Still the only ones
The living members of that old Miami Dolphins team can break out the champagne or cigars or whatever they do when the last undefeated team loses. Is that still a thing? If it is, its still douchey. Meanwhile on the ice, Carolina pounded Ottawa and Phoenix beat the Crapitals in OT. No other sports results of note from yesterday. It was even a lean day for college basketball. But relax, because the CFP rankings are coming tonight and I’m sure there will be a lot of people scratching their heads. I expect to be one of them.
Crazy fuck Charles Manson
Women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on this day. As were sculptor Auguste Rodin, Chinese revolutionary Sun Yet-sen, beer magnate Joseph Coors, Barbie doll inventor Jack Ryan, actress Kim Hunter, the lovely Grace Kelly, “family” man Charles Manson, sportscaster Al Michaels, Canadian and assclown Neil Young, “white” Hispanic ballplayer Sammy Sosa, and onetime figure skater Tonya Harding.
That’s quite the list of non-heroes there. At least a few good ones mixed in, but sheesh. Anyway on to…the links!
If you didn’t see this coming, you’re blind as a bat. I wonder how she’ll manage to keep all her corruption under wraps now that she’s inevitably going to be elected to Congress. Ah, she’ll escape scrutiny. She’s still in mourning, after all.
Carter has entered the concussion protocol.
Former president Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized to relieve pressure on the brain. I wish him well, but the dude is really old and becoming quite frail.
Well the weather outside is frightful.
But the fire is so delightful.
How long before the unions for big police forces demand body cameras go away? This is small potatoes, but its endemic of their “I do whatever I want” mentality.
Some people got no sense of humor. Also, the California Pale Ale is among the best pale ales made. Because it’s not all hopped up. Don’t @ me.
“That looks worse than Bakersfield!”
-Okies
Just in case you were ever crazy enough to ponder it: if you value your lungs, don’t go to New Delhi.
Still working on a theme. I’ll think of it eventually. In the meantime, here’s another great solo act.
Now, stay warm and go have a great day, friends!
Well the weather outside is frightful.
Weather is gorgeous really.
Looking at this weather map
http://models.weatherbell.com/climate/ncep_cfsr_globe_t2m_week_anom.png
There seems to be a big red blob over Romania
Duh, that’s the blood that’s been sucked out of people over the last several centuries.
Music for Pie
How long before the unions for big police forces demand body cameras go away? This is small potatoes, but its endemic of their “I do whatever I want” mentality. -you asked this before and I answered . When cameras become mandatory for all citizens.
Just in case you were even crazy enough to ponder it: if you value your lungs, don’t go to New Delhi. – It ain’t that great in Bucharest. Strangely enough, sometimes it gets bad on weekend nights when there is no traffic. The suspect is burning of trash/waste and hoping no one notices.
Some people got no sense of humor. Also, the California Pale Ale is among the best pale ales made. Because it’s not all hopped up. Don’t @ me. – Or P&G employees have a lot fo free time on their hands at work
They are a government-imposed monopoly after all.
Some people got no sense of humor. Had a tough time explaining that exact thing to my kid the other day. Then my wife came home.
P&G employees
Proctor & Gamble set those fires!
Ofc they did. Satanists love arson.
…
/waits for three pictures to replace Pie’s post.
Doty was stunned. He meant to draw attention to the negligence of the PG&E execs, not to insult the boots-on-the-ground workers. But something was lost in translation.
Yup.
Too bad he doesn’t recognize the real villains here: the stupid ass government officials that:
a. created a monopoly utility system
b. made it illegal to deal with underbrush
Or maybe he recognized it and realizes that talking shit about them will likely get the health inspectors and tax collectors so far up his ass he’d be out of business within a year.
Well, you can be sure he knew he wouldn’t be able to sell the beer out of state (Fuck is right out on federal beer labels), nor would he be able to sell it in some states (that have their own labeling laws). Of course, when you need to get licensed by the state and federal government to make a living, it’s not the wisest thing to mock them too much publicly.
No, sir. They have mandated solar and wind to the point that there’s no money to upgrade good old coal/natgas. The towers that are causing the fires are a hundred years old or so. But we have really cool bird killing fields to show for it.
Another side effect is that we pay double what everyone else pays for our energy, electric and gasoline . The monopoly is making do with the crap hand they got dealt by the scheming demons dressed in kingly guise. That’s not say they aren’t evil too. The blackouts are a shakedown scheme to piss us off enough to let them raise our rates even more.
To Doty, the beer’s name seemed like a straightforward response to the company’s alleged wrongdoing.
“My read on it is that I guess people have inferred something else from what I have actually said and assume that I’m against the employees which are here and are helping us, which we have as regulars, which we support,” he says. “Then people are also assuming that for an area like we are in, Santa Rosa, where we’ve been horribly, horribly burnt by fires and all of the fallout from that, that we also, for some reason don’t like the people that are helping us? I guess that’s just kind of painful too. We’re not against those people.”
Worse yet, Doty says some people have been calling the taproom. Staffers are finding themselves on the receiving end of harassment and violent threats, which he says is unfair, as he’s the one who named the beer.
Huh- a self-absorbed douchebag doesn’t bother to think things through? I’m shocked.
And as a counterpoint, a Chicago brewery stopped their partnership with Trump properties after a campaign speech. They renamed the remainder of the beer they had on hand as Chinga Tu Pelo (as the old name was tied to Trump, and I believe the contract they had signed with the properties). For those who have Spanish skills at my level or below (in other words, none at all), the translation provided of that name is Fuck Your Hair.
So it appears that both sides can be total assholes about this same thing.
Hell, I though I linked a copy of the story:
https://chicago.eater.com/2018/8/15/17690976/5-rabbit-cerveceria-trump-documentary-chinga-tu-pleo-brewery-your-hair-kickstarter-movie
I imagine you could tell us exactly how many brewers have come up with an Im-Peach lambic. I even saw one in an Ottawa brewpub. Although I think it was a peach-flavored IPA, not a lambic.
Stone did a national release of Im-Peach IPA, the first press release went full on anti-Trump. Apparently there was some backlash, as they released another press release downplaying the anti-Trump sentiment. I’m sure quite a few places did their own take on it for local/tap room distribution.
I will admit to some entertainment from some beer names.
Those people are both stunning and brave.
They seem to malfunction every time evidence favorable to a “civilian” gets captured on them anyway.
In that situation, the body cam should’ve been pointed at his crotch.
Maryland Democratic Party Chairwoman Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
Also known by her pr0n name Maya Cummings.
I have no desire to even think of that woman doing porn.
So what is the official Glibertarian line on Bolivia?
Morales is fled to Mexico. While there seems to be a coup from some point of view, given that he was not allowed a third term I am not sure it is a coup or maintaining the law.
One of his main lieutenants named Adriana Salvatierra was temporarily president when he was ousted, and looks doable in a AOC crazy leftist way
This is going to divide Latinx Amerixa even more.
Th leader of the overthrow seem to be some Luis Fernando Camacho which has very little info on the net except some left sites who are hurrying to call him a Christian Fascist and I will withhold judgement till I hear more, because I cannot take calls of fascism serious anymore.
From wikipedia on Morales this amused me as, whatever you think of the issue, the wording does not seem exactly unbiased. The whole article seems an ode really.
“During Morales’ first term, Bolivia broke free of the domination of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) which had characterised previous regimes by refusing their financial aid and connected regulations.”
I have literally no idea what’s going on Bolivia. It’s bad enough trying to follow US politics. I customarily just go on the assumption that all of South America is in a constant and irrevocable state of decay.
#metoo
Maybe it’s isolationist, but I’m more concerned with what’s going on in Mexico, and even that is pretty far removed from me. Canada’s policies are closer, but I think we would have an easier time absorbing the population of Canada then the population of Mexico.
Canada’s policies are closer, but I think we would have an easier time absorbing the population of Canada then the population of Mexico.
Canada has fewer people than California, so this is correct.
It always amazes me how few people Canada has. And how many the US has.
We need to start exporting people to Canada.
People keep promising to move to a Canada if “the other candidate” won, yet somehow they never do.
Expressed vs demonstrated preference ftw.
WB/IMF are gangsters. Problem is so are socialists. It’s a turf war. Or a retard fight.
Warner Bros is fighting the International Monetary Fund?
Man, it would be awesome watching Wil E. Coyote blow up Christine Lagarde.
Beep, beep.
No, Warner Bros and the Impossible Mission Force.
The mainstream media outlets here aren’t really covering it. And they won’t use the word “coup” because of the Deep State / Impeachment stuff going on here.
I don’t know much about Bolivia lately, but I know Morales was beloved by Western leftists just like Chavez. Indeed, the ones who have turned away from Maduro went to him (or Jose Mujica of Uruguay, for a time). What little we hear from Western media about Bolivia is all about how socialism has worked wonders and the only real complaints are about how Morales hasn’t quite socialisted hard enough yet and the bitter clingers in the east don’t like him, which makes me strongly suspect the news is/was being suppressed (or, at least, not translated if unfavorable).
