Happy Friday afternoon. Here are some links. Too tired to do the chitchat thing.
Hospitals are claiming that parents do not have right to review their minor child’s medical records well below majority. As young as 10-12. And saying it is Federal Law. I’d love to see RC Dean’s take on this. My own personal take is that, if nothing else, those records might contain evidence of negligence or incompetence that it is my legal obligation to protect my child from until they take over that duty at the age of majority. Now, I don’t think I would have a problem if a pediatrician asked me if they could talk to my 12 year old without me in the room.
Trump says there’s going to be a temporary deal to reopen the FedGov. Sad. That’s for losers.
The Republic of Macedonia is now the Republic of North Macedonia. And this being the Balkans, both the (North) Macedonians and the Greeks hate the deal.
“As young as 10-12.”
My kids’ pediatrician should totally do that if she wants me to arrest her for battery on a minor.
Seriously. If you treat my child without my consent, I will zip tie your fucking hands and drive you to the nearest police station.
This^^
We’d do a three legged race down to the emergency room to have my boot removed from your ass.
They’re just trying to put your mind at ease in case your kid comes home one day with a surprise sex-change.
“Its okay, I’m a doctor”
Some sort of continuing resolution?
He wants to give his speech, and then he’ll shut it down again.
I still like the idea of the SOTU from the Covington gymnasium.
With all of the boys wearing tinsel halos, crepe angel wings and MAGA hats.
A tweetstorm would work too. Just bypass govt. and the mainstream media altogether.
Does the FBI normally allow random guys with cameras to wander into their armed arrests?
Almost makes you think that they tipped off CNN.
How else would CNN know when the raid was going to happen?
If you needed a good laugh, CNN’s response:
“CNN’s ability to capture the arrest of Roger Stone was the result of determined reporting and interpreting clues revealed in the course of events. That’s called journalism. #FactsFirst “
Welp, dammit, CNN beat me to the joke.
They forget to tell the guy to act surprised when the FBI rolled up like SEAL Team 6.
Un-huh. I totally believe that.
Good lord…These people have zero shame.
Crack investigative journalism?
/I crack myself up.
I read a report from HotAir (which is why it didn’t make the links) that said basically CNN was reporting last night that the Mueller grand jury convened for the first time in months yesterday and they may have just staked out Stone’s house because he’s the closest person to Trump that hadn’t received an indictment yet. Its not impossible that the blind squirrel found a nut. The anchors and leadership may be morons, but the stringers on the camera crews still gotta hustle to eat.
Still weird that the FBI just ignored him. If I just walked up on them serving that kind of warrant, would I be ignored?
Sure, right after they pushed your face into the pavement with their knee.
Depends. What else are you doing?
Also weird that no other news organization besides CNN was there to cover it.
That actually works both ways. Much as I hate CNN, if they actually did journalism for once (or, alternately, got some staffer to Lewinsky some FBI guy’s cock), then they might have gotten an exclusive.
I’d buy that except for the fact that the FBI treated them as blonging there.
So they made a big show of arresting the guy with all that paramilitary gear just to impress his neighbors?
Ocho Cinco was very impressed.
https://twitter.com/ochocinco/status/1088791420511678466
I still am amazed/disgusted that SWAT teams are being used to serve warrants for obstruction charges and nobody bats an eye. Good thing we don’t live in a police state like all those people in Russia.
There isn’t even an underlying crime he’s being charged with. It’s all process BS. But they need an entry team to take down an old man charged with not liking them.
He might scold them and then offer a Werther… Better safe than sorry!
It’s all about showing he and and the American public who’s really in charge. The FBI was bad under Hoover, it’s only gotten worse with time. Everyone will be better off when it’s spoken/written about in the past tense.
It’s ridiculous. Roger Stone is a fabulist and a cranky cuss but I’d wager he’s not a treasonous spy.
They’ve gone after everyone besides Manafort for process crimes.
Podesta got himself immunity for… something… being on the right team?
In Murray Povich voice:
The HRT’s reaction to the reporter says…. that was a lie!
If I were Trump, I would pardon everyone arrested under the Mueller investigation.
But the question is do I have enough popcorn and beer to for the ensuing shitfest?
It would be epic
Michigan family kicked of plane for B.O.
No pictures? How am I supposed to make up my mind?
The link within the link had the pictures. And an interview.
Was he not supposed to have BO the next day? Why didn’t they prison de-con him on the tarmac?
Presumably, the hotel AA paid for has a shower. You can lead a (fill in the blank once we figure it out) to water…
fill in the blank once we figure it out-
Parking valet?
By the name, I’m guessing JOO
https://youtu.be/-pEhqiCD27E
an ass
Why didn’t they prison de-con him on the tarmac?
The TSA is on government shutdown?
*applause gif*
When I saw your link, I thought the family was kicked off the plane for Barack Obama. 😐
#metoo
This story sounds like fake…
“Our Miami airport team members…”
Nevermind.
