Good morning my Glibs and Glibarinas! And what a glorious day it is for those who have been looking forward to the State of the Union Address. I, personally, would prefer a Trump Spectacular with dancing girls in judges robes and fireworks.
Speaking of judges, turns out the Democrats were not attempting a Weekend and Bernie’s as Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her first public appearance yesterday since having surgery.
Senate Democrats attempt to thwart Trump’s most likely next move in getting the Wall via emergency declaration.
Colorado Man kills mountain lion with bare hands.
Gavin McInnes is suing the SPLC for defamation.
Speaking of defamation lawsuits.
Baby shark, doo, doo, doo doo…
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
In the category of defamation suits, I was expecting Meyers v. Wade for some reason.
Also, Gavin is something like the third person to sue the Southern Poverty Hate Group in the past year alone. Maybe finally that fraudulent organization will go under.
Oh man, that would cause some wailing and gnashing of teeth. It won’t happen but a boy can dream.
They’ve got an endowment like most of the ivies, they can settle defamation suits for the next thousand years and they aren’t going under.
One of the suits is a RICO claim, but that’s the long shot.
The second positive outcome would be the indelible tarnish of their fabricated reputation so that donations dry up and people stop listening to them.
-what I said below. Anyone who hasn’t already written them off will continue to heed them because they say what progs want to hear.
Fundamentally, all they do is provide political cover for the targeting of the political opposition.
And they will continue to be considered an authority by progies and the MSM despite labeling anyone who vaguely smells right-wing as a hate group.
THIS PROVES THE RIGHT HATES FREE SPEECH
Well played.
Go Gavin Go
I’d like to see Morris Dees go broke defending his personal slush fund.
I just want to see what he wears in court.
Oh-wee-oh-wee-oh
>>Colorado Man kills mountain lion with bare hands.
Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier…
All dudes have choked a chicken or two, but to choke out a pussy. Respect.
That dude deserves to be called ‘sir’, have his jokes laughed at, and receive free beers at every bar in America.
And lots of poon-tang?
Its a demonstrated fact that he can slay the toughest pussy in America.
Not Quite.
I thought you had linked an image of the Wookie.
You don’t know me very well then.
The sex of the animal that ambushed the jogger was not reported.
Not “self reported”.
But what about it’s gender? Who cares about its “sex” (if that’s even a real thing). What did it identify as?
A Siamese cat?
Unfortunately the man under attack did not identify as a mouse (or progressive, but I repeat myself).
A dog.
As a youth I read a story about a hunter who strangled a leopard which had attacked him. IIRC he jammed his fist down its throat until it suffocated. I suppose few people have the presence of mind to even attempt to kill a large, wild cat.
Reaching in the mouth past all the teeth does seem kinda counterintuitive.
I suspect that the cat already was biting his hand.
I killed a Cougar by jamming my hand in the other way.
You learned that at the STEVE SMITH school of self-defense, didn’t you?
It’s the same with dogs. Grab their body and shove your fist down their throat.
If you give them the opportunity to use their body weight to pull against you, you’re going to get shredded.
And if there are two dogs? Well you’re screwed.
I actually once got attacked by 2 dogs (one doberman and a German shepard that a dick in our neighborhood that refuse to keep these two idiot dogs on a leash and let them wander) when I was a younger lad. I first punched the doberman in the nads when he bit me, and then grappled the shepard and bit off his ear. Both dogs ran off. I got bit, got a few stitches, but all in all, I think I won that engagement. After that, whenever either dog saw me, would run the fuck away. The shepard usually while whining.
“and bit off his ear”
You’re Mike Tyson?
Heh, I was Mike Tyson, before Mike Tyson was Mike Tyson, since I did this in the late 70s. I was a scrapper. I never cared about numbers, odds, or injuries. I have mellowed out quite a bit since those days now that all the old injuries are reminding me of my youthful indiscretions.
Jeebus.
*makes mental note to only say nice things about Alex*
Reminds me that, ages ago, a neighbor had two Rottweilers who would periodically roam the neighborhood. They were pretty territorial about the whole thing. There was an old female English Bulldog who lived across the street from us who generally just napped on the porch. One day the Rotties came rumbling through, and I saw her face them down in the middle of the street: two adult Rottweilers face to face with one elderly English Bulldog. I was sure they were going to kill her and I was debating whether (and how) to intervene, but after a rather tense moment, they both turned around and headed off. They didn’t come around our corner much after that.
Manute Bol killed a real lion as a teen. I think he had a spear.
Of course, he had the reach on the lion, so that helped.
Bol Bol will kill a grizzly with a spoon
Are we talking a teaspoon? A serving Spoon? A wooden spoon?
Good thing for him the lion didn’t have a basketball hoop hanging around its neck. No way Bol would have been able to hit him with a spear then.
But if the lion went up for a layup, Bol would have rejected it.
Bol hit six 3 pointers in one half.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/02/05/it-was-a-kitten-so-the-mountain-lion-the-guy-in-colorado-killed-without-a-weapon-it-was-less-than-a-year-old/
He killed a kitten. Doh!
“>Colorado Man kills mountain lion with bare hands.”
*jogger being interviewed*
NAME STEVE SMITH. NOT MEAN KILL LION ONLY RAPE! ACT OF LOVE.
However, it was not disclosed exactly how the jogger managed to kill the animal, and no one from the CPW or the Larimer DNR was available for comment early Tuesday.
Well, that’s helpful.
I read on the internet that he did it with nunchucks.
Glibs/Glibarinas?
So you’re admitting that there’s only 2 Glib genders? So un-woke.
Sorry, I need my sleep.
Those are the genders for men, which are all that are needed on a libertarian site.
The justice sat in the back of the darkened auditorium at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and, according to The Washington Post, was only spotted by concertgoers as they left the performance.
“What a lovely concert. *Screech* What the hell is that?!”
This seems like awfully weak stuff. How convenient there are no pics, nobody spoke to her, nobody can even say if she walked out or was wheeled out. And of course, not a single witness is named.
Indeed. If she’s going to refuse to step down, her first and only public appearances should be from the fucking bench while the court is in session.
If it weren’t for the fact that it would be inherently insecure, I’d argue that all federally elected positions should be remote positions, so as to disburse the power physically.
Other than the corpse in the back how was the show?
Best Hunchback I’ve ever seen!
Is this the new Lone Hillary Sighted in Woods phenomenon?
She came out of her burrow last week…4 more years of not being President
I’m starting a National Museum of Men in the Arts. Anyone care?
Tard Tuesday: Esquire Political Commentary
Charles Pierce, ladies and gentlemen…
B-but it really is different when we do it!
That was written by Bo Esq., wasn’t it.
It was written by the lowest of life forms, a political sports commentator.
Those three words – do they actually describe some thing?
It’s akin to a Marianas Trench sea slug.
That is a thing I can at least conceptualize – the other, not so much.
political sports commentator
It is how you end up with a Keith Olbermann.
Nobody wants that.
Supine conservative commentators: *immediately jump on Covington kids*
Democrats: “Is blackface really all that bad?”
Evidently not.
Sentient ball of suet Charles Pierce
“spooked”
Much Trigger.
Although the SPLC Hate Designations are not empirical statements of fact, and are frequently entirely counter-factual, the SPLC Hate Designations are nonetheless intended by SPLC and treated by the mainstream press, law enforcement, courts and social media organizations not as SPLC’s opinion but rather as objective, empirical factual determinations.
No kidding.
Tard Tuesday: Let’s Make Unnecessary Illegal
How did that author write that with a straight face?
He had me at “redumblican”.
BLOCK INSANE YOMAMA!
Someone has a crush on ol’ crazy eyes.
He wants to eat some of her Mac & Cheese?
ewwww /teenage girl
I call parody
Nah, DU is ground zero for the (unfortunately not terminally) stupid.
I want to believe it’s parody as well. What a nutjob.
It’s hard to tell nowadays but I suspect he’s sincere. It’s Democratic Underground after all.
D 6′ U
Dude you are digging into the lower levels of Moria, in such of true-derp. You know what lurks in those depths.
We truly live in completely different universes. No reconciliation of these world-views is even possible.
UK man calls police after McDonald’s staff include onions in Big Mac
Look, man, this isn’t a Burger King. McDs never promised you could have it your way.
That’s an ancient feud, the McDonaghs versus the McDonalds
Early lead for thread winner
I was typing a witty reply to the above, and then stopped when I read this. Slammer wins.
Now, I’m not saying police violence is right or appropriate, but are we really against someone getting a few whacks of the policeman when an adult man spits in the face of another grown man during a childish temper-tantrum? I’m torn on that. Kind of a corollary to Niven’s Law “don’t throw shit at a man holding a loaded rifle”.
Provided the facts are as presented, I have no issue with the use of force described.
If the facts are other than presented, I may revise that assessment.
If it were London, the bobby would take his thrashing while his compatriots bravely watched from their locked patrol car.
Sir Robin being their highest ideal of knighthood?
Spitters are THE. WORST.
As far as I’m concerned, they can be dragged behind a pickup truck and I won’t lose any sleep over it.
Bend him over the hood of the police car let everyone in the McDonald’s take turns paddling him.
Liam Neeson sparks race row over rape comments
How many times has his kid been kidnapped, anyway?
Not yet a contender for the top spot. Maybe not even the top spot in film.
This sounds like something he would say to promote Taken VII.
Now flip the skin colors.
I’m shocked! SHOCKED!
A new report says that the primary factor pushing up costs of new home construction is municipal fees.
How could they cast such aspersions on our selfless public heroes?
Uh, what?
These are feetaxes, they’re sort of like penaltaxes and exist in the margins of the FYTW clause.
I had this loud discussion at a township meeting.
Some woman: “What if someone wanted to open an Adult Shop next door to you?”
Me: “I’d be sitting in the front row pushing dollar bills under the glass”
Audience laughter.
Me: I’m sure than anyone opening an adult store wants to make money. I don’t think you have anything to worry about”
Well done. Bet you the hag was mad you were honest.
Corporate lies to hide greed. It would be better if cities just build housing and gave one to everyone
Based on how well their social score rating was? Not woke enough, and you fucking deserve to be homeless and jobless!
Duh.
I’ve had experienced being part of building homes through a GC as well as doing work on properties my parents own.
Double fucken duh.
Government regulations dramatically drive the costs up and the unions pile on.
I understand completely. From re-zoning to final inspection
I’m going thru my HOA requiring me to submit a blizzard of paperwork to get approval for a fence I already painted last summer. Apparently the shade of green is aesthetically wrong or something. They require fences to be maintained, and offer zero advice about acceptable colors. Almost nobody paints their ramshackle weatherbeaten fences, but they pile on the one guy who wants his fence to look better.
That’s the problem, you’re making the others look bad.
To be fair, painting “TRUMP RULEZ!!!!! MEXICANS STAY OUT” on your fence was going to get you in trouble no matter what color it is.
No HOAs for me. I wouldn’t want to live next door to someone like me either.
And they will continue to be considered an authority by progies and the MSM despite labeling anyone who vaguely smells right-wing as a hate group.
“Just another vicious smear by the Nazis, against a group of brave men and women doing the Lord’s work to stamp out hatred and bigotry.”
In case you were wondering what people on Twitter who don’t matter think:
https://nypost.com/2019/02/04/dan-crenshaw-tries-to-take-shot-at-ocasio-cortez-gets-eviscerated-by-twitter-users/
I love how a contrary leftist response in now and ‘eviseration’ despite any semblance of factual counterpoint.
I’m still confused how the rheeing herds of twits are in any way relevent.
Have you ever been eviscerated by Twitter users?
Most of them wouldn’t know how to eviscerate an anchovy.
Granted it’s not as awful as being DESTROYD or P’WND, but it still stings a bit.
How does it compare to getting served?
All your base are belong to us?
Don’t forget REKT
Yeah, I’ve been on the receiving end of this. It ain’t pretty.
And it’s always Epic.
“The average NFL salary is $2.1 million, so most players would never experience a 70% rate,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday morning. “The owners who refuse to hire [Colin] Kaepernick would, though.”
OMG SAVAGE!! YASSSSSSSS QUEEN!!!!!
“But social media users — and even the Bronx-born politician herself — pointed out how people making over $10 million would be the only ones affected by her plan.”
Economics…..how the fuck does it work again?
If she understood economics, she whouldn’t be a socialist bartender.
145 NFL players have salaries of $10M or greater, and that doesn’t count their endorsements and investments. Not only does she not understand economics, she doesn’t understand statistics.
What part of “Democrat” do you not understand?
A lot.
You go girl!!!!
And what player is going to take a salary over $10 million? We’re going to see some very creative contracts (and long).
Wait, I think I recognize you.
How absurd is it to name my fictional city “Nowhere, Nevada” and place it in the equally ficticious “Middle County”?
Not as absurd as you think
Not even superficially similar to the plot or characters in my work.
Does the title even refer to an actual city by the same name?
I don’t think so. I was actually searching to see if there was such a place when I found that. It’s probably just that the vast expanse of baked sand that constitutes NV inspires many people to think of the word “nowhere”.
Maybe
I could take a picture very nearly identical to that one right now from out my back door.
So you admit to living in nowhere? No big revelation, it seems to be common around here.
You’re not free unless you’re free to gambol through the Mojave desert
Are you crazy? that place is crawiling with Cazadors and Deathclaws!
Call the city Glib Gulch….
Population: 1 Tulpa.
lies There is never just one.
Tulpaville?
The county name strikes me as odd. Usually, they are named after people.
I passed by this place on a road trip a long time ago.
Mineral county disagrees. (As do a good number of others)
Or other places. But good point. I can’t think of any county with a generic name like that.
Leave to UCS to immediately prove me wrong 😛
Almost all of the ones in North East Ohio are generic or Indian names.
Dear How to Do It
“So anyway, I’m getting to the point where I’m physically repulsed by this woman, and it’s really getting in the way of our trying to conceive a child…”
Fuck is wrong with people?
It is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission? Just Do It (TM)
Do you have any advice on how to improve our sex life?
Suck it up asshole. You chose to marry her knowing all of this in advance.
^^ this
Seriously. Your beautiful wife who puts out all the time isn’t trying hard enough to satisfy your various sexual fantasies? It’s called a real relationship. Fuck off.
I’m curious why everyone is piling on this guy and trying to make him into the bad guy?
First off what I see everyone doing is focusing on just one part of what he says and ignoring the rest. No he is not physically repulsed by her, yes they do have a good relationship but the problem is she act like his mother and is not sexually open or adventurous in the least. So neither of those things make a bad relationship and there is plenty of room for him to be mostly happy with her within these complaints so he is not looking to just cut and run, which if he did everyone would bash him for abandoning his spouse over nothing.
The real answer to his question is not to just leave nor is it to suck it up because both of those are untenable in the long term. What is is going to have to do however is to put his marriage at risk because he is going to have to stand up to her. Basically, just as he agreed to be faithful to her she agreed to be faithful to him which means she has an obligation by her marriage vow to actually work with him to see to it that his needs are met in so far as it is possible to do so and the fact that she refuses to even acknowledge that there is a problem and even blames him for it is the first issue that has to be overcome. He needs to sit her down at some point when they are both calm and lay it out, she needs to put in more work to make herself a sex partner and not his mother or their relationship is doomed, and that is absolutely going to mean both backing off on the mothering and letting (even forcing) him to do things for himself from time to time AND expanding her horizons in bed.
