Its kind of a blue Monday here. Its been gray and shitty (but warm) all day. My wife is home sick, hacking like a COPD patient taking a smoke break. But hey, it could be worse.
Hey guys, did you know that you can be a Democratic Socialist AND a Capitalist? I suppose in the same way you can be a libertarian in favor of… well, I’ll let you guys fill in the blanks.
I hope Jussie is paying attention, THIS is how you stage politically inspired violence. You know, have the police identify both the assailant, the victim, and the weapon. (I give this about an 85% chance of being true. MAGA dude is a dumbass if true. Why would you follow some dude who just drew a gun on you into the parking lot for more talk?)
AOC as the Left’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I fucking love it, because it is 100% true, and they sneer at that trope as simplistic and toxic masculinity defeminizing complex, strong, wimmenz.
NOPD injures five bystanders in shootout with rival gangmember.
Hit the day’s theme music!
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Hey cops – you want to go all warrior/military geardo? Learn to shoot better.
Why should they? No harm no foul (for them).
Seriously – why should they care?
If I had ventilated a bunch of Kuwaiti or Saudi civilians in a firefight with a guy just trying to run away…. I’d be lucky to just get a bad conduct discharge.
Tactical Timmies. The lot of them.
This place is cringy as fuck with the tactitard gear (like they have corsets with holsters sewn into them) but have nice guns.
Don’t knock the corset holster.
I don’t want to see Not Adahn in a corset.
You just think you don’t.
*twitches whiskers alluringly*
It lifts as it separates and generally smooths out the little bumps and bulges of Mexi’s time as a mother and a wife.
The people I’m most wary of at the range are cops.
I mean, I suppose, if people can call themselves anarcho-communists…
War is Peace.
To their credit, the left has realized that they can control the debate if they control the meaning of words. They probably learned that in journalism school. So now, socialism means whatever they say it means.
That’s bullshit, these liberals…wait, you’re right.
Unpossible, they didn’t learn anything in J-School
Well, only if you’re a ‘moral capitalist’, whatever that means…
Sure you can. Treat your serfs as socialist comrades, and trade with those not under your boot.
Democratic Socialist AND Capitalist
Why, that’s the same thing as the Post Office!
/Prog talking points
Blue Monday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc
Hey guys, did you know that you can be a Democratic Socialist AND a Capitalist?
Like when you want the healthcare or the airline industries run under a socialist model but your industry should be capitalist?
Or alternatively, when you want your industry ruled by European labor laws but don’t want to put up with the cost and bother when it comes to other industries.
Going to be in Houston this weekend. First time in my life there. Need food recommendations. Staying downtown for work, so anywhere I’d go needs to be a (relatively) easy Uber ride. Danke,
Anything with the word “Pappas” in the name is overpriced, but good quality.
Michaels is the strip club that the Rockets/Texans go to.
Mai’s is open until 4:00 and ignores the 2:00 am cutoff.
Also, if you’ve never had a good chicken-fried steak, Saltgrass is good. Most of the rest of their menu is just adequate though.
Rudy’s is a good BBQ chain — get some of their green chile stew as a side. There are also even better independent places, but I don’t know of any near downtown.
Please dont send this guy to Rudy’s.
There are so many better options than this chain.
Killen’s BBQ. Get the beef ribs, brisket, and sausage. Hugo’s if you want to impress you work colleagues. The Mucky Duck if you want to take in a show in small, great venue (or just drink some beer).
Just use Yelp and put it in Rice Village and you’ll get something nice. Mi Luna was still there as of 2 years ago. Torchy’s is taking over the world for casual Tex-Mex. The Original Ninfas is still damn good. As is the TexMex place next door that is almost as famous.
Cadillac Bar was once the place to be.
Not sure if the food actually loved up to the drinking atmosphere.
I once sat next to ZZ Top and their manager. We took turns buying trays of Mexican Flags and showing each other how much better our coke was.
My favorite Houston ZZ Top story was driving around listening to the old Rock 101. They played a great live version of Jesus Just Left Chicago and Billy called up the station and asked them to burn him a copy. The radio guys were like “uh, I dunno man, copyright” and Billy was like “I’ll send the record company the quarter, burn it for me!” and they said “why don’t you come up to the station and we’ll work something out” all on the air.
Vietnamese food is a good choice. Also, Udipi for south indian.
Yelp or Tripadvisor. If it has a dozen plus reviews and is 4 and a half stars, it’s probably really good.
Killens for mind blowing BBQ.
A little long uber but worth every mile for a life long memorable meal.
Call ahead.
AOC as the Left’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I fucking love it, because it is 100% true, and they sneer at that trope as simplistic and toxic masculinity defeminizing complex, strong, wimmenz.”
I had this link all ready to post and of course Brett already has it. Am I being tracked by this website?
There is some strangeness afoot here today.
Eye agree
On the other hand, it might be coincidence.
I’d say it’s all in your head
Indeed, something seems like it was plucked from its socket.
I would eye your webcam.
You would too if you threw a few tokens my way.
No. We get our data form other sites that are tracking you.
Absolutely not.
Just to let you know, your Amazon package is sitting at the door. And you have that appointment with the urologist on Wednesday. You know why.
I larfed.
Damn that’s pretty close except it’s a dermatologist on Thursday.
It’s the proctologist, on Friday, with a candlestick.
We playing clue now?
The putative victim, in the camera blind spot, with the phony MAGA twins.
Or straffinrun’s Youtube feed.
+1 Colonel Mustard
Colonel Mustard, in the conservatory, with Prof. Plum.
Why would you follow some dude who just drew a gun on you into the parking lot for more talk?
He was a Nihilist, nothing to worry about.
Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, Dude, but at least it’s an ethos.
He was probably holding it sideways.
Jobs should pay $15 an hour and you should be able to take one gun away from someone per hour as well.
You laugh, but I was at a goddam Aldi yesterday and the lowest hourly wage posted on their “Help Wanted” flier was $12.35. Sure you can’t support your family, but that’s a fuckton of money to stock shelves and ring up groceries. Of course, everyone at Aldi is always working their tail off, so maybe they get their value out of you.
