SP and I took a break yesterday from the rigors of setting up the new household and went for a stroll in the San Tan Mountains. “Enjoy it now, the furnace will be lit shortly.” Looking around, I couldn’t help but think that it was like living in a Krazy Kat cartoon, though no-one conked me with a brick. Back to it today, I’m afraid, but first I need to get Links going. And here they are.
Birthdays of note today include Wally “It’s Just This Once” Pipp; a guy whose argumentation style was so dishonest that he had it named after him, Duane “The Gallop” Gish; and all-around fun guy Huey “Kill Whitey” Newton.
On to the news.
Warty likes to say that we live in the best possible timeline. And stories like this are further evidence for his hypothesis. The best part was that the rope was bought at a place called The Crafty Beaver, which really ought to be a lesbian bar. And c’mon Jussie, if you’re going to do it right, take some lessons from the French.
Social signaling really seems to be the trendy way to cut school these days. What I love best is some of the names: Orla Supple and Tallulah Guard.
And on that topic… Lurch Speaks. And poor Lurch is embarrassed. Awww. I really do enjoy being hectored by billionaires with private jets telling me I need to make sacrifices.
Where is Oliver Wendell Holmes when you need him? Ahhh, San Francisco, never change.
Florida Man says to San Francisco, “Hold mah beer!”
Homeland Security (and I love the irony of that cognomen) figures out a creative new way to waste the tax money mulcted from the citizenry.
“I’m not sitting next to a fucking three year old, I’ve been drinking all day!” Of course it’s a Florida Woman.
Not exactly news, but something delightful to read, and why Cal is my second-favorite president ever. h/t dbleagle
There’s a Maxwell Smart joke in here somewhere.
There is absolutely no-one in this story who isn’t a stereotype. We really are living in the best possible timeline.
Old Guy Music, and this is a delightful piece played by a delightful guy who I really, really miss since leaving the frozen plains of northern Illinois. And yes, he plays all of the instruments here, banjo, violin, guitar, autoharp… Starts off introspectively, then all hell breaks loose.
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Hit that F*** music:
Jussie is on CNN
Yeah I know he’s been a good friend of mine
But lately something’s changed
That ain’t hard to decline
Jussie’s got himself a rope
And they want to make a dime
And Stelter is watching him with those eyes
And he’s lovin’ him with that belly
I just know it
And he’s holding him in his taint late, late at night
You know I wish that I had Jussie’s gall
I wish that I had Jussie’s gall
Where can I find a conman like that?
ABC plays along with this charade
There doesn’t seem to be a reason to change
You know I feel so dirty
When they start talking noose
I wanna tell them that bro’s lyin’
But then they drop another deuce
(Chorus)
You know I wish that I had Jussie’s gall…
(fade)
Was that song huge in Japan?
No idea. I’m not that old.
You’re older than I am, and I remember the song.
I know the song, but I wasn’t in Japan.
Oh, and this is a song where I didn’t realize the hit version was a remake.
I wonder if this song was big in Japan.
I was expecting this
I would have guessed this song.
Me too.
Bravo, Straffinrun.
Seconded.
Except now I’ll be singing a Rick Springfield song all day.
NOT OK.
Damn your nimble fingers Tundra.
Seconded.
Awesome! I especially like “feel so dirty when they start talking noose”, I can hear the General Hospital doc singing it now.
>>Brothers Questioned By Police Were Paid $3,500 To Stage Attack, Which Was Rehearsed Days Before, Sources Say
And criminal 101 – the more people involved in da caper, the more likely someone will talk.
Nigerians in a scam. Shocking.
Dammit, Straffinrun I hate to award the golf clap this early in a thread, particularly after already having complimented you. But here you go Mr. Boy of the Hour:
[golf clap]
The fact that he couldn’t find indigenous, believable talent willing to do this speaks volumes.
And I’m not holding my breath waiting for all those people who were immediately triggered and outraged by this to say anything.
The key thing here is that this incident can start the badly-needed conversation about racism and homophobia rampant in our society.
Can’t tell if serious; need moar coffee.
Your sarcasm detector might need recalibrating.
Smollett is secretly working for the Russians trying to get Trump re-elected.
*conspiracy intensifies*
Once again, Trump makes another move in the game of 11th dimensional chess.
There was an excellent discussion, including some writing samples, on last night’s thread.
Hm, $3500 not enough to pay court costs, fines, and attorney fees for facing charges of “lying to police,” and “conspiracy.”
The sources say the red hat was bought at an Uptown beauty supply store and that the attack was supposed to happen before Jan. 29.
Because they already had their plane tickets and didn’t want to pay a change fee. Not staged at all, nossir.
Also, apparently Chicago beauty supply stores sell MAGA hats, in case you were wondering where to get one.
Well, I know for a fact you can get one at a gun show in Philly.
>>LJ Slavin
– problematic to be sure
Fun trivia fact: His brother is Swami Radhanath, spiritual leader of the Hare Krishnas.
Born Dick Slavin?
Now thats some good naming.
Sherman grew to hate that song since they played it whenever he spoke in public for the rest of his life.
Where is Oliver Wendell Holmes when you need him? Ahhh, San Francisco, never change.