Cocaina esta beuna?
It’s no place for a Wild Bunch like us.
An NYPD cop was caught by his own body camera ogling a young woman he described as a “total stripper” following her drunk-driving bust
I do prefer a total stripper to a partial one.
Well, was she a total stripper?
#newsfail
Hi Sloop!
Why did Joe Walsh end up in the Eagles? Because he’s way too good for that.
Perfect song to close that wonderful movie.
Agreed. It was a perfect end.
And I think he joined the Eagles in a drunken stupor and by the time he woke up, he was in the middle of a tour and just said “fuck it, why not”.
Sure, and I hope he made a lot of money. I love the guy.
Here’s one for our pal, Q!
For six years, Albania has been home to one of Iran’s main opposition groups, the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK. But hundreds of members have walked out – some complaining about the organisation’s rigid rules enforcing celibacy, and control over contact with family. Now, dozens languish in the Albanian capital, Tirana, unable to return to Iran or get on with their lives.
“I didn’t speak to my wife and son for over 37 years – they thought I’d died. But I told them, ‘No, I’m alive, I’m living in Albania…’ They cried.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/stories-50339928
This is sort of like not dead just in Nebraska
Every time I hear about Albania all I can think of is Wag the Dog.
I think of Cheers…
MEK is bad for you sexual functioning.
no problem: switch to 2-butanone !
I have a colleague who is from Albania. She moved to the states at the age of 18, to get a degree from Duke. She the earned a JD from William Mitchell. Super smart and friendly.
but not hot?
I’m not saying she’s obsessed, but…
The U.K. government’s decision to delay the publication of a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics has been slammed as “inexplicable and shameful” by former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Speaking to the BBC Monday, Clinton said she was “dumbfounded that this government won’t release the report about Russian influence because every person who votes in this country (the U.K.) deserves to see that report before your election happens.”
“I find it inexplicable that your government will not release a government report about Russian influence. Inexplicable and shameful,” she said.
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Russia is believed to have interfered in the 2016 U.S. election that saw Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton to the presidency. Allegations of Russian interference prompted a near two-year long investigation led by Robert Mueller. The inquiry said that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in “sweeping and systematic fashion” and had been designed to favor Trump and harm Clinton’s campaign.
Mueller said the inquiry did not establish that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference campaign.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4′s Today program on Monday, Clinton said “there is no doubt – we know it in our country, we have seen it in Europe, we have seen it here – that Russia in particular is determined to try to shape the politics of western democracies.
Them Rooshunz dun stold muh crown!
‘Is believed?’ They just concluded a three year Mueller circus revealing jack squat. Saying that is like pretending it never happened.
Doesn’t matter. They just keep repeating it to keep it fresh in people’s heads.
“It is believed” that the decline in the number of pirates is a direct cause for the increase in global warming. Just ask a Pastafarian.
rAmen!
“sweeping and systematic fashion”
I guess every time I put an opinion on FB it constituted “sweeping and systematic” election interference.
I think their success in duping so many people about the fake climate crisis has emboldened them. It is just one long string of horseshit after another out of these people. Pure fucking horseshit.
So Clinton is interfering in the British elections?
Ssh… don’t make such a fuss. We’re hoping they make a deal to take her from us. I mean, if she could be elected senator of a state she never resided in she could become a member of parliament or something.
Jeez Louise. Did Putin fuck her Huma or something?
Castro: Kill Whitey
Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro is calling for Iowa and New Hampshire to lose their coveted status leading off the presidential nominating calendar, pointing to a lack of diversity in both states.
While his comments risk angering officials — and voters — in both states, they come as he’s already pulled back from New Hampshire amid fundraising and other hurdles for his campaign. In pointed remarks Sunday evening, he said it’s time to “change the order of the states.”
He continued: “I don’t believe we’re the same country we were in 1972. That’s when Iowa first held its caucus first, and by the time we have the next presidential election in 2024, it’ll have been more than 50 years since 1972. Our country’s changed a lot in those 50 years.”
That ain’t how it works, hombre. The States decide their primary dates.
The parties can exert tremendous pressure in that regard, so if they want the primary/caucus moved they may just succeed in doing it.
A better question is why we need the stupid fucking staggered primaries anyway. Particularly considering that the Democratic party primaries mean absolutely fucking dick.
But it’s a tradition to pander to corn farmers.
Indeed. In some sense, you could say that staggered primaries are a (very mild) form of disenfranchisement. By the time you get to the last couple of states, the outcome is pretty much certain. And the voters in the early states may feel that they voted in vain based on how things turn out later.
Nothing should be set by any governmental body about how political parties pick their candidates to run for an office. I’m always upset that public money is being spent to help political parties pick their candidates.
I agree, but it’s not going to go away. Besides the fact that it is a subsidy and nobody turns those down, it’s also a get-out-of-jail free card. If there’s any problem with the process (like, say, racial discrimination, whether real or perceived), it’s the state’s fault not the party’s.
The parties can strip delegations of their votes at the convention for moving up the election date without approval — several states lost half their delegates for defying the leadership last time around. Yahweh knows what they would do if a state had the gall to move their primary up to one day before the Iowa vote.
I’ve always thought that if I became dictator of a party, and wanted to actually improve it, the ordering of primaries should be : (1/(distance from 50% your candidate received last election) [in percentage points]) * (number of electoral votes that state has).
This is just more “I cant win so lets rig the game”.
Some states have a hard time figuring out their own primary/caucus crap too. Currently the DFL here is being the absolute epitome of Minnesoda Nice and trying to help the local GOP elect an actual human for President.
There is a huge backstory, but the gist of it is that the Mn GOP only put Trump on its primary ballot. DFL-ers are OUTRAGED that Sanford, Weld and Walsh weren’t allowed on. So they are proposing that anyone can file a fee to get on a ballot.
I’m sure that only counts for major parties. I bet the DFLers are not passing any legislation that would make it easier for the Green, Libertarian or Independence parties to get on ballots.
Someone should tell him that South Carolina and Nevada are traditionally third and fourth. The first four collectively cover a lot of the diversity in this country – the only people unrepresented are urbanites.
“I didn’t speak to my wife and son for over 37 years – they thought I’d died. But I told them, ‘No, I’m alive, I’m living in Albania…’ They cried.”
There’s a W C Fields joke in there.
“Take my wife, please”
The idea that billionaires don’t deserve their wealth isn’t about personal stories.
There are far too many people in this country who work full-time only to struggle, and it’s unethical for that to be the case while billionaires exist. I don’t give a shit if they’ve got moxie.
https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1193923882509635590
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I could tell you the stories of poor destitute people that would put any billionaire story to shame – the deserving billionaire sham is to prop up the myth of meritocracy and vice-versa.”
The sad thing is they’re so blinded by envy they don’t see they’re envious.
…the deserving billionaire sham is to prop up the myth of meritocracy and vice-versa
If they earned it honestly, they deserve it. End of story.
Aye, comrade. We shall confiscate their assets and send them to camp.
Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.
Liquidate the assets and dump the proceeds into the government money pit, and you’ll be back where you started except with less wealth to pay tomorrow’s taxes.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has threatened a government takeover if the company can’t come up with a viable reorganization plan soon.
Out of the wildfire and into the frying pan.
How did socialists light their homes before candles? With electricity of course. That is an old but good joke though I bet a lot of Californians aren’t laughing at it.
They are getting what they voted for…good and hard.
The problem is that because they are abject morons and fanatical ideologues, they will never see the problem as originating with what they believe in in the first place, and will lay blame anywhere and everywhere else. hence the whole wreckers, hoarders, and Kulaks (for profit business is ebil!) bullshit.
Thissss. It’s inevitably one of bad luck, wreckers/hoarders/kulaks, or people just not appreciating the benefits of the CA economic boom.
I don’t think enrolling the employees in CalPERS is going to fix the situation, because that’s about all that would change between then and now. It’s not like the California government doesn’t already have practically full control of the utility anyway.
Former president Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized to relieve pressure on the brain. I wish him well…
I do not. I’m torn between wishing he’d die quickly versus a long and painful death.
He’s like 137 years old, whatever takes him it’ll probably be pretty quick.
#metoo Double digit interest rates, creating the Dept. of Ed. as a campaign sop to the teacher’s union, handing the Panama Canal over to Norriega, and the disaster of the Iran hostage rescue, that’s the old anti-Semite’s legacy. He can’t be dead soon enough.
He did legalize home brewing and deregulate the airline industry though.
I was in grade school/Jr. High when he was in office and I remember him being pretty terrible too. But you gotta give him some props for home brewing.
That was a favor for his brother.
Billy Beer for the win!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXzJBxRvKao
Firehose – Losers, Boozers, and Heroes
“Billy Beer is good enough for me”
And trucking/rail deregulation
He also consistently mispronounces NUCLEAR as NUCULAR which is bad enough from a child but Carter is a nuclear engineer and should bloody well know better.
