Good morning my Glibs, and what a good morning it is as 7% of professional government gropers have not shown for their professional groping job.
This of course is due to the glorious government shutdown with no end in sight as both sides refuse to budge.
With the kitchen staff furloughed, Trump catered the Clemson Tigers visit with a smorgasbord of fast food.
Rep Steve King loses committee seats over remarks regarding white supremacy. Whatever the hell he meant by those comments, his career is over.
Over-glorified and over paid babysitters demand more money and smaller classrooms from grossly irresponsible government.
This is probably true, but it still will not stop Congressional Democrats from performing endless theatrical investigations that go nowhere and irresponsible journalists from speculating nonsense, fueling the brainwashing of millions of idiots with severe TDS. How many of the brainswashed will go from Mueller being their savior to him being compromised?
Major leftists groups are quietly backing away from the Pussy Hat Brigade. Turns out major leftist organizations will actually not put up with anti-antisemitism, just took them awhile.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and clean up some puppy shit that I smell.
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Speaking of government inaction… An interesting take on the possible upsides of a prolonged shutdown.
That would be a monumental blow to the permanent bureaucracy. I approve.
If this is true, and it gets carried out, that may get me to vote for Trump in 2020.
This is some 5D Chess stuff, but man do I want it to be so.
In another thread a few days ago I suggested the shutdown could be Trump 4D chess to take the axe to unfireable feds. Didnt think it could happen so fast though and thought the feds would have to quit after running without pay for so long.
The anonymous Daily Caller oped linked there is pretty good btw. Its anonymous so take it with a grain of salt, but does make cogent points.
Remember when an anonymous NYT op-ed spelled doom for the administration? IT’S COMING FROM INSIDE THE CABINET!!
OMG. Don’t tease me like that.
In deciding who stays and who goes, federal agencies must take four factors into account:
1. Tenure
2. Veteran status
3. Total federal civilian and military service
4. Performance
Don’t know if it is in priority order, but why isn’t #4 on the top?
Because most departments have neither performance metrics nor evaluations, so they wouldn’t be able to quantify it.
Oh I am sure they have metrics and evaluation procedures. I am equally sure they measure nothing that is positively related to their actual jobs. Not rocking boats, supporting progressive causes, strict enforcement of meaningless paperwork and process rules are probably all measured. Actual job performance probably not.
That is the priority order, and the huge shortfall in the process being proposed here is that some worthless shit with 30 years of tenure working in a redundant and ineffective position within Dept of Education will end up displacing a fast-tracking hot-shot working in Dept of Army, because they notionally have the same job skills.
Never mind that the first guy codes in FORTRAN and the 2nd guy is in the process of recoding an important model into PYTHON to make it accessible to low level users.
It doesn’t matter that guy 1 hasn’t had a more than nominal evaluation in 15 years and guy 2 walks on water.
I don’t know about the federal bump and retreat rules for RIF, but I believe the State of New York restricts whose job you can fall back to. The short version is you have to have held that item previously. So if you got promoted and someone was hired into your old role, then the new role for RIFed, you could bump them and retake the old job at the lower grade, but you couldn’t take the job of someone hired in another department you never worked at. The biggest problem is that those who get RIFed out of state service end up on the Priority re-hire list, where they get priority over people who were not laid off when applying to new openings.
^This. Where I work there are people whose primary job functions aren’t conducive to easily-measured performance metrics but who nevertheless are felt to be useful. Now, obviously there’s a conversation to be had about whether those jobs need to exist, but at least in terms of judging their performance it’s going to be difficult to quantify.
Lol
It would be beautiful! All of those Democratic voters out of work.
They usually don’t work already. The only difference is they’d also be out of a job and have no paycheck
no paycheck
Hey! At least it would be honest then when they said they are missing a paycheck.
They will still vote, though. Mostly for more free shit.
This tells you all you need to know about the priorities of bureaucrats:
“Agencies cannot use RIF procedures to fire bad employees.
A lot of procedures must be followed, and merit (“performance”) is the last consideration”
And, unless Trump rescinds his promise to sign legislation to turn this and all future “shutdowns” into retroactive paid vacations, I am skeptical that a permanent RIF is happening.
Well, we know it’s a big ole pile of nothing. The signs have been there for years that it’s nothing. I’m just shocked that they might finally reveal that there’s nothing.
I’m sure that the “pile of nothing” is proof that Trump obstructed justice and tampered with witnesses. How else could Mueller come up with nothing?
It’s about keeping the progtards riled up and desperate to go vote for the left despite getting absolutely nothing of value, while also scaring the donors into pissing away even more of their money, all under the guise that these wolf-crying bitches do this all to prevent Trumpmaggeddon.
It’s also about deflecting attention from the actual no-shit crimes of cooking up a fake dossier and using it as pretext to use the national intelligence agencies to illegally spy on a political opponent.
“This is probably true, but it still will not stop Congressional Democrats from performing endless theatrical investigations that go nowhere and irresponsible journalists from speculating nonsense, fueling the brainwashing of millions of idiots with severe TDS. How many of the brainswashed will go from Mueller being their savior to him being compromised?”
Impossible. I saw Newspeak put out that it said that Trump “Helped Vladmir Putin instill confusion” in the American process.
Exposing the fact that Hillary is a crook, the democrats had rigged the primaries to have her steal it from Bernie and then rigged the general election to steal it there as well, and that the left in general looks down on the serfs, is sowing confusion, because it informs the serfs in a way that might make them not just bend over and grab their ankles as the elite ruling class wants them to…
Did they pay much attention to what Lincoln said?
How did these things become equated? I mean, a whole chunk of Western Civilization gets credited to the Greeks and the Italians.
Here’s the thing, This is the same publication that said Walter Block said “Slavery was just singing and picking cotton” and cast him as a racist. King sounds retarded, i don’t know why any republican would be caught talking about any subject like this with the NYT seeing as they are just fishing. But idiots go further and talk about how being an American Nationalist is the worst thing ever. I don’t get why our Elites think it is such a good strategy to eschew Nationalism, but then claim the sole right to be leaders of the Nation.
“New York Times? Sorry, I only give interviews to journalists.”
He was basically saying “How did western civilization come to be equated with those two other terms?” but he put in inelegantly. He came out with a clarifying statement that unequivocally cleared things up but the Republicans are a bunch of pussies who will sell out their own and cave to public pressure. They’re pathetic.
It’s exactly like the tongue-tied weatherman who said “Martin Luther Coon, uh King”. The idea has been floated to fire all of his bosses for not canning him quickly enough.
Is that really all that King said?
Greece and Italy are very different ethnically now than they were 2,000 years ago. (Moorish invasions of Italy and Sicily, centuries of Turkish rule in Greece)
The blockquotes come from the linked article. I don’t know what he said. My contribution was the bad joke at the end.
White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things doesn’t belong.
Either King is incredibly stupid (certainly a possibility) or the quote was taken out of context. The notion that Western civilization is somehow inherently white nationalist or white supremacist is, as far as I’ve ever seen, an idea that only has currency with leftists and racists.
~~~edit fairy~~~
Out of context? I searched over a dozen news articles trying to find one that quoted the paragraph that sentence came from. There must be a reason context is being deliberately omitted.
Why doesn’t King put the entire interview out there?
I thought about that too. But remember when that lady got fired from Obama administration for saying something innocuous that was then spliced into something bad. IIRC she didn’t fight back much either. I don’t know if its similar, or that King knows what he said was retarded and is trying to clarify it.
I think she used the term “niggardly” and the moron brigade went nuts.
That’s not what happened.
What happened was, she told a story about how she deliberately discriminated against people for being white. Then later, she realized that this is wrong. The story was about how she grew as a person and was so moral an righteous. But it doesn’t change the fact that she deliberately discriminated against white people. The complaint about the video being “edited” is that it was cut off before she could tell the part about her personal growth and going back and offering the wypipo the loan that she had withheld from them. Whether or not the amends makes the initial crime a non-firing offense depends on the political viewpoint of the viewer.