Man, that stinks.
I was waiting for the inevitable cries of racism. Apparently there is at least one media outlet that hasn’t figured out click-bait yet.
“They’re offensive. Smelling. I mean They. Smell. Bad.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzzE6XLbC8M
“It’s the smell.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9Y24ciNWs
The people are revolting!
Can Trump just play this for his State of the Union?
Needs more bikini-clad totty.
And a smug Donald mug in every frame. So we know who provided it.
Racists
“CNN’s ability to capture the arrest of Roger Stone was the result of determined reporting and interpreting clues revealed in the course of events. That’s called journalism. #FactsFirst “
How droll.
This is what Grandma used to call sitting in the cat-bird seat.
Be like Sweeden
Prime Minister Stefan Lofven’s Social Democrats have agreed a draft policy deal with the Centre, Liberal and Green parties that resolved Sweden’s political impasse created by an inconclusive election last September.
Under the deal, Lofven has pledged to cut taxes for wage-earners and companies to secure the support of the centre-right Centre and Liberal parties.
Be more white protestant?
Sure. Also worth pointing out there is no estate or inheritance taxes in Sweden, let alone a wealth tax.
And the corporate tax rate is relatively low. It’s the personal income tax that kills you there.
Glorious VAT is where the money is. 25% on every transaction doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up.
I forgot about that. My European friends like to complain about how in the US you don’t see the sales tax until you make the purchase as opposed to Europe where the VAT is built into the price. They have a point. It is inconvenient. But I like to point out to them that it is useful to see how much the government is taking from you.
“Now, I don’t think I would have a problem if a pediatrician asked me if they could talk to my 12 year old without me in the room.”
Monster!
Spud, if you show up, several of us were having an argument about what would happen if you throw a lit match in a bucket of gasoline. I’m told you were professionally trained in something that would make you an authoratative source.
Let’s assume for the sake of defining parameters that its at least a 1 gallon bucket, at least half full, and the ambient temperature is approximately 70F. Will it blow up or will it douse the match? I could only find youtube footage of:
(a) people in short sleeved shirts dousing a lit cigarette by dropping it in a coffee can with 3″ of gas in the bottom
(b) some enterprising Canadian teenagers dousing a match at -30F
(c) a guy dropping a match in an “empty” car gas tank on a hot day in full sun — so very likely to be all vapors — and it shot fire out of the tank.
“professionally trained in something that would make you an authoratative source.”
Man, you need to meet more rednecks. I used to “train” on this shit for free when I was a teenager. I don’t know about the specific parameters you have here, but under the conditions “almost sober” and “in best friends garden” I can assure you that a lit match tossed into a empty #10 can full to the brim will create a satisfying WHOMP when it ignites.
“Spud, if you show up, several of us were having an argument about what would happen if you throw a lit match in a bucket of gasoline. I’m told you were professionally trained in something that would make you an authoratative source.”
He’s an arsonist?!
99% Sure.
Margin of error +/- 1%.
Redundant.
The only thing better than fighteng them, is lighting them.
d) Not totally unrelated since it has a match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTnD40xvSeM
You know who else said they have a match?
Come on! You live in Florida. You dishonor your namesake by not finding out through trial and error.
I won’t lie, I was assembling the gas, fire extinguisher, and can, and then couldn’t find a single match in my house. I have at least six lighters and two flint and steel fire starters, but no matches.
If Floridaman knows anything, it’s how to improvise.
Jesus, do I have to do everything for you. Get some rope. Get an empty tin can. Stuff the rope in the can. Pour in some gasoline. Let the rope absorb the gasoline. Use it as a fuse to light the bucket of gasoline.
Make sure you are a safe distance back. 6 inches should be good.
I CAN MAKE THE GASOLINE CATCH FIRE IF I WANT TO.
The whole thing started with an article about the antivax measles outbreak where someone said it was like throwing a lit match on a bucket of gasoline. Knowing that you can drop a lit cigarette in 3″ of gas and it will go out, I started to wonder if the match would be like a cigarette and just go out. So the match is the key to the entire experiment.
Still no sign of Spud.
INT. NIGHT. Back alley. Spud in hoodie staring mesmerized at fire in a garbage can. Looks down at watch.
‘Oh, the links should be up right about now.’
Slinks off into the night.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparklemotion.
Suck a fuck.
I’m gonna say no, match will not go out. Hot embers from a cigarette or charcoal get extinguished. If there is perceptible flame….stand back.
…..Buenos Aires!
You forgot to finish the sentence.
Just theorizing here, but I think a wooden match would sink and go out, but a cardboard match would float and start a fire.
Lighting a camp stove with fire steel is very satisfying for me.
Camp stove? Pretty fancy, man!
Technically it’s a burner that screws on to a propane can.
*looks down in same*
Let it be known, this is exactly what we get into arguments about.
