SP bitched last night about packing and moving, so I’ll just spare you more kvetching by saying “Ditto!” But be assured that I will take a pause today to watch the Baltimore Ravens beat the quasi-San-Diego Chargers. And cringe when Lamar Jackson gets interviewed- let’s just say that he’s unlikely to follow Tony Romo into the broadcast booth. Well, he’s being paid to be an exciting player, not an articulate spokesman. And damn, he is an exciting player.
Birthdays of note today include Heinrich Schliemann (who, as I dig though our possessions for packing, has become my spirit animal); proto-cowboy star Tom Mix; a famous physician I’ve never heard of, but who had the delightful cognomen Helmut Poppendick; actor/comedian and true humanitarian Danny Thomas; gassy guru Alan Watts; the guy who taught me that “grampus” means “orca” and that “eria” means “silkworm” Eugene Maleska; banjo god Earl Scruggs; and global warming rationalist Bjorn Lomborg.
On to the news.
They’re baaaaack. And their demands are just as consistent and logical as Occupy Wall Street. But it is a good way to pick up girls, I suppose.
Brexit really needs a better spokesman than this.
Apparently, if I ever get elected to Congress, I’ll be able to wear a yarmulke. And ironically it will be because of deference to Jew-haters. It does strike me as weird that headgear must be religious- would my Baltimore Ravens cap qualify?
Quote of the day: “You like the Vatican, Nancy?”
Team Blue honors the spirit of pointless symbolism. I wonder if Team Red did the same stupid sorts of things, and I’ll guess they did, but the article is silent about that.
Gee, this couldn’t POSSIBLY be a money-grab, right? The ADA is Poppy Bush’s continuing “fuck you” to the US.
If you can’t find something #metoo to be outraged about, you just have to dig deeper. And here’s more appropriate music for that story.
I can’t remember, are Hungarians considered Slavs? Or are Magyars sui generis?
“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” “That trick never works.” “This time, for sure!”
Not exactly a “man bites dog” story, but close.
This was probably covered while I was gone, but it’s new to ME, at least. I hope Chairman Kaga uses this for a theme ingredient. As someone who has traveled extensively in my career, I have to say that Japan was the only place where the more time I spent there, the less I felt I understood it.
An astonishingly sensible article in the NYT. And it hits all the reasons I still use an iPhone 8 and have no intentions of upgrading. The sort of quantum leap thinking that Jobs could do has been lost on the current generation of management there.
I… just… can’t… even. Is this a thing here in the US as well?
Old Guy music, as expected. We did an Iris DeMent song yesterday, so it’s only appropriate to bookend that with Greg Brown.
In 1935, he completed training as an expert for “race hygiene” at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology
Later changed the name to Trump University.
The TDS out there is incredible.
Donnie Two Scoops will resign by the end of the year to avoid criminal charges. What crime did he commit? Collusion with Russia. There is zero evidence of that and even if there were IT ISNT A CRIME. There is no law against it.
I predict a Trump win in 2020.
I think it will ultimately be the economy that decides the election. The D’s and the media will keep up the same shit, as will the establishment Republicans. Economy coasts along; narrow Trump win. Economy tanks; far left D wins by a comfortable margin.
That’s the conventional wisdom, but given how Trump is able to maneuver around falling pianos for the past three years, I’m not sure.
Hopefully. I’m.not sure Trump is articulate enough to explain to the Idiocracy that the boom bust cycle is a product of 50 years of terrible spending/mismanagement/monetary policy. Then again he won on vaguely true/coherent insults the first time around so you have a strong point
You don’t explain to the idiocracy. You find things to say which are what they want to say about your opponents.
Has being good at truthfully explaining a nations problems won a presidential election in your lifetime?
Kinda my point. Besides, what most winning candidates have proposed would only make the root problems worse – so pointing out those root problems wouldn’t help their cause.
I was just expanding on your point. Imagine if we choose our doctors based on mob democracy? Let’s vote for the one that says I don’t have cancer!
Clinton – It’s the economy, stupid.
OK, Carville but you get the point.
explain to the Idiocracy that the boom bust cycle is inherent in any economic system, and the severity of modern day busts is a product of 50 years of terrible spending/mismanagement/monetary policy
False. Socialism produces a bust-bust cycle. And not the kind Q is so fond of.
And anvils. Don’t forget the anvils. Poor Wiley just cant seem to win.
I dont see the economy tanking. It mostly runs itself. It was flat for 8 years under the socialist POS Obama because he actively tried to sabotage it and that was about all he could do…keep it flat. Even a half assed effort from Trump to revive it will be successful.
I think we are overdue for a correction. The Fed has kept interest rates too low for too long, not to mention our unsustainable debt. Lots of free market economists are saying as much. IMO it’s less a function of “if” as it is a function of “when”
“Economy coasts along; narrow Trump win. Economy tanks; far left D wins by a comfortable margin.”
Well, a Green New Deal will certainly fix the economy. We won’t be worrying bout none that economy shit no more.
That’s the truth. We will be too busy grubbing for roots.
Grubbing for roots is a right!
Nobody needs 23 different kinds of roots!
And we need a czar of root equality. No one should have an unequal supply of roots. A root tax should help. And a grubbing tax.
Although one freshman Democrat, Rashida Tlaib, had said of the president to a group of progressives this week, “We’re going to impeach the motherf*****.”
“When they go low, we go higher”
I thought they changed that to “When they go low, we kick them”
“they can’t go low because we own the bottom rung”
Some paused outside the headquarters of Agence France-Presse (AFP) in central Paris to hurl anti-media insults
Your mother was a hamster.
Mon aéroglisseur est plein d’anguilles.
And your father smelled of elderberries.
WRT to the religious being allowed, when can we vote Jimbo into Congress so he can wear that big swaggy popehat during sessions?
WRT to the religious hats*
curse my brain.
I’d be the last person to vote for. Even UCS would be more agreeable as a pol than I would be.
It is funny that religion trumps law in this case. But when it comes to cakes, law is supreme.
“can’t remember, are Hungarians considered Slavs? Or are Magyars sui generis”
They’re not Slavs. At least, linguistically, and there’s definitely some generic differences. They came relatively late to Europe and displaced Slavs in that area, iirc.
The “Hun” in Hungarian refers to the descendants of Atilla – which is still used as a first name there.
Technically given name, since Hungarian used the family name first.
/pedantic bastard
Yeah, Hungarian is believed to be related to Finnish, Estonian, and a bunch of other non-Indo-European languages in central Asia nobody’s heard of.
According to the Slovak nationalists, Hungarians aren’t even European, because the Magyars came from Central Asia.
re: Apple upgrade: I. too. have no intention of upgrading, and I’m on a 6plus. No reason to upgrade (unless I run out of memory, which feasibly could happen). But I still have an old 5s that I use for work, just to talk and text to clients on – no applications so it’s OK. Battery gets low faster than it should but again – no reason to upgrade.
I am getting a little outdone with the constant upgrades to increasingly complex and non-intuitive systems.
