Its April Fools Day, so beware of what you read on the Internet.
For instance, anything about the Democratic party applying #metoo rules to Joe Biden is just a joke.
Also, Florida Man gets pranked by aliens.
Heroic Mulatto sent word of an interesting TED talk. Safe for work. Totally.
Also, a new add-on pack for Cards Against Humanity.
I’m sure these safety fails were just April Fools Pranks.
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No comments? To whom will I snarkily reply?
You won’t get a first GIF with that attitude.
I don’t collect those.
Jessie can have it.
Just don’t give it to Jussie.
They could even give it to Jesse.
But then we’ll all just wish that we had Jussie’s gif
*sensible chuckle*
Where can he find a sandwich so late?
He’ll play along with the charade.
Stephanie Carter may think she has it all wrong, but Lisa Flores doesn’t seem to.
I mentioned it earlier, but I’m betting Biden isn’t even really aware of how creepy he is.
^ I think this ^ He thinks he’s just being a super sensitive, helpful guy. I don’t doubt that for a minute. However, if I understand the #metoo rules, what he thinks doesn’t matter for diddly-shit. Hang him high!
The witch hunt only ends when too many of the wrong people get accused.
I’m starting to think you don’t read the morning links.
Whaaaaat!?
By the time I’m in front of a computer and have had enough coffee to not pick a serious fight with someone over the difference between “facts” and “wild speculation”, there are hundreds of comments and I just check my news feed and wait for the afternoon ones.
the difference between “facts” and “wild speculation”
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to . . . .
So I finally got around to doing my taxes. Went from getting a small refund last year to owing $1700 (on the same income). STUPID TRUMP!!!!!
* My withholdings were far lower this year than last year. My overall tax liability went down by nearly 2 grand. I don’t like writing this check (especially with all the other expenses I’m incurring lately), and I’m going to adjust my withholdings so this doesn’t happen again, but with all the articles around about how people are getting lower refunds this year, I thought I’d mention it.
Also, haven’t been around because my in-laws were in town. My in-laws are awesome. They treat me better than my own parents do.
Are they thankful you took their hellion daughter off their hands?
They also don’t know you as well as your own parents. Just sayin’.
I owed a lot this year, but that’s because my withholdings were messed up too. Near as I can tell I paid about the same amount of tax on a higher income. It’s difficult to be sure since my mix of income was different.
I made $3K more, and paid $16 less to the Feds.
However, I had to pay an extra $207 to New York State.
Will anyone be buying Rick Reilly’s latest book about Trump cheating at golf?
https://twitter.com/ReillyRick/status/1110564524526956544
So Trump really is a real life Bond Villain.
I was so sure that was an April Fool’s joke I checked the date.
Nope. March 26th. Apparently, he’s serious.
Sports writers are the worst kind of faux-virtue signalling twits.
God, they’re so annoyingly PC and sensitive.
theathletic.com
My favorite sports site. Excellent writing and no politics.
If you’re not cheating at golf, you’re not playing hard enough.
Who is Rick Reilly?
He had an article on the last page of Sports Illustrated. Can’t say if he still does, but that’s where I know him from.
Who is that?
Ah. Of course. Yeah, I saw this making headlines a couple days ago, rolled my eyes, and moved along.
And arguably over decorated.
He used to be a pretty humorous sports writer at SI (he had the “back page” column for a long time) until he lost his shit and went full prog-tard.
Got it. Thanks all. I don’t get it with sports writers and sportscasters. I stopped watching ESPN because of the politics. It wasn’t that I disagreed with their progressive bullshit. It’s that they introduced political commentary into sports coverage. I watch that as an escape. I don’t want your political opinion. Sheesh.
I only watch ESPN for the occasional soccer and tennis coverage – most of it is piped in. No politics.
Oooooo workplace accident stuff, one of my favorite topics
Like the guy who backwards off the 16th floor of a court building I was working on because he was using a tape measure to get a take off of the square footage.
It was OK though, he landed on a pile of bricks.
Did he first say, “After this last measurement, I’m going to hit the bricks”?
beware of what you read on the Internet.
I thought this was a general rule.
I WANT TO BELIEVE
I don’t know if I should believe you…
This calls for One-Eyed Pirate Truther.
Can we get him over here?
Yo, Suthen – my scientific theory on why righties can’t wingshoot left-to-right got posted just as the previous thread went comatose.
I shoot (at) a lot of ducks and had noticed that I tended to miss more left-to-right crossing shots than R-to-L shot, in line with your theory. I chalked it up to a vision thing, but perhaps ergonomics is the explanation. Then last year I shot just as well, if not better on the L-to-R shots, I have no idea why. To balance that out I started missing the straight in high overhead shot, which for the longest time was my “sure thing” if I ever had one. Just reminds me of the old wing-shooting adage, “A hit is history and a miss is a mystery”, or some such thing.
It can also be because you’re pulling your head off the gun.
Interesting. That could also be the case (ergonomically) as left-to-right pushes the gun away from your head, while right-to-left pulls the gun to your head.
I am told that I consistently shoot behind on left-to-right shots, which would be consistent with the gun not getting over fast enough. Not sure it would be consistent with my head getting “left behind” as the gun traverses.
Not sure it would be consistent with my head getting “left behind” as the gun traverses.
I believe it does. If your head comes off the gun, it creates a very skinny right triangle between front sight, back “sight” and eye. If you follow the hypotenuse (your sight line through the front sight), it’ll lead where you’re putting the shot. You’ll be shooting behind the target.
I think it would do the opposite – as my eyes come to the left of the gun on a left-to-right shot because my head is being left behind on the traverse, the line from my eyes across the bead will point to the right of the point of impact, or in front of where I mean to shoot, not behind.
I wingshoot with both my eyes open, which may affect this theory also.
You rightwing nutcases raging over Biden are just pathetic. I’m sure each and every one of the women and girls in the literally hundreds of photos enjoyed having their hair inhaled and their midriffs groped by our esteemed VP.
https://www.pinterest.com/joycelyn59/creepy-joe-biden/
They’re going to need a lot more articles to excuse this away.
Didn’t that shrill idiot on Morning Joe describe Biden as something like ‘playfully flirtatious’ or something?
It’s not ‘rape-rape’ when a lefty does it, eh?
It wouldn’t surprise me…they obviously don’t give a damn if it’s the right guy doing it.
Of course, he is often “playfully flirtatious with young girls and teenagers. If that’s the best they can do, well, they aren’t doing much.
I seem to recall a certain public figure who was supposedly being playfully flirtatious with teenagers thirty years ago, ostensibly with their mothers’ knowledge and consent. And that creep got the boot.
Ted Nugent?
That’s a textbook example of a perfectly good point being ruined by including all the photoshopped fakes.
Photoshops on Pinterest? Say it ain’t so.
That’s one hell of a strategy. Point to some evidence from a questionable source then ‘tut,tut’ any objections away by saying ‘everyone knows that site is full of shit.’ Brilliant.
Would you call this a textbook example of someone who cedes the point but wants to pick a fight anyway?
Sure, why not?
I think the people here are savvy enough to know photos can be faked, you being a fine example.
I’m sure the gaslighting campaign is just getting started. How far it proceeds depends on what traction Creepy Joe makes in the campaign, I guess.
