What’s that time? It’s time for news south of the border!
First up. Apparently the secret to never having to face a revolution is by starving your constituents, as Venezuela swears in Maduro for a second term.
So you are saying there ARE in FACT terrorists?
When Trump says, “Mexico is going to pay for the wall,” I guess that really means, “I never said they’d write a check.”
Factcheck: Yes, there were indeed terrorists apprehended at the border. Six of them between October and March of last year. Which is a low number, to be sure, but then again how many guys does is really take to put on a bomb vest and blow themselves up outside a synagogue?
I guess it is news people steal gas in Mexico. Who knew?
Brazilian Trump withdraws from a UN agreement on migration. In other news, since his election my investment in a Brazilian bank stock has gone up 33%! I love this guy.
A judge ordered Tijuana’s mayor to stop talking smack about migrants. His response, “No quiero.”
I caught this on Joe Rogan. It is chapter 2 of John Stuart Mills, On Liberty, presented as a graphic novel of sorts. So if you have orphans in need of training, it’s means for orphans. Available free for download.
I’m feeling a little Alice in Chains today.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
Not anymore, sucka!
Yes. I work.
Not much work got done today. My wife sprung a dr appointment on me last minute, and while the toddler was having a meltdown, we had a bit of an urgent situation come up at work. As a result, I’ve been quite unproductive the rest of the day.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN MUPPET ONE. YES, ZARDOZ’S TOIL NEVER CEASES. TUNE IN TONIGHT AT 1900 HOURS TO SEE. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
HIS CHOSEN MUPPET ONE.
Guess that makes me chopped liver.
*kicks pebble*
You’re a green muppet. An inferior breed.
The green is from living in a fucking trash can all my life.
Congratulations on your appearance on the Flip Wilson Show.
The devil made him do it.
At least he’s not a gay muppet.
There’s another kind?
SHUT YOUR DIRTY WHORE MOUTH!!! BERT AND ERNIE ARE JUST FRIENDS!!!
Oh mighty ZARDOZ, my wife asked for an expensive ring for our 20th anniversary. In return I asked for nearly as expensive a gun. I thought I’d skip Dear Abby and go right to the source to see if I did the right thing.
Lol. That’s how I got my Spitfire!
Hmmmm, I have an anniversary coming up….
THE GUN IS GOOD. THE RING CAN BE USED TO PREVENT PENIC ERECTIONS WHICH IS ALSO GOOD.
My employer had a not so good 2018. Today they told us no merit increases for managers and above (which includes me). When they asked for questions, I helpfully pointed out that the job market is really strong right now – phrasing it as a question on turnover.
Does my resume look better on white or off white paper?
You work on Sesame Street. On the corner. For Canadian quarters.
He’s not gay, but 25 cents is 25 cents.
Agreed, but I just want to put a reminder that the “terrorism database” is bullshit, that people can be put on there for any reason or no reason, and there’s no oversight as to people getting on or due process to get off it (because fytw).
Nevertheless, I can’t be the only one amused that Team Other thinks this is a winning argument:
“How does this compare to the number of terrorists stopped by the TSA at airports?”
Agreed.
But an overreliance on oil – it accounts for about 95% of its export earnings – left the country vulnerable when prices dropped in 2014.
As a result, the cost of imported goods like food and medicine has risen, and currency inflation has skyrocketed.
See? It’s not socialism that fucked up Venezuela, it was falling oil prices! Says so right there on the label.
Just look at how the same thing happened to all the middle eastern OPEC nations when oil prices fell!
(what?)
I think the all-purpose “THAT’S DIFFERENT !!11!11!1” is called for here.
And in Norway, they have resorted to cannibalism, yes?
That’s why they kidnapped this starving woman.
Big pot of stewed hen?
When Trump says, “Mexico is going to pay for the wall,” I guess that really means, “I never said they’d write a check.”
People still write checks?
It’s Mexico, dude.
In which case, Western Union would seem more appropriate.
Obligatory
Game. Set. Match
And how else would I pay my Brazilian cleaning ladies?
How many ladies does it take to give a grizzly a brazilian?
Ladies don’t do that.
How many is a Brazilian?
Zero.
Yes Ted, they do. Old people in the supermarket. People who should be banished to the “Checks, Coupons, EBT, Other Special Needs” line.
Remembers back to the day before Thanksgiving where I was behind a nice old lady in the self check line who was trying to push a check into the money slot.
I use the self-checkout express whenever possible.
And express doesn’t mean a whole week’s worth of groceries, bitches.
I pay the people I employ in checks so they don’t have processing fees.
