GOOD TIMES.
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- SEA SMITH NO SEE PROBLEM HERE. SEA SMITH VOLUNTEER HELP! … WHAT, NOT THAT KIND @#$% UP? NOT HELP THEN.
- THAT ODD. SEA SMITH THOUGHT THEM GONE FOR YEARS. SEA SMITH AVOID IRISH SEA FOR WHILE.
- LIFE…UH, FIND WAY?
- KNOW WHO ELSE CONCERN ABOUT JU-52?
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
I aint gettin in that water.
And since the I.R.A. was mentioned….
BUT WATER IS FINE!
SEA SMITH NO SEE PROBLEM HERE
I hovered over the link and thought it was some irate musician at a jazz show.
Aren’t jazz musicians required to be stoned?
Well, smack addicts.
You know who else FIND A WAY…
Dr. Herbert West?
STEVE SMITH FIND A WAY INTO YOUR TENT
HAHAHAHA! YOU CORRECT! COUSIN STEVE VERY CRAFTY!
The Vietcong?
Little Miss Muffet?
Life?
/Jeff Goldblum
I was happier when his character canonically died of dysentery before that got retconned away.
^^This.
Wrong character, the lawyer died on the toilet.
Read the books.
Only if you really have nothing better to do.
What books?
Ha ha ha … kidding.
Your books? No way.
Basketball sucks. Sorry not sorry. Boring boring boring
Yes. It wasn’t always that way, but I find it unwatchable now. Almost as bad as soccer.
Soccer > Basketball.
Soccer just bores the hell out of me. The NBA actively annoys me now.
I think if you play soccer, I suppose you appreciate the nuances of the game now. Probably the same for golf.
Games never went 4 hours in the past. This constant changing of pitchers and teams like the Red Sox and Yankees going deep in the count when hitting just drag the game on.
Also. Since we’re on it.
NHL players > NBA players.
Change my mind.
You’re assuming I can identify either NHL or NBA players. Though I assume the basketball players are taller, and statistically darker complexioned.
Teeth, just count the teeth
I didn’t think the meth problem was that bad in the NBA.
They get pretty methed up without their front teeth.
The Yankees are like the Trump of baseball; they get blamed for everything.
But yeah, the pitching changes are out of control. It’s at the point now where teams typically carry 13 pitchers and 12 positional players.
They’re experimenting with new rules like forcing each pitcher to face at least 3 batters.
The shifts to me are an abonamation, but my libertarian side is against banning it.
The worst thing in all sports is the replay – a perfect example of mission creep. What started out as a plan to correct egregious bad calls has turned into replaying whether a guy went down at the 39 or the 40.
And with all these replays they still get so many calls wrong anyway.
Yeh the replay of spotting a ball is a bit excessive.
But then again, as they say, it’s a game of inches!
“The shifts to me are an abonamation,”
Why? You have X number of fielders, you should be able to place them wherever it makes the most sense. The abomination is hitters that don’t have the skill to hit to the opposite field.
Like I said I don’t like it, but they should be able to place the fielders wherever they want.
I am a pitcher, not a catcher!
That’s just because you havn’t met the right guy yet
NAH, I m sure I am not into guys. I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body…
That reminds me. I always thought football would be more fun if you let the offense line up anyway they want. There are so many picayune rules like not enough players on line if scrimmage, a lineman being uncovered, illegal man downfield, etc.
If you want to line up with a center, qb and 9 receivers let them do it.
When Flutie was with the NJ Generals they would do crazy shit like that.
Also, for the love of god, get rid of offsides in soccer so it can become almost watchable.
I don’t mind changing the offside rule to give an edge to a forward but getting rid of it outright would lead to players basically standing in front of the net like they would if you removed it in hockey. That’s not fun either.
If you want to line up with a center, qb and 9 receivers let them do it.
Early tests of this concept were not ideal.
Ha I remember that colts play. Though it was against the evil genius. It might work against Andy Reid or Todd Bowles
My argument is that, hey manager, outwit the shift, dummy.
What about baseketball?
If I had a nickle for every time that movie has made me LOL…I’d have a shitload of nickles.
“frozen cells come to life, but only just”
Now, if we could only transfer that science to old guys some things would be a lot different in my house
SEA SMITH GROK WHAT YOU MEAN.
Or old gals in some other households…
WTF NPR?!?!?
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/11/702348935/study-finds-racial-gap-between-who-causes-air-pollution-and-who-breathes-it
I thought it was the Chinese and the Chinese.
*Rubs eyes*
Well, the bulk of the air pollution seems to originate in china, and the chinese breathe the thickest concentrations of it. There is pretty much nowhere in the US where the air is actually polluted to anything resembling those sorts of levels, so I don’t know what that article is going on about. There’s not much of a black or hispanic population in china.
You have to suss out the leftist racism in every NPR story: they were implying that blacks don’t do any work and live near bus lines and have big nostrils.
[golf clap]
But it’s a country populated by minorities!
So many questions? How in the hell can they determine the origins of each smog particle in predominantly minority neighborhoods? Does the smog white people produce identify and float over to minority neighborhoods? Was this measured on a per capita basis? Does the scientific journal who published this lose all credibility?
Well, you see all the smog from white sources has little klan hoods on, so they just look at it under a microscope.
Actually, this article was the result of a typo. Someone was talking about smug wypipo, someone else heard smog, and NPR was off and running.
*Golf Clap*
SEA SMITH TRY GOLF CLAP!
*SLAPS FINS*
IT NO WORK. 🙁
I’m not getting close enough to help…
Find the chick that’s drunk at 12:30 at the 19th hole.
NPR sees racism where anyone with a brain sees classism.
The article spends a lot of time making it sound fancy, but it seems like it boils down to: white people as a cohort have more money, which means they spend more on goods and services and also live in better neighborhoods. I don’t know how the fuck it took him 6 years to figure that out, but there you go.
There’s also a lot more white people.
In fairness, they claim to have adjusted for that. Hence it basically boils down to median income between the cohorts.
Poor whites are also more rural, as a rule. Most dirt farmers in nowhere Kansas where the air is clean and the money nonexistent are going to be pretty pale.
As soon as we’re no longer talking about burning dung for heat, or even firewood, we’re done having a meaningful conversation about air pollutants.
Feckin’ luddite mooks.
[shot of 2019 model riding the DMV dynamometer while a 1970s landwhale cruises by belching soot]
Priorities.
There is nothing that cannot be analyzed with disparate impact.
^This.
AKA: “We knew if we looked really hard, and kept at it, we would find racism!”
I don’t really understand how this isn’t just the same old complaint: black and hispanic populations in the US have less money. This lady seems to almost be saying that white people are gluttonous, but I wouldn’t think for a second that the numbers would be different if we reversed the economic standings of the groups observed.
Poor neighborhoods have more pollution.
Thanks, asshole, for wasting thousands of dollars on something everyone already knew. You could have spent the money cleaning up a poor neighborhood for a few days. But you and your elites pocketed the cash instead. May STEVE SMITH visit you every day for the rest of your bullshit life.
