Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but Democrats who for the hundredth time are going to be let down as the massive “bombshell” that Cohen is going to release at the congressional hearings is that…drum roll please…Trump knew that Roger Stone reached out to Wikileaks. Womp womp.
While this shitshow is taking place, Trump has been in Vietnam meeting with Kim Jong Un.
And takes a swipe at Blumenthal.
House votes to overturn Trump’s border emergency declaration.
It truly is amazing how a small percentage of people are allowing this insanity to persist. I’d love to see a poll, but I can’t imagine no more than 10/20% of the population believe in allowing men into women sports competitions.
Californian “Herbalist” sentenced after convincing parents to not give his son insulin for his diabetes. Why were the parents also not charged?
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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*ahem*
Is this thing on ?
Nope. Come back in two hours
You don’t have to turn on a vibrator.
While this shitshow is taking place, Trump has been in Vietnam meeting with Kim Jong Un.
Overused internet joke of the day is something about agent orange and Vietnam
Or the other one, that despite his bone spurs he finally made it there.
CPRM’s twitter had a better joke:
@CPRMglib
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Eating Panda. tastes a lot like chicken #TrumpKimVietnam -Donald
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Correction. Eating Panda Express Orange Chicken #TrumpKimSummit -Hair
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0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes — SAD!
It’s too early to think. I messed up my sleep schedule and my brain’s still recalibrating.
Uh… what to do. Right quote something and fail at a snarky quip.
Wait, that’s the wrong thing.
I could remark on the Dems not showing up for their own climage change subcommittee meeting and getting it adjorned by the Reps. Sure, that’s go unnoticed.
What glib time were you on again?
Real people time – Eastern
So it is clearly not to early to think
Not normally, no, it’s 8am, which is plenty late – unless we’re talking college years in which case it’s stupid early. I’m just running on the wrong internal clock.
Dick Blumenthal cannot ever be shit upon enough.
I call that creep the Melting Man
He’s a walking advertisement for the dangers of bukkake addiction.
Two Girls One Dick?
How many of them are transwomen?
*Narrows Swiss’s gaze*
Thank you.
“I’d love to see a poll, but I can’t imagine no more than 10/20% of the population believe in allowing men into women sports competitions.”
The IOC never seemed to have a problem with East Germany.
Those women never transitioned, they just got the hormone treatments.
Some transitioned after retiring from competition
Well, when you’ve already been given enough testosterone to fuel an entire weightlifting competition…
You’re just gonna get the same pollster as the one that claims vast majorities of Americans want to tax themselves poor.
It truly is amazing how a small percentage of people are allowing this insanity to persist. I’d love to see a poll, but I can’t imagine no more than 10/20% of the population believe in allowing men into women sports competitions.
I am in favor for the humor value of it. Then again I am in favor of renouncing men/women sports altogether to just end the debate once and for all, Also end the “earnings gap” debate. Everyone competes and may the best man win.
>>Cohen to accuse Trump of knowing about Roger Stone-WikiLeaks plot, but deny ‘direct evidence’ of Russia collusion
a plot to do what now?
What did Roger Stone do that was illegal w/r to WikiLeaks. AFAICT His only sins were committed as a cause of the investigation, or prior to the campaign.
Stealing the election from the rightful heir, er I mean candidate. Look they already have the proof that the plot worked, all they’ve been trying to do is figure out what the plot actually was.
100% this!
Release accurate information proving that the opposition candidate was incompetent, corrupt, and showed the sort of poor judgement that disqualified her from any position of responsbility.
It undermines democracy when voters are allowed to make their decisions with more facts at their disposal.
It truly is amazing how a small percentage of people are allowing this insanity to persist.
It’s simply because the people who support it are:
1) The type of people who seek out authority in organizations
2) The type of people who do not have any problem calling people who disagree with them immoral and/or evil.
And also because the opponents of it are not yet used to being called assholes and not caring.
Tyranny of the minority
SJWednesday: Femme Fatality
File under “Twaddle, Self-absorbed”.
It’s a hard world when you just can’t pass for the counter-cultural freak you want to be.
Lesbians enforce their own cultural codes, but you don’t see a Flannel Industry ad decrying Toxic Lesbianity.
-1 Cotton Ceiling
“Sometimes, you are invisible. I have no idea what this must feel like, to pass right by your people and not be recognized, to not be seen.”
They should wear something on their clothing so they can identify each other more easily. A gold star maybe, or something like that.
Melissa A. Fabello is a body acceptance activist, sexuality scholar, and patriarchy smasher living in Philadelphia.
“Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face!”
Bill Murray, Ghostbusters, what do I win?
John Candy, Uncle Buck. What do I win?!
The internet!
OOF.
body acceptance activist, sexuality scholar, and patriarchy smasher
Can you actually earn a living at these things?
You can get a tesured post in academia. Plus there’s e-begging. But there is also a good chance that they have a trust fund.
poster child queer woman.
Depends on the meaning of “queer”.
“Odd”
You, know the classical definition.
The guy with the ball in the sandlot game of “Smear the Queer”?
Thousands of words of nonsense boil down to: “Why aren’t people paying attention to me?”
>>Trump has been in Vietnam meeting with Kim Jong Un.
Y’know I would have a hard time sitting at the table – smiling – with a dictator like lil’ Kim.
He’s a real estate developer – he’s had lots of meeting with contractors at least that evil.
I think his meetings with city planners would be a more apropos analogy.
Personally, I’d never work for Trump. The fucker has a long history of not paying.
Oh the stories I could tell of local business in the Atlantic City area getting screwed by Trump…
Ricardo Montalban concurs:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oj5mCNXxLY
What would happen if, at one of these summit meetings, the president shot the other national leader?
universal condemnation. deservedly so.
T: “Bring me the Presidential Pistol.”
SS: “Sir? That’s not actually a thing.”
It would’ve been if Austin Petersen had his… Haaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha sorry, couldn’t make it through with a straight face!
He’s there to return McCain.
As I read the comment about men playing women’s sports, I mentally shrugged and thought “who cares as long as they aren’t playing team or contact sports?” Then I click the link and see a picture of a 200 lb male rugby player tackling a chick. Insanity indeed.
that dude is 6’3″ 230lbs.
“That’s a man, baby!”
It will have to reach some sort of saturation point where women are consistently outperformed by trans athletes where a lot of woke people may realized they’ve gone too far.
Californian “Herbalist” sentenced after convincing parents to not give his son insulin for his diabetes. Why were the parents also not charged? – in their defense… jeez I got nothing
They were only following a fraud’s expert advice.
What if the “expert” advice is from the government, like all of the bogus food advice?
If you believe the government, you get what’s coming to you.
My guess is that the prosecutor didn’t want those parents out there as poster children for his opponents when he’s running for office. Might have learned something from Kamala Harris’ mistakes.
But yes, the parents should have been charged first and foremost.
The parents would be a pretty sympathetic defendant, you wouldn’t need to be Clarence Darrow to be able to convince a jury that these were good honest people trying to do their best for their child but were swayed into a mistaken path by a convincing charlatan. Haven’t they suffered enough, they have to wake up every day and live with the knowledge that their mistaken belief in the wrong man lead to the death of their child.
That is a much harder case to win than going after the Herbalist so why bother risking the loss?
