Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but Paul Manafort who had his plea deal tossed out by a judge after she determined that he lied to prosecutors.
Unpossible, I have been told repeatedly that the income tax break would cost money. Not like it matters anyway as we are still spending ourselves into collapse.
This was not a wise business decision.
Newson refuses to give back the $3.5 billion CA took from the federal government for the failed choo choo boondoggle.
Back pay for Federal contractors not included in Federal funding bill.
Smollett upset at people who don’t believe him. I’m open to the possibility that he was attacked, maybe randomly by some homeless people and his Trump and race obsessed mind filled in some details that did not happen.
For a fellow Glib who recently lost their father.
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Also the last link goes to the smollett story
Dammit!
The biggest problem I have in believing him is the fact that he was only off camera for one minute, and showed no signs of having been attack when he reappeared on camera, and then acted inconsistantly with someone who’d actually been assaulted. Then there’s the fact that the first time his ‘noose’ appears on camera is after he got inside the hotel again. It’s straining credulity. I’m not even sure resonable doubt remains that he’s not lying.
You’re an asshole. I, for one, #Believeher
What does one have to do with the other?
Noose, bleach, beating. Clearly MAGA mania. Prove that he wasn’t attacked in those 45 seconds. *Touchdown dance*
Present one shred of evidence that he was.
Orange man bad. Orange man bad. Orange man bad. There’s three.
#Believeher requires no evidence, shitlord!
Statistically, racist incidents are 99.99999% black flag operations. But there’s always that .00001% chance! Probably less though when you factor in location and circumstance. Just like Heaven’s Gate cultist may well be on that spaceship home.
I’m afraid your .00001% got used up by the livestreamed beating and torture of the mentally handicapped white kid.
Have you heard from any of them since they said they were leaving? There’s your proof.
*head explodes*
I’ll get the mop and the peroxide.
Dibbs on the Nike Cortez’s.
Killer.
I dunno, there seem to be a lot of eunuch’s running around posting “My wife likes to sleep with other guys while I stay home and watch the kids that don’t look like me” stories. I think they may be Heaven’s Gaters.
Yes! Just as believable as the racist graffiti at the Air Force Academy Prep School and the homophobic slur on the Whole Foods cake. It’s a frickin’ epidemic! Like climate change!
He could have been punched during that sixty second window, but it still looks like he noosed himself and lied a lot.
But he “fought the fuck back!” And was so badass that he managed not to drop his sandwich while doing so!
Jackie Chan could have done it. #NotAllActors
If there’s no video of the attack how do you know he didn’t drop his sammich?
So you’re arguing he might have dropped his sandwich but picked it back up and cleaned it off within the same sixty second time frame as the fight?
Yes, that is exactly what I am arguing. Admittedly I don’t give half a fig about the entire thing and am assuming he was carrying his bagged up sammich back to his hotel to eat like a normal person, not munching on it while walking down the street like some kind of lunatic. Pretty easy to drop and pick up a bagged up sammich, no cleaning required. And 60 seconds if a longer time than you seem to imply.
My only concern about the sandwich really is “would evidence of it being dropped show on camera?”
Then I remember the types of cameras we’re dealing with are no super-high definition with zoom and enhance, so it’d be next to impossible to tell smudges of dirt from shadows.
Oh do go on. I can’t wait to see what you do with this.
It only takes 1-2 seconds to snatch a wrapped (possibly bagged) sandwich off the pavement if you don’t have mobility issues. So that leave 58 seconds for the bleaching, fighting, and noosing.
Okay, How many Tyson fights were under one minute long. Even more important is how those cameras are time-stamped, to the second? If we only know he was last seen at 2:07 and then again at 2:09 there could be up to just under 3 minutes missing.
Random rednecks punch with the same power as Tyson in his prime? Better question is why didn’t they beat him to a pulp given there was no one else around on video? They just wanted to rough him up a bit after waiting in the freezing cold with bleach and a rope in hand? This story is just too fanciful.
I was reading hyperbole the other way, that this random actor KOed to random rednecks without breaking stride. Which is equally hard to believe.
If he fought them off after getting jumped, that’s quite the feat for a Hollywood actor. Possible, I suppose. Not likely though in my experience with fights.
Twelve. Out of 58.
Hang on, what’s wrong with eating while you’re walking? I do it. Lots of normal people do it. I’ve encountered plenty of lunatics on the street and none of them have had sandwiches.
Sure, a bag of popcorn or some tasty black licorice but not a subway sammich, you need a plate and cutlery for that.
Every time I’ve been stuck with subway I’ve been given 90% bread, 9% lettuce and 1% everything else. I’ve never needed plate or cutlery for that.
you need a plate and cutlery for that.
Do you want Nikki to be stripped of her title of “worst”? This is how that happens.
Because he is not so uncouth to have eaten the sandwich if he had dropped in on the filthy redneck-contaminated street. Duh.
*SPEWS RACIST GARBAGE*
Dude.
Oh hey, it’s FOS to shit up the thread again!
It’s his anti-depressant-and-meth-and-alcohol truth.
Pack your bags. You are done here.
Damn your nimble fingers.
Heads on pikes is an awesome banhammer image! (and damn I was too late to the party to see what earned it, please DON”T enlighten me.
Pretty boring actually, just an N-bomb. Not even a proper screed. The ban was certainly warranted.
I think that might be your swan song on this site.
Fuck off.
Y tho?
That’s gonna be a yikes from me.
Don’t come in our house and crap on the living room floor. Please refer to this and this.
That was a fast response. Were you just here enjoying the morning lynx, or do you have some sort of problematic poster notification alert?
Glad Swiss did it. Glib mods set the bar low enough that you have be a cockroach to slide under it. Good riddance to that POS.
+1 Metamorphosis
That was one joke from Spaceballs that really fell flat. I blame Rick Moranis.
Which happens to be the art theme of this year’s Burning Man. Reminds me I have a patch to design.
Adahn and juris get the same response: Say what now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4zMrNNxfg
Awwwww, I missed it.
I love a good ejection from the game.
I am actually wondering how extensive the library of “you have been banned” images is.
Ditto. I have never seen any of them on this site.
The closest I have come is UCS’s cat butting yesterday, which I thought was an overreaction.
…I am not going to reargue that whole thing. It was a number of TPTB that had enough. I would invite you to look at any number of the latest Hat and Hair posts to see if you can suss out what we were seeing.
How about some friendly warnings first? How about an off-line email?
I’ll add that I too, had noticed it and thought it wasn’t really all that funny. Once I even typed up a reply saying something like that’s fine because I always skip over his stories. I can’t remember if I hit post or if I decided not and deleted it…
Anyway, I just figured it’s one of those things where you just look past it and forget about it and sooner or later he’ll get bored and stop.
“Anyway, I just figured it’s one of those things where you just look past it and forget about it and sooner or later he’ll get bored and stop.”
Really? Oh, come now…
While I am in the people over react to UCS camp. I would point out that a cat butt IS the friendly warning.
Yeah, the more I think about that the more I want to retract that statement. ha-ha
#metoo 🙁
Did this person ever do anything other than troll? I thought I saw normal posts from that handle months ago? Maybe I’m thinking someone else. Regardless, lately it’s like it’s been asking to get banned.
They seemed to almost parrot some of the libertarian language / memes you hear around here. It’s sort of like if Microsoft’s Tay had managed to infiltrate this board.
Not really, but it was on the slow simmer line of troll/sarcastic comment, so we let it slide. It isn’t being annoying, it isn’t being boring and it isn’t being offensive, it’s the mix of all three.
Whew! Thank god I only fit two of those.
You can also get away with being all three if you submit a weekly “keep the morning links from crashing into the afternoon links” material for the Glibhedrin.
And we sell indulgences for cash.
#metoo!
…I think…
Yeah, I’d say you’re fairly inoffensive.
“Fairly”…I’ll take it.
I freely admit to the other two. No apologies.
You know who else never apologized…
Arthur Fonzarelli
They seemed to keep dancing up to the racist BS line and tapping a toe across it, like they were either trying to see who took the bait or trying to see how far they could go. Then lately they just jumped across with both feet. Their troll fu was poor.
See, I think Hyperbole does a nice job of trolling. Nice mix of provocation, substance, contrariness, without being too offensive or (that I can recall) personal.
Hyperbole has strong troll fu, I agree.
He is a master of the art form.
If you really want to get your ass whipped in that neighborhood, wear a MAGA hat. See how long you last.
Smollet’s story reeks of horseshit.
I saw an interview yesterday with someone who lives there – “Half of the neighborhood is gay. The other half is black.”
But apparently a couple of klan members were just sitting around in -40F weather wearing MAGA hats with ropes and bottles of bleach in their pockets just in case a gay black guy might show up at 2 in the morning.
You left out “Hanging out in the one camera dead zone without being filmed entering or leaving it.”
the only other people caught on camera in the area – those “people of interest” from early on – were on a bench during the minute Jussie was off-camera, and nowhere near the scene.
In the interest of accuracy, there have never been any reports of them wearing MAGA hats. Suipposedly they were wearing ski masks and said “MAGA country.”
If there were attackers I’d believe that they had to wear ski masks in the weather conditions present. Depending upon which report you use it was hitting “it doesn’t matter if it’s Ferenheit or Celcius” temperatures for wind chill.
If they were wearing ski masks he probably couldn’t hear them speak clearly. Maybe they accused him of being from a rival street gang.
My take:
(1) One minute is actually plenty of time for what he describes.
(2) It seems a risky thing to lie about, if you knew the degree of video surveillance in that area, but perhaps not if you planned it enough to scout out the overpass as an area free of video surveillance.
(3) The sandwich thing is odd – after being violently assaulted, would you really stop to pick up your sandwich? Maybe, but seems unlikely.
(4) Not going to the security guard at his building after being violently assaulted, but going straight to your digs, is odd.
(5) What was his affect on the post-assault? Did he walk back to his condo? Run? Was he checking his backtrail? IOW, was he acting like somebody who was just assaulted?
(6) The late insertion of MAGA, the manager’s claim that he heard the whole thing on the phone, and the refusal to turn over the phone or records stinks on ice. I think its very unlikely that anyone would be having a phone call while out in sub-zero weather, for one thing.
(7) Who the hell would wear a noose put around their neck by a couple of racists for one instant longer than necessary?
