It’s been a long week here, and next week, my mother arrives so it will be even longer. Task One is to locate the equivalent of Publix roast chicken. Task Two will be how to hide the existence of this site from her. She still hasn’t figured out SP yet- “Who’s that nice little girl I see playing on the computer?”
Birthdays include yet another guy who should have gotten a Nobel; a guy who always opposed Cato; the Official Filmmaker of the Glibertarians; the guy who made John Holmes and Ron Jeremy jealous; the worst of all the Stooges; a fun guy to have a drink with; and a marvelous punchline.
On to the news.
It’s not just Team Blue providing primary entertainment.
Amazon pulls out, jizzes on Seattle’s belly.
The Palestinian Authority believes in a living wage.
I’m the furthest thing from an NBA fan, but this warmed the cockles of my black, black heart.
This may put a dent in his latest comeback plans.
The Trump-Media collaboration really is professional wrestling, kayfabe and all.
“‘I observed the male’s genitals and the urination,’ the officer wrote on a copy of the ticket.” I think that cop sees a dick every morning when he looks in the mirror.
Old Guy Music is… well, I guess they’re all old girls now. But they weren’t then, and bless us for that.
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“The Amazon pullout of Seattle is another dramatic sign that when the people who drive our economy, our tax revenue, our job creation are out because of our politics, it’s time to change our politics. I know we’ll never get to the point of having Republicans on the Seattle City Council, but we have got to stop electing socialists. More than 50 percent of the money Kshama Sawant has raised for re-election has come from outside of Seattle. What does that tell you? The socialist-Marxists around the country are so hell-bent on keeping a foothold in a major American city that they will donate to a Seattle City Council race. That’s where her support is — it’s not coming from within the city.”
I blame income inequality.
Nonsense. This is good for Seattle. Once evil corporations go away honest community oriented businesses will take their place
Paying $15 an hour too.
something something Detroit of the Pacific
15 is miserly. 25 should be minimum if not 30. Try raising a family of 5 in Seattle with 15 an hour.
Why do you hate poor people? We all know a just wage starts at $35/hr.
More like $250 an hour. Everyone is a lawyer, suing each other. Just think how rich everyone is going to get!
Be careful what you say. These are the people that read books like “1984”, “Brave New World”, and “Animal Farm” and thought they were “How To” manuals, remember? They might read your comment and go, “Shit that is brilliant!”, and then everyone is fucked, yet again, without the benefit of even a reach around.
Have you considered moving to Seattle and running for office? It’s a sanctualy city and they allow illegals to vote, so there’s shouldn’t be a problem. You’ll have to claim some sort of (currently) non-white ethnicity, but Seattlites are dumb, so you can probably get away with just translating “glib” into Romanian. Or you could even just shorten “Romanian” to “Rom” and they’d love you. You’d have to deal with annoying gifts though.
I think I can also claim to be pangender. It don’t cost nothing
I do believe this the perfect moment for a Nelson Munce Ha-ha.
Kshama Sawant is a full blown commie. She’s a stain on American politics.
isn’t that like saying she’s an ugly smudge on a big ol’ turd?
You do realize that they have a statue of Lenin there, right?
Just drove by there the other day, I was in Ballard on business. At least somebody bothered to paint the hands as if they were dipped in blood. Still though, it’s a pretty contentious place. There are people who work and the people who try to feed off of the people who work. It’ll be interesting to see what happens during the next recession/depression.
I remember when Seattle used to be Vancouver’s uncool little sister. I guess she must have grown up, dyed her hair pink and went to Evergreen for a semester or two.
But seriously though. They moved to the other side of the bay. They are still in Freeatle as soon as the commies annex it, which I’m sure they are already planning.
IOW, if they would have moved to TX or AZ, then I’d take seriously ‘Amazon leaving Seattle’.
I was thinking of the other Wasted. The one I’ll be doing later tonight.
I was leaning towards this song. Especially as my on call week is done. One of my coworkers asked if I could cover their primary on call this weekend, my response was as polite of a fuck no as can be written in corporate e-mail. I may have missed all the All Star Game fun, but I’ve got tickets to see the Twins/Indians game tonight with some friend.s
Well, I don’t know who this is, and the song sucks, but the video is better.
He was a gabber producer who went on to make douchebag club music.
I only know of this one because it was playing during the end credits of Beerfest.
This is the only Wasted for me
It’s not just Team Blue providing primary entertainment. – I say Cocaine Mitch keeps his seat
Oh yeah, the Turtle ain’t going nowhere. Kentucky loves the terrapin.
We are sooooo fucked. – it’s just a number. watcha worried bout?
Why worry? All government has to do is depress the economy so the value of the dollar plummets, and “presto!”, the problem solves itself…..
No no, you got it all wrong. I’t only a number when Democrats regain control. For now, it’s a crisis.
Karem is best known for berating former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders in a televised 2018 exchange about Trump’s family separation policy at the border.
‘You throw children in cages! You’re a parent! You’re a parent of young children!’ he yelled, in footage that rocketed around the world. ‘Don’t you have any empathy for what they go through?’
On Thursday Karem appeared ready to explode again until a Secret Service agent intercepted him.
What a badass. A regular Ernest Hemingway.
>>that rocketed around the world
I must have missed it.
It rocketed, LH. It wasn’t read or watched.
It rocketed like a NK missle, over top someone’s head or maybe just fall down and go boom.
Who gets their news from Playboy?
uhhh….
I read it for the articles?
And the short stories!
Euphemism?
I believe you, if you were primarily interested in the pictures there are better magazines
Shwank?
Biggins!
>> worst of all the Stooges
phew – thought you were going to slam Ron Asheton
“”She allowed her male child to urinate in the parking lot. I observed the male’s genitals and the urination,” the officer wrote on a copy of the ticket that was obtained by CNN affiliate WRDW. “Public restrooms are offered at the location.””
But have you ever observed a gas station bathroom?
Mostly decent in civilized Europe
I used to go to punk rawk shows ages ago where the bathroom was so bad that I peed in the street. There was a discreet way : open the car door, use the “hover” method, and have a friend block the view from the curb, let it go.
bunch of barbarians
In Vama Veche is one of the most popular seaside resorts in Romania, but back in the day it was un-fancy and was popular among many counter culture people, and also hippies, punk, rock folk whatever listeners. The music was good for these people (you literally did not hear a manea ot hip hop song) and the booze was cheap and plentiful. Now it done got gentrified leading to many a lament that it was ruined, but back in the day most people were camping and most bars were near the beach with very bad toilets, no plumbing. So people basically pissed in the sea. I had a friend who drunkenly went to piss in the sea and afterwards going back to the bar stumbled fell down and fell asleep on the sand. He was upset the next day because, unlike previous years, he had payed for a room so that he does not sleep in a tent and the money was wasted as he did not sleep in the room. Fun times.
One of the old punk venues around here had an issue where the porcelain toilets would be broken after every punk show. Part of their move to a new location included stainless steel fixtures for the entire bathroom.
This is similar to changing clothes at a mountain bike trailhead with no facilities. Park your car in the correct location, open up both car doors. Insta change room!
If he had a bodycam, he should be arrested for producing child pornography, yes?
Jib, your cut of it. I like.
I’m the furthest thing from an NBA fan, but this warmed the cockles of my black, black heart. – apparently his back surgery did not go nearly as good as planned. Had some spinal fluid leaks or something
Maybe he needed the socialist medicine he wants for the rest of us?
his surgery would have been much better in Europe, true.
“Died of a MRSA infection, in a British hospital”
nonsense. that never happens in England. It certainly never happens in Romania.
Right. The English die waiting for surgery in an orderly queue.
More than 90% of Romanian hospitals reported 0 nosocomial infections last year.
Quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over.
A Richmond County Sheriff’s deputy saw the incident and gave Johns a citation for disorderly conduct.
