Winning
Well the penultimate CFP rankings are out. And Ohio State still sits atop LSU. Bama’s precipitous fall will generate a lot of glee, although probably not in the Finebaum house. That little bald turd is probably on suicide watch. Also, looks like the committee are poised to install the Big XII or Pac12 champ as the 4-seed, should LSU beat Georgia and the Big Ten and ACC play out as expected. And in a shock, an Ohio State football coach won an award for the first time in 40 years. Seriously, it had been 40 years, 2 national championships, an undefeated season where they were kept out of the record books, and 15 conference championships for the school without a coach winning the award. Seems about as legit as one coach leaving Chase Young off the all-Big Ten first team…which also happened.
Losing
Ron Rivera was fired by the Panthers. TTUN’s basketball team got rolled by Louisville. The Hoosiers beat FSU. And Dayton keeps doing good things. Duke bounced back to beat Sparty. And across the pond, Man City and Crystal Palace both won with a heavy slate of midweek games continuing today with the Merseyside derby among others on tap.
A huge slate of NHL games were played last night. The winners were Boston, Montreal, THE MINNESOOOOOODA WIIIIIIIILD!!!!!!!, Vegas, Philly, Phoenix, Tampa, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Washington. The Red Wings didn’t lose because they didn’t play.
Dictating
Some birthdays of note for you to ponder: Sioux chief Crazy Horse, earmuff inventor Chester Greenwood, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, hockey legend Al Delvecchio, actor Max Baer, Jr, “The Dude” Jeff Bridges, rap mogul and fan of communist Cuba Jay-Z, and the lovely Tyra Banks.
OK, now on to…the links!
Just in case you wanted to stare at a bunch of boobs. See, this is how you’re supposed to treat boobs with cameras around.
And this is not how you’re supposed to treat boobs with cameras around. Also, this story is lacking some description. And video. Come on, FOIA advocates…do your job!
Scamming
Ah yes, our blind system of justice works! LOL, just kidding. This fucker would be rotting in a cell if he was a normal person.
The winning bidders are in and 10,000 scooters will be let loose in D.C. In completely unrelated news, 10,000 personal injury lawyers just ordered new billboards and park bench signage in the city.
Marketing
Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s brother releases foldable smartphone with ad blitz featuring women in lingerie. No, seriously. That’s it. That’s the story. God Bless America.
Harris taunts Trump after she drops out of the Presidential race. Weird flex, but ok.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I can’t wait to see how the grabbers latch on to this one. Because you know they will.
Here’s a great song to get you pumped up for the day. It just rocks from the first note to the last. You’re welcome.
Now go out there and kick today’s ass, friends!
Someone’s very anxious to tell us about Ohio State.
I couldn’t sleep. Hence me droning on in the links.
I can shelve them for 45 minutes if you want.
Makes no nevermind to me, just caught me by surprise.
Naw, we’ll be fine.
A man (person) has to get up pretty early to get ahead of Ol’ Sloopy
Hang on!
Fun fact: Sloopy doesn’t sleep, or at least he hasn’t since February 8, 1992. It was on that day I’m too Sexy By Right Said Fred reached #1 on the Billboard top 100.
He’s been singing it shirtless ever since.
I wanted that song to play when I scored goals, but was told emphatically “NO!”
God damned kulaks and wreckers always sucking the life out of people..
Step right up and get your pre-Pie comments in at the top of the page, folks!
I blame the goddamn Indians. I do no want to besmirch the fine people of Bangalore, but I am dealing with a real maroon.
There is nothing more human than being annoyed by an individual and hating their entire race/culture/religion/country/team
‘“Apple Boy Steve once looked into space,” a voice bellows in the video. “He saw Pablo Escobar with a phone beyond anybody’s imagination.”’
It’s times like this that I miss Agile Cyborg. He could do SO MUCH with that one line.
…or SugarFree.
Wait. Did we lose Agile and Sugarfree? I’m behind on my glib goss.
No loss, but just imagine what SugarFree could do with this.
no… no I won’t
It’s for the best, really.
Call me when McAffee releases a phone.
As an homage to that great man:
Agile Cyborg
August.12.2015 at 11:41 pm
Houdini of aliveness is like a banjo of rainbows jabbing a million heroine needles in your arms without the disconnectedness but with multitude journeys.
*sniff*
“Oh, dear, dear AC! We hardly knew ye!!”
So, umm, what’s the actual benefit. I doubt we’re talking a phone that can be arbitrarily origamied.
The point is to pick up chicks. Don’t you see them all over that thing? I want to get rid of my iPhone 11 Pro Max now.
Plus it fucking folds!!!!!
I dropped my phone yesterday. I’m now wondering if I should get one of these, if only because it appears to come with Pablo wallpaper preinstalled.
https://www.escobarinc.com/product/fold1/
Those girls were paid to pretend to care. If you’re hiring the girls, skip the phone.
What makes you think they’re paid? Maybe it’s the best phone ever.
And I didn’t see anything in the ad saying it’s a paid endorsement.
I’m sold. Headed to Verizon now.
That phone in the photo isn’t a slice of heaven, but it is the next thing to it.
Secret compartments?
On both the girls and the phone, btw.
Funny thing is, the marketing is what is making me wonder if the tech is not up to spec.
It’s probably similar to a homemade submarine, it’ll kinda work for what you need it to do, but it’s iffy.
Aside from that, what I really want to know is who is collecting the usage data? Is it just Google? Google and China? The Escobar Family too? Are they going to actively listen all the time, or just passively collect metadata most of the time?
I think you’re missing the point.
The girls make me wish I knew something important enough to get honey trapped.
I think you’re missing the point.
No, I get the point, and know better.
Prison wallets FTW!
“I accidentally breast fed the kid with the phone, and answered and folded the tits”
The benefit is you can snort your coke off the phone. No need for a full glass table.
Excellent music choice. ?
Back around ’94, I worked on an FXR for a cop. His plate read ” THX AXL.” When he picked it up, I asked him what it meant and he told me that he once came across Axl drunk driving a Lambo. He let him call someone to come pick him up and parked the lambo instead of arresting him. The next week, AXL gave him the bike as a reward.
So… he admitted to taking a bribe?
Sure. Who is going to arrest him for it? YOU?!?
And initiate asset forfeiture against the bike.
Guess he didn’t want to Get in the Ring.
I’m guessing there are a lot of grandmas buried in the back yards and SS checks going to joint accounts. Has to be, until a death certificate gets mailed to SS who is to know?
Where Dreams Go to Die
::makes mental note to open up joint accounts with both parents::
Johnson called it “the sword of Damocles that has been over my head for 23 years.”
While I appreciate the classical allusion, it doesn’t actually make sense. This is like saying your cruise ship felt like the Ship of Theseus, or the road you drove on was paved with Sisyphus’s rock. It’s kind of missing the point.
(quote from the article)
Yeah, ‘kind of’ doesn’t really cover it.
That’s not deterrence,” Jodrey said. “That’s more like a court-approved, interest-free loan, courtesy of the American taxpayers.”-
The prosecutor stole my thoughts.
My mom was on social security when she died. I notified the SSA right away. A few months later, I received a letter from the SSA stating that her estate owed them money. Why? It turns out that if you get a social security check on the first of the month and then die on the fourth you have to pay back the rest of the month’s payment as a social security is for the month ahead. I think we were charged interest and penalties too.
Same thing happened when my Dad passed, the funeral parlor contacted SSA. SSA stopped payment right away and withdrew the last payment from his bank account even though he passed on the 25th of the month. They were quite efficient in that regard, it only took a couple of days. Making arrangements for my Mom to receive my Father’s SS took months.
When in doubt throw them in jail?
Hmm….Sick burn!?
Nah I can do better than that, let me make some coffee.
It speaks to her impartiality.
Speaking of jail…
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-prison-guards-charged-20191203-gqukrr2e3rcuppj6i2uzpkurxu-story.html
“More than two dozen Maryland corrections officers and staff were indicted on charges they used excessive force, intimidation, evidence tampering and other criminal measures to ensure their special tactical unit maintained “dominance of its operational territory” within state-run jails, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said Tuesday.”
A gang? In a prison? Say it ain’t so.
Of course, there’ll be a new reckoning of the pecking order if they end up on the other side of the bars.
You misspelled punking order.
/Sits down at the table and waits for the coffee
I got nothin,
No, not waiting for you to get your coffee in, I think he’s also expecting a cup.
Remember when “Lock her up” at a presidential nominee’s trial was a constitutional crisis?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
Meh, I don’t like her but that’s some good snark back, gotta respect a counter puncher.
Meh. Not when they’re counterpunching at the champ while lying prone on the canvas after getting knocked out in a prelim bout.
