Happy birthday to (both of) you
Commie Ethel Rosenberg was born on this day. That pinko shares it with baseball player/announcer Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto, TV personality Babawa Wawwes, writer Shel Silverstein, actor Michael Douglas, 80s bombshell Cheryl Tiegs, actor Mark Hamill, equestrian enthusiast Christopher Reeve, another 80s bombshell Heather Locklear, rap legend Will Smith, and wife of a guy from earlier on the list Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Can we have a double-teammate Cy Young this year please?
The Nats clinched a playoff berth, the Brewers are on the verge of doing the same thanks to a Cubs collapse for the ages, and the Brew Crew are looking at winning a division now. The Astros inched closer to home field as Cole set a team record for strikeouts in a season as he won his 15th straight start. And across the pond, Spuds lost to a fourth-tier side to unceremoniously exit the League Cup.
OK, lots going on out there, so on with…the links!
The Senate has demanded the entire whistleblower complaint (while the House postures), and the White House plans on complying in short order. And for added measure and transparency, they are including the IG’s assessment of the complaint and background on the whistleblower for context. Oh yeah, and apparently a letter from Senate Dems has surfaced where they tell the Ukrainian government to assist in the Mueller probe or face consequences should they regain power. Good times.
“Yeah, its called ‘acting'”.
Joaquin Phoenix apparently understands the role Hollywood should play in our lives. I like his Charles Barkley-esque take here. Dude gets it.
Masshole government pushes people to smoke or get products from black market. You know, the same black market where all the problem items have come from. Christ, what a bunch of assholes cuntes.
In the words of Bernie Sanders, nobody needs more than one tomato. Ah Florida. Never change.
“Let’s get this moved and put a big-ass rock here.”
So much for tolerant, caring San Francisco.
Not sure why they thought this would stop us, but it didn’t,” one of the campers, James Ayres, 36, told the San Francisco Chronicle at the time. “Maybe they’ll put more out here. I don’t know. They’ve got lots of money to do it.”
I don’t know what the solution is (other than the government not being involved). But I do know that people should feel safe walking out their front door and traversing their city streets. Also, you’re not camping if you live there.
“Was that wrong? was I not supposed to do that? Cause I gotta tell ya…” Man, that guy’s union needs to step up their game. In Chicago, he’d have been given treatment. And then a medal for completing treatment.
Looks like I-10 is about to be reopened just east of Houston. Thank God the bridge is ok. That has been wreaking havoc on freight movement.
The first 20 seconds of this video is what I feel like reading the comments here. Actually, the entire video is an artistic interpretation of this place. And yes, that’s a compliment because its a great song.
Now, go have a fantastic day getting over the hump.
mornin’
See, somebody out there was refreshing before 7 am in hopes that I got the links done early.
::tips cap in direction of Tres Cool::
In all honesty, I had no idea what time it was.
I also refreshed a bit before but was distracted by some bullshit on work Skype
Very tricksy, Sloopy. Good morning.
In the words of Bernie Sanders, nobody needs more than one tomato. Ah Florida. Never change. – depends on the size really. But for breakfast one tomato should be enough, if you are having a couple of eggs and some cheese
No bacon? You heathen.
I’m still trying to figure out how big a tomato is required to stuff with “a couple eggs”
/sarc
I don’t usually do bacon for breakfast… Although on occasion…
*blushes
Fromunda cheese?
From that article — 79 year old Great Grand-mother?
The math checks out, Katie is likely pregnant, and pregnant women can get kind of stabby when you fuck with their diet.
Wifey’s BD too! We don’t stand much on ceremony around these parts but I’ll try to live up to my own standards for at least one day.
Jesus that’s a passel of good-looking people that share this birthdate…
Right, and I’m envious as hell that my distant cousin, Michael Douglas, gets to boink Catherine Zeta Jones on a regular (I hope) basis.
I thought it was hilarious that he blamed his throat cancer on eating too much pussy. It would have been something to be a fly on the wall when they got home, she seems “fiery”…
Well, HPV is a known cancer trigger.
Looks like I-10 is about to be reopened just east of Houston. Thank God the bridge is ok. That has been wreaking havoc on freight movement. – this is what happens when you under-fund infrastructure
Infrastructure isn’t under-funded, they’re incentivized to piss away the funds in the wrong place.
Along my commute there has been construction to take a perfectly good straight road and turn it into a wavy road along the same easement. The excuse was that it would slow traffic and make the area more pedestrian friendly.
Mind you, there is all of jack shit along that road that pedestrians want to get to, there’s a steep embankment up one side and down the other. The only pedestrian traffic is trying to get to the far side, for which an overpass would have been a better solution. And the changes to the road course won’t do what they claim to want. People drove 45mph on it before, and people are still driving 45mph through the contstruction zone, so after they leave the traffic will still be 45mph, only the road will be less safe when winter comes around.
Rt 7 as it enters Brandon, VT has been under construction for 3 years.
I’ve driven it every other weekend. It’s been paved and unpaved at least 5 times.
They’ve dug it down on one side or the other at least 3.
It’s been like this for years.
I keep getting thrown by references to ‘Route 7’ because NY 7 is an east-west road that becomes VT9 when it crosses the border, and US 7 is a north-south road in vermont.
It’s all very confusing.
Why can’t we use the interstate odd even system?
Because in older states the roads have no idea which direction they are going.
I enjoy that the road between two towns will be called the destination town road. So one sign says ripton road, the other Lincoln.
Oh.
That explains why I got lost in Vermont.
There are some roads here like that, although if you are expecting the name of the road to not change at any given intersection, it can be offputting.
I was just on that road at the NY border. Excellent cheesemaker there.
That is the deepest I’ve been into VT.
Locally they repaved a ten mile section of highway last month and then promptly ripped up and re-did the three mile part that runs uphill. No explanations, no notice. The delay meant that they just started painting the lines last night when the temperature ensures that the paint won’t stick. Gee, wish I had a government contract…
They paint road lines by you? Lucky bastard.
IL 19 near o’Hare was rebuilt 5 years ago (long story) but the lines on the sides weren’t painted until last year. The road used to be a typical curvy four-lane divided highway with grass median and still is for a stretch – but then suddenly you get a concrete raised median and no warning that it’s there. At least once a week there would be a nighttime one-car accident that hit the concrete curb because there’s no lighting and no edge lines painted.
I’ve mentioned this before but environmental regs mean that they can’t use petroleum-based paint. On asphalt. The lines get painted every year and by the time January rolls around, they gone!
“You can’t pollute our tar with that paint!”
Asphalt is natural! It’s like rock or something. Paint is made from fossil fuels!
Achktually, a lot as asphalt used in making roads is made from old roads.
Crummy lines are one thing, never putting anything down is something else entirely.
Is that 787 where some stupid high school bitch offed herself trying to cross it?
Yes.
Several cities in the Cleveland area had left over road care budget as fall started last year. So they put down temporary patches in the potholes while it was snowing. The temporary patches lasted until the first snowplow came through and tore them all right the fuck out, putting chunks of frozen patching material mixed in with the snow. About half of those potholes were then patched when spring rolled around.
Government budgetting is rife with perverse incentives.
So much for tolerant, caring San Francisco. – it is different when it is your neighborhood. I fully support homeless as long as they are not in a 1 km radius of my house
Now you’re getting it!
“Phoenix apparently understands the role Hollywood should play in our lives. I like his Charles Barkley-esque take here. Dude gets it.”
Responding only validates the raising of the complaint.
He should have “you’re right it does promote violence.” and then punched the guy in the face.
He, I liked your piece on argumentation and debate the other night. Read it too late to reasonably comment on the thread.
Thanks. I’m working on something new that I hope will be a bit more organized.
I enjoyed it too. Unfortunately I lose my coherence in those situations and choose to become “selectively mute”. Just ask Greta!
The funny thing is that my wife was considered a selective mute as a child and will still only talk when they’re are only 3-4 people around.
How is that ‘selective mute’? I was tought it was rude to interrupt people, and in social settings when you get that many people in one spot, there is never enough of a gap to start talking unless addressed directly.
I wish my wife was a selective mute. She’s at 11 all the time.
“What would you like for dinner tonight?”
“You’ve had a hard day, how about a blow job?”
“That new [gun, motorcycle, power tool…] you want looks so cool. Go buy it!”
Beyond that, she says nothing…
I initially misread this and was about to post “OMWC sock confirmed.”
So who do you invite over to enable pillow talk?
Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homelessness, told KTVU the border installation is an example of “anti-homeless architecture.”
What kind of degree is required to make that assessment?
And it’s not really a border if they’re randomly placed. Impediments would be a better word.
Although a border around SF might not be a bad idea. For the rest of us.
Someone call Snake Plissken!! The President is suck in the Bay Area!
It’s also an example of property rights.
And lets stop the lie of calling these people “homeless”. They’re junkies – and the city does not give one flying fuck about them. If the city cared they’d get them help, instead all they do is enable them. And by city, I don’t just mean government, I mean lying assholes like Jennifer Friedenbach and the human excrement that sees fit to give them a platform.
This has become a big problem in our small city. We’ve always had our share of rubby-dubs but now people are actively shooting up on the streets. It’s a fucking disgrace and yet we keep building more incentives to attract more of the same behavior. When your city gets inundated with hundreds of “refugees” from wildfires and they still haven’t gone home after 2-1/2 years it’s probably time to fire up the buses.
This must be a Canucki euphemism for Asian massage parlor.
Anachronism from my Grandpa’s time. Rubby-dub is a bum that drinks anything, rubbing alcohol, sterno, aqua-velva.
In VN, 1967, my brother got a pass to visit me. I had access to PX rationed liquor while he did not. I gave him a bottle of something for personal use to take back to his unit, he then bought a carton of Aqua-Velva, (12 bottles), I asked him why, since shaving was optional on the firebase where he was assigned. He told me he could make a little money selling the stuff to the old NCOs that were desperate for anything.
Someone should erect a sign with directions to the executive director’s house if she cares so much.
The reason I support Warren is simple: She’s the only presidential contender with any real chance of winning who doesn’t fill me with deep apathy and cynicism.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1176410043161268224
Right…
I’m going with Trump as the only candidate with a chance to win who doesn’t hate this country.
Please go with the apathy, you’re too dumb to care enough to act.
If Warren doesn’t fill you with cynicism, you are still naive.
I don’t get this Noah smith character, although he seems to make the rounds on the tweets
Noah Smith ?
@Noahpinion
Bloomberg Opinion writer. Recovering neoliberal shill
The apostate from evil is a prized commodity. Journalist love to retweet those who have seen the light.
This used to be true, but in this era of driving people from their jobs for ‘problematic’ comments they made when they were 16 I think we have moved into a religion without the possibility of redemption.
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it.
He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.
That man is Noah Smith.
“Actually, the entire video is an autistic interpretation of this place”
Really? That’s it I’m out.
Shit, I had to scroll up and make sure I didn’t actually type that on accident.
Come back, LH, I mean Leon!
I’m the cyborg turtle.
Sprinklers installed at the doorways of St. Mary’s Cathedral in 2015 allegedly doused the homeless sleeping there. The sprinklers were removed after a public furor.
“Suffer the poor”?
Are you nuts?
I thought they were there to provide improved hygene to the people camped out in the entryway. I mean they don’t get showers elsewhere…
They were just following Pope Francis’ lead; he had public showers build in the Vatican for the homeless of Rome. He may be a naïve commie do-gooder, but at least he does a few positive things like this.
You know who else had public showers…?
Gay bathhouses?
The beach?
Hitler’s gas chambers were invitation-only.
Way back when I lived in LA, I had a very large bullmastiff who truly hated the homeless. He would urinate on them while sleeping and damn near killed a guy who had decided our car port was a good place to live.
That dog had good aim for being asleep.
Had to line him up for the shot as he was napping.
Good doggie.
Dogs are more likely to piss in places that already smell like piss.
I prefer a Public Fuhrer.
The best part is people in Boston saying the vape stores won’t be hurt by this temporary ban.
“It’s what insurance is for!”
RE: SF “urban campers”.
I’m very much against involuntary commitment unless someone is violent. By that same token, these people are largely living off gov’t handouts which fuels the problem anyway; get rid of that and the problem shrinks substantially.
Further: Since they’re allowed to put boulders there, I’m assuming the area outside the residents’ doors is their property? If that is indeed the case, these people are trespassing and could (and should) be removed forcibly by residents.
“(and should)” They actually outlawed that and instead they keep promising to spend billions of dollars on the bums.
Yep -all those state mental hospitals were probably too much, but they really did prevent crazy people from living on your doorstep.
