Congratulations to whoever did this.
Hoo-boy. What a good way to start the college football season. Unless you’re a Tennessee fan. Or Missouri fan. Or South Carolina fan. Or Ole Miss fan. Just kidding. They’ll just have to cheer for the whole conference a little stronger this year. Which won’t be hard for them, since they’re used to doing that every year. I do wonder, though: would Greg Schiano have been losing games to a Sun Belt team that went 2-10 last year? Congrats Vols, you get what you deserve.
This is how pathetic England has become.
The Buckeyes looked great for the first 8 minutes. Which is all that was needed. Oregon shit the bed against Auburn. Oklahoma isn’t missing a beat at QB. And Notre Dame will be playing tonight, the attention whores.
Congrats are in order to Justin Verlander, who threw his third career no-hitter yesterday. Dude was lights-out with 14 Ks and some untouchable action. And he got his usual run support of “hardly anything at all” with the Firstros finally putting a 2-spot on the board in the top of the ninth. The Yankees won to stay a game ahead in overall record. And everything else is about positioning now.
Joker’s shoulder injury caught up with him as he withdrew in the third set of his Round of 16 match. Serena is cruising now, so I’ll probably end up being half-right. Which sucks. Liverpool go into the international break with maximum points. Man City aren’t far behind them. The NLD was pretty entertaining and also resulted in the best way possible for everybody else in the league. And that’s pretty much it.
No birthdays update today except for one: Keanu Reeves. Plenty of other people, but I’m getting behind schedule. Way behind schedule, and I need to catch up so I can post these on time.
Sorry about that. But we all know you really came here for…the links!
Stay safer than this guy.
While Dorian destroys the Bahamas, Floridians and those up the coast in Georgia and South Carolina cross their fingers. That thing is small, but my goodness I’ve never seen a storm like that.
Actress Debra Messing thinks blacklists are cool. Seriously, are these Hollywood “stars” so empty that they can’t even remember McCarthyism? Christ, what an asshole.
Debra Messing, you are a fascist.
Shit in Hong Kong is about to go down. And I mean in a very, very bad way.
Well done San Francisco area cops. You stopped those dreaded kids and their crazy antics in parking lots. Just kidding, your streets are covered in human waste and heroin needles. Get your fucking priorities straight, assholes.
And the dickhead who went all Grand Theft Auto rampage mode in west Texas has been identified. Meanwhile, Beto is dropping f-bombs trying to shame people into giving up their rights and everybody else on the left is trying to politically capitalize on the series of senseless killings. Meanwhile, more people were shot and killed in Chicago over the weekend and nobody gives a fuck because they want the faces of those killers on tv to be as white as possible.
Here’s some Labor Day-themed music for you. But not really. It is, however, a great song.
Now go enjoy your holiday. Or your workday. I’m gonna do a little bit of both.
“No birthdays update today except for one: Keanu Reeves.”
Woah
Dust.
Wind.
::points at Count Potato::
Dude!
My favorite Keanu scene
Dude earned some serious cred with the people who watch his movies.
My daughter turned 12, so there’s another birthday worth mentioning.
Labor Day-themed song
I was expecting something terrible, and now I’m oddly disappointed.
Ted’S hatred is taking the day off.
The SF article never explains what a sideshow is. I had to Google it. Poor writing.
I just assumed it was like a The fast and the furious type of thing.
It happens every 2 or 4 years in November.
Sideshow
Yeah, I was able to tease it out, but it sucked. The article on the shooter was likewise unhelpful, at least in part due to the whole reverse chronology. Sounds like all they know about him is his name and age?
I guess that’s still one step up from the false reporting they usually do.
Looks like he was a truck driver who got fired a few hours earlier. He got pulled over for not using a turn signal, fired on the cops and then sped off. Then he shot a postal worker, stole her truck and drove 20 miles to carry out his rampage.
Thanks Sloop, I really don’t follow these things that closely so articles that appear incomplete just leave new with more questions than answers. At least the whole firing thing gives some sense to how a traffic stop escalated. I was thinking he might have already been on his way to do his shoot when he was stopped and probably panicked. But that’s total speculation on my part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqcZf5UxKjg
What’s a sideshow, Bob?
Her “Will & Grace’’ co-star Eric McCormack added in a tweet of his own that he wanted to know who in Hollywood was backing Trump’s re-election campaign, “so the rest of us can be clear about who we don’t wanna work with.’’
Balkan USA FTW.
The whole desire to doxx and destroy anyone who opposes you is pretty fucked up.
I mean, doxxing wouldn’t be bad per se if it didn’t result in people gunning for your career, etc.
It’s bad because it serves no purpose other than to intimidate people or threaten their livelihood.
Notice it only seems to be coming from the tolerant left?
Right, doxxing shouldn’t be threatening, in a free and functioning republic. But it is, because of the implied threat.
Gosh, and here I thought all those movies and shows about the horror of blacklisting were serious. Turns out it was just Hollywood showing solidarity with the fucking commies, as usual.
Can you imagine it today? It would be easier to establish a whitelist of those in Hollywood who aren’t communist.
England needs common sense assault biscuit control?
I got into it with some dude on twitter last night about the whole thing. He said if kids want to learn how to bake, they can join a club. And if they want to make a cake, they can buy a premixed box.
He didn’t see there being any problem with this whatsoever.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
I bet he. Also disapproves of processed foods
So that sign is real?
I honestly thought it was mocking them.
Where is our modern Monty Python to attempt to mock this common sense bakery control?
In ‘gaol’?
https://twitter.com/cat_the_cat_cat/status/1168225647837229057?s=21
From the replies:
“To be fair, Kent has a very real street baking problem. You can’t walk the streets of Whitstable these days without being merangue’d by some young hoodlum with a gateaux blaster, hassling you for bread… With slightly staler bread”
So they cant buy flour but a premixed box is ok? That dude has been eating paint chips?
It’s also the birthday of this guy.
(Well, birth anniversary, since he’s no longer with us.)
Congrats are in order to Justin Verlander – I understand that this is all due to Kate Upton
Being with Olivia Munn didn’t seem to help Aaron Rodgers all that much.
maybe she did not reach critical tit mass
More likely that Verlander likes girls. A-Rog? Not so much if the rumors that I keep hearing from Packer Backers are true (NTTIAWWT)
If the dude felt he needed a beard, why get a high profile one that ensures you’re on the cover of every tabloid at the grocery? Why not just pay some hot chick a stipend to make public appearances with you?
While Dorian destroys the Bahamas, Floridians and those up the coast in Georgia and South Carolina cross their fingers. That thing is small, but my goodness I’ve never seen a storm like that. – as I said last year, this whole hurricane business seems quite inconvenient.