“She allowed her male child to urinate in the parking lot. I observed the male’s genitals and the urination,” the officer wrote on a copy of the ticket that was obtained by CNN affiliate WRDW. “Public restrooms are offered at the location.”
Pervert. Check his phone for kiddy porn.
According to their individual suspension notices, Gramenos and Eckhardt’s violations included, but were not limited to: performing or directing work without a permit, performing or directing work that deviates from the approved plans, failing to schedule inspections, selling units without obtaining a certificate of occupancy, using unlicensed workers, making false statements on permits, and performing or directing work that would not meet code, among other infractions.
How does anything get built in Chicago?
Bribes?
Just like good old Bucharest. With more gun crime. And worse pizza.,
*narrows gaze*
I guess a TV show promoting Chicago as actually inhabitable is not enough.
Should have pitched it as fantasy.
Very much that. Aldermen are basically the babus through whom everything must be channeled.
Woe unto you that have a project that might cross 2 ward boundaries…
Trump has turned taunting reporters into a contact sport, decrying journalists as purveyors of ‘fake news.’
That’s a good thing, right?
RIGHT?
It may or may not be good, but it is fun.
Right or wrong, they certainly earned it.
Joan Jett’s mom was the desk secretary at the juvenile delinquent home I spent a year at when I was 15 for ” attempted altering of an automobile.” I tried to steal a car battery, but I was all fucked up on ‘ludes and never disconnected the cables. I just thought I could rip the thing out. Anyway, she was probably the coolest staffer there. Ritchie Valens brother was a previous guest there as well.
Was she hot?
^article^
Write it up, plz.
I second the Motion!
^This.
I’m not much of a writer, but I’ll try to put something together this weekend.
For a Drink in the Park, Mix Red Wine With Coca-Cola. Seriously
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-07-11/best-drinks-for-summer-movie-park-red-wine-coke-cocktail-recipe
You Americans are trying to appropriate literally the worst out there
What, you have never had German soft drink and ___________ combos? They started it!
[I do like a good radler and a “kalt kaffee”]
Many of us have appropriated the Stiegl radler for long days of drinking, after ride drinks, and just an all around great hot weather spacer.
Even our local breweries have started doing radlers…but Steigl is still the best… TALL CANS!
We’ve got some locals doing radlers as well, but they seem to miss the point. One of them was about 6% ABV, which kind of defeats the purpose of a radler. Have you had the Schofferhofer? Not quite a radler, but they’ve got a graperfruit hefeweizen and I’ve seen a pomegranate hefeweizen on the shelf as well.
Oh man, nothing beats a cold Stiegl Grapefruit on a hot day.
I had Steigl Goldbraü in Vienna. That stuff was good. The canned Steigl here sits too long and does t quite live up to it.
I don’t doubt it. However, since I’ve never been to Austria, I don’t know what I’m missing. Ignorance is bliss!
One year I rode with Team Left Hand for one of the MS rides. Talking to them, they took a company group trip to Germany, and made it a point to stop at Stiegl. But, as it’s the radler anyway, I’m not looking for subtle flavor notes, I’m looking for something cold, quaffable, with a good taste, and the ability to hydrate me.
prison wine with a chaser?
Pruno FTW!
It works great with Feteasca Neagra.
you take that back
My apologies. I meant to say Băbească neagră.
It’s Always Sunny has it covered. Wine in a can.
And other people have ran with it.
That’s actually really popular down here on the beach.
Is this another NSFW link to people doing anal shots?
I had this wiring contractor once who drank cognac and coke and he was throwing money around so it was always Courvoisier. Such a waste…
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7239915/Demi-Rose-flaunts-trademark-derri-sensational-curves-THREE-daring-beach-ensembles.html
Fat.
We need HM to bring back Thicc Thursday. HM, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you…
Maybe if we brought back Manly Mondays, Jesse would be lured back?
Don’t start making me skip articles, Man. Makes my OCD unmanageable…
Jesse is really, really busy at work right now. Lots going on.
I will pass along your kind sentiments.
A Glib who works? First time for everything, I suppose.
Does Rufus know?
Rufus is the “Muppet on the Shelf”. He sees you when you’re wanking, he knows when you’re on task.
Oh, you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not shout, I’m telling you whyyyyy… STEVE SMITH is coming to town.
And by coming mean coming. And by town mean your ass.
Do not attempt to Google the types of butt augmentation surgery she’s had while eating.
I’ve never heard of anyone eating during surgery, but I guess you don’t put on weight like that by skipping meals…
Speaking of Amazon:
We apparently owe her an apology because Amazon is still looking for space to lease in the city. It’s no HQ2 (and not even in her district), but she is still spiking the football.
She just doubles down on every dumb thing she’s ever said/done no matter how incorrect, misinformed, and outright stupid it is. Sadly it seems to play well with her supporters.
She really is a perfect Trump-clone.
I was about to say “but without his trolling skills” but then I look at how Foxnews and the Daily Wire, etc can’t stop the breathless coverage of every last bit of her brain lint and I see that she, whether intentional or not, can troll the right just as well.
Bizzaro Trump.
My life in sex: ‘It was clear my labia had been completely removed’
people are weird.
Well that was dumb….
“have always been self-conscious of how I looked “down there”” … “my labia were on the larger side”
I do feel sorry for this chick, but how neurotic do you have to be to worry about this? Is there a dude that’s ever turned a woman down because her labia were “too big”, whatever that means?
I have heard straight guys say lots of things about women, but never that. This is some type of neurosis specific to the vagina-owning members of our species.
Well you’d be upset too because now it looks and sounds like this – https://youtu.be/eKvX04_6DKY
that’s pretty neurotic.
^^^THIS^^^
At least now she has a reason to legitimize her neurosis.
Wouldn’t a plastic surgeon go over how much removal/hoe much they were going to leave remaining before the surgery?
Wouldn’t the patient have to sign off (literally) on the surgical parameters?
How are they not describing actionable malpractice?
Man, you can Pierce it, tattoo it and apparently cut pieces if it off, but you’re not going to improve it. It’s already highly coveted in all it’s forms. Just leave it alone and let it be magical on it’s own already. Not really bothered by waxing them, though..
Makes me wonder where the doc was from. Maybe they were just trying to do get a favor?
Hard hitting journalism:
“Amanda Seyfried apologizes after calling out ‘semi-influencer’ for posting a bikini pic and being ‘proud’ of her tiny post-baby body
Amanda Seyfried is trying to advocate for women and realistic body images.
But as she learned online on Thursday, it’s not as straight-forward as it seems.
The 33-year-old actress took to Instagram to apologize for having ‘thin-shamed’ 32-year-old blogger Arielle Charnas online.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7239049/Amanda-Seyfried-apologizes-calling-semi-influencer-proud-tiny-body.html
Amanda, cutest of the Plastics. Fight Me!
I have a radical idea for a new kind of ultra-sensitivity in discourse.
How about we just go back to being polite to people we don’t know?
And by “know” I mean in person, not someone you just follow on Twitter or saw a picture of once on Instagram.
We need a MYOFB movement
Excellent idea.
Freaky Friday: Ourobouros
Thought for sure that was an AOC and Pelosi link.
*projectile vomits*
“Why did the snake suck its own tail?” “Because it could!”
Is this like the question about why dogs lick their own balls?
Yes.
Murder in the Paleolithic? Evidence of violence behind human skull remains
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/p-mit062619.php
The fossilized skull of a Paleolithic adult man, known as the Cioclovina calvaria, was originally uncovered in a cave in South Transylvania and is thought to be around 33,000 years old. Since its discovery, this fossil has been extensively studied. Here, the authors reassessed trauma on the skull–specifically a large fracture on the right aspect of the cranium which has been disputed in the past–in order to evaluate whether this specific fracture occurred at the time of death or as a postmortem event.
Reminds me of the prologue of one of my favorite books:
“Clark, who led last year’s expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier showed evidence of having been scalped.”