You left out enabling North Korea and their nuclear ambitions during the Clinton administration.
Due to his wishy-washy handling of the Iranian hostage crisis Wahabists saw a chance to bite and the resulting conflagration continues today. His abdication of military power unstabilized the world and spawned issues we are still dealing with today with no end in sight.
I am probably one of the most extreme noninterventionists here, but even I know that an embassy takeover and hostage-taking is an act of war.
Yeah, Carter screwed the pooch on that. Generally, I think Carter’s reputation as being extremely hesitant to use force (Cyrus Vance), hobbled him when he tried to negotiate. The military action was just a cavalcade of fuckups.
“The military action was just a cavalcade of fuckups.”
That’s an understatement. The military was not just in bad shape back when, but led by some quite useless types unable to see the problems they created. It was not until the 1980s that the military was cleaned up and made effective as a fighting force…
I consider that one an intelligence failure. The original hostage takers were disorganized college students, eventually they all realized their “prank” got way out of hand and gave up one-by-one but each one was replaced by a more savvy military-terrorist type. And US “intelligence” had no idea the Shah had been getting cancer treatments for 4 years.
He also did zero about Pol Pot until it got so bad the Vietnamese communists invaded to stop that insanity. Had we invaded I would have been one of the troops sent as I was Marine infantry on Okinawa from 1978 to 1980 – so I’m not suggesting something that would not have affected me directly.
This. The pointless, useless wars we are fighting today are a direct result of how Carter handled Iran.
I remember when Sadat was machine-gunned in broad daylight in his own military parade and the same people that are running around insisting that they are the only ones smart enough to run the world were walking around in circles, slack-jawed and asking “Whaaaaaaaa? Huuuuuuh? Wha happin?”
Jimmeh is the perfect poster boy for why the so-called ruling class needs to pound sand.
You’ll also recall that Carter reinstated the Selective Service, aka the military draft board.
I blame him for 9/11.
Rightly so.
I remember just a couple of years ago watching clueless newscasters parrot stories about ISIS with footage of ISIS showing. Not one of them pointed out that much of the equipment they were sporting was American gear.
I get a knot in my stomach everytime I think of how close we came to having President Hildebeast.
They just concluded a three year Mueller circus revealing jack squat. Saying that is like pretending it never happened.
“They said he was ‘not guilty’. That doesn’t mean he’s innocent!”
I was stopped Sunday night for possible attempted DWI by a man in black. It was 3 AM, (Monday morning). I had left a local airport after picking up Mrs Fourscore from her long overdue flight and was driving cautiously about 40-45 MPH because the road was glazed with snow, I wasn’t sure if it was slippery. A car followed me for 5-6 miles, turned on the flashers and pulled me over. The LEO had his hand on his sidearm as he approached my truck. He told me he was concerned that I may have been intoxicated because I was driving rather slow. (Its also a deer infested area as well and no traffic at 0300.) After a quick check, I asked him if the road was slippery and he said it probably was.
He was courteous, polite and apparently decided I wasn’t much of a threat to humanity and wished me a “Good night”. I did not fear for my life, though. He followed me for another 5-6 miles and probably realized the nearest convenience would be getting a fresh delivery of doughnuts about that time, passed me in hurry and went out of sight. I made it home safely, I’m assuming he did as well.
“And nothing else happened.”
The lesson here is that if you’re drunk driving, make sure you go really fast.
Or go really slow and pretend you are not moving at all
The pig’s vision is based on movement…
“You guys on commission, or what?”
Go fast they pinch you. Go slow they stop you.
Damned if you, damned if you don’t.
That was straight up racial profiling 4Score!
If your asian wife had been at the wheel, no way they would have pulled you over. Of course if your wife drives like mine, she would have been driving 70, oblivious to road conditions.
Glad you got home safe though.
If his Asian wife was behind the wheel they’d have pulled him out of a ditch rather than pull him over.
True story.
The last time she drove, 20 years ago or so, I pulled her out of a ditch after she spun out in the snow.
“I didn’t think it was slippery”
What the hell is that? I see people doing that all of the time. My wife has threatened to put a jar in our car and make me throw a quarter in it every time she has to hear me yell at other drivers…”Slow the fuck down! Get off of my bumper!”
The last year I worked they put me going to court with patients so I drove all over the state. You spend time on the road and you see some shit. I counted 14 dead in that one year.
Me to kid getting driving lessons: How fast can you run? 10? 12 miles per hour? Go out in the yard and run as fast as you can with your eyes shut. No peeking. What do you think will happen?
That’s right. You are going to be injured badly, possibly killed. That is ten miles per hour. Now imagine smacking into a tree at 20mph. 30. How about 60?
There is some perspective for you.
I enjoy letting people get ahead of me on deer-infested roads.
Brooksie, did you see this one?
Pretty slick.
That’s very nice indeed, but I’d rather have a Datsun 2000, assuming that a Figaro is out of reach.
The 2000s are great, but the prices are getting kind of crazy.
Check this out!!
Perhaps Figaros are out of reach because this guy has them all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkaNzVrtMq0
Excuse my inelegant link formatting, or lack thereof.
Looks like a candidate for cash for clunkers
It’s a tasteful resto-mod, but I feel like I’d prefer a more original version.
Hard to believe that has turned into the 3 series (and now 2 series). Could BMW screw up their naming any more?
/Former E30, E36 Owner and current E37 Owner.
Go to the next step, the ‘F’ series, F150, F250, etc
Whatever happened to the F100, F200, etc?
I think the F100 got retired in 1983 after the F150 was introduced in order to get around idiotic emissions standards in 1975. They were effectively the same truck for a few years with the F100 having smaller brakes and a different exhaust IIRC. I’m not sure if an F200 was ever made.
’twere simply F2, F3, F4, methinks
Whatever happened to the F100
marketing is silly stuff: maybe the linkage to the Super Sabre faded? GM added another digit to get to “1500” at one point
FWIW, those designations on light- and medium-duty trucks correlate more than a little to the DOT GVW classes.
Typical license restricts most folks to Class 6 or lighter.
Nearly 3″ of snow, and a forecast high of 26º today.
I’m not one to bitch about the weather in Ohio, but this is some February shit. Not November.
The lake isn’t helping us much today up north. High of only 28, started raining yesterday morning, it rained all day, and switched to snow overnight. It’s supposed to continue snowing until ~10:00 tomorrow. And I’m out of the snow belt, I don’t want to know how much they’re getting dumped on today.
9″ at my place in MI. Luckily, I’m in ATL at my office.
That’s you’re own fault for living in TSUN. I do like your having booze everyplace, and no state stores. And Zehnder’s chicken.
That’s how you humblebrag.
Is that a humblebrag or a cry for help from a scorned husband?
That’s how I read it, but the “Luckily” makes me think this may be one of those throuple things. NTTAWWT.
Naw, they just pay a plowing company, so it’ll be done before he gets home.
plowing company
Good one, UnCiv.
Northwest NJ can’t decide if it wants to snow or rain – keeps going back and forth.
I just spent 10 minutes digging out, 4-6 inches and a nice layer of ice underneath, yeah! Ohio.
Are you fuckers aware of the Weatherization Awareness Program?
That’s right, belly up to the Federal teat for some free money!
Those programs do help a lot of people.
I got LEAP one winter in Buffalo. A 300 dollar gas bill (early 90s dollars!) is rough when you’re a poor college student.
Once NY gets finished banning natural gas, you won’t have to worry about that heating bill anymore.
Nah, we’ll just keep importing it from our neighbors like we do now. It’s not like Gaia’s watching.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to throw shade on people who use the program. Being cold sucks.
I was more tickled by this: aiming to raise awareness about the Weatherization Awareness Program
This may have been covered already
So…a shell game to evade warrants, courts or any kind of oversight.
The one thing all administrations agree on, getting all up in your iPhones.
These U.K. data requests, including demands to collect real-time communications, do not need to meet the standards set by U.S. privacy laws or the 4th Amendment.
If so, then the agreement is void. The US cannot enter into any treaty that would be unconstitutional. Congress should correct this, but unfortunately that job will probably require the courts.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people push the argument, and maybe even believe it, that a treaty trumps the Constitution. I remember when the proggies had wet panties over the UN gun control thing, as a way to get around the pesky Bill of Rights.
I think the Courts have been very reluctant to rule a treaty as unconstitutional in the past, so really we end up with the United States being fucked because the Federal Government thinks it can get around the constitution.
Yes, Tundra, I did see that. Very very nice.
WANT.
can you imagine being the guy on the left and getting sent to the hospital by the guy on the right
so much time spent trying to look Hard just gone down the tubes his bodily injuries will heal but the other wounds are eternal
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1193680560285081600
Jayne: “How’s it sit? Pretty cunning, don’tchya think?”
Kaylee: “I think it’s the sweetest hat ever.”
Book: “Makes a statement.”
Jayne: “Yeah, yeah!”