I’m very tired of chasing the upgrade cycle to nowhere. I bought a Nexus 7 back in the day and within 2 years the upgrades overwhelmed the hardware. It wasn’t like they had no idea this would happen. They just told all their past customers to suck it up and buy new hardware. Ef that noise. Never bought another one of their products.
I think Apple is heading into that territory if they aren’t there already. It pisses me off when I refuse the upgrades for however long and then I wake up one morning and they have upgraded without my say so. Now I have to relearn how to use the damned thing. I turned the ringer off before an upgrade, it upgraded one night on the charger without my knowledge and now I cant figure out how to turn the damned ringer back on. How can a system be so complicated that I cant figure out how to do such a simple thing? Who thought that was a good idea?
No worries. Right now, the problem is that Tim Cook just don’t seen that hip and woke. When Beta loses in 2020, they’ll make him the new Apple dude and Apple will regain it’s wokeness.
Ditto — I have a SE and have zero interest in a larger form factor. I want it in my shirt pocket, not my pants (where I could sit on it). As long as the battery life holds, or they give in and generate the equivalent of a SE2 for a reasonable price I’m staying put. Of course, I also like my headphone jack… and don’t think FaceID and no home button are great ideas either, so I’m not holding my breath.
My Galaxy 5S flamed out on me a couple of weeks ago, forcing me to finally upgrade. I ended up with an LG phone (V40 ThinQ). So far, it’s very nice. But then again, I don’t do anything fancy, mostly texts, mail, and pics. The camera is way better than my old one but I guess that’s to be expected. But it is nice to press the shutter button and get a picture right away instead of waiting two seconds; makes it difficult to get good cat photos.
One of the reasons I love the Android OS. My Galaxy Note 8 run greats, with no upgrade BS screwing anything up.
Not exactly a “man bites dog” story, but close.
Put her down. And I don’t mean the dog.
Hard to tell from the article. Maybe the lady over reacted to the dog just being friendly and pepper sprayed it, the other lady got pissed off, took a swing and the fight tumbled out of control. Or the dog attacked and it went down as the article implies. Who knows?
“Just now ah di put ma pad wen ah follow my cycle beads and even if flow no dey ah di go washam. Ah no di get dat kana shame weh ah get’am before”, Manka tell BBC News Pidgin.
Dat kana shame no git no shame t’all for Nsteva Smithka.
Our happy new Congress.
I’m not saying that someone on the right is happy to see someone just to their left, but… OK, I dindonuthin.
Happy!
Diversity for the left is about deliberate engineering of incompetence. It is kinda fun to watch them do it to themselves. That makes it a self-correcting problem.
LETELU: Looks exotic, thinks exactly like us.
It’s crazy. Team Red has done a pretty good job of squelching the religious moralizing on social issues and yet Team Blue hacks scream ever louder, “Bigots!”
They just keep moving the goalpost of what immorality is. Currently, it’s being biased against some group you didn’t even know exists.
That just proves you’re a shitlord.
Don’t need proof. I’ll gladly hoist that banner every day.
That or we fly right past Idiocracy straight into… well, not sure what, no one has ever seen anything like this before.
Peak Derp is infinite, it’ll be one helluva ride that’s for sure.
Peak derp looks like peak bitcoin, just stretched out over longer timeframes.
On the massive run-up it looks to many to be asymptotic and heading towards infinity. However, it will run into a wall of unsustainablity at some point where it starts to crash and burn.
In the end we’ll be stuck with more derp than before the run-up started, which will set the stage for another huge run up in a generation or so, but current levels are as unsustainable as BTC > $15k
The only real choice I feel like I have is to make sure I have enough ammo. …and my definition of “enough” definitely exceeds yours.
“my definition of “enough” definitely exceeds yours.”
I wouldn’t bet on that.
Start with 3,000 rounds in links – just for the registered, full-auto belt-fed. Ratchet up from there for every major caliber I have in the safe.
That’s it? You’ll run out before the first day of fighting. Enough would be something on the scale of “Sufficient to crush the idiocy by having the heap fall over”
Got a shipping update on my classy glib mug and it looks like it’ll be coming a week or two earlier than originally scheduled. Awesome!
I’m lounging in my brand new Glib pajamas! I confess – I didn’t feel ready to try explaining this place after wearing Glib swag out in public.
This place defies explanation.
Somebody called it an aspie farm, which sounds about right.
“Somebody”
I’ll be replacing my usual mug at the office with the glibs one so that should be a delight. Hmmm, how do the pajamas feel? I may be…interested.
I opted for the basic tee & drawstring pants rather than the footies, so they’re pretty standard. Decided only the black plaid pants would do with the white tee/black logo, and they (the pants) are flannel, so nice this time of year. Kinda wish I could’ve sized up the tee but not the pants.
Post the vid of you wearing them in the grocery store.
Post it to “People of Whole Foods.” Amazon will have to shut them down over protests that it has become an alt-right hangout.
I got my Glibs coaster, which graces the side table in my music/reading room. It’s already had glasses of quality craft beer and whiskey resting atop its lovely design.
Haven’t had a chance to wear my Glibs t-shirt yet. I’ll probably wear it next brewday.
The Glibs bumper sticker went on my beer fridge (I hate putting bumper stickers on my car).
“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” “That trick never works.” “This time, for sure!”
I’m glad we’re still rich enough to afford a full time media machine to feed these adult children their daily insecurity fixes.
The sort of quantum leap thinking that Jobs could do has been lost on the current generation of management there.
There was a headline yesterday (to an article I did not read) about how Tim Cook can “save his legacy”. Tim Cook doesn’t have a legacy. He hasn’t been as actively destructive to the company as John Sculley, but that’s not saying much. He’s just some guy who works there.
I don’t care about their gadgets, but as for a legacy, he did say “fuck off, slaver” to the FBI.
I will give them that. Unfortunately, they don’t to be taking the same stance towards the Chinese.
Nope, they aren’t:
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-apple-china-20160226-story.html
Tim Cook was doomed from the get go. You can’t follow Jobs. He was this generations PT Barnum. Jobs was able to convince thousands of dupes that his electronic device was somehow different and using it made them so much better (and that you had to pay more for a colored case).
It wasn’t like Apple products had some real edge that made them clearly superior to others. Like most things, in some areas they were better, in some areas worse. Jobs could sell to millions using his snake oil and pixie dust, but Cook can’t.
Yep. They should have hired that blond fraudster chick from Theronos to run the company, or tried to figure out if Marissa Mayer looked good in a black turtleneck.
I’ll give him more credit than that. They had some truly innovative products during his time, and he had developed an impeccable sense of timing. The pixie dust kept people fully on board after competitors started to catch up.
I have an aversion to the Apple cult. But, I must admit the iPod was a truly revolutionary product. It changed the music industry forever (not necessarily for the better).
You guys have got it all wrong. She Guevara is a tax policy genius.
Bonus quote reaffirming Krugabe’s belief that everything should be within and for the State.
I will admit, I do agree with the author of that piece that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez being elected is serving a valuable purpose. She’s the bright shining face of the future Democrat Party and further reminds me why I’ll never join said party.
Behold, the Master of Gibberish.
