Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is as politicians and the media suddenly give a shit about Epstein. So stunning. So Brave.
Lots of boating accidents in New Zealand.
Florida Principal Man reassigned to another school after refusing to say if the Holocaust was real.
Minneapolis forcing homeowner to pay $20k to fix a leak in a water line that goes from his home to underneath the other side a four lane road.
CBO claims that a $15 minimum wage would lead to the loss of 1.3 million jobs but will lift 1.3 million out of poverty. It will mostly expand the amount of people already being paid under the table.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Is that the throne of the King of Scotland?
That throne is the Queen of Scotland.
All the bested competition?
Or the basted competition.
The worsted.
You guys are the wurst.
We never tried to pull the wool over your eyes about it.
>>$15 by 2025 could lead to the loss of 1.3 million jobs — giving Republicans their main talking point — while also lifting 1.3 million people out of poverty, a point Democrats hammered home.
so it’s a win-win?
and this little nugget:
A subsidy for the self-help kiosk industry
Kiosks deserve a living wage, too.
Or at least an inanimate wage.
It’ll probably throw 1.3 million into the welfare lines, so I guess win?
Feature, not bug.
I’m confused. Do we not give a duck about the 1.3 million that are sent into worse poverty because they have no job? I guess they are already poor so we don’t get dinged for raising poverty.
It’s a sacrifice the activists are willing to make.
Some of those poor fired workers will end up selling quack.
And this thread will fill with fowl anatine puns.
They’ll end up fleeing to Canard-a.
You have to break a few golden eggs to make an omelet.
*narrows gaze*
I’d recommend not looking further down thread….
Are you shitlords not down with the struggle? I am not eider.
A bunch of loons the lot of ye.
You’re grebe-ing at straws now.
The Hill comment:
There’s always winners and losers. In this case an estimated 16 million would gain bigger paychecks (and thus result in more tax collections) while 1 million would need to find replacement jobs. But given unemployment is at its lowest rate in decades, replacement jobs shouldn’t be too hard to come by.
Increasing the amount of unemployed won’t matter because the rate is low. What analysis.
What kind of moron do you need to be to write/say that? By definition these people will not be able to find new jobs because if they could find new jobs they would already have done so since by definition they are working at the lowest scale of jobs available
The CBO accountant responsible for this report was “Even” Steven McMurtry.
“It will mostly expand the amount of people already being paid under the table.”
You mean…..wait…..let me see if I have this right- you mean to tell me that sometimes over-regulation causes a sort of black market? No way.
Mornin’, Banjos
Under the table is fine if you’ve never been part of the system but God help you if you’ve been a tax-payer with some equity and history known to the tax man. All part of the plan, I’d venture.
Mornin’
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
>>As of last week, only around 700 weapons had been turned over. There are an estimated 1.5 million guns—with an unknown number subject to the new prohibition on semiautomatic firearms—in the country overall.
Only 1,499,300 to go – Success!
This was an entirely unpredictable consequence. Maybe they just need to publicize the new law more effectively.
So Kiwis have some sand, after all. I suppose they could vote the bums out next election and change the law but I’m more willing to bet that keep the firearms on the down low so they don’t get massacred like those Mosque-goers.
If laws had honest language:
“Surrender your weapons or we’ll murder you”
Tard Tuesday: True Believers Edition
I’m tempted to copypasta it but it’s so poorly written that it takes to long to make sense of, so I’ll summarize:
Epstein was operating a blackmail ring by filming politicians and billionaires with underage girls. This explains why Trump has put a freeze on new visa application on victims of human trafficking.
I didn’t realize you were summarizing at first and was really confused.
The first part’s likely, the second part’s ridiculous. The best bullshit theories are laid over a foundation of plausibility.
Well, people do have to go between the islands. That channel is an attractive nuisance
SEA SMITH HAVE BIG GUN COLLECTION
*golf clap*
Bill Cliton’s latest profile pic
Drake hardest hit.
The duck puns are up there ^
Tard Tuesday: I Want To Believe
In response to Clinton’s statement on Epstein:
Will there be dress testing again?
I guess lewinski was just a dress rehersal.
Let’s not blow it with these puns
No one knees these jokes.
Honestly, a lot of them suck.
So far the jokes are close, but no cigar!
C’mon, let’s go nuts.
Stop! I can’t beret it no more!
“beret”
If it was warm, she wouldn’t wear much more
You’re making me blue with these bad puns.
Looks like we were passed over by the narrow glaze.
Florida Principal Man reassigned to another school after refusing to say if the Holocaust was real.
“His email exchange with the parent created a furor in Boca Raton, the home of many Holocaust survivors and their descendants, and spurred an investigation by the school district.”
*narrows gaze*
I read this earlier and wondered just how many Holocaust survivors are there? I do not question the six million deaths, but the war ended 74 years ago.
There probably aren’t that many left, but I’d bet that half of them live in Boca.
Only 74 years ago – with no minimum age beyond ‘existing’ for being thrown in the camps, so we’ve got several decades of survivors left.
just how many Holocaust survivors are there
Hundreds of thousands, I would expect. There’s a whole lot of people in this country who have been held in INS concentration camps.
“These will become black-market weapons if their owners choose not to comply with the law and become criminals instead.”
Not choosing is a choice.
I suspect supporters of the new law felt that those people were already criminals in spirit.
Also, can I just say that I think the people in support of the law should volunteer to go find the lost weapons in question? Alone? Without security?
“already criminals in spirit”
I think American gungrabbers feel (I would say ‘think’, but you know….) the same way. That is the only way I can comprehend a name such as ‘Mayors Against Illegal Guns’.
You just know that in another couple cycles, having ever even owned a gun will be treated as excommunicable by the left.
“Me? Nope, I don’t own one single gun. Not me…. …I own several dozen of them.”
I don’t think I’m exaggerating or overstating when I say that the true believers in the anti-gun movement hold as a foundational belief the idea that gun owners at least tacitly approve the murders of innocent people. Taken to the furthest extreme, and I don’t think this is necessarily an unusual belief in that community, I think they think that people who own guns do so specifically because they plan to murder people with them.
Agreed 100%. If you remember Swalell’s poll on twitter, he framed the responses to the gun control questions specifically as whether yes, ban these assault weapons of war, or no, I love children>guns. Those true-believers are mendacious control freaks who can never argue on this topic in good faith.
goddang it, I goofed. No, I love guns>children.
I think it’s because these people have no self control. If they owned a gun they probably kill someone with it or be incapable of operating it safely. As a result nobody should own one except agents of the state.
Because, according to one agent of the state – “I’m the only one in this room professional enough to carry a Glock 40 – BAM!”
Top 10 YouTube video!
“not to comply with the law and become criminals instead”
Isn’t that what they want anyway.
#blackmarketsmatter
Government… it’s what we force each other to do.
something wolves something lambs
I’d just sell the house.
Tard Tuesday: Tractors Suck
Their memes are terrible. You read it a couple times and it’s still dumb.
Consider the source
I’m traveling into the past and listening to one of my favorite punk bands: The Dead Boys
Another gem from Cleveland is The Pagans, which, for a long time, was one of my favorite albums of all time.
ugh – not meant as a reply.
So, how do they think they’ll get innovative technology?
Heresy. We’ll be truly free and truly prosperous when we’re scrabbling in the dirt to feed ourselves.
Not just feeding ourselves. We will also be given the glorious opportunity to send some of our bounty to our betters in the big castle. Won’t we feel proud to know that our rulers are eating well because of us!
Serfdom rocks!
