Hey folks, I’m here with a few links for y’all to chatter about in the comments. Or you can ignore them completely and go off-topic immediately. I’m feeling extra permissive today and you guys benefit! You can even complain about me reusing links someone else posted. It’s a fucking free-for-all!
- Looks like it’s time for a new enemies list: Former U.S. Air Force officer faces spy charges after defecting to Iran
- Perhaps Iran *also* needs a new enemies list: Suicide attack on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards kills 30
- I mean, you could, but why would you want to?: You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3
- You guys are all dog people, right?: It’s Good To Be King: Wire Fox Terrier Wins Westminster Dog Show (if you just want a pic of the winner this is faster)
Annnndd I guess I need a music link? I guess this will do.
As Dr. Laura always used to say “Now go take on the day!”
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It was the lizard people throwing their dicks around after some people mocked them. They’re everywhere. They see and hear everything. Watch yourself.
I’m not saying it’s Russians, but….
So you are saying it was the Jews?
Isn’t it always? Plenty of Joohs in Russia.
Not anymore.
Did someone mention Jews….
https://youtu.be/FPDM4t4gDsk
I was begining to think STEVE SMITH forgot to pay the internet bill. I kept getting gateways errors.
“You guys are all dog people, right?: It’s Good To Be King: Wire Fox Terrier Wins Westminster Dog Show (if you just want a pic of the winner this is faster)”
That border collie got robbed.
I wonder if they’re required to select a different breed each year for the winner. I do like the sensible skirts, flats, and waist coats that all of the handlers wear.
That said: Malamute uber alles.
Best dog I ever had was a Newfoundland / black Labrador mix named The Big Dog. What a big sweetheart. And how he loved to cuddle with the cats.
That sounds like a cool dog. I had a giant labrador/chow/rottweiler mix that everyone thought was a Newfie.
He was. Rescue dog. Eight when I got him. He was scheduled to be put down that day (no one wants a big black dog). Very serendipity. for us both. Previous owners would beat him if he tried to come into their house (or just for the hell of it), so he lived outside in Minneapolis year-round. I had to teach him it was okay to come inside, literally having to drag him into the house at first and after that from room to room. After a few days he decide that the best place to be was on the living room couch. And he lived like a king. The thing is, at six-feet from nose to but and weighing 110 lbs., he could have handily killed his original owners.
People are shit.
I may go the rescue route next time. Both my GSD and PON were purebreds, and great dogs, but there sure seem to be a lot of good weird dogs out there.
Our new dog is a rescue mutt. We’ve had him a year now and he’s just a big goofball, much like our previous GSD. I’m going to be a wreck when this guy’s time is up.
One of my shelties turned 12 this week. The other turns 12 in two months. We have a year or two left with them.
My wife says no more dogs, but I am not sure that I believe her.
Yeah, my wife has made those noises before, but I plan to have a dog until it’s impossible (or I’m dead).
Every time I think about getting a pet, I stop and ask “Do I really hate these animals so much as to subject them to living with me?” The answer has been “no”.
My current GSD is a purebread with a pedigree (father’s male bloodline can be traced uninteruppted to one of the original six male GSDs used to establish the breed in mid-18th century Germany; her father was flown in from Germany to to Wisconsin to breed with female dogs owned by actual sheepherders). Strikingly beautiful dog. She knows over 60 commands, infinite nuances and is smarter than me by a country mile. She too also loves the cats (big fan of the butts), but when she goes, I’ll be looking for another Newfy / Lab mix.
Komondor for the win.
Those things are pretty cool.
My parents had a komondor mix named Omar. Unfortunately it was sick as a puppy and wound up brain damaged, and was literally one of the dumbest dogs you’d ever meet. The dumb floppy dog loved everybody but my 6’8″ BIL, which I think was solely because of BIL’s height.
My parents’ cairn terrier (another great dog) would chew on the Omar’s tail and ears, and the only protest he’d put up would be to try to sleep somewhere else. He could have beat the crap out of the little terrier if he had wanted to.
Malamute? Klondike Kat always catches his mouse.
I might have to take you up on that offer.
(if you just want a pic of the winner this is faster)
That’s a video. (I can’t get Twitter videos to play on my Firefox on Linux setup.)
Ahh…the superiority of Linux strikes again.
Linux is a fully functional operating system – for server software.
which distro? FF plays videos on mine. Mint 19.1
“Former U.S. Air Force officer faces spy charges after defecting to Iran”
They should build a wall or something…..
Was Fred Durst the cover picture for these links? That’s not OK
Do you not like his o-face from his celebrity sex tape? For shame.
Now that I know such a tape exists, I must see it. Damn it all!
Lemme know when you’ve watched it. I want to discuss the plot twist with someone who knows.
In a twist no one expected, the band plays a song that doesn’t suck?
That wouldn’t be a believable plot twist. The Fred Durst sex tape contains a plausible sex act that seems less likely because of certain visual cues, but then ends up happening. I’ve seen it a couple of times with friends and they’re all surprised by the same elements of the uhhh narrative arc.
I am seriously going to watch it. I would be happy to dissect the plot on the message board here. This is happening.
I’m oddly looking forward to it…
Wife: What are you doing? You’ve been in the bathroom for over half an hour.
Me: Watching Fred Durst’s porno
Wife: Could you not find the sex tape of a musician that is still relevant?
I feel this is the perfect subject for a filmed Glib panel discussion.
So… what’s the plot twist?
I have all 3 kids with me. Not gonna watch.
He pulls out a cookie and it turns out that he did not do it all for the nookie
Stop! You’re killing me!