Ah, okay, I guess I was confusing it with another incident.
One would think a socialist named Castro would not have a chance at being elected president. But I am not so optimistic.
Like most of the several dozen other potential Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, Castro’s platform is heavily Democratic Socialists of America-inspired: including socialized government-run health care (“Medicare for All”), strong support for Black Lives Matter, free college, universal free pre-Kindergarten, increased taxes for the “wealthy” and coporations, etc.
According to NPR:
A longtime gun control advocate, Castro has pushed for renewing the assault weapons ban, limiting high-capacity magazines and requiring background checks at gun shows.
Castro has called for “universal health care,” also referring to it as “Medicare for all.” He indicated he would consider paying for such a system by raising taxes on corporations and on the wealthiest “0.05, 0.5 or 1 percent” of Americans.
Castro supports comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for most of the estimated 11 million [sic] undocumented people in the United States. Castro opposes Trump’s border wall plan, and instead has proposed securing the border by using technology and a more efficient legal immigration process. When asked if he thinks ICE should be abolished, as some Democrats argued in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, Castro told Bustle he thinks the agency needs to change its culture and be “reconstituted.”
Castro has pushed for renewing the assault weapons ban, limiting high-capacity magazines and requiring background checks at gun shows.
Each party has it’s share of perennially “Stupid” ideas that they try to push once they get the semblance of power. Gun Control is that idea for Progressives.
“Over-glorified and over paid babysitters demand more money and smaller classrooms from grossly irresponsible government.”
Seeing how many people Pay to not send their kids to government school, it would seem that these teachers produce a huge negative value to society. It is probably better that they strike and not get paid than being paid to do shitty work.
I can say that while unlikely to be the root cause, my public school faculty played a significant role in baking in my innate laziness and discouraging initiative.
I’m not being tongue in cheek when i say that public schools are a net negative on society. I think almost anyone, if they had the means, would pay to not send their kids there.
I’m also perfectly serious. I liked (and still like) learning, but hate busywork. Most of what got dropped on the desk ot into the homework was pointless and boring. My efforts at actual inquiry were stifled by the instructors’ ignorance and their desire to just have me shut the hell up so they can get back to the rote ‘lesson’ plan.
In high school chemistry I had a homework assignment to write a poem about “hot or cold.” Seriously. No, I was not in the special class.
I ended up getting in trouble because I wrote about being locked outside the house after a shower without a towel. I had great descriptions for being cold and my classmates loved the poem. The teacher did not, and I had it taken away from me.
I could have been the next Sugarfree, instead my creativity was squashed.
my creativity was squashed
Well, if that doesn’t sum up public school, I don’t know what does.
Public schools are about creating compliant drones for the elite class to use & abuse…
Quoth the teacher ‘do as you’re told,
write a poem about hot or cold’
It makes me want to sing
‘cold is not a thing’
instructor ignorance is getting old.
Was shrinkage involved?
Yes it was.
Did Costanza screaming that out make an appearance? Cause that would truly be epic.
I won’t lie: I had a great public HS – top-ranked ‘n’ shit. One of the ways it got that way was tons of filthy corporate lucre from the likes of Kodak and Xerox.
What’s a Kodak?
I think it’s a kind of Bear from Alaska
A bear that lost an eye.
You’re thinking of Popeye
A bear with a shaved head that likes lollipops?
I dunno know what they were doing but everyone’s dad worked there. It’s only spoken of in hushed tones anymore.
I don’t know anyone who worked at Kodak. Then again, I worked at Xerox. (No joke)
Making copies of your back end at x-mas party does not make you a Xerox employee, despite what people claim UCS…
No, I answered helpdesk calls from Xerox employees who were having computer problems (or were computer problems).
They make batteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_History_of_American_Education
The wife is reading this now and is getting worked up more a more each day. We already homeschool but you still model your homeschool patterns off traditional school many times and now she is seeing that probably isn’t the way to go.
My Mom Home schooled Me and my siblings from 4th-8th grade (sent me to High School to get a diploma, which was supposed to make it easier to get into college). I thought her system was pretty good, and i could do a write up on my experience if anyone would be interested.
i could do a write up
Which puts you ahead of most 4th-8th graders. Good job, Mom.
YES, PLZ.
“I’m not being tongue in cheek when i say that public schools are a net negative on society”
I wouldn’t use the word “society”, since that seems to be where leftists sneak in collectivism. I’d say the revealed preference of a lot of individuals is to consider public school as being worth literally less than zero, since at the price of “free”, they decline to have their kids go there.
Don’t worry, the small business owners have the teachers’ backs.
/sigh
Of course it was.
Businessmen and Socialists working together? What do you call that?
Stockholm Syndrome
Rent seeking
I believe that is the textbook description of fascism?
^^^THIS^^^
There is a reason that social justice is about having government pick winners & losers…
The teachers union in California is unabashedly pro-illegal immigration, yet they simultaneously complain about large class sizes and resources. It’s not the illegals that are paying for the public schools via property taxes.
Sounds to me like the people paying for it are not using it.
Is there any evidence that smaller class sizes are better for education?
They want more teachers hired, for more pay… essentially saying we want more money for less work.
More dues paying members.
I don’t see why there wouldn’t be – more individual attention etc. With diminishing returns that have probably already been reached.
But yeah this isn’t about evidence. Class sizes will never ever be low “enough” for teachers unions.
If we’re assuming every teacher is a good teacher. What happens to the 20 kids in a small classroom with a bad teacher?
Damage limitation.
Union wants more dues, period. My asshat union has the same demand. Hire more people. My coworkers have no desire for more hires whatsoever.
For one thing, the larger the class, the more likely you are to have the problem kids who suck up all the teacher’s time.
Class size is not a predictor of academic achievement; neither is teacher pay. The best predictor of academic achievement is parental engagement. Whether there are 20 kids in a class or 30 kids in a class actually makes little difference. I say this as a former HS science teacher.
I don’t doubt that parental involvement is the best predictor. My comment was based what my sister told me. She was a 2nd grade teacher. At some point class size would have to make a difference, and that point probably varies depending on which grade you are dealing with. I don’t know whether the number is 20, 30 or 100, but at some point it’s going to make a difference.
Furthermore, in California the special needs kids are mainstreamed into the regular classes, and those kids combined with your regular problem kids suck up an inordinate amount of the teacher’s time.
I’m guessing that if you taught higher level science in HS, you were dealing with a self-selecting group that is less likely to have the problem children, which makes larger class size possible.
The freeways were remarkably clear yesterday for my commute. I say, “Keep Striking!!!!”
7% of professional government gropers have not shown for their professional groping job.
It’s Joe Biden’s time to shine.
Speaking of which, someone finally asked a politician the hard questions and uploaded the result to YouTube.
LONEWACKO!!!!
So much of government does nothing but harass and create useless hurdles. I don’t get how people can see some this uselessness and not see that as a problem.
That sentence encapsulates much if what is wrong with our government. How can you write that and think the shutdown, not overreaching bureaucracy, is the problem.
Oh noes, the shutdown stole the opening bracket from subwoofers ‘a’ tag!
The government wasn’t open to approve its placement. Thankfully private charity in the form of an edit fairy came along to fix it
Don’t worry, some of the breweries have found a loophole. I feel for the breweries, but this is why you get your labeling in order before starting the batch. Also, this would be illegal in Ohio, as you cannot give out free alcohol.
Joe Biden is no professional groper, but he is the Bobby Jones of Groping.
Tard Tuesday: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
Note to parents, this is what happens when you teach your kids that they are untouchable.
Guy ended up getting arrested. Geeze. I don’t know what i would do much differently if girls were harassing my daughter.
Nope. I can shrug off a lot, but all the safeties come off if you attack my wife and young kid.
I bet charges are already dropped. No way will he be convicted by a jury.
I was just on a jury. Convict is pretty much default.
