Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone but John Brennan who appears to be in some serious shit.
Trump now ready to release FISA docs, as some predicted, he was forced to wait until after the investigation as investigators could have used the release as a reason to charge him with obstruction of justice.
Video of AZ police raid on parents who didn’t take their son to the hospital after his 105 fever broke.
Avenatti hasn’t filed his taxes since 2010.
House Democrats still desperately looking for dirt on Trump.
This sounds awful, pain exists for a reason.
Even the most hardcore anarchists are cheering this on. Now if they can find the source of the bizarre Chinese robocalls I’ve been getting everyday.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Woohoo first!
I was beginning to think I missed daylight savings time again.
Mornin’.
Mornin’
Guten Morgen!
Scheisse! Dritte.
Gesundheit
Wunderbar! Die tanzenden drei!
You know who else spoke German…
Adolf… No wait he spoke Austrian.
Nobody who was evil.
3/4 of NASA in the 1950’s?
[golf clap]
Dr. Ring-Ding?
Video of AZ police raid on parents who didn’t take their son to the hospital after his 105 fever broke.
It’s a good thing they were there to kick down the door and drag the kids away in a cop car or else something traumatic might have happened to them.
That doctor/rat fink who dropped the dime ought to have his license pulled.
I assume all involved will get sued good and hard.
I wouldn’t blame the Dad if the reckoning was a bit more personal.
He’s a naturopath according to the article, I’m not sure if they’re even licensed to begin with.
Depends on the state.
He’s a quack either way.
He’d lose his license if he didn’t report them. “Mandatory reporter” laws are a thing.
Good morning.
Maybe the best video you’ll see today:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OqMs9WsJg2k
Also, would.
That’s actually them! Awesome video. Thanks Sean!
Also would
Is it weird that I immediately thought of Jessica Rabbit ?
+1 ironic boner
The barkeeps in the back are funny.
Mornin’, that brought back warm childhood memories.
Something happens today. Something with men playing with bats and balls
Already did that today.
>>House Democrats still desperately looking for dirt on Trump.
Imagine if the ‘publicans spent all of their time looking into Obama’s shady real estate deal in Chicago.
Anyhoo – apparently the Dems, to my amazement, didn’t learn anything from the Slick Willie years.
The democrats are in a serious quandary. Unless they manage to get orange man gone or take full control of congress, they will not be able to stop the release of information of how the Obama administration weaponized the deep state and not only used it to cover for its own and Clinton’s criminal activity, but then also used it, in conjunction with foreign intel agencies, based on manufactured evidence, to spy on a political opponent, which will lead to investigations and potentially some repercussions for a lot of democrats and democrat controlled entities. These people have already concluded that the lemmings following them would be OK with them fucking dead baby corpses as long as they kept pushing the “rob the productive to buy allegiance from the mob”, in the process propping up the credentialed but absolutely inept elite marxist ruling class all these morons think they somehow are or will be part off.
And, sadly, nothing will change.
Release where? Yes, Limbaugh and Hannity will rant about the released information, and Fox may do a piece or two, but it’s not appearing anywhere else so it is all just preaching to the choir.
tl;dr- “Muh butt hurts.”
Former FBI Director James Comey, in his first television interview since special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation, said the principal findings of the probe show President Donald Trump’s blistering criticism of the FBI were lies and his attempt to destroy the agency had failed.
Comey, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, told “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt that the release of Attorney General William Barr’s summary of Mueller’s investigation “establishes, I hope, to all people no matter where they are on the spectrum, that the FBI is not corrupt, not a nest of vipers, of spies, but an honest group of people trying to find out what is true.”
Responding to Holt’s question about whether the “damage to the reputation of the justice system, FBI in particular, been worth it,” Comey replied that “on balance” it had.
“I don’t think that we’ve seen in the history of our country, the president try to burn down an institution of justice because he saw it as a threat,” Comey said. “And the lies he told, forget about me, the lies he told about the agents of the FBI, ‘storm troopers,’ the lies he told about Bob Mueller, were terrible.”
Paragon of virtue James Comey speaks out. Orange man bad.
The FBI couledn’t even hang a fake obstruction charge around Trump’s neck. So incompetent. So sad.
It’s too bad Comey wasn’t doing field work in Oklahoma in the ’90s.
More butthurt
And really, who isn’t ?
The fact that my agency started a 2 year wild goose chase proves that we are pure as the driven snow.
He was at the local Methodist Church here a few weeks ago. The reactions to him were roughly split between adoring and disgusted.
Because we didn’t recommend false charges. If we were as bad as he said we would have done that./ Lowering that bar
to all people no matter where they are on the spectrum,
I think Comey’s on the spectrum. The autism spectrum
No way he’s a libertarian.
ZING
“I don’t think that we’ve seen in the history of our country, the president try to burn down an institution of justice because he saw it as a threat,”
Um, you were a threat. He was right.
“an institution of justice ”
I guess we’re still waiting then.
The courts are supposed to be about justice. The prosecutors and the defense are about winning. There is a difference.
Oh, and, Christ, what an asshole.
blistering criticism of the FBI were lies
That’s the opposite of true.
his attempt to destroy the agency
I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $1000, Alex.
the FBI is not corrupt
I take the opposite view.
“I don’t think that we’ve seen in the history of our country, the president try to burn down an institution of justice because he saw it as a threat,”
Someone is unfamiliar with the Lincoln administration.
The doctor feared that the child had meningitis
So he gave the parents the old Meninswatus.
It’s a horrible story all the way around. Ideally, a child shouldn’t have to suffer for having ignoramus parents, and police shouldn’t have to kick in doors to rescue kids from said ignoramus parents.
First, do not harm?
I would get that’s damn auto warranty one every week.
Funniest robocall was from same guy who had just called my friend. After she hung up on him he called back and called her a bitch. Litteraly minutes later he called me with her standing right next to me. I have him the what for.
So…you were cussing out a robot?
No this was. Real guy. Unless they programmed it to call you back and call you a bitch…
“Funniest robocall was from same guy who had just called my friend. ”
*squints suspiciously*
When it was a person on the line, my wife would pretend to be a police detective recovering a cell phone from the scene of a homicide and demand to know how the caller knew the victim and assuring the caller that the police department would follow up with them about questions.
Banjos, where do you find these pictures of (presumably) taxidermied rodents all dressed up?
FWIW, that used to be a thing in Victorian households – little tableaux of a squirrel in a kilt, etc.
Google search
I can’t think of a better way to relive a situation with a very sick child than introducing surly men with guns.
USA Today Blacklists The Federalist For The Crime Of Getting The Trump-Russia Story Right
Andrew McCarthy at the National Review has consistently had the most accurate and detailed reporting anywhere on the Russiagate/FISA shenanigans.
You don’t understand, Scruffy, he’s a wrongthinker. We can’t pump those people up, even on those rare occasions where they somehow got things right. Particularly not when doing so would show us for the mendacious twatwaffles we are. Harumph, Sir. Harumph.
You know who else posted unreliable links?
SugarFree?
Darwin?
Jimmy Dean?
Shoddy fence installers ?
HM. *shudder*
I think twice before opening them at work. And I’m self employed!
National Review too?
“Going forward, assertions of fact need to be backed up with mainstream media sources or original documents,” Mastio wrote. “Links to National Review or [T]he Federalist (or similar sites on the left) are not reliable.”
Huh… Seeing as the mainstream sources got it horribly wrong (ironically (?) Because of their penchant to not cite primary documents but anonymous Spooks), an honest news source would blacklist them.
I’d be interested to see what they consider “similar sites” to be.
Anything that isn’t the LA Times, the NYT, WaPo, or the Guardian. You know, disreputable stuff.
The USA Today still exists? For a long time it was just at hotels, but I haven’t even seen it at a hotel for a few years.
Pravda means truth Tovarisch, only cite Pravda.
It’s the not-a-fact-check fact-check.
However, if you want to roll out some statistics from the Southern Poverty Law Center, that’s totally fine.
*adds daily caller to list of links he won’t follow*
Is this part of the Tucker Carlson boycott?