They’re well known for keeping a lean staff and cracking the whip on the staff they do have.
Damn. If I was 18 and willing to work with no skills and no money for college and a family I needed to avoid like the plague…
There’s an Aldi a few miles from my house. Less than a half mile away is an apartment building with studio apartments in nice shape, gas, heat, and water included for about 1K. No transportation expense to/from work. Bus on the main street runs every 30 minutes off-rush hour and the elevated is a mile away (20 minute walk, maybe 30 in a snow storm) if you want to go downtown or the trendy neighborhoods once in a while. That Aldi job would fit the bill and the only problem is floating the federal and state governments no-interest 12-month loans that eat into the take-home pay.
Even the gas stations around here are something like $10-12+ for starters. Talking about a Sheetz where I don’t think it’s possible to run with fewer than 3 people per shift, it’s probably safer than a fast food joint for a 24 hour operation. Not as many apartment locations around some of these, but locally you could probably get a rental for few hundred in the rural areas.
I feed my family at gunpoint. Apparently, this is a problem.
At least they clean their plates.
Pretty much anyone can afford a big bag of rice and another of pinto beans, plus some meat and vegetables if you’re relatively flush with pocket change, especially if both parents are working.
Oh, wait, you mean able to take your family out to restaurants daily and buy at Whole Foods, while living in a house you can’t afford?
You mean pulling home ec out of school may have created 2.5 generations who wouldn’t even know what to do with a $50 weekly grocery budget?
Home ec is the spawn of the patriarchy
Why would you START a family if you don’t have some reasonable certainty that you can generate enough income to comfortably support them?
Besides, I know someone who makes around $13 per hour and – along with her husband’s similar income – supports two kids. She also makes a fuckton of stupid purchasing decisions; she has a self-described “shopping addiction”. I bet they could live pretty well in this area if she would cut back on that and do some saving and investing.
I think when these people claim that nobody can possibly live on less than $15 per hour, they’re assuming that the family MUST have a suburban house, brand new cars for every adult, high-speed Internet, and a whole month of vacation per year.
There was no surveillance video showing Phillips pulling his gun on Pierce because he was out of camera range, but witnesses backed up Pierce’s allegation.
Someone has witness-privilege.
“Ronald Reagan was railing against medicare in 1963 he said medicare—this is a quote—’will lead to socialized medicine and will lead to socialism in America.’”
17 years before his presidency. Ron could foresee the future a long, long time ago, before Bernie et al arrived on the scene
Were those considered bad outcomes back then?
“In my youth, this sort of character was usually played by Julia Roberts, often opposite Richard Gere.”
I prefer the Julia Roberts version as she was a whore and, presumably, a capitalist.
Thanks for the AOC as MPDG article.
Hey guys, did you know that you can be a Democratic Socialist AND a Capitalist?
I can be in favor of the government imposing confiscatory rates of taxation on you even as I provide entrepreneurial accounting services designed to shield your income and assets from that very same tax.
That counts, right?
RIGHT?
You can be a bootlegger and a Baptist.
well, I’ll let you guys fill in the blanks.
Hitler?
Darn, I’d put down ‘Casserole’.
Nick Gillespie?
All Blanks Filled 6: The Hitler XXX-Files
Cole slaw
Pineapple on you-know-what.
My dick?
beef stroganoff
On Sean’s dick?
HAMBURGER stroganoff!
Fat drained, or not?
Drained.
Into a tin can.
Which then goes in the freezer until trash day.
If you save enough, you can clarify it and fill your deep fryer with delicious beef tallow. There is nothing better in which to French fry one’s potatoes.
That is true.
I have a little bacon grease crock with a sieve and we use that to fry eggs in sometimes.
Mmmm… eggs fried in lard. I love, love, love eggs fried in bacon drippings. Wifey and I are trying reduce carb consumption so we always have eggs and bacon at the ready for snacking.
Goose fat, ftw.
Fun story:
When I was a teenager, my dad’s work buddy went goose hunting and gave my dad a goose all dressed and ready to go in the oven. My mom roasted it.
NOBODY liked that goose but me. I ate the whole thing (not all at once). I don’t know what their problem was, but I really liked it.
I have roasted a duck. That was delicious also.
*hangs head in shame*
Deep dish pizza. Ham and pineapple.
On Sean’s dick.
???
rival gangmember.
I spy, with my jaundiced little eye…
Learn to shoot better.
What’s the point of immunity, if not to shoot wildly into an unknown backstop?
If they guy starts shooting, I’m not sure what else the police are supposed to do in that situation.
Besides shoot bystanders?
Weren’t there any dogs available?
Make sure they aren’t endangering innocents. Otherwise it should be negligent homicide when they kill one.
Nobody is innocent.
To their credit, the left has realized that they can control the debate if they control the meaning of words.
1984: An Instruction Manual
Orwell really did nail a bunch of their shit.
So did Goebbels, but will they acknowledge that debt?
Mammary Monday presents supersensual sideboob.
http://archive.li/ypLrx
I thought 28 was hottest:
https://archive.li/ypLrx/f8839bc3f6bc01c1409b837183fe2d68eb3f68d5
4, despite being a soulless ginger, was nice and thicc:
https://archive.li/ypLrx/b55a2bc7c7ee70e73a7643c885fb1612e943adf9
The only way to improve that would be ‘Moar Crustacean!’
Blue Spanish Sky
Beautiful. I have one for you. Angel of the South.
I had a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She was short and lithe, very pretty, pixie cut, spoke with an Irish accent by way of Minnesota, had loads of eccentric hobbies, moved around the country frequently, and was just dumb, dumb, dumb. Dumb enough that after a couple dates even the prospect of sex wasn’t worth it.
So the description fits!
Pics?
Phone number?
I had one, too. Sigh. Exactly like your physical description. But stunningly smart and no Irish accent. Unfortunately, also stunningly unstable. Fun to be friends with, but a relationship is a different matter.
