To which state did OMWC’s Mom travel, escorted by his sister?
Does Mom have any idea whose home she is visiting?
Is my name “Honey?”
Am I an exceedingly patient person?
Will I be consuming many gallons of cocktails in the coming weeks?
So, what’s happening in the world outside my home? Let’s take a look, shall we?
Is there no end of evil in the world?
Who would have ever thought this would happen?
Do you think that they give a shit?
Is this what Dbl Eagle has been up to this week?
Do you think this (hopefully former) officer is still a fan of law enforcement access to DNA databases?
Is this where I provide a music link?
Comments
536 responses to “Thursday Morning Questioning Links”
I have a question. Has Eyepiece stopped working for anyone else?
No.
But then again I was never using it.
That is not a valid First.
Hey, I stuck with the question theme. That should qualify.
We should let SP judge.
This vexes me, I’m terribly vexed.
Not working for me.
The sidebar elements that Eyepiece anchors to have disappeared, thus so did Eyepiece. This has happened in the past after WordPress updates and usually fixes itself in a few hours. If it persists, I’ll have to push a tweak to Eyepiece that anchors it to another element.
Thanks Trashy. For me, the problem manifested right after an update to Chrome.
I’m seeing the same issue on Firefox, so I think that’s just a cowinkydink.
It’s still autoloading new comments but no sidebar action.
Dude that just happens when you get old.
I’m using Brave on an Android phone and the up and down to top or bottom of page arrows arent showing up. On the Mac I use Brave and it logged me out and I never ever remember my passwords, so I just use the phone
I’m going to have to assume that’s a rhetorical question, since the house holds all of America in contempt.
Not very bright these girls are.
Yep – can’t imagine there is much money selling to “private collectors”.
Technically, the general buying public consists of a great many private collectors.
I think they are collecting their privates in their hands while watching these videos.
I always thought privates meant the balls.
That’s a subset.
You ever see a Venn diagram? No shaft.
Does that make the shaft the sergeant?
At the rates that would have to be paid by these private collectors for the expenses listed, it’d be more likely to pay for an ‘in-person’ performance.
RedHeadRedemption did bespoke porn, and most of it has NOT made it out onto the general internet (unfortunately).
That is my “can’t fail” business plan. You come to my establishment to star in your own pornographic movie. We supply the cameras, the set, the lighting, the “boom-chick-wow-wow” sounds, and post production.
You hire your own co-star from several self-employed actresses.
You walk out with a smile on your face, a giddy-up in your stride, and your very own movie.
I’ll make millions!
You know who else thought they had a plan that “can’t fail…”
Icarus ?
You’ll want a jurisdiction where both prostitution and porn production are legal, or you’ll be facing a lot of process harassment.
But see its not prostitution, because they are actors.
But, yes, I see a lot of harassment with this business, which is why I haven’t sunk any money into it.
They can get a grand jury to say otherwise. Hense the recommendation for simplicity’s sake.
Stock up on empty pizza ? boxes.
as an aside – there is so much porn out there that I’m always amazed when a teacher or the “girl next door” is doxxed or discovered.
Thank god nobody has found mine yet.
We’re thankful too.
Watching Scruff-pr0n is more embarrassing than making Scruff-pr0n.
That just means that you haven’t been practicing enough. Remember Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule? Get on it, you slug!
Shouldn’t that mean you aren’t surprised when that happens?
Naw I’m thinking it’s like trying to find a singular fish in an ocean full of ’em.
I mean what are the chances that I would be surfing around a porn site and see the hottest womanl in the company I work for (provided she had a video out there)?
Look, unless they are professional, full-time porn stars, they have to work somewhere. With the number of them out there, you’re going to get intersections between people who know them and people who’ve seen their work, even by chance.
6 degrees of makin’ bacon.
You meant personally? Oh…
That’s just because you don’t live in the San Fernando Valley. I’ve met quite a few. Back in the late eighties, I lived with a porn star for a year.
Not just that, there are millions of porn videos out there, in order to be identified all of the following has to happen…
1) the video has to be popular enough to get more than a few views
2) one of the viewers has to know her in person at least peripherally
3) he (and it is almost always going to be a he) as to actually spend more than a second or two looking at her face and not other body parts
4) he has to actually recognize her through all the makeup they put on her which often makes her look like a completely different person
5) he has to be enough of a shithead to publicly reveal the link to her friends/family/coworkers
6) she has to be one of the real first timers and someone who will face actual consequences for having it revealed that she did a porn video.
Now I am not going to say the odds of all 5 of these things happening are so remote that they have never happened, but it would seem to be so remote that it is going to be a REALLY rare thing
I’m not buying it. The whole thing smacks of a publicity stunt. Even if not, it’s a good idea.
I like that take. How many more clicks did they get with that article?
“Iiiyaaaaada!” as she squeezes hit tits. It’s not like it’s unheard of for porn actresses to play reluctant. This would just be the next step.
Pornographers aren’t trustworthy? I’m stunned.
If you can’t trust a pornographer, who can you trust?!
Politicians?
That odd looking hooker with an Adam’s apple?
No, baby, I’m the real thing.
I’m sure these dumb girls sign a release granting distribution rights before the cameras start rolling. I wonder if any of them read it?
Words are hard.
“Oh, that’s just something the lawyers say we need in order to sell it at all, even to our private collectors.”
Apparently it wasn’t just the words that were hard
… to shoot a video that they allegedly were promised no one back home would ever see.
Someone should tell these women about this new thing called “the internet”.
Is SP a judge now?
Little Miss Sunshine. Nice work, SP! Old folks can be a trial but you already (ahem) knew that when you climbed into that van.
Judge, Jury, and Executioner.
Ten year-old Judge Judy with a sack of rusty tin can lids behind the bench.
“No one has ever reached out to me about it, nor did I feel like there was any point in trying to sue someone if I stupidly signed a contract that said they could do whatever they want with the video,” she said.
You’ll never grow up to be a Congresswoman with an attitude like that.
“Is there no end of evil in the world?”