(8) The fact that there is no trace of the assailants on any video surveillance is very odd.
|(8) The fact that there is no trace of the assailants on any video surveillance is very odd.
To this day they still hide under that bridge, skillfully avoiding the watchful eye of Big Brother.
Or they found a storm drain access and slipped away underground.
+4 ninja turtles
If this is a false flag, which is my bet, doing it at a time when the streets were completely deserted may have been a flaw in the plan. But doing it when there was traffic would also be risky – the last thing you want for your false flag incident is actual eyewitnesses. Also a flaw – doing it in a neighborhood where the residents would be offended, and would say so, at the very possibility that MAGA goons might be hanging out on their turf.
The preponderance of the evidence suggests a hoax.
On #5, I’d be interested in finding out his pace/demeanor after the gap in video. That would speak volumes as to whether or not anything likely happened in the unfilmed duration. I don’t think the police will release the heaps of surveillance footage though.
Regarding #2, I think a lot of people radically underestimate how much video surveillance there truly is.
Just like the MAGA teens, too much has been invested in this story. No amount of proof will “disprove” his story now. Even if he confessed, the true believers will say he was forced to recant.
Related: Jezebel is quad-downing on the MAGA teens. Nothing can change their mind.
https://theslot.jezebel.com/investigation-finds-no-evidence-of-racist-statements-by-1832610016
Holy shit, the comments.
The one good thing about wintertime in Chicago is that it cuts down on street defecation. But I still wouldn’t pick up a sandwich that hit the street even in a flimsy Subway bag.
Morning banjos!
FY (congress), cut spending. No back pay for no work for contractors or federal employees.
BTW, GL, I saw your comment on Tora-san and had no idea he was in Tora! Tora! Tora!. The series came out a few years prior to the movie, so my guess is that Kurosawa did that on purpose. If you, or anyone else, knows if it was just a coincidence or not, I’d love to hear the story. I couldn’t confirm it either way.
I think so too. IMDB says he was in the Japanese version only and uncredited. Maybe a wink and a nod to a what did Tora-san do during the Pacific War?
As well as the obvious play on the title.
My FIL had no idea he was in TTT and he’s a big fan. Made me happy to share a bit of trivia with him that he didn’t know about his favorite actor. Thanks!
Mornin’
Newson refuses to give back the $3.5 billion CA took from the federal government for the failed choo choo boondoggle.
“Sorry, we can’t give it back so you can use it for the Wall. We don’t have it anymore….we gave it all away to our friends in a giant money laundering scheme”
“Your money’s in Joe’s house…right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin’s house, and a hundred others.”
+1 Bailey Savings and Loan
[Joe, Macklin, and Kennedy all start fighting, trying to get each other to give back the money]
That’s not Trumps money you slimy fucker.
I wonder what would happen if I said I had no intention of paying the fed gov money they were asking for.
Well, lets see…
Okay since you’re not a DNC operative able to rack up millions in unpaid taxes, you’re more likely to have Ruby Ridge 3.0 on your tree farm
This gives the Administration an endless hunting license to screw with any federal money going to CA.
I guess the next check to CA will have a “minus 3.5B” line deduction on it.
Trump should use it to tear down the wall on San Diego’s southern border.
Every time I see that guy I think “Jersey Shore reject”.
Can’t the feds just pull it out of California’s bank accounts? Where exactly does a state (or the feds for
that matter) keep their money? Do they go down to the local branch and “Hi. I’m governor Jackwagon
and I’d like to open a checking account?” When I send a check to the state, what do they do with it?
Converted electronically, sure, but in principle what happens? Do they have some sort of account
with a federal reserve bank? I’m having daydreams of getting starter check for a tax refund
because they just switched banks.
Some accounts are actually with private banks, but these tend to be specific earmark items.
I don’t know how the general fund is kept.
Music link points to Smollet article.
or what T&T said.
Good morning everyone. I missed all the anniversary action yesterday, but I just wanted to wish everyone a happy glibaversary and to thank all the founders and contributors, and of course the commenters. We have built something here that exceeded my wildest dreams. Please celebrate the things that bring us together, and remember that pretty much anyone on here is going to agree with you about far, far more than some random goober.
#metoo
Seconded. Tonio said it much better that I could have.
+1
Articulate, ain’t he?
Well said
I agree with Tonio…except about the agreement part.
Agreed. Anyone wanna talk about Pizza, immigration or abortion?
Well, from available historical records, Pizza was invented by legal immigrants who were assimilating the the overal culture in a mixed neighborhood where they had to accomodate varied tastes for which the inferior Neapolitan Tomato Pie couldn’t satisfy.
People of the world have a fundamental right to go into whatever restaurant they want and have an aborted deep dish pizza?
Aborted pizza = deep dish
I’m in the “deep dish is good, but it ain’t pizza” camp.
Aborted fetal foreskin makes a great deep dish pizza topping, just sayin’.
And if you order a small and rub it, you end up with a medium.
SF is Michael Jackson?
+1 Vienna Sausages
We had a bit of a botched circumcision last week.* It came up at our weekly incidents meeting. The two males in the room agreed that an immediate $500K payment would be appropriate. We were outvoted by the females, a disturbing pattern that carried over from some high-speed balloon catheter removal incidents (as in, the drain line got wrapped around an IV pole, and when the pole was moved, *pop*, the fully inflated balloon catheter was yanked through the urethra).
*It got fixed, the kid will be fine.
::uncomfortably crosses legs::
Funny you say that, because that’s exactly what the men at the meeting did.
You men were just propagating Male Privileged.
Fuck ’em, they were probably all rapists anyway.
Did you pay out on the balloon catheter?
Well, there’s been more than one incident. I think we made wrote off some bills on a few.
the fully inflated balloon catheter was yanked through the urethra
GAH!
And yet people mock me because I won’t get medical treatment unless a bone is actually snapped, a joint is actually dislocated or someone takes me because I am unconscious.
Thanks for the nightmare fuel Mr. Dean.
Pssht. At a hospital incidents meeting, you hear about much worse things. Our last devolved into who could find the worst picture of a compound fracture on the internet.
WARNING: DO NOT LOOK FOR PICTURES OF COMPOUND FRACTURES ON THE INTERNET.
You people are a strange breed.
WARNING: DO NOT LOOK FOR PICTURES OF COMPOUND FRACTURES ON THE INTERNET.
I have no intention to. The relatively non-graphic bone breaking scenes from the new movie ‘Glass’ were a bit much for me, so there’s no way I’d want to venture anywhere near such pictures. I’m not cut out for hospital work.
I’ve had my own. Don’t need to.
This is, hands down, the single most disturbing thing I’ve ever read on here.
Sorry SF.
Then I’m guessing you don’t want to hear about the ants.
No, sir, I do not.
They were very small ants, if that helps.
Hear! Hear! Thanks to the administrators, morning links peeps, Zardoz, STEVE SMITH et al, for their time and effort 🙂
Yes. Sincere thanks to all the folks who run this place.
Very well said, Tonio. Harrumph! Harrumph!
Hear, hear!. Tonio’s motion passed as read!
It’s great to find a place that honors sanity. There aren’t nearly enough of them.
>>Newson refuses to give back the $3.5 billion CA took from the federal government
So where exactly did all of that money go?
“Environmental Assessments”
The usual graft.
Something something Superman 3.
Long time passes
I especially like how he’s pretending the project isn’t a failure, it’s just been right sized to serve two places in the middle of nowhere.
Politics is just Seinfeld at a bigger scale
I would think the feds could just withhold it from other payments they make to CA.
“Eh, we prepaid $3.5BB of what we owe you for X. Not our fault you spent it on something else.”
The project had tremendous administrative overhead. Between that and lawsuits, the money is gone.
Tough shit. Out in the real world, if you take advance payments but don’t deliver the goods, you have to pay a refund regardless of the fact that you spent the advances.
Out in the real world, if you take advance payments but don’t deliver the goods, you have to pay a refund regardless of the fact that you spent the advances.
Maybe in your magical white collar world where defendants have “assets”. But CA is more like the people my clients deal with. Judgement proof, you can’t get blood from a stone
Just don’t call it a messianic salvationism cult
Our carbon emissions are not mainly about the price of gasoline or electricity. They’re about infrastructure. For every human being, there are over 1,000 tons of built environment: roads, office buildings, power plants, cars and trains and long-haul trucks. It is a technological exoskeleton for the species. Everything most of us do, we do through it: calling our parents, getting to work, moving for a job, taking the family on vacation, finding food for the evening or staying warm in a polar vortex. Just being human in this artificial world implies a definite carbon footprint — and for that matter, a trail of footprints in water use, soil compaction, habitat degradation and pesticide use. You cannot change the climate impact of Americans without changing the built American landscape.
So the proposals to retrofit buildings, retool transportation and build a clean-energy system are simply ways of tackling the problem where it starts. They are public-works projects because large capital projects — especially ones that, like highways, involve widespread public benefit — have always required public money. They are jobs programs, unless robots do the work, so the jobs might as well be good.
———–
Forty percent of our land is farmed or ranched, which is to say, the soil is basically conscripted as a food factory. The food system is already pervasively shaped by the Farm Bill, which spends nearly $15 billion per year on subsidies and $10 billion on conservation measures, deeply shaping what farmers grow and where, and tending to benefit large, industrially oriented operations. Food production can be much less carbon-intensive with changed practices in cropping, fertilizing, irrigation and waste management, many of them well suited to small farming. Moving in that direction, though, would require rattling the cage of big American agriculture.
Heal the earth. Pastoral gambolery will set us free. You only think you want to be warm in the winter, and cool in the summer. Walking to the store is good for you. Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear.
Progress is an illusion.
Progress is them walking backwards into a death future blind while gazing back lovingly towards an imagined past
“because large capital projects — especially ones that, like highways, involve widespread public benefit — have always required public money”
So much stupid and factually wrong to unpack in that short sentence.
I still love how they really think they can just retrofit EVERY building in the USA with ease. Sure, if you just tear every single one of them down and just replace them with yurts or FEMA tents, sure.
*HASN’T GOT THE WORD YET*
Socialism by other means.
Shorter version: We must cast humanity back into poverty, slavery and misery.
The same ol’ commie trope we have been hearing for 150 years. It is insanity.
