Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it is for everyone not living in the 10 largest US cities as they are all drowning in debt.
John Solomon’s latest article.
As the blue states are pushing to allow abortion up through college graduation, red states are pushing it to the limit as well with Alabama passing a bill that bans abortion, written with the purpose of challenging Roe v Wade.
The baddest motherfucker in the state of Nebraska.
Texas and Boston voted America’s sexiest accents.
Youtube has taken down the fantastic video from the 14 year old comedian that Buzzfeed attacked. It’s is available on Bitchute.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
That 14 y/o is actually kinda funny.
Funny and good writing but not a fan of (presumably parents) using her for this material.
Like how the left uses Greta for cult of climate change.
I originally thought that, too, because her diction is definitely that of someone reading a script. Her claim is that she and another similar-age girl write these together; I’m coming to find that plausible, though I share your general discomfort with child punditry.
I think she’s just a young chick trying to get through a crapload of material in a short time. Her one video that I’ve seen is super-long and she speaks very quickly and without breaks which gives the initial impression of lack of familiarity with the material.
I saw some older vids from her and she is precocious as fuck. She was about 9? or 10? and she had the diction of a trash-talking college kid. I remember watching one of them a few years ago and thinking what a nightmare it would be to have to raise her. Seems legit.
Which of you have sons in her age range? We could have a Queasy Glibarach by 2030.
My son is turning 13. He’s a sweet kid, but I’ll have no trouble overturning the NPR/prog programming from his mom’s family, because they’re mostly morons. In fact he already said to me once, out of the blue “Daddy, cops are bad: they put you in jail”. However I intend to show him the path and let him come to his own conclusions.
I just always tell my kids to think for themselves and unless they actually decide what they believe it’s meaningless.
It’s less to some interesting interactions at school for them.
Yeah just listened to the link. Funny…kinda disturbing. If she actually did the whole skit without coercion cool, but if it’s puppetry I’m out. I’m only interested in American puppets appropriated by Canadians.
Oh, and mornin’
Mornin’
I get why no one likes Lawn Guyland accents, but why would someone like Bahs-ton?
*shudders at the hideous ink in the first picture on the article*
And Minnesot(d)a came in with the baddest accent. Just makes a fella proud. Congrats to all the other MN folks (and lurkers), Nice and Proud!
Joke’s on you Fourscore, the accent they are referring to is Somali.
Wait, wait, the Hmongs got a piece of that action too, well, 30-40 tears ago…
or years
We have an accent?
Uffda. That’s quite the deal.
Yeah, I don’t get the Boston thing.
I always wanted to punch that greasy “Boston Rob” in the chops when we used to watch Survivor.
Few things are more disconcerting than being publicly and loudly solicited by a Southie hooker.
Haven’t had that experience, just a San Francisco hooker from the Tenderloin calling out to me once… with my girlfriend walking next to me.
Remember, chicks with dicks are just guys with tits.
/unwoke
His name is Robert Paulson.
https://me.me/i/tm-his-name-is-robert-paulson-14896613
Did you say, “can’t you see I already bought one?” Test to see if the wife is a gamer.
This makes a few things clearer to me. You are gonna need a bigger bottle of conditioner is all I am saying brah…
Any chick that wouldn’t play along with that is probably secretly thinking they are one.
I think sexiest regional accent can differ between men and women, too.
For females, silent accent is sexiest.
I don’t know if Scottish brogues are sexy in and of themselves, or just because they come out of the mouth of Karen Gillan
Hint – it’s not the accent.
Who dat?
The very best part of NuWho.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/who%20dis%2020190508b.php
If you ignore what a colossal bitch she is.
The women South African descendants of the Boers/Brits have an amazingly sexy accent. I had a fling with one on the beaches of Koh Samui about 30 years ago, I can still remember that awesome pillow talk.
“I never know what I’ll be hungry for from one day to the next>”
What accent are they using when they are making you a sammich?
I vote Eastern Tennessee…no further east, keep going, you need to be in the part of the map that is so far east it often gets a relocation insert like AK of HI.
Buy a map of the US, instead of just a map of Kentucky.
A map of KY wouldn’t have that part on it at all…The northern border of TN is VA at that point.
Your mapmakers even skimp on context?
Have you seen the states KY borders?
**shudders**
Only Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Missouri.
Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia don’t improve the neighborhood any.
When you are involved with that many borders you need KY.
No love for the Maryland O?
I’m not sure I’ve heard it.
Mrs. A grew up in Towsend (sp?). Her Dad is originally from the Eastern Shore, but her Mom is a true-blue Baltimore type, right down to what I have been given to understand are typical Baltimore verbal tics. She refers to it as “speaking Baltimoron.”
Towson.
I was under the impression I didn’t have an accent, until one day I let out a long “O” and someone from out of state caught me on it.
We have proof that the accent of Boston women is not that hawt
Morning!
“…Boston voted sexiest accent”
What kind of sick inbred bastards did they poll? Oh the Brits. Nevermind.
Yeah – Boston accents are just weird. Like the Twit of the Year Award weird.
They are funny though. I remember being on headset on some touring show with a roadie from Boston, laughing my ass off the whole time. See, that proves it.
Mornin’
People who don’t know that NYC and LI are adjacent to each other and the same accent.
I thought part of NYC was on Long Island.
Yes. I live on Long Island, geographically. But most people go with the demographic (?) definition that excludes Kings and Queens counties.
The Boston accent is prolly some form of Chinese broken English.
“In the case of FBI informant Christopher Steele and the credibility of his now-disproven Russia collusion allegations against Donald Trump, we have some important clarity: Government officials confirm that an October 2016 email revealing that Steele met with State Department officials — a breach of protocol for an informant if it was unauthorized — was sent to an FBI counterintelligence supervisor.”
Do you know who used to be head of the State Department?
John Kerry?
Daniel Webster, and again Daniel Webster?
An actual ‘head’ head?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
[golf clap while running to duck small arms fire]
You only make that claim if you are in Serbia Tonio…
America’s 10 largest cities, largely Democrat strongholds, are drowning in municipal debt, according to a new report from government watchdog Truth in Accounting.
Largely?
It sounded better than exclusively.
I’m looking forward to the City Aid music fest.
What sucks for the cities is that they don’t have any compelling video ops like farmers driving their tractors to Washington. I mean, how do you drive light rail to the Capitol?
Anybody care to give odds as to how long it will be before Chicago et. al. start screaming for a federal bailout?
This started already didn’t it? In fact I have it on good authority several states in the deep red – including my own People’s Republic of Connecticut – are banking on Fed money (meaning raping productive tax payers) to bail out decades of blue fiscal policy (tax a ton but spend twice as much).
The valley girl thing was a window in time. It’s been long gone since the mocking of it began, maybe mid eighties.
Like, seriously, I know, right?
It was very real in the early eighties. Zappa was a genius to have made that song.
It’s a shame that that is all he is remembered for by most people. Even back then my Brother refused to play that album after awhile.
Yeah… hear “Valley Girl” on the radio, then go out and buy Joe’s Garage, Acts II and III…
Hair spontaneously bursts into flame as Zappa intones: “keep it greasy so it’ll go down easy…”
I thought the Valley Girl talk was all BS until I was in California at the tender age of 13. I was waiting outside of a building at UCLA and overheard two girls like totally talking to each other! Just like the movie (Hello Nicholas Cage!)
There’s also a particular walk they had. I called it the cheerleader strut. It involves some kind of knee pop action. Even when the “valley” girls existed, it was a subset of people, not universal. I’ve been in the valley since way back then.
Only thing I remember from that movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls
Bonus: they drive away in a Lincoln Limo. But as the camera pans away from the highway, the limo magically transforms to a Chrysler.
Some Aussie women still do that rising intonation thing even when they aren’t asking questions. Confuses me.
There’s a video game “influencer” named Andrea Rene who does exactly this. Every sentence sounds like a question? For no reason? And it’s really maddening?
She’s also a cookie-cutter California liberal so yeah, actual valley girl.
“BitChute has been characterized as a home for far-right and conspiracy theory content. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called BitChute a ‘low-rent YouTube clone that carries an array of hate-fueled material.'”
Yo, fuck SPLC.
Yeah well, the SPLC is widely known to be a bunch of corrupt, mendacious, politically motivated grifters, who no one with two brain cells to rub together takes seriously (sorry, FB friends).
BitChute uber alles…it’s actually a good platform and a good noncensorius alternative to YouTube.
The problem seems to be in the user base. Look at the comments on that video… there’s lots of crazy in there. It is almost like going back to 1998 IRC. Trolls, nutcases, openly racist crackpots…
Straffinrun and Tonio have the salient point – chase out the center-right and they’ll run somewhere – and that somewhere is going to be the place where the extreme hangs out. So well played, Team SJW…. well played….