No, there isn’t. Evil doesn’t give birth to itself, like some kind of movie ghost it just moves from one host to another endlessly.
Dont video sexy time and then complain about other people watching.
No, they don’t give a shit because it doesn’t mean anything.
Sacred mountain gives pretense for protection money ex. no. 585,457,392.
Throw his ass in prison.
I0b0t, if you are still around: Thank you. I feel bad for the dog too. We named him Charlie Brown because he was brown and had a huge round head. Poor Charlie.
Fortunately I seem to be healing rapidly with no infection.
I am glad your kids got to experience that. It is a great learning experience, it’s fun and builds character.
Evil doesn’t give birth to itself, like some kind of movie ghost it just moves from one host to another endlessly.
Evil is the absence of good. It’s like asking if there is no end of shadows in the world.
Yes, in a few billion years.
Having grown up in an excruciatingly rural environment, I get depressed knowing how many of those experiences my (Brooklyn born) kids are missing. We tend to push natural science type stuff at them whenever the opportunity arises.
Why are old Injuns revered as elders even among whites while old whites are just old and should be shunned ?
So that’s why no one ever visits me? At least it isn’t that they don’t like for something I’ve done or haven’t done. Like Tony the Tiger says “Its great”
Music ties nicely into the porn, census and the LAPD links, but I’d have went with this.
Nice!
Some of the videos posted to Pornhub have been viewed more than 40 million times. The Girls Do Porn channel itself has been live for eight years and garnered more than 677 million views. Its ranking on Pornhub hovers around the 20th most popular channel. This is a massive amount of exposure for people who say they didn’t want to be seen having sex on camera in the first place. And as they take their case to court, Pornhub continues to make money off of them.
Listen Shirley, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it- you’re you’re doing it wrong.
This has become so normalized that I wouldn’t be surprised to see basically “anything” being acceptable in a generation or two. That is unless the pendulum swings back in a big way and I don’t think that’s ever gonna happen.
I don’t know, If you look at the pendulum between perversion and prudery, I don’t think we’ve passed any special threshold where it just breaks and flies off into the void. The cycle does appear to be ~300 years long though.
I think the only way you can talk about there being a pendulum in the first place is in the public acknowledgement/acceptance of the activity, rather than the prevalence of the activity. The Victorians indulged a LOT behind the bawdy-house doors. I’ve got a collection of 1930s videos that contains both “harder-core” and “amazingly the same” as modern internet productions. It’s uncanny the way some preferences don’t change, and how fetishistic some people are.
Grooming habits, otoh change a lot.
I don’t know if Massachusetts Bay colonists were legitimately more prudish than humanity as a whole or if they were just more effective at destroying the evidence.
There was an area called whore hill (or something like that) during the siege of Boston in the revolutionary War. Granted, a lot of people were disgusted by it, but that’s true today, too.
1930s videos… I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter, Good Sir!
https://smile.amazon.com/Vintage-Erotica-Anno-1930-50/dp/B001KMU53Y/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vintage+erotica+anno+1930&qid=1563454768&s=gateway&sr=8-1
I cant remember the numbers but I do remember that the majority of children born in early puritan America were born to unmarried what we now consider underage girls. Make of that what you will.
Well, what else was there for them to do?
Churn butter.
Read the Bible?
“Churn Butter”
Oh, come now, that’s barely even a euphemism.
Just because it involves a stick going into a hole over and over again…..
I think it has more to do with the loss of personal contact. People don’t speak to each other anymore, they consume. Driving to work last Sunday I had to stop to let a family cross the street. Everyone of them from Grandma to the youngest tot were engrossed in their screens. This is after they presumably visited the summer festival just a block away. They were strung out like a row of ducks, not talking about what they’d just experienced or how dinner was going to be great. Nope, fucking slaves to the phone.
I’ve never actually seen that, or anything like that.
Maybe you noticed because it stood out.
Sure. Maybe my lying eyes deceived me. Next time I post I’ll be sure to wear my dissembling gloves.
I’m not saying you didn’t see it, I’m wondering if it is actually common, or if the unusual aspect of that family made it stick in your memory.
I see similar types of behavior regularly at restaurants with families and with groups of friends. Heck, it’s a bit of a friction point between my wife and I. She complains about me liking my “internet friends” (glibs) more than her, and I complain about how she can’t seem to peel away from Instagram for 5 minutes.
You purport to live in a city – this you have not seen?
I can’t even do my commute home without seeing pedestrians and drivers both, eyes locked on the #$%^ing phone.
Send her dic pics?
Same with me and Wifey and I always counter with her facebook buddies.
A friend of mine drove from Austin to Michigan to see his family. And got home to see his family all sitting around on their devices, not talking to each other. He was a little pissed.
When I’m hanging out with friends and relatives, the phone goes away unless I’m looking something important up or waiting for a call / text.
I have honestly seen more Amish tourists than phone zombies. And I’ve only seen one family of Amish tourists (so, about ten or so)
UCS, you have to be kidding us.
Even at something like a youth soccer game. The kids might be playing soccer (thinking about their next stretch of screen time) but the parents are not watching, they are all looking at their phones.
I am perfectly serious.
When I met UCS, I’m sure there were couples in the diner on their phones, but I also know he didn’t see them because I kept him distracted with my dazzling wit until his corned beef hash arrived to keep him distracted.
In fairness, have you ever watched
children’ssoccer?Not all people.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jUv9OXSJO30
That’s fucking adorable! There is one part of my commute that I don’t mind. It’s the combo yoga studio/aerial fitness place that I drive past every night at 8:30 just when the classes get out. Aerial Fitness is pole dancing lessons. It can be milftastic!
Yup, totally new, absolutely nothing like that ever happened in the history of the world until the cell phone was invented less than 15 years ago…
https://www.pinterest.com/juanginer/reading-newspapers/
I got my first hint of this in the early 2000s when the smart phone thing was just barely getting started here (Blackberry was the rage). I was in Milan at a really nice restaurant, and at the next table, the 8 or 9 Italians were all engrossed in texting, barely noticing each other and ditto the superb food. I thought, “Huh, those nutty Italians! Americans wouldn’t do that.”
