Fuck you, you alien-looking sellout motherfucker.
The Astros laid the wood to the Yankees last night. And JV is on the hill tonight to start game 5. Here’s hoping the next Houston home game is World Series Game 1.The Chiefs won, but at what cost? The NBA and ESPN continue to polish China’s ballsack in the hopes they’ll be forgiven.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the league is already dealing with “fairly dramatic” financial consequences from Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s support of Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters.
Uh, no. you’re dealing with he consequences of the unreasonable reaction of an autocratic regime that won’t tolerate any form of dissent or expansion of liberty. Not from a tweet. But keep polishing that Chinese knob. Maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ll forgive a guy for a tweet that offended them. And then maybe they’ll put your games back on the air. You know, because that’s how a reasonable government would react. (Insert eye-roll emoji here)
Showing what one motivated marine and his rifle can do.
Birthday boys and girls for today are: musician Chuck Berry, actor George C Scott, legendary sportscaster Keith Jackson, actor Peter Boyle, sharpshooter marksman Lee Harvey Oswald, football legend Mike Ditka, tennis goat Martina Navritalova, and god of the silver screen Jean-Claude Van Damme.
OK, on to…the links!
Looks like an antifa protester with a gun was arrested at the Trump rally in Dallas last night. See, this dude was smart. If he’d have just stayed home with a gun, a Dallas cop might have just walked by and shot him dead.
Ah yes, the integrity of the UN Human Rights Council continues to be beyond reproach. LOL, its as if they’re not even trying to be taken seriously.
Florida Man doing Florida Man things. First hint it was Florida? The cops were called to Dick King Road to investigate.
Mexico release El Chapo’s son for no reason. Oh wait, they have a reason: so the cartels will stop killing innocent people. Uh, maybe y’all should just legalize all the damn drugs and stop fighting a war with these people. Also, releasing convicted criminals so their followers won’t indiscriminately kill people is an interesting play. I’m sure this won’t be abused in the future.
Nobody fucking cares!!!!!
Don’t tease us like this! It’s overdue anyway, but don’t get our hopes up.
Who. The. Hell. Cares? “Hey, we’re equal to you!” “Hey, we’re special. Look at me! Look at me!!!!!” I mean, this shit’s been done a thousand times. Welcome to the club, I guess.
LATE ADDITION: This “hate crime” thing has officially jumped the shark. Hat tip to Brett L for finding this gem.
There shouldn’t be a single one of you that complains about this song. If you do, you’re dead to me.
That’s it, folks. Enjoy the ALCS hopefully wrapping up today as well as the Buckeyes playing on Friday. Yes, they got sent to a Friday game. Nice job, Big Ten. AH, don’t get me started. Go enjoy the weekend.
The Astros laid the wood to the Yankees last night. And JV is on the hill tonight to start game 5. Here’s hoping the next Houston home game is World Series Game 1.The Chiefs won, but at what cost? The NBA and ESPN continue to polish China’s balls in the hopes they’ll be forgiven. – what if China changes their evil ways because they love basketball? Could happen
Also What is a JV?
The guy who is pumping Kate Upton.
meh. I’ve had better*
* though not really
Justin Verlander.
looks kinda like a hick looking at google images. Kate is only with him for his money and fame. Which is probably the reason most men want money and fame
Ya think?
Junior Varsity.
ISIL?
/Obama
Well, he was right about that.
Too old for you.
In general, it means Junior Varsity. It’s usually the second tier sports at the high school or college level. In this specific case it refers to the best pitcher on the Astro’s. Abbreviations can be tough without a reference.
yeah I heard
what if China changes their evil ways because they love basketball? Could happen
Somebody’s been drinking this morning.
It is not morning but as I work from home I may have had a beer.
It’s morning. It’s right there in the title to the piece. Morning Links. Not Eastern European afternoon links.
::hums “God Bless America”::
Fuck Yeah!
It’s not over, but…
Just glad the nationals are playing the last game of the baseball season. Hope they don’t get swept. Astros look so fucking good right now.
¯\_( ⊙_ʖ⊙ )_/¯
Boobs peaking out of a storm drain right?
That song lives inside of my head.
Ah yes, the integrity of the UN Human Rights Council continues to be beyond reproach. LOL, its as if they’re not even trying to be taken seriously. – according to the rankings women in Venezuela have 64 time more human right than in the US
Well, 88% of 0 is also 0, so they’ve solved the gender pay gap.
Now if they only had some food all of the illegals here would swarm back out of the country and head to the beautiful shores of lake maracaibo.
A year before all this shit started really popping off my in-laws went to visit a friend who lives in Venezuela. Absolutely loaded by Venezuelan standards, very, very well off by American standards. Even then, he and his family lived more or less on a compound with private security and traveled by boat or helicopter rather than car.
They’ve broken all the glass ceilings in Venezuela. And store windows. And doors. And deli glass.
The UN is a slush fund for 3rd world despots and lackeys, nothing more.
Not true. It is also a forum for human rights violators to yell at the US and Israel for violating human rights.
Don’t forget bluehelmets raping the locals!
Mexico release El Chapo’s son for no reason. Oh wait, they have a reason: so the cartels will stop killing innocent people. Uh, maybe y’all should just legalize all the damn drugs and stop fighting a war with these people. Also, releasing convicted criminals so their followers won’t indiscriminately kill people is an interesting play. I’m sure this won’t be abused in the future. – might as well disband the government… could be fore the best.
So…drag all the mayors behind trucks!
NPR covered some of the story this morning, and had a damn trigger warning that there would be gun sounds.
Behind a voiceover. On the radio.
No more cowboy movies (or Willie N. songs) for me, too many Triggers and triggers.
NASA is gearing up for a long string of intersectional firsts, meanwhile SpaceX and the other private spacefarers are gearing up to go to the Moon and Mars.
Defund NASA. A complete waste of taxpayer money.
My wife beats this drum constantly. An erstwhile friend (demoted more or less to acquaintance now) who is damn close to being Pajama Boy used to argue that NASA was the best thing ever because they do all kinds of science and they’re so cheap compared to the rest of the budget and IFLS and space is cool and nobody else could’ve landed on the moon. So she used to say, “And what was the point of landing on the moon? Just to say we did? Is that worth more than the textbooks the money could’ve bought?”
They don’t even do worthwhile science. Most of their published research is either trivial or a sick joke.
Well the counterargument to the whole moon landing thing is that it wasn’t that only a national government could do it, it was that only a national government would do it. There really wasn’t a point. When you look at private space flight it’s being used to do things that people see as investment-worthy. Nobody’s spending millions of dollars just to say they did something cool. So yeah, I’m sure NASA is cranking out a ton of research, and it’s probably about as worthwhile as what comes from most government agencies.
“There really wasn’t a point.”
Actually, the point was that being able to do this required the development of some seriously intense and new technological capabilities. We all benefited as this produced things from Tang to microwave tech. Not to mention the military applications. People that claim going to the moon was of no value seriously miss the boat IMO.
Microwave tech (and Teflon, for that matter) had zero to do with NASA. I’m not sure about Tang.
I didn’t say NASA did anything. I said the program resulted in things. NASA has never impressed me much as their solutions always seem to be over complicated and bureaucratic. In fact, I think the program was a great success despite NASA.
Ok, but that’s like saying, “Thank God WWII happened or else we never would’ve developed psychiatric treatment for PTSD or established penicillin as an effective anti-bacterial medication.” There’s an is-ought issue with assigning credit to NASA’s moon landing project for all of the ancillary technological advancements that ensued.
I’d say development of space capabilities had some pretty clear defense purposes. The Soviets were certainly working toward orbital weapons and our moon landings were a pretty clear message that the Soviets would lose the arms race in orbit. I’d greatly prefer private space exploration, but if we are going to have vanity projects exploration is far and away the least offensive way to go.
This. It matured our ballistic missile tech, gave us an orbital hegemony, and marked the start of the decline of the Soviet Union.
I think my objection is much more to the shuttle program and beyond than to Apollo. (not that any of the space program was a particularly great use of money)
It was a far better use of the money than the oodles of cash that was pissed away on idiotic things like war on poverty (which only created a giant bureaucracy hell bent on creating as much poverty as possible to sustain itself).
Yeah, but rocketry and satellite research had been a thing prior, and no defense capability resulted from the moon landing. Ironically given Lenin’s thoughts on Communism and capitalist imperialism, the Soviet Union was living on borrowed time from day one. It, rather than the capitalist economies, could only sustain itself through economic colonization. Since it could only support that through military expansion there was never a sweet spot of sustainability where it could maintain a military sufficient to intimidate enough client states to support the system.
Oh in a pure libertarian world you are correct. The moon landings were a vanity project and paying for a vanity project with taxes is immoral. It was also the greatest engineering achievement and triumphant moment in human history. We climbed out of the trees, stood up and WE WENT TO ANOTHER WORLD!
Exactly right. I was just writing something similar, when I saw your comment.
For the record, as agencies go, NASA is way down the list of things I’d like to see go away. It’s sort of like when someone has money troubles because they spend $4000 a month at the track and spend $10 at the Starbucks on the way there and you tell them, “Well, the problem is you’re buyin’ that fancy coffee!” It just bugs me when NASA gets put on this pedestal, like it’s the one good agency.
Bill, I sure as hell hope you didn’t take my defense of the space program as a defense of NASA. Yes, back in the days of the space race I feel NASA added more value, whereas today I almost would want it scrapped and all this stuff going to a private space initiative, because as an organization, NASA has become just another bullshit proggie shit peddling boondoggle. Shit, even the military has fallen prey to the left’s agenda to use all things government to peddle their failed and evil ideas.
It was fake, anyway. I guess that made it much cheaper than the actual budget
Next thing you know, NASA will be dedicating energy to studying the oceans. Oh wait…
What’s after? Muslim outreach programs or something crazy like that? Cause we all know that in science what counts is the color of the sciencey-type’s skin, the actual internal plumbing of their bodies, if they prefer cock, pussy, or ass, and what religion or political beliefs they hold….
Once you’ve become a government funded agency, all of the real work is over, except for make work shit, signaling, and trying to get a bigger budget.
I don’t know who that guy in the photo is- winner of the Scott van Pelt Lookalike Contest?- but he should avoid wearing a pink turtleneck.
He’s what I envision the “skinnies” from Starship Troopers looking like.
Winner.
Also, hasn’t he actually done the right thing, even if in the most milquetoast way possible?
That was the impression I got from the econlog article. Which is where I go for my NBA news.
The linked article is him doing the right thing. I’m all for bashing people for doing or saying evil crap but not when someone says the right thing, just not as forcefully as we might prefer. His job is to look out for the brand. He has to be reserved in his criticisms, but:
“These American values — we are an American business — travel with us wherever we go,” Silver said. “And one of those values is free expression. We wanted to make sure that everyone understood we were supporting free expression.”