Gulag Barbie is articulate and telegenic. This, coming from the guy who thinks a government sponsored fake alien invasion would be the best way to stimulate the economy, or pay off our debts by minting trillion dollar coins.
He left out the part where, during those years of insane tax rates, no one actually paid them.
“This, coming from the guy who thinks a government sponsored fake alien invasion would be the best way to stimulate the economy”
I admit that makes as much sense as Marxist economics.
“The controversy of the moment involves AOC’s advocacy of a tax rate of 70-80 percent on very high incomes, which is obviously crazy, right?”
YES
I mean, who thinks that makes sense?”
Morons.
Where has this ever been tried before, recently? France under Hollande. How’d that go? Not very well, people left. Durr!
+1 British invasion
Easy to solve. 95% exit tax.
/Schumer
Something ‘running out of other people’s money’.
So they’re finally admitting TDS exists?
What hysteria? I think someone here predicted that the media would make up hysterics on the right over the video simply because it suited their purposes to do so.
I dont recall any hysterics. It must have arrived on the same bus as Russian collusion.
They posted up video and immediately started talking about how it drove the right insane. It’s like this, they make shit up.
I don’t get out all that much on the internet, but I’m not aware of more than a couple of posts, probably with lots of comments, for what that’s worth, that would fit the description. Even if they aren’t false flag posts, pitifully inadequate to broad-brush half the country.
Pretty sure he is on record from awhile back that the top rate shouldn’t be anywhere near what Karla Marx is proposing.
Stop harshing the narrative, brah. THE RIGHT FREAKED OUT, FREAKED OUT MAN!
It’s sort of how certain people on the left “received death threats” because 2 jackasses on Twitter said something like “die in a fire, you ignorant bitch”.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist.
So what is he, a lying sack of shit who obviously knows better (my bet) or just an idiot?
“The hysteria over a video of AOC dancing in college”
Citation needed.
People believe what they want to believe. No citations necessary.
I mean, the rest of the world’s industrialized nations had been bombed into the stone age because of some minor kerfuffle I can’t recall, but that’s probably just a coincidence.
young, articulate, telegenic nonwhite woman
1) sure
2) not really
3) perhaps
4) irrelevant
5) irrelevant
The hysteria over a video of AOC dancing in college
What ‘hysteria’?
who is actually insane
People who want to steal over half of what other people earn.
I’m guessing Krugnuts probably never read this, or dismissed it because it’s from the Austrians. They don’t do modeling, you know.
https://mises.org/library/good-ol-days-when-tax-rates-were-90-percent?fbclid=IwAR0NoMcBWw2Qm19B9Pq-Glyj8A03miYZz5W93i_OlQFgg6Shj7_I0a475Yg
Who didn’t expect this, even a little?
That was pretty much my first reaction: gang-bangers getting revenge on the wrong car.
If we’d make it illegal to drive around and shoot into other cars, this wouldn’t happen. Congress needs to get to work!
I was thinking ex-bf.current bf. It was hard to wrap my mind around
“random drive-by” and “white shooter”. Much like “school shooting” and
“black shooter”.
When you f*ck a stranger in the ass
A sane and reasoned article on freedom of speech in The Atlantic
Don’t faint from shock.
What are the chances Teresa will be looking for a job in the near future?
Heh. Sounds like some of that acid they took in the 60’s gave them a flash back to what liberals used to think.
Admittedly, it is a one off article by a guest contributor. I think sometimes they have to remind themselves that they were principled once upon a time.
In other words, tax policy toward the rich should have nothing to do with the interests of the rich, per se, but should only be concerned with how incentive effects change the behavior of the rich, and how this affects the rest of the population.
Merely a tacit admission that it is better to not kill the goose which lays those golden eggs. But you can (and should) enslave it.
I remember Obama blathering about how income tax isnt about revenue, it’s about fairness. That moron has to hold the world record for inducing facepalms.
I know a libertarian economist who agrees with that.
He claims the government is addicted to deficit spending and only taxes as a form of social control, as they simply borrow or fabricate all the resources the need to do everything they want to do.
They effectively do have limitless resources, as they’ve become effectively totalitarian to the point that they can appropriate every iota of wealth in the nation if they so choose. Nobody would stop them.
Acknowledges or agrees with? Cuz one disqualifies him as libertarian in a big way and the other not.
He agrees that the income tax is more about fairness than revenue. He does not agree that it should be, or that we should even have one.
I’m guessing he’s just realistic on the issue, kind of like how a lot of us would support open borders ideologically but can’t realistically given the current political system.
So, “acknowledges” would probably fit. I’d have to ask to be sure
That makes sense.
“Fairness” is an infinitely malleable concept. What could be more fair than everyone paying the same amount? The same percentage? A 100% rate above a certain amount, so everyone has the same after tax income? etc. ad infinitum.
Meet the new head of the IRS, Ms. Diana Moon Glampers.
Would this fly?
“…and how this affects the rest of the population….”
Why can’t they just say “…how this fucks over the men who, primarily, had nothing to do with the situation…”
Well that’s some totalitarian horseshit. “All your decisions are belonging to us.”
isnt about revenue, it’s about fairness
A certain CA governor said something similar about the minimum wage (i think): “it’s not the economic thing to do, but it’s the moral thing to do.”
He left out the part where, during those years of insane tax rates, no one actually paid them.
Yes, exactly. And the part about how Congress became powerful by selling
indulgencestax breaks.Oh, I didn’t know about that.
Looking at our likely future, I’m glad I’ve got a highly efficient tax shelter up and running for the rest of my working life and retirement.
Which is what?
I am finally at the girlfriend’s place in Cheongju, making this my third place to crash in my first half-week of homelessness. At least I have a home base. It’s starting to dawn on me how little time I actually have left to get some pretty substantial shit done.
I suggested watching Predator tonight. Lady says, and I fucking quote, “OH! That movie with Adrien Brody! I love that movie!”
In horror, I immediately begun the download of Predator.
That, strawberry banana smoothies and leftover Mediterranean food shall be my Sunday night. Bowl Games are stupid. Enjoy the end of your week.
Nice, have fun and enjoy the time with the Lady.
I just pray you don’t accidentally get The Predator. *does sign of the cross*
Speaking of hysterics- the same people ready and willing to lynch Bret Kavanaugh over his alleged college tomfoolery are now lecturing us about how only a bunch of SoCon assholes would get their panties in a bunch about that nice young girl having fun.
Comparing the actions of an entitled frat boy serial rapist to a strong, intelligent, and beautiful woman dancing? For shame!
Telegenic. She is very telegenic. And articulate. Don’t forget articulate.
She’s talented at vomiting nonsense in a fluid and confident manner. It’s going to take her far (not kidding). As much as we dislike her we’re going to have to get used to her, she’s going to be around a while.
The left is filled with jealous (or is it envious?) people. Someone is going to be gunning for her from her own side and then we’ll see how she handles it. Flavor of month is a distinct possibility.
I’m just excited to watch this woman of the people go all in on DC corruption, enrich herself while violating every principle she purportedly stands for, all while mouthing the same stupid platitudes. Ya know, pretty much like every other commie who ever lived.
It is always projection with the left. Always. The biggest problem with that is that it creates a distraction from reality and allows the R’s to get away with actual shit.