Alabama took one look at Hurricane Dorian and evacuated the whole map
https://twitter.com/ALostrich/status/1168231429920219137
Remember all of those college students who couldn’t find their own states on a map? And we asked what would become of them? Well now we know. They work at CNN.
So, what is the explanation for the spike (I’m assuming there is one) in mass shootings? It seems like every month or so there’s another one. Didn’t happen where I grew up and everybody had guns. Gun grabbing has got to be the worst solution given people can kill innocent people pretty easily if they want to and all you’ll be doing is gutting the final shreds of the constitution.
I assume it just got trendy.
Nihilism does have a certain allure.
And why are there fewer serial killers?
Probably because today’s killers grew up eating granola bars and go-gurt for breakfast?
Some around here will say it’s all in your head/all a media fabrication, and will point to mass shooting stats being flat. Of course, those stats are waaaaaaay overinclusive, so the “real” mass shootings are lost in the noise.
Others seem to be on the crime fad theory. I’m somewhat on board with that.
I also think there are some broader social detritus issues contributing to the behavior.
It’s hard to believe it’s flat. Pretty sure I’d notice shit like Las Vegas, Pulse or Sandy Hook happening with the same frequency. I was at work in Denver when Columbine happened and it seemed like an outlier at the time.
A quick search led me here. Seems there were a handful of school shootings from the 60’s through the 80’s prior to Colombine. I did not hear about one of them at the time that I remember.
The one that always stood out and became a cultural touchstone was the Texas tower shooting. My theory is that the more violence (implied or direct) is put into a closed system, the more violence emerges. Expansion of government will always result in violence be it revolution or senseless murder like mass shootings. Just a matter of time.
I wonder if this senseless killing was as prevalent back when communities were small and tight knit. A hunch that I have is that feeling like a cog in a machine contributes to the genesis of mass killing
People also went to church. Not that they weren’t violent, they were more violent per capita, but it would seem that this type of killing is people getting disconnected from their community. It’s not a robbery or drug deal gone bad, vengeance for some other gang killing your boy or some such. It’s something that we (if there is such a thing as society) need to figure out. Most of these shooters were not in states of grinding poverty or living in violent communities. They are people that are disconnected and lost their shit.
But it’s much easier to make noises about gun violence than to figure out the cause.
Others seem to be on the crime fad theory. I’m somewhat on board with that.
#metoo
OK. What is it?
It has became cool in the mind of lunatics to shoot a bunch of people.
And the majority, if not all, of the reason is the breathless 24-7 news coverage.
Headliner crimes go through fads. The 70s was serial killing, 90s was bombing, today is mass shooting. Essentially, deranged folks are captivated by the infamy that [insert crime fad here] generates, and they copy the crime to gain the notoriety.
That makes sense and doesn’t make me deny what I’m seeing. Thx. I’d imagine monkey see, monkey do is a huge part of it.
Part of it is the proliferation of media outlets to sensationalize them for ratings. Part of it is copycatting. And part of it is population growth.
Lastly, part of it is that they’ve changed the way they calculate what’s considered a mass shooting.
It’s all because of Trump, duh
The stats on mass shootings, same as with climate change, are so politically charged that it’s become near impossible to suss out what’s really happening. Maybe it is mostly due to the way they are determining what a mass shooting is. The info that is filtering down to me points to a clear increase in people shooting up public places. Again, I could be wrong and am willing to hear out the counter argument.
Not exactly a counter argument directly at the stats, but I would argue mass shootings don’t really matter* because they make up a tiny percentage of all homicides and thus aren’t really something to reformulate society around.
*on a societal level, not minimizing the pain to individuals who may have lost a loved one.
They matter because they are driving public opinion regardless of their statistical relevance. It’s a losing argument to try even making it to the non rational public.
I was mostly making the argument to you, I don’t bother talking to ‘people’.
You don’t need to convince me. I’d arm almost everyone.
Not talking to people is a marker for a potential mass shooter. Red Flag Red Flag Red Flag!!!!
There has been a conflating of ‘mass shooting’ with ‘mass murder by firearm.’
Public areas can be divided into enforced ‘gun free zones’ (example: airports), ‘gun free zones’ that are not enforced (such as signage only), and not intended to be ‘gun free zones’
AFAIK, all ‘mass murder by firearm’ in western Europe since about 1950 and most of them in the United States since about 1950 occur in ‘gun free zones’ that are not enforced.
Common sense ‘gun free zone’ control. For the children.
It’s culture — people do things that people do.
The problem is cultural. It doesn’t have a damned thing to do with guns. If they end up confiscating guns this problem will get worse.
Indeed. It will be a Uhaul truck bomb driven into an NFL tailgate or stadium or some such.
Shocking revelation
President Donald Trump didn’t sound optimistic that stronger gun control could prevent mass shootings, claiming that background checks on those buying weapons wouldn’t have prevented mass shootings over the past few years. “Background checks—I will say that for the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five, going back even five or six or seven years—for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it,” Trump said. “So it’s a big problem.”
The remarks appear to cement Trump’s newly found opposition to an idea that he once seemed to at least be willing to entertain. After the shootings in El Paso and Dayton last month, Trump said he would consider “meaningful background checks.” Trump later seemed to have a change of heart after lobbying from gun rights advocated. “People don’t realize we have very strong background checks right now,” he said a few days later.
On Sunday, the president proceeded to say that “it’s a mental problem” once again pushing the message that the problem isn’t the easy availability of weapons. Along those lines, Trump called the shooter who killed seven people in West Texas on Saturday “another very sick person.”
Bad Orange Man wants you dead.
Strip away the sensationality of the story, and these are all local police issues. In impact, it’s not much different than a drunk plowing into a church van and killing 8 teenagers.
Why aren’t people intentionally plowing cars into church vans? Because you don’t get wall to wall national news coverage for that.
The whole desire to doxx and destroy anyone who opposes you is pretty fucked up.
See something, say something. If you’re not with us, you’re an Enemy of the People.
Random drunken asshole has been right this whole time!
*serious note, anyone who hasn’t seen the beatings those kids are taking in Honk Kong need to search some out. fucked up.
I have a friend in Georgetown, SC (halfway between Charleston and Myrtle Beach). He’s not planning to evacuate, but he’s going to make the decision Tuesday morning. I was asking him about the whole mandatory evacuation situation and he told me what his grandmommie always says when you ask her what she’s doing…”I’m free, white, and over 18…mind your own damn business”
My parents live in the Hilton Head area. Fortunately they’re in Tennessee for my nephew’s promotion ceremony (he’s an Army Captain now!). Unfortunately they can’t really make plans to head home or not for a few more days.
Labor Day, schmabor day.
What a dumb day.
To hire some jerk,
Then send him away.
To celebrate work
By playing all day.
—Garfield (Jim Davis, 1980s)
Heathcliff>>>Garfield
I’m here to tell you both suck.
They’re cats.
