In honor of this week’s alignments, I will be relating no anecdotes. None. Which, not coincidentally, is the number of alignments in the sky this week. To celebrate, get a book in a language you don’t read and use it as a pillow while you listen to 4’33” by John Cage.
Which isn’t to say the sky is empty. MERCURY RETROGRADE is still fucking around up there (yes I’m still bitter about last weekend) but this is the last week we’ll have to deal with that little bastard. Sorry Pisces, but it just wasn’t your year.
Very high likelihood of fishing accidents.
It’s Aries turn in the sun, though this week (undoubtedly due to MERCURY RETROGRADE’s influence) you don’t get the double or tripling luck effects typical if it being your turn. Actually, I was “reading ahead” to see when Mercury direct and Venus would be blessing you, and frankly you got hosed, solar-conjunctionwise.
The rest of the sky hasn’t changed much. Mars is still in Taurus, Venus is still in Aquarius, Saturn is still in Capricorn ,and Jupiter is still in Sagittarius. For those of you who don’t remember from last week, that’s bad, good, bad, and conditionally good.
The moon is in Scorpio, which will be amplifying the effects of Venus in Aquarius, so that is good if you are either 1) female or 2) having sex with a female. It’s not bad news for anyone.
This weeks card draws:
Aries: 4 of Wands – Rest, relaxation, peace
Taurus: King of Wands – Friendly dark man, countryman, conscientious person
Gemini: Knight of Swords – Courage, competence, resistance, wrath, destruction
Cancer: King of Swords, reversed – Cruelty, evil intentions, barbarity, perversion
Leo: The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, voters
Virgo: 4 of Swords, reversed – Wise administration, economy, caution, testimony
Libra: THIS CARD IS BLANK – I am not shitting you. I drew a card with nothing on the face. What does this mean? Should I count the deck? Do I have 79 cards, or am I missing one? I don’t think it can be a coincidence that this happened on a week with no alignments. Notice that the scales of Libra are also empty. Sky, sign, deck – nothing, nothing, nothing. This may be the only week in your life that you are completely beyond influence. Tell us next week how you enjoyed freedom.
Scorpio: 10 of Cups – Perfect fulfillment and contentment
Sagittarius: 2 of Wands, reversed – Surprise, wonder, trouble, fear
Capricorn: The Magician, reversed – A physician, mental illness, disgrace
Aquarius: The Tower – Misery, ruin, catastrophe, indigence, adversity, disgrace, deception
Pisces: 2 of Coins, reversed – Simulated enjoyment, enforced celebration, handwriting, correspondence, composition
Trump is a Gemini, so eagerly awaiting wrath and destruction. And competence.
This may be controversial, but if astrology is predicting Trump competence it might be bunk
competence
He surrounds himself with greatness; we’ll be fine.
Virgo- “testimony”?
Oh, just wonderful.
Testify!
https://youtu.be/ouWQ25O-Mcg
Leo: The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, voters
I’m going to a Bernie rally?
Does the plumber count?
Pool boy scheduled?
I like the guy, but I’d be happy to never have to see him again.
totally NOT Karl Hungus.
I’ll take it!
a physician, mental illness, disgrace
so: no news
Hmmmm. Perfect fulfillment and contentment.
I’ll take it.
Libra is the best of signs. And Mountain Time is the manliest of time zones.
First one is empirically true. PDT=MST, so yes.
*flexes*
Sounds like there may be some issues assembling my new grill.
For the love of God get video.
I have all the necessary tools ready
Is that a pellet grill ?
Someone mentioned getting one here the other day.
If so get ready to enjoy some seriously good eating.
No, a pedestrian Weber gas grill. I only have one burner on my current grill, so 3 will be a big improvement.
I was just talking to my wife about that. A pellet grill is in my future. Maybe this year, maybe next.
Until then, this is my ride.
Pisces: 2 of Coins, reversed – Simulated enjoyment
Lots of masturbation for Pisces?
Simultaneous
Hey! Did you guys know a guy in Texas took his steer to Petco to test their “all pets welcome” policy?!?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-man-brings-steer-to-petco-to-test-all-leashed-pets-are-welcome-policy
Yeah, those horns are insane
I think that is an ankole. They have them in most animal parks. They are extremely gentle animals so it is pretty safe for kids to be around and they have the spectacularly large horns.