Absolutely, it’s no surprise that the edgy and the crackpots concentrate in a place where they won’t get kicked off. As for how toxic the user base really is relative to other sites, take a look at YouTube comments on videos about controversial topics sometime.
Don’t worry… google is fixing the user base problem over at youtube… one user at a time….
Get moderates booted from a platform and then bitch about their new friends. Are supposed to become hermits?
“Get moderates booted from a platform and then bitch about their new friends.”
Good observation; I’m stealing that.
And as the left continues to deplatform people they will push people into the waiting arms of actual no-shit racists and fascists who all of a sudden won’t seem so bad after all. They left thinks they can win this, and they may, but the price will be terrible either way.
It’s a high school clique and we aren’t in it, eh?
The left are Mean Girls.
They can’t.
The path they are taking inevitably ends in blood if they stay on it. Between their general inefficiency, lack of discipline, and anti gun stance and their ideological purity tests driving 75% of the population out of their camp they have no chance of winning a shooting war with conservatives. However if they stop then their entire ideology falls apart.
Either way they eventually lose, the only questions are how long it takes and how many bodies get stacked up along the way
They want to return to 70s style low-key revolution. I don’t think the right is gonna put up with their shit if they start rioting and bombing en masse again.
Yeah well, BitChute never sexually harassed a low level employee of the SPLC, so its hard to know who to trust.
I had a run-in with my favorite (sarc) SJW friend of the wife. She made the mistake of stepping on one of my pet projects – criminal justice reform. She saw a black dude getting arrested at Walmart for shoplifting and wanted to brag about how she stopped to make sure they didn’t shoot him. Because “cops down here shoot black people all the time” (she’s in town from DC). So the guy is in handcuffs, sitting near the entrance with several cops around doing whatever the heck they do between placing you in handcuffs and putting you in a car, and she actually tells the police “I’m here to make sure that you don’t kill any black people today, because that’s my right as a citizen.”
Just…. stay off my side, OK?
So I couldn’t help myself and I told her that this attitude that racism is the reason for bad cops is counterproductive. Mistake. Conversation goes through iterations of “thousands of hate crimes every day because of Trump” and to the punchline – Because the SPLC says so… And after one round of me saying the SPLC doesn’t exactly have the reputation that you think it does, “I know all of the people that run the SPLC”….
And again, I couldn’t help myself… “so you are gonna cite those guys? After everything we just learned?” …
She left rather unhappy. And my wife earned a righteous glare that said “do I really have to say it?” Which you’d think means “don’t invite that crazy lady around my family anymore” but only because you aren’t married… because if you were married you’d know it means “Yeah, I know you are gonna invite her around again and there’s nothing I can do about it because I’m not filing for divorce over a crazy friend, but damn, am I frustrated that you keep inviting that crazy and entirely unpleasant person into my home”.
RE city debt. It’s not just the cities, those states are on the hook for the debt b generated by them.
Municipal Bond Issues? Debt? Naw, just credit card balances passed to the next generation. You don’t like shiny new schools where all kids are above average?
“Following on from a sample survey results of our 1.5million social audience, we have the official ranking of the sexiest – and least sexy – accents in the USA.”
https://bigseventravel.com/2019/05/50-sexiest-accents-usa-ranked/
So it’s bullshit.
I grew up in Iowa, therefore I have no accent.
I have a flat Midwest accent – some hard A sounds.
EF has a wonderfully accent-free voice (to my ears) but a lot of people down in South Carolina, seem to have a hard time understanding her.
“Ma’am?” is the refrain she gets a lot.
Sure you do. Everyone does. Unless you arbitrarily declare one region to be the one where “correct” US English is talked. As a Southerner, Midwestern accents sound flat to me.
In the mid-twentieth century broadcasters strove for a generic midwestern accent figuring that was the most neutral, later in the century the preferred accent became Mid-Atlantic English, ie what a native of the DC area would speak.
My Mom spoke in a posh Mid-Atlantic accent her entire life that she picked up from old movies when she was a girl. Not bad for a semi-breed from North Battleford, Saskatchewan. My friends used to ask why she sounded like that and I’d just roll my eyes and hustle them away. She liked to put on airs.
I grew up in Cincinnati, then moved to Lexington Ky for a few years so I generally speak with the ‘accentless’ Midwestern accent, but can lapse into a bit of a drawl situationally.
Most of my childhood was spent in the midwest/great plains area so I guess I had a drawl to my voice. When I moved to Boston in my early twenties I took a lot of shit over it so I self consciously cleaned it up.
Now, years after moving back to the Midwest, I kinda fell into a drawl again though it’s not as bad as it was when I was young. Having a fast, clipped way of talking tends to keep that at bay.
I cultivated a drawl when i was waiting tables in Houston in my younger days. It helped with tips.
My first college roommate was from Peoria…he claimed to not have an accent.
He was wrong.
Which Peoria?
The main one…the one in Illinois.
Home of Richard Pryor and a high prostitute per capita ratio.
Are those 2 facts connected?
Yes, Richard Pryor grew up in a brothel.
Grow up in Wisconsin, now to Denver, Amsterdam then Tokyo. Creates a weird accent. Americans claim I’m Britsh and Brits have claimed I’m German.
This is how I picture Straff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHH0mx1tBJY
Guy sounds like half Wisconsin, half Chicago
That’s why I’m guessing he’s from down Milwaukee way.
By the by, just wondering if anyone has noticed some kind of accent I’m not affecting. As far as I can tell that little kid in the Carolinas was right when he said, “You talk like tha people on tha Tee-Vee.”
Not much IIRC.
You know who else claimed to be German…
Soros?
Trump?
Merkle?
Amsterdam? Man, I pity you. Wat en gelul man.
I couldn’t read that garbled English. Drank a bottle of vinegar once because I couldn’t.
Hah hah hah! I hope that was not in Amsterdam. Although drinking vinegar (mixed with olive oil and salt) is an ancient medicinal cure for sore throat or coughing. These days it is a salad dressing I think, though.
No, Amsterdam.
I would leap to their defense, but, well, it’s Amsterdam.
Back in college I was once at a hotel for a sorority formal dance. A bunch of us were pretty hammered and waiting for the elevator. The elevator door opened and standing right there in front of us was Morey Amsterdam! In a quick reflex, everyone shouted, “Buddy!” And then the elevator door closed like a curtain in front of him. We were all so starstruck we forgot to get on the elevator with him.
I ain’t no ways tahred.
Youtube has taken down the fantastic video from the 14 year old comedian that Buzzfeed attacked.
For her own good. Society must protect her from herself.
But eating Tidepods or setting oneself on fire with alcohol and jumping in the shower (that really was a thing) is totes OK.
One sends the message they approve of. The other is dangerous and evil Nazi shit, yo!
I sincerely wish she could refrain from the ‘faggot’ terminology, but she’s got quite a vocabulary.
They really hate Solomon over at The Hill.
The Hill’s comments section is as big as a dumpster fire as Reason’s.
Probably not long for this world. Geriatric trolls discovered The Weather Network comment section awhile ago and I’ve noticed it’s no longer there. Just wait til Grandpa finds out about 4-Chan!
What’s amusing about 4chan is that they troll old people who fall for their stuff every single time.
Even lazy journalists who flash the ‘ok’ sign to people they’re interviewing whom they suspect of being alt-right. It’s downright retarded.
Wendy Mesley of the CBC did that to Peterson. ‘Don’t you know what this sign means?’ as she tried to connect him taking pictures with alleged alt-righters with being an extremists. She tried to use guilt by association to entrap Peterson in a gotcha moment.
Except she fell flat on her face looking like stupid child.
Lazy, lazy stuff.
Defund the CBC.
“Geriatric trolls”
AHEM!
Hey now, it’ll be awhile before I hang the mop for that last time.
“Welcome to my country: Princess Martha of Norway greets her bisexual shaman and ‘twin flame’ lover at the airport as it’s revealed how he claims to have come back from the dead and has Hollywood eating out of his hand”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7028185/The-L-based-shaman-spirit-hacker-wooed-Norways-Princess-Martha.html
Princess Cray-Cray.
Stupid is as stupid does…..
Democracy, monarchy. There’s no way to achieve separation of Crazy and State.
As long as there are people involved, there will be madness.
That pose in the AC/DC t-shirt is classic.
I see Paltrow and Dawson are fans.
Plenty of legit.
I’m guessing he bangs all these women.
Your saying he’s Rasputin.
But can he digest poison?
That headline makes no sense to me.
*clicks link, looks at photos*
Amazing. Transparent grifter has crazy lady in the palm of his hand. Whoever is responsible for looking after the royals there should probably fit that guy with a new pair of shoes.
She must have escaped the clutches of Nxium and fallen into a different brand of subservient insanity. Back in the day they would just ship them off to one of their estates somewhere or brick them up in the cellar.
I thought the attic was the preferred internment site for crazy relatives.