Good man! I have a number of clients who always want to paypal me. For the love of god write me a check, the 30 seconds it takes beat the hell out of me paying 3% for the ‘convenience’, especially if the amount invoiced includes recording fees etc. “Oh it’s just 3%”, @#$%^& yeah so on $1400 bucks, I am out $52 so you can avoid the horrible inconvenience of bringing a checkbook to the appointment.
$42 I swear I can do math.
I have never had a client try and pay me with anything other than a check or cash. I imagine it’s just a matter of time til some hipster or millennial wants to taps phones or whatever the cool kids are doing nowadays but it hasn’t happened yet.
It actually hurts me not to use a credit card because I don’t get the points, but it’s a bigger hit to them than it is a help to me, so I do it.
I write five each year. Federal income taxes, Minnesota Income taxes, Hennepin County property taxes (x2) and my safe deposit box fee. With the exception of the last one, I wait until the due-date to put them in the mail. Fuck those leeches.
Some of us rent, shitlord.
Or buy things like gas, water, electricity, phone, internet, etc.
Well yeah, but rent is the only one of those that generally requires a check. (Although two landlords ago, they actually sent over a different relative every month – cash only. Assholes.)
but rent is the only one of those that generally requires a check.
I would’ve thought they’d have moved en masse to Square or Venmo or something. My last apartment I rented had an online ACH option.
My current landlord operates an office that looks like it hasn’t changed since the 70s. And that’s the most advanced I’ve seen. My previous landlord was just some old guy who lived down the street – I would leave him a check in my mailbox every month. I bet there are fancier operations but they’re probably way outside my price range.
Adding 3-5% to your outlays when your money come in in a small number of large dollar payments from a limited customer base is a significant expense.
Fair enough.
A judge ordered Tijuana’s mayor to stop talking smack about migrants. His response, “No quiero.”
Ninth Circuit?
Worse. A Mexican judge.
Surprisingly, he gave the same response when someone asked if he wanted Taco Bell.
Since you mentioned the border wall… Dim Acosta is helping Trump get his wall.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cnns-jim-acosta-mocked-for-accidently-proving-that-border-walls-work
Own Goal!
That’s awesome.
Holy cow is he obtuse.
Jim Obtusta.
Nice.
I never knew Jim Acosta was a libertarian. Because with that video, he definitely revealed himself an believer in self-ownership.
LOL
I was watching “Conan Without Borders,” and in the episode in Mexico he’s interviewing former Mexican president Vicente Fox. “You make a good point,” Conan O’Brien says, “that historically border walls do not work.”
“Yes,” Fox says. His supporting example? The Berlin Wall.
“You’re right, the Berlin Wall famously fell. It didn’t work.”
Might be one of the worst arguments I’ve ever heard. Then there’s another episode in Israel and Palestine, a segment of which highlights the wall separating the West Bank. Kind of undercuts that argument further.
Of course, they’re bad analogies for a wall on the southern US border (unless sentinels are going to shoot trespassers), but arguing that “walls don’t work” and then immediately (to anyone with a pulse) falsifying that argument makes you wonder about these guys’ self-awareness.
When the MSM’s arguments for or against walls depends on which team the current occupant of the White House plays for, you know they’re not arguing in good faith. The recent pivot towards kumbaya and “unite not divide” is no more serious than “we can power the world on wind and solar”.
Which tells you all you need to know about their sincerity on EVERY other story they write/broadcast.
Walls work. Engineers can design a wall that will keep out most intruders. Now whether building a wall is the right thing to do or cost effective is another story.
https://www.abc17news.com/news/patrol-vehicles-commonly-use-area-where-girl-killed/970056411
Columbia, Missouri cop hits and kills a 4 year old girl while driving on a sidewalk. It’s totes ok though; cops drive on that sidewalk all the time!
And nothing more will happen. It’s infuriating.
NBC and fact checking are mutually exclusive.
Did Brian Williams do the fact checking?
Still can’t believe he has his job back.
Hanging off the side of that BBC link is a story about “Our kid wants to sell art to make money because we work for feds and we have been shut down” or something. (It’s noy like I’m going to watch that).
I say, “Go for it.” Maybe the kid will learn a valuable lesson about voluntary exchange and subjective value.
A friend just ripped me a new one on FB because I wasn’t sympathetic enough to the plight of “the little guy” who’s not going to get paid. And this was on a “libertarian” page.
Was your friend there for us when the Big O was ass raping small businesses?
Dunno. So far as I know, she’s never had a small business in her life.
I didn’t engage except to tell her to back off on the personal attacks.
Silly Tundra. Small business = big corporation in the eyes of stupid, faux-righteous progressives.