I mean they have done studies showing that slave owners did more to check on the health of their slaves than the Gulag Wardens. It’s like you want to be owned so you don’t have to take care of yourself. But in socialism you’ll just be considered a part to be worked till dead.
A sick or dead slave isn’t worth as much as one able to actually work.
Gulag wardens had no such incentives to care about the counterrevolutionaries in their ‘care’.
This bit is why I wish to nominate a Kiwi named Paul Clark to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Quote was from an article related to the aKiwi Gun Confiscation Failure
I’m surprised they didn’t immediately throw him in jail for hate speech.
He’s right, though.
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home
No news articles were found in which McConnell has previously spoken of his ancestors being slave owners. And in his 2016 memoir, “The Long Game,” he wrote that he was descended from “a long line of hardworking and often colorful McConnells,” but did not mention that any of them owned slaves. He did mention another James McConnell — apparently the father of the slave-owning James McConnell — who he said came from Ireland in the 1760s and fought for the colonies in the American Revolution.
Okay, so his great-great-great grandfathers who are already worm food had slaves. How about the loads of African Americans whose ancestors were both slaves and slave owners? Who pays who? Man, I’m sick of this “sins of the father” bullshit.
I’m just curious about which one of them fucked a turtle.
*barfs*
Don’t judge. I’ve got to respect a man who is tough enough to stick it in a snapper.
Now do Kamala Harris’ slave-owning family.
“but did not mention that any of them owned slaves”
This is ridiculous. Did he mention that any were rapists? Murderers? I get it’s a political piece but even in my mind it’s sad that they think people should walk around with a corruption of blood for what some of their ancestors did.
For example. My great, great…grandfather Owned slaves and a plantation. I have no problem saying that. People act like you should be ashamed. My wife’s step Grandmother was a Nazi (German Nurse during WW2, and had to join the party ) should my daughters be ashamed of that?
step Grandmother
More like goose step Granny, amirite?
That would make a great song.
my paternal great-great ??? grandfather owned “lots” of slaves according to a genealogist studying my family. the same side of the family that whooped Loyalist ass at King’s Mountain. i also have paternal ancestors who fought for the Union. do i get a discounted rate on my reparations?
My father’s cousin was most likely serial killer. We don’t talk about him. At all.
No one chooses to be related by blood to people that owned slaves 150+ years ago, but people absolutely choose to voluntarily join the political organization that fought to preserve that institution and spent the following century brutalizing the descendants of those slaves. So you tell me who should be feeling shame here.
“Noncompliance Kneecaps New Zealand’s Gun Control Scheme”
*Shocked face*
“It will mostly expand the amount of people already being paid under the table”
And welfare roles (ie Dem voters).
“Two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners, U.S. census records show.”
And? Everyone is desendant from slaves and slaveowners.
Let’s put “Are you a slave owner?” on the census.
If I answer ‘Yes’, am I allowed to engage in my professed trade?
Sure, if you’re willing to relocate to Libya.
What do you think this is, the 7th century? In-person transactions are passe.
I wonder if the US government would still insist you pay taxes on your slave-owning income, like it does to all other ex-pats, or renounce it as blood money?
Renounce the taxes? That income stream would be eligible for punitive taxation rates just to make sure you understand how bad it is.
I believe you are still required to pay taxes on income from otherwise illegal activity.
+1 cannabis stamp
Al Capone had a sad…
Do orphans count? Asking for a friend
Orphans never count except when there is salt to be mined or monocles to be polished.
I prefer the term juvenile laborers.
I amazed the census could ask that question.
3/5 Compromise required it.
OMG SHEEP THRONE!!!
One-Fifth of Americans are Responsible for Half the Country’s Food-Based Emissions
“methane-spewing beef”
Album name?
I don’t think he’s cooking it correctly.
“while the ecologically-minded folks at the bottom consume more plant proteins”
Yeah, I’m sure ecological bullshit is a real factor in most people’s diets.
Wait, isn’t one of the left’s tropes about “food deserts” and how poor people don’t eat a lot of produce, instead opting for unhealthy fast-food and highly-processed pre-packaged stuff?
*Beams with Gaia killing pride*
I smell bullshit
I dunno but when I eat a lot of legumes my greenhouse gas emissions seem to sky-rocket…
Especially TVP – that “plant protein” would tear my gut up.
That would be like dropping grenades into a pill-box.
Back when I was a vegan, we used to buy raw TVP from the food co-op. Made tacos (no cheese), a healthy dollop of cooked and seasoned TVP, lettuce, etc.
Death by sonic diarrhea
I’ll take “Research that fits my preset ideas” for $500 Alex.
One fifth, eh? That reminds me. You know who stars in The Fifth Grade Element?
Just a test to see if anyone gets the correct answer.
Mila Jovavich’s daughter?
Gary Oldman With Candy.
*applause*
Young Hitler?
Bruce Whatchyoutalkinabout Willis?
“Until recently, we had no idea how right or wrong that hypothetical average human’s diet might be. ”
And is religious folks are the Moral Scolds.
This person has obviously never eaten a pot of beans before.
I eat a lot of fresh vegetables, I put out a lot of exhaust.
“while the ecologically-minded folks at the bottom consume more plant proteins.”
I wonder what feeds the plants that these soyboys eat.
Look, like electric cars, you are not supposed to look at the whole chain. Just the part that makes me look right.
I don’t believe one iota of that paper. People who eat a total carnivore diet, meaning they eat nothing except for meat, don’t produce much waste other than liquid. I’ve watched some podcasts with people who only eat meat and their bowel movements are infrequent and very minor in quantity.
“I’ve watched some podcasts with people who only eat meat and their bowel movements”
To each is own.
Good thing I am not one of these people. I can continue to not give a shit.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Greeted at X-Rated Burlesque Show by Chants of ‘Green New Deal!’
Just a humble little barista from the Barrio.
“when she was invited up on stage during the event, ”
Oh it’s not okay to make sexual jokes about her, but she can just waltz onto a burlesque stage.
Sugarfree is right about burlesque
What? People celebrating the female form in all of its Diversity or just a bunch of tatted-up fat chicks rumbling across the stage like German tanks circa 1939?
The latter.
I’ve been to one burlesque show in my life – and was surprised to find that the majority of the women their were in the 7 or above category.
And a few fatties… and men dressed as women.
And – the curse of my life – one of the (thankfully good looking) gals picked me to start her routine with; they must pick up on my uber-shyness like a radar.
I’ve been to part of one in Baltimore. I’d say it was a cross-section. No men in drag, but more or less if you took a bunch of chicks auditioning for Suicide Girls and stuck ’em on stage. Mostly average in all respects, a few pretty attractive women, a few less so, but no land whales and no 10s.
My buddy’s wife did burlesque. Saw her a dozen times or more. The joint was where all the cool kids started going after the industrial/dance scene died out. There was one token gay guy in a bunny suit. The chicks were all pretty hot, if also not 10s.
Yeah, there was a lot of crossover between the goth/industrial/BDSM clubs and the burlesque people, it seemed like.
The Suicide Girls had a burlesque show tour.
Yes, I’ve been to a few and the stage was wall to wall hotties.
People who don’t find this and other instances of politics infesting every corner of their lives repellent – who, in fact, celebrate it – disgust me.
Nothing falls beyond the purview of the State, Comrade! You wouldn’t want people to be free to live their lives without licking the boots of their betters, would you?
After her arrival, Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was greeted by crowds cheering “Green New Deal!” and “AOC!”
What, no “Show us your tits”? Lame.
I don’t normally see them until early morning when they are dead, but I enjoyed last night’s article. Good job, dbleagle!
