I had so much hope yesterday when Serena dropped that first set. But the girl she was playing got nervous and kinda choked a bit. But watching a female serve and volley that much was kinda fun. It also reminded me of this scene from possibly the greatest documentary of all time. I am hopeful that she won’t win the tournament now. Unfortunately, I am starting to feel the same about Joker. That shoulder doesn’t look good.
Just keep on winning!
College football is so close I can feel it. Until then, I’ll just have to watch my Firstros keep winning. They took their second in a row off the Rays and breathed a little life into Boston’s postseason hopes, who won to get back within 4 games of the second WC slot. Those chowderheads may sneak back into the race yet. Other winners were: Milwaukee, NY (AL), Philly, Washington, Atlanta, Chicago (NL), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Minnesooooooda, Kansas City, LA (NL), and Texas.
Arriba Arriba!
I love starting the birthday list off with a heavyweight like John Locke. It usually means there are a few other big names on the list today. Let’s see…we’ve got” actress Ingrid Bergman, actress Isabel Sanford, jazzman Charlie “Bird” Parker, actor Richard Attenborough, not-so-good fighter pilot John McCain, actor Elliott Gould, tv personality Robin Leach, cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, and pedophile-musician Michael Jackson. A few big names there.
Alrighty then, lets get on with…the links!
Hurricane Dorian ripped through the Virgin Islands and is headed to Florida. Its expected to be at least a Cat 3 storm. Stay safe over there, friends.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is quickly walking back his essentially unsourced claim that “Russian oligarchs cosigned Trump loans”. But its all good. The narrative was set, eh comrade?
Jesus, look at these busybody pricks. IF YOU DON’T THINK THEY’RE SAFE, THEN DON’T RIDE ONE, ASSHOLE! Also, somebody needs to claw back the CDC. Mission creep there has gotten out of control.
Run for your lives, its a … sugary soda
Oh, sweet Mother of God. the TSA gets even more retarded. I have a question: what the fuck are the rape-scanners and X-ray machines for if you’re banning shit because it “looks too much like a bomb”? Wouldn’t the X-ray show that, you know, it isn’t one?
Ilhan Omar may be in deep shit. But she’s said she doesn’t want to talk about it. And the media are largely letting her get away with it. Hopefully this results in a deeper examination of campaigns paying family members or other “close friends” ridiculous amounts of money. I think America would be pretty fucking shocked what someone can get paid to stuff envelopes if they’re related to the right person.
Europe anxious to stop Brexit as Germany and other members hurtle toward recession. You know, maybe if y’all hadn’t been such dicks, you’d have already had a trade agreement in place and there wouldn’t be cause for panic. But no. Petty bureaucrats gonna petty bureaucrat.
That’s all I got. Except for this, which is awesome. And all those guys are married to hot chicks, by the way.
Alright, go out there and have a great day friends!
Jesus, look at these busybody pricks. IF YOU DON’T THINK THEY’RE SAFE THEN DON’T RIDE ONE, ASSHOLE! Also, somebody needs to claw back the CDC. Mission creep there has gotten out of control. – I did it half a dozen times and I am fine. Then again I am careful about it.
Actually probably to careful. Takes some of the fun out of it. But those wheels are real small. And Bucharest is full of potholes and the kerb (or is it Curb) is high
The CDC wants you to …
Kerb Your Enthusiasm.
The curb is too damn high!
I agree that CDC has mission creep. Every agency does. Although I don’t think EMS statistics are over the line.
“None of those injured died. But almost half had severe injuries like broken bones, tendon or ligament injuries and severe bleeding. ”
Rub some dirt on it.
There was a death on one of the rented e-scooters in Cleveland. Of course, the driver of the car taking heroin may be more the cause here…
Bull and shit.
Say it with me – infectious disease, exposure to toxins, and bioterror. That’s it.
Eh, I think they also have a role in vermin and pest control when those vermin and pest are known disease vectors. Literally draining literal actual swamps and standing water, spraying down playgrounds with DDT, that sort of thing.
Look at this guy over here, not automatically assuming someone is shoving those scooter handles up their ass.
“eScooter eColi ePidemic, More at eLeven.”
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Which makes me wonder if I could get rich by coming out with a branded clothing line for the trans community. The logo for my products would be: #!
That’s the spirit! See? We get the creative juices going with our juice blades!
Your headshop line could be #| ?
Relevant
PoundOr? Sounds like a SMITH line to me.
STEVE SMITH NEVER POUND OR, ALWAYS POUND AND
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“Pound (amper)Sand”
Speaking of trannies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ihtX86JzmA
notice that they were all on time. That makes them…punctual.
“Hurricane Dorian ripped through the Virgin Islands and is headed to Florida.”
Fortunately, it reportedly missed Puerto Rico.
The DNC has a collective sad.
It did sound like they were hoping for a disaster.
Plenty of people were doing just that. Any suffering is worth it if you can use it to bash Trump. Well, anyone elses suffering that is.
Recession, hurricane, terrorist attack, mass shooting… all worth it.
It’s for the Greater Good.
Sick isn’t it?
Well, Bill Maher thinks it would be just swell for the plebes to suffer a recession in order to get rid of Bad Orange Man. Leftists believe the ends justify the means and that is evil.
Of course they were. And they want the economy to tank as well.
I remember after the first Iraq war, George Bush’s approval rating was somewhere in the 80’s and with the election about a year away and the economy strong, the media said that there was no way anyone could prevent him from being re-elected. Unless of course, if the economy went bad. They immediately — and for the rest of his first term — kept telling us that the economy was tanking. I’ve never forgotten that because I watched it happen.
Other than Nikki, Natural Disaster NIMBYs are the worst.
I voted against to volcano, but no, all you were too afraid of being called thermophobic.
Quiet year overall…
Mostly. Fajardo got a bit, as did Vieques and Culebra. But they dodged a bullet, that’s for sure.
Pacifica taught me that all life has been wiped out on Vieques because of centuries of the Navy shelling it with depleted uranium. Damn you Koch brothers!
>>And the media are largely letting her get away with it.
Ya know it seems like there is a market opening here for a truly unbiased news organization; one that doesn’t coddle up to anyone and just reports the news as-is. Of course such an organization would be rightly feared and not given special access to anything…
Hell, I’d settle for “News-ish” at this point. Maybe I can audition for RDA?
One America News
Pretty close as far as I can tell.
News consumption is akin to placer mining. Lots of dross, a few valuable flakes and very rarely a nugget of truth. You have to spread your net wide so that you don’t end up reaffirming your own preconceived notions.
For news about the US, also theblaze.com/news. I recommend skipping The Blaze’s main page (without the /news) unless you are looking for politics or you are looking for outrage/mockery stories (such as celebrity tweeted something the Right doesn’t like). One America News’s home page is better organized than theblaze.com/news, which saves time.
Aren’t they part of Drumpf’s Nazi propaganda machine?
Yeah, they’re not bad. I can tell because my wife watched them for awhile and then left for MSNBC because she wasn’t getting enough outrage about Trump.
Agreed. It makes me sick to see so called professional journalos roll over when a pol tells them to.
That is all Trump had to say about Russian interference and nothing more was ever said.
“I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life…”
That isn’t your call, you two bit grifter. You invited it when you entered public life.
She really is a horrible person.
But it is her call because the local reporter instantly stopped talking about it. If journalos were really as even handed and tough as they like to think they are, the reporter should have kept insisting on a yes or no response and then run the video of Omar storming off after refusing to answer.
LEAVE Omar bin Whorin’ ALONE!. JUST LEAVE HER ALONE!
*sobs uncontrollably*
Bah. Leap is right. The chick could gun someone down in broad daylight, on Hennepin Avenue, in front of a gaggle of reporters, and her seat is still safe.
You invited it when you entered public life.
Not even about that. You invited it when you filed gov’t forms illegally. So, no, it’s not about “your personal life”, it’s about crimes you’ve committed, which would be a public matter if anyone were inclined to prosecute.
“I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it.”
Trump should just quote this verbatim anytime he’s pressed.
“Trump’s personal tax returns are clearly beyond the scope of his ‘personal life’.”
I was very hopeful for Knife Media, but when they got called out for being Moonies, they shut down.
I see no evidence that there’s a significant market for this. Viewpoint-affirming propaganda is what the people want.
“looks too much like a bomb”
Did you even read your own link?
It looks too much like a pretend explosive. I’m sure that they will be banning pop tarts soon because they can be gnawed into the shape of a gun.
I thought it was a Christmas tree ornament. I’d probably fail the TSA IQ test by scoring over 100.
I think your cutoff is an order of magnitude too high.
You should see this clock I built.
I thought the addition of the red tubes really made it pop!
True tale – Wifey works as a screener at the airport and some yahoo decided that bringing his replica hand grenade-shaped pot grinder with him on his carry on luggage was a good idea. Shut the place down for hours.
Mike Judge was Nostradamus.
She brought home a copy of the scanned image. Made the papers, too.
Did she think it was silly to shut down the airport for hours because they found a fake grenade? That they quickly established was fake.
She didn’t make the rules. If she’d let him off with a nod and a wink she’d be in line at the unemployment office the next day.
I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt on these because the machines cannot tell it’s soda inside. it just shows that it’s got a strange bomb-like shape and has liquid inside, which could be explosive. If it had a regular cap design that might negate the issues, but that cap also makes it look like a non-drink.
Oh, sweet Mother of God. the TSA gets even more retarded. I have a question: what the fuck are the rape-scanners and X-ray machines for if you’re banning shit because it “looks too much like a bomb”? Wouldn’t the X-ray show that, you know, it isn’t one? -When I saw Galaxy’s Edge I first assumed it was a smartphone
lol. I had the same thought. The combination of Galaxy and thermal detonator in the story made me sure that Samsung fucked up another smart phone.
The idiotic scooter article only mentions injured riders. Not one sentence about riders injuring pedestrians, the people who want the things banned.
The [people who are pissed about them here are upset by the clutter on the sidewalk. Meanwhile, at the end of the same block, there’s some homeless fuck with his tent slamming dope while his whacked out girlfriend takes a dump on the same fucking sidewalk. Can’t disturb those two, but man these scooters are bumming me out! Fucking retards.
They are illegal to ride on the sidewalk in my city, and there are designated parking spots for them in the street now too. Also, since our bikelanes are basically ghost-towns, they don’t have to contend with any traffic. Which is why I never get out of the way of the assholes that ride them on the sidewalk.
>>Economists describe a nightmarish setting for companies: new tariffs overnight on trade between Britain and the other 27 EU countries, border checks for people and commerce, the sudden loss of business licenses, and countless other regulatory problems.
There is a solution for this… what is it called again…?
Taxes?
Scorched Earth?
Nuke it from orbit
Agorism?
Sea water?
Europe anxious to stop Brexit as Germany and other members hurtle toward recession. You know, maybe if y’all hadn’t been such dicks, you’d have already had a trade agreement in place and there wouldn’t be cause for panic. But no. Petty bureaucrats gonna petty bureaucrat. – deviants must be punished otherwise other may stray
I heard on the radio yesterday that Boris is threatening to shut down Parliament not so much to get the no deal Brexit, but so that his negotiations have the no deal possibility as a credible threat, without which it changes the dynamic out of Britain’s favor.
But its all good. The narrative was set, eh comrade?
Truth > Facts
Is that Shia Le Beouf singing for DM?
Don’t you talk shit about DM. Just don’t fucking do it.
This will serve as your final warning.
I always thought they were a fag band?
Like Frankie Goes To Hollywood or the chaps that sang about “Life in a Northern Town”. “Personal Jesus” is a solid tune.
I rank PJ as one of their worst, frankly. Maybe because it was so overplayed back in the day.
No, you were right the first time – it’s terrible.
LOL The Dream Academy was not a “fag band”. That whole album is fantastic, BTW.