It wan’t an argument; rather, a few people saying things that were incorrect. Shame on them.
flaming piece of wood will ignite, smoldering tobacco will not.
Once, while riding with a bunch of guys, one guy was smoking while gassing up. Somebody botched him out for it, so he says ” nothing would happen even if I tossed the lit cig in the tank” then, he actually did. Opened the cap and tossed it in. Of course it went out and that was that, until, about 5 miles down the road his bike sputtered to stop. The filter unraveled and clogged up the peacock. Dumbass!
A dumbass, but also a hero.
It’s not the gasoline that burns, it’s the vapors coming off the gasoline. You need to have the right fuel/oxygen mixture for it to ignite.
The flashpoint of gasoline is -50 degrees and the ignition temperature is 495 degrees. The temperature of a lit match is 600-800 degrees, so yeah, good luck with that.
A lit cigarette that isn’t being puffed on is below the ignition temperature, which is why dumbasses can throw a cigarette into a bucket of gasoline.
Many moons ago, I picked up a 12 yo kid who’s dad had let him throw a match on the bbq. He had used gasoline instead of charcoal lighter. The poor bastards skin was hanging off him in ribbons. He had 2nd & 3rd degree burns on the front side of his body from the waist up.
Great…thanks Spud. Now I want bbq.
I did a big strip steak last night. Burgers this weekend.
VINDICATION!
Gasoline will not burn without oxygen. That is why your internal combustion engine either has a carburator or fuel injectors that vaporize the gas and mix it with air.
Treat without my consent? Not a chance. Talk to them without me present? That’s routine with a daughter. I got thrown out of the exam room every time so they could ask about sexual activity without me present. Made my oldest daughter grumpy. “The answer’s not going to change.”
“The answer’s not going to change.”
Damn! It sounds like you raised your daughter well.
“Dad, for $50, the answer won’t change after you leave the room.”
Honestly, I hope that all of my daughters sexual activity will happen when I’m not present.
You hope? That’s a pretty low bar.
We also used to put two inches of kerosene in said friend’s mom’s empty 3L Fago bottles, drop in a disposable CO2 container for air guns / seltzer bottles, and light the match. The fire would heat up the CO2 charge, which would go bang and spew burning liquid all over the place.
What pornhub channel is that?
and spew burning liquid all over the place.
Hot spurting MILFs.
Obviously.
Shit, that was supposed to be in reply to my other comment…
Back when doctors were allowed to use their own judgement, they would prescribe birth control for “acne”.
I would have thought acne would make you less likely to need birth control.
Man, I don’t know what you were like when you where 15, but this does not align with my lived experience as a fifteen year old boy.
Not a red light. Not even a speed bump.
I have known women who take birth control for acne, and also stop they don’t have a period.
Song to go with the lynx.
Now, I don’t think I would have a problem if a pediatrician asked me if they could talk to my 12 year old without me in the room.
I don’t have kids, but I’d probably go the same way, if I did. The thing is, my doing so would be a courtesy. I’d argue that, as the child’s parent, I had a right to be there that I simply was refraining from exercising.
If they suspect abuse, it’s hard to question the kid in front of the abuser.
I was going to say, if you refuse, you’ll probably get flagged as a potential abuser, and if you do it the wrong way, probably have a conversation with CPS.
And people wonder why birth rates are too low to support the welfare state.
Are you kidding? A father taking their kid to the pediatrician without the mother present gets you flagged as a potential abuser.
Since when do their suspicions trump my moral obligations as a parent?
Let alone the fact that as the paying customer I have every right to know every single thing going on in the service I am paying for.
i think it is more looking out for the kids right not to be abused.
You’re clearly arguing from principle, but remember this is America. The State owns all children and you’re just a potential abuser who they’ve graciously allowed to raise one of their future tax cattle.
Wearing a MAGA Hat in Harvard Square. Day 2.
The weather today is much nicer, so everyone could see my hat on the way to a Mexican taqueria. It didn’t cause any reaction. I got a quesadilla, today with carnitas, like I’ve had almost every week for the last 10 years. So far It seems that people don’t care one way or the other.
If you’re looking for a reaction, you should try wearing that hat on Twitter.
Especially with all of those newly unemployed juornolists hanging out there who are putting off learning to code.
You are ruining some perfectly fine stereotypes. Why do you hate America?
You mean we aren’t a nation on the brink of civil war? The nation isn’t divided between roving bands of savage MAGA White Supremacists and righteous persecuted minorities? It’s almost like the media lives in a bubble and has an incentive to be sensationalists or something….
Also it turns out people are way more confrontational online where they risk nothing by being total dickbags to complete strangers.
Alternative explanation: White Supremacists took Boston already.
The most racist city I’ve ever lived in during my life is Boston.
Seriously…. it was the mid 80’s before they finally desegregated public housing and there was bona fide rioting.