So they’re fourth-generation imbeciles?
>>and why Cal is my second-favorite president ever.
Who is your first?
HitlerReagan? 😉William Henry Harrison perhaps?
Bingo!
Progressive Faculty Caucus
Sounds legit.
The purported ringleader
Her CV is predictable.
Shorter bio: I social engineer using bull shit.
“I’m not sitting next to a (expletive) three-year-old, I’ve been drinking all day,” she said, according to her arrest report.
I think we all have wanted to say this, at one time or another.
Fun ‘drunk-on-aplane’ story. Drunky lady and husband sit in seats next to me. Drunky lady starts talking and gesturing and eventually using my thigh and crotch as an arm rest. I politely point out that she’s touching me in a no-no place. She snickers and tells her disinterested husband, “I touched his pee-pee.”
Then we all played gin-rummy the rest of the flight. (Not a euphemism)
That’s when you turn up the volume on your headphones.
Is your nickname Rock?
Yes. If I was truly drunk (which I haven’t been in 30 years), I can imagine saying that. I would be thinking it the whole flight.
I don’t like children in bars which seems to be happening more and more frequently especially when the child is actually at the bar. But while potentially annoying, I expect them on an airplane.
I didn’t and still don’t deal with kids in bars well. I think it’s damned tacky and it’s inconsiderate besides. I distinctly remember back in the day when you could smoke in bars in Maryland the types of parents who’d bring their kids into bars were also the types who’d get all pissy if you smoked around them or swore in conversation.
The problem is where you have a place that’s more a pub than a bar. I think it’s totally appropriate to bring kids to a pub during normal lunch/dinner hours, since the atmosphere is more geared towards that sort of thing. Plus, now that I have kids of my own, I highly value places I can go and have a beer with adult friends without having to arrange for childcare first. Also, I think it’s really important to get your kids used to behaving appropriately in that context. That’s where I see a lot of parents drop the ball. They either go out to eat with a basketball team’s worth of toddlers and cannot possibly wrangle them, or they just turn their spoiled-ass kid(s) loose assuming that the staff and patrons will watch their kids for them.
^^
We have a brewery near us that has a ton of outdoor space and activities for the kids, and a more traditional bar space where the kids don’t bother to go (because the fun stuff is outside)
There’s also a winery in the area that has a family area and an adults only area.
Both are regular stops for us whether or not we have baby trshmnstr in tow.
There’s a place in I think Dewey called The Crooked Hammock. Decent beer, but the big attraction is that they have this big outside area with a playground. As long as you’re actually in visual range of your children, you can turn them loose while you have a burger and a beer. And they do actually have hammocks. We spent a ton of time there.
Our daughter is actually really well-behaved in public, but she’s still a deciding factor as to where we go to eat. The less appealing a place is to her, the less likely we are to go there. Sadly, this has limited how often we go to places we used to really like. On the other hand, places that have corner booths and some variety of mac and cheese or chicken nuggets also tend to have beer. Also, this puts a lot of barbecue places in play.
My biggest issue is when it’s later on at night. Regardless though, I don’t think there should be a kid actually at the bar anytime, especially when there are plenty of tables. I don’t want to drink with children. Then there are the people who bring their little league team in the bar after the game, drink several 32oz mugs and then load them in the van. Really?
I spent a lot of my childhood in BFE. I hate that people take your opinion and vote with it, either not caring or never realizing that the only place people have to go in the middle of nowhere to eat, socialize or drink is technically a bar. I learned to play pool and interact with adults at an early age because of bars. One of my first “real jobs” not on a farm was cleaning up bars after shows.
You can’t lock kids in a room or separate area from the adults until they hit a magic age and suddenly they become adults. Learning what to drink and how much and why are part of being an adult. Learning what type of an environment you’re in and how to adapt to it is part of being an adult.
I try to take my kids with me to a lot of situations and environments that most people would frown on, but I don’t care. I don’t want my kids to be naive, boring, over acting, reclusive, well medicated, anti social or useless.
Growing up, counter to what has become main stream group think, doesn’t happen in a vacuum or magically when one hits a certain age.
Could not agree more.
Learning what type of an environment you’re in and how to adapt to it is part of being an adult.
Adapt to it, not create a fuss and try to make it the way you want it. A skill sorely missing in a lot of people.
Well said, Cy. You’re a good dad.
It shouldn’t be up to the voters. And I wouldn’t vote against a private bar owners right to do what they want. If I walk in a bar at 9:30 and there’s a bunch of kids in there, I’m going elsewhere. That’s me.
If there is a table in a bar area, fine post up at a table. But I don’t want to sit elbow to elbow with a squirmy five year old on barstools at a bar counter.
And as a courtesy, I won’t go and throw the football around with my drunk friends at the children’s playground are of a local park.
In our area there are plenty of options, so when our daughter was born we didn’t lack for places to go where we could bring her in a stroller and not be in the way. But we also had just gotten to a point in our lives where we weren’t really going out to bars that much anymore anyway. A lot of the adaptations that having children forces you to make–sleeping until noon on the weekends, coming and going whenever we wanted, having people over for loud, drunken parties until 4:00AM, etc.–were things we’d stopped doing already, so it wasn’t much of a change.