I’m gonna labor on Labor Day since that holiday pay is too much to turn down (coulda made a rhyme out of that, but I’m too damn lazy).
”I’m free, white, and over 18…mind your own damn business”
I always heard it as “free, white and twentyone”.
In fact, If I recall correctly, Myrna Loy uses that very phrase in reply to William Powell in one of the Thin Man movies.
First time I ever heard it, my mother said it to my father.
“Are you going to do [X] (for me)?”
“You’re free, white and twentyone. You can can do it for yourself.”
“Myrna Loy”
Yes, please.
what is the explanation for the spike (I’m assuming there is one) in mass shootings?
I think there is a spike in anti-gun groups, who need to promote fear among the mob, in order to justify their existence (and raise money).
“Second strongest storm in HISTORY: Hurricane Dorian crawls across the Bahamas at record slow speed destroying 13,000 homes and killing one with 225mph gusts as millions evacuate on the East Coast amid fears for Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7418967/Hurricane-Dorian-Second-strongest-storm-HISTORY-batters-Bahamas.html
Is it really the second strongest storm in history?
define history
Define “strongest”.
I asked first
Not by barometric pressure.
If you go By highest sustained wind speed at landfall, then yes, it’s in a 2 way tie for first. If you go by highest sustained wind speed overall, it’s in a 4 way tie for 2nd. If you go by pressure, it’s not in the top ten.
Which measurements are historically more accurate? I would think pressure but not sure about wind speed….
Killing one?
Lame.
“Millionaire model agency boss thought to have key information into the Jeffrey Epstein scandal ‘has disappeared like a ghost without a trace'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7417633/Millionaire-thought-key-information-Epstein-scandal-vanishes.html
What are “clintons”?
No way.
This is an unexpected development.
I wonder if he got a plane ticket or a bullet.
The info that is filtering down to me points to a clear increase in people shooting up public places. Again, I could be wrong and am willing to hear out the counter argument.
There is a lot of smoke-and-mirrors amplification of extremely rare events. The sensationalist media take an isolated event and portray it as part of an EPIDEMIC. “There is an EPIDEMIC of school shootings!”
Bullshit. There isn’t an epidemic of school shootings. Certainly not of the type they imply. If you look at the list of incidents they count as school shootings, it’s breathtakingly dishonest. And, of course, it’s the gun’s fault. Nobody wants to ask how we got to the point where a person can entertain the belief that killing some random people will “fix” anything.
“…of course, it’s the gun’s fault. Nobody wants to ask how we got to the point where a person can entertain the belief that killing some random people will “fix” anything.”
Because they aren’t interested in fixing the problem. They need more martyrs for the cause if they are going to disarm you. The last thing they want are fewer mass shooting.s
Look like Miley Cyrus for $615
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7417637/Miley-Cyrus-stop-smiling-cuddles-Kaitlynn-Carter-lunch-date-mom.html
Why would I want to look like Miley Ray Cyrus?
I’d rather do the girlfriend myself
The correct response is “who gives a shit?”
“MILLENNIAL SELF CARE BUT I MAKE IT SLAVIC”
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1168211698370564096
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAacsWTS-c0
Part of the problem is (still/again) the education system. We are taught, in the public schools particularly, to accept what we are told, at face value. Asking your teacher, “Is that really true?” is not a good way to make friends. The system reinforces itself, until you get CNN running stories about how children are afraid to go back to school because they will be murdered on the playground, and the mommies run out and buy bulletproof backpacks.
The anti bullying crap that schools are pushing is definitely part of the problem. Teaching boys to act like girls in conflict resolution is a good way to make psychos.
I take it you’ve never seen teenage girls resolve conflicts. Those fights are a hell of a lot more vicious than the fisticuffs boys engage in.
I wonder what effect the over drugging of boys has.
^This^
It’s my go to response when someone makes the claim that boys are treated better than girls in the schools.
Oh yeah? When was the last time millions of girls were drugged for behaving like girls?
I fucking hate it.
You’re saying the same thing I said. Boys are being punished for not acting like girls.
Sure, but girls aren’t shooting up schools and movie theaters. Boys need to be able to tease and be teased to grow. Girls are a mystery to me.
Obligatory.
Nicely done.
Pink, the early days.
Was expecting this.
I think there’s something to be said for gender-segregated schooling. It’s pretty well documented that boys and girls learn differently and mature differently.
As a libertarian who believes in an individual choice in education, I’m not going to proclaim that “all schools should do _____”, but I think in a free market, schools with some degree of segregation would emerge as the most effective. The ideal would probably be segregated classes most of the day with periods like lunch and recess integrated so that they still learn to interact with the opposite sex.
Well there is not much solution to the education issue. You will never have enough people wiling to be teachers sufficiently capable of teaching. Also teaching obedience is built into the system,m. Also a lot of lefty infestation thin king education is imparting lefty thought. And additional problems.
The Donation Not Taxation solution to this problem: If people like their government-run ‘lower’ education, they can keep their government-run ‘lower’ education, but eliminate paying for it by taxes and by the kind of borrowing to be repaid by taxes.
” Speaking of fearmongering
The former Texas congressman’s plan calls for universal background checks, red flag laws, assault rifle bans, as well as a mandatory gun buyback and licensing program.
O’Rourke said it will take the whole country to make a change.
“The challenge is so grave, the threat is so grave, that we can’t meet it with half measures or only half the country,” he said.
O’Rourke said Democrats and Republicans, as well as gun owners and non-gun owners, will have to come together to pass comprehensive gun reform.
The Democrat said he recently went to a gun show and spoke with gun owners. He said some told him they disagree with his proposals, but are also concerned for their safety and their children and want to see change.
“More than I worry about the politics or the polling, more than I care about what the NRA has to say on this, I care for my kids and this country and kids who live in terror every day,” O’Rourke said.
We have to come together and agree to do what I say. Otherwise, you’re a murderer.
Cool link, bro!
Seriously, he’s probably counting on a few more of these mass shootings happening in Texas so he can run on this platform against Cornyn once he drops out of the presidential race.
He’s a piece of shit capitalizing on every negative event for political gain. It’s literally his entire platform at this point. Well, that and “whites are all racists” and “watch me do normal stuff cause I’m just like you!”
Sure, sure, but have you seen him make a hot dog?
No they aren’t.
No they don’t.
Beto has been a liar from the word “go,” beginning with his fake Hispanicized name. He can take a long running start and jump to hell.
Try to contain your excitement, Robert.
spoken like a true totalitarian. Pol Pot would be proud
Funny how they don’t put scare quotes around “mandatory gun buyback” or even around “buyback”.
BETO!
To me, it isn’t really Labor Day weekend until I hear someone sing this inspirational anthem (at the 2:00 mark.)
I never even knew that show existed.
Better than the movie, imo. Cheesy in just the right way.
