Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but history buffs and Catholics as Notre Dame Cathedral or as the waiter at the restaurant I had lunch at yesterday called it “some old building” burned almost to the ground. As always with these types of news stories, there are always heroes that emerge.
Four white men lead the Democrat Party primaries.
Pelosi takes small jab at Crazy Eyes.
New Jersey woman faces 4 years in prison for a Go Fund Me scam.
Meteorologist received death threats for interrupting Masters with tornado updates.
Another drug case thrown out from botched drug raid.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Four white men lead the Democrat Party primaries.”
Is anyone surprised this is the reality though with these pretenders?
“Socialist Bernie Sanders, who has jumped into the lead with 29 percent support, turns 374-years-old next year.”
Wow.
374?
I guess the converse of “only the good die young” is true too.
“Biden, who’s only a couple years younger, had a terrible week after at least seven women came forward to accuse him of inappropriate touching, and he has now dropped to second place with 24 percent support.”
Has he even said he’s running?
Yes, I think he did officially enter.
I think I saw him do this announcement while molesting someone on TV…
*shakes head*
I tried several glib combinations of rebukes, but failed to capture the essence of what I wanted to say to this person I’ll likely never meet who doesn’t understand.
Well not only was it some old fucking building, but it was one of those places the people that don’t worship the one true god (PBUP) – government – met to pray to some sky daddy!
CHRISTFAGS!!! BUSHPIGS!!!
Ah, an oldie but goodie.
I’m fairly unbothered by it tbh. The last vestiges of Christianity in France were expunged a good century ago. There was apparently a lot of art that I don’t particularly care about warehoused there.
The scale of destruction of antiquities in the middle east during the everlasting peace of the Arab Spring dwarfs this by orders of magnitude.
No one worships Horus or Amun in Egypt anymore, but I am still bothered when one of their temples gets destroyed.
Besides, there were actual, attended masses still performed there. (Some reports I’ve heard said one was in progress when the fire started)
[golf clap] for “everlasting peace of the Arab Spring” but some of that was probably looted and sold
Not to go all Eddie, but regardless of its religious significance, it was still a fucking awesome building.
I agree. The historical value of the place is what should sadden people.
It is sad. Though I’m sure it will be rebuilt. And if not, then enjoy the fact that you were alive when it existed.
I was reading an article about Columbus’ son. He had a library and they just found the catalogue he had written of all the books he had in the library. Most of them are books that we no longer have. But now we know they existed and have summaries of them.
…I wonder if it will be.
It will be fascinating to see how the rebuild proceeds. Think of how long it took to even begin to rebuild the WTC, and that was just a commercial office building. Add in Notre Dame’s cultural treasure status and I imagine that special interest groups will be thronging the project either to feed at the trough or to demand that their opinions be included in the rebuild/neighborhood development.
Then again, neither the French government nor the Catholic church are necessarily as susceptible to pressure as a NYC planning board.
However much I disapprove of Antipope Frank, I am of the opinion the decision making should fall to the Church. It is their Cathedral and ultimately their responsibility.
“susceptible to pressure as a NYC planning board.”
This is the beauty of the American system.
It’s not like they’re going to dicker around for a decade deciding what to actually build.
A Muslim Cultural Enrichment Center?
You say that, but don’t you think it’s a bit too exclusionary and not representative of France’s vibrant multicultural society to just build a Christian house of worship there? And what about all the unrepresented women and minorities and laborers that died during the original construction? Surely they deserve a memorial too. And then there’s the whole lacite thing…
Columbus was such a racist shitlord that no one should care about his or his family’s privilege library.
Just kidding.
I understand the novelty of antiquities and historical sites, but I think too much reverence is given to them in a lot of cases. It’s a cool old building, sure. But you could replicate it to a higher standard of engineering today and an equal standard of aesthetics if it were just the building itself which was admired. It’s the fact that it’s been there for such a long time and in that regard is perceived as some sort of totem of our collective past that gives it any real mystique. A false sense of permanence that we as finite beings desire to experience. In that sense I think it’s basically nonsensical to attach so much significance to buildings and objects. Those places were built for utility in their age, the same as all the crap we’re building now.
The problem is that many new buildings are just plain ugly.
Another thing is that the people who started building the cathedral knew they wouldn’t live to see its completion.
Those things took forever to build. I know that with many of the big European cathedrals that there were workers who were born well after the thing was started and worked their entire lives on it without seeing completion. You also had fathers handing down trades like stonecarver to their sons.
And part of the beauty of ND cathedral is the flying buttresses which would be unnecessary with modern steel beam technology – the walls would only have to support their own weight, not bear the load of the roof. But because the walls are load-bearing they needed external supports which they made as pretty as possible (I’m sure someone objected to the ugliness at the time) and became one of the iconic features.
You contradict yourself between the start and end of that comment. As the bulk of the remark shows that you don’t understand.
And no, these were not strictly utilitarian sites. Just because we can do it better is no grounds to demean the accomplishments of our forebearers. Get out there with a hammer, chisel and treadmill crane and put up a comperable structure if it’s such a trivial thing.
ZING!
Also, I’m not really certain that all of the artistic stone work that was done by hand centuries ago is really reproducible today.
This
I do not believe it could be reconstructed to the same level of asthetics today.
We could certainly build a building of the same rough dimensions to a higher degree of engineering quality, replicating and equalling the asthetics of that building would be impossible however
I get what Pat is saying. I also agree with him pretty much.
Yes, it is sad that an old building with a lot of history suffered some damage. That sucks. But it isn’t the end of the world.
I think part of the mystique of old places is the idea that some famous person from history walked those halls (on his way to ring the bells).
I consider it a good thing that something that modern society could not build at all is still around to be learned from. As has been stated before, modern society cannot re-create some of the colors in Notre Dame’s stained glass, for example.
You contradict yourself between the start and end of that comment. As the bulk of the remark shows that you don’t understand.
That I disagree with the fetishization of old shit isn’t any indication that I don’t understand it. I’ve visited lots of historical sites and museums because I’m as susceptible to it as anybody else. Old shit is cool. You feel nostalgic and connected to an idealized past you could never experience, and that’s a fun thing to do when you know you’ve got about 80 years and then it’s lights out. It just doesn’t really mean much to me when those sites are inevitably destroyed or degraded. That’s the course of things.
And the fact that I’m not personally able to build a colossal structure is meaningless. That’s incredibly lazy argumentation, if you want to call it that. Hurr durrrrrr go build me a microprocessor, bet you can’t…
Well, the one I made wasn’t very good, but if you insist, I’ll need some funding to set up a new clean room.
Photolithography is a bit more finicky than hitting a chisel with a hammer, so get cracking.
“But you could replicate it to a higher standard of engineering today”
What a joke. You’re completely ignoring today’s standards of government regulation and the associated welfare system which would make it imposssible. Let alone the fact that the engineering standards of today almost all build toward a standard of “expected useful life” which is never in the “centuries”.
Are any buildings built today going to be around in 850 years?
Which is basically what you said at the end, but I will repeat it.
“Could” meaning: we have the knowledge and abilities in the absence of some outside force retarding it.
Similarly, that we engineer things for shorter-term purposes now isn’t an indication that we couldn’t build for longer time scales. If we chose to do so, the methods and materials are there to build structures for very long time scales. Bezos’ stupid fucking clock is one example.
I can’t even.
Those places were built for utility in their age, the same as all the crap we’re building now.
This is exactly wrong, and gets at a core reason why these old buildings are admired.
Building construction used to be as much art as it was a trade. You still get some of that today, but it’s much more subdued because of cost and regulation. As such, today’s buildings are much more utilitarian than old buildings. Even the change from the 19th century to now is stark.
Also, I can’t help but hear the “throw out all tradition” undertones of the progressive left in the rest of your comment.
Well-stated, Trashy.
+1
Sounds like the pros at the Vatican may do some consulting with the ND rebuild.
I can’t find it at the moment, but I recently read a great article about the team that monitors and maintains the Vatican (it may have been linked here). Very sophisticated and high tech approach to protecting the history.
Precisely. Notre Dame lasted so long because it *wasn’t* a utilitarian building. Most utilitarian structures are replaced, destroyed, or allowed to fall to ruin in short order once their usefulness ends or once repairing them becomes slightly more expensive than replacing them.
Also, you bring up a really good point. Cathedrals, like other religious structures, weren’t just built so that people had a roof and four walls in which to pray. They were physical statements of faith, works of art, demonstrations of the skill of the builders, in some cases testimony to the wealth of their patrons, etc. They were loaded with meaning. It’s not like an old shed fell over.
And finally, emphatically, history is incredibly important. History gives context to the present. History anchors us in time and connects us to the entirety of humanity, past, present, and future. It is inherently valuable. Not everything old is worth keeping, sure, but discarding historical buildings as nostalgia is like considering the soul worthless because you can’t see it or feel it. The things we make and leave behind are the only tangible reminder to future generations that we were ever here, and when we lose them all of us are poorer for it.
Not everything old is worth keeping, sure, but discarding historical buildings as nostalgia is like considering the soul worthless because you can’t see it or feel it.
To be clear, I’m not calling for the demolition of historical sites for its own sake, but when the earth eventually opens up and swallows the great pyramids, or a meteor strike wipes out the Colosseum, or tectonic shifts put the Mayan ruins in the drink, it’ll be a bummer, but it won’t be the worst thing that happens to humanity that week.
No, I don’t think you are. I’m saying that there is an importance to these buildings as historical artifacts that goes beyond nostalgia and sentimentality. Losing them *is* a really big deal, and depending on whatever else is cookin’ may very well be the worst thing that happens to humanity that week. I mean, would I trade the Great Sphinx for an end to cancer? Sure, without a second thought. But I genuinely believe that things like Notre Dame burning or the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan are tragedies. In the latter case, I think it’s idiomatic and symbolic of the barbarity of the Taliban and their ideology, frankly; one of those statues was worth the lives of every single one of those ignorant savages.