It’s not that. Most of them are just lazy drunks and drug addicts. It all started exploding once we decriminalized heroin and petty crimes. Then, the politicians realized they could fleece us out of massive amounts of money and power using the new “emergency,” and here we are.
Even though you don’t actually own the sidewalk here in front of your house or property, the city makes you responsible for its upkeep. So when the cracks get big enough you are required to replace it or get a huge bill when the city does.
And it depends on the city, and possibly the property.
Local nearby city passed an ordinance to clarify that the property owner could legally remove someone for trespassing in the planting strip. Before that it depended on the legal status of the planting strip. Some were city property, some were private.
But regardless, the property owner was responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the planting strip.
I don’t know where you live, but in most parts of the US, you do in fact own not only the sidewalk, but the street to the center line. You have just ‘granted’ the city an easement to use that land for those purposes. So good news! you own more than you think you do! Now try to do anything with it except pay like a good little tax cattle.
Depending upon where the center of the street is, I might own the alley next to my house.
But I didn’t want to pay the $1000 cost to get a survey done to find out.
Thanks for reminding me. I was looking at the property deed recently and figured out the x.97 acres on the lot was due to the county taking .03 for the road in front. And here it’s owned by the county, not merely an easement. Then there’s the right of way where I can’t install a fence and utilities can place lines if it’s not aerial.
I think it is actually better when they take it than when they just force the easement. It is at least more honest.
I think men *believe* they want a strong, independent, educated, career focused, self-made woman right up until they actually get one and realise it would be much easier for them if she wasn’t so strong, so independent, so educated, so career focused and so self-made.
https://twitter.com/Jessicae13Eaton/status/1176471483008344064
StronkWiimen™ complaining about guys is becoming more common on the inerwebz.
This reminds me of my issues that women claim they want gorgeous brilliant men with huge cocks, but they do not really want that
I think men *believe* they want a strong, independent, educated, career focused, self-made woman…
Or in my case, girl.
I see what you did there…
4th wave feminism = OMG, men, like, totes suck!
WHYCOME THEY DON’T JUST LET ME TELL THEM WHAT TO DO LIKE GOOD CUCKS!
She’s absolutely right. No one wants to be in a relationship where they aren’t needed. The best relationships are going to be the ones where both parties are complementary to each other, and so not independent.
there are degrees of independent.
Sure. But my point is that a lot of self proclaimed “independent” women/men don’t make the compromises needed for a successful relationship. Blaming that on others for not wanting an independent person is dumb. I’ve been in relationships where I was the 5th priority after several hobbies. It doesn’t feel good.
All relationship require compromise and having the relationship be an important part of ones life. Not making them does not make you independent… Or you are the kind of independent who does not want a relationship and you should not complain about not having one. Some people are independent that way. They do no want a partner. But this does not seem the case here.
“ Or you are the kind of independent who does not want a relationship and you should not complain about not having one.
What these women are complaining about is that their wish that the man accept that on the woman’s priority list the man is not in the top 10 items, but the women expect that the man will have them as their top item for their list, doesn’t happen. Men, and not just average men, but high quality men (successful guys with high paying/high-prestige jobs) not willing to accept that they are going to be low priority while they are expecting to have the woman as their top priority are thus not good.
Every woman I have met that claimed to be a progressive independent woman, exhibited this trait. I dumped them as soon as it became obvious they had that expectation. Of course, I was the bad one for not wanting that sort of idiotic unbalanced “relationship”. And they get really mad when you as a guy that has wizened up to the game tells them you are just looking for a good time and want no formal commitment, since it just is not worth the effort.
where both parties are complementary to each other, and so not independent.
“Interdependant”
Co-dependent?
I would argue they’re distinct terms, differentiated by whether the dependence is mutually beneficial or detrimental to one or both parties.
Honestly I agree with the comments that strong woman does not mean aggressive c***. Also it is not something one should label oneself , that is for others to decide. Just like nice guys… But this feminist web thing amuses me, they same some random generalized bullshit and then the next is, like in this case, something anticipating someone will call them out on their bullshit “Here comes the #notallmen”.
Generally all men suck ha just wait and see men complaining. Or worse, mansplaining (I wish baldness on anyone who uses that word unironically)
It’s a question of semantics at this point. “Strong woman” has largely been hijacked by the femz to more or less be synonymous with “intolerable angry harpy”. If I’m talking about it, I prefer the term “self-sufficient”.
Honestly, after being single for a long time, in the unlikely case of a relationship I would want someone fairly independent and self-sufficient and not clingy… Then again if independent means “see each other every other week” that is not much of a relationship, but ok if the sex is good and there is a don’t ask don’t tell policy.
one too few asterisks.
I noticed the habit around here to add an e but am unsure of the origins.
It’s part of Mojeaux’s mojo.
We have a new one courtesy of Gender Traitor – ((^))
That broad better start collecting cats right away. It not the dudes, it’s you.
I know what I don’t want, terrible bangs and terrible tattoos.
Hair can be fixed. Ink is harder to get rid of and leave a clear complexion.
It’s *women* who want strong, independent, educated, career focused, self-made men. Men generally want other things.
She’s basically the flip side of the incels.
No sweetie the problem isn’t that men change their mind about wanting “strong, independent, educated, career focused, self-made” women once they get them. The problem is that men are naive and believe women who claim to be strong, independent, educated, career focused, and self-made, then discover that instead they got a whiny cunte that believes that she is entitled to have reality change to suit her momentary whim.
Big shoutout to Leon, Jarflax and Ozymandias for their recent articles. Good work from all of you. Please keep it up.
I was unpersuaded by leon 🙂
Awww shucks. We all do our bit to make sure theirs content on the page.
Thank you.
11-year-old girl charged with a hate crime after police say she beat up a 10-year-old
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/24/us/11-year-old-charged-with-hate-crime-trnd/index.html
White supremacy needs to be stopped at any time. Really her parents ought to be arrested.
What happened to the 16 yr. old girl who verbally beat up a bunch of men at the UN earlier this week?
Give it a rest with these Bee articles guys, we all know they are funny but we can read the site on our own.
Wait, what, cnn? damnit!
Joker is an instruction manual? For violent incels?
Sounds like a hit.
Incels?
“According to io9”
Have you got a better source for that?
Stars and Stripes?
Okay, I’ll accept that one.
Though the memo doesn’t mention incels, that shit is from io9
” extremists within the incel subculture”
Hahahahahahahaha :gasp: hahahahahahahaha
Extremely horny?
What happens when an incel gets laid? Do the other incels throw a party or is he cast out?
I don’t know, but I could see both happening. An exile party if you will.
Not possible. The debate over transgenderism has shown us that all decisions regarding sexual identity made in childhood are eternal immutable characteristics. Therefore incels cannot get laid.
*kiff sigh*
“such as identifying two escape routes”
I do that on airplanes, in restaurants, when running a dangerous test, when driving, etc.
I might be paranoid though
Those boulders should be rolled and dropped from the tops of the buildings onto the sidewalk after the tents are set up.
bit harsh there fella
I watched a lot of cartoons
MEEP MEEP!
You clearly need to attach cables to boulders so they can be re-set.
https://insideevs.com/news/372613/tesla-model-3-new-kind-rust-problem/
The batteries will catch fire or the touchscreen/computer will cause a crash long before it can rust out from that.
The paint on my Model 3 makes GM of the late 1980s early 1990s seem amazing.
That said the whole car is dipped for priming and rustproofing like all modern autos. So in that regards it IS better than the GM of old.
I kinda chuckled at the “thin paint” part.
Has anyone looked at how thin a Subarus paint was? That car built for winter and dirt roads??
Telsa is declining slower than I thought it would, but decline it will
Ass Wednesday serves up luscious ham hocks of pleasure.
http://archive.li/YOuWQ
Now I want to eat turnip greens off of a supermodel’s chest.
Not an assman?
Oh no, it’s just that the the pot liquor is better when it runs down the front.
I didn’t want to crap over Jarflax’s great article last night so am going to say here that it was disappointing what happened with LH yesterday. For those who misunderstood his position, LH wasn’t angry that a child with autism was being criticized or saying one should get a free pass… he was pissed because of this collectivist shit of mocking stereotypes and not the position or hell even the individual. I agree with him that this has been ongoing for autism, and it’s getting tiresome. Just as it was tiresome when another commenter did the same schtick for Black and Jews. I don’t recall anyone defending Bob at the time. This cesspool of a site we all enjoy does have some standards even if we are assholes.
LH and EF have been regulars for a long time and were two of the most middle of the road commenters here. I will miss their posts.
They left?
It seems I missed something
#metoo
Pie, Q: https://glibertarians.com/2019/09/tuesday-afternoon-links-67/
Do a Ctrl+F and type in “48.”
I’m really hoping that they’ll reconsider. They’re both wonderful people.
FWIW, and without getting into confidences, HM is extremely familiar with autism. As am I (in my case, my sister’s only child, who’s now a basically nonfunctional but incredibly nice 28 year old).
My son has autism. I, like LH, EF and I suspect others, dislike reading the repeated crap about rhee’s, screeching, and 4Chan autists, but hold no grudge against HM or anyone else. HM’s an asshole (as we all are) but not malicious.
I’ve never associated Rheeeing with autism but with normies pearl clutching.
Me too.
Me three.
I’m pretty sure it’s a 4Chan thing. Look up some of the videos from HWNDU season 1.
Me 4.
I always thought it was the screech of the body-snatchers.
I was under the impression that it was a sound made by someone who discovers another is “not of the body” or “Collective”. From the 70’s invasion of the Body Snatchers. It has been used in that way many times here.
I don’t think I’ve ever made a rheee or autist joke. I just scroll past them. Seems to work.
HM’s an asshole
I’ve been seeing a lot of variations of this lately. No, no he is not. And there’s something troubling about it being said.
I mean, inasmuch as we are all Assholes.
^yes
I’m not
We wen’t over this yesterady. I’m using Asshole in the broad sense, encompasing: Dicks, Douchebags, Jerkoffs, and Fuckers.
You seemed to have lost the second part.
(as we all are)
It’s still a bullshit sentiment.
de gustibus fer ani non est disputandum
Sorry to hear, Riven.
We care!
When I call HM an asshole I mean it as a joke, just like when I call SF a Cthulhu sucking omnipervert, or OMWC a pedo… wait maybe not that last one. I think most people here are doing the same.
I always liked LH and Elspeth, and I will miss them if they are gone, but flouncing (announcing you are outraged by X and are leaving a community) is bad behavior.
For the record I like pretty much everyone here, do not actually dislike any of them, and am a big fan of a few (HM is in that category)
If we all are assholes, is anyone really an asshole?
Is this like one of those “if a tree falls and no one’s around to hear” riddles?
Wait, Riven? How’ve you been? Haven’t seen you in a while.
Of course! Those guys! The ones over there!
They’re the real assholes.
Maybe! It mostly just reminded me of assigning “priority” to actions here at work. For a long time, everyone was marking everything as “highest priority.” It aggravated me until I pointed out to them that if everything is high priority all the time, then nothing can really be high priority.
I’ve been OK. Not great, definitely south of middling. Every day requires a significant effort of will/reminder of obligations to get out of bed and get going, but I couldn’t be absent while HM is dragged through the mud like this.
Get ’em!
Sorry to hear that Riven. Your presence here is missed as well and it is good to see you, even if not under ideal circumstances.
I appreciate the well-wishes, Doom & Gustave. I miss being more active. #oneday
Thank you. 🙂
I have this conversation several times a year. My boss’s response is “you have to find a way to do both.”
Oh god, I fucking hate that shit. My old boss used to do that. We were given 100 things to do pronto, but she would never explain which ones we can put on the backburner. Her catchphrase was “everything is top priority”.
So if everything is of equal priority, it follows that you can work on anything you want, right? Nope. You can calculate and deliberate over which one might be the most important and start on that, but you bet your ass she will be emailing you telling you that X, Y, and Z are more important.
Everything is top priority, but whichever thing you chose to work on, that’s the wrong thing.
Hey, Riven.
I’m very glad to see you, and, if I am reading your subtext correctly, I very, very much empathize with you.
Take care of yourself.
There are only three assholes here.
HM does not number amongst them.
Look I already know you have me blocked. You don’t have to rub it in.
!
Having an asshole blocked can lead to serious medical complications.
Same here. Not only does it run in the family (my nephew was badly bullied), mental illness (mostly depression) also afflicts us.
By ‘us’ not me. I was spared. Though I mostly likely have ADD. But I’m a Muppet so my parents didn’t care. They always believed the muppet can fend for itself because they have all that extra layer of lint.’ WHATEVER THAT MEANT.
Yeah, he’s one of my favorites. He and EF always play nice. I can see the sore spot so I’m hoping after a cooling off period they come back. This would be a pretty big blow to the site if they don’t.