Unpossible. Pre-historic man lived in harmony with nature and his fellow hominids.
No, this is just the first discovery of Wypipo.
Back when we were truly free to gambol…
Y’know, ever since I learned of the “gamboling” I’ve never been able to hear that Allman Brothers song the same way.
We’re here to help, Festus.
LIVE IN HARMONY WITH STEVE SMITH.
BY LIVE IN HARMONY, MEAN…
Are you sure this isn’t Glibertarians’ official film director?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymore_Butts
I thought it was Paul Verhoeven.
Would you like to know more?
I’d buy that for a dollar.
I thought it was CPRM
That is in the animation category.
I would have figured the Coen brothers or Kubrick. But what do I know?
Ooooh, tough choice.
Not really. Cohen bros are clearly superior.
Minnesotans, you know.
Coen. Fuck you phone, just deliver what I type, asshole.
I would say that CPRM is our official film director since he is the only one of us known to produce Glib-relevant moving-image media. Now our favorite or approved director is another matter.
117) The Washington Post had an article yesterday about a skull fragment from a modern human found in a Greek cave. The skull fragment dates to about 210,000 years ago, pre-dating the previous earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe by 170,000 years. It allegedly “indicates that early modern humans dispersed out of Africa starting much earlier, and reaching much further, than previously thought.”
But my thought is, why does finding one human fossil have to indicate modern humans were widespread in the area at that time? We know that Neanderthals and humans interbred later on—so perhaps this very early human was a mate, or slave, of a Neanderthal? Would it really be farfetched to believe that from time to time an individual modern human made his or her way to Europe in such a way, without presaging an entire migration of modern humans?
The numbers are back! I was worried. You had a longish post the other day and I was all all like “has JATNAS gone soft?”
My OCD is as vigorous as ever, Tonio!
It’s kind of hilarious how immovably certain archaeologists and anthropologists are about their theories, arguably eclipsing even climate prophets in that regard, despite being based upon a thin set of data points and being overturned by a single discovery at least once a decade.
All scientists. I remember when I was a kid that dinosaurs were cold-blooded reptiles, and anyone who thought otherwise was a crackpot. Now they are strongly and with good evidence believed to have been warm-blooded.
…with feathers. And multi-colored at that!
Fucking scientists ruined velociraptors. Who’s terrified of a tie-dyed chicken?
That probably varies with which set of dinos you are talking about, they were around for quite a while, but yeah likely the bulk of the Jurassic ones were closer to modern birds than modern reptiles
Generally, people don’t change their mind. When new evidence disputes convention wisdom in some field, the current generation hold onto outdated beliefs then dies off. Science, the saying goes, advances one funeral at a time
Because we all wanted to get the heck out of Africa?
*golf clap*
+1 shithole
True. Fossil finds are what they are. A single skull only means a single individual. Multiple skulls, trash pits, artifacts, that means a lot more.
Well seeing as slavery was invented by America, I don’t know what you mean.
Huh, SF has an entire museum dedicated to that.
“In the candid chat, Cyrus, who identifies as queer, said: ‘I think it’s very confusing to people that I’m married. But my relationship is unique.’
‘And I don’t know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it’s so complex, and modern, and new that I don’t think we’re in a place where people would get it.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7238341/Miley-Cyrus-says-Hannah-Montana-minute-sex.html
How about if you put it on video?
“I don’t think we’re in a place where people would get it”
Shut up hipster.
LOOK AT ME I’M SPECIAL!!!!
“I don’t know that I would ever publicly allow people in there because it’s so complex, and modern, and new ”
Miley Cyrus has invented a totally new form of marital relationship? Now, I’ve read a lot of 70s science fiction, so I’m really going to have to hear more details before I accept that to be true.
Heck, I grew up in the 70’s in a pretty Liberal household. She’s inventing nothing.
So her husband is a cuck? Or a beard?
Yes.
“my relationship is unique”
Sure it is, Cy. You’re a person who has found your other special person. Good for you. But I think we can all agree that you want to be that unique person. You know what else there are millions of and each is unique?
Is this what you call a “Bitch Slap” Tonio? Cause you played that well.
Prime numbers?
Sperm?
Nazi’s?
sounds like someone lucked into a series of threeways.
Succinct and entirely plausible (likely?) theory on Epstein’s game.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1148303671857491968.html
Just when you think that couldn’t get any better, it ends thusly:
Furaffinity.net That’s so blatant that you’d almost want that on your search history. A badge of honor, if you will.
” I promise this isn’t some crazy Pizzagate conspiracy about space lizards…”
You trolling us, PeeBee?
I took that as the author lighting the Glib signal! It was one Steve Smith or Hat & Hair reference short of making me think someone on here was behind it
Its just crazy enough it might work
Marginally more legit outlet:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/hedge-funders-have-some-thoughts-on-what-epstein-was-doing.html
I think point 12 is likely. He might not have had anything on Acosta, but he knew people with a lot of political power who could lean on Acosta.
You know- morons
“It shows that the media does not base their perceptions on data that is publicly available,” said Ari Rabin-Havt, chief of staff to the Sanders campaign. “I think people develop overly simplistic views of politics that presume that people who live in the real world think the same way as elite media in D.C. and New York.”
It’s not a given that Sanders voters would flock to Warren, or vice versa, if one of them left the race and endorsed the other. In Morning Consult, Reuters-Ipsos and Washington Post-ABC News polls, more Sanders supporters name Biden as their second choice than Warren — and a higher percentage of Warren voters pick Kamala Harris as their No. 2 than Sanders, according to recent surveys.
Wes Bode, a retired contractor in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, illustrates the point: He said he likes that Sanders has “new ideas,” such as free college tuition, and recently attended one of his town halls in the state. But he’s fond of Biden, too, because he’s “for the working man.”
——–
With Biden still atop most polls, even after a widely panned performance at the first Democratic debate, some progressives still fear that Warren and Sanders could divide the left and hand the nomination to the former vice president.
“There’s a lot of time left in this campaign,” said Sean McElwee, co-founder of the liberal think tank Data for Progress. “But one thing that’s clear is that it’s very important for the left that we ensure that we don’t split the field and allow someone like Joe Biden to be the nominee.”
You may find this hard to believe, but Democratic voters do not seem to have any consistent or coherent criteria for choosing a favorite candidate. That’s my takeaway.
Also, the hard core lefties don’t seem to like Biden much.
“You may find this hard to believe, but Democratic voters do not seem to have any consistent or coherent criteria for choosing a favorite candidate. That’s my takeaway.”
IMO in the mind of your average lefty, it’s boiling down to which candidate has the most grievance cards to play. Biden is a relic that’s about to be cast off.
“FREE SHIT!”
Whether it ever gets delivered or not doesn’t matter to these idiots.
Free Shit + Intersectionality.
which equals…….
Losing to Trump?
The Streets of San Francisco?
A Quinn Martin production.
Older Dems want a dependable baby sitter to look out for them. That’s how FDR came to be worshiped despite the spectacular fuck-up he made out of the economy.
You know who could unite the party?
John Belushi?
A dyslexic Creosote?
“A dyslexic Creosote?”
Very good! 9.25/10
Bravo!
Bloodhound Gang?
Hooray for boobies!
Mom, what rhymes with vagina?
Dolores?
I see Amazon more as cumming on Seattles face or ass, not belly. But you do you.
face costs extra though
NOT IN THE EYES!
That’s why those amateur porn girls are wearing glasses, it ain’t all about the “librarian” vibe.
Ah, The Runaways… Brings back fond memories of 1977 when all of your buddies older sisters were trying to be a mash-up of Cherie Curry, Suzy Quattro and Farrah Fawcett.
boing!
Boing indeed! Excrutiating boing when she’s 18 and you’re 12 and there is no chance…
*has wistful memories of best friend’s older sister*
“Brian Karem is a washed up has-been who allegedly writes for a soft-porn magazine and who verbally abused Sarah Huckabee Sanders for years. Someone had to take him on”
I say again: Best. Timeline.