If it hasn’t been done already, someone should do a mash-up video with visuals of creepy-Biden and audio of creepy-Trump.
For instance, anything about the Democratic party applying
#metoorules toJoe BidenDemocrats is just a joke.In retrospect, its astonishing that Al Franken was forced to resign.
It gave them an Alabama Senate seat so…
Now that you mention it, it really is. I wonder if Franken silently fumes about his treatment.
What do you expect from a man whose middle name is Robinette?
Good afternoon Glibs!
After spending last week in sunny Orlando, this week I’m heading down to sunny Tampa to play in the 2019 Disabled Hockey Festival. For those of you interested (mostly Brett), here are the details.
I play for the Chicago Blackhawks Adult Sled Tier II team, and I wear #2. Our schedule is on Page 4. Note that on the schedule, we play at two different rinks. Our “A” team is in the Adult Sled National Champ division. They should take the championship again this year, so if you can make it to one of their games, it should be a lot of fun.
Good luck…
Watch out for Scientologists.
I’ll try to make it down there Friday afternoon.
Great!
Best of luck, TOK.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Go kick some ass, TOK
Good luck, Kevin!
Bury a couple, huh?
I’ll do my best. I have been playing forward lately. In practice, we’ve been working on me being more mobile and getting into passing lanes. This is the last chance of the season for me to break out.
Good luck!
Knock some teeth out of those bastards playing against you!
applying #metoo rules to Joe Biden is just a joke.
He is old and white. He’ll be thrown under the bus.
It’s April 1st, which means it’s time for the Spring TV season to begin in Japan.
Here’s some descriptions of new anime (all real).
*jaw drops*
Those H bombs had some weird long-term side effects.
I think I’ll hold out for a second season of Nozaki Shuhei Auditor of Bank.
*Sends descriptions to Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Asks them to air more foreign content. *
Back in the mid-1980s, PBS produced a great special on the weirdness of Japanese TV called It’s Prime Time In Japan. It was hosted by Harry Anderson and turned a young l0b0t into a fan of Trans-America Ultra Quiz and Me, I’m You!.
This is the place with the collapsing birth rate, right?
https://www.livechart.me/spring-2019/tv
On the plus side I learned a new word midara.
みだら【淫ら, 猥ら】
な-adjective, noun
obscene, indecent, lewd, bawdy, loose, improper, dirty
This season looks awful. Although I can recommend “Dororo” which continues this season.
That’s where I got the descriptions from.
There’s not really any of the bubbly/cute anime I generally like. One Punch Man Season 2 is a definite though.
Slice of life for the win for me too.
What is wrong with you?
Well I like Oreimo, but only if you view that as a critique. The problem is I’m just not sure if it takes itself seriously…
This is why we don’t have any more Lodoss War OAVs.
Keep this shit up and I’m forcing you to watch K-On!, Clockwork Orange style with your eyes forced open.
I have enough of that shit when my daughter isn’t watching gay swim team or gay figure skaters.
Is it bad if I know what both of those anime are?
It’s not really her fault that her dad puts that on for her.
Also, Yuri on Ice is completely misnamed. Yes, I know Yuri has a double meaning, and it can also be a name, but in anime talk it’s supposed to be lesbian, not the other thing, dammit!
99.997% of anime is shit.
0.003% of it is Shinji jacking off on Asuka while she’s in a coma?
THAT WAS ART!
Well done!
Jesse is a Millennial. What is your excuse?
Barely!
If you’re one, then so am I…
Jesus Christ I had somehow completely forgotten about that scene until you reminded me. Thanks a lot.
To borrow a line from JWZ (who I can’t read anymore, since he’s got the TDS real bad): “Dear Japanese People: Please stop exploring your sexuality”.
There is a good chance Ichiro gets to first, and he might steal second, but he probably ain’t getting any more than that.
Mammary Monday continues!
https://thechive.com/2019/03/31/bad-girls-bend-at-the-waist-18/
Thanks Trump!
Florida Man gets pranked by aliens.
SPACE SMITH DO APRIL FOOLS PRANK. BY PRANK, MEAN RAPE.
Dead Hollywood Democrat actor Fredric March is in posthumous trouble since he was in a frat called Ku Klux Klan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Union_Theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_March
an adjacent art gallery, named after Porter Butts
Somehow, “the jokes write themselves” doesn’t do justice.
Welcome to Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Butts
Houston says “Hold My Beer and listen to this Chopin”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg
The dog in my avatar is name Chopin.
German Shepherd with a Polish name?
Nazi confirmed.
Not a shepherd. Hybrid breed with part shepherd, and Malamute, English Mastiff, Great Pyrenees and Anatolian.
Oh, who has the GSD avatar? (on this screen that is so tiny that it just looks fuzzy brown and black)
That’s WTF.
I think his pup’s name is Gunther.
One of my unattainable life goals is to have enough money, land, and free time to have my own flyball team.
I never got into that. My GSD did a lot of obedience work and my PON did a bunch of agility.
I suspect my next dog will be an expert in retrieving beers.
I am not making this up: I went to college with a girl named Mylene Dick.
There was a woman associated with my workplace named Iva Weiner.
I picture a “social justice incubator” as a pod where an unwoke student is kept until they’re ready to enroll at Evergreen.
I’m picturing something like this.
Fuck those idiot clowns. Best Years of Our Lives is possibly the finest post-war movie and doesn’t get enough exposure today.
…Avoids talking about the loans subplot and that scene where the Isolationist gets punched….
*goes back to ogling Myrna Loy and Teresa Wright and imagining some none scripted scenes*
What I find really hilarious is that Loy and Wright played mother and daughter in that movie despite a small age gap but a year later Loy played Shirley Temple’s sister despite pretty big age gap.
The magic of Hollywood!
Teresa Wright has a sad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Wright
These are some awfully specific carve-outs. I do agree that frolicking with a cocker spaniel is beneath any serious, dignified person.
Those were real examples of publicity photos that many actresses of the time did so I assume she wanted to close as many loopholes as she could.
The situations described were some classic pinup motifs of the day.
The thing is March’s leftist credentials were pretty impeccable but he joined a frat with a triggering name so the campus radicals think he is a racist who must be purged.
It’s all adding up now…why else would one of the more renowned campus bars in Madison be named the “Kollege Klub”? I’ll just bet they’ve snuck a third “K” someplace in their signage.
https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190331/suppressing-single-use-waste-state-city-proposals-look-to-minimize-effects-of-our-throwaway-culture
Not April Fools joke. At what point is it acceptable to start loading commies up for helicopter rides?
Well they are right that modern society is unsustainable: it seems modern society can’t help but produce leaders that loathe prosperity and freedom.
In the life cycle of great empires (known as ‘superpowers’ today), the Age of Intellect creates a class of intellectual that comes to reject the principles that gave rise of that empire’s greatness.
As the ideals of these new intellectuals take hold due to those individuals taking on the roles of educators, they usher in the Age of Decadence.
So it has been with every great nation throughout our history, which is repeating in America. The next stage is the final one – the Age of Decline/Collapse.
We’re nearly there.
I thought liberalism was supposed to end those old empires and lead to unending prosperity…
Single use packaging is for sanitary purposes. Why do they hate the children?