But for us too getting her to understand what standards of behavior she was expected to maintain in a variety of situations was a priority, so it’s not like we stopped going to anywhere but McDonald’s and Chuck E. Cheese’s. We just factored in whether or not we’d be putting other people in a position where they’d have to accommodate us and whether or not people would be doing things we’d be comfortable having our daughter around at her age and adjusted accordingly.
Agree. My sister and I spent a good portion of our childhood in bars. Aged 8 to 14ish. My parents bowled and my dad played softball (for a bar of course!). Plus just all around hanging out. People didn’t seem to mind then, and in fact we played games and hung out pretty normally I think. I’m guessing the issue is that today more parents don’t have control of their kids, or seem to want to discipline them. Nor teach them how to behave around others, as mentioned above.
Then again, maybe it’s because I’m from Sconnie!!
In Maryland you can’t physically sit at a bar unless you’re 21. This hasn’t stopped people from literally planting a baby carrier on the bar and ordering a Miller Lite or telling the bartender that you were going to go step outside for a cigarette and not come back for twenty minutes, two things I’ve personally witnessed. The big thing that used to bother me really was when soccer moms in training would park a stroller next to a crowd of people smoking at the bar and then ask them to put their cigarettes out, which is kind of a moot point now since you can’t smoke inside in Maryland anymore.
My rule of thumb is pretty much if it’s a.) past 9:00PM or b.) the location only has a bar and maybe high-tops, it’s probably not a good place to bring a kid. The corollary to that is if you’re somewhere that has a menu, tables, and is even vaguely kid-friendly, expect there to be kids and behave accordingly. Don’t be that guy at the bar in Friday’s falling-down drunk at 2:00PM cursing like a longshoreman.
Don’t be that guy at the bar in Friday’s falling-down drunk at 2:00PM cursing like a longshoreman.
*jots down note*
I mean, in 2019, don’t be that guy. We can’t change the past, we can just make better choices in the future. And Rome wasn’t built in a day, so go ahead and finish your beer.
+ kicked out of Applebee’s.
I’ve got a friend who uses a simple rule to determine if he should take their kids there. Do they have a children’s menu? If so, then it’s kid friendly. If not, it probably isn’t.
@Neph: That’s a good rule. Everywhere we go with our daughter is a place with a kid’s menu. Those places also tend to just overall be set up better to accommodate parents with small children. Just about everywhere around us has at least one token highchair, but I’m talking about like martini bars that only serve tapas, 10′ by 20′ oyster bars, places like that. Clearly these are not good places to take toddlers.
And of course a big part of it I think is just considering your kid(s) personalities. Our daughter can generally do an hour or so before she starts to get bored and antsy, but we also try to take her to places where there’s stuff she’ll enjoy. Friends of ours have a son who, bless his heart, should probably just be incarcerated now to save time. He’s really poorly behaved. They make it way worse by, for instance, letting him run around the restaurant so he can “get it out of his system”.
We did sushi a couple times with 1.5 year old baby trshmnstr. One local place is very kid friendly and the hibachi was a fun experience for her. The other place had some high chairs and a kids menu, but the ambiance was such that it seemed like every noise she made echoed off the walls. The phone videos were very quickly put on to keep her from even talking, let alone doing normal toddler noises.
Those are the situations that are hard to deal with. It was a strip mall sushi joint next to a Five Guys and a Qdoba. We fully expected that at 6:30 on a Friday night it would be loud enough that she’d blend into the background noise short of a meltdown.
All this to say that it’s an extension of overall parenting quality. We try to pick places where her occasionally loud voice and whines will blend in with the background noise. Other people are assholes and don’t pay attention to whether or not their spawn is disruptive.
Lol, as I’m typing this, baby trshmnstr is disemboweling her baby doll because she wants to use “baby’s phone” (the doll’s voice box).
Mutters about nobody ever letting me have any fun.
Old Guy Georgian music
More Old Guy Georgian music
TOO MANY LINKS
*head explodes Scanner’s style*
I’m not saying it’s aliens. . .
Too many links have been built in between us
Don’t mind me, I’m just waiting on FOS. He’s taking me fishing!
…is he bringing the bait?
10/10
Absolutely superb, would snicker again.
He bye bye
[waits on doorstep for hours as hope fades]
There are plenty of fosh in the sea.
Well, at least as your hope fades, your intelligence will rapidly increase. Plus, you won’t feel the need to bathe.
Some insight into the scams that are solar TPO contracts
The judgement of the salesman was sound – he got a commission and turned a profit for his company.
Thanks for this, Scruffy. Ima going to use this the next time some watermelon starts gushing about how solar is a people’s movement and gets teh ebil corporashuns out of the electricity business.
or to prepay the lease and leave the hardware on the roof for the next owner to use. I’ve been kicking myself ever since I learned about this latter option
Boo fucking hoo. That’s what you get for being an asshole.
And $30/month electric bill in california? That’s less than I would be expecting.
If you don’t have an air conditioner or hot tub, then $30 is probably about right. And if you live close enough to the coast, you don’t need an air conditioner.
