THEM NEEDED BIGGER BOAT.
SEA SMITH SO HAPPY! HE GET DO MORNING LINKS. HE LIKE NEW LINKS WORLD ORDER. HE NOW GIVE GREAT LINKS FOR GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS. ENJOY. READ. COMMENT. BE HAPPY IT FRIDAY!
SEA SMITH GIVE LINKS ON FAVORITE SUBJECT. SHIP TROUBLE!
- THIS FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS COMMENTER YUSEF?! HIM OK, NOT ON SHIP? THIS NO SEA SMITH FAULT. NO LIKE DARDANELLES. TOO HARD SAY.
- JAPAN SHIP, NO HURT WHALE! STORY NOT WHAT YOU THINK. … WAIT, HOPE IT NOT FRIEND NINGEN! SEA SMITH GO CALL.
BLOOP?
- THIS NO SEA SMITH FAULT! HE NO LIKE OIL TANKER. NO NEED LUBE. HAHAHAHA… SEA SMITH MAKE JOKE!
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
HOW LIKE FUR COAT?
I’m sensing a theme…
Oh, yeah, they’re all local stories. Nothing is too local.
Barring SMOD isn’t everything local?
No.
And that would be the most local story.
“Insignificant little blue planet suffers collision. No survivors.”
” French authorities battled on Thursday to contain an oil slick”
Always blame the French, no wonder the frogs are gay
French authorities last seen frantically dog-paddling against a rip tide.
Twitter sucks after they banned all those people. Well, I mean it always sucked, but when everyone outrageous is all on the same side it just gets boring. After they ban Burge and McCafee, I’m going to weld the doors shut, and burn the place down.
“Fuck you Dorphin! Fuck you Whayres!”
ROR
Nice!
“General cargo ship YUSUF CELAL loaded with gravel ran aground near Topagac, Marmara island southern coast, Marmara sea, Turkey”
I see the problem. It would have been OK if a ship loaded with turkey ran up on gravel.
IF SHIP FULL TURKEY, MAYBE SEA SMITH GO LOOK! THEN SEA SMITH HAVE THANKSGIVING EVERY DAY.
SEA SMITH should be wary of turkey, they were recalled yesterday.
Were they eating romaine lettuce?
What can they say? They were Hungary.
You need to Czech your humor at the door.
Don’t go Russian to judgement here.
Italy(a), y’all will be sorry when Swiss gets here and narrows his Gaza; he’s super Syria about the puns thing.
You’re stretching a bit there. Maybe some Greese for the mental gears will help.
I’ve had to digest so many bad puns, I think my belly is Belgian.
You didn’t have to Finnish them all.
Norway I was going to stop.
Oman, why did I not think of that?
It was a pretty Swede reply.
SEA SMITH. Turkish prison. It computes.
80 injured aboard ferry after suspected collision with marine animal in Sea of Japan
GODZILLA RETURNS
That must have been one helluva a marine animal. Or the whales have finally decided to get their revenge on the Japanese.
GOJIRA!
There goes Tokyo Tower – again.
Just to be on the safe side I’ve now subscribed to PewDiePie.
Why are you trying to kill Pie?
Honk!
Do you kill or eat pie?
There was something for this.
NSFW – bad words
It’s another meme
Yes, I know. It’s as if you’ve never seen any of my bad attempts at comedy before.
You play the straight man so well that sometimes I can’t tell if you’re breaking character or not.
Also I thought maybe it was too soon, but then I remembered it’s never too soon.
I read ‘marmara sea’ as ‘mammary’.
I need more coffee, and less Q links.
Q links are a gateway drug (or so I’ve been told).
I read it as “marinara”, now I want Italian food.
Glib identity confirmed. Titties, food and only lacking beer for the trifecta.
BOURBON!
Good morning, SEA! Question: are mermaids real and, if so, how do they reproduce?
tittyfucking?
broadcast spawning.
Give a sperm whale a blow job?
I always wondered about that. If you are dating a mermaid, is it just blowjobs?
No, they will rip you to shreds so the spawnlings have something to feed upon.
now now… based on my (many many) viewings of Splash! mermaids can transform themselves into Darryl Hannah as need be.
I’ll be in my bunk.
That was just a fever dream from an infected bite wound.
They have a secret blowhole
The male creates a nesting site in the gravel and defends it. The females deposits hundreds or thousands of eggs in the nest and then the male hovers just upstream and releases his milt over the eggs. Very pedestrian and un-sexy.
MERMAIDS NO REAL. JUST SILLY EXCUSE HOOMAN SAILORS USE TRY RAPE SEALS OR WALRUS. CRAZY HOOMAN MCAFEE AT LEAST HONEST ABOUT WHAT HIM WANT RAPE IN OCEAN.
He’s impressive, but even McAfee can’t rape a humpback whale. She was totally consenting.
“Any attempt to address national problems, of any nature, is doomed to failure. The best that can be hoped is a solution driven by conflict and incomplete in substance. Until we free ourselves, we are powerless to create any real change. And since our insane government keeps massive secrets from us and is masterful at disinformation, there is not a single National issue that we know the true state of. How then can we address it? You cannot fix what you cannot see.”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iwIIaosXoaD7aO_6N-LCGj5pbNgiP2uBT2abt1aX3h4/edit
*fiercely waves tiny American flag*
Funnily enough, I’m cleaning my cube and found two tiny american flags.
Futurama already answered that question.
Mermaids are real (tw: autoplay audio and video), And as to how they reproduce, they are the product of Florida Man and manatee. Any mermaids born are put in a state park and protected.
They lay their eggs and you rub one out.
Y’all need Oglaf
The guy gives a master class on how to be pan without being an obnoxious woke fuckhead.
Not sure if you are a fan but before Oglaf, they did Platinum Grit, and it was great.
Was unfamiliar, will now familiarize myself with extreme prejudice. Thanks.
A tale of two headlines. Can you tell which sites posted these stories?
“AOC draws ire ripping ‘your thoughts and prayers’ after Christchurch mosque shootings”
“Ocasio-Cortez hits NRA after New Zealand shooting: ‘What good are your thoughts and prayers?'”
“AOC draws ire ripping ‘your thoughts and prayers’ after Christchurch mosque shootings”
Daily Caller?
“Ocasio-Cortez hits NRA after New Zealand shooting: ‘What good are your thoughts and prayers?’”
NYT?
Fox and CNN?
What good does saying “what good do thoughts and prayers do?”?
Like I said last thread. No one can change the past, and gun laws don’t stop this shit. Let people take care of each other. Saying “what good are your thoughts and prayers” is as cliche as “thoughts and prayers” with no good will
“lmao get fucked” is the only reasonable response to a mass shooting in 2019
You get to feel all warm and smug inside.
About as much good as passing gun control laws.
I always send along some experimental reanimating gel as well. Doesn’t hurt.
The NRA is a very powerful political force in New Zealand. Brave. Stunning and brave.
Since the guy called himself an ecofascist and wanted an extreme Green New Deal, maybe she should shut the fuck up.
I think if she closes her mouth for more than a minute her eyes would explode out of head.
It’s weird that the new hip thing is to chastise people for offering their sympathy, but it does tell you a lot about the modern left.
Also, semi-related: it finally happened. My wife finally proved she’s basically just in a quest to troll the shit out of me until I have a stroke. Yesterday she says, “Oh my god, you know who my new favorite politician is?”
“No, fuck no, don’t god damn say it.”
“What’s her name? Cortez something?”
“Get out of my sight. Either stop drinking or drink a hell of a lot more.”
“You just don’t like her because she’s a woman, and you can’t stand women in politics.”
“Well, she does make Nancy Pelosi look like an intelligent, reasonable person, so she may in fact be capable of miracles.”
I’m going to blame it on Maryland’s absolutely shit performance yesterday.
Politics and marriage are rough.
I had my wife 80% converted to libertarianism from extreme SJW…. but TDS has taken hold – which would be fine, except TDS requires that everyone who says bad things about Trump be applauded, even if they are severely mentally retarded or morally bankrupt.
So now I try really, really hard to avoid disagreeing with her feelz out loud. Because, as you probably know, wives tend to have that “if you disagree with me on something it is a personal attack” gene installed with the wedding ring.
Yeah, I just told her straight up that I’m not going to talk about politics with her because I don’t care what Trump’s latest tweet said and because she can’t discuss politics with me without trying to “win”. It’s a little sad because we used to be able to have civil, interesting debates, but when Obama came in it turned into a fight any time I didn’t talk about how wonderful he was, and with Trump it’s the opposite. But it’s fine, because there are much more important things in life.
There are a few, narrowly defined things in politics that my wife and I can discuss, mostly centering around civil rights and cops not mowing down innocent young black men.
Other than that, we generally steer clear other than the occasional ascerbic noting of what happened that day, sans commentary.
Did she really say something about the NRA? Wtf would the NRA possibly have to do with events in a foreign country?
She’s both cunning AND stupid.
Look. Dude had a gun.
QED, dumbass.
What part of “gun” was too hard to understand? Someone had a gun and did something bad. Therefore, everyone who thinks guns have a use is literally Hitler. And Hitler was this really bad leader who was a white supremacist, which is the worst thing you can be, so if you don’t think guns are the devil then you are a white supremacist and Hitler.
Well, really, what New Zealand needs is common sense gun control. It’s not the 1800s. The Kiwis don’t need to be running around armed to the teeth with fully automatic assault grenade launchers like they do.
It’s time to upgrade to fully automatic rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Now you have made the internet unsafe. Nobody can feel safe around here… we need a safe space! Your speech is dangerous and harmful, and it would be totally appropriate to use actual violence to stop such violent speech.
Plus, talking about RPGs is racist, because they use RPGs in the middle east. Or Africa, or some other country like that, where people are like, brown or something. So check your racist privilege. /AOC voice.
It was also a 40k reference.
