Banjos is busy. Since I know you are too, I’ll get right too it.
The death toll of American touristas in the Dominican Republic is now eight.
WAPO: $600 Million in aid to Puerto Rico is being delayed until September. As a reminder for everyone that likely is already aware but we’ll say it anyways in case somebody else at CNN wants to reminds us all again…Puerto Ricans are technically American citizens.
The next time I travel to Mexico I guess I will have to pass through militarized checkpoints on both sides.
If the Chilean dictator threw your parents out of a helicopter, why would you go back to Chile, and demand some sort of recognition from the Chilean government? I would assume somebody like that would just stay in Argentina. Lets be real, if one’s parent’s are dumb…chances are…
An expose on the southern border—of Mexico.
But most of the smuggling of migrants into Mexico actually happens through the jungle and back roads to avoid the immigration checkpoints. It is a multibillion-dollar business, as each person pays between $3,500 and $7,000 for the dangerous journey.
As a result of the new migrant deal, officials estimate that smugglers lost $3,6m last weekend alone, when the National Guard found 791 migrants being transported in trucks.
South of Comitán, 12 heavily armed soldiers patrol the border town of Carmen Xhán in two vehicles. “The first 30 minutes [of an operation] are the most important ones,” says the sub-lieutenant in charge, “that’s when we have the best chance to catch the smugglers driving through”. After that, their location becomes known and smugglers find ways to avoid them.
The commando moves from one area to the next throughout the night. Even so, their presence does not go unnoticed by smugglers and, across the border in Guatemala, migrants turn back, unable to cross.
This was the second frustrated attempt for 24-year-old Denis Perez and his son, Denis Joshua, from the Guatemalan town of Petén. In their first time, they were detained in the Mexican city of Monterrey, near the US border. To pay for this trip, he says he mortgaged his land, and will now have to return and tell her wife and other child that they could not make it.
For him, like most others, more desperation waits when he gets back home.
In real estate news, 27 of a Mexican Drug Lord’s properties were seized and auctioned off. 9 sold for a total of USD $3 million.
A single Russian warship dropped anchor in Havana.
Here’s some tunes. I’m feeling mellow today.
“The death toll of American touristas in the Dominican Republic is now eight.”
I thought it was already nine?
Gov’t of D.R. insists this is Fake News as there are no Americans on the island…
They cured one guy.
She turned me into a newt
What?
I got bettah!
“I’m not dead!”
A local article claims ten. Of course, this is taking an international story, and making it local.
2 Ohioans dead in Japan!
In other news the islands of japan sank into the ocean today.
He was only mostly dead.
I heard 12 last night on the news.
I can never figure out these foreign exchange rates.
Single Russian Warship seeks unattached Cuban Cruiseliner?
Dom Reps need not apply
SEA SMITH COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT /NEWS ANCHOR SMITH
Shore leave!
Where the sun is warm…
“Soon after, her mother took her into exile in Argentina. But when Lagos finally returned to Chile five years later, she was unable to secure a birth certificate with her father’s surname because he wasn’t alive to claim her as his child. The quest for redress eventually led her to the Supreme Court, which finally ordered the Chilean civil registry in April to correct Lagos’ identity document.”
Because she couldn’t just bribe the clerk?
“”My father was killed 35 years ago, the same 35 years that I’ve been on this Earth,” she told The Associated Press. “The ruling is not enough to repair it. It’s not enough to do justice. It’s not enough to become a source of joy.””
It’s a birth certificate, not a puppy.
The clerk didn’t want a helicopter ride.
“In 1994, Lagos was formally recognized as an illegitimate daughter. That allowed her to pursue a university degree for free and obtain a monthly pension of about $57 while she studied — one of the benefits granted to the relatives of dictatorship victims. But the designation still suggested she had been born out of wedlock.
In 1998, legislation retracted the requirement that children’s status at birth be listed on their legal document. The law, however, only applied to children born after that year, leaving many — including those orphaned for reasons unrelated to the dictatorship — at a loss.”
Mining is a major industry in Chile.
Payday. And I’m totally sympathetic to these people, but also to the taxpayers of Chile who are well rid of the regime that did this and are now on the hook for reparations.
The birth certificate thing is something else. If government takes on the responsibility of issuing (etc) these documents then they should try their best to issue appropriate BCs to these people, even if that is inconvenient for the current government. IOW, don’t create stateless persons.
Oops, sorry for the double-posting.
Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to avoid a commie omelette.
Sounds like what a commie would say… to the helicopters with ya!
Mexican government should deport all those migrants to the US and get rid of them once and for all. They will continue to come until there is no one left in Central America. Who is gonna pick my Costa Rican bananas? However, if Juan Valdez is among the group send him back to Columbia,. I need more coffee!
/sarc
Juan Valdez more likely grows coca.
I think Juan Valdez is the central character in the next season of Narcos.
Rufus (puts arm around migrant); Listen, Juan? Miguel? Never mind. Why do you want to come here for?
Migrant: It’s Jesus. Because for a better life, señor.
Rufus (chuckles): Define ‘better’ life, Joe?
Migrant: Better educación, better health, better justice, better overall. I tired of picking bananas all day señor.
Rufus: I get it Paulo but you don’t realize how good you have it. The good you do.
Migrant: It’s Jesus. Good?
Rufus: Are you kidding? Do you realize how many people are happy because of you picking bananas?
Migrant: I never realized it.
Rufus: Well, I’m telling you, Pierre.
Migrant (smiling, happy): Jesus. Oh. Ok. I go back and pick bananas to feed a nation señor!
Rufus: Attaboy! That’s the spirit.
Migrant (whistles to another migrant): Hey Tom. You! You the coffee picker?
Migrant #2: It’s Jose Luis. Yes.
Migrant: Whatever. Turn back! We have work to do!
Migrant (turns to Rufus): Thank you señor! You changed my life!
Rufus: No problemo.
Migrant #2: But señor. Do you know he’s Canadian?
Migrant gives LONG NARROW GAZE.
Rufus. Homer scream. Drops banana. Kicks heels. Runs off.
*cue curtain at Henson Productions*
“$600 Million in aid to Puerto Rico is being delayed until September.” “Puerto Ricans are technically American citizens.”
What are the numbers of the Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause of the Constitution of the United States that says that because they are “American citizens” the supposed to be federal government can take money not donated and redistribute it to them?
>>Around a million people in Puerto Rico are reliant on the food stamp program, according to Matos, and they have seen a decrease in benefits in the months since the cuts began.
Out of a population of 3.2M people (!)
So about $200 for each person in PR? There will be mad scramble among bureaucracies to get some of that for ‘Administrative Costs’ and the money will be gone and the hinterlands will still be without ‘lectricity. Just send each person a tax refund for $200. Oh, that’s right, they don’t pay a fed tax.
These people do not pay federal taxes, IIRC.
Despite “The unprecedented decline in the number of Americans dependent on food stamps is putting President Donald Trump and his administration in the record books.”
https://onenewsnow.com/business/2019/02/19/trump-gets-food-stamp-usage-down-12-mos-straight
This might have something to do with it. “Over 43 percent of Puerto Ricans live below the poverty line, compared to a national average of 14 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.”
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/how-is-food-assistance-different-in-puerto-rico-than-in-the-rest-of-the
Doesn’t mean money should be ‘redistributed’ by government (consent of politicians) instead of charity (consent of people who own the money).
As long as reparations are on the table, let’s cut Puerto Rico loose as amends for acquiring it in the first place during an imperialistic war.
You shouldn’t make jokes like that. Some of the Glibs are pretending to work. The laughter worthy of that one breaks the illusion.
*Looks around for DNT’s camera*
Did you find it?
I would give PR to Argentina in a hot minute in exchange for renouncing their claim to the Falklands.
Then were could they focus people’s attention away from the corruption and descent into Third-world banana republic status?
Fine. They can just have PR as a gesture of international goodwill.
Can we pay them to take it? Maybe throw in a squadron of F-35s to sweeten the deal?
Sure, it’s not like they would usable in combat.
Tired of not being able to afford the car you like because you spend so much of your own money on food? Elect Thanos in 2020. Thanos promises that half of all “American citizens” will be eligible for SNAP. (Yes, I know that in 2019 Puerto Rico has Programa de Asistencia Nutricional, not SNAP.)
So I’m guessing those Chileans are also demanding free helicopter rides?
OT already (Sorry, MS – gotta leave for the ol’ day job): Yet another of the plethora of reasons I’m glad I don’t live – and no longer work – in the city limits. It’s bad enough living in the shitty school district (from which I graduated lo these many years ago.) Full disclosure: Yesterday I got a bill courtesy of the mobile revenue enhancement camera they have parked out in front of the local Orphans-R-Us.
Sorry if this has already been posted. Not sorry if “too local.”
This is for your own good.
Unless you’re using explosives, I’m not seeing why a permit is needed to tear down your own property. When using explosives, the permit should be obtainable from any number of organizations with the expertise to certify that the configuration will not send shrapnel/building components into neighboring properties.
I’m not seeing why a permit is needed to tear down your own property.
Hahahahahahah….
He thinks he owns the property.
*raucous laughter*
At the end of my street is a half-burned-down house that’s been sitting that way since last year. The previous owner was foreclosed on, then the house was sold at auction – then the town told to auction
winnersucker was informed he needed to remove the in-ground swimming pool built without a permit and the front paving ($200 to 300k of work). At that point the place mysteriously caught fire.Now it stands as a wrecked memorial to easy credit and zoning laws.
Sounds like fraud to me, and I don’t just mean the arsonist.
The whole thing was a shit-show and seems like it will be a permanent eyesore.
That’s the Ohio bureaucracy I know and rand screaming away from.
We’re glad that you made it as far as MN before you had the flat tire. Although its not like you found heaven in Gopher Country. Vikings/Browns gonna let you down the same
Mn Glibs
Doom. Dystopia.