^This.
It truly is amazing how a small percentage of people are allowing this insanity to persist.
“AP Blasts ‘Resentment’ Aimed at ‘Great Gains’ of Trans Athletes”
If I was a female athlete busting my ass to train and compete at a sport like handball and some 6-3 250 pound transgender came in and started destroying everyone…yes, I’d be RESENTFUL AS FUCK.
Political correctness originated as the concept that there was a reality, but the government didn’t want you to express that reality, so you LIED to not get in trouble. That’s whats happening here. These young women are aware the situation is bullshit…but they’re being told, “You are not correct…your feeling is going to be called resentment, and you will submit and go along…reality be damned”
This opposition isn’t organic. It’s all astroterf.
[polite golf claps]
Well-done.
And those poor girls are caught between a rock and a hard place. If they say anything they’ll get pilloried for being anti-trans, and probably booted from the team.
I suspect that a lot of parents and coaches are telling those girls to just suck it up and do the best they can in hopes that the trans athletes will be disqualified after the fact (unlikely, IMO).
India Pakistan: Kashmir fighting sees Indian aircraft downed
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47383634
Nuclear war! I hope it is televised… get the beer and nachos
It would cut down on the supply of consultants and … What exactly is Pakistan famous for other than harboring terrorists and murdering people over supposed blasphemy law violations?
Destroying/looting archaeological sites.
Helping Iran and North Korea with their nuclear programs?
It is the homeland of convenience store owners.
+1 Thank You Please Come Again
Child molestation
Cricket and Men’s Field Hockey?
This looks like a pretty good time, actually.
So you’re saying we should root for India?
ZARDOZ linked that conflict yesterday… a bit gleefully, I might add.
Cut Pie some slack, he was either asleep or at work when the giant stone head floated by.
Since the afternoon links are not a thing, I do not know what ZARDOZ linked
For Pie, THESE are the afternoon links.
So he does do everything backwards!
I thought that was IFH?
Naw, IFH was just upside-down.
If we’re going to watch, let’s do it right and class that shit up.
Appropriate.
Christopher Hitchens really didn’t like Pakistan much…
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/07/osama-bin-laden-201107
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem likens anti-abortion conservatives to Adolf Hitler
So the former spinster who first married in her 60s and was raised by a literal crazy lady is against children.
No surprises here.
Steinem is trying really hard to retain her position at the top of the feminist food chain.
Progjection
I can’t believe she won’t cut Addie a little slack for the forced sterilization program.
The Nazis were very conscientious to deliver all the Jewish fetuses before gassing the mothers, so that they could be gassed as independent sub-humans. Pro-lifers are principled like that.
Damn.
‘Republican leaders, who had clambered to limit defections in their ranks heading into Tuesday’s vote, were largely successful: 13 Republicans joined with Democrats to admonish Trump’s move — well short of the number Democrats would need to overturn the president’s promised veto.’
Executive overreach is totes okay when it’s OUR strongman in office. The party of limited government and fiscal responsibility my ass.
On the other hand, all of the ultra-principled pro-liberty congresscritters who voted for this sat on their apathetic asses while Obama declared 10 states of national emergency for equally trivial reasons. OUR strongman indeed.
Fair point.
Of course.
California already quietly evolving to single-payer This actually gives California a leg-up on Canada, another bogeyman of free-market fee-for-service enthusiasts.
Don’t forget the part where federal taxpayers pick up 70% of the bill for your Medicaid expansion, which accounts for the entirety of new coverage. And even then your state budget is such a fucking disaster that you have over a trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. And, you know, your health care fucking sucks because your subsidized Medicaid expansion only grew the demand side of the ledger.
The feds picked up 90 – 100% of the bill for expansion.
Barely surviving a repeal vote is a broad national consensus in support?
Polling showing basically a 50/50 split is a broad etc?
Elections have consequences! That’s why we need to hold as many of them as it takes until we get the correct result.
No. No you’re misinterpreting. It’s popular with unmarried women, so it has national support among broads.
If health care is a right, then it should be provided by the government, which is, after all, charged with securing our rights.
Nationalize all health services, and make all doctors, nurses, etc. employees of the state, at a fixed GS-whatever salary.
I’m sure that will make everybody happy.
Single-payer legal care, because no lawyer does anything worth more than minimum wage.
Nothing screams “efficiency” like bureaucracy.
From the Weaponized Autists:
Don’t forget the mission! Anonymous (ID: pX0qomuf) 02/27/19(Wed)06:10:03 No.204551792▶
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this is their latest play :
1) label everything they don’t like (anything to the right of Mao) as “conspiracy theory”
2) “crack down” on “conspiracy theory” content (censorship)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/youtube-conspiracy-recommendations_us_5c610b9be4b0eec79b2523e5
They had to change gear because calling everybody a “racist bigoted Nazi” wasn’t working any more.
The term “fake news” was originally supposed to fill this role, but it was turned against the MSM beautifully.
Now we have to do the same with “conspiracy theory” : every leftist must be labelled as a “conspiracy theorist”.
– “White privilege” – conspiracy theory
– “Cops kill more blacks” – conspiracy theory
– “Muh patriarchy” – conspiracy theory
– “Russian colusion / bots” – conspiracy theory
– “Gender inequality / pay gap” – conspiracy theory
– If they say “Populism / right wing / fascism is on the rise” – conspiracy theorist
– If they say “hate crimes are rising” – conspiracy theorist
– “There are 67 genders” – conspiracy theory
– “systemic racism” – conspiracy theorist
– “calling everything a conspiracy theory is a far right tactic” – conspiracy theory
From now on, EVERYTHING the left says is a conspiracy theory. Make it so.
– “Russian colusion / bots” – conspiracy theory
But…. It is a conspiracy theory
Russian bot CONFIRMED
[rustles tinfoil hat gleefully]
SJWednesday: Vegan Vs Anti-Natalist Smackdown Edition
“Look at how well our small child seeks parental approbation.”
a 3-year old vegan girl who just grilled all our neighbors about veganism
If she’s a vegan what the hell was she doing grilling the neighbors?
Depending upon the neighborhood, they could be fruits and vegetables.
And if they’re still friends with this family, they’re clearly nuts.
Can’t these buffoons go commit ritual seppuku and leave this horrible horrible world to those of us who enjoy it? Maybe if a few militant vegans offed themselves, the world would actually become a better place.
/returns to cooking breakfast sausage
how about militant anti-natalists?
Them too
Having a vegan child has forced us to engage in vegan education efforts in all kinds of spaces that we otherwise would not have: with neighbors, pre-school, family, and friends.
Yeah I’ve noticed how reticent vegans are about “educating” neighbors, family and friends about their
religionlifestyle.“forced”
Bzzzt. Enjoy your year’s supply of Rice-A-Roni.
I treat them like I do any other person who decides to preach at me.
with a bushel of 100% vegan, rotting tomatoes.
Nope. I’ll listen to the initial spiel (unless it’s one I’ve heard before), and politely say I’m not interested. If they continue after that point, then escalation happens. So far the worst I’ve ever dealt with was Jack Chick evangelicals who used a cute girl as the person to rope in people coming out of bars. By the end of the conversation, I had them calling me Reverend (I am ordained after all).