Wash: “A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he’s not afraid of anything.”
Jayne: “Damn straight.”
Holy shit, that Spartan I linked yesterday was “bid to” $67,500, meaning the reserve wasn’t met. Yikes.
Yeah, I saw that. The Sunbeam went for more than 37K. I really liked that one.
Boy was that some poor play/clock management by the 49ers with 1:47m to go last night. NEVER keep Wilson another chance. Next thing you know, 3rd and 3 and he gallops for 21 yards. Game over.
Man, I thought the Eagles had receivers with slippery hands but the Niners were just as bad.
I think San Francisco lost the division last night. Seattle have all the tie-breaker edges and if it comes down to the last meeting on the last day of the season, it’s in Seattle.
They had to win last night.
Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250–1860
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history/article/six-centuries-of-real-wages-in-france-from-louis-ix-to-napoleon-iii-12501860/1556E5205A77740CC158C018A3560E06/core-reader
I don’t trust international wage comparisons unless they are in terms of the McWage.
Dash cam footage helped to get some justice for this poor bastard.
Pics (and dash cam video) of the damage the dog bites did
Of course the guy who they fucked up was an innocent guy who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In fairness to the St. Paul police chief he tried to fire both the K9 cop and Officer McKicky but was forced to reinstate them.
Carter is best President that is an alumni of my school. Even if he transferred out after 1 year.
His old dorm was the Bursars office in my day. Seemed appropriate that I gad to write big checks there.
Little early, isn’t it rob?
He said “is”, not “was”.
One of these things is not like the others
Robert Reich
@RBReich
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars in America:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
None of these has anything to do with being successful in the supposed free market.
Wow.
That may happen to some degree for some but talk about cherry picking. And how is this not ‘riling up the base’?
They seem to laying down some groundwork to ‘abolish billionaires’.
They’re out of their minds.
“Remember, under free markets the rich become powerful. But under socialism, the powerful become rich.”
Glenn Reynolds
Good lord…what a mendacious fuck.
You forgot little. Mendacious little fuck.
I like these unsubstantiated claims presented as fact.
Amazon is a monopoly?
That’s a mighty tall assertion.
The company barely turns a profit. And is in hot competition with Walmart. Notice all the new services Walmart is providing to keep up. This is evidently bad for poor people. Not because it makes them poorer, it does the opposite. But they just don’t like someone being richer than them.
I know we have discussed the merits of WM grocery pick-up before, but for a single mom how great is it?
I don’t know. Honestly I don’t know it will pay off for Walmart, but the fact that they are trying to improve their services is what I’m getting at.
Leftists only look at the laborer side. They see “exploitation” and say soak the rich. They don’t see or more likely, ignore the fact that these companies improve the lives of the poor more than any government program.
No I agree with you, I guess I didn’t word it very well. I’m saying for a single mom to be able to save time (and probably money) picking up her groceries at WM is a big quality of life improvement.
Their AWS unit which is where all of their money is made is pretty close.
It’s just their most profitable division. But Google, Microsoft, and others offer alternatives.
And Microsoft has made big strides in the market.
I recently had a sales presentation from Oracle trying to sell their cloud services on lower cost, and higher performance than AWS. Turns out just selling on higher performance hadn’t overcome their previous price tag, so they’re charging less now.
True, but AWS market share is still north of half, and most importantly, they have all the major government contracts, including the DOD and intelligence agencies.
Microsoft just won a big contract with DoD for Azure so even that is changing.
That’s being overturned ’cause ORANGEMANBAD. (The claim is he kept the contract away from Amazon due to his hatred of Bezos).
And of course Google is forgoing those contracts because they won’t support a fascist state with their technical expertise. China, on the other hand….
Fair enough, and Amazon is making bank of those contracts (they have to be, cause the government contracts I’ve worked in my life always seem to be more pain than they are worth.)
The last time I looked at pricing they were competitive or better than the other platforms, so they aren’t monopoly pricing.
They won’t stop till all the rich have fled, or are dead. They say it’s just about equity, but here Reich is saying that they are all criminals. They will get frustrated by the ability to evade their taxes and call for their imprisonment.
That’s probably pretty close to accurate today. The key point he accidentally hit on is that none of those things has anything to do with success in a free market. It’s almost like maybe we don’t have one.
And none of them will be solved by a “wealth tax” or asset confiscation.
Well, once they’ve confiscated all the wealth of the dastardly 1% and spent it on financing a whole 9 months of current government spending, the capital markets will be so dead that insider trading shouldn’t be a big problem.
Nobody needs more than $1.8M a year.
Let’s suppose you’re put at the helm of a $10 billion company that’s floundering. In 5 years time, under your watch, the company went from the verge of insolvency to turning a sizable profit. That’s thousands of jobs, millions of dollars a year in profit and dividends, and billions in shareholder equity you “created or saved”. If $50 million a year plus stock is the price of your services, what company wouldn’t pay it?
This guy as zero interest in building a portfolio.
This guy held a cabinet post. Let that sink in for a bit.
Admittedly, nobody knew he was there because he couldn’t see over the edge of the conference table.
HEYO!
San Francisco’s new DA pledges not to prosecute certain crimes. That’s cool, maybe we can elect some prosecutors who refuse to enforce guns laws?
*thinking emoji*
Earlier today, I made a unilateral decision to rescind the invitation to Maj Toure as the Keynote Speaker of the 2020 Libertarian National Convention. I called him and informed him of this. I did so without a formal vote of the Convention Oversight Committee, which I chair.
https://twitter.com/LPDanielHayes/status/1194061471354937345
What is Maj Toure and is the libertarian party still a thing? What are they up to?
So the LP plan is to get as many libertarians out of the party as possible?
Tom Woods interviewed Josh Smith? who is going for chair and Josh’s theory is that Nick S and his buds are trying to make true liberty lovers throw up their hands in disgust and not show up for the convention so he can get whatever he wants done.
Not that the LP was ever that respectable but it has certainly been skinsuited lately.
Selecting which failed Republican politician is going to lead the charge into the libertarian future.
The founder of Black Guns Matter.
AOC: Climate Change is a tool of white-supremacy
“The way we inoculate ourselves from continuing to burn up our planet at unsustainable level, triggering feedback loops that we have not even begun to comprehend, is by honoring indigenous wisdom and allowing it to guide our climate policy. The way that we preserve our systems is by transitioning to principles of universality. That means I want you clothed, I want you educated, I want you paid a living wage, no ifs ands or buts. And what that also means — and what Naomi talked about as well — is directly, consciously, combatting white supremacy in the United States of America,” AOC declared.
She was referring to Naomi Klein, a Canadian activist who had spoken just before her. Klein had been more explicit. She spoke about “two fires”: climate change and the divisive conservative politicians like President Donald Trump who champion an “in-group” over an “out-group.” She accused Trump of dividing America with “white supremacy.”
“At this moment when the climate crisis becomes impossible to deny … at this very moment these figures who are so expert at the art of spreading division” are rising, she said. “I believe that we all know on the cellular level that there’s something deeply wrong with our common home,” and she accused the right of exploiting that fear with the message, “We will protect you against the other.”
“Do we think it is a coincidence that these two fires are raging at the exact same time? And as these strongmen turn their populations against each other, that frees them up for the real business at hand which is pillaging the” earth. “We cannot win this fight without battling white supremacy.”
It is hot outside so I agree.
There is so much wrong there it is hard to even know where to start. It has everything. Gibberish, lies, fear mongering, projection, imaginary nonsense, implied threat, ignorance and failed logic….good grief that is one heapin’ helpin’ of bullshit.
I’m still on the fence about whether she’s a performance artist.
///MeToo
Is there anybody whiter than Naomi Klein?
Well, that last part is correct at least…
Hundreds of KC dwellers confused about BBQ smell permeating their neighborhood. Turns out Minnesoda and Iowa are to blame.
I’m calling bullshit.
That KC stinks because of Iowa and Minnesoda? Or that KC-ans think stink = BBQ?
I was being punny.
The Sunbeam went for more than 37K. I really liked that one.
That was sweet. Seems pricey, but those chassis aren’t exactly plentiful. At least it didn’t have some stupid fucking dump truck motor in it.
Tard Tuesday: TrumpityTrumpityTrumpTrumpTrump
TLDR: Woe be unto those who didn’t abandon Trump earlier, because we’re going to get even.
Meh. Wake me up when the shooting starts.
*Optimistically sets alarm for late 2024*
” we’re going to get even”
For what? For the slight of losing power? Does that mean they GOP will get even by holding show trials for everyone who’s ever elected by Democrats again?
They mean to rule you.
Or kill you. You aren’t even human to them. Dehumanizing an enemy is usually the precursor to very bad things.
The idea that there would be forgiveness for anyone who ever supported Trump is laughable. They would be momentarily useful and then discarded.
Doom and gloom.
And more evidence that I am living in a different world than the DU lemmings have concocted in their minds.
