One more bad idea touted by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, the two worst American presidents, was this Daylight Savings Time bullshit. And now SP and I are free of it. Who the hell knows if it will screw the website’s posting times. I hope Wilson and FDR are feeling nice and warm down there.
I’m amazed at the paucity of notable birthdays today, but we can dig into the ranks of second tier celebrity to come up with noted communist actor Sam Jaffe; literal punchline of many jokes Chuck Norris; and the guy whose name is on the coffee I’m drinking at the moment, Alfred Peet.
But you’re not here for that, you’re here for links to ignore. And I’ll try not to disappoint you.
SXSW has become a Team Blue rally. After Omar takes a whack at Obama, AOC says, “Hold my latte!” and calls out FDR’s New Deal as racist. Bonus appearance by the guy who pretends to be a scientist.
And of course, you can’t have a Team Blue rally without CNN.
Team Red is determined to look just as stupid. Which, truth be told, they are. Same as it ever was.
And Tlaib is totally not an antisemite. How can you even THINK that, you shitlord?
I’m wondering why we even bother running daily stories on Venezuela being a shitshow? Is Generalissimo Francisco Franco still dead?
In local news: I always laugh when bad things happen to people taking selfies. OK, I’m not a nice person.
Another dessert cake related death. What we need is common-sense chocolate control regulations.
More local news, in which we see how high stupid can stack. TW: faux outrage
Yet more local news, but this one I like.
Meh, let’s have some music. Old Guy Music. And while you could in theory call Three Friends a cover band, it’s a bit more than that, having three members of the original group. But either way, state of the art prog rock, despite the age of the concept material.
For Chuck’s B-day.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IGgdSKfE6Io
Oh, not a first. Didn’t get around to the links yet. Coffe and a duce and I’ll get back to ya.
*coffee
*sigh
Trump-bot confirmed!
And it was the wrong video. My circuits are muddled. Fuck this, I’m going back to bed.
How about this one?
https://youtu.be/bmfudW7rbG0
AOC says, “Hold my latte!” and calls out FDR’s New Deal as racist.
To be fair, FDR did intern the Japanese-Americans.
They are trying to shame the moderates into turning radical – and that will work for some moderates. But there will also be a small number who will give lip service and then quietly pull the lever for the “R” candidate out of spite.
Never happen, the Republicans are totes racist!
Imagine the cold, seething fury of the pants-suited harridan who gave her life to feminism only to be pushed out of leadership because she was too old, rich and white. And not conspicuously trans-embracing enough. They are nasty pieces of work and their fury knows no bounds. Roll, AOC, roll.
People like Hillary created people like AOC.
Watching the spawn they helped to create turn on them is more than a little rewarding.
And FDR collaborated with the Southern, Jim Crow, Democrats.
To be sure #Robby! Hoover did sign the Davis Bacon act.
And of course, you can’t have a Team Blue rally without CNN.
Aren’t these the sort of people who complain about alleged media concentration except when it’s those outlets like the BBC with the government imprimatur?
His comments were not just rich or ironic… it was flat-out amazing. He spent a bit of time talking about the DNC saying they would not allow a debate on FOX – calling FOX state-run television and saying they control the government…
He went on to say that CNN tries not to get involved in partisanship and tries to bravely cover policy discussions… Wow!
For those who have forgotten, I’ll remind you that his network was actively colluding with the DNC and the Clinton campaign to throw the election to Hillary. We know this because we have their emails to that effect.
This from the network that ran with the “racist Trump-supporting private school kids” narrative round the clock… and the “Racist Trump supporters attack gay, black actor” narrative round the clock – and in both cases derided anyone that questioned their narrative as … wait for it…. racists! … and homophobic! And fascists and white supremacists.
The rest of the media is a bunch of punks for covering his remarks uncritically. Just because he’s on your side doesn’t mean you should give whoppers like that a pass.
They still can’t stop playing garbage about Russia.
I wanted CNN to stay neutral and was more patient with them than most. Then last year I flipped over there and didn’t recognize them, unless I had accidentally hit MSNBC.
I okay with it: fly your flag, no secrets. But I do like the fantasy of objective journalism.
Yeah, I think I prefer it this way. The pretense is gone. Have at it.
I think I’ve figured out why the DNC won’t put a debate on Fox.
Fox won’t leak the debate questions to the DNC’s favored candidates.
DST messes my internal clock up – plus the morning is back to being dark ‘n’ gloomy..
^This. And the people I know who are the most gung-ho DST fans are also the most hippie. But the collective need of society to get up earlier outweighs that.
As someone whose drivers license is daytime hours only due to crap eyesight, today is Emancipation Day.
