Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is! Red states push to drastically limit or in the case of Alabama (outlaw) abortion continues apace with Missouri’s Senate passing a bill limiting abortions to 8 weeks and Louisiana is up on-deck. The left might have to boycott all the red states in the US and not just Georgia.
I have to say, I’m highly amused by the freakout from the left over the abortion restriction push. Not because I’m pro-life. It truly shows the bubble many in the left have been living in. When the left talks about how the majority of the population being ok with abortion, they are correct, but they’ve fooled themselves into believing that that meant that they were in lockstep with them wanting abortion up and through college graduation. 60% of the population are ok with 1st trimester abortions. But only 28% agree with 2nd trimesters and around 13% agree to 3rd trimester abortions. The heartbeat bills are not going to be as politically unpopular as they think they will be.
Trump’s pick to the 9th circuit has been confirmed by the Senate. Now he needs to move to add another circuit out west, not for political purposes, it’s just ridiculous how much territory it has to cover and how backlogged it is. It’s covering a population of over 61 million people, twice and three times the size of other circuits.
Based on 2010 United States Census figures, the population residing in each circuit is as follows.
| Circuit | Authorized judges | Population | Percentage of US population | Population per authorized judge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D.C. Circuit | 11 | 601,723 | 0.19% | 54,702 |
| 1st Circuit | 6 | 13,970,816 | 4.47% | 2,328,469 |
| 2nd Circuit | 13 | 23,577,940 | 7.54% | 1,813,688 |
| 3rd Circuit | 14 | 22,498,612 | 7.19% | 1,607,044 |
| 4th Circuit | 15 | 29,788,417 | 9.52% | 1,985,894 |
| 5th Circuit | 17 | 32,646,230 | 10.44% | 1,920,366 |
| 6th Circuit | 16 | 32,105,616 | 10.26% | 2,006,601 |
| 7th Circuit | 11 | 25,001,420 | 7.99% | 2,272,856 |
| 8th Circuit | 11 | 20,568,237 | 6.58% | 1,869,840 |
| 9th Circuit | 29 | 61,742,908 | 19.74% | 2,129,066 |
| 10th Circuit | 12 | 17,020,355 | 5.44% | 1,418,363 |
| 11th Circuit | 12 | 33,268,699 | 10.64% | 2,772,392 |
| Federal Circuit[Note 1] | 12 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total | 179 | 312,790,973 | 100% | 1,747,436 |
Bill Barr publicly asks Pelosi if she brought handcuffs to arrest him.
Police execute search warrant on Catholic diocese of Dallas.
Sky penis, a dramatic reading.
Alex Jones’ interview of 14 year old comedian “Soph”.
Crap, ran out of time. That’s what I get for ranting. Here’s song. Gotta go.
mornin’
Mornin’
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
Mornin’ Banjos! Solid choice of tune!
Mornin’
megadittoes
It would be roundly interesting to see a similar table with a column noting how many times each Circuit Court has been overruled by the Supreme Court.
Those numbers seem all over the place.
9th Circuit has 29 judges. That’s a trifle unwieldy.
Awesome table and commentary, Banjos.
This here wikimupedia article answers Animal’s question (Rate of Overturning section) and Festus’ (Size of the Court – en banc cases).
Also, please do note the part at the top about places of holding court and be aware that that means not just the judges but their secretaries and lawclerks, maintaining all that office space, etc.
Yes, I’m planning an article. Sometime before we land on the moon again, I swears.
Oops.
Sometime before we land on the moon again, I swears.
Trump wants to go back by 2024, so the clock’s ticking for your article.
I know its regarded as early to go off-topic, but I got distracted by a little piece of good news.
“Bill Barr publicly asks Pelosi if she brought handcuffs to arrest him.”
Kinky.
I’m sure you can straighten the chain out before using them.
Especially with everyone watching! I didn’t realize C-Span did those kind of movies.
Are you kidding/ Every time I watch C-Span it shows someone fucking us.
The clown car gets a little more crowded.
I’ll take on the rich
Do you know who else?
Robin Hood?
The Robin Hood legend is widely misunderstood. The Robin Loxley of legend didn’t “steal from the rich and give to the poor.” He robbed tax receipts from the agents of a corrupt, totalitarian government and gave people back their own property that had been taken from them by force.
We could use a few more like him today.
Look who the rich are. You are making a distinction without a difference.
That’s kind of the point; under such a system the ruling class were the only ones who could get rich. But there’s a lesson in that for today’s would-be totalitarians who idolize Robin Loxley as somehow being on their side.
Thanks, UCS.
😉
Look, I would have pointed out that in the original iterations, Robin stole from the rich and gave to himself.
Next you’re going to tell me people don’t know about the origin of “shouting fire in a crowded theater”.
Paula Dean?
Anna Nicole Smith?
That’s great. He will be lucky to get an asterisk, rather than a zero, in the polls.
Hello. Enjoy this retardation only California could bring:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/15/us/boxer-suspended-kissing-reporter-kubrat-pulev-jenny-sushe/index.html
She was laughing about it immediately after he did it.
You know, back when I was 14, a cute little 14 year old named Angie kissed me without asking for my consent. Do you think I can get her fired?
She handled it well up until Gloria Allred convinced her she could cash in on it. Then her moral compass went haywire.
He should have demonstrated his uppercut instead.
A sport where grown men beat the piss out of each other has been wussified. What a sad day.
A military known for raining unprecedented hell from the skies, as well.
OMG, did she survive? Is she ok? Did the irony of a reporter focusing on a sport where men beat the piss out of each other until one of them has a concussion getting unexpectedly kissed scar her for life?
What’s the complaint here? In what world is it ok for a person to force a kiss and grab the ass of another person without their consent, even just implied? I’m not sure how what a man does for a living puts him in a special class that allows this behavior either. It seems like a clear violation of the NAP. And the laughter immediately signifies nothing. That is often the result of the confusion and nervousness I’m sure she was feeling. She probably wouldn’t want to escalate the situation with this giant man possibly coursing with testosterone and adrenaline from the fight, being made fully aware that he could physically do anything he wanted to her. There were no criminal charges or personal suit brought against him, just sanction from the governing body, at least according to the article.
If the complaint is that the re-education class is probably worthless or that the the government shouldn’t be involved with overseeing a sport, then I agree completely.
You and your consistent values.
I’m not a hundred percent certain if you’re serious or not, so I’ll assume you are.
Context is everything, as is framing the situation. Nothing you said is wrong. Personally, I choose to live in a world where spontaneous expressions of human emotion, provided no one is harmed, are accepted as part of the human condition. I don’t see this as a cishetero shitlord inflicting his toxic masculinity on a helpless wamyn. I see this as someone overcome with emotion expressing it in what I personally think is a positive and ultimately very human way. As someone who has had his ass slapped by strange women and been kissed by strange men, I prefer a messy, spontaneous world where people can be themselves over a clinical, sanitized world where each interaction is weighed against an inflexible set of arbitrary rules.
I don’t think I’m making a progressive sjw argument here and I’m not saying we need expressed, written consent for every interaction. I just don’t think it’s arbitrary to say each person owns themselves and has agency over their own person. OTOH, I don’t think it’s inconsistent to say no harm, no foul iff the reciever agrees. I just don’t think we’d be having this conversation if some rando grabbed the first woman he saw after landing a big sale and did the same. I don’t see where you can draw the line that would not allow any person to kiss and grope any person they saw and claim to be excited. If someone did that to, e.g., my wife, would I be in the wrong to knock his ass out, or if it were this guy, would it be ok for him to escalate if I didn’t knock him out?
Red states push to drastically limit…abortion
I think they are reaching a bit. But it is just the opposite extreme (and probably necessary counter) to Democrats wanting, essentially, post-birth abortion. The legal duels and general hysterics should be fun to watch.
I know I wanted the abortion wedge issue to force itself to the front of every election once again.
It also might drive more Democrats to the polls. Maybe it’s a principled albeit convoluted stance, but it seems politically stupid.
Well…”Team Stupid”…
“Har har, Dumbocrats are so stooopid if they think they can run on banning guns.”
“Hyuk hyuk, yeah. Hey, let’s ban abortion.”
^^^ Beat me to it.
This is going to be really disheartening for them, more so if SCOTUS lets some restrictions stand. And the Dems are going to have some ‘splaining to do about how they were dicking around with other issues and let one of their key planks just rot out from under them.
I’m hopeful that we’re seeing a new wave of wakeful participation, and at this point I think even ill-advised legislation that has little hope of surviving and creating impact is fun if it wakes more people of all stripes. Although I’m wary of popular suffrage (at the end of the day all of the clowns in charge were elected, so how keen can elections possibly be?), more people should know what’s going on and exercise their say over who the president and their legislators should be. Trump, AOC, and the other clowns are making the case that electoral slumber might be expensive (eyes Iran after recent visit with 1A, OCS-quality mijo).
As to regulating abortion, it continues to strike me as regrettable but ultimately private conduct with no enforcement vector that isn’t invasive and authoritarian; if asked to choose between the sad ending of a unborn’s life by the folk at ground zero or managing medical choices with NSA-like bureaucracy, I defer to the private conduct of parents/doctors/patients. I respect the pro-life position as rational, but I still don’t want the governor reading ultrasounds.
You mean like getting woke?
I’m with you on this. I got into an argument–is it still an argument if one of you isn’t actually arguing?–last night because I referred to the Alabama legislation as “strange” because it will almost certainly be overturned and I don’t get the motivation, frankly. The thing about this that bothers me is that while I’m not what you would call in favor of abortion per se, I’m very much against all of the ways in which prohibitions against abortion would necessarily be enforced.
I don’t have a problem of sending a doctor to jail and banning him from ever practicing medicine again if he kills a newborn in Virginia.