Please start these with “Dear diary”
“I never thought this would happen to me…I wore a MAGA hat and no one noticed.”
Not being noticed was triggering.
They ghosted him!
Hmmm….maybe try the USA hat instead?
You would think that a bear wearing a KKK hood would at least garner a few glances.
Should have gotten the burrito bowl and loudly exclaim “I love the Hispanics!”
“Can I get some more ketchup over here?”
“And some of em are good people!”
I assume.
Lmao
How large are you? That seems to scare people away. Do you have furrowed brows? I’m picturing a buff Breshznev.
No, I don’t look scary. Slightly taller than average, thin by American standards.
“thin by American standards”
Only 300 lbs
165 lb.
Grizzly is quite handsome for a Russian.
They were probably just checking him out.
My opinion of Harvard has gone up. I didn’t think that was possible.
Thank you, “Big Balls” grrizzly
Did the quesadilla taste extra spitty?
So far I only went to the places where the food is prepared right in front of my eyes. I’ll try to be more adventurous next week.
To be fair, you’re a bear, and no one in Massachusetts is allowed to carry a gun.
You need to try this in a blue city in a red state.
Were you smirking? Need to smirk to guarantee reaction.
“Now, I don’t think I would have a problem if a pediatrician asked me if they could talk to my 12 year old without me in the room.”
Then you’re a motherfucking fool.
Pediatrician: So how many guns does your father have in the house?
Brett L, Jr.: 35.
Pediatrician: And does your father ever drink in the house where these guns are kept?
Brett L, Jr.: Yes.
Pediatrician: Nurse, get me CPS, stat!
My son knows all my guns fell in a lake in a tragic boating accident.
Hah, we just had that conversation recently with our kids given our fucking governor’s new gungrabbing proposal which includes confiscation:
Me: We’re gonna have to move, I swear. If this thing passes, they can search houses to confiscate.
Wife: We don’t have any guns.
Son: But yeah, we do! We have-
Wife: *more emphatically* no, we don’t.
Son: But-
Wife: NO. WE. DON’T. HAVE. ANY. GUNS.
Thats a keeper right there.
Yeah, too bad he’s gonna have to get rid of the kid.
Might not be a good idea to put this conversation on the internet…
We don’t have conversations on this website.
35 he knows of.
Doc: Do you have any guns in your house?
Tax Deductions: No.
Kid that I’m going to put up for adoption: Yes.
?
Why? Because my kids would lie to the doc as I instructed them to?
He mean a kid that says yes to the question gets put up, not your kids.
Oh. *headdesk*
I’m doing taxes with XY TD sorting receipts and I’m explaining to him how it all works. My mind is not otherwise engaged.
To be fair, I’d put your kids up for adoption just to be safe.
There are days…
Oh, I know. If only there were a band of Gypsies roaming the neighborhood when I need them.
Fixed.
Did someone give Brett coke?
*perks up*
Uffda. I’m a total drug nerd, so I don’t know anything about how you deviants go about your business. But I am curious. When you say administering coke rectally, do you mean that Brett is putting drugs up his own ass? Or are the drugs already there and he’s spewing them out his ass toward other people?
This is why I never did drugs. I’m sure I would be invited to a coke party and someone would ask me to administer them rectally and with my loser aura I’d fuck up and choose the wrong option and get laughed at.
So, Pope Jimbo…..you wanna go camping?
Correct.
It is a discreet method one may utilize in order to take coke. This is the coke-addict’s analogue to the pot brownie, or “shootin up” between the toes. It is this way, that one may continue taking coke, without the obvious issue of tearing up your nasal cavity.
There is an argument that can be made that the GI tract is specifically designed to absorb such materials into the blood stream and this is a better way to do it. I personally have no opinion on this, nor am I a physician; this is best left to the few that may wish to chine in.
Somebody ought to have told Artie Lange. Dude’s looking rough.
do you mean that Brett is putting drugs up his own ass?
I think it’s fairly safe to assume this is true regardless of context.
I love my wife, but if she has one drawback, its that she won’t do it for me.
To be fair, it’s like throwing a bag of powdered sugar down a hallway. The pleasure is all gone for her.
Regular or Coke Zero, I’m never sure which is the good stuff. Used orally the bubbles kind of tickle my palate, I’ve noticed that.
You do NOT want to cut coke with sugar around Brett….
*stares into the distance*
I knew a guy who liked to cut his coke with meth. Yikes.
Speaking of matches- I use wooden kitchen matches to light the burners on my stove, because i (and the stove) am old fashioned. I happened to be reading the side of a box of “strike anywhere” matches at the store the other day, and there was a prominently displayed message about how the matches are made with sustainable, responsibly harvested trees.
Like I fucking care. I just want the stupid thing to burst into flames when I rub it on something rough.
Are there any wood products available in the grocery store that AREN’T made out of farmed trees? You could say the same thing about 2x4s at the hardware store.
