVE ADVICE! HIM READ “ASK AMY” AND SAY ‘HER SILLY’. STEVE SMITH DO BETTER (EVEN IF IT OLD RERUN!):
Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism.
And yes I will continue to do this once in a while
See, the EU is protecting you!
He might see shit that would make him think the EU leadership is a bunch of inept corrupt kleptocrats and then start questioning them robbing him blind.
Funny thing in Romania the government tried to do something like newspapers need signed consent form – including ID data – from anonymous sources in the name of GDPR
Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘list’ for moderate Dems who vote with Republicans
“We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.” – keep the party line comrades
Nobody better leave the plantation!
That’ll either put you in a shame-spiral or the gulag.
The yoke around his neck should be a toilet seat for added piquance.
I think it would be immensely funny if Cortez got primaried out of office in 2020.
She may just do something stupid enough for that to happen. She won her primary with only ~15k votes, total, not by.
I think a bunch of people in her District must be pissed about the Amazon thing
Nah. Those jobs were for the rich and would drive up rents so they were bad.
That’s what they believe/are told.
Again, she had NOTHING to do with the Amazon thing. It’s also amazing that Democrats seem to be OK with a US rep taking credit for something negotiated/fucked-up at the state/local level. For all their kvetching about Rooshuns, they seem rather envious of their system.
They are going to purge her ass.
If the Dems keep up their insane hijinks, I suspect a lot of their asses will get purged in 2020.
I’m just looking at the polling, so I don’t know the feel on the ground. But, does look like team blue has a decent shot to hold the house and even possibly take the senate. Over a year and a half away, but what do you all think?
If that many Americans are really going to vote for more Ilhan Omar, more Rashida Tlaib, more AOC, more Kavanaugh hearing insanity, more infanticide, more second amendment infringements, more government health care, etc. etc., then we truly are doomed beyond the point of no return. Especially in the face of a very strong economic recovery. I guess I still just want to hold out a little bit of hope for the future.
I’d put money on DOOMED.
I’m sure I’ll be putting money on it against my will.
Never bet on a sure thing.
Less than 6% of people with phone lines respond to pollsters.
Hey, I predicted Trump would win the general and was within 10 seats of how many seats the dems picked up in the mid terms. My chickens bones and poll scanning technique is working so far.
Ha! It’s a day later where you live, you’re just looking at the results before we get to vote.
I didn’t know the DNC had someone from the SMITH clan on retainer? Which one would that be DERP SMITH?
I was laughing when I read that story last night because it is yet another example of how each team believes that their opponents are in complete lockstep and that they are just too nice to enforce the required discipline to really push their pet projects to victory.
There were quotes about how the GOP never had people cross the line when they were in the majority and allow these amendments on bills.
I’m glad they don’t recognize McCain as people.
Yeah seriously. Obamacare didn’t have a single Republican vote for it when it was passed, but then ten years later it was kept as a law because RINO Senators wanted to stick it to Trump.
There’s the Republicans, the Democrats, and the RINOs. There are no DINOs, if a red state or red district Dem votes against the party, it’s always for show. When push comes to shove, they always do as they’re told. Member those 50 Blue Dogs who were totally pro gun and fiscal conservatives, just plain old moderate folks. When the time came to take a big step toward socialism, they charged the hill and all lost their seats.
Meh. Colin Peterson (NW Minnesoda) is probably a DINO. He wins because he does a great job for the farmers. He votes against gun control all the time. He bucked the Dems during the govt shutdown.
Both Teams have their share of wrongthinkers.
It should also be pointed out that the wreckers and kulaks were outed when they didn’t vote down an amendment that would require ICE to be notified if an illegal immigrant tried to buy a gun.
For starters, how often does that happen? Are there really that many illegal immigrants who walk into gun shops and try to buy a gun? And how nuts do you have to be to think that voting against that doesn’t make you look like a certified crazy person?
Props to the GOP for thinking up these amendments. It has to be sort of fun thinking up these amendments that exist only to fuck over the moderate dems and cause division. “How about we add an amendment that says .0001% of the penalties collected for not having health insurance is dedicated for wall building on the southern border?”
Yes, there are. It is the top reason for a NICS denial.
For all the foreign journalists proclaiming that anybody can walk up to a vending machine and buy an Assault Weapon, why wouldn’t an immigrant think they could buy a gun in a gun shop without issue.
There’s no problem that more militant tribalism won’t solve.
I’m lovin’ it.
She isn’t wrong – being in absolut lockstep is exactly how they’ve ratcheted everything in their favor over the long haul. She could single-handedly wreck the program if Pelosi can’t get her to STFU.
Yummy:
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-crew-dragon-prelaunch-photos/
Looks like the folks at Blue Origin will be…chasing the dragon.
Just tell them you’d like a second opinion before doing an irreversible procedure and get one with another dentist some distance away.
Meant for UCS
Oh, good. Thought there was another tranny athlete link.
DOH!
*polite applause*
I just flat out said no. Her credibility was zero by the time I walked out of there.
HBO chief Richard Plepler leaves network he spent decades building in post-AT&T shakeup
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/28/media/hbo-richard-plepler-att/index.html
Sex scandal or blackface in college?
Sex scandal or blackface in college?
Could be both.
Yup. Going down on an underaged Coal Miner’s Daughter is going to get you in big trouble nowdays.
I’m going with the Weinstein Effect.
$2200 fine for assault using bust of Hitler
Sounds like a wonderful couple
Do you know who else assaulted people with busts?
Elon Musk?
Morganna?
Do you know who else’s bust was used to assault people?
Winston Churchill?
The cat woman in “A Clockwork Orange?”
You mean Alex and his Droogies. She was the victim.
“Singing in the Rain! Just singing in the rain….”
Alex only, the droogs remain outside. He initiates the attack, but she defends herself with a small bust of Ludwig Van…
Mel Kiper?
Q?
/sorry man
Stormy Daniels?
Wendy Whoppers ?
Xenia Onatop?
All time favorite Bond villain
To watch or as a character. Because, as a character, I don’t recall her having any (or many) lines.
Chuck Schumer?
Rick Hahn?
Juggsy?
The Cleveland Browns, for a long time?
So many busts, soooo many!
This woman?
Does she have the diabeetus?
Shoot. Trying again: This woman?
Dolly Parton?
Not an assault. She brought Joy and Healing to the world with her bust.
Uffda. I’m not fan of Klobuchar, but this story is just silly.
She is getting taken to the woodshed for defending all the medical device manufacturers here in Minnesoda. That proves she isn’t really a consumer safety warrior I guess.
She had the temerity to help streamline the process to bring medical devices to market!!!!
What a monster.
I can’t keep up with what’s in and out with political parties. The train to the bad anarchy seems to have left the station.
HIM STAY WITH BEAVER
As long as the beaver is shaved.
Fucking eco freaks. There are tons of beavers. There is no proof that there is any danger of a beaver population collapse. Besides, they cause all sorts of havoc with streams and tributaries.
So why are all you tree huggers going on and on about saving the beaver? Oh, wait. Shave? Nevermind.
And no demand for beaver pelts. What’s a man, woman or another category gonna do with the residual. Looks to be a marketing opportunity.
STEVE SMITH DO BETTER
In other words, STEVE SMITH GIVE CORRECT ADVICE.
That is more ZARDOZ than STEVE SMITH.
Rep. Amash rose above GOP’s childish, desperate tactics during Cohen hearing
The objectivity in that story is oozing off the page.
showed no interest in learning more about hush money, WikiLeaks or Trump’s foreign business deals.
I mean… I Don’t think congress wants to be pointing fingers over paying hush money.
The Trump apologists resorted to petty, contemptuous attacks, portraying Cohen as a “fraudster,” “pathological liar” and “cheat.”
You know who used to paint him in that light until he decided to go “woke”.
“hush money”
I don’t understand how this applies. I’ve always construed “hush money” as a bribe to keep someone quiet about a crime. No one’s accusing Trump of anything criminal, just his usual sleaziness that he preferred to keep quiet during an election. The chicks in question also signed NDAs and were more than happy to have the cash until they saw an opportunity for a media tonguebath.
Actual photo of Amash in his congressional office
Yeah Amash is on the “Trump is a Russian Puppet” Crazy Train.
If it keeps him office we might have to take the bad with the good.
Is he really? That’s incredibly disappointing. Call me a tinfoil hat crazy, but I think that the shot callers know that despite their best efforts, they can’t kill the Trump economy before Election Day 2020. But they might be able to get us into a shooting war if they try hard enough.
Now lets see if Amash is stupid enough to believe that the media industrial complex really will call him in the morning.
The best way to catch a lie is to ask questions about it.
Dunno if this was covered
Well… here it is: “A Moral Case for Legal Age Change”
https://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1100774565435920385
Or if it is trolling at its finest…
Oregon may lower the voting age to 16
Sixteen-year-olds can drive and pay taxes. Soon, they may also be able to vote in Oregon.
Legislators have proposed an amendment to the Oregon Constitution that would lower the voting age from 18 to 16. If the bill passes, voters would decide on the proposal in the 2020 election.
State Sen. Shemia Fagan (D-Portland), one of the bill’s sponsors, announced the bill on Monday.