See, that’s where Mr. Rochester went wrong…
“They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. (Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth.)”
Not exactly a new problem.
She might be a loon but she looks rather good for 47
Ugh, sick child means I got sleep in spurts last night. G’morning all!
Mornin’
I first read that as your sick child has the spurts. At least you’re not dealing with that.
Well, that hasn’t been ruled out…
I first read it as Ugly sick child – damn, what a mean dad, I thought.
“Sleep in spurts”. Regressing to Junior Overlord?
I had a 3 year old throwing up in my bed Monday night, so last night was much better.
I can’t get over how little kids can do that. Run run run play play play – YAAAACK – run run run play play play.
Some people pick the talent back up in their 20s.
Bar hoping?
Best John-o!
No, she was in “lie around with a fever all day” mode Monday and Tuesday. It broke last night, she seems fine this morning. She started eating again about dinner last night. Just some stomach bug I think.
That’s my little one. The big one acts like its Act V of a Shakespearean tragedy when he’s sick.
What were you doing to the poor kind. (Seriously, don’t miss the sick 3 year old kid thing one iota).
Aww. Valley Girl puts me in mind of the Plimsouls.
Elizabeth Daily was smokin’ in that movie; she also played Pee Wee Herman’s GF.
Dat ass.
She was the only one that showed boobage in the original cut. Very nice even though I had a thing for Deborah Foreman. It was a solid little movie although the Punk Rock wasn’t very “Punk”.
EF and I have a pretty good laugh over the “punk” shows and clothing. “This is our music” (which sounds just like your music).
“A Million Miles Away”
Great tune.
Sure, in hindsight, but sniffed at by 18 year-old me. Nicholas Cage is punk because he’s got a blue swirl in his hair? A guilty pleasure movie, to be sure.
Texas and Boston? Why not deepest Appalachia?
They polled brits who used social media and followed the daily fail.
So special needs Brits. Got it.
Because not enough people have hot cousins?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-clapper-premature-for-barr-to-task-us-attorney-with-reviewing-russia-investigation-origins
Lots of heartache over the new investigation. I saw an article (can’t find it, Don’t care to) saying the investigation is a chilling message to the FBI. Ignoring that the FBI stepped into political when they initiated a bullshit investigation. When they knew it was bullshit. We have fucking McCabe saying it was about getting rid of the president on 60 min.
FBI could use a little chilling.
All the 3 letter agencies and the people that thought weaponizing them and sicking them on political opponents need some chilling. That is, unless we really want to allow the perps to conclude Obama’s promise of fundamentally changing America (into a banana republic it looks like).
Hmm, tell me more about this “banana republic” thing. Will there be income equality? What about high-speed rail?
Well there will be no income inequality because everyone (except the elite, and they are not to be judged, because they are above it all) will be equally poor and miserable. And there will be no high-speed rails for the plebes. That will only be for the masters. D.C. will also be renamed to Panem I am being told.
I like the way he pivoted from “we need to have lots of investigations from all the agencies and all the congressional committees because Trump totes committed
treason by colluding with the Russiansobstruction of justice to “we should never have more than one investigation into something”, all in a matter of minutes.WordPress de-platformed Chateau Heartiste without warning.
I know word press is a platform itself, but the service is open source. It shouldn’t be difficult to restore your sight.
You can. I run my site over at Animal Magnetism with a WordPress install on my own web space. WordPress is easy to use, intuitive even for an HTML-illiterate like me. I like it.
Tell that to Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles you shitlord!
Stevie Wonder?
This is not a good trend. Let’s hope that we here continue to fly under the censors’ radar.
Does that mean they could de-platform us?
I don’t think the site is actually hosted by WordPress, (SP / TPTB can correct me). The site just uses the WordPress software which is open source.
more like will.
They also just de-platformed Jon Rappoport.
https://twitter.com/jonrappoport/status/1127573114223722496
I have no idea who either of these people are. What kind of content did they have?
Finally, they found someone even free speech absolutists don’t want to get off the couch to support.
Is there a way to save an entire website (hosted by WordPress, but i imagine it will be gone soon) to my local drives?
wget will do it — you likely have it already if you’re running Linux. Otherwise.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s working nicely.
Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
“I came to the counterintuitive conclusion that engaging in risk is actually very important in preventing injuries,” a researcher says.
“wooden packing crates, tires, mattresses”
IOW, a homeless encampment.
Where are the oil drums with fire and the mad dog 20-20 bottles?
They couldn’t get a DEC exception for the burn.
Damned government ruining it all…
“but it’s funner to build whatever you want.”
This kid gets it. This is why games like Minecraft were such a success with young boys.
Ted S hardest hit.
AND there’s a kid wearing a helmet.
While playing.
That was usually reserved for the macrocephallic kid when I was a wee bairn.
Needs some old planks with nails sticking out.
to nail together wooden boards
They’re working on it.
Honestly, what a great idea.
I’m surprised her Twitter hasn’t been yeeted.
https://twitter.com/sewernugget/
Also, she is supposed to be on Alex Jones this afternoon.
Or her Patreon.
bahahaha, gotta give that girl credit, she smoked that worthless bitch Talia Levin
Good morning Banjos!
It’s a pretty fine line between badass and dumbass.
I’m not an accountant, but that sure sounds like bankruptcy to me.
So why didn’t you stop and re-evaluate? Oh, hey we found some malfeasance, but instead of dealing with it at the time, we thought we’d just forge ahead.
Dumb fucks. I really want someone to go to jail.
Mornin’
Wanton Wednesday is *proven* to raise your testosterone.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/15/ladies-and-gentleman-heartbrakers-only-65-photos/
Do heartbrakers use drum or disc?
Fred Flintstone style.
That “thump thump” sound indicates their rotors are warped
22, 33, 42 (she’s got a bit of extra cushion for da pushin’), 61. Thanks for the cuties, Q, always a blessing.
“Facebook is randomly banning art and nutrition groups with millions of members. Lol what is even going on anymore.”
https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1128496169695318018
I went on Facebook and saw that liberty memes had been banned. That was the only draw for me.
It *could* makes sense (to the extent Zuckerpunk understands ‘sense’), if they’re challenging popular diets or trends or government guidelines.
How dare you tell people fat is important and 0% yogourt is not necessary!?!
/furiously attacks keyboard writing on Twitter and to Facebook demanding censorship while eating tofu.
This is how Facebook dies
I haven’t been on facebook in months.
I never went on that shit, and I feel vindicated.
No, you really need to go on…. and start posting everything you do… photos of your lunch… detailed descriptions of dropping the kids off…. longwinded descriptions of the guy in line in front of you at the bank… desperate depictions of your despair over your appearance designed to elicit gales of complements to buoy your spirits…
I am gonna pass. All I would end up posting is dick pics.
The punch line is who those dicks belong to….
Well, if you believe in the principle of self ownership, that would be Richard.
Who’s writing for this kid?
I’m not convinced it isn’t her. I’ve known 14 year olds smart enough and articulate enough to do that.
She’s precocious. She’s been at this for years. I’m convinced she’s Ben Shapiro’s daemon.
I’m going to go with /pol hobgoblin.
I dunno, but she should come out as transgender. Intersectional Heads explode.
Willing to bet they’d would only too happily claw out a “white trans” exemption to the protected class.
Now this is what I call ridin’ dirty.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/05/jonathan-rhys-meyer-alki-david-cannabis-plants-private-jet-st-kitts?verso=true
Defenders of the FBI have countered that there isn’t evidence to prove the bureau knew Steele was leaking to the media or was hired by the Clinton campaign and the DNC until after the FISA warrant was filed.
No reasonable prosecutor…
I thought this was a great line from Kaytlin Bailey, in the Stossel/ENB video Sir Digby linked last night:
https://youtu.be/eV6Ahz5GWQc?t=225
Baptists and bootleggers.
Regarding the last night’s comments, I think ENB looks cute.
In a drunken state and unencumbered? Wood. She’s wealthy enough to visit the dentist isn’t she?
And we based it on the fact that in Alabama law, we currently consider the baby in the womb a person. If you were a drunk driver and you killed a pregnant woman, you have a double homicide on your hands.
Idk if this is the same in every state but I have been aware of the double standard in some places. The legal logic should be consistent across the board.
PBS Show ‘Arthur’ Introduces Children To Same-Sex Marriage
I always though Mr. Ratburn was a down low kind of guy.
Explains everything.
People must have missed Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street…
I took Frank Oz at his word. He’d know better than the people who took over and don’t repsect canon.
Arthur is one of the most progressive shit shows on PBS.
My kids never liked Arthur
All I know is Calliou will grow up to be Cuckou.
Praise Allah for the blessing that is Soph.
OT – I believe this is the first time I’ve been here at the same time as you in a week or so.