The worst thing is, it was done by somebody in an engineering department. Why not, I dunno, spend those 6 years and however much money working on a possible solution? If you’re not going to let us get off coal, figure out a way to scrub the particulate from the exhaust from burning it. We could use more research promising graphene is going to be really awesome at some point (I just assume it would somehow use graphene).
I checked his bio. He’s not an engineer, he’s a biologist, thank God.
Fake news.
I’m half Hispanic and half white. I demand reparations from my white half. When so I want it? Now!
I say you beat the crap out of yourself until you pay up!
Make love, not war. His white half just needs to give his Hispanic half a hand job and call it square.
Make love, not war, but be prepared for both.
Doesn’t that depend on which half got the hands and which got the shaft?
In Trump’s America, Latinxs always get the shaft.
In today’s world, the different parts can self-identify as needed to make things work.
This is just yet another attempt at buttering up their readership for moar socialism.
>>Mammoth moves: frozen cells come to life, but only just
Is this the beginning of the end? Of the end of the beginning?
SEA SMITH WONDER IF SCIENCE HOOMANS STOP, THINK NOT “IF CAN”, “IF SHOULD”….
Animals aren’t humans, News at 11!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-police-reportedly-shoot-kill-bull-attacking-owner-after-it-attacks-patrol-vehicle
“Furtive Movement! It’s got a gun!”
Nonsense. He had his horns up.
Horny shouldn’t be a death sentence
Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em
Steak night
AT FOP LODGE?
It’s coming right for us!
Well, at least they took that situation by the horns
The officer’s aims were quite abull.
Hit the bullseye!
Bulls aren’t pets. Steers, steers can be pets. But sometimes even they get ornery. Knew an old guy who grew up on a ranch. He used to tell a story about how his daddy would tell them to just stand their ground when the old cows got grumpy. Until one took after his daddy for real and was chasing him around the pasture while his wife and son took breaks from fits of laughter to shout, “stand your ground!” Of course, he’s also the guy whose daddy “sold the house with running water when the drought came”. I’ve noticed that people who grow up on farms and leave work like mad bastards never to go back to one and think they’ve got an easy life.
I used to live in a house surrounded by open range. We had cattle (very small herd) roaming around the area.
I’ll never forget seeing a steer mount a cow, just got up where he seemed to know he was supposed to be, then just kinda waited for something that never happened before he got back down and wandered off.
Projecting?
We had a white Charolais bull when I was growing up. Sweetest cow ever. I could lead him around the pasture at age 12. But come breeding season, he got mean.
I don’t know about you but my Google news is full of sites talking about how Dick Cheny called pence out over Trump’s pussy foreign policy. I used to think Tom Woods et al. were exaggerating about how the Media was in the tank for war (I was young during Bush so I remember the war protests). But now it makes sense.
Warhawks gonna warhawk. What a bunch of mendacious asshats.
You mean the wise elder statesman Dick Cheney who retired in grace after a lifetime of altruistic public service? That one?
If my memory serves, he also did a stint as Batman.
Did you not learn anything from the SugarFree Christmas special? WARBONER!
Westbrook’s brother, Tyrone.
Walk into your room and see this man with your waifu…WWYD?
Go to the genkan and jerk off in his shoes?
+1 pipe-hittin’
Next you gonna tell someone to bring out the gimp…
“I’m pretty fuckin far from ok.”
Anti-Semitism and Orthodoxy in the Age of Trump
How religious Judaism helps shield the American president’s disparagement of globalism, cosmopolitanism, and other features of progressive secular Jewry from claims of anti-Semitism
The most insidious type of anti-Semitism is the pro-Jew, pro-Israel type.
5D chess, right?
They want all the Jews in one spot so Iran can Nuke em. Trump is worse than Hitler.
Also the left isn’t anti semetic, they are just presenting critiques of the religion of judiasim.
Step 1: Manufacture a crisis
Step 2: Accuse anyone who ignores the manufactured crisis of being immoral
Step 3: Rinse and Repeat
Step 4: Ignore the recent failure of the Democrats to condemn overt anti-Semitism in their ranks.
The fact that he talks about anything else means he’s a white nationalist.
So wait, the author associates a list of evil things that anti semites have traditionally blamed on Jews, then says that because Trump has denounced those things, he is the anti semite? Truly the world is a simulation run by 4chan.
A team of scientists in Japan has successfully coaxed activity from 28,000-year-old cells from a frozen mammoth implanted into mouse cells
There is no way that playing with nature by bringing back extinct species could possibly go wrong.
Wait until they bring back a virus that makes all the frogs gay!
https://xkcd.com/867/
It is about a 7 step process from your comment to this, but really, it applies here.
Tim Berners-Lee: ‘Stop web’s downward plunge to dysfunctional future’
Those three areas could be just one: Human nature. Let AI take it over.
AIs are just as good and biased as the people that create them. And the people creating these AIs at all these social media companies are some of the most radical evil fucks you have ever ran into.
So Berners-Lee is actually an idiot.
This has been known for quite some time.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2006/06/7127-2/
Tim, shut up. It is not your business to attempt to dictate how people behave online.
But people are doing things I Don’t Like!!!!!!
That is the cri du coeur of your leftist progtard: I need to control the people that don’t believe in the shit I do because they are stupid.
The funniest aspect of Warren’t recent proposal to break up tech companies has been the reactions of her idiot supporters.
“She’s going to break up Facebook! Slay, queen!!! Wait…Amazon too? NOOOOO!!!!! I LOVE Amazon!!!”
*Warren’s, but I kinda like the typo.
Warren’t for presiden’t
What tribe is that title from?
She’s my Cherry Pie?
“Open web” = “web that censors stuff I don’t like”
“Public good” = “whatever I say it is”
My thoughts exactly
You would think someone who was around for the days of usenet would have some thicker skin when it comes to online discussions.
“We need open web champions within government – civil servants and elected officials who will take action when private sector interests threaten the public good and who will stand up to protect the open web,”
Look at the Chinese and Russians, they let the government at it and they don’t worry about these hackers and bad business models.
Fuck off slaver.
Save us Bureaucrat Man, you’re our only hope.
He thinks this is a recent thing? Is he…uh…new to the internet….?
new laws and systems that limit bad behaviour
Like online ASBOs?
Fuck right off, slaver.
unintended consequences, such as aggressive or polarised discussions
All lists should be presented in threes, otherwise people realize what your priorities are.
Fuck you, Tim.
So brave.
Much hero!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/nj-transit-police-officer-investigation-video-shows-dragging/story?id=61605882
If he didn’t want to get his ass kicked he should have bought a car instead of taking public transportation.
“Every time I come here [to Utah] there are a lot of disrespectful things that are said,” Westbrook said. “For me, I’m just not going to continue to take the disrespect for my family. I just think there’s got to be something done. There’s got to be consequences for those type of people that come to the game just to do and say whatever they want to say.”
