Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but El Paso residents who have to put up with this spectacle. Well that and having to be El Paso residents.
Move over Beto, I found an even bigger pussy.
A possible budget deal as been reached that includes partial funding for The Wall.
Two thirds of state wide Virginia elected officials have done what one third of people finds acceptable.
Subway guy, Jared Fogle, living it up in prison.
Michael Moore’s career continues its downward spiral.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song that won’t get out of my fucking head and move along with my day.
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Morning, Banjos
mornin’
Morning. (My favorite banjo dude).
nice
An answer to an outstanding issue in the last thread.
Ponderosa is still around But not in New York City.
I liked the Bonanza we had locally but it disappeared as they hadn’t figured on all the locals eating all they wanted. Enjoyed the salad bar but I always ate too much, trying to save money.
Four for grazing!
I think there’s a couple still lingering in the Cleveland area for some reason.
/goes to check
One. There’s one still around, and not exactly in the Cleveland area. More Youngstown.
My first job was washing dishes at a Ponderosa. Good times.
My first job was… Desktop support Intern.
My second job was on a dish line. I quit after a week. Not so much because it was lousy work, but lousy work with a manager who decided that doing something he had already personally approved warrented a write-up.
Ponderosa was my first employer too – started busing, then dishwashing, line prep, server, fry cook… all strongly reinforced my desire to go to college.
I might still have some forearm scars from putting in racks of potatoes… “gimme a rack of 40!”
Mine was haying.
The only time I ever sent food back was at a Ponderosa. I ordered a rare steak and got an over well done steak.
I feel sorry for the guy who ordered well done and got your steak instead.
Applebee’s steak – Raw on one end and crispy on the other
Thar’s your problem – ordered steak and an applebees.
Yeah, well I wasn’t going to order salad. That’s a surefire way to get salmonella.
Okay, better question – what were you doing in an Applebees?
Road trip with almost zero options
I see.
That usually results in me ending up in an Ihop.
To be sure, I did check before posting.
HHmmmm 8 year old Leap used to love the shit out of Ponderosa. Two or three plates full of fried chicken wings, a taco, and potato wedges covered in nacho cheese sauce. Then listen to my mom proclaim in a loud voice “Why should we leave a tip?!? Its a BUFFET. THEY DON’T DO ANYTHING!?!” and my dad would roll his eyes and walk out the door.
We were a classy family.
I always tipped $2 for the constant coffee service and dish take away. Your Mom and mine would have been good friends.
Ponderosa was our go-to for fancy eatin’. I could load up on enough food in an hour there to offset the following week of bologna sandwich suppers.
The closest we’ve got to that in Austin is some Golden Corrals, which I call the Hungry Heifer. Haven’t eaten at any of them, cause my fiancee doesn’t care to observe gluttony, unless it’s at Jack Allen’s. Or an Asian buffet place. Cause those are different. Somehow.
The Golden Corral isn’t Bonanza. Buffet, sure, but shrimp, ribs, steak and way bigger, better salad bar. The one on I-35 north of Waco about 20 miles is the one I’ve eaten at several times but not for many years now. Yeah, it made for the truck drivers (easy on/easy off and big parking) but your lady friend is right.
My kids and wife loved Old Country Buffet for some reason. When they were younger they’d clamor to eat there every 3-4 months until I eventually gave in.
The Old Country Buffet has turned into a Golden Corral and to me it is exactly the same, but the rest of the family insists it is different and that GC stinks on ice.
Old Country Buffet has a menu as well as the buffet, I don’t think Golden Corral does.
Yes! Old Geezer Buffet!
“his cell is never locked and he’s free to use the computer and gamble”
Jared can gambol as well
Is he not free to gambol?
Stop that.
I am more interested in how he is handling hygiene. Showers specifically. Is he doing the Mike Tyson thing and avoiding them so nobody stares – and I am quoting Mike – at his rectie?
Okay, he’s in a minimum security federal unit, so he’s in with other nonviolent types. I can see big prison tough guys wanting bragging rights for going after Tyson, but few bragging rights to beating up an actor. Guys in prison with Tyson may not be getting out and have nothing to lose; guys in minimum security foreseeably getting out so don’t want to add time.
So you are telling me Jarred is not getting any love?
/has sad
Did he really get 15 years for kiddie porn? That seems like a lot unless he was actually directing the films.
He was caught making a rendezvous with a kid for sex. I forget if it was a sting or if the parents turned him in.
From Wikipedia (complete with footnotes!)
Uffda, sorry about the wall of text.
“Subway representatives said they had no record of Mills’s allegations.”
A prudent move.
I suspect “living it up” in prison isn’t really living it up.
While you are generally correct, the conditions there are so harsh and boring that any small privilege or break from monotony is huge.
We need common sense tiger control.
Fun fact – by population, the tiger’s current habitat is the back yard of North America.
Also, the Ostrich’s habitat is the north american farm. In both these instances, there are more individuals being raised by Americans than are left in their original location.
I had a friend in Pahrump, NV that retired into the ostrich business only to find there was a limited market for omelettes for 12 from a single egg. Ostrich meat apparently has a limited market as well, man, the drumsticks are yuuuuuge!
I’m just sharing random information I have stored in my brain. I don’t know what the most valueable part of the ostrich farming is, but there’s a lot of farmed ostrich (relative to the wild).
Their skin makes some really expensive boots. Their feathers are no longer in demand since cabaret went out of style, and people prefer to be able to see the business parts without obstruction these days.
But the jackets are in high demand among the political class.
Cowboys love ostriches
https://yeehawcowboy.com/products/mens-stetson-cheyenne-ostrich-boots-square-toe-handcrafted-jbs-collection?variant=41588534084&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-onjBRDSARIsAEZXcKbGj6bkFB0L4N0L1W0SVO2GriueVLdki_mWwzI4MM6VAl4z-A9h_RsaAqG7EALw_wcB
There’s practically no animal restrictions out here in Pahrump. We’ve got everything from ostrich farms, to tigers, to Heidi Fleiss’s parrots…
a limited market for omelettes for 12 from a single egg
They should market to Warty. He eats 12 egg omelets every morning.
I don’t believe you. *Sticks head in sand*
*narrows gaze*
Hey Swiss, you hear Spartacus (not our Spartacus, the one in NJ) told people he doesn’t speak Swiss? 🙂
Maybe instead of a narrow gaze you should try some other form of punishment?
Maybe shunning and ostrichizing him?
Canada?
I thought that was America’s hat. Did I miss a memo?
SSSHHH. You want the Chinese to invade? Because that’s how you get an invasion by half a billion Chinese wanting bigger boners.
God-Emperor Trump walks.
The armor is amazing. Notice the left pauldron, the hammer and sickle. Artisans in 40k work crusades and conquests into power armor.
I’m not sure this was mockery that backfired into badassness or not. it doesn’t matter to me. I want to see it on the White House lawn.
Hope that makes the Macy’s parade.
I just want to see the media outlets that had the Trump baby balloon on repeat for hours cover this once.
I never really got the Trump baby thing.
It’s what progs do when they get their asses whupped and still think the person who did the whuppin is way dumber than them, because they’re the adults in the room and he’s the baby.
Shorter: Projection.
progjection.
I still can’t get over the twitter sword.
Apparently some sort of reference to tariffs based on the limited subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWjC_mrucY4
Who’s posting it in the afternoon links?
Heh
I’m VERY disappointed it didn’t appear in last night’s post. I expect better from you Glibbies.
That is seriously impressive. The more I look, the more details I find on it.
Subway guy, Jared Fogle, living it up in prison.
Sounds great! Is there some victimless crime I can commit to get there?
WEED!
Try not paying your taxes although I suspect you won’t be treated quite so well.
Wesley Snipes agrees.
Not quite Cool Hand Luke, is it?
What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate…because your internet is down. I’ll have a technician come by and fix it for ya young feller.
Karl Hungus ?
You can imagine where it goes from here.
DUI?
*runs away*
“Last week, the unnamed tipster had entered the abandoned house in Houston, Texas to smoke some pot in peace as the state still does not permit the use of recreational marijuana.”
I’ve seen this somewhere before.
https://youtu.be/okXXghebj-0
My parents (who are a straight-edge as they come. They might have two glasses of wine in a year — maybe) have been getting recommendations from their doctors to try medical marijuana. The live in one of the Houston exurbs. I find this hilaristurbing.
Ummm, why the recommendation? The doctors think they need to chill out?
Not like it’s hard to find weed here in Texas, despite the laws on the books, as anyone at ACL Fest, especially after the sun sets, can attest to.
insomnia, Parkinsons, anxiety.
Sounds like what they need are happy pills, aka Wellbutrin. Since weed is illegal and they’re prolly law abidin’ folks.
Mom’s already taking that.
Oh, and glaucoma.
My MIL, who was scandalized that there was going to be booze at my wedding, has been ordered to drink red wine by her naturopathologist. I decided to just not say anything.
My gramma went in the opposite direction. As a kid, I learned to be a bar tender for all the older guys at any family reunion at her house. I could make a lot of drinks for a kid under 10 (although most of the time it was a seven & seven).
The last 15 years of her life, she wouldn’t allow any drinking at family gatherings at her house. It actually sort of added a bit of fun to the family gatherings because having to sneak beer when you are in your 40’s brings back so many memories. I remember drinking a beer behind gramma’s shed in the back yard with my dad in his 60s and my great uncle in his late 80s.
‘It’s like Club Fed. They’ve got a movie theater, a fully-equipped gym with weights, ellipticals, StairMasters, cable weights…outside they have a baseball field, tennis court, soccer field, horse shoe pits, a bocce ball court and corn hole.’
Heh heh corn hole heh heh
Dammit. You beat me to it. Asshole.
I still can’t believe that’s the name that stuck for that game. I remember laughing the first time one of the suburbs (well known for being far left, and very gay friendly) had multiple banners up announcing the first annual Lakewood Cornhole tournament.
And now it’s on ESPN… (I have another witness who saw it!).
ESPN 8 – “The Ocho”?
I was at a brewery, trying their offerings, and happened to turn around. The televisions there were tuned to different sports channels. One of them was an ESPN, and they were showing a National Cornhole tournament. I pointed it out to the girlfriend so I had another witness. One of the other channels had some volleyball variant where you had to use your feet or legs to keep the ball in play.
Yeah, it may have been the Ocho.
ESPNU was showing college cornhole championships recently.
“These people don’t realize how lucky they are. This office is the American dream. And they would rather be in the hole.”
The title of the link says it all:
https://babylonbee.com/news/pelosi-reveals-favorite-bible-verse-war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-ignorance-is-strength
You realize Babylon Bee is parody, right?
Although in this case, maybe not.
In case you missed this. https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/02/nancy-pelosi-bible-quote-minister-needs.html
BB seems to be doing a twist on the real thing.
In this case, definitely not.
Yeah, I thought it was a given to everyone here that this was a parody. But AOC and her ilk make it hard to sort out parody and reality sometimes.
And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but El Paso residents who have to put up with this spectacle. Well that and having to be El Paso residents.
El Paso… I spent a month there one night
El Paso. Yeah, I grew up there. It’s really a unique and strange place. Not Texas and not quite New Mexico. Not Mexico and not quite the USA. Best viewed in your rear view mirror.
I went to school at Biggs Air Field. Was my first experience in the desert. Met my wife there but not in the desert.
Best viewed as you pass through on your way to Big Bend for a couple of weeks of hiking!
STEVE SMITH ENCOURAGE HIKING!
El Paso’s motto: “At least we’re not Fort Stockton with that giant concrete roadrunner.”
Rear view mirror indeed. I was stationed at Ft. Bliss for a spell. In my late 1980s experience, El Paso was the most racialist, violent town to which I had ever been. The white folk hated the blacks and Mexicans, the black folk hated the whites and the Mexicans, and the Mexicans hated the blacks and whites.
“Diversity is our strength.”
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
Turned out she was with the cartel. Did some things to make the hardened Glib hurl.
Just by the numbers you wouldn’t have much choice. And judging by the images forever engraved on my retinas from my high school years there is good reason for that.
Based on ESPN viewings, you can get a handjob while watching football from the rocks above the stadium, so it has that going for it.
I interviewed for a position at UTEP a number of years ago (1992 I think). All the desks in the classrooms were bolted to the floor. When I asked why, they said that it was to keep them from disappearing and crossing the border overnight. Apparently the customs check going into Mexico from U.S. was not quite as rigorous as the other way round.
