Stuffed With Sockeye Salmon, ‘Holly’ Wins ‘Fat Bear Week’ Heavyweight Title
Fat Bear Week 2019 officially ended Tuesday night. And the winner is …
No. 435, or if you prefer a name, Holly.
Fat Bear Week has been an annual event for the past five years in Katmai National Park and Preserve in southwestern Alaska. The idea is to publicize and celebrate the process of bears eating as much as they can to build up crucial fat reserves in advance of winter hibernation.
Park rangers made a game out of the process — a March Madness-style bracket matching bear against bear, each with photos proving girth and inviting the public to vote on the fattest bear in each pair.
Apologies to those who might have thought that “Fat Bear Champion” was a porn title, or an anime title, or an anime porn title. (Swiss can’t narrow his eyes… I stole the joke from him!)
But watch out, Molly, in your long slumber. STEVE SMITH likes ’em meaty.
Cattle Mysteriously Mutilated In Oregon
Coming upon one of the dead bulls is an eerie scene. The forest is hot and still, apart from a raven’s repeating caw. The bull looks like a giant, deflated plush toy. It smells. Weirdly, there are no signs of buzzards, coyotes or other scavengers. His red coat is as shiny as if he were going to the fair, but he’s bloodless and his tongue and genitals have been surgically cut out.
Marshall says these young livestock were just reaching their top value as breeding bulls. The animals are worth around $6,000 each. And since these were breeding bulls, hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of future calves were lost too.
Finding these young Herefords in this remote country can sometimes take the ranch’s experienced cowboys days. Ranch staff members are now required to ride in pairs and are encouraged to carry arms.
“It’s rugged,” Marshall says. “I mean this is the frontier. If some person, or persons, has the ability to take down a 2,000-pound range bull, you know, it’s not inconceivable that they wouldn’t have a lot of problems dealing with a 180-pound cowboy.”
Mutilated cattle? Drained of blood with genitals and tongues removed? It’s just so retro and 70s. UFOs! Cults! Chupacabras!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation
Thar be monsters: Filmmaker explores creatures of New England lore
“Champ,” the sea monster of lore that lives in Lake Champlain, and other water-dwelling cryptids of New Hampshire and across New England fascinate documentarian Aleksandar Petakov.
The Nashua filmmaker and cryptozoology researcher shared his love for the elusive creatures Thursday at Derry Public Library.
Petakov said he learned about the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland as a youth. Later, while researching the various lake and coastal sea serpents in New England for a documentary mini-series titled, “On the Trail of… Champ” (available on Amazon Prime and Youtube), he discovered our Champ actually pre-dates Nessie.
“Champ was the original lake monster,” Petakov said.
Champ, he said, was first sighted by Samuel de Champlain in 1609, with more sightings documented in news articles in the 1870s, during which a sea serpent scare swept the nation. Tales of a monster in Loch Ness had begun to circulate about that same time.
Now, Petakov said, he’s skeptical of the Scottish counterpart to Champ but believes there is “something going on” at Lake Champlain.
Theories explaining what appears to witnesses as a long-necked creature with a elongated, humped back range from the mundane — objects like driftwood and common eels — to the fantastic, prehistoric sea creatures that have survived countless millennia yet remain undetected by biologists to this day.
Petakov’s favorite theory is that Champ is actually a long-necked tortoise that has grown very large and very old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_(folklore)
Nessie is so over-exposed. It’s nice to see American cryptids get more attention. I mean, we have quite a few of them.
And then there are these assholes:
Sacrificial stone at America’s Stonehenge vandalized with power tool, cross left behind
Police are looking into who might have taken an apparent grinder tool to a sacrificial stone tablet at America’s Stonehenge last weekend, and left behind a wooden cross with photos and drawings attached.
On Sunday, Sept. 29, the Salem Police Department responded to the tourist attraction at 105 Haverhill Road around 12:30 p.m.
“The responding officer spoke with the caller who stated he was walking the property and located a wooden cross suspended between two trees,” Deputy Chief Joel Dolan said Thursday.
The property owner said they also found damage done to a sacrificial tablet using a power tool, most likely a grinding tool. The vandal also apparently hit it with a sledgehammer, knocking the stone tablet over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Stonehenge
“Fat Bear Week”?
/paging Jesse
And oh how they danced
The little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon
For fear that daybreak might come too soon
+ Spinal Tap
+11
One of my top ten favorite movies. Too bad Rob is a miserable deranged leftist. I don’t know about the rest of them.
Mutilated cattle? Drained of blood with genitals and tongues removed?
Does Hillary have an alibi?
Insurance money.
Dang it, Brooks.
Reading the Wikipedia Article, Reminds me i need to get back to X-Files, which is part of Amazon Prime if you didn’t know it.
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but!
I thought the tongue was part of the genitals?
Foreplay FTW.
Mutilated cattle? Drained of blood with genitals and tongues removed?
The Hilldabeast is roaming the woods again?
Vegans falling off the wagon? They don’t know which parts to eat anymore, right?
Why is the Jersey Devil depicted off the coast of North Carolina?
Also, the Florida STEVE SMITH is more commonly called the Skunk Ape, not the Swamp Ape.
Even the Devil wants nothing to do with Jersey.
Good point. It’s like all the tolls on bridges and tunnels connecting NJ to other states – you can enter Jersey for free, but getting out is going to cost you. The George Washington Bridge, the Outerbridge Crossing, the Ben Franklin Bridge, the Del Mem Bridge, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels…..all of them only charge you when you’re exiting the state.
It’s because NY has a cover charge and a 2 drink minimum.
“you can enter Jersey for free, but getting out is going to cost you”
Because is worth it.
The Devil was in charge of Hell, but then they moved it to Joisey and he was like ‘I’m out!’.
He’s in witness protection from the Mob.
Or he’s Jimmy Hoffa.
“And the winner is… No. 435, or if you prefer a name, Holly.”
Our own beloved Animal wuz robd!
If that is a correct picture of Holly, I think she won fair and square.
Appropriate music link…
People are gloriously weird.
That was some pretty smooth sax though.
He has his own #metoo movement.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-sexual-assault-allegations-harassment-groping-women-karen-johnson-book-a9149021.html
Sure, the serial groper rapist that no one heard of being a serial groper rapist until he began trying to accrue political power.
Before #MeToo women were beaten in the streets if they ever accused such a powerful. Now it is safe for them to speak out, because literal Hitler is in power.
not to mention being a white supremacist. who knew?
Wait, they put her on air a second time?!?
The Brits are a little slow on the uptake.
Pocket Scotch.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/felipeschrieberg/2019/10/09/glenlivets-tide-pod-whisky-cocktail-capsules-are-actually-really-good/
No, just no.
Hipsters ate tide pods before it was cool.
I’m doing a road trip to Tampa 2 weekends from now and one of the guys sent me the link with the rationale it’s not drinking and driving because you eat them.
How can they be good? Don’t you just swallow the whole pod? I assumed this was for people who want to be whiskey drunk but don’t like whiskey. Er, whisky.
You bite into it.
I think this is a great idea for a less esteemed brand and a different type of liquor. It’s basically a shot without a glass. But Scotch is a sipping drink. I don’t know anyone who does shots of Scotch.
Even if you don’t like the idea, this is not a product that’s going to be sold at your local liquor store anyways, or even your local bar. It is a one-off gimmick served at only one bar in London, during the annual London Cocktail Week. That’s it.
It’s a gimmick to generate publicity.
Thanks for participating.
“Glenlivet’s ‘Tide Pod’ Whisky Cocktail Capsules”
The nanny staters are about to have an unprecedented freakout and breakdown.
Sort of reminds me of when my mom’s lush friend put vodka in an empty bottle of Wool Wash and brought it to work with her at the mall. We were drinking it and she was so drunk she was telling all the other mall kiosk vendors ‘Hey, you guys, we’re drinking Wool Wash! Want some!?’. She was trashed, as usual. But it was still funny as hell, for some reason.
Here we go…
Turkey announced Wednesday that its ground forces invaded northeastern Syria to fight against Kurdish forces just hours after launching an initial assault in the area, as the first reports of deaths emerged.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched Operation Peace Spring on Wednesday after President Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw American troops from the area, a move considered by many analysts a blow to the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces there.
Erdogan said the mission was to “neutralize terror threats against Turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone, facilitating the return of Syrian refugees to their homes.”
At least seven civilians were killed in Turkish strikes in northeastern Syria since the country launched an assault Wednesday morning, according to activists and a war monitor.
This showed up on Google News early today, but has disappeared. Apparently, it is not newsworthy.