Other than Alyssa Milano, I don’t think anyone disagrees that a newborn baby is a person, so the usual prohibitions against murder would naturally apply. Otherwise, you’re getting into forensic medical examinations of mothers, and I’m not wild about the local PD taking that into their portfolio. If you can’t trust the state to not shoot your dachshund in the course of routine law enforcement duties I’m not sure why you’d trust them to peek into a womb.
The thing about this that bothers me is that while I’m not what you would call in favor of abortion per se, I’m very much against all of the ways in which prohibitions against abortion would necessarily be enforced.
I think abortion should be banned after viability, at 22 weeks. I see no credible argument that a 22 week preemie is not a person and that killing one in the crib is A-OK. I see no credible argument that a 22 week fetus is not the exact same person as a 22 week preemie.
Would enforcing a ban after viability require the governor to read ultrasounds, require that every miscarriage be investigated as a potential homicide, etc.? No. I see no reason why a ban on abortion after viability is any more likely to abused by law enforcement or the government than any of our other statutes regulating either medical practice, assault, etc.
My impression of the Alabama law is that viability isn’t the test. It’s any abortion at all, ever, barring medical necessity. I’m not against a ban on abortions past 22 weeks, with medical exceptions. I’m just saying that I don’t know how you’d enforce such a ban without necessarily invading privacy, frankly. If a doctor and patient were both willing, how would you know the fetus was 22 weeks or 26, absent some sort of invasive investigation?
If a doctor and patient were both willing, how would you know the fetus was 22 weeks or 26, absent some sort of invasive investigation?
Any law can be broken by willing parties, and determining whether the law was broken requires an “invasive” investigation.
Post facto (crimes generally being investigated only after they are committed), what would the investigation consist of? Interviews of the two suspects, any other potential witnesses, and a review of the medical record. How is that more “invasive” than any other investigation of any potential crime?
Could the law be written so that it requires a state panel to verify the fetal age before an abortion can be performed? Sure. But that’s a different law (one I would oppose), and not the ban on abortions after viability that I support.
Fair points. I suppose it comes down to the cultural importance we attach to medical privacy and to motherhood itself. There’s a qualitative difference between auditing someone’s financial records, searching someone’s home for a murder weapon, and determining the age of someone’s dead fetal child. It *feels* more intrusive when you’re talking about something inside of another human being, especially when that something is a fetus.
I’m going to have to respectfully disagree on the “fun to watch” part.
I would much, MUCH prefer these kinds of clean bills passed explicitly to challenge Roe/Casey instead of the wink-wink health and safety regulations that just so happen to limit or eliminate legal abortion providers.
Its better for the republic if we have clean fight over a right instead of attempted suppression through regulation.
Jim Crow-era and modern-era gun control laws have the same problem. Pass a law outlawing what you want to outlaw and argue that it isn’t an unconstitutional law. Don’t degrade the entire legal system to try to circumvent the constitution.
Morning?
Greetings from the Paragould Arkansas Hampton Inn.
Sounds swanky!
It’s decent. But honestly, the Super Ocho in Fayetteville had better beds and pillows.
I was really impressed with the Fayetteville/Bentonville area. The Walmart money effect is impressive.
Christ, that was clunky English. Need more coffee.
It was perfectly cromulent to me but I have been up all night.
Just imagine if they had instead given all their employees a $00.014 raise, though.
There is barbecue and beer in Memphis . . . you’re so close!
I say this as an agnostic on the abortion issue but do these state legislatures really want to kick this hornets nest at this particular time? It probably will be swatted down by lower courts and the Supremes will refuse to hear the case. I think it’s a case of shooting themselves in the dick given the political climate in the U.S. Why give ammunition to your opponent, Stupid Party?
The state parties and politicians are concerned with local politics and this plays well in certain places.
I understand but where is the strategic thinking? Do they want President fill-in-the-blank with a D after xis name making court appointments for the foreseeable future? It’s just dumb, short-sighted political grandstanding that will probably hinder their cause.
I agree but politicians aren’t exactly known for their strategic thinking.
Well it is Alabama, so…
Pretty much this. Maybe it’s socon virtue signalling?
It the political equivalent of a complete focus on quarterly earnings reports.
Agreed.
The dems already hate them on abortion, so nothing lost. As noted above, this is demoralizing and damaging to the dems even if it goes nowhere. And this also ensures that every pro-lifer will vote in the next presidential election.
I’m not so optimistic. It’s Democrats, not Republicans, who tend to stay home on Election Day.
Alternate headline: “Hack lawyers stir shit to ensure at least a decade of steady employment”
What do you think?
My understanding is that the AL bill, specifically, is meant to attract the attention of the Supreme Court to see if they would be willing to rehear and revise Roe v. Wade. I think the Supreme Court will decline to hear it, as well.
Wouldn’t it have to get past the 11th Circuit first?
No. 11th strikes it down. AL appeals to SC.
And if they don’t strike it down?
Then the other party (probably Planned Parenthood, but who knows) will appeal.
That would be the party that would be bringing the lawsuit in the first place.
I don’t consider myself pro life but the “arguments” that abortion supporters have been incessantly spewing for the last week are just as stupid, shallow, ill-conceived, and disingenuous as their arguments on every other god damn subject. And of all that flaming pile of stupid shit, the bits I find most maddening/hilarious are the way they dismiss any woman who DOESN’T agree with them as a mindless drone kow-towing to Duh Patriarchy, as if it’s not possible for women to actually have conservative or religious views.
I’m not particularly interested in touching off an abortion debate, I think people believe what they’re going to believe about when “personhood” (for lack of a better word) occurs, I just really resent the outrageous amount of dishonesty coming from one side of this debate.
And while I’m at it, I think this is incredibly dumb timing for Republicans.
“Hey, the economy is chugging along nicely and after two years the Russiagate hoax is FINALLY coming apart at the seams and we’re just about to turn the tables on everyone who’s been pushing it.
I know, let’s start up a giant abortion shit-show and completely vindicate everyone who spent two years screeching that all Republicans care about is banning abortion! Surely that will not provide the Democrats with any opportunity to rally and re-energize their otherwise demoralized base!”
I’m hoping that the Court ultimately overturns Roe v. Wade based on the Tenth Amendment – because of my support for the Tenth, not my views on abortion.
I think that’s a perfectly reasonable view.
If it’s not abortion, it’s murder. That has always been a crime under the legal authority of the states, not the federal government.
And just like different states have different laws on the line between self-defense and murder, the line for this can be different.
As someone who is generally on the pro-life side of the fence, I don’t want a national law banning it either. It should be left to the states.
^^ this. And this is exactly why Roe need to be overturned.
Colorado legalized abortion in 1968, five years before Roe V
I just find it interesting that the left treats Roe v. Wade (a law that was more than the author intended – see link – and passed narrowly 5-4) as if it’s written in stone and blood. As if on this matter society and people can’t change. But when it comes to amendments like the 1A and 2A they scream ‘the world has changed!’
I think the infanticide laws of NY and tabled in Virginia really pissed people off. It was a moment where people all of a sudden values matter. It was a gross miscalculation and move by Democrats to expand abortion like they did. Depraved in my view. It’s not about science or free choice. It’s immoral in my view.
I was always indifferent to this issue but I always disagreed with the notion the man had no say. My wife too. But what I saw with Planned Parenthood, the cavalier way in which people brag about getting abortions and infanticide naturally nudged me in the direction of pro-life. It’s all about values and I don’t share their values.
I’m ok with what these states are doing unless someone can enlighten me as to why it’s misguided.
I just love the juxtaposition of Roe v. Wade as settled law, while Citizens United and Heller are signs of gross judicial overreach.
Well, you see, one supports the progressive agenda, while the other two stand athwart it.
Yup. I love how they camping against them, “were gonna overturn Citizens United”. Most people don’t even know what Citizens United was doing. What they did was want to show an anti Hillary movie close to an election.
Citizens United made it so that corporations are people and can legally own military assault weapons for no reason.
I think that’s actually in the text of the law.
Hell, Kagan (Solicitor General at the time) argued that the law would allow the banning of books. She fscking argued for banning books. In the US!
The only defense I can think of for that is she was trying to tank the case.
It’s like you don’t even #super-precedent.
I think you and Banjos nailed it. The left thinks everyone is on board when most people are disgusted.
My wife asked me about this because the media is depicting – duh – as ‘cool at what those backward hicks are doing’! I replied that let’s say you think it’s extreme for them to do this how is it any different than what Cuomo in NY did? Both are extreme but if I had to choose I’m choosing life. Not infanticide. She realized, when presented this way, how extreme NY was by going as far as they did and it does rub her wrong.
There are hippie liberals I know who are thoroughly disgusted with the modern left and feminists. Wouldn’t surprise me if there are more of these disaffected feminists than we think.
Who the heck in their right principled mind would join Linda fricken Sansour or Alyssa Milano? What intelligent mind could possibly think the brand of feminism espoused by buffoons and clowns like Justin and the Three Stooges is worth supporting or praising?
The media is almost uniformly from the big urban centers or desperately desires to be from there. They’ll never get it.
I wouldn’t mind “joining” with Alyssa Milano.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-14-na-abortion14-story.html
‘people realized values matter’.
Of course, any court decision (or any previous president’s policy…) that they like is set in stone.
And the courts are happy to comply. Remember Obama’s “permanent” executive order.
That still bothers me. It was a perfectly legit time to tell the judge to fuck off. If something is done by e.o. it can be undone by e.o. The end.
Replace gun control with abortion in this document and see what happens.
TBF – there are a few other amicus briefs from the pro-gun-control side that take a much more originalist tack than this. But I doubt the authors of this particular brief would be ok with the gun control -> abortion argument. Which is pretty damning, if true.