Is the right thing to say, and if he had said it day one we would not be having this discussion.
Was the antifa dude doing anything illegal? Doesn’t sound like it from the article.
I didn’t catch if he was antifa, or anti-antifa.
He had a mask and spray paint so I made an assumption.
I think the helmet and partial face-covering are illegal in Texas.
That was my guess. Most cities don’t allow masks unless it’s a blizzard or kids trick-or-treating. They just choose not to enforce it when antifa hits the streets.
Blocking roads should be illegal, blocking entry to businesses should be illegal, assaulting people should be illegal. Masks should not be illegal.
Eh, I’m gonna disagree. When a mob of 200 masked And similarly-dresses people are constantly moving and blocking people and destroying property it makes it hard for the cops to identify who specifically blocked someone or busted a window with a hammer.
But that is arguing for laws against harmless behavior justified because it makes the police job of punishing other behavior easier. The law’s rightful role is to punish behavior that directly harms another. Laws against masks are the same sort of thing as laws against guns, or drugs, or against displaying flags. Antifa are scum, they should be fought any time they block a road, a store, assault someone, or vandalize something, but anonymity is not itself a valid thing to punish.
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I agree with you here. For laws to be just and effective, they have to work the same way all the time for everyone. If that means you can’t steal a march on Antifa because they haven’t actually done anything wrong yet, so be it.
But antifa are conspiring to commit these crimes and make the perpetrators impossible to identify by deliberately dressing alike and constantly moving in a swarming manner. They’re effectively coordinating random attacks on people.
If fifty of them swarm you while carrying hammers and wearing masks, hoe do you identify the only one that swings it and splits your skull? Do you just shrug and let them continue coordinating attacks this way, or do you preemptively van masks that serve no purpose other than to allow their crimes to be much harder to identify?
And if they wore masks on private property, I wouldn’t have any issue with it. But in the commons, this seems like a conspiracy to commit assault or carry out other crimes. No reasonable person would be dressed exactly the same as every other person in their groups and carrying the same weapons.
Serious question.
But if you outlaw anonymity when protesting you can’t limit it to one group. With the rise of cancel culture that really scares me, because if it is illegal to wear a mask while protesting, because some protesters turn into rioters, then what prevents the Government from outlawing VPNs, or anonymous handles online because some posters make illegal threats?
I understand your point, in antifa’s case there seems to be a very direct link between the masks and the crimes, but to me it is a bright line rule, laws against behavior which is in and of itself harmless are wrong. Also, there is a really superior solution to outlawing masks. Stop the stand down orders for cops! Antifa shows up, so do the police and they stand there in riot gear and the second an antifa dude breaks the law they charge in and grab him.
There’s a reason China is using anti mask orders in Hong Kong as well. Its not just for criminal actions.
Hong Kong banned masks recently too.
“by deliberately dressing alike and constantly moving in a swarming manner.”
Doesn’t that make them a paramilitary organization?
I think there are existing laws that you can use to go after Antifa and similar groups. There are also laws against mobs doing mob things, and there are laws regarding public gatherings and demonstrations that apply as well. The problem is that the places where this shit goes down are being run by politicians who are sympathetic to Antifa in the first place. Charlottesville, for instance, could’ve prevented any significant violence. Instead, they deliberately stationed responders to avoid contact with protesters and stood down the police at the scene.
Can you charge conspiracy to commit assault against all of them?
Doing it once or twice might get them to stop playing dress-up.
I wonder if there’s a RICO angle.
I fall on the side that you can’t ban things that increase the potential for one to get away with actual crimes. I hate that we prosecute people for potential damage they might one day do. Drugs, guns, drunk driving, these are all based on the harm that may occur, despite the overwhelming majority of times where no harm ever results. That, and lack of proportionate sentencing drive me crazy. If you give life to a rapist, you’re incentives ingredients him to kill his victims. What’re you gonna do? Give him double life? Makes no sense.
So far as I can tell, he was about a much a criminal as the Neo Nazi guy that made the front pages here. They arrested him and took his guns, then released him with no charges but kept the guns. The article is poorly written, and the guy is a shit stain from what I can tell. But last I checked, taking his guns because he’s a shit stain would seem to violate his rights.
Antifa in Minneapolis – in case you didn’t think we’re headed towards civil war.
They’re just waiting for the democrats to get all your guns. Then it will no longer be safe to even leave your home, or stay in it, for that matter. It’s what the left wants.
LATE ADDITION: This “hate crime” thing has officially jumped the shark. Hat tip to Brett L for finding this gem – would have been funnier if it was lesbian porn
I mean…so the person in the selfies looks about 40, 50 pounds lighter than the person in the recent television interview, for one thing. So, like, maybe it wasn’t just the equipment mismatch that threw the guy.
From the article:
What is a hate crime?
A hate crime is defined as ‘Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race or perceived race;
Bolding mine
Perceived race. Do they mean perp or victim here?
IOW, thought crime.
Not even thought crime. It is crime defined by the feelings of the ‘victim’ no actual input from the ‘perpetrator’ needed. A perception standard is like the Samurai right to kill and walk away. 斬捨御免. If you are a member of the special class your feeling slighted is itself proof of the other party’s wrong doing.
This one was a no-brainer….
He said he wanted to have sex with her – on film…. for a job.
Then he found out she had man-parts and rescinded the offer. Someone call the EEOC ASAP. That’s gender discrimination, pure and simple. Dude is going down.
Literally.
Because as part of the settlement he won’t only be paying up…. he’ll have to go through with the job.
The song isn’t bad, it’s just dull.
They do have way better songs.
Genuinely curious, how is that song dull compared to most rock melodic rock songs?
I am not dead yet. just an fyi.
Also, Charleston is lazy on Friday. Apparently no one works, traffic is non-existent on Fridays.
I did not know you were on the dangerous streets of Charleston
Is that one of their peculiar institutions that caused such a stir 160 years ago?
Yes, me not being dead is a peculiar institution.
Angry Dutch farmers swarm The Hague to protest green rules
https://www.politico.eu/article/angry-dutch-farmers-swarm-the-hague-to-protest-green-rules/
Peasant rebellion like in the good old medieval days (or 1907 if you are Romania)
I suspect one of my relatives is involved…I haven’t seen the usual placid output from him on the Book of Faces lately.
The Dutch are placid like the Japanese are placid. They are placid until roused, then they are decidedly not placid! Breaking free from the Hapsburg took violence:
“On more than one occasion men were seen hanging their own brothers, who had been taken prisoners in the enemy’s ranks…. A Spaniard had ceased to be human in their eyes. On one occasion, a surgeon at Veer cut the heart from a Spanish prisoner, nailed it on a vessel’s prow, and invited the townsmen to come and fasten their teeth in it, which many did with savage satisfaction.”
Now we are trying to limit nitrogen emissions? WTF? It is inert, composes the vast majority of the atmosphere and increasing it should offset the evils of CO2. What the fuck are they talking about?
I think they mean nitrogen oxide and some nitrites by that
So now they hate cured meats too? Who do these fucks think they are?
Related: I pulled a brisket out of the fridge today that’s been brining for 13 days. Pastrami time tonight!
Proper pastrami is mutton not beef. Discuss.
Mutton is really expensive in the US compared to beef or pork.
I’ve never had or even seen mutton pastrami.
I’ve made duck and beef pastrami at home.
nitrate and nitrite, as Pie says. They have a “multiplier” compared to CO2 because they are not absorbed by plants at the same high rate so an emitted NOx particle contributes “more” to warming than a CO2 particle because although it is less effective as an insulator, it is in the atmosphere longer.
Poppers users hardest hit.
WTF.
Sounds like a Rooseveltian alphabet agency. Someone needs to keep those rascally farmers from producing too much.
If there is too much food, you can’t peddle marxism to starving masses, man…
Sure you can. All this food is not sustainable. Corporations are creating the obesity crisis. There is food but people are undernourished. 86% of people are “at risk” of hunger. Animals are people too. The world is ending. Food inequality is on the rise. Why do the rich get organic non gmo salt and the poor don’t. Should the quality of the food you eat depend on your ability to pay? We need ecomarxism to solve all these pressing problems.
Now THAT’S how it done. Bravo.
I feel POWNED!
*stands to applaud*
organic non gmo salt
This may be the most perfect 4 word encapsulation of progbabble I have ever seen. It is absolute nonsense on its face, the adjectives cannot have any meaning coupled with the noun by their very definitions, but it sounds like actual speech so it must be an argument.
It sounds – to me – like some concoction being sold by a snake oil salesman that will tell you it costs ten to twenty times what regular table salt costs because it is so special, but all it really is is table salt polluted with some inert shit.
It’s communism by other means. The Kulaks all over again but with a genteel smile and the word ‘democratic’.
Andy Reid – Hmm. Let me run my once a generation talent, already injured QB up the middle on 4th down when we’re already winning against the shittiest team in my division. My Mahomey!
Thankfully the Browns have a bye this week to deal with Baker injuring his hip in last week’s game. I give the guy credit for wanting to play out the rest of the game. But FFS, when you drop to a knee because of pain after a play, maybe you should be sitting out the rest of the game.
Whoa. I didn’t see the game and I just heard about this. Why on Earth would you let him run the ball? That was dumb, dumb, dumb.
It was a QB sneak.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a QB go out after an injury on a sneak.
Looked like he dislocated his kneecap.
This^^
They let Brady run QB sneaks all the time, for god’s sake!
If they thought QB sneaks could injure Tammy, they’d outlaw them immediately.
Shit, I think that’s crazy, too.
To be fair it was the other leg.
Not fair. He’s already not 100%. That’s the point.
Why risk it? They’re masters of the fricken screen play so there’s no need to run.
I’m really glad Flacco is no longer a Raven.
Humper- doo!
I was watching the baseball game but that’s dumb.
Now the trend is to be ultra-aggressive on 4th down because all the cool kids are doing it.
Can someone explain tik tok? Am I to old?
https://twitter.com/SoylentMerchant/status/1184558877821587456
“TikTok is an iOS and Android social media video app for creating and sharing short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos.”
So, a vine?
Youtube with a video length limit, I think
well so was vine that wen bankrupt why is this shit a thing?
was vine just ahead of its time? or is the market random? is there at least pornography on tik tok?
I think you have to be one of OMWC’s women, or their classmates to understand.
For others to compile pure cringe?
https://youtu.be/oKGTFCaJDYo
“Never let ya man leave the house hungry or horny. Somewhere out der is a ho wit a sandwich jes waitin’ ta pounce.”
Hey, Ferb, I know what time suck I am going to do today.