*loads bolter*
Bad shit in New Zealand
I first read that as Bat shit.
Guano, you may be more apropo
Kind of surprised that wasn’t in the links. And of course the NZ Prime Minister described the murders as “right wing extremism”. OK, no big objection to that, but…nevermind. The obvious double standard is obvious.
There are no right wing anythings in New Zealand. It is the land of queens.
Yea, but define “right-wing”.
“The 17-minute video ends with the gunman driving away in a beige Subaru station wagon.”
Has anyone seen SugarFree?
OK, I found him.
“‘Joy Behar Explains Her Sex Routine
https://decider.com/2019/03/14/the-view-joy-behar-sex-routine-mccain/“
Not clicking that. I’ll click a lot of things, but not that.
You don’t want to know what idiot actually pounds that land whale?
I cant decide if Im glad I ate breakfast before reading that, or having 2nd thoughts.
Crusty doesnt hang around here so I am betting no one clicks that link
Not clicking. This seems like a crime against humanity.
I assume it involves a lot of loud obnoxious honking and estrogen cream.
Don’t even think about it. *Lowers eye brow and points*
I figure it just involves lots of smelly fingers.
beige Subaru station wagon
White supremacist identifying as a lesbian.
So the shooter was a lesbian?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6811785/Shooter-opens-fire-New-Zealand-injures-four-people-witnesses-say-heard-20-shots.html
Buried in that avalanche:
So fuck off slavers. You can’t have them.
The killer also had some FB post from 10 years ago when he was in Pakistan. Something along the lines of, “These are the most kind-hearted, generous people I’ve ever met”. (Saw that on the news, but maybe they got the account wrong). This is another weird shooting like the Las Vegas one.
Also, this doesn’t look to righty to me.
Nixonian Leftist.
Seriously. You could pick any one of those spokes and use it to label him as anything. Almost anything besides “individualist”.
by wearing a garbage bag…
Katie Holmes ramps up her sex appeal in thigh-baring PVC leather skirt on the heels of a rumored split from longtime boyfriend Jamie Foxx
Katie Holmes has “heifers”. Now I am truly getting old…
“PVC leather skirt”
SMDH
Katie Holmes’ calves. Thicc?
Something something laying pipe.
The sad slide of Katie Holmes’ looks is a stain on America that will never wash away.
She has nothing on Sherylinn Fenn, who looks like DiFi now.
Yeah, Fenn is just a goddamn shame.
Looks like she is wearing a garbage bag.
In my defense, I read the link.
To be honest, it looks more like the plastic outer packaging of a Gulf War I era MRE.
Mmmm… dehydrated pork patty, cheese spread, crackers, sachets of ersatz coffee, powdered drink mix, and sugar, and a wee bottle of Tabasco. Good times…
The woman isn’t aging well.
I’m sure each and every one of us is an eternal Adonis.
I was thinking about Net Neutrality yesterday. Isn’t it funny that the people who decried the end of a free and open internet, and warned of mass internet censorship were right? I mean it’s the companies that pushed for NN that are doing it but still…
Minnesota Democrat Leaders Reportedly Looking for Primary Challenger Against Ilhan Omar
No chance. This grifter will be in place long after I flee this stupid fucking state.
Not very woke.
She barely even tries to conceal her hatred. It just oozes from her in every clip I’ve seen of her. Team Blue has no problem with hatred, but they usually like it masked with something like “hope and change”. I think she’ll get ousted if not next election, then the next one.
I’d like to see a clip of people denouncing the Covington kids next to a clip of them making excuses for Omar.
I’m guessing they write it off as “passion against injustice”. I see it as a POS human that likes seeing groups of people attack each other.
If it were not for double standards, they would have none, man…
Seriously how fricken pretend-woke and stupid do you have to be to vote in racist losers like Ellison and Omar. No excuse Minnesota. None. I’ve been watching her asking questions on committees. She’s insufferable and painful to listen to. The temptation to smack that grin off her face is enormous.
Media did its best to hide this shit because getting a democrat elected was more important than anything else. Now they are stuck with this.
Speaking of bullshit. Did anyone of the people in VA accused of various sundry non-SJW activities ever get the hatchet? Or did it all basically go away since the dems realized if they did force these people to be held accountable, they would lose their ability to jury rig the redistricting efforts going on? Yeah, real serious champions of the oppressed these dems…
Is this Minnesota’s revenge for bringing down (((Al Franken)))?
That dude has got to wake up every morning and say “I resigned over *that*??” and then pound his head against the bathroom mirror in disbelief.
Mogadishu, Minnesota
Funds from welfare scams being shipped back to Somalia.
Hey now, it’s not welfare, it’s foreign aid.
Libertarian moment?
How else are they gonna have roadz?
We can’t possibly have an adult discussion about Somali cultural norms because their skin color is different.
Fulfill their desires and permanently ship them to the last ISIS holdout in Syria.
I’ve got some thoughts on how to handle the politicians who enable this bullshit as well.
Wow. Great minds, I guess.
And this will not even cause a ripple here. The new fuckhead governor will probably just double the funding to these programs to make up for the money that left.
“The new fuckhead governor will probably just double the funding to these programs”
Easy-peasy. Just raise taxes.
Let’s export this social democratic thing across the whole nation, it’ll be great. Maybe we can get billions transferred out of the country to terrorist organizations. Well beyond the amount the Federal government already sends out.
We are Sweden before they realized, to late, that it won’t work. The economy has always been strong enough in the Cities to accommodate the bullshit fucking programs. Also, there is a bizarre sense of superiority among many of my proggie state mates. Like we are this bastion of enlightenment in a world of goobers. It would be funny if it wasn’t so harmful.
Sweden (now Mogadishu) on the Mississippi.
A large part of (northern) MN, where the main industry is bad backs, are probably net tax consumers. Help Wanted signs are like a window decoration for many of the retail stores. The signs never come down.
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Gets Suspended Jail Term
I’m sure Ghosn will be handled this lightly as well.
Who doesn’t like cake?
Hitler cake at the center of Italian teen scandal
The whole point of the joke is that it shocks sensitibilities, so yes, there was intent to offend.
But that also should not be anything that goes past the immediate social circle. There is no reason a juvenile joke from Italy should be being discussed, well, by anyone who doesn’t know the kid.
Especially, as you point out it’s not particularly funny. Teens have been getting their kicks shocking their elders since forever. Barring allowing parents to summarily execute them, it’s not going to stop.
It’s hilarious in Italian.
15 year-old boys are shitlords? Pictures at eleven.
Happy Holocaust?
*honk honk*
I’d have offered those snitching friends a slice with a long knife.
urged “ANPI to investigate and seek appropriate measures against the parents and the pastry cook” for offending
Ok. You were offended. So fucking what? What’s an “appropriate measure”?
“What’s an “appropriate measure””
Not, sure. If they were Japanese, clearly we’d nuke them.
Get them fired, their kids kicked out of school, their ISPs to cancel them and all their bank accounts closed?
That seems a bit extreme for people merely taking offense.
Lets just make them bake the hitler cake instead.
If someone’s offended, they should be entitled to one free hug. From the bailiff, say, or maybe even the judge. The end.
Nothing a simple “What the fuck is wrong with you?” couldn’t handle.
This? This is a story? Oy vey!
Democrat Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang: ‘One Generation Away From Americans Shooting Asians’
What a shitbag. Back in the ’80s Japan was the boogeyman. And nothing else happened.
That’s retarded.
“Sure, I have no victim cred now, but extrapolate into the future…”
Jesus fucken Christ.
Back in the ’80s I no longer had the fear of turning Japanese. The late ’70s? Completely different scenario.
‘One Generation Away From Americans Shooting Asians’
Two generations. WW2 was 75 years ago.
‘Nam.
”I think we’re one generation away from falling into the same camps
He never heard of FDR?
THE PARTIES SWITCHED!!!
Every time I kill some Chinese I wanna kill some more an hour later. *We’re talking food here, Preet*
I was just thinking about how you never hear that joke anymore. Or the “sprinkle pepper to make someone sneeze” gag.
Aren’t we shooting Asians right now in Afghanistan?
Those aren’t “Real” asians unless you’re in Britain. Don’t you know the term only refers to a subset of people with no rational ties to geography?
Got it. Not the important Asians.
Do you even WWII brah?
Is Howard Zinn stil l influential? The source of this madness has to be rooted in the belief whites are evil and have to be toppled (though not sure how this can happen. Mind you, maybe they know the demographics are shifting in their favour hence all this talk? ). How else to understand this? If you’re a white, moderate Democrat or liberal how can you stand there and listen to someone call you and your race murderers and then vote for them?
It blows my mind.
The entire Democrat field is filled with psychos. How this party continues on is beyond me.
You mean Matt Damon’s favorite historian, Howard Zinn?
Demographics are not the magical thing people make them out to be. Even were people a collective monolith based on hue, you’d have to discard the ‘hispanic’ number, because that is not an ethnic grouping – the palest argentines and the darkest dominicans both get lumped under that header.
As for Zinn, his corruption is still in play because the public schools use his drivel.
What an absolute asshole.
“Whitey ain’t hatin’ on us yet, but give him time.”
If all Asians are like you Yang, you may have a point.
Remember all those lynchings of Russians, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans et al when we were at war with those countries? Me neither.
Shit, there was supposed to be mass lynchings of Muslims after 9/11.
There were… by ISIS
Oh, you mean there were supposed to be mass lynchings of muslims in america by americans in the immediate aftermath.
I can count more Asian-American acquaintances who were pissed that their jobs were off-shored to Asia than I can count white Americans that were pissed that an Asian-American took their job. I know several Americans who are pissed that they got laid off and replaced with Asians living in America working on short contracts without bothering to become citizens – but the anger is directed at their American bosses, not at the schmuck who took over their job.