Mormons are notoriously disrespectful.
Also, apparently gay blow jobs are racist.
Something something getting the cotton out of the gin
Yeah, I had a hard time figuring out how a professional athlete didn’t understand a knee pad joke.
It is almost impossible to stretch that into race, but the homophobic joke is right there in your face, so to speak.
+1 Jim Dangle
Nostalgic twinge: When I was a grad student, the Jazz were a pitiful team run by a rather amusing coach (Frank Layden). The only good player was Adrian Dantley. In any case, the Salt Palace was usually massively empty during games, so those of us with cheap student tickets could easily make our way down to the front few rows. And we did, because hearing Layden coach was delightful. He’d start drawing some Xs and Os, and say something like, “You go over here, you go over there, and then… we’ll see what happens.”
“You go over here, you go over there, and then… we’ll see what happens.”
This is basically every NBA coach ever.
Argentina Coast Guard sinks a Chinese ship illegally fishing in their waters.
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-argentine-chinese-fish-wars-of-20xx.html
What is it about the Chinese that they will blindly obey assholes like Mao, but purposefully break every rule of international trade until they are literally blown out of the water?
The middle kingdom is the rightful ruler of the world, dontchaknow
When you have the Mandate of Heaven, the world owes you obedience.
When you don’t, the world owes you an ass-whipping.
That’s the first ship they’ve sunk since Thatcher.
Not true – it’s the first foreign ship they’ve sunk since the end of the Falklands war.
Well put man… I heard they did find that missing sub the other day.
I’m missing the reference.
The Argentine navy isn’t known for managing to keep it’s ships off the seabed during peacetime.
A similar joke on us would be that the USN has brought ramming back into the tactical curriculum at Annapolis (after the number of collisions at sea involving USN vessels)
So same as wartime. Thanks.
At least most of the vessels they lost at war time were sunk by the opposition they were at war with…
Chinese subscribe to the toddler trade policy: if I want it, it’s mine.
Patagonian tooth-fish is quite the delicacy!
Open Borders Is Just Another Form Of Foreign Intervention Doomed To Fail
Hoo boy
This should be self-evident.
“The United States cannot save the world ”
THIS should be self-evident.
There actually is a large contingency, big amongst the progressives, that believe the way to solve this problem is not to stop the US from fucking around where it shouldn’t care to be, but to turn the US into a banana republic so it simply has no ability to do this shit. Of course, this is also the prog contingent that has started the largest amount of foreign military interventions – these days labeled kinetic actions – of the last 2 or three decades. Don’t worry about the fact that these two ideas simply are not able to coexist. Proggies never are bothered by logic or facts, and it is all about feelings.
Saving the world is not the objective. Dems obviously want millions of new voters. Robber Barons want cheap labor whose healthcare you’ll pay for.
Followed a link to watch VDH talk about the bizzaro world that is CA. A couple years old but relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eNcuGcPW4
“Robber Barons want cheap labor whose healthcare you’ll pay for.”
And Labor Unions want everyone to pay for their healthcare too, and want the country to stagnate so some white guys can relive the glory days of manufacturing. See I can parot leftist talking points too.
Both of those statements are quite true though. Even if you don’t want one of them to be. Just because capitalism is good doesn’t mean that capitalists aren’t the same special pleading, rent-seeking assholes as everybody else.
Yes, I agree, I don’t get why it’s seen as bad when it happens to benefit buisness owners (some of whom lobby for it) but good when it benefits labor and Labor Unions. Closed border arguments are just supported by a different cast of rent seekers.
Just see who each entity donates campaign contributions exclusively to, and then it will make perfect sense..
Funny thing is that most real big businesses, the ones that get monopolies protected by government fiat, are lambasted by the same asshats that get the most money from them in return for their government backed protection racket.
Ahh, well, that’s just basic class envy, of course.
With the near total collapse of private sector unions it’s easy to see how the zeitgeist would be more on the side of labor than capital in a dispute over whose interests should guide national policy.
Ironically enough, farm and service labor unions are pretty much the last vestiges of labor power in the private sector, so they’ve had to come full circle on mass immigration. It’s hilarious to listen to their leadership 25 years ago compared to today.
Robber barons just want people that will keep them in power in return for scraps from the table. Marxism peddles a 2 class system, much like the old feudal system of the middle ages, and the SJW crowd is either too stupid to see this or likes the idea of serfdom (for others, of course0.
The Left has always hated the Middle Class.
Absolutely Drake. The Middle class is an affront to marxist systems, because it shows the fact that marxism is nothing more than a repackaged old-style elite vs. rabble system. It’s not accidental that the only equality that marxism can deliver is equality of misery.
I’d say they’re talking out of their ass and haven’t observed any actual libertarians interacting, if they think “unanimously” is something that we do on ANYTHING.
To be fair, up until the Obama presidency it wasn’t all that controversial in libertarian circles to be anti-intervention.
I was the chair of a state LP for a couple years. “Herding cats” would be a succinct description of the actual job. Saying you wanted to ” get unanimity” on any given issue would have cracked up the executive committee.
Ahh, well, libertarians vs. Libertarians and all that.
Unfortunately, in America Libertarianism is more or less whatever the Kochtopus wants it to be, and libertarianism is more or less whatever the disaffected class du jour wants it to be. Anti-intervention sentiment was still a decidedly majority position up through the Bush administration though (as was open borders).
“Pro-intervention libertarian” is an oxymoron, IMO. People who call themselves that are Objectivists who haven’t read Ayn Rand yet.
cytotoxic hardest hit
Wrong! All the True Libertarians agree with me.
Exactly what one of you pretend Libertarians would say.
I thought they all agreed with him because he is Tulpa and all of the libertarians are also Tulpa
I agree with this sentiment.
One thing is for sure I reckon, if Canada had this problem, Canadians would be hollering hard for a wall.
Yeah, but they would do it politely.
Sore-y, but you can’t come in here, buddy.
Someone here recently linked to some Tom Woods (I think) podcasts he highly recommended. Now can’t find those. Help a Glib out?
They’re all on his youtube channel
Remember the topic? I listen it daily on my commute.
No, I don’t remember the topic.
Thanks, I’ll try youtube. I went to his site but all I saw was a series of online courses with tuition fees.
This should have all his podcasts in order.
https://tomwoods.com/podcasts/
He’s also got it all on google play (and probably apple whatsiemawhosit) if you want to listen to it while you drive.
“No reason to be walking out on students!”
Yeah, it’s called a paid day off. Now go find another babysitter!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kentucky-governor-says-no-reason-for-teacher-sickouts-in-facebook-video
That’s a great idea. I’m gonna call in sick and protest in front of my company tomorrow. Wish me luck.
What can go wrong?
I’m guessing that your employers aren’t beholden to the votes of the workers to keep their jobs.
If a private school’s employees did this in a right to work state, they’d be picketing their former employer.