My view of reparations is that they would have been okay if paid by slave owners to former slaves. 150 years later not so much.
In romania there were people who sued the current government for compensation cause their parents suffered under communism. Many people suffered under communism and I don’t want to pay taxes for the children of dead people to get money from the current government. If somehow the actual commies would pay reparations it would be different
What, you don’t think that people who were never harmed by something should be paid by people who never did them any harm?! Are you a racist?!!
I agree, Pie.
I mean hell, my family lost their farm and livelihoods in both Spain and Cuba within a span of 30 years, but my family moved on from that shiz and we haven’t asked either of those countries for reparations.
Yeah, see Raphael, the problem is with you for not realizing the opportunity that demanding other people pony up money for a loss that you never really experienced yourself, through appeals on emotion that fly in the face of anything logical, is. Gold digging fucks however, get it.
Had a conversation years ago with an African American coworker about reparations. She gave her pro reparations argument. My counter: The amount of productivity a free human adds to the national economy is magnitudes higher than what a slave adds. It was an immoral system implemented by the state that made everyone poorer. The state needs to pay reparations to everyone if they’re going to pay reparations at all. And no, they can’t do it through taxation because that would only be enslaving some of the people that were harmed in the first place. Make the Feds sell of their publicly held lands and cut a check to every American.
Shockingly, she didn’t think that was such a bad idea.
Thing is one of the people who sued was later shown to be the kind who ratted family member to the secret police during commitime…
Of course he was. That’s what rats do.
I am reminded on Chappelles sketch on reparations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZN7IzvCVs
A reply to this tweet about the corupting power of maga hats
“My final words to her were: “Every time you wear the hat, you remember you lost a friendship over it. Every time.” I know for sure I’ll now think of her every time I see a MAGA hat, and I’ll fear its corrupting power even more than I used to.”
amused me
“Three Hats for the Chad-kings under the sky, Seven for the NEET-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Proud Boys, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of DC where the Shadows lie”
One Hat to rule them all, One Hat to find them, One Hat to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of DC where the Shadows lie.
I love this site.
One size fits all.
We are still talking about hats right? Some people might think we are discussing condoms and they will be disappointed when the condom keeps falling off…..
I love that tweet, I’m glad she chose the hat over that judgmental asshole. I’ll be her friend.
“My final words to her were: “Every time you wear the hat, you remember you lost a friendship over it. Every time.”
Even if it was The Hat she would have made the right choice, as not even he is as crazy as you.
“fear its corrupting power”
MAGA hats, like guns, make good people do bad things.
“It’s me or it’s your #shoutyourabortion hashtag.”
“It’s me or your anti-2A bumper sticker.”
“It’s me or your Hillary 2016 sign.”
“It’s me or your NEA membership.”
go on…
How sex traffickers use modeling contracts to lure young women
We have some lovely couches we would like you to do some poses on…
I can get you a real awesome contract as a model and even in the movies, if you, erm, suck some dick…
Once, sitting in a bar, chatting with a guy sitting next to me, and he went through his pick up process. He would claim to be a producer on a show, and he had memorized several names from the end credits on popular shows. Not the big names, just the other people that no one really pays attention to. He would chat up the girl, drop the name, and then tell her to check it by watching the credits at the end of the show.
I often had conversations with the female of the species that started with a high bid to get at her privates she was quite willing to accept being followed with a negative reaction when a counter offer that was far lower was made. the usual retort was “Do you think I am a prostitute?”, to which I replied: We already established that, and are now just haggling.
A lot of human trafficking individuals don’t self-identify as human trafficking individuals because they don’t know that what they’re experiencing is actually human trafficking.
So, they are actually paid as sex workers. They just have false consciousness about what they’re doing.
The local high school has a consciousness-raising club to fight sex trafficking, To illustrate how it impacts women in our area, they cited a young lady who was arrested 51 times for prostitution before she realized she was being trafficked and sought help. 51 chances to get away from the “slavers.” Doesn’t sound like what most people think sex trafficking is.
Sounds like she flunked bead-stringing in kindergarten…
ehm is this in anyway news though?
Breaking News: Water Is Wet!
The standard errors of persistence
Morgan Kelly 05 July 2019
A large literature on persistence finds that many modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the past. Although these regressions feature unusually high t statistics, they usually also display severe spatial autocorrelation in residuals. Exploiting data from 28 persistence studies published in leading journals, this column runs artificial regressions where both variables are spatial noise and shows that this produces severely inflated t statistics. Replicating published studies shows that in most cases the main persistence variable frequently has lower explanatory power than spatial noise but can, in turn, strongly predict spatial noise.
https://voxeu.org/article/standard-errors-persistence
Did medieval pogroms prefigure Nazi zealotry? Does the slave trade continue to affect trust between people in Africa? Does a country’s prosperity depend on the genetic diversity of its population? Do arbitrary colonial boundaries continue to drive poverty in Peru and internal conflict in Africa?1
These and other questions are part of a substantial literature on persistence, or deep origins, which finds that many modern outcomes strongly reflect the characteristics of the same place in the more or less distant past.
Oh, sure, the land retains magical vibrations of past actions, like a dry-cell battery, and emanates these waves into people which alters their behavior.
I actually linked this hoping someone would do the work of telling me if it is worth reading because it seems like an effort to do so.
Is she saying people don’t change? Cause I could have told you that.
I think she is saying
However, alongside unusually high t statistics, persistence regressions usually display extreme levels of spatial autocorrelation of residuals. In a well-behaved regression, residuals should show no pattern, whereas in persistence studies neighbouring places tend to have similar values of residuals – high beside high, and low beside low. This raises the question of whether the unusual explanatory power of some persistence regressions might be a consequence of fitting spatial noise, reflected in the spatial pattern of their residuals.
the article analyses statistics used by persistence studies it does not make any claims
It’s a bunch of unnecessary language to say that historical context matters and that the present is an outcome of the past.
No. She’s saying the studies used to say those things are statistically flawed. They generate a correlation because they don’t account for a variable.
I’ll read more than the intro this time and not go with my gut reaction to most of these “studies”. I’m generally not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt anymore.
I didn’t get it either till Pie broke it down.
Hmmm, I was reading it wrong. I was thinking that she was making the persistence claim.
gah! Stuff like this brings out the anti-intellectual in me. ::heads off to tractor pull::
Next you’ll be telling me the Slavs hold grudges.
You know who else held a grudge against the Slavs…
Other Slavs?
Croats?
aka slavs
More like who isn’t…
Who are the Democratic candidates for president?
Too many and the only one I remotely like is Williamson because at least she believes in essential oils.
Total. Gilf.
From last night…
https://news.avclub.com/marianne-williamsons-new-campaign-strategy-critical-re-1836189249
What the hell, she’s been watching NGE? She is trying really hard to be best girl of all time in my book.
But she believes the singularity is a good thing. That’s what she’s taken from the series.
That thing that happens after a government agency storms in and massacres all dissenters? She likes that huh?
Unknown how she feels about Shinji jacking it over an unconscious Asuka however.
Maybe that’s her thing…
Based on the article it’s from a “Marianne Williamson quotes over pictures of Neon Genesis Evangelion” Facebook group. Which doesn’t mean she has been watching NGE.
I would throw her a primary vote, but I don’t think Ohio primaries are open.
“Who aren’t the Democratic candidates for president?” would be a shorter list.
Swallwell’s gone, thanks to all you glibs laughing at him. Whose is the next victim? I nominate Liz W, just because.
I’d love it if it were Liz W, but I think it’s going to be Gillibrand or Castro.
No it will be a while before any big names like that drop out.