The ship’s most futuristic aspect, though, is its crew. The LCS was the first class of Navy ship that, because of technological change and the high cost of personnel, turned away from specialists in favor of “hybrid sailors” who have the ability to acquire skills rapidly. It was designed to operate with a mere 40 souls on board—one-fifth the number aboard comparably sized “legacy” ships and a far cry from the 350 aboard a World War II destroyer. The small size of the crew means that each sailor must be like the ship itself: a jack of many trades and not, as 240 years of tradition have prescribed, a master of just one.
On most Navy ships, only a boatswain’s mate—the oldest of the Navy’s 60-odd occupations—would handle the ropes, which can quickly remove a finger or foot. But none of the three sailors heaving on the Giffords’s ropes is a line-handling professional. One is an information-systems technician. The second is a gunner’s mate. And the third is a chef. “We wear a lot of hats here,” Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Damontrae Butler says. After the ropes are put away, he reports to the ship’s galley, picks up a basting brush, and starts readying a tray of garlic bread for the oven.
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Minimal manning—and with it, the replacement of specialized workers with problem-solving generalists—isn’t a particularly nautical concept. Indeed, it will sound familiar to anyone in an organization who’s been asked to “do more with less”—which, these days, seems to be just about everyone. Ten years from now, the Deloitte consultant Erica Volini projects, 70 to 90 percent of workers will be in so-called hybrid jobs or superjobs—that is, positions combining tasks once performed by people in two or more traditional roles. Visit SkyWest Airlines’ careers site, and you’ll see that the company is looking for “cross utilized agents” capable of ticketing, marshaling and servicing aircraft, and handling luggage. At the online shoe company Zappos, which famously did away with job titles a few years back, employees are encouraged to take on multiple roles by joining “circles” that tackle different responsibilities. If you ask Laszlo Bock, Google’s former culture chief and now the head of the HR start-up Humu, what he looks for in a new hire, he’ll tell you “mental agility.” “What companies are looking for,” says Mary Jo King, the president of the National Résumé Writers’ Association, “is someone who can be all, do all, and pivot on a dime to solve any problem.”
Oh, Lordy, what if I have to think about more than one thing at a time, when I’m at work?
The Navy needs a union, and so do you.
Must protect the specialists, no matter the changing ecosystem around them.
Or rather the people who expect to keep up their place without seeking to improve themselves.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein was an idiot. Do everything poorly or do a few things well?
10 x 5 x 4 x 2 = 400
7 x 7 x 6 x 6 = 1,764
Even 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 = 625
If your skill in one arena acts as a multiplier for the others, and there’s evidence to support that it does as experience in one area often gives unique insights into others which a pure specialist would tend to overlook, greater returns can be had by diversifying your skillset.
I disagree. You should do everything well.
Even though I am a specialist (there are maybe 200 people in the US who can do my job- structural testing of aircraft), I have acquired a wide array of skills: hydraulics, machining,programming, spreadsheets, data acquisition, sensors, soldering, writing reports, taking useful photographs and video.
I have been a farmhand, a dishwasher, a busboy, a breakfast cook, a short order cook, a head cook, a baker, a janitor, a lifeguard, a swim instructor, a group home direct care provider, a college computer center help desk technician, a design engineer, a project engineer, a planning engineer, and a structural test engineer.
I can and have done everything on Heinlein’s list except set a bone and die gallantly.
I’d rather have the wide people in my post-apocalyptic team than the deep people.
Thing is there is a need and a place for both and society forgets that at it’s peril.
Sure a competent individual can probably realistically master 3 or 4 different fields, maybe more than that if they are related while simultaneously achieving superficial competence in a dozen others so someone who is only good at one thing isn’t very useful. At the same time broad based general competence is not a replacement for deep understanding of a problem domain.
I do retirement exceptionally well, pretty good at snacks and naps as well.
Are you a DER by any chance?
Oh. Dead thread. Nevermind.
How about doing a bunch of things competently AND a few things well?
Just because I’m specialized in software patents doesn’t mean I shouldn’t get the solder and blowtorch out when the plumbing needs reconfigured.
That’s what I think I could do in at least a half-assed fashion. Depending on what kind of equations and what kind of wall maybe not those. Some of them I have never done (plan an invasion?) but I think I could half-ass my way through them.
And nobody knows whether they will die gallantly in advance. You only find that out at the last minute.
Mysteriously, change a tire is not on the list.
Very few people are going to measure up.
Morrissey reaffirms For Britain support, denies he is racist, and apologises to Robert Smith in an interview with his nephew
Good for him. He still sucks, of course.
The top story on the DailyMail is about CNN.
“Anderson Cooper abruptly cuts to commercial while interviewing writer E. Jean Carroll after she called rape ‘sexy’ as she detailed how Donald Trump allegedly sexually assaulted her in a dressing room, insisting it was more of a ‘fight'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7177743/Anderson-Cooper-abruptly-cuts-commercial-E-Jean-Carroll-calls-rape-sexy.html
STEVE SMITH SEXY RAPESQUATCH. AND BY SEXY MEAN…
STEVE SMITH HAVE MANY FIGHTS. AND BY FIGHTS MEAN…
“Olivia Munn says proof is critical in sexual assault allegations amid E. Jean Carroll’s claim President Trump violated her in 1990s: ‘You have to follow through’
Olivia Munn, appearing on The View Monday, said proof is critical in the recent allegations author E. Jean Carroll made against President Donald Trump.
‘I understand how hard things are when you have to prosecute,’ the 38-year-old actress said in the appearance alongside the show’s Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg. ‘But at this point, when you are going to call out the president of the United States, you have to follow through.’
Munn appeared on the show days after Carroll’s New York magazine piece was published, as the writer said the nascent president had assaulted her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan around late 1995 or early 1996.
Carroll said Trump had pushed her against a wall, removed her tights and forced ‘his fingers around [her] private area,’ then thrusted ‘his penis halfway – or completely … inside’ of her.
Munn, appearing on the ABC roundtable to promote her new show The Rook, added of Carroll’s allegations: ‘If you are going to come out and publicly say that, then you will have to have some of that evidence that should be able to stand up in a court of law.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7177555/Olivia-Munn-says-proof-critical-sexual-assault-allegations-amid-latest-Trump-sex-scandal.html
Looks like Munn will be unperson-ed any time now.
to paraphrase an old and probably illegal joke, 9 out of 10 people at a gang rape think it is sexy
That made me spit out my beer.
So, kind of like democracy.
But in many fields, the path to success isn’t so clear. The rules keep changing, which means that highly focused practice has a much lower return. Zachary Hambrick and his co-authors showed as much in a 2014 meta-analysis. In uncertain environments, Hambrick told me, “specialization is no longer the coin of the realm.”
Or maybe it means you should focus on the ultimate end goal, instead of mindlessly repeating tasks for their own sake, like one of Skinner’s pigeons.
would?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7178085/Lady-Gaga-rocks-t-shirt-knee-high-boots-greet-fans-Apollo-Theater-performance-NYC.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7177051/Lady-Gaga-shows-love-leather-ahead-performance-Apollo-Theater.html
Nah. She doesn’t tickle my bone enough.
She’s like Seinfeld’s girlfriend who was hot or ugly depending on the lighting.
Was going to make exactly the same comment.
I haven’t totally figured it out but my working theory is that she’s got a face somewhere between plain and slightly off-putting, but a super strong makeup game.
Absolutely. Go watch the video for “Bad Romance” where she’s turned into different people via makeup choices.
I would not recognize her if I saw her walking down the street. She looks like a different person in every photo I have seen.
My wife used to have this skill when she was younger (She could change hair colors and makeup styles) but she’s become allergic to hair color so now she has to be very blonde for the rest of her life.
Definitely, but only when she’s not in her like Lady Gaga costume. When she just looks like a Jersey transplant from down the street I find her really attractive in a regular girl kind of way. Plus I’ve got a ton of respect for her professionally and I get the impression she’s a genuinely nice person. So she’s either a tremendously skilled fraud or she’s actually really cool.
Pass. Way too much drama.
I suspect IRL, street clothes, she wouldn’t get a second look. But she is quite a performer. She is working the hell out of that leather dress.
As the U.S.-Russian relations have sunk to the lowest levels since the Cold War, Moscow has been considering further steps to boost its global presence.
The White House isn’t enough?
Bravo!!!
The Green New Deal could change the way America builds—here’s how
Right – I can only imagine the sort of shitty siding and roofing these government workers would put on my original MCM home.
+1 Terry Gilliam “Dept of Works”
Wait, wait, wait, does this mean we can send more people to CCC camps, involuntarily? They can fix stuff, make decisions, develop life skills, have their opinions heard and enjoy the profit sharing. Lifelong friendships will be developed. It’ll be like college without a debt. What’s not to like about camp?
But during high employment periods what could we do to entice people? I know we could send people fired for insensitivity to be trained so they can keep new jobs.
“my original MCM home” One of these? https://us.mcmworldwide.com/en_US/women/bags/all-bags Sort of like living out of a suitcase?
Mid Century Modern
Wow… we really forgot how to design things during the 20th century, didn’t we?
To each his own… I love the clean lines and lack of clutter of a lot of MCM furniture and homes. Modern houses, or 1920s – I’ve owned them both – just don’t use the space as well. And I won’t get into my dislike of heavy or overwrought furniture.
I adore mid-century modern. Alas, my wife hates it.
If furniture can’t be used as cover in a gunfight, I don’t want it.
These are the pearls of wisdom that keep me coming back here on a semi-regular basis.
I find it a little kitschy, but not necessarily in a bad way. I don’t know that I could do it every day or in any house, but in the right environment I dig the Mad Men cocktail party vibe.
Me too. I don’t have a Mid-Century Modern house but I would love to own one. We were just in Palm Springs marveling at some of the designs.
Thank you for clarifying that.
Gibberish.
here’s how
Everything will cost too much and we will wallow in poverty.