It is funny but what I see going on here is a manifestation of the matriarchy (a term we really should start using because there are a shit ton of societal rules and expectations that exist which are unhealthy and were created by women for their benefit) which is everything in out culture says that a mans needs are unimportant, he needs to focus on meeting her needs to the exclusion of his own and if he doesn’t then the inevitable bad relationship is all his fault. He doesn’t know how to stand up for himself and demand that she meet him halfway to meeting his needs because he has been taught since birth that his needs are base, vile, and unimportant not even worth discussing and if he leaves her or cheats because she refuses to even acknowledge that he has needs he is the bad guy for it.
That’s a brave, thoughtful response. Yes, I’m serious.
BSDM? She has to let him hurt her?
There is BDSM play which does not involve pain
I suspect he is not very interested in that tame shit.
He doesn’t know how to stand up for himself and demand that she meet him halfway to meeting his needs because he has been taught since birth that his needs are base, vile, and unimportant not even worth discussing and if he leaves her or cheats because she refuses to even acknowledge that he has needs he is the bad guy for it.
Meh. If my wife told me she was into pegging and that our marriage hinged on me meeting her halfway , I’d rightly tell her to pack her bags.
If you have sexual kinks that are a “necessity” to your enjoyment of your marriage, you should probably have that conversation before you get married. You don’t get to bitch 6 months after the wedding when your wife doesn’t want to put on the nipple clamps.
This is the guy’s fault. He thought he was marrying a pornstar, but he was marrying a prude. Deal with it or divorce her before you have a baby.
How about if your wife told you that flowers and a nice dinner out every now and then were a necessary component to her remaining interested in having sex with you? Would that be so far beyond the pale?
I find it funny that everyone sees “BDSM and ass play” and assumes those are the only things the guy is complaining about. But they aren’t, he also specifically mentioned role playing and sexy lingerie . In other words the most reasonable reading of this is that she is not really into anything but straight missionary sex and doggie style is really far out there and reserved for special occasions. Meeting him halfway is not letting him tier her up and go to town on her ass on a weekly basis, meeting him half way is being willing to take some responsibility for keeping the sexual heat up between them.
Meeting him halfway is not letting him tier her up and go to town on her ass on a weekly basis, meeting him half way is being willing to take some responsibility for keeping the sexual heat up between them.
when I’ve tried, she just isn’t into role play, any form of pain, and is completely turned off by anything that’s not basic intercourse.
There’s no evidence that he’d be happy if she just put on some lingerie. It appears that he wants the kinky stuff, and she’s balking at that. I just don’t believe that she’d object to lingerie if he told her that it would improve their sex life.
Basically, just as he agreed to be faithful to her she agreed to be faithful to him which means she has an obligation by her marriage vow to actually work with him to see to it that his needs are met in so far as it is possible to do so and the fact that she refuses to even acknowledge that there is a problem and even blames him for it is the first issue that has to be overcome.
I don’t see where she refuses to acknowledge there is a problem.
He admits he’s not attracted to her any more because she’s not open to the kind of sex play he wants. To me, who he is attracted to and why is his responsibility. Her responsibility is to be herself; expecting her to participate in sex that she does not want (“see to it that his needs are met in so far as it is possible to do so” sure reads that way to me) is expecting too much. This is the flip side of the usual trope where the woman marries someone planning to change him into the husband she really wants. I don’t like it, whichever partner is doing it.
No he doesn’t. Just as I said you are proving my point…
You will not that the bolded part is his primary complaint. It is not that she is not into kinky sex but that she does not act at all sexual towards him, rather she acts like a mother. The lack of variety in sexual play is a secondary complaint. Now maybe it is really the primary complaint and he really just feels a need to tie someone up and bugger them but we don’t know either of them and so we can’t assume that . So taking his complaint at face value it is not that just that “she is a prude” but rather that she does not act like like a wife who is his sexual partner. Sure she’ll let him have sex with her as often as necessary to get pregnant but she won’t actually do anything to make him want to have sex with her, it is all on him to maintain the sexual desire and if isn’t ready and raring to go at a moments notice then the his lack of interest in her is the problem, not her lack of interest in taking any part in making him interested
Maybe he could take up role-playing as her stepson.
I’m calling him an asshole because he dated her for two years and has been married for six months.
Over time, this has made me less and less attracted to her sexually.
By his own admission, this is nothing new and therefore should have been considered before he tied the knot, which was only six months ago. He certainly doesn’t make it sound like her behavior is what changed in six months, just his demands.
Yup that’s right, first sign of trouble, jump ship. Just throw away everything the relationship is, it is completely unsalvageable, walk away no point in actually putting work into the relationship, and absolutely no point in finding compromise with your partner no siree just walk away. Yup have fun telling everyone you broke it off with her because you just kinda weren’t all that attracted to her sexually anymore, no way anyone will judge you for that, everyone will be completely understanding. And you know no way anyone HERE would judge him or call him an asshole for leaving her over something so trivial as her not being willing to let him beat her. Nope nosiree there is no catch 22 for him there.
In other words I am pointing out your bullshit, you would have attacked this guy as a loser EITHER WAY. If he stayed and tried to work through the difficulty he is a loser for even complaining, if he leaves he is a loser for leaving over such a trivial issue or even for wanting any of the examples he gives (not that the examples matter you will just lock onto the one which makes him look the worst) because HIS needs don’t matter. He doesn’t get to complain and say “Hey this marriage deal is supposed to be a compromise” because he is a man and even people as unwoke and anti feminist as you have here agree.
We are so deep into speculation about what’s really going on in this marriage that its hard for me to say anything useful about it. He may be reading her affectionate gestures as motherly. She may be reading his desire for something a little kinkier as a rejection of her as she is.
There’s no way to know.
Don’t put words in my mouth.
If his sexual satisfaction and preferences are known to him prior to marriage and he knew that is what he would require in order to be happy and satisfied in the relationship, then he should have broached the conversation sooner and given her the opportunity to address it. Who knows, she might have decided it wasn’t for her and broken it off.
It’s roughly on par with the wife who suddenly won’t deliver blowjobs after the “I do”.
Far too many people think that after they get married they can suddenly start changing the other person to meet their needs or desires when they should have at least investigated their partner’s openness to change prior to marriage.
He doesn’t get to complain and say “Hey this marriage deal is supposed to be a compromise” because he is a man and even people as unwoke and anti feminist as you have here agree.
No, he doesn’t get to complain for the same reason that a tranny doesn’t get to complain if a straight person kicks them out of the bed when they find the dick. When you’re in a minority sexual group, it’s on you to make sure that your partner is up for it before you commit (for a night, for a marriage, etc.) This is doubly true if you can’t get it up without indulging your kink.
BDSM isn’t a men’s issue, it’s a BDSM issue. If a girl gets off on having needles put into her nipples, and her now husband is squeamish around needles, whose fault is it that he won’t put needles into her nipples?
I’ll also add as a final thought that maybe he should turn off the porn. I’m not a “porn is the devil” crusader, despite me not personally partaking. However, I’m a believer in the fact that you can desensitize yourself to vanilla sex through porn. Maybe his desire will come back if he stops wanking it to whips and leather.
Translation –
“My wife and I are sexually incompatible but I want to make it 1,000 times more difficult to get out of this BS relationship by sealing it with a child.”
This idjit is too stupid to save.
Well said. Why the fuck do people make these sorts of long term commitments to people they already have suck huge compatibility problems with? I bet this asshat thought he would eventually wear her down and be able to get his freak on, only to now find out that she really has no intention of playing to his kink. What a maroon.
I’m starting to think his “previous partners” were PornHub videos.
This.
Well, he is asking a pornstar for advice.
Odd that she doesn’t enjoy pain.
He should have picked this playful soul to hook up with. Can you imagine the fun they could have??
Tard Tuesday: Trump Hates the Gheys
Had Chocolate Jesus claimed the same thing, it would have been met with cries of adulation and weeping.
Poor Obama. It took 9 and a half years for his policies to come to fruition just in time for it to benefit Trump halfway through his term.
Obama > HIV > Trump in the minds of these loons.
I’m pretty sure Trump invented HIV to kill black people.
Yes, he hates the gays so much he wants to make PrEP covered by insurance and easily obtainable by going to any doctor and asking for it. Maybe even OTC, but I would be surprised. There’s no way, even in this, the best of all timelines, that anything that sensible could be proposed in a SOTU speech.
I don’t get that last line. Why are they smugly mocking it? Isn’t that a BLOODY GOOD THING?
These people are quite literally mentally ill.
If Trump cured cancer, they’d bitch about him putting Oncologists out of work.
I’m sure this guy wrote a similar article when Obama declared war on cancer.
That’s how you get more cancer.
Dunno if this was covered but
Online abuse and trolling costs economy up to $3.7 billion, research finds
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/social-economic-impacts-of-trolling-online-abuse/10750650
They are really just making shit up these days
This comment just cost the economy 35 cents. It adds up, bro.
This comment created or saved 13 jobs.
Everything has a cost. If you willfully choose to ignore some, you can make anything look like it is costly.
FloridaLondon Man Simulated Sex With Car After Crashing It And Stripping NakedThe absolute madman.
Perp pic (NSFW)
It should also be noted that this is just proof that the UK is totally populated by soy boys.
A red blooded American dude had to be TASED before he stopped humping a tailpipe
Some people take their love of cars too far.
What’s the term for someone that dismisses the reality that some people want to hump cars? Cause you went there and there are gonna be some agitated snowflakes because you dismissed their need to fuck a tailpipe.
Alex, only deviants stick it in the tailpipe. Decent people only stick their dick in the gas tank.
Thanks for properly educating me sir.
How does that work for the ones that add in a smoking fetish?
Its smokin’ hot?
BAN ELECTRIC CARS !!
So he’s not a Metro-Sexual
Sounds hot.
Pedants, what think you? Did he merely simulate sex with that car, or did he actually have sex with that car?
What if the car needs a 90th trimester abortion now? ARGGGHH!
Lack of access to late term automotive abortions is how we ended up with the Rover Sterling. Is that a world we want to live in?
Was it David Cronenberg?
He needs the Mercury Mistress.
Uffda. Bud Light fucked up and got the NoDak corn growers all riled up
Is Bud Light vs Coors Light vs Miller Lite the very definition of a cripple fight?
Real beer does not contain corn products. Facts
Which definition of corn? Are we talking Maize only, or any grain?
We are defining corn as what is sued to make corn syrup
Oh, the SPLC.
Under the original reinheitsgeboten, any grain but barley is banned, as wheat beer production was preserved for the Royal family of Bavaria.
Are you going to let yourself be ruled by old German laws?
No. Whenever I brew german-style beers, I intentionally break the law.
Since the EU was formed, the law is invalid.
They only enforce reasonable laws, like prohibiting champagne produced outside France from being marketed as champagne.
+1 Cold Duck
False. Many very good beers contain corn…not in the amounts that Miller and Coors use it or that Bud uses Rice, but Fuller’s ESB, for example, contains flaked maize (or at least did in the 90s, I have heard rumors they have switched to all malt).
Fuller’s ESB is not very good. Not bad bad very good is a bold claim
Fuller’s is excellent. I can only imagine what Romanian beer is like. Pils with extra blood?
Yes, I like Fuller’s ESB as well.
Years back, in a discussion of the eternal 6 pack (you are stranded on a desert island but there are 6 magical tap handles – but those are the only 6 beers you will have the rest of your life), Fuller’s made the cut (for me).
My list:
Chimay Blue
Fuller’s ESB
Weihenstephaner Hefe
Sam Smith’s Nut Brown
Bell’s 2 Hearted
Cantillon Gueuze
Some subs could be made and I still be happy…St B Abt 12 or Westy instead of the Chimay. My own nut brown instead of SS. There are a billion good IPAs.
I don’t think there is anything that fits what the ESB gives that would be better than it.
for a while, I was able to find Thames Welsh ESB that was better than Fullers, but the latter is still quite good.
wheat beer sucks so a top 6 list that contains one is a waste
You and UCS need to hang out in the “I have no taste” section.
Hey! These seats are invitation-only, and you are not approved to invite people up here!
I have plenty of taste. It’s just wheat beer suck.
No, Pie, you don’t have taste – you drink wine.
Not true. Corn is used in quite a few beers (including my own cream ale) and such low ranking beers as Pliny the Elder.
Just give me whichever one’s cheapest because they all taste like watered down piss.
These beers are for fags.
Who cares about all those foreign beers anyway?
Just buy ‘merican and it isn’t a problem.
Yeah, but BIG CORN is still a bunch of assholes.
It’s the stupidest thing to hang your hat on for a mass-produced, mass-consumed light beer. I hated all of those ads.
“Unsubstantiated allegations”.
That’s the sound of media bias and propaganda.
NBC this morning covered the Virginia kerfuffle as a combined story. The lieutenant governor was facing “unsubstantiated allegations”. Every mention of his difficulties… “unsubstantiated allegations”. 4 times in the story I was watching. No mention of the accuser or any context that might tell you why they might think the allegations were unsubstantiated, or even what the allegations were. Just that they were “unsubstantiated”.
Contrast with NBC’s coverage of the Kavanaugh hearings. He was “Credibly Accused”. Every time. Credibly accused in “emotional testimony”.
Dies in darkness… .yadda, yadda….
^This^
I have been absolutely stunned that WaPo took this line of defense. Only two of them were in that room and they disagree on what happened. So how can you tell the truth? Better not run the story.
On the other hand, that other gal couldn’t keep her story straight and people she said were at the party completely denied that it happened. Yup. That is credible. Run that story.
I was not your holiness. If it was not for double standards, these dnc mouthpieces with bylines would not have any.
Journalists might fit in to coding. “Unsubstantiated Allegations” == “Credibly Accused”. They are Aliases for the same value.
I think you want a conditional or an if statement
Where Party = ‘R’ then “Credibly Accused” else “Unsubstantiated Allegations”
That’s not the current criteria.
If (Party == ‘D’ AND Wokeness >= WokeThreshold) then {
Accusation = “Unsubstantiated”;
} else {
Accusation = “Credible”;
}
I see a bestseller in your future:
NPC Programming For Dummies
Looks like those unemployed supposed journalists finally will learn to do some coding since this is how they already think…
Don’t worry, Patch 20.19.2 will clear up some of those bugs.
Dude do you even code?
if (party == ‘R’) {
throw(bus);
}
Being a R is an unrecoverable error.
CNN manages to find the perfect picture for this article.
@CNN
A source says Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told his Cabinet members that if he resigns, he would be resigning as a “racist for life,” and the only way he can clear his name is to stay in office and convince people he isn’t in a racist photo that surfaced.
Sorry, dude, you’re forever tarnished at this point. Ain’t gonna be able to convince the public.
