Moving on to the knockout rounds…
A big sports news day yesterday, to say the least. Gerrit Cole is now a Yankee after signing the biggest contract ever for a pitcher. The Dallas Stars fired their coach for something non-results related (without saying what it was), and some teams punched their ticket to the UCL knockout stages including Liverpool and Napoli, the latter of which celebrated by firing their manager…who will probably be at Arsenal by Christmas. Some dude from an NAIA school scored 100 points in a basketball game. And Le’Veon Bell claims to have bowled a 251.
Moving Louisville down in the polls…
As for actual game results, the winners on the ice were Tampa, Montreal, Buffalo, Nashville, Anaheim, Winnipeg, the aforementioned Dallas Stars, Carolina, Calgary, Toronto, Vegas and LA. And in college basketball, #1 Louisville got thumped by Texas Tech, Maryland went down to Penn State, Northern Iowa topped ranked Colorado State, while Kansas and Baylor managed to not lose.
Roll. Roll. Roll in ze hay!
Birthday celebrants for today are Florentine Pope Leo X, American patriot George Mason, Canadian brewer John Labatt, amusement park creator Walter Knott, Russian writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, actress Rita Moreno, Snow Miser cosplayer John Kerry, underrated comedic actress Teri Garr, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, wrestler Rey Mysterio, and NWA’s DJ Yella.
That’s a pretty diverse and quality roster, especially compared to the last couple of days. Anyway, on to…the links!
A deal has been reached to replace NAFTA. The President says he got what he wanted. Pelosi said “we ate his lunch”. So since they’re both claiming to have gotten what they want, I assume it will be bad for everyone who it directly impacts. Since, you know, that’s what happens when politicians agree on something.
A handful of moderate vulnerable Democrats propose censure rather than impeachment. But Pelosi plans to move forward with the impeachment vote next week. And Trump wants a Senate trial in order to expose the House process. Meanwhile, the American people polled express little interest and continue to be polarized on the issue.
His campaign is thirsty.
There aren’t that many people out there that like Michael Bloomberg. In fact, he’s downright loathed. Which is a good thing. Meanwhile, Trump’s favorable/unfavorable numbers are better than any potential Dem opponent. Having said that, there may be some inherent bias in the polling, as some Dem voters may be saying their preferred candidate is favorable and their rivals for the nomination unfavorable but will later pull the lever for whoever wins the nomination…so long as it isn’t that asshole Bloomberg.
A chemical warfare attack was carried out in Florida. Looks like everybody is ok, thankfully, although the vehicle will need to be impounded and destroyed in the name of safety.
Enjoy your 15 minutes…they’re almost up.
Gratuitous ass-slapper speaks out. Jesus, why are people treating this like it’s the end of the world. The married church youth leader has been barred from future races. Because that’s what happens nowadays.
Teacher’s aide busted for having sex with a couple of students at a community pool. She also gave them booze and drugs, apparently. Hey, go big or go home.
Speaking of our educators, one came up with a modest proposal for fifth-graders to ponder over. Personally, I don’t have a problem with it. It was part of colonial life and puts the kids in the position of making a moral or financial decision when answering, which could have been an interesting learning exercise. But outragers gonna get outraged.
Jesus, that must have been one big tote-bag. Like those ones they give you at Ikea to carry around the store when you forget to grab a cart but find a few accent pillows and some batteries you just gotta have.
Continuing the theme for the week. I also just realized this is the kind of problematic song some dickhead like John Legend will try to remake someday for clout. I won’t be listening.
That’s it for me, friends. Go have a great day.
Gerrit Cole is now a Yankee after signing the biggest contract ever for a pitcher – is there any other sport that gives contracts of this length? Anyhoo Yankees to win in 2020, heard it first here
Average Salary per game/start among the top paid players in their league. Russell Wilson: $2M/game Gerrit Cole: $1.1M/start James Harden: $521,742/game Connor McDavid: $152,439/game
https://twitter.com/spotrac/status/1204633393524281344
I can assume Connor McDavid is a figure skater?
The markets bear what the markets support.
There will be a course correction in MLB like hockey had recently. The salaries aren’t sustainable.
Are serous injuries rare in baseball? I assume you get less beat up than in the other 3 sports long term health wise?
Pitchers get seriously injured all the time. Losing a season to elbow or shoulder surgery is common.
losing a season is not the same as concussions or having life long issues. But I assumed shoulder injuries are a thing for pitchers.
https://youtu.be/8KXYIMZTHgI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MmlgQIhyURo
Birds vs. MLB
Lou Gehrig’s disease is named for a MLB player, and is linked with concussions. He played in the pre-helmet era, however.
Baseball is not without injuries but I believe you are correct, they tend to be less life-altering than injuries in football or hockey.
And that is why we don’t use aluminum bats, folks.
Boras got PAID this week with just Strasburg and Cole alone
Boras always gets paid. Thats the first rule of being Scott Boras.
And Anthony Rendon probably signs this week for 200+
Yes. He has been known to skate circles around the other players.
Mc David is more dominant in sport than Cole, Harden or even Wilson.
in his sport.
That take off speed that guy has is sick.
Now get going on removing Visa requirements for Romanians.
I’m sure they also take Mastercard, Amex, Discover, etc.
But not the new Apple Card. Because nobody takes that.
It’s the Discover card of our times.
Block quotes and Italics against Romanian law?
Now? It’s been what two years, and you’re complaining about this now?
I’m a very patient person.
There aren’t that many people out there that like Michael Bloomberg. In fact, he’s downright loathed. – so sad for the climate and poor childruns who get gunned down on a daily basis
Meh, they’re all gonna die from over consumption of salt and soda anyway.
after the sugar makes them all Fat Americans, right Pie?
How healthy is the individual? How old? What skills do they have? Any history of acting out or running away?
How big are the tits of the females?
Kinda funny, considering they’re forced to be there and everyone is forced to pay for it.
Hey, they can go to private schools or be homeschooled. Until President Warren outlaws it.
Did you see this?
I like spicy Betsy.
Bringing facts to an emotional argument? How dare she!
I thought the redlining was a nice touch.
Get after it, DeVos!
That is awesome. Randi Weingarten is one of the more despicable “educators” out there.
A chemical warfare attack was carried out in Florida. Looks like everybody is ok, thankfully, although the vehicle will need to be impounded and destroyed in the name of safety. – imagine all the women going wild … bad situation
You would have to imagine the women going wild….’cause Axe, in reality, is more of a repellent of the ladies than anything else.
Czech shooting: Gunman kills six at hospital in Ostrava
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50725840
The gun used in the attack was described as a 9mm Czech-made handgun, which the suspect did not have a licence for. Gun attacks in the Czech Republic are rare, although gun ownership is relatively high for Europe because of the popularity of hunting.
In 2015, a man opened fire in a restaurant in the eastern town of Uhersky Brod, killing eight people before turning the gun on himself.
Last week, the Czech government lost a legal challenge to an EU law restricting private use of semi-automatic rifles. It was introduced by the European Union in 2017 after a spate of militant Islamist attacks in 2015.
The last line is the best line:
Time for Czech-it. Interesting to see a government opposed to disarming its citizens on behalf of another quasi-government.
Czech mate!
Czechkt and wreckt
You really couldn’t expect me to not link this
IIRC, the Czech have some experience with their government disarming its citizens on behalf of another government. I didn’t work out as well as they were told it would.
I thought it was Czechout.
“EU Betta Czech Itself Before I Wzech Itself” would have been my EU succession slogan.
“… and we’re taking Slovakia with us.”
#metoo. Czechout as in Czechout the tits on her.
I was going to say the proper name is Czech-it Out. A nice compromise between your suggestion and Tundra’s.
“Gun attacks in the Czech Republic are rare”
The population of the Czech Republic is 10.65 million, about the size of a medium-largish US state. The article mentions mass gun attack in 2015 and 2019. This is probably about in line with most US states of its size. If the US had the population of the Czech Republic, mass gun attacks would be just as rare.
CZ murder rate: 1.94
US murder rate: 5
CZ gun crime rate: 16.3
US gun crime rate: 88.8
But wait, isn’t crime rate vastly different in the US by ethnicity? Yes
US murder rates of white victims: 3.3
US murder rates of black victims: 19.6
So even white Americans are being murdered at a higher rate than the czech population at large. If I had time, i’d try to tease out “Southerness” which as shown to be a reliable indicator of rate of victimhood – basically, the closer you are to FL, the more likely you are to be murdered or otherwise a victim of violent crime.
I postulate that humidity causes murder in white people.
Irishness is a bigger factor than humidity.
You say that again and see what happens!
*brandishes shillelagh*
There’s a very strong correlation between average temperature, population density, and violent crime. In fact, assaults and homicides go up in the summer months in the US, mainly in urban areas, especially in lower-income areas of high population density. When it’s hot and humid and your A/C sucks or is non-existent, you go sit outside with everybody else. You’re already snippy because you’ve been sweating for two weeks straight on top of all your other problems, and some dude bumps into you? Of course you get into a fight.
Summertime in New Orleans says Yeah, you right!
Since your stats are interesting, but don’t really have anything to do with the sort of mass shootings this thread is about, I decided to do a little research of my own.
The US state with a population closest to the Czech Republic’s (10.65 million) is Georgia (10.51 million). According to an article in the AJC (https://www.ajc.com/news/there-have-been-mass-shootings-georgia-less-than-two-years/BAenX4UhksCCVbG2pOelxN/), there were eight mass shooting in Georgia from 2012-2017, plus I found news of one in 2019. (This is based on a five minute search, so not very thorough.)
So at least in this case, US mass shootings do seem to outnumber those in the Czech Republic. I retract my earlier comment.
Define “Mass Shooting” first.
Shootings using a mass driver and not a directed energy beam weapon.
“Define “Mass Shooting” first.”
UCS, I hereby bequeath my Czechia-Georgia mass shooting project on to you for further research and refinement.
Next compare Georgia and Georgia.
The Caucuses look way cooler than the Blue Ridge.
Look at the caucasian supremacist.
A question for you, Leap, do we know how the Czech Republic reports its murder rate?
As a relevent example, the UK only counts it as murder if a conviction is obtained, while the US counts it as murder if the coroner’s report indicates homocide rather than accident or natural causes. This makes direct comparison of US and UK murder rates difficult, as neither number reflects the same thing.
Do we have an apples to apples comparison with the Czech numbers?
