The best hockey manager ever (in my opinion), Scotty Bowman, was born on this day. He shares it with: Roman Emperor Trajan, Dr Samuel Johnson, actress Greta Garbo, comedic actor Fred Willard, rocker Dee Dee Ramone, scumbag Rick Pitino, actor James Gandolfini, uniballed-man Lance Armstrong, soccer player Ronaldo, and model Keeley Hazell. Feel free to fight me over the Scotty Bowman claim. But you’d be wrong.
A very big slate of games last night in the major leagues. At the top of the mountain, the Astros, Yankees and Dodgers all won. The Brewers and Nats won, while the Cubs and Cardinals lost. So the NL Central and Wild Card races got a little more interesting. In the AL, the Athletics won as did the Indians, with the Rays losing. SO that WC race is also getting hotter. Enjoy it, friends.
The UCL group matches started yesterday with Liverpool and Chelsea both falling. The big match today is Real-PSG. Have fun watching that. And if you’re a PSG supporter, be prepared to boo your best player. That seems to be in fashion over there.
OK, moving on to…the links!
Israel’s election still hangs in the balance. I’m kinda interested to see how this one turns out. Either way, I’m sure the Palestinians will send over several gifts to the winners and losers alike. Just kidding. Those won’t be gifts, they’ll be bombs.
That above story dovetails to this one. I, for one, am not surprised by this at all. When places like UCLA are telling Jews they have no business on the student council and ignorant BDS campus groups are popping up like mushrooms, with the wild-eyed support of morons like Ilhan Omar, AOC and a bunch of others…yeah, this is not surprising.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Or…”You fucked up. You trusted us.”
I guess there’s a different “three strikes” program if you’re a huge money bundler for Democrats. Drug use should be legalized, in my opinion. But damn, dude. you’re loaded. Find better shit for your houseguests.
This does not make me sad at all. Too bad this asshole will probably still have a Senate seat for life.
Wait…what? IS this kind of thing available to anybody that wasn’t wearing a uniform for a good part of their life? Also, the names of the parties just add to the weirdness. Thanks a lot, asshole.
And farther down the new wave rabbit hole we go….enjoy.
I tried not to be as depressing with the links today. I only partially succeeded. Either way, enjoy them. I’ll sit here trying to avoid the flooding that’s coming to much of the city. Have a great day, friends.
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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Or…”You fucked up. You trusted us.” – is that a reliable source?
And while some genetic diversity can help, super mosquito is a bit much
I’m Corn Pop!
It wouldn’t be the first time scientists fucked up in a genetic experiment. Look at what they did with the experiment known as “Michigan”.
They clearly fucked up when they did not expect any introduced genes to get to viable populations. Still.
In fairness, the perverse conditions of Michigan have created some really good breweries. Bells, Founder’s (fully acquired by a Spanish brewery now), Dark Horse (currently being acquired by Roak brewing), Jolly Pumpkin (worst named brewery ever), New Holland, and a couple more I’m forgetting this early in the morning.
I have mentioned it before but when one of the top beer bars in the nation, one with customers who know significantly more about beer than the average craft drinker, need to put up signs saying “Does not contain pumpkin”, you done fucked up with your name.
I really shouldn’t have named my brewery “Extra Diacetyl”.
I don’t think that really did you in – it was shortening it to ED that did it.
Is that where we went wrong? – Smart car ED marketing team.
Hell, I avoided trying their beers for a while for the same reason, I saw pumpkin and wrote it off. They’re in a partnership with two other Michigan breweries (one of the others being Traverse City Brewing). When Jolly Pumpkin wanted to release an IPA, they were forced to release it as a “collaboration” and have one of the other brewery names at the top of the label. They really do make some damn good beer though.
Michigan has hills… and lakes and some of the best beer in the world.
Ohio has – until you get near Tennessee – a flat boring wasteland filled with white trash yokels. 🙂
lakes are glorified puddles
My puddle is Superior to all other puddles
The crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald disagrees.
I guess Florence is “near Tennessee” in the same way that San Francisco is near Los Angeles.
I assume you mean Kentucky? And pretty much everything south of Columbus is Kentucky.
/looks north to Lake Erie.
And I’ll gladly throw some of Ohio’s beers against some of Michigan’s beers.
right-o ::reaches for another cup of coffee::
driving to North or South Carolina and Ohio is the least exciting part of the trip.
But… there’s corn fields, and corn fields, and did you see those cows? Assuming either 75 or 77?
Either way, there’s at least a couple of good breweries you’ll be passing by.
That is funny, considering we consider northern Ky to be Ohio.
Figured, no one want either of those sections. 🙂
/sorry Southern Ohio glibs
Then there’s the Toledo area, where Michigan and Ohio went to war over the city. I’ve joked that we lost, that’s why it’s part of Ohio.
That isnt a joke, I thought that was reality.
Nothing good in the State is north of Columbus, hell nothing good is north of Washington Courthouse.
The best airport in the state of Ohio is located in Kentucky.
I dunno that one but I have to say the Cleveland airport is pretty good.
John Glenn is awesome. You can get almost anywhere and it’s rarely busy.
Hey, Ohio has The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Because Cleveland rocks or something like that.
sucks, not rocks.
Take it back!
Once you are near Tennessee you are in Kentucky.
This is true. And I live in Ohio.
But Yoopers are a crime against humanity.
At the top of the mountain, the Astros, Yankees and Dodgers all won. The Brewers and Nats won, while the Cubs and Cardinals lost. So the NL Central and Wild Card races got a little more interesting. In the AL, the Athletics won as did the Indians, with the Rays losing. SO that WC race is also getting hotter. Enjoy it, friends. – due to reading this stuff in the links I googled some baseball and now google gave me a notification with baseball scores. I don’t want baseball scores. Although as a libertarian I should not say yes to all the tracking shit my smartphone does
Dodgers bull pen sucks muppet ass.
I’m shocked that every pundit out there keeps saying the Astros bullpen is gonna be a potential pennant-winner for them when it seems like every time they take Verlander or Cole out the bullpen gives up at least one run.
And speaking of pulling starters out, Roberts is addicted to micro-managing his arms. To me, the Dodgers have a better chance at winning by keeping a pitcher who is cruising in than pulling him out ‘because system’ and relying on a very iffy bull pen.
Hinch, from what I can tell and I may be wrong, is more than willing to go with his instincts and let a pitcher go deep.
You’re right. Which is why pulling a perfectly healthy JV last night after six outstanding innings of shutout ball and under 90 pitches is such a head-scratcher.
The pitch count nazi’s are so over the top these days. Think the context of when and how they threw those pitchs it far more important. IF they are redlining to get out of jams one or two times a game your going to have to pull someone before 100 pitches but like there really isn’t a discernible difference to me between 100-110.
Pitch count is the global warming of the MLB: there’s more noise than signal, and no amount of multivariate regression is going to predict a given pitcher’s weather on a given night.
the bullpen gives up at least one run
Shouldn’t it? You bring in a cadre that average at least 3ERA and pitch them for three innings; that’s a NPV of one run, right?
I don’t think they really care about pitch count. It’s the 3rd time through the order. The metrics say to pull almost every single pitcher in the league at that point. It used to be crazy to see a guy with 100 pitches in the fifth inning. Now it’s not a big deal because they’re pulling him regardless.
What I see in the NL is pitchers pulled around 22 TBF; 27 is excellent, and I think 30 is the most I’ve seen this year. So the gist is that pitchers are routinely seeing the top of the order a third time, getting beat up by same, and then and only then being taken out.
I wonder if with fewer fastballs today’s pitchers get more heat problems per pitch?
I disagree
I bet you do.
how much?
Its more of a long term strategy to keep the arms healthy. But at a certain point, you have to win this year.
Yeh I keep hearing that’s why they do it which is why I didn’t lose it too much when he pulled Ryu out the other night. There are concerns he’s ‘tiring out’.
I guess there’s logic to that except Roberts does in the playoffs too. If there’s a time to let ‘rested arms’ go it’s in the playoffs. He has too much faith in Baez-Urias-Kelly-Hansen.
The strategy worked in 1990. The Reds had Jose Rijo (his 1 healthy year) and 4 guys who could get to the 6th. Then in 7-8-9 they would go Charlton-Dibble-Myers.
The Nasty Boys won a World Series and teams keep thinking they can do the same.
In a roundabout way, there’s genius in how the Yankees are approaching things. Top heavy hitting and rock solid bull pen can withstand mediocre starting pitching. Sorta like how NFL teams have one with average QBs as long as they had other facets of the game so strong it offset it.
Relatively healthy: Rijo had 20 starts and 197 innings, which was good for him. 2.70 ERA.
29 starts, typo there.
All the BP’s suck ass this year. But nobody’s sucks as bad as the nats.
The Mariners would beg to disagree.
What the Brewers are doing is incredible. Counsel should be manager of the year but he’ll get shafted.
Is it OK to rape a pro-Israel college student? Asking for a college administrator on a kangaroo court.
Well if it is the kind that, if Israeli, would make it to one of those “hot women of the Israel army” web pages, than sure.
Depends are we talking rape rape, or regret?
It’s only ok if they’re 12 and you use drugs and alcohol to soften them up first.
Only in Milwaukee, apparently.
places like UCLA are telling Jews they have no business on the student council
Damned bigoted conservatives that control college student councils.
And yet, most Jewish people in general seem to support the left.
It’s all part of the fight against Nazis, like Trump.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Robby Soave tell us conservative snowflakes are just as bad at racism and curbing free speech to be sure.
I mean they probably would be if they had sufficient upper hand, to be fair 🙂
Yes. In the 80s the Christian right and social conservatives had the upper hand if not ever so briefly and even then the most popular nag was Tipper Gore wife of climate scammer Al Gore.
But they, I could be wrong, never held any kind of power on this level we see in academia and media (FOX notwithstanding).
That may be true, or it may not be. The thing is the left is actually trying to implement tyranny right now so I think it is silly equivocation to waste energy worrying about the Christian right.
MAGA hat wearing rednecks are out of control at UCLA! /average lefty
Aw, who wouldn’t trust a man in a bow-tie?
Yeah, who wouldn’t trust a man in a bow-tie?
Well shit, I have no idea how I did that.
You just lumped Bill Nye and Tucker Carlson together.
Honest mistake, to be fair.
And Paul Simon the Lesser.
AKA Art Garfunkel.
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Yes, I know you meant the late Senator from Illinois, but one just doesn’t get enough opportunities to say “Garfunkel” these days. Like “Garfunkel Self”.