Same. Hate to see Glibs in conflict.
I missed that.
Just like you “missed” my article? : Runs off sobbing:
*Hands napkin to leon*
People are busy, they’re not always on or have the time to catch up on everything.
Clean up your mascara and get back on stage.
“he doesn’t like you”
Honestly, In my own neuroatypical way, that seems backwards. Stereotypes are by nature caricatures. To assume that the stereotype applies to any given individual (such as one’s child) strikes me as collectivizing, not the other way around.
I lied this morning.
My second public statement is “Fuck the Washington Nationals.”
That is all I have to say on the matter.
WORST TED TALK EVER.
My talks are never terrible!
#neverapologize. BUT – We love LH and EF and want them back, tout suite!
Never is a bit harsh. My police has been – if the person or persons who whom the appology is to be directed will accept it in the spirit intended and as a starting point for mending relations, and you are sincere, then an appology is appropriate. If you are not sincere, or if the parties to which it would be addressed will regard it as a sign of weakness and attack, then do not issue one.
I missed the entire row which triggered these events, and I can’t know the minds of those involved, so I’m not going to recommend a course of action.
It was just a Glib catchphrase that I threw out there. I actually agree with you nearly 100%. This is the internet, right?
I don’t know anymore.
Erm. Tour DE suite you maudit anglais Albertan.
/kicks poster of Peter Lougheed and spits on Stampeders log.
logo
logo writer? It’s beeng ages since I worked with that.
Albertan? I wish…
I get you all mixed up. Aren’t you out West?
Speaking of Westerners another person missing is Pan.
Pan pops in from time to time. I think they have a baby or something. I’m in BC, not the commie part.
High school French was nearly forty years ago so forgive my loss of “de”. It’s probably hiding up yer bum.
My written French has lapsed to an unacceptable level.
JE nE peuT PaS ecRIRE.
I believe there’s a ‘language gene’ and I don’t care if HM claims otherwise. GENE.
There is a small body of evidence that suggests there might be genetic and neurological correlates for a ‘knack for languages’.
Huh.
Apparently there was big drama yesterday that I missed. I hope LH comes back; HM gives shit to everyone, and he also gracefully takes a lot of shit.
On the “Greta question” she is a legitimate target since she decided to step out in public. However, I see the fact that she’s autistic as just making the story that much more sad. She’s more susceptible to exploitation by unscrupulous adults, especially since apparently she also suffers from OCD and anxiety. It makes it very easy for adults to prey on her neuroses.
We all rip on each other, some more than others, and if it is no longer fun to someone they should probably disengage. But I do home LH comes back.
I always miss the drama. I can be a part of something for six days straight and miss something on the 7th. I would have made for a terrible God creating earf.
On the “Greta question” she is a legitimate target since she decided to step out in public.
Absolutely.
And not in a “I vlog and have 100 subscribers” way.
My brother is on the spectrum (Aspergers.) It takes A LOT to offend me. If I read something I don’t like, I usually just move on.
I thought I was the only glib that worked with HMDS
When you say work, do you mean smoke, snort, or shoot?
Fuck You!!!!!!! We going to the ship.
What about when the condition influences the position one takes? Perhaps, just perhaps, an inability to comprehend the inner mental lives of other individuals leads one to oversimplify solutions to “wicked problems” that contain systems in which there is incomplete and contradictory input with requirements that are in constant flux, particularly the socio-political factors? So when a girl gets on a soap box and advocates that we must return to a pre-industrial society in order to reduce CO2 levels to 280 ppm or less, that her lack of empathy leads her to dismiss that this would condemn billions of people, particularly in Africa and Asia to mass starvation, the neurological disorder that contributes to her lack of empathy is fair game to comment on.
I agree. Totes. One small quibble. What if she’s being manipulated into this behaviour? Say, she has two irresponsible shit head parents who wear antifa t-shirts and are part of an organization funded by other boneheads like Bono and Soros?
This girl has been frightened into a live she may not have chosen if not for the poor painting of her asshole parents. I reserve my ire mostly for the fuckhead adults who are using her.
life.
I do not remember making fun of her as much of the way she is used, but I am sorry the magnitude of what she is saying and the sheer millions of morons who worship her makes it a bit fair game. I saw a teenager with an anger tantrum whatever her issues. But yes, her parents are primarily to blame. And the sheer stupidity of humankind, especially of the left, which amazes me more every day
Absolutely. The parents who let their kids go to her protest on Friday are no better.
‘It’s a free day’ my ass. Keep you kid at school and away from that shit.
Most, if not all, of these young woke people are that way because of their idiot parents. My quibble is with those fucking idiots.
Let’s put it this way.
My father is a paranoid schizophrenic. If he were to stand before the UN and hector the world over its use of Bilderberg Group Mind Control Devices, and thus, we all need to ban TVs, radios, computer monitors, and webcams there would be no righteous indignation over pointing out the connection between his neurological disorder and the views he advocates.
Wait. He’s wrong?
Of course he is. The mind control signal isn’t put out by those devices.
It’s on the roof of a TV station in Los Angeles.
Where do i get the glasses that allow me to see the aliens amongst us?
At the abandoned church. Duh. Do I have to do everything for you people?
5G comin’
No, that’s the chinese mind control. Different protocol entirely.
What about when the condition influences the position one takes?
That’s a stretch here. Pretty much all of Congress and substantial proportion of liberals across the world present oversimplified solutions to wicked problems without giving a shit about the people crushed under their boots. This girl has clearly been manipulated and brainwashed by her parents and others. It could easily happen whether or not she had autism and does happen to the huge number of kids without autism who grow up to support communism.
In that case the “Condition” is a non sequitur.
But some people want to have it both ways.
That is already assumed.
“he was pissed because of this collectivist shit of mocking stereotypes and not the position or hell even the individual”
And he was wrong.
People are allowed to be wrong sometimes, and they are allowed to be mad when they are told they are wrong. The best thing is for them to voluntarily cool off for a while.
I’m going through this right now with my brother’s passing. One sibling is in an extreme anger stage of grief and to keep my sanity I am avoiding her. It doesn’t make me happy, but it is keeping me from losing my shit.
I’m sorry to hear about your brother.
I am sorry for your loss. Losing family is a difficult burden.
This too shall pass.
If you missed it earlier, condolences from me on the loss of your brother, I.F.
Thanks to everyone who has expressed condolences on this and other threads.
I only bring it up when I think the health problem or the aftermath is pertinent to the discussion.
Sorry 🙁
I don’t recall anyone defending Bob at the time.
Bob? I recall FOS spouting Nigger this and Jew that, and getting the boot, but I guess I don’t see HM as mocking stereotypes except in fun. He was mocking Thunberg and did use the Rheeee meme, but that is a behavior, not a group of people.
He was pissed about facetious jokes on the internet. “Autism” is just an internet meme—like, hey, ‘all libertarians have autism’; ‘hey, people on 4chan are autistic.’
LH hasn’t always been a saint, and this entire place has become fucking boring. I barely even lurk anymore (I know, what a shame—also, who am I?). You guys just repeat yourselves. “OMG the hypocrisy!” Yeah, we get it. The left plays by different rules. It’s boring to hear it repeatedly.
Thank God Shane Gillis was fired, though. That’s unacceptable.
But while we’re bitching, and I know I don’t have the reputation of an LH or literally anyone—This place is disgustingly machismo and misogynistic (as in you just mock people’s appearances—men too, but especially women) as fuck, so to see you guys whine about hurt feelings at all is fucking rich. I don’t care about that shit, it’s just, well, hypocritical.
Most of you are the kind of people who would leave your aging wives for 20-something dumbfucks, and you’ve essentially admitted it.
You need to up your trolling game.
Whatever. You work for the government.
And you’re willing to settle for less than our standards?
Sad.
“our standards”
See, collectivism always prevails.
But it’s OK. It’s not the collectivist haters and losers’ faults you were born fucked up.
Are you sure you’re in the right chat room?
We have someone who said they’d do David Atkinson, for Christ’s sake.
Admittedly, Canuckistanis are a bit creepy looking what with their beady eyes and flappy heads.
Peace out
Ban me and let me
ascenddescend to be with John, that grumpy homophobic cunt. We can talk past each other and change the meaning of each other’s sentences. It’ll be fun.You really think you are that special?
Nah
Do you?
A Pox on all our houses!
I didn’t read HM’s thing, because I don’t read HM’s stuff. Make of that what you will.
If Greta Thunberg watches that Joker movie, will she be moved to assassinate the CEO of Exxon? Or Trump?
I assume it was as much about the title of the post. Although I see that as a generic thing not really having to do with autism, like calling someone a retard or moron
I think it (RHEEEE) has to do with a temper tantrum from anyone, regardless of cognitive ability. Heaven knows that could describe my reaction to nearly any misfortune and I style myself as a stoic man. Mind you, I get my shit together in pretty short order but still…
I had thought that “RHEEEE” was just “Derp derp” turned up to eleventy where it’s no longer intelligible.
Picture in your mind a 12 year-old girl that didn’t get her way and multiply by a bazillion. That’s “Rheeeeee”.
That’s what I was thinking (grew up with three sisters) but I never connected it to autism or anything other than the average progie’s predilection to stamp their feet and hold their breath until they turn blue (that’s how I remember which are blue and which are red).
I’d have figured there’s enough guitar players/amp afficianados here that understand how overdrive works.
RHEEEE or REEEE is specifically associated with autism by a lot of people, and I would bet money that HM intended it that way and that LH interpreted it that way.
I truly had no idea. I had always read it as your basic progie meltdown. I was raised Unitarian so I’ve seen a number of those.
When I saw it in the post yesterday I thought it was hilarious.
It is associated with autism (which frankly I find a bullshit over inclusive term) because some extremely autistic children enter rages (tantrums? meltdowns from sensory overload?) where they cannot calm down, are almost impossible to calm externally, and effectively become nonverbal often keening.
The thing is, and feel free to jump on me here, while this is a tragic effect of autism, and the affected child and their family deserve sympathy, it is also an example of complete loss of control and reversion toward an animal mindset, and therefore is a natural and effective mocking comparison when unhinged people throw tantrums. See also the use of “retarded”.
I feel the pain of those dealing with an autistic child. I do not have one myself, but do have a close relative dealing with this (sorry using my real name as my handle means I can’t be more specific here, I’m not being coy), And I get the sensitivity but the condition DOES lead to behaviors that are atypical in ways that are sometimes humorous, and which do have relevance. There is a world of difference between being cruel to the down’s syndrome boy bagging your groceries and mocking some person or proposal as being retarded.
It is cruel to mock the retarded person because by definition they cannot help it, nor can they defend them self. It is not cruel for you to call me retarded when I do something stupid, because I can help it, and I can defend myself.
Autism is even more complicated since the more functional autistic often are treated as having a super power (with some reason) while simultaneously being declared off limits for mockery. This is collectivist bullshit. The kid who goes into overload from a siren down the block should not be mocked, but Greta Thunberg is lecturing world leaders! Yes, her parents belong in hell for this, but she is out there on that stage trying to deprive us all of liberty, and that makes her fair game.
I don’t really get my nickers in a twist about how people do or don’t use medicalized labels for jokes, insults, or non-medical conversations. I do get my nickers in a twist when people get their interweb memes wrong.
And yes, “autistic” is more similar to the label “tall” than the label “quadriplegic”.
It’s just jokes and everyone’s ox gets gored here. People have the right to get angry and offended of course and they can act on that as they see fit but no one wants to have to walk on eggshells.
Exactly. If you’re mad, be mad and post it. Just don’t escalate it to John levels.
Violent incel subculture: bigger or smaller segment of the population than transwomen of color?
I suspect transwomen of color have bigger penises, on average.
That’s what you wanted to know, right?
I think the real question is VIOLENT INCEL SUBCULTURE or TRANSWOMENOFCOLOR — better band name?
Re Joker.
INT. Al Gore’s ungreen mansion. Tipper gets on the phone reading story about Joker.
Tipper: GATHER THE GIRLS. WE’RE REVIVING PMRC! I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT FOR 30 YEARS!
Al (in his underwear swinging a light sabre: And take that and that Tim Ball! What are you yelling about Tips?
Tipper: TIME TO MAKE THE DOUGHNUTS! I’M REVVING PMRC UP!
Al (gently swinging light sabre): That’s nice.
Tipper (finger to lips. Demures): What are you gonna do with that?
Al (grins): I’ve got three minutes before my climate change scare fest conference.
Tipper (stares at light sabre): Isn’t that from those movies with that hairy thing and all the little Jew-wahs?
Al: Jawas.