What public do you think he has to “convince”? The democrats are just pissed that their own tactics to fuck over their political enemies are being used against them. From what i can tell they are fucking angry this shit came out and people are now demanding they play by the rules they told everyone they expected to be followed when they thought they were gonna fuck over their political enemies. They are not angry that the guy did it: just that he got exposed, and it now hurts them politically.
I was responding to his purported reason for not just throwing it in.
This member of the public doesn’t really give a fuck either way. Who he will never convince is his core supporters on the left. Not even a good struggle session will expiate his sin.
The thing is that they will ignore it in order to keep the power. That virtue signaling shit only gets a follow-through when the victim is not a card carrying member of the proggie left. Doubly so when it is a donkey in power. They will only ask him to go when they risk completely being unmasked as bullshit artists (see Al Franken).
The Chinese Lead Us, However Imperfectly, to Private Oceans
International law should not accept artificial islands as it is ridiculous
“International Law” is an oxymoron.
International law is anarchy or at least law of the jungle.
Nonsense there are universities teaching it and assholes making tons of $$ from it
Universities have a long, proud tradition of of making bank by teaching nonsense.
I would argue most of them would not be in business today if it was not for the army of idiots paying exorbitant amounts of money for degrees in fields of studies that are worthless when it comes to gainful employment. I can’t think of any racket out there (except maybe SS) that should have huge fiscal & financial consequences on the institutions perpetrating a crime than this. Running a scam where you are graduating a bunch of morons with a degree in some idiotic studies field, a mortgage worth of student loan debt they can never discharge, and without any skills an employer other than a fast food joint or coffee shop would accept, is absolutely criminal.
something something Duke Power
I wouldn’t mind the scam except that government seems to be in on the deal.
Government seem to be the ONLY entity not held accountable in every one of the worst scams/schemes out there IF.
Sure there is an International Court of Justice – but who exactly enforces their rulings?
In this one particular instance, Locke was wrong.
Keep fighting the good fight 🙂
No wealth was created. These islands were erected to facilitate piracy by the Chinese State.
This is just 21st century enclosure! The Chinese are trying to bring an end to the tragedy of the commons at sea!
The criminalization of politics, cont’d
President Trump’s inaugural committee has received a subpoena from Justice Department investigators. The subpoena reportedly orders the committee to hand over a wide-ranging collection of documents related to how it was funded, and by whom.
The investigation is separate from the probe being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Trump campaign’s possible ties with Russia, which has resulted in several indictments and guilty pleas. Mueller’s team has been expected to wind down its investigation soon; this new inquiry could mean continuing headaches for the president and fodder for his political opponents.
———-
The subpoena reportedly seeks extensive information about who donated to the inauguration, who the vendors and contractors were, and if there are any foreign contributors, The Washington Post reports. Federal election law prohibits foreign nationals from donating money to an inaugural committee.
The documents are being requested by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, which opened its criminal investigation into the inaugural committee in December, The Wall Street Journal reported at the time.
The Journal found that prosecutors were looking at how the committee spent its money, who funded it, and whether those funders got anything improper in return. The inaugural committee raised a record $107 million in donations.
What’s the worst that could happen?
>>Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office
How many divisions do they have?
More than commie pope?
Depending on how you count, between one and three. The FBI has 10 – 15,000 special agents, and around 35,000 employees.
And they all report to the Manhattan US Attorney office?
Apparently, the Manhattan office has national jurisdiction, since its investigating an event in DC, so sure, why not?
Okay then… does seem like a jurisdictional issue.
Can’t imagine the outcry if a US Attorney in Omaha asked Obama the same thing.
I have to pay more attention to the news. Until this, I had no idea that the inauguration was held in Manhattan. I thought it had happened in DC.
A new enzyme (called CasX) able to manipulate the human genome is shown to provide different editing functionality than previously described CRISPR–Cas platforms. This finding, reported in Nature, adds another tool to the CRISPR toolkit.
https://twitter.com/nature/status/1092733389604560896
Have you ever been eviscerated by Twitter users?
They travel in packs, and they’re harder to choke out than a goddam lion.
They also all want cake.
The cake is a lie, though.
https://hicsuntdracones.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/jinx_portal_the-cake-is-a-lie.jpg
The Decline of Historical Thinking
some people have too much money
The commies are out in force these days.
Fuck off slavers
Yep, that’s what happened alright. Nobody anywhere ever conceived of or tried to implement any socio-economic systems which were built around addressing inequality. The concept has just laid there, unaddressed, all this time.
many don’t have enough
In the United States? Really?
Inequality affects our physical and mental health,
This is groundbreaking, You have discovered that Envy has a negative effect on a persons psyche. Hold the presses Moses, we’ve got some new information.
My 3 year old loves that song. I admit, it is kind of catchy.
As does mine and her sister. They sing it with eachother as the sharks.
Do children in two-parent families do better?
Big if true.
No if. It has been known for decades that outcomes are worse for non-nuclear children.
It’s a meme
Do I look like the kind of curmudgeon who keeps up on memetics?
I like to think I’m helping you stay young.
You deliver the virgin blood?
Remember, just dropping the lead ‘m’ tells you all you need to know about the rest.
Absolutely true, and will absolutely be ignored.
My role seems to be the taking-one-for-the-team guy. When the wife is in a pissy mood and is getting snotty with the kid, my job is to draw fire so the kid can have a mellow night before bed. It doesn’t happen often, but I’ve come home after working OT and they are both in separate rooms steaming mad. I have a feeling it would happen a lot more if I weren’t around.
Now let the other shoe drop. Kids with a mom and dad do better than two gay parents. (note, I think two gay parents are better than having a single parent).
I think that having a traditional male and female role models in the house is an advantage for kids. They can rough house with Dad and snuggle with Mom. Granted this isn’t the case in each and every single instance, but it is definitely the way to bet in Vegas.
Wouldn’t be surprised if that aspect was not studied because its a question that should not be asked lest they get a career ending result.
Ah… the “all things being equal” argument.
Yeah, that never works. Fake outrage is powerful. It ignores all reality. Fake outrage says you are homophobic.
It should not just be non-controversial. It should be a truism. Not even worth talking about.
All things being equal…. equally good people, equally good earners, equally good parents…. Do you pick a mom and a dad or two moms or two dads? Which would be best?
“You can’t say that.”
Come on. It is a hypothetical scenario. The answer is obvious. That shouldn’t be taken as disparaging. All things are never equal. Most people are fairly crappy, so being better parents than most people is a pretty low bar.
I’d guess that most gay couples who want to have kids can beat that measure.
If they want to be parents for the sake of having and raising kids, yes.
If they want to be parents to signal virtue to their clique, no.
“if true”. Like. “hey fucking your own kids could be fucked up, if true?”
Look out your fucking window. That collapsing civilization. Thank you sibgle mother’s you stupid, selfish cunts
Don’t go too far down that path. Lots of heroic single mothers (and fathers) have had to make the best of what they could after, say, the death of their spouse. That doesn’t make them bad people. If your husband or wife is crazy to the point where their abuse is worse than what they contribute, single parenting might be the better of two bad options. I don’t mean to disregard the trend of people choosing to divorce or never cohabitate in the first place. It is real, selfish, and not good for the children, but your brush is a little broad there.
Lots of people in that situation. Lots.
People be crazy, yo!
I read the comment ( generously) as targeting those people who glorify single motherhood as some sort of saint’s role rather than making the best of a shit situation.
I tend to have minimal sympathy for people with self inflicted wounds/conditions…
Some re-marriages, where children are part of the dowry, work out very well. Sometimes the childless spouse does not take much interest in his/her new family and its almost like not having the two parent family anyway
Meh, I grew up with a single parent and there are absolutely things I missed out on by not having a father. I don’t get bent out of shape at stories like this any more because in the cold light of logic the conclusion is self-evidently obvious to me.
heroic single mothers
Please don’t feed into this defining heroism downward thing. There is nothing heroic about raising your kid. It is your most basic responsibility.
The long-term impact of 2 parent vs 1 parent is a super consistent finding in social science, and has been since it was first studied in the 70.
>beginning to provide
Fuck you. Read a book.
There is nothing new here. It has been an established facet for years that 2 parent households produced better outcomes for kids than 1 parent households.
My guess though is that it is more complicated than just the number of parents in the household that matters. For example a divorced (or never married) couple who do not live together but are both active engaged parents who have a solid working relationship dedicated to the best interests of the kids will produce better results than a married or cohabitating couple where one or both parents are disengaged negligent parents who cannot even get along to cooperate for the simplest issues. A rough guess at at the top of the hierarchy would look something like…
stable 2 parent household where both parents are heavily involved in parenting and have a functional relationship >
stable divorced couple where both parents are heaving involved in parenting and have a functional relationship >
stable 2 parent household where only one parent is heavily involved in parenting and the other is disengaged or not present often >
stable 1 parent household where the non custodial parent at least contributes financially but it otherwise largely absent and the custodial parent is an active involved parent >
stable 1 parent household where the custodial parent is an active involved parent and the non custodial parent is not involved at all >
unstable 2 parent household where the parents have a dysfunctional relationship and only one of them is an active parent >
everything else
Basically I’d say anything after #4 is going to produce a highly sub optimal result for the kids so there isn’t too much point in going further down the list.
Filed under #noshit.
US man, 67, solicited girl, 13, for sex, judge calls her the ‘aggressor’
And the girls were prosecuted for prostitution, right?
I certainly hope not.
I have no idea the level of harm, but having sex with a 13 year old? Really?
prior convictions – also related to sex with 13 year olds or something unrelated?
Wasn’t that long ago that the age of consent in Hawaii was 14.
The majority of countries in South America set age of consent at 14.
Age of consent in Japan is 13, lower in a few countries elsewhere:
The lowest Age of Consent in the world is 11, in Nigeria. The age of consent is 12 in the Philippines and Angola, and 13 in Burkina Faso, Comoros, Niger, and Japan. Japan often stands out as the only developed country on the list of lowest ages of consent, but local prefecture statutes in most areas of the country raise the effective age to 16-18.
Additionally, several Middle Eastern and African countries have no legal age of consent, but ban all sexual relations outside of marriage. This has raised concerns by many international organizations, especially in some countries where girls are married at as young as 9 or 10 years old. Countries with marriage-based ages of consent include Afghanistan, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the UAE.
https://www.ageofconsent.net/highest-and-lowest
Yeah… .don’t have sex with 13 year olds.
Kinda should go without saying, but just don’t do it.
Why?
You might want to justify why you feel that age is out of bounds and beyond debate, when Japan sets it at 13.
Yeah, it’s young. So is 14, and 15, and 16, and 17 …
This is a good question and unfortunately one you don’t get to ask anywhere else without being accused of being a pedophile who wants to have sex with 13 year olds.
Should the age of consent be 13? Maybe, maybe not but you will be hard pressed to find anyone who has a rational opinion on the subject or anything more than a purely emotional reason backing up whatever they thing the age of consent should be
I thought it was your age divided by 2 plus 7… with the lower limit set to puberty
I always liked age divided by 3 + 10 better
Also with either formula no real need to set a lower limit as
truncate(14/2 + 7) = 14
truncate(14/3 + 10) = 14
Both have built into them an age below which the youngest age you could have sex with could not have sex with you without violating the rule. So under 14 should not be having sex with anyone, 14 year olds and can have sex with each other, same with 15 year olds could get with 15 and 16 year olds, 16 year olds can get with 5 – 17 or 18 year olds (depending on which formula you use) and so on
You never said anything about truncating the decimal.
And with no upper bound, the formula outlaws may-december romances between concenting ostensible adults.
I never said that the law should be based on it, although It would probably make more sense than most current AOC laws. This formula is generally the “creepy” line and the version Pie posted has been around forever as a guideline for determining when someone is “too young for you”
It’s in my contract somewhere that I have to harp on these things.
Now if only I could find that contract…
And with no upper bound, the formula outlaws may-december romances between concenting ostensible adults.
The upper bound of Pie’s formula is basically the reverse. I’ve heard it as such:
Lower bound = (Your Age)/2 + 7
Upper bound = 2*(Your Age – 7)
Thus, if you are 15 your lower bound is 14.5 and upper bound is 16
If you are 30 your bounds are 22 to 46
If you are 60 your bounds are 37 to 106
Which approximately fits what people naturally accept in our culture.
I think you just described OMWC’s itinerary for the next few years.
So Japan and a bunch of third world shitholes…
And I was not debating age of consent as much as not understanding being attracted to 13 year old unless very well developed for their age…
yeah but we are not exactly talking about a long history of higher ages of consent in a lot of the first world either. Lots of first world countries raised their ages of consent in the 90’s and 00’s in the face of a fairly persistent lobbying campaign. If you want to go back to the 1970’s you’re looking at more than half the world either having no formal age of consent at all or having one set below 15 years old.
The point is that the idea of sexually active 13 year olds (and therefore sexual attraction to 13 year olds) being beyond the pale is actually fairly new. Doesn’t make what this guy did right but it is entirely possible that the girl could have been the aggressor in the case.
As far as not being attracted to them, I’m guessing you don’t have kids in that age range, trust me there are plenty of girls that age who physically could pass for 25. Remember on average girls are done with puberty by ~16 or so, it doesn’t take very much of an outlier to get someone who is completely or almost completely physically mature by 13
You’re seriously arguing that the man is the victim? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!!
And spare me, no not a victim, just that the girls are aggressive. If you read this case and decide its totes ok to slag on the girls? There is something seriously wrong with you.
If you think that I at any point argued he was a victim, or even not a criminal you need to disengage your emotional system, re-engage your thinking system and read it again.
As far as this case no I have no read it, I did not even read the article as I was not commenting on it directly. I was commenting on the possibility of a 13 year old being the sexual aggressor in an encounter with an older person and the anti intellectual manner in which we deal with issues such as age of consent.
I should thank you however for helping to prove my point when I wrote…
No Rasilio, you are arguing that the 13 yr old is the sexual aggressor with a 67 yrs old man who knew she was 13 when he started texting her. When you argue she’s the aggressor, you are arguing that he is the victim. You are giving cover to that creep. Fuck that judge
I don’t have kids but live across the street to a high-school and have yet to see a 15 yer old who could pass for 25
Romanians must mature slower.
We grow ’em different over here, Pie. Something in the water, maybe.
But my 16 yo daughter and most of her friends could easily pass for 20-somethings.
must be the excessive weight #europeansthinkallamericansarefat
To Tundra: You rang?
Not enough hormones in your foods yet.
To Tundra: You rang?
Dammit!
Well that should certainly be taken into account. After all, the maturity and responsibility of 13 year olds is well documented. Just because they can’t leave their compulsory middle school campus for lunch doesn’t mean they can’t engage in wanton harlotry and entrap otherwise upstanding men in their late 60s.
As long as he is convicted of being a moron and never allowed to touch a computer again, nor interact with pubescent girls without a chaperone, I’m okay with this.
Sharia law influencing our courts?
SMDH: The man’s just not that smart folks.
“Trump: We need to protect Israel, keep some US forces in Syria”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/258528
Last person he talked to syndrome?
From Covington lawsuit list:
Good.
They should find a couple of kids to scream sex abuse for a little extra spice.
That bus is better than what they usually throw the kids under.