I was more angry that my job was being offshored to people who were proven incompetent at it. It doesn’t save any money if they spend forty-five minutes and escalate a five minute problem.
Yep, it’s just shifting the shit to someone else’s budget.
Damnation. I watched the guy on Rogan’s podcast. He seemed like a decent fairly moderate Democrat. It was kind of refreshing actually. I miss having Democrats that while I disagreed with their politics at least seemed willing to have discussions that weren’t based totally on bigoted generalizations about racial groups. And now here he is, peddling the same stuff as the rest of them. “Increasingly insecure white majority”? On what evidence? “More and more hostile”? Based on what?
Well, when insulted and attacked routinely by people with far bigger platforms than I have, I do get kinda surly.
Typically I respond by not watching the news.
No, no, you’ll be gunning down the Chinamen any day now. You can’t fool me.
Only after the delivery of T-51b armor arrives.
Contrarain P, Asian American is the preferred nomenclature…
Sorry, must be my increasing insecurity coming out.
I have already shot my load on a ton of hawt Asian chicks…
SHIN SMITH?
DOH!
I have been unmasked!
Can leftists offer up anyone who is not a delusional, hateful, race-baiting asshole?
Like who? Ya know what I’m sayin’? Like, If was the only white guy around, and say, a bunch of Asians guys, like, came at me with knives and those other pointy things, what am I supposed to do? Know what I’m sayin’?
This guy is some piece of work. He strikes me as one of those people that is exceptionally gifted at one thing and is convinced that makes him an expert on all things. It’s one of the most dangerous kinds of stupidity.
Sounds like he’s trying to carve out a new aggrieved minority group. Makes sense, because the Democratic party is completely invested in identity politics. If you want to get ahead in the party, being a member of one of those groups is a huge help.
Asian-Americans have been at the bottom of the Dem victim-stack for decades, and they’re not about the let that change now. This isn’t going to end well for him.
French authorities battled on Thursday to contain an oil slick after the Italian Grande America ship capsized in the Atlantic this week.
Not sure whether to go with a Starbucks or a Berlusconi joke.
Can you combine the two?
Thought I already did.
Bunga bunga?
Grande bunga with extra slick.
I’ve been watching this Scottish police drama called Shetland. Takeaways:
Scotland must use a lot of CCTV – and I mean a lot – because much of the case is broken by them reviewing security camera footage; even on a ferry boat
Seeing a Chinese or Pakistani character speaking with a Scottish Brogue is well, odd too see and hear. (Racist Shitlord!)
I thought the weather in Michigan was dreary, but Shetland looks like a gray-sky rain-drenched circle of hell.
Try a Queen Charlotte Islands winter. Dark, dreary and so wet that you pine for the coming of Dagon.
I assume Scotland went full Orwell along with the rest of the UK.
They’re more left than the English. Wha hoppen to my kin-folk?
The smart ones got out.
*taps side of nose*
Oh and the Homicide detectives don’t carry guns. So the main character, Jimmy Perez, goes into dangerous situations and ends up getting into fisticuffs. I mean wtf, you want me to track down a killer who shot two people and then arrest him with my bare hands?
“Stop! Or I’ll say ‘Stop’ again!”
Ever read Scotland Yard tweets?
Shivers.
Try and tell me the UK hasn’t descended into a police state.
Were they bragging about getting a butter knife off the streets?
I’ve seen it. Beautiful scenery though. And a little rain is no problem for someone visiting from someplace hot. Made me nostalgic for small towns in the Scottish Highlands, where the locals were friendly, but talked amongst themselves in low tones with the sketchiest body language as if they were up to no good.
“…Shetland looks like a gray-sky rain-drenched circle of hell.”
For good reason.
*Me, walking along the seashore near Lindisfarne. The sky is flint grey, The rocks are flint grey, the sea is flint grey with whitecaps and it is raining a mix of rain and ice.*
“Why the fuck would anyone come here? If I was sailing around looking for a place to settle, one look at this place and I would keep sailing.”
Everything up there is a grey-sky, rain drenched circle of hell. There is a reason they stay drunk all of the time.
This
Peat fires, mud, rain and misery.
Because they sailed from somewhere with the same weather, but much poorer soil.
Or other tribes chased them off all the decent places.
Cop shows are how people get inured to losing their rights.
+1 Dick Wolf
I hate cop shows.
I might give an exception to Homicide and Barney Miller, and the Wire although the Wire is only half a cop show at most.
The Shield is my favorite. Especially when I found out it was a documentary.
I forgot about The Shield. Good, but I think they went over-dramatic which blunted some of the impact, and didn’t get the dark humor right.
I watched a couple of episodes of Barney Miller a few weeks ago. Not bad. Made me nostalgic for better times. I also noticed how the old sitcoms really look like theater plays that have been filmed.
I’ll put in a plug for Naked City. NYC in the late ’50s – early ’60s; the cops are all Irish and quick with their batons, the old detective is wise and knows that patience and thoroughness crack cases, and the new detective is trying to learn the ropes. The stories were adapted from actual NYPD case files and it was, IIRC, the first TV show shot entirely on location in NYC. Good stuff.
What ever happened to Homicide, Life on the Street? It was a great show, so why are there no reruns on cable TV?
The original Law & Order was rather benign. I recall a Michael Moriarty episode where he called out an African-American woman for seeing racism everywhere she looked.
When I was in London in 1984, I was approached by a homeless black guy who asked me for spare change… in Allister Cook’s voice. It kind of blew my mind.
I have a friend from college, full-blooded Han Chinese, 1st generation American from Miami. Her family is, for several generations, from Jamaica. Her dad’s Jamaican accent is incongruous as Hell.
If you’d been reading the Laundry Files, you’d know that blanket CCTV is part of their defense-in-depth plans against Case Nightmare Green. However, since the UK fell to an occult extra-dimensional intelligence without any shots really being fired, it was a total balls-up waste.
Worse than that, considering Yorkshire.
My grandmother told me that when she went back to visit her uncle in the early 80s they went to a Chinese restaurant–which was a big deal in Kilmarnock at the time, apparently–and she almost fell out of her chair when the Chinese guy who came to wait on them just dropped a thick-ass brogue on them.
Seeing a Chinese or Pakistani character speaking with a Scottish Brogue is well, odd too see and hear. (Racist Shitlord!)
This reminds me of one time when I was listening to a radio interview of a Texas football player. He had just the most stereotypical full-on Texas country accent, and they were talking about football and then switched to talking about a recent trip he had taken to the land of his ancestors – Japan! His all-American persona was confirmed when his assessment of Japan was that it was a cool place but that it smelled like fish.
Time frame for my Vietnamese family (the kids) to assimilate
2 days – Coke
1 week – peanut butter sammiches
1 month- toss a football
3 months- Y’all comin’ back for dinner?
I remember that in Torchwood. Every episode was them following the bad guys around Cardiff on CCTV.
Where’s John McCain’s grave? My bladder is full.
John McCain aide spread Steele dossier around Washington during Trump’s presidential transition
It’s pretty much a fact that the DOJ told the FBI not to prosecute Hillary, the Russia narrative was fabricated and that there was an attempted soft coup,
Now the question becomes will the United States do the right thing, restore integrity into the system and prosecute Hilary and other traitors? Maybe I’m old fashioned but I do see them as traitors.
What are the odds Barr does so (perhaps after 2020)?
Yep. Trump is holding his fire at least until the Mueller probe is released and even then he might just hold the sword of Damocles over their collective head until after the election. He’s making a list and checking it twice.
Why wait until after the election? Should do it about two or three weeks before the election.
That’s what a smahrt person would do but he’s not a glib.
Hahahahaha. :Big breath: hahahaha.
Trump is going to do nothing about this.
Not true. I’m sure he will whine about it on Twitter and then give a two-hour, rambling, dementia-ridden speech about it at some point.
*Sigh* SF sees the pasts, presents and futures in the Multiverse. I have lost hope and only the sweet embrace of the uncaring Cosmos awaits…
Bruce Ohr Revealed Political Operatives Got The FBI To Investigate The NRA
Weaponized bureaucracies are more dangerous than any armament. I think it’s time for some common sense federal agency control, starting with strict personnel limits. No legitimate agencies need more than 10 people.
Our brave and loyal public servants are literally the only thing standing between us and literally Hitler.
That’s not even enough for a decent SWAT team. How do you expect the DoEd to function without a SWAT team?
Nobody needs more than two federal agencies.
There’s voting, and so that means the government is always doing the right thing. Unless they’re acting on behalf of a Republican.
I’m not even a fan of the NRA and this shit makes me want to join them. Barry ran the executive branch like the corrupt Chicago machine pol he is. The man makes Nixon look like a boy-scout.
This sounds like a toss-off line, but it really shocks the conscience that we live in a time where wire-tapping the opposing campaign doesn’t even rate a raised eyebrow. Then they openly bragged about moving classified information around in order to leak it after the inauguration – specifically with the intent to bring down the incoming president.
The press excused the Clinton administration acting like a bunch of schoolboy crybabies when they left the white house (remember all the W’s being removed from the keyboards, etc.?) – but I doubt you could have gotten any of them to condone even 1% of what the Obama administration would later do – and yet they not only fail to object, they openly cheer it on.
Really, really bizarre, this world we live in.
“Two weeks to go! Clock ticks down to end of voting for British LGBT Awards
The annual British LGBT Awards celebrates the campaigners, community activists and straight allies who have done something to advance the fight for LGBT rights during the past 12 months.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6810041/Two-weeks-Clock-ticks-end-voting-British-LGBT-Awards.html
Now that’s just gay.
Since the group membership conveys special privileges above and beyond the basic brit, shouldn’t this organization be shut down, since it’s passed the goal line?
Jeff Zucker just won some sort of First Amendment circle jerk award so all bets are off.
In all seriousness, I don’t know who that is.
Owner of CNN.
The president of CNN, free speech advocate extraordinaire.