Doesn’t help that I’m gonna be traveling from the east coast to the west coast today. I’m gonna end up waking up at 3:30 tomorrow morning, I just know it.
Chuck Norris decided that March 10 would be his birthday.
And then to celebrate he counted to infinity. Twice.
There’s no such things as Darwinism, only a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
When Chuck Norris jumps into a pool he doesn’t get wet, the water gets all Chuck Norris.
Chuck Norris once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands.
Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until they give him the information he wants.
Chuck Norris once took a dump in the South China Sea. Now the Chinese are building an airstrip there.
When Chuck Norris does a push up, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
Chuck Norris was born in the house he built with his own two hands.
You know who else was accused of being a little antisemitic…
Emmanuel Lewis?
(((STEVE SMITH)))?
STEVE SMITH LOVE EVERYONE, AND BY “LOVE” MEAN…
(((Self-haters)))?
Everyone?
^This
Country Clubs?
Napoleon?
Doug Stanhope?
Ford?
Been Shapiro
Oh you said who had been accused.
Martin Luther?
what happens if I don’t want to invest?
And how does socialism “create wealth” – especially if wealth is bad. ::confused::
“Don’t interrupt her, she’s rolling”
And apparently without psychotropic assistance.
No matter how many times her ignorance and stupidity is called out, she shamelessly continues to loudly opine on things she knows nothing about. It’s really quite fascinating.
Welcome to 2019 politics. We’ve reached the point where the ideas are inconsequential. We’ve pretty much reached the point where whoever yells the loudest gets the votes. Idiocracy really is the comedy that evolved into a documentary.
Yeah… that’s ground that Trump plowed for her.
But I do blame the media covering her. Instead of calling her out, they trumpet her entrance and sing her praises.
The propaganda machine is hard to watch these days.
It’s so shockingly transparent. Sadly Americans are so willfully ignorant of history that few seem to notice
“Sadly Americans are so willfully ignorant of history…”
But it’s not just willful ignorance BB, years of progressive indoctrination in public schools plays a part.
Fact. All easily refuted but so few have the drive to unlearn it.
Progressive indoctrination, yes. Also, schools don’t teach kids to be critical consumers of media. That was the case even before the shitshow of social media.
A problem very much compounded by social media IMO. I think people have gotten markedly more intellectually lazy now that they have a 24-7 echo chamber uncritically reinforcing their ‘correct’ opinions.
Yeah, why won’t the government and the media raise my kids correctly.
I don’t suggest that they should, but I think that parents should realize that public schools and the media are biased, and that parents should teach their kids to be critical thinkers (i.e., skeptical of most of what they’re told).
Unfortunately, most don’t.
That’s a weird response, Hype. Where’d you get that idea from?
The logic he learned from government schools.
:Rimshot:
Exactly right. That’s what I did, and it seems to have worked.
Saw the story about the fight over a brownie, said to myself, “OMWC is in town”.
This Daylight Savings Time has got me prepped to get the snowblower out and clean up after the Blizzard of March 10. Need the extra hour but then realized I’d already lost it.
The SXSW festival is being destroyed by these carpetbaggers coming to town. Can’t we all just have some fun, listen to music, walk the 6th Street walk.
“You’re doing a heck of a job, brownie.”
AOC
‘One of the keys to dismantling fear is dismantling a zero-sum mentality,” Ocasio-Cortez replied. “It means the rejection outright of the logic that says someone else’s gain necessitates my loss and that my gain must necessitate someone’s loss.’
Huh, sounds like she actually may have gotten some knowledge of worth from her degree in economics.
‘We can give without a take.’
Well, yeah…but your previous position is implicitly taking.
‘We’re viewing progress as a loss instead of as an investment. When we choose to invest in our system, we are choosing to create wealth. When we all invest in them, then the wealth is for all of us too.’
Ah, there it is.
Everything within the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state.
It’s really quite socialist.
And fascist
-Progress as defined by her alone
-invest = seizure of private property
-“create wealth” = redistribution of wealth
/Newspeak is fun
What about we make those “investment” choices as individuals?
Because people might make the wrong choice, of course!
It’s not their fault, they’re uneducated deplorables.
*their
Spelling error! Deplorable!
Pay no mind to the top of the comments page.
I’m so damn tired, I’m not even going to try to correct myself today.
Why doesn’t anyone raise their hand and ask these simple questions?
The media was way in the tank for Bill Clinton, but ever since Obama became a candidate it is like they’ve been unplugged. They can’t even be bothered to think about anything other than “how can we tow that party lion harder?”