Meh, dropping out of the democratic primaries isn’t that big of a failure. She’s still a senator, still standing.
How long will that last? You don’t think she will get primaried…hard?
Meh…
(Nothing to add, but it’s trending)
In California? Democrats don’t really get primaried in Ca, since both general election candidates are Democrats
Exactly – the primary equals the general. She is wounded, and some other climber will take advantage of that.
She has three years left on her term plenty of time to put this behind her, you may be right but that’s a lot of time in politics. Anything could happen.
The average life expectancy of a 55-year-old woman is about 30 years.
She at least had the dignity to call him “Mr. President” instead of “Mr. Trump” (the latter isn’t wrong, but if you’re running for the office and don’t respect it, yeesh). That having been said, I really did not think she’d tank so hard. This is why I don’t make concrete political predictions…
I had her picked as a top 3 finalist. My big shock is my girl Marianne is still in it, to win it.
Is it? The last thing they want is a trial. All they have done so far is project in a forum where they have control. In a trial the tables will be turned. I don’t think they will like that very much.
My money was on Freddie Kitchens being the first guy to get it in the neck. What he did with the Browns this year is nothing short of traditional Browns, which is rather bad.
/raises hand
/looks at the record
/lowers hand
/sits down
/ponders next season
Why don’t I ever get called upon to do a survey of looking at women’s breasts. I come with years of international experience and an amateur status.
You’re outside the search radius for the researchers. They won’t go more than a block past their offices.
You’re not at the level of commitment that Q puts into it, even if you have many more years of practice.
Fourscore is the Frank Gore to Q’s Terrell Davis. I’m not sure how the HoF looks at stat compiles in the modern sabermetrics age, but Fourscore plays the game the way it was meant to be played and I think that still matters.
Side-eyeing women at Target and Starbucks?
Walking behind his wife so he can openly gawk over her head without noticing, and relying on his age to insulate him from other people calling him out. And he’s recently stepped up his game with a hearing aid to help sell his selective deafness if someone does say something.
a hearing aid to help sell his selective deafness if someone does say something
*pokes hearing aid*
“Que? No hablo.”
and there’s a contingency past that one too.
You still need more practice. Keep trying and eventually, you’ll make the big league.
I would only stare at the girls eyes, just to mesh with the data. I care more about mischief than boobs.
^I like this guy^
You people are horrible. All I care about in a woman is her heart. Is it my fault that her heart just happens to be located behind her breasts and I have to look through them to see her heart?
T’is a miracle!
In the barber shop, they have that poster with dudes that have 30 different haircuts. Why doesn’t the surgeon just have a poster of a bunch of actresses and models so some woman can go “give me the Jennifer Love Hewitt”?
No, please. Give me Jennifer Love Hewitt.
She’s too busy sitting on her fat ass taking 911 calls.
In Sports that matters, Romania’s women’s handball team lost to Montenegro
Did the game go to a tug off?
The winning bidders are in and 10,000 scooters will be let loose in D.C. In completely unrelated news, 10,000 personal injury lawyers just ordered new billboards and park bench signage in the city. – those scooters come in handy when toy walk all the way to the subway and then remember you forgot your work laptop at home and have to go back for it, It can save up to 4.5 kilometers of walking,.
You walk a mile each way just to get to a subway station? Jesus, that’s almost as far as my dad had to walk in the snow every day to get to school as a kid.
Of course, he had to go uphill both ways.
2.2.kilometers. I don’t mind it much it is exercise and clears my head. It is only an issue when the temperature is under -10
I put on a mile walking behind my snowblower this past week end. Pistoffnick needs to shovel a path out to the garage to find his snowblower.
And the snowshovel is in the back of the full-of-boxes room.
In Minnesoda we would never put a snow shovel way back in some storage room. Most of us hang our shovels over the mantel of our fire places where we can get at them right away.
The retired neighbor punched through the berm at the top of the alley yesterday. I think he was desperate to get out of the house.
I shoveled another hour to make it wide enough for my truck.
The alley still isn’t plowed 4 days after Snowpocalypse, but at least we can get out (jumps like a Willys in four wheel drive)
Whatever happened to riding in a sedan chair carried by orphans? Turn in your monocle, sirrah!
I blame the damn socialists in government
What did the US government do to you?!?
Stopped Patton from attacking Zhukov’s army in 45?
I see this going the same way as the Soulja Boy mobile gaming device
Or any gaming venture Curt Schilling got involved in.
It was a good game.
The what now?
Did the game system have Superman?
The N64 one? No. Pablo heard about it and was like “I’ve had children killed and their fingers mailed to their parents, but this game is a bridge too far.”
BURN ointment stat!
“They did feel like the threat was quite active and they addressed it,”
Even when it is a regular Joe acting, the cops can’t shake using Copspeak.
Strangely, this is what they said when asked why cops are groping dead women’s breasts, too.
I liked this part –
“The armed patron, in his early to mid 30s, shot the suspect at least once”
Shot him at least once. No, really? Maybe he could have shot the suspect less than once?
Maybe he only had 1 clip
The little shoulder thing wouldn’t go up.
He replaced sovereign immunity with restraint. Funny how that works.
I’m not ragging on the dude for ending the incident with one efficient shot. I’m ragging on the pseudo-journo’s phrasing.
That reads as if the ‘armed patron’ is now 80 and his biographer is telling a story and adding in a clause to help place the incident in time.
“Greater than Minimal Risk”
Turner Prize split four ways as nominees decide against a single winner
When pandering to just one minority interest by way of a participation trophy is just not inclusive enough.
Oh, so that’s why I’ve never heard of it.
I would bet part of my anatomy that I would not recognize any of the awardee’s winning artwork for the past decade.
You aren’t familiar with Steaming Pile of Pretentious Shit? How about Random Splashes of Color on Wall?
Those aren’t works, those are categories.
That’s some crappy art in there. some paper mache dolls that looks my daughter painted three years ago when she was 7.
If some one wins some one must lose, and we don’t want that
Probably a couple of the competitors figured they didn’t have a chance of winning, so brought up the “collective” idea with the others. Then groupthink set in.
Ribbons for everyone. Participation awards count !
After the announcement, Cammock read a joint statement saying their work was “incompatible with the competition format, whose tendency is to divide and to individualise”.
Then don’t give out “top prizes” dummies!
Time to disband the ol’ prize committee then.
The quality of the art aside, in a poker tournament the final few players often decide to “chop” the remaining prize money equitably (using whatever method they can agree on), rather than risk not getting the first-place prize. It’s a way to reduce variance and I see nothing wrong with it, and have done it myself. And they had already gotten to the nominee stage (again, there’s no accounting for taste), which is similar to making it to the last few in a tournament.
The results showed the volunteers were more likely to look at the lower breast and the nipple, and for the longest period of time.
I like to get straight to the point of the matter.
breasts should not be saggy and nipples should not be to big. Does nipple include the areola?
Should? Don’t Romanians age? Oh yeah, never mind.
we are talking ideals here
When you are talking about breasts is it still a Platonic Ideal?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
Maybe, if you are motorboating.
“If this allegation is true, then the behavior exhibited by this officer is not only wrong, but extremely disturbing, and does not align with the values we, as police officers, hold dear, and these values include respect and reverence for the deceased,”
And what of the living?
Fuck the living.
This is why you’ll never make it on the LAPD
Sounds like he’d be interested in fucking the dead.
Does he draw the line at cremated?
Someone has to haul his ashes.
Well, in their experience the living are too easily induced to join the dead so I guess they might simply extend respect as a preparatory measure.
There are uses for the living
Sarsour spreads antisemitic tropes claiming Israel was founded on the principle of “Jewish supremacy” in disgusting display of ignorance and bigotry both.
https://twitter.com/emilykschrader/status/1201782212028436481
From the comments: Israel has an apartheid policy, only they call it “hafrada.” Israel & South Africa had a close working relationship back in the 60’s & 70’s, particularly on nuke weapons. These arent tropes these are truths. Btw Linda Sarsour said Israel was “built,” not “founded,” on supremacy.
So is it build or founded on racism? Discuss
They also had a working relationship in small arms as well. I believe that they both, being increasingly ostracized from other nations found a useful partnership where BS politics didn’t get in the way.
Do you really want to use South Africa as an example? I mean, the lesson being learned by white farmers is never let go of power. Israel may want to take that lesson to heart.
I was greatly distressed when I discovered that they had started minting silver Krugerrands, and instead of a replica, I ended up with the real thing, meaning I’d unintentionally supported the racist ANC government.
Are you a coin collector?
Or a bullion collector?
I buy art in silver form.
I know I’m paying above market rate, and that it’s not likely to turn a profit, so I occassionally pick up pieces which I like the art on.
