This is a metaphor for the entire game. And that team won!
Did anybody watch that whole football game last night? I don’t mean the first half and then glaze over in boredom for the second, I mean actually make it through the whole thing? Well I tried but failed. That was boring as shit. Trubisky, you should have played during the preseason. You suck. Aaron Rodgers was hardly much better. And it was punctuated by having to hear Chris Collinsworth talk out of his ass the whole time. Well anyway, the season is underway and the Packers won.
You know who else won? The Firstros did…after going down 7-0 in the second inning. They scratched and clawed their way back in and won in the 13th after five hours. Now that was fun to watch. Your other winners were Cincy, Chicago (AL), Detroit, St Louis, Oakland, Miami, Texas, Chicago (NL), Minnesota, Tampa, and Atlanta.
Not sure what you were expecting, kid.
And Serena will play Andreescu in the US Open Finals and probably pound her into the court. Or threaten to do the same to a linesman if she’s losing. Either way, somebody is getting pounded by that Hulk. Also on Saturday, we have a nice slate of college football. Unless you’re a Tennessee Volunteer. Then you’ve got to worry about losing the BYU after that colossally-bad Georgia State (2-10 in the Sun Belt last year) loss last week. Oh well, they can still be Champions At Life.
OK, birthdays today are: French badass Marquis de Lafayette, bootlegger Joseph Kennedy, country legend David Allen Coe, rock legend Roger Waters, actresses Swoozie Kurtz and Jane Curtin, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, comedians Michael Winslow and Jeff Foxworthy, Pippa Middleton and The Office actor Idris Elba.
OK, off we go into…the links!
Say what you want about his politics, but he sure was a snappy dresser.
Robert Mugabe, who I assume the left will liken a lot to Trump today, has finally shuffled off the mortal coil. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Plus, he died a trillionaire! So you know he was good with money. Just goes to show what a socialist can do when he sets his mind to something.
Uh, maybe keep that thing on safety, huh? N0 people were hurt by the missile. No creatures from Tucson were either.
This is an interesting proposition. And one that would be awesome if there’s no tax money involved and no government oversight.
This is just about accurate now.
The ACLU continues its slide into the toilet. They’ve never cared about the 2A. And they’ve all but abandoned the 1A lately. I guess they figured they may as well strike the 4A off their list. Won’t be long before they say “a soldier in every home!” What a sad decline.
A man is dead. The cops keep their jobs. And the taxpayers take it up the ass. It is a story as old as the Golden State itself.
Thanks for letting us know, I guess. Whoever the fuck you are. Seriously, why do these attention-whores think anybody gives a shit that they’ve decided not to run for President as a third-party candidate? Also, your coffee sucks.
I know I’ll play a birthday artist most days when possible. But I’m boycotting, divesting and sanctioning the one rocker from the list. So we’re gonna do this instead. Hope you enjoy.
Now, go have a great day. And enjoy the full slate of NFL this Sunday. Pace yourselves.
As always, the best way to catch a Packer game is on the radio with Wayne Larrivee & Larry McCarren.
Packers? Ass? Go on…
You give safe passage through the wasteland, so to speak?
Just walk away.
Depends on the amount of guzzoline, Tulpa.
The best way to watch the NFL, and MLB, is on mute.
I still believe there’s a market for getting the audio-video feed straight before the production van. You’d have the on-field mics, and the video feed without all the graphic overlays (Down and distance, score, etc.)
I’ll say that the MLB app is pretty good. You can (depending on fscking blackouts), stream video or audio, or just watch the pitches/plays/highlights. I haven’t paid for it, but T-Mobile gives away a free year every spring (or has for the past two years).
I have the MLB package through Amazon Prime. I might get NFL Game Pass, just for condensed games and the all-22 camera. No live games, though.
It wouldn’t be too hard to design a consumer-level graphics overlay device that allowed you to customize the graphics or even the feeds to your own preferences.
Your fantasy league on the side, personally relevant scores in the ticker, small picture in picture of the other games along the bottom. Whatever you want.
I’ve thought about trying to build a proof of concept, but it’s low on the priority list.
Too bad you can’t see Larry’s pinky on the radio.
go on…
http://packerville.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-finger.html?m=1
Hawt.
I did not know that.
As always, don’t read the comments.
The Air Force is investigating after a jet accidentally fired a rocket into the desert about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday.
I mean, sometimes you just get a little too excited and/or it has been awhile since your last time.
Just give me 20 minutes!
Is this incompetence new or is it the same old stuff it’s just that we find out about it now?
Also good cop speak there…
“unintentionally released a single M-156 rocket”
“The missile discharged but unfortunately no road runners were injured.”
REEEEEE!!!!
/PETA/WWF/ACLU
“ACME warranty department, can I help you?”
*coyote yipping
I think he’d need to use Skype.
“accidentally” my ass. They were taking out a nest of chupacabra.
#truthwillsetyoufree
“a soldier in every home & and a gun at every head!”
+1 If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
speaking of the Derb – I had to go check out his latest Radio Derb transcript:
Well, that certainly hits the nail on the head.
Puts a really promising spin on what will surely be a disappointing day.
Whoever the fuck you are.
He was relatively sane compared to the Democrats running.
The difference between out-patient and fully committed care at the mental hospital?
The ACLU of Michigan and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project sent a letter to UM Thursday, Sept. 5 urging its administration to withdraw the policy, calling it “deeply problematic.”
The ACLU said a policy that allows those accused of assault or harassment to personally question their accuser risks deterring complaints, traumatizing those who make complaints and creating a hostile campus environment.
“The University should not require those who allege sexual violence to undergo cross-examination conducted by the very individual accused of having committed the assault,” said Bonsitu Kitaba, deputy legal director at the ACLU of Michigan, in a release. “The only people conducting cross-examination in these very difficult hearings should be representatives with professional training.”
But the kangaroo court can put the screws to the rapist. Because all men are guilty until proven innocent.
traumatizing? Oh noes!
Better a hundred innocent hang than a single woman be traumatized.
I think the question of where all the grievance studies majors go after graduation has been answered.
The right to facial your accuser.
::spit take::
Yanno,
If I were a porn producer, I’d sell my expert testimonial as a “splatter expert” to testify in rape cases.
Did you know that “Saki Taint Bubo” is an anagram for Bonsitu Kitaba? So is Baa Obi It Stunk.
That is incredibly disappointing. They have become what they used to fear.
The court ruled that a public university must give a student accused of sexual misconduct an in-person hearing and an opportunity for cross-examination.
The ACLU of Michigan and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project sent a letter to UM Thursday, Sept. 5 urging its administration to withdraw the policy, calling it “deeply problematic.”
Innocent until proven guilty is “problematic”. “Civil liberties, what are those?”-ACLU
Never mind the fact that criminal acts should be investigated by actual law enforcement and not campus tribunals.
Good call on BDS-ing Roger Waters. I’ve been a fan since I was twelve but he can go wherever rich rock stars go to suck their own junk. Neil Young? You’re on the list, too!
Aren’t we your Southern Man?
I try to keep an open mind.
I’m still waiting for all these self-absorbed egoists to form an Intervention-Aid concert to scold people who dare vote against their interests in 2020.
Here’s your Line up:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7430903/musicians-against-donald-trump
Also….
Neil Young
Elton John
The Rolling Stones
R.E.M.
Brian May
George Harrison
Guns ‘N Roses
Todd Rundgren
Bruce Springsteen
One half of Steely Dan
John Mellencamp
Roger Waters
Luciano Pavarotti
Not a bad line up but that’s a lot of arm pit farting.
Kid Rock against the world!
More:
https://www.insider.com/artists-who-dont-want-trump-using-their-music-2018-11#luciano-pavarottis-estate-said-his-values-dont-match-trumps-15
I’m happy to state that I didn’t like most of those artists before it was cool! Brian May, Todd Rundgren and Half of Steely Dan get a pass because that music was important to me about forty years ago.
George Harrison? I knew it! I knew he was still alive! Why George, why have you been hiding?
He hangs out with Lon Chaney jr. and Lou Reed.
There’s always hope for there to be at least one rocker out there that doesn’t thing big government is a panacea:
https://news.sky.com/video/roger-daltrey-not-impressed-by-brexit-question-11666728
Makes me love The Who even more.
I’d say Ted Nugent, but I’m pretty sure he loves the Uncle Sugar that does what he wants them to do. Still like to be invited over to his place for a BBQ.
Harrison’s son maybe?
I suffered through his set this spring . . . Twas Spoon without the class
Well that’s okay. Being dead Democrats and foreigners, they can still vote against Trump.
Roger Waters is the Noam Chomsky of rock and roll.
You really don’t like Roger Waters.
He always wrote the whingiest Pink Floyd songs and then when he tried to usurp the group for his own vision he lost me. Good on them for disbanding and then later reforming sans Waters. That “Pulse” tour was a masterpiece. This BDS shit is just fuel for the fire.
Thank goodness for David Gilmour.
Some odd trivia, he played some guitar bits for two songs on the Arcadia (Duran Duran offshoot) album So Red The Rose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0ERiykASA
It came out at a pivotal time in my life so biased, but The Division Bell is my favorite Floyd album.
My problem with Waters is the same problem with the current Democrats – they define themselves by how angry they are. I certainly remember my angst-y teens and 20’s, but for people in their 40’s and older to be that angst-filled is just sad.
He lost his Dad in the war and never seemed to get over it. Even his early stuff is really cynical and well, depressing.
I honestly think that’s what happened to a lot of Brits and resulted in them joining the EU, which pretty much goes against everything Britain ever would have done before WW2.
It’s a shame, to be honest, that they all ended up being more like Chamberlain than Churchill.
History gonna cycle. It’s what it do.
Yes, bu there’s a difference between resentment over what caused your loss and disgust with people in general. He rails against pigs, dogs, and sheep, but pretends he isn’t being one himself while at the same time calling for a yet larger machine. I’d even forgive him his hypocrisy if he had any interest in coming up with a decent melody.
^Nice!
Just another prick, after all
in the wall…
That’s called a “glory hole.”
Rufus (to Waters): DON’T YOU GET IT? YOU’RE THE BRICK!
“Allow me to demonstrate my ignorance of US history.”
Jefferson Davis Highway — named for the Congressman, Senator, Secretary of War, and president of the Confederacy — will now be called Richmond Highway on the portion of the road that runs through Arlington County, Virginia.
The Commonwealth Transportation Board made the decision and Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring finalized the deal, according to Fox 5 News.
Delegate Mark Levine, a Democrat representing Alexandria, Arlington, and Fairfax, told Fox 5 News constituents told him several years ago that the name “upset” them.
“Levine approached Herring with a legal argument that would allow counties to change state highway names without approval by the General Assembly,” Fox 5 News reported.
”For my constituents, it’s a way to say Arlington today is not the Arlington of 100 years ago,” Levine said. “This is a county that welcomes people, that welcomes our diverse population.”