If he wants to run his company that way and can find customers, fine. But I suspect he’s looking for a handout.
Running into an article about US supreme court cases I learned that there is a Romanian guy having something to do with trademarks in the US government. the rest of the details are fuzzy.
Is that the case where SCOTUS decided that someone could trademark the acronym for Failed Under Continuous Test even though there is a law that clearly says not to?
Seems like the law was an abridgment of free speech.
An obscenity-adjacent brand name for clothing in not part of “writings and discoveries” for which granting a trademark “promote[s] the progress of science and useful arts.” The lack of a trademark is not an injunction against putting that “speech” on shirts, shoes, or whatever other apparel they have in mind. A trademark actually restricts other people legally expressing the trademarked speech. So, IMHO, not a case where laws against granting the trademark are unconstitutional. Granting the trademark violates at least two laws. One because it sounds dirty. The other because the acronym has been around since before the plaintiffs learned to read and write. However, now that they will be putting that on their clothing, are they engaged in false advertising if the clothing was not tested and the clothing did not fail? Yes, this analysis assumes that IP should be a thing.
Lamest. HumblePlug. Ever.
humbleplug?
Like a humblebrag but more promotional in nature.
“The legacy of Karl Marx’s ideas and how they’re relevant to the current political climate:”
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1142999562031915008
“Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar
The communist scholar’s ideas are more prevalent than you might realize.
You may have come across communist memes on social media. The man, the meme, the legend behind this trend is Karl Marx, who developed the theory of communism, which advocates for workers’ control over their labor (instead of their bosses). The political philosopher turned 200-years-old on May 5, but his ideas can still teach us about the past and present.
The famed German co-authored The Communist Manifesto with fellow scholar Friedrich Engels in 1848, a piece of writing that makes the case for the political theory of socialism — where the community (rather than rich people) have ownership and control over their labor — which later inspired millions of people to resist oppressive political leaders and spark political revolutions all over the world. Although Marx was raised in a middle-class family, he later became a scholar who struggled to make ends meet — a working-class man, he thought, who could take part in a political revolution.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-is-karl-marx
I have an idea for getting more use out of Marine One.
>>famed German
You know who else was a famed German…
Hugo Boss?
Famous for some clothing for the German government, maybe? If so, when was that? And something about him attending or joining a party somewhere in 1931?
Ferdinand Porsche?
Falco?
Sorry; Falco was Austrian.
You know who else people mistook for being born in Germany?
Heidi Klum? Or is she really German?
Jawohl.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Wehner Von Braun?
Greg Germann?
How long until “mainstream” outlets (and not just psycho Twitter tankies) start rehabilitating Stalin?
“Will?” Aren’t you the optimist? https://barnesreview.org/pro-stalin-revisionism/
I like how they also present a critical view.
They also covered what capitalism is
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-capitalism-is
it is basically the rich not the people control things
Mythical Libertarian Woman’s Teen Vogue cover Photoshop: not a parody anymore.
Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar
“Scholar”…
which advocates for workers’ control over their labor (instead of their bosses)
You are in control of your labor so long as you are not being held at gunpoint (or some type of threat of violence). In a market, you contract that labor for a wage.
Looking at the DNC presnit candidates, I can’t disagree with this part. They are indeed “prevalent”.
Take Babak Tondre, who cofounded the design-build cooperative Dig Cooperative in Oakland, California in 2003, with his co-owners, who felt that the construction industry model of a sole proprietor or corporate partnership “wasn’t offering a fair and equitable workplace for profit-sharing and decision-making by people in the field who may otherwise be more invested if they were able to have an opinion, or a place to express their ideas or ways of problem-solving or cutting costs in the field.”
No, you take him. Take him out to sea and drop him out of a whirlybird.
Titty Tuesday kicks off South of the Border style.
http://archive.li/7NQgv
9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 29, 32, 43. Buenas chicas, Q. Yo quiero las tetas grandes.
My Husband Says I’m Withholding Sex
He hasn’t bathed in two weeks.
He thought being dirty turned the chicks on..,
Doesn’t say their age, but sounds like the first signs of late-onset schizophrenia.
Probably so…
”late-onset schizophrenia.” is not age determinant, can be recognized in retrospect by what passed for quirky behavior until it becomes blatant.
Yerp
I don’t know how people can stand not washing for extended periods of time. I assume it is different if you are used to it
This is why I have zero interest in camping.
STEVE SMITH NOT MIND DIRTY HIKERS
You don’t like a vacation where you work harder than when you are at home?
Baby wipes. Piece of cake.
I’ve washed up with baby wipes, but how do you wash up with a piece of cake. Just sounds like it would get frosting stuck on your balls hair.
Same, I feel gross if I haven’t even showered in the day.
That’s why I dislike camping.
Most of the campsites I’ve been to had at least some showers, I guess it’s probably just a Florida thing.
There are people here who’ll tell you that any place that has showers isn’t camping.
Glamping?
I used to do what is sometimes referred to as “primitive” camping. There’s a place in western Maryland that’s great for it. You basically just swing by a ranger cabin, drop off a $20, and sign your name next to the spot you want. When I say “spot”, what I mean is a picnic table in the woods with about 1/4 mile between you and the next one. There’s a bathroom at the ranger place when it’s open, which is about a ten minute drive, so mostly it’s about cat holes. It was great when I was in my 20s and early 30s and wanted to go out in the woods with my boys, get absolutely shitfaced, and blow a weekend running around in the mountains. I’d handle my biz in the woods with a spade, but others would save it up for a mid-morning trip to the Burger King about a half hour down the highway. Being all straight men, none of us especially cared how we smelled. THAT was camping.
Last year I went to my first KOA, at Harper’s Ferry. Took the whole family, met up with friends who also have a kid. Both of us had campers. The KOA bathrooms were the nicest I’d ever seen outside of a hotel. There was a store–almost a small shopping center–with everything we could possibly want, including booze. Somewhat foolishly we brought food to cook, which we mostly did in the camper on the stove. I say foolishly because there was a decent sports bar / restaurant about half a mile down a well-worn path. THAT was not camping. THAT wasn’t even sleeping outside. It was, however, way, way, way more comfortable and a hell of a lot easier with kids.
We’re doing our first “camping” trip with toddler trshmnstr next month. Wife and I used to tent camp on occasion, but we want to go easy with the daughter the first time. We are staying in a lodge in Shenandoah with AC and a TV. Not what id call roughing it, but it’s nature adjacent and it’ll be her first overnight trip not to family’s houses. We have plenty of time to ease her into tent camping.
The in-laws do an annual week-long trip to Rocky Gap where we all pretty much take over a loop of the campground in mid-November. A few people have campers, one or two might set up a tent, but there’s a sizable contingent who rent cabins. We did that once we had our daughter, and it’s worked out well. No AC or anything, just a bedroom-sized wooden cabin with wood cots, electrical outlets, and a little porch, but it was a good midway point between a tent and a camper or the local hotel where the older family usually stays. Nothing to set up, has a roof, and very cozy with a plug-in heater.
He sees a doctor regularly and is treated for mild anxiety, but nothing seems to get through to him about this.
Is he bathing right before the doctor?
Say you have a shower sex fetish?
…
You know I think he’s on to something there, You’re NOT attracted to him at the moment. Problem for him is you have very good reasons for that and those reasons are easily correctable on his part.
“Chicago Police enter Jussie Smollett’s home after report of racist and homophobic attack on Jan. 29. He’s still wearing a long white rope around his neck.”
https://twitter.com/MeganHickeyTV/status/1143281064913375232
What a total ass clown.
I love that they released the video.
He kept the rope on for that long? Maybe he just has some weird sexual fetish that he didn’t want anyone to know about. So he made up the MAGA Country attack.
The real reason the U.S. women’s soccer team isn’t getting equal pay
In sports, men still dominate the governing bodies
Are you sure it doesn’t have anything to do with being consistantly less popular among spectators?
Is the revenue higher over a say 5 year cycle? Because they based it once on one year where there was a women world cup and not a men world cup. This is what matters, not titles or medals.
Ding ding ding. They cherry picked the timeframe.
The USMNT suck, but did make the final 16 in the WCs prior to not qualifying. That means big money.
They did not qualify last year and of course the women always qualify because the competition is vastly different. I would actually think the US women might outearn the men in both 2018 and 2019. I don’t think we even have the full data on 2017.
Their proof is behind a WSJ paywall but what I saw was “three years after they won the Lady Cup in 2015”. I remember them relentlessly touring the nation with friendlies. So sure, it’s possible that they played way more matches.
They are a better team, but I get why they’re not paid the same.
What about woman’s volleyball vs men’s volleyball?
The salaries of male vs female competitive poledancers should be factored in as well.
Does the men’s team get beat by U-15 girls?
men still dominate the governing bodies
Particularly the “governing body” called the market that involves being enough to entertaining to get butts in seats and sell merchandise.
You want inequality? Poor WNBA players get stuck flying commercial and spend 24 hours getting from Seattle to Indianna
The guy decrying the inequality between how the WNBA and NBA travels let these two nuggets slip into his rant:
1) The NBA didn’t fly charter either for the first 3 decades of its existence and the WNBA is still in its second decade.
2) The WNBA’s own rules require teams to fly commercial to prevent some teams with money to have an advantage over poorer teams.
The NYT had a surprisingly good article on this a few years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/sports/soccer/usmnt-uswnt-soccer-equal-pay.html
“GOOGLE EXEC: “We got called in front of Congress multiple times, so we’ve not shown up because we know that they’re just going to attack us. We’re not going to change our, we’re not going to change our mind.” #GoogleExposed”
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1143143459009769473
“The new @Project_Veritas video discusses how Google is throttling the views of conservative content creators. This isn’t news to people like me, @RubinReport, & @prageru. We’ve been saying this for months. (THREAD)”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1143187914538569735
Can they sway 2020?
That’s their goal.