So is attacking Turkey a good thing or a bad thing now? I honestly don’t know?
I’ll be attacking Turkey in about six weeks.
I’m waiting for the Human Cueball and Fredo to tell me what to think about it.
Who is the former?
Stelter.
I’m waiting for the Human Cueball and Fredo to tell me what to think about it.
So I’ve read.
The squirrels are on the march as well, it seems.
What the Hell is a War Monitor?
It’s an idiot in a brightly colored ballistic vest and helmet labelled “War Monitor” who sits at or near the front lines and reports back to their NGO. Much like their domestic cousing the National Lawyers Guild (commie punks) “legal observers.”
Target of opportunity?
The tactical term is a TRP, or Target Reference Point.
Something you can use to adjust fires off of.
It’s Illegal to use 50 cal against personnel, it has to be used to destroy equipment. So aim for the canteens.
“I was shooting at his gun!”
Well, someone has to make sure you have a War Pass on you.
I picture a giant angry lizard.
With frikkin’ lasers on its head.
Edward Snowden:
JFC Ed
A pro-Russian Commie who hates US militarism? Never saw that coming!
Please reevaluate your life.
I’m going to need help interpreting the “rose / bread / rose / bread / rose” emoji.
“Rose / bread”
Something about bread lines probably
As for Snowden’s take, welp, can’t be right all the time
You put on your rose colored glasses while in the bread line so that communism looks good, or something.
Bread and Roses.
I see she’s a fan of the Bon Jovi classic “Bread of Roses.”
I’m guessing Bernie would do what most communist dictators would do, execute the enemy of the state.
it’s funny because it’s true
Edward Snowden is a good example that you don’t have to agree with people on every point to still agree with them on the important stuff.
^^
I disagree.
:Contemplates on how to turn this into a “This Statement is False” paradox:
principles over principals. You guys all know the saying, but it’s become a great weapon of sorts for me in political discussions. The concept blows people’s minds.
example: ‘member when leftists loved them some Alan Dershowitz? But then he made the mistake of saying that civil liberties apply to trumphitlernazibabycager, and in that instant he became the enemy.
I’d pardon you as well Ed, but that doesn’t mean I think you’re anything but an idiot with this comment.
Yup. Fuck off on this one, Ed. Bernie Sanders is anything but a decent man.
“but Sanders is in my opinion the most fundamentally decent man in politics. His life-long struggle for a more equitable society is a reminder of how far we have come”
Well, Edward, you’re already in Russia. All you need to do is wait for the next Bolshevik revolution. Then you and Bernie can celebrate together in Moscow.
Angry mob drags Mayor through town
https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexico-mayor-dragged-car-angry-locals
First message was not received apparently.
“fulfill his campaign promise to build the road”
He just forgot to tell them that there was no money to do that and that there was no way to get it.
I mean, he meant well, right?
what do you say to a woman with 2 black eyes?
Bitch, why didn’t you listen to me the first time!
“Nothing, you already told her twice.” (was the way I’ve always heard that horrible joke that you should be cancelled for bringing up)
cancel cultured here amongst you degenerates? that would be a badge of pride
Why couldn’t it be DeBlasio?
Read my mind.
What? Are you saying that DeBlasio is not delivering on his promise to tax people more and run every business possible right out of NYC?
Boring! DeBlasio should be dangled upside down from a helicopter and bounced off high rise buildings while flying above the streets of NYC.
More of this, everywhere!
Yes.
VIVA MEXICO!
No wonder the Mexican government keeps their people disarmed. They’re afraid of them.
Outta tar and feathers
Mehxico.
¡Mehrica!
Everything’s legal in May-he-ko! It’s the American way!
Wait, don’t tell me. Another 3rd world shithole corruptocrat promised people everything and didn’t deliver on any of it? I’m shocked. Shocked that they still believe the same shit, yet again.
Isn’t it interesting how the NBA and Blizzard are afraid of offending China? I thought it was supposed to result in the opposite: The Chicoms being embarrassed of their repression?
And isn’t global trade supposed to make us all libertarians rather then Leftist SJWs Progs who kowtow to foreign dictators?
The NBA and Blizzard are banking that the Western Public don’t care enough about Chinese abuses that they can get away with this. We can be upset by them toeing that ChiCom line, but in the end, they only are able to do so because Westerners will continue to patronize them. If they were to loose money by kowtowing to the chinese facists, then maybe the would be “braver”.
Blizzard just wanted politics out of video games, hurr durr.
What’s amazing is the NBA and their noted scholars, celebrated academics and Wokespeakers can’t see past their NPC Orange Man Bad posture.
Bunch of unprincipled phonies.
NBATW. National Basketball Association Of Totes Woke.
TGA made a great point yeaterday
NC makes a law that you must use the govt bathroom and locker room of the sex you are born with
NBA: this is disgraceful and CHarlotte will no longer host the all star game
China kills trannies
NBA: Look we can learn a lot from the cultures of the world and look forward to furthering our relation$hip with china
Seen on the Book of Faces:
TGA?
And I heard that analogy too. A good one.
They like bull shit issues but real ones? They fold like cowards.
TGA?
Tulsi Gabbard Apologist ne Just Say’n
Ha! I think I heard it from him!
I apologize for the late reply, I’m mostly a lurker who reads threads after they’re dead. The NC law is much more benign. It merely negated a Charlotte law which mandated all businesses allow transgenders be allowed to use whatever bathroom they wished.
When Winston is right, he’s right.
The mantra that trade would liberalize totalitarian states is laughably false and anyone who argues that should be laughed at.
It’s not a magic bullet, but trade is a prerequisite for the growth of a middle class, and a middle class is a prerequisite for classical liberalism. Nothing in the current situation disproves that calculus.
I get your argument, but the assumption is that growth in a middle class will lead to liberalization. Meanwhile, China has a massive middle class and has only become more totalitarian. Further, this discounts the fact that Germany had perhaps one of the largest middle classes in the world when it embraced authoritarianism.
I don’t care for myths to defend free markets.
and has only become more totalitarian
Errrrr….I get your overall point. I’m even sympathetic to it. But, that’s just wrong. Keep in mind protests thirty years ago along these lines were over already because the Chicoms had murdered everyone protesting. And that was a whole bunch of steps up from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Sure. And that’s fair. What I meant by “more totalitarian” was that their social credit system is a massive expansion into the every day lives of its citizens. Something that China was not financially capable of accomplishing before its recent wealth.
You can argue that China has gotten softer, but then again you can also argue that their tyranny has just become more sophisticated. The Cultural Revolution was not a state action (although Mao was clearly supporting it), but rather an action undertaken by true believers. Today, though, the state runs reeducation camps and organ harvesting. Back in the day, they’d just shoot you or, if you were lucky, you’d just get dropped off in the provinces to work as a farmer.
Sure, China is moving towards a soft totalitarianism. Much like the left favors for here at home. Look, we have good intentions, we’re just going to de-person you for disagreeing with us, not run you over with tanks.
Any advancement in China for actual liberty will come during/after an economic disaster.
Once people get a taste of the better life and then it is taken from them. Their attitudes and motivations change.
“Any advancement in China for actual liberty will come during/after an economic disaster.”
It will come, they made a horrific mistake making Xi a dictator for life and making a hard turn back towards communism. The social credit score thing is driving millions of their own citizens out of any participation in their economy. They already have entire cities they built on a whim, which are now effectively ghost cities.
you know the current crop of Dems are cumming in their pants at the idea of a social credit score here.
“you know the current crop of Dems are cumming in their pants at the idea of a social credit score here.”
Yes, I know it.
I don’t think anyone can argue that they’ve become more totalitarian, because they’ve been EXTREMELY totalitarian for all of our lives. Trade has made some minor inroads, but trade, in and of itself will never be sufficient to creating a free market in someplace like China.
And even if it were sufficient, it would take multiple generations for real change to happen.
Ima just reply here because threading.
While exposure to economic liberty, by itself, is probably insufficient to create change, it definitely shows the people living under repressive regimes what they are missing. The citizens of the USSR were famously fascinated by Levi’s. Did black market jeans cause the collapse of the Soviet Union? Of course not. Did black market jeans reinforce the idea that communism was inferior? Absolutely.
This assumes that the Chinese middle class want to overthrow the Chicoms. The middle classes in Europe wanted to overthrow the Feudal Order but is that a universal goal of all middle classes?
No, and the grand scheme of the Party is exactly to keep the masses just happy enough not to overthrow it.
The middle class in China are communist party members. Most of the country is still agrarian peasants.