Watching them on Venezuela has been fun. Because they want to be for the poor and downtrodden. And they are hooked in to the deep state who are on the intervene in Venezuela side. And the DNC establishment is on that side. But then you’ve got the socialist whack-jobs who are claiming that it is all a creation of the US… and Venezuela was totally doing great before Trump put sanctions on them.. and other crazytown nonsense.
It will be interesting to see how the propaganda machine spins this year…
No one in her audience is there to challenge her, they are there to revel in her presence, to cheer on the avatar of their chosen stupidity.
The tribe has spoken.
>acknowledges that rejecting a zero-sum mentality is a good thing
WHY CAN’T YOU THINK OF THE ECONOMY LIKE THAT TOO?
‘One of the keys to dismantling fear is dismantling a zero-sum mentality,” Ocasio-Cortez replied. “It means the rejection outright of the logic that says someone else’s gain necessitates my loss and that my gain must necessitate someone’s loss.’
Except for capitalism, which is totes a zero-sum game. Because it’s obvious: we have billionaires and we have poor people. Ergo, the only way to become a billionaire is by making people poor. QEMFD.
Every billionaire is a policy failure.
“One of the keys to dismantling fear is dismantling a zero-sum mentality,” Ocasio-Cortez replied. “It means the rejection outright of the logic that says someone else’s gain necessitates my loss and that my gain must necessitate someone’s loss. We can give without a take. We’re viewing progress as a loss instead of as an investment. When we choose to invest in our system, we are choosing to create wealth. When we all invest in them, then the wealth is for all of us too.”
That’s a bold rhetorical tactic, for somebody who is the literal embodiment of zero-sum thinking.
Because she has no idea what she’s actually saying.
Sounds like she wants the poor to pay more in taxes.
Then we would be more like Sweden.
Grow a pair you Limey bastards:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-secondreferendum/no-majority-in-british-parliament-for-second-brexit-referendum-reuters-analysis-idUSKCN1QP1V1
Who wants to go halvsies?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/powerball-jackpot-inches-closer-half-billion-winner-414/story?id=61578776
AOC?
OMWC – I figured out your ASR nom de plume. Is there a secret Glibs handshake I can use?
Once again, thanks for hosting a place where I can let the little hair I have left down. I make it a point to never mix my hobbies, no politics on non political sites.
Army of the Sith Republic?
The PM function there.
ASR = Adolescent Sex Review?
Pretty cool, but…. $2,000!!! for a phone?!?
https://www.cnet.com/news/galaxy-fold-vs-galaxy-s10-whats-the-difference-specs-camera-price-compare/
Six cameras. Who’s making that thing, Gillette?
It’s interesting that they’re going to these multicamera systems rather than mess with improving the optical zoom range on the cameras.
Shows you how cheap it has gotten to make a camera…
Maybe they are keeping an eye out for toxic masculinity.
“We’ve become so cynical, that we view ‘meh,’ or ‘eh’ — we view cynicism as an intellectually superior attitude, and we view ambition as youthful naivete when … the greatest things we have ever accomplished as a society have been ambitious acts of visions, and the ‘meh’ is just worshipped now, for what?”
Huh? Meh, eh, ugh, arghh….
All I got is just a fart noise as a response.
A juicy fart would be less full of shit.
Actually Moderate as Meh is also a Rush Limbaugh trope.
The constant use of the word ‘like’ improperly in a sentence is what really gets my goat. Call me old fashioned but I cringe when an adult sounds like a fucking teenage valley girl.
Like, you don’t know what you’re, like, talking about
Like fur sure.
what happens if I don’t want to invest?
You want to deprive society of your rightful contribution? Your radical individualist thievery has been duly noted.
“What do you mean ‘we’,
white manbrown girl?Yoga with wine (or beer, if that’s your thing) is the best thing ever, BUT only when you can have your glass during the session and the instructor periodically instructs you to stop and have a sip. Wait ’til the class is finished?? WTF??
I think I found Richard Simmons.
JEFF BEZOS IS STEALING THAT NEIGHBORHOOD FROM THOSE POOR PEOPLE.
But she’s not the one mired in zero-sum thinking. No, sirree.
Anyone care to wade in on this?
https://nypost.com/2019/03/08/sick-rape-day-video-game-sparks-global-outrage/
Edgelord got a lot of attention.
They should throw the developers of that game into a rape cage. That would teach ’em.
Sounds like something most women would enjoy. / Bernie Sanders
Hell, I’d play it. I can separatz da fantasy from da realities.
Not my cup of tea. But then again, I’ve been geeking out on the mobile version of Rome: Total War lately and have exterminated and enslaved dozens of cities so far. So who am I to judge.
Best game ever, my Steam account shows way more hours played on that game than I care to admit.