Naive me.
Agreed. To paraphrase Adam Corolla, Who would have thought the most popular shows on TV would be updated versions of Star Search and ballroom dancing competitions between D list celebrities?
Never give law-enforcement your DNA. Just sayin’.
So you’re saying I shouldn’t have spanked it into that complaint letter I sent to the FBI?
It was the lipstick kiss on the envelope that gave you away.
^The Unajizzer
+1 crazy beard(s)
You don’t have to. Family members could have given it to one of the ancestry testing DNA tests, which all cooperate with law enforcement.
Cops have to anyway. They are on scene at the crimes.
I’ve been getting into Gabor Szabo, the Hungarian guitarist.
His best album – that I’ve heard so far – is Dreams
Sucks about the Kyoani fire. From what I heard, they were actually one of the not so shitty companies in the industry when it came to how they treated their peeps. Hope they recover quickly and rest in peace to the victims, fuggin awful.
Also, I’m digging the Judge Napolitano-esque links today.
Arsonists are the fucking worst. Burned to death. Jesus. Child rapists and arsonists really test my opposition to state executions.
I guess Kyoani must have been in some kind of older building? Even with an accelerant I don’t see how its possible to start that massive of a fire in an office building with people watching you set it.
According to Google This was their office before the fire.
Oh… yeah, that has “firetrap” written all over it.
We will know more when they investigate.
But if you are hell bent on mischief and worked there you’d know the entrances and exists. So you could chain or disable them before you torched the place.
Places like this are usually jammed full of stuff too.
Oh no….That’s awful.
KyoAni is definitely one the studio that gives its talent lots of creative freedom. Still a cut throat business.
OMWC has an in with the president?
Prosecutions for child sex trafficking plummet under Trump: Maybe it’s a coincidence
Despite Epstein case, sex-trafficking prosecutions fall by 26% — likely because of focus on border crossing
Perhaps Salon could point out some non-prosecuted cases?
OFFS, Salon! Really? They used to be an arts and entertainment site that catered to creative people and then 2008 happened. Open Salon circa 2007 was an interesting place, full of lively discussion and cool people. I made (and later lost) some friends there.
I’m sure it’s a coincidence, just like it was a coincidence that ABC is plastering the 27 year old video of Trump at a party with Epstein all over their news programs and not even mentioning a single word about the long-standing relationship Clinton (and many, many NY/DC Democrats) have had with Epstein.
I don’t quite get why this is supposed to be a big gotcha. Epstein was socially prominent in Palm Beach for a long time. So is Trump. So are a million other rich and famous people, many if not most of whom are Democrats. They were at the same party – so? Trump’s grinding on adult women in the video, not young girls.
“Despite the drop since Trump took office, the number of federal child sex trafficking prosecutions is more than 90 percent higher than it was a decade earlier. Such prosecutions increased threefold during Obama’s presidency.”
You know… I had a co-worker rant to me once about how Trump was going to be caught for this Epstein rape island, which was the real pizzagate. (But pizzagaters were totally crazy). This new evidence makes it clear.
Maybe they stopped classifying as many 19 year old prostitutes as child sex trafficking victims?
This shit always pisses me off. Prosecutions depend on crimes being committed. There is no set amount of that. You can’t just throw out a number of how many prosecutions there ought to be. The only stat that makes sense is unsolved crimes. At least then we know (sorta?) That a crime occurred. If half the people choose not to commit the crime, there will be less prosecutions.
Must be a toughie for some folks….Indigenous Peeepulz sacredness vs IFLS!
Good thing my son is working off info from a scope in AZ.
Up here it is so ubiquitous that I just lift my lip at the whole charade. They’re after money, nothing more, nothing less.
Yes. Lefties call old Injuns native elders to be honored but old white people are just old .
“Jessica Chastain gives leggy display in sparkling striped skirt as she is joined by her It: Chapter 2 costars for New Line Cinema’s 3rd annual ScareDiego at Comic-Con 2019
‘I’m very happy to work again in a genre that actually has empowered women. And in that genre, you usually see the person surviving at the end being the lady. “”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7259723/Jessica-Chastain-Chapter-2-costars-smiles-New-Line-Cinema.html
Oaken Wood!
Libertarians are heartless monsters, ch 6,722
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) tried to win the Senate’s consent to approve the House-passed bill, which would reauthorize funding until fiscal 2090. The bill cleared the House in a 402-12 vote last week.
But Paul objected, pointing to the country’s growing debt and arguing that any new spending should be offset by cuts to other spending.
“It has long been my feeling that we need to address our massive debt in the country,” he said. “And therefore any new spending … should be offset by cutting spending that’s less valuable. We need to, at the very least, have this debate.”
He added that if the House bill was brought up for a vote in the Senate he is planning to offer an amendment, “but until then I will object.”
A spokesperson for Paul later told The Hill that Paul “is not blocking anything,” adding that he is “simply seeking to pay for it.”
‘Til 2090? WTF?
No government handout, once begun, can ever be ended.
Permanent slush fund
Nothing like making your grandkids and their kids pay for shit during your generation.
Where’s that “Daniel Boone” speech when we need it?
Do you mean Davey Crockett?
https://fee.org/resources/not-your-to-give-2/
One of the grizzled stress engineers here at work is named Dave Crocket. I can’t help but to sing the song anytime his name comes up
right, I get those to mixed up.
I do too.
Crockett was a very interesting dude.
He really did not like Andrew Jackson. And vice-versa. Jackson really screw Crockett over
“You may all go to Hell, and I shall go to Texas” is a great mic drop line.
Seeking to pay for it? What kind of reckless nonsense is that???
If people feel a moral imperative to help families of 9/11 victims for generations, then why not a charitable foundation, or a GoFund Me? Nothing is stopping anyone who wants to help these people from doing so.
Because violent appropriation of funds is the only way to support victims of violence.
