It is shaping up to be a busy Friday, just to get me in the mood for a sweet, sweet three day weekend. And my first task of the day is the Bringing Of The Links.
Of course, as is my custom, I first bring the birthdays. We start, in theme, with a crypto-Jew judge, whose main virtue was that he replaced the execrable Oliver Wendell Holmes; Bill Clinton’s spirit animal; my spirit animal; and a guy noted as the worst performer of his own songs.
Enough of that, news beckons.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Trump has as much respect for the First Amendment as Obama did. Of course, the article leaves out the inconvenient comparison.
This is what happens when the neighborhood changes.
“When you wish upon a star…” I guess this is what my favorite SciFi writer is up to these days. Not sure why he needed the condom.
And really, isn’t that why you pay her? The DIY shit doesn’t cut it.
This worked so well the last two times.
Old Guy Music is here to illustrate an earlier point- this cover of Country Pie, though admittedly a bit overly slick, is in every single way better than the original.
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Bill Clinton”s spirit animal!?! *shudder*
“Wannafud?”
I am quite busy, but I can make time to applaud this comment.
Takes a flourishing bow and backs from the room.
The Horror, The Horror.
Yes, yes! Bravo! Bravo!
My first Opera Applause GIF. Now Festus finally knew what it was to become a woman…
Pepe Le Pew?
Who could forget Ol’ Wilbur? Oh yeah, all of the Evanesques that weren’t around at the time. Fanne Foxx/Stormy Daniels, we will always be with you and you’ll always be with us. The more things change, c’est plus la meme
C’est la vie, mon ami!
Cringe-inducing botched boob jobs seems to be a prerequisite.
You mean they weren’t going for the Mr. Potato Head look?
That was the romp in the fountain at wee early hours, right?
Perfectly innocent. They were cosplaying a scene from La Dolce Vita.
Yeah, Ol’ Wilbur was having fun too. Damn, it hurts to know an old congressman can have a lot more excitement than a regular old guy.
Chafed:
Did you catch the Kickstarter for the Babylon 5 Preservation Project? They’re putting together a documentary book about the show.
No I didn’t. Thanks for telling me.
Glad to know about that, too.
*blinks*
Wait.. it’s not late enough to be drinking yet, what are you doing around at this time?
See previous article—holiday weekend = different sleep schedule.
I’ll see your three-day wekeend and raise it two weeks vacation.
Watch, someone will raise “retired outright”
Do you one better. I actually enjoy my jobs.
Liar, no one enjoys their job.
I was told pimps do because their love is not like that of a square….
Was that not true? Cause my retirement plans involve pimp’n. I know it ain’t easy but it is necessary…
You can if you’re self employed. I did the company thing for ten years. Not doing that again.
I work for someone else and I rather like what I do.
I mightily enjoyed being a harley mechanic for at least 15 years. As I aged, I got tired of the hustle and the sometimes slow money, so now I work on fleet vehicles and make plenty. Not anywhere near as fun, though.
You married, Blackjack? Even though I make more on my bad months than I did on normal months working the company grind, my wife still complains. “I can’t budget like this!” “Would you rather I made less, but it was a steady amount?” “Yes”. *Shrugs*
If you were making less she would be giving you shit about that straffinrun. You can take that to the bank.
Women want to complain and give their man a hard time. They can’t help it. It all stems from their faulty belief that if they marry the guy they will change him to be what they wanted. When that not only doesn’t happen, but the guy gets jaded because his expectations that she wouldn’t change turn out to not pan out either, and it causes friction, she gets doubly pissed.
Sure you can budget for an irregular income. Take the lowest level earned over the past X time period (based on degree of volitility) and use that as the cap. Lock the rest away in savings and don’t spend it.
Thanks for explaining that. May be you can guide her through menopause next.
You’re not actually supposed to read my comments.
Don’t take that offer UCS. It is safer and less problematic to clear land mines in Cambodia with a plastic fork than it is to deal with a menopausal woman.
That’s when she transforms into her third form, right?
http://www.thenewcanadians.com/wpblogs/2011/04/05/how-to-tell-the-age-of-asian-women/
Tell the wife to budget for what you were making on the company grind, and put the rest is savings.
“Tell the wife…” I had to stop there. *Wipes away tears of laughter”. You guys are out in force tonight.
Right behind you Straff.
Tell your wife never to ask about your business, and go make a whiskey for me and uncle Vito while we finish playing Gin.
That’s what my Grandpa did, and he turned out
an alcoholicdied alone and unloved by his familyok I guess.Do you make her cast the budget in units of sammiches?
Yeah. It adopting a kid that drove the decision. The recession caused me a bunch of pain too.
That’s what you get for having a worldwide economic downturn.
What? Me worry?
Which team blue candidate are you pretending to be now?
Nice catch…
Not I, but quite a few people at the company I support are retiring at the end of the month.
I would support many people at my company retiring…
The problem is that at least one person left who was the only one with knowledge about a bunch of custom coded applications. There was no handover of anything. Rumor is he was unhappy with the way he was treated on his way out.
I know that situation over and over and over again. Usually it gets dropped on my desk. “Ji, was the only one who knew this stuff, figure out how it works and keep it working”
Except no one even knows where the source code for these applications are. And this is why you make sure multiple people have knowledge of mission critical things.
What makes you think I got that much information?
I am in a similar situation now. I gave my notice a few days ago, and they are not handling it well. The CEO even got pulled in for this lowly hourly worker. I’ve been the sole person running statistical analyses for many years now. I’ll hand over my files no problem, but they will be incomprehensible to everyone else. It’s going to cost them plenty to replace me.
They asked why I wouldn’t accept a counter-offer, even if they matched my new job (with the caveat that HR would have to approve). I replied that I thought the rejection of my promotion a few months ago was their counter.
Great job, great bosses, but absolutely toxic HR department that took over hiring/promotion decisions.
What did the CEO say to that?!
I didn’t talk to him directly, but my boss said he would pass that along to them. They are not happy by a long shot. I do know there is a strong pushback forming against HR over it, at least on the mid-level.
They usually can’t say shit if we go by the word salad I got from mine when he couldn’t deliver what they promised because HR blocked it. I went through the same ordeal. Unlike SSD however, I chose to stay because if I am going to switch jobs, I will do so only if I can leave the NE. So far I have not found one that really made it worth my while, but in time, this will resolve itself.
Please tell me new job is a consultant charging an hourly rate that is 4x your old job and your first client is….
Close. I landed a permanent role at a different company with a 60% raise, but I actually did offer to working as a consultant at my old company for 4x my old rate on nights/weekends for a few months. They’re taking it under consideration, but my old boss was the one who suggested that rate.
It’ll cost them at least double that to hire a CRO service instead while looking for a replacement.
Good on you. Between the promotion & shafting you with the silly awards thing, I’d say they made their position clear. Going back would work as well as the wifebeater that promises baby it’ll be different this time. Maybe for a short time.
Thanks Gustave. It feels great to have made the jump out of there. You and everyone else here gave me good perspective on it
115) I’d read like three different article on the new Gary Clark, Jr. album, so I finally bought it last week. I’m on my third listen. I was hugely irritated by it the first time through, but have come to really enjoy it. What accounts for the change in attitude? Mainly because I’ve skipped the first song on subsequent listens, which soured the whole thing for me the first time. But more about the first song later.