Tipper: Whatever. THAT INCITES VIOLENCE! OUR FIRST CAUSE!
*low whistles* Damn, Son!
Having now read HM statement, “lightly-moderated humor blog that masquerades as a libertarian politics blog” WHAT? I was writing post here thinking it is a serious publication, in order to create a portfolio for my job application at Vice Romania. Now you tell me this… I WILL DELT ALL MY POST
Vice Romania.
Now I’ve seen it all.
Have you seen the crazy music videos that he posted? I’d vice some of those girls.
“lightly-moderated humor blog that masquerades as a libertarian politics blog”
That was the worst part of his whole statement.
I am offended by that.
I know me too. Sorry, but I’m out of here.
These Incels get made fun of for demanding that women give them a chance. Clearly they need to identify as trans. Then they would be woke.
+1 Cotton Ceiling
First impressions of the new club/Bullseye shooting-
The different gun clubs here have very different cultures. At my original one, I outshot old geezers with bullseye rigs using my 9mm. I found this distressing, not because of the equipment v. skill thing, but the fact that the old geezer should have has enough experience under his belt that he could outshoot me with a pipe and a nail. Apparently the actual shooters attend this one as I had my ass absolutely handed to me by a bunch of gossipy 72 year old women and their husbands. This is the way things should be. Bullseye isn’t nearly as boring as I thought it would be, and feels like it’s something I should be doing in a “working out and eating your vegetables” sort of way. I’ll give it another couple of weeks at least before I decide whether to quit, or save money to put an optic on my pistol.
My scores: 160, 194, 164. I was the only person to shoot under 240. There was one 20-something guy and the other eight shooters were retirees. Apparently there’s a league involving clubs between Albany and Glens Falls. Another reason UCS should get a license!
I still live in Albany county, which has that nebulous “in the capital district” residency requirement on character witnesses.
A lot of the people I know are not the sort of people I’d even tell I am pro-gun, let alone as them to fill out firearms affadavits.
And well, yeah, those are my big stumbling blocks.
What kind of “license” are you guys talking about? Why don’t you just find somebody with a gun they want to sell and give them cash for it and take it home? Or go to a gun shop and plunk down cash and take it home after 10-15 minutes when your 4473 comes back?
It’s the unconstitutional non-issue paperwork that the state insists it can require as a constraint on trade and the ownership of weapondry.
Why doesn’t someone challenge that as burdensome under Heller or McDonald? They’d surely win.
6-12 months waiting on someone to rule on whether or not you can exercise a right is absurd.
http://www.albanycounty.com/Government/Departments/CountyClerk/Services/Pistol.aspx
Especially when they admit this:
The Albany County Clerk’s office is the record keeper for all pistol permits. You will actually submit your completed application directly to your local police agency, which will perform the investigation. Their file is then forwarded by the police to our office, where we log it into our system then send the complete file to a judge for their consideration and final decision.
We then contact you by mail and advise you of the judge’s decision. The actual permit can then be picked up at our office. The process requires considerable effort on your part, and on the part of the police and the courts. For this reason, it can take six to twelve months before a final decision is reached.
That’s not how fucking rights work, assholes!
The NRA should be throwing money at funding these suits as fast as they can find willing participants. Flood the courts with them.
In the article I wrote, I noted that even though I have a permit to carry a pistol, it is not valid for use in self defense. If I defend myself (assuming I can overcome the “duty to retreat” burden by beating the guy to death with a range bag, I’m ok. But if I shoot him, I am now a gun felon and the state po-po will seize all of my firearms, including those I don’t need a permit for.
I may be able to get that restriction lifted in November.
5-10 years of court filings and legal fees costs a lot of money. You’d have to have the money up front and be able to psychologically handle losses at the district level and 2nd circus.
I don’t know if it would work that way. Otherwise states would just constantly pass legislation that’s been overturned by the SC and keep it on the books for years until the SC struck down the new law…and then pass the same law two days later, rinse and repeat.
Aren’t there ways to fast-track this kind of shit?
States do exactly that, and pass replacement laws that fail to actually satisfy the reason they were struck down.
Can’t one file a suit in federal court if it’s done deliberately to create an unconstitutional burden? I really don’t know how that has to work.
Probably, but you’ll still lose in both the district and 2nd circus, so it’s another round of 5-10 years.
Wait! Hold the phone! Are you saying that after 12 months, upstaters actually get to have firearms?!? Signed, Perplexed in Queens
This:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/06/i-fucking-hate-new-york/
I just checked on my LTC app in Texas after I had read this because it’s been a couple weeks since I submitted it and it’s being printed so I should have it in a few days.
So now I can do legally what I’ve done without a permit for the last couple of years.
That’s to concealed carry, btw. If I want to buy my 21st gun, I could do it in 20 minutes. Permits are for privileges, not rights. And I’m still a bit salty that I have to get a permit to cc. But we’ll have constitutional carry in Texas before we have to get a permit to buy a gun.
At this point I can buy any non-“assault weapon” without anything further than a 4473, and I can take home long arms immediately. Pistols require that my permit is amended before I can remove it from the salesplace.
That’s probably going to change soon, as the leg is set to make it so that you need a “green light” and have have 30 days for the check to go through.
Even though I live in Japan I have maintained a New Mexico driver license so I can purchase guns back home. The NM carry permit training requirement would eat up two of my vacation days while back in the US so my solution is a Virginia non-resident permit. They have reciprocity with New Mexico and they accept my honorable discharge in lieu of the training requirement. I get the whole thing through the mail.
Be prepared to change. VA’s AG removed reciprocity from most other states a couple years ago, but a compromise was arranged to restore after a short period of time. I don’t know what’s going to happen after the upcoming election.
I don’t remember which state, but the VCDL recommended at the time that all Virginian CCW holders get non-resident permit to maybe Florida or Utah so they could still travel freely.
Yeah, I remember when that happened – I thought I was screwed until they fixed it. I’m always looking at my options – last I checked I think Utah would be some simple paperwork as well but it has to be done in person.
https://twitter.com/Fetusberry/status/1176612094998790149
Halle Barry… YUM!
Good morning Sloopy and the rest of you wonderful misfits!
Love the Joaquin Phoenix interview. Over/under on his blacklisting?
That is still a bizarre video but, you’re right, the song still hold up. Both my kids dig New Order.
I still prefer their predecessor.
Make it a great day, people!
Yeah, some Joy Division tunes are the tits! I really like “Digital”.
The whole of “Closer” is just amazing. And disturbing.
Welp, you stole my reverse musical threading for tomorrow, you cunte.
Now I’m gonna play something terrible just to be a dick.
We gotta play to our strengths!
Joe Jackson coming your way tomorrow, friends. Thank Tundra when it happens.
Wait. Joe Jackson isn’t terrible.
You’re gonna be a dick to a cunte?
Dicke.
Cod.
We don’t just randomly put a silent E on our nether gardens! That is special and for “cunte” only.
If we’re permanently switching to Dicke/Cunte, then I propose switching to Arsehole as well. Assehole doesn’t read right.
Seconded.
I oppose the motion. We don’t need another e in asshole.
That’s why “assholee” was right out.
Backe cunte!
You quoting Borat?
Small observation about the zeitgeist.
I have a friend who I met when I was in financial services nearly 25 years ago. A diligent company man. A real calm, soft spoken, dependable character with a super sense of humour but never ever rocked any boats or mouthed off. Whenever I’d start to go over board with my joking he’d be all ‘shhh. You’re gonna get in trouble!” He was always safe in his language, courteous and professional. Still is. A big teddy bear. He rarely expresses much when it came to politics – that he initiates anyway – though he does engage when a few of us bank guys meet for dinner every other month.
So two weeks ago he was suddenly; and unexpectedly admitted into the hospital for an issue yet resolved. He told no one but I found out because I texted him about something and he responded. Next thing you know, we’re joking around and he made a reference to transgenderism. I was somewhat surprised because it’s not his M-O.
Going along, he expressed real annoyance – and even anger – with the bank starting to jump on this train and how the SJW virtue signalling policies are infiltrating the bank. According to him, employees HATE it but what can they do but grin and take it? It’s few times he makes jokes about it and it got me thinking? If the PC zeitgeist is getting to docile people like ‘Paul’ that’s saying a lot. I wonder, if he’s tired of it, imagine how many others!
I also wonder how this will play out over the long term.
Thoughts?
It will blow up spectacularly. And it will not be pretty.
PC is saying “handicapped” instead of “crippled”. Carlin points out the silliness of it back in the day with his “shell shock” bit. But it’s beyond that now. Meanings are being smuggled in to the new terms that have nothing to do with simply being nice.
Silent Majority.
That’s exactly what he is.
Check the bank’s financial statements. When you’re angling for a taxpayer bailout, the first thing to do is get on the woke train.
https://books.google.com/books?id=HlKBaiCpSxYC
This guy literally wrote the book on this subject like 20 years ago. Its a good read.
Finally, someone tells me what to think
Thunberg may be experiencing especially strong stigma from the right because she’s not just autistic, but also female. “Autistic girls tend to face a lot of pressure not just to act like non-autistic people, but also to live up to the same gendered expectations many girls face,” Bascom said. “We always have to be smiling and compliant.”
What Thunberg is facing is a reminder of the combined ableism and sexism many autistic girls and women face, Bascom says. But Thunberg, who has said her Asperger’s can be “a superpower,” appears undaunted by her critics. And her leadership on the climate crisis could help fight prejudice against autistic people as well.
Thunberg, who is Swedish, went on a one-woman strike against climate change in August 2018, and gained greater worldwide fame earlier this year when she traveled by boat to New York City to attend the climate summit. In her speech before the summit on Monday, which quickly went viral, she delivered a message to the leaders of the world: “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
Misogynist ablelists are the worst, man. There is nothing which would indicate any sort of mental imbalance, here. She’s just a deeply concerned intellectual who wants us to be safe and happy.
You know, just like Joan of Arc.
went on a one-woman strike against climate change
How long before the climate gives in?
King Cnut commanded the tides to receed to show the limits of human authority.
Today, our ‘leaders’ show less wisdom than some old viking.
History, Mythology is littered with examples of the conflict between the younger generation and the older generation. See the Epic of Gilgamesh, or Rheaboam consulting his council of elders and council of young men. Now those stories often show the folly of listening to the hot headed youth over the wiser elders. I think the group that comes off the worst is the one that is treating this young girl as if she’s an intelectual giant. She has no life experience. She has no responsibilities. She has no credibility. But we are supposed to treat her like an authority on the subject of the “Future” of humanity, even though there is absolutely no one who can claim that position.
As the Father of an autistic* girl, my eyes rolled hard at that. Also, as same, I would never allow my daughter to be used in this manner. Horrible parents.
*maybe, she has completed ABA thereapy and 47% of the people who go thru it lose** their autism diagnosis. We will be visiting the doctor this winter/spring, we shall see.
**This is a controversial position. Some are of the “once diagnosed, they always have it”. Others are more “if you can’t pick out the autistic kid in a room of 30 kids, are they really autistic?”
I would never parade any of my children around in public like that for any reason. Autism has nothing to do with this exploitation by the parents and the Soros handler she’s been assigned to.
Agreed. That she is autistic (maybe?*) just makes it worse in my eyes.
*as was mentioned in a previous thread, 11 years old seems late to be getting the diagnosis.
“….Asperger’s can be “a superpower,” appears undaunted by her critics.”
Erm…..maybe she’s undaunted because, you know, she’s….autistic?
Oh go fuck yourself. I shouldn’t let Vox rile me up but JFC that is disingenuous.
A walrus defending her cubs sank a Russian Navy boat in the Arctic Ocean
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walrus-sinks-russian-boat-a-walrus-defending-her-cubs-sank-a-russian-navy-boat-in-the-arctic-ocean/
I laughed at that headline. One might be inclined to think some stupid water cow somehow managed to sink a warship or something. Granted, the Russians are not known for producing quality military gear, but this claim seems to be ridiculous. Read the article and you find out that the “Russian Navy boat” in question was a fucking rubber dingy. I think if it had been some civilian dingy this would not have been a story.
Russian engineering has only two settings – crap that doesn’t work without constant ‘fixes’, or utterly unbreakable simplicity.
True dat…
That walrus was lucky the crew was not into eating walrus ass.
*walrass
Stunning Rebuke – Federal Judge Throws Out Guilty Verdict for Flynn Partner and Acquits…
The deep-state frame up of Flynn continues to crumble.
Why do you think they are so desperate to impeach Trump and replace him with some establishment tool that will let them go back to business as usual of the Obama years?