I don’t get it…
But all of the kids are doing it. So they have a window of opportunity. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, SnapChat, Vimeo… all were hits with “the kids” first. But then again, so was myspace.
Nobody fucking cares!
This is an accurate summation of my feelings about the NBA.
I really liked the league until “The Decision”. When the top stars started picking and choosing the next contender(s) to be… meh. The season starts with 4 or 5 legit possibilities, and nobody else should even bother playing. Of course, it doesn’t help my area team has been krep for many years.
I was excited about this season before the China thing. AM wondering what ball and ingram will do away from LA I hope better…
it is really fun to watch how thin-skinned the Chinese Reds are. And how the people who run the league and talk tough about American politics, are really pathetic pussies who will bow and scrape before totalitarians for a few more dollars.
Almost makes you think their meddling in American politics is a pursuit for a few more dollars too.
It starts with a fistful of dollars.
Then a few more yen.
That’s how it starts, but then they want a few dollars more.
Dammit! Missed the joke.
It ends with those who have the guns, and those who dig.
Yes it does.
I don’t think it is thin skin. I think they watched the Soviets collapse, realized they had to liberalize economically, and wanted to keep power. That has left them on a tightrope. They have to monitor and control all aspects of communication because they loosened the controls elsewhere, and now people have access to communications from outside direct Government propaganda. I think what we are seeing has a degree of panic behind it. They are starting to recognize that you cannot open up to trade without letting in dangerous ideas.
Hence, thin skin.
They know damn well exposure to liberal ideals, and the idea of liberty itself, is dangerous to communism. They’re thin skinned in the sense that communism cannot withstand scrutiny, particularly when it’s compared to the comparatively vast freedom of expression those in the West have.
I see the problem as, they turned to capitalism to beat us at our own game and it was working well, of course, because capitalism works. Then out of nowhere, they decided to pull a boneheaded move and make a hardline commie dictator for life. Now they’ve gotten themselves into a very bad situation. They want to resurrect Communism and at the same time have a world leading market economy. Sorry, Pooh Bearites, you can’t have it all, and you ain’t getting it all.
My interest in the NBA died when that cup of beer landed on Ron Artest’s chest.
Mine died when the dream team snubbed Isiah Thomas. There. I said it.
I heard that was Michael Jordan being a dick.
You mean, “Metta World Peace”. Ron Artest is his slave name…or some other reason I couldn’t give any less fucks about.
The brawl at the Palace? I was at that game with seats right by the floor. I’d just moved into a new house and took our neighbor’s kid to the game with our family. When he comes back to visit his parents, he still talks about it.
I have the mildest of interests in basketball, and honestly I’d rather watch college ball. I’m getting there with football, too.
I think my problem is similar to what bores me about soccer. It’s just watching people run back and forth without really stopping until someone blows a whistle because someone jostled someone else’s ankle. In basketball, this is punctuated by scoring so often it doesn’t really matter; in soccer, by scoring so infrequently that 99% of the game doesn’t matter. I think hockey gets it just about right. Maybe rugby, too.
Football–by which I mean the Good Lord’s American Rattlesnake Eagle Football, not the sissified commie sport those other people play–is brief, succinct, intense moments of action produced by strategic planning and athletic brilliance. It’s a war game.
I like defense. College sports usually provide better defense relative to the offense than their professional counterparts. NFL is still an exception to that rule, but not by much.
Over beers a friend and I came to the conclusion that the reason you watch the NFL is because even the worst player in the NFL is someone who won the genetic lottery and is an athlete at the height of the game. The backup kicker for the worst team in the NFL is better at what he’s doing than anyone most people are likely to ever meet. Parity makes every game theoretically close, and so games are won and lost in large part because of heroic efforts by the elite of the elite. Typically, players make the difference at this level.
You watch college because it’s the purest distillation of the essence of football. You’re dealing with a range of physical ability and talent. Players haven’t had fifteen years of experience running all sorts of plays, so the plays are simpler. It comes down executing fundamentals and using the talent you have most effectively. Coaches, with rare exceptions that often prove the rule, make the difference here.
I love watching a good defense and the NFL is trying to ruin that part of the game.
I despise Redzone for that reason, even though I will still watch it.
Venezuela wins seat on UN Human Rights Council despite opposition
I see the UN continues to be useless and irrelevant.
COPS are investigating a “hate crime” after a transgender woman was turned down for a porn role “because she has a penis”.
The other guy should countersue it for false advertising.
True. He almost got screwed.
What a dick.
Maybe that was the issue? It wasn’t much of a dick?
Ron White’s got a bit on that.
is there at least pornography on tik tok?
What else would “talent videos” be?
The world’s first female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, floating out of the International Space Station to fix a broken part of the power network.
How many women does it take to fix – oh, never mind.
That’s Not Funny!
Yes, it was….
Wake me up when they take out the trash.
Police investigating ‘hate crime’ after transgender woman turned down for porn role ‘because she has a penis’
This is really coming to a head.
Gotta admit, shes got balls for applying.
She’s spunky.
But I wonder if she can go to the lengths it takes to meet the standard
The surprise could cause someone to have a stroke!
It takes some balls to file a suit like that
Nuts. I came second
You have to pump these lines and dump em in the comments.
I was amused at first glans.
To be fair, she gave a phallus impression
Don’t get cocky.
Is it still called cunnilingus when you are flicking a prick?
Cunnilatio?
Fellingus?
That’s what women want, Slammer.
It’s funny, the article works like one of those websites where the page does fun transition (heh heh) stuff. Like you start off and see a few pics and think, “She’s a pretty good lookin’ tranny”, and then you scroll further and it’s like, “Whoa, she’s a fat blonde dude. Wowza.”
Really got the shaft on that one
NONE OF THAT!
*narrows gaze*
God’s already foresakined us.
NUTS! I missed a pun thread.
Still punning. I think Switzy came too soon.
C’mon show some deferens! This thread is a monumental erection.
Don’t penilize us Swissy.
The penis mightier than the narrowed gaze.
Have we achieved culmination yet?
https://1828uk.com/2019/10/10/in-defence-of-neoliberalism-2-3/
Let’s take the word neoliberalism back !!!
my Cheap Trick go-to is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxqUXtkbps
Nice, mine as well (Heavy Metal soundtrack and all). Although, their work on Rock & Rule is a VERY CLOSE second. https://youtu.be/aOlSQ4Dh0FE
factoid: Zander’s second (and current) wife, former playmate Pam Stein, was the centerfold on the wall in Die Hard.
17 year old me remembers Pam. So many tissues died for her.
Elijah Cummings Signed Subpoenas From His Death Bed – But Signatures on Two Subpoenas Don’t Match
I don’t know, maybe they were forged. If you’re dying your signature might look different, I guess. I’ve been in pain in a hospital and my signature looked pretty different. Maybe they held his wrist or something
I just wonder how he is going to vote in next years election.
Straight TEAM BLUE ticket.
/Chicago ward heeler
I wonder if they told him that Trump had been impeached so he could die happy.
Whatever happened, I am sure he still landed in hell.
He didn’t sign those last ones. Not even close.
I saw three. One of them was not like the others.
This man’s personal arrogance is astounding. If he really cared about his constituents being ably represented, he would have resigned.
The same applies to every person dying of something that takes time but makes one incapable of performing the duties of their office. (See: McCain, John)
But the Obamas were very sad.
I don’t know. I don’t think he did anything wrong.
/Ghost of Woodrow Wilson
I’ll tread lightly here because I don’t like speaking ill of the dead or taking pleasure in their passing…but…’bout damn time. He was either the least effective career politician ever or he was corrupt as hell, or both of course. Regardless, he did absolutely nothing for his district, and if there ever was a district that needed at least honest representation it was his.
Seems to me the district elected the representation they wanted, the gerrymandered residents notwithstanding.
Maybe. I tend to look at it like an abused spouse who swears up and down he/she fell down the stairs, or maybe Stockholm syndrome.
Nonsense. He signed it this very morning!
http://www.theonering.net/images/scrapbook/8376.jpg
Why would they bother? It is not like they don’t have a room full of donkeys that would be happy to sign.
The New Yorker’s review of “untitled goose game” is the most New Yorkery thing I’ve ever read
https://twitter.com/AlisonAgosti/status/1184874705884336128
NAMELESS HATE BIRD, THE BIRD THAT HATES game.
If it makes you feel better, the goose is a true monster in the game. Making things worse for everyone it encounters.
‘…But when he found out Ria still has male reproductive organs he immediately retracted the offer.
In messages exchanged over WhatsApp, the photographer claimed he couldn’t work with her because “she has a c***”.
Ria has hit out at the “transphobic behaviour” and says she’s being unfairly discriminated against in her modelling career.
The woman from Hull, East Yorks., has reported the comments to Humberside Police, which is investigating the incident as a hate crime.’
I swear to Christ, if trannies begin to show up in my porn uninvited I WILL become a bigot. To each their own, but that’s just not my bag.
And when the fuck did the far left turn into the far right and begin to shame people for their sexual preferences? You like what you like. Why is that so hard for people to accept?
Approved sexual preferences only, TH.
All cock, all the time?
Even for lesbians. We must overcome those TERFs.
Why does the far left hate women?
To be fair, they hate everyone, themselves especially.
It’s ridiculous. It’s like a male actor being turned down for a lesbian scene.
It’s seems like the tranny could get hired for a different kind of porn, why make a stink about this?
“…he immediately retracted the offer…” So not circumcised?
Sleepy Joe has a sad.
Barack Obama✔
@BarackObama
I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President. He’s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term.
Does this count as election meddling?
Not if its done by Joe. A person needs influence to meddle, Joe doesn’t count.
Someone said, “Brothers from a different mammy”
I’ve already seen the “he’s a private citizen” argument.
He wasn’t when he channeled taxpayer money into the Israeli elections to try to defeat Netanyahu.
I love bringing that part up.
Whataboutism!!1!
“we should have a say in other countries elections! They affect us!”
Democracy only works when the US government directs it.
So Trump asking about Ukraine investigating a private citizen is no biggie, right?
[golf clap for Brooksie]
This seems like a good place for it.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7587039/Becky-G-flaunts-fab-figure-FIVE-different-outfits-2019-Latin-American-Music-Awards.html
I’m not complaining, but what’s the difference between a stripper and a pop star nowadays?
Pop stars get better drugs?
And wear more glitter.
pop stars get payed better but suck more dick on their way up?
Heck, porn and pop stars. Whats’ the diff?
Strippers are more modest?
A pop song is so much better when the singer is crying?
A strip show is so much better when the stripper is crying, too.
Nicee
She still looks like she’s 14, just with more makeup and plastic surgery. And dental work.
It’s not about money, it’s about JUSTICE!
About 25,000 Chicago teachers and support staff didn’t show up for work Thursday after contract negotiations with city officials took a turn for the worse.