Background noise
At least 35 people have been shot — seven of them fatally — so far in gun violence across Chicago over the Labor Day holiday weekend.
The number of fatal shootings so far has already surpassed the total from last year’s Labor Day weekend, when four people were killed and 23 others were wounded in citywide shootings.
Why isn’t Chuck Todd hyperventilating about these incidents?
It rhymes with outrigger.
Hair trigger?
Today, in everyone is literally Hitler
“Activist journalist lies about being chased out of Minds IRL free speech conference
The event had to be moved to a different location after threats of violence were thrown at the original venue, the Pitman Broadway Theatre. One threat, by the “antifascist” fascist group Antifa, went so far as to say that they would burn down the theatre, attempting to cancel an event which aimed to end “racism, violence, and authoritarianism.”
During some of the intermissions between speakers, some attendees were approached by Talia Lavin, a known liar and troll. While those in the press all knew to avoid her, many attendees did not.
Her presence was eventually revealed to all in attendance. During the Q & A section of one of the panels, an eye-patched man approached the microphone and said, “I don’t really have a question, so you should probably cut me off now. But, there’s a pigeon-shaped lady here interviewing people, and lying about you on Twitter.”
The person, obviously, was Talia Lavin.
One woman claimed that she approached Lavin after, asking her to delete the tweet. According to the woman, who went by Anna, Lavin said her phone was dead before she “waddled away” to her vehicle.
Lavin does not have a perfect record when it comes to accuracy. Recently, the journalist quit her job at the New Yorker after falsely accusing an ICE agent of having a Nazi tattoo.
Finally, Lavin left the conference. It was a conveniently timed exit for her, as she left two panels before keynote speaker Daryl Davis took stage. Davis, a well known anti-racism activist, has de-radicalized over 200 members of the KKK, befriending them along the way.
Since this goes directly against the narrative that Lavin was trying to create, it makes sense that she would leave.
But of course, Lavin claims it was no typical exit. Rather, she claims that she was “chased through” the Sugarhouse Casino.”
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/activist-journalist-lies-about-being-chased-out-of-minds-irl-free-speech-conference/
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1168389149684113409
“During the panel on “political violence” (for which Andy Ngo got a standing ovation) some folks approached me about my tweets and I beat a hasty retreat. Bye Minds IRL!
Ngl, being chased through a casino and streaking to the exit felt very James Bond
I’m safe and fine! I must admit “being chased by racists through a casino” wasn’t on my life bingo card but life is a rich tapestry”
https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1167965201565487104
“right, i never claimed i was chased out by a mob with torches as everyone scream-sang “kill the beast!” it was more of a “tensely followed around a casino and ran away” scenario”
https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1168317456135405568
Christ, what an asshole.
You can say that again.
Best re:
Good morning, Sloopy and the rest of you laze abouts!
I hope everyone is having a superior Labor Day experience.
The Pretenders are an excellent band, but I have thus far resisted buying Chrissy’s autobiography. I find myself more often than not disappointed when I learn to much about famous people, musicians especially.
Make it a great day, y’all and stay safe those of you staring down Dorian!
Continue to #Resist. I tried to read it a while back, and it was pretty awful. I like Chrissie as a singer – she’s one of the few chick singers whose songs I can sing in the original key – but I found her autobio to be a hot mess. I think I got the e-book from a friend – either that or from the library – and I was glad I hadn’t paid for it. Didn’t finish.
I got Peter Hook’s book about his time in New Order and doubt I made it through a third. He came across as a big giant douche.
The last one I finished was Andre Agassi’s. It was actually quite interesting and well done.
I agree with you about being disappointed when you learn about your Rock Gods. Her politics don’t really align with mine. But she has recently been a guest on Jonesie’s Jukebox, and she does have some pretty fucking cool stories.
Happy Labrador Day!
Hey there! You in WA yet?
Nope. Wife and I will get crepes this morning and run some errands. Then pack up the linen closet, coat closet, and start on kitchen stuff. Sold most of the furniture. Packed all the artwork and guitars (except my road guitar) and my drum set.
I’ll spend the rest of the day sipping brews and packing stuff, and jettisoning stuff. I’m gonna give my hoopty Toyota to a neighbor.
We’ll ship everything FedEx ground.
We’ll take off Saturday afternoon and spend the night in Santa Barbara. Sunday through Big Sur and a stay in Santa Cruz. Monday drive the North Coast to Eureka. Tuesday we’ll wander the coast to Coos Bay, OR. Wednesday make the big haul to Bremerton, WA. Thursday, take the ferry into Seattle.
Wow!
What a great adventure! I’m sure it’s a tad nerve wracking, but I’m excited for you guys.
Safe travels and send dispatches from the road!
Coos Bay to Bremerton in a single day? That’s a pretty good run, assuming you’re sticking to the coast.
No. We’ll jump on the 5
Ahh, that sounds better.
(Once you cross the northern border, it’s no longer “the “)
“Her politics don’t really align with mine.”
I’m gonna guess the average celebrity’s views don’t align with most, if not all, of us here.
While there are exceptions, it’s not likely you’re going to hear them refer to Bastiat or espouse individual sovereignty (except for themselves or any other intellectual position (s) we tend to take around these dark spots.
It goes without saying really.
I know a rock celebrity who is friendly with Eric McCormack. He’s conservative in his views and just accepts this is how it is in Hollywood.
Didn’t she (Hynde) get a lot of pushback for suggesting that women shouldn’t get sloppy drunk and then have sex and then cry about being assaulted?
I don’t read bios.
Remember when she said she hoped the Muslims won when the USA invaded Iraq?
I’ve been reading autobiographies lately. Two that stand out are Roger Daltrey’s and Eric Idle’s. Pete Townsend’s was a disappointment. Mike Oldfield’s was not a disappointment but was not great.
Mother American Night, by John Perry Barlow is very good.
Philip Glass, Words Without Music, is an excellent memoir, middling as an autobiography.
The biography of Brian Zeno, On Some Faraway Beach, is quite good, although I found the author’s style frequently off-putting.
I cannot find enough good things to say about Kate Colquhoun’s The Busiest Man in England: A Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect & Victorian Visionary. Amazing picture of the Industrial Revolution.
Autocorrect strikes again. Presumably you all know it’s Brian Eno, not Zeno. 😉
Zeno’s a-comin’.
Let me see them titties
Thanks, sk! I’ll check those out!
Buried at the bottom of a link in Sloops link about the named Odessa GTA murderer……….
His constituents might be interested in why Rep. Craddick failed that background check.
Heh…ya, that was my first thought. If Craddick can’t get a gun why is he telling everyone? Top notch editors they got there.
Well then how did he get the gun?!?
Wait! Was it one of those “ghost guns” I’ve been seeing on CNN?
Is that like a ghost pepper? More importantly, does it have its own “challenge?”
