STEVE SMITH GLAD BE BACK FOR MORE MORNING LINKS! HIM GIVE VERY GOOD LINKS. WANT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE LIKE THEM, COMMENT. ALSO GLAD FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN TPTB SEND IN FUNNY MEN WITH GUNS. STEVE SMITH ENJOY GOOD TUSSLE. BY ENJOY GOOD TUSSLE, MEAN RAPE. AFTER TUSSLE. THAT WAS GOOD.
- STEVE SMITH ALWAYS HEAR HOW HAT AND HAIR HOST HATE EARTH – BUT HIM MAKE WHOLE NEW AREA FOR STEVE SMITH MEET HIKERS! BY MEET HIKERS, MEAN RAPE. HIKERS. A LOT.
- WHY CANADANIAN PEOPLE NO JUST HIRE COUSIN SEA SMITH? HE TAKE CARE OF PROBLEM. BY TAKE CARE OF PROBLEM MEAN RAPE BOATS. AND OWNERS.
- SPEAK OF COUSIN SEA SMITH – STEVE SMITH NO THINK HE WOULD GO NEAR FLOATING HOBOS. STEVE SMITH NO GO ON STINK SHIP EITHER. HIM HAVE SOME STANDARD!
FREE CASCADIA!
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Here’s the gist:
GIST = MOAR HIKERS AND CAMPERS. STEVE SMITH HAPPY!
The EU sucks, organize a Piexit
The EU almost certainly has regulations governing 1. What is a Pie 2. What procedures must be followed for Pie to cross internal boundaries 3. In what circumstances may Pie leave the EU 4. To what destinations may Pie travel 5. How much valuable property may accompany Pie 6. How much must Pie pay the EU for the privilege of leaving.
SPEAK OF COUSIN SEA SMITH – STEVE SMITH NO THINK HE WOULD GO NEAR FLOATING HOBOS
The libertarian dream of seasteading finally coming to fruition.
a very smelly dream filled with Night Train, MD 20/20, and 40ozs of Mickeys.
http://www.bumwine.com/md2020.html
That and Cool Breeze and Pink Champale were a sampling of my freshman mistakes
So a floating flophouse then. It seems like it’d be much cheaper to buy an old hotel or something similar for it like in the good old days.
Easier to cut a boat loose than to burn down a derelict hotel.
Easier? I don’t know about that. Less cleanup? Definitely.
“WHY CANADANIAN PEOPLE NO JUST HIRE COUSIN SEA SMITH? HE TAKE CARE OF PROBLEM. BY TAKE CARE OF PROBLEM MEAN RAPE BOATS. AND OWNERS”
Just sell the boats to Minnesodans and they drag them around on trailers all summer just to impress heir neighbors. Problem solved
My neighbor was so impressed he bought mine.
I will never own a boat again.
+1 a hole in the water you throw money into
Two best days of owning a boat… The day you buy and the day you sell.
…and he never talked to me again…a good neighbor…
I have a canoe and a 13 foot Boston Whaler. Both are in a storage container where they cannot hurt me or my wallet.
I have a sailboat. It’s only half-built though. I need to figure out how to bend the planks so they don’t snap. When it’s done, it should be 16″ long.
Steam bend the planks
I normally build with plastic, so I don’t currently have a setup to do that. Figuring out the best way to handle it is currently on the proverbial back burner.
Ah, the old Ship of Fools trick, eh?
I haven’t thought about that song in years…
Robert Plant | ‘Ship of Fools’ | Official Music Video
Nice. But, I do like the World Party song better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHh0V7UjVXI
Ha. We posted this link at the same time.
Funny. It is pretty great tune!
Ship of Fools.
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted deserted isle with excrement, the needles too, and hepatitis and mary jane.
World Party as well.
The best part about the homeless boat is that they can then be delivered to San Diego en masse. Cheaper than bus tickets, I suspect.
California Is nice to the homeless
San Diego? I was thinking Canada, Lima, or the bottom of the sea.
How about making the hobos a subdivision of the French/Ethiopian Navy?
THAT GOOD! STEVE SMITH LIKE TIE TOGETHER WITH OTHER LINKS. YOU WIN INTERNET.
And by INTERNET, mean?
eRAPE!
Please remember to refer to larger people using the acronym PoS (people of size). Because calling them f*t is highly offensive. There are a lot of PoS on here who are fed up with constantly being made to feel like pieces of sh*t by idiots using ignorant and outdated terminology.
https://twitter.com/JarvisDupont/status/1105549723954565121
Piece of Shit?
Point of Sale, of course quite a few POS systems are POS.
This response:
Agreed, they’ve got enough on their plates as it is.
He only needed the first sentence. Overkill.
I know… but maybe he though some readers were slow
and yet half the replies missed the joke anyway.
Also one of the amazon recommended books when looking at Woke: A Guide to Social Justice Hardcover by Titania McGrath (Author) is Wok On by Ching-He Huang (Author) which vaguely amused me
Ching-He Huang
Careful, language like that got Stephen Colbert in trouble.
Thank God that is satire
Is he trying to out-Titania McGrath?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE
Land stretching from Seattle to Ellensburg along the I-90 corridor is now one of the Pacific Northwest’s first National Heritage Areas.
Approximately 1.5 million acres was designated as heritage land after President Donald Trump signed a public-lands bill into law.
That’ll fix those damned commuters.
Good morning.
Because calling them f*t is highly offensive. There are a lot of PoS on here who are fed up with constantly being made to feel like pieces of sh*t by idiots using ignorant and outdated terminology.
Much unnecessary verbiage to say, “Truth hurts.”
Assholes. “Fat” is just a contraction of the phrase “you have a lot of fat cells and/or they are quite large”. Brian Shaw and Thor Bjornsson both weigh in at over 400 lbs. Those are men of size. They might come in at 20% body fat, but I doubt it.
My girlfriend calls me “Big Snake”.
I am a Person of Size.
What does your wife call you?
At this point, probably “bastard”.
We’ve be separated for a little over a year.
Well, I hope you can get to a place where you have cordial interactions.
I have not felt the need for that. Been 5 years since I had to say more than hello to the ex because I ran into her and I love it.
My girlfriend calls me John, but that’s not my name. She has a lot of Johns in her life.
That’s cause a pimp’s love is different than a square’s love, right?
“Big Snake” is that tongue of yours.
and apparently some commentators here missed the joke also.
I think some pretended to miss the joke, 4 D humor. You know those tongue in cheek straight faced folks. After all, they (we) are glibs, what better way to double down. Norm D isn’t the only funny guy out there.
Norm M
If you plan to just dump the bums outside the twelve mile limit, a barge would be cheaper
Just sayin’.
Will PETA and Green Peace complain they are poisoning the sea by dumping and tricking the wildlife to eat these stinky people?
PETA and Greenpeace complain regardless of what you do.
Oh, by the way, has PETA stopped financing domestic terror yet?
Trick question right?
Rhetorical.
I’m sure they’ve still got either that arsonist or his disciples on their payroll.
No I am not making this up.
Who’s Hitler now?
Everyone?
WHY EVERYONE HITLER? WHY NO BIG CHIN ITALIAN HOOMAN?
This. He’s the one who literally had people in black-shirts beating people up in the streets. (His guys were actually WWI combat vets, not soy-fed hipsters)
Oh the Nazis did that as well.
But Antifa seems to prefer Mussolini’s black-shirt fashion to the German brown shirts. They probably need all the slimming help they can get.
I don’t think the moderns have the intestinal fortitude for some Weimar era Freikorps action. In ’22 or ’23 during a pretty big Communist uprising in Berlin, the Reds used a homemade armored car to take over the Berlin Police Headquarters. The Freikorps dug them out with flamethrowers.
Flamethrowers are some brutal shit.
Hitler analogies are the Hitler of analogies.
I’m reclaiming it from his detractors. Who’s with me?
Mah Hitler
What do Jay and Silent Bob have to say about it?
Who’s Pol Pot now?
Ok I gotta go check my history books here but I am reasonably certain that the Jews are in fact indigenous to the region occupied by modern day Israel
Nope, they stole it from the Canaanites! We need reparations for the Canaanites and I suppose for the Ammanites if you can figure out who to give them to.
History books written by (((who)))?
And if Trump isn’t Hitler, then who is?
MAKE HITLER GREAT AGAIN
My old bosses mother was German and talked about how Hitler did some really great things too. But there was that……nevermind.
Ilahn Omar has been known to make that same argument,,,
Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation
So they are going to get in trouble for holding people to their side of the contract while breaking theirs? Good.
Given the Dems alliance with the Muslims in general and the Palestinians in particular now, it’s probably time for them to start rehabilitating old Adolf. He was on their side after all. They probably need to take a break from using his name as an insult for a little while.
They probably need to take a break from using his name as an insult for a little while.
No need. Narratives changes become effective immediately. We have always been at war with eastasia.
FDA rolls out vaping policy to make it harder for minors to buy flavored products
Initiative would limit sales of fruity and kid-friendly vaping products.
I’m sure that will be just as strongly enforced as the “you’re buying this pipe for tobacco products, right?!!!”