Because violent appropriation of funds from innocent third parties is the only way to support victims of violence.
FIFY
Damn Lawyers. You gonna bill me for that?
At a Minimum of one hour per consultation.
Nah, I just pulled it out of your retainer. By the way, your retainer is depleted and needs refilled.
Why do the families deserve taxpayer funds anyway?
Well, to be fair, the Fedgov failed to prevent the attacks after pissing away trillions on intelligence agencies and national defense, then gave medals of Freedom to the fuckups.
Why do you want to deprive those 125 year old first responders of their health care?
If they make it to 125, I don’t think responding to 9/11 hurt them any.
No worries. Next week they’ll be back on the “muh debt” train because Trump’s tax cuts.
House Democrats had demanded information about why the administration sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census and were not satisfied with the response, saying that neither Barr nor Ross responded to a legitimate congressional subpoena.
Isn’t it a moot point anyway considering the court ruling on the matter?
Nope.
It’s a stage to grandstand on.
That’s all that matters.
I’m sure these dumb girls sign a release granting distribution rights before the cameras start rolling. I wonder if any of them read it?
They plied them with cake. Not fair.
Arizona
None, what-so-ever
Your name is Poppy
Yes, but when snapped. Thermonuclear.
no, “many” is the wrong generalization of quantity. boatloads is probably better.
I got nuthin’
LOL
that’s funny
Website blocked.
“Online Storage and Backup”? Seriously, that’s the category it’s in?
That’s a great shirt, I laughed hard.
Figurative conviction
ep. Al Green (D-Texas) said the House of Representatives “convicted” President Donald Trump by voting to pass a resolution to “condemn” his attacks on freshman House Democrats…
The final vote on Tuesday evening was 240-187 with four Republicans joining the Democrats in voting yes.
Green saw the passage of the resolution as a “conviction” that could lead to impeachment. Green was pushing for an up-or-down vote on articles of impeachment Wednesday evening but the effort failed.
“He was convicted. I see this as a bifurcated process. Yesterday was his trial. He was convicted. Today is his punishment and I’m pushing for impeachment because yesterday we imposed no sanctions. There’s no fine and he’s not going to leave office,” Green said. “The president ought to be sanctioned so as to impose proper sanctions we then have to move to today. It’s a bifurcated process.”
Idk about this term. But I suppose he is referring to the multi-pronged attacks that are an effort to remove Trump by any means necessary.
I’m just going to assume the honorable Rep Green doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
He forgot “show” before “trial”.
I don’t often fear retards, but when I do it’s because they are congressman.
Remember, they might not have apelike strength…but don’t lock eyes with ’em. Might set ’em off. Next thing you know they are like a whirling Dervish, all elbows and fists…
Rep Green: did someone say something about cake?
Trump thanks ‘vicious young Socialist Congresswomen’ for his poll numbers
Maybe they were good in 2016, but didn’t Rasmussen flub the midterms?
“Official School Records Support Claims That Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Married Her Brother | Self-Evident”
https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/1151678698803912706
https://pjmedia.com/davidsteinberg/official-school-records-support-claims-that-rep-ilhan-omar-d-mn-married-her-brother/
Where’s my fainting couch?
Nothing will happen.
Look. The DNC is accepting of illegal immigrants, free care for those illegals, infanticide, Obama spying and secret kill lists, and MS-13. You think a little in-breeding marriage is gonna sway them now?
Hell, it took five people with credible accounts of pedophilic abuse to come forward on Ed Murray to get them to abandon him, and he was just a mayor.
Oh, they also want to normalize pedophilia.
The Democrats (and Liberals here) are illiberal psychopaths.
I don’t quite understand what she got by marrying her brother, but I don’t think it was for sexy times. Shit she kept living with her first husband the whole time, so I think there must have been some financial angle to the whole thing.
When they were at NDSU, all three of them shared the same address.
She might be a lot of things, but I sincerely doubt she’s a brother fucker.
Immigration Fraud.
-1 Shelbyville
The implication I’ve heard was immigration fraud.
“When they were at NDSU, all three of them shared the same address.”
And bed.
Right?
C’man!
It was a green card marriage, nothing more.
So she isn’t really guilty of incest and only technically guilty of bigamy but she is absolutely guilty of immigration fraud and likely at least a few other crimes that tend to be related
Not inbreeding really. She was just scamming the system to get a relative in the country.
Gillibrand, after Paul objected, said she was “deeply disappointed” in his decision, adding, “Enough of the political games.”
“I am deeply disappointed that my colleague has just objected to the desperately needed and urgent bill for our 9/11 first responders,” she added
Of course you are, Senator Sorority Girl.
Saw her little speech by accident on the teevee. It was as nauseating as you would expect. When that line came out of her mouth I almost spit beverage.
In today’s everything is terrible, and always has been:
Reminder For ‘Stranger Things’ Fans: The Eighties Sucked
T/W: Cracked
It’s hard to remember now, but Cracked was a really funny site once upon a time.
Did the author even live through the decade?
Apparently, he did and he’s always been an asshole:
He’s right about one thing. He could use a good therapist.
He doesn’t seem to be willing to grasp what escapism is either.
There was no social media through which we could connect to each other, no easy way to debunk propaganda, no way to reach out across physical and cultural boundaries, no one to let you know that you weren’t alone.
Fuck, no social media! We actually had to spend time in each other’s presence and talk face to face. The horror! The horror!
Good to know there’s no propaganda these days! That’s particularly rich coming from a website that started pumping out pro-tranny articles on a weekly basis several years back.
That guy has issues. He’s a miserable life-hating SOB. It’s no wonder Cracked sucks with him as executive editor.
Yes, the decline of Cracked was a direct result of the elevation of David “I’m actually a white guy named Jesse” Wong, SJW nonpareil.
The 80s were a mixed bag for sure but among the cultural garbage there was some great things. I had a very free roaming childhood with a small group of friends. Dungeons and Dragons, early computers, beat up muscle cars, some great punk music, blah blah blah.