Very doubtful. The D candidates are all crazy shitbirds and Trump is doing fine. This hasn’t escaped the notice of most people.
“So Gizmodo broke the news Facebook suppressed conservative news. Jack Dorsey said conservatives at Twitter are scared to speak up Google employee candidly talks about influencing US elections to prevent “Trump Situation” Media still acting like its a conspiracy theory”
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1143323842707898369
For someone who is supposedly on the left, Tim is really all over their nonsense.
Removed from YouTube:
“Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/re9Xp6cdkro/
is that a reliable source>?
“To pay for this trip, he says he mortgaged his land,”
Rough.
Bur he paid to get to the U.S. border and then apply for asylum or is the deal he gains illegal entry?
Always get trip insurance?
Smugglers Insurance! Better than GEICO!
/Iguana gives thumbs up.
The ads write themselves.
I larfed
“President Trump signed an executive order Monday on price transparency in health care that aims to lower rising health care costs by showing prices to patients. The idea is that if people can shop around, market forces may drive down costs.”
“Market Forces” is a term of art for “people making choices”. Referring to market forces as if they are some exogenous “force” that acts on people the way gravity acts on your body just muddies your thinking.
You know when you were a kid and you were playing with friends, and you wanted to play army with plastic soldiers and your friend wanted to play with Transformers, so you agreed to exchange fifteen minutes of Transformers for twenty minutes of army? That was a market. Remember when you played dodgeball and people got picked for teams? That was a market.
I try not to…
*tears well up*
Does being the only one left not on a team count as being picked?
Remember Halloween, when your friends got candy and you got a rock?
And that is what we refer to as the “protection” market.
From my time in the healthcare industry. “List” price versus “in-network” versus Medicare / Medicaid prices is a huge issue that in no-way can be unwound by a single Executive Order. (Sat through many meetings with Corporate Compliance and Legal on the topic)
And out of pocket is even worse, and can’t be accurately calculated until after the fact.
What bugs me is that the out of pocket doesn’t count towards my deductible. My daughter is on Accutane. If we run through insurance, it’s like $400/month. If I just pay out of pocket, it’s $195. We have a high deductible plan, so it doesn’t make sense to try to hit the cap for the length of time she’ll be taking the medicine.
Capitalism is two things. Property ownership and freedom of choice. Both are detestable to progressives.
Media companies liable for Facebook comments made by others, court finds
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/media-companies-liable-for-facebook-comments-made-by-others-court-finds-20190624-p520rf.html
Straya be cray cray but at least hey banned evil guns.
Doom. Dystopia.
Facebook, one of the world’s most distrusted companies, wants us to trust its new Libra cryptocurrency, which, it hopes, will be used by billions of people around the world. We shouldn’t. Libra will almost exactly replicate all the problems generated by Facebook’s social network. Those problems can in turn be traced to the central paradox of Big Tech: The technological innovation that is supposed to liberate us from government ends up subjugating us to a handful of corporations.
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In the name of eliminating inefficiency and injustice in the financial system around the globe, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency threatens to replay what’s become a familiar story—of tech companies blithely reshaping the world around them, and vastly increasing their power over people’s lives, while being accountable to no one.
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But how the Libra Association will use its power is anyone’s guess. The white paper is long on happy talk and short on details. The point is that, along a plausible future path, it will gain immense power, and it’s not beholden to the public, unlike the central banks that manage national currencies. For all the glitzy futurism of cryptocurrencies, Libra is a step backwards in social and political terms, the way bitcoin tried to throw us back into the age of the gold standard. Until central banks were created in the 19th and early 20th centuries, dead-tree versions of the Libra Association were plentiful. They included family dynasties like the Medicis and the Rothschilds, and massive private banks. Driven by profit and able to operate across national borders, they accumulated massive political power without feeling loyalty to any particular nation—until governments finally reined them in.
Teh kkkorporate kkkleptocratz are kkkoming to kkkill us!
Wonder Marx will save the day!
I wonder what will happen to one’s Libra wallet when he gets axed from FB for wrongthink. That consideration, along with FB’s dismal privacy reputation, will hopefully leave their currency endeavor dead in the water.
and it’s not beholden to the public, unlike the central banks that manage national currencies
How’s that Federal Reserve audit coming along?
The gold standard and the Federal Reserve coexisted for 57 years. If the “age of the gold standard” is so bad, the author never bothers to explain why.
The Gold standard only works in a relatively stable economy with little productivity growth.
The whole point of a gold standard is that you have a fixed supply of money which provides a stable value of the money. In general this requires that your supplies of gold grow in line with your population growth but if you have rapid productivity growth in addition to population growth then what you have is a growing demand for goods and services with a static money supply resulting in a deflationary economy
Aaaargh! Question for morning computer Gods. My Wi-Fi keeps cutting out on my laptop and as far as I can tell “Wi-Fi doesn’t have a valid IP configuration”. Every other device in the house works fine. I’m fucking lost. Advice, please?
Windows-based laptop? Go to “Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections”, right-click your WiFi connection, then pick Properties. With the Networking tab selected, click on Internet Protocol Version 4 and then Properties. Check that both options are set to automatically obtain an address.
Thanks, Nappy!
No prob, it’s worth a shot. If that doesn’t work, you could try what Neph says and restart the router. Maybe restart the laptop first, though, like shut it down completely and then turn it back on.
Done all of that. This is where my generation falls flat. I can rebuild your carb but you have to help Grandpa with his compooter woes.
Whelp, tried Naptown’s advice. We shall see…
If that doesn’t bring it back, any further troubleshooting would require logging into the router and checking the configuration there. It could be a couple of things (or it could just be that the router is slowly failing).
Thermostat? Did you check it?
Jiggled the handle, moved the rabbit ears and even picked it up and shook it like a collicky baby.
As trite as it is, have you tried turning the router off, leaving it off for ~5 minutes, and turning it back on again?
Have you tried a sledgehammer?
See above.
Your laptop accidentally trying to log in to your neighbor’s account?
Whelp, that didn’t work. Hardware it is.
Try a hard reset on the router. Or just buy a new one. Pretty inexpensive these days.
BY HARD RESET, STEVE SMITH MEAN…
Also check that your system clock hasn’t drifted too much.. the DHCP lease is time based. (or that the router has a bad time)
“Looks like frost but it’s Spider season In Australia”
https://twitter.com/TP_Pillay/status/1142790461997953024
Snake season!
That looks like an excellent way to be rid of mosquitoes.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver suggests league will move away from using term “owner”
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the NBA will look to move away from the use of the term “owner” to describe those with controlling interest of teams in favor of terms like “Governor of the team,” “alternate Governor,” or even “Chairman.”
CBS Sports reports the change was made due to concerns that the term “owner” can be viewed as racially insensitive in a league where the vast majority of players are African American and the majority of those with ownership stakes are Caucasian. While the league itself stopped using the term years ago, individual teams are now starting to follow suit; something Silver talked about with TMZ Sports.
“I don’t want to overreact to the term because, as I said earlier, people end up twisting themselves into knots avoiding the use of the word ‘owner,'” Silver said, via TMZ Sports. “But we moved away from that term years ago with the league. We call our team owners ‘Governors’ of the team and ‘alternate Governors.’ So I think it makes sense. As I said, I don’t want to overreact … but I’m sensitive to it and I think to the extent that teams are moving away from the term, we’ll stick with using governor.”
I would love to be owned on a 5 year 100 mil contract. Hell even a 5 year veteran minimum
How could I possibly roll my eyes more?
If they also said it with a British accent?
So we can elect NBA owners now?
This is soooo stupid.
Another reason to not watch the Wokeba.
I’ve moved very far away from using the term “NBA-fan” when referring to myself.
It’s not “owner”. It’s (((owner))).
Years ago I remember a meeting where we were discussing how to set up a mesh network for IoT devices in a building and a young programmer piped up and said he thought that we shouldn’t refer to slaves and masters when talking about the nodes in the network because it could be offensive to some.
A crusty engineer told the kid to “shut the fuck up with that nonsense” (actual quote) and we all got back to work. The kid didn’t last much longer at the company after that.
Fuck, there were a couple of articles complaining about that in hard drives (back when they were on ribbon cables), that were roundly called out as idiotic back in the day. I seem to remember some kerfuffle about mother- and daughterboards as well.
Why not “Master”?
I think that’s spelled Massa.
I’m sure all the Hatian players in the league will have no historical reason to associate the word “govenor” with slave relationships…
The team is a business. People can’t “own” a business?
Not in socialist NBA, no.
Puerto Ricans are technically American citizens.
Yeah, those blue pills taste good, don’t they? You make me sick.
Satire gets harder and harder everyday.
“AMERICA’S LEAST RELIABLE NEWS SOURCE”
Outside of CNN.
For all of the Spanish speaking Glibs, how would one use “la chingada” in a sentence?
“La chingada is Spanish.”
Got a legit LOL with that one.
¿Donde está la chingada?
It’s wikipedia so take it with a bit of sal.
Sal is Italian, not Mexican, so I don’t think he’ll be much help.
Sal de mi cesped!
As an expletive of course
“¡AYE CHINGADA!” El hombre viejo con dulce se gritò. La policia le robo su camioneta..
Which of course means, “FUCK!” The Old Man with Candy shouted. The cops impounded his van.
This is why I enjoy this place so much.
Spanish is a terrific language for profanity.
I was always using “Chingadera” as my expletive of choice in the office because very few of the English speakers would be offended and none of the Japanese speakers (90%+) in the office would have any idea what it meant. Then one day I was in a new job sharing space with a dude from Spain…
That’s awesome.
The Japanese language doesn’t the profanity that English does.
Japanese language has no profanity whatsoever. The worst thing you can call somebody is “Baka” (fool) – or the Western Japan equivalent “Aho”.
The most common expletives are “Kuso” (excrement) and “Chikusho” (beast).