They are desperate to pretend to impeach him. The constitutional process begins with a vote in the House of Representatives to launch an impeachment investigation – which Pelosi is avoiding at all cost. Once you start turning over those kinds of rocks, no telling what kind of Clinton / Obama stuff comes slithering out. They could have a Alexander Butterfield moment if they aren’t careful.
Oh, I think they are desperate to do much more than pretend to impeach him Drake. They really do want/need to get him – for real, because time is running out on them being able to hide how corrupt and downright evil the weaponized bureaucratic machine got under Obama – and if they can’t do that, make it impossible for him to run the government.
But they keep stepping on rakes and accusing Trump of stuff they clearly did. It’s pretty amusing.
I think the moderates want to investigate in perpetuity so Trump has a cloud over him when the election comes and the radicals are causing them to have to thread a needle between this and a real impeachment. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out but they may end up having to impeach to prevent the true leftists from getting disillusioned and jumping ship.
We joke that with that crowd of morons it is all about progjection because the humor there is in the fact that is the truth. They do the evil/illegal shit, then accuse others of doing what they did hoping their accomplices in the media will fling the shit and have it stick.
The NPCs lap it up and never question the validity of the information they are uploading.
Overall, the kinds of attacks Thunberg is getting are “a routine experience for autistic activists, regardless of the issue we work on,” Bascom said. “It’s unfortunately still relatively common to treat autistic people like we aren’t credible witnesses to our own lives, or like we can’t have our own independent thoughts and beliefs — let alone an ability to act on them.”
That kind of thinking may be at work in claims by Knowles and others that Thunberg doesn’t know what she’s doing and is merely being “exploited” by the left or her parents.
Or maybe it has to do with the hysterical stridence of her
screechingmessage.““It’s unfortunately still relatively common to treat autistic people like we aren’t credible witnesses to our own lives, or like we can’t have our own independent thoughts and beliefs — let alone an ability to act on them.”
Ah yes, pretend that the criticism is over the condition and not the content.
A 16-year old addressing the UN is ALWAYS being exploited. To do it with an autistic kid is even more disgusting.
I remember being trotted out to carry anti-war signs (Vietnam era) when I was 10 or 11. Unitarians have always been left of center on all social issues.
It’s hard to imagine Thunberg’s impassioned speech being read as “emotional” or “dramatic” if she were a man
Bullshit.
I see it as emotional drivel because it is yet another person being manipulated by evil fucks with an evil agenda into making an appeal to emotion to peddle a marxist solution to a non-existing problem. Whatever the fuck she chose to identify as sexually or otherwise has nothing to do with that.
This kind of “Argument” (? for lack of a different word ATM), drives me up the wall. There are plenty of examples where men are Characterized as “Unhinged” (cough:Trump:cough) and this kind of “You are wrong because you are Sexist/Racist” really does little to endear your position to people who know they aren’t sexist/racist.
Remember when Kav’s emotional and dramatic defense of his character meant he was unfit for the bench?
I do.
Pepperidge Farm does!
DAFUQ YOU TALKIN’ ‘BOUT??
Anybody remember when Howard Dean lost his lead simply due to the tone of his “YEEAEAAAAAAHH!!!”
Thank FSM for that otherwise we never would have known he was Aspie.
Of course. No one got upset about the “emotional” or “dramatic” rantings of AH in the 30’s.
Thanks for the song. New Order was my favorite band when I was in high school. I was lucky enough to see them live in 1989. One of my favorite concerts ever. Wish I would have kept the shirt, though.
I had tickets for this but for some reason we ended up not able to go. Pissed!
Saw that tour. New Order is fantastic, but they weren’t great live. PIL was the highlight.
That was the tour I went to, in Chicago. We got there late and missed most of the Sugar Cubes. But the rest of it was heaven for teenage Kevin. That really was a benchmark show for 80’s new wave.
Yesterday evening I shared a story about a young man who raised money for a children’s hospital in Iowa. It turns out that this man – who is more like a monster – had some politically incorrect Tweets when he was 16. I had no idea i was supporting this sick individual.
Please forgive me. Also, join me in my boycott of Busch Light!
Wow crazy timing see below…
We’re comment twins!
Is it some kind of rule that your first few tweets have to be racist?
It is called the rule of teen angst. It requires you to oppose whatever the social norms are at the moment your balls drop.
I only drink Busch Light when I can get it during camo can season and noone can see what I’m drinking to hide my shame.
Iowa reporter who found a viral star’s racist tweets slammed when critics find his own offensive posts
This is hilarious!
Remember kids: delete your social medias.
Blasey-Ford did that before she went public. It was part of the proof that she was credible.
Here’s what I just don’t understand – this is a nice little heartwarming type story, right? So why exactly did this reporter set out to dig through god knows how many tweets until he finds one from EIGHT YEARS AGO that’s finally his “GOTCHA!”? This is really his first instinct as a reporter?
And yet those future code-learners are so baffled as to why people hate them so much.
He performed a routine background check and outed the racist monster for his awful views.
White cishet. The question is not if he is a sinner, just when it was that he sinned.
You’re wrong. These people are incapable of learning how to code. All they can do is follow a script.
Every news organization has a battalion of fresh-out-of-school stringers that do nothing but this all day long.
Gets better: “It was subsequently discovered that Calvin, the reporter who covered the story, has made numerous racist and offensive comments on his Twitter feed.”
Cancel culture, asshole! (the reporter, not Rhy)
Karma bitch.
When the Tweets were discovered he started deleting his tweets. He is utter human filth. His “Apology” was this:
“Hey just wanted to say that I have deleted previous tweets that have been inappropriate or insensitive,” he wrote on Twitter. “I apologize for not holding myself to the same high standards as the Register holds others.”
I’m sorry but i can sense an ounce of sanctimony in that. Those aren’t the standards the Register holds others, It’s the standards that you fucking set by going back 6 years in the past to dig up dirt on a nobody. You Calvin set the fucking standard. You Calvin are being hung by that standard.
What worked a decade ago when they controlled the narrative and the media no longer does. It’s not accidental that these standards the left want people to play by make everyone guilty (including everyone of them). They however expected their control of the media to afford them some insulation from these rules and guessed – incorrectly – that they would have an acceptable loss ratio where an occasional leftist would be sacrificed in order to get all the enemies of the revolution. Unfortunately for them the other side got wise and used the same tactic right back on them, and that has resulted in more leftists going down than the original intended targets. They just have not realized that the answer here is not to double down on the stupid, but to abandon this approach, and the blue rules on blue casualties are just delicious.
I’m not letting the Register off that easy. They published a lengthy defense of their actions, detailing why they thought it was important to tell everyone about some joke tweet shared by a security guard when he was 16.
No, Mr. Editor, it did not provide important context. No, the people donating didn’t need that information to be fully informed about who they were donating to.
And no, nobody should be “partnering” with the Register. You should be judged by your own standards. And your standards are “if you say something, anything, that can be cast as offensive – particularly if we can find a minority angle – you should never be employed again.
So there ya go. You tried to hold a random security guard who was doing charitable work to that standard. So you should be held to that standard. And since you went all-in on defending yourself – you should go down under that standard.
You won’t. Because the rest of us aren’t as nasty as you people are. But you should.
Ok. So After gathering my thoughts from yesterdays incident. I think it is time i issued the Official Leon Position on the parting of LH and on whether or not HM is an asshole:
Leon, ltd has staked the firm position to not take an official position on the situation. However as a matter of policy we will use every means and opportunity available to make jokes of the situation.
That is all.
I know open the time to any questions.
^^^Homo.
This is bullshit. Every comic instinct I have is demanding I make a Rain Man joke.
I think we can all safely agree HM is an asshole.
You are what you eat?
HM and I are both high-ranking members in the eat-a-booty-gang.
I don’t agree.
Ok, but you really can’t argue with Crusty’s you are what you eat logic.
You’re so right. That absolutely follows.
Riven, welcome back. You were missed.
Thank you, Tonio. I appreciate the sentiment.
I don’t get it. I went back because I assumed HM must have followed up the post with some comments that were really offensive; which I found no evidence of. ‘RHEEEEE’ has been a long standing joke around here and I fail to see how it offends unless one is looking to be offended. I have a mentally challenged cousin who I have all the love in the world for and it’s never once stopped me from liberally using ‘retard’ as a pejorative.
My gut feeling is that LH, much as I like him and want to see him posting here, overreacted a bit because this is a very personal subject for him. This forum has always been kind of a no-holds-barred environment. There are things from time to time that I think are at the very least in really poor taste, but that’s kinda just what we do here. Now, if these things that I found borderline offensive brushed up against my kids? Maybe I’d react the same way as he did. Hard to say until I find myself in that position. However, we’ve mocked a LOT of things around here. A whole lot, and the purpose in this case was not specific to Greta Thunberg as an individual so much as a statement against the kind of assholes who cynically made her the symbol of their movement precisely because they bet that the autistic girl would insulate their movement from any criticism.
HM’s an asshole but his posts tend to be very interesting. LH is a good guy and I enjoy his posting too. I hope the Ayatollah can put it behind him and return.
Having kids is for suckers.
“a very personal subject for him. ”
Yeah, how would you like to be Winston?
I’ve mentioned before that my kid is a lesbian.
Last year, her favorite class was wood shop.
Have I ever stormed out in a huff over, say, Tonio using the word “dyke” unkindly in some of his bizarro fiction?
My kid is also very Asian-looking for a hafu. Have I ever written a spit-flecked rant over Asian woman driver comments on here?
Just a few days back, there was an entire discussion in the comments over the use of “nigger” as an adjective with some reminiscing that seemed almost wistful. Did I pack up my toys and go home?
That I don’t view some cows as more sacred than others makes me an interesting asshole?
Well, ok, fair enough. When I stop being interesting, let me know and I’ll see myself out.
At least they don’t refer to your wife as a fucking pillow.
You expect them to know the term “dakimakura“?
You expect this forum *not* to be a weeaboo infestation?
Fair enough.
See? See?! I don’t even know what a weeaboo is.
straff – actually I didn’t know what a weeaboo was until a few years ago as well.
Well, yeah. Weebs aren’t Japanese. I’m assuming there must be the Japanese equivalent of a (usually male) person obsessed with American media and cultural “superiority” over his native one.
Didn’t they divorce? I’m sure she thinks he’s an asshole (too).
Too much wandering eyes at 18-year-old Asian pussy.
Have I ever written a spit-flecked rant over Asian woman driver comments on here
I’m not 100% on the stereotype, but as a lesbian I’d assume she operates her Subaru competently.
(unless y’all are from NJ)
She doesn’t have a license yet, but when she does, she wants a Nissan Silvia S12.
Careful, you keep posting about underage lesbian asians and we’ll end up with some Antifa activists taking clips out of context and the next thing you know we’ll be outed as an alt-right asian-lesbian hating Nazi fetish site.
I’m pretty sure Google has us already classified that way.
You think that is the risk? With this crowd HM will have multiple offers to “adopt” her.
Let me set the record straight.
It is not “dicke.” It is “cod.”
For the purposes of the Glibertariat, the book’s title is Cuntes & Cods even though there is only one cod present.
Fuck a duck. I did it again. I blame the phone.
Fuck a duck.
Corkscrew cod?
I didn’t say you were an asshole for this specific post. It was a general statement, and one that applies to the majority of Glibworld, including me. Further, it’s one of the things that I like about posting here. I don’t do saccharine.
I didn’t know that your daughter is a lesbian, nor have I been involved in any “Asian driver” conversations. Generally, I skim through the comments and there is much I don’t read. My only point was to acknowledge that I haven’t been in a situation here where I perceive that my child is being attacked. I don’t think I’d react the same way he did, but I don’t know that for sure.
Bottom line – I hate having to take sides in a dispute between two people I like (with the standard disclaimer that I don’t actually know any of you other than meeting Tonio and Scruffy once) so I usually try to see it from both angles and hope they get over it.
I can take sides and hold grudges like a motherfucker with people I don’t like, though.
As far as I’m concerned there is no “dispute”, I bare no ill-will on him. I’m just mystified at his reaction.
Honestly, I didnt realize he was serious at first.
Sorry to hear about your daughter”s illness.
What do you bare?
I really debated over that, and took some perhaps legitimate grief for it. The “fat dyke” character in question was a deliberately stereotyped character in a video game; that character’s purpose was to provoke the player-characters into attacking her first and therefore losing the game. The actual dangerous character on that level who goes beyond flipping the protesters off was described as “volleyball lesbian;” I deliberately drew a distinction and presented two different images of lesbianism — which were by no means comprehensive.
For what it’s worth, my daughter is about a 2.5 on the Futch Scale.
Squee! I didn’t know there even was such a thing. Thanks.
It is scientifically valid. I know this because my daughter does indeed play the flute.
That squee put you at 1.7 or lower.