“Forty percent of our land is farmed or ranched” = bad. And yet, we should be encouraging less acreage-efficient “small farming”?
If you truly love Gaia, you’d kill yourself.
And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but Paul Manafort who had his plea deal tossed out by a judge after she determined that he lied to prosecutors.
I’m sure the fact that the judge is an Obama appointee has no bearing on any of her rulings.
Tear down that wall!
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/13/finally-first-ocasio-cortez-mural-goes-nyc/
Other than bleating out communist insanity, what has crazy-eyed Karla Marx actually done?
Been a useful tool for Team Red fundraising.
AOC is a Russian agent working directly with Trump to destroy the DNC. There’s your collusion Mueller!
She makes a fantastic mojito.
Well, if her cocktail muddling skills are anything like her muddled thinking, she’s a master.
Lots of blow, prolly.
Banged Ted Kennedy.
They say it was from a “Ted”, but really, which one of you glibs was this?
Stupider than Maxine Waters?
It’s like derp. You think you’ve reached the limits of the left’s stupidity but no.
To be fair, the person probably forgot she existed at the time.
I think the answer is both yes and no. I think being as stupid as AOC requires a level of intellect that Waters is incapable of. Like that saying that goes something like “Ideas so stupid you’d have to be an academic to believe them.”
But I could also be fooled by how much faster AOC moves and talks.
+1 Schrödinger’s Cat
She pleads like my 13 year-old.
Our Ted would’ve said, “more stupider”.
Hateful.
Also, it’s untrue.
Ok, how many times do I have to say this? Sure Jackson-Lee, Occassio-Cortez and Waters are stupid. They are very very stupid, BUT all future “Most Stupid Person in Congress” contests were cancelled and the award renamed the Hanky on the day GA 4 sent Mr. USS Guam to the house.
Sure as hell wasn’t *this* Ted.
You’re Secretly an AOC fanboy?
The walls have eyes.
Lol
Also, he slides this little nugget into the punch bowl:
If Trumpist nationalism outgrows its climate denialism but survives to fight again, it will double down on supporting national energy industries and denying the ethical responsibilities of global interdependence by building border walls against climate refugees. To the left of the Green New Deal, there will be louder calls to nationalize fossil fuels in order to leave them in the ground. (A carbon tax would be compatible with any of these visions, depending on who paid it and how the revenues were spent.)
Maybe we should nationalize medicine, too, so we can be certain the “wrong people” don’t get treatment.
climate denialism
Yeah, because people deny that climate actually exists. I can’t stand these dishonest cunts pretending that people who point out the failure of the AGW models are somehow “deniers” of “climate”. Anything to avoid addressing the actual point, I guess.
They use the word “deniers” quite deliberately to tie them to Holocaust deniers. Because global warming is a rock solid fact, undeniable like a genocide event with mountains of documentation, photographs, eyewitnesses, still living victims, adjudicated court cases of the perpetrators and extensive forensic evidence.
Yup. It is telling that the “Pro-Science” side has such strong scientific arguments that they feel they have to resort to comparing those who disagree with them to societies biggest boogieman. This is of course the way every major scientific theory has progressed.
just strike the rest of the statement and you have their argumentation methodology for everything.
Ho. Lee. Shit.
Do people like this know how evil they are?
Some do. Others… well, there’s a reason the NPC meme was so perfect.
Medieval feudalism is the goal.
No shit. My Marxist “History of Economic” Thought dedicated a whole chapter about how terrible it was that the industrial revolution “forced” laborers off their ancestral lands to go and sell their labor. See before laborers didn’t sell their labor, but now it is all they had to sell.
That is one heapin’ helpin’ of gibberish. Good God. Someone should smash him over the head with his keyboard then point a finger in his face and scream “Bad! No!”
Worked for Venezuela.
“there will be louder calls to nationalize fossil fuels in order to leave them in the ground …
Maybe we should nationalize medicine, too”
Nationalizing medicine would certainly leave more people in the ground …
TW: Autostart video?
Right Wing Attempts Smear Of Kamala Harris Toke Timeline
Reason pushes “Democrat open borders leads to MURDER”? Really?
I really don’t agree with their position on immigration. It’s immature. And Dalmia.
Dalmia’s position is just incoherent and rambling, like a tin-foil hat wearer at the community fair.
Illegals pay their fair share of taxes and aren’t a drain!
As if that means anything if true. They, you know, BROKE THE LAW.
You know who else broke the law…
Yup.
nice. I was expecting this
I like the dancers with pistols.
Me, if I posted from the UK?
Everyone?
/three felonies a day
Worst title of a book ever?
I’m getting behind, I didn’t leave the house yesterday. Oh, never mind….
The Nick Gillespie of twitter fights.
I’d like to think getting pissed on by the people whose asses they run around sniffing constantly might give them pause about their strategies, but I doubt it.
“She didn’t talk to you in college, either”
Already started sleeping her way to the top?
Well, duh, it’s hard to become the mistress of higher placed people if you don’t have someone to introduce you into the circles where they run.
I’ve never seen such an accurately named site before.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about the music and the timing. I care that she was a prosecutor that possibly helped lock people up for the same stuff she admits doing herself.
This right here.
It’s almost like this spat is a diversionary tactic. Devious!
TARD FIGHT!
Is there a transcript? The audio is shit on the clip. I can’t tell what she said.
I think this is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh_wQUjeaTk
At one point she says she smoked in college. Several minutes later she’s asked what she was listening to when she was smoking. If you assume she’s still talking about college, then she’s BSing. If you assume she smoked other times, then her answer is plausible. I think she’s BSing about smoking at all.
If she never referred to toking up at any time other than college, then I think its reasonable to conclude that she was saying what she listened to while smoking in college.
Her affect – the overdone laughing – makes me think she’s just lying.
Wireless Taxes and Fees Climb Again in 2018
Since 2008, average monthly wireless service bills per subscriber have dropped from just under $50 per-line per month to $38.66 per month—a 23 percent reduction. However, wireless taxes have increased from 15.1 percent to 19.1 percent of the average bill—a 27 percent increase.
Use Ting if you can. My phone bill averages like $23/ month.
I use mint mobile, but really any MVNO is better than using one of the Big 4.
I can’t tell from a quick inspection their site: Are the overage fees for data? With Ting you just get moved up into the next bracket which is fairly priced. Either way, it’s about goddamn time the service contracts started to go. Even 18 year old me could tell what a blisteringly stupid idea it was to agree to be a consumer for 2 years at a time.
No overages, just throttled to death.
Looks promising. What are the taxes and fees like?
I dunno, a couple dollars. My total amount paid is like $23/month. No contract, bring your own phone.
Cool. I might make the jump.
Since 2008, average monthly wireless service bills per subscriber have dropped from just under $50 per-line per month to $38.66 per month—a 23 percent reduction. However, wireless taxes have increased from 15.1 percent to 19.1 percent of the average bill—a 27 percent increase.
Wait…. If fees remain steady nominal amount… wouldn’t they necessarily rise as a percent of the bill as the rest of the bill falls?
Lets do some checking.
15.1% of $50 is $7.55
19.1% of $38.66 is $7.38
I think the fees were unchanged but the bills went down.
If the numbers are absolutely correct, I’d say the few cents dropped could be accounted for by one of the taxes and fees being a percentage rather than a flat dollar value.
Doing some quick calculations the fees would be 6.85, and the taxes would be 1.4%. (assuming you are paying taxes on the fees as well)
I wonder what percent of Americans could actually do that calculation?
Also, what percent of glibs?
With or without spreadsheets?
I would allow pencils, so I don’t see why I wouldn’t allow other tools too.
If you need a spreadsheet, no problem, you still know how to do it.
I was told there would be no math.
TLDR, amount companies charge is dropping, tax rates keep increasing.
I got into it with Cox over a quote they provided for multi-line phone service which did not include taxes and fees. I can understand not including the stuff that would be present in every quote, but they are now including their own “Network Access” fee which is not a third party payment. It’s just a way of hiding another $80/month I would have to pay them.
Announcing the end of the project during his State of the State address, Newsom said: ‘Let’s be real.
‘The current project, as planned, would cost too much and respectfully take too long.
‘There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency. Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I wish there were.
‘Abandoning high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions and billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises, partially filled commitments and lawsuits to show for it.
In other words, the project has been a huge success, for the parasite class.
A billion here, a billion there – pretty soon it adds up to real money.
“‘Abandoning high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions and billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises, partially filled commitments and lawsuits to show for it.”
Sunk Cost Fallacy, dude.
You and I understand this but Newsom doesn’t. Make it up in time and volume
He might understand it, but he’s betting that the voters don’t. And the media won’t bother correcting him.
now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Lying liar is gonna lie.
Besides the obvious roads that connect all four with simple paths, both of those city pairs have nonstop air service by at least two different airlines. Fuck you Newsom.
“but Kamala Harris is not talking to you.”
Unless you can help forward her career, then hello fun time!
Good morning, Banjos!
Beautiful song and my favorite version. If it doesn’t get you right in the gut there’s something wrong with you.
Mornin’
Not feeling the love? Blame Trump, racism and war says self-described sex doc
So what she’s saying is I should just find a lovely woman who’s practically as apolitical as I am who also just wants sexy fun times? I’m okay with this.
Jesus Christ, how delusional can you be?
There is no limit.
To be fair, certain people were definitely getting fucked more during the Obama years.
I got laid the night he got elected. So I’ll give him some credit for that much at least.
Also our “take a shot every time an anchor says too close to call” drinking game deserves a nod.
People just don’t want to have sex
That is an Extraodinary claim, and requires Extraordinary evidence
I thought Trump was getting grief for being against war. Is she claiming he’s for or starting wars?
Other than that, yeah-k with the BS.
And I’m pretty sure if PTSD is a real thing as she describes it, such people have way bigger personal issues to deal with. Have you seen some of those reactions on youtube?
Not normal.
Exactly. Even if we accept her argument, it really isn’t Trump but people’s reactions to Trump. And unless they are any squalling toddlers, you can control your emotions.
After all, I’m sure that this author would reject out of hand the idea that Obama’s actions in office justify the racist reactions some people had toward him.
It’s PETD – Post Election Trump Disorder.
That’s the best disorder. Huge.