You know, that’s the stereotype for some reason. I’ve never understood it, because those dudes got more ass of the female persuasion than any hair band on their best day. They were pioneers in the “Nerdy British Guys Who Are Inexplicably Slaying It Left and Right” genre later attempted by bands such as Coldplay, Radiohead, and Muse.
They liked to play coy. See my link below for an example.
That’s Erasure.
But what is a boy in love supposed to do? Return to innocence?
They look pretty soy boyish.
Huh… sloopy linked a Dropkick Murphy’s song?
/clicks the music link
/is disappoint.
Mike McColgan was the only good singer for Dropkicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8lLdbK9CJM
They have had some legendary guest singers. But I agree that Mike was the best lead singer.
That microphone, so slim, so slender…
He’s gonna do a Tony Bennett with that thing after the cameras stop rolling.
Slim? Slender?
Gene Rayburn laughs at you.
Pre-smack Dave Gahan was so cute.
Nothing will happen to Ilhan.
So some of the local radio show guys were talking about how Brother Keith Ellison had used the same guy when he was a Congressman and had a bunch of FEC filings showing that he also gave this guy gobs and gobs of money for …. something.
My guess is that this guy is laundering money for these guys. The problem is that this time the white boy got a bad case of jungle fever and now everyone is in deep shit.
You know how happy it would make me if Ilhan’s stupidity not only got her bounced from office, but also got Ellison in legal hot water?
Dude. Low level politicians get hit or take falls. Not high profile ones. It’s the open secret joke how top politicians scam, steal money and abuse the system but get away with it. Everyone pretends to care and bitch, the media throws a bone writing about it but then promptly move on.
As I said yesterday, Obama pretty much did know about the spying and even consented to it and Hillary’s emails. The day people like that are held to account for their actions is the day I think the system really does look for justice. Instead, I gotta watch that corrupted putz buy a $15 million home.
I know. Cynical.
But I reached this with Trudeau. That he’s still PM despite his antics and ethics violations just simply is pathetic.
+1 e-mail server in a closet
Still? Will be for at least the foreseeable future. We don’t have term limits, much to our chagrin.
You think he’s getting re-elected? I’m already biting my nails for October.
If he does….there’s something wrong wth Canadians. There’s ZERO excuse for it.
My bet? He squeaks by with a minority Liberal government. As usual, the Conservatives will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (Hell, they’ve already done it by choosing the “leader” they’ve got).
Oh, and Rufus? It should be “. . . there’s something wrong with
CanadiansQuebecois.” We all know that your fellow Kaybers are gonna give him another chance — they’ve already bought the “I will always protect Canadian jobs” bullshit.Which is weird because the Trudeaus are hated here.
And I agree I think a minority government despite his retardation and government’s arrogance and amateurish behaviour. No wonder he’s laughing. He knows they’re idiots.
Poe Jimbo did not say it would happen. Just that it would make him happy. Like picking up litter and finding out it is a winning lottery ticket. But if anyone reading this disagrees with Rufus about the comment above, see for details Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison by Dr. Peter Schweizer.
AND I SQUASHED HIS HOPE FOR HAPPINESS.
“Abandon hope all ye who enter here.” — the Reverend H. F. Cary translating or mis-translating Divine Comedy by Dante.
quote was from Charlotte’s Web, once of the messages she spun in the rafters.
Dumas.
If I recall correctly it was posted after she got indigestion from eating the Hobbits.
“Alexandre Dumas” (real name: Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie) wrote Three Musketeers. Charlotte’s Web was written by last name White preceded by some initials.
The Divine Comedy came before Charlotte’s Web.
You missed the running joke.
I thought it was because captain Kirk threw a giant papier mache Boulder at her.
Brother Keith’s payments to the Mynett group per FEC Filings
2014 $92,381
2016 $193,791
2018 $175,382
I’d be a bit worried if I was in his shoes. Some reporter might come around asking what he paid this guy $450K for.
Uffda. Who am I kidding? No reporter will dare ask him what was going on.
RACIALIST!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7404529/Kendall-Jenner-shows-model-figure-tiny-black-bikini-Jamaican-girls-trip-Hailey-Bieber.html
White Girl Butt ™
then again she dated a lot of NBA players.
You’re thinking of Kylie. Kendall actually seems like the sanest Kardashian/Jenner. She’s kept her face pretty much intact.
yes and she dated multiple nba players. jordan clarkson blake griffin ben simmons
And…?
nba players like em thick?
She’ll be smoking when she gets to be about 30 and grows into a woman’s body.
Sure. Smoking three packs of Marlboro Reds a day and striking up conversations with complete strangers at the local dive bar. That kinda smoking?
Exactly – start smoking!
Well, she’ll need to eat more and/or do some squats, because she’s way too skinny, and not in a toned way.
all those guys are married to hot chicks, by the way.
A friend who saw them live said there were more hot women attending the concert than any other band he’d ever seen. And this guy used to go to 2 or 3 live shows a week.
I don’t get it. Their music is horrible.
I would not say horrible on a Gaussian distribution of the music out there
Hot Chicks be crazy
Also looked At who it was and you can shut your dirty whore mouth. They are fantastic.
It’s horrible, but 80s horrible is way better than the most popular new music.
Nails on a chalkboard are better than 80’s music.
Nails
That is too much good sir! I demand satisfaction! What shall it be? Sex Pistols at Dawn? We must choose a spot where The Police won’t find us Blondie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgNVhNj7ew&list=RDSWgNVhNj7ew&start_radio=1
I don’t know about dawn. You are gonna have to wait until after my second cup of coffee.
whatisthisIcan’teven
There are so many better 80s “new wave” bands. I’ve said it before but DM has not aged well at all.
Yeah, as I said before, I like a lot of new wave music but could never enjoy Depeche Mode – no matter how many time First Wave on Sirius plays ’em.
Musicians have this magic ability to score: pal of mine is overweight with a bald patch on the top of his head but – he’s was/is a guitarist/singer for a number of local punk bands – always had some hottie hanging on his arm. Seemed like he had a sexual experience of some sort with half of the woman in the scene.
Here’s one of his singles with the Krabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5olED9_7i8
He should have been more choosy about who he banged.
Yes.
*gasps in horror*
I have no words.
Seriously, though, I love Depeche Mode, but whether or not you like them would I think depend a lot on how you feel about electronic music. Nowadays I’m mostly death metal, country, and bluegrass, but I’ve always had a soft spot for club music.
The life of a rock star is a tough one indeed.
you say that but not everyone can handle the insane amounts of drugs and sex involved
When I was in high school, and even into my twenties, if I got a chick back to my place and wanted to get laid I’d put on either The Cure or Depeche Mode. 100% success rate.
Later in life I threw in Morbid Angel just to see, and that was one of those high risk, high reward scenarios.
Flashback: I had a cassette tape of a UK punk act called Conflict. I taped the Arcadia album over it…
I’m 15, making out with this gal named Beth, having a great time. Arcadia is playing in the background and… then the tail end of Conflict comes on. Turns out I hadn’t taped over all of the album. It kinda ruined the mood as I scrambled to flip the cassette over.
LOL
Getting on the new Kosciuszko Bridge bike path is hell: cyclists
Serves you right for riding a bike, dork.
Every road must be rebuilt at the same time so that everything is consistent when the road opens. The obvious solution is to close every road for 4 years while all of them are rebuilt.
Fuck you. Cycling: the middle aged way to get to the bars and stay in some kind of shape.
/checks weather again for planned 65 mile ride on Saturday.
If you bicycle in Manhattan there are a few requirements.
1. Ride on the sidewalk where possible
2. Ride down one streets the wrong way – Broadway is ideal for this given the construction and tourists
3. When coming to a red light where pedestrians are crossing be sure and plow right through while giving them dirty looks.
4. When you collide with a pedestrian while doing 1 through 3 be sure to speed off
There’s a reason I wouldn’t bike in Manhattan. Here, I’m in the street 90% of the time, the times I’m not in the street, I’m on a trail, or rolling up on a sidewalk to push a crossing button. The times I’m on a trail are generally when I’m with someone who’s not as comfortable road riding, and there the rules for pedestrians appear to be:
1. Make sure to have headphones in so that you can’t hear anyone coming.
2. If you’re walking a dog, make sure it’s poorly trained, and on a 10 yard leash
3. If you have a stroller, make sure it’s as wide as possible, and walk in the middle of the path. You’ve earned it.
4. When a cyclist passes you (after giving notice that you didn’t hear) make sure to jump and yell at them.
I had my headphones on last week, laying mulch by the walk up to the house, the mailman snuck right by me. Didn’t notice him till he was walking back to the truck.
(I neglected to jump and yell, I’ll try harder next time)
lol dork
I still believe in Kosciuszko.
I still reject, largely, bike lanes.
“And all those guys are married to hot chicks, by the way.”
I remember when everyone thought they were gay.
Don’t be so suburban. It’s the new millennium. Gay, straight… it’s all the same now. There are no more lines.
David Bowie was married to that smoke-show Imam forever. Maybe they got better,too?
I can’t imagine why.
The most famous person no one knows birthday is also today. I will be putting in an average effort at work while sounding like a superstar, then almost not getting drunk at the HS football game this evening.
You look older than you are, but you seem young at heart. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Tulpa.
HBD!
Happy Birthday, Private Chipperbot. Is that private as in not public, private as in below corporal, or something else?
It was from the old place combining a woodchipper and for some reason (drink) something about a robot army. I don’t really remember.
Thanks for the reply.
Enjoy your day, man!
HB, fellow ice demon!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, brother!
You are a lucky guy, Mr Chipperbot, surrounded by all of your closest and bestest unseen and unknown friends. Just the way life should be lived. Happy Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqolSvoWNck
For today, at least
Sex robots could suddenly malfunction and attack their randy masters, expert warns
WHAT CAN I SAFELY SNOG!
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…
I’m sure the guys using then have a higher chance of being attacked by the human they are trying to screw.
True. Some women don’t appreciate it when a man protects her by standing behind a shrub outside of her home, making sure she is safe at all times.
Erm, say wut?
What? The nebbishy tech guy that can’t get the thing functional?
“Unless you can stop it with some kind of projectile, like a gun or something like that, if this thing got out of control it could do some serious damage.”
And so, the Second Amendment finds yet another purpose for the 21st century. Safe sex will now mean bringing either a condom or a gun, depending on the circumstances.
“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever…”
Sounds like it’s in the wrong place on the hot/crazy matrix.
So stories about interactive mannequins for Puritan-disapproved purposes will “be back?”
Pornhub launches environmental campaign targeting the ‘dirtiest beach’
Pornhub > Greenpeace imho
Easy, Venice beach at the boardwalk.
Pornhub needs to steer clear of any political/social agenda and stick to posting fap material. The last thing anyone needs is a woke porn industry.
Once the pron industry goes woke,…….
I got nothing.
…we’ll have nothing to stroke?
Gives new meaning to PETA’s effort to stop all the animal abuse (choking of chickens, beatings of meats, spanking of monkeys, and so on)….
Once the pron industry goes woke,…….
The next Trump will be an un-woke porn mogul, promising to MAGA in a whole new way.
You think the porn industry is full of Mormons and people with Joel Olesteen podcasts on their phone?
There are limitless possibilities for this: oil spills, forest fires, industrial mine pollution…
Chernobyl reactor when?
i guess they’ll start with the dirtiest porn stars? Chechik and Tori Black?
Houston Fat Stock Show auction catalog > Greenpeace
Well, shit. I’m staying with my girlfriend who loves in DeLand (a bit inland and a little more than midway up the state on the east coast) for the week.
Earlier this year, I worked for a few months rebuilding homes in the wake of hurricane Michael. A Cat 5 is nothing to take lightly. Fields of mature pines snapped halfway up. Roofs removed entirely, sometimes placed several streets away. I should do a photo/write-up for y’all sometime. If there’s any indication of Dorian strengthening, we’re getting out of Dodge.