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbAJp1YarfU
George Will has a sad.
George Will and Pee-Wee Herman hardest hit.
Damn those fast fingers. Or me not scrolling down.
Good morning and good luck, Sloopy.
It doesn’t terribly surprise me that Harris is down in this state — for one, because Yang is running UBI which has the double advantage of appealing to some of the Silicon Valley types who really have a thing for it and being FREE STUFF! after all. Plus, she just isn’t really all that popular from what I’ve seen…. rather she and Newsom have just been annointed over the last few years as The Ones by the state party — and with the craptastic Top 2 election system (and vote harvesting) there doesn’t seem all that much anyone can do about it. A serious challenge within the party might at least shake up that power structure… plus, when Feinstein actually looks sane compared to the rest of the candidates — there’s not that much to lose, especially in a US Senate seat that can presumably be reined in a bit by the rest of the country as opposed to Sacramento that can just do whatever it wants to the state. (And the unelected tyrants of CARB, of course).
Newsom was groomed from childhood to be..something big. He is a case study in how to build a politician from scratch.
The “Beta Test Beto” that actually succeeded.
I’m surprised he isn’t running for president. You know it’s coming.
Doubtful. It’s all about angling for electoral votes. And Team Blue doesn’t benefit from running someone from a state they’re a lock to win. That’s why “Joe Biden, native Pennsylvanian” is going to be a common media phrase in the coming 13.5 months.
We took a vote and revoked that title.
California distorts the national possibility of any homegrown politician. You are effectively governing inside a giant bubble.
In some odd way, this fact is sad and troubling.
By the way, anytime you take taxes and give it to someone else via whatever you want to call it be it UBI or welfare, it’s a form of enabling. Especially considering people like Yang just want to give money to everyone regardless of actual financial need. All you’re doing is conditioning people to further rely on government.
No kidding it’s popular. We’re already on that slope which isn’t even slippery anymore.
The slippery slopes are really starting to gain some traction.
“You don’t have to be disabled to get disability”
MN state motto
The people that promote this have never had to scrimp and save for a minute of their lives just to ensure there is cereal on the table and milk in the fridge for their kids. It’s an esoteric exercise for them.
My wife is slowly realizing the ’empty virtue signalling’ and ‘faux virtuous’ component of the culture wars in politics.
Yesterday, sports talk guys were talking about the new PI rule and how dumb it is and that that’s what happens when you hastily introduce a new rule based on an outlier incident (New Orleans-Rams).
Exactly. So why don’t people transfer this proper logic into POLITICS?
So we got to talking (and she’s completely apolitical to the point of me giving her the Louie Di Palma growl) and I used this to expand into other areas like gun control and still further into health and climate change.
Now she understand better where I’m coming from and realties her friends are just being animus when they talk gibberish about Trump.
Make that: Louie DE Palma and Saints-Rams or New-Orleans-Los Angeles.
Wifey’s the same. Apolitical but she does believe a lot of what her facebook friends spout off. She was pretty confused when I called AOC a cunte.
Oof. That’s another angle we talked about. The screams of ‘fascism’ and ‘racism’ are acts of projection and that the language (and poses) used by people like that cunte are straight outta the commie play book.
I also told her in this day and age, in my view, it’s completely unacceptable to have a vote and be clueless about these idiots.
She doesn’t vote.
Yang is just proving out his white* male privilege.
*Asians are now white since they are a minority that somehow thrives in such a horrible racist nation.
That girl from Berlin had some saucy pictures taken IIRC… Well worth the search.
who?
Terri Nunn?!?!
::switches to incognito mode to google::
Someone here linked a Penthouse(?) photo shoot a few months ago from before she made the big time. Yeah, it’s pretty great.
I’d ride her metro.
The modified mosquitoes were released in Jacobina in Brazil and were supposed to mix with the local population and decrease numbers with their weak offspring genetics.
Although the wild population did plummet for a short while, 18 months later it was right back up again.
This is mostly concerning because scientists think the new ‘super mosquitoes’ have properties that might make them harder to kill.
So you are saying it is time to bring back ddt.
Also, scientists should refrain from making the plots to horror movies a reality.
That’s some biting commentary, right there.
I think it sucks.
*narrows gaze*
You’re always itching to squint menacingly.
Incoming movie “Proboscis”. “You’re gonna need a bigger swatter”
There’s a lot of buzz in the movie industry about this film.
And, a stinging rebuke.
It’s gonna leave a mark.
“Also, scientists should refrain from making the plots to horror movies a reality.”
You’re funny.
Komodo dragons could be genetically engineered to make them larger and foreign tourists charged hundreds of dollars to see them under a proposal by an Indonesian governor
https://twitter.com/smh/status/1134976771063996416
Send modified dragons after the mosquitoes
Now they just have to figure out how to make them breathe fire. And fly.
It’s easier to just find tiny flying fire-breathing lizards and genetically engineer them to be larger and telepathic.
But what could you call the venue where the tourists would come to see them? Oh, something with a J. Reminiscent of prehistoric times,,,
Jewtastic Park? Seems an odd name for a place in Indonesia, though.
(((Rassic))) Park?
They need to genetically modify some chick to be their mother and control them.
NO! I will tolerate wasps, hornets, jelly fish, even that fish that swims into your junk and lodges there. But Komodo dragons need to be wiped off the planet. They are the most vile creatures on earth.
They could start a theme park and charge a dollar and a half just to see them.
I heard they paved that place.
Put up a parking lot.
>>This is mostly concerning because scientists think the new ‘super mosquitoes’ have properties that might make them harder to kill.
Are they wearing Mithril chainmail?
No, they just used some of the DNA from Ed Buck’s boyfriends.
They are, apparently, not very hard to kill.
They seem to perish rather easily.
Way too late to get this in last evening/night’s side discussion about ebook formats.
It’s not perfect, but take a look at Calibre. Free, powerful, easy to use, and features tofrom format conversions for most if not all ebook formats. It won’t help with DRM, but has been a solid tool in my arsenal.
Ohhh, thanks for telling me about this. I missed it, but am obviously interested.
I used Calibre, it had some trouble with some pdfs but overall worked fine.
I Haaaaaaate Calibre.
If you think and organize your shit the same way as the guy who deisgned it, you’re gold.
If you want to do ANYthing differently, you’re SoL.
I can see that. But I avoided the issue by using it solely as a format converter.
Once in a very rare while I will correct author/title on downloaded materials that are messed up, but that’s it.
I was using it as a format converter, and I still ended up in fits of apoplexy trying to make it work in the way I wanted it to.
Now I use InDesign, and my blood pressure is lower.
/caveat – I create content from scratch so I’m not starting with other people’s work.
Fair enough. As with all tools YMMV.
(NEVER ask what the proper sharpening angle is for chef’s knifes — someone will pull out a gun sooner than you expect.)
You’d think pulling a knife would be a better way of settling the argument.
Always bring a gun to a knife fight.
Robc gets it.
You mean 18 degrees, right?
There used to be some add on scripts to help with the DRM, but I’m not sure they still work.
The latest Emerson poll shows Andrew Yang gaining some steam — so much so, he’s beating Sen. Kamala Harris in the state she represents.
Someone is just Yanging your chain.
NONE OF THAT NOW!
Lee Van Cleef has to rank right up there with Dirk Bogarde, Rock Hudson and Vincent Van Price as one of the greatest Hollywood actor names ever coined.
Peter O’Toole. Although maybe that’s better as a porn name…
No love for Rip Torn?
Dang! Was on the tip of my tongue.
Vincent Van Price? The one-eared actor?
Are you making a racist eyes joke! So triggered!
Well, there’s a faction of hockey pundits who say Toe Blake is the greatest but I think a case for Bowman speaks for itself.
Heck, I think he’s one of the all-time great coaches in all of North American pro sports period.
I always hated the Habs but this is an unassailable fact.
Sorry, Joe McGrath is the greatest GM of all time.
2 words: Gordon Bombay
Herb Brooks beat the commies. He wins period.
Herbie, Bowman, Quenneville, Badger Bob, Sather, Arbour…
Hard to pick a best, but I’ll go with your assessment. I still watch Miracle at least once a year.
If you ain’t punched Kevin Gilbride on national TV you can’t be the best pro sports coach ever. dont @ me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_BY67xkLuEOld time hockey! Toe Blake, Dick Clapper, Eddie Shore, those guys were the greats!
“Reg. Reg, that reminds me. I was coachin’ in Omaha in 1948 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy that’s a terrible masturbator. Couldn’t control himself. He would get deliberate penalties so he could get into the penalty box all by himself, and damned if he wouldn’t, you know… “
Ass Wednesday provides a brief, fleeting reprieve from the soul-crushing meaninglessness.
http://archive.li/qM1SC
Couldn’t wait 8 more minutes?
I’m an ass man but I’m also at work. ::shakes “fist” in anger::
Could be worse, you might be “shaking” it at clouds.
How about you switch things up and share some photos of women accomplishing goals? Huh? How about that?
Maybe this is the best they can hope for.
What makes you think these these women are not accomplishing their goals?
Here you go Crusty. Mission accomplished
Who are you to question what their goals are?
Don’t mansplain to them, you patriarch!
Invasion of the money snatchers
“There’s not been a president in living history that is as unpopular in the state of California as Trump,” said Mike Madrid, a GOP political consultant and outspoken Trump critic. “But, our money spends the same as everyone else’s.”
With protesters not far away, Trump kicked off his moneymaking Tuesday with a $3 million Bay Area luncheon, to be followed by a $5 million Beverly Hills dinner at the home of real estate developer Geoffrey Palmer. He’s expected to bring in an additional $7 million on Wednesday with a breakfast in Los Angeles and luncheon in San Diego.
In all, about 100 protesters lined the road about a mile from Trump’s luncheon site in Portola Valley, with demonstrators inflating giant Baby Trump and Trump Chicken balloons. Protesters were kept at bay along the road by Secret Service agents.
According to The Mercury News, as Trump’s motorcade roared by, filmmaker Ralph King hoisted a hand-written sign reading “you are not welcome here” and said “it’s offensive that Trump is bringing his toxic message into our backyard.”
How dare he defy the will of rich California limousine liberals? It’s an outrage.
“you are not welcome here”
You’re not my bartender!
>>about 100 protesters lined the road about a mile
that’s a thin line
I’m just shocked the media didn’t count the bums sleeping three-deep along the entire route as “protesters”.