Having to scroll though half the document listing their ‘studies’ before getting to the “Interest of the Amici” section made me not want to finish reading.
Is it one long appeal to authority fallacy that ignores the basic problem in that the government is forbidden from doing what they’re asking?
1) That’s just how all amici are structured.
2) This may surprise you, but “appeal to authority” is not a fallacy in a court case. In fact, you are doing it too with your implicit appeal to the Constitution. This is an unpersuasive brief because it doesn’t appeal to authority.
Academic studies are lesser authorities.
And I’ve read more than a few amici, the structure was the same, it was the “Half the document” part that caused the long, drawn out sigh.
You know who else divided the country into 12.
Henry Dunham?
He was not asking. He was making a declarative statement.
You could read that statement either way, I guess. I do bemoan the death of the question mark, though. It’s becoming a more common habit to end queries with a period.
Where have you seen this? It’s news to me.
I see it all over the place, mostly younger writers, even in the professional setting. I’ve been haranguing my own kids about it.
You know what other cultures don’t use punctuation question marks?
I do it sometimes for sarcasm or rhetorical effect. I would never do it in “normal” writing.
Literally everywhere?
Is it.
I see what you did there?
Seriously though it was a mistake.
Sounds like something the French would do.
The Hebrews’ god?
It truly shows the bubble many in the left have been living in.
They also think that everyone agrees with them that ‘orange man bad’ and ‘black rifles bad’.
No one actually believes the citizenry should have guns, they’re all just being bought off and mind-controlled by the filthy NRA.
Oh god, that one is so irritating in its flat out wrongness. Even aside from the NRA being squishes on gun control anyway, etc etc, the point of fact that every electoral contribution list they’re like 20th, but they’re this impossible boogeyman is so absurd. And I think really points to the failure of journalism as a whole that so many people can fervently believe such a thing, even though it’s clearly not true. Or when we have people like Kamala pushing the “NRA sells guns” canard. uh, no? they don’t? Do gun manufacturers donate to the NRA? I would guess so, just as any manufacturer donates to the associated lobbying organization, but that’s still not “selling guns”.
I always say I want the single mother with the ex-husband or boyfriend that won’t leave them alone and threatens to kill them time and time again should have a legitimate means of force to defend herself. I don’t ever dream to take that away from her.
Given history, the courts are not enough.
De Blasio is running for President!
The Wrong People Have All the Money (you) should be an awesome campaign slogan.
If he means all the nomenklatura surrounding DC, then he’s right.
What’s his net worth? I assume he doesn’t consider himself the wrong people but maybe he’s a masochist.
Only $1.5 million. As politicians go, he’s only middle class.
Dirt poor for New York.
Clearly we must take it from these evil wrong people.
Heard that this morning. It’s an unveiled threat. He’s a dyed in the wool commie and a dangerous, wannabe tyrant.
Don’t worry. He’ll never be a danger to anyone outside NYC.
He’s running for a cabinet position and to grift money.
I will enjoy Rudy continuing to rip DeBlasio, at least.
Not quite, even if that’s the direction it’s moving.
/dislikes outrageous grandstanding
I’ve never been, but I know several people who live in New York. They’re not either of those things, but they seem to get by alright. I’d assume it’s like most places; the cost of living is high, sure, but there are also the salaries to accommodate it. On the other side of the coin, there are a lot of places in the country I’d love to live with low costs of living, but I’d also make a lot less money.
It’s just not going to be the same…
https://movieweb.com/evil-dead-movies-future-plans-no-bruce-campbell/
I only recognize the first iteration as canon so I’m gonna safely ignore these. Mind you, that Ash vs Evil Dead series looked pretty fun.
If you haven’t seen it, pick up My Name Is Bruce (or rent it). It’s a comedy where Bruce Campbell plays himself as a paper thin mask over Ash and gets kidnapped to save a city that’s under attack by a demon.
And Ash vs Evil Dead is AWESOME!
I ordered it after reading Hail to the Chin. I still haven’t watched it though.
Agreed.
If you haven’t done so, listen to the Audio Book version of “Make Love: The Bruce Campbell Way”
It was absolutely outrageously disgusting.
And hilarious.
Meh. Did you see the rebooted Evil Dead? It was… not good.
Ash vs. Evil Dead though was much more awesome than I ever expected.
Seeing the super quick post credit scene was worth the price for admission for, never got to see any of the originals on a big screen.
Doing the annual harassment training. I know that there are some terrible people, but the examples they use are so cartoonish.
You sound like a Shitlord.
And can you believe it, being a shitlord is not a protected class.
*Swats leon on the bum in passing* “Heya Toots!”
We have been praising the guy who is the example in our harassment training. He is so over the top awful that the only way he still has a job is that he is the best damn salesman in the world and must be making the company a freakin ton of money.
I am not sure we have got the right lesson from these videos.
I know right. The example they used is of a guy who is so offensive and racist and sexist that the employee is afraid he will become violent to her.
I had harassment training Monday. My takeaway was that I should just not interact with other employees. It is the only safe path.
Beat them to HR and file your lawsuits first.
*Hip-checks shrieking harridan into the copy machine, makes a clean break for HR*
That’s basically the advice we got.
“If you think what you will do could offend someone in any way: don’t do it”
I was going to object, but realized HR gave me an out for not getting any work done.
harassment training
I never feel the need to train to harass. But I also hardly ever exercise.
Hope this training improves your harassment skills.
Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does
Fast forward to 6:30 in.
Anyone heard from Smilin’ Joe Fission lately?
I heard he was hanging around some school in Ohio.
Or Goijira? What happened to him?
Gojira just posted an article last night.
But has he been heard from since?
I mean, it’s been twelve hours!
Lol. I need to check in more.
A+ trolling.
Anyone who knew anything about roofing construction could have told you this.
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613541/teslas-trumpeted-solar-shingles-are-a-flop/
I read an article that said they were only able to confirm 28 installations nationwide after what? 3 years?
Never mind, its the same set of facts.
So, is Musk a genius or a moron? I can’t tell.
Edison of our times pal.
Yes.
Solar panel factory in Buffalo, NY… Ironic?
Okay, so QA was a bit spotty, but they had to do their best with the available lighting.
the state built, subsidized, and equipped for SolarCity
That’s your answer.
Yep, it was a checkbox on Cuomo’s resume reading “do something for upstate”.
Mornin’, Glibs! Fess up – which one of you saw this coming?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-rolling-meadows-court-false-police-report-charge-jussie-smollett-20190515-story.html
The intersectionality is baffling to me. Both are scumbags who should be facing consequences but Smollett’s case is actual conspiracy, not just a stupid lie.
Wow. The judge really let the prosecutor have it. Good on him. Probably will do approximately ZERO good, but good on him, anyway.
Candace Clark, 21, said she is happy that an attorney has stepped up to take her case pro bono, though she is sorry that she has created extra media buzz around Smollett.
“They’re trying to bring his (Smollett’s) case back up, and I’m sorry about that, Jussie,” Clark said Wednesday in an interview at her Hoffman Estates residence.
I guess black folks loath the criminal justice system to such an extent they reflexively take the side of a compulsively lying, fruity, NPD/sociopath if he’s against them.
And that’s the ultimate irony of it all. You don’t fabricate injustice and expect no negative ramifications. Here, the black community is being roped into a vortex of deceit and actual injustice they culturally have to extricate themselves from.
This is not ‘whiteys’ problem. It’s structural within the black community and it can be fixed with some true leaders.
It’s like when BLM decide to riot over the stupid cases and are silent about the egregious ones. Idiocy.
Like Bill Cosby.
Oh, wait…
It’s not that difficult. There are two systems in place. One for the plebes, which Candace Clark is part of, and one for the uppity ups, which Jussie is part of.
She will be prosecuted and he will be held up as starting a conversation.
simple really.
Congrats to Ohio State golf. I was planning to mock them this morning, but they rose above their #46 ranking to finish 2nd in their regional and earn one of the 30 spots in the Nationals.
My school, of course, also qualified, although we flirted with disaster, finishing #4 despite our overall #8 ranking. We finished 1 shot ahead of a 4th place tie between South Carolina and Colorado St who had to play a playoff for the 5th and final spot — congrats to USCe for winning the playoff.
I’m pretty ambivalent on abortion. To me it comes down to, “do you regard a fetus as a person with the same rights as everyone else?” If so, you have to be pro-life or else you are ok with the government condoning murder. If not, then pro choice is the way to go. I’m not convinced either way on that question. When I talk to pro choice people about it, they bring up utilitarian arguments such as “women will be more likely to try dangerous abortion methods” or “you’ll just end up with more people in the welfare system, foster system, etc.” Naturally as a libertarian, I’m pretty unconvinced by utilitarian arguments almost as a matter of principle.
But it got me thinking; we use a lot of utilitarian arguments for libertarian positions, for example, a free market is more prosperous than the alternatives or the drug war causes more harm than good. But we also have “rights based” reasoning for these poisitions which I find more convincing, but when I try to talk about property rights when defending free markets to non-libertarians I get eye rolls.
It’s really a personal thing. As I get older, that clump of cells starts to look a lot like a person and abortion starts to look a lot like murder.
I felt quite differently 30 years ago.
#me too but that was when I was in actual danger of being a surprise Dad. I knew at least a half-dozen of my friends that had to get abortions and all except for one regretted it later in life. The most vociferous opponents of abortion turn out to be Mothers. Who knew?
Women can never make up their minds, amirite?
They can, with proper guidance from a Patriarch.
Cyril of Alexandria agrees.
My wife was pro-lifeish back before we had a kid. Now she outpaces me in her zeal on the topic. I thought I was pretty dang Pro-life, but the visceral disgust she feels toward abortion is something that can only be felt by somebody who has carried a child.