Dorian is strengthening. 5 AM US Eastern time today advisory predicts it will be high 3 or low 4 at US (probably Florida) landfall.
I better go gas up now just in case. The interstates become “stop and go” once everyone decides to leave.
Gas up? You gonna go eat some beans or sumthin?
11 AM US Eastern update: 201 km/hr with floor for cat 4 @ 209 km/hr forecast with current actual @ 137 km/hr.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7405985/Demi-Rose-shows-underboob-racy-cut-Playboy-swimsuit-photoshoot-Bali.html
Sigh…*clicks*
Gah! So fucking un-natural.
It looks like an anime body.
She has so much stuff injected into her I’d be worried that if the temp ever went over 100 she’s spontaneously combust.
You only live once, Son….
For Tundra:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7406415/Elizabeth-Hurley-54-shows-age-defying-physique.html
God’s bones!
Another reason to not take Hugh Grant whatever his name is seriously.
Not pictured: The devil.
You’re the best, CP.
*heads for bunk*
Dorian ripped through the Virgin Islands
So you are saying that they are no longer virgins.
*slow clap*
glol
Wives are bribing their husbands with sex to get chores done
Incels are right – women can’t be trusted.
So in other words, a typical marriage.
She probably limits it to missionary.
OTPFB, no mouth stuff.
Sounds like a twist on an old scam
The bitch!
Amanda Marcotte, a blogger and mom of one
What stupid bastard did this?
Picture Pajama Boy and Amanda with one of those electrified bull semen rods.
No, I don’t think I will
Who the fuck would want to have sex with Amanda Marcotte?
She didn’t get knocked up by the republican cowboy that raped her at Oberlin?
Christian penitents go to extreme lengths to self-flagellate
Me?
https://www.findatherapist.com/
Amanda Marcotte, a blogger and mom of one
Mandy settled down and had a family? That’s a big step up from bitching about men on Salon or EF or wherever she was.
“If my husband wants a no-questions-asked free pass for sex, he will get it if he checks off those boxes, especially if he does so before he’s asked.”
This is pernicious.
So much this. Not what I would recommend for a healthy marriage.
You can see how one sided it is if you simply flip the transaction.
“If my wife wants a no-complaint-given completion of all pending chores, she will get it if she puts out, especially if she does so before she’s asked.”
We have a large portion of women these days being raised to believe that marriage is a means by which men serve women. They have no problem piling demands on their men and haranguing them about obligations, but they would consider it retrograde and oppressive for a man to expect any obligations whatsoever from the woman.
Amanda IS the worst. Even the Lefties at Salon hated her before she ran away to greyer pastures.
If we’re turning this into a transaction, I mean, I can pay someone younger and hotter $200 and get the same thing, so…
Also, where does Amanda go to blog? Or does “getting home from work” mean putting her iPad down?
the last thing I want to do when I get home from work, is to do more work, like laundry and dishes
But for your husband to say exactly the same thing is male privilege at work.
But is anyone really surprised that Amanda Marcotte views sex as a transactional service?
Any married Glibs want to defend the idea of that marital act being tied to love being better in pleasure, morals, and/or ethics than being part of a transaction?
Love is a transaction.
Elaborate?
Its not the transactions that’s the problem. Its the accounting. Reciprocity is a really important thing – but within the family its the keeping of exact tally’s (aka justice) instead of accepting honest good-faith (mercy).
There is nothing wrong with my wife giving me a honey-do list, slapping my butt, and biting my ear. There is a problem with her slamming the bedroom door in my face that evening and saying “you spent too long on the laundry and didn’t get to the dishes”. (Just like there would be a problem with me spending the whole day drinking beer and taking naps).
Justice is the hard nosed, unyielding logic of accounting and physics. Mercy is the exclusion of justice for the good of the recipient. Men, generally, operate in the realm of justice and women, generally, operate in the realm of mercy. Too much of either one is bad. Sexual relations call for a bit of both, but heavy on the mercy.
The moment when Fourscore and HM join up and invent something great ala Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.
I thought that song was an 80s version of “Baby Shark” for the first 30 seconds.
Anyone notice the gushing rave reviews Obama’s movie ‘American Factory’ garners from shitty fake movie reviewers?
Take a guess and go take a look.
From what I read, it’s just another tired rehash of anti-capitalist cliches.
But 96% on Rotten Tomatoes!
The Lightbringer made it, it has to automatically be the greatest movie ever created! Just give it every Oscar and shut the industry down!
If Trump were to make one…lol. He could get Wes Anderson to direct a film and they’d shit on it even if it turns out better than The Budapest Hotel. Just a hunch.
But the plot is an instant winner. Always will be.
He’s so painfully unimaginative and predictable it’s hilarious.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinejanis/2019/08/28/american-factory-tells-an-all-too-familiar-story/#1f333c204d42
You do realize the Obama’s didn’t create the film, right? Someone connected to their production company saw it, and they watched it and presented it to Netflix as a part of their deal.
It’s not like one day Barack came up with the idea and said “you go make movie!”
^^^This. Barack just sits in a stupor all day and Michelle is the one with the green visor and sleeve savers, running the nuts and bolts of the operation.
People keep saying that. I wonder sometimes. It does look that way but perception can be deceiving.
I see him spending his days talking at a mirror.
Mirror in the Bathroom.
excellent ?
Yeh I know. Just piling on him because I feel like it.
I too judge content before I consume it – it’s the only way.
I’m sure the audience will be – what – the remaining Obama sycophants? So like a few hundred adorers?
Whats the critic score:viewer score ratio? If it’s close to 1:1 it’s usually fairly accurate. If there’s a disparity, you can figure out something aobut the film without even reading the reviews. High viewer low critic is a classic popcorn film. High critic low viewer is either artsy pretentious crap or highly politicized claptrap.
To its credit the 96% score is close to the audience score of 88%. When I see a disparity there it raises an eyebrow. Not that I look at these things too much. I suppose Metacritic is better?
‘Unplanned’ gets a 42%.
En passant…
I think PP should be burned to the ground, but Unplanned was a lousy movie.
They shoulda got Tim Burton to direct it?
Whoever directed it wasn’t any good.
It’s Obama. Of course it is claptrap.
Rotten Tomatoes games the viewer scores though. Remember when they deleted all the viewer scores for Captain Marvel or some shit?
Well, all that means is there is no viewer score anymore, so the number is useless.
There are also movies that are low critic high audience (for movies that predate not having audience numbers)? Examples:
https://rottentomatoes.com/m/Atlas_Shrugged
12% TOMATOMETER Total Count: 51
69% Audience Score User Ratings: 16,967
https://rottentomatoes.com/m/passion_of_the_christ
49% TOMATOMETER Total Count: 275
80% Audience Score User Ratings: 369,155
It’s just GUNG HO without Gedde Watanabe being funny.
Meh. I watched the preview and it looked interesting — until it suddenly swerved into being about unionizing. The fucking AFL-CIO has the gall to try to unionize a plant when they’re the ones who ran the old one into the ground, and they’re presented as the good guys? Fuck that.
(maybe the preview was misleading, but… given the Obamas are attached to it, I doubt it)
If this piece is any indication, the whole movie is meant to be pro-union and the AFL-CIO is one of the “partners” of the promotion. Yeah, hard pass.
Thot Thursday sez “heads or tails? something for everyone!”
http://archive.li/GdVsj
16 is cute af.
What’s going on in 68??
Combining her two biggest passions: fellatio and intravenous drugs.
Careful, she’s only 16.
Weird, it looks like the last one is the un-photoshopped version of the first one. This is the best one yet, btw.
#1 is a combo of #25 and #71
“something for everyone!”
Indeed.
WATCH: AOC Warns of Prehistoric Diseases, Soylent Green, and Death from Climate Change (While Making Mac & Cheese)
It’s a good thing humans didn’t exist until 6000 years ago. What a retarded.
there are a lot of things frozen in the tundra
Someone should tell her not to worry. Even though they are frozen (and slathered in lube) Tundra’s body temp will melt them pretty quick and then be easily passed back out.
>>there are a lot of things frozen in the tundra
AND STEVE SMITH RAPED ALL OF THEM
Wouldn’t frozen spunk be the work of SNOW SMITH?
NOT TALK ABOUT COUSIN YETI!
Yes, save it for later.
Save it for later?
OK
Heh.
Doh!
She has to be removed. For the health of a nation.
Didn’t she say the other day millennials are the first protestors or something like that?
She’s the disease. She spreads the disease of ignorance and illiberal thoughts.
I hear tell that she’s first in line to usurp Gillibrand’s seat in the Senate. Ponder that on the tree of woe.
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made some bold claims in her latest Instagram Live video, suggesting millennials and Generation Z are better ‘informed’ and more well-versed in history than past generations — and, apparently forgetting about the turbulent ’60s, are the first ‘willing to go to the streets’ and challenge their government.” https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/aoc-suggests-informed-millennials-are-first-generation-to-protest-government/85029248/
“To be ignorant and be able to express it!” Klaus.
Anyone want to entertain the possibility that she is trolling? That the whole thing is an act for her personal benefit for fame and money?
She is a prime example of the failure and damage caused by the participation trophy experiment….
Can’t keep fooling me with these Bee articles.
Can’t tell no mo. Going to bed, now.
Anyone wnt to entertain the possibility that she is trolling? That the whole thing is an act for her personal benefit for fame and money?
LOL, okay
She’s like a Hispanic millenial Lonesome Rhodes.
It is too late to do anything this romantic for my wedding but maybe for my 30th anniversary?
Lowered Expectatiooooonnssss..
As long as you still wear the hat.
Uffda. We’ve been married 27 years already and I’ve been snipped. Are you sure I still have to wear a jimmy hat to protect myself?
“Wedding gown? Mother, stop! Mother, stop! You’re telling me you’re not going to be naked at your own wedding?”
ST:TNG?
You just know Majel Barrett was a freak in the sack.
Yes.
It is too late to do anything this
romanticdisturbing for my wedding.FTFY
Trump policy creates citizenship challenge for children born to some military and other Americans abroad
The only way to make it more fair is to make it more complicated.
My Amazing Boyfriend Is Bad at Sex. Are We Doomed?
Maybe talk to him?
That’s crazy talk. I suggest passive-aggressive signals that I’m sure he’ll learn to pick up on in 5-15 years.
+ 2 Children
– 400 from his paycheck
The tried and tested method.
Fuck that! Threesome with her hotest friend. Fix it right up.
According to television sitcoms, this is usually followed by disaster. An episode of Gossip Girl (not a sitcom) had this advice: “The third person is always supposed to be a stranger!” The Judeo-Christian advice would be to save it for within marriage.
I know it’s a long shot, but you could try, wait for it… telling him what you like! It might just be crazy enough to work!
That doesn’t always work
Yeah, Craig was hoping she would let him plow her hot sister while she watched…
Not to be that guy, but could it be that *she’s* at least also bad at sex? In my experience, I have found that, frequently, chicks who complain about men being bad at bed are chicks who look at sex as akin to receiving a massage or watching a movie. They kind of lay there and wait for fireworks to go off.
I had a GF in college like that. Except for a few rare occasions, it was like having sex with a corpse. “Thinking of England.”
She had a rockin’ bod and was beautiful as all get out.. but c’mon!
I’ve for sure had girlfriends who made me think that their superpower was making a 20-something dude who’d hit on a movie poster lose interest in sex while having sex.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld explains why he’s primarying Donald Trump
Real Republican in that he sucks?
Well, at least we’ll get to watch some hilarious one-liners as Trump denigrates Weld in the primary debate.
There will be a primary debate?
Is he endorsing Hillary again?