But happy ending- I met SP who was even smarter and a total rock of stability.
SP is my favorite!
No, she’s MY favorite.
Sadly, she loves SugarFree the most.
“a total rock of stability.”
“she loves SugarFree the most.”
Something here doesn’t add up.
I’ve mentioned my brother’s MPDG in the past, the one who moved with her toddler son to a compound in Ecuador or w/e to escape the FEMA death camp trains. I guess she’s not an authentic MPDG without mania.
Her name wasn’t Sarah was it? Sarah Conner?
Can you be a Democratic Socialist and a Social Democrat at the same time eh smart guy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_socialism
Is Perez on the board of Niskanen?
She projects a kind of boundless nervous energy
Like a chihuahua?
Yo quiero verde new deal.
Not translating “New Deal” is microaggression…
OK, nuevo dealo
Nuevo Dealio
Dealio Nuevo
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
Spanish wiki translates it as ‘Nuevo Trato”
Which then translates back to English as “Navel Traitor”
So that means that FDR did have foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor?
Or coked up? Does that make her a libertarian after all?
“I prefer the wicked to the foolish because the wicked sometimes rest.” -Somebody
If they guy starts shooting, I’m not sure what else the police are supposed to do in that situation.
I’d like to think a “trained professional” would be able to take time to be certain of his target and what’s behind it.
The article doesn’t say how the bystanders were shot. We’re just assuming the cops shot them.
Natural given the passive nature of the reporting.
I mean, the fact that the article used passive voice is a tell. Not 100% effective, but not entirely without precedent.
The article appears to be a summary of other articles about the incident:
They should be expected to take the same care and effort and be held to the same (or greater…) standard that would be required of a good samaritan if they were to intervene.
Do you even POLICE, bro?
Walking Contradiction
That was something unpredictable…
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl is a stock character first classified by Nathan Rabin in a 2007 review of Elizabethtown, a film he described as “The Bataan Death March of Whimsy.”
I haven’t the vaguest notion what that means, but I laughed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5023675
Gerald Butts is out.
Uh huh.
Hey Winston: Speaking of butts, your mom has got it goin’ on.
Few weeks ago i asked yall about watches. Well i ended up buying the seiko 5 and really like it. Thanks!!!
You don’t have a cell phone?
Watches are cool.
/Seiko 5 wearer
I dig them as well. Especially because everyone has those fucking Apple watches, it’s fun to wear something that doesn’t even have a battery.
/Seiko 5 and Orient Ray II wearer.
The purpose is primarily aesthetic. I notice i get more attention from women when i dress nice so that makes it worthwhile.
ALTHOUGH I was in a very bad spot recently with a dead phone and i really needed a way to track time so that’s what made me go ahead and buy it.
I get it. I was just messin’ with ya:)
AOC shouldn’t have been making macaroni and cheese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeXM0_k5w1E
She should have ordered soup with an iPhone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV-QsgdPBq8
“‘Donald Trump is evil’: Malia Obama’s secret Facebook account reveals just how much former First Daughter hates her father’s successor with post-it note picture liked by Biden’s granddaughter Finnegan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6717603/Malia-Obamas-secret-Facebook-account-reveals-anti-Trump-messages.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6718073/Malias-Miami-girl-squad-Former-daughters-friends-high-school-classmates.html
That’s one manly jaw.
Wookie jaw, get it right, friend
Yeah…that’s not a good look.
Sweetheart, your father personally signed the murder drone kill lists and stripped away millions of people’s health insurance because he felt like it.
No no, that can’t be right… Obama assured us countless times that if you like your plan, you can keep it, period. Surely, he wouldn’t go on record as repeatedly and emphatically saying that when he knew that the very opposite would occur, right? That would just be absurd.
Meh she seems to have the politics of an average 19 year old female. I won’t hold her parents against her and I don’t understand why this is news.
Daily Mail…
Elizabeth Warren sticks up for the plotters
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), a 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful, on Sunday said that Trump administration officials have a constitutional duty to invoke the 25th Amendment if they believe the president cannot fulfill his job, saying their loyalty should be to “the Constitution” and not to the president.
“My point here is that if they believe that Donald Trump cannot fulfill the obligations of his office, then they have a constitutional responsibility to invoke the 25th Amendment,” Warren said during a news conference after a rally in Las Vegas, according to The Nevada Independent.
“Their loyalty under law is not to him personally. It is to the Constitution of the United States and to the people of United States.”
The comments from Warren came days after CBS aired a segment of an interview with former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe in which he said top Justice Department officials discussed launching an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment to force Trump out of office following former FBI Director James Comey’s firing in May 2017.
That’s nice. Now define “incapable of performing the duties of the President” and then tell us, in simple words, what evidence you have to support that assertion.
Except when it is convenient to label the constitution the work of slave-owners and that America is super racist.
None of these people ever suggested expelling McCain when he was clearly unable to serve.
Didn’t work when Brooks beat up Sumner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner#Absence_from_the_Senate
Funny that I don’t see anything in the 25th about the FBI having the power to attempt a coup.
then tell us, in simple words, what evidence
This. Also, as if her loyalty is to the Constitution. . .
The 25th was meant for presidents that are stroked out a la Woodrow Wilson or similarly incapacitated and she’s well aware I’m sure.
True, but the language doesn’t restrict it to that, and I’m not a fan of reading things into the Constitution that aren’t already there, since both political sides like to do that all the time, especially with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th. Not saying I agree with using the 25th in this way, just saying it could be done.
The initial intent and context that led to the 25th is important too in my view but IANAL.
“The statement added that Jessica Jones, starring Krysten Ritter as the superhero-turned-private eye, will shutter after its third season, which has yet to set a release date.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6718231/Netflix-reveals-pulling-two-remaining-Marvel-series-Punisher-Jessica-Jones.html
Crap.
Well, hopefully, at least that third season will get released.
I did hear there is a chance Hulu picks those up. I sure hope so. Punisher and Daredevil were amazing.
The season of Daredevil with the Punisher sidestory had to be one of the better seasons of tv ever. They really really nailed it.