I identify as the winner. Gimme my effin’ award.
Ben Dover is on the way to provide it.,..
That would be a lot more interesting if it was the UK LGBT AVN awards.
Best scene of the new Gervais Netflix show “After Life” is when his father (Walder Frey, who has Alzheimers) recognizes him for the first time in a long time. Gervais responds with “I love you, Dad.” and the dad, now absent-faced again says “Gay.”
What would SEA SMITH do?
My life in sex: ‘My fear of losing my erection meant I could no longer enjoy sex’
You know who else was afraid of loosing an election…
R.E.M.?
LCD Soundsystem
Andrew Yang?
Shinzo Abe
Tracy Flick?
Lucille Bluth?
“I was just screwing other women to see if my willy still worked!”
“Oh, alright then.”
^^^ Correct answer.
Best excuse for cheating I’ve ever heard. Get this guy a medal.
Just don’t try to hang it on his dick
SEA SMITH NO RELATE. HE ALWAYS READY!
If it lasts more than 4 hours, you should see a doctor about that. By see, I mean rape.
Closeted cuck?
New York Public Library Issues Lou Reed Cards
I hope Lou can make it out for the ribbon cutting ceremony
Lou Reed sucked! There! I said it! *Heaves a giant sigh of relief and pelts away into the distance*
Joins the Festus long-distance run.
“Shit happens.”
Not a fan either, I’m just here for the memes.
The worst thing Metallica ever did was not shit on Napster or release St. Anger, it was collaborate with Lou Reed.
“Whiskey in the Jar-O” would like a word if you’ll just step this way, Sir.
I like Whiskey in the Jar.
Eh. He could have used Bowie to produce all of his albums. Transformer has some great songs on it — and a couple of total misses. Whether he was any good or not, a lot of the stuff he and John Cale were experimenting with in The Velvet Underground had long reaching influence.I have to say that the Rock’n’Roll Animal EP blew my mind the first time I heard it — although that was a lot more about putting together a ridiculous band. Still they were playing his riffs.
I’m a big fan on John Cale, especially his Island years. Lou? Meh – good stuff in *VU but his solo work leaves me cold.
*come to think of it, I don’t own a single VU album now.
Satellite of Love, Vicious, Andy’s Chest….pretty darn good songs to me.
“I hit you like a flower” – gayyyyyy
White Light is still etched in my brain.
Add some White Heat and White Trash and that brain etching will be scrubbed away!
Bring Back Eisenhower Socialism
Ah, President Ike. The UCS of Presidents.
Eisenhower wore a lot of gloves?
The bill signing gloves; the Mamie-handling gloves, the White House Privy gloves…
The Churchill and DeGaulle gloves must be kept at room temperature and at least ten meters apart at all times.
“the wealthy paid a top tax rate of 91 percent on incomes over the equivalent of $1.7 million for an individual and $3.4 million for a couple.”
Correction- that’s what the law was. Did anyone pay that much?
But yes Democrats and Republicans are the same brand of fascists. That’s why the fight so bitterly.
By all means. Bring back those marginal rates — and all the deductions. Set federal spending as a % of GDP to the same level. Set federal employment as a % of population to the same level. Set regulations to the same level. I’ll bet you quickly find out that Eisenhower socialism was an austerity hellscape.
Also, bring back the capital gains exclusion
“the wealthy paid a top tax rate of 91 percent”
No, they didn’t.
That’s also when companies starting compensating people in other ways to avoid the taxes. Company cars. employer paid health insurance, stock options. life insurance, etc. All were schemes to avoid the tax man.
Generous expense accounts, subsidized/free cafeterias, company sponsored mortgage plans, company doctors/nurses/clinics, etc. All of those kept more money in the employees’ pockets without increasing their wages.
For perspective, $1.7 million in 1953 dollars is about $25 million in 2019 dollars in purchasing power. As a share of income, it is closer to $45million.
Not even talking about loopholes and exclusions, what number of people even fell into that bracket?
1. That’s not socialism
2. The effective tax rate was something like 42% on the highest income
3. Tax rates were already that high before he took office.
As awful as stealing income and dispensing it on a whim is (I’m not calling that “redistribution”), it’s not really state owned means of production. I always thought that was a key element of socialism.
You mean like CalPERS, CalSTERS, The Fed, etc?
Times change and so do definitions. Got me anymore. I just call them all slavers.
Aren’t you in Japan? The BoJ and Government Pension Fund own huge chunks of the largest companies.
And the National Postal Service. They were cleared to use funds from savings accounts to invest in the market.
So you’re saying the article is disingenuous at best.
I see this mendacious approach all of the time. “Your conservative/libertarian/right wing heroes were all socialists! What about that, huh?”
Fuck Eisenhower. Fuck Reagan. That isnt what we are advocating for. We are advocating for self ownership. Bringing up some other asshole that didn’t respect self ownership is not an argument.
I’m not saying I’m a socialist but I’m a socialist.
Whenever I see articles like this mocking the fear of socialism (which is justified in my view) they reveal they’re cowards. Out with it. Like we know the liberal media existed but was denied, it’s the same here with writers and politicians in Congress. Admit it so that way it can be debated in good faith.
This jabbing and pulling back socialism where they knowingly propose a socialist idea while claiming it’s not at the same time is a tactic that people should read through.
It’s worked gangbusters in our home and native land so seeing as we’re pretty similar why wouldn’t they try to emulate us?
This^^^
In the same article they call Republicans hysterical. “They call everyone socialist”,but then they don’t stick to the definition of socialist to call Eisenhower a socialist. And finally the then do call for the means of production to be seizes by government.
“YOU SAID SOCIALISM WAS TAKING OVER THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND THAT YOU DIDN’T WANT THAT! SO WHY ARE YOU TAKING OVER MY BUSINESS?!”
“The situation is fluid. Thanks for your vote!”
/waves as person is hauled away!
New socialism is just the same as old, except now the fucks in power hide the fact that they are pulling all the strings from the plebes whom are told they get to keep their doctor, healthcare, jobs, and even ownership of their companies…
Ike had two years of an actual surplus, not a Clinton “surplus”.
Medicare was created under Johnson, not Eisenhower.
Other fun things the “socialist” Eisenhower did:
– Deported millions of illegal immigrants en masse with no “due process” in an event called Operation Wetback. Nobody batted an eye and Congress raised no objections.
– Supported coups in a number of left-wing states against democratic governments in favor of authoritarian ones, like Guatemala and Iran.
– Backed the right-wing illiberal Republic of China government against the communist People’s Republic of China, including guaranteeing the former’s security in Taiwan.
– Had a cabinet full of corporate executives that was dubbed “eight millionaires and a plumber”
– Oh, and the Interstate Highway System that bears his name was created for the use of the military against potential communist invasion
You missed what is, IMO, the most important thing Ike did. He was the last POTUS to preside over a balanced budget (FY 1957).
I was only calling out things that hadn’t been mentioned before and undermined the “Ike was a pinko” narrative. It’s rare to find a socialist who considers a balanced budget a good thing; today “spend til you drop” is much more common than “be frugal for tommorrow”.
Also, it’s hilarious that the first result for “u.s. budget deficit eisenhower” is a NYT piece about how he came together with the Democrats to balance the budget for 1960. The real balanced budgets happened during the brief window when the Republicans controlled Congress.
” the wealthy paid a top tax rate of 91 percent on incomes over the equivalent of $1.7 million for an individual and $3.4 million for a couple.”
No they didn’t.
What happens in Munson stays in Munson…
Munson Men Accused of Having Sex with Farm Animals Negotiate Plea Agreements
Judging entirely by appearance, I’d say “Not surprised”.
That’s a Sunday Go-To-Meeting type of link that keeps me coming back to this Family Friendly site!
Not one of them named Bubba?
That was the goat.
who were having sexual intercourse with horses, dogs, a cow and a goat on a daily basis.
Of course the goat was last. They’ll eat anything.
1460 counts? How did they not come down with hoof and mouth disease?
Who the hell sat there and counted out 1460 acts of intercourse with an animal? Really?
I’m guessing it’s animals multipled by days, resulting in a gross estimate.
You can say that again.
A really gross estimate.
1460/365 = 4. Basically, the guys admitted they’d been banging the animals every day for 4 years, so someone did the math (but left off leap day) and charged them to their confession.
Stormy’s camera man?
Brings new meaning to “Munsoned.”
1460? That seems like a oddly exact number. Not 1461 or 1459? How do they know this?
Admit it Suthen. Your suspicions were aroused when 1460 was not divisible by 69. Right?
They apparently had taken pictures of at least some of it, maybe there 1460 identifiably distinct acts in those photos?
We are doomed
https://youtu.be/MRb2Iqcr9N0
Agreed. Miserable self-absorbed people should not be reproducing. Let the Lach’s of the world keep spawning and we’ll initiate a call for “Liebensraum” for the Glibertariat!
Agreed but when they one to legislate how many children we can have then we run into a problem.
If you’re the type of person who thinks you shouldn’t have children because of environmental apocalypse, you’re right.
The world is better now than it ever has been, and is getting better all the time.
I wouldn’t go nearly that far.
Why not? It is true. Not all of the world. Much of it is stuck in a pre-industrial economy or an uncivilized culture but more of it than ever is not.
In what way is it worse or getting worse?
I suppose if you price in the future pain and suffering that is coming due when all this debt finally explodes you could make a case for it being a pretty awful time. If you have cancer but you don’t know it…
Yeah, stuff like that. Re-centralization of government and industry after a half century of neoliberal consensus. Abrogation of most of the rights hard won from the Enlightenment until the fall of the iron curtain. Average lifespan falling on average for the first time in a century. Income stagnant for 30+ years. Diminishing quality of increasingly centralized health care which is well on its way to full nationalization.
Let me turn the question around, in what way is it better or getting better? Is there really anything you can point to besides legal weed and South Park?