Apparently men are not allowed to defend themselves and their families from assault by a mob of teenage girls.
Of course not. That’s toxic masculinity.
Another example that makes it clear that what these people want isn’t equality but preferential treatment for females.
This is also what happens when society and culture teach girls that their bad behavior is “empowering” and that they are the physical equal or superior to any man.
That dude looks to be about 6’4″ and 250 lb. You’ve got to be a special kind of stupid to invite a left hook from him.
“and down she goes!”
It just never occurred to her that he would slap her – even as she attacks his family.
When he shoved her, she probably thought “Here’s my big opportunity to earn some cred!”
Yup, and she got decked for trying to be a bad chick. The fact that they then actually made this dude deal with an arrest pisses me off
The way he threw that punch, this ain’t his first rodeo.
Turns out waif-fu doesn’t work off the set. Huh.
I’m curious to find out what happens next – whole thing dropped, or the book thrown at him.
Turns out major leftist organizations will actually not put up with anti-antisemitism, just took them awhile.
They’re happy to put up with it until it becomes too inconvenient.
SOP for Progressives, shock and awe over some BS, Gaslight, then move the goal posts or target as soon as anyone shows up with facts to point out lies and hypocrisy.
Turns out major leftist organizations will actually not put up with anti-antisemitism, just took them awhile.
And yet, they still have major leftist groups like the ACLU (who have given up any pretense of nonpartisanship), MoveOn, and the like pouring money into their coffers- and the pockets of the Gang of Three and their cronies.
With the kitchen staff furloughed, Trump catered the Clemson Tigers visit with a smorgasbord of fast food.
Just another impeachable offense. Drumpf is going down.
If it included Arby’s I’d say impeachment is warranted.
What would Chipotle be ?
A crime against humanity.
Even Hitler didn’t feed Chipotle to his prisoners.
True Fact: we put up a Chipotle three or so years ago, right at the height of their transition to all “organic” produce and the subsequent norovirus outbreaks. This weekend I went and measured out the storefront for a barricade wall ‘cuz they’ve shut down.
Our local Boston Market just closed down. A Chipotle is going there instead. #SadPanda
*balls up fists*
I”M SORRY, I DON’T THINK I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY?
SWISS HAS THE MEATS!
That’s obviously an emoluments clause violation.
Did he provide bags of Funyons? Because that is the textbook definition of “High crimes”.
Corn nuts.
“With the kitchen staff furloughed, Trump catered the Clemson Tigers visit with a smorgasbord of fast food.”
Great, now I want to scarf down a pile of cheeseburgers.
Anyone wonder if we can reignite TEH WARZ?
Damn, Trump, that picture is making me hungry.
#metoo
I’m trying to eat better that’s not helpful.
I also would also like to join the quarter#metoo club.
I went and bought some badly needed replacement pants yesterday, but I bought ’em all a little snug as an inducement to keep on the straight and hopefully narrow.
Rain/fog turned to ice this morning. Which made for some interesting driving in the Mustang. Thank goodness for Michelin X-Ice tires and traction/stability control. On a hill or two I was achieving forward motion of sorts but the traction control light was flickering non-stop. Still I made it without incident, even with the tailgating (derp!) Trailblazer who thought riding my bumper would somehow make the line of traffic go faster. This is how pileups happen, people.
I had an economics hypothetical that I’m arguing with myself too much over, so I figured I’d see what the commentariat came up with.
The background for the scenario: There is an authoritarian country that is none the less the dominant economy in a region and on a bimetallic standard. It still mints its coinage from gold and silver, with high standards of purity, and inflicts harsh pentalties for defacement* or upon detected transations in foreign currency** within its borders. There are politically independant countries nearby that are economically dependant upon the dominant economy, ie they make their own laws, and own coins (of whatever materials they wish) but can’t afford to have trade break down. There are also politically and economically independant*** countries beyond them.
* for example, shaving the edge of a coin is treated as cutting the king’s head and subject to severe bodily injury for merely possessing a shaved coin.
** ie, confiscation of the foreign coinage and fines payable in local coinage only.
*** as in not dependant upon the dominant economy in this scenario.
The question – What do the merchants, the less mobile public, and other countries do when the fixed exchange rate between gold and silver in the dominant economy does not match the market rates outside of it?
Do moneychangers exist in this authoritarian country, or does that have to happen across the border?
They exist, as the only transaction in foreign currency permissable.
They would arbitrage the fuck out of it. Buy silver at market prices, exchange it for gold at the fixed rate that is below market, use the gold to buy silver at market, rinse and repeat. More and more below market gold winds up outside the country, as that is where you can trade it at higher market rates. The authoritarian country has to reset their fixed rates or their monetary system collapses.
Wouldn’t that raise the market rate of silver and lower that of gold?
Eventually, maybe. Depends on the relative amount of gold exported from where it is undervalued compared to the supply where it is properly valued, and the relative amount of silver that is taken from the market to buy undervalued gold.
People will hoard the undervalued commodity, as well, in the authoritarian country because they don’t want to sell it for less than its worth. To try to defend the fixed rate, the authoritarian country will have to dump silver reserves into the market and/or take gold out of circulation.
Yes, arbitrage inevitably acts to reduce the disparity it profits from. Just like every other form of business activity acts to reduce its own profitability. It’s what competition does, find efficiencies and smooth out the very information/access gaps that it profits from.
Bad money drives out Good
Dammit
^ This. The only way the A.C. can fight this is to prohibit its currency from being taken outside the country and to be successful in fighting the inevitable smuggling attempts..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
One important question?
How is the minting done in the dominant country?
Is it privately done, or done by the king’s mint? Can a private individual bring gold or silver to the mint to be made into coins? Where does the metal for the coins come from?
It is likely to be only done at the one official mint (ostensibly to maintain purity standards) and not permitted for private individuals.
As for the source of the metal, that had not been something factored into the initial thought experiment.
“What do the merchants, the less mobile public, and other countries do when the fixed exchange rate between gold and silver in the dominant economy does not match the market rates outside of it?”
Depends on what price is stamped on the gold and silver coins. If the price for both is higher than the market value of the metal, then people will prefer the less overpriced coin over the more overpriced coin, and try to find ways to get payment in the one that is the better value.
If either coin has a price stamped that is lower than the market price of the metal, those coins will quickly disappear from circulation.
Oh, and since the coins are worth more than the fiat money of neighboring countries, they will still disappear into the neighboring countries since they are a better store of value than coins or paper fiat money made of essentially valueless underlying material.
My wife openly has sex with other men and wants a baby, but not with me: Ask Ellie
A: Your only cource of action now is a murder-suicide.
I see you got a sneak peak of ZARDOZ’s response.
^this
What should I do?
Blow your brains out. You’re hopeless.
I hate being that guy, but…Christ, what a cuck.
“The thing is that she sees other men for sex and is open about it. She doesn’t have actual sex with me anymore. She says I’m too small down there. But she likes that I’m a great provider.”
I don’t… I can’t.
She is literally milking you for money, and you don’t care. Why should I care?
Yup. It’s pretty obvious what a normal man would do. But you do you. Cuck.
Christ, I hope that’s fake. It pains me to think there might actually be such pathetic people in the world.
Findom is a thing.
I thought that was a typo but then I Googled it. Some real fucking losers in this world.
Congratulations on that term being added to you profile.
I’m not sure “congratulations” is the word.
^condolences
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Maybe if he’s kind enough to her for long enough she’ll come back to him. It won’t happen but that has to be the thought process.
The sad thing is that what you are saying is right. This is classically emotionally abusive behavior. Of course this is “Empowering” women. I find it revealing that much of the womens “empowering” movement is just encouraging women to behave like asshole men.
I refuse to believe it could possibly be real.
Meh – there are a lot of weirdos out there.
Just go pay for a dom, it’ll be cheaper in the long run.
Look into testosterone therapy.
I call bullshit
I don’t want to lose her. What should I do?
This is a case where I would have to concur with Vito’s counsel.