Carrie-Ann Moss in the 2nd season of JJ was perfect.
Mmm. Carrie Ann Moss in tight leather pants.
Delaware teenager arrested for “offensive touching of a police officer”. From the looks of it, I guess he might’ve offensively touched his head on the police officer’s fist.
But the teenager was on the demon weed, so it’s excusable, amirite?
Goddammit.
I think they’re going to end up on the Disney service, whatever that ends up being called.
“Democratic Socialist AND Capitalist”
You produce, we take and we tell you what to do.
That’s their new thing: Socialism makes capitalism better.
Peak retard doesn’t exist.
Not really. The idea has been around since at least the 1890s and that is the original meaning of “social liberalism”.
And then when it fails they can say that wasn’t real socialism we need to go further into the derp for real socialism.
None of these people ever suggested expelling McCain when he was clearly unable to serve.
That’s different!
Just another rule that feisty maverick was willing to break for the sake of bi-partisan comradeship. /Democrat conveniently forgetting how JM was Hitler in ’08
Was talking with some friends about how the left is so focused on Nazis when they refer
God damnit it for some reason the mobile version of this site keeps randomly scrolling causing me to inadvertently post. Anyways
Was talking with some friends about how the left is so focused on Nazis when they refer to fascists. It would be hilarious to see someone like campus reform make a bunch of shirts with the Italian MVSN emblem on them. Then go around selling them to the ANTIFA crowd. They could even tell them several of the Italian fascist ideologies and I’d bet they would take the bait.
Not too long ago someone here posted video of some troll delivering a speech before some big DSA rally of some sort. The speech was comprised entirely of Hitler quotations, and the crowd was absolutely eating it up.
Yep.
https://thehayride.com/2017/07/epic-troll-video-quoting-hitler-antifa-getting-enthusiastic-applause/
They could give them some signs that say Stronger Together. On the other hand, Hillary already used that fascist reference.
That would be fun. I usually stick to pointing out that nazism is a derivative of fascism which is a derivative of socialism.
The emblem actually has a commie vibe going
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts#/media/File%3ACCNN41.svg
“Opioid maker used rap video to push powerful painkiller
BOSTON (AP) — Employees at a drug company accused of bribing doctors rapped and danced around a person dressed as a bottle of the highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales reps to push the drug.
The video was shown to jurors this week in the closely watched trial in Boston of wealthy Insys Therapeutics Inc. Founder John Kapoor and four other onetime executives, including a former exotic dancer who prosecutors say was hired as a regional sales manager even though she had no pharmaceutical experience.
They’re charged with scheming to pay doctors bribes and kickbacks in exchange for prescriptions of the opioid meant for cancer patients with severe pain. Kapoor and the other former executives of the Chandler, Arizona-based company have denied all wrongdoing.”
https://apnews.com/2a40fb45332e48deb89ada69e71ed6a7
I can’t believe rap music could promote drug use.
All pharma companies do this stupid crap.
There’s really nothing illegal with the making of a sales video to pump up your reps.
Do you even moral panic, bruh?
Actually, Pharma was pretty fast and loose with the sales and marketing directly to doctors until about ten years ago, when the PhRMA Guildelines went into effect. These banned all labeled gifts like pens, coffee mugs, etc, eliminated golf outings and entertainment-related marketing opportunities with physicians. Now the only food you can get from a drug rep has to be part of an educational presentation, and the value of your meal is posted online for all your patients to see that a drug company bought you a sandwich, and it’s embarrassing and makes you look suspicious. So most docs won’t have anything to do with pharmaceutical reps for the past decade, and they are banned from most hospital grounds.
There’s very few pharmaceutical reps any more as a result, at least compared to 2001. Every bad thing you hear about in relation to pharma reps likely happened over ten years ago. And any kickbacks, payments, etc? Of course those have always been illegal and under the table, and should be prosecuted as crimes, that wasn’t regular stuff (at least I’ve never been approached in that way, and I’ve been practicing 33 years now).
Most pharma marketing these days is via TV, that’s why you see so many damn drug commercials — it’s because they really can’t pitch the docs any more.
Tell me you at least got a lap dance to prescribe more statins.
“Babich told jurors that Insys looked for sales reps who were “poor, hungry and driven” or what they called “PHDs.” Insys also recruited employees who were “easy on the eyes,” Babich told juror”
No shit, Sherlock. That’s the sales game.
It’s only bad when capitalists do it.
Traitors
A pair of Democratic lawmakers are reportedly opening an investigation into what they call the “complex web of relationships” between certain individuals from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Russia.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) made a range of requests from NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre in a letter obtained by ABC News.
The news network notes that the lawmakers voiced concerns about the NRA’s attempts to distance itself from having formal involvement in a 2015 trip a group of its members took to Moscow.
—————
A photo of the visit shows several current and former NRA members standing next to Maria Butina, who is accused of being a Russian spy who tried to set up a back channel between the NRA and Russia, and Alexander Torshin, a Russian politician thought to be Butina’s superior.
Lieu and Rice said that the contrasting picture may show an intent to deceive the public, according to ABC News. The lawmakers asked for a comprehensive account of communications, meetings and monetary transactions between NRA officials and Russia-linked individuals.
Obviously nefarious. Hang them.
Wayne LaPierre should tell Ted Lieu to suck his wrinkly dick.
Good lord the comments.
I can’t believe how we are at war with Russia.
Also, this isn’t right wing media.
Jesus Christ the comments.
It’s like the Mueller failure never happened.
It’s mass hysteria and they’ll never be convinced they were wrong. If the Mueller report isn’t harsh enough they’ll just pivot to how the Russians supposedly compromised him too. They’re nuts.
Mueller didn’t fail. He did exactly what he was supposed to do. He convinced a bunch of lefties that Trump colluded with Russia because if Trump didn’t collude with Russia, then why was Mueller investigating him, huh, smart guy?
Just trot out the very long list of American politicians who visited the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
Bernie, Teddy, I’m pretty sure Joey Biden did…
The New Birchers.