“Also speaking to Karem was Joy Villa, a bondage model turned singer-songwriter who wears pro-Trump dresses on red carpets”
Oh man stop… I can’t take anymore…
Reality makes it harder for SugarFree, everyday.
*easier
It’s ironic how liberal publications like Rolling Stone, Playboy and GQ are so far left now in the age of Trump, despite the fact progressives are the new puritans.
I would love to know more about their demographics.
Are conservatives truly that much of a minority that they take such a beating in the culture wars and pop culture?
I think dead tree publications of all stripes are just desperately hanging on and one possible way to try and consolidate an audience is to go woke. Your pool of customers is smaller, but they’re religious fanatics who might actually read your rag. That and the natural sensibilities of journo/publishers have always been Left so Trump has driven them round the bend like many other Lefties.
Playboy is in an especially tough position since it really has no reason to exist anymore. Despite the “I read it for the articles” trope, we all know that was BS. There is an unlimited amount of naked women doing whatever filthy things you can imagine online and Playboy’s market niche is rapidly approaching zero. They tried having the women only semi-nude for a while; that failed. They’ve tried hardcore videos; that failed. I’d be surprised if they last much longer.
TL;DR – Print is dead.
So time for a government bailout for print?
/prog
Already happening up here. $600,000,000 to be divvied up by a select committee of Liberal Party apparatchics and assorted lefty hangers-on.
That right there should inspire Canadians to revolt.
Laugh but Trudeau threw $500 million at traditional media as a form of bail out.
He’s such a retard.
I thought it was six but you may be right. Why quibble? A hundred million here, a hundred million there…
Canadian Tire money?
More or less, eh?
$550!
I think.
NOT IN CANADIAN TIRE MONEY.
In Timbits.
I don’t think I could eat that many before they got stale. I’m trying to lose weight.
A hundred million here a hundred million there, before you know it we’re talking about real money!
Love the Daily Fail headline as that in no way was close to a BRAWL.
Straight away, I knew something wasn’t right. Instead of a reduction, it was clear that my labia had been completely removed.
They sewed it shut?
When she stands over a subway grate it sounds like a pipe organ.
I laughed.
Thanks! I thought it was funny but then again I laugh at my own jokes.
That’s the only reason to tell jokes Festus…
*snort*
Isn’t Steve Kerr one of the Woke Ones?
totes
He’s Rapinoe in drag.
LOL
Would that it were so.
Also, once there are 18 dogs, you’ll get some pack behavior going on. It would not surprise me if they turned on him if he fell down or became sick.
You get pack behavior with only a single dog. The trick is to always make sure they know that you are the Alpha.
I don’t know about that. There are plenty of instances where a dog did NOT turn on their critically injured owner. I think that if the dog has a high drive to please you can get it sufficiently bonded to you that the relationship becomes more parent-pup than pack member. But when you’ve got lots of dogs spending most time with themselves, they’re not going to be as directly bonded to you. I’ve seen people with dog collections where they are all under control, but some of the dogs are cueing off of more senior dogs rather than off of the human.
I have 4 large GSDs. It’s not 18 dogs, but their pack is an interesting dynamic to observe and different than when we only had two. The large male is alpha over the others but I am alpha over all. So they do cue off him, but they all obey me and my wife without the slightest reserve. A single whistle from me will cause all four to stop on a dime even when in full-bore chase of a deer or squirrel.
I still remember when they mistook my wife for an intruder coming out of the detached garage at night when it was difficult to see clearly. I think I’ve told this one before. The pack launched into a tight arrowhead attack pattern with two flanking on the sides. She mistook them for wolves and screamed for help. They immediately dropped to their bellies in horror when they realized it was her.
Regardless of the pack mentality, we trust them implicitly around our infant and young children because, as Tonio says, we are one pack. The guy in the story had poor health. I suspect he died of a heart attack and the dogs ate him because they started to starve. Though if they were kept outside, as it seems like, it’s difficult to create a true pack. That’s the main reason we never got livestock guardian dogs.
I think you’re right that likely what happened is the guy keeled over and they ate him because they were starving. The 18 dogs thing makes me think there are other dynamics going on, though. An older guy living by himself, kind of a recluse, with that many dogs? I start thinking there’s a mental health angle, maybe hoarding. There’s no chance he’s able to adequately care for that many animals on his own, so I think there’s a non-zero chance the dogs were half-feral.
I like Diamond & Silk.
I figured you for a Diamond and Pearls kinda guy.
Pearl necklace?
I always hated those kinds of videos.
That was the beginning of the end for Prince.
Get Off was pretty fucking awesome, though, for 15 year old me back before teenagers could get unlimited porn online
Rufus wants to be the creamy center of an Oreo!
Why doesn’t the city of Seattle hire that classless twit Rapinoe? She’s such a ‘hero’ now.
“This storm is huge!”
https://www.wdsu.com/article/nhc-director-gives-wdsu-update-on-tropical-storm-barry/28375207
LoL “Barry.”
Why have we never had a Hurricane DeAndre?
Sex Island “comes” to the US (see what I did there?).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1961732/Video-Controversial-Sex-Island-festival-releases-trailer-Nevada-resort.html?mwv_rm=als1
Also: why would authorities raid it? Isn’t it being held at a legal brothel?
Many Islands in Nevada?
They advertise being “drug friendly.”
SO who you got? Nadal or Federer?
For number of times they pick at their own ass before serving? I’ll take Nadal with an over/under of 150.
don’t be jealous of other people’s success
Nadal is the man. Love the way he plays, just not the undie picking thing.
Maybe covered. Still worth a second look.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump @realDonaldTrump
I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air. Unregulated Crypto Assets can facilitate unlawful behavior, including drug trade and other illegal activity….
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192
https://twitter.com/dril/status/945649210455707648
Preet just got a boner
But enough about fiat currency.
Friday bringin’ da funbags.
http://archive.li/0lb9z
#2 is the girl you thought you wanted but #3 is the one that you lusted after once you got blown off and grew up a bit. #21 is my choice.
#4 I mean.
Blood in the water
Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., added to the mounting Democratic criticism of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slamming her “inappropriate” suggestion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is singling out the New Yorker and her “squad” of fellow freshman because of their race.
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday night, Clay hammered Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion.
“It was such a weak argument to say she was being picked on and that four women of color were being picked on by the speaker,” he said.
“It tells you the level of ignorance to American history on their part as to what we are as the Democratic Caucus.
So entertaining.
Try the link again.
“It tells you the level of ignorance to American history on their part as to what we are as the Democratic Caucus.”
I would like that explanation. Because the Democratic caucus has a long history of racism.
THE PARTIES FLIPPED!!!
/Progderp
I need to read Trashy’s write up on that again. The whole flipped narrative seems to easy for dems to squirm out from the past. But it’s accepted. Even though they idolize FDR and WW, despite them being from the Democratic Party prior to the supposed flip.
Sean Trende had a very good longform piece shredding this narrative, specifically the myth of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” being the catalyst for all the Kluxers migrating from the Donks to the Elephants. A key point was that the souther shift to the GOP predated Nixon and had actually accelerated after Eisenhower had sent in the 82nd Airborne to Little Rock to enforce desegregation, which wouldn’t seem to be much of a lure for racists.
Biden Took ‘Astounding’ Tax Positions in Business Planning
The bulk of Biden’s income in 2018 and 2017 came from an S corp called CelticCapri Corp., established for Biden’s speaking and writing engagements after the release of his 2017 book, Promise Me, Dad, according to his most recent financial disclosure report. Giacoppa Corp. was established for Jill Biden’s speaking engagements.
But one thing that jumped out was how the S corp was used to minimize taxes. Practitioners pointed out that in 2018, Biden earned nearly $3 million from CelticCapri but reported only $300,000 in reasonable compensation, meaning that portion would be subject to self-employment taxes.