“half-dozen of my friends that had to get abortions and all except for one regretted it later”
The most vociferous defenders of abortion are the ones who had them and don’t regret them because they want the legality of abortion to be there to alleviate their guilty consciences. Typically these people are almost always in favor of every other possible government intervention “for the children”. Like drug prohibition, gun control, free college, etc.
The emotional costs of abortion are often overlooked by Pro-Choice advocates.
To me, the emotional costs are irrelevant to the question whether something should be regulated or prohibited.
Don’t be such a bully! You’ll hurt his feelings!
As much as it pains me to agree with Tundra, I’m in the same boat.
But, I am still unsure of when the magic happens and the fetus becomes a person. My wife and I suffered a lot of miscarriages while we were still having kids. Most of them happened very early in the pregnancy and we were very sad and miserable, but not even close to the agony we would have felt if one of our kids died.
I just don’t know and have no idea how either side could provide me clear cut evidence of exactly when that clump of cells becomes a kid.
Ditto. My perspective changed a hell of a lot after one daughter and a few miscarriages. I’m surprised my wife’s hasn’t, although I suspect in her case it’s reflexive virtue signalling. She’s a brilliant woman, but she’s also strangely muddled in ways that always surprise me.
I’ve never changed: choice since day one.
I usually hate Republicans, but it would be years before I understood why a conservative, backwoods guy like me didn’t line up with other backwoods guys: I don’t want to be told what I can and can’t do. I hate churchladies and all the other meddlesome bastards, and that’s what the GOP became when Falwell and Reagan started 69ing.
I have one perfect son, spent the weekend with him. Nothing about his sweetness wants me to invite the governor into the ultrasound business.
This is basically my reasoning as well.
Also, I am not opposed to private efforts to reduce the need for abortions.
Utilitarian arguments work better for people who are in the fence than values based arguments. It’s better to convince people using utilitarianism than not at all.
Yup, that’s how I was convinced to join the dark side in the first place was realizing that the economy is better left alone, the drug war is causing so much misery, and the war on terror is creating more terrorists than it’s killing.
When I talk to pro choice people about it, they bring up utilitarian arguments such as “women will be more likely to try dangerous abortion methods”…
I still don’t see how this is supposed to be a compelling counterargument to anyone that believes abortion is immoral.
“It’s still reprehensible, sure, but why not at least make it neat and tidy?”
It’s not but it convinces themselves. Pro life people think of abortion as murder, so if you legalize abortion, might as well legalize all murders. Set up a murder shop on Main Street, no need to do these messy back alley deals of finding a black market hitman. And prices for murder will go way down too, the black market really overcharges their services because of its illegality.
https://babylonbee.com/news/experts-warn-murders-will-just-occur-in-back-alleys-if-murder-outlawed
Snopes rates: Outright Falsehood.
I like your new bit. Keep it up.
Dayum… another home run.
Legal like Gosnell?
Gosnell’s sin in the progressive mind was that he didn’t hire an interior designer to make his office attractive.
The jars of pickled feet amid pestilence and sewage motif wasn’t in vogue?
Gosnell (to patient): I pickled the feet of your aborted fetus.
Prog: How thoughtful!
Utilitarianism shouldn’t be discarded altogether. The heart of utilitarianism is what is called ‘common sense’, but principle should be used to draw bright lines around it.
The problem with the current abortion issue is that every case really is unique yet both sides want sweeping legislation that treats all cases the same and they are both going too far. The parties are living up to their names with a vengeance: Stupid and Evil.
I forget. Isn’t utilitarianism associated with Bentham?
And Mill. It’s tarred with an association with socialism, but Mill’s “Utilitarianism” doesn’t necessarily require group utility. You can take what he’s saying as something closer to Objectivism, or at least as something that starts you down that road.
Yes but that evil shit didn’t draw lines.
The expectant mother should have to watch 15 minutes of ultrasound on a Hi-Def TV, while having the procedure described in detail. If she still signs the paperwork, go for it.
Nobody would complain if a similar process were in place for removing a wart or a tumor.
I love the Jam.
And this rolled up next.
Now I know it’s gonna be a great day!
Thanks, Banjos!
Garbage has a decent cover of Butterfly Collector, which was my introduction to them.
I used to rock a t-shirt like this when I was a ute.
Yes, a complete nerd.
Butterfly Collector is an amazing song.
Weller must have really hated the chick he wrote that song about.
I thought that said: I used to rock a t-shirt like this when I was cute.
And then I thought: Cute? Unpossible!
For those others who currently have HBO subscriptions because someone in the household wants to watch Game of Thrones. I highly recommend both Veep and Silicon Valley. Veep is a political comedy which shows all the politicians as venal, vulgar, self-absorbed, idiots. Surprisingly, the main characters are all Democrats. Silicon Valley is a tech comedy from Mike Judge.
I just got back into Silicon Valley. I had assumed the show ended at the end of season3, but was pleasantly surprised to see there’s more when I went to rewatch it.
Can’t recommend the show enough. Its as clever, funny, and irreverent as you would expect from Mike Judge.
“Jen Yang, you can’t smoke here! This is Palo Alto. We don’t enjoy the same freedoms here you’re used to over in China.”
Now that’s funny.
I don’t think we’ve gotten enough Mike Judge in the last decade. His stuff has just been brilliant… Dale and Hank’s rant on global warming is one of the funniest things you’ll ever hear. Because, unlike most political comedy, he skewers both sides of an argument.
I’m torn between Jared and Gilfoyle being my favorite characters. Jared’s random dark asides get pretty epic, while Gilfoyle’s monotone delivery works for so many great lines.
The guys nerding out about tip-to-tip ratio was one of the funniest bits I’ve seen on a broadcast show in years.
This guy fucks!
Veep inspires some incredibly bad emotions in me. I’d watch it if a dragon-riding Targaryen showed up and burnt DC and everyone in it to the ground.
We signed up recently for GOT and watched Silicon Valley while waiting for season 8 to start. Very funny, and you don’t have to understand the technical stuff to enjoy it. But if you do, it won’t piss you off with the stupid shit about computing that you usually see on TV and movies.
Yikes
Compooter?
Hang on, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of my rebooting the Beowulf Cluster.
When we had pallettes full of recently decommissioned desktops, I wanted to build one of those, but management decided to send the machines to be scrapped instead.
No, I don’t know what we’d have used it for, but that’s not the point.
I built one in college from decommissioned computer-lab computers. My reward was an assignment from my professor to write a distributed matrix multiplication program. It was possibly the least climactic moment of my life.
I build my own PCs and owned a Honda Prelude for a number of years. Making it IS the point.
Mostly for the picture of the crazy pirate murderer.
Authorities ID hiker killed in Appalachian Trail attack
I don’t know what the law is regarding carrying firearms on the trail but having a heavy walking stick with a metal head of some sort seems prudent if you’re not allowed to carry.
All over the place since it goes from Maine to Georgia, sometimes on federal lands, other times not.
A perfect illustration of why carry laws are immoral.
One of these, lead loaded, could work in a pinch.
I got one from this shop last year when I blew out my knee. And a lovely stick it is.
I think you are the one that originally provided the link. Did you buy the lead one?
Absolutely.
I spent a lot of time watching youtube videos on Irish stick fighting. There are a lot of people that take it seriously.
You can totally crack a skull with the lead-filled knob on one of those sticks.
These are pretty neat and you can buy an extension to turn a cane into a staff:
https://www.solidaluminumcane.com/about-us-products
Thanks. It looks like the lead-loaded walking sticks are consistently out of stock, but I’ll keep an eye on them.
Hi
To clarify. I got a cane. One of these days, I will order a full-length walking stick.
To double clarify. I have what they call a walking stick (cane). I plan to get what they call a staff (walking stick).
Yeah, something like that…if somebody comes at you with a knife brain the fucker. Of course, if he has a gun you’re out of luck.
Oh, damn, that thing could seriously fuck someone up
I thought if you had a letter of marque, it wasn’t considered murder to kill pirates.
Pirates are classified as the enemy of all mankind. It’s not murder to kill them – though you’d better be able to prove they were pirates, so waiting for them to try to attack might be your safest legal option.
Be better armed than the pirates though.
THAT guy is a murderer? The hell you say!
now do schools.
Schools are a massively unsafe environment which imprisons millions of vulnerable children every year.
But I don’t want to be a pirate!
Who’s eating KFC now?
https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-fall-in-line-with-pelosis-no-impeachment-strategydespite-trumps-defiance/2019/05/15/ce888e1a-7725-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html?outputType=amp
Not I. That stuff gives me the scampers.
The worst shits I’ve ever had in my life were when I drank some kind of unpasteurized yogurt drink (kind of like kefir but not exactly the same) in Uzbekistan, but a close second was from KFC.
Georgia Gold, bitches.
I’ll concede that Pelosi does have some brains in regards to identifying a losing strategy. My question then is if they won’t pursue impeachment, then what possible policy measure can promote to win in 2020? All Trump needs to do is dust off Obama’s “magic wand” or Pelosi’s “crumbs” and superimpose them over actual growth figures, and he’ll have it in the bag.
RoFo or GTFO.
The Blues got jobbed but man you gotta bury those empty net chances!
The NHL is trying to be the NFL with these missed calls.
The hockey gods are making sure San Jose gets those calls.
And Logan Couture is the new Claude Lemieux. Man is that guy ‘clutch’.
Amen. When that shot clanked off the outside of the empty net with a little over a minute left, I was thinking, “If San Jose scores, you’re really gonna regret that one.” I’d like the Blues to win, but don’t care if it’s them or San Jose. I think St Louis is the better team, but man, the hockey gods have been really kind to San Jose this postseason.