Orange Man Bad news
Veteran Middle East hands worry Trump is steering America into yet another misguided regional disaster, this time with Iran. A longtime former top CIA operations officer compared Trump’s misrepresentations about Iran to the lies a succession of presidents told to justify the war in Vietnam. “I don’t want to overblow the Vietnam analogies, but we’re in the process, from what I can see, of lying to ourselves and the American people about Iran,” he tells Newsweek, speaking on terms of anonymity because he retains close ties to the agency. “It’s not gonna attack us tomorrow. It’s not gonna kill us tomorrow. It’s not interested in direct confrontation with the U.S., despite the war of words.”
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Trump’s weapons include sanctions, support for anti-Iran exile groups and a free hand for Israel to attack Iranian outposts in Syria. The rest of his aggressive campaign amounts to a shadow war with Iran, covert actions that include social media manipulation of the kind Moscow wielded against the U.S. during the 2016 election.
That warmongering bastard is going to destroy our decades of carefully crafted Democratic peace and harmony. Or something.
Save us, Hillary!
A longtime former top CIA operations officer
Those dudes make a living by lying
heh….reminds me of an exchange from Clear and Present Danger:
“Everything this man told you is a lie. He’s in the intelligence business, he lies for a living.”
“He’s in the intelligence business, hm? YOU’RE in the intelligence business!”
The president was upset. Watching TV in his White House residence, his usual morning routine, Donald Trump saw his intelligence chiefs kick the legs out from under yet another of his pet campaigns: Iran.
How’d you finish that? I couldn’t even get past the first two sentences.
Newsweek: We have always been at war with Eastasia.
fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
Fixed it for you.
I thought these types were upset that Donnie was trying to withdraw from and keep us out of M.E. conflicts. Make up your dammed minds.
Whatever he is for, they are against. Which is why I think he should come out and tell them he is for socialism and free shit for all.
So, all of the proxy war stuff with Iran that has been going on for decades is still going on under Trump. Shocking. Also, this guy knows that the stuff he’s describing bears absolutely no resemblance to how the U.S. got into Vietnam, right?
Apparently Richmond has solved all of its actual problems.
Kendal Green has idolized Arthur Ashe Jr. since she picked up a tennis racket at age 7 as a member of the Metro Richmond Tennis Club.
“To me, he became my role model, my spiritual mentor, and someone I wanted to make proud,” Green told members of Richmond City Council on Monday night. “He inspired me to plant my own roots in the game of tennis.”
Now 17, Green is the No. 1 seed on the Henrico High School girls’ tennis team. She was one of about 40 people who asked the council to rename the Boulevard for Ashe, the native Richmonder who died in 1993 at age 49 of complications related to AIDS.
The council voted 8-0-1 to change the name of the street from Boulevard to Arthur Ashe Boulevard, endorsing the plan put forth by 2nd District Councilwoman Kimberly Gray last fall. Councilwoman Reva Trammell abstained…
Past attempts to rename the Boulevard in his honor failed in 1993 and 2003. Gray began meeting with Ashe’s relatives last February to pursue the latest attempt. David Harris Jr., Ashe’s nephew, said the city hadn’t done enough to honor his uncle’s legacy.
“This is our opportunity to recognize that racism still does exist however we still coexist and work toward the greater good,” Harris Jr. said…
Supporters of the plan said honoring an African-American on the busy street was an opportunity for the city to begin counterbalancing the Confederate iconography that stands on Monument Avenue. The statues of Confederate leaders are viewed by some as enduring symbols of racism and white supremacy.
“Given the events of the last week, I feel like there’s no better time, no better tribute, no better symbol than Arthur Ashe Boulevard intersecting Monument Avenue,” said Alyse Marshall-Auernheimer.
City officials have estimated road and highway signage bearing the new name could cost about $330,000. That sum would be split among the Virginia Department of Transportation, the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the city, officials have said.
1) Why change the name? 2) Why is it $330,000 to replace a few signs? Are they made out of Panda? 3) Why not spend the money on something more useful, like paying down the debt?
That’s insane! It should cost maybe $2k, including the labor to install them all
You haven’t paid for regulation signage with a government procurement process and union labor before, have you?
Nope, but I’ve seen how the signs are made and deployed. I fully grant that $330k is probably the minimum it would cost the city of Richmond to deploy these signs. $325k of that is graft.
Um, because the city government is notoriously inefficient and corrupt.
One of the better things about Virginia is having independent city governments. Wanna be ‘tarded? Fine. But you don’t get the tax base from the counties to do it in.
I keep expecting annexation to rear its ugly head as an issue again. I’m sure it will one of these days.
I love driving by them and seeing 7 guys supervising while one is doing the real work…
Not kidding here: to get some structural work done here, the GC charges $40k for the quote.
1) Because they’re meddlesome cunts.
2) How long is this street? How many intersections? How many highway signs reference it? Add in the Union labor at ‘prevaling rate’ for each sign replacement with a minimum of four people per crew, and we start to see the number getting past $330,000
Every map in the world has to be changed to reflect the new name. Not cheap.
^This.
I would guess that the street it will replace (“X” street) has signs all over town and on highways pointing the direction to, or where to exit the highway for, “X” street. Those all have to be replaced too.
Maybe 5 or 6 miles long, I think? It’s not terribly far. Source: Boulevard is part of my daily commute, I work a few blocks off it. Only maybe four highway signs, it’s only accessible from one interstate.
Even if they change the name, I’m pretty sure most people are just going to continue to call it Boulevard for a long time anyway. I don’t really care about this one way or the other – Arthur Ashe is a perfectly fine guy to name a street after, and I’m not a city resident so it’s not my tax money. Just seems laughable that a city with crumbling, shitty schools and roads is going to blow $300K on street signs.
Two interchanges times two directions is four signs. Then there’s the “Boulevard exit 1 Mile” signs, so another four. That’s eight.
Annnnd…no idea if any of the signs or their mounting will have to be upgraded because of new laws or regulations. A lot of those regs allow you to keep an existing sign but if you change or move it you have to upgrade it to the new spec.
Yeah, like I said below, I always forget about the expressway because I only ever take 95 and 64.
It’s a rather long street that goes through the museum district before becoming gritty. There are two highway interchanges, one with downtown expressway, the other with I95/I64.
And everyone with an address on that street will have to change stationery, advertising, billing addresses, etc. The price for the VMFA alone to change all their printed material will be impressive.
Advocates for a street name change should be required to fund any and all expenses incurred by such a change, including by third parties (residents, mapmakers, etc).
^This! I actually wrote that as a comment about a school name change on local media. Was not received well.
Then you know what the SOBs did? They let the students vote on the name change and, surprise, the kiddies decided that JEB Stuart ES should henceforth be Barack Obama ES (PBUH). And they claimed to have funded the name change (city expenses only, not suppliers, map companies, etc) by t-shirt sales. When does a schoolboard and school administrators abandon their responsibilities and let schoolchildren make these decisions? When they can hide behind the children!
Henrico did the same thing when they changed Harry F. Byrd middle (my sister’s old school) to Quioccasin.
I always forget about the expressway because I refuse to pay tolls if I don’t have to.
“becoming gritty”
Scotts Addition is pretty cool now actually. The old porno store is now a taco place.
It’s a very trendy area. Like I said, I work right by there and have for 7 years now, and seeing the transformation that’s taken place over the last few years is stunning.
BTW, since you mentioned En Su Boca, I have to say they have the worst service I’ve ever gotten in a restaurant, Bunch of skinny jeans hipsters with a million tats and piercings acting like you should be grateful they deign to serve you
The service is truly truly terrible. Like, godawful.
But unlimited chips with three tasty salsas is 3 bucks, and tacos are 3 bucks, and Tecate pint cans are 2 bucks.
Starr Hill is putting in a rooftop bar, which makes like 12 breweries/cideries/meaderies in a nine block area.
The old porno store is now a taco place.
*can’t tell if joke or not*
It’s not. It used to be a porn shop. The Triangle Adult Book Store.
Now it’s a taco joint, and they named it En Su Boca. Part of the murals includes some prominently displayed coins.
Was “In Your Mouth” an homage to it being a former porn shop?
“Was “In Your Mouth” an homage to it being a former porn shop?”
I’m sure it’s not on the building license, but I can’t imagine they picked the name by accident.
Aren’t all porno shops taco places?
Not in San Francisco.
No, but all taco shops are porno places.
Like bikini coffee shops?
The hostess at my local Taqueria Arandas was so hot…
“Given the events of last week….” So, because a Democrat chose a racist yearbook photo 35 years ago, this is a pressing issue?
Right now it’s called just “Boulevard”?
I guess.
Yep. Most people refer to it as “The Boulevard”, but the all the signs just say Boulevard.
Yes. Officially “Boulevard” or “Boulevard Street.” Which is stupid, but it was like that when I got here.
We also have both a Main Street and a Broadway.
And we also have street roads – Broad Street Rd, Hull Street Rd.
That’s when those roads cross out of the city into the counties.
And the section of highway between 95 and the beginning of the Powhite proper has several different route numbers and names including “Beltline Expressway,” which nobody has ever heard of but Google maps stridently informs you to keep straight to stay on it when the designation changes.
There’s a “Nakamichi dori” near where I live. The English translation would be “Middle street street street”.
Kansas City is also changing the name of a very old and prestigious-ish-in-some-areas boulevard from “The Paseo” to “Martin Luther King Jr Parkway.” It runs through some of the most blighted and what once were the most chi-chi parts of town.
Why they choose to name streets MLKJr in the midst of blighted neighborhoods is beyond me.
Why they choose to name streets MLKJr in the midst of blighted neighborhoods is beyond me.
Chris Rock has contemplated it as well
Because those are often the predominantly black parts of town and it’s conspicuous pandering to that constituency.
Here in Richmond (and elsewhere) we’re locked in an epic struggle over Jefferson Davis Highway / Blvd, which is what US Hwy 1 is called when it passes through Fredericksburg and Richmond (probably other cities, too). And since MLK is already taken in many locations that adds to the fun.
Shhh… Don’t let them know that US1 becomes Dixie Highway in South Florida.
US 31W is Dixie Highway in Louisville.
I bet Malcom X Boulevard is still free! (Yes, we have one in Brooklyn.)
lolright
Honestly I don’t have much of a problem with that name change. I don’t like all the “conversation” that inevitably has to surround it, though. Nor is it going to do jack shit to appease anyone. But they should do what NYC is doing to correct all the misspellings of the Verrazzano Bridge: only replace signs when they wear out.
There is also one in Harlem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenox_Avenue
MLK Jr. Boulevard festivities already under way!
Mo, I agree. They could have changed the name of Cookingham Drive…or constructed a new fountain…but then our beloved city government moves in mysterious (and sometimes boneheaded) ways.
Cookingham’s north of the river and out in the middle of nowhere and would’ve been seen as damning with faint praise.
But THE PASEO of all streets?!
Also, a new fountain is a brilliant idea.
All we got in Buffalo was this stupid park 🙁
I don’t know what the most valueable part of the ostrich farming is, but there’s a lot of farmed ostrich (relative to the wild).
Feather boas, for strippers?
Oooooh, YEEAAHH!
Repost in response to I0B0t:
Your coworker is gone. He is not there. If you are a religious person then surely you believe he is in a better place. If not, then he is just gone. His body is just an inanimate object. Nothing you do will change that. I understand your sentiment but the problem you describe is pretty common. I saw a report years ago about bodies piling up in L.A. by the hundreds and autopsies backed up for 2 or 3 years. That situation exists in many large cities I am sure.
Watch the movie ‘Saving Private Ryan’ again. The whole movie is setting up for one line – “Was I a good man?”
That is how you honor someone.
I have asked my family not to spend money on me after I die. Spending money on my corpse wont change anything. In fact, I donated my body to LSU Medical school. Med students will chop me up, cremate me and mail me back in a cardboard box for free. I asked them to spread me out, or toss me out if the med school doesnt want me, on some of our timber land. In the end it wont matter to me but it might help them feel better if they put my body there. Huh, I will become the trees I loved all o fmy life.
Suthen, here’s the thing you’re overlooking about a funeral.
It’s NEVER for the dead guy. The purpose of the funeral is for the people still left alive who cared about the dead guy. They’re not paying to stick you in a hole in the ground, they’re paying for closure and transition.
I am already stocking up liquor for my wake. There won’t be a funeral, but there damn better be a wake, and a right proper Irish one at that. With hangovers that last days.