Took the grandkids to a local animal park and one came up to me and just opened it’s mouth like a baby bird expecting to be fed. I fed it and then it just walked away. Most of the other animals there can be a little aggressive if they think you have food but not those guys.
That’s how the guy was able to bring it in the store safely.
Aren’t ankoles only barely higher than your foot?
¡ there ought be a law !
Vols up 17 with 17 to go: bye Iowa
Vols up 3 with 3 to go.
Vols up 0 with 0 to go
Totally not a publicity stunt!
This is also the sixth article in a row where someone posted this link.
As long as he cleans up after her.
I guess we know who doesn’t read OMWC’s links.
That’s why I posted it here. Before this morning, it had already been in every article the last couple of day.
But not in the official links. Until it’s there, it’s not official.
Sad. Pathetic even. And before I saw that, I was going to give you props for the quality of this weekends links. Now? PPPHHHTTT!!!
Eating beans again?
Just wanted to address this Rhywun post from the previous thread
GAY
I agree with Rhywun. Now I have questions.
Cruelty, evil intentions, barbarity, perversion – so what level of perversion should I aim for? Tonic water in scotch?
You’re just going for perversion, not an outright crime.
That’s not perversion, that’s clearly evil intentions.
That reminds me. Time to pour one up. It is only 11:58 but by the time I finish pouring it up it will be after noon.
What kind of fancy drink you making up that takes two minutes to put together? That’s a waste of drinking time.
I typically make my fancy drink by putting a couple cubes in the glass and pouring the liquor in. If it’s not good like that, not worth drinking. Damnit, I keep eyeing that bottle of cachaca. I know it’s top shelf stuff, but I will get drunk, very drunk. Think I’m sticking with beer. Maybe a shot of Titos.
Vodka and cranberry juice but I have to mix one up for my wife as well. I will just move slow.
Sounds good. I’m gonna pour one for me now.
What are you drankin today, Suthen? We have so much food it’s crazy. Wife cooked a chicken, made pao de queijo’, salad, bunch of other stuff. I did my famous gumbo soup, with okra not filet and made a gallon of my fresh salsa. Good thing we’re having guest, I hope people are hungry, no way wifey and I can finish all this food ourselves before it gets thrown out.
We leave the okra out of our gumbo. I like them small like your pinky finger and cooked whole. She doesnt like that, too slimy she says. She likes hers larger and cut up. I dont like that…too tough and not slimy enough.
Hell I can cook a pot of nothing but little fingerling okra and a generous amount of bacon, sit down and just eat them one after another while she crinkles her nose.
So we leave the okra out.
fingerling okra
wisdom here
okra has to much saturated fat anyways. stick to the bacon
I didn’t know suthen was into fingering okra.
Whatever floats your boat….
Perfect fulfillment and contentment? Crap, better finish writing my will
OK. I’m way past sick of this racism against Capricorns. #CapricornsArePeopleToo
Blame Saturn.
You leave Saturn alone!
As a Capricorn I can confirm, we are not people and deserve everything bad we get
<<< Capricorn born in the year of the Dragon: I abhor astrology and resent how correct it seems to be about me.
Capricorn…year of Dragon…escaped Texas…are we the same person Don?
Yeah, I’m a quadruple capricorn and the assigned traits seem oddly specific and very accurate in my case. Still doesn’t make me a believer, but it casts a tiny doubt into my mind.
Which one of you is this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3k8oDlFFSs
That logo would be right at home here.
Between that, and the product reviews, and the millennial-bashing… it’s not really possible he’s not a glib.
New pole saw works great! Now for another afternoon of limbing.
Powered by a motor or your arm?
Motor. I’ve done the manual kind before. I would not be as happy.
Invariably the manual ones get pinched and nearly impossible to remove. Because of the shape of the blade it is difficult to make the bottom cut before the top one. You chose well. The extra weight is worth it.
How long of a pole (serious question)? I have a 7 footer, wish I’d went with a 12′. I’d like to go higher on the pines but no way I’m climbing a ladder with a running saw.
Stihl HT133, spec is 7.5′ to 11.5′. I have a bunch of big leaf maples that droop from high branches so I wanted something with reach, along with firs that I wanted to clear underneath. Still enjoying it but at full extention I really notice the lever effect of the power head at the end.
Now to dry out the brush piles for burning in a couple weeks.
WRT the morning thread and Dora the Explorer.