Either way, I like my B’s for the Cup this year. (Go ahead and boo all you like. I’m old enough to remember when all of the New England sports teams sucked shit and were laughing stocks.)
I’m rooting for the Blues, but the Sharks are a nice team. Thornton is a beast.
Boston is where Minne players go to revive their careers. So don’t cry to me about shitty teams 😉
We’ll take all of da Minnesodans! Coyle’s been great and I’m a huge Backes fan. (I would have had him in the whole series against the Jackets. Love that guy, OG hockey as a MoFo.) I’m so glad to see him having an impact in the playoffs and in truth I want them to win the Cup for him. And also because then it would be more likely Chara would retire (which he should… he’s just too effing slow in this league.)
Canadian Government Imposes ‘Social Justice’ on All Universities
The Liberal government of Canada has formulated a new program to which all universities are expected to commit. It is called “Dimensions: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” A “Charter” for “Dimensions” has been distributed to all university presidents, who are urged to sign, endorsing the program for their universities…
The pressure continues through subsequent grant years. Minister Duncan says, “Our government is committed to promoting equity and diversity within research and to supporting the next generation of research leaders.” Ted Hewitt, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and chair of the Canada Research Chairs Program Steering Committee assures us that they have “A strong action plan to address equity, diversity and inclusion.”
Because what you really need is more Justin Trudeaus.
What is this “equity, diversity, and inclusion” in aid of? According to the Charter of the Dimensions program, the objective is “to foster increased research excellence, innovation and creativity within the post-secondary sector across all disciplines.” Who could object to “increased research excellence, innovation, and creativity,” which is the conventional and legitimate objective of research administrators? What is new here is the means by which these results would be allegedly brought about: “through increased equity, diversity and inclusion.”…
How are favoured and unfavoured categories of people decided? According to the Charter:
To advance institutional equity, diversity and inclusion, specific, measurable and sustainable actions are needed to counter systemic barriers, explicit and unconscious biases, and inequities. This includes addressing obstacles faced by, but not limited to, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minority or racialized groups, and members of LGBTQ2+ communities.
Uh huh…
OMG they put the 2 at the back of the bus!!!
That fucker needs to be swatted like a fly. I hate what my country’s institutions have become. This gobbledegook is incessant and getting louder by the day. I wish my vote meant something but we’re so solidly Tory here that me and a few thousand others could stay home on election day and they would still win the riding. Canada is controlled by its urban centers.
Same here. Thoroughly disgusted with this idiotic bunch of ideologues.
Will never forgive them for changing the lyrics of the anthem without consent.
‘Twas bad enough when they made half of it en Francais. This is their modus operendi, turn that ratchet, one click at at a time.
Remember when universities were more than indoctrination centers? Well, you’d better forget before you get sent to a reeducation camp.
I’d laugh at the madness if it wasn’t so destructively stupid.
Other solution for 9th circuit: people could leave CA for other parts of the country.
California is doing their part time make that a reality.
Is that their long-term plan for affordable housing? Make it so bad that no one wants to live there anymore?
I had never heard of SOPH before yesterday’s post. I was impressed, but she sounded like it was written by an adult. Too many high-level concepts. Then I heard this interview. Uh… she’s pretty damned bright. And she has an education (at least in this area) that is college level.
I still think there has to be an adult involved in the writing, because there are several cultural references that I don’t see a kid born in the aughts knowing. There are references that sound like a fifty year old man made them.
Either way, she’s really impressive, holding her own in a long-form interview format with lots of high-end philosophical and political topics.
Don’t underestimate kids, man. Some are razor-sharp. They don’t have the experience that age gives you to factor into their thinking, but still. Consider how many stupid adults you know; age doesn’t guarantee wisdom.
Just out of curiosity, have you spent a lot of time around kids?
Oh yeah…. it isn’t about being smart. It is about having a very broad knowledge base that delves quite deeply on some very esoteric topics. And even moreso, cultural references that are not of her time. Like things you’d get if you watched TV in the 80’s. Not exactly in the wheelhouse for someone her age.
If I had tossed off a reference to Hooverville or Fireside chats when I was a 9 year old kid in the mid 70’s, you’d have been surprised, despite the stack of adult novels on my shelf and the matching vocabulary that my references were couched in.
I actually do a lot of volunteering with kids, and you’d be surprised at how deep their thinking can be, particularly with respect to philosophical issues. Even if they don’t share SOPH’s high-end vocabulary. (side note, I was just nominated as SECME volunteer of the year for the region. So, in the immortal words of Carl the Greens Keeper, “at least I got that going for me”.)
Cool, thanks. It means one thing when a 27 year old dink says “that doesn’t’ sound like a kid.” and when a parent etc says it.
Congrats, man! That’s pretty cool.
My volunteer work makes me waaaay less negative about ‘kids these days’.
Check her out on Alex Jones. Someone posted it earlier and she sounds exactly like the type of kid that would write that stuff.
Yeah, that interview what I was referring to. She’s definitely super-sharp and educated way beyond her years. She easily pulls forth references to concepts that most college kids in their 4th year would have trouble with.
Some kids are just into old stuff – movies, music, etc. When I was that age I had a lot of cultural references that would have been very unusual for a teenager.
Plus, it’s pretty easy for kids to do what we do, and fall down YouTube wells that lead you into old stuff. And things like Ready Player Ine which is something a 14 year old probably read (my spawn, age 15, read it when it was hot a few years ago), lead kids into learning about 80’s nostalgia.
Not to mention shows like Stranger Things, which is incredibly period-correct..
As a voracious consumer of pop-culture from the past, I knew several older references in my teens that most of my peers probably didn’t know about, so it’s not beyond consideration.
I’m tired of talking about something as divisive as abortion. Let’s talk about something we can all agree on. Pizza.
Finally, we know where Tundra is going to retire to. The Kiwis have the gun policies and pizza he loves.
That might be a pie too far, even for me.
In other pineapple news, I made tacos al pastor the other day and it was so damn good I felt bad for all you pineapple haters.
I love pineapple. Just not heated up.
Hrmm… pineapple pie… made in the same manner as other fruit pies like apple or berry…
No pineapple porch chops for Mike.
I like peaches on pork chops. Mmmmm. Might actually give pineapple a try.
OK; I reserve the right to change my mind about warm pineapple.
Add a little water and cook the juice down with brown sugar, vinegar and a little soy sauce. Add a dash of black pepper and about a teaspoon of corn starch to thicken. Put your seared chops over a bed of rice in a baking pan, pour the sauce over them, chop a half onion or so and scatter over them then place a pineapple slice on each chop then a cherry in the center of each ring. Bake.
Damn…now I’m hungry. Thanks Suthen’. I think I will do that this weekend.
Damn. That sounds wonderful.
Porch? WTH spell check?
It may be a high fiber option, but that deck is mighty tasty.
Fresh pineapple is one of the best tasting things out there.
Word.
Oh hell yes. My favoritest fruit. Which is why wrecking it by throwing a pizza at it is a crime.
America experienced some abominable pies and changed their recipes. To be honest with you, I do not understand New Zealand.
Sheep aren’t my thing either.
Me too! Let’s talk about something e…
YOU TOLD ME WE WEREN’T GOING TO TALK ABOUT ABORTION
The greatest greentext story ever.
So much cultural appropriation, I can’t even…
Hang on. They sell spaghetti in a can? I’m not remotely Italian, but even I know this is a cardinal sin.
Oh yeah. Its good if you put pepper on it
Franco-American. My uncle used to eat that slop cold from the can. The really horrible part – his father, my grandfather, is the son of Italian immigrants.
So did my mom. Just the smell is nauseating. I don’t advise eating it.
As someone who refuses to make ratatouille without sauteeing the ingredients individually, I cannot even.
You can do it in an oven.
I literally actually just died.
Until I was in my teens, I thought all spaghetti came in a can.
Spaghetti-O’s with meatballs rank right up there with Kraft Mac & Cheese, hot dogs, and PB&J. They’re a foundational part of the American experience and if you don’t like them you can just move to Russia and live on borscht, comrade.
My daughter likes Spaghetti-O’s. I can only eat the meatball variety now that I’m an adult.
It doesn’t?
I was just told by someone that the tax increases in the 1930s ended the great depression. I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry or call them idiot. I’m doing all three inside my head. We are doomed thanks to our wonderful education system.
“The New Deal WAS the Depression” is my stock response. I back it up if they really want to debate it.
Ya I went with my “FDR was a racist authoritarian who prolonged the depression. It wasn’t until after the war when we cut taxes and spending that we truly escaped the depression” speech. They didn’t have a response.
Oh yeah they did… it was the same silent response you had to their take…
So extracting more money from an already impoverished nation will help?
Simply ask them to explain how that worked exactly.
“The Trump Administration is fighting for free speech online.
No matter your views, if you suspect political bias has caused you to be censored or silenced online, we want to hear about it!
http://wh.gov/techbias ”
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1128765001223663617
Even though I hate what Twitter, Facebook, et al are doing, they are acting as private companies. However, the publisher/platform distinction is worth challenging.
So do the socons also think that manatee on manatee sex is an abomination?
Were they both male?
Worse.
It was the rape of the manatees.
Rape of the Manatees would be a great band name.
You won’t believe this, but I just had the most real experience of DeJavu with this thread. I feel like I told a friend about this exact conversation almost a year ago.
Was probably in yesterday’s PM links.
Enough about the Libertarian Party convention.
*Cough* Texas Horror Fest *Cough*
or Carnegie Mellon University freshman meet-and-greets, circa the early ’90s.
(Male to female student ratio at the time was 68%-32%)
Harvard removes a Law Professor and his wife as Deans because of his legal client. John Adams is spinning in his grave.
Yeah, these schools are going to have to wise up at some point, or they are going to implode.