“It’s time to lower the voting age in Oregon and give young people a chance to participate at the ballot about decisions that affect their homes, their clean air and clean water future, their schools, and as we’ve seen, their very lives,” Fagan said at a press conference.
Bill sponsors say they want the amendment to extend to federal elections.
Fagan pointed to the political activism of Parkland, Florida, students, who challenged lawmakers to tighten gun control laws after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last February.
Samantha Gladu, executive director of the youth grassroots organization Bus Project, said 16- and 17-year-olds are engaged and smart enough to cast informed votes.
“They know that we have to take action urgently on issues like education funding, health care, climate justice and gun violence in particular,” Gladu said. “I’m also hearing a lot from 16- and 17-year-olds about the need for criminal justice reform and the need to stop mass incarceration.”
Natalie Khalil, a senior at Lake Oswego High School in Oregon who has been organizing for gun law reform, said high school students should be able to apply the knowledge they learn in their civics classes.
Snot nosed brats will be able to take away your rights. Here’s to “progress”.
Seems to me that if you are given the right to vote you would also need to be a legal adult.
What is the drinking age in Oregon again? It was 18 many years ago.
It’s 21 in every state and has been since Reagan threatened to withhold highway funds from the few holdout states that hadn’t raised theirs at the time.
“You’re not mature enough to drive a car, have consensual sex, have a drink, or join the military. But, you’re totes responsible enough to be able to vote to take away the rights of everyone else.”
Socialism 101 right there.
The left is getting desperate. Insufficient lefty immigrants I assume.
Don’t worry, the immigrants are doing jobs that Americans won’t!
Wait, our edit fairies are border-hoppers?!
Trafficked Chinese fairies keep you country going
/sigh
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-2020-campaign-spox-wont-be-able-to-vote-for-him-due-to-her-illegal-immigrant-status
Stupid work coming up when I’m in the middle of posting a comment.
Would . . . deport.
Chinese fairies
They’re called twinks.
high school students should be able to apply the knowledge they learn in their civics classes.
They still teach Civics? Bullshit
Well, the Portlandia civics curriculum is short “Socialism good, capitalism bad”
Old enough to vote, not old enough to enter into legally-binding contracts.
But remember, expecting poor people to have an ID to vote is unreasonable and racist.
If you can’t legally send your own dick pics, you can’t send dickheads to DC.
Ugh. When I was 16 I would have voted for the drinking age to be lowered to 16, legalization of weed and… Hey, wait a minute…
When I was sixteen, everyone I knew was too stupid to be trusted to vote – both teachers and students.
When I was 16 I was an ignorant child but I got better (Prog Family Values).
Sixteen-year-olds can drive and pay taxes. Soon, they may also be able to vote in Oregon.
Too dumb to consent to sex, sit on a jury, wager the money they’ve earned to pay their taxes, sign up for military service, smoke a cigarette or drink a natty light, but plenty smart enough to make informed political choices.
OK, you do realize that you pretty clearly described the progressive ideal.
I love how something they are forced to do (pay taxes) somehow demonstrates their maturity.
18-year-olds being forcefully drafted was much of the rationale behind lowering the nation voting age to 18.
Although, the idea of paying taxes means you get to vote has a corollary they’ll run away screaming from.
I think it’s a great idea to tie Voting to Taxation. If you are a net payer, you vote, if Net receiver, you don’t. And move election day to April 16th.
Also, end paycheck witholdings.
And raise the drinking age to 40
Nope. 54 (pretty women exempted).
I remember my 16 year old know-it-all, smarter-than-those-oldsters self. *Shudders*
When my computer is ‘broke’ and I’ve already checked the thermostat, turned off/on, unplugged it and I’m sitting in a corner, sobbing, my wife will say something like, “Do you want me to call Josh?” I’ll look at her with fondness, quietly nod yes. “He says he’ll be over in a couple minutes, after he updates the Constitution for a Civics class project”. He plugs the line cord back in, shaking his head as he hops back on his bike. Smartass punk. The End
I do too. And looking back on it, in my case my 16 year old self was correct in almost every instance
That said I do not for one second believe that my experience was generalizable as I was by no means a normal 16 year old
Bonk bonk bonk!
High Five!
Will they be able to buy guns, booze, and cigs, too?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded her wayward center-leaning colleagues, telling them: “We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.”
And there it is, in black and white. It doesan’t matter how “sensible” or “bipartisan” your Democrat sounds in the election, if they are going to be hostages of the nutjob fringe when legislation comes to a vote.
“Sit down and do as you’re told. Didn’t you learn anything in school?”
Pelosi has a certain low cunning, she sees which way the wind is blowing in current year.
Lordosis.
http://archive.li/Q87Xt
Happy Friday Glibs!
23>1>43>39
2 has the best booty, by my (admittedly an outlier for Teh Glibs) standard of sexy
30 was best overall for me
37 was in the running, too
Not seeing 37 on my thiccness meter, I’d take a heaping helping of what 2 is offering though
Lordosis.
Shouldn’t that be “Ladyosis”?
And because I tend to do things regularly, here were are
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1100811308516073472
“@Dave_Joshua_B
Replying to @existentialcoms
There has never been a Socialist country, ever.”
Still waiting on that cyanide pill I asked for yesterday.
So Sweden and Denmark aren’t socialist utopia teaching us we have nothing to fear from socialism? Now i’m confused.
argh – the derp in the replies…. let the bombs fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3mtbFlr90
I’m pretty sure that account exists collect all the NPC’s into a single location.
neah just the tankies and some assorted not mu real socializm morons. there are other flavors of NPC who were othered by your comment
The internet can be a handy tool.
Not only that, but the socialist countries managed to kill orders of magnitude more people in less than half a century than the capitalist pigs did in the previous 300 years, demonstrating yet again the superior efficiency of central planning.
The stupid thing is whatever you think of US past, no one is advocating bringing back slavery. But socialism on the other hand…
They seem pretty stoked about the wealth tax at the moment.
Yep, just re-branding.
Someone tell Joseph Biden.
A. Animism is leads to cultures being overwhelmed by other cultures with different religious principles. (Man worship nature vs. Man conquer nature)
B. We killed a lot of each other and broke a lot of stuff to end slavery. People seem to conveniently forget the mounds of dead as a result of that transition.
I’ve Been Having a Lot of Casual Sex—and Loving It
Should I be worried?
Jesus the identity politics are disgusting. We need you to fill out this form so we can give you good advice? Really?!?!?!
“I’m not sure whether I should check myself” in? Yes, check yourself in
Jesus. “Make hay while the sun shines” is always good advice. Soon enough that letter writer will have nothing but xis memories.
…and hepatitis.
Soon enough that letter writer will have nothing but xis memories.
True enough, but whether those memories are of a deep, long-term relationship or of a long series of superficial, albeit enjoyable, encounters, they are still memories.
This is why I only have sex with strangers after getting black out drunk.
“Allo Sailor!”
Their answer to the question is utterly meaningless.
How old fashioned am I? I kinda want to know if it’s a man or a woman before I’d give advice.
What about the non-binaries?
Shitlord status confirmed
Slip ups like that are why I don’t think I’ll even be allowed to move back.
Sorry man, I reported your behavior. Got to keep my social credit score up. You don’t need yours anyway.
Back in the olden days we had to rely on barflies and floozies! We didn’t have none of this new-fangled go-to-meeting fooferah! Youngins these days is soft. Soft, I tells ye!
Nothing against the barflies and floozies. Just thinking about how I’d react if it were my son or my daughter.
You’re so unwoke straff. You have to celebrate anything and everything your child does without question, even if it’s dangerous and/or criminal; unless of course it’s holding libertarian views. Then they need psychiatric treatment.
I’m unwoke and hitting the snooze button like tetris pro.
I was just trying to make a funny, Straff. Now that I’m past that age I do find “hook-up culture” sort of skeevy.
No joking when we’re talking about the ol’ in-n-out.
You are just taking the fun out of it now…
I was making a lewd gesture as I typed that.
Youngins these days is soft. Soft, I tells ye!
Not if s/he’s getting regular sex.
Humble brag?
You’re getting all the tail you want, and you think this is a problem? The fuck?
I’ve been having a lot of formal sex lately. It’s not great — the tuxedos, the caviar, the prolonged negotiations.
When laying out the sex toys, do the nipple clamps get placed to the left or the right of the cock ring?
Your abject ignorance astounds me, plebe!
Switch to highland formal wear. It makes things much easier.
Married with young kids sex. “I’ve got six minutes a week from Wednesday that I might be awake after the kids crash, does that work for you?”
“I’ll take care of me, you take care of you. Be quiet because I forgot to turn the white noise generator on. Ready. Set. GO!”
*starts searching house for hidden cameras*
Married with teenagers can be even worse because they don’t go to bed.
Doesn’t help that our bedroom is right next to the living room with a paper thin wall that you can pretty easily hear whispers through
Have loud sex when they have friends over.
Yeah, try convincing the wife to be down with that when she can hear every word they say
I was going to say just send them outside for an hour, but Ted’s plan well lead them to figure it out on their own.
My valet keeps bunching the sheet. Ever so troublesome!