“Teacher absences have forced schools across the state to close as teachers and school-system employees have congregated at the state capital in Frankfort to make their voices heard at legislative hearings. For example, schools in Jefferson, Meade, Oldham and Bullitt counties were all closed this past Thursday.”
Ummm….I realize the Foxnews author may not be big on Ky geography, but those 4 counties are contiguous and hardly qualify as “across the state”. That is a tight version of the Louisville metro area.
Switzerland bans commercial Ju-52 flights after deadly crash
Boeing takes note of 80 year old German technology.
If people want to fly on an almost 100 year old plane I say let them. No one is putting a gun to the passenger’s heads.
No TSA? I’d fly on a bi plane if that were the case.
You want a little mile high ac/dc action there?
I heard he likes to fly both ways.
“Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let ’em crash!”
Donald Trump has weaponised humiliation – a psychologist explains why that could have dire consequences
Progjection
Lol. Jews and Catholics aren’t as shame-obsessed as the modern SJW movement. This is really not an issue they want to go to the mat on.
“Trump has also humiliated his former attorney general”
Some people deserve to be humiliated and Sessions is one of these people.
” However, it can also yield genocide, mass-killing, and terrorism.”
Stop humiliating us or we’ll….
Fuck em. Now they have a new dark space they can go into when they need to cry
Man, I was hibernating deeper than I realized this winter.
How’d I miss Session’s resignation?
Reporting on good news gets buried with regards to this administration. Nothing good gets talked about for more than the 3 seconds required for outlets to be able to indignantly claim they’ve covered it.
…say the people that believe in collective ethnic guilt.
Humiliation is a good way to learn humility.
Plank for RBG!
Still going to die while Trump is President…
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/ruth-bader-ginsburg-planking/
I love that activist culture has gone from “never trust anybody over 30” to worshiping 90 year old old white dinosaurs.
She managed to get the refrigerator open from the inside?
Is getting ‘planked’ still an euphemism? I can’t keep up…
If so, good luck, RBG
On Disability and on Facebook? Uncle Sam Wants to Watch What You Post
Paying as little taxes as possible is cheating and you should go to prison for forever, but living off of everyone else for a “dissability” is a right.
I’m all for it.
Simultaneously, SS has notoriously targeted people who actually were disabled for clawback.
It’s primarily a function of who are the better grifters. People who are seeking to defraud the system quite often pose a smaller target than people who actually need it.
You know what I hate about this mandatory training? The answer is always “Stir shit and throw complaints to the office of bullshit to make everything worse for everyone.”
It’s even more annoying than the ones with the cheesy videos.
You should suggest this to your overlords:
1) I’ve taken some of it and Kevin Mitnick is fun to listen to
2) Keep an old-school hacker in filthy lucre
3) If you’re REALLY lucky, you can get the executives to sign up for in-person training and he’ll fool them a couple of times and tell you about it
The powers that be would never throw any of their budget at actual training. The content of these courses hasn’t changed in all the years they’ve been mandatory. Every year we get the same recorded lectures telling us crap that never actually comes up.
“…The researchers found that air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans’ consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.
“This paper is exciting and really quite novel,” says Anjum Hajat, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study. “Inequity in exposure to air pollution is well documented, but this study brings in the consumption angle.”
Kill all the white people. Know what? Hand the keys over to Grandpa Gulag, AOC and Lebron. See what happens.
“Hajat says the study reveals an inherent unfairness: “If you’re contributing less to the problem, why do you have to suffer more from it?”
What the heck does this mean?
“…someone asked “if it would be possible to connect exposure to air pollution to who is doing the actual consuming,”
Someone is angling for ‘air pollution chambers’. Round ’em up!
Who knew that cities were more likely to have higher concentrations of pollution. Amazing.
It’s almost as if land near industrial areas and anything that makes loud noises (something running an large electrical motor or combustion engine) would be less expensive because it’s less desirable therefore, more affordable! Where’s my federal grant money!?!?!?
Does it all come down to blacks and Hispanics tending to live in urban centers more than whites? If that’s the case it’s hardly groundbreaking.
I contribute less to the problem of the deficit.
” but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.”
White people always bogarting that blunt.
“….Tessum stresses that “we’re not saying that we should take away white people’s money, or that people shouldn’t be able to spend money.” He suggests continuing to strive to make economic activity and consumption less polluting could be a way to manage and lessen the inequities.
Diez Roux thinks that stronger measures may be necessary.
“If want to ameliorate this inequity, we may need to rethink how we build our cities and how they grow, our dependence on automobile transportation,” says Diez Roux. “These are hard things we have to consider.”
Nothing bad can come out of this thinking. Nope. And no one who speaks Germans can be bad.
Choo Choo Trains is always the answer.
My life in sex: the woman who grew up in the porn industry
When I failed to develop large breasts, my father asked me if I planned to join the ‘Itty Bitty Titty Committee’
So…daddy issues.
You can’t pick your parents.
These ladies probably never had anyone ask them to join that committee …
Now that’s the Big League.
My nightmare is that one of the days you or Q are gonna post one of those with all the glibs making those poses.
My hourly rates are low and my physique is a beautiful thing to behold.
*grabs camera, pouts lips*
*Tapes moobs together, puts on wife’s lipstick*
As seen here
Or post pictures of porn stars who look somewhat like our wives, GFs, or for the rare female glibs, themselves.
Like this approximation of my wife in a pose she’d never actually take (prolly NSFW)
I look forward to showing off my tramp stamp.
No, but you can get a major newspaper to publish your anecdotes about it 30 years later for… some reason.
“I was four the first time I saw a magazine centrefold of two adults having sex, and eight when I learned what fellatio was.”
She two when she discovered her pacifier tasted like asshole.
OOOOHHHH!
I don’t know what’s been going on with you the last couple weeks, but you’ve been slaying me.
*Enthusiastic Applause*
No pics? I am disappoint.
Check out the little girl montage from Captain Marvel. Same thing.
Pics as an adult damnit.
You know, just because you’re in the flesh trade doesn’t mean you have to be a scummy fuck with your children.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. You could argue that making it an illicit business drew scummy fucks to it, but sex is more powerful than most people give it credit for and disrespecting that causes all sorts of weird results.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Tard Tuesday: IT’S REALLY HAPPENING, I SWEAR TO GOD IT’S HAPPENING THIS TIME
Pelosi already admitted there would be no impeachment,simply because there is nothing but a bunch of fake news crimes that the donkey pols used to keep the mob that had their intelligence challenged by the Trump election pumping a ton of money into their campaign coffers for the last 2 years.
And even Schiff came around. The impeachment thing is done. Sorry progs….no Hilary. /sad trombone.
They will now start investigation into his taxes and personal life hoping to find something that allows them to paint him out to be worse than Hitler… Wait… WTF is that going to buy them since they already labeled him like that?