Not really. The Media is intent on giving the worst people a platform. Why?I don’t know. Maybe they think they are paladins of virtue wading into less benighted industry’s to clean out the filth. But like funding all the moderate rebels, the main reaction is to give more attention to the bad actors.
That would be a bad thing?
Don’t look at me.
/Barbra Streisand
Another woman “experienced an interaction differently” than Trudeau.
In beginning to think that it’s going to come out that the “feminist” Prime Minister is a serial mistreater of women.
But he’s dreamy so it’s ok. Women want him to miss treat them. Just like they did with slick Willie.
Voter fraud never happens. https://nypost.com/2019/03/07/mysterious-florida-woman-busted-for-voter-fraud-was-registered-democrat-cops/
I really hate that I am registered to Dade County in South Florida. I know none of my non-D votes will ever matter there.
Come across the state to Lee county. Our votes don’t matter either, but for the opposite reason.
We had a recent case up here, too.
This is just proof of how rare this is; and besides, they should be celebrated for wanting to make a difference!
Omar criticizes politicians who support Isreal while her and Tlaib represent the Palestinians in congress. Talk about foreign allegences. Tlaib is harpy.
“REVEALED: Notorious Florida massage parlor founder ‘may have set up access for Chinese executives to Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago in exchange for money’
The former owner of the massage parlor where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft allegedly solicited prostitutes steered wealthy Chinese investors to a fundraiser for President Trump in New York City in late 2017, it has been reported.
Li Yang, whose family once ran a chain of South Florida day spas that authorities allege was used to host a prostitution ring, was also running a consulting business that offered businessman from China access to the president.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791563/Notorious-Florida-massage-palor-founder-sold-access-Trump-Mar-Lago-Chinese-executives.html
Let’s get Mueller on this CHINA COLLUSION PROBE committee.
Everything is already in place. Shame to disband such great team when they are just going to have to start it up again.
did somebody say “China”? I’ll just leave this here: http://www.independentsentinel.com/lest-we-forget-hillarys-china-gate-scandal/
WDATPDIM
That’s how the Chinese got their super-preferential trade status and exemptions from tariffs of all kinds.
Maybe the massage parlor was a honeypot for compromising material on people in high places.
“Showtime cancels ‘SMILF’ after just two seasons following allegations of ‘racial segregation and on-set misconduct’ against creator and lead actor Frankie Shaw
Between December and January, showrunner Shaw was accused of racial segregation and pressuring a co-star into performing a nude sex-scene.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6790711/Showtime-cancels-SMILF-reports-set-misconduct.html
“The news comes after lawmakers in Massachusetts — where the Boston-set series at least partially shoots — wrote a letter urging the show’s tax incentives to be suspended pending the outcome of ABC’s investigation into the series. In addition, local legislators and activists called on the state’s Attorney General Office to launch a separate and independent investigation into the matter.
In December, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that numerous employees of the Showtime comedy had made claims about inappropriately handled sex scenes and Shaw’s “completely unprofessional” behavior. Actress Samara Weaving exited the series after she claimed her contract was breached during the filming of a sex scene in the second season. Also among the allegations were complaints brought to the WGA by multiple staffers regarding credit issues and alleged race-based separation.
“These allegations are serious and disturbing,” said Massachusetts state senator Nick Collins. “Massachusetts taxpayers cannot subsidize segregation and discrimination; unfair labor practice and harassment. That’s why my colleagues and I are calling for the State to withhold any tax credits that this production is eligible for, until an independent investigation by the proper authorities has taken place.””
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/smilf-canceled-by-showtime-probe-creator-frankie-shaws-alleged-misconduct-1177459
More of those white wimyn being bad huh? Wasn’t that the show’s premise?
Massachusetts taxpayers cannot subsidize segregation and discrimination; unfair labor practice and harassment.
Well, if that’s the case, I’ve got a few more subsidies for you to yank.
Seriously. And all it takes is an allegation. Glibs, assemble! We’ve got work to do.
Like the city of Boston?
“which she said “pitted” white working class people against minorities”
That entire rant was an exercise in controdiction and cognitive dissonance. That’s the problem with being a parrot. You say things. You just don’t understand them. I will see that I’m totally down with the villification of FDR. He deserves it.
Haven’t politicians been pitting groups of people against each other forever? The ability of an identity politics pol bemoaning that is… it’s almost beyond words.
Shithole
Infectious diseases—some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages—are resurging in California and around the country, and are hitting homeless populations especially hard.
Los Angeles recently experienced an outbreak of typhus—a disease spread by infected fleas on rats and other animals—in downtown streets. Officials briefly closed part of City Hall after reporting that rodents had invaded the building.