Almost certain to drop out before we get to Iowa…
Sestak, Ryan, Moulton, Messam, Delaney
Most of these will also be gone before Iowa
Bennett, Bullock, Hickenlooper, Inslee
These will be essentially mathematically eliminated before Iowa although they may stick around for personal reasons or because they have a handful of powerful backers
Beto, Steyer, Williamson, Wang, Gabbard, Castro, de Blasio, Gillibrand, Klobuchar
The only ones who really have a shot
Biden, Harris, Buttchug, Booker, Bernie, Fauxahontis
Personally I think it is all but guaranteed to be one of the first 3
My short list is still Biden, Harris, Warren, maybe Bernie. I just can’t take the old commie seriously, regardless of the polling.
Who
Duke Nukem. The guy who said the USG would nuke gun owners and win a confiscation begun war with them.
So a guy that is seriously tardeded?
To misquote Playa, how can he be gone if he was never there?
I ?’ed Eric.
Land reforms, whilst well-intended, misallocate land and labour across farms, thereby reducing average farm size and agricultural productivity
Land reforms, the policies often associated with the redistribution of agricultural land from the land-rich to the land-poor or landless, have been one of the most active areas of agricultural policy initiatives in the developing world in the post-WWII period. Land reforms have also been a traditional theme in the development economics literature
https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/effects-land-reforms-farm-size-and-agricultural-productivity
I am in a boring telco at work in case it does not show
*points at Zimbabwe*
You mean a net food exporter known as the breadbasket of africa didn’t just collapse into famine out of racism?
I think it did, didn’t it?
Racism and Cronyism!
Land Reforms, which redistribute land from farmers to non-farmers have empirically resulted in much starvation.
Does land reform ever involve turning over the government land to the private public
Only when that private public is cronies of the ruling junta.
*points at Harry Reid*
A lot of human trafficking individuals don’t self-identify as human trafficking individuals because they don’t know that what they’re experiencing is actually human trafficking.
You don’t even know what a whore you are, you stupid whore. Let me femsplain it to you.
Everybody loves false consciousness.
Is that where you’re dreaming that you’re awake but are actually still asleep?
No it is when you have someone who parrots things that are similar in construction and expression to ideas, but when parsed are devoid of semantic content. In other words progs.
Air-conditioning is unhealthy, bad, miserable, and sexist. I can’t explain how many times I’ve gotten sick over the summer b/c of overzealous AC in offices. #BanAC
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1147879487121559553
BAN AC? This person is my sworn enemy
I want Taylor to spend a day in Florida stuck in an office without AC and get back to me on that.
I would venture that she would say that we’re not meant to live in Florida and that nature should rule.
I would also bet that she loved Matt Damon in “The Martian”, an excellent (fictitious) example of man conquering his environment.
*kiff sigh*
One of the old coot engineering profs liked to tell about how when he was a kid living in Mississippi his dad (a traveling salesman) bought a car with AC. It was the first AC anyone had seen and the family would spend nights sleeping in the car.
Yeah, I don’t think you are going to convince him that AC should be banned.
Yes, ban one of the things that has made modern life. A return to dirt floors would be great too.
I love that it’s sexist.
As a kid I know high school I had a couple ask if we would turn down the AC in the fast food joint because it was cold. Probably not the right response but I told them it was Hot as Hell working the ovens, and that seeing as I was there for 8 hours and they were there for 15 min…
One day of no ac in the office might convince her, when it starts getting really onion-y in there.
I also wouldn’t mind seeing her sweaty, IYKWIM.
they were there for 15 min…
“You’ll be gone before the air even has time to adjust to the thermostat. I checked.”
“Certainly, sir. Right away, sir.”
/returns to fryer
My main annoyance was when in my office building some people got the air conditioning turned down and then complained about other people being sweaty which bothered them
Gotten sick because the AC is on? I’m gonna need that femsplained to me.
Legionella?
The old wives tale that cold air makes you sick? That’s all I can think of without damaging my brain.
Um, you said #BanAC?
Motte/Bailey
I’d wager that the “meltdowns” were literal figments of her imagination.
I agree, the AC in some buildings is really cold. But people can put on a sweater if they’re cold, it’s less socially acceptable for people who are hot to take off some clothes (I know, I know, it depends on what social circles you run in).
I see stuff like this and, on the one hand, it’s immensely depressing that there are people so actively engaged in being stupid. On the other hand, it makes me feel good to see that people who advocate shitty ideas are incapable, pathetic imbeciles.
One thing I have learned from numerous business trips to Singapore – which is about 5 degrees north of the equator – is to bring a sweater for the office.
Sex offender charged with peeping up 66-year-old woman’s skirt in Wendell store
Huh, you would think she would appreciate the attention.
Heh – EF doesn’t mind getting catcalled. “I’ve still got it!”
Is it some random guy catcalling her?
Or is just you making a desultory effort at catcalling her on her birthday?
GIve Me an Older Woman Everytime
Like a well aged fine wine, a well aged fine woman is a thing of beauty…
Absolutely. You better be hot in your early 20’s – there’s no excuse not to be.
But being a 50 year old smoke show takes dedication and effort.
Ayup. The problem is that if they are looking great in their 40s and 50s and are available, it means they have some serious crazy about them and no guy wanted to keep sticking it in that level of crazy for anything but a short period.
If you don’t look good when you’re 19 blame nature
If you don’t look good at 29, blame yourself
*points at Halle Berry*
Do I still have to blame myself at 29 if I already got to blame nature at 19?
Dedication, effort, and money.
But in this instance money=time. She has the time to put in the dedication and effort because of the money.
“felony secret peeping”
Meh. They haven’t been the same since their second album.
Is that when they replaced the drummer?
WW2 beer tweet
Speaking of beer, it looks like Stone Brewing’s True Craft fund has sputtered out without investing in any breweries.
The reproducibility of psychiatric evaluations of work disability: two reliability and agreement studies.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31266488?dopt=Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Expert psychiatrists conducting work disability evaluations often disagree on work capacity (WC) when assessing the same patient. More structured and standardised evaluations focusing on function could improve agreement. The RELY studies aimed to establish the inter-rater reproducibility (reliability and agreement) of ‘functional evaluations’ in patients with mental disorders applying for disability benefits and to compare the effect of limited versus intensive expert training on reproducibility.
CONCLUSIONS:
Evidence from non-randomised studies suggests that intensive training in functional evaluation may increase agreement on WC between experts, but fell short to reach stakeholders’ expectations. It did not alter reliability. Isolated efforts in training psychiatrists may not suffice to reach the expected level of agreement. A societal discussion about achievable goals and readiness to consider procedural changes in WC evaluations may deserve considerations.
Come on telco end goddamit I wanna leave. I care not if 3 or 4 numbers are used for versioning.
A ray of sunshine in Minnesoda.
I hope the fucker who got away broke and ankle and is in a ton of pain right now.
Sounds like they knew her, how else would they have gone to her home.
I’m pretty sure my registration and insurance cards have my address on them.
Not sure about Minnesota though.
Yeah, insurance cards would have your address on it. And the article said she also had some mail in her car with the address on it.
These days all you need is to look at people’s car GPS location settings for the entry saying “Home”…
They do.
I’m still trying to get over the actual helpfulness of the police officer.
Calm down. I’m sure the cop only went up to her apartment to see if she had any medical mj or expired prescriptions that they could bust her for. Then he was so surprised that he couldn’t even get a shot off before the one guy gave up.
Last week near Nashville I saw a sheriff’s deputy on the shoulder actually cranking the spare down for a pickup driver with a flat.