Nah,. all this shit is desperate democrats trying to prevent us from actually investigating the real criminal activity of the Obama admin either on behalf of Obama or the Clinton campaign. If people realized how horribly criminal in their behavior the Obama admin agencies were in their efforts to protect the criminal acts of the admin, dig into their political enemies, and in general on spying on Americans, we would be looking at a constitutional crisis situation and a most of the democratic party & the leadership of every three letter US bureaucratic agency of the Obama admin looking at an extended visit to a place where they would be wearing orange jumpsuits and becoming experts at making license plates.
Neph, if you’re coming down to Legend Valley, I live out that way.
Buckeye Lake Brewery is in the
waterside shitholescenic village of Buckeye Lake. My unsophisticated judgement of their product is, “meh, it’s beer.”Homestead and DankHouse are in Heath, maybe 15 mins from Legend Valley. Homestead is a little more interesting than Buckeye Lake. I’ve never had anything from DankHouse, but they have a number of guest taps, in addition to their own stuff. Three Tigers is in Granville, maybe 35 mins from Legend Valley.
The Krogers at SR79 and US40 has a shit beer selection, they rearranged the store a year or so back, to make room for an embedded Starbucks. One of the sections that lost floor space was beer and wine. The Krogers up SR79 in Heath has a little better selection.
Sounds like paradise.
There’s a dirt bike track out that way, Honda Hills. They’ve closed up, but back when they were running you could count on a least one Medflight helo per summer.
Good times, sitting on the trailer porch, listening to the sounds of permanent debilitating injury in the distance.
I will give credit where its’s due- one of the few things Buckeye Lake is good for is some dank ice racing.
-soundtrack may be NSFW
That’s where we’re going, we’re “camping” (cabin) in Buckeye Lake (due to the rules mocked yesterday). We’ll probably swing by BrewDog on the way down, as I get a discount there, and I’ll be packing a growler (or two) of homebrew as well. Depending on if I can convince the girlfriend to go a bit out of the way, we may swing by R. Shea’s to grab some crowlers as well.
I’ve had some of Homestead’s products in the past, and it was solid.
Are You A Trump Supporter That Wants To Eat In Peace? There’s An App For That
Wonder where the McAfee app recommends.
Not sure, it’s still pulling all the resources before it fully loads.
I wonder which will occur first: Apple and Google pulling the app, or netroots trolls spamming fake reviews until the app becomes useless.
I don’t want an app run by conservatives, I want the app run by progressives. Tell me which tedious politics-heavy venues to avoid.
That’s just Twitter isn’t it?
Can’t we just not broadcast our political affiliation everywhere all the time? I tend to avoid places and people that do that.
Is it Gunbroker?
Today we are supposed to get above freezing for the first time in 67 days. Global Warming™ FTW!
Yeah, it got cold down here in Florida last week too. I mean, we took the family swimming over the weekend, but we spent some time in the hot tub warming up because of the wind.
But thanks to global warming, you guys will all be able to enjoy that nice weather soon too!
soon = 3 months
Tard Tuesday: Pack It In
Court packing will just be ignored by the electorate. What?
Eric Holder is not a wild-eyed liberal??
ROOOOSHIIIIANNNS!
Funny how these same people laughed off the red scare when that retard Romney was talking about it (or for the entire Cold War) only to now tell us that the Russians are the most dangerous enemy ever faced by anyone.
Just in case anyone was still entertaining the thought that we’d had an original idea since the Roosevelt administration.
On this front I have opined round these parts that Trump and a sentence should get together and expand the court to 21 justices. He should appoint a bunch of young guys under the agreement that they will retire during a Republican Administration before they are 65.
Step two is to pass a constitutional amendment setting the size of the court at 9 members. All existing members are of course grandfathered in.
Wow. How does one contain so much vacuous bullshit in their head without the negative pressure collapsing it into a black hole.
It actually forms a sort of foam using gray matter. It looks like spongiform encephalopathy, but doesn’t require eating the infected organ to transmit.
“The Congress gets to determine what “good behavior” means, and the kind of politicking we regularly see from conservative justices is not that”
Anyone who disagrees with me is a partisan hack.
These people are aware of who controls the Senate and the White House for the next two years, right?
From Laborem Exercens to AOC: why I’m a Catholic Democratic Socialist
Savage comebacks? He means savage come on her back, right?
“ageism, sexism and racism”
Why else would anyone criticize the golden child?
I’m disappointed, I figured that would be little Lizzie Bruenig or her kept hubbie.
I don’t know about her, but I’d rather side with what the old guy Pope Pius XI said as well as the other ones up to Benedict XVI.
Meh. The only real problem Catholicism ever had with Marx was the seething religious hatred. New Soviet Man would fit right into the Millennial Kingdom if he accepted Christ.
You do bring up a rather…unfortunate truth.
Old article but related: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/12/catholics_and_communists.html
Interesting piece, although I think the author overstates this being some modern bastardization of the church. Christianity predates the Enlightenment, capitalism, and natural rights theory by 1700 years. There’s no reason it should owe any particular fealty to those concepts more so than to any other of the many varieties of political structure under which the church has existed throughout its history. The church itself was once one of the strongest political entities on earth, certainly on the European continent. It’s given its blessing to monarchy and feudalism. It’s existed in every other conceivable “ism” by coincidence or design. Christianity isn’t by any means inherently capitalist, and arguably anti-Enlightenment. It’s a mistake to ascribe any particular political or economic system as the standard bearer for Christianity. Orthodox Marxism is inherently anti-theist, of course, but it’s plenty easy to take piecemeal from the Marxist critique of capitalism, particularly given Christ’s admonitions against wealth, prosperity, materialism and selfishness.
Those are very astute and important observations I’ve been overlooking. Thanks for the replies by the way, I admit I need to read up on all this/ruminate some more. I have been questioning and trying to square my religious beliefs with my political/economic beliefs the last couple of years.
It’s a worthwhile endeavor, one that I’ve played with since my early adulthood as well. Don’t be too surprised or disappointed if you can’t square them though. Let your political philosophy guide your approach to public ethics and public policy and let your religious philosophy guide your approach to personal ethics and morality.
Well, I’m not religious, so take me with a grain of salt, but it seems that:
‘Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s; render unto God that which is God’s’
would be fairly appropriate. If you’re a staunch fundamentalist, I can see it being a problem maybe, but otherwise, we tend to ignore the scientific advice from the Bible, such as it is, and I’d consider economic and political theory to land within that domain.
The Anti-Enlightenment (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Rousseau, etc…) was a response to the loss of the moral authority of the Church. Every one of those philosophers substitutes something else for the loss of religion, be it “altruism” or the State itself.
To be more direct, the Anti-Enlightenment and the Medieval Church have something in common, a hatred of the Enlightenment and the elevation of the individual over the collective.
we tend to ignore the scientific advice from the Bible
Looking for scientific advice in a 2000+ year old cultural anthology is like looking for biology in a musical score. You may be able to stretch something to fit, but that’s not what it’s meant for
That’s precisely my point Trashy. I see no reason why the faithful who agree with that can’t also be comfortable taking the same attitude as regards advances in economic and political science.