Yeah, basically I read that the middle class fears the rural peasants and the urban poor so they prefer dictatorship that supports their interests. A Communist regime being lackeys for rich? What a shock!
Yeah, and now they’re even making an effort to weed out the impure commie party members with their Orwellian social credit score. This is just another indication of just how paranoid they’ve become. Which is what always happens with totalitarian regimes.
Are the Chinese Less liberal than 50 years ago?
They’re certainly not more liberal. And in a lot of ways their authoritarianism has become more encompassing, which has been facilitated by their recent prosperity and most assuredly not in spite of their recent prosperity.
They are pretty willing to suppress Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet and not less so than before…
They invaded Tibet almost 70 years ago. They have considered Taiwan a rebel province since they won the revolution. They are moving back away from liberalization and have never approached freedom, but it is dishonest to pretend the current Chicoms are more tyrannical than they were 50 years ago. 50 years ago they were in the middle of the Cultural Revolution. They are demonstrably more liberal now than then. Will it last? Probably not. Is trade a guarantee of liberty? No. Do embargoes lead to liberty? Hell no.
Please stop with the black/white if X is not always and in all things good then X is bad. The choices are not limited to “Trade always makes freedom” and “Suggesting that Trade is good for freedom is a laughable position”.
Well if you read things I posted in this thread I have theorized that “Trade always makes freedom” is based on some flawed assumptions. Would you care to analyze them?
A society with a growing middle class is by definition more free than the exact same society without one. The possibility of improving one’s lot is itself a part of what we call freedom. I am not arguing in favor of the Chicoms. I am stating as irrefutable fact that the Chinese with some private property and some ability to enter into trade are freer than they were before they had those things. It is a continuum, no one has ever lived in a purely free State.
Okay. I guess the issue is just because they are better off than under the Cultural Revolution and The Great Leap Forward does that mean that they have freedom? And the assumption that this increased freedom will inevitably lead to the collapse of the regime which doesn’t seem to be happening.
Well I have never argued that trade is a magic bullet that automatically leads to the collapse of tyrannical regimes so I guess my reply to that is that I don’t see any path that leads to libertarian China, so I’d prefer to see 1.4 Billion living in a somewhat better room in hell.
I guess my pet peeve is how in the 20th Century we saw how the 17th-19th Century classical liberal hopes that urbanization, technology, prosperity and free trade would be a panacea turned out to be false and right now we are seeing how 1990s post-Cold War neo-liberalism was another false dawn but what have we learned? How did we learn from our mistakes?
“The choices are not limited to “Trade always makes freedom” and “Suggesting that Trade is good for freedom is a laughable position”.”
The best case for trade is that it makes everyone wealthier. There’s no need to pretend as if it’s also does other good things.
They’re just as totalitarian as ever, and I would say more so since making Xi a dictator, but it’s a gentler form of totalitarianism. We won’t kill you, we’ll just take away your ability to live.
I freely ask this possibly ignorant question but, do we really need China? They’re not worth the trouble. If the NBA wants to be idiots and explore that market be my guest, but have the decency to not lecture and scold people for your asshole SJW/PC/Woke garbage.
And to listen to assholes like that Nets owner tell us to compromise our values and principles because of 1.4 billion Chinese are insulted and stand by China (like we’d know since they’re silenced) is a step too far for me personally.
“I freely ask this possibly ignorant question but, do we really need China?”
No. Replace them with technology. They have a machine now that can make 300 pizzas in an hour. How many Chinese peasants does it take to make 300 pizzas in an hour? Advanced enough 3D printing and other tech can make consumer goods cheaper than what we can buy it from China for.
Corporate America at least seems to be convinced they do. The idea of the “growing middle class” == more $$$ to spend and a market that outweighs the US at least if not the Western world.
The part I don’t get is that it is abundantly clear to me that the bar to get in is “Give us at least half of your Chinese subsidiary you *must* make to sell here, plus access to all IP” == “We’ll steal your company after you built it and sell in our market with your product / tech whenever we decide we’ve milked off enough”… so it really seems like a suicide pact. Chase short term profits by handing everything over and you’ll find they’re selling as you in China and shortly afterwards exporting across the world under their own brand. Why in the world would anyone do that?
But hey, I’m not a C*O or anything, so what do I know….
I think this assumption is based much on two erroneous assumptions about the past.
First is that US-backed authoritarian regimes collapsed and opened trade barriers around the same time. Problem is that the real reason for the collapse was the USG stopped supporting the regimes and forced them to democratize rather the trade itself.
Second is that when the Industrial Revolution came to Europe the urban merchant class who benefitted from this used their newfound wealth to undermine the Aristocracy and Absolute Monarchy. Problem is the urban merchant class in China are tied to the Party so unsurprisingly aren’t interested in using their wealth to undermine the regime that they are apart of.
“Industrial Revolution came to Europe the urban merchant class who benefitted from this used their newfound wealth to undermine the Aristocracy and Absolute Monarchy”
And this isn’t even really true either. Urban merchants in Paris unwittingly ushered in The Terror and then Napoleon and then the Restoration of the monarchy and then the overthrow of the monarchy again and then the restoration of the monarchy but this time the Orleans and then Napoleon III.
Even the Glorious Revolution in the UK was more so the result of nobles discontent with James more than some kind of revolt by urbanized merchants.
I think Communist China is basically a dead man walking. It will take time to dismantle the state but I have a strange feeling it will ultimately happen.
Agreed. But, it’s demographics that will doom them and not GDP growth
It’s their latest policy decisions that are going to doom them. Xi is a hardcore communist, not some sort of forward thinking genius. And he’s now dictator, for life. They really screwed the pooch.
“I think Communist China is basically a dead man walking.”
This.
REPEAL
The case against “Stand Your Ground” gun laws is ever more compelling. Applied in one form or another in some three dozen states, these provisions allow ordinary citizens to use deadly force in self-defense even when violence could have been avoided simply by retreating. In effect, they extend the “castle doctrine,” which permits deadly force against home invaders, to public spaces. That’s a bad idea in principle and a proven failure in practice.
If two recent cases are any guide, juries are starting to push back against audacious claims of self-defense. In Florida, a jury in August convicted Michael Drejka of manslaughter after he shot and killed an unarmed man in a parking lot; Drejka had claimed the shooting was justified by the state’s Stand Your Ground law. And in Texas, a jury last week found that police officer Amber Guyger, who’d claimed self-defense after mistakenly entering a neighbor’s apartment and shooting him dead, was guilty of murder.
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The Tampa Bay Times investigated almost 200 Stand Your Ground cases in Florida and found the law was applied wildly unevenly, and with alarming racial disparities. Stand Your Ground, the paper concluded, was successfully used to “free killers and violent attackers whose self-defense claims seem questionable at best.”
The truth is that Stand Your Ground laws were never really designed to safeguard the public; they were a political concession to the gun lobby. The work of documenting the laws’ impacts ought to go on, so that the facts become impossible to ignore — but the evidence as it stands should be enough to persuade voters and legislators to act. These laws should be repealed.
Juries are unpredictable? That is a justification for repealing all laws. Move those goalposts a little more to the left.
Actually, it seems “stand your ground” laws must be working. Some people present a convincing defense, some don’t. Stand your ground is not, despite the shrieks of the Bloombergousie, legalized murder. It permits certain people, in certain circumstances, to be acquitted, because they acted in a justifiable manner.
I don’t see how citing Juries convicting people who are trying to use the defense could be bad for those laws. It goes to show that people will be judged on weather or not they reasonably used deadly force.
provisions allow ordinary citizens to use deadly force in self-defense
Go Fuck Yourself. Of course a person should be able to use deadly force in self-defense.
Yeah, that one is ass-backward.
The police have the right to use deadly force in defense of self and others because people have that right. The government cannot grant rights that regular folks don’t already have. All they can do is take them away.
At least, that’s how it oughta be.
“Bloombergousie”
Nice.
If you read Bloomberg’s recent puff pieces about China, it would appear that they only believe in “stand your ground” as it pertains to the Chinese communists facing off against Hong Kong protesters.
Self-defense is audacious?
That is the key phrase. The use it for everything they want to demolish.
ha. I stopped reading at that point. nothing to see here…..
“Actually, it seems “stand your ground” laws must be working. Some people present a convincing defense, some don’t.”
That’s what I don’t get, in both the cases they cited (Drejka and Guyger), the juries convicted inspire the Stand you Ground law.
Side note: I didn’t know Drejka got convinced and I’m glad. If anything I wish the convictions of he and Guyger were reversed. I’m pretty well convinced he willfully committed murder from watching that video.