You mean the U.S. national debt? If it were paid it off tomorrow, it would still be the world’s richest country by far.
https://humanprogress.org/ylin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6743223/The-world-peaceful-fewer-people-dying-armed-conflicts-scientists-say.html
Local, state, national, corporate, consumer etc. That’s not even including unfunded entitlements.
Those are just numbers on ledgers.
Real prosperity is based on technology, natural resources, and property rights.
They may be just numbers, but those are numbers people have been promised. I hope your right and they just default on a bunch of them rather than continue being bled dry in perpetuity.
Globally the world is unquestioningly getting better but you are playing ostrich to try and argue that in the richest countries things are not going backwards.
Great you have a super computer in your pocket that allows you to vapidly walk around and break imaginary pieces of candy. That same super computer is very rapidly being converted into a tool that the government and it’s corporate lackeys use to monitor everything you do and punish you for anti social behavior. The Chinese are at least honest about what they are doing with their system of social credit but you have to be a moron to not see that the same thing is playing out in every advanced economy.
The odds that our rights of any kind and that includes our property rights will survive in any meaningful way into the future without having a civil war of some sort are diminishing every year. We may not be looking at the future that Orwell envisioned in 1984 but Huxleys dystopia isn’t a much better and even that is better than we have to look forward to.
Really? The poorest people in the world are richer (not rich but richer), nobody dies of smallpox, there are only 3 cases of polio, and the percentage of people who have access to fresh water and sufficient food has never been higher. Sanitation is almost universally better and the number of young children who die of preventable disease has never been lower. Objectively, this is the best humanity has ever had it.
And in spite of the best efforts of the misanthropic leftists I fully expect circumstances to continue improving.
If there were no progs, we’d do even better.
The bottom 50% of the world is quickly catching up to where the upper 10% was 50 years ago. That’s good for them, of course. But I’m not part of the bottom 50% of the world cohort, so it doesn’t really do anything for me.
That upper 10% stagnated 30 years ago and is doing its damnedest to throw it in reverse.
30 years ago the best video game in existence was Wing Commander…
You may be right about that stagnation thingy.
and 25 years ago it was X-Com: Enemy Unknown (which I still play once in a while)
Thirty years ago was 1989, Wing Commander was not playable.
c.1992, WC1 on a 286 PS2.
It was actually MORE playable running that slow. Eventually i played it on a more capable machine and couldn’t hit anything.
You had to run special software (or just push the Turbo button on some models) to make WC2 slow down enough to be playable on a 486DX.
WC1 was great on a 386SX.
And because I know that, I’m having real difficulty believing that copies of WC1 weren’t out in public by 1989. By 1990 I was living in a dorm with a NeXT salesman.
Look, if you have a source that shows a release date before 1990, thats one thing, but all the info I can turn up says late 1990.
LH, XCom2 is great! And the XCom remake was wonderfully faithful. I have the whole collection. And yes, I’ve gone back and played the original many times over the last 25 years.
I think I still have the ship schematic that came in the box, if I can find it I’ll check the copyright date.
Obligatory. Also, just a good site to swing by now and again for perspective, and to dilute some of the cynicism that naturally crops up when you’re bombarded by stories about people like AOC.
People such as AOC are the result of affluence, not poverty.
Yup, guilty feeling idiots that need to virtue signal with force to have others see they are not one of the “bad people”.
Atonement for imaginary sins.
Which is why per-capita GDP increases in Uganda don’t really do much for me in terms of measuring human progress. If we used the year of my birth, 1986, as a starting point, and we confine our analysis to the countries that formed the allied powers in WWII, the picture is substantially less Pollyannaish than you get from a 5,000 year time frame on a simplified graph.
I’m doing better than I was a decade ago.
A decade ago, I was doing better than ten years before that.
The pattern continues. I’m sorry that your personal trajectory hasn’t improved.
Someone gave you a super-computer (>1GHz), that people can buy for $99.
In 1986 a Mac Plus was 8 MHz and cost $2600.
In today’s dollars, that could build an 8 core i9 with a monitor the size of Rhode Island.
Undeniably economies of scale continue to bring us a larger quantity of cheaper stuff, despite all our best efforts politically to retard that process. But I think looking at it purely in those terms is, at least to a certain extent, whistling past the graveyard on the major shifts taking place politically, economically, and socially.
UCS may be an instructive example. it’s true that my life’s no better today than it was 10 years ago, and very probably won’t be 10 years hence, for reasons having little if anything to do with the general environment. But for the mass of men, accumulating wealth was certainly easier 20 years ago before we went full Japan on monetary policy, the economy shed millions of jobs, housing increased 400% in price, tuition increased 1000% in price, and business formation fell to the lowest level since the Great Depression. In the next 10 years as you start to age into the high-use part of the medical system you can expect to wait 2-3 times longer than you would have 10 years ago to see a physician for an average of 8 minutes — and that’s if we refrain from fucking things up any worse than they are right now. Survival rates for most terminal illnesses haven’t budged in 20 years. When you do wind up in the hospital, you can expect medical errors and MRSA at far higher rates. With the political movements now afoot, you may not be able to count on that accumulated wealth either.
It’s not as if it’s all doom and gloom per se, but there are trends now shaping up that are anything but an unvarnished good, and certainty about an ever-improving future is foolhardy under any circumstances, IMO.
Which 99% of people will only use to look at cat memes and surf porn.
Sure a more powerful computer in the hands of a software developer or graphic artist is a massive boost in productivity. The actual benefits of more powerful technology stopped really adding anything to the average persons life a long time ago. Sure you can play a new video game that has better graphics with that new hardware, but if neither the hardware or video game ever existed you would receive the exact same gain in happiness/quality of life playing the video games that existed at the turn of the century.
More bread and circuses, less freedom.
If Warren Buffet is given $5,000,000 dollars by the Federal Reserve, per capita income goes up.
“In today’s dollars, that could build an 8 core i9 with a monitor the size of Rhode Island.”
30 years ago I could get 4 channels of government propaganda on a 25-inch CRT 18-20 hours a day. Thanks to human progress I now can get 600 channels of government propaganda 24/7 on an 80-inch flat screen on every wall of every establishment I walk into after I empty my pockets and get scanned for metal objects.
The pumps at the gas station with the wee screens broadcasting non-stop commercials while I fill up the car make me question my commitment to the NAP and my dislike of vandalism.
AOC = America On-Communism
Crenshaw on illegal immigration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGXFQL8pkw
I hope he’s president some day. Not because I agree with all of his policy’s. I just think he is the best chance we have of getting someone in office who would wear a monocle and top hat. The top hat is going to take some convincing.
It would certainly inspire another SugarFree series.
A leader with an eye patch is EXACTLY what the world needs.
Crenshaw should be one of us. He already sports the monocle! And Kirsten Neilson? Solid wood!
Worst white supremacist ever.
“He’s calling the shooter a fine person!”
Don’t worry somehow it will still be his fault.
Kamala Harris outraged that Pence won’t have one-on-one meetings with women. Way to remind everyone that “one-on-one meetings” with Willie Brown is how she got her start.
Shorter Harris: I want to carve up the country in secret TOO!!!
How dare the Vice President deny young women the very means Kamala used to get her start in politics! I mean, she rode Willie Brown’s penis into a political career. Why should other young leftists be denied this opportunity?
Yeah who could possibly have their lives potentionally ruined by unfounded accusations in this day and age. It’s not like, say, a federal judge, had some bullshit happen to him that might discourage any risks
“Kamala Harris outraged…”
If ever there was a reason to adopt the Pence rule, that is it. I am surprised they haven’t tried to pile a bunch of lies on Pence Kavenaugh-style.
She wants to arouse him. WE’RE ON TO YOU KMALA!
He had a MAGA hat in his truck. So she slashed his tire
She doesn’t have a name?
Why? You trying to get her into Harvard?
Fucking make her suck cock in jail.
I wrote about Dugas last year when he adopted a homeless teenage boy he had discovered sleeping behind one of the retail stores where he worked.
She really taught this asshole a lesson.
What a shitlord.
Getting myself thrown to jail to #ownthetrumptards
“When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong….”
Fearing for His Life
That’s not journalism.
The NYPD report paints a different picture. It claims that officers were staking a known drug location. They observed Orta briefly enter and then exit the Hotel Richmond with a young woman, seventeen-year-old Alba Lekaj. When the officers approached, they saw Orta stuffing a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol down Lekaj’s pants. The gun recovered from the scene had no bullets, no clip, and no fingerprints. It had been reported stolen in Michigan in 2007.
Sounds legit.
Oh, no doubt. It’s the flowery prose that sets my teeth on edge. Tell the story without the superfluous embellishments.
Oh, I wasn’t getting on you. The purple prose was way too much.
I was just saying how this would scream “drop gun” to anyone but a copsucker.
Yeah, I hate “Nu Journalism”. Tell the fucking story without making a Movie of the Week about it. The facts need to speak for themselves. This is how we get Acosta’d.
What? Baby Browning’s aren’t the pistol of choice among street thugs?
He’s just lucky he didn’t commit suicide by shooting himself 3 times in the back of the head, while handcuffed.
Well, it is .25cal. Just as deadly without a single round in it. Still can be thrown at the target.
*Winces* Ow! That hurt!
I’m pretty sure that Paul Harrel proved that a .25ACP is just as effective as a .22LR
Luckily we don’t live in a police state or anything.
In a real police state that wouldn’t be your avatar holding a gun against his head.
Hi guys. Sorry I haven’t commented or taken part in some time. My life has been very challenging as of late, and I’ve had not much time for the internet, other than shooting from the hip on Twitter.
I am beyond sad and pissed off about this attack in New Zealand. I’ve been there three times and drove logging trucks there a long long time ago, and it’s near and dear to my heart. I spent much of the night texting my friends there, and holding my 10 month old daughter close.