Big fans of big government: 57% of Americans want MORE federal intervention in their lives, OECD survey says
Nick Gillespie writing why this is a harbinger of the libertarian singularity
I LOL’d.
Damn. For a second I thought I left my webcam on.
“just 9 percent”
And only 2% of them are paulistas! /Hihn
Heh. Nice.
Mission Accomplished
/NEA
This Mississippi turkey hunter says Keith Olbermann’s tweet has led to more threats
I linked the tweet yesterday. Olbermann is a Grade A Asshole.
I wouldn’t complain if someone lynched him.
It’s a marvel people a) read Olbermann and b) take him seriously. A loon writing for loons I guess.
And another example why Jack Dorsey is a punk ass lying piece of shit. Olbermann has a history of vile of stupidity but to my knowledge never got banned.
I just listened to the Joe Rogan podcast with Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde and Tim Pool. While I disagree with Pool’s nihilistic view of social media, and that Twitter is so powerful it can affect US elections (how many of the voting public are actually on Twitter?), it was pretty telling how often Dorsey and Gadde said things like, “We’ve made mistakes, and we’re working to get better.”
Gee, I wonder if that tweet that said “let’s make the rest of his life a Hell” violated Twitter’s policy.
It’s funny how the same people who talk about cyber bullying have no qualms in participating in it.
This guy deserved it!
/progtard
Keith Olbermann is an asshole. He was also paid a lot of money for a bunch of Boston Market ads in the nineties. An ad campaign to promote Extreme Carver sandwiches..
That peanut butter and jelly was lit AF.
And what happened shortly after they hired Olbermann as a spokesman? They filed for Chapter 11. COINCIDENCE?
I thought it was a no-no to use your twitter account to sic mobs on people.
Forget about it man it’s Twitter Town.
Anyone who thinks Twitter isn’t trying to shill for the establishment is blind.
It is but it also depends on who’s getting mobbed.
And who’s doing the siccing.
‘We’re learning all the time’ (or some shit) is the line they use in their interviews online.
They’re so arrogant and smug they think they’re fooling people.
Speaking of white turkeys, I wondered what Olbermann had been up to. Sounds like his psychiatrist suggested he focus on something other than Orange Man to help with his TDS.
Covington 2: Lawsuit Boogaloo
So the hunter’s name is literally Hunter?
Yes, he’s the gonzo journalist who wrote all those Dead songs.
57% of Americans want MORE federal intervention in their lives, OECD survey says
Total bullshit.
Those people want more federal intervention in *other poeple’s* lives.
This. Everyone is a Libertarian, as long as no one does things that they don’t like.
That. Also, what they want is irrelevant to what the government is actually allowed to do.
They want more money.
In addition, 48 percent of working Americans said they are having a hard time covering daily expenses, according to the OECD, an intergovernmental economic organization that works with 36 countries to track data and trends.
It’s tough to make ends meet when you’re paying $359/month for television programming.
And buying the latest iPhone.
It’s funny how the same people who talk about cyber bullying have no qualms in participating in it.
“He needed bullyin’.”
Your DeVos hate just makes me like her more
A union honcho in New Jersey is under fire after tweeting on Wednesday that she hopes Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos “dies a horrible, horrible death.”
Communications Workers of America (CWA) State Director Hetty Rosenstein shared her hateful thoughts on Twitter in response to DeVos’s proposed cuts to federal special education funding.
“I hope she dies a horrible horrible death,” Rosenstein wrote, linking a story about the $17.6 million in proposed cuts to the Special Olympics.
Now her Twitter account is private.
DeVos came before the education subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee Tuesday to discuss her plan to cut $8.5 billion — about 12 percent — from the Department of Education.
“I believe this budget is cruel, and I believe it is reckless,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) who leads the subcommittee.
“I still can’t understand why you would go after disabled children in your budget. It’s appalling,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said.
What say you, Betsy?
DeVos responded to the criticism in a statement post at the Dept. of Education website: “It is unacceptable, shameful and counterproductive that the media and some members of Congress have spun up falsehoods and fully misrepresented the facts.”
“Make no mistake: we are focused every day on raising expectations and improving outcomes for infants and toddlers, children and youth with disabilities, and are committed to confronting and addressing anything that stands in the way of their success,” she said. “The President’s budget reflects that commitment. It supports our nation’s 7 million students with disabilities through a $13.2 billion request for IDEA funding, the same funding level appropriated by Congress. All of that money goes directly to states to ensure students with disabilities have the resources and supports they need. The budget also requests an additional $225.6 million for competitively awarded grants to support teacher preparation, research and technical assistance to support students with disabilities.”
“The Special Olympics is not a federal program,” she added. “It’s a private organization. I love its work, and I have personally supported its mission. Because of its important work, it is able to raise more than $100 million every year. There are dozens of worthy nonprofits that support students and adults with disabilities that don’t get a dime of federal grant money. But given our current budget realities, the federal government cannot fund every worthy program, particularly ones that enjoy robust support from private donations.”
Seems alright to me*. I heard a clip of her getting berated by a hyper-emotional leftist weenie over this. She didn’t really handle it in the best way. He, of course, was trying to pull at heart-strings. She really just needed to say “funding this is not in the legitimate purview of the federal government.” while adding the fact that it is private and 90% of its funding is private.
*But really the DOE should be disbanded as it has no Constitutional basis for existing in the first place.
Well, the US Olympic Committee is a 501(c)(3) that receives no gov’t funds. I dont see why any other flavor of Olympics should either.
Disable Children, you monster!!1! [faints]
is that an order?
““I still can’t understand why you would go after disabled children in your budget. It’s appalling,”
He’s gonna kill Big-Bird!!!
“while adding the fact that it is private and 90% of its funding is private.”
Private does not compute for leftists. Nothing is private. Nothing against the public interest. Nothing outside the public interest.
Not giving is taking. Not giving away other people’s money to an organization which provides programs for disabled children is exactly the same as attacking or “going after” those children.
To be fair, the teachers unions have a heavily vested interest in the fate of retards in this country.
I wonder how much of this anger from unionists and lefties like R’stein is projection and anger because their kickbacks dried up? I’m just spitballing. I learned that whenever there’s government money there’s a shit load of people siphoning some of it for their own pockets.
On the 990 the CEO is clearing $400k. Maybe not NCAA money, but not bad.
And that’s before you start looking at how much the President in each state earns.
The sooner people stop reading mainstream papers the better. I don’t know what they expect. Journalists and newspaper people have ALWAYS partaken in some sort of partisan scheme, scam or conspired with others to pump out ‘fake news’. just read any sports story and you’re usually going to read a part where the media involves itself in some bull shit manner. I’m reading ‘Unbeaten’ the story of Rocky Marciano and what a perfect storm: Boxing, the mob, money and the press.
Remember the Maine!
Damn the torpedoes !
The Navy has gone back to that mentally but with commerical ships.
*leans over rail*
I DAMN THEE!
*explosion*
Nuts… /heads for lifeboat
As a big Star Trek II fan, I can’t help but hear and see Ricardo Montalban saying that on the bridge of the Reliant. Thanks for the mind-worm, Swiss!
MUHUHUHUHUWAHA!
Proof that the Packers really are the worse
I’m not surprised that Green Bush hasn’t played internationally. What country wants to take a chance on a horde of Packer Backers showing up?
Saskatchewan and its fans are Green Bay north.
I can but respect the fact they support the Roughriders.
Montreal sports fans on the other hand….a bunch of fickle posers.
Hey now, they have the GOAT. Rodgers is so good, he can pass up open receivers and take sack after sack. And still have excuses showered on him from every pundit and idolater in the country.
This is just me but there’s something about Rodgers that rubs wrong. Lebron though…that guy is toxic.
I don’t care what he does for kids, in a locker room he’s trouble.
Rodgers just likes who he likes and doesn’t who he doesn’t. Hes got an unattractive personality, but its generally not what I don’t like about him, even as a huge Packer fan. Its his unwillingness to run the offense. Though maybe they’re intertwined.