“It does not support the person who fought for slavery,” said Levine.
Meh, Davis was an asshole. I never understood the reverence for that piece of shit.
I went to high school with both a Jefferson Davis and a Robert E. Lee. In New jersey.
I have seen two houses flying rebel flags here. One a mile or so from my house, the other outside of Ogdenburg.
Most people don’t realize there are actual rednecks and hillbillies in certain areas of New Jersey.
+1 Out of the Furnace
The preferred term is Pineys.
I wonder if this guy has been ridden out of town yet. This is a building near me.
Well he’s not wrong…
You went to a haunted school?
I said “a” not “the”.
Indubitably. He was a major part of the history of the area so his name should remain as a reminder and dare I say “teaching moment” for the kids of tomorrow. You don’t have to revere history to learn from it as I’ve found on many a bleary-eyed Sunday morn.
I wish we could just stop the practice of naming things after politicians.
Maybe Trump will name things after the nicknames he gives them.
The USS Blood Coming Out Of Her Wherever actually sounds imposing.
+1 Iain M. Banks.
Lyin’ Ted Statehouse.
USS Cutter Lil’ Marco
USS Covfefe
This x 1000. Nothing good is going to come from erasing or amending history. It isn’t there to be worshipped. It is there as a lesson.
The true believers have sycophantic personalities and just don’t get that.
Naming things after historical figures is literally the civic worship of their name. You don’t name elementary schools and boulevards after the people that the society wants to lambaste.
And hence should be limited to heroes. The set of politicians can include a hero, but it is rare. Jeff Davis? not going to get fussed if his name comes off a road. Robert E Lee? Yeah, leave our history alone.
I’d rather nothing anywhere ever be named after a politician or gubmint administrator. They’re voluntarily in service to the people’s will and should humble themselves accordingly.
Or at least name them after the ones we’ve thrown in the clink. Serve as a reminder.
The Clintons Memorial Penitentiary does have a nice ring to it.
Even more so if they were residents.
“Periodic Table Estates” it is then!
Ha!
Get a load of Cincinnatus over here.
Yeh, as if modern politicians think they’re humbly serving citizens.
Some use it to brand themselves. Ahem, I’m talking to you Barry.
But what did the Algonquian call that highway?
The court ruled that a public university must give a student accused of sexual misconduct an in-person hearing and an opportunity for cross-examination.
Bullshit. Twitter should be enough
“The Office actor Idris Elba.”
You mean Stringer Bell. Had no idea him and McNutty (Thanks, Bubs) were Brits. Absolutely no idea. Always curious about why it seems UK actors can do US accents better than vice versa. I’m making this up but my guess is the history of accent and connection to class that they have more of than we do, though we have our share.
^^Shoutout to Steve Coogan (and John C. Reilly) for becoming Stan Laurel. What a beautiful movie with two amazing actors. Such a display of true talent.
Dad, my baseball coach and raised by a high school baseball/football (school principal in Abingdon, VA) says Collingsworth is quite insightful. I just know I detest the sound of his voice. Football is something I can enjoy but don’t follow until the playoffs, and even then when Manning is involved. So never now. (Hey, I’m from IN. He was all we *had*.)
Your Chicago Cubs were tied at 4-4 with MIL when I went to sleep last night and I woke up to a 10-5 win! St. Louis demolished SanFran so thank god we at least didn’t lose even more ground. Today I learned:
[On this date in] “1972 – A’s southpaw Ken Holtzman and first baseman Mike Epstein wear black armbands on the sleeves of their uniforms to pay respect to the 11 Israeli Olympic athletes who were killed yesterday by terrorists in Munich. The action taken by the Jewish players, affirming the importance of their faith, is well received by the club, with Reggie Jackson wearing an armband in solidarity, along with skipper Dick Williams being fully supportive of the symbolic gesture made by the Oakland teammates.”
I did not get the job. Applied for more and hopefully hear back. Just extended my visa so I’ve at least got another month before I have to make a run to the border and back for a new one. “If I’m not back in [one month]…just wait longer!”
Have a friend from Korea arriving in the morning. We will be hanging out with elephants at this lovely sanctuary. There’s even a baby! (Lady and I have already been.) You get to just hang out with them and feed them. No fence. Petting, touching, playing. At the end you get into a pond with them and bathe them. When the big guy I was hanging out with started to get up it was so impressive…then I learned he was just on his knees and when he fully extended up it was like the brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park reaching up. Tremendous sensation to witness as you’re holding on to him.
http://maerimelephantsanctuary.com/
Sorry for long post. It’s Friday night and boozetime, and since I don’t have a job and no medical checkup to do…I think I will indeed smoke a bowl. Have a good day! Kick ass and do Big Things.
If you want to sound like a Brit just talk through your teeth.
Tooth.
They have lots of room between them to do that more clearly.
Post pics of the elephants
They do a whole photo shoot of you while you’re there. We bought ours, but Lady wouldn’t approve of my posting pics of her (she just took a Valium and is nighty night-time).
https://www.google.com/search?q=maerim+elephant+sanctuary&sxsrf=ACYBGNRXmA0uf3dIBPpafXZ2uY5kkI5SOw:1567774266725&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit_IWinrzkAhWJuI8KHc2RDqoQ_AUIEygC&biw=1219&bih=616
One of the most singular experiences of my life.
Also, second pic of chick in pink bikini is Q-worthy.
I tried to establish “Qwerthy” awhile back but it never gained legs. That chick is Qwerthy.
Also, so many hot, earthy chicks! Fuck you Evan, die in a fire!
Sorry to hear you didn’t get the job. Good luck on the next round of interviews. Enjoy your Friday night, as I have to hope the Indians can rally to beat the Twins to stay in contention (and so next week’s games remain relevant). Looking forward to a 30-40 mile bike ride tomorrow, currently thinking through some different routes.
And gunning down any other cyclists who are misbehaving !
That would require a gun, a propensity for violence, a lack of self control, and a willingness to get engaged in a firefight with the police. I’ll just call them out when I can, and avoid the assholes as much as possible (Critical Mass riders… I’m looking at you). The real question is do I head towards the west side (over a river, which means down into and out of a valley) to Avon Brewing for food, or do I head towards downtown (a ride I’ve done quite a few times) and stop at Noble Beast Brewing for food. The food and beer are much better at Noble Beast, but it’s not a new ride. The ride out to Avon would be a new route, but some tougher climbs.
Head into the wind to start and have the wind at your back at the end. Simple theory that works for me.
The wind here is more then willing to rotate around over the course of the day. As it currently stands the prediction is ~11 MPH winds out of the NW, which since I have to go north anyways, makes it a kind of a wash. For the most part, the wind comes in off the lake, the ride to Avon would be through more forests, the ride to downtown through more urban areas.
The Indians still have a shot at winning the division.
Don’t tempt fate, MikeS!
Odd coincidences, I finished watching the Wire, next I watched Jack Ryan and saw Bunty. Then I started Bosch and there was Marlowe Stanfield.
I love Law & Order. ONLY the original and ONLY with Lennie Briscoe. One of my favorite parts of the show is how it was a foot in the door for so many actors. Rewatching episodes I love when I see Bubbles, or Clay Davis [insert other Wire character here] or other people who went on to do many things.
Back in the day you had to earn the L&O merit badge.
Truth.
Also, if you watch Shows produced for Canadian television you’ll soon realize there are only three dozen Canadian actors.
I don’t follow.
Are you saying we’re eggs?
I’m just saying that I’ve never seen a show made by BBC Canada that didn’t share at least two actors with an other show made my them.
Look, Canada may have a lot of land, but it’s empty. They don’t have all that many Canukistanis to choose from.
Also, any Canadian actor worth their salt moves to better paying jobs south of the border.
Canada seems to produce a wealth of hot actresses.
Canada has produced a shit load of producers, actors etc. going back to early Hollywood.
Fuck CanCon by the way.
Fun Fact – One of my favorite Canadian shows, Corner Gas, had an episode that centered around an American tourist. Instead of hiring an American actor, they went with Ontarian actor Mark McKinney (Kids In The Hall), who has a stronger Ottawa Valley accent than the show’s regular cast.
Good luck! In the meantime – https://youtu.be/b1z4JfxFb6c
From British TV, I say it’s selection bias, because UK actors also do terrible attempts at unaccented speaking.
I was watching MI-5 (if I remember correctly) and they had a UK actress try to do a U.S. Southern accent – it was so terrible I thought it was Welsh.
Turns out she was supposed to be a white power abortion clinic bomber from Down South which confused the hell out of me until they spelled it out.
Yup. In that show, all terrorism in the UK was committed by right-wing Christian Fundamentalist Gun Nut Americans.
Given history, makes sense.
Yeah, some of them can do a neutral Midwest accent, but they can’t do regional accents.
Daniel Craig did a decent hillbilly accent in Logan Lucky, though.
That was hilarious.
Good point. Shows and actors that cross the pond are much more likely to be heavy in talent.
How to get gainful employment is you are English: Move to America and become an actor.
This is not the first British Invasion we have suffered.
There was an episode of Are You Being Served where someone’s American relative was visiting. It was some fat dude in a cowboy hat and a suit who was doing an accent like Peter Griffin with some random words still pronounced the British way.
No job but you have a lady. You’re doing something right.
That was one brutal football game. At least they orchestrated some kind of drive at the end of the game but then Trubisky threw a pick and it was ov-ah.
You can’t score a major….on your field…..really? And you fancy yourselves SB contenders?
I don’t remember ever seeing a 3rd and 40.
3rd and 48.
Go Chiefs.
The Vikings had a 3rd and 50 against the Pack in the 1st quarter on Dec. 20, 1999 (sorry, no video). See the play-by-play list here. That’s the longest since 1994.
But is it possible anyone the Yankees stick in the line up – whoever Ford, Urshela – become HR machines?
It does seem to go that way, doesn’t it?
It defies logic and for some reason pisses me off. I listened to the A’s-Yankees last week with OAK up 4-0 in the 8th. A’s pitching had them in check all game long and yet – poof!- they go off. No warning, no nothing. I don’t get it.
The only team that can take them on and win is Houston because of that solid three-man rotation they’ll put up. Houston has great hitters so you’d figure against NY’s starting rotation the Firtsros have the decided edge.
Minnesota shit the bed against NY and would get their clocks cleaned. Cleveland and Oakland have a better chance.
Yankees pitching has been much better of late, but yeah, Houston’s rotation is a real problem for them.
Houston’s bullpen has been so sketchy lately I don’t have confidence in them at all. They seem to give up a run or two in every single game.
It’s worse with the Dodgers. I don’t trust their pitching.
My problem as a yankee fan is that we know Houston will come up with big hits in the clutch–Yanks mot so much.
Theyve been better during this season, but the playoffs are a different animal.