Just what my tennis shoes were missing.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/3g-jesus-shoes-holy-water-sell-out
Walking on water.
I missed that.
Perfect for face-stomping vampires.
Jesus shoes?
Do they have a hole in them?
Meh.
They’re just alright.
I don’t care what they may say.
Hippies!
J/K!!!
After some reflection for most of my life (upon learning that my conception was inspired by the draft for Vietnam), I must say they weren’t entirely wrong.
My dad played the kid-card to avoid Vietnam. I always thought that was rather cowardly of him. I don’t know if he had a moral objection to the war or he just didn’t want to go. His brother-in-law went and he often said of him disparagingly, “Yeah, and he pushed a pencil the whole time.”
I never really knew what to think about that.
Understood, I feel the that way about the various issues concerning military involvements since WWII. We could spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out the causes and effects of our government’s decisions. Without the time and energy to devote to the details, how can you know what the real story is? What to think, and then how to feel about it. My wife and I served during during Desert Storm, and now I look back at it and wonder what it was really all about. We don’t really know. There is so much noise, and so much bullshit that I trust no one’s opinion. At least we volunteered, unlike a lot (not saying most) of the Vietnam vets.
We visited the the Korean and Vietnam war memorials on our recent visit to DC, and all I can think of is the sheer waste of human life, and the lasting impact on those left behind.
Vietnam was a waste, and you can argue that we should not have fought Korea (although I’d disagree), but Korea was NOT a waste.
voting my family’s proxy: respectfully disagree
Again, I understand if people, especially those who lost loved ones think we should not have been there or think the price was too high. But there are 51 million people living in relative freedom today because we did fight the war.
that’s how my father avoided Vietnam as well.
Well, my uncle joined the Marines on his 18th birthday and had an interesting time in VN. In hindsight, I think he would have preferred to push pencils instead.
I’ve never heard him disparage anyone who managed to avoid going, either. Of course, he’s also not the type to wear his MC hat or buy the VN vet license plates. Just a guy.
Just a guy
Most of us are not going to be the men Animal profiles. We’re still alright, and to hell with anyone who thinks differently. But then, maybe we will be. We just don’t have the need right now.
Why does that chart have Wendigo in Northwest Quebec?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo
Transfer payments?
Quebec doesn’t even wants to take its fair share of mythical creatures.
Wendigo: I’m gonna kill you!
Quebecer: Parle moi en français tabernak maudit espèce de con! C’est l’Quebec icite!
Now i just learned about Wendigo Psycosis.
You didn’t know what you had until now?
“Matt Lauer angrily denies anal rape allegation made by NBC producer in an indignant 1,400 word open letter, which claims they had ‘consensual sex’ at Sochi Winter Olympics which led to an affair”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7553597/Journalist-accuses-Matt-Lauer-raping-2014-Sochi-Winter-Olympics-new-book.html
Why would anyone have consensual sex with Matt Lauer?
Well, I certainly wouldn’t want a blow job from her.
Not with those teeth, no
That is a lot of teeth.
“Eat an apple through a picket fence.”
Has anybody seen Matt Lauer and STEVE SMITH in the same place before?
Didn’t read… but according to the wife who was formerly a huge fan of Lauer and now thinks he’s gross, they hooked up when she was hammered and she was into it but couldn’t consent because she was hammered, then he wanted anal but she said no… he did it any way.
They continued to be bang buddies for quite some time after.
Wife is all-in on the Lauer hate.. but that version sounds, well, wrong. You don’t generally carry on a long term sexual affair with your rapist.
The wife says the fact that he was a rich celebrity explains that.
Ida know. Seems odd. I mean, if one of you guys anal-raped me, I doubt that I’d be coming over for sex on the regular… no matter how popular you are on social media.
“The wife says the fact that he was a rich celebrity explains that.”
Thats kind of a glaring double standard. Consensual sex is consensual sex, women don’t get a pass on hypergamy unless they are willing to forfeit agency.
Yeah, the whole, continuing to bang your rapist for years after just doesn’t make sense. And she wasn’t 18,she was 30 for God’s sake. Maybe he did it, but it couldn’t have been that bad to her if she never bothered to do anything about it, as long as that was good for her career.
Did you know American Horror Story is sponsored by Subaru?
Interesting season.
“NEW VIDEO: Response to @trishapaytas “I’M TRANSGENDER”. Yet another celeb capitalizing on “coming out” for $$$.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1181977659942653952
“Dear Trisha Paytas: You’re Not Transgender, Sweetie..”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmshlrdSsUA
I made it three minutes in. MBW’s silent eye-rolling is worth it.
Stop appropriating my gender!
Self-defense is audacious?
DIY self defense is an explicit refutation of your presumptive status as serf of the state.
Where’s the Ohio Grassman in that chart, sure he’s derivative as fuck but lookit all the Nessie wanna-bes, Once again Anti-Ohio bigotry rears it’s ugly head, Graphic was probably made by some inbreed West Penslytuckian red neck.
Anti-Ohio bigotry is always justified.
If Ohio had seceded, there wouldn’t have even been a war
If Lincoln had waged war on Ohio, he’d be celebrated as a hero today
Hey Ohio is undefeated in wars against other States, and have fought more than you Southerners!
true: it was the electoral college of wars
half as many of us easily killed twice as many of you
but the only score that mattered was one – nil
Ohio is 2-0, (arguably 3-0). You guys are 0-1. You weren’t involved in the other wars Ohio fought. We whupped the ichanders.
The prize was Toledo. How sad is that.
Shh, we brag about the win. We do NOT discuss the prize!
Ohio’s meme army did win a decisive victory in the 2016 presidential election. But, they also took heavy casualties
You see me now the veteran of a thousand meme wars.
You’ve been living on the edge so long, where the Trigglypuffs roar?
Where’s the link, you lazy bastard!
Not True!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War
Governor Bill Murray FTW!
Bah, no shots even fired. Fake war!
Someone once told me that the best thing about Cleveland is how close it is to Pittsburgh, so you don’t have to stay long
That works both ways.
Let’s just agree that any Bigotry against Ohio or Pennsylvania is warranted.
HEY!
Wait, are you another Ohio Glib?
Yes, but I like to think of myself as more than just anotherOhio Glib.
He’s THE Ohio Glib
The most insufferable part about Ohio
I did single-handedly make my town the 43rd most miserable place in the United States.
Most of the other 42 are still in Ohio.
And the rest are various towns around Erie County, PA
You are a prison guard!
Tres, Neph, and GT, we need to rally the troops! leon needs a lesson!
To be continued…
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Double-barrel Joe, Constitutional scholar and defender of the republic.
Biden said, “With his words and his actions, President Trump has indicted himself by obstructing justice, refusing to comply with the congressional inquiry. He’s also convicted himself in full view of the world and the American people, Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts.”
He continued, “You know to preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity. He should be impeached. That’s not only because of what he’s done. To answer whether he’s committed acts sufficient to warrant impeachment is obvious. We see it in Trump’s own words. We see it in the texts from state department officials that have been made public. We see it in his pulling much of the United States government into his corrupt schemes, individuals within the government, his appointees. But we have to remember that impeachment isn’t only about what the president’s done. It’s about the threat the president poses to the nation if allowed to remain in office. One thing about this president is absolutely clear, and I don’t think anyone can contradict this, he has seen no limits to his power regardless of what the Constitution says.”
He added, “He believes the entire United States government can be corrupted into furthering his personal political needs. He’s even willing to hold Congress and congressionally appropriated aid to a foreign nation hostage to his personal political demands. He believes if he does something, it’s legal, period. And perhaps most importantly, he believes there is nothing we can do about it. He believes he can and will get away with anything he does. We all laughed when he said he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and get away with it. It’s no joke. He’s shooting holes in the Constitution, and we can not let him get away with it.”
“Stop blowin’ holes in my
shipdocument!”Shooting holes in the Constitution like when Obama legislated DACA into existence.
Remember that time when people argued that Trump couldn’t reverse an executive Order made by a previous president?
By people, you mean the 9th circuit?
Far as I can tell, Trump being unable to reverse DACA is still law of the land.
https://youtu.be/JUDSeb2zHQ0
Is he blasting it through the door with a shotgun?
It’s over Joe. The only question is do the Democrats just toss the old guy and his crooked kid under the bus, or are Barr and Durham going to take out a whole bunch of Obama Administration crooks.
I look forward to The Goatee joining the Hat & Hair series.
I’m sure they’ll get them right after they put Hillary away. I’m not cynical.