You won’t see it coming
*checks front page*
OH LAWD NO
“Bizarre! Bugs Bunny figure in Death to America chants at Islamic Revolution anniversary in Tehran.”
https://twitter.com/fpleitgenCNN/status/1094869576943394816
Wait until they find out he was a cross-dresser.
Yes, but I’m not convinced that dog show people are dog people AT ALL.
Word. They’re a whole ‘nother breed.
It really shows.
Best in show, great movie
I was trying to start a pun thread…
I sincerely appreciate the assist, shih tzu not.
I made a similar comment to my girlfriend last night. I think a lot of the dog show circuit is sort of a fashionista circle jerk for bored rich people. They want a dog that looks DIFFERENT. Hence the Wire Fox Terrier this year after the Bichon last year. So, normal breeds tend to get looked down upon, even if they are purebreds with pedigrees. Honestly, I thought the bull and the Staffordshires were prettier terriers than the Wire Fox. And I was not at all happy when the mastiffs and St. Bernard didn’t make it to the finals for the Working Dogs category.
What can I say. I live in the city and have to enjoy others’ dogs vicariously.
The winner isn’t based on prettiness, but on which one is the best exemplar of the standards for its own breed, isn’t it?
True. But, even the judge for the Best in Show said that, once you get to the final rounds, none of them aren’t exceptional examples of their breeds. So, it was a question of which dog “wants it most” (his words). Personally, I think he made the mistake of admitting it really did come down to personal preference.
Of course it is. I was shocked in 2017 when the GSD won.
FUCK YOU!
Down, boy.
They pick foofoo dogs year after year and finally a real dog won.
More evidence of the (((gaytriarchy))).
What is it with GSD? Are there other German Shepards out there? GSM, GSH, GSC?
In theory yes.
The problem is that many of the dogs are breed for appearance, not the health of the animal. For some reason, GSDs hunched down in the back are supposedly a good thing. Now almost all GSD born in the country have hip displasia. The AKC has also ruined a number of hunting breeds. Dogs are breed for appearance, not hunting ability. Then the two get breed together and you end up with a good looking dog that can’t hunt.
Now almost all GSD born in the country have hip displasia
Breeders are working to correct that. Mine, born in 1994, was quite square and never had any joint issues (lived to nearly 14). The breeder we got her from was very down on the exaggerated top line.
It also requires the AKC to change their standards. They’ve ruined a lot of breeds. Hardly anybody knows what a Pudelpointer is, even though they’ve been in this country for 60 years. The reason is the Breeder’s Association has very strict standards on what dogs can be bred and told the AKC to go fuck themselves.
I love Best In Show because it’s extremely accurate. And I agree, they aren’t dog people.
So San Diego Cat Fanciers Association has an annual cat show. I have a couple of friends who go and I usually try to get down there and join them. It is such a fucking weird experience. Every time we go with someone new we explain the Cat Agility Trials as “some frumpy woman will take out a cat, explain the agility trial, try to get the cat to do it, and when the cat ends up just grooming itself for 10 minutes in one of the tunnels she’ll exasperatedly start explaining how good the cat was a few hours ago and she must just be stressed by the crowds.” And then they say “huh that seems like an oddly specific caricature.” 20 minutes later “Was…was that scripted or something? That was verbatim what happened!”
That’s hilarious! The agility, herding and field trials for dogs are actually pretty fun. It’s amazing what some of the dogs can do.
I like the water dogs competitions. Those dogs can fly.
My little mix is quite a fan of the water (he’ll go for a swim in the pool on his own if he gets too hot). But he has absolutely no desire to jump into the water. If we are playing fetch and the ball goes in the pool, he will run around the pool to the steps and enter there, even if the ball is on the far side of the pool. He jumped in once, came to the surface with a “nope, never doing that again” look on his face.
I was really hoping he would be one of the jumpers – it would be hilarious to watch him compete. He has the legs of a dachshund and the body of a staffie. Or as my vet describes: “two dogs long and half a dog high…”
Someday I will be rich enough to have a flyball team.
All about the pussy, eh?
…Cat Agility Trials…
Who in their right mind thought that was a good thing? Cats by nature are ornery, disobedient little things. It sounds like cat shows aren’t run by cat people, either.
The trials should be just two events: Curling Up in Lap and Purring. That’s entirely what a good cat is all about.
How about catching and creatively killing small animals?
I could talk or not talk all day.
Following up on this morning’s link (and subsequent discussion) about folks fleeing the high taxes of blue states, and then infecting other states with the sort of bullshit they seemingly fled (as a 3-decade Colorado resident, I feel the pain), my question is: What if it’s just a matter of everywhere turning leftist now? It does seem to be a successful social contagion, and it’s not like the states that everyone is fleeing from are suddenly going to turn red when people leave to go ruin another state.
Well, that depends. On whether or not some of the people who’ve migrated are open to discussion about their ideas and why the system in the red states worked well enough to draw them there.
Cost of living. Simple as that. Those that care also come for the conservative bent of the culture. Prices have gone up so much that people that come from the PRK to look for houses are surprised at how much more expensive they are that they expected.
I browsed houses a few days ago.
It was depressing how much house and land the price of my little box could buy in better states.
Especially since I’m convinced I’d never offload the thing for close to what I paid for it.
Someone brought up earlier that corporate relocation might, in part, be driving this. Corporations seek out places with more corporate-friendly climates, they bring employees with them, and those employees bring dependents, some of whom vote.
Also, I have an awful suspicion/fear that progs are deliberately moving places to infect them and swing them socialist.