Also, Danica Patrick over Olivia Munn isn’t an upgrade.
I have two different Packer Backer acquaintances (they’d be upgraded to friends if they had any Purple Pride) who think that Rogers will come out of the closet when his career is over.
One is super deep into the conspiracy that Ted Thompson and Rogers were secretly an item and they forced Favre out early.
Oh the tangled web we weave when we first we Green & Gold believe.
Sadly for me, Rogers somehow abandons his faults and becomes the greatest quarterback in history whenever he plays the Chicago Bears.
What
countryteam wantsto take a chance ona horde of Packer Backers showing up?Every single one! Greedy, capitalist pig owners want the sweet lucre that comes from the Packers fans that seem to be everywhere. That’s why they haven’t played any international games.
“The Special Olympics is not a federal program,” she added. “It’s a private organization. I love its work, and I have personally supported its mission. Because of its important work, it is able to raise more than $100 million every year. There are dozens of worthy nonprofits that support students and adults with disabilities that don’t get a dime of federal grant money. But given our current budget realities, the federal government cannot fund every worthy program, particularly ones that enjoy robust support from private donations.”
So what she’s saying is she’s in favor of euthanizing the disabled?
Exactly.
So what she’s saying is she’s in favor of euthanizing the disabled?
Well that’s one way to attract those Planned Parenthood PAC dollars.
Zing!
“So what she’s saying is she’s in favor of euthanizing the disabled?”
You know who else liked a similar program ?
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Three generations of Special Olympics is enough.
Governor Northam?
Which of you Glibs was this?
I have always worried about something like this happening. Us Minnesoda Glibs are so charming and smart and we talk about how wonderful our state is, it is only a matter of time before some of you other Glibs from shithole states like NY or CA decide to pack up your girlfriends and move here.
John moved to Minn?
It wasn’t a self-driving car, so you might be onto something.
On the other hand, the guy with the pigs didn’t unleash a spittle-laced tirade on the deputy, so that is a strike against.
Trump now ready to release FISA docs
He seems to be asking for full transparency on the matter. I think this is the right thing to do. Though I am curious as to why Team Blue is also asking for the full report. Are they that delusional or is there actually something there?
No we only should look at the stuff that might look bad got for him. If we see the whole v picture people might get upset at the institutons. / True Libertarians
I think they are just grandstanding on this. My suspicion is that there are some embarrassing things about Trump et als that could be used as campaigning points. But I also suspect there is much in there that would reveal government shenanigans and they don’t want that released, so are bluffing.
There’s almost certainly something non-criminal they can attempt to seize on and point to as a justification for all that has already happened and even an impeachment push if they so choose. Whether that’ll actually work, who knows?
Whatever the report says, Blue will twist it up to mean whatever they want it to mean.
Exactly. Anything is better than just sitting there with egg all over their faces until 2020.
This. Having the full report means more material to work with, which is why they want it.
If we cancel Brexit we can help reset the European socialist dream
Oh, just fuck off.
The Proto-Facist calls are coming from inside the EU!!!!
The people who just passed draconian restrictions on online speech are calling Trump a fascist. How Goebellian
That and speech control, and not allowing citizens to be armed, but it is Trump that is the fascist. . .
“No-one knew what Brexit meant in concrete terms when they voted in the 2016 referendum.”
Hahaha…
You know who else had a European Socialist Dream?
Scritti Politti ?
Ahhh. The PLEATS!!!!
My God. Why was this allowed to happen?
I prefer the smoldering masculinity they showed in Wood Beez
I linked Haircut 100 at TOS and Crusty claimed his gender flipped because of it.
Scritti Politti makes Haircut 100 look like Danzig.
Tiny?
I always liked Haircut 100. Does that mean I have to switch teams now too?
Even worse, I have their lead singer’s solo album from the late 80s, which is outstanding.
I’m not embarrassed to admit I have the 12″ extended remix of “Perfect Way.”
I might dream of this European Socialist…
http://beautifulpolitician.blogspot.com/2016/10/eva-kaili.html
You know who else wanted to seize vast tracts of land…
Monty Python ?
Anaconda Copper?
Howard Zinn?
In a democracy we are supposed to change our minds through a process of continuous debate and deliberation.
That’s exactly what “we” did when the majority voted to leave the EU.
No, we are supposed to make a decision through a process, etc.
There’s a difference.
So. Kaldor. You’re a socialist.
NO I’M NOT! I DON’T WANT THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION!
In a democracy we are supposed to change our minds through a process of continuous debate and deliberation.
And apparently ignore the results of a vote.
The European Union is surrounded by proto-fascist states
Ironically the EU is becoming more fascistic every day.
Russia, Turkey and Trump’s America
1) maybe/probably, 2) since when do leftists criticize islamofascism? 3) I see we are still grasping at this one. The nature of the government (a Republic*) did not change just because Trump was elected.
*standard disclaimer about how the US gov’t is designed vs how it functions.
Smollett – Kurt Schlichter brings up a good point. If the Chicago Police had produced a line-up of rednecks in MAGA hats for him, Smollett probably would have cheerfully sent a couple of them to jail for years.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/03/28/youre-a-sucker-for-not-believing-that-the-system-is-rigged-n2543819
And I had no idea that he paid his Nigerian pals WITH A PERSONAL CHECK!
He absolutely would have. Smollett should face the same minimum term that someone would have been convicted on if they had been picked up.
He’s an absolute piece of shit.
He’s the Jerry Springer of fake hate crimes!
Yeah, the check was Florida Man level stupid.
From what I understand he was ready to lay the blame on two randoms the cops had on video until they revealed they already knew who they were and they were the Nigerian bros. He would have sold anyone he could down the river if it would buttress his story.
Hey, man. He just wanted to start a conversation.
There’s a reason that’s one of the Ten Commandments
Declare victory and move on
Asked what the next steps are for the Green New Deal, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Tuesday said the onus is on the Democratic-controlled House to take action.
“We’re now in the process where the hearings have started on the House side,” said Markey, who introduced the Green New Deal resolution in the Senate last month. “Committee after committee have had the first hearings that haven’t been held for eight years. And ideas and legislation will start emanating from committee after committee looking specifically at what has to happen.”
Markey voted present during Tuesday’s procedural vote in the Senate.
Advocacy groups that previously gave a full-throated defense of the Green New Deal are also scaling back their push for action on the resolution. Their calls for a House floor vote on the Green New Deal are nonexistent.
“Right now, our ask for members of the House and Senate is to co-sponsor the Green New Deal. With a climate change denier in the White House, we don’t anticipate this or any other legislation we support being signed into law in the next 21 months,” said Josh Nelson, co-director of Credo Action, a progressive group that has backed the resolution from its early days.
The Sunrise Movement, a youth activist organization that rose to prominence after holding a sit-in at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) congressional office demanding attention for climate change, downplayed the Green New Deal’s prospects in this Congress.
“It was never created with the intention of passing,” co-founder Varshini Prakash told reporters Tuesday.
“We totally pwnd them guys.”
The Sunrise Movement, a youth activist organization…
*barf*
Youth activism annoys the shit outta me. Don’t waste your youth on politics. Waste it on chasing skirts and doing goofy shit with your friends.
I hear the easiest skirts to chase are the ones at campus political organizations.
Dumb girls who just want someone to listen to them ramble about their pet issues….. Yep
Also, wasn’t it Feinstein, not Pelosi, that they famously harassed? Yeah, I know, all those old lady politicians from California are hard to tell apart.
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has requested financial documents on President Donald Trump’s bid to purchase the Buffalo Bills in 2014, a pair of top House Republican lawmakers said Wednesday.
I am actually surprised that Mueller didn’t come up with anything shady in Trumps business deals, considering the limitless scope of his “investigation”. But, anyway, how dare a billionaire try to by a football team!
Worst Thing Since Sliced Bread
Are you a monster if you cut your bagels into multiple pieces?
let the bombs fall…
Bagels suck.
Look, I’m against the carcereal state, but if you were thrown into Florence ATX for the rest of your life I wouldn’t shed a tear.
I think he meant he draws lipstick around the middle and does things with it.