We ALL had free roaming childhoods, which is largely why we weren’t all massive pussies like anyone who has grown up since the late ’90s. I can remember the day we moved to Richmond from Long Island in 1983. I was seven years old, the movers were carrying boxes into the house, and my dad said “Go find some kids to play with”. So I got on my bike, rode down the street, and did exactly that. My parents had no idea where I was. Half of my friends in elementary school were latchkey kids who were home alone for hours before their mom or dad came home.
You came up with things to do. We made dirt tracks in the woods to race our bikes on. Dug out a baseball field in a vacant lot. Caught frogs, crawfish, and occasionally even snakes in the creek. Scavenged scrap wood and nails from construction sites to build tree forts. But yeah, it totally sucked because we didn’t have XBox and Netflix and artisinal mayonnaise.
” …it totally sucked because we didn’t have… artisinal mayonnaise.”
I did (whenever Grandma came to visit)
You came up with things to do. We made dirt tracks in the woods to race our bikes on.
HOA frowned upon such “petty vandalism”
Dug out a baseball field in a vacant lot.
Vacant lot? That’s a finin’
Caught frogs, crawfish, and occasionally even snakes in the creek.
“Dear neighborhood parents, we are concerned about the youth activity near the retention pond. There have been sightings of potentially dangerous wildlife in the area around the pond and the pond itself is an unsafe play environment.
Smooches
HOA”
Scavenged scrap wood and nails from construction sites to build tree forts.
I actually got an angry HOA letter because of this one. Most of the others were just disapproving conversations with random neighbors.
I had a split childhood. The first half (early 90s) was semi-rural and nearly feral. Lots of troublemaking and lots of good old fashion fun. The second half (late 90s) was in a typical suburban cookie cutter neighborhood where people “frowned on” things and “property value” is king.
Our neighborhood was an aborted subdivision. They made one street and then the money ran out, thus no HOA.
Good, HOAs are abominable.
As someone who had the misfortune to live in a neighborhood with one for a few years, I agree. Very glad there isn’t one where we live now.
They are a mixed bag. I have lived with and without them. My current one is entirely nonexistent other than collecting a small check every year.
I generally prefer without, but they arent all horrible.
Also, I generally oppose the concept of deed restrictions. I have an article idea brewing on that. But it is about 257th on my list.
An idea that came to me that hasn’t been fully fleshed out is the ability to pay out of deed restrictions. Maybe cap the entirety of pay outs at a percentage of purchase price, and the payouts go to the beneficiaries of the restrictions (your neighbors).
Idk, I’ll think about the implications more.
My idea (which apparently FL actually had as law at one time, until developers got it changed) was to time limit deed restrictions. I would put a 25 year limit (the FL one was either 20 or 30).
That is basically a generation. You want to control the character of a neighborhood? You can do it for 25 years, then it gets to evolve naturally.
There would need to be two aspects:
1. The time limit on deed restrictions
2. Elimination of (most) zoning. The parenthetical would be only for heavy industrial.
So you can create an HOA with a restriction to single family homes, but a generation from now it might start changing.
My neighborhood had an association – in 1960 – but over the years it just kind of fell apart. Is this common or is the HOA a more modern thing?
Not sure but modern HOA’s often can’t legally fall apart.
It is a nice little scam that cities and towns pull with developers.
See the city/town/county whoever is in charge of approving the development will only agree to allow the developer to move forward with the project IF each deed comes with restrictions requiring the community to have an HOA and requiring all owners to always vote to have the HOA “professionally” managed, and they are barred from ever voting to disband the HOA,
Also in the agreement, the HOA agrees to be responsible for some portion of services which would normally be paid for by the government. It could be street maintenance, it could be trash removal, snow removal, or any of a dozen other such services.
Now the city/town/county has 400 new houses that they will collect property taxes on at the same rate as the rest of the homes under their jurisdiction however they are not required to cover all the same services for those homes.
That stuff still exists in (extremely rural) parts of the country today. I grew up in the late 00’s/early 10’s and did a bunch of that type of stuff. Riding bikes on mountains trails, go with friends to climb the cemetery hill by the river so we could slide back down, built tree forts, etc.
It also helped that I grew up in a town of 2000 people and lived on a ranch for half my childhood though. Different family values.
It’s all about the family values. I graduated high school in 2012 in a semi-rural area. All we did as kids was screw around in the woods and get into trouble. Credit to my folks being big believers in always doing something outdoors. Other than that, they just let me and my brother run wild.
Contriving ad hoc rules to make baseball workable for the place and persons available is the most American thing of all time.
When a squad of boys thus “raised” parachutes into the wrong place, they just figure out what to do and get on with it.
The dude even dissed on “cruising”. The fun we had driving up and down the beach when we were kids was awesome. My kids would never think of doing something like that. Since they can contact all their buddies online, they don’t need to drive around just to see what is happening.
I spent most of the 80s in college, so naturally I don’t remember much of it.
This statement is made in a negative connotation
He’s a moron and can safely be dismissed.
Casseroles have endless variations.
If his momma loved him she would have made hotdish.
*sigh*
I miss John Cheese, the drunken version. Cracked just sucks now.
I remember when Sean Baby was writing there I liked him. He deserves a statue somewhere just for Fat Chicks in Party Hats
I remember him and he was good. I just did a quick search for John Cheese and found a post on Medium where he’s apologizing for sexually harassing women on the interweb. Oh well, his old articles are still funny.
Even Cheese went woke? That’s sad. He was very funny.
It was in vein too, the ladies don’t accept his apology.
https://medium.com/@johncheese_62352/i-owe-a-huge-apology-d7bde07b8042
in vein too
Damn, that is cold. The chicks didn’t even accept his main lined apology?
I’m going to blame that on autocorrect. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Very different experience than I had. Of course, many of the things the author complains about (bullies, Reagan, “nothing to do”) seem like features rather than bugs.