OMG there are people with guns but without a background check?! GTFO.
Verlander is sickening.
Nasty stuff.
That fricken slider is right out of a Lovecraft story.
RE: Mass shootings (long, sorry).
The statistics on what constitutes a “mass shooting” are so hopelessly politicized that I’m definitely not in any position to say whether they’ve increased or not. What is certain is that overall crime and homicide has dropped monotonically for two decades, but that’s not really what we’re talking about.
What I can say is that the “MSM” DemOpMedia complex has gone all in on gun-grabbing so it’s in their interest to fear monger and elevate each and every incident to national hysteria. Since women’s suffrage, (sorry ladies) women have largely driven domestic social policy so the DemOpMedia sees and opportunity to use “WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!?!?!!” to try and drive gun grabbing by terrifying suburban moms. It also accounts for why little to no attention is paid to blacks killing each other in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and Baltimore; it can’t be parlayed into a Lefty social cause by upper-middle class white suburban women.
Regardless of whether it’s increasing or not, I can spitball a few reasons why I think it happens at all:
1) Demonization of male nature in schools. This leads to drugs that attempt to feminize the males and if they continue to show any male characteristics, they are suppressed, punished and told they need to be “fixed”. It accounts for the much higher rates of male suicide, lack of male educational and occupational achievement and general decline in male mental health. It stands to reason that a small percentage of males will resort to violence as a result.
2) Social atomization and nihilism. As outlined in the book “Bowling Alone”, many of the instruments of civil society have broken down. No outside involvement with other people in the real world drives people into online echo chambers. Further, shifting social mores and family court policy continue to marginalize and squeeze out the family in lieu of Big Daddy. Women (on average) tend to respond to this breakdown with promiscuity, unstable relationships and irresponsibility; men (on average) tend to respond by withdrawing socially, embracing nihilism and extreme ideologies, lack of motivation/achievement and occasionally violence.
3) Finally; social contagion. When something is covered obsessively in the media and pop culture, there are going to be some people susceptible to Monkey See, Monkey Do. Especially if you’re a withdrawn, nihilistic, miserable male who is already suicidal, you might see all the coverage of the latest shooter and decide to “go out with a bang” and get a bunch of attention. There is a tacit agreement among media outlets to not cover suicides unless there’s some socially significant angle to them since it’s been known for decades that giving attention to suicide drives more suicide. I would imagine the same thing is true about mass shootings but the media has absolutely no interest in not covering them because they’re sensational (if it bleeds, it leads) and they *want* to drive more mass shooting since it fits their narrative.
Thx, Q. Gimme some time to digest that.
Now that I’ve had time to read that (was watching Fear the Walking Dead-excellent BTW), you’ve hit on all the same points I did above: punishment of males for being male, nihilism and monkey see, monkey doism. You’ve got women screaming that men have no say on abortion because men can’t get pregnant. Yet, they get to decide how boys need to be taught. It’s crazy.
Funny, I watched the new Dave Chappelle show last night and he does a bit about abortion. To paraphrase, men don’t get to have a say because they’re not carrying the baby, but if the woman keeps it, she pays for it herself. He does it as a joke, of course, but I’ve heard something along those lines often. For some reason, the people who seem most on board with the first half have the strongest negative reactions to the second half. Gee, that’s odd…
There IS something screwy about the notion that the man gets no choice whatsoever – whether the woman decides to abort the baby, give it out to adoption, or keep it, he has to go along with it. The only choice he has is to not have sex in the first place, but that’s something the woman also has.
I’ve actually thought quite a bit about what whether or not child support would exist in Libertopia. I do think that marriages should just be private contracts that lay out obligations, the conditions under which divorce may occur, and how the assets will be divided should that happen. I’m inclined to think that child support should have to be spelled out in the contract.
They really do play on men’s desire to take one the team. Manipulation is the nasty side of femininity. As for the increase in mass shootings, my whole point of this thread was to say that I think the school/public massacres of random people by crazy people is becoming more frequent. I don’t think it’s just that the media is covering them now. I don’t think it’s even the change in the definition of “mass shooting”.
I think I touch on this downthread, but I agree that they’re becoming more frequent. I just also think that coverage is increasing and plays a role in the increase of the events themselves. IOW, they’re growing at a certain rate, but coverage is increasing by a much greater rate.
The media certainly is causing a feedback loop. What are you going to do? Can’t force them not to cover them and they won’t stop on their own accord. Too many clicks. Gotta change public opinion somehow.
I suspect we are in a statistical cluster right now. Whether its significant in the long run remains to be seen. Personally, I think it will go through the same cycle as previous high-profile crimes, but am concerned that there are some underlying causes here that might work against that.
Sounds like extrimist talking points to me. Make men into women and utopia will come about seems to be the notion. Hopefully enough people will come to their senses
My fear, if this spitballing is correct, is what if it backfires and such men lash out, for example, with more violence against women?
You can’t social engineer against biology, physiology etc. and expect no consequences.
They call this ‘deprogramming’. As in, we have to ‘deprogram’ boys in order for them to accept more ‘equality’.
Though I have to wonder just how pervasive this plan in action really is. I don’t think it is. At least up here, the schools are mostly free of this shit except maybe for some rogue idiot teacher.
There can be a lot of problems but right now feminists co trol the narative, pardon the phrase. And there needs to be a strong enough counter to convince women that if they want good men, and many of them do, this is not the way. And this needs be careful not to slide into actual misoginy MRA/MGTOw shit or trad shit. For a chance at sucess.
Jordan Peterson and Bill James (in Popular Crimes) agree!
I think the emasculation of males is certainly an issue. This includes getting rid of all boys organizations like the Boy Scouts making them more ‘inclusive’.
That can’t possibly be good and is bound to have some sort of unseen unintended consequence. Or maybe it could manifest itself into one that is observational like mass shootings.
It’s deep complex issue and it’s above my pay grade (it’s nice to just talk about it in spaces like this) but I do know grabbing guns isn’t a panacea. And even if you convince people focusing on an inanimate object at the expense of what Q highlighted, they will answer (like they do with dubious climate change policy), ‘we have to start somewhere’ (even if it means starting at the wrong point) or ‘we have to do something….for the children’.
Not a fan really but the agressive reaction to Peterson was sonething to behold. No one can question the narrative
Really the big reason why he became popular in libertarian circles. It’s rare in any age to see someone be bold in their convictions against the might of popular opinion.
Was? Is.
Peterson is the strong make in silent or Noir films who would slap his hysterical wife back into reality to regain composure.
Did I just say something triggering?
I agree, and I believe the majority here do, as well. Which is why I get confused whe people here say they are glad girls can join Boy Scout troops and in some cases they’ve been, or are, bringing their daughters to Scouts with their sons. I just don’t see how one can rightly recognize that boys are being discouraged from being boys, and then allowing girls to join the one place left where they can hang out with other males and just be boys.