I second this.
This matters, not just for us in Britain or in Europe more widely, it also matters for the world. The European Union is surrounded by proto-fascist states – Russia, Turkey and Trump’s America – that are behaving in very dangerous ways, whether we are talking about saving the planet, preventing violence or preserving human rights and development.
The best part is the pretense that the EU is some sort of “democracy”. One bureaucrat, one vote.
Seems like they’d be willing to chip in more for military spending if they really believed this nonsense.
“St. Louis secret…“anti-Semitism.””
Missouri being religiously intolerant? Never heard of such a thing.
“My husband, some hotshot (rolls eyes). Here’s his ancient St. Louis secret — Calgon.”
Whatever the report says, Blue will twist it up to mean whatever they want it to mean.
Read between the lines!
Former Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti hasn’t filed an income tax return since 2010 and skipped out on payments in 2009 and 2010, according to federal prosecutors.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Avenatti, now facing federal indictments in both New York and California, appears to have been living the life of luxury — all while allegedly stiffing Uncle Sam on a regular basis.
Heh. This asshole. Now do all the “pay your fair share” Congresscritters.
How do they do it though? Can you just not submit a return and then be fine? I know I’m a chump, but help a guy out.
My mom had a tax preparation business and one segment of her market were people who never filed. They came to her when they finally got caught and she’d help them do the back taxes and help them negotiate with the IRS.
She would get the IRS to settle for a ridiculously low amount as long as a) they didn’t spout crazy shit about taxation being theft and b) didn’t really have a lot of assets that could be liquidated/seized.
For example, if you were a trucker and the only thing you had was your truck, it made no sense for the IRS to seize it. You’d be on the welfare line because your livelihood was gone and the truck wasn’t worth much. So the IRS would take a pittance.
My guess is that the other side of the bell curve are people who are rich enough to employ a room full of lawyers/accountants who can fight the IRS to a standstill. I’ll bet they can negotiate a hell of a deal too.
Doesn’t not paying your taxes qualify him to be the next Secretary of the Treasury?
All those tax forms are really tricky and complicated.
How do you live your life like that? He had to have known this house of cards was going to crumble and crumble soon. Get up on TV and bring all this attention to yourself knowing all the time that it would only increase the danger of getting caught. What do I know, I’m just a lush and not a sociopath.
Dude, if you think this is bad. Grab a pint, a big bucket of popcorn, and read the tales of Prenda Law. They started as a copyright trolling company, and eventually got into forging signatures, fraud, and hiding assets.
嘘つきは泥棒の始まり. Usotsuki ha dorobo no hajimari. Telling a lie is the beginning of a criminal. It’s my favorite Japanese saying and seems applicable to that guy. He just spiraled out of control.
嘘つき – lie
は – grammar particle in this case translated as “as for”
泥棒 – thief
の – grammar particle – shows possession or allows nouns to modify another noun
始まり – beginning.
“lie,as for, thief’s beginning”
I swear Yoda is part Japanese.
I’ve seen several houses on my street foreclosed on – after they didn’t pay the mortgage for years. I’m shocked every time – how did they live for years like that?
36 vulnerabilities in LTE 4G standard could enable data interception
Looks like the NSA curtailed all its domestic spying programs just in the nick of time!
Interesting. The cellular standards are so confusing these days, particularly given the networks’ penchants for bullshit acronyms and misrepresentation of capabilities, I’m a little surprised that they were able to find so many flaws. I thought LTE was primarily a CDMA protocol, but it appears to have characteristics of GSM/EDGE as well. GSM is much easier to manipulate/eavesdrop on than CDMA.
Well 5G is on the way. More vulnarabilities to find. IoT is really the next wave and that’s going to be interesting having everything connected that can be. People will know your entire daily routine. You’ll get a pop up ad for toilet paper everytime you sit down on the toilet. Unless you’re in Venezuala.
Man who claimed child sex doll was for art project jailed
It’s. a. doll,
Who cares if he was using it for sex? Weird shit, but it’s a doll. Not a child. Not human at all.
But I saw several movies where the dolls come to life when people aren’t around, what if that happens to this doll. Won’t you think of the non-breathing children?!
If this one came to life, it’d be more Child’s Play and less Toy Story, so he’d have more to worry about there.
It turns into Lorana Bobbet?
He would have been going to jail for the child porn either way.
The doll was just the last straw, apparently. The lede seems to have been buried:
Unless those films or images were of dolls, and not human beings, it’s a more serious matter, even if you take the position that the people who * make * the videos are the culpable ones, not the ones who * own * them, unless you specifically commissioned the video in advance and thus caused the acts to take place.
Exeter Crown Court heard Styles, a former Plymouth University art student, had told police he wanted the doll for a project he needed to submit as part of an application for a masters degree course at the university.
I wouldn’t be even the tiniest bit surprised if that much were true.
Unless that thing’s a walking talking Pinocchio I don’t give a shit if he’s fucking it.
Doll, show me exactly where the bad man touched you.
I will only accept that testimony if it is of the doll touching a live human child’s naughty parts to show where the accused touched them.*
*I’m willing to negotiate on the live condition.
Pulling some strings and getting off seems to be a theme lately.
Fact Check: Your statement is 2 Pinnochios
Here’s a brief ray of sunshine for those of us in Ohio. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’ll pass.
It won’t. I’d rather not have DST at all rather than have it year round anyways. Get your juvenile delinquents inside and bring on the night.
I’d be happy either way, I just want the damned changing to stop.
THIS. Although I favor it staying light, so I favor DST all the time.
When I clicked on Yahoo ad, this came up. Oath is the old name for Verizon’s Media Group. No thanks. I appreciate the notice though.
“Before you continue…
Yahoo is part of Oath. Oath and our partners need your consent to access your device and use your data (including location) to understand your interests, and provide and measure personalised ads. Oath will also provide you with personalised ads on partner products. Learn more. Select ‘OK’ to continue and allow Oath and our partners to use your data, or select ‘Manage options’ to view your choices.”
Here you go fellas, the permission to everything on my phone is yours.
For my adblocker I use uBlock origin, and it prompted me with a weird message yesterday wanting access to stuff on my PC.
/NOT TAH-DAY
Yeah, that was a “OH HELL NO” moment.
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Avenatti, now facing federal indictments in both New York and California, appears to have been living the life of luxury — all while allegedly stiffing Uncle Sam on a regular basis.
When I see something like that, I am reminded of Jonathon Winters.
My 10-year-old and I watched that movie the other day. It was very well received.
Winters was a great comedian. He had just been released from a mental institution just before filming that movie.
In Trademark and Beer news, the Stone brewing vs. MillerCoors suit continues. The judge didn’t issue a preliminary injunction, and is allowing it to go to trial. This is one of the few beer trademark cases I think has some actual merit. I’ve never heard someone refer to Keystone as Stone before, and Stone has done some different branding with the Stone name.
Yeah, that one seems open and shut. There have been a few others that were valid. The one I posted the other day with the T Rex waiving the white flags was valid too, although, as pointed out, a phone call would have been sufficient, no lawyer was needed.
I have never heard Keystone referred to as Stone.
Actually, I might be lying.
I’m a big fan of Stone. Their beers are fantastic, and I love their Escondido location. I’m not sure about their lawsuit. But, part of me likes the idea of their winning a lawsuit against MillerCoors.
FCC robo call fines: cost of doing business. Won’t stop them.
Yeah, I saw that the fines were like one million and change. That seems less like actually trying to make them stop than it seems like the FCC wetting its beak.
I blame AT&T for failing to build a system with property security from the beginning.
Also, everyone who fought against everyone using public/private key signatures on every email in the early 90s can die in a fire.
At that time, it was still possible, if hard, to make it standard. Once everyone got work email, it was too late.
The cell companies have come up with a standard to start flagging the spoofed ANI’s now. T-Mobile uses it already, I saw that Verizon was rolling it out soon, and ATT may have it rolled out. You can set your smartphone up to block the calls automatically, or to have them identified as “Probable Scam”. I turned it on my T-Mobile number immediately, and have been a fan. It’s only caught one caller by accident (and that’s because the company misconfigured the outbound ANI to send the number with a preceding 1, which triggered it as an international call).