Shit. I cant even guess correctly because there are so many candidates. WaPo? CNN? ABC? NBC? The Atlantic? NYT?
Ahhhh. Democratic underground. Of course it is.
I like these unsubstantiated claims presented as fact.
“Proving stuff” is a tool of the white patriarchy. It’s racist, straight up.
History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future
Yes, by all means, let’s turn the statisticians loose on the interpretation of history,
Krugman gets a tiny hard-on just thinking about it.
The future needs saving? I am fairly certain the future is coming whether you want it to or not.
similar idea: save the earth !
oh, the earth will be fine
For a while. Then all the carbon will be trapped in rocks resulting in the end of photosynthesis, and then the sun will swell incinerating everything on the surface and boiling off all the water. But then things should be stable for quite a while after that.
Doom creator John Romero on what’s wrong with modern shooter games
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
The id Software founder talks about secret rooms, the value of guns and what the controversial genre has lost since the 1990s
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/nov/12/doom-creator-john-romero-shooter-games-id-software
Ok boomer.
What a maroon.
“Remember when I made that game twenty some-odd years ago? That was the best game. I love that game. Everbody loves that game. Games today, man. Games suck today. They’re all ‘look at all these guns’ and ‘ooohh, this looks like a real place’. Nobody needs more than eight guns in a game anyway.”
Have another drink, John.
You’re not shooting people dead in first-person.”
This is correct. Which kinda makes the rest of his bitching irrelevant.
“…guns are the things that are killing everybody in the United States.”
I stopped reading right there.
By “guns” he means “cancer and heart disease”.
STOP LIKING THINGS ON THE INTERNET THAT I DON”T LIKE yells old man who hasn’t made a good game in multiple decades.
So those of you who chose to go down with the ship – well, you’re fucked. You should have grabbed a seat on that last lifeboat – the one that represented your last chance at getting out while abandoning ship was still an option.
“We’ll lower the rowboats, and harpoon the survivors.”
The delusions of TDS sufferers really are amazing. Every day is going to be Trump’s last.
This impeachment/not impeachment dog and pony show is going to end. Trump will be re-elected. Get over it. We had to put up with 8 years of that fucking commie twink and you are going to have to put up with Trump.
I gotta say though, I’m gonna make some popcorn for election night and stay up watching the second prog-pocalypse.
I have no cable and I must watch the new Rick & Morty season. Anybody know how to do this? Thanks.
Why must you? Is someone holding a gun to your head?
What? No! That’s ridiculous. [blinks SOS in Morse code]
Whatever you do, don’t do anything illegal like download an illicit Kodi plugin or visit shady torrent sites who violate intellectual property rights like 1337x or torrentz2
Ehh, it’s not in my usual Usenet outlet yet. And even I don’t trust torrents – way, way too much malware on there.
And CPRM, it’s not been Put in a Locker yet.
hotspot your phone?
Watch it online at their website?
D’oh! I forget that that’s a thing.
You can buy the season on Google Play, then you can watch the new episodes the day after they come out.
Or apples version.
You may find it via my Mega account – Link expires on Saturday. https://mega.nz/#F!cO4UlC4T!qziFi9tZny4UT4yO1N597g
Thanks, I’ll check that out.
Has anyone seen Straff lately?
Cause….
I think he’s gonna be pissed off when he sees this.
Japan continues to be a strange foreign place…
https://soranews24.com/2019/07/27/obsessed-stalker-tries-to-mark-object-of-his-affection-by-mixing-body-fluids-into-her-lotion/
OK, last one.
Did SIV move to Japan?
https://soranews24.com/2019/03/18/tokyo-man-arrested-for-stealing-work-boots-from-a-poultry-factory-because-they-turn-him-on/
OMG. I’m so happy I work remotely. At one of our locations today for some meetings. I’m in an actual office with a steel door and I can hear a woman two offices down and across the hall so loud that I can’t carry on a conversation. I walked over, gave a nod, and pulled her door shut.
Be happy there were doors. I have loud neighbors in my cube farm.
Oh, and I’m happy I’m not in an “open plan” hellhole.
Be happy the noise was just talking. My neighbor in the cube farm likes to spend the morning coughing up phlem, sniffling and then in the afternoon she switches over to chewing gum with her mouths open.
mouths?
go on….
Run of the mill shoggoth, nothing too interesting.
Oh lord, I had one of those. This chick would spend five minutes blowing her nose, loudly, and I’m not exaggerating. Like hate-bird mating call style. I thought it couldn’t get worse when she left, and then she was replaced by a guy who talked loudly to himself, to people he was calling to do work on his house, and pretty much anyone else he felt like calling. The kicker was when he no shit started clipping his fingernails at his desk. I assume his fingernails, but I wouldn’t rule out toe nails.
Nose blowing would be fine. That shit happens.
Sniffling was a mortal sin where I grew up. You blew your nose and got the phlegm out! Sniffling only sucks it up into your upper sinus and then it drips back down again.
SNIFFLE
wait 5 minutes
SNIFFLE
wait 5 minutes
SNIFFLE
wait 5 minutes
SNIFFLE
wait 5 minutes
*You can sniffle some snot up if you immediately hawk it up and spit. More of an Ole than a Lena thing though. Snot rockets are also OK.
Oh, no, I mean hourly, every day. Loud enough that you could hear it outside. I thought she had some sort of mental issue and was on the way to destroying her sinuses.
HOOOOOONNNKKK
…inhale…
HOOOOOONNNKKK
Each blow was about a slow three-count, and we’re talking about several minutes at a go.
She also ate soup every day and slurped it. If I didn’t have headphones I’d have lost my mind.
Be happy you have cubicle walls. I sit in 6×2 blocks of desks with a 2′ high barrier running down the middle. I can hear my coworkers’ conversations clearly on the recording of the training I gave this morning. My 2 year old is less disruptive than my coworkers, and it’s not that close of a competition.
Increase the amount of brassicas and eggs in your diet.
I am not going to go through that suffering for something that won’t do anything. I’m currently listening to people four rows down because of the acoustics of this room.
I have only ever worked open plan
I am so sorry.
‘Mental instablity’: Psychiatrists who called Trump dangerous want to testify on impeachment
Remember folks, psychology is a legitimate science just like physics or biology.
I thought it was considered unethical to diagnose without actually evaluating a person in person. But, you know, TDS.
Also, this seems like a Stalinist tactic.
That could be funny. I’ll allow it.
Theme music for the testimony
https://youtu.be/jy5vjfOLTaA?t=18
Schiff would think their testimony is relevant.
Any doctor or shrink willing to testify on matters of such gravity without a personal evaluation of the individual in question should be stripped of any certifications they have and drummed out of the profession.
drummed out of the profession.
This assumes that professions police themselves. From what i’ve seen, the market polices professions, or at least forces professions to police themselves. This is why Bad Cops don’t get fired and that the “Good Ones” don’t do anything. There is no benefit to a police force to drum out a “bad cop” until they have to.
And the people who want state run medical care want the same for doctors.
#orangemanbad
All professional misconduct is o-bee-kay-bee at this point.
There is very little that a personal examination will add
Pretty sure you just admitted your own incompetence, there, champ.
Wonder what the state licensing board thinks about that.
So, if they believe they are evaluating a patient, wouldn’t doctor/patient confidentiality come into play?
That’s only for non-celebrities.
Is Trump Derangement Syndrome in the DSM yet?
Getting Psychiatry into politics. What could go wrong?
FUCK YOU, AMERIKKKA
By most everyone’s judgment, the Senate will not vote to remove President Donald Trump from office if the House impeaches him. But what if senators could vote on impeachment by secret ballot? If they didn’t have to face backlash from constituents or the media or the president himself, who knows how many Republican senators would vote to remove?
A secret impeachment ballot might sound crazy, but it’s actually quite possible. In fact, it would take only three senators to allow for that possibility.
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Some might say transparency in congressional deliberations and votes is inviolable, and it’s true that none of the previous Senate impeachments have been conducted via secret ballot. But the Senate’s role in an impeachment is analogous to a U.S. jury, where secret ballots are often used. When Electoral College gridlock has resulted in the House picking the president—the House elected Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and John Quincy Adams in 1824—that vote has been secret. And, of course, when citizens vote for president, they do so in private.
Trump and those around him seem confident that he won’t lose the 20 Republican senators needed to block a guilty verdict. But it’s not hard to imagine three senators supporting a secret ballot. Five sitting Republican senators have already announced their retirements; four of those are in their mid-70s or older and will never run for office again. They might well be willing to demand secrecy in order to give cover to their colleagues who would like to convict Trump but are afraid to do so because of politics in their home districts. There are also 10 Republican senators who aren’t up for reelection until 2024 and who might figure Trumpism will be irrelevant by then. Senators Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski have been the most vocal Republicans in expressing concerns about Trump’s behavior toward Ukraine. Other GOP senators have recently softened in their defense of him, as well—all before the House has held any public hearings.