No, I do not have any great hoard of bullion.
I’ve bought silver from these guys before:
https://www.providentmetals.com/silver/silver-rounds.html
I can recommend them.
Riddle me this – why are there so many “Momento Mori” silver rounds on the market? What’s the appeal?
Fare for Charon.
Oh the other hand, being a Bouillion collector has a lower barrier to entry.
I use bullion when cooking. I have both kinds in the pantry (beef and chicken). I don’t think that makes me a collector though.
Zimbabwe has been a shining success for others to emulate.
As has nearly every other ‘nation’ in Africa. Same story over and over.
Actually, the stories are quite different. It’s the endings which have a whole lot in common.
Mike Resnick’s Galactic Comedy is an excellent look at how those stories play out. He takes the history of Kenya, Rhodesia and Uganda from exploration through colonization and then into liberation and collapse and retells them as stories of three alien worlds.
Is it one state or two (or three)? Until that question is settled (moreso than it is now), calling it “apartheid” doesn’t make much sense. Israeli is the more powerful entity, and acts somewhat like a bully in terms of where they build the wall and what they do with the land near it and newly behind it. But the PLA doesn’t do much to control terrorism except when Israel forces them to and Hamas is outright engaged in terrorism, with UN cover to boot. Let at least a few years pass with no buses blown up from West Bank terrorists and no rockets fired out of the Gaza Strip and then, if the walls and fences persist, we can start talking about whether or not it might be like “apartheid”.
I used to have sympathy for the Palestinians, prior to the Al-Aqsa Intifada. After that, I couldn’t see how the two parties would ever be able to settle it and it might have been better if the Israelis had just pushed them into Jordan and Egypt when it was possible to do so.
And the Golan Heights bullshit has always pissed me off.
What little sympathy I had for them died the day Arafat turned down the deal that would have given them their own nation, because what “his people” wanted more than that was to drive all the Jews into the ocean (and those that lagged would be brutally killed that way). I understand the dude wanted to keep power and avoid a lynching, but his actions left me with no more doubt that the “resistance” was not about getting their own nation (as they told everyone) but about murdering Jews. Fuck them.
I guess after that commie front group “Women’s March” wouldn’t have her any more, she needed some way to get her name back in the news.
Kamala Harris✔
@KamalaHarris
Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’ll see you at your trial.
Whatever, loser. I be you still think you’re a top tier candidate. Sad!
I have a pretty wide array of progressive friends and relative that cover the left side of the political spectrum. Their opinions on Harris range from apathy to “fuck the police.”
She would be if the Democrats weren’t racist and sexist.
Prosecuting the innocent is pretty much her signature move.
Correction:
Don’t worry, Mr. President. I’ll see you at your show trial.
Genetic Freak Wins National Dog Show
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/12/02/42155095/genetic-freak-wins-national-dog-show
I have a friend who wanted a french bulldog but decided against because it is not a healthy breed…
SP and I stumbled onto this show while trying to find something entertaining on TV. It was hilarious, she kept exclaiming, “Fred Willard!” and she was right.
It is a travesty that the Great Pyrenees didn’t win.
Like most good satire, Best In Show is only a tiny fraction of reality away from being a documentary.
There’s a whole movement among some bulldog breeders to breed them back to their “original” form.
You mean with a snout and able to breathe?
Olde English Bulldogge?
Yes
I don’t know enough about it but I thought the bulldog was what we now call pitbull and some of them were bred to be lap dogs. *rubs scars* The more or less original form is still around in abundance.
I hope you are healing up well.
Same thing with Persian cats.
200 years ago the English Bulldog was an athletic healthy dog – about the same size and body as a typical Pit / Staffordshire Bull Terrier. The Olde English Bulldogge is an attempt to recreate the breed.
Bah. Too many dog breeds have been Frankensteined by the goddamn kennel clubs and their bizarre fixation with appearance over temperament and ability. Fucking bulldogs aren’t allowed on most airlines since the damn things die too easily.
And don’t even get me started on the exaggerated top-line of the GSD…
I grew up reading Terhune and was very sad when I learned that the breeders had turned collies from the smartest dogs into literal retards in the quest for properly narrow heads.
I never read his stuff. Although he seems to be a good candidate for the Toxic Masculinity Feature
I’ll check his work out. Thanks!
And I’m Proud To Be An American, Where At Least I Know I’m Free…
Good morning, Sloop!
I’m already crabby after reading Ozy’s latest installment of DoD fucknuttery. The sheer amount of boobs and craziness in the phone article, however, tempers it somewhat.
The Gilded Rodents at 18 seems about right.
It is a great song off a very uneven record (records, I guess). I just can’t believe that it’s over 28 years old!
Damn.
Oh, well, I’m off to kick today’s ass! I hope everyone gets what they deserve!
Fuck you too, man.
*looks around nervously*
*hides under desk*
Gender identity is hard but jumping to medical solutions is worse
We need to overcome poor practices and norms in transgender treatments, says Carey Callahan, who “detransitioned”
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/12/03/gender-identity-is-hard-but-jumping-to-medical-solutions-is-worse
BURN THE HERETIC!
Sometime in the future these ‘transitions’, especially of children, will be seen as the lobotomies of our time. Everyone involved should be jailed. Jesus, talk about abusing people who cant defend themselves. Short of outright killing this it is as bad as it gets.
SJWednesday: Vocabulary Lesson
aromantic people – never kiss em on the mouth
There are many aromatic people though, at least in Romania
*narrows gaze*
On the bright side, it shouldn’t take more than a generation or two for this to not be a thing anymore if what they believe were actually true.
– all the Shakers
Third time’s a charm.
On Monday, Hillary Clinton said she has been “deluged” with requests that she consider running for president a third time, entering the 2020 Democratic presidential race two months before the Iowa caucuses. As establishment Democrats have started to worry about frontrunner Joe Biden, candidates like Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick have jumped in the race. Clinton did not rule out another run, but she did suggest it was rather unlikely.
She explained the “forget me” mantra of retired soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Abby Wambach. “I’m going to get off the stage because I want another great footballer up here. I want somebody else who is going to beat my record,” she told the BBC’s Graham Norton.
“Are you saying forget me? Is that your mantra now?” Norton asked.
“Not yet,” she responded.
“Because the rumor mill is flying that you could step back into the ring,” he pressed.
“I hear that. I especially have been deluged in the last few weeks with thinking about doing that,” Clinton said. “But right now, I’m not at all planning that. I’d have to make up my mind very quickly because it’s moving very fast. But I do want to continue to influence the debate.”
“I’m not leaving the political arena completely,” she added.
Humma is really working overtime submitting all the fake requests.
Bill is also pushing for this as her being around moping and throwing drunk hissy fits are cramping his ability to really perv it up and engage on grandpa on teens sexcapades.
Plus, she can pardon him when the Epstein shit starts flowing his way.
So as local politicians are corrupt, one of the pointless measures to counter this is called a declaration of wealth where all politicians need to make their wealth public. Some off course lie, others put the ill gotten wealth in the name of relatives, some are widely criticized for wealth above what their past income would indicate. Recently a local politician had a declaration of wealth that was basically he had nothing, no house no car no savings. I am not sure that is better, the guy is 50. If you are 50 and own nothing you do not strike me as the responsible kind.
“I’m not leaving the political arena completely,”
The appropriate response
In the name of God, go!
I want somebody else who is going to beat my record,” she told the BBC’s Graham Norton.
She wants somebody to lose three elections?
WJ Bryan already did that.
Gus Hall and Eugene Debs lost 4 in a row each for the Commies.
Trump mopped the stage floor with her ass in the last election’s debates. It will be worse this time. She has run around, wild eyed, and proclaimed everyone and their dog a Russian agent. She has had every excuse conceivable for why she lost save blaming herself.
God, I hope she jumps in.
Whenever I see a photo or am reminded of Herself it gives me just one more reason to stay healthy and work to live longer. I really want to know how it feels to live in a world in which she no longer exists.
In the middle of my horribly bitter divorce, I may have proclaimed the exact same thing about my ex-wife. I have also said the same thing about Killary. I really do want to see what a post-Clinton world looks like. I’m not sure there have ever been two people who have done more harm to the United States than those two assholes. They would certainly win the “Married Couple” category.
This will get you suspended from Twitter.
https://www.minds.com/media/1048582671687462912
He’s not wrong. Circumcision is unnecessary and serves no real benefit.
Aesthetics?
I take function over form any day.
Fewer infections?