Fight for your right to be ignorant
I remember the first time I saw someone with a gun in a grocery store. It was an in Safeway in Arizona, and it was incredibly jarring. Years later I cannot think of a reason you would need a gun while browsing a store where the meat has already been killed for you.
Sick burn, honey.
Your right to “feel safe” is all that matters.
Because we’re actually hunting the most dangerous game.
Cool link, bro!
Seeing a gun can make your blood sugar spike uncontrollably.
Do these people not ever think that theft happens? I would think you’d have a bigger liability problem if you left your gun in the car and your car was stolen.
Just crossed my news feed that Wegman’s, Walgreens, and CVS have also banned open carry in their stores…
Years later I can’t figure out why anyone would need an abortion when they could have just not gotten pregnant
You know how to put an AR in a Safeway bag?
Take the “f” out of Safe and the “f” out of way.
I have to be honest, I’m not getting the pun here.
There’s no f in way.
*light bulb*
+1 internet to Straf for succeeding in the hardest bit of comedy to pull off.
Hey, he’s a funny guy… but looks aren’t everything!
Old women always have and always will stick their noses into other people’s business. I had a woman make a snide remark to me when I put kool-aid in my cart. It took a lot to say “if i had wanted your opinion Hag, id have asked you for it”
In retrospect, maybe the world would be better if busybodies were publicly rebuked more often.
*not to say
>>put kool-aid in my cart
Getting read for Jonestown II: This Time It Isn’t Flavoraid ?
Gotta make it credible to keep the kids in line.
Indeed. My kid brother had a cyst removed from his brow when he very wee resulting in a few stitches. Mom had us in tow for grocery shopping and an old lady came up and glared a most accusatory look at mom and shouted – “The baby fell down the stairs, did he?”
“No, he had the brain enhancement surgery you missed out on.”
May I introduce you to the Scold’s Bridle?
Some people actually believe that self-defense is illegitimate.
Of course. They have deluded themselves into believing the police will do that. If you introduce the idea that each individual really should do that for him/her-self that bursts their security bubble.
I went to grad school in Arizona. Moving into my apartment there (in an apartment complex which almost entirely students of the same school) involved moving my (600 lb) gun safe which attracted enough attention that all my neighbors knew I was well armed.
Many of the students were foreigners and a lot of the Americans were not exactly right wingers. So I had this reputation.
All attitudes changed a few months later when I had to break up an attempted home invasion – a group of ne’er-do-wells had been trying to force their way into a few occupied apartments when I came back. I chased them off with a 12 gauge. After that a lot of my neighbors expressed how glad they were to know I was armed.
“You’re Batman!” j/k Good work, Buddy!
Bear Down!
When I lived in Az seeing people open carry was fairly common, more so than here in La and that is saying something.
Link, take too
Freaky Friday: She’s Available Edition
Gillespie:
“Pro-life right-wingers are hot and bothered over the Vermont senator’s willingness to support taxpayer-supported birth control, including abortions, in his quest to defeat climate change. For those of us who believe in female autonomy and reproductive rights, that’s far less troubling than watching him buy into the idea that global overpopulation is in any way a problem.”
Nick admitted on that show with Russell and Smith he wants to basically water down libertarianism for the masses.
Anyway.
Why does being pro-life have to be ‘right-wing’? I don’t think abortions should be tax payer funded but not sure if that makes me ‘right-wing’. I also reject this notion if you’re pro-life you’re anti-female autonomy. It’s a sophomoric position.
Abortion can be seen as a form of population control. Depending on how Bernie would control the population.
According to
Caesar Boss Party ChairmanGovernor Cuomo “there is no place” in New York for Pro-lifers. Gillespie loves him some NYC parties.The state is nothing if it isn’t in favor of killing people.
Deplorables.
*sigh* Oops.
As long as West Virginia and the south or fly over country are pro-life, the woke left are gonna make fun of or flat out reject that position because ‘ignorant hayseeds’.
Massachusetts most permissive, WV least.
End of culture war discussion.
32% of New York is ignorant hayseeds but the Dems have such a total grip on power they have no qualms about insulting them.
Gee Nick, I believe in euthanizing orphans. The government should subsidize my activities as an acceptable compromise with those opposed to it.
What a POS.
If you consider abortion the taking of a human life then at least half of the victims will be females. So much for the bodily autonomy of those would-be women, Nick.
D and C is ever so more cost efficient than mass graves and crematoria. Think of the Carbon savings!
I’m pretty sure that they compost easier too.
Jesus. He’s the fucking Nick Gillespie of Nick Gillespie’s.
He stopped pretending to oppose gun control too. Hope he’s enjoying the Koch money.
Hardly even a euphemism.
He pretended to oppose gun control? If he did he didn’t put much effort into it.
By the time I stopped visiting TOS I was pretty fed up with their closet pinkos and the not so subtle contempt for the commentariat. I have no doubt I was pretty high on their list of people they hated, and then after the nastiness they showed to Sloopy…..I was done.
Fuck them.
*makes note to remember to contribute to Glibertarians.com*
“Vermont senator’s willingness to support taxpayer-supported birth control, including abortions, in his quest to defeat climate change.”
Every pro-choice libertarian has always argued that abortions should not be taxpayer funded. So its nice to see that that isn’t an issue for Nick anymore. I guess there’s no problem using taxpayer monies to fund a global warming machine. Sure some people reject it, but others claim it’s humanitarian.
(Yes I know he didn’t say he doesn’t care, quite frankly though he might as well have said it, with what he thought was worse)
I wouldn’t think that the Jacket coming out as a prog version #9001 was all that worthy of note. Isn’t his proginess one of the basic causes for this site?
The only reason I’m here is because my left wing catholic mom is more catholic than left wing about abortion. Or at least was a few decades ago.
If my dad had had his way, I’d’ve been an adopted Vietnamese kid. Apparently that was a fashionable thing for Navy officers to do at the time, post ‘nam. My mom wasn’t having any of that and got herself pregnant.
“Why does being pro-life have to be ‘right-wing’?”
Twitter comment from the shameless Chinese communist propaganda posted last night, paraphrased: “Red is the color the communists chose because it represents the blood of all of the people they have murdered.”
Freaky Friday: She’s Available Florida Woman Edition
“The second time we had to turn the ambulance around, I started getting suspicious.”
With all due respect: Teenage boy’s guide to sex
I had no idea the Irish were such prudes. It must be the centuries of Catholicism.
They make the priests wait until they hit puberty before they show them the good stuff these days.
*Jumps in the wayback machine to the Sugar Shack circa 1977 and shakes head sadly at culture warrior*
“, a sex educator and advisor to the Swedish government on the sexual behaviour of boys”
Swedish government is full of incels?
It’s full of feminists, so… yes
Wait, are they talking about the actual behavior or intended because those are two entirely different things, unless you’re lucky enough to get the right soon-to-be-dismissed teacher.
Re: Mugabe: I told you, everyone gets their chance to make the world a better place.
The moon doesn’t seem a very attractive place to me. Also, very low gravity has a tendency to fuck up your internal organs…heart flips over, other organs can move around, bones and muscles atrophy. No thanks.
My suggested sexual conduct policy for all Uni’s: If you believe a crime has been committed hand it over to the cops.
Stephon Clark: I don’t remember all of the details of the case but I often find there are no smart or good guys involved in situations like that.
Suthenboy is officially announcing that he will not run for president, yet his chances of winning the office are still greater than anyone the Dems are running.
But I want an Overlord that will leave me the fuck alone. Please reconsider, Suthen! Our lonely hearts turn to you…
Well, now I have my campaign slogan: I don’t know anything about you and I will keep it that way!
Log on to Suthenboy2020.com and show your support!
*Insert Ron Paul gif here*
“If you believe a crime has been committed hand it over to the cops.”
Seems Draconian, I don’t think every crime deserves death.
Yes, but you can bombard earth with a mass driver pretty easy, so don’t overlook that.
Since 2016, workshops on sexual consent are part of the freshers’ curriculum at Trinity College Dublin and other Irish universities, run by students’ unions, following similar initiatives at Oxford and Cambridge. Yet there is still some way to go within the sexual behaviour evolution; teens, especially when away from home for the first time at uni, may not always act in their own best interests or the best interests of their sexual partners. Hence the importance of empathy, education and emotional literacy when it comes to having lots of gloriously fun, fulfilling sex.
Listen, Shirley. If you haven’t figured that stuff (empathy, mutual respect, and the rest) out by the time you’re 17 or 18, a “college workshop” is probably not going to be much help to you.
Make-work project for all of the uselessly Degree’d. It’s been snowballing for nigh on fifty years and shows no sign of stopping.
A fifty year snowball, it’s like the Olympic Torch of cum.
For any of you who doubt that the Great Minnesoda Get Together is the greatest fair on earth, read this.
Women just want to air out their nether regions?
teeming like ants below
It’s like 15 feet high, right?
People in Minnesota are tiny.
Or the ants are really fucking big.
Them!
Only half are teeming like ants. The other half teem like uncles.
Is that when they get too handsy?
Hair sniffing.
Sounds like we need a bra specialist.
This is not “encouraged,”
“Keep your arms inside the ride at all times, but make sure to toss out them panties, Have Fun!”
Uffda. Minnesoda teachers must have thought South Park was an instructional video. Local parents are suing an elementary school over the cavity search of their 8 year-old kid.
Why? Actually it wasn’t drugs.
Say fucking what?
A lawsuit would be my last recourse for that. My first choice would be far more permanent.
I believe under libel law, you are now entitled to refer to said school officials as coprophiliac pedophiles now.
Should be referring to them as “the late” school administrators.
That’s a load of shit.
They sure have crappy humans working at that school.
The school’s a dump too.
Pull up a stool and I’ll tell you all about them.
That actually happened (dookie in the sink) a few times at my elementary school. Turns out a few years later it was one of the “goody-two-shoes” girls that was the culprit. I wonder what sort of life she ended up living. Probably pretty interesting.
Today I learned that Festus is German.
A starring role in Anal Co-Eds 2: One in the Pink, One in the Stink?
One in the sink, apparently.
Prolly moved to San Francisco
Sometimes there is an objectively correct answer.
^^^
BYU
/ trembles, buys more whiskey
I’d think by now that you would have learned to never Volunteer.
Outrage
On Wednesday, as the FTC slapped a record fine on Google-owned YouTube for allegedly violating privacy protections for children, it was more or less business as usual at the company.
Shares of parent company Alphabet were up after the news that YouTube would need to pay $170 million to settle the claims.
That’s because the penalty is just a fraction of the revenue Alphabet generates in a single day. Based on its second quarter 2019 earnings, Alphabet averages more than $400 million in revenue daily.
Why doesn’t the government extort crippling, ruinous punitive fines from tech companies? MSNBC business channel wants to know.
Was there, in fact, actual damage inflicted? Do those fines have anything to do with actual damage caused? Will a single penny of that money find its way to the actual “victims”?
Who gives a shit?
Three Libertarian Ways to Address Climate Change
more details in da link.