Same here. The cold war was a thing, but I wasn’t always terrified that the bombs were going to start dropping. Having no idea where he lived, in my area there were several movie theaters (close by ones were mostly second run theaters), as well as arcades. I didn’t know anyone who didn’t have a phone line in their house. And I was in the east side suburbs of Cleveland, not exactly a boomtown in the 80’s.
I was too young to understand nuclear annihilation. The Soviets were just ‘the bad guys’ and I was surprised to learn Reagan wouldn’t always be president.
The first election I remember was Ford/Carter.
I had a Ford/Dole bumper sticker on my bedroom door.
Heck I had my own private phone line. And a 300 (and then a 1200) baud modem for dialing into local BBS boards. Met some people through those early computer connections, playing War in the Streets.
I actually can remember being frightened of nuclear war. We watched The Day After in school once, Red Dawn was VERY popular with my peer group, and WarGames seemed very real to young me.
But it was really background noise more than anything. Kids are kids, they find ways to amuse themselves despite whatever’s going on in the world.
I have a story about cold war paranoia, but it’s too long for here.
My shitty hometown had a movie theater. Sure it ran second run movies, but it was still something to do. If we wanted first run movies we had to drive to Moorhead 45 miles away. But you know what, we’d load up a car and joke around all the way there and back.
#12 is just false, I havent even got to the first 11.
Yes, that stuff existed. No, not everyone was eating it.
The TV had three channels, and VCRs and premium cable were both still too expensive for most families
Ummm…what? He just described the 70s, not the 80s, but we had 6 channels even then. ABC, CBS, NBC, local indy (FOX in the 80s), KET and PBS.
The last 2 were often showing the same things at the same time, but not always.
And by ’81 we had cable.
I will street view the house I grew up in and no one would put us in the top 25% of households. It was a “nice”* working class/lower middle class neighborhood.
*You know, if you ignore the break ins every few years in the late 70s and early 80s.
We only got broadcast TV, but we had five channels – ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and Fox.
I’m not going to argue the food, my parents were terrible cooks. There’s a reason both me and my sister learned how to cook when we moved out.
We had 3, 5, 8, 19 (FOX when they started, wasn’t on the air before that), 25, 43, and 61 off the top of my head. We didn’t get cable until the mid/late 80’s, but had friends who did. My parents still live in the house I grew up in.
My parents still live in the house I grew up in.
As do mine, they need to move, but won’t because of my Dad. Whenever he passes, we are getting my Mom to sell (and the house next door, which they own and rent) and move, probably in with my sister.
The neighbor was moderate to crappy back then and is worse now.
neighborhood, most of the neighbors are fine.
Thankfully we all got out of the house I grew up in. That house, and the neighborhood, was a shithole, that’s only gotten worse since. Looking at google maps or zillow over the old neighborhood, and I see a lot of empty lots where houses used to be and get ‘Detroit’ vibes.
I read the rest of the article and we lived in entirely different decades.
lets see, so far as I know my entire life the big city of Lowell Ma we had the following channels …
VHF Channel 2 PBS
VHF Channel 4 NBC
VHF Channel 5 ABC
VHF Channel 7 CBS
VHF Channel 11 ABC (I think it was ABC but it was based out of Manchester so it had slightly different local programming and the same network shows)
UHF Channel 25 (poor reception as it was a NH station)
UHF Channel 38
UHF Channel 56
And I don’t remember which channel it was on but there was a NH version of PBS somewhere on the UHF dial but it mostly showed the same programming as Channel 2
So that is 9 channels and we got HBO right around 81 an that gave us another 15 or so.
There were a minimum of 4 movie theaters with an average of like 9 screens each within a 15 minute drive one of which was within biking distance and located about 300 yds outside the city limit.
There were 3 malls within a 15 minute drive, 2 amusement parks within a 30 minute drive, and 3 drive in movies within a 20 minute drive, and in town we had 2 roller rinks, a skating rink, a Bowling Alley, and 4 public pools.
Note: This was in a city where well over half the residents were on welfare of some sort.
Yeah this guy isn’t complaining about the 80’s. He’s complaining about growing up in a poor backwater town, someone should tell him those places still exist.
Yeah, the 80s sucked. /eye roll
Me and my friend next door could walk in our backyard hollow and plink away a brick of .22 with no hassle. In NJ.
I’m surprised Reagan only made it to #2 on the list of horribles.
What a sad, sad person.
“AOC says calling people ‘communist’ has a ‘rich history’ in ‘white supremacy’
“It was one of the preferred smears against integrating schools, & one of the main attacks segregationists used against [Martin Luther King Jr],” she said, referring to the civil rights hero.
Ocasio-Cortez linked to a tweet calling out a conservative publication for allegedly justifying racist attacks directed toward a socialist.
“Credit where credit is due: the argument that it’s okay to be racist against a socialist who is critical of America was pioneered in the 1960s by National Review in their many attacks on Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Jeet Heer, a correspondent for the left-leaning magazine The Nation, tweeted.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-says-calling-people-communist-has-a-rich-history-in-white-supremacy
“AOC says calling people ‘communist’ has a ‘rich history’ in ‘white supremacy’ AOC responds to every criticism by claiming she is the victim of one of the following: -Racism -Sexism -Classism The only card she can ever play is that she is a victim”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1151675630322212864
Ad-homs are the retort of people who can’t defend their positions.
“AOC says calling people ‘communist’ has a ‘rich history’ in ‘white supremacy’
In the form of white-supremacist Russians?
White-supremacist Russian:
1pt cocoa butter
1pt heavy cream
3pt neutral spirit
garnish with dollop of artisanal mayonnaise
Holy shit, what a moronic douchenozzle, albeit we all already know how intellectually deficient she is.
Boy, that’s going to give the NeverTrump NRO crowd a serious case of the sadz. “But…but….we’re on the same side here!”
She’s right – the KKK used to ride through the night, handing out anti-communist pamphlets to the little chillins.
So what about the self proclaimed communists.
She needs to get with the program. MLK Jr. was under-bussed during the metoo purges.