I never went to anyone’s funeral unless forced, because I am pretty sure that if I was willing to have one when I die, they would not be coming to it. Yeah, I am spiteful I guess.
My dad felt pretty much the same as you. Always said he’d never want a service or a marker – and didn’t think there was anything all that special about the skinsuit he’d leave behind. I saw to it that his wishes were respected. We had no service, he was cremated, and my mother and I scattered the cremains in a meaningful place that only the two of us know about. The people who knew him will remember him, and our memories are really the only thing worthwhile left behind. I’ll do more or less the same thing when I go. Except if it’s economically feasible by then, I’d like to have my cremated or liquefied carcass shot into space.
Thanks again, you wonderful soul (I replied back there before noticing the lynx had been posted). I just dropped the kids off at school and I think I’ll Irish up this coffee while I eat all this bacon.
My feelings exactly. My wife and I have our medical will to reflect the donation to science. Not saying there is much to learn from a tired old body with a few dents but if just 1 student learns something my job is done.
A few dents?
You are not trying hard enough.
Suthen, saw your reply to my question about solar. Thanks. I’ll backbirner that one until the tech evolves.
Now, trying to figure out if I can put a well on my property. I’m a highly credentialed bureaucrat, and damned if I can figure out the who what where of getting a permit.
A whut? Permin? Permim? Petmint?
You cant figure out how to get one? I cant figure out how to pronounce it.
But I can drill.
In AZ water is going to be your biggest challenge.
Wife asked me about us moving to AZ for retirement (as we have a number of friends there). I mentioned the problems with water there and that I prefer to delay my arrival in hell for as long as possible.
If I did live there, I’d be blowing up any water delivery system sending cheap water to farmers to grow cotton and alfalfa. [Sam Kinison] YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT [/SK]
But you gotta love something about a place where you can drive down one of the busiest streets of the second largest city (in rush hour traffic) with a belt-fed machinegun in the gun rack of your pick-up truck – with a belt of ammunition hanging off the feed tray – and the police car behind you does nothing about it.
+1 Toyota technical
Can others see into your property easily? If not, drill baby, drill!
Yup. Plus, I don’t own and am not going to buy a drilling rig, and ain’t nobody gonna drill a well without a permit.
The Casa Dean sits on solid granite. Which is good (ten years old, plaster walls, and just a handful of hairline cracks at a few window corners) and bad (that well is going to cost to drill.)
This is all I can envision.
https://youtu.be/alUVf3AEOZI
Here is the answer for your water problem RC.
When I go before the Yama Kings, I will ask to come back as a bit of lichen growing high up on the mountains.
And then there’s Politico with an article on how the Ds can choose the “most electable” candidate in 2020 … with a big picture of Fauxcahontas to start it off.
Would have been much funnier if the lead picture was of some soldier with a gunshot wound to the foot.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/12/electable-democrat-nominee-2020-224985
Accused murderer spared abortion charge thanks to Cuomo’s new law
i have Catholic acquaintances on faceaids in full blown apoplectic disbelief over that law.
I am not following this. The law was repealed after he committed the act? What happened to no ex post facto?
He hasn’t been tried yet. You can’t try him for a law that no longer exists.
“What does it matter? He’s in prison and she’s just as dead,” say advocates of hate speech modifiers.
Oops, ^hate crime
So “punching the baby out” is now perfectly legal in New York?
You’d still get assault charges for hitting the mother.
A couple years in the clink (if not on probation) vs. eighteen paying child support? What’s to lose? NYC made that choice easy for the sort of sociopath predisposed toward physical abuse. It’s not a baby, it’s a clump of cells. She’s not a grieving would-be mother, she’s just an assault victim.
Man, it’s almost like flattering the pieties of upper-class lefty women comes at the cost of imperiling their lower-class sisters, and they just don’t give a fuck.
Can’t get something out of your head you say? [And there are much worse earworms that EW&F}.]
A possible budget deal as been reached that includes partial funding for The Wall.
I was hoping for another glorious “shutdown”.
It hasn’t been passed, and can be vetoed – which it should given the inadequite funding and the restrictions placed on what can be built alongside gimping the storage capacity for captured illegals.
Asia Could Use An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
If Hong Kong had its own Ocasio-Cortez, the city’s lawmakers would see her plan to boost levies on tycoons as the solution to its biggest challenge. If Japan, meantime, had its own “Green New Deal” movement, Asia’s richest nation might have a brighter and more innovative future.
Wide eyed doesn’t fly here.
I’m guessing CNN.
Dammit, nope. Forbes.
Is Malcolm Forbes doing loop-dee-loops in his grave?
I remember when a guy named Forbes used to run for president as a free markety-type candidate.
No, they don’t need AOC over in Japan. Also, I got around to giving the Tom Woods podcast a listen, thanks Staff and it really got my almonds activated. It took my thoughts and expressed them much better than I thought.
Nobody needs Karla Marx.
Thanks Straff* doggone it.
I’ve been called “Staff” many times.
Better than “help,” I guess.
“Servant”
You get used to it.
“white monkey”
It’s nice to have someone like Tom out there that fights the fight but does it with a happy face. There is a dearth of good podcasts out there that actually delve into the nuts and bolts of libertarian philosophy. At least I haven’t found too many.
I would think Hong Kong has access to too many quasi-Marxists.
Must assume the author is hoping for the Tom Friedman slot at the NYT.
“As I was being driven down the Bund, my rickshaw driver observed…”
She has a lot of work to do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY
Pew: One-third in new survey say wearing blackface for Halloween is acceptable
Because it is not “blackface” when done in that context.
Can African Americans wear black face?
Only if the black face is of a lighter shade than their skin.
If they’re self-hating, sure.
They can wear whiteface.
I let a friend talk me into seeing that in theaters.
Hopefully the $0.99 matinee?
It was full price, but you could see a flick without taking out a loan back then. Probably would have been about $7.50.
Same friend conned me into seeing The Hot Chick with Rob Schneider too. Literally conned. He was supposed to be buying tickets for something else, I can’t even remember what, and I was meeting him at the theater. We had got in and sat down before I realized what was happening. I’ve never felt more violated in my entire life.
And you still refer to him as “friend”/
What a psycho.
I went to see The Master of Disguise because a girl way outta my league who assented to a first date with me for some reason wanted to see it. Absolutely, without question the worst movie I’ve ever paid to see.
And you still refer to him as “friend”/
Heh, I haven’t spoken to him since high school. I guess acquaintance might be more accurate.
To be fair, my own taste wasn’t exactly refined at the time. Still isn’t, really.
A roommate once rented Dude Where’s My Car. While it thankfully didn’t cost me a penny, I did lose about 90 minutes of my life to that shit show.
…and dehhhhn????
So, I’m going to go with… maybe?
YES! The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club (the oldest Black Mardi Gras Krew) requires all float riders and marchers, regardless of ethnicity to wear blackface. They have said they will not stop doing so.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/entertainment/events/mardi-gras/zulu-says-blackface-tradition-isnt-going-anywhere/289-e0e6cf61-46a9-46dd-8cd2-126ba3ebbbdc
Mardi Gras indians are problematic
/future intersectionality Olympics event
Absolutely. An awful lot of Minstrel show performers were black, Just like white people wear mime makeup.
“I’m dressed as Al Jolson”
Google and ABC carrying water for the DNC’s losers:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/note-trump-show-upstaged-beto-orourke-congressional-realities/story?id=60997073
Move on, nothing to see here…
Stop trying to pretend those schools are run for the benefit of the students
Denver took the lead on performance pay for teachers and was followed by several other large urban school systems, including Dallas, Orlando and the District. It’s an issue that proved to be a lightning rod for teacher unions, who fiercely oppose performance pay systems. They maintained that it was based on measures that were unreliable and beyond the control of teachers, such as test scores and metrics that attempt to predict how effective teachers are at boosting test scores.
D.C. Public Schools has one of the most robust performance-pay systems. Adopted in 2009, the system tied teacher evaluations to test scores and established a pay structure that gives teachers who are rated highly effective up to $25,000 in bonuses. But the system remains controversial, with critics suggesting the fixation on data has driven scandals that have rocked the district.
Pay for performance is bad. It lessens the power of the union, and undermines workers solidarity by reinforcing that corrosive dog-eat-dog individuality we hears so much about, these days. Teaching is a calling, not a job. Just raise their salaries, and pump more money into the school system.
Teachers should be paid like professionals! They just shouldn’t have any of the accompanying accountability.
When I moved there in 1990, every Denverite I met treated me like I was a visiting locust until they realized I was from Wisconsin and not California. Looks like the locusts have eaten all the crops in Colorado, too. Sad.
Christ, what assholes. How dare teachers also be subject to the horrors of *gasp* meritocracy and adequate work performance?
Like anything else you allow to be public and unionized: It attracts too many people who don’t belong in there. I’m seeing a proliferation of such employees in my business. Where people came into daycare because they truly loved children, now you have those who come in for the ‘perks’ if you’re on the subsidized side. They’re the ones who don’t think they should take out the garbage. They suck.
That’s okay. But the problem is you can’t fire their asses. There are a lot of teachers who’d be better off elsewhere. There’s no interest for what they do.
Something tells me they’re the ones doing the most yelling and screaming.
I would guess that most public school teachers in the US are not unionized, at least not officially. But almost all are represented by statewide education lobbies like the Virginia Education Association which is effectively a union.
I would have taken that bet.
Google results are a bit on the slim side, but the top link is an article from 2015 claiming that the percentage of teachers who are unionized dipped under 50% for the first time “in decades”. Looks like your guess is right, but it appears to be close.
The next link down only has data up to 2008 and shows fairly overwhelming majorities at that time: 60-90% unionized on a state-by-state basis.
Around 2011 Wisconsin and Indiana changed the law so teachers weren’t forced into the union, numbers have been falling since then.
“How can I be expected to produce good test results when you send me all these dumb kids every year?”
Welcome to every employee incentive and evaluation program, ever.
I actually mostly agree with the teachers here. I don’t think their opposition to performance based pay has any logic or rationality behind it but they do happen to be accidentally correct here. In almost any type pf creative field where the work is not in discrete measurable outputs (how many widgets did you make which pass quality inspection) any attempt to device a pay for performance system is doomed to failure because it will alter the incentives away from doing whatever the correct thing is to doing whatever will drive the performance metrics the most. Yes we need to be monitoring the teachers for failure but to think anyone can come up with a workable way of “measuring” teacher performance is suffering from the same sort of delusion that drives top men to think they can drive the economy in a desired direction.
A great way of measuring quality and sorting for desirable traits would be to have parents hire the teachers with their own money and direct their payments to the teachers who did the best job teaching their kids.
Why yes, this would actually work quite well. A bureaucratic system setup to somehow measure teacher performance based on student test scores, not so much.
Facebook and Google news should be regulated, Cairncross Review says
We don’t need new regulation, simply recognize that by their censorship, they have stopped being a platform and are now publishers – liable for the content on their sites.
Yawn: right on time. But I compliment the energy to make this argument more often than I care to refute it.
The Fifth Column podcast stumbled near this issue last week. It occurred to me that a test for whether something can be regulated is whether it is demonstably private. To the extent that these institutions have a right to unilaterally dissolve, liquidate, suspend service, whatever, they can do what they want with the pieces of their firms that are left running. If the government won’t commandeer the thing as a public utility to ensure it stays,afloat in the form they demand, they should simply fuck off.
There is no need to but in, as the existing rules work just fine. The matter at hand is by choosing by their own criteria the content, they no longer fit the classification of a platform. This means they are ineligable for the protection from liability for the content. Since they want to edit the content, push them into publisher status and let the matter sort itself out.
So you’re saying we need a Ministry of Truth.
The craft beer growth is slowing, hitting those who expanded into national brands the hardest (Green Flash, Stone, Smuttynose, and New Belgium have all had well publicized issues). So what could help out some of those brands? Unions! If you want a deeper dive, Salon. Fair warning, the Salon piece contains sentences like:
Given how many homeless people are in San Fransisco, you can live there for very little.
Yeah, living on the street there is the shit.
But you’re always getting needled to find a home.
But I really like the open concept.
I’ve heard that some residents find it to be a pain in the ass.
Where else can you find a 40,000 acre master bathroom in an urban area for next to nothing?
after their prices rise making them noncompetitive, then the state regulatory body can step in and “manage trade”.
More likely Sapporo (who bought Anchor a couple years back) will just close the San Francisco brewery, and make the Anchor beers somewhere else. Hell, it was just announced that (the apparently new recipe) Newcastle Brown Ale is going to being brewed at Lagunitas.