One of those is not like the others.
Yeah, it’s the one that’s the turd in the punchbowl.
That’s the Nick Gillespie of libertarianism.
Well played
We have a fantastic carbon capture technology – it’s called trees.
Moss, algae, coral, grass, basically everything that the people screaming about climate change claim to value depends on CO2, and captures carbon. Why do these climate change believers hate nature so much?
Bigger trees sequester more carbon. The solution is obvious: genetically engineer Redwoods that grow as fast as pines and can live anywhere — even the Sahara.
Plus then we can all have bitchin’ clubhouse tables.
No mention of taxpayer funded abortions?
Self-described “libertarians” advocate tax credits (subsides) for bullshit, unproven technology.
All you need is the last one anyway.
I keep asking: “what fossil fuel subsidies?” Don’t think I’ve gotten a good answer yet.
Not taking is giving…
I looked into it before and if you drill down the “subsidies” exist….but they are subsidizing “green initiative” efforts undertaken by these companies. And the other things that are labeled as “subsidies” are tax write-offs offered for depreciation of capital goods.
It’s the ultimate red herring, but it’s gospel among the woke
ah, the section 179 subsidy
tax write-offs offered for depreciation of capital goods
So, the same tax rules that apply to every industry. Therefore not a fossil fuel industry subsidy.
If you have to lie to advance your agenda, maybe you should really re-think your agenda.
Look at the IMF report that he even links to. On page 21, the chart at the bottom is counting “subsidies” as “undercharging for the cost of global warming”.
The entire global warming movement is propped up by a series of lies.
The only one I can think of is foreign aid to Africa and the Middle East. And even that is indirect.
Last I heard, lefties were mad that oil companies can write off taxes, duties, and tariffs… on their taxes.
The only one that even approaches not-laugh-out-loud farcical that I’ve seen is that a lot of public (“public”) land is designated only for energy exploitation or oil extraction, then put on public bid for the right to generate energy or extract oil. There have been efforts to raise private conservation funds to win the bid with the intent of *not* generating energy or extracting oil, and those bids are rejected. So in short, the energy / oil is produced at a lower price than the “market’ price because the government is excluding the market from directing the land to its highest use (as defined by the winner of the auction).
Wow. That is actually a good one. If only a “libertarian” writing at the Libertarian Republic had made that argument rather than saying “stop subsidizing this” (and pretending as if this is some certifiable truth) and “start subsidizing that” (thus, undercutting the original point).
Thanks for the info
Good free market or libertarian outlets exist. You just need to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the princes. PERC does a good job and you can’t go wrong reading their stuff if you are liberty-minded and care about The Great Outdoors, IME. Here’s a really good write up on the causes and history leading up to the Bundy uprising, for example.
The one time I looked into it, stuff like LIHEAP (Low-income home energy assistance program) were what constituted most of the direct subsidies. The rest were tax breaks renamed as subsidies.
Were those subsidies to the oil companies? Or to homeowners so they would use less oil?
“End all federal subsidies of fossil fuels” of which none exist since most of the actual subsidies are directed toward “green initiatives” and depreciation cost write-offs are lumped in as some sort of “subsidy”
“Tax credits to incentivize carbon capture technology” which completely refutes your desire to “end all subsidies” since you are clearly just calling for government market manipulation
Nine times out of ten “libertarian” should just be understood as “useful idiot” and this article proves it
This might be why our net presence is so wee. It is us and only us that hold the Sacred Gourd!
This isn’t even a matter of a “purity test”. This is a matter of someone saying that they ostensibly oppose government support for business and then turning around and saying “government should support business that is woke”.
At some point a spade needs to be called a spade. If I called myself a progressive and then I advocated against subsidies for green companies (thus depriving the elite of their grift) and supporting school vouchers (thus depriving the elite of their gated communities), no one would honestly say that I am a progressive. I have no idea why we have to pretend like someone who is clearly in favor of big government is somehow actually in favor of less government.
The author’s hair is so ridiculous that he may indeed be the one true Libertarian.
Alright, that’s a fair point
two of three is pretty good. :/
Punish the unbeliever.
Also highly dishonest. Nobody argues that the climate doesn’t change. The argument is over the unproven assertion than man made CO2 is causing global warming.
Exactly. Provide a testable theory of how man caused it or GTFO. Until then, they’re not practicing science.
They sort of did provide a testable hypothesis, namely that increasing CO2 will result in a proportional increase in temperature (although there was no accounting for confounding factors in a huge, chaotic system). However, the models they developed based on that hypothesis have all failed spectacularly, therefore falsifying the hypothesis.
Yeah, that doesn’t sound “testable” to me. Unless they’re modeling the entire earth.
Yeah, that’s why I noted they didn’t account for any confounding factors in a huge chaotic system. The point is that even by their own standards, they failed and basically falsified their hypothesis in the process.
Well to be technical, it falsified the models. They could be right, just have bad models.
But your point still stands as they cling to the predictions of the models.
What an idiot. The climate is changing at its normal pace in ways that are completely expected. We didn’t cause it and there isn’t a goddamned thing we can do about it.
The global warming hysteria is about money and power, plain and simple. Every solution proposed has meant more money and power to those running things and less money and power for everyone else. None of the people pushing this believe a word of what they are saying.
Planting more trees would definitely mitigate increases in CO2 but no one is pushing that because there is no money or power to be had from it.
I forget who said it: “I will believe the people saying there is a climate crisis when they start acting like they believe there is a climate crisis.”
More:
The government could force real change on the tech industry by mandating they alter their fundamental business operations, including spinning off entire units of their business, as presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has suggested.
But while Wednesday’s settlement also orders YouTube to make certain changes to how it collects data from child-directed content, it does not fundamentally alter its business model, which revolves around targeting ads to viewers and recommending a never-ending stream of content to keep them on the platform.
The government should just nationalize those companies, and run them as a public utility. That would make everything better.
Here’s a crazy thought! How’s about the government just get the fuck out of the way and let the free market dictate consumer choice? Not just in this area but in all things? They encouraged these monopolies and only now are brazen enough to bitch and moan about the consequences.
Sounds like a racist fascist thing to say you racist fascist.
*Tips nondescript cap of indeterminate color*
indeterminate color
sounds racist
*both hands out palms up moving up and down like a balance scale*
Communism…Fascism….Communism….Fascism…What to choose, what to choose…
Happy birthday, Pipa.
Legend.
Her face is too English (most assuredly not meant as a compliment)
Really? I find her “interestingly attractive”. In that I’m interested in fondling her grade “A” bum but maybe that’s me and about 3.5 billion other blokes…
And no tits.
Hard pass.
You don’t know what you’re missing out on , Son.
I really like you, Q. But I’ll be damned if that isn’t one of the most incorrect things I’ve ever read here.
For you.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f5/a5/53/f5a5532acaecd7cecc026e10c6008d75.jpg
Have I ever told you that I really like you?
Packer? I barely know her! Yuk, yuk, yuk!
http://archive.li/utcyg
Friday Funbags almost makes life tolerable; almost.
To the Editor: Who Owns the American West? And Who Should Profit From It?
Ummm… fuck off commie slaver.
“It is the nature of the problems of land and water that damage done to either is cumulative. And it is also their nature, as the entire American experience has shown, that they can be grappled with effectively only by federal action.”
You’re engaging in sophistry; speed that bullshit.
People really are immune to recognizing their own contradictions.
The people who live in the American West should be the only ones with a say in how that land is used.
The best way to resolve this would be to allow the rest of the country to decide what land in Brooklyn should be used for.
The most expedient way to resolve this is to transfer the land back to the states and let them decide what to do with it. This includes the national park system. If the states want to preserve the parks, let them do it.
If I may play Devil’s Advocate? In my experience, it is far easier to deal with the National Park Service when it comes to vending food on their property (Riis Park) than it is trying to work with the NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation (the other 5 miles of Rockaway Beach boardwalk).
Yes. But, the only way to convince progressives to leave the rest of us alone is to shit in their house. I think people should push for legislation to allow the federal government to have oversight over land use in Brooklyn, much like it has over some small town in Wyoming.
The reaction of coprophiles to you shitting in their house will almost certainly not be the one you are hoping for. They’ll not only want more of it, they’ll want to bless you with the same….
I know. But, it would be pretty sweet if it did work
“Housing project to be converted into cross between Gun Shop, Megachurch and 24/7 Tractor Pull Thunderdome.”
I see in the headlines US automakers will add technology to combat the millions of tragic child-dies-in-hot-car incidents which occur every year.
Finally, some sanity.
They really do want everyone riding around in the back seat just like we did when we were small children, don’t they?
I, for one, will be happy to pay that extra $1000 on my next vehicle so I don’t leave grandpa in the back seat on a hot day.
Or vice versa.
Shouldn’t “rock legend Roger Waters” be rock legend and notorious antisemite Roger Waters?
You know who else was a notorious antisemite…
Illy, Sheedy and Sandy?
The fourth one’s name is Clyde, right?
Goliath?
Cain?
I addressed that when I posted my daily song.
And these are the people helping the FedGov build the Panopticon.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/04/senior-google-employee-appears-to-have-assaulted-pro-life-activist-near-dc-planned-parenthood/
White woke dude bros are literally the worst.
I have never met one that was not obviously mentally unbalanced.
That’s not disturbing at all.
But who really won?
That is the worst single leg take down I’ve ever seen. Hope he did that one purpose.
hawt
One flaw. If you get your legs around their waist extend them straight out, hook your ankles together and tense up as tight as you can. She could have not only cut off his circulation with the choke hold but his breathing as well.
I keep asking: “what fossil fuel subsidies?” Don’t think I’ve gotten a good answer yet.
If those fossil fuel companies have any money left over as profit after extracting, transporting, processing, and distributing their product, the royalties are just not high enough, and that’s the same as a subsidy.
Tax breaks. Subsidies. I have learned that that means the oil companies get to write off expenses just like any other business.
I though they wanted people to not consume meat.
Swedish behavioural scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.
The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding “food of the future”.
Söderlund is set to hold seminars at the event, entitled “Gastro Summit — about the future of food” where he intends to discuss the possibility of eating people in the name of cutting down greenhouse emissions.
According to his research, the main problem with the idea is the widespread taboo of eating human flesh and said that conservative attitudes could make it hard to convince Swedes at large to take up the practice of cannibalism.
+1 Soylent Green
Top. Men.
“…the main problem with the idea is the widespread taboo of eating human flesh and said that conservative attitudes could make it hard to convince Swedes at large to take up the practice of cannibalism.”
No shit? I wonder why that taboo exists?
Sex therapist claims cheating can improve a relationship
Sometimes you just want to test drive that new car around the block…
Addiction counselor says trying heroin might improve your life.
Emotional abuse has been known to keep people around
If you give your word, keep it.
Meghan McCain is putting on some weight.
I’d still enjoy putting my penis between her tits.