I stand behind AT&T screwing it up 150 years ago or whenever.
I remember people not believing that you could easily spoof an outbound e-mail address about 10 years ago. The company I worked for was just using SMTP still at that time, so I just whipped up a fake message from the internal access and sent it to them.
They thought that was hacking…
Most people don’t bother to understand how electricity is delivered, generated, or even alternating current. Hell, most people don’t know the first thing about their toilets other than how to flush them. They’re not about to spend time understanding their email protocols.
I know something about electricity, but I admit I don’t know shit about toilets.
Well you see, the toilet creates a siphon action that……
*narrows gaze*
The correct response is piss off.
I have T-Mobile, how’d you go about doing that? Is it in the phone settings somewhere?
Check the thermostat
Here are the options. You should already be seeing the Scam Likely calls.
Sweet, I appreciate it.
Not a problem, anything to help cut down on the robocalls. They definitely fall under the aspect of fraud.
Hey, by the way, your car warranty is about to expire. Act now to prevent a lapse in coverage.
Scruffy? I have received IP alert from your Window computer! It is infected with bad software. Please do the kindly and allow me to help you in cleaning the machine.
Hold on, I’ll get my debit card.
Hello sir! Are you still there, we still need to do the kindly to your machine.
Verizon robo call feature launching this week.
They’re still gonna get him
He couldn’t indict, because of DoJ guidelines
No, because Constitution.
but neither could he exonerate
This happened by default when no evidence of a crime was presented.
These people are dangerously ignorant/delusional/stupid.
It is a battle for the rule of law.
As if you believe in the rule of law.
I don’t see how the constitution prevents indicting the president.
There’s isn’t anything about it in article 2, and given that article 1
section 6 provides for some immunity for members of congress,
I think they would have mentioned it if they had also intended to
provide some immunity for the president.
The president is the chief law enforcement officer. The method to deal with a criminal president is impeachment.
More and more, it began to look like a huge scheme to deceive the media and the American people.
He’s this close . . . .
The Mueller report/Barr summary makes it impossible to reconcile the two competing narratives. To the extent anybody could be on the fence, or say that well, maybe the way investigation started is pretty squirrelly, but it sure seems like something fishy was going on the Trump campaign, the report takes that away.
You either believe this whole thing was a put-up job by various Democrats and Democratic operatives, or you believe Trump managed to get away cold with massive obstruction of justice, so massive that it even obstructed an obstruction of justice charge. And, to believe the latter, you now have to believe that Barr and possibly Mueller were part of the obstruction.
There was definitely a huge scheme to deceive, IOW. Its no longer possible to believe there wasn’t. You just have to decide who was trying to deceive who.
I love how they paint the media as easily deceivable. If they are so then they are not doing their jobs.
Hamas cancels school on Saturday so kids can join border protests
I have a very bad feeling about this.
Of course, whatever happens will be Israel’s fault.
Yeah, they’ve been getting bad media lately. It’s time to throw a few kids on the bonfire.
Send the kids into the hot spot and blame someone else when they get hurt.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, queen of annoying
I’ll be sure to tell them that the lead in their water was the direct result of a government jobs program designed to win votes at the expense of safety, and was repeatedly and deliberately ignored by bureaucrats and politicians at multiple levels of government.
Clearly there weren’t *enough* levels of government!
“The Green New Deal is one that if you are a rich liberal from maybe New York or California, it sounds great because you can afford to retrofit your home or build a new home that has zero emissions, that is energy efficient, affordable and safe”
Ring a ding ding. Every time they talk about soaking the rich, it seems it’s only the rich who come away dry.
See Google and their solar panel financing scheme that puts 30 year liens on your property for negligible (if not negative ) energy bill savings.
Solar panels will eventually pay for themselves*.
* It’ll take around a century to do so, but hey.
I just got health insurance for the first time a month ago.
Weren’t you supposed to have it prior to that because of the ACA?
Yes. If she didn’t have health insurance, it’s because she chose not to. She would have been eligible for plenty of subsidies.
Hmmm, so did she pay the “tax”?
“one year ago I was waitressing in a taco shop in downtown Manhattan
Please keep reminding everyone of that fact every time you want to be taken seriously as a climate policy expert.
She was a hooker?
That’s a lot more respectable than what she is now.
And explains what happened to her eyes.
“…coulda given lessons to Linda Lovelace…”
“I just got health insurance for the first time a month ago”
Criminal. Also what does healthcare have to do with global warming?
So she admits to breaking the law?
I wonder, though, if that’s even true. It very well could be, but I would not be surprised at all if it came out that she actually had some kind of insurance.
Read literally, her statement would mean that she was never even covered under her parent’s health insurance as a child (or until age 26). I seriously doubt that, so what she’s probably saying is that she never bought insurance for herself after being ineligible to be on her parent’s insurance. SInce she is exactly who OCare was supposed to make sure was paying into the health care system, her statement basically confirms that OCare was a failure.
She just expected someone else to pay for it.
Her and her South Bronx.
Investigate the investigators
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday demanded a full investigation into former Obama officials who were involved with the Trump-Russia hoax, and called for former CIA Chief John Brennan to come before Congress “ASAP.”
Paul tweeted that a “high-level source” informed him that Brennan had insisted that the unverified Steele dossier be included in the 2017 U.S. intelligence Assessment of Russian Interference in the 2016 Election.
The Kentucky Republican also tweeted that “it’s time for Congress to investigate” the Obama officials behind the Russia hoax, including Obama himself.
In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Paul said Brennan needs to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee immediately to explain his involvement with the anti-Trump dossier.
“I think we need to find the truth,” he told Washington Secrets.
He said the goal would be to stop similar faulty investigations into future administrations, “Democratic or Republican.”
In the interview, he also said he would ask Trump in a letter this week to declassify the information related to the distribution and use of the dossier.
Paul said the topic of a probe into the dossier “keeps coming up for discussion. How did all this get started.” He added that Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsay Graham has indicated it would open a probe.
Don’t. Tease. Me.
Nothing substantial is going to happen. I do hope they prove me wrong though.
If it at the very least tarnishes some of that ‘halo’ image Obama has, it’s a win. Go for it. Expose him.
He’s just missing the tiny mustache. I’d like to see ESPN taken to the cleaners.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/27/keith-olbermann-trouble-espn-attacking-hunter-twitter/
ESPN is the worst kind of faux-virtue signalling entity.
Sports writers are so annoying when it comes to this sort of stuff.
It is a battle for the rule of law.
“I know you are, but what am I?”
“This sounds awful, pain exists for a reason.”
Man, Garth has not aged well.
I could do with a lack of pain these days.
Jordan Peele on Making Movies After ‘Us’: “I Don’t See Myself Casting a White Dude as the Lead”
Whatever, it’s his call. He’s half-white anyway.
Given, of course. He’d be the first one activating the launch sequence on a white director who said he couldn’t see himself casting a black lead though. As ever it’s the utter and complete depraved hypocrisy that’s so annoying..
I’m not sure he would, but his fanboys definitely would, probably without a complaint from him.
“…and proved the myths about representation in the industry are false.”
I concur.
I’m OK with that. I think you can make a point that there is a big market for horror films with a black family and someone should make some money in it. Just like Tyler Perry has worked his Mathea gold mine.
The only caveat is that he can’t bitch about other people making movies with whites/asians/Indians etc.
I don’t see myself paying to watch one of his movies. See how freedom of association works?
Exactly.
/note to self, blacklist Peele, continue search for non-problematic synonyms
Surely not all Peeles
Meh. I don’t care. He’s funny. I don’t go for horror, so won’t watch that, but his comedy has been good. I’m not going to let other people’s politics keep me from having a good time.
‘As If It Never Existed:’ Cook County Clerk’s Office Stunned as Smollett Case File Vanishes From Records System
My shocked face. I’m wearing it.
What case file? Whatchu talkin’ bout, Willis?