Yep. That sounds about right.
That explains why Newcastle hasn’t been available recently. WTF is wrong with companies? Just launch a new product if you’re going to fuck over the existing one so hard.
I haven’t looked for it, but I think it’s still on the shelves in my area (but that may be old product). Looks like Heineken has been moving around the production of Newcastle quite a bit over the past couple of years. The recipe change may be due to water differences, or capacity/equipment at the new location. I have the feeling that if they change the flavor profile too much, it’s going to crash.
Here is this year’s Grammy winner for best ROCK song. I bitch about Adam Levine’s “rock is dead” comment, but at least he is honest enough to not call the noise he makes rock and roll.
There’s not really distinct genres to speak of anymore, not in the Billboard Hot 100 anyway. Rock, Hip Hop, EDM and pop have all fused in this amorphous chunk of shit. I blame the Black Eyed Peas mostly.
Don’t forget Country which is merging with rap, pop, and a few other genres leaving you with stuff like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltjBNZOjek
This is the musical equivalent of something like Scandinavian-Mexican fusion cuisine.
If Scandinavian-Mexican fusion cuisine caused your brain to leak out your ear-holes.
Yeah, that song doesn’t strike me as “pop” any more than “rock”. All I know is I don’t like it.
That’s like listening to a suicidal didgeridoo.
Had to look that up. Happily found her.
A chick that white would last less time than I would in the outback.
Aren’t most Austrians descended from Scottish convicts?
Would.
*grunts, plays some Motorhead*
How dare you not link to Motorhead after mentioning them in a text. At least MikeS made it easy for us to click.
In a fight between God and Lemmy, who wins?
this assumes that Lemmy isn’t God
I’ll accept that. Alternate; “Trick question. Lemmy is god”.
* also grunts, wonders what the Motorhead is, and contemplates coming off the road tonight to NewWife *
* more grunting cause can’t do the cool alttext on the phone thingy*
+ no grunting, just blunt linky to a lil old band from Texas: A Fool For Your Stockings https://g.co/kgs/uZqRL7
Yes, I believe!
Get off my lawn with that shit.
Meh, St Vincent has some good stuff, but that is not it.
And it’s not rock, it’s pop.
That one with David Byrne isn’t bad.
It’s like they deliberately picked one of her worst songs.
But, yes. Pop, not rock.
Less than 116K views.
I like St. Vincent. She has been said to be a female David Bowie. However, I can agree that what she does isn’t really “rock.” I don’t know how to describe it.
On the other hand Hobbit Band, Greta Van Fleet won one of them Grammys.
As long as you don’t give a shit about “commercial success” it’s still out there and people still enjoy it. Just can’t make any real money off it: https://youtu.be/fDQO42ek2FA?t=61
Can’t make “real” money off rock?
I keep hearing about the major Ebola outbreak in the corners of the internet. The mainstream might start reporting when somebody in Europe or the U.S. gets sick.
https://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2019/02/feb-2019-ebola-update-cheery-thoughts.html
Drake, it’s the Congo. With all the muder, rape, cannibalism, and disease in the region, hemmoragic fever is just another day.
book idea: either that region will be denuded of life or produce the next step in human evolution, i.e. superhuman
Evolution is an adaptation to circumstance. Any change from baseline human coming out of the mess in the congo is liable to be a disease resistant hominid well-suited to murderfuck outgroups and eat their corpses, but not one for building advanced civilizations.
So hope the troubles simmer down before then.
I hope this doesn’t inspire some new SugarFree story.
InvasionImmigration of the diseased murderfuckers – to make us more multicultural.It’s actually a country that’s filthy rich and has 23rd century technology due to the vast amounts of valuable natural resources. They just pretend to be poor to keep the rest of the world off their scent. I saw this in the Oscar-nominated film for Best documentary this year.
Also, whoever decided to put long articles as white text on a black background should be dropped into the congo.
Internet ebola? e-Bola?
*narrows gaze*
THE END IS NIGH!
Starbucks and Volvo dealers anticipating lootings!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/insect-population-decline-extinction_us_5c611921e4b0f9e1b17f097d
Does that include mosquitoes?
In addition, the report called for a new Institute for Public Interest News.
Such a body, it said, could work in a similar way to the Arts Council, channelling public and private funding to “those parts of the industry it deemed most worthy of support”.
Some news sources are noble and selfless, and are motivated solely by the wish to make the world a better place. We’ll snuff them out.
Workers stated they “should be paid enough to live in San Francisco.”
Something something learn to something.
The lawyers for Fairfax accuser are saying that she shouldn’t have to testify. If you don’t want to testify, fine, but then don’t be appaled when no one believes you. As cake use to say Shut the F*** Up
Gosh, this seems familiar. But last time we endured this national turmoil, unwillingness to testify was treated as a symptom of deep trauma stemming from the thing she’s unwilling to testify about. Do we no longer believe that? How many front doors does her house have?
Democrat women in white no joke. Starting to really dig this YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO4D3kchwW4
The Tampons.
I still can’t get over how they were only lively and ecstatic when Trump brought up the record number of women in Congress.
> Minorities having less unemployment? Yawn
> Less taxes? Yawn
> Potential peace talks to bail out of the ME after 18 years? Yawn
Man, what self-back patting asshats.
/makes raising the roof gesture.
The contrast between their disapproving scold routine and Trump’s levity (“Don’t sit down, you’re going to like this next part.”) may partially explain his approval rating bump.
The best part was when they didn’t know when to ‘raise the roof’ and high five each other.
They looked like they were in a Jr. high auditorium.
Edmund Burke is starting to sound better and better everyday to me.
Tard Tuesday: Never Give Up Never Surrender (Russian Fever Dreams)
IT’S HAPPENING!
Jeez, these guys are still banging on that MUH RUSSIA drum. I thought it’s been a busted drum for a while, wow.
Wow this sounds serious. If somebody was to investigate Trump, I bet they would find all kinds of serious felonies in no time at all.
They have! They’re dotting every i and crossing every t! It’s only a matter of time! Never mind that every remotely scurrilous mouse fart was leaked from Comey’s and then Mueller’s office the second it crossed the threshold, they’re tight-lipped now because of professional discipline.
An algorithim for writing content like DU (and it’s Conservative counterpart?) is pretty easy:
1. Assume the worst about your opponent.
2. Take everything that happens as evidence of that assumption’
#2 is very important. It not just ignoring counter-points, its taking counter-points and showing how they actually validate your world view.
Even better, you don’t even have to write the #2 part of the algorithm, as you can just copy/paste it from the global warming algorithm.
2400 people follow DU on Twitter.
And?
Aside from the fact that bot followers are a thing, it’s twitter, and few less important things exist.
I’m just thankful is all.
It means it doesn’t get much reach. This place is the first place I’ve ever heard of DU.
Considering the Rise of the SJW started on Twitter (#gamergate) and enjoys a substantial amount of influence on MSM and culture because of how they scream on Twitter and how Twitter indulges that and silences dissent, it is rather important.
DU is actually a well-known thing in far-left circles. It’s like their Freep.
Twitter isn’t important to me, but that doesn’t mean it and social media more broadly aren’t important. Like it or not, Twitter in particular is a major source of influence for a large number of people, and one ignores it at one’s peril. I’m sure a lot of people thought television was a dumb idea when it first hit the scene.
The graffiti scrawled on the wall of a filthy restroom in a dive bar only matters to the people who waste their days in the bar and actually use the thing.
I admit having a twitter account. I got it because the non-profit I was volunteering for wanted all officers to send out tweets publicizing its activities. I even sent out a tweet once on behalf of the org.
And while
the grafitti we scrawled on the Internet’s bathroom wallthe tweets we published did bring in some punters, I found the whole exercise tiresome and little better than standing on a street corner, handing out fliers.I know that there is a perception that twitter is absolutely necessary for any modern business trying to market itself with prospective customers. But I think that perception is incorrect; the number of people who actually use twitter is (a) a fraction of the population, (b) dwindling, and (c) has little overlap with the people who make purchasing decisions for the most part.
All the SJW’s are accomplishing is making one publishing business less appealing to most people.
It’s a mistake to underestimate Twitter’s reach to the leftie masses and the people who drive social media. You don’t have to be ON Twitter to hear what comes out of Twitter if you’re watching CNN/MSNBC or reading the NYT or WaPo or HuffPo. The stories come from Twitter, not the other way around.
I follow lots of lefties because I like knowing what the enemy is up to. Twitter’s influence is not inconsequential. Not at all.
Maybe we are talking at cross-purposes.
Yes, twitter matters to some people. It matters especially to people of a collectivist mindset, who use it as a transceiver to communicate with the rest of their flock.
So, from a know your enemy perspective, yes Twitter is a great source of sigint.
But, from an learning-a-living perspective, I think ignoring twitter entirely is the wiser course. It only matters as much as you let it matter. So what I am arguing is that twitter is akin to watching crappy movies in a movie theater: something that people can decline to do with absolutely no negative consequences whatsoever.
Oh, I see what you’re saying now.
Yes, if you don’t participate, it doesn’t make any difference in your life.
one of his strongest opponents, Beto O’Rourke
Last I looked, he was unemployed, and not in the top 5 in the Dem Clown Car Primary.
Environment in multiple crises – report
centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research
I guess Stalin was a centrist.
Politicians and policymakers have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis facing the Earth
This is what is so alarming about the Green New Deal. It is literally Climate Change Alarmisim as law. They always prance out the “Scientists” but then make wildly unscientific claims. If you call them out on it they call you a denier. The idea that the World will end in 10 years is so ridiculous that it beggars disbelief that anyone actually thinks it’s true. Even given the truly mainstream scientific thoughts, it would be preferable to go through with climate change than try to implement eve 10% of the Green New Deal.
Their actions speak volumes more than their words. They cry the apocalypse is just around the corner while they have their barista pour them a fresh cup of coffee, right before they read the latest Salon article on their Ipad.
I am very, very disappointed in You People. You missed the best part of the pussy link:
Videos of the tiger being towed out of the abandoned house and then after reaching the BARC centre were widely shared on Twitter.
No, no! We tow the lion, not the tiger!
Subway guy, Jared Fogle, living it up in prison.
That went differently than I expected.
He doesn’t get Ass raped every day?
+1 Footlong every day.
Well, putting the snow-blower on did succeed in warding off a major snowfall. The freezing rain/ice is another story.
It’s a strap-on?
Somewhere between my brain, my fingers and an earlier comment, the words “the tractor” disappeared.
However, while I’m here I’d like to thank the academy of bad humor… blah, blah, blah.
Re yesterday’s meaning of Nazi: https://www.liberalforum.org/topic/212735-the-word-nazi-was-first-used-as-an-insult/
I always figured it was used in the very first usenet argument.
Good Morning Banjos!
Mornin’
Blacklisting the Soul
https://quillette.com/2019/02/09/punishing-the-crime-vs-blacklisting-the-soul/
Thoughtful article.
“Black” listing?
It’s like you people never learn.
What do you mean… “you people”?
The Russia Probe is Paying for Itself!
Some time soon, the federal government will begin selling off what’s left of Paul Manafort’s life, a small fortune amassed through a decade of illicit lobbying work. When they do, the investigation into Russian election interference stands to breach an unusual milestone: bringing in more money than it has cost.
Prosecuting, imprisoning and looting your political rivals is a proud tradition of the state.
+1 proscription list in the Forum
Some time soon, the federal government will begin selling off what’s left of Paul Manafort’s life, a small fortune amassed through a decade of illicit lobbying work.
While his business partner remains in possession of his portion of the fortune, presumably amassed through a decade of concomitant but entirely above-board lobbying work on behalf of the same firm.
That this is even a discussion or area of concern indicates our republic is fundamentally broken.
Prosecution for profit is one of the worst features of our devolving society.
It’s not the Trump part of the Great Russia Panic, but even The New Republic sees that Maria Butina was railroaded.
The Importance of Good Sex as a Black Woman
You could just leave the country if it’s that bad.
But then what would she have to bitch about?
Paraphrasing, “Take your vibrator and shove it”
I hear Congo is nice. . .
So marginalized and exhausted!
“Marginalized” = getting columns published by Yahoo, apparently.
You’re either making your pile or guarding your pile.
The strong must protect the sweet.
When you’re so obsessed with racial superiority that you believe even sex is more important because of your skin tone…
a country that is…heavily steeped in systemic racism
Examples, please.