And all of these are so bland – even in Japanese – that they only might be bleeped out of broadcast media because they are not so much offensive as low class.
Spanish has great swear words like “Cabron” (literally “goat” but the meaning is “cuckold”) and “Pendejo” (“pubic hair” – which doesn’t translate with proper nuance).
Doesn’t that just mean that Japan doesn’t have as many idiotic language police?
I also like the incredibly mild “shimatta”.
Literally, the past plain form of “to do” so “it was done”. Used in English the way would say “darn” or “drat” or something equally as child safe.
Although it seems “fuck” has migrated into use among some young Japanese.
I thought there were all sorts of rude words, like “manko.” But maybe you mean they don’t get used as emphasis markers as in English?
That’s correct. It does have “bad” words or impolite words.
But, for example, you can’t call somebody a manko. OTH, you could be insulting by saying you can smell it from across the room.
But it’s not profanity in the English sense.
“Chingada” basically means “fuck”. It’s used idiomatically, so word per word translations don’t work. So you would need to look up Mexican phrases.
!Ay, que chingada hue! No mames cabron.
(Don’t have the upside down !)
New Theory Suggests We Live In A Gigantic Higher Dimensional Black Hole
0kay
Enough with the Michelle Obama stories!
It’s like they are playing a big game of “what if” while getting paid.
Also, are they drug testing at the university of Waterloo?
It’s black holes all the way down.
1. No.
2. Lower dimension, not higher
3. Event horizon, not black hole
4. For the math to work, the event horizon would have to be infinitely far away.
I could get high and spout bullshit all day as well.
Save it for tomorrow.
The general concept is not really new at all.
There have been theories that our entire universe was a quantum fluctuation within some larger cosmology since at least the 60’s.
Thing is it really isn’t a useful theory unless it has flasifiable premises, all of the earlier versions of this amounted to nothing more than alternate ways to describe all the same physical phenomenon we already knew about.
Neither side is backing down in the Muslim vs LGBT kerfuffle in St. Paul.
The Somali immigrant who is a council member says that the LGBT folks need to back off a bit and be more understanding of Muslims. The LGBT folks want an apology and a resignation.
An enterprising reporter should ask Busuri to unequivocally condemn the murder of gay people in Islamic countries. I’d be interested to see how he’d answer. A sane politician would have no problem saying that, but I’m not sure our new Somali citizens have grasped that yet.
They aren’t supposed to notice how much they hate each other until normal whities are truly gone.
“As Allah as my witness, I thought homos could fly.”
Insert fairy joke.
Moderate versus Radical Muslims.
*snort* . That is pretty good.
LOL, Tundra wins the internet today.
With a sense of humor like that, maybe you can get a date with Bailey Quarters.
GRIEVANCE CLASS CAGE MATCH!
Two groups go in, only one comes out!!!111!!!
Is there a functioning alternative? Probably fewer pesky gays there.
“condemning someone for past comments is not the answer.”
Has he met the modern left?
They need to step into the Intersectionality Octagon to determine a winner.
“President Trump signed an executive order Monday on price transparency in health care that aims to lower rising health care costs by showing prices to patients. The idea is that if people can shop around, market forces may drive down costs.”
When I was in Indianapolis I saw a billboard advertising a place where you can get an MRI for something like 300 bucks.
More like this, plz.
Minnesota glibs — why can I not play no limit texas hold ’em in your lovely state? I was hoping to kill a few hours while my girlfriend was working this weekend, only to find out that Mystic Lake and other Minnesota casinos cannot offer no-limit cash games. Something to do with capping individual bets or some such nonsense.
On another note, I may be swelling your ranks within the next month-and-a-half. I’ve been interviewing at various places and am hoping to land something soon. That gives would increase Minnesota’s libertarian presence to what, a whole five people? I think that qualifies as a Libertarian Moment(tm).
Gambling is bad. Good people don’t gamble. Don’t pay any attention to all those packed parking lots at our local casinos.
Besides you should be playing electronic pull tabs in a local bar to help pay for the Vikings stadium.
If you moved here, you would be #6? We keep trying to get Enough About Palin to show up to a meetup, but he keeps demonstrating good sense and blows us off.
We would be near Free State levels.
Welcome! I have no idea on the cards, but until recently we couldn’t buy booze on Sundays.
As far as the number of Glibs, we have me, the Pope, Leap, Fourscore, EAP, Stillhunter, Pistoffnick, Hayeksplosives (honorary) and I few I’m not sure made it over from TOS – who am I missing?
Any idea where you might be living?
The correct answer is on the west side of the river. Only poofters and muslims live east of the river.
And you can’t live in Maple Grove. That is where Tundra and I live and it is already way too crowded for our tastes.
Nevermind those degens from downstate. You want to live up north where there aren’t turds floating in the rivers, where it doesn’t take you 25 minutes to drive 12 miles to the office, where you can see the northern lights at night.
I hear Duluth is nice. Hell I commuted from Duluth to Minneapolis for a year (wouldn’t want to do it again…)
Not quite sure. My girlfriend is in St Paul, but most of the positions I’ve been interviewing for are out west, and commuting from St Paul to, say, Eden Prairie on a regular basis looks a bit long. St Louis Park, possible? I am basically looking for a halfway point between St Paul and wherever I’ll be working. Perhaps I’ll move into the St Paul mayor’s rental unit and clean up the place a bit.
Pro tip: Try not to cross a river for your commute. Bad news.
SLP is really nice and a good location.
minnetundra AT the evil Ones if I can be of any help.
That’s a good tip as Minnesota bridges have a bad habit of falling down.
Working in Manhattan I’m nodding vigorously.
Thanks Tundra. I’ll keep that in mind.
SLP is a nice place, but right now there is construction on two major east/west roads that has made that place a hell hole (I have a drinking buddy that lives down there and visiting him is horrid)
I would have said that the other problem with SLP is that if your GF is halfways intelligent she will catch on that you are setting her up for a shit commute. Then I thought for a bit and realized you were OK because if she was halfway intelligent, she wouldn’t be dating you.
BTW, where are you moving from?
Wisconsin.
//ducks
I’m actually a native Illinois Man, but I’ve been in Milwaukee for the past ten+ years.
Leap – at this point in my life, I am very much over living in the city. I want to be able to find a parking spot outside without having to circle the block four times. I do like living close to the city. I’ll most likely do an apartment for another year while continuing to build up cash for a down payment on a house.
In that case, SLP is a good place to look. If you are up north a bit, Fridley and Coon Rapids might fit the bill.
Fake news! Milwaukee doesn’t count.
neat. Are you raising a family, or are you a bachelor? Do you like house or appartment life?
“As far as the number of Glibs, we have me, the Pope, Leap, Fourscore, EAP, Stillhunter, Pistoffnick, Hayeksplosives (honorary) ”
“You know, if one Glib, just one Glib, does it, they may think he’s
Really sick and they won’t take him
And if two Glibs do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and
They won’t take either of them
And if three Glibs do it! Can you imagine three Glibs walkin’ in, singin’
“Fuck Off, Slaver” and walkin’ out? They may think it’s an
Organization!
And can you imagine fifty Glibs a day? I said FIFTY Glibs a day
Walkin’ in, singin’ a bar of “Fuck Off, Slaver” and walkin’ out? Friends
They may think it’s a Movement, and that’s what it is “
*thumps chest*
Group W represent!
“”Whatever the anti-abortion crusaders call themselves, they don’t care what happens to an unwanted child–not after the child is born–and they’ve never cared about the mother.” Powerful words from author John Irving @nytimes”
https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1143134749055180806
She’s getting roasted in the comments.
Anyway, why are so many of the worst people on Twitter asian doctors?
WARNING ******** WARNING
Do not click off that tweet to see her banner.
Most charities in the US are run by Christian churches. The Catholic Church, alone, is the largest donor to the pro-life movement and runs the largest social safety net in the world. How many soup kitchens and shelters does Planned Parenthood run?
…or adoption agencies.
….or hospitals in remote areas of the country
Tangentially related: I was watching the original cheaper by the dozen last night with the wife last night. The scene with the planned parenthood shrew cracked me up.
Anyway, why are so many of the worst people on Twitter
asian doctors?FIFY.
Because it provides a critical mass of stupid and evil. In most people’s lives, the genuinely stupid and evil represent a relatively modest portion of the people anyone may encounter. And for good reason. Stupid and evil, in real life, is subject to sanction, either ostracization or even a punch in the mouth. But, there is enough stupid and evil on Twitter that decent people eventually recoil. This only reinforces Twitter as a “safe space” for the genuinely stupid and evil.
Why do so many people hate life? It’s as though living with anything short of a cradle-to-grave welfare state is an unthinkably horrid existence.
A crusty engineer told the kid to “shut the fuck up with that nonsense” (actual quote) and we all got back to work. The kid didn’t last much longer at the company after that.
Baby boomers are the worst, dude. So mean. So un-woke.
Same engineer once told another youngster who was complaining that his kid was teething and crying all the time to just “put some whiskey on your finger and rub their gums. Numbs them and puts the kid to sleep.”
“smugglers lost $3,6m last weekend alone, when the National Guard found 791 migrants being transported in trucks.”
Pretty sure they get paid in advance and didn’t lose a nickel.
That’s actually very clear from the article but the shipdit who wrote it doesn’t have either the understanding or command of English to make that clear.
Sorry too busy to read all the comments to see if this has already been covered, but Trump amuses me more and more with his mega-trolling.
The first point he makes about the recent rape accusation is that “she isn’t my type”? The second point was that it didn’t happen. That is fantastic trolling. I can hear the teeth grinding on several proggie gals I know.
The other day I heard that the Dominican Republic deaths are a case of mass hysteria. I did a quick search and found a few articles stating that the number of tourist deaths in the DR this year are about what they are in any other year (comparing from January – June). I will reserve judgement on this, but it is definitely possible this is just another case of the media blowing things our of proportion.