Clark is a really natural songwriter. Everything is blues-based, but he effortlessly melds in other styles. He does a soul-blues thing on several songs that reminds me of Robert Cray or Bobby Bland, though harder-edged. A lot of songs have hip-hop elements, especially booming hip-hop basslines. He has a blues-reggae song that I’m not sure I’ve heard anything like before—maybe Taj Mahal’s done something similar. A Hendrix-style slow blues. He even does a blues-punk song that’s pretty credible. Plus two or three more straight-ahead blues guitar numbers in a Buddy Guy vein. And he uses a variety of guitar tones and effects, but he’s smart and subtle with them, so it comes across as shading and texturing the songs, rather than trying to toss everything but the kitchen sink into his music.
The lyrics are…okay. They could be worse. Musically, he’s a real singer (not always the case in blues), so everything sounds in place. And he’s not dumb, so even when he’s using a lyrical cliché (fly like an eagle, the path you walk, etc.), he at least makes an attempt to freshen it up, although I wish he’d just skip them in the first place. Not that it matters much anyway, as you listen to something like this for his guitar playing and musicianship which, as I said, are excellent.
As for that first song, called This Land, it’s gotten him a lot of attention, including a laudatory article in the Washington Post. Rolling Stone calls it a protest song. It’s his take on racism in the United States, apparently inspired when a neighbor who didn’t know him made a comment questioning whether he should be in the neighborhood after he bought a 50-acre ranch outside Austin. I wish he’d stuck to that situation, then he’d have a song with a personal hook. But he has to take that and apply it to the national situation.
To me, the song sounds childish, a temper tantrum in music. And it’s really histrionic. I mean, I guess I don’t know what it was like for Clark growing up or anything, but the man did just buy that 50-acre ranch, he married an Australian model and won a Grammy in 2014 (sounds like a good year for him), and according to his Wikipedia page he was proclaimed honorary mayor of Austin for a day at age 17 after winning a guitar contest, so whatever racism he’s encountered hasn’t slowed him down any. He sounds about as informed as your typical musician/actor/artist making a “brave” statement. (In another song, he seems to think that the governor of Texas makes the laws, so he doesn’t strike me as real politically knowledgeable.) So if you like hard guitar blues, my recommendation is to buy the album but just skip the first song.
Austin is notoriously a hotbed of racism and right wing oppression.
I see what you did there!
Hey OMWC, here’s a local girl that I’ve been listening to a bit. She’s talented as hell but unfortunately an ultra-prog. Enjoy! – https://youtu.be/swfVSv1yjuc
Ultraprog? Does that mean she engages in album length songs with 5 guitar solos (6 if you include the mandolin interlude), ensures that the keyboards aren’t just part of the rhythm section, and writes heady lyrics that a cadre of English professors and pop culture specialists can’t decipher?
Or does she like super high tax rates and green new deals?
And three of the guitar solos use the war 10 string
Just play the piano already, Mr. Hammerons.
The latter. She seems to be one of those people that believes that the Natives are some sort of magical being tha Okay, can’t continue. She is talented, though.
Why are you a bad Jew? I think you’re a bad Jew because you don’t give us gifs.
He drives the Free Candy van on the sabbath in clear defiance of scripture.
He doesn’t eat chicken.
That guy rips it up. He opened for Clapton the last time I saw him and I think he was better. Being in your 80s kinda dampens the energy of a live rock and roll show, despite his technical precision.
“Amazon.com Inc. is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions.”
People need help recognizing their own emotions?
Emotional states make people more or less likely to buy stuff, so the device is trying to decide when it is optimal to show the wearer an Ad to get the most impulse buys.
Feeling depressed? Buy large quantities of booze & sleeping pills!
Use caution and don’t over buy, don’t want to leave any for that one brother-in-law to enjoy…
Ah, you’ve met him then.
You’re obviously not married.
^^^THIS^^^
Ha ha, I am married, my wife and I have a mature relationship where we sensitively support each other emotionally and affirm the validity of our feelings.
Me: You’re not still mad about that thing, are you?
Wife: Shut up.
*applause*
I once pointed out to my ex that she was like an elephant. She replied by asking me if it was because she never forgot the things she didn’t like me doing and brought them up every time we had a fight, even if it was a decade or two later. I told there it was that too…
At least you know what “that thing” is. I’m usually only about 83% sure and am always debating with myself whether or not to own up.
“If you don’t actually tell me what it is you’re mad about, I’m going to assume it really is nothing. And I will take you at your word when you say it’s all right.”
When you’re guilt of some things and innocent of others, it gets complicated.
When are you ever innocent?
Eggshells and walking. How do they work?
Well, at the end of the day you pick the shell fragments out of the tred of your shoes…
Way back when, I was Public Enemy #1 for some reason that my wife didn’t feel like clueing me in on. This went on for a couple weeks.
So I went out and bought a dog. As I told her when she was complaining, “at least now I know why you are mad.”
I only have four emotions: Happy, hungry, angry and horny.
And the first three are always subjected to the whims of the later, right? #MeToo.
I should think that goes without saying.
me too!
Every emotion looks grey in the dark.
I thought you had said “ghey” and had to reread that….
I just now wish I’d said that…
“I believe it was right to persevere even when the odds against success seemed high. But it is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort,” she said outside 10 Downing Street.
Prime Minister Nigel Farage should be fun.
“Snark Minister” more like. Delicious!
Too bad Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn seems more likely.
For how long though? There will be a vote of non-confidence in the very near future for any of the candidates. My beloved Britain is fucked six ways to Sunday.
No idea, I just vaguely recall reading that Labour leads national polls, in contrast to Brexit leading the Euro polls.
I know nothing about their system, but it in the article sounded like the Tories pick someone to replace her since she was a Tory (eg, incoming Prime Minister Rees-Mogg)? Or is there a national election?
Tories pick. The PM is always chosen by the party in power.
No election will be called, not even a by-election, as she hasn’t resigned from Parlement.
I wasn’t thinking immediate replacement, but their next election, whenever that is.
Labour wants Brexit too but on the gripping hand they are actually led by a Fascist. I fear that the populace is so cowed that they don’t have the will to fight anymore.
That agreement, negotiated with the E.U. last year, had been criticized by Brexiteers who claim it does not properly secure Britain’s exit from the bloc, and opposed by anti-Brexit lawmakers who are seeking a second referendum.
Gee, May. Wonder why that “let’s make everybody unhappy” approach failed.
Do you believe it will change however? The reason May couldn’t pull this off was/is because ruling class doesn’t want out of Brexit. That’s because it profits them, and allows them to remain both inept and inefficient, while reaping undeserved rewards from Brussels. And the freaking plebes should learn their place.
May was a remainer from the get go. She didn’t try to execute brexit, she was actively undermining the effort. Saying she couldn’t pull it off is assuming she was even trying.
I dunno. Farange seems like a long shot to get in. My ill informed guess is that they’d need to get Boris in to have a realistic chance to Brexit soon.
Try – not able to be prime minister right now.
Farange isn’t a member of the parties currently forming a coalition government. The replacement is likely to be another Tory, of which Boris is one.
Hence the non-confidence vote and another likely after the election.
realistic chance to Brexit soon
That would take putting enough Eurocrats and Remainers’ heads on pikes to make the Bloody Assizes look like a children’s picnic.
I’m actually okay with that.