Perhaps even more startling is that in 2017, Biden earned $9.5 million through his S corp, but it paid him a salary of only $145,833, Rosenthal added.
It looks to me that Biden reported much more than what we might consider “reasonable compensation.” Whatever he had to say or write pales in comparison to some of the best writing here.
Are Empires Always Bad?
Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/are-empires-always-bad
You know who else wanted to start an empire…
Lynn Hauldren?
800-588-2300
Senator Palpatine?
Jussie Smollett?
Poppy?
Me, but it turns out you have to get up too early.
Quensrÿche?
going way back for that one, nice.
30th anniversary release next year!
Not really, There have certainly been Empires that were at least for part of their existence a net good for the peoples they ruled and for humanity in general.
The problem is like all human institutions they tend to become more corrupt over time and so inevitably they become dysfunctional, tyrannical, and evil
who?
Pop sensation Dorian Electra: ‘I’m not a woman dressing as a man. It’s more complex’
Welp, I’m convinced….
“libertarianism is a very interesting thing to study, but it is really poisonous”
How? Because it made you refrain from Calling for government action over every pet issue?
It goes against Marx’s tenets, and everyone KNOWS you can’t have Utopia without Marx (and a large pile of bodies obviously)…
Large piles of bodies is the main construction material of utopias.
+1 a hill of skulls
Who’s the charismatic leader in the libertarian circles?
Libertarians are just evil by nature and don’t need a leader to guide them.
McAfee!
/offers Benny Hill salute
I like to think that Hitler’s punishment in Hell is to be stuck in a beer hall full of libertarians. Trying to organize 100 or so libertarians on any issue would be the most frustrating thing I could think of if I was the Devil.
You are evil your holiness….
You’re *
Nice, leon. I larfed.
Poppy?
“they”, “their”……grow the fuck up, narcissistic bitch. That stupid tic doesn’t make you special.
I still can’t tell if this kid is in a band or what.
Holy Autotune, Batman.
The best sportsmen have ability, grit —and good looks to boot.
This, at least, is the finding of a study which shows that women judge the faces of successful male athletes to be more attractive than those of their less capable rivals.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-successful-male-athletes-have-that-winning-look-xtn67nnb7?shareToken=ac01084df4a0445a8be082f3d91f9f2b
The research involved 25 male and 25 female subjects who were shown passport-style photographs of the heads and shoulders of more than 150 competitors at the biathlon World Cup, a winter sporting event that combines target shooting and cross-country skiing. Male biathletes with a higher career-best score were consistently judged as physically more attractive by the opposite sex. There was no such relationship for female biathletes.
meh seems iffy
I am certain that there is some trend that makes successful female athletes less attractive
What is that term SF coined again?
“Title IX clitflickers”
/Teh Donald
This is a pretty well known phenomena in men’s sports, more because of how interesting it is than the amount of publication on it. No one knows why it exists, but its a really neat finding.
For Straffinrun
AOC link. Possibly.
Watching Team Blue lose heir grip on that tigers tail fills me with mirth.
Hehe. Don’t punch left. Kind of hard for AOC.
One of you, I think it was Tundra, said it was too inside baseball. Anyway, it’s true. No one who doesn’t follow politics closely could care less about Nancy and the Sandynistas.
“the Sandynistas”
Ooh. Hadn’t heard that one! Yet another good one….AOC is the gift that keeps on giving.
Yep, that one there is a keeper.
Holy smokes. When you’ve lost The View…
They are the Never Trumpers of the left.
Well…..I dunno, I don’t think it took too much to prod the View bags into defending the Democratic Party rank and file from Karla.
BBC’s Andrew Neil furiously defends Farage as ex-Blair adviser compares him to Hitler
“germs of populism right into Government“
Damn commoners where do they get off thinking they run this place?!
Navy’s £3bn carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth springs another leak
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/navy-s-3bn-carrier-hms-queen-elizabeth-suffers-another-leak-m3zdthcc9
>>the leak caused flooding over several decks, buckling a stairwell, bending some bulkheads and splitting deck plates, according to the website, which said that mental health support had been offered to the crew.
This is not the Royal Navy of yore.
They need to bring back the lash. Also more rum and sodomy.
how about cannibalism?
I bet they even allow canibalisim now.
I’m pretty sure that was a euphemism for sodomy. The Pythons were masters of using absurd and implausible stand-ins to lampoon contemporary social issues – “news for parrots” was about the controversy over domestic (UK market) BBC home broadcasts in ex-colonial languages.
This news buggers all.
This article made my hole weak!
mental health support had been offered to the crew
Celebrating 49 years of no longer offering mental health support to the RN.
From a great empire that build proud naval vessels that prowled the oceans, to a shithole. Yeah, this is the change we all need more of….
It’s working, Alex.
Working to destroy civilization and usher in another dark age? Yeah, I would say so…
Maybe a little more time spent on maintenance and less on 8-ball ass-stuffing…
“Official Statement from Ben Garrison on the White House Social Media Summit”
https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1149020735790338057
Ben Garrison made a cartoon with a Rothschilds puppeteer controlling a Soros puppeteer controller HR McMasters.
i think Scott Adams’ take on this is proper: what exactly were you thinking, i.e. what’s the reader supposed to take away from your comic?
Uffda. That story about the kid pissing in the parking lot is some mighty fine journalism. Doesn’t mention once what state it was in. Gotta love when a “professional” doesn’t even manage to nail down the Where of a story.
Those five W’s were instituted by the patriarchy now it’s : Woke, Women, western civilization (is evil), whine, worry, and who should pay.
Indeed. There are like 25 US municipalities named “Richmond,” most of those deriving from the London (UK) borough of the same name.
There is one on the IL-WISC stateline.
We have one in BC with a majority Chinese demographic. It lays on the Fraser delta so the old joke goes – “What’s flat and full of Slopes?’
What’s the town that’s like 90% subcontinental? Langley?
Surrey, I think. I haven’t been for a long time.
Ah yeah, Surrey.
But ours is the mack daddy of the Richmonds.
When I took a couple of journalism classes one of the professors said, ‘if you don’t have the five W’s in your article, you failed.’
There’s an epidemic of failed journalists out there.
I remember being pissed off as a kid that “W5” was called that. “How” does not start with “W”! I was a strange child.
It does when an adolescent girl says it: “How-uuhhhh!?”
One of their whiny “Wwwwwhhhhhhyyyyyyyyy’s” covers the full five and more.
W4H1!
https://twitter.com/Millie__Weaver
Someone needs to make a list of all the MAGA chicks with huge cans, for science.
“It’s alright Honey, I was just doing research for an article!”
Time for yet another moral panic!
After all these years and still no one thinks of the children
I remember smoking joints in the pit at school and everyone turning a blind eye. That scene from Ridgemont where the stoners collapse out of the van? True life experience. Nobody cared. Keep your grades up, don’t burn the place to the ground and limit your drinking to off-school property.
To Delay Death, Lift Weights
So Immortal Warty? ::shuddders::
SQUAT MOAR!
Squats are gay because you are thinking about a man’s ass.
Is it gay if you think about your own ass? What about if you are a lesbian trapped in a man’s body and looking at female asses?
Well….yeah.
Just have a spot on bench
Or leave a couple reps in the tank.
SMDH that’s some beta ass shit there.
Jim Bouton isn’t making a comeback? Lou Reed would be a sponsor.
Those five W’s were instituted by the patriarchy now it’s : Woke, Women, western civilization (is evil), whine, worry, and who should pay.
You forgot Weather.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
You better not being throwing any shade at talking about the weather Brooksy. I have no idea what we’d talk about in Minnesoda if it wasn’t the weather.
As you can see from the list below, weather dominates what we talk about to each other.
63% Weather
13% Road construction
10% Mosquitoes
8% Vikings/Twins
4% Fishing
2% Crop prices
“who should pay” is incorrect.
it’s always “wypipo should pay.”