They don’t distinguish between the two.
They do make the distinction, but only when it’s actual corporate titans that say all the right social-justicey words.
All government employees are paid through theft, no matter how “little” they are.
And don’t forget that all those government employees think they are taxpayers.
Not following. Do they not pay taxes?
Or are they exempt?
Not if they get a big refund at the end of their 1040.
No, they pay taxes. But they’re also paid via tax revenue. The argument’s based on the idea that government spending funded via taxation by definition cannot produce wealth, therefore if you use tax money to pay someone to produce something, the best possible scenario you could achieve is that you’ve broken even, and in reality you won’t get close to that.
So the argument is that a government employee complaining about paying taxes is disingenuous since the money was acquired through coercion to begin with, i.e. it’s not really their money. The thing that gets me is that taxing the income of government employees is…strange. It would be simpler to just not tax them and pay them less, since it amounts to the same thing.
How would we pad our retirement, then.
It’s like you don’t even know how to properly bilk.
Come on, son, you’ve got to steal pens and printer paper and stuff! You sell what you can on the black market and then you keep what you need!
Shorter version of what Naptown Bill said: They are tax consumers, not tax producers. Therefore, they don’t pay taxes. It’s just theater when they file.
@DEG: Exactly, and succinctly put.
The best response to that nonsense is: LOL. I no longer entertain their bullshit.
I should. I know I should. She’s a friend. Came out of nowhere. Surprised me, is all.
Here is the only place I can let out my heartless, soulless self.
That’s really a shame. I stay clear of this for fear I face something similar.
My MIL already called me a racist for ranting against the previous Mayor of Montreal – a portly, white middle-aged, bespectacled politician.
I tell ya. TWILIGHT ZONE should be resurrected.
I tell you, the amount of self-censorship I engage in makes me feel like a coward. And yet, who wants the drama? Does it make my life better? Does getting attacked make me rethink my stances? No. It just makes me shut up and go about my business.
You showed good judgement by not being an asshole. It’s not worth destroying your friendships over politics.
The progressive friends who are always going on and on about politics, I’ve slowly removed them from of my life. If you want to have that negativity hanging over you that’s fine, but I won’t be apart of it.
I struggle with this (more form the opposite perspective of not self censoring enough) but the reality is expressing political viewpoints is not some moral imperative like ‘witnessing for your faith”. It is in most settings an empty gesture and is in fact often counter productive. If you cut people out of your life because they are unpleasant to be around that is a valid choice but doing it over disagreements about matters neither of you has any real control over is foolish.
I try to remind myself (and fail a lot lol) that there s literally no one on earth with whom I always agree, and yet there are people I love, so maybe agreement is not necessary.
I can always see that in hindsight.
Many’s the time I have found relief in having kept my mouth shut. I can’t think of a time I regretted that.
Hate to tell you this… but.
Bets on it being The Woke Zone?
No bet. Jordan Peele is a producer, and going to be the narrator (and I’ve read several interviews where he sounded like he really didn’t want to do it); regardless, it’s only going to be on the CBS All Access streaming service, so I won’t be seeing it.
I’ve heard nothing good about the new Trek series, which would be the other draw for me.
“CBS All Access”. So it might as well not exist.
I’m sympathetic to the plight of all the little guys who have to pay the salaries of those non-essential assholes.
OT: Samizdata linked to this interesting blog post on how the Brexit referendum won. It’s rather long but worth a read. I particularly likes this bit:
Psssst- don’t tell anybody, but I think the sidebar got left on.
Squirrels.
Oh I’m sorry*.
Does the side bar offend your delicate senses?
Is it giving you a headache?
Are you going to need to see a licensed physician for a prescription for the inevitable headache the side bar caused?
*I’m not sorry.
Further dismantling of the legacy of the recent former president. With delicious timing and location.
Thot Thursday rolls on!
http://archive.is/nvQqJ
Even Dwight Schultz would appreciate this sideboob.
I think he had/has a hot wife so I’m sure he does.
Once again Q you have delivered the goods https://youtu.be/soNcOfRvOtg
16 > 12 > 4
Chaos. Anarchy.
A coalition of aviation industry groups from the Air Line Pilots Association to the U.S. Travel Association sent a letter to President Trump and congressional leaders Thursday, urging an end to the second longest government shutdown.
“This partial shutdown has already inflicted real damage to our nation’s aviation system and the impacts will only worsen over time,” the letter says. “We urge you to act quickly to resolve these issues.”