STEVE SMITH ORDAINED TO
RAPE HIKERSPROTECT CASCADIANot a single vegetable in your course of action, what gives.
That’s like throwing bacon at a shitlord.
They should be beaten by a tenderloin, the animal choice is dependent on how overzealous they get.
Actually, when I was living in a (very poor, very black) part of Believeland, the Jehovah’s Witnesses that came around where much, much more polite than the vegan advocates I had to deal with on campus. They got treated a lot better because of that.
The kid was born vegan? How does a vegan infant nurse in good conscience?
Vegan = Cannibal?
Dammit, Slammer.
Every religion has its food rituals. The left is no exception.
“3-year old vegan girl who just grilled all our neighbors”
I’m sure this family gets invited to all the block parties.
Portland commuters fall in love with llama on subway
https://nypost.com/2019/02/26/portland-commuters-fall-in-love-with-llama-on-subway/
Shocking
You’ll never guess what happened next!
They moved to the high mountains to grow potatoes and sacrifice people to the gods?
So, same as before the llama then.
I’d rather ride with a llama than most of the other people usually on the subway.
Poor llama.
I thought Portland cracked down on sex trafficking?
Hey, I didn’t get to read your rant until this morning. It was inspired!
Thank you, or… wait… umm… Shut your lying puck licker!
The Trolley Llama
One more of those and alpaca my stuff and leave.
One of those ovation gifs.
Having a vegan child has forced us to engage in vegan education efforts in all kinds of spaces that we otherwise would not have: with neighbors, pre-school, family, and friends. If we truly want a vegan world, we need to raise awareness everywhere, not only with those from a singular demographic or lifestyle choice.
“Who the fuck invited you? Shut up and leave.”
It is just me or is NPR having a bit of an issue with (some) protestants?
Three times in the past couple of weeks, my alarm has gone off to them reporting on the SCANDAL! of sex abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention. It really sounded like they were trying to whip up a moral panic. This morning, they had two different stories about the United Methodist Church not voting to accept gay marriage, both stores accompanied by an interview with a different person who was opposed to the UMC’s action — including a person who “identifies as queer” accusing the UMC of hypocrisy because they “can’t transform the world if they’re not willing to transform themselves.”
Notably, they only chose to interview US-ians, no African or South American delegates.
They want to equate the Southern Baptist scandal with that of the Catholic church. However, the SBC is a voluntary organization, and the SBC has no direct authority over any church. It appears that some of the churches made some really stupid decisions on hiring people, specifically not running background checks or speaking with the last employer. This is not the fault of the SBC, it is the fault of the individual churches.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Ivanka Trump: I ‘worked for tips’
So do strippers, honey.
“Let’s see those tax returns, honey.”
When she was Ted Kennedy’s intern…
I worked and got tips too at my first gig. I still say your (AOC’s) “democratic” socialism and GND idea are dumb as hell and you should feel ashamed for its existence.
“As a person who actually worked for tips & hourly wages in my life, instead of having to learn about it 2nd-hand, I can tell you that most people want to be paid enough to live,” – I want to bang … what does that have to do with anything?
“As a man who has dated and fucked a lot of women, instead of watching it on the internet, I can tell you that most men want to get laid. A lot. A few horrible people — statist arseholes — would even like to use the government to force unwilling women, at gunpoint if need be — to submit to men who otherwise wouldn’t get laid.
This is not at all comparable to those generous people with great intentions who would like to use the government to force nasty, mean-spirited employers to pay above market wages to employees whose labor isn’t worth that much. This totally won’t cause any unintended consequences, such as the unemployment of anyone whose productivity is below that arbitrary wage level cutoff.”
I still find it hilarious that she graduated with an economics degree from a prestigious university and somehow ended up so unemployable she had to work as a waitress, and we’re supposed to take her advice on how to conduct national economic policy lest our policies be determined by those unthinking Trump simpletons doing trivial shit like fixing cars and building homes.
^This. So much this.
I interviewed a BU graduate once, and (sorry if any of you are here), but the interviewee was dumb as a rock. And not just in general – but in softball questions directly related to her degree and experience. So to me a BU degree comes with essentially a negative number on the prestige scale.
Boston is home to many prestigious Universities. It is also home to BU.
It has more prestigious universities than respectable ones.
Bingo. You don’t see many out of work economist these days, but I guess there’s an exception to every rule. Must be Bad Luck™.
To be fair, I’ve met several people with economics degrees and the only jobs they are capable of are in sales of everyday items.
“a prestigious university”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
According to some of her coworkers, she worked for everybody’s tips.
2016 Olympics Brazilian diver Ingrid Oliveira opens up on her Olympic sex scandal
Why were they sharing a room if not available for threesomes?
Also both divers look rather thicc and in the would category
She is surprisingly plain looking for a Brazilian female athlete
The article mentions people asking her how much she charges but didn’t include her price list, anyone have it? asking for a friend.
Thicc? (KJU edition)
As of today, I have a new retirement plan
Your average nursing home includes, you know, nurses. Holiday Inns do not.
From what I have observed, they aren’t good for much other than making sure you aren’t having fun. They’ll just send you to the hospital when you get too bothersome. I’d rather drink myself to death at the hotel bar.
The chamber maids at Holiday Inn don’t customarily torture the guests either, so that’s’ a bonus.
^These.
When you’re ready for the nursing home, you’re at the point where you can’t get on the toilet, or take a bath, or change your own clothes.
A more appropriate comparison would be assisted living, which would be closer to the Holiday Inn price and service.
More like Independent Living. I’ve been looking into this for my Mom and it runs about $80 – $100 a day in her area. They also provide more senior oriented amenities like frequent shuttle rides to nearby hospitals and entertainment venues, as well as emergency pull cords in the rooms.
And it’s actual apartments, though without stoves usually.
I think you should also keep buying lottery tickets, always good to have a plan B
That’ll fit into his $128 a day for food and entertainment.
So AOC and Sanders are ‘centrists’ according to the The Guardian.
Men competing in women’s sports as ‘transgender’ is ‘great strides’ and ‘progress’.
Pro-lie conservatives are Hitler.
Nice ideology they have going.
/makes coo-coo motion.
Ha. Pro-lie. Pro-LIFE.
If AOC and Sanders are centrists, what the hell is far-left?
That’s what I’d like to know.
Lenin is centrist, Trotsky is far-left, Hitler is far-right.
Ah, now it all makes sense. Many thanks!
Pol Pot.
Not a real socialist, like Stalin or Lenin or Castro or Chavez or Maduro or…
The Latest Diet Trend Is Not Dieting
“Intuitive eating” encourages people to eat whatever they want. It might be great advice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/02/intuitive-eating/583357/
How is this different from standard behavior?
Tribole and Resch developed intuitive eating to address both of these problematic layers in dieting. They encourage people to do something that might sound chaotic or dangerous: Eat what you want, with no rules about what to eat, how much of it, or when. Intuitive eating has 10 tenets, but the most well-known one is that no foods are off limits, and that there is no such thing as a “good” or “bad” food. – yeah bullshit
I tried that for years.
It resulted in me weighing 360 pounds and having chronic acid reflux.
It’s about as good an idea as “body positivity”. I say we encourage fat-shaming and eating less. Especially for people who weigh multiples of normal people.
::orders 15 pizzas::
Am I doing it right?
