Hope you’ve all had a wonderful week so far. Mine has been a treat, as I’ve been able to come back and do these links again.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t take preseason football seriously, so I won’t even bother giving them. But I sure am ready for football to get here. Your winners last night in baseball were:Boston, Chicago (NL), Tampa, NY (NL), Atlanta, St Louis, Chicago (AL), Oakland, Los Angeles (NL) and the Houston Astros hung on after another great pitching outing from their starter and a very shaky 9th from the bullpen. But a win is a win!
I so want another meltdown like this. But in Round 1.
Just in case you were wondering about the US Open draw, here are a few interesting tidbits. Interesting that Sharapova and Serena get to play in Round 1. I’ll be getting my popcorn for the press conference if Sharapova wins that. Because I can assure you that Serena will go completely off the rails.
Alright, let’s get into some birthdays here. We’ve got pre-Belgian Charles Martel, headless king Louis XVI, dancer-actor Gene Kelly, TV’s Barbara Eden, The Who’s Keith Moon, 80s heartthrob Rick Springfield, drug connoisseur River Phoenix, basketball’s Kobe Bryant and funny man Jay Mohr. Congrats to you…and to you as well. You know who you are.
My God, I just noticed I’m getting behind and better hurry up so I can be on time with…the links!
I don’t know about you, but this is good news as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure the media will spin it as a sign of the impending financial apocalypse (that they’ll forget in December of next year and pivot to something else), but it would be nice to see prices keep falling.
It’d be hilarious if global warming put that underwater. Too bad it isn’t real.
Everybody is entitled to live where they want. Even if they think the rest of us shitmunchers “have made enough money at some point”. Double-points for screeching about global warming and then buying a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Pretty house though.
I never got this shit. Why do people go apeshit when someone has received a donation from a piece of shit? The correct response, as far as I’m concerned, would be to say “Yeah, he gave us $800k. We’re glad we have it so it can be put to better use than he’d have done with it. What he did was awful and we hope we put the donation to better use.” But no!!! Can’t do that. You have to go give the money away now to another charity and recalculate your budget. Because somehow the money was dirty when you got it but its not dirty when you send it somewhere else? Man, social signaling sucks.
San Francisco has announced a new large-scale program to build two new centers for the homeless to shoot up in and use as public toilets. But don’t worry. They won’t be built for six years, so they’re for the next crop of homeless.
Coming soon to Fremont!
Jimmy Carter is back to doing the thing he did best. Good for him. I wish more former politicians would get into actual charity work. It sets a good example that charity do more than government programs.
The next round of Dem debates may be crowded after all. I don’t care about Steyer, but I hope Tulsi makes it. Just so she can show she’s anti-war and the progs can go after her as a Russian stooge because she doesn’t want war. Plus because she’s pretty damn good looking.
Anyway, here’s today’s song. Be sure to turn the volume to max before you click the link. Trust me.
Anyway, have a great day. Yeah, you.
Just in case you were wondering about the US Open draw, here are a few interesting tidbits. I – I am not…
I don’t watch non-sports.
Yeah, but this is tennis.
The passtime of froggy Royalty.
Heh. I remember commenting back in 2004 on Slate that the Sharapova/Williams match was going to be “Beauty and the Beast”. Hoo boy did I get lambasted.
I think it was Slate…
It cracks me up that it is considered horrible to acknowledge that Serena is not nearly as pretty and feminine as Sharapova. If you don’t pretend otherwise, you must be unpersoned.
Every picture of Serena makes me kinda wonder if she’s on steroids.
I know, she’s got traps like an NFL linebacker.
The roid rage, too
I’ve never even considered that aspect, really. I just want her to do poorly because she’s an asshole. She doesn’t handle herself with grace when she loses. She belittles opponents and officials. She’s just…an asshole.
I really wish Venus had been the more successful of the two sisters. She was occasionally temperamental when she was really young but is a gracious, considerate player whose attitude and sportsmanship should be emulated.
Looking at that picture of Serena I see 2nd career possibilities.
Mob enforcer?
Bouncer?
STEVE SMITH WANT SLEEP SOMETIME! SERENA HOOMAN STAND IN FRONT OF CAVE. STEVE SMITH SLEEP THE SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT! SERENA USEFUL HOOMAN, NO RAPE, JUST PAY!
FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN HOOMAN HAVE JIB CUT STEVE SMITH LIKE. HAVE NEWSLETTER? STEVE SMITH SUBSCRIBE!
And by subscribe mean….
RAPE.
Has been?
Guinness World Record for deep throating a wine bottle?
Michelle O body double?
I bought an ONJ album just for the cover as a horny yute.
ONJ?
Olivia Newton-John. That’s a wedgie.
Like I was supposed to guess that?
Not thicc enough?
Her picture was on the main page for Sloopys post.
Related:
https://www.bullmoose.com/p/112454/ronstadt-linda-living-in-the-u-s-a-
That’s hilarious you posted that. I had that album. Same reason:)
Yeah, she was a firecracker!
Ultimate Linda Ronstadt cheesecake, and a wonderful album.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasten_Down_the_Wind
I always had a thing for her. Quirky and cute I like.
Looks like that wind was a bit chilly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_in_the_Trees
Hawt
OLD.
Get. Off. My. Lawn.
We call it wise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_Possum
“Ah yes, I remember it welllll”
Also Hawt
Good god, life before internet porn sounds like hell.
We took decades to get from softcore cheesecake to full on tentacle porn. That meant decades of being able to accelerate our porn as we got jaded. You kids started off at tentacles, where do you go from there?
There’s actually something to be said for letting your imagination do some of the work.
True Detective Magazines-14-Fourscore
The neighbor two doors down had a dad that would hang calendars with naked women in it inside of his delivery truck. That was the most incredible thing ever.
I don’t know about you, but this is good news as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure the media will spin it as a sign of the impending financial apocalypse (that they’ll forget in December of next year and pivot to something else), but it would be nice to see prices keep falling. – Buy yourself a nice electric car and you will not care about oil price and save mother earth
Well, that would necessitate the existance of a Nice electric car.
Do they make those in France?
Well, they have a plan for a plant that makes them, but the labor force hasn’t actually broken ground yet, as they have fifteen breaks and eighty nine vacation years left to use up before they can be asked to work.
They went on strike, they won’t actually start using the vacations and breaks until 2038.
Noice!
The media is desperate to bring down orange man. So when they could not get him impeached on trumped up charges, failed to gain ground with their “He’s a racialist” bullshit campaign, they opted to concoct an impending economic apocalypse hoping that would finally turn people against him.
Rapist
Racist
Russia
Recession
Re-election
The 5 Rs? or R to the fifth power?
RAPE!
RAPE!
RAPE!
RAPE!
BY RAPE, MEAN RAPE.
Coy…
You sweet talker, you!
I only know two words. Ball, and rape.
#tonightYou
this is good news as far as I’m concerned
I heard recently that TheBern! intends to tax the hell out of oil companies. Apparently TheBern! hates poor people that rely on gasoline for transportation/business/etc.
The poor people should be using mass transit, electric cars, or carbon neutral rickshaws!
/BernieBoy
Shank’s Mare.
It’s worked so well for Venezuela.
He not only wants to tax them into oblivion, he said yesterday that their executives should be criminally charged for ruining the planet.
And people all over the world were able to read his tweet…because oil companies provide the fuel necessary for people all over the world to read it. And heat their homes, get to work, cook their meals, make their water potable, etc, etc, etc.
Bernie sounds like the leader of “Jews For Hitler”
He would have been right at home in Lvov circa 1943.
He’s no leader, so he could have been George Soros’s assistant during the war.
*checks audio*
The highest it goes at work is “no audio device”.
I assumed you exempted yourself from taking any suggestions that might bring joy to your life.
Forgot the volume gloves in the car.
I’m good on dish soap for the time being.
“You’re soaking in it!”
It’s a New Dawn in America.
This brings me Joy
There’s a joke in there about palms soaked in olive oil but I just can’t seem to pull it off.
The puns just cascade at this time of day.
*narrows gaze*
Swiss is just upset because no one used Swiss brand dishsoap in their pun
You should try lotion instead.
Not sure why I should listen to the ad at max volume.
Great tune after the ad, though.
Damn you, YouTube!!!!!
::shakes fist impotently::
You should really see a Urologist about that problem, Sloopy old friend.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN MEDICAL ADVICE DISPENSING ONE. NO! THE PENIS IS EVIL! THE CHOSEN ONE KNOWN AS “SLOOPY” HAS CREATED ENOUGH NEW LIFE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
The Glib Cryptids have been roused from their slumber today.
Thank god TPTB haven’t let Cthulhu in.
It’s a shame that Charles Martel fought back the Moors for nothing.
RACIST
Did you want to prostrate east five time a day your whole life and have all the hot women covered in rugs? If not, thank Charlie.
I think he might be upset at the exclusion of the contribution of Vlad Tepes in that struggle. I tease but the real Dracula was a total badass and did as much as anyone to save Christendom.
Gave Europe 1400 years to fuck up on their own.
Ingrates are gonna ingrate…
Charles Martel 732: Here Europe! Don’t fuck it up.
Charles Martel 2019: /face palm.
At least we still have the cognac
This just in: Sharia declared in the Caliphate of France. Vineyards burnt, distilleries razed to the ground.
Walk right up. Step right in
If you’d like to take THE GRAND TOUR
“This way to the Great Egress!”
I thought it used to say “Arbeit Macht Frei”.
I’d rather be in the line for the “Strength Through Joy” ride at that amusement park.
In addition to being evil totalitarian fucks, the NADSP was weird.
Some Germans retained a sense of humor… the KdF was occasion for much…um, youth interaction:
And in the fields
and in the woods
I lost my Strength
through Joy.
This right here is why I can’t quit you, Glibertarians! *ugly cries*
No wonder the Nazis lost the war — they made their volleyballs way too big.
That’s not a volleyball!!
“You have to go give the money away now to another charity and recalculate your budget. Because somehow the money was dirty when you got it but its not dirty when you send it somewhere else? ”
That doesn’t make any sense.
It’s a form of redeeming the money. Usually by sending it from a charity people don’t like to people do like. It’s called money laundering.
Houdini, who was as great at exposing fraud as he was at stage magic, wrote about a classic fortune-teller trick whereby the fortune-teller would convince some widow that the source of her problems was that her late husband’s fortune was tainted and the only way to redeem things was to burn the evil, evil money. The money was to be sewn into bags provided by the fortune teller, then brought over for burning. Needless to say a switcheroo was pulled, fake money burnt, the widow poorer, the fortune teller richer.
That’s a much better variant than the one where you wrap a stack of paper in an identical bag and swap it, telling them “don’t open it until X date or the money will turn into plain paper,” because then you need to relocate by X date.
The burn variant works because you have the mark already convinced that the money’s gone. Another variant is to give them a ritual to open the “cleansed” money but don’t write it down so you can claim that their errors in the ritual are why all the ink vanished from their money. That last one can work very well if you are very sorry that you didn’t write down the ritual and help make them whole by giving them some of their money back.
Sounds like our Treasury department.
They are much more skilled. They just extract the value and leave the paper and ink in your possession.
Well, I suppose an amount that large might come with strings attached and you don’t want a bad person having a say over how it’s spent. For example if Epstein built a them new science building but put stipulated that CCTV must be installed in the ladies bathroom.
Easy enough stipluation to meet – put the monitors in the same bathroom.
At MIT? If you are going to do this have the sense to do it at an SEC or Pac 10 school.
When I was working in the Bay Area I rode the BART once.
Once.
Never again.
I have been accustomed to Japanese commuter trains – clean, safe, quiet. The BART is none of those things. Both cars I rode in smelled of stale piss. People were shouting into their call phones, set on speaker. On the ride downtown a bum was sleeping in the car. On the ride back there were a couple pretty obvious meth-heads.
Nope. Never again.
No one noticed the Kodiak on the BART?
“shouting into their call phones, set on speaker.”
I hate these people. Setting your phone on speaker should be a criminal offense and not just on the train.
The worst is walking through a sketchy area and approaching someone seemingly carrying on a conversation with themself. You get a little closer and realize it’s just a scruffy hipster on a bluetooth.
If the situation’s casual enough, I usually pretend I don’t realize it, and start responding to their questions/comments like they were talking to me, just to mess with them.
Have you ever seen a Chinese lady screaming at her phone? It’s hard to pry your eyes from the scene. Sounds like she’s threatening to murder him, but probably is just asking him to pick up some soy sauce on the way home.
Too many times to count my friend, too many times.