I don’t get what you’re saying. Be more explicit.
8====D ( . ) . )
Now I get it.
Or you could just squeeze together a couple handfuls of her back-fat.
::scrambles for paper bag to barf into::
Ran out of socks?
hey now, the stomach juices will just ooze out of a sock. Filtered though.
You realize that is like half titty banging her father?
Having sex with a girl is GAY. Half of her chromosomes are from her dad and half of her chromosomes are from her mom. But so are yours. Therefore, every time you have sex it’s 50% gay and 50% straight. So if u ain’t bi then quit having sex. Y’all motherfuckers make me sick.
Having sex with McCain’s offspring doesn’t make you gay. Sucking her warboner does.
Thick?
SEA SMITH NO COMMENT:
The Loch Ness Monster is still a mystery. But scientists have some new evidence for a theory.
+1 Henry Silva
If you’ve got the DNA, just clone it and see what it is, duh.
/Michael Crichton
Wouldn’t you need a compatible egg/zygote/embryo/whatever to place the DNA into? How do you do that without knowing what you’re trying to clone?
That was before CRISPR
SEA SMITH NOT GIANT EEL; SEA SMITH HAVE HAVE GIANT EEL!! SCIENCE PEOPLE CONFUSED!!
Surely the Mediterranean is a far more famous body of water. Not saying it’s the most famous, but refuting utterly the claim that Loch Ness is.
Limnology class circa mid-80’s. We were discussing the phenomena of water piling up at one end of a long lake due to wind and other phenomena in such lakes. Loch Ness is the perfect example. Watched an hour long documentary on the study of the lake. The UK scientists motored every inch of the lake with excellent sonar and we could see every minnow in the lake. There is NO giant monsters living in it. There aren’t even enough fish to feed such a creature.
I know, no matter, people believe what they want to believe, facts be damned.
It’s sad that I can’t even be surprised by this.
“You have said that you’re for mandatory buybacks of semi-automatic rifles,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson said to de Blasio. “There are tens of millions of these rifles in circulation now, and presumably some large number of people won’t feel like selling them to the government. What do you do with those people?”
“We’ve got to end the availability of assault weapons in this country, so I think if there was a ban on assault weapons and there was a buyback program, the vast majority of people, I think, would do the smart thing and they would sell them back,” the Democratic mayor replied. “I don’t have a specific answer for you, but I think it’s a good question.”
Carlson sounded the alarm that a federal gun-grab could lead to violent clashes across the nation as law-abiding gun owners fear they would be losing their ability to defend themselves and their families. He subsequently pressed the Democratic presidential hopeful on the logistics of how the plan would be executed considering it is unlikely that gun owners would willingly hand over their firearms.
“I’m being honest with you, I think anyone in public life should say, you know, when we think we have an answer or whether it’s something we still have to work out,” de Blasio said. “What I know is this: we cannot have assault weapons in our society – we’ve seen the devastating impact, they need to be banned. And that means by definition you don’t leave millions and millions of them out there.”
“The buyback’s the obvious approach,” he continued. “How we deal with someone who doesn’t want to participate in the buyback, that’s something we’ll have to resolve going forward.”
De Blasio put forth that the ban would not violate the Second Amendment considering there would still be a variety of other firearms available for both hunting and self-defense, but the so-called “military grade assault weapons” do not belong in the hands of ordinary Americans.
Carlson further questioned whether the security detail that de Blasio is provided as mayor would be subject to the same limitations as their fellow citizens. The Democratic lawmaker contended that as a government official he is potentially more exposed to violence and therefore needs the additional protection that semi-automatic rifles provide.
“They’re sworn law enforcement officers,” de Blasio said referring to his bodyguards. “Sworn law enforcement officers who are here to protect all of us.”
“Someone who serves in public office for a limited period of time, and in the society that we’re living in, and I hate to say it but public servants are vulnerable to violence in a different way,” he continued. “Our law enforcement officers are there to protect all of us.”
Headline: Tyrant can barely hide his erection at the possibility of enslaving and killing millions of his hated subhuman enemies.
A million boating accidents happened within a short time frame.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Fucking tyrant.
Heinlein was a clairvoyant.
Fahrenheit 451 was not an instruction manual.
If someone gives the typical Leftist response – rolling their eyes and saying “nobody wants to take your guns away” – I’m going to pull up all these quotes and confront them. I don’t care if it’s Thanksgiving or Christmas; they’re not getting away with this doubletalk anymore.
I don’t think they are bothering with that dodge anymore. All of the candidates one way or another are openly pushing mandatory, forceable confiscation.
Do you think this is a result of Bloomberg donations or just the DNC plank?
The way they are all in lockstep is scary.
I watched that (God help me) and the obfuscation and meandering falsehoods were almost too painful to bear. I’ll give it to DeBlasio, he is either too stupid or too arrogant to know when he has failed. He’s the Uber Politico and would have done a lot less damage if he’d just run for Congress instead of Mayor of New York.
“The Democratic lawmaker contended that as a government official he is potentially more exposed to violence and therefore needs the additional protection that semi-automatic rifles provide.”
He said that with a straight face to a guy (Carlson) who has a violent mob attack his home. Wow. Who does that remind me of?
http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WeWillProtectYou.jpg
Meghan McCain
Ewwwwwwww
Ball gag + paper bag = problem solved.
I like the way you think.
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. – Robert Mugabe
His legacy of turning Rhodesia into Zimbabwe will never be forgotten.
South Africa not far behind. Baby steps…
Killer Muppets on the loose in Minnesoda!
Friendly Manitoba my ass.
So let me get this straight. A Canadian, looking for a way to recruit extremists, what, drives out into BFE-Canada, hikes four miles south toe BFE-Minnesoda to do what exactly. Just wander around in the woods looking for randomly spawned disaffected young white men to teach about explosives? That’s the plan we are supposed to assume he is enacting?
It’s either an underground bunker or a lead sandwich. The crows won’t care.
A CINO.
Zombie researchers threaten $100m lawsuit against John McAfee
“I believe the South China Zombie Research Center has a high likelihood of being totally fraudulent. But – they are paying me”
God damn, elect this man!
I love McAfee so much
Unpossible!
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/09/04/red-flag-laws-spur-debate-over-due-process
How could violating an individual’s Constitutional rights based on nothing but anonymous allegations be controversial? Only racist, fascist, homophobic vermin would say such a thing!
These guys hacked the election.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=TyxGT1R99pM
You mean accomplished businessman and noted nailer of peak Gloria Swanson Joe Kennedy?
“The ACLU continues its slide into the toilet. They’ve never cared about the 2A. And they’ve all but abandoned the 1A lately. I guess they figured they may as well strike the 4A off their list.”
If only people would have been paying attention twenty years ago when the ACLU decided to “evolve” on speech that held wrong thought.
wut
https://www.foxnews.com/health/worlds-oldest-mom-gives-birth-twins-ivf-hospital-claims
last picture, sign in the upper middle. That is needed?
From everything I’ve heard about India, yes, and it’s probably ignored routinely.
“They’re sworn law enforcement officers,” de Blasio said referring to his bodyguards. “Sworn law enforcement officers who are here to protect
all of usme.”You peons, you’re on your own.
And I thought they took an oath to protect and uphold the Constitution.
Parents should stop using euphemisms like ‘front bottom’, ‘bits’, ‘flower’, ‘tuppence’, and ‘fairy’ with their daughters, gynaecological charity urges
“Hey Milicent, stop jamming things into your pussy.”
Ya cunt!
I believe it’s “cunte”.
Correct.
Does that spelling imply that you’re supposed to pronounce it “coont,” or with a clearly enunciated final T or what?
Or cunty, or coonty
Kunta Kinte
I don’t know, but nobody could spell until the early 19th century anyway.
No one can spel since the early 19th century either.
My name is Leon and I’m write here, UCS.
Is this where we light the Ted signal? Or is he just grammer?
They could all spell, they just disagreed on how to do it.
Nice. Totes ruin the vibe I was going for. 😉
Don’t get derailed by our pedantry.
My great-grandmother’s teaching certificate did not include “spelling” among the list of subjects she was certified to teach. I’m assuming that peasant corruption wasn’t even considered standard English at the time (she was certified to teach orthography.)
To clarify: My heroine has a Scottish brogue so she would pronouce it “coonte.”
No, it just means it’s historic. Like a Town Center versus a Towne Centre.
I actually did look it up. Otherwise I’d have just spelled it “cunt.”
Except “ye olde” is pronounced “the old”
Well that’s because ‘y’ in that context is a corruption of the letter thorn, which is a ‘th’ sound. And the e is silent.
In the future, Howard Stern’s book “Private Parts” will be burned for stigmatizing sexual organs. And an old decrepit Stern will probably be the first to kneel before the funeral pyre.
I agree completely. Meat curtains, spasm chasm, vertical smile and tuna taco are much more appropriate.
Yeah, “taking the flesh boat to tuna town” is much better than “fucking”.
*tuna lagoon
Man trap.
Tried for years to get “slish” to be the new slang for it. I failed, but it was a great name.
We always said “piss flaps” but that was pretty localized.
That’s not sexy at all.
“slish splash”
What utter twats.
Can I get a ruling on “ax wound”?
Disqualified: more Norse than British.
So there’s a recall effort for Governor Shithead here over his nullification of the Electoral College.
It must be working because I’ve started to get flooded by “Recalls don’t work for Colorado, reject political theater” ads from Goolag.
Every time one pops up I’ve been reporting it as inappropriate. Not that it matters but it makes me feel better.
He ought to be tarred and feathered for disenfranchising his state.
And yet they voted for this asshat.
At least your President isn’t actively working against the economic well-being of your country. The Twink in the North spent $7 billion dollars for the rights to a pipeline from private interests that he is determined will never be built. He’s going to win again.
Yes he is.
Debatable. Our PM is squeezing off our energy sector, your guy is being a dick and taking names.
“Recalls don’t work for Colorado”
Oh, really? I seem to recall after some anti-gun legislation was jammed down the citizen’s throats a number of legislators, and maybe the Governor, not sure, were successfully recalled.
SHUT UP GUNTARD!
Am I doing that right, HM?
Canadian girl going to the finals against Goliath. She’s quick on her feet and seems able to tweak her game when she get’s over matched by a power server. I like that she plays a shit-load of lobs and Taps, despite being built like a linebacker. She’s 19. The Beast is 37 and feigned injury last they met.
Racism Today
The founder of Papa John’s has donated $1 million to a historically black college in Kentucky after more than a year of backlash for his use of a racial slur.
News outlets report John Schnatter announced the donation Wednesday at Simmons College of Kentucky. The college’s president, the Rev. Kevin Cosby, and its board of trustees chairman, Mark Lynn, emphasized that people should focus on Schnatter’s actions and not his words.
Schnatter stepped down as CEO of the Louisville-based pizza chain in 2017 and later resigned as its chair after blaming disappointing sales on the NFL player protests and using the N-word during a company conference call .