Thank you for this scale as I always wondered where my lesbian preference lied…lies…laid? anyways, I like soft butch.
You a lesbian trapped in a man’s body too?
Yeah, I was going to ask lipstick or …
Thanks for clearing that up. ; )
It’s different, HM. It’s closer to hearing someone making fun of pediatric cancer while yours is struggling through chemo. Many people here would be cool with that, others wouldn’t.
I enjoy reading your posts and know it wasn’t meant maliciously, which to me at least makes the difference. I would not have had said anything, but did not like that many were misrepresenting what I assume was LH’s beef.
I disagree. You think my kid hasn’t experienced more than her fair share of bullying over being both a racial minority and openly gay? You think I haven’t held her while she cried over the cruelty of middle school?
And, I should add that she’s chronically ill. I’ve spent more time in pediatric oncology/hematology wards than anyone should. So, no. I don’t agree. Everyone has their own shit and I still find his beef to have been selectively applied until he proves otherwise.
I’m sorry that happened to you, HM. No child (or parent) should have to go through that.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Yeah, those places shouldn’t have to exist. WIshing you all strength and a good outcome.
Thank you. Unfortunately, this is a something she’ll always live with thing. It’s more about management than curative treatment.
Can we get a ruling from the Glibertiat on “hafu”?
I won’t use it in English, but it’s widely used in Japanese and will use it in Japanese.
muratto?
That actually is the romanized way to spell mullatto in Japanese – ムラート
I almost never hear it. Maybe they’re calling my daughter it behind our backs, but she’s never heard it. I check in with her every once in a while on the subject. Never. At this point in history, in this location nobody GAF. That’s as good as I could hope for being part of the minority.
Hey, Hero….
serious side question…
How old was she when you figured out what was going on? I have two daughters myself. One is hyper-feminine and by the time she was two and a half, she had us worrying that she was going to end up working at the Cheetah III. The other is very much a tomboy – but is just a kid. She eschews all things girly – dresses, skirts, pink, ponies, rainbows, unicorns… but she will come inside with a fastball if you crowd the plate – even on a full count.
They are both too young to have any “sexuality”, so to speak. But they definitely have very strong personality traits that are adjacent to that territory.
Then it’s too early to give it much thought. Neither sets of behaviours described are indicative of adult preferences in partners.
I was eating pussy at 5.
*Considers deleting comment*
Those poor cats.
Yeah… that could go a lot of ways.
Innocent experimentation….. or mom is really over the line…
I got a ‘feeling’ when she was 4. It was just a combination of various small interactions that kinda made me wonder. At 10, I discovered that she left a Youtube search open to “girls kissing”, and at 11 she just told me what’s up.
While she is quite feminine, very pretty, and spends way too much money on clothing and makeup, she also has a total of like 2 female friends. The rest of her friends are boys, she always got along with them better. This, of course, infuriated the other girls who couldn’t understand why she received so much attention from the boys and so tortured her in the special way that catty pre-teen girls are expert in.
Oh yeah.
Anime. Anime made her gay.
I KNEW IT!
Interesting.
I suspect that we are within normal variation. Mine is very pretty as well, but doesn’t want to be “girly”. And her best friend is a boy.
But she confided in me that she has a crush on him.
Meh, who knows.
Their older brother is really, really good looking. And super sweet. So he has a long, long list of girls who are following him everywhere. But he hasn’t really hit the hormone spurt yet, so he’s mostly not interested. So who knows…. I do know that he has at least 15 girls who tell their mom that he’s the one they are gonna marry one day. Which is exactly explanatory of the difference between boys and girls. Bob ain’t telling his dad that he’s gonna marry that cute girl in 3rd period.
You get what you get and you don’t get upset, as they say. Like all good parents, I’m just trying not to screw it up. (I figure every child has a certain potential. And the absolute best you could possibly do as a parent is help them reach that potential. And of course, nobody is going to be perfect. So we are just trying to screw it up as little as possible.)
Which is the angle I’m coming from…. not wanting to screw it up. And we all know girls are the hardest for dads, because everyone knows that if dad is to strict, to lenient, to anything… she’s gonna end up on the pole.
One thing I noticed was at the age when girls have crushes on anyone and anything, my daughter acted as if she was completely allergic to the whole idea. She thought it was gross and immature and wanted nothing to do with it.
Thanks for sharing.
This is a great example of “internet only” conversation. I really can’t go to other dads and talk about this locally. So HM is my only subject matter expert.
Anytime.
I know what you mean.
Some humans have sexual feelings from a very early age.
Yeah…. the textbook says it goes away from about 5 to about 9 or 10.
But I always had a girlfriend growing up. From kindergarten through…. well, always.
And I always assumed that everyone is basically the same. So I figured we all were like that.
But now that I have kids, I see things a lot differently. Because I interact with so many kids, I can see that everyone is really different. Which is why being a parent can be so challenging.
I remember being very attracted to Jim Fowler (“And now Jim is going to wrestle the drugged ocelot to the ground, good luck Jim”) as a very young boy. I know I wanted to go on Safari with him and sleep in the same bed as him, but my ideas really didn’t go beyond that.
There are also some legit tomboys out there who are totally straight. Many of them discover they like dolling up once the boys start to notice them. Those women make wonderful wives for men who aren’t intimidated by them.
Dude I’m straight but Jim was awesome! I used to watch that show waiting for Jim to get fed up and slip a drugged honey badger into Marlin’s bedroll.
Being infatuated with Jim Fowler is in no way a sign of homosexuality.
That dude was a man’s man. Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin was doing a pale imitation.
For those to young to have watched WIld Kindom, Jim was about as awesome as a dude gets. “Ok, so we are going to catch this dangerous lion. Here’s the plan: Jim is going to go wrestle him to the ground…..”
Dude was jacked before people were jacked in real life. You’d need “The Rock” to play him in the movie version.
I hold my bars everywhere on the internet and always have. With cancel culture the way it is, I’m glad I had that foresight.
By ingrown habit I cater my language to the social group I’m in at the moment. there are opinions I’ll never express and topics I’ll never broach for the sake of continuing association. Even here, where I am at my most profane and vulgar, I hold back in areas.
I suspect I’m not alone in these habits.
#metoo
Yup.
methree#
We are all a series of nested masks.
I hold my bars
Wait… what?
Hey, I’d hold her bars too.
Wait, what?
Well-put Chipwooder. I missed the kerfuffle and hope that LH finds his way back to us. HM just has a very different way of looking at things. I sometimes find that challenging, but always engaging.
People shouldn’t assume I’m ‘neuro-typical’, because I’m not.
However, I’m also not telling the majority of the world’s population that they need to die to accomplish my vision of the perfect society.
Well, hey! I think I found your problem!
Right.
Now go put on your pussy hat and get in line with the rest of the proper-thinking folk. Today we are protesting for….
what are we protesting again?
Oh, yeah! Electric trains!
Now get out there and march!
wait… are we for them, or against them? I forget…
People shouldn’t assume I’m ‘neuro-typical’, because I’m not.
neuro-typical is IQ 100, a dedicated member of a major political party, and primarily interested in network TV shows.
neuro-typical is retarded.
I always said, the worst insult you could give is to call someone “normal”.
I’m sorry i’m going to have to close this press conference if all of you are going to use your question period to make statements and grandstand.
Lone hates a free and independent press!!!
/CNN
*leon* ducking autocorrect
Ye Olde Leone
Tea? I would bang her. Even though Dukovney already tapped that.
Mostly because other humans suck.
https://www.askmen.com/news/health/men-are-emotionally-closer-to-dogs-than-humans-says-science.html
Although… I’m not really a dog person. I’d say I have a much closer connection to my cat than ~100% of humans (in spite of the fact that he’s pissing all over my basement). I have a close connection to certain parts of certain females; but emotional bond? That’s gay.
Men Are Emotionally Closer to Dogs Than Humans, Says Science
Man i read that as Men are more emotionally similar to Dogs than Humans, says science.
That’s really not surprising. Dogs and humans have been cooperating for thousands of years, so dogs have evolved to cooperate and have a strong connection to humans.
Their success as a species depends on it.
Humans have evolved for the symbiosis just as much as the dogs have.
This doesn’t surprise me. Over the long run, I’d say about 30% of humans are assholes (although the short-term ratio has probably crept up to about 40%.). With dogs, the number is probably closer to about 10-15%. And there’s a big difference with asshole dogs, you have a lot of say over them. You can get them trained. Or replace them. Or give them jobs that are a good fit for asshole dogs. Asshole humans, on the other hand, have a lot more agency to contend with. They can screw your life up in a way that an asshole dog can’t. Perhaps even more importantly, asshole dogs generally announce themselves. You run into an asshole dog, you’re going to know it within a couple of days, at most. Asshole humans? Nope. They’re quite good at feigning good nature or decency. Now, combine the greater propensity to assholedom, the greater ability to inflict damage, and the greater ability to hide their asshole nature, dogs are a much safer bet.
” (although the short-term ratio has probably crept up to about 40%.).”
I blame socialism.
“Over the long run, I’d say about 30% of humans are assholes (although the short-term ratio has probably crept up to about 40%.)”
I think your way too low on that scale and that number is much, much higher.
aaaand I’m out.
Womansplaining.
All I can see now is a triple-beam balance scale loaded down with Tom of Finland pictures.
18 Hilariously Brutal Things Older Siblings Did To Their Younger Siblings That They’re Still Salty About
Ban older brothers!
Nobody want to take your older brothers. We just need common sense older brother control.
No one needs more than 23 kinds of older brother.
Lets see…im salty that bastard shoved me in an equipment bag when I was 5 and hung me on a fence near the back of the soccer fields…
Brothers…ban them!
I convinced two of mine to play prisoners when I was babysitting them, then locked them in the closet then read in peace until mom got home. The peace ended when she got home though. It ended like it was August 1914.
I convinced my younger brother to pee on an electric fence.
He spray painted my white cat green
On one hand, I find that hilarious. On the other I’m immediately concerned about the health of the cat, especially if it tries to groom off the paint.
This is a great book though. https://www.amazon.com/Why-Paint-Cats-Ethics-Aesthetics/dp/1580082718
Voter fraud is a myth.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/24/sherikia-hawkins-southfield-city-clerk-charged-alt/
Isolated incident. Racial justice to make up for all the RethugliKKKan voter supreshunz.
I’ve been diagnosed with a bad case of ass burgers.
You joke too much to have ass burgers.
He made them from ground round, but didn’t refrigerate the case in time.
Juul CEO is out, and it stops all advertising as vaping crisis escalates
The tobacco companies are back in charge, just like they were when America was great. Thanks, President Trump!
Juul made a conscious decision to sell their customer base and the industry as a whole down the river in the hopes of being seen as the reasonable vaping company the government could work with. From what I understand they make a good product but I really do hope others end up with their market share.
Yup. Huge mistake.
And it might end up with an extra few hundred thousand dying of cancer.
So thanks for that, nanny state lovers!
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Oh, CNN. Of course.
When we said “Tied to their products” we didn’t mean it in the sense that it is tied directly to their products, but in the sense that it could be seen as related to their products.
“And we’re totally not dragging our heels on getting to the bottom of what’s really going on.”
I followed a link in that story to an other CNN story, and clicked a link in that to find this statement from the Kansas governor’s office:
Yes, two old people with documented health problems died, so it must have been the vaping. It simply must be. There’s no other possible factor that could have led to their deaths.
I would bet money that almost all of these “vaping-related deaths/hospitalizations” are either cases of people who already have severe health problems, or people who are using the vapes in ways that are explicitly warned against by the manufacturer.
The stonewalling that everyone is doing here is just convincing me that none of the cases are going to be tied to legal products.
This has already been scientifically explored. The epidemiology is in on vaping. Overall, it is at least 95% safer than smoking. At least! Experts are saying it is probably more like 98% to 99.5% safer. But they don’t have enough data to say that conclusively.
So we are collecting people who have a lung disease and vape. Many of these are using illegal THC products that have not been tested or even have a known entity standing behind them. But even if every single one of them was due to vaping with Juul, it would still be orders of magnitude safer than cigarettes.
So nice job, ass-hats.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-to-release-transcript-of-trumps-ukraine-call-as-impeachment-efforts-begin-11569403803?mod=breakingnews
(emphasis mine)
The claim looked reasonable to me but I haven’t really looked into it. Is that discredited claim language legit or is the WSJ already circling the wagons around Biden?
Since when has this claim been discredited? I thought there was a substantial amount of evidence that it did, in fact, happen.
I think Rasilo posted a fairly good article from the washington examiner detailing it. Neither side is being very genuine in this situation.