You forgot dessert.
Dessert Pizza? Blah!
Which one gallon cola are you taking?
Cola? Pizza goes with beer.
RC Cola (no relationship to our esteemed RC Dean)
Dang it! Now I want pizza.
JUST DO IT!
“People don’t know, but in the Olympics it’s normal. You should have seen the number of condoms that were distributed in the Olympic Village.
I thought that was common knowledge.
They encourage people to do something that might sound chaotic or dangerous: Eat what you want, with no rules about what to eat, how much of it, or when.
Ooh, edgy, dood.
I rebranded this as The Walmart Diet.
If AOC and Sanders are centrists, what the hell is far-left?
An excellent question. I dread the day we find out.
Don’t need the “r” in “dread”.
SJWednesday: Politics and the Personal
JFC.
Hope her husband didn’t lose too much in divorce court. If anything, at least he doesn’t have to live with a petulant child anymore.
Sounds like he won the lottery. The annoying harpy is gone, and is actually trying to support herself.
Cheers to that man. I’d drink to him if I had any booze on me.
“How Donald Trump brought about the end of my marriage’.
Erm. No. YOU did. YOU and YOU alone.
She did him a big fucking favor if you ask me. Who wants someone like that sleeping in the bed with you?
Went to her Twitter:
“Karen Laseter
@LaseterMom
Feb 1
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Replying to @Hey_Jen_Merrill
OMG. I could have written that in entirety! Met my husband in early 90’s . Had a son, son, then daughter in 1996, 1998, and 2000. The night that Trump won the election is etched in my mind. I didn’t sleep at all that night. My husband cheering in other room. Divorce pending.”
Imagine being so shallow, immature and retarded as to treat divorce so flippantly over…politics.
I really should hug my wife more.
To be fair, if you go through the dating process with some fucking deranged harpy like that AND have children with her, you pretty much get what’s coming to you.
The problem is that she probably wasn’t in any observable way that kind of deranged harpy 20 years ago. Social media has done incalculable damage to the psychological well being of millions of women who once were fairly well adjusted and now believe themselves to be horribly oppressed.
I would be lying if I did not say that I have been within inches of considering divorcing my wife because of her shift from an apolitical soft right libertairanish person to a a growing believer in and advocate of social justice and believer in the whole women are victim mentality.
“Vote Dem for the Planet
@Brasilmagic
Jan 31
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Replying to @Hey_Jen_Merrill
I couldn’t live with a Trump supporter either Jen. It’s about morals, empathy, compassion, science, civil rights, humanism. I would not respect my partner. So I understand how you felt. I’m very lucky that my family does not like him. No Fox News in my home!”
What’s her take on scalar? And if she’s compassionate and empathetic, wouldn’t she be more accepting of people’s views that differ from your own? Humanism? Meh. Eugenicists probably thought themselves to be ‘humanists’. Whatever that means.
What has Trump done to civil rights? If anything, he’s giving it a bump especially with criminal reform, no?
Dumbass. She’s projecting is my guess.
“Greg
@GregBleers
Jan 31
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You are a brave and dedicated patriot. History will prove you right. The Women’s March was the beginning of taking our country back. Thank you.”
Aw. Look at little Greg. /tickles Greggy’s tummy.
/greg piddles and bursts into tears
Anyway go ahead and take a gander if you must:
https://twitter.com/Hey_Jen_Merrill/status/1090839180199059456
This is her claim to fame:
Jennifer Merrill
@Hey_Jen_Merrill
Liberal activist / mom of 3 / anti-Trump / agnostic / feminist / separated from right-wing husband / writer and editor / loves tennis, zumba, movies & animals
Make sure to screencap her Tweeter feed every day. You’re gonna to want to have that in divorce court.
My chiropractor loves zumba. Keeps him employed.
“Taking our country back.”
And they say that irony is dead.
As a Greg myself, I renounce any connection with this person.
She is the author of Chasing the Gender Dream
Apparently, she was so upset about having 2 male children, she wrote a book about how to pre-select a girl baby.
Man, the warning bells were ringing for a long time with this one.
I couldn’t live with a Clinton supporter either John. It’s about morals, empathy, compassion, science, civil rights, humanism. I would not respect my partner. So I understand how you felt. I’m very lucky that my family does not like her. No CNN in my home!”
Oh look at that, I did a thing.
[nods approvingly]
I have a related problem. TDS is pandemic in the gay community. I don’t have a litmus test for who I bang and have ended up banging some no-shit commies over the years (best hate fucks ever, bros). But, there are so many men who go out of their way to put things like “if you’re a log cabin republican, keep moving” on their profiles. And some of these guys are actually hot, but I totally won’t go there because if you are that intolerant that you put that shit on a hookup site then I don’t want you anywhere near my penis. They say that gay white males vote conservative more so than any other part of the alphabet-soup “community.”
One of the worst offenders about this has been trying to hook up with me for years. He asked me a couple of weeks ago if he had done anything to offend me. Was so tempted to reply “your intolerance is offensive” but didn’t want to out myself as a conservative or sympathizer.
Just put some Leonard Peikoff quotes on your profile. That should confuse them.
Play along and then right when they are about to cum, shout “MAGA Country”. Best candid camera episode ever.
Now people are asking why I’m laughing.
Tonio needs some nooses and a balaclava in his go-bag as well.
The balaclava lives in the cold weather gear bag, silly.
Although somewhere I have a thin cotton one that I’ve never used because it’s worthless as an insulator.
Balaclava? Hold on… I’m sorry, sir, I’m afraid we shipped Baclava instead.
^THIS^
Please note: Do not take dating advice from me. Hell don’t take any life advice from me. Just listen to me about things I know well.
They say that gay white males vote conservative more so than any other part of the alphabet-soup “community.”
I’ve seen some rumbling about this in various places. Like, “they might be gay, but they are still white men.”
^This. We will be the first group to be purged from the alphabet soup community, followed by white lesbians. White lesbians are already feeling the heat and being pushed out of leadership roles in feminist and lesbian organizations.
“Lead” where? Those organizations have won (just like the NAACP and MAD). Now it’s just a racket and a left-wing political vehicle.
Sure the level of acceptance may vary by individual and zip code – spouting hatred of conservatives, whites, and Christians is a good way to reinforce the bigotry.
Hilarious that it has to be noted.
but didn’t want to out myself as a conservative or sympathizer.
Stop living in the closet.
Holy fuck.
I thought we as a nation dodged a bullet in November 2016, but this poor guy is on a whole other level.
Better late than never.
Bull. The entire left was elated when he got the nod.
I’d rather ride with a llama than most of the other people usually on the subway.
The llama smells better.
Spits less, too.
Herbivore manure >> Homeless turds
How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deficits and Debt
The old rules are being rejected, among liberals and conservatives, politicians and economists.
To be fair, it is not hard to love deficit and debt.
This heroin hasn’t killed me yet. Winning.
Yep, it’s not a problem until it is.
Democrats are coming to believe they have hamstrung themselves in pursuit of their goals by worrying about so-called pay-fors, policies that offset the cost.
Lol. I noticed how concerned Democrats were with paying for their spending when they had a lock on congress and the presidency and racked up 12 trillion dollars of new debt in 8 years WHILE increasing taxes.