Where you able to keep your vehicle on the road?
The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim
erosion, how does it work?
I can’t get past all the terrible cliches and general bad writing.
I like to see how many ways I can start a story on a dark and storm night without use of the phrase.
Right? Why do they always write like that?!
I think it’s an attempt to try to evoke emotion through excessive imagery.
Because the school system, at all levels, in the US does not have any standards when it comes to teaching students how to write well. Somehow, GB (not surprising) and Korea (more surprising) manage to do a much better job of it.
Hmmm, so if Louisiana is shrinking because of rising seas, why has the solution been to pump fresh water from the Mississippi back into the swamps, pushing out the saltier sea water? (and that’s working!) It had been determined that the straight canals – as opposed to the natural curvy ones – cut by the oil companies for rig access were allowing too much salt in and killing off the vegetation.
And Cali… is it not part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and that coast is being driven under the sea by plate tectonics?
North Carolina’s beaches disappearing like a time lapse with no ending
This picture was taken 400 years ago.
Due to the AC making one sick convo I am reminded about this old article about Romania
Draft: Romania’s Silent Killer
https://jsbangs.com/2011/12/13/draft-romanias-silent-killer/
Curent in this context means “draft”, as in a drafty door, or opening a window to let in a draft. People from outside Romania may believe that a draft is a nuisance (if you’re cold) or a welcome relief (if you’re too warm), but the Romanians will set you straight. If you catch a draft, you are in mortal peril.
The early symptoms of catching a draft include a headache, toothache, soreness of the neck, stiff joints, stuffy nose, sore throat, coughing, or sneezing. If untreated, the draft will continue to worm its way into your system and metastasize into pneumonia, arthritis, polio, and dementia.
You’re mistaken. Draft only sickens Romanians, just like running fans only suffocate Koreans.
Are you saying that all we needed to win in Korea was a few industrial air movers?
We were mostly fighting the Red Chinese, so it wouldn’t have worked.
I’m glad I refreshed… I was just going to point out the Korean fan death belief.
When I eat too many plant based proteins, I too am visited by a silent, deadly killer.
Drafty, but not silent.
Sounds like their humours are out of balance.
Doesn’t sound much different from Korean Fan Death.
Home Depot facing boycott over co-founder’s Trump donation
Home Depot, in a statement, said the company does not endorse presidential candidates and Marcus was not speaking for the company.
“Bernie retired from The Home Depot more than 15 years ago and isn’t speaking on behalf of the company,” Home Depot spokeswoman Margaret Smith said in a statement to The Hill. “In fact, as a standard practice, the company does not endorse Presidential candidates.”
Too late. Also make sure to ask any contractor what store they go to before hiring them.
I’ve noticed that when an activist declares a boycott… usually jack shit happens.
How many of the Home Depot boycotters know what drywall is?
Except when the boycott is on Chick fil A. Then it stimulates a massive buycott that has hours-long lines of people waiting for delicious chicken.
It’s hard to tell the difference between the boycott line and the drive up line because they are both in the street.
One of my favorite boycott/protest backfires
I notice the person holding the sign appears to be … unremarkable in appearance.
I wonder if that’s a factor.
Well, definitely SOME women are not for decoration…. heck, some aren’t even for casual observation before the 5th beer.
She’s got librarian syndrome. Different clothes, a touch of makeup, maybe something different with the hair, and she goes from mousy to Lara Croft.
I can’t believe you even need to explain that someone making a private donation does not speak for the business entity at which someone is/was employed.
Jeff Deist was on Tom Woods talking about this. To a lot of younger folk, there is no separation between professional and political and personal. Those folk are insufferable.
They’re assholes.
There is no division between work and private lives now. Look at the flip side, at the number of companies that don’t give a toss about pissing over large portions of potential customers or employees who think they should set corporate policy publicly. The whole thing needs to be curbstomped but I think the genie is out of the bottle too far now.
But lines in the sand are meant to shift. In the last 100 years, the sea rose less than 9 inches in California. By the end of this century, the surge could be greater than 9 feet.
Que?
Ten times the normal observed change because reasons.
12 times. WE AREN”T METRIC USERS HERE
Until I have coffee I only do math in tens. It was close enough.
It’s called pulling shit out of your ass.
And by the end of the day, I could turn into Antonio Banderas, but I probably won’t.
It’s like the rapture or Ragnarok. It’s just going to happen, don’t question it.
We had the apocalypse back in the first half of the 20th century, we’re on to the dystopia now.
US viewers tuned into women’s World Cup final in record numbers
About 14 million people watched on TV in the U.S. on Sunday, according to Nielsen ratings. With Fox’s streaming viewership added to the total, about 14.3 million people tuned to the network for the US-Netherlands match. An additional 1.6 million viewers watched it in Spanish on Telemundo.
The strong ratings back up what was observable on Sunday: Widespread enthusiasm for the US women’s national team.
CNN of course, buries the damaging side:
Last year’s men’s World Cup final between France and Croatia averaged 11.4 million viewers on Fox, which means the US women drew a 22 percent bigger audience in the states.
In 2015, the Women’s World Cup final was played in the evening and was a huge ratings draw, with about 25 million viewers watching on Fox.
IOW, 44% less watched the 2019 final vs. 2015.
How many people in total watched both?
But, but, a game that featured the US had more viewers than evil, toxic men (which happened to not feature the US)!
ERGO… men and men’s sportz are overpaid compared to women, male athletics should be abolished and we should kill all men except for a handful to be kept in sperm collection facilities.
PS: Funny that these are the very same people who will eventually end up actually destroying women’s sports with the tranny shit. We’ll have men’s sports, and coed sports.
So, what you’re saying that, even when the US women’s team is involved they can only manage 22% over two men’s teams with no national association to the audience?
One event had the U.S. team in a world wide championship final and the other didn’t. Not exactly tough to figure out why is was more widely watched in the U.S.
I don’t know who was playing last Wednesday during a team meeting/lunch at a sports bar, Netherlands and some other Euro team, but they had my attention for sure. Hell, even the ref was a little striking.
“In fact, as a standard practice, the company does not endorse Presidential candidates.”
“WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?”
If you’re not with us, you’re against us.
Hey, remember when that was a brutish, totalitarian sentiment when the last democracy-ending American Fuhrer occupied the White House?
As your life flows irrevocably into the past bringing closer to oblivion second by second, spend a few of those seconds enjoying Titty Tuesday.
http://archive.is/umhE8
IMO, it’s kind of counterproductive to provide both a depressant and a stimulant at the same time.
Alex Morgan needs to be the public face of this team, not ORANGEMANBAD Dyke.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/09/uswnt-alex-morgan-wine-world-cup-video/
Alex Morgan twerking?! MOAR!
Seconded.
Her terrible “twerking” in the locker-room was both endearing and hugely erotic at the same time. She seems like a normal, if exceptionally attractive, person imo. Whereas Rapinhoe just comes off as a self-absorbed asshole.
I liked the Rose Lavelle. Super fun to watch that little girl go.
Justice League
The left-wing activist group that spearheaded the political rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now working to take down several incumbent Democrats who have defied the party’s freshman progressive wing, leaving some of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s loyalists on Capitol Hill anxiously wondering if they might soon fall in the crosshairs themselves.
Justice Democrats, which was co-founded by Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, has already announced it is looking to unseat seven-term pro-life Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, who represents a conservative district and has boasted about his endorsement from the National Rifle Association. Also on the list: New York Rep. Eliot Engel, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman who’s currently in his 16th term.