Is this one of those 48-hour controversies that the 24-hour news cycle has to gin up to justify their existence?
I cant imagine caring about AOC dancing , not can I imagine caring what the Twitter trolls think of her dancing.
Exactly. Nobody is going to pay me enough to care about anything she does. I certainly won’t be doing it on my own time.
I’m a shitlord and I rather enjoyed the video. Great boobs are great boobs, even if they are attached to a nitwit.
Since Warren felt compelled to follow her lead with that ridiculous “Ima have a beer now” vid, I wonder if we can look forward to a vid of her boogieing down with her peeps any day now?
Wasn’t there already some cringe worthy video of Gulag Barbie and some other prominent Dem women salsa dancing at a rally? I can’t remember is Last of the Fauxhicans was one of them.
There was that time Hillary danced with Ellen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgk9Mj1n88
If we’d make it illegal to drive around and shoot into other cars, this wouldn’t happen. Congress needs to get to work!
Gridlock! I blame Trump.
Gridlock? That just makes it worse! You don’t even have to lead a car that is stuck in a traffic jam.
Slutty Sunday brings heaping helpings of chesticles for your viewing pleasure!
http://archive.vn/q8kYy
Great list. It’d be easier to say which ones are a no: 13, 26, 31.
21 wins.
1, 3, 23. That is my Holy Trinity from that group. Very nice end to my Sunday, thanks as always Mr. Q.
A Question for Q
I have heard women ask that question before. My answer is usually “If I have to explain it, you wont understand. Enjoy your cats.”
Suthen said it more succinctly than I.
Fat on the stomach is an indicator of an early onset heart attack, or of being already pregnancy from some other dude.
Fat on T and A is an indicator that you’re fertile.
It’s not a “ball of fat on her chest”.
There’s two of them.
Where you even paying attention?
Because we’re biologically programmed to like them. Theories differ on why exactly, but the one that has the most support at the moment in the evolutionary biology community is due to humans’ penchant for face to face sex. They serve a proxy for the buttock that’s stimulating to other mammals that exclusively do it from behind.
From an intellectual standpoint, they’re a definitive marker of female-hood that explicitly calls attention to the attractive differences between a sexually dimorphic species.
Or it’s a dumb question and you should just laugh.
If you really want to deep dive it, it’s also getting at the underlying issue with all the body positive bullshit.
“You should find me attractive even though I am a disgusting blob. I shouldn’t have to change, you should.”
And of course, that rule is only in effect for women. Women can be as choosy as they want, and this is considered completely normal, but if a man has any preference as far as physical figure or personality, they’re oppressive, irrational, and misogynistic.
As an aside, a lot of surveys of sexual preferences show that there’s a huge disconnect between what men prefer and what women believe men prefer. Most women believe they have to be extremely thin, but most men will tolerate some chub and even prefer it.
In fact, a lot of things that are blamed on men are actually things that women are imposing on themselves and each other. See also: The study that showed that “slut shaming” is overwhelmingly done by other women.
They are an indication of fecundity. Reproducing with the fittest individuals is a biological imperative. It is no more complicated than that. Don’t overthink it, just love the tits.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-35osGsC8YLE/T3t-T7J7xBI/AAAAAAAANMY/Baofb9LLaow/s288/le-woup-di-douper-loup-di-louper-ca-fait-faire-des-bonds.jpg
12, 17, and 23 are my OMG Woulds.
Cheater
Scott Dozier, a death row inmate in Nevada, was found dead in his cell Saturday of an apparent suicide, state department of corrections officials said.
Dozier, 48, was hanging from a bed sheet tied to an air vent in his cell at Ely State Prison, the department said in a news release.
He was pronounced dead at 4:35 p.m. PT.
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Dozier was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Jeremiah Miller, who was killed and dismembered in 2002. The victim’s torso was found in a suitcase dumped in a trash bin in Las Vegas, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Dozier was also convicted of murder in the death of another victim found buried in the Arizona desert.
Dozier’s attorney, Thomas Ericsson, said in July that his client wanted to be executed. But his excution was delayed twice — once in November 2017 and again in July 2018 — because of the combination of midazolam, Fentanyl and cisatracurium that Nevada planned to use to execute him.
Legal concerns were raised over whether the drug cocktail would torture Dozier in his final moments. Death penalty critics have long argued that midazolam is not a pain killing anesthetic and would allow the condemned to feel tortuous pain from the following drugs.
I think years and years on death row constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Plumb a bottle of nitrous oxide and nitrogen into the cell, with an accessible release button.
ZOMG GAS CHAMBERS! NAZIS!
Not only is the state incompetent to decide who deserves the death penalty they are also incompetent to apply it. What happened to the good old days of hanging and firing squads?
*Does Nevada still have firing squads?
I think it was Utah that allowed the condemned to select execution by firing squad.
Ah. I misremembered.
“The problem with getting old is not remembering things that happened, the problem is remembering things that didn’t happen.”
-Clemens
Utah:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad
I’ve never understood why the state doesn’t just give the condemned a massive dose of heroin. They find dead junkies with the syringe still in their arm on a regular basis.
Disclaimer: I’m anti death penalty for the reasons you state.
Because “the state” is distillation of all the worst attributes of the people involved. It’s not interested in a painless death. It wants to prove a point.
*Charlie Gard stops playing his harp, looks down and nods in agreement*
I agree. I have the same uneasiness with the death penalty common to most libertarians but if we are going to have it, own it. If someone is barbaric enough to be executed, let the people see it for what it is. It should be instantaneous for reasons of humanity but this lethal injection BS is all about making it seem like a peaceful medical procedure. It’s not and we shouldn’t pretend it is.
Two things humans hate the most: Honesty and responsibility. I suppose you see the problem with your recommendation.
Agreed. 9mm to the back of the head is cheap, effective and (I imagine) fairly painless. Sure, there’s a messy cleanup, but omelet, eggs donchaknow.
Also, their argument is beaucoup retarded. True midazolam isn’t a pain killer but fentanyl (what is likely causing actual death) sure as hell is. ODing on fentanyl has got to be a pretty nice way to go.
” 9mm to the back of the head is cheap, effective and (I imagine) fairly painless”
It was a fitting end for this monster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo
evidentially the Russians did a few things well during perestroika
I’ve read about that guy; exceptionally horrific even for a serial killer.
Citizen X is a great movie if you haven’t seen it. It was made before commies were cool again so it is unabashed in demonstrating how the soviet system allowed this guy to operate for years with no threat of being caught.
Well… That was one hell of a rabbit hole. It’s nice to know something like that wouldn’t last long in today’s world. At least, not in the developed world.
L Z Granderson, ladies and gentlemen- poster boy for Ass Backward Thinking
The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, has been hit with a case of the “blue flu,” as hundreds of TSA employees have called in sick this week. The staffing shortage has forced the federal agency to figure out how to continue providing airport security with fewer screeners and other employees.
Some believe this epidemic — dubbed “blue flu” in reference to the blue shirts the workers wear — has something to do with the government shutdown, which is now stretching into a third week. It’s not a bad theory if you believe most people standing on their feet for eight hours a day while interacting with irritated and sometimes entitled customers wouldn’t want to do that for free.