RE: Oreimo – I’ve also got a soft spot for Kuroneko. Probably because I like the voice actress – Hana Kanazawa. She usually plays cute characters so I enjoyed when she got to play Nadeko in Monogatari and show what happens when she rips off the mask.
Too Many People, or Too Much Greed?
blah blah – a lot more uh insights in da link.
Too much stupid, methinks.
“minimal sacrifice of human decency and human life.”
“Such a course would obviously include fully subsidized healthcare for everybody, with every form of contraception including abortion on demand”
Huh.
It’s a perfect system as long as everyone shares my values and beliefs.
You got it. With these morons it is all about others giving them what they want. Fuck them all with a rusty screwdriver.
“We homo sapiens could as a species choose to cooperate globally to simultaneously raise the living standards of the most impoverished”
Which is exactly what we’ve been doing.
This.
Greed keeps us alive.
Too much envy is the problem.
You win the internets. Our problem is that so many are mad that others do better than they did.
“feudal capitalism”
No such thing.
We could. But what do we do about selfish people like the author, whose idea of cooperation is actually a competition to see who can work the least and take the most?
“fully subsidized elder care and for end-of-life choices”
No, not creepy at all.
It’s not a Death Panel Tonio, it’s a subcommittee on treatment and transitions.
could as a species choose to cooperate globally to simultaneously raise the living standards of the most impoverished
So you’re saying to embrace the free-market? *reads on* No, of course you aren’t.
But they don’t believe in authoritarianism
Harris — a former career prosecutor who appears intent on owning the gun issue in the crowded primary — said if Congress fails to pass stricter gun laws in her first 100 days as president, she would take matters into her own hands. That involves signing executive orders requiring near-universal background checks on gun sales, closing the so-called “boyfriend loophole,” reversing the Trump administration’s move to allow fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants to buy guns, and repealing a law that prevents victims from holding gun-makers and firearms dealers liable for their losses.
But since she unveiled the original plan, Harris has faced significant competition. Last week, Cory Booker released a 14-part proposal calling for licensing all gun owners that the New Jersey Democrat’s supporters are touting as the most aggressive of any of the presidential candidates. Booker’s gun-licensing program would require, among other things, a comprehensive FBI background check and proof of completion of a gun-safety course. On Tuesday, Booker put out details of what he’s calling a gun suicide prevention plan.
Fuck you and the broom you rode in on, Kamala.
MEGALINK!
Guns have perennially been a winning issue for the left.
“boyfriend loophole” Assumes gender.
I posted something about that yesterday. She is running on being a ‘pen-and-phone’ tyrant but somehow Trump is the authoritarian wannabe dictator.
block imports??
/furiously comparing online prices of Walther steel frame
just kidding, it’s not like either of them will win the nom. Joe’s got it locked up.
“Invited @PeteButtigieg on the show. His press secretary immediately responded and we are trying to set it up. Tolerant blue check progressives aren’t happy about the threat of conversation…
Media Matters now actively trying to stop me from talking to people.”
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1128456871923216384
Psst- oh, Edit Faerie….
Texas and Boston are voted America’s sexiest accents
I’m all about that southern drawl, but Boston? Meh…
There’s absolutely nothing sexy about Boston.
Some people get turned on by terrible driving, others have a visceral erotic response to clam chowder.
Good news from Minnesoda! Two gun bills have pretty much died in the legislature. Even better my neighbor and state Senator Limmer was the guy who seemed to put the stake into them.
It was a party line vote to keep the new laws out of the big omnibus bill. If the GOP was smart, they’d run on this. The metro area DFL-ers might still stick to their anti-guns, but the out state DFLers know that their constituents would run them out on a rail if they backed this shit.
But it is the GOP and I’m sure they will let the issue lie unused.
Before Tundra or Leap get too giddy, behold the battleground preparation that the media is doing for this budget session.
GOP are a bunch of meanies. GOP is a slave to a philosophy (no new taxes). They are the party of govt shutdown.
For non-Minnesodans, we had a $1+B surplus coming in. The new gov is demanding a new $0.20/gal gas tax. There are also a bunch of other taxes they want.
We are so fucked.
I’m not giddy. MGOC has been emailing pretty much every day with updates on the gun control bullshit. And Walz is a complete and utter fuck tard.
So, not giddy. Counting down the days to departure.
Same here. D’s agreed to drop their gun bills (which is merely a year or two away) to get quorum from the R’s to pass their corporate gross receipts tax. Totally fucked once that goes into effect. Along with the cap and trade tax hike/payoff to connected.
Literally “a cap and trade”
Italian Leader Goes Full Fascist on Persecuting Roma People
Italy’s far-right politics against Roma gypsies are starting to look a lot like a return to the country’s dark past.
Do they have permission of the landowner to set up camp there?
They just have to tie it back to Hitler don’t they?
Don’t they always? The dishonest part is that no country in Europe (or anywhere else) is innocent of wrongdoing at some point in their history.
It seems that the word ‘evil’ has been replaced with ‘far-right’.
Someone please explain how persecuting gypsies is a right wing thing. The worst offenders have always been pinkos.
RE: Soph.
She’s pretty much dead on about everything *except* her assertion that the damage done to you can only be done through pseudo-ostracization on the internet. That is demonstrably false in that people have been fired and/or physically attacked from online mobs.
To be fair, I don’t think she’s held a standard job.
I get the feeling that with that many subscribers she has the college fund thing down pat if any of them will accept her.
“So unwoke”
*shreds application*
/college admissions office
Oh, the FIRE will have a field day with that. Hopefully the school will end up paying her legal fees and giving her free tuition.
There’s always Liberty University.
Ugh.
A girl like that doesn’t need and probably has no desire to attend college. She’s the future I’ve dreamed about.
She’s made her own way, already. She’s been at this for years and as I said above, seems legit. Kudos to whomever let her freak-flag fly. She’s like a mini Zappa.
What’s with the ‘Elon Musk is the Edison of our times’ crap?
That is completely unfair.
Mosk hasn’t electrocuted any elephants to slander is business rivals.
*Musk
**his
Yet.
Topsy!
More like the PT Barnum of our time.
You besmirch the name of Barnum.
I don’t recall PT bilking taxpayers. He took money from fools who willingly gave it to him.
The bilking of taxpayers happens long before Musk gets to the trough.
“This way to the egress”
PT Barnum entertained the people who gave him money. Musk is just screwing them over.
Oh Lord, we are all giving him money through tax breaks for his vehicles.
Taxation is theft! ex. 45545874
“LEAF WARS W/ HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpFoJ30ajQ
faith Goldy has a kinda weird face but her buns, legs and breasts are as high and tight as a proud boy’s haircut.
Some years back I discovered that if I relaxed and just spoke with the heavy southern accent I grew up with instead of the more proper speech I had worked to achieve in college people would underestimate me….greatly. They would also let their guard down and I would find out allllllllll kinds of things about them before they learned anything at all about me.
Heh.
I found it so useful that I eventually just developed a ‘fuck it’ attitude and stuck with the suthen drawl all of the time.
What can I say, it comes natural.
This is true.
I can lay it on if I want to. It’s proven useful on a few occasions, particularly up North.
I remember one particular episode of Jeopardy! in which there was a gentleman with a rather thick Southern accent mercilessly kicking this opponents’ asses. I thought to myself, “if this guy walked around some major coastal city and chatted with people, they would assume he was an idiot”. Insulting as it is, having someone assume that about you could be hugely powerful.
It is.
Note my handle. It even works on the internet.
So this redneck drives into a top notch New York City bank in a Ferrari, walks into the loan office, and asks the loan officer for a $10K loan so he can go to the European Redneck Convention next week in a thick southern drawl. The loan officer gets his manager, and the two of them look at this obvious redneck and decide to fleece him. They ask him about the Ferrari and he tells them it is a loaner. The only car he could get on short notice since he didn’t want to bring his truck to NYC. Anyway, after some back and forth, they tell him they can issue him a loan but need collateral and will have to charge him way above the personal loan interest rate of 9%. He offers the Ferrari as collateral, and they settle on 25% interest. The Ferrari will have to go in the bank’s lot, under lock & seal, to make sure he repays the loan they tell him. He thinks for a second, and then sighs and agrees. They give him his cash and he goes off while the loan officer and his boss laugh at the stupidity of rednecks.
When he returns a month later, he pulls out the cash – the $10K he borrowed and the $208 and change in interest – and pays them off. They immediately accost him and tell him they had decided to research him and found out the Ferrari was really his, that he is a multi-millionaire, and they want to know why he needed the loan. He smiles and asks them where the hell they think he could have parked a Ferrari in freaking NYC with enough security to make sure the car was not stolen for just $208. And asks them to pull the car up for him. Please of course…
That’s like the classic story where the old farmer driving a beat up truck goes to the Chevy dealer and gets ignored by the sales people because the guy looks so poor.