WLKY-TV reports Simmons is Kentucky’s only private historically black college. The Courier Journal reports Schnatter left the announcement event without speaking with reporters.
Reparations.
I remember reading that the “n-word” incident was a set-up as a HR consultant had told him to use the word or something like that. Does anyone remember that?
Ultimately, his real sin here was criticizing the player boycotts for hurting his bottom line.
nagger?
Thank goodness he didn’t speculate What would U.S. history have been like without slavery?
I lived most of my life in Louisville (1969-1987, 1994-2014) and this is the first I have heard of Simmons College. Had to look up where it was.
Kentucky State was the only HBCU in KY that I was familiar with.
“Rampant Racism Confirmed.”
Good morning, Sloop and thanks for the B-52s!
I can’t believe it’s been 40 years!
Also this.
U.S. Job Growth Misses Estimates in August With 130,000 Increase
The LAMEstream media with more FAKE NEWS.
But still 20,000 low.
RECESSION!!!
Want to see the most retarded logic ever?
Check this out.
https://twitter.com/shailjapatel/status/1168682215091273730?s=21
So take one for the team?
Lie back and think of England.
What is it about Indian commies that makes them so resistant to reality?
If she’s Hindu, we might be able to get Shika to write an article denouncing her.
There’s some interesting psychology going on there that definitely relates to how dysfunctional their country is. I think it’s typical developing-world mindset of “if only the government had more power, things wouldn’t be so fucked up.”
Their country is completely hobbled by their immense bureaucracy, yet they continue to believe in the communist mythology that the Soviets delivered to them, decades after the Soviets collapsed from the same.
Funny how nearly every Indian expat that I’ve ever known in Canada seems to be a staunch believer in capitalism and willing to skirt every law and social more just to get ahead. Hmmm. Almost Libertarian in their philosophy…
I can’t…
Holy shit. And by the way, no he won’t just rape someone else when he gets ventilated by an armed “victim”.
I love her responses to questions. Everyone is asking those question in bad faith and putting the burden of proving her assertion on her.
I guess she’s exempt from proving her assertions because she’s a woman with good intentions.
Sometimes, “Oh shit, I didn’t expect her to be able to kill me…” is enough to convince attackers that maybe the next potential victim might also be packing heat and willing to use it.
And hopefully they’ll go on to raping men instead. Problem solved.
Exactly. The would-be rapist doesn’t know which woman are armed and trained in self defense. A women prepared to defend herself protects more than just herself.
It’s similar to how home invasions are so rare in this country, even though not everybody has a gun in their home. Many do, and that makes it risky to break into *any* house that is occupied.
How the hell did I switch “woman” and “women” there? lol
Armstrong did it first.
Wow, that’s retarded.
If I’m the patriarchy–and, let’s be honest here, I’m basically Shitlord Prime–the last thing, strategically-speaking, that I want to do is arm and train women that I’d want to subsequently rape. Really, my move is to cheer this lady on. “Yeah, women, what are you tryin’ to do, get disenfranchised women in gun-free zones raped all the time? What’s your problem? You left the house, you rolled the dice, and they came up snake eyes. You owe society one you being raped.”
I bet she is a real peach to spend time with.
This motherfucker puts sour cream in to the bolognese?
Well, its official, you have now surpassed HM in the “No way in fuck I’m clicking that link” race.
“Hey look at me Im A Leap at the Wheel, I am boring and have bad taste and I am a big, fat, dumb dummy-face who is stupid and hates fun things and is stupid.”
Dude, he’s really big. And strong. And kind of scary.
Just sayin’.
Crusty’s safe. Nobody wants to make physical contact with him.
That makes two of us, except one of us provides stupendous links and isn’t a dummy head from dummy town.
I want to rebut this but ya got me there.
6’2 240 with excellent cardio – ‘sup?
Awww that’s cute. I remember only being 6’2″ and 240. Being 12 years old was a long time ago though.
…but the cardio…
How big a boy are ya?
I don’t know how to measure cardio e-peen, but
1) Florida Man is doing my conditioning workout and he said it is kicking his ass.
2) My last hike was 10 miles in 90 degree weather with a 45 lb pack and no rest stops.
3) The 19 year old kid I roll with a jujitsu class is always way more winded than me.
So what does that count as?
MikeS, I’ve lost about 12 or 15 lbs since it was taken, but here’s a recent dexa scan result.
That puts me well above the top 1% of the male population in lean tissue and bone mineral content (and I hope fat tissue too, but I don’t know for sure).
Why don’t you two get this over with an make out.
Leap, where did you get the scan done?
I’m still very confident in my cardio, but I will very much fear the bjj.
Hopefully, Mike S, you’ll know Leap’s size next week. I will say I’m 6’2 and I look up to him.
Dexafit, which I think is down by Bloomington. If you just want fat and lean %’s, the U will do the BodPod a lot cheaper, but I wanted visceral fat measurement too, which you need dexa to do.
Fourscore; yep. As of now I will be there. Looking forward to it!
Oh I’ve only been taking classes for like 3 weeks. I’m sure that little waif linked above would kick my ass.
4score – yes, best part about moving to Minnesoda is that, being surrounded by hearty, corn-fed viking-descendants, I don’t feel as out of place…
I’ll be sending out a reminder this weekend. Got a few new names.
The MN/ND/WI mafia is growing!
He’s not wrong. Only a limey would confuse chili and bolognese sauce.
Also, don’t put sour cream in chili.
Also, don’t put sour cream in chili.
wrongness detected.
I’m sorry sour cream is necessary for chilli.
*china crashes, ladies gasp*
as is cheese and onions for garnish. also some kind of bread for dipping and a hot dog to hang out on the side.
Bread…for…hot dogs…I…don’t…
Look, see, you take this bowl, and then you put this stuff in, it’s called “chilllleeee”, see, and then you take this stuff, it’s called “hot sauce”, and you put some in if you want. Then there’s these things, we call them “Saltines”, and if you want to crumble some of them in go ahead.
Take that bun, put a hot dog in it, put the chilllleeee on the hot dog. Dash hot sauce as needed, lots of cheese and onions to.
chilli, hot sauce, hot dog inserted in the bowl like a hot tub, onion topping, sour cream topping, shredded cheese topping. I’ll give you cracker as a bread like substitute.
I’m sorry if you don’t care for my capitalist decadence.
At this point I don’t think we’re even talking about the same foodstuff. Next you’ll tell me deep dish IS pizza!
I’m assuming this was a racist response. Sometimes racists are funny.
I don’t get it. Race? Newscaster? MeToo’er? I don’t know who she is. I have no idea what he is talking about but it looks like the replies are all hardcore racist.
BREAKING: Dean of students resigns after pictures of past tweets surface
THIS IS CALLED FIGHTING BACK, SNOWFLAKES! FIGHT!
The only way to stop this is to stoop to their level!!
There is something to be said for making them live by their own rules.
Fuck yeah!
I believe applying the same rules to everyone is a common working definition of justice. People are hypocrites, but when their hypocrisy involves actual negatives consequences for their targets, then they should face the music, too.
I think justice is overplayed, and misrepresented here. But this helps clarify my thinking, so I’ll probably finally pen my article about it.
Well a better, more sane alternative would be for everyone to stop combing through people’s social media history and past behavior to find things to “bust” them on and maybe remove some of the pettiness, emotion, and fervor, but if we must play these games then what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
I do enjoy the old “hoist by their own petard” of the thing.
Any time someone loses their job in higher education is a good time.
“The flag represents a systemic history of racism for my people…”
My people. They are his. He speaks for all of them.
Weren’t we discussing a while back why there seems to be no equivalent word for nigger for whites? The best explanation, I thought, is that white people don’t have a collective identity, at least not among the ones with brains ( Looking at more tweets for that Peinovitch guy. Old fashioned brazen textbook racist with heapin’ helpin’ of collective identity ) so calling some white dude a pejorative doesn’t make me think I am included in that.
‘My people’ is collectivist thinking on par with Mike Peinovitch’s collectivist, racist horseshit. I would have fired him too.
The libertarian way to deal with revenge porn:
https://news.avclub.com/bangbros-buys-porn-doxxing-site-torches-hard-drives-in-1837744037/amp
I appreciate the effort, but
The only 100% secure bit overwrite algorithm is thermite.
They were probably faking it anyway. The HDDs were almost 20 years old.
I saw that comment after I posted.
Jack off to it?
Why else would you buy that much?
Lana Del Ray just came out against furries and called them ‘gross
Was it…Taylor Swift?* Seriously though this bitch needs to be canceled.
*See what I did there? Hilarious.
She sure got a lot of mileage out of that one decent album a decade ago.
She’s one of those celebrities whose name I recognize but I have no idea exactly who she is or what she does
Big hands, works with Archer.
It’s incredible what a nose-job and a good publicist can do for a struggling singer’s career.
I’d say more weird than gross. It’s not that far a leap from people who dress up like French maids or police or whatever.
Nah, trying to get a fursuit clean after enthusiastic yiffing is pretty gross. I mean, that’s what I’ve heard.
Sounds like the dry cleaner’s problem to me.
Gov. Cuomo calls for lifetime ban on subway perverts
Just pass a law!
Free public transportation is a HUMAN RIGHT!!!!11!
How the hell would you even enforce something like that?
He sounds like utter scum, but the guy served his time. And a ban on public transit wasn’t part of his sentence.
With lots of chokeholds.
*nods silently from under the interstate*
女性専用車両 – I’ll be eagerly waiting for progsplaining the legality of of women only train cars.
“HEY, Penis Peddler, get to the back of the train!”
Anytime a lefty starts a sentence this way, you can be assured that whatever follows will most certainly not have anything to do with common sense.
https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1/status/1169780607708217345
“Sure are a lot of conservatives going with “If Congress passes a law we think is unconstitutional it will be totally fine for people to start killing law enforcement officers.”
To be fair, he writes for the Washington Post and I’m sure in his head this was a sick burn. But, it kind of gave me a stiffy. If only it were true
I bet only the ones who try to enforce a blatantly unconstitutional law would get shot at.
I have friends that are cops, but at the end of the day at least 90% of all police will enforce such a law. You’ll only start seeing a lot of resistance from them when they start getting shot at which will happen pretty quickly.
I’m always amazed at how much progressives are concerned for police safety when it involves them possibly getting injured for imposing the fascism that progressives desire
Utopia ain’t gonna create itself.
They really really want the cops on their side even though most cops are not interested in the progressive agenda in the least. Just the pay, privileges, and pensions.
The agenda doesn’t matter to the enforcer, only the privileges it confers.
When I was in the Reserves I knew a lot of cops. Some were adamant they wouldn’t enforce that kind of law. Some not so much.
But I think you are right – after Cletus picks off a few with a deer rifle, enforcement will drop to zero.
“only ones” I laugh as if it wouldn’t be 99%.