Speaking of trains, yesterday, I was forced to listen yet again to a couple of people moaning about how we don’t have high speed rail in this backwards shithole country. Everybody knows there is a vast untapped market for choo choo rides. It would be awesome. Everybody wants to take the train to Seattle, or Portland, or Chicago. Two days by rail would be totally better than a few hours by air.
It’s troubling.
We need a strong leader who can make them run on time first.
I’d ride Taggart Transcontinental
I’ve also done that other end of the spectrum – trans-continental rail travel. Moscow to Beijing (4,730 miles). Very few, short stops and moving 24 hours a day for 6 days.
By the time you get off at the destination you have become friends with anybody you share a language with. Nine English speakers who were strangers in Moscow all ended up sharing a large hotel room for a week in Beijing.
Not for the faint of heart.
Main stops include the “Family Tolerance & Reeducation Center” and the “Happy Farms Gulag”.
With a side excursion to “Uighur Totally Voluntary Vocational Camp With Razor Wire and Armed Guards.”
I live in a place where rail is economically feasible. It is also one of the highest population densities on the planet – the Tokyo metro area. I highly doubt many “choo-choo” lovers in the US would be able to live this way for long. Doubly so if you are on the lower half of the income spectrum as you would be living cheek-and-jowl in a building-cluster of tiny apartments.
WHY LIBERALS LOVE TRAINS
Someone approvingly quoting George Will. I approve.
Do you know what makes trains even better? Camps! Either for work or education, taking a train to camp is very rewarding experience.
we don’t have
I’m struck that passive victim voice is the standard. I’m all for kind-hearted people opining about gaps in culture, but it’s no longer mainstream to announce what one is going to do: I will attack this market opportunity; I will build a better mousetrap; when I grow up I will learn/earn/achieve/be the first to walk on the X.
Instead, it’s “what we need” and “there oughta be a law” and, essentially, “who is going to give X to me. If Buffalo Bill had thought like that, he would have never left Iowa; if Eisenhower had thought like that, we’ve be typing this thread in German.
The folk with the strongest opinions any more are the folk with the least knowledge on the topic. Dearest Victim: We don’t have a high-speed rail because you didn’t design, sell, capitalize, and build one.
They invest in Sunrun not to generate significant cash returns but to reap tax benefits: By assuming ownership of thousands of solar systems they can claim the credits and thus lower their tax bills from other economic activities. Hugh Bromley, a solar analyst at BloombergNEF, says Sunrun and its competitors offer solar, sure, but can be better understood as having created “one of the most sophisticated financial engineering industries of any sector of the U.S. economy.”
I saw that yesterday. It was so infuriating I coulodn’t finish it.
Gulag Barbie will fix it. She’s an economist.
To me, it verifies that solar companies are pure creations of tax law and would not/could not exist otherwise.
The progs wail about the special deals for the hyper-rich, yet they support explicit wealth transfers like this from the middle class to the politically connected.
Feature not bug.
Had we assumed Jug’s lease, we’d be paying $79 a month to Sunrun (the second escalator would have kicked in) plus at least $10 to SoCal Edison to stay on the grid, minus $7.50 for net metering. We’ve been in the house 10 months, and our average SoCal Edison bill is $30. Compared with becoming Sunrun customers, we’re saving $50 a month.
Just another neoliberal who puts filthy lucre before Gaia’s welfare.
I would pay to see “Syrian Vacation” if anyone in Hollywood had the balls to make it.
Well, they did drive through St Louis in the original Vacation. That’s kind of similar.
+1 “Roll ’em up!”
That’s what my Dad would say as we drove into Boston as a kid.
Just drove through Newark with the family on Friday. My son was asking why so many windows were broken in the apartment buildings / projects.
With all of the Acid attacks in Europe I think it’s time for some common sense car battery control. Nobody needs more than one old car battery in thier basement.
To me, it verifies that solar companies are pure creations of tax law and would not/could not exist otherwise.
Exactly, but the fanbois will, given the slightest chance, start to crow about how shit like this allows “economies of scale” to bring down prices.
Without this financial chicanery, the costs would be plainly visible, and residential solar would make no sense.
I later learned the incident came one day after Kingsborough Professor Katia Perea apparently told an administrator who refused her request to fire me, “I guess I will have to handle this myself.”
Pretty sure that I’d get fired if I said that.
“I guess I will have to handle this myself”.
This response works best after an attempted Sexual Harassment
“Silent Cal spoke out often against the chronic racism of the South and its party, the Democrats. Lynching had gotten so bad in the 1920s that the Republican Party made anti-lynching legislation part of its platform in the early part of the 20th century.”
Remember kids, the GOP are rabid racists because they ‘switched sides’.
#articleComingSoon
Had executive orders for national emergencies existed then, the Dems would have still been against it because Coolidge had an R after his name.
For those who still need proof that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-evil/
I’m impressed with Stanford’s logo. It’s a stylish ‘S’ that forms into The Thinker. That’s panache. Or if you prefer, pa-nash!
It’s pronounced “penis”.
They do have a Rodin ” Thinker” at Stanford, part of an outdoor Rodin Sculpture Garden. Pretty cool for a college, actually.