As for “discredited claim” are we going to talk about the fact that the “whistleblower” had no first hand knowledge of the phone call?
that WashEx article still made it sound like there was potential for graft on Hunter’s behalf. the problem with Trump’s side per the WashEx was that Shokin was super corrupt already so Trump can’t pretend he was pristine Virgin Connie Swail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN82k0f9uyM
Raston Bot, not Rasillio. Thanks.
Discredited is not an appropriate word.
Denied, maybe.
But what they have said, repeatedly is that “there is no proof that Biden did this for his son”.
And they’ve added a couple of other things that actually have been discredited as proof of that claim.
They say the company was not under investigation. This is not true. in fact, in support of that same claim they have a “whistleblower” from the ex-prosecutor’s office who says the file on that company was languishing and not being worked on. You know – the file on the investigation that didn’t exist.
They also say that Joe didn’t know that his boy worked for a Ukrainian company. Yet he travels to Ukraine? Why? And where’s the sudden lifestyle coming from? It isn’t like he was setting the world on fire. And yet supposedly the Vice President doesn’t know that his kid got a huge no-show job running a company in an industry that he doesn’t know about? I mean… don’t we have an intelligence community that is monitoring government corruption? Anyway, I digress. As a “discrediting” fact, this is laughable. Nobody had better believe such nonsense.
Here’s the problem. The media has played defense for the Democrats for so long, they could tell me that water is wet and I’d feel a need to confirm it. And, in the off chance that they still are honest, they’re still working from the now-defunct assumption that they have any credibility to draw on.
Hunter Biden didn’t do anything wrong? Okay. That should be an easy thesis to support. Explain how his drawing a $600k annual salary as a board member for this particular Ukrainian company, even though he has no experience in the industry and doesn’t even speak the language, while his father is in high office isn’t something that is unusual or suspicious. Don’t expect me to go along with the “move along, nothing to see here” line just because you’ve said it. That train left the station some time ago.
What boggles the mind is how do the Dems believe that opening an impeachment over this situation won’t expose every tiny detail of the above? Do they REALLY think they will dig to the bottom of what Trump was doing without bringing to light everything Biden and Son were up to?
I can only imagine this was kicked off by somebody within the party who wanted Biden out of the picture (Lookin’ at Herself over there in the corner)
CNN wants Warren to be President soooooo badly.
They’ve been changing horses like a Pony Express rider. The only thing they’ve been consistent about for more than a week or three is that whatever it is, Trump should be impeached for it.
This also implicates the Clintons, as word has it that the reason the Ukrainians were looking to contact the Trump administration was over an issue they had with HRC during the 2016 election and tried to communicate to the Obama administration… but the Obama administration wouldn’t hear it. They even went so far as hiring a former US attorney to hand deliver the information to the department of Justice.
If that is the context of Trump’s call….. ouch. Not gonna go well for the Dems.
I have a feeling Pelosi is going to slow-walk the shit out of this.
I’ve come to expect that. But what makes me mad is that a lot of Lefties still act like you’re some kind of insane, Alex Jones-listening nutjob if you question anything that’s written on CNN and the New York Times. Hell, a lot of these organizations got caught in direct collusion with the Democrat Party. It’s undeniable that the mainsteam media (Fox News excepted) has a Leftist agenda. You can show them one instance after another where the media got called out by people on social media who simply looked up original sources and determined that there was some significant bias in the story, but they’ll just write it off as one “isolated incident” after another.
They will label things as crazy right-wing conspiracy theories, but they just deny those theories and lambast the people advancing them instead of actually proving what IS true and putting the theories to rest. Just like with the Pizzagate thing: the media hammered the point that it’s not a pedophile sex ring, which is probably correct, but they never do any digging into what is actually being discussed in those emails (because there are several where “pizza” is obviously code for something, or else these emails are just totally incoherent).
…a lot of Lefties still act like you’re some kind of insane, Alex Jones-listening nutjob if you question anything that’s written on CNN and the New York Times.
The thing is, I no longer have any reason to believe that CNN or the NY Times are more reliable than Alex Jones. At this point, I look at any story from those sorts of sources as a selection of facts chosen to support the delusions, narratives and presumption of their publishers and audience. In that sense, how are they different from InfoWars?
Hyperbole had something on this in one of yesterday’s posts. I don’t remember all the details, but the gist was that when Biden made the call, the case involving his son had been long dropped.
Well that would change a lot of things. Love to see that link.
At the risk of reigniting my spat with Hyperbole, there was no link. He just parroted the claim.
I saw that but then read something that contradicted that narrative. It was a timeline and the “he quite 2 years ago” was not part of it.
Yeah, this was a lefty talking point and it was proven wrong.
It is very important to parse this correctly.
that Mr. Biden as vice president called for the ouster of Ukraine’s prosecutor general to protect his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a company whose owner the prosecutor had investigated.
The bold language is not discredited. There is no doubt by anyone with access to youtube that Biden personally delivered a message that Ukraine’s executive needed to remove the pros general or else Biden would shut off the ‘aid’ transfer. There is no doubt that Hunter Biden sat on a board of a company that was being investigates (the owner was too, which is what the article states, but the company itself was as I understand it, giving Hunter Biden a financial stake in the outcome of the investigation, but this is a lie of commission not submission).
The only part that can be reasonably asserted as “discredited” is the motivation in Biden’s head when he made his demand.
Short of getting Walter Koening to reprise his most well known and beloved sci-fi role, there is no way that we could possibly “discredit” an accusation of what was going on in his head. Creepy Joe knew that Hunter was on the board, and he knew that Hunter stood to suffer a financial loss based on the investigation, but we can’t know if that really did influence him.
I do note, however, that for the rest of the world, just the appearance of impropriety in a similar situation can land them in the clink for a decade. But you know. Not our betters.
Altria bought a 35% stake in Juul last year for about $13 billion.
Huh. What’s it worth, today?
Arg! I know where the story is going, who’s in it, the setting, but I can’t seem to get the darn thing started.
It starts, as all stories should, with murder.
Followed by necrophilia.
And then necrophagia. Waste not, want not.
“It was a dark and stormy night. . . “
Ironically, since the main character’s official job is as a Riding Officer, and smugglers preferred nights with inclement weather, that would be an appropriate set of conditions.
“I’ve been a long-time reader but I never imagined it would happen to me…”
“Where else are you going to find ‘scoops of flesh?'”
^^^^THIS^^^^
in media res. No long winded descriptions.
Take the dark stormy night and work with it
The horse almost reared as the first thunderbolt hit and it took all X skill to control it. It was no night to be put, mn or beast, but such ar the night when mischief occurs. X looked over the waves, although he did not expect to see much. The small fires in the coves were the thing to look for
Have you read my work?
nope 🙂
but some day…
Or for the erotic version : it was generally considered improper for a Riding Officer to frequent a brothel, but this is where the smugglers spend their time and was a good source of information. And why no indulge a little, especially on such a stormy nigh outside which made leaving was hard, and stormy lasses inside that were inviting you to linger.
Have someone break down the door holding a gun.
No, no, that’s when you get stuck in the middle of the story.
I’d give you advice, but since my ‘jottings’ folder has about 2 megs of “great idea +a scene I want to write” one page files…
That it?
RE: Impeachment.
If the Dems really do this, they’re going to regret it. It’s classic “dog catching the car” stuff. Their extra-chromosome base wants it, but few of them are old enough to remember what an embarrassment the Clinton impeachment was, and how it backfired. Sure Clinton was in his second term, but a majority of Americans thought he should be acquitted and a substantial majority thought it was a waste of time and harmful to the country.
Sure the foaming-at-the-mouth Commie bloc will be happy, but I think they’ll alienate “moderate” voters in 2020. (Closet swinger) soccer moms don’t want impeachment harshing the buzz from the Adderall they stole from the kids.
“extra-chromosome”?!!1!11? RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
But Gore lost to Dubya. That’s why the Dems think this is a winning strategy.
They’re simple-minded that way.
Every president who was impeached ended up not being president. It’s hard to argue against those kinds of results.
All but one presidents have so far ended up not being president anymore.
Now you’ve created a conundrum. Do I point out that this was the joke? Or let it slide?
Or do a try to pull some Fist of Etiquette version of a sideways joke about not getting the joke…. nah… he’s always succinct. I can’t pull off succinct. I’m way to verbose for that.
Hmmm…
So just skip it?
Yeah… skip it.
Right! Carry on then!
And even if they did succeed, I think that would be a disaster that they’re not prepared for. I think you would see secession movements in red states and possibly an attempt at armed uprisings. Impeaching Trump would basically be the Deep State telling half the country, “NO, he wasn’t one of the choices you were given, so we’re taking him away. From now on, you’ll take the candidates we give you and you’ll like it. Sit down and shut up.”
… Not to mention that impeaching Trump would mean that we get President Mike Pence, who is far more anti-gay than Trump. Why does the Left hate gays?
Not to mention that impeaching Trump would mean that we get President Mike Pence, who is far more anti-gay than Trump. Why does the Left hate gays?
I am amazed at how the Left took probably the most pro-gay and Israel-friendly president the US has had and morphed him into the second coming of Hitler. And their base enthusiastically bought it.
Outrage is a helluva drug, and apparently very addicting for the weak-minded.
The Left hates Israel, so no surprise there. Gays are so 2000’s, and shockingly many of them are moderate to conservative white people. Trans and genderfluid or the trendy sexual minorities of the moment.
Pence is a swamp rat too, so that makes him the good kind of gay-hating conservative.. Plus, as soon as Trump is out, we have a new motto “Impeach Pence”….
Not to mention that impeaching Trump would mean that we get President Mike Pence, who is
far moreanti-gaythanunlike Trump.1998 Joe Biden says it’s a terrible idea.
They’ve literally been planning on impeachment since before Trump set foot in the White House. They just needed any reason that might stick. After the Russia thing failed, they were even more desperate to find that reason. Now that they’ve found one, they’re jumping on it without even considering that it might hurt their candidate or their party. This is what happens when you follow your emotions and don’t temper them with logic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ad-kMNNCRI
What’s the White Claw Vote look like for 2020?
Good news, everyone!
New York magazine will soon be under new ownership.
Vox Media agreed Tuesday to acquire New York Media, the print magazine’s parent company, the New York Times reported Tuesday evening.
“No one had to do this,” Pam Wasserstein, chief executive of New York Media, told the Times. “It’s a brilliant, in our view, opportunity, so that’s why we leaned into it. It’s not out of need. It’s out of ambition.”
Jim Bankoff, Vox Media’s chief executive and chairman, added that there would be no editorial layoffs at the magazine as a result of the acquisition.
“Nothing changes editorially for any of our brands,” he said.
Vox Media, a digital behemoth popular with technology buffs, foodies and sports fans, is home to The Verge, Eater, Curbed, Vox, Recode, Polygon and SB Nation.
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“This combination is solely about leadership, growth, and opportunity,” the statement continued. “Two companies that are already strong — creatively, financially, and culturally — are coming together to be even stronger, to serve and delight audiences and customers with a fuller, more diverse portfolio of offerings, and to be a place where the most talented professionals can do their best work in an environment that respects them and their values.”
The truth will be heard.
Vox cranks out some of the most high-grade, reliable derp on the market.
Wow…. that’s…. wow…
I mean, I know everyone over at Vox aspires to write for The Atlantic and New York Magazine, etc. I suppose this will take care of that…
Vox?
Who knew trolling could be so profitable. Maybe that explains Tony et. al.
Next week, Everyday Feminism buys The New Yorker!
How does Vox make any money?
Every so often NBC pours a bucket of cash into their accounts. Or was it ABC? Or maybe AlJ? Anyway, an established media company is backrolling them
Vox Media,
a digital behemoth popular with technology buffs, foodies and sports fans, is home to The Verge, Eater, Curbed, Vox, Recode, Polygon andSB Nation.Does this help answer your question?
Didn’t they shut down recode?
For those remotely interested, today saw the first upset at the Rugby World Cup with Uruguay beating Fiji.
Yeah. My dark horse pick took a dump.
That was always going to be a tough group to get out of. Now they’ll have to beat Wales and hope for more upsets.
Is the RWC generating much interest among the general public in Japan? BBC keeps talking about big crowds, but it seems a lot of the people to whom they are referring are ex-pats.
Huge crowds. 49K at the Japan/Russia game, IIRC. Saw many Japanese people wearing the red and white jerseys on that day. I even saw a few today. TV doesn’t care much. The volleyball WC is getting all the airtime. I suspect it will pick up big time if Japan wins another game.
Wait, there’s a volleyball World Cup on too??
https://www.youtube.com/user/videoFIVB
I’ll be in my bunk
https://youtu.be/iJAS5fnS0NY
The comments are awesome.