How interesting. Glassley of the is going to investigate interactions between top Obama treasury officials and the same Commie strumpet.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/16/senate-panel-probing-meetings-between-russians-and/
Jeebus. I’ve barely started drinking. “Grassley is going to investigate”.
So… I just found out that a big part of my kid’s grade in his Jr. High sociology class is going to be based on the difference between a pre-test he was given at the beginning of the year, and how he does on a post-test. In other words, he’ll be graded on how much he improved, not how well he actually did on the final test. Because he scored so high on the pre-test, he’ll have to be almost perfect to not get a bad grade. Is anybody familiar with this BS?
Sociology is a required course now? If so the leftist indoctrination is in full swing.
No, but that’s abominable.
I should say that the only reason we use pretests is to check how well we are doing in teaching, and not as part of a grade calculation.
Sounds like a new twist to ‘grading on a curve’.
It always seemed to me that grading on a curve existed to induce collective punishment of the smart kids by their peers and encourage them to conform to their peers.
This twist seems like an even better way to punish those uppity smart kids who learn stuff outside of school, or before they’ve reached the point the system deems they should know it. Great way to turn ambition into a negative quality.
But then, my eye is now trained to see all such things as prog malice designed to weaken the populace to usher in out new socialist paradise, so I’m biased.
When I went to college, the curve manifested as a willingness by the pre-med students to actively sabotage the engineering students grades by stealing textbooks and notes just before exams
The curve is evil, but I’ve heard stories from some NukEs that if it weren’t for curve grading nobody would have passed certain classes where the average test grades were in the low 30s.
For me, it just meant my Con Law prof got to give everyone with an originalist reading of the amendments an even lower grade than would otherwise be justified.
LOL, I got an A on a physics exam with a score of 57/100.
My engineering professors were not so forgiving.
I think that indicates the professor can’t write a good test. I had a one class like that in grad school, four of us went out lunch after getting our tests back and discovered that our combined score didn’t break a 100. I had a 28 and got an A. Badly written test.
Agreed.
My kid flunked a test, but so did most of her class. To her credit, the teacher promptly realized the problem was with the test, not the kids.
In our case, the problem was with the TAs who couldn’t speak English. The lecture was useless so everyone depended on the sections for clarification.
Didn’t help if you couldn’t understand a word that came out of their mouths.
That was the professor – bad English. He would also explain in painful detail that if you move X to the other side of the equals sign, X changes sign, but would blow through the triple integral in about 30 seconds.
We had a visiting genius from the Soviet Union teach my calc IV class. We made our own translation sheet to pass around
“Kyuf” = curve.
Ugh. I dropped my partial diffy Q’s class because the text was translated from the original Russian and was almost indecipherable.
Not necessarily.
There’s not really much point in designing a test that doesn’t make use of the full range of possible scores.
My physics prof made tests that were 10 questions, multiple choice, five answers -1/2 a point for each wrong answer. No numbers. Two hour time limit. Open notes.
If you turned in a blank test, you got a D. Some people failed.
Everyone eventually takes that guy who takes one point off for each wrong part of each wrong step and doesn’t stop at zero. It’s like an Engineering right of passage. I had 2. Calc 3 and Statics
Yep, and then you’re cussing at the guy who got a 65/100 for breaking the curve by 30 points. I was that jackass once or twice.
We had a few profs who enjoyed doing up powerpoints showing the entire grade distribution and comparing it to previous years’ results on the exact same test. No need to change up the questions to prevent cheating, because they would give you the answer on the exam. The trick was figuring out how the hell to get that answer.
“It always seemed to me that grading on a curve existed to induce collective punishment of the smart kids by their peers and encourage them to conform to their peers.”
In college, I once had a statistics quiz where getting 7 out of 40 was a B. Thank God for grading on a curve.
So, the sociology class is teaching, perhaps inadvertently, that knowledge and achievement isn’t important, just trying hard even if you’re dumb as a bag of rocks?
That seems like something that will only work once. By Jr. High kids are getting smart enough to game the system, we were passing around tests and book reports etc from previous years if they tried this the tanking of the first test would be mandatory.
Imma say the teacher isn’t going to use the smartest kid in the class as his/her starting point in the class. Sounds like the only way your kid can improve is to do reading and stuff outside of the class, thus avoiding whatever the teacher is teaching since he already knows it. But your kid is already too smart to waste his time reading sociology bullshit in his spare time.
Sounds like you are going to have to give your kid reading materials that challenge the indoctrination so that he can ask questions in class that piss off the teacher to the point that she will give him an A if he just shuts the fuck up.
From early links (which were fairly dead by the time I posted):
Anyone watching Live PD? It’s an interesting show that I think it maybe could be the best PR vehicle for the police — it shows that police a mainly a babysitting service for stupid poor people.
It makes me slightly more sympathetic to them seeing the immense amount of bullshit they have to put up with.
My sister loves Live PD for the high speed chases, but whenever she turns it on around my Dad he bitches that it exemplifies how corrupt the cops are as the first thing out of their mouths in half the regular stops is “I smell weed”, giving them carte blanche to violate everyone’s rights.
Both perspectives have a lot of merit, but the show turned me off when one episode they flashed up a bunch of pictures from the Charlottesville Nazi Massacre of 2017 of a couple of supposed Nazis they hadn’t been able to identify and asked all their viewers to call if they recognized these menaces to society so they could be hunted down by the authorities.
Are there any Marvel/DC superheroes that have super smell sense or did the police/WOD ruin all their attempts?
Wolverine and most of the animal-inspired heroes.
That superpower is already copyrighted by all pregnant women everywhere
I think Daredevil is supposed to have all his remaining senses heightened, but they seem to only focus on the hearing and that sonar thing he has so I could be wrong.
That’s all I remember of Daredevil, but it’s been 40 years.
Is Wolverine based in San Francisco? I’d expect a Wolverine to piss and shit in the street.
Wolverine was Project X – A Canadian.
” Is anybody familiar with this BS?”