Nah — look closer — that’s Bryce Love.
I’m going to need a day or two to digest that.
The Anaconda Thinker!
The Boa Constricted thinker!
The…I ran out of snakes.
It was inevitable students were gonna turn on the Jews at some point. I mean a) it’s a classic and b) they’re running out of people to hate.
Don’t know squat about Jews, but their enemies sure don’t seem very rational.
Their problem isn’t that he is a Jew, but that he is a conservative Jew, and they are intolerant of anyone, whose political loyalties they feel are owned, to stray off the reservation.
It’s like my future sister-in-law once told her family that she voted for a Republican, and got roundly criticized, because African-Americans are supposed to be solidly liberal. And so she shut up about how she voted, IIRC.
I’m reading ‘The Conservative Mind’.
It’s apparent to me that they should be conservative. Not liberal.
Yes, the “Progressives” are getting back to their pre -WWII roots. Of course they had to then steal the Liberal moniker after the Prog brand became despised. They didn’t change though.
From the CBS article linked about that moron Somollett. “Man punched pregnant woman on train.”
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/16/pregnant-woman-punched-on-cta-train/
Make that black man punches a woman. With actual footage.
Imagine if….imagine….
So racist a country!
Is it because he’s Jewish or because he’s a conservative and a Zionist? I’d think there’s plenty of right thinking Jewish faculty that isn’t being harassed.
Replied to the wrong comment, I’m going back to bed.
It works better here, kind of a surrealist post.
/puts down Kafka Coles Notes.
But they’re not going to show video of the attack?
Just a perfectly legal attempted abortion in NY.
In a country free of racism, the ethnicity of either of the two people would be considered irrelevant, except as a descriptor of the perp designed to help catch him. So, I’m not seeing a problem with this headline, or the article.
Yeah, me neither. Unless race is somehow a fundamental aspect of the story, it makes no more sense to include that than it would to write, “Tall man punches blonde woman on train.”
Tough guy. I noticed that the CBS Smollet story left out the “This is MAGA country” part and that the acid story failed to describe the attacker beyond woman.
From Yahoo!: “A Complete Guide to Trump’s Embarrassing “National Emergency” Declaration”
Embarrassing is the word of the day.
And yes, the comments are awful.
The declaration of national emergencies happens far more often than I realized:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/presidents-national-emergencies/
I posted list of NE on wiki.
IF ANYONE BOTHERED.
We were too busy working.
That’s some real unbiased reporting right there.
Details to follow
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in the aftermath of Amazon’s 25,000-job snub of the city, believes New York’s workers can do better than toiling for the internet giant.
Speaking at her delayed inauguration in the Bronx, the first-year congresswoman received a raucous greeting from some 300 giddy constituents Saturday at the Renaissance School for Musical Theater and Technology.
“We do not have to settle for scraps in the greatest city in the world,” said Ocasio-Cortez two days after Amazon backed off its commitment to open a new Queens facility offering thousands upon thousands of new jobs.
“We did see that this week, when we fight for ourselves and we say, ‘It’s not just about any job,’” she continued. “We need to have dignified jobs. We need to create dignified jobs in New York City, jobs that pay well. Jobs that contribute to communities.”
Magical jobs. The sort of jobs you see on the teevee. You know- jobs at which nobody actually “works”. You’ll just hang out all day, drinking coffee and eating pizza and making bon mots with your besties. And then, on FRIDAY! you’ll get a check. And that’s when the fun really begins.
Because amazon jobs are scraps? -.-
I guess she means unionized jobs when she says dignified jobs?
You don’t have to worry about settling for scraps, so I guess it worked out for you.
Weren’t the Amazon jobs high paying? It wasn’t a warehouse.
Well, if you define “high paying” as using coercive laws favoring labor unions to extract monopolistic above market wages, then jobs with high wages from non-unionized jobs aren’t, by definition, high paying.
I read 150k.
I guess Amazon was getting one too many shake down visits.
And it will probably work for her because only the thinnest of thin slices of her constituents had a hope to be hired by Amazon in a job better than what they might have already. The trickle down from those high end jobs would have had a real, positive impact but few people listening to her have any idea about that part of the local economy.
This whole episode annoys me. I’m on Bezos’ side. Ugh.
‘It’s not just about any job,’” she continued. “We need to have dignified jobs. We need to create dignified jobs in New York City, jobs that pay well. Jobs that contribute to communities.”
Apparently, in AOC’s world, jobs where you provide goods and services that people want and are willing to pay for don’t by definition “contribute to communities”, and choosing to be gainfully employed can be “undignified”.
The fact that AOC can imply that working for Amazon in their HQ would be an “undignified” job, without anybody even thinking to question her, speaks volumes about this stupid charade.
There’s not ‘undignified’ in honest work.
Says a lot about her.
That she intends to spend the rest of life as a public sector parasite, never working an honest day?
This reminds me of the DC-Walmart brouhaha of a few years ago. How dare Walmart open stores in economically-depressed neighborhoods, creating jobs in a location of significant unemployment and offering a wide range of products and services at affordable prices! The very idea!
Yet she has one of the most undignified jobs one could imagine – slaver and slave driver.