Biden is one of the worst statist scums who has ever lived. We dodged a bullet twice, by not electing McCain or Hillary, hopefully we dodge it a 3rd time by not electing statist fuckstick Biden. If that motherfucker was on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him to put it out.
“Holly’ Wins ‘Fat Bear Week’ Heavyweight Title”
What about Thicc Beaver week?
HM used to have that on Thursday nights.
My new fetish is half-asian chicks who drop commercials like Paul Harvey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEOzZ_-Vjlc
“dan schnieder is deleting thousands of tweets that have words like “kids” “child” “toes” & “feet” in them. i took the screenshot of this weird deviant art fetish shit a week ago preparing for my dan vid. now its gone.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1181790456344190978
Walter Williams is spot on
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/10/walter-e-williams/idiotic-environmental-predictions/
Warming/cooling/starvation or all three
The IG report is gonna be released on October 18th, Friday.
Friday? So nothing important in it.
I’ve recently noticed that Beyond Meat is placed next to actual meat in all grocery stores. Is it just my experience?
One shelf beyond?
It’s madness!
That should legitimately be illegal.
Yep, false advertisement.
No, I saw a package of their “burgers” in the meat case at Lidl last weekend. When my daughter asked what it was, and I answered, I was filled with fatherly pride when she made a face and said “Why would anyone want to eat THAT?”
Meh, Velveeta is in the cheese case, Miracle Whip is next to mayonnaise, olive loaf is in the deli meat case. That boat sailed long ago.
I… agree. As long as it’s clearly labeled “fake meat” or some such.
Is it me, or does there seem to be a pretty strong correlation of companies that are corporate wokescolds domestically and companies that are happy to bow down to the most brutal Chinese authoritarianism?
Getting easier to track how many large companies AREN’T wokescolds.
It is not you. It’s the same syndrome as excusing Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Che etc., while railing against anyone on the right being a reincarnation of Hitler.
Both are examples of cowardice.
Real news, CNN style: how dare you misogynists question Fake Indian’s discredited lies!
I read CNN will be losing its airport monopoly soon.
‘Bout time.
In my experience they have a majority but no monopoly. It’s interesting to see what different airports are showing.
I’d be ok with them keeping Stetler’s show on airport TVs so long as they used the dubbed version that guy does on YouTube where he gives Stetler a falsetto voice.
One of my biggest clients recently switched the TVs around the org from CNN to FOX. Well, they actually did that a couple of year ago I think. No idea why, it just happened, probably change of someone higher up in the company.
Also, can we also get rid of Comcast monopolies in many American cities?
I blocked the CNN channel on the TV in the physicians dining room recently. That was fun.
Jussie Smollett’s case may have had some issues, but the important thing is to focus on the clear MAGA inspired increase in hate crimes!
He was trying to start of conversation.
Sure it wasn’t true, and it was self serving. But she started an important conversation.
Dave Smith has devoted the last couple episodes of his podcast to the blatant partisanship and hypocrisy of CNN. Is there anyone who isn’t a partisan hack themselves who can’t see that the entire network is devoted to partisan hackery? I truly don’t see how someone with cognitive function could think otherwise.
Well, it’s quite amazing actually, if you just pay attention to people. I really cannot believe how many people are completely fucking brainwashed and believe every single word that CNN spews out of their lying mouths. I mean, I know plenty of seemingly intelligent people who believe every single word CNN utters, like it is the gospel. If CNN says Donald Trump is actually an alien vampire, they’ll repeat it and never even doubt it for a second. And if you tell them otherwise, they’ll be in complete disbelief that you could even question it. This is the sad state we find ourselves in as a society today. People are too busy wondering around staring at their phones to be curious about or pay any attention to much of anything, let alone have the curiosity or ambition to actually do some research on their own. CNN are spoon feeding adult children because those adult children want to be spoon fed, whether it’s bullshit or not.
Critical thought is a discipline that most people haven’t been trained in.
Meh, Michael Smerconish is fair and balanced.
So radio is your schtick, huh?
Isn’t he on CNN? Weekends I believe. but I don’t even own a TV (He smugged) so I’m only guessing he behaves the same on CNN as he does on Sirius.
I don’t know. I don’t have cable, either, and while I had heard of him when I saw your post, I had to look him up. When the first thing that came up was his Sirius show I thought it was worth a good-natured jab atcha. 😉
I won’t watch CNN ever. I go to my mom’s and my step-dad has it on and I just can’t sit in front of it. It’s soman for lefty morons, mostly, with a healthy dosing of just ignorant people who don’t know what it is. My step-father would be in the latter cohort. He’s a good guy but he just takes it at face value. My guess is that if you asked him he would suggest that no way CNN could lie “badly” or they’d get sued. He just doesn’t know any better.
While waiting for a meeting, I am three colleagues (2 millenials) were watching CNN on the lobby tv. One of the millenials noted the chyron about him not cooperating with the impeachment inquiry and said what did they expect, why would anyone cooperate? They act like that’s crazy, but no one would cooperate. I said, there are so many reasons to attack Trump, but this is what they pick. That lead to a discussion about how none of us like him, but the things the Democrats attack him for are all things they’ve done etc. I think fewer people are actually brainwashed, but many are hesitant to talk about it.
My proggies have gone dead silent. Not even snide asides any more.
It’s actually awesome. We talk about real life stuff now.
What’s that like?
/re-education camp day on the calendar for next week at work
If you criticize a minority you are racist. If you criticize a woman you are misogynistic. If you criticize a gay, you are homophobic. This is the Dems’ plan. Trump messed it up, but they are sticking to it.
10-0 Cardinals. Top of the 1st.
Wow.
That’s a pretty decent first inning.
Meh.
Yes, in cricket that would be horrible.
I’ve never carded this before:
* 3 earned runs
* then 1 unearned run
* then 6 earned runs
in the same inning
nothing remotely close to that
NewWife is NOT pleased
#HouseDivided
is it a record? that’s pretty amazing,
I think the runs in a playoff game is a record; they hinted at other stuff as well.
What I found interesting (above) was totally different and would be indigestible by the normal viewing audience; of course: I’m the last guy who scores games by hand and really wouldn’t even enjoy watching if I didn’t have my cards going. No one but me and Costas remember what an unearned run even means.
As far as playoff records go, I would counsel your ignoring most of them except during the World Series. The playoffs are a protracted, contrived thing compared to the ages; baseball should be timeless, but the post-season is just so different now: in the old days you either won your pennant or you didn’t and, if you did, you went straight to the Series. So stuff like Molina’s having played in some record number of post-season games is just garbage talk, love him though I do.
Like Champions League in soccer. Once upon a time it was a tournament for only the champions of each soccer league. A true tournament of champions. But it was expanded to included non-winners to make more money.
This is what I get for a $500 increase in my property taxes??? Fucking ridiculous! Scumtrust Stadium. I hope the former Cobb County commissioner rots you know where.
I also don’t think I’ve ever seen a batsman take first after striking out in a playoff game.
As of 7:05 EDT, Cards 13, Braves 1, bottom of 5th. Birds might be able to hold the lead if they don’t send Martinez in to close.
18Martinez was nice and calm and wasn’t even caught smirking as 22Flaherty drilled 13Acuña in the 5th. The hit batsman did have more than a little of jawing to do as he was escorted by a host to first.
Thus torpedoing the assertion that if people don’t get sex-change surgery they will commit suicide.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
But, hey, let’s give little kids a bunch of puberty blockers.
Evil, stupid, venal fuckheads.
My son wants to be a pirate for Halloween. Do I amputate his leg to create a permanent solution to his temporary experimentation with his identity?
No but let him wear an eye-patch if he wants, and buy him a cutlass.
No, because pirates exude toxic masculinity. If your son wants to be a nice non-binary gender queer pirate though, then it’s OK to take him to get his dick cut off, because reasons.
Ahoy, matey!
No, no, no Moj, can we teach you nothing? Genital mutilation if you have a Vagina, BAD, whacking off your peepee, GOOD.
But he doesn’t want to be an eunuch.
I can’t keep up.
Don’t worry, we’re here to help you, stay woke, much brave.
“Evil, stupid, venal fuckheads.”
Yes.
To be fair, it doesn’t really torpedo that assertion so much as acknowledge that sex change surgery is not sufficient to prevent suicide. Those who don’t have surgery also have exceptionally high rates, according to another study I cited here once, and cannot be bothered to find again, slightly higher rates than post op (which may be due to post ops being a subset of the trans identifying and therefore any who happened to commit suicide before surgery counting in the non-surgery stats)
And note the recent trend of a lot of people wanting to transition back to their born gender and then they have the left attack them as traitors, which I’m not sure how no one away that coming.