So what you’re saying is, Czechs murders are much more likely to use a non-gun. The solution is obvious.
BAN NON-GUNS!
I have a lot of questions about those stats. One thing that occurs to me is that “gun crime” is ambiguous. Does that refer to crimes in which guns play a part, or crimes having to do specifically with guns (such as illegally carrying a concealed handgun) or both?
Of course, there are also lots of reasons US shootings might be higher. Patterns of population density and culture both spring to mind. And honestly American criminal subcultures are different than in other countries, including the prevalence of Latin American gangs in the US. There, I said it.
Of course, there are also lots of reasons US shootings might be higher.
The big one being that it is in the Americas. The Americas, for whatever reason, is the region of the world with the highest levels of violent crime. The US (homicide rate of 5.3) is actually one of the safest nations in the Americas (16.3!), with Canada (1.8) being the only one that is significantly safer.
I suspect with Canada the heat/humidity thing plays into it. And I believe Canada has fewer high-density population centers, too.
Great song, Sloopy.
And thanks for the lynx.
Regarding the moderate/vulnerable donks, our own Collin Peterson is ‘leaning against’ voting for impeachment. The district he reps will crucify him if he does.
Prohibition of pretty much anything is abhorrent, but I’d look the other way when Axe is the target. Shit is gross.
Have a great day everyone!
I gotta find that MN politics explained with 3 gifs post I had a few months back…
Collin represents my home town. The word on the ground there is that he has been pretty good, but he’s a) old and b) been in Congress too long. So he is on shaky ground up there. And yeah, Trump won that district big, so voting for that clown show is going to sink him big time.
If he can steer clear on that nonsense, he probably will win again. He’s very good on guns and he brings home a lot of farm subsidy $$ for his constituents. And he almost normally gets involved in any of the usual malarkey that goes on in DC.
Right? But the douchebag market can’t seem to get enough of it.
when you actually get tired of to much pussy or aim for political office maybe
https://twitter.com/cooperhefner/status/1204489298495492096
As the world turns.
Biz must be bad or an unexpected pregnancy. Claimed many a young man in the past.
Well, when you take away the thing that your empire was built on, people are going to get their “articles” elsewhere.
Basic training for the Air Force Reserve? Jeez, I hope he can adjust to sleeping in longer and getting less exercise than he got at the Playboy Mansion.
He almost joined the armed forces.
“I got caught up in the moment,” he told Inside Edition. “I was getting ready to bring my hands up and wave to the camera to the audience, there was a misjudge in character and decision-making.”
Good cover.
It ain’t enough The mob has tasted blood and it wants more.
Is he saying he misjudged her character? I can see that. No way would he have slapped her in the ass if he saw those eyebrows and hair from the front.
I mean, keep your hands to yourself. It’s easy. But this is a matter best settled by a boyfriend, husband, or male family member, or the LGBT equivalent I suppose (who knows?), not the national media or anybody else. He should apologize for being gross and ungentlemanly or get his bell rung a few times by a concerned third party and the matter should be settled.
I would tell a few stories about things that happened when I was 15, but they’ve “adjusted” the statute of limitations. I would be be horrified if those women got busted.
Is the “adjustment” related to having to convert into “sheep years”?
Q – How are the Scots similar to the Rolling Stones?
A – The Stones always say – “Hey you, get off of my cloud”. While the Scots always say – “Hey McCloud, get off of my ewe!”
best practices for teaching American slavery
I’ll help.
“Slavery has been practiced by all people from every culture all over the world through most of human history. It is unfortunate that it was prevalent in the colonies that became the US but it is what it is. Now here is the what, where, why and how of the practice of slavery.”
So this thread confuses me. What is the deal?
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1204553566909878273
Ah, i know how to clear this up:
1) Don’t go on twitter
2) don’t read twitter threads made up of quotes about twitter threads
3) don’t read non-twitter articles that are about twitter threads
Does that help?
yes. thanks
Yes, but it doesn’t mean the illiberal idiotic madness doesn’t exist. That’s some serious f’d up shit with those people.
Instead of getting rid of the various laws that criminalize, or create causes of action against unpopular opinions Trump is expanding them to include an opinion popular on the left.
PrinciplesPrincipals.I actually agree that the government deciding labels is quite soviet. “You are this collective. You are that Collective”.
But her link to how this is just like Hitler and the Nueremberg laws is a walk straight off insanity. You think he’s doing this so he can start getting rid of jews?
A “Jew ban” to go along with the “Muslim ban”? I’m sure that is exactly what they believe.
Small group of Democrats floats censure instead of impeachment
You don’t like the biscuit Nadler is floating?
Kirstie Rosa, 27, is currently a teacher aide at Phoenix Alternative School.
She likes bad boys.
In some alternate universe there are 20-something attractive Latinas plying 40-ish year old men with booze and drugs for sex. And I’m just saying I’d take a Coors Light and a Newport deferred.
Well played
Oh, well that makes your blatant Federal and State constitution violation ok then.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is hoping to take some of the wind out of the sails of the Second Amendment Sanctuary movement in the state by proclaiming that he backs a grandfather clause in a pending ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
More than fifty counties, towns, and cities have passed resolutions vowing not to enforce unconstitutional gun control laws that are assured of passage in the next legislative session, and Northam’s statement is the first response we’ve seen from the governor’s office in regards to the movement. From the Virginia Mercury:
“In this case, the governor’s assault weapons ban will include a grandfather clause for individuals who already own assault weapons, with the requirement they register their weapons before the end of a designated grace period,” Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky said in a statement Monday evening. “Additional details on this and all other bills will be announced prior to the start of the upcoming session.”
The only use for registration is eventual confiscation. Fuck off.
And I believe I saw other proposed legislation that seemed like it would make it illegal to train someone or practice shooting. Did I imagine that?
That’s been on the books since the 90’s era militia movement, and never used to stifle normie training.
Yet.
I love how they always like to say that registration won’t lead to confiscation – but nobody ever mentions that California included SKS’s in their “assault weapon” ban. The SKS – a semi-auto rifle with a fixed, 10 round magazine – isn’t an “assault weapon” by most definitions but they tacked it on because FYTW.
A few years later they decided that SKS’s were too scary and banned them – everybody who registered them were required to turn them in. Of course there was no compensation for those who turned them in either.
I heard somewhere that a Norinco SKS of the style you or your dad might have purchased in the late 90s will accept an AK-style magazine, of, say, 30-round capacity, since it doesn’t use the “duckbill” style detachable mag of the converted Soviet SKS’s. I wouldn’t know myself, of course, not since the boating accident at any rate.
Some years ago I picked up a barreled SKS upper with a few missing parts for under $100 at a gun show. A few years later I scored one of those fixed 20 rounds magazines – and not being detachable make an SKS not subject to most states’ assault weapon bans making them useful for road trips which might include gun ban states.
Too bad the SKS I built with these parts was not very buoyant. Sunk to the bottom right off.
no compensation
Racking up the constitutional violations in that shithole I see.
Speaking of SKS’s, I kinda want one. But idk if I should since I keep losing my guns on trips on dodgy boats.
Prior to the time I tried to transport all my firearms across the Chesapeake Bay in a canoe during a hurricane I had one I got from my dad. I’ve got a soft spot for Commie guns, and it’s a reliable carbine in 7.62. It’s not the most accurate gun you’ll ever come across but I liked it.
Get twenty conscripts generally firing in the same direction and you’ve got about the same suppression as a machine gun.
For sure. It and the AK both exemplify Soviet “mass assault” military doctrine. On the other hand, I read about people using them to hunt deer now and again, which I find surprising, but I suppose you could do it in a pinch.
Relevant
I’d recommend one if found at a reasonable price. Don’t pay a premium just to get one – same with a Mosin.
I think I paid $79 for my Mosin.
^^ Good deal.
I paid $125, but it was decosmolined and was in great shape with a hex receiver (1934 or ’36, I forget).
Mine was made in ’42 or ’43, and is the only gun I’ve ever owned likely to have been intentionally discharged at another human being. It did have signs of soviet refurbishment (a countersunk bore at the muzzle being the key indicator) and I didn’t have qualms about removing the flaking shellack to refinish the stock.
Serious journalism
Greta Thunberg, the soft-spoken Swedish teen who became a global conscience for climate change and environmental activism, has been named Time’s Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019.
The magazine announced 16-year old Thunberg as its choice Wednesday exclusively on “TODAY.”
“She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement,” Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal told “TODAY,” adding that Thunberg is the magazine’s youngest choice ever to be named Person of the Year.
——-
Her signature no-nonsense blunt style of speaking made her a force that could not be ignored by world leaders and she was asked to speak in front of several high-profile entities including the United Nations and the United States Congress.
Right.
“soft-spoken Swedish teen”
“Her signature no-nonsense blunt style of speaking“
Journalists are morons who can’t not contradict themselves.
And they are using the symptoms of her autism as proof of her truth telling.
Just because someone has a sincerely held belief does not mean that belief is correct.
#OswaldKilledEpstein.
#OswaldKilledEpstein.
Had Kennedy not been shot, their dynasty would’ve prevented the rise of the Clintons, ergo, Epstein wouldn’t have been murdered in prison.
How dare you.
I was about to mention the same thing. The more and more i read. The more i understand that Unless what is being said is something that can be independently verified, a journalist probably threw it in to fill space, and provide a desired slant.
“Without Evidince”
“Credible”
“Soft-Spoken”
became a global conscience
This makes no sense, either.
And check out one of their own polls on the question.
She still came in second?
This could have been my kid if he had fetal alcohol syndrome and I had let him drop out of high school at 16.
Disgraceful, but totally expected.
They mentioned this on the radio this morning (oldies station), and I laughed because the DJ’s description (couldn’t quite tell if he was being facetious or sincerely didn’t know who she was) was that she was “that teen who stood in the back of a climate summit looking snarky and became a meme”.
“I was getting ready to bring my hands up and wave to the camera to the audience, there was a misjudge in character and decision-making.”
“I touched her back; I did not know exactly where I touched her.”
Makes no sense to me.
Ah yes. A youth group leader and BSA leader who doesn’t have the moral foundation to know how to make an apology. Peak 2019.
That was an apology/excuse/denial all wrapped in one.
I’m sorry you feel that way.
I’m sorry your mother didn’t raise you right.
I don’t understand why that guy would say anything at all. Just dummy up and this will blow over in 5 minutes.