Don’t start on vaccinations (unless it’s HPV, then inject away!).
It was OK though, he landed on a pile of bricks.
You could get hurt that way.
From the Cards Against Humanity link:
Q: I think homosexuality is a sin.
A: You already control all three branches of government. Just let us have our gay card game.
They’re fucking with us, right?
Is this a publicity stunt?
YASSSSSSSSSSSS QUEEN!!!
Remember this is the company that banned the card “Tranny Hooker” for being insensitive.
“Passable tranny” and “banned” is a bit stronger sounding than “didn’t include it in future versions”. You gotta figure their goal is to appeal to approximately college age kids and older millenials while being just on the inoffensive side of being outrageous. “Passable tranny” missed that mark for them, they did a mea culpa and then made some mutterings about punching up and continued making an entertaining version of apples to apples.
If you play it right, apples to apples can be just as offensive as CAH.
Or, I guess, if you play it with the right people.
Absolutely. CAH just nudges the game hard in a dirty direction. Also, never play either game with a room full of people from abroad. You will not win and just be perplexed by their decisions.
CAH often feels like it is trying to hard. When you hit the right combo, it is better than anything A2A can deliver. But those can be few and far between.
re: I have played with foreigners before. Fortunately, they were in the minority, but when your obvious winner gets ignored because they don’t get it, it sucks.
Yeah. I think that’s a very good assessment of it. I haven’t played CAH in years just because I can only think of a few groups of friends where I know we all know each others’ buttons to really maximize the fun of it and we don’t get together and play games as often as we used to.
I haven’t played Cards Against Humanity with foreigners, but have played with a group that included relatives of mine. That was…. odd.
We have the knockoff game.
I remember it being somewhat rather louder than “muttering,” but then again I misremembered the name of the card.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170418033511/http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/88788551523/horriblewarning-death-to-transphobia-i-regret
Wasn’t there a shitshow apres ici though? I surely wouldn’t have been exposed to the kerfuffle through tumblr as I am not that masochistic.
That’s one of the creator responding to internet brouhaha on it. There was another, slightly longer blurb when they actually took it out that said something about “punching up” but various blogs turned it into either craven submission to SJWs or a victory against transphobia because nothing in life can just be people recalibrating what they feel is appropriate anymore.
Looks like I got it wrong too, passable transvestites.
Huh. I’m looking deeper at it and it looks like they’d already shifted away from some of their more “despicable” content before this had happened, but this is what got the attention of the internet and where Temkin explains where they’re coming from. The bit below the Lance Armstrong tweetbelow the Lance Armstrong tweet is where he gets into their reasoning.
“I regret writing this card, it was a mean, cheap joke,”
Isn’t that the point of the game? Shit.
To be fair to kulturkampfkreigen, that does sound like a textbook example of “submission to SJWs.”
Giving in to the screaming horde is so subversive.
punching up, not punching down
Dead giveaway. SJW CONFIRMED!
Isn’t that the point of the game? Shit.
Yes. And that’s part of what people were upset about.
I think his take on it as actually pretty mild/even-handed. He and his friends aren’t where they were when they first made the game, and they want the game to continue to reflect them as creators. I may not love the results, but I can respect the sentiment.
Just let us have our gay card game.
See Google employees below.
Today in everything is a federal crime now.
Is there a point to having states anymore?
That’s the reasoning they gave? For such a bunch of brilliant legal eagles like they are they sure can be stupid.
I had such high hopes for the current SCOTUS. Wishing ill on nobody, but I hope that Trump gets to make one more appointment.
The Rule of Four says four justices must agree to hear a case.
When we had Kennedy, I feel like SCOTUS took more good cases since nobody knew how it would go and both sides expected a win.
So who’s holding up cert on these cases where SCOTUS really needs to set a precedent that crap like this won’t fly? Roberts is likely voting with the liberal block to keep these cases out, is Kavanaugh voting against as well?
We’re just a little emotionally unstable.
Vox Media feels it may have the answer. In an interview over the weekend with Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who claims that the Russian collusion spectacle was the worst media mistake in history, both Vox reporter Sean Illing and Taibbi agree: the left was just far too devastated in the weeks following Trump’s election to think straight.
“A lot of people simply did not want to believe that Trump was a legitimate president, that someone this vulgar and this dishonest could win a presidential election,” Illing says. “And I think that disbelief and the emotional devastation of his election colored a lot of our judgments.”
“Absolutely. Look, almost every pundit failed to see what was happening during the presidential election. No one thought this guy would win. It was almost a 100 percent consensus in the industry. Nobody even accepted it as an idea that he could possibly win, and a lot of that had to do with the insularity of the media,” Taibbi agreed.
“Then when he became president, the instantaneous decision was to declare his presidency illegitimate and foreign-aided. That doesn’t mean all of these stories were made up, of course, but I think there was a deep need to make sense of it all, to somehow not recognize the result. So a lot of people wanted to cancel it out. But that’s not what the press is supposed to do. That’s not our job,” he added.
This is surprisingly self-aware, though Taibbi has been pulling on that thread quite a bit of late. It’s just interesting to see two journalists put the issue into print.
The two do go off the path quickly, of course, blaming the modern media need for clicks and eyeballs on digital stories for the news media’s continued “concern” with Russian collusion, rather than consider that the media themselves were just as “bought in” to the concept as the audience they served.
They’re still missing the point. Trump is a symptom of the deteriorating politics in DC, not a cause.
Trump was a warning shot that the GOP cannot continue to ignore its constituents and that half the country will not continue to be the whipping boy for identity politics.
‘Trump was a warning shot that the GOP cannot continue to ignore its constituents and that half the country will not continue to be the whipping boy for identity politics.’
Very pithy summation, SN.
blaming the modern media need for clicks and eyeballs on digital stories for the news media’s continued “concern” with Russian collusion, rather than consider that the media themselves were just as “bought in” to the concept as the audience they served.
Yeah, if the media coverage of this was driven solely by their need for clicks and eyeballs, they would also have been running wall-to-wall stories on the underlying scandal of a Presidential candidate being put under covert surveillance and being targeted with repeated entrapment schemes, and continuing to pursue a criminal investigation of a sitting President on wholly pretextual grounds.
So Breitbart?
Yes, Breitbart is driven solely by their need for clicks and eyeballs. You thought differently?
Sorry, I thought RCD was saying differently- that The Media™ aren’t trying to maximize viewership, CNN, Breitbart and the rest are all trying to maximize Click and eyeballs… niche markets and what not. CNN could have pushed the Deep State Coup angle for hits but they know their audience, much like BB wasn’t going to push the Russian Collusion angle. There are eyeballs to be had on both sides but pandering is more profitable than casting a wide net.
What I was getting at was really that, if getting eyeballs is the primary driver, then you work both stories. Imagine the vicious talking head shows where proponents of both narratives go at each other. Ratings gold, baby!
So, scoring ratings/clicks was not the motivator. It was something else – social acceptability in their narrow, insular world, is my guess.
The fact that MSNBS picked up ratings by going all-Russian all the time doesn’t really refute this – they were stealing true believers from other DemOp outlets, but still leaving a ton of material on the floor, and a ton of viewers watching, I dunno, something else.