I don’t see a problem here: if someone gets upset enough about a politician that they lose interest in sex, I think it’s a good thing that they don’t risk procreating. Unless you’re banging said politician, your opinion of them really shouldn’t affect your sex life.
>>For a fellow Glib who recently lost their father.
I was expecting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8W5U2tIFQI
Nearly always, that song can make me cry.
if you’re not getting intimate these days, it is all because of the negative vibes she sees emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Trump done stold our wimmenz?
What’s left once all the pussies have been grabbed?
If you can’t have sex because your preferred candidate didn’t win the Presidency, you have a lot more serious problems going on.
For example, your preferred candidate isn’t the president!
*polite applause*
I thought all the women had been enslaved like in Handmaiden’s Tale.
On the 30th anniversary of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the BBC decides to play it classy
So the problem with the Rushdie fatwa was the fact that evil racist Britons objected to it? K
Judge who compared Silent Sam to Hitler won’t hear future Confederate statue cases
The lack of wisdom and perspective in her false virtue is impressive.
Hillsborough and Chapel Hill are a prog island in a lake of Trumpkins (the rest of Orange county)
Of course, she won’t hear it – It’s Silent!
“What is the difference in the Silent Sam statue and a statue of Adolf Hitler?”
Uh…..one statue is a likeness of a socialist monster and the other is not. That’s my guess.
I wished my wife Happy Valentine’s day this morning.
Her response:
“Thanks! Happy Hallmark holiday to you, too!”
Sadly my wife isn’t that cynical.
same 🙁
Keeper.
Keeper wife there. Learned there’s a Black Day in Korea.
What is the black sauce made out of? Or am I better off not knowing?
East Asian food? 50/50 chance you’d rather not know or something odd but inoccuous.
Sweet bean paste makes it black:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_bean_sauce#Korean_chunjang
Lots of drunken hookups on that day I’m betting.
Too bad Evan left or we could’ve gotten a play by play.
You….you are a clever man. *ovation*
Interesting. I thought that in Korea you couldn’t order at a restaurant as a singleton.
Director of Boyz in the Hood hardest hit.
Nothing puts me in the mood for love like a beheaded 3rd century Roman priest.
Eddie? You’re back!
I gave my wife a box of sugar free chocolate cherry cordials and now I’m taking her out for breakfast. I inwardly chuckled at the idea of sugar free and thought of some weird stuff
That’s a good humor right there.
You guys don’t have to deal with Sweetest Day out there? Talk about a made up holiday. It doesn’t help that American Greetings is based in the Cleveland suburbs.
I barely remember the holidays I get off from work. And only then because I put them on my calendar so I don’t go in.
The stores around here decorate it up so it’s impossible to ignore. I have steadfastly refused to do shite for Sweetest Day, since Halloween is the much superior October holiday. I don’t remember it at all from childhood, it seemed to pop up again about 20 years ago.
I’d make fun of you for keeping a calendar, but I’ve driven to work on days off a time or two.
There’s always some comments here that baffle me. This one wins for today.
I did it once, but in my defense it was MLK day which up until the previous year (the year before the Cleveland mothership took us over), it was “optional”, not “mandatory”.
Best days to work. No one around to ask you to drop what you are working on and put out their fire.
Another good, quiet day is the one between a major holiday and a weekend. So many people opt to take that one off that the office is silent.
I lived in North Florida for a few years and had no idea that was a thing. Then again, I was just a shy gamer college boy at the time.
Makes me think of “Love Day” on the Simpsons.
I’ve always been partial to Wacking Day, myself… rotten
Irishsnakes.It would have been more valentine-y if her response was “mmmf ruu ooo”
No kidding.
I’m taking my Valentine of 45 years out to lunch today. Can’t take her to dinner, too many old people that shouldn’t be driving out there at night.
Now that was funny.
PRESIDENTS DAY IS JUST AN EXCUSE FOR THE PRESIDENT COMPANIES TO SELL YOU MORE PRESIDENTS!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!
My wife and I are going to take the kids to the local supermarket for dinner, because inexplicably, they have both the best pizza* and the best stir fry in the western suburbs. We aren’t going because its valentines day or anything like that. We just really like pizza and/or stir fry in our family.
*Well, there’s one very upscale place that’s very good and serves pizza, but not exactly the same thing because its upscale.
PRESIDENTS DAY IS JUST AN EXCUSE FOR THE PRESIDENT COMPANIES TO SELL YOU MORE PRESIDENTS!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!
You know, he’s not wrong…
I’ll take a Jefferson or a Silent Cal please.
Well offer her (and OMWC/SP) a happy Arixona Statehood Day instead. I am pretty sure she has never been offered that. Plus giving her a cholla skeleton lamp or a stuffed jackalope is much cheaper than diamonds and a dinner.
The natural state of Man is suffering. Thot Thursday offers temporary relief.
http://archive.li/cRG4l
The Valentine’s Day heart is modeled after female anatomy.
12, 21 looks fun, 28 looks REALLY fun. Thanks as always, Mr. Q. A link a day keeps a man okay.
12 was my top pic:
https://archive.li/cRG4l/11680d4d50b1df000f9f4742bf5e11d029a9ed27
I like the way you think, sir.
26>15>29>35
“The Valentine’s Day heart is modeled after female anatomy.”
Specifically, a booty.
Great booty link last night, btw.
Valentine’s Day music
Another
Love kills
Love Song
Heartfelt
While I expected this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kzk1xZCiv8
I’ve always found this to be the most romantic song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFPu83ggTlM
This image of Newsom from the linked article is freaking me out a little
There’s gotta be a chick under the podium.
All right, I laughed.
The only Newsom image I’d like to see is him being frog marched from the governor’s mansion to a waiting police van at 5am in the morning by a heavily armed militarized FBI swat team for embezzling $3.5 billion from the U.S. taxpayers.
*wistful sigh*
Well, that was a nice daydream.
Though technically if it didn’t go into his pocket, it wasn’t embezzlement. The most that will happen would be garnishment of future transfer payments to California.
What’s it gonna take to get you into this Buick?
That face looks like the American Psycho avatar one of the users around here has.
Yesterday i got in a short argument with some Friends at work. (I’m out in a week so who cares?). It started when one friend claimed that Andrea O. replies to her attackers with “Facts and Logic”.
The rest of the conversation went predictably from there.
And who is Andrea O?
She’s Jackie O’s Horrible niece
There’s something wrong with Jackie O’s? Which reminds me… I need to get back down there at some point, I have a $50 gift certificate for there.
From what I have heard, she mostly replies with “like”s and “totally”s
I’m afraid that is an unforgivable sin.
I’m afraid that is totally like an unforgivable sin.
It’s better to be Morally Correct than like totally a sinner
I love this place.
It’s like the tippy top of Libertarian websites.
Actually the highlight was when i said both she and trump are morons, and the insisted that she was smarter than Trump. “When Trump is caught in a lie, he just doubles down”. I was very close to quoting “Its better to be morally correct than factually right.”
I would just like to say that PLC programming has to be one of the fucking worst tasks you can give an engineer. From the shitty tooling and software, licensing structure to the horror of visual programming that is ladder logic. Just fuck right off.
The only way to make it worse would be to require me to write a complementing app in LabView. *Shudder*
At least it’s not JavaScript.
var I = {};
I object.
*swiss stare*
I think I’m about to stick my dick in that particular woodchipper. I feel like, sadly, it’s limiting my career options. Look forward to my coming screed.
That said, I particularly hate visual programming. I think it’s slow, stupid, and leads to RSI since you’re just mousing the whole time.
Perhaps we should collaborate on making a visual Javascript engine?
I don’t actually use it – by choice.
My main tools are SQL and C# and I totally get the visual/not visual conundrum. Sometimes one is right for the job, sometimes not.
Is Javascript a primarily visual programming language? Ive done all my JS in notepad++
No, I was bitching about LabView and Ladder Logic because, among other things, they’re visual programming languages. Rhywun seems to think Javascript is somehow in the same circle of hell, but I’m inclined to disagree. Maybe once you include all of the churn on the latest hipster framework of the month, JS gets close.
I was proposing we merge the shit of visual programming with the shit of javascript to see if maybe we could collapse the universe into a tech singularity.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/andrew-mccabe-doj-seriously-discussed-assembling-trumps-cabinet-to-remove-president-from-office/
Former Deputy FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, tells 60 Minutes that there were discussions at the DOJ to assemble Trump’s cabinet in an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office.
Yup, this is totally normal.
“tHErE iS nO DeEP sTaTE”
Man, imagine if that had happened under the Obama presidency. What a bunch of deep state assholes.
The way this comes off is the FBI really never changed since Hoover instead of just one guy they take turns every 10 years or something. They had two investigations running on both presidential candidates. They held charges over Hilary’s head in exchange for more power in stationing agents.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/12/confirmed-fbi-offered-state-quid-pro-quo-keep-hillary-e-mails-quiet/
It seems that the people of the US would be benifited if the FBI were demolished.
Just nasty. What Leon said, they have long outlived any usefulness they may have had.
In other terms a group of unelected bureaucrats conspired to remove a newly elected leader of a democratic republic through undemocratic means. Also known as a coup or treason.
All this over the firing of Comey something Trump is actually allowed to do for any reason as he serves at behest of the President.
The FBI is The Praetorian Guard, but with the best interests of the empire in mind. We want them on that wall, if only we’d build it.
Creepy as all get up. The partisans of the deep state are so thoroughly up their asses that i don’t think that they realize that they are flirting with civil war and mass strife in the united states because they are upset about the election.
I really don’t think this has much to do with partisanship. The FBI could care less if a generic Republican or a generic Democrat won. But, if it is not a generic candidate then they are suspicious. Especially if that non-generic candidate starts to question longstanding foreign policy positions.
This
Trump wasn’t properly groomed and housebroken.
Trump is going to have to pay for the crime of questioning the purpose of NATO in the 21st Century and wondering why we need to be adversarial toward Russia, especially at a time when we are ostensibly focused on fighting terrorism.
Only a crazy idiot would say such things out loud in Washington. And Trump is that crazy idiot. God bless him for that. Because he accidentally stumbled into the right questions, but doesn’t realize the consequences for asking them.
I think it’s more about being able to run their own fiefdom and being left alone. All these investigations reek of we are going to keep our jobs or take you down with us. All of this shit is just one giant shakedown for political leverage.