Also Russian and Hebrew are equally jarring. Most of the times the Spanish is just too damn loud however.
That’s just a wife showing her husband how much she appreciates being able to humiliate his sorry ass..
Lol.
I like my jokes doused with stereotypes.
I see what you did there….
Good. You’re gonna love my crossword on Monday.
Sorry, for 30+ minute conference calls when I’m working from home, the phone will be on speaker or I’ll be using computer audio. I do not put any phone on speaker phone when I’m in the office (or gods forbid, in public).
I also need to type when on troubleshooting converence calls, and often these happen at odd hours on a cell phone.
I do not put any phone on speaker phone when I’m in the office…
As a cubicle dweller, it’s disgusting when to office holders (that are 40ft apart) call the other and both are on speaker phone.
It’s like Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech in the office.
When I go into the office, I’ve gotten to sit in the center of 3-4 people all on the same conference call, with at least 2 of them (usually 3) having the same call on speakerphone. It’s madness.
I’ve got this problem with my new (used S8) phone. People can barely hear me. They say it sounds as if I’m far away or muffled. The problem disappears if I switch to speaker or use bluetooth. Unfortunately, I can’t switch phones because Xfinitiy Mobile only let’s you bring your own phone one time to their service.
I’m still trying to figure out to fix this. Using the speaker out in public is not something I want to do.
I know how to fix that:
1. Open settings
2. Go to volume settings
3. Go to Verizon store and exchange it for an iPhone XS
I bet Sandi took a shit there, once.
On my one and only trip to Chicago, for New Year’s Eve 1998, I was visiting my friend from college who had graduated the year before me and moved there. While he was at work, I wandered around the city. Since it was the end of December and the high temp for the trip was 19 degrees, I did most of it on the train. Those cars stank to high heaven. There was a wino sitting in front of me for a while, and I remember looking with horror at the floor as a trickle of urine worked its way back to my seat after the drunk bastard pissed himself.
*dons foil hat*
SLOOPYANON!
“BART anticipates that construction on the two-story station will begin after 2022, and expects it to be completed in 2026.”
So 2030?
To start construction.
2050 to declare it “done” despite the myraid issues and structural failures.
2051 for when they agitate for funding to replace the ‘decrepit’ station.
…because the project started in 2019 and it only had a projected useful life of 20 years.
Just in time for The Big One
“It’s estimated the couple is worth $135 Million”
America. Land of the racists.
Bet Michelle is proud now…
for co-piloting the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs?
::yikes::
I always say I was never ashamed of my country until the second time they elected her husband.
Although my country did at least redeem itself slightly by rejecting Hillary.
^^Nods^^
Stupid is as stupid does…
And so many people voted a second time for this empty suit just to virtue signal. I remind them all that it was that choice, amongst others that were just as blatantly stupid, that gave us orange man.
He beat McCain and Romney. It’s not like team red was offering top shelf competition.
That is true, but the media’s
coordinated attackinvestigative journalism employed against Romney was pretty damn shameful.Binders full of women!
Yeah, I didn’t go there straff, because i am left having to always choose to either vote for the lesser of two evils, or to just sit it out. If I sit it out, I can’t complain without guilt.
“If I sit it out, I can’t complain without guilt.”
I have no problem not voting. Or complaining.
And effectively killed the Tea Party, too.
And yet, if our next President is Democrat I would rather it be him than the rubes currently running.
I was going to reply that I, unfortunately, agree with you. But there’s no way that all 327 of those candidates are actually as liberal as they are saying they are right now. There’s a shit-load of pandering going on. There has to be someone better than Obama in that gaggle.
/eternal optimist
Sure, but none of them are in the top 3 or 5.
That is likely true.
Do they still ride around in a Secret Service convoy? I bet the locals will very quickly come to despise the Obama’s and the hassle of having them around.
No ex-president needs secret service protection.
The bodyguards are only needed for the current officeholder.
Needs has nothing to do with it.
All the more reason to take them away.
They are no longer employed by the federal government, we, the taxpayers should not be paying for ANYTHING associated with them.
They can pay for their own fucking staff and probably get better return for the money. There must be thousands of ex special forces types out there after twenty years of pointless warring in shit-holes that could run circles around the secret service.
Whatever they do with their own money is up to them.
I am just sick of paying for Carter, Bubba, GW, and Barry.
I meant “should”.
I think GWB pushed it down to… 10 years after? So yes.
That change got undone during Barry’s tenure. It’s back to for ‘life’.
Well he is in exceptional danger, being the second Black President and all.
Ex-community organizer makes good…
Too bad my kids are grown and gone. Waitaminute! I’ve got seven grandchildren to coach. All is not lost!
Plus because she’s pretty damn good looking.
Well, yea. I really just want something nice to look at while listening to the leftist insanity. If only someone would teach Tulsi economics.
Gabbard,
Steyerinch toward making third Democratic debateI’m inching out as well, if you take my meaning…
HEY NOW!
YOU”RE A ROCK STAR?
This. She’s somewhat attractive for a middle-aged woman. Then she starts talking and all I can see is the inner leftist ugliness. So she’s against foreign wars but just fine with the Federal Government stripping me of my earnings and my liberties.
Speaking of Tulsi- I saw a couple of shiny new “Tulsi” stickers on the back of a shiny new piickup truck, yesterday. The person in the driver’s seat was a female with lots of tattoos, and a fish hook in her nose. For what it’s worth.
The one that got away?
*narrows gaze*
Ok, that made me laugh.
That is why you always give them a love tap with the fish billy.
These euphemisms…
Amateur. That’s what the live trap is for.
Uffda. You want to rape a live woman? Sicko!
Legit LOL.
“Just so she can show”
I was expecting the next words to be “her tits”. I think I might be spending too much time here.
NEVAR!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7386449/Demi-Rose-shows-famous-curves-tiny-snakeskin-bikini-sizzling-photoshoot-Bali.html
One-trick Tuber.
I don’t care how many times the Count shows us these articles, I am never going to buy the merch at the bottom. It’s way overpriced and it makes my butt look big.
I’d like to see her try to go snorkeling in one of these photoshoots, just to see how buoyant the augmented parts are.
You’ve never seen “Anaconda”? J-Lo’s butt was sticking out of the water like an un-moored mine.
Haven’t seen it, but that’s exactly the hilarious visual I imagined.
So will all the women that will be coming forward to sue Epstein’s estate be accused of taking dirty money?
They’ve got a right to civil relief. But I don’t see why MIT has to give away money they’d otherwise use for good research just because it came from a piece of shit.
Nobody asked the Clintons to return the billions they got from all those third world despite.
Lloyd, the MIT professor, said he visited Epstein during his prison term in Florida and that after his release, he resumed attending discussions Epstein convened with other scientists and accepted two grants from his foundation, one in 2012 and another in 2017.
He visited the pedo while he was in prison. MIT can keep it because the guy is dead after all. That professor is a scumbag IMO.
Thinks back to Werner Von Braun and his ilk. Yeah, autists can be pretty damn cold.
Heh. “Just let me to my work.”
Some rats are more equal than others
Southern California developers have long sought relief from regulations protecting wildlife, and earlier this month the Trump administration obliged, formally moving to weaken the federal Endangered Species Act.
But any boon for business could be short-lived — California is stepping in to protect species left vulnerable by federal rollbacks.
The California Fish and Game Commission, for example, recently declared the San Bernardino kangaroo rat a candidate for the state endangered species list, a decision that could create legal obstacles for a 8,407-home development in Rialto.
The panel issued its decision after a nonprofit group, the Endangered Habitats League, argued that intervention was urgently needed to protect the rodent, a federally listed species, from threats including urban sprawl and President Trump’s “politicization of federal regulatory agencies.”
——
When the Endangered Habitats League petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission to intervene, the group argued that the Trump administration’s politicization of federal environmental agencies threatened the rat’s survival.
“State listing is a necessary backstop to the disregard of law and science by federal government agencies under the current administration,” said Dan Silver, executive director of the Endangered Habitats League.
In issuing its decision, the state commission declined to endorse Silver’s argument about the politicization of federal agencies. But it did agree the rat might be in trouble.
I really like this new talking point about “Trump’s politicization of [X]”. Any alteration of the Ascended One’s preferred policies is politicization: of science, of economics, of nutrition, of everything.
Elections have consequences. I heard that somewhere. I think Herbert Hoover said it.
the San Bernardino kangaroo rat
Great. More typhus carriers hopping around
No one needs more than 23 kinds of rats.
Under socialism you get plenty of rats….
They’ve been doing that since at least Reagan.
Mister, we could use a man like him again.
The state is having an affordable housing crisis for rats.
The left has been busy politicizing every fucking facet of American life for the past two decades, so forgive me if I laugh at any of them complaining about anyone else doing the same thing.
Isn’t that from Atlas Shrugged?
No, that was about the gauls in north africa.
Rat Lass Shrugged is some kind of furry BDSM novel
I think it was from Watership Down
I just want to say that I missed Sloopy links. Not disparaging Banjos, or any one else, (well…maybe Spudaliscous) I just really like Sloopy’s style.
There, I said it.
Go on…
Yeah, Tulpa changes the socks once in a while to keep it “interesting”
I’ll second that. I enjoy all the links and all the linkists individual styles, and it’s nice to see sloopy having the time to drop some of his brand on us.
::blushes in embarrassment::
Sorry Tulsi, but if you can’t crack 2% in a field led by Joe Biden it may be time to go independent.
She did, but the DNC redefined which polls would be counted as “Reliable” to exclude her.
Some one just needs to hack their servers so we can find out who the winner will be.
Whoever they introduce at the convention as a compromise candidate.
It isn’t going to be Special K. You know you aren’t the Chosen One when Politifact calls your claims only ‘Partially True’. To the outsider it might not seem bad, but it is like a Korean kid getting a B. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Who will rate Politifact?
I am fairly certain any kind of violent offense against anyone will mean you have problems buying a gun. Wife, girlfriend, mugging a stranger on the street, it doesn’t matter.
True or not true ratings from all of the fact checking sites means ‘fits the narrative’ or ‘doesn’t fit the narrative’.
Tariffs driving jobs from China . . . . to VietNam
But the emerging NC sees okay: Unemployment is down to 4.3%, and the furniture business has found stability on a smaller scale. Americans’ finickiness over sofa fabrics has led to a resurgent custom-order business insulated from Asian competition. Remaining factories are offering $2,000 hiring bonuses and wages of as much as $35 an hour.
I have absolutely no problem with this, though I’m probably biased towards Vietnam because of the bahn mi and the open minded hotties of Austin and Houston.
They were pushing Liz and KamKam but I’m guessing they’ll focus on the squaw now.
Then she really didn’t. At least in the polls that count.
Well, if you only go by after the rules were changed to make it harder for her to qualify.
She played the game and after what they did to Bernie last go round, I don’t have much sympathy for her.
I don’t have sympathy, but things like this give clues to what’s going on behind closed doors where the party is picking their candidate.
It’s pretty bad when they give you a list of characters and then squelch all but the one they want you to choose. Just give it to whoever you want and skip the formalities.
No goodthinkful voter would pick anyone but the party’s choice, it’s inconceivable.
This is a recipe for the radicalized base staying home.
Hide ya kids, hide ya wife. They gropin’ er’body out here.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will bring his presidential campaign to Virginia next week as he plans to visit Richmond for a fundraiser.
Biden, who is considered one of the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, has yet to visit the Commonwealth during his third campaign for the presidency. A person with knowledge of the trip told 8News Wednesday that he is traveling to Richmond on Aug. 27 for a “Biden for President finance event.”
Swanky fundraisers for the common man.
So I should expect the Biden coming home to Scranton to show us his grand pappy was a coal miner, eat some pizza, then split.
” Biden didn’t hesitate to play up his middle-class Scranton roots during the 2008 campaign, frequently referencing the city in stump speeches and taking reporters to visit his boyhood home, where he would reminisce about his aunt’s rice pudding. Friends confirmed his account of an idyllic, all-American childhood that featured Little League games and wholesome pranks, and one local newspaper reporter noted approvingly that Biden “can name city streets, churches, old-time politicians and businesses that operated here.”
He wasn’t the only candidate in that year’s election cycle to highlight his ties to the city. While competing in the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton heavily emphasized her personal connection to Scranton, where her grandfather worked in a lace mill. Though Obama ultimately clinched the nomination, Clinton won Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary. The Obama campaign may have taken note: At the Democratic National Convention that year, Obama introduced his vice-presidential pick as “a scrappy kid from Scranton who beat the odds.”