Leo: The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, voters
This one sucks. By reversed, does it mean you will end up wishing for the sweet embrace of death?
So, The Hanged Man is being hung by his heel, not his neck. He’s in no danger of dying, unless a bunch of pinatateers comes by.
like such: https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RWS_Tarot_12_Hanged_Man.jpg
Hmm. That looks like it might be good for my spine…
Saints Victorinus and Thomas Ochia Jihyoe would like a word.
Did you notice the halo?
Surprise, wonder, trouble, fear
Business as usual, then.
“Stone smoke time now” was how Nim Chimpsky would sign that he wanted to blaze.
The question of primate intelligence has been settled in my opinion.
That’s a terrible story, except for the weed.
She says her mother grew quite attached to the chimp, even breastfeeding him throughout his stay at their house.
What could go wrong?
so what level of perversion should I aim for? Tonic water in scotch?
Doctor Pepper.
*hides*
*gathers pitchforks and torches*
So besides Suthens vodka cranberry what is everyone drinking? I am having a Viognier from Dealu Mare and ignore OMWC it is e perfectly fine wine.
Pale Sour by Ommegang.
I had an Ommegang Abbey Ale Dubbel last night that was splendid. Rehydrating today.
#metoo
There is a steakhouse in Albany that has that on tap.
It is phenomenal on tap.
JuniorEscaped did not escape and has fallen in with Germans and their frontier sours. In fairness, he drinks everything.
I’ll have an A’bunadh after the Vol win
which FWIW will make zero difference in the Glib brackets because no one above me has Iowa
Uh, Don..
rechecked and still missed it: what nomme de guerre are you using ?
I’m not in the bracket challenge. I meant that it looks like Iowa is building a decent comeback. I wouldn’t make that A’bunadh contingent on them winning. Barnes is a master at choking away a lead.
Iowa is building a decent comeback
I called the game over with Vols up 17 points with 17 minutes to go: almost no one comes back from that.
Yesterday I explained my rule: any league in basketball, if you get up a point a minute with eight or minutes to go, the game is over. Once every other year I see someone overcome that profile, so it just almost never happens.
That’s a decent rule of thumb.
I dislike Barnes for a whole bunch of reasons too.
I love Barnes from watching him close up in Austin for years. Can’t believe the clowns there let him get away.
That’s a decent rule of thumb.
It’s my nature to look for systems to predict with. The difference between engineering and carpentry is that an engineer knows ahead of time how to figure how little material is needed to make something work. Anyone can throw extra material at a problem or make last second or Monday morning observations.
I’m kinda cranky, so I’ll observe that I was the only guy here who consistently believed that Team Red would lose 30 seats while being told every time I logged on that Hooterville was going to make Team Blue pay for Kavanaugh. It takes guts and systems to make a strong pronouncement ahead of time.
I was about to be conciliatory, but fuck it.That’s not exactly how the debate here went about the mid-terms.
Barnes is a blowhard that teaches a rugby style of garbage ball that relies on constant fouling, and cheap shots, instead of actual good defense. He’s also a whiny jerk who can’t let things go and kind of a blow-hard know-it-all.
Not surprised you’d be a fan of his.
True enough, Don, but probably ten of those seats were due to fraud. I believe the margin of fraud is going steadily up as the Dems refine their technique.
I’m kinda cranky, so I’ll observe that I was the only guy here who consistently believed that Team Red would lose 30 seats
Ahem.
(BTW, my +15 to +20 was relative to majority (218), not delta from the prior numbers)
Sitting in my parents basement watching UK fail against LSU. Goes to commercial with 15:30 on the clock. UK down 31.
Turn to my Dad and said, “Just have to outscore them by 2 per minute.” We laughed hard.
I am telling that story at his funeral. Its one of those moments of bonding we had.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/16/sports/basketball-down-31-kentucky-makes-record-rally.html
It’s been 25 years.
Robc My all time favorite comeback: 8 in 17. 45 years ago. No 3 pointers in that game.
Tennessee still up big on Iowa….
Water.
Iced tea. On chapter 8 of the book, “Goroutines and Channels”. Chapter 7 (“Interfaces”) was a slog, this one is more more enjoyable.
Wife left for business trip this morning, so I’ll do my drankin’ later, probably out.
saw a new romanian craft beer called golden shower. I mean ….
Barrel aged Imperial Stout. Huh, it’s noon on Sunday and I’m sitting at a bar.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3266/96842/
Smirnoff 100 proof, cranberry juice, splash of lemon juice, Perrier.