My daughter does formative and summative testing. The formative (pre) is not part of her grade. She has learning disabilities so her pre-test is usually terrible. However, it’s not one year-long trial but one for each new section of learning, and they go with the grade achieved on that test, not a difference of the 2.
If it’s Junior High I wouldn’t sweat it because no one gives a shit about those grades anyway.
I’m all for tests that measure improvement. Just not as part of their actual grade.
I’m not that concerned about this particular class. Mostly hoping it’s not some stupid new “trend” in education that we’ll have to deal with down the road.
I just realized that Liz Warren is probably the most sane declared Dem candidate for 2020 and that’s really, really pitiful.
Schultz, but he’s not a Dem, I guess.
I think that would actually be Corey Booker. It’s just he’s the the most Michael Scottiest politician ever. But I could see a scenario where he was an interesting hang as he has a room temperature IQ and probably doesn’t pay any attention to how politics works except what his staffers tell him to do. He’s like 10 IQ points smarter than a young Joe Biden.
The sandman would not be fun. Warren is basically my aunt(shameless limousine liberal). Harris I’m torn on I’m pretty sure is just a opportunistic hack and knows it, you have to give her the credit of basically shamelessly sleeping to the top on one hand on the other hand I could see her being an insufferable self-righteous bitch.
Harris is Hillary with a tan.
Nobody wants that
The Starbucks CEO. The proof of his sanity is he isn’t running as a D.
Which means he’s disqualified.
Is Tulsi Gabbard all that bad? I do like her antiwar stances but don’t know too much about her otherwise.
That may be her only redeeming policy position.
Outside of being antiwar, she’s awful.
Totally fucking would, though.
I’d say that Tulsi Gabbard is sane on at least one subject. I’d need examples of how Liz Warren is sane about anything.
I don’t recognize three of the declared candidates here, so maybe one of them is better than Warren.
Wouldn’t hold my breath, though.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-2020-presidential-candidates/
I have to go with Tulsi. And most definitely would.
Do you even POLICE, bro?
I don’t think I could get a low enough score on the intelligence test, even if I tried.
I think I could (get a low score). I like doughnuts. I’d be a good cop except for shooting dogs and arresting kids and stuff. And no night shifts. Oh, and one other thing, no undercover. I’d have trouble passing for a teenager.
Wait. Are you saying you do NOT look like you could be a 21 Jump Street cop?!
My undercover work would be limited to exposing things at the Old Folks Home
Enough with the euphemisms!
lol
police a mainly a babysitting service for stupid poor people.
It makes me slightly more sympathetic to them seeing the immense amount of bullshit they have to put up with.
Being a cop would suck. You deal, on a daily basis, with the dregs of society. Which is why I don’t think people should spend more than a few years doing it.
How would that work? I do not know.
“Which is why I don’t think people should spend more than a few years doing it. ”
I work with a several ex-cops most of them only lasted a couple of years. Seeing the garbage of society plus being the states revenue collectors takes a toll on a lot of them.
I worked hotels in sketchy neighborhoods for a few years.
Same effect.
A local magazine recently ran a piece where they spoke with a bunch of cops anonymously and published random quotes from the interviews. One that particularly stuck with me talked about how utterly fucked cops are in regards to mental health. They basically can’t seek treatment for any issues they may be experiencing (depression, suicidal thoughts, etc.) because doing so would risk being diagnosed in a way that would require permanent revocation of their ability to handle firearms on the job. Basically they have to just suck it up if they want to keep working.
So, just like the rest of us who can’t admit to any depression or suicidal thoughts or we’ll get Red Flagged and lose our gun rights?
This kind of stuff is how they’ll seize all our guns – one person at a time under the guise of them being mental health risks, which anyone with a gun will eventually be considered (cause why else would you have a gun? Those things only exist to murder innocents!). A sudden mass confiscation has been noted here before as one of the few things that would trigger a shooting Civil War 2, but that can be avoided by going one at a time while destroying the credibility of that one person.
People are stupid enough to fall for it.
Unless you lost all your guns in a boating accident.
Of course. A tragic one at that.
I still can’t get over it, it hurt deeply…..
A moment of silence…
It’s happened to me many times. Just yesterday, in fact.
There is some truth that the badge isn’t a shield, it is a shit magnet. Don’t know how you could do that job and not get very seriously jaded.
My comments on Elizabethtown.
Driving directions from Louisville International Airport:
Exit airport onto I-264E. Immediately exit onto I-65S. Follow 65S until you get to a sign that says…wait for it…Elizabethtown.
If you cross a bridge, you done screwed up. If you somehow manage to go thru the I-64 tunnel, you should have your license taken away from you and probably be euthanized.
At this point, I was basically done. I never made it thru the rest of the movie, the driving montage did me in.
So you’re saying they didn’t use the actual route?
The Bruce Willis film Three Rivers (but not called that as they changed it to something generic) did a great job of turning Pittsburgh streets into a mish-mash of nonsensical driving,
They wanted Etown (as us semi-locals call it) to be some inaccessible small town. But its on the interstate and insanely easy to get to from the airport. Sure its 40 miles away, but it isn’t difficult. And there are plenty of KY towns hard to get to, but Etown aint one of them.
Never watched the movie and have sometimes wondered if it was Elizabethtown PA, which isn’t too far from Harrisburg.
I can’t bear to watch the neverending story once I found out that it actually ends!
*Narrows gaze*
This is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film The Neverending story.
“Hey guys, did you know that you can be a Democratic Socialist AND a Capitalist?”
No. No, I didn’t. Do explain how Democratic Socialism is capitalism. And war is peace. And freedom is slavery. And ignorance is strength.
Provide detailed examples and links from 1984, sir.
My father has a saying that goes “everyone is a capitalist in their own life”. Applied here, one could be espousing Democratic Socialism (whatever that means today) explicitly to enrich themselves, meaning they’re really a capitalist seizing on a trend to make a profit.