The first things I wonder when I saw these being reported is a) what is the number of Americans who visited there during that period, and b) what would be the normal death rate for that number of people (in the same age range). Without that you don’t know if 9 is or isn’t a lot.
2.7 million Americans travel to the DR per year. I think this is mostly mass hysteria, but I could absolutely believe that at least a couple were poisoned. They are also stringing together things that are not related. A guy getting jumped after winning a bunch of money at a casino and a woman getting attacked late nite at a resort are not related to people getting sick and dying.
+1 summer of Atlantic shark attack media hysteria
I’m too lazy to go look up what year it was, but I remember the summer where they kept talking up shark attacks. By the end of the year, the numbers were pretty much what they were every other year.
That was the summer of 2001. The hype was out of control until 9/11 provided something else to focus on for a while.
City and State decide to paint stuff for golf tournament.
Two weeks later he’ll get a notice that he’s broken some ordinance about not having the address numbers visible with a $200 fine.
You missed your calling – clearly you should be working in municipal code enforcement.
There’s a green new deal for ya’.
Aaaargh! Question for morning computer Gods. My Wi-Fi keeps cutting out on my laptop and as far as I can tell “Wi-Fi doesn’t have a valid IP configuration”. Every other device in the house works fine. I’m fucking lost. Advice, please?
Can you take it to the library or some other place with accessible wifi and see if the problem persists? Maybe you can determine whether it’s the computer or your router.
Nobody likes Santana? Fine next time you assholes get Paramore.
You’ll end up in the dock at The Hague for that.
Sorry, I was going to post that I love that tune and the CD it came from. Then I got lost in the comments.
I used to like them just fine but having listened to what is now called classic rock for 50 years I wore out on the whole genre.
OK. I usually don’t click much of anything but I went back for that one. Now it’s one my “download list” for next time I buy some tunes. Gracias.
Santana is fine is you ignore any song over 7 minutes long, no one needs to listen to the same groove/riff for 30 or 40 straight minutes.
I see the Jaws-a-thon is back on today. We won’t see OMWC around today.
What’s his problem with Ron Jaworski?
I am just pulling his leg. I can never think of the movie anymore without thinking ‘giant rubber fish’.
OMWC finally getting it through his thick head that Jaws is awesome!
Wow, that guy is gonna need a clean wet suit!
NYT, on the case
Both Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren, who is sponsoring a separate bill, have proposed making all undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities free. That would reduce the need for borrowing. But it would not eliminate future student debt — not even close.
That’s because most student loan debt isn’t taken out to attend undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities. Most loans are used for private colleges, for-profit colleges and, most of all, graduate school.
Nationalize all those private schools, and redistribute their endowments. From each, according to his ability, to the Ministry of Truth.
Duh.
That’s because most student loan debt isn’t taken out to attend undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities.
So, the whole student loan “crisis” is a problem easily avoided at the discretion of its ostensible victims. In other words, it’s not a crisis.
I wonder if apolitical people in the country realize how absolutely immoral it is to take money from plumbers and service workers and give it to others who are expected to earn more over their lifetime than the non-collegiate taxpayer who paid for their tuition? I fail to see how this is any different from the bank bailouts.
banks can sometimes provided a useful service while the education these people received will be a detriment to society on a full time basis.
Colleges are worst than banks. Agreed
Resident Electrician agrees. I have an associates degree I paid for without ever going into debt and I earn every penny the hard way in the Florida heat. I’d like any of these screeching limp wrists to try doing my job for an hour, let alone a day.
I went to a local branch of Purdue, so I never took out loans. Mrs. TOK went to Indiana University, and did have loans. It took us a while to pay them off, but I think the payments were something like $100 per month. Inconvenient but really doable for anyone with a job.
I really wanted to keep an open mind about the people with all that debt, but it looks like the anecdotes really do tell the story. People are in major debt because they went to fancy schools for fancy degrees that don’t translate to well paying jobs. Unless we fix that problem, we’ll be talking about forgiving debt every few years.
I think we are on the cusp of the failure of big universities. All their woke crap is turning off a lot of people, there is cheating and bribery to get in, their tuition is causing people to get into debt over their heads, and the alternatives (trade school and community college, for example) are gaining steam. Sure, the “elite” will keep sending their kids there, but otherwise the big universities are heading into rough waters.
All their woke crap is turning off a lot of people, there is cheating and bribery to get in, their tuition is causing people to get into debt over their heads, and the alternatives (trade school and community college, for example) are gaining steam.
The biggest challenge is the ability of the university system to maintain a stranglehold on gatekeeping for entry-level, career-track roles for white collar jobs, management and the professions. If an alternative means of credentialing (and that’s mostly what their role is) were developed, the universities would be in for a massive consolidation.
1000% correct.
And American companies will outsource those same jobs to people/suppliers outside the U.S. with no concern whatsoever about this credentialing. The whole thing is a sham currently being preserved mostly by intertia.
“I think we are on the cusp of the failure of big universities. ”
Never. Big University is protected by government.
Small Liberal Arts College is going to see the collapse.
When the youngest and I were doing college visits one of the engineering profs told a group of parents that no one with an engineering degree should ever pay for their post grad studies. He said there plenty of companies who would pay for their post grad in the hopes they would work for them.
Yeah, if you are paying a shit ton of money to get a masters or phd in something like English, History or some grievance study you are an absolute fool.
My plan for my kids schooling, if they so choose.
Get a two year degree. Then get a job at a business that will pay for schooling to continue to a four year if so desired.
You will most likely spend more time getting a degree but you’ll have work experience and little-to-no debt.
The first time I ever heard of anyone doing that was my old boss in Pensacola. Both of his kids had gone to Pensacola Junior College first and then transferred to UF – “they have the same degree as the rest of em but paid half as much for it.” Wish I had thought of that!
Heck, almost 40 years ago having good grades in engineering as an undergrad snagged me a nice scholarship – enough to cover tuition and books at the time. Had I wanted to go for my MS (after my GI bill ran out – which is what I was living on) I was assured that there would be sources for funding.
I mean, it’s totally worked for pre-college education. They are a model of fiscal responsibility that colleges would do well to emulate.
Will those later debts be forgiven, too? If not, the plan would create a generation of student loan lottery winners, with losers on either side. People who had already paid back their loans would get nothing. People with future loans would get nothing. People with debt on the day the legislation was enacted would be rewarded.
If, on the other hand, the legislation creates an implicit promise that all kinds of future student debt will also be forgiven, it could have unintended consequences.
Man, these guys are smart. You get anything past them.
can’t
Although the nation’s $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan balance is shocking in the aggregate, it’s composed of many different kinds of borrowers and many different academic programs. The Sanders and Warren plans illustrate the difficulty of moving from big-picture numbers and slogans to the nuts and bolts of federal policy.
Whoa, dude. That’s deep.
BTW, did any of you watch the interviews of the woman accusing Trump? Holy shit, what a lunatic. They actually are trying to promote this woman as credible?
Shocking, isn’t it?
This woman makes Doctor Ford look quite credible in comparison.
Nothing is over the top when it comes to taking out BadOrangeMan. This nonsense isn’t nearly as bad as how they behaved during the Kavenaugh confirmation.
The proper noun is Orange Man Bad. As in “We must stop Orange Man Bad!”
Correct grammar kills the joke, Suthen.
They actually are trying to promote this woman as credible?
I saw a bit. She is looney-tunes. Of course they are still going to promote it because, dammit, Orange Man Bad.
“You were really worried about 150 people? How many people have you killed with a nuclear weapon? How many generations have you wiped out with these weapons?” — Iran foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
Are nukes what President Donald J. Trump used when he was “in the middle of Fifth Avenue?”
Do we still have Voice of America radio stations? Trump should be pumping all sorts of stories about how he backed down because he didn’t want to kill 150 people who were unlucky enough to be posted at radar installations. And contrasted with statements like this from the mullahs. Then asking the young people in Iran if they really want to be led by people who don’t give a shit about them.
I have an Iranian neighbor who tells me that there are gobs of disaffected young people in Persia (he always uses that term because he thinks Islam screwed up Persia and turned it into Iran) who actually would like the US as long as we don’t fuck up and kill a bunch of them.
No idea if the neighbor is a crackpot or knows what he’s talking about.
“who actually would like the US as long as we don’t fuck up and kill a bunch of them.”
It’s so hard for us to do that. Every time there’s something bad there are always voices demanding that “something must be done”. When the Soviets occupied Eastern Europe we never waged a war to “liberate them”, because that would have escalated into a massive world war. And now the Eastern Europeans largely love America. All we had to do was allow the flawed Soviet system to collapse under its own weight.
And now the Eastern Europeans largely love America.
While we have generations of nitwits who relish the thought of a Soviet United States.
I’m not so sure about that. I’m about to go visit the in-laws in Eastern Europe and probably will get an earful about how bad America is.
We won’t do that messaging because TOP.MEN know how to do regime change and would never stoop to something so banal.
Isn’t it interesting how VoA doesn’t count as interfering with another countries elections?
That is totes different!
And if I ran VoA, I would put HM in charge of broadcasting as many twerking and rump shaking videos into the Middle East as he could.
Nothing would fuck with fundamentalism in Islam as effectively as a generation of pubescent boys being exposed to the decadence of the West. “I would like more please!”
It’s funny, every Iranian ex-pat or child of an ex-pat uses “Persian” rather than “Iranian”. I’ve heard a few explanations, but what you mentioned seems to be the general idea. I’ve also heard and read that the thing with the “Iranian street” is true, mostly. They go through the motions of burning a US flag and all that crap because of the government and because it’s just kind of the thing you do, but when it comes to actual Americans they’re really positive about American people, the country itself, and American culture. Not that they want to emigrate, per se, they just want to be able to have a friendly relationship with the US and have access to American culture without having to worry about being thrown in prison or disappeared.