You know it does not take a genius to explain why this is happening. I actually wrote an article that touches on this from a different perspective that I am waiting to hear back from TPTB on.
Looking forward to reading it.
I’ve met stupid people before too.
Or they could go to a cheaper college maybe?
One should not have to choose between doing what one wants and something as paltry as money. Also the very best lesbian liberal arts colleges cost a pretty penny, but at least they check your privileged
Make the debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and end federal guarantees.
Problem solved.
^^ this
Yeah, but then nobody will be able to finance that undergrad degree in post-deconstructionist genderqueer Africana studies that they spent 7 years obtaining and keep the pockets of the administrative class nice and fat. You’ve only solved one problem, and it’s not the important one.
High schools are ill-equipped to teach students that $300k in student loan debt is not wise. This is why we need free college tuition.
“We have got to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and substantially
lower student debtdevalue the already cheapened college degree.”It would only be fair to put all students into a lottery for the available university seats.
All universities would have to admit the kids that were assigned to it in the lottery. None of this shitlord raising your tuition to only let in a certain class of people. That is very, very unfair.
Presido Muhammadu Buhari no waste time to tell Nigerians tank you, as dem vote am again to lead di kontri for second term.
For speech wey im make sharp sharp afta election bodi INEC declare am winner, presido Buhari say im dey “humble say pipo find am worthy to kontinu to serve.”
Buhari say: “Although Saturday elections bin peaceful somehow, troublemakers for some states bin wan scata wetin dey go well. Security agencies go bring those wey dem arrest to face justice.
“I dey very sad say pipo die during di elections. Security agencies go step up to protect voters for di state elections wey dey come.
“I wan make special appeal to my supporters make dem no too make mouth or yeye di opposition. Our victory dey enough,” im tok.
Im also add say im new goment go put more effort for security, restructuring di economy and to fight corruption.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-47379751
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx and the Damned. A fine choice.
In case you were wondering, Bill Maher is a piece of shit.
Flash-forward to Post-Election 2020
Hmmm, now why did those damn pesky red staters get Trump elected again?
I love living in a flyover state. Equal distance from the coasts so flight times aren’t bad. Cost of living that is almost half of some of the blue states. Plenty of jobs. More freedom than any of the blue states, although I’d like there to be more. Most important people from blue states don’t come here.
It’s going to be a long time before I move. In fact, I’m probably about to get myself even more stuck where I am pretty soon, at least for a while. But eventually I’m probably going to move out in the absolute middle of fucking nowhere. I always thought I wanted to live in a bustling mid to large city, and boy oh fucking boy was I wrong.
Christ, what an asshole
Carolyn Hax: She has sex drive. He’s stuck in idle.
“He’s just not that in to you.”
I’ve gained about 10 pounds during our marriage, but still am well within the range for a normal body weight.
I bet she has a great sense of humor too.
I saw that number and “five days a week at the gym” and first thing I thought was, “I gained ten pounds eating a piece of toast, and I’m 40. There’s no fucking way.”
I think with “The Change” adding 10 pounds while still working out is possible.
Ask my wife. Trained for and ran 4 half-marathons last year and still gained 8 pounds. She turns 44 this year. Still looks amazing though.
Oh just go fuck another guy already. He’s practically telling you. He may even watch at this point.
Sure, if he can tear himself away from the nice chick he met at work.
/mind blown.
Get the guy a 25 year old escort, see if it is him or you.
Uh, Fuck Or Repair Daily?
Both. Sexual
HealingRepair.What’s his T-score?
Eh, you’ll finger it out.
Does he also have an excellent fashion sense, enjoy show tunes, and eagerly look forward to weekend camping trips with his male friends?
You can just be subtle about it man.
/IT Crowd
That episode – the first time I watched it – made me fall off the sofa with laughter.
The way everything just continues to escalate throughout the episode makes it one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched. You don’t even really need to know the characters for the episode to work. The “I’m disabled” exchange was my personal highlight.
Full episode if anyone wants to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTUHtjFkGI
Sounds a bit . . . gay.
Ok, he’s in his 60’s, he probably is suffering from low t and possibly erectile dysfunction. Sit him down and give him an ultimatum he gets to pick…
1) he will go see a doctor about whatever sexual issues he is having and if there is nothing physical wrong the two of you will enter counseling with the goal of making sex a regular occurance
2) he will agree to your taking on other lovers
3) you will leave him
Odds are he is just completely asexual at this point and either is blind to the problem or is aware of it and doesn’t actually think it is a problem
4. Buy a vibrator and a subscription to heavingbosoms.com?
“Can you help?”
No, I can’t, Mrs. Kraft.
Maybe it’s payback for all those times she denied him when they were both younger?
But seriously, probably low-T like Rasilio said.
In his testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday, Michael Cohen will accuse his former client, President Trump, of knowing that his adviser Roger Stone was reaching out to WikiLeaks concerning the publication of stolen Democratic National Committee emails.
And?
Remind me Mr. Cohen… What was in those emails? And they were real, not faked in any way?
The DNC got busted rigging a nomination for Hillary Clinton, among other things, and the only thing the media and the Dems are talking about Trump’s scumbag lawyer Cohen saying that Stone told Trump about Wikileaks. That tells you everything you need to know about the media and the establishment Democrats.
the media and the establishment Democrats
No need to repeat yourself.
By their old theories, high deficits and debt should have caused interest rates and inflation to rise, and government borrowing should have “crowded out” capital from the private sector.
In a universe in which such a thing as a “market” interest rate existed, those things probably would have happened by now.
Also, there might not have been a corporate M&A binge funded by “free” money which is beginning to look like a huge unstable cornice waiting to slide down the mountain and destroy everything in its path.
pppffftttt, massive acquisition sprees funded by record-low interest rates set by decree are just capitalism at work!
How it feels to have ‘millennial burnout’
I’m a neurotic insomniac too, but I just blame my parents like everyone has for 10,000 years and deal with it.
Perhaps if you removed virtue-signaling from your to-do list, you’d have more time.
the things I should be doing – but just can’t bring myself to do
I think you answered your own question. All you have to do is start working on those chores and it will be amazing how much better you feel. And your chore list is cleaning up after yourself, shopping and going to the gym? Not too daunting of a list is it?
+1 Jordan Peterson
Jokes aside, I spent a good portion of my free time the last couple of days cleaning my house and man, it feels WONDERFUL.
^This. I get stressed like anyone else, but it improved dramatically when I started making a few changes. I started making lists of situations I needed to deal with whenever I got overwhelmed. Then, I’d start going through the list dealing with the things I could do something about. Eventually, I learned that the best way to handle situations I found uncomfortable or intimidating–calling a bill collector to explain why I was going to be late on something, for instance–was to get ahead of my own fear and do it as soon as I could. The anticipation of an unpleasant event is much worse than the event itself, in general, dentistry being a notable exception to the rule.
My favorite treatment for mild depression and generalized ennui, is to make a pitcher of martinis and clean the apartment top to bottom. It works.
So general anxiety – there’s pills for that.
How it feels to
have ‘millennial burnout’be an adult.I know that I could be cleaning my flat
“If you can’t clean your room, you should think about that.”
And yet you found the energy and time to write this shit.
Weird. I have millennial burnout too. I could use a week with no millennials in my life to recover, but they just won’t shut the fuck up.