“my question is: What if it’s just a matter of everywhere turning leftist now?”
I don’t entirely buy the “migration” argument. Florida, if anything, has become more Republican friendly than it was in the past (a Republican just unseat a sitting Democratic senator in the last race). Also, I think it’s inevitable that we are going to see the Midwest become staunchly Republican (with a few exceptions) as we see Iowa and Ohio both becoming much, much, much more Republican than they were ten years ago.
I think it’s a matter of “who is migrating”. In the case of CO, it’s almost exclusively young people. In the case of FL, it’s almost exclusively middle aged or older people.
Fair point on the age of the migrants.
Yeah you also got to remember that a lot of the migrants are conservatives saying “fuck this shit, I’m out.”
The two real locust cases are
1. CA’s infection of CO and other states, to a lesser degree. This is due to CA having so many people, so they can send a lot of spores and overwhelm thinly populated states like NV.
2. VA’s destruction is due solely to the federal leviathan. The state is run by federal, state, and local employees now, because they are the single largest voting bloc. Between the hundreds of thousands of federal employees, hundreds of thousands of more contractors, and then add in probably another 100,000 people who work for various state schools and hospitals, the parasites literally outnumber the productive.
” Florida, if anything, has become more Republican friendly than it was in the past (a Republican just unseat a sitting Democratic senator in the last race). Also, I think it’s inevitable that we are going to see the Midwest become staunchly Republican (with a few exceptions) as we see Iowa and Ohio both becoming much, much, much more Republican than they were ten years ago.”
Yeah there’s very much of a shift going on, I think the Democratic Party is fully transitioning to a party of the “knowledge workers” and the outright parasites. Which is going to give them the coasts, give them the Federal Province of Virginia. The Republicans need to stand shoulder to shoulder with the gas workers and the farmers and the manufacturers and build the MidWest into an electoral redoubt. You can win elections by chaining together the South and the MidWest, and carrying FL, and TX. They need to embrace Trump style authenticity and direct connection.
Wholehearted yes on point 2.
Nice analysis. I like that word spore.
I think that understanding it as a social contagion is a useful model.
Millennials and GenZ are terrified of seeming like bullies or the ill-defined “mean people.” (A catch-all for any non-progressive thought or act.) Socialism has been defined to them as “everyone helping out everyone else.” So how, in a basic psychological sense, can they not be socialists?
Historical examples (even current examples) of socialism can be dismissed, because, obviously, it must not have been everyone helping out everyone else, because how could that not work? The argument that “real socialism” has never been tried can’t be true because they have defined socialism as a spirit of generosity and interconnectedness.
Socialism is being good, so they want to be good.
Sounds more like a religion than an economic system. The “Great Awokening” is upon us
I think of it more as an aggressive rejection of adulthood. As childhood has become less and less competitive on an interpersonal level, childhood has become a comfortable state of being. Prolonged adolescence is becoming the norm and “adulting” is performative actions, not leaving the supportive environment of childhood as a crucial step in the maturation process.
I work with young people. They really are very sweet and easy to get along with and my natural cynicism baffles them. They aren’t bad people, just a generation of Eloi ripe for harvest by Morlocks.
My son should be fine then. He’s as cynical as they come.
aggressive rejection of adulthood.
Few things piss me off more than seeing “adulting” on facebook.
Grow the fuck up moron.
^So much this (Sug and kinnath).
That phrase infuriates me. Yeah, adult responsibilities suck sometimes. Deal with it.
Maybe somebody needs to reread Lord of the Flies.
But, I think, overall, you’re right on the money about the rejection of adulthood. But, really, it’s their parents who are to blame for that. The entire desire for both socialism and adulation on so many millennials’ part reminds me of Veruca Salt insisting that she wants it NOW!!
But, as the Oompa Loompa’s said:
Blaming the kids is a cry and a shame
We know exactly who to blame
The Mother and the Father
So far, I have manage to avoid saying out loud “your parents should be beaten with a stick”, but I think that so many times when I run into millenials.
That is hateful reading, what with the bullying and all. Precious little snowflakes can’t read that.
Notice, this isn’t the child in question being an asshole, it is the parent that is grooming an intellectual cripple.
The Cynic in me wonders if this was the intention all along…
I think it was here that I first read the line, but:
The main difference between socialism and fascism is that nobody claims real fascism has never been tried before.
Great. Now I need to figure out how to get my kid to navigate his growing-up years without being a simpering pansy while still having something of a social life.
A former friend of mine was with me in San Francisco, waiting outside a concert venue as a homeless man asked people in line for money. Everyone ignored him. My friend remarked how not giving the man money was an example of our capitalist culture* rejecting socialism. I retorted, “No, socialism would stealing other people’s money and giving it to him.” My friend scoffed and rolled his eyes.
*he’s also a fan of the phrase “late-stage capitalism” .. of course.
Ironically, the friend is also the most consumeristic person I know, and that (i.e. vocal embrace of “socialism,” vocal denigration of “capitalism,” while actively-but-not-vocally embracing consumerism) is not an isolated tendency—most of my progressivist peers embody it.
(And no, the friend didn’t give the man any money either. Of course.)
The “somebody should do something” impulse is nearly always “somebody else should do something.”
“somebody else should do something” that I want done.
“vocal denigration of “capitalism,” while actively-but-not-vocally embracing consumerism”
And thank goodness for this. It’s one of the things that keeps me optimistic about the future.