100 protestors? That’s a pretty weak turnout in such a rabidly blue state.
Yeah, the entire media, education, and political establishments need to up their hate game.
Maybe Soros wasn’t notified in time so no (promises of) checks were sent.
They had two busses full of supporters here at the airport. No protesters visible.
you are not welcome here
Such tolerance.
inflating giant Baby Trump and Trump Chicken balloons
I say it all the time but I still don’t get this. He’s a baby because he rhetorically defends himself? He’s chicken because he is afraid of, idk, the press? He talks to the press all the time giving impromptu press conferences. He’s a baby and a chicken but also an evil criminal mastermind? Make up your minds people.
“Do you have any idea how much the ‘Criminal Mastermind’ balloon costs?!!”
A person has to have a lot of “fuck you” money to host a Trump fundraiser in Beverly Hills. That’s a ticket to endless ostracism, harassment, etc.
The biggest shock to me was that there’s a Beverly Hills real estate developer that’s not an Armenian.
Go home, Joe. You’re
drunksenile.“Why in god’s name shouldn’t we provide an $8,000 tax credit for everybody who has childcare costs,” Biden told an audience at the AFL-CIO of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s presidential summit. “It would put 720 million women back into the work force.”
We’re gonna need a bigger kitchen.
Well with the billion jobs created by green new deals, all those women will come in handy
ZPG advocates hardest hit?
What about the ZFT?
Joe Biden is in favor of large tax cuts?
“720 million women”
Ladies and gentlemen, your leading Democratic candidate for President.
Was this covered?
https://twitter.com/preta_6/status/1172978070518546433
I got
Shaping tenderness: queering the feminine queerness
Imagining sexualities: Critiquing the new future.
Sure. Whatever.
Is that meant to be serious?
Is a joke meant to be serious? Ehm no?
Who can tell anymore?
Exactly. If that’s meant to be a serious way to approach academics….
The corrosion and erosion of our standards in the West will be accelerated.
You need to queer more in your daily life
“My name is Duca, I live on the lower floor”…
Some idiot tried that yesterday.
Happiness is a warm gun and how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb and if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, eh?
Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump got in some fresh digs about the state’s problem with homelessness, saying, “We can’t let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what’s happening.”
He added, “The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up, and we’re looking at it, and we’ll be doing something about it.”
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, said in a Facebook video post ahead of Trump’s arrival that he hoped the president would work with the city to end homelessness. He said he had not been invited to meet with the president.
The mayor was speaking at one of an eventual 26 housing facilities being built to transition people from life on the streets.
“President Trump: we have to press pause on politics, confront the homelessness crisis, and save lives now,” Garcetti said. “I wanted to talk to him a little bit as if he had come down here to South LA to understand and to hear the challenges we face and ways that Washington, D.C. — instead of demonizing us — might be able to actually come and help us.”
If we just had more money to throw at them…
There is no interest in solving the problem, they only want to move the problem to areas most people aren’t going to see. No reason we can’t set up a caravan and send the problem people to, say, Guatemala.
Well, except for the fancy new
homeless sheltersassisted living units SF and NYC are building in wealthy neighborhoods. To share the burden, you see.Richmond, VA – Just saw an odd bumper sticker which soon resolved into an image of a granite plinth denuded of the sculpture it was erected to support. We have an ongoing controversy here about the statues of dead confederates in the broad medians of aptly named Monument Avenue. But we all know the goal is not to remove the offensive statues but to replace them with statues of people who comport with modern sensibilities. Before the first layer of pigeon shit calcifies I guarandamntee you that there will be demands to erect new statues. But even leaving the plinths as the sticker suggests is it’s own form of smug triumphalism.
Yep. Every time they drive past will be a trouser expanding experience.
I haven’t followed it much lately, but there’s just no way in hell theyre gonna take down the statues on Monument Avenue.
Jesus, can’t they just move the goddamn cannons further west and stick a bunch of new statues out there? Willow Lawn needs something to attract people anyway.
Just build a GIGANTIC Arthur Ashe statue to envelop all of the yucky ones in shadow.
Isn’t the one we already have of him threatening children with a tennis racket bad enough?
They have already wasted god knows how many dollars renaming Boulevard as Arthur Ashe Boulevard, something no one who’s lived here for any length of time will ever call it.
Willow Lawn is all renovated now into the kind of outdoor malls you see everywhere. Very Stuff White People Like now. The dark, empty, vaguely frightening place I remember from my youth is no more. They’re doing the same thing to Regency Square now.
I had lunch at Legends Grille there six weeks ago or so. It was so average I wanted to punch my buddy for picking where I’d take him to lunch.
That whole place sucks now. And the Dicks there is the only one in the area that doesn’t sell ammo, the bastards. Not that it mattered because Colonial Shooting Academy makes you buy all rifle ammo from them now.
You were in town and didn’t invite any of us? For shame, sir.
I thought CSA always made you buy their ammo.
The rise of ‘eco-anxiety’: Climate change affects our mental health, too
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2019-09-eco-anxiety-climate-affects-mental-health.html
So they’re agreeing with me that they are out of their collective minds? That’s a good first step.
Yes, but it is all your fault. Why won’t you embrace Climate Change? You are practically doing violence to them. Now they have justification to kill you.
I don’t enjoy hate-watching both teams, so I’ll pass.
As for Neymar, I can’t imagine what a jerk he has to be to cause that. Actually, I can.
Hitler the Progressive
DUH.
^
“precisely because it cast aside the restraints of Christian morality and duty, liberated many ideas from ancient, sometimes despised limits which turned out, in the end, to be wise and kind.”
It’s still early for me. I’ve read this several times. What does this mean?
I think he’s obliquely referring to the Nietzschean aspects of National Socialism which are overblown (in my opinion).
Wannafud?
It’s almost as if Gregor Strasser was real and actually existed!
UBI: I’ve heard quasi-libertarian arguments in favor of it in which if it replaced *all* forms of government assistance, it could be viable. Naturally I would prefer all forms of assistance be eliminated with no replacement but I can see how some people might think the UBI is better. However, we all know that it would never be implemented in such a way.
The price tag is still higher, even with zero administative costs.
And the experiment in Finland showed that, shock, people will work less when they get free money.
This is before we even get to talking about entrenched interests in the way things work now.
well yes.
I mean if there was an UBI I prefer my idea of getting 100 months of it over lifetime.
However, we all know that it would never be implemented in such a way.
Well, no, because it wouldn’t change the thinking and behaviors that make people poor in the first place. They would still make bad choices, have no sense of deferred gratification, not operate within a planned budget, etc. So they would end up blowing their monthly UBI within a week, and then the problem of them and their kids going hungry, lacking necessities, etc. would need to be addressed with the usual programs in addition to UBI.
Until you can force government out of charity, it’ll keep making bad plans and creating perverse incentives.
“the problem of them and their kids going hungry, lacking necessities, etc.”
Social Darwinsts would say that if your kids die because you blew your UBI on booze and drugs then that is an appropriate outcome. The older and more cynical I get, the harder it is for me to find problems with that line of reasoning.
My wife wonders why I fail to get upset about news sob stories. I just realize the limitations of my influence on society.
On the sob stories, it’s just math to me. That somewhere at least one American is doing something incredibly ill-advised to the detriment of self and family all while someone else is getting the video on their phone should be occurring roughly four times a minute all day every day.
People who don’t understand this should be made to sweep the shoulders of busy intersections until they get sick of it: oh, another shard of translucent plastic from yet another wreck. . . . five ticks . . . oh look, yet another . . . five ticks . . .
“Fuck off! I’m tired today!” Actual utterance heard while trying to get a sluggard up to work for $70/hr. Some people revel in sloth.
An employee?
We’re getting some good old fashioned women’s drama at work.
Anyone who says they’re not impacted by a problem employee is lying. That’s why I don’t buy ‘he’s not a distraction’ bit whenever an athlete stirs trouble for a team.
Sure everyone goes on with their work but there’s an under current of psychology at play and you need to deal with it.
Forestry contract with creamy ground. I finished it myself which did the company no good but enriched my coffers immensely. Fuck you if you’d rather sit up all night watching movies and smoking weed, I have a mortgage.
And yes, poison employee is poison, no matter what line of work that you’re in.
“Fuck off, you’re fired today!”
An appropriate response?
Yeah — part of the thinking of the Valley types that are into it is that automation/AI is going to idle large percentages of the workforce. Hence, there won’t be anything they *can* do for some subset and there won’t be that much work to do outside of AI/robot maintenance. IIF we get to that point, there’s a thought that UBI would allow for artistry / creative endeavors that AI can’t/won’t do or retraining to something a human could find work for (they’d be thinking Star Trek economy, I suppose — only with UBI instead of energy rich / replicators everywhere scarcity removal).
It is an interesting thought experiment in that regard. Personally — I think we’ve all heard the “automation will put everyone out of work!” spiel too many times since Watt and his steam engine to buy it — and as a programmer, I have zero faith in AI actually taking over anything but rote data analysis… so I suppose we’ll see.
Things rarely – if ever – go according to theory and plans.
Yeah — anyone who remembers the Itanium compilers and all the hand-waving about how the speculative execution branch prediction would make the performance great for anything but comparison to PA-RISC 2 should know that one.
JM Keynes predicted his grandchildren would have like a 2 day work week. And he would be right, if his grandkids would be willing to have no automobile, no access to antibiotics or medical imaging, no synthetic fabrics, access only to food that is “in season” (which my kids don’t even know is a thing) and grown within 100 miles, no data network access, and maybe one long distance phone call a month.
Search for Adversarial Patch attacks on nueral networks, and you’ll see why self driving cars will not be a thing for a long time
I can see how some people might think the UBI is better.
It’s worse because a vast majority of poverty can’t be solved with a checkbook. UBI would be the single biggest setback to addicts of various sorts (pharmaceutical, financial, etc.) in American history.
Actually UBI might be just the ticket to get the homies that only sell a little on the side the incentive to get out their momma’s apartment. Everyone would have that extra monthly Yang Grand to budget some better quality product. Maybe pay in cash to eliminate the check cashing business.
Words don’t have meaning, words have usage.
Paging HM. HM to the red courtesy phone please.
Is red courtesy when they forgive the bill for the bullet?
He only answers this phone
Police hunt man linked to spate of Wollongong sex attacks
Crikey!
Unpopular opinion: without physical contact, indecent exposure is not sexual assault
Sure, something less but not really a victim-less crime. How would you react if someone did that to your Mom or your wife or even worse, your kids?