What would be the point of reading further? Those poor TSA workers have been kidnapped off the street purely in order that the flying public will have somebody to resent and abuse while they’re waiting for their planes.
Granderson just id’d himself as a closet elitist, once again.
There is no other possible answer than his boyfriend/husband working for the TSA. No one else would be capable of uttering that phrase in that context.
entitled customers
That’s one way to reference the people held at gunpoint to pay for the existence of the TSA and the workers salaries.
Holy shit. Susan Collins is on Meet the Press. Her make up looks like a bad open-casket funeral job.
When will she confess to having Parkinson’s disease?
She’s an older-model automaton. Voice synthesis technology was very primitive back then.
The number may be a little high and the timeline may be a little short, but I’d say it’s inevitable.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhorn/2018/12/13/will-half-of-all-colleges-really-close-in-the-next-decade/
The only at this point that’s keeping a large chunk of them afloat is the sweet lucre of government guaranteed loans. However, people are starting to wise up that a quarter million of non-dischargeable debt in your formative years may not be worth it. A market correction is long overdue.
I think the educational benefits of College are quickly being out paced by technology, with the Social benefits not far behind. I’m curious to see how the College closures are going to affect certain required accreditation careers. Will we see a shortage of certain professionals because the colleges that would normally ‘knight’ them are closed?
“the Social benefits not far behind.”
I mean, a dude can become an apprentice welder, buy a truck and a dog and get his own place, download Tinder, and there’s your social benefits right there.
Que up the calls for nationalizing higher education.
“There won’t be any tuition or loans to pay back because it’s FREE!!1!1!”
It would be wonderful if colleges collapsed and employers had to go back to skills testing and proprietary training again (I hear that some tech companies are now doing college-like training for their employees). That would mean that a person’s ability to afford college would be much less of a barrier to entering a good career. They could start at the bottom and work up instead of having to get this insanely expensive degree just to get their foot in the door.
I know some fields will probably always require a degree (medicine, law, etc.) but it’s crucial to reverse this credentialism and degree saturation. If not, we’re going to end up with an economy where everyone has to spend 20 years in college just to have a chance at a decent job (seeing as how the establishment thinks that spending more time in college always leads to a better income).
“Deathly Salvation
TFW nuclear war may be the only way to stop human extinction.
The global economy is hurtling humanity toward extinction. Greenhouse gas emissions are on track to warm the planet by six degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages. A six-degree increase risks killing most life on earth, as global warming did during the Late Permian when volcanoes burned a bunch of fossilized carbon (e.g., coal, oil, and gas). Called the Great Dying, that event was, according to New York Magazine, “The most notorious [extinction event…]; it began when carbon warmed the planet by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life on Earth dead.”
The only period in US history the nation has undertaken anything near the magnitude of collective action necessary for mitigation was during the Second World War and the rebuilding effort in its aftermath. But even those projects involved a fraction of the capital and coordination that will be necessary for sufficient energy transition and carbon sequestration. More importantly, today’s collective action will have to be politically justified without the motivation of defeating a personified enemy—a Hitler, if you will. Today, with interpersonal alienation running rampant and extremely consolidated wealth and power, industrial economies seem infinitely far from a cultural, political atmosphere in which collective action policies are even close to possible. To the contrary, wealthy countries are all still slashing public goods, passing austerity budgets, and investing heavily in fossil fuel infrastructure. Even most elected Democrats are dragging their feet on passing climate policy. The world is going in the exact opposite direction from one in which humans can live.
But a wrench could clog the gears, and maybe only a wrench can stop it. One wrench that could slow climate disruption may be a large-scale conflict that halts the global economy, destroys fossil fuel infrastructure, and throws particulates in the air. At this point, with insane people like Trump, Putin, Xi, May, and Macron leading the world’s biggest nuclear powers, large-scale conflagration between them would probably lead to a nuclear exchange. Nobody wants nuclear war. Rather, nobody sane and prosocial wants nuclear war. It is an absolute horror that would burn and maim millions of living beings, despoil millions of hectares, and scar the skin of the earth and dome of the sky for centuries, maybe millennia. With proxy conflict brewing between the US and Russia in the Middle East and the Thucydides trap ready to ensnare us with an ascendant China, nuclear war looks like a more realistic possibility than it has since the 1980s.
A devastating fact of climate collapse is that there may be a silver lining to the mushroom cloud. First, it should be noted that a nuclear exchange does not inevitably result in apocalyptic loss of life. Nuclear winter—the idea that firestorms would make the earth uninhabitable—is based on shaky science. There’s no reliable model that can determine how many megatons would decimate agriculture or make humans extinct. Nations have already detonated 2,476 nuclear devices.
An exchange that shuts down the global economy but stops short of human extinction may be the only blade realistically likely to cut the carbon knot we’re trapped within. It would decimate existing infrastructures, providing an opportunity to build new energy infrastructure and intervene in the current investments and subsidies keeping fossil fuels alive.
What we do know is that humans can survive and recover from war, probably even a nuclear one. Humans cannot recover from runaway climate change. Nuclear war is not an inevitable extinction event; six degrees of warming is.”
https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2019/1/4/deathly-salvation
Lunatics like that are giving self-loathers a bad name.
At least the comments are sane.
On the upside, a nuclear war would likely wipe out Twitter:
https://twitter.com/UROCKlive1/status/1081490583783235585
Actually the true racists don’t seem to mind so much.
“when volcanoes burned a bunch of fossilized carbon” SCIENCE!
Yeah, that kinda jumped out at me too. I dont think there are a lot of hydrocarbons in formations that contain upwellings of molten crust. In fact, there are none. Also, CO2 is not a major contributor to atmospheric temperature, if it is at all. Also, the greenhouse effect on the earth’s atmosphere is a pretty shaky theory at best. The warmistas are full of shit. They are as bad delusional liars as the gun grabbers. Someone should point out to that moron that if they kill everyone they cant steal their money.
“Nuclear winter—the idea that firestorms would make the earth uninhabitable—is based on shaky science. There’s no reliable model that can determine how many megatons would decimate agriculture or make humans extinct.”
The irony, it burns…
A quick Google yields this picture of the author, which pretty much confirms my lunatic theory.
Nice link
Had to download and repost it for it to work.
https://imgur.com/a/pLayv4P
He’s doing his part by fertilizing the forest.
Or not.
That link is lunatic.
“Or, ya know, we could just stop using fossil fuels. ”
Sure, it’s just that simple, ya know.
But that sentence links to this Onion article……so is the whole thing a troll job ?
https://www.theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-clean-energy-tech-1819576507
Story overheard on CBS radio news, can’t find an article with the fun tidbit: It was a story on 3 people dying in national parks because they are shut down! The horror! but at the end of the radio bit they just tossed out the fact that on average 5 people a week die in national parks when they are open and fully staffed.
Another article I read said that people shitting in the woods due to the shutdown was creating an environmental catastrophe. Because we all know nature has no way of disposing of animal waste, those shits will be sitting there untouched for thousands of years, no doubt.