When I was in college, I decided at one point to take up tobacco pipe smoking. I went to the tobacco shop, looked over several pipes, and picked out a suitable one. Then I asked the guy behind the counter, “So, I guess I need a couple of screens to go with this.” he gave me a serious stink-eye look and said “TOBACCO pipes don’t have screens.” My roommate, who had come along for no particular reason, almost fell down laughing so hard.
Paywalled.
But Erika Sward is a liar. There is no epidemic, and they aren’t tobacco products.
Polish right-wing newspaper’s front page teaches ‘how to recognize a Jew’
Anti-Semitic nationalist weekly, Tylko Polska, or ’Only Poland,’ appears at Polish parliament as part of press kit for lawmakers
https://www.timesofisrael.com/polish-right-wing-newspapers-front-page-teaches-how-to-recognize-a-jew
The Jew gold gives it away every time
I just look for the (()). Once you see them, you’ll find ((they’re)) everywhere!
Put on the damn glasses!
I thought it was triple parentheticals.
Those are the double secret super (((ones))). You know, like Superman’s creators?
“The street signs for the neighborhood feature the Superman insignia, and an honorary name paired with the actual name of each street. You can stand at the corner of Joe Shuster Lane and Lois Lane.”
There is a Lois Lane near my house. It isn’t honorary either.
It and Thimble Finger Way are my favorite road names in Bowling Green.
When I was in college, there was a metal festival held every year in October called Blood Harvest that was located on Fairy Queen Lane.
Fairy Queen Lane has since been demolished to expand the stadium.
((( ( . ) ( . ) )))
Big ol’ khazar milkers
You are not wrong.
Maybe someone needs to invade Poland and set up some camps.
My maternal grandfather didn’t injure his kidneys by freezing in a trench in Normandy while in the Signal Corps for this shit.
That was oddly specific.
I shared that story during one of Yusuf’s diorama posts before. 1 of his 2 Purple Hearts.
Huh…..I didn’t know you could get a PH for injuries that aren’t combat wounds. I mean, I guess combat was the root cause of that, but not enemy bullets or shrapnel.
The context was being trapped waist deep in ice cold water while pinned down by enemy arty.
Sounds like a combat injury to me…
PH are for combat related injuries. “award for any injury received during combat requiring treatment by a medical officer”.
So, falling down in the shitter in a combat zone could be submitted for a PH.
That’s how John Kerry got his right Bob?
Did you inherit male privilege from him? Or just the big snake?
WTF Poland
This is something that’s always perplexed me. Poland has long had a latent drive towards rabid nationalism, but I wonder how much of it has been driven by having been conquered and occupied for the better part of the past two centuries.
Highly recommended for anyone that hasn’t seen it yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkoW4cmqT8
It touches on a bit of the history of this phenomenon, though it will probably leave many viewers with more questions than answers.
It’s delusional retards, all the way down
Beto O’Rourke: “I’m Just Born to Do This”
Vanity Fair exercise in buttlicking. Brace yourself.
One thing I learned: Beto has a son (I presume) named Ulysses. That’s gotta be a crime against wokeness.
Self=absorbed twit. Perfect leader for the Democrats.
And, it’s official now. He’s running.
So how long until we see the jokes about the clown car Democratic primaries?
Their primary debate theme music should be Yakety Sax.
Why? They’ll just limit the people debating to Hillary Clinton.
There’s a video of Justin Trudeau dancing drunk at a party where he tells his kook wife ‘I’m meant to run a country’ or something along those lines.
Coo-coo. Coo-coo. Coo-coo.
Does he describe how his father bestowed him with his contrived, artificial nickname because he hoped it would someday help his son’s political prospects in heavily Chicano El Paso?
So is this what they mean by “white Hispanic?”
the tongue bathing the media is giving this guy would make Obama blush.
I told you guys he was going to be the white Obama.
I thought Obama was the white Obama?
You can’t get much whiter than mom-jeans.
Obama was the Mexican Beto.
Brilliant plan by Trump to keep Seattle from expanding. He should build a HUUUGGE statue of himself on that land overlooking downtown Seattle.
Not only that, I wonder if he did it, in part, so they can’t ever call him anti-nature or something.
The headline was “Trump decision has significant impact on environment”, so the skimmers can still have their outrage uninterrupted.
O’Rourke and his wife, Amy, an educator nine years his junior, both describe the moment they first witnessed the power of O’Rourke’s gift. It was in Houston, the third stop on O’Rourke’s two-year Senate campaign against Ted Cruz. “Every seat was taken, every wall, every space in the room was filled with probably a thousand people,” recalls Amy O’Rourke. “You could feel the floor moving almost. It was not totally clear that Beto was what everybody was looking for, but just like that people were so ready for something. So that was totally shocking. I mean, like, took-my-breath-away shocking.”
For O’Rourke, what followed was a near-mystical experience. “I don’t ever prepare a speech,” he says. “I don’t write out what I’m going to say. I remember driving to that, I was, like, ‘What do I say? Maybe I’ll just introduce myself. I’ll take questions.’ I got in there, and I don’t know if it’s a speech or not, but it felt amazing. Because every word was pulled out of me. Like, by some greater force, which was just the people there. Everything that I said, I was, like, watching myself, being like, How am I saying this stuff? Where is this coming from?
Take that, Hitler.
Obviously, The Father is speaking through The Son.
Well that’s just, like, amazing. What a, like, incredible speaker he, like, is.
What a self-absorbed asshole.
Seriously, he makes AOC seem less repugnant.
Yeah, no.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/13/ocasio-cortez-blames-pipeline-that-hasnt-been-built-yet-for-an-oil-spill/
And she wanted a bank that didn’t finance the project to pay reparations.
I would love to have heard the internal conversation that had to have been going on in that CEO’s head. He studied and worked his whole life, to find himself in front of Congress to be questioned by childish retards.
I would have said, “Well you ignorant fuck, we um, like didn’t finance that project you know. Any like um other like stupid questions?” in a mockery of her voice.
I saw that. And she keeps using that stupid hypothetical tactic.
She’s engaging in sophistry. She’s expressing what the illiberal, ignorant class believes so they see her as a hero. No matter how they respond to her, she comes out looking like a hero and they the villains.
She’s another level of maliciousness.
There are clips of Harris acting like an arrogant twat too.
Has Harris ever acted like anything else (outside of Willie’s bedroom)?
She’s a parrot. She says what she’s told to say.
He looks like he could be one of the Kennedy’s rapey second cousins so he just might have a chance.
Basically a Kennedy larping as a Mexican.
We have a bingo
He’ll get the women vote. Doesn’t really what he says.
Well, isnt he special.
Edited for accuracy.
Kerry reduex
STEVE SMITH THINK FUNNY “BETO” NEED HELP WITH HURT BRAIN.
And by help mean?
DR. SMITH WILL RAPE BRAIN NOW!
“Sir, do you know why I pulled you over?”
It amuses me how people talk with so much confidence about sports and then the results prove them wrong. I mean it amuses me in many fields but sports is quick and clear.
I hear a long conversation yesterday in the office how there is now was Liverpool get past Bayern Munich. Well…
Happy Pi Day!
right…
March 14… 3/14… 3.14… It’s a thing.
You don’t have random days to eat pie just because of a math joke? It’s 3.14 today.
On June 28th, we can eat the whole circle.
Just the circumference.
Don’t forget British Pi day 22/7 (July 22)
In the EU, it’s 14.3
So you’re saying it’s not just Pie that does everything backwards, but the whole EU?
14.314,3 FTFYLook, it’s a decimal point. Not a decimal comma.
We know the Euros do everything backwards, but still.
I’ve talked a ton of shit about sports over the years. Lakers would never win with Shaq, Ichiro would be a bust in MLB, Patriots would beat the Bears. It’s part of the fun of talking sports.
Not me.
I’m smart.
Like ‘Fredo.
I once said waaaayyyy back in the 1980s the the Mariners and Astros were the sort of organizations condemned by the order of things to never ever win anything. I’m half right.
Judging by their uniforms back then, I’d have picked them to win a slow pitch softball tourney.
Woa…
I’d feel for the Mariners but I’m a Washington DC sports fan, my feels are on life support. Caps brought me back from death.
Ovechkin’s 13 year contract is one of the best in pro sports history.
Talk about working out.
Other than that, long-term contracts are foolish.
I don’t know about the Mariners, but the Astros got a new owner, did a lot of bargain shopping and organic growth through their farm teams and draft picks, and went out and bought a couple of high-quality veterans once they were close. They kind of tried that in the ’80s when they went out and got an aging Nolan Ryan. Then spent like a decade wasting money on the Bagwell-Biggio infield that was just good enough not to ever win anything except that year they brought in 2 steroid pitchers. Then they got swept.
The Mariners had ownership that didn’t give a shit so long as Ichiro brought in the Japanese fan merch lucre and there were enough butts in the seats to make money.
The Astros tanked.
Floating homeless shelter? Augusto Pinochet approves.
Tow it out to the naval gunnery range?
The Chileans I know that lived through that said that 2 years after Pinochet there were just as many as before he started. You couldn’t tell the difference.
Ex-Priest Defrocked for Sex Abuse Killed in His Nevada Home
These people get paid to write…
They need to pay some proofreaders that they need to pay.
We aren’t ‘paid to write’ but we are paid to do things that often require written reports. “Written like a journalist” is code for “not up to professional standards.”