The letter from 34 associations highlights 11 major areas of concern affecting travel, including:
Longer airport wait times and possible checkpoint shutdowns: “Nearly all TSA and CBP (Customers and Border Protection) personnel are working without pay, which creates a severe financial hardship for many. Many are warning that several Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) are living paycheck to paycheck and will be forced to find other work, without any means to replace them. We expect workforce capacity issues will increase the longer the government is partially shut down and employees face working without the certainty of a paycheck. This could result in significant operational impacts at airports across the country.”
Sounds like an argument for privatization.
Can we *please* go back to the security we had on 9/10/01? Because it was just as effective as what we have now (maybe more so given TSA failure rates), much cheaper, much faster and I didn’t have to wonder if I was supposed to tip the security agent and/or offer a reacharound after the invasive patdowns
I used Global Entry for the first time last week. I barely slowed down going through the process. I mentioned to the kids that it was the way things used to be and that it was glorious.
Shut DHS down completely.
I’m not a conspiracy guy, but I think that there has been a conscious effort to slow down normal security lines at major airports to encourage more Global Entry applications. It seems like a great way to get a large population’s fingerprints on file.
I just flew out of Miami this morning. H concourse line had 150 or so people in it. Clear was completely empty and they wouldn’t let people through it to get through the process more quickly.
You can sign up for Clear on the spot and cut right through the line immediately afterwards. Signup process takes a total of about five minutes. Best 85 bucks I ever spent, I use it all the time, and my typical time completely through security is always very, very short.
Another satisfied customer here. It needs to be in more airports though.
EWR recently “streamlined” the security check. They build the stairs to run into the side of a line with no signage of where to go, at the top, put a employee there to yell at people on where to go, then once you get to the front of the line there are two people and signs, telling you contradictory information on what you need to do to screen.
If I was a non native speaker I would be lost. Most natives were lost. It’s a mess that was designed to operate this way, the security area was redesigned in 2016-17 and opened in 2018.
Pedant: Global Entry is a CBP program for customs & immigration border that provides an automated kiosk for entering this country rather than waiting in line with a hand filled immigration and customs forms, and is seperate from PreCheck which is run by TSA. GE does give you PreCheck benefits but those are two seperate programs.
(Until the automated passport kiosks are fully rolled out, as a practical matter, GE is totally worth it if you do more than once in a lifetime international travel. If you’re close to the Canuckian border, Nexus is even better at a lower cost)
Not so long ago you would just wave a printout from a Global Entry kiosk in order to pass through a border agent. However, the experience has deteriorated lately. All the furriner GE members are using the same line and the agent checks their passports and puts stamps there. It makes it slow. But maybe it’s a local thing: BOS has been experiencing an enormous growth in international flights and the CBP had to make adjustments.
I understand. I looked into TSA pre and that was what I was referring to. GE looks interesting. The airport I frequent into the US has the automated immigration and customs kiosks and manual checks by humans. So it’s the worst of both.
In fairness, the airlines did support privatization of the FAA when proposed legislation was submitted. Most domestic airlines have had public beefs with TSA. They are stuck with the same system we are.
second longest government shutdown.
Trump always aims to be number one. Keep it “shutdown”.
Does the side bar offend your delicate senses?
You’re asking the “reply” refusenik, remember? My comments never appear as a vertical stack of letters, so it’s not a particularly big deal, to me.
Just trying to help.
About the theft of Mexican gasoline: “López Obrador noted last month that even those kinds of bold tactics still wouldn’t account for the massive amounts of fuel stolen each year. He said corrupt officials are complicit in broader schemes to profit off of stolen government oil.”
I’m shocked. Shocked I say.
Brazilian Trump withdraws from a UN agreement on migration.
FTA:
I think I may have found one of the reasons. They probably want the power to keep out Chavez voters trying to sneak across the border.
You know your country has sunk to new levels of Hitlerdom when your policies are aligning with those of Australia.
Ya keep that up mate and there’ll be a redback in your shoe one morning.
I’m sorry, I don’t speak jive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider
Aligned with a country populated by the descendants of criminals. How far we’ve fallen.
I saw AiC and Sponge open for Kiss at the first concert ever held at Tiger Stadium. It was the first Kiss concert back in makeup as well. it was insane. We drove to the thing in an old Lincoln with suicide doors and had to pay for two parking spots because the car was so big. The stadium shook when they played Detroit Rock City. I got hammered. Fun night.
Saw AiC at a local casino two years ago. They were great.
I didn’t RTFA the Mexican gas thievery article. Have any large groups of people immolated themselves like the Nigerians?
Detroit Rock City at Tiger Stadium, 1996.
I Brooksed myself!
Can we *please* go back to the security we had on 9/10/01?