It would be nice to live in an America where the government spying on and abusing its citizens for political purposes would be as horrifying as a plane crash.
Ratings gold, baby!
*Looks up ‘Hannity and Colmes’* You win, that format worked for over a decade and yet no one followed up on it, Left, right, it’s all agenda driven now. I still have to wonder why? Seems someone would try the balanced approach if the market is there. There has to be some money grubber out there who cares more for profit than politics.
MacLaughlin Group, too.
Climate Change grins, and nods knowingly
Serious journalism for serious people
Google Employees Call on Company to Kick Heritage Foundation Ghoul Off AI Ethics Board
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What provoked the most outrage, however, was the appointment of Kay Coles James to the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council, a former lackey in the George W. Bush administration and the current president of the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation. She’s come under fire, in the press, and now by Googlers themselves, for views widely deemed to be transphobic.
“In selecting James, Google is making clear that its version of ‘ethics’ values proximity to power over the wellbeing of trans people, other LGBTQ people, and immigrants,” Googlers and academics wrote in an open letter today. “Such a position directly contravenes Google’s stated values […] By appointing James to the ATEAC, Google elevates and endorses her views, implying that hers is a valid perspective worthy of inclusion in its decision making. This is unacceptable.” The letter’s undersigned demand her immediate removal from the board.
Righteous indignation, with a side order of stuttering rage. It’s what’s for dinner.
If Google had any sense or balls, they’d fire every last signatory before close of business today.
They don’t. Anyone who thinks they’ve jumped the shark internally is going to keep their trap shut until a better offer comes up.
Yeah, I know.
If Google had any sense or balls,
Yeah, that boat sailed awhile ago. Probably the last chance they had to do something like that was the Damore incident. Each time they give in to the social justice cadres their position relative to them weakens. And the demands of the cadres grow.
I’m waiting for the first true AI to identify as a Casio keyboard.
Would a watch be OK?
“Googlers”
So…cult?
People who believe that by virtue of working for Google, they are themselves special and more intelligent than the rest of America.
The first one is just funny, but Naomi Klein? The woman has the credibility of Goebbels.
She is married to a Lewis, Canada’s socialist royalty so respect her!
Such as…?
That’s the best they can come with? FFS.
contravenes Google’s stated values
Google also used to say “don’t be evil”.
Google elevates and endorses her views, implying that hers is a valid perspective worthy of inclusion
Such tolerance. Much inclusion.
Paradox of tolerance…repressive tolerance
Yeah, everyone is included. Unless they don’t agree with us, about everything, or they are unworthy. Got it.
Seagram’s 7 Crown or Canadian Club?
Northern Neck
A bit far away for picking up a six pack.
Hmmm. Black Velvet.
Bareback. Nice.
The battle is good vs evil, not evil vs evil!
An intelligence report produced for law enforcement agencies in the months before the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, in which a neo-Nazi killed one protester by driving a car into a crowd, appeared to endorse a view that leftist demonstrators were “terrorists” and at least equally as responsible for street violence as white nationalists, the Guardian can reveal.
The report, Antifa/Anti-antifa: Violence in the Streets, was produced by the Regional Organized Crime Information Center (ROCIC) in May 2017. It was obtained with a Foia request from the not-for-profit transparency group Property of the People. Antifa is the name given to groups of leftwing protests who confront white nationalists, often violently.
Experts say the report mischaracterizes the dynamics of the street violence that was emerging at that time, and is mistaken in characterizing white nationalist groups as “anti-antifa”, suggesting they act in opposition to leftwing groups or out of a sense of anarchism rather than having their own political and violent agenda.
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Michael German, a former FBI agent who infiltrated far right groups in the 1990s, and a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the report’s framing was wrong.
“Somehow they have this set up almost like antifa is the antagonist, and anti-antifa has developed to resist it,” he said “What it seems to do is completely whitewash the history of white supremacist violence in this country.”
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The report makes further assertions about the relationship between the groups that experts say are unsupported by facts. At one point, the report says: “The antifa can be considered leftwing anarchism and the anti-antifa can be considered rightwing anarchism.”
Bray said: “That’s ludicrous … most of these rightwing groups are not opposed to the state as a form of social organization. Many of them are fascists of some sort or another and believe in a strong state.”
Shane Burley, the author of Fascism Today: What it is and how to fight it, agreed, saying that “this idea that it’s rightwing anarchists, that’s not a phenomenon, that’s not a thing that actually exists”.
Those “left wing anarchists” are totally legit. They hate the state.
What this country needs is more experts.
If it’s in the Guardian, I assume it’s bullshit.
And you would be right!
The “Unite the Right” thing was anti-antifa, and not a white supremacist movement (although the white supremacists happily joined, and the DemOp Media absolutely made them the public face of the movement).
Mark Bray, a lecturer at Dartmouth College and author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, said the “anti-antifa” designation for American far-right groups is also potentially misleading.
“I don’t get the sense that that is the main source of their self-identification,” he said.
A dispassionate viewpoint. If he says it, It must be true.
The entire point of the exercise is to conflate those who believe in free speech and are opposed to collectivism with the exceedingly small minority of actual “Nazis” like the crying retard, Chris Cantwell.
Isn’t the Best Years of Our Lives pretty “woke” for 1946? Disabled people are people too, vets need loans, isolationism is bad, bankers are heartless and is divorce really that terrible? Sounds like a political and social message to me.
Going the opposite direction; I watched Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent (1937) and was mildly surprised to see the band in blackface in the films climactic scene.
I’m surprised Hitch hasn’t been unpersoned…yet.
His views on women were pretty unwoke…
Yes they were. But he knew what he liked!
Crusade for Justice
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned an overpriced croissant into a lesson on the minimum wage.
“Croissants at LaGuardia are going for SEVEN DOLLARS A PIECE,” the New York Democrat tweeted Monday morning. “Yet some people think getting a whole hour of personal, dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive??”
She said her point wasn’t that the croissant cost too much.
“GOP taking every tweet so earnestly, making my point for me. It’s not an argument against the price of the croissant – it’s about the value of human worth,” she continued. “But I guess the idea is foreign to them since their policies treat people as disposable anyway.”
Not fair. The panhandlers and bums at la Guardia deserve affordable French pastries.
Of course the lying liar ignores that government sets the rental, labor (soon to be $19/hr), and other costs at LGA. Let’s pretend that $7 croissant (pending verification) price is set by wholly free markets.
Yep.
Id be interested to see the complete tax and regulatory load on a $7 croissant. Let’s start in the wheat field and go on from there.
Airport food is always really expensive, because you have a captive audience.
I would be interested to see how much of the revenue extracted from that captive audience is captured in turn by the rent charged by the airport.
Boston University really owes her a refund for that economics degree. She doesn’t seem to understand basic 101-level economics.
I think she owes them damages for the defamation she’s doing their brand.
^^THIS.
The woman’s an embarrassment to B.U. My Shih-Tzu understands more economics than she does.
I wonder if she knows how much a croissant goes for at the local Kroger.
Grocery store croissants are awful and you should feel bad for suggesting you’d eat one.
I get them from the local Vietnamese donut shop.
I get them from the local Vietnamese donut shop.