Beyond shitting, I saw one that mentioned pissing. Because humans never pissed in the pristine woods before.
those shits will be sitting there untouched for thousands of years
Well how else would we know where bears shit? Because the woods are full of bear shit. Up to 3 feet in depth in some places. SCIENCE!
Can confirm.
Wait until the fins about what happens in when people stay over night. I hear it’s fucking in tents!
Unless national parks have a bathroom located every square mile, I’d say there’s probably a lot of shitting and pissing in the woods regardless.
You’d think any rational person would be able to figure that out very quickly, but I guess that’s asking too much from the Left and their propaganda team…
on average 5 people a week die in national parks
And they die in circumstances that park staff would have no control over whether or not they are present.
BAN ASSAULT PARKS!
First time I went to King’s Canyon, there was notice that if you found any human remains to not touch them, but instead mark the spot and notify the rangers. Turns out they had been looking for one of their own park staff for last 17 years.
It should be posted at every park entrance to remind people of their mortality and Darwin’s favorite pass time.
His scoutmaster made my son’s crew read this before their trip.
I’m very pro-Darwin and particularly enjoyed the notes on how many people scalded themselves to death jumping into geysers to save pets that had jumped into geysers. Indeed, we should install boiling and ejaculating springs everywhere as a public service: near college student centers, as a replacement to the cement pond in DC, near Rushmore and Niagra, outside the UN building . . . only good can come from this.
“Rather, nobody sane and prosocial wants nuclear war.”
BTW, here’s a couple of reasons a devestating nuclear holocaust is the lesser of two evils.
“nobody sane and prosocial wants nuclear war”
At least he is self-aware.
An exchange that shuts down the global economy but stops short of human extinction may be the only blade realistically likely to cut the carbon knot we’re trapped within.
This person should be forcibly institutionalized, as a danger to himself or others.
But Trump having the nuclear football is a danger that civilization cannot survive!
I’ll never understand why people think that Trump – who has been pretty anti-war so far – is more dangerous than Hillary, who encouraged and facilitated war in almost every single instance, going all the way back to her first lady days.
“This Drug Could Change Alcohol Addiction Treatment Forever
It’s called Naltrexone and, unlike AA, it works for most people.
The Sinclair Method, as the protocol is known, is simple: You take Naltrexone one hour before you start drinking, each and every time you drink (and preferably not on an empty stomach). Instead of feeling that familiar euphoric buzz, drinking just makes you feel kind of sloppy and muddy-headed.
Unlike AA, where success is measured in the number of days sober, “The only marker for success I have is that the patient feels in control,” Noonan said. “They can drink or not drink in a manner that is appropriate to them. Sometimes that’s abstinence, or sometimes that’s just drinking on the weekends, or sometimes it’s just drinking on special occasions. I measure success by when people are happy about the way they are drinking or not drinking.”
This idea, that some alcoholics can continue to drink, is anathema in conventional recovery circles, which argue that the only solution to alcohol dependence is complete and total sobriety. There is little evidence to support this claim, but still, the rhetoric of sobriety is widespread.”
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2018/12/19/37093776/this-drug-could-change-alcohol-addiction-treatment-forever
Baclofen, which I take for my shoulders, is widely used in Europe for much the same reason, and from what Ive read, largely the same effect.
Baclofen can raise your blood sugar.
Baclofen has.
SINNERS REPENT!
What we do know is that humans can survive and recover from war, probably even a nuclear one. Humans cannot recover from runaway climate change. Nuclear war is not an inevitable extinction event; six degrees of warming is.”
People are resourceful, innovative and adaptable. We could arise from the ashes of a nuclear holocaust and rebuild society. But it’s preposterous to believe we could successfully adapt to “global warming”. That’s crazy.
I , for one, look forward to our guzzoline hoarding, mini crossbow wielding, hoop-earring wearing masters.
Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves! Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves! Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves!
Lot of you have probably seen this, but Scottish grandmother reads kids’ story. Hilarity ensues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yskf94MYM1I
That kid is creepy lookin.
I would bet money his pediatrician made the note FLK in the margins of his chart.
*funny looking kid
It wasn’t like Apple products had some real edge that made them clearly superior to others. Like most things, in some areas they were better, in some areas worse. Jobs could sell to millions using his snake oil and pixie dust, but Cook can’t.
In the days of Dos vs Mac, there was a real functional superiority, for a lot of people. People who, you know, just wanted a fucking answer, and didn’t care how it was derived. I was a mac guy for a long time.
Macs are still wonderful choices for people who don’t mind paying extra for a computer that just works and they can use it and not care about anything else.
I probably would have bought another macbook pro last time except Apple has decided that they need to get every dollar they can (soldering in hard drives and memory so I can’t upgrade cheaply on my own?).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not throwing shade on Macs. I like them a ton. I’m just pointing out that Jobs was able to create a horde of fan bois, Cook can’t.
Macs are still wonderful choices for people who don’t mind paying extra for a computer that just works and they can use it and not care about anything else.
That’s how I feel about latter-day Windows OS, particularly 7.
I’m about to be issued my first MacBook, and I have some real trepidation.
They were superior in that the operating system was intuitive. Same for the iPhone. It unleashed a huge amount of human creativity from people who were not computer nerds. There was nothing ‘snake oil’ about Jobs. He is gone now and so will go Apple.
#metoo The idea of a real GUI to make a computer into an appliance was brilliant, and Jobs recognized that. I loved using a Mac back in the ’80s. Particularly fond memories of Cricket Graph and MacPlaymate.
And then there was Microsoft Bob….
“Why does everyone want to impeach me, Nancy?” Mr. Trump asked.
No one wants to impeach you, Pelosi told the president and tried to move the focus of the meeting back to border security. Although one freshman Democrat, Rashida Tlaib, had said of the president to a group of progressives this week, “We’re going to impeach the motherf*****.”
Is she for real? All they’ve done is yap on about impeachment since 2016! They second he was in office that’s what people hoped for! She had her chance to be courageous and say so to his face and she lies like that? What a *c**t.”
“Mr. Trump also tried unsuccessfully to appeal to Pelosi’s Roman Catholic faith in arguing for wall funding.
“The Vatican has walls. The Vatican has walls surrounding the city,” Mr. Trump said, according to the source. “You like the Vatican, Nancy?”
“Let’s change the subject, sir,” Pelosi replied.
Why? Isn’t THAT THE MAIN SUBJECT? She then goes in front of the TV to talk about that very same subject.
Are they this evil?
Each and every day he reveals what a clown show the whole song and dance is.
But are people listening? Not according to the comments section I read. People not infected by TDS are a minority.
It’s more like The Walking Dead out there!
“It’s more like The Walking Dead out there!”
I was in Kroger’s yesterday. Can confirm.
He’s a glorious troll who can put on a show. He should get an Oscar for his performance! To be clear, he’s an asshole. But, he’s the asshole we needed.
“he’s an asshole.”
To be sure.
*snicker*
Yes they are and also desperate to avoid being honest about why they want open borders, though Clinton slipped up when she called Americans despicable. They are hoping that will be forgotten.