Hey now, that like looks someone suffering from a terrible mental disorder according to the APA.
*Bless the Don*
Damnit, I forgot we have the Don in office. Blergh, you know who I meant.
Clearly fake.
“I don’t want to lose her”
Yes, you do want to lose her. Not only that but you need to lose her.
But until you fix your stupid you will probably just end up with something similar.
He’s getting a Chicago vasectomy?
Boy did someone do a job on you fella.
Single mother parent upbringing?
Doesn’t sound like she is acting like your wife.
Uhm, what’s her number?
Divorce the woman before she gets knocked up.
Slit your wrists with these fine razors from GIllette?
Here’s what kills me about the Longest “Shutdown” Ever. The government is only partially shutdown. It’s why it’s hilarious to see all the articles/”thought” pieces about how terrible the shutdown is for the economy/order, when 75% of the government is still funded.
I’d be happy with about a 25% permanent reduction in the bureaucracy… for starters.
Trump can order Departments and Agencies to RIF employees until revenue meet expenses.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trumps_shutdown_trap.html
But will they? They routinely ignore his orders.
The RIF could start at the top – more bang for the buck there.
C(uck)anda:
Lawyer questions new rules that allow police to conduct breathalyzer tests hours later
“Police can now demand a breath sample any time, any place, even if the suspected drunk driver is no longer behind the wheel, two hours later.”
Ridiculous, a hell of a lot alcohol can be consumed in two hours, more than enough to go from cold sober to shit-faced drunk.
I’ve done the research firsthand and concur with this statement.
Hell, if that were to happen to me I would have somebody video the whole thing while I chug from a bottle of whiskey before giving evidence. The breathalyzer will be over the limit but there would be no way to say when I got that way.
A few decades ago a friend of mine got shit faced at a bar, drove home (we were roommates at the time), didn’t quite make it and drove the car into a ditch, left it, and walked the rest of the way. Sure enough the cops show up a couple hours later and arrest him for DUI. His lawyer made the argument that his BAC at arrest was meaningless, because he could have been drinking after he got to the house and that could have been why he blew over the limit. The judge shrugged his shoulders and told the prosecutor “Sorry, the State failed to prove their case. Dismissed.”
I seem to remember that they only need to prove you may have been over the limit when you were driving, it’s up to you to prove that you were sober. Because who needs presumption of innocence, and driving is just a privilege.
Your milage and laws may vary.
That was what I gleaned from the initial coverage as well.
Which led me to question, how in the world would you prove that?
I mean, if you were slightly buzzed when you were driving and I gave you a breathalyzer 2 hours later, chances are very good that you would not be over the limit at all.
Conversely, it would be really easy to get completely plowed having not had any drinks at all two hours earlier when you are driving.
but somehow the legal standard is going to be that you have to prove that you did not driving while impaired. I suppose everyone in Canada will have to get those Russian style dash cams and a driver breathalyzer interlock device.
Time to bring up some ancient history (for the internet at least).
I have the feeling the Canadian Courts will rule in favor of any detectable alcohol can be extrapolated back to what it would have been two hours ago, which means that everyone’s guilty!
You have to have reasonable grounds
If the cop tells you to do something you have to do it! Is that Reasonable enough? / boot licker
Nope.
I’m sorry officer, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to place you under arrest for threatening citizens.
BLAM
You heard him, he threatened me. Came right at me like he was all up on PHP.
Nice try. With cop accuracy you missed. Your attempted murder of a citizen means I now get to put you down. Sorry rabid pig.
*snap*
PHP? When we will learn and ban these assault scripting languages?
No one needs a military grade Scripting language. I mean Bash? sounds frightening.
BLAM?
More like BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM
(six more cops show up)
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“Drunk” driver killed by five bullets.
The walkout of 31,000 teachers union members proved to be the massive disruption hundreds of thousands of students and their families had feared. The vast majority of the district’s parents and guardians are low income, and many had to choose between missing work to watch their children or sending them into an unknown situation at school. While campuses remained open, the few adults present struggled to keep students engaged.
///ForTheChildren
In all seriousness, if abdicate your responsibilities in a government monopoly such as education, you should be immediately fired.
Christ, what assholes.
“This is the time to make an agreement,” Garcetti said. “There is not much that separates the two sides. There has been movement toward what the teachers have demanded and what the district can afford.”
He praised the teachers’ “righteous cause.”
If their “demands” are so “righteous” then why walk out on and leave the children hanging?
This, these asshats never cared about the kids.
Public schools are a workfare program using children as human shields.
The vast majority of the district’s parents and guardians are low income, and many had to choose between missing work to watch their children or sending them into an unknown situation at school.
Nothing more pro-downtrodden worker than using them as leverage to get higher pay.
What I love is the absolute lack of concern about the viability of the school district in the long term. They want their money NOW!
It is too bad, they can’t use that “hoard” of money now and then tell those leeches that the bank is empty when they are retired. Unfortunately, they’d be back in the tax payer pockets crying about the promises that were made.
Republican Palestinian-American is sole vote against anti-Semitism monitor
It’s a real mystery…
I don’t know what is more offensive. How stupid they must think i am, or the fact that they are trying to call him anti-semite for one vote and the fact that he’s Palestinian-American.
So what exactly is the role of this anti-Semitism monitor?
He follows Rashida Tlaib around.
Think middle school Hall monitor.
Reminds me that in middle school our “Hall Passes” were 5 gallon buckets that you had to carry around.
/looks for section of constitution authorizing Federal government to have an “antisemitism monitor.”
/fails to find it
/keeps “Amash For President” sign on his lawn
Yeah, but he loses points for virtue signaling on King.
King is the drunk racist uncle the GOP would rather forget. He retweets literal neo-nazis and shrugs when it is pointed out. He’s an albatross, has had plenty of chances to not be an albatross and just shut up and keeps embarrassing the family and doesn’t really do anything that a different GOP official could do in his place. Amash just understands it’s time to excise that tumor.
Don’t forget King’s decades of providing material support for Irish terrorists.
Wasn’t that Peter King, a different Congrasshole?
Yes, it is. No was, he is still representing terrorism in congress.
Whoops! You’re right. I got the assholes mixed up.
Isn’t Amash the guy who always explains his votes on his website or something?
So yesterday my oldest (3) came home from Pre-school sobbing. I guess she got in trouble at school and the teacher took away her treat. (Best we can tell is she told the teacher No). It was a new position for me. I didn’t want to teach her that she has to listen to whatever her teacher says, cause I don’t want her to think that way. Ended up saying “Well honey, you can always say no, but you might not always get a treat.”
Words and actions have consequences. Make your own decisions and be prepared to live with the consequences – unlike the stupid teenage girl we discussed above.
*takes notes for when he has future spawn*
The celebrated new Gillette ad proves even MeToo can be co-opted by the male-dominated capitalist machine
The whole video is basically one big long high five to men who don’t assault people. It seems like a pretty low bar considering it’s supposed to represent ‘the best men can be’
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gillette-advert-metoo-toxic-masculinity-capitalism-patriarchy-backlash-a8728441.html
Judging by the Youtube comments, Gillette did a great job offending their customer base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0
Holy Hell, that like/dislike ratio. Anyways, man between that and the APA article on “toxic masculinity”, it’s been one helluva ball these last few days.
Ratio was much worse I think there is a surge of upvotes
When I started monitoring this yesterday, it started out something like 600 dislikes to 1.7k.
Now….wow.
And apparently there’s some editing/removing of comments happening and accusations of upvoting.
How do they do that? Do they tell employees to go vote or something?
eh, when it hit the news cycle, the otherwise uninterested progs and keks came to express their opinions en masse.
So what you’re saying is there is no libertarian moment?
The cake is a lie.
You guys are all worthless pieces of shit. This is how you should behave. Go to the box and feel shame.
Also, buy our stuff.
Sounds like a winner marketing plan
Bastard. Saw that last night and was going to post.