Back farther. I watched some old tevee show from the ’60s (it might have been an episode of The Man From UNCLE), and they’re on an airplane and this chick opens her purse and starts rooting around for her lipstick or something, and there’s a pistol in there. Looked like a snubby .38. Awesome.
Someone posted a link the other day to a clip showing Archie Bunker explaining how to deal with hijacking — give all the passengers guns, they can turn them back in at the end of the flight.
One guy stands up with a gun and says we’re going to Cuba, and 65 other passengers with guns want to go to Miami, guess where they end up.
I’ve always thought every seat back pocket should have a snub-nosed .38 in it. They would be in a special holster that would set off a flashing red light over the seat when the gun is removed.
“Something, something Snackbar!!!” and red lights go off all over the cabin.
There was zero security until the early 1970s. At some point planes were being hijacked (usually to Cuba) on a near monthly basis, which is what caused the original security.
https://aviation-safety.net/database/events/dblist.php?Event=SEH (see 1969 and 1970 especially).
Should be a choice though. If you want to run your airline with no security, go ahead. Otherwise it’s private security like we used to have.
There’s a scene in The Parallax View where Warren Beatty decides to get on board an airplane to try and stop a bomb going off. He runs across the tarmac, up the stairs and finds a seat. When the stewardess comes along, she asks him where he’s going then he pays cash for a ticket.
In the John Wayne movie The High and the Mighty, one of the passengers loses his cool, takes out his gun, and shoots through the fuselage before everyone else can wrest the gun away from the him. When the passenger calms down, they give him back the gun.
I have a baby Browning in .25 auto. My father bought it back in the ’60s to keep in his pocket when he was flying.
I Brooksed myself!
Felt good, didn’t it?
There was a tingle, yes.
Chilly? This’ll get your blood boiling.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46823793
For a little more background….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9239417/European-Court-of-Human-Rights-blocks-more-deportations-from-UK-than-any-other-country.html
Your children are the property of the state, don’t you know.
Authorities claimed the children were growing up in a “parallel world”, and that they would struggle to become part of the community and learn crucial social skills, such as tolerance.
You know who else…
… they would struggle to become part of the community and learn crucial social skills, such as tolerance.
Tolerance is clearly not something they teach in German schools, if the actions of the German authorities in this case are any indication.
The Germans aren’t known for their love of the individual. They’re a nation of cattle.
Man, that is an industrial strength euphemism.
Late Night with Seth Meyers
✔
@LateNightSeth
Is this Oval Office: SVU?
His jokey take on the claim 4000 people were murdered by illegals.
He’s a peach.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘I killed JonBenét Ramsey!’ Convicted pedophile Gary Oliva has confessed to the murder of six-year-old pageant princess in prison letters to his friend – claiming it was ‘an accident'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6555009/Pedophile-Gary-Oliva-confesses-killing-JonBen-t-Ramsey-accident.html
In other news, child pageants are still creepy af.
Yes they are.
+1 Honey Boo Boo
Ryan Cooper is an envious, loathesome thieving scumbag
But let’s first agree on this: It is flatly preposterous for such incomprehensible sums of wealth to go this way or that according to the personal foibles of one person. Think of the command of material resources $66 billion implies: It is $200 in the hands of every single person in the United States. It would buy 2.8 million Honda Accords. It’s enough to build a decent high-speed rail system in the Northeast corridor four times over (if we paid reasonable prices for it).
However, the salacious gossip angle should not lead us to conclude that it is only a problem when tens of billions of dollars are disposed of because one faintly pathetic rich guy allegedly couldn’t stop himself cheating on his wife with the former host of So You Think You Can Dance. It’s still a problem to let any one person — with no democratic accountability and little oversight — to command that much wealth. Indeed, if anything it’s worse when it’s not flings and divorces driving events.
———–
As Matt Yglesias points out, there are lots of excellent economic studies arguing for very stiff taxation at the top. One paper says the optimal point in terms of tax revenue is about 73 percent. Another says it would slash inequality by reducing the incentive of top executives to bargain for enormous salary packages. Another says it would discourage talented people from pursuing careers in banking, law, or business, and instead push them into research, teaching, or other more socially valuable jobs. (Better to have the smartest people cooking up vaccines instead of new subprime mortgage-backed securities.)
Guess what, sonny- deserve‘s got nothing to do with it.
Face the facts Ryan, you’re an ignorant, incompetent twat who will never accumulate any wealth because you are simply incapable of it. What makes your unsatisfactory little mind deserving enough to get to say what Bezos does with his billions?
The Tyranny of the Mediocre.