“New York Governor: Florida is stealing our population”
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/12/new-york-governor-florida-stealing-population/
Andy, Andy, how many times do I have to tell you, xitizens are not serfs. They’re allowed to leave if you do dumb shit.
That isn’t what his daddy taught him. All political family dynasties should be dealt the fate of the Kennedys (and there are few more of them that need to die off).
Build a wall.
Get NJ to pay for it!
“He said New Yorkers are fleeing to the sunshine state to save big time on taxes.”
WHY WON’T YOU PEOPLE DO THE RIGHT THING AND STAY TO BE RAPED BY ME?!?
Cuomo is competing for biggest coo-coo with Trudeau and AOC.
If I was going to collectivize I’d blame the East Coast transplants for turning California progressive.
As a 4th generation Californian, I will agree.
Hear! Hear!
Yes, Welcome to California, now go home
Much of the reason immigration is a hot topic. Those aren’t conservatives sneaking across the border.
Bingo
They are importing commies
I think that is a large part of it. Everyone says the suburbs are the fastest growing regions in America. Well, guess what? The suburbs are blue now. It doesn’t matter if they’re filling up with people from California or Texas.
None of this was a big deal before the government amassed for itself the vast amounts of unconstitutional power over us it currently has. That is the problem that needs to be addressed.
Yep. I don’t care what my neighbors’ politics are, and I shouldn’t have to. The whole purpose of the constitution is to keep us from violating each others’ rights. Democracy encourages just the opposite.
I slightly suspect that the lack of bodily harm inflicted upon me is partly due to no one in real life knowing my opinions.
Well the Constitution is a dead fucking letter.
If my neighbors politics happens to make him a bacha bazi enthusiast. I’m gonna give a fuck
Addressed how?
Defunding 400 of the 440+ federal agencies is a good start.
Americans reject such radicalism and extremism.
(And this is why the social contagion theory is apt.)
Forcable enforcement of constitutional limits on the government.
Hey, I don’t have all the answers. There are two good suggestions right above me for a start, though.
It also comes with life becoming easier. When you live in a place where everything you need is at your fingertips, it’s easier to believe in the collectivist culture. When you don’t have that luxury, you have to be more responsible for your own life and you tend to be more conservative.
We went to Boston last October. I was listening to a conversation the two male flight attendants were having. One lived in Denver, the other was on this flight for the first time and lived in Boston.
Boston guy: “I love living in Boston. I don’t have a car. I get off work, jump on the red line at the curb and it drops me two blocks from my apartment. Do you use public transportation in Denver?”
Denver guy: “Well, in Colorado you’re pretty much two hours from everything so having a car can be important.”
Boston guy: “Oh, I’ve never even thought about that.”
Agree with Sug and BP (is that you, Baked?) that the social contagion model is as good an explanation as any.
This topic fascinates me.
Baked Penguin and I are two distinct Tulpas.
I should probably change my handle at some point, but I brought it over from TOS, where I was a charter commenter (ie — there from the beginning).
It’s a disease vector.
Memes are fun to look at using this model. The left memes like Pabst blue ribbon. The right memes like Jim Fucking Beam.
I know just yesterday I said that if there was pizza left to go cold, it was bad pizza.
But today I’m baking pizza for the express purpose of putting it in the fridge for tomorrow.
Hypocracy? Madness? Or Lunch?
What color are your pizza making gloves?
If I wore any, they’d come out of the box of nitrile kitchen gloves and be blue.
One of the strangest pick-up lines I’ve ever heard
“Hey, baby, how d’you feel about cold pizza for breakfast?”
Woulda been better if it was about pastrami making gloves while watching television.
Pastrami is the most sensuous of the salted cured meats.
I don’t see what else could ever compete.
Prosciutto.
Capicolo
Is prosciutto cured? I thought it was only salted and air dried.
Yep. 400 days!
Sounds like baloney to me.
TUNDRA IS CORRECT.
One of the strangest pick-up lines I’ve ever heard
“I’d love to stuff a pillow with your hair.”
“Say, what size are you?”
Well, the pizza is out of the oven. So here comes the hard part – I have to not eat it today.
Bagged up and in the fridge.
Good chance it’ll survive to be lunch tomorrow.
Why, for the love of Pete, would you do that to yourself?!?
Because I need lunch tomorrow too.
UCS works for the state of NY doesn’t he, so obviously he has a masochistic streak.
Our best and brightest…
Ed Markey, GND cosponsor: Republicans are sabotaging the bill by bringing it to a vote.
It’s always so much nicer if they can pass it before you find out what’s in it.
And Markey moves into the lead as Dumbest Senator.
That must be a tough race…
Have you ever watched slugs ‘race’?
My other Senator is Ms. Warren.
Markey has been double lapped in that race by my Senator. I give you Senator Hirono, who the Prez recently called out for her support for the GND by noting that trains can’t make it to hawaii.
Ed Markey, certified useful idiot.
I don’t think Democrats find him to be too useful
It’s funny. I don’t see anyone discussing climate change. I see a lot of people mocking a ridiculous resolution and a bunch of Democrats, the ones who aren’t in solidly, North Korean-democracy type blue strongholds scared to put their name to it. Beyond that, you fucks held more power over the last decade than the Republicans at the federal level.
Also, you fucks told us the discussion was settled along time ago.
But Vanity Fair says it is more popular than McConnell thinks! Or this a “don’t throw me in the briar patch” situation?
I’m not sure why he’s pushing this. She’s never going to bang him.
So, you’re saying she’s into bad boys?
That’s what Cocaine Mitch’s real motive is.