He drives over to the Ford dealership and ends up buying 10 trucks for his farm.
I used to get a bit of that even into my early 30s when I looked younger than my years; and wore a flight jacket, Doc Martens, and had closely cut hair. I would get a lot of questions like “have you ever gotten a loan this large before?”
Me with a cold voice: “I would be asking to drive it if I couldn’t buy it.”
Here’s the thing:
Someone with actual linguistics knowledge please tell me the proper name for what this is.
Southerners have a way of speaking — an affect? a register? that means “I am lying, but please pretend I am telling the truth and we will all get along socially.” Maybe this exists in other parts of the country, but I can’t hear that here (upstate NY). Because of that, they have an “honest” way of being dishonest. I find myself getting really pissed off at NYers for lying in a way that I don’t at southerners that use that “polite lying” register.
Bless your heart.
As a native, am I missing it or does that register not exist here?
We just assume everyone is lying all the time. It’s honesty that throws us.
Ah, so you don’t have the “honor culture” that necessitates punishing someone for lying to you then.
In your area, people don’t lie to be polite, people tell obvious lies to assert dominance. It’s saying “I’m obviously lying, and you’re either too stupid to know it, or too weak to do anything about it.” That kind of lie requires immediate push back.
Well done.
“Polite lie” is exactly right. It’s just being polite, which isn’t much practiced in the northeast.
What are you trying to hide behind that fake niceness facade? Huh? I just know you’re not to be trusted now.
/New Yorker
No, it isn’t. I appreciate people being honest to my face.
That’s just it: this register of speaking signals that what is being said IS a lie. To lie in a normal tone of voice would be gravely insulting.
Imagine: a man and a woman are having an affair. They are being discreet about it, but pretty much everyone knows that it’s happening. Since the couple are being sufficiently discreet, that social group can pretend that the affair is not happening and no furious consequences ensue.
This vocal register is like that.
If the guy died, it would be acceptable for the mistress to attend the funeral, since she’s just a member of the community. If she tried sitting in the front row with the family..
Uh….give me an example.
You invite someone to an event.
They beg off with an excuse.
You can tell that the excuse is bogus, but also know that it would be impolite of you to call them on it. You could plausibly get away with making them sweat by offering to “fix” the problem that is keeping them from attending, but at this point a third party would be able to tell that you were just fucking with the guy.
I learned early in life to never judge a person by their diction. Some of the smartest people I’ve ever known sound like they just walked off of the set of Deadwood.
In the same fashion it is a mistake to judge people by their level of education.
Some of the dumbest people I’ve had the misfortune of having to deal with have had doctorates.
The dumbest people I have interacted with could not wait to tell you how much education they had. Common sense or knowledge of how the real world works however, was either in short supply or not present, and they seemed to be proud of that. But they thought they were smarter than everyone else.
I must admit some northern bias when talking to southerners or Texans – at least in the business world. I’ve been in a few conference calls where I’m cutting them off and finishing their sentences… because they talk so damn S-L-O-W compared to the fast-talk we do here in Michigan. I just want to get to the point and get the damn meeting over.
I’m just a simple caveman…
One of the smartest gals I know – runs her own biz here in NYC – is from I think Shreveport. She can crank it up when she wants.
Wait I thought you were… I’m confused.
“The IRS, using the NSA and the FBI, are harrassing my former employees (Two were given houses), my business contacts (In Mexico no less), my banks, and even my auto mechanics. I will be publishing the full audio of these harrassments soon. I invented the tech they use. I’m McAfee”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1128343824898711554
Banana. Republic. Monkeys.
“Since it’s already been ruled that Tommy Robinson did not interfere with the grooming gang trial — they are now going with “he hurt the feelings of the grooming gang child rapists and gave them anxiety.”
I feel like we’re in some kind of dystopian tragic comedy.”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1128347357182033925
It aint a feelin’.
Someone should take a hammer to the skulls of every single member of their justice system that enabled that to happen and every single person who perpetrated it.
State Department’s red flag on Steele went to a senior FBI man well before FISA warrant
So who’s going to jail?
Probably you
+3 felonies a day.
George Papadopoulos talks about how he was set-up with Mark Steyn.
They wanted to entrap him so they could have a last minute scandal to hit Trump with. That was criminal, and people need to go to jail for doing this shit.
The story is also very insightful on what the think of our British and Australian “allies”.
Huge hate hoax thread:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1128457984491659264
I enjoyed his interview on Woods’ podcast, Andy is coming to see the light.
The stunning toll of Boy Scout sex abuse: More than 12,200 reported victims
So this is like those late-night adverts for asbestosis?
To be fair, I’m pretty sure the standard tick check counts as molestation now.
if you are using your penis to do the check….
Wow. One of the scout leaders from my Tustin, CA troop is in this database. Arrested the same year I left, 1983. Surprised I didn’t know about it at the time.
You weren’t sexy enough?
Plisade ugly-cries and flees the room.
Are you Mac?
I suppose I should be happy that at least I got a hernia check.
I was just getting ready to reference this episode. Hell, I was an altar boy, in Boy Scouts, and went to Catholic school. Guess I really was an ugly child.
When I was back home a few months ago for a family get together, it was right when a big list of known-pedophile priests was released.
Uncle-by-blood: “Man, I was his alter boy for four years and he never made a pass at me.”
Uncle-by-marriage (ie so didn’t know him as a kid): “Are you bragging or complaining.”
Uncle-by-blood: “Both, I guess.”
As I was leaving the Army I learned that in addition to the 10% women in the army that 10 % of the men were gay. I really got discouraged ’cause no one, not one, male or female, had ever made even a possible suggestion to me. I really felt like a loser.
That number is high, was there a disproportionate amount of gay guys in the service at the time?
No, just a made up number by the power. The army was beginning to get woke in about 73-74. First came project 100,000 with 100K otherwise ineligible recruits. Low IQ, criminal activity, a rehab program. Then came a sort of don’t ask and don’t care attitude (which no one did anyway).
Had to justify the post draft-post VN recruiting difficulties with the New Army.
Oh yeah, Project 100,000 was doomed from the start. I doubt that many ever completed their contract, I’m guessing 5-10%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
More likely than not you were someone predatory people saw as unlikely to go along and very likely to tell on them. Ugly usually has nothing to do with if they want to molest you or not, because it is about getting away with it…
I’m going to guess you’ve never watched It’s Always Sunny, huh?
There was a man who worked at the same place as my father back in the 70s and 80s. He was also heavily involved in Boy Scouts. About 15 years ago, he was murdered. It turns out he was molesting young Scouts and finally one of his past victims came back and shot him. Crazy.
Via Stossel: The U.S. Postal Service Doesn’t Know Why Its Trucks Keep Catching on Fire
Uh, fuel lines and pump maybe, people?
Stop buying Peugeots.
Well, after the Pinto got taken off the market, they had fewer options.
Maybe they ought to check the thermostats.
“It’s still set to ‘Nuclear Inferno’ like the manual says.”
Break that oath of office before you even get a chance to take it.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) vows to fight for gun control “like folks have never seen before.”
In an interview with CNN’s David Axelrod, Booker said the use of “thoughts and prayers” after a shooting is “bullshit.”
“So, when I’m President of the United States, I’m taking a fight to this issue like folks have never seen before, because we’re better than this is a country. It’s a uniquely American problem. No other country has this kind of carnage. More people in my life kind of died in this nation due to gun violence and then all of the wars and revolution wars now. We are not going to give thoughts and prayers which to me is just bullshit. I’m sorry to say it as a man of faith, but I was taught that faith without works is dead. We’re going to bring a fight with everything that I have to solve this problem because it’s solvable and we know it,” Booker said on this week’s edition of ‘The Axe Files’ on CNN.
No, it isn’t.
What a degenerate.
Then propose an amendment to the Constitution.
Pssssst! He’d rather keep it on the “down-low”…
Haven’t seen the beard lately.
It was a really great idea to make the offering of thoughts and prayers verboten.
Christ, what a giant asshole.
“Laughter: The New Symbol of the Far-Right”
https://medium.com/@lucyfrown/laughter-the-new-symbol-of-the-far-right-d31941325572
This week, Martin Sellner (avowed terrorist-funded white supremacist) and his fascist, migrant-hunting Barbie fiancé Brittany Pettibone released this video, in which the couple are seen laughing and joking with each other about the fact that they intend to go ahead with their marriage plans and start a family. These people, nay, these monsters want to breed more Hitlerite offspring into this world. And we’re just going to let them?
This really is evidence of the sort of sociopaths that the left has become. They really believe that, somehow or other, it’s their right to determine who can and can’t marry who, not even on a generic basis, but down the the individual.
I’m pretty sure this was satire. God, I hope it was satire. It’s hard to tell nowadays.
Yeah, now that I look again, I think it might be. But, we’ve passed the point of Poe’s Law.