Article link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/21/trump-biden-scranton-pennsylvania-deserted-delaware/?noredirect=on
Biden: Where am I?
Aide: Scranton?
Biden (eating Doritos): Man, you’ve changed.
Aide to another aide: Prepare index cards.
^ Ha!
I WAS THE ONE WHO TRANSLATED “ALL STAR” INTO ARAMAIC AND BACK PLEASE STOP THANKS
https://isaacwritesaboutmusic.com/2018/08/20/i-was-the-one-who-translated-all-star-into-aramaic-and-back-please-stop-thanks/
Do Walking on the Sun!
Get back to me when you’ve capitalized and punctuated all of e e cummings works.
A real man will stand by his wife even if she’s pregnant for another man.
https://twitter.com/Toke__________/status/1164201641622605824
Shutup whore
I love how women think they get to define what a “real man” is, which oddly enough is always something that serves the interests of women to the detriment of men.
And don’t forget that it is a moving target, subject to change without any need of prior notification, let alone an acknowledgement that they have changed it, so they can maximize their ability to manipulate….
Agreed. And the types of women who say shit like that do not merit the attention of a “real man”. It’s never a woman who’s working two jobs to pay for tuition or a single mother successfully raising her kids, it’s always some thot with a bedazzled smartphone and a selfie stick who wants someone to pay for her yoga pants.
In this case, I’d say a real man would have this bitch served with papers with an 8 x 10 of him bangin’ her sister as the cover sheet.
Now that’s a creative way to make a point…
Gonna need to start banging some sisters…
Wait. What if they have no sisters?
The Mom you silly! Do you even Pornhub, Bro/
Dau…oh, Mommmmm, that’s what I was gonna say too.
When I hear a woman utter “there aren’t any real men left these days”, it’s almost always a woman who has absolutely nothing to contribute to a relationship. And while she’s demanding a man “like men used to be”, it never occurs to her that she in no way resembles a woman like women used to be. They want to behave like millennial thots and get a 1950s gentleman in return.
I absolutely understand that a person can become frustrated when one relationship after another just seems to fail. But this isn’t a man thing; this is a human thing. There’s only a small portion of the population that is compatible with you in a relationship, and some people are just downright scumbags. But men face the same thing in their relationships with women.
She means a man like her castrated father that always said “Yes Ma’am”, saluted and kept on washing the dishes.
I get into mild disagreements with the missus along similar lines. This is a woman who doesn’t want our daughter to watch “princess movies” because she doesn’t want her to get the message that she needs to be rescued, because Girls Can Do Anything and then, with absolutely no sense of irony declare that taking out the trash or mowing the lawn is a man’s job, or scream and ask me to get rid of a spider or a cricket. Now, she works, and she contributes what I consider a fair share to the common weal so to speak, but every know and again when she gets a little too Gloria Steinem I find I need to point out that she can’t reliably distinguish a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver.
I see she’s trying to get out in front of that one.
‘Man’, no. ‘Cuck’, sure.
“Pregnant for another man”. That doesn’t sound right.
The guy needed a baby for some reason, and she is helping em out?
Surrogate mom for her gay BFF?
The guy is only gay so he can pork her?
Good to know triflin’ bitches are an international phenomenon.
I know a guy who did this – he came back from a 6-month deployment to find his wife 3 months pregnant. He decided to forgive her and try to work it out. SURPRISE! – it didn’t work.
Once that line is crossed, there is no way to repair the damage done. Whatever you pretend, trust is gone. Then it is a matter of time for things to devolve. Many people think it is noble to try and rise above that. It is not.
Yeah, that’s a bridge too far. Fuck that shit. I don’t cheat and I demand the same fealty to the relationship that I’m providing. If it ain’t working, fine. Let’s amically part ways before things get really fucked up and complicated.
For sure. I think it’s a great thing to forgive someone in that situation, but forgiveness isn’t a magic wand that fixes a mistake. You acknowledge that people are inherently flawed and prone to make mistakes, you forgive them for it, and you hold them accountable while also looking out for yourself and your family.
Not that same guy with the kitties below, is it?
https://i.imgflip.com/2l1qxz.jpg
hahahahahahaha
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A real wife stands be her man while he bangs the maid. Nobody talks about this.
Haha, nice.
And that actually hits on the first thing I thought of when I read that original tweet: We have a situation right now where it’s perfectly acceptable for women to demand things from men on the grounds that “a real man” should do it, yet you’d be condemned as the world’s most horrible misogynist if you told a woman to do something and insisted that “a real woman would do this for her man”.
OK, I probably missed the discussion of this bullshit while I’ve been busy but WTF?
Sounds like someone at the CDC has decided it is time to break Big Vaping to the whip. I thought it was just a Minnesoda story when our Dept of Health was breathlessly reporting on it a week or so ago.
While state investigators are still verifying that the injuries are associated with vaping,
So they don’t actually know.
but it’s part of 153 POSSIBLE CASES, what part of math don’t you get, fucking denier.
#SettledScience
I wonder how much vaping has cut into the tax revenue tobacco brings in. Must be a lot.
I notice that despite all of the panic over vaping no one ever seems to detail how the harm occurs. Vaping juice contains what chemicals that cause the harm? Always with the nebulous ’caused harm’ without ever explaining how or why.
overheating and bad e-juice are the only two root causes, I think.
My guess is that nicotine and something else some companies are using are pretty severe vasoconstrictors that amplify each other and these young people are using enough, often enough that they failed to develop a robust lung capacity. I’ll further guess that this is totally reversible by moderating their vaping and doing something that builds vascular capacity like running, swimming, hiking, or farm chores.
“My guess is that nicotine and something else some companies are using are pretty severe vasoconstrictors that amplify each other”
That sounds like an awfully wild guess, and I never heard of nicotine vape juice that contained any other drug besides nicotine.
I was specifically thinking that many of these use glycerol and propylene glycol. Both of these *should* be available in high purity at any industrial quantity. I’m not sure where people are buying their supplies from. If you’ve ever done a search for industrial ingredients, there are a ton of sketchy China-based suppliers who will claim to be able to ship you anything. So if you’re trying to start a vape juice company on a shoe-string and don’t have either the education or the industry experience to understand the sourcing risks, you could introduce all sorts of trace chemicals into your juice.
I’m a big proponent of vaping. It’s safer than smoking, and should be aggressively pushed on anyone you love that is smoking tobacco or Magog’s Green Scrollwork.
BUT – vaping causes inflammation of the airways, even when done perfectly. Inflammation from any source causes cell division. Cell division is causally linked to cancer.
Nicotine, even when administered in pure form (ie without the associated smoke or vape carriers) cause inflammation of… shit, I forget which tissue. But some kind of tissue. Inflammation from any source causes cell division. Cell division is causally linked to cancer.
THC, even when administered in pure form (ie without any associated smoke or vape carriers) impairs your ability to determine that weed-based jokes are not funny. An inability to to determine that weed-based jokes are not funny is a leading cause of being fucking annoying and wearing baja jackets.
a leading cause of being fucking annoying and wearing baja jackets.
iow Worse Than Cancer
I was a teenager in the late 90’s. I’ve seen (baja jacket wearing degenerates) things.
“cases that were detected at Children’s hospitals ”
So we don’t know why they were originally admitted. Or what they were looking for at the hospital. Or what kind of results showed up for whatever possible range of danger they were looking for.
A link to the original story.
Both stories managed to slip in a small statement that the people injured had also used vape pens to vape marijuana too. My guess is that some yahoo made a bad batch of MJ juice and people got sick.
This statement gave the story away though:
So this is the State looking for a reason to get their hooks into Vapers.
“Most of the cases in Minnesota involved people younger than 18, said Health Department spokesman Doug Schultz. Investigators aim to determine if certain products or vaping devices are responsible for the new rash of cases. Many of the injured teens were consuming marijuana-based THC products, but traditional nicotine e-cigarettes could be involved.”
Most, many, could…. Can you be more vague?
So already illegal, and not nicotine vaping.
One assumes that the products they were consuming were also not registered with the FDA and sold OTC, no?
https://mnmarijuana.com/marijuana-laws/
Also, where the jazz lettuce is legal, THC vaping uses difference equipment than nicotine vaping. I’m guessing if someone tried to put THC oil in a nicotine atomizer it would catch fire.
That’s not what I was promised atomizers would be like.
Atom Eyes.
Right, you were expecting it to be a belt worn by a college professor too?
Nope, I’ve been seeing reports of up to 100 teenagers being hospitalized with an unknown illness that’s obviously vaping related.
I fucking love vague and unsubstantiated FUD!
Teenagers are also the only cohort of people who overdose on nutritional supplements. Should we also ban those for everyone?
You need to hang out at better gyms.
Gotta make weight
My local news is also running a “X Number of Our Precious Future Felled by Vape Poison in Our Fair Town”.
….story.
Wtf is wrong with people?
Deputies got a call around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday about a small grey pickup truck driving eastbound on Jefferson Highway (Rt. 33) near the Northeast Creek Reservoir with kittens being thrown out the window.
Animal control officers responded and found two kittens around 6 weeks old in the road. Deputies say one was already dead when they arrived and the second died while being taken to the vet.
On Thursday, 8News spoke with Chief Animal Control Officer Alyssa Ellison, who responded to the scene, about the details surrounding the case. She said it was the first time in 15 years that she has seen something this cruel.
“I wouldn’t even begin to know how to describe somebody that would do this,” Ellison said. “Six weeks old, pretty tiny. Can fit in my hand.”
Ellison told 8News that a woman called to report the incident.
“The caller stated that someone was throwing kittens out of the window,” she explained.
Ellison says when she arrived, one of the kittens had already died and a second was being rushed to the veterinarian.
“Anytime you have an animal pass away it’s hard,” Ellison said Thursday. “Trying to rush it to the vet and having it die in your lap is even harder.”
Ellison mentioned that the spot where she found the kittens was just four miles away from the county’s animal shelter.
“There was no need to toss them out of the window,” she said. “When you’re that close to the animal shelter, you could’ve just easily stopped and surrendered them there.”
Police were not able to get car tags but know the person was driving a small grey pickup truck. If caught, the person responsible could face two counts of animal cruelty, which is now a felony in Virginia.
Scum. Awful.
Didn’t mean to associate your name there, sorry
You know, I was out at the local a couple years ago and one of the regulars, an older guy who’s clearly reached the constantly buzzed and chatty stage of retirement, was talking to me about something I don’t remember. Somehow the topic of his childhood came up and he casually mentioned having to drown kittens while living on a farm. I never got that, although I know it was and maybe still is a thing. Why would you “need” to do that?
They didn’t spay, and if you let the local cat population get out of control, it causes problems.
Honest question: what kinds of problems? And wouldn’t those problems be solved by things like foxes, coyotes, and the elements? I’ve never lived on a farm but I’ve been around feral and “outside” cats all my life, and it seems like if half the kittens of the litter survive absent human intervention they’re lucky.
You’ve never had to deal with a cat infestation. They become as or more destructive than the foxes/coyotes/etc. Not a good thing if you have small livestock like chickens.
Cats can have half a dozen kittens in a liter and have half a dozen litters a year, and can reach sexual maturity by 6 months. Even if you have 50% mortality that gets into a serious cat problem very rapidly.
apparently kittens fit 6 to a liter. I need to get bonsaikitty to check this.
Too damn many cats, not enough people that want them.
We have all those breeds of dogs and cats bred for specific tasks because people culled out the ones unsuited to their needs. It was just how things were done. They weren’t worth gelding like a male horse you weren’t going to breed.
having to drown kittens
I have also heard talk of a lot of “choking the chicken” on farms. Must be a lonely place. ///jk
But yes, there has to be a better way. And I thought cats were kept around farms in order to keep the rodent population down.
My gramma who lived on a farm would “baptize the kitties” every year or two. The farm cats out in the barn would have too many litters and there would be too many cats living in the barn.
If you left them alone, I’m sure the population would have gone through the same cycles as any other population, but when there are too many, you end up with starving/sick cats in your barns (and trying to eat your chickens). So the farm relatives would scoop up as many as they could and drown them in the river.
Sounds monstrous, but I think it was something that had to happen. All the rest of their livestock was well treated and they were nice people.
Inbreeding gets you all sorts of fucked up kittens in about 5 years. 2 litters of 6-8 each year per female with females reaching sexual maturity in about a year and a half. Its like a tiny West Virginia holler played at 10x speed.
It wasn’t unusual at all.
Farming, particularly subsistence farming, will make you a realist in a hurry.
There’s no need to toss them out the window of a moving vehicle though.