Yo, Ed – if your little socialist power grab is such a good thing, then why are you afraid of people going on record to support it? Democracy dies in darkness, after all.
TOS had a good take on that
He’s being a useful idiot to AOC.
Not a good look at his age.
Markey: “I did it AOC! I did it! For me. For US!”
AOC (sharpens knife): “Yes, Ed. Yes. You did good….
Markey: What’s that? Is that a kn….umph.”
AOC (gently caressing Ed’s head and limp hair): Shhhh my love. We must mobilize. For the greater good….”
Markey: “I feel so….”
AOC: Glorious. You feel….glorious.”
Markey: “….cold.”
/Dies. AOC drops body walks away.
AOC: Clean it up. Get the Febreze. It smell old man in here.
*applause*
THe depravity around here seems to be contagious. Even Canadians are catching it.
“My Native American heritage was an amazing discovery.”
https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1095743998080229376
Because no one was living in Cuba before the Spaniards showed up?
Well, no one they thought they left alive…
Oh shut up Marco, nobody asked.
And you thought you had it tough: Justin Bieber reportedly seeking treatment for depression and anxiety
Mental and Emotional instability is not uncommon in people who achieve fame at a young age. The lifestyle messes with mental development.
So he’s a Democrat?
“and I want people to like me”
That always makes me cringe. Justin, if you don’t like you, why should anyone else?
He never said they should, just that he wishes they did. That unbridgeable disconnect leading to anxiety makes sense.
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/429718-los-angeles-passes-law-requiring-companies-that-want-city-contracts-to
“Los Angeles passes law requiring companies that want city contracts to disclose NRA ties”
Another reason why Gary Johnson should be our president. His innovative “Bake the Cake” standard would have allowed us to abandon this whole “freedom of association”, “freedom of religion”, “liberty” and First Amendment nonsense.
How legal is that?
Bake the Cake! Moving on….
That is not a hill to die on. Pot, porn or Mexicans on the other hand…
Honestly, I think it’s probably legal. The government is pretty much free to institute any and all requirements upon contractors, beyond “religious tests”. But, I’m not a lawyer.
It’s massively unconstitutional. Like a federal judge would look at it, take a few days off to recover from the concussion he likely gave himself facepalming, and then throw it out.
And then it goes to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. And even they wouldn’t allow it. Then it goes to the full 9th Circuit, which still doesn’t allow it, though there’s a dissent. Then there’s a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.
Hey, something to be optimistic about! Thanks for the expert opinion.
The NRA lawyer mentions it in the article. They can choose who to do business with, and have certain requirements, but those requirements can’t violate constitutional rights — in this case it’s a 1A violation, as it’s a restriction based on content of beliefs.
Yeah, but you actually know whether or not that’s an argument that holds water. Hence, thank you for the expert opinion. I will gladly return the favor if you ever need someone to label something as “The Nick Gillespie” of something or other.
That was the Nick Gillespie of legal opinions?
I hope so.
Attempting to prevent people from joining together to petition the government, aside from other violations by that new ordinance, is breathtaking. That it was 14-0 is even more so.
I’m not surprised. The local governments in cities like LA and NY are stuffed to the gills with “activists”, union hacks, and similar wastrels. These bullshit “signal” votes are their bread and butter.
It’s a relief that that sensible libertarian-friendly gun rights organizations are not under pressure.
Not yet…
I’m sorry, are you talking about baby murdering racists?
I was expecting that be completed with something either about Israel or bathrooms. NRA works too, I guess.
“Los Angeles passes law requiring companies that want city contracts to disclose NRA ties
The L.A. City Council passed an ordinance Tuesday requiring companies that have contracts with the city to disclose whether they have ties to the National Rifle Assn., already prompting threats of a lawsuit.
The vote was 14 to 0. Councilman Jose Huizar was absent.
Prospective contractors now must disclose under affidavit any contracts or sponsorships they or their subsidiaries have with the NRA. The city has similar policies about companies involved in the construction of President Trump’s proposed border wall and over the historic investment in or profits from slavery.
The ordinance on the NRA was sought by Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, who cited several recent mass shootings in the U.S. At Tuesday’s meeting, he said the NRA has “been a road block to gun safety reform at every level of government now for several decades.”
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-contractors-nra-city-20190212-story.html
Cool link
Damn your nimble fingers!
Cool story, bro.
Nice to know the typhus epidemic is solved.
That pesky constitution though, he’s not worried about that,
When was he ever?
Los Angeles, it is still part of the state of California, right Councilman? What gun restriction in California has the NRA held up?
Rufus?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nationalpost.com/news/politics/heres-what-quebecs-francophone-pundits-are-saying-about-jody-wilson-raybould-and-snc-lavalin/amp
Quebec is one of the most corrupted places in North America. They’ll justify this shit because ‘chez nous’. They do the same thing with Bombardier. Apparently, it’s okay to prop up a company that should have died 25 years ago with bail outs in perpetuity because….Made in Canada or some shit.
They do use the same ‘logic’ in sports. “Of course we’re political (to justify not hiring NHL coaches who can’t speak French)! Everyone does it!! And the usual ‘In Toronto’…disclaimer.
It’s disgusting and he’s missing the damn point. A PRIME MINISTER MUST NEVER INTERFERE IN MATTERS OF JUSTICE WITH A JUSTICE MINISTER.
Nadeau can fuck himself.
Legault is a former Pequiste. He absolutely will defend SNC Lavalin. A thoroughly corrupt company. I know construction is a dirty industry but this is not the point. They don’t understand what they’re advocating for. Legault once cried that Lowe’s was buying a local company called Ro-Na.