The manufacturers are being real tight with details but it seems to be cells grown in a tank. The end product is said to be granular like finely ground meat.
When a conflict like this exists – dissolve both agencies, as they have clearly grown beyond remit.
“struggling” = fighting among bureaucrats for territory
The horror, the horror.
Jesus, that’s actually not a joke; they are genuinely upset that he tends to adhere to the constitution.
If words have even a “semi” fixed meaning, their entire legal theory falls apart.
If words have even a “semi” fixed meaning
Allah knows they have been working on that problem.
So, according to this line, we’re really still England and our written Constitution isn’t authoritative. Uh-huh.
Atl;dr
So, adhering to his oath of office and defending the constitution over bad case law is “getting worse over time”? Maybe he’ll become more Gorsuch-ian!
Starting to think that, however much of a shitshow Trump may be elsewhere, his SCOTUS choices are surprisingly good.
^This. And his appointments will continue to thwart progs for decades to come.
“We’ll always have Paris!”
deference to case law is on the decline while his deference to statutes and the Constitution is growing
Umm, in American jurisprudence, Constitution > statutes > case law. The case law exists to interpret and apply statutes. If it is not consistent with the statute, it is a bad case and not only shouldn’t be deferred to, it should be overturned.
Now, whether the migration of American law from common law (case law) to statutory law is a good thing is a different question. But here we are.
I wonder if this could have anything to do with the DemSocs trying to destroy him during his confirmation…
They was just joshing!
Nothing like a bunch of people actively trying to destroy due process because it is politically convenient in trying to take you down, to nudge you into a newfound respect for the Bill of Rights as actually written, as a bulwark against the screaming mob.
There is every reason to believe that Thomas would have been a bit more center-of-the-road, had the left not gone scorched earth on him in the confirmation process too.
he has less care or respect than most judges for precedent, but greater concern for statutes and the Constitution as sources of authority.
MUH PRECEDENT is not a very good argument as precedent may, in fact, be based on Constitutionally flawed decisions. You even admit that he seems to defer to the Constitution, which is exactly what he is supposed to do. Apparently “Above the Law” wants to be exactly that, above the law.
I find Stare Decisis a badly argued appeal to authority. Why should we treat the justices that decided Dredd Scott, Plessey v Ferguson, US v Miller, Wickard v Filburn, Chevron v NRDC, and Roe V Wade as infallable?
Maybe appeal to authority is the wrong fallacy.
But anyway, it seems that the worst way to avoid injustice is to let a wrongly decided case stand for want of upsetting the current status quo. All that does is perpetuate injustice by making the incorrect and unconstitutional version apply longer.
I find Stare Decisis a badly argued appeal to authority.
There is a lot of value in law being predictable. People should be able to rely on the law as it exists when they act and make decisions. Stare decisis is a way preserving the predictability and protecting people’s justified reliance on the law as it exists. Its not an absolute rule, but judges should be wary about changing the law unilaterally.
Too bad previous judges weren’t cautious about changing the law unilaterally, which is what many of those cases are. But freeing judges to ignore precedent is a good way to get a bunch of judges acting like the judge in Hawaii who constantly issues nationwide edicts with zero accountability.
The district court overreach is a separate issue from letting bad supreme cour rulings stand for decades out of fear of disruption.
As a layperson, I’m still boggled by the fact that the Hawai’ian judges are still on the bench after blatantly ignoring the scope of their jurisdiction.
Perhaps it’s time to remove the judicial clergy from their pedistal. There is only one court required by the constitution.
The district court overreach is a separate issue from letting bad supreme cour rulings stand for decades out of fear of disruption.
I think its a warning about what to expect if you free judges to rule however they want, precedent be damned.
Precedent can certainly be overturned. Just keep in mind that there is a certain Man For All Seasons risk to it. When you cut down precedent, you are cutting down law, good or bad. When you cut it all down, etc.
It is a poor reason to hold on to patently unconsitutional rulings that invented law out of whole cloth.
The argument for it is that a very important aspect of the law is predictability. People make long term decisions based on the law, and sudden sea changes can be devastating. That said, there are absolutely limits to the respect old decisions deserve, and blatantly unconstitutional is a pretty hard and fast one. Handily, most of the really bad laws directly harm the predictability aspect of law so overturning them won’t have the devastating effects.
I now crave sex with strangers and find myself less satisfied with just one partner. I actively keep distance from the people I date because of this. Am I warping my mind by jumping from stranger to stranger? Is this a phase? Would it be better to invest in one person for a while? I’m not sure whether I should check myself, because I do want another long-term relationship down the line.
Do as you wish. Just be honest about it. Hell, it sounds like you could turn this into a moneymaking opportunity.
I hesitate to comment on this because I lurked through the last flame war over sexual morality. But I’ve encountered such people before in my dating misadventures. In my experience the multiple sexual partners isn’t the problem, it’s the total lack of concern for anyone but themselves that ensures they’ll never find happiness with a single partner.
I happen to think it’s a subconscious shift from (relatively speaking) a K-selection strategy to an r-selection strategy. Xe started out using K-selection, as most humans do, but when no offspring came along and with a plethora of available sex partners, xe shifted to an r-selection strategy automatically. These kinds of environmental influences have been shown to alter people’s default behavior before. The classic girl with “daddy issues” is just acting rationally to the signaling that men do not invest in children, therefore it’s advantageous to them to adopt an r-selection strategy. This individual’s false-infertility signaling, coupled with cultural forces signaling disinhibited sexuality shifted xir mind to an r-selection strategy as well. This does not happen consciously, hence the feeling of being out of control.
In a lot of ways, we really are just automatons with much less free-will than anyone would like to believe. Or this is totally half-baked.
Flame away!
Human being simply do not produce enough spawn who are independant quickly enough to achieve true r-selection strategies.
Yes, not in a rodent sense. I’m speaking on a spectrum here. Bunnies are also relative r-selection failures compared to insects.
It still doesn’t make any sense for humans as babies do not mature any more quickly if their mom’s a slut.
Having hormonally-mediated inclinations doesn’t mean a lack of free will. They may define the spectrum across which a parameter of behavior can lay, but not where in the spectrum one falls.
There is a difference between a somnambulist pissing in the fridge, and your asshole roommate doing because they think its funny.
somnexcretionist.
Strikes me as similar to the porn-haters’ argument that when your expose yourself (heh) to a sexual cornucopia, it’s hard to get it up for grilled cheese anymore.
For this person, it seems like they bought into this “have fun and then settle down” mantra and is discovering that settling down isn’t as fun as having fun. It’s not like casual sex or not getting married is verboten anymore, so have your fun.
As noted above, “Make hay while the sun shines”! You won’t remain young and beautiful forever and if you are having moral qualms about your behavior, take up a hobby.
I’ve experienced the cornucopia, and it was nice for a time. I’m happy with the grilled cheese now.
And at a certain point most people get tired of having fun and want to settle down.
settling down isn’t as fun as having fun
But for many people, it is more rewarding. Apparently, for this person, it is not.
What I think I see as a pattern is that some people make the shift in their thinking “too late”; when they want to switch from having fun to settling down, the available/acceptable long-term partners are thinner on the ground. I think this is especially true for women, triply true for women who had kids during their having fun stage.
IMO it’s a symptom of many modern people’s nearsighted emotionalistic hedonism. The people who have any amount or foresight are going to be able to make the disciplined decision to forego immediate pleasure for future reward. The emotional 5 year olds in adult bodies that end up in these advice columns have zero discipline and always emote their way to perdition.
Reminded of a gal I knew in the past who used to have a new boyfriend every 6-months, and also frequently hooked up at the bar when she wasn’t in a “steady” relationship.
She once confided in me that “No one wants to marry a slut. So I’m stuck with -current loser boyfriend- since he’s the only one who will put up with me.”
I told her that was bullshit but – 8 years later – she’s still with that loser boyfriend. And I think the only reason is because time finally got to her and, with her looks gone, the easy pick ups / relationships are near impossible.
I am reasonably certain that there are plenty of men who would be more than happy to marry a slut, as long as she is willing to be THEIR slut and remain a slut for him after they are married. What they in general do not want to do is marry a slut who is still being a slut for any guy who asks or stops being a slut and decides that she is done with sex for fun the minute they put the ring on.
I knew this girl’s history and would have gladly dated (or even married her if I wasn’t already married). She was (emphasis on was) fun to be around back in those days, and a close friend of my wife and I. Let’s just say it was complicated, and once she moved to another city the communication between us faltered.
^^^speaks truth to pussy power.
“Studies show” that people who participate in this kind of behavior do end up having difficulty forming long term relationships. Could be a chicken or egg situation, but I don’t think it would have no effect.
Studies also show that married people are happier, healthier and wealthier. Seems like the best advice would be to keep it in your pants.
My life in sex: ‘Orgasmic meditation is fabulous’
She’s behind the curve…
the men get to explore their own sexuality in a non-goal-oriented way – blowjob after the stroking is done?
Then, in my 70s, I discovered orgasmic meditation
The goggles… they do nothing
You are wearing the wrong ones.
something something dry heaves
Nursing Home STD Epidemic. Pixellated film at 11.
Who the fook wants to watch bad Japanese pr0n?