Cuellar and Engel each have primary challengers, and all indications are that the campaigns will be contentious. While Ocasio-Cortez has stopped short of issuing endorsements in the races, Chakrabarti tweeted a link to a website accepting donations for Cuellar’s challenger in June, adding caustically, “Cuellar votes with Trump more than some Republicans … [and] votes most with big oil, private prison corps, and the gun lobby.”
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Looking to thwart progressives and other challengers, DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., wrote private consultants earlier this year that her committee won’t conduct business with firms that work with primary challengers to sitting Democrats. She said the DCCC’s “core mission” includes protecting incumbents.
Bustos and others say because much of the committee’s budget comes from dues paid by House Democrats, it shouldn’t work with firms that try unseating those same incumbents.
That’s not stopping progressives from preparing to challenge incumbent Democrats they consider too conservative. Those most mentioned include Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., as well as Reps. Stephen Lynch and Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
It’s like Lord of the Flies, out there. Feral children running wild in the halls of Congress. It would be frightening, if it weren’t so goddam entertaining.
Yeah, this Justice League is actually comprised of the bad guys.
Must purge the party if the Mensheviks.
Ask Justin Amash if this ever happens in the GOP?
Yeah, but he left the GOP, so it’s not like they owe him any loyalty.
All the risks of a REIT with none of the liquidity. Brilliant!
Paywalled:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-startup-wants-to-sell-you-a-slice-of-a-rental-home-11562580002?mod=itp_wsj&ru=yahoo
Yeah, that sounds like a really bad idea.
Multi family developments have long relied on investment groups with multiple partners. The difference is there is usually a management firm that organizes the investment and is also responsible for maintenance, advertising, leasing and management.
I wonder how this firm proposes going back to the investors for approval on capital improvements and large scale maintenance costs. It sounds more than a little sketchy.
Someone with too much Commifornia real estate is trying to bail, but can’t find anyone with a lot of money willing to buy them out, so they’re getting creative.
/hypothesis.
I forget the cities, but they researched their markets and chose growing cities with rental demand and good employment. Multi state
Sure. In some ways this is similar. Roofstock keeps a 10% interest in the properties and while not mentioned, I’m sure takes a fee for that.
But the difference here is that the private partnerships you discussed generally strive for double digit returns and/or passive losses. Here from the article you are essentially getting a 5.5% return assuming no break in rental income. If you have issues with a tenant or replacing a tenant that will drop even more.
I’d rather buy a public REIT for that kind of return.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/09/hockey-coach-national-anthem-womens-soccer-twitter/
“We’re not women’s soccer. We’re not the NFL. If there’s anybody here who is going to be disrespectful to either the American or the Canadian national anthem, grab your gear and get the f**k out now because you’ll never see the ice in this arena. We don’t have that problem in hockey, we’re better than that but there was no sense in wasting anybody’s time if that sh*t was going to happen,” the unidentified coach told his players in the viral video posted on Twitter on Monday night by Wojciech Pawelczyk.
We’re not women’s soccer. We’re not the NFL. If there’s anybody here who is going to be disrespectful to either the American or the Canadian national anthem, grab your gear and get the f**k out now because you’ll never see the ice in this arena.
Awesome.
You’re here to play hockey. Take your picket line bullshit somewhere else.
Yeah, jingoism leaves me cold, but the dual anthems is a fun way to start a game. I love singing along with O Canada. Great tune.
No wonder I mistook you for Canucki.
I’m looking forward to the day we just annex them. I love Canada and her floppy-headed denizens!
” just annex them”
But then where will I move to when a president I don’t like* gets elected?
* I don’t like any president (except, maybe, William Henry Harrison)
You say that now, but what happens when the Aussies get a team and you have to watch your daughter be forced to sing their national anthem “Waltzing a Dildo”?
Fox News reporting Ross Perot has passed away.
No longer a viable Democratic candidate
But a locked in Democratic voter.
LOL
He’s probably still polling ahead of Swalwell and DeBlasio.
He’d probably have to have Marianne Williamson be his VP though, just so he could communicate through her from the great beyond.
Speaking of hockey:
Down Goes Brown: The 20 stages of watching your team make a horrible free agency mistake
Paywalled, but hilarious (if you subscribe).
By the way, if you are at all interested in sports, The Athletic is a must. Best sports coverage anywhere.
These kinds of mistakes aren’t rare. Phillies paid $330 million for a guy who didn’t even make the All Star team and leads the league in strikeouts.
And $25m this year for a pitcher who has won two more games than he lost. Yet a off hand pickup, Jay Bruce, is crushing it. Go figgure.
As a batter or pitcher?
Batter.
-1
Was expecting an expose on Johnny Manziel sucking dick for crack money.
Consensus?
Two dozen governors from across the country, including two Republicans and governors of four states that voted for President Trump in 2016, are set to urge his administration on Tuesday to halt one of his biggest climate policy rollbacks: the weakening of federal clean car rules.
The governors will also call on Mr. Trump to honor California’s legal right to write its own clean air rules, something the administration has said it is set to challenge, according to a draft statement by the governors.
“Strong vehicle standards protect our communities from unnecessary air pollution and fuel costs, and they address the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States,” the governors wrote. “We must unite to ensure a strong, science-based national standard, in California and across the country, that increases year over year.”
Even automakers have balked at the Trump administration’s plan, which in its most extreme outline proposes to substantially weaken Obama-era standards that would have doubled the fuel economy requirement of new cars, pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles by 2025.
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Assuming the Trump administration’s rollback of clean car rules is finalized and survives legal challenges, America’s cars and trucks would emit as much as an extra 321 million to 931 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2035 as a result of the weaker rules, according to an analysis by the research firm Rhodium Group.
And, of course, the inevitable stolen base of conflating regulation with reality.
“We pulled some numbers out of our ass, and wrote them down.”
Even automakers have balked at the Trump administration’s plan
Corporate progressive pandering is something new? Petroleum companies do it, too—not that it wins them any favors with the left. But it’s symptomatic of nothing except the gradual cultural takeover by the activist left. It says nothing about the necessity or efficacy of measures they claim to support.
The automakers had a plan to deal with whatever the previous admin plans put in place. To change those would cost a lot of money. I would also propose that the conventional thought is that after Trump the next admin plans will be closer to the Obama plan they are currently in line with. That is why they want to keep the current plan, they don’t want to change now to change back again with the next admin.
Which is sensible, but the feckless author assumes that those standards are so incontrovertibly wise that nobody but our tyrannous Commander in Chief would disagree—not even the KKKar KKKompanies object to them!!!
science-based national standard
IFLS sciencey standard then. It’s a policy decision, you fucktards.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. And it sounds like Trump is only preventing the (unnecessary) increase in federal dictates on the issue.
Ain’t nobody stopping the automakers from making cars that fit the old rules. Go for it, fellas.
Plus, the idiot governors are wrong. Passenger cars are not the biggest source of CO2 emissions. Transportation as a whole is 29% leading electricity generation by 1%. But passenger cars are a subset of transportation, accounting for “more than half” of that 29%, which we can read as being between 1/2 and 2/3. At the high end, passenger cars account for less than 20% of total CO2 emissions.
A policy so good, we have to lie about it!
That’s one hell of a link.
Uh hu.
Tags r harf.
Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, the state’s clean air regulator, said California was already winning the battle.
“We have the largest group of states ever coming together to back our position,” she said in an interview. “The fact that we now have over half the U.S. auto market supporting us indicates that we are going to stick with the standards. The auto industry will not build two sets of cars.”
Ms. Nichols rejected any possibility of compromise on the Obama-era goals for fuel efficiency that would require automakers to put vehicles averaging roughly 36 miles per gallon on the road by 2025, a pace some automakers had called unattainable.