I kept waffling reading it, but in the end I *think* the article is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Sure hope it is, anyway…
that was awesome. is Medium entirely satire?
Is it satire or earnest? I can’t even tell anymore.
Definitely satire, the line about killing them at the end is the tell.
Oh, see, I didn’t read it through to the end.
it was seething satire. my favorite kind!
Haven’t these ‘people’ learnt by now that they are not wanted in society? That their thoughts and ideas are so rancid that they’d be better off packing up their meagre possessions and finding a bridge to go and live under, like the pathetic trolls they are? What good are they, if not to serve as warnings to others who dare to question our tolerance?
Medium is a godawful site that basically posts anyone who sends an article in as if they were an expert.
It’s like Glibs for the common man.
So, basically morons.
Essentially yes. I like the expression “full of more bad ideas than a medium article.”
Since its impossible to parody the far-left, I can’t entirely tell if this is satire or note. Surely it is, but surely in a week or so we’ll see nearly a word-for-word reprint of this article on Slate demanding serious consideration.
Standing still and smiling while someone gets in your face and bangs a drum is already evidence of white supremacy; declaring laughter and optimism to be white supremacist is the next logical step.
Bullock for President
Publicly, Democrats are laying off Bullock.
“God bless him,” Schumer said when asked about the Montana governor Tuesday.
Haha, good one, Moobster.
People are telling Bollocks he should run for the Senate. I think he probably doesn’t believe he can beat Daines. I know I don’t think he can.
Gosh I hate Romney. He really is the new McCain.
and I voted for the schmuck
I did in 2012. But not for his Senate run.
Yes, I should have clarified for Prez. And same for McCain (shame! shame!)
As hard as it was to vote for Barr and GayJay, at least I can say I never voted for McCain or Romney.
2020 might be the first time I vote for a Republican for President.
It was more out of my hatred of the Dems than my love for Republicans.
I opted out of voting for prez last time around. And I’ll probably stick with that, though voting for Trump is tempting.
Therein lines the issue with the 2-party system. We end up voting for someone who sucks, because the other person sucks even more in our view, and you can’t let that person win, can you? So both parties can run shitty candidates who only make things worse, because that makes things slightly better for the people at the top of those parties.
Not that this issue hasn’t been dissected here many times over.
Everything I’ve done since about 2007 has been done out of a hatred for Democrats.
I have a hard time voting for a Dem president because of the Supreme Court. Republican appointees grow in office and tend to become moderates. Dem appointees are lifetime partisans.
‘2020 might be the first time I vote for a Republican for President.’
Second. Might also be the first time voting for someone who wins.
#metoo. But I tell myself I’m not voting for Trump, I’m voting for putting Democrats in prison.
He’s such a fucking pussy.
Hecking ear infection. How’d this even happen? I’m not six years old.
But you’re not even an Evan, yet.
In all seriousness, that sucks, Friend. I had sinus headaches that were making me squirm and mewl like a newborn and keeping me awake for days at a time a couple weeks ago. Get better!
Oof. It hasn’t gotten that bad, thank god.
I started getting them any time I go swimming starting at about age 35. WTF.
Have you thought about chlorinating your pool?
Or not swimming in the sewer?
I have the same trouble. I simply pour some alcohol in my ear immediately after swimming. That seems to be a good preventative.
Again, not medical advice, just sayin’.
Ear infections usually indicate blockage. Did the bacteria come from an external source or internal (like your sinus)? Knowing the cause might be critical to preventing periodic returns where the bacteria get more and more resistant to treatment…
You don’t have to tell me about ear aches. I lie on my side and using a dropper to put some H2O2 in the affected ear. Let it boil for a while then shake it out. Then, if the skin is not broken use the dropper to fill the canal with alcohol and let it sit a bit. Then I shake it out, dry with a clean Q-tip and then with another clean Q-tip put a light amount of triple antibiotic salve in there.
Repeat a couple of times per day until it is gone. If it is a real infection and not some other condition that takes care of it pretty quickly.
I am not a doctor and this is totally not medical advice. I am just relating what I do for myself. I don’t recommend it to anyone else.
Love getting an email from an internal user: “we haven’t had a request like this until now.”
And I just forward the email thread where we discussed the same issue (and solution) – in February.
“You’re not supposed to remember three months ago!”
If only e-mail had some kind of function, that would look through previous messages based on some keywords…
People would still have to remember that there was a previous conversation on the same topic and seek out the information.
It’s still easier to ask the guy who remembers things, than look it up yourself. Ask me how I know.
And we all know that users never delete any emails, ever.
We had users like that.
“Frank, you need to either clean up your mailbox or approve the request for more disk space.”
Wait, I can’t store all my family movies on the email server?!?
“It’s not work related, and the contents of our mail servers are FOIL-able.”
What does multiplying binomials have to do with the mail server?
FOIL == “Freedom Of Information Law”
Sorry, it’s a fact of life here, our email is a form of public record.
USER: Why did that message disappear from my Trash folder.
TONIO: The mailserver automatically empties Trash folders when it starts running out of space. It runs out of space because [you people] never delete anything, ever, and refuse to archive. Also, Trash folder.
USER: But I keep stuff there that I’ve read.
TONIO: Not a good practice.
USER: [incoherent sputtering]
User has filed complaint with management.
It’s not very effective.
“Why am I getting complaints? I don’t care, just fix it.”
I’ve seen that repeated with the recycle bin and Temp folders before. At least once I asked the person if they were surprised that their files from the cylindrical filing cabinet under their desk got emptied.
Janitor just came around and moved those files to the long-term archive.
I never, ever delete emails until the infrastructure folks tell me I have to. Years-old emails have saved my bacon on more than one occasion.
So much this – that’s why I never delete anything and prefer to use email for 99% of my work communication. CYA thing.
Just print them out.
Same here on both counts. Deleting emails, unless obvious junk, is against SOP for my company. Every email is automatically archived.
We’re actually not allowed to. As a government agency, our emails are subject to FOIA. I have archives of every email I’ve ever received in this job.
I used to.
Then Andy suddenly changed the retention policy to 90 days for a few months before switching back to not deleting.
There is speculation about what he wanted out of the email archives…
Internal customers are the worst, except for the external kind.
I’m convinced
“By the end of this century, if emissions keep rising, the average temperature on Earth could go up another four to eight degrees,” Nye said. “What I’m saying is the planet’s on f***ing fire. There are a lot of things we could do to put it out — are any of them free? No, of course not. Nothing’s free, you idiots. Grow the f**k up. You’re not children anymore. I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you’re adults now, and this is an actually crisis, got it? Safety glasses off, motherf***ers.”
The sky is
fallingburning!I like it when accredited “scienticians” brow-beat me and swear for effect. Makes it so much more methody and sure to change my ways.
I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12.
You were sane then.
I was more of a Beakman’s World guy myself.
I didn’t mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you were 12. But you’re adults now, and this is an actually crisis, got it?
Because the key tenet of the scientific method is blind faith in the pronouncements of men in white lab coats.
^This.
Also, you know CO2 is a key requirement of photosynthesis? Because you science.
“Safety glasses off, ”
Umm, but if it’s so dangerous… Shouldn’t we have them on? I mean at least make your incoherent rants have some modicum of sensibility.
How did that dumbass ever manage to get an engineering degree?
I’m sure he knew enough about mechanical systems to get a C in the required classes at one point.
Sorry Bill, if you want fawning adoration you should go back to lecturing pre-teens about basic facts of the natural sciences and stop being a political hack.
Unfortunately, it seems like the only reason anyone attempts to become a well-known figure is so they can eventually pivot to using their popular authority to push progressivism.
What ever happened to seeking wealth and fame as a means to get laid? Why does it always have to be about pushing progressivism now? I’d respect these guys more if they were just using their money and status to get poon.
Whenever someone mentions Bill Nye, my mind goes to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UegBEitgYsA
My Sex Junk!
If they wanted to discredit themselves I don’t know how they could have done it better.
The guy is a joke. How does he have time for that anyway? Isn’t he busy enough swishing across stages and giggling about trannies?
Christ, what an asshole.
Liz of the Fauxhicans on the warpath
“I love town halls. I’ve done more than 70 since January, and I’m glad to have a television audience be a part of them. Fox News has invited me to do a town hall, but I’m turning them down—here’s why,” she began in a long Twitter thread.
“Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class,” Warren tweeted.
“Hate-for-profit works only if there’s profit, so Fox News balances a mix of bigotry, racism, and outright lies with enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet. It’s all about dragging in ad money—big ad money,” she said. “But Fox News is struggling as more and more advertisers pull out of their hate-filled space. A Democratic town hall gives the Fox News sales team a way to tell potential sponsors it’s safe to buy ads on Fox—no harm to their brand or reputation (spoiler: It’s not).”