Well, we do have this insistence on elevating talented black high school students to Ivy League programs where they can’t compete with Jewish and Asian braintrusts, but I doubt that’s what she means. Maybe she means we’re not policing Chicago enough.
She’s been marinated in resentment her whole life. It’s an invisible collar that will keep her from ever wandering off the DNC plantation. Mission accomplished Reverend Al, Jesse Jackson, and every other racial huckster out there.
I stumbled across an interview with Mahersalah (sp?) Ali with a baitish quote along the lines of, “Black actors have to be cultural studies majors, while white actors can just be actors.” I was all ready to be disappointed in the guy, but it turns out he was talking about how every time a black person becomes famous for something media idiots start asking him about the “black community” and “as a black man/woman…” He went on to say he just wants to be able to talk about acting without being expected to be a spokesman for all black people everywhere. I was impressed, because there are a lot of idiots like this woman who think everything they do is somehow endowed with a racial character.
White actors impose a high bar what with the many social policy experts and climate scientists among them.
It is pretty impressive that noted policy experts such as Robert DeNiro still find time to act after a long day of offering relevant and insightful commentary on the events of the day.
Alec Baldwin is a world-class asshole, but he’s a shit-flinging rage-monkey too so I forgive his pig-ignorant social commentary.
Oh, and the acting thing.
I’m fairly certain that a place like, say, Lagos, has many job opportunities for a black woman, not to mention orgasms.
As a Chinese man, the very act of existing is stressful. We’re only a few weeks into 2019, and the headlines are already reminding me why marginalized folks are exhausted—the news leaves my stomach in knots, social media stresses me the hell out, and I’m constantly feeling gaslit by commentators on TV. I feel the stress of being a Chinese man in my bones.
I’ve been looking for an effective coping strategy for years, but the anxiety of being a Chinese man is relentless. My brain buzzes on alert with everyday frustrations and painful past memories even when I sleep. “Living in a country that is so heavily steeped in systemic racism impacts our mental health in a number of ways,” says Joy Luck Bradford, Ph.D., founder of Therapy for Chinese Boys. “The stress that we experience as a result of the often daily micro- and macro-aggressions can lead to increased anxiety, depression, anger, difficulty sleeping, and isolation.”
Exhausted, angry, and frustrated, I recently realized there’s only one situation in which I feel totally free of these feelings: after orgasm.
The sweet mental and emotional release of an orgasm is the only thing that seems to help on days when the state of the world leaves me feeling tangled up in knots of anxiety. Seriously, orgasms, whether solo or coupled, have often saved me.
She used a lot of words to say, “Sex feels good. And I’m black. And a woman.”
In the first four sentences, she let the audience know she’s a black woman three times.
So she is saying she like vanilla?
Likes*, even.
Why have you LA Glibs not escaped yet? If you need a place to stay while you relocate, I’m sure this community can help.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/11/mayor-eric-garcetti-declares-green-new-deal-in-l-a-cancels-natural-gas-officials-doubt-keeping-the-lights-on/
That should be a hilarious collision between reality and fantasy.
Since this is just LA and not the entire country, they should be completely green in a year.
Maybe they should go ahead and force in these green initiatives? The quicker it flops, the quicker people realize it was a mistake, the quicker they’ll come to their senses once and for all.
*sigh* Rufus, poor Rufus. If all the heaped up evidence of failure already available hasn’t convinced them, what makes you think one more failure will?
Or they’ll need to prog harder!
It will just convince them to go further left.
“The LA green initiatives experiment wasn’t executed properly. We now know how to make it work.”
/future Church of Gaia narrative
It’s amazing to me how California has managed to survive decades and decades of chronic mismanagement, particularly in the major cities. The weather is nice, yeah, but come on, man. How is there not a mass exodus?
They routinely top the Uhaul index for outward migration, and it costs substantially more to rent from CA to anywhere than from anywhere to CA because they have to keep driving the trucks back for the next round of evacuees.
There is, though. The plant I supported in Ontario was closed in 1998: other options were cheaper in most ways.
I wonder how much longer the state can rely on the “sunshine tax” to keep things afloat. My brother-in-law absolutely loves California and doesn’t really care about the politics one way or the other. He moved out there after high school, came back to Maryland to finish college, then as soon as he could went right back with his wife in tow. Now they’ve got a kid, and they make something like $250k as a household, and can’t afford anything better than a 1BR ground-level apartment. Granted, they’re in La Jolla, but he was talking about trying to find a place they could afford to buy and pretty much limited to double-wides 45 minutes away from the city. Anything near affordable would be so far away from the stuff that brought him out there that he might as well move out of state. I’m guessing he moves out of state in the next few years.
How is there not a mass exodus?
There is.
The emigrants are just being replaced with immigrants (mostly not from other states), so the net population change numbers don’t really show it.
Soon it will be just rich techies and movie stars served by an illegal immigrant peasant class. Just the way the left likes it.
Soon? It already is.
Because Capitalism is that powerful. Even a little bit of it can keep a trainwreck of a state chugging for decades
I’m sure this community can help
Fuck off, I aint helping no “Refugees” from Commifornia. It’s all a ploy by democrats to flip my state blue.
For a mere $5 a day, the cost of a grande soy latte, you too can support a Californian in need.
I’m assuming just LA proper. Hollywood and all the towns the studios are in would be funny. You know how much power it takes just run the lights on a film set?
And for location shoots, they employ a big-rig mounted diesel generator that is often the very first to arrive on set and almost always the last to leave; that genny runs for a good 12 – 18 hours every shoot day. Mmmm… diesel.
Surely they will do their part and use portable solar arrays instead. I mean save the earth or make a movie in a cost-effective timely fashion? The Hollywood crowd should have no problem with that equation with all the preaching they do.
Cripes Almighty!
That article would actually be funny if it were showing up in The Onion. But, given that it’s actually true?
The mayor said he had challenged the city’s Department of Water and Power to come up with an answer: “Instead of saying all the reasons why not, get to a reason as to why.”
Yeah, because the fucking laws of physics are subservient to your whim. It’s like they have no concept that reality is something that exists outside of their minds.
“Instead of saying all the reasons why not, get to a reason as to why.”
I’m pretty sure this is on the list of things said right before societal collapse.
The last person to leave won’t have to turn the lights off, so there’s that…
Michael Moore’s career continues its downward spiral.
Whatever will I do without his propaganda.
Guns are destroying America
This article is so desperately stupid there’s not really anything worth quoting. Two “Parkland mothers” were photographed consoling one another (or something) in a teary embrace, but now they can’t agree on how hard the government should be working to take everybody’s guns away.
Boo hoo. Why can’t we all just agree to ban guns completely?
were photographed consoling one another (or something)
Go on…
Wait, the one whose child went to that school found out he was fine and the other lady’s kids don’t even go to that school – “Parkland Mothers” indeed.
I think you mean “Parkland survivors”. Just like that Skippy who was making all that noise on social media a while back.
I too survived the Parkland shooting.
HOLY MACKEREL!
Bitch, I spent my 18th birthday digging in at the Gatun Locks while the Panamanian Dignity Battalions lobbed RPGs at us all day. I’ll buy whatever I damn well please.
Well put. Besides, we let 16 year olds drive, and a car is far more dangerous in the hands of a 16 year old than
a rifle is in the hands of an 18 year old.
Here, I’ll save the gun grabbers some time: “But you NEED a car, and the point of a car isn’t to kill people!”
So, she thinks 18 is too young to buy a rifle but is just fine to be given firearms and explosives and then sent to a foreign country where people want to kill you?
They’re pushing to put an assault weapon ban on the ballot in Florida in 2020
I’m wondering how badly it’s going to fail. I’m also wondering to what extent it will serve as a “Get Out the Vote” effort for Trump.
Keep trying until it passes.
Boyle said that she texted Rush a couple of times last year to check in, but that they haven’t kept in touch on social media or in real life.
“She was very upset at me because I was a little more pro-gun than her, and she wasn’t very happy about that,” Boyle said. “I definitely pushed for laws, and I definitely said we need stronger laws, but I guess for whatever reason we really didn’t stay friends on Facebook or anything.”
for anyone curious, the sorta pro-gun mom in this story is the tall blonde.
You know, once, just once, I’d like to hear a response to these sorts with something like this:
You know, I really am truly sorry for the loss of your sister-in-law’s best friend’s aunt’s cousin’s friend’s nephew. II truly am. But, what happens gives you no knowledge or expertise on the issue. It doesn’t make you a constitutional scholar. It doesn’t make you a firearms expert. It only makes you an emotional attention whore looking to substitute your feelings for honest, meaningful debate. But, guess what? We already knew that people getting killed is a bad thing. That’s hardly a revelation to anyone. So, thank you very much for your time. Please do us all a favor and go the hell home.
You could just leave the country if it’s that bad.
I hear the Congo is nice.
Beat me to it. Something something great minds.
For a mere $5 a day, the cost of a grande soy latte, you too can support a Californian in need.
Nice. But let’s send them all to Hawaii. Maybe it will tip over, or sink.
Fuck that noise. We already have too many people who are so blue they are well into the ultra-violet part of the political spectrum.
What is the minimum lot size needed to set up a berm and shooting range on your own property? Assuming standard regulatory meddling on setbacks and boundary distances, etc.
I sometimes shoot at a friend’s farm. It isn’t so much the size of his property – rather the fact that there is a small mountain behind the farm so no possibility of a round going anywhere other than the side of the hill.
I helped build one at a YMCA Camp. The berm is about 12 feet high by 50 feet long. 25 yards away is a timber framed shooting hut with 5 spots for rifles. We only shoot .22 there, but even so there is a good 1/2 mile behind the berm of nothing but woods.
I have seen steel traps for sale that allow you to set up a small range in your basement.
How much of that 1/2 mile was because they had to have the empty space for the range, and how much was “because that’s what was there?”
I guess my question is a combination safety and legal one.
I’d ask the NRA. They might be wishy-washy on politics, but they are experts on how set up a range, teach classes, etc.
Here we go. I think 40 acres might be enough. What I like most about the listing is the pictures. “Yeah the house is shit, but it’s 40 acres”
Hello Lit Nerds, I need a recommendation. I would like to listen to (preferably) or watch Hamlet… and actually understand it. How antiquated is the original script? Should I look for a modern translation? Do you have a recommended audio or theatrical recording you particularly like?
Thanks
Skip Hamlet. Watch this:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/
+ 1 coin flip
That is good. As far as Hamlet the Mel Gibson one is probably the most approachable. I can’t think of any ‘modern translation’ ones, except Hamlet 2.
What? No mention of the Lion King? It’s by far the most successful modern rendition of Hamlet.
Except a) Sarabi doesn’t take up with Scar, b) she certainly didn’t participate in Mufasa’s murder (if we’re going with the interpretation that maybe Gertrude helped Claudius kill Old Hamlet), and c) there was no Ophelia.
A) Do you have any evidence she was thrown out of the pride? All the females took up with Scar.
B) I’ve never seen an interpretation where Gertrude was in on the plot.
C) All adaptations have changes. Like the prince surviving.
a) I will have to rewatch Lion King because I thought I remembered her being standoffish from Scar and refusing his advances.
b) You didn’t have my Shakespeare professor.
c) Direct hit. LOL
>What? No mention of the Lion King? It’s by far the most successful modern rendition of Hamlet.
Actually, this all started with me really enjoying Sons of Anarchy…
My husband really liked that show.
I really have a thing for strong female characters in ostensibly male-oriented stories. Nothing annoys me more than the shrinking violet laying on her fainting couch, back of wrist to forehead, saying “Oh, why is my rugged, handsome, productive husband out there saving all those lives!”
I’ve known a lot of military wives, fire-fighter wives, etc. Most of them are more of the “Come back with your shield – or on it” type. And the ones that aren’t are not held in especially high esteem.
I don’t lead a particular dangerous life of adventure, but I don’t mind saying that I’ve never felt more masculine than when my wife expects masculinity of me. She expects me to be competent with firearms. She demands I keep our SHTF supplies up to date.
Tangent incoming: I was out playing with the kids in my driveway, and a neighbor was walking a dog. Friendly dog, long leash. He stopped to talk, and the dog pounced on our juneberry patch. In about 3 seconds he found a baby rabbit and worried at its neck. Broke its back, but didn’t kill it. The baby rabbit was alive but in agony. As I’m scooting my 2 year old daughter away, I feel my wife gently push the head of a claw hammer into my back. As soon as the kid was out of eye-line, I put the rabbit down with the hammer.