That picture is worth a thousand words.
It’s not phaked? wow, that is too funny then.
Unplanned comes out this weekend in 1000 theaters. I’m wondering how well it will do. Will it be limited to the targeted Christian audience, or will it pull in a wider demographic? The poster/ads with the “what she saw changed everything” tagline are very eye catching.
Oops, linked the star’s page by accident. This is the movie’s page.
Interesting anyways. 5″2′. That’s a small gal.
No nude scenes?
Pass.
Well… it *is* rated R. Sneaking into an R-Rated movie.
“The fines the FTC imposed on the companies and their owners range from $500,000 to over $3 million. Some of the proposed settlements are still waiting for final court approval.”
Fines? They should be taken out and shot.
Alright, Dayton area people. Is there anything in Huber Heights? The Straycats are going on tour this year, and the closest they’re coming to Cleveland is there at the Rose Music Center. Any feedback on the venue?
I’ve never been, but I’ve heard from people that have that it’s a decent venue.
And it’s comparatively new, for whatever that’s worth.
https://www.rosemusiccenter.com/
Aug. 14th. I’ll make a note on my calendar in crayon.
Yeah, if it was a weekend show, that would nudge me closer to the go side. But middle of the week, which means I’ll need to take time off work to go.
I haven’t been to the new venue in Huber Heights yet either, but have heard good things about it. I live walking distance to the Fraze in Kettering.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/28/facebook-housing-discrimination-charges/
*Nelson point & laugh*
“non-Christians”
Hot Christan singles have a sad.
Is anyone really upset that they didn’t get to see an ad?
Wouldn’t it be the banks fault? Not the advertisement provider. This will would be like suing Tucker Carelson for programming that minorities don’t like for breaking the fair housing act.
Hooters goes bust in Japan
Japanese fans of the Hooters chain have had their spirits bouncing up and down this week, starting with the development that on March 25, HJ, the company that manages Hooters’ Japanese restaurants, filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors in Tokyo District Court under Japan’s Civil Rehabilitation Law.
I missed one…
sales for Hooters branches in Japan have sagged in recent years
Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation.
If their food is as crappy in Japan as it is in the US, it’s long overdue.
The fried pickles are the only decent thing on the menu.
Have you been to one here before? I’ve been thinking about going to one for experience sake, but I always get too self-conscious.
I went to the one in Shibuya last Halloween. Food wasn’t good and the girls were not very hot, but it was nomihodai for two hours and a course menu for only 5,000 yen. I wouldn’t go back, though.
For shame. Aw well, guess I’ll just hit up the oppai bars instead.
Theres some aggressive touts near that one for massages.
My office is a five minute walk from there. What are you saying?
I think he’s calling you a jack off.
*Drops Gloves. Realizes how that would be misconstrued and puts them back on*
*paging UCS to the white courtesy phone*
No glove no love?
*paging UCS to the white courtesy phone*
lacist
Look, Gustave, they just REALLY want to make sure all the hard-working salarymen can unwind and have a nice relaxing massage.
*purposely being obtuse*
Business must be slow because I’m quite a bit out of that target audience. And the pitch was in eigo.
*also obtuse*
All jokes aside, it’s always funny to me when they try to act all buddy-buddy.
One of my introductory Japanese textbooks had a lesson about going for a massage.
My female classmate and I were a bit incredulous, but both of us kept making “happy ending” references that went completely over the (native) Japanese instructor’s head.
NOMIHODAI!!!!
A hotel I stayed at when I was working in Tokyo back in ’98 used to have a nomihodai every Tuesday night if you were a guest.
That was the only night I’d stay in a real hotel. The other nights I stayed in a capsule hotel. (On weekends I went down to Kobe to be with family).
I don’t fit in the capsule. At least that’s what they told me when I tried to check in one night.
I spent almost a year working in Tokyo. My family was staying in Kobe with the wife’s relatives and I commuted.
The company I worked for had no problems putting me up in a hotel, but it was boring as shit. Check in, go to your room and drink by yourself. At the time I wasn’t rich enough to do much drinking in a bar.
One week all the hotels were booked up for some reason and I decided to do the capsule hotel. It was great. You could buy beer from a vending machine. There was a big common room with a TV that showed crazy sports. So I could sit around with a bunch of drunk salarymen arguing about sports.
The capsule part wasn’t too bad, but it would not be good if you were claustrophobic at all. But it was just a place to flop for night to sleep in.
Wait, you commuted from Kobe? I’m assuming you meant just on weekends.
Yup. Just on weekends.
It was a clusterfuck of an assignment. They promised us housing in Tokyo and when I got there, the locals were like “what? Who promised you that?”
So my wife stayed with relatives (which she was happier with) and I got to commute in on Mon morning and leave Fri afternoon.
The craziest part of it was that when we were looking at apartments in Tokyo it was cheaper to stay in a hotel than to rent on a monthly basis.
The whole assignment was a huge boondoggle, but it was a great way to spend some time in Japan on someone else’s dime.
Posted last night. I was worried you were in danger of self harm.
Sean sent me down a Postmodern Jukebox rabbit hole. They have a ton of good songs, but this one…wow. I hate the original pop version, but this is extremely good.
There is a pretty cool bass duet in the middle, too. You need to see it to appreciate it…literally.
That blonde lady. OMG.
She was cute and boy, the girl in the leopard print got some NICE curves. Swoon, man.
That would be Haley Rhinhart. She made it to the top three on American Idol 5 or 6 years ago. She has become a polished professional and does a lot of stuff with PMJ
Well damn, thanks for the intel!
2011.
8 years ago.
Next you’ll be telling me that high school was 45 years ago.
That was actually really good. I can behind these jams.
Whole lotta
woodwould in that video.Someone linked that once before. I think I watched it like ten times then.
Thank you.
I love this one (from before they broke up) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CPbg9ljE4M
I have a thing for Robyn
Speaking of stupid kid activists….
High school students make movie about St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood that is chock full of anti-gentrification silliness.
For those of you who aren’t from here, Rondo was the black neighborhood of St. Paul until they ran an interstate through it. Ever since then, local activists have shouted that bulldozing the freeway through their neighborhood was an act of racism. They ignore the fact that a) the neighborhood was in the direct path between Mpls and St. Paul and b) was a shitty neighborhood. Any planner was going to put the hiway where it is today.
Huh, pretty much the exact same story in Portland with I5. There’s legitimate criticism of Portland’s racist past (and insane present) but that isn’t one of them.
Exact same story with almost every major city.
Boston’s West End waves at the crowd.
In Buffalo, there is a network of parks and parkways designed by that Central Park guy that made a convenient target for partial destruction, in addition to the usual eminent domain of the poors.
Frederick Law Olmsted – also did the Emerald Necklace parks in Boston.
He also did Louisville’s parks.
Actually, it is a problem. Probably not racist, but a problem. Interstates should have never gone through any city. Loop roads and tangents. It was a bad design and it did destroy neighborhoods.
Top Men don’t care about how their plans are going to affect the peasantry. They have their plans of how the city / country / world should look and everyone else needs to get on board.
We can’t have people making changes incrementally. That might work! Plus, what politician gets credit for that?
As I pointed out elsewhere the other day, $1B could pay for one megaproject or 10,000 different $100k projects or 100,000 $10k project.
If some of the $10k project fail, who cares? But some will work and some will return 10x or 100x their cost.
That never happens with megaprojects.
Looking at you Dan Ryan Jr.
Some cities saw it as an opportunity to “eliminate blight” by bulldozing slum neighborhoods, so perhaps a bit racist in implementation. But it was inevitable that the roads would go through the poorest neighborhoods – minimizes the cost and avoids antagonizing the rich and powerful.
The razing of the West End was due to it being filled with poor dagos and jews. The monstrosity of the Central Artery was more egalitarian in screwing up the city.
BTW, thanks everyone for the billions in tax dollars for the Big Dig. Sure, it went massively over budget and schedule, but the end result unambiguously made a huge improvement. Your tax dollars at work!
“it was inevitable”
Only if you require them to go through the cities.