Mix some hero complex and reading of the zeitgeist into the mix and I think you’ve got it covered.
I think it’s more than being left alone. It’s more like a mafia or yakuza story. Trump whacked the head of a family and they started thinking about how to respond.
The only difference (for now) is that it’s firings and employment terminations. Wait til it becomes out and out killings.
I agree, partisan wasn’t the right word. I mean the established powers of the deep state. In that way they are partisan against outsiders (from anywhere) trying to edge in on them.
Oh, it has a partisan component. Obama and Hillary are neck deep in this, and the FBI is doing whatever they can to protect them.
The Russia Collusion investigation is totally not an attempted coup.
Minnesoda’s brave, brave legislators have decided to ban something that the public has already pretty much decided to not use anyhow.
If they really wanted to earn their Brave Legislation badge, they should pass a law banning any medical procedures for trans kids.
Is trying to beat the gay out of your kid really that much different than dosing them up kids with hormones that cause permanent changes?
One sterilizes the child, the other doesn’t.
Medical privacy applies only to abortion. Freedom of speech applies only to newspapers.
Is trying to beat the gay out of your kid really that much different than dosing them up kids with hormones that cause permanent changes?
Hypothetically, if a confused boy grew up and determined that yep, he’s gay, having been told “you’re straight” will probably be less damaging than having been told “you’re a girl”.
Both cause psychological damage with differing degrees of reperability. Only one is likely to lead to irreperable physical damage as an intentional and instrinsic element of the process.
So the Glibs anniversary was yesterday? That’s my wedding anniversary (it was 20 years this time). Having them both on the same day will help me remember one or the other.
Happy anniversary to you and the Missus, Kev!
This, hope you and the missus had a great anniversary and wish you both many more.
Thanks! We went out to a nice dinner last night. This weekend we’re going to scenic Fort Wayne, Indiana for a romantic hockey tournament.
Here’s what you do. Pre-scout your opponents, pick out the weakest goalie and promise the missus a goal. After you score, turn and point to her in the crowd.
Later on, Kev, you’ll have your very own puck-bunny!
Good luck!
^this guy knows how to put points on the board
That’s a great plan. Also working in my favor is that I’ve had a lot of chances recently but haven’t gotten the puck in the net. I feel like I’m due.
These euphemisms…
So….you will fill up the gas tank, buy lots of smokes and fireworks too, right? Oooh, and gunz!
I live a few hours west of Fort Wayne, still in Indiana, so I’m all stocked up.
Having them both on the same day will help me remember one or the other.
Just make sure you don’t get them mixed up.
There Is No New Backpage
The government crackdown on online sex trafficking changed the business of sex—and left many consensual sex workers feeling less safe.
ctrl-F “Harris” or “Kamala” returned nothing
Last April, two successive tremors shook the business of sex on the internet. The first was the dramatic FBI shutdown of Backpage, a website for posting online personals that had attained outsize importance among sex workers. Days after that, President Trump signed two new bills into law, the Stop Enabling Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which together make websites that knowingly allow sex trafficking to happen liable for hosting the illegal activity—thus making it much easier for prosecutors to go after the proprietors of sites like Backpage.
i assume Kamala Harris has been taking heat for her role in fucking Backpage out of existence and this Slate article is an attempt to revise history.
there’s a quick mention of the state of California filing pimping and money laundering charges but nothing about how Kamala Harris’ charges were dismissed and she refiled them. and she kept losing despite her efforts to royally fuck the founders of Backpage and shit all over the 1A and CDA S.230.
Warning. May induce immediate punching of screen:
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-enjoying-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-elon-musk-on-twitter-2019-2
Dude, you’re getting too old to get away with that look. It’s ridiculous.
Piece of shit.
I’m sure the SPLC will be all over this. They will lead the charge to shame her for speaking in front of a hate group.
MN is making IL look not so bad
It’s the Twin Cities (similar to Chicago, I’m sure). The dems that come from outstate generally understand that this shit won’t play in their districts.
We never look better than you guys. Just let us have this. OK?
You’re right. I apologize.
We never look better than you guys.
On the one hand, IL does jail some of it’s corrupt politicians, which is good, but on the other hand, they just have so many to jail…
She’s an arrogant little fucker, eh?
They should play this at her rallies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl0DD_MYqZU
The baccala part always gets me. I’m sure not too many people know what that is and I’m almost certain South Park did.
South Park did an episode on Italian style salt cod??
https://www.thespruceeats.com/baccala-italian-style-salt-cod-2018622
derka, derka, derka, a-baccala.
Bacalau is Portuguese. You Italians stold it and messed up the spelling.
Given the similarities across multiple romance languages, it probably derived from something Latin.
I don’t think so. I think it was a Portuguese innovation in obtaining/preserving food during long voyages. Remember the Portuguese were the real pioneers in the Age of Exploration. Everyone else followed after. The Romans weren’t open ocean sailors, and cod is an Atlantic fish.
A: Being a long distance seafarer isn’t a requisite for developing ways of preserving fish.
B: The romans controlled plenty of Atlantic fishing ports.
C: The word is still likely to be born of a Latin term, as was my assertion.
A: Being a long distance seafarer isn’t a requisite for developing ways of preserving fish.
B: The romans controlled plenty of Atlantic fishing ports.
C: The word is still likely to be born of a Latin term, as was my assertion.
a. I am not arguing that it is a requisite, just that in this case it factually is the origin of the dish.
b. Cod is a deep water fish, the Romans were almost exclusively coastal
c. The etymology is uncertain, some sources claim it is from a dutch/germanic root, but the root word is the Portuguese word for cod. It is not a generic term for salt fish
It’s called fish couvillion. Good stuff if you know what you are doing.
I LOVE SCIENCE
One of the reasons I no longer support the Science Museum of Minnesoda. That and the last time I went there, so much of the nature stuff is all about how Gaia is being raped.
Let me guess, they get public funds.
All museums do.
I lost interest because my kids got older and the exhibits got dumber. So many of the new exhibits are all about pandering to spastic kids on field trips. Lots of buttons to slap that turn on a video or light up lights. Supposedly the “interactive” items are going to teach kids through hands on experience. But watch any group of kids go through it and you will see them randomly push all the buttons, pull any levers or stomp on any pedals and then go to the next one.
If i was a billionaire, I would love to try creating a real science and tech museum that catered to nerd kids like me who geeked out on shit like that.
Honestly, I know I would cave and have at least one floor of my museum that contained Slap and Tickle experiments to cater to the louts who were there on field trips. The other floors though would have the good stuff for kids who wanted to really try stuff and learn. Those floors would be staffed by hard assed old guys who would toss any knucklehead who wasn’t taking shit seriously.
When I was a kid, there was one museum like that in Oklahoma City. I forget the name. But it had things like bike wheel gyroscopes you could spin up and sit on a chair to transfer the inertial momentum to yourself, a large Foucault pendulum and such.
Honestly, I know I would cave and have at least one floor of my museum that contained Slap and Tickle experiments to cater to the louts who were there on field trips.
That’s not even caving, it’s just smart business. There’s a reason places like McDonalds offers a salad, and it’s not because that’s what their core customer base wants. Plus it would help quarantine the rowdy kids in one place and thereby provide a better experience for the other kids who actually wants to learn.
Same. I used to buy a membership every year until they went all ScienceIsSettled’mkay on the bit.
Fuck them.
Talk about a missed opportunity. Make it no admission and require tokens.
Video games are arguably cultural artifacts that warrant preservation.
Nice song choice Banjos. There is a great story behind that song. Malcolm Gladwell did a whole podcast episode about it.
Hmmm…I’ll look for it.
Revisionist History, Season 1, Episode 7.
I have had my first ever hawayan beer in Austria of all places. Kona fire rock pale ale. Decent.
I am at this place they call a poke bar where you can build your own food bowl. I chose weird. Salad raw tuna avocado jalapenio kimchee ponzu sauce sesame
Avocado?
*shakes head*
Kona is fairly….pedestrian. We do much better here in IL, MI, WI, etc. When you make it over here, someday, we will have you floating on a river of heavenly beers.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1095819205222514689
From the same people who brought you “whataboutism” every time you noted how every new outrage was actually not “new” and “unprecedented” comes: “I guess it’s antisemitic, but what about…”
CNN is not a news channel.
Jesus, I actually watched that, and what they are claiming , I guess, as Trump’s anti-semitism didn’t actually seem to be anti-semitism.
These people are deranged.
A record 7 million Americans are 3 months behind on their car payments, a red flag for the economy
Y’know even when I was out of college I drove some paid-with-cash beaters, My then-GF-now-wife drove a $800 VW. Sure the cars weren’t super reliable but the Honda Accord I had usually got me to where I wanted to go. My first car loan was for a $7000 Nissan truck which had something like a $168mo car loan on it. I managed to pay that off in something like a year and drove it for a long time.
It’s almost as if something devastated the used car market recently.
Average new car transaction is something like $34k. It’s absurd.
It is insane what they want for a new truck. I remember when trucks were cheaper than cars. And only farmers or people who actually spent time outdoors owned them.
What I don’t get is why some car company doesn’t try to capture the Yugo market (but maybe a bit more reliable). A car with no frills, that starts all the time, gets good gas milage.
Strip out all the super fancy electronics. Cheap bastards already have music and gps on their phones anyhow. No fancy safety electronics (if the other cars have them, they will avoid you anyhow).
Because the bottom of the line models they have now don’t move many units, and the marginal returns per unit might even go negative meeting the current regulatory requirements for things like safety systems
I know. I also realize that I’m hopelessly biased when it comes to cars.
Cars have never interested me, the only reason I own one is so I can go do fun things. I consider them a waste of time and money (but absolutely necessary).
So a cheap, efficient truck would be completely up my alley. Unfortunately too many others -cough- Tundra -cough- like cars and the gadgets and are the people auto manufacturers cater to.
To be fair to the car companies, people who like cars buy more of them.
Fake newz!! My favorite car doesn’t even have a radio. My truck is the XLT – it lacks most the bullshit on the highline models!
But yeah, I love cars.
I’m trying to buy a 1999 Dakota from a dealer right now. It was an old lady’s after her husband died (well, their story, but it is believable). It truly looks like it is 1999 on the lot and it is brand new, only 60k miles. I want a small truck for yard work and doing Lowes’ trips.