Ugg, Idolization of politicians by Chriatians makes my skin crawl.
I see a lot of really religious people all gung-ho for Trump which boggles my mind.
They buy into the apocalyptic notions of the culture war. They think that the GOP stands for God’s Own Party and that US politics is good v. evil. They’re simpletons who think that Jesus rode a Harley and had an American flag tattooed on his ass. Cultural Christianity sucks, whether it’s diluted (progressive) or nationalistic (conservative) .
Seriously? Let me help you out then:
“Hey, you know all those guys who keep vandalizing your property, threatening your children, driving you out of business, criminalizing your moral convictions, and redistributing your tax remittances to organizations and causes you find morally abhorrent? Well fuck those guys, I’m on your side!” – Candidate Trump
“Hey, you know all you mouthbreathing troglodytes who hate gay people and think it’s weird for guys with fake tits to share a bathroom with your 5 year old? Well fuck you guys, I’m on their side!” – Candidate Clinton
It’s not the voting that confuses me. It’s the reverence.
I don’t know. I am baffled by this behaviour. I had to disconnect three analytical cores and purge secondary memory to prevent a paradox overload. Luckily there was no hardware damage, except the sarcasm detector is fried. Again.
Well what I’m saying is that basically it’s hero-worship because he’s the first candidate in a good long while that hasn’t placed them beneath contempt. In practice his governing hasn’t been that much different, buthe consistently tells theem what they want to hear at a time when nobody else is interested in telling them what they want to hear.
Oh yea and its just as gross. The My Pillow guy said Trump was chosen by God.
What we need, as a country, is an open and honest dialogue on common-sense pressure washer control.
-has anyone seen Sloopy ?
That’s actually quite dangerous.
Hurts like a sonofabitch, yeah.
Also, linked at that story was this story, which is probably the most depressing thing I’ll read all day.
| Peddle, whose son is also on the team, says Crum’s wife Shana came to her husband’s aid and was also electrocuted.
Sadly, that happens a lot.
Yep. Back when I worked on radars, in every radar shelter we maintained, there was a wooden cane, the old fashioned type with the big hooked handle, for precisely that reason – if someone had grabbed a live component and was doing the 60Hz shuffle, you grabbed the cane to pull them off so you didn’t get shocked yourself.
These days, they are fiberglass handled with copper hooks.
The vendor probably gets a higher markup on the new design.
Fiberglass doesn’t absorb moisture the way wood does. Unless the wood sticks come in air-tight packaging To Be Opened In Event Of Emergency, in warm, humid climates their voltage rating would degrade before long.
Not clear on the benefit of the copper though.
What’s the plate voltage like in a modern radar, also, semiconductors yet?
Undoubtedly, though I have been told that making the in initial contact surface conductive can provide n alternative path to ground than the victim. Supposedly this can reduce the time that the victim is being electrocuted.
Touching someone with an isolated conductor isn’t going to provide an alternative path to ground.
My initial thought about the copper is it prevents flashover somehow.
It would be funny if we debated the technical merits for ages to come up with a good reason but it turned out that some executive just liked the color and insisted it have a copper top.
That sucks
Ross Douthat: Bernie Sanders, Socialism’s Reagan?
just as Reagan’s age in 1980, 69, roughly matched American life expectancy at the time, so does Sanders’s age of 77 match life expectancy today.
Life expectancy != lifespan. You’re objectively a lot closer to death at 77 than 69 in any time and space.
That’s why you make sure you’re on the right side of history, tovarisch.
I’m going to assume this guy is too young to remember much about Reagan. Yes, the media tried hard to falsely portray him as a dangerous extremist, but Reagan was a masterful speaker and knew how to talk right over the media gatekeepers and directly to voters. They didn’t think he was an extremist at all. It’s hard to see grumpy old Bernie pulling that off.
The funny thing is that here we are almost thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the NYT is still faithfully pimping Marxism. Never change, y’all.
+ONE PERCENT!
Boeing has some splaining to do….
That last crash in October may have had something to do with the new stall software. This one sounds more mechanical. I don’t know who to blame, but I’d be pretty hesitant to fly Ethiopian Air.
http://www.unz.com/jthompson/boeing-737-max-an-artificial-intelligence-event/
From what I have heard, the pilot that was flying that plane had over 8K hours and was no slouch, but then again, he doesn’t maintain these aircraft. Note the plane was also only 3 or 4 months old…
That doesn’t sound entirely mechanical. I know eyewitnesses suck, but maybe it wasn’t a mechanical failure.
Libertarian moment?
I don’t see how white smoke and shedding debris in midair could be anything but a mechanical failure. But, I am not an expert on crashing airplanes.
Well, an explosive device would have opened the cabin to the outside atmosphere.
True. I guess I was thinking pilot error v mechanical, and left out the psychopathic asshole possibility.
I wonder who is investigating this crash? Ethiopia?
The computer decided to jettison the cargo?
Bzzt! Save the plane! Save the plane!
Sounds like either a bird strike to an engine or the engine blew up in a way that compromised the cabin.
Speaking of Lent… Mexican Sharpshooter, have you ever considered going the other way for lent?
It probably helps that he works at a brewery.
I’ve seen a few stories about that. I don’t think I could do it though. I’d miss food too much. Also I don’t think my hospital wants nurses drinking on the clock
I’ll also add that as he works in a brewery, I’m willing to bet they’ve made a beer specifically for this. The beers that the monks drank during fasts were not the dubbels or tripels of today. They were low ABV (probably at most 3.5%), high body, under attenuated beer (so they would have lots of residual sugars).
I would recommend against doing this with tripels or dubbels.
Residual sugars? The monks may not have spoken but the abbey sure wasn’t a quiet place.
Chimay would be good choice for that. It’s like drinking a loaf of bread.
40 days of gay for Jesus
Having grown up in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood, whenever I read the name “Jesus” I think of any number of 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who bore that name. Heck, two of my closest, personal friends are named Jesus.
Nobody fucks with the Jesus
What a friend you have in Jesus?
Well, he hasn’t tried to shiv me since I moved away.
No but Jesus has a friend in me
/alter boy
This should be fun: Federal court moves to unseal documents in Jeffrey Epstein scandal
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article227411649.html
It is odd in that video that they never made any connection to the reality that the reason he got such a lenient sentence had nothing to do with his wealth and everything to do with the fact that he quite clearly has proof that more than a handful of politically powerful people knowingly had sex with underage girls at one or more of his parties.
Now when did you get so cynical?
Toxic Femininity
https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/
“women rate 80 percent of men as “worse-looking than medium,” and that this 80 percent “below-average” block received replies to messages only about 30 percent of the time or less. By contrast, men rate women as worse-looking than medium only about 50 percent of the time, and this 50 percent below-average block received message replies closer to 40 percent of the time or higher.”
No wonder they’re so uppity.
That meshes with the data OkCupid released. Is this a new study or a reprint of that one?