This. That’s all Trump has to say. And it’s going to hurt the libertarian party for years. Nominating Dumb and dumber, and then letting one campaign for the Democrats.
How can Bill Weld be a “real Republican?” Isn’t he so Libertarian that he was qualified to be the nominee for Vice President from the Libertarian Party in the distant past of 2016?
he thinks Trump, who has “no use for soft power or diplomacy,”
Better to bomb ever greater numbers of countries.
That was Obama’s motto. Why was he not called out on that?
So Romanians get to name this planes and its star as part of some Astronomical Union celebration. Thoughts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-1
Since XO is a grade of brandy, maybe Tuica?
I mean I guess it is if you are like poor
Commie tweet of the day?
Communism is about love. Love for humanity, your neighbours, your community. Without love, it’s impossible to be a Communist, or at least a good Communist.
https://twitter.com/ClaraSorrenti/status/1166368979377692672
+100 million corpses loved to death
^^^THIS^^^
Plus communist social justice is making something more than 3 billion people share in the constant misery and drudgery of a command system, cause making 3 billion people all happy is impossible to do and collectivism simply must provide a solution to life being unfair.
The Romanians has the right idea.
3 billion, because the other 4 billion will be in mass graves?
Love kills commies?
Kill a commie for your mommie!
I wonder what she’s thinking reading the comments obliterating her tweet and mocking her stupidity?
Is she part of the ‘informed’ millennials that fuckcunt AOC refers to?
+1 MiniLuv
Well, I mean, it is well known that Russian communist had more and better sex.
Nothing makes sex fun as having to do it in a room with a bunch of other family members as an audience!
The other “two-minutes hate”.
I wonder if they did Olympic scoring, and the East German judge always inflated their scores?
“We have 4.4; 5.0; 3.8; 5.5; 4.8; and 12.9”
They might as well anyway. If you were living in Soviet era Russia you were fucked anyway.
Sailing team to fly 2 crew to US to bring Thunberg boat back
Is there a reason the team that rowed little Greta over, can’t row her back again? Why do they need a new team?
It would also be sort of funny if they got here and the port authority refused to let her enter the US and made them turn around and go back.
If her utopia comes true, she’s never leaving Sweden again. And communication with her flock will be via written letters shipped via galley.
David Arquette’s Indie Wrestling Redemption Tour
Respect.
I don’t get it. Are we pretending it’s “real” again?
The punches and kicks are not real, but if you don’t think doing this doesn’t wreck your back, I don’t know what to say.
I knew a bunch of pro wrestlers. “Real” or not, it beats the living shit out of your body.
What’s so hard to get?
Rhywun is cuing up for a Stossel.
Yep, he started from the bottom alright.
Hey man, whatever you gotta do to get an erection.
Kinda related to the MSNBC thing: I had an interesting TDS observation last night that I wanted to pass on. I was at a work dinner in Europe with 4 colleagues. One other was American, who I think is pretty much a garden-variety leftish “moderate”. The other 3 are a Spaniard, a Canadian, and a Frenchman, all of whom have lived in the US for 10-20 years. Standard progs inside, but normal in a work context. Everybody at the table has an Engineering background with at least 20 years of experience in combined R&D/Eng/Mfg, and everybody gets along fine.
Somebody was talking about investment timing, and shifted to a comment about Trump still probably being in office 10 years from now, so wouldn’t that be horrible? Couple of us said something about “nah, 22nd Amendment, so Constitutionally impossible”, and pretty much simultaneously all the proggies jumped right to “yeah but there’s the Emoluments clause and that didn’t stop him”. Obviously wasn’t in the mood to debate their derangitude, so let the conversation go on by. Other fun parts of the conversation included how they’re sure they’ll get deported and have their kids sent to a camp in the desert if they get a traffic ticket, since that’s how Trump’s America is now.
Anyway, I had no idea the Emoluments thing was hot on anybody’s mind, but apparently it’s one of the go-to “what-abouts” that TDS sufferers have these days. Dunno whether it’s “foreign governments are booking at Trump hotels!!!!” or “he’s secretly getting paid by Rooskies” or what. Surprise to me.
No one who hasn’t spent a lifetime living off government largess should be allowed to be president.
^^this
The establishment wants to reassert their lock on politics and keep outsiders out.
The resistance is basically the angry credentialed but massively inept ruling class desperately trying to not just destroy the upstart challenging their cushy status quo, but also making sure there will be no more resistance from the ungrateful unwashed deplorables.
I completely relate to that setting. I’m no conservative, but surely you also noticed this same posture from GWB43; that is to say, this is about two issues:
a/ the wide European resentment of the American experiment because it rejects them, exceeds them, and is, well, more fun than they’re having: you only speak one language and yet you are twice as rich as I am !!
b/ the longer European perspective that is familiar with any number of constitutions that are routinely and baldly abused; they don’t expect Americans, being human, to be exempt from similar risks; the French path to a republic is, of course, notorious.
Now as then, my answer is simple: we are morons, same as you; our president is a moron, same as yours. I hope we can hold on to our republic, but you will find freedom is revolting with fits and starts, with monstrosities like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Pyramid jutting out all over the place. In time it turns out some of the monsters were geniuses, but at first: horror.
the French path to a republic is, of course, notorious
To which Republic? They’ve had five of them (although, this is probably your point, but it bears repeating).
So does the French constitutional convention.
It’s been a thing since before he was even elected.
That is kind of a bizarre non sequitur. What the hell are they talking about? The emoluments clause only applies to a president in office. No one has shown a scintilla of evidence that Trump is being paid in any way by anyone, much less a foreign entity. That is why the effort to get him via the emoluments clause failed.
What has that got to do with him leaving office at the end of his second term?
This is why Trump keeps winning. His opponents are completely retarded.
Explanation, not agreement: Foreign governments paying Trump owned businesses is the same as paying the man himself. Extra Bad Trump if President Donald J. Trump himself makes US or foreign governments pay Trump businesses, such as Secret Service costs for his trips to Mar-A-Lago or the proposal that the next G7 be at Trump Doral.
But ignore foreign “donations” to sham charitable organizations.
Accepted along with the caveat, but does Trump own the businesses in question? In the SS instance, that’s not covered by the emoluments clause because that’s not a foreign government giving him something and it isn’t Congress or a state government giving him something. In the case of the G7 being at his resort, I would imagine that it wouldn’t apply unless he’s a sole proprietor.
Your objections overlook the part of the Emoluments Clause that is found in the same part of the document that includes abortions, marriages, K12 education and so on not being subject to restrictions by ballot box or by legislative process.
“…paying Trump owned businesses is the same as paying the man himself.”
This seems a bit of a grey area to me. If there was a direct connection the foam-at-the-mouth Dems and never-Trumpers would have been all over this like a duck on a junebug. They tried and failed. I don’t know enough details really to say one way or the other but it seems suspicious to me that so many people talked about it yet nothing came of it.
Did he or did he not divest himself of interest in those companies? He said he was going to early on but I don’t remember if he actually did.
I don’t believe he did divest, just stepped down from all positions he held.
Depends on what news source you trust. Based on personal preference, the “facts” are that he sold off his stocks and recused himself from the rest.
This is by design. The media plays the Russia angle probably knowing it’s all specious or bull shit. But I think the goal is to plant into people’s minds that there’s *something there* and to create enough doubt or cynicism. Mission accomplished.
The other day someone admitted true there’s no proof but ‘come on. You *know* he’s crooked and dirty!.
I guess like they do with mobsters. There’s no ‘proof’ someone is in the mob but everyone *knows* they’re in the mob.
The media plays off these grey areas. Just my take.
Yes, but I don’t think they have won anyone over. The choir is cheering them on but the Trump voters for the most part see through the bullshit.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that this election is already set in stone. No one that voted Trump is going to vote for any of the lunatics the Dems are running and no one is going to be swayed to Trump. There is a good chance the Dem loons are running a significant number of voters away from voting commie but those people will probably just stay home.
I am convinced Trump has this in the bag barring some awful disaster between now and November next year. I know, a lot can happen in a year.
Wait until he declassifies the documents showing how the weaponized three letter agencies were used by the democrats – under direction from Obama’s admin – to not just spy on their political opponents, but to rig all sorts of shits (including elections), right before the election next year. There is nothing the left hates more than the people finding out how corrupt they are.
and the mainstream press will bury it.
He will post them to Twatter…
If the Left ever gets power again, I have no doubt that they will push hard for some pretty hardcore 1A restrictions under the guise of preventing “fake news”, “foreign interference”, and “hate speech”.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that this election is already set in stone.
Elections of polarizing figures are about turnout. Can the dems get disaffected millennials to turn out in enough numbers to signal orangemanbad? Can Trump get enough blue collar whites vote for him?
It’s very much still in the air and will depend on the dem candidate, economic conditions this time next year, and how much the leftist media’s mask slips.
It is about making it impossible for Trump to run the country. Especially since his agenda has been to roll back everything Obama did through the power of his pen to rig the bureaucracy in favor of the democrat party. And more importantly,it is about making sure everyone gets the message that the democrats will not tolerate anyone but them in power, and that the current ruling class will NEVER allow the plebes to upend their cushy niche.
So what that the credentialed elite master class no longer honors the old agreement that they would produce value to the people in return for the people turning a blind eye to them raiding the coffers? Fuck the plebs! Bend over and take it you fucking deplorable cunts! And make sure you thank us for ass fucking you without any form of lubrication, or we will destroy your ungrateful ass. Now pay up more and you get shit in return for that.
Emoluments are essentially gifts. They don’t include fair market value payments for goods and services. Even if Trump is still an owner (and I’m not sure what his current status is), Russian and China could book every Trump property solid through the end of his second term and as long as they paid going rates, it wouldn’t fall under the Emoluments Clause.
If the current claims that a foreign government doing business with a company that a federal officer is a passive investor in (like a shareholder) violate the Emoluments Clause, then every federal officer is going to have divest from every publicly traded stock or private security, and arguably every publicly bond or private loan that involves a company that has a foreign government as a customer. Which would include any mutual fund with such securities.
Its all so stupid.
^ This. The idea that politicians have to divest their business interests to avoid violating the emoluments clause is patently absurd. Many of the early presidents, including the author of the Constitution (and thus presumably the emoluments clause itself), were businessmen, operating businesses that either directly or indirectly relied, at least in part, on exports, and none of them divested themselves of their businesses when they held office.
Where are all the hippies?
I say we get Antifa to beat them hippies up
Fucking a! Someone hadda say it.
Cliff Booth and Rick Dalton took care of them.
My father claims, falsley, that in the 60’s he was a dirty non-conformist hippy and in 2019 he’s a shitlord. I know he’s stretching the truth, but he has pictures of himself at an anti-vietnam rally with a sign that says “Vote All The Fuckers Out” and a sign of him standing on the National Mall tea party with a sign that says “Vote All The Fuckers Out.”
My former friend a ~75 year old hippie. Still listens to his Cat Stephens album. Still wears tie die. Still has a dream catcher in the back of his camper-van. The whole nine yards. He can’t stand the modern left that’s completely given up on the live-and-let-live, let-your-freak-flag-fly ethos.
So, yeah.
Do Eggs Really Need To Be Refrigerated?
That’s why they’re all such lame pussies – they are putting something in the vaccines!
Never wash eggs. Who would anyway?
Chicken shit is gross?
If you are going to wash it do so immediately before cracking. Washing an egg washes away antibiotic protections the egg naturally has. If you wash it and put it away it will rot in no time.
Back in college I tried to get some eggs to rot so that I could throw them. After more than a semester of sitting on top of the fridge (store bought, washed eggs) it hadn’t happened
Americans?