As for the shooting and politics around it, 72 hour rule.
I am currently on my way to Thad Russell’s Renegade U weekend in DC. I will do my best to give him and Kmele Foster a shout out from you scoundrels.
Take care
Does the 72 hour rule prevent us from ridiculing hot takes from people who don’t follow the 72 rule? And enjoy your weekend in DC.
Hot takes are always open for mocking I think.
Wondered where you had wandered off to but figured it was new baby stuff. Good to see you back and best wishes to your Kiwi friends. Hold that little one closer.
Hugging your babies tight is good therapy for a lot of bad shit. Good to see you around.
Hiya Gordo!
I’m glad to hear all is well. Check in more often!
Good to hear you’re okay, hope it gets easier for you soon.
Readers digest version –
My house caught on fire in January. We are still not moved home, and living with my in-laws. FIL just had double knee surgery, wife’s car died, client at work is driving me nuts, we are all broke ….
My life is a country music song right now.
Good lord. I am sorry to hear that.
Few people truly appreciate how bad a house fire is. The fire itself is terrifying. The long term consequences are devastating. I am sorry that you found out the hard way. I hope things get better soon.
Zombie electrical wire cage alive in the basement due to deterioration in the panel. Melted hot wire insulation from joists to things on table underneath, then to firewood pile next to the table.
If we had arrived home 10 minutes later, the house would be gone. Major major major smoke damage and amelioration required.
Sorry 🙁
My favorite country music song is “My wife ran away with my best friend, and I miss him”….
I was all sorts of fucked up from the ice dam on my roof letting snow melt into the ceiling but I’ll take my situation over yours about 100 times. Hope it works out, Friend.
Serious journalism
In the video Op-Ed above, 9-year-old Zayne Cowie turns the table on grown-ups, reading a children’s book written especially for them: “Goodbye, Earth.” It calls out the adults who’ve failed at addressing climate change, leaving the consequences to be dealt with by younger generations.
Zayne Cowie (@zaynecowie) is a 9-year-old climate activist. He’s among a group of children and young adults leading the Global Youth Climate Strike on March 15 and will be striking at City Hall in New York.
WTF? I’ll be goddammed if I’ll watch that video. In a sane world, that kid would be out riding his bicycle in the woods somewhere, instead of being used as a political prop by a bunch of fanatical doomsday cultists.
The Times editorial board is probably working on an impassioned plea to give this kid the vote in federal elections.
>>turns the table on grown-ups
Gosh I’m so frightened.
*Flips table and goes all Baby-Rage*
” 9-year-old climate activist”
How was it said? The word precocious would have fallen out of use if adults didn’t feel bad about calling kids assholes.
Huh, let’s see what Twitter says in their T&C:
1. Who May Use the Services
You may use the Services only if you agree to form a binding contract with Twitter and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction. In any case, you must be at least 13 years old, or in the case of Periscope 16 years old, to use the Services.
I’m sure Twitter will be all over shutting down a 9 year old’s account, right?
(As if it was actually his account and not his parents pulling that crap)
You know what my 9 year old is interested in? Reading books, playing with her friends and playing with her Nintendo Switch. Like a normal kid.
Stop fucking using your children as political props and let them be kids.
When I was 9 I loved these things – #1 My Grandma #2 My dog and cat #3 Lisa Collicutt #4 Reading #5 Candy.
Tell us about Lisa…
Her hair smelled like Froot Loops?
Yep. I was a hopeless romantic when I was wee. My first french kiss!
Collicutt sounds more British than French.
I was reading a wiki article yesterday about British artillery penetrating German “armour”….I get that the gun is British, but that shouldn’t add a “u” to the German armor should it?
As has been stated before… If your argument has to be presented by children to get people to believe it, it’s not a good argument.
enjoy your weekend in DC.
????
That’s just mean.
This.
Is there some protest with people wearing pussy hats? That can be interesting to watch….
No wonder they can’t handle a Brexit if so many people are this dumb…
Maybe the problem is that they only know slang names for it? What’s British slang for that? These fuckers call cigarettes fags, so who the fuck knows what they call a twat?
Fanny. Front bottom. Clunge. Knick-knack. Quim. Grumble and grunt. Fud. Minge.
Thanks for the education SF. You are a national treasure, sir!
Any one of those terms is sufficient to give me erectile dysfunction.
The only part of the female genitalia that the majority of participants labelled correctly was the clitoris.
Figures the FGM capital of Europe would have intimate familiarity with that part.
Calling Tundra and Pope…
I’m in Maple Grove for my son’s peewee B state tourney. They surprised a lot of people to get here. Knocked off Duluth East and a couple others to win regions. The cake eaters didn’t give them much of a chance. In fact Duluth East forfeited their last district game to get a lower seed so they could play Ely. Wrong move! They got pretty chippy at the end of the game. One kid tomahawk chopped another kid and one kid blasted my son off the last face off with 1.8 seconds left (checking, interference, roughing, take your pick). Pretty poor sportsmanship.
Anyway, they would appreciate well wishes, even though AOC doesn’t think they matter… If you’re really bored they play at the Plymouth ice center at 1pm today. Should be some other good games too.
email me at minnetundra at those fuckheads who lie about privacy and being evil.
My office is three minutes from the rink!
“”In monetary terms, the same amount of artificial lighting cost 20,000 times as much in England in the year 1300 as it does today.” — Matt Ridley”
https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1106216417593118720
“How the Cost of Light Fell by a Factor of 500,000”
https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=495
Saw the NZ news before I went to sleep last night. At the time, 4 people had been arrested. It’s only a single shooter now?
NZ PM called it terrorism in her press conference.
YouTube was deleteting reposted video of the attacks, but apparently the shooter was double tapping his victims. My secret relief from other shootings is that the gunmen were fucking incompetent amateurs.
Still photos apparently shows marking on his equipment like “Vienna 1683”. Also, throws out a subscribe to PewDiePie.
“YouTube was deleteting reposted video of the attacks”
Because it isn’t news?
YouTube deletes a lot of things for bullshit reasons. But I won’t chastize them for removing videos of murder.
That’s what LiveLeak is for.
They are covering up the facts of a significant event.
If Zapruder were alive today, his all accounts would be suspended.
I notice that Trump’s name comes up and PewDiePie. Has the blaming started yet? I guess they are to blame the same way that Jodie Foster is responsible for Reagan being shot.
from one of the sidebar articles in the links:
Ever wonder how fast a big ship can put on the breaks?
Well, wonder no more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQdDP5LcNU&feature=youtu.be
Watch and marvel as a Russian freighter takes the wrong route under a bridge…. and then figures it out just a bit too late.
I wonder what the fuckers driving them cars felt when they saw that shit happening right in front of them….
If it’s russia, probably “I hope my dashcam caught that.”
It is Korea…. Russian freighter
Okay.
I have no idea about Koreans.
More lucky than what happened in Louisiana 25 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bayou_Canot_rail_accident
They barely slowed down… were some even aware that a large ship was about to crash into the bridge they were driving across?
If I’m driving across a bridge and I notice a ship about to slam into it, I don’t think i’d slow down.
How the fuck did that ship get that close? If you’re in the superstructure and looking down on the bridge, you’re not going to make it under.
^This
Shit, if you go by how Russian Navy personnel drank the coolant out of their torpedoes causing them to lose a $2 billion SSGN when one heated up and detonated in the torpedo magazine, I wouldn’t be surprised that they are all drunk (or blind) from drinking whatever fluids they could find on board.
Yeah….
I never have piloted a big ship… But I would guess that it would kind of become a habit to look for the giant, really tall suspension bridge or some sort of lift bridge… they really tend to stand out in port cities. The channel is never in the concrete beam bridge spans. Must have really been hitting the vodka….
Laws of physics (inertia) are a bitch. Slowing down or speeding up big heavy things, or even changing their course, is not a easy task.
My only real guess is that they had the thing on autopilot and didn’t make it to the bridge to take it off and steer in to the channel in time. It was going pretty fast on the way in, and I really doubt anyone steered for that bridge on purpose. Nobody is that dumb….
“It says ‘autopilot’ – should stay in lane to dock, no?”
“Nobody is that dumb….”
I have something to tell you. Perhaps you should sit down for this…
I actually laughed… out loud.
It really is amazing how dumb people can be.
Computer people really tend to notice this because of the way our brains are trained…. so much so that I always have to remind my programmers that even the dumbest user is really, really smart. As in, they’ll figure out an extremely clever way to work around the system and get what they want, even if it breaks everything around them. I’ve had several major system issues that cost the company huge amounts of money that were caused by users very stupidly finding very clever ways to screw stuff up.
Hey now! I was merely trying to get the (national chain) store’s POS system to let me install MAME so I might play Spy Hunter and Gyruss when the shop wasn’t busy.
On the gripping hand, I’ve seen very, very smart people do the stupidest things that you can imagine.
This is so true. Sometimes when you can’t figure out how something is getting screwed up, the best thing to do is to ask the user to go through the exact process they use every day while you watch. It’s just amazing the shit they get up that you’d never expect.
Did they leave a note?
Evidently it wasn’t safe.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspected-burglar-crushed-to-death-by-900-pound-safe-police
Were the contents damaged? If no, then the safe did its job and then some.
John says go on…
^^^ +1 Grass Crown.
A friend of mine nearly saw a guy killed like that. He hired the guy to move his 600+ lb gun safe from a 2nd story room to a new house. He said they showed up and it was just a very large gentleman and his very skinny sidekick. Big guy was on the downstairs side, little guy was on the upstairs side pulling a rope. Big guy kinda missed a step halfway down and nearly surfed down underneath. Little guy got towed to the top of the stairs. If the guy underneath hadn’t caught himself, both of them probably would have wound up dead or horribly injured at the bottom.