People in Washington State have been infected with the diarrheal disease shigella, spread through feces, as well as Bartonella quintana, or trench fever, which spreads through body lice.
Hepatitis A, also spread primarily through feces, infected more than 1,000 people in Southern California in the past two years. The disease also has erupted in New Mexico, Ohio, and Kentucky, primarily among people who are homeless or use drugs.
Public-health officials and politicians are using terms like disaster and public-health crisis to describe the outbreaks, and they are warning that these diseases can easily jump beyond the homeless population.
What happens when you abandon first world sanitation practices, and live like a bunch of savages? You get exactly what any reasonable, sensible person would expect.
Obviously, we need to throw more money at the symptoms, while ignoring the underlying disease.
I think ZARDOZ has a solution for this.
But trust me, those people in California and Washington really know the way of the future. They’re who we’re supposed to look up to.
It’s all those anti-vaxers fault.
Now I understand the reason for the vilification of anti-vaxers. They are being set up to take all the blame for this shit.
To be fair most homeless drug addicts probably aren’t up to date with their shots.
And neither are illegal immigrants, but that’s probably not due to a belief that vaccines are bad.
Tin foil hat: it wouldn’t be surprising for people to latch on and the vilify a plausible excuse in order to ignore an equally probable cause. There are many more illegal immigrants than anti-vaxers.
But illegals don’t use the social services like schools because they live in the shadows.
I got into it with a professor over that. The argument that illegal immigrants are an economic boon is specious. The fact is that we don’t really know because, you know, they’re off the books. So maybe they’re a benefit in the sense that they provide a cheap unskilled labor force. But, they use public services and resources like anybody else, such as roads, emergency services, and schools.
In fact, they have a disproportionate impact on public school resources because they may or may not actually pay income tax, often they and their children don’t speak English, which means that the school has to provide ESL resources, and the kids are oftentimes way, way behind grade level, which requires remedial education resources. There’s no citizenship requirement for public schools.
Then there’s the argument that if they own a car they’re paying a fuel tax, and when they buy stuff they’re paying a sales tax. Problem there is that they’re also more likely to be uninsured and even unlicensed, so they tend to drive premiums up and obviously present a threat to fellow drivers who might not have the finances to go out of pocket on car repair. And whatever they might be contributing through a sales tax is probably minimal as they’re generally in the lowest income brackets and aren’t spending a hell of a lot of money on the books anyway.
I probably benefit on aggregate. My food is cheaper and the increased demand for housing has pushed up the value of my home. That probably more than offsets the extra I need to pay in taxes. However, if I were competing for work in a low skilled job, I would probably be worse off. Sure, my food would be cheaper, but that won’t matter if my wages are depressed and my housing prices are soaring.
“it doesn’t mean that the actual concept of capitalistic society should be abolished”
Things that old hag told me to say.
Time to fix up some sausage links, eggs, home fries, and toast to have with a tall glass of cold milk. Already have my Chuck roast browned and in the crock pot for dinner.
That better be a Chuck Norris roast.
If it was a Chuck Norris roast, JB would be browned and simmering in the crock pot.
Nobody ever reads the sausage links. 🙁
I’d read sausage links, but all we ever get are titty links! : (
Here ya go.
NSFW if you work at a very prudish place.
Imagine what their children would look like.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1104554743035244544
E.T. phone home.
Man, there’s a whole lot of crazy and stupid in that one picture.
I highly recommend the latest Bob Murphy episode. It’s regarding the reaction of people and how once they hear one piece of information they decide they know everything they need to know about someone.
https://www.bobmurphyshow.com/ep-21-the-god-of-social-media-demands-sacrifice/
AOC’s book publishing company apparently did not print a single book. She still owes back corporate taxes in NY
https://nypost.com/2019/03/09/company-founded-by-ocasio-cortez-in-2012-still-owes
I don’t think people on the right give her enough credit. The more info that comes out, the less she appears like a naive idiot and more like she’s got the system figured out and is saying what plays to her base. She’s playing Trump’s book.
It is funny to see my leftist friends who mock how stupid Trump us, praise her for using facts and logic.
What did I read whilst parked on the crapper? Why, its something that Lizzie Warren hasnt bothered with: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/should-we-regulate-big-tech/
Everyone has got this wrong. Lizzie Warren is looking out for big tech. This will entrench them as the government sanctioned companies. She just wants the jobs to be secure like government jobs.
So a grifter with a penchant for making outrageuos statements (just one I disagree with a lot more)? Got it.
And I replied to the wrong comment. I blame the time change plus I think I’m still a little drunk.
It’s (you’re) really never inappropriate: called strike on the outside corner.