This is acceptable. The Vietnamese are really good at French baked goods. I’m sure the why of that will always be a mystery (sarc)
Huh I just that they were good at baking the French…
The French were bein phu’s at dien.
Good Book about Dien Bien Phu.
Bahn mi 4lyfe!
There aren’t really any decent French bakeries in my area, but there are a couple of decent Vietnamese ones, and their baguettes are just as good as any I had when I worked at a French bakery.
Austin and Houston are gloriously full of excellent Vietnamese establishments of every type. Most of hte rest of the Texas Gulf Coast too, or so I’ve heard.
$2.50 for a baguette stuffed with grilled pork and pickled vegetables? I’ll take five please.
We had a patient bringing in sandwiches from one of the Vietnamese heavy enclaves. I made the mistake of convincing coworkers to try them and then they’d be gone before I could get to them. Curse my altruism.
“Most of hte rest of the Texas Gulf Coast too, or so I’ve heard.”
Springsteen helps explain this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY6OpQMDxbc
Even then, that is irrelevant, as I can get one for $1.
But she bought it anyway.
What the fuck is she talking about?
A croissant to human worth. Jesus what a retard.
I can’t believe this imbecile is in Congress in the most powerful nation in the world.
I can’t believe this imbecile is in Congress in the most powerful nation in the world.
We have Trudeau. Something, something, glass houses, stones, etc.
Yeh but we’re a middle power.
But yes. An embarrassment. We didn’t even give him a minority government to test him. Noooo, inattentive voters gave him the fuckstain a majority.
Canada wishes it were a middle power.
If by “middle” you mean “mediocre,” yeah. Every time the Libs have been in power Federally over the last 25 years or so, I’ve noticed that my rellies over on the Continent have rolled their eyes whenever Canada was mentioned.
You know the one time when we got their respect for our country? When Harper was PM. Love ‘im or hate ‘im, that guy actually had a spine when it came to international relations.
Was Harper the guy with a hair lip?
None that I’m aware of.
Oh, wood eye, wood eye!
Who was the fellow, thought the savior of the hard-line separatists until he ran over a hobo?
I’ve pointed it out before but my first entry level job in NYC was $15.51 an hour in today’s dollars. Among many other things, she probably has no understanding what the local economy is like anywhere else.
OK, I found something today that was funny:
For cramped New York, an expanding dining scene
LOL stackoverflow has unveiled a nice redesign.
argh
Good Grief. That’s worse than DU. I mean the design.
Nice.
I was fooled for a sec
This kid for President in 2044
https://reason.com/blog/2019/04/01/12-year-old-michigan-boy-is-filling-poth
If he survives the hit that the local union goons are going to put out on him.
We can keep him busy here in Balmer, on just one street near me, pretty much for eternity. The sun will burn out before he’s done filling the potholes.
Future Ron Swanson.
Heroic Mulatto sent word of an interesting TED talk. Safe for work. Totally.
Anyone who would click on that link is in the running for April Fool.
Just make sure you click on the link that I post in a few minutes here… I totally promise it will NOT be naked pictures of Lena Dunham. I swear!
I clicked it. It was strangely tame for a HM youtube link.
If Metro 2033 Redux crashes on me one more time, I’m going to rage quit. I mean it!
I hope you’re listening to Goodbye Earl while you’re going through this emotional struggle.
The proggy conflagration continues. She won’t be back.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-pugh-developments-20190324-story.html
“City Solicitor Andre Davis confirmed Pugh’s leave will start at midnight and that the mayor will continue to be paid her $185,000 annual salary.”
Why would she want to come back? Pay me for taking leave and I’ll be happy to go.
City Solicitor Andre Davis confirmed Pugh’s leave will start at midnight and that the mayor will continue to be paid her $185,000 annual salary.
Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young, also a Democrat, will take over temporarily as mayor. Young said in an interview that he was “heartbroken” by the mayor’s deteriorating health and that his first aim was to ensure stability in the city he will now lead.
“People shouldn’t notice any difference,” Young said.
Likely not.
He meant Baltimore will still suck.
People shouldn’t notice any difference
Between a corrupt Mayor and a corrupt City Council President? Likely not, indeed.
IOW, once the current uproar dies down, she will be welcome back.
Remember, this was a city that had the d’Alesandros as mayors. Both Pelosi’s father and her brother.
The hilarious part is they felt the need to include that Young, “Is also a Democrat”.
You just don’t get it, you racist hater. She’s probably just out filing potholes that her undeserving subjects are unwilling to fix.
No glyphosate for you (if you shop at Costco):
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-01/costco-drops-roundup-weedkiller-after-award-second-cancer-case-report
I don’t blame them. Costco has got to be lawyer-bait.
I agree but isn’t the cancer liability angle something that could be pursued with just about any chemical herbicide?
Yes, but now that it has been “proven” to cause cancer, all deep pocketed distributors are pretty much guaranteed to see suits.
The ambulance chasers are already all over it.
Yeah. New York extended the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases, and we immediately got the same people the news trotted out to advocate it saying the change didn’t go far enough, and advertisements from lawyers saying now you could sue big organizations for it.
Oh Zerohedge commenters, don’t ever change. It only took 7 comments to get to this:
Hmm, if Costco actually follows through with this, then good on them! HOWEVER, don’t be surprised to see its stock get hit hard and slammed down along with ‘mysterious’ Costco shootings, explosions and fires, pedophile charges or other wild charges against high profile corporate officers. In other words, the jewish mafia does not take kindly to anyone stepping out of line. The jewish Monsanto empire starting out in the ***-controlled slave trade, so they’re polished professionals when it comes to revenge and retribution.
What are the ***’s for or hiding?
You want civil war? This is how you get it.
“Leading Democratic senators are expected to introduce a constitutional amendment Tuesday to abolish the Electoral College, adding momentum to a long-shot idea that has been gaining steam among 2020 presidential candidates”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/senate-dems-introduce-constitutional-amendment-abolish-electoral-college-n989656
The didn’t learn anything from the Green New Deal, did they?
I expect Cocaine Mitch (how did he get that nickname, anyway) to immediately move it to the floor for a vote.
how did he get that nickname, anyway
The origin story.
It’s just grandstanding and nothing more. I suspect this idea will fade out after Trump takes at least a plurality of the vote in 2020.
Oh I know it’s not going anywhere for now. But once the millennials are firmly in control, all bets are off.
We’ll see. The shitlords in the next generation are multiplying.
All part of the long game. They’ve spent decades telling the American public that the founding fathers were monsters. The next step, already underway, is to convince them that every idea they came up with is tarnished by their slaveholding. The time isn’t yet quite right but you can bet they will submit this over and over again until Americans vote the right way.
Ain’t no way on God’s green earth that amendment gets the approval of 2/3rds of the Senators, 2/3rds of the Reps, and 38 States. Its just way too obvious that it shifts power away from a majority of states and to a minority of states.
Proposing it is upside with their idiot base with no real world consequences.
Nothing is over the top for the leftists. They are sociopathic which means one thing is like another to them. They either get what they want, more power, or they dont. Kill babies? No problem. Gulags? What’s a little gulag between friends? It doesnt matter. 90% tax rates? Why not?
Even “I’m a centrist!” Buttchug is for it. In fact, Biden is the only plausible candidate I don’t see on the list of supporters. My God, 2020 is going to be a slam-dunk for Trump at this rate. These idiots just can’t help themselves.