*packs bags, kicks pebbles while sulking away*
Speaking of the oppressive hate crime of ` normie religious symbolism in public places….
When are the Progressive Talibanis going to go to Butte and dynamite this thing?
this amused me
https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1100406765156327427
That’s a good one. Reminds me of this.
Also
A duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death in the Children’s book “Duck, Death and the Tulip” by German author Wolf Erlbruch
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1094297231774035969
So last night I caught a bit on NPR about Trump’s visit with Kim.
According to the smart set, if Kim doesn’t give up all his nukes and let in inspectors after this summit it was an abject failure. They even heard rumors that Trump might not insist on total nuclear disarmament at the summit! What a total failure!!!
Trump went 10,000 miles to meet Kim and he still can’t see the goal posts because they have moved them so far.
The only compassionate solution is for Kim to be sodomized by bayonet according to these people.
War in North Korea is fine because they don’t have any oil.
No matter what Trump does is doomed for failure because he’s totally stupid ‘n’ stuff unlike the smarty pants. Didn’t I hear this same thing in the W years?
The difference is Bush actually is stupid and incompetent.
BUSHPig!111
True enough.
Yes, you did. Let’s hope they’re wrong this time.
Reagan, too. It’s interesting that they didn’t hang “stupid” on Nixon, although maybe if Watergate hadn’t happened that would’ve come around in time. I think Ford got some of that treatment, but I wasn’t around at the time to know about it.
The Ultimate Distraction!!
I seem to recall a distraction involving a
chemical weaponsaspirin plant in Sudan…Kim’s holding out for the same deal the Iranians got where we give them 2 billions dollars and they keep doing what they were doing anyway and we apologize to them.
“#O3. The Obama Special, to go, please.”
Clay County Republicans apologize for post comparing Sanders to Hitler
ah…
Wake me when any of the Democrats apologize.
*sets cryo-freeze alarm to eternity*
I mean, at least Hitler held a job…
Was he a bartender too?
Just compare Bernie to Trotsky, then.
Bernie is Kerensky. Trostsky comes after, followed by Stalin.
So, in a few centuries the descendants of the Bernie Bros will be invading to “save” us?
Trump and Kim Take 2: President meets North Korean dictator with a handshake and a laugh in Vietnam for their second nuclear summit and heralds the communist nation’s ‘unlimited’ potential as Kim says he has high hopes for their talks
I see Drumpf is still kowtowing with brutal dictators in a manner that is definitely an attempt to gain favor and allies when he declares himself Emperor and is definitely not an attempt to schmooze and get concessions and a favorable peace deal.
European Parliament Mandates Speed Limiters on All New Cars
My GPS can’t even reliably figure out which parallel road I’m travelling on. You do not want such unreliable technology controlling speed.
It’s not clear if the data loggers would have any privacy protections.
It’s not?
The EU has no concerns about the privacy of its serfs.
Good lord, the EU must go.
“The EU saved my life,”
And Killed Keanu and Sandra.
Dennis Hopper would never have pursued that scheme if the city busses had already been equipped with speed limiters, dumas.
This is going to kill people. Only a bureaucrat would think making controls less responsive will save lives.
“All left turns and any right turns at a red light must be approved by committee prior to unlocking the steering wheel from the 12(24?) O’clock position.”
In related news; Daylight Savings Time rolled today and killed 30M drivers.
They are willing to completely meddle with a major industry/market for 1700/year, but they absolutely refuse to do anything to mitigate the problems they are having with their new batch of immigrants?
I wonder how much I could make selling yellow vests in the EU? I bet there is a surge in demand for them in the near future.
How many deaths will it cause?
Apparently these morons have never considered that sometimes the only way to avoid a collision is to accelerate through the point of impact before the other object gets there. How many tired drivers will fall asleep at the wheel because the speed limiter kept them on the road for an extra 10 minutes during which they dozed off and hit something?
Slow drivers are worse…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/18/is-driving-faster-safer/
So the intersection of the solomon and laffer curves would be the point where you get the most road tax revinue per collision?
*looks at calendar*
*sees the rest of the day is mostly meetings*
*headdesks*
I have you beat. Today we all meet to discuss the results of personality profile tests we all had to take.
“You are an LSMFT, which means that there’s a 87.6% probability you have heads in the freezer.”
Knowing someone has it worse does not lessen my dread.
At least this evening should be quiet. I get to do query migrations. It’s a task so simple you could have a night operator do it.
But then we’d have to train them on it. And they’d still call us at the slightest deviation from the script. Or if there’s a project build requiring elevated access. Or if there’s some message they didn’t recognize.
So we just do the query migrations ourselves.
House votes to overturn Trump’s emergency declaration
It doesn’t appear that they have a super-majority. But what are the legal and constitutional considerations at play here?
Unless they’re repealing the federal legislation that gave the president the authority to make such declarations, I don’t think there is a leg to stand on. They can either take away the power to declare emergencies, or do nothing. They can’t say “oh, but this doesn’t count” after delegating without actually changing the law under which the delegation occured.
That would be manna from heaven.
They’d just give it back to the next guy.
There has to be some wise judge that can step in and stop this madman.
Well, SCOTUS just ruled that the judge has to be alive to issue an opinion. (9th circuit tried to issue an opinion using a judge who’d already died in the ‘majority’)
So Ginsburg is finally out?
That which is dead may never die.
She rises again, harder and stronger.
The used to say that about me, then I hit 40 🙁
Unless they’re repealing the federal legislation that gave the president the authority
That’s what I thought. This is a useless gesture. But I am sure it will be good for headlines and leftist outrage.
Another Study Indicates Bigger Health Welfare Doesn’t Reduce Death Rates
HOOOOLLLLLLLLLDDDDD UP….Obamacare didn’t solve Death? I’m outraged.
Umm… the mortality rate is 1.
The question is whether some sort of government
action improves health, not mortality rates. FWIW,
I think that government action could improve health,
just not any of the actions proposed by anyone in
a position to possibly bring them about.
Guess who minored in cinematography.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100608005421391874
“i’m going to object to this invasion of privacy by posting it on social media”
Hey creeper photography is an art form!
“And then I blindfolded him and shot him”.
well obviously he was interfering with her Glorious New Deal.
He should have waited until she was in a restaurant eating and then jumped on her table and started screaming obscenities and demanding that she kill herself. You know, like reasonable peaceful activists do.
^^^^THIS^^^^^
Can’t wait until she calls out trump for cancelling the White House “hard pass” of a reporter, etc.
The peasants should know their place, right Alex?
Couldn’t have been a fan, to nervous to go get a pic with you.
Can’t get Twatters at work, but where was this?
Maybe the guy was trying to take a pic and not disturb her? Of course she does strike me as the type of person who would never be put out by people interrupting her dinner to gush over how much they like her.
There have been a couple times in my life I’ve been in public and seen some famous people and decided that it wouldn’t be polite to interrupt their dinner by running over there. I just let them be.
*The only time I broke this rule was when I was on a plane from Mpls to Memphis and I saw Nick Bockwinkel sitting about 4 rows ahead of me. I was even wearing a Road Warriors t-shirt at the time. I did bug him during the flight to tell him how much I loved him in the AWA. He was very gracious.