You people are burying the lede. I want to know more about this “constantly buzzed and chatty stage of retirement”.
My boring life just became aspirational.
Wonder what was the last thing that went through those poor kitties heads.
One of the reasons I’m going to hell is because when I saw this comment I thought, “Jesus, that’s a softball. I’ll leave that for someone else.”
It was a softball for TedS. The answer is, “an apostrophe”.
*kitties head’s
Gravel?
The same thing that went through this lady’s head? (nsfw)
She’s dead. What a waste of those knockers. RIP.
Yeah. She seemed fun.
Not gonna click “Play”, because I can guess what happens.
So, our neighbor across the street from a few years ago was a city cop, and she was telling us about a call she responded to one night on a kind of famously narrow but congested street downtown. The “historic” downtown area has really, really narrow streets, as you’d imagine, and there isn’t really anywhere to widen them because they’re surrounded by historic buildings, so you wind up with 1.5 lane roads that are main thoroughfares. On one, they haven’t gotten around to burying the lines, so there are poles and guy wires right next to the street. Well, one night, some kid goes to pick up his girlfriend on his new motorcycle. She sneaks out of the house type of thing and hops on back. Well, the kid hauls ass down this street. He’s weaving around cars and loses control of the bike at speed, colliding with one of these poles, guy wire first. The way he hits the wire it cuts through his head, neck, and upper torso, killing him instantly. The girl does a little better, losing a shoulder. She was still alive when our neighbor got there, but well on her way out.
Isn’t six weeks really old to be doing that? Aren’t they weaned by then?
You want to goad old Festus into a murderous rage? This is how you goad old Festus into a murderous rage…
“We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.”
It reads as though he was talking about banks making enough; not people. But when you listen to the audio he sounds like he’s talking about people. I’m partial to the later.
What a great orator, eh?
Anyway.
He made his money by not providing a good product or a good service – unless you count being a mediocre President as being ‘good service’.
They scored the two of them. Worst kind of virtue signallers. Those who tell people what to do as they raise a glass of champagne.
How much is enough Obamas? Pray do tell us all!
Quick – we need another boogeyman!
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79
Why didn’t he still a small child to put his brain in?
that makes no sense.
“still” = “steal” + “kill”?
Hot gal is better!
I Will Fear No Evil
Just about perfectly on point too!
That’s putting the tranny in reverse.
I don’t care how you put the tranny in, just keep away from my tail pipe!
Oh dear me I can just imagine the comments at DU.
Why imagine?
They seem nice.
The Nick Gillespie of philanthropy.
One of my FB ‘friends’ posted “Goodbye FUCKFACE I hope it hurt.”
The vitriol from the left is astounding.
If you do so when one of their pretenders that aspired to give people like Mao, Stalin, or Pol Pot a run for their money dies, you however will be accused of inciting violence.
Sorry, man. Missed that for some Reason.
問題ない!
What you did there… I see’s it, I does.
It’s time to lawyer up, team. Surely there’s language somewhere in the will to the tune of, “I bequeath $X to reason-dot-com or any successor website.”
Chris, you mendacious cunt.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews described President Donald Trump as “heading up skyward in the craziness department.”
Matthews said, “He wants to fight with everybody, including the quiet, American-loving Danes.”
He continued, “I think going to war with Denmark is still freaking news. I’m sorry. It still makes my list. This is like a Mel Brooks movie.”
He added, “He wants to go to war over Greenland if you wrote this description in Hollywood, nobody would buy it.”
Matthews concluded, “If we were in a hospital and a good nurse or doctor we would have a chart with a very strong diagonal line heading up skyward in the craziness department.”
I didn’t know he was still around.
Has Trump said anything anything even remotely like this?
Verbal war which is worse than bomby war.
No, but Chris Matthews is mentally ill. Seriously, I think he’s one or two years away from being completely off the rails. He reminds me of the homeless schizophrenics you sometimes see.
Yeah, he also thinks the Danes are “American-loving”.
Trump: I’ve been to Denmark. Good people. Believe me. Great Danes!
That was ruff!
I stole that (reworked) from Eddy at Reason.
He should sack up, take his meds, apologize and come back.
Apologize for what?
I’m not au courant with the soap opera drama around here.
For being a massive drama queen spaz.
What Straff said.
Why do you think Trump actually has to do something stupid/evil before they go and accuse him of doing that something stupid/evil? Shit, you are not woke brah.
Offering to buy land – which the Americans have been eying since the 19th century including Truman later – equals picking a fight?
Got it.
Asshole. Everyone is an asshole.
*raises hand and lifts chin in an arrogant fashion*
Selection should favor mating preferences that increase the chooser’s reproductive success. Many previous studies have shown that the women men find most attractive in well-nourished populations have low body mass indices (BMIs) and small waist sizes combined with relatively large hips, resulting in low waist-hip ratios (WHRs). A frequently proposed explanation for these preferences is that such women may have enhanced health and fertility; but extensive evidence contradicts this health-and-fertility explanation. An alternative view is that men are attracted to signs of nubility and high reproductive value, i.e., by indicators of physical and sexual maturity in young women who have not been pregnant.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513819300418
“I want the bitch to not look like/be a heifer” is no longer a kosher way to describe the motivation/desire factor?
I thought that this was “settled science”. A “consensus”, if you will.
I think the confusion was sowed when Sir MixALot started singling about liking big butts.
Sir Mixalot didn’t become a cultural hero because his phat beats were unprecedented and the big butts hitchhiked in. He became a cultural hero because he broke taboo, spoke a silent truth, and initiated a preference cascade that went against the orthidoxy of the time that was maintained by the matriarchy in the media elites.
Václav Havel wrote about it in his essay “The Power and the Powerless: The Greengrocers wife be THICC”
Maybe I prefer to breed with women who have the self-control / brainpower to delay gratification instead of stuffing their fat faces with carbs and sweets? And those attributes might be passed on to my offspring?
When the authors said “such women may have enhanced health and fertility” that’s what they meant.
NPR digs up dirt
The quiet implosion of the relationship between the Republican Main Street Caucus and the Republican Main Street Partnership comes at a consequential time for the GOP. The party is struggling to recruit more centrist, diverse, female candidates to give Republicans a fighting chance at winning a House majority again in 2020. “Now is the time we need it,” said one source.
“It’s been heartbreaking to watch,” said a second source, who added: “We saw so much opportunity to really build a first-class infrastructure.” The pervasive, ongoing concerns about Chamberlain and her management simply raised too many red flags to continue work in a caucus that shared its name, multiple sources said.
Lawmakers in the Republican Main Street Caucus had no oversight of the private Republican Main Street Partnership or control over its decision-making, but politically, the public would be less likely to differentiate the two if it were ever caught up in a scandal.
NPR wants you to know the moderate Republicans are in disarray. Convoluted “inside politics” story about political consultant/electioneering group for moderate Republicans. The only thing I learned is that the entire election finance apparatus should be burned to the ground.
It’s self-serving parasites, all the way down.
Trump won last time. There must be something wrong deep in the bowels of the Republican Party because we can’t fathom any reason that Hillary and the Democrats lost.
I was unaware that the GOP doesn’t have a fighting chance to hold the House in the next election.
Well they don’t. They have a pretty good chance of retaking it though.
Er… the Senate. Ugh, nevermind.
*Hangs head in shame*
Among religious ‘nones,’ atheists and agnostics know the most about religion
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/21/among-religious-nones-atheists-and-agnostics-know-the-most-about-religion/
Not surprising.
Interesting the jews are well educated about world religions too.
15/15, but only because they didn’t list “Isaac” as one of the answers.
Evangelical christians outscore mainline.
Not a surprise, but it goes against the stereotype.
That was overall, mainline slightly ahead on world religions, but evangelicals crush them on the bible.
Splitting atheists, agnostics, and “nothing in particular” into three categories is slicing the baloney pretty thin. Especially when they don’t normalize “atheists” for “anti-Christians” like the New Atheists, who claim to be atheist but so influence by the Christian worldview that they can’t disentangle religion from divinity (like say a Buddhist does.)
Time to break in my new balance minimus. Normally would have been something from Nike but fuck you Kapernick.
I just replaced my Nikes, which weren’t that old, with Brooks because the Nkes started to squeak withing a month after buying them.
I’ve heard good things about brooks. A lot of people in the hospital wear them.
They’re very comfortable.
These were what I bought.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDKOAPY?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
That’s a good looking shoe.
I’ve bounced between Brooks and Saucony and like both. The Brooks held up better for my Flinstone feet. By 300 miles my pinky toe was wearing through the Saucony.
I had the same thing happen with saucony. I’ve had my mizunos for years.
I’ve been a Brooks devotee for 20 or so years now. At times I was running 40 miles a week in them, too. They have been helpful in defending against foot issues.
I have Merrills now, but really liked the NB. Trail shoes?
Gym shoes.
probably the best value for gym shoes i’ve gotten lately has been the discounted prior-year Reebok Nanos: https://www.roguefitness.com/shoes/crossfit-shoes/reebok-nano?p=2
very stable shoe for squatting or anything overhead. not good runners though fyi.
new balance tend to be more comfortable for me… then nike addidas and many others. Lacoste are rarely comfortable for example.
Honestly I still don’t get the Kapernick thing. who cares?
About the froman? No one.
About the constant scolding by people who hate us in venues where it’s not even relevent? That gets on the nerves after a while.
He’s a cunt and I don’t care to be lectured at by a Fidel Castro fan.
You want to protest, fine. When you say just being an american makes you a racist, that’s when we have nothing left to discuss. If that is what Nike wants to be their motto, they won’t get anymore of my money.
Hope you like them. NB minimus don’t come in my size, but I do have the nike minimal shoe. Only brand I’ve found that fit, and I like them well enough. Would have preferred NB but they couldn’t make it happen for me.
New Balance, the preferred shoe of the autist. Can be ordered by number.
+574
He made his money by not providing a good product or a good service – unless you count being a mediocre President as being ‘good service’.
He was/is a marketing wizard.
At that mid century age where the optometrist told me I had to choose between seeing far, seeing up close or being kind of able to do both if I still want to wear contacts. Now I can’t really read so well nor check out the nice asses on the escalator. Hate middle age.
I got lasiks, then cataract surgery 7 years later. I see pretty well but need readers.
No problems over time?
Very slight degradation where I need readers for computer work. I could go without them but I do a lot of spreadsheet work so it’s easier to use them. But I came from being legally blind without my glasses to being able to see exceptionally well. The only thing I have any issues with is seeing presentations on a screen at medium distances away. Have trouble seeing smaller print. I just go to meetings early and sit in the front. I can read street signs although it’s a little harder at night.
I got LASIK back in 2000, had to go back to glasses in 2017. Worth it though, and my near vision is still good.
I switched off contacts to progressive lenses.
I made it to 49 without needing reading glasses and I tried a few months of contacts plus reading glasses, then switched to glasses in January.
Go for the seeing up close, it’s like permanent beer goggles at a distance.
That doesn’t make sense. Wouldn’t I want to avoid being able to see the skank up close?
Go on….
I’m saying good beer googles only correct farsghted problems.
I though they made you wake up in the bed of a beached whale.
I have the best of both worlds. I have one eye that’s like 20/40 and the other that’s 20/120 or something awful. But have great near-vision in both. And my eyes work independently of each other.
So I wear one context lens and use it to see far away and the other for reading and nearer vision without a lens. It saves me money on contacts and allows me to auctioneer a lot more easily since I can easily switch from reading my screen and scanning the crowd without missing anything.
The only down side is I look a lot like Marty Feldman when I get tired or really into multitasking with near/far items I’m looking at.
Sloopy just chilling
on a tree.
Tri-focals. That’s what I’m buying next time. It’s not covered as well on the insurance but I’m sick of swithching between reading glasses and my regulars and I only started needing the regulars about three years ago. When I was 51.
I’ve been wearing tri-focals for 30 years. I couldn’t see between 18 inches and 6′ with bi. Couldn’t see the speedometer. I asked about the no lines model but the eye doc figured I’d had the regular ones so long I’d have difficulty adjusting. I use the middle part on the computer.
I have the multi-focal contacts but don’t really like them. Good at middle-distance but not great up close or far away. I usually just wear the progressive glasses.
A few months ago I bought both sets of the daily wear — near and far. I wear the near ones when I’m going to be in the office staring at the computer, and the far ones on weekends when I need to drive a lot, field a pop fly in softball, spot wildlife, etc.
Does he get a lifetime supply of deep dish pizza with that?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-49243595
Write on your dick in magic marker, “No this one, asshole.”