“Jordanians call for a third intifada to thwart ‘Deal of the Century’ ”
Utterly unnecessary, since the deal’s not going to go anywhere. Unless the Palestinians just feel like having another intifada, in which, go for it, I guess.
Intifadas involve an increased effort at killing people, so I’d rather they not.
If it goes anything close to the way the last two went, it will be them doing practically all of the dying. By “them” I of course mean the Pali plebes. Their leadership is all about martyrdom….. For the plebes…
Look, scrubbing bits of Martyr off the storefront is irritating and biohazardous.
The last article I read about it (I think linked here) featured a Palestinian protestor who was shot in the legs. He was mad because he had six kids and no job to take care of them with. Ok, now that you’ve permanently removed jobs that require ambulatory movement off the list, do you think that will help your situation? They should have shot him in the balls.
If this site has taught us anything, that would have turned him into a Marijuana Pez Dispensor.
*last line was a joke, but seriously don’t have kids you can’t feed
Palis pay their “protestors”
Scooby jooby Jew!
Was that the episode where they thwarted the jew from hiding his box of Jew gold or something?
I think that was Gargamel and you’re mixing Scooby Doo up with the Smurfs.
Brainsplosion!!!! Gargamel was the scheming Jew all along!
Are Smurfs kosher?
We’ve never seen them chew their cud, but we’ve never seen if their hooves are cloven either.
Clearly, we need a bigger wall.
Spain isn’t sending us their best.
Why did swim the Niagara River just to get arrested when he could have waded across the Rio Grande into the welcoming arms of every bleeding heart, open borders, NGO in the USA?
Fleeing Soviet Canukistan?
Roman believes because of the toilet paper roses, it was probably a cleaning service that went to the wrong house, but he’s not taking any chances and has changed all the locks to his home.
I’m not saying it was illegal aliens, but…
It was that girl that he stood up at Prom, bet on it.
I actually did that to a girl. Nice girl, too. I’ll send her a key.
In my experience they just come through the bedroom window and clean yer pipes. Not a nice girl.
In my brother’s case, the doggy door.
At least she wasn’t a fatty.
Picturing stretchy-guy from the X-Files *Girl Squeaks*
It wasn’t a big one, either. She was crazy skinny and crazy enough to put herself through the contortions to do it.
Freaky Friday: Future (Or Maybe Present) Glib
Freaky Friday: Another Future Glib Candidate
Holy fuck! HM really gets around, eh? They were right to warn us of the coming storm but they forgot which direction it would come from…
Already he knows what is most important in life.
To crush your enemies. To see them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of the women.
To smoosh boobies. To see them jiggle before you. And to hear the lamentations of the feminists.
+Q
Freaky Friday: And Yet Another
The chubby kid was best kid.
…is in every single way better than the original.
Yep. As you say, he writes brilliant songs for other people to cover. Still gotta love the guy, though.
Spawn 2 went to see these kids play a show last night. Have you heard of them? She was still raving about them this morning.
And now she wants a mandolin…
You know, I might enjoy that if I hadn’t finished watching Chernobyl last night. The light and airy mood is conflicting with my 7th level of hell hangover.
Am I going to be able to watch that, or will my NukE degree lead to me yelling too much? What is the opposite of Gell-Mann amnesia, where you go in knowing they are going to get the reporting wrong?
Of course, it should be noted that the NukE degree means even if they get the story right, I am going to be yelling too much at the Soviet idiocy.
The denial was horrifying.
Marxism, and by default the party, was supposed to be infallible. Chernobyl was a big kick in the balls for the people that pushed this crap.
In all honesty, Marxism had nothing to do with the denial. The incredibly dangerous reactor design, the negligent safety drill, the politically driven initial response and the cover up, those are all Marxism.
The denial, however was all too human.
Hah. Nuts recover quite quickly.
#notrealsocialism
It’s not that off. They added a couple of characters for dramatic effect but the fundamentals are there. The description of the potential secondary explosion was amplified to be a multi-megaton fission blast instead of a ultra-massive dirty bomb event.
These idiots still believe that a nuke power plant meltdown somehow can result in a nuclear detonation, regardless of what science says is plausible and reality brings to bear. But they are also today’s real sciency types that tell us we are deniers for not believing in AGW.
“How do you sew tope?”
/IFLS Gary
Gah, that’s horrible. For someone who can really play a mandolin, I’d suggest some Tommy Shaw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Qs8-BkiLw
That’s more like it.
Back in your kitchen
I don’t blame her, they’re fantastic! Hey remember a few weeks back when I mentioned our local Black Sabbath/Surf cover band? Here’s one of their tunes – https://youtu.be/g9Mg7hgorOo
Reanimated Peter, Paul and Mary singing unhelpful Schoolhouse Rock Songs.
I’m partial to Larkin Poe these days.
The guy playing mandolin in Old Guy Music also plays (or maybe played, dunno) in Nickel Creek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYBCfmC9PHI
I’ve got one CD from them I really like, but all their other CDs are meh for me, I think it’s because they move away from bluegrass.
Amazon Is Working on a Device That Can Read Human Emotions
I’ll finally be able to discern peoples feelz.
Does not compute.
RIP Better Off Ted.
STEVE SMITH ALREADY EXPERT AT DISCERNING HUMANS FEELZ.
AND BY DISCERNING, MEAN…
Let me know when they have a device that makes me care about other people’s emotions.
I have no problem recognizing emotions in people around me. My problem is choosing the right response. Laughing at their distress and suffering is what gets me in trouble.
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This abortion debate is simple. If you don’t have ovaries you don’t have a say. This is a pure women’s rights issue. At what point do we honestly draw the line between state and church? Let the women of our nation decide what they decide for THEIR bodies.”
OK. Women are then not allowed to have any input on circumcision or the draft and only female babies may be aborted.
“only female babies may be aborted.”
I don’t think we are allowed to import Chinese policies during the trade war.
Since when was murder – which certainly is a viable accusation when you want people to accept infanticide – a thing defined by the church?
This. I’ve seen the “we have to separate church and state” argument which really comes off as “you religious folk need to shut up”. Should all theft be leagal? I mean it’s against one of the Ten Commandments and we need separation of church and state.
Most folks functionally believe that the Eighth Commandment was repealed by the Sixteenth Amendment.
Which statute makes it ok for me to fuck my neighbor’s wife?
No fault divorce?
You should demand the ability to do so based on the argument that you should have a “right” to that sort of thing….. Because!
/No fault divorce/
I did this whole thing wrong then. Where were you people when I needed personal guidance?
So you’re saying that trans women aren’t really women?
That’s different.
HAH!
Feminists have already begun apologizing for their thoughtless trans-exclusionary comments for making precisely that kind of statement. It’s bewildering.
If you don’t have a gun…
Fun fact – women are more polarized and have stronger opinions with regards to abortion, and do not overwhelmingly land on a single side of the issue. Men tend to be the moderates on this one. So this smarmy little shit isn’t going to win anything if he gets his proclaimation from impotence.
My bet is that he is one of those betas that think saying stupid shit like this will make all the chicks that all tell him “let’s just be friends” finally put out for him…
Therefore, killing them is the obvious solution. I mean, we do it with dogs and cats, right?
We’d have to take up human composting in earnest if we used the ‘shoot to kill’ method of immigration enforcement.