Some dipshit on TV just now, looking earnestly into the camera: “Is climate change real?!”
Dude, if you have to ask….
Also wife has been watching copshow all say. SUV something. The writers for that show…good God. They are just running amok in a field of strawmen with a flame thrower. Last episode some star football player comes out of the closet and the press is all aflutter then some gaybashers show up and beat the guy blah blah blah.
*Real world pro football players come out of the closet – world replies with “Yeah, whatever dude. You gonna play football or what?”
No one gives a shit.
I hate cop shows, hate them… Except for TJ Hooker.
Ok. I will give you TJ Hooker.
I just complained about the show to wife. She said I am not watching close enough. That show is the most anti-cop show on TV according to her. She says the cops are easily worse than the criminals. I hadn’t thought of that but she is probably right.
The Shield will cure any case of chronic copsucking.
And The Wire.
David Simon is probably puking right now…
https://mobile.twitter.com/aodespair/status/967853452733960192?lang=en
I’ve made this comment before: L&O helped turn me anti-cop – although I’m sure it was unintentional.
The first two seasons of Homicide were excellent.
If there’s no Shatner, it doesn’t pass the test
+1 Shatner leaping and sliding over the hood of a car
I love Kevin Pollak’s routine where he’s talking about Shatner going from Star Trek to TJ Hooker. “This guy had a STARSHIP!! Now what’s he got…a Plymouth?!?!”
That’s funny. A plymouth and no busty green women. That is a pretty big demotion.
Uh, hello??
Heather Locklear?!?
Some Plymouths were nice.
1958 Plymouth Fury is the optimal Plymouth, of course
Pure Evil!
Hunter FTW
I remember that show!
Wasn’t that the show where the final episode had Hunter attempting to disarm a nuke?
The final scene was the nuke actually going off. I was agog.
No idea. I hardly ever saw it, I just wanted to throw that in there.
Sledge Hammer – season 1 ended that way because they didnt think they’d get a second season. S2 is fun, but definitely cheaper. Look for the series box set.
Gunsmoke
Starsky and Hutch
Barney Miller
Miami Fucking Vice!!!
Beretta
If anyone says CHPs, I swear to God….
Emergency! was better.
What the hell was wrong with John and Ponch? What a shitlord.
You didn’t dream about Randi Oakes?
My 6 y/o watches Chips. He started out with the late model stuff and eventually got to the series. It was great seeing L.A. back when it was still heaven on earth, with all the period cars. It was a blast from my past. Then, my wife ran into Eric Estrada and told him how much we’re enjoying the nostalgia of it. He went into a rant about how this place got wrecked and it’ll never be great again. All this in a local supermarket.
He isn’t wrong.
I will about that while I did not particularly enjoy Miami Vice, I did style my wardrobe after Crockett for a year or two in my youth.
admit that
I…actually liked Miami Vice…
*hangs head in shame*
Shame? I loved it!
They had G. Gordon Liddy as a recurring villain. Imagine that in this day and age, I guess the equivalent scandal wise would be Manafort? Although he’s just a garden variety white collar scumbag, Liddy had balls at least.
Wasn’t Liddy the guy who would sometimes hold his hand over an open flame until the palm started to crisp up, just to show people that he could?
Yes, also the only Watergate participant who never ratted anyone out and as a result served 52 months for b&e. Also as a radio talk show host explicitly instructed his audience that ATF agents wear body armor so after you knock them down with the body shot shoot them in the head.
Liddy also claimed that he told one of Nixon’s aides that if he, Liddy, became a problem, they should just tell him what street corner to stand on so they would have no trouble taking him out.
. . . they should just tell him what street corner to stand on so they would have no trouble taking him out.
Well, that’s loyalty. Also batsh!t insane, but whatevs.
He also offered to kill Jack Anderson for Nixon. He was a villain, but at least he had balls.
And, in a sign that there is a god and s/he has a sense of humor, Liddy was head of the FBI field office in upstate NY at the same time that Timothy Leary was experimenting with LSD at Millbrook.
And, in a sign that there is a god and s/he has a sense of humor, Liddy was head of the FBI field office in upstate NY at the same time that Timothy Leary was experimenting with LSD at Millbrook.
The characters on both sides were more entertaining then.
Also he wasn’t in the fbi then he was with the DA’s office
I loved that show! It was on when I was in college. On Fridays my roommate was the maître d’ at a Chinese restaurant. He’d come back with take out orders that were never picked up. We’d drink beer, eat random Chinese food, and watch Miami Vice – then find a party to go to.
I stand corrected: I read his book about 20 years ago.
Hawaii Five-O
Kojak
Streets Of San Francisco
Columbo
Nightstalker.
Does Rockford Files count?
Rockford isn’t really a cop show, but it absolutely counts.
Magnum
Simon & Simon
Remington Steele
Charlie’s Angels
Oh yeah.
*dreams of Farah*
Or, you know, Farrah…
This should bring back some memories for the old guys.
God, Simon & Simon — I loved that show.
This should bring back some memories for the old guys.
Works for me and I’m middle aged.
I loved one of the Simons.
I had that poster on my bedroom wall in high school.
I had that poster on my bedroom wall in high school.
1985 grad?
’81
Mmm. Farrah Faucet, Cheryl Tiegs, and Lonnie Anderson on the wall.
Emergency! Or how about Swat? Beretta. Streets of San Francisco.
That’s what I get for reading from the bottom up. Well, I got Swat in there, so there’s that.
Dragnet and Barney Miller, or GTFO.
OMWC liked Cagney and Lacey.
“This should bring back some memories for the old guys.”
Old guys? Hell, my son had that poster in his bedroom. He’s the same age as, oh yeah, I forgot.
And don’t forget Adam 12.
A-Team, Dukes, Simon and Simon, Magnum, Airwolf – all these shows where the government was too inept or corrupt or both so the outsider had to come in and do the job right.
My wife and I were just discussing how all of our teacher friends on derp book are constantly posting memes talking about how they can’t wait until their next break (winter, spring, summer)
1. If you’re so miserable, why the hell are you a teacher?
2. No wonder public schools are miserable.
3. I would love to see them in the real world where they don’t get 3 months vacation and still make the same in pay.
You misunderstand. They love their jobs so much that they need the break in order to not become overly attached to them.
The AP teachers don’t seem to mind so much.
Just sayin’.
The hot female teachers sleeping with their students don’t mind.
I think teachers have eclipsed cops in the “unwarranted hero worship gives me nausea” category
Mostly because the argument seems to by “I can’t stand spending time around my little shit of a kid, so I feel bad for the person who is contractually obligated to do so.”
12 years primary school and 6 years university. Maybe ten teachers come easily to mind. The rest are just blurry and faceless.
Good teachers are like hen’s teeth.
I can think of exactly one teacher/prof who helped me retain the material better than if I had taught it to myself. Beyond that, there were a handful of teachers who were good at their job, and a whole mess who were mediocre to awful.
The best teacher I ever had was fired by the school for being too difficult.
Dr. ‘Killer’ Keller the organic chemist?