I broke the rule only once as well- Lee Marvin in the waiting area at an airport. Flight was delayed. So I ended up getting a drink with him.
Sometimes Jim Marshall (greatest Viking evah!) stops in the bar we rehydrate in after basketball.
We always buy him a drink when he shows up, but we never bug him. He’s stopped by and said thanks, but that is about as far as it goes.
I always tell people that Penny Hardaway and I are best buddies because we used to study in the same computer lab at Memphis State. Our relationship was pretty much me sitting 3 rows away and drooling over the “tutors” who were helping him get on the Dean’s List (after being a prop 48 kid).
The problem with being a geek like me is that my idea of a celebrity is someone who won a physics Nobel or something like that. I doubt many people would recognize Bob Schrieffer or Alan Heeger walking down the street, but Yahweh help me, I would.
I’m sure that those super physics guys appreciate you acting upon them with force. Otherwise they would be compelled – by law – to continue walking down the street forever (yes, I’m ignoring air resistance and friction to make a point).
Same. Geoffrey Rush sat next to me in a Sky Club (just after one of the first Pirates movies). People kept bugging him. I leaned over and said the Casanova Frankenstein character was really paying off and he cracked up.
Mystery Men is pretty underrated.
And some of these guys are actually hot, but I totally won’t go there because if you are that intolerant that you put that shit on a hookup site then I don’t want you anywhere near my penis. They say that gay white males vote conservative more so than any other part of the alphabet-soup “community.”
One of the worst offenders about this has been trying to hook up with me for years. He asked me a couple of weeks ago if he had done anything to offend me. Was so tempted to reply “your intolerance is offensive” but didn’t want to out myself as a conservative or sympathizer.
I’m sorry, Tonio, but I kind of laughed at that, because it’s so bizarre to think we live in a world where having a different view of politics is more socially precarious than being gay. Times have changed. People have not.
And, of course, one cannot run the risk of finding out you might actually “like” somebody who doesn’t agree with you about every thing under the sun. Even some random hookup might be forever, I guess.
No need for an apology for the comment – that’s a good perspective on things.
“Even some random hookup might be forever, I guess.”
In general perhaps, but not in this particular case.
They should have the right to express themselves in school, but athletics have always had extra rules to keep the competition fair.
I can’t even at the bigotry of thinking that letting a 200lb man steamroll a 120lb woman is not fair.
Gender is a construct, shitlord!
Hey, let’s play that game. Fine, I agree. The social contract is also a social construct. Your social construct theory is also a social construct. I get to change them willy nilly now, right?
I think Jordan Peterson dropped something like that a few times. If postmodernism operates under the assumption that there can’t be absolute, universal truths, it immediately invalidates itself because the statement is self-contradictory.
From 2014 but still:
https://bjj-world.com/transgender-mma-fighter-fallon-fox-breaks-skull-of-her-female-opponent/
That’s fucked up
“If you don’t fight me, you’re a bigot!”
Why hasn’t some shitlord put on a skirt and stomped the shit out of the Williams sisters yet?
Bonus points for loudly proclaiming yourself as the greatest tennis player of all time and calling McEnroe a shitlord if he doesn’t agree with you.
Super Bonus points for continuing to sleep with women on the tennis circuit and telling everyone that you are simply a lesbian as well as a man who identifies as a woman.
Where have you gone, Andy Kaufmann
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
They’re already dumping on Martina “I hate trannies so much I hired one to be my coach before you shits were even born” Navratilova. Besides, McEnroe already enjoys being a shitlord.
Why hasn’t some shitlord put on a skirt and stomped the shit out of the Williams sisters yet?
Fuck.
Because he was too drunk to figure the skirt out.
For any of you Glibs in the Las Vegas area, I’m going to be out there in mid-April for Viva Las Vegas (and a couple days on either side of it) if you want to meet up for a pint or two. I’m going to be off strip at the Orleans, enjoying my first Viva that I don’t need to get in a shuttle to get to the events (I’ll only need a shuttle to get to the strip). The girlfriend and I do have plans to hit up Frankie’s one night, as well as heading downtown one day.
I’ve got a few things up in the air during that time frame, but if the schedule’s clear I might be able to make it in there one night.
Feel free to hit me up at my handle at Google’s mail provider. We’re getting in on the 17th, and leaving on the 23rd. That Saturday is the car show (which is the biggest event at Viva: Pin up contests; The Delta Bombers; The Reverend Horton Heat; Burlesque Competition; and Classic cars). But there’s open time to meet up most of the other days.
Right on, when the date gets closer I should have a better idea of what my schedule looks like and I’ll drop you a message.
Wifey and I might swing by to McMullins for a pint or two or four if you drop by there since you are staying at the Orleans.
We’ve been there every year so far. It’s amazing how empty that place is during the day, and it’s nice to get away from the crowds for a bit. Same deal, feel free to hit me up at my e-mail.
Frankie’s is a great bar. The cups are great souvenirs too.
Hit up the Double Down if you’re into dive bars.
I’d love to get back out there, but it’s a long drive
from Wisconsin, so the priority is low.
The new regulations also mandate data loggers, plus driver assist features like lane warnings and autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection. It’s not clear if the data loggers would have any privacy protections.
ETSC would like even more stringent regulations, like making the ISA more difficult to override or defeat.
Haha, those paranoiac goofballs who voted for Brexit. What a bunch of crazy people. The EU just wants to keep them alive.
Metal
Paypal and the credit card companies and the banks are refusing to deal with “offensive” and “promoting hate” underground labels.
Looks like underground metal may go back to tape trading, I guess
I’m so glad that bankers are the morality police.
Also, yes, fuck that. I know they are doing it because the us.fed.gov is pressuring them to do it, but I really with there was a business case for them to develop a spine and act as the neutral service provider they are.
Nah, its all going to go digital and DIY. Bandcamp has a big enough tent to not get tarred as “offensive” and they don’t seem to have much trouble hosting anti-christian black metal.
Love Bandcamp.
Is it because of what you saw that girl do with her flute that one time?
Not likely.
Love bandcamp as well. I still buy tapes just because of the aesthetics
Paypal and the credit card companies and the banks are refusing to deal with “offensive” and “promoting hate” underground labels.
Another victory for the glorious forces of truth and inclusion.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
I can’t listen to black metal while spanking it to Alex Jones, but I can body slam a chick during a rugby match. Yep, best possible timeline.
[golf clap]
Hope OMWC & SP haven’t unpacked all their stuff. OMWC obviously can’t stay. TW: TOS
http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/27/brickbat-not-very-trusting
I’d think that’ll be struck down by the courts. As anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows, DNA is castly more revealing than a set of fingerprints.
When my kid was in Little League (in CA) ten years ago, if you wanted to be on the field at all (not just coaching but even things like carrying bats and balls), you had to go through a complete background check including fingerprinting and mugshots. Needless to say, I did not volunteer to help.
@AOC
Tonight a dude was creepily (and obviously) taking a picture of me while pretending he wasn’t and I had to break his imaginary fourth wall and say “Hi! I’m a person! This is weird!”
What are the odds that photo was destined for a “AOC at the restaurant where i was having dinner. Squeeeeeee!” post on derpbook?
Yeah, AOC and Demi Rose are totally opposed to people taking pictures of them for publicity purposes.