Define “dignity”, looter
So. Ok. You nixed 25 000 (which she now denies because that’s what cowards on the left do. Shit disturb and when they get criticized they deny they had anything to do with the thing they ruined). You’ve, in essence, interfered in the ‘life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’ maxim. As such, it’s your actions that are undignified and perhaps even immoral.
You then compound this faux-virtue foolishness rooted in economic ignorance by not understanding Amazon were given incentives via tax credits/breaks in the amount of $3 billion and not actual cash to ‘invest’ elsewhere.
Worse, you then add ‘we can create 25 000’ through mom and pops. Assuming the average size of a small SME is 1 to 15 people, do you not realize how many businesses need to open to make up for 25 000 jobs?! Assume the avg. SME has 10 workers, that’s 2500!
Amazon was set to do it….ALONE.
She’s fucked in the head. I refuse to believe 3 million people on her Twitter account think this was smart what she did.
The question that should be asked of that Little Wannabe Commie is….How fast can you replace 25 000 AOC?
Within 10 years by retrofitting every building in her district with windmills.
For those who still need proof that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
tl;dr- Trump sucks.
“This is the time for the oppressed and the downtrodden and those who are everyday people to band together and finally, finally claim the power that they have always deserved in this country,” he continued. “… We set the tone in Queens this week, and we’re going to keep delivering the message.”
Do people really say shit like this, in public (unironically)? I feel as if I’m living in a (very) poorly written political melodrama.
It’s NYC. Not really English, is it.
Heh. Yeah, no one is going to open a fast food restaurant ever again in NYC if Brady-poo has his way.
I’ve seen these type of employees. They look like they practice their resting bitch face everyday in front of the mirror, and that deadpan, passive aggressive, ‘why are you here?’ voice. They make me never want to eat at the place again, dunno why, its a mystery. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yikes. That’s crazy.
Amazon wanted to oppress people by giving them jobs I guess. I don’t get it either.
Alright, so I figure we blow a few key bridges to Jersey, that’s a start. Maybe some patrol boats to catch anybody in private watercraft, rafts, stuff like that. The tricky part will be containing anyone trying to head north into Connecticut where they can join up with their natural allies in Vermont. Maybe a large barrier of some kind? Like a…wall?
Motion activated flamethrowers.
I mean, polar bears are starving, right? And there are no guns allowed in NYC? I mean, am I the only one seeing a two birds, one stone situation here?
Of course we’ll need to temporarily evac the uninfected and put them up in some refugee housing until we’re ready for recolonization. I’m thinking something mobile, easy to quarantine, and capable of holding supplies for several months. Let’s get Carnival on the phone.
Are you Kane?
Doh, Cain.
You don’t have to worry about settling for scraps, so I guess it worked out for you.
NO SCRAPS FOR YOU!
Advice I never ever needed:
Don’t get your valentine an internet-connected sex toy.
Where would we be without journalism like this?
*Wired
Weren’t the Amazon jobs high paying? It wasn’t a warehouse.
But with those high paying jobs come other, menial jobs. Somebody would have to sweep the floors and scrub the toilets, and that’s not fair!
They do pay well. There have been a number of stories over the last year or two about some pretty messed up working conditions at Amazon (Google Amazon workers if you want), but if you don’t like it, quit. The great thing about Capitalism is that work is a voluntary transaction.
Everything I’ve heard makes me think I don’t want to work there, but even the warehouse jobs pay decently for the work. My (former) dog walker works there and got a promotion (which is why he’s former). His mother-in-law is my new dog walker, so I occasionally hear about it. It doesn’t sound any more onerous than the window factory I worked in for a summer. Mandatory overtime was common. If anything the factory was worse because of swing shifts.
Yeah, I’m sure some of the antidotes are one-offs and exaggerations. It’s called work for a reason.
Ironically, the NY government officials responsible for squashing the deal were complaining that there were high paying jobs, but not enough regular jobs for the locals.
Beto reminds me of Lurch.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bodycam-footage-shows-alleged-isis-tied-arizona-mans-confrontation-with-officer
I’m thinking mental illness has to be in play on this one.
Looks like he wanted to get shot. Cop showed pretty good restraint really.
I visited the Giza pyramids over the weekend. Hugely impressive. And they were built so quickly: something like 13 years. But modern Egypt is a total shithole. I guess it was my first visit to a true third-world country: I’d rather hang out in Rio’s favelas than in Cairo.
I just happened to stumble across this vid on Egypt’s new capitol they’re building the other day and thought it was pretty interesting:
https://youtu.be/dnA_0y3ToJs
Cairo looks pretty rough and it looks like it’s only going to get rougher.
The pyramids are truly impressive in scale. How many touts attempted to bring you into their shop who just happened to have a brother in-law that owned camel tours?
One tout did take advantage of us, even though I was aware of the scam. We toured the area in a horse carriage (no camel), so at least we got that. 95% of Egyptians in the tourist industry give a bad name to the rest of Egyptians.
Homeland Security link: “the system — which has cost $1.6 billion so far — is not reliable.”
Nothing to cut.
‘Hamas: Israel sent us shoes equipped with secret electronic tracking chips to spy on us.”