Written by a late stage Alzheimer’s patient.
Oh dear. Now where did I leave my clitoris? Silly me! It’s right there.
*”Whoops, I was wearing it, Silly Me!”
So when a man touches a woman it’s “meditation”, but when a woman does it to a man in a massage parlor it’s immoral and illegal. Where is that male privilege again?
orgasmic but non-climactic sensation
What were we saying about words not having meanings any more?
One can orgasm without climax. Particularly females.
Tantra for the win!
I seem to be one of the few men who can do this, but only from oral or a hand job. On the flip side I pretty much cannot climax from those. It is really weird
15 minutes? That is barely getting started.
So this exists
https://twitter.com/RightTingWakes/status/1100518678083354624
‘Trump will win, 100%’: conservatives on socialism, Bernie Sanders and 2020
At this rate, I’ll probably vote for him out of fear of the alternative.
“the Democratic party is careening towards running on a socialist platform”
So you’re saying it isn’t?
Yeah, not sure if they are goal tending there or just not aware that ship has long ago sailed.
Refund tracker watch:
Average tax refunds are up 19% this week, now at 2018 levels
In fact, the IRS noted that it was 1.3% ahead of last year, with 47.7 million returns in so far, representing $121 billion back to taxpayers, compared with $126 billion returns in 2018.
“It is a very favorable development for consumption to see refunds more in line with past years’ experience after seeing the significant lag in the data prior to the latest daily report,” economists from JPMorgan wrote in a note Thursday. “But if refund issuance is simply in line with that of recent years, this could be viewed as a disappointment given some expectations that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would lead to a jump in refunds this year.”
So the poor metric when judging the TCJA is now favorable anyway.
That excerpt is like bizzarro world. Wasnt everyone expecting a significant decline in tax returns due to the lowered withholdings?
Also, that’s a ton of interest free loans.
Nope. I barely watch the news, and I’ve seen sob stories about how people can’t go on vacation or pay their property taxes because their refunds went down. I’ve also heard complaints in real life about this.
Note that I live 8n NYC area
I meant tax refund, not tax return. Why the hell do they call it a return anyway? It’s just a tax form.
Shocking concept: People with regular jobs who only report W-2 income likely got very accurate information from the rebaselined withholding, and were able to file earlier. More complex income structures, less accurate withholding, more refunds.
Left unexamined is why people thought changed rates and withholding tables would increase refunds, rather than just decrease tax payments.
Story that Trumpentaxes mean refunds are down: shouted from the rooftops.
Story that Trumpentaxes haven’t really affected refunds: crickets. And even the crickets are being killed off.
I didn’t read it, but the NYT has some sort of an article about the Trump/Kim meeting. The headline describes it as a “failure”.
You could knock me over with a feather.
NPR was calling it a failure also, and talking about the “fallout” therefrom.
Also how Cohen’s testimony proved that Trump is a superduper felon that is about to be frogmarched out by SDNY.
Ugh, failure is giving away your leverage without getting what you want.
Bear in mind, these are likely the same people who praised giving the Ayatollah pallettes of cash for essentially nothing in return.
Which is exactly what they all said before the meeting that Trump was going to do. Now that he hasn’t, they’re criticizing him for not doing what they claimed they feared he would do.
It’s a failure because Trump made all the old time diplomatic idiots, but especially the ones from the Obama era, that would have accepted a shitty deal just so they can say they got something, look like the retards they are. It is high time we stopped allowing asshats to fuck us over simply because these idiots need to produce something to show value. Trump walking away from this was awesome, because it tells all the bad actors out there we would rather not have any deal than getting a bad deal. See Reagan walking away from the SALT discussions in Iceland and the following demise of the USSR in that arms race that they then instigated.
Eh. Susan Rice was at least honest enough to say that the right thing to do was walk away once it became clear Kim was not going to budge from his demands of full withdrawal of sanctions.
Interestingly enough, the NPR interviewer never brought up the subject of “lying to congress” while Susan Rice was on.
FAKE SKANDUL!
Neo-nazi group appoints new leader, a black activist hoping to dismantle the entire org: report
“I think it’s kind of a sad obit for one of the longest-running white nationalist organizations,” Heimbach told AP.
We should all be afraid of the Neo-Nazi group that can’t even elect a Nazi to the head of its organization.
They’re truly a model of efficiency and effectiveness.
They have 40 dues paying members. 40! They’re basically taking over.
90% of them are FBI agents anyway, they’re used to answering to a black guy.
+1 Blazing Saddles.
They said you was hung!
Is the dude’s name Clayton Bigsby?
Beat me to it.
Didn’t Dave Chappelle have a skit about that?
Wow, 40 whole people are dues paying members. What a strong indication of the epidemic of hate that is the Neo-Nazi movement.
They need a Tom Berringer and Debra Winger based movie about this.
Negro-Nazis
Negro-Nazi?
“We put the ‘az’ back in ‘Negroni’!”
She’s making a list, checking it twice…
According to The Washington Post, the Democrats conducted a closed-door session during which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned over twenty supposed moderate members of her party, “We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.” The Post then said Ocasio-Cortez, “the unquestioned media superstar of the freshman class, upped the ante, admonishing the moderates and indicating she would help liberal activists unseat them in the 2020 election.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman Corbin Trent added that she fumed that any Democrats voting with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.” He asserted, in reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), “She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them.”
Preceding the brouhaha in the Democratic camp, 26 Democrats joined Republicans to amend a bill increasing federal background checks for gun purchases. That bill included a section stating that if an illegal immigrant attempted to buy a firearm, ICE would have to be alerted. Some Democrats were rankled by that proviso.
“they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them.”
She Name Names!
Just don’t say “black-list” because reasons.
If the U.S. were a third word country or even if Hillary were in charge, I’m sure AOC would die in a mysterious car accident or something.
Bill, in an Oldsmobile in the Chappaquiddic?
When is AOC’s book “My Struggle” coming out?
Editing crayon is a slow process, cut them some slack.
After My Social Justice Friends Dropped Me For Not Being PC Enough, Conservatives Took Me In
How about that? Non-progs are more tolerant.
Anyone not able to see this immediately is bound to be a prog and suffer from a mental disorder.
Most people have the ability to be friends with someone they disagree with. A lot also know how to forgive the little things.
Unpersoned.
I’m proud to be disliked by both sides. To some people I’m a right wing Fox News watching racist for not hating Trump, and to some others I’m a liberal baby killer for thinking all drugs should be legal and that cops are scum.
Good news. Soma is not only legal it is mandatory, and we no longer have cops. We have Freedom Facilitators.
This individual’s false-infertility signaling, coupled with cultural forces signaling disinhibited sexuality shifted xir mind to an r-selection strategy as well. This does not happen consciously, hence the feeling of being out of control.
I’m not sure what any of that means. I can honestly say there has never been a day in my life when I seriously thought to myself, “My life would be better if only I had a son and heir. If only I had a little baby to bounce upon my knee.” Fuck that.
If anything, I should be on the “random hookup” program, since I am apparently incapable of keeping a monogamous relationship upright over any significant span of time. But- as I have said many times, I suck at sharing.
TMMV
True, you can’t even share a thread.
It’s purely subconscious, and working on averages. The whole “selfish gene” thing.
Then again it could be pure psychobabble. Who knows?
The only constant is death.
Very few men do say that before they become parents but the majority discover it is true afterwords
Moreover, my time-trend analyses, which suggest that Kavanaugh’s deference to case law is on the decline while his deference to statutes and the Constitution is growing, may provide textual evidence of Kavanaugh’s increasingly textualist and originalist philosophy.
He has a front row seat from which to observe the real world consequences of “deference to case law”. Maybe he thinks the Constitution and fundamental principles on which the country were founded have been undermined by judges who just make shit up as they go along.
Someone here put me on Short Circut, and It’s crazy to find out that there is so much law (Immunities) that are created out of nothing
“It is a very favorable development for consumption to see refunds more in line with past years’ experience after seeing the significant lag in the data prior to the latest daily report,” economists from JPMorgan wrote in a note Thursday. “But if refund issuance is simply in line with that of recent years, this could be viewed as a disappointment given some expectations that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would lead to a jump in refunds this year.”
Goddammit.
All is lost.
Instead of telling failed journos to learn to code, maybe just tell them to learn how to cut hair?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-this-oil-boom-town-even-a-barber-can-make-180-000-11551436210
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This thread is an embarrassment.
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*takes ball and stomps off*
Now it’s not fun anymore.
Mission failed, we’ll get ’em next time.
No, no we wont…
Not with the number of individualists and contrarians around here.
+1 Herding Cats
Not with the number of
individualiststrolls andcontrariansautists around here.OK, I’m totes not getting the single-letter comments that follow a “learn to code” comment. Help a brother out?
I believe they are trying to type out “LEARN TO CODE” one letter at a time, but as you see, things aren’t…working out.
And they started to do that because Twitter unleashed an algorithm that suspended any account that wrote “Learn to code.” Because it is hate speech against that most oppressed minority, shitty fake journalists.
4chan spells out “learn to code” in successive comments. We… try.
It happened on the twitters once, which makes it “hep” and “kewl,” as the kids say these days.