The troops are supposed to be segregated still.
There is a tacit agreement among media outlets to not cover suicides unless there’s some socially significant angle to them since it’s been known for decades that giving attention to suicide drives more suicide.
And they should be asked about this. Start with assholes like Chuck Todd.
Agreed on all points. Another thing to consider is something you allude to, and that’s that there’s a media element to this. There’s something special about the idea of a crazy young white man shooting a bunch of strangers–the appeal of that as a narrative can be analyzed to death–and so when it happens the media makes sure that everyone knows. News organizations are, at the end of the day, profit-driven entertainment companies, and a crazy white man killing a bunch of people with a scary gun gets ratings. When people who talk about mass shootings and gun control talk about mass shootings, that’s what they’re talking about: a lone white gunman shooting at a crowd of strangers, or at least relative strangers. When a black person does it, which happens pretty often depending on your definition of mass shooting, nobody cares, because it doesn’t push the narrative.
And when I say “the narrative”, I don’t necessarily mean that the local news channel is deeply invested in annihilating the 2A, I just mean that the more hysteria they drive the more attention they get.
Also, I think mass shootings are the new “drive-by shooting” or “carjacking”. There was a period in the 90s where you would think that nobody was driving their own cars anymore based on the number of times carjacking was mentioned on the news. This in turn fed into an increase in the practice due to copycats, but the level of attention and number of times it was mentioned far exceeded the number of incidents. Same thing happens with mass shootings of the crazy white guy variety, especially because there’s a renewed effort on the left to destroy private gun ownership.
Couldn’t do a better job of summarizing my thoughts than Q has.
+1
re: masculinity
I’m not sure why, but youtube has been serving up “stoicism” clips on my roku channel, lately. I have watched some of them. They are not, to me, particularly revelatory, but…
I think about this, sometimes: men went off to fight in WWII, saw (and did) horrible things, and then came home and worked and got married and raised families and lived their lives. Jews were freed from death camps, and went on to live successful peaceful happy lives.
Now, some whinging caricature of a man who was somewhere in the vicinity when something bad happened to people he didn’t know can become a celebrity by tweeting about how the experience has radically altered him.
Somewhere along the line, a lot of people have been hornswoggled into believing they have a “right” to go through life without ever suffering any sort of adversity or misfortune. And- when that bad day comes, it breaks them.
“Somewhere along the line, a lot of people have been hornswoggled into believing they have a “right” to go through life without ever suffering any sort of adversity or misfortune.”
There’s a lot to this. There’s a feeling that anything that allows for bad things to happen must be bad.
I was ranting about this to a friend the other day. On the forums for BoardGameGeek, someone started a thread with a subject along the lines of: “Most annoying habits new players to games do”. It was a standard gripe fest about things like flexing/bending cards, tapping pieces together, eating messy food, and leaving uncapped drinks on the table with them. Someone posted in the thread that they were triggered by the use of new players as a derogatory slur in the subject line, and asked for it to be changed.
Sweet zombie Cheebus. If you have been so coddled through your life that you are hurt by that, you’ve got a long hard fucking life ahead of you.
Did it get changed?
I tagged out at the thread at that point. I go there for jokes, tales, tips, and suggestions on games. Not to wade through SJW bullshit.
Saying this person’s concerns are bulshit is triggering. Clearly you are a White-supreamacist. Id like the moderators to remove the above comment.
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Our kids have told us that the best thing we ever did for them when they were growing up was to let them fail.
An example: Once our second kid had an important assignment that had taken her two or three weeks of working at home in evenings to complete. On the day it was due, she forgot it. Left it at home in her room.
So she calls Mom. “Whose responsibility was it to do the assignment?” Mrs. A asked.
“Mine.”
“And whose responsibility was it to take it in on the day it was due.”
“Mine.”
“Then who needs to figure out what to do about it?”
“Me.”
The phone call ended. Kids explained to teacher that the assignment was done but sitting on her desk at home. She took it in the next day, took a small hit on her grade for being late, and learned an important lesson.
* Calling child welfare agency * / prog response
And, of course, It’s not about “masculinity”. It’s about humanity. Women struggle and suffer and overcome.
Except now so many of them seem to revel in being so damn fragile they can’t survive hearing a raunchy joke or being hit on by the wrong guy. “I am woman! Hear me whine!”
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1168486759447040000
Is that HM’s gay dog?
Geeze. I want to thank you all for this nice secluded Oasis of sanity. I (for unknown reasons) waded back into some Facebook comment’s. Fuck. It’s not just that People are stupid. They are dishonest, argue in bad faith, and hypocritical. Not to mention the fad on both left and right to substitute evidence with “well this is what happened to me”.
See, there’s the problem.
If you’da asked me, I coulda told ya.
Well my lived experience shows that people can change and are redeemable. Don’t know where I went wrong with that.
Some people can change and are redeemable. You won’t find them on Derpbook.
It’s not just that People are stupid. They are dishonest, argue in bad faith, and hypocritical. Not to mention the fad on both left and right to substitute evidence with “well this is what happened to me”.
I feel you are trying to diminish them by not accepting the value and individualized truth of their imagined experience.
Toxic masculinity
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1168272604110774272
Sometimes a chicken sammich is just a chicken sammich
A few Kansas University faculty members are not fans of allowing Chick-fil-A to be served on campus because they believe the chain violates “safety and inclusion”.
The faculty council, filled with “extreme frustration,” wants America’s favorite restaurant removed from campus for being a “bastion of bigotry” after KU administrators relocated a Chick-fil-A from a basement to “prime real estate” on campus to the Memorial Union. But worse yet, to the council, is the “Chick-fil-A Coin Toss” at the start of the Jayhawks’ football home games.
“The culture of Chick-fil-A fosters hate and discrimination on multiple levels,” the Sexuality & Gender Diversity Faculty and Staff Council wrote in a two-page letter, accusing university leaders of being “more concerned about money and corporate sponsorship than the physical, emotional, and mental well being of marginalized and LGBTQ people.”
Lighten up, Francis.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s mendaciousness, or if these are just political Pike who have bought the narrative Hook line and sinker. Acting like Chick-fil-A is a bastion of bigotry a la storefront requires some level of mental lobotomy. I mean for goodness sake it was the owners expressing their opinions. And it didn’t change what they did at all as a business. Fucking Ben and Jerry’s does the same thing, arguing for a murderous ideology.
Except Chik-fil-a, other than closing on Sundays, doesn’t roll out items like One Man, One Woman, One Married Sandwich or such.
Oh yes.i meant Ben and Jerry’s does what they accuse Chick-fil-A of doing.
Ah, my misreading.
Nahh, I see where I went wrong.
Ben and Jerry’s is protected by freedom of (speech that agrees with the faculty at Kansas University).