Fucking zealots will be the death of us all.
Uhh…
I’s why Ford is teaming up with VW on EVs. They know they won’t sell for shit, but it hedges them if this crazy bullshit goes forward.
Cars have gotten so goddamn clean, all this posturing is absurd. You can go on and on about how many metric shit-tons of CO2 cars emit, but it’s all bullshit if you don’t include the fact that natural sources eclipse man-made ones.
Per capita is 16 tons per year. Doug fits sequestration is about 14 tons over 100 years. If I got out back and plant 100 for myself and another 100 for my wife,, we’re done. No carbon tax, no emissions limits, nada.
*Doug firs
But those firs eventually get cut down and turned into single-family homes for gentrifiers, so you’re still a shitlord and fuck you, reparations now.
Take it from my descendants.
Just wait to you see her plan for putting out all the cooking fires in Africa and South America that contribute 1/3 of the world’s air pollution.
Let Cali do what they wish. Automakers that serve mostly the deplorable flyover market just won’t sell there.
Bill Clinton on the Epstein scandal.
Was he again telling us on TV while wagging his finger that he had no relationship with
that womanthat dude with all the hawt underage bitchez?I believe they are still telling a discredited lie about how often he was on Epstein’s Lolita Express. They were, and I think still are, claiming it was only 4 times, but Epstein’s flight logs show more than 20.
There is
nohardly any cannibalism in the Royal NavyHawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is accusing her Democratic presidential primary opponent Sen. Kamala Harris of staging a “political ploy” to smear former Vice President Joe Biden’s reputation and his record on civil rights.
In an interview on CBSN’s “Red & Blue” that streamed Monday, Gabbard said Harris has been “leveling this accusation that Joe Biden is a racist — when he’s clearly not — as a way to try to smear him.” She tweeted a similar sentiment earlier in the day.
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But Gabbard believes Harris’ criticism of Biden is part of an unfair campaign effort by the California senator to boost her standing in the large primary field. She suggested that Harris’ stance on busing today is hypocritical.
“Really what she’s saying saying is her position is the same one she was criticizing Joe Biden for,” she said. “So this is just a political ploy and I think a very underhanded one just to try get herself attention, to move herself up in the polls.”
“I think we need to be above that,” Gabbard added. “All of us.”
What a traitorous bitch.
Wait til they drag Tulsi’s dad into this if she ever became a serious threat.
Well, if we’re going by blood guilt, Kamala’s got some ‘splainin to do, as the descendant of slave-owners with, I believe, no actual slaves in her ancestry.
But she looks African-American black, like Obama, so get out of jail free card.
She spent her HS years in the Beverley Hills of Canada. She’d be wise to keep her mouth shut about this stuff.
Huh. Trump should call her Carlton.
Ross Perot was Trumpy, years before Trump
Cars have gotten so goddamn clean, all this posturing is absurd.
Actual non-carbon-dioxide pollutants are down by something like 97% from the Dark Ages of the ’60s.
Old Car & Driver review I read about one of the first ULEV cars – driving it in California, the exhaust coming out was cleaner than the air going in.
Welcome to Tier 4f diesel engines.
They’re an engineering nightmare.
A ’64 Chevy sitting in the driveway with the engine off emits more unburned hydro cabons than a new ‘Vette does driving down the highway.
+1 punp the gas a few times before the car will start.
+1 check engine light for loose gas cap
Minneapolis forcing homeowner to pay $20k to fix a leak in a water line that goes from his home to underneath the other side a four lane road.
Either the meter is in an odd place (across the street) or the city is being a dick and forcing a private citizen to pay for a city line (it’s not just fixing a leak, it’s upgrading a lead line to PVC to be in compliance with an ordinance). Maybe it’s different in Minnesota, but around here a water line is city property until the meter and private property after that.
Naturally, the article is utterly useless on this basic point. At one point, the owner speaks as if the valve is on his side of the street, but then the article says the water line is on the other side of the street, which clarifies exactly nothing. Where the meter is, and whether the ordnance actually requires homeowners to fix lead lines on the other side of the meter, the idiot reporter never says.
I’ve never lived anywhere where the meter wasn’t on the property, and just downstream of the cutoff valve.
I think this is a result of an ordinance that they passed a long time ago to force people to upgrade their water pipes. The idea was that each owner would have to upgrade from lead on their own dime.
The idea was to make each owner responsible for their own piece of the water system. This guy just got fucked because his water pipe is going under a busy 4 lane street. He should have thought of that when he bought the place (sarc meter on).
force people to upgrade their water pipes
But that’s the question – is the lead pipe his, or the city’s?
I think that was the reason for the ordinance. Rather than quibble about things, they said that everyone was responsible for upgrading the pipes from the main waterline to the house.
My sister ran into something like this when she was selling her house. The buyer wanted her to upgrade their pipes pre-sale (and not have to pay more).
I think the main idea was that the city could use this as a stealth way to force people to upgrade without the city having to do a major program of planned upgrades. If you put the onus on the owners you can hit them up when they try to sell or get permits for other work.
Don’t look at me either, it is Minneapolis-town. They do stupid shit there and residents put up with it.
So Minneapolis says that they are only responsible for the mains, and everybody else is responsible for everything from the main to their house?
I guess Minneapolis is cool with just any plumber fucking around with the connections to their mains.
If it works like NJ with the private water company, your plumber runs out to the main and water co does the actual connection. Same for the natural gas lines.
Where I live, the gas company is responsible for anything on their side of the meter, so even after they had to dig up my margin to run a new line, I wasn’t out of pocket, since it was all on their side of the meter.
No, no, no. Minneapolis gets to make you pay and how to do it. You are so funny thinking that you can have your contractor just connect things without the proper inspectors on hand.
I wonder how much it would cost to just go off city water and do water harvesting.
Daily fines for violating some sort of ordinance or EPA regulation.
EPA’s got no beef with water harvesting. Lots of people do it as part of off-the-grid or just water “conservation” set-ups.
Minnesota allows it, but of course being a bunch of fucking pinkos they regulate the hell out of it.
This guy just got fucked because his water pipe is going under a busy 4 lane street.
The thing is, it’s not uncommon for water pipes to be laid on one side of a street to feed both sides, or to be laid right down the middle. Meaning this ordinance screws an awful lot of people. I guess as you said below “They do stupid shit there and residents put up with it.” Just sucks for the people who didn’t vote for that.
Maybe it’s different in Minnesota, but around here a water line is city property until the meter and private property after that.
That’s the way I was always told it works. If it’s on your side of the meter, it’s your responsibility. If it’s upstream, it’s the city’s problem.
“If it’s on your side of the meter, it’s your responsibility”
I’m sure that’s the way it is with electric power. Power company here recently ran the lines underground, I gained back the right-of-ways they were using for the overhead. Win-win for me. I asked for the displaced poles and they pulled them out and left them out of the way.
Yahoo News says THE RUSHUNS! were behind the Seth Rich conspiracy theory, because no one would find it odd that someone was shot in the back during a robbery where nothing was stolen.
LOL. From what I can tell, there never was an effort.
To waste your time investigating BS is just horrible
Now do plastic straw and bag bans.
We’ve got you now, Bad Orange Man. Come out with your hands up!
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill Monday that could allow lawmakers on Capitol Hill to obtain President Trump’s state tax returns, in what has been described as a “workaround” after failed efforts by House Democrats to get the president’s federal returns.