I can only think of one example of an administrator standing up to these dimwits, but this would have been the perfect time. Simply tell them that these are not the values of Harvard Law School, and anyone who believes that being a defense attorney is disqualifying for a professor at a law school should choose another school. And then show the the door if they persist. There are nearly 100 applicants waiting to replace each one of those Nazis.
Any law student who implies that they believe the accused do not deserve legal council should choose another profession.
Utterly disgraceful. The most prestigious law school in the country shits one of the most elemental legal rights in our system, that everyone deserves a defense.
Also, what the hell did his wife do to get fired? Because she’s married to him? Goddamn, if that’s not some Soviet-style shit I don’t know what is.
It’s not a school, it’s a hedge fund that happens to have a school attached.
“Dear Press, stop calling them “heartbeat” bills and call them “fetal pole cardiac activity” bills”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1128627368023736320
“This is medically ignorant.
Now, we can argue the significance of this finding, but fetal heartbeat and fetal pole cardiac activity are synonymous.”
https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1128733444379484160
You could just call them baby heartbeats. That would be using the proper vernacular instead of trying to obfuscate the issue by applying jargon.
Baby Heartbeat
I love bands that wear suits.
Heartbeat
Heartbeat?
That’s fucking near “Rick-roll” territory, Son.
I put the name of the song right in the link!!
But if you lived through that, you must be a true survivor.
I was thinking more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrGBmi3BVfo
Heartbeat.
Still beating…
Love Huey.
From all accounts a good guy who understood his good fortune.
No heartbeat, it will be Stillborn.
Heartbeat
Hearbeat?
She’s an idiot but I’m still not sure why conservatives want Democrat voters polluting the gene pool.
This sex strike had been tough. I was used to laying 2, maybe 3 bimbos a day. But since all the slutts have decided to try abstinence I’ve had little recourse.
My hand are so chapped, and lotion is expensive.
Google Fleshlight. You’re welcome.
Google makes a fleshlight now? I don’t even want to think about what that’s going to do to my ad rotation.
I think that it prints actual ads on your cock which you see when you take a leak.
Sex ads are printed in the wrinkles of your cock and are only seen when you have a hard on.
“Would you like to see this ad in bigger font? Buy Dr. Jeff’s Penis Enlarger Pills!”
OK, well, as long as it’s free I guess.
Thot Thursday will surely get even a fetus’ heartbeat racing.
https://archive.is/6lff0
Now that’s a topical headline.
#’s 2 and 41. I like fun girls. #23 looks like she’s being held at gun point.
HAND PASS.
Blues should’ve closed it up properly in the 3rd.
Former Justice Stevens discusses District of Columbia v. Heller.
“Throughout most of American history there was no federal objection to laws regulating the civilian use of firearms. When I joined the Supreme Court in 1975, both state and federal judges accepted the Court’s unanimous decision in United States v. Miller as having established that the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/john-paul-stevens-court-failed-gun-control/587272/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The worst decision? Die already you old coot.
Hey, he did make at least one stellar decision.
To retire?
Dear former Justice Stevens: When an intellectual giant leaves the bench, their influence lasts for generations. As soon as you left the bench, animated birds started flying around you and chirping “NOONE CARES.” Why do you think that is?
Heller worse than Kelo?
One recognized the right to settle defense. The other gave a right to steal.
Right? Or Gonzalez V. Raich?
Or if you are on their side – “Citizens United”? That one is basically the speech version of his ideas on the second amendment. You can only speak if the government deems it to be in the public interest. The opposition to that one is brilliant.
All of his argument about the constitution being OK with local government restrictions on weapons predates the 14th amendment and its interpretation as incorporating all protections into all levels of government. That is where the real issue arises.
I don’t think you can seriously argue that the intent of the constitution was to allow the federal government to restrict the weapons owned by citizens – just so long as it didn’t impede the ability of the states to raise their own militias. That’s just nuts. If that were the intent, they would have said “the right of the states to keep and bear arms’ or somesuch language. They specifically used “the people” because they meant “the people.”
The argument the “militia” people are making is essentially that the 2nd Amendment–an amendment to the nation’s constitution–specifically permits the nation to raise armed forces. In other words, absent the 2A, the USA can make any laws it wants to restrict its own ability to arm its own soldiers.
But abortion is categorically legal, despite never being mentioned.
Second Amendment’s protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.
Luckily the founders considered citizens to be the militia and modern militia weapons include modern rifles.
And tanks. And fighter aircraft with ground attack missiles.
Just sayin’
This history on the 2A is clear: it’s about community protection. I understand the NRA’s need to cling to the 2A in a country where there is no other practical way to explain self-preservation, but simple logic applies here: if personal possession and protection were the principle, the founding fathers would have simply written it that way and left the militia stuff out of it.
For me 9A is the fuck-off-slaver amendment: we can do anything we want because fuck you that’s why. My advice is for libertarians to live this as their priority because your neighbors don’t believe in freedom and will play any game and finesse any definition to take control and tell you how to live: people are shit and should be regarded suspiciously, and you can’t trust courts to lean towards liberty. Americans don’t believe in freedom; they believe in winning elections so my guy can tell you what to do and what you can’t do. Only through the stressing of general and broad liberty can we get out of the finesse game and into the freedom game.
My counter would be that in the millita of those times they were not issued equipment. So the right goes to say: hey people are allowed to have weapons so that they can be in the millita.
Which is why the whole experiment is destined to eventually fizzle, even if it is a very slow death. A critical mass of the population have to want freedom more than they want control.
if personal possession and protection were the principle, the founding fathers would have simply written it that way and left the militia stuff out of it
It’s written the way it is to protect both the personal possession and the collective protection. The right belongs to the people (personal) with the reasoning being the need for militias (collective) – the people have the right to bear arms and the right to form militias for their own defense. The government cannot prevent either of these things, under a plain reading of the amendment or of the history surrounding it.
I like this interpretation of the prefatory clause, which refers to the security of a “free” state.
To me it’s the only way for it to make sense within the context of the time, considering the absolute refusal to disarm the several private militias that raised open rebellion against the governments of the several states in the early years of the republic.
I don’t see how you can view it otherwise. They were pretty explicit in saying that the people had the inalienable right to take up arms and overthrow any government that becomes tyrannical. Hard to do that if that same government can take away your weapons.
Second Amendment’s protection of the right to bear arms was possessed only by members of the militia and applied only to weapons used by the militia.
That would be a more convincing argument if that’s what the 2A actually said. But, it doesn’t say “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of members of state-sponsored militias to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
The initial prefatory clause does not limit in any way the main clause. The 2A is not about the militia or community protection. If anything, the prefatory clause reinforces that the government may not restrict any weapons, even “weapons of war”, from being privately owned. When the 2A was passed, artillery and warships were privately owned.
John Paul Stevens is proof–apologies to all here to whom this doesn’t apply–that passing the bar exam is not a test of intelligence or moral virtue.
We really don’t have to ask these fucknuts what the 2nd means. We can simply ask the guys who wrote it.
“Who, you ask, are the militia? They are the body of the people, every person capable of bearing arms.” There are a hundred quotes like that from the very men who wrote the amendment addressing what it means and what they meant for it to mean.
Jefferson sums it up well: “Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.”
Couldn’t they have just written: “The right of the people to keep and bear any and all Arms, shall not be infringed.”?
Sure would have made this clearer.
There were versions back and forth…. I think they included the bit about the militia to make it clear that the states and the people were going to keep organized militias for the very purpose of keeping the federal government in check.
Yeah… that didn’t last all that long, did it?
So i am 90% done with my appartment renovation. Now i need to clean. A lot.
“Watch: Kat Timpf Criticizes Proposal to Ban Plastic and Paper Bags”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/watch-kat-timpf-criticizes-proposal-to-ban-plastic-and-paper-bags/
Would.
“Culture with Kat Timpf: ‘Fat Sex Therapist’ Compares Fitness Instructors to Nazis”
https://www.nationalreview.com/videos/culture-with-kat-timpf-fat-sex-therapist-compares-fitness-instructors-to-nazis/
So I take it you like Kat timpf?
She’s cute, but those Warby Parkers are killing me. Lay off the 50s frames, hipsters.
Not as funny as she thinks she is. Great gams, though!
She has her moments though.
Agree. At least on Twitter, she demonstrates a self-deprecating humor that works just fine.
She’s friends with Jerry Only so she’s a-ok in my book. Also, I think she looks sexy in glasses. A solid would.
Friend of Jerry’s eh? I didn’t know that. Definitely pushes her up a peg or two.
https://pagesix.com/2018/10/23/kat-timpf-celebrates-30th-birthday-with-a-funeral/
Her 30th birthday celebration gave me a chuckle.
Is this in lieu of your Demi Rose shit links?
That was my interpretation as well. I’m not opposed.
Someone needs to make her a sammich.
I actually didn’t need another reason to hate Microsoft Word.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tammy-bruce-microsoft-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-push-what-liberals-think-you-should-write
Clippy, the word police.
One more reason I’m glad I use LibreOffice.
Me too and the price is right.
Can I just go on record and say that word processors are universally awful? If you just want to type stuff, any of them will do. If you want to do any kind of layout work, God help you.
I can hardly wait to see the new press releases by ISIS with new inclusive language.
This Gen X Mess
The tech, music, style, books, trends, rules, films and pills that made Gen X … so so-so,
Oh fuck off /Gen X-er
Meh.
Signed, a Gen X’er.
At least I’m an old enough gen X-er to remember being able to fuck for a few years without Aids clouding the issue. Get bent, you Millenial twat.
I’m supposed to give a single fuck about Bikini Kill, Wu-Tang Clan, Hootie & the Blowfish, Ani Defreanco, and Liz Phair? I guess there is a different Gen X I’m not aware of.