I foresee a switch to silken boxers in that poor bloke’s future. Or a kilt.
That seems fishy. Why did he get a payout? He seemed happy with the procedure at the time. I mean he left a tip….
Swiss? Gaze needs narrowed!
Yeah, I wonder if this really happened:
https://twitter.com/jamescdyer/status/1164647008931667971?s=21
Saw that in the Daily Fail earlier. He’s getting absolutely roasted in the comments.
I don’t.
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Wow. Right now George Orwell is turning in his grave and thinking ….”Now why didn’t I think of that, it could have been part of that prequel called ‘1983’ that I never got around to writing””
I have a problem when lefties claim ‘1984’.
I don’t see that guy with TDS getting roasted. I’m seeing a lot of retard:
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Good people DO NOT work for immigration. They’re there because they hate immigrants.”
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There is not a single person, Democrat or Republican, who has a *proven* record of lying at the level Trump does. No one. Not remotely close.
So your accusing this guy tweeting of being a liar – without evidence – is pretty special.”
There are immigrants that work for ICE…
BuT OrweLL Was SociAList. I can’t do the whole dumb speech thing well.
Orwell was sort of socialist ish at least early, late who knows. But he did criticize the failings of socialism.
I wonder where he would have ended up, had he not died so young. But I suspect he would have eventually become disillusioned with socialism after seeing it fail time and time again, always ending in the authoritarianism he truly despised.
If what I hear is right, he already had, he just doesn’t have any famous works from the post-disillusionment phase just prior to his demise.
Got a citation for that? Orwell was a pretty well known figure while alive, and his life was pretty well documented.
If I had it at hand, I wouldn’t have hedged.
I’d have to go looking. At the moment, my main focus is not falling asleep at my desk from boredom.
I’d be interested if you have something authoritative. Also, what kind of government employee are you if you don’t want to sleep on the job. SAD.
There’s a difference between wanting to and actually doing so.
Besides, I need to move up in pay grade, and that requires keeping up appearances.
His argument was basically that real socialism hadn’t been tried, and I doubt that had changed in the time before he died. He thought prior failures were due to being a “top down” rather than “bottom up” movements. But eventually he would have realized that it doesn’t matter how it starts out, the ending is always the same.
“I have a problem when lefties claim ‘1984’.”
To them it is a “How to” manual, dude.
Does anyone want to tell him, or…..
Did he have his woke 6 year old with him to ask “Daddy, why does the President hate you?”
“Sorry to hear that. Good that it got sorted. I didn’t even think to look at his name (10 hour flight!) but honestly, I was more depressed than upset by it. I thought he was joking at first!”
So a reporter gets harassed, and then he doesn’t even think to get the guy’s name. Seems legit.
that govt employee was just RESISTING.
Good morning to you, Sloopy! And good morning to the rest of you groovy cats and kittens!
I love Quadrophenia.
Love.
You made an excellent choice. Here’s another.
Make it a great day, kids!
Best tune on the album.
TDS is a hell of a drug.
Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” network chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said President Donald Trump’s defenders’ efforts “were increasingly futile.”
Toobin said, “One of the strange things about President Trump is that nobody has ever seen him laugh, like a full laugh on camera. Think about it. You never see it. And this notion of explaining crazy things he says as jokes is not — that is just not true. He does not joke. When he said ‘Russia, you know, I want you to find Hillary Clinton’s emails,’ they tried to explain it as a joke. It wasn’t. Russia went right to work trying to find Hillary’s emails.”
Guest host Brianna Keilar asked, “Maybe not a joke, but is it about provocation. Is it truly serious you think?”
Toobin said, “Yes, I think when he looks up at the sky and says ‘I am the chosen one,’ I think what he meant is ‘I am the chosen one.’ This Messianic, narcissistic approach to life, that is the way he has always been. The idea to explain it away as he is just joking, no, he is not. This is what he thinks. This is how he behaves. You know, the idea that somehow it will change or there will be adults in the room, it is all crazy. I mean, you know, he is who he is, and efforts to explain that he is not really the way that he is are increasingly futile.”
It’s bad taste to laugh at your own jokes.
When he said ‘Russia, you know, I want you to find Hillary Clinton’s emails,’
Completely brushing aside that those were emails that had been subpoenaed and that deleting them is a very serious felony that would land anyone else in Leavenworth for life.
Amusing to see media types suddenly clutching pearls about a messianic narcissist in the White House. They were busy washing their hair from 2008-16, I suppose.
“And lo, he raised his holy pen and his mighty phone and verily the seas did heed his command and subside.”
I’m unsure if my bile and vitriol over the collective cocksucking by the media during those years will ever subside.
Not a Pierce Morgan fan at all but found this interesting on his views working with Trump. I will give him some props for going on Shapero after their row on his show about him standing on the bodies of dead children.
https://youtu.be/K6v10EoAyWU
Piers is making the same mistake a lot of people make when analyzing the media. They may be overwhelmingly anti Trump, but they are all individuals trying to get paid. They will never decide as a group not to write scathing pieces on Trump because the other guy, who hates Trump too, will write those pieces and make bank and a name for him/herself.
“Hey, just tryin’ ta make a livin” just like everybody else!”
Only in America could you make bank parroting the accusations of racists and white supremacists day after day against people who are neither of those things.
Bom dia, shitlords. /not pretending there are female libertarians
Buna ziua și ție.
David Koch, billionaire who built conservative political empire, dies at 79
David Koch, the billionaire businessman who built a conservative political empire with his brother Charles Koch, has died at age 79, according to Koch Industries.
“David Hamilton Koch, longtime stockholder, director, and leader in Koch Industries, passed away on August 23, 2019 at age 79 after many years of fighting various illnesses,” the company said in a statement.
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Charles the more politically aggressive one?
Which is why Hillary had David whacked.
Hasbro Has a New ‘Monopoly: Socialism’ Game and Socialists Are Not Happy
Twitter user Nick Kapur — who “only tweet[s] extremely interesting things,” according to his bio — “bought a copy of Hasbro’s mean-spirited and woefully ill-informed MONOPOLY: SOCIALISM board game so you don’t have to.”
So I “don’t have to,” Nick? Why, I wanted to buy the game from the moment I read your tweet, “From the tagline ‘Winning is for capitalists’ we can see right away that this game is not going to be friendly to whatever it deems ‘socialism’ to be.” So, again, thank you.
If your second tweet wasn’t enough to peak my interest in “Monopoly: Socialism,” your comment deep into your Twitter rant—that “There are also tons of references to health food and veganism, despite the lack of any clear connection to socialism, apparently because what they share in common is that they are odious things that are fun to mock” — would have sealed the deal for me. Because I agree that health food and veganism have nothing in common with socialism except providing great targets for much mockery. I do love mocking vegans. And socialists, as I’m sure is evident by now.
Although, now that I think about it, veganism and socialism probably do have a connection. I mean, once socialism bankrupts our society and reduces everyone but Comrade Bernie and AOC to subsistence living, all we’ll be eating will be whatever shriveled roots we can pull out of the dirt. I’m sure that a study somewhere proves that socialism leads to veganism. There’s the connection. Hasbro, am I right?
And, Nick, by the time I read, “when you pass go, you get a $50 ‘living wage,’ which was presumably reduced from the usual $200 to emphasize that ‘socialism makes everyone poorer’ or somesuch,” I knew that I would be making a patriarchal rule that the only game played in my house on game night henceforth will be Hasbro’s Monopoly: Socialism. Thanks to your Twitter meltdown, I get to incorporate both fun and education into family game night.
*adds to xmas list*
Perfect:)
“I’m sure that a study somewhere proves that socialism leads to veganism”
Wrong. No one needs any vegetables, let alone 23 different ones. Now we have purple brussel sprouts, green cauliflower, and rainbow colored carrots, no one needs it.
Socialism leads to packs of crazed hunters and cannibalism.
Kapur is an idiot and has it backwards. Socialism doesn’t make you vegan; being vegan can lead you to be malnourished enough to think socialism is a good idea.
^^^THIS^^^
Socialists are driven by a massive feeling of guilt, horrible envy of others, and stupidity in general (caused by a bunch of factors).
I do admit to loving socialist vegan chicks accusing each other of not being true vegans if they suck cock, though….
I readily admit that I am not an expert on the topic of veganism, but I’m happy to assume that the majority of people who become vegan do so thoughtfully, out of some combination of dietary and perhaps ethical considerations. There are also people who, lacking a religious faith, are looking for some sort of anti-establishment variety of self-flagellation. Socialism and communism provide this in a sense because they can pretend to be content with a lack of control and a lack of choice by characterizing capitalism as excessive consumption. Vegetarianism and veganism provide something similar, as does feminism for men.
Wasn’t there a line in “The Road to Wellville” about how vegetarianism, feminism and the like were all interconnected?
There are people who make certain dietary choices for health reasons. Those are the ones who never talk about it. The loud screeching ones are signalers who would eat rat shit if it lets them signal louder that they are on the moral high ground because saving the planet.
Or the ones that risk their own children.
Dumb.
“The Sydney judge overseeing the case, Judge Sarah Huggett, called the child’s vegan diet “completely inadequate” — was only fed oats, bananas, peanut butter jelly sandwiches and rice, Seven News reported.”
WTF? That’s not even vegan, that’s some sort of weird new age signaling shit.
Shit I grew up on boxed Mac n cheese and powdered milk.
Yeah, but that was full of all the hormones and antibiotics necessary for survival.
It evidently was:)
Yeah, I agree the sanctomonious moralizing is the common thread.
Dunno, but Orwell mentions a similar concept in The Road to Wigan Pier:
The think it is true for all isms. In the smaller ones, the cranks are more noticeable. We have them in libertarianism too.
Yes, but ours are blue.
I enjoyed the book far more than the film but in the movie’s defense it did have Bridget Fonda and Lara Flynn Boyle’s surprisingly fetching titties in it so I’d call that a push.
Twin Peaks pushed Sherilyn Fenn as the hottie, but I think she was third after Lara Flynn Boyle and Madchen Amick.
So hard to choose…
LOL. I saw that at Target but figured it was a sympathetic take on our betters.
Points for Hasbro
The link to Amazon shows $100!!
That can’t be right.
The market works!
That is fantastic.
I assume Sharapova is unseeded at this time, hence available for being drawn against Serena.
I’d give her a seed.
You are married you would do no such thing.
Yeah. It’s only the wedding ring that is stopping me.
Yeah, it sucks being married and not being able to bang all those supermodels and female athletes and coeds.
I’d give her a few million and recuperate for a few million more – https://youtu.be/VAtGOESO7W8
Yeah. Sadly, she’ll probably get clobbered.
Correct. She still hasn’t cracked the top 32 to get a seed. She should ha e played some Challenge Tour events to move up the rankings faster.
She’s just coming off her ban for PEDs.
Public Enemy Number One is finally going to be brought to justice
A federal employee turned over “credible” evidence to House Democrats of possible “inappropriate efforts to influence” the IRS presidential audit process, House lawyers said in a court filing Tuesday.
In July, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., sued Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin after the latter rejected the panel’s request for six years of Trump’s tax returns. On Tuesday, House lawyers cited the new evidence in a motion asking a federal judge to rule without trial that the Treasury Department is required by law to turn over the president’s tax returns.
The motion included a letter from Neal to Mnuchin revealing that the committee in July received an “unsolicited communication” from a federal employee “setting forth credible allegations of ‘evidence of possible misconduct’ — specifically, potential ‘inappropriate efforts to influence’ the mandatory audit program,” Politico reported.
In a response two weeks later, Mnuchin rejected Neal’s request for records related to the matter and urged him to take it up with the IRS inspector general.
House lawyers said in the motion Tuesday that the new evidence has heightened the need for the committee to receive Trump’s tax returns. The IRS is required to audit the president and vice president each year. Democrats argue that the new evidence requires them to see Trump’s tax returns to ensure the IRS audit process is legitimate.
“The Committee needs the requested information to evaluate the integrity of the IRS’s existing program for auditing Presidents’ tax returns — a need only heightened by the Committee’s receipt of whistleblower allegations about improper influence in that program,” the attorneys said.
This time, for sure.
I imagine Trump has been audited every year since forever. Geez, talk about desperation. They know they aren’t going to find anything but hoping the mere fact that they are screeching about it will kill off some votes in 2020.
I think it’s time to pivot back to pee tapes.
Ya know, it would only improve my opinion of Trump if it were proven that he had hookers pee on the bed that Obama slept in.