In the latter case, I think it’s idiomatic and symbolic of the barbarity of the Taliban and their ideology, frankly; one of those statues was worth the lives of every single one of those ignorant savages.
I was also more perturbed by the artifacts destroyed during the Arab Spring for similar reasons, it’s the motivation behind it rather than the fact itself. That said, I’m still of the mind that impermanence is inevitable, so I can’t get that worked up over the loss. Enjoy it while it’s here, nothing’s going to be here forever.
On that note, I have to go now as I am building a set of shelves for my utility room/tool repository. I have overengineered them to the point of absurdity, a fine tradition handed down to me by my father, and it will take me several hours to construct even though I could have built them fully adequate to their task using simpler methods and cheaper materials and completed it in 1/4 the time. Just to show you all that I’m as senselessly bound to tradition and old fashioned craftsmanship as anybody.
So it’s your contention that these structures were built for pure aesthetics, or just out of boredom? That’s nonsense on stilts, and you know it. Artistic flourishes don’t diminish that the structure had some distinct purpose. We don’t build buildings just for kicks, and we especially didn’t do so back when resources were so scarce that a quarter of the population was on the verge of starving to death at any given time.
And that gets us around to another point: the reason structures, and many other fixtures, were built for such longevity then is because of constraints of technology and resources. Commoditization necessarily obliterates aesthetics in exchange for utility and economy. You’re deluding yourself if you think that people in the 13th century would have languished for half a century a time hand-laying stone to create a cathedral if they had the access to technology and resources of the post-industrial revolution period.
Also, I can’t help but hear the “throw out all tradition” undertones of the progressive left in the rest of your comment.
Tradition has its place. Upending tradition also has its place. Weren’t you defending the Enlightenment to me here a couple weeks back? You can’t square a reverence for the single greatest upending of tradition in recorded history with a reverence for the tradition it upended at the same time.
I’m reminded of a silly song lyric that sort of encapsulates my feelings on the matter:
ITT, Pat is overly reductionist.
“cruel, uneventful state of apathy”
Fortunately not shared by a majority.
LET IT BURN!
You can’t square a reverence for the single greatest upending of tradition in recorded history with a reverence for the tradition it upended at the same time.
Sure I can. Here goes… Tradition is a distillation of wisdom from generations past. I should be extremely careful to consider the implications of discarding tradition before doing so, because the voice of one person or of one generation is pitted against the voice of billions throughout thousands of generations. They have been wrong, but usually when they are wrong, it is at the benefit of another, less popular tradition. Great care should be taken when discarding tradition.
Or, in more famous and eloquent words:
-GK Chesterton
“But you could replicate it to a higher standard of engineering today and an equal standard of aesthetics if it were just the building itself which was admired.”
Doubtful. The craftsmanship involved would cost tons of money.
But you could replicate it to a higher standard of engineering today and an equal standard of aesthetics if it were just the building itself which was admired.
You live in Las Vegas, don’t you?
“but failed to capture the essence of what I wanted to say to this person I’ll likely never meet who doesn’t understand”
^This.
A FOAF posted a comment that the place “will continue to smolder for weeks if not months…” and totally misunderstood the extent of the damage as if he was unaware that it’s a stone building with a wooden roof.
Meteorologist received death threats for interrupting Masters with tornado updates.
I smell an exaggeration. Literally nobody cares about golf that much.
“Meteorologist stuck in local affiliate wants to raise her national profile in a bid for a better job”
Jessie (no “U” for you!) was showing them the way?
Or rather showing them how not to do it.
“Recieving death threats,” so long as they don’t send fake threats via the post office, is safer than faking a crime.
Since his name is Justin, calling him Jessie is just silly, admittedly not much sillier than Jussie.
But if I referred to him as “That dumbass hoaxer” it’ll be hard to differentiate from the other dumbass hoaxers.
It’s Twitter. I’d be more surprised if she didn’t receive “death threats”, and on a regular basis.
Here’s how I see this playing out:
1. Cute meteorologist jumps in to boring old golf to talk about Important Weather Business.
2. Cute meteorologist gets on a roll.
3. By minute two, golf fans are on Twitter posting stuff like, “OMFG if this bitch doesn’t shut up I’m gonna kill her! I’ve got money on this game!”
4. Internet Famous.
Things I said yesterday:
“JC, this bitch is killing me. USE A TURN SIGNAL! WHAT THE FUCK!”
“Dog, I swear to God, if I see you near my kid’s sandwich when I get back in this room I’ll kill you.”
“CAT! If you don’t shut up I will hang a foot so far in your ass…”
“Dude (to my wife; I call everyone “dude” and “man”, don’t know why), and I’m really serious about this, this keyboard you spilled a gallon of water on cost $150, and if you don’t stop destroying all my shit you will rue the day you were born. Seriously, it’s not funny. Dude! I’m serious! I’ll hock your jewelry to buy a replacement, how ’bout that!”
If a transcript of my day-to-day life were read by aliens they would assume that I was a walking horror movie. This is reason #453 I avoid social media outlets based on spouting off whatever’s going through my mind as it happens.
Hrm. The $150 keyboard I owned will survive a little innundation. Just unplug it, hang it out to dry and see if it works again when you plug it back in.
*own
I still have the keyboard, don’t know why I wrote that past-tense.
It’s a Corsair K70. I took it apart, cleaned it, dried it with a hair dryer on the lowest temp setting, then left it alone overnight. This morning the keys work so far as I can tell, but Windows keeps thinking something is being connected and then disconnected, and I suspect it’s the USB port that’s built in to the keyboard. I never use it, so if that’s gone it’s not a big deal, but still.
Frankly, it’s one example of a pattern of behavior I’ve been working in vain to change for years now. This would be one of those “…or worse” bits the vows were talking about.
“Don’t eat fried food, it angries up the blood.”
Satchel Paige
That explains Scotland.
…from my cold, dead, greasy hands!
Also, Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
Good morning all. Last day of work before a vacation. When I texted the girlfriend about Notre Dame burning yesterday, she ignored it for a couple hours, then responded back that she thought I was referring to the college. I didn’t get a chance to check the news on it until later, I was surprised that no one was claiming credit for it.
Some are already saying that there are mysterious circumstances to why the place got lit up….
That should surprise no one, and there was a terrorist attempt to set it on fire years ago, but accidents do happen. So I’m not jumping to any conclusions one way or another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_zMvaX05Q
Oh, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this spun into a reason to blame different groups for the issue. But if it was intentional, I would have expected someone jumping out immediately to claim credit.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if it was a Gauloises butt carelessly flung by an arab worker with no political agenda, smoking on the job.
Bonus points if he’s Tunisian.
Or Algerian that has a good memory.
This morning, it was reported that the French have already ruled out arson. They then immediately followed with a report that they were putting out the remaining embers so that the investigation into the cause could begin.
” a report that they were putting out the remaining embers”
Funny that French government employees actually completing a job is considered news..
Yeah, well, people forget that this is the country that regularly has between 10K and 20K senior citizens die every summer from the heat, and nobody sees it as anything but a boon for their over burdened healthcare system there…
It is very much the modus operandi of Islamists to claim credit for acts of terror. So while not definitive, the absence of such claims after this long is noteworthy.
Yeah, they will even claim credit for acts they weren’t responsible for, so this looks much more like an accident.
However, I’m sure a lot of terror cells are kicking themselves thinking “why didn’t WE think of that?” and looking into which church construction/maintenance companies are hiring.
It’s been a coupe of years since Notre Dame (the school) has really been on fire. But won’t stop them from getting ranked higher than they should in each year’s preseason poll.
*applause*
Obligatory: Notre Dame sucks and Rudy blows!
“To drive the point home she picked up a water glass next to her and said: “This glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name in those districts.””
She could even piss in that glass.
I would vote for a glass of piss water over any politician.
I would
vote forpour a glass of piss water over almost any politician.A tall glass of AOC D water. Ahhhh.
Next we are gonna get stories about AOC being a piss hooker on the side?
Too bad Nancy didn’t use her Louis Vitton to make the example. “This bag with a ‘D’ in front of it could win that district”
If she used bag people might think she was talking about herself
Says the old rich lady from California’s 12th congressional district…
“https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-a-glass-of-water-with-d-next-to-it-would-win-ocasio-cortezs-district”
The new lunatic cadre is a great danger to the old timers that are there for the power and wealth, but are not fanatically stupid. Remember, no matter how woke Pelosi is, she would never be stupid enough to pull the Karla Marx trick that cost her district the 25K jobs at a new Amazon center unless she was personally making some serious cash from it. She Guevarra on the other hand, driven by purse insane ideology (that woman is a crazy fanatic) torpedoed that money maker and got nothing for doing it.
Team blue seems to be looking at an existential battle, and while I hope all of them lose, I can’t forget the fact that in the end team blue’s leadership are masters at making sure that America and Americans lose big no matter what.
For the hundredth time, a whole cadre of New York D’s were trying to torpedo the Amazon “Deal” long before Occluded-Cortex even won her primary. The ONLY way she could line her pockets in relation to that deal would be by dishonestly taking credit after the fact. And you seem happy to hep her out in that regard.
This. It was a bandwagon of grifters that she was more than happy to jump on but it was the media’s insane obsession with her that kind of made her the figurehead.
“and got nothing for doing it”
Was her last election after this act?
Looking at the Congressional leadership of Pelosi/Schumer/Sanders/(Biden) makes me wonder if this is not a trick by some some astute Halloween mask making company. It’s like looking through a window at an adult day care center and recognizing that some people shouldn’t be out alone.
This is it? This is the best that are available? As Alex said, its “We, the People,” that are in for a rough and bumpy ride. Sometimes being old is a blessing…
VDH, like Cher, wonders what the limit to illegal immigration is. Sounds right about the perception of the American immigration system – it’s a bad joke designed to reward people who simply break the law and ignore it.