I never got what was wrong with telling either factory workers or journalists who lost their jobs to learn a marketable skill.
*shrugs*
Learn to swirl that tongue.
“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them.”
Wait, what?
I cannot make any sense out of that at all. Which names, the ones that voted for gun “safety” and forcible administration of psychotropics, or the ones that voted against it?
It reads like some people voted for, and some against, a bill with “good” and “bad” both in it. So is the list the ones who voted for/against the good thing, or the bad thing?
Or is forcible administration of psychotropics now on the good list?
Yeah, that was a head-turner for me, too.
Remember much of what Proggie politicians say publicly is not for public consumption.
Rather it’s aimed at their supporters. Like all cults, the cult leader’s power is dependent on keeping the rank and file from straying out of the cult.
To keep them from straying, the leadership seeks to fully convince them that the people outside the cult are evil, damned or utterly dangerous.
A question for the business owners (and anyone else who wants to chime in) here. A friend of mine may have the opportunity to purchase property and a business in the next month or so. The business is a coffee shop, located on the ground floor of the property, I believe there are two residential rental units as part of the property as well. The current owner is looking to retire, hence the sale. The friend is planning to see how much of this she can swing herself, but she may need some outside investors. Anything she should be looking out for? Warning signs? Red flags?
Has she done any of this before? Becoming a residential landlord, commercial landlord, and coffee shop owner all at once is a lot.
Especially since the employees will all end up being disgruntled people with studies degrees and a deep seeded hatred of those that are successful or don’t suck on Marx’s cock.
Lots of due diligence. Verify all financials against tax records. If it sounds too good to be true it most certainly is. Don’t invest in things you don’t understand.
Verify all financials against tax records.
Many (most?) small businesses, especially cash ones, skim off the till. What they tell you is the profit probably includes the skim. What they report to the IRS does not. My traditional position has been that I will value the business based on their taxes. I’ve done this with physicians, too. They tell us that they earned $X last year and won’t take a salary less than that. I ask for their W-2 and lo – that ain’t what they told the feds. Guess which number I use.
It also helps to do the acquisition as an asset acquisition rather than buying the corporation or LLC (which looks superficially easier). However, buying the corp. means you buy its liabilities, known and unknown. Buying the corp. usually means lower taxes for the seller, though (capital gains v ordinary income).
Now, a properly run coffee shop can have crazy margins. They can be a heckuva nice small business, if you know how to run a business. If you have never run a business, go to the local b-school or SBA office – they should have some classes and whatnot to help you understand how. I can’t tell you how many people, business owners even, who don’t understand the difference between “gross” and “net”.
Many (most?) small businesses, especially cash ones, skim off the till.
+1 Greek Restaurant
I don’t do much cash, so that’s not really an option for me. But I know my tax law pretty well by now.
Many (most?) small businesses, especially cash ones, skim off the till. What they tell you is the profit probably includes the skim. What they report to the IRS does not. My traditional position has been that I will value the business based on their taxes.
Bingo. Acquire at the valuation you can objectively verify.
The restaurant trade is a harsh mistress. 90% of them fail within the first two years but if the rental suites are paying then she might just swing it with a shit-load of luck and 18 hour days.
However much money you think you’ll need to buy/open a restaurant, double it. Undercapitalization is the runaway leading reason why so many of them fail.
“Best way to make a million bucks in the restaurant business is to start with two million” – all of the dozen or so people I’ve met who failed in the restaurant business.
Your avatar is fitting for those that wish to enter that industry.
I keep telling my wife this. She has all these dreams about opening up a little bed and breakfast when we retire or opening a coffee shop or getting a food truck. I constantly have to remind her that with housekeeping skills about 2 steps below Peg Bundys and a weak at best work ethic the business wouldn’t last 90 days
One advantage is that it’s an existing and up and running coffee shop already. So at least it wouldn’t be starting from the ground up.
I’ll definitely ask her if she’s checked the tax records for the business.
Is a Starbucks coming nearby soon, and the current owner is bailing out before the word gets out?
My due diligence on opening a restaurant would consist of giving a Strong Ignore to the person suggesting I try such an insanely risky endeavor.
No. And I don’t think a Starbucks would do well in the area. It’s a hipster haven, the only chain stores that I’m aware of in the area are gas stations. The closest chain coffee shop is a local one, and there’s one Starbucks that’s even remotely close.
Very true, but it sounds like it’s an established business. Given that, I’d say spend a lot of time talking to employees and regular customers and find out what works and what doesn’t. Keep the stuff that works and slowly change the things that don’t.
As far as the rental units, find out as much as you can about the tenants. Long-term tenants generally good. If the units turn over fr
Also, try to inquire about any “special relationships” that the current owner may have with local government officials.
And gauge the political climate of the locale – is city council contemplating tax and regulatory increases?
Is the coffee shop a franchise? Assuming that contract?
Do they roast their own beans…? Would an employee or two who knows how to run the place be around?
Not a franchise, it’s independent and in a good location in a trendy neighborhood. I don’t believe they roast their own beans. I’ll make sure to give her a heads up on checking to see about the employees.
Where do they get their coffee, supplies, food, etc.? Electronic payments and banking…
Stuff she’ll have to know to keep it running.
Are the employees “Studies” majors unable to capitalize on their grievance studies?
Can’t speak to the financial side, but I’d say are she should make very sure that the building is up to code, especially accessibility stuff for wherever she happens to be. Cafes seem to do pretty well, but like any restaurant you’re running on razor-thin margins. Your big issues are going to be minimizing waste in your dairy supplies, since they’re very perishable and don’t store well, but running out will be a catastrophe. Food safety will be a big issue, again, because of the dairy factor. Lock down suppliers, too, especially with pastries because, again, that’s gonna be a big source of waste and you’ll want to find a source that will cut you a deal on a contract because you’ll throw half of it out at the end of most days except for the day you cut the order and then run out because the local soccermom meetup picked your place out of the phone book randomly.
My high school buddy was a trained chef and opened under his own banner in an established spot with his parents backing. He hired me on as a sous chef. Cajun cookery when that was unheard of thirty years ago. Didn’t last six months. He couldn’t handle the hours and would just disappear during the busy times. It was a shame because he was truly talented but just a lazy fuck.
Owning a business and being a lazy fuck don’t go well together.
Mamma’s Boy, that’s all.
Ah. OK, Yeah, I see that.
Cooking is very high stress. I sure as hell couldn’t do it. I was a line cook for a few years and while I enjoyed it most of the time I definitely remember how much it sucks to be in the weeds with no way out.
Check both sets of books. Make the offer on the IRS figures. $20 cash is $20 in the pocket
Yeah, I’ve already brought up that they’ll need to go through the food safety training that’s mandatory for the county. I don’t think there’s a kitchen in the place, so that also minimizes some of the food safety issues (no raw meat or food prep).
Money in vs money out.
Coffee shop business, Turn key? It’s worth roughly 10x annual income. Notice I said income and that’s after taking into account owner’s salary if they’re full time. Remember to take into account what it would cost the business to rent the store front if they had to rent it.
Rental properties? Take the monthly rent and multiply it by 85, that’s how much each property is roughly worth. If/when I buy rentals or recommend them, I try to stay under 80x monthly rent. But it sounds like this may be more of a ‘dream retirement’ thing.
Those should give you rough numbers as to the value of the entire building plus the business.
It’s worth roughly 10x annual NET income.
I know that’s what you meant, but you have to be crystal clear. Too many people think gross revenue when they should be thinking net income.
Thanks, those ratios should really help.
I say she needs to look at it as a real estate deal first and foremost. The coffee shop should be analyzed separately. It may not even be the best use of the property.
Excellent advice. This is really two businesses. A commercial building, valued primarily on a multiple of cash flow, and a coffee shop, valued the same way.
That also means you should impute rental income from the coffee shop and to the commercial building to get the proper value of both.
Exactly. Otherwise you don’t know if the rental units are covering for an unprofitable coffee shop or if a profitable coffee shop is covering for mis-priced rent (like renting to friends of relatives, etc.)
3 businesses because there are residential renters, too. Residential real estate is a whole different animal from commercial.
^THIS
It should definitely be two separate businesses. Do the real estate first. If the current owner won’t do it that way, run away.
*shocked face*
The Big Apple’s fast-food industry, The New York Times recently reported, has long served as a laboratory for progressive politicians and the nation’s labor machine.
But new economic research suggests their latest experiment is not going as planned.
Data show that following the labor movement’s “Fight for $15” victory, which imposed steep annual increases in mandatory wages for workers, New York City experienced its sharpest decline in restaurant jobs in nearly 20 years.
Restaurants tend to operate on famously low profit margins, typically 2 to 6 percent. So a 40 percent mandatory wage increase over a two-year period is not trivial.
In response to the minimum wage hikes, New York City restaurants did what businesses tend to do when labor costs rise: they increased prices and reduced labor staff and hours.
For example, Lalito’s, a popular restaurant on Bayard Street, recently raised its menu prices 10-15 percent, Eater New York reports.
A New York City Hospitality Alliance survey also showed that three out of four full-service restaurants said they planned to reduce employee hours. Nearly half of those surveyed said they planned to eliminate some job positions in 2019.