So, what if they get the tax returns? Is it a high crime or a misdemeanor to file a tax return?
Of course. ‘Peach forty fie!
They wanted it to publicly shame and embarrass him somehow. Now it’s just knee jerkism since they were told no. The media is butt hurt that they can’t wade through it and put out juicy titillating nuggets. Both of those groups demand that everyone bend a knee to their rules. For an outsider to give them the finger is unconscionable.
OFFS
“I don’t know about you, but this is good news as far as I’m concerned.”
Down 50-60 cents a gallon here already from what it was.
Hell yes, it’s like getting a little bonus at every fillup.
Our price is down up here too. Nobody can credibly explain the fluctuations of gas prices unless they get into the Byzantium guts of the fuel industry. I tend to think it’s mostly FYTW on the part of the marketers.
Double-points for screeching about global warming and then buying a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard.
Universal expanding in Orlando, Inter-Miami trying to build a soccer stadium in, well Miami. What do they know about this pending 10 years of doom that the rest of us don’t?
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20301007T00&p0=64&msg=Doom%21&ud=1&font=serif
580 weeks, so still over 11 years.
Everton too robc. A dockside stadium?
Supposedly, we will see if it ever gets built.
I guess their fans got tired of hearing rousing cheers from across Stanley Park drown out their boredom. Moving is probably the correct move here.
“Inter Miami”…..why do American soccer teams feel the need to ape the naming conventions of European teams? It just sounds incredibly silly, and to me reinforces the feeling I’ve long had that a large chunk of American soccer fans are fans more out of a sense of being fashionable or sophisticated than actually loving the sport.
Better than the fucking joke of “student athletes” we have here in the States. I say go for it.
That….doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the comment.
Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami
I guess because the locals speaka da language.
Yeah, I learned the full name yesterday.
Enjoy your Chivas, Miami.
For those who don’t remember, Chivas was a team in LA that carried the “Spanish” thing so far they fired anyone who didn’t speak it.
I’ve brought it up before, but feast your eyes upon the <a href="https://fox8.com/2019/03/18/lake-county-captains-to-become-picantes-de-lake-county-for-five-games/"Picantes de Lake County(insert upside down ! here)
This is a suburb of Cleveland, a city that advertised a Cinco de Mayo event May 29th-31st one year.
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https://fox8.com/2019/03/18/lake-county-captains-to-become-picantes-de-lake-county-for-five-games/
I jacked up the link…
I guess Michelle is finally is proud to be American again.
Nope. Michelle remains proud to be Michelle.
Give me women, wine and snuff
Until I cry out “hold, enough!”
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection;
For bless my beard they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.
–Keats
+ Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll.
Is all my brain and body need – https://youtu.be/erGNSQMJ79Q
If Epstein, who was a despicable person if there ever was one, had given me $800 Gs for whatever purpose I’d have been happy to repurpose it and still would. Make no mistake though, prostitutes would have been hired but they would have been of age goddamnit.
There’s no Deep State.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/458478-the-road-not-taken-another-fbi-failure-involving-the-clintons
It always seems to go the same way no matter who’s in charge doesn’t it?
It does.
Vast, right-wing, conspiracy confirmed.
A part of me is still baffled that this didn’t start a civil war or something like it. SO MANY PEOPLE turned a blind eye to what was known, investigated, admitted felonies to allow the media and a large portion of our government to pursue a witch hunt into a standing President, that was later found to be grossly false manufactured information from the same group of people who turned a blind eye to the Clintons. WTF!?!??!
Civil Wars very very seldom start when everyone has a full belly.
My daughter told me she got called down to the office and got lectured by the principal, along with her best friend, because they did finger guns to greet each other yesterday morning.
WTF? (the school, not the kid. Obviously.)
That’s not a greeting.
And the school staff needs retraining on “How to not be a turd”
Get your kid out out of public school now? That’s the only advice I have.
I say she needs 10 weeks detention. We don’t have detention in Romania, never did. Is it still a thing in the US?
So, Romanians still use flogging?
Gun free zone and she had the nerve to bring a finger gun to school? 10 weeks is letting her off easy.
Why do they hate Jesus?
https://i2.wp.com/thetangential.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dogma_buddy_christ.jpg
I assume either your principal went UT (and thus hates A&M), or is a complete idiot…
*snort*
*giggle*
like there’s a difference.
…I am uncertain if what you did there was deliberate or not.
Not. I’m not actually from texas and have only been there to attend my brothers PhD graduation. Just a failed attempt at shitposting.
I’m not either, but I did attend a Big 8 school, so I had to learn the difference between “Gig ‘Em” and “Guns Up.”
Finger guns are for Texas Tech and OSU, almuni of both should be shunned by all good thinking people. I’m glad that principal is taking a stand against going to universities in the middle of nowhere with mediocre football programs.
\m/
my son’s friend’s 2nd grade teacher crumpled up his artwork for drawing stormtroopers shooting each other with blasters and told the boy “no guns”. his family is pretty timid. but even my anti-gun wife said it was bullshit and “adults should not view a kid’s artwork through their adult lense” which i thought was pretty deep.
My sis is the proggiest of progs. Highly educated, successful, lives in a trendy progressive enclave. When her son was little she was adamant about no guns. I said uh huh, just wait.
Fast forward and she was complaining that he was making guns out of every item he picked up. I laughed and laughed.
Mother Nature has a great sense of humor.
We don’t have a gun culture. We have a gun organism.
For my daughter, its not guns, its swords. We can’t walk 20 feet into the woods before she’s carrying one, but more likely two, sticks as swords. She spent her own money at Target to buy a magic fairy wand. She pretends its a sword.
She’s clearly a product of the oppressive patriarchy.
Hell I still pick up good sticks and play sword with them when I am in the woods.
Did she point the finger gun at the principal and say “right back at ya!”?
Just think, you pay for this.
She didn’t turn that finger gun into an “L” on her forehead?
Missed opportunity to call the principal a loser.
Cars kill more than…but we don’t want to ban them.
Yes we do
And if a complete ban can’t be done, then keeping cars off a few key streets would still help a great deal.
Of course, automobiles are too useful a tool to ban outright from cities. There is probably no way around the need for commercial delivery trucks, ambulances, construction vehicles, and so forth. It follows that banning private cars from urban cores will not completely eliminate traffic deaths there. But it would cut them drastically — by my count 10 of the 19 New York cyclists mentioned above were killed by private motorists. The streets could be made safer still with sensible infrastructure upgrades to slow down the remaining drivers and protect cyclists and pedestrians.
Eliminate the cars that 90 percent of people drive to accommodate the bikes that 10 percent of people ride? Fuck off.
10%, in the USA? Not even close, more like some fraction of 1%.
Also electric scooters.
Not green. Bring back rickshaws.
Now are we talking motor rickshaws, bicycle rockshaws, or the handcart rickshaws where the driver is on foot?
Nothing with a motor, because save the planet.
V12 rickshaws it is.
That’s where the rickshaw is pulled by a team of 12 vegans?
Well, it’s not like one vegan will be sufficient.
Horses are vegan. If we go back to muscle power I am getting a horse.
Sorry, but horses are banned from abuse as labor by order of the ministry for farming and protection of animals.
Ok, then a palanquin, so I can pull the curtain and not smell the sweaty orphans
Meet road diets.
The lunatics are running things.
No problem since we’re going to eliminate almost all jobs too. People can just stay home and be artists.
Better yet – “artisan” dirt-farming peasants on estates run by members of the leftist elite.
We’ll be going back to our roots! Women-folk chewing the leather in order to make it pliable enough for uses such as whips and Binding. A new Golden Age, I tells ya!
I just want to know if they can chew the leather while chained to the stove. I mean I need more details before I get fully on board.
What’s the stove for? It’s not like there will be any food.
Making Iron.
/Mao
Funemployment!
Phoenix? PHOENIX? Motherfucker, have you ever been to Phoenix? The Phoenix metropolitan area is 15K square miles, three times the size of the area of the NYC metro area.
Also, from what I hear, anyone who take a bicycle outside in Phoehix spontenously combusts within five minutes due to the heat.
“spontenously combusts within five minutes due to the heat.”
Here in Balmer you just get ran over or mugged, assaulted, and your bike stolen. One of the reasons you never see any bikes in all the bike lanes they built while letting the streets disintegrate into rubble.
That too. Absolutely no one wants to walk or ride a bike to get around in Arizona from March to September.
There’s a odd little subreddit called “Urban Hell” that is for pictures of horrible cities – crumbling buildings, hideous Eastern Bloc architecture, etc. I’m a weirdo who is entranced by disintegrating human structures, so I enjoy it. Periodically someone will post an aerial picture of a housing development in someplace like Florida and wail about how horrible suburbs are. Besides the fact that they don’t actually fit the subject of the sub, these people (usually Euro types who almost never encounter heat and humidity like the American southeast) will go on and on about “There’s nothing you can walk to!!!”
Yeah, no shit, because no one wants to schlep groceries a mile in August in Sarasota, dumbasses. It’s not fucking Coperhagen.
Youtube has loads of channels where people basically go into those abandoned sites and film them. For whatever reason I find it fascinating too.
““There’s nothing you can walk to!!!””
Walking – yeah that’s a solution for the 84-year olds with osterperosis. These people are driving to the doctor half the time, and stopping off at the store on the way home.
Convenience comes in more forms than just the form you like.
There is nothing you cant walk to? Sure, after you cull all of the old and crippled. Lets see what song these shitstains are singing when they hit 75.
“Lets see what song these shitstains are singing when they hit 75.”
Oh, they’re going to voluntary report to the communal furnace before their 30th birthday to save the planet.
I was a kid when I saw Logan’s Run. I thought it was ridiculous, no one would ever do that.
That’s what you saw?
All I saw was Jenny Agutter’s boobs.
Lets see what song these shitstains are singing when they hit 75.
EU press regulations mean never having to hear that song.
I think you meant to type “legs”, Comrade.
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., upped the ante in his progressive agenda on Thursday when he signaled support for criminal charges against executives at oil companies.
“Fossil fuel executives should be criminally prosecuted for the destruction they have knowingly caused,” Sanders tweeted. His comments were the latest in progressive politicians’ long line of attacks on big corporations and their role in climate change.
It came on the same day that he released a sweeping $16 trillion plan to address climate change. Sanders painted his “Green New Deal” as a way to “end the greed of the fossil fuel industry.”
“We are going to end the greed of the fossil fuel industry and move to 100% renewable energy,” he tweeted in an attack on natural gas. Sanders’ website indicated that he would, as president, direct his Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against companies like Exxon.
“These executives have spent hundreds of millions of dollars protecting their profits at the expense of our future, and they will do whatever it takes to squeeze every last penny out of the Earth,” his website reads.
“Bernie promises to go further than any other presidential candidate in history to end the fossil fuel industry’s greed, including by making the industry pay for its pollution and prosecuting it for the damage it has caused.”
Rule of law? The law is what we say it is.
Sentence first, trial afterward.
Bernie should be forced to watch this:
Why you should love fossil fuels
““We are going to end the greed of the fossil fuel industry and move to 100% renewable energy,” he tweeted in an attack on natural gas. Sanders’ website indicated that he would, as president, direct his Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against companies like Exxon.”
/not serious
Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.
Meh. He’ll be dead soon enough. I don’t take any personal joy over that fact but good riddance to bad rubbish as Grandma was wont to say.
Bernie, SS check?
A turkey gobble makes more sense than Bernie.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeffrey-epstein-painting-new-mexico-girl-big-cat.amp
Ok, weird. Something must have been going on there.
Oh ok, never mind. Nothing to see here, folks.
Westworld?
Ok, weird. Something must have been going on there.
I don’t know, seems normal to me for someone with that type of set up. Large mansions have service entrances for the help. I have family friends who built a nice custom house and required booties for everyone after one asshole tracked dogshit on their oriental rugs. That much staff requires a household manager to oversee them.
Epstein was worried about dogshit being tracked onto his jizz and blood stained carpets? 😉
Certainly, if he wanted them preserved as mementos.
^ Funny!
I thought the girls he liked didn’t have any carpets to speak of that could be stained.
I don’t find the painting they make such a big deal of to be that weird.
Wait a minute, David Koch had a western town on his property too…
https://www.curbed.com/2013/2/4/10276988/bill-koch-recreating-50building-old-west-town-on-his-co-ranch
What’s going on here!
Well, Bill Koch anyway. Close enough…. nevermind.
From today’s YouTube recommendations
Norm Macdonald Getting Booed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBp67vCmCIU
Ah, comedy — I miss it!
because they did finger guns to greet each other yesterday morning.