Something I’ve learned is that the ones who goes on and on about the rich being too rich and view economics as a zero sum game, are mediocre people in their private and professional lives. They also have this over inflated sense of intelligence and worth and wonder why a brilliant person such as themselves are struggling. Instead of looking at themselves and making some sort of improvement, they try to drag down those who work harder and are willing to make sacrifices to have the life they desire.
“They also have this over inflated sense of intelligence and worth”
That’s the crux. I’m perfectly content being mediocre. It’s the combination that’s deadly.
Another believer in the Scrooge McDuck Theory of Economics.
IOW rich people keep and their wealth (same thing as money) in giant indoor swimming pools.
(Better to have the smartest people cooking up vaccines instead of new subprime mortgage-backed securities.)
And how many people would be doing that without the profit incentive? Not to mention that “smart” isn’t a one-size-fits-all standard, only a small fraction of the “smart” people would be capable of inventive biology or even science of any sort. Allowing smart people to do what they want and earn an honest reward for it gives us not only new vaccines but also new was to shop and have stuff delivered right to our doorstep.
The only credit I will give this author is that he didn’t put “law” in the category of socially valuable jobs.
Aaaaaannnnddd we’re done here.
Good god, I don’t know where to fucking start with this one.
I guess I can zero in on the point that people in the business field (as if that’s one big monolithic thing) are not useless slugs who merely leech off the working people and inventors. They figure out ways to make products into something financially viable, decide how and where to manufacture it, work out the distribution that will actually put it on the shelves, and make consumers aware of it through advertising and marketing. You can invent the greatest thing in the world, but if it’s completely unaffordable, unavailable, and unknown, nobody will ever buy it and it won’t improve anyone’s life. It will just sit on a fucking shelf forever.
Why is banking a bad career? Banking is crucial for businesses to operate. They need to store and transfer their money and get loans.
And law? Well, someone has to find out how to protect your company from the neverending parade of jackbooted regulators, right?
“REVEALED: The shirtless selfies, a photo of his genitals and lusty texts Jeff Bezos sent his married mistress – as it emerges the pair hooked up in hotels, private jets and BOTH their marital homes for months before he announced his divorce”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6577797/Jeff-Bezos-gushing-text-messages-TV-anchor-having-affair-with.html
“From morning news anchor and reality TV host to girlfriend of the world’s richest man: How Lauren Sanchez launched a Hollywood career, was a single mother and then tied the knot in front of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck before falling for the Amazon CEO”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6578631/How-Lauren-Sanchez-went-morning-news-host-Jeff-Bezos-girlfriend.html
I ain’t saying she a gold digger.
You would Jeff could do better than that, she’s skeezy.
You would think….
She’s icky.
Drew has some good advice.
You say skeezy like it’s a bad thing.
Maybe Jeff like them women that you can just grab by the pussy, and they like it?
I heard that billionaires get that kind of action.
She looks a little bit like a dude. She must have had a ton of work done, because she looks swole. In the face.
There are better looking gold diggers out there.
She seems to pass the Q test.
Mentor Worldwide says “you’re welcome!”
I think MacKenzie Bezos is better looking than his mistress.
Definitely, although she’s come a long way since the early days.
Sometimes it aint so much about looks.
Chrome off a trailer hitch?
A golf ball thru 100 feet of garden hose?
A three-pointer? Where only your heels and the back of your head are touching the bed, and you got to untuck 3 feet of sheet from your ass when it’s done?
Maybe he’s leaving her because she has a last name for a first name.
+2 Strange Brews
I ain’t saying she a gold digger.
But she ain’t messing with no broke…
Also known as a Busta
I normally don’t chime in with these things but the wife is more natural. The other one tries too hard. Fake boobs. Ew.
I was always more of a Bailey Quarters over Jennifer Marlowe sort of guy.
She was cute before the botox. Still would though. Wife too.
I’m with you on that one, Rufus. Laura Holt was an early crush of mine, too.
Mmmmm, Bailey Quarters…
So, the picture with Afleck has a nip slip, and that second bikini picture; is that a slip in a different area or what am I looking at?
Well, I like to be quick to confess when I’m wrong. I knew there was a gold digger involved. I mean what else do you assume when this many billions are involved. But it isn’t the wifey. It’s the Latin floozy. Jeffy, Jeffy, one would have to believe you smarter than this. I first worried when I saw you at the McCain funeral? WTF? I just assumed, poor guy is a cuck. But the Latin Floozy? Dude, you could have 1000 of those, all better looking and less scheming. I’m afraid that you and all your recorder wealth are soon to be parted. We’ll soon see Hobo pics of Bezos somewhere near the docs in Seattle. Sad indeed. Hate to say, you have it coming, dummy.