The Department of Redundancy Department will get right on this…
Oops. Which one of you is this?
I don’t dare read the responses.
Whenever I see a ‘which one of you is this’ question here I know exactly who it is. It is the one asking the question.
I’d be sitting next Ghosn if theat were me.
Like “who farted?”
Well that is obviously not America.
Not a government agent, gun didn’t discharge upon hitting the floor.
It’s my birthday tomorrow. I’ve been in Atlanta for this past week on a bender of twerk clubs, ayahuasca, and viagra.
Throw some meth into the mix and that sounds like a hell of a time.
In other words a typical glib Thursday.
Happy early one
Go back 4 decades and nobody knows what you’re talking about. (I still don’t know what ayahuasca is).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_u0reE6bjI
I would add a nice scotch and cigar to that
YOU WERE BORN IN MARCH?!
Best month evah!
Happy unbirthday!
So *this* is why everyone should beware the ides of March.
So, what are you going to do special for your birthday?
Happy Birthday Eve!
Dunno if this was linked before
I’m just about ready to propose Robby’s Law: Institutions of higher education that receive federal funding must consider academic achievement—and no other factor—as a criteria for admittance.
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1105936970067464192
Robby’s Law? Really?
Fuck Robby.
Look I know the hair is sweet to look at but you probably don’t want to go there
“a bender of ayahuasca and viagra”
Could explain it…
OK. WHERE HIM?
Grade inflation among lesser schools makes it hard to judge the quality of academic achievement.
Simply cut off all federal funding and tax schools 100% of state funding recieved.
No need to tax. State funding is disbursed from Federal.
He should learn to…change a tire.
How bout: no school should get Federal Funding. Then they can do whatever they want for admissions.
Separation of school and state.
How are they gonna indoctrinate the snowflake lemmings if this happens?
I posted it yesterday.
Toby’s getting rejected for not knowing the word ‘criterion’.
*grumbles about gesture typing on mobile*
Just seen on TV: “O’Rourke had a wonderful rally….with about 15 people.” – Donald Trump
Heh. I heard Beta has announced his bid for president. The 2020 election season is going to be fun.
Oh, he didn’t just announce. He proclaimed his announcement the most pivotal moment in the history of mankind.
Skateboard girl is certifiable.
Dammit. I really wish that smarmy little fucker wouldn’t have pulled that dumb parking lot publicity stunt. Actual skateboarding demands copious amounts of blood and pain, and noodle armed turds like O’Rourke would be well advised to leave it the fuck alone. Also, there are actual skateboarding girls out there that take more hard hits in a day than Beta will ever take in his lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUGTGdp1z8
Beto O’Rourke: “I’m Just Born to Do This”
Have you heard of the new drink? You order an Irish whiskey and tell people it’s Tequila. They call it the Beto.
Damn it. Now that’s probably going to pop out at some point on Sunday and get me in trouble.
Is there a huge Clevelanders for Beto fan club?
Around mid-day I’ll be at a party at a friend’s house. The people who will be at the party in general are pretty in the bag for the D party line (lots of Hillary supporters, but generally politics isn’t brought up). And now I’m going to have this terrible joke stuck i my head, yearning to be let out.
He was Born, Been to be Pres,
He can climb so high
He’s never gonna Lie!
Born to be Pres!
Born to be Pres.
“I have, literally, no other skills but my sociopathy.”
Most important skill for a President.
It seems it is either paid family leave or extinction
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1105905213217652737
Geoff Miller just doesn’t get libertarianism. It is sad that he is the current face of evo psych because Christ, what an asshole!
The dinosaurs didn’t have paid family leave and they went extinct, just sayin’.
In fact every species that has ever gone extinct did not have any paid family leave.
HIM GIVE VERY GOOD LINKS.
By “links”, mean rape.
Oh no! I was told this wasn’t true a million times at TOS!!!
Study: Migrants Using Nearly 2X the Welfare of Native-Born Americans
You can safely ignore that study because CIS is racist. QED.
It’s not the racism, but their typical piss poor methodology.
Notice they pull the ol’ U.S. born children switcheroo.
And don’t commit crimes.
I think Reason is out to lunch with their stance on illegal immigration.
Even ONE murder by the hand of an illegal (getting benefits no less) is ONE too many considering the ONE legit job of the government is to provide security to its citizens.
Calling for criminal sanctions against anti-vaxxers, as Bailey has repeatedly, while simultaneously demanding unfettered admission of uninoculated immigrants from countries with no public health policy to speak of where drug-resistant communicable diseases are as common as dirt has always been one of my personal favorite Reason principles.
Again, like moonshine that makes you go blind, we see the dangers of prohibition in a market. If there were no incentive to sneak across a border, those coming for honest work would be happy to step in line for inoculation.
Perhaps. Although medical screening is going to necessarily exclude some portion of the applicants, who then have an incentive to enter illegally. The disproportion of the concern with the Reason writers is what’s ironic to me. A couple hundred retards in Beverly Hills get the measles and it’s a national crisis ripe for the jackboots.
Citizens can defend themselves quite fine. Once you cede that responsibility to the government you fall down to gun control hell.
I always thought national security falls under the auspices of government. As in, immigration.
Once past that, yes, best the citizenry protect itself to the extent it is capable.
The original American Dream understood the danger of standing armies and envisioned an armed citizen milita that would arise like weeds the minute a foreign army stepped foot on American soil.
Likewise, the Founders were concerned about naturalization but not immigration. We seem to have conflated the two concepts early in our history, however.
All these studies are hard to keep track of and depends on how the data is manipulated… so who knows?
If this is anything like their last study, it’ll be counting “immigrant-headed households”, which often includes US-born children on behalf of whom the household receives welfare, so the Koch organs will protest that immigrants aren’t receiving welfare, and in this special case, money isn’t fungible. Also, there’s no such thing as “anchor babies”…
Corruption of blood is a vaunted libertarian principle.
Histrionic shrieking over accounting because muh brown peepel is too
If one’s answer is “Close the borders!” and not “End all entitlements!” I question his or her commitment to libertarian principles.
Sorry not sorry.
Which is utterly unrelated to your supposed objection purely to the methodology of computing welfare usage by household rather than by individual. You could perhaps sensibly make some case that a SNAP card loaded with food stamps given to an immigrant on behalf of a couple of US-born children is utterly and completely different from giving a SNAP card loaded with food stamps to that immigrant directly without resorting to equating an accounting technique to blood libel if that were your actual objection. There actually are honest arguments to be made for open borders.
Agreed. End incentives for slacking, you get less slacking.
Not rocket science.
As soon as the R’s have both houses and the whitehouse they will get right on it.
Settle down. You misunderstood what is meant by ‘corruption of blood’. The term refers to the practice of punishing someone for the actions of one’s ancestors. Not blood libel. An individual born in the US is considered a natural born citizen and is entitled to all of the benefits of citizenship regardless of who his or her parents are. Now whether or not birthright citizenship is preferable is a different discussion. As it stands now, if you are a vocal Hands off my Medicare person, you have no moral standing to criticize immigrant parents apply for entitlement benefits via their child. Their child is a citizen. Full stop. Considering a person a 2nd class citizen because his parents came here 1 generation ago as opposed to 3 or 4 generations ago has no legal grounding, not to mention being morally odious. That is what corruption of blood refers to.
And again it is good practice to not bury such facts in the second half of an executive summary, if you want your methodology to be considered transparent. Jus’ sayin’
A thought just occured to me. The Constitution specifically prohibts corruption of blood as a punishment for treason. Does this mean it is legal to legislate it for other crimes?
Discuss.
I’m saying it’s an equally hyperbolic comparison is all. We’re talking about an accounting method, not stripping the rights of birthright American citizens because of their parentage. That the American children of legal and illegal immigrants are eligible for welfare isn’t a tricky question, the controversy about the CIS method of accounting is that they count immigrant parents’ benefiting from their children’s participation in welfare programs as if it were the same as a direct benefit. It’s almost a question of precision vs. accuracy, IMO. It’s precise to say “(certain) immigrants aren’t eligible for welfare”, but not terribly accurate when significant percentages of immigrants nevertheless obtain a material benefit from the welfare system (leaving aside welfare fraud, which also occurs and is less easily quantified). The standard line of attack by Cato et al is basically to lean heavily on the precision and mostly ignore the accuracy. In nearly any other context, the same analysts would not be offended by a presumption of fungibility. That’s often the case with certain types of corporate welfare, for instance. In any case, it’s an accounting controversy, not a legal rights controversy.
I’m sorry for being prickly by the way. (I hope) you know I don’t mean any offense or disrespect. This entire topic is just tiresome, fruitless and been rehashed a billion times. It makes me bitchy. I should probably learn to just avoid it.
In my view children born to immigrant parents should not count as immigrant children. But overall I don’t care that much…
I don’t care in the sense that I am not particularly happier with local born having children they can’t take care of. But then again muh extinction
What have I learned about Beto, from reading that Vanity Fair tongue bath? There’s nobody in there. He just tries on and discards different personas (-ae?) based on what other people do or have done, as if he’s wearing different “message” tee shirts.
Not, I suspect, the author’s desired effect.