Time wears differently on women’s and men’s brains. While the brain tends to shrink with age, men’s diminish faster than women’s. The brain’s metabolism slows as people grow older, and this, too, may differ between men and women.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-women-brains-years-younger-men.html
I blame nagging #sexistcomments
Not possible as there are no biological differences between the sexes.
While the brain tends to shrink with age, men’s diminish faster than women’s.
That’s only fair, since men start with a larger brain, on average.
Virginia Lieutenant Governor: “Wow, the governor really shot himself in the foot with those abortion remarks. Bet I can finish him off and become governor!”
* Dredges up old yearbook KKK / blackface photos *
VA Governor: “Why, you sorry SOB. I’ll shut down this power play by Kavanaughing your sorry ass.”
Hilarity ensues.
“Senate Dems introduce bill to block Trump from using military funds to build wall”
Senate Rs refuse to hold hearings on bill. House Ds reintroduce bill, passes on largely party line vote. Trump checks veto pen in case Senate Rs cave and hold a vote on bill when it crosses over.
If you don’t have the 2/3 to override the veto to slow down govt, you don’t have the 2/3 for this, either.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Monday attended a concert called, “Notorious RBG in Song” in Washington, D.C., marking her first public appearance since undergoing lung cancer surgery last December.
Oh, well that’s nice. Perhaps she can get back to notoriously wiping her ass with the Constitution now.
I read that too and my first thought was WTF. Totally not a cult. Nothing to see here, people. Move along.
If only the media worked this hard to dig up dirt and skeletons on Obama.
Apple will pay its $571 million tax bill in France
Well that solves the budged deficit. Nice work France
Don’t pay a dime unless it’s legally required. Feelings and fair ain’t got nuthin’ to do with it.
I tell these fuckers they should send the IRS a bigger check than what they owed if they feel they need to be fair. After all, unless they are on welfare (and maybe even then) that have got it way better than anyone considered “poor” either in the past or across most of this globe. The thing with these sorts however is that theirmotivation is envy, and they want OTHER PEOPLE to be the ones shafted.
What could possibly go wrong with this?
I kinda like that new standard.
…depending on what “it” means in that sentence.
That would be France, not the company paying the taxes.
Tim ‘SJW’ Cook should now just focus on, you know, DOING HIS DAMN JOB.
Speaking of which…..
DON’T ANY OF YOU NEED TO DO YOUR JOB (S)?!
Mwhahahahaha – I’ve been waiting for you to say this. I’m gloriously unemployed at the moment.
/reluctantly notes this on index card.
Hope to be joining you soon.
(with a slower paced gig just over the horizon)
I expect this to be temporary but I could [semi-]retire if I have to.
I’m waiting at the car dealership while my car is being serviced.
*scrolls up to car sex story*
Eewww.
+1 New Car smell…
Maybe I should check to see just what the mechanic is doing…
Haha! Jokes on you! I have machines to do it for me!
Senate Democrats introduced legislation on Monday to prevent President Trump from using military and disaster relief funds to construct the U.S.-Mexico border wall should he declare a national emergency.
This legal battle will be interesting. But I doubt they have a veto-proof majority to pass it.
They don’t. this is more grandstanding for fund raising. For some reason there are an army of absolute morons that keep giving the dnc massive wads of money for this idiotic resist shit that really adds up to nothing. In the mean time the government is stealing a ton of money from the productive and pissing it away, but they think a great victory worthy of giving the dnc more money is not letting Trump get yet another win.
Fucking idiots.
“I know! Let’s pick a big fight with Trump over the issue that carried him to victory last time. I think fronting the issue that most solidifies his base, where he has strong support from the general public, is the way to set up his defeat next year!”
Ladies and gentlemen, the best and the brightest.
When the U.S. Interned Italians in Montana, They Rioted Over Olive Oil
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/italian-internment-prisoners-world-war-ii
Not over being in Montana?
My paisans can be stoopid like that…
What a glorious time it must have been when suet was less expensive fat than oilive oil.
Hey you spend months stuck on a ranch in Big Sky country with a bunch of greasy dudes and see if you don’t go crazy over any gal who visits even if she is skinny as shit (thinn?) and has a sailor boy friend who is a vegan
Think of the destruction if Demi Rose had shown up.
Interesting article, Pie. Thanks!
This made me laugh:
In some versions of the olive oil tale, the Italians were so angry they rioted in the mess. Guards rushed in and sprayed tear gas to break up the fight, and in the chaos, a watchtower guard accidentally shot himself in the foot.
The whole subject is creepy as fuck, though. “Loyalty hearings”, ffs.
At least those Italians received reparations for their internment. *checks notes* Actually, it would appear that they did not, although Joe DiMaggio’s father did receive compensation years later when his son became a famous athlete. Well, at least the interned Germans received reparations. *checks notes*. Never mind
“Patriots preferred team of white nationalists”
The Glidden arctic white paint strip that is the team’s roster:
http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30500000/Pats-new-england-patriots-30563435-1200-699.jpg
If only Q’s chick posts had this many African-American women in it … I’d be in my bunk.
When was that taken? There is no 69, so it must be old, as Shaq has been around for 4ish years now.
Here’s a pic labeled 2017-2018:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t9IKqRjd5mU/hqdefault.jpg
I am pretty sure that is from their first Superbowl because I am almost certain that #11 in that picture is Drew Bledsoe
yep, and there’s Teddy Bruski, and Ty Law and…
Well they do have too many little white players on their team. Like the Packers.
The New England White Patriots!
Green Bay Cracker Packers!
I am waiting for some woke fuck to say there are not enough redskins on the Redskins roster, no Lions, on the Lions team, and that the Rams could use a ram right about now for sexual gratification.
The Packers have too many little white players? Or do you mean lily white? Because the packers have some big white guys.
Just plain white guys.
If Q’s chicks were that broad-shouldered, I’d be… disturbed.
Because you were aroused?
Nothing like a chick who can wrap his hand twice around your abdomen.
“Patriots preferred team of white nationalists”
The Glidden arctic white paint strip that is the team’s roster:
Everyone knows that white nationalists prefer their teams half black and owned by a Jew. Because that makes sense in leftist minds. Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between trolling and crazy.
I am starting to doubt AD to the Lakers. Apparently they want the whole team and 4 first round pics and some seconds and to send a bad contract back. Seems they could have just said no.
Anthony Davis…got it. I was thinking Adrian Dantley was a little too old to be useful to the Lakers.
I originally typed Alvin Davis.
Anthony is 3rd on my athletic AD list apparently. Alvin is a bit younger than Dantley, but I doubt his baseball skills necessary transfer over to hoops.
Seriously. Nobody is that good. Well, maybe Lebron. But that’s about it.
4 first round picks is crazy. He’s a post player in a league that doesn’t like post players.
Thanks, Banjos. That goddamn song is gonna be running through my head for the rest of the day.
Of course it can always be worse.
My kid has been singing Baby Shark all week for no reason. She learned it at scout camp this summer, hasn’t repeated it since then, then this week, its All Baby Shark, All the Time. Fortunately, its a pretty fun song compared to the alternatives.
I’m five minutes into the Covington video and I already want to beat anyone up who willingly partook in the mob bullying of these boys and lies.
Confirmed alt-right
/Smells arm pits.
Meh.
The Latest YA Twitter Pile On Forces a Rising Star to Self-Cancel
https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/ya-twitter-forces-rising-star-author-to-self-cancel.html
Wood.
Long time?
+木
Paige Cee
@LegallyPaige
Book reviewer, demonic Disney princess, black sheep, aro ace cutie, and cat-loving Capricorn. As seen on CNN and quoted in too many publications! She/her
Fuck you, LegallyPaige.
The cancelled novel actually sounds interesting, although the author’s SJW activist persona is kind of a mixed bag for me.
I first read that as “Y.A. Tittle” and wondered what he had to do with a rising star.
So YA readers act like a bunch of teenage girls. Who could have guessed?
I don’t think these are (just) YA readers. I believe writers, editors, publishers, etc. piled on. But, I don’t really dig into these derpstorms on Twitter, so I could be wrong.
You’re probably right. Reason #2,761 why i’m glad I don’t have a Twitter account.
Need to know
The Internal Revenue Code gives the three congressional committees responsible for taxes the ability to request the returns of any individual or business. Often, the Senate Finance Committee or House Ways and Means Committee will request returns during an investigation to check a certain deduction, or type of spending — without anyone ever knowing the committees accessed them.
But whatever the members or staffers find must remain private — and that’s where the request of Trump’s returns becomes potentially tricky for Democrats. A related section within the Internal Revenue Code says any federal employee who leaks tax information is committing a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.
“We are worried about leaks,” said one source familiar with the administration’s strategy. “Once we share it with any member of Congress, we assume it becomes a public document.”
No shit. Anybody who thinks Trump’s tax returns won’t appear as a special supplement to the Sunday New York Times as soon as they are obtained from the IRS is crazy.
I’m sure someone would leak them.
A related section within the Internal Revenue Code says any federal employee who leaks tax information is committing a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.
I’m sure the hammer of justice would fall upon the leaker swiftly and ferociously
I wonder if that applies to members of Congress at all. Are they “federal employees”?
And of course, the “anonymous” leak would be flawlessly executed, and our extraordinarily powerful federal law enforcement apparat helpless to track down the perpetrator.
Well, if a member were to quote from it on the House floor, that person would be exempt from prosecution by the Justice Dept. The House could expel him or her of course.
Again re Philips. I think that guy is not right in the head.
Bold statement
Anyone who lies to that level is pathological.
Paging Tommy Flanagan!
Yeh, and enough with this ‘this was our land first’ stuff. We humoured it long enough. We accept and respect this fact but it’s kinda time to move on, no?
The war lasted four hundred years. It’s been over for more than a century. The results are in.
I would like to add we honour them as well. There’s legit admiration for Native nations/tribes across the continent. They’re no doubt been given a raw deal in some cases and I think efforts have been made to try and rectify this for the most part – and we should continue to do so where possible, requested and feasible. And by that I don’t mean apologies without the people’s consent. I mean, real concrete stuff that looks forward. Whatever that may entail.
That’s my spiel.
wtf? They no doubt…wtf?
I mean, we beat every other opponant in only a couple of years, even defeating ourselves in under five. They lasted by far the longest. Hell yeah we respect them for that.
What is never acknowledged – the tribes fought over territory constantly, and exactly whose land it was depended on your time frame. So, we are left with a situation in which the white settlers pushing the Comanche out of Texas is bad, but the Comanche pushing the Apache out of Texas a hundred years or so prior is not.
Dude. WHITE GENOCIDE sounds a heckuva lot catchier.
The romanticization of Natives clouded parts of the historical truth.
Just noble savages being noble.
Noble AF
They killed and conquered with hugs and kisses.
the tribes fought over territory constantly
unpossible. They were childlike and had no concept of property rights./ snark
Any fool who thinks that children have no concept of property, clearly has never lived with two children.
Young children have some of the most highly developed senses of ownership around. “DA-AAAAAAD! ALEX TOOK MY PENCIL!!!! HE DOESN’T EVEN NEED IT, HE HAS HIS OWN!!!”
Hell, our dogs have always had a certain hierarchy around the stuff they “claim”. I’ve noticed that taking is better than just having, and having is much better than not having.
Now that I think about it, dogs are basically socialists: “What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine.”
And, like good socialists, they don’t live very long.
The whole subject is creepy as fuck, though. “Loyalty hearings”, ffs.
You had better start thinking about what you’ll say, when the day comes.
“Fuck you! Shoot me.”
FREEEEEEEEEEDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
/Mel Gibson voice
Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann’s legal team released a 15-minute video on Friday exposing “the truth” about what happened to him at January’s March for Life.
The smirk heard ’round the world.
This is bad ass:
Colorado jogger kills a mountain lion with his BARE HANDS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6668795/Colorado-jogger-fends-kills-mountain-lion-rural-trail.html
You don’t say? [Or read!]
You know what’s even more badass?
*looks upthread*
Hitler?
Ya know, I searched the word lion before posting. Odd that it said zero instances on this thread.
You’ll take your clubbing and like it, got that?!
So badass it made the links.
Someone’s cruisin’ for a narrowed gaze
As a Mountain Lion Furry I feel othered.
The best day of the week is Titty Tuesday!
http://archive.is/25IoJ
10 seems a sturdy vessel for seed.
38 was my fav.
33>23>3
19 definitely has a dick
Not seeing definitive signs 19 is a TV – Adams Apple and crotch not shown
Unpossible!
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/02/04/social-justice-laden-super-bowl-brings-worst-ratings-decade/
You mean people just want to watch the damn game and not get lectured to?! How can this be!??!??!
TBF the game sucked
Best soccer game I’ve ever seen
At least soccer ends before 2 hours is up.
Patriots again and Maroon 5 halftime.
A meme I saw yesterday:
“Imagine paying $7000 for a Maroon 5 concert and a punting contest!”
I never heard of “Maroon 5” before this.
Geez, I’m clueless about pop culture and even I had heard of them. They were everywhere for awhile, some amount of time I can’t be bothered to remember ago.
The game did not suck. It was a great defensive battle. Track meet games are the ones that suck. The only drama in those 45-42 games is whether your team will score late enough that the other team can’t answer. Give me a game with plenty of sacks and pressures, a couple of amazing TD saving CB plays and a low score!
^^
Borrringg….
I bet you love the NBA.
I can see the logic of that when watching a Soccer Game. I find Soccer very enthralling because it is fast paced, but each chance is important because they games are so low scoring (as opposed to basketball, which i can’t stand). I don’t see a 2 hour slug fest between two football teams where nothing is moved very interesting. TBF i didn’t actually watch the game and was just snarking. If a football game has a lot of tension (close calls, and good movement/play) i’d find it interesting. But if it is a constant defensive slug where no team budges… It just doesn’t appeal to me.
It was more inept offense than great defense. You want a truly great defensive struggle? Go to YouTube and watch the 1990 NFC championship game between the Giants and 49ers. That was the greatest football game I’ve ever seen and it had all of one touchdown, 15-13. Most intense, physical game ever.
Yes, That inept offense the Rams showed all season came from halfway across the field and broke up a touchdown throw.
That was one play. The Rams offense sucked, and they failed to make any kind of real adjustment to the pass rush (Coaching failed).
Yeah this.
In order to really qualify as a great defensive struggle the respective offenses have to be able to demonstrate within the context of that game that they are capable of actually doing something well at least occasionally. I saw far more bad offensive play than I did good offensive play being disrupted by excellent defenses.
The Rams may have had a great offense in the regular season but their offense was thoroughly inept on Sunday. The Pats offense at least looked decent being able to successfully run the ball and making occasional plays in the passing game.
Overall I thought it was a rather boring poorly played game.
The Rams may have had a great offense in the regular season but their offense was thoroughly inept on Sunday. The Pats offense at least looked decent being able to successfully run the ball and making occasional plays in the passing game.
I think that’s the key. It wasn’t that it was a defensive slugfest, but it was a blowout where the Pats kept dick tripping their way out of points.
Don’t forget half the country being pissed that the Saints were screwed out of being in the Superbowl.