Remember, children, the real minimum wage is and will always be zero.
Clearly the problem is that the minimum wage is just too damned low. $50 an hour!
And I am sure one of the geniuses writing the law will put in a condition the next time that forces the employer to neither raise the cost of their items nor cut staff. Because if you make it the law, then the laws of economics will have to bend to it!
Margaret Thatcher provided the finest, most accurate, most concise summary of socialism’s trajectory ever spoken. It’s a shame so many people are trapped in pre-adolescence, otherwise they’d understand that you can’t just pout and whine scarcity out of existence.
B-but muh living wages tho
But new economic research suggests their latest experiment is not going as planned.
You aren’t responsible for what you want to happen. You are responsible for what you knew, or should have known, would happen.
It’s not even hard to spot the intent here. The left likes people on the dole. What does this policy do? It puts more people on the dole.
The picture in that article made me think of the following meme possibility:
Panel One: Raise the minimum wage — NOW!
Panel Two: Raise unemployment benefits — NOW!
Canadian Glibs – is Trudeau really done? This sounds like naked corruption exposed for all to see.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1100940359553699841.html
Nope. This doesn’t even rise to the level of “shennanigan” with the true believers. He’ll be reelected come October sure as the sun rises in the East.
Okay. Nice to see that the left is no different up there with their double standards.
I subscribed to Michelle Rempel’s You tube channel. She strokes all of my buttons for some reason. Probably because I went to school with mostly Central European girls.
How games whitewash Nazism, and the responsibility developers have to history
Through the Darkest of Times devs explore the industry’s dangerous failure when it comes to depicting fascism
I believe Hercules predates the Third Reich by several years.
Hardly. The Nazis existed by the 1930’s. Hercules didn’t come out until 1997.
“Often, video game narratives with white male heroes use a very similar method: the lonesome soldier who has to make tough decisions and solve all problems using violence. And even Wolfenstein which does a lot of things right, by telling about the Nazis’ anti-semitism and holocaust, celebrates aesthetics of fascism as invented by [Nazi-sympathising artists]
A game where you literally mow down millions of Nazis up to and including Hitler is actually creeping Nazism.
The hero of Wolfenstein is an American-Polish Jew who kills a cybernetic Hitler. If they have a problem with that, do they have a problem with other revenge fantasy media, such as the recent Django reboot?
Ah, I see that yet another person has seen fit to tar Ernst Jünger by association with the Nazis, despite the fact that he repeatedly rejected their overtures to be part of their movement. From Wikipedia:
Well, whaddaya know? For the first time in week, the sky is clear and blue.
We’ve had that for the last month except it means that the temp will be -20. Sick of it but beats being too hot.
Well, there goes Biden’s chance at the White House
Former Vice President Joe Biden was shamed Thursday evening by LGBT activists for merely calling Vice President Mike Pence a “decent guy” during a speech in Omaha, Nebraska. In cowardly fashion, Biden — who’s a top contender to be the Democrats’ 2020 Trump-challenger, though he’s yet to officially throw his hat in the ring — walked back the utterly mild compliment.
“The fact of the matter is it was followed on by a guy who’s a decent guy, our vice president, who stood before this group of allies and leaders and said, ‘I’m here on behalf of President Trump,’ and there was dead silence. Dead silence,” Biden told an audience at the Chuck Hagel Forum in Global Leadership at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, according to CNN.
Perfectly reasonable.
“Sex and the City” actress and former New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon was one of the high-profile leftists who lashed out at Biden for the remark.
“[Joe Biden] you’ve just called America’s most anti-LGBT elected leader ‘a decent guy,'” she posted in a tweet. “Please consider how this falls on the ears of our community.”
………
“You’re right, Cynthia,” he wrote. “I was making a point in a foreign policy context, that under normal circumstances a Vice President wouldn’t be given a silent reaction on the world stage. But there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the Vice President.”
Never. Apologize.
Nixon offered a conditioned thanks to Biden for his retraction and added another jab at Mr. Pence: “Thanks [Joe Biden]. Appreciate the response,” she said. “But please understand from where we sit, his dehumanizing of our community disqualifies [Mike Pence] for the honorific of ‘decent’, regardless of the context.”
I literally have never heard the man say anything against anyone. Where the hell do they get this crap? ///rhetorical
Mike Pence eats his Mars bar with a knife and fork.
Well then, so far it looks like we’re just stuck with the fringe loonies trying to out-do one another.
“I literally have never heard the man say anything against anyone. Where the hell do they get this crap”
Apparently like 20 years ago there was some of gay conversion therapy bill and he voted on the wrong side of it. Or something. IDK.
Mme. Naptown jousted briefly about Trump last night and I told her again that people like her are why he’s going to win if he runs in 2020. She maintained that he was utterly indefensible because he’s stupid (they love that one) sexist and racist, and just generally a gross person who you would be embarrassed to be seen with in public. I told her that he was still way better than what Clinton would’ve been. But the main thing is that the left has totally embraced identity politics, and the problem with identity politics is that what a person does isn’t as important as who a person is demographically. Problem is, sometimes, in fact very often, people who are very good at something you need are flawed in some fashion, even if, from the leftist perspective, that flaw is that they’re not the write color or sexual orientation or whatever.
Actual policy no longer matters. It’s all a matter of taste.
“I have here, in my hand, a list of names.”
Traitors. Reactionaries. Heretics. Freemasons. Enemies of the People.
Well hey, at least it’s not in a binder, right?
Bear in mind, these are likely the same people who praised giving the Ayatollah pallettes of cash for essentially nothing in return.
You initiate the negotiation with a show of good faith. Everybody knows that.
“Nice little oil refinery you got there. You still having it is us being nice.”
That counts as “good faith” in diplomacy.
The Olympics are going to be hilarious next year.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/nuts-olympics-to-allow-transgender-athletes-to-compete-with-women-without-having-gender-reassignment-surgery/
Good luck on the uneven bars. *Covers nuts*
I hope all of the medals in women’s sports are taken by trannies.
Yes. Big, obviously male, pre-op, transvestites winning every event by a mile and setting world records. I’ll be laughing.
Suddenly my dream of being an Olympic athlete is within my reach!
*searches online for US Women’s Judo team tryout dates*
Hmm… I wonder how I could fare in female wrestling.
Old Mike Myers joke – “My Dad could actually win an Olympic medal in curling!”
I’m laughing thinking about how this would have played out if the Soviets were still around.
“You. Oleg. You are Olga now. Put on this dress and wig and report to women’s training area now.”
Minnesooda, what is you doin’?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-says-she-does-not-recognize-venezuelan-interim-president-defying-dem-leadership-western-governemnts
Appealing to her hard-left constituents to avoid being primaried, or so I hear. Probably from y’all.
Uffda. She keeps this up and the local paper is going to be forced to maybe cover her.
And if I were her and had the shady marriage thing in my closet, I wouldn’t be so blase about bucking party leadership. Pelosi is going to call up the press lapdogs at some point and tell them to have at that story.
Going to be a mindfuck if we have to thank Pelosi and Schumer for saving American democracy from the progressive monster they’ve whelped.
Well……this is refreshingly direct:
WIRED UK
✔
@WiredUK
Facebook has banned Tommy Robinson. Here’s who it should ban next https://buff.ly/2BXIYMR
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2:00 PM – Feb 28, 2019
Okay, I know who Tommy Robinson is, who’s this Wire Duk?
Disco Duck’s son
Sounds like one of those bullshit bosses from around Megaman X7 or so when they ran out of good themes.
“ anti-racist charity Hope not Hate found that the removal of Alex Jones and Gavin McInnes from social media had significantly dented their online clout.“
Jones/Rogan yesterday got 4 million views in 24 hours. Try again.
WIRED sucks. Ever since they put out that Obama-fellating edition during his presidency, I haven’t picked up a single copy. That was an embarrassment.
Yep it used to be a good magazine. I would read it cover to cover.
Now it is a fashion magazine for geeks (complete with perfume samples)
Speaking of video games, and Nazis…
I am not a military scholar, but I have heard many times that Hitler was a bungler of the highest order, who lost the war by not letting the professionals run it. (Rommel, anyone?) What would happen if you built a game which woulod allow the Nazis to win WWII? Could such a game be made? Is there already one out there?
I’m pretty sure the War College has classes in which the students critique failed strategy and tactics.
Axis and Allies (not video game) allows for the Axis to win the war.
You know who else wanted the Axis to win the war…
Ezra Pound?
Apparently that’s some sort of leftist purity test thing now. I keep hearing SJWs reminding each other to ask conservatives if they think the “right side” won WW2.
The correct answer is “apparently the wrong side won WW1”
That should shut them up for a second.
There used to be a computer game series called Panzer General that did the same. Awesome game, btw, I wish it were still around.
Check out Panzer Corps on Steam. It’s a worthy successor to PG and they have a number of what-if scenarios and a scenario editor.
Also online play though I haven’t gone there yet.
Never go online.
only if the player(s) playing the allies are morons or there is a massive discrepancy in luck of the die. The game allows for the axis to win but it is pretty heavily weighted in favor of the allies
“I have heard many times that Hitler was a bungler of the highest order, who lost the war by not letting the professionals run it”
Pretty much. He was an absolute fucking moron.