Previously, state tax returns had to remain private with an exception for law enforcement. The new bill — which could face a legal challenge in the future — adds an exception that says the state’s Commissioner of the Department of Taxation and Finance has to turn over information requested by the head of the House Ways and Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee, or Joint Committee on Taxation.
“Tax secrecy is paramount — the exception being for bonafide investigative and law enforcement purposes,” Cuomo said in a statement. “By amending the law enforcement exception in New York State tax code to include Congressional tax-related committees, this bill gives Congress the ability to fulfill its Constitutional responsibilities, strengthen our democratic system and ensure that no one is above the law.”
The exception being for Bad Orange Man. Once we’re rid of him, we’ll repeal this law in the spirit of bipartisan back-scratching.
More: And the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Cuomo, the laws all being flat?
Cuomo: lol Laws are for little people and Republicans, gfy
Let’s have the Senate Finance Committee kick off the festivities by asking for the tax returns of the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.
That’s abuse of power!
This. The Rs need to force-feed the Ds bad policy back to them, until it gets repealed.
The law only allows for disclosure of NY tax returns to Congress for a legitimate legislative purpose. What conceivable federal legislative purpose would be furthered by looking at state tax returns is an exercise for the reader.
“Makes it easier for a staffer to leak them” seems a legitimate legislative purpose.
It’s pretty amazing they haven’t been leaked already by some #strongresistor within the IRS.
It’s easier to lie and insinuate a la Reid/Romney. And probably more productive.
I’m surprised also. Although, if the IRS has competent info security*, any access to Trump’s returns is logged and the leaker would be very quickly identified and would face criminal charges. I would hope that the IRS has returns buttoned up so that you can only access them on a “need to know” basis, so the list of people who could get to Trump’s returns at all would be pretty small.
But that all assumes the IRS has a security operation on par with how small rural hospitals manage their medical records.
*Hey, I said “if”.
I don’t know about the IRS, but I do know that NYS Tax and Finance employees have been prosecuted for merely looking at returns without authorization, let alone leaking them. (Guy was curious, and peeked. Turned out poorly for him)
Back in the ’90s some IRS folks in TN got busted snooping around in the tax returns of celebrities. I don’t think they even leaked them, just looked at them. Rush Limbaugh was one of them. The people all were convicted and did a little time for it.
The kicker is that when they got out, the union went to the mats to get their jobs back. The union’s line was basically “sure what they did was illegal and warranted some prison time, but it wasn’t a fireable offense”.
Can’t find a link, but it was pretty crazy.
State tax returns contain copies of federal tax returns. Don’t you see the federal in there? QED. Turn them over.
Seriously, factions of various different governments warring with each other is scary shit. It won’t end well for the rest of us.
State tax returns contain copies of federal tax returns.
Some might. I know some don’t,. UnCiv could let us know about New York.
Yes, New York has a large chunk of the form dedicated to directly copying from the federal form.
Not just the 1040, but an additional form for copying the w-2, called the it-2, despite the fact a copy of hte w-2 gets filed with the state anyway.
You copy from the federal form (pretty standard, we carry over line items in AZ), but do you submit the federal form?
No, but I don’t think there’s a single line that isn’t duplicated.
Seems like you could easily do a 4 line state tax return:
(1) What do you owe in federal taxes
(2) Multiply line (1) by X% to calculate your state taxes
(3) Enter state withholding
(4) Subtract line (3) from line (2) to calculate your payment or refund
Fun fact – contributions to my pension are untaxed federally, but taxed in NY (conversely withdrawls from it are untaxed in new york, don’t remember if they’re taxed federally).
There are other line items that have different tax treatment between fed and state, so while you could, it wouldn’t have the same social engineering value, and the DPRNY wouldn’t let that lever go.
Yeah, NY has a way longer social-engineering checklist than the feds. I’m not eligible for any of it but somehow my state taxable income is always different from the federal anyway.
Wait, a bill of attainder isn’t a legitimate legislative purpose?
Targeted legislation down to the individual seems rather tyrannical, to say the least.
Luckily, SCOTUS has just the man who can do the mind-reading necessary to strike this down.
Luckily, SCOTUS has just the man who can do the mind-reading necessary to
strike this downuphold this based on the pure hearts of the NY legislators and governor.Yeah, that is a distinct possibility.
Speaking of automotive regulation, I remember watching an old episode of Fifth Gear (Limey car show) where they were all agog over vehicle stability control systems. Do something stupid, and the car automatically makes a correction. They were all quite impressed. Not even Tiff Needell could get the thing on its lid.
And then they said, “And guess what- this will be mandatory on all vehicles sold in Europe as of [year X].”
My takeaway was the manufacturers dumped a shitload of money into developing these systems at the behest of (in collaboration with) regulators, but if they were merely “available options” they’d probably never get their money back. So they reluctantly consented to comply with a regulation forcing everybody to buy it.
Same with emissions. My understanding of the Obama rollback “controversy” is the manufacturers wanted a somewhat bigger time window, but still want to force the consumer to pay for all that development work.
That plus the CA conundrum. CA is a large market and the manufacturers do not want to go back to the days of CA market cars. So if the Feds forced CA requirements nationwide the manufacturers can throw up their hands and say they have no choice.
So, as usual, the rest of the US needs to subsidize compliance costs for CA regs.
The appropriate action is to state “California is not allowed to set separate standards for products sold in interstate commerce. The national standards are …” and state a much more lenient ruleset that wouldn’t have been out of place in Pre-EPA america.
And California can send representatives to Congress to legislate in favor of more stringent rules. What a simple, sensible compromise.
Naw, we’re returning the republic of california to puppet nation status.
It would be interesting to compare CA trade restrictions with those of Canada and Mexico under the new treaty. I wonder if CA mutlitudinous regs, requirements, and restrictions actually make it less of a “free trade zone” with the rest of the US than actual foreign countries.
Back in the old days, CA was too huge of a market to ignore. I wonder where they stand now…
CA has 1/10th of the population of the US. Which is a sizeable market, but not so sizeable that there isn’t a breaking point beyond which their nonsense is no longer worth the hassle.
They boiled that frog long ago. Companies need to be shocked out of compliance.
Yes, but also the highest poverty levels as well. I don’t have time to look for it now, but I’m gonna try to find their new car sales numbers.
11.7% of new vehicle registrations in 2018 according to These guys
When was it ever the case that some government invented something and then industry implemented it? It’s so tiresome to see folks outside an (my) industry taking credit for its progress.
Anyway, I’d put it this way: Do something stupid, and the car automatically
makes a correctionminimizes the risk. There is no miracle driver that knows where the pin is; face curvature, for example, can minimize gear effect on a toe hit, but if you face 180° in the wrong direction on the tee, nothing is bringing that drive back to the correct fairway.Hey, if making cars unaffordable results in fewer cars on the road, mission accomplished. Who cares that it’s hugely regressive to expect single-earner or single-parent families to drop thousands more on a car to shuffle her kids off to school and herself to work. She should have thought about that before
having a kidhaving a job.If you can’t afford $45k for a Green commuter vehicle, $500k for a Green 1 bedroom apartment, and $15/hr for all your Green employees, you should just kill yourself. You clearly can’t afford your mandatory Green health insurance premiums on top of all that so you’ll be a body piled in the street soon enough anyway.
#GreenNewDeal #GoKillYourselfForGaia
It’s pretty amazing they haven’t been leaked already by some #strongresistor within the IRS.
They’re still beating the bushes for somebody whose courage of his convictions includes a willingness to spend some time in a federal corrections facility in exchange for rescuing the nation from Public Enemy Number One. The Treasury Department still has some rules, you know.
AKA a useful idiot.