He also has a few things to say about the wonders of the California tax system.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/california-high-state-taxes-obsessive-collectors/
The fact that the people advocating and ready to go to war to get open borders while virtue signaling about how they run sanctuary cities or states suddenly do a 180 and whether they realize they did so or not, admitted that if these illegals were sent to their sanctuary locations it would hurt the people already there, says a lot about the reality on the ground of this fight. The people advocating for sanctuary cities and open borders like the idea as long as the cost and burden falls on someone other than them. Think about that real hard…
‘‘Twas truly a masterful troll…
Now to actually do it.
I love me some illegals, as long as they are out of town before dark.
/sarc/
The big win hers is that the supposed advocates and virtue signalers have been exposed as a bunch of NIMBY asshats. No matter how they play this off, their whole “we are better than you because we care” shit will no longer serve to make them either pretend to be holier than thou (you can just remind them of this incident the next time they try to preen) nor actually be seen as honest.
But the big win IMO from this 5-D chess move, is that I suspect quite a few people that were negatively affected by these policies but thought the people supporting them simply didn’t get the consequences of said policies on them, now no longer have any doubt that the supposed doogooders simply didn’t realize the open borders shit they were advocating for had real and devastating consequences for these citizens.
There is a lot of mendacity involved on the left. They want commie votes and they want to use illegals to punish and disenfranchise the deplorables. They dont really care about the illegals themselves. Like everything the left does their stated goals and motives are betrayed by their actions.
But they have trained the masses to never question their results, only their stated intentions. Also, any failure is the fault of wreckers, hoarders and kulaks.
In fairness there is a lot of mendacity with the R’s as well. They do the same shit.
True dat.
“Build the damn wall! Wait, the president will actually sign the bill?”
*changes vote to no*
That too, of course. It’s mendacity all the way down…
[cuffs nearest orphan]
/notices the continued existence of Obamacare
Yup, both of the color teams excel in mendacity.
McCain’s final vindictive “fuck you” to the nation.
Hey, St. McCain just wanted to make sure evil orange man knew his place. So what if the plebes got fucked too? It’s not like McCain didn’t enjoy doing that to the plebes all the time.
After some 60 years of indoctrination, manipulated news, and all sorts of shenanigans, they still managed to have an election, where the Obama administration’s weaponized bureaucracy committed all sorts of criminal activities to rig, be snatched away by an orange guy they all were convinced was not just a stupid fool, but an empty suit compared to their crooked candidate. After that they decided the effort to work the existing serfs into compliant slaves was not worth it, and it was simply easier to import a new bunch of freeloaders while ratcheting up the criminal activity related to elections. After all, whom casts a vote doesn’t count as much as whom counts the votes and gives them to team blue.
Four white men lead the Democrat Party primaries.
The four white men of the Demopocalypse.
But they are totally on board with having a woman as VEEP.
“Another drug case thrown out from botched drug raid”
This is how fucked we are. It’s one thing that Hillary gets off Scott free. She’s powerful. But every lowlife lying cop has almost absolute immunity. They can do whatever they want and get away with it.
“I wrote a best-selling book,” he said. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”
– Bernie Sanders, smelly commie.
That sounds like meritocracy to me.
Tell me, Comrade Bernie, how many best-selling writers become millionaires under socialist systems. You should be able to count that high, it won’t take long.
Yeah… That’s what we are all saying. This is what drives me insane about socialists. They have absolutely no regard for the accomplishments if others. The rich businessman is Rich from doing nothing and exploiting workers. But Bernie totally deserves his wealth cause writing a best seller is hard work.
Bernie’s ghost writer hardest hit.
Hey, a book is a solid week’s work, man.
He’ll totally jump off that bridge as soon as he passes a law saying we all have to jump, too.
Yeah, after that guy Jones that made all those people drink that Koolaid in Guyana back when, I make it a point to never participate in anything where the leader is the first one to do what he is demanding others do. I am just not woke in the way the true believers are about their willingness to prove allegiance to the cause.
Funny how these cunts peddling communist shit to rob the plebes of their freedoms and chance to make big money double down on their commie shit once they have used said commie shit to make some real cash, huh? Not to mention that Sanders went from railing on anyone that was a millionaire to now hating on the billionaires, so he could try to salvage his commie bonnafides. If you still doubt this evil fuck is not motivated by his envy of those that are better off than him, and he is peddling his marxist shit to stupid fucks that also are motivated by envy, hoping they will help him gain the power to become the one that decides who gets more and who shouldn’t, you should pay closer attention to what he says and does.
Isn’t a bestseller about 100k copies? How many authors get $10 per?
[goes to look up info]
https://scribewriting.com/get-best-seller-list/
Okay, ignore what I said, bestsellers mean even less than I thought.
Here’s a secret – the various “Bestseller” lists don’t actually go by volume and should really be treated as “Books the editors of this publication like or were pressured to include”
Nice recap of the link.
JFC, its a Tucker Max citing. In 2019! I assumed this guy was dead or in jail or something.
It became a best seller because he forced people to buy it at gun point.
I would not be surprised that when you look into it, some rich team blue donors like Soros or some other such asshat, bought a large lot of books to “help” propel the new communist manifesto to a “Best Seller”. And from what I heard, these best seller lists more often than not don’t reflect anything close to reality a they are rigged to peddle some political agenda and all that.
Uffda. You want to know how bush league the Twin Cities are? We are being inundated for the last week or so with stories about how wonderful our new soccer stadium is.
This is the stadium that the team demanded at the press conference that announced that MLS had awarded a new franchise to Minnesoda. Playing in the new Vikings stadium wasn’t good enough for them.
For once Minneapolis managed to not step on its dick and let St. Paul snatch the “honor” of building a soccer stadium for them.
I’m not a rabid anti-soccer guy, but it seems to me that maybe you should have to play a few years to prove that you have a fan base that would support a franchise and a stadium.
My degree of soccer-hate is proportional to the amount of fanboyism being displayed by those nearby. My default state is ‘meh’ and it gets more vehement the more someone gushes or raves.
Soccer is truly a game for the Gods: the low scoring, the faked injuries, the general tedium. What’s not to like?
I will admit it’s fun to play though.
Soccer’s one of those sports I like to play but rarely enjoy watching. I won’t say never, but most games bore me. Baseball’s the same. NBA basketball, too. I think the problem is that the pace of play is so…deliberate. Football–by which of course I mean God’s sport, as played by red-blooded Americans from time immemorial using a leather ball that tapers on either end–is a series of set-piece plays, any of which could result in a score. Whenever there’s motion on the field, something immediately important is happening. Other sports either take too long for a scoring event, e.g. soccer or baseball, or scores happen so frequently as to be meaningless, e.g. basketball, especially in the NBA.
Strangely, I’ll watch the shit out of some golf. I can do hockey, too, although it gets close to the “is anyone going to score or what?” and “too many games don’t mean anything” problems.
I’m not a rabid anti-soccer guy, but it seems to me that maybe you should have to play a few years to prove that you have a fan base that would support a franchise and a stadium.
You mean there’s a chance that Somali refugees wanting to experience a taste of back home aren’t necessarily going to shell out enough money seeing bush league soccer matches to pay for a quarter billion dollar stadium? Surely you jest.
We could have just set up a fake cargo ship and let them pay to ‘capture’ it and hold the vessel for ‘ransom’.
And then a Navy SEAL team shoots them in the head?
The Twin Cities are not going to become a world rated destination with that kind of attitude, young man. Need more bike trails, walking paths, affordable housing and urban transit. A women’s professional soccer team, with a dedicated stadium, complete with safe spaces, is in order. Make Minnesota Magnificent, a 3 M state.
MLS has made it a point to have their own stadiums. Filling a 20k seat stadium is better than having 20k in an 80k seat stadium.
MLS has made it a point to have their own stadiums.
They have not made it such a high priority that they are willing to open their checkbooks and pay for those stadiums.
So no scarf for you?
I won’t say never, but the only way I’m going to be attending a game is if someone else pays for it (including unlimited drinks during the game).
The radio ads with the British dude and the ‘Scarves Up, Minnesota’ slogan make me want to barf.
You know why British wear scarves to soccer matches? Because they play in the winter and they have bad fashion sense.
Why would fans of a summer league pick up that trend?
Why do people go watch the World Cup at this place?
So they can pretend to be one of them classy Europeans, of course!
I agree, buying stadiums is one of the dumbest things city governments do.
The deal the city of Louisville agreed to in order to get Yum built may be the dumbest deal in the history of stadiums. And that takes some doing.
And the KFC Yum! Center may be one of the worst names of an arena in the US.
When it was getting built, the one “No” vote to the plan was from Papa John.
The stadium was privately funded. It does get tax breaks, though.
Fury at Crown Heights school’s plan to bestow Rev. Al Sharpton with honorary doctorate
C L A S S Y
Maybe they could invite Tawanna Brawley to watch the ceremony?
What do you get when you reward bad behavior again?
Career politicians?
I think the words “inept” and “crooked” are missing from your answer, so you only get partial credit there WTF…
I kind of consider “inept” and “crooked” to be redundant when talking about career politicians.
Yeah, sort of implied.
I think most people are unaware of that and would miss it if not spelled out. Not us here, but there are quite a few people out there that worship the political class.
But doesn’t adding those words indicate that you are differentiating from some other set of pols who are therefore not crooked or inept? I think this is a case where adding the adjectives reduces the accuracy.
Flashback: Sharpton Incites Racial Violence in “Freddie’s Fashion Mart Massacre”
The proper spelling is C L A S S I, with an I, and with a little dick that hangs off the C and bends around and fucks the L out of the A-S-S.