“According to the terms of their agreements, Germany was obliged to come to the aid of Japan if a third country attacked Japan, but not if Japan attacked a third country. Ribbentrop reminded Hitler of this, and pointed out that to declare war against the US would add to the number of enemies Germany was fighting against, but Hitler dismissed this concern as not being important,[2] and, almost entirely without consultation, chose to declare war against the US, wanting to do so before, he thought, Roosevelt would declare war on Germany.[3][4][5]”
He declared war against the largest industrial power in the world, when he didn’t have to. Just because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
The worst thing that could have happened to Germany (assuming you were a German who wanted to win the war, of course) was their rapid victory in the West in 1940. It was Hitler’s decision over the objections of the OKW, and when it was a smashing success it cemented his opinion of himself as a military genius and resulting in him completely ignoring his staff officers for the rest of the war.
Ignoring the generals fucks him over on the Ostfront for sure, but on the grand strategy level, he lost the war in December 41, when he chose to declare war on the largest industrial power, a power that still could have been kept neutral against the Reich. In the long run, the marriage of American industrial power and Russian manpower is what cost him the war, but if he hadn’t driven the groom into the church, that marriage would probably not have happened.
If he had sworn to never attack Americans, I don’t think FDR could have gotten a declaration of war on Germany until 1942 or 1943, and possibly never. By that time, the Soviets would have been done. One of the big lies of WWII is that the Russians beat the Germans and the US provided a small amount of help. Russian manpower and courage did, but with American food in their bellies and American trucks doing the logistics. Courage and manpower isn’t enough to win wars.
There’s a reason Churchill marked the German declaration of war on the US as the moment he knew they would win the war ““Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful,”
The thing is, the US was already gearing up for war and already lend-leasing to Germany’s enemies before being attacked. I don’t think it made much of a difference that Hitler declared war; once the Japanese had roped the US in officialy that was it for isolationism and it was only a matter of time until the US was going to declare war on Germany.
yes but we were not really lend-leasing to Russia at the time and even a 12 month delay in the start of that would have changed the outcome of the war and likely meant no Soviet Union in the post war period. The Russians were brave and determined but they would have lost their army to starvation and logistical collapse by mid 1942 without the US supplies
“already lend-leasing to Germany’s enemies before being attacked.”
Not in the amounts that flooded in 1942 forward. Particularly the sheer number of supplies sent to the USSR via Persia, the Arctic, and Vladivostok. FDR was able to slip old destroyers and some munitions for cash and bases, but shit like “literally moving a whole Ford plant to Russia” was only possible with a declared war.
“I don’t think it made much of a difference that Hitler declared war; once the Japanese had roped the US in officially that was it for isolationism and it was only a matter of time until the US was going to declare war on Germany.”
The Japanese attacked the US fleet, if Hitler had been smart he would have loudly and publicly proclaimed he had nothing to do with that, perhaps even “declared war” on Japan.The Japanese and Germans did literally nothing together during the war. Hell the Japanese were neutral vis a vis the USSR until the USSR declared war on Japan after Hiroshima. The Japanese let the US ship supplies via Vladivostok.
Basically, Hitler was in a bar fight with a guy his size, looked across the room, saw a tiny guy slap the biggest guy in the room in the face, and then decided to run across the bar and loudly declare to the big guy “I’m best friends with the tiny guy that just slapped you!!!!”
Yeah, but my impression is FDR wanted war with Germany. I doubt anything Germany did after Pearl Harbor would have prevented us from declaring war on them, especially since they were already targeting our ships in the Battle of the Atlantic even before Pearl Harbor.
Crystal Meth is one hell of a drug.
He launched a campaign in North Africa with first securing Gibraltar – any idiot with a map could have told him that was an easy way to lose 100k men and all their gear. He attacked the Soviet Union with first dealing with the Brits. Every time the industrialists showed him a new weapon, he made some recommendations to fuck it up. Once in a while, he’d get discouraged and leave his Field Marshals alone of a month – and they would reorganize the Eastern Front in a way that made sense, withdraw a hundred worthless miles and destroy a Russian Corps in a nasty counter-attack. Then Hitler would return and it would be back to holding ground in static positions and getting slaughtered.
He never did figure out that lots and lots of Panther tanks would have been better than a few King Tigers. Same holds true for their aircraft.
without first securing Gibraltar…
Franco refused to give him permission to cross Spanish territory – but Hitler could have asked for forgiveness after crossing a couple of mech divisions through to assault the Brits.
Avatar checks out…
There are many variables, Brooksie. Timing of Germany opening the Eastern Front. Allied timing and location of European invasion. Operation Sea Lion. Allies cracking ENIGMA.
One of his blunders was delaying the invasion of Russia to deal with the Baltics. If he had started that invasion on time, he would have taken Moscow before winter set in, and the Eastern Front would have been completely different.
While opening the Eastern Front while Britain was still standing was a mistake, it wasn’t a fatal mistake necessarily. Not starting Barbarossa earlier was the fatal and avoidable mistake.
Balkans, not Baltics.
Hitler was a genius at bluffing and taking advantage of politicians who didn’t recognize that a treaty meant nothing to him, he viewed it as a concession. He conquered a bunch of territory diplomatically without a shot being fired.
His initial strength, audacity, turned into a liability once the shooting got well underway. He was an idiot about conducting an actual war once enough people finally saw the monster he was and he tried the same old diplomatic shit with Poland that led to the declaration of war against him. He wouldn’t listen to generals who knew what they were doing. Fortunately. The Allies were woefully unprepared for the German military machine and the blitzkrieg tactics. That war was touch and go about who would win.
“He wouldn’t listen to generals who knew what they were doing.”
Yep.
You know who else wouldn’t listen to his generals?
Truman?
Lincoln?
Fireball Roberts?
The Globetrotters?
Meadowlark Lemon?
D’oh.
Hearts of iron -1-4
^This. It seems like the key strategy, much like in real life, is to take the British out of the war ASAP.
Yeah, but that’s a big “if” at least in our timeline. But denying the Americans a staging area for an invasion of Europe from the North is crucial.
I can also see the Americans soft invading the Irish Free State under such a scenario. Did you know that the US soft invaded Iceland during WW2. Just showed up with a bunch of ships and said they were building a base. Not a shot fired.
I’d love a history game that would allow you to fight out scenarios like that.
I did not know that, that’s interesting. I always figured if the British got knocked out of the war the US public would be strongly for neutrality, maybe even to the point that public pressure would drive the US to ease off of the Japanese rather than risk war. Maybe then you wind up with a multipolar world, with the US, USSR, Germany, and Japan running their respective zones of control.
Japan attacking PH was such an unforced error …
The US public was always strongly against entering the war. It was FDR that wanted the US in the war.
The games lack mentioned, Hearts of Iron, allows things like that to happen but doesn’t have any alternate scenarios set up so if you want to try a “what if” you have to make it happen (or download a mod). The AI is a bit wonky, so things can go in really wild directions or go bog-standard true-to-life.
Catch up to Hearts of Iron 4
Hearts of Iron 4.
They also offer a lot of alternative history options, like Allied nations turning Fascist or Communist, or Japan democratic.
That’s our current timeline.
I feel as though when I hang out with her that I am really hanging out with her phone. What is the best way to approach her about this?
Text her about it. Duh.
Dick pic.
Text her about it. Duh.
Nice.
“Whar u at?”
I am happy to report that I was able to conquer my firewall/router at 12:30am last night so the phone PBX could make calls. Finally got home at 1:30.
Turns out it was a very low level packet routing issue that I’m assuming was a carry-over bug from previous firmware releases. In the end I did a Hail Mary and factory reset the firewall and rebuilt the network from the ground up.
There are parts of being a small business owner that suck. Having to be an semi-expert on everything is one of them.
I prayed to St. Laura Chappell for your success.
LOL. When I’m capturing packets and tracing routes, it’s not a good thing. It’s like hiring a demolition company to fix your plumbing.
Turns out it was a very low level packet routing issue that I’m assuming was a carry-over bug from previous firmware releases.
It’s little consolation to you, but the next gen equipment and software should make this issue a thing of the past.
I don’t want to know anything about it. If I’m successful, I’ll finally be able to afford someone on staff to handle that crap for me.
Oh, goody. That yammering cretin Inslee (Washington governor) is running for President, too.
None dare call it a clown car.
None dare say its name…
He’s running as the green (small-g) candidate for the Dem nomination.
With the way this river is flowing the winner will be a blind left handed quadripelgic Muslim Otherkin that identifies as the President of the United States. Or Hillary.
TW: Local news
Bozeman is growing so much a new high school is being built. Part of the process involves naming it. Of course, when the new name was announced, a great hue and cry arose from The People, because they don’t like it. The new name? “Western Slope high school.” Or, maybe, “West Slope”. Whatever.
I’m just disappointed the name probably won’t stick, because they could have then taken on as a mascot a little Chinaman with a pickax standing astride a section of railroad tracks.