Kind of like lasering your hair off so you don’t have to wash it. The only STD protection isn’t sans condom, which you shouldn’t do anyways
I did a CNN drive-by a little while ago. They were talking about how Trump has destroyed Lisa Page’s life. She can barely stand to go out in public for fear someone will recognize her for the unprincipled whore she is. A MAGA hat gives her the fantods, and she must find a way to escape its baleful power.
Again her insistence on how everything was legal fails to recognize the ethics of what she did. Shame is a useful function in society.
That said, there are a bazillion retards out there that get off on death threats and crap like that. I do wish we could round them up and drop them in the ocean.
Meh, fuck her. She conspired against a presidential candidate while working for the FBI. I don’t know if what she did was illegal or not but it was damned sure immoral as hell. Didnt she and her boyfriend get caught showing open contempt for the American people?
She gambled, she lost. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Go home Lisa and put a plastic bag over your head so that you cant smell the deplorables.
If she felt no pangs of shame at committing adultery with this guy, then nothing Trump could possibly say could do it.
Obligatory
Maybe move outside the Beltway? Nobody in the rest of America is going to recognize her.
Jots down Fantods as a future Words with Friends possibility.
SJWednesday: Nothing A Little Red Terror Can’t Fix
Bonus Irony Fail
Marxists, in contrast, understand that the state is an instrument of the ruling class to defend its privileges.
And yet, the first (and so far the only achieved) phase of Marxism is to control the state. Whereupon, it just becomes an instrument of the new ruling class to defend its privileges. Lather, rinse, repeat, and every attempt to impose a Marxist order turns into totalitarianism, “state capitalism” (i.e., fascism), or collapse.
It’s gonna work next time, we promise.
Now lay down on the grading and get paved, this road to hell won’t build itself!
I used to think I could get along with any anarchist because they opposed states. Then I listened to some and realized that most anarcho-leftists don’t oppose the one thing (violence) that makes states unique. Just don’t call their agency of violent enforcement a state.
I sometimes wonder how many thousands of self-styled violent people who got up and supported Marxist revolutions, expecting to have their hands on the reins of power because they are so “violent”, only to find out too late that some truly violent (more experienced and probably sociopathic) cadre had showed up to take their place.
Men of Words -> Fanatics -> Men of Action
It’s that men of action phase where things tend to go to shit.
Stalin follows Lenin as the night follows the day.
Had Lenin had more time, I suspect he would have not been better than Uncle Joe.
Do they say how they’d enforce any of it?
Or what to do with people who don’t wish to participate?
Expropriate them.
The program of a socialist government would include tenants’ organizations controlling rents and distributing vacant apartments to people without homes. – in Romania, commies were apt at distributing occupied homes to themselves.
“…the right to a home, health care, a meaningful job, and an education would apply to all people, regardless of their immigration status. The available work would be distributed among all people available to work, thus ending unemployment while reducing working hours.”
They would have the right of course, yet have none of those things. Nor food. Nor medicine. Nor electricity. Nor running water, etc. etc.
It is clear they wrecked the housing market to usher in public housing for all. They have been clamoring for that for decades. What a bunch of rat fucking commie shitweasels they are. Then they can control who lives where and what they can do in their own homes. They want to turn the country into a prison.
It’s hard to pick just one sentence but OMG HAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAA
*Grabs Random Drunken Asshole*
HEY, You layabout We’ve got work for you to do!
RDA: Huh?
People need Brain Surgeries Doc, and you’re just the man to do it!
Baked Penguin has documented that RDA works on titties.
Enough with the hard sell, guy
This will get you suspended from Twitter.
Didn’t Angelina Jolie, or some such vapid ninny do exactly that?
She had a genetic predisposition for the HER2 gene and a family history. It wasn’t that vapid of her to get a double mastectomy. Her chances were very high she would have ended up with breast cancer.
The Libraries of Famous Men: Jack London
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/jack-london-library-books-he-read
I remember reading John Barleycorn and finding in entertaining. I think that is when I first heard of steam beer
Humma is really working overtime submitting all the fake requests.
She should subcontract that to the Ukranians. I hear they have lots of fake twatter personae.
Wealth Inequality Among Snails
https://www.improbable.com/2019/10/02/wealth-inequality-among-snails/
Bail schmail.
During a speech in Jackson, Mississippi, Bloomberg laid out his plan to “reduce or eliminate the use of cash bail for non-violent offenders” who are awaiting trial. Such a policy would mean that of the roughly 462,000 accused criminals held in local jails, about 316,000 would be released without ever having to post bail.
Bloomberg said bail is a “broken and discriminatory” practice that keeps minorities and poor Americans locked away.
“No person should ever sit behind bars because their skin is dark or their pockets are empty,” Bloomberg said.
It’s like bail bonds aren’t a thing.
I oppose cash bail for non-violent offenses as well. It’s a money-making venture for the State that serves no other purpose.
He’s not completely wrong though. Bails have often been used to punish people prior to their trial and the bond can often make them unable to hire decent representation for trial.
Our bail system is a clusterfuck. It definitely needs reforming. Although I’m not quite ready to abolish it altogether.
I would even posit that reformative incarceration should be abolished in its entirety. It has proven to be an abject failure since it was foisted upon the people by religious nutters a century or so ago.
Agreed. We need to have a punitive incarceration system.
And we need to strike about 90% of the laws off the books.
Amen, brother. I vaguely recall a Moldbug essay about a theoretical system of restitutional labor, in which the perpetrator is in thrall to the victims or their agents for a set amount of time.
Dead serious proposal. Bring back caning and the shame punishments (pillory and stocks).
Yes please. I’m immune to shame.
Well…”Florida”, of course.
Spending a few years under the threat of getting ass-raped and then having almost zero job prospects upon release isn’t punitive?
I think I may give my typing fingers cancer for saying this, but I agree with Bloomberg. (I shudder, saying that.)
Any punitive measure that occurs before the person has a trial is obscene.
The program of a socialist government would include tenants’ organizations controlling rents and distributing vacant apartments to people without homes. In the same way, workers at transport companies, hospitals, and schools would run their own workplaces, ending low wages and precarious employment. Massive investments in public housing and infrastructure would be financed by nationalizing the banks and taxing the rich.
More likely than not, this person would ridicule anyone who believes in an omniscient, all-powerful god.
About my thoughts.
Always the happy path for them too. Look at all the “good” things that will Happen and their is no drawback.
How do you finance a massive increase in housing by seizing money that largely exists as loans against housing?
Don’t be silly Jarflax, you know all that money is just sitting in the bank vaults like mini McDuck pools of cash.
First, you have to forgive the loans. Do you even Finance, broh?
Yeah but they will have already siezed all the private housing anyways so those loans would be voided anyways.
What happens when there are no more rich plebes to tax, because, you know, you’ve destroyed the economy?
The ovens. Duh.
Compare (capitalist) US healthcare and (socialist) UK healthcare under the NHS and come back to me.
You may want to start by explaining away
USA – 530,000 medical bankruptcies a year
UK – zero
https://twitter.com/seamusmccauley/status/1201910256600780802
Now do the number of people who died on waiting lists.
Or the number of people who were not already effectively bankrupt when they had their medical trouble.
Or how about the number of live births misclassified as stillborn?
Or the number of people outright denied treatment by the providers?
Then do it all over on a per-capita basis and see how much worse the NHS keeps looking.
Not getting treatment because you can’t afford it: awful
Not getting treatment because the government can’t afford it: find and dandy
Too many people are OK with putting up with ass rape at the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats as long as they know their neighbors (and other people in general) are also getting it good and hard…
Those numbers are BS. Just because you list medical expenses in your bankruptcy doesn’t mean that was the cause.
Let me start with US healthcare is way over regulated. However, part of the exploding cost is that the availability of treatments has also exploded. 50 years ago cancer treatment was “you have X number of years to live”. Also old people died of “natural causes” because people accepted old people die. Last night I spend 2 hours in an endoscopy for GI bleed on a 90 year old man with a laundry list of health problems. They used a new spray product to stop the bleed which we didn’t have a year ago. Cost to save a 90 year old man to Medicare? No idea, but I heard the spray cost 5K by itself.
UK – Forced Charlie Gard to die
USA – Had experimental treatment for Charlie Gard
The mask came off on that case.
Never forget that his parents were prevented from getting care overseas, funded by themselves.
The number in the UK is not zero. It is simply not counted, which means it could be anything greater than zero. But it’s not zero because the NHS doesn’t cover everything and people will travel (if they’re allowed to) to get options that the NHS won’t offer or to get things done on a shorter timeline than the NHS will provide.
Moreover, would you rather die or have to declare bankruptcy? Despite the name, the latter actually means debt restructuring not destitution.
Unless it’s student debt we’re talking about.
If your only debt is student loans and you’re bankrupt, well, you’ve made some serious errors in judgement there.