Sharpton’s “unwavering commitment to racial, educational and socioeconomic equity”
He is so into equality that he always pays his fair share of taxes.
So do Republicans register Democrat to vote Bernie in the primary, knowing that he can’t beat Trump?
Too much effort.
It’s actually pretty easy in Ohio. You check a party box when you go to vote.
Georgia is the same, IIRC. There is no party registration, but you can only choose one ballot on primary day.
Think it’s likely to happen regardless of what Republicans do. The field is rather large and many, many, many liberals hate the establishment. Bernie is one of the few people who has a built-in base, ground game from 2016 and fundraising. Most in the field only have one or two of those things he has all three and it’s a big deal.
Notre Dame fire out, organ intact!
Also, stained glass.
“All three of Notre Dame’s Rose Windows SURVIVED blaze, Archbishop of Paris says, as first daylight images show inferno aftermath and criminal probe focuses on renovation experts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6926807/Devastating-aftermath-Notre-Dame-inferno-leaves-world-mourning.html
Some good news at least. Those were irreplacable.
^This.
Crazy. I read an hour ago that all three windows blew out.
48-hour rule strikes again.
Businessman Francois-Henri Pinault and his billionaire father Francois Pinault also said they were immediately giving 100 million euros from their company, Artemis, to help finance repairs
Neon Sign Hanging Over the Front Doors: Welcome to Pinault Bros Notre Dame.
Cant wait for the “Eat at Jaques” signs!
Francois-Henri Pinault will deal with your mockery by heading home and banging his wife, Salma Hayek.
No way. That’s the husband?!?
Confirmed.
Yikes. I’m sure he has a great personality.
I think he’s standing on his wallet in that picture.
Stay in school, kids / inherit a multi-billion-dollar business.
Sophia Loren said “There are no ugly rich men”
ORGAN intact… Anyone? MoJeaux? Anyone?
(I really am celebrating this news, but the headline was funny.)
I thought it was funny, Tonio.
And an euphemism too!
Mojeaux was in the hospital last week and is now trying to catch up on work.
Anything serious?
Semi-sorta. Peptic ulcer working overtime to deprive me of iron.
How unpleasant. So not only were you subjected to hospital food, you were subjected to limited diet hospital food.
Clear liquids. Only edible with copious application of salt.
I’m guessing that did not include Vodka, Gin, White Rum…
Heh.
Sorry 🙁
It’s all right. It’s manageable.
Feel better!
Thank you! Working on it.
So is mine.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6926855/Demi-Rose-PIC-EXC-Stunning-model-transforms-sizzling-Cleopatra-ring-24th-birthday.html
Fat.
Definitely pre-diabetic.
Less Demi Rose pics, more Salma Hayek please.
“….McClure and her then-boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, posted about the “good deed” on social media,”
They even broke up.
Ouch.
You know what kind of stories are jam packed with New Speak? Stories about voting fraud
Local Minnesoda group is suing (and winning) the Sec of State here for data about voters who have been marked as ineligible. The Sec of State says that he has the power to only release information that he feels in appropriate. Judges have disagreed, but he’s still fighting.
How is releasing data about voters going to suppress the vote?
If he releases the data, they’ll know how many fake votes were cast and get rid of fake voters, costing him votes in the next election!
Fake voter’s lives matter!
“This glass of water would win with a ‘D’ next to its name in those districts.”
Burn.
And it’d have more substance than your other candidates.
But which Democrat candidate will he be endorsing while running? Biden?
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/04/15/bill-weld-yes-im-primarying-trump/
Bill weld is the bill weld if Presidental candidates
It’s hilarious that he actually thinks he could even play spoiler.
This isn’t 1992 anymore, kiddo. Your ideas were subsumed into the mainstream of the Democratic party by my first year in primary school. Who exactly do you think your constituency is? Mainstream Democrats will go for a mainstream Democrat. Young people will go with the new radicals. Disaffected union rust belt boomers already proved they don’t like you when they rejected Hillary Clinton. So you’re down to, what, John Boener and Kasich?
While Weld isn’t a Neocon he does give someone for the nevertrumper Neocons to vote for so Weld should get at least a few hundred votes each in LA, NY, and DC
I wonder how pro war he’ll go considering he’ll likely get the backing of the various antiTrump neocon scum.
The anti war NeverTrumpers are an interesting group. Eh, I mean, is an interesting person.
Actually, The American Conservative is the home of a few anti-war never Trumpers, and its a pretty good read when they don’t let their founder anywhere near the publish button.
Meteorologists who interrupt sporting events don’t deserve death threats. They should be followed thru on.
+2 sentence-ending prepositions
And a lazy deliberate misspelling. Bravo.
through is just an awful word. I hope thru takes over for it and through goes the way of colour and dumb.
Through and Thru have been fighting since Middle English. In Early Modern English, thru looked like it was down for the count, but staged a comeback n the 19th century. We’re not going to see the end of this battle for some time to come.
Why the hell didn’t Webster fix this one when he was throwing out all the unnecessary “u”s?
Enuff, already
The preposition rule was apparently created by John Dryden in 1672. Fuck him, I am glad he is dead.
Most people will go “What’s a preposition?”
Isn’t that when you get told by some hooker “Hey baby! Wanna go out?”???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfExXGMX2JM
Of all the schoolhouse rock songs, I do not remember this one at all. I swear I have never seen it before.
It’s OK but it ain’t no Conjunction Junction.
Nope. Never seen that one either.
Me neither
Okay, but what does that have to do with Golf?
“We’ll break him in, take him to shows and pageants, and who knows where we can go, maybe Hollywood,” he said.
“I’m sure the kids will get a big kick out of patting a real-life unicorn, we might even do unicorn rides.”
Please, someone kill me
https://www.foxnews.com/science/strange-unicorn-sheep-saved-from-death-by-two-cases-of-beer
Another story about horny sheep and Aussies? Are there really that many Montanan readers that care about this stuff to keep these stories in the papers?
Atlanta meteorologist says she received death threats for interrupting Masters with tornado updates
I’d rather watch her than watch golf. IOW she can interrupt me all night long.
I’d like to get caught up in her Tornado Alley if you know what I mean …
Does that work? I don’t know if that really works …
So you’re saying your lovemaking is like a tornado, exciting at first but ending in disaster. Or perhaps loud, scary and over in a breeze.
(And I would have gone more along the lines of “I’d run my tornado through her alley.”)
I got pretty bummed when I found some clips of Notre Dame’s spine collapsing. I’ve only been there about twice, but I always remembered it being a very beautiful and amazing cathedral.
The Hunchback’s spine collapsed a long time ago
I’m with Alex Jones in this one. Welding fuel can’t melt wooden beams. We need to know the truth!!!
Why can’t we indulge in conspiracy theories on this? Nobody fucking died and I don’t trust the French government, so why let them set the narrative that’ll be accepted forever?
Ok. . . . How about Nostradamus predicted it?
Of course he did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anJ7mknnHp4
Of course. Did Nostradamus predict that guy would sound like a glue huffer?
Titty Tuesday starts your day with a bang; two big, round bangs.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/15/perky-tax-return-tips-will-raise-your-spirits-100-photos/
60>95>81>36>75
Lots of lovely and nice ladies there, Imma just stick with 20 and 38 though. Bless and thanks!
72 has a nice pair
So does 58
49 looks trans with those muscles
““They kinda of segregate you (at USC)…I was in, essentially, the Asian ghetto.” —- @TheLaurenChen ”
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1117882042732072962
“Segregated Muslim, LGBT, black, and Latino housing programs (among others) are offered. This isn’t a new thing (I was at USC around 7 years ago), and it’s very common I’d say most or many campuses. I’m genuinely surprised more people weren’t aware of this.”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1117901001069977601
That’s been going on for decades, though it appears the number of pigeonholes has multiplied.
A friend of the family posted pictures of Notre Dame yesterday…from his trip there on Thursday.
He squeaked it in under the wire.
And he also got to see Notre Dame just before it burned.
*narrows gaze*
YouTube placed a link to info about 9/11 attacks under Notre Dame fire videos
The AI future is upon us, the singularity is near.
Burning buildings are basically all the same right?
Have you ever noticed computer companies are the worst with computers?
Commie group #1 gets pissed at commie group #2.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/center-for-american-progress-ceo-throws-thinkprogress-under-bus-after-sanders-criticism/
TBF, regardless of motive ThinkProgress did (gasp!) actually tell the truth! That’s reason enough to be voted off commie island.
The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People’s Front
Wait, I thought we were the Judean People’s Front?!
Not those Splitters!
“I worry that the corporate money CAP is receiving is inordinately and inappropriately influencing the role it is playing in the progressive movement.”
Socialists can be swayed by money? *Falls to knees and lets out a bellowing “Noooooooooo”.
http://darthno.ytmnd.com
I posted this last night, but I thought it was worth a repost considering the Notre Dame situation.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/why-convert-to-islam/
Not that I agree 100% with this guy’s conclusions, but his characterization of France in particular and Europe in general as a miasma of meaningless decadence with no more will to live seems particularly appropriate. The stat of French weekly mass attendance dropping from 33% to 6% in just a couple of decades is pretty stunning. Regardless of your personal feeling on it, that’s definitely a sea change.
1. I could threaten people with violence – even attack them, and suffer no consequences.
2. Multiple wives I can treat like chattel and beat for disobedience. Again, no consequences because that would be Islamophobia.
3. Super-victim protected-class status in this era of identity obsession. This even allows me out of the Leftist indoctrination struggle sessions.
No drinking though.
Sure.
That’s more or less Jordan Peterson’s shtick as well, only in the context of American nationalism rather than religion. Nietzsche essentially called this one 2 centuries ago.
He could’ve cleared up what meant with just three more words. “God is dead. God damn it.”
I don’t get it. His solution to the decline of traditional British culture is Islam? Fucking socialism and the destruction of the individual are the problems. Submitting to a different Top. Man. isn’t going to change anything.