There are two different approaches to dealing with salmonella in eggs — North America takes one, Europe takes the other. If you don’t keep a North American, commercially-produced egg in the fridge, you’re gambling with salmonella (or worse). European eggs depend on the “natural” barriers of the egg, so they aren’t usually refrigerated. Mind you, I don’t understand why they wouldn’t refrigerate ’em anyways — it would give them an even longer life, and why would that be bad?
And I no longer eat raw eggs, period.
It’s like your read the article!
Wouldn’t the X-ray show that, you know, it isn’t one?
I recall Jeff Dunham doing a bit where he described being given extra security attention because one of his dolls had residue that triggered a sensor as explosive material. This was triggered by lotion that he uses. I’d say the security is less than perfect.
Well isn’t that a common terrorist tactic? Finding some dummy to carry a bomb onto a plane?
*golf clap*
And his puppets aren’t exactly rocket scientists, either.
Doll? Lotion? Doesn’t sound like ventriloquism to me.
Dude, most commercial hand lotion has glycerin in it. This is right up there with saying that the security is less than perfect because the bomb detector gave me a false positive and all I did spend 6 hours shooting muzzle loaders before my flight.
And the media are largely letting her get away with it.
But they still position themselves as if they hold those in power accountable. I suppose they do, pending which political team the person is on, even if they have to make shit up.
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.
Mark Sanford Says He’s in the ‘Final Throes’ of Deciding on a Trump Primary Challenge
Hiking that campaign trail…
We need Santorum to jump into the race so we can bring back all the dormant jokes about him.
I am disappointed that the wrong Joe Walsh is running for President.
Didn’t the real Joe Walsh once run for Vice-President? I believe he ran for it unaffiliated with any candidate for President, which is awesome.
Just checked, he ran for president in 1980 and vice president in 1992.
Shitty talk show Joe Walsh is on late nights and I sometimes caught him driving back home. What a statist tool. I can’t believe he was a Tea Party darling. Of course, he got turned out after one term, so maybe the voters in his district aren’t that dumb after all.
I’m still bummed that Kid Rock isn’t really running for Senate.
Toward a Universal Theory of ‘Mom Jeans’
Trump’s biggest crime against humanity is largely contributing to this horrible fashion trend.
Also, comedian Tim Dillon said Billie Eilish looks like Harvey Weinstein had her locked in a cage for ten years.
Yeah, sure. As I “mall walk” I’m struck by how all the teen-oriented stores feature Hooker Dresses in their window displays. Looking at pictures from granddaughter’s prom, I wondered how her school had enrolled so many streetwalkers.
The president before him wore pants so creased that David Brooks’ reaction was “I mean, he is pretty dazzling when he walks into a room.” https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2009/08/31/the-obligatory-david-brooks-really-impressed-with-obamas-pants-post/
BHO would never wear “mom jeans.” Oh, wait:
President Obama: The Man, the Mind, the “Mom Jeans” – Vogue
http://www.vogue.com/article/president-barack-obama-mom-jeans
President Obama’s Infamous Mom Jeans Are Actually Cool Now | GQ
http://www.gq.com/story/president-obamas-mom-jeans-are-actually-cool-now
Michelle Obama Says Barack Wears Mom Jeans Not Dad Jeans | Time
time.com/4632834/michelle-obama-mom-jeans/
Wait. I thought it was Obama who made Mom Jeans cool?
Lessons from Inside the World’s Most Sustainable City
https://www.gq.com/story/gothenburg-most-sustainable-city-on-earth?
In Sweden, things feel different. In a country blessed by a strong public sector, a heavily regulated marketplace, progressive values, and a slightly unnerving culture of following directions, the story of the crisis has clearly taken hold. It appears as if Swedes have managed to translate climate change from a future problem into a now problem.
Blessed. Whatever the fuck you think of it, blessed? really? Also I see how it is not even “well regulated” but heavily as if that is by default good
Stolkholm syndrome
heavily regulated marketplace
It’s called fascism.
Why do you hate Utopia?
OT: Volvo Truck remains my favorite client . . . in any industry . . . ever.
Any U.S. city populated almost solely by Swedes would be the same.
I will bet literally multiple nickles that NYC has a lower carbon-emission:person or energy-usage:person ratio than Gothenburg.
On the other hand Gothenburg has more Gothenburg Sound:person than NYC, so its hard to say.
Cerne Abbas Giant’s huge penis to be polished by hand to celebrate anniversary
Mine’s bigger.
Pics (of either) or GTFO
Working Up a Sweat: We Talked to the People Having Sex at Your Gym
According to a recent UK study, 25 percent of people say they’ve had sex at the gym. But do they wear shower shoes?
45 percent of women said they used the cross trainer – what is wrong with squats and straight leg deadlifts?
There is too long of a wait? Creepy men with wide shoulders and skinny legs stare at your ass?
Those fuckers need to squat.
I just love that those guys really exist.
Some of us have bad L5-S1 joints.
You are excused
Thank you.
*resumes creeping*
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED
No.
How about this??
I mean, the next paragraph highlights the winning technique.
He drops the bar bell and puts on his White Goodman act and says, ‘DO YOU LIFT BRO?’
24.9% of the people in the survey are lying.
Half do that exercise in a gym? / jk
Soil’s Microbial Market Shows the Ruthless Side of Forests
https://www.quantamagazine.org/soils-microbial-market-shows-the-ruthless-side-of-forests-20190827/
Key to this picture is the revelation that the unseen underground world is just as complex, sophisticated and purposeful as the visible aboveground world we inhabit. Microbes are not simple, passive accessories to plants, but dynamic, powerful actors in their own right. Fungi can hoard nutrients, they can reward plants that are generous with their carbon reserves and punish ones that are stingy, and they can deftly move and trade resources to get the best “deal” for themselves in exchange.
Sounds like those damn libertarians.
Hey we’re a bunch of funguys
Hi
whatever, Tulpa
What the hell is that supposed to mean? What is your issue man?
Fuck off.
If you ever want to be a Harvard Law Prof or a Senator, you better change up to: How
Don’t give me that weak shit MikeS. Go clean your room. Go organize society based on lobsters.
@MattWelch on MSNBC re regulation: I wonder how much time he will get and if he will use it wisely
“MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is quickly walking back his essentially unsourced claim that “Russian oligarchs cosigned Trump loans”. But its all good. The narrative was set, eh comrade?”
Even if he did, how wold that be a problem?
STEVE SMITH REMEMBER HIM!
Face of oldest direct human ancestor, which lived 3.8million years ago, revealed by scientists
Lies!
Sexual dimorphism didn’t exist until the Patriarchy invented agriculture to control wymmyns sexuality!
I’m hoping for something fun…
The many ways our world could end
The Washington Post, fabulist extraordinaire.
Bryan Walsh, science writer.
No point in reading past ‘denying climate science’. It isn’t science. I would say that 99.9% of the people using those terms have no idea what science is.
Sure they do. Science is about ritualism and special texts that are only open to the select few running it, who lecture to the masses and tell them how to live their lives.
Also how to repent.
Climate science is a real thing. Skeptics aren’t “denying” science–a phrase which makes as much sense as saying that someone denies measurement or denies height–they’re skeptical that the conclusions being drawn by climate change hobbyists aren’t supported by accurately-measured data.
As I understand it, the “consensus” was really broad and was basically agreeing to the statement “the climate has changed and human activity has something to do with it”. No specification of how significant the human activity is; just that it may contribute in some degree. Now you have Lefties running around making bombastic, unsupported statements about the climate and screaming “consensus!!!” whenever they’re called on it.
It’s like if I argued that the entire population of America will be dead of diabetes-related illnesses if we don’t implement a total ban on sugar, then if anyone called me on it, started screeching “but there’s a consensus among dietitians that people should minimize their intake of refined sugar!!”
CAGW is built on a recursive motte-and-bailey argument. The mottes are things that are hard to dispute, like climate changing and humans playing at least some role in it. The baileys are humans being the sole cause, human-emitted CO2 being the primary driver, all surface ice melting, the seas rising tremendously, etc.
The mottes are things that are hard to dispute, like climate changing and humans playing at least some role in it.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not yet convinced that recent changes in climate are in any way outside normal bounds.
Once we get out of this ice age, we’ll be able to figure out what Normal is.
Nor am I, but I don’t think the premise is unreasonable on its face. But, and this is a significant but, I have yet to be convinced by any evidence. And I’m not a scientist, much less a climatologist, but I’m as well-equipped as anyone to determine the logical validity of an argument, and I’m not seeing it yet.
Indeed, the only thing we have the benefit of in the present day is better measurements*. It is hard to compare to the distant past when no one was keeping records then. It is pretty well established that there were times in the planet’s history when life was abundant and there were no ice caps. So, whatever is going to happen, it may not be unprecedented.
* = At least, when people want there to be better measurements. The other big problem of “climate change”, besides the motte-and-bailey arguments, is the widespread malfeasance and manipulation of data. Back in the day, a lot of science was locked up as proprietary. Now, they hide the data but don’t have the excuse.
We are not outside normal bounds. Looking at climatic fluctuations over the last million or so years we are exactly where we are expected to be in the natural changes.
CO2 is not the driver of climate.
When a respected climate scientist (I don’t remember who) says that there is no known mechanism by which fluctuations in solar activity affect climate you know it is time to stop listening to what they have to say.
When a respected climate scientist (I don’t remember who) says that there is no known mechanism by which fluctuations in solar activity affect climate you know it is time to stop listening to what they have to say.
No kidding. Claiming that variations in the energy input into climate don’t affect temperature is so obviously stupid that you can write off everything else.
Bill: The hypothesis when it was formulated was not unreasonable on its face but it has been falsified. That is why it kept morphing until it became an unfalsifiable assertion. It is why they keep faking data or wont divulge data or methods. What is absurd on its face is the behavior of so called climate scientists and their current unsupported assertions.
Global warming to Climate change to climate crisis? Really? Give me a break.
There are two hypotheses that have been shown to be false (so far, at least):
That the global average temperature is highly sensitive to atmospheric carbon concentrations (shown false by the models with high carbon sensitivity consistently failing to make accurate predictions).
That the global average temperature would reach an turning point around 2000-2010 such that the change in temperature would shift from a gradual to rapid rise (the so-called “hockey stick” graph; shown false by, well, not happening).
However, the “underlying” hypotheses, that the global average temperature is increasing and that human activity contributes to the increase, have not been shown to be false (again, yet). The satellite record shows a consistent gradual rise in global average temperature on the order of 0.012 degrees Celsius per decade, and the mechanism for this rise, if accurately measured, is not well understood (the extension of the greenhouse effect to the atmosphere at large being only part of the picture).
Correction: the rate of change is 0.12 degrees Celsius per decade.
(the so-called “hockey stick” graph; shown false by, well, not happening).
The original hockey stick graph purported to show that global temps had already taken an unprecedentedly steep upward climb.
It was falsified. The famous “hide the decline” emails were about how to deal with the fact that the bristlecone pine data they were using for the graph had taken a downward turn in recent years, so temperature data was grafted onto the chart to hide that decline.
Then the data was fed through a program. Other researchers fed random data to the same (kind of?) program and it spit out a hockey stick graph.
Once the graph showing that temperatures had taken an abrupt and unprecedented upward swing was discredited, they had to postpone their tipping point into the future, where it now stays fixed firmly on the horizon.
Once the graph showing that temperatures had taken an abrupt and unprecedented upward swing was discredited, they had to postpone their tipping point into the future, where it now stays fixed firmly on the horizon.
I suppose it depends on who you ask. NOAA, CRU, etc. are all insistent it’s already happened. They have to continually “adjust” the data to make it happen, but while the point in the past where it happens moves slightly, it is still in the past according to their cooked books.
I have yet to see evidence that humans are playing any part in climate change. In fact, the models that best reflect the data show the purported drivers by which we might have no impact.
*Disclaimer – I find the solar-driven model most convincing based upon the information currently available.