No company or politician should be above the law.
There you go. From the comments:
“Quebec pundits have missed the point entirely. There can be no political interference in deciding who gets charged with crimes and who does not. Imagine an important business person is alleged to be a drunk driver, he or she could just pick up the phone to the PMO to make any charges go away! That’s banana republic territory, not the Canadian way. Shameful Liberals!”
This guy gets it.
Make no mistake this about Quebec votes. I recall some Liberal apologists on CBC comment sections claiming that Scheer was stupid for bringing this up since it will get Quebec mad.
Oh and a relative of mine did tell me once about how the construction industry in Quebec and the Liberals were (are?) up to their ears in corruption.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canada/2019/2/13/1_4294801.html
What a shock. Makes me think that Butts and Turdeau Jr. Are guilty as charged…
Look, Liberals mocking the law. What a shock.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4951921/justin-trudeau-ethics-investigation-stephen-harper/
I trust him implicitly….
The Little Robot that Coud: RIP Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Also set the distance record for driving on another planet or moon.
I also enjoyed all the initial NASA angst and outcry when they were going to initially turn it off. The mission was completed and they didn’t want (or have resources allocated) to do any further missions with it.
They hit all the sympathetic science media explaining how its mission was completed and it was time to spend the US taxpayers’ money on new space boondoggles.
Remarkably after outcry and a few articles from some more objective media analyzing the costs to keep it going they “miraculously” found some budget.
Michael Avenatti blocked me on twitter yesterday. This is the saddest I’ve been since James Woods blocked me.
(I think Avenatti has blocked like half the lawyers on Twitter at this point)
What did James Woods block you for?
Criticism of his performance in Videodrome
Then he deserved it. LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!
Honestly I can’t remember. It was like 5 years ago, and all my tweets > 1 year old are automatically deleted, so I can’t find what it is.
You need to put that on your resume
I was having that conversation with an aunt last week. “Weren’t you denounced by the mayor of a Herzegovinan town on national television? Why isn’t that on your resume? Maybe with a youtube link if you can find it.”
Apparently he just gave her several back-handed compliments in front of the national press before breaking down into a weird rant.
Your aunt sounds awesome. Would be even more awesome if she owned that shit
I just delivery of a Purple mattress. I’ll have a product review comment in a day or two.
Is the purple color before or after use?
+1 Barney santorum
What the hell kind of euphemism is that?
Was this mentioned already?
“Trump to Slightly Less Retarded Cuomo: Drop Dead”
I’m wondering what made Mario more retarded?
I’m sorry, the correct answer is “Chris Cuomo”
D’oh!
Chris is probably the less retarded brother. Which is really sad.
Oh, slightly less than the other Cuomo.
The Cuomo Spectrum.
If that actually happens, Trump will have accomplished more in NY than the state GOP has in decades.
I’ll believe it when it happens.
“Disagree with this detransitioner’s politics but man is Twitter confused if it has decided that stating that gender dysphoria is a mental illness is a suspension-worthy offense. In the DSM that is how it is categorized.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1095730780288868352
The writers of the DSM V need to learn to code.
Isn’t that handled by the billing clerk?
Even if wasn’t in the DSM, that’s ridiculous.
There’s probably an interesting 12 Monkeys-esque point to be made here.
Speaking of which, has anyone watched that lately? Still fucking awesome.
That guy was the toast of the Times back when he was “non-binary”. What a time to be alive.
Social politics is a team sport. Change the jersey, and “boo!” This is the same human being!
If gender dysphoria isn’t mental illness, how is transitioning a possible solution to anything?
An old Hudson and Landry skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNtGonJEug
https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1095800245999620096
BREAKING: Progressives Were Asleep for the Entirety of Obama’s Presidency (Which is Probably a Good Thing, Because Otherwise They Wouldn’t Have Voted for This)
I went looking for Rep. Lieu’s position on Syria, hoping and frankly expecting some grand hypocrisy. The reality was frankly boring and disappointing. It turns out, he actually has consistent positions on the subject matter:
That son of a bitch.
There are still plenty of things you can hate Ted Lieu for.
I remember that Lieu was one of the few Democrats who didn’t act insane after that announcement.
Vice is fully staffed by morons now.
OFFS
“I am a drug combination expert. You want to see what it’s like as the opposite sex for 3 hours? What being kissed by God feels like. You want the infinite experience if freedom? Knowledge of yourself? Eroticism that incinerates you? A simple good time? Forgetfulness? I’m your man”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1095767240908132359
I believe the first sentence.
But that’s about it.
I was posted my scale of straight-gay. It was Bert Reynolds to Liberace.
McAfee could seduce Bert Reynolds.
McAfee is doing it all wrong. Your not suppose to brag about taking drugs. That’s not presidential. What’s presidential is getting the CIA to smuggle in drugs to poor areas in order to fund an illegal war in Nicaragua.
When I was young and naive, I heard about the smuggling operations and thought to myself “that’s some crazy conspiracy shit”
You weren’t alone. The vast majority of the corporate press insisted that it was a lie and even destroyed the life of one of their fellow reporters after he tried to investigate the matter.
The corporate press are the enemy of the people, but not for saying mean things about Trump, as the president believes.
But wasn’t that part of the “rules-based international liberal economic order” that Trump is destroying?
EternalBrew
@EternalBrew
Gimme that stuff that makes me feel like someone who gets eight hours of sleep
John McAfee
@officialmcafee
Lol
This is the greatest Twitter thread ever.
He’s funny as hell.
Monica Witt should be the LP’s 2020 nominee.