What they mean is that they like to steal from Capitalists.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
“Hence the botched launch of the Green New Deal; the decision to come out with a proposal for a vast national high-speed rail network a week before California announced that it’s scrapping the idea;”
Did Manic Pixie Dream Girl also miss the fact that CA scrapped their plan for single payer healthcare nearly a year ago?
Her economics knowledge is that you can lose money on every sale and make it up on volume.
In the comments for the previous post it appears that something had been posted and then deleted. Anyone care to explain?
Ask your mum, they say it was her who did it!
I was there. That’s explains the glow.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/02/18/grand-canyon-tourists-exposed-radiation-safety-manager-says/2876435002/
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/OtJmVDoY904
It’s been quite some time since I heard that.
I like the hamfisted attempts at a cover-up.
Not even a radiation area whole body dose and not really much of a hazard but still a stupid, stupid way to handle the situation.
A rogue email. That phrase has me imagining an email taking off on its own, delivering itself to people not in the to: line.
Skynet went online on August 4th, 1997, and immediately began sending dick pill emails.
Via Juice @ TOS
http://imgur.com/hztZNEU
Gotta give Jagger credit for keeping up with this.
https://www.instagram.com/melhamrick/?hl=en
Bendy:)
9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Is Running Out Of Money
I want to know how much of the distributed funds were consumed by attorney fees.
I want to know how they establish proof of toxic exposure.
Just as an aside: How much you want to bet that the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund will still be in existence 100 years from now?
It all pays the same. Also gross.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/postal-worker-indicted-for-public-indecency-also-a-boy-scout-leader
If there were just tinted windows on mail trucks, this wouldn’t be a problem.
C’mon! He’s just compartmentalizing!
So,Sargon does a good fisking or some guy trying to say Starship troopers was fascist, long but good a Sargon rant…
https://youtu.be/95OQlvEQNRM
My local had Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch. It’s pretty good; I would drink it again but not all that often. Sigh… back to my beloved stouts and porters.
Good Man,
I’m going with Gulden Draal aged in Calvados barrels tonight.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/48/311155/
That looks quite delicious. I do love Calvados… and applejack… and Berentzen.
“Draak”
Goes and checks fridge. Guess I drank my Draak already. Adding to grocery list.
Speaking of Heinlein: Destination Moon was directed by a Communist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Pichel#Personal_life
But he was a good commie,
Fun movie as a kid…
Member of the entertainment industry was a communist? Say it isnt so.
If it was propaganda, it didn’t work
Isn’t Destination Moon really about the glories of private sector space exploration and how American needs to get to the Moon before the Soviets do? Oh the irony.
The big local San Francisco news for the past two days has been a grainy video of some car hitting an 8-year old girl. It looks bad on the video, as she rolls up on the hood and is jettisoned about ten feet forward. But fortunately she gets right up and goes skipping away. Reportedly she only got a couple of scrapes.
The report is that the car stayed for a few moments, apparently saw the girl was OK, and drove away. And now the entire Bay Area is searching for the ‘hit and run driver’.
Every news station has been playing an interview with the girl’s mom, whose neck is covered with tattoos. She says “it’s time for this driver to come forward and pay the consequences”.
Not defending the driver at all, clearly after something like that you’ve got to stop and sort everything out, not drive away. But the missing thing in all the news to me is that the video shows the little girl running out blindly into oncoming traffic, just a few feet in front of the car, which doesn’t seem to be driving excessively fast — and it doesn’t seem like there’s any way he could have avoided her. Where’s the “Hey Mom — you got lucky. Time to become a parent and teach your child not to run in traffic!” But no, it seems everyone instead is out for the blood of the driver, especially the mom, who no doubt sees a big payday in her future if they can just find the culprit.
Pay the consequences, all you need to know
I know it’s unmutual, but why watch the 30-minutes hate in the first place?
Que?
If you mean watching the local news, I agree completely. But for some reason my wife watches every local news broadcast, I have no idea why, especially in the morning.
And when I say ‘can’t we turn this off now? It’s the fourth time they’ve done an identical weather report!” it’s no way, she just likes having it on even when not watching it, like a friend in the next room over or something, while she works in her home office. It drives me crazy to have the TV on when no one is watching it, and it has to drive up electric bills, but I guess you have to choose your battles.
I know she got that from her New York Midtown mother, who also worked out of her home office in her apartment, and never turned off the ‘1010 WINS’ news radio station. That one played identical spools of the same news every few minutes. How she could do that without going insane is beyond me.
Heh, with the teletype clacking in the background and the announcers piped in from the 1950’s? That station cracks me up.
We had one of those here but not such a happy ending. Mom was hanging out in a bar at noon and left her 16 yo daughter to wander around the parking lot. The girl, eyes glued to her cell phone, wandered out into traffic and a UPS truck hit her. It is a miracle that she lived, but she is fucked up for life.
UPS = deep pockets. Mom sued. UPS settled for an undisclosed amount.
Our litigiousness is out of control. Ask me, it is mostly driven by envy and greed.
And inbred laziness, culture is a hell of a drug
Did you mean 6 year old? A sixteen year old should know better than to wanders out into traffic whether Mom was in a bar at noon or not.
No. Not a typo. She was a 16 yo cell phone zombie.
You are correct. I included those details to relay what a total clusterfucking gaggle of idiots all around they were. The only person who shouldn’t be euthanized is the UPS driver. it wasn’t his fault and he revived her enough that she survived until the ambulance arrived.
We desperately need loser pays.
Agreed. The problem is the envy that drives most juries. Poor, poor person has been victimized by rich corporation. The corp has money so they must be made to pay. Fault rarely enters into it.
A lot of that is diffused costs not seeming like a big deal to juries. There’s over 800 million shares of UPS stock. In other words, if one of every ten UPS shareholders sacrifices a single penny, that’s 80 million pennies. That’s 800,000 for this poor teenage girl who got hit by their truck.
It’s easy for juries to give away other people’s money, yes, but it’s easier for them to give away 80 million random shareholders pennies then to give away even 8000 from a mom and pop business. If it was Joe’s Delivery Service, and they had to look Joe in the eye and kill his business by levying a 80,000 dollar award, they probably wouldn’t do it.