Well I don’t have a wife but if I did, she probably could handle it. It would be gross but meh. As long as there was 0 physical threat and not to much verbal abuse.
You and I grew up in different worlds, Friend Pie.
Probably.
Pie is Louis CK?
If done properly taking your dick out can make someones day.
Probably kinder to never stick it in then Crusty.
Never! I just press it up against the glass at a bakery and then ask for an item inside the glass, so when the lady behind the counter bends over and reaches into the display case she gets a fun surprise.
A woman customer reported a flasher to me back when I worked. She said she wasn’t impressed.
I saw Sabbath with ozzy back in ’07 ish and he mooney the camera. It showed on the jumbotron. I felt assaulted.
Supplemental question: if this guy does it and it’s sexual assault, why is it different when people flash their junk during parades when people walking down the sidewalk aren’t necessarily wanting their kids exposed to it?
Oh yeah…diversity.
Lots of normal behavior become a real thinker when you intentionally turn your autism up to 11 and pretend that there isn’t a social context for social interactions. News at 11.
The Kissing Burglar wouldn’t stand a chance today.
Wollongong Sex Attack: band or album name?
I’m thinking band.
First album – Crikey! First hit song – Act of Indecency.
Andrew Yang’s use of Asian stereotypes is reinforcing toxic tropes.
His one-liners about “math” and “doctors” ultimately send a troubling message.
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1174032796593152000
“Problematic” xe observed while simultaneously beating xer child with a violin bow and busily clicking an abacus…
Oh do please not-at-all-racistly voxsplain to us what Asian-Americans should not be allowed to talk about.
“Conservatives are stupid. I hate them!” said Vox writer Ian Millhiser, expressing a common sentiment.
I was especially shocked when he kept saying to a listener, “don’t worry – I won’t go pee-pee in your Coke.”
Vox is the NowThis of of “news”. And NowThis is the most dishonest and retarded shit on the internet.
How dare he? He’s supposed to die like a good little peasant!
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/09/17/self-defense-via-assault-weapon-three-masked-teens-open-fire-georgia-homeowner-dont-live-regret/
But, but, those guns with the shoulder thing that goes up are only good for mass murder!!11!!!!!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
Bath Tory candidate condemns social media abuse after son called ‘poster boy for Hitler youth’
I heard of High Tory but not of Bath Tory
Huh. I wonder why the twitter troll hasn’t been arrested.
It was Jeremy Corbyn.
Speaking of California
The Trump administration is expected this week to revoke an Obama-era waiver that allowed California to set its own standards for automobile emissions — a move that could derail a years-long push to produce more fuel efficient cars.
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derail a years-long push to produce more fuel efficient cars.
Speaking on Tuesday to the National Automobile Dealers Association, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler telegraphed the planned announcement, saying the administration embraced federalism, “but federalism does not mean that one state can dictate standards for the nation.”
You don’t say.
Also- I like how they frame that: “derail a years-long push to produce more fuel efficient cars.” Maybe, just maybe, people are looking for a rational balance between fuel efficiency and utility. Those stupid consumers keep buying trucks and SUVs, despite the fact that they get less than 40mpg, just so they can haul their kids and toys around. That’s why we cannot allow the “market” to decide.
The whole thing is stupid anyway. “Fleet average” doesn’t account for what is actually sold and is therefor on the road.
It does account for what # is sold, using a harmonic mean, which is meant to keep a small number of very efficient vehicles from driving up the overall average.
Car companies have used rental fleet sales to act as a driver to make their numbers look better, though.
It’s worse than that: fleet average says little about fuel consumption, which is the supposed target.
If you sell equal quantities of vehicles that get 20 and 40 MPG, that fleet doesn’t “average” 30MPG; 26.67MPG is the actual result.
For this reason, the CAFE game if fairly tapped out for internal combustion.
Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch reveals swinging ‘saved’ his marriage to Mollie Gates
I’m sexual, too.
I’m guessing his wife will go along with it until his career fades after Silicon Valley ends.
I seriously get neither wanting to share this information with others (as the actor) nor giving a flying flip about it as a reader.
Just another way I’m apparently a weirdo in society… 😉
I’m sorry you’re going through this.
Pervert.
Huh… I was expecting this one.
“We argue over it constantly[…]perpetual state of management and communication”
Over/under on this lasting another 3 years?
$5 on the under.
Mollie is cute.
From the sidebar: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2006870/Video-Drunk-woman-carried-mobility-scooter-city.html
LOL
From the headline I expected the woman to be carrying the scooter.
You lied to me, daily fail.
The Gig Economy Is About Coercion, Not Freedom and ‘Flexibility’
Forcing people at gunpoint to work for Uber!
People aren’t smart enough to realize they are being taken advantage of.
But of course! That’s why we need TOP MEN! after all.
A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible & Inexpensive, Scientists Find
https://observer.com/2019/09/moon-space-elevator-lunar-exploration-columbia-study/
But the Columbia study differs from previous proposal in an important way: instead of building the elevator from the Earth’s surface (which is impossible with today’s technology), it would be anchored on the moon and stretch some 200,000 miles toward Earth until hitting the geostationary orbit height (about 22,236 miles above sea level), at which objects move around Earth in lockstep with the planet’s own rotation.
Dangling the space elevator at this height would eliminate the need to place a large counterweight near Earth’s orbit to balance out the planet’s massive gravitational pull if the elevator were to be built from ground up. This method would also prevent any relative motion between Earth’s surface and space below the geostationary orbit area from bending or twisting the elevator.
A cable 22k miles long is ludicrously impractical. but one 200k? Totes doable.
Especially made from our tried and tested lunar manufacturing base.
Plus — a good chuck of the impetus for the elevator as a concept is that getting out of the *deeper* gravity well cheaply is kind of the point. If you have to get to geostationary by conventional means, you’re most of the way there for trans-lunar insertion anyway, aren’t you?
Bring back <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb"nuclear closed-cycle already and be done with it.
Crap. Try that again, Gilmore.
SF.
Bill Weld is the best possible Trump challenger
Well, Weld is a grifter and a liar so he just might have a chance (just kidding, he has a snowball’s chance in hell).
Weld is widely respected
*citation needed*
Nice strawman.
No kidding.
Bill Weld, notorious dyed in the wool libertarian that correctly, responsibly and habitually endorsed Her Shrillness for president.
“I will vouch for Mrs. Clinton”
“climate change is a hoax; Weld believes that the protection of natural resource”
Note the shift from “preventing climate change” to “protecting natural resources”. Those two aren’t the same.
The campaign ads write themselves “A vote for Bill is a vote for Hillary”
:Bravo:
Sounds like a quixotic endeavor that will end in defeat. Weld is the perfect man for the job.
What awaits us instead may be a sort of “gig authoritarianism.”
Those people would be better off as sharecroppers.
sharecropping was steady work
heh
That Ed Buck fellow apparently has a fetish for binding guys and giving them near lethal doses of various drugs so he can jerk off to their reaction to them. I’m all for personal responsibility and drug legalization too but what he’s doing is borderline attempted/actual murder.
/jerks off passing out. Wakes up.
‘Wha happened?
I’m sure Harris will call for an investigation any minute now.
Good morning Sloopy and good morning to the rest of you lovable deviants!
There is a special place in Hell waiting for those scientists. After the wettest summer in recent memory, I am ready to carpet bomb the state with DDT. Fuck mosquitos.
On the bright side, Terri Nunn is awesome! Another good one.
Make it a great day, people!
Those 80’s videos were such pure cheese. I kinda miss ’em.
Not really my kind of music but I always liked Berlin for some reason.
If you’ve got access to morally flexible chemistry grad students, Propoxur is a better way to go.
Back before all this woke nonsense, we realized that there were only two enantiomers – propohim and propoher.
*strongly narrows gaze*
This one
The trouble is…
Tuesday on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Democrats’ will win the House, retake the presidency and “hopefully” flip the Senate in the 2020 election.
While discussing strengthening the Affordable Care Act, Pelosi said, “When we win and I anticipate that we will win the House, and hopefully win the Senate and certainly win the White House — but in the course of all of that, let’s use our energy to have health care for all Americans.”
…Democrats are insane and they rule with an iron fist when elected.
We have health care for all Americans. We might not have health insurance for all Americans, but some don’t want it. I wish these jerks would stop conflating the two.
let’s use our energy to have health
care for allrationing for 99% of AmericansTrump Feuds With Lindsey Graham Over ‘Weak’ Iran Policy
Trump and Rand vs all!
Lord have mercy do I wish SC would get rid of Graham. The man’s a menace.
He grew a pair during the Kavanaugh hearings but they seem to have receded back into his body. McCain still pulling them strings, apparently.
He actually has balls when it comes to foreign policy issues and he’s willing to butt heads, he’s just on the wrong side almost every time.
‘Do you have white teenage sons? Listen up’: How racist groups are recruiting boys online
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/do-you-have-white-teenage-sons-listen-up-how-racist-groups-are-recruiting-boys-online-20190918-p52sg0.html
At first, it wasn’t obvious that anything was amiss. Kids are naturally curious about the complicated world around them, so Joanna Schroeder wasn’t surprised when her boys, 14 and 11, recently started asking questions about timely topics such as cultural appropriation and transgender rights.
But she sensed something off about the way they framed their questions, she says – tinged with a bias that didn’t reflect their family’s progressive values. – perish the thoght.
But I linked this because it still amuses me so called news sites make stories out of twat tweets
So, white teenage males, who are constantly bombarded with how awful they are simply for being white, and male, may be open to a potential backlash against their demonization?
Shocking.
“Stop hitting yourself!”
Or simply no not aitomatically become progs like mommy dearest
The irony is that the surest way to inoculate the kids against white supremacy would almost certainly render the kids immune to the progressive idiocy, as well. A recognition of the worth of the individual as the unit of judgement and value provides a universal standard that rejects white supremacy. Progressive elevation of collective white guilt only diverges from white supremacy in the choice of in and out groups. And I doubt it’s terribly difficult for the white supremacists to flip that switch when the kids’ own parents’ ideologies utterly devalues their humanity.
And they’re rebelling against the family politics?
OMG
+1 Skrewdriver and all of those other BNP groups.
My son know damn well who hates him.
But they haven’t been bombarded enough to get them to admit that there are five fingers, so in this sensitive time its important that you don’t let them get exposure to ideas that “feel” more like the truth even though the party has explained that they are not truth.