We can’t put our elected representatives in the Senate in the discomfiting position of being held accountable for their actions. We must let them hide their perfidy and cowardice under cover of anonymity.
You want civil unrest? This is how you get civil unrest.
Grasping at straws anyway. They still wouldn’t vote him out.
“If they didn’t have to face backlash from constituents or the media or the president himself, who knows how many Republican senators would vote to remove?”
Really is tragic that the senators have oversight from the people who elected them. It’s destroying democracy.
:pro tip from the Dems:
If you assert that your end is to save democracy, then everything you do is to save democracy.
Yea, they’re really giving away their whole hand with this little line:
In the unlikely event that Trump does get removed from office, I think one good thing to come out of it will be an undeniable example of how American democracy is bullshit.
Leftists:
1) Want secret, unaccountable government.
2) Accuse you of being a fascist.
Mind you these are the same people who constantly demand direct democracy and get apoplectic at the suggestion that the 17th amendment was a bad idea.
Gaming the process to get their preferred outcome is just how democracy works. See: Europe.
the House elected Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and John Quincy Adams in 1824
The latter of which lead to accusations of a “Corrupt Bargain” and 8 years of President Andrew Jackson.
That having been said, Zombie President Jackson would at least kill off the Federal Reserve so it can’t be all bad.
Ah, more LaLa Land mastubatory fantasy bullshit from Politico.
Yeah, the appearance of accountability (usually with virtually no actual accountability) keeps the proles from grabbing their pitchforks or AR15s. Take away that, and the cognitive dissonance reaches unbearable levels.
Even the imperial Romans had enough sense to continue on with the pretense of representative government.
But the Senate’s role in an impeachment is analogous to a U.S. jury, where secret ballots are often used
You mean a Jury where you have to have unanimous approval to convict or acquit?
I still think they won’t even get to an impeachment. I think they’ll keep hemming and hawing to keep it in the news cycle as close to the election as possible and then save it until after the election. As others have pointed out, once the House votes to impeach then Trump can start dragging out all the Biden stuff, which would sabotage the likely Dem nominee. Either way, since the Senate will almost certainly not vote to remove him, even the best case scenario of a successful impeachment and a vote of “He’s been very naughty but we’re not going to remove him” will I think do to the Dems in the House what the Clinton impeachment did to the Reps.
Because they are the Stupid Party, they probably won’t hold a trial in the Senate. But they should.
– Democrats lose control of the process
– Hearing become public and live
– Hunter Biden, Eric CIA, Ukrainian officials all testify
– Sanders, Warren, and Harris have to show up at their day jobs instead of campaigning, or publicly blow the whole thing off
If they impeached, I’d lose a bet with my wife, but it would be worth it to see three major news networks studiously ignore any news coming out of Congress for the duration of the proceedings.
Never underestimate the GOP’s ability to Fuck up a Sure thing.
The end justifies the means. We will happily destroy the Senate as an institution if it allows us to usurp TRUMP.
TBF it was pretty much destroyed when it was made into a second house by changing to popular vote instead of being selected by state legislatures.
I don’t agree. The character of the Senate was definitely changed by the 17th Amendment and probably not for the better, but the Senate is still chosen at a state level. It can’t be gerrymandered, and it gives small states an equal footing with large ones (for good or ill).
But it is supposed to be the house of the states.
Each state still gets equal representation, which is (IMO) the main point of the senate. The fact that they aren’t chosen by state legislatures anymore is marginal, as most states had opened it to popular vote before the 17th anyway.
Compared to what the Supreme Court did to state legislatures, the Senate is still mostly intact as such.
Yeah, the fact that it is still 2 per state is big. See the State Senates which are just smaller Houses now. I’ll need to read that decision again, because i didn’t know that the SCOTUS had full freedom to just rewrite State Constitutions.
It is an interesting double standard. The states are required to maintain a republican form of government (original constitution) and to guarantee life, liberty, property and due process for all (14th amendment). Since it was obvious the founders considered the Constitution itself to establish a republican form of government, any state similarly constituted cannot be said to have run afoul of that requirement. Moreover, several states were admitted after the passage of the 14th amendment and most of them had bicameral legislatures, some with Senate-like houses. It can be said that, much as states have no right to secede, the federal government has no right to alter their constitutions. Yet, by the time the Supes issued their rulings, the Civil War was a distant memory and the states were all dependents rather than equal sovereigns in union. So, they had no will to fight it and thus the unconstitutional judgment stands.
It probably also helps that, if the decision were reversed or rendered ineffective somehow, most states would keep popular representation in both houses. California, for example, has had that arrangement since its original constitution, and Nebraska is unicameral. I do think it’s legitimate to require that one house of the state legislature be decided by popular representation (like the House of Representatives, but ideally with an upper limit on number of people per representative), but that is adjudicated at the time of a state’s admittance to the union. The Supes could strike down a state constitutional amendment that removed popular representation (or made it ineffective) but only because such a change would run afoul of the original rule. To strike down a longstanding provision under a longstanding amendment because of a new interpretation is to change the law without a vote. Such a power is granted only to the legislature.
kbolino you ignorant slut. Get your facts straight brah!
In honor of Grace’s birthday.
Beauty personified.
X2
Yum.
Best ever.
A group of medical experts who claim that President Trump’s mental health makes him dangerous and unfit for office is seeking to testify during House impeachment proceedings.
We can get that chick who flipped him off from her bicycle to testify, too.
She’s some kind of elected official in Virginia now. Because the new definition of bravery is pointless acts of juvenile rebellion done by grown adults.
Awesome! I always wanted to be brave!
In Northern Virginia that’s likely true.
I would think making claims of mental health of non patients is gross misconduct for medical experts…
Stacey Abrams Still Living In VR Simulation Of Alternate Reality Where She Won Georgia Election
“We strapped her into the HTV Vive headset just as election results started to come in,” said one aide, watching through a one-way mirror as Abrams wave to a simulated crowd of her thousands of adoring constituents. “It’s for her own good.”
Aides fear what would happen if they took her out of the simulation.
“Man, can you imagine how deranged she would be?” said Jen Potter, an intern during the 2018 race for the governorship. “She’d probably freak out and insist that she won and everything, refusing to accept the election results. That’d be really bad for everyone. It’s better this way.”
Things have gotten to the point that when I see a lede like that, before I put the cursor over the link, I think to myself “I hope this is a Bee article”.
Boooooring
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, age 37, is one of the youngest presidential candidates in modern American history and, if elected, would be the youngest president ever.
Buttigieg entered the race this spring focused on the idea of generational change, often telling voters that he fears what the United States will look like in the year 2054, the year that Buttigieg will be the same age as President Trump is today.
Lately, Buttigieg has cracked into the top tier of otherwise septuagenarian candidates. However, he is not exceptionally popular among young voters, with polls showing that Buttigieg performs slightly better among older voters — and his campaign is trying to fix that.
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Delacey Skinner, a Democratic strategist, said that just because a candidate is young doesn’t necessarily mean the candidate will perform well among younger voters. She noted the support that anti-establishment candidates like Sanders have among young voters, despite the fact that Sanders is the oldest Democrat seeking the presidency.
“When we think of revolutionary politics, those kinds of movements are also often very youth driven. I think what we’ve seen with Buttigieg is somebody who is more moderate in his policies but also more moderate and calm and thoughtful in his approach,” she said. “Even though he’s young, I don’t think that necessarily speaks to, ‘Oh, this is a guy who’s going to upend everything and change everything.’ In that sense, it doesn’t surprise me that his approach, his style, his politics are more appealing to older voters.”
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The campaign is aggressively moving to court younger voters. This year, Buttigieg’s campaign brought on a national youth engagement director, Marv McMoore Jr. He is a former president of the College Democrats of America and recently led a bus tour of college campuses, including one rally this week at Brown University in Rhode Island that drew more than 200 students, according to the campaign.
The campaign has also hired field organizers to focus on colleges and universities in the early voting states, including one organizer in South Carolina focused specifically on historically black colleges and universities.
Questions about Buttigieg’s ability to attract young voters come as there are some doubts about his ability to build a coalition diverse enough to win the Democratic primary. While he has grown his support in Iowa and other states where he has campaigned aggressively throughout the summer and fall, he has yet to amass significant support among voters of color, particularly black voters, which will be critical as the campaign moves south.
Why doesn’t Mayor Petey resonate with teh yoots? Middle aged white news readers swoon over him.
and his campaign is trying to fix that
He needs to be a little more forceful in his messaging and he should be able to penetrate his way out of the bottom tier.
Dear Sir: slightly more obscure euphemisms, please.
/ delicate magnolia blossom type
I’d say he needs to work on his oral performance because he always seems to be pushed down to his knees, gagging and dribbling his response to the hard and vigorous input projected by his opponents.
That is a lot of words to say “he isn’t far left enough”.
Gay but not flamboyant enough?
often telling voters that he fears what the United States will look like in the year 2054, the year that Buttigieg will be the same age as President Trump is today.
Why?