Yeah, that is a fucked up situation. It’s a pity nobody in the mainstream can quite put their finger on what entity is responsible though. Maybe it rhymes with pew ess gubermint?
It’s a total mystery.
“Peppermint”?
There is private treatment available, usually on a policy that requires you to try the NHS first, then if they can’t see you within a certain timeframe, you can get the private treatment. It’s actually not too dear iirc. If young people had their heads screwed on from an early age and prioritised putting some money into a decent plan instead of spending all their money getting wasted every weekend only to complain about being broke all week, then they might be in a position to see the benefits of taking a little responsibility for themselves, but as long as they have capitalism/rich people/tories/white people/whatever to blame, it’s just easier to live the bohemian delusion and then complain about how terrible and unfair it all is. Of course that’s the pretentious urban crowd. There are plenty of young folks outside of of that who do have some idea that wasting all your money on cocktails and trips to Copenhagen when that leaves you deep in the red after rent payments and quinoa, and then complaining about the government not giving you free stuff, is somewhat hypocritical.
It’s actually not too dear iirc
Apparently that’s British for “not too expensive”.
But yeah, once you believe something is (or is supposed to be) free, why would you save for it?
In the UK you don’t go broke paying for medical treatment, you start out broke paying for the NHS.
Assuming the US number is based on Warren’s bankruptcy study, it’s BS because it counted gambling addiction and drug addiction as medical causes. It also counted any medical debt as the reason for bankruptcy, which as others have pointed out, doesn’t make it the main cause. This doesn’t mean that nobody goes bankrupt for medical reasons, but it’s not the 530K.
Secondly, I don’t really know anything about UK bankruptcy laws, so we are likely comparing apples and oranges.
Bloomberg said bail is a “broken and discriminatory” practice that keeps minorities and poor Americans locked away.
In BloombergWorld, “flight risk” is something that happens when you don’t properly maintain your Gulfstream.
Has their ever been a more fake argument for being against stuff like free college than “but rich people will get it too”?
– rich people don’t go to public school.
– the tax increase to rich people is more than tuition costs.
– rich people are always most against these plans.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1200913986012602369
or
When people are living in poverty and want to change the status quo, neoliberals will point to graphs showing how much the stock market has gone up to prove the economy is actually good, as if it is some kind of consolidation that the shareholders are doing quite well.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1201217277443444736
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I don’t disagree with him on this. The stock market is poor indicator of economic health. Unfortunately, his solution and mine differ wildly.
I very rarely heard people claiming economy is up / poverty is down solely talking about the stock market.
True. They usually mention I-phones, which is even more bizarre. At least an increasing stock market benefits the middle class’ retirement plans, cheap I-phones benefit…someone, I guess.
:eyeroll: It’s an example of increased standard of living that the man on the street can understand.
I know. I’m half joking. But, in reality, the people who complain about their economic circumstances probably don’t own I-phones. It’s a pretty bad “man on the street” standard. A better standard would be “the cost of clothes” or “the cost of food”. But, there are reasons why they don’t use that metric so much anymore.
I’d give up mine, the the iPhone is the one owned by the state, and is used for work.
Your iPhone is technically OUR iPhone. Hand it over
Do you have your stamped, countersigned, and approved phone usage forms?
ut, in reality, the people who complain about their economic circumstances probably don’t own I-phones. It’s a pretty bad “man on the street” standard
Fair enough, but most of the people pining for socialism are upper middle class with I-phones
“Fair enough, but most of the people pining for socialism are upper middle class with I-phones”
Fair enough. I think we got our lines crossed. I was thinking of actual lower-income people who voted for Trump or Bernie. Not trust fund kids cosplaying revolutionary, like this dude who makes terrible comics.
Fair enough. I think we got our lines crossed. I was thinking of actual lower-income people who voted for Trump or Bernie. Not trust fund kids cosplaying revolutionary, like this dude who makes terrible comics
Fair enough. I think the lines were probably more entwined than crossed, but it could go both ways.
By the third fair enough you are either in agreement and misreading each other or it is time for the blades to come out.
Seems fair enough
Fair enough.
*shivs Jarflax in the spleen*
I think the lines were probably more entwined than crossed, but it could go both ways.
GET A ROOM.
These comparisons are all pretty useless unless you’re using a basket of the goods that people actually purchase on a routine basis. Cheap food (… not counting meat, I guess) and Old Navy threads from Bangladesh are good for consumers. Housing, tuition, energy, transportation, and taxes all increasing by an order of magnitude over inflation during the same time period pretty much obliterates it though. I’ll never understand why free marketeers have such a hard on for defending our incomprehensibly shitty monetary policy as if it was somehow an affront to Adam Smith himself to suggest that maybe it’s not a huge quality if improvement overall if you can watch free porn on your iPhone but it costs you 2/3 of your income to purchase housing, electricity and transportation to and from your shitty job.
https://cafehayek.com/2006/01/working_for_sea.html
Sears’ lowest-priced 10-inch table saw: 52.35 hours of work required in 1975; 7.34 hours of work required in 2006.
Sears’ lowest-priced gasoline-powered lawn mower: 13.14 hours of work required in 1975 (to buy a lawn-mower that cuts a 20-inch swathe); 8.56 hours of work required in 2006 (to buy a lawn-mower that cuts a 22-inch swathe. Sears no longer sells a power mower that cuts a swathe smaller than 22 inches.)
Sears Best freezer: 79 hours of work required in 1975 (to buy a freezer with 22.3 cubic feet of storage capacity); 39.77 hours of work required in 2006 (to buy a freezer with 24.9 cubic feet of storage capacity; this size freezer is the closest size available today to that of Sears Best in 1975.)
Sears Best side-by-side fridge-freezer: 139.62 hours of work required in 1975 (to buy a fridge with 22.1 cubic feet of storage capacity); 79.56 hours of work required in 2006 (to buy a comparable fridge with 22.0 cubic feet of storage capacity.)
Sears’ lowest-priced answering machine: 20.43 hours of work required in 1975; 1.1 hours of work required in 2006.
A ½-horsepower garbage disposer: 20.52 hours of work required in 1975; 4.59 hours of work required in 2006.
Sears lowest-priced garage-door opener: 20.1 hours of work required in 1975 (to buy a ¼-horsepower opener); 8.57 hours of work required in 2006 (to buy a ½-horsepower opener; Sears no longer sells garage-door openers with less than ½-horsepower.)
Sears highest-priced work boots: 11.49 hours of work required in 1975; 8.26 hours of work required in 2006.
One gallon of Sears Best interior latex paint: 2.4 hours of work required in 1975; 1.84 hours of work required in 2006. (Actually, Sears sells no paint on-line, so the price I got for a premium gallon of interior latex paint is from Restoration Hardware.)
Sears Best automobile tire (with specs 165/13, and a treadlife warranty of 40,000 miles: 8.37 hours of work required in 1975; 2.92 hours of work required in 2006 – although, the price here is of a Bridgestone tire that I found at another on-line merchant. Judging from its website, Sears no longer sells tires with specs 165/13 and a 40,000 mile warranty.
Sorry for the length, but this needs to be read in full to understand it.
Not controlling for inflation in a year when the annual rate was just over 10%, stuck within the middle of a decade where the annual rate was never under 8%, skews that a tad.
We’re also comparing durable goods purchases that are incurred infrequently to routine costs of living. The $300 free porn machine that can perform more FLOPS than all of the supercomputers in the country in 1969 is a cool development of monumental importance, and the 50 year incremental improvements to small engine technology are truly wonderful in and of themselves. The market continues to deliver quality improvements and economies of scale, as one would expect. But that doesn’t change the fact that in 1975 the median home price was 3.15 times the median household income while today the median home price is 5.05 times the median household income. College tuition was about 300% cheaper. Household debt was about half what it is now. The Dow-to-gold ratio was about 4, it’s now about 18. You can spin it any way you like but sub-market interest rates for 2 decades hasn’t done shit except allow us to finance a bunch of incrementally improved doodads with consumer debt while making it next to impossible to save or build real wealth without speculating in high risk equities all while we blow up huge bubbles in certain asset classes in a desperate attempt to sop up the excess dollars so they don’t show up in consumer inflation statistics. Quality of life comparisons are confounding because of paradigmatic changes, like the personal computer. But it’s indisputable that people 50 years ago were substantially less fucked financially than people are now, and the more you try to deny it or paper it over with platitudes about the cornucopia of cheap shit from China the more resentful people get about it. And that’s how you end up with Trump.
His first argument is weird, because no one is arguing “but, rich people benefit too”. They argue “literally only middle class and upper middle class people will benefit from free college” and they’re pretty much right.