Folgers coffee…That’ll change he in about an hour to rum and coke.
does not sound fresh roasted single estate to me
Briney Melon Gose from Anderson Valley. Later, maybe a smash of some sort. My mint plant is doing quite well right now.
Rye smashes are so damn good. I want one now.
Beer at the local brewpub followed up by Dragon’s Milk from New Holland once I got home.
Friend of XX’s has a meeting with the bishop today, probably for him to persuade her not tomleave the church the minute she turns 18.
She is already stoned.
Stoned.
Stoned
My wife had a friend in high school who was a Mormon wild child. They graduated, she disappeared and the next time my wife saw her she was fat and married with three kids.
Stoned and Starving https://youtu.be/a5CvZTIoir8
Stoned to Death https://youtu.be/T0mQN6IdSv0
I’m disappointed in you all, not referencing this one yet.
what is everyone drinking?
Rolling Rock.
Sue me.
“33”
I’m a fan. The price is great for a light lager and it doesn’t taste like all of the ‘lights.’
When I was younger, I had many delightful nights of quaffing Rolling Rock.
We drank The Rock when we couldn’t afford beer.
By beer, you mean Yuengling right?
Well, that definition has certainly changed since my Rock days, but most assuredly, Rock never qualified.
Yuengling existed back then, but no one drank it. It’s not horrible…
Stagg Jr.
The High Life. Champagne of Beer
Only if you have the time…
This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9rRNbOijc
Well last week was a big chunk of suck, so my horoscope was not too far off.
I get my yearly performance review and salary adjustment this week, so I hope this weeks stars are not accurate other than the first bit.
“Wise administration, economy, caution, testimony”
You don’t have to give (written) testimony as part of the process?
I’m ok with testimony as long as it isn’t in front a a review board of congress.
How was last week’s horoscope? I remember mentioning you and I should compare how last week’s turned out.
My horoscope from last week was total horseshit.
uhh…. you said how last week’s turned out. Uhhh…. I’ll just chalk it up to the Dragon’s Milk and my continued earning of my new avatar.
So I got that goin for me, which is nice.
Goonga galoonga.
…big hitter, the lama
@Kinnath, or anybody else that knows, I’m racking my raspberry mead for the first time today and I need to know if the bag of raspberries goes in the next bucket, or if it’s done.
It is done. Throw the old raspberries away. Or freeze them and serve them over ice cream — or so I have heard.
Thanks!
You are welcome. Keep us posted on the results.
Deed is done. It looks good and smells like raspberries. Still very primary and a little fizzy at three weeks, but it actually tastes pretty good. SG was 0.992.
Libra
Oh shit! I’ve got 2 long road trips a ton of wiring I haven’t done before and a lottery to win. Blank you say? Even the cards can’t help but watch me write my own fate!
This is scary — glad the police arrested somebody.
If you are a libertarian on a college campus, watch your back.
Also, this should be a big story and would be if the political affiliations were different.
It would be a big story if someone of the appropriate identity intersection reported finding a picture of a bic lighter taped to their door.
Leftists, always and everywhere the same.
All of the gibberish accusations made against the YAL people could easily apply to any one of us.
No straight up attempted murder charge? Seems to go beyond “where it is foreseeable that human life is endangered”.
Meh. My dorm would have been impossible set on fire by lighting a door sign. The doors were steel, The walls and floors were concrete.
Surprise headline of the day
Toxicologist denies manipulating studies in Monsanto damages proceedings
“Who? Meeee?
Speaking of Mars, did y’all see this?
It seems too much of an easy slam dunk to not be a hoax. Mushrooms? Kinda interesting either way. Maybe a distraction from the fizzling out of the Mueller report?
I dunno. I would be surprised if there is no life on mars.
The question is will we be stupid enough to bring any of it back here.
The difference between engineering and carpentry is that an engineer knows ahead of time how to figure how little material is needed to make something work.
I had a friend who used to say, “Any idiot can build a house that will stand up. It takes an engineer to build a house that will just barely stand up.”
….what is everyone drinking?
Milwaukee’s Diet Beast in the (10/$10) TALLL CANS !
Also, rubbed 2 slabs of ribs a la Alton Brown, and about to prepare mac & cheese, and some collards (for Jugsy)
Swiss Chard for me.