Man you guys are way better at this we should reconsolidate on the best ones.
I liked Bouton’s books.
I forgot who our ultra-marathoner is (apologies because it was a super interesting topic), but here is a story about a Minnesoda record being broken.
The Superior trail has some awesome views. It almost seems a shame to focus on getting through it so fast.
It’s the smelly hippie
Perhaps even more startling is that in 2017, Biden earned $9.5 million through his S corp, but it paid him a salary of only $145,833, Rosenthal added.
How does that work out as a multiple of his secretary’s pay? Maybe he’s just setting an example for the rest of us.
Biden pays his secretary well, IYKWIM.
Do you have to report shoulder rubs to the IRS?
Not the non-consensual ones
Are you going to sue your parents too?
http://abc6onyourside.com/on-your-side/scoring-our-schools/ohio-high-school-graduate-cannot-read-or-count-money-claims-education-system-failed-her
The Cleveland and its school system is an utter failure at every level, starting with Mayor Jackson whose felon grandson ‘somehow’ got a job with their public works or water department.
Two takeaways I see from that. One was that she was enrolled in special education classes. Two, I find the claim that 66% of adults in Cleveland are functionally illiterate a bit hard to swallow.
Having said that. The Cleveland Public Schools are fucking terrible schools that I wouldn’t send my worst enemy’s kids to.
Depending on how one defines ‘functionally illiterate’, I would buy the 66% figure if limited to CPS grads and not all adult Cleveland residents.
66% don’t have parents apparently and have lived their entire lives as feral street kids?
Of the people in the CPS? I’d say 66% not having involved parents is entirely plausible. There’s a reason there’s so many Catholic schools in the area. There are some areas in Cleveland that you don’t want to go to (which are not near any of the recent development).
There’s a reason people with young kids move from Ohio City or Tremont over to Lakewood or the burbs.
Oh, I get that most parent(s) are uninvolved. Just pushing back on the assertion that literacy is something only schools can teach and if the child is illiterate, it’s the schools’ fault.
I spent a year teaching at an alternative school for students tagged with a feel-good euphemism that basically boils down to “high IQ, borderline illiterate”. These were sophomore and junior level students who did well on language-free standardized tests but could barely read or write at a 3rd grade level.
It was devastating.
Justice Gorsuch’s libertarian streak shaped his conservatism this term
If they all hate him, then he is obviously the best of the lot.
Ayup….
are they talking about no-knock raids?
Also now that Kavanaugh is on the bench… it makes me more upset that the democrats made the confirmation all about whether they could drum up accusations to stop republicans from nominating someone. He is truly terrible.
Tinfoil hat me wonders just how much of that was a cunning political strategy. Pitch such a fit that all sane people, to include many of us Glibs, ended up being in favor of his nomination because nobody in their right mind would want to reward the looney left by sinking a nominee over some phoney recovered memory accusation. The end result is we got a statist shitheel of a SCJ and we applauded it.
I was just going to say that. Dems played the long game knowing Kav was a statist and got the whole of the right to defend him
Nah, they absolutely didn’t want him because of the abortion issue. Everything turns on that for them.
“Nah, they absolutely didn’t want him because of the abortion issue.”
Resist TRUMP-PUTIN-HILTER!
Bingo
You’re giving them way too Much credit.
It was tinfoil hat territory.
Lita Ford = bae
Cherie Currie. It ain’t The Runaways without Cherie Currie. So sayeth 12 year-old Festus. Let it be written, let it be done!
Whoever made that video couldn’t tell them apart, apparently, since once of the captions says that Cherie Currie is singing along with Joan Jett….as Cherie Currie is nowhere to be seen
Musta been either a chick or a fag. Cherie was kinda hard to miss back in the yonder times.
I guess they figured one blonde’s as good as another. Lita’s pretty easy to recognize, so I thought it was funny.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-the-long-road-back-how-canadian-indycar-driver-robert-wickens-is/.
A little long, but inspiring
A long read. But a good tear jerker about Robert Wickens Indycar crash at Pocono last year
“E. Jean Carroll was mentioned or appeared on TV 149 times, and sold only *13 books per TV show!* Americans found her so unbelievable that she sold only 1,900 copies. This is the stuff the media tries to force down a reluctant America’s throat.”
https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1149421511842902018
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/11/tv-ignores-conservative-authors-of-no-1-book-in-the-country-while-putting-liberal-author-of-no-3421-book-on-major-tour/
She dropped out of the media cycle fast.
That Cooper interview kinda bombed a bit.
She was so close to turning Cooper straight.
“ nahh, I think people think of rape as sexy”
“Let’s go to break”
Poor Anderson Vanderbilt nearly choked on that pearl necklace. It was sublime.
Good morning to all you Glibs from the cloudy and drizzly Aleutian Islands. I hope to get out of here today before the wind picks up and the ceiling drops to the point that flights are cancelled.
Kodiak or farther out? Headed for Anchorage? Good luck, must be very early mornin’ there.
Back home to Anchorage. It’s 6am here and I couldn’t sleep. Such is my reward for going to bed early last night.
West-west is a weird and wonderful place. I’ve never been that far north but I did live on the Queen Charlottes for a couple of years. Different world.
I spent some time in Adak about 10 years ago, which is about the same attitude as the QC, and when it wasn’t blowing 80 mph, it was a gorgeous and rugged place.
Adak is one of those place I’d like to visit.
It’s something else. Expensive as hell to get to and walking around the abandoned military housing subdivisions at night is very disconcerting since there’s no street lights or people or any kind of noise. There’s great caribou hunting but you have to be careful since part of the island is a giant mine field.
Yeah. I’ve priced cash tickets to there while planning a stay. Using miles is the way to go for a one time trip where someone else isn’t paying.
I used miles so there wasn’t any cash cost associated with the flight. It has the highest domestic fare of any route in the US, and that’s even with EAS subsidy. Lodging was around $100/night and I brought my own food and a load of booze. I was able to barter some of the booze for a boat ride from a total character who loved living there.
Did you make it to Attu Island?
Never made it there, or to Shemya or Kiska. Those places are pretty much the end of the Earth and only military or contractors cycle through Shemya.
I’m just intrigued by the idea of a somewhat-intact WW II battlefield.
A good morning to the Old Man and his minions!
Young Joan and Lita? Together?
YES PLEASE!!
True story: I used to refer to WebDom as my minion. Eventually she got tired of it and asked me to change what I called her. I suggested “henchman,” which she loved, and has been titled such ever since.
Excellent. Everyone needs some good henchmen.
“Ahem, IT’S HENCHPRXYNS!”
*wipes one tear away*
That’s very touching.
It was a perfect daddy-daughter moment.
At least being a minion is better than being a peon.
Trump’s Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigns
Acosta, formerly a federal prosecutor, had defended his handling of the 2007 case and said he was “pleased” prosecutors were moving forward against Epstein, who was arrested on July 6 on charges of sex-trafficking. Epstein pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan federal court on July 8. The indictment alleges he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes” in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida.
Totes unexpected!
The why of the plea deal is going to be far more interesting than Epstein’s underage misadventures. I think Clinton is finally screwed.
It won’t be Hillary getting screwed, that train left the station many years ago.
Not that Clinton?
My wild, unsubstantiated theory is that Clinton’s people leaned on Acosta and told him to OK any plea deal Epstein’s lawyers gave him.
I don’t know about Clinton getting screwed. He has that feral cunning known only to politicians.
Too old and frail. He’ll play it up as I’ve mentioned before. The Democrats are going into topsy-turvy mode right now. The old guard is under a concerted attack from the young turks. Where this leads, nobody knows.
Acosta’s account of the deal is interesting if true.
Of course, what nobody is talking about is what a shit Secretary of Labor he was. Go-along to get-along with the entrenched pro-union forces that infest the DOL.
Forget the plea deal; good riddance because he sucked at his job.
Party of Justice
Progressive activists feel like this is their moment.