Climate is not just temperature. Humidity, wind, atmosphere, soil quality, arability, livability, erosion, etc. are all part of climate (and other disciplines). There is little way to dispute that humans can affect these things; hell, it’s part of how we survive to change many of them. But that is, as I said, the motte. The bailey is that such human activity is affecting measurable global change in a consistent direction.
And yet, they are never once talking about any of that.
So that discussion can safely be shelved.
And yet, they are never once talking about any of that.
Yes, as I said, it is the motte. They prefer to frolic in the bailey.
An abandoned castle is no defense.
It wasn’t, though. The original “97% consensus” claim was in a paper and it was a complete fucking lie. A blogger took that paper apart and showed how it was a complete fabrication. It’s been repeated endlessly by the Media, however.
Probably so, but then again the question itself is irrelevant. Whether or not a cherry-picked selection of “scientists” or “science papers” support a particular conclusion is immaterial to whether or not that conclusion is true. Science is not the process of voting on reality, it is the process of discovering reality through experimentation.
You don’t say? I think someone even wrote an article about it on here.
“he’s taking us backward at the moment we need to go forward”
Aren’t U.S. emissions DOWN?
They are.
Another inconvenient truth.
his administration has stripped expertise and funding from infectious disease programs
“Gun violence” is not an infectious disease. Neither is industrial pollution. While there’s some case to be made for the CDC to study things other than infectious diseases*, that doesn’t mean everything they study is an infectious disease.
* = Scope creep is a hell of a drug
@robc: Roughly where in Eville are you at?
Seems like a lot of us are going through interview processes. I got paid on my side gig writing/proofreading and ex-school is paying me for the month on Monday. We’ve been scraping by recently. Will be really nice to have two checks at once to float on til I land on my feet again.
On the plus side, at least I live where the USD will take you a lot further than in most places. I’m subtly enjoying the Grind. Having money in our pockets with rent paid up will also make Lady feel much more secure. She’s been struggling emotionally recently. I don’t blame her. Time to do something nice for her.
Good luck, bud.
Apparently I am a west-sider. I am about 2 blocks from Mater Dei.
The house we are renting was originally built in the 1860s.
Famous for their wrestling program.
I was far far south east. Lots of Underground Railroad houses in the city. I hate the housing regs, but First Ave downtown has some beautiful 1800s riverfront houses. Nice vibes. Hope the best for you.
far far south east.
Is that like Newburgh?
College football started last weekend, although Miami-Florida may have set the game back 150 years.
GT @ Clemson is tonight. I am excited, even though we are 5 TD dogs. Those kind of upsets happen all the time, right?
In 1981, GT started the season by defeating Alabama. GT finished the season 1-10. Bama didn’t lose again until the Cotton Bowl.
Three schools have left the SEC: Ga Tech, Sewanee, and Tulane
GT has more SEC titles than (pick list of about 6 or 7 schools) combined.
Two schools have left the ACC: South Carolina and Maryland.
Kentucky, Mississippi St, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt have a combined 3 SEC football titles.
Tulane also had 3 before they left.
GT had 5.
We have the first high school football game tonight. It’s actually a really good time; more like a fair than just a game.
New coach…Clemson’s lookin’ good again…
I’ve got Clemson to cover the spread, but damn that’s a lot of points.
Terry Pratchett had a thing in Discworld about how when something was a million to one against it was guaranteed to succeed because of narrative causality. Basically, something that’s so impossible makes such a good story that it has to work. Not sure that happens in football, though.
I think we cover because Clemson is going to be vanilla and play a deep squad. And we won’t be as bad as many think (Vegas has the over/under at 3.5 wins, with nice odds for the over). I think we get to 5-6 wins.
But this won’t be one of them. But yeah, my hope is the “1 in a million chances have a 1 in 10 chance of working” kind of thing.
I read an article in The Athletic about it where the author pointed out that Clemson usually plays their first games of the season as “statement” games and try to blow the other team out, but you could still do that and not cover. I mean, I took a look yesterday and I want to say it was 37.5 points.
With TAMU in game 2 and @Syracuse in game 3, I think “not getting Trevor Lawrence hurt” is the statement they need to make tonight.
Unfortunately, we might not be able to stop their 3rd and 4th string running backs. I have no idea if we have a DL at all or not. But new coach is a defensive guy, so I hope it will be better…just maybe not in game 1.
The offense is going to be worse, unfortunately. But if the defense improves more than the offense recedes, that is a net positive. I think 2021 is going to be our year.
To be fair to United Airlines after beating passengers and killing dogs it’s nice to highlight when it does right. Also props to the passengers.
A boy with autism wouldn’t sit still on a United Airlines flight. So crew and passengers stepped in to help.
I wonder how much they paid to make that story a national headline.
Will be flying with my daughter to Charleston next week(house shopping). She has flown before just fine, but this is the kind of thing I worry about.
If they didn’t slap him ala Airplane, I’m going to be disappointed in the headline.
OT – Please pause a moment to remember that it was 50 years ago this weekend that the conservatives in Young Americans for Freedom, convening in St. Louis, told the libertarians to “sit down and shut up, lazy fairies.” Libertarians gave them the middle finger salute and walked out of Y.A.F., heralding the consolidation of the new libertarian movement.
Kind of embarrassing where it is after 50 years, tbh.
Yeah, but what was the alternative? Stay in the conservative movement and get tossed a few bones after years and years of polishing conservative turds for office?
It’s Our Stonewall!
I can always tell when Win10 has an update to do because my computer grinds to a fucking halt. I’ll be lucky to get to actual work by 10am
Well it’s not like you work a tech company or anything.
I see you’re familiar with our department slogan.
Windows is shit.
Everyday Windows is pushing me closer to some sort of Linux build.
My travel laptop runs Linux Mint. It works for what I use the machine for (writing and visiting Glibs)
Two Local Dept: garbage truck runs over bum sleeping on the street; police lie and throw him under the bus rather than fess up to their and the city’s culpability in encouraging this behavior
The officer wrote that he has probable cause to believe there’s evidence the truck driver committed felony failure to perform the duties of a driver
Bullshit you have probable cause to believe a felony occurred. Unless that video shows him getting out of the truck, examining the person and then driving away, the clear conclusion is that a big truck is unlikely to be aware that they ran over a person. Too bad that libel doesn’t apply to the sworn statements of police officers. And too bad for the driver. Seems to be clear that the police are trying to lay the groundwork to fuck him over.
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2019/08/garbage-truck-driver-ran-over-woman-found-dead-in-sleeping-bag-eugene-police-say.html
And the officer had time to appear before a magistrate, with a filled out search warrant request, rather than ask the garbage company for access to the vehicle. Gotta go heavy handed from the start.
The garbage truck didn’t finish the job? Or was the bus the only vehicle which could plausibly match the trash truck’s tire tracks?
Lol
Sloopy, I’m going to the OSU football game this weekend. Beginning of the Ryan Day era.
How long will the Justin Fields experiment last?
Stop mocking vegans
Sure it’s hack to simply mock vegans – just like it’s hack to mock Crossfit or hipsters or Puerto Ricans – but they all deserve it.
Now do libertarians.
What am I, a cheap prostitute?
(Get it? Because they’re the only ones who will do libertarians. As in, libertarians have to pay for sex).
EVERY DUDE PAYS FOR SEX…
There might not be a direct money transaction, but we dudes always pay in one form or another for it….
Psh I get paid in one form or another.
By another dude?
I take all comers.
(Get it? Word play is wonderful).
If there were not such a vocal percentage that fit the stereotype, it wouldn’t resonate with people. So rather than trying to hector us like a vegan attacking meat-eaters, go after the militant vegans.
While stereotypes generate their own confirmation bias field, I think a lot of them have some nugget of truth.
Of course. Stereotypes don’t exist for no reason. They aren’t made up out of thin air.
By writing this article this author is providing even more fodder and evidence in the “vegans deserve to be mocked” column. Talk about an own goal.
The planet could give a shit, and why would I thank vegans for “creating a market” of which they are the sole beneficiaries?
I don’t mock them or celebrate them (“This is all great news for the planet!” ?).
Like I’m sure most people, IDGAF.
Sure it’s hack to simply mock vegans – just like it’s hack to mock Crossfit or hipsters or Puerto Ricans – And Robby
The human body needs certain nutrients that plants can’t provide and supplements can’t adequately supply. This is an unfortunate (for vegans) consequence of evolution but we’re more likely to genetically engineer the human body to produce the missing nutrients (like other animals can) than we are to find non-animal sources of them. However, we’d probably have to give up brain power to do it; the human body is optimized for feeding the brain rather than digesting plants per se.
This is all great news for the planet, yet no one thanks vegans for creating a market for these alternatives.
Yes, I can’t imagine why claiming you are saving the planet from the rest of us unenlightened savages would be seen as smug, self-satisfying or annoying.
It’s aggravating that an agency like the CDC that is actually capable of helping problems that lie in the commons seems hell bent on trivializing its mandate.
I can’t decide if we kill all the lawyers or the public health experts first.
Just out of morbid curiosity, how does a “primary challenge” to an incumbent President supported by the national party work?
Will there even be a spot on ststes’ primary ballots for President? Are the NeverTrumpers supposed to scrawl the name of their preferred alternative in the margin with crayon? Are they planning an uprising at the national convention? Who would contribute money for that sort of idiocy?
It sounds like a scam to fleece the dumbest of the dumb, to me.
Yes to your 2nd question.
No idea on the others.
Why would it be any different from any other cycle?
I don’t have a dog in the fight, but I’d suggest you think of it this way: suppose the incumbent had a miserable first term by all accounts and was monstrously unpopular in his own party to say nothing of sure to lose in the general, wouldn’t you expect the primary to proceed in all normalcy to decide who might replace him in hopes of prevailing in November ?
My question about primaries has always been: why does the state pay for them? Parties are private concoctions, and who they send to the general and how they are selected is of no concern of mine, and I sure as hell don’t want to pay taxes so that the state can create forms and decide who qualified and, worst of all, who cannot be on the ballot. Caucus, smokey backroom, or 10-man cage fight, I don’t care how the guy is picked so long as I’m not taxed to underwrite the process.
Agreed.
And that happened in KY last time around so that Rand Paul could run for senate and President. He couldn’t be on both for the KY sponsored ballot, so his campaign paid to have a separate KY presidential GOP primary.
Totally agree, and it’s evidence of how deeply the two-party system ingrained itself in the mechanisms of government.
The state runs them so the parties can’t be sued for discrimination. The state is allowed to discriminate, but only in certain ways (e.g. open vs closed primary). Of course, the fact that no party is actually required to run a primary election at all just creates a nice legal paradox that can be conveniently ignored.
Anyway, I had no idea the Emoluments thing was hot on anybody’s mind, but apparently it’s one of the go-to “what-abouts” that TDS sufferers have these days. Dunno whether it’s “foreign governments are booking at Trump hotels!!!!” or “he’s secretly getting paid by Rooskies” or what. Surprise to me.
There are people out there claiming that Trump only ran for President so he could browbeat the Federal Reserve Bank into lowering interest rates because he personally benefits from cheap loans. Talk about taking the long view.
I have a serious question, that I don’t feel motivated to research. Is Trump the first president to own a business that the owner themselves liked to frequent? I mean, every other president got around the emoluments thing by putting their business assets in a blind trust; but they would still know which businesses were theirs, did any of them ever frequent such businesses while in office?
I thought that a lot of presidents early on who owned farms or plantations tended to prefer to stay there rather than DC, since DC was a swampy, mosquito-ridden shithole. Farms and plantations are businesses. Didn’t Washington famously run a distillery at Mount Vernon through his presidency?
Is Trump the first president to own a business that the owner themselves liked to frequent?