“Nihilists! ..Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”
That’s
literallymore or less (edited, because literally is a terrible habit to get into writing when it is not literal, just very close) what he’s saying only with Islam. The answer to ‘why bother’ or ‘what’s the point’ is to believe in something. If the only choice some people see is feckless Continental post-modern nihilism and Islam, Islam is going to be very appealing. Don’t expect any more consistency than that.As Pat points out — Jordan Peterson got famous for saying, basically: “Here’s why Nietzsche is right, and here’s some relatively positive ways to deal with it and make your life feel meaningful.”
The world needs more Rod Dreher. I often don’t agree with his conclusions, but he’s a thoughtful writer starting out from similar, but not identical, priors to the ones I have.
Does the Glib Brain Trust need a cash infusion or something? I’m asking because it sure looks like Sugar Free has started a side business on Amazon (maybe NSFW?) . Have to admit I’m a bit puzzled at how poor his copy writing skillz are. None of the fluid prose that we’ve come to expect from the H&H series.
I remember some porn actress getting caught running a scam where she had a bunch of people dipping cheap panties in a can of tuna in water and selling that shit for premium dollars to perverts that wanted to sniff that stuff. is this something like that business venture?
Are we sure this isn’t a gag gift?
*gags*
Pretty sure it is.
Looks like he has competition from JB
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00828QIIA/
Hard pass.
If the papists subcontract the rebuilding of that church to Disney, they’ll be up and running in abut eighteen months.
They’ll even have happy singing animatronic saints re-enacting their martyrdoms!
Went to the new dentist yesterday. Here’s a customer service pop quiz. Given the following scenarios:
Which of these inspires more confidence in the patient and gets repeat business?
Dental technology definitely seems to have advanced a fair amount when no one was looking. I switched dentists recently and experienced something similar.
Shit, they could be showing you some generic picture of some homeless guy’s mouth and telling you that it can all wait… for now….
Some people know their own teeth well enough to see through that.
The rest should go to my old dentist, since they’re not all that bright anyway.
If you can find a good dentist and a good mechanic you’ve pretty much got it made. Unfortunately both are rare as rocking horse shit.
I went thru (there it is again!) 3 or 4 dentists when I moved to BG before I found one I liked.
We have an absolutely AMAZING mechanic (shameless plug for Nick Velardi at Velardi’s Service Station in Rockaway Beach), his shop was started by his dad in the early 1950s and he has been working there since he was wee. Nick is amazingly honest in his dealings and will go to some serious effort to find affordable options for us. I’m actually concerned because he plans to retire within the decade.
I’m in a moral conundrum. My dentists is great, but she has the absolute most basic bitch interests in pop music and TV and want to talk to me about it when I’m in for an appointment.
I guess you could say going there is like pulling teeth…
My dentist is a born-again Christian who likes to offer prayer when you’re in pain. But damn he’s a good dentist so I live with it.
Which one’s handing out Vicodin like candy?
Neither.
Why the fuck do we still clean teeth with medieval scraping tools?
Now, now, they also use the powered version which vibrates at dental drillbit frequency for maximum aural torment too
Yeah, the first time they started the ultrasonic thing on me was also the first time I’ve ever ordered them to stop anything, period. And I even sometimes let them drill or grind without numbing if it’s just something quick.
And I called the dentist afterward and told him he should throw the thing in the dumpster.
Great lynx, Banjos!
And an even better musical selection. I didn’t realize that STF are still throwing down. Not is the US this year, unfortunately
Still, it would be fun to see them.
Yes they are. And they’re great live.
I’ll say it again: Banjos has the best music links.
Are we sure this isn’t a gag gift?
*boos, throws shoe*
Glad someone got it.
We got it. *poker face*
Ok, it is a pretty good double entendre.
The best way to learn a new skill is to get in there and do it!
1L fails his Torts class, decides to sue school.
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/04/1l-fails-torts-sues-university-of-hawaii-law-school/?rf=1
Creative…
Some old building did something.
*applause*
“Meteorologist received death threats for interrupting Masters with tornado updates.”
Golf culture is the worst.
Thug life, dude.
Leafs looked pretty good last night. I know you hate them, but that’s a damn good team.
Heh. I don’t hate them. Actually, never did. I’m not like those sensitive, envious Montrealers.
I even owned a Leafs jersey when I was kid for some reason. I never wore it public though. As you remember, they were one bad organization growing up. Them, the Wings and Black Hawks (back when it was two words).
Plus I have Marner in my pool so I HAVE to like them!
Yeh, they really are killing the Bruins with the speed. I didn’t think they’d be this good given how badly they played down the stretch and that all year the one criticism I heard about them was their pourous defence. Yet….should we be surprised? It’s the NHL.
Look at what the Avs did the the Flames last night. Not that I thought the Flames were all that but they did finish first in the conference.
Hanging 6 on anyone at this stage is impressive. CO is a potentially great team. They’ve got some studs already and it sounds like some of their development players are good, too.
I had Rantanen two years two early and didn’t protect him.
Ugh.
” (back when it was two words)”
My hero!
Twitter death threats are the white people of death threats.
“There is no constitutional difference between WikiLeaks and The New York Times.”
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1116715830966915072
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/438578-alan-dershowitz-is-julian-assange-another-pentagon-papers-case
I don’t agree with Dershowitz on much politically, but I respect the hell out of his commitment to principle and encyclopedic knowledge of constitutional law.
To go OT: The rooms for next years Viva went on sale this morning at 04:00 Eastern. I woke up, waited until the servers responded and got my room. After heading back to bed for a couple of hours, I checked if there were still rooms available. According to the initial e-mail, there were 1,450 rooms set aside for Viva 23 (April 9th – 12th 2020 for those planning). Those rooms were all booked by 06:30. I have a feeling that the casino/resort is very happy to have an event like this come over Easter weekend. Also, it appears that the Orleans has some online web cams for the pool area and the arena. I’m not sure if they’ll be accessible over this weekend, but feel free to try to watch some of the events. The pool has DJ’s and bands through most days, with Sunday being the swimsuit competitions. The arena has the Burlesque showcase Friday evening and the Burlesque Competition Saturday evening.
What is a “Viva 23?”
The 23rd annual Viva Las Vegas. A rockabilly festival in Las Vegas. This year will be the fourth I’ve gone.
Look at us. We’re relevant!
“I really think if we have six more years of the same stuff we’ve had out of the White House the last two years that would be a political tragedy,” he said on CNN.
“So I would be ashamed of myself if I didn’t raise my hand and run.”
———-
“Any effort to challenge the president’s nomination is bound to go absolutely nowhere,” the Republican National Committee said in statement.
According to the most recent Gallup poll, 89% of Republican voters approve of the president.
Mr Trump’s campaign said on Sunday it had raised more than $30m in the first quarter of this year, far outpacing the political war chests of individual Democratic candidates.
Ex-Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who was bested by Mr Trump during the 2016 election, has recently been calling for a Republican to oust the president next year.
Former Ohio Governor John Kasich and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan have also been mentioned in recent months as potential party challengers to Mr Trump.
“I’ll save you, America.”
Sure, Bill. All over America, people are sitting around their kitchen tables, saying, “Isn’t there some pasty-faced old white bread Rockefeller Republican who can capture the imagination of the electorate and dislodge Trump from the Oval Office? Won’t someone end the nightmare which is Trump’s America?”
I don’t think there’s a Republican who could unseat Trump, for the reasons you bring up. I think the protest vote against Trump is either a Democrat or staying home. There’s no other Republican who’s capable of winning the nomination AND winning the general.
I’m no Trump lover, even though he’s a troll-master, I didn’t vote for him.
But if the economy takes a dump or Trump just flat out loses to the Democrat, i fear what crazy laws (assuming Dems also control both houses) would be passed or Bernie – or whomever – with an executive order pen. It would be an epic shitshow.
I didn’t vote for him and I’m not a fan either, but what you’re talking about is one reason I’ll likely vote for him. In Maryland that’s a protest vote anyway, but as much as the Republicans suck the Democrats are racing straight to the bottom and I want to signal my disapproval as much as possible. Shit, I may register Republican just to thumb my nose at the blue dogs in this state.
I’m actually optimistic about the rebuilding of Notre Dame. First, as a Catholic church I believe it is under the care of the Vatican, which is not known for putting wokeness ahead of tradition. I suspect there will be protests about one thing or another but the work will go on.
Second, although there has been a lot of traditional knowledge of building and art that have been lost over time, there are still people out there who are dedicated to the “old” ways of doing things. I have personally taken art classes at a school that teaches 18th and 19th century painting techniques. You don’t hear about it much, but there are people keeping traditional methods alive.
And third, we do have tons of photos and documentation of how it used to look, so there’s plenty to work from.
And third, we do have tons of photos and documentation of how it used to look, so there’s plenty to work from.
It seems a historical architect spent about five years doing that drone mapping with extremely high resolution photo and 3D modeling. They could rebuild it with the chips and imperfections if they wanted to.
The firm I interviewed with last week does point cloud laser scanning with some really impressive resolution. For one project they scanned the abandoned rail yard here and managed to capture graffiti that had been painted over by the city from just the slight change in surface height.
Wow, that is pretty cool. I can imagine in 10 years reading National Geographic articles about how they did the rebuild.
I think it would be a mistake to try to replicate the previous look.
When St Paul’s burned in 1666, I think they started over with a new design.
That is what Notre Dame should do. It should be a testament to the 21st century that will last for another 850 years. And incorporate in the old Bell towers. Don’t use medievel techniques.
I’m ok with that, as long as it doesn’t look like Soldier Field in Chicago.
It should be a testament to the 21st century that will last for another 850 years.
I don’t disagree, in principle. However, when you look at Our Lady of Angels or Christ the Light, I’m not so sure that’s a good idea.