A Latin and Classics professor with three PhDs, in high school…
I had a PhD for American History. I guess she knew her shit but a combination of lack of enthusiasm on both her and my parts didn’t do much for my grade on the AP test.
I had an awesome prof for my Macroeconomics 101 course at the University of Alberta back in the 80s, who was single-handedly responsible for me switching from PoliSci as my major to a double major in PoliSci/Econ. Bonus points because we worked together building a macro model one summer for teaching purposes, and then I became the first undergrad Teaching Assistant in the Econ department’s history (there have since been others, dammitall).
Later I met his daughter. Holy Mary Mother of God, but she was a cute ginger. Nice lady, too. Didn’t have the slightest interest in me. :-/
The teacher who helped me most in college was a friend who graduated a year before me and was teaching high school math.
I remember the ones I had in high school. It was an all-male students school, but it was great because the teachers knew how to teach to us rambunctious lads.
I had two teachers who stuck out and actually wanted us to learn, not just pass test.
One english teacher who required her seniors to learn grammar (and we were learning what should have been learned in 4th grade) who also called is properly by Mr or Ms. She wrote in my year book something in latin that at the time, I needed to go to the library to figure out what she said.
The other was a history teacher with extremely dry humor and no qualms about his personal political beliefs, but implored all of us to make up our own minds.
There were some teachers who stuck out (both good and bad). The ones who stuck out as good were super important in my life. I don’t think I would have become who I am without them (thanks Mr. Larson for letting me sneak into the computer room on weekends!).
I also had some teachers in the Marines who taught basic circuits as well as any college prof I had.
If education wasn’t the cesspool that it is, I would love to spend time in semi-retirement as someone who could augment any CompSci class. But no way, they’d ever let some uncredentialed yutz like me near the kids.
My first programming project would be to lock down the firewall. Good hackers would figure out how to circumvent the rules and get access to pr0n, debauchery and Glibs soon enough.
I love hearing teachers bitch about the need for more school funding so they can hire better teachers who can get through to the inner city and rural kids who don’t want to learn.
So, what, you are advocating that 90% of the existing teachers be fired because they can’t get through to such kids? Somehow I don’t think they mean any such thing.
Either that or they are willfully underperforming and would do a decent job if they were just paid more. Otherwise, they’ll just keep slacking off.
I wonder what they’ve done to change the profession so the cycle doesn’t keep repeating itself?
Anyways, I would be tempted to flag the posts as fake news, since the teachers are always trying to explain how much “work” they do on their extra 3 months off.
Lesson learned, there is such a thing as too many brussel sprouts.
1 is too many. ?
These were particularly sweet without any bitterness.
They did have all of the fiber though. ??☠️
Goddammit. My wife bought a huge batch of asparagus and we had to eat it up before it went bad. I love asparagus but it doesnt love me. She wrapped little bundles of three sprouts together with bacon and baked it. Worse, we had a lot of leftovers and she ended up feeding them to the dog that sleeps on my side of the bed. Don’t be surprised if I dont show up here tomorrow. I might be in a hazmat tent with an oxygen mask on struggling to live.
Asparagus
Lucky for me I don’t have the genetic trait that notices a smell of Asparagus pee.
Can you smell ammonia?
I can smell ammonia, but I don’t notice the distinct smell of urine after consuming asparagus. I believe it’s some sorry of sulfur compound that causes the smell.
Poor sods who both smell asparagus pee and think cilantro tastes like soap.
(I’m only 50% there)
Correction I have the genetic trait that blocks the smell of Asparagus pee.
+1 thiol compound
I’ve never had bacon wrapped asparagus. Sounds delicious. I usually have it with butter and garlic.
bacon + butter + garlic + [insert any food here] = delicious
My Mom used to make it in the Normandy style, poached, then served cold (or lukewarm, depending) napped with a simple vinaigrette.
Wasn’t my thing, but then I was traveling near Carcassonne one summer and got served a simple omelette stuffed with sauteed baby asparagus for lunch at some little hole-in-the-wall in the middle of Absolutely Effing Nowhere (Cathar country is all I really remember). That plus a salad and baguette, sublime.
But I still don’t like most asparagus.
I’m not a big vegetable guy but asparagus is one of the few that I really do like. The problem is it always goes bad before I can finish the smallest available package at my supermarket.
If you poach it and then hold it cold (say, 36-37 F), it can last for several days.
Hmmm. Even colder if you can (just checked my ‘fridge — it’s holding steady at 1.5° C [about 35° F]).
Wrap a wet paper towel around the base and put in a ziplock.
If you can stand it up in fresh water that you change daily, that can also help. Different methods seem to work for different people. ???
You darn hipsters and your personal asparagus water trays. ?
Water trays? Just use a bud vase — or a tumbler, fer cryin’ out loud. Go on, make Alton Brown proud.
Neat, I’ll try one of these next time.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
So you were eating bundles of sticks?
Scruffy is now clean as a whistle.
If he can whistle from there he has a future on the internet.
How about a kazoo?
Watch out for residual chunks. And make sure it’s marked “butt kazoo”, or you could get a rude surprise.
Regarding AOC and FDR and 22nd amendment…did anyone challenge her about the timeline? FDR died in ’45, amendment first proposed in ’47 and ratified in ’51.
I mean that is basic interviewer question..but I digress.
You are assuming the interviewer knew the answers to those questions.
Or was competent.
I guess you can argue that Dewey introduced the debate in ’44, but given the overwhelming support from Congress, Senate, and the States I would say the country as a whole was good with the term limiting amendment. Only OK rejected the amendment.
All that above to easily show it wasnt republicans who sought the term limits.
Oh well. Back to my beer
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/04/01/baltimores-democrat-mayor-taking-a-leave-of-absence-after-her-shady-childrens-book-fiasco-blew-up/
A corrupt politician in Baltimore.
*falls onto fainting couch*
Huh, looks familiar. 33.
I got my new Tom Baker Doctor Who book today.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1785943901
I haven’t been this excited about a book in a long time. Started reading it immediately, but then transitioned to bourbon…
/squeeee
OMG he wrote a book? With Harry and Sarah Jane in it?? Immediate wish-list.
Apparently Ian Marter co-wrote the original concept/script. I thought he was a good writer. Damn shame he died so young. RIP.
Written in first person. From the Doctor pov, by “the” Doctor. ?
It’s in my “to buy’ queue.
Costco Drops Roundup Weedkiller After $80 Million Awarded In Second Cancer Case: Report
You are not supposed to bathe in or ingest weedkiller.
“the European Food Safety Authority concluded in November 2015 that “the substance is unlikely to be genotoxic (i.e. damaging to DNA) or to pose a carcinogenic threat to humans”, later clarifying that while carcinogenic glyphosate-containing formulations may exist, studies “that look solely at the active substance glyphosate do not show this effect.”[10][11] The WHO and FAO Joint committee on pesticide residues issued a report in 2016 stating the use of glyphosate formulations does not necessarily constitute a health risk, and giving admissible daily maximum intake limits (one milligram/kg of body weight per day) for chronic toxicity.[12] The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) classified glyphosate as causing serious eye damage and toxic to aquatic life, but did not find evidence implicating it as a carcinogen, a mutagen, toxic to reproduction, nor toxic to specific organs.[13]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
Morons.