Credit where credit is due: the argument that it’s okay to be racist against a socialist who is critical of America was pioneered in the 1960s by National Review in their many attacks on Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless evidence is provided that such attacks were race-based, I’m going to assume this is a slander, as MLK did hold many views that deserved to be attacked. He’s a hero for his contribution to civil rights, but his ideas on economic policy were way off base. I’m thinking NR probably attacked the latter.
EPIC FAIL: Anderson Cooper Tries to Convince Texas Women That Trump Is a Racist
Nice try fake news.
Why voting our conscience is bad in the US
Keep voting for those corrupt and self interested pigs who have made such a mess of things, it’s the only reasonable thing to do.
The third parties don’t have a chance because no one votes for them. Therefore voting for them is wrong because they don’t have a chance.
Also note that by their definition, voting third party lets you help boh candidates simultaneously.
We only have two choices in the US, shitty or shittier.
FIFY
We have interference by the electoral college
‘Interference’?
If we don’t vote for one of these choices, we help the other.
And if I simply choose not to vote at all? Failed logic is failed.
Not just that but if you don’t vote for A you help B necessarily means not voting for A or B helps both. The fallacy is assuming A owns the votes and withholding it is taking it away
“We have interference by the electoral college”
I missed that. This person seems to think this was some arcane thing no one had heard of till Trump got elected.
“I’m on Anderson Cooper in about half an hour…”
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1151703791009329152
I don’t think you’re his type.
Letter: The Republican disinformation team
He stayed awake in public school history class.
“For those who fell asleep in high school history class: capitalism, socialism, communism and fascism are each a different economic system”
For those of you who were brainwashed on high school only one of those things is different from the others.
”
Socialism is an economic system defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “collective or government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.””
Except when it’s convenient to call Denmark socialist.
“However, the fact is none of the Democrats running for president are supporting such an economic system.”
Your right, they just call themselves socialists. Get it. Democrats are now having a marketing problem because a bunch of geniuses thought calling themselves socialists would play well.
” A strong safety net makes it easier for individuals to take the risks of entrepreneurship”
But why bother when you have dolts advocating for cradle to grave care for those unwilling to work, and a 90% tax rate for the “rich”.
That trope about you need safety nets to take risks needs a serious citation.
The expansion in entrepreneurship prior to the 20th century didn’t have such perks.
I think that is exactly backwards. A safety net destroys entrepreneurial drive.
reduced risk results in retarded rewards.
For those of you who were brainwashed on high school only one of those things is different from the others.
In fairness, there are more differences than that. Classical capitalism is private ownership and private control over capital, classical fascism is private ownership and public control over capital, while classic socialism is public ownership and public control over capital. And classical communism is the fantasy that capital can be abolished.
Another ‘That wasn’t real socialism!’ apologist?
*grasps forehead, falls onto fainting couch*
lumps socialism, communism, fascism, Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea and every evil dictator in history together as one big socialist tragedy.
That’s because they are. Socialism and Communism need a total state in order to be attempted to function. Fascism is merely socialism with some sort of national&racial superiority complex.
What are you nosing around the Fargo Foolum for? That should be Mike’S job. And I look at it too because I have a kid going to NDSU and spend time in NoDak every year.
I didn’t find it, it found me.
One of these things is not like the others.
“capitalism” is the derogatory term for economic freedom.
The economic aspect of fascism is socialism.
If socialism isn’t present in the form of a voluntary commune then it ultimately requires totalitarianism and oppression. I don’t think the author has thought his viewpoint through.
They trip over themselves on ‘technicalities’ of definitions.
They will never be voluntary because they fly in the face of human nature. ///newsovietman
Berkley being Berkley
Berkeley, California, a city with a long history of progressivism, is moving forward with a plan to remove all gendered language from its city code as part of an effort to recognize its nonbinary residents.
Soon, in the Bay Area city just east of San Francisco, all instances of “he” and “she” in the city code will replaced by the gender-neutral “they.”
The City Council on Tuesday adopted the first reading of the new ordinance eliminating “gender preference language” in its municipal code.
With the change, “manholes” will be called “maintenance holes,” “firemen” will become “firefighters,” “manmade” will be “artificial” and all instances of “men and women” will be replaced by “people.”
The effort was spearheaded by City Council member Rigel Robinson.
“It is Berkeley being Berkeley, and what that means is it’s Berkeley being inclusive,” Robinson told NBC Bay Area. “A male-centric municipal code doesn’t reflect the reality of the city of Berkeley.”
Robinson said the change to the city code, which will cost $600, is important because “language has power.”
It’s good to have priorities. Why worry about hobo jungles and cholera epidemics when your building code is hurtful to the gender-confused 1% fringe of society?
I’m excited to see the court ruling that says everything is legal as long as you don’t do it in a group. (I know it doesn’t work that way)
With the change, “manholes” will be called “maintenance holes,”
Not human holes?
STEVE SMITH LIKE HUMAN HOLES!
It is getting to the point where language will just be a jumble of random letters.
Technically….
And here I was thinking that “manhole” is the term because it is an access point that is the size of a human. IOW it is already
gendersex-neutral.Here you thought correctly. I was just going to respond that “maintenance hole” is a degradation of the language, since that broadens the meaning of something that is supposed to be more specific. The two common sizes of maintenance holes are manholes (large enough to fit a person) and handholes (smaller and shallower, not intended for a person to get inside of although a small person could technically squeeze into a larger handhole if they were determined).
It’s so that can keep the MH abbreviation on maps.
Been there, done that 30+ years ago. Went back to manholes 20+ years ago officially, and unofficially they never changed.
Changing “manmade” to “artificial”? Those aren’t really synonyms.
““men and women” will be replaced by “people.””
Not all men or women identify as people.
What about manslaughter charges? Will those be changed too?
Womanslaughter will carry the same penalty as first degree murder.
to remove all gendered language from its city code
And what of the Spanish translation?
The Spanish language will have to be rewritten to be more inclusive.