The very fact of someone being millions of times richer than the median household makes a hash of foundational American principles. The Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed[.]” A nation which pays rapt attention to the divorce mechanics of its wealthiest inhabitants, for the logical reason that it probably matters more than the decisions of any representative, senator, and all but a few governors, is not really a republic. It is an oligarchy.
Wait, what?
This Cooper guy might have some sort of “learning disability”.
nation which pays rapt attention to the divorce mechanics of its wealthiest inhabitants, for the logical reason that it probably matters more than the decisions of any representative, senator, and all but a few governors, is not really a republic. It is an oligarchy.
Nobody gives a shit about Jeff Bezos getting divorced beyond the petty emotional voyeurism that people engage in from time to time.
Well….if you are an investor in Amazon, his soon to be ex-wife owning half of his shares might be a small concern.
I’ll be more concerned when the Latin floozy owns half of the half that is left.
Nobody gives a shit about Jeff Bezos getting divorced beyond the petty emotional voyeurism that people engage in from time to time.
Which, given the number of gossip rags I see at the checkout lines, is quite frequently.
This Cooper guy might have some sort of “learning disability”.
No. It’s something much worse. He’s a vile excuse for a human being. He’s the sort of shitbag who’d arrogate to himself the right to decide what other people deserve and what they’re worth. You want to look in the face of the sort of human garbage who’d sign off on Stalin’s starvation of millions? Look no further than Ryan Cooper.
The family are now considering appealing the decision, by taking their case to the Grand Chamber of the ECHR….
Something something if only Comrade Stalin knew
For no particular reason, Robert Earle Keen doing a Steve Earle song
Fun fact: Steve Earle sold more records in Quebec than anywhere else in North America. He used to come to Montreal often.
The thing that gets me is that taxing the income of government employees is…strange. It would be simpler to just not tax them and pay them less, since it amounts to the same thing.
Let ’em work for tips, sez I.
Let the tax agencies work for tips and the DMVs work on commission. That right there would solve a lot of your usual “customer service” problems with government.
Except that you have no choice about paying the DMV.
It’d give a damn good reason to provide fast service though.
Sorry about the paywall, but this is interesting:
Put Down the Kombucha and Pick Up a Crossbow: Hipsters Are the New Hunters
This was my favorite part:
I think this is a interesting, creative way to try to get people back out in the woods.
Joe Rogan talks about this a lot – I think his 4+ hour podcast with Eric Weinstein included at least a 1/2 hour discussion. Great listen overall.
“… gave her a “familiar, comfortable, exhilarating feeling,” she says,…Now she heads to the forest as often as she can. “It’s all I can think about.”
Its like an episode of Dexter.
Worth pointing out that without hunters there would be no wild animals.
Huh? As opposed to what?
Silicon based, obviously.
Silicone based, obviously.
How’d this conversation swing back to Bezos’ girlfriend?
Same day delivery via drone?
I’m going hunting this weekend for boar for the first time.
I’m pretty much a bird hunter but I would love to hunt some wild boar.
You have to hunt it the manly way. Only a knife, no longer than 6″ max blade. The boar must weigh in at least 400 kilos. You have to live stream it. We promise to look away if anything goes wrong.
I would have never thought there would be a gas shortage in Mexico.
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
Saudi Arabia actually did run out of easily accessible sand 10 years ago.
It’s all about the refineries. Same issues in Indonesia…..and periodically the US.
Is there a bean refinery issue?
Just saw an ad pushing the Great Wall of Trump. One part of the ad showed a panoramic view of a section of existing wall stretching across the desert. I used to wander around out there (southern AZ) with a pistol and a jug of water, sight seeing, taking pot shots at rattlesnakes and jackelopes just because. You could walk for days out there and never see any sign of other humans. More than a few times we would look around and realized we had wandered into Mexico. “Welp, we better wander back to the States.” No one cared.
Those days are long gone.
Somebody check that boy’s green-card, he sounds like an illegal.
I smell a mule.
Ever stumble into a briefcase full of cash amidst the ruins of a gang battle?
Careful, as soon as you grab it guys start chasing you down the PCH
Not sure the point of that. All their viewers I’m sure already already hate him. Maybe it was just for personal kicks. No such thing as fake news.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/10/tv-editor-fired-doctoring-video-trumps-border-speech/
I wondered how long it would take for someone to doctor it.
Just spent an hour on the phone with my father. He told me an interesting story I had not heard before. I think y’all can appreciate it.