I’m sure his buddies are all fist bumping him on a job well done.
Yeah…
That’s an excellent example of “time and place” displacement. He is running along with some buddies, joking it up and having a good time… he sees a camera and the girl standing along the route and everyone being funny behind her and jumps in from his current state of mind.
Meanwhile, she’s trying to do a job and appear professional on camera.
Everyone sees this from her context and he gets creamed because it is wildly inappropriate…
Still inappropriate from where he was, but not nearly the cataclysmic transgression it is being cast as. It isn’t a #metoo moment, it is exactly the same as some guy at the club making a similar move…. a strong rebuke is the appropriate response. A smack upside the face if it was particularly egregious wouldn’t be over the line. But issuing forth lifetime bans? Do we really need to make sure he never works again?
People have lost their minds.
Amazon recommendation engine has got to be the most lead-paint-licking, grew-up-under-power-lines recommendation engine out there. My Amazon home page is full of things related to something I purchased for someone off their gift list (No, I don’t want 100 different types of TARDIS key chains), knock off turniquets (no, I don’t want bargain priced alternative first aid equipment) and something called the “Chris Pratt Store” (just, just what the fuck?)
I just love when you make a major purchase of something you only usually own one of and it is full of recommendations of more of that.
^This I bought a high end flat bottomed steel stock pot (which I am very happy with) after I moved to the new place with the hateful glass top stove. If you want to advertise other induction/glass top cookware to me it makes sense, but sending me a dozen ads for stock pots? Your algorithm needs work.
IIRC, there’s a way to adjust those. If you go to your recommendation area, you can flag items as gifts, which stops feeding them to the recommendation engine.
Recommendations are supposed to be advertizing to make you buy more stuff. If you have to manually intervene to make them worthwhile, they’re not doing their job. Amazon has a decade or more of purchase history on me and still can’t get anything interesting in there.
How could they possibly know it was a gift is I purchased it off of someone else’s wish list and had it sent to an address I have never used before?!?
Most of the gifts I’m buying are for my nephews, who I’ll see on Christmas Day. So I have them shipped to me. In general, Amazon’s recommendation system is still terrible. Yes Amazon, I bought a Scythe expansion, that does not mean you should recommend Scythe to me, nor should you recommend various flavors of Monopoly.
What about scythes in general?
He didn’t sow, so he doesn’t get to reap.
Go try to add an item with the Expert Setup option to your cart, pick No Thanks on the Expert Setup popup.
Broken for weeks now. Add to a list then move to cart from there, fucking bullshit.
I think there is a limit to how many tourniquets you can buy. If you go over that limit, they cut you off.
*narrows gaze*
That’s kind of unfair. Once you apply a tourniquet pun, you’re supposed to leave it in place until removed by a medical professional.
Sometimes you’ll just get cut off.
puns really get Swissy all twisted up.
The blood must flow!
Unless it’s alcohol related. Then, you tied one off because you tied one on.
Tell me about it, I checked on the kindle price of a book about some guy named Dug sailing around the world on my aunt’s kindle out of curiosity, now it keeps asking her she still wants to buy it. At least I didn’t check the price for Cods and Cuntes.
I hear it comes highly recommended.
My favorite is getting re-targeted web ads for things I have already bought or use. (Like Getty Images, which I have to use for work.)
One of her most notable appearances occurred at the UN Climate Change Summit in September when she excoriated global leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by telling them they had “stolen her dreams and childhood” with their “empty words.”
Burn.
“Child, turn around and tell that to your parents and handlers. They’re the ones who filled you head with lies”
There’s a very long write-up out there on her shady handlers. I couldn’t be arsed to read it but I bet it’s the same situation as AOC where the handlers went looking for a suggestible figurehead to be the face of their moonbat movement and one fell into their laps.
“Ma’am, would you please come get your kid!?”
Sweden, come get your people.
Global warming causing more, bigger hurricanes Oh, wait, that’s not the story at all. A review of old weather records with modern techniques reveals that hurricanes in the periods studied (1956-60 and 1961-65) were more frequent and powerful than previously realized.
This is my….shocked face.
Notice also there’s no discussion of whether this might mean the effects of Global Climate Change are less severe than previously thought, though the Weather Channel sure doesn’t seem to have a problem shoehorning in global warming in other articles.
I hope your muppet face can take this much shock.
If there is no crisis then how are we to convince the masses to embrace socialist totalitarianism?
“Convince”? You don’t get genocidal ideologies at all, do you?
But after Katrina I was told by people that the science was settled and this is the new normal. It took a decade for Harvey to show up.
Sturgeon’s Observation…
Scamberger can’t catch a break.
Later during Sunday’s event, Spanberger said “no one has dispelled or attempted to dispel or provide evidence that would exonerate the President,” prompting a number of audience members to harshly criticize her comments.
“Did you really say that? You have to prove you’re innocent?” one person sarcastically asked.
“He’s been proven guilty,” another shot back, referring to Trump.
Following more back and forth between audience members and Spanberger, the congresswoman noted that impeachment is “a constitutional remedy that is outlined in the Constitution.”
“But if it’s such a polarizing issue, let’s put it to the voters next fall,” another said, cutting off Spanberger. A loud exchange then occurs between attendees, with people on both sides of the issue talking back and forth as the congresswoman attempts to retake control of the floor. …
Some in the crowd were already worked up by then, especially when Spanberger asked Berry how he used his assault rifle and if he hunted with it.
“What does that have to do with anything?” someone shouted.
“It’s none of your business what I do with it, it’s my right,” added another.
she’s fucked in her next election against Freitas. Northam and the Clown World (HONK HONK!) Dems in VA have really stuck their dicks into a hornets nest this time with their gun grabbing.
It’s incredible. They haven’t even taken office yet. All they have to do is keep their mouths shut and they can pass all kinds of proggy stuff when the session starts, but they can’t even shut up about gun grabbing for long enough to keep from squandering their current advantage.
IIRC, there was hot-mic incident a few years back where some Labour pol endorsed increased immigration into the UK so as to “rub the right’s nose in diversity.”
some progs are in safe districts. Spanberger not so much.
That’s how we used to think in CA. How could anyone vote for such a lunatic? They do.
Surgeons withdraw support for heart disease advice
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50715156
Is Buttigieg paying the women in his Campaign more than he’s paying the men on purpose legal?
If they are doing the same work and have similar qualifications, that’s a big fat nope.
Fortunately for him, none of the men likely to work for him will raise a peep about this.
Grandpa Gulag can’t catch a break.
On Tuesday, after the Vermont senator, 77, received a question from a Frontier Communications employee about if his plan would change her healthcare coverage, members of the audience began cheering and clapping in support. In the middle of his response, roughly a dozen members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 began chanting “union healthcare, union healthcare” in protest.
“How are you gonna pay for it?” yelled one man.
The interruption lasted about 20 seconds before other members of the audience began shushing the protesters. Shortly after, Sanders ended his remarks, and the Culinary Union president, Ted Pappageorge, scolded those who spoke out.
“We’re gonna let candidates speak without any kind of heckling. If you want to heckle, go outside and heckle. We want to learn. The town halls are to learn. Frankly not to learn from the hecklers, but the candidates,” he said. “Second, I want to be very clear to everybody, this union stands very strongly that every American deserves to have good, quality healthcare. It’s a right, it should never be a privilege in this country.”
The episode reflects uneasiness that some in the Democratic coalition have with the notion of “Medicare for all,” which would effectively end private health insurance in favor of a government program. Another top-tier 2020 Democrat, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has seen her polling support drop precipitously since she began pushing “Medicare for all” over the summer.
The town halls are to learn. Frankly not to learn from the hecklers, but the candidates
What’s the point of having it in a townhall and inviting attendees then?
Shocker, he’s describing a lecture, not a discussion or a debate. Which fits right into his and his supporters’ view of how government is supposed to work.
So the Reason webathons seem to keep being smashing successes so kicking the glibs out was a profitable move. Discuss.
No.
I don’t care.
They still pretend they are anything other than a Koch mouthpiece?
Sounds like everybody’s happier. Since I have the Czech Republic on my mind, maybe we could term it a Velvet Divorce.
I too am pondering some Prague street porn
False. Having a group of die hard daily readers no longer visiting your site or only popping in occasionally also means fewer links to your articles and less word of mouth about your work.
The webathon has no bearing on their financial budget for the year whatsoever.
Though, it was sweet of them to use the story of two HnR members meeting in real life, falling in live, getting married and having children to bolster the cash coming their way.
I wonder what happened to those two…
Their story became too local.
Jiggling my faulty remembery … LH & EF?
Sloopy and Banjos.
Oh! Duh!!! *headdesk*
They did that?? I can’t even.
They have had to have a large scale donor pick up the slack the past two years….two of the Glibs Founders were donors of some note, and the rest of us gave at least something. No longer.
I ‘member that. Huge gap until like the last hours.
I mean.. I never gave to them, but that’s because i’m a true Libertarian unlike the rest of you.
Florida UPS Truck Shootout After Action Report
The cops in Idiocracy were more disciplined.
Well 13 of the 18 cops who’s firearms went off were from a different county. If you were in their shoes, why wouldn’t you unload? Not like you are going to wing a voter for your sheriff.
Shooting at a suspect from behind an SUV with a family inside – the bravery of our boys in blue.
Drawing fire toward an SUV, etc.
No comment about who’s bullets killed the kidnappers. Must be too hard to determine if they came from a handgun, like the hijackers were using, or a rifle, like the police were using.
May go unsolved.
Vox and MattYG never disappoint.
I almost think that Ted hijacked his account to post that monstrosity of a tweet.
So he admits he is writing for people with less than average reasoning skills?
“We are unable to communicate with less indoctrinated people and can only speak to those schooled into ignorance like ourselves”
What do I have to do with that tweet?
these trolley problems are getting abstract
https://twitter.com/MrAmromero/status/1204710467467382784
Bigger infinities?
Yup.
Some infinities are bigger than others.
Some girls are bigger than others, too.
what, like the Q70 instead of the Q50?
Here’s a thought:
If Trump is removed by the Senate (and Graham has been stripping away his defenses – no Bidens, no witnesses from the House), it could be too late for him (or any Republican) to qualify for ballots. Hillary wins by default.
Are the Senate Republicans weak and stupid enough to remove? Can’t rule it out; weak, stupid, and Senate Repub are a time tested combination. If removal becomes the best way to hide their own dirty money? Would enough flip? Unlikely, but not impossible.