^this.
Though I think it does a lot to support the notion that sex reassignment is really treating a symptom, not the disease.
China Has an Apology Playbook. The NBA Has Another Idea.
At the root of their ongoing confrontation is that Beijing wants one concession the league has been unwilling to make: an apology
NBA’s groveling is not enough for China. Hah!
Can Dick’s Sporting Goods relocate all their stores to China? Because it seems they’re a lot more compatible with that form of government.
Take Gillette too.
Send all the woke companies to China.
It’s not like they have real principles anyway.
I’m not any sort of activist at all, But Gillette or Dicks’ will never get a dime from me again, they can go fuck themselves.
Who says struggle sessions are a thing of the past?
IT’s not going to be enough until the Chicoms can extradite those bad NBA people to the mainland for a trial.
If the ChiComs execute a few NBA representatives, I can’t really say anything because I’m unfamiliar with the issues involved.
You should consult your Sister in law’s cousin who studies Basketball.
Well done
CNN: Steve Kerr was just sent to a reeducation camp and his organs were harvested!
Decent Americans: I got to plead ignorance on this one. Really got to hear both sides
“CNN: Steve Kerr was just sent to a reeducation camp and his organs were harvested!”
Well, his social credit score was sort of low, so they had no choice.
CNN: Kerr arrested in China for speaking to gay dissidents.
Kerr: Was that wrong? I gotta plead ignorance on this one. Have to call my brother in law.
They must have had it coming. I mean if they didn’t do anything wrong…
One tweet started this.
/best timeline ever
“Created by Dan Schneider”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpta4ZQ_m6o
Why would you call thieves after you were robbed?
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2019/10/08/connecticut-gun-theft-victim-gets-rest-of-his-guns-taken-by-police/
If you can’t be trusted to store your guns so they can’t be stolen, you can’t be trusted with guns at all!
/NY
Don’t. Call. The. Cops.
^this^
Too bad, 99% of people not on this site, do not learn this lesson until learning it the hard way.
Hey, making more people criminals? WIN! /government
Why Brett isn’t here.
NSFW
https://twitter.com/spydaman617/status/1181725344807690241
NSFW
Not sure NSFW covers that lol.
NBA luminaries continue to reveal themselves as craven, spineless cowards as Steph Curry follows the lead of his bitchass coach:
This took me two seconds, Steph.
You ignorant fuckwit.
But… opium!!1!! colonisation!!111!!…
They perfected the victim game long before anyone in the US even thought of playing it.
Morally bankrupt.
“Orange man bad, but I don’t know, that guy who sends people to reeducation camps and murders people, well we got to hear his side. I’m going to cash my check now, because I’m muh…brave!”
These wokeheads like to call everyone who doesn’t share their delusions “complicit”. Maybe they should consider what should happen to those who actually are complicit with a real murderous regime.
You aren’t really surprised that the left were going to start siding with the Chicoms, are you? It’s the same ideology, of course they are going to side with the Chicoms. Bad orange man cut some regulations after all, and now we’ll all die, because before those regulations, everyone was dead! all the Chicoms did was disappear a few bad people!
Meanwhile they couldn’t point a finger fast enough at Trump for tweeting happy birthday at them.
To their credit, I think progressives are split on this issue, but I think it’s mainly because most progressives are unbelievably ignorant about the rest of the world. Most conservatives just default to hating China because of Trump.
But virtue signaling asshole celebrities were always full of shit and anyone who thought that saying “orange man bad” was ever brave is hopelessly delusional
Maybe Laura Ingraham was onto something when she told Lebron to shut his mouth and go bounce his ball.
Seriously. Go make your millions, help out some charity and bounce your balls.
Intellects you ain’ts.
Lol. Go chew on your mouth guard punk and cry about Orange Man Bad you bitch.
And read a fucken book.
This weather is great. Went running today at around 11am, 69 degrees. It’s actually a little chilly out right now, I just closed the patio doors. Hope it stays this way for a while.
yep. love it. walked to the bar without sweating.
STEVE SMITH WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND…..AND BE YOUR FRIEND MEAN RAPE
https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2019/10/survey-average-american-hasnt-made-new-friend-five-years/
Well, it couldn’t have nothing to do with today’s political climate. I mean, you can trust everyone, people are nice, right? If things continue like they are right now, in a decade, people won’t even speak to each other.
Yup, half of my office is on the “do not interact in private” list.
I find it sort of amusing that when I walk/run on the trails here, every day when I’m WFH, almost everyone I pass speaks to me, good morning, hey, hello again, whatever. They all seem so nice. But I imagine, knowing where I am right now, if any of them thought I might actually vote for orange bad man next year, they’d probably never speak to me again. I mean, sure I know everyone is not like that. I have a few lefty leaning friends at work, and not at work, who know I’m libertarian and do not agree with them on pretty much anything politically, but we’re still friends and just avoid politics, period. But that is the exception, not the rule.
I’ve found that in my office people just can’t help themselves. They’ve fully bought into the “we’re a community” bullshit, and the young lawyers are the same people who were bringing home the “how talk over Thanksgiving dinner about how horrible conservatives are” manuals from college a few years back.
The rest of us grumble in the margins, wishing that we could WFH 100%
“I’ve found that in my office people just can’t help themselves.”
Yeah, I get it. I have a friend who just could not help herself like that. She was almost immediately the first time I talked with her, needing to bring up politics. Then she makes the statement ‘And no one is more liberal than me!’. And I said ‘Except for me, probably’. She looked shocked. Then I explained to her ‘I would not call myself a liberal at all in today’s world. I might be what you call a classic liberal or libertarian’. She pondered that a little and said ‘Oh, you’re one of those live and let live people?’. I said ‘Yeah, that’s what liberal used to mean, it didn’t mean leftist’. She looked to be pondering again and said ‘Oh’. That was the last time we ever discussed politics and have been friends for about a year now.
I keep trying to suss out what rubs me so funny about these people in my office. It’s a little bit that I disagree. It’s a little bit that they’re open and forthcoming about their politics. But that’s not really enough to put up a red flag. My next door neighbor is a hippie, complete with shitty politics and an incessant need to virtue signal, and we’re friends.
I think it’s that they’ve entered the “application” phase of the plan. It’s not just small talk, it’s trial balloons to HR. It’s campaigns to get pointless shit changed. It’s sneaking their ideology into site-wide activities and into our year end goals. It’s spending 90% of our department meetings on I&D. It has gone from annoying small talk to weaponized kulturkampf. We have an entire day of mandatory site culture training next week. A large portion of that is lectures on various oppression narratives.
Yeah, I get it, Trashy, one of my client’s is a huge organization and they’re all full of wokeness. The amount of money and time wasted on useless bullshit makes me more and more anxious to be able to retire soon and just fulltime troll these asshats.
‘Oh, you’re one of those live and let live people?’”
Wtf?
That’s the problem. They don’t want people to live freely as they see fit.
My father’s caption on his mausoleum is ‘Vive e lasce vivere’. He used to tell my wife that and when the time came to engrave something she passionately and persuasively lobbied for it because it’s how my father led his life.
With a big fuck you to everyone. But that’s another story.
“The rest of us grumble in the margins, wishing that we could WFH 100%”
I get it. Couple of weeks ago we started in again on one of those ridiculous non-work things. Look, just leave me the fuck alone and let me get stuff done. That’s what I’m here for. But, no, we have to go through these ridiculous rituals.
Now, they’re on to this ‘happiness in the office’ thing. We got to be happy, dudes! And they way we be happy is that if we accomplish something, we have to do high fives, fist bumps, and this silly shit they call ‘Happy Salmon’. Seriously.
I put a pretty good shock on our project manager when we were having a meeting and I enthusiastically engaged in a high five and fist bump all around, and then when it came time for ‘happy salmon’, I said ‘No, that shit is fucking gay, no happy Tuna’. She said ‘Hyperion, no, it’s happy salmon!’. I said ‘yeah, happy tun, it’s fucking gay, I ain’t doing it’. Seriously, that’s just me, I have a bullshit tolerance and if you pass it, I’m done.
*unzips*
Here’s my happy salmon! Who wants some sushi?
They never think about the happiness that comes from being left the hell alone.
One of my coworkers was going off on how some of the original founders of our company were horrible people, libertarians. They’ve even appeared in videos on the old site. Anyway, I said “I don’t see anything wrong with libertarians” and that put an end to it.