Yeah they like to twist that into: “Well the rich get all these other services for “free” too, but it’s not free because they are paying taxes for it.”
But they ignore that Tradesman Joe who doesn’t go to college still pays those taxes and is subsidising any rich kiddie who’s parents can pay for their 5 year party lifestyle while going to free college.
They think that being the kid of a well off family who’s just starting in the economy makes you “working class”. For a small number of them, this is true (just because mommy and daddy went to college, doesn’t mean Little Johnny wanted to or should have). But if you have no ambition beyond being a barista or burger flipper despite having the ability to do something that pays more, you’re not working class you’re just a lazy member of the bourgeoisie.
A smart neoliberal would instead point to the fact that as access to college has expanded, results have diminished. Either free college will be highly restricted like most places, or it will be an even bigger shitshow than subsidized college because now we’ll have two worthless pieces of paper (high school diploma and bachelor’s degree) instead of one and a half.
Why just bachelors degree? Why should someone have to pay to get a Masters or Doctorate degree?
They’ll be paying their whole lives thanks to the brain damage from Academia Poisoning.
1. Make everybody get a credential they don’t really need because you don’t want to get sued
2. Cry foul over the unfairness of it all and make the credential easier to get
3. Wonder why the credential is now worthless
4. Move on to another credential, lather, rinse, repeat.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7755137/Kady-McDermott-parades-sensational-figure-skimpy-white-bikini-holidaying-Thailand.html
or thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/celebrity/article-7754689/Im-Celebritys-James-Haskell-displays-jungle-weight-loss-shows-ripped-physique.html
No to both?
Speaking of scooters, anyone have any experience with One Wheels?
I’m seriously thinking about buying one. A friend of a friend says they can be juiced up to run pretty well in the snow. If it could run OK, it would be perfect for me to commute with (and my electricity comes from a nuke).
Just wondering any of you miscreants have any experience with them.
Damn those are expensive.
One model is twice the price of the other.
All I see is hip surgery
LOL yup
I’ve seen two different styles here in The Rockaways. The one linked seems to be the safe-and-sane model and is often seen zipping along the boardwalk. The other one, the one that really intrigues me, has the rider’s feet on both sides of a single wheel, facing forwards. There is a fellow that I see every day, zooming down Cross Bay Blvd. (40 mph limit but folk usually travel 50 – 60) and he keeps up fairly well (in the bike lane). He is wearing fully armored riding leathers and a fully enclosed helmet. I feel like Mr. Toad when i see him – “Motorcar, motorcar, gotta have a motorcar!“
One wheel scooters is the embodiment of white privilege, probably
It sounds like the punchline of an old joke.
“…so poor we could only afford one wheel.”
“Back in my day, you were lucky to have one wheel. We’d go digging through the trash at the Radio Flyer plant, searching for that one discarded wheel so we could string it up to a piece of two by four.”
I’d want one but I’m afraid I’d kill myself.
I took Spawn 1’s longboard out for a cruise one lovely summer day not long ago.
I will not be buying a scooter of any kind.
I stepped on a skateboard once and broke a window.
*intentionally stepped, not, like, a banana peel
Aww…
I had a funny image of you stepping out it, the skateboard shooting out from underfoot to smash through a window while depositing your supine form on the pavement.
ok, re-clarifying.
That’s exactly what happened, I just didn’t step on it unaware as in the typical banana-peel-slip.
Except the pavement part, as we were in a kitchen at the time.
Oh no. Not the patio door?
it was the egress door, filled top to bottom with those hand-cranked window-slats. Only broke two or three of the slat-panes. No patio outside the door however.
Hope that helps.
Only if after breaking through the window, it hit an old fat lady in the ass in her kitchen, forcing her face-first into an open hot oven, and into a bubbling, steaming apple pie, causing 3rd-degree burns on her face.
Just looking at the intro page I can see that I am not their target audience
Umm, wut?
The stunningly consequential accusation spelled out in the Democrats’ impeachment report represents the most sweeping effort yet to capture the span of President Donald Trump’s alleged offense and to boil it into a crisp indictment.
In effect, the 300-page House Intelligence Committee summary of witness testimony, timelines and phone records accused Trump of perpetrating one of the most serious political crimes in the history of the United States.
The report is a roadmap toward formal articles of impeachment — an argument to a nation split in two on Trump’s political fate that there is no alternative but to remove him from office 11 months before the next general election over his pressure on Ukraine for political favors.
The stark charge that the House Judiciary Committee will take up in its first impeachment hearing Wednesday fits the gravity of Congress’ most somber duty — deciding whether to end a presidency.
It is that the 45th President presents an immediate, clear and future threat to American national security, the Constitution and the resilience of the republic’s democratic self-governance itself.
Good lord.
Lay off the paint thinner, you big flouncy drama queen.
It is that the 45th President presents an immediate, clear and future threat to American national security,
There’s the issue. The people who supported Al Queda are mad that there is a guy skeptical of their work.
Bingo. This is the revolt of the foreign policy establishment.
When the entire country should be calling for their heads over their massive fuckups.
The unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy Obama weaponized during his tenure feels compelled to fight the will of the “deplorables” who have had enough of their fuckups and elected an outsider that has basically told them to go pound sand. more importantly, they are furious that said election exposed the dept of illegal depravity they were willing to engage in to destroy said candidate. How dare he claim they tried to manufacture a scandal, failed at that, spied on him by creating the veneer of legitimacy, then spent 3 years trying to run a soft coup.
stunningly consequential accusation
“credibly accused”
one of the most serious political crimes in the history of the United States
Having the audacity to defeat Her Shrillness.
Congress’ most somber duty
Team Blue has been chomping at the bit for any pretext to remove Trump and undo the last election.
‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ Bullying Scenes Blasted by Viewers
“Ultimately, you have to blame Santa for the bullying culture at the North Pole. Donner is just middle management. Santa put pressure on his reindeer, so they felt like they had to have the perfect children. #Rudolph #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer pic.twitter.com/Z7FXMmH7Pd
— Mike Timko-Lantern ? (@Oh_TheHorror) December 3, 2019”
https://popculture.com/tv-shows/2019/12/03/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-bullying-scenes-blasted-viewers/
We have bred the softest generation in the history of humanity.
That has to be a joke.
Well, after they crash the civilization the next generation will toughen up.
That’s what Johm Cleland (author of that seminal work FANNY HILL) thought in 1730 too.
When trained adults can’t comprehend a simple moral lesson designed to be understood by primary school children.
The dad went out looking for him, then the mom and girlfriend left too.
So he was cared about.
Admit it. Whenever you type ‘Montreal’ you mutter under your breath ‘stupid muppet’.
To be fair, I only end up typing “Montreal” when responding to you.
I don’t think I’ve ever typed “Montreal”.
FUCK.
That fucking mupper is evil!
Mupper = Muppet + Fucker
Better than being a muppet fucker I am sure…
To be sure, the combination of lube and felt fibers is almost as tough as glitter to get off your dick.
I think of the seasoning. Or maybe the Expos.
It’s Montréal.
Figure it out.
You want music? Bend over. I’ll show you music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paiQRSpg4Aw
Is that the Obshchina People?
lol
Superior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnVYJDxu2Q
Whoa. It sure seems like the mongols had a wide variation when it comes to their musical taste. I don’t see those guys headlining with The Hu in some alt-rock Mongolian music fest.
Amen, brother. I vaguely recall a Moldbug essay about a theoretical system of restitutional labor, in which the perpetrator is in thrall to the victims or their agents for a set amount of time.
Seconded.
What is the value of a system which offers no restitution to the victim?
At the corporate level, it is especially galling, because the government extorts a fat fine, but the people who (presumably) suffered actual harm get nothing.
The State is the victim.
What don’t you understand about that?
And the beer market continues to get strange. Constellation sells Ballast Point to Chicago based Kings and Convicts. Constellation is taking a loss, as they spent $1 Billion on the Ballast Point acquisition, and Convicts and Kings confirmed they spent less than that to acquire the brewery.
/boldly kicks a rock
MY VICTORY AT SEA BETTER NOT SUFFER!!!!
We don’t seem to be able to get it in Michigan anymore. It was my favorite non local beer.
How long did Constellation have it?
Constellation brands bought it in 2015, when Ballast Point was looking to do an IPO to raise funds (IIRC, Ballast Point was looking to raise ~$150 million). I believe it’s the highest priced acquisition of a craft beer brand to date. And I don’t blame the owners a bit.
Offload a business for a cool billion, then either retire or use some of the money to start a new venture?
Yeah, I can’t blame them either.
I believe at least one of the brewers/founders from Ballast Point started another brewery about 6 months after the sale.