Think of how much money we could save if we started aborting even more! Then we could start killing other people, y’know ones that don’t really contribute that much. Disabled people, retarded people, the mentally ill… I mean, they’re pretty much unworthy of life right?
I think we’ve hit on a gold mine here!
So… Is he advocating killing all the immigrant children?
Seriously that shit drives me insane. The only way his argument would stand is it the government was murdering the immigrant kids it couldn’t house.
The idea that the Federal government bears no responsibility towards these people immigrant or unborn other than not violating their rights is completely foreign to him.
That’s some fine logicking there Lou.
What do you wanna bet he’s all in on killing unborn because he had several “close calls” out on the road?
Let the women of our nation decide what they decide for THEIR bodies.
Then don’t hold me at gunpoint to fund it. If I am funding it, I get a say.
You’re not funding the dismemberment and sale of babies, you’re funding the political advocacy in favor of the dismemberment and sale of babies. Big difference
/Planned Parenthood.
That guy is insane. Like, literally.
To many elbows to the head from the top rope.
In my world, Mr. Nash, you may go fuck yourself. Oh, sorry—“pile drive” yourself.
Scott Steiner owns his ass
So much this.
Saw #ThePresidentMustResign was trending on Twitter yesterday. Are that to the point that their only hope is that he resigns?
Smash should draw up articles of impeachment but for Syria/Yemen Abuses.
Wouldn’t you feel silly if you protested things and said, “(Something) Must (Something)!” or “We demand (something)!” and then that something never happens? You’re just flouting your impotence.
Which is worse, that, or saying we have to do something or else Doom, and then Doom never happening despite the people not listening to you.
“saying we have to do something or else Doom”
The story of my life. First it was Jeebus coming back… then it was the Russians (well, that might have really happened), now it’s climate change.
I have been convinced now for a while that’s what is behind all the angst and anger from team blue: impotence.
They thought they had won the culture warz and that they were going to be getting their way every time and all the time (think Obama and his pen and a spineless congress abdicating their duties to a rigged court system that would let him get away with it). The election was rigged for Hillary. It was supposed to be Obama on steroids and those not part of team right-think (as in marxism) were going to be getting it, and getting it good. Somehow evil Orange man beat all the people that they kept telling us were super smart and were destined to rule the unwashed masses, and that crashed their house of ideological cards for them.
They then spend close to 3 years trying to execute a coup, and all that happened is that, despite their best efforts to prevent it, people got to see not just how corrupt the Obama admin’s weaponized three letter agencies had become, but how inept these super smart playas were too. Wouldn’t you then feel impotent rage at a system you thought you had rigged so you could not only be lazy and as inept as you wanted to without risk of losing power?
I wish that I shared your optimism but just as Trump has about 30% of the vote locked up the shriekers have their own cadre. My feeling is that people are inured to the circus act and will vote with their “right-brain” no matter the facts. Let the chips fall where they may.
Say what you will, the 2016 election and subsequent events have shown who runs the country and how they go about doing it.
This is why I don’t abide “a pox on both their houses”. You have a choice between eating moldy bread, an anthrax culture, or not eating. Some days I may skip the food. Other days I may eat the moldy bread. The anthrax culture is not an option.
ThePresidentMustResign
Why?
I believe I may have found our theme song: DNC (Do Not Comply).
Nice lyrics.
Man says someone broke into his home, cleaned it
Even Canadian criminals are polite.
In good news, that horrid witch, May is gone as PM of Breton.
When did they give her northwest France?
They should give her all of France, France deserves her.
Three years of Yellow Vest protests while she fumbles rolling back the gas tax she imposed.
she had been on the road to Rouen for some time
Yeah, someone should have put that in the Links. Maybe even at the top spot.
You don’t say?!
The term ‘Breton’ was not used, so…
I heard she shot herself in the nuts and something fell out of her anus.
There’s an article about that floating around. Somebody should link to it.
I saw something about that too.
She was trying to conceal the illegal plastic bag, right?
NIGEL FARAGE AND BORIS JOHNSON: DONALD TRUMP’S FRIENDS ARE ABOUT TO DOMINATE BRITISH POLITICS
Boris, huh? There’s your Russian connection again.
They love saying this, but is there anything actually to it? I’m guessing it’s complete bollocks.
All the actual data is that the UK is actually suffering negative economic consequences from being in the EU.
But I doubt anyone on this site couldn’t have predicted as such, what with the EU being the world’s premier totalitarian bureaucracy.
Boris will be the next PM, but I’d rather see Farage, that would be epic fucking lulz. He’d torment the Brussels crowd until they all committed suicide.
Farage isn’t an option – he’s not part of any of the parties in the coalition running the UK.
I know, just saying it would be great if he could… would…
Agreed. The videos where he trolls EU members are awesome. I used to watch them back when UKIP’s mission was still being ridiculed as a losing cause.
“They love saying this, but is there anything actually to it? I’m guessing it’s complete bollocks.”
No. And that’s why Brussels fears it so much, it would actually prove that the UK was never better off by being in the EU.
Wasn’t he the guy in the news the other day, shouting about the need to “kill moose and squirrel?”
https://i0.wp.com/arnoldzwicky.s3.amazonaws.com/ByrnesFakeNews.jpg
IANAL but I would be curious about the exact wording of the Espionage Act statute and how they’re applying it to Assange. After all, the guy was never granted access to classified info, he just received it from other people and published it; y’know, the same shit journalists do everyday when their sources “leak” to them. It would seem to me the only people liable would be those that transmitted the info to him, but what do I know.
I suspect it would be either worded or interpreted to apply to spies and their handlers – people who’ve acquired classified information, even if they did not directly have access. Otherwise the guy running the spy ring and sending the data back to the motherland would be untouchable.
The guy running the spy ring is usually a foreign national under offical cover, and as such is pretty much untouchable.
Isn’t it that “participated” in the acquisition of ill gotten data? The case seems weak, but I never bet against the government’s boner for making examples of people who humiliate top men.
Daniel Ellsworth nods.
Ellsburg is the parallel to Manning in this case. For a parallel to Assange you have to look at the criminal prosecution of the New York Times directors, oh wait…
Ellsberg. Christ, I’m not myself this morning.
Ellsworth works. Deadwood movie next Friday! Squeeeeee!
Since when did government need a case to go after it’s enemies and to let off real guilty members of said government? I mean all you have to do is look at the history of the last decade for countless examples of injustices, be they innocents destroyed by the legal system or criminal political powerful people being let off with neary a slap on the wrist?
It’s a good thing that a reasonable prosecutor would pursue charges against him; otherwise, they wouldn’t have anything.
From what I understand they’re alleging that he directly encouraged and possibly even enabled people to steal the information.
It’s bullshit, but they just want to nail him to the wall. They don’t really give a shit about how it gets done.
If they go after Assange, surely they can go after Brennan.
What are the odds that Assange has better dirt on the deep state that he’s saving for his Get Outta Jail Free card?
At this point? Zero.
For one thing, if JA had any markers to call in, he would have called them in by now.
For another, it’s become quite clear that the deep state players aren’t bothered by exposure.
Awe shucky ducky
Cain said making progress on immigration reform has been difficult for Trump because the Democrats are seeking to make his job as “chaotic and as challenging as they possibly can.”
Cain pushed back on Democrats who have labeled Trump racist.