Yeah, once you make people actually internalize the cost of cutting down trees (as opposed to using crony capitalism to first seize all the forests and then dole out logging contracts by fiat) its amazing what it does for the environment.
euphemism ?
I just want the stupid thing to burst into flames when I rub it on something rough.
Just like I likes my wimmen!
All I can find are the Strike on the Box type. After about 200 strikes there isn’t enough grit left on the box to light the damned match. Takes about 6-8 scratches to light the match . The matches have very little burn stuff on them and have to try to keep them lit to get the birch bark going to start the fire. Looking for two sticks
I have a Zippo.
The dollar lighters don’t work well when they get cold. I keep them in the garages to light stoves but when they are cold apparently the gas or spark isn’t working. Warm weather they work fine.
Zippo, the lighter of kings.
Strike anywhere matches are crap anymore, I use the long matches to light my shop heater (propane tank mounted thing) and I need to keep a lighter around to light the matches.
Truth. They’re next to impossible to light these days.
I think they made strike anywhere matches illegal in California for some typically stupid reason.
A torch like you’d use for sweating copper pipes costs maybe $40.
Bringing this forward from the dead thread since Pan enjoyed it so much:
More, I want more
journalistpropagandist pain to laugh at:Learn to code,
I saw that too and it’s gold. Maybe the most delicious batch of tears since the 2016 election.
I’ve read them all earlier, but I can’t stop laughing
The best was the one where a bunch of people spelled out ‘learn to code’ one letter at a time.
Either that was fake, or God exists.
lulz worthy
Iowahawk, as usual, is shooting lights-out
Set to music.
Holy shit. That’s is some lyrical poetry right there.
Awesome.
This is the best one, BY FAR
http://www.informationliberation.com/files/1548376786473.png
I read that 4chan started it.
I don’t want these people learning to code.
They’ll get snapped up by Google, Facebook, or some other big left wing tech company and paid twice as much as they were making before so they can code even more left wing bias into their systems, which they’ll claim is fact-based objective journalism.
If these people move into tech, they’ll go out of their way to ensure the sort of bullshit content they used to write is all people who use these platforms see, and they’ll have the support of upper management in doing so.
Be careful what you wish for.
Microsoft is already on the case.
That’s a thing of beauty.
This is amazing
What jumped out at me is that they all wrote their “If you’re looking for a reporter in the field of [insert hodgepodge of leftist hobbyhorse subjects], I’m available” tweets in pretty much exactly the same way. So they even journolist their out-of-work tweets.
Also, I know it’s mean-spirited, childish, and vindictive to pile on all of these people who have lost their jobs, and not usually my style. But, for the most part, this particular cohort has already let me know that they hate me, and value their insipid groupthink over displaying any hint of humanity. So I guess I’ll just hate them right back. Again, childish and unproductive, I know.
Or they’re just not very thoughtful or original.
Are there any wood products available in the grocery store that AREN’T made out of farmed trees?
I want my strike anywhere matches made from old growth Joshua trees, turned down on a lathe. One tree, one match.
That’s how they make toothpicks!
I prefere Bubinga.
I’ve seen that in an old cartoon.
I love that CNN response about “journalism”. “We are real news, Mr. President. Now, if you’d excuse us we need to go dox some high school kids who have wrong think”
“If you want to be treated with respect, you need to act respectably.”
-Noone at CNN.
Hey Leap, sorry, I was too late for the last thread but here is V, V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series. Link expires in 24 hours.
Moral guidance from the IMF
Lagarde explained that the public now demands that banks have a greater purpose beyond the bottom line.
“We’re hearing that loud and clear from civil society, from the millennials, from many, many corners around the planet and I think any sector, the financial sector alike, has to have that purpose.
“It can’t just be single-mindedly the pursuit of profit, it has to be multifaceted and it has to take into account multiple stakeholders.”
The IMF boss, who famously said that the banking collapse would have looked much differently if it had been “Lehman Sisters” rather than Lehman Brothers dominating Wall Street, also took gender imbalance to task.
“The numbers are just appalling … you have 20% of board members in the financial sector who are women, and you only have 2% of CEOs who are women.” She said it was “business common sense… that diversity actually precipitates productivity and is good for all”.
She added: “There should be significant changes, we’re not seeing much of that and I hope the financial sector takes that approach seriously.”
All she needs to add is, “Nice bank ya gots here. Be a real shame if somethin’ was ta happen to it.”
She says that as if every company in the Western world isn’t tripping over themselves looking for “diversity”.
It can’t just be single-mindedly the pursuit of profit
Lucky for you that is no the case because companies profit by giving customers the best product and/or service. Profit is a byproduct of customer satisfaction.
Get off Bernie Sanders lawn.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/01/25/sanders-primary-opponents-care-identity-politics-false-diversity/
A “fix” for the labor market
To us, the “future of work” is now, and it looks bright because of apprenticeships. The programs can help diversify entire industries, build a more inclusive workforce and create pathways to employment for underrepresented communities.