He’s an empty sombrero.
That is more or less the definition of a sociopath.
///BetoIsBae
Because he’s a dimwitted, empty vessel for whatever he thinks people want to vote for.
That sounds familiar.
He has a John Edwards type flameout written all over him.
YAAAAAAAAH!
Senator Pat Geary too.
He’s Vanity Fair’s pick for the presidency, certainly. And if there’s one source I respect for political acumen, a journalistic voice that offers wisdom for the future of the country, it’s Vanity Fair.
But I’ll wait to see what the editors of Highlights for Children think before I make up my mind.
I’m waiting for Teen Vogue’s endorsement,
Teen Vouge Analists are busy compiling a report on each Dem
Just when I think that STEVE SMITH is merely a character, I get an email trying to get me to go out in the woods ending with this:
STEVE SMITH HAVE FUN IN OUTDOORS BY ACCESSING EVERYONE, AND BY “ACCESSING”, MEAN……
You have to be kidding me, that is amazing.
Obvious and terrifying attempt to get victims separated from anyone who could provide help.
Ha! I got the same one.
Complete with pictures of families on all fours waiting for Steve to show up.
Clearly not the same, because it’s signed by Steve Smith, not STEVE SMITH.
One of our trustees is also named Steve Smith. It’s hard not to giggle at board meetings.
He had his secretary type it up.
Or uses lower case to fool/confuse people in the possible know….
Woah.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-smith-306b2515
WHO THAT? ME?
*SLIPS BACK INTO FOREST*
Saints fan confirmed.
the Islamic Republic of #Iran was appointed to the UN Women’s rights committee that judges complaints of women’s rights violations a day after the regime sentenced women’s rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to 38 years prison & 148 lashes.
http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/csw/63/membership%20csw_%2063%20(2019).pdf?la=en&vs=1831
Looking at the commision on UN site I am sad Romanian did not make it. Abaini is totes not better,.
Also why is Israel in the category WESTERN EUROPEAND OTHER STATES ?
Because israel has more in common with western nations than its geographic neighbors? Plus those neighbors probably protested being lumped together.
Fuck the UN.
+1 Benetton ad
Israel plays in UEFA too.
Better that way.
GDP per capita?
Long OT thought tangentially related to the college-admission scandal:
So, how did the kids do that bribed their way in? Are their grades okay, bad, good? Are they struggling to keep up academically? Why do I ask these questions?
It is part of my problem with the academic system as a whole. I will use my school as an example. In the 1980s when I got accepted, Georgia Tech still had a relatively easy acceptance policy (I say relatively to its reputation for academic quality), especially for in-state students. I was out-of-state, but even so, I would be a borderline accept today, at best.
Tech made up for this relatively easy acceptance policy by failing out students who couldn’t hack the work. Easy in, Hard out.
This system works. And in a system like that, someone who cheats the system is going to get exposed. Quick. You fake your SAT scores by 400 points and you are not surviving freshman calculus and chemistry. You might, might, survive after a ride on the M train (Tech lingo for transferring from Engineering to Management majors), the athletes do.
Anyway, this applies in general to the “high prestige” schools. It is all about what you did in HS to get accepted. But then the path is easy, just put in the effort to make sure you graduate and the connections provide for the future. Why would we want the future to be based on HS achievements instead of college achievements?
Anyway, the scandal just has layers of stupid. You can get a good college education virtually anywhere, if that is what you want.
I think this scandal just proves Bryan Caplan’s point about higher education being primarily signaling.i
Grade inflation has progressed to the point that virtually everyone’s grades are at least pretty good. Honestly, when I had the choice to attend one of the two, I chose UVA over William & Mary for one reason: because W&M had the reputation of being exactly as you describe GT of the ’80s. The general consensus was that Virginia was harder to get into, but easier once you were in. W&M was notorious for no grade inflation and failing people out all over the place.
I thrived. I needed that environment. I probably would have failed out of a school that was nearly impossible to fail out of.
The Ivy League isnt about education. It is about networking and making contacts. This scandal is a perfect illustration of how ‘ruling classes’ become corrupt and incompetent.
I think Cornell gets partial credit for being mostly about education. It’s going down the road to stupid like every other school, but it doesn’t seem to be producing wastrel politicians at the same rate as its peers.
Is it because the wastrels go into other fields like what passes for journalism or education these days?
Cornell is known more for STEM-related fields than the trendier Ivies, to be sure.
So, how did the kids do that bribed their way in? Are their grades okay, bad, good? Are they struggling to keep up academically? Why do I ask these questions? – are the chicks hot? At least one actress daughter seemed to be.
I think universities can accept a larger number of students and weed many out year one. Then again the students would complain about discrimination anyway…
The graduation rate of those admitted to Ivy League colleges is well above average in comparison to other schools. This can either be explained that those who gain admission are truly prepared for the rigorous demands of a pretentious university or that those who are admitted to a pretentious university will work harder in order to graduate, as the reward is much greater than receiving a diploma from a less pretentious university. But, many have noted that pretentious universities actually inflate grades for their students far more than other colleges.
https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/10/6132411/chart-grade-inflation-in-the-ivy-league-over-time
I just realized that spell check kept changing “prestigious” to “pretentious”. I guess I can’t spell. Both work, though
Rarely, but sometimes, spellcheck seems to be almost sentient.
To the schools involved, this is about signaling and networking. Nobody cares about what the kids studied or or what their grades were. The important part is that they went to a certain school and are part of that elite club. To me, the scariest part it that so many higher-ups in government are part of that club.
Funny you say that, because my reaction when someone told me they attended an Ivy League school is to ask what their major was. You have no idea how often the major tends to be something totally useless that would not qualify you to do anything but work in the fast food or coffee industry, but because they went to the Ivy League school gets them in the door. I have found that more often than not, that Ivy League school didn’t do much in creating a good employee (but they sure are hellova entitled). I had an Ivy League intern that was loved by management that couldn’t keep up with the intern from the local small state school when it came to doing good work, but guess which one management wanted to hire and why?
If you can pay that much to get in, paying an Asian kid to take your tests for you is trivial.
Can you also pay that Asian kid to do the work at your job like some enterprising fella was caught doing some time ago?
it’s crazy people were willing to risk damage to their jobs and reputations for this.
What do you guys think of this story. My daughter got into one of the toughest high schools to get into after taking the entrance exam. No waiting list. Straight acceptance. A kid we know who is a very good student (one of the top), panicked and bombed the exam. No waiting list. Straight denial. His mother – a teacher – knew the person doing the grading (of course) and asked to take a peak curious to know what happened. Sure enough…bomb. She managed to get the kid upgraded to ‘waiting list’ status (I forget how) and eventually got in. He seems to be doing well. My wife thinks ‘hey, she’s lucky to know people and did what she had to do’. True, but I wonder what kid got screwed over or about those who aren’t so lucky.
I have a problem with single tests for that reason. At least with the SAT or ACT, if you bomb, you can take it again.
Different schools treat multiple scores in different ways, but most just look at your best score.
I understand it would be expensive to do, but for a school like that, schedule something like this:
Exam Day 1: Result is used for straight acceptance. Anyone wait listed or rejected can take 2nd exam.
Exam Day 2: Best result from 1 and 2 is used to order wait list.
A lot of these schools want to do away with the testing period…
Have you seen Forest Gump? That’s how.
The problem is there is no economic benefit to the school for being the way Georgia Tech was.
It is moronic but schools are actually able to market a low admission rate as a benefit. It is similar to a product being marketed as “new and improved” when in reality nothing has changed. By manipulating the admission rate to seem exclusive it makes getting into the school seem more desirable because only the best get in and this perception is then reinforced by non of that group of the best failing out.
Conversely, if you let pretty much everyone in and then allow the ones who can’t handle the work to actually fail out you create the perception that the education is nothing special because anyone can get in and that is reinforced by all the people failing out.
It helps that it is trivially easy for a school to manipulate their admission rate by simply soliciting a large number of applications from students they know will never pass the bar for admission.
I have actually seen companies try to market themselves to prospective empoyees this way with a line bragging about something like 2 to 4% of those who interview with the company are hired so that means they only hire the best of the best.
Or you know, it just means that they waste a lot of peoples time with pointless interviews that they have no intention of hiring anyone.
“The problem is there is no economic benefit to the school for being the way Georgia Tech was.”
GT was getting hit twice on UN&WR rankings, 1 for having a low admission standard and 1 for having a low graduation rate. That is why it is *was*. They have significantly raised both the admission standards and the graduation rates over the last 30 years.
USN&WR
“The problem is there is no economic benefit to the school for being the way Georgia Tech was.”
Yes and no.
You want to get people in to pay (GT is a state school). But you don’t want lesser students enrolling in degree programs in which they can’t succeed. The idea is to get them in and then move them into majors they can pass without diluting the value of the tougher degrees.
I’m sure government money perverts the economic benefits to the point where a school might be forced into the “prestige” racket a la GT of late.