To pile on the strangeness Boulder Beer (who had announced that they would cease distribution, and focus only on a single tap room) has announced an agreement with another brewery to continue distribution.
Re Harris. I went into the twitter thread. I can’t believe people actually like her. It’s amazing.
Then again, fools voted for that piece of shit Justin.
I got sucked into one this week, where each was contemplating how much the Russians owned the GOP. I mean look at all the reps that went to russia on July 4th. No True Red Blooded American would be caught dead outside of the US on july 4th let alone in russia! Putin Must own them.
It’s devolved to the point that if Putin makes an observation about American politics that someone in the GOP agrees with, they’re a Russian plant or they’ve been bamboozled by Russian propaganda. It’s pure ad hominem.
(Actual statement by Putin not required, as by definition all things not viscerally and irrationally opposed to Trump must be Russian propaganda)
The Russiaphobic conspiracy theories that are now the bread and butter of the “respectable people” has permanently made me lose respect for A LOT of people, of which they will never gain back, because this is just stupid on so many levels.
Slightly more retarded John Bircherism is even more retarded when you consider that this is 2019 and not 1919.
Bircherism? Hell, it is on par with alien abduction.
I am traveling so I saw some normie news. Holy shit. Either I’m crazy or they are.
Know what? Same here.
My only lament is that it seems so few other people seem to recognize it yet. How long did Joe McCarthy last? Do we really have to wait another half a decade or more before some semblance of sanity returns?
I went to Moscow on July 4th, 1997. Or maybe it was the 5th. I guess I’m a Russian agent.
If I were a Russian agent, I would do everything in my power to raise the price of oil and gas, which are massive sources of income for Russia. Which party is more likely to do that by blocking fracking and pipelines?
And the beer market continues to get strange.
In local news, a certain hipster douchebag brewer whose wife’s family has been funding his vanity project brewery/restaurant is reportedly headed for divorce court. I expect his holdings will be on the market for pennies on the dollar, in the not too distant future.
I’m going to guess the beer isn’t good either?
Glibertarian Brews, Inc.
“More Features– Foldable AMOLED Screen, Protection, LTE Cat-18, Fingerprint Scanner, Dual Camera, Dual SIM, Big Size Screen, HD Sound, USB Type-C, Loudspeaker, BDS, Bluetooth 5.1, Dual-Band Wi-Fi, 4:3 Ratio, Fast Charger, Noise Cancellation, Document Editor, 5V/5A Charger Output Power, VoLTE Support.”
https://www.escobarinc.com/product/fold1/
BDS? So this phone also hates jews?
Well endowed people from Spain
“Protection”
After you buy the phone, once a month a pair of guys show up at your workplace to remark on how nice it is and what a shame it would be if anything were to happen to it.
Nice 30 year no interest loan that cop got from Fed gov. That judge had his head up his ass.
All that OSU stuff is totes malarky! Fake News!!!
The real Big 10 coach of the year
I’m sure Sloopy will come back with some weak Kamala-level insult about how his OSU guy could have won that, but didn’t anything to do with a trophy named after two Michigan legends.
Fleck was better when he was coaching football teams whose mascots were not rodents
2 Michigan legends? I suppose Woody was a legend to Michigan in some sense
Uffda. Yeah, I blew that one didn’t I?
Legendary for assaulting opposing team fans.
Woody Hayes was a deeply contemptible piece of shit and the root of my undying animosity towards OSU. Fuck them with chainsaws.
Hayes was a hero and a great man. 16-11-1
Now do Joe Paterno.
Only if you do Sandusky first?
And Mr. Schembechler was born in Barberton, Ohio, and was tutored by Hayes at Miami University, also in Ohio.
Maybe they’re both Ohio legends?
This will never get past the house.
I’m already eyeing up a 2nd AR “pistol” and you’re right.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7754465/Demi-Rose-PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Model-goes-topless-Thailand.html
There seems to be a lot of thiccness in Thailand lately? What is going on there? Has anyone warned Hank Johnson about the danger of Thailand flipping over?
She’s angling for that Generalship.
Even I think you need an intervention now. Also, why do all British websites suck so much?
I’m so glad that city government is able to step in and lead the way. When Ford closed the plant that made Rangers, a big chunk of land in St. Paul opened up. Of course, you couldn’t just sell that land to someone and let them build what they wanted. No, the city had to put together a master site plan and dictate all sorts of nonsense (including mandating that a bunch of housing has to be set aside for the poor).
All that is background for a story chock full of stupid.
The main gripe is that the developers have applied for and gotten about $100M of tax increment financing(TIF). Basically a scheme where the city foregoes some amount of property taxes for a period of time as long as those $$ are used to build up the development. The local lefties are calling this a subsidy. The old not taking is giving argument.
Does anyone ever ask “why”?
Why would you want people with low incomes in your new neighborhood? I get incredulous stares when I ask those kinds of questions.
It is only fair! And so what if the taxpayers in the city have to pony up to pay to subsidize those rents.
Those cute rendered photo scenes that developers pump out annoy me to no end. There is what looks like a “kayak boat launch” but where are people going to park their Subaru Outbacks? Not like they are going to portage their kayaks or paddle boards from whatever upscale apartment they are living in around the area or some parking lot 1/2 mile away.
How can someone bring themselves to produce such visual lies?
You don’t know many architects, I see.
Here is more accurate depiction.
Needs more empty ripple bottles.
I contracted there back in the day (propane backup for when natural gas was shutoff). I wonder if the tunnels and caves are still there?
Can confirm.
I gotta say I’ve had just about enough of temporo-mandibular disorder. Although, when I finally do get to open my jaw it’s so satisfying so that if I’m by myself I just keep my jaw wide open for a few minutes worried I won’t be able to open it again for another hour or so if close it. It’s only really a problem when it’s cold out. Anyone else have a locking jaw or even just a click? I suppose I could get it looked at by one of these “free” dentists we have here in the United Queendom.
I have a click in my jaw, and I can barely bite large sandwiches. There isn’t much a dentist can do. Physical therapy helps, but most insurance won’t pay for it.
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suffered a lengthy coughing spell Tuesday in an interview with Sirius/XM radio talk show host Howard Stern.
I had no idea that Stern was still on.
Stern is a sell out.
Why?
He doesn’t do anything fun or controversial anymore, for the same reason all of the shock comics quit.
Sirius drove a dump truck full of cash up to his lawn and started shoveling. Now he has nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
the same reason all of the shock comics quit
Because it got old?
Because they actually got fired (Anthony Cumia).
He went all ‘safe’ and ‘PC’. Fuck him.
Worse, now that he’s at the top of the mountain he doesn’t use his once ‘iconoclastic’ power and image to push back on all the bull shit against comedians.
So come to think of it. He’s also a coward.
You don’t build a career on the backs of the whack pack, porn starts, smut and outright sleaze and then go all ‘why don’t they change the name of the Redskins because it offends people’ and saying shit like, ‘don’t cum on a girl’s face because it’s disrespectful’.
That’s why.
BEST interviewer of all time. Without question.
he doesn’t use his once ‘iconoclastic’ power and image to push back on all the bull shit against comedians.
My understanding is that it’s not even that. He actively cheers on the mob.
He probably does that because he doesn’t want them digging into his past and the stuff that made him who he is.
The disconnect with what made him famous and how he acts today is sickening.
He’s playing this ‘I’m older and wiser and evolved’ shit now. If you’re gonna sell out that way, then retire already.
I must admit that comeback quip from Hillary was amusing: “I was dying.” How many times did we hear during the campaign that she was at death’s door? Three years later, she is still breathing better than RBG and Jimmy. Heck, she’d probably be in the lead if pollsters asked “who should be the Democratic candidate in 2020?”
Is her campaign slogan going to be “Establishment and Corruption 2020: This Time, With Feeling”?
Make Chardonnay Bottles Empty Again!
In 2012, the St. Paul Housing and Redevelopment Authority hired Compass Rose Consulting to complete a TIF eligibility study of the Ford site.
They found a sizable gap between the dynamic vision laid out by the city in the Ford site master plan and what the private market would be able to afford without charging astronomical rents.
*staggers away in general direction of fainting couch*
Kobach: Democrats Now ‘Say Out Loud’ Intent to Turn America Blue by Immigration
Not much of a secret.
From the Nothing to Cut dept.: Minnesoda establishes a Climate sub-cabinet.
The sub-cabinet will advise the governor on issues related to Climate Change.
The best line in the story though is the caption to the picture linked in the story:
Metal straws. Indeed.
They have to meet outside, with no protection from the elements, and use neither electronics nor office supplies. Better yet, they must also be volunteers, and never get to see anyone in office.
I wonder if Kat and Jay have decided to never get a drivers license, never again recharge their cellphones, and avoid any spring break vacations?