Teach them to salute one another as Romans would.
Nah they should learn the Spaceball greeting….Hail President Skroob!
Friday Funbags sez BAN ASSAULT BOLTONS.
http://archive.is/qvxuW
Is a 24-year-old a teenager? Some researchers say yes.
https://www.vogue.com/article/age-of-adolescence-teenagers-health-brain-benefits
Raise the voting age to 30
It should be a right to live in mum’s basement until you’re 40. /millennials
Deadspin’s editor quit because new management told them to stick to sports
Also, look how bizarre this is!
“OMG, Be professional and do our jobs?! As if!”
/flounces out of a paycheck.
“stick to sports”
Dress code is one thing. But let orange bad man win? Never!
Now you know she’s lying.
I was told I have to wear business casual attire. /no options
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
She thought she had a right to bitch about the owners in their own outlet and get away with it? Entitled doesn’t even begin to describe her.
No wonder socialism appeals to these people. They want all of the privileges of ownership, with none of the risks.
I don’t know who this new management group is, but they got a ball of free advertising demonstrating to their target audience that they are credible about improving their product *and* don’t even need to pay unemployment to do it.
This is like Trump level 5D chess, and I might have to check out Deadspin again.
It’s an evul capitalist fund that wants to make money.
Driving out a toxic editor in chief while gaining publicity is exactly the sort of win-win move you’d expect.
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I take it that you too love it when a plan comes together.
Bermuda shorts AND miniskirts?
*flips desk*
“Employees must arrive between 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.”
So…they have to show up to work sometime, anytime, during the normal work day?
How horrific, my heart truly weeps for those poor, poor souls
If you want even more entertainment, here’s the write up about how terrible the new owners are.
Because I still won’t actually go to the site
OMG, they hired white men!?
Holy shit. I try not to take too much dark pleasure when bad things happen to worse people, but this article is testing me.
Wowow
Given the progs’ tendencies to take over and skinsuit any organization they get a hold of, I’m giggling a little at the wailing over this.
They keep repeating the
refrain without it ever entering their head that this is the problem with a company that is effectively bankrupt.
How dare they change our winning ways! We just had to prog harder, and then we would have made money!
/Deadspin
My personal favorite was the outrage that the new owners suggested they not publish or write this story in the first place.
That’s just shrieking “Fire me”
Oh noes, the new management wants to know what people are working on, and want to refocus their efforts towards something resembling a successful venture.
Do they come pre-soaked in vodka?
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/columbus-to-offer-free-feminine-hygiene-products-at-schools-and-city-buildings
Columbus schools? They should try offering a decent education instead.
Are (((reforms))) waking up? Time will tell.
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/289871/democratic-party-becoming-unsalvageable
TW: Wall o’ text.
It doesn’t matter. Muslims have more babies, and provide an endless supply of “refugees.”
Mormon, Evangelical, Muslim, and Catholic tribes warring for control. It will be interesting
*Reads headline*
No shit? Really?
“To be sure, I still hate Trump.”
Whew!
Was PETAs new fetish discussed?
https://twitter.com/peta/status/1164573702102687747
If cows looked like that … yes, I’d drink straight from the teat.
Way to shame breast-feeding mom’s.
Did they move on from DIY snuff films? At least I assume that was what they were doing with all the kill-shelters they operate.
As I pointed out yesterday every farm kid that ever milked a cow has squirted milk into their mouth. PETA idiots are idiots.
I scrolled down. Furries v. PETA might be the greatest tardfight ever.
Fuck. PETA finally blocked me.
Confidence and hard work are bullshit; just listen to these no name journalist!
https://twitter.com/JunkNpc/status/1164879640625893376
Now to be honest, hard work in itself is not much unless it is useful/efficient and it is true that in some situations no amount of hard work would get you there. e.g. me and playing in the NBA
Hard work is so last week. It’s all about equity now. Equal outcomes is where it’s at. If you work too hard, that means you’re punching down and a greedy hoarder and probably you want bad orange man to win.
Yes, take advice from the high school losers who are now “journalists”, that’s the way forward for civilization.
Asshats like those guys make me wish somebody was around to give them yet another power wedgie.
“Journalism” shouldn’t be a degree field. That’s like having a degree in “Gossip” or “Mental Deficiency.”
Who, What, Where, When, How. Why is for editorial pages. Don’t bury the lede. If you don’t understand what someone says, ask someone to explain BEFORE you write the story.
Congratulations, you have completed the Jarflax University journalism course.
We all have limits to our abilities. No one disputes that. None of us are better served by being lazy and apathetic, however.
I have a shitty, shitty job but I’m good enough at it that the clients and management notice. I am basically iron-clad if I want to keep doing it until I keel over from a stroke with a mop in my hand someday.
So O’Crazio said the Electoral College is racist. I realize that the default position of the Left on anything they don’t like is that it’s “racist”, but this seems exceptionally stupid, even my AOC standards.
AOC’s shtick is like a kid screaming “PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!”, and it works.
Nah, I get it. Flyover is full of white people and therefore racist. And we can’t let those people win, because racist. Cali and NY are full of good people of color and therefore, they must be allowed to win, always.
How long do we go full circle and “people of color” become “coloreds”?
“Racist” means getting in the way of something I want.
Racist means ‘I can’t convince people that communism is a new and totally great idea. So racist, because I got nothing else’.
In contemporary American society, racist is the worst thing you can accuse someone of being. Even pedophiles actually have the occasional article in something like HuffPo or Vox trying to excuse them, but racism is the scarlet letter. So, it’s simply a vehicle to discredit and destroy people or ideas the progs don’t like. You no longer have to have any actual reasons for declaring someone or something “racist”. It’s a catchall.
Meh. A lot of people have reached the point where it no longer even registers as a legitimate accusation. And the backlash is coming – and will be accompanied by for-real racism.
Many haven’t though. A local Democrat councilman just apologized for referring to someone as a “Negro.”
Said utterance sent shudders through his council buddies, all Dems, who are demanding his resignation.
Some in the colored people community have claimed they’ve been nauseated for a week since this “racist” used a formerly acceptable term for them.
Get a load of these racists over here.
I bet everyone in Spain and Latin America is totally racist when they talk about black people.
I bet everyone in Spain and Latin America is totally racist when they talk about black people.
I can only speak to personal experience with Cubans, Mexican, Hondurans, and Guatemalans (and obviously only those I have met), but yes, every word I heard them say about black people was racist.
4 to 1 she worked in a reference to the 3/5 clause
They forced out her Svengali. She’s drifting in the wind at this juncture.
Confidence and hard work are bullshit; just listen to these no name journalist!
Meritocracy is patriarchal tricknology. They’re just gaslighting you into enacting their labor.
I heard an interesting theory the other day that gas prices tend to remain low in election years as to avoid them becoming apart of the campaign discussion. I haven’t researched it at all, anyone know anything about this?
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=EMM_EPM0U_PTE_NUS_DPG&f=W
kinda looks more like they’ve always been kinda low, then creeped up during the Iraq/Afghan debacle but bottomed out for Obama’s election. then creeped way up during his 8 years. then bottomed out again for Trump but have been creeping up again.
From the Epstein articl linked above:
But of everywhere on the 10,000-acre residence – which was dotted with pools, a firehouse, log cabins, guest homes and its own airport hangar and runway – what was the most out-of-bounds? The several-story garage filled with Epstein’s high-end car collection, the worker noted.
*ears perk up*
You can’t “bring a trailer” to an island. At least that’s what the Dead Milkmen taught me.
AOC’s shtick is like a kid screaming “PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!”, and it works.
Like a six year old in the grocery store tugging on her mommy’s coat saying “Buy me this” on an endless loop.
Well that’s the demographic she’s going after as well.
I’m only slightly ashamed to say that I did that once to get this. It worked. Fucking. Awesome.
Oh shit, we were way too poor for that, but a friend down the road had one of those. They were awesome. I can’t tell you how much I wanted a H.I.S.S. tank.
Was it scaled 1:1?
In my mind it sure was
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/23/former-overstock-ceo-james-comey-wanted-sleep-maria-butina/
Hmm.
Speaking of pieces of shit.
“Guerrero is accused of telling the 17-year-old she must have sexual relations with him to be cleansed from being molested when she was a child.”
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/pastor-charged-with-coercing-minor-held-without-bond
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1164880469508448257
LOL
CNN also regularly brings on admitter perjurer James Clapper as a guest.
He has learned not to touch his face anymore when telling a whopper.
For Q
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japanese-women%27s-breast-size-boasts-40-years-of-continued-growth
I’ve never much been afflicted with the Yellow Fever but you assholes are bringing me around.
I missed the coffee post last night, so here this is. When we lived in Germany, my wife decided to get one of the top-of-the-line DeLonghi espresso machines. This thing was incredible – it had an insulated carafe for the milk, and would automatically grind the beans for each drink. It had a touchscreen to go through all the different options (espresso, cappuccino, latte, Americano, etc). You could even program in different drinks for different users.
I was dubious when she got it, but quickly came around. Not the best cappuccino I’d ever had, but better than 95% of them.
Damn thing cost more than my first two cars combined, but I loved that thing. We had to leave it behind – as much as I liked it, I didn’t want to have to rewire my house here in the US to use it…
Peterson is funny.
He’s quick on his feet, I’ll grant you but his pauses to give a more measured response are even better. I’d like to have a beer with that guy so long as he hung his “judgey” cape outside in the boot room.
I’ve listened to quite a lot of his stuff and don’t see the “judgey” part. He definitely will tell you what you don’t want to hear.
I’m still baffled why he’s so fucking scary.
He’s very judgey. He thinks certain modes of living are inferior for humans than others, and he isn’t afraid to say so. But he’s not a dick, which usually seems to go along with being judgey (at least if you believe the media put out by boomers).
Yeah, I phrased that wrong.
I think it’s pretty objectively clear that certain modes of living are inferior. So none of it seems terribly controversial to me.
That’s because you aren’t a shithead cosmo or a shithead cosmopolotin progressive preaching moral relativism while shamefully raising your kids with bourgeoisie virtues.
That’s impossible. All cultures are created equal.
He definitely will tell you what you don’t want to hear.
I’m still baffled why he’s so fucking scary.
The answer to number two is clearly set out in number one.
Well, being a fatally flawed human being, sometimes the truth stings a little.
Koch’s out.
Have the left declared it a national holiday yet? Are we free from libertarian tyranny yet?
But we still have Lou Reed, right??
for Harambe?
^^^ This comment here is why I should wear Depends whilst perusing the Glibs.
Well boys, I tried something last night that was a little weird at first but by the end I really enjoyed it. After work, I got dressed in some “beltless shorts” IYKWIM and went over to a strangers house. His basement was done up with all kinds of weird stuff – ropes and belts hanging on the wall, some kind of weird material on the floor to soak up the bodily fluids. I spent an hour furtively grasping two other men (I think one might have been a minor). I was surprised to learn how much power and control you can have on the bottom if you just bind up the other person’s limbs the right way. It was really weird and awkward to start, but by the end it just felt… natural, I guess. I’m probably going to do it again next week.
Anyone else do BJJ?
*backs slowly away*
You can remove him from the Minnesoda group email list, right?
Shit. He was gonna ride with me…
You’re still going to drive me 2 hours out into the woods in a few weeks, right?
This is supposed to be a family-friendly den of degenerates.
The chic with the weird name, Mojeaux or something?, ruined that already and then I guess ran off with Creosote Achilles to some bondage sex cult thing.
gay
How could you possibly get that from what I wrote. Sounds like projection to me.
double gay
Wait, what? You were writing that in the first person? Triple gay.
Leap just doxxed himself as Denny Hastert.
Leap — I started about six months ago. BJJ is awesome. Admittedly, I am pretty terrible at it and I am having a rather rough go of it, but I’ve been trying to go two-three days a week (I was going to a place called Neutral Ground in Milwaukee, but have since found a place in St Paul called Bellum). The biggest revelation for me has been how little my physical fitness from other sports has translated to hand-to-hand combat. For the past several years, I’ve played basketball and lifted (Starting Strength exercises, generally) between 4-5 days per week, and it’s remarkable how little that’s done for me given how bad my technique is. I wish I’d started a long time ago, but glad I’ve now made it a regular activity.
Neat. I’ve focused my conditioning specifically to increase weight-lifting capacity, and I’ve found the carryover to be very good for BJJ. If you want to do the same, I’d suggest getting a book called Tactical Barbell II and covering your eyes when they talk about the Yankee Recon Green/Black Oper8tor Zulu shit.