Is this how it would go at your workplace?
“Safety and inclusion”
Doesn’t Chick-Fil-A have a good record of including what they promise? How often do they omit beverages? How often do they neglect lettuce? Etc.
Chances of food poisoning from Chick-fil-A versus the cafeterias at Kansas University?
Concern noted. Problem solved. Next agenda item.
Pampered, privileged shits have nothing substantive to whine about. Film at 11.
The Donation Not Taxation solution to this problem: If people like their government-run ‘higher’ education, they can keep their government-run ‘higher’ education, but eliminate paying for it by taxes and by the kind of borrowing to be repaid by taxes.
Today, in gun grabbers proud of their ignorance
“This is silly and pedantic. AR-15s are bad and you don’t need to know what the acronym stands for to understand that”
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1168361042579034112
Fave comment:
Thanks for the daily reminder to spank my AR for being bad.
AR-15s are bad, mkay
England: nation of broken men.
https://twitter.com/algalpin/status/1168533944209424384?s=21
Also a kitchen knife does not need a point
Do you really need a knife to cook? I mean you could just buy your meats pre cut from a licenced buthcer
He actually asked “why would a 17 year old want a pocketknife?”
I think he’s serious too. What kind of beta cuck are they raising their men to be over there?
Clearly he’s never talked to any cub scout. I remember feeling like I had been embued with power after getting my chit.
It gets better.
That last one I knew would come up. Having a knife as a defence is stupid IMO, it means you are actively willing to injure someone, at which point you’re not just defending yourself any more. We need less knifes, like guns, not more.
That poor would-be rapist. His victim was willing to injure him!
“it means you are actively willing to injure someone”
Yes. Yes it does. It means I’m willing to kill to keep me and my family safe. See the discussion above. People have become so thouroghly insulated from bad that they think using violence to defend yourself is wrong.
I guess victim blaming is in fashion from the left.
Soooo… how ARE you supposed to defend yourself? Just say in carefully modulated tones, “I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t do that”? Are you allowed to raise your arms, or is that somehow “triggering?” Of course, I suppose I shouldn’t assume that one IS allowed to defend themselves – one should just submit to the will of the other.
Listen, pussy. If you didn’t want to be attacked, you should have trained yourself to be the strongest kid on the block. And I don’t care if you’re a 5′ 0″ woman that weighs 120 lbs. it’s your fault you couldn’t overpower that 275 lb dude just using your bare hands and a tube of pepper spray.
Pepper spray is right out. You would then be attacking someone, not defending yourself.
Pepper spray and mace are also illegal in the U.K. and if you’re caught with it, the same penalties apply if you were carrying a gun or knife.
how ARE you supposed to defend yourself?
If you clap your hands and believe, there are no more ill-willed people, and so there’s nothing to defend against. Needing to defend yourself implies there are people who want to hurt you, which implies the police state isn’t doing its job.
Just lie back, and think of England.
“less knifes”
No, we just need them to be fewer sharp, that’s all.
Christ, they invented the language, the least they could do is use it properly.
By right he should be taken out and hung. For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
https://youtu.be/EAYUuspQ6BY
I thought you’d link to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdExsAQuCQA
sloop, you reminded me of
Crap! Screen jumped in the middle of writing comment. Now, where was I? Oh, yeah! Sloop – you reminded me of this SNL sketch (esp. @ 2:10 mark) from back in the day when SNL was funny.
Fuuccckk.
Broken men for real.
I have four of them of different sizes.
Uber-practical.
One of the many things I hate about frequent air travel is that I no longer have my Swiss Army knife in my purse. I have to remind myself to put it back in there and I often forget.
I can’t imagine being a grown adult man and not understanding why even a kid needs a pocket knife.
I use my knife just about every day. I feel naked(like when I travel by air) without it.
Pssst……*whispers…..he’s British. They like cucumber sandwiches.
I use a separate briefcase when I travel, mostly because I keep a knife or two in my regular briefcase. Damned if they are going to steal my knives. Back when I smoked cigars, I had two very nice lighters stolen by the fuckers.
Classy
https://twitter.com/CaptYonah/status/1168527478006198273
Also, possibly NSFW
I’ll give Tits MsGee credit for going up against Attila. She took a lot of blows and keep coming back for more.
It’s a shame, because she’s the best looking girl in the video. I’d love to know what happened between her and King Hippo before the milkshake went flying.
Sounds like Tits insulted the hippos mama. Never insult a hippos mother.
She’s hella stupid for not even grabbing a chair to put something between her and Gojira.
That poor guy…lol.
Do Glibs think the US stopped being near-Libertopia with the Civil War, the inauguration of FDR, or some other date?
Data from https://www.sporcle.com/games/chaosBEE/president-started-holidays
Christmas Day 1870
Independence Day 1870
New Year’s Day 1870
Thanksgiving 1870
Washington’s Birthday 1880
Memorial Day 1888
Labor Day 1894
Veterans Day 1938
Inauguration Day 1957
Columbus Day 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 1983
Does it mean anything for libertarianism that “federal holidays” in the US came as late in the county’s history as they did?
John Adams.
It was a gradual process that started at the begining.
Right after Franklin told the waiting ladies after the constitutional convention: “A Republic—if you can keep it.”
It started at the beginning. It is the nature of government – any government – to grow ever bigger and more intrusive.
Definitely early for fall from near-Libertopia
I do think the Fed holidays were part of the pattern of making Congress a full time job instead of a few months a year after harvest.
Interesting point.
Right from the drop, I’d say, but slowly, increasing speed after the Civil War*. I forget who said it–might’ve been TJ, actually, which would be kind of ironic–but not addressing slavery directly in the Constitution was a fatal flaw. It led to the direct and indirect erosion of liberty; if it’s outlawed in the 18th century, you never get to the point of secession in the 19th.
Yeah, Iong slow slide downhill starting pretty early. Original minarchist intent abandoned in Civil War. But the point of no return, IMO, was FDR.
Technically, it was only the Federal government that was minimal. The state governments had broad powers (see: tenth amendment) which included doing lots of things the Federal government was forbidden from doing (such as, establishing religion, controlling the possession of arms, expanding or limiting citizenship and the franchise, levying direct taxes, restricting speech, etc.).
That balance worked for a little while, as it allowed people to leave more restrictive states and flee to freer territories and new states. But, that itself turned into a flashpoint for the question of slavery. I personally think the Civil War was just the bloody proof of supreme Federal power; the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act already claimed that prerogative before any shots were fired.
Yeah, John Adams was insistent on the Declaration of Independence containing language to eradicate slavery. The Carolina delegates were insistent on carrying on with slavery.
Franklin persuaded Adams to sign now, kick the can down the road.
Turns out to have been a long and bloody road.
I wonder what would have happened if the Articles or Constitution had banned slavery, and the South had set up their own country at the outset.