Persian is an ethnicity, while Iranian is a nationality. I don’t think many are that interested in associating with the nation once they GTFO.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/cradles-pews-and-the-societal-shifts-coming-to-politics-11561382477?shareToken=st60c6e9afa9d54feeba52be2d1d909de7
“The steady, long-term decline in church attendance is confirmed in the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Just 29% of Americans now say they attend religious services once a week or more often. That is down from 41% in 2000.
At the same time, the share of Americans saying they never attend religious services has risen to 26%, almost double the 14% who said so back in 2000. The rise in churchlessness is most dramatic among young Americans. Among those aged 18 to 34, the rate saying they never attend religious services previously was no different from the national rate; now the share of these younger Americans who never attend religious services has more than doubled, to 36%.”
Take the word “church” out of here and replace it with social clubs and institutions. The Freemasons are dying off and the Elks, Moose, etc. are basically all but dead. Without any physical institutions that provide support (monetarily and emotional) who do you suppose people will turn to for belonging?
If you no longer have private institutions that provide a social safety net (the Freemasons, Elks, Moose, Knights of Columbus, etc. all have programs of financial support for members) the safety net does not disappear. It just returns with a gun pointed at you demanding that you pay-up.
Cable news
This site?
” Without any physical institutions that provide support (monetarily and emotional) who do you suppose people will turn to for belonging?”
The people who needed such belonging were the reason I stayed away from church. Maybe it’s safe to go back now.
The cost of holding migrant children who have been separated from their parents in newly created “tent cities” is $775 per person per night
The reason for the high cost, the official and several former officials told NBC News, is that the sudden urgency to bring in security, air conditioning, medical workers and other government contractors far surpasses the cost for structures that are routinely staffed.
It costs $256 per person per night to hold children in permanent HHS facilities like Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas. And keeping children with their parents in detention centers like the one run by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement in Dilley, Texas cost $298 per resident per night, according to an agency estimate when it awarded the contract for the facility in 2014.
You can stay at a Ritz for less than that.
Shitlord status confirmed!
I wonder how much it really is? That cost seems like someone at HHS put out some contracts and money was no object to shut the bad PR down.
Yeah, but the toddlers rack up absurd min-bar charges.
How about securing the border? It’s so crazy it might work.
ding ding ding
New York bookstore chain imperiled by minimum wage increase, demands city float it an investment or loan guarantee.
Apparently hiring people to stock the shelves and selling books isn’t holistic, is in fact exploitative, if done by Barnes and Noble or Amazon rather than his little chain of shops.
You have a model for successful commerce so simple even Homer gets it—you exchange money for goods and services. Dumping anything else on top of it, let alone a “holistic” mission statement about serving the community, is just blather.
Awwww… So sorry that you’re a dumbass Mr Doeblin
He knows his audience. The people who run this place eat, breathe, and sleep that crap.
Grr… care to fix my stupid long link?
“We do not reject large business, or internet commerce, but we know that we can’t build a future by accepting that businesses simply extract and accumulate,”
Forced to mouth the words.
Take muh munny, oh wise and omnipotent
OzBig Brother!A group of mega-rich Americans have signed an open letter calling for a “patriotic” wealth tax on the wealthiest one percent of the population, arguing that such a “moderate” tax would strengthen “American freedom and democracy.”
The letter, which was signed by billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, Disney heiress Abigail Disney, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and co-founders of the Blue Haven Initiative Liesel Pritzker Simmons and Ian Simmons among others, was first reported and published by The New York Times on Monday. In total, it was signed by 18 individuals representing 11 wealthy families.
“America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more. A wealth tax could help address the climate crisis, improve the economy, improve health outcomes,fairly create opportunity, and strengthen our democratic freedoms. Instituting a wealth tax is in the interest of our republic,” the letter argued.
At the start of the letter, the wealthy Americans state plainly that they support “a moderate wealth tax on the fortunes of the richest 1/10 of the richest 1 percent of Americans,” pointing out that it would include them as well. They addressed their proposal to all 2020 presidential candidates, but specifically pointed to a plan put forward by Democratic 2020 contender Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
They are, of course, prohibited by law from gifting any amount over the absolute minimum obligation calculated by their tax accountants to the government. It’s a goddam tragedy. It’s not fair. They want to do good, but they can’t.
Relying on a narrower subset of taxpayers for an even greater share of the tax burden helps shore up American freedom and democracy how, exactly? Seems like a good way to further destabilize your economy and power structure, like Venezuela did. So how does that help democracy? Especially since it’ll be used to justify greater outlays rather than paying down the national debt. And it’s money channeled through the most inefficient and damaging institution, the federal government, the people responsible for causing or exacerbating every problem in the country. There is nothing the feds touch that isn’t turned to shit. Why would we want them to wield even more power through the public purse?
“a good way to further destabilize your economy and power structure, like Venezuela did.”
That is the whole point of it.
You can look at metrics like education outcomes relative to spending, or the effects of long-term welfarism on communities, the conduct of metaphorical wars on domestic issues or actual wars abroad, and you’d think that would be enough to question the premise of lavishing the feds with even more money. You’d think there’d at least be a pause between “tax the rich” and “help democracy” to wonder how that’s supposed to work, by what mechanism feeding good money after bad into that dumpster fire is going to change the outcome. But I suppose it’s more about punishing the successful than helping anyone when you get down to it. Efficacy doesn’t really matter.
Pikers. Why not 25% Why not 50%
Fucking 1%. Grandstanding assholes with an army of accountants to minimize their tax obligations.*
*I have an accountant for the same reason.
…won’t amount to even a down-payment on the massive schemes the Dems have in mind.
Am I the only one who is completely pissed off by shit like this? How dumb do they think we are?
Like Brooks said, it doesn’t take any Federal Program to send more money to the govt. Just sign the check and send it in.
If I was a journalo, my first question would be “here’s the address to send money to the govt. Can you tell me how much you will be sending in? And I’ll need to see the canceled check before I publish.”
No, you are absolutely not the only one. These people believe (unfortunately, correctly in many cases) that the average person’s reaction to this is “Gee, even these Scrooge McDuck types want to pay higher taxes! It must be a good idea.” rather than wondering why the hell they aren’t writing huge donation checks to the US Treasury already.
It is absolutely an attempt to butter up the middle-class for further reaming.
It’s been done. They evade with shitweaselly nonsense. They have no intention of paying anything and a million excuses why they won’t.
What they want is a revision of the tax code that looks and sounds good to the envious yet has enough loopholes built in that they end up paying zero. Their kind has pulled this shit before. When the max tax on ‘the rich’ was up to…90%?….the revenue brought in by it was, you guessed it, zero dollars.
It’s basic human nature to think that you’re fine, it’s everyone else that has a problem. That’s what’s going on here. The people who signed this think they are honest and trustworthy and charitable. It’s those other greedy bastards from Wall Street who need to be forced to pry open their wallets.
https://youtu.be/gh9dfaSOn5o
I’m sure none of these people employ armies of lawyers and accountants to keep their tax obligation as low as it possibly could be, hypocritical pieces of shit that they are.
Disney heiress Abigail Disney
Bitch, if you didn’t make the money yourself, I don’t want to hear you running your fucking suck about what I should do with my money. Attention statist assholes: the address you’re looking for is right here:
Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Funds Management Branch
P.O. Box 1328
Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328
Get your checkbooks out and then fuck right off.
The similarity in rhetoric between this and the push for income tax 100 years ago is appalling. If this passes, there will be a 25%+ progressive wealth tax system in place within my lifetime.
“The move by Ravelry, a popular knitting site, to ban support of President Trump drew both criticism and applause. But “knitting has always been political,” said the editor of a knitting magazine.”
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1143338057455820801
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Reading the article, it actually uses the term “knitters of color”. Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Unless they’re using white yarn exclusively, everyone who knits is a “knitter of color”, you fucking halfwits.
Why are you even allowed to call them knitters? Sounds too much like…
Knitter, please.
Heh
What these bitches want from a knitter?
Still not the best knitting conflict.
Is a lot of knitting done in Africa? Obviously there is weaving and other fibercrafts, but popular media doesn’t show lot of sweaters, scarves and/or mittens worn there.
Maybe fishing nets?
That’s why I crochet.
I mean, orange man is right.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/25/national/politics-diplomacy/trump-muses-privately-ending-unfair-postwar-u-s-japan-defense-pact/#.XRI34VxKg2w
FTA:
“U.S. President Donald Trump has recently mused to confidants about withdrawing from a long-standing defense treaty with Japan that he thinks treats the United States unfairly, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Trump regards the accord as too one-sided because it promises U.S aid if Japan is ever attacked but doesn’t oblige Japan’s military to come to America’s defense, the people said. The treaty, signed more than 60 years ago, forms the foundation of the alliance between the countries that emerged from World War II.
Even so, the president hasn’t taken any steps toward pulling out of the treaty, and administration officials said such a move is highly unlikely. All of the people asked not to be identified discussing Trump’s private conversations.”
This is like when an Eastern European country was joining NATO a couple of years ago and we saw people virtue signal about how wrong Orange Man was for questioning what benefit we gained by having Macedonia in the alliance. Pretty sure most people thought “why do we have to fight to defend a country that I can’t even identify on a map?”
Macedonia? What about when we were talking about the Baltic states? Sure, let’s let in countries that directly border the country that our alliance is ostensibly about protection from. What could go wrong?
As far as Japan goes, it is crazy that we cannot ever change our alliance because circumstances have changed. I’d say that the politics of the region have changed drastically since 1945.
Only Russian apologists question NATO nowadays, apparently. One of those Russian apologists: former Secretary of State James Backer.