Two responses:
1. Relying on later grades to determine whether they “should have” been admitted is a partial fallacy. Elite schools receive ten applications from students who can do the work for every one they admit. “Not admitted” =/= “not capable of passing the classes”
2. I, personally, like the policy of relatively easy acceptance, as long as you have the seats in classes for everyone. The problem, at least in my state, is that state universities are judged heavily on retention and graduation rates. Easy in, hard out, would lose us millions of dollars every year in funding under our performance model. This is the latest trend nationwide: emphasis on retention and graduation rates. Easy in, hard out results in lots of students with debt and no degree–that’s the flip side, and it’s politically very unpopular right now.
Maybe one day I’ll write a post here on the topic “Access, Retention, Rigor: choose any two.”
And in many cases, only one.
GT in my day was Access and Rigor.
GT today is Retention and Rigor (I hope).
Most prestigious schools is: Retention.
Grade inflation = retention
Yep, pretty much.
If the class GPA is 2.0, there are going to be lots of Ds and Fs and kids leaving school.
If the class GPA is 3.0, there aren’t going to be many except for kids that just quit.
To me, the perfect curve (subject to sample size limitations) is the average grade being the B/C borderline and letter grades being 1 standard deviation in size.
A= 1+ standard deviations above average
B= 0-1 SD above
C= 0-1 SD below
D= 1-2 SD below
F= 2+ SD below average
With a normal distribution, that gives a 2.48 GPA. Not a lot of Fs, but they exist (2.5%). Plenty of Ds.
I’ve always found curved grading counterproductive. There’s no good reason for someone who got into the class with the dumbasses to get a better grade than if they were in the class with the smarter folks.
“Tech made up for this relatively easy acceptance policy by failing out students who couldn’t hack the work. Easy in, Hard out.”
My COMMUNITY COLLEGE did the same thing. Anybody with $75 (at the time, probably $400 today) could take a class. Oh, you’re looking for an associate’s degree? Well, here are your required courses, $75 each. All management and all CompSci degrees required Accounting.
First day of class the Accounting 101 teacher’s first sentence to the class was “Half of you will drop this class by week two.” And he was absolutely right.
I don’t know how you’re going to grade-inflate anyone through accounting. You can maybe make a passable “D” lower but Accounting 102 will blow those students out anyway. I’m sure most schools have just dropped the Accounting requirement in order to keep paying students enrolled.
You are correct. I have talked to some recent engineering/comp sci people and the shift towards fluff classes heavy on prog indoctrination in lieu of basic classes on hard subject is progressing at a fast pace. It has always bothered me how college was the one investment most people doing it tried to actually get the least value from (because they would rather spend their 5 or more years partying on someone else’s dime).
BYU-Provo is extremely hard to get into. I don’t know if it was way back in the mid-80s when I got in. It was the only school I was to go to (per mom), and so no other school entered my mind. I put down UC Berkeley and Texas A&M at random on my ACT college choice portion. I was accepted to all three.
I bombed out my sophomore year.
Ten years later, somebody was impressed (REALLY impressed) that I got in. Say what now? I just turned in my application and took the ACT. Not hard. Then I flunked out (but you shoulda seen my schedule.) “Yeah, but you GOT IN!”
I still have a problem comprehending that. It was not hard to get in. It is now. I don’t have that sense that I did anything difficult. I think if I had (and gone to a real guidance counselor), I might have made it. Knowing exclusivity would’ve been important in my case.
Academia dissilusioned me to the value of any college, least of all the ‘exclusive’ ones. I’m not sure the best way to translater my bitterness into policy beyond attempting to rip away taxpayer funds from the rot.
That was how UMBC was when I went there- they’d accept nearly anyone (even me), but had a fearsome attrition rate. If you managed to get through a science or math major, Johns Hopkins med school would accept you at a higher rate than they accepted Johns Hopkins graduates.
Now, of course, they have high admission barriers. I wouldn’t be able to get in. So when they come to me looking for money, I have no hesitation telling them to fuck off.
There are two trends pushing in this direction:
(i) emphasis on retention and graduation rates. The easiest way to boost those is by becoming more selective about who you let in.
(ii) Lack of space. If you have faculty and facilities for X new freshmen, and the number of applications is increasing, admit rates have to go down. Capacity doesn’t change quickly, but number of applications might.
Much of it was driven by differential attrition rates between different, ahhh, ethnic groups.
Overall, though, attrition was huge. The class I was in for the first semester of a four semester intro chemistry sequence (required for all majors in chem, bio, and biochem) had two sections of almost 1,000 in each section. By the end of the fourth semester, we were down to one section with 45 students.
I have never donated money to a school. Ever. Uncle Sam paid for my bachelor degrees (and I paid em back in spades) and between Uncle Sam and hard work I paid a lot for my masters. If they want my money they should send some hawt teacher to “earn it”…
I need to finish paying off my degree before I would even consider paying them money voluntarily. Donating to colleges is a weird concept. Unless you’re getting your name on a building or season tickets to the sports teams, what’s the point? You don’t donate to McD’s even though they provided a consistent and valuable service to you.
http://time.com/5551315/college-bribery-larger-lie/
Caplan had an article on the scandal in Time.
STEVE SMITH UNIVERSITY EASY IN HARD OUT.
Isn’t it ironic?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said she had “zero” sympathy for parents caught up in the college cheating scandal during a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC.
Warren did not elaborate on her feelings after being asked the question as part of a number of rapid-fire questions posed by “Mornin’ Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski.
The Fox Business folks had a hearty laugh at her expense this morning. Her lack of self-awareness is a bit disturbing. Maybe her programmers can install a patch.
Lack of self awarness is usually required as it keeps a logical jam from occurring at runtime. But the programmers usually do a good job at avoiding the appearance of no self awareness.
sadly, someone installed the next gen beta code before the major bugs were ironed out. It’s a high profile fiasco given the units running on that version.
She has to be autistic.
I never heard of that tribe.
That’s cause the white man killed them all!
Ironic like being afraid to fly your whole life and getting on a 737 MAX 8?
Like rain on your wedding day
Warren/Morissette 2020
People really should be going to jail over this. You know what I mean?
House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Tuesday released hundreds of pages of transcripts from last year’s closed-door interview with ex-FBI attorney Lisa Page, revealing new details about the bureau’s controversial internal discussions regarding an “insurance policy” against then-candidate Donald Trump.
Page first entered the spotlight in December 2017, when it was revealed by the Justice Department inspector general that she and then-FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok exchanged numerous anti-Trump text messages. The two were involved in the FBI’s initial counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates during the 2016 election, and later served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Among their texts was one concerning the so-called “insurance policy.” During her interview with the Judiciary Committee in July 2018, Page was questioned at length about that text — and essentially confirmed this referred to the Russia investigation while explaining that officials were proceeding with caution, concerned about the implications of the case while not wanting to go at “total breakneck speed” and risk burning sources as they presumed Trump wouldn’t be elected anyway.
Further, she confirmed investigators only had a “paucity” of evidence at the start.
“So, upon the opening of the crossfire hurricane investigation, we had a number of discussions up through and including the Director regularly in which we were trying to find an answer to the question, right, which is, is there someone associated with the [Trump] campaign who is working with the Russians in order to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton,” Page said. “And given that it is August, we were very aware of the speed and sensitivity that we needed to operate under.”
Page continued that, “if the answer is this is a guy just being puffery at a meeting with other people, great, then we don’t need to worry about this, and we can all move on with our lives; if this is, in fact, the Russians have coopted an individual with, you know, maybe wittingly or unwittingly, that’s incredibly grave, and we need to know that as quickly as possible.”
Page explained that the text message reflected their “continuing check-in” as to “how quickly to operate.”
No one will. Everyone will make it home safe.
Spoiler: No one will go to jail and media personalities will continue to wonder why people are losing faith in the system
This is a response to Hyperbole from last night since I went to bed.
I don’t care for Trump, he’s the random drunken asshole that occasionally gets it right as opposed to the sociopath that always gets it wrong (this appears to include the last 4 presidents)
As far as the evidence against him, the only evidence has been obviously manufactured as opposition research. There never should have been an investigation, and it damn sure shouldn’t have gone on this long. In this case, my defense of Trump is a defense of any hope there might be of legally taking back power from the the entrenched interests in DC. Because if Trump gets taken out, that’s it, the game is over. There will never be a roll-back of anything associated with the federal government again, whether it’s the bureaucracy or the warfare apparatus.
I get that you guys take umbrage at any perceived slight against Trump but the ‘almost no evidence” defense? that’s funny.
Hyp’s newsfeed
Dude is seriously fucking delusional.
The Nick Gillespie of Glib commenters.
I mean, he does go by “Hyperbole”.
I get the sense if any of the last four or five presidents, as well as their opponents had such extensive fishing expeditions done of their campaigns and associates, and that the findings were not swept under the rug, a lot of the same sorts of ‘crimes’ would have been identified.
Anyone who still believes in Russia Fever Dreams after two congressional investigations, a special counsel investigation, an FBI investigation, and the entire resources of the corporate press being devoted to legitimizing their fairy tale is profoundly stupid and should not be listened to ever again. The fact of the matter is that if you believed this conspiracy theory from the get go then you are an idiot, if you still hold on to the narrative even absent all evidence then you suffer from a mental disorder.
Brace yourselves for the Reason fan fiction for Beto. Someone over there will make a libertarian case for the empty suit sociopath, because he was totes in a band and is like a cool guy.
Robby finds Beto’s cube gleaming to be absolutely dreamy; the gearmost living end.