Both sides still seem far from making a deal. Teachers want more than a pay raise — they want bold, transformative investment in the Chicago public education system. They also want more affordable housing in the city for students and teachers. That’s something no teachers union has demanded in recent contract negotiations.
“We mean business,” Stacey Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, told reporters on Thursday. “It cannot be about politics and personalities. It’s got to be about shifting and transforming the infrastructure of inequity.”
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These broad demands are part of a growing movement, led by teachers and labor unions, focused more on social justice issues affecting their communities than simply pay. It’s known as “bargaining for the common good.”
That’s why teachers are insisting on affordable housing, too.
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Illinois’ finances are doing much better than they were in 2012 when the teachers last went on strike. The state’s budget was in the red back then; it was a full-blown financial crisis by 2016. While the city still owes creditors millions of dollars, more state money is flowing to Chicago public schools, which serve a majority of high-poverty neighborhoods. Lightfoot said she would use that money to offer teachers a generous 16 percent pay raise over five years.
But the teachers union also wants more staff and smaller class sizes written into the contract. That will cost more, but the city seems to have the extra money.
Chicago saw a surge in tax revenue last year and teachers want part of the $181 million surplus to go toward hiring more teachers and nurses, and to more social services. That’s why they’re demanding an investment in affordable housing — an unusual request from teachers during bargaining talks.
Maybe they should let the teachers’ union run the whole place. That’ll fix it up good.
narrator: it was about the money
It’s not about money, it’s about
JUSTICEJUST US!Fixed it for them.
Actually the kids are learning a lot from the strike, whether they want to or not.
CPS is a jobs bank, not a school district. And there’s no way around that reality.
No one whose kids are effected by this strike would be reading Vox. White liberals are applauding a strike at a school system that they would never send their kids to, while poor kids and their families pay the consequences.
Democrats love poor people so much that they intend to make more of them.
Heh. That’s a fantastic observation. Hilarious, annoying and sad, all at the same time.
This is true here and can be extended to pretty much every hot topic on the Progressive leftist agenda, from environmentalism to racial equality.
Well, that and a money-laundering operation that funnels taxpayer dollars to the DNC.
Maybe they should let the teachers’ union run the whole place.
They do.
This.
They also run every other machine town and state.
So here are our political demands!
“It cannot be about politics and personalities. It’s got to be about shifting and transforming the infrastructure of inequity.”
It seems to be about greed.
They make high five,, low six figure salaries. I can think of one way to reduce inequality.
You know, I wonder if you could push for a plank in the Democratic party that all government workers should make the median wage of the area they’re working in. Sell it as a way to reduce income inequality.
Skinner says the teachers will crack any minute purple monkey dishwasher.
That’s why they’re demanding an investment in affordable housing
Always include something in the demands that’s sacrificial as a negotiating tactic.
Well, everyone knows that surplus will be forever, and there’s nothing wrong with making recurring commitments based on a temporary bump in revenue, right?
If they have a budget surplus, they should use it to fix some potholes. In Chicago, by the time “overhead” is factored in, they could probably fill several dozen for that kind of money.
“Well, everyone knows that surplus will be forever, and there’s nothing wrong with making recurring commitments based on a temporary bump in revenue, right?”
It’s a damned tad better than them bumping spending even when there is a downturn in in revenue because of the economic slowdawn their policies designed to make government the ultimate arbitrator of who gets to win and whom gets to lose, though…
That’s me being sarcastic FYI.
On what are they basing the comment regarding Illinois’ finances being in a better position vis a vis 2012? Assuming the tax revenue surge is true, has anything really changed in terms of their medium/long-term issue of obligations relative to ability to pay?
Hey, things have gotten better! Illinois is not currently talking to bankruptcy lawyers about what exactly happens when a State defaults! SURPLUS!
The bond market hasn’t fully imploded yet, so they have that going for them.
Maybe they should stop letting the teachers’ union run the whole place. That’ll maybe slow down the rate of decay.
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/can-you-hear-us-now-5g-tech-is-spooking-some-vermonters-before-its-even-here/Content?oid=28697433
Does anybody really need 5 different types of G’s?
Great music choice Sloopy.
^ this ^
The violent crime rate in the U.S. has declined by 71% over the past quarter century (1993-2018), while the property crime rate has fallen by 69% during that span, according to data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics
https://twitter.com/FactTank/status/1184974124835311618
That’s an astonishing stat. I see a lot of things like this from the Human Progress twitter feed. In so many ways, humans are living far better than 25 years ago, even in the poorest countries.
Still lots to battle with respect to liberty and freedom of expression in parts of the world (not to mention awful wars like what the Saudis are doing in Yemen). But when the left has to resort to non-issues like gender pronouns, you know things can’t be that bad.
Sources say Orange Man Bad
Gangel said, “So we have some new reporting, and I’m going to put on my glasses to read some of the quotes because they’re so shocking. The bottom line is, Nancy Pelosi, as you just said, was not the only person shaken up coming out of there. We’ve spoken to a Republican source who was in the room. I’m told that they were alarmed at his demeanor. Quote, ‘Everyone left completely shaken, shell shocked. He is not in control of himself. It is all yelling and screaming.’”
She continued, “And I asked the source, you know, who’s been in many meetings with them, has it changed? Is it worse? Because every week we talk about, is it getting worse? The source said, ‘100%.’”
She added, “I asked, are you worried about his stability? And the source said, ‘yes.’ The source went on to talk to other senior Republicans who were in the meeting. They were also shaken up. One used the word ‘sickened.’”
Everyone left completely shaken,
Is that why only Nancy and Chuck left? And walked out right to the waiting media?
This has been a rhetorical tic of theirs lately – part of the whistleblower kerfuffle involved someone being “shaken”
And Walking into the hands of the media, hopping with excitement to ask the DNC approved questions.
They were also shaken up. One used the word ‘sickened.’
Schumer took his shirt off?!
They didn’t say “blinded”
*claws at eyes with linoleum knife*
They were read sf writings.
That’s not nice, he’s got nice tits for a guy.
https://youtu.be/wDdAXHQWNPQ
*unzips*
I choose to imagine that he did this after stripping his shirt off
Junior Soprano?
Now that impeachment is going in the ditch it looks like they’re angling for the 25th amendment. Then maybe they can impeach him for obstruction when that fails.
If true, then the Democrats have achieved at least part of their goals.
Does anyone doubt that the intense pressure was meant to destabilize him?
I mean, how dare he yell at us while we’re trying everything we can to remove him from office and lock him up? Only a crazy person, who isn’t fit for office, could get upset about things like this.
Other sources said once Nancy and Chuck stopped disrupting the meeting, it was productive.
Yeah. After every closed door meeting that they have they say he’s “unhinged”. It’s like when kavanaugh let loose. “He’s not mentally stable.
But they have sources familiar with the event! Sources!
Who are familiar with his thinking!
Doesn’t he look tired?
Allonsy Alonso.
I never noticed that catch phrase and have watched all of the episodes. i assumed I was missing some sort of Cockney inference.
It was pretty blatant.
I ignored the reference and chalked it up to something I didn’t have the cultural background to understand.
It’s like when cuppateathen is spoken by the British it can sound like nonsense to my US english speaking ears. That one I at least could associate with them drinking the tea afterwards to grok what I was hearing.
” …english speaking ears…”
You sure got a pretty mou…ears!
Aural sex?
“So we have some new reporting, and I’m going to put on my glasses to read some of the quotes because they’re so shocking”
Shocking things are more difficult to see. This is known.
Poor NBA. ‘Substantial losses’ they ‘suffered”. Now go see the people who actually suffer in China.
These guys aren’t digging their grave anymore. Now they’re prepping to lie in it.
What a colossal bunch of douchebags.
If this keeps up the owners and players are going to be reduced to buying private planes with turboprops instead of true jets. This really is a crisis.
Yeh. Lebron will be paid $40 million instead of $42. Poor witttle dunker of balls. Such suffering. Such oppression!
I can’t breathe under all this insufferable douchebaggery.
A key demographic of the NBA is the white male cuck who probably shouts from his court side seats, ‘Hey Lebron! Let you fuck my wIfe! I’ll watch!’
Has always been my opinion of most NBA fans…
So…not this person?
https://twitter.com/muhsheengun/status/1184666639717076992?s=21
My favorite part of that is when she looks at Lebron’s feelings bodyguard who is two feet away and says, “I can’t hear you.”
She sounds exactly and kind of looks like Sarah Silverman in Way of the Gun.
The greedy spineless fucks haven’t lost any revenue. They lost some projected future revenue by not sufficiently submitting to the commies.
I stopped watching the NBA because the game changed and I no longer find it entertaining. I actually tried to watch the Celtics in the playoffs a few years ago and it was painful. Now I’ll be actively avoiding the games, the merchandise, and anything to do with that league since the management and players all seem to hate me.
I stopped watching after Tim Duncan retired. He never complained, never talked shit, never used his fame as a platform to push his personal agendas, at least, I never heard anything about, he just won championships. And Popovich wasn’t so openly a douche back then.
In 2016, Popovich declared, ‘NOW! We are Rome.’ Ignoramus.
Also. I watched the Hagler-Leonard fight. I can’t believe I remembered large parts of it.It reminded me I didn’t like Leonard. Showboater. I guess he technically outboxed him but Hagler annoyed me less.
Plus, I didn’t know the celebrity class loved Leonard – which isn’t surprising.
All the more to cement I was right to go for Hagler.
This song pretty much sums up the last time I paid attention to the NBA.
This was the highwater mark of NBA fandom for me. A month later Len Bias died. A couple of years later Reggie Lewis died and Bird retired. Games don’t look anything like this any more.
Speaking of Len Bias….
What do him and Magic Johnson have in common?
……
They both had some bad crack…
Duncan was great. He was a class act.
National Boredom Association
“We can’t call offensive fouls on Shaq because marketing, so we’ll let you play zone defense instead.” Zzzzzz
National Bolshevik Association
Led by LeLenin James.
Well I think it is about time to take my 30 second commute to the living room… and pour a glass of ye olde vino
Back when we had a work from home day per month I cheaped out and got a 22 inch monitor. First 6 months I did not even take a work from home day. Now that we get one a week and I take all of them, a 27 inch would have been nicer.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Saudi Aramco is trying to pull off a monster IPO that will be a major rainmaker for Wall Street. But environmental groups are urging big banks to help save the planet by refusing to work on the lucrative deal.
In a letter to Goldman Sachs (GS), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and other leading investment banks, the environmental activists warned that the long-delayed IPO will enable Aramco, the crown jewel of Saudi Arabia, to raise billions of dollars that will be used to worsen the climate crisis.
“The world is watching — and the more bank financing of fossil fuels increases, the more public outrage will grow,” the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, Friends of the Earth and other activist groups wrote.