Yes, people who leave others alone instead of constantly meddling in their lives are such jerks.
I’ve been trying to bring up my socialist upbringing, but mostly it results in me keeping quite when sperging starts up, and that might not work at a university setting. It’s time to read up on ketmans.
I find that I can have civil conversations with people out in the real world. I don’t bring up politics myself though, and I don’t talk about it at work. My boss has baited me a few times, but I don’t bite.
I just avoid politics, period, and religion until… Well, I learned that a long, long time ago. I learned it in business classes to not talk about politics with customers, I learned don’t discuss politics with potential romance prospects. I learned that stuff a long time ago. But today, it seems you have a lot of people who never learned that or have unlearned it because of political pressure from peers. So yeah, I avoid it until pressed, and then I’l speak up. I’ve had that work and I’ve also had it result in just not interacting with people again. Whatever, if you can’t be friends of even talk to me because of politics, then I’m better off avoiding you.
It seems a lot of people haven’t had the benefit of being told, ‘hey man. Not cool’ in their lives.
It stings at that moment, but in the long run you can’t get better life advice.
Do you assholes count as friends? If so, we’re bending the curve way up.
My wife calls y’all my “internet friends”. She’s jealous of the attention I give y’all.
Yeah. My wife will be like ‘You talking to your crazy friends again! Pay attention to me!’.
That’s why I keep you guys on the down low.
I get some of that too. I say “One of the Glibs” say this or that and has zero fucks to give.
His loss!!
You’re giving him that look, right?
I vote yes on this.
+1
How common is it for a homebuyer to forego the appraisal? They put enough money down that their mortgager didn’t require one, so the buyers declined it.
You’re giving someone a grand to walk around a bit, research your neighbors’ houses, and then say, “Yes, this house is worth whatever you need to me say it’s worth to make your lender happy.” Why bother if you don’t have to?
^this. You obviously had an idea what it was worth to you when you made the offer, appraisals are for the lender. And unless you have some appraisal contingency beyond the financing contingency, it isn’t getting you out of the deal anyway, so why would you bother?
I’ve foregone the survey in the past, but not the appraisal. I don’t think the appraisal is worth much outside of financing, so it doesn’t surprise me.
If the dude is a tradesman, I’m not sure what value an appraiser brings. I like hiring one because I miss things, especially if I really want the house.
I went to a bar and grill in Carlsbad CA for lunch. sat at the bar with Mr Splosives. There on the right, several empty seats down, was a young lady. Beautiful, blonde, no more than 25. She was crying.
At first I cynically thought “O great, a drama queen.” But she wasn’t calling attention to herself at all, but when the silent weeping went to shuddering sobs, I sat next to her and asked if she was ok
She said no! And explained that she’d been at that same restaurant last week with her fiancé. But he died in a car wreck coming back from San Fran from a nephew’s b day party.
He was a marine stationed at Pendleton.
I offered a hug and she took it and opened up.
Great gal. Life sucks sometimes but we have to be there for each other.
“She said no! And explained that she’d been at that same restaurant last week with her fiancé. But he died in a car wreck coming back from San Fran from a nephew’s b day party.”
That’s terrible. I would have advised her against going there again so soon, that’s just sure to not work out too well.
She just wanted to experience him again, I think. But yeah, it opened the eye spigots.
But I sat with her quite a while and offered to leave her in peace but she wanted the company.
We talked about life, death, tragedy and character.
But I got her talking about her job in molecular chemistry and she got excited. We even ended up laughing many times and she stopped sobbing.
She hugged me again as I got up to leave and said twice that she really did feel better and thank you.
Do not neglect the hurt around you.
“That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”
That’s really sweet of you to comfort her. Being drawn outside your own misery for a short while makes it a lot easier to get over. Good on ya!
I get it, I lost a GF about 10 years ago to cancer. It was really sudden and shocking. A few months later I was out with a friend who was driving and she said ‘Hey, have you seen this new place down here, and I realized, she was driving, where she was talking about’. It was the last place I had dinner with my x GF before she was hospitalized and died 2 days later, and I was like ‘No, don’t drive by there, just forget it’. But she didn’t get it and did it anyway and it really bothered me so I just asked her to please take me home, that shit was awful.
I get it. My face is still leaking
This is the sucky part of being an empathic extrovert
Introverts have the same feelings, trust me on this, whether they show it or not.
/raises hand.
I’m Introverted but people seem to think this means lacking compassion.
Heck, it’s part of being a toxic male apparently.
Gay.
I like you, hyp.
I’m sort of an introvert/extrovert hybrid. I just don’t much care for small talk and bullshit. So people seem to naturally assume I’m mean. I made friends with a lady who is working in one of our parking garages when she said something to me one day and then she said ‘Hey, you’re not mean, you’re really nice!’. I said ‘No, I’m mean, that’s how you get people to leave you alone’. My wife is the social butterfly, I’m the curmudgeon bastard who will tell you to get the fuck off my lawn. Works out.
+1 fish
“I like you, hyp”
It’s all good, I like you too. Can we get Glib group hug?
I like you, hyp.
She was talking to me.
^ yes, we express them differently and sometimes are unsure how best to offer comfort, but we aren’t sociopaths. (well not all of us anyway)
So, hyperbole…
I hear you are good at stuff?
Tell us about gardening/cooking/stirring up trouble
That you like…
(Ducks direct answer)
I am a weird combo of ruthless Aries ENTJ aggression and intent with emotions.
If I didn’t actually care for and connect with people internally (which I express externally and I understand not all do) I would be an evil genius.
So even if you’re not religious, take 5 seconds to thank God for that.
“I like you, hyp. She was talking to me.”
I’m going to have to wait for her to confirm.
I don’t know if we can teach that far but I like the idea!!
Wow. That was tremendously kind of you HS.
Thoughts and prayers for that girl and her fiance’s family
Don’t thank me, y’all . You’d have done the same.
This rabble?
Didn’t you see the funeral scene in Wedding Crashers?!?
This is why there are libertarian women.
Vigorous clapping ?
There are?! Where?! I heard that was a myth.
Wink
No, we don’t disagree that you exist. We just disagree whether or not you might exist 5 minutes from now. Libertarian women are like some subatomic particles that appear and then just disappear out of existence. You can never know their exact location at any time or whether they actually exist, or not at any given moment.
Nice work, toots.
Good people walk among us. Nicely done, Ms. ‘Splosives.
If you are the praying type, her name is Olivia and her beloved was Austin.
She did have a cross around her neck and so did I so we went straight to that. This earth is not meant to be our home.
Losing a loved one like that is the most horrible thing ever, and the only thing that can ever even fix it a little, is time.
You’re a good person.
No words.
But +1.
This the the weirdest beginning to a Penthouse letter I’ve ever read.
Aaaaand this is why I frequent this wretched hive of scum and villainy. 😉
Good on ya, ‘Splosives. You are a decent and kind person and deserve better than us.
But, hey, since you are already here…
I am doing the read no evil dance here…
Oh yeah.
I was thinking worse but didn’t have the guts to express it.
+1 pervert who didn’t want to spoil the kumbaya
I have my standards.
Sorta.
I think.
Oh, how awful. Good on ya, ‘splosives.
Yeah, all I got is a couple of divorce decrees.
My sister’s second hubby (awesome fellow I sort of fixed her up with) lost his lovely first wife to leukemia at 23 or something awful.
It ain’t fair.
That’s rough. At least you were there to offer some comfort.
That was really nice of you. It reminds me or one time in my life, I was sitting on a train and a beautiful blonde girl in her 20’s go on and sat across from me. Instantly I could see that it was like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders. After a few minutes tears started to leak out. She wasn’t making a show or drawing attention to herself, you could tell that, for whatever reason, she was genuinely heartbroken. I didn’t know what to do and their were several dynamics in play that kept me from saying anything (gender roles, language barrier, with a friend). I’ve always felt bad for not offering her comfort if it had been possible.
Craziest part about this is, she was a stranger to me, you are total strangers to her.
You cared and commented an in some cases prayed.
I took on some of her burden, you helped me bear that little bit that I took on.
Call me crazy, but I think that we indirectly helped her. Thank you all.
I can’t find a single crazy thing in anything that you’ve said. Good people here, I tell ya 😉
NEEDZ MOAR WAR!!!
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rand-paul-on-the-kurds-then-and-now/
The Kurds are spread over Iran, Iraq and Turkey, where are they supposed to set up this “country” ?
Israel gets to divide it’s extra land between the Palestinians and the Kurds, because you know, they have all that land to spare.