Graham’s minimizing the boomerang effect by keeping it short and quick so the public stays pissed at the Dems. if the Senate trial dragged on into the Spring, then voters are going to get GOP fatigue.
Trump’s numbers would soar if he told the Senate to just hold a straight up/down vote. “My fellow Americans, I told the Senate to hold a quick vote and get this silliness over. We’ve already wasted too much time on trivialities. Maybe if we just finish this Pelosi and the House can focus on getting things done”
The high water mark was reached weeks ago of public approval for Trump’s removal. Even in those numbers, there was a non insignificant number of people that wanted impeachment, but not removal. Even the Republicans aren’t so blind as to miss this trend. Senate voting to remove Trump? I put the odds at about 30 to 1.
Graham was in on the Ukrainian grift highjinks. He’s sweeping all the evidence under the rug to cover his own ass. Cocaine Mitch should ditch the guy now and put somebody else in charge, but he won’t.
How bizarre
Independent voters are more likely to tune into Fox News to get their news as opposed to either of the other two major cable networks, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
The survey, which was released Sunday, gathered data from over a million respondents from Nov. 1, 2018, through Oct. 31, 2019.
Of the 436 U.S. congressional districts, independents in 306 of them are more likely to watch Fox News than CNN or MSNBC by a two-point margin. Comparatively, independents in 56 districts are more likely to watch CNN than Fox or MSNBC.
There was no district in which MSNBC was named as the most-watched cable news outlet by independents. However, independents, according to the data, consume the three networks at a lower rate than both Democrats and Republicans.
How could this be? Don’t they want rational, unbiased news coverage?
i’m kind of surprised. i wanted to believe that hoax-nothingburger-ZOMG!!11eleventy-pantswetting fatigue was setting in but it seemed too good to be true.
OFFS.
OFFS!
Maybe they need to sack a few players.
I see Conte still can’t make it happen in CL. Inter made their bed by blowing that lead at Dortmund and drawing Slava at home. And they couldn’t seal it with a team of Barca reserves.
BUT three goals over turned? Barca sure get those calls.
Nonetheless, they’re on the right track with the rebuild.
You need a degree in psychology to coach for Napoli and Roma.
Did you see the Diego Maradona documentary?
I think you need a degree in masochism to be a manager, especially at the top level.
Nah, I don’t watch that stuff.
Anyway I’ve lost most of my interest in the Serie A since Napoli’s slide. Wake me up when the Juventus dynasty is over – otherwise, I don’t care.
Word of the day: autoanthropomorphozoophilia
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31813772-erotic-target-identity-inversions-among-men-and-women-in-an-internet-sample/?dopt=Abstract
so like furries?
“Teacher’s aide busted for having sex with a couple of students at a community pool. She also gave them booze and drugs, apparently”
According to my coworker this was common in the 1970s and no one cared.
So…not rape-rape?
Maybe first day on job, teachers should have to download Tinder and be told that if they get horny use the app instead of the kids.
Statue equity
In Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, towering monuments to Confederate leaders stand in the middle of the city. One statue depicts cavalry commander Gen. J.E.B. Stuart sitting upon a muscular horse, striking a heroic pose.
About a mile away, a similar bronze sculpture has been installed; but instead of a Confederate general, it portrays a black man with dreads, wearing a hoodie and Nikes.
The statue called Rumors of War was built by Kehinde Wiley, widely known for painting the official portrait of President Barack Obama. After spending several weeks on display in Times Square, Wiley officially unveiled the three-story-tall statue Tuesday at its permanent home in front of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
“It is monumental and not just a figure of speech, it is truly monumental, in terms of its ability to be a seismic shift in how we perceive and how we understand ourselves as people living here,” Valerie Cassel Oliver, the museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art, told NPR’s Newscast Unit.
The museum wrote that the new sculpture “commemorates African American youth lost to the social and political battles being waged throughout our nation.”
Huh.
I like this method a lot better than what other cities seem to be doing, which is tearing down any statues in sight.
Yeah, I may privately roll my eyes but I don’t have a real philosophical issue with some dude making political statements via sculptures.
so… mockery? his “monumental” contribution to art is mockery.
i guess there were no black soldiers with significant contributions during any of our country’s wars that he could’ve honored with a monument instead.
-1 Crispus Attucks
Nat Turner for chrissakes
but no. this clown had to make a statue to Trayvon Martin riding a fucking horse.
it portrays a black man with dreads, wearing a hoodie and Nikes
Someone that would totally be riding a horse…
The statue called Rumors of War
Makes zero sense.
It makes perfect sense if your perspective is that the society that erects statues to commemorate important people from its history should be broken down. To me, it reads a little like teen angst, or maybe a toddler pitching a fit, but whatever. Not my opportunity to waste.
That’s not a stereotype at all.
Minneapolis has opened a new front in the Great Bike War it has with Portland (we keep battling over the title of Most Bike Friendly city).
We are going to combine the great loves of progressives (bikes, regulations and fucking science) and crush Portland.
We will stop ‘distracted biking’!
So we will be spending a bunch of money on a study of bike crashes. That study will end up creating new laws. That is so perfect!
How are the scooters doing?
All shut down for the winter.
Our betters in city govt will let us know next February when the scooters will be allowed back on the streets.
Call me an incurable optimist, but I think that they shouldn’t remove the scooters during the winter. Think of the money that the govt could save as the Darwinites removed themselves from the city rolls by trying to zip around on snow and ice on an electric scooter.
Don’t cars tend to stop distracted biking?
Yes. Almost instantly.
Silly Minnesodan. If you want to keep up with Portland, you need to apply even less laws to bicyclists and exempt them from basic traffic rules like obeying stop signs.
You also need to fix your weather. Portland cyclists never have to deal with 4 feet of snow.
Something tells me Portland has the lead in number of homeless camps, too.
Yeah, they do correlate with better weather.
Now if the cyclists and homeless would turn on each other. Maybe site some homeless camps in bike lanes…
This happened around these parts yesterday.
Interestingly enough CNN fails to note that this all occurred at a Kosher market.
Police officer among six dead after Jersey City standoff, officials say
Other reports also make note that there was rifle fire. I’ll assume that they weren’t evil black rifles with the thing that up as NJ has strict laws preventing ownership of those.
All over my local news this morning. I suppose we’ll find out the suspects’ names eventually. If the media never mentions who killed the civilians, we’ll know it was the cops.
Pictures I’ve seen show cops from everywhere.
There are guys ins NJ State Trooper uniforms, NYPD special response folk, Essex Sheriff , and according to a coworker with brother in the NYPD – a bunch of federal folk as well.
Male and female couple. Hmm. That’s rare, and usually from the religion of peace, which has a large presence in Jersey City
Really – this is getting interesting.
The first hot-take in my head was some sort of gang shit. This is why I adhere to the 48-hour rule.
NYT too. Police are feeding details but won’t provide names. Also anti-cop as well as anti-Semitic online posts. And this is getting swallowed by the reporters. None of them are asking how the police can know there were online posts if they’re not sure about the names.
Jersey City Shootout Suspects Identified: Sources
hoo-boy
A real journalist would have written:
“ties to crazy people standing on the sidewalk and shouting obscenities at passers-by” would have been more accurate.
“inside a bodega”
Uh-huh.
Julian Hayter, a historian and associate professor at the University of Richmond, sees Wiley’s installation as a way to push back against narratives about the Confederacy that minimize or deny the role of slavery and racism in the Civil War.
“Many of the institutions that are springing up and the ideas and the artistry that’s, in some ways, emerging to replace this imagery is a direct response to the methodology of the Lost Cause and its gained particular momentum in the last several years with the rise of white supremacy in the 21st century,” Hayter told NPR.
Wut?
They hayte us cause they aynt us.
OFFS.
the rise of hysterical media coverage of white supremacy in the 21st century
Gulag Barbie can’t catch a break.
“Okay. Do you believe employers should offer health care to every employee that they have?” Ocasio-Cortez asked.
“I think that as part of a benefits package, they should determine what is the best way and what do the workers want,” Greszler responded.
Naturally, AOC did not accept the meaning of her answer, but translated it into her all-or-nothing big government language. “So no, you do not believe it should be offered as a right.”
“I think it should be what workers want and what employers are able to provide,” Greszler said, unfazed.
Again, AOC interpreted the answer as a rejection of her “democratic” socialist worldview. “Okay. So the answer’s no. Um, so, and similarly, your view on parental leave is to let the market decide.”
Later on and out of the blue, Ocasio-Cortez asked the Heritage scholar about dogs.
“Um, do we know how long puppies are allowed to stay with their mothers after a dog has given birth?” AOC asked.
“I don’t,” Greszler admitted.
“Eight weeks,” AOC said. “So the market has decided that women — and people who give birth — deserve less time with their children than a dog.”
“And I think that that, at its core, has shown that the market has failed to treat people with dignity and with basic respect,” the congresswoman declared. “And so when that happens, I think it’s our job as the public to redefine the rules of society and to treat people who give birth with the dignity that they deserve.”
““So the market has decided that women — and people who give birth — deserve less time with their children than a dog.””
That’s strange. I have two children, and they’re still with my wife and me after 14 and 10 years. I’ll be listening for the knock of the free market on my front door, though.
Right. So the new plan is to give women 8 weeks off after giving birth. But then the baby is taken away permanently. Got it.
She doubled down apparently:
The Best response to this is to not engage and talk about how in Socilaist Countries like Venezuela, North Korea and Soviet Union, people are starved to death.
I always bring up the fate of women in Russian gulags when I get the “capitalizm is bad 4 wimmens” argument.
Ah, ok. So she’s actually just dumb as a bag of hammers and the local party bosses thought she’d be a good soldier. Because that entire thing is too stupid to qualify her for being crazy as a fox or even like a young, Socialist Trump. She’s just a vapid idiot who was appointed to the seat by the local Dems.
Eight dog-weeks is more than a year. Do better. ???
How on Earth does that butt slapper story get to be “national news”? Don’t we have some lemonade stands to shut down?
Cause she’s hot.
Sexual exploitation was just the excuse to sell sex.
Because it feeds the “national conversation”. Same reason the “racist note on a credit-card slip” is a regular feature in the news.
I like this method a lot better than what other cities seem to be doing, which is tearing down any statues in sight.