Beto takes politicking to a whole new level. He can speak for an hour without saying anything and the ladies throw their panties at him. The fact that we are likely facing a 2020 campaign of Beto Vs. Trump and no 3rd party candidate is gaining any traction has destroyed my hope that man kind will survive another 100 years.
I think it’s probably Bernie vs Trump. But we will see, it would be funny if the Dem establishment tossed all their women aside for blank slate loser like Beto. I think Trump would mop the floor with Beto in a Bush vs Kerry 2.0 kind of way.
Bernie has no chance, because he is:
1) A white guy and
2) Ugly.
Therefore, all Democratic primary voters have someone else they prefer.
He’s got a built in base and ground game. he has a trump like path given the overcrowding of the field.
He can’t beat Trump and the Dems know it. I’m guessing Beto or Kamala. Biden’s creepy roving hands are going to be problematic for him. Beto is 6’4″ and looks like a Kennedy douchbag and acts like on too. That gives him the women’s vote except for the wypipo patriarchy haters who would go Kamala (until they get in the voting booth and vote for Beto?). I think Booker’s big mouth might cause him some problems although he probably has an outside shot.
His base doesn’t though. His base thinks he could have beat him last year.
I think Bernie could have beaten Trump last time around. Thing is 2020 is not 2016 and Republican opposition and distaste for Trump will be no where near as large as it was last time around because from the position of the Republican base Trump has actually done most of what they wanted him to do and the thing she didn’t accomplish he generally made concrete moves towards achieving.
Also this time around I think the media’s TDS is going to come back and bite them in the ass way more than it did 4 years prior.
Bernie v Trump in 2016 and yeah I think Bernie wins, Bernie v Trump in 2020 and it is a landslide for the God Emperor
How much of his base does he still have? My N=1 sample size of Bernie supporters (Tim Pool) has dumped him.
Trump versus Harris. She checks every fucking Team Blue box and she is ruthless and pure evil. Mocha Hillary.
I agree she has a good shot at winning the primary. You also gotta consider that a lot of team red players won’t be able to help themselves with the whore angle, which is only going to strengthen her victim status and help her, especially with women. It will be fuck those guys.
Someone over there will make a libertarian case for the empty suit sociopath, because he was totes in a band and is like a cool guy.
If it is to be done, count on Gillespie to do it. He’s 60 and still trying to put on the same hep-cat persona that 50 year old Beto is, and is equally intellectually bankrupt. They were made for each other.
Robert O’Rourke is the Nick Gillespie of Democratic candidates?
But The Jacket trumps Robbie’s hair.
“In Honor of St. Patrick’s Day, a Mick Joins the Race”
That’s how any headline on O’Rourke entering the race should be written
Reason says he’s anti-interventionalist so expect the Tulsi treatment any day now if true.
Robby said Bernie was anti-interventionist even though he supports arming Ukraine, increased sanctions against Russia, and has been silent about withdrawing troops from Syria. I’d say they have a profoundly loose definition of that term, which they’ve never cared much about
Are any of y’all fruit juice enthusiasts? I’m trying to find a good peach juice but fear I may need to get a juicer and make my own. All I have seen on the market are made with apple juice, sugar, peach pulp, and citric acid.
Get canned peaches in their own juice. Drink the juice, put the peaches in some oatmeal with some cream.
Oh and brown sugar.
*googles*
Huh, you’re right, they all seem to be cut with apple juice. It seems like pure peach juice would be a thing.
Yeah, it’s hard to find anything without apple or white grape juice in it.
You need to cut it just like you do heroine and cocaine. Pure peach juice is the devil!
I DO cut it – with Wild Turkey 101, black cherry juice, and ginger ale (sometimes Luxardo Maraschino and ginger beer if I’m feeling fancy).
Now you are being a showoff…
Seriously though, get a juicer.
Frut juice is bad for you full of sugar
Mixing it with alcohol counteracts all of the negative impacts. Which is the only way you should be drinking juice anyways.
Well, you could mix it with yeast, and let it sit for a while to get rid of that sugar naturally.
Which changes the flavor. You’d then have to turn around and boil it a few times, collecting the condensate to get rid of the unpleasantness – then you’d have to mix back in the original juice to have it taste right.
My wife’s favorite is Ciderboys Peach County
https://www.amazon.com/Pomona-Organic-Peach-Juice-Ounce/dp/B06Y48WCN3
That’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Can someone explain this?
Seriously. I don’t understand how a suspect, presumably with the stuff all over them is fine, but the cop is having a life or death event.
Cop wanted disability leave?
Tolerance. It’s a real thing.
Cop gets high on evidence room goodies, has to make up some bullshit story about a drug search to cover it up.
(kinda kidding but also wouldn’t be surprised)
I thought they were supposed to turn in the drugs they find, not use them.
Too many 80’s cop movies and he had to “taste” the evidence to see how strong it was.
There’s also a physiological difference between voluntarily taking a drug letting go and enjoying the ride knowing the side effects like nausea or light-headedness in advance and someone experiencing a bunch if stuff and knowing what’s going on and thinking you might die. That gets in your head and it’s a bad ride. Remember Dowd and her pot edibles. Loosen up woman.
Not knowing what’s going on.
What is wrong with people? NSFW
https://twitter.com/CupcakeSinclair/status/1105945522227961856
Owwwwwwwwwww.
Richard Harris did it better.
Well at least you know she’s down for anything. It doesn’t matter how weird your fetish is, she’ll be like let’s go.
That doesn’t look pleasurable, like at all.
I see the Creosote light has been lit.
It hurts like a motherfucker getting off the ground, but the people who do these hook suspensions claim that once you are up the endorphins and other nuero-chemicals are such a rush that it is worth it. There’s a technique to getting someone up in the air to minimize the pain. I’ve helped assist in doing some of these and it is amazing to watch. Not something I’d do myself though cause I’m a total pussy when it comes to pain.
Fakir Musafar is really the person credited with starting the modern primitive movement in the US and developing it in body mod circles. He passed away in the last year.
That seems like a situation you’d do your best to avoid rather than actively seek out.
Why the fuck would anyone do this sort of shit?
Folks I know who have done it (or do it semi-regularly) do it for much the same reason people do drugs like LSD. It apparently is something of a transcendental experience. Lots of people who do these sorts of rituals do it as a way to deal with a major transition in their life and it seems to have at least some temporary positive effects on their outlook and help them deal with past trauma, find “closure”, or otherwise make positive dramatic changes.
I think, to the extend that the above is true has to do with the phenomenon that when you go through a major life change, your psyche is more malleable to changing even fundamental habits. If you can induce that via an intentional ordeal that has a positive association, you increase your ability to actually make serious change.
Never have done drugs (unless alcohol counts) and never plan to, so I still remain unable to see the appeal man. Not judging. Just saying that given the choice this is not something I would think of doing ever. Not even for the shiggles. And I am not afraid of pain. Have had a lot of that shit in my life.
I’m with you, I just don’t get it.
I can see the appeal of putting yourself through physical challenges like a marathon or multi-day hikes and/or participating in high risk sports like climbing, base jumping and the like. Some risk, maybe some pain, but a clear objective of enjoying something and/or a sense of accomplishment.
Voluntarily piercing your body with meat-hooks and then hanging yourself by them looks more like volunteering to be Ramsay Bolton’s plaything for a day.
This is like something out of hellraiser.
Speaking of peaches- I was in Atlanta, I think, and this restaurant had peaches which were deep, dark orange, almost red. I don’t know if they were some specific variety, or if they had been allowed to ripen on the tree, or what, but holy cow, were they good. Every time I see peaches in those plastic “jars” they are pale pale yellow. Bummer.
That is all.
It was this place right?
http://peachesatl.com
Chinese blood peaches maybe?
Step 1: Up life insurance on him
Step 2: Give him the best sex he’s ever had for the next 6 months*
Step 3: Leave
*Never forget the penis is evil though
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/dear-prudence-husband-suicide-divorce.html
Column after that:
“I recently discovered my husband of 20-plus years has been hiding a high level of drinking from me”
So? If you didn’t know without seeing the bank receipts then what’s the problem? You, you’re the problem.
If you didn’t recognize the drinking maybe the money wasn’t going for drinking. There are more ways for a man to spend money without drinking.Does he ‘work’ a lot of late evenings?
Speaking from experience?
“Does he/she ‘work’ a lot of late evenings?”
Speaking for a few ‘friends’ and/or relatives
Oh you though I was spending all that money on booze. / Sigh of relief.
Gotta plan it out in which a hitman takes him out though; life insurance usually doesn’t cover suicide. If the hubby’s that miserable, maybe he’ll go along with it.
Most life insurance covers suicide as long as the polity is over 2 years old.
“My boyfriend is father to a wonderful 8-year-old who, after finding out Michael Jackson used to hang out with the Beatles, became obsessed. He’s an excellent moonwalker and has memorized all of Michael Jackson’s albums. He’s also precocious and always on the lookout to learn more about his new hero. So we are worried that some big talks are ahead with the latest documentary. My boyfriend is uncertain about how to talk with his son about Jackson’s history; neither of us are perfectly comfortable with the “separating the art from the artist” approach, but we’re at a loss for an age-appropriate way to have this discussion.