That was the OkCupid data. The Tinder data was different but reached the same conclusion.
So my reading of this is: men can do math.
I’d like to see the correlation between the 30% that got messages and their apparent income/net worth in their profile.
The correlation won’t be as strong as you would think.
Women want a relationship with a guy who is financially stable and a good provider, they are more than willing to have a one night stand with the first hottie they encounter
That’s sad and reminds me why I shouldn’t buy into the temptation of tinder/online dating.
Keep in mind that studies have shown a larger disparity in what women consider attractive then what men consider attractive. So while 80 percent of women are rating the men as worse looking than medium, I’m willing to wager that those are much more spread out then the 50 percent of women that were flagged as such.
So you’re saying ‘medium’ is above the median?
No he is saying that individual womens tastes are much narrower and and defined than individual mens tastes however there is much more disparity between what women as a group find attractive than there is in what men as a group find attractive.
That said I do not believe that this is borne out by the data in these studies as they are not tracing individual women’s responses but the net effect of all responses combined.
I think what you can really take from this is that in the real world where attraction is driven by a multitude of factors women do not consider looks to be all that important and will often gladly enter into a relationship with a man they do not find to be particularly attractive, however in the online dating world where all you really have is looks to go on women are far more picky than men.
Stated in another way, it seems that men collectively create a “dating economy” for women with relatively low inequality, while women collectively create a “dating economy” for men with very high inequality.
Is that unexpected?
“Why aren’t young men getting married and having families?”
Thismust be fake news. Everybody has been assuring me that socialized medicine is entirely affordable and it’s only the looters and wreckers who have a problem with it.
Now couldn’t be a more important time to make our healthcare system free market. All of the people fleeing to the United States for health care would be a boon. Instead we will head down the same path as Europe.
Slept in again… oh wait, no I didn’t. My circadian rhythm was right on, but the clock bullshit continues to be bullshit.
Titty Tuesday will cheer us all up.
http://archive.is/nes0m
Trump is here to save the day(light)
So where’s the legislation ending the clock-changing nonsense?
You mean this (from the article)?
You expect me to follow the links from commenters?
So we are ending standard time? I know as a practical matter it makes no difference what you call any particular time, but seriously? We are leaving the clocks turned ahead an hour full time? GMT -5 +1
I thought that seemed odd, too. But at this point -as others have said- I don’t give a shit what time is “normal time”, just stop with the clock changing already.
I don’t even care really, standard or daylight, just pick one and stick with it. It’s enough already with the changeover. We’re only on standard time for, what, 4 months how anyway?
THIS.
It’s enough already with the changeover.
Move to Arizona.
Although its still disruptive to change time zones, even though the clock doesn’t change.
You don’t change time zones, you stay MST.
Your TV schedule changes, but I think that is it.
We effectively change time zones (de facto, if not de jure). In the summer, we’re on Pacific time, in the winter we’re on Mountain time.
TV schedule changes, and you can get some fucked up airplane reservations and meeting appointments around the switch.
I always laugh at the argument “But if we’re on Daylight Savings Time all year the poor, helpless children will be going to school in the DARK!” Which does nothing but admit that the people running schools are too stupid, lazy, and incapable of adjusting their schedules.
I’m not seeing a problem here.
Maybe send high school kids to school at a decent hour. The school across the road from me starts at 7:20 in the morning. Elementary school starts at 8:15 and middle school at 8:45. Plus, in Pinellas County we have paid, uniformed crossing guards to keep the retired folks voting for school money, so I’m not in the least concerned. Sunrise would be no later than 8:00 am for us. Its not like they let the little kids walk to school alone anyways. If an 8 year old can’t stay on the sidewalk and cross at the crosswalk, daylight ain’t gonna save him or her.
Just split the difference between the two and call it a day.
I want my daylight in the morning
I want my daylight after I’ve reached the office. Commuting with the sun just above the horizon is painful on the eyes.
^
Later twilight on both counts is super.
That’s your driver’s problem.
If the car crashes, it’s everyone’s problem.
We have these things where I live called sunglasses. They’re tinted to provide protection from the sun. We also have shades above our windshields that pivot down to shade our eyes from the sun. They’re pretty cool.
You want to know something funny – sunglasses don’t help much when looking directly into the sun.
And at sunrise, the sun is so low that when the car shade does reach it, the view of the road is blotted out too.
Have you tried driving in reverse?
Yeah, but then I end up at work when I should be going home.
I want my daylight in the evening.
We can all get what we want if we quit it with our silly 9-5 mentality and embraced AOC’s unwillingness to work.
9-5? That’s the stupid shift – stuck in all the worst traffic. I work 7-3.
I start at seven, too. Much preferred to working till 5.
It’s a constant point of frustration for me how many employers end up having a problem with a 7 – 3 shift. Even if they agree to it initially, when they see me walking out the door 2 hours before everyone else, their monkey brain kicks in and people start asking ‘Whyfore him leave early!?”. Ignoring that I was working while they were all still asleep.
20>16>23>5
16 is all I need. Nice timing Q, I was about to go to bed.
I think it’s hilarious that Q posts titty picks, and the glibertariat goes, meh, let’s chat about DST.
Not a batch playing to my perverse tastes, but 9 is sexy
Scarsity. Q-pics are common
#2 because of the Iron Maiden t-shirt.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
The transcript was provided by a person familiar with the meeting who was not authorized to share material from the event. All attendees had agreed to keep the discussions “off the record,” the person said.
Pence and Cheney’s confidential one on one, thoughtfully provided to WaPo, by a patriot. Because people need to know.
I hate that shit with a passion.
great news! KY becomes the 16th state to pass a Constitutional Carry law after governor signs it.
https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Kentucky-House-passes-permitless-conceal-carry-bill-goes-to-governors-desk-506561551.html
Very good to hear this.
I guess I don’t need to update my permit when it runs out in 2020.
There are still 34 unconstitutional states in the union. Some of which may offer reciprocity (which should be mandatory under the full faith and credit clause, but the license requirement itself violates the 2nd). If the fee and hassle isn’t too much, keep the paperwork current.
Yeah, we were discussing that at work. I wonder if they will even still offer the permit? Probably, for exactly that reason.
Technically, this isn’t a constitutional carry law, its just a law. The state constitution still allows the legislature to enact laws against concealed carry. They are just choosing not to for now.
Open carry is constitutionally protected.
I don’t understand how concealed carry isn’t also constitutionally protected. Honest question. I see no carve out for it in the 2nd amendment.
I think robc is talking about the Kentucky state constitution.
But I agree, the 2nd amendment does not leave any wiggle room for infringements like licensing requirements or capacity limits.
The mental gymnastics are around what is the scope of your right to keep and bear arms, and what counts as an infringement of that right?
Its mostly the latter that the gungrabbers play with. Hence, the “reasonable regulation” is not an infringement, by definition. On this view, only unreasonable regulations infringe your rights.