Thicc teeth?
Did you get your avatar by taking a picture of her last St. Patrick’s Day?
But hey ya know it is totes ok for people to shout Ted Cruz out of a restraunt
That Saturday is the car show (which is the biggest event at Viva: Pin up contests; The Delta Bombers; The Reverend Horton Heat; Burlesque Competition; and Classic cars).
Sounds like fun (srsly). If I’m not there, start without me.
Will do! It’ll be a late start though, they’ve got Los Straitjackets playing at 02:30 in the morning Saturday. Who the fuck schedules Los Straitjackets for an overnight session? Hopefully the movie release starting at 23:00 Friday night will keep me entertained and awake enough to make it.
A car show and the Rev? Sounds awesome to me.
It’s my fourth year going. It helps that it’s right around my birthday every year, and they change up the musical headliners. Off the top of my head:
2016: Dick Dale/Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot
2017: Lee Rocker/Reverend Horton Heat/Los Straitjackets
2018: Jerry Lee Lewis/Straycats (all three members)
The headliners all play at the Car Show (for which there’s a separate ticket). Then there’s various shows, events, and vendors throughout the resort.
I was even wearing a Road Warriors t-shirt at the time.
Nice, Those guys were awesome.
For anyone visiting Chicago for the first time, this map is helpful if you’re curious where all the woke white people live.
https://twitter.com/sambjoyce/status/1100640162223132672
Key question – do I sell my condo now?
I’m seriously thinking jumping ship might be a good idea now.
I was planning to make a wide circle around Chicagoland going from Milwaukee to Indianapolis.
I think it was Neil Gaiman who described driving into Chicago like the onset of a migraine.
Fantastic interview clip on the drug war. Don’t worry, Joe doesn’t speak much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dOTp_RFjo
Well, drugs are OK, as long as the right cartel is in change of selling them. Ask your doctor if heroin is right for you.
I think we can all agree that Banjos has the best music links. MC5, the Damned, etc.
I noticed that.
Muh NOOOOOOZ!
I still worry that journalists are not being radical enough about how to create vibrant local news organizations, without which the health of our communities will be at risk. One new study found that a municipality’s borrowing costs increase when local reporting dies. Without journalists, the risk of corruption, of mismanagement, grows. Another study found that communities with declining coverage have lower levels of voter turnout. People need independent, reliable, fact-based reporting to help them make good decisions. Democracy can’t function without it. I won’t quote Thomas Jefferson. But if you wonder what he would have said about the matter, look it up.
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What if local governments created local taxing districts to support local news, the way the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District in the Denver metropolitan area levies sales taxes to support cultural organizations? Not the only support, of course. But at least a base they can count on. Or what if states included capped opt-in donations on income taxes that could be directed by taxpayers to fund local news organizations in lieu of giving the money to the state? Britain has found a successful model to support the BBC with its license fee on television sets, for example. Americans typically reject the notion of any type of government support for journalism, but in fact we’ve used special postal rates and legal advertising to subsidize our newspapers. Couldn’t there be a new form of subsidy? Yes, these ideas—admittedly not fully developed—raise thorny questions, but I think they’re worth pursuing, because the alternative of losing local media entirely is unacceptable.
Another tearjerker about he death of local news. Sad. Get your hanky ready.
So- absent local news
investigative reporting</strike cheerleading, municipal boondoggles may have less broad support in the community. Vanity projects may be harder to fund. Voter turnout may be reduced (especially the voters who matter- the ones who will vote for the boondoggles). How will we get that shiny new Law and Justice Center which will memorialize the beneficent power of Democracy?How do we solve this? How else? Subsidies from special taxes. What could more effectively guarantee an arms-length (no need for adversarial, that would be silly) relationship between City Hall and the hardboiled cynics in the newsroom?
Just as long as the truth survives, we shall be set free.
to help them make good decisions.
So close.
With
outjournalists, the risk of corruption, of mismanagement, grows.FIFY
“Another tearjerker about he death of local news.”
How else would you be warned about the scariest new super drug sweeping the country and turning people into orange alligators?
Trust me it does not matter if there is an official newspaper reporting on your town I guarantee you there are 30 “journalists” breathlessly reporting into Social Media about everything the corrupt mayor or manager or council do. Sure half of them are insane but for every insane guy ranting about the town government on the internet you have a corrupt “reporter” protecting some entrenched power base or other.
People need independent, reliable, fact-based reporting to help them make good decisions.
Too bad the average journalist cannot provide this.
What if local governments created local taxing districts to support local news, the way the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District in the Denver metropolitan area levies sales taxes to support cultural organizations?
As if the state does not already exercise enough control over “news” media.
When my kid was in Little League (in CA) ten years ago, if you wanted to be on the field at all (not just coaching but even things like carrying bats and balls), you had to go through a complete background check including fingerprinting and mugshots. Needless to say, I did not volunteer to help.
You hung around under the bleachers with beer and cigarettes, though, to bribe them into cleaning the pools for you right?
RIGHT?
Oh, look. Some dumbass forgot to close my strike tag.
Missed it by > much.
“It truly is amazing how a small percentage of people are allowing this insanity to persist. I’d love to see a poll, but I can’t imagine no more than 10/20% of the population believe in allowing men into women sports competitions.”
You ain’t woke and so cannot understand the complexities of all this intersectionality. Doesn’t help that you are hanging out with a bunch of unwoke knuckle dragging shitlords.
Let’s try that again:
Another tearjerker about he death of local news. Sad. Get your hanky ready.
So- absent local news
investigative reportingcheerleading, municipal boondoggles may have less broad support in the community. Vanity projects may be harder to fund. Voter turnout may be reduced (especially the voters who matter- the ones who will vote for the boondoggles). How will we get that shiny new Law and Justice Center which will memorialize the beneficent power of Democracy?How do we solve this? How else? Subsidies from special taxes. What could more effectively guarantee an arms-length (no need for adversarial, that would be silly) relationship between City Hall and the hardboiled cynics in the newsroom?
Just as long as the truth survives, we shall be set free.
Ya’ll missing the Cohen show? I guess ran by Elijah Cummings. The 3rd smartest genius in Congress, right behind AOC and Hank Johnson. Congress could tip over if we don’t get a Green New Deal.
“If the baton is passed to House committee chairs Jerrold Nadler, Maxine Waters, and Elijah Cummings, then in Act Two of the show, the country will be treated to something like the Spanish Inquisition as performed by Moe, Larry, and Curly.”
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/great-expectations/
That old kook is still around? I haven’t read him in years. Interesting that he doesn’t seem to riding the Bad Orange Man express.
So Ginsburg is finally out?
She’s not dead yet. In fact, she says she’s getting better.
She’s fine as long as she’s taking her medication.
Realizing it’s Wednesday, the day for the SF post: 🙂
Realizing you’re excited about the Wednesday SF post: 🙁
Not caring because it’s Wednesday, the day for the SF post: 🙂
It’s wednesday – day of eternal meetings.
It’s Wednesday, “speed pack run” day. Whee!
No love for camels?
No need for nicotine, when I have caffeine. OTOH, you make a very good point. It is hump day, after all.
I was planning to make a wide circle around Chicagoland going from Milwaukee to Indianapolis.
Good thinking.