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But the environmental groups warned Wall Street banks on Thursday that the Aramco IPO would mark the biggest single infusion of capital into the fossil fuel industry since at least the Paris climate agreement was reached in late 2015. It would also give serious financial firepower to Aramco, which the Guardian recently listed as the world’s largest corporate emitter of carbon dioxide.
Enabling Aramco to extract its oil reserves in the coming decades is a “recipe for financing the destruction of the planet,” the letter said, noting that UN climate scientists have warned global emissions must start dropping sharply to prevent “catastrophic consequences.”
Maybe they can get Greta to go to Wall Street and slit her wrists as the Aramco guys ring the bell for their IPO. Right there in front of the bull.
Send her to Saudi Arabia. I’m sure they’ll welcome her.
I’m not sure she needs to go that far. Isn’t there a Saudi embassy in Stockholm?
She might want to disregard the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Foreign Policy Friday: Muh Diplomacy!
Truly people like Ywhoeverovich are unsullied Gods among men.
Wait, bringing up the folly of McCarthyism as a defense of the side looking for Rooshuns under all the beds? It’s a bold strategy.
Also, wasn’t Tail-gunner Joe vindicated after the fall of the CCCP and the publication of the Venona Papers showed that there very much were Soviet infiltrators in the FedGov?
Yes and no. Most of the Soviet spies were nabbed before McCarthy rose to fame. Hiss is a good example of that.
And McCarthy’s grandstanding undermined a lot of the efforts to get the ones still there as well as leading to a purge of non-spies who didn’t want to go through the personal review process.
The HUAC hearings (H is for house) were several years before Senator Joe’s stuff.
State is just like every other permanent bureaucracy. They want to operate by their own rules. They tolerate people like Clinton because Clinton didn’t really give a shit what they did so long as they ignored her shenanigans.
Trump demands they conform to the executive branch’s will and they don’t like it.
There is plenty of McCarthy-ite tactics going on, and they’re all coming from asshats like Adam Schiff. Andrew Klavan calls him Tailgunner Joe, and I think he’s spot on. Schiff is just like that scumbag McCarthy (and yes, I know there were actual commies in the state department, but McCarthy peddled BS, and gave the far left a punching bag to distract from any real spies).
Tight!
I just heard about the band Stuff yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZcTP3-ARFQ
Freaky Friday: Juul Is For Pussies
Piker.
So I was looking for a beloved ninja movie called The Challenge, but ended up downloading a different The Challenge starring Darren McGavin. It is cheesy, silly, and fantastic.
I’ll just leave this here.
ok damn that was funny
“Why, oh why did we leave our pommel-horse outside when we were meant to attack that one fellow?”
I loved the one you were looking for! The head split scene has such bad effects it is awesome.
There’s a great beheading by samurai sword in toward the end of the film. John Glen, Toshiro Mifune, co-written by John Sayles, and with a cool score by Jerry Goldsmith. Good stuff. It’s too bad the film’s not available on blu-ray or any streaming service.
John Frankenheimer was a really great director. Even his bad films have kick ass sequences.
It ain’t like Team Blue has been shy about their intentions.
“They want to install far left judges to shred the Constitution,” Trump said at the rally that attracted 20,000 people inside the America Airlines Center and thousands more outside the venue….
Trump’s remarks about the left trying to pack the court with activist judges who don’t believe in the originalist view of the Constitution comes just days after the left-wing group Demand Justice released a list of the individuals it hoped would be nominated for a seat on the High Court.
The 32-person list includes people working for groups like Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union.
I iddn’t read the transgender porn article but will be interesting if they’re found guilty. It’s the UK after all. If that happens, watch out. There’s going to be some interesting ramifications and unintended consequences.
Why Western elites are obsessing over less than 1% of the population and forcing it down the throats of society is bizarre.
We enact laws and assign sex changes in the name of ‘progress’ but fuck up a whole lotta people who actually need mental health help instead.
What a mess.
“Why Western elites are obsessing over less than 1% of the population and forcing it down the throats of society is bizarre.”
They are trying to prove and reinforce their dominanCe by demoralizing normal people.
Feature, not bug.
The whole thing is meant to “smash the system”.
…ramifications and unintended consequences.
…forcing it down the throats…
…What a mess.
I am going to assume this was intentional.
Rebel Cum.
Raise your hand if you saw this.
The UK should learn to do what the US learned long ago: Give some vague reason for firing/rescing contract that can’t be challenged in court. Now people know you can’t fire/rescind for being totally unqualified for the position.
Let there be no question the Bee monitors this site:
https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-clinton-releases-dna-test-results-proving-shes-only-half-lizard-person
That pic though. Says it all. She’s hating on you all with that subtle ‘you fucken assholes’ smirk.
Sometimes I wish I was a sci-fi
nerdfan so I would get stuff like this. I assume it’s funny.*searches for “Cylon”*
*sensible chuckle*
At publishing time, Clinton had admitted the remainder of her DNA was that of a Cylon.
Heh.
Speaking of people who learned nothing from the 2016 election
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday over a speech he made that day at Georgetown University, alleging that the social media founder’s comments show “how unprepared Facebook is to handle the 2020 election.” The presidential candidate also stated that Facebook was posting political ads with misinformation to turn a large profit.
“Mark Zuckerberg’s speech today shows how little he learned from 2016, and how unprepared Facebook is to handle the 2020 election,” Warren tweeted.
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“Facebook is actively helping Trump spread lies and misinformation. Facebook already helped elect Donald Trump once. They might do it again—and profit off of it,” she continued.
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“Political ads on Facebook are more transparent than anywhere else,” Zuckerberg said. “We don’t factcheck political ads … because we believe people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying.”
“I know many people disagree, but in general I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians or the news in a democracy. And we are not an outlier here.”
Shocking. Zuckerberg actually sounds pretty reasonable. Warren, on the other hand…
But censoring ordinary people and non MSM reporting and commentary is totes OK.
She’s an authoritarian, so censoring the people who run against her sounds about right. If Facebook were to cave and start doing that, they would bitch when they blocked her ads.
posting political ads with misinformation
Otherwise known as political ads.
“how unprepared Facebook is to handle the 2020 election.”
Meaning facebook is not fully on-board the Democrat propaganda train.
people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying
Team Blue wants my guns, money and general freedom.
The more Warren speaks, the more like an unhinged dictator she sounds. I think she might be her own worst enemy here. She’ll attract the usual lunatics, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the more moderate Democrats might shy away from her as time goes on.
One can only hope moderate Dems shy away from her and stay home, as Warren is sure to be the nominee.
I mentioned yesterday but this guy amuses me
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1184861855908540416
also the commies in this thread
https://twitter.com/Phoenixfirefive/status/1184856115932205063
Scrolling around the second link, look who I ran across:
Foreign Policy Friday: We Were This Close To Making It Work!
Wow. He’s essentially saying that Trump’s “let’s stop pretending” strategy is going to totally ruin all the great pretending that’s been going on since Kissinger.
I guess that includes pretending that all the armed conflict in the area would have been much worse if there had been less pretending.
Yep. He’s advocating for a return to the Kissinger strategy, even though that has yielded minimal to no results over the last 40 years other than a continuous drain on American tax dollars.
It really is telling that moving a few troops from Syria to Saudi Arabia might be the one thing the GOP latches onto in order to take down Orange.
Sallie Mae execs tan at Maui retreat while student debt crisis tops $1.6 trillion
More outrageous than the headline? This part of the story:
Paige McDaniel, 39, took out a federal Sallie Mae student loan to pay for her undergraduate degree 20 years ago. Six years later, before the Sallie Mae split with Navient, she took out a private loan with the company to pay for her grad school. “I thought they were the same kind of loans,” McDaniel, of the Denver suburb Elizabeth, said. A mother of two, she borrowed $120,000 for her tuition at Lakeland College for a master’s in business administration, to help with the cost of living as she worked through school. The agreement, which included a warning to read it before signing, said the interest rate was variable, but she says she doesn’t remember being told the rate was much higher on the private loan. After graduation, Sallie Mae expected McDaniel to pay “well over $1,500 a month,” she said.
“When I told them that, you know, I couldn’t afford that, could we make some payment arrangements, they essentially said, ‘So sorry, we’ll put a lien on your house and garnish your wages if you don’t make those payments,’” McDaniel said. Now, McDaniel owes $304,000, even though she declared bankruptcy to protect her house after being unable to make her payments. She’s hired an attorney to sue Navient, arguing that bankruptcy should have cleared her debt because it was a private loan.
“There’s no way anybody can ever dig themselves out from underneath that,” McDaniel said. “They just don’t see that there are families on the other side of this. It’s not just my generation cause I have the loans, it affects my children. How am I going to send them to college?”
College ruined my life, how am I going to send my kids to one…
I guarantee every single executive at Sallie Mae is a Democrat apparatchik. It’s one of their pet organizations, just like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I may have been wrong. They appear to spend money quite lavishly on both parties.
https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00331835
““They just don’t see that there are families on the other side of this. It’s not just my generation cause I have the loans, it affects my children. How am I going to send them to college?”
And you wonder why the rates are so high in the private market.
The answer is more federal guarantees.
I wonder if she has any kids she couldn’t afford in addition to the house.
Oh duh, I didn’t read to the end. Multiple kids she can’t afford. Of course.
Got an MBA but couldn’t understand terms of loan. And your willing to put your name out there. College really was a waste for you.
But she learned about diversity in hiring processes and how that improves the bottom line as well as product quality.
Well, she’s got that going for her.
“There’s no way anybody can ever dig themselves out from underneath that,” McDaniel said. “They just don’t see that there are families on the other side of this.
Yes, they can. It’s basic math and a sound investment for many who take on loans of that amount or higher and pay off without a problem. The real question is why you would take out doctor-sized loans without planning on making a doctor-sized income?
and if you took out private loans as well in those amounts you did not just borrow tuition and fees, you borrowed living expenses as well. If you spend most of a decade living comfortably on borrowed money why shouldn’t it take several decades to pay it back?
She signed up for a loan……without knowing what the rate was.
And I’m supposed to pity this dolt?
She’s lying, anyway. You have to *choose* from among different rates and terms. There’s no way she didn’t know the rate, or that it was variable.
For grad school. Ponder that.
There’s no way anybody can ever dig themselves out from underneath that,”
Fuck you lady, I’m doing exactly that, and I’m not bitching about how it’s not my fault.
the issue disproportionately affects black, Latino, Native American and female students.
ROFL, gotta stick that intersectional bullshit in there somewhere. Remember, the whole point of these government funded loan programs were to give intersectional people who couldn’t afford college the chance to go and pay their way later. Something something foreseen consequences.
It’s sub-prime mortgage loans all over again. Bubble comin’.