Their values are no longer seen as fringe ideas in the Democratic Party. Multiple presidential candidates are talking about “Medicare-for-all,” reparations for slavery and bold action on climate change. And their ideas are driving the action on debate stages.
Now, as they gather in Philadelphia for the largest progressive convention of the year, Netroots Nation, they feel empowered as if this is their time to take over the party, push traditional Democrats aside and hold candidates accountable.
“We are not going to allow establishment Democrats who are thinking that we’re still in 1980 … to do anything but strongly go forward with a bold plan,” said Aimee Allison, the president and founder of She the People, a network focused on elevating the political power of women of color.
Allison, like other activists at Netroots this weekend, sees the conference as a chance to energize progressive forces and prepare for battle within their own party.
“We are sick and tired of waiting for change,” said Yvette Simpson, the CEO of Democracy for America, a progressive PAC founded in 2004. “Change has to happen now.”
Yes, yes. Let the hate flow through you.
Libertarian Moment!
Wait, I thought PACs and money in politics was bad???
That doesn’t stop Republicans. Us leftists have been hamstringing ourselves because we care about morality, unlike the Right. This gives them an advantage. We need to start playing by their rules. If that means taking money, then we need to take all the money.
All they had to do was not be crazy….
“It’s not just enough to talk about economics without looking at the economics for a woman of color,” said Natalia Salgado, a political strategist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action.
That’s an evolution within the movement in the past few years as a number of minorities have taken leadership positions in progressive organizations.
And it has also led to a shift in what progressives are looking for in a candidate this cycle.
“The progressive movement is looking for candidates who are embracing racial, economic and gender justice,” said Allison. “And any candidate who seems hesitant or unable to … looks like they’re on a downward trajectory,” said Allison.
Purity of essence.
“If that means taking money, then we need to take all the money”
This is after the election, right?
“First you take the guns, then you take the power, then you get the money.”
“We reject the old systems of morality. Our morality has no precedent, and our humanity is absolute because it rests on a new ideal. Our aim is to destroy all forms of oppression and violence. To us, everything is permitted, for we are the first to raise the sword not to oppress races and reduce them to slavery, but to liberate humanity from its shackles…. Blood? Let blood flow like water … for only through the death of the old world can we liberate ourselves….”
KrasnyiMech (The Red Sword), the official press organ of the Soviet Cheka secret police, 1918. (1)
I read this quote the other day and have felt haunted by it. How much of this is echoed in the halls of Evergreen College? Does Antifa wordlessly mouth this before their ‘counter-protests’? Sorry Doherty, cultural Marxism is absolutely real and it’s fucking terrifying.
Cultural Marxism is simply the replacement of the proletariat by a myriad archipelago of postmodern identity groups.
And the end result STILL being a big ol’ pile of bodies. I swear, if I were dumber the inter sectional left would drive me to whit- identitarianism.
*white
“postmodern archipelago of myriad identity groups” is probably better
Yes, absolutely. I thought this would be credited to Antifa or a similar group before getting to the end. It immediately brought to mind the below quote from Calvin Coolridge which another Glib posted some time ago.
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
– Calvin Coolidge
Great quote! I hadn’t seen that yet!
The key difference is that those bastards at least understood the implications of this reasoning. I’m not so sure their modern descendants do. A world without morality? Blood flowing like water? Okay, fella, what do you bring to the party? Your graduate degree in feminist literary criticism?
I don’t say this happily. If shit hits the fan, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if these assholes are the ones who start it. But, I’m pretty sure they’re not going to be the ones finishing it. And, really, neither is particularly good for humanity or decency.
Their leaders understand the implications, even if they don’t.
Again, though, what do even the leaders bring to the table?
Institutional coordination, which is far, far more powerful than any kind of country boy can survive type advantage you imagine we have.
^This^
It’s not a “country boy can survive” argument. I think you overestimate the power and resilience of institutions. They have only as much power as people willingly accord them. If the costs associated with an institution continue to mount without a concomitant increase in advantages, those institutions will eventually be discarded.
Its a nice argument, but it doesn’t comport with reality.
https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
The thing is it’s the intellectuals and the idealists (always a tiny minority) that drag the populace into violent revolutions and counter revolutions but they are rarely around or in power in the end. I don’t fear the intersectional otherkins on campus, but I do fear the consequences of their ideas writ large. Their ideology justifies violence and criminality or all stripes under the thin veneer of righting supposed wrongs, i guess not unlike any other revolution.
Love the way it goes straight from “destroy all forms of oppression and violence” to “Let blood flow like water”.
“Two people were arrested after a traffic stop of a stolen car revealed the two had a rattlesnake, radioactive uranium, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe.”
https://twitter.com/kfor/status/1149239648801214464
https://kfor.com/2019/07/10/logan-co-man-allegedly-driving-stolen-vehicle-filled-with-uranium-a-rattlesnake-and-kentucky-deluxe/
What am I supposed to do with this information?
Invite them to your next bbq.
Revise your plan.
that one got a chuckle out of me.
Sounds like a scene from The Big Lebowski II.
Our aim is to destroy all forms of oppression and violence.
To be sure, their intentions were good.
Calling PA and east coast Glibs.
Because of family situations I’m stuck in mid-Atlantic region for retirement. From my research the best of the bad lot of places to live would be southeastern PA. I went to school in DE, but it appears PA looks like a better choice. Naturally NJ and NY are out of contention and either PA or DE would seem to be preferable to MD.
Does anyone have any suggestions for places in PA to begin looking? Preferably something with a some shooting ranges and rural, but reasonably close to some amenities and where people won’t laugh at you when you say “high speed internet”?
Thanks!
We’re in MD–don’t move here unless you have to–but we have a few friends in the Lancaster area who love it. You can get rural, it’s not built up, but there are towns and cities nearby. Good on taxes.
Lancaster has been my initial starting place as well.
I think Pennsylvania is too weird for me, but I like hanging out in Lancaster. There seems to be a lot of house to be had at a reasonable price, and you’re close enough to major cities that if you need to fly somewhere or you’re getting something shipped to you it doesn’t take long.
I drive through central PA pretty often on I-99, It’s pretty much beautiful the whole way up from Bedford to Mansfield. Very rural and picturesque. Actually entertained friends last night en route on their move to Harrisburg. Having never lived there that’s about all I got though.
The Philadelphia Badlands are very reasonably priced.
Aston PA is right near the heart of Philly Suburbia but blue collar and affordable. There is a private shooting range in town but they are very anal. Also several indoor ranges nearby open to the public.
There are several other areas north such as Allentown and Wilkes Barre/ Scranton where your money will go further, but your access to city like amenities and culture go down.
I like most of PA – except for Philly (SE PA). The outer-x-ubs of Allentown / Bethlehem?
I went to school in Philly as well. I’d try to stay fairly well clear of its influence.
That would exclude a lot of the Bucks and Montgomery counties. I would stay away just due to traffic, high housing prices, property taxes, and regulations creep.
I’m living in a residential neighborhood full of trees flat walking and biking available, four to five universities within 20 miles, and surrounded by mountains 1000 ft or higher.
Housing costs range from50K in the hood to $500K in fancy Mc Mansion golf communities. There are loads in between.
Do you need to be in the SE of Pa? I have many family and friends in that area.
I’m in the NE and unless you build a cabin in the woods you can get 100Mb/s internet most places.
Do you want rural, suburban, or city like housing? Rent, buy or other?
What besides internet and shooting are important to you?
Family is in Cherry Hill, NJ and Atlantic City area.
I need to be able to drive their relatively easily while avoiding Philly traffic. As I get older suburban is probably preferable to rural, but I don’t want to be on top of my neighbors. Would be nice not to have to go to Philly in the event as you age you need specialized medical care.
Would buy – given the crazy price metro NYC real estate I should be able to sell and find something and still pocket a good deal.
Thanks!
I’m 1.75 hours north of Philadelphia and 2 hours west from NYC.