My fathers mothers grandfather had a plantation in MS. When the war was over and the emancipation proclamation was passed he went to the slaves and said “Well you are free now. I have treated you like family. You can leave if you want but if you stay I will pay you and treat you well.” They replied “Yes sir, you have treated us well and we do love you. We think of you as family too. We will stay if you pay us.”
The next morning he woke up and discovered there wasn’t a soul in sight. Every single one of them left in the night.
Freedom is priceless.
There was a collection of short stories about ex-slaves online I was reading some time ago and a lot of them were in a similar vain to that.
I think he was even going to give them a stake in the plantation. I am reminded of this quote: “The happiest day in a man’s life is the day he gets his first divorce.” – either Picasso or Twain, I dont remember which.
Imagine the exhilaration a person feels after a lifetime of bondage on the day they discover they are free, that their life is their own.
Didn’t work out so well for Brooks Hatlen.
You have a point and it is easily seen today in the people that vote for the welfare state. Some people like chains and will do whatever it takes to keep them on. It is a comfort for them I suppose, freedom from responsibility.
I’m actually surprised they didn’t all stay, just because of inertia and an uncertain future. Then again back then life was more simple, so I can’t really think in the same way.
I imagine a lot of them headed west, north or joined the military. You dont see it in cowboy movies but in fact many of the ‘cowboys’ of the old west were blacks who had left the south. Can anyone blame them? Who would want to live amongst their former oppressors? I would walk away too with both middle fingers held high.
Jazz Shaw makes a funny.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/10/quick-solution-defiant-landowners-along-border/
Can we do that to California?
Good idea!
You and I have very differing interpretations of the definition of the word “funny”.
Shirley you can’t be serious.
I am. And don’t call me Shirley.
Orange you glad I didn’t say banana.
One man’s funny is another man’s STEVE SMITH.
But STEVE SMITH IS funny.
My father-in-law’s name is Steve Smith. Thanks to you chucklefucks I giggle every time his name is mentioned.
He’s not a sasquatch, as far as I know.
You should get him a T-Shirt!
He’s in his 70s and lives in rural North Carolina. I’m not sure he’d get the joke. Or like it.
So a Get Off My Lawn shirt might be more appropriate.
“Rural North Carolina” they don’t have lawns, overgrown yards with rusting cars on concrete blocks, sure, lawns? not so much.
Sounds like paradise!
Would be nice if people cared as much about eminent domain when it’s frequently used in cities to clear ghettos and industry for yuppies, but that only hurts the poors which seem to have dropped off the hierarchy of oppression.
Well it mostly happens in large cities run by Democrats so criticism is off limits.
Sweet. Wonder if he’ll have to pay taxes on that.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/local-distillery-offering-artemi-panarin-free-alcohol-for-life-to-stay-in-columbus/1696412554
Wood or wouldn’t. Battle of the ironclads.
https://mises.org/library/historical-controversies
Looks like an interesting series.
Completely OT- found out today that there’s a Tora-san museum:
http://www.katsushika-kanko.com/tora/sp/index.php
Hey OMWC. Sure you don’t want to move to Columbus. They’re hiring molesters at the airport. I keep hearing about it.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/513391800
I would have greatly preferred Columbus to Phoenix.
INVEST IN POPCORN FUTURES
“Sources say…”
He should go for broke.
Perfect time for Feinstein’s least favorite Catholic lady judge.
Soon….
Oh God could you imagine.
You’d see the lefty meltdown from space.
I’m loving the masturbatory adulation for RBG from the media recently while, at the same time, criticizing Trump’s attempt to employ imminent domain to build the Great Wall of Broken Campaign Promises. Do….do…they not know about RBG’s ruling in Kelo that most certainly made Trump’s proposed land grab most certainly legal?
This might be the most depressing thing I’ve read in months.
https://www.cnet.com/news/at-ces-2019-i-met-a-robot-that-showed-me-a-future-where-were-not-so-lonely/
“They’ll be sold in pairs and priced at about $5,000-$6,000 for the two”
Tom Hanks made due with a used volleyball. Much cheaper.
It better come with a pack of razor blades.
Nobody needs more than one razor blade. At least none of the people buying these robots.
That thing doesn’t even have lips.
Seems to be part of Japanese-originated cute products. Note that Hello Kitty has no mouth.
Weird.
I guess if you’re only going to fuck one girl, make it a good one.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/10/tim-tebow-engaged-to-former-miss-universe-demi-leigh-nel-peters/
She’s kind of a butterface.
What does he do, exactly? Did he have a massive payday at the beginning of his career or something?
She’s pretty, though.
He’s a commentator for the ESPN SEC channel.