—Boyfriend’s 8-Year-Old Is an MJ Fan”
Yeah, ask him the “What do Walmart and Micheal Jackson have in common” joke…
A: 8 year old kid’s underwear half off…
This is the obviously fake letter of the week. But the Wonder Woman one gives it a run for its money.
omg. lol. Anybody watch the Razorfist rebuttal of the MJ doc(I didn’t watch it) almost made me believe MJ was set up.
It was unusual for Razorfist to make three (?) long videos on one subject.
I deal with several Chinese manufacturers. As a result, my LinkedIn profile gets bombarded with requests from other Chinese manufacturers for connections.
Lately, most of the requested connections have profile photos like this one: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tang-tina-1a83b016a/detail/photo/
I’ll give them credit for understanding their targets.
How do you know when a LinkedIn photo is fake?
She looks hot enough to ignite the flaming coals you would walk across just to have coffee with her.
Could be legit if we’re talking job recruiters or pharmaceutical sales reps.
Can’t be seen without logging in.
Says she will love you LONG TIME!
What are they selling? Massages with happy endings?
Happy Pi Day to all the nerds here.
I slept through the minute where it was pi^2.
Question for the well traveled Glibs. My wife and I have a week to spare for vacation in late September. Originally we were considering somewhere in the States but now we’re thinking Europe. Any recommendations? We don’t do a multi country tour, we’re saving that for when we have more time and the kids are old enough to bring with us. Germany and Ireland are on the top of our list right now but we are open to anything.
If you go zoigling in the Upper Palatinate, I will be jealous.
http://www.zoigl.de/english/zoigltoday.html
Southern Germany and Austria/Switzerland would be my recommendation.
Seconded.
You can spend a week just around the Munich area and be completely occupied.
A couple of places that are must sees:
Deutsches Museum
Glyptothek
Marienplatz
Any number of old cathedrals, there’s a baroque one near the Marienplatz that I cannot remember the name of right now, but it is astounding.
And this place in Nurnberg.
https://die-nuernberger-bratwurst.de/willkommen/
I lost count of the brats and beers I had there.
I’ve long wanted to go to the Orkneys
Tuscany.
Seconded. My wife and I did a tour of Italy (Rome, Amalfi Coast, Florence/Tuscany, Venice) and wish we could have spent more time in Tuscany.
I really enjoyed Lyon, France. The food was fantastic, the city was beautiful and very walkable, there are cool Roman ruins, the people were all nice, got around on almost no spoken French, and booze, booze, booze. And dirt cheap compared to shit-ass Paris.
Misread that as Lion Force and got all excited for a Voltron discussion. 🙁
The food is terrible. The cockpit console just randomly sprays old ramen noodles at you.
Cue HM “This is my new fetish” link in 3… 2… 1…
Consider flying to one city and returning from another. That will give you a natural opportunity to have a road trip. Open-jaw tickets should be priced at the level of return tickets rather than two one-way tickets. As for one-way car rentals, Auto Europe might have good rates without one-way penalties. Flying to Pisa or Florence, renting a car and then driving through Tuscany and Umbria (visiting Siena, Perugia, Orvieto) to Rome would make a nice trip in September.
Irish Whiskey
https://www.inforum.com/lifestyle/food/986075-The-Scoop-What-exactly-is-the-difference-between-Irish-whiskey-Scotch-and-bourbon-Lets-find-out.
I’ve got a $3 off coupon for Jameson. I might grab some for St. Paddys. The main difference between Bourbon and every other type of whiskey is that Bourbon is better.
Truth
If you haven’t had the Tullamore Dew yet, I’d recommend that over the Jameson’s. At least at the entry level, the upper levels of each are different beasts entirely.
All three of those expressions of whisk(e)y happily share space on my shelves. There isn’t any Canadian whisky on my shelves… since the others are so much better.
If you haven’t had the Tullamore Dew yet, I’d recommend that over the Jameson’s.
^this^
Tully is, for me, the perfect balance between the slight sweetness of Jameson’s and the bite of Powers.
TD is a smooth drink.
If it’s not much more I’ll check it out. I think I’ve only sampled Irish whiskey one other time, and I don’t recall the brand. I was only really considering it because of Kroger’s inducements.
If it’s not much more I’ll check it out.
The good thing is, more often than not, it’s cheaper.
Oh, right on then.
My neck of the woods it’s about the same price point, hence the recommendation. To me at the base level it’s Tully, Jameson’s, and then Bushmill’s (from the big 3). If you’re going to spend more, or look for older expressions, then the decisions change.
I loathe Tullamore Dew, but to each their own.
I’ve nothing against bourbon. It can be lovely on occasion. It’s just too sweet for day-to-day drinking.
Gold and the Dow were both 800 in 1980. Today Gold is $1,300/ounce, the Dow is near 26k.
^^^I may be a goldbug, but this is why gold is not an investment.
It’s a hedge on inflation.
$800 in 1980 dollars is about $2000 in 2019 dollars.
(possibly $2400, depending on the inflation metric)
Which companies in the industrial average are the same between 1980 and today? How many got dropped and how many got added?
Keeping your portfolio in the correct companies is a lot of work.
Keeping your portfolio in the correct companies is a lot of work.
ETF and forget it.
Gold is manipulated like everything else.
There are no sure bets other than maybe ammo.
+ Good Liquor
I invest in heavy metals… Gold, Platinum, and Lead..
It’s not an investment because it doesn’t create a revenue stream. If you’re putting your money into anything with the sole expectation that someone else will later pay you more for it, you’re not investing. You’re speculating. Nothing wrong with that. But, it’s a different animal.
I was in a gold fund in the ’90s. After 5 years I was up 20%, by the time inflation and taxes were considered I was even. Stupid is no way to go through life and I got out.
I got into silver after Zero Hedge overdose led me into thinking the world was going to end tomorrow and silver would be the best currency. Then I got out again.
I’ve bought silver for the art it was cast into. I’m not sure it counts as an investment.
I have a bunch of silver & gold coins for when that happens. Also a shit ton of rounds for my guns…
One of the hazards of living by a river – all of my guns and ammo were lost in a freak boating accident. Some Minnesodan sail-by sinking.
Who are you gonna sue?
The Hudson and Mohawk Rivers for being an attractive nuisance.
Thot Thursday provides half-naked sirens ready to lead to you sin!
https://thechive.com/2019/03/14/picture-perfect-beach-views/
Chive has altered their photo embedding such that archive is not working. It makes me have sadz. Hopefully it gets fixed.
7>30>41>16
“Warren calls for Congress to question if Trump is protecting Boeing
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday joined other lawmakers in calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to ground Boeing’s 737 Max 8 aircraft after the model was involved in another deadly crash Sunday, but the Democratic presidential candidate went a step further in calling on Congress to investigate if the Trump administration is protecting the aviation giant.
“The Boeing 737 Max 8 is a major driver of Boeing profits. In the coming weeks and months, Congress should hold hearings on whether an administration that famously refused to stand up to Saudi Arabia to protect Boeing arms sales has once again put lives at risk for the same reason.” ”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-calls-for-congress-to-question-if-trump-is-protecting-boeing-2019-03-12
I suppose it would be OK if Boeing were losing money on each 737 MAX sold.
So, the Bombardier model?
Hilariously, Trump personally directed the FAA to ground the 737Max yesterday after listening to a briefing as to what the investigation was discovering.
The FAA wasn’t yet ready to ground the plane, probably because of their fondness for Boeing. The word on the street is that the FAA middle managers were left scrambling at the unexpected order.
Slate haz an outrage
Nicholas Sandmann, the high school student at the center of the viral Lincoln Memorial confrontation in January, wants to “punish” CNN and the Washington Post for attempting to “assassinate” his character. He wants to teach the Post “a lesson it will never forget” and halt CNN’s “biased agenda against President Trump” and his supporters. In the process, Sandmann wishes to collect more than a half-billion dollars from the two outlets. The media targeted him because he was a “white, Catholic student who was wearing a MAGA cap,” Sandmann believes. Only $525 million in damages will fully compensate him and deter these “bullies” from “again bullying other children.”
This argument, laid out in Sandmann’s two lawsuits against CNN (filed on Tuesday) and the Washington Post (filed in February), is one part legal theory, two parts political screed. Sandmann’s lawyer, famed libel attorney L. Lin Wood, knows that these suits are a long shot: The First Amendment protects the press’ right to report on a national controversy without a full grasp on the facts, and to provide commentary that ultimately proves inaccurate. Wood’s defamation lawsuits are designed to scare CNN and the Post, to chill their future criticisms of “individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.” His crusade is just another skirmish in President Donald Trump’s attack on “fake news.”
———-
Wood insists that Sandmann is not a public figure, which would allow him to sue the media for mere negligence—a failure to take reasonable care to avoid unjustly injuring his reputation. It is debatable whether the Post and CNN even met that low bar: Drawing conclusions from a video rocketing around the internet is not clearly unreasonable when those conclusions later prove questionable in light of new evidence.