WHY NO MEMORIAL TO STEVE SMITH?
He’s not dead?
SHRINE?
STEVE SMITH IS ETERNAL
The good thing is those have no chance of lasting 850 years.
The first one looks like Miniplenty or Miniluv.
Nah. Restore it. We can build a modern cathedral if we want anywhere, but there’s only one Notre Dame.
I can’t tell if this is a great little joke or not…
Two be fair, the two that are in Montreal are completely different from each other.
If it was minor fire damage, restore it.
Rebuilding to an 850 year old style is Disneyesque.
And Paris isn’t?
Disney is more Ludwig II than Paris
” It should be a testament to the 21st century ”
So, Mohammed cartoons in the stained glass then.
I’m not optimistic at all. Instead of cheap Mexican labor, the French use cheap North African labor. That thing will burn again long before it’s restored.
Babylon Bee burns Bernie
They truly have taken the crown from The Onion.
It’s one of the few places (besides here) where you can still find decent satire.
From that article I think they are moving away from satire to doing actual journalism.
BAZINGA!
I thought the Babylon Bee was parody?
It’s parody all the way down.
I love the BB. They are doing the good work in these trying times.
They are wonderful.
Kid Walks In On Parents Watching ‘Game Of Thrones’
How air pollution is doing more than killing us
The fucking BBC.
So certain cities in China are hotbeds of rape, murder, and burglary? (enough of their government)
I’m confused, I thought the Congo was a deindustrialized area.
Jeez, I wonder if areas with high air pollution tend to be urban areas with high congestion, where people are more likely to commit crimes because of population density and crimes are more likely to be witnessed and reported because of law enforcement services already in place. You could just as easily make the argument that air pollution is linked to increased difficulty in finding parking spaces or access to delivery pizza.
Wet streets cause rain
I swear, I should start a side gig just picking random correlates and writing hand-wringing articles about them.
How about you do that and give me advance notice and I will set up 501Cs devoted to consulting and advising on that serious issue? It worked for Gore.
“Mister Flax, why do you have so many ‘charities’ with the same officers on each of them registered at the same address?”
“The people I work with are passionate about so many issues.”
“Oh, okay then.”
The world has many problems, not the least of which is my lack of vacation homes in exotic locales.
I’m sure they’re agitating for “getting rich” – the surest way to fight air pollution.
Paging our contingent that enjoys long distance running. Or, Dear Japan, I love you.
But I don’t like tomatoes.
If that dude is going to eat all of those tomatoes he better swing by a store and pick up a bulk pack of toilet paper on the way home.
Seriously. Nothing like explosive shits at mile marker 20 to give the crowd a thrill!
After lugging that contraption around, the sudden reduction in mass is required to reach the finish line.
I really like a good tomato, but I don’t think I could eat more than two in a sitting. And I couldn’t eat a damn thing while running. And I’d prefer to be in control of things that are going into my mouth, thanks.
It’s stories like this that make me feel an immense sense of shame over nuking those guys.
Are you saying the radiation made them wierd?
I’m just saying that pre-Hiroshima you don’t see a ton of portable robotic tomato feeders.
That’s a lot of acidic food to consume in one sitting.
Nightshades can effect inflammation as well. Exactly what you need in an endurance race.
It’s the garlic that gets me. I love the stuff, but it’s heartburn city. Same, strangely, with oatmeal. But I can drink Crystal like it’s water. Go figure.
I have to wonder if Ms. Pelosi feels like Dr. Victor Frankenstein. I don’t particularly like her or care for her politics, but only a fool would think she doesn’t have a great deal of base animal cunning when it comes to counting votes. She knows her current Speakership isn’t owed to the Three Stooges (Omar, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez). but top more moderate Democrats in swing districts. Unfortunately for her, the media has made the Three Stooges the face of the Democratic party. And, so far, she’s been remarkably unsuccessful in changing that or reining them in. If she doesn’t, her Speakership is done in January 2021.
I think the party is dying. The three stooges are a straight up commie and two vocal haters of America. This is not the party of Tip O’Neill and JFK. If they keep this up soon they will just be the lunatic fringe.
This is not the party of Tip O’Neill and JFK.
But, that’s the weird part. The simple electoral math says that they should try to run as the party of O’Neill or Kennedy. Or at least Bill Clinton. But, they’re throwing the relative moderates under the bus in favor of radicals who can’t deliver squat outside of a few safe districts.
The Hillary Clinton campaign specifically ignored the advice Bill Clinton was trying to give them.
What’s he know, he only won multiple elections despite being a rapist.
Do you know how many times I have heard that about either the GOP or the Dems in my lifetime?
Just hurry up and die already.
I really hope Patrick McGoohan will be getting some royalties over this.
The Prisoner is my favorite television show of all time.
Didn’t NDT assure us that a rolling bot like that could never travel uphill in sand?
I swear someone put something in the water supply today. My user base is getting really derpy today.
I had a user last week who was logging into the incorrect VM box on his phone. After pointing out that his personal one had no failed attempts, and he’s locked out the shared one three times, the next response from the user was, “I think there may be a system issue,” while CC’ing in more people. To make him feel better, I rebooted their phone remotely, and had him try again.
Justice
Plans to honor Brazil’s far-right president with a black-tie gala at the American Museum of Natural History have been scrapped after a public outcry that saw New York’s mayor brand Jair Bolsonaro “a very dangerous human being”.
Bill de Blasio was among those to speak out after plans for the 14 May event emerged last week, claiming Bolsonaro’s “overt racism and homophobia” and his hostility to the environment mean it would be wrong for such a museum to host him.
Jair Bolsonaro launches assault on Amazon rainforest protections
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Museum staff and scientists in both the United States and Brazil also blasted the decision to pay tribute to a rightwing populist who critics fear is leading the South American country into a new era of Amazon destruction with profound implications for Brazil’s indigenous people and the battle against climate change.
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Brazil has long been hailed as a global leader in soft power and, in recent years, has also emerged as a respected player in the fight against climate change.
But under Bolsonaro – who won a landslide victory at home last year but is regarded with widespread disdain overseas – that looks set to change dramatically, with many regarding Brazil’s radical new leader as a pariah.
They’re a little short on details, other than the outrage mob successfully playing the heckler’s veto card. Who was throwing this shindig, and why, is a little unclear. “Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce”? Sounds nefarious. Probably a front for kkkorporations who want to clearcut the Amazon Basin and build a nuclear waste dump.
Those Brazilians must be a bunch of dummies, voting for a guy Bill de Blasio wouldn’t even eat dinner with.
But Chavez got accolades. He was just spiffy.
Chavez was their guy. Just like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot the Castros, the Kims, and so on…
Increased wealth and exposure of the climate doom hoax?
far-right
Yea, sure. . .
I find it interesting that the Democrats are more interested in social signaling about “Assault Weapons” which are used in a miniscule percentage of homicides, than they are in beating Trump. I’m sure Trump appreciates the voluntary forfeit though.
Yup. I fully support Team Blue running on all their worst, most unconstitutional positions.
As always with these types of news stories, there are always heroes that emerge.
Damn, that guy has moxie:
Speaking of Notre Dame…
*yawn*
Whatever. You know, I could really go for a sandwich right now…
Who cares about petty misandry? That’s so 2015. The question now is would she enlist mtf transgender players?
It’s going to be hilarious and pitiful when her starting lineup is all men and she’s benched her star female athletes. But what’s she going to do?
That’s coming. Cant wait to hear what she has to say about that.
Hey, that 7′ bearded Slovak named Mary is just living xer own truth.
Oh, I’m certain she keeps her lips zipped and weeps into her Dreyer’s. Otherwise she gets the bleach spray bottle treatment from a mob screeching psychos until she’s fired.
Or maybe she’s a true believer. But I don’t know how even true believers ignore the irony.
“Screeching Psychos” sounds like a band name.
It’s close, but no Weasel.
And there’s always the Cosmic Psychos. The song title is on point too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q954LxEzyY8
>why shouldn’t 100 or 99 percent of the jobs in women’s basketball go to women?
Good question. I would ask Congress. But if they are any good, your university’s attorney may want to have a talk with you too.
Muffet.
Also, women’s professional basketball is boring. Women’s college basketball is a hobby. The Ring camera on my front porch got better ratings than the NCAA Women’s Championship.
You know sweetcakes that the only reason you have the money for your phoney-baloney job is because the men’s football and basketball teams are pulling in shit tons of money and because of Title IX, schools have to pretend they care as much about women’s sports.
HOW DARE YOU!
A few schools actually do get good attendance — ours is third in the country at nearly 10K per game. Of course the women don’t get nearly the size of TV contracts.
OTOH, the Baylor women’s coach, who is a woman, has gotten into trouble in some circles for advocating just hiring the best person. And Baylor beat ND for the title.
And where better to do that than in sports?
Where, indeed?
In sports (for the most part) there is a clear, obvious distinction between “pretty good” and “the winner”. We should probably eliminate that. Justice demands it.
Four white men lead the Democrat Party primaries.
Hey, they’re not just white men: two of them are old, one’s gay, and one’s got arrested development. That’s gotta count for something in the intersectionality game, right?
What about the other 2?
For you.
Ron Pattinson (I have been linking him a bunch lately) had an invert sugar recipe in his comments section this week.
I have seen a ton of recipes over the years, this seems the easiest I have seen.
You’ll need:
• cane sugar (not table sugar)
• citric acid
• water
• a candy thermometer
• a saucepan
This is what you do:
• For each pound (455 g) of sugar you use, bring 1 pint (473 ml) of water to the boil.
• Switch off the heat and add the sugar slowly, dissolving it.
• Add 1/4 teaspoon (1 g) of citric acid per pound of sugar.
• Turn on the heat again (not too high) and set the alarm on the candy thermometer to 230ºF (110ºC).
• Stir frequently while it starts to simmer.