Neither of us said anything to each other, but that was the greatest moment of faith and support I’ve ever felt in my life.
Claw hammer? I got a pellet rifle for mercy-killing small rodents.
Admittedly, it proved a messier end result than I’d intended.
That was a very merciful thing to do.
I write strong female characters (not a plug) because I, too, do not like wilting violets. Shakespeare had some goodies, Bianca Much Ado About Nothing, for one. Katherine The Taming of the Shrew is the prototype of every strong female romance character ever (only one man can tame her).
USC – Fetching a firearm would have made the euthanization easier on me, but taken a few minutes while the animal lay twitching and mewling in pain. Didn’t seem like a worthwhile trade off.
Also, could not have used it without violating rule 4.
Taming of the Shrew
+10 things I Hate About You
-1 Heath Ledger
I have found that reading Shakespeare as if it were a badly-typeset novel, pausing on commas and periods instead of pausing at the end of each line, helps.
Also, read slowly, and possibly out loud. It is a play, after all and meant to be spoken.
This is why I’ve never liked shakespeare. It’s a damn play. Should I read
screenplays instead of watching movies too. Also, it needs subtitles, it’s
just archaic enough that I can’t really follow the storyline as well as I’d
like because figuring out what they’re saying and what the words mean
takes up too much of my ability to focus.
I must agree.
I saw a staging of Romeo & Juliet once where the time period was the Civil War, one side was union, the other confederate, but still spoke in King James English. It was jarring and made even less sense than simply reading it out loud to yourself.
Shorter Romeo & Juliet
I like the Canadian version of Hamlet.
Sort of like the cliff notes of romeo and juliet.
Which led me to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq2SlCja3zo
(Can I just put a regular html link, or is there some sort of minilanguage
that wordpress? uses?)
I used to go to three or four Shakespeare plays every summer at an outdoor theater.
I would read the play before I went to watch it. Otherwise, it would take me the first act just to get my mind re-set to follow the dialogue.
I started to really like ballet when somebody told me the trick to ballet and opera was to know the story before you went.
Still don’t like opera, though.
I was dragged to see the Nutcracker Suite in fourth grade. Similarly
to Romeo and Juliet, why on earth do they think that this is a good
way to introduce nine year old boys to ballet (or Shakespeare)?
Perhaps those would be good introductions for girls, but nine
year old boys? Not so much. Still don’t like ballet or Shakespeare.
I had to go see the Miserable play in London at the most beautiful theater. The place was untouched since maybe 1850 or so and very ornate. They served wine and coffee in the hallways. Place was amazing. Fucking play sucked balls. Couple of hours dedicated to displaying as much misery as possible. Fuck that. Aptly named.
Probably why I only like staged Shakespeare. Though it is always cringeworthy when, in play after play, some girl dresses like a boy and fools all her closest friends.
That seems to be a common notion. I recently watched the Spanish series of Captain
Alatriste. One of the characters was a street urchin that dressed like a boy, which
fooled everyone. All I could think was: Seriously? You all can’t tell that’s a girl?
To be fair though, when I got out of the army, it took about two months to stop
using hair length to judge what sex someone was when I was behind them.
So I suppose if clothes are that sex differentiated you might not even look
at other cues.
That’s why I hate to read Shakespeare. You lose a lot of the impact if you’re not seeing it acted out. You wouldn’t recommend that someone read the screenplay of Citizen Kane before they see the movie. Plus, seeing it performed gives context that really helps the dated language make sense to modern audiences.
Shakespeare makes me feel stupid.
I came across the “Hollow Crown” series and really “got” the histories for the first time. The Branaugh Henry V is still one of my favorites, but a lot of it is really Henry IV part II as I recall. The Hollow Crown starts at Richard II and goes up to Richard III, and does each play pretty much as written, but it really looks like a movie, not a play put on film. Something about that made it easy for me to kind of just go along with the story and figure out the language as I went, almost like watching a movie in a language you kind of know but aren’t quite fluent in.
I don’t want to read it. I want to either watch it or listen to an audio rendition of it performed by professional actors who know who to do all of this.
I’ve tried reading it when I was a teenager, forced to by an idiot high-school english teacher that I hated and that hated me. I want to give it the best light possible when i try.
I skimmed your comment and misread it. *hangs head in shame*
The Mel Gibson version is a good place to start.
Branagh’s Hamlet is excellent, but I think it’s probably better to watch Hamlet first set in the era it’s written.
I have copies of both the Gibson and Branagh version. I enjoy them both.
Best is to watch the Branagh version then watch Rosenkrantz and Guildernstern are Dead.
And move on the Branagh if you dig it. But no modern-worded versions. The story is nothing, the language everything.
And stay away from SparkNotes. Their modernization/annotation of the text is so stupid I thought about hunting everyone involved for sport.
This kind of information is why I ask here.
/scratches 10 Things I hate about you off SF’s watchlist
No, I like clever modernizations, such as 10 Things, it just shouldn’t be the introduction if you want to experience what all the hype is about.
I did find it as a Rock Opera.
Sons of Anarchy, though Ophelia doesn’t wind up drowning until season 5.
We used the Folger versions in school. If I have the right publisher, the right hand page had some modern translations for words that have fallen out of use. It helped not breaking the pace of reading.
Other suggestion – start by watching Kenneth Brannaugh’s Henry V to get into the “Shakespeare Cadence”, then watch Gibson’s mediocre version of Hamlet to get the gist of the characters and plot, then read the book.
My daughter tested out of some HS English classes over the summer. One of the questions was about who characters from West Side Story represented from Romeo & Juliet. My daughter had no clue because she’s never seen West Side Story.
Anyway, I talked to the teacher and asked her to give credit for the question that didn’t apply to Romeo & Juliet (the reading assignment). She looked at me like I was retarded. I handed her the book and asked her to mark any page that referenced the Jets or the Sharks. A light went off and she gave credit and said she would remove the questions from future tests to test out of the class (they watch the movie in the classroom, but that doesn’t help kids who want to skip that shit).
I think the only adapration of Romeo and Juliet I ever saw was “Romeo Must Die” I successfully avoided the play in high school (we did Taming of the Shrew instead).
Even shorter Romeo & Juliet
WTF cold-referencing a 60-year-old movie in a test when you don’t know if the student has seen it or not? Seriously?
I seem to remember you’ve read the Discworld novels. I was going to point out (for those others in thread and lurking), that Wyrd Sisters is loosely based on Macbeth, if it was told from the point of view of the witches from Hamlet. While Lords and Ladies is roughly based around a Midsummer’s Night Dream.
/will never give up getting people to read Discworld
What is the minimum lot size needed to set up a berm and shooting range on your own property?
Rifle, or pistol?
[insert link to story about guy in California with a range under his house]
Either. Talk of exodus from blue states reminded me that I should be looking to see what kind of property might be viable for me to acquire. On my list of criteria are “Low tax, pro-gun” state, preferrably with enough land that I don’t have to find a range if I just want to plink.
Thoughts in my head…
The two most recent, relevant, and significant statistical studies* show that Comprehensive Background Checks have no association with firearm homicide and suicide rates. Both studies are from the rabidly anti-gun JHU/Bloomberg and UC Davis collaboration that frequently puts out studies using their synthetic control methodology. I think their long-game is to get us to trust their methodology by occasionally producing studies with results that we favor due to our foam-at-the-mouth pro-gun redneck neanderthal DNA. And then right before the election they’ll publish some statistical abortion that shows more guns equal more crime and death and the only solution is mass confiscation which “worked in Australia!” And we can’t impeach them b/c we already said how much we love the results of their synthetic control model.
This is the same anti-gun collaboration that published a study in 2015 showing CT’s permit-to-purchase law decreased firearm homicide by 40%. Doherty over at TOS and about three or four other people gave it a hard scrub and gave sound reasons why the “synthetic Connecticut” was a poor control group. Basically, the control was 72% Rhode Island for firearm homicides when Rhode Island had an unusually high homicide rate during the cherry-picked study period.
Definitely. It’s like “climate science”, they fuck with the results and tweak it so it reaches whatever predetermined conclusion they’ve decided upon. Politicizing science is hugely damaging in that it erodes faith in the entire enterprise.
I’ve read a lot of social science, for a guy with no formal training in the social sciences. My take is that gun laws are pretty orthogonal to actual violence and crime outcomes. This is very much out of step with my priors. I was sure – SURE – that increased access to more efficient tools of violence would be causally associated with an increase in violence outcomes. But the research doesn’t support it.
Everything that asserts an effect, either pro my-side (greater RKBA freedom) or anti, is riddled with methodological problems.
Culture*, SES, and a generalized propensity for violence cause violence and control the outcome of violent encounters**. Not access to firearms.
*Some researchers have shown that race has a causal effect. I think this is an error because in the US race is so co-linear with culture and SES. Some people disagree.
** There are only two real outcomes that I know of that seem causally related, and they both share the feature that they involve people who have no reason to hold back on the use of force – One is suicide attempts. Access to guns make a suicide attempt more common and more likely to result in death. The other is women (not men) fending off forcible sexual assault (too few women commit forcible sexual assault to be studied). In this case, more force = less likely to result in premature termination of the assault (that’s a good thing.) Yelling is better than passive compliance. Slapping / hitting is better than yelling. Weapon use is better than slapping / hitting.
My assumption regarding suicide correlation is that most of those suicides are going to happen anyway. There’s an argument that guns provide what seem to be a quick, painless, sure option, and that people who would shy away from hanging themselves or jumping off a building would impulsively gravitate towards shooting themselves. Along that line of reasoning, though, those same people ought then to gravitate towards intentional overdose. I suspect that some accidental overdoses are really suicides.
I thought the same thing for a very long time, but the observations don’t back it up. I don’t have time to go find them right now, but for non-blacks,* access to firearms increases the likelihood of a suicide attempt.
American blacks, likely for cultural reasons, commit suicide at a much, much lower rate than the rest of Americans. Less than Hispanics who are heavily Catholic. And it doesn’t matter if they live in urban or rural environments. Some researchers posit that they find ways to kill themselves that plausibly look like an accident, murder, etc. For example, more American blacks die by what looks like suicide by cop, but this is very hard to figure out for obvious reasons.
Murder is just extroverted suicide.
I always cringe when I see seemingly pro-gun articles about how a shooting occurred that wouldn’t have been prevented by existing gun laws. When pro-2A people see that, they say, “See? These regulations don’t do what you think they do, so passing more isn’t productive.” Anti-2A people see that and say, “See? There is no safe way for private citizens to own guns, which is why we need to skip the regulation part and go straight to confiscation.”
It also legitimizes existing unconstitutional infringements such as the 68 Gun Control Act, the NFA, background checks, the Hughes Amendment, and the Lautenberg Amendment.
I would like to listen to (preferably) or watch Hamlet
You should definitely watch the Mel Gibson one. Mama Hamlet (Glen Close, I think) is creepy as all get-out.
I have both the Hamlet with Mel Gibson (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099726/) and Kenneth Branagh (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/).
The Branagh version is the full four-hour play.
I really liked the Gibson one, although it doesn’t follow the timeline of the play exactly, IIRC
This is why I like your method of commenting, Brooks. I was skimming (because I have the attention span of a gnat) and misread his comment as wanting to READ it. You pulled out the necessary excerpt for me.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, this popped up in my feed so, please enjoy some Mitch Hedberg.
https://youtu.be/cF8MpK-yK5o
If you’re watching Hamlet, you’ve got to make time for Olivier.
Speaking of Shakespeare, and Branaugh, I noticed the other night Amazon Prime has Henry the V.
Great movie
There is a really good miniseries on Queen Victoria on Amazon Prime and a really good miniseries on Louis XIV on Netflix (“Versailles”). We are fetishizing nobility again. Probably because our own self-absorbed elites look so much more incompetent and stupid than the inbred narcissists who once ruled over the West.
Ugh. Shoveling 8 inches of snow, while having aspects of my usual
hangover cure, leaves a lot to be desired as a wake up call. It’s like
winter waited until the end was just in sight to dump a whole winter’s
worth of snow on us.
The city has been spreading salt on the roads every night for the last week or so, while it has been raining, and now that we are getting the most snow we’ve had yet this Winter – they DID NOT PUT DOWN SALT LAST NIGHT!
Hmm. I heard from two people that Madison had “pre-salted”, but
maybe that was before last night. Isn’t going to matter
much here, my street is about last on their priority list for plowing.