It’s probably the worst cuck-ad ever.
I love the comments on youtube. ‘My wife’s boyfriend loves Gillette!” and variations thereof.
It’s one of the more fundamentally stupid things I’ve ever seen an ad agency develop. It will probably go down in the annals of marketing as What Not To Do.
I can see the conversation now:
GILLETTE MARKETING EXEC: We are loosing ground in the male shaving market to Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club, we need an ad that really inspires men.
MARKETING GUY (ret. Army Marketer): Why not something like “Be the best you can be”
EXEC: Yes! Maybe throw in some moralizing overtones, that make people feel bad. Guilt is good seller.
…
You would have been third.
The part of the ad that says a lot is where it features…are you sitting?…..Ana Kasparian of TYT!
The people who put this togethers are without a doubt idiotic SJW.
It’s like they don’t even realize they are actually trying to sell their product to MEN!
Exactly. A more appropriate ad would be, for example, how family courts rape men in custody cases.
I wonder who actually buys blades — men or women of the household. I buy my own (Dollar Shave Club)
It was so bad it makes me want to start buying Gillette products so I can stop buying Gillette products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Procter_%26_Gamble_brands
I never liked Crest anyway.
The only thing I use on that list is Ariel detergent
in the list of discontinued products:
“OK, economy bar and packaged laundry soap.”
With a name like that, not sure why it didn’t take off.
Is that a combination snack bar/ laundry detergent?
Colgate for the win-the mint flavor is just better.
Everyone knows Cinnamon Close-Up is the best.
Now you just triggered the Aqua-Fresh crowd.
I have no idea how the Marine Corps can come up with “acceptable” recruiting commercials in this culture.
What they offer is like a trapdoor out of this unnatural, surreal landscape to something elementally masculine – but I wonder how they can even present it in this environment.
That’s how you get the Dungeons and Dragons ads.
WTF? I’ve been vaguely considering switching to Harry’s or something similar, I guess I have my incentive now.
dorcousa.com
Great, cheap-ass razors without the subscription model bullshit. I believe they’re the company that actually manufactures the blades sold by Dollar Shave Club.
All of my ad brethren love it. They all think it’s great that a company is finally taking a stand on how to raise boys with integrity.
It’s like they all were born yesterday and have never seen a god damn episode of My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, Diff’rent Strokes, Family Matters, or Home Improvement.
It’s such a clumsy piece of work.
It’s like they all were born yesterday and have never seen a god damn episode of My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, Diff’rent Strokes, Family Matters, or Home Improvement.
Right
Change the ad to show men doing manly things…like playing a tea party with a daughter, or teaching her skills
Same message of ‘be the best’, but they don’t come off like a bunch of jackasses.
Then again, the harpies would see a tea party with a daughter as perpetuating patriarchy by training her to be in a subservient role to men.
Re Woman’s march.
Linda Sarsour is vile and despicable individual. Her running a women’s march is an oxymoron with the emphasis on moron.
Alexandrrrria Ocasio-Corrrrtez and Rashida Tlaib (Frick and Frack over there) are friends/friendly with her. I believe Kaepernick too.
They’re all fools.
Free speech is dead in Sweden.
Tattle-tale was going to get a big award for being a snitch but it turns out he tortures animals too (not just humans).
Did they ever have real freedom of speech?
In case you were looking for a little actual fascism…
Free speech also dead in Canada. Man who doesn’t buy into the current PC doctrine destroyed by the process if not the law.
The proggies get boners over this. They just need to appoint judges willing to ignore the 1st amendment the same way the court ignores the 2nd amendment.
Hence their hysteria over who is on the supreme court. They know they practice lawfare and they are being thwarted.
Canada’s Charter is a piece of over rated crap.
Not that Canadians care. They’re too obsessed with the mediocre public health system.
As one guy in my hockey pool said to me, ‘Free speech ends when it offends.’
Hence, he once took offense to ‘yo momma’ jokes one time because he was grieving his mother’s death…..from three years ago.
Here’s What ‘Millennial Burnout’ Is Like For 16 Different People
“My grandmother was a teacher and her mother was a slave. I was born burned out.”
Heredity does not work that way.
I quickly scanned through what appears to be a bunch of sob stories by self-pitying assholes who are competing for victim status.
I generally identify as a 1.5 generation Chinese Canadian immigrant, a genderqueer woman, and a millennial (I’m 28).
As a gay Asian male
Burnout, for me as a chronically ill and autistic person
As a first-gen immigrant
Funny, most of what I’ve read about the people who actually were slaves suggests they hadn’t been “burned out” upon being freed.
It’s just whiny people whining going “pity me, pity me!” while not realizing that rather than pity, they evoke disgust.
We have a generation that has been simultaneously told they’re special, regardless of achievement, and that they’re victimized, regardless of actual experience. It’s no wonder that, on the whole, they’re monumental emotional invalids.
And those blacks who felt legit hardship channeled whatever anger or stress they had into music. Like the blues. At least they gave something to the world.
I am burned out. I blame the Ottoman Turks and the Soviet Russians. Also plumb brandy.
*plum
I don’t know, I like the idea of people carrying bottles of brandy around to check for level.
Well, if the bottle is properly marked, it can be used.
plumb brandy
+1 Slivovitz
Umm…isn’t that just a psychological version of Lamarckism? “My dad was a cop and my cousin was bit by a spaniel, which is why I’m allergic to dogs.”
Old ideas are often discarded, forgotten and then reborn in a new guise. A good argument for any Academic to understand the history of their field.
Doing the math, let’s be generous and say each mother had her offspring at age 35, and she is as old as a millenial can be,, born in 1981. That would mean her great grandmother was born in 1876, and not a slave at all.
Math is racist.
And classist, what with some numbers being “greater” than others.
You’re assuming the great grandmother was a slave in America. To be fair, she could have been a slave in other corners of the world.
The sort of person who breathes this crap out loud isn’t the sort who likes to acknowledge slavery outside the US.
Generous? My wife her last kid at 48. Italian breeding stock for the win!
Did you that a 74-year-old is a millennial?
As an endocrinologist commented after asking me gently what was going on in my life, “No wonder you have chronic fatigue!” I am almost relieved to consider that the recent procrastination and necessity to flog myself into action daily may not be the result of aging, but of burnout shared with those much younger.
—Teddee, 74
“necessity to flog myself into action”
Please sir, there are children here.
I’m afraid you’re just getting old, Xir.
Don’t gen-other that person.
Sarcasm?
“Teddee”, Here’s the news. Its aging. Teddee, its aging. Starts early, sometimes in high school. Many of us have experienced chronic fatigue from the relentless boredom and tediousness of the system.
But don’t worry, at some point, maybe sooner than later, the fatigue will be gone.
It’s civilizational burn-out. A big reset will fix it for them.
A good World War should fix a lot of these ills, one way or another.
Good news, everyone! A socialist on reddit sent me a death threat! As in, after I pissed him off, he made a new account named “goingtokillyousoon” and sent a private message: “I know where you live. Keep one eye open :)”
Because death threats make the target right about everything (by internet logic), I can now use this to prove libertarianism is correct. We did it!
Forward that to everyone you can. Regardless of whether or not the person is actually dangerous, this is exactly the kind of thing that sites like reddit and services like Twitter are supposed to be stomping out, but seem to pay more attention when the target is of a particular ideological persuasion.
He actually sent a less death threaty private message earlier, which I reported. That account is now suspended. The new account, helpfully named as above, was the straight-up death threat. There is nearly 0% chance he knows where I live. However, I reported that and I’m sure reddit will look into it – seriously sure, as they already suspended him for doing something that wasn’t a death threat on his other account.
Maybe you can find a federal judge who will subpoena…
Ehhhh, never mind….
What you do? Tell him there were only 4 fingers?
If I quote it, you might be able to link my reddit and Glibs account, so I’ll just say vaguely that I suggested perhaps “capitalism” is not the bogeyman it’s made out to be.