Pussy. That’s what it looks like in a country that doesn’t prevent vapers from ripping the fattest clouds.
a href=”https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/11/12/778326512/charitable-giving-is-down-it-might-be-time-to-reform-the-charitable-deduction”> It’s like stealing from the government
Over the last few years, a genre of anti-philanthropy books has emerged. These include Just Giving by Rob Reich, Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva, and Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas. Their basic message: big philanthropic organizations siphon away taxpayer dollars needed for public use, and this system empowers plutocrats and weakens democracy.
But there’s a strong case to be made that citizens should have some power to direct government spending towards their preferred causes. There are countless nonprofit organizations that do amazing work serving the public good. It’s possible to provide governmental support to nonprofits in a more democratic way, with all citizens getting the opportunity to get a tax subsidy for charitable giving.
Whycome them richie plutocratz get to say where their money goes?
Let the government invest that money in social justice infrastructure.
needed for public use – is it really though? or is it thrown in the money hole?
citizens should have some power to direct government spending – nonsense! we need experts!
Now do “their own money”.
This. It’s actually more democratic to have charity performed privately, as it ensures more voices and opinions are heard and more opinions respected.
Yes, of course, that money would definitely just appear in the federal coffers.
This is solely about control. Who gets to control that money and shithead Greg thinks only the Feds should get to do so.
And yes, Rosalsky is a hipster douche.
https://twitter.com/elliswonk/status/498542443172999169
That has always been their argument. The ‘ol “For a socialist what’s theirs is theirs and what is yours is theirs” joke is absolutely true. Look and see how much of their own money commie rats give to charity. Almost always zero.
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OMG!! Unrealistic beauty standards!!!!111
(because toys for boys always portray a completely realistic and attainable physique.
I’m pretty sure that’s what I look like when I’m working on a pants-size-changing poop, so I’d call that completely realistic.
Dude, that’s why I have such a hard time buying trousers that fit right. These quads, brah.
Thing I judge silently but extremely harshly: “progressive” men who can take parental leave (even unpaid) but don’t. Thing I judge silently but only moderately harshly: “progressive” men whose kids only have the man’s last name.
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1194079152195981312
This is why she’s a horrible person.
the personal is political
That perspective is one reason proggies are so detestable.
This is why she’s a horrible person.
It’s okay because i judge openly and harshly her attitude toward these people as making her a horrible person.
“We are all in it together so everything you do affects me so I get to tell you how to live and what to think.”
Go fuck yourself Jill.
I’m willing to entertain “really stupid” rather than “horrible”.
Eh, I’m not trying to outlaw anyone’s choices or take away anyone’s freedom. But surely you’ve heard that the personal is political?
The “personal is political” is the mantra for the ideology that nothing should be beyond the control of the State. So, yes, you are talking about taking away people’s freedom. The only question is whether you are too stupid to realize you just contradicted yourself, or if you are so horrible you hope to dupe people into not realizing you are, in fact trying to take their freedom away.
Nah, I think “evil” covers it.
She thinks the but-rule is a guide
What does a man need to take time off after the birth of a child for, to stand for a sculpture of his dick to celebrate the achievement? Like it or not ladies, you’re the ones that have to shit out an 8 pound blob of blood and guts, and your body needs time to recover.
Non-lactating men are an affront to equality.
A week or two while my wife regained her strength would have been nice. I see guys now with months of paid leave – I assume they are playing golf, hunting, or something.
2 weeks of paternity is probably a good minimum to re-calibrate your lives after a baby.
That said, my friend’s cousin has 4 fucking months off. I’d certainly take it if given to me, but JFC.
My BIL gets 4 months paid and plans on taking all of it. I pointed out the tailspin for his career, but he’s adamant it won’t matter.
My work gives 6 weeks paid but you can spread it out over one year. I don’t think I’ll take all of it, maybe 2 weeks at birth and then a week at the holidays.
I can take 90 days within the year after the birth however I want, but it comes out of my paid leave. Once I’m out of that it’s unpaid. My wife and I will both take a few weeks off right off the bat and then stagger a month each, although we’ll probably both do that as a work-from-home bit.
I’m taking something like a month or so off when our son is born. We’ve got one daughter already and my wife will likely have a c-section, so it’ll be something like three weeks while she recovers and while we get our collective shit back together, then a week or two working from home. Then I’ll go back for a month while she works from home, then we’ll probably swap and I’ll work from home for a month. Once the summer hits he’ll be old enough for daycare, although we’ll probably pay my SIL to keep an eye on him until the fall because she’s just had a baby, doesn’t work, and could use some mad money.
“progressive” men who can take parental leave (even unpaid) but don’t.
Why would anyone want to be paid after having a baby?
If that isn’t just the perfect trustafarian cluelessness on display, I don’t know what is.
This exchange in the comments was amusing:
The cluelessness, it burns.
What happens when two hyphenated parents have kids?
Do the kids have four hyphenated last names? Or are we going to resort to acronyms?
I look forward to last names in the sixth generation of this exponential series.
Look up quartering of arms.
Some of the examples get a tad absurd. Imagine instead of coats of arms, those are surnames.
That’s what you get.
I actually like the Latin system: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/afburns/merida/yuc/mexinam.htm
That’s cultural appropriation brother, off to the re-education camp with you!
I know a couple acquaintances who both had hyphenated names when they married. They each dropped half of their own name and took on half of the spouse’s.
1) I don’t think many people are virgins when they get married anymore so I doubt many women still have their hyphens.
2) For sure after having a kid they don’t have an intact hyphen
3) Biological men don’t have hyphens
So I doubt anyone has to worry about your little progressive thought experiment Scruffy
Fun fact in romania there are two years of paid maternety leave
That’s enough time to have multiple children in serial.
Many did. I knew a woman who had 3 kids once every two years
Nothing changes at work in 6 years anyway.
A rational business should be very reluctant to hire women of child-bearing age, if they can stay on the payroll for years on end without contributing a damn thing to the company.
Most won’t admit it, but many small biz owners wouldn’t hire a late-20s, newly married chick at gunpoint.
We’ve actually had to add language to a number of different kinds of physician agreements to account for the likelihood that a newly graduated female physician will have a baby within the first few years. At least we don’t pay for maternity leave (beyond whatever ordinary PTO they may have in the bank).
And then, when they do come back to work, its almost invariably part-time. Which is fine, but don’t go whining about how you don’t make as much, and don’t bitch when we cut back on benefits, because we are having to pay for benefits on more head count than we have FTEs.
Not on the payroll. The government pays something like 75% of salary. The company just has to save the job.
Also this may change soon, but it also applied to men. Basically two years could be split. In my company there was a situation when a woman took like 8 months and then her husband 6.
I wonder how they work that? Is it, woman has a job for long enough to qualify for maternity leave, has a kid, gets paid for up to two years, has another kid before the two runs out, qualifies for another two years, etc. until her uterus wears out?
Well, that depends, if it’s unpaid leave, they can just act as though the woman has resigned in terms of distributing work, etc.
If it’s paid leave, we need to find some woodchippers to send to Romania.
two years of paid maternety leave
Woodchippers for Romania it is.
The law chnged a lot, but for most of the time the pay was not that much. But 75% of last years average pretax wage with some lower taxes applied meant that you almost got the same pay as working. Again, the government payed not the company.
But saving the job for when the person came back was tough on small companies. Many discretely tried to avoid women likely to give birth, but you can’t avoid to much if you need to hire someone.
Holy shit. That’s absolutely insane. Are there laws establishing quotas forcing businesses to hire women? Because otherwise I can’t imagine why you would given that you might just have a paid employee not doing a damn thing for two years who you can’t fire.
I should have mentioned originally that the company does not pay
Ah, I see. Still, two years seems excessive.
Tiktok teens have better opinions on billionaires than the NYT, WaPo and most of the boomers on this site
https://twitter.com/Millerheighife/status/1193644092221054976
Read the comments. The stupid… it burns… Or maybe the problem is that stupid does not hurt directly.
I think I’ll pass, thanks.
I am so happy there is a whole new social media platform for me to ignore.
TikTok can be fun and there are a lot of clever little videos to watch. Too many memes though of people doing the same thing. But those are easy to skip with a swipe.
I usually have success in explaining things to people. I am told I have a talent for teaching. I have found that some people cant learn and most people have trouble learning some things.
Money is not for spending. Money is not a means of gratification, especially the instant kind. Money is a resource. Looking at those replies it is easy to see why none of those people will ever be billionaires.
some literally think Bill Gates has 105 billion in his current bank account
Eh, I’m not trying to outlaw anyone’s choices or take away anyone’s freedom. But surely you’ve heard that the personal is political? What happens in people’s homes is actually really important and worth scrutinizing.
Coexistence for you, intense scrutiny and implacable hatred for me.
“What happens in people’s homes is actually really important and worth scrutinizing.”
No, it’s not.
At all.