Probably couldn’t have won the revolution against the Brits without being united.
I think you’re right about that. Should have said “Constitution”, but not Articles.
The Treaty of Paris was 1783. The Constitutional Convention was 1787. Whether or not slavery was banned in the Constitution of the United States of America had nothing to do with whether or not the 13 would be united enough to defeat the British.
A bit of a stretch perhaps, but a counterargument:
1. The British came back.
2. The British were stopped in that second attempt in large part with the indirect help of Napoleon, who they rather understandably thought was a more significant threat than the loss of some colonies.
3. Napolean would not have been there if not for the French Revolution, and the French Revolution was inspired by the American one.
4. If the United States had dissolved under the Articles, instead of remaining united under the Constitution, the French Revolution might not have happened, or might have been quite different.
I think the French were going to have a Revolution regardless, and even with the example of the US they went a different direction. If the US had failed in 1787 over slavery, I wouldn’t really expect the course of events in France to be much different.
Semi-OT: It was a much closer call (than the slavery what-if) for the Commonwealth of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations after the Convention to agree to ratify the Constitution of the United States of America instead of the option of becoming its own sovereign nation. What would that alternate timeline look like?
“Snopes Introduces New ‘Factually Inaccurate But Morally Right’ Fact Check Result”
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1168314687642992640
https://babylonbee.com/news/snopes-introduces-new-factually-inaccurate-but-morally-right-fact-check-result
Damn. Babylon bee proving that truth and facts will eventually win out.
Looking out the window I just noticed that our buckeye is starting to turn. Fall is here. Sad!
Holy shit…….Every boaters nightmare
Nope. No. No thanks. I’ll stay on my nice firm landlocked land.
They always say fire is the biggest threat on a ship.
Mr. GT & I just visited four of the five Great Lakes in the last ten days, but we were just as happy to stay on the shore and admire them from there.
Greetings from the “what the fuck is wrong with people?” desk
One-Owner 5k-Mile 1985 Mazda RX-7 GS
Did he lose the goddam keys six months after he bought it?
I’m shocked this is going for $55K.
Most AMGs are leased in this country. Most people who want to drive them want to drive a new one. They haven’t held their value for that reason. And we bought a 2008 E63 with around 45,000 miles for right around $40K in 2011 (a lease turnback).
Would
Yeah, but I’d want to drive it. Can’t imagine all the bullshit that would need to be sorted out.
I sure wish I had kept my ’84.
I’m going to guess everything made of rubber in the car needs to be replaced. Bushings, fuel lines, the billion vacuum hoses in the rats nest, tires, gaskets, oil seals…
Pete Davidson and Margaret Qualley are spotted together for the first time during a date night in Venice
Legend.
Absolute legend.
Jane Fonda, 81, knocked on doors in Pennsylvania to talk to ‘dispirited and confused’ Trump voters and says the only way to resolve the ‘mess’ in the White House is to ‘outsmart Facebook algorithms and foreign meddling’ with face-to-face conversations
Still looks good even though she’s old af
Norm MacDonald interviewed Jane Fonda a couple of years ago and asked if she’d consider getting a pet. He proceeded to suggest a Galapagos tortoise.
Then he kissed her.
Legend.
She damn well better not knock on our door. Bitch.
Shilling for AFL-CIO. Good grief.
Less social media, more face-to-face?
She’s not wrong.
Dude, that is about 3 inches of plaster on her face. You could make the wax-muh-balls dude look about the same with that much gunk on his face.
The picture of them all looking like they hate life really sells it. Also,
1. Bills are acts of Congress, not the President, the popular name of the PPACA notwithstanding
2. Once you are covered, it is not a “pre-existing condition” anymore
3. The new law allows insurers to choose whether to cover at a certain price, it does not force them to refuse coverage altogether
didn’t realize the president’s health-care bill would mean her son’s insurance would stop covering him due to his serious preexisting condition
Yeah, that’s not true, and hasn’t been for a pretty long time.
And not one “Get the fuck off my porch traitor!” ?
Joker – first look review
The rise of the incels!
“cynicism of a mollycoddled teen dropout in fake Oakleys and a home customised Linkin Park tee”
Maybe this jerk should turn his purple prose into a screenplay.
Masked gunman killed by police in wild Brooklyn shootout
lolololololololololoollol
The great work by our cops today demonstrates, once again, how they never hesitate to go into harm’s way to
keep our city safeput down somebody who challenges their dominanceUS envoy shares draft of deal with Taliban that could end war
Good but also bad but also good.
An outcome that could have been achieved 17-18 years ago? Jesus. I can’t believe I just wrote those numbers.
“We are on the verge of ending the invasion and reaching a peaceful solution for Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said
“Peaceful”, he further explained, “means we’ve killed off all the infidels, blasphemers, heretics, apostates, atheists, adulterers, homosexuals, deviants, criminals, and girls going to school. Really, it’ll be wonderful. Hold on a minute, I’ve got a vest to adjust.”
Make a desert, something something.
Bodybuilding grandmother of 11 is also an acrobatic surfer
Sexy as a mug
Fifty-year-old college ‘blackface’ incident results in outrage against Alabama governor
The only acceptable response should be “I will resign when Governor Northam resigns.”
Most AMGs are leased in this country. Most people who want to drive them want to drive a new one. They haven’t held their value for that reason.
See, also: $1
That was fucking weird. Should have been:
Most AMGs are leased in this country. Most people who want to drive them want to drive a new one. They haven’t held their value for that reason.
see, also: $15,000 “routine service”
*made up number, but you get the idea. There’s a reason why depreciation is so steep on crs of that class.
This. Definitely. If they weren’t so absurdly expensive to care for the value would be very high (see, for example ’70s and ’80s 911s)
You pretty much have to take them to a dealership, and not every dealership has AMG mechanics. They are spendy to keep. Even back then, we had to replace all the tires once a year (Mrs. Dean insisted on the soft, sticky ones that handle better).
The 2008 was the last year they made them without turbos. What. A. Machine. I still miss it (it is probably the only AMG in history that was traded for an FJ Cruiser).
My recollection of the dollars – new set of tires was around $1,000 – $1,200. I want to say the routine maintenance ran us another $1 – 2,000 a year.
After some asshole clipped the front of it, it was extraordinarily hard to find parts to replace the body panel and whatnot that got torn up.
I owned a ’98 AMG SL600 for several years. Amazing car. But I frequently put fewer than 2000 miles a year on it because the thing cost me a grand in maintenance nearly every time I drove it. But when you did drive it, somehow it all seemed worthwhile.
Is the point of the US’ Labor Day and Canada’s Labor day to commemorate the Great Pullman Strike?
If so, why are the Labor Days the first Monday in September, but the strike was 11 May to 20 July?
Needed to fill a holiday gap in the calendar?