I am seriously mixed on this.
Getting into Libya was terrible (Ghaddifi had already given up nuke and chem weapons), helping screw Yemen for the Saudis was bad.
But screwing the Kurds??? The only guys over there (besides Israelis) who issue women pants, rights, and weapons…
It’s like backing Solyndra. Govt can’t pick a winner for shit.
I don’t know the answer either other than to play Captain Hindsight. The right to do was to stay the hell out. I feel for the Kurds and we’ve definitely used and summarily dumped them. Bt when the alternative is basically permanent occupation, what do you do? I don’t have the answer….
they are Commies as well, we Can’t pick a winner for shit,,,,
We need to get the fuck out of the ME, period. There is no solution to their problems that we can provide. All we will do is create more problems at great cost.
Thats the conclusion I’ve come to
Yeah, I’ve been saying that forever. GTFO, STFO.
This
Generations of bad decisions don’t justify our further involvement
Our brilliant others in government, I mean they must be brilliant, right? They got elected to public office after all, and that bestows brilliance on a person, yet they cannot understand, pretty much anything at all. Not human nature, not history, not demographics, not culture, not anything.
These people are still warring tribes. You are not rushing this shit. You going to kill them all or are you going to finally get it? Rome tried to rush it, Rome fell. Western style democracy and especially a republic, which even Europeans don’t get, is completely foreign to them. Do you get it? They don’t want what you are selling, leave them the fuck alone! It’s like a door to door salesman who has been coming to my door for 50 years and I keep telling him’No, I don’t want it’, so he breaks down my door an tries to force me to buy it. Not going to end well. Get the fuck out of the ME, America.
It’s hubris and delusions of power.
As a wise Glib said a couple of days ago,
America needs to learn not to stick its collective dick into the syphilitic whore that is the Middle East.
I like quoting Reagan at my conservatard friends who argue that we can’t get out:
“Perhaps we didn’t appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the marines’ safety that it should have.
In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believe the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 marines would be alive today.”
Excellent . I was young at the time but remember the bombing.
Thanks for the quote!!
wow. I will be using that quote. Thanks
I suspect the reality of the situation is a lot more complex that what is being portrayed in the media. Shocker, I know. Some Kurdish groups suck, like the PKK, who are commies who engaged in bombing campaigns against Turkey for many years, even before Erdogan. We shouldn’t be supporting them except as the lesser of two evils against ISIS. Now that ISIS is basically defeated, the PKK has outlived its usefulness. Other groups I’d feel worse about abandoning, but we still can support them in ways other than using our soldiers as human shields. If Turkey wants to get bogged down there, let them. Just don’t let them make it a NATO problem.
I had read this before. Is the PKK the group we are “abandoning”? If so..
Yes. The Iraqi kurds are very different people.
I have met numerous Kurds in various countries over the past 3 years and have had many conversations about life and politics with them. From all of that I have concluded that they have have several factions with very different views on life and liberty, from near libertarian to communist. Sadly, many of them have been taken advantage of by European countries who allow them to contribute to the economy, but deny them the rights of citizenship. I would be in favor of giving the Kurds their own country and then let them figure their own shit out.
…wut?
Oh, I missed that little morsel of derp…..yeah, just wow…
‘You keep using that word [non-interventionism], I don’t a think it means what you think it means’
He said something about the Kurds in Iraq in 2015, now it’s 2019 and these Kurds are in Syria. The circumstances are completely different and trying to discredit him using that example is a desperate fail. National Review and the various twats over there can suck it.
National Review should rebrand themselves “The War Drum,” because that’s the beat they are the most consistent on. Now that The Weekly Standard is gone they are in first place for worst conservative publication.
Isn’t it sad? They lost me when they fired Mark Steyn for speaking the truth. They’ve spiraled even since then.
What’s funny is they are the only conservative voice the MSM will talk about with any amount of respect which is a blatant tell they are truly terrible. The American Conservative has been putting out high quality, non-interventionist articles for years but they got no love when the left used to pretend they were anti-war.
JohnMcCain, anyone?
It’s a collection of people, some of which I like. I like Williamson and I enjoy Mccartty’s legal takes. I like George Will when it comes to economics.
French is probably the biggest TDSer there is.
George Will was getting more and more libertarian as time went on . . .then trump got elected and he got worse than ever. TDS has ruined a lot of brilliant minds.
He’s the same on non-Trump issues but man does he ever hate Trump.
Or Trump caused us to see they weren’t great minds after all. It’s possible.
I think I said the TGA the other day that when the topic isn’t foreign policy they can occasionally have a decent article. Then someone mentions getting out of somewhere and they always get their warmonger on. I’ve been reading and listening to Michael Malice recently……W.F. Buckley did American conservatism no favors.
Jonah Goldberg is giving French a run for his money.
Hey Sean? Got your ears on ?
What was the link to the salt/steak overnight refrigerator thing? (At least I think it was you that posted it)
1/2 teaspoon per pound of steak. Leave uncovered overnight (two nights if you have the time), preferably on a rack so air can get all around it.
Grill and die of happiness.
Coarse salt? Or fine?
Coarse works for me.
Kosher coarse, of course!
If you’re feeling fancy, get some hickory smoked sea salt. ?
I just throw on Italian dressing and put in fridge for as long as I can wait. tastes amazing
https://jesspryles.com/recipe/how-to-make-your-steak-even-tastier-use-the-dry-brining-method/
you’re both awesome
Much obliged
Shoot for at least 24 hours in the fridge.
I just did 48 with a couple choice Costco ribeyes. Sweet jesus were they good! If I can get my shit together I’m going to shoot for that from now on.
Btw, I don’t use as much salt as in her 3rd picture, maybe a 1/3 of that. Your taste may vary.
Same. It’s unnecessary. You can always salt it later.
I think the idea is to let the salt work, so you add as much as you will use.
I’ve been told by chefs that most home cooks greatly under-spice (including salt) their food. I think this is true in many cases. Be bold!
Great find, BTW. Will try.
I have 2 decent ribeyes that I was planing to grill tomorrow, and then an impulse-buy “center chuckeye” that Im not sure what to do with.
(it was cheap AF and I thought, why not?)
Sous Vide?
/Pressure Cooker
Eye of chuck makes awesome corned beef.
I’ve done this a few times and I think it adds a little,but I’m not sure its incredibly important. I’ll just have to eat more steak and try again and again until I can fully determine.
We eat a LOT of steak (in case you miss my steak & gun pics). It makes a big difference.
I’ll second this. I eat steak damn near every day.
I, and my remaining family carnivores are quite happy with my steaks, but I always welcome an opportunity to improve. So thanks for this.
My number one rule for steaks is if can’t stand on its sides, get a a better cut.
One personal note:
I think coarse sea salt tastes better than other salt.
You get more coverage per crystal, i.e., bigger bursts of saltiness.
Try Maldon Sea Salt on a good piece of meat cooked to perfection.
The coarseness doesn’t matter. Sea salt and the Himalayan salt both taste better than the generic table salt.
You don’t even need that much time, imo. Made some steaks, The other day that were 10x better than one I paid $100 for at a fancy restaurant. I only seasoned it for 3 hours or so.
I may try this 24 hour thing, but I may actually die if it makes them taste much better than those steaks did.
How come for why Colorado no has cryptids?
Even the cryptids are sick of the influx of Californians!
Sick burn!!
(Eats legal gummy)
No, Preet, not really. I work for the feds.
Get off me.
Sheesh!!
God, Preet is such a dick
Overrun with Hippies?
MS: 3M honorary cryptids
/ I believe
ManBearPig!
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AW4nSq0hAc
Every Kurd is unique in his or her own special way.
Morning/afternoon/evening, gliberinos!
Howdy!
straff is in the house!
Just sayin’ Good morning on the way to work. *Elbows salary man standing a little to close*
OOOH I have seen this movie! You are wearing a school girl skirt on the train right?
I swear….if Roberts pulls the hook on Buehler too soon tonight….
Anyone got a link to that recent Southpark China apology thing that actually works?
https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320
Thanks!
SHIT! NEW THREAD!!
You’re not supposed to tell us that.
Is Richard Sherman retarded?
https://twitter.com/RSherman_25/status/1181656261961621505
Prog-woke ESPN sports writers and panels: HE WENT TO STANFORD! HOW DARE YOU?!
Bonus: Popvovich: Free Tibet but not Hong Kong. NBA is gonna woke up China.
Popovich.
“Is Richard Sherman retarded?”
Yes
Oh that whole thing was a lie? Is there anything too trivial to be false these days?