If I quote it, you might be able to link my reddit and Glibs account
As if i would ever venture into the political part of reddit. I only cruise it for Gaming memes.
Not YOU you, but, I mean, anyone googling that phrase. The less connection among my accounts the better, for employment’s sake if for nothing else.
You’re really Mueller, arent you
Mueller is Tulpa?
I only cruise it for Gaming memes.
Gaming subreddits is where shitlord capitalist alt-right neo-Nazi white nationalists congregate to whine about “muh ethics in gaming journalism,” when all they really want is to rape women gamers and call people the n-word.
Nancy? NPC? Nigel?
Secret Nazi President tries to weaken national security, aids russia.
Well, good. NATO has no legitimate reason to exist.
That’s exactly what a Rooshin agent would say!
Nyet, comra….I mean, no! No, not at all, Dickie old chum!
cool it, fuehrer-cat
Um NATO exists, like any bureaucracy, as an agent to itself. Would you deny that bureaucracy it’s right to exist? Snuff it out?
Please pull us out of NATO.
I, for one, never pull out.
My couch pulls out, but I don’t.
Ha. That shadowy figure picture!
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said his sources “interacting with” special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said Mueller’s forthcoming report was “almost certain to be anti-climactic.”
Fake news. I have it on good authority from real journalists like Rachel Maddow and Brian Stelter that Mueller’s report is a harbinger of doom for Drumpf. And Drumpf knows this. He’s going down with his entire criminal cabal. It’s time for libertarians to join their Democrat allies to remove the Trump regime and install Hillary in her rightful place as president. ///Resist ///Impeach45 ///StillWithHer
Trump shutdown the government so that he can’t be arrested for his crimes, because all the police and military are furloughed.
Previous research suggests online trolls choose their victims at random, and are motivated by sadistic tendencies. Gendertrolling, however, is directed specifically toward women (and those perceived as feminists or social justice warriors) and is often part of an organized effort to silence their voices. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine if gendertrolling is predicted by hostile sexism and social dominance orientation, rather than the sadism underlying random trolling. Male participants (N = 347) were recruited online from highly trollable websites, including Youtube, Reddit, 4chan, and Amazon Mechanical Turk, and were asked to complete a series of personality and attitude inventories. As predicted, gendertrolling was correlated with both hostile sexism and social dominance orientation; however, a regression analysis showed neither variable was a unique predictor. Instead, gendertrolling was significantly related to random trolling, and both types of trolling were related to sadism, particularly physical sadism. Therefore, gendertrolling is evidently motivated less by sexism than is commonly believed.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691930011X
You collected self-assessments from trolls? DELIBERATELY? AND USED THAT DATA TO FORM CONCLUSIONS?
My thoughts as well. Lol.
This highlights one of the core flaws in the social sciences. Self assessments and questionaires are literally worthless data. In fact often LESS than worthless because in order for them to be of any value you have to presume that all of the following are true…
1) The subject is self aware enough to actually know what he really believes/thinks
2) The subject is honest enough to admit that awareness to himself
3) The subject is willing to be honest with you about what he thinks
4) The subject is accurately reading the questions and answering them not attempting to infer how their answers will be intrepreted and then gaming their response so you get the answer they want you to have
The odds that any one of the above are true for any random individual is small, the odds that all of them are true is miniscule
Hammer judge parity knife potato minute dentist medicine.
They felt the need to ‘research’ to find that some a-holes only act like a-holes to get a rise out of other people?
This story was not what the headline promised.
There is a local beauty shop that has a sign for facials. I larf every time I walk by, telling Lady Humungus that I offer those for free.
Free? I figured you would demand guzzoline in return.
The facial is free, everything else has a price.
Just walk away, Scruffy, just walk away.
You were expecting Draymond Green playing against a Jr. High Special Olympics team?
People are so fucken stupid on how easily they get hooked on fads pimped by idiot celebrities.
Were you expecting goats?
The sleepy world of pétanque has been rocked by claims that Belgian players are turning to stronger stimulants than shots of pastis and drags of Gitanes cigarettes when bowling on the international stage.
The image of the jeu de boules, in which the bowler’s feet must remain anchored to the ground, is that of elderly men in flat caps and string vests idling their days away under a fading sun.
But beyond the gravel strips found on squares and summer campsites across northern continental Europe, two leading players on the game’s lively and cut-throat international stage have caused uproar by accusing their Belgian counterparts of snorting cocaine to secure a competitive edge.
“I know enough Belgian players who use coke,” said Edward Vinke, 46, a top Dutch player, speaking to the Vice sports website. “They go to the toilet and do not throw a wrong ball when they come back. They really feel like the king.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/15/petanque-drug-allegations-cocaine-belgian-players
When I coached soccer for one year, and yes it was every bit like the Bad News Bears, I had one parent tell me his son – our goalie – was being bullied by a parent (a Haitian guy. Take that Gillette you assholes!) who stood behind the net saying stupid shit. So I observed the guy and sure enough not only was he bullying the poor kid – who did suck – but laughing with another parent. This pissed me off. So I quietly walked up to the both of them and gave them a ‘wtf?’ look and asked them to go off to the side and to shut their fricken pie holes or I was going to sew their mouths. Not bad for a skinny coach but I got my message through.
ANYWAY….the parent who came to see me was Belgian. And he had a thick Belgian accent. Thick like a waffle. I barely could make out what he was saying (partly because I have less than optimal hearing) and kept saying to myself ‘what the heck are your fricken saying?’ Finally, I decoded it.
Belgians. They have thick French accents.
True story.
I will now use this to describe Belgian accents.
Thank you.
One, thick waffle
My Belgian co-worker speaks English with a Kentucky accent.
It is funny when he flips to Flemish, as it sounds completely different.
Some of them have thick Flemish accents.
Had to look up “petanque” — it’s basically curling without the ice and the brooms.
As predicted, gendertrolling was correlated with both hostile sexism and social dominance orientation; however, a regression analysis showed neither variable was a unique predictor. Instead, gendertrolling was significantly related to random trolling, and both types of trolling were related to sadism, particularly physical sadism. Therefore, gendertrolling is evidently motivated less by sexism than is commonly believed.
I troll, therefor am.
Wait you are telling me that trolls get off more on the reaction than the actual content of what the are saying? This is truly groundbreaking.
Unless they’re Hihn.
BULLY!
I don’t know where this ‘study’ is from, but odds are tax payers paid for it.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl said his sources “interacting with” special counsel Robert Mueller’s team said Mueller’s forthcoming report was “almost certain to be anti-climactic.”
Is there anybody in the known universe who pretends Mueller and crew would not have leaked every bit of incriminating “evidence” by now, if any such material existed? If he had evidence of anything on Trump himself, it would have been plastered all over the place, by now.
There’s smoking gun evidence that Trump conspired with Russia to win an election and has been doing Russia’s bidding for two years now, but Mueller needs to take his time to build a strong case against him and his family who also is apart of this massive conspiracy. It may take three years, hell maybe even his full term to build the case, but what’s important is building the case properly and not getting him out of office right away where he can enact lasting damage. /morons
Seriously, he’s got the goods and he’s preparing to drop the hammer. What is he waiting for, a third SCOTUS appointment?
Nah, Mueller just hates the cooks at the White House. It was the plan all along.
Titty Tuesday arrives to stimulate hormone release from your gonads!
http://archive.is/eFnty
1 and done with 2 on deck for the second round.
Since I like The Thiccness TM, 24 is an easy winner for me.
Concur with 2 as a solid second choice.
Don’t usually go for pics without faces, but 13 is a super hot pose.
RE: Steve King.
Western Civilization – not offensive at all; anyone who takes offense is mentally ill.
White Nationalism – ummmm… well…. I guess depending on the connotation… no, just plain offensive.
White Supremacy – WTF? Thanks for giving ammunition to the “everyone to the right of Mao is a Nazi” crowd.
Asshole.