I’m taking a break from drinking to clear my head, sleep better and widen the gap between my income and expenses.
/killjoy
I just ate a bowl of mac and cheese with bacon with an Imperial Stout. Dinner is salad and grilled chicken.
Save us, Bernie!
Here’s the good news: There’s a lot of high-quality streaming video available right now, with great scripts and A-list actors. The bad news? Maybe there’s just too much content to choose from.
It can be frustrating when viewers try to figure out which service has what they want to watch — Netflix, Prime, Hulu? It’s about to get worse, as more streaming services launch this year.
Nobody needs more than three channels.
If there is so much high quality material why is it that everything seems to be a remake of a remake of a remake? Why are most shows same script different scenery? Why is none of this high quality original material not being produced?
People keep saying ‘socialism doesnt work! It produces poverty and misery every time’. After a while it seems to me that people would realize that socialism does work. It works very well. Poverty and misery are the goals, dummies.
what is everyone drinking?
The Dead Rabbit Irish Whiskey with a splash of seltzer.
2nd attempt
But the costs can add up. Smith, his wife and their two children have accounts with Netflix and Hulu. They also pay for Amazon Prime, cable and broadband at a cost of nearly $340 a month.
Muh living wage!
Have they ever considered, I don’t know, not paying for all those services
Well, that’s clearly just crazy talk, right there.
That is a self-solving problem
Netflix and Hulu are what, $12 a month at most? Prime is $120 a year. $300 a month for cable and internet? Those costs don’t seem to add up.
Unless they’re buying a bunch of add-on packages.
What’s this journalo’s angle? Articles like this don’t get written for the hell of it.
“we need to nationalize the streaming services”
“broadband is a human right”
Drank too much yesterday: high west double rye, eagle rare bourbon, and basil hayden’s two by two.
So coffee and water today. Cinnamon rolls are in process, groomed and walked the pup, and just getting some lifting in now. Soon pizza. Later, Pathfinder with friends and the aforementioend cinnamon rolls.
Additionally, one of the Pathfinder herd is doing an astrological birth-chart-thing for me. We haven’t gone over all the details yet, but he gave me a little bit of a preview. “You’re all earth and air signs. It’s kind of funny… and telling.”
My gf loves that two by two. Not too easy to find around here.
I was, for once, sober as a church mouse yesterday. Fat lot of good it did, I’m just as lazy without a hangover.
I’ve got a beautiful 1.5 pound slab of pork belly. Any suggestions from you culinary types? I’ve got a well stocked kitchen so just about anything goes. One caveat, I don’t have a grill.
I have many suggestions.
So, the most important question is: when do you want to eat?
When is the contract settlement date?
This evening.
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/pork-belly-three-ways
Probably the pressure cooker one.
Thank you. I went for the low/slow braise. Mirepoix, garlic, rosemary, and a very nice chardonnay. No what to serve it with? I’m thinking parmesan polenta with sauteed cherry tomatoes and capers. And a simple salad of chopped romaine, green onions, green olives with a lemon vinaigrette.
Although…. I have done al pastor pork belly when I’m low on time. But it’s kind of a waste.
Freeze it for about 45 minutes to firm it up, and slice it super thin.
Sear in a hot pan, and add Chef Merito’s al pastor paste.
With that much fat, you’re going to want a lot of acid in your salsa/sauce. And as much heat as you can stand.
You’re going to have to Google that and see what you find. Most recipes involve a marinade, or dry rub overnight. Beside in the oven. Cool, slice, brown in a skillet. Would make an awesome bahn mi sandwich.
Need that crusty Vietnamese baguette, though.
I don’t have a grill
I..Uh..Is that even legal?
May not be illegal, but it’s damned unAmerican.
They’re reading the summary on Fox right now. I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to use these barrels of proggy tears. Trump, family, campaign completely exonerated from collusion.
No decision one way, or another, whether obstruction occurred. Evidence presented on both sides of the issue.
Barr and Rosenstein: no obstruction.
Driving back from the gun show today,I saw someone had put out red, white, and blue balloons and signs in their yard. “No collusion”. “Trump innocent”. ?
I hope those folks had made their own trip to the gun show beforehand.
A mile or so down the road there was a sign in some one else’s yard. “Walls work. Democrats don’t.”
I don’t think either of them are worried.
A friend of mine had no interest in the last Presidential election until he started seeing videos of Clinton supporters stealing signs.