They still want $10k for it. KBB, Edmunds, NADA, VMR, iseecars, all tell me they are out of their fucking minds. But, some rube who doesn’t know about the internet might pay them for it.
CPA, in my opinion, you can throw out the bluebook on a bar that old. Instead, see what 9-10k buys you.
That truck is simpler than new ones, insurance and tabs are less expensive. It may end up being a better deal than you think.
Oh I do think KBB is too low. IMO, it is worth more in the $6-7k range.
Already done. Cheapest car in the world is $3k. Can’t buy it in U.S., or any of the 10 cheapest, cause feds:
https://www.therichest.com/luxury/auto/the-top-10-cheapest-cars-in-the-world/
I bought a Honda Fit when I got my first engineering job because biking to work wasn’t viable in the winter. It’s basically what you’re describing, plus they really nailed making it possible to cram a ton of shit in it. It’s a pretty great car overall honestly, and the lack of frills is a point in its favor I’d say. I’m still driving it almost 7 years later, and it’s been rock solid that whole time.
Truth. My WRX STI has less gadgetry than the baseline WRX. No lane change sensors, GPS, hell it doesn’t even have fog lights. The ratio of driving fun/cost is amazing.
My last job was with a giant company that was deeply embedded in the auto industry. We had tons of projects that were trying to come up with the “electronics package of the future”. My boss made me participate in a lot of those work shops to decide what it would be.
I didn’t mind them coming up with use cases for displaying things about the car. Go at it. What drove me nuts is that everyone thought they were a Steve Jobs visionary who was going to create the killer entertainment package for the auto.
They’d go on and on about how they could build in more and more cool services that would make a car uber fun to be in. I kept telling them that the smart play is to simply make the speakers and the display easily accessible to a phone (bluetooth or usb).
Everyone who wants to turn their car into a entertainment palace has a smart phone. They know how to use it and how to get to the content they want. Using the phone as the enterntainment provider gets you out of so many tedious tasks like over the air updates.
For example, coworkers took it as a given that you would have a platform in the car that would be able to run the Spotify app so people could listen to their music. If the car is running Spotify you now have to make sure the app is updated appropriately, come up with a way for the user to interact with the app, connect to the Spotify servers to get content, etc, etc.
If you just used the phone, all you have to do is let the user use their phone like they always do. You just get the audio stream from the phone and pipe it out the speakers.
The problem is control. The car people want to get lockin on their platforms. Who cares that they are trying to compete against people who are already doing it better than you.
Sorry for the rant.
Parallel industry; parallel stories.
Good rant.
My biggest problem with the infotainment systems is the inherent safety issues. People in this town are shitty enough drivers without the additional distraction of deep diving in their system to adjust the heat.
I drove a Lotus that had nothing but heat/ac. Like Adahn says, it was only for driving and it was glorious.
What Tundra said. I frickin’ hate the distraction that electronics create in cars, including all that driver assist crap. That’s one big reason we will drive our FJ Cruisers into the ground.
My WRX STI…
I love that car. Sean, I believe, has a GTI. Another fave of mine.
If I already didn’t have too many cars, I would love to get one of those.
Can’t imagine what that could have been.
My first car loan was for a $7000 Nissan truck which had something like a $168mo car loan on it. I managed to pay that off in something like a year and drove it for a long time.
Same my fist car i could have purchased outright (because it was cheap not because I was rich) but took a loan to build credit. I am floored when i hear about people with car payments upwards of 500 dollars a month.
$500/month is nothing anymore.
I just bought a fucking Chevy Colorado for an employee and it was over $30K with my commercial discounts. Monthly on that is $486 for 4 years. I only took the financing to get past the slow winter months and to get the depreciation in 2018.
I can see some differences for commercial purchases. I’m talking about people purchasing for themselves.
My not-well-communicated point is that a Colorado costs over $30K now. A freaking Chevy Colorado.
Paid off my Chrysler Town and Country (minivan for those not familiar with the model) a couple of months ago. It cost $39k brand new, $43k financed after taxes and all the other fees. Payment was $6xx a month Don’t remember the exact amount because we always just rounded it up to $700 a month and paid that. When we bought it 5 years ago we were actually looking to pick up a similar used vehicle and not a new one. Turns out that while the used vehicle would have been cheaper in the purchase price it would have actually been more expensive to buy because they tacked an extra 3.5% onto the interest for a used car compared to a new one. The $43k new car actually had effectively the same payments and loan term as the $28k 2 year old car.
Fortunately that should be the last “big” vehicle I ever need to buy since 3 of my kids will be adults before I replace it.
I was recently looking at getting a new Ford Fusion Sport – nice sleeper car with the 2.7L turbocharged V6 and AWD – but the monthly payment on that – even with a substantial down payment – was enough to make me look at used cars (as usual). With my hobbies, house redo, and whatnot – there are other things I want to do with my money than sink it in something that will depreciate faster than a 18yo porn star.
So low mileage 4-year old Mustang it was.
Cars are disposable goods. You get the best value ($/mi) if you buy around the middle of their usable life use them for a few years and then sell them on to someone poorer who can squeeze the last year or two out of them. cash for clunkers was the biggest kick in the teeth to the working poor ever.
I buy new and keep them forever. I currently have a 13yo 350z, a 10yo Forrester, and a 3yo Xterra {which replaced the 12yo Xterra I gave to my daughter — she is still driving it}.
Same here. Both the Dean Cruisers were bought new – one 11 years ago, one 5 years ago. I expect they will both be hauling us around on their 18th birthdays.
Oops. The old Xterra is going on 17 years old now.
Heyyy, FEE and the homie Seamus (Freedomtoons) did a collaboration. What a time to be alive.
https://youtu.be/cwVQ7TI6K7M
Seamus has done a bunch of their videos. He is really talented, and a good spokesman for libertarianism.
Oh nice, I’ll have to catch up on those then. Yeah, I like his energy, creativity, and humor especially. It’s been a blast binge-watching his stuff the last couple of weeks.
Smollett upset at people who don’t believe him.
Nevertheless, he insisted.
Soon not believing will be a hate crime.
It already is. Try publishing a Mohammed cartoon. It won’t just be overzealous Muslims coming after you.
Most Muslims in the US wouldn’t even care. But, rich white liberals will white knight so hard.
Don’t forget to send your special someone a Valentine’s Day card.
This is the romantic card I went with for my wife.
HM’s card for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOD0XCm57d8
Hmmmm…
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/ruth-bader-ginsburg-isnt-looking-to-retire-yet-but-is-another-supreme-court-justice-ready-to-go
Amy Coney Barrett SOON™
And WOULD
I saw this. Thing is that CT really isn’t that old. I did like the dig that Mitch McConnell would “break his rule” about SC nominations if Trump got another one in 2020. That wasn’t his rule. His rule was that the Senate almost never seats a new SC justice during a presidential Election year when the President and Senate are from different parties.
The rule was “He Who Controls the Senate Makes the Rules”. Everyone knows that, but these activists with a byline are still butthurt
Yes. It was Nakedly partisan, and yet they want to imply that he was claiming to not be nakedly partisan to then make him look like a big partisan….It’s very confusing.
That’s something of a hit piece. I believe that ACB, while no fan of abortion, is OTR as saying there will be no wholesale overturning of Roe v. Wade.
One might speculate that that means she’d be open to things like fetal pain bills or moving the bright line from birth to heartbeat.
Shooting your classmates or other random people is bad. Maybe we should make that illegal, or something.
The search for active prevention measures has led some people to believe the federal government should play a larger role. The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, among other agencies, are already trying to prevent domestic terrorism, the thinking goes. And school shootings often fit the mold, says Martha Crenshaw, a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, as a “type of violence that shocks or surprises, something that provokes outrage.” That outrage could stem from the nature of the crime or the nature of the victim, she says. “Who could be more innocent than school children?”
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Trump [no relation to THAT one] noted that after the Columbine shooting, there was a focus at the federal and state level to take a comprehensive look at school safety. “From prevention to preparedness; from threat assessment to prevention; mental health services for kids; school resource officers; emergency planning drills and exercises.” These are things that have worked, he says. Not only in warding off a school shooter, but in keeping the school safe on a day to day basis.
But identifying the perpetrators ahead of time is a much harder challenge. Like terrorist incidents, schools shootings are rare, tragic, and can only sometimes be explained. After every school shooting, Crenshaw says, “people wonder what happened—missed opportunities and interventions, lost chances,” to find the shooter before they wreaked havoc. Yet, Crenshaw adds, sometimes school shootings, like terrorist incidents, are virtually impossible to prevent. “If you went back and replayed it might be just really hard to find that [intervention] point.”
That’s funny. It seems as if it’s completely obvious in hindsight, when you watch the news. People come out of the woodwork to say they knew “that guy just warn’t right in the head.”
We just need a bunch of empaths assigned to the FBI.
“The desire to have every aspect of their lives controlled by the federal government has led some people to make up excuses as to why it should play a larger role.”
FIFY
Like terrorist incidents, schools shootings are rare, tragic, and can only sometimes be explained.
They can always be explained, but rarely predicted. And in both cases, the most effective preventative measures are very draconian, not to be entertained lightly.
People mired in tribal hatred are much easier to manipulate for political gain.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/06/the-return-of-ancient-prejudices/
Take that Patriarchy!
https://twitter.com/bellathorne/status/1017158402948993024
Side boob is the biggest FU to the patriarchy.
@shoe0nhead
this post single handedly destroyed the patriarchy you should post more just to be sure it’s really dead though
LOL.
@shoe0nhead
12 Jul 2018
Replying to @bellathorne
this post single handedly destroyed the patriarchy you should post more just to be sure it’s really dead though
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Curse you, Q!
https://i.imgflip.com/bcr5f.jpg
Ugh, herpes ain’t sexy
No offense meant to our herpetic glibs.
Ah, I remember Sarcasmic was obsessed with her.
She’s gross.
You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/429593-politics-is-affecting-dating-intimacy-expert-says
So I guess Millennials get more political agreement and fewer orgasms.
Gotta be honest, I’d flee as if from a burning building from any woman I found out was mired in intersectional 4th wave feminist ideology. Politics is a reflection of values.