One of my safes weighs one ton. When the mover guys arrived it was on a flat bed truck and they had a single dolly. There were four of them and they managed to get it off of the truck without getting killed but just barely. Rather than put it where I wanted I had them move it ten feet and against the wall in the garage.
Most people that get killed get killed doing something stupid.
*Rueful remembrances of fucking with an overhead door spring while shit-faced*
I survived that too at 15. My friend had taken out the car because his parents were out of town but the garage door jammed as he was leaving. We tried to “fix” it. We both lived.
Let no tragedy go to waste
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday tore into the National Rifle Association (NRA) after at least one gunman opened fire at two New Zealand mosques, leaving at least 49 people dead.
The New York lawmaker condemned the fatal attack on Twitter, focusing her message on the American gun group.
I’m surprised she let Public Enemy Number One off the hook.
I think we all can agree it was Trump’s fault.
The NRA clearly has too much power in New Zealand. This must change.
Also, you SF’d the link.
The NRA reach is long.
Trump and Pewdiepie were behind this act of hatred, abetted by the bucks from them spooky NRA people.
Which is exactly what the shooter wanted her to do.
https://westernrifleshooters.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/screen-shot-2019-03-15-at-10.01.52-am.png
I am not seeing that on the news
If true, that is terrorism and not the sot that lefties want to trumpet. Sick Fuck.
I am not sure how to characterize that aside from ‘crazy’.
That’s interesting but I don’t think we’ll see that highlighted in the news.
Where did you find that?
Here’s a link (I havent read through it but it should have that snippet or a link to it included somewhere):
https://lulz.com/christchurch-brenton-tarrant-livestream-2787/
Hmmm. Lulz.com? *72 hour rule in effect.
It’s on page 11 of the manifesto (the FAQ), in answer to the question “Why did you choose to use firearms?”.
Thanks.
I’m waiting for UCS to explain it should be “effect”.
Still want confirmation this was indeed part of the manifesto that I’ve read was written.
That’s TedS’ gig.
Of course she did.
These people don’t even have the decency to wait until the bodies are cold to start exploiting them.
Cold? Hell, they haven’t even stopped bleeding.
Wonder if she’ll use the same logic when there’s a shooting in Pakistan.
I think she means the International Rifle Association.
Gulag Barbie link
maybe
Excellent response to the Christchurch massacre by noted anti-Islamic bigot Maajid Nawaz.
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1106507573635751937
Taking advantage of deaths for political expediency. I agree with him, but for many people that is considered gud politickin’.
I think the important thing to remember about the work place violence attack in New Zealand is not all white supremacists are violent, xenophobic savages who will attack anyone who doesn’t share their views. Many, if not most of them condemn this sort of violence and want only to live in peace with their neighbors. (/sarcasm)
Bilious biddies babbling
Mr. O’Rourke, 46, has repeatedly cast his presidential bid as a sign of generational change, attempting to draw a contrast between himself and President Trump, who is 72.
But several authors, business leaders and scholars who focus on gender studies and discrimination said there was nothing new or progressive about the power dynamics projected in the video.
i am so sick of wives being forced to silently gaze!!! why even include her? ?? when i run for president my husband will be in the background feeding our cats https://t.co/UdsqCKzK6U
— Audrey Gelman (@audreygelman) March 14, 2019
Sooooo Beto had his wife sit next to him in a more than 3min video, only for her to hold his hand and smile for the camera
— Jamira Burley (@JamiraBurley) March 14, 2019
The Cannibal Party.
I love this. Their obsession with identitarian exclusion is going to make for some big laughs. It will be non stop loyalty oaths and purity tests, from now ’til election day.
Bravo! The wolves devour each other!
Wolves? No way. I’ll allow that they are ferrets, but that’s as far as I’ll go.
Godddamit, Animal!
I was trying to be all literary and shit.
*kicks pebble*
You have to expect it with this audience. Half the time it goes erudite and well-read. Half the time it goes into the gutter. Half the time you get a series of puns, and half the time you get a thread that weaves through multiple levels of discourse.
Jackals?
Conservative Twitter mocking him for his dog’s hangdog look was funnier.
Beto cues up “Goodbye Horses”, does the shimmy of contrition.
“when i run for president my husband will be in the background feeding our cats”
Robert Downey Jr. Eye Roll GIF here.
Why am I surprised that the usual suspects on Twitter are blaming (((you know who))) for the Christchurch attacks?
Jewish Hitler?
Is there nothing that the JOOOS! are not capable of?
Avoiding slander?
Everybody wants to steal their
Luck CharmsJew gold….Even in The People’s Republic of Connecticut, we have college shenanigans…
Love the black fingernail polish in the photo. Someone knew what they were doing.
Jewish Hitler?
Wheels within wheels, my friend.
He’s got it figgered. Lotsa string, push pins, random newspaper articles and a shrine to you-know-who lit by hundreds of inexplicably long burning candles. The truth is there for all to see!
Friday funbags!
http://archive.is/NCITP
I’d like to go all Pollock on #1.
Also, 34.
11>37>14>10
33 wins the thicc award
“Every knife sold in the UK should have a gps tracker fitted in the handle. It’s time we had a national database like we do with guns. If you’re carrying it around you had better have a bloody good explanation, obvious exemptions for fishing etc.”
https://twitter.com/scottmann4NC/status/1106128906480951296
If ever go to England, I’m going to spend the entire time running with scissors.
Irish cutlery will somehow become a very popular gift.
Just when you think Gulag Barbie is the dumbest person in politics…
What’s shop class for $200, Alex.
Good thing you can’t make a knife out of a leaf spring, a cinder block, a camp fire, and a mason jar full of peanut oil…
…have you been spying on my weekend campouts?
This is from a “Conservative MP” whatever the bollocks that means.
Candace Owens and Pewdie Pie to be dropped from YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook in 3….2……
Is it possible that the PewdiePie reference is a 4chan troll? It just seems so weird that he’d be referenced since his videos are basically him just gaming. The notion of a racial attack against Muslims seems plausible, but then referencing PewdiePie just seems like 4chan trolling reporters. But, I don’t know.
It is trolling, along with his Trump reference. See above. His stated goal was to cause divisiveness in the US between the right and left.
Bin Laden was thrilled with the US response to 9-11. You can be a murderous fuck and still have a cogent plan and we’re falling for it hook, line and sinker.
He posted his manifesto to 8chan I believe so, yes, he’s trolling.
Alright, so I haven’t entered Alex Jones crazy territory yet
That would be a massive hit to YouTube. Bit Chute would love that, though.
Oh God please no. I subscribe to Styx and if I have to listen to dozens of diatribes about this over the next while I’ll be sorely disappointed. He’s always going on about bit chute and gab. Shut up and make with the funny political commentary you spoon clanker! Truth be told, I skip all of his occult mumbo jumbo…
“I subscribe to Styx”
Dude, Dennis DeYoung is way past his prime
But I really liked “Equinox” when I was 14….
Good album. Paradise Theater is good too.
I’m actually really getting into some of his esoteric works. The subject was a fascination of mine in my youth (mores as RPG fodder and fiction than a belief system) and he seems quite knowledgeable. Of course, YMMV.
I never listen to Styx (dude needs to put a shirt on), but I’d be weary about what esoteric writers he references. There’s a weird overlap between far-right ideologues and the occult since before World War II. Julio Evola is one most prominent for writing books on the occult and neo-fascist books.
Which is not meant to denigrate those who practice or believe in the occult.
I agree but the stuff I’ve seen from Styx is of a much earlier vintage (think 1st – 16th century).
So he’s a learned man without a shirt. I honestly never would have expected that. Seems like interesting reads.
I enjoy his work but it is often really hard to watch (look at me being judgy), particularly when wifey walks in and starts mocking me for watching “that shirtless fellow” again.
Denigrate away. If you’re not doing it to get laid by “open minded” members of your preferred sex/gender combination, you’re doing it wrong.
+ several ideologically addled co-eds.
“Sure baby, tell me more about this Crowley cat.”
That’s the ticket, my good man!
I grew up with a mother that subscribed to “Fate” magazine and read Tarot. That experience left me with a perma-side-eye in regard to that nonsense.
I do feel your pain in that regard. I’m from a surprisingly long line of atheists/freethinkers/heretics and grew up as a rationalist, beset on all sides by God(s) botherers of many stripes.
Just like when YouTube dropped Alex Jones with his 2 million subscribers. Such a boon that was to BitChute.
https://twitter.com/naudiad_/status/1105953447097057288
Would?
I’m a white dude so probably wouldn’t measure up. Besides that sort of music and setting kind of makes me turn turtle.
“Not much “poverty” at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s now-fired founder’s palace”
https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1106297953956683776
Looks like being a grifter pays pretty well.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, but more diverse.
“BREAKING: The New Zealand Herald reports that the shooting at the second mosque was stopped by an armed Muslim who “chased the shooters and fired two shots at them as they sped off.””
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1106407956122263552
We’re not going to hear about this, just like the armed civilians who chased off the Paris (if I remember they were Russian gangsters, but still).
Well. That doesn’t fit the narrative. I think it is further proof the whole thing is fake news. I mean,
PresidentThe Great Lightbringer Barack Obama said that America is the only country in the world where mass shootings happen. If he said it, I believe it, and that settles it.The gun came from Indiana.
That’s just what (((They))) want you to think.
Wait…
America exports gun massacres like red states export guns to blue states.
You know who else was armed in Paris…
Commissioner Dreyfus?
Titus Labienus?
Don’t know the dude’s name. Never watched the sex tape.
(The correct answer is Liam Neeson.)
Gillert Grindewald?
um, Paris shooter.
“China abandoned central planning of the economy in 1978. Between 1978 and 2017, Chinese per capita income rose by 4,557 percent. Concomitantly, absolute poverty in China dropped from 67 percent in 1990 to 1.9 percent in 2013.”
https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1091767209171529728
Chinese statistics can’t actually be trusted, since the incentives at every level collecting them are to lie and inflate the good while deflating the bad.