I agree completely. It’s the bizarre crypto-intellectualist gibberish I can’t abide. Also, I don’t get why the artist and his fans wouldn’t define themselves on their own terms. Maybe that statue works as parody, but it seems to me they could do something which commemorates the black man’s independence.
Maybe I’m talking out of my ass.
That’s what gets me about it. Like, you have an opportunity to actually make a statement about the history of black people in America, in the South in particular, and you use it for irony? Why should anyone respect your point of view when you have nothing positive to offer? And I don’t mean positive in the sense of self-affirmation and birthday cards, I mean they’re not adding anything to the discussion or providing new or lesser-known information.
How about an 80-foot tall statue of Frederick Douglass?
Virginia added 18 more counties to its 2A Sanctuary movement bringing the total to 77.
here’s the map on their FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/VCDL.ORG/photos/a.772237716127233/3507060132644964/?type=3&theater
Peasants revolt.
That’s some good push back.
This may be of interest to a few people here:
For the First Time, Scientists Have Reversed Dementia in Mice With Drug That Reduces Brain Inflammation
I’d still like to see more research on diet connections. Most chronic disease has an inflammatory component, and diet can be an incredibly powerful tool.
How soon before the drug can be administered to the President, every member of Congress, and all newscasters?
Liz of the Fauxhicans can’t catch a break.
Warren has very publicly and very proudly made a major leg of her campaign a promise to end school choice, specifically charter schools. After a middling performance at the Democrat primary debates in Atlanta, Warren headed to few campaign stops. One stop brought her face to face with a passionate grandmother who demanded to know why Warren wanted to limit the education options for her grandchildren while she sent her own to private school. What the presidential candidate did next went viral.
Without hesitation Elizabeth Warren looked at this woman and lied to her face. The five-second clip went out across the internet but the entire conversation lasted nearly twenty minutes, highlighting Warren’s biggest problem when it comes to her opposition to school choice – how does she reconcile the dismal public schools that plague inner cities and minority communities with her insistence that those minority students stay trapped in their failing systems?
You know if she had been running 30 years ago, this would never have happened to her. It only biting her in the ass because of those meddling teens and their internet that makes it so easy to upload video of candidates lying their asses off.
Poor Liz really is being oppressed by the Patriarchy and their tech tools.
“Jersey City shooting rampage: Two shooters – including one who made anti-Semitic posts online – slaughter detective in a cemetery then slowly drive one mile to target Kosher supermarket killing three more victims, before being shot dead by cops
Police are refusing to release any details about the shooters’ identities – including whether they were both men or if, as reported in the early aftermath of the incident, it was a man and a woman.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7779493/Gunmen-targeted-Jewish-community-Jersey-City-officials-say.html
Take a look up thread a few posts. Slammer noted it was a couple. I hadn’t read that.
I didn’t hear that when it was mentioned on the radio yesterday, nor that it was at a kosher market. They said something about a drug deal gone bad instead. I suppose the drugs are halal.
Just the naked quest for power at any cost should scare the shit out of everyone.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/karen-bass-impeach-trump-2020
“So, you know, yes, but I don’t think it would be exactly the same and here’s why,” Bass responded, “because even though we are impeaching him now, there’s still a number of court cases, there’s a ton of information that could come forward. For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he’s owned 100 percent by the Russians.”
Some lies will never die. It is actually amazing that they are sticking to this one despite the result of the Mueller investigation, which completely and unequivocally disproved this narrative.
She continued, “You are absolutely right in your scenario, but the only thing I would say slightly different is, it might not be the same articles of impeachment because the odds are we would have a ton more information, and then the odds of that, sadly enough, is that, you know, he probably has other examples of criminal behavior.”
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
It is kind of scary how they can’t accept a loss. I wonder how far they are willing to go should they maintain the house and/or or gain the senate.
I wonder how far they are willing to go should they maintain the house and/or or gain the senate.
There is precedent.
did that dude on the right just step out of the shower?
Can somebody with skillz shop St. Greta’s face on the child soldier?
Hell they already stole 7 Congressional seats during 2018 in in CA through the practice of vote harvesting. VH is legal in California (and 26 other states plus DC). In the first election which it was permitted the Dems flipped 7 seats and the GOP 0. Orange County which has been reliably “red” since the 1950’s even turned blue
If you take as a given that the Dems will vote harvest in their localities (CA, NY, DC) the harvesting will not impact a presidential race. (Except for the popular vote President.). But in battleground states like CO, FL, MO, TX etc. It could shift electoral votes and the ultimate result. The Dems will harvest and harvest aggressively since it helped deliver them the HoR in 2018 so they could impeach the Secret Nazi President.
My prediction is that they will hold no tactic back in 2020.
Kid’s got an illegal assault rifle, high capacity magazine and looks under age. Congress needs to pass a law that internationally prohibits this, before someone gets hurt
“because even though we are impeaching him now, there’s still a number of court cases, there’s a ton of information that could come forward. For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he’s owned 100 percent by the Russians.”
this woman is poison.
I have an aquantence who is a “Q” (not the tit’s Q, the Trump Q) follower and she says to me last night.
“If you view the IG report and find “Comey” and copy and paste it into a web browser all the results come back as “corney” I just let her talk and don’t put up much fuss cause I’m here to watch the kids’ basketball game. I think about it later and I’m sure the document she is copy pasting from is formatted in funny way to squish the “r” and the “n” together to look like a “m” but when copy-pasted will obviously then search corney.
But in all fairness today I find the IG report (here https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf ) and search for comey and his name is not even in the report? I’m so confused.
HOLEY FUCKING SHITE!!! I search for McCabe and I see comey listed just above it. So the find didn’t find it. I copy paste it into note pad and what fucking shows up?
corney
I do a search for “corney” and that shows up 163 times. WTF is going on here people? Did I get a doctored IG report from that site?
where’s my tinfoil?
Dude – that’s bizzare!
Why would they do that?
They get to say “Director Comey’s name does not appear in the report” without lying.
Who this Corney fellow is…
Well – supposing, just supposing, you were filing a FOIA request and asked for “comey” here this particular document would be non-responive – right?
I don’t know how FOIA requests work, but I would assume it requires more than just a name
Is this report a PDF scan of a printed out report (as it’s redacted)? Then maybe it is an OCR type error that the reader isn’t interpreting the characters correctly?
More… search for “rn” to find those combinations and you get “attorney” and “government” and those words look correct with a space but Corney never does…
It is definitely an OCR error. The report, at least the version available from NPR was printed out and scanned. This is a common OCR error, like mistaking “cl” and “d”.
But shouldn’t every ‘m’ in the doc then be transcribed as ‘rn’? The fact that it only happens in the word “Comey” seems a bit suspicious.
If the OCR is doing a sanity check against a library of known words, it would recognize attorney and government but not comey, while corney is a near-miss within slop. Also, I’ve seen instances of kerning within some fonts where it’s not consistant on the spacing of the rn ‘digraph’
Not necessarily. A better counterargument would be that the word “some” is not replaced by “sorne” since it occurs in a similar context surrounded by the letters “o” and “e”, but the OCR algorithm might be trained to favor known words, and the proper noun or common misspelling “corney” could have been in its set of known words while the proper noun “comey” was not.
Ahhh. It’s a scanned PDF. That makes this make more sense.
That is….
Bizarre.
OT rant from a long time reader and lurker. Long Island guy, paying 11k+ in property taxes, and i want to put a shed dormer on a section of my house. Was told i needed long list of paperwork, along with a new survey of the property (cost $1,000 bucks) and 3 copies of the plans drawn up. (Paid builder $500 for those)
Submitted plans with a mound of other paperwork that needed to be notorized and copied. Got my answer back today.
Plans denied for Quote “need to provide professional plans bearing the signed seal of a New York state registered architecht or professional engineer. Plans must depict the scope of work and demonstating compliance to 2015 international residential code with the New York state2017 uniform code supplement, 2016 supplement to the NYS energy consevation construction code, and town of Brookhaven zoning and construction codes”
Its a wonder there arent more libertarians around.
Damn
Pensacola – Marines, Sailors Line Road to Salute Family of Slain Naval Officer…
Not meant as a reply – obviously NY owns your house and rents it to you.
I got your signed seal of New York right here!
*submits a MikeS avatar pic*
Fuck off, Tupla! And good morning!
Fuck off, Tulpa!
And welcome! Did you find your way here via TOS too?
Yeah, what Mojeaux said!
I also like the idea of rolling a version of Linux and calling it the Tulpa Operating System (TOS).
1) Browser would only go to Glibs
2) Every 10 minutes a background process would run a sudo command to change your effective account
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
By what monitization method?
3) ???
(That’s the joke.)
I got it Mojeaux. Don’t worry about UCS, he’s handi-humored.
Nahh. with an open source system we’d have to provide some kind of support contract to make any money.
PROFIT!!!
Now now, it’s just us being ourselves and denying the existance of the original.
Yes was just a lurker over there too.
Yay! Please do not stay in the shadows.
Hold on there a second.
I’ve been to Glib meetups. Shadows are a good place for a lot of Glibs to be. Tundra. Shadows are his friend if you know what I mean.
“You think darkness is your ally?”
*shivs leon from the shadows*
Has been for years.
I suppose. The tapas place Mr. Mojeaux and I went to eat with OMWC and Libertesian, then OMWC and SP was a little dim.
https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/54cf0576-205f-472e-9a34-2230b5420c93
Fucking Tulpa, all that is converted by the social contract. Don’t mess with your house, it’ll destroy society.
Maybe first day on job, teachers should have to download Tinder and be told that if they get horny use the app instead of the kids.
*begins composing notice for bulletin board in teachers’ lounge*
“If it saves just one career…”
“The app matched me with the students.”
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1204745148007157765
OFFS!!
They’re still in business?
Gooddamnit I was rootimg for the whistleblowers to win. Also poor greta snubbed yet again
They should have been out of business after they came up with that bullshit excuse for why they made Hitler “man of the year” in 1938.
Who was more influential on the world stage in 1938?
That pic is just begging for a good photoshop.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELgdU-qWsAEumPg?format=jpg&name=small
All proven shysters.
“Guardians of the Year”
?????
The BB nails it once again!
Oh. Wait.
*sigh*
there’s a ton of information that could come forward. For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he’s owned 100 percent by the Russians.”
They should just snatch Ivanka and torture her until he resigns. That’s basically what they want to do.