Then he made up a sign which read, “TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT BECAUSE HILLARY SUPPORTERS STEAL SIGNS!”. Someone stole the first sign, so the second sign he covered the edges in grease and tied the sign to his house with doubled or tripled up fishing line. No one successfully stole the second sign. He voted for Trump.
Did you pick up anything at the show?
I did not do well in Amoskeag’s live auction this weekend.
I got a minty two tone West German P226.
My gf got a bright polished CZ75.
Nice.
I bid on a CZ75 in Amoskeag’s silent auction. I won’t know until Wednesday if I won.
Good luck.
Love those older W German Sigs. Looks and feels like a machine, not a pistol.
Minty.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/GyvazDf4TY2G0E8w79vc1g.KO7CJsEtiBX88rkYRQB9GO
KA stamped.
Nice! That’s what I’m talking about. 3 levers, mag release button, trigger, and hammer in that picture.
Cobra Kai is great. <3 Ed Asner.
His politics are so dumb it’s hard for me to put it out of my mind when watching him in anything.
I just imagine him as Ed Wuncler.
We recently saw him do a one-man show live called “A Man and his Prostate”, written by old Mary Tyler Moore producer Ed. Weinberger. The very old and feeble Asner had to be held up, practically carried to the stage. He wore only a hospital gown, and read the script from a stand in front of him. But even with all that, it was hilarious and a great show. Despite his politics, the man can absolutely deliver a line.
I will be reupping my subscription to Youtube for long enough to binge it once the season is all up.
This is absolutely true, of the trial episodes I watched. Still not sure I want to pull the trigger for one show.
I did the free trial to watch the first season then cancelled it.
I will probably do a single month. It’s worth five bucks for the 10 episode season.
Those costs don’t seem to add up.
How dare you question their lived experience, you big shitlord bully?
Watching the game and they interrupt commercials to talk about the Mueller Report and apparently they are trying to hang their hats on the fact that while they exonerated him on the collusion, but while they couldnt’ find enough evidence for tampering with the investigation, they didn’t exonerate Trump for that either.
I’m enjoying a barrel aged Boulevardier FromHigh West Distillery. Quite delicious.
North Carolina v Washington right? Yeah, they made absolutely sure to say there was evidence on both sides about obstructions and that he wasn’t exonerated. How you can obstruct justice by firing a guy you have compete power to fire is a question left unanswered.
Yup. I’m obviously looking through baby-blue glasses but I think we’ve got a shot at t eh final four again this year.
And exactly, it isn’t obstruction to do that or tweet that you think a lawless investigation that’s clearly a fishing expedition in violation of the statute under which it is organized is a witch hunt isn’t obstruction. their shell shocked responses are delicious.
“…obviously looking through baby-blue glasses…”
Powder blue. C’mon bro!
I have a friend who called us the Baby Blue Mafia so I’ve embraced it.
Jexodus? Ok, why does an exodus of Jews need to be called anything other than an exodus? They are kind of the original.
You know who else fled… oh wait, that was the Jews, too.
It ate my alt text… Boo that was the best part.
she was fat and married with three kids.
I think I know her.
Hmm…. how can there be obstruction of justice if there’s no underlying crime?
He was trying to avoid prosecution for the thing that he didn’t do?
Considering no one can point to the statute that “collusion” falls under, it’s more like: He was trying to avoid prosecution for the thing he didn’t do that wasn’t illegal.
Obligatory
Very easily, if an investigation is charged with determining whether or not a crime happened and you hinder that investigation you are obstructing justice. The outcome of the investigation is irrelevant. “Justice” does not always mean finding someone guilty, Sometimes it exonerates. You can get in the way of both outcomes.
Read the wikipedia article on Scooter Libby.
Done, now what?
You shouldn’t be able to start an investigation to see if a crime happened. The correct series of events is: 1) crime is committed, 2) crime is noticed and 3) investigation is started to see who committed the crime.
Investigating people to look for a crime is complete bullshit. When I was a kid, only commies and banana republics pulled shit like that.
This shit should be slapped down hard.
So no child abuse investigations? No fraud? Fuck, find a dead body, no crime in a dead body, can’t go asking if anyone wanted that chump whacked or how he got hisself dead.
So totes cool to investigate anyone you want to see if they are a child molester with no evidence of any abuse? And if they get mad, you can always lock them up for obstructing you.