I think it is pretty clear after we watched the game on Sunday the NFL wishes it was the Saints there because they would have given us a far more interesting game as both McVeigh and Goff were clearly in over their heads wheras Payton and Brees have been there before.
This probably made the rounds yesterday, but I only saw it last night. Super Bowl Halftime Show Marred By Functioning Sound System
The playoffs as a whole were up though. And I believe the season was as well.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/nfl-tv-ratings-viewership-nbc-cbs-fox-espn-nfln-regular-season-playoffs/
https://5newsonline.com/2019/02/05/man-found-eaten-by-bear-in-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-died-of-meth-overdose/
Be careful in the woods, kids.
I thought this was going to be about killer clowns.
STEVE SMITH didn’t get to him in time?
The bears got him after Steve Smith had his fun with him?
“I don’t know what it is, but after eating that dead guy, I feel GREAT!”
OK, I larfed.
The bear was later witnessed holding up a convenience store for cold medicine and two-liter bottles of Pepsi.
Florida Bear?
Another victim of the government shutdown.
This comment on the RBG article made me COL. (Chuckle Out Loud)
Also in the audience seated directly behind the Judge was Jeff Dunham. When asked how the judge was recovering it mumbled something thought to be “I kill you”.
I thought for sure Dunham would have ended his act with the PC police abound. I guess not. Good for him. He’s still not funny, though
*Lights SIV signal*
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Inside-India-s-Super-Bowl-of-cockfighting-13589863.php
I thought SIV was about Cock-Fucking…
After he’s fought them for a while, he likes to put them out to stud
Doomcock of Doom versus STEVE SMITH?
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/senate-democrats-block-bill-prohibiting-infanticide/
Here I was thinking that infanticide was something that everyone opposed.
Look. It has been clearly explained that this would be extremely rare. And really only used in cases where it would be already legal. Obviously no doctor is going to just recommend murdering a child. So i don’t know why you crypto-conservatives are so up in arms about a law that doesn’t recognize the personhood of a baby, and allows for the murder of children for any reason as long as a Doctor and Mother are willing to do it.
The frightening thing is that this is a political issue now. If you oppose infanticide you’re a “conservative”. Just like not instigating war with Russia has become an argument that only a “Russian apologist” would make (perhaps the most retarded argument ever forwarded in recent times), not wanting to kill newborns makes you social conservative.
The debate, as far as I understand it:
“This is only an issue for nonviable fetuses born alive.”
“But your bill cites the mother’s mental well-being as a valid reason for aborting, and gives no limit for when an abortion can occur.”
“Why are you arguing this? We’re only discussing nonviable fetuses.”
“But that’s not what your bill says…”
“We’re. Only. Talking. About. Non. Viable. Fetuses.”
And what is the definition of “non-viable”? If a kid cannot survive outside of the womb without an iron lung or something, isn’t it still murder to deliver them and then not allow them access to the medical care that can sustain their life? I’m really confused on what scenario would necessitate a doctor to deliver a live baby and then allow it to die on a table.
I’m really confused on what scenario would necessitate a doctor to deliver a live baby and then allow it to die on a table.
This isn’t exactly a brand new issue.
I’m aware of the fact that Obama was a progressive culture warrior of ill repute. But, this really disturbs me: “BAIPA was introduced after evidence was presented that babies born alive after unsuccessful abortions were simply discarded in utility closets without food, care, or medical treatment until they died.”
The dirty secret that no one wants to talk about is that Gosnell was not an aberration. He was just following procedure. He just got caught-up because he was also selling drugs on the side.
One of his patients died as well. But what’s the glorious omelette of on-demand abortion without a few broken eggs, ladies?
It happens with no abortion in view. It is without question the most heartbreaking thing to happen in any hospital (and trust me, the competition is stiff). Sometimes, there is no warning that the baby has terminal birth defects; sometimes, it is known in advance. Which would be worse, I have no idea. In either case, the parents are forced to make a decision after delivery:
(1) Let their new baby die.
(2) Try to save a baby who will almost certainly die later, and will suffer in the process, or will be in a permanent vegetative state.
Even my tiny, black, adamantine heart breaks for these parents.
So then the parents are allowed to decide whether or not to provide medical care? I’m not saying this is wrong, but where is the cut-off? For example, if it is an issue where their lungs aren’t yet fully developed and they cannot breathe without a ventilator, are parents allowed to deny them such things? If this is the case then we already have legalized euthanasia, but only for newborns, which is strange.
Yes, parents are in charge of their child’s medical care.
There is a gratifying (in my mind, anyway) lack of hard, bright legal lines. Every case is different, and the idea of second-guessing most of these decisions with jackbooted enforcers is abhorrent, at least to me.
At some point, denying care is undoubtedly child abuse/neglect. However, when a child is terminal (or even has no future other than a permanent vegetative state, which generally goes hand in hand with being arguably terminal), care can be and is withdrawn and nobody calls CPS or thinks of it as child abuse/neglect. The attending physician and the parents have to agree that withdrawal and allowing natural death is the right thing; if the physician doesn’t agree and the parents are insistent, the physician will withdraw and the parents need to find another one.
Nobody (well, almost nobody) has a problem allowing natural death for terminal patients (of any age) by withdrawing care. There is a little more controversy, but not much, on withdrawing care from someone (of any age) in a permanent vegetative state. Regardless of your age, if you can’t make your own medical decisions, someone else has to, and that someone else can make any decision that an adult can make on their own behalf.
If the doctor thought the baby would survive with full NICU care, they would refuse to withdraw care. Why, the hospital lawyer might even be called in to explain to the parents that if they didn’t consent to care, we would be required to report child abuse/neglect, with all the legal consequences that entails. I’ve never had to do that, but there have been a couple of close calls.
So, if you want the option to have a living will or otherwise manage your own dying process, well, this is what it looks like. The alternative is having doctors and hospital or government bureaucrats making these decisions.
“At some point, denying care is undoubtedly child abuse/neglect.”
And that’s what I’m wondering. At what point does this occur?
I’m sure this rarely happens, but to be fair we have people who support laws against female mutilation, which rarely occurs as well. I would think that there would be some law dictating when it is a kind of euthanasia and when it is clearly infanticide. Most people are willing to assume that doctors would know that bright line and would act accordingly, but I don’t tend to trust medical professionals anymore than I do any other person. And I certainly would never trust an abortionist to make this determination, as a live birth is just an additional cost to him.
And that’s what I’m wondering. At what point does this occur?
Well, there’s a lot of different kinds of care that can be given or denied, depending on what’s wrong with the kid. There have periodically been big kerfuffles over various religious adherents not allowing “ordinary” kinds of care for their kids (because its against their religion to have blood transfusions, for example), and whether the care should be given over the parent’s objection.
For purposes of newborns, and setting aside parents who are nutters of some kind, I think the line on withdrawing care to allow natural death is drawn at terminal/irreversible, and/or permanent vegetative state.
Withdrawing care is not euthanasia, BTW. It allows a natural death from an existing terminal condition. It is done in concert with “comfort care” – usually painkillers, if the patient is capable of experiencing pain.
Is there any other case you can think of where you would agree to someone saying “There ought to be a law” to handle extreme edge cases? If not why here?
Is there any other case you can think of where you would agree to someone saying “There ought to be a law” to handle extreme edge cases? If not why here?
There are some laws on this. The child abuse laws set a limit, but it is somewhat undefined. There are also laws that govern who is a health care decisionmaker and the limits on their authority, although whether these apply to parents is not altogether clear (and probably varies by state).
I suppose you could have a law requiring that a guardian ad litem be appointed for the child before care can be withdrawn, but now you have introduced a bureaucrat and the courts into the process. For adults, guardians are appointed when there is no one with health care decisionmaking authority; children have their parents for that, so I don’t see much upside. Plus, it introduces significant delay, which can be a Very Bad Thing in these cases, for the kid and the parents.
You could codify that parents can only withdraw if the kid is terminal/irreversible and/or in a permanent vegetative state, perhaps require two doctors to agree on the prognosis. I probably wouldn’t have a problem with that since its pretty much the current practice, but I’m very wary of the camel’s nose under the tent here.
I guess I’d need to see the proposed law. I’m just not thinking of one that I wouldn’t be very wary of; the current system isn’t throwing off many edge cases that I know of (and I think I’d hear about them), so the upside of any statutory “solution” seems small, and the downsides are not insignificant. We are not without tools now to deal with edge cases, namely, the child abuse and neglect laws.
For me, late term abortions aren’t an edge case; I don’t think any abortions should be allowed after, say, 24 weeks.
“Is there any other case you can think of where you would agree to someone saying “There ought to be a law” to handle extreme edge cases? If not why here?”
If this question is directed at me, I would say that it’s one thing to discuss how hospitals handle these situations versus abortion clinics. I think the Gosnell case exposed the practices of these clinics. And Gosnell was never caught, because the state refused to inspect these clinics (for political reasons that other states also do). He was only caught because he was selling drugs out of his clinic too.
I would need to hear an argument why a law against infanticide is a dangerous expansion of government or unnecessary, because based upon legislation being put forward and the comments by the sponsors of said legislation, I’m not sure how unnecessary such legislation is.
My standard is a bit less time-dependant. It is simply – “Will there be more death without it?” Medical termination of a life is a last resort, and I regard the unborn as a separate life from the mother. You have a situation like an ectopic pregnancy, where the child is doomed and threatens to take the mother with it, then it is called for. If you have an otherwise viable child who happens to be inconvenient, it is not.
PS, adoptions need to be made easier, so there are options available.
Yes my question was directed to you Tulsi. I never intrepreted RC Dean as advocating for new laws as he was pretty clearly laying out how things currently work and why the system as it exists today works about as well as we could hope in these cases.
Well first off, as RC Dean lays out, adding legislation into the mix here is not going to produce anything resembling a better outcome, the best case scenario is that they manage to not screw anything up. The reality of unintended consequences however means that they almost certainly will produce negative outcomes relative to where we are today and cause significant pain and suffering in the process.
As for the laws being proposed, I am sorry but in every one of these laws they do not say what you think they say. Could they be worded better? Sure, but NONE of them legalizes or comes close to legalizing infanticide. The fact of the matter is that you do not need a law against infanticide because if a doctor and parent colluded to murder an otherwise healthy child existing murder laws would have no problem whatsoever punishing them. It is also very much a Constitutional problem because nothing in the Constitution grants the Congress the power to make general criminal law, that power was pretty clearly left to the States by the founders and so there really isn’t a Constitutional argument for the Feds passing ANY laws regarding abortions outside of dealing with how interstate cases are handled (basically the Feds can rule on whether one state can make it illegal for it’s citizens to cross into a different state to recieve an abortion which is illegal in their home state).
The problem here is you are trying to pass a law for something you imagine is a serious problem but have no actual statistics to back up. That makes the odds that you will pass a bad law which is at best unnecessary but far more likely to have unintended consequences and perverse incentives almost a guarantee. You can get a good idea of the scope of the problem here…
https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/how-many-late-term-abortions-are-really-performed-in-the-united-states/
So if you REALLY want to pass a law, how about we start with one to actually get good data. Get a law passed which requires all abortions performed after 21 weeks of gestation to be reported to the CDC along including a reason for the abortion. Place serious financial penalties for failure to report and criminal penalties for falsifying a report and then lets gather data for a few years and see how much of a problem there even is.
Libertarians for negligent homicide?
I think RC Dean offers fair arguments, but he is discussing what happens in hospitals. Most hospitals do not perform abortions (especially since over a third of hospitals are religious and therefore forbid abortion).
Again, I am not seeing any argument for why the wrong is not necessary, while there is a lot more evidence showing why it is necessary. And I know that we should just ignore what the governor and the sponsor of that VA bill said, but they were just being honest.
I use to be like you. I use to think that infanticide only occurred in the fever dreams of pro-lifers, but then I read about the Kermit Gosnell house of horrors.
*law*
The fact of the matter is that you do not need a law against infanticide because if a doctor and parent colluded to murder an otherwise healthy child existing murder laws would have no problem whatsoever punishing them.
If you can defend this statement in light of the fact that 1 baby is aborted for every 2 live births in NYC without dragging in some unpeopling of babies at some arbitrary line, I’ll eat my shoe.
If you can find me a law that subjects a mother or an abortionist to criminal liability for aborting a healthy baby, not because it has crossed some developmental age (age of viability) , but because the baby was healthy, I’ll eat both my shoes.
I think RC Dean offers fair arguments, but he is discussing what happens in hospitals. Most hospitals do not perform abortions (especially since over a third of hospitals are religious and therefore forbid abortion).
The same rules apply everywhere. I am talking about the rules for allowing a live baby to die, regardless of location. How that baby came to be terminal (genetic defect, botched abortion, whatever) is not the issue.
Withdrawal of care usually happens in hospitals for adults, because that’s where people are put on life support. Hospice care is what you get for terminal people who aren’t trying to be cured. Most hospice care is home care.
Most deliveries are done in hospitals (there are birthing centers and home deliveries, but I believe these are a pretty small percentage of deliveries). For deliveries done outside of hospitals where the baby is born terminal, its pretty much not an issue because there is no life support that could be offered. You might decide to put them on an ambulance to a hospital with a NICU, but the decision (try to save the baby or allow it to die naturally) is the same, and the standards by which a decision not to try to save the baby would be judged are the same.
And what is the definition of “non-viable”?
Has a decent shot at surviving outside the womb with current medical technology. Interestingly, the gestational age of viability hasn’t changed in a long time – I understand the limiting factor is lung development. You can argue about whether its 22 weeks or 24 weeks, but its in that range and has been for a long time.
Of course, they are eliding that they will make a 28 weeker non-viable via the late term abortion.
Has a decent shot at surviving outside the womb with current medical technology.
That really eats at me for a couple reasons.
1) it strikes me as weird that viability is measured by the standard of “yanking the baby out and forcing them to live on their own”. Barring the terminal defect cases, the baby is perfectly viable if left in the womb. Maybe viability in the world would matter if we were in the habit of delivering preemies in lieu of abortion.
2) personhood being dependent on the state of current medical tech rubs me the wrong way big time.
“yanking the baby out and forcing them to live on their own”
I would say viability is measured by what prematurely delivered babies we can save. Nobody induces delivery of a premature baby without good medical reason, either the health of the baby is at risk or the health of the mother (which means the health of the baby is at risk).
Maybe viability in the world would matter if we were in the habit of delivering preemies in lieu of abortion.
Viability matters for a lot of reasons having nothing to do with abortion. IF you are not allowed to abort a viable baby, we might see a few babies delivered prematurely in lieu of abortion, but I suspect not many at all. Because inducing a delivery without good medical reason is risky to the baby, which means its risky to the license of the person who does so and to their financial future. Remember, you need to find a provider to induce the delivery. They have to agree to it, and anybody in the baby-delivery business knows better than to induce a premature delivery unless it is medically necessary.
personhood being dependent on the state of current medical tech rubs me the wrong way big time.
Well, its where I land for a lot of reasons. I’m not thrilled about it either, but it strikes me as the best of the available options.
I would say viability is measured by what prematurely delivered babies we can save.