Get me a fluffy pillow and I’ll do it myself.
Dem media activists called out over their insistence that Steele Dossier was not “essential” to FISA warrant of Carter Page that got this whole fucking ball rolling.
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog
too many to individually post about but it’s a shit-ton. and HONK HONK! Welcome to Clown World!
I see Wee Willy Wilkinson has weighed in on the topic.
And these people expect us to take them seriously.
… doesn’t that make it worse?
Libertines don’t care about liberty and we should stop pretending as if they do.
He said “Most of the info has been validated”
Which is utter bullshit.
But it was debunked! DEEEEE BUUUUUNKED!!!
Useless org is in no position to be levying threats.
The United States was warned Wednesday by the United Nations it cannot avoid compensating poorer nations hit by climate change, despite Donald Trump honoring his election promise of leaving the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Delegates and observers at the COP25 negotiations in Madrid told AFP that Washington seeks a change to the U.N. climate convention that could release it from punitive “loss and damage” funding for developing nations which is predicted to run into the billions of dollars.
Under the bedrock U.N. climate treaty, adopted in 1992, rich nations agreed to help developing countries prepare for unavoidable future climate impacts — the twin pillars of “mitigation” and “adaptation”.
First step: the U.S. kicks the UN out of NYC and votes to put it in, say, Lagos, so that delegates from developing nations will be closer to home, thus burning less aviation fuel to get there.
Fuck no. It will just be used a cudgel with even less US oversight. Need to do the reverse progressive on it
Skin suit it and demand the same respect. Empty assembly hall, powerless Secretary General, and microphones turned off.
If Trump really wanted a landside win all he’d have to do is announce that he is going to leave the UN and eject everyone from NY. Drop that in Oct 2020 and he would carry every state. Fucking NYC would flip red at that news.
Sadly, no.
Dems LOVE the UN. How many of their presidential candidates have announced they would sign the US back up for the Paris shakedown on “Day One”?
The thing that drives me crazy is that with “Regime Uncertainty” businesses have an incentive to assume stricter regulation. This means that if you have 4-8 years with a lax regime, many companies will still meet the old regulatory guidelines, because they know that when that guy looses, they will have to go back. Then you get the Krugmans of the world saying that that is evidence of the need for the regulations.
see also CAFE standards
The UN can demand all it wants but no public funds can be expended without Congressional authorization. The US Constitution (Art 1 Section 9)is clear on this:
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
So unless Congress authorizes the blackmail to be paid, and the President signs the authorization for blackmail to be paid- the UN kleptos get zilch.
I can’t think of an easier thing to run on than, “Congresscritter Zuke voted to take your tax money and give it to unaccountable persons in the UN and third world countries-including China- require it because you drive a car and use electricity.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1204168419966369793
Someone needs to mail Mandy a box of those Australian spiders.
Amanda Marcotte is probably not a very good friend, I suspect. I’ll bet she’s a bore at parties and she gets upset when anyone else is receiving attention. If I were Amanda Marcotte I would spend the wee hours of the morning laying in bed dreading that in my final moments on this Earth I’ve wasted my life.
In no way do I want to defend Amanda, but I think most of us in middle age or beyond have spent some unpleasant wee hours feeling that we have wasted our lives.
Maybe half wasting it and half failing at everything we HAVE done.
I don’t know, I think the worst thing in the world would be to suddenly realize that you’ve spent a great deal of time being a shitty person and you have little or no time to change course, as opposed to just the usual episodes of self-doubt. But maybe it’s the proximity of Christmas and too much exposure to A Christmas Carol.
Unless all you can remember are the shitty things that you’ve done and don’t remember the good you’ve done and have to be reminded.
‘If I were Amanda Marcotte I would spend the wee hours of the morning laying in bed dreading that in my final moments on this Earth I’ve wasted my life.’
I do that all the time, but I bet I’m more fun to be around, so there’s that.
Close this loophole
A judge has handed Exxon Mobil a victory in only the second climate change lawsuit to reach trial in the United States. The decision was a blow for the New York Attorney General’s Office, which brought the case.
Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York State Supreme Court said that the attorney general failed to prove that the oil giant broke the law.
“Nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve ExxonMobil from responsibility for contributing to climate change through the emission of greenhouse gasses in the production of its fossil fuel products,” Ostranger wrote. But, he added, “this is a securities fraud case, not a climate change case.”
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[Attorney General Letitia] James released a statement following the verdict, saying that the case had compelled Exxon “to answer publicly for their internal decisions that misled investors.”
“Throughout this case, we laid out how Exxon made materially false, misleading, and confusing representations to the American people about the company’s response to climate change regulations,” James said.
“Exxon’s inability to tell the truth further underscores the lies that have been sold to the American public for decades,” she said. “Despite this decision, we will continue to fight to ensure companies are held responsible for actions that undermine and jeopardize the financial health and safety of Americans across our country, and we will continue to fight to end climate change.”
Exxon said the ruling “affirms the position ExxonMobil has held throughout the New York Attorney General’s baseless investigation. We provided our investors with accurate information on the risks of climate change. The court agreed that the Attorney General failed to make a case, even with the extremely low threshold of the Martin Act in its favor.”
“Lawsuits that waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money do nothing to advance meaningful actions that reduce the risks of climate change,” the company said.
There were signs of weakness in the state’s case. On the last day of the trial, the attorney general’s office withdrew two counts of fraud from its lawsuit. Exxon asked the judge to rule on those counts anyway, saying the state had tarnished the company’s reputation in making its case on them.
But SCIENCE!
In P Brooks -topia, Letitia James would spend her remaining days paying restitution to the people of New York for this egregious waste of taxpayer resources.
There were signs of weakness in the state’s case.,
You think?
I’m with P Brooks, except that Prosecutors who bring clearly firvolous cases and cost people (not just tax payers) millions of dollars should be disbarred and thrown to the streets.
It was quite similar to impeachment – the state kept changing the theory of the crime in the desperate hope that *something*, however trivial, would stick, and thus justify the whole farce.
She’s now libeling them. Has NYT v. Sullivan now been applied backwards too, so that public officials are immune from defamation suits?
Straight up lie.
That shit was tossed months ago for complete lack of evidence & was not part of the current case at all.
The tobacco settlement has made a complete hash of the first amendment. We now hold companies responsible for things they have either no connection to or limited involvement with, and we have declared stating an opinion to be a criminal offense (if you are a wealthy corporation).
Look at the “Opiod crisis”. States are wanting billions from drug manufacturers because they claim making the drugs and selling them to pharmacies is proof that they were trying to get people addicted.
Or look at what is happening with gun manufacturers. They are moving to have class action suits for generic “gun violence”. And people are filing suit against the gun manufacturer when someone gets shot… because the gun functioned exactly as intended?
Perhaps this actually started with dram shop laws, where a barkeep suddenly becomes liable for “overserving” someone who then goes out and drives drunk. I could see it if they went after a bartender who poured 18 shots for some guy who was already falling down drunk and he died of alcohol poisoning. But the bartender is responsible for whether or not you are driving later? Nuts.
Of course, this simply underlines my base thesis…. that we are not a nation of laws, despite the best efforts of our founders. We are a nation of men… and if public opinion is against you, then we will just alter the law to match public opinion and take your stuff.
Ostrager minced no words in describing how he thought the trial had gone: “The testimony of the expert witnesses called by the Office of the Attorney General was eviscerated on cross-examination and by ExxonMobil’s expert witnesses.”
Such a polite way to say “BULLSHIT, through and through”.
i can see how Letitia James would feel vindicated the way she did. “eviscerated” is such an ambiguous term.
Maj Toure
@MAJTOURE
The FBI faked documents AND LIED to spy on the Trump administration.
A sitting PRESIDENT.
The FEDS.
And this is who some say should be the only ones with certain firearms.
If they do this to a president, what would they do to the people unchecked?
It’s not about Trump, it’s about the fact that if they are so brazen to lie and try to frame the president then we know they have done this countless times to regular people. How many people were illegally monitored through this farcical secret court system?
We can see exactly how normally this plays out with Jeff Sessions. Play ball, or get fucked. Sessions played ball by recusing himself, and the case against him was mysteriously dropped.
This whole charade really showed who are the people who distrust the police and who are those that are just cosplaying
The part that is really scary comes in the detail.
If it is true that the entire thing rested on the FBI saying that a CIA asset (Carter Page) was being targeted by the Russians due to his activities involving the CIA….. and they knew it!…. it would be really hard not to believe that those kooky conspiracy theories are true.
But that’s not the scary part.
The scary part is the mental gymnastics that people will do to dismiss the whole thing, particularly those in the press.
Watching the press ignore the abuses of the Obama administration and its holdovers during this Russia “investigation” has been eye-opening. They moved from openly mocking Trump for saying his “wires were tapped” to saying “of course the FBI was wire-tapping Trump campaign personnel” in less than 1 day. They didn’t even need an adjustment period. The second it was confirmed that the FBI actually was tapping the phones, the press immediately and completely believed that we have always been at war with Eurasia. In fact, they are so deeply bought-in to their own version of a conspiracy theory mindset that they still ridicule any suggestion that the Trump campaign and transition was spied upon.
Chuck Todd was digging in on that just this weekend. They are incredulous that anyone would claim that the FBI was spying on Trump. I would love to see someone unpack that mental hoop with Chuck. Somewhere in his brain, he has connected the dots to be OK with claiming up is down, light is dark, etc. so that he can continue disbelieving and ridiculing people who support Trump, like Barr.
That kind of cognitive dissonance does not stand up when brought in to the light of day. Simply trying to explain it in detail will make it collapse. Which is, of course, why people get so angry and defensive when you start questioning them on those sorts of opinions.
Moral of the story: never cooperate with the police.
I grew-up in an area where there were a few organized crime fronts. You just learned growing-up, don’t go in there and don’t associate with those people. You say “hi”, keep your head down and move along. That’s really how people should behave with law enforcement: be polite, but don’t associate with them.
They do whatever they want.
“Ma’am, would you please come get your kid!?”
UNATTENDED CHILDREN WILL BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY
Be a bone marrow donor — not only do you have plausible deniability for future crimes, you can father tons of children and have other people pay for them:
https://futurism.com/neoscope/bone-marrow-transplant-semen-only-donors-dna
Cucking a man by saving his life?
So he got a transplant and was so grateful, he became an organ donor himself?