So happy my mom was completely apolitical.
Teens interested in alternative/transgressive ideas = NOTZEEZ!
Earth to stupid twat: they’re teenage boys. They’re going to do stuff to piss you off and the more you try to control them, the more they’ll rebel. Dumb bitch.
Abortions Reach All-Time Low Since Roe v. Wade — And It’s Probably Because Of Obamacare
Thanks, President Obama!
I didn’t realize that women could only get access to birth control through their insurance plans.
Or that condoms were so unaffordable.
That matches a trend, too, that predates the Affordable Care Act.
So, right there in the article, they note the trend did not change with the advent of Obamacare.
Oh look another Conservative who is not willing to acknowledge President Obama’s good work. I wonder why that is…?
…because there is little to none of it?
If you like your fetus…
My Huawei phone took a dive last night thanks to my daughter and the screen is smashed. I guess I no longer have to worry about the Chinese stealing all of my secrets, but it was a great phone otherwise.
Anyway, phone shopping sucks.
My screen has 2 years of being broken and i need a new phone. I hated the s8 so no more samsung. I can get a zenfone 5 for a good price now but am unsure
I’ve been very happy with OnePlus.
I’m a couple models behind (5T), but it’s been rock solid, so I have no need to upgrade. It’s my second and I will most likely buy another if this one dies.
I just picked up the One Plus Pro 7 5g. Pretty solid, except the built in battery optimization creates a headache. Much less bloat than the Samsung phones.
How’s the camera? My son has the newest Pixel and it’s excellent. That is one thing that might motivate me to get one sooner.
Pretty good so far. Haven’t had the chance to take a lot of pictures yet. I considered holding out for the next pixel. But from everything I’m hearing the specs aren’t worth the price.
I went with the Pixel 3aXL. Compared to the price of the 3, and the (estimated) price of the 4, I figured it was worth it.
What makes OnePlus a good Chinese company and Huawei a bad one?
Great question that I can’t answer. I bought solely on rep and value. All before the spying thing, though.
As much as I don’t like google spying on me, a chinese modified version of Android sounds like double spying.
I just went with the Samsung A50 and am quite satisfied.
I’ve had three Notes: I never had an iPad, Note was the first to go big screen, and the early versions offered processing power and office suite on the road.
But now the toys and apps are orders of magnitude cooler than I ever imagined or needed. A50 is essentially saying that you’re happy with where apps got about three years ago, which is to say: pretty much everything you have today . . . but A50 is half the price of the the Galaxy S10 due to a slightly less beefy processor. Oh, the ratings where they say the battery lasts a long time: true: I need to charge it every third day usually.
How is the bloatware on it?
I’m probably the wrong guy to ask, and, anyway, one man’s bloatware is another man’s freedom fighter. My old Note was banged up with two hits to the screen, but I only got rid of it because of a vacuum leak, it was starting to grind going into third, and problems with the charger port.
I don’t notice any performance difference from my Note, and the battery lasts forever, so, for a gear head, my rating is Good Enuff.
It’s a Samsung…
I can deal with, but not be happy, about their desire to “add” value by customizing the UI.
However, it is guaranteed there will be a Samsung store, a Samsung media player, a Samsung screen cast app, a Samsung news program, and bunch of other crap.
Usually they have awesome hardware, but I’ve had enough of the bloat. Currently happy with an Essential Phone that I picked up cheap after the company blew to pieces.
My next phone will likely be a Pixel.
Disguised vaping devices are hoodwinking parents and schools
OUR KIDS ARE DYING AND NO ONE CARES
IT’S MADNESS!
Offer a skittles hoodie.
This is why I assume bluster and distraction until something actually happens.
Trump warned citizens of “radical left Democrats” pushing regulations, higher taxes, and constraints on free speech.
He observed that “left-wing Democrats want to confiscate your guns and eliminate your God-given right to self-defense.”
Trump added, “As your president, I will never allow them to take away your liberty, your dignity, … and I will never, ever, allow them to take away your sacred right to keep and bear arms.”
On September 15, 2019, Breitbart News reported Trump’s warning that Democrats want to “confiscate” guns.
CBS News quoted Trump saying, “Democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans.” He added any that Democrat success in the confiscatory push means law-abiding citizens will be “totally defenseless when somebody walks into their house with a gun.”
Trump saying, “Democrats want to confiscate guns from law-abiding Americans.”
Snopes and Politifact rate this “false”, because reasons.
If they outlaw certain weapons the people that hold onto those weapons will be criminals therefore the law-abiding part is patently false.
I don’t believe anything he says but his confabulations are a little more palatable then what the Dems are serving up. We’re all just waiting for RBG to pass from this mortal coil so it’s all a sideshow until that inevitably happens.
I making sure to keep popcorn and booze stocked. I may even take off work to watch the confirmation hearing in the event Trump gets a another scotus pick.
I am*
Sometimes I wonder if they have lined up a body double for RBG in case she passes a few months before the election. Make up some story to keep the ball rolling until they know if the D-candidate will be taking over January 2021 and then announce RBG’s “death” as if she passed in December 2020 when it’s too late for a lame duck president to do anything about it.
+1 Konstantin Chernenko
Only works if they are banking on Trump losing to one of the loonies, which is not exactly a sure thing.
If Trump wins they can just bail on the plan and pretend that RBG died soon after the election. It won’t get them what they want but – as long as they don’t get caught – it doesn’t really cost them anything.
Even if they do get caught, it will cost them nothing. It’s not like any of these Dem corruptocrats are ever held accountable.
Four more years of Weekend at Ruthies?
More than a little, IMO. “We renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country” and “I will never, ever, allow them to take away your sacred right to keep and bear arms” is miles better than anything any Democrat is offering up.
a body double for RBG
She is rather . . . unique looking. Would probably require extensive surgery.
Latex Halloween mask wouldn’t be over the top.
A Michael Meyers mask with glasses would be sufficient.
Just need to work on the stooped stance.
You’ll never work in this town again!
“When I heard Beto’s now infamous statement in the debate last week … my first thought was thank god he lost to Ted Cruz,” Patrick wrote in a statement. “Because the Texas press never asked him any serious questions in that race, it wasn’t clear until now what a radical left-winger he is – the most radical of all the looney leftists and socialists currently running for president.”
“My second thought was he will never be a threat to Texas politics again,” he continued. “He’s stuck in tiny single digits in the polls, so he’s not going to be president, but now the Democrats can’t even put him on the ticket with the hope that he will help win Texas. He’s a gun confiscator – he’s done in our state.“
“And farther down the new wave rabbit hole we go….enjoy.”
How about some great Cold Wave?
Nice. Reminds me of this one I found recently.
A Sheriff Allegedly Tried To Have His Deputy Killed To Cover Up A Racist Recording
These murder things…
felony obstruction of justice
But no charge for an underlying crime. So (a) the process charge is bullshit, IMO, and (b) why not charge for anything else?
I have no problem with the SALT limitation (I would even question why state and local taxes are deductible at all?*) but there are 2 problems with the way they were implemented.
1. They create a marriage penalty, as the limit is 10k for single or married.
2. It is not indexed like every other thing in the tax code.
These mistakes have been made over and over again in the tax code, how they keep making them is beyond me. You would think that those 2 things would be default language in the template.
*it turns out the initial plan did eliminate it altogether, but the impact was going to be too high. The funny thing is, the impact is only on the upper classes, as lower classes aren’t going to reach the standard deduction anyway, in most cases.
Actually, given New Jersey’s insanely high property taxes combined with the state income tax, it’s quite easy for the middle class to hit and exceed the $10,000 limit.
The middle class is still one of the upper 3 classes.
Thinking in terms of quintiles.
Well then it’s also one of the lower 3 classes. But it’s not actually lower or upper class, it’s middle. The vast majority of people who are neither rich nor poor. The point being that in states like NJ, the vast majority get hit by the limit, not just the upper class or well-off.
I have a recommendation: leave NJ.
I thought I was going to get hit with it due to my new job, but property tax is so low in SC compared to KY, that it still won’t happen. My new job is moving me from lower to mid 4th quintile. SC income tax is a bit higher*, as is sales tax, but I think the property tax difference is going to offset that. Also, no local income tax in SC, so that more than offsets the difference in income tax by itself.
*maybe, Ky changed to a flat 5% with few deductions allowed, while SC tops out at 7%, but looks like they follow federal style deductions. I will know more after I do taxes for 2019. And really, after 2020 when I do them for a full year in SC.
Looking at ranking SC is about 13th in taxes, while KY is 38th. So pretty clearly a lower tax environment.
NJ is 39th.
The chart is interesting though, it is based on median income in the state:
Effective State and local tax rate”
SC 9%
KY 12.3%
NJ 12.4%
But, the tax on the states median income:
SC $4400
KY $5600
NJ $11,100
So the median Jerseyite is over the Salt limit, but the median jerseyite is making twice the median Kyian.
Reverse engineering the numbers:
Median SC – 49k
Median KY – 46k
Median NJ – 90k
The median NJ household is solidly in the 4th quintile.
Do they not count the unemployed in their medians?
@robc. This is why comparing incomes/etc accross the country will get people into trouble. I’m sure the cost of living is also a bit higher in NJ. You’d need to do some PPP to get a fairer comparison.
I believe so. HH income is HH income, even when zero.
I think benefits also count towards the income.
You’d need to do some PPP to get a fairer comparison.
Of course, but our federal tax system doens’t do that.
When comparing cost of living, defining a standard size house on a standard size lot is hard.
Census says NJ median household income is $74,176, not 90k.
Table H 08 at the link
Kentucky iss $54,555.
South Carolina is $57,444
Sorry, the numbers you’d come up with just didn’t sound right. I had to look it up.
Who you gonna believe, the census bureau or some random website I found and then me calculating the numbers backwards from its entries?
Now if you can find a link to census bureau state and local tax collections, we can calculate the real numbers.
For 2017…and I was looking at 2019 (that just makes my numbers worse).
2. It is not indexed like every other thing in the tax code.
So? That means it will erode over time, which I favor (even though I took a whack on my taxes due to the cap).
SJWednesday: It’s Racists All The Way Down
The “violent process of gentrification”?! So, people are being run out of their homes and businesses at gunpoint?
Angry mobs, torches, pitchforks, the whole nine.
Kristalnact, Siezing of Farmer Land in the USSR, and the appropriation of white farmers land in South Africa are all examples of Gentrification.