Don’t even look at Sarina Koga. She’s mine.
Watching The Darling Buds of May. Good lord Catherine Z-J is hot. Cancer is worth it.
The best Darlings.
I enjoy most all of the Andy Griffith reruns, but refuse to watch any with the Darlings in it.
At the rate things are going, how long before we start erecting statues to the Rosenbergs?
I say you might as well get started. beat the terend
And then in 40 years we’ll have the Robespierres marching around it with Tiki torches, screaming, “You will not replace us!”
This guy gets it!
I’ll see your interpretation of Glibs conversation, and raise you this.
Morris Dancing FTW!
BLACFACE!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I see you noticed the Nazi sub at the end of Python’s fish dance, and you’ve raised me full blackface. Well played. In this day of hyper-snowflake and pervasive literally Hitlers, Blackface….. well played!
https://youtu.be/IettWxovuGw
It’s like the tradition of not running busybodies out of town on a rail. Something people just got in the habit of and can’t figure a good way out of.
Hey, it is England. What do you expect, masculine Mummers?
Jimmy On Americans | Jimmy Carr Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPcRHHzGs7E
WANT
Greta Thunberg can ride in it, if she promises not to speak.
I usually prefer a more military style one over the safari look, but quite clean in the pics
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1993-land-rover-defender-110-23/
I don’t get the old car thing. seems uncomfortable and unsafe.
you don’t notice those things
you’ll be too busy completely replacing the electrics
Hey! That resembles my brief stint as the owner of a TR-7 convertible.
Awesome car…. when it was running…
How did you get far enough along in the rust repairs to bother with the electronics?
It helps if the old cars around you aren’t commie rust buckets.
While that one isn’t the best example, back before the environmental standards pushed cars to their aerodynamic limit, designers were free to actually, well, design, so the vehicles were more varied and many are works of art (along with many that look like dreck)
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What about that seems uncomfortable? Those seats look luxurious. And you can actually put your hands around that steering wheel and not feel as if you are grasping a fire hose.
Some of us have larger hands and find those spindly old steering wheels uncomfortable.
You know what they say about a man with large hands?
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Large gloves!
The worst part is if there is a standard for ‘large’ versus ‘XL’, it’s not widely folowed, and which size I wear depends on the manufacturer.
As a beanpole, I’ve just had to accept that my clothes will never fit properly.
As a decade-long, exclusive-telecommuter, I can make up for the poor fit by wearing sweats all the time. AmazonBasics fleece pants FTW.
Talk to Zarathustra, apparently he knows a good tailor.
Brilliant, spend way more money to fix a nonexistent problem.
You’re GovtEmployee through and through.
It’s worse than that. Not all 36 waist pants are actually that size. If anything the sizes run large, aka “vanity sizing,” so a man with a 38″ waist can feel good about himself by buying a pair of pants labelled 36W and having them fit comfortably.
And don’t even get me started on US vs European vs Asian Sizes.
36 in pant size is not some arbitrary number, it’s supposed to be 36 inches. If you label it 36 when it’s actually 38 inches, that’s false advertizing.
This is why no one wants to cyber with you.
Don’t ever look into sizing on cycling clothes. There’s at least four different fits for jerseys, all with different measurements for them.
And there is actually reason to wear driving gloves when the steering wheel is wood!
Ow! My perforated lungs!
My life for Aiur!
Those seats look luxurious – are they electrically adjustable in 12 ways, heated and cooled?
There’s a difference between luxurious and decadent.
I don’t have that even in my 2013 car!
In most cases the older cars are just a lot of fun to drive. These are not cars you’d drive to work or on a long road trip. There’s too much money sunk into them. You keep them in the garage and take them out on nice days.
A friend of mine bought a General Lee replica this summer. I see him driving it in town sometimes. He loves it.
“a General Lee replica”
PROBLEMATIC!!!!
Is he a racist?
10 Input race of friend
20 if white then yes: end
30 No
there’s a bodystyle that will never come back after that brief revival in the 90s – a true b-pillarless hardtop
It can’t. Roof crush regs make it virtually impossible.
Sad!
One of those was on that website a couple of months ago, and it sold for 40-something K.
You prefer the more militaristic, you say?
Eh, the current bid is more than I can spare from my budget.
Maybe some other year.
I’ll be in my bunk
Looks just the right size to convert to an RV.
I’m not sure that will clear the garage door.
That’s purty. That sort of thing, or a Unimog conversion are one of lotto/retirement dreams. https://www.motor1.com/news/351458/mercedes-unimog-camper-drive/
That just screams “Maintenance nightmare”
Democrats are the enemy within.
Discuss.
absolutely
The question is whether the full evil consequences of socialist notions will come to be or not. Meanwhile, flight to the right is creating a similarly dangerous intellectual vacuum: defending Republicans and their fellow travelers from a full and honest critique is an industry as well. Identity politics is an intellectual shortcut, the order of the day: the alpha and the omega of 90% of what is said and published anymore.
With many, the strike zone moves depending on who is at the plate.
defending Republicans and their fellow travelers from a full and honest critique is an industry as well
Yes, you’re probably right. But, I’d suggest that the flood of utterly mendacious and inane critiques of Republicans and conservatives has made that almost inevitable. People get used to defending Republicans or Trump, not out of love for Trump or the Republicans, but because, so often, the criticisms are hypocritical or outright insane. That probably does tend to blind people to actually legitimate criticisms.
someone always shows up
It’s okay for you to be for your team, but your comment is proof to my pudding, as if the unfair critiques mean there should be none or that none are fair and accurate. Your guy is a douche, and you should take it like a man when he gets called on something instead of blustering. He’s a wildman on the mound, and to insist that he only throws strikes and blame all the balls on an unfair ump is bullshit, never more so than now.
Fox news was a natural response to the dropping of the mask by the leftwing MSM. Unfortunately the natural response to lying propaganda from the left is lying propaganda from the right, not honest reporting.
we should take a page from the Dem policy book on how to treat the enemy within.. and abort them.
to be fair, so are republicans, greens and the libertarian party.
No. We are.
“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Since the Civil War, yes. So are the Republicans starting a few years earlier but are now in less of a hurry to wreck everything.
Discuss.
I’m not your bitch.
Is it just me or is this page loading REALLY slowly?
Transcript is out and, as expected, there’s nothing there. Lucy pulled the football away again.
Linky?
It’s a little slower,but I think that might be the network here at school.
I’m not seeing any abnormal delays.
Nice to see you back, Doom and very nice to hear things are settling down for y’all.
It’s good to be back!
Should be smooth sailing till the daughter gets here.
Why’d you give her the correct address?
I think said daughter is an infant.
The Children! They are coming from inside your house!
“Hang on, I have another call…”
*click*
*covered in afterbirth*
She’s determined to show up, I don’t think she even cares what the address is.
1 Belly Ln, The apartment above the funhouse.
So I can’t keep track of which babies are still pending and which are abandonable yet, I give up.
CNN is touting it as proof of their claims. Once again evidence is in the eye of the partisan beholder. I read it, and in my opinion it:
1. does not contain wrongdoing
2. does clearly demonstrate that Trump is a babbling moron
“So much for tolerant, caring San Francisco.”
Here’s what I don’t get. If you own a tent, why would you camp on the sidewalk?
I have several very high-end tents an camping gear. It’s designed for mountain climbing, so it’s very lightweight. I would never consider using it to camp on a sidewalk as there are plenty of places in cities where you can camp on the grass. If I camp in a city park that has a restroom, I’m pretty much set.
I live in Minneapolis, so there are parks within a child’s walking distance from every point in the city and when I lived in Atlanta’s Druid Hills I remember thinking that if I ever became homeless, there’s Daniel Johnson Nature Preserve or Morningside Nature Preserve that would be great places to camp out as both have a creek running through them and no cops. Plus they both are within walking distances from great places to panhandle(Emory University, Midtown, Buckhead, etc.).
I just don’t get the sidewalk thing when those nature preserves are so quite and private. Set up camp after dark, break camp at dawn and no one would never even know you’d been there for the night.
You assume solitude is the goal. Its not.
Or I should say, its not for the people setting up tents on the sidewalk. There are in fact quite a few people who set up a tent, hammock, or bed-roll every night on the beech (probably no hammocks there, tbf) state/national park, etc every night, tear it down every night, and then walk a mile or two into town every day. Those people, for whatever reason, just want to live their life without a fixed address. Some are leeches (pan-handlers, petty criminals, etc). But some aren’t (day laborers, migrant workers, and punk-house residents).
But the ones setting up right on the sidewalk are setting up there because its the most inconvenient spot for others. I don’t really know the reason that they do this, but it’s not accidental.
Indeed. Tallahassee, FL has some pretty sizable homeless encampments but they are out in the woods so the residents don’t get hassled as much by The Man, while being close enough to parts of town with lucrative panhandling prospects.
I don’t really know the reason that they do this
“If you don’t like it, Fuck You Pay Me to do otherwise”, duh?
Because out-of-sight / out-of-mind doesn’t get you free shit?
The block in question is right next to the Safeway on Market Street, near the Haight.
I.e. panhandler central. Who wants to walk more than 1 block to work every morning?
Croatia by way of Springfield Armory has released a new carry gun to compete with Sig’s P365. it’s 1″ wide but capacity is 11+1 or 13+1.
https://www.springfield-armory.com/hellcat-features/
it’s as thin as my Walther but nearly double the capacity.
Walther is going to have to change the pps.
Honestly, if they could license these mag designs to make a high-capacity PPK, I’d be all over that shiznit.
Fortunately for me, NY’s 10-round limit means I have no immediate need to purchase one of these.
For the love of God, they better make it look like a PPK. They have the single most iconic looking pocket / concealable autoloader form factor in the world, and they don’t use it on all their pocket / concealable guns???!? Do they just hate money.
But I don’t like the look of the PPK.
Thank you for confirming
I think the ppk is the best looking, and best built hand gun. Yes I know all the hate I gets, but that thing is just a mechanical work of art.
incoming “you can hurt someone more by throwing it at them!” in 3 2…
Nah, I just think it’s ugly.
They better make it look like the PPK. They have the single most iconic look for pocket / concealable autoloader, and they don’t use it on their top of the line concealable autoloader????!? Why? Do they hate money?
People buy the Bersa Thunder, which is a pretty shit gun for its sales, just because it looks kinda like the PPK.
We get it, you like the PPK.
So do the server squirrels, it would appear. They told me the first comment didn’t post.
.22 PPK/s for $250
That’s a good deal, IMO.
Interesting. I’ll be checking one out.
I may wait a bit to see if someone else *cough* Walther *cough* has one in the works.
i just read the transcript. oh man that is some funny stuff to base an impeachment on that.
Mi Hijo! Link por favor?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
All this stunt will do is let the progtards thinking they finally got orange man this time down yet again, and end up destroying Biden as he ends up investigated. Then Paleface Liawatha will win the nomination and promptly lose the election.
Any of y’all have any experience with these new, wee Ruger Wranglers? I love me a plinkin’ wheel-gun but, I must confess to being wary of Ruger since my my early ’90s P series (a tremendous piece of shit).
Whoops, forgot the link – https://youtu.be/zfTk4eLRd3o
single-action rimfire for $199? from the reviews online, sounds like a fun afternoon plinking to me. https://grabagun.com/ruger-2002-wrangler-single-action.html
Can’t say anything about the Wrangler.
Ladydoom has a newish gp100 that she very much likes. Got that about a year ago.
I had one issue, and it was ammo related.
Just ‘cuz I love plinky wheelguns – https://youtu.be/cLPI_p5RnR0
You have all clearly been vaccinated, like someone who should be in school overseas.
Sorry the circle-jerk lost another member (LH), guys.
I got some beautiful HM links out of this place and Reason, as well as the wisest pithy comments ever regarding gun control, courtesy of Suthenboy. Those will stay with me.
And Grizzly hating on The Hyperbole was great.
Anyway: I hate SP. What are you gonna do, ban me?
You don’t have the power, lol.
¿Quién es más macho? “I have the power!“ o “I’ve got the power“?
MY president
To: Heroic Quadroon
From: Soyboy, erudite Catholic
Tonio is a cocksucker. That’s right, cocksucker. Pillow-biting cocksucking bent poofter uranist.
Please don’t ban me and block my IP, SP! Please no!
Troll level: nubsauce
Ignore him, he’ll get bored.
Yeah, yeah, you frame it as trolling so you can ignore it—and you will, because everyone ignores everything outside of the Clique here. And that’s cool, and actually a great MO through life. I genuinely think that’s awesome. I do have a genuine question, though, but I’ll wait for a proper open thread.
You need a Will Ferrell gif to bring your point home.