There’s Growing Evidence That the Universe Is Connected by Giant Structures
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/zmj7pw/theres-growing-evidence-that-the-universe-is-connected-by-giant-structures
SCOTUS just denied cert to Remington in the Sandy Hook “illegal marketing” lawsuit. now the Sandy Hook parents can move to discovery of Remington’s marketing practices.
Remington sold a rifle to FFL. FFL sold a rifle to shooter’s mother. shooter kills mother and uses mother’s gun to end innocent lives. therefore Remington is responsible because they market the rifle as a military weapon.
*HONK HONK*
Welcome to Clown World
Goddammit. I really don’t have the cash for new guns, but it looks like I may need to go to market sooner. What a blatant end-run around the federal statute that says you can’t sue gun makers for crimes committed with their guns.
And WTF is “illegal marketing”, anyway? There are laws on distribution and sale of guns, but are there laws on how guns are marketed? If so, how did Remington violate them, and does their violation create a private right of action?
What’s the logic behind this? That Remington marketed guns as ideal for shooting up schools? I’m not seeing how this would be different from suing Anheuser-Busch every time someone gets a DUI.
And WTF is this idea of “illegal marketing” in the market for AR-15’s? There are a couple dozen companies selling their version of that rifle and none of them function any different from the rest. If somebody is going to buy an AR-15 – whatever the outcome – how it was marketed wouldn’t make any difference on what happened. If some serial killer bought an AR-15 the end result would be exactly the same regardless of who made it because there isn’t even a qualitative difference between one maker and the next.
And in the case of Sandy Hill the end user wasn’t even the purchaser. How does marketing even play a part in this transaction?
Hadn’t thought of that. The Sandy Hill guns were stolen, from a locked cabinet, if memory serves.
This is pure process as punishment. It used to be that you had to show a minimal likelihood of success on the merits, and then could only do discovery that was relevant to what you had a chance of winning.
No more, I guess.
The shithead’s mother bought them completely legally, and he took them literally over her dead body.
There’s also the small matter of treating people like morons who just do whatever advertising tells them to.
“process as punishment’ is exactly right. It is no different from everything thy=ey have tried to do to Trump.
Let’s not get lost in the weeds trying to reason this out. We all know what is going on here. People who want the American people disarmed are using Stalinist tactics against gun makers. There is nothing legal, rational, or moral about it.
Look. The Parents need restitution. And the only way they can get it is going after the person with the biggest pockets.
Restitution? Remington is going to bring their kid back to life?
No, but the class action attorneys will being able to get a new house in Vermont.
They may end up owing legal fees to Remington like Lucky Gunner was awarded. That would be one way to stop these bullshit suits. If I recall correctly, Brady refused to fund that so the parents who brought the suit so they are 100% on the hook.
https://www.luckygunner.com/brady-v-lucky-gunner
not in this case. Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) has certain exceptions and the CT Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision drove a truck through one.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/remington-arms-co-v-soto/
Whether the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act’s predicate exception encompasses alleged violations of broad, generally applicable state statutes, such as the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, which forbids “unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce.”
“illegal marketing” is straight from the suit:
Respondents, who are plaintiffs below, allege that petitioners violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA) when they knowingly marketed and promoted the Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle for use in assaults against human beings. Respondents allege that the illegal marketing proximately caused their injuries, which arise from the terror, pain and suffering, and death of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
it’s nutty.
As narrowed by the Connecticut Supreme Court, the gravamen of their claim is that petitioners chose to market the assaultive qualities, military uses, and lethality of the XM15-E2S, and that this advertising focus inspired the killer’s actions and encouraged him to choose a weapon that would maximize the mayhem he could inflict.
The Sandy Hook shooter had a documented history of making threats to shoot up Sandy Hook. He was also diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and had a military fetish. Similar to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, when dealing with someone with documented violent mental health problems, the enabler (in both cases the shooters’ mothers) who provided them with access to firearms is the next-most responsible party after the shooter.
“they knowingly marketed and promoted the Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle for use in assaults against human beings.”
They did? If that is the case they won’t need discovery they can just show the marketing materials….pamphlets etc.
they knowingly marketed and promoted the Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle for use in assaults against human beings. Respondents allege that the illegal marketing
Begging the question of what law was violated.
discovery of Remington’s marketing practices.
While the premise is dumb, it still is only a procedural win, the case will still go on.
discovery is how they got the settlement with tobacco. all it takes is one dumbass marketing exec to admit they want to make ARs look super cool to children so they’ll be life-long customers.
actually, it wouldn’t even take that. they just have to find marketing emails referencing the lethality of an AR since the suit is all about how it’s illegal to market a product’s ability to break the law, e.g. killing someone.
As the complaint explains, petitioners chose to market the XM15-E2S as a highly lethal weapon designed for purposes that are illegal—namely, killing other human beings. For example, petitioners published promotional materials that promised “military-proven performance” for a “mission-adaptable” shooter in need of the “ultimate combat weapons system.” One Bushmaster product catalogue showed soldiers moving on patrol through the jungle, armed with Bushmaster rifles, and stated that “[w]hen you need to perform under pressure, Bush-master delivers.” Despite evidence that rifles like the XM15-E2S have become the weapon of choice for mass shooters, petitioners’ advertising continued to exploit the fantasy of an all-conquering lone gunman, proclaiming: “Forces of opposition, bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered.” Petitioners reinforced those messages by specifying in advertisements that high-capacity 30-round magazines are “standard” equipment on the XM15-E2S; by contrast, petitioners’ hunting and competition rifles are sold with 5- or 10-round magazines.
christ what a load of steaming horseshit. i expect Thomas’ note on the denial of cert to be.. *ahem* educational.
Um, because most states have laws about what capacity is permitted when hunting, and most competitive shooting organizations have similar rules.
even without those laws, who wants to lug a 30-round mag full of .30 calibre into a tree stand or shooting prone with that extra length of mag poking into the dirt. not to mention fair chase and one shot one kill does really mean something to a hunter.
the suit is all about how it’s illegal to market a product’s ability to break the law, e.g. killing someone.
Killing someone is not necessarily breaking the law. Self-defense, you know. They will need to show that Bushmaster specifically and knowingly tried to sell their guns to criminals, or for criminal use.
Well, in a rational world. In Clown World, who the hell knows.
Just our of curiosity, does FreedomGroup sponsor any 3gunners that use 40 round mags?
Gun companies are different. They aren’t rolling in dough like the tobacco companies. it could end up a pyhrric victory.
and the demand isn’t going anywhere so another company will just pick up market share.
I don’t believe that any of those parties are to blame except the shooter. But just for the sake of argument: if you’re going to blame someone else in that series of events, why would it be the manufacturer?? They manufacture the guns, are only allowed to sell them to licensed dealers, and those dealers must conduct background checks. The feds are monitoring this entire process every step of the way, and ask any gun store owner – they’ll put their boot up your ass if one piece of paperwork is wrong. Why on Earth would the manufacturer be to blame?
It’s exactly the same thing with blaming pharmaceutical companies for opioid addiction. A product with a legitimate use is produced and sold through tightly regulated channels, and an end user does something bad with it. Blame the company.
It’s fucking stupid.
It’s exactly the same thing with blaming pharmaceutical companies for opioid addiction.
Not really. For one thing, those tightly regulated channels turned out to be leaky as hell. For another, the opioid industry’s marketing practices included the funding of bad research and changing regulatory and certification requirements on pain management. As well as some other practices that are pretty indistinguishable from kickbacks to high-volume prescribers and dispensers.
Watch, now they will go after car makers and that won’t be the end of it.
Maybe, just, maybe, Adam Lanza was fucking nuts.
and the police knew it and his mother knew it.
Who had the bright idea of making a plugin for vim that automatically made it add in what it believes to be the comment prefix whenever a new line is added? And who made that the default on the new redhat set up to overwrite any preferences in .vimrc that say different?
I can understand why someone might want the program to remember where they were last editing (I don’t, because I lose my bearings when it randomly opens at line 6852 because a year or so ago that’s where it was when I closed the file last time), but this just seems asinine. If I want a comment, I’ll make a comment. If I’m trying to add a line (as per most inserts and carriage returns) I don’t want to have to hit backspace after hitting enter every single damn line.
It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have to fight the damn machine to override the default with my own preferences for my own sessions. Of course, I also get stuck with the one linux tech who uses nano when I try to find out why the plugin load order puts more crap after .vimrc that wipes out all existing configurations.
I dunno vim is just vim at my workplace
I’d have figured you for an Emacs contrarian.
Why would I use a bloated operating system for editing files?
But surely you’ve heard that the personal is political? What happens in people’s homes is actually really important and worth scrutinizing.
And I’m sure the Commanders of Gilead are 100% on board with that assessment. Really, these types never really think through all of the implications of their arguments.
They do. They just view the world as a battlefield where the enemy must be destroyed. No opposition to their ideas can be tolerated.
now the Sandy Hook parents can move to discovery of Remington’s marketing practices.
Remington made those rifles, and then made it known that they would be available for sale.
Heinous. Unforgivable.