Now that’s an angle I didnt consider.
Warren loves her some regulatory capture (both ways). The agency creates barriers to entry, and you are left with a few big codependent companies. See, also, fascism.
the fascist economic model is alive and well, advocated the hardest by people most likely to use it as a perjorative.
+1 Volksbuch
Yes, so let’s start referring to her and her ilk as Democratic Fascists and not Progressives or Socialists. If questioned, I think we can prove the textbook definition of fascist better than we can socialist.
It’s Sunday morning, so who wants a Steve Earle cover of the Chambers Brothers ?
/bonus appearance by Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow… 57 and still a total wood.
Concur with all of the above.
March 9: daylight length 11:49:57
March 10: daylight length 11:51:29
I was told we’d get an extra HOUR of daylight, not a stinking minute and a half.
I demand justice! Mueller should open a new investigation to find out who took our extra hour of daylight.
Probably the Russians. It’s always the Russians, except for when it’s the Chinese.
Daylight before I awake is wasted. Daylight longer in the evening is great for those of us old farts who can’t see so well in the dark when driving or walking.
I like more daylight, personally. My goth days are long behind me and I get depressed when it’s dark all the time.
Worst fucking day of the year.
http://archive.is/lc180
On the scale of GovRape, Daylight Savings is not a full-on assreaming like taxes, it’s just more annoying, obvious and humiliating; like Uncle Sam made you wear an ugly hat to a party and you had no say in it. And you have to pretend to like it.
7, 22, 32. That is a very apt comparison by the way.
Phew, spent the last hour messing around with kindle DRMs so I could put a Tom Woods book and a few other bits I bought on amazon for my antiquated non-wireless kindle. At least now I finally have his Politically Incorrect Guide to American History to look forward to after I finish A Patriot’s History of the United States.
Today, in Fun With Numbers
In honor of International Women’s Day, Bank of America Merrill Lynch released a study that broke down the ways in which women’s equality and gender diversity could help significantly boost the global economy.
World Bank estimates that women only account for about 38% of human capital wealth. The World Bank surveyed 141 countries and calculated that human capital wealth inequality is actually costing those nations about $160 billion, or 2x global GDP.
According to Bank of America’s research, women’s equality could add between $12 trillion to $28 trillion, or about a 13% to 31%, boost to global GDP by 2025.
McKinsey calculated those figures based on a couple of different scenarios. “A ‘best in region’ scenario in which all countries match the rate of improvement of the fastest improving country in their region could add as much as $12 trillion, or 13%, to global annual GDP by 2025.” That would be the size of both the U.S. and China’s GDP combined.
In what they call a “full potential scenario,” women would play identical roles as their male counterparts in their respective labor markets. McKinsey said that would add about $28 trillion, or 31%, to global GDP by 2025.
Look! We just make some assumptions, plug some numbers into our spreadsheet, and PRESTO!
We’re rich!
+ multiplier
That best in region nonsense is a hell of an assumption to make. They may as well pull the numbers out of their ass which is exactly what they did come to think of it.
Razorfist defending Michael Jackson again on the latest kerfluffle:
https://youtu.be/zYx0vLfpRYY
I’ll give him this, he’s not a bandwagon jumper onner.
Unlike his usually short videos, for some reason he’s made a series of three long videos on this topic.
We need to come up with a reason why DST is racist and/or sexist and start spreading it on Twitter.
How about DST was invented by White Slave owing misogynist so that their slaves and wives could work longer without using precious lamp oil? Remember it’s more important to be morally correct than factually correct.
He’s racist because half of Americans believe what they’ve been told.
It’s right there in the name! Daylight Slavings Time
That’s a good addition
And what’s so great about daylight anyway, you crackers just don’t like nighttime because its dark. The ‘Black’ of night whysit gotta be the ‘Black’ of night?
DST was also used by the white patriarchy to endanger the lives of people of color who had to work early hours and would be struck by horse and carriages as they walked along roadsides to toil for the benefit of landowning whites.
(Soon to be) lunch for today – with protection.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/j52VvVElSsaE5qxzS6tohQ.E7PkitFbxBwwTRoQLe4DHf
Almost 2 lbs. of steak goodness. Dry brined overnight.
Guns n meat. ???
Very nice.
I have a bigass flank steak in the fridge that is going into my post-jogging meal of gyudon.
Trump Budget Would Cut Spending, Except for Military Spending
Over at the Atlantic, they’re thinking about taxes.
And, specifically, why Americans are generally pretty good about paying them.