Warren said she and her supporters can “fight back” against the “hate” of Fox News. “I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our candidates—especially when Fox will make even more money adding our valuable audience to their ratings numbers.”
“Savages, savages…”. But now do CNN and MSDNC.
True story #458 – I used to have to hide my beer from Grandma.
A “real” part-Indian.
Fox News and the tens of millions of scumbag assholes that watch them are being divisive.
I’m not going to appear on those scumbag assholes’ channel. They’re hateful.
I’m not sure they make money.
That message will help her fundraising. Uh…
“Hate-for-profit ”
Honey if hate you for free.
Seems self-defeating, considering that Fox has more liberal viewers than any other news channel.
Has she got any examples of all of that hate and bigotry? Lies?
I finally have something in common with Fauxcahontas: I don’t know what she is talking about.
this guy is working on CAD files for suppressor baffles. DefDist is promoting his work which could be more bad than good as now the ATF surely has him on their radar.
https://twitter.com/KadeCad1/status/1125957155541213185
still, can’t stop the signal, Mal.
That reminds me – what happened to the suit arguing that suppressors should not be NFA scheduled items?
I haven’t watched that “Soph” thing yet, but as to precociousness in general, the most important thing is being in a situation where it isn’t beaten out of you (literally or figuratively) by parents, or teachers, or peers.
Good for her.
I kinda have to side with CPRM’s take a few days ago. As long as she isn’t a mouthpiece for an adult I have no problem with her platform. If she is, I kinda find it akin to that silly Hogg kid being used by gun control advocates. Either way, I generally don’t pay too much attention to what kids have to say about pretty much anything.
Strongly suggest you watch.
This bar sucks. I’m not having more than five more.
Any fine ladies?
Yeah, but I think they’re all on the rag because they won’t talk to me.
Clearly, they’re lesbians
Then he should try the Alexinct approach.
He should use his gaijin powers to show them his lesbian trapped in a man’s body skills.
Lesbians on the rag? Where have I wandered into?
Make sure to check before you land one that tells you it has to be the back door because of the rag…
I have a buddy that was really heart broken when the “girl” on the rag that told him it had to be anal he had picked up turned to have a wiener bigger than his..
Got another bottle of Vinegar?
Only on Summer Eves.
Cops in Britain are really going the extra mile to make their streets safe! Oh, if only we had such policies here!
“weapons sweep”
Kamala just went sploosh.
Serious, military grade weapons like sharpening steels, letter openers, and spoons.
From that photo it looks like they snagged John Popper.
This snarky reply seems glibby:
Indeed.
Indubitably.
And spats.
Hand over the money! I’ve got a knife sharpener here. If things don’t get done I’m gonna hone an edge like you wouldn’t believe.
Lol!
Also, English historians know well of spoon torture.
All rapes start with, “I just wanna spoon.”
Is it weird when you are hiking in cold weather with a bunch of guys and they start talking about spooning in case we get caught in a storm? I was unsure if that conversation was a micro aggression..
One of the best responses:
I really, really want to believe that crooks in the UK hold up convenience stores with fencing foils.
I imagine they also wear top hats and monocles.
Okay, which one of you guys is holding up convenience stores in England?
I did give some funny-looking money to the cashier at a Tesco once. It wasn’t even green. The joke was on me, I ended up with a metric pint of diet coke and an atlas that doesn’t help me anymore.
another quality one
Have you shopped in England? There is nothing convenient about it at all.
Tuning forks are next.
I can’t help it, I keep thinking of Alan Rickman shouting threats at Kevin Costner.
“Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?”
“Because it’s dull, you twit! It will hurt more!”
This isn’t anything new for them. The land of the Magna Carta is home to some of the most totalitarian minded tyrants in the world.
Ben Franklin said when he went there on one of his post-war trips he was given an escort and only allowed to go in certain places. One day he told his escort/driver to chuck the rules and wander the countryside because he wanted to see it. The driver agreed.
Franklin said they saw several places where lots of people just popped up out of the ground, naked. They had no house, no clothes, no possessions at all and were living in holes in the ground. History books don’t talk about that much.
Being unfamiliar with that we Americans find it shocking and surprising that they would let the child sex slavery rings flourish there with the knowledge of the state. Having dealt with some upper class limeys it really doesn’t surprise or shock me that much. Like our self appointed elites here they have nothing but utter contempt for the common people.
Oh no! Not an Epee!
In other news – “water is wet”.
Philadelphia soda sales plunge after taxing sugary drinks
I don’t recall, but I think this also cost a few Philly politicians their reelection.
On one hand, reduction in soda sales was a stated goal.
On the other hand, an increase in sales just beyond the municipal limit was not.
“Research in the journal Science found sugary beverages with high-fructose corn syrup fed colon tumors in mice. And a separate study at Harvard linked sweetened-drink consumption to higher risks of heart disease.”
I wonder what megadoses they were feeding those mice.
Well, the one study that showed a connection between saccharine and cancer gave the mouse the equivalent of a human consuming an entire truckful of artificial sweetener at once.
^^^ This. People who support these taxes are always citing two conflicting reasons:
1) People will drink less and will therefore be healthier and have fewer health care costs.
2) It will bring in more tax money.
You really can’t have both at the same time.
The fact that they’re taxing diet soda tells me it’s all about #2.
You people and your reminders about reality imposing itself on proggie fantasies!
So when does a brother get choked out for selling loosie sodas?
“Aw, man, fuck the cup – pour it in my hand for a dime!”
How much for one rib?
“One….rib?”
“I sho’ am hungry!”
If you believe the Biblical account and follow standard divorce law, half your stuff.
Oh, the price has gone down from expulsion from paradise.
I can’t breath! /Extremely out of shape guy.
Lol. You guys are great drinking buddies even when you’re sober and I’m not.
I think the fact that you’re not sober might tinge the way you view our (virtual) company.
Take the compliment and walk away.
I… can’t… my first reaction is “What’s this guy want from me? How much is this favor going to cost? Will there be screaming when I say no?”
Can I crash on your couch for few nights?
Not sure which joke to make:
a) He’s pretty used to sleeping on the couch
b) This giant American couch is so luxurious!
A sweetened beverage refers to more than just soda. It includes any non-alcoholic beverage that lists sugar as an ingredient, or that lists any other sweetener as an ingredient. It does not matter whether the sweetener has calories or no calories; “diet” and “zero calorie” sweeteners are included. If any of the following sweeteners is listed as an ingredient, the distribution of the beverage is subject to the tax: sweeteners with calories, such as sucrose, glucose or high fructose corn syrup; and sweeteners with no calories, such as stevia, aspartame, sucralose, neotame, acesulfame potassium (Ace-K), saccharin, and advantame.
“Curbing obesity” my fat ass. It’s entirely about generating revenue.
All your money are belong to us.
Isn’t it always?
I think I found the loophole here.
I’m going to revise my comment above. The facts that a) they included drinks with natural sweeteners like stevia that have no ill affect on health, and b) they are lamenting that the tax isn’t bringing in enough money, tells me this was always about revenue.
Sugar and corn syrup are as natural as stevia.
But do they cause Gulf War Syndrome? That’s why I drink Diet Coke.
Always follow the money.
You’re right, if it was about curbing calories they’d actually cut taxes on the diet stuff.
I can’t find it now, but I seem to remember the fig leaf they gave for that bit of idiocy is that exempting diet drinks is regressive because minorities don’t drink diet drinks. It’s about equity, see.
Mayor Kenney is proudly running for re-election on having successfully cost jobs by instituting the soda tax…for the kids, of course.
Sales in the jurisdiction of the law plummeted, consumption did not. So, loss of soda tax, loss of sales tax, loss of business but stated goal not achieved. Who could have seen that coming?
“Exclusive Trailer: Jurassic Priest vs Ninjas in THE VELOCIPASTOR (2019)!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYR25PFpvFw
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1127200275842916353
Interesting thread.
His comment about their obsession with “GamerGate” which happened years ago tracked with me. I’ve noticed the same thing – they keep yammering about GamerGate as if it were an ongoing contretemps.
+1 copy paste shitpost from TOS’s DonQuixote
Funny how all these companies doing the deplatforming and banning and censoring and unpersoning are the same ones who are huge supporters of net neutrality. Neutrality for me, but not for thee.
They can do what they want, but whatever safe harbors they are operating under as non-publishers need to be challenged.
Non-publishers in name only. Nopinos.
Sounds like people opposed to white wine.
It’s actually not that funny if you understand that the real goal is to get control of what news the plebes are allowed to hear, and then, with what spin, because these people think their job is to protect team blue dogma/ideology from being challenged with facts, logic, common sense, or historical examples (of consistent and constant failure).
Control and power over others is the sine qua non of the left. It’s their animating principle.
Contretemps and now sine qua non. You realize many of us mouth the words as we read, no? Ableist. *SMHD*
I am of middling intelligence yet have a strong vocabulary. We all do what we can to appear smarter than we are.