Regardless, Sandmann probably qualifies as a “limited-purpose” public figure, which means he must prove more than mere negligence to win his defamation lawsuits. Sandmann played a starring role in a story that drew widespread attention, then sought to shape the narrative by appearing on a major news program. His engagement in this public debate thrust him into the spotlight, and even if his participation was initially involuntary, he may still qualify as a public figure for First Amendment purposes. The courts have acknowledged that an individual may become a public figure “through no purposeful action of his own” when he plays a “central, albeit involuntary, role in [a] controversy.” To win his suit, then, Sandmann should have to prove not just negligence but “actual malice,” demonstrating that CNN and the Post acted with “reckless disregard” for the truth, or knowledge of their alleged lies.
Listen, this kid is just a casualty of the war against Trump. Not even a regrettable casualty. Look at how he was dressed.
It’s all a plot to intimidate the press. Get Mueller on it.
I would expect nothing less from Slate. Their liability for the number of people they’ve slandered over the years must be huge.
Defame a person, that defamation makes that person become well known, claim they’re a public figure and thus fair game.
That’s not how this works or at least it shouldn’t be.
“Wood insists that Sandmann is not a public figure”
There’s no doubt that he wasn’t a public figure until their garbage “reporting” on him. So what, their defense is that anyone we report on is a public figure so we can do whatever we want? Sounds a bit circular eh?
CNN “Reporter” – Hey Random No Name Guy On The Street, look into this camera and explain why you love fucking sheep so much.
RNNGOTS – I don’t fuck sheep! I’m suing you!
CNN “Reporter” – You can’t! You’re a public figure now!
RNNGOTS should be an SNP regular.
Furthermore, whether he’s a public figure or not (he isn’t) shouldn’t really matter since I think they probably can prove actual malice. The reporting routinely framed him as an evil, privileged, racist, toxic white male who incited a confrontation with an innocent POC bystander when the available video evidence contradicted that characterization across the board.
Whether our useless court system actually does its fucking job is another story though.
The big problem is actually quantifying damages.
The public figure aspect is the lynch pin and Slate knows that and that’s why they are pretending like a 17 year-old high school kid on a class trip is a “public figure”, because they are scared for their fellow propagandists. It would be so enjoyable to watch lawyers representing the Washington Post and CNN try to explain to a jury of people from Kentucky why 17 year-old kids are fair game to be defamed because Drumpf or something. Pretty sure they are not going to get much sympathy out of that jury. Here’s hoping some journalists end up homeless.
He was asking for it. Dress like a
slutperson we don’t like, get treated like aslutperson we don’t like.“To win his suit, then, Sandmann should have to prove not just negligence but “actual malice,” demonstrating that CNN and the Post acted with “reckless disregard” for the truth, or knowledge of their alleged lies.”
I think that can be proven though.
Actual malice:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/maga-teenager-native-american-veteran-harassment-smile.html
Sure he would count as a “limited-purpose” public figure NOW, after CNN and the Post made him the story but he is only a public figure BECAUSE they defamed him.
Sandmann probably qualifies as a “limited-purpose” public figure
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
nope.
Turlock Police: Woman Filmed Encouraging Teen During After-School Fight Arrested
The adult is a dick, but the teenager bears sole responsibility for her actions.
STEVE SMITH NOT DISCRIMINATE. STILL RAPE, NO PROBLEM!
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/2019/03/13/italy-outraged-as-court-finds-victim-too-ugly-to-be-raped.html
While the ruling was properly overturned, I half expected there to be a picture of the person in question for the reader to judge the judges.
Exactly! Fake news without the pics… And I have seen some monsters that I am sure no guy will go for.
“This is what #AmberHeard did to #JohnnyDepp. She’s the monster who abused her husband and her previous partner, who was arrested for domestic violence, who confessed under oath to a series of violent attacks on Johnny Depp. Stop defending and glorifying this female abuser!”
https://twitter.com/Marussia15/status/1103961985497083906
So you are saying Elon Musk isn’t a super-genius?
“Amber Heard opened up about the emotional moment she came out to her parents: “It was just tears, tears.””
https://twitter.com/enews/status/1105535979606208512
I’ve had bruises bigger than that from random drunken shenanigans, and I’m sure Depp has outdone me in that category.
*checks pics*
Damn, she’s got a mean streak.
Political theater.
https://apnews.com/57d35e5635dd47b3a736d2fbe0066e05
As if any of this matters; it was gonna get smacked down in court because ORANGEMANBAD regardless.
We crossed the imperial presidency rubicon a long time ago; GOP senators who think that this will stop a future Jackass prez from doing the same thing are sorely mistaken. The difference is that said Jackass prez will have the courts on his side.
Trump is literally Hitler and Republicans are complicit, but also Trump is the weakest executive in the past hundred years and the only president to have his own party, as the majority in Congress, tie his hands on sanctions and now a power granted to the executive by Congress and exercised by previous executives without incident.
Explain to me again how Trump is dangerous? Considering how weak he is he seems like the best president in a hundred years.
The reporter on the right with the tape recorder…
Would
“The first person in America to be legally recognized as transgender now says he regrets transitioning from his born gender and is campaigning against sex change surgeries, laws, and drugs.
Jamie Shupe became the first American to have his gender legally recognized as “non-binary” – a “third gender” that’s neither male or female – by order of an Oregon court in June 2016.
At the time, Shupe was a transgender female who was born male and had already started taking female hormones when the court ruled that his sex would be changed to non-binary.
Now the former Army sergeant says that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from his military service and was encouraged to switch gender by medical professionals and liberal campaigners, who incorrectly led him to believe he was the “wrong” gender.
Shupe now says he’s been shunned by the LGBT community because of his outspoken disagreement with transgender surgeries and the rise in transitioning of children.”
https://neonnettle.com/news/6781-america-s-first-legally-recognized-transgender-regrets-transitioning
What does “legally recognized as transgender” mean?
What it says on your Driver’s Licence, just like my ‘legally recognized weight’ is still 220. I’d be devastated and my life in ruins if they forced me to change that.
Isn’t not changing sex on a driver’s license or birth certificate. That’s happened way before 2016. Apparently, it’s a third-gender option:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_the_United_States#Third_gender_option
Maybe that doctor that was posing chopped off dick pics I linked to yesterday gave em the green checkmark of legitimacy?
So, kind of like Roe from Roe v. Wade becoming a pro-life activist later in life?
How dare you deadname her. She’s dead to the pro-abortion movement.
“Mother Of 11-Year-Old ‘Drag Kid’ Who Performed At Gay Bar Says Child Protective Services Showed Up At Her Home”
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1106000880405438464
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44631/mother-11-year-old-drag-kid-who-performed-gay-bar-amanda-prestigiacomo
And? Did they do anything?
They gave her a Parent of the Year plaque and a hearty handshake. She’s an inspiration. Unlike those evil abusers who let their kids walk 5 blocks to the park alone.
A pool for what year this kid eventually hacks the mother to death – 2022? 2025? Whatcha got?
Great minds. They think alike. He’s 11 now. I’m guessing the final tumbler clicks when he’s 19. So, put me down for 2026.
I’m just waiting for the story to come out after he’s hit his teen years and decides to butcher her and use her carcass as a skin suit.
See my Jay & Silent Bob link above for reference…
You can disagree with the way they raised their child and you can take issue with pre-pubescent kids transitioning, but for the state to take your child away because of how you raise your children is more offensive, in my opinion. Unless his physical safety was in danger this seems excessive.
He was dancing for tips in drag at a bar… I’m pretty all in on parent’s rights but when you make your 11 year old an exotic dancer…Goddammit sometimes sticking to your principles is painful; times when they make you support prepubescent drag shows is one of those times.
I agree. But, I’m going to ask one question. What if we weren’t talking about a little boy in drag being dragged into a gay bar to perform by his mother, but a little girl being shown off in a strip club by her father. Does anyone doubt for a second she’d have been in foster care and he’d be in prison before the story even made the news?
That’s a very fair point. Physical harm should be the standard. We can’t expect the government to impose proper behavior if our society has degenerated to the point of disregarding good parenting in the name of faith. And transgenderism is more of a leap of faith than Jesus rising from the dead.
“Gallup reports that 6 percent of Americans believe socialism means being social, including activity on social media. Don’t be these guys.”
https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1105520076445401089
Don’t stick it in crazy, but what about retarded?
She is showing her boobs!
“Mister, could you be, like, totally socialist and buy me and my friends a sixer of Smirnoff Ice from that 7-11 across the street? We, like, totally forgot our ID at home.”
Beto O’Rourke Is the Candidate For Vapid Morons
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/03/beto-orourke-is-the-candidate-for-vapid-morons.html
I love when the left and right eviscerate their own on their respective political principals. It’s *chef kiss beautiful. Usually hilarious.
I got a giggle out of how that writer stopped just a hair short of calling Obama the candidate for vapid morons too.
Shorter version: “We need a hard leftist, not a squish.”
Are you calling for a Man of Steel!
I prefer a hard leftist over a squish in a contest against Trump any day. If the struggle is between ideology and not policy as so many talking heads seem to indicate, I’d rather it all be laid bare to see which wins out in the end.
We’re all going to take it in the end.
Was this article about another teacher banging her students a hoax? I aske because of this line in it:
“With several McCracken County employees in trouble for sexual offenses, it brings up the question: How did this school handle this situation?”
Life is better than any fucking fiction man.