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/since-feeding-the-homeless-is-illegal-activists-carry-ar-15s-to-give-out-food-supplies/
“Since Feeding the Homeless Is Illegal, Activists Carry AR-15s to Give Out Food, Supplies”
“We have to protect our giving ground from other charity gangs”
We spoke to one of the participants, who also happens to be a good friend of mine, Luis Fernando Mises who explained why the group carries weapons.
[It’s happening gif]
It’s more Christian, moral, whatever to arm yourself to the brim in order to feed the hungry than it is to acquiesce before an immoral law and let the hungry starve.
#AR15Jesus
Agree. I just thought it was funny that the guy they talked to was named Mises.
In June, a 38-year-old homeless man was attempting to earn some honest money by providing a much-desired service of bicycle repair to the residents of Kennewick, Washington when he was threatened with extortion and arrest by the local police department, which effectively ended his enterprise.
After the Kennewick Police Department threatened the homeless man and prevented him from making a living, they took to Facebook to shamelessly brag about it. The man was told that while it was illegal for him to fix bicycles, he could certainly beg for money.,
I’ve said it before, but if you want to find the dumbest, most evil people in a community, look for cops.
The resultant heavily armed group of do-gooders effectively staved off any attempts by police to shut down the charitable efforts.
Interesting.
Okay, so this is what I don’t understand. It’s illegal. Police were there. Police did nothing.
But … couldn’t the police have done something? Did they think the criminals (aka those feeding the homeless) would actually turn their guns on the police? And if they had attemptrd to, then what? Shootout at the OK Corral? What? What was supposed to happen? The subtext was clearly, “Try to arrest us and we’ll shoot you.”
That does not seem like something the cops would hesitate to wade into.
All of that is why I am pondering it. I am just glad that no violence occurred, not that it should. Perhaps a show of force here and there can work.
‘That does not seem like something the cops would hesitate to wade into.’
That’s the LAST thing cops would wade into. They want to shoot fish in a barrel, not confront an armed group expecting and prepared for their arrival.
But … couldn’t the police have done something? Did they think the criminals (aka those feeding the homeless) would actually turn their guns on the police? And if they had attemptrd to, then what? Shootout at the OK Corral? What? What was supposed to happen? The subtext was clearly, “Try to arrest us and we’ll shoot you.”
That does not seem like something the cops would hesitate to wade into.
Kinda… “Are you willing to kill a cop to feed the homeless” is not what is being asked. I’m certain those people don’t want to get into a confrontation with cops. But the question they are asking the cops is: “Are you willing to Kill me for feeding the homeless”. The Threat of having weapons is signaling to cops that these people are willing to die for what they are doing. And what they are doing is something cops shouldn’t be killing people for doing.
Now the Feds on the other hand…
I imagine a shootout over people feeding the homeless would not garner much sympathy for the police and they probably realized that. It reminds me of the Black Panthers openly carrying shotguns to ward against police abuse. The cops don’t know how far you’re going to take it and they have to ask themselves if enforcing the law is more important than making it home safe.
“Birthday celebrants for today are … Russian writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn….”
I recommend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h021u94PsXA" The Gulag Archipelago. It is a long read yet on audio book those of us who dislike reading may benefit from it. Here is an excerpt from its description:
“The Gulag Archipelago is an exhaustive and compelling account based on Solzhenitsyn’s own eight years in Soviet prison camps, on other prisoners’ stories committed to his photographic memory while in detention, and on letters and historical sources. The work represents the author’s attempt to compile a literary and historical record of the Soviet regime’s comprehensive but deeply irrational use of terror against its own population. A testimonial to Stalinist atrocities, The Gulag Archipelago devastated readers outside the Soviet Union with its descriptions of the brutality of the Soviet regime. The book gave new impetus to critics of the Soviet system and caused many sympathizers to question their position.”
When I read the last sentence I thought of hiring someone to compile the most salient and influential elements of Solzhenitsyn’s work into a brief video suitable for my/our contemporaries in the United States who lean socialist.
I just remembered why I stopped making funeral potatoes. They are like crack to me and I’m the only one in this house who likes them, but I REALLY like them.
*glares at scale*
Are “funeral potatoes” al groton? If so, then I agree
It involves cheese and onions. The writer of that article mist bu from Minnesoda. Nobody rlse in the country says “hotdish.” It’s CASSEROLE, dammit!
Well you also think that poorly smoked meat drowned in sauce is BBQ. So we aren’t going to listen to your KC ranting.
My wife was creeped out when she found out about “funeral meat”. It wasn’t the taste that creeped her out, it was just that the name.
My mom made that, but we just called it bologna salad. “Funeral mea”? New one on me.
The only place I ever see it served in Minnesoda is at funerals. And if you say “funeral meat” everyone knows what you are talking about.*
*at least natives know. Widows who moved here are disappointed to find out that it is a food and not some macabre reverse bachelorette party.
“Funeral meat” sounds like a website dedicated to necrophilia.
Funeral meat.
Kinda… but different. Both are fantastic.
My wife has a “funeral salad” recipe.
I’ve been wanting to make this.
Nice. I personally do not like bacon (or ham) enough to put it in a cheese dish.
‘I personally do not like bacon…’
*stops reading, misses context*
Hyperion’s right, you really are the New Worst.
😉
Also, not liking bacon *and* cheese on potatoes…come on. I bet she also likes pineapple on pizza…
Not only do I hate pineapple*, I don’t much care for pizza, either.
*Read phases 2 & 3 to get to the part where I hate pineapple.
Does not compute.
‘KC Masterpiece (which, I will have you know, is ketchup and molasses with a ton of brown sugar just to give you diabeeeedus) (please, please don’t judge us on KC Masterpiece).’
Truth. KC Masterpiece is just Sweet Baby Ray’s with more liquid smoke.
I cut him some slack, though. He’s from SoCal and doesn’t know any better.
On the pineapple front… there was a bit on the radio the other morning where they claimed that putting a pineapple upside down in your shopping cart at the supermarket is a signal to other swingers that you are open to an encounter.
Now, that sounds really dumb to me…. but we have some terribly knowledgeable folks ’round these parts. Any truth to that?
By itself it’s meaningless. You have to put i next to either tuna, sausages (or both) to indicate what you’re looking for.
Excellent!
That was either an example of the breadth of knowledge of the Glibs or the extremely quick wit found here. Either way, Glibs rock!
Cyto, you realized there’s also a good chance any given glib will be bullshitting you, right? We’re perfidious like that.
Yeah, the bullshitting version of that answer is much more impressive than the old dude trolling the aisles of the Piggly Wiggly with a pineapple-sausage dinner in the making in his cart.
I’m 52 and fat, and most of the people in my grocery store make me look young and attractive. I’m glad I don’t care for pineapple.
Dude, did you read my link?! It was practically a pineapple-sausage dinner for a not-quite-that-old guy.
See something, say something
A California man accused of posting online videos that appear to threaten gun violence pleaded not guilty Monday to weapons and child endangerment charges.
Steven Homoki, 30, was arrested after the San Diego Joint Terrorism Task Force received a report of “distressing YouTube videos threatening firearm violence,” according to a police news release.
On Monday, prosecutors outlined the case against him in San Diego Superior Court, noting that the videos show him inside a hotel room and aiming a handgun and an assault-style rifle at unsuspecting pedestrians outside, and saying “boom” as he pretends to fire the weapon.
He is charged with three counts of possession of an assault weapon and three counts of child abuse. The abuse charges were lodged because he had unsecured guns in the home where children were present, said Wendy Patrick, a deputy district attorney in the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. Homoki’s three minor children lived in the home, Patrick said.
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Lt. Shawn Takeuchi with the San Diego Police Department said the tip from the community was crucial.
“This arrest is an example of a community member coming forward with information that posed an immediate threat to San Diegans,” Takeuchi told KFMB. “The San Diego Police Department would like to thank the community for their shared efforts to keep everyone safe.”
Scott Brunner, the head of the FBI’s San Diego office, called the arrest an “extraordinary accomplishment” and commended the task force for their quick work in locating and apprehending Homoki.
“The extraordinarily swift investigative efforts put forth by the dedicated Agents and Officers of the San Diego JTTF quickly identified, located and arrested Mr. Homoki, preventing further incident,” Brunner said in a statement. “Just three days ago Mr. Homoki was an unknown poster of disturbing videos and is now behind bars, his threats neutralized.”
Welcome to your future.
What do you want to bet the people who watched those videos are being watched now too?
“his threats neutralized”
What?
I mean, maybe they have other information that these were actual threats, not just some doofus goofing around, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say tossing this guy in jail probably massively increased the probability that he lashes out and harms someone, rather than neutralizing a threat.
The actual video is on liveleak and what he was doing was really stupid and reckless. I don’t think it rises to the level of a threat though.
Personally, I don’t have a problem with it. It was part of colonial life and puts the kids in the position of making a moral or financial decision when answering, which could have been an interesting learning exercise.
Well, I am</strong outraged. From the look of it, they were trying to teach those kids about valuing slavery with no information whatsoever on the slaves’ marginal production! How the hell are you supposed to value farm equipment if you don’t have any information on what their output would be. It would be like bringing orphans into your mind without knowing how many tons of uranium they could be expected to extract in a month.
Related.
Speaking of commemorative statuary-
Why not an heroic depiction of Frederick Douglass, with a book in his hand?
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/12/man-arrested-in-harney-county-after-video-shows-him-riding-a-buck-trapped-inside-a-fence-police-say.html
Stupid yes, but a crime? Give me a break.
And the lesser degree of animal abuse requires physical harm to an animal. They don’t have the deer nor do they have an examination showing physical harm. More typical overcharging.
Yeah, he is way to big to be doing that to that animal. Go find a moose.
You know how your login can time out between the time that you loaded the page and hit “reply” and the time you hit “Post Comment” and the website says “You must be logged in to comment” and then you lose whatever you typed?
Yeah…. I am not a fan of that feature.
The site logs me out every Monday, not sure why,
It only logs me out when it is inconvenient. Usually just after I have written the most important and moving post in the history of the internet. Those things are divinely inspired, and can never be recreated.
It is known.
Copypasta before posting?
Pbbbt. Yeah, like I’m that organized!
I had that cure for cancer all figured out too. Jotted it down on the back of a junk mail envelope… I think it ended up in that kitchen drawer where old batteries and random attachments to things go to not be found when they are needed. Oh well, maybe it will turn up sometime…..