Kat has avoided a razor.
Gross.
So… metal straws + Minnesota winter = Entertaining youtube channel?
The Winter of Our Double Dog Dare
I triple dog dare you!
And Kat was taken into custody for truancy, right?
OT: JLPT1 – はどうでしたか? 自信がありますか?
I mean JLPT N5!
Well, that clears THAT up.
*goes back to being illiterate in Japanese*
That’s okay, no one is actually literate in Japanese, there are too many unique symbols for that. It’s just “good enough to get by”.
Drop the pictograms, keep an alphabet.
“at Western Sculpture Park”
Western Sculpture? So shitlordy.
I Have No Cock
Brain Steltenfunkel
CNN anchor’s day
My balls and dork
Dismembered
I am alone
Gazing at my navel, can see my feet below
On a freshly stained and plowed asshole
I have no cock
I am CNN anchor
I’ve no balls
A cavern deep and sweaty
That Lemon may penetrate
I have no need of cockrings, cockrings cause me pain
Blitzer’s laughter and that’s the loving I disdain
I have no cock
I am an anchor
Don’t talk of Trump
But I’ve read the Tweets before
They’re rent free in my memory
I won’t discuss the number of hamsters that have died
If they never pegged I never would have cried
I have no cock
I am an anchor
I have my cucks
And my Fredo boy to protect me
I am shielded in DC chamber
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb
I touch Zucker and Zucker touches me
I have no cock
I am a warmonger
And my cock has no veins
And an anchor never cries
Bravo!
An accompaniment.
That makes it even more creepy. Perfect. Thanks.
^This is what happens when you listen to 70’s radio on the way home after seven beers. Sorry, not sorry.
Corey Booker doesn’t understand how campaigns work.
Booker: ‘I’m a Little Angry,’ ‘It’s a Damn Shame’ Harris Is out
Angry ’bout what, Willis?
It boils down to “I hate white people”.
FYI: Hillary Clinton is on the Howard Stern Show this morning live. She is basically discussing the stuff you would expect in the 20 mins I heard on my way to work. The most interesting bit is that she started and could not stop coughing for 15 of the 20 minutes.
Why Stern would have such an evil person on his show is beyond belief.
I find it humorous that he has basically turned into Don Imus.
I quit listening to Stern a couple years ago- he just stopped being funny. And recently cut my Sirius subscription because the monthly fee wasnt worth the content I was listening to.
This guy is a loon, but I admire him anyhow and wish him the best in his endeavors.
Love the trivia subjects!
I hope he makes his goal.
At least he mostly seems to be working by means of persuasion. I’d love to see a lot more people putting their money where their mouth is this way.
Real American Hero right there.
Uffda. Recycling sure is great.
Moorhead is getting too much recylcing, so it is thinking about raising the monthly fee. There are several options that the council is looking at. Noticeably missing from the list, is to just stop recycling.
My city stopped taking glass in the recycling last year.
The recycle container, also know as: my second garbage.
I’ve lost patience with recycling. If I have any doubt about which can to use for my garbage, I just put it in the regular trash. The Chinese have stopped taking a lot of our recycled material anyway, so why bother?
RE: the plastic surgery breast-staring article
1. sounds like it’s purely a desire to create legal cover against “you fucked up my tits”, regardless of the legitimacy of such a claim.
2. testing how people evaluate the attractiveness without recording the result of the evaluation seems incomplete.
3. “our study included a relatively small group of raters with the same cultural background. … That would involve more studies involving a larger number of people spanning different cultures.” As if that would produce some universal objective attractiveness criteria rather than simply demonstrating that different cultures have varying concepts of what constitutes an attractive breast.
Just don’t do it, Ladies. Chances are you can’t afford the quality of surgeon and quantity of surgeries required to achieve an acceptable result.
As if that would produce some universal objective attractiveness
There is one way to view things. Also diversity is our strength.
Seems like Nadless opened the hearing by playing buzzword bingo.
10:09 AM: Nadler begins his opening statement and claims the facts are “undisputed.” He accuses Trump of withholding”vital military aid” from Ukraine and covering up his efforts and engaging in “extraordinary and unprecedented” steps to obstruct the investigation.
The stomache-stapled-Stalanist is on a roll.
What a sad little man.
I liked him better when he was a sad big fat man.
“I do not wish this moment on the country,” he continues. “But we have each taken an oath to protect the Constitution, and the facts before us.” are clear.”
Yeah, sure. You care about the Constitution and it’s limitations on the government.
The facts are undisputed.
Accusing Trump of withholding vital military aid from Ukraine.
Did Ukraine get the military aid? I know it is undisputed, I am just askin’
I dispute that the aide was vital.
Who else was supposed to fetch the Borscht?
THESE EUPHEMISMS!
From what I understand, there was no delay in the disbursement of aid.
Ukraine only got that aid because Bad Orange Man realized that the heroic Dems in Congress had discovered his perfidy and were closing in on him!
Even if that was true, how is that an impeachable offense? If you can start being charged for a crime even if you didn’t commit the crime (because you were worried about the punishment if you did), the #MeToo movement just got new legs.
“Your honor, this man is charged with rape of 24 women down at the local yoga studio.”
“How did he manage to rape 24 women?”
“Well he didn’t actually rape them, but we know he wanted to and the only reason he didn’t was because he knew the police would arrest him if he did”
“GUILTY!”
Stupid or dishonest?
Why not both?
So we should remove a president to protect Ukraine? Get the fuck out of here.
Gossip beat
Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump are without doubt the key women in President Donald Trump’s life.
Both are glamorous women. Both fashionable. Both smart and savvy about their public personas. Both equally powerful and influential when it comes to the President of the United States.
But despite maintaining a warm relationship over the last two decades, stepmother and stepdaughter have found the White House years more challenging, according to a source familiar with the dynamic who notes friction between the two.
Of late, the two women are described as “cordial, but not close,” by someone familiar with both. Months of overlapping objectives, trips, events and interactions with the President have created a shaky alliance, as reported in “Free, Melania: The Unauthorized Biography,” available Tuesday.
Good work, CNN. You should stick to what you’re really good at; rumormongering and unsourced assertions from the palace chambermaids.
according to a source familiar with the dynamic
Ahh Go fuck yourself.
Shorter CNN: “We’re makin’ shit up again”
I swear, Weekly World News is more believable.
Won’t somebody think of the poor downtrodden TAs?
Graduate students at Harvard University began an indefinite strike Tuesday after a deadline to fulfill contract demands such as pay equity and health insurance were not met by administrators.
Negotiations between the two sides are ongoing, but the union — which represents about 4,400 student workers — said an agreement is not close to being met. Representatives with Harvard Graduate Students Union-UAW accused the university of neglecting several issues that students have faced for years.
The strike began on the last day of classes for the fall semester, impacting thousands of students preparing for final exams.
“Our negotiations have not yielded a fair agreement,” Ege Yumusak, a Ph.D. candidate on the bargaining committee, told NPR.
“[Most] importantly, we haven’t heard responses from the administration on our demands for our basic rights and protections, such as protections against harassment and discrimination, that other unionized workers on this campus have, as well as thousands of student workers across the nation,” Yumusak said.
No justice, no grades!
You’re in Massataxes, those protections you seek are already enshrined in law. You should be demanding a refund on your worthless education instead.
I’m assuming the No Refunds clause on their receipt is also enshrined in law.
But at least then they’d be agitating for something they don’t already have.
Fair enough.
“Oh no, whatever will we do? Where else can we look to find thousands and thousands of top-flight PhD candidates to take your position. Oh, right, our waiting list.”
Reserve Army of Labor, man.
Harvard administrators described the strike as “unwarranted” in a statement Tuesday.
Union negotiators allege that the Ivy League university is failing to recognize the rising cost of living in the Greater Boston area. The latest proposal from university officials offered to raise the minimum rate to $15 an hour, with an 8% increase over three years for salaried student workers. However, the union said the university, with its multibillion-dollar endowment, can do better.
They gots plenty of loot. Share the wealth.
At least when the vikings looted places, they didn’t expect everyone to lie down and just give it up.
And they typically didn’t rob their employers.
A good troll would be if Trump came out in favor of free college and then proposed that to pay for it the federal government would confiscate college trust funds.
*endowment funds*
From the shit-someone-said-on-social-media files, an actor shamed another actor for posing in a picture with a single-use bottle…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/jason-momoa-chris-pratt-water-bottle/73-d2ff0c3f-385e-4902-80c8-b3f1df186584
Pratt’s kids look nothing like him.
And one of them is not a daughter unless going topless is a thing in that household.
I wonder if he’s heard of China or India.