Also read this: https://www.sportsci.org/news/news9709/hatfield.html
I can already tell that my biggest problem is that I unintentionally use my incredible size and decent strength as a crutch for bad technique, which I guess is kind of a champagne problem.
Well, shit. I have to take a math placement test for college in a n hour and a half. I looked a t a practice test and I’m shocked at how much high school algebra I forgot.
Heading to KHAN! Academy to brush up on some things.
KHAAAAN!
Sheet, I haven’t check if I remember algebra. I know I forgot calculus.
Are those practice tests publically available. I’m curious how much I recall.
Yep. Here you go.
… #3 will hurt Pie’s feelings, it assumes no one remembers how many grams are in a kilogram.
grams in a kilogram
I didn’t know that this algebra test would include imaginary numbers.
Okay, I got one wrong because I overthought the question. I got one wrong because of a mental arithmatic error. And I only actually forgot one concept.
I got 6 wrong. 3 due to mental error (SLOW DOWN, Mike) 3 to concepts I forgot, but understood/remembered once reading the rationales.
2 stupid errors here. on 12 I went too fast and ignored the 4*5 step and on 20 I missunderstood what they meant by the origin. (of course it’s not really fair since I brushed up my algebra this year to help tutor my niece and a friend’s kid.
I was a sluggard in high school but a few years later I wanted to upgrade so I borrowed a few textbooks from the college and holy shit who knew AP Algebra was so easy when you learned it step-by-step. I skipped as many classes as I attended.
Apparently #14 is about a strip club or something titty-related.
Khan Academy is great. Codecademy too for computer stuff; I’m actually doing their Intro to JavaScript course right now. And it’s free! As in actually free, not supported by money that has been forcibly extracted from your paycheck.
Good luck!
“Heading to KHAN! Academy to brush up on some things.”
This place is getting way to weird for me.
Remember, numbers are tools of the patriarchy and can be dismissed and replaced with anything you feel is appropriate. Only if you identify as a gender neutral POC first.
Exactly this, which is why Gulag Grandpa and his granddaughter Barbie, never talk about numbers when plotting grand socialist paradise. Talking about numbers is a Republican trick to put you back in chains.
Good luck Mike. And remember, if some problem requires you to count higher than 20, don’t unzip. That isn’t kosher in the halls of higher learning, even if you NoDaks all do it (21 bushels of wheat are a “NoDak Score” like 13 donuts is a “Baker’s Dozen”).
You better be nice or I’ll put my two decimal points on your forehead.
Yeah, I had to do quite a bit of boning up on math when I took the GRE.
#19 – I don’t understand that at all
Don’t feel bad. I drew a blank on that one too.
It’s explained after the answer key, and you’ll only feel dumb for a minute after reading it.
Funny, I did feel dumb for about 1 minuted after reading it. RE-read it and the light bulb went off. Easy peasy.
On. The light bulb went on.
MikeS, I had to do that 35 years ago. I’m taking the test and say to myself “Trig?? I forgot all that!” I thought I took some OK guesses, but they all felt like guesses. A few weeks later I got to the counselor to discuss the test results and I couldn’t believe how many of the guesses on the trig were correct.
My advice is don’t sweat it and don’t sell yourself short. If you were stupid, you wouldn’t be a glib.
Thanks, man. I decided to forgo brushing up at KHAAAAN! Academy. Partly for the reasons you said, and partly because if I do truly not know the stuff anymore, taking a refresher class probably isn’t a bad idea.
Try aleks.com
I think you’ll find it more efficient at evaluating where you stand on each topic and directed in freshening up on those.
It’s what I use for my kids during the summer break and for homeschooling credits.
Thanks, Scruffy. Opening the link now…
I have to take a math placement test for college in a n hour and a half.
Just tell them mathematics is a tool of the patriarchy, and walk out.
^this^
So creating a business which exposes millions of people to Mexican food is “Smothering Mexican American Burrito Culture”?
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2019/08/chipotle-is-smothering-mexican-american-burrito-culture/
“By turning tortilla-wrapped proteins and rice into a fast-casual empire, Chipotle “took a known commodity among Mexicans that suddenly turned trendy in the hands of white Americans, for white Americans,” Arellano writes.”
How dare those wypipo enjoy our delicious cultural food! Mexican food should only be served and eaten by Mexicans! /s
Look, I get that an authentic Mexican place is going to make a better/different burrito from Chipotle. But Chipotle has done more to make Mexican food a staple across the country than anything or anyone else ever has. Before Chipotle opened in my town, there were basically no Mexican places (unless you count Taco Bell). Now we have four or five (not even counting Chipotle), plus a Salvadoran food place and a Mexican street taco food truck.
I eagerly await the article discussing how Pizza Hut and Dominos have smothered the traditional Italian-American New York/Neapolitan style pizza culture.
“Smothering Mexican American Burrito Culture?”
Taco, taco, burrito!
^ This reference is noted.
Tacos al Pastor i sa Mexican/Lebanese mashup. So who gets to make and enjoy it?
White people. Duh.
Why do all furners assume that chili is a Mexican food?
Well, it’s sort of Mexican-influenced, was developed near Mexico in Texas, and chile colorado, which is a similar dish, is actually Mexican.
“chile colorado”
I’ve never had that. I’ve been making my own chili concoction for about 30 years, originally started out mimicking Goldstar chili and than eventually morphed into my own recipe. Much cumin is still a key ingredient and I use a combination of chili powder and jalapenos for the spiciness.
In Arizona once I found a little cheapo spiral bound chili cookbook that has some excellent recipes, and my parents have one that was part of an old Philip Morris promo campaign (from when my old man worked for them) called Famous Chili Recipes From Marlboro Country. From these, I’ve kind of developed my own version.
Now, that said, I don’t get to make my version too often because my wife and kids want the sort of generic version made with ground beef and kidney beans, and not too spicy at that. When I make it myself, I use cubed beef and slab bacon rather than ground beef. I make a chile paste from dried Ancho and New Mexico chiles rather than chili powder – it’s rather a lot of work but the flavor is much more intense. Plenty of cumin. I also have fresh peppers (mostly bell with a few serranos mixed in for a little added heat) and onions, tomato paste, and a can of beer.
And, since I’m not a Texan, I say piss on the idea of no beans in chili. I don’t put a ton in, but one can of black beans does the trick.
The guy that shot himself in the nutsack and then weed fell out of his bum? I dunno, seems like a pretty small customer pool.
Who gets to make it: That new place on 36’s by where the liquor store used to be.
Who gets to enjoy it: Me, ever since I found that place.
PS they have a menu item titled “Foot Long Burrito”
You are welcome.
Thank you. You are back in the truck.
No one. It must be banned
“Suddenly”?
I remember great burritos and tacos at multiple local chains in college decades ago.
I think what they really hate is that Chipotle got big.
When I was a little kid, the Mexican food cart vendors on the corner near our house had the best enchiladas I’ve ever had. That’s when I learned to like spicy food and it’s still the same today. What I couldn’t give for one of those enchiladas, yummy.
I used to go to a laundromat in Long Beach that was in a mostly Mexican neighborhood, and there was always a guy there selling fresh roasted ears of corn on a stick there. Damn those were delicious.
My dad was stationed in New Mexico in the 50’s. Fell in love with Mexican food. Moved back to south Chicago soon afterwards and my mom tried to make enchiladas once. I think that was the only time I heard my Dad complain about her cooking (she was not a good cook but Dad would not complain.) On nights they would get sitters, they almost always went for either Mexican or Chinese food and he was happier than a pig in shit when a Mexican place opened in our neighborhood in the 70’s. He was happy when a Taco Bell opened too but only went there once. (I think a Mexican place opened by his office soon after and the Chinese engineers he worked with went there at least twice a week so he kind of OD’d on Mexican food until he retired.)
Awww…
^^ this. Success is the enemy
It’s Mother Jones for God’s sake. Did you expect something rational?
TOS used to gush over Gustavo Arellano. I never understood it.
“By turning tortilla-wrapped proteins and rice into a fast-casual empire, Chipotle “took a known commodity among Mexicans that suddenly turned trendy in the hands of white Americans, for white Americans,” Arellano writes.”
And they all lived happily ever after.
The End.
I have a bit of a hangover and my wife has the leaf blower outside going full throttle, sigh…
You married my wife’s twin sister? God help us.
Why is failed NFL QB Ryan Leaf hanging around outside your house?
*Thinks back to Sir Digby’s last avatar, chuckles sensibly*
OT: what the heck. My job lately has been nothing but people insisting on trials, and having their day in court. Fine.
Twenty bucks is twenty bucks. Same as downtown.
They know you charge by the hour?
Well, these are not retained clients. Mostly. Oddly the retained clients are settling cases – which means they’re more reasonable & making safer deals.
Just my layman’s opinion but it seems that people have become much more self righteous and sure of themselves in the last few years. I wonder why that would be?
That didn’t take long
Those guys are throwing heaters right now.
“Anyone failing to abide by the law will be sentenced to continue living in San Francisco.”
Cruel and unusual punishment?
Kinda off-thread, but it looks like the Statue of Responsibility project is getting close to its goal of $195 million (funding, by the way, in private money). The statue will be set up, according to the website, in a ‘major west coast city”.
Couldn’t be San Francisco, Portland or Seattle…they wouldn’t want no fascist statues…
Can’t find the Orwell discussion from upthread (so many comments!!!) But I recalled this episode discussing where Orwell’s political sympathies resided toward the end of his life. Good episode as I recall.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-970-the-real-george-orwell/
Hotel California will be nightmare for Ford
“54.5 miles per gallon by 2024 set in stone.”
Your peapod will run on magical rainbow unicorn farts and achieve an astounding 18mph at top speed.
I’m so looking forward to my 2024 Pelosi GTxi SS/RT Sport Edition.
Fucking idiots.
That should lead to a shareholder lawsuit.
Who cares about customers and sales. We have signaling to do. Nothing could possibly go wrong, the next dem president is going to bail us right out with all the new tax payer money they’re going to raise.
Don’t you remember? Corporations are into “social justice” for “all stakeholders” now.
It’s all about equity now. You get a little gray Yugo, and you get a little gray Yugo, and you get a little gray Yugo. /equity, happiness all around
Post-truth journalism
In February of 2018, Donald Trump’s former political guru Steve Bannon told Bloomberg News that in the 2016 election, “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”
Bannon was proven correct in his strategy of how Trump’s racist, authoritarian pseudo-populist movement could win power in the United States (and various other places around the world). Nearly three years into Trump’s tenure the American news media is still struggling with how to cover a president and an administration that have no use for democratic norms, the Constitution, the rule of law, and the truth or reality itself.
Speaking of flooding the zone with shit.
Screech away, shit flinging howler monkey.
Is there anyone in DC who does? And just what, pray tell, is a democratic norm and why should I give one flying fuck about it?
“democratic norms” means rolling over for whatever the left wants. Duh.
“And just what, pray tell, is a democratic norm”
Vote for me, pay your fair share and shutup, deplorable racist!
Progs have spent decades screaming against established norms, traditions, etc, and now they want to cry about someone having no use for “democratic norms”? Cry me a fucking river, why dontcha.
A flavor of progs has also been screaming for decades that “truth or reality” doesn’t exist.
“Trump’s racist, authoritarian pseudo-populist movement ”
“have no use for democratic norms, the Constitution, the rule of law, and the truth or reality itself.”
Did you see what I just wrote? It’s true, you must believe it, because I wrote it! No, examples are racist! Shutup and believe me!
I know, I know, Orange Man, whatever, but he is a dumbass. Truly.
The IP thing is real, but the sad fact is that American companies willingly gave much of it to them in order to do business there.
China is on it’s way to hell. They’re right now, denying millions of their own citizens a right to air travel, because of social credit score. They’re fucked, put a fork in it.
Hopefully. Fuck them (and by that I mean the government, not the people). They are the biggest threat to freedom on the planet.
Whichever one of you recommended the movie “Joe Dirt” the other nite, thanks. It’s been a terrible week and I needed some comedy relief last evening. I think I stayed away from it because I’m not a big David Spade fan, but that was hilarious. Loved the Christopher Walken scenes. Top notch comedy there.
It’s pronounced “dee-EHR-tay”
Life’s a garden…
Sources say that on the tech side of the company, Spanfeller has taken to micromanaging various aspects of developers’ work, holding meetings to ask what each one is working on, demanding detailed accounts of how they spend their working days, and mandating various projects based on his work at Forbes in the mid-2000s
OMFG!
Working for Deadspin is no shit, for realz SLAVERY!