Are you Sean Connery?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ek8NmpVBssA
Wow… that’s an obscure circuit in the brain to activate!
As a younger man I used to get really trashed and randomly scream that at parties to confuse others for my own amusement.
Started skimming through the document. It’s incredibly boring.
Congratulations on now being the most educated person in America on the subject though.
Maybe i can get a sweet consulting gig.
Do you know how to say “this proves that Trump has been lying the whole time”?
If so….
Our review found that FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement in FBI policy that they ensure that all factual statements in a FISA application are “scrupulously accurate.”
Political Bias question aside, this is just par for the course in our Justice System and government at large. I’m not sure of very many places where if you fell “Far Short” of the requirements of policy, resulting in bad PR for your organization, you would still have a job.
I like a finding of “falling short” on an application that was signed off by every single one of the very top officials at the FBI. It isn’t like we are talking about some field office agent who was over-eager and cut a few corners to make sure he was able to get the bad guy. This is the entire top level of the FBI saying “screw it, close enough” in unison.
And to beat a dead horse, I am really tired of these reporters and opinion writers and now FBI investigators lacking the ability to ask the basic question first.
When they say they had identified a serious threat to national security, the next question should be “why didn’t you do anything to stop that threat? You never contacted Trump or anyone in the Trump campaign to warn them of the threat. You never offered to work with them to eliminate the threat. Instead, you tried to set up American citizens for unrelated process crimes. Why? If you really believed the Russian efforts posed a serious threat, why did you allow that serious threat to continue? Carter Page was already a CIA asset, already working with the government on Russia…. You learned this very early. Why did you continue to try to set him up for criminal prosecution instead of working with him and other campaign officials and the CIA to prevent any covert infiltration of the Trump organization?”
These are the obvious questions. Instead, they ask questions about what other things they learned about how bad Trump is. It appears that even the IG was too stricken with tunnel vision to be able to ask that question. I don’t even think the Republicans in congress are able to step back enough to ask those basic questions.
To be fair… Most of the people being talked about don’t have a job anymore.
“Stuart Evans, then NSD’s Deputy Assistant Attorney General with oversight responsibility over QI, that Steele may have been hired by someone associated with presidential candidate Clinton or the DNC,”
Idiot.
He was obviously wrong on that one. It wasn’t Clinton or the DNC. It was Clinton and the DNC.
#VindicatedAgain
Does anyone else ever think it is odd that the news cycle, from both sides, consists of people loudly screaming about how their side has been proven right and the other side has been proven wrong, when virtually no one ever changes their opinion one iota based on the news? Forget who is right for a moment and think about what the point of all this is. If your extended argument and evidence literally does nothing except fuel outrage in your in group and has no possibility of convincing anyone in the other in groups isn’t it all kind of a waste and doesn’t following it just end up making you less happy with no chance of changing anything?
I’m starting to believe that the apathetic normies I have always thought were fools are actually the wise ones.
There is actually a lot of research on this phenomenon. I have read about it in the context of people who believe in conspiracy theories and religious beliefs. When a belief is not based on evidence, but is an emotional belief, evidence to the contrary actually strengthens the belief.
So anti-vaxxers who are shown studies that demonstrate that vaccines are safe and they save lives actually double down and reject the new evidence. They become even harder to persuade.
Perhaps the best example of this is the Flat Earth folks. Since it is a fairly pure example of conspiracy theory thinking, it makes it easier to see. There was that famous series where one of the biggest groups performed a series of experiments designed to demonstrate that the earth is flat. Once they designed proper experiments, they actually proved that the earth is round and rotates. They performed these experiments themselves, and had agreed that they would be disposative of the truth. But when they turned out to show that their belief system was wrong, they just doubled down. They even invoked the “aether” to explain their results.
Of course, all of politics is a conspiracy theory. There are no political beliefs that are based on objective facts. So this is exactly the arena where this effect is going to be most pronounced.
But when they turned out to show that their belief system was wrong, they just doubled down. They even invoked the “aether” to explain their results.
Aether? what kind of fool would come up with something that has not been seen, doesn’t interact with normal matter and needs to exist in large quantities, just to get his models to fit.
Nevermind that, help me look for Dark Matter.
+1 Melissa O’Neil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pf44njV8g0
Follow it down the rabbit hole and you’ll see their efforts to explain away their results. They ended up deciding to build a beryllium sphere to protect their gyroscope from the aether. Why they believe beryllium blocks an imagined aether is unclear. But it does introduce a cost barrier to the next embarrassing experiment.
a more complete summary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqQeDiK6iuc
Facts first.
CNN opted against airing Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the FBI’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses during its investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign.
The move was highlighted by Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, in a tweet: “CNN is not taking the Senate Horowitz hearing live. Unbelievable. A perfect example of how bias works. It’s not just what they cover. It’s what they don’t cover.”
In their defense, no one would actually watch it unless they’re stuck in a waiting room or airport.
Although that also applies to their regular programming.
He’s absolutely right. And it’s not at all surprising. The thing is, CNN is as bad as the rest of the networks in making programming decisions based mainly on confirming the biases of its audience. It all makes more sense if you consider the media in the business of entertainment rather than education.
TFW you come to Glibs for advice and answer your own question before finishing your post. THANKS, GUYS!
Give a fake name. use a condom… Oh you probably wanted some other advice.
Just articulating the issue to explain it to others often is enough to shake free the answer.
I knew the answer. I just don’t want to do it because it’s gonna hurt (burning my old journals).
Never burn books! Especially never burn manuscripts. I am serious here. You will absolutely regret that some day.
If for no other reason than someday a BYU grad student will use them in their PhD thesis.
Already been done and I have also been part of a lit class curriculum.
They’re not manuscripts (did that once but I also kept the floppies).
They’re my diaries over the last 20 years and they are chock full of gloom and despair because I never write anything good. That’s not their purpose.
Not under the garage, that’s the first place cops look for bodies.
Potholes
Oracle, a major Silicon Valley tech company, will move its annual OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas next year due to San Francisco’s expensive hotel rates and the city’s “poor street conditions,” according to reports.
The loss of OpenWorld, which has been held in San Francisco for about 20 years, is raising new concerns about whether the city’s struggles with homelessness, open drug use and street violence may be scaring off tourism and other business, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“For the industry, for the city, to have a major conference leave us impacts all of us,” Kevin Carroll, chief executive of the Hotel Council of San Francisco, which represents hotel owners, told the newspaper.
“It’s a huge deal,” added Rick Swig, a hotel consultant at RSBA & Associates.
Oracle decided to pull out even though San Francisco recently invested $551 million in a renovation and expansion of the downtown Moscone Center, the convention facility where OpenWorld had been held for years, the Chronicle reported.
Unsubstantiated rumors of less than ideal conditions.
Waitwaitwaitwait.
Larry Ellison HATES travelling. That’s why Oracle Open World has been in San Fran for decades. The city is bad enough that he’ll make the trip inland or not attend in person just to allow customers to manage to get there?
Oracle, a major Silicon Valley tech company,
Never heard of her.
But seriously, every system i’ve used that is owned by Oracle has been a pain :Glares at Oracle SQL implementations:
Almost every system I have to work with is Oracle.
Why did the sate implement PeopleSoft???!?!!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!
Odds the NY State has these drives in an unpatched state?
PATCH, OR YOUR SOLID STATE DRIVES ROLL OVER AND DIE
That…. Thats’ Horrific. Who had their server up for 3.7 years to discover this?
HP storage systems?
None.
If it were reported in EMC or NetApp, maybe.
THANKS, GUYS!
Aww, shucks, Ma’am. It weren’t nothin’.
Dude, this is the only place left on the net where I have a sense of community. Since Usenet and IRC and forums and blogs went the way of the do-do bird because of stupid Facebook and Twitter, it is precious to me.
None of these inaccuracies and omissions were brought to the attention of OI before the last FISA application was filed in June 2017. Consequently, these failures were repeated in all three r enewal applications. Further, as we discuss lat er, we identified 10 additional significant errors in the renewal applications
Damn this Executive Summary is damning. This is the James Comey “Hillary Clinton is a criminal, but no reasonable prosecuter would bring a case” speech of reports.
“No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case because they don’t want to end up like Epstein or Scalia.”
Omitted Page’s prior relationship with another U.S. government agency, despite being reminded by the other agency in June 2017, prior to the fil ing of the fi nal renewal appl ication, about Page’s past status with t hat other agency; instead of including this information in the f inal renewal application, the OGC Attorney altered an email from the other agency so t hat the email stated t hat Page was ” not a source” for the other agency, which the FBI affiant relied upon in signing t he final renewal application;
Who was that lawyer and was he disbarred?
Also…
In the “impeachment investigation” we have heavily relied upon “everybody knew” as a standard of proof, despite nobody every saying any such thing. Now, we have this scenario. The guy they are looking in to is a CIA asset. Is there any chance that “everybody knew” that? I’d say those chances are very close to 100%
Also, did “everybody know” that Steele was working for Clinton and the DNC? The report says that nobody bothered to ask who paid for the work. That sounds … well, not believable. But roll with it. Maybe they didn’t ask because it was something that “everybody knew”?
Funny that a fairly brief and inconsequential inquiry into some fairly obvious corruption on the part of Biden and the Obama administration entirely hinges on “everybody knew” as proof that it was somehow improper, but a multi-year, multi tens of millions of dollars investigation that eventually proved conclusively that Trump was not involved with the Russians hinges on facts that were fairly important and obvious, and somehow “nobody knew” is the article of faith?
The Recommendations suck ass.
Like political questions aside, they don’t seem to address any of the glaring issues they found.
As I said in an earlier discussion – this fits perfectly into the genre of “police investigating themselves”. Every internal investigation into a bad police shooting comes up with second by second justifications that result in a finding of “procedures were followed”. If you are motivated to find a result, you can find it. One tactic is to zoom in really, really close and only examine fine details in isolation.
This IG kept asking “did you have a proper bit of paperwork for this action”. He never backed up and asked “what the hell were you doing?”, which is the question we ultimately want answered. So they filed all the paperwork… and some of it was fabricated or incomplete so they could get the result they wanted. But they did the right steps, so these are just errors.
No need to look at the bigger picture and see what the pattern of activity is.
Something, something, totality of circumstances…
The Recommendations suck ass.
“Thank you for your service. Keep up the good work.”