You have to go back a ways to find President that even owned a business. Without enacting a bit of labor, it seems like all of them since FDR, at least, have been professional politicians when they took the office.
I would bet most of the early ones were business owners, though, as owners of farms, plantations, etc.
Off the top of my head George W. Bush owned a baseball team and at least one or two other companies.
Fair point, but I don’t know what he owned (other than passive investments) while in federal office. And unlike Trump, he held political office as the Governor of Texas for years before becoming President.
I checked before I posted, GW sold his stake in the Rangers when he ran for governor.
You are forgetting about the peanut farmer. As I recall the price of peanut butter shot through the roof…so much so that it made national news for a while.
Reagan gave huge tax cuts to the movie industry….etc. They all do it.
Good morning, Sloopy!
And good morning to the rest of you liberty-loving freaks!
Is there anything quite like the battles between mothers and daughters?
Maybe a dumb boyfriend involving himself in the battle between mother and daughter, or adult sisters?
No way. They just pause their battle long enough to annihilate the boyfriend, then back to the melee.
But that tension when the boyfriend opens his mouth, and they all join forces…oh, that is brutal. At least the mother/daughter eventually talk or hug or whatever women do. My father just let me live, which I was happy with.
who drew first blood?
Hope, Washington?
“Lord & Taylor is being sold to clothing rental service By Lisa Fickenscher August 28, 2019 | 10:45am”
https://nypost.com/2019/08/28/lord-taylor-is-being-sold-to-clothing-rental-service/
Not just for the clothes. Le Tote wants people to pick up and return at the physical locations.
$100,000,000
Lord Lyft Taylor? Has a ring to it.
Clothing rental? That just seems a little…odd.
We’ll it’s already been established people don’t change their underwear so…
Rent this two-tone underwear right here! Yellow in the front: brown in the rear FTW!
Not when it’s something like tuxes that are used for rare occassions, so a lot of people don’t own any.
Meh. When I got married, I bought a tux (I still have it). It’s only marginally more expensive.
I didn’t say it was universal, just that it wasn’t odd.
When I was a professional violist, I owned four tuxedos. Still do, but they don’t fit anymore.
I’m in the market for a tuxedo, but I have nothing even approaching an excuse to wear one. The problem is my wife and I don’t generally go places where even a suit would be appropriate, so evening dress would be right out. Still, once my measurements stop changing so much I think I’ll go and get one from a made-to-measure place.
Also costume and costume accessories rental. In the case of this about 7 year old company, the focus is on more everyday clothes. Somehow it is supposed to be cooler if you do not wear the same clothes all the time. Renting is a way to maybe keep those costs down versus selling and buying clothes frequently enough to achieve the same peer impact. There is enough of a market for this that they can afford US$100,000,000 to buy Lord & Taylor.
Does… not… compute…
Does “cool” usually “compute” with you? The core of “cool” (as in what is “cool”) is differentiating the “cool” people from the “uncool” people. Try to “compute” this one: nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-status-symbol-for-rich-americans/ To use an analogy that the author does not, the gist of the article is that the rich are under pressure to come up with a new way to differentiate themselves from the masses, and one response is to be a bunch of emperors without clothes. It does not matter how ridiculous the ideas they espouse are. It does not matter if they are hypocrites. What matters is if the other emperors without clothes complement each other about their imaginary attire.
Uncivil is so uncool he is cool. He is obviously a hipster, trying very hard to stand out by not standing out.
Uncivil is hipster trash.
Whatever.
Cool.
Check out Daddy Warbucks over here. There’s a boomin’ market for Rent-A-Swag, a place where the otherwise unemployable, like the Sapersteins, can work.
Is there a way to create an economically feasible ‘Virtual Wardrobe’ for busy business travelers that gets shipped to their locations and stored in warehouses when not in use? So, you pack your stuff online before you travel. It lightens your load, so no suitcase or less luggage.
Maybe we Glibs should start that for-profit business.
Looks like the knives are out for Biden.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is quickly walking back his essentially unsourced claim that “Russian oligarchs cosigned Trump loans”.
We’ve gone from “That’s the way it is” (which wasn’t totally true anyway) to that’s the way it is in someone’s fevered imagination.
I heard his walkback was that they could not prove the story, which didn’t mean it still wasn’t true.. Sort of like the current stance that while Mueller found no collusion or obstruction crimes to charge Trump with, he still was not exoneration, because the new standard was “guilty till proven otherwise” for enemies of the democrat party.
I think the loan docs are public record and they have been examined. There are no Rooshins involved. The whole Russian narrative is a fiction.
This is the part that (almost) no one in the Media is covering: Trump’s lawyer’s C&D letter explicitly claims that the NY Times v. Sullivan standard is met (“with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity”) because THE LOAN DOCS CAN BE FOUND VIA PUBLIC RECORD SEARCH.
“Numerous documents for each of these loans are also recorded, publicly available, and searchable online. Thus, actual malice can easily be proven based on your reckless disregard of the truth and unreasonable reliance on an alleged ‘source’ who you will not even identify in your story and likely is seeking to mislead you and the public for political reasons or other ulterior motives.”
THAT, and that alone, is why O’Donnell had to walk it back. It isn’t just that “it couldn’t be verified” because if that were the case, the NBC lawyers would have told Trump’s lawyer to stick it up his ass or “sue us” and leaned on the extraordinarily high burden of proving libel under NY Times v. Sullivan. The fact that O’Donnell retracted in 24 hours is all you need to know. MSNBC’s lawyers did a public search and were like, “OH FUCK!”
Yeah, I liked that letter.
Their other option would have been to argue the truth of their claim, by showing that it related to non-public loan documents per their source. Of course, that would have meant burning their source. I wouldn’t be surprised if they went to O’Donnell and said “If you can’t produce these documents, and the source to verify them, we got nothing.” And he couldn’t, so here we are – a mealy-ass nonapology, a narrative launched, and O’Donnell suffering precisely zero consequences.
The Iron Law applies – The DemOp Media was rewarded, and nobody was punished, so the spew of false accusations will continue unabated.
There was no source. How about that angle? Some fucking drunk douche told O’Donnell what he knew O’Donnell wanted to hear and Larry was just chuffed to go on Maddow’s show and give her dwindling lunatic fringe audience some more meat to spread.
I took a quick look at O’Donnell’s twitter feed after he said he would walk it back and it is AMAZING how fucking stupid those people are. A large percentage of them were absolutely certain that it was TRUE, even after O’Donnell had just said he shouldn’t have said it.
What are the odds that this resurfaces again – and again – during the run-up to the election. It will be just little snippets here and there in the left fringe about how electing Trump is a “vote for Putin.” Watch. There’s my prediction.
This incident reminds me of a courtroom drama, where the lawyer asks an outrageous question, is called out of order, and then withdraws the question. But it’s still “out there” in the jurors’ minds.
I predict this will end up just like the “fine people” hoax, and it will become part of the narrative, even though he walked it back.
“I strenuously object!”
“You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order!”
“See these right here? These are magic sunglasses, okay? If you’re afraid, put them on to become invisible.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15iLHlJPp_0
His name tag is hilarious.
That is fucking awesome.
Wonderful.
Douchy millennials > anyone from the Boston area, and it’s not even close.
GAH I cannot stand that Chevy person. His voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
I thought nothing could make me want to purchase a car more than Dennis Leary trying to out-manly me about truck ownership*, but no, it is possible to make me hate a car company more.
My truck had 8 v’s, 6.2 l’s, 12 rust holes, was stuck in 4WD, and had a Transformer decal on the hood. If it wasn’t for the giant hole in the muffler, you could hear the panties droppin when I drove it through town.
I think the squirrels must have converted the displacement of your engine into some kind of French-looking units to make your comment look girly.
Piers Morgan bitch slaps Hugh Grant.
Interesting link.
that is what the link says…
Maybe, but not here he didn’t.
Shit.
It happens.
I guess things happen that way.
They’re not going to listen. Hell, the most-liked response says as much.
well that was underwhelming given the built up expectations. It’s just random insult
And one that applies equally well to the twit twitting it.
JDS is a real thing.
Lana Del Rey – Doin Time
Great cover!
Can we at least leave Sublime alone?
Yeah, one of my faves this summer.
Is there anything quite like the battles between mothers and daughters?
Hawt.
No, its really not.
I find it fascinating that (generalization alert) adult fathers and sons tend to have better relationships, and not by a little, than adult mothers and daughters.
Men don’t fight over status. Or, I should say, we do, but it’s stable. Both parties know that the Dad is in charge when the boy is born. Then, at some point ~14 to ~20 years later, the boy beat the Dad at basketball, or takes the garden rake out of Dad’s hand an tells him to go take a break, or whatever. Dad knows at that point his fangs are getting dull and his eyes are getting worse, and he turns over hill for his son. (or at least so I have observed from other boys with, you know, father’s who aren’t pieces of shit) The transitions are dramatic (see Hamlet, eg) but stable once they happen.
Women jockey for position ALL THE TIME because the things that control social hierarchy for women fluctuate from week to week, making their position in the hierarchy a Red Queen’s Race. Its very weird to me to see my wife resent the attention that I give my daughter, and the way that my daughter responds in healthy ways to my attention and with social aggression (that my wife doesn’t understand) to attention from her.
Along these lines, men seem to have conclusive engagements over status (and other issues), with the loser more or less accepting the loss. Women prefer drawn-out low-level grinding conflicts that don’t pose the risk of a conclusive engagement.
See, also, the change in US strategic military doctrine from seeking only unconditional surrender to mushy “police actions” and “nation-building”.
See, also, the change in US strategic military doctrine from seeking only unconditional surrender to mushy “police actions” and “nation-building”.
To be fair, being able to demand unconditional surrender requires that the other side, and its proxy backers, do not have nukes.
Of course men do. This is pretty standard for lots of species. Males are more likely to actually be capable of quickly injuring or killing each other, so they avoid MAD by having “the line” that doesn’t get crossed and by seeing victory or defeat as being conclusive. If not for those two things, males would be much more likely to kill each other or maim each other enough that they are vulnerable to a third party. (In addition, mammals have a very hard time killing or crossing “the line” with each other if they make eye contact… which is why groups in conflict dehumanize each other other. It lets their own side overcome that instinctive hurdle).
For humans in the wild, men are the first line of defense for the group when a threat’s possible. But 99% of the potential threats that get to their line don’t really turn hot, so they have to be able to back off of the fight. The women are the second and last line (around the children). If a threat gets to their line, the 1st line has already fallen, so 100% of their contacts with threats are fights to the death.
This pretty much explains all of the male/female differences in conflict behaviour.
I once told my wife that an Adidas jacket looked better on my daughter (she was 11) than her. That was a mistake.
two things
a/ girls get pregnant and boys don’t
b/ girls’ motives are guarded while boys’ are obvious
Boys are obvious: anyone can manage them on the face of things. The strive for their desires, are successful or not, and anyone can approve or not.
I’ll say this about women again: they will be what they will be. They are just putting up with mom and dad until they can get out of town. Dad thinks he knows the game: he’s pleased about grades or the soccer season or whatever; he thinks the surface game matters and scores the situation accordingly. Mom is hysterical: she knows that’s all bullshit and that little Susie is just biding her time until, 1) the scholarship to Stanford comes through, 2) she starts on some nurturing or talking track (mom, teacher, nurse, sales, journalism), or 3) she jumps on the back of someone’s Harley and is gone.
Mom is rightly mad because she has no power to keep her daughter from pursuing her zen. Mom was that girl once; she knows how many of her friends jumped on the Harley, how none of their parents could do a damned thing about it.
Needz moar women in engineering.
If they have to lower the standards to get more females in, doesn’t that undermine the idea that women are equal to men in all things?
It won’t matter.
A gender equality paradox’: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
Why? What’s the magic fucking percentage? If 0% of the petroleum engineers are chick, who the fuck cares?