I hear and commiserate. They’re rebuilding one of ours and putting out feelers to rename the thing to “celebrate” our aboriginal heritage. What the fuck is wrong with “Kelly Road High School”? It’s been there for fifty years and is actually situated along Kelly Road.
None dare call it a clown car.
It’ll be a rickety choo choo train with a cannibal buffet in the dining car.
I seen what you done there.
What the fuck is wrong with “Kelly Road High School”? It’s been there for fifty years and is actually situated along Kelly Road.
Don’t you get it? The mass murderers will know right where to look for it.
“Weeping Beaver High” could be anywhere.
The cut of your jib. I like.
equality has become a dirty word. i shit you not. equality is out.
the new cause is “equity”.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/696794821/why-white-school-districts-have-so-much-more-money
Equity, like buy-in? Like skin in the game? Maybe it’s time to make good on their adulation for Nordic socialism and promise to massively ratchet up taxes for the middle and working classes?
Spoiler: nope.
equity is when you give more crates to short* people:
https://goo.gl/images/YZrQ7w
*metaphor white privilege
That’s what they truly believe in their darkest heart and that’s why I fear for our future.
Equity would be using the crate materials to fix the fence and making those moochers buy tickets like everyone else.
So, patronage. Got it.
Blueshirt needs a top hat and purpleshirt needs that down-and-out look.
And redshirt needs a Starfleet insignia.
Where is the “This Is how government works” picture where the bottom picture the purple shirt on the left is holding a gun and a badge instead of money?
And the bottom says “Socialism” instead of “Free Trade”
The pants lengths don’t look equitable, shitlord.
My reponse: “Vouchers issued by the state. Problem solved. What, you don’t like vouchers? Why you lying little fucks… here I was thinking your concern was actually about equal access to a quality education.”
equal access is not “equitable” access. equal access is racist.
Wealthy lefty elites shouldn’t have to share their stellar public institutions with the dratted Untermensch.
I’ve mentioned that before – the very recent crazy for replacing “equality” with “equity” seems like a very bad development.
craze, crazy, whatever
+1 Guillotine
I was just introduced to it the other day when my city’s new school supernintendo released his vision. lots of focusing on race and discussing white privilege with a heaping helping of equity over equality.
>>supernintendo
woah!
I’m learnding!
” lots of focusing on race and discussing white privilege”
So how are they intending on making people of color whiter? The Rita Hayworth method?
It’s all part of building a fair and just world, comrade. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
This is a complete lie, at least in NY. Districts of color get the most money. Also, NJ was sued into doing the same thing resulting in a widely-known program to divert money from the rich districts to the poor ones. The real question is where is that money going?
Yeah here the city schools have a couple thousand more per pupil than the county schools, but of course the county schools are better.
Needz Moar Funding.
“We have built a school funding system that is reliant on geography, and therefore the school funding system has inherited all of the historical ills of where we have forced and incentivized people to live,”
“forced”
yeah okay
Until 1948, land covenants did force certain groups from living in certain neighborhoods, bro.
71 years ago.
Equality can actually be measured and defined.
Equity cannot.
So of course the proggie locusts want equity – it means whatever they say it means, which is how they like it.
Mission Accomplished!
I wonder where terrorists got 50 tons of gold? Dons tinfoil hat – recalls that France and Hillary developed a burning desire to kill Gaddafi right after he hatched a plan to launch a gold-based currency. Where did that 143 tons of Libyan gold get to? Was Christopher Stevens looking for it in Benghazi?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-emails-reveal-nato-killed-gaddafi-to-stop-libyan-creation-of-gold-backed-currency/5594742
Canadian domain? I’m already suspicious.
* glances in both directions, puts hands in pockets, ambles down the street, whistling “O Canada”*
Please note that the email in question was from Blumenthal to HRC.
He was a self-promoting jackass who frequently was full of shit.
Now an email from HRC making the admission would be a different matter. But unsolicited advice from a former courtier desperate to regain access to the court is hardly the smoking gun these guys are claiming it is.
OTOH, it’s funny how the simplest way to get wacked is to try to create a currency that might compete with the petrodollar. 💡
It’s a little funny that Stephenson envisioned a crypto-currency stopgapped by real gold, but crypto-currencies did the usual currency thing and just got popular because people use it.
Sounds like enough gold to build a wall.
I wonder where terrorists got 50 tons of gold?
Oil sales. There is a gray market in oil-for-gold to evade US sanctions/control of the international financial system.
i have the Alex Jones epic interview (4 hours?!) playing in the background but i paid particular attention when he was discussing his history of Sandy Hook coverage. sounds like he got fucked over for backing Trump and was collateral damage in the wake of Hillary’s defeat.
Trump was probably the biggest guest he ever had. If I know Jones, then yeah, I’m sure he feels that Trump betrayed him, but he was going to feel/say that no matter what.
Alex Jones is akin to the WWE. I can’t believe he got de-platformed for acting like a circus clown.
They’re just boiling the ol’ frog
Sure but doesn’t it reflect badly on them when they pick such low hanging fruit?
Everything they do reflects badly on them.
Is the frog gay?
Asking for a friend …
the new cause is “equity”.
Nothing says “justice” like a system in which Top Men put their thumbs on the scale.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
Anyone looking to lose some weight? Just click here and it will be a long while before you want to eat again.
I managed a 22 hour fast yesterday, no Billary involved. Ruined it with a bottle of chardonnay, but, eh.
I think I’ll treat myself to a bottle of Pepto after clicking your link.
Young Hillary. Drunk enough maybe. https://youtu.be/9ZEURntrQOg –
We’ve Been to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Life Will Never Be the Same
So I can get a blowjob from Asa Akira cosplaying as Lyn Me?
forgot to mention – I really dislike Star Wars now. The young LH excitement of seeing the original New Hope/Star Wars ’77, Empire, and even the horrid Return just isn’t coming back. Add in the Trade Wars/George Lucas “prequels”, and the “woke” new movies and meh… I – just – don’t – care anymore. Let it die.
Additionally, all of the film-themed shit in the Disney parks sucks ass. It’ll feel kitschy and dated in about a week. Walk down Main Street over to New Orlean’s Square, take the train or riverboat around the park back to Main Street, and leave.
I can understand not liking RotJ the best, but “horrid”? It’s a purely serviceable film, even if the Ewoks should have been Wookies.
The Ewoks – it’s all because of my hatred of those little furry shits.
Enjoy.
I fell asleep three times watching that movie.
Which, given my excitement to see it walking in, was pretty impressive.
Star Wars Trilogy
I actually really like Solo.
(ducks)
They should have had Lucas design it. You walk in there and it’s just a 40 acre green screen.
I’m not a Star Wars nerd at all, but as someone who grew up with Star Wars (I was 5 when the first one came out) I have to say that that would be pretty f’in cool.
it was the first movie I ever attended. Of course, I was an infant at the time and slept through the whole thing.
I only know this because I was trying to remember what the first movie I ever saw was and my mother actually said “Has to be Star Wars, we took you when you were a baby”
You probably owe a drink to about 250 people who attended that showing.
My first movie experience was when Dad took my Brother to see Batman and left me at home because I was “too little”. I know the difference between equity and equality!
First I remember is going to see Jurassic Park when my sister was six. She tried crawling behind mom’s back during the raptor scenes at the end of the movie.
https://youtu.be/gSYmJur0Npw Dad woke us up and took us to this gem at the drive-in when we were already in our jammies and sound asleep. I don’t think he went for the “dinosaurs”.
Hah! She said I slept almost the entire time. If there’s one thing I’ve ever been an ace at, it’s heavy sleeping.
FWIW, the first movie I can actually remember seeing in a theater was ET.
The fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy is real
Actually, I’m pretty sure my car is faster.
I’ve mentioned that before – the very recent crazy for replacing “equality” with “equity” seems like a very bad development.
All are equal, in a mass grave, Comrade. Your turn will come.
I just got a quote for 42 fucking dollars for a non-emergency medical transport for 3 miles! $14/mile. Most truckers get, what, 70 cents per mile?
The hospital won’t let me drive myself home and won’t let me take a normal taxi.
I hate the whole medical industrial complex.
If you’ve been discharged, they can’t tell you what transport you can and cannot take.
If you’re able to post here, you’re able to insist on being discharged.
Wha Happen?
STEVE SMITH PERFORM ANALRECTOMY
Nothin’ yet. I’m getting a camera shoved up my butthole next week.
The Democrats’ attempts to find the Trump piss tapes are getting extreme!
I avoided that just last year through no fault of my own!
In all seriousness, feel better!
you have a friend coming to get you. his name is Uber. he’s German.
Chances are he’s actually Pakistani.
Once I had to ask a friend to pick me up at the hospital. It was a three min drive to my office. I could have walked myself in 12 minutes.
You’re lucky. My bill was $500 on the dot. I didn’t learn until later that it’s a soft bill (they won’t ding you if you don’t pay).
Thank the personal injury lawyers. Hospital doesn’t want to give you “a large cash settlement” because you insisted on being personally responsible and then passed out walking to your car in their parking lot.
Nothin’ yet. I’m getting a camera shoved up my butthole next week.
Maybe you could talk the hospital into selling you a special seat cushion which will make it possible to drive yourself home. $850 might cover it.
+1 Dollarama water wing.