“In early February 1990, U.S. leaders made the Soviets an offer. According to transcripts of meetings in Moscow on Feb. 9, then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation on Germany, U.S. could make “iron-clad guarantees” that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward.” Less than a week later, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to begin reunification talks. No formal deal was struck, but from all the evidence, the quid pro quo was clear: Gorbachev acceded to Germany’s western alignment and the U.S. would limit NATO’s expansion.”
accord as too one-sided because it promises U.S aid if Japan is ever attacked but doesn’t oblige Japan’s military to come to America’s defense
Gee, that wouldn’t have anything to do with neutering the Japanese military at the time into a self defense force and renouncing the right to use military force, would it? Nah, it’s just one sided.
That’s why it’s one-sided. Much like our agreements with Germany and most of Europe.
Yes. I guess what I’m trying to say is the one sidedness was by design by the US. I think it’s outdated and should be updated. Or scrapped. But to blame the other side for that is historically ignorant by the chattering class that just want to do Orange Man bad.
Just heard Dan LeBatard on ESPN about this ‘owner’ thing. I don’t listen to ESPN but from time to time I like Le Batard for the humour. But when he delves into this shit, he’s a tiresome SJW posing as a ‘reasonable voice’. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing coming out of his mouth. Basically, it was ‘why does it matter?’ and ‘what’s it to us white privileged folks what word we use?’ and ‘if it offends, just change it’ and ‘it’s not the same that Draymond Green describes himself as an ‘owner’ since white people were never ‘owned’.
I mean really shallow stuff I can’t believe an ostensibly literate person would utter.
All roads end at ‘slavery’ it sounds like. If it happened during slavery and someone takes offence, then it must change. Never mind the word ‘owner’ predates American slavery.
The narcissism on this subject is aggravating.
Yeh, Dan. I have a HUGE problem with social engineering damn words on such a ridiculous premises. And fuck Green. He can buy and sell white people on credit if he wanted.
Draymond Green makes more in a single game than I make in three years, but yeah, I’m the privileged one. Geddafuckouttahere with that horseshit.
If it doesn’t matter, then why change it in the first place? Either it does matter or it doesn’t.
The problem is even if you refute or criticize it you will be seen as ‘defensive’ or ‘insensitive’. What’s the big deal, right? See how nefarious what he said really is?
If he’d take a damn second and remove himself from his NBA bubble and actually consult history in a profound manner, he’d perhaps reconsider such an immature assertion.
What’s another word they’re gonna want change associated with slavery?
How does that change anything?
I’m actually kind of surprised in some way at the absolute prevelency of the belief that “white people were never owned.” Even among the “college educated” it is common to have very little idea of the scale and scope of human slavery. I’ve gotten incredulous looks when I tell people that a significant part of the Arab world made slavery illegal in the 1950’s and that Mauritania didn’t until the 1980’s.
And that de jure, not de facto.
Yup. Most Americans (and probably other too) believe that the Atlantic African slave trade was primarily to the US. I’d say it’s a single digit percentage of people that know that that particular trade was almost 90% to Brazil and the Caribbean. It always seems to single out the US as completely uniquely evil in this regard.
And the slaves that were sent West in the triangle trade represented only part of the total numbers of enslaved Africans. The rest of them were sent northeast on hellish journeys on foot to Arab lands. Why is it, you may wonder, that there are significant black minorities descended from African slaves in the US, Caribbean, and South America, but virtually none in Arab countries? Because they killed off the vast majority of their slaves.
And made the males into eunuchs.
And the principal buyers were Europeans who then brought them to the American market.
I know it’s a distinction that may or may not matter; especially to people like Green but it’s worth noting.
And yes, their activities pale in comparison to the Arab traders. Almost embarrassingly so. Or is it a good thing?
Bah.
There were so many sent to Brazil because they were worked to death.
It’s shocking and unacceptable.
It’s preposterous how the white Western Christian world is accepted to just plain be immoral and bad.
It’s very sad actually.
And Le Batard may not realize it but he’s part of that universe.
It seems Stockholm Syndrome is exhibited by people who work for or cover the Wokeba.
Look up the reintroduction of slavery in Europe. Slavery was close to eradicated in the Christian world until the Viking age.
The credentialed but not educated young dipshits of today literally believe that the only slaves in the entirety of human existance were black Africans enslaved by white Europeans and sent to North America. They don’t know that:
a)Slavery stretches back practically to the dawn of human existence and was present on almost every continent (I have no idea if Australian aborigines practiced it, so I’m hedging a bit there)
b)The indentured servitude we all learned about in American history class as kids was, at least for the term of indenture, indistinguishable from slavery. The only difference was that the former had an expiration date and the status wasn’t inherited by children.
c)That African slaves were often captured (usually as prisoners of war) and sold by other African tribes. The whites were the market but their fellow Africans were the providers.
d)That Arabs were the most prolific slave traders in human history
All true (with maybe exception of Aborigines as I don’t know enough about them either). There was also an active North African slave trade of Europeans at roughly the same time that I’ve seen estimates of up to 1 million captured Euros sent to markets in Arab North Africa.
Many Native American tribes also practiced slavery up to their conquest.
(e) Muslims (mainly Turks, I believe) enslaved significant numbers of white people during their invasions of Eastern Europe.
The Children’s Crusade resulted in white Europeans being captured and sold into slavery – many of them, obviously, children.
It boggles the mind.
I know the Muslim invasion of India was an attempted genocide, but I would expect they took a fair number of slaves there, too.
Did the Chinese or Japanese ever go in for slavery (or at least, something close to chattel slavery) in a big way?
It’s Wikipedia, but….Slavery in China.
Their article about Japan makes it appear that slavery did exist in ancient Japan, but not on a large scale.
Too ignorant to know, too dumb to care. They don’t even know or care that they’re locked into the same out-group othering exercise of every supremacist philosophy ever practiced anywhere.
You’d think there’d at least be a pause between “tax the rich” and “help democracy” to wonder how that’s supposed to work, by what mechanism feeding good money after bad into that dumpster fire is going to change the outcome. But I suppose it’s more about punishing the successful than helping anyone when you get down to it. Efficacy doesn’t really matter.
Punish success, and reward failure. That seems to be the only thing government consistently does well.
It must be true
Republicans risk becoming a third party in the next 10 to 15 years because of their “xenophobia” and “hyper-masculinity,” according to California Governor Gavin Newsom
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The Democratic governor added that the GOP is “finished” unless some “courageous Republicans” stand up to President Trump and the establishment and make a real case for conservatism.
“They have no governing philosophy. They have no value system that is interesting except for fear of others. And those others are going to be a majority. So wake up,” Newsom advised.
So long, Rethuglikkkinz!
hyper-masculinity? wow… at least it aint ludicrous masculinity
Okay, Dems, keep “everyone is a racist Nazi” as the central tenet of your platform. See where it takes you.
He’s a total Bubble Boy.
The BEST RIBS you EVER had !!! How To Smoke ribs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EEkCmd5sYA
funny how you americans are all about bbq but a dutch guy makes the best ribs you ever had.
It is pretty easy to find bbq that good here. After all, that’s where our bbq comes from.
It’s what we do. We take the really good stuff from other cultures and make it better. Cultural appropriation for the win.
The Legion of Skanks (a comedy trope with Dave Smith) invited Louis CK to do stand-up at their annual “Skank Fest” event and the super funny comedians who receive nothing but applause were outraged. And so now the comedy club where Skank Fest happened have apologized.
I’m old enough to remember when someone complained about being offended by something the default response was “change the channel”. I’m quickly realizing that if the Christian Right had been wealthier they would have been far more successful. But, of course, this isn’t a religion or anything for the woke. They’re totally not just religious zealots or anything. No, it’s totally different.
derp
Totes high quality concern trolling Governor yeast infection.
“Greasy Gavin is driving the middle class out of his state and he has the nerve to call me divisive? Sad!”
In his interview with Axios, Newsom said that President Trump uses racism, xenophobia and toxic masculinity to appeal to his most conservative base. He also said that the words “man up” and “don’t be a sissy” were some of the “most dangerous words in the English language” because it reinforces that agenda.
Worse than genocide.
Man up, Governor Newsom, and stop being such a pussy. “Walk it off” is an underappreciated bit of advice that is ignored nowadays.
He’s got sand in his vagina.
My buddies and I always use the phrase “your pussy hurt?” when someone is complaining a bit too much.
Use of the term “toxic masculinity” is a handy way to instantly detect someone who needs to be utterly and completely ignored.
He also said that the words “man up” and “don’t be a sissy” were some of the “most dangerous words in the English language”
Grow a pair, you pussy.
for some reason right click in the comments does not work properly for me in firefox
works in edge. hmmm weird
although just on my home computer, not at work
restarted and works now. weird.
Too bad this is in DC; in most of the free states someone pounding on your door like that will get an acute case of lead poisoning.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/antifa_doxing_tucker_carlson_and_stephen_miller_with_posters_all_over_dc_listing_home_addresses.html
I’m still amazed at how many supposed left-wing people hate Tucker Carlson when he is the only voice on cable TV resisting the president’s worst impulses regarding foreign policy. That goes for ostensibly libertarian people too. It’s top people drop the act and admit that they love war.
I’m not sure I’d say most of them love war so much as they don’t really care about war one way or the other, so long as their political goals are being achieved. When being loudly antiwar suits those goals, then they go in that direction. Otherwise, they find other things to caterwaul about in the pursuit of power.
I was looking at old HuffPo articles from the Bush years where they were praising Pat Buchanan for vocally opposing the Iraq War. The Left has definitely become far more pro-war than the Right, in general. The fact that neocons are applauded within their ranks is a big part of the reason why. The Left has gotten significantly worse over the past ten years.
only voice on cable TV resisting the president’s worst impulses regarding foreign policy.
And is apparently a fan of Warrenomics. But he said something nice about Drumpf once and he is non-pc and is a 2A supporter, so ..???
What is it with people like Gabbard and Carlson, getting the foreign policy right and being a complete and utter dolt on domestic policy?
And I think its self-defeating in the long run. Fuck over the economy, and you get the kind of opposition and unrest domestically that makes the government look for overseas adventures to prop up their popularity and/or impose a domestic crackdown.