For example, you right to keep arms is not infringed by “reasonable” regulations on storage, insurance, etc. You can still keep them, and its not unreasonable to require that they be safely stored, that you carry insurance, etc.
This isn’t an easy argument to refute for someone who is a pretty typical American and is used to the idea that regulation is inevitable and on balance a good thing. The battle over the 2A, like every battle, depends on who is winning a larger argument over the scope and role of government. What’s remarkable to me is that gun rights stand out as perhaps the only area where any libertarian progress has been made over the last, well, generation. It definitely bucks the trend, but I don’t think it can do so forever.
I suspect the progress with guns is because for whatever reason, the 2nd amendment is one of the things conservatives agree with libertarians on both when in and out of power (unlike spending and free speech).
I’d also argue a lot of progress has been made towards drug legalization. I know there’s a long way to go yet, but the cultural perception has changed a lot with regards to marijuana at least and we’ve now had two presidents in a row take a stance that wasn’t openly prohibitive (even if one only did it at the 11th hour with a pretense of somehow not having the authority as the president and the other had Jeff Sessions as his AG).
The second Amendment guarantees the right to keep arms and to carry them against infringement. A purist might take that to mean no restrictions on methods of bearing the arms, but it might also be interpreted as saying no restrictions that prevent or discourage you from keeping and bearing the arms are permitted. I think concealed carry should be protected under either interpretation, but the purist interpretation leads to some things I would question.
For example if there can be no limits, one could carry in the hand with one’s finger on the trigger in condition 0, walking down the street, and I am not sure that it is a violation of anyone’s rights to prevent this.
I would say that you are allowed to do this but other people are allowed to interpret your actions as open hostility and shoot you.
Is this the world libertarians want?
I think I side with UCS in regards to your example, but I appreciate the larger point you’re making. I guess the problem comes in when you consider that the slippery slope fallacy isn’t a fallacy when it comes to government. Probably better for a few people to learn the hard way not to be a dick with their gun then to go down the road that’s led us here.
That may end up being my retirement state.
There’s a lot to do there.
I like the cut of his jib.
Yowza.
I was going to point out that last paragraph but you had it there.
It is a classic mix problem. A looks better than B. But subclass x and y are both better in B, but the mix masks the fact that B is better.
YowzaUff-da.Milwaukee is the shame of WI. I mean that to say it is to the states shame that the city is as terrible as it is.
We have the same situation in Iowa — good test scores, but an almost lily-white student body.
Daily attendance rate: 62.3 percent
This is probably the source of all the proficiency problems at that school, yet it is not something the government can easily fix.
Stop mandating attendance. *dusts off hands*
64.2 percent — a graduate rate of less than two out of three.
The kind of insight only available to a high school graduate.
What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/11/sxsw-star-wants-lead-humanity-simulation-may-live/
Pretentious fop thinks he invented the allegory of the cave.
To echo Pat…
Bert: Let’s sit down. You know, begging you pardon, but the one who my heart goes out for is your father. There he is in that cold, heartless bank day after day, hemmed in by mounds of cold, heartless money. I don’t like to see any living thing caged up.
Jane: Father? In a cage?
Bert: They makes cages in all sizes and shapes, you know. Bank-shaped some of ’em, carpets and all.
“Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in massive college entrance exam cheating scandal in which parents paid up to $6M in bribes to get their kids into elite schools including Yale, Georgetown and Stanford
Lori Loughlin and her designer husband Mossimo Giannulli also have two daughters: Olivia, 19, and Isabella, 20.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6799945/Lori-Loughlin-Felicity-Huffman-implicated-massive-college-entrance-exam-cheating-scandal.html
Would.
“Bribes”? I thought it was called “donations”.
It depends on what account the money goes into.
Since when is Georgetown elite? The law school might be elite, but that’s it.
Well… really expensive.
The law school might be elite,
Or, it might not.
*throws shoe at orphan for failing to dust Harvard diploma*
So did the universities take the bribes?
You spelled “progressives” wrong.
Seems totally unclear, was it the testing institutions that they bribed for higher scores?
Did they bribe the schools to let their kids in? If the schools, then there should be a lot more charges against a lot more people.
Look, you can’t expect a reporter to do everything. Sheesh.
It seems like it was the testing centers. This is way too complicated; all they need to do is make a substantial “gift” to the school’s Foundation and it won’t matter what their test scores were.
It appears the scheme was this; they’d bribe one of the non-revenue sport coaches to claim the kid was an athlete, which means they’d be applying under meeting the threshold instead of having to compete with other kids for their scores. And that still wasn’t good enough, as apparently they also bribed proctors to give them answers.
And these are the people that think they are so much smarter than average Americans.
They know how to game the system, which is what they consider to be smart…
You’d think they’d be able to teach their kid how to succeed without a degree then. Unless their goal is a sweet government position in which case some enterprising journalist might go as far as googling to see if a person has a college degree from someplace before just assuming they are our betters.
Man, if you can’t trust Aunt Becky, who can you trust???
Hah. That sounds exactly like something Huffman’s character on Desperate Housewives would have done.
So in all this, what’s the crime here? Why is this being brought up with Federal charges? The testing company should fire the proctors, coaches maybe get fired, or future schools don’t trust them any more.
ohh
nice.
Glad the heroes in the FBI are on this, who knows what horrors these rich housewives would have committed had they not been stopped in time.
Exactly, some bullshit charge to squeeze them for a plea deal which is just another large fee.
The four links I posted this morning got memory holed….huh.
They did look kinda spamish to me.
Did I post too many within the allowed time frame? It was a kind of a theme posting binge.
I for one was eager to follow up on your lead for a five-digit monthly income, and would like to hear more about the Miata you bought last week.
*sigh*
So Q can shitpost multiple links to Chive titty pics to open a thread but when I post something local on a nearly dead thread it’s a non-starter. Got it.
Sorry. My car had multiple failures yesterday and I had to dish out about $2k tofix it this morning. I’m a little bitchy. Again, my apologies.
My dude, I feel you.
I have been lucky enough to make sure I never had to put more than regular maintenance into a car. Granted, I buy new, do regular maintenance religiously, and sell long before the mileage reaches a point where there will be other wear & tear to deal with. I clearly understand not all people can do this, but I only once was confronted with the scenario you had, my first car, and I ended up dumping it and getting new at that point because it was obvious that I was looking at repeated big bills to keep the thing going.
Aw, that blows. Sorry.
STEVE SMITH BEEN KNOWN TO HIT THE MEMORY HOLE HARD
Does STEVE forget what he is there for mid stroke?
There are four links!!!!
Max 2 in a post or they get eaten by the spam filter.
I recall seeing one per comment. I have no more clue where they went to than TH
My car had multiple failures yesterday and I had to dish out about $2k tofix it this morning. I’m a little bitchy. Again, my apologies.
OUCH
Speaking of productivity- Youtube served this up for me the other day.
I wouldn’t necessarily take every word as gospel, but it’s worth it just for the chart at the beginning. And machines are cool.