“It is not valid whatsoever. Look, I knew Donald Trump before he was president of the United States and he wasn’t racist before he became president and he’s not racist now — that is a false narrative that was ginned up and generated by people who can’t accept the fact that he won the presidency,” said Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza.
Cain recalled someone recently asking him what Trump has done for black people. Referring to the state of the economy, Cain said, “He’s helped all people, period” and “he has done more for prison reform than any other president of the last 4 or 5 but no, that’s not what makes the news.”
I’l be damned. Herman Cain is a white-supremacist.
“I’l be damned. Herman Cain is a white-supremacist.”
Well, just not a real black person.
UNCLE TOM!
Fuck me, I hate the people that say stupid shit like that.
I mean if he was a real black person, he’d have been living in a ghetto committing petty theft street crimes like a good negro, instead of having the nerve to be a brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins, that’s wypipo shit!, amirite?
Wrong black guy but I get your point.
The brain surgeon is Ben Carson. Cain sold pizza.
Cain, Carson, they all look alike to me!
pizza is wypipo shit too, isn’t it?
Man says someone broke into his home, cleaned it
I once went on a camping trip with my buddies. When I got back, I discovered someone had broken into my car in the parking lot. Someone must have interrupted the thief because he left after pulling the face plate off my stereo. He also left behind a few tools when he ran.
I got a ton of shit from my buddies about how raggedy my car was (even more than before). Making comments about how my car was so busted that thieves broke in to leave me tools.
Phew, your holiness…
For a second there when I read your post and it started with “I once went camping”, I thought we would get the dreaded question “If you wake up and your ass is sore and covered in vaseline, do you tell anyone?”….
Nope. Wiped the vaseline off my canteen and never looked my scout master in the eyes again.
Now there will be a whole lot of people asking you if you want to go camping again…
STEVE SMITH NOW KEENLY INTERESTED.
He said ask if I want to go camping. Ask and Want are not in STEVE SMITH’S vocabulary
STEVE SMITH ENCOURAGE CAMPING!
Someone broke into our place when we were young minimum wage workers and stole nothing. Although one time when we were living in a high rise apartment building some dude did a “spider-man” and came through the balcony door thirteen floors up to steal some hash and a pipe off the coffee table. Took the eggs from the fridge, too.
Yeah, my fraternity brother would never lock his car (A Subaru Justy) because “what are they going to do, clean it?” Or “locking the doors won’t prevent someone from shoplifting it.”
I remember that car well…
I went for most of seven years in Phoenix not locking the doors for my Subaru wagon.
It didn’t have air conditioning. I would roll the windows down in around April and not roll them back up until the first rainfall in the monsoon season (mid-July).
Eight minutes of heaven
FUCK YEAH!
Who pays for the post-competition gastric lavage?
Eight minutes of heaven
Back in my day we only got 7 minutes in heaven.
Inflation is sometimes a good thing.
Q’s links support this thesis.
Call me when they do it with casseroles.
Possum pot pie?
casseroles
Whatever those are.
leftovers with cheese on top.
Its a french name for the pyrex you make hotdish in.
Mmmm. . . . tuna noodle casserole.
Friday Funbags makes life at least seem that it’s worth living… for now.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/24/fit-girls-make-friday-look-even-sexier/
And the glibs Oscar goes to… Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
/orders tickets
*chortle*
Also, pass.
Twerking – the act of turning something attractive into something extremely ugly.
Agreed.
HM to the white courtesy phone please.
“cunnilingus scene in a nightclub toilet”
Ewwwww! And not because of the cunnilingus. Anyone who has ever had to clean a women’s restroom in a restaurant knows what I’m talking about.
I used to think men’s restrooms were dirty cause guys simply didn’t care and pined for the ladies room. Then I was dissuaded from that belief when several lady friends told me they would rather use the men’s room than the ladies room cause women did all sorts of real freaky shit that made their restrooms areas the CDC would shut off as pandemic causing danger to life & limb.
You have no idea.
*teenage amusement park worker*
I worked at a Ponderosa Steakhouse while in high school. “Hey, go clean the women’s room…”
*1000 yard stare*
*Stands beside the Swiss one in solidarity* I am Janicus! No! I am Janicus! I’m Janicus, too!
College bar for me. Dumping the urine and other LESS pleasant substances out of the trash can was always step one. Step two was almost always unclogging the toilet and sink.
I’m union so we have plumbers for that. Doesn’t mean that I get to walk away from the mess but the actual pipes need to be dealt with by an outside contractor. I’ll give a few hearty pushes on the old plunger and if that don’t work I just close the stall and hang a sign. Fuck that shit, do I get paid like a plumber?
Has to be as bad as the Old Country Buffet ladies room . . . I tried to keep my eyes closed.
When I worked fast food, part of the assignments that would get handed out would be cleaning the bathrooms. Sweet cheebus, I don’t even want to know how some of the mess happened in the women’s room.
Menstrual blood finger-painting was always a joy to behold.
That could easily be a Jezebel headline.
Sitting at the dealership waiting for an oil change. TV is on CBS news. They’re talking about Obama visiting some little league kids. You’d think he was a god among men the way they talk about him.
Did the kids point and go “Stranger Danger!” while running away?
He can hit 5 mph more on the gun with his fastball.
Just don’t let him throw batting practice.
Embarrasses all southpaws, especially me
Stupid is as stupid does.
The Duluth mayor decided that she wanted a new flag
Predictably, it has turned into a shit show with at least two contestants being accused of flag plagiarism
I couldn’t imagine the horror of being forced to participate in a city govt. Not only would you be forced to work with cretins like the mayor who thinks a new flag is going to solve all their problems, but you would have to deal with citizens who are even more petty and stupid.
I’d suggest a rainbow colored vagina flag for the win.
Trudeau would like to replace the Maple Leaf with a flapping vagina with his face close to it giving a thumbs up….with a rainbow in the background of course. and the red motifs would be replaced with pink.
If there’s one leader who should be resigning it’s him.
May resigns over Brexit, meanwhile Trudeau has literally committed ethical violations on numerous occasions. He’s done more to earn a resignation than Trump too.
“He’s done more to earn a resignation than Trump too.”
But did he ever know someone who once knew someone who may have been Russian? Let’s get to the important stuff already.
“…and a consent form from the vagina owner in other hand” you meant to say. Right? RIGHT?
Right.
Maybe add an Islamic star & crescent in the upper corner.
Impressed on a pair of socks.
The flapping vagina flag with Trudy’s facial expression being a small moue of disgust?
Just run up the white flag of surrender and have done with it. You’ve already given up.
I think I’d have submitted the stars and bars.
Rainbow colored vaginas should be in Lucky Charms.
Also, band name.
Why does a city need a flag? get rid of it.
Because, doing real work is hard. Flags are easy, especially when someone else does the work, for free.
^Hyper gets it. Form over substance. The mayor has mastered the art of politics.
Solving all the problems caused by stupid politicians is not viable, but creating new meaningless ones that you can then claim a victory from, sure as hell works.
Putting the “cult” in culture.
Yeah, all the cool cities just get script signs.
“The Cleveland signs have really boosted the cool-factor of Cleveland…”
Citation needed
When the only thing below you is Detroit, you’ve got nowhere to go but up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY
When you can’t solve any of the real problems, primarily because you not only created them with your ideological policies in the first place, but more importantly, because you benefit and get power from said problems continuing to exist, you need to manufacture new and irrelevant problems to distract the morons that keep voting for you to keep fucking them over.