“It’s easy for juries to give away other people’s money” yeah, that’s the heart of it but the satisfaction of seeing someone like themselves get a huge pay day makes it even easier.
Good, old, Sci Fi movies,
When Worlds collide
Destination Moon
The last man on Earth
THEM! No not (((them)))
1,000,000 years BC (Rachael Welch)
Forbidden Planet
Godzilla! Camera!
FP fits right in…
Fuck autocorrect, Gamera!!!!!!!!
What I like about older movies is that with shorter run times more things seem to happen in them. Compared that to 2.5 hour blockbusters where lots of stuff happens but does is there much of a story being told?
Good point, that explains the fishing line holding up the helicopters
You forgot the original: One Million B.C.
Probably my mistake, going Ted tonight?
Starring Raquel Welch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_B.C.
Had Carole Landis instead…
Um, I don’t think that’s the link you think it is.
I was making fun of Yufus for misspelling “Raquel”.
My bad…
THEM!
I love that movie. The one scene that always sticks with me is the one where two soldiers run across one of THEM! and shoot it with a Thompson. It has no effect on the critter so one says to the other “Go get the M1!”. They shoot it with the Garand and kill it. A reminder that once upon a time most Americans, even hollywood morons, had at least a passing understanding of ballistics.
Likely something to do with being made less than a decade after WWII ended
John Milius would know that. I love John Milius.
I walked those storm drains as a kid, very creepy,and fun
THEM is wonderful. It takes its goofy premise seriously but not too grimdark and doesn’t try to be more than what it is but does what it is very well.
The Howard Hawks version of The Thing From Another World.
The Kevin McCarthy version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The George Sanders version of Village of the Damned
Hell, Sanders is entertaining in almost everything he did.
Yes, great choices!
I”m surprised Destination Moon hasn’t become the title of some anal porn movie yet.
I assume you have conducted an exhaustive search…
Good god Winston, could you tee that up a bit higher? Do you enjoy the mom jokes, because this is how you get mom jokes.
Destination Uranus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-YJ8cq967A
The Day The Earth Stood Still. The original.
HG Wells’ The Time Machine.
Not Scifi but you can’t go wrong with Wake Of The Red Witch; John Wayne wrestles a giant octopus underwater.
I almost remember that……
/Old fuck
Disaster On The Coastliner is the best movie I have ever seen.
Also Reap the Wild Wind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Mr4VbnW08
I only knew this version.
After Ed Wood had Bela Lugosi wrestle a giant inflatable octopus in a wading pool there can be no other octopus wrestling.
Weebs beg to differ.
KLAATU BARADA NIKTO!
The day the Earth stood still.
For only 5,000 bucks you can go on an official Steve Smith hunt with Jose Canseco:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jose-canseco-bigfoot-hunt_n_5c6463e9e4b0018ed01b2d75?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
Sounds interesting but I think I’ll pass.
For 5k Ill introduce you to STEVE SMITH!
And you’ll have to bring your own beer, which he’ll drink first and then tell you beer wasn’t included when he drinks his in front of you.
I don’t really know much about the guy other than he was a baseball player. Is he a well known kook/alcoholic?
Well-known for being a self-centered braggart and snitch.
And also for being a juiced and–for a time–a very good offensive player.
To his credit, his book really did finally blow the lid off of steroids in baseball.
***Disclaimer: Why people get their panties so twisted about PEDs but are completely cool with all the Greenies (amphetamines) that players used to pop is completely asinine. Before c. 2003 it wasn’t even against the law/rules to juice. I have no idea why people like Petite don’t straight-up say “Yeah, I juiced. It wasn’t monitored or against the rules back then. I stopped when it was. Fuck off. I’m here to win.”
^^ This
Somebody who’d good at YouTube searches needs to find you the classic clip of him flubbing a fly ball, which bounces off his head and lands in the seats for a home run (which should have been an easy out).
Great hitter, good base stealer for a big man, lots of home runs – mostly due to steroids, terrible fielder, born to DH. Apparently a total asshole in real life.
I will give him credit, though, he’s one of the first players of his era to actually confess to using steroids, and then he called on his fellow players to fess up as well.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixQMUu4CKI
Canseco or STEVE SMITH?
STEVE SMITH DRINK YOUR BEER AND THEN GIVE YOU TIP!
STEVE SMITH GO EASY FIRST TIME
Jussie
House negro, lynch thyself.
Dog bites man.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2019/02/18/cbss-lara-logan-says-media-is-mostly-liberal-its-coverage-of-trump-is-a-distortion-of-real-life-n2541659
Though the fact that she’s admitting it is kind of man bites dogish.
BTW: Would. She looks damn good for 47.
She’s guilty of some eyebrow crimes.
The problem is so bad that her downplaying like that almost looks like a denial.
They are so bad they make the old Soviet Pravda look like George ‘I cannot tell a lie’ Washington.
“Elizabeth Warren To Unveil Sweeping Plan For Universal Child Care”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-universal-child-care-proposal_n_5c688f3ae4b01757c36c2511
They’ve been reduced to competing to see who can propose giving away the most “free” shit.
And it’s only 21 months until the election
Did she consult Nicolae Ceaucescu? He had some ideas about that, maybe she can borrow some.
I don’t think she wants to end up like Nika.
It doesnt look that way to me, and not just her.
A cheap ploy to pander to the single mother demographic.
Jonah Goldberg made a great point on last week’s GLOP podcast re: the Green New Deal fiasco. These nitwits can’t manage the rollout of their laughably unserious proposal, and have to backtrack and lie when they’re ridiculed for it, but they think they’re capable of delivering on even the least far-fetched of their many absurd ideas? Feckin’ imbeciles.
Always been a sucker for Lauren w/ the band Chvrches;
CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar ‘LOVE.’ for Like A Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msgimk3mV6g&ut=
It’s time work on some Glib tarot cards, let’s see…,
Hey, Yusef. Just saw your eyeball post. Had me cracking up on the train.