Bubble’s here.
Pop it before it gets worse. End federal student loan guarantees and make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy.
The higher ed market will go into full revolt, but too bad.
The X factor is the government guarantee. When people default en masse during the next serious economic downturn, Uncle Sam is gonna be stuck holding a hundred-billion dollar per year IOU. What do they do then? Inflate, stiff the banks, or pile it on the debt.
D) All of the above.
I have absolutely no sympathy for people like this. I borrowed money like a sailor on leave because I made stupid choices and wasn’t prepared for financial setbacks. I’m paying it off because I borrowed it in the first place. I’m also getting my MBA, and I’m getting it for free because I work for the university I’m getting it from. That’s also why I’ll likely stay at this job for another year to finish it rather than move on to something better.
Fuck her. She got the degree, didn’t she?
Some pron for Yusef, and Unciv (and likely many others). https://youtu.be/DM2kYhBGkOU
Thats a nice piece! should have weathered the tank though, it looks wrong compared to the blast effects!
More Dirty Tanks!
Agreed. Although, I must confess to being wowed to distraction by the lighting of the muzzle flash.
College ruined my life, how am I going to send my kids to one…
That’s funny, in the “tragically stupid” sense of the word. Tell your kids to apprentice themselves to an electrician or a plumber, and stay the fuck away from any college campuses.
The Enemy Within
Retired Adm. William McRaven said Thursday that the US is under attack from President Donald Trump, who he believes is working to “destroy” the country from “within” and “without.”
“If you want to destroy an organization, any organization, you destroy it from within, you destroy it from without and then what you do is you convince everybody that you’re doing the right thing,” McRaven told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”
“So when you take a look at what the President has done, he’s undermined the intelligence community, the law enforcement community, the Department of Justice, the State Department. He has called the press the enemy of the American people and I will tell you, I’ve fought a lot of America’s enemies. The press is not the enemy of the American people.”
Maybe he is doing what he was sent to the White House (by- you know- voters) to do. He may not have drained the swamp, but he definitely has upset a lot of the scaly inhabitants.
The government really does perceive itself as an entity separate from and not beholden to the people.
“I’ve fought a lot of America’s enemies. The press is not the enemy of the American people.”
The press is not the enemy of American deep state. The deep state allied with AlQuida. The deep state is thefore an enemy of the American people.
Yep. As Michael Malice says, the corporate press is the enemy of the people, for it’s allied with the state.
“he’s undermined the intelligence community, the law enforcement community”
I really, really, really do not understand leftists and beltway libertarians who are rightfully suspicious and critical of your local police department, but who also take the word of the intelligence community uncritically.
How in the world do you square such a bizarre position?
Local police are just yokels with no college degrees.
The intelligence community is staffed by smart people with BA’s in history and sociology.
That is really all it comes down to at the end of the day.
Pretty much
An notion that I’ve become more convinced of as time as passed: Marx was wrong about virtually everything, but he was right about the class being the essential basis of conflict and division.
Kinda. I think it’s always about Rulers and the Ruled. Generally that falls in on class lines, but not always.
Local police are right out in the open doing things, some of them bad. CIA agents do worse things, but they do them covertly.
Admiral, if you’re standing up for the intelligence community and the law enforcement community, particularly at the federal level, you’re an an enemy of the American people. Standing up for the DOJ, the State Dept, and the press are just the cherries on top.
The greatest possible legacy for Trump will be is if he shakes what I call the Tom Clancy Republicans out of their slumber permanently. Way too many Republican voters think the CIA is full of Jack Ryans and the FBI is full of gruff but honest third generation Irish Catholics who carry the Constitution around behind their badge, and the Pentagon is full of selfless warrior paladins.
The rot is truly fucking deep right now, its downright alarming to me just how openly the Beltway critters, be they civilian or military, are asserting that opposition to the Beltway consensus is treason, as though their preferred policy preferences are a bedrock principle of the Republic.
The rot is truly fucking deep right now, its downright alarming to me just how openly the Beltway critters, be they civilian or military, are asserting that opposition to the Beltway consensus is treason
#MeToo. The Beltway/Deep State/Buereacrats have fully swallowed the idea that they and the government set who is the enemy of the American Populace. That’s why you have guys like John Brennan who armed Al Queda walking free, and Bill Weld claiming that Trump is a traitor. If you think of it as not the American people, but the American State, it makes sense.
Yeah you go back to the pre WWII era, a lot of military officers were deliberately apolitical, to the point of not actually voting in elections.
Now we have a dangerously politicized officer corps. All these fuckers who made flag rank under Obama should be viewed with the deepest possible suspicion.
Way too many Republican voters think the CIA is full of Jack Ryans and the FBI is full of gruff but honest third generation Irish Catholics who carry the Constitution around behind their badge, and the Pentagon is full of selfless warrior paladins.
I like that.
It amazes me that we had a couple of former commies running the CIA and FBI, and the vast majority of Americans had no idea.
^^^^
McRaven sits on the board of Conoco Phillps. They own a giant gas field the Kurds seized and protected.
McRaven’s criticism of Trump comes as the President faces a fast-moving impeachment investigation into his contacts with Ukraine and bipartisan criticism over his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria. On Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing the Trump administration’s troop withdrawal.
CNN claims, without evidence, there is a “fast-moving” impeachment investigation.
It seems to me impeachment is going nowhere fast.
By fast moving they mean, it jumps around to new lede almost daily.
And by “lede” you mean they present a different fable to justify what they are doing – especially when called out for using fake crimes, fake impeachment arguments, and fake hearings – in order to keep the base riled and ponying up money?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-impeachment-needle-may-soon-move-11571352274
Noonan is practically wetting herself with glee at the prospect of Trump’s impeachment. It’s embarrassing to see what the WSJ has become.
Wall Street wants free money more than anything else. They are all like Bloomberg – Republican in name only. They know they’re first or second in line when the (electronic) printing presses roll. And I’m sure a few New Yorkers shit themselves over the SALT cap seeing that they live in the high-tax corridor.
They can’t survive without it now. They’re hooked on it like a heroin addict. When the supply dries up, they’ll die from withdrawal.
The WSJ is a better expression of Republicanism than Trump. Trump has not expanded our foreign conflicts and has made minor reductions in one of them. That doesn’t sound Republican to me.
Removing that small contingency of troops from Syria will probably push enough Republicans to support impeachment. And there is what the Republican Party truly stands for.
Yes
Trump should be reminding everyone how and why Reagan left Beirut.
Thinking about it, did the military (ex or otherwise) write op-eds complaining about Reagan getting out of Lebanon? I don’t think they had the stones back then to defy the civilian leadership.
Getting out of Lebanon came with a budget increase so deep staters were placated.
Endorsed by ENB
https://twitter.com/M_feeney/status/1185157356382031873
When I arrived in Washington, D.C. almost eight years ago I was stunned that so many libertarians took the view that GOP > Dem. It’s such a bizarre claim that years later it still shocks me.
Not American, but would say both awful but sometimes GOP pays at least lip service to constitution, negative right and vaguely limited government. But the difference aint much
I’m always stunned by people who think that people who write at CATO and Reason are anything other than little Mitt Romneys. I mean, why are we suppose to pretend like these people want ‘small government’ when they always default to the most fashionable position on foreign and domestic policy?
The only people worth reading at CATO was their foreign policy people, but most of them were leftovers from when CATO meant something other than fashion.
Let’s not forget that Reason and the majority of CATO people supported the Iraq War (in the 90’s and the 2000’s) until it was no longer fashionable to do so.
I’m starting to believe their whole anti-War on Terror riff from the early 2000’s was just anti-Bush rhetoric and not truly anti-WOT.
I mean, they had no issue bombing the crap out of Iraq in the 90s, bombing the Serbs, invading Haiti, invading Somalia, etc etc.
They only opposed those things under Bush when Ron Paul embarrassed them by presenting libertarianism as a set of principles rather than a fashion statement and when Bush became unpopular.
In five years when the bodies start coming home from our proxy war in Ukraine, expect to see those Koch whores play the “muh…why are we in Ukraine?”. Everyone is going to have to pretend that the Russiaphobia that those whores pushed never happened. Much like we are suppose to pretend like Reason wasn’t printing pro-Iraq War articles leading up to Bush’s invasion of that country.
Cathy Young’s front page “Muh…Sanction Russia for Lolz” will be as infamous as Brink Lindsey (at that time vice president of CATO) Reason article “No Mor 9/11s” arguing in favor of a war against Iraq and supporting anti-terror measures.
Reason et al have made it clear that social justice signaling is the defining attribute of libertarianisim not agression.
I might be missing something, but he is responding to a Nicholas Sarwark tweet which links to a 538 piece titled “Republican Control In The States Hasn’t Stopped The Growth Of Government.” The 538 piece makes this claim by looking at total state spending over the period when Republicans controlled 3 states to 26. It does not actually break out what happened in red vs. blue states.
It’s also a bizarre position for the head of a party that has nominated two failed Republicans as their presidential nominees over the past three election cycles.
Is this the part where we pretend like Gary Johnson was fiscally responsible as governor of New Mexico, because he didn’t raise taxes, but greatly increased the debt?
Libertarians could learn A LOT about being principled from Tulsi Gabbard.
I’m going to write that this week and submit it, because it’s getting too embarrassing to be associated with fashionistas who always default to the popular position on any topic pretending to be anything other than rank cowards.
Do!
Seconded.
But the difference aint much
It’s a growing disparity these days.
I live in a blue state with a Republican governor. It really is just progressivism going the speed limit. The Democrats have pie in the sky fantasies and the governor does little more than make them accept some aspect of reality.
The sad fact is that there is no caucus for cutting spending. The GOP sometimes talks tough but they know, outside of enclaves, they’re not winning elections if they actually cut popular programs, and they’re not losing elections if they don’t cut wasteful spending.
Look at the Conservatives in Britian. They are mostly indistinguishable now from the Blair-era Labour Party. Why? Because that’s what the majority wants, or it’s the least intolerable option, anyway.
The news media talks about “austerity” when the only thing getting “cut” is the increase in spending. People are still laboring under the delusion that Republicans and Conservatives cut funding to critical programs. Even though that’s a flat out lie that hasn’t been accurate for 20+ years, it is common wisdom. Innumeracy is the norm, and instead of government employees being seen as public servants whose every mistake is a dollar out of the common man’s pocket, they’re seen as put-upon wage slaves who can’t be paid enough.
Just as the Dems’ and Labour’s leftward tilt is a response to a segment of the voting population, so too is the GOP and Conservatives’ leftward slide a representation of voters’ priorities.
Put more succinctly, GOP > Dem, but only barely, and every year they both get worse.
Maybe we should express this as Dem> GOP since what we are talking about is degree of evil not of good?