It also seems to imply that their current choices are wrong. Apparently, if you’d rather not study STEM, you should still be strongly pressured into doing it because you’re a female and
Mars needs momsSTEM needs teh womynz.Barefoot, chained, and pregnant in the
kitchenlab.Interventions. Interesting word.
Well, according to the studies in the Nordic countries, their motivations are that they are just Not Interested In Studying STEM or working in those fields long-term.
That’s unpossible. Our betters have assured us that women and men are absolutely indistinguishable from each other behaviorally.
Here’s another interesting paradox:
The Gender Scandal: Part One (Scandinavia) and Part Two (Canada) PART 1: SCANDINAVIA
The most gender equity in STEM is found in poor countries with good tech sectors – India in 2019, the USSR in the Bad Old Days, etc. Women *have to* take high-productivity work because they are close enough to starvation and objective poverty to make it a real motivator for taking work they otherwise wouldn’t.
When the wolves aren’t nipping at their heals, they ‘cash out’ some of their wealth by taking jobs they find more fulfilling (at a higher rate than men), by working less (at a higher rate than men) etc.
My work habits are actually very feminine in this way. I grew up near starvation and objective poverty (the bad parts of Appalachia are about the only part of the US where a person with no mental problems can still starve to death, when I lived there). Compared to what I knew then, I’m fabulously wealthy and don’t work nearly as hard or long as my peers.
This is true. I think a lot of the alleged gender pay gap is a result of women taking the job they like rather than the job that pays since they have a high-earning husband and can afford to do so. If a woman doesn’t actually need a job to stay above water, she’ll probably take one that is enjoyable with low pay over one that is stressful with high pay.
A lot of people – including a lot of women – still consider it the man’s job to earn most of the income.
My wife left the professional world to stay home with the kids. When she returned to work, it was for the school so her schedule matched theirs. She could have made a lot more going back to finance, but this worked better for our family.
Ours, I think, is a very common story.
Well, damn. Mine did too. She left a pretty nice job to raise the kids. Once they got a bit older, she took a job at the school running their daycare/pre-K. Almost zero stress and she gets to be around toddlers, which she misses, now that our kids are in HS.
wait, wait, are you trying to claim she likes being around toddlers?
I am also baffled.
Well, she presumably likes Chipperbot, so it seems logical.
Because you don’t have to go into STEM to find what you personally find satisfying as a career?
Me? I want restitution from Big Gov for the tits and teeth positions that chicks get that I’m locked out of.
Dental Hygenist and Mammogram Technician?
Let me know when chicks are the majority of EIT in any year: passing the Fundamentals exam can’t be achieved by twitter.
I welcome them, but I ain’t holding my breath.
If you destroy a meritocracy you create individual and institutional incompetence. Incompetent people cant solve problems. That means they cant defend themselves, their families or their country. That is the goal here. They don’t give a flying fuck about diversity. What they care about is getting their boots on everyone’s necks.
I’d be okay with it. If the school’s administration was required to drive on the bridges they design, in the cars they design, etc.
Was reading some old comics yesterday, this ad amused me.
SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!
Also, the Flash will learn you about fearing AIDS.
Why is he hanging around a school playground?
Would have been more accurate if the Flash had a weeping hep sore on his lip.
Not Charles Atlas? I am disappointed.
Dammit. I made the narrator’s friend too sensible. He’s made a bunch of suggestions and recommendations which would completely undermine the later reveal if the narrator listened to even a few of them. Worse, it seems to be setting up for a chase scene…
Actually… if one of the people looking for the narrator does spot him and calls out his name, it could spook him into bolting. Then I can make use of the unusual terrain in the city and have him look for a means of getting out that isn’t going through the gates (assuming the guards there to have been alerted and looking for him too.)
It could still work. Thanks Glibs.
Any time.
It’s the principle whereby the solution to a problem occurs while trying to explain the problem to another entity. I could have cancelled the comment, but… I was more entertained this way.
You know, if you give us all the plot lines now, we won’t need to buy the book.
/jk, bought the first and waiting anxiously to buy the second.
Fun fact – this plot is not from “On Unknown Shores” It is currently from a collection of unconsolidated ideas in a folder titled “The Other Bastard”
Ah, yet another book to buy in the future? Cool!
I’m sure you know this already, but there is another “Beyond the Edge of the Map” book by an Australian author who writes children’s books.
There’s also a crapton of Shadowboys out there.
You’ll go mad looking for a title that hasn’t been touched before.
Who watches the watchers?
The Justice Department watchdog on Thursday released a scathing report stating that former FBI Director James Comey violated bureau policies and his employment agreement with his handling of official memos detailing his interactions with President Trump, one of which contained classified information.
“We conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement,” the Justice Department inspector general report states, noting that “much of the content of the Memos was directly tied to FBI investigative activities.”
While Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz declined to make a recommendation as to whether to charge the former FBI chief, he said Comey broke FBI policies by seeking to share unauthorized information about ongoing investigations with a friend who then gave it to The New York Times two months after his removal.
He also refuted Comey’s claims that his memos were not FBI records but personal recollections, stating that the director was operating in an official capacity and that he acknowledged in his FBI Employment Agreement that “[a]ll information acquired by [Comey] in connection with [his] official duties with the FBI…remain[s] the property of the United States of America.”
“Former Director Comey failed to live up to this responsibility,” the 83-page report says. “By not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during the course of his FBI employment, and by using it to create public pressure for official action, Comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees—and the many thousands more former FBI employees—who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”
And nothing else happened.
Horowitz is still a Deep Stater. Comey committed crimes, yet he makes no recommendation for prosecution but only discusses “policy” and “agreements”. He’s doing a modified limited hangout to protect Comey and, I expect will do so to protect other FBI Deep Staters. I’m sure he rationalizes his role in covering up a criminal conspiracy as “protecting the institution”, which is too important to sacrifice to merely prosecuting criminals employed by the institution.
I think we are learning that the administrative state has slipped its leash, and is accountable to no one. Not Congress, and (now) not the President.
They are still accountable Congress. But Congress does not want to act.
Only at a very high level – funding and agency scope. At any level other than that, they are technically executive agencies not answerable to Congress. And they have proven it over years of refusing Congressional subpoenas, refusing to provide information to Congress, and generally treating Congressional oversight with a kind of amused contempt.
Congress regularly cuts their funding. It’s called a ” government shutdown”. But then Congress grants them “back pay” (how is it “back pay” when you did no “back work”, certain “essential” personnel notwithstanding?).
You are right that it is a very high level oversight, generally. But that is exactly the level that could bring them to heel. Congress could disestablish entire agencies, or slash their workforces, or remove all discretion in the law, and a host of other things that could radically transform the bureaucracy. But they won’t.
At this point, I don’t think its crazy to think that the administrative state, or at least its Praetorian Guard in the law enforcement and intelligence agencies, have the whip hand over Congress due to evidence of embarrassing or criminal activity by a number of Congress members that they deploy behind closed doors as necessary to keep Congress in line.
That may be true, but at the same time Congress could do a lot of things to undermine that. They won’t, of course, because they love their own power more than anything else. The structure and rules of Congress are entirely up to Congress (see: gutting the filibuster). Committee memberships, employment benefits, the privileges of office, the number of members of the House, etc. can all be changed (but, again, they won’t be) to reduce the value of such “leverage”.
I don’t think ‘protecting the institution means what he thinks it means. They are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
It reads like every fucking IG report I’ve ever seen (and no offense because I know someone here used to work in an IG office). The closer you get to the top, the more it becomes simply “protect the institution no matter WHAT someone did wrong, especially the higher up they are.” Seriously, I gave up on IG reports ever amounting to shit after about 10 years of thinking “THIS time they’ll get it right and hold ______ accountable.” Never.
Was it ever accountable? You had Hoover running wild for 50 years, and then all the nutty stuff done by the CIA in the 60’s/70’s, FBI deals to protect murderous gangsters, and god knows what kind of shenanigans since 9/11 opened the floodgates.
Despite extensive efforts to increase participation of women in STEM, levels have remained broadly stable for decades, but these findings could help target interventions to make them more effective, the researchers said.
“You’re just not hitting it hard enough.”
8 of 23 incoming physics majors here are women. That’s higher than usual — often it’s more like 15-20%.
It’s a coup!
https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2019/08/29/army-major-violates-hatch-act-endorses-biden-town-hall-uniform/
Isn’t there a rule that you’re not to wear the uniform except in an official capacity, or while traveling to and from an official function?
Of course, cops get all sorts of privileges even when out of uniform, but at least there’s a pretense.
There is that rule for the military, and an extra ban on political activities while wearing the uniform.
It’s not the hatch act, but a similar UCMJ offence.
Totally not scripted. Joe just happen to have that coin in his pocket. Pure coincidence.
Not accepting the narrative? That’s a red flag.
Good lord that’s pathetic.
I’ve had four cups and feeling good:
https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-majority-of-sin-can-be-linked-to-not-having-enough-coffee-in-your-system
I think we are learning that the administrative state has slipped its leash, and is accountable to no one.
Once upon a time, people said things like, “I regret that I have only one life to give for my country.”
Now, we have people who, because of personal animus toward a President, want to bring down the administration while being immune to any consequences whatsoever. If anyone deserves to be heckled and abused every time he goes out in public…
Has CNN severed their relationship with Comey?
I just ordered tires for my truck from Amazon. Suck it, Mom n Pop tire store!
I still try to buy local when I can, even if its a little more expensive or inconvenient. II live here, and I’d rather live in a place with small businesses or at least some brick and mortar, than a place where the only non-white collar jobs are delivery driver or warehouse monkey.
When “Local” means trying to figure out how to transport goods without bags, you bet I buy remote.
Goods that are too big to transport without a bag are often expensive to ship, as well.
New York passed a stupid law banning grocery-sized plastic bags that they mislabelled as “single-use”
Oh really When you amortize the shipping cost over the number of applications, that’s only like $25 an application
Because of course.
I’ve shopped the online tire options, but once I pay someone to mount and balance them, my local Discount Tire store is always competitive.
The last place I bought mine online included shipping to the local shop and the cost to mount and balance for a ridiculously good price.
Last time I bought tires was at a Midas. I actually haggled with them and saved ~ $80.
I’ve shopped the online tire options, but once I pay someone to mount and balance them, my local Discount Tire store is always competitive.
I mount my own. Otherwise, the “you didn’t buy it from me” surcharge would probably negate any savings.
I mount my own.
I guess its called Rule 34, rather than Suggestion 34, for a reason.
Ah, yes. Totally different.
If I had the room in my garage, I would love to have that equipment.
I got a kid that’s a car mechanic and will do those for me into perpetuity after I paid $60 grand for him to become one…
Also- in that story about Comey, he admits giving info to somebody whom he specifically instructed to pass it on to the New York Times(?), but then claims he did not *personally* did not leak it, so he’s in the clear.
Die in a fire, you shit gobbling weasel.
The shitbirds are migrating home back to their summer shitnests, Randy.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2019/08/it-will-now-be-legal-to-ask-a-judge-in-nj-to-take-someones-guns-away.html
Why do people still live in NJ?
They can’t afford the tolls to get out?
28 Reasons You Need To Move To New Jersey @ movoto.com/blog/opinions/move-to-new-jersey/
That list gave me cancer.
According to the latest figures available, New Jersey came in tied for 2nd with New York out of 51 (50 states plus the District of Columbia) after New Hampshire. worldpopulationreview.com/states/cancer-rates-by-state/
Glad someone here enjoyed the 28 Reasons link.
Sure, and take the New Jersey Red Bulls with you.
“Also, somebody needs to claw back the CDC. Mission creep there has gotten out of control.”
What are the numbers for the Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America authorizes which part of the CDC’s “Mission” if the CDC were part of a hypothetically federal government?