It’s Jesse!
http://archive.is/lvWOO
Shifting gears for Glibs that prefer posteriors.
I’m thinking Jesse would prefer something more like this:
https://mcangeles.tumblr.com/
48 has an amazing phat booty:
https://archive.is/lvWOO/e5b49475cc54b435bccb60f97b703ab83e7fea47
12 is also hot af:
https://archive.is/lvWOO/060a935e3d0e8423d29dd5a2c9a025f2fd265446
“Cory Booker Wants Government To Drastically Increase the Cost of Meat to Encourage Veganism”
https://theresurgent.com/2019/02/12/cory-booker-wants-government-to-drastically-increase-the-cost-of-meat-to-encourage-veganism/
I have an idea. Let’s take all the progressive legislators and turn them into animal feed. I call it the “Soylent Green New Deal”.
I can get behind that kind of new deal.
I’m in favor so long as you remove the word “progressive”. Throw in everyone but Massie and Amash.
Rand Paul, brah
That guy is an endless fount of bad ideas.
Careful now, I saw Spartacus. The dude was badass.
Christ, what a smug asshole.
I remember laughing at this cow farts nonsense back in the 90’s. First time I ever heard it was watching Seaquest DSV.
If you get between me and bacon, we are going to have a problem.
Also, do you know who else was a vegetarian?
Bugs Bunny?
“Radical Lesbian” Explains Why She’s AGAINST Trans Movement
I kinda like the lesbian chick.
Tundra on February 13, 2019 at 3:35 pm
Of course it is. I was shocked in 2017 when the GSD won.
You know who else was a fan of german shepherds ?
Jim Belushi?
Heidi?
Heidi was Swiss.
Was Belushi Swiss?
Today in police murders, six officers shoot a sleeping man.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/429757-six-police-officers-in-california-fire-shots-at-rapper-found?__twitter_impression=true
He “reached for his weapon” though. All good!
Black guys always walk around grabbing their crotches, this is known….
I don’t normally nap in the Taco Bell parking lot, but if I am and I’m startled, I’m probably going to make an erratic “WTF” move on waking up. (And I’d probably still be drunk)
Also, I like that the commercial that played before the autoplay video showed a St. Bernard sleeping soundly on top of its owner. Nice touch.
Civilians shouldn’t have funs. They feared for their safety. hth
Damnit.
I mean, it still kind of works.
I’d call that a Pre-Trial Disposition by Execution
They each got a notch on their belts, and that’s all that matters.
“Reaching” is not a standard that is good for anyone except trigger-happy, pansy-assed government agents. And really not for them either because it sews distrust and resentment from their fellow citizens. But I see that this one is being made into a race issue so I can rest assured that nothing positive will come of discussions and actions pertaining to this event.
Sheriff: Witness ‘eliminated a threat’ by shooting man who killed his wife at Tenn. dentist office
Nice shot. Too bad he couldn’t have clipped the guy before the woman was killed.
You guys are all dog people, right?
Cats are superior animals and pets.
Wait, wait! No one start yet! I have to go make popcorn!
Sorry, but I have to say no to any animal that would promptly proceed to eat my face after I die.
Truth.
Cats are not even pets.
If they were bigger, they would happily stalk and eat us.
Feature, not bug.
*ahem*
And furthermore…
*Clears throat in obnoxious manner*
(she got in the xmas tree… a lot…)
You fucking rebel scum!
That’s my boy!!
Tall Cans!bitch!
HEY YUFUS !
Cats are the Nick Gillespie of pets.
“Cats are superior animals…”
No arguments here, mine lets me and the pup know she’s better than us daily.
“And pets”
My dog would die for me in a heartbeat…..like many others have pointed out, my cat would eats me given half a chance. Still I love that insane alien robot.
Cat saves boy from dog.
https://www.thenation.com/article/committee-republic-norman-birnbaum/
Well, that’s good!
Illegal?
I mean, the UN says so!
Y’know, I’ve seen no one complain of ‘gaslighting’ via liberal-democratic (inverted) lexical fictions of global geopolitics! Must be legit, then, and I’m legitimately crazy.
I got a good chuckle at the notion that criticizing Israel gets you disinvited from all the good cocktail parties.
War powers act, 1974
Idiots…..
Uffda. Ilhan Omar might be in some trouble here. This story about a bunch of (((leaders))) meeting with her last year is pretty damning.
Of course, it is almost as damning of the (((leaders))) as it is of Omar. They ask her to a meeting to discuss some troubling things she had said in the past and try to see if they can find some common ground, but left the meeting feeling troubled by her answers. Maybe you should have said something about those reservations before she went out and won the primary? Or maybe a decent local journalist might have printed a story on the meeting when it happened.
Say what you will about them, but a (((intervention))) would be cool. (((They))) always have tips for you.
I really wish that (((we))) had 10% of the power that the anti-semites seem to think (((we))) do.
Mossad agrees
“Borking Neomi Rao
At the height of the #MeToo ferment over Judge Brett Kavanaugh, hundreds of Harvard and Yale law students shut down their classes to protest Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The students demanded that Kavanaugh’s sexual assault accusers be believed unconditionally, simply on the basis of having made an uncorroborated accusation.
Many of these elite law students will end up as judges. Yet the media cheered them on, even though their rejection of the presumption of innocence, if carried to the bench, would demolish a cornerstone of Anglo-American jurisprudence.