My girlfriend is fortunately fairly libertarian, so this millennial is getting a lot of both political agreement and orgasms. Looking around at my cohorts, I didn’t dodge a bullet, I dodged an artillery strike.
Sunk Cost Fallacy, dude.
“I’m going to stay here at this table, and win all my money back.”
I’ve not seen that as much as “I’m going to stay here at this table and drink all my money back”
Rep. Omar unavailable for comment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6704777/Pence-warns-Poland-conference-Irans-mullahs-plotting-new-Holocaust-against-Israel.html
You mean they meant the chants of “Death to Israel”?
But the chants of “Death to America” are totes not serious, right?
Well the Ayatollahs clarified that when the chant “Death to America” they really mean “Death to Trump”.
Even all the way back in 1979? They’ve been using that slogan for a while now.
Are you calling the Ayatollah a liar, bigot?
The former is easier to do. The latter is more aspirational than realistic.
However difficult it may be to carry out, I don’t relish the possibility of being caught in the path of their aspiration before the matter is dealt with.
Typically, when a group of people (such as the Iranian revolutionary regime) declares themselves your mortal foe for four decades, the safe bet is to take them at their word and view their actions in that light.
The latter is more aspirational than realistic.
Absolutely. Iran really isn’t much of a threat unless they team up with others to form a new axis. One reason why antagonizing both Russia and China at the same time is not a wise move.
If i was a billionaire, I would love to try creating a real science and tech museum that catered to nerd kids like me who geeked out on shit like that.
*thinks back to visit to Exploratorium in San Francisco, thirty-some years ago*
Or this, back in 2012:
https://www.visitdallas.com/things-to-do/venue/view/6831/Perot-Museum-of-Nature-and-Science.html
Correlation != causation.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6700547/Smoking-cannabis-teens-linked-depression-later-life-damages-brain.html
Once it’s legalized and real studies can actually be done we’re probably going to find out that almighty ganja isn’t a floor polish, a dessert topping and the cure for cancer. Here’s a good rule of thumb, kids: anything that makes you momentarily feel good has a cost to your health. It’s usually worth it.
Sex has a cost to your health???
It saps your essence!
/Ripper
Dammit!
A) Don’t be a fool, wrap your tool
B) Purity. Of. Essence.
OK, it is a given that Tundra and I are going to the upcoming MNxMN activist conference.
The only question is which one of us is going to wear the MAGA hat and which one the “mustache rides” t-shirt.
Is there anything more soul-sucking than being a self-described activist in a crush of other bleating activists?
I mean, aggressive panhandlers and girl scouts and other social nuisances are upfront about what they’re about.
I’ll take the hat.
You are worried one of those harridans would take you up on the mustache ride offer?
Shave before you go and carry around a stuffed porcupine named ‘Moustache’
Can you imagine the smell? All that soy and sugar?
Yucky.
In Michel Houellebecq’s book “Submission” the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power after the socialists join them in coalition. Since this seems to be playing out true to form in the US, I’m going to guess in about four years we are going to have a representative that openly, and unironically, declares “Death to Israel”.
And the progressive Jews will just shrug.
They think they’ll be spared. You see this with some Christian churches, too.
This is from 2015 but surprisingly I’ve never seen this posted anywhere before:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisoncaporimo/dild-urn
Might be NSFW as it’s an article about a dildo urn.
It would be better if it had “In Your Eyes” pre-programmed to play.
I anticipate this showing up in the Oval Office in the next The Hat and The Hair episode.
Your nutpunch of the morning.
Dude gets cut off and blindly shoots into the backseat of the other car.
My inferrences paint a vivid and unflattering picture of the shooter.
The reported facts are thin on the ground.
You know, i get the logical arguments against the death-penalty. And even some of the moral ones. But I’ll be damned if i read a story about this and not want to string up the perpetrator.
I’m thinking instead of a state administered death penalty, tie the perp up in a windowless room with no cameras, and tell the grieving relatives: “You’re totally not allowed to go in there and do whatever you think is right without consequences. And don’t use the key there to enter. Oh, and this conversation didn’t happen.”
Wall them up in a basement somewhere. If God wants them to live, they will somehow not starve.
Shamima Begum: Ex-Bethnal Green schoolgirl who joined IS ‘wants to come home’
Come home, hell. She’ll probably be an MP in a decade.
Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary.
Shadow? If they’re lucky.
“says she has no regrets”
Nope, stay where you’re at. No regrets says you’re an unstable psychopath.
Two dead kids and no regrets.
She won’t be treated too well when the Assadites get ahold of her but oh well.
Asked whether the government would be rushing to bring home people such as Ms Begum, he (Security minister Ben Wallace) said: “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state.”
Good to know at least someone in the U.K. has his head screwed on straight.
Turning the
frogsbirds gay!A Rare Bird Indeed: A Cardinal That’s Half Male, Half Female
So the Catholic Church broke down and let women be priests?
Which bathroom does it use?
It’s woke enough to only use statues of wrong thinking badmen.
Constitution schmonstitution. I guess states can pick their electorial votes however they want.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/14/colorado-moves-thwart-electoral-college/
There was a discussion about this a week ago or so in the comments I’ll see if i can dig up some of the literature i fioud
** RETURNS **
A review of the Compact Clause
The National Popluar Vote’s website
In short i don’t think they can consititutionally make compacts without getting them approved by congress. What each state could do is commit to voting that way now, but i think the clause that only puts it into effect if other states do so makes it a compact.
But the SC has more recently erred that states can make pretty much any compact they want without consulting congress…
It’ll be sorted out in the courts if/when it ever flips the winner.
I doubt they will ever get enough votes to actually make it worth while. Small states benefit, and even medium sized swing states benefit from the added attention.
You should check out their “Myths” page to see a standard summation of talking points. My favorite is the “Myth that candidates reach out to all states” in this system. Which is of course a straw man. I know no-one reaches out to Utah. But in the future no one will reach out to any state but only to the Major metropolitan areas.
I would favor a constitutional amendment to require each state to adopt the ME/NE model for EC votes.
For those unfamiliar, in Maine and Nebraska, each congressional district chooses 1 EC voter and the state wide winner gets the remaining two votes.
The good side of this is that it prevents fraud in a small area from swinging and entire large state. Yes, I am looking at you Illinois.
One bad side effect is the increase in the value of gerrymandering.
This would actually counteract gerrymandering, I think.
Gerrymandering is usually done to create safe districts, by including a goodly percentage of “friendly” voters. But, concentrating friendly voters in a district to make it safe for a representative would mean that the impact of those friendly voters on the EC would be more limited than the current system. That state’s EC votes would be affected more by the number of swing districts that a candidate one. Gerrymandering decreases the number of swing districts. Sure, you “won” the statewide vote, but because your votes were concentrated in gerrymandered districts, you have protected Congressional incumbents at the cost of EC votes for the Presidential nominee.
I think this would create a counter-incentive for gerrymandering.
A lot of Gerrymanders (see PA’s court imposed map) uses just enough reliable voters to drown out the remainder of the district and dilute the opposition, rather than corralling them in perfectly safe districts.
You’d need a bit more than that. The states can chose their
electors however they like, and the chosen electors can
vote however they like. IIRC, it’s an open question if the
states can require that an elector vote in a particular
manner or face some civil or criminal penalty.
One could of course remove the electors from the
equation entirely, but as it stands there simply is
no national election for president, even on a state
by state basis, rather each state uses the election
to chose electors who (I think) pledge to vote in a
particular manner.
The relevant Wisconsin statutes appear to be:
“Presidential electors. By general ballot at the general election for choosing the president and vice president of the United States there shall be elected as many electors of president and vice president as this state is entitled to elect senators and representatives in congress. A vote for the president and vice president nominations of any party is a vote for the electors of the nominees. ”
The electors of the nominees themselves are chosen by the
state parties (i.e. Democratic, Republican, etc).
I would ban the laws against faithless electors too, but that is less important. If the party does that crappy a job of picking electors, they deserve to have them vote otherwise.
Let’s all agree to be ruled by the biggest cities! And toss out the compromise that created the country.
As unlikely as I think it will be to happen, I really want Trump to win the popular vote in 2020, just so I can eternally hang that over the heads of people who support such electoral vote shenanigans.
If he won the popular vote but lost the EC vote, people
would get whiplash at how fast suddenly the EC would
become the bastion of democracy.
For those who hated Dub Side of the Moon, what about a dub version of Sgt. Pepper?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0r511_QZJc
They are no Dread Zeppelin.
Now there’s a band I forgot about. I have a couple of their CDs around somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXKSQEecR0A
No Skanatra love?
No link, but- The Atlantic has an “excerpt” from McCabe’s book. I couldn’t get past the moaning about the “pall” over America [spoiler alert- It’s TRUMP!] and the people weeping at the water coolers when Public Enemy Number One gave Comey the bum’s rush.
Against Romance: An Un-Valentine
I’d rather have a flawed relationship of my own than the kind of fairy tale love
It’s not like you (or anyone else) have a choice.
I prefer my love imperfect.
I don’t want to brag or anything baby, but you should see how dysfunctional I am…
She’s not wrong.
There was the discussion the other day about corn in beer. Here is a English 1939 recipe (converted to homebrew size) from a beer history site. He does a recipe every Wednesday. This is yesterday’s.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2019/02/lets-brew-wednesday-1939-truman-pale-1b.html
<10% of the grain bill. does "flaked maize" have any diastatic benefit? i've never personally brewed with maize.
related
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17394341
Well yeah, its a small amount. I don’t think it has diastatic benefit. Its a flavor thing, same for the small amount of invert sugar. Both are very common in English recipes, especially the sugar.
I use maize in two recipes…Kentucky Common (also made with 6 row – the only place I use it) and ESB.
Actually, maybe some other recipes too. But primarily those.
I see that Flanders Red can have maize in it. I never use it. What am I missing by not using maize?
does “flaked maize” have any diastatic benefit?
No. It’s just an adjunct. The barley provides the amylase to convert the starch in the corn to sugar.
If I refreshed more often I would see that someone else gave the correct answer, then I wouldn’t need to post almost correct answers.
I thought your answer was better. You used the word amylase.
thanks
The odd thing in this recipe is that it is missing Brewer’s Caramel for coloring. 6 SRM, so doesn’t really need any. Most darker English recipes get their color from the caramel.
Where Does Your Recycling Go?