But the skills gap is a national problem, and closing it will require nothing less than a national movement — one that can only be led by the private sector. Our aim is to enlist more companies to join us in closing the skills and training gaps, which is why we recently unveiled an apprenticeship playbook to help companies jump-start their own programs.
By rallying employers to invest in apprenticeships, we can unleash the untapped potential of millions. We can better equip our businesses to compete in an age of dynamic change. And we can prepare the United States’ workforce for well-paying jobs that power today’s economy — and tomorrow’s
That’s nice. I wonder if anybody in HR has told these people apprenticeships and on the job training used to be the norm, but something changes in the past few decades. You used to be able to skills-test pr4ospective employees, too. I wonder why nobody does that anymore.
If they can figure out a way to tart it up with trendy buzzwords, maybe they’ll bring that back too.
The whole Mueller investigation and the arrest this morning of roger stone has been one big great shining example of why one should never talk to the cops.
That’s the lesson I’ve learned from this whole thing.
The thing that gets me is these guys aren’t noobs, they’ve all been around the game for years and they not only talk to the feds they lie about shit they have no reason to lie about (assuming the allegations are true). Call it a witchhunt/illegitimate/whatever how dumb do you have to be to bald-faced lie to the feds, these guys have to know that one of the feds’ favorite tricks is to ask questions they know the answer to and hope you’ll lie, hell I know that and I swing a hammer for a living.
They think they’re smarter than everyone else. It’s the only explanation I can come up with.
Me, I’m not even opening my mouth to say “I want my lawyer”. I’ll write it on a piece of paper.
A couple of other possibilities:
1. They were expecting “professional courtesy.”
2. The didn’t actually lie. The feds just said they did. I personally will never believe an FBI who forbids an interrogee to make a recording of the interview. Even if they don’t abuse that they are incentivizing false accusations.
The fact that a fbi agents’ notes are accepted by the courts and juries as an impartial record of anything continues to be an embarrassment to the supposed justice system.
Don’t talk to the police. It can never help you.
Detective guest lecturer “Who here drove faster than 55 on the Interstate?”
Hands go up.
Lawyer professor “Why the hell are you raising your hands!?! I just told you not to talk to him!”
Let me translate this heap of emoting into the brass tacks of it: whether or not you actually did anything wrong, it is totally your fault that I’m emotionally damaged and you make me think of kids who tormented me in middle school.
And just so we’re clear – there are plenty of people who have miserable experiences in middle school. Most of us don’t use them as an excuse to climb up on a cross and nail ourselves to it whenever it suits our purposes.
Hospitals are claiming that parents do not have right to review their minor child’s medical records well below majority. As young as 10-12. And saying it is Federal Law. I’d love to see RC Dean’s take on this.
I skipped to the bottom, so don’t know if anyone else has weighed in.
Boiling away some of the legal tergiversation, a parent who has authority to make medical decisions on behalf of a child is that child’s “personal representative” with the right to see their records. So, if you haven’t lost parental rights, either in divorce or because CPS stripped you of them, you are your child’s personal representative. For children, there are some exceptions:
(1) If the child has the right to make health care decisions for themselves and has requested that their parents not be their personal representatives.
(2) The minor has the right to the health care without their parent’s consent (typically, an abortion, contraception, prenatal care and delivery) and gets the service without their consent.
(3) The parents agree that the health care will be provided confidentially.
These can all be overridden by state law.
There are other provisions of HIPAA that may come into play here, under which the health care provider can deny access to records to the patient as well as a personal representative/parent. None of them would justify blanket denial of access to parents.
We looked at the issue of electronic access to our medical records through a patient portal. Arizona law guarantees parents access to their minor children’s medical records, and this overrides whatever restrictions HIPAA may have or allow, so in Arizona, doing what this hospital has done would be a violation of state law.
Other hospitals have looked at having minors consent to their parents looking at their records through a patient portal, because those records might contain something that parents aren’t allowed to see (abortion, pregnancy care, family planning, mainly).
The article says I9 found the practice stems from federal law and all hospitals have a similar policy but not all of them start at the same age. I find this to be an extraordinary overstatement. I believe that a lot of hospitals require the consent of a minor above a certain age to allow parents to see their records through a patient portal. I get the impression from the article that this hospital bars parents from seeing records through a portal and doesn’t have a consent process, which kinda sucks but I get it. The idea that they can bar parents from seeing any of their minor child’s records is lunacy, and would be a violation of federal and state law.
I chalk up the utter lack of clarity and understanding in the article to the fact that it was written by a journalist.
Wow, “tergiversation”. I gotta say, you use your tongue sweeter than a $20 whore.
Thanks. Its kind of why I asked.
The minor has the right to the health care without their parent’s consent (typically, an abortion, contraception, prenatal care and delivery) and gets the service without their consent.