And why do you think they did that?
To keep them honest in the secret fitness challenge between Hamas operatives and Mossad?
“Those are FitBits, genius.”
I think I figured out how the progs will distract from the real issue in the Smollet incident – Smollet will be declared mentally ill and hence a victim. Traumatized by the many blatant acts of racism in American society, he was acting out. No, you can’t question whether he was deliberately engaging in a publicity stunt that went terribly wrong.
He wanted to start a national conversation.
Common sense pufferfish control
Looks like we’re going to need more prisons. With under water cages.
“Duuude, have you ever really looked at your fins? I mean REALLY looked at them?”
on a quick search, the only pufferfish toxin I came up with is tetrodotoxin, which apparently is a sodium channel blocker. NOT my idea of a good time.
There must be something else at work, because it’s difficult to imagine it having a different effect on any other mammal.
Everyone relies on sodium channels for their neurons to function.
Lawyers will be calling him. Kid hit the Florida lotto.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-boy-11-arrested-after-refusing-to-recite-racist-pledge-of-allegiance
Wasn’t this an episode of The Boondocks?
The only sane one is the mother.
DeBlasio is on Meet he Press. What a blithering imbecile.
To be fair, he’s always a blithering imbecile.
I’m surprised he managed to roll out of bed so early in the morning.
Lie some more Bill.
“They couldn’t handle the heat in the kitchen.”
And Gulag Barbie thinks they were giving cash handouts to Amazon.
It’s funny to me that NY politicians like DeBlasio and Ocasio-Cortez think they got the best of that deal. Amazon had to be bribed to pick NYC with subsidies in the first place. Amazon is the belle of the ball and NYC just took itself out of the competition. If they do go through with splitting HQ2 they’ll just pick the runner-up. Personally, I think Dallas makes the most sense of the remaining cities, besides maybe Boston.
I just wish we had mountains or ocean…
I remain surprised that they didn’t pick Atlanta.
#metoo
Atlanta would make a lot of sense since it’s a major transportation hub, plus it gives you a location in the southeast that’s still pretty close to the NoVa location.
“Nobody chased Amazon away. It was a completely arbitrary decision.”
Inexplicable!
Slutty Sunday has your morning wood right here.
http://archive.li/kLZwv
3 was my fav.
https://pics.me.me/when-you-forget-to-knock-before-you-open-the-fridge-41276690.png
Good morning, Old Man!
You’ve linked Slavin before, I believe. The first few bars sound like the Nationwide jingle.
He makes me want to buy a banjo.
In answer to your question last night, yes it will involve guns.
Also, was your son shooting an M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, or M1A?
M1 Garand. He learned that shooting iron sights is harder than an AR with optics!
Imagine that…
Needs moar dime and washer time.
Amazingly, his main instrument is flute, but there’s absolutely nothing he doesn’t play at an expert level. He’s given me a lot of help and advice, and he’s great fun to watch performing.
Troll in Chief.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1096856815810342912
He’s the master.
He changed the song because of copyrights, right?
What a bunch of clowns R.E.M. were. FREE EXPOSURE!
That’s the funniest part of the whole thing.
Try not to laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxdAECxgxY
Shit… might have to actually vote for this guy next time.
It is absolute genius!
And I can’t stand the guy.
Losers.
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-progressive-civil-war/90579/
Putting in print that a conservative could win a governorship or mayor-ship in New York city? That must be a fantasy rag.
It’s a conservative paper in NYC. They deal in fantasy.
No, it says a Republican could win.
Whoops, my bad.
If you read the article, Amazon was going to get lower taxes, which is part of why AOC and her ilk were so riled up about this.
The article also mentioned $505 million in grants for building costs, which sounds unlibertarian, except it didn’t give details. Handing tax money to build their headquarters is one thing – not charging them for the city building infrastructure like roads and traffic lights and whatnot around the building is entirely different.
So not sure if this would have been crony capitalism, or just NYC not stealing as much in taxes as the socialists wanted.
Yes, and the remaining $2.5B is tax breaks that will go to anyone who builds anything similar in the same space.
What we have here is just WalMart all over again. The NYT could build its headquarters there and everyone would cheer it on.
Yep, the problem was that the breaks were going to the “bad guys.” How Amazon became one of the “bad guys” is a head scratcher, at least on the surface. The founder and boss is a prog who saved a failing liberal newspaper, and fifty percent of Amazon’s retail sales are by third parties. You know, those small businesses and Mom & Pop’s that leftists are always pretending to love. Their computing services allow tiny tech companies to compete on equal footing with the tech giants.
So what’s the problem, then? I suppose that to socialist minded people, Amazon represents unfettered capitalism, and its incredible success outrages them.
Success outrages them because successful people have options. Progressivism is all about preventing others from having options…as in the option to not have a proggie boot on your neck. They cant stand seeing someone beyond their reach.
It’s an intersectional stew of progressive hang-ups, so naturally it’s not possible to make any sense out of it. The union goons want union jobs, the poverty pimps resent the possibility of rich people being nearby, the race hustlers same for certain hues moving in, and on and on. It’s how wind up with the likes of AOC and Deblasio – ideologically identical – on opposite sides of the same issue.