That’s what I find weird here. The entire “Western Civilization = White Supremacy/White Natiuonalism” schtick really only has any popularity with honest-to-God racists and left-wing radicals. Even if he is the former, you’d think a guy who’s managed to remain in Congress for the last twenty years would know better than to bring up the latter part.
Something here stinks to high heaven.
Unless King gets primaried in 2020, he will be in congress as long as he wants. There is no way that a democrat is going to win his seat out in western Iowa.
There are people starting to line up to primary him.
You collected self-assessments from trolls? DELIBERATELY? AND USED THAT DATA TO FORM CONCLUSIONS?
Science, dude. Learn it. Love it.
Now I want a waffle. With lots and lots of butter and maple syrup. And about a half pound of bacon.
Damn you, you sadistic muppet.
My local hipster/artisanal/foodie waffle joint:
https://www.ironroost.com/
Good bacon, but sometimes the waffles are too soft.
Only half a pound of bacon??
“Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have… Wait. Wait…”
“I’m worried what you just heard was give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What I said was give me all the bacon and eggs you have.”
“Do you understand?”
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/15/french-riot-police-now-using-semiautomatic-weapons-live-ammo-protesters/
“French Riot Police Now Using Semiautomatic Weapons, Live Ammo Against Protesters. UPDATE: Full Auto?”
tHerE’s nO rEAsoN tO OwN A gUn
“Sacrebleu! We will murder our own countryman for the glory of the EU. Liberté, égalité, fraternité or something.”
Given the size of the mobs and their willingness to use violence, I would say that having at least some of the cops armed makes sense. As long as less lethal weapons are still used as the primary weapons and live ammo is ONLY used to defend against lethal force targeted at police.
Sure, but live ammunition against unarmed protesters seems exceptionally extreme. I have a feeling this will not end well
Given the size of the mobs and their willingness to use violence, I would say that having at least some of the cops armed makes sense.
Agreed. But, if they’re using fully automatic weapons with live ammo, that doesn’t sound terribly defensive.
Full-Auto MAY be optional using the selector. The rifle would still have the semi-auto option available. It would not be full auto only. For all the author knows, full auto option could be disabled.
Come on, man. This is an excessive escalation of force. Especially considering that France is a disarmed population.
“France is a disarmed population”
Maybe their first protest should be to correct that situation. You tell me to go face a mob of 80K, I’m bring my SR 716 and a shit ton of ammo.
Just because they’re don’t have guns doesn’t mean they’re not lethal.
I’m just not buying the argument that they are a “lethal threat”. And I’m not apt to give the government the benefit of the doubt. It’s a disproportionate response to a protest that has resulted in some property damage. I don’t care if it was communists marching (which I’m sure there are some within their ranks), the benefit of the doubt should not be afforded to state authorities. There are other non-lethal methods that could be employed
Which is why I said that non-lethal options should be primary and lethal force only in response to lethel force. If you ever find yourself in the middle of a crowd of 80K people which I have many times. Imagine them all angry and tell me they’re not lethal. Knives, rocks, and Molotov cocktails kill. I was at a fireworks event with 100K people once, and while leaving a big gang fight broke out and I’ll tell you that I was pretty concerned about my kids who were there and definitely would have liked to have more than a pocket knife on me.
“If you ever find yourself in the middle of a crowd of 80K people which I have many times. Imagine them all angry and tell me they’re not lethal. Knives, rocks, and Molotov cocktails kill.”
I don’t doubt it. But, I afford more leeway to an individual confronted in this situation than an agent of the state. Either way, we can agree that France is lame.
Agreed:)
There ‘Full-Auto” could also be 3 shot burst like most of the military M16s are (or at least used to be)
Funny they gave up on the FAMAS and bought German rifles. I always assumed they would buy from FN – at least the’re Belgian and speak French.
Depends on which company offered thr biggest kickback. H&Ks and FNs are both pretty nice
*invests in guillotine futures*
you’d think a guy who’s managed to remain in Congress for the last twenty years would know better than to bring up the latter part.
That was pretty much my reaction. If this guy really is some sort of secret Nazi, the fact that he has been in Congress for all those years indicates he understands the importance of the “secret” part.
That’s some world-class trolling.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/01/14/conservative-activists-jump-pelosis-fence-with-illegal-aliens-to-prove-a-vital-point-n2539038
Conservative activist Laura Loomer took illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home.
The group jumped the fence and Loomer demanded the group be let into the home.
I’ll give her credit for dedication.
Slurry Pelosi is a mannequin.
LOL
The vital point being that government fences built with stolen money and without the consent of the adjacent private landowners and with the intent to keep some people from seeking employment with willing employers are different from private property with fences erected by the homeowner?
Silly man, don’t you get that me building a fence to keep people I don’t want on my property out is no different than other people building a fence to prevent me from allowing in people I do want on my property? and that if I object to the latter, I have no right to do the former?
Never heard of this fellow before but here’s a good vid on the Gillette nonsense with some good Rothbard quotes thrown in for free (about 10 min):
https://youtu.be/W11vzE2ewqQ
Normies read Rothbard, too?
On the topic of the pussyhat brigades leadership failing to disavow Louis Farrakhan, Robby soave over at the original site has an article up at Hit and run.
My take on the whole thing was to note that everyone seems to want to single out farrakhan’s anti-semitism. The reason I find that interesting is that his entire organization is based on anti-white racism. It isn’t like they are subtle about it. He calls white people the blue-eyed devil all the time. His theology specifically denies white people’s humanity. They believe that white people were created by an evil scientist / genie.
Not to mention the liberal sprinkling of misogyny in their world.
But I suppose it is easier to use an already existing victim class, rather than comment on the impossible concept of anti-white racism.
Nobody bats an eye at “anti-white”. Just like nobody bats an eye at their extreme leftism. It’s the flip-side of taking down King for his “white supremacy” stuff when the ones taking him down probably hate every single position of his but need to find an angle to move on him.
I blame Hitler. And Colonialism. And that guy at the end of the bar who told all those racist jokes.
They left widely accepts that white people deserve it.
Here’s the reference, for those who are wondering what I am talking about.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)
https://youtu.be/cbVvc9y6rMM
I’ll let the good Minister explain it in his own words.
But yeah, he said “the Jews in Hollywood”, so that makes him really a bad person.
Last night, I watched a documentary about how Stanley Kubrick helped fake the moon landing. Very entertaining. Especially all the clips of people like Rumsfeld and Kissinger.
Something I have been ruminating on for a while in regards to the Steve King stuff.
Everyone talks about the glories of “Western Civilization” but I don’t think that is accurate. It is true that the ideas that have in the 19th and 20th Centuries allowed at least some of us (and it is looking ever more like eventually all of us) to rise above the base struggle for survival that has dominated humanity for all of time prior to that drew on works from all over the western world but it is only within the Anglo-sphere that those ideas rose to their highest form. The results of the Enlightenment in the US and to a slightly lesser extent UK were VERY different than in the rest of Europe and only in the US and UK did the idea of the Individual as Sovereign. The Contenintal Enlightenment was characterized by a very much more collectivist belief system and the Dominance of the US and UK through the 19th and 20th centuries bears out which was the superior set of ideas.
As a result I do not think that it is actually “Western Civilization” that is under attack so much as it is Anglo Civilization because it is only within the Anglosphere that we find the ideals that really drove the development of the modern world.
“The Contenintal Enlightenment was characterized by a very much more collectivist belief system and the Dominance of the US and UK through the 19th and 20th centuries bears out which was the superior set of ideas.”
THIS.
The American Enlightenment was far more radical and individualistic than the Enlightenment that the French Revolution inspired. There are only marginal differences between the liberties recognized under the Bourbons to those recognized under the Fifth Republic.