What separates Americans from Greeks or Italians? It’s not income-tax withholding, which the U.S. pioneered but Europe has since copied. Higher tax rates may be one factor. Illegal shadow economies, in which goods are sold off the books for cash, are another. (Greece’s black market is the biggest in the eurozone, accounting for 21.5 percent of its GDP.)
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A more worrisome possibility is that tax morale has lagged behind declining trust, and will yet fall. High-profile tax-avoidance schemes—like those detailed in the so-called Panama Papers, or by The New York Times’s reporting on the Trump family’s tax dodges—could help erode morale. “Our sense of right and wrong is dramatically influenced by other people,” says Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke. “If people think that the government is corrupt and not doing the right thing,” he told me, they may be more inclined to say, “Oh, I don’t want to pay money to a government that is misbehaving.”
Golly, you don’t suppose that whacking great VAT has anything to do with the “black market” do you?
And I remember when people talked about how it was “immoral” to pay taxes to fund stupid and pointless wars and foreign adventurism.
And- while we’re on the topic of tax evasion, the huffers and puffers on Meet the Press were outraged about Trump’s lack of outrage over Manafort’s years of swindling the American people by cheating on his taxes. Obviously, the sentence was much too light. Being burned at the stake is what he deserves. He only got off with a slap on the wrist because that judge is a racist.
I have a difficult time summoning any moral outrage against someone who “cheats” on their taxes. I go from not caring at all to some moderate admiration.
I find the whole 88% “would never cheat on their taxes” thing hilarious. WTF would be dumb enough to tell a soul that they even think they got them right let alone cheated. The tax code is ridiculous and time consuming.
He worked on the Trump campaign. That alone is a Capital offense.
When taxes are high you have more of an incentive to dodge them. I don’t know why this isn’t obvious to people.
“One of the keys to dismantling fear is dismantling a zero-sum mentality,” Ocasio-Cortez replied. “It means the rejection outright of the logic that says someone else’s gain necessitates my loss and that my gain must necessitate someone’s loss. We can give without a take. We’re viewing progress as a loss instead of as an investment. When we choose to invest in our system, we are choosing to create wealth. When we all invest in them, then the wealth is for all of us too.”
Whut?
You want more whut?! You get more AOC.
“And it’s this whole tragedy of the commons type of thinking where it’s like because these one, this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that’s not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature,” Ocasio-Cortez continued. “It gives people a logical reason, a ‘logical’ reason to say, ‘oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.’
She is fucking retarded. And I should apologize because that besmirches the intelligence of retards everywhere.
Trollolol!
A handful of male lawmakers dressed up for a hearing they presided over Tuesday in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, donning pearl necklaces as activists testified about their experiences with gun violence.
Images from the statehouse — where legislators were considering arguments over a bill that would make it easier to take guns away from potentially dangerous people — caromed across social media as critics lobbed accusations of sexism and insensitivity at the necklace-wearing men.
The implication was clear, they said: These politicians thought gun-control activists were “clutching their pearls” in overwrought and self-righteous outrage — and, specifically, female outrage.
The advocates, who were volunteers with the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said they felt mocked, as if some of the lawmakers were not interested in hearing how gun violence has affected their lives.
“It really is shameful to behave that way when your constituents are being brave enough to share their stories,” Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, said in an interview. “They clearly did not come to this hearing with open minds or compassion for their constituents.”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
That’s effin’ hilarious!
I’ll tell you this, I’m about done with “Moms Demand X” or “Moms Against Y”. Just because you had a kid doesn’t mean you gained some sort of wisdom or moral authority. Crack whores have kids. Shit, women in comas can have kids. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense, huh? Maybe I’ll start a group: “Dads Who’d Prefer that Moral Busybodies Mind their Own Business”. Or, better yet, “Dads Who Think You Should Fuck Right Off”.
Pearl necklaces. How… interesting.
The advocates, who were volunteers with the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said they felt mocked, as if some of the lawmakers were not interested in hearing how gun violence has affected their lives.
Yes, that’s exactly what was happening, you pearl clutching biddies!
Excellently done.
“Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, said they felt mocked”
Because they don’t deserve mockery? Even their name is ridiculous. “Moms Demand Action” sounds like a porn video. What difference does it make that they are moms? And WTF is “gun sense”?
WTF is “gun sense”?
The not-yet-poisoned synonym to “gun control”
Confiscation.
MDAGSA isn’t even a good acronym.
That’s awesome.
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Yes, so let’s start referring to her and her ilk as Democratic Fascists and not Progressives or Socialists. If questioned, I think we can prove the textbook definition of fascist better than we can socialist.
Unfortunately, they are working from the Humpty Dumpty Revised American Dictionary of Political Philosophy, so the definition of any term is subject to revision (by them, and them alone), on the fly.
I think that’s called “Calvinball”.