A dead body? There is an entire process where a medical examiner has to rule on the cause of death before you can start investigating people.
I don’t think it is asking too much for there to be some evidence that a crime has occurred before any investigation can be started.
Hillary Lost, how’s that not some kind of crime? – prog logic.
And there is the rub, what constitutes ‘some’ evidence.
Getting mad isn’t obstruction.
BFYTW.
Same way you can be charged with resisting arrest but not charged with any other crime?
really tempted to go on twitter to see some meltdowns over the Mueller report. *Nelson Laugh*
Very high likelihood of fishing accidents.
Does this involve boating accidents?
So I was goin about my day snorting weed and fucking girls the usual ??I was on my 6th weed when this hot chick (10/10) came up 2 me and asked 4 some direction… so we started talkin u know then she starts peeling off my pants ?? now I wasn’t ready for round 7 (I fucked 6 girls b fore her ??) but went for it anyways ??? lasted like 14 hours before I spermed bcuz she was tired afff ?? then her boyfriend (jock) came up 2 me n we fited but I beat his ass, she sucked me after so thats that lol ???
.P,S didnt even do it on purpuse soooooo ??
HM has good drugs. The best drugs. Biggly.
Yeet.
Hmm…. how can there be obstruction of justice if there’s no underlying crime?
No innocent man would refuse to cooperate.
Refusing to cooperate is one thing, lying is another.
Obstruction of justice with no underlying crime is some serious bullshit and that’s always the FBI’s fall back when they have no case.
Then again, I’m one of those crazy people who believes there’s plenty to criticize Trump for without inventing conspiracy theories that worsens relations with a nuclear power.
Check out the Russian stooge over here.
Da!
Yeah but you might as well not count any of the things the Dems are perfectly OK with – out-of-control spending, crushing debt, etc. – because those things will never be addressed, ever.
Meh, as I said above ‘Justice’ isn’t simply proving X did Y, it ‘should’ be about finding Truth. Also, a lot of people seem to think only someone guilty/accused of a crime can obstruct, anyone with knowledge be it damning or exonerating that could help to find that truth can obstruct justice, assuming that the state has a ‘duty’ to discover said truth, that is.
OK, Mr. Law and Order
Finding the truth. Huh huh huh.
Get a load of this guy.
Remember when TOS had a front page article calling for sanctions against Russia at the beginning of the fever dreams?
Good times
Huge vindication for Glenn Greenwald, Aaron Mate, Michael Tracey, Matt Tabi, Scott Horton, Sheldon Richman, Justin Raimondo, and basically everyone at Mises
And for anybody with any common sense.
Is there any reason to forego or lift sanctions? As far as I know it’s still a second-world thugocracy.
Because sanctions are immoral and ineffective?
Then we should probably sanction China and reinstitute sanctions against Cuba. You can find any reason to sanction anyone and it’s always counter effective
Mueller’s report is still insisting the Russian’s hacked the DNC, has anyone besides Crowd Strike actually examined the computers yet?
You got to keep the myth alive that Wikileaks is EVILS and an arm of Putin
Well, I don’t like wikileaks, and am sure they broke many laws and have put people in danger by what they have released, I do not think Assange is a Ruzzian Puppet.
Wikileaks has exposed the lies of our intelligence community (forget about the Hillary emails). They should get a Pulitzer, imho
Real question, but what don’t you like about wikileaks?
I think that they are doing a fantastic service. Exposure is the best thing that can happen to the chuckleheads who are using the deep state to limit our liberty.
I haven’t paid a ton of attention to Wikileaks, so maybe they do some bad stuff. The only shade I keep hearing about is that the info dumps could lead to spies getting killed. But that is always from people who are being embarrassed by what is coming out.
I have heard that Julian Assange has poor personal hygiene and a creepy impregnation fetish.
There is a line.
Secrets that protect collection techniques, sources, military capabilities…are legitimate (necessary evil?). If your adversary is unaware of a capability, they won’t spend money attempting to defeat it, and you therefore won’t spend more money countering their counter tactic/technique. So keeping certain military capabilities classified actually saves the tax-payer dollars.
Secrets that exist to cover up wrongdoing or for political advantage are an abomination.
Wikileaks doesn’t seem to differentiate.
I’m curious whether their one thin reed, the lawyer who met with DJT Jr., makes much of an appearance. Because her having had dinner with Glenn Simpson the night before and after is still pretty interesting.