And yet actual legal adults can be prohibited from buying or owning firearms, liquor, or credit cards. This society is sick.
“‘I killed her’: College student, 21, ‘stabs her best friend 30 times with a butcher knife’ and greets cops covered in blood in the apartment they shared”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6633263/Virginia-college-student-Luisa-Cutting-charged-murder-best-friend-Alexa-Cannon.html
Her name is Cutting.
Descendant of Bill the Butcher, I presume?
Should have been Stabbing.
“Parents of Utah student who was shot dead by her criminal ex-boyfriend after calling police 22 TIMES about him slam university for saying her death could not have been prevented
Nothing was done and Brown shot her in a parking lot then killed himself”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6632203/Parents-Utah-student-killed-ex-speak-against-college.html
Good lord that is horrible. WTF went on in that police department?
The ex-boyfriend was one of the cops?
I’m withholding judgement. I wouldn’t be surprised if third parties, particularly parents, contact campus police departments more than once in a blue moon about romantic partners they don’t like.
If they were that concerned, why wouldn’t they help their daughter transfer to another school, or at the least, withdraw immediately and come home until it was resolved?
Trump says there’s going to be a temporary deal to reopen the FedGov.
He is the only one that has been trying to negotiate all along. Don’t capitulate!
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO COLLUSION! Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there?
Good question. And what exactly is Stone being charged with? I mean, I know what but it does not seem like something that should have held up to scrutiny to get a warrant for arrest.
I assume he’s charged with being an enemy of the people.
Insufficiently cooperative in a FBI investigation. Subtype — saying things to a Federal agent that disagree with documents they have but won’t let you see until after they’ve asked you the trap question.
Trump says there’s going to be a temporary deal to reopen the FedGov. Sad. That’s for losers.
Interesting move. I can see some political/PR upsides for Trump. Of course, the DemOp Media will trumpet this as a stunning victory for Nancy Pelosi and the beginning of the end for Trump.
Everything depends on the details, of course. It gets the whining, crying federal employees off the news. If “temporary” means its just a few weeks, then the next shutdown is set up as being Congress’s fault, while Trump isn’t really giving anything up, really, since he can still hold out for a permanent end to the shtudown only if he gets his wall funding. I kinda like a looming shutdown for putting pressure on Congress to do a deal.
It’s for 3 weeks.
I’m wondering if the State of the Union will include a declaration of a national emergency and an announcement of RIFs in every federal department and agency.
Schmoobs is satisfied with his self-righteousness.
“The American people do not like it when you throw a wrench into the lives of government workers over an unrelated political dispute,” Schumer said. “Working people throughout America empathized with the federal workers and were aghast at what the president was doing to them. Hopefully, now the president has learned his lesson”
“Now, once the president signs the continuing resolution, we in Congress will roll up our sleeves and try to find some agreement on border security,” Schumer continued. “Today the president will sign the bill to reopen the government along the outlines of what we have proposed and hopefully it means a lesson learned for the White House and for many of our Republican colleagues: Shutting down the government over a policy difference is self-defeating.”
“It accomplishes nothing but pain and suffering for the country and incurs an enormous political cost to the party shutting it down,” Schumer continued.
Fuck. Off. Asshole. I, for one, empathize but that is extremely limited because most of their jobs should not even exist in the first place. A figurative hatchet needs to be taken to the bureaucracy. I sincerely hope that this is another troll on the part of the Troll in Chief. But I ain’t holding my breath.
I suspect that upwards of 90% of those Americans who aren’t Feds don’t give a shit about any of this. I know they’ve ginned up some polls claiming that “America blames Trump!” but really at the end of the day do you think they care about an issue that impacts them not in the least?
A single perfect Latina pic (aka “why building a border wall might have a downside”):
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c25bfd9894db16f610800181b49e1d5d.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=650
There would still be gates guarded by red-blooded Americans!
Fat Mom calls out man who “fat shamed” her in a private text
So she seems nice. Hubby is one lucky man, let me tell ya.
1) How does crap like this even make the news? How does it come to a reporter’s attention?
2) I was expecting much larger.
Yeah, is that a recent photo? I too was expecting a much larger lady.
That’s no lady.
It’s a “Mom” – it says so right there in the headline. Did you notice that she’s a mom? I don’t think the article made that clear enough.
It’s the “lifestyle” section – basically where they dump all the recent grads who can “connect with youth” and are eager to “start conversations”. Recent happy events suggest they’re disposable.
Frankly, I was surprised to learn that Yahoo! was still a thing.
Even more surprising, or maybe not, Marissa Mayer is still a thing.
As someone who has been stuck next to when who needed the lap belt extension, several times, I can empathize with this man. I paid for the whole seat, so either compensate me for the 30% that your fat ass is currently occupying or sit elsewhere.
ugh *women who need*
Same here. Buy two seats if you can’t fit into one, chubby. Don’t lean into my seat and figure it’ll all work out.