This is where it’s weird to me. Abortion (outside of terminal defects) is a conversation about a baby that, barring some freak occurrence, is likely going to term. The choices are to abort or to carry the child to term in the womb. There is no age of viability in the womb, and the fact that the baby isn’t likely to survive a calamity (premature delivery) doesn’t seem to have any relevance to a decision between killing the baby or carrying it in the womb to term.
If the law required women to deliver viable babies rather than abort them, then age of viability comes into play.
There is no age of viability in the womb, and the fact that the baby isn’t likely to survive a calamity (premature delivery) doesn’t seem to have any relevance to a decision between killing the baby or carrying it in the womb to term.
In (very) brief terms, I landed on viability because I am not willing to say that every fertilized egg is a person from the moment of conception. It may be, but the reasons for saying so have never been fully satisfactory to me.
Trying to tie it to the ability to feel pain, or certain brainwaves being present, seems fraught with peril if/when those standards are applied to adults.
I know that a live preemie is a person. I don’t see why an unborn preemie (that is, one past the age of viability) is not a person until they are outside the womb. There is an age of viability in the womb; its the age at which the baby has a non-zero chance of survival outside the womb.
I can respect those reasons. It’s hard to balance uncertainties on one side of the equation with the certainties on the other side of the equation. For me, the balance is less important. The fact that it is potentially sentient is enough for me.
I hope it was clear that I was intentionally misusing “viability” to make a point about my belief that the viability discussion is a red herring.
If you aren’t willing to accept the moment of conception as the start of personhood, you need to pick some other point in time. If you do accept the moment of conception, then I agree that viability really is irrelevant to the issue of whether/when to allow abortion.
They’re so obtuse I’m amazed they can fit through doorways. Their other argument is that it is unjust to force a woman to naturally deliver a baby when she doesn’t want to, as if abortion in the third trimester somehow whisks the baby out of the uterus via teleportation.
This is a constant fight with government expansionists. I remember bringing it up during Obamacare about the penaltax. It’s like what you said above:
“If this is legal, then X could be used to do Y”
“Well, it will never be used for Y.”
“But it COULD be.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. It will never be used for Y.”
Some years later, X is used for Y, and has little opposition because it’s now accepted precedent.
You can say that for the moment in the US sure – but we’re already seeing it happen in Europe and Canada (Lagard….). Hell, they’re trying to harvest organs from living patients as part of the Euthanasia push. (not that they’re paying the family for any of it either).
Harvesting organs from a terminal patient before they die is not unheard of, as the organs are of better quality the fresher they are. If someone terminal and irreversible (and in a coma), the family consents to the withdrawal of care and organ harvesting, and away they go to the OR. Fun fact: you don’t even have to be a licensed physician to harvest organs, as you are not providing patient care.
I find it very troubling, myself, as it is unquestionably not “allow natural death”, which I am fine with, and I think it crosses the line to euthanasia. I’m actually not sure how common it is.
Guess we’ll see where it goes: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/heart-harvesting-euthanasia-promoted-in-transplant-journal/
Because the proposed procedure does not involve patients who are brain dead
That’s the difference. We have to declare brain death before organ harvesting can begin. That sometimes occurs while the rest of the body is somehow hanging on.
*recalls knock-down drag-out fight with organ donation agency while the family was gathered around the patient just down the hall*
*recalls knock-down drag-out fight with organ donation agency while the family was gathered around the patient just down the hall*
What are they going to do, bum-rush the guy on the ventilator?
They might just harvest everyone between them and the guy on the ventillator while they’re at it. Never know with these overzealous harvesters.
LIMP DICKS
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a26085620/guys-explain-erectile-dysfunction/
That’s not safe for work or your sanity I bet.
It’s like these young guys have never heard of Cialis or Viagra.
Ralph Northam Refuses To Shake Black Opponent’s Hand In Debate
Embattled Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam refused to shake the hand of an African-American political opponent during a debate in 2013 and went as far as to not even acknowledge his existence.
The video, which has circulated on social media for years, shows the very end of a debate when then-Virginia Lieutenant Governor candidate Northam refused to shake hands with his opponent E.W. Jackson during an on-air debate.
“It was insulting, but, on the other hand, I thought it was consistent with the way he behaves,” Jackson said. “Because, this spot he’s been running, saying that I believe that a child born with birth defects is born that way because of their parents’ sin is just a damnable, palpable, despicable lie. I don’t believe that. I never said anything like that. And it’s that kind of dishonesty that, to me, says this is not the kind of person that needs to be holding state-wide office. Not shaking my hand really just confirmed that.”
Video of the incident shows that when Jackson extended his hand, Northam acted like he didn’t see it. Jackson then tapped Northam with his hand to let him know he was trying to shake his hand and Northam still refused to acknowledge Jackson.
Funny how none of it came up in the election.
“After Birth of a Nation”
The left can’t meme and the right can’t opposition research?
The right doesn’t have the media and the educational establishment. If you flip the parties here, the media would have run a full court press for weeks about a Republican refusing to shake a black Democrats hand. Leaving aside the fact that the VA GOP is a textbook example of how the GOP doesn’t actually want to win elections, but just wants to give great concession speeches, no Democrat will ever suffer for things like this, because there’s no media loudspeaker trumpeting it.
I mean, we’re seeing it right now with the Fairfax story. His accuser has “unsubstantiated claims” but Kavanaugh’s was “credible accusations”. They spin what stories they can, and bury the stories they can’t spin.
I don’t know why everyone’s making so much of this dog bites man story. White Southern Democrat in a Klan hood. Sounds like Tuesday.
THE PARTYS SWICHT!!!
Because, this spot he’s been running, saying that I believe that a child born with birth defects is born that way because of their parents’ sin is just a damnable, palpable, despicable lie. I don’t believe that.
It’s terrible to believe that. But totes Woke to
killeuthanizeabort such a child.Seriously. I live in VA and, while I’m hardly obsessive about state politics, follow them more than most people……yet I never heard that story, Why? Because WaPo and the Times-Disgrace never made any hay about it.
When George Allen said “macaca”, WaPo ran stories on the front page about it for at least a month straight (seriously, I’m not joking. I forget the exact number but it was a shitload). This? Crickets.
So this guy refuses to shake hands with a black man after a debate and he is a vocal proponent of abortion which just coincidentally happens to disproportionately affect the black population in his part of the country?
MY FAINTING COUCH!!!
WHERE IS MY FAINTING COUCH???
Some insightful analysis from the MSNBC Business Channel
The race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is quickly becoming a contest to determine which candidate wants to tax the rich the most.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed an “ultra-millionaire” tax on the wealthiest families in America. Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to jack up the estate tax for rich heirs. Sen. Kamala Harris wants to roll back the 2017 Republican tax cuts to funnel more money to low- and middle-income earners.
These proposals and others like them are shaping the early days of the campaign for the White House, as the party prepares to use President Donald Trump’s tax law against him. The GOP tax overhaul has only about a 40 percent approval rating, as Democrats argue it favored corporations and fueled record stock buybacks rather than helping workers.
Taxing the rich to reduce income and wealth inequality has an obvious political appeal. Polls show a majority of Americans believe the government goes too easy on the rich. Many Democrats see the argument as particularly effective with a billionaire developer in the White House and two more super wealthy business titans — Howard Schultz, a former Democrat, and Michael Bloomberg, a newly registered Democrat — potentially joining the race.
“An extreme concentration of wealth means an extreme concentration of economic and political power,” University of California, Berkeley, economics professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman wrote in a New York Times column responding to New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to dramatically increase the top tax rate. Saez and Zucman, left-leaning economists and two of the leading scholars on inequality, advised Warren on her tax proposal.
But does soaking the rich work? History from last century could be a guide — and the U.S. has a precedent for significantly higher tax rates on the wealthy.
The big new idea on taxing the rich is actually a bit of a throwback.
The current debate kicked into overdrive in January, when Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-year-old freshman representative who is not eligible to run for president because she’s six years too young, floated a 70 percent marginal tax rate for $10 million in income and above. Her proposal terrified the billionaire elite last month at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The last time the U.S. saw a headline number that high was 1981, Republican Ronald Reagan’s first year in office. Those rates were eventually slashed during Reagan’s tenure.
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The U.S. economy has weathered much higher tax rates in the past 100 years with little apparent effect on the ebb and flow of economic growth, though. The highest marginal rate topped 90 percent during World War II, falling to 70 percent from 1965 to 1981, a period including economic expansion and recession. Those deep Reagan era tax cuts helped spur growth during that decade, but didn’t prevent subsequent recessions that began in 1990, 2001 and 2007.
A high marginal tax rate “doesn’t seem to hurt economic growth and maybe even spurs it” by putting more money in consumers’ pockets, according to Matthew Dimick, a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law who studies the relationship between law and inequality.
tl;dr- Burn the witches.
And, of course, the real tragedy, here? a 29-year-old freshman representative who is not eligible to run for president because she’s six years too young. We need to get rid of that dopey age limit stuff. Twelve to vote, fourteen to run.
And I really like how they just toss in that claim, A high marginal tax rate “doesn’t seem to hurt economic growth and maybe even spurs it” by putting more money in consumers’ pockets, according to Matthew Dimick, a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law who studies the relationship between law and inequality.” with no challenge or examination at all.
Challenge progressive assertions? You must be some kind or ur-shitlord.
of, dammit.
The current debate kicked into overdrive in January, when Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-year-old freshman representative who is not eligible to run for president because she’s six years too young,
They even get this wrong. She’s not six years too young to run. She’s 29 today, and would need to be 35 on inauguration day 2021. She is four years too young to run, and will actually be eligible in the next Presidential election (she will turn 35 on in October, 2024, just in time to be sworn in two months later).
The current debate kicked into overdrive in January, when Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-year-old freshman representative who is not eligible to run for president because she’s six years too young, floated a 70 percent marginal tax rate for $10 million in income and above
This makes me sad.
But also curious. Why is it that some people are able to capture some interest and generate such fervor over a few ideas.
Free shit sells.
“The U.S. economy has weathered much higher tax rates in the past 100 years with little apparent effect on the ebb and flow of economic growth, though. The highest marginal rate topped 90 percent during World War II, falling to 70 percent from 1965 to 1981, a period including economic expansion and recession. Those deep Reagan era tax cuts helped spur growth during that decade, but didn’t prevent subsequent recessions that began in 1990, 2001 and 2007.”
Need to look it up again but I believe the effective tax rate during the 90 percent years was actually something like 46%. Also you admit in your article that tax cuts helped spur economic growth. Then go off track with tax cuts don’t prevent recessions. Is someone claiming they do? Tax increases don’t prevent them either.
You’re right, It is dishonest to say that the Tax rates have fluctuated on two grounds. The actual percentage amount paid by people hasn’t changed much, and the amount collected relative to GDP hasn’t fluctuated greatly. You could use the same logic that we could have much lower rates, and it wouldn’t hurt the economy either.
I posed this in the PM links:
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2019/02/04/the-rich-pay-more-with-lower-tax-rates/
But that is quite the chart.
Nice. That whole article is a gold mine of information.
Here is a table with the top tax rate.
Saying the rate fell to 70% from 1965 to 1981 is wrong, it fell from 1963 to 1965, a period of expansion. I don’t think there was any time when the rates were reduced that were soon followed by a recession, so the author is being mendacious there. It went up again briefly in the late 60’s, where there was a lull in the economy. Also telling is the statement “… it ignores the large increase in percentage of returns that were subject to this top rate.”
If they wait till she is 35 people might catch on not only to how stupid she really is but how vile/evil/criminal the crap she peddles – which amounts to robbing the productive to satiate the envious nature of a whole swat of life’s losers – is.
[citation needed]
Also, we learn this:
Critics of the income and wealth gap also worry about further educational disparities. Inequality’s potential effects on education and opportunity show in an October Pew survey. Overall, 17 percent of U.S. teens said they often or sometimes could not finish homework assignments due to an unreliable computer or internet connection. Among teens whose families have an annual income of $30,000 or less, the proportion rises to 24 percent. But only 9 percent of teens whose families make more than $75,000 say they have the same problem.
It’s the 21st century edition of “The dog ate my homework.”
Yes. Yes it is. High schools, along with a natural laziness of teenagers, seem to be geared to teaching kids how to come up with Bullshit excuses as to why they couldn’t complete a project. And then to bitch when a teacher is principled enough to call them out on it. They are literally using “The dog ate my homework” as an argument for their desired policy.
Inequality’s potential effects on education
Clearly we need to eliminate private schools. The Rich shouldn’t be allowed to segregate themselves into education systems that perform better than the public system. It’s not enough that they pay for it, they have to have their kids participate. This isn’t about effective education, it’s about equality.
I was always skeptical of equality, but the Dems have successfully convinced me that it is truly evil to be pushing for it.
Just like choo-choo trains are the left’s transportation fantasy, their education fantasy is, apparently, a return to forced busing. Pack those cattle-cars, the future of the 1970s awaits!
How on earth did us oldsters manage to do homework back in the stone age? It’s a wonder we can even tie our own shoes.
I wear slip-ons.
Oh, that’s fucking rich.
So, someone took away the Presidential Phone & Pen?
The Phone and Pen is a privilege only prescribed the “Adults” in the room.
Meaning people with a (D) next to their names if you go by the people demanding bipartisanship (meaning that democrats get their way all the time).
They asserted it before- by voting against troop withdrawal.
Any talk of the Presidential aspirations of Gulag Barbie should be accompanied by this:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H L Mencken
Look, the Democrats deserve their Trump too.
Except their Trump might cause unfixable damage, while the Republican Trump mostly says stupid things, but hasn’t really done much damage.
Trump lied, jobs died
A new campaign by the action fund of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, asserts that Trump failed to follow through not only on his pledge to Carrier’s workers, but also on his pledge to factory workers across America. The campaign—which launched in anticipation of Tuesday’s State of the Union—centers on what CAP describes as “Trump’s false promises.” CAP argues that while Trump campaigned on issues important to middle- and working-class people, his presidential policy record suggests he instead prioritizes big business and the wealthy. One of the “false promises,” according to CAP, centers on Trump’s pledge to keep U.S. companies from moving overseas.
Manufacturing jobs are undeniably being created in today’s economy. But some companies are still moving overseas. A study of Department of Labor data by ThinkProgress, a left-leaning website, found that in just the four months following Trump’s swearing-in in January 2017, at least 11,934 American jobs were moved abroad or were in the process of leaving the country. On top of GM’s layoffs, Ford recently announced it would be restructuring and firing workers. An estimated 12 percent, or 24,000 of Ford’s 202,000 workers, may lose their jobs.
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Jeffrey H. Dorfman, an economist at the University of Georgia, believes the “single worst” thing Trump has done for manufacturing jobs has been his tariffs on steel and aluminum. Dorfman said that while those tariffs may have saved a few thousand jobs in steel manufacturing, they’ve hurt a much larger number of manufacturing companies that used those metals for production. “Steel and aluminum are used to make autos, to make tractors, to make skyscrapers,” he said. “We’re losing jobs in all those industries in the U.S. now.” A study at Iowa State University calculated the ratio of losses to gains in Iowa manufacturing was 2.7 jobs lost to every one job gained. And Roy Cortado, a senior economist at the conservative think tank the John Locke Foundation, told me he thinks Trump’s steel tariffs “do nothing for manufacturing and capital intensive industries in this country.”