Democrats Storm Out Of Syria Meeting After Getting Into Shouting Match With Trump Over Whether A Hot Dog Is A Sandwich
The room was dead silent for a few seconds before Pelosi yelled, “What did you just say?”
“I said the type of sandwich I like is a hotdog,” Trump clarified.
“Are you insane?” Pelosi demanded, barely keeping herself in control. “Are you really calling a hotdog a sandwich?”
“It’s meat between two slices of bread,” Trump said nonchalantly. “It’s a sandwich.”
Pelosi was now on her feet and shouting. “That’s not what it is!” Pelosi then turned to the other Republicans in the room. “How long are you going to put up with this madness? How long?” None of the other people would meet her eyes, though.
“They, like me, also enjoy sandwiches!” Trump yelled. “Especially with ketchup!”
A hot dog is a sandwich. Default is mustard. Good troll with the ketchup comment though.
Not a sandwich unless you tear the bun in half at the hinge part.
Pita bread says “Fuck off, slaver!”
So this isn’t a sandwich?
I’m going to say no because…uh-oh, they just paged me here at work. Gotta go!
Shake Shack would like a word.
OMG… I could eat those deep-fried portobello burgers every single day.
Gospel truth, right there.
Maybe in the Mormon “Bible”
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After some deliberation, I think yes, a hot dog is a sandwich. As a sidebar, the order of condiments by priority goes thusly: ketchup, mustard, minced onions, dill relish. A chili dog follows different rules.
Also, I get shit from my wife all the time because I’ll refer to a hamburger as a type of sandwich. Well what the hell else is it?
When a restaurant offers the exact same thing but replaces the beef patty with a chicken piece of some kind they call it a “chicken sandwich” and no one bitches. Seems to check out. 😉
You have much wisdom in your comments on this site. Alas, ketchup on a hot dog isn’t part of that.
QFT.
The agreement, which included a warning to read it before signing, said the interest rate was variable, but she says she doesn’t remember being told the rate was much higher on the private loan.
“Oh, that? That’s just some silly old boilerplate about stuff you don’t need to worry your pretty little head about. Once you get hired as CEO of a Fortune Five Hundred corporation, you’ll have plenty of money to pay your loans off.”
The mortgage broker was a little surprised and somewhat annoyed that I read the entirety of my mortgage agreement while they sat there.
“I’ve never had anybody do that before.”
My response was “Are you in the habit of signing things you haven’t read?”
Same thing happened to me. They also said the same thing at the dealership and when I signed the lease for my first apartment.
I can’t imagine signing anything I haven’t read. My wife doesn’t bother anymore… she just hands everything over to me to read.
Ditto. I’ve also found errors on 2 home re-fi’s and documentation fees on a car purchase that we had negotiated to be left out of the purchase price that mysteriously crept back in.
Same thing happened to me.
My response was “Do you want to sign a document confessing that you encouraged me to not read these mortgage documents before signing? Or would you prefer I just walk away from the entire transaction?”
I find it annoying because you have a room full of people sitting there. Of course I have never done a loan closing without sending the Borrower drafts at least 3 days in advance so what I am annoyed at is the fact that they didn’t bother to read it in advance.
That’s what I was thinking. I’ve always received the mortgage docs days ahead of closing.
I know this doesn’t apply to her or probably most of the comments here, but IIRC, one of the newer mortgage regs is a 3 days wait period between distribution of the loan papers and the closing date.
Do they sign the draft you sent? I’ve never received anything in advance, that would have been nice. Even with that though, I wouldn’t sign anything except the draft I read through unless there was a clause acknowledging no changes and that any discrepancies revert back to the language in the draft I reviewed.
When I worked for a consultancy that was pretty standard for contracts. The final draft would typically have a clause stating that it didn’t differ from the last draft which would sometimes be attached for reference.
That makes sense.
They flat don’t know what to do when I cross out and initial by the arbitration agreement clause that I won’t agree to. Had a car dealer ask “so you won’t buy the car?” “I’ve never had to sue anyone, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to relinquish my right to.” He then accepted the contract with struck out arbitration agreement.
I read everything (I write contracts for a living, and I know how lawyers can screw up, even unintentionally). Most people are shocked at that.
Depends on the contract.
For example an example near and dear to me – an insurance contract is a contract of adhesion and standardized.
Where I’m incurring a liability, i.e. debt, hell yeah I’m going to read it.
To be honest, I don’t actually understand most of what’s in a contract. My brain doesn’t seem to be able to parse anything in legalese.
Feature, not bug.
Working as designed.
Not really. I am a fan of plain language drafting, where possible. The thing is that plain language has more ambiguity. A lot of legalese is made up of terms of art, and the convoluted grammar is at least in part because we are drafting a contract, not so that it is easy to understand, but so that it is (hopefully) impossible to understand in multiple ways.
Also a lot of lawyers are not good writers, and contracts are like sedimentary rock. The form over long periods of time by accretion, and once something is in there it probably stays for ever.
(because you see it, assume someone had a reason to put it there, and even if you can’t think of why you are scared to take it out in case you are overlooking a valid reason)
/1000 yard stare at contract I’m working on that has been redlined about 20 times.
/flips to infosec section, passes out…
OOH I love those! The part where it takes 45 minutes to figure out what the hell they are trying to say because each ‘reviewer’ has used a different tense, case and number and none of the clauses agree! Especially when you aren’t billing hourly….
Okay, I already “know” that in my gut and I can accept it. That does not mean it’s easier to understand, which is an advantageous sode effect. Contract by secondary intention.
Look Mr. Jarflax – this contract has been litigated multiple times in our favor and has made case law for the past century. We’re not touching so much as a comma and we are keeping usage of “thou”.
Hey, I agree. All you are going to do in that case is break something! What I am talking about are bank contracts (ok they call them addenda, but since clause one says that the addendum supersedes the contract, it is the freaking contract, and the ‘contract’ becomes just an offer that was countered) that take 40 pages to describe a simple residential real estate purchase because every lawyer that has ever worked for the bank has added a clause or two.
Pie ponders: I find it silly that in Romania university professors who never worked a day in the private sector let alone open a business are giving entrepreneurship courses in their Universities.
“I find it silly that in Romania university professors who never worked a day in the private sector let alone open a business are giving entrepreneurship courses in their Universities.”
Haha. I did about eight years of university education and I think I encountered a total of one professor who ever worked a day in the private sector. If there are even ten percent of all university professors in Romania who worked in the private sector then you guys are doing a hell of a lot better than here in the states.
my company has been for years desperately trying to work on projects with universities because it look good and you can get EU funding but it is a struggle. It is difficult for them to understand that people evolved need some competence not just be on good terms with the professors, that money for software licenses should be spent on software licenses and, hardest of all, the projects must have a clear result that helps the company make actual products to sell.
There’s an easy enough way around it. Just take a person from the team who’s not a star performer and get the university in question to let him or her to teach a night class as an “adjunct” professor. Now, it’s a partnership between the company and the university.
So what you’re saying is that they don’t understand that in the private sector, they expect results?
precisely. My father was an engineer and he was part of a committee once with some professors and when a project was evaluate he asked what is this for and was shushed by other committee members.
It is for lining pockets, isn’t that what all projects are for?
Academia is where people with over-inflated egos and sense of self worth go so they can peddle bullshit and never have to face the consequences in the real world of said idiotic ideas.
When I went to business school at USC, most of the professors had real-world work experience. Many of them were making as much money on the side as consultants as they were getting paid by the university.
that is why I prefaced with In Romania
Most of my business professors do as well. Several of them got into teaching after retiring from their actual careers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
Dangerfield’s Back to School just about sums it up
There’s no shortage of that here. The locus seems to be “tech innovation” centers, incubators, and entrepreneurship projects.
Before I retired/gave up, I saw a host of cronies taking money as it passed from foundations and universities down to student start-ups. The focus was rarely on the start-ups; instead, they were the tease for investors to invest *in the incubators* rather than the start-ups. Very little experience in ‘real world’ business, let alone any actual, let alone successful, entrepreneurs.
Somehow they sold the “we’re helping launch start-ups’ with nary a single success story to trot out.
(There was not a single entrepreneur nor actual businessman in the entire hierarchy of the Business College’s ‘Entrepreneurial Initiative program.)
One must understand that Romanian professors were all schooled and started carriers during commit times. Something that works is foreign to many
This critique also applies here. 🙂
In the company I work there is a tool, I will call it Tool. On presentation slides a few months ago it was called Fast Tool. When it turned out it takes 5 days to run on a medium sized project, the name on the slides became Smart Tool.
Is it a woodchipper?
Hahaha.
Huh Huh Huh…
You said Tool..
Before you click or hover over the link: Babylon Bee or Washington Post?
In appeal to young Catholics, Vatican unveils the ‘eRosary’
I guessed real. Honestly, I think that’s kind of cool.
Come and get your Friday Funbags right here!
http://archive.li/YyvsC
#1 is a little mannish in the face, but whatever, it’s not a deal-breaker. #11/#12 looks like the good kind of trouble. I’d help #19 with her law school tuition. #45 may be the winner. #50 looks like fun, but she appears to have left her ass back at the bar.
That brings to mind a joke told by the lovely dancers for whom I poured drinks while working graveyard shift.
Q – What does a stripper do when she finishes shaving her asshole?
A – She drives him to band practice.
Woke as fuck, y’all
Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats in the same box?
The new concoction isn’t just a kid’s breakfast dream — it’s an anti-bullying campaign.
Kellogg’s is partnering with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to release a cereal called “All Together,” mixing cereals and their mascots to support anti-bullying and LGBTQ advocacy work.
“We all belong together,” the company said in a statement. “So for the first time in history, our famous mascots and cereals are offered exclusively together in the same box for All Together Cereal. It’s a symbol of acceptance no matter how you look, where you’re from or who you love.”
Peak derp is a mirage, continually receding as we approach.
LOL… my Summertime bosses beat them by a few years. https://youtu.be/FGLf8YL6yF0
But no Corn Pops. That’s racist.
And here I thought that concoction was something white, middle-aged dad ate when there were just crumbs in about 5 different boxes. Not woke at all.
They call me “The Finisher”.
You know who else was a finisher?
I watched the Mpls antifa video. Set back Minnesoda Nice 20 years. Easy to understand if businesses move to the suburbs, cancel business meetings, etc.
I hate to even go to the airport anymore. Glad I don’t work in the TC anymore.
Fuck off and pass the oatmeal.
Not the Babylon Bee.
Peak derp is a mirage, continually receding as we approach.
It’s like sailing off to the horizon searching for the end of the earth.
Chex Mix says, “Hey, remember that time everyone said Black Panther is the first black superhero evar” and then Wesley Snipes was like, “What am I, chopped liver?”