In bygone days when we didn’t wear our personal failings like a badge of honor, one might have used this shame to motivate them to make a positive change in their lives. Or just said “fuck off, I don’t care what you think” because it doesn’t really effect them.
In the end this doesn’t matter because I’d bet my next paycheck you can file this one under “things that didn’t happen”
And so we arrive at the crux of the issue. Your problems don’t stem from the fact that you are fat or oppressed by a thing world, it’s that you are an entitled crybaby who feels that your comfort supersedes the needs of others. Fuck off, slaver.
“Because I will take up as much space as I want”
THE FUCK YOU WILL
The nerve of that guy complaining about her wide ass taking up a chunk of his seat! I can’t believe he refused to apologize to her!
This is the same type of person who would claim they should get a double ration of food on a life raft because deep down they know they are hungrier than everyone else and therefore DESERVE more.
Nobody loves a fat man except his grocer and his tailor!
So she was reading the guy’s texts?
Shouldn’t have been hard. She was already halfway into his seat.
[golf clap]
?
You did not even acknowledge my existence throughout the remainder of the flight.
He sounds like the best person to sit next to on a plane.
LOL
Was the man Al Bundy?
As a news consumer, I am sick of this s***. Your little sob story incident isn’t a news story. Resolve it offline, please. And “Journalists” need to tell people it’s not newsworthy.
In all fairness, she’s what Id call ‘petite’.
“So, you’re reading my texts? Isn’t that like eavesdropping? I just thought you were fat, I didn’t realize that you were also violating my privacy. What the fuck is wrong with you, you fat bitch? Lose some weight and mind your own business!”
This week’s Darwin Award finalists:
http://m.newser.com/story/270388/st-louis-police-on-duty-cop-accidentally-shot-killed-off-duty-cop.html
Stupidity is a likely culprit but something seems fishy there. Gathering of cops both on and off duty at an apartment for unspecified reasons?…….Cops drive her to the hospital rather than calling in paramedics who might see something they shouldn’t?
I’m wondering if maybe she knew a little too much and wasn’t towing the blue lion like she aught to.
I screwed the pooch on that one. Here’s the link.
https://www.kmov.com/news/officers-were-playing-russian-roulette-when-off-duty-officer-was/article_df184d0a-20f0-11e9-8c13-67f4d8cc7e80.html
Yeah that story is utter bullshit. I’m changing my prognosis from “fishy” to “premeditated murder”
Damn. Maybe it’s because I just smoked a bowl and I’m not in my usual cynical mood but I hadn’t really considered that. Way to harsh my buzz, man. 😉
Lol, sorry….here’s a feel good story:
https://babylonbee.com/news/nations-libertarians-to-scream-at-sky-the-moment-the-government-reopens
That’s pretty funny.
“Oh, Ron, what do we do now?” he whispered to no one in particular.
“At publishing time, sources had confirmed the method was just as effective as libertarians’ usual political strategies.”
That made me larf.
Get out of my head, Babylon Bee!
*zen*
Dammit! Wrong link. Anyways, long story short: they were playing Russian Roulette.
With a semiautomatic?
Revolver with one round. Stupid human tricks and the dancing ghost of Darwin.
My joke lands flat yet again.
/Smiles wryly
It’s not that I thought you might have been serious, or anything…
Okay, I have such low opinion of humanity these days that I actually went and looked to see what weapon was used.
It works if you only put one bullet in the magazine.
May as well have been.
They didn’t spin between pulls.
St Louis’s finest.
My favorite of the pink slipped journalists is a chick whose purported highlights is writing about gun violence and the opioid crisis for the past several years. So basically manufacturing shit up and no real reporting at all. I’m sure there’s a home in the Bloomberg organization or some other advocacy group.
Decided to watch “The Burbs” tonight. I’ve seen it too many times but damn, they knew how to make funny movies in the late 80’s.
Oooh, haven’t seen that one in a long time. Love Bruce Dern doing a satire of his loony Nam vet characters. “There go the goddamned brownies!”
Question for Spud: If I light a lady’s fart on fire after having anal sex, will the cum douse the flame or turn into a campfire smore?
How much did you have to drink? I need to know the alcohol content of the spooge to make that determination.
5 Fuzzy navels and a week old burrito supreme I found under the couch.
She’s going to go off like a Roman Candle.
8 times?
If Straff is doing it right.
Apparently Roger Stone is going to appear on Tucker Carlson’s show tonight. That appears to be a profoundly stupid decision. Does this guy not have a lawyer?
That or he truly believes he’s going to get pardoned by Trump. Fun times for us in the gallery.
‘Pardon anyone and we’ve got him on a slam dunk impeachment!’
/Democrat wet dreams
Also
“We’re gonna need a bigger bowl.”
I’m finding his eyebrows very off putting.
Oh, and he blinks too much.
*Guilty*