/Gen X-er
How about Suicidal Tendencies, the Descendents, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, the Damned, Rancid, Offspring, Pennywise, Less Then Jake, and NOFX? I’ll be seeing most of them soon.
I love Offspring.
You’re pretty fly for an old guy.
That’s better. Particularly Social D’ and Offspring.
AC/DC, Tesla, Faster Pussy Cat, Cinderella, The Cars, and Motley Crue would be best.
Fugazi, Face to Face.
All fine choices….some unmentioned others which I listened to in those days: Helmet, Jawbox, Everclear, Corrosion of Conformity, Screeching Weasel, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Prong, Seaweed
I really like Everclear.
*spins So Much For the Afterglow*
I still listen to Dinosaur Jr all the time.
I spent most of the mid-90’s going to the local concert hall every weekend. There were usually some good regional/local bands playing (and we learned to hate some of the local ones who opened every other weekend). This was back in the ska-punk and swing revival times. So at a shitty little venue in the suburbs of Cleveland I saw: Save Ferris, Reel Big Fish, Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Toasters, Dropkick Murphys, the Skatallites, and a shit ton of great regional acts.
i saw Jawbox with about 150 other people in 1994ish at a cleared out dining hall at my college. they kicked ass live.
Saw them in 1996 or 97 at a small club in Charlottesville. They were LOUD.
yeah. only about 50 of us were anywhere near the stage and the speakers.
Liz Phair was damned hot, though.
90% of the things they discuss never applied to me at all. Was hard into grunge, though, and I don’t think I wore anything but jeans with a unbuttoned flannel shirt over a t-shirt until the close of the millennium.
Best part of moving to Minnesodo – dirty jeans and flannel shirts are back on the menu bois.
Alice in Chains, Meat Puppets, 7 Mary 3, Toadies, and Pearl Jam were all on heavy rotation in my house.
It’s almost like pinning down an entire generation by some poorly-chosen list of supposed touchstones is a wasted effort.
Shut your whore mouth!
/listicle writers everywhere
I don’t give a shit what that bit about the Challenger says – I know I watched that live. Not because I particularly remember the image of it actually blowing up, but because I remember how the teachers hustled us back to our classrooms while refusing to answer questions, and how it’s all we talked about amongst ourselves for the rest of the school day.
1986 was a fucked up year. It was also the same year I started skateboarding which is weirdly coincidental in hindsight. I think the most Gen-X thing that could sum up our whole attitude toward all of it was this board graphic which was released a few years later:
https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-j2hxjs/images/stencil/2048×2048/products/9086/27950/red1__96503.1491059725.jpg?c=2
Suck on that, Boomers and Millennials!
Ah, yes. What we have here people is what we Gen X-ers know as a ‘common twat’. They were never an an endangered species but are rapidly reaching nuisance status. The Hate-Birds-That-Hate of the human world, if you will.
“Ran a personal best, broke the Senate record, 6:55/mile! #asfastasican https://twitter.com/postgraphics/status/1128596281629335552 …”
https://twitter.com/kyrstensinema/status/1128671970529247232
She’s a fast woman.
Wood. I hate myself.
Hatefuck
OMG…. the responses to the second link are priceless. It is an absolute must read.
Here’s just a small taste:
“I admire your discipline/fitness. Yet, Yavapai Democrats worked very hard to get you elected. What is your position on impeaching the criminal in the oval office? What actions are you taking to protect rule of law and our Constitution? This is what I want to know from my Senator.”
Good lord.
What actions are you taking to protect rule of law and our Constitution?
Packing the Supreme Court? Ending the Electoral College? Repealing 2A and heavily abridging 1A? Neutering due process in favor of identity politics?
How do lefties speak of preserving the Constitution or rule of law without laughing out loud?
Why… why would you call me for assistance, and not leave a message? Then send an e-mail that you called me without getting a response… because I WAS ON ANOTHER CALL! And of course, ignore the e-mail response.
That’s not a given. If I call somebody and don’t get a response, I’ll send an e-mail covering what I wanted to talk about because I conclude their either busy or not at their desks. Time to respond to email response depends on what’s being covered, and whether I’m at my desk when it comes in.
I get that you know the person you’re frustrated with better than I do, and this individual may have poor communication habits, but the pattern outlined prior to that last statement isn’t unreasonabole in of itself.
*Oh, and I don’t leave voicemail because it’s more of a hassle to listen to my mumbling than to read the email.
The e-mail follow up isn’t so bad, except it didn’t include any of the information. It was just an, “I’ve tried to call and got no response.” And they’ll ignore my response to their e-mail (sent while still on the other call).
This person also (to me) does the sin of calling the cell phone only, not the desk phone (when I’m working from home, the desk phone is forwarded to the cell phone).
I sensed there was some frustration with an individual’s habits that hadn’t come through in the initial venting.
Why call in the first place? Just send the email. Better yet, don’t even do that. Turn out the lights, close the blinds. Shove your desk up against the door and hide out underneath.
I don’t have a door. My desk is bolted to the cube dividers. The lights are automatic. And some discussions are shorter and easier done via voice than in email after email.
Brennan: Barr Is Fishing For Something In FISA Warrant To “Misrepresent” As A Deep State Plot Against Trump
Yeah, maybe it turns out that they lied to the FISA court throughout that “vigorous process”, failed to disclose known problems with evidence being used to the court, and got the warrant under false pretenses. Whatever, it was totally legit. If you can’t trust John Brennan, who can you trust?
I’m sure that absolutely nothing will happen to these lying corrupt fucks, but seeing them start to squirm is providing a tiny modicum of satisfaction. I hope they’re laying awake at night wondering if the walls could actually close in (spoiler: no, they can’t).
I make it a point to not trust commies.
Third rule is, don’t talk to Commies
I love the genius of this whole thing..
They just spent a couple of years trying to get everyone to buy a lie – that they had to know was a lie at the time – and then when someone says “let’s take a look at what you guys did”, suddenly they project the exact thing that they just spent two years doing onto the other side. I wish there was a competent interviewer somewhere. Anywhere.
That would have been the perfect time to actually dig in to those issues, rather than trying to prop him up as a scold to use against Trump.
I think the competent interviewers exist and those scumbags are smart enough not to get within a country mile of one.
“they lied to the FISA court throughout that “vigorous process”, failed to disclose known problems with evidence being used to the court, and got the warrant under false pretenses”
So BAU.
FISA Judge: “I’m assuming none of this info you gave me is being misrepresented or false.” *Rubber stamp*
I’d trust Lucifer Himself before I trusted Brennan. Not Satan though, that dude is shady as hell.
The Price is Free
https://youtu.be/Hps6PWjbE00
Brutal.
Stupid, but still funny.
My thoughts exactly.
When the left talks about how the majority of the population being ok with abortion, they are correct, but they’ve fooled themselves into believing that that meant that they were in lockstep with them wanting abortion up and through college graduation.
This is about it. They live in a bubble of the like-minded and never hear even a marginally different view. Hell, they even take pride in that. Here’s a brief exchange I had on DerpBook with a couple of acquaintances I had on the subject:
Even pointing out that people who disagree with them might not be evil bastards out of A Handmaid’s Tale puts them into a tizzy.
“Straight, conservative white men”
Why should I respect the opinion of an open racist?
Fair point. It even goes to my earlier point. It probably never occurred to her (she’s a white woman with a white boyfriend) that her comment even might have been racist.
It’s amazing in how many people’s minds that is some sort of relevant “gotcha”.
Your acquaintances seem nice.
They live in a bubble of the like-minded and never hear even a marginally different view. Hell, they even take pride in that.
Plenty of that going around
No question. Its human nature. Everyone does it to some extent.
For your proggies, though, its the juxtaposition of their strident insistence on openness, inclusion, diversity with their virulent demand to anyone who isn’t in agreement with them be silenced and driven from the public square and, increasingly, society.
Progs suffer from the American disease: to do everything first, fastest, and the mostest until the new whole whatever falls in on our heads. The vector from simply resisting racism and sexism cancerously, predictably morphed into #resist everything and being a full-time idiot. Americans aren’t happy until every wide receiver has been beheaded, every boob is DDD, and every system is spitting out mistakes at 333MHz.
Since the Beatniks, every reform movement throws the baby out with the bathwater: I hate the Man so much that the girlfriend and I and the guys are moving to the canyons in my MicroBus and are going to live off flowers and marijuana and throw out all Dad’s stupid rules. I can put the cistern as close as I want to the outhouse !!1!
I’m…not seeing the problem here.
It’s disproportionate and past the upper bound of attractive.
We haven’t established that it’s disproportionate, but I’m not going to complain about fewer competitors in the field.
that’s the general notion and better put than my “the American disease”
*gazes at American flag with hand on heart, shedding a single, manly tear as a flock of bald eagles carrying rattlesnakes fly past in the background*
Eagles Killing rattlesnakes? I knew you was a Mexican spy.
That’s why I’ve always been an advocate of what I’ve called the “Ideological Turing Test”. Can you make the argument for the other side of an issue such that a stranger wouldn’t know that that wasn’t your sincere belief? When you’ve seriously thought through the other side’s argument, not just looking for “gotchas”, you can get a pretty good read on where you differ in fundamental premises.
Can you make the argument for the other side of an issue such that a stranger wouldn’t know that that wasn’t your sincere belief?
To me, this is a fundamental skill for any lawyer, and, really, for anyone involved in business. If you can’t put yourself in the other guy’s shoes, you can’t get inside his OODA loop, you can’t anticipate his arguments/needs/wants, and you will be playing catch-up (which is to say, you will be behind, in second place, losing).
I have had an idea for a series of articles (not written by just me, hopefully others would participate) called “Standard Libertarian Disclaimer”, in which the author writes the best possible argument they can for a policy they oppose.