“Living in what is now northeastern North America and Scotland around 315 to 299 million years ago, Arthropleura reached 2.4 meters in length and was the largest known land invertebrates of all time”
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1081531603594158080
Thanks for the nightmares.
We’re gonna need uh bigga barbie!
/down under
“Would you like to know more?”
“NO!”
Kahn was fond of putting babies of those into people’s heads.
This Drug Could Change Alcohol Addiction Treatment Forever
I have heard that about LSD. But Big Booze got it banned.
I’m like that mother described in the NYT article. I’m always happy with my iPhone whatever generation it is. It’s my daughter who stones me to upgrade. And so it was I was eligible to get a free upgrade so I went to the iPhone 8 plus. It was completely unnecessary but I figured to do it because….free. But I said it was going to be the last. I just don’t use it enough to justify the fancy stuff. I barely text. If someone texts me I tell them to call me. I’m not about to type a conversation. I take some photos.
A couple of years ago someone made a comment about the phone I had at the time as if I was Fred Flintstone and I responded curtly, ‘who gives a shit?” I explained I carry it because of the times but I don’t have my face buried in it like some people. That shut him up.
I don’t think I’ll be upgrading. Plus it’s too big.
As for Apple and its recent struggles. There are many factors for it but their CEO acting ‘woke’ can’t help I reckon. He sounds like a messianic zealot.
Note to Tim Cook: Shut the fuck up and DO YOUR JOB.
“MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: -Claims a GOP is obsessed with AOC…cites a blogger -Claims right-wing media attacked her…cites NYT as an example -Claims GOP booed her…shows video that doesn’t support claim -Claims conservatives “lost their minds” over her dancing video…has no proof”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra
We really need to manipulate this meme until Ocasio-Cortez feels it necessary to post a video of her twerking. She’s Boricua; she knows how to drop it low.
I thought O’Casio Quartz was Irish-Japanese.
I dont think a single word she has said about herself is true. She wasn’t born outside the US. She didn’t grow up poor so who the fuck knows? Isnt she the one whose brother came forward and said she is a nut, a pathological liar and anyone who listens to her is nuts themselves?
Well, she does have an asteroid named after her.
If it hits the Earth, it would be consistent with her economic policy.
*facepalm*
No one but pinkos are obsessed with her. She is the new face of a party that has allowed itself to be co-opted by leftist radicals. They are holding her up and laughing at her.
Hayes is every bit the shitstain that his older brother (Rachel Maddow) is.
“Conservatives Mock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for College Dancing Video, Everyone Else Thinks It’s Adorable”
https://www.newsweek.com/alexndria-ocasio-cortez-conservatives-dancing-video-1278950
Except for the complete lack of conservatives mocking her.
ot: yay! Took el doggo for her first run . . . I’ve been testing her for short bursts for a while. She did great!
Such fun. Much exercise.
I am glad to hear that. Want another one? This new Rhodie is very charming and quickly learning to be civilized but I dont have enough room.
“The Ten Most Ridiculous PC Moments of 2018”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/2018-most-politically-correct-moments/
Obama hit hardest on #7.
The Woke Messiah is here!
Gay man impregnates trans partner who identifies as male
Lots of good pics. Also bonus points for pointing out that this solid well grounded couple is living in a bus parked behind their friend’s house.
We truly live in the best of all possible worlds.
(((You))) are just saying that so that you won’t be kid blocked because of (((your))) past behavior with messiahs.
“Lots of good pics.”
No thanks. I have seen enough crazy to last me a lifetime.
Dude, the pit stains on “mom” in the very first pic is worth the price of admission.
And by the way, it is a short bus not a regular sized bus that they are living in.
You are right. Good pics.
“…it’s a short bus…” <— good catch.
“And by the way, it is a short bus not a regular sized bus that they are living in.”
Of course it is.
“The narrator for the episode’s trailer echoed the sentiment, saying that “carrying a baby isn’t something many men expect to experience.””
It’s also the least masculine thing a person could do.
No, watching a marathon of House Hunters is the least masculine thing a person could do.
Giving birth is a close second.
How about watching a marathon of House Hunters while pregnant?
It is possible to die from estrogen poisoning, you know.
Or, you know, morning sickness.
Pro-tip: it doesn’t go in there.
Intersectionality?
More seriously – how gay is his partner if he’s putting in there? No, really, I’m gay I just fuck vaginas of men!
Exactly. He’s bi, if not heterosexual.
Man Gets Woman Pregnant isn’t a headline that gets eyeballs.
Wow. Thats some top-shelf woke right there.
I have to assume that if they really “didn’t know what to do”, or didn’t want the child, they would’ve aborted it immediately.
So maternal instincts trump self-identity?
Or a chance to ca$h-in on some publicity, start a gofundme, etc.
“I am a man, and I am actually pregnant.”
And I am the King of Ireland.
He should get that bottom surgery done before he delivers.
“Should You Date A Male Feminist?
By Lauren Chen”
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/should-you-date-a-male-feminist/
Are they catching on to the ‘male feminist’ shtick? I cant be bothered to read the article as I have to go serve myself a bowl of chili. With corn chips and shredded sharp cheddar. And stoke the fire, I have to do that too.
I think I have some earwax to dig out. Maybe clean out the cats’ litter boxes.
“Lauren Chen”
The cognitive dissonance is strong with this one.
Huh? I’m pretty sure that’s her real name.
I put her name in quote so no one would think I was being accusatory.
It’s entertaining to see her point out the negative views of a feminist and for it not to occur to her that maybe… just maybe, it’s not alright for anyone to think every woman is a victim or that possibly, feminists, regardless of sex, are projecting dark thoughts on an imaginary enemy. That there are whole rallies, with thousands of people wearing vaginas on their heads protesting this imaginary enemy.
How can she not see that she’s taking what should ethically be a perfect default mate and pointing out exactly why it’s not ethical. She also alludes to the whole “girls club” bullshit, by dancing around the elephant in the room that women don’t want to date feminists. Women aren’t attracted to feminists.
You have to meet your audience where they are.
She misspelled ‘sexual predator’. It’s just a typo, that’s all.
“Like many of us learned during high school (unfortunately!), women who only have negative things to say about other women are a huge red flag. And likewise, a potential boyfriend who seems overly preoccupied with the idea that men as a whole are predatory is probably someone to be wary of.
If a man sees all men as predators, he’s likely had trouble surrounding himself with positive male influences in his life. While of course none of us choose our family members, when it comes to friends, we, fortunately, do have the choice of whom we associate with. If a guy has made it into adulthood without being able to cultivate a circle of supportive male friends, it’s a warning sign that he’s drawing the wrong types of people into his life.
Alternatively, there’s also the possibility that a male feminist might be projecting the darker aspects of himself onto all other males. If that’s the case, he’s definitely not the one!”
As dinner date conversation, I’d say why that is all very interesting. Let me get the check and you a cab.
So, a group of attractive women get together to start a socially conservative/traditionalist women’s magazine aimed at the 15-30 crowd and it still gets subjected to the patented Glibertarian sneer-take.
There is just no pleasing you people!