• When the temperature hits 230ºF (110, reset the alarm for 240ºF (115.6ºC).
• Heat slowly (the slower the better) until the temperature gets to 240ºF (115.6ºC).
• Lower the heat to keep at 240ºF–250ºF (115.6ºC –121.1ºC).
• For No. 1 maintain at heat for 20–30 minutes.
• For No. 2 maintain at heat for 90–120 minutes.
• For No. 3 maintain at heat for 150–210 minutes.
• For No. 4 maintain at heat for 240–300 minutes.
The question now is would she enlist mtf transgender players?
She should, if she wants to lock in those 1000 wins.
“Coalition of Yemeni bodega owners boycotting New York Post over Omar cover”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1117796745914744834
“A coalition of more than 1,000 Yemeni-American bodega owners have announced a boycott of the New York Post after the tabloid ran a cover using images of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to blast Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)
In a statement, the Yemeni American Merchants Association (YAMA) said it “strongly condemn[ed]” the cover, describing it as an “editorial decision to provoke hatred and fear.”
“Omar is an American who represents and serves this country as an unapologetically Muslim American,” the YAMA wrote. “Taking her words out of context is unacceptable. This action aims to harm Rep Omar and her family and other people of the Islamic faith.””
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438847-yemeni-bodega-owners-call-for-new-york-post-boycott-over-omar-cover
That’s what? 1% of the bodegas in New York?
If that many. Here in The Rockaways, they are all Puerto Rican or Polish. The Polish bodegas stock real Kindereggs.
I bet a large chunk of them are in my neighborhood.
“Coalition of Yemeni Bodega owners…”
So, both of them?
I can hardly wait until YAMA declares that they need some sort of emergency relief because their business has suddenly dropped off.
I wonder what they think of “unapologetically Christian” politicians.
Omar is an American who represents and serves this country
Slow down there, pal. You forgot your [citation needed].
I once saw Yemeni Bodega Coalition open for Modest Mouse.
They sucked.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsAAPZZUcAAEEnV.jpg
LOLOLOL
Ok, I guffawed at the last one.
Male privilege. Misogyny.
The women running for president are qualified, talented, charismatic, hardworking — and nearly invisible. If it t feels like more of the male candidates and expected candidates are getting all the coverage, it’s because they are. Tracking of media mentions of candidates by Five Thirty Eight showed that mentions of male candidates have been consistently higher than women, even as Kamala Harris’s fundraising and polling numbers are nearly on par with her male rivals.
But perhaps even more importantly, much of the media women candidates are getting is unflattering. A recent study by Storybench, a media watchdog out of Northeastern University, found that women candidates have indeed received disproportionately negative coverage.
The words used to describe their campaigns routinely emphasize scandal and discord. It’s just the kind of media bias that contributed to the defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016. One would hope we’d have learned something since then.
———–
Many of us who watch these things closely are already shaking our heads. As Jill Filipovic tweeted, “if you think a 37-year-old whose sole political experience is mayor of South Bend is better qualified than a female senator who is a political visionary and has put forward a slew of detailed and thoughtful policies, you may have a sexism problem.” Amen.
Yes, the gender bias in media persists today. Why? Why isn’t it better now that that we’re in a post #MeToo world and the 2016 election bias was called out so intensely? The answer is simple: because the media remains, even now, the domain of men.
Get back in the kitchen, honey.
While Trump watches from the oval office saying “Yes! Let the hate flow through you!”
My wife’s on that whole tip. And like really emphatically now, I suspect because she’s wired into the MSNBC talking points, bless her heart. It’s all about finally making women equal and ending sexism and strong wamen and what not. Game of Thrones and Hanna are wonderful because they’re proving that women can be strong and authoritative.
FFS.
This is a woman with a PhD who has never failed to receive a promotion she sought out, who works almost exclusively with women and whose few male co-workers are either subordinates or in an unrelated position. To the best of my knowledge she has never, ever been in a situation where she was discriminated against for being a woman, but to hear her women are one more year of Donald Trump away from being chained to the stove. She’s all about women being treated as equals but she won’t take the garbage out.
The TDS is real. The media brainwashing is real.
chained to the stove
*checks PornHub*
Yup, that’s a thing.
I can’t imagine being turned on by someone with their hand stuck in a drain, but I guess it would be a funny old world if we were all the same.
If you forwarded her Willie Brown’s “ yeah, I fucked the bitch and got her into the game” article would you be sleeping on the couch?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Sure-I-dated-Kamala-Harris-So-what-13562972.php
*ahem*
“What does it say that a qualified woman has to sleep with a man in power in order to get a position of authority she deserves?”
or
“You just don’t like the idea of women with power!”
“Sorry honey, you’re probably right. Hey, what’s on tv tonite?”
a female senator who
is a political visionary and has put forward a slew offuck started her political career and has a track record as an abusive thug.It’s just the kind of media bias that contributed to the defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Constant fellatio?
The women running for president are qualified, talented, charismatic, hardworking — and nearly invisible.
If you keep saying it, it may come true!!!!
I do find it interesting how Palin was dismissed as a small town mayor (never mind that she was also a governor), while Mayor Pete is accepted as a front runner.
I’m not surprised given the party affiliation of the loudest bullhorns.
How about a little nut-punch?
Man with Down’s Syndrome’s ‘cruel and horrific’ death after 19 days without food
Oh, well that’s OK then.
“We will make sure the patient passes faster so we can turn over the spot to the next in queue with less delay.” – MUNHS
He had become a burden to the State.
A death due to neglect?
Sounds like manslaughter. When does the trial start?
“Death by natural causes while under the supervision of NHS approved personnel”
I think that is how single payer is supposed to work. The whole purpose is to decide which animals get culled from the herd.
Apparently Beto the Faux Latino is visiting VA on the north side of Richmond today because of course he would go to the rich side of town.
The Smart Gun Doesn’t Exist for the Dumbest Reasons
Firearms makers have resisted Silicon Valley-sponsored digital innovation that could transform public safety
Nearly half of gun owners in the U.S. would consider buying a smart gun, according to a Johns Hopkins University study.
Uh huh.
Question one: Are you a gun owner?
Answer: Nope.
I’ve already considered it.
Nope.
There. Considered again.
When my life is on the line, I want the fewest possible points of failure. Adding a system designed to fail more often than to work is a non-starter from the word go.
Considering how unreliable my smart phone fingerprint sensor is, I’ll take my chances with the gun lock/safe.
I’d consider it if the tech was perfected, didn’t contribute to failures, and was hackproof…which means I’ll never really consider it.
We’ll know the tech is perfected when the Secret Service uses off the shelf, widely available to consumers ‘smart guns’ as the exclusive firearms for Presidential protection.
Needless to say, that’s unlikely any time soon.
They are on about that again? It is a fantasy. Every few years they get cranked up about it again and then it goes away.
Hunh. Who knew that gun manufacturers fiercely competing for market share, would all, without exception, decide not to add a feature that half their customer base allegedly wants?
I’m gonna call bullshit on the notion that people who actually buy guns want this.
Yemeni bodega?
Cultural appropriation!
This is the story of why the multibillion-dollar American gun industry hasn’t yet managed to make guns any smarter.
It doesn’t work.
The End
When you pull the trigger a bullet comes out the same end, every time. That seems pretty smart to me.
I pulled the trigger and it just went “click”. It must be broken.
You know how when a PEZ dispenser runs out of PEZ…
*note to self: investigate business opportunities in selling crates of ammo with a complimentary collectible pistol, possibly character-themed
You should buy a new one, with more bullets in it.
Because a poll done by gun-grabbers is so much more reliable than manufacturer’s market research?
Of course it it. It’s driven by ieological purity instead of filthy filthy greed.
Also, nobody would purchase it even if did work. (returns to shooing kids off of lawn and waiting for this faddish breach-loading nonsense to pass)
I read that as “returns to shooting kids off of lawn” and didn’t bat an eye.
So I was not alone.
Phew.
Damn it. We all do share the same delusions, don’t we?
#MeeToo
Sigh… with my arquebus, I can only plug one or two before the rest scatter.
Oh. I was thinking something more in the Evil Knievel vein involving festive helmets and a cannon.
For that, I prefer the craftsmanship and old world touch one can only get through a trebuchet.
We just sent our traditional woodworkers to Paris to make treadle cranes. You’ll have to wait until they get back.
According to the Dan Carlin stuff I recently listened to, the Mongols, during the siege of Baghdad, were stymied by the lack of large rocks in the surrounding area so they resorted to cutting down the date palms for trebuchet ammunition. Thousands and thousands of whole trees, hurled over the city walls to smash people and buildings alike.
That’s a lot of bad dates.
Bad Dates
🙁
It’s just a photoshop of fake dating site, hard to get the joke across without the visuals.
Yep. Same here.
“Two men charged after allegedly attacking man for wearing ‘MAGA’ hat in Germantown
GERMANTOWN, Md. (FOX 5 DC) – Two men are facing charges in Montgomery County for allegedly attacking a man because he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat in Germantown over the weekend.
On Saturday afternoon, police say a Germantown man was out enjoying the warm weather and walking through his neighborhood when he says two men walked up and became outraged by the hat that he was wearing. He says he was shocked when one of the men allegedly hit him from behind.”
http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/two-men-charged-after-allegedly-attacking-man-for-wearing-maga-hat-in-germantown
Another example of the violence in Trump’s America.
I… wow.
All sorts of interesting dynamics going on there. I’ve been told by more than a few people that there’s kind of a grudge between black Americans and African immigrants, especially in the DC metro. Ethiopians especially–Ethiopian parents apparently prefer their daughters date white men or other immigrants because there’s a stigma attached to black Americans from slavery. They kind of see them as an underclass, allegedly. On the flip side, black Americans see African immigrants as ignorant rubes or Uncle Toms, putting on airs. These are generalizations, obviously, but like I say I’ve heard this several times over the years from a number of different people.