::dog chases tail::
All of this is pretty infuriating to me
Because you are a racist.
while enacting violence on those same communities
Hipsters spending money. Community menace.
Nope, not convincing me that EF isn’t satire.
gentrification isn’t dispossessing Black families
Well, the Black families that took the big checks for the homes they owned don’t strike me as “dispossessed”. The Black families that didn’t get their leases renewed may be a little more sympathetic, but they weren’t “dispossessed” either.
The Latest Poll Shows Democrats Deeply Divided By Race, Age and Education
Us kids like the old white men.
I think it’s more that the kids like the overt socialism.
SJWednesday: Unpersoning Incoming
‘Jersey Shore’ star Angelina Pivarnick hounded for sex by FDNY boss: suit
Attention whore photo op
Former President Barack Obama on Monday met with Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as part of her visit to Washington, DC, to promote environmental issues.
“Just 16, @GretaThunberg is already one of our planet’s greatest advocates,” Obama tweeted after his meeting with Thunberg. “Recognizing that her generation will bear the brunt of climate change, she’s unafraid to push for real action.”
Thunberg established herself as a bona fide climate action figure after staging weekly sit-ins outside the Swedish Parliament, spawning a burgeoning movement of youth climate activists to hold their own protests in more than 100 cities worldwide.
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Video of the meeting between Thunberg and Obama released by the Obama Foundation on Tuesday shows the former President asking Thunberg about recent climate strikes she participated in while she visited New York and Washington.
“Everyone is so nice and all of these young people seem so eager, very enthusiastic which is a very good thing,” she said.
Before the two fist-bumped, Obama said to Thunberg: “You and me, we’re a team.”
While Obama championed addressing environmental issues while in office, President Donald Trump — a longtime climate crisis denier — has attempted to remove many of the policy guardrails installed by the Obama administration to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Trump’s America is a toxic shithole. He’ll kill us all.
Come back,
ShaneObama! Come back!She and Gaia are on really close terms. They talk all the time.
Should’ve pluralized “whore”.
Meh. I’m going to hold off on attacking a retarded child. My scorn is reserved for the filth using her as a intellectual human shield.
She’s 16. Hmm. You may be right.
Just like these grifters
https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/board-of-directors
Me too, w.
Leave Greta Alone!*
*And that definitely includes the climate grifters.
There once was a time when even skeptics like me would take a pause, unsure if the global warming scam was in fact a scam. That time has passed. Now its proponents have thrown off the mask and gone full carnival barker. What a freak show.
Did anyone ask why he bought a $15Million beach front mansion, given the dangers of sea rise due to global warming?
You quick bastard
Great minds…
Perhaps someone can ask Obama why, if he believes in this stuff, did he buy a $15 million beachfront estate?
Why didn’t she sail to China?
a longtime climate crisis denier
I, too, deny that it is a crisis.
Foreign meddling, anyone?
Ex-Overstock CEO planned crypto dividend to thwart short sellers
I love a crazy bastard.
That was a brilliant plan.
Another good way to screw over short sellers is to make your business so successful that the share price has to go up. And if it doesn’t, you use all the extra cash to buy back shares while they are cheap.
I have a few friends who work for Overstock. While the Cryptocurrency gambit might have worked for the stock, my understanding was that it was hell on the employees.
The reason DNA molecules have been around for a billion years is their adaptability. They are custom made for selectability. These guys thought the genes they put out there were static? *facepalm*
SJWednesday: Massive Starvation Is The Solution
You know who else wanted to kill the undesirables?
The Ustashe?
The Brutal Exterminators?
the ecological crisis makes it necessary to fight for communism as the only perspective for the salvation of humanity and the planet.
Communism’s environmental track is stellar, of course.
track record*
the dispossessed majority of society
WTF is this supposed to mean?
Communism means a society of free and associated producers in harmony with nature.
Never mind. Rantings of a lunatic.
the dilemma posed by Rosa Luxemburg—“socialism or barbarism”
“Give us socialism or we will give you barbarism.”
The Left loves climate change because they can easily make it into justification for everything they already wanted to do, even something as dangerous as implement communism.
And they can ignore every bad aspect of their chosen candidates on the basis that the world is literally going to end if the other guy wins. Every time I’d try to tell a “progressive” about Hillary’s shitty positions on war and surveillance (things that the Left claims to care about) all I got was, “Well she’s good on climate change, and that’s the most important thing. You can fix every other policy later, but you can’t fix the planet if it’s destroyed.”
Love will find a way
A couple arrested in Florida late Friday for riding their bicycles while intoxicated made matters worse for themselves when they started having sex in the back of the patrol car, authorities say.
A sheriff’s deputy spotted Aaron Seth Thomas, 31, and Megan Lynn Mondanaro, 35, narrowly avoid being hit by a car when they rode their bikes across a road in Fernandina Beach, according to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.
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After failing sobriety tests and being arrested, they were placed inside a deputy’s vehicle for transport to jail, the report said. Then the couple started removing their clothing and engaging in sex, according to the sheriff’s office.
Never change, Florida couple.
Just use protection, we don’t need you reproducing. I enjoy my Florida couple stories but we have to realize these people can vote.
Not at the rate that the are getting felonies
Why can’t I find a fun girl like this?
Well that’s one item scratched off the bucket list.
That was on the fucket list.
the 6×6 club?
Communism means a society of free and associated producers in harmony with nature.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
New York City considers banning chocolate milk in public schools: report
As goes New York so goes the country, so get ready, flyovers!
The only thing better than drinking chocolate milk is no milk.
But also obesity is not a choice and we should accept people just as they are.
Where the fuck is the whole milk, idiots?
Whole milk makes kids fat, everyone knows that.
Oh, yeah, I forgot.
And what was it again – 11 servings of grains?
Beer is a grain…
Along the same lines of “your Job is terrible, i’d rather you starve”. As you say. This will not increase the consumption of milk but decrease it.
RACISSSS
You know evil chocolate milk, the choice beverage of post-marathon runners everywhere.
These kids aren’t running a marathon.
Bataan?
Yeah, I’m sure that’s real popular.
And less healthy. It’s just sugar.
Chocolate milk isn’t particularly healthy but the but neither is white milk. The differences between the two are marginal.
Look at Urthona, denying science and spouting his NYC talking points.
I’ll admit that imbibing a nice helping of sugar isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you just played a 60 minute team sport.
Eat and drink as you wish and then accept that your choices have consequences. This is easy enough. Ignore the scolds. They are not telling you to avoid various foods because they want you healthy, they are telling you to avoid those foods because they are puritans and think pleasure is sin.
I usually let my kids drink chocolate milk. I mean they’re kids. They are outside sometimes and play sports and are active enough. They’re fine.
I personally don’t drink it because I’m too fat and sit on my ass all day.
*reports Urthona to CPS*
The Strange Saga of Jeffrey Epstein’s Link to a Child Star Turned Cryptocurrency Mogul
jfc ol Jeff is better than fiction.
Job update:
WOW. For the first time in years, I don’t despise teaching. I’m not emotionally exhausted at the end of the day. I don’t get panic attacks on the way to work. I’m not dreading every second of every thought when I think about the job.
I know it’s early in, but this is the end of the semester and the paperwork is at its worst. This is the trial by fire and should chill out substantially after this week. Then there’s the end-of-semester break and two weeks off. I got Lady an application and pretty much a guaranteed gig here with me in a different wing of the school. With a change of apartment, a FAR cheaper commute and other factors, we might actually be able to start saving money and being able to fully embrace this opportunity. I’m working first shift for the first time in my adult life and I don’t dread it. If I can get her here I think a lot of stress will melt away from her life, which will only do great things.
Looking up!
Yay.
>>I’m not emotionally exhausted at the end of the day.
not real work then.
Labor theory of value FTW.
He’s just exerting his male privilege to not provide emotional labor.
Good for you man.
That’s great to hear. I’m (cautiously) hoping to have the same experience when I start my new job in a few weeks. I’m going from a very small company with poor organization and fewer people with many varied responsibilities, to being part of a bigger team in a bigger company, with an actual project management system.
larger companies often mean more bureaucratic overhead. And more meetings. And more diversity theater (an actual corporate class I’m “required” to take).
But hopefully less “You’re the only guy who knows how this works so we need to text you on weekends and sick days when we have a problem.”
I work for a ~1000 person company but we only have a dozen people in the IT department.
So yes, I’ve gotten the “You’re the only guy who knows how this works” call – when I’ve been on vacation.
Nothing better for ruining the good vibes mood than getting a work text when I’m at a resort in Puerto Rico.
Always vacation outside of cell-phone signal range, and always make sure your coworkers know that you will be out of cell-phone range.
That was the best thing about the cottage my folks used to own on Lake Michigan. No cellphone coverage. I wouldn’t hear from work until I was driving home.
Always vacation outside of cell-phone signal range
Or at least somewhere you can plausibly claim is out of cell range. Make sure you let your battery run dry, too. Otherwise, I think it will show that the text was recieved.
He’ll put a spell on you
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke provided insight into how police would enforce his proposal for a government confiscation of AR-15s and AK-47s.
The Democratic presidential candidate told reporters he would impose a fine on AR-15 owners to “compel” them to follow the law and turn in their banned firearms. Owners who turn in the guns will then be compensated.
“We expect our fellow Americans to follow the law. If they do not, there would be a fine imposed to compel them to follow the law,” O’Rourke said. “We’ve seen this implemented successfully in Australia, where you’ve seen a near 50% reduction in gun violence deaths in that country.”
O’Rourke has maintained he believes gun owners would follow the law and turn in the banned weapons because he said gun owners have come up to him on the campaign trail to say they would. He has also defended the proposal as constitutional.
He’ll wave his magic pen and phone, and all the horrible scary guns will vanish in a puff of smoke.
The power of Beto compels you!
I would like to reiterate that if anyone has a big scary rifle that they want to get rid of, I will personally chuck it up in my vice, use my angle grinder to cut the barrel in half, and then recycle it for them. No charge.
You’re making SBRs?!
Turns out the hand part that goes down gets in the way of the vice and I’ll need to disassemble it before I do anything.
Will you be providing evidence of the destruction?
Sure. Just watch the video here
https://youtu.be/EDx6Ys4P5_Q
(Side note, love how YouTube continues to host a video of an illegal act)
No. He has to account for all parts when taking them to the um….recycle center….
Owners who turn in the guns will then be compensated.
Oh, well that makes it ok then.
We’ve seen this implemented successfully in Australia
And what was the compliance rate?