Destroying inner-city neighborhoods for the convenience of suburban motorists didn’t receive any serious opposition until the 60s, by which time the process was pretty much complete.
The problem is that the inner-city highways are the opposite of the goals of the interstate system, which is to get traffic between cities rapidly. The slowest part is always when you hit a city…especially if you hit it at heavy commute times (for example, anytime between Midnight and Midnight for Atlanta).
The convenience of the suburban motorist should not have been a concern of the federal interstate system.
Interstates should have never gone through any city.
Interstates would inevitably go through a city. Even if they were built to the side of a city instead of through, that would simply shift the future growth to cluster around the new highway. Cities historically cluster around the major transportation hub, so if a city doesn’t have a port or a rail depot it will cluster around a highway.
Only partly. The core of the city wouldn’t shift. Manhattan hasn’t shifted. They didn’t build the WTC in Secauscus out by I-95.
And the lack of the interstate through a city doesn’t mean transportation into the city wouldn’t have been built, it just would have been a local road, not part of the interstate system.
We might have had some of the same problems, or cities, with more limited budgets at their disposal, might have done smarter things.
I would say that a big highway between Minneapolis and St. Paul was a good thing. We also have loops around the entire area, but I think it is a good thing to have fast efficient road between the two big clusters of business.
If you have a single large urban core, your point is valid.
If only all Black Lives Matter activists were like Hawk Newsome.
https://twitter.com/HawkofNewYork/status/1111149922500280326
Oh man, those friggin’ robocalls and spam calls are the worst. I have two lines coming in to my cell for my business, so it has varied over the past couple years from five to twenty of these per day. They often pick off the first digits of your number or call from certain nearby cities. A few months back I got a few calls from Florida in a two minute period and I finally picked up and it was a live operator trying to get me in some cruise scam. The next morning in full on busy mode to get to a job, I get two calls in a row from Ft Lauderdale that didn’t leave a message. On the third one I picked up and yelled into the phone, “will you take me off your fucking list and leave me alone!” There was a second or two and a lady said, “Sorry for bothering you, my real estate agent gave me your number and said you could take care of our doors for us.” Oh shit. I called her back and apologized. We ended up laughing about it when I was on the job.
When I have time, I sometimes engage callers in long conversations (acting like a feeble minded senior citizen -no big act for me) before telling them to eff off. At least they aren’t bothering anyone else during the time I’m stringing them along.
Wait til they start recording those convos for voice samples and start using them for fraud.
I’ve done that before when I’m on a cross town drive to fuck with them. Put them on hands free and make them repeat what they said a bunch of times for twenty minutes. I got one dude extremely pissed one day with that tactic. I also liked messing with the Indians that called me up last year pretending to be the IRS. Fuck those assholes with a hot poker.
That Indian IRS scam is funny. I fucked with one of them, too. He was pissed at me by the end and had completely dropped the IRS bullshit.
I tell the Indians that I work for the CIA and if they can just stay on the line a little longer we’ll be able to send the drones right over.
My preferred method is to ask them what they are wearing and then make bizarre sexual fetish requests of them to see if I can get them to hang up on me. The best obscene phone calls are surprise obscene phone calls with telemarketers.
Ha! That is a great strategy.
I used to work in a call center, trying to get small businesses to switch their internet and landline service. Part of the metric of not getting fired if your sales were a bit short was to rack up huge amounts of talk time with customers. People were shocked at how much talk time I racked up, even though I was only a mediocre closer. So, depending on how the callers are evaluated, they may have been stringing YOU along, trying to keep you on the line as long as possible while making periodic efforts to close a sale so they could justify the call length.
That wouldn’t have flown in most of the call centers I support. They’re all looking for short handle times, and any outlier call is one that’s usually red flagged for QA review and coaching.
Are those call centers handling incoming calls, which should have shorter handle times, since the person calling wants you to do something for them?
Cold calling businesses who are trying their damndest to hang up on you and have you leave them alone is quite different, since you’re typically uncovering and trying to overcome a boatload of objections to switching services.
That being said, the call center I worked for went out of business for various forms of dysfunction.
I’ve supported both inbound and outbound call centers. One of the centers I supported is still around, even though they’ll have hold times over an hour for days at a time.
Surely you can’t be serious.
Speaking on NBC’s Today show with host Savannah Guthrie on Thursday morning, Jussie Smollett’s attorney, Tina Glandian, ripped the Chicago police department, snapping they “did minimal investigation in this case.” She also complained about Smollett being a victim much more after the initial assault, saying, “He at this point again has been victimized much more by what’s happened afterwards than what happened that night.”
Guthrie started by stating that Glandian was probably aware of the fact that the FBI and DOJ were examining the dismissal of charges against Smollett. She asked, “Does that concern you?’
Glandian responded, “Not at all. We have nothing to be concerned about because there was nothing on our end to request this, to do anything improper, and to my knowledge nothing improper was done.”
Guthrie asked if to the best of her knowledge, did Glandian know if anyone connected with Smollett contacted the state attorney’s office on Smollett’s behalf.
Glandian answered that to the best of her knowledge, that hadn’t happened, but added, “That had nothing to do with why prosecutors discussed dismissing the case.” Glandiand added that she knew of no one connected with Smollett who had made contact with Kim Foxx, the state’s attorney, after Foxx recused herself from the case, saying, “No, the discussions were strictly with the prosecutors actually handling the case.”
Guthrie asked, “Is it your position that he is, in fact, factually innocent?”
Glandian answered, “Absolutely. No question.”
Guthrie: “He didn’t stage his own hate crime? No?”
Glandian: “No. Absolutely not.”
Guthrie: “He didn’t send a letter, a fake death threat letter to himself?”
Glandian denied that.
Smollet intends to never visit Chicago again? He should thank his lucky
starsconnections and STFU. But of course he can’t do that. Is he hoping to revive his career by continuing the fake victim routine?Wow, they are straight up rubbing it in and tripling down. Not sure that is a great move.
It’s a very bad strategy, imo.
Yeah, it is pro-wrestling bad guy level of rubbing it in that he is cheating and getting away with it.
You would think that you would slink away and hide for a while. If the article didn’t mention the lawyer by name, I would have sworn he was being represented by Avenetti.
“Dude, you never back down! Sure you haven’t paid any taxes. Sure you just got caught trying to extort money from a company. But you don’t hide. You go big.”
What do people expect the defense lawyer to say? My client is guilty?
And yeah, she isn’t worried about the Feds cause the dismissal is not my problem.
“no comment”
That is what I would want my lawyer to say.
Yep, that or some anodyne statement about about “healing” and an apology without taking any blame would be the prudent course.
What do people expect the defense lawyer to say?
“I don’t do interviews, and I advise my clients not to do them either.”
All valid points, that’s what she should have done. But given that she didn’t, I wouldn’t expect anything else really.
I heard that Geragos attorney on the Adam Carolla podcast yesterday. It was his contention that the two brothers committed the assault with no coordination with Smollett, and he would be revealing his theory as to why they did it over the weekend.
Wow, he is still making the rounds and hoping to get a piece of the action after this week’s news?
Yeah, he does a regular thing on Carolla’s podcast. He likes to dial up the “how dare you” outrage at his latest target, and is rarely believable.
Geragos seems like a fairly genial guy on the podcast and I suspect I’d like him one-on-one but when he starts talking about his celebrity cases, I just start fast-forwarding.
That’s my take too. Fairly affable, but…. oh, come on Geragos! Am I supposed to buy that last thing you said? Also, it’s always a tell when he starts talking process and not substance on a case.
Though I still love the story of Mark having to take a call while Adam was over – “I come back down and Adam is in the living room with Paulette [Mark’s wife], and he’s 3-fingers into my scotch.” Adam replies, “That’s better than being 3-fingers into Paulette”.
That’s better than being 3-fingers into Paulette
Which strikes me as more of a burn on Paulette.
Given that she’s Mark’s wife & not Adam, I suspect he was happy that wasn’t the case.