I have been considering kicking it off with one on Universal Basic Income.
“interstate commerce”
There you go: no need for personal liberty.
This is a great idea. I’ll have to give some thought to a topic, but I would (make that will) absolutely write one of these.
The fun is getting to rip the author to shreds in the comments for his idiotic idea.
I’m tyring to think of one where I both know the other side and don’t have to use substitute facts.
Maybe something like building codes or zoning where my actual position is loudly ranting at the system (until I actually pick up the phone and tell code enforcement that my lawn isn’t overgrown because I don’t have one – instead of telling them my rant about them not having any right to tell people how long their grass can be)
That might actually work, because when the neighbor’s grass finally got cut, the mice fled into my house, forcing me to deal with a problem whose proximate cause was the time the lawn spent as a meadow.
hrmm… I could possibly make a case for protecting the interests of the neighbors as a rationale – even if I think it beyond the remit of the municipality to tell people what can be done with their property.
I’d be happy to write one.
When I had new creatives in my department one of the things I had them do was to create an ad campaign for something they hated. I wanted to see how honest and insightful they could be and how they could think independently and openly.
Jesus. It’s like a literal example of the stuff Soph talks about in her banned video.
Also, it’s pretty ironic to see an abortion extremist using the “right side of history” argument, and mentioning sons and sons of sons. Which side is having more kids?
Who largely turns boys into men in our society?
Women.
If you let everyone have a sliding vote, where they slid from conception to algebra, I think you probably get a majority in favor in the 13-22 week range. Before or after, I doubt you can get a majority. Before that a majority would find too restrictive, after that a majority would find too permissive.
Do it state by state and you would get slightly different results, with AL setting the limit at 8 weeks and NY at 26 weeks or something like that.
Story from the land of literal soyboys. An 18 year old student told me today that his father sent him to live with his grandpa on the farm in the countryside for a month. The kid and his 16 year old brother stayed there for about a week when the geezer, old school grandpa told them that he saw an inoshishi (wild boar) was snagged in a trap he had set out. “Go kill it and bring it back.” The kid told me he and his brother went to the trap and saw this 25 kilogram boar with it’s leg trapped. Half dead already. Being born and raised in Tokyo, they had no idea how to kill it. They grabbed some sticks from a tree and… Well, grandpa came out to see how they were doing and found the boys smiling with pride. The pig was laying in a puddle of blood with hundreds of poke marks in it. “I don’t know why grandpa was so mad at us.” I almost died laughing at the kid.
I know that guns are heavily restricted there, but can you hunt with a bow and arrow in Japan?
Kamala haz a sad
Kamala Harris used humor to swat aside the chatter about her becoming Joe Biden’s running mate: Maybe it should be the other way around, she said Wednesday, given Biden’s experience in the No. 2 job.
But inside her campaign and among allies, such talk is not a laughing matter. They’re rankled by the suggestion, privately venting that it’s demeaning to a woman of color and perpetuates an unfair critique that she’s somehow not prepared for the job she’s actually seeking.
“It’s infuriating,” a Harris confidant fumed several days before the idea began taking hold in the media.
Since when does she not like being under an influential man?
*golf clap*
Yeah, it’s beyond the pale to suggest that she is more likely to be veep to the older candidate with more experience.
^ “beyond the pale”
Totes racist.
Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist who advised Abrams, told POLITICO it’s one thing when a candidate’s opponent has dropped out of the race. But homing in on a potential vice presidential pick so early actually does a disservice to Biden.
“It’s ham-handed, but it also shows a lack of understanding of Democratic primary voters,” she said. “Now is the time to be talking about the strength of your candidate — and why your candidate can beat Donald Trump and has the right vision to win, not hypothesizing about running mates.”
Joe has the nom locked up, you just don’t know it.
Now is the time to be talking about the strength of your candidate…
Talking about running-mates when you are 20 points ahead of a crowded field is a sure way to broadcast that you have a strong candidate. They are following this advice.
Talk of her as Biden’s VP has nothing at all to do with the fact that Biden has a commanding early lead and she has been mired in the single digits since she announced. Nope, its racism and sexism. There is no other possible explanation for anyone who isn’t a white male not getting exactly what they want, when they want it.
Heh, heh.
I’ve been saying for a couple years now that Kamala is likely the 2020 VP candidate for a Team Socialism. She can pretend otherwise if she wants, but even the Dems are not so silly as to put her at the top of a ticket. A California, anti gun, proggie is not going to pull in a lot of independents and can write off much of middle America.
Totally. She’s too divisive, and as much as the Dem leadership might need to play to the woke crowd they still have to win the damn thing after the primary, and Harris can’t do that. They need a mainstream candidate. Honestly, I’m surprised they haven’t just gone whole hog for those people and abandoned any pretense at moderation, but I guess there are still some rational people at the DNC.
I’m still holding out for a smoke-filled room deal that delivers Hillary as the nominee.
“She lived in the White House for 8 years, dammit! Of course she’s qualified.”
I’m terrified that whoever they pick will wind up winning, because we live in bizzarro world now, but I’m also struggling to come up with a choice that isn’t going to produce high-quality entertainment. Every single one of their potential nominees is a joke waiting to be told.
Oh, and unless a whole lot of the wokester/socialist/intersectional candidates drop out, their unstable and prone-to-violence supporters are going to make the convention a complete shitshow.
*adds to popcorn futures portfolio*
I mean, they’re going to have to redefine the term “shit show” to describe the Democratic national convention.
IBEW stomping Antefa is going to be worth watching.
Maybe Willie is a bottom?
Re: the abortion thing.
Interesting how the proggies, who love to worship the extent of EU statism, never bring up European abortion laws. With the exception of the NL and Sweden, most of Europe has severely restricted abortion after the first trimester. Funny enough, that seems to be the position that most Americans support. If you are going to draw a bright line between person/non-person I suppose that is as good as any. I personally see it on a sliding scale from conception to birth. Taking a “day after pill” within a few days of sex I see as almost zero moral issue, having an abortion at 8 or 9 months I see as murder.
Personally, I’ve always been an advocate of the notion of defining the beginning of life with the beginning of the brain waves associated with cognition (beta waves, IIRC). It puts it roughly at the middle of the second trimester. It has the advantage of syncing with traditional notions of rights stemming from agency and agency stemming from our ability to reason.
It puts it roughly at the middle of the second trimester.
Right around viability, then. Perhaps a week or two earlier.
That also seems a good point. I’d also much rather see it be a state issue than a one size fits all Federal approach.
But “muh access”. Not acceptable. It must be all or nothing.
If you are going to draw a bright line between person/non-person I suppose that is as good as any.
First trimester: 13 weeks. A bright line, with the benefits (and drawbacks) of being arbitrary. Seriously, arbitrary has its benefits, mainly in clarity.
Viability: 22 weeks. It has been remarkably stable at that point. You can argue about what percentage of survival should mark viability, I suppose (1 documented survivor? 5%? etc.), so its not as bright a line, but to me it has the benefit of a very strong empirical and moral argument, namely, that there is no real difference between a 22 weeker in the womb, and a 22 weeker in a bassinet. If you can’t kill the latter, you can’t kill the former.
I’ve slightly changed my position on this as a result of hearing some of the pro life arguments here and seeing my brother and his wife have seven month twins born. There is a big part of me that wants the government as far away from sticking their nose in this as possible, but I do think having final trimester abortions (with some extreme exceptions) is morally indefensible. I also remember hearing a few years back on some AM talk show a clip of someone calling up a Planned Parenthood and getting advice on getting an abortion for a five month old fetus because she wanted a boy instead of a girl. The PP person did not miss a beat.
Just label it a girl and raise it a girl and all will be fine …
Whatever happened to “I brought you into this world, I can take you out!”
Ha, maybe that could fall under the “extreme exceptions” clause.
You had to attend to figure this out?
https://quillette.com/2019/05/15/naked-yoga-and-cuddle-parties-lap-dancing-clubs-for-the-woke/
Yeah, duh. Also, yes, strip clubs are more honest. Say what you will about shitlords, they’re upfront and honest about shitlordery.
I think some of the commenters we’re probably right when they said she probably wouldn’t have had a problem with it if it was a bunch of young handsome studs. It would have been woke central
That cuts right to the core of a lot of this shit. It’s virtue signalling, nothing more. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it, too.
A cuddle only means anything if it comes from someone who likes you enough to want to take you in their arms. Going to a place specifically to be hugged by strangers is like going to a brothel. And ‘practising yoga as nature intended’? You could say the same about anything: ‘practising welding as nature intended’.
LOL.
“I don’t know what it is, but I’ve noticed that if there’s an event with nakedness, the majority of people who turn up will be older guys.”
Like French nude beaches?
Clown world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr5Ogyx9-iM
Just like a terrible ending to a good movie, they hope it will be different this time.
They really think anyone cares anymore?
Not many do. We have Collusion Fatigue.
Why? What point are they trying to make?
I read that the publicly released report is 95% complete, and the “private” report that Congress can review in camera is 98% complete. As far as I know, not a single Democrat has looked at the 98% report, which redacts only legally protected grand jury information. Releasing an unredacted report would actually be illegal.
I get why he allowed it, but Comey would have been justified in sending the report back for re-drafting on the obstruction charges. What Mueller produced was not what he was directed and required to produce, and in fact is completely unique for a prosecutor. Prosecutors never (a) require or imply that the accused has to prove their innocence or (b) recite the evidence that does not support an indictment. That is basically the entirety, as I understand it, of the report on obstruction. Its plainly obvious that Mueller wrote the report not for any legitimate prosecutorial function, but as the briefing paper for impeachment.
they’re reading the REDACTED version into the record?? i can download that shit off PBS.