O’Rourke has maintained he believes gun owners would follow the law and turn in the banned weapons
“What weapons?”
And what was the compliance rate?
100% of law abiding citizens complied with the law.
he said gun owners have come up to him on the campaign trail to say they would.
Sure, Dan.
He has also defended the proposal as constitutional.
“…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Disgusting that the media didn’t ask him how he would know who to fine – since there’s no way to say who has these evil-death-killing-murder-machines.
O’Rourke has maintained he believes gun owners would follow the law and turn in the banned weapons
In spite of all evidence to the contrary.
The Democratic presidential candidate told reporters he would impose a fine on AR-15 owners
And when they don’t pay the fine, what then? No warrants, no door-kickers, just polite requests?
Teaching the Contradictions of Stone Mountain
Before taking a group of international college students on a field trip to a place like Stone Mountain Park, it’s important to give them the proper context
How convenient. You no longer have to go to the wilds of Africa or the East Indies to school the noble savages.
Shocking indeed; why are international students in Atlanta? Did they sail here or did they come by carbon spewing jet planes? If the kids who are going to walk out of class on Friday to “fight the climate change” want to do something, they will all announce they won’t be taking spring break trips to Cabo, or semesters abroad, or getting their driving licenses. No, they will stop using plastic straws while still hectoring their parents and grandparents for a new car or trip abroad.
Funniest cultural mix-up story of my life: I worked at a factory with a black Jehovah’s Witness and a woman from Thailand. On Christmas, she was handing out Christmas cards to everyone, and the black dude politely declined (since Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t do Christmas). She walked up to me later and said in a confused tone, “I didn’t know the black people don’t celebrate Christmas..?”
I’m A little dissapointed that none of you have noticed that my Avatar is actually a gif….
The man in the boat goes up and down.
They’re definitely stroking something.
Ladies like it when you stroke that little man in the boat they have,…..
I have animated images turned off in my browser.
gif, jpg, png, I can’t tell at glance at a thumbnail.
I’m 52. To my eyes all you whippersnapper’s avatars are oddly colored tiles, you expect me to notice that some dots are moving?
Heck, I just now finally got around to putting up my own avatar. You think I notice anybody else’s?
Freedom is not what you think it is
“Duka and Koski’s beliefs about same-sex marriage may seem old-fashioned, or even offensive to some,” the court decision reads. “But the guarantees of free speech and freedom of religion are not only for those who are deemed sufficiently enlightened, advanced, or progressive. They are for everyone.”
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Shortly after the ruling, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said the court’s decision was “not a win but it is not a loss.”
“We will continue to have a debate over equality in this community,” she said, adding that the city’s non-discrimination ordinance still stands. “We will not stop with our fight.”
The mayor also said the case was never about one business but whether “we would accept discrimination in our community.”
“A core tenet of our nation is freedom of religion but freedom of religion does not mean freedom to discriminate. Personal convictions cannot be used as an excuse for outward bigotry,” the mayor said. “If you serve someone in your community, you should serve all people in our community.”
You’re free to do as we command.
A public official using their government office to enforce personal bigotry is still ok, right?
Careful there prole, or there will be consequences..
Personal convictions cannot be used as an excuse for outward bigotry,” the mayor said.
So no freedom of speech then?
freedom of religion but freedom of religion does not mean freedom to discriminate
Freedom, alone, means freedom to discriminate.
debate over equality
I guess we are only equal as long as the right people get to hold the wrong people at the point of the government’s guns.
The mayor also said the case was never about one business but whether “we would accept discrimination in our community.”
I think her real question is a little different. I think her real question is “Why won’t the courts let us discriminate against these irredeemable untermenschen?”
Hey, about that Sweden as the model for “democratic socialism” stuff….
Charming.
English Is Not Normal
No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language.
Languages don’t evolve in a vacuum. Film at 11.
Esperanto speakers hardest hit.
My understanding is that English is valued, especially for business, because it is generally more precise than competing languages. And that’s plausibly a consequence of just this process.
I’ve done some study of Old English, and it was weird. There are still a lot of recognizable words, but it was synthetic, where thinks like subject, object, indirect object were not orderd but denoted by different changes to the ending of the word. (I know this is common enough in many languages, including the romance langagues). Makes it a bit harder to wrap your head around.
“English” today is still yummy that way. I was raised in an older dialect for Americans and have always been amused by the historical reasons why my more British lexicon is as such, to say nothing of turns of phrase. I don’t like the English (weird bit of self-loathing?), but I adore their history, and the French and Norse bits are the best. As with French, the worst parts of English are Celtic: that part of my heritage I just can’t manage or defend.
I’m very much Scottish, so i have almost the opposite view. The worst parts of English are the French parts.
The worst parts of English are their teeth.
I believe that’s spelled “tooth”
Pork and beef are French parts. I refute your statement thus.
yeah but so are silent E’s
Why do you hate cunte?
You got me there…
Also, “Controversial” opinon, but french is only considered beautiful when beautiful french women sing it. Otherwise Spanish >>> French. Russian >>> French too.
The Chinese language (well, Mandarin at least) might sound loud and rude as it’s spoken on the street but Chinese pillow talk from a sweet Chinese lass is something every man should get to experience.
Geeze. Romance languages are not synthetic. they are more analytical like modern english. Don’t know how i fucked up that.
Analysis in contraindicated in romance.
Of what little I remember from my linguistic classes and Old English, the thing I found most fascinating is that the nouns were declined (the same way verbs are conjugated). They still are, to a certain extent, meaning, the declensions can be put in a chart, but we don’t speak them or consider them that way. They just ARE.
I take issue with “English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable.” It most certainly is, and wdalasio’s observation that is precise is correct. We will noun anything and verb everything, and everyone who speaks English knows what we’re saying. “I can’t even” is an oddity I love and love to ponder.
In writing Cuntes & Cods, and having to look up almost every damn word to find out if I can use it in 1420, I have been extremely frustrated. Much of the robust development came in the mid-1500s and then Shakespeare came and changed English forever and for the better. I cannot be as precise as I could even in my Revolutionary War book.
I love all the weird and archaic tenses that lurk in English and the prefixes and suffixes heavy with meaning that I usually don’t think about. “Be-friend” and “to-morrow” are loaded with the textures of time-space-meaning, for example.
Yes! I never think about suffixes or prefixes at all, either. My brain doesn’t work that way. In fact, when I went to find out what I should call a penis, I found “cod.” Now, mind you, I took A LOT of costuming and costume history classes in college for fun. I am very well aware of a “codpiece.” Uet my husband made the connection. I didn’t.
If you have thoroughly researched this I may be mistaken, and if so I apologize, but I am pretty sure cod refers to the scrotum, not the penis. The root word meant pouch.
Shit, now I can’t find where I found that (forgot to note it), but the heroine says “spindle.”
+1 Uncleftish Beholding
Ooh, cool!
I love historical fiction but writing it – and removing modern slang – took careful work. And I’m sure I messed up several times.
*modern slang – or just modern usage – and using proper slang for the era.
I’ve set up a tent at https://www.etymonline.com.
ooh nice
I think that can be difficult to pin down sometimes.
I’ll never forget reading an article about “Dazed and Confused” soon after that movie was released. The actors were coached by the director – who loosely based the story on his high school experience – in which he told them to never say “dude”, just say “man”, when referring to each other. Linklater said they didn’t use that word back in the day.
I went and checked my high school yearbook just to confirm I wasn’t mis-remembering. I graduated high school the same year as Linklater in a place maybe 100 miles west of his home town. Just about every guy who signed my yearbook used the term “Dude”.
You can have some leeway because writing it down happened latter than the word/phrase was adopted for oral language.
Consider “fuck.” It’s been around since forever, but nobody knows when forever is because a) it wasn’t written down until 1475 and b) nobody wanted to put it in a dictionary for forever.
So in that era, I’ve given myself about 100 years of padding to believe that a word could have been spoken before it was written down.
I use “fuck” though I was reluctant to for that reason, but “swive” and “rut” are just…bleh. Meh.
later*
You also run into the issue that before the 18th century texts become increasingly scarce. Not every informal usage found its way into writings that survived. The textual record is biased against the lower class idiom in eras with low literacy rates, and early printing (and even more production of manuscript by scribes) was expensive enough that that bias is enhanced. Thank god for dirty minded bored monks, or we’d have none of this stuff.
Chapbooks and broadsheets (also called broadsides) were sold to the literate lower classes once movable type printing became the norm – but these were cheaply printed on cheap paper and oft discarded, or used for hygenic purposes.
They’re classed as ephemera in biblographical collections.
Yes! Exactly!
The literate lower classes were largely people we today would regard as middle or lower middle class. Small shop keepers, clerks, farm managers, artisans. I wonder how the slang of these largely urban, or at least town folk compared to the slang of the agricultural laborer?
I suspect there would be some overlap, as well as some concerted differentiation to show they’re not like those bumpkins.
1420 was just before Gutenberg.
I’m already anachronistic in that I have too many people who know how to read and write.
I also have a banker, returned from Italy, whose last employer was Medici Bank. I have had at least 3 people ask me how Medici Bank is going to come back and bite them in the ass, and I’ve had to tell them to wait for book 2.
What I find interesting is that what I thought they WOULDN’T have, they do; what I thought they WOULD have, they don’t.
Two things they DO have that surprised me: 1) potable water and 2) dental hygiene.
Yes, they would have to to be able to keep records, and there were a lot of those.
Also, noble houses had their own lawyers! (WHO KNEW?!) I always thought the lord (or lady, if he was gone) of the manor held manorial court.
The position of housekeeper (IIRC–but I made it so anyway) had to be able to read and write.
The lady of the manor didn’t always know how to read and write, but she took over all the functions of the lord if he were dead or at war. She paid the bills. She oversaw the stewards. She kept the records. She made sure the king was supplied with knights in her stead (if she was a widow). She had a lot of power even when the lord was in residence.
*raises hand*
Not only did they not want to listen to all the whining peasants bickering over boundary markers, but they had suits to file against other noble houses for when war was not the best option.
I meant to include the “WHO KNEW” into that blockquote. Silly me.
AND! If a peasant could afford it, he could hire a lawyer to bring suit against the manor/noble. Sometimes a bunch of people got together to hire the lawyer to sue the noble.
FASCINATING.