Though I think it was Macallan 25, so who knows.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6858645/Demi-Rose-slips-killer-curves-low-cut-beaded-dress-24th-birthday-celebrations.html
Wood with extreme prejudice.
“‘They could have worn white face’: Jussie Smollett lawyer offers bizarre explanation as to why the Empire actor told police his Nigerian assailants were white – and points to old video of one of them wearing make-up to play the Joker as potential proof”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6860095/Jussie-Smolletts-lawyer-says-thought-brothers-white-wearing-make-up.html
OFFS
Is that what he thinks white people look like? That’s like opposite blackface.
“Jussie Smollett’s Attorney: Nigerian Brothers May Have Been Wearing Whiteface During Attack”
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1111252579227328518
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jussie-smolletts-attorney-nigerian-brothers-may-have-been-wearing-whiteface-during-attack/
“Emma Roberts puts on an edgy display in contrasting prints for low-key outing… following shock split from fiancé Evan Peters”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6859893/Emma-Roberts-puts-edgy-display-contrasting-prints-low-key-outing.html
Edgy?
That’s scarier than anything I saw on AHS.
She stole an old man’s pants.
“shocking split”
So you’re saying there’s a chance.. yes!
Looks like she went shopping at Sears in 1976.
Now I have flashbacks of ToughSkins jeans, that had to be washed approx 5,000 times before they even remotely felt like fabric as opposed to 80–grit burlap.
Thanks.
I remember those things, they’d stand up on their own 100 washes in.
Those things were ridiculous!
For those of you who aren’t from here, Rondo was the black neighborhood of St. Paul until they ran an interstate through it. Ever since then, local activists have shouted that bulldozing the freeway through their neighborhood was an act of racism. They ignore the fact that a) the neighborhood was in the direct path between Mpls and St. Paul and b) was a shitty neighborhood. Any planner was going to put the hiway where it is today.
They run roads through shitty neighborhoods, where the land may be (relatively) cheaply acquired? I’m shocked.
Tainted
The number of electric vehicles on the world’s roads is rising fast. Latest figures show there are more than three million and sales are growing at close to 75% a year. But now doubts have been raised about the ethics of buying one.
Amnesty International says human rights abuses, including the use of child labour, in the extraction of minerals, like cobalt, used to make the batteries that power electric vehicles is undermining ethical claims about the cars.
Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty’s Secretary General, told the recent Nordic EV Summit in Oslo, that climate change should not be tackled at the expense of human rights. “Without radical changes, the batteries which power green vehicles will continue to be tainted by human rights abuses,” he said.
No kidding.
Latest figures show there are more than three million and sales are growing at close to 75% a year.
Well, there’s over a billion motor vehicles worldwide, with over 80 million new vehicles sold every year. So EVs are 1/4 of 1% of vehicles on the road. When you start with a microscopic market share, even large percentage increases don’t necessarily mean you don’t still have a microscopic market share.
Absent major advances in battery technology (and the batteries are getting better), and a massive buildout of the electrical grid (which hasn’t even started to happen), EVs will never be more than a niche product. Of course, when you pair EVs with a big transition to renewable energy, you are now doubling, tripling, or more the cost of electricity, which does a lot of damage to the business case for EVs even within their niche.
Yeah, I was gonna say 75% of zero is still zero.
But the goal of zero-emission driving is still a long way off. Electric cars still only account for 2.4% of global new sales and despite Norway’s stellar sales rate, electric cars still account for only one in eight of vehicles on the road in Oslo.
zero-emission driving?
No such thing.
Fred Flintstone disagrees.
Oh, don’t think Fred was zero-emission.
Bam Bam is proof positive that Fred was not zero-emission.
Pebbles was his. Bam Bam was Barney’s kid. Or was there a lot of swinging going on in Bedrock?
It doesn’t count if you plug the vehicle into a wall socket that is connected to a coal-fired power plant. It’s like you don’t even know how energy works.
It’s like people who meat but are against hunting.
Fuck you! I hope the rest of your pathetic life is a living hell!!!11!!
/Keith Olberman
Is SugarFree around?
I am not sure if anyone else cares, but the Natcher Parkway (formerly the Green River Parkway) is now Interstate 165.
I almost missed my exit last week because the number changed.
The sings don’t exist all the way to Owensboro yet, they have changed in BG, but they are working on the changes on the rest of it.
I guess Natcher has been dead long enough that it no longer matters, but I’ve met his family and I bet they are hopping mad.
I always thought it weird that Green River got dropped entirely for Natcher, but the rest of the parkways kept their geographic name when they were named after someone.
wikipedia says the change was March 6th.
“Natcher is best known for his record-setting string of 18,401 roll call votes, even being wheeled in on a hospital gurney to vote shortly before his death.”
I worked on his papers at WKU.
Apparently it will still be the William H Natcher Expressway.
Alright… non-IT people, question for you. Why do you ignore the e-mails from the ticketing software asking if everything is working until we say if you don’t respond by X we’ll assume it’s working and close it? At that point, you don’t have to do anything, we’ll close it anyway. But some 80% of people feel that that’s the e-mail they need to respond to. Why?
I find the whole IT ticket thing to be annoying. If I need assistance from any other department I just call or email them directly and we work things out. That ticket system seems a bit OCD to me.
Requests via e-mail can’t scale – I’m guessing you’re at a smaller company? We’re around 8k employees now & we use ticketing for everything – e.g., having Legal review a vendor’s contract.
It also lets you see what the current status of requests are, etc.
Gotcha. Yes, smaller company.
If done right, ticketing systems can reveal whether problems follow users, equipment or software. It also allows you to document time spent on tickets which is important if you also have development or maintenance responsibilities.
When I worked a help desk I loved reaching out for weeks with no response to have the ticket re-opened within hours of it being closed.
Cynical old IT guy here: 1) Because they are afraid it might break again and want to keep the ticket open. 2) Because they don’t think it’s their job to have to “help out” IT, but they damn well expect you to drop everything to fix their problems.
But then they don’t even have to reply to the last e-mail. I’m going to close the ticket regardless. They’ve already wasted my time by making me follow up twice to verify it’s fixed (and it almost always is, you rarely need to follow up when something is still broken). It’s that reply that I don’t get.
Because we work better under pressure.
“Laura Ingraham guest says trans people will “destroy” gender norms to create “new species”—”Human and part machine””
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1111216374297382912
https://www.newsweek.com/laura-ingraham-podcast-trans-people-species-machine-paul-nathanson-1377906
Isn’t that what Alex Jones asked Blaire White?
They’re turning the frogs into machines!
Well, robo-peen would probably work better than phalloplasty (creating a penis from existing parts). They have some ortho prosthesis which interface with the body – they sense muscle contractions and act accordingly.
“2020 Democratic Primary Candidates as @dril tweets:”
https://twitter.com/SenatorMeow/status/1110600867080794113
This is all Twitter should have been. Instead it’s long-form prose with regularized paragraph breaks, and abuse.
“Inside the mind of Ben Shapiro, the alt-right sage without the rage”
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1111248348114239488
“Editor’s note: This article has been changed. A previous version mistakenly described Mr Shapiro as an “alt-right sage” and “a pop idol of the alt right”. In fact, he has been strongly critical of the alt-right movement. We apologise.”
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/03/28/inside-the-mind-of-ben-shapiro-the-alt-right-sage-without-the-rage
Oh come on, if we can have white Nigerians, why can’t we have Jewish neo-nazis?
Black KKKlansman
Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!
That Charlottesville car assailant guy has been convicted of federal hate crimes…
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/man-convicted-of-using-car-to-plow-into-protesters-pleads-guilty-to-hate-crime-charge
He… “…pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced.
The charges each carry a maximum penalty of life in prison, so Fields will avoid the possibility of the death penalty.”
So 29 crimes with badthink enhancement.
He has been convicted, but not yet sentenced, on state murder and wounding charges. The jury’s recommendation was 419 years total time.
Good thing for the hate crimes add-on or this guy would likely only do 258 years!
Turn your volume up if your hearing is damaged from listening to loud urban music.
https://twitter.com/RandallOtisTV/status/1110947319938248704
More hair touching.