How they got the FISA warrants should be investigated. And then FISA courts should be disbanded. This isn’t the first time this baloney process has been abused. This is just the most prominent incident
Maybe Mueller can take that up with the Russians.
He’s still ducking their process servers.
OT: One area where it’s hard for me to remain a libertarian – vehicles that are purposely modified to be louder. For the life of me, I can’t understand why someone would feel the need to put one of those fartcans on their cars that annoy everyone within earshot. Also, there’s some asswipe riding around on a motorcycle just revving the engine. I’m about to pull some Wile-E-Coyote shit and paint a tunnel on the side of a wall or something…
Just play your stereo louder.
Correct response.
When we were in Ft. Lauderdale during spring break a bit ago, my wife was constantly puzzled by the guys cruising the beach with their music blaring.
She didn’t understand why they’d just drive up and down the beach. She didn’t understand why they played music so loud.
I told her that it was unknowable. And if guys never did stupid things and were only driven by logic that she and I would never have gotten married.
Truth.
Its the responsibility , duty and obligation of every kid, male or female, to annoy their parents right up to edge of insanity or violence. If they don’t they will never become the parents you hope for, in your more senior years. I did it, you did it, my kids and your kids are doing it now, age notwithstanding. It’s a responsibility that most kids are up for.
That’s why I made it a point of getting annoyed early. Hoped he’d be satisfied with my reaction to the orange mohawk and not have to progress to tats and body piercings (or worse) before being satisfied the distress he was causing.
Tha whistles go WOOO!, slaver.
I always thought about getting a car with a souped up super loud stereo and driving around with the Radetzky March playing very loud to see if anyone would write me a ticket for violating noise ordinances.
Back in the early aughts when big subs in cars was all the rage, if someone pulled up playing their stereo really loud I’d play Aqua on equally loud and annoying car stereo.
I agree that shit is annoying. But it’s a free country.
:.. it’s a free country.”
That’s not a phrase you hear much anymore.
The Preludes with a five inch pipe crack me up. They don’t go any faster, they just go louder.
I misread that and thought you were playing this really loud to piss people off.
Relax in the knowledge that you’re (maybe?) not an attention-seeking asshole.
And yes, turn up your volume. That’s how I’m getting through my days of the downstairs neighbor’s devil children shrieking and stampeding all day, every day.
You need a loud home theater. Put Blackhawk down on repeat and go out for the day.
Loud pipes save lives.
Loud stereos, if it’s not music I like, may cost lives.
Loud noise is a violation of the NAP. Sounds are a physical tresspass of your property. Literally including the space in your head. No different from someone blowing smoke in your face. Loud enough they will cause damage.
What?
Can you speak up?
Not an NAP violation. The noise is transient. The stupid loud car moves on, you move on. Problem solved.
Being punched in the nose is transient.
Loud car exhausts and physical assault are not comparable.
Agree 100%
*guy with kind of loud car*
MN rust does that to a muffler.
Dotting my eye leaves me with a shiner for a week, bursting y eardrums can effect my hearing forever, so you’re right not comparable at all.
The cessnas doing acrobatics overhead for hours is not my definition of transient. So loud we couldn’t carry on a conversation in our own home. Cars don’t upset me.
Cuz a loud car’s cool…
…when I was 10!
Exactly. Maybe I’m dwelling on it too much, but I just can’t figure out the psychology behind “I need everyone to notice me when I drive to work every day”.
So you want people to tone it down because you’ve got to rest up for work?
Fucking square. No wonder this site has a “Family Friendly” badge.
Maybe they have Rufus for a dad and they want him to know they’re going to work.
Dr. Dre Praises Daughter for Getting ‘Into USC All on Her Own’ 6 Years After Making $70M Donation
This whole college fixing thing is great because a bunch of rich white people now know how infuriating it can be when people assume that you only got into a school because the game was rigged in your favor, not because of your abilities.
Maybe they can “start a conversation” with minorities who are pissed because people assume they are an affirmative action beneficiary.
For rich whites self-reflection has never been their strong suit
All of them?
No. Not me, of course
And this is the problem with broad generalizations. I repent
😉
Just check to see if they started by going to Community College. Those are the serious students
Her dorm
Paisley and Cobb had Buffalo, so they’ll be backing up. The rest at the top of the board all have Houston (my son’s alma mater) and TxTech. The running order after the first weekend is fairly set.