Stupid. You’re supposed to open this sort of thing to the internet.
4 chan making Duluth flags would be tremendous. I’m giggling a little just thinking about it.
“Jordanians call for a third intifada to thwart ‘Deal of the Century’ ”
Even before a deal is announced.
‘Hey, they’re packing up and leaving!’
‘They can’t do that! It messes up our arrangements!’
Seriously, this is the part of the whole sordid ordeal people who support Palestinians overlook. They’re not interested in deals. They want Jews thrown into the sea.
Like Michael told Sonny and Tom in convincing them Sollozzo had to be whacked because he was going to try and kill Vito Corelone again because it was key to him.
Yep. I guess I feel sympathy for individual Palestinians. As a people, country, whatever that place is – fuck them. When the next real war comes along the Israelis are going to just empty the place out and force Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to accept them at gunpoint.
Naomi Wolf wrote a book based off of her thesis. The interviewer found a wee problem with it.
Really, listen to the audio. It is hilarious.
Another fine Yale graduate.
Seriously, she’s an idiot.
But she has a degree from Oxford!!! How can she be an idiot?
I think that makes her more likely to be an idiot than not, unfortunately.
Who is the smartest hen in the chicken coop? Where’s my money, Trebek?
Not often you get to see Fake Newz debunked in real time. Nice.
Death recorded – by bunga bunga
But, but, she applied the same rigorous level of research to this as she did all of her books! How could this have happened?
guess who’s canceling their upcoming appearances “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
Who’s afraid of Naomi Wolf?
“I just read you the definition of it from the Old Bailey website.” Oof.
Also: LOL
I mean the interviewer did maybe an hour of research? How much did she do?
Bah. Research is merely window dressing when you have a piping hot narrative lined up.
In her book “The End of America” she lists 10 steps necessary to establish a fascist regime:
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens’ groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Treat all political dissidents as traitors
10.Suspend the rule of law
Except for #2, progressives have gone a long way to fulfill all of these.
By that definition the Soviets were fascist.
Authoritarian/totalitarian are the descriptors she’s looking for, bu then again she’s an idiot.
They gotta have a different name for the totalitarians they don’t like. Otherwise, people might notice that there’s very little difference between what is bad, and what the proggies want.
Exactly. Fascist is a catchall for “people we don’t like”. If they like them, by definition, they can’t be fascist.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place
Evergreen College?
Safe spaces
It’s not torture if they enjoy it (BDSM?).
Weak, very weak.
Is this related to the conversation we had yesterday or the day before about people using his smegma to make beer?
Turns out A-Rog is dairy free.
But he’s still full of shit.
I uh, am not sure.
This is one of his offensive lineman calling him out on beer chugging and Rodgers fails miserably.
It was pathetic. I mean, I can’t chug like Bakhtiari (it looks like he’s able to just open his throat and let it go[no euphamism]) but christ, Erin. What did he get down, maybe 8 ounces in 8 seconds? Even the hottie he’s with was all like, “christ, Erin. Man up. You are embarrassing me.”
Justin Amash seems to be doubling down on his stupidity and career-suicide. I assume he’ll be the new darling at the cocktail circuit that Reason writers frequent. Maybe he’ll land enough of that Koch money to make up for his impending unemployment.
What’d he do now?
More ‘splaining about how Trump should be impeached for stuff like not cooperating with the made up investigation and illegal surveillance.
What do you want from him? Hail Trump?
Why are we willing to overlook how shitty a President he is just to own the libs?
I was sort of hoping that he would be against surveillance of citizens without real probable cause. Maybe against the Deep State attempted coup, and fake criminal charges like “obstruction of justice” and the entrapment “lying to the FBI” charges getting tossed around without any real underlying crimes.
Nope – he’s gone into a full TDS kamikaze run.
This is the anti-TDS I was bitching about the other day. We get (rightfully) pissed off at the TDS folks to the point we go too far the other way and start crying TDS at anything.
Amash is supporting a soft coup led by socialists against a sitting president . This is about as anti-libertarian as one can get.
But there is evidence that high-level members of the the federal government intelligence and law enforcement branch may have actually tried to interfere with the presidential election and also tried to undermine the results of said election.
And from what I’ve heard Amash is not worried about that.
I get where you’re coming from JB, but this goes back to what I said yesterday. I’d have no problem with Amash if he were both detailing all these things about Trump while not overlooking the massive domestic spying that the Obama administration, CIA, and FBI engaged in. But he’s not doing that – it’s all Trump, Trump, Trump. THAT’S what’s really aggravating about Amash.
If he want’s to impeach based on waging undeclared war, runaway federal spending, out of control federal agencies, have at it.
If he wants to impeach because Trump refused to kowtow over being blackmailed by the FBI over “muh Rooshans conspiracy”, then fuck him.
Chip, Amash was QUITE vocal about what Obama was doing during Obama’s administration.
Indeed he was. That’s what makes his lack of interest in the machinations behind investigating Trump so disappointing.
I think there’s a large contingent of libertarians who question authority solely because it’s authority. I’ve never found that mindset all that appealing. Amash seems to be exposing himself as a critic of the presidency rather than as a critic of abused.
Who knows, I haven’t really followed it all that closely. However, from my point of view, I’d be much more concerned by the systemic rot exposed during the investigation than the commonplace patina on Trump’s campaign.
At least, if you’re laser focused on Trump, hit him for something meaningful.
abuses*
“From MY point of view, the JEDI are evil!”
Having the opinion that Amash is incorrect here doesn’t equate to a slavish devotion to Trump or wanting to own the libs. Is that what Rand Paul is doing?
^ This. I think it’s a question of consistency. Do you consistently oppose abuse of power, using federal agencies as a political weapon, spying on US citizens? Do you support due process in all cases? Or do you set those things aside because you don’t like someone (in this case, Trump?)
There are plenty of reasons to not like Trump, but this is setting a really bad precedent.
If they were impeaching Trump over drone strikes, the arming of Saudi Arabia and the the pounding of civilians in Yemen etc., I’d be all for impeaching the bastard. What really rankles me is that they are going after Trump, who’s been slightly less war hawkish (Hey, no new theaters!) so that they can anoint some other psycho. Fine, impeach them all. I’m cool with that. This Russian collusion thing was BS and only serves as a distraction. A constant war state and a constant expansion of the welfare state is the worst possible outcome.
This.
And wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly the outcome the Deep State wants.
If they impeach Trump for whatever after the corruption of the permanent state along with their political masters has been fully revealed, I’m perfectly fine with that.
The problem is that if that they get rid of Trump before that happens, we’re wholly and completely fucked. There will be no limits on the apparatchiks and the nomenklatura whatsoever.
I was talking to my ex-FBI agent friend on Wednesday night. He said virtually every person an agent questions is a liar to one extent or another.
But virtually everyone who lies to FBI is not prosecuted for obstruction. His opinion is that the Trump thing is a crock because obstruction is only brought when a real crime has been uncovered and even then not so much. No crime, no obstruction – they realize that ordinary folks lie to protect themselves or friends or lovers. He acknowledged that federal agents are allowed to lie to you but you can’t legally lie to them. Pleading the fifth, demanding a jury trial, discussing strategies with one’s lawyer, being able to confront accusers and other constitutionally-protected rights are NOT obstruction. But ultimate arbiter is court of law as extent and intent is always in play.