So the premise here is that the earl is a new earl because of a fluke, doesn’t know how a noble house should run, needs a noble bride, happens to abduct one who a) knows how to put his house together, b) needed to be abducted, and c) wants the job. She accidentally embarrasses the earl and his father (the estate steward) (who only knows how to make money, not run a noble household) by pointing out every single way the household does not function as it should.
I understood. 😀
the earl and his father (the estate steward)
Why wouldn’t the earl’s father be the earl?
The fluke being that he saved the king’s life at Agincourt and was granted the lands. The earl’s father was a wealthy merchant who could afford to send his bastards (yes, the earl’s a bastard–see: William the Conqueror) to a knight to apprentice, so he bought his kids’ way into nobility, but that was unexpected. The earl should never have even made knight, but he did that on his own.
So his father retired from being a merchant to go to the earl’s new lands (it’s very small, 10,000 acres) and build the earldom.
Got it. Plausible.
I was surprised to find out how long enduring “son of a bitch” actually is.
All The Other States Beg California To Add Them To Travel Ban
I think all but the most woke idiot states would like to keep insane fucks like Cali politicians away from them. For real…
I wish I wasn’t retired. I used to have discretion over where some conferences were held. Would love to be able to write some venue in San Francisco or L.A. to note that they were no longer in the running due to the assholes in Sacramento. Maybe some of you still have access to corporate or organizational letterhead and would love to rub this shit in their faces?
Interesting. I just checked the American Health Lawyers Association, which used to have San Francisco as one of their rotating sites for annual meetings. I don’t recall them going to San Diego. But lo, next year the annual meeting is in San Diego.
Snopes: ‘The Claim That Trump Is Hitler Lacks Concrete Evidence But Alludes To A Deeper Truth’
+1 Truthy
Maybe highly truthlike?
Concrete evidence? Like footage from a bunker?
Snopes rates as false.
Because there is lots of concrete evidence.
-snopes
Ah Snopes: democrat operative entity with bylines pretending to be a fact checker.
I saw that Snopes rated the “Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother” story Unproven, which makes me think they probably found quite a bit of evidence that it’s true.
Check out PowerLine. A bunch of lawyers, but they have been chasing this story for years. They are pretty careful in characterizing evidence and conclusions, and they are pretty well sold that she did.
Of interest: Omar came over in a wave of “refugees”, some (many?) of whom took on false identities to qualify. Likely including her entire family.
Snopes is down and unconscious and BB just keeps wailing on them.
Seems like with every successful authoritarian regime in history, media propaganda played a key role. We’re seeing the exact same thing today in the USA with the dems using the media in their attempt to turn us in a socialist Orwellian nightmare.
I am starting to prep for the seemingly inevitable American version of the “Social Credit Score”. No social media, personal email goes through protonmail, don’t use any Google services or apps. A start, but Google is so embedded in the internet that I am sure they still have a goodly file on me. Trying to minimize the inputs into that file would be the next step, but it looks crazy hard.
Of course, not having a phat Social Credit file will also get you a low score, I’m sure.
Lack of social credit history indicates antisocial behaviour – red flag.
It is however, too late. Everyone who has ever posted on this site will be banned from the internet anyway.
*fires up VPN, gets stuck in NSA tarpit*
A social credit score system would be a complete run around of the Constitution, which is why every corrupt power hungry politician, and everyone on the left wants it. We will see the DNC putting it on their official platform soon enough. They’ll reason that all of our current social ills are the result of a few bad players and that if we can just ostracize those ‘few’ bad players, utopia will finally arrive. Next thing you know, we’ll have millions of American citizens who are banned from traveling, owning weapons, being online, and all sorts of other things. All we have to do is look at how this is playing out in China to see how it plays out here.
“A very big slate of games last night in the major leagues. At the top of the mountain, the Astros, Yankees and Dodgers all won.”
So did the Twins in 12 innings. The White Sox went up by two in the 12th and then the Twins won with a walk-off walk.
@#%&$!
Nazis!
Stupid teenage pranks get full court press from cops, meanwhile try to get them to investigate a burglary.
A flag killed my father once, asshole!
What killed him the other times?
Autoerotic asphyixiation
Heroin but they managed to Pulp Fiction him back to life.
Just imagine if they also glued a cookie shaped like a gun to the pole.
Or tied it with a noose….
Sounds like someone doing a prank because they know idiots will overreact.
Who are the Fascist/Nazis again?
Everyone?
Them. Over there. It’s *always* ‘those other people.’
“Who are the Fascist/Nazis again?”
All whitey, especially male whitey, especially male whitey CIS genders, everyone who believes in any part of the Bill of Rights, and everyone who’s not a commie. I think that about covers it.
Looks like it will be Orangeman vs Fauxcahontas.
So Hillary 2.0 but with more “woke?”
And less genuine. Grab your peace pipes and saddle up because it’s gonna be a hell of a ride.
How did you come to that conclusion?
I agree. I don’t see Biden closing the deal. Bernie’s appeal is too narrow. That pretty much leaves Warren.
For VP, I think Harris. Let’s them pimp the HIstorical First All-Chick Ticket (with extra melanin sauce) and ramp up the “if you don’t vote for them you are a woman-hating bigot”. Plus, Harris is well-suited for the tradition campaign role of the VP as the attack dog.
It will be Biden with white squaw as VP. Anything other than that, the dems haven’t a chance in hell, even if the economy takes a dive and Trump starts a major war, they would still lose. But with Biden and Warren as VP, they get the more moderate dem votes and the left votes because of the fact that Biden will probably be dead or just too senile to serve before his first term will be up.
Biden will probably be dead or just too senile to serve before his first term will be up.
Which is why he will
coerced at gunpointvoluntarily chose Her Shrillness to be his vp.Life expectancy question which has the lowest:
1. Nuclear fuel rod taste tester
2. Polar bear proctologist
3. Komodo dragon dental hygienist
4. President with Hillary as VP.
Well, since we have animal tranquilizers to aid #s 2 and 3, they’re nout of the running.
#s 1 and 4 are ficticious jobs, so I’m not sure what you’re asking.
We’d be a lot safer with Hillary as VP than we would Hillary as Sec of State. VPs don’g do much of anything. Biden as president OTOH, is a very dangerous thing, the guy is as corrupt as they come and would sign anything Congress sends him, no matter how authoritarian.
Biden would pretty much be the sock-puppet for the DNC. So you can predict how leftist he will be by how leftist you think the DNC will be.
Pretty fucking leftist, IOW.
You think with 1 more murder to go Hillary would stop?
They can’t go wrong with Warren for getting the proggy vote. She has most of the boxes checked, far left, going to fight Wall Street (hahahhha!), vagina, minority (hehehe), and I bet that if she gets the VP selection she’ll come out as some form of LGBT something.
But it has to be Biden for POTUS, because all of the rest of them, including Warren, have near zero name recognition and are way too far left.
Waaaaah!
Some prominent backers of Sanders have loudly protested the latest endorsement.
Two top editors of socialist magazine Jacobin wrote an article Tuesday titled “The Working Families Party Has Written Itself Out of History.”
“If the WFP views bottom-up organizing, of and by a multiracial working class, as a core necessity to win social change, why would the party endorse Warren, whose campaign has catalyzed neither — especially over Sanders, whose campaign has?” the magazine’s founder and managing editor wrote.
Working Families Party endorses Warren, instead of Bernie. Obviously, the fix is in.
Why do we give these people the vote? Shouldn’t you have to demonstrate sentience to exercise the franchise?
Sorry, Bernie, you’ve been out-lefted.
By way of Native American vagina. Sorry, Bern, you’re not so bae anymore.
Native American vaginaSquaw MawHillary Clinton warns of ‘crisis in democracy’
Her not being President is a crisis. If she’d won the election, then of course there would be no crisis.
Yawn.
No one told the poor dear that this is not a democracy. But we are in a real crisis, a Constitutional Crisis that really ramped up during the tenure of her hubby as president and that will probably just continue to get worse now. We now have an entire group of dem presidential candidates saying they’re going to confiscate guns from Americans, a clear violation of the constitution and at least one of them saying she’ll do it by executive action. There are very few elected officials today, in either party, who have even the slightest regard for what’s in the Constitution, it’s just being shredded more every day.
I always want to ask people, “If you’re so concerned with the sanctity of democracy, which do you think is a bigger threat: some Russian social media ads that amount to a drop in the bucket of political messaging on these sites, or major media corporations colluding with the Democrat Party to favorably slant their coverage?”
Well, there would be no single crisis but there would be a plethora of them.
“This does not make me sad at all. Too bad this asshole will probably still have a Senate seat for life.”
Unfortunately, it’s for the wrong reasons. It’s Cali, it’s because he’s promising free money for nothing, and she isn’t, yet…
My wife wanted to watch Chelsea Handler’s white privilege documentary on Netflix. I poured a double and sat down.
TL;DR: Less insane than you would think.
It opens with Handler contributing her success to being white and pretty. She got off a bus from New Jersey and landed a successful career because she was white and pretty. Nothing is said about the cliche of the pretty white girl getting off a bus in LA and topping out as a waitress.
We are off to Berkeley to an open mic night to discus white privilege. The opener is a poem about how the performer is tired of being the token black guy and is tired of acting around racist Berkelyites. One woman tells Handler to check her privilege.
That is the maximum level of crazy in the film.
After some filler, the documentary takes you to Montgomery, Alabama and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial for victims of lynching. Handler interviews a veteran of the 60s Civil Rights movement. Her story climaxes with a man trying to murder the civil rights activist and a priest taking a bullet for the activist. It is a huge contrast to the Berkeley poet. A very unwoke film would have spliced the two scenes together.
The rest is complaints about voting access, bad government officials, and cops. Lots of complaints about cops. In Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and New Jersey. The whole white privilege thing does not come through once the documentary leaves California. Or at least it is subdued. Handler could easily contribute not spending a year in a New Jersey juvenile detention facility to being white, but the film does not make a strong case for much more.
Tune in for the interview with white Tennessee rapper Jelly Roll.
I learned something new
What is a Sigma male?
He’s your introverted Alpha male. He doesn’t like to be the center of attention and that’s why you will never see a Sigma male approaching a girl first or doing something goofy that will make everyone look at him. He is very independent so he doesn’t really care about the opinions of others, and he tends to be the black sheep of men. But, to be honest, he doesn’t really care. He goes around being his sexy self, not even looking around to see if anyone is paying attention to him.
I had never even heard the term “sigma male” until yesterday. Now I want to join match.com, just to have it in my profile.
*that website was the first random click from the search results.
I’ve got a black belt in Sex Sigma