Back to the old “country” cop versus “city” cop discussion.
maybe you have a point. But there are a ton more city cops than country cops.
And a lot more long guns out in the country.
Got it in one.
Also, if your response to gun owners #resisting the unconstitutional confiscation of their lawfully-owned property is to say that the government is so well-armed, highly-trained, and ruthless that all resistance is pointless and those clingers will get what’s coming to them, you’re the bad guys.
Sure are a lot of leftists fondling themselves over the notion of armed government agents killing ordinary Americans who won’t disarm themselves.
Is there a single proggie idea that doesn’t require violence to enact?
Survey Says….No.
That’s because they want us dead.
Someone has been reading Michael Malice
It took me a while to realize this because I’m a bit of an optimist but he’s right.
Malice is blunt, but he’s right on most things. Which is disturbing
He’s also quite the optimistic person.
Yes. That too.
Perhaps those congressman and officers should think about not doing unconstitutional shit.
“Such willful and easily disproved misrepresentation of the intent of the Second Amendment. It was to ensure the existence of a privately armed militia at a time when the federal government could not afford to maintain a standing army. Purpose has been obsolete for a long time.”
I didn’t know you could be this wrong. What do you call it when your wrong idea is based of a wrong understanding, siting on a complete ignorance of history.
The US wasn’t too poor to afford a standing army, a large army was antithetical to the new republic. So if your argument is that we are all slaves now, and it’s best to keep slaves disarmed then go ahead and keep making that argument.
It was to ensure the existence of a privately armed militia
If only it was written that way, there might be an argument that’s what it means.
I mean that is the idea and reason for the amendment in the first place.
Tennessee cop admits to raping three women while on duty
Shocking.
Look, did the cop get home safely at the end of the day? That’s what is really important here, not whether he raped some women in the line of duty.
“Let’s not argue about ‘oo raped ‘oo . . . “
“two retired ”
No way they will lose their pensions over this. That’s why they didn’t turn on their buddy.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/couple-who-survived-el-paso-shooting-sues-walmart-over-inadequate-security/
Chances of success?
Juries love to soak deep-pocketed corporations.
If success is defined as a hefty settlement, then I’d put it at 90%.
So every store everywhere ought to have armed security?
I don’t think these businesses are thinking it through. If someone gets shot at one of the store/offices/warehouses/ and there is no security on site, you can bet the lawsuits will fly.
The argument is that when you declare it a gun free zone, the answer would be yes.
I’m rather sympathetic. If you are not allowing people to defend themselves, but also outsource your security onto the taxpayers through cops, I think an argument could be made that you are somewhat liable for the safety of people you disarm “for the purpose of safety”. These stores are making a claim that they will maintain security and then fail to do anything to actually provide that security.
I’m sympathetic, but I run into an assumption of the risk issue. I’m torn on this. I keep meaning to put together a post on it. Basically, I think it comes down to whether property rights trump fundamental human rights.
I totally understand that, and get torn on it. I agree that there is some assumed risk by voluntarily entering somewhere that doesn’t allow you to defend yourself. My thought is that there is at least some liability on an organization/person who claims to have a safe and secure place, but who’s only security is to call the cops.
On a side note, it’s troubling how much it’s acceptable for businesses to outsource security onto the tax payer. No way a taxpayer should be paying for the Starbucks to remove loiterers.
an organization/person who claims to have a safe and secure place
If they make some kind of affirmative representation that their store is safe, then they would take on a duty to take reasonable measures to keep you safe.
Not sure WalMart has every done that, either in general or specifically at that store. If so, then the next argument would be that “call the cops” isn’t a reasonable measure to keep you safe. It would be interesting to see a jury react to that argument.
Property rights are fundamental human rights. No one is forcing you to set foot on Wal-Mart property.
I loved Wal-mart. No longer. I can buy anything in there somewhere else. More of a nuisance, but there you have it.
Sues Walmart customers. They’ll be the ones paying up.
Sounds like BS to me, the shooter bares sole responsibility.
Interesting.
I’m sure Lefties will argue against this lawsuit but simultaneously favor lawsuits against gun manufacturers who sold a legal product (the vast majority of which are used in completely legal ways) to licensed dealers who then sold it to some guy who passed a background check fair and square.
See, that’s how you do extortion. There is absolutely zero relevant evidence that would be destroyed in renovating the store. But this forces it to stay closed, costing Walmart money.
To my knowledge, there isn’t an affirmative duty to provide security to protect the general public. But, Texas has some “rotten boroughs” where the plaintiff’s bar owns the courts lock, stock and barrel. Not sure if El Paso is one of them, but if so, the jury will award 8 figures of damages.
I’ve mentioned before that I used to be a Lefty but I can stock that up by growing up in a very pro-union household where both my parents were active in the NDP Party. It was different then, not the blood sport that you see today. Most of my parents’ friends were quite conservative and aside from Mother getting into her cups from time to time the peace was kept. They belonged to Fraternal Organisations, did community work etc. Pretty typical suburban after work activities. This shit going on now is just bonkers. The tearing of flesh and rending of garments over something as asinine as “Sharpie-Gate” would have mortified them (well, Dad, but he wasn’t a true believer anyway). Even my Mother would have grabbed these assholes by the shoulders and try to shake some sense into them.
Wow, hadn’t even heard about that fucking “story”.
I guess they have to bury the story about CNN showing a map where Alabama was mislabelled as Mississippi.
See, Alabama isn’t being threatened by Dorian, Mississippi is!
/CNN
Eastern Ultra Deplorablessippi
Yeah, it’s goofy and stupid if it’s true. I can see it in his character, so I’m willing to believe it. Turns out Donald Trump has such a fragile ego that he will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid admitting his mistakes. This is not news.
The president before him wore mom jeans, said “uh, um, uh” all the time when he wasn’t talking about himself during speeches, and was a smarmy asshole. That’s not what made him a shitty president, just as Trump being ridiculous is not the thing that makes him a bad president.
People that are humble and admit their mistakes don’t get to be president. It’s a position that inherently selects people that shouldn’t have the position.
Is he a fragile ego or is he doing what works? We know it works without having to psychoanalyze him. I’d assume all politicians are fragile ego types, so it goes without saying.
It’s like natural selection: some traits continue because they provide an advantage, and some traits continue because they don’t offer a disadvantage. Honestly, I don’t know which is the case for him, but it hasn’t hindered him in any way, that’s for sure.
No, taking the State apparatchuks and turning them up to “Super-Saiyen” power against his political foes all with a charming smile and a gleam in his eye made him a bad President. That and all of of his stupidity regarding race relations which he single-handedly set back fifty years. If Jimmy Carter were dead he’d rise from the grave and strangle that null.
The problem with the sharpie thing, like with most dumb Trump controversies, is that Trump can’t let it go.
Mother getting into her cups?
She liked her white liquor and couldn’t keep her fool mouth shut. Rum and vodka are helluvas drugs.
Man tries to get custody of kid, court gives custody to mother, kid dies, man criticizes judge on Facebook in a nonthreatening way, judge has him thrown in jail and he’s awaiting trial with a 500K bond.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/macomb-county/grieving-dad-jailed-for-repeatedly-criticizing-court-system-in-macomb-county
Ah, justice.
Judge is arrested and charged with abuse of authority, right? Right?
Abuse of authority? Think that’s a perk, not a crime.
I cannot imagine how this is remotely Constitutional. Confident prediction: he will put in some real jail time, and nothing else will happen.
Because so much of probate court consists of judges acting as finders of fact for “he said – she said” disputes where there is little objective evidence, the judges are frequently forced to choose between taking actions based on gut feelings or taking minimal-to-no-actions as a way of avoiding choosing a side.
In my opinion a big consequence of this is that the emotional state of the judges at the time they are considering matters plays a much greater role in their decision making than in other courts. And since appeals are rare, they get away with that.
About the stupidest thing a person can do in family law is to anger the judge. The more unfair they are the more restrained and deferential you have to be. Get the nastiest pipe-hitting lawyer and let them go for it. They know the social and legal rules. They know the boundries. And if they irritate the judge and earn a rebuke, the punishment you get will be far, far lower than if you did something half as bad. You, the actual parent, are much better off if you are a paragon of obedient virtue who gives the judge no reason to be pissed at you.
It’s not fair. It’s not easy. But in the field of human conflicts little is.
This both amused and disturbed me.
For all you dummy-face snowflakes from dummy face town (you know who you are) this is a deepfake video featuring Nick Offerman’s face on the cast of “Family Matters.”
When they redid that show I was hoping that they would have some more updated very special episodes. Like, “Stephanie Joins Antifa” or “Dannie Helps the Last Black in San Francisco” or “Uncle Jesse Steps in Human Poop and Accidentally Stabs Himself with a Discarded Needle on the Sidewalk” or “Joey Comes Out As Trans”
*scene from “Joey Comes Out As Trans”*
Danny: You sure you want to do this, Joey?
Joey: Danny, all my life I’ve been living a lie. And now that the City of San Francisco is going to pay for my sex reassignment surgery, I feel like I can finally live the life I was meant to
Danny: I’m proud of you, Joe
Joey: Remember, after this surgery it’s Jossie
Danny: *puts arm around Joey* Alright, Jossie
*doctor walks in*
Doctor: Are we ready to begin the surgery
Joey: Oh yeah, doc. Cut- It- Out
*audience laughs*
*scene from “Uncle Jesse Steps in Human Poop…”*
Aunt Becky: Jess, I came as fast as I could. Are you alright?
Jesse: Well, I had to toss my shoes since they’re now caked in poop and I messed up my hair when I fell. So, no. I am not alright.
*audience laughs*
*Aunt Becky hugs Jesse*
Jesse: Hey, hey, watch the hair
*audience laughs*
Aunt Becky: What did the doctor say?
Jesse: He’s running some tests. I stubbed my foot on a needle when I got up. He should be back soon
Aunt Becky: I hope everything is OK
Jesse: Beck, don’t worry. Look, here’s the doctor now
Doctor: Well, the good news is that I don’t think you could have contracted AIDS from the puncture to your toe…
Jesse: See, Beck. Nothing to worry about
Doctor: On the other hand, there is a good possibility that you might have contracted HEP C from the puncture…
Jesse: Have mercy
*audience laughs*
That was Full House, a show that sucked so bad that seeing the intro, even with someone else’s face on it, fills me with rage even to this day.
I don’t why I said Family Matters.
I sincerely apologize.
I made the same error the other morning. I never watched any of them so they all look alike to me… Mallory is still the hottest of the lame show stable.
She was the best of the bunch along with Tootie.
It was the worst show on television. And now it has been brought back.
Here’s two cute kids, a dumb good looking guy, a dumb not good looking guy, a dumb straight laced guy, and a fairly attractive woman who’ll be in prison in 30 years surprisingly enough. Sprinkle with a laugh track so people will know what’s supposed to be funny because the show sure ain’t and a bunch of aaahhhs when the cute kids say something cute, and serve. It was and I guess is absolute fucking garbage.