However, if you argue that female college students have agency to prevent many cases of what feminists label as campus rape then you have unfitted yourself for a judicial career, according to a large segment of the media and the political class. Last week, Democratic Senator and presidential contender Kamala Harris contemptuously grilled a judicial nominee for having written that female students can control whether or not they get drunk, the usual prelude to the hook-up sex that the campus rape industry routinely classifies as rape. Neomi Rao, whom President Trump has selected to fill Brett Kavanaugh’s now-vacant seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, penned several op-eds as a Yale undergraduate questioning the idea that females are always helpless victims of the male libido, unable to avoid regretted dorm room sex. Rao’s treatment on Capitol Hill suggests that fealty to the narrative of perpetual female victimhood is fast becoming a prerequisite for a judgeship.”
https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/borking-neomi-rao/
You’re empowered to be a victim, and you’re empowered not to be responsible for the consequences your choices.
Too many dropped words and typos today. *sigh* Time to start drinking.
That implies you stopped drinking.
The so-called women’s rights proponents are the ones arguing that women should be in a special protected class, essentially in the same category as children. They just emphasize the “less responsibility” part but completely ignore the “fewer rights” part.
Think about it; they’re saying that women are passive and weak and therefore need special protections from the government. But if that were true, it would also obliterate any justification for “gender equality”.
Kids and adults are not considered equal. Adults are dominant over kids because kids are not capable of making their own decisions and looking after themselves. The logical corollary of modern feminism is that women should have reduced responsibilities (which they openly state) and fewer rights (which they completely ignore even though they’re inadvertently arguing for it).
The Dems on the Judiciary Committee work very hard to shut off conservative judges entering the higher federal courts who are women and/or people of color. They stop them at the lower levels so that they don’t have to deal with them one day being a SCOTUS nominee. They did it to Estrada and to Rogers Brown.
Savvy.
I enjoy how impotent progressives came off looking after the Kavanaugh ordeal. After all the screaming at the sky and threats of rising up the vote passed and they had to lump it. They like to pretend they are revolutionaries but in the end most are petulant children.
“”minors shouldn’t block literal pedophiles” is a take i never expected to hear”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1095606139251757056
I probably say so too often but I’m predicting ‘pedophile rights’ to be on the progressive agenda within the next decade. Completely logical within the context of Frankfurt school communism.
Just keep pushing out that ‘next decade’ and you’ll never be wrong. See – Climate change doomsday predictions.
Unlike Climate Change my prediction will either be verifiably correct or incorrect 10 years from today. I’m not nearly as skilled at moving the goal posts as the warmissts are.
And that’s how the civil wars began…….
I think it more likely that they push this from the other end. After all why should parents have legal tools to prevent their middle schooler from dating whomever they choose?
You don’t hear much about ‘childrens rights” these days…… wasn’t that part of Cankles platform back in the day?
Children have the right to be watched-over by Big Brother at 3AM?
OMWC approves
If I were a “progressive” strategist and wanted to promote pedophile acceptance, I would start by portraying child rape among certain immigrants (e.g. Rotherham) as a perfectly normal cultural practice that is unfairly maligned by Western cultural supremacists. If anyone disagreed, I would call them a racist and point out that prosecuting pedophilia will have a “disparate impact” on these communities.
Of course, I’m not. But I just think about conflicts by trying to get inside the other person’s head.
I’d be amazed if this precise argument hasn’t already been made in the far-flung corners of academia.
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
Do you work for the Rotherham Constabulary?
I’m feeling extra permissive today
You damn libertines!
Jack off at work.
Tittymonger!
Say “gentleman” again! Say it again! I dare you, I double dare you!
Videos like that make me thank God I’ve never had to use public transportation or lived in a major metropolitan area.
As an aside I think this is an interesting study in regard to modern feminism. You can either be treated exactly like everyone else irrespective of your gender or you can have chivalry but you can’t have both. Of course that doesn’t play well with the “heads I win, tails you lose” feminism de jour.
Sweet fancy Moses, is that actually her?
Please please please please run her for president. Trump would push all her buttons and get her to fucking blow up like that on the debate stage while he calmly stands there with this smile on his face.
I generally can’t bring myself to watch actual political speeches in their entirety (I read transcripts instead) but I would sit my ass down and fucking watch Trump vs. Klobuchar if it happened.
Pretty sure it isn’t. Someone asked in the comments and was chided pretty good for it.
/I wondered myself
Damn. I wasn’t sure since I had never seen a picture of her and hadn’t even heard of her until about two weeks ago.
I do hear she has a temper, though. Even the AFSCME said that she treats her employees like shit and they refused to endorse her. When you’ve lost the government employee unions…
A lot of them seem to think it’s New York and it isn’t. I doubt it’s her either.
My wife, who doesn’t like alcohol because of the bite, requested I bring home an IPA. One that’s hoppy.
She’s been replaced. That is not your beautiful wife.
But is it his large automobile?
What did you pick?
She asked for Ninkasi Total Domination. 81 IBU.
It’s a trap.
Bathroom warning mistaken for bomb threat at Home Depot
That’s a shitty mistake to make.
This is moving.
Today’s entry in “Combing Social Media for Racist Receipts that Totally Aren’t a Hoax”.
Yeah… paid with a credit card…
LOL, sure he did.
Props for that ‘allegedly’, though. There’s hope for rookie journalism after all.
The next story is about the head nurse at school. Giggity.
https://nypost.com/2019/02/13/school-nurse-allegedly-performed-oral-sex-on-several-students/
Same writer, even. She seems to be responsible for a large chunk of this sort of “news” there.
Heh. Head nurse.
A Prius this crowd might appreciate.
https://youtu.be/uzLNC-strf0