China single-handedly upended the entire recyclables market. I know some people who are heavy into bulk collection and shipment and they are not in a good mood.
Here in Austin, they’re encouraging putting cardboard and anything else in the greenwaste bin instead of the recycling bin, so it can be made into mulch and potting soil for landscaping.
Dunno what happens to the stuff in the recycling bin — suspect a lot might wind up in landfills because no demand for it.
One of these days I’ll have to stay home on recycling day and watch to see if it is the same truck as for garbage day. I strongly suspect it might be.
Ours is different. They pick thru your recycle bin and sort it into different parts of the truck. And leave behind non-recyclables.
mine is through the city, so I suspect they just dump the bin and move on.
I mean they don’t even make sure the empty bin makes it out of the street in an area where there’s virtually no off-street parking.
Two different trucks in my neck of the woods, but all they do is dump the can into the back of the truck and move on.
Same here. No idea if they sort it somewhere else, but I strongly suspect this is pure theater and it is all landfilled.
I’ve been so damn busy the last week or so I don’t know whether to shit or go blind. Damn little time for engaging with my favorite Glibs. That should change now.
Now, the bad news: They want me to stay at the Jersey site for the project I’m on. I was hoping I could go home to CO and do most of the work from there, but they like having me completely (as in, personally) engaged with the project team. So Mrs. A and I get to stay in Jersey for at least another year.
Dammit.
Ugh. That bites.
New Jersey? Do you get
combatderp pay?I bid the job accordingly, don’t worry about that. This ain’t my first rodeo.
You mentioned a neighborhood bar you found, wouldn’t happen to be Michael’s, would it?
Surely that violates some employment law.
If it’s a government job it might violate the 8th amendment.
Well, the
goodbad news is that Colorado is rapidly turning into New Jersey so you may as well stay.That’s why Alaska is in our near future.
Ours is different. They pick thru your recycle bin and sort it into different parts of the truck. And leave behind non-recyclables.
Green Jobs!
We’ll pay the bums fifteen bucks an hour to dumpster-dive.
The office building I worked at right out of college sort of did this.
The waste baskets all had an aux bin for recyclables, but people did such a bad job that too many cans and such were getting into the regular garbage that the building was going to lose their price break for being pre-sorted. So they would have the lowest of the low from a few temp agencies come in and do a secondary sort.
I found out about it because I happened on them using the back way into the office one day and asked the night janitor about it. I guess hiring 4 temps for a couple hours a day was cheaper than losing out on the price break.
So Mrs. A and I get to stay in Jersey for at least another year.
Bummer. That’s what you get for being good at your job.
Pics from my visit to Fonthill Castle:
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/xLzL8dTeSWuDw3UXeLXr4g.sAHsXvs66AYuhykU01rCcZ
Per Wikipedia:
good stuff.
over six thousand books, almost all of which were annotated by Mercer himself.
i’m guessing he expounded on all the good naughty bits and parts.
Apparently he also liked to buy the same title books, but from different publishers to compare/contrast.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/gKBG_u1hQFGlVIweI-teIw.ivYTSafuWGCR3NZjLtWy8-
man loved his Sinbad.
but so grey. no wonder he painted it with pastels. would the concrete hold color longer if he had used pigment in the mix.
Has anyone noticed the new shtick from the left?
Socialism makes capitalism better!
“….Nonetheless, Jerome Frank was right: Those slurred as socialists really do have a good track record of making capitalism work better and more justly.”
No he wasn’t Dionne you asshole.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-war-on-socialism-will-fail/2019/02/10/b6fe3a6a-2be4-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.205e660ace34
It’s humanity’s war on socialism. Trump merely took up the banner for a moment.
Wow. That is…wow.
“Shut up Dionne” is better than “shut up Donnie”.
Happy gliberversary! Thanks to the folks that keep this place up and running and contribute articles and posts. So I’ve been having an ongoing argument with a half proggie buddy for the past eight years or so. Actually, the origins of that argument drew me to the former site, where I went looking for examples of environmental doomsaying and came across that horrible British commercial of the teacher blowing up kids who engaged in wrongthink. I loved the comment section and was hooked from that moment. My buddy (his taste is questionable) was appropriately horrified by the commenters.
I’ve been trying in vain to educate this guy (who is smart, but has a huge blind spot on the abilities and role of government) about basic economics. He texted me about how it was great that Newsom has changed the medium speed rail to two random cities, since they’ve already “invested” our money in the start of this monstrosity. I snarked back that you don’t throw good money after bad and also mentioned opportunity cost and sent him a link defining it. He texted back with a link to sunk costs. Facepalm.
Let’s all agree to be ruled by the biggest cities! And toss out the compromise that created the country.
Those urbane progressives know what’s best for you. They only have your best interests at heart.
It’s totes in my interest to triple my taxes, take my guns and nationalize my health care. I’m just too stupid to realize it.
It’s for the greater good Q. you don’t want to be a wrecker and ruin it for everyone, now do you?
The movie Hot Fuzz has ruined the phrase the greater good for me. Every time I hear or read it, I just imagine a group of people intoning, “The Greater Good.”
Same here.
It is also the slogan of the space-commie blue cow people in 40k, so it comes to mind frequently.
No, Nicholas, I’m afraid it is you who is going to have to come with us.
The movie Hot Fuzz has ruined the phrase the greater good for me.
I’d rather say properly contextualized than ruined.
I dunno…I think that accurately captures the mindset of most people using that phrase.
Socialism makes capitalism better!
Socialism is just people helping people. What kind of psychopath doesn’t want that?
When I was younger and believed the libs’ veneer of peace and love, I would try to appeal to that veneer and argue against socialism by saying that it required violence, whereas capitalism was voluntary. It took me awhile, and I was shocked, to realize that they were totally cool with coercion, and were at heart sociopathic. …that their veneer was a distraction and their worldview was projection.
I wondered why I saw multiple police cars in front of my kid’s school when I dropped her off this morning, then I got a call from the county superintendent (who really should’ve been fired on February 15 last year) about how they have extra security measures because it’s the Parkland anniversary, and yadda yadda.
I’m sure there are “spontaneous” anti-gun walkouts going on at the high schools.
That’s scary and depressing shit. Sorry to hear that
Police aren’t honoring the day by refusing the enter school buildings?
:snort:
The horror of affordable housing.
In 2010, at the height of the foreclosure crisis, the federal government watched nervously as hundreds of thousands of families lost their homes. Empty houses blighted neighborhoods, their shades drawn, their yards overgrown. Without some kind of intervention, federal officials worried, the housing market would continue in its free fall, prices would keep dropping for existing homeowners, and the economic recovery, already tenuous, would be imperiled.
Whatever you do, don’t let prices seek equilibrium. That would be crazy.
Worse, it might cost them re-election!
Your Valentine’s Day cocktail:
Tall Glass
1 oz simple syrup
2 oz Absinthe
Fill with soda water
50 mg sildenafil
2.5 mg yohimbine
Chill Absinthe in freezer, muddle sildenafil and yohimbine in glass bottom, fill with ice, add chilled Absinthe and simple syrup, top with soda water.
Hopefully you prepared by taking your cabergoline for a couple of weeks leading up to reduce your prolactin to near zero.
Njoi!
The astrology piece runs on Sundays.
That Atlantic article about “Wall Street landlords” is a giant steaming shitshow of anecdotal evidence proving how kkkorporations are destroying America.
It made my head hurt.
Here’s a better essay on tenants and landlords.
The ultimate act of patriotism
“There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment,” Mr. Pelley said. “These were the eight days from Comey’s firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what do with the president.”
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Former law enforcement officials said the comments were made during a pair of meetings on May 16, 2017. Mr. McCabe and his former colleagues kept contemporaneous memos on their interactions with Mr. Trump and Justice Department officials.
According to one of those memos written by Mr. McCabe, an excerpt from which was provided to The New York Times, the former F.B.I. agent wrote that “we discussed the president’s capacity and the possibility he could be removed from office under the 25th Amendment” and the deputy attorney general indicated he looked into the issue and determined he would need a “majority or 8 of the 15 cabinet officials.” Mr. McCabe added that Mr. Rosenstein suggested that he might have supporters in the attorney general and secretary of Homeland Security.
What could be more patriotic than the Deep State staging a coup, to save the country from a duly elected leader whom they dislike and disapprove of? The fact that none of these idiots have been disappeared pretty effectively gives the lie to all the bullshit about our Totalitrumpian Dystopia.
These fuckers should all be prosecuted for treason. And I would have no problem applying the traditional penalty, either.
Those NYT commenters know what’s real.
Gracie
Newburgh, Indiana1h ago
Times Pick
I’m so glad McCabe wrote a memoir. Every conscientious government employee who has concerns about our democracy and national security because of his or her personal encounter with the most dangerous man in the WH has a moral duty to report the threat coming from having the Russian kompromat in the WH. Isn’t it a mechanic’s moral obligation to warn the driver the car will blow up if not get fixed? Turmp’s faithful followers must read this memoir and open their eyes to see whom they worship, but again, they are not readers, are they?
Thank you, Andy McCabe!
Save us from Bad Orange Man!
“they are not readers, are they?”
Why are people such assholes?
And I would have no problem applying the traditional penalty, either.
Send the casing and a bill to the next of kin.
Another one:
DLNYC
New York2h ago
Times Pick
McCabe and his associates in the FBI are patriots.
Imagine the convoluted caution that is required when you have good reason to suspect that there is a Russian mole in the Oval Office. The situation for law enforcement is ripe for attack, and the complicit Republican Party in Congress continues to run interference for the guy who, along with his entourage, encountered more Russians before, during, and after the campaign than you can find in a stroll down the Brighton Beach boardwalk.
At this point, every Republican that has not left the party that is an accessory to this threat to our democracy, is at the very least morally complicit in this crime. And that includes the so-called “moderates.”
The cream of the hive mind commenting crop.
Why the fuck is that paranoid rambling a Times Pick?
Imagine the convoluted caution that is required when you have good reason to suspect that there is a Russian mole in the Oval Office.
You have to imagine it, because there has never been good reason to suspect Trump was a Russian mole. I mean, c’mon, after “Restart Button” Clinton and President “more flexibility after the election”, you’re worried about Trump being a Russian stooge?
Commodius- thanks for that KDW link. Excellent.