You realize many of us mouth the words as we read
*nods vigorously while trying to massage crippling lip cramps caused by trying to read Chip’s $10 words*
*Hand the Pope the half empty bottle of conditioner*
Also certain factions of the right.
True, but generally to a lesser degree.
At this point they’re basically flaunting their wink and a nod platform status but they’ve sunk so much money into lobbying and campaigns (aka legal bribes) that the pols won’t call them on it.
The politicians don’t need to. The courts do.
Net Nuetrality was a fantastic PR job by Google, Netflix etc. Essentially attempting to steal the property of the cable companies. I used to get into arguments with co-workers. The arguments always included how crappy and terrible ISPs are. No one likes to defend the douchbags.
No one likes to defend the douchbags.
But, contrary to the feelings of Harvard students, the law isn’t supposed to be damned popularity contest. And God help us all, including the ones trying to make it one, if we ever descend to that.
I was about 7 years old when this concept was explained to me after I asked why “bad people” were allowed to get a lawyer. You can’t have a justice system that is just if anyone is not allowed full legal protection. When you make it a popularity contents, you basically have mob rule. But the people pushing for that see it all as a boon. More of them need to fall prey to their own pedantism.
Even people I generally respect are gobsmacked that my wife has defended accused child molesters, drug dealers, etc.
Er – she’s not going to turn down the work if someone wants to pay her; and these people _could_ be innocent.
Citizen Robespierre? It’s time for your date with Madame Guillotine.
But the people pushing for that see it all as a boon.
Because they never see it as even a possibility that they might ever be anything but popular. And maybe they might be able to pull it off. If they’re willing to sell their soul to the fleeting whims of the crowd.
Question my naive – but sweet – 22 year old niece asked me this week: You only take cases that you think you can win, right? And I say, “No I take cases where the clients pay me.”
Well, if you defend Harvey Weinstein …
By challenged you mean shit-canned, right?
“Don’t you get it: we can wake up in the morning say “good morning” and be labeled racist, sexist, Islamophobic, homophobic. It’s not about what we say, it’s who we are. It’s finally being exposed.”
https://twitter.com/Communism_Kills/status/1128319777506758656
Somewhat off-topic: Rashida Tlaib is one fugly bitch. At least Omar isn’t hard on the eyes.
As stated the other day, I’m pissed off by Conservatives taking the cheap shot out if context route when her (Talib) actual in context statement was terrible. It let’s actual anti-semites (like sarsour here) get an out.
That’s a good point. It should have been enough to simply point how historically ignorant and ludicrous her comment was without pretending that she said something she didn’t actually say.
It let’s actual anti-semites (like sarsour here) get an out.
Tlaib is an actual anti-semite.
The Repubs, being, well, Repubs, grabbed the E-Z out-of-context soundbite, giving the bigots an easy response. Shoulda gone with “If the Palis were giving Jews safe haven, why did the invade the day after Israel was officially created and have maintained a generations long terrorist assault which is overtly and proudly for the purpose of making the Mideast Judenfrei?”
“Wow! @Israel_Advocacy breaks bombshell story on the closest friends & campaign staff of @RashidaTlaib, whom she thanked & affiliates w/ publicly. Explicitly pro-terror content, calls to violence such as “kill all zionists,” bragging about meetings w/ terorrists in prison, & more.”
https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1111355645851250688
Let me tell you something about the word “good”, brother. “Good” is an ancient Anglo-Saxon word “Go-od” meaning “absence of colour”, i.e. “It’s all Good” which it is, or “Good Will Hunting”, meaning, “I’m hunting niggers”. So when you say “Good Morning” to me, what you’re really saying is “I’m going to kill your black ass first thing in the morning”!
Undercover Brother
Argh – I have to go to an afternoon meeting; sales push for a new report writer. The same exact report writing software that I personally kiboshed a decade ago. Why? The users don’t know the table names and joins, nor do they know where the data resides. So I’ll end up writing the reports or we will have to pay the company to do it. Why bother when I can write a program faster in the native language of our ERP package?
But our users want pretty shiny things and we have a new (very non-technical) IT Director so here we go again.
I hate non-technical IT directors almost as much as technical IT directors who are wedded to their preferred clique of technologies.
“Yo, I am in the best mood. Sending good vibes to everyone.*?✨
*Except the Republican party, which is a terrorist organization.”
https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1128477728510898176
She seems nice.
?The More You Know?
Twatter;DC
Someone should let her know that the rainbow is a white supremacist symbol.
“Each color is separate and beautiful; every race in its place!”
Sounds OK :wink wink:
*flashes White Power signal*
I mean she’s got a point. Think of all the dead after Net Nuetrality, Kavenaugh.
“Texas… voted America’s sexiest accents.”
Uh…Which one? There’s at least four different Texas accents.
Soph –
Ok, I’m listening to her Lofi is Trash video and she’s fucking hilarious.
she’s fucking hilarious
And this, beyond everything else, is why she gets booted. And I’m not joking at all.
Definitely NOT Lubbock.
Republicans looking for a Brennan-Comey connection. I’ve seen this mentioned in a few places. Would Brennan be stupid or overconfident enough to leave a digital trail?
“I have a narrative of how that whole fucking thing began, it’s a Brennan operation” – Seymour Hersh
Does incompetence count as a connection?
According to
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/obamas_other_investigation.html
Peter Strzok was a liason between Brennan and Comey, so any answers are likely to be found there. But maybe not digitally.
Interesting. That would seem to insulate Brennan, but Strzok is a proven dumbass who doesn’t know how to cover his own tracks.
Not to worry. Mueller had Strzok’s phone and I believe his computer wiped.
Idaho accidentally repeals its entire regulatory code.
https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/idaho-repeals-its-regulatory-code
*it’s happening!*
If only you had GIF powers.
Woot!
Countdown to betrayal… 100… 99… 98…
Starting at 100? you’re being generous.
Even on betrayal, government moves slowly.
and replace it with a more streamlined and sensible set of rules
Sure, Jan.
Idaho to change name to Libertopia?
Utah is sending the guard to their northern border in anticipation of the new pirates and warlords.
Utah? Nonsense, they’re too heavily armed, the raids will be launched west and north. I’d even wager rural Washingtonians, Oregonians and Californians would be willing to point out the best places to rape, pillage, and plunder in exchange for being left alone. Not sure about the Canukistanis.
(Yes, they will bypass Nevada. Obviously)
I suppose if you count not quartering soldiers…
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1128655854973128704
The argument is that abortion is a constitutional right because you have the right to privacy via the 4th amendment (unless your a dumbass Krassenstein claiming its the 14th) and abortion is a women’s medical decision subject to her right to privacy apparently.
That’s a lot of hoops to jump through to justify a constitutional right to abortion. The comments calling people idiots for not getting that are amusing.
Could make it a 2A thing. The right to bear arms.. a torso… and a head.
you have the right to privacy via the 4th amendment
Interesting theory. If your right to privacy gives you the right to commit one thing otherwise classified as a crime, what other criminal acts does it immunize?
9th amendment (Constitution constrains government). Then again this all assumes that the unborn have no human rights whatsoever.
That’s the point that’s missing. I’m not even pro life. I just don’t like abortion.
I often say I’m Pro-Choice but Anti-Abortion.
This is why debating abortion is pointless. Either you believe that the unborn are people or you don’t.* once you settle on one side of that question, everything else falls into place.
The view that blows my mind is the trespasser theory. The idea that you could accept that the fetus is a person, but still put the moral stamp of approval on aborting it, is horrific.
* obviously you can break things down to trimesters or physical developments, but the core argument doesn’t change.
That first reply (Trump GIF) is the best.
In Brazen Act Of Aggression, Iran Deploys Its Country Right Next To Our Aircraft Carrier
How dare they!
Snopes says: Mostly True.
“Alexa, how do I read the room?”
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1128656240756887552
We won’t be able to occupy Afghanistan much longer if this heat wave continues.
Totally wasn’t me.
https://twitter.com/cyanbreak/status/1128657556635901952
How dare we ask the soldiers of this country to operate under extreme weather conditions. That has never happened in the annals of US warfare.
+1 Battle of the Bulge
Again, glad I refreshed before commenting.
Good lord, she is a dangerously stupid twit.
The good news is, she’s never going to be elected President.
She might get the affirmative action appointment to VP, but honestly, I think Kamala has that nailed down with her superior intersectionality score.
In case you thought your morning at work was rough.
https://twitter.com/kfor/status/1128652342042288129
Well, so much for ever getting over my acrophobia.
Whee! ???
People pay money to go on rides like that.
That looks like way more fun than anything I did today.
The day is still young!
In my previous life doing medical transcription, I had two providers with Boston accents. It is far more grating than redneck from deepest redneckville. I cannot stand it.
It’s ARR, not UUH.