It has occurred to me that 2HQ means Amazon is bugging out of Seattle before they get shaken down yet again by the progs. Second HQ will become first one bit at a time and Seattle will have to find someone else to extort.
NYC overplayed their hand, dummies.
Seattle has become a true blue shitshow. It’s going to be Detroit 2.0 in about a decade. It’s really sad too, the NW was built by some rugged bunch of badasses, it’s sad to see it get turned into a commie hell hole.
Really comical watching them celebrate their “victory” in keeping a huge job provider from moving to their neighborhood.
DOOM!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/02/16/zombie-deer-chronic-wasting-disease-could-affect-humans/2882550002/
No cases of CWD have been reported in humans, but studies have shown that it can be transmitted to animals other than deer, including primates, according to the CDC.
So you’re saying there’s a chance…
By the way, Osterholm has a long history of raising funds through fear mongering. Dude has been pimping pandemics for years.
Prion diseases are some scary shit.
Yes they are.
Let’s pray CDW is not transmissible.
CWD
Although I don’t particular care for CDW either
My in-laws live in northern Wisconsin, which means they are deer hunters.
You can’t have a meal at someone’s house up there without them trying to slip you some deer sausage, deer bacon, deer pepperoni, etc.
Knowing about the nearby presence of outbreaks of CWD, I try to decline when I can. People love sharing their deer carcass though…..
CWD can only be spread through direct contact with brain or spinal cord tissue.
Posting this for the Heinlein fans here who I know are many.
https://www.wired.com/2019/02/geeks-guide-gregory-benford/
Thanks for the link – my next travel read!
I am begining to find the Naz…I mean Progressive activists in Academia genuinely worrying. Leftists are always and everywhere the same. Same ol’ shit. And I still dont get the Jew hate.
The hate of those who are Jewish is because the Dems can pick up Muslim voters while still getting almost all of the Jewish vote.
That “if you vote in lockstep for us, we’ll treat you like shit so we can pander to swing voters at your expense” thing.
I also never understood Jews voting for leftists.
I’ll defer to others except in this wise: I know (((dozens))) who voted Trump in the South: (((their))) political inclinations tended to be driven by a socio-economic culture that is little different from their Christian neighbors. The Jews I know are of two types: liberal professionals or slow-talking reactionaries, so: just like everyone else I know. My parents live in an Orthodox neighborhood where (((the guy next door))) smokes as good a butt as anyone else, but the rabbi’s probably not getting invited to that particular dinner.
200 miles away my grandparents are buried in the same clay from which Schwerner and Goodman were unearthed; my people killed (((them))) because they were leftists of a sort, bringing an unwanted change; I think that notion still resonates with (((some))). This much of their theory was plainly correct: the same backwards people who will lynch Blacks will certainly also murder Jews. It doesn’t always follow that liberal ideas and leftist politics align, but it isn’t surprising that some such bedfellows met in that day and that those sympathies might endure.
Socialism seems the very kernel of Yishuv, the kibbutz, etc; and I think Israel was buddies with eastern Europe in the early decases, less about home ties and more than the eastern bloc would sell them rifles when the west wouldn’t.
So it’s just one of those things where people can see the same facts and come away with opposite truths. At lunch yesterday CommieMommie says something about how, of course, since she’s a peace-loving person, she hates guns; my best friend answers that, of course, because he’s a peace-loving person, he always has a gun on him.
Its urban politics vs. rural politics. People in cities generally prefer communitarianism, as they feel they need the help of others. Same with other left stalwarts like Blacks. They should be conservative, but they don’t come from that environment anymore.
I agree with this. I just live in an “urban” area where most are from the woods and just came to town to make a buck.
Lots of Blacks in Memphis proudly voted Trump, and the AM is full of Black conservative talk.
Downfall if free on Prime – apologies if Ted S. already noted.
I don’t do streaming video, so no, I didn’t point it out.
Never apologize…especially to Ted.
Wishful thinking?
Low unemployment. Good feelings. Those are things that matter to voters on Election Day.
But Election Day is still 21 months off and if there are economic concerns at the White House, they likely center on the future. The U.S. economy is cyclical. And though the nation is still in the midst of a remarkable economic expansion – it’s been some 116 months since the last recession ended in 2009 – there are warning flags in some of the latest data.
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These figures carry special weight because they center on consumer spending, the force that drives the U.S. economy, making up 68 percent of all economic activity. If consumers have less to spend at the mall or online that’s likely to have an impact on the broader economy, potentially a big impact.
There may already be some signs in that regard. This week the Census released data showing retail sales declined 1.2 percent from November to December, the largest drop in more than nine years.
Does that mean the economy is headed south? That’s a big leap. Some analysts are skeptical of the sales figures drop and there’s still a lot of good economic news out there. But after 116 months of growth, the numbers show some warning signs emerging.
And when the 2020 presidential race arrives, the story around the economy could look and feel very different than it does today.
Won’t someone rid us of this troublesome President?
Some people seem to have an unhealthy obsession with the 2020 election.
They are going to get their asses handed to them in ’20. They are not going to be able to nullify the voters by having him removed.
If things are this nasty now, how will it be post ’24?