Thing is that while Wyley identifies as a transgender male and sports a beard, deeper voice, and a chest without breasts, Wyley — who was born female — still possesses a pesky vagina.
Wheeeee!
Pesky? Isn’t that terribly misogynist?
I saw Pesky Vagina at the Troubadour back in ’96.
My fencing master in my youth was Hungarian (Magyar); you’d earn yourself a helluva sabre welt for calling him a slav.
You can’t manage anything until you accept how things really work and then assess the data.
These people claimed not to be able to lose weight, despite restricting their calorie intake to fewer than 1,200 kcal a day. But it turned out that, in their nutrition journals, they underestimated their average calorie intake by 47% and overestimated their physical activity by 51%.
My least favorite things are garbage thinking and confirmation bias. If we think that humanity’s arc is unbounded due to improved access to information, all we need do is watch traffic trying to merge or watch twenty folk come out of Walmart: these same incompetents have bot the internet and the vote.
You better watch your back. We’re all populists now.
The first and most strident libertarian I ever met was a Rensselaer alumnus whose greatest contribution to my lifestyle and worldview was his advice to make one’s annual trip to WMT during the Super Bowl.
But I confess to quarterly sprints in and out when I’m on that side of town to buy WWB ammo.
My cousin, married 4/divorced 4 times was giving me political advice. Yeah, right, I should listen to him.
Easy mistake to make: high energy bitches are fun the first 20 years or so.
“As a gay person I don’t think I ever really planned for biological children,” Stephan admitted.
I’ve got some bad news for you, Shirley.
Those children, out there- they’re all “biological”.
That’s where you’re wrong, kiddo.
just so long as they don’t feed the kids food with chemicals in it
If ya’ll were woke, you’d stop talking shit about this gloriously woke story and realize the real story. One that will soon be picked up by our woke media. This proves that the Brits were right to start teaching kids that a guy can have periods also. This guy got preggy and so it’s assumed he had periods before getting preggy. You right wingnuts have been caught out again. First making fun of dancing congress girls and now this. Hah!
I HAVE FOUND OBL!
I’ve seen two or three “pregnant man” stories in the last year already. There’s only so many copycats I can stomach.
You don’t even need 3 different stories. You only need one you can recycle every few months. Like the ‘Uncontacted tribe discovered in Amazon’. That one has been around for 20 years.
Rethuglitards are being mean to Gulag Barbie, because they are all in the pocket of the BadKKKorp cartel.
“Republicans: Let Americans keep more of their own hard-earned money Democrats: Take away 70% of your income and give it to leftist fantasy programs,” Scalise tweeted, including a link to an article from conservative blog Hot Air.
Ocasio-Cortez’s response came 12 hours later, with the congresswoman writing, “You’re the GOP Minority Whip. How do you not know how marginal tax rates work?”
“Oh that’s right, almost forgot: GOP works for the corporate CEOs showering themselves in multi-million bonuses; not the actual working people whose wages + healthcare they’re ripping off for profit.”
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez also took aim at GOP strategist Ed Rollins earlier on Saturday after Collins referred to her as a “little girl” during an appearance on the Fox Business Network.
“If you’re going to put her out front with her mouth … the little girl who wants pre-Reagan economics of 70 percent taxes, the Democratic women are basically going to be damaged,” Rollins said.
In response, Ocasio-Cortez said, “GOP loves to insult my intelligence, yet offers *this* as their best + most seasoned opposition to my policy proposals. If anything, this dude is a walking argument to tax misogyny at 100% Republicans rob everyone the opportunity of real policy debate by resorting to this.”
It’s kind of incoherent, because Newsweek, but another twatterwar has broken out, apparently.
I especially like the “How do you not know how marginal tax rates work?” retort. Just toss off a little snippet of jargon, and your fans will assume you said something clever. And that “misogyny tax”- BRILLIANT!
“this dude is a walking argument to tax misogyny at 100% ”
Taxing misogyny. What could go wrong?
Imagine the massive new bureau we’ll need to even figure out who gets taxed at 100% for this ‘misogyny’? Who says the Democrats will not create jobs?
“If you’re going to put her out front with her mouth”
This is exactly what is going to happen and it matters not one bit what the Democrat party thinks of it. Because it’s being driven by our woke media. Wouldn’t matter one bit if Nancy and Chuck had a unprecedented moment of awakening and could put together a majority of more common sense democrats. Because our media will make 100% sure that the only ones getting any attention on air, are going to be the far left wackadoodles, like She Guevara and the radical Sharia sisters.
So, a group of attractive women get together to start a socially conservative/traditionalist women’s magazine aimed at the 15-30 crowd and it still gets subjected to the patented Glibertarian sneer-take.
There is just no pleasing you people!
I can’t keep up.
I don’t got a score card, I don’t got a program, I don’t got an updated team roster, I don’t got nothin’.
I’m totally in the dark, here.
I’ve seen two or three “pregnant man” stories in the last year already. There’s only so many copycats I can stomach.
There can be only one.
It would be wonderful if colleges collapsed
I’m totally okay both with public schools collapsing and private enterprises selling knowledge.
college-like training for their employees
Another great idea, but I’ve never seen such a system that actually paid a solid wage while learning and didn’t end up fairly well trapping a specialist at his firm afterwards outside of Germany.
barrier to entering a good career
You’re on to something here: a “career” is one thing, and I’d submit that it requires a generalist’s education. Full disclosure: my undergrad is engineering, grad was finance, first wife also had two degrees, we took out some loans to float a percentage of that, it was all paid off before we were 30, and, of course, because the degrees were useful we’ve always been in demand: I would do every bit of it all over precisely the same way.
reverse this credentialism and degree saturation
The irony is that most of the college scam is borne solely of the necessity of vetting high school diplomas; if private high school diplomas ever proved worthwhile, half of college degrees would no longer be needed . . . but: most private diplomas are earned by college-track students!
a chance at a decent job
Jobs and careers are different things. Many folk would be better off working for themselves; the fixation with a job (ie: working for someone else) is part of the problem. Not only do many college alumni emerge with large, five-figure debts, but they’re four years of earning and experience behind someone who had spent the same time apprenticed to a plumber, electrician, or HVAC guy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/democrat-warren-takes-economic-message-to-iowa-in-kickoff-to-2020-race-idUSKCN1OZ0M5
It feels like we just finished with this shit. Can we have some kind of bipartisan compromise where no one it allowed to campaign until 12 months before an election?
“condemning the corrupting influence of money on politics and lamenting lost economic opportunities for working families.”
1) I am sick of this talking point, especially from a party that has outspent the other party 2-3:1 in the last three presidential elections.
2) the unemployment rate is incredibly low across the board so idk what she’s blathering about.
So let’s keep raising the minimum wage and piling on regulations and watch the job opportunities multiply.
Technically, multiplying by a fraction is still multiplying.
The only other thing we can add is taxing the rich at 70%. Then, utopia.
“2) the unemployment rate is incredibly low across the board so idk what she’s blathering about.”
Focus on the narrative, the narrative.
Strange. I was in Budapest a week ago and all was quiet. Could be they were taking a break from protesting for Christmas. Or it was somewhere outside of Old Town.