Don’t forget Abar: The First Black Superman; “first” is right in the title.
After activating the device by making the sign of the cross, users can then choose to pray a standard rosary, a contemplative one or different kinds of thematic rosaries that will be updated every year, Vatican News said. The smart rosary keeps track of the user’s progress.
Does it also transfer 10% of the user’s bank balance to the Vatican Bank?
Coming soon, a “Tap To Tithe” app!
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Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, has now accused @TulsiGabbard, a veteran of the wars she supported, of being a “Russian asset” who is being “groomed” for a third party bid for the presidency, along with others.
This is an insane opinion. Will anyone call her on it?
If you got principles you get called a “Russian stooge” for opposing regime change wars.
You see, the thing is Hillary’s an unprincipled, power-hungry, opportunistic, corrupt, and loathsome sack of rancid monkey shit. Statements like this are to be expected.
This one really pisses me off. A woman who has more blood on her hands than anyone in America is accusing a veteran and someone who just suspended her campaign not even a month ago of being a “Russian stooge” because she won’t war harder.
Don’t forget Clinton advocated for a policy that would have led to war with Russia so it’s no surprise she’d take this tack. She’s a first order shitheel who’s testing the waters for a run so this doesn’t surprise me at all.
She suspended her campaign? There are Tulsi 2020 billboards all over SC.
She suspended her campaign temporarily because she was called with her national guard unit to fight in a war that Hillary Clinton started.
No. She was at Annual Training, an event that every Guardsmen has to do every year.
CORRECTION: What leon said.
Thanks. I’m ignorant.
Re-reading that I come off like an ass. Did not intend to.
What? No you don’t.
Trust me. 95% of the things I write come off as being an ass even when I don’t intend it to be. You just correct an inaccurate point that I made. I appreciate that.
ORANGE MAN EBIL!
Y’all need to go back and watch an oldie but a goodie….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqHv0xgOlc
The guy nailed everything except the time span. The left is trying to create a crisis….hell they have been repeating ‘constitutional crisis’ like a flock of parrots. Make no mistake they are trying to pull off a coup. It’s not going to work but they don’t know that. That is why they are trying to impeach in some kind of bizarre Star Chamber proceedings. That is why they keep saying the most bizarre and crazy things. Beta is going to have you shot and Hillary is going to round up all of the Russian agents.
Just look at the shit Obama did to tee this up. They are shitting their pants desperately because Hillary didnt get to swing at it. The lunacy you have seen since is a desperate plan B.
I think that clip is interesting. Often overlooked is the reason for why the useful idiots are executed. It is because they are idealistic idelougues who will not support the Marxist/Lenninists who come to power, whereas the other groups (conservatives, rich, executives) are morally maleable into supporting it.
continuing onto the interview the main point is that if you wan’t to stop the spread you have to challenge the ideas when they are being taught to children.
When he speaks of targeting the ego-centric, rich, self-important people for influence, I can’t help but think of the NBA.
RE: Trump and anti-interventionism.
The scaling-back of US involvement of the Middle East alone is enough to get me to hold my nose and vote Trump next year. He promised to do it, and he’s actually mostly following through; yes, he could do more, but it’s the polar opposite of what TEAM WAR would do.
We have had more than 5,000 soldiers killed and spend $1.2 trillion dollars in the past 15 years of Middle East misadventure. What we have accomplished: nothing. It’s still illiterate peasants killing each other over scraps in a useless sand pit. That is what it will be for the foreseeable future. That people are somehow shocked “anti-war” Dems turned on a dime and TDS-afflicted “libertarians” started beating the war drums is beyond me. News flash: pols are corrupt, unprincipled shitbags and they profit enormously from war. Ending conflicts saves lives and money but hurts their personal bank accounts so, naturally, they want to spend more tax money we don’t have and kill more of those toothless Deplorables that aren’t really human anyway.
Trump primarily got elected because people were horrified by Herself. But he also got elected because he isn’t a career pol. That’s not to say he isn’t corrupt and unprincipled in his own way, but he has no stake in continuing endless wars because he’s not plugged into that world. He’s also got his own businesses that actually benefit from peace and prosperity, not war. Sucks to be the Kurds, but it’s not our circus and not our monkeys.
TL;DR – Opposition to Trump is, and always has been, a function of the fact that he’s not “one of them”.
You know what though, I don’t think Trump is corrupt or unprincipled. I think he does and has done exactly what it says on the tin. He has gamed the system and manipulated laws to benefit himself–and has done it very well for years–but to the best of my knowledge he hasn’t broken any laws or betrayed his principles or responsibilities for personal gain. The shit he did in business is done and has been done by tons of other businesspersons since the dawn of time. Trump differs primarily because he has actively sought ought the spotlight.
Mr. Mojeaux and I just had this conversation not an hour ago. I simply can’t find it in myself (so far) to vote for Trump, but Mr. Mojeaux’s hand is halfway to his nose.
I may change my mind, but we (he and I) are at the point where “a third-party/no vote is a vote for the left.”
I may change my mind, but we (he and I) are at the point where “a third-party/no vote is a vote for the left.”
Interesting. I’m at the point where i’m not going to vote for someone who i wouldn’t actually want to be in office. I voted for GayJay/Bill Ratheon last time via mail-in ballot and got pissed when Mr. “Vote for Hillary” pulled that bullshit. So now i’m kinda done with voting anything above state and local.
Trump gets to do what Politicians wished they could do, but are too bought and sold to stand up, must be miserable to live a life like that
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/trump-administration-will-send-more-troops-to-saudi-arabia.html
Is there a clearing-house on the figures? I don’t know what the net answer is and am having trouble tracking all the issues and theaters. For example, we’re adding troops in Poland.
I didn’t read the article either, but the vote for Trump has to be aspirational, a national projection. A man who isn’t consistent on principle might be more dangerous than someone with whom you merely disagree. Lots of people who aren’t Dems will vote against him. As to troop figures, there’s an incoherence on policy: if withdrawal is some sort of commitment and policy, why the exceptions?
If he wants my vote, all he has to do is state a coherent policy and then execute it consistently and forthrightly. You know: like when Obama closed Gitmo.
A man who isn’t consistent on principle might be more dangerous than someone with whom you merely disagree.
True. Unfortunately that seems to be the only option offered during my lifetime.
totally fair
I don’t think anyone has earned my support in decades
“all he has to do is state a coherent policy and then execute it consistently and forthrightly”
I’ll take “largely and vaguely anti-war and hasn’t gotten us into any new prolonged conflicts even if inconsistent” vs. “war is the only thing that can give me an orgasm, I need MOAR and I will find any reason to do it” any day.
And yes, Obama closing Gitmo was one of the few bright spots of his presidency.
And yes, Obama closing Gitmo was one of the few bright spots of his presidency.
Uh, Q, about that….
I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO QUIZ
Mister Q The quiz was clearly announced on Monday. Unfortunately you were trying to look down Suzy Nobra’s blouse and not listening!
Yeah. Uh dude. Obama didn’t close Gitmo. And the people he moved out of it just became someone else’s problem. The problem wasn’t actually solved.
“And the people he moved out of it just became someone else’s problem. The problem wasn’t actually solved.”
Not being able to account for the fate of them all, seems like they were returned to their home countries (or somewhere similar) to let them deal with it. Better for me than indefinite detention on US soil.
US soil.
Quiz is continuing….
Guantanamo is US soil, no?
I mean… an indefinite lease that only the lessee can break, and is stationed by armed troops, is pretty much de facto US Territory.
Technically both parties need to agree to break the lease. Distinction without a difference, maybe.
You can argue the point, but we recognize that it is sovereign Cuban territory that we just have a leasehold on. I don’t think that is US soil, but it’s a minor point and I was just being a smartass.
ARTICLE III
While on the one hand the United States recognizes the continuance of the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of Cuba over the above described areas of land and water, on the other hand the Republic of Cuba consents that during the period of the occupation by the United States of said areas under the terms of this agreement the United States shall exercise complete jurisdiction and control over and within said areas with the right to acquire (under conditions to be hereafter agreed upon by the two Governments) for the public purposes of the United States any land or other property therein by purchase or by exercise of eminent domain with full compensation to the owners thereof.
Yeah I’m pedantic, sue me.
Is this basically the same argument as whether John McCain was eligible to be president? He claimed that being born on a US military base satisfies the “natural born citizen” clause?
I’m not sure where I stand on it, but it’s interesting.
foreign US military base
That argument was foolish IMHO. Native Citizenship has been by parentage in every place and time up till we chose an odd way of conferring citizenship on the freed slaves. Instead of just saying Persons previously held in bondage are now citizens we used location of birth.
The ME should have been turned to glass about 24 hours after 9/11.
Let God sort it out.
Just a little extreme. And my answer is extreme also, but a little less so, and probably just as effective. We should have just nuked Mecca. I think that might have gotten the point across. Sorry, Allah lost, brahs. Would you like some more?
That’s clever. Not only physical annihilation but psychological.
Don’t fuck with us. We will come after everything you hold dear.
Was trying to decide how I think about this. Adding troops to places where have allies is something I’m not a huge fan of, but it’s not quite the same as an invasion either.
My state has made it easy. They just approved (in principle, not active yet) vote-by-mail. I will never waste a vote under that system.
General comment about the pols and media. I don’t know if it’s ever been mentioned here (if not, I’m surprised), but see the movie Wag the Dog.
How is Festus this morning?
One step forward two steps back. I’m having a bad one today. Thanks for asking Mojo.
A reminder of how real whistle blowers are treated:
FBI Raids Home Of Whistleblower On Clinton Foundation, Lawyer Says
After the raid, and having received my name and phone number from Mr. Cain as his lawyer, an FBI agent actually called my client directly to discuss his seized electronics,” Socarras told TheDCNF. “Knowingly bypassing the lawyer of a represented client is serious misconduct.”
being punished for misconduct is for little people
+1 Leona Helmsley
I watched the Mpls antifa video. Set back Minnesoda Nice 20 years. Easy to understand if businesses move to the suburbs, cancel business meetings, etc.
I hate to even go to the airport anymore. Glad I don’t work in the TC anymore.
Not sure how this got posted up with the cereal stuff but probably makes as much sense
Cheap Trick’s fantastic LP was a big part of my preteen childhood. “Gonna Raise Hell” is worth the price of purchase alone. Kick ass album.
While an Astros vs Nationals World Series will likely have some good, fun games to watch, I fear the ratings for my company will not be great.
OTOH, much of our post production group will be grateful if the Astros finish the ALCS tonight (not to mention the production folks, many of whom will be happy to avoid the red eye flight to Houston for a Game 6).
Having spent many years working on the drudgery of TV commercials, I am always amazed by the work that live production (particularly sports) is able to accomplish.