Bullshit. They charge obstruction at any little thing. If you piss off the FBI they will prosecute you. If you don’t talk to them they’ll find another excuse.
I’m not saying Trump SHOULD be prosecuted, because it’s pointless, I’m just saying that thinking this is somehow unique to him is fucking dumb.
Bullshit. They charge obstruction at any little thing. If you piss off the FBI they will prosecute you. If you don’t talk to them they’ll find another excuse.
Yes and that is one of the most evil, tyrannical, utterly destructive of liberty, decency and the rule of law aspects of our current nightmare. It is NOT a legitimate basis for impeachment and Amash has abandoned principle due to TDS. Of course it is not unique to Trump. The unique thing here is that Trump is an outsider President Billionaire and therefore enough of an arrogant bastard that he is fighting back which gives us all some tiny minuscule chance of curbing some of these abuses.
Your position here seems to be 1. Trump is bad and 2. The FBI (et al) do this to everyone so it is legitimate to support impeachment against Trump for this because Trump is bad. I vacillate on the truth of point 1, but point 2 is crap.
I’m dropping this because it’s not worth it. But that’s not what I’m saying at all. I was just responding to an FBI agent saying that, which is complete crap whoever it relates to.
My ex-agent friend’s point was that virtually every person they questions lies: “No, I didn’t hear anything about it” but that of the hundreds of thousands of liars they question each year, only a few get prosceuted for obstruction. He thinks Trump did not obstruct because he has seen other prominents not be prosecuted for actual obstruction.
I wanted to like Amash. But at least I still have Massie and Paul.
It seems to me that someone out of the mainstream like Amash or Paul are being elected because people believe in their message. They aren’t just the “not Democrat” candidates. This has got to hurt him long term.
That story of the cleaning break-in as me a bit scared, I made that joke years ago, and if my art can come true we are all DOOMED.
cleaning break-ins are actually one of the more common “odd crime” stories out there.
Someone breaks in, makes a sammie and wipes the counter and then the meth kicks in.
One of my college roommates had a side piece who would smoke meth and then clean our dorm room. If that were the only affect I doubt anyone would have a problem with that drug.
Hide your electronics.
Florida man narcs on what would’ve been an awesome prom party
All of those April babies aborted before they had a chance. Nice going, Sanger!
Was that a dark humor joke, or a “Gilmore”?
You decide!
There’s nothing lower than a snitch.
THE HORROR!!!!!!
I’m a mapaholic and always look up the address when it’s given in a story like this. Assuming it’s the right one, somebody’s got a fancy horse operation like 2 doors down. And a normal (except that it’s in FL) home just over the back fence.
“Roman believes because of the toilet paper roses, it was probably a cleaning service that went to the wrong house, but he’s not taking any chances and has changed all the locks to his home.”
Why can’t I be this lucky?
I’ve mentioned here before that although I work as a custodian the cobbler’s son does indeed go unshod. My house is a category 3 disaster. It’s cleanish but incredibly cluttered. Wifey has a dozen hobbies and I can’t be arsed to pick up after her.
I have a 3 year old, 5 year old, and a 6 year old and work full time from home while sloopy runs his business that I occasionally have to assist him with. Most days I’m happy if I find time to shower.
Ah, the wet-wipes and a quicky before the coma kicks in stage of your life.
Change the locks? I’d leave a Thank You card and a tip for the next time.
Do cleaning services routinely break in to your house?
Then have I got a product for you! Hi folks, I’m Lionel Hutz, you may remember me from such….
I think we’re gonna have to define “break in”. Did they really break any locks or doors down?
Chances are they knocked, no one answered, and so they walked in and started cleaning. That’s what every cleaning service I’ve ever had does. (4 Seasons string section plays)
And I bet this happens all the time.
So the missing sentence from the article would have to be something along the lines of “I forgot to lock the house when we left.”
“Dear, the maids ruined the plebian ‘lived-in’ look I’ve been cultivating.”
Is this cleaning service run by moonlighting cops? Because the whole “wrong house” thing makes it seem that way?
Did the article mention how long this fellow has lived there?
Because the most likely scenario is that the previous owner just had a cleaning service come every couple months and forgot to cancel. May have even given them a key.
The other most likely scenario is … yeah… just a wrong address.
Chances are they knocked, no one answered, and so they walked in and started cleaning. That’s what every cleaning service I’ve ever had does. (
4 Seasons string sectionporn music plays)Libertarian Lawfare
A “libertarian interpretation” of the First Amendment is responsible for more “violent hate crime” in the United States than terrorism, a former Federal Election Commission chair claimed Thursday.
“The libertarian interpretation of the 1st Amendment has permitted a huge spike in violent hate crimes in the US – many more than foreign attacks,” former FEC Chair Ann Ravel wrote on Twitter.
Ravel, who is running as a Democrat for a seat in the California Senate, did not say how she would modify free-speech rights to address the issue, though her record provides some indication. During her 2013-17 tenure as a commissioner on the FEC, Ravel sought to limit the kind of political content users could place on websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
I suppose by “libertarian” interpretation she means the “read the words that say ‘Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech’” interpretation.
Totalitarian bitch
Is there no end to the horrors that unfettered libertarianism has wrought upon the land??
All we want to do is achieve world domination and then leave everybody the fuck alone. Is that too hard an ask?
And by leave everyone alone, you of course mean let granny starve and put women, minorities, and children back in chains.
That’s the part you’re not supposed to say out loud!
Well, that’s one of the three major problems with libertarians. Terrible political candidates, dancing naked fat guys, and saying things out loud we’re not supposed to say.
You’re allowed to whisper it to the orphans when you deign to let them sleep. It’s right there in the manual.
Libertarians—fiendishly plotting to take over the world and leave you alone.
Of course, too many people of being “left alone”…something’s bound to go wrong, and who would be there to help me???
The only people who support this type of thing assume that they, or someone just like them, will be in charge of what content will be allowed. Let’s create a federal censorship agency and put Pat Buchanan in charge and see how she likes it.
“The libertarian interpretation of the 1st Amendment has permitted a huge spike in violent hate crimes in the US”
The issue here is that the huge spike spoke of here, doesn’t exist except in someone’s imagination. A very large proportion of reported ‘hate’ crimes were invented by the person reporting them. It’s now known as ‘pulling a Jussie’.
Wait, what?
That pesky first amendment, allowing people to talk for or against political candidates! The absolute nerve!
If you’re an FEC Commissioner, odds are you’re not there because you believe in a political estate composed of more than two parties, and probably not more than one.
There’s been more than one dem congress critter to propose bills to make it a crime to insult a politician. Seriously, you can’t make this shit up.
John Adams was a Democratic?
What’s a Democratic?
An exoskeletal, non-working voter that attaches to the body public for sustenence.
Stupid phone.
That’s exactly what Tulpa would say!
I think that a “Leon” should become a thing because nearly every comment he makes here gets ravaged either by his auto-correct or those oppose-able big toes that he calls thumbs.
I can’t get on the browser at work, so phone it is.
And proofreading is for chumps.
I’m just funnin’.
Oh I know. I was playing along. I’m my open way
* in my own way
La piece d’resistance!