That also means that just about the time I get the driveway
finished, they like to come by and plug it back up for me.
It’s not really 8, it’s 5. But it is pretty thick.
I didn’t measure it, but it was at least a bit past the first step on my stoop.
Eight was probably an overestimate. Not fun either way. Still coming down
too. Was probably another eighth of an inch or so in the 20-30 minutes
I was out there.
“I didn’t measure it, ”
No one believes that.
You went with “I didn’t measure it” instead of “it is pretty thick”?
Living up to your moniker I guess… sheesh.
Uffda. All this carping and disputation about a simple measurement make you guys sound like my wife.
“It’s like
winter waited until the end was just in sight to dump a whole winter’s
worth of snow on us.”
There’s so much wrong with this I don’t even know where to start. At least 2 more months of winter left buddy.
I’m home sick on Titty Tuesday, so I have nothing else to do but find lots of titties for your enjoyment.
http://archive.is/M0zoe
1, 5, 9, 23, 25, 32, 34.
9>28>15>33
Get well soon.
Thanx.
18:
https://archive.is/M0zoe/56300a026c93f8c4ef6e837602b6f2a0ec9e69ad
Where is the incentive to play hard if you are on a shitty team but still making $30M a year for the next 10 years?
And who wants to be saddled with a 10 year contract on a declining player (hello M. Cabrera)? Enough teams have been burned that no one wants to give a contract that extends beyond age 30 year.
And Harper, despite his reputation, hasn’t lived up to expectations. I’d argue most of his all star appearances are due to fan voting. He had one truly magnificent year. Machado, by all accounts, is a complete dickbag and probably bad for the locker room.
And the players want 10-year guarantees, but they also want to quit after 3 years and get more money if the market passes them up. I don’t see any teams that naiive anymore.
They’re going to get short-term guarantees, with highly lucrative options that protect the team and secondarily protect the player. They’re going to be so complex that the player is likely not going to be able to do any simple calculations on which one pays them more, so they’re going to have to take their agents’ word for it. I know someone that has worked with Harper in the past and learned that Harper’s father likes to stick his beak in which can’t do anything but slow the process down.
Glendale, Arizona
Come for the weather, stay for the jack-booted thugs who will kick you in the nuts and then taser your nuts as well.
Officer Matt Schneider seems like a nice, well-balanced human being.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6693383/Demi-Rose-sizzles-low-cut-sequin-mini-dress-returns-London-Thailand-trip.html
Perhaps in an effort to make the other candidates look better, Bill De Blasio is exploring a run for President.
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/02/11/de-blasio-heads-to-new-hampshire-as-he-contemplates-run-for-president-848323
The Democrat nominee is still going to be TBD in 2021.
Man, I would pay to watch De Blasio campaign in Iowa.
Good. The more time he spends away from here, the better.
He wants to do to the country what he’s doing to NYC.
Kamala – you should make sure your lies are at least plausible.
I mean to be fair, she’s not the first middle aged woman to shave ten years off her age.
Kind of like how Donny Two Scoops shaved fifty or so pounds off his actual weight.
I like when politicians try to name drop rap acts from 30 years ago to prove how hip they are. Rubio did the same thing. Tupac would be closing in on 50 if he was still alive. You’re pretty fucking cool, grandpa.
It reminds me of Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders saying that she’s a big fan of “Eric Clapner” over and over.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/writer-sues-twitter-over-ban-for-mocking-transgender-people-11549946725
I sincerely hope this woman wins her suit and Twitter is bankrupted. Probably won’t happen, but at least we can now drop the act that Twitter is a mere platform rather than a publisher.
FTA:
“A Canadian writer filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. TWTR +1.29% on Monday, saying the social-media platform unfairly banned her because her criticism of transgender rights doesn’t line up with the company’s politics.
Meghan Murphy, a gender-politics blogger, alleges that Twitter violated unfair-competition law when it changed its hateful-conduct policy late last year. Under Twitter’s new policy, users can be banned for calling a transgender individual by their pre-transition names or referring to them with the wrong pronouns. The suit alleges that change conflicts with Twitter’s previous commitment to free speech.”
……….
In the offending tweets, Ms. Murphy wrote that transgender women are the same as men, as part of her argument that gender is determined at birth. Those views are viewed by some lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists as inciting hate speech against transgender people.”
Oh, fuck me. What a stupid time to be alive.
Interesting that the lawsuit is coming from the left, and not the right.
The baddie Left- she is labeled a “TERF” (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) by those who follow the Faith of Wokeness. A “TERF” is, no joke, the equivalent of being a Nazi to the religious zealots.
Oh, I’m well aware. Its interesting because its the whole heathen / heretic thing. Most zealots will engage in some light cultural warfare with the heathens because they are so different, but they want to eradicate the heretics because they are so similar.
WordPress is a platform. The phone company is a platform.
Twitter was never a “platform”. AFAIK, they have had the power to delete your tweets from day one.
“Why do you hate private business? Verizon has a right to censor all of your phone calls if you’re expressing “wrong thought” and if you don’t like it build your own telephone company.”
– Super Smart Person
+1 ringy dingy
She was on the Tom Woods show a while back talking about this. It was actually quite intriguing.
So she is a Nazi?
She’s 100% compliant with progressive orthodoxy as of the week before last, but tripped up on the latest rollout in trans acceptance, so… yes.
“mock”
i’m betting she told a trans-woman he’s not a woman and then femsplained to him how a uterus works.
Paywalled.
At the same time, Twitter is constantly suspending or banning transgender people.
More Shakespeare worth watching (in no particular order):
Ian McKellan’s “Richard the Third”
Polanski’s (hate him as you may) “Macbeth”
Commander Picard’s “Macbeth”
Anthony Hopkins’ “Titus”
And, for sheer scenery-gnawing fabulousness, Olivier’s “Richard the Third”
Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood” (Macbeth) and “Ran” (Lear)
Many others which do not immediately come to mind
Shakespeare is the shit.
I definitely enjoyed Ian McKellan’s “Richard the Third”. Placing it in the 30s was an inspired choice.
Kurosawa’s Ran for the win.
‘Kay I don’t make films
But if I did they’d have a samurai
Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well, is loosely based on Hamlet as well.
Now an interesting parallel sort of flick that I read about a few years ago and picked up on blu-ray last year is Welle’s “Chimes at Midnight”.
Takes a side character from one or two of the original plays and builds a whole story around him while also kinda filling in the gaps between a few other stories – mostly original dialog in the Shakespearian tradition. As others noted above – takes a while to get into it while watching – but works very well overall – and a great performance.
Oh, for fuck’s sake
Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly’s “next mission” is to be a US senator for Arizona.
“I care about people. I care about the state of Arizona. I care about this nation. So because of that, I’ve decided that I’m launching a campaign for the United States Senate,” Kelly said in a video released Tuesday announcing his run as a Democratic candidate.
Kelly, 54, is the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Arizona, who survived a shooting in 2011. The two appeared together in Kelly’s announcement video, recounting that difficult period in their lives and Giffords’ rehabilitation from the gunshot wound.
“I learned a lot from being an astronaut. I learned a lot from being a pilot in the Navy. I learned a lot about solving problems from being an engineer,” Kelly says in the campaign announcement video. “But what I learned from my wife is how you use policy to improve people’s lives.”
Fuck
off
and
die.
God forbid he ever gets a real job in the private sector.
“I learned a lot from being an astronaut. I learned a lot from being a pilot in the Navy. I learned a lot about solving problems from being an engineer,” Kelly says in the campaign announcement video. “But what I learned from my wife is how
you use policy to improveto be the pupeteer of a mentally damaged woman.FIFY
There is a lot of that in the DNC…
it was funny when he went to (straw?)buy an AR and the store nixed it.
“I determined that it was in my company’s best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal Form 4473 and NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession of this firearm,” MacKinlay posted on the Tuscon store’s Facebook page Monday.
MacKinlay said he sent a full refund to Kelly and nixed the transaction because Kelly made statements in the media that the rifle purchase was “for reasons other than for his personal use.”
So he’s running against McSally next year. That sucks. I’m not a big McSally fan, but I prefer her to a Dem, and she will be hard pressed to beat him. Sinema, I’m sure, will campaign for him.
“We’ve seen this retreat from science and data and facts,” he says.
In an email to supporters, Kelly said he plans to reject corporate PAC money.
“Our fight to improve our gun laws and my commitment to tackling climate change and ending the outrageous influence corporate money has on our politics means there are a lot of powerful interests who want to stop us,” he wrote.
It’s a regular David-vs-Goliath tale. Finally, someone willing to speak truth to power.
“Our fight to improve our gun laws and my commitment to tackling climate change and ending the outrageous influence corporate money has on our politics means there are a lot of powerful interests who want to stop us,” he wrote.
Pretty sure he’s not going to have a problem accepting money from Bloomberg, though
HE won’t take the money, his Campaign will, see how that works?
So it is like Pachinko?
You win some goofy stuffed animal playing the game. Then you take that outside down an alley and “sell” it to some guy for a bunch of yen.
But no way is there any gambling going on at any Pachinko parlors.
And if you want to keep the goofy stuffed animal?
No law against keeping it, but you’d probably throw the entire Pachinko industry into disorder by doing it. Their system isn’t built to handle people keeping the crap prizes.
The best part of the entire Pachinko experience is trading the prizes for yen. The window where you make the trade has a shade pulled way down, so you and the cashier can’t make eye contact. So you don’t have to acknowledge each other while you do something semi-shady. Like Baptists in a liquor store.
That’s… nuts.
My Japanese brother-in-law brought me once and it was horrible (except the part where we cashed in his winnings – see above).
The flashing lights and noise drove me bonkers. It was worse than – wait for it – Chucky Cheese.
It won’t be from Bloomberg, it will be from Everytown! Totally different.
Just like AOC! She had to make do with the couch-cushion change provided by a small array of outfits backed by some unknown Soros dude. It’s amazing she powered through.
“We’ve seen this retreat from science and data and facts,” he says.
He’s right but not how he means.
improve our gun laws
By eliminating the ones that violate the document you will be sworn to uphold should you win office?
GRRRR!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/cory-booker-invents-swiss-language-iowa-interview/
Do they actually speak Austrian in Switzerland? Is that what’s going on here?
Pretty sure they speak Mexican.
Although, to be fair, some speak Australian.
Meh. There’s no clear difference between a language and a dialect.
“Swiss German” is a thing, I don’t see the harm in just calling that “Swiss”.
The main difficulty is that the Swiss dialect of German isn’t the only
language spoken there, so “Swiss” by itself I would say is more vague
than wrong.
“I don’t speak Belgian”
Then how are you going to read Aristotle in the original?
I never said I didn’t speak Persian
I thought that was in Klingon.
It was clumsy and stupid. He was not referring to Schwyzerdütsch. Do you think he even knows the 4 languages spoken in Switzerland?
NARRATOR: He doesn’t.
To be fair, I’m not sure a lot of Swiss recognize the fourth language.
My old neighbors were from Switzerland and the spoke Swiss German and laughed about it. They said that their version of German was akin to a Mexican speaking English. You could pretty much get what they are talking about, but the accent can throw you sometime.
Dutch sounds like Canadian German, and it’s considered a distinct language.
And the Dutch get rather cross when one uses German pronunciations for Dutch words. I wonder if there is any historical reason for that animosity?
It’s the sort of thing I would say as a joke, so I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve told a Swiss friend that I don’t speak Swiss, because whatever it is that they are speaking, it ain’t German.
His thought process has some holes in it.
I assume he was joking. It’s not like he was grilling a prospective jurist on the sexual inclinations of employees she’d never had, or something dumb like that.
Booker won’t understand it even if you eurosplain it to him.
Soros is worried that some people in Europe may want to live as they please.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-may-be-on-the-cusp-of-a-nightmare-but-its-not-too-late-to-wake-up-2019-02-11
If we don’t all rally around a giant un-elected bureaucracy then it might fall like the last time a whole host of nations were governed under a giant un-elected bureaucracy. Oh nos!
Excellent analogy. Any way we can speed that up? Took a little too long for my liking with the Soviets.
Dude only made about 4 billion dollars in forex when the soviet union collapsed. Oh, please don’t throw me into that briar patch!
OT: It ain’t pizza, but I definitely give it a shot…
https://www.nj.com/expo/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/02/7ac9b44ac39422/this-celeb-chefs-newark-restaurant-is-so-good-we-made-him-an-honorary-new-jerseyan-.html
The 973 pizza is topped with Taylor ham, egg yolk, cheddar and chili oil.