My in-laws live in Bucks county on an acre lot in a 50’s era house. They are being surrounded by housing developments as all of the farms are sold to developers. This trend is occurring all over this area.
I think you are correct – Montgomery and Bucks Counties are likely not where I’d want to be.
What’s a target drive time to AC for you? There is no real way to avoid Philly traffic from the north east or west other than timing.
3 hour drive to AC for me. My housing costs are 1/2 of Allentown and 1/4 of Philly suburbs. Taxes are similar.
A similar fraction.
3 hour drive to AC would probably be OK. Issue would be if there was some problem on Friday night in the summer.
With the shore traffic that could turn into 6 hours in the blink of an eye!
They are being surrounded by housing developments as all of the farms are sold to developers.
That’s too bad. Bucks County is (was?) practically the platonic ideal of bucolic countryside.
https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/18951/filter/viewport=40.55451:40.39939:-75.19483:-75.49799
I’m technically in Richland Township. I like the area.
You and Timeloose keep trying to get me north of Philly!
I guess I’ll have to add that to the list to investigate. The nice thing is essentially the whole state is open to me.
We need a glib critical mass to start the eventual glibening of the Keystone State.
Once PA falls the rest will follow.
What were we talking about again.
You think I’m moving to a state infested with Eagles, Flyers, and Penguins fans? Guess again.
https://ridgeandvalley.net/
Checking off the range requirement. It’s outdoors and really quite a value for annual membership.
There’s others in the area, but this is the one I go to.
I’ll be in and around that area sometime this weekend. The prices there are much better than farther south in the Landsdale area.
I assume that NC is too far south?
BREAKING: Julie Bindel is retarded.
“this woman acts like the gatekeeper of the gays™️ i swear to god. straight women can choose to be gay and are only straight because patriarchy. bisexual women are just straight women (?). gay men can live a “heterosexual lifestyle” and are not as “brave” as lesbians? what?”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1149639826280312832
I like June. She’s cute as a button but would grate on my nerves after about ten minutes of conversation.
She gets linked here a lot, but I’m not sure why. She’s a pretty standard millennial leftist, just one who can poke fun at her own side.
Really? I don’t follow her, so the impression I got was that she was an alt right type
Definitely not. If you actually browse around her twitter, instead of just reading what gets linked here, she’s a big Bernie Sanders fan.
Tulsie Gabbard more than Bernie.
It just goes to show how similar the two groups really are
Half brainless lefty but brainless nonetheless
She’s smart, but is ignorant of economics.
That does not change my view
No, she’s lefty, but friends with Blaire White who is a righty.
This is literally co-opting the Gay community for liberal politics. It’s clear that I’m her mind being a lesbian is more about the political persuasion than the sexual.
It’s a logical extension of the idea that the core quality of being an African American is voting for the DNC candidate.
The core-quality is resenting whitey to the point of hatred. Voting DNC is the logical result.
A great reply along those lines:
Not for a long time. That was Gay Rights 101. LGBQWERTY is now all about the tribalism, as near as I can tell.
Which is phenomenally stupid. A tiny, marginal tribe is not where you want to be when the knives come out. And in a tribalist society/subculture, the knives always come out.
I am at a wine and street food festival and the arepas truck i liked is not here and there is one sellig chimichangas. Now i never had one and have no idea if they are authentic but when well made is a chimichanga worth eating?
Also they have new york style pastrami but it seems to be a fifth of the quantity i see in Americanese photos
Outside of NYC delis, most places in the US don’t serve pastrami sandwiches with 2 pounds of meat on them.
Slyman’s says hello from Cleveland, but they’re more well known for corned beef.
I find a sandwich with way too much meat to be off-putting.
A chimichanga is a deep-fried burrito. Typically, you’ve got me at “deep-fried”, so I’d say go for it.
well, yeah. It’s great ingredients, wrapped up and deep fried.
Chimichangas are deep fried burritos, and are a Tex-Mex innovation.
Whether that makes them “authentic” or not depends on whether you beleive that a cuisine can innovate and/or if Tex-Mex can ever be authentic.
Not sure if anyone has explained this yet, but they’re deep fried burritos.
Does anyone have any suggestions for places in PA to begin looking?
It’s pretty nice around Gettysburg, or was, when I passed through. Beautiful old stone buildings. Barns built like churches. No idea what the cultural climate is like.
Footage from Glibertarians arts and crafts meetup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2MGRl-UzEg
He likes his Folgers
Scanning past, I read that as “He sniffs his fingers”. Make of that what you will.
You know sometimes I think if I were an insane hillbilly who lived in an abandoned bus I might be happier.
You ever meet one of those nutters who is totally batshit but seems to be thoroughly enjoying themselves just being a care free, happy loony? I’m sure it’s a form of mania that has a very ugly flipside but still……kinda tough not to envy them once in a while.
Yeah. I know a guy who lives in northern California near the Oregon border who is like that. Totally checked out but he seems happy enough except when he’s convinced “they” are out to get him. Who “they” are remains unclear, however.
You know, ‘THEY’ man! Do you even tinfoil hat, bro?
I have not nearly enough drugs to be on this guy’s level.
It’s good to have goals.
When we were teens we used to buy weed from this guy that was kinda, sorta Dennis Hopper’s character from “River’s Edge”.
What a life to be happy sorting machine screws and nuts.
My wife knew an old dude from her photography circles that lived on a lakeside farm. We went out there one day to do some fishing so he gives us the grand tour. Come to his workshop and he’s got a perfect hangman’s noose dangling from one of the rafters. Judi say’s “What’s that for, Bill?” Old guy never lost a beat and looked me straight in the eye and responded, “Sometimes I feel a little down…”.
Are you sure you’re not?
In next week’s news, Seattle annexes Bellevue.
Or Bellevue elect Washington’s second commie mayor and city council
Passes over Bothel.
Pee mom was 9 months pregnant? That pig deserves a beating. He should not have a job with any power at all.
I hope that “Pee Mom” becomes the new Nancy Grace “Tot-Mom”!
Capitalist exploitation and oppression
With automation looming, Amazon is investing $700 million to retrain 100,000 US-based workers for new jobs.
The goal is to shift one-third of Amazon’s workforce by 2025 into in-demand jobs at the company that focus on software engineering, data sciences, robotics, and coordinating logistics to ship products. Still, the company says its free retraining programs will help employees get “highly skilled roles within or outside of Amazon.”
It’s just a trick to
make those workers more productivesqueeze the lifeblood out of the serfs, so Jeff Bezos can get even richer.L
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Shocking revelation
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff recently admitted that the Green New Deal was not conceived as an effort to deal with climate change, but instead a “how-do-you-change-the-entire economy thing” — a remark likely to fuel Republican claims that the deal is nothing more than a thinly veiled socialist takeover of the U.S. economy.
“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Saikat Chakrabarti said in May, according to The Washington Post.
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Ocasio-Cortez has called the deal “a wartime-level, just economic mobilization plan to get to 100% renewable energy.” The plan, which would cost trillions, sees the U.S. taking a “leading role in reducing emissions through economic transformation.”
It goes on to say that “a new national social, industrial and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal” is an opportunity to tackle systemic injustices of minority groups, create millions of high-wage jobs and “provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States.
Is there anybody to whom it was not already obvious?
Millenials?
There was an electrified board game back in the long ago wherein if you didn’t complete the puzzle it would throw the pieces in the air. Can’t recall the name but this is just what the “Squad” is up to. Me, I prefer “Ker-Plunk”.
Perfection and Superfection were wind up mechanical puzzle games with a timer. 70’s era
Yep, Them’s the ones. Never had it but did own a “Talking Viewmaster” that was the size of a four-slice toaster. Tinker-Toys were fun. So many ways to build cannons!
Oh my goodness, Perfection is a blast from the past. Haven’t seen or thought of it in 30 years but it brings back a lot of memories.