Caribbean black immigrants and American blacks as well.
Sometimes the projection is just so over the top it is hard to believe.
I was just reading this thing about “the new terror” or some such drivel, at The Hill. As far as I could tell, it was a random mishmash of assertions about how “right wing” violence, despite its much lower body count, is just as pernicious as Islamic terror, and we should be worried about it.
The guy wants a big fat research grant, would be my guess.
I have yet to see any of this right violence. It is everywhere but only when I am not looking.
That can only mean one thing – IT’S RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
She’s a black female, so the D thing seems redundant.
Meant for the post below on the Ohio heartbeat bill.
“Ohio Democrat Drafts Amendment Seeking To Make Black Babies Exempt From Pro-Life Law
A female Democrat state representative from Ohio, Rep. Janine Boyd, drafted an amendment last week seeking to have black babies exempted from pro-life legislation dubbed the “heartbeat bill,” which bars babies with detectable heartbeats (around six weeks gestation) from being killed via abortion.”
https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1118118167363166208
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45999/ohio-democrat-creates-amendment-giving-black-amanda-prestigiacomo
So… not even trying to hide the racist eugenics now?
Did they ever?
This is what evil looks like.
Now that’s really throwing the mask off. Impressive.
it’s marketed as “Black Maternal Rights”.
Too soon.
I larfed but not out loud
I feel like I’m being chastized… and I’m not even a gateway.
You naughty, naughty little gateway!
I had one back in the ’90s. Somewhere in the basement is a Holstein-print box proving it.
Wow that brings back memories.
I seem to recall that ‘Bad Gateway’ is a bit redundant though.
I’m using a Gateway monitor right now; it was an upgrade from my wonderful but very long in the tooth Viewsonic CRT.
I think I might have found the worst asshole on twitter:
https://twitter.com/jessbhdz/
Well, without a blue checkmark.
Not yet. There are worse unchecked assholes on that platform.
This is why you got colonized.
Jeepers! In an effort to procrastinate on my household chores I tried to read that. How miserable must it be to go through life with such a chip on one’s shoulder? Damn, lady, go outside for some fresh air and sunshine. Treat yourself to a yummy milkshake, or banana split, or go get a good coffee and a cannoli, and cheer the fuck up!
“good coffee and a cannoli”
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!!
Leave the SJW, take the cannoli.
I trolled her.
Lucky me. I was born and raised right here in America. Me = native american.
Indigenous Scholar . . . Environmental Justice . . . Food Justice
You can just say socialist, it no longer carries the stigma. And it tells us what you’re really after.
“Scientist”.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio is at it again
It’s springtime again in Washington, D.C., when flowers bloom, birds chirp, and thousands of wonks from all over the world descend on the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Planet Money included. Since World War II, the IMF and World Bank have served as guardians of global capitalism. The IMF, in particular, has a long history of bailing out countries in financial crises and using its power to push a free-market agenda. That’s why we were surprised to hear IMF officials suggest capitalism is running amok.
It’s hard to read, when I’m laughing so hard.
*spits coffee*
They must be teaching the ‘I am a free market guy but even I think capitalism is running amok’ line to commies in school or something. I hear that drek more and more these days.
Yeah, they’re really hammering the whole destroy-capitalism-to-save-capitalism talking point lately. The first time I recall hearing it was around when the whole net neutrality debate was heating up, and they’ve been cranking it to eleven ever since.
the IMF and World Bank have served as guardians of global capitalism.
They mis-spelled “crony”.
https://twitter.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1117121701203062784
Wow.
That didn’t end the way I expected.
Also, wood
https://www.instagram.com/annekasvenskaofficial/
Hottie!
Paging Doc – She did a show from T&C on the Potcake puppies!
We did that with our huskies and malamutes all the time.
The malamute in the replies was hilarious.
Malamute uber alles.
tax reform update: can’t remember the last time i took the standard deduction. and mostly thanks to that child tax credit boost, my family paid 4400 less taxes on 2200 more income. YEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWW
We came out better as well. This morning I saw Bernie on the teevee stomping his feet about raising taxes. I dont know why they keep talking in numbers like ‘a hundred trillion’. What difference does it make? Make it a billion trillion or a hundred billion trillion…or have no limit at all.
Yep. They are going to get their asses handed to them in ’20.
Think it boils down to the same mix of toss-up states Trump won in 2016: Wisc, Mich, PA, OH
How do they perceive the tax reform?
Also a wildcard would be vote harvesting in reddish purple states. Can any states be “stolen” like Orange County, CA.
Arizona. We have a thriving vote harvesting industry in Phoenix. Probably responsible for Senator Hooker Boots being the senior Senator from Arizona.
Charges: Man who threw 5-year-old off Mall of America balcony was ‘looking for someone to kill’
What a shock. Another loser:
The GoFundMe has raised $600K for the little kid (who is still in critical condition). Shithead should be forced to match it.
As I said yesterday…the dude is nuts. At the end of a story on it last night the story ended with “Mr. Aranda has a history of mental health issues.”
No shit?
If only he’d used a gun, this tragedy might be useful for something.
“What we need is common-sense balcony control!”
This is why I don’t like being around crowds. My dad taught me from an early age to be very aware of my surroundings, particularly people, especially when in a public place or around crowds of strangers. 99.9% of the time everything is fine, but that .1% can be a doozy.
I remember a while back someone saying that people in cities feel safer because civilization is all around them. Yeah, they see the problem as the solution.
Aranda said he had been coming to the mall for several years and had made efforts to talk to women in the mall, but had been rejected. He said that rejection caused him to lash out and be aggressive.
So- cue calls for common sense incel control.
Round ’em up.
It’s due to poontang inequality. The government must enforce equitable and fair distribution of poontang.
Poontang is a right!
So a new Tim Cook video popped into my feed wherein he is complaining about censorship from Facebook and Twitter and I really can’t be bothered to care. Why are people imbuing these websites with such power? Who cares what
Friendster,MySpace, Facebook allows or does?He has a somewhat valid point in that Facebook can’t be both publisher and platform. They either have to allow everything and be immune to legal action or choose what to publish and be subject to the legal ramifications.
The CEO of Apple that was arguing for the morality of deplatforming people several months ago? That motherfucker?
No, this fellow – https://youtu.be/SVSpvv1I9jk
Ah, Tim Pool.
Yeah, I don’t know why I was thinking cook. Perhaps it’s time to eat something.
More from the genius at NPR:
The EpiPen pricing tale provides an extreme example of what economists call a “price markup,” which is when a company charges a price for something that is higher than the cost of producing it. In the fairytale version of capitalism, competition takes away the power of companies to mark up their prices and forces them to sell their products at the price it costs to make them. When companies can markup their prices over this competitive level, economists say they possess “market power.”
Whatever you do, don’t mention the government.
“Fairytale capitalism” indeed.
The EpiPen pricing tale only happened because the other phrama compies are barred from producing the same product due to patent law. And I have no idea what the research costs were for developing, testing, and meeting FDA approval requirements were.
Don’t tell me what to do.
^THIS MF’ING THIS!!!
When this was all going on I pointed that out to my wife, who predictably was taking the NPR view. I kept telling her that the reason the company could hold the monopoly was BECAUSE of government regulations. As usual, the government talks out of both sides of its mouth; it creates the conditions necessary for a monopoly and then rebukes monopolists that arise from those conditions. Eventually it sunk in, but damn that was a long drive. Hilariously, it popped up as we were driving through Kalorama on the way out of DC.
I don’t think my wifey would appreciate me selling “products at the price it costs to make them”. “Where is the pretzel money, she asks. What are you doing to get the pretzel money?”
Auntie Anne, is that you? Or are you the original Hot Sam?
Nah… Just an upstanding member of the Legitimate Businessman’s Social Club. https://youtu.be/EMF1nuK71ks
The person writing this article must have gotten her understanding of the laws of economics at the same school Karla Marx did…
Fairytale, my ass. Take away the patent protection and see what happens.
The “markup” (i.e. ‘profit’) is the only reason any business is in business. Other wise there is no point. And competition drives innovation that brings the price down. And I am pretty sure the epi-pen situation is because of some gov’t enforced monopoly. Christ, what a retard.
Uh…how long is the patent on epinephrine? Shouldn’t that have run out a century ago?
Yes. The patent is on the delivery device.
Oh, well shit. You can buy 100 insulin syringes in the drug store for a few bucks. Just draw it up in one of those. I never paid much attention to this story. I thought the patent was on the adrenalin…which I couldn’t understand.
Clinton loyalists exploited Obama’s FBI to spread Russia conspiracy stories about Trump
So the question is who is going to jail?
Banana republic monkeys. I expected no less. Why anyone couldn’t see it is a mystery to me.
This was what Obama meant when he promised change….
This is from a crew that thought it is ok to supply violent gangs with weaponry int eh hopes that people would be murdered for the sole purpose of pushing their gun control agenda. That tells us who we are dealing with. Why be surprised that they weaponized federal agencies for political purposes.
Yeah, we are getting some people that are actually researching what will likely turn out to be the most scandalous presidential abuse of power ever, but I still feel what we know now, is not even close to all the criminal activity that went on under Obama.
And have no doubt he was part of it as were all the appointees that got the top jobs, not because of qualifications, but because of loyalty and likely a willingness to go along with the criminal activity.
I remember a while back someone saying that people in cities feel safer because civilization is all around them. Yeah, they see the problem as the solution.
At this point, cities just remind me of those experiments where they kept cramming more and more rats into Rat Metroppolis, so they could watch them getting crazier and crazier.
Yeah, sign me up for a studio apartment. In a few years, I’ll be a socialist, too.
feel safer because civilization is all around them
And yet there is way more crime in the city.
What’ team blue’s new “Medicare for all” [plan will look like in real life…