I need to spray some on my driveway as soon as the rain stops.
Ive already treated mine once. We have this strange, new purple weed that is creeping through the neighborhood this year. A lot of it died but I am going to have to do it constantly throughout the summer as the neighbors do not even attempt to control the crap in their yards.
Senate Democrats to introduce constitutional amendment to abolish Electoral College
On what planet do they think they have enough support for any constitutional amendment, let alone this shit?
It’s posturing. They have to cater to the extra-chromosome wing of the Party.
In retrospect, it’s a lot like what the Pachyderms did with Zerocare for 10 years.
Great analogy. Then two years of control of all three branches of the government (winks at AOC) and it still exists.
*sigh* At least John McCain no longer does.
Pretty much, grandstanding assholes gonna grandstand.
At least they are attempting the correct path with it…
True. And that is something. But I am not in a glass-half-full mood on the matter.
Every once in a while Tucker Carlson will let it show that he has a little lefty in him but for the most part I like the guy.
He just hit on something important that I have thought of writing an article on.
“what part of the green new deal does not increase the power of the Democratic party?”
It aint just the green new deal, it’s every plank in their platform. Every single one and they are calculated to do exactly that at your expense.
Same, I also appreciate his commitment to following the strategy of not bending over when the mob comes after you. He got a few points in my book for not caving in and begging for penance from the Media Matters people.
Seconded. He politely raised his middle fingers. Very Classy. Big league.
Yes, I was glad to see that. Why everyone cant take that tack I dont know.
All it takes is a few people to stand up to the SJW mobs and more people will realize that they are actually just like the schoolyard bully: a big pussy who will run away to an easier target if you show the slightest hint of backbone.
It’s actually a little bit strange that more people haven’t figured that out yet. Never apologize to those fuckers.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/95a442915db048a484baaf70d253e0a5.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
https://sportsnaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/081513camille.jpg
Now this one can come snuggle with me.
Quoting Hayeksplosives quoting Pam Poovey, “Sploosh!”
That chive girl is an absolute #would/10. With furious and great justice.
Heh.
Neapolitan meatballs in marinara sauce and broccolini sauteed in olive oil with garlic. Very tasty and not at all heavy.
Needs more cheese on top.
Just sayin.
*drunk and almost out*
Pecorino Romano grated over the top. FTW. And my grandma Nona, if I had a grandma Nona, would be very disappoint with you.
Mesquite seasoned rib-eye seared and finished in Hickory smoke with salt and pepper roasted asparagus.
Tonkatsu with rice and cabbage, fried tofu for the wife.
Panini grilled cheese sandwiches and a tomato bisque.
A brick of meatloaf the size of my head, a mountain of brown rice + black beans, and a whole bag of Brussels sprouts.
Stovetop grilled chicken breast, refrigerator aisle cheese tortellini, homemade romano sauce. Bonus: I learned that my new smoke detector works.
Wrecked Cars Are Now a Treasure Trove of Personal Information
Cool shit is complicated, kids.
The more of this I see, the more convinced I am that my ’09 Silverado will be the newest vehicle I ever buy. And even that probably collects a little more info than I care for.
And don’t forget to clear your data on your rental car after you’ve paired your phone with it. Assuming the clearing actually works.
But make sure the reset doesn’t shut the entire car down.
I work on airport pd cars at work. Specifically, Caprice ppv’s. Once I needed to charge my phone while on a test drive, so I plugged it in to a usb port on the console. After a while I looked and it said ” allow media uploads?” I unplugged tht shit like lightning and just let the battery go dead. Fuck that. We had a guy have a half hour argument with his bank on his cell phone while sitting in one. He apparently had his knee against the ptt button on the mic. After like twenty minutes, the station called and said get that guy off our radio, he’s hogging the frequency.
“…paired your phone with it…”
Uh…no thanks.
Yeah, I don’t get why you would want to do that.
Also, complicated shit is cool.
Which is precisely the problem. It is fucking awesome to be able to communicate with peeps while stuck in traffic, but the downstream issues are real.
Same with gps in cars and phones.
Oh ITA – just being a jerk. Give me a paper map, I’ll figure it out from there.
Fuck you tourista!
GPS is a treasure. Anyone who has grown up in a tourist trap knows how annoying tourists are as they meander around with their “maps”.
I have to get to my shitty job! Get out of the way.
I get the privacy downside, but most of it is because we want maps for free. Why pay for a mapping service when you can get it free, amirite?
When I bought my truck the nav system contained all kinds of saved locations from the previous owner, helpfully labeled “work” or “home” and the like.
CNN Publishes Real News Story For April Fools’ Day
LOL
Good one!
Excellent.
Here’s a related story:
Stopped Clock Named CNN’s Most Accurate Reporter
And now pasted to FB. Thanks!
Those were beautiful
I am The FOOL,all hail Yusef, Ahdan said so,
or something
Just finished the legend of cocaine island. Damn that guy was dumb, but even worse is how evil federal and local law enforcement is.
Fyre Festival?
Point: Cheney. So why is the article implying the opposite? Am I taking crazy pills??
It’s lies all the way down. Spend time and energy debunking one, meanwhile five others are planted.
Truth takes a long time putting its shoes on.
So that’s what it takes to get me to root for Liz Cheney.
I wouldn’t got that far.
MLW really knows how to stir it up.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/04/01/teen-vogue-drops-some-science-says-the-idea-of-the-biologically-male-or-female-body-is-totally-wrong/
Uh, I can’t even!
Major League Wrestling?
/It’s apparently a thing
As like last night I was playing movie catch-up by watching ‘Get Out’, I was so again finally seeing ‘The Shape of Water’. Totally different experience. Fuck Del Toro makes some beautiful moving pictures, and Doug Jones did an amazing job under all those prosthetics. Beautiful moving images, I didn’t even care about the story, the picture was so amazing to see.
*taps mic* Is this thing on?
http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6204oZJMA1rzp1n0o1_400.gif
NSFW.
I wasn’t talking about you! Back in your hole with the lotion!
But I was drunk enough to click, and that looks a lot like my college dorm room and a girl I knew.
Pelosi doesn’t think anything about Joe’s behavior is disqualifying.
Really, you aren’t anyone in the Democratic party if you haven’t had an awkward, semi-sexual moment with Joe. That’s how you know you’ve made it.
I don’t think it’s disqualifying, he never seemed to break any laws with his creepiness…but for a party who went all in calling Trump a full blown rapist for making a lewd joke when he didn’t know he was being recorded; Biden has been shown doing way creepier things when he knew he was being recorded. (And if they take their blather serious, his saying he doesn’t ‘believe he did anything wrong’ makes tah patriarchy angle hit home better. Popcorn time.
What–everyone just decided to fuck off for the night?
GOOD! GREAT! GRAND! WONDERFUL!
/NO YELLING ON THE BUS!
Bored?
Watch WKRP cast on Family Feud:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9XItWgmhZx4
You just made my morning. Thanks. How is Scratchman?
Off to a good start. I’m planning on reading a chapter or two a night.
The world needs more Mark Russell. I’ll cop to being the nerdy kid who watched every single one of his PBS specials.
Shooting Illustrated reviewed an interesting gun yesterday. It’s a little big for concealed carry but the intimidation factor if you have it with is high.