Quit speaking Canadian! It’s “piece of resistance”.
Fuck off, slaver
Ms. Ravel believes in a “hate” speech exception to the first amendment. In her case, “hate” speech is defined as anything she disagrees with.
Exactly that. The formula to totalitarianism is make up shit like ‘a huge spike in hate crimes’, claim that is is a fact with no evidence at all to prove it, gets laws passed making free speech illegal, but first make sure you’ve taken away everyone’s right to self defense.
There’s evidence, but it falls apart on close examination. It’s just because of more bureaucracies reporting.
4chan should work on making “workers of the world unite” into hate speech. Something about “workers” being a dog whistle for whites and “unite” meaning an ethnostate.
Let’s see, they’ve already done it to Pepe the frog, the OK symbol, and It’s OK to be White. I don’t think I want to know how far they can go.
Speaking of people that need to be impeached….
i’m back in that mood where i don’t care to discuss something so dangerous to a free republic.
Can’t vouch for it, but you never know.
https://twitter.com/ThePeteRaymond/status/1131866155222740992
Oh, Fuck. It IS real.
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2017/07/06/archaeologists-discover-a-gruesome-tower-of-skulls-in-mexico-city
Straff, the Aztecs bragged about the number of people they ritually murdered to appease their gods. They call the Cartel killers pikers for not racking up a big enough body count.
Going by the Aztec’s own claims, a mere ~130,000 from the Conquistador’s accounts would be a low estimate, despite what the squeamish author of this piece wants to believe.
Enemy combatants.
#NotAllSacrifices
I think it was on the History on Fire podcast, but I sort of remember hearing that one of the problems that the Aztecs had fighting the Spaniards was that the Aztecs fought to wound people and take prisoners. And the Spanish, just fought to kill.
The Aztecs would hamstring opponents and then bring them back to be sacrificed. And the opponents sort of went along with it because it was considered a very honorable way to die.
The whole army of natives who hated the Aztec’s guts didn’t hurt Spanish chances either.
^This^
The Spanish army had something like 5,000 Spaniards and 100,000 natives.
Aztecs were innocent flower children, come on bruh.
Yes, they sacrificed flowers and children on those altars. Butterflies too.
Yeah. Totally from memory – didn’t one of the characters in Cryptonomicon go off on a rant about how horrible the Aztecs were?
Donno, never read that book.
Yes.
The only surprise is that it took them this long. As I understand it, the found this in Mexico City. You would think they would have found an archaelogical site of this magnitude long ago.
Had someone built on the site? It’s not uncommon there.
That stuff is buried beneath centuries of urbanization and it’s Mexico. Doesn’t surprise me in the least. The wrangling over how savage the people were will surprise me even less.
I think it was almost because of it being there that it took so long. That is, that they knew it was supposed to have been there, but also that the Spanish leveled it and built over it, so there was something otherwise-worth-keeping over it for awhile. And that then (more recently), the new excavations were like “we pretty much knew very generally what was supposed to be there, but all the particular details were missing until now.”
Wait, that’s not going to the Bee. It’s real, wow.
That is the best thing I’m going to read today.
See, this just proves how the saintly and totes innocent people of color were living in paradise until whitey came along and ruined everything.
Didn’t we already kind of know this about the Aztecs though?
Oh, yes, we knew. People didn’t believe for a while because it was so outragous that it had to be exaggerated slander.
But you dig up huge skull towers… harder to keep denying.
What I learned growing up, however, is that the Mayans were “peaceful”. This is the one that turned out to be totally false. They were almost as horrible. Later I found out that the first Native Americans Columbus found were eventually wiped out to a man by another tribe of Native Americans.
Humans gonna human.
If there were no Aztecs, the Mayans would be the worst mesoamericans. But they just got overshadowed.
The other thing that gets overlooked is the absolute ubiquity of slavery among all these tribes.
Unless you count the Toltecs and Omecs before them, and of course the Incas. All of them totally subjugated their neighbors if when they refused to pay their ‘offerings’ to their masters, they got murdered to death.
Incas weren’t Mesoamercian.
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Jury is still out
Woke Aztecs. lol.
That HAS to be tongue in cheek. I mean, I simple can’t believe that headline was written earnestly.
It’s probably tongue in cheek. The Economist is sometimes.
I missed the sub-hed. Hilarious.
Quick question for the IT folks. What is the best place you get industry news? I’m plugged in a few places, but want to see if there’s anywhere I’m missing.
I wish I knew. I just assume I’m uninformed.
There was a tornado half a mile from my house on Sunday. I found out about it on Tuesday.
I have proof I’m uninformed.
(It was a small one, not on the ground very long but there was no warning from the weather service.
Slashdot
/joking
This was true until … when did Taco sell out?
June 1999.
Gizmodo?
/bigger joke
Salon, if you want the straight up facts.
https://sdtimes.com/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/
Was just going to post that. You just have to realize that they’re going to focus on British info, and use British slang (boffins).
And endless snark.
Business news (macro, what companies are doing financially, etc.)? Or more technical news (what companies are doing at a more micro level with products, research, etc.)?
More interested in the technical news. The business news is interesting, but I’m focused on a very specific technology, so hearing that Microsoft’s earnings are down 5% YoY isn’t useful to me.
Mostly I’m using it to get and stay up to speed on competitors’ offerings in [insert buzzwordy network technology here]. It’s also to improve my technical competence so that I can better manage the patents we have.
http://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=team&tid=17527
NCAA golf. Looks like the course is playing hard this morning. Some brutal scores.
That’s why the big tours got boring. Unless the weather turns to shit everyone can make par. If i slice my tee shot onto the next fairway there should be no way in hell that I’ll make birdie (barring a miracle shot). They tried to “Tiger-proof” the courses but everyone just started aping him and it has made the game more boring than ever.
That is why the US Open is fun.
Indeed! I loved that one where they played between the train tracks and the ocean. Actual suspense. Poor Dustin Johnson.
I could see how playing hard could affect your swing.
Have we lost Pat?
So much this:
I’ll take a framed sheet of the first run.
If we’re going to put someone new on money, let’s just put this guy on there.
What you did there…..
Or FDR laughing with the words “Bitches, I stole your Gold” on the back.
So much better than the earnest, humble Black lady that they’ve put on our bills. Your design kicks ass, ours reminds us that nobody cares.
Apparently, the Evil Gun totem outweighs even the almost unbeatable Strong Black Woman totem.
Its Trump’s Treasury. He should just tell them to go with the superior design. And hold a big press conference praising Harriet Tubman. Make a lot of references to how she was the true #Resistance of her day, subverting the Democrat defense of slavery by exercising her Second Amendment rights.
And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Stop making me wish for things that won’t happen.
It might have more impact if he did it during the campaign. Set up the usual idiots with a rumor that he is going to change the design with Harriet Tubman on it. Let them assume he’s taking her off. Then, big press conference, etc.
So pwnage. Much troll.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
RC Dean- getting back to that t-shirt discussion. my wife, in that special way wives use words, told me it was too on-the-nose especially since she’s a true believer and she’s volunteering at one of the propaganda tables (safe storage). so i’ve settled for this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DX9H9LW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3VI3XULB9ONEB&psc=1#customerReviews
Too subtle. How are you supposed to end up as the outrage of the week if no one knows what you’re saying?
i know. there just isn’t much middle ground available in the color orange.