It was even bad for the time period it was in, which featured lots of shows with laugh tracks.
This. I wouldn’t watch it and I watched a lot of dumb sit-coms in my time.
When I was a kid in the 80s I watched this show called “Family Ties”, which I believe I liked.
And then I was watching it recently on Nick reruns and realized some things, and this prompted me to do a little research of it. At the time, I was completely oblivious to politics.
So the entire show was set up to be about left-wing hippie liberals trying to raise their kids in the shallow and conservative 80s. The dad is a treehugger who works for NPR and the woman is of course a powerful attorney because.. duh.
And the kids were supposed to be the embodiment of problems they might encounter trying to raise their kids the “right way”. The son (Michael J. Fox) is a total Reaganite who makes his parents nuts. He talks to a picture of Ronald Reagan. The daughter is a total shallow 80s mall rat with a dumb biker boyfriend. And the 3rd child is just a catch-all for other 80’s problems.
What they didn’t anticipate though? That Michael J. Fox’s character would be really popular and that a huge chunk of America would actually really like him.
Just thought that was sort of funny.
The Archie Bunker effect.
“Family Ties” was one of the better ones in the 80s.
Just skip the Very Special “Alex gets hooked on drugs” one.
“sha la la laaaaaa!”
I’ll never forget the “very special” child molestation episode of “Different Strokes”.
Holy fucking shit.
I think I was 12 when I saw that.
Yeah, I remember liking Alex a lot more than the parents, who came across as wishy-washy hypocrites to me. Definitely not what the show creators intended.
That show was so bad that we couldn’t watch it, no matter how stoned we got.
It never left here. They loved that show.
Are we ready to confuse the gaijin?
It’s official: Government to put Japanese family names first when using Roman alphabet
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to explain to people if a name was a given name or last name.
“In a globalized world, it has become increasingly important to be aware of the diversity of languages that humans possess. It’s better to follow the Japanese tradition when writing Japanese names in the Roman alphabet,” education minister Masahiko Shibayama said at a news conference.”
Sounds like dirty nationalism to me
Reads article, notices sidebar, gets very, very, very excited at headline until actually reading article. Sigh…
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/09/05/national/science-health/japanese-astronauts-visit-factory-making-mobile-suit-gundam-models-bound-space/#.XXJ4HyhKjmE
Given name and family name. That usually clears it up.
At least when China does it, it’s usually obvious because there are only like 100 last names and zillions of first names.
But Japanese – I can’t tell a family name from a given name at all.
My first name is a common Chinese family name. That always made for some amusement when I was over there.
I never knew ‘Scruffy’ was chinese.
Its been Americanized from “Scluffy”.
In today’s edition of Verizon Sucks Balls
After roughly 12 years, I switched my business cellphone service from Verizon to T-Mobile to try and save some money and deal with a more agreeable company.
As with most cellphone agreements there were some fees to be paid by ending the contract early on some phones. The final bill was about $1700.
Before the final bill was even due, Verizon sold that debt to a third party collections agency without telling me. We sent the payment to Verizon but have no idea whether or not they’re going to take it. Meanwhile the collections agency is burning up my phone.
Did I mention I hate Verizon?
I’ll be filing a complaint against them with the FCC, the Arizona Corporation Commission, the Arizona Attorney General, both our Senators, and our Rep. Probably Monday. The cheap fuckers won’t upgrade their cell towers to handle the load or fix their internal cell system in my hospital. Cell phones are nearly useless in here now.
Set yourself apart
I never walked out into a parking lot and asked myself, “Which one of those AMXs is mine?”
My kid (6 y/o) opened up another person’s car and almost got it because it looked like mine. I own a 2003 Forester, not exactly common.
This turned particularly awkward as the owner of said car was in it. Video chatting with someone. I’m pretty sure the owner had his pants on.
Fifteen steps before he’s at the car I know exactly what he’s up to. I try to tell him “that’s not our car” but he doesn’t listen. Surprise!
No kidding. There is one of those here in town. White with a clue stripe. Sounds great!
I figured you would be all over this one.
That thing looks small enough to pick it up one-handed, like some sort of die-cast toy instead of a drivable car.
I see one of those periodically. In white. Damn, but I like those cars.
Back when I was driving a Nova, I did that twice. The key worked and everything. One of them had a different color interior, which is really disorienting because its totally unexpected when your key unlocks the car. The other had a bunch of Christmas presents in the back seat. I managed to avoid committing grand theft auto both times.
This is another reason I’m glad I own one of the least popular domestic car models on the road. Even just spotting another one is a rare event.
After work the other day I spent a good fifteen seconds cursing at a car that wasn’t mine, or even the same model, because the door wouldn’t open. That thing won’t be mistaken for something else, that’s for sure.
I drive one of the thousands of black Nissan Rogues on the streets of NYC; I can often only find it in a lot by using the key-fob to honk the horn. Wifey drives a Honda Fit in Periwinkle Blue; it is always the only one its kind in any lot. The Fit however, is so damn short (I DO miss the old Fiero though) that it is always occluded by the ocean of SUVs and minivans.
Hah! I was at a local coffee joint the other day – probably only a dozen vehicles in the lot and there were 5 F-150s that looked exactly like mine. These things are absolutely invisible in this area.
Mmm… F-150 I would like to have a big-boy truck but can’t justify it here in the city (that tiny Fit parks like a dream though). One of lottery dream cars is a Mercedes Unimog troop-carrier converted for extended family camping trips.
Back when I lived in Dallas, I had a silver-grey Ford Explorer. I always thought it would make the perfect getaway car, because as soon as you pulled into traffic you were one of an indistinguishable herd of them.
The white Explorer is the most common NYPD prowl car out here in Queens. NYPD Traffic Division have a bunch of Prius (Priii, Priuses?), and Smart Cars that just look stupid. NYPD Transport Division is busy wasting tax money replacing their fleet of recently acquired (2012) 15 passenger church vans with fancy Sprinters.
One of those in my hometown – black. There were also some nice ‘Cudas and Challengers about too; but mostly GM iron being a GM town.
We got A LOT of shit the day the old man bought a 1984 Nissan truck to haul wood with.
Oh and EF used to drive a yellow with black stripes Mini Cooper S. With custom plates. Never got in the wrong car with that thing – provided you could find it in a sea of tall CUVs ‘n’ trucks.
I’m not even a car guy, but man, vehicles back then had style. These stupid things today all look like formless, undifferentiated blobs. A Cadillac looks exactly like a Ford Taurus.
I’m not even a car guy, but man, vehicles back then had style.
Yup. Watching older movies, I keep an eye on the background. It wasn’t just sheet metal, either. People used to get cars in bright colors. not just silver, white and black.
I think the last production car that really made stop and stare (in the good way) was that late-’80s El Dorado; the one that looked like a wedge of cheese on its side with the fancy Northstar engine.
Jaguar has consistently made good-looking cars. Their F-Type is very nice.
The new Toyota Supra is a looker, too. But about the only cars with any visual interest these days are sports cars.
Jag, Maserati, Alfa, Aston Martin – quite a few beauties still out there.
None look this good, though.
Still love my XE. Can’t help myself but look back at it every time I park and walk away. “Damn that’s a nice looking car”.
https://i.imgur.com/NceIwVy.jpg
Funny enough, I don’t particularly care for the looks of old-timey Jags, I can respect them though.
My personal hypothesis is that the laws of aerodynamics are dictating design.
The crossover SUV drives me nucking futs. I see them EVERYWHERE.
I just would like a Dodge Ram, please. Diesel. Not dually. Stick shift. Is that too much to ask?!
Well, when you’re required to get 600mpg with fuel that is already gimped by a 10% ethanol inclusion, you have to reduce drag and other forms of resistance wherever you can.
You are exactly right. Anything that can boost mpg, while still housing all the other Fedgov-mandated shit. They are so damn heavy, there is really no other way to go.
That’s entirely true. They still look stupid, though.
The laws of aerodynamics, plus a crapton of federal “safety” regulations which have, among other things impaired sightlines from the driver’s seat.
Is everyone excited for our next culture war about the Joker?
The good news is that the movie is being released almost a month from now so the war will rage for weeks.
They should make the joker black and this problem would go away and no one would have any issues with it.
No, then the fight would be over changing the character’s skin color because THE JOKER IS WHITE AND I WILL NOT WATCH THE…wait for it…WOKE-ER!
Except he’s also a villain so I could also see the other side getting pissed too.
Which is awesome.
now this is marketing.
They should make the Joker Batman; that is, Bruce Wayne has a very severe dissociative disorder and is both Yin and Yang. Smokey IS The Bandit!
It’s been done.
Bat Club?
Just got with a Sons Of Batman story or Hell, just make Dark Knight Returns into a film.
Trust fund kids scolding others about what they should or shouldn’t watch isn’t so much a “culture war” as it is rich kids being scolds
I’m left wondering if any of this is actually real. Much like the Disney movie casting “controversys” I wonder how much of this is planted outrage used to generate buzz and to get trending on various social media platforms. This is how I would do viral marketing in today’s day in age. The only thing that keeps me from complelty embracing this is I’ve actually met people in marketing department and I’ve been exposed to really retarded takes over the years that so defy belief they have to be real.
Oh no. It’s real. I mean these people shouldn’t really have an audience, but the opinions actually exist.
I think it’s clear that most of the audience they do have is driven by fevered masturbatory hate reads.
Hot take but I think I actually hate Twitchy more than Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed has pictures and other more retarded content. Twichy as far as I can tell just compiles tweets without context and the various reactionary takes that it deems relevant. I hate it soooo much.
It’s awful, it was just an easy way to link the story.
It shouldn’t be too surprising. The social justice cadres need a comic-book perspective of good and evil. They need good and evil to be embodied in pure form. Their ideology, their worldview, their very sense of self-worth, hinges on it.
A messy world where the line between good and evil runs through each and every one of us, where “the enemy” is just someone pursuing legitimate values in conflict with your own, where monsters can be created, rather than are innate is a fundamental damnation of them. It means their stunning bravery in ruining the lives of the people they disagree with points to them as the villain of their story. It means their pursuit of social justice might be nothing more than a social pose to win the approval of their friends.
Speaking of baseball, Rosario has a goddamn cannon.
That’s the way to end a game.
I hate the Mets. My Nats are picking inopportune time to shit the bed.
That was awesome. An excellent way to cap off an awesome road trip. I have a good feeling about this team.
I didn’t realize Khalid Sheikh Muhammed hadn’t been to trial yet:
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755983643/trial-date-set-for-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-4-others-charged-in-9-11-attacks
He was arrested in 2003 and the trial will begin 1/11/2021.
That’s speedy… for post-colonial India.
I don’t think he did it.
Can’t do it no mo. Sleepy-time for Festus. Have fun, Guys.