Socialism will fix this. When the State owns all the factories, there will be no capital flight.
See the USSR.
I can’t find it.
Putin will fix that
Are you sure he won’t just reinstate the Russian Empire with himself as Tsar?
Was there much of a difference? Well the body count under the communist revolution did set some serious new records.
There was more free enterprise under the Tsars, and the possibility for growth. Especially given the reforms in the last few decades of Romanov rule. The Communists took away economic freedom while not granting any political freedom.
That’s the very definition of social justice in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Tariffs are terrible for manufacturing and yet the jobs report continues to show employment growth in the manufacturing sector, which didn’t occur in the presiding eight years. There are strong arguments against tariffs, but this isn’t it.
I’ll say it before and I’ve said it again. I think the GM layoffs have to do with EPA CAFE standards. Trucks are where they make their money. CAFE standards say that all of the cars produced have to average X miles a gallon across all lines. If GM drops midsize cars that average about 35 miles a gallon for more EVs and Hybrids that average upwards of 60 miles per gallon they can produce more trucks and SUVs, where they make their money.
“A study of Department of Labor data by ThinkProgress, a left-leaning website, found that in just the four months following Trump’s swearing-in in January 2017, at least 11,934 American jobs were moved abroad or were in the process of leaving the countr”
When a Democrat was President, this was the result of forces beyond the control of the government. Just one of those things.
When Trump took office, decades of American economic and political policy ceased to have any affect, because of Orange Man’s Badness.
Is that the net number?
I remember how 9/11 was squarely on Bush II’s shoulders, despite his having taken office less than eight months earlier. Hey, it happened on his watch, right? Let’s never mind the fact that the plot was in operation for years by that point.
The perpetual “year zero” mentality is aggravating. It’s 2019, guys!!!
Which ones of you bastages did this?
Banjos, at the top of the thread.
Everyone’s favorite “Libertarian” candidate scurries back to the GOP so he can scam people into giving him money for a hopeless, pointless primary challenge against Trump.
Cosmos haven’t been this devastated since they saw the rest of the Covington video and all they could mutter out was “but, he smirked”.
How will Trump get any sleep for the next couple of years? Knowing Bill Weld is coming for him with his Iron Conservatism.
If only Weld would take Nick Sarwark with him….
Huh, can’t find the clip from the convention where Weld proclaimed he was a Libertarian for life.
“Being Libertarian”, which is funded by CATO has a “Five Reasons to Love Bill Weld” that still makes me chuckle.
https://beinglibertarian.com/5-reason-love-bill-weld/
Oh man, there are some serious belly laughs in that thing.
What an embarrassment.
Nope. Still hate.
And here I thought he was angling to be Clinton’s 2020 running mate.
More idiotic nonsense about the Senate
On January 3, 2019, Sinema was sworn in as a member of the Senate. Standing next to her, and taking the same oath, was McSally—appointed by the state’s Republican governor to take over the remainder of the late Senator John McCain’s term. The two will serve side by side until January 2021.
This anomalous result stems from an ambiguity in the Seventeenth Amendment that politicians have exploited for partisan advantage since the amendment was adopted in 1913. A new lawsuit, aimed at McSally’s appointment, seeks to resolve it. At stake in Tedards et al. v. Ducey et al. is nothing less than the principle that the Senate belongs to the people.
Dey tuk ur Senate!
At stake is trying to call something an ambiguity when it isn’t ambiguous at all:
“When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.”
Piss off. And while you’re at it, get rid of the 17th so we might at least partially return to a federalist system.
nothing less than the principle that the Senate belongs to the people.
I mean that isn’t really the principle of the Senate at all…
What ambiguity? Here’s what it says:
Arizona, like most states, maybe all of them, lets the Governor fill vacancies. Its plainly authorized by the 17th Amendment.
What happened in Arizona doesn’t involve financial corruption, just old-style party power-seeking. When McCain died in August of last year, Republican Governor Doug Ducey originally appointed former Senator Jon Kyl to replace him. At that time, Sinema and McSally were fighting for the other open seat. Once Sinema won that seat, Kyl resigned—and Ducey named McSally to the office that the state’s voters had just chosen to deny her. Democrats won the 2018 election in Arizona and across the nation, but the statute made McCain’s seat the exclusive property of the defeated party.
And if a governor appointed a Republican to temporarily replace a Democrat in the Senate, the howling of the monkeys would be deafening.
Um… OK.
why do you hate democracy?
Democracy means Democrats get what they want. It’s, like, right there in the name.
Fine, let’s turn every office in the country over to the Democrats. It’s only fair, since they won.
If they held another election for the second seat, McSally probably would have won it. Since the seat was open for appointment, appointing the second highest vote-getter–who was not that far behind–seems like a sensible choice. It certainly seems better than picking some random Democrat who nobody voted for.
And if a governor appointed a Republican to temporarily replace a Democrat in the Senate
I’m sure it has happened, probably both ways. Why a Rep or Dem would simply hand a Senate seat to the opposing party is a mystery.
I could see a quid pro quo arrangement, you give me X (or you ignore indiscretion Z, etc.) and I’ll appoint Y to the Senate. A deal like that could easily backfire, though.
Are you Rod Blagojevich?
“REVEALED: Jussie Smollett did NOT tell police his attackers shouted ‘this is MAGA country!’ the first time he spoke to them and did not want to involve authorities but a 60-year-old friend insisted that they call 911”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6668799/Jussie-Smolletts-MAGA-hat-attackers-BIT-Chicago-beating-wearing-black.html
The more I hear the more I wager he knew his attackers and didn’t want to get them in trouble.
I’m thinking there were no attackers.
The bathroom scene from “Liar Liar”?
Is that anything like the manager’s office scene from “Fight Club”?
With fewer witnesses.
Well, at least he finally started that national conversation about race that we’re never constantly having at all times, always, without stop, ad nauseam.
Is that the conversation where one group screams “WHITE MAN BAD!” at us regardless of the circumstances?
Yeah, yeah, those Black Israelites were shouting some pretty heinous crap, but this kid smirked on camera.
Am I missing something or does that map not show the location/time of the attack?
Minor bruises, huh? Weren’t we hearing about cracked ribs and a trip to the hospital early on?
You know, I was mugged once, actually for real. Cracked ribs, and a lot more than “minor” bruises. Spent a few hours in the ER while they made sure I didn’t have internal bleeding.
It could easily be that the complaintant got home from a rather debauched scene and had trouble finding the nerve to explain to their elderly neighbor, so made up a tale, got pressured into calling the cops and things went out of hand from there.
“That’s Sir Savage the 21st: Rapper’s ICE arrest sparks meme frenzy after it emerges the Atlanta-based star is actually BRITISH”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6666887/Thats-Sir-Savage-21st-Rappers-arrest-sparks-meme-frenzy-fans-leap-defence.html
Whoever the fuck that is.
Ditto. Buried in there is he has a previous arrest/conviction yet his illegal status never came to light.
“NEWS: A California woman accusing Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault has hired Christine Blasey Ford’s legal team – Katz, Marshall and Banks – and is consulting with them about next steps, according to a source close to the legal team.”
https://twitter.com/sarahmccammon/status/1092749186414624768
Why would you willingly hire a team who so obviously was willing to ignore the best interests of their client in favor of political points?
Because she won’t have to pay for them, the DNC will.
Because political points are the goal?
Didn’t their last “victim client” walk off with ~$750,000?
That just tells me the DNC doesn’t want Fairfax anywhere near a position of power, which is not surprising, given that he’s an idiot bar none.
Putting idiots near power is the raison d’etre for the DNC
Reliable and loyal idiots only please. /DNC donor
It also suggests to me that he has other skeletons we haven’t heard about yet.
Along those lines, Tony had an entertaining meltdown on this subject at TOS
I think he’s guilty because he wrote about it in his journal
The f—?
Jesus, and I thought Twitter was cancer.
A delicious plate of hoist by their own petard.
^^^THIS^^^
The Highly Dubious Ratificatiuon Tally for ERA
I think if they can frame it as a Tax, Roberts will allow it.
I would love to see the amendment get approved and watch heads explode as its cheerleaders are finally confronted with the actual implications of the thing.
So, start over. Rather than arguing about technicalities, I would be very surprised if it wasn’t quickly ratified. Because feelz. However, the passage of time may have rendered it problematic to the progressive left:
Whoa, sex, not gender or sexual preference or anything of the sort?
I also question how affirmative action and chicks-only programs will fare under “equality of rights under the law.”
Affirmative Action, Family Courts and the Duluth Model all come under immediate challenge for their anti-male discrimination and abridgement of right to equal protection under the law.
Hahaha. No. Those things help the harmed be more equal, equality doesn’t mean equal, it means fair.
I want to crack open the skull of anyone who appeals to “fair”ness – oh, I’m only looking for your definition, it must be in there somewhere even if you can’t put it into words.
Hah hah. Yeah right. Look at the invisible ink carveouts for involuntary servitude (as long as it’s the government), not to mention infringements of 1A and 2A.
I’d like to think that would be the consequence. But, honestly, I’m not that trusting.
The courts reinterpreted the Civil Rights Act into giving special privileges instead of equality, and likely will tacitly accept “sex = gender = whatever the fuck we want it to mean today, despite what it meant yesterday or may mean tomorrow” so I wouldn’t expect any kind of consistency here.
Indeed. SCOTUS and its minions have shown no hesitation in redefining and rewriting provisions of the Constitution. To a normal person, “Equality of rights under the law” means that the law must be sex-blind. To many federal judges, it is a phrase with no meaning, an empty vessel which they are free, nay, required, to fill with currently fashionable political outcomes.
The scariest eventuality, although it’s not as foreign an idea to the courts as one would hope, is that “equality” will be replaced with “equity” which is the social justice word for making Harrison Bergeron a reality.
And as for the draft, while the threat of it being applied to women under the ERA may have been realistic in the 1970s, in the present day it is not a realistic threat because patriarchy, history of oppression, and “women are the real victims of war”.
“The Rich Kids of Venezuela – including Socialist revolution leader Hugo Chavez’s daughter – flaunt their wealth with fist-fulls of cash and lavish holidays while the nation starves”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6667889/Rich-Kids-Venezuela-including-Socialist-leader-Hugo-Chavezs-daughter-flaunt-wealth.html
Nicholas III
If they could never see Arafat for the thief he was, I don’t expect they’ll see these plunderers for what they are.
fist-fulls of cash
Never change, DM.
Who needs editing when you can barely make out the text through the ponderous accretion of ads, anyway.
Funny how under capitalism, if you are successful and get rich, you get power, but the only people under a collectivist system that have any real wealth are the ones connected to power, huh???
Feature not a bug
/Chavez family.
His daughter, last I heard, was worth $4.3 billion. Her wealth was in tangible assets – gold, land, cars, slaves – and her cash was in dollars. She really was woke.
Is that anything like the manager’s office scene from “Fight Club”?
First thing I thought of.
In honor of the super bowl, have some inane blather about Trump, Kaepernick, and the NFL
The NFL has gotten Trump to play nice for now, but that does nothing to erase the perception that the NFL willingly torpedoed Kaepernick’s career because it was frightened of Trump, nor has it quieted the interest or support for Kaepernick, who remained a dominant story line during Super Bowl week.
Goodell faced a new round of questions at his annual pre–Super Bowl press conference about why Kaepernick remains unsigned by a NFL team. The NFL commissioner insisted that Kaepernick would be in the league if a team thought he could help them win. Given the number of quarterbacks in the NFL who have had opportunities to play despite being less accomplished and talented than Kaepernick, that line is hard to buy.
The only thing I learned (which is of dubious utility, at best) from this article is that Jemele Hill
is a womandisplays female genetic traits.As for K’s supposed skills as a QB- if he was any good, he’d have a contract despite his nuisance quotient. (See Vick, Michael)
You mean those guys that jump at contracts like the one Kaep turned down? Those guys? It doesn’t make any sense!
The one he opted out of you mean?
He also turned one down, an offer from the Broncos to sign on as a backup in 2017,
The one he turned down.
I can see why he turned that one down, he still had his player option with the 49ers at that point which was worth more.
If you must have a example.of a problematic white QB, see: George, Jeff.
nor has it quieted the interest or support for Kaepernick, who remained a dominant story line during Super Bowl week
Other than grievance mongers and sportswriters, very few give a shit about Kaepernick, other than to mouth prayers that their team hasn’t signed that loser.
I can’t speak for football, but this is absolutely the case in soccer. Worst case scenario is you get shuffled off to another team every time your current one gets tired of your shit. I suppose the big difference with football is that in soccer there is a much higher number of leagues and teams with cash to burn.
They torpedoed Tebow’s career, too.
erase the perception that the NFL willingly torpedoed Kaepernick’s career because it was frightened of Trump
Well, you can’t erase beliefs that people find it convenient to hold. No matter how wrong they are.
Congress’s Vote To Keep War In Afghanistan Sells Out American Soldiers
He quotes some decent foreign policy from Old White Guys, all of which equate warmongering to freedom loss. I liked Madison’s:
Congress has ordered a war, but what if the Commander-in-Chief does not staff the effort?
“We shall deploy the five hundred and thirty-fifth warmonger division, comprized of five hundred and thirty five souls duly elected by the people to represent them. Go get ’em congresscritters.”
“Don’t forget your warboner pills!”
Nancy Pelosi slings an AR10 (with a shoulder thing that goes up!) over her shoulder. Schumer struggles to lug two ammo crates to the front. AOC wets herself at the loud noises.
Send all the generals currently working at the Pentagon to the front.
Work down from there.
The scariest eventuality, although it’s not as foreign an idea to the courts as one would hope, is that “equality” will be replaced with “equity” which is the social justice word for making Harrison Bergeron a reality.
We already live in a world in which “equal opportunity” has been shoved down the memory hole, to be superseded by “disparate impact” tests.
We need a one-line addendum to any law that says “For the purposes of all cases, evidence of disparate impact does not constitute evidence of discrimination.”
But that would establish the dangerous precedent that Congress makes the law. It is far better for everyone that the President and Courts make the law, and that we alternate between the two based upon whatever makes the bien pensant chattering classes happy.
Yep. Much of the dysfunction of the American employment system can be traced back to that. Nobody wants to go to jail or be fined for “discrimination” so employers and potential hires are dishonest with each other and play dumb games to avoid theoretically upsetting some judge somewhere.
Technically, anti-discrimination laws are already a violation of freedom of association.
Stop laughing.
I said stop.
True, but sadly freedom of association is not rigorously codified anywhere in the American legal system. It’s one of those implied/reserved rights that at various times and places can be thrown under the bus as needed (as opposed to the explicit rights, which have to go through some symbolic process before being thrown under the bus).
At the end of the day, whether you’re not hired for being [member of demographic group] or you’re not hired for being [incompetent/unsuited/undesirable for the position] is irrelevant. You’re not owed a job, and your now-employer is not going to stop being biased after hiring you.