More from that pearl necklace article:
Watts said Morin is a “gun extremist” who has a history of feuds with Moms Demand Action and its New Hampshire chapter. And whatever the lawmakers’ intention, Watts said, they should know better.
“When you are a male lawmaker and you come to a hearing wearing a pearl necklace and a semiautomatic rifle pin, you sort of lose control of the narrative,” she said. “It seems like a pretty foolish choice.”
“How dare you decline to defer to my moral superiority? I climbed up here on this pile of dead children so I could look down on you. Why aren’t you acting suitably humble and remorseful?”
Some people just can’t stop clucking like hens, even if they’re being made fun of for being chickens.
Ridicule is a powerful weapon. The Left has realized that for a long time and they really, really don’t like the taste of their own medicine.
Is it wrong I saw “pearl necklace” and thought of something other than actual pearls on an actual string?
Ewwwww, that too far even for glibs! Be serious for once!
/everybody else was thinking the same thing because we have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old here
At first I assumed the hearing had something to do with porn or prostitution or something, honestly.
I learn so much here!
I feel awful for people who’ve had a friend or family member that’s been shot and killed, but their grief is not a good reason to violate my rights. Frankly, gun laws in this country have been wildly unconstitutional for decades, and because the 2nd is apparently the red-headed stepchild of the Constitution no SC has had the balls to call it like it is. Regardless, the 2nd is still a thing, and until you amend the Constitution to remove it all of this is just a fart in a high wind.
I have a little speech in my head for when I get into a discussion about gun rights with a “progressive”:
Me: “These violent attacks in our country have resulted in terrible loss of life, and unfortunately, we’re prevented from doing anything about it by this radical notion that we must adhere to this centuries-old document. People need to realize that this was written in a different time than ours, and the Founding Fathers couldn’t have foreseen violence on this scale. There are laws we can pass that are only modest infringements. After all, people who aren’t doing anything wrong should be glad to comply with these laws and help stop the violence. Even if they say these measures wouldn’t be effective, I think it’s worth trying if it could save just one child’s life. I know people are stoking fears of totalitarianism, but we live in a modern democracy. The voters would keep things in check if the government ever tried to abuse these powers.”
Prog: “I couldn’t agree more! I’m so glad you came around and saw that new gun regulations are a sensible idea!
Me: “Guns? Oh no, I was talking about implementing registration and surveillance on American Muslims to prevent terrorism!”
… I haven’t had a chance to try this out yet. I’m really itching to see how it will go.
Footballer clocked in England. Oh, it was Grealish? Carry on.
TW: long moral-panic fuelled digressions into complete irrelevancies like Brexit! and knife violence!
What a terrible article. The Brexit stuff is nonsense and has nothing to do with what happened on the pitch.
Black academic educates herself about black people who own guns.
… I began to wonder: What about those close to me? I took an informal family poll that left me reeling. I learned my relatives have guns. They store weapons in hidden chambers inside homes where we gather; they possess permits to carry concealed weapons and take target practice; they have friends who bring guns to church in case the congregation should need shielding; they are prepared to “protect my family no matter who comes through the door” and readying themselves for a “major environmental act.”
At last, I was left having to examine myself. “You’re not anti-gun,” Maj Toure told me. “Ask yourself this. It’s a zombie apocalypse. Tomorrow, you wake up, and you can’t find your children. You go out to search for them. Do you want a gun now?” His analogy was not outlandish. This was, of course, the constant threat enslaved people endured. Had I been fooling myself about my anti-gun stance? I don’t think so, but I did come to realize through a series of unexpected exchanges that the issue was more complicated than I had allowed and that my views of just coexistence and human flourishing might not require the absolute prohibition of arms.
Some obligatory paranoia about Trump’s America and “the increase of racism and lynching” but it’s probably worth reading.
Surprisingly enough, she provides this explicit statement:
Black gun owners are not a monolith, Mr. Smith stresses. “We have black Republicans, Democrats, gay, straight.” In what may come as a surprise to some, black women make up 60 percent of the association’s membership, according to the group.
No kidding. If we could get her to see that white gun owners aren’t, either, we’d really be getting somewhere.
I’d rather it not come from racial paranoia, but the more people who have positive views of gun ownership, for whatever reason, the better.
Is it wrong I saw “pearl necklace” and thought of something other than actual pearls on an actual string?
What else could it possibly mean?
RE Old Guy Music: The song is too long. Sound bites is what we need. No song should be over 3 minutes unless they are the Dead.
– 1 attention span
Get to the point!
” 3 minutes unless they are the Dead.”
Ugh. The Dead. I’ll take incessant noodling for $500, Alex.