China abandoned central planning of the economy in 1978
For some value of “central planning” perhaps. The chicoms are still evil fucks.
True, but being less Marxist has increased their prosperity.
Forget what they call themselves as a practical matter I do not see how what China is today is anything but a straight up Fascist country.
It has every single element.
Strong government control of the economy via regulation rather than direct ownership
Ultra nationalist
Focus on racial superiority
Highly militaristic
Authoritarian
Strictly enforced social fabric with outsiders being jailed or worse
The Chinese are not Nazi’s as they do not appear to have the level of demonization of some outsider group in the same way as the the Germans did in the Jews but they fit in perfectly with the Fascism of Mussolini or Franco.
It is funny for 70 years people have been proclaiming that Fascism was killed by the second world war, when I look around what I see is the majority of governments are in some way fascist and most moving ever more in that direction because the second world war has distorted our view of what Fascism is to the point where most cannot recognize it when they see it.
“Socialism with Chinese characteristics” is the official name (the more egotistical name for the current version is “Xi Jinping Thought”, following on from “Deng Xiaoping Thought”, which itself was about squaring the introduction of market economics with “Mao Zedong Thought”).
Basically, the Chinese communists claim that they’re in the very early stages of socialism, and that some measure of market economics and quasi-private ownership of the means of production is necessary to advance to the later stages, where they can eventually reach full communism. It remains to be seen what actually happens next.
As to the denunciation of outsiders, I don’t think the Uyghurs would agree with your take on it. But, a long-standing characteristic of the Chinese system has been the belief that it’s better than other forms of socialism, and they can transform people rather than having to kill them (not that they didn’t kill lots of people), hence converting Pu Yi to socialism vs. the Soviets executing all of the Romanovs. So the Uyghurs are sent to camps for reeduction, which unlike the Soviet gulags, they do eventually leave (at least, some of them).
Right that is the difference. The Uyghurs are not persecuted because they are a targeted scapegoat for all that ills the Chinese people and government, they are persecuted because they do not follow the party line. For those willing to be re-educated they are allowed to reenter Chinese society (albeit as a member of a lower social caste). Eventually the surviving Uyghurs would disappear and become Chinese and be fully welcomed within the society.
This sets them apart from Nazism but in every other respect they are identical to a Fascist state.
Old, but still amusing
“Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we’re taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected,” he said.
Dees co-founded the group in 1971 alongside civil rights leader Julian Bond and lawyer Joe Levin. He served as the nonprofit’s chief litigator for years.
The organization is known for tracking hate groups in the United States.
“The SPLC is deeply committed to having a workplace that reflects the values it espouses — truth, justice, equity and inclusion — and we believe the steps we have taken today reaffirm that commitment,” Cohen stated.
A monster under every bed.
Trust nobody, not even yourself
Someone speculated that the inside lawyers must be prepping for discovery in the lawsuits brought against them. Its all going to come out, so they can get ahead of it or get bankrupted by the damages.
ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯
@pewdiepie
Just heard news of the devastating reports from New Zealand Christchurch.
I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person.
My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.
https://twitter.com/pewdiepie
Reading what is supposed to be crazy attacker’s manifesto:
Those damn right-wing communists!
He’s not that far off the mark, the Chinese commies haven’t really been commies for a while.
Also:
And the video game part is a troll:
Speaking to if he is apprehended:
that might just be more snark?
He isn’t wrong about Mandela…
And here, I think we find 4Channer (or maybe HM?) confirmed:
Word for word the RNC’s party platform!
/AOC
AND
So he is a collectivist (white-identitarian) who hates free trade. How the fuck is this “right-wing”?
So, he’s added a dash of Charles Manson.
Taxes are theft, but only when they go to things I don’t like:
Good lord, finally through it. I hope my stupidity of delving into it has given the rest of you insight to come from brainstroke nairmeantd farht.
It reads like if /pol/ crowdsourced a manifesto. Tedious. All it is missing is footnotes.
OT – We have a local (NYC) Tex-Mex chain called Yummy Taco that is owned and operated by Chinese. They are, far and away, the best Tex-Mex I’ve eaten outside of Texas and surrounding border towns. Each location has a giant steam-powered tortilla press and they make them fresh for every order. A Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, 2 shrimp tacos, and 2 sincronizadas are about to comprise a fine lunch.
steam-powered tortilla press
Thomas Newcomen approves.
This guy shot up a mosque in New Zealand in an attempt to sow discord in the US? Did I get that right?
If I bomb a St Paddy’s Day parade in Colorado, will that put a stop to Brexit?
The World is Flat /Friedman
If I bomb a St Paddy’s Day parade in Colorado, will that put a stop to Brexit?
It’s worth a try.
China abandoned central planning of the economy in 1978
For some value of “central planning” perhaps. The chicoms are still evil fucks.
When growing vegetables for your own consumption is no longer a capital offense, you’re really making headway on the road to freedom.
I’m slow this morning. Two mosques. Were there two shooters?!
Looks like just the one. He shot up one and then drove to another one.
I’m seeing references to “two gunmen” and “four people in custody”. I guess I’ll observe the 72-hour rule now.
That’s the way the story went when I first saw it this afternoon. Most sites are now saying it was just the lone psycho.
NZ media is reporting that there were also IEDs attached to several vehicles in Christchurch which have been disarmed.
CAIR is holding a presser right now. They are outright blaming Trump for the shooting in NZ.
CAIR is denouncing terrorism? No one gets the irony of this?
Anyways, it would be nice if people looked past their petty domestic point scoring after 49 people have just been killed overseas.
Take a look. They are going full bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcFQFM1RGgk
Eh. Pretty sure 49 people are killed overseas every day. Sure it’s bad and regrettable, but I just don’t have it in me to get real upset.
The CAIR thing is amusing. Up their with Lizzie Warren’s crazy statements earlier in the week for total lack of self-awareness.
Some states don’t even have hate crime laws on the books! His manifesto is clearly inspired by Trump!
Jeebus.
Not surprising at all.
Appearance of impropriety?
The Sanders Institute, a think tank founded by the wife and son of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), is shutting down, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
The Vermont institute stopped accepting donations and will suspend all operations by the end of May “so there could not even be an appearance of impropriety,” Jane Sanders told AP.
Critics have said the think tank blurs lines between family, fundraising and campaigns.
——-
Speaking to AP, Jane Sanders kept the door open for the institute to begin taking donations again once Bernie Sanders is no longer running for president.
“I think that was the most important thing to do — to not accept donations, because nobody should think that they’re giving money to an organization and that gains them access or favor to anybody else and anybody running for office,” she said in an interview this week.
“It just seemed the responsible thing to do,” Jane Sanders added.
If anybody should know about that, Jane Sanders might.
What ever could have happened to that investigation, I wonder.
I imagine propriety is a real concern for the Sanders. I doubt they’d get the kid gloves treatment from the IRS and FBI that the Clintons enjoyed.
Does anyone know how to block auto playing videos? I’m using adblock, chrome, ghostery, tampermonkey. I cannot get the damned things to stop. They are the ones that will pop out when you scroll past them. Driving me nuts.
I run NoScript and it blocks every one I’ve come across. Caveat, No Script can be a PITA because there are so damn many scripts running on most websites.
The only way I found was to manually block that shit using Stylish. PITA, though. So I’ve only done it for a few sites I visit regularly.
I have one on my home pc that blocks everything, but I forget the name. Keep your eyes peeled on the PM links comments and I will try to post the name of it then (unless someone does it here). Most websites become text only, and somewhat unformatted. Then you click something on a toolbar that shows you all the blocked stuff and you can pick and choose which ones you want to allow (always, once, or never) and the page will refresh. You kind of have to take an educated guess based on the names, but you will be amazed how many sites are going to 50 other places (no exaggeration). Amazon for example has their images on another site, so you might want to allow that one permanently, for example. YouTube stuff is always abbreviated ‘yt’ and you probably have to click about 3 or 4 of the blocked sites to get a video to play.
In the meantime, try an addon called RequestPolicy.
Jiminy Cricket chirps
An ethics chief under former President Barack Obama on Thursday compared the college admissions scandal to President Donald Trump reportedly pressuring White House officials to grant top-secret security clearances to his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
“Quite the parallel between members of the decadent golf set cheating to get their kids into college and a decadent golf setter cheating to get his daughter and son-in-law clearances after committing nepotism to get them civil service jobs,” tweeted Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics. “Except for the national security risks.”
The Washington Post reported last month that the president had pressured then-chief of staff John Kelly to grant top-secret security clearances to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, both senior White House advisers, against the advice of career intelligence officials,
———
Shaub frequently tweets about the ethics of the president, his family and administration.
Whatever, dude. Take your meds.
Given the problems the guy has hiring outside his family, maybe the mafioso approach is understandable.
Does anyone know how to block auto playing videos?
I wish.
The only thing I can do is keep the sound turned off, so at least I don’t get bombarded with the sound track.
Embrace the cacophony! The thing that pisses me off is that half the time the auto-play has nothing to do with the content that you wanted to view. Fucking Porn-Hub…
I wonder if she knows he doesn’t actually work for her
Rep. Maxine Waters on Thursday called for the firing of Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive Tim Sloan after the bank reported his pay increased last year by nearly $1 million despite continued consumer scandals.
As fucked up as corporate governance in this country might be, Allowing Congressblobs to dictate personnel policy in order to incite the mob is a bad idea. The Wells Fargo board really needs to tell her to fuck off, in no uncertain terms.
Better to ignore than provoke.
UGH… maybe that The Rent Is Too Damn High fellow is on to something. We’re at the point where we are gonna need to get another bedroom for the kids. Everything we’re seeing here on the peninsula is running around $1000 per bedroom (we are currently in a 2 BR for $1500). This sucks; I really don’t want to have to look for a third job.