I would not include the British in the American Enlightenment, though. The US is unique. Look to the north to see how unique American liberty is
Yes the US is Unique but it was really just a refinement of the British Enlightenment and is closer to the US than it is to the rest of Europe
Without Magna Charta, John Locke, and the war between the RoundHeads and Cavaliers you wouldn’t have had Common Sense, The Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. But it also descended from Roman and Greek sources, hence Western Civilization. The fact that the Frogs and Krauts lost their way and went down the rabbit hole of socialism doesn’t negate the contributions of Aristotle and Cato to liberty.
I am deliberately leaving out the massive role Jewish tradition played both as derived through Christianity and in its own right because 1. That is also part of Western Civ and 2. It is a subject for volumes not lines.
You’re going to get black-listed for saying that (or should that be white-listed?).
Spoken like a true white-supremacist. ///jk
And there is the problem. You can’t actually discuss these ideas without actually being branded a racist. The reality is it has absolutely nothing to do with race or ethnicity and everything to do with culture. You want to call me a cultural supremacist, I’ll own that, the culture produced by Anglo-Liberalism is superior to all other cultures and if you identify with that culture it does not matter what your skin color is, where you were born, what dangly bits you have, or who you like to bang you are good with me. If you not then I can never really do much more than tolerate you because you are just wrong at the level of core beliefs.
I think the secret is to ignore the people doing the branding and to continue talking to people who are willing to listen or talk.
In the end the SJW crowd will purify themselves down to individuals who are totally pure and will have nothing to do with each other – following the path of the Judean liberation movement.
This is why I advocate withdrawing from social media platforms altogether (not necessarily making your own platform). They’re on a purification campaign and will eventually end up with some atomized and meaningless echo chamber of warring Communists. They’re going to destroy their own relevancy and new platforms will arise that aren’t useless circle jerks.
You more or less just paraphrased the unifying ideology of the Proud Boys, yet they get smeared as Nazis and white supremacists constantly (including occasionally on this board). I agree they’re a little culty, but their principles are sound.
It’s almost like race is frequently used as a weapon to prevent honest discussion of a wide array of topics in contemporary America or something. Nah.
“King found himself in a whirlwind of criticism following an interview with The New York Times when he said last Thursday, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”
It never became offensive. It was always offensive you moron. Western civilization is about ideas, not race. If you dont get that then you need to be in another line of work.
This interview was done by the NYTimes and we all know that they are impartial, unbiased and would never intentionally edit an interview in such a way as to make someone appear to say something they didn’t.
I rather suspect that “how did that language become offensive” was in reference exclusively to ‘Western Civilization” which leftists believe to be some sort of nazi code word or something.
Except he has previously bemoaned that ‘White nationalism’ has become a derogatory term.
Source?
Unfortunately it’s video not a transcript
Memory holed
North Carolina’s flagship public university plans to remove the pedestal where a now-toppled Confederate statue once stood on a main campus quad, its chancellor said Monday.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt also announced that she will step down at the end of the school year. Folt’s surprise order to put the pedestal in storage drew an angry response from the leader of the board overseeing the state’s public universities, but he stopped short of saying he would seek to stop the removal.
The statue known as “Silent Sam” had stood on a main campus quad from 1913 until it was torn down by protesters in August 2018.
Folt announced her resignation in a campus-wide email and said it will take effect at the end of the academic year. She said she was concerned about safety at the site that continues to draw protesters for and against the statue, but she gave no timetable for taking away the massive pedestal and bronze memorial plaques. The items would go into storage while their fate is decided.
“The presence of the remaining parts of the monument on campus poses a continuing threat both to the personal safety and well-being of our community and to our ability to provide a stable, productive educational environment,” Folt said in her letter to the Carolina community. “The fact that despite our best efforts even since then, threats have continued to grow and place our community at serious risk has led me to authorize this action.”
All better. That mean old statue can’t hurt you anymore, precious.
The erasure of history continues apace.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
stable, productive educational environment
Ironic considering the seem to produce unstable, ill-educated, unproductive leftist drones.
Surely they need to remove the dirt where the pedestal was situated to extra-purify the site.
“This was fantastic.”
I used to coach Olympic women gymnasts and I was mightily impressed with her routine. Incredible energy.
I dated a competitive gymnast and remain impressed to this day with the energy of her routine.
How she survived tapping directly into the power mains…
OMWC is seething with envy.
You have no idea. My adolescent fantasy was Cathy Rigby.
Finally, a bold voice willing to speak out in opposition to the evil menace of Trumpism
John Kasich’s time as Ohio governor just came to an end. And his time as a CNN commentator just began.
On Tuesday morning CNN announced that Kasich is the newest addition to the network’s stable of commentators.
He will appear as a guest across an array of CNN programs. Kasich’s first appearance will be on “Cuomo Prime Time” on Tuesday night. His hiring was first reported by Axios on Tuesday morning.
Kasich’s move to CNN is notable because he is one of the most prominent critics of President Trump within the Republican Party. He has declined to rule out a 2020 primary bid against Trump.
Our search for an honest, principled Republican has been rewarded. The veil will be lifted.
I wonder if Kasich 2020 will report this as an in-kind campaign contribution.
GOTCHA!
Paul is scheduled for surgery at Shouldice Hospital. An adviser to Paul said that the hospital is world-renowned for the procedure, known as “non-mesh hernia repair,” and is a private entity that is not part of the Canadian system.
“This is a private, world-renowned hospital separate from any system and people come from around the world to pay cash for their services,” Paul spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper said in an email Monday.
In choosing Shouldice, Paul will receive care in a country that offers its citizens a publicly funded, universal health care system that runs counter to Paul’s approach to American health care policy. Paul, who ran for president in 2016, touts private-market approaches for U.S. health care problems.
That’s right, going to a private hospital unaffiliated with the Canadian government health care system proves Rand Paul is a hypocrite.
Game, set, and MATCH!
So he chose to use a private hospital in a country that has socialized medicine and somehow that proves socialized medicine is superior?
Instead of bagging groceries, I guess the new jobs program for retards is journalism.
I used to take advantage of Ontario’s slightly-more sensible drinking age – who knew it really just meant that I love socialism!
#MeToo!
I learned early on that bringing American cigarettes with you would allow you to easily make friends with the locals. Ahh… memories.
I asked my niece about this, and the youngsters don’t do it anymore because of the passport requirements and costs.
But it’s meaningless when Canadians forego their rainbows and puppydog kisses medical care, and choose to pay for services in the United States instead.
They say the government does fund some surgeries there. Still not the gotcha the morons think it is.
So what, the government funds some procedures at private hospitals in the United States also through Medicare and Medicaid.
An utterly appropriate forum
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will appear on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday night, where she is expected to reveal a major move toward running for the 2020 presidential nomination.
I decline to engage in “Idiocracy” references, as a general rule, but…
I hear you, scro…
Why would you decline to use the only known prophetic documentary film as a reference?
Boy is Preet ever a “great guy”.
https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1085171520157175808
I’m not following Preet’s logic there. Is it possible he’s really just stupid?
Apparently expressing an opinion of a potential policy direction constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors.
This man used to be a federal prosecutor.
But something just chipped away at his love for the job.
“Shirking away from [the fact that we are a leftist publication] or pretending that we offer truly unbiased reporting is not only intellectually dishonest, but also hinders us from pursuing the topics and ideas that matter and can make a difference.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-daily-forced-to-defend-itself-against-accusations-of-leftist-bias-after-internal-document-leaked/
Would that the legacy media be this honest.
Honest behind closed doors. I’m sure the NYT has a treasure-trove of “internally-circulated documents” that are also honest – and that they also have no intention of letting them see the light of day.
So we’ve definitely crossed over into a world in which any random judge can put the kibosh on Federal guidelines becuz feelz.
http://news.trust.org/item/20190115143936-yfedz
If only some district judge in Mississippi would stomp out liberty destroying proclaimations.
I wonder what else the voices in his head are telling him.
Honest behind closed doors. I’m sure the NYT has a treasure-trove of “internally-circulated documents” that are also honest – and that they also have no intention of letting them see the light of day.
“What are we going to beat Trump over the head with, this week? Come on, people. Think!”