What a morning – finally had a chance to read the news and Glibs.
I would check it out. This is silly though:
*Maybe* in the late 90s you could get away with this statement but 2010? Please. Clinton opened his office there 2001. He would not have done so if it wasn’t already hip with white folks.
Exactly!
The reporter comes across as a condescending idiot and a horrible writer.
I just expect “condescending idiot and a horrible writer” these days. Anything else is a nice surprise.
Soros is worried that some people in Europe may want to live as they please.
If you thought Brexit was a clown show, just wait ’til the Italians decide to pull the rip[cord.
Italy withdrawing from the union would be the end of the union. It would indeed be an epic battle and would likely result in civil war in some parts of Italy. Which isn’t really that big of a deal, because Italy has essentially been in a quiet state of civil war since the end of WWII
This Is the Biggest Complaint Most Women Have About Their Partners
You know I hate to perpetuate Toxic Masculinity® but I really do believe there’s a certain sense of propriety and stoicism that you should exercise as a man. There’s a time and a place for everything.
If I starter blubbering like that all the time, I’d give my wife maybe 6 week weeks before leaving me.
The gf is a died-in-the-wool, card-carrying, leftist* Democrat and she probably wouldn’t stay with me a whole week if I started acting overtly and overly emotional all the time. Generally, women are still hardwired a certain way, and no amount of indoctrination will change that.
*Maybe no so much anymore. She has come around on some things, especially since she got a real job.
Hah! If she were merely my girlfriend and I didn’t have kids, her timeframe would likely be the same. Only the complications of marriage and kids would compel her to wait a while.
Regarding your postscript, it’s funny – my wife mused out loud the other day, “If I hadn’t married you, I wonder if I’d be one of these leftist harpies we both hate so much?” I’m guessing probably not – she WAS a Dem when we met, but of a similar bent to her parents. Old-time blue collar Rust Belt Dems whose political allegiances were largely rooted in unionism. For the record, those same parents (her father remains a staunch union guy to this day even though he’s been retired for a decade) are major, vocal Trump supporters.
The only acceptable times for a man to cry:
(1) Your dog or parent dies (you may cry in private with close loved ones around)
(2) The birth of your child (a full-on cry would be inappropriate, but teary eyes is expected)
(3) The LP renominates Gary Johnson (you should type your anguish on some obscure libertarian message board in between sobs)
I don’t make the rules. This is just how it is.
No dewy mirth if thy nominates McAfee? Surely realizing we live in the best timeline is worth shedding a few tears.
Good point
Why did you include something so inconsequential and irrelevant in that list?
Occasionally I see a pair of tits that brings tears of joy to my eyes.
Because she maced your creeper ass?
I leave that part out of the story.
Crying: acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon.
You forgot ‘Watching Brian’s Song’
The end of Blackadder Goes Forth always gets me.
The first time I watched it, I couldn’t figure it out.
Turns out the poppy fields of flanders have more symbolism in the UK.
“Turns out the poppy fields of flanders have more symbolism in the UK.”
There is a zero percent chance that you didn’t know that before watching the movie
It was a TV show.
And I failed to make the connection.
Enh, I didn’t know about the poppy thing until I started watching English soccer around 2010. Or it may have been from an episode of Nu Dr. Who around the same time. I had never heard or seen it referenced in the US before.
“I had never heard or seen it referenced in the US before.”
OK, fine. That’s a fair point. But, all of you guys love to jump on one another any time anyone slips up their history, I just find it hard to believe that anyone in this group wouldn’t know about the significance of poppies.
It’s my fault for thinking too highly of all you.
You only do that because it raises the ceiling on your own potential rating for hanging out with us.
“You only do that because it raises the ceiling on your own potential rating for hanging out with us.”
No. I accept the shortcomings
You guys have never run into VFW guys selling poppies for Veterans Day, and wondered why? Or never heard of Flanders Fields?
Never ran into VFW guys. Period.
And an abstract alliteration does not lend itself to “bunch of red flowers” in the catalog that is my mind.
I don’t remember my childhood and adolescence without people handing out or selling little paper poppies to wear on their lapels. I was taught the history. I still see them every so often.
Of course, KC has the only WWI monument in the US. That could be part of it.
Not true, Mojeaux – There’s a WWI monument in Syracuse, NY. I know because I used to wait for the bus across the street from it.
Nope. And yes, history was always one of my blind spots.
There’s 55 that have their own Wikipedia pages
I grew up the same as you re: the poppies. The American Legion has them for memorial day and the VFW for veterans day. Or course my dad being a Legion member and now myself being a Sons of the Am. Legion member skews my view as to just how common they are
“Not true, Mojeaux – There’s a WWI monument in Syracuse, NY. I know because I used to wait for the bus across the street from it.”
Kansas City has the only NATIONAL monument to that conflict
I sit corrected.
Is this designation just a semantics thing? This place was originally built as a WWI National monument but has been rededicated over the years to ultimately include veterans of all wars.
Ahh. Now I see.
Poppies (and the poem In Flanders’ Fields) are totally a thing in Canada in the weeks leading up to November 11th (known as “Remembrance Day” here).
My MiL would still call 11/11 “Armistice Day”, which was also her birthday.
Canada makes/made some cool poppy coins, as well.
The end of “Field of Dreams” or “Saving Private Ryan” (not just for the tits on the granddaughter).
“I was married at the time”
“my then wife”
“my wife at the time”
Hmm…
Precisely my point above. There’s a reason this guy ain’t married anymore.
No matter how much a woman may consciously say she wants a Sensitive New Man™, nothing will turn her nethers into the Sahara faster than seeing weakness by her man. It’s deep in the lizard brain and no amount of feminist dogma can change it.
Yep. I used to get this complaint sometimes. Even used to feel bad about it, wondering if I was doing something wrong. Now I realize it’s one of the major reasons we’re still happily married.
Yep. The Dad in the story… divorced. This twerp… divorced. Let’s do what they do, fucking awesome advice.
He cried at the birth of his wife’s son, so she finally put an end to the marriage.
This guys has done “thousands of sessions” and still hasn’t figured out that woman rarely complain about what’s actually bothering them?
Pay attention to what women do, not what they say.
The entire idea of a Libertarian Party is a sad joke, I try to think of it as an ideal more than a political thing.
IMO
Same here.
“STATE OF THE UNION” — A Bad Lip Reading
U of Michigan professor and his husband charged with sex assault.
RBG officiated their wedding in 2014, shortly before she decided Obergefell as a completely neutral arbiter of the law.
So which of those guys sings the fat lady part?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/the-lutheran-pastor-calling-for-a-sexual-reformation?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_DAILY_020819&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bed94f47ace5a1f37583269&user_id=55433669&utm_term=TNY_Daily
“Because while many of Augustine’s teachings have been revered for generations, when it came to his ideas about sex and gender, he basically took a dump and the church encased it in amber.”
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that this “pastor” is not even vaguely familiar with Augustine’s writings.
“Luther saw the harm that the teachings of the Church were doing in the lives of those in his care,” Bolz-Weber told me. “He decided to be less loyal to the teachings than to their well-being.”
That’s… not really what Luther did, actually. At all.
Theological illiteracy is pretty much par for the course with the “DUDE WE’RE CHRISTIANS AND WE SAY FUCK LMAO” contingent. There’s copies of this retard in every evangelical youth group up and down the west coast. Trying to make Christianity cool.
Luther drew heavily from Augustine and used Augustine’s philosophy to argue that the Roman church had been corrupted. Luther was in fact so wedded to early Christian apologetics that he even began a philosophical correspondence with the Orthodox Church, trying to woe the Patriarch of Constantinople to his side.
Exactly. His disloyalty to the church was to the extent that he seen it as straying from its theological underpinnings, not because the strictures of Christianity were inconvenient to his parishioners. He would have cunt punted this lady to the moon.
I don’t this idiot could be more wrong.
Luther was focused on redemption thru repentance and acceptance of Christ and was rebelling against redemption for sale by the Church.
I may be agnostic but I know more about Luther than this moron, yet the New Yorker treats her like she’s some theology genius.
ELCA, gotta be. Missouri Synod ain’t got time for that shit.
Yep. I’d bet money this is ELCA.
Certainly the appeal of redemption without actually meeting the well-documented requirements for such is appealing to the masses. But it is not authentic.
The more malleable the faith the quicker the decline in membership. The hollowing out of mainline Protestantism has shown us that.
I think there’s the same in Catholicism except that it’s been somewhat masked by the increase of Latinos and other immigrants.
It’s a testament to the enduring guilt that Christianity often produces that people like this who entirely reject every facet of Christian theology still try to shoehorn some transmogrified version of it into their lifestyle instead of just accepting that they aren’t Christians anymore.
Been real busy this morning. No discussion on the latest Ilhan Omar tweet?
After issuing her apology yesterday, she responded approvingly on a Twitter stream (or whatever you call it) from some jewish campaign hack who went on about how AIPAC had thrown around its money in a race he worked on. The best part of the guy’s rant was this:
Uffda. If I was Omar, I’d be just thrilled to be lumped in with Sarsour.
*BTW her response to the guy is based on the fact that he has ALS and is dying. So I could see how you might cut her some slack on that if you were in a generous mood. The problem for her is that with her history, it is hard to give her that. And if I had been in her shoes, I might have responded privately to the guy to wish him well, but definitely would not do so publicly.
“Toxic masculinity hurts men, too.”
“White privilege hurts white people, too.”
“The global Jewish conspiracy hurts Jews, too.”
Against my better judgment I followed a link back to Reason a couple days ago and one of the top stories of the day was ENB stridently defending Omar’s “critique of Israeli policy” by way of whataboutism because Steve King is a neo-Nazi.
A bag of rocks has more insightful thoughts than ENB
Yes but can a bag of rocks make you a sandwich?
Apparently, ENB can’t get that right either. One point- bag of rocks
Uh-oh, now you’re on the list. She’s going to try to make sure you never get a job again!
No, it can’t either.
All of us here have a hate reading problem.
How did ENB hand wave away the fact that King lost all his committee assignments, but Omar still is on the fancy Foreign Relations committee (as a freshman)?
Cocktail parties. That’s how, misogynist.
I didn’t finish reading it tbh.
Like Weigel in Drag would even bother with handwaving.
I believe it’s pronounced “Waddle”
Nevermind that he lost all of his assignments based on a willful misreading of his actual statements.
He is still an asshole though.
Here’s the piece, in case anybody wants to torture themselves. Apparently it was yesterday, and there was a “Reason roundup” that followed.
In that link they had the bit about Warren and Kloubchar declaring they were running for President. That gives us…
Warren
Kloubchar
Harris
Booker
Gabbard
So one has to wonder, will there even be a white male to declare? Maybe Biden Sanders or Beto? Is there anyone else?
Also on a related note, I heard yesterday that Larry Hogan was considering a primary challenge to Trump on the Republican side. I don’t see that working out too well for him. He’s popular here in Md but no way the Republican base ever breaks for him. I think Trump could be beaten in the primaries but it would have to be by someone more like Cruz who is closer to the tea party wing of the party than a squishy RINO like Hogan
Booker is a ma—-
Oh, wait.
I think there’s a lot more who have declared ‘interest’ if not actually filed to be a candidate. Biden, I’m pretty sure is on the list. Beto, don’t know.
Gabbard, FYI, signed on to the Green New Deal, so regardless of her foreign policy, I think we can stop thinking she will be anything other than a rabid statist loon.
I think everyone on that list has signed on. Whoever is pulling the strings over there seems intent on destroying the chances of anyone who doesn’t.
Bill De Blasio is making noises. Yeah, I snorted too.
John Delaney and Pete Buttigieg have declared and are white males. Julian Castro and Andrew Yang are males.
NPR has a rundown of declared and possibles.
Hah, I see that Hillary is in the “Not running” category, rather than a prospect.
Boy, they’re really pushing this “Trump stealing your refund thing”, aren’t they?
Trump’s ‘tax scam’: Some taxpayers get unwelcome surprise after filing returns
Just another example of our fine, unbiased media keeping the American people informed. Just imagine the sort of misinformation people might be subjected to without them?
Well down below it says she’s paying $75 less each month in withholding, which I wonder if that’s the actual amount or just her approximating. The bulk I’d guess is loss of tax deductibility of some of her state and local taxes. Yet does she blame those entities for raping their residents? Or taxpayers in lower tax states subsidizing those states and their citizens? No? Fuck you, cut taxes. And spending.