I find it quite telling that while these sorts of collectivist asshats demand any monuments to people they consider bad be done away with, that they are all heart broken one of the asshats to concoct what is indubitably the worlds most murderous and evil philosophies predicated on people’s envy and jealousy, was vandalized. Fuck me these people are stupid.
I am continually flummoxed as to why collectivist ideologues are so fixated on individuals—Castro, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Guevera, Chavez, etc. One of the most potent symbols of communism, adopted by its own adherents no less, after the hammer and sickle and red star, is a picture of one or more of those faces. “True” communism, where the state withers away, can never come to pass in a system so fixated on powerful personalities.
I could try to psychoanalize and say it’s a projection of the provider figure onto a recognizable aspect of the state. A reassurance that the collective children are being cared for.
But I’m not qualified to do that.
“True” communism, where the state withers away, can never come to pass in a system so fixated on powerful personalities.
Because, for the most part, the adherents of communism mostly have a vengeful god complex. They’re emotionally and spiritually damaged people who long to take out their resentments and neuroses on any target they can find who doesn’t appear to suffer as much as them. Do you think it’s purely coincidental that the ideology’s greatest appeal is with angst-ridden youth?
^^^THIS^^^
Also, don’t read the Wikipedia page for Che. I’ve read hagiographies that were less flattering.
He killed the “right” kind of people..
That makes him soooo dreamy!
“why collectivist ideologues are so fixated on individuals”
Principals, not principles. Much less thought required.
Individuals, yes, but not the individual.
I don’t know, it seems to me like someone might have vandalized a perfectly good urinal.
Why does that even exist?
There are plenty of commies in Britain.
Just pile a bunch of skulls in front of it.
Well, not everything. And not exactly equally.
But other than that, nice summary BBC!
Misery for all!
The sophomore year I-just-took-polisci-101 definition of Communism, yeah
TBF, some animals are more equal than others.
Sharing is nice. I like sharing.
I don’t. What’s mine is mine. You can keep what’s yours.
BAD RACIST!
No monument to Heidegger too?
There’s a sidebar story about that cemetery running out of space. Easy peasy. Disinter Marx and his wife, dump their bodies at sea to prevent a point of rememberence like with Bin Laden, and voila, two more spots.
Bin Laden died a decade ago from kidney failure. They have his body frozen until such time as science can revive him so he can be executed.
*Begin daydream sequence*
(Looking at destroyed monument of Robert E. Lee)
“You don’t have to be a White Nationalist to think this is an important monument.”
What’s a shame is that the vandalism was so ineffective. That’s easily fixed.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!111!!!
No mid-day content?
Am I doing to have to throw more articles in the woodchipper?
Whatever you are doing to do, you best start going it.
How dare you mock someone who might be lysdexic! That’s Textist!
Enslaving yeast: Part the too many – On the different aspects of fining agents and their use.
Emancipate the yeast!
Wait…
*remembers fondness for leavened bread and distilled spirits*
Forget what I just said.
/pours out a vial of yeast
They don’t seem to be doing much of anything.
/pokes pool of sludge
Nope. They’re just lazing around there waiting for some diluted sugar to fall onto them or get dumped onto diluted sugar somewhere.
I will recognize yeast rights as soon as they stand up and demand them.
/inner Rothbard
Fining agents are…ummm…fine, but they always seem just one step better than filtering.
I use them, when I remember, but I could go either way with them.
That was kind of the joke. Of all the holy wars that exist in the home brew forums and community, fining agents just… don’t. They generally clear the beer, but most beers don’t need them to drop clear. I’ve got one beer that I brew that needs fining for appearance sake (an English Nut Brown), it’s downright murky otherwise. But for the most part the whirlfloc sits in the jar and isn’t used.
For the wines I make I still use ’em, but those are the low end kit wines. For meads, I just use patience.
Really? I stopped reading the forums years back, but it was mostly along the lines of what I said…If you remember to use them they work, sorta, if you forget, no big deal.
I use Irish Moss in my nut brown, and it clears just fine.
My biggest issue along these lines is with my hefe. I have to make sure I keg it before it drops clear.
Yeah. For the constant fights between BIAB/Kettle; Batch/Continuous/No Sparge; Chiller/No Chiller; Yeast starter/Pitch more/Pitch less; no one seems to care that much over fining agents. They just kind of are there, and are generally accepted. Every once in a while you’ll have a vegetarian or vegan complain about the use of certain fining agents, but that’s about it.
And Whirlfloc are a blend of Irish Moss and another fining agent.
They’re not fining agents, they’re penaltaxing agents.
*grumbles*
It turns out that I called the same ficticious gas giant both “Ophidia Maximal” and “Caerula Alba” at different points of the same set of stories. How much confusion is this liable to cause if these are the names by which two different groups know the planet? IE, the residents of it’s moons know it as “Caerula Alba” and more distant peoples call it “Ophidia Maximal”, because the most populous moon is named ‘Ophidia’.
None at all, especially if you use the discrepancy as a shibboleth. Then it looks like you pre-planned it.
It’s mostly a background detail in “Stanley and the Naga Queen”.
Yes, the Naga homeworld is ‘Ophidia’.
Naga, please.
You mean from Nagaland?
No, It’s Not a Windbreaker – It’s the 2019 Nissan Pathfinder Rock Creek Edition
Lol. It’s unconscionable what Nissan did to the Pathfinder.
7″ of ground clearance. good grief.
Lol. It’s unconscionable what Nissan did to the Pathfinder.
Haha, I was just reading about Ford, and their new guy, Hackett (in the Atlantic- find it, if you dare). A bunch of noxious buzzwordology and insufferable preening about commitment to the “user interface”.
Yeah, that’s all well and good, but your cars suck. Why not do something about that?
They don’t all suck.
It all depends upon your criteria. For getting me from here to there reliably and comfortably, Ford has done the job since 2007. I don’t have the budget for a ‘just for fun’ car. Anything that survives the way I treat vehicles and still runs every time I turn the key is something.
Stangely, I ended up with one of the rarest production models on the road simply because no one buys CMAXes. Probably because they’re rolling toxic waste heaps that don’t inspire gearheads, and don’t entice virtue-signallers.
Is your car white or beige?
Ecoboost V6? Yeah, ok..
Right?
I have one in my truck, though, and it’s shocking how well it does.
Oh, I’ve heard mostly good things about the actual engine. I just have concerns for long term durability and repair expense.
Don’t want a V6?
This is coming out in the next year.
It Won’t Offer a Manual Transmission to Start
Boooo.
Their affordable cars suck.
I still like mine.
Just don’t push the ‘Eco’ button. I’ll snap your finger off if you gimp the engine like that.
I’m just kidding. I wanted to get a Fiesta ST up until they stopped making the damn things.
They sold fiestas with manual transmissions.
I had thought about getting one just to learn to drive manual.
I’ve been lusting after the Focus RS, even though they sound like they’re a miserable daily driver.
They’re still making them. 2019s are out there.
Well I’ll be, the last I heard they had discontinued it. Enough people must have raised hell to make them rethink the decision.
Haven’t you heard, the only car they’re going to make (in the US) is the Mustang.
Trucks and SUVs.
Silly woman, Senator T-Bone isn’t capable of embarrassment.
Senator T-Bone also tried for another religious test and got called out
Rao apparently is the one Senate dems are gunning for b/c:
1. loathes the administrative state
2. female AND Indian
3. brilliant
4. projected to be a SCOTUS pick
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4777925/booker-law-clerk-fail
i love the c-span URL reads “booker law clerk fail”
“So… that’s a no.”
Yeah, I would have given him more rope on that one:
Booker: Have you ever had any LGBTQ law clerks?
Dean: No, I have not.
Booker: *incoherent rant about bigotry*
Dean: Senator, I am not a bigot. I have no problem with anybody because of their sexual orientation or practices, with the exception of pedophiles.
Booker: How can you say that when you have refused to hire LGBTQ clerks?
Dean: I haven’t refused to hire a clerk because they were LGBTQ.
Booker: But you’ve never had one. Do you expect me to believe none have every applied? Do you think they aren’t qualified for some reason?
Dean: None have ever applied. I don’t think sexual orientation or practices have anything to do with qualification for the job.
Booker: How do you know none have ever applied?
Dean: I’ve never seen a resume with someone’s sexual orientation on it, and I would never assume sexual orientation because of how someone presents.
I could string this out for hours before dropping the mic on “Well, since I’m not a judge, I’ve actually never hired anyone to be a clerk.” Meanwhile, I have lots of opportunities to say I’m not a bigot.
Five years later, at Judge Dean’s next hearing for a higher post, out of context/edited clips shown of
“Booker: Have you ever had any LGBTQ law clerks?
Dean: No, I have not.”
until Dean is forced to withdraw his name.
Not worried. If they want to give me a forum to remind everyone what an idiot Booker is, and my bona fides as someone who isn’t a bigot, why would I care?
“Senator Booker and I had an extended exchange, in which I reiterated that I am not a bigot despite numerous unsupported accusations. In retrospect, I may have missed an opportunity to tell the Senator that the reason I had never hired an LGBTQ law clerk was because I had never hired a single law clerk, but that is exactly why I found the entire exchange somewhat puzzling at the time. I assumed, apparently in error, that Senator Booker knew that only judges have law clerks, and I had never been a judge. I think we all know that sometimes the assumptions we make lead us into error, as it did in this instance.”
Mr Dean, are you think Mr. Booker is not intelligent because he’s black?
“I don’t recall ever saying that Senator Booker was not intelligent.”
“In fact, to the contrary, I believed, because he was on the Judiciary Committee, that he was well acquainted with how judges and law clerks work than he apparently was. That’s why I was puzzled by the line of questioning.”
So, when you stop being a racist then?
First rule of character assasination is not giving the target a chance to defend themselves.
Which is hard to do when the character assassination is being conducted in a Q & A session with the target.
Ecoboost V6? Yeah, ok..
Seriously. No thanks.
I’d take a ~35 year old BMW M1 over a Ford GT any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
It’s the 647 HP version of that V6, not the soccer mom version.
Consider what you just typed. It truly is an amazing time for motor engineering.
It all depends upon your criteria.
Absolutely true.
Different strokes, et c.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/02/05/chicago-police-superintendent-jussie-smollett-will-be-held-accountable-if-he-made-a-false-report/
If Smollett is lying, he’s about to learn that CPD is not woke. I kind of feel sorry for the guy if he is lying, because CPD are going to look to ruin him
I wouldn’t be surprised, given the implausibility of many of the details.
Though I do hold out the possibility of Rabid Redneck Maga-ites in Chicagoland who actually watched whatever obscure program he was on.
I’d feel bad for him if he’s telling the truth and they think he’s lying. If it is a lie it was particularly divisive and mean-spirited and he deserves some fairly serious consequences.
He may soon learn that CPD is not as constrained by local government like NYPD or LAPD. They are a force onto themselves and even the politicians are shy about upsetting them.
If Smollett is lying, he’s about to learn that CPD is not woke. I kind of feel sorry for the guy if he is lying, because CPD are going to look to ruin him
He’s lucky they disbanded the torture squad.
The “Expedited Confession Team” was founded shortly thereafter.
Waterboarding isn’t “really” torture.
More like a spa treatment.
Haha. Sure they did
Damn that was a satisfying meal. I’m really awake now.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-man-died-of-meth-overdose-before-being-eaten-by-bear-at-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-autopsy-says
Uhhh… We did that one already.
That is how you end up with Florida Bear.
Just look for the bear that’s grinding it’s teeth uncontrollably and you have your man.
Woke?
https://pjmedia.com/spengler/netflix-as-death-cult/
I think the proposition is a overblown, but I do get his point.
Personally, most of modern horror just isn’t scary in an existential sense.
Even though I’m agnostic, I’ve always had a preference for religious horror mixed up with modern science, like Event Horizon.
The generation that grew up on slashers is the main demo, horror movies are cheap, have a high ROI, don’t need a star to carry them, technology has made them shockingly easy to make it look like the budget was higher….
Or
It’s because people don’t believe in God anymore.
That’s as bad as a Tom Friedman column. Pick 3 titles out of the rougher 700 Netflix originals, ignore the realistic worry about being tied to some other companies’ IP without their own content, and ignore something that doesn’t fit the predetermined narrative like The Crown. Though if your an anti monarchist, I guess that’s a horror show also.
But this never happens. That gun could have just gone off and killed them all.
Here’s a poll. With Bill Weld leaving the LP, who is most likely to be their presidential nominee now?
(A) Jeff Flake, because despite the fact that he supports warrant less data collection and advocated for a carbon tax he also thinks Orange Man Bad
(B) McAfee, because the LP will finally realize that they should be offering a real alternative rather than just pretending like a failed Republican politician is an actual alternative
(C) Vermin Supreme, because every crazy old bastard deserves his fifteen minutes of fame
(D) The re-animated corpse of Murray Rothbard, because the Mises Caucus would accept nothing less
(E) Bill Kristol, because fuck it
Gary Johnson… again.
I’m more interested in ideas for what LP actually stands for.
Lapdog Party
Lipservicing Principles
Lacking Penises
Losers Permanente
F) Hillary, that’s the sure bet they’re going with.
I really dont care who they run, but any principled libertarian with a talent for public speaking would be fine with me.
And by principled, I mean not mealy mouthed warmed over progressive BS social shit with a hint of fiscal conservatism mixed in.
I agree. McAfee has said over and over he knows he won’t win, but he wants the platform.
McAfee really doesn’t get enough respect. When Sarwark tried to ban Ron Paul from the convention, McAfee said “I stand with Ron Paul. Not the LP”.
Rather than engaging in the petty tit for tat that people in the party were doing
Sarwark is a POS. That he still controls the LP tells you all you need to know about the state of the party.
It’s a circle-jerk whomever ends up in the top spot. Terrible, inconsistent messaging, freak-show conventions and no free shit. Not a recipe for success.
More people like Massie and Paul inflicting liberty on the Stupid Party is a better option.
Gonna be a long slog regardless.
(E) Bill Kristol, because fuck it
Indeed. Nothing would put the final nail in the coffin of the LP like this.
Weather
Several ski resorts in the Eastern Sierra and Tahoe remained closed Tuesday because of a blizzard that dropped as much as 9 feet of snow in the biggest storm system so far this season.
A winter storm warning remained in effect until 4 p.m. Tuesday for Mono County, home of Mammoth Mountain and June Mountain resorts, the National Weather Service said, noting that “travel will be dangerous. Snowfall rates and winds will create periods of zero visibility.”
Ski operations at June Mountain in June Lake remained closed Tuesday, as did all runs at Mammoth Mountain in Mammoth Lakes.
“We had so much snow it takes awhile to safely open the mountain,” spokesman Tim LeRoy said Monday.
Mammoth had received almost 7 feet of snow and was expecting and 2½ more feet by Tuesday night. June Mountain already had received 9 feet of snow from the storm and was expecting as much as 3 to 10 inches more Tuesday, its website reported.
I bet there are some happy people up there.
And some not-so-happy ones.
With Bill Weld leaving the LP, who is most likely to be their presidential nominee now?
NEEDZ MOAR LIBERTOONIAN SOCIALISMZ
This time, it’s GayJay and McMuffin. Finally they take us seriously. And with moar fat nekked dancing guys.