In other Berkley news, let’s ban an efficient (and clean) heating and cooking fuel source:
Berkeley becomes first U.S. city to ban natural gas in new homes
Berkeley city council gets a stiffy over this innovative cooking technique
“he” and “she” in the city code will replaced by the
gender-neutrallinguistically incorrect “they.”“the change to the city code, which will cost $600”
I think xe is missing a few zeros. That would be 40 hours at minimum wage. Rewriting the entire code is going to take higher priced people a lot longer than one week.
$600 is the cost of the gas needed to burn all the papers. The labor costs nothing, there will be plenty of volunteers.
They’re going to have an intern do a find and replace in a Word version of the code, which is going to produce hilarious results.
Has-been “comedian” haz outrage
Comedian Jon Stewart, an outspoken advocate for 9/11 first responders, blasted Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for his objection Wednesday to a bipartisan bill to ensure a compensation fund for victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks never runs out of money.
Speaking to Fox News host Bret Baier Wednesday, Stewart called Paul’s objection to the bill, which the libertarian-aligned senator said should be offset by spending cuts, was “outrageous” and “an abomination.”
“Pardon me if I’m not impressed in any way by Rand Paul’s fiscal responsibility virtue signaling,” Stewart said, noting that Paul supported President Donald Trump’s tax cut that “added hundreds of billions of dollars to our deficit.” He accused Paul of trying to “balance the budget on the backs of the 9/11 first responder community.””
I, for one, am feeling quite remorseful after this biting chastisement.
The clown nose is off for now, I see.
Also, did I miss something here? Why exactly am I supposed to give a shit about Jon Stewart’s opinion on this issue?
Because he CARES.
Because this is his pet issue that he is NOT joking around about!
“…noting that Paul supported President Donald Trump’s tax cut that “added hundreds of billions of dollars to our deficit.””
Broken record in Glibland, but…. Letting people keep their own money is government spending.
This Twitter Alternative Was Supposed To Be Nicer, But Bigots Love It Already
Free speech, how does it work?
“What’s more, the platform doesn’t have the technology or resources necessary to contain the Jew-hatred and Islamophobia so easily found there.”
Not even Twitter itself can contain all the anti-white sentiment.
Let me guess, Alison’s side gets to decide what hate speech is, right?
Hate is subjective and offense is taken, not given. Toughen up buttercup. ///LearnToCode
You could, I dunno, ignore the stupid shit that fringe assholes type on the Internet. I do love this formula though:
1. Find something stupid on a social media platform authored by a nobody
2. Call professor who will be preloaded with bias-confirming quote
3. Scramble together in obtuse article
4. Press “Publish” on “trend” article
I’ve thought that a competitor should attempt to set up a site where anything (legal) goes but everything has tags (like the articles here) and everyone can filter by tag what they want to see or not see. Getting the tags right would be the hard part, but I think if you allowed it to be crowdsourced with some responsible moderation on top that could be appealed to in order to prevent false-flagging you might get it to work. Easier said than done, but seems like the best way to have your cake and eat it to (free speech + safe space).
“This is unacceptable,” Gillibrand tweeted. “9/11 first responders are suffering and dying for their heroism, and my Republican colleagues can’t get it together to help them. I ask you: What are you even doing here?”
Sick burn.
What are you here for if you aren’t going to give money away for 90 years.
Mr. Speaker–I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. — Davy Crockett
I don’t think the bolded part is true anymore.
This was the part I tried to bold:
Every member upon this floor knows it.
Why can’t wordpress use standard tags?
Technically, they do.
Blame the standard for being terrible.
b is still part of the standard, even if it is practically deprecated.
*tries to get ‘blink’ tags to work again*
I love telling Texans that my Congressman died in the Alamo: top that
Was Ted Kennedy renting from Hertz when he drowned Mary Jo? That would be close.
unfortunately, he persisted.
That was actually 50 years ago today.
I’m sure it’s all over MSM.
I kept the newspaper from the moon landing, and there on the bottom corner of the front page is the Kennedy story. Weird coincidence, and Teddy can bless the astronauts for drawing all the attention.
He didn’t try very hard.
He represented eastern TN, right? I thought you were in western part of state?
I could be wrong on 1 or both of those statements.
You are correct that Crockett was born in the Franklin Movement area of North Carolina that many other Huguenot settled in; there weren’t any other real options further west ten years before partition.
Tennessee and Kentucky are really odd in America in that they are wide states. Explored from east to west, the US is usually punctuated with packets of space that are actually packets of time; most states (MS, AL, the colonies, IL, IN) are just a few miles and a decade of settling or so wide; even the place-names (eg: Van Buren) line up on meridians to mark our evolution and expansion. To live in the west end of a wide state is to have your history begin 400 miles away while your own neighborhood was still a wilderness; it is to see laws and land and title marked by method and regulation a full century out of step (eg: Indiana, east of me, is laid out in sections; west TN does have some sections, but property nevertheless is defined by eastern meets and bounds, a convention of the eastern coast and our national infancy).
Mr Crockett was elected to represent TN12 (defunct). I live in TN09, the final stop going west: things are numbered from east to west here because our space is, again, our time; TN01 will always be in the northeast (first) corner, as well it should be. So, if Davy represented his native county, he would have been the Congressman from TN01, TN03 at the most (I don’t find congressional maps going back that far), not TN12.
The counties have been parceled and renamed and divvied up many times, of course. Crockett lived in my home county of Obion when he was elected. His property might have been part proper of Gibson at that date or its antecedent, Carroll. That’s TN08 country these days. His wife’s grave is at the homestead, and Crocketts remain plentiful in those parts whether upright or interred.
Ky numbers from left to right, like all sensible people would, despite having the same general history as TN.
I don’t know when that happened.
The far west is district 1, I live in 2. Louisville is 3, Northern KY is 4, eastern is 5 and Lexington is 6. Those last 2 kind of break the pattern, but I think that is left over from the swtich from 7 to 6 districts in 1990?
Just checked. The previous version had 5 in the southeasternish part, 6 was lexington, and 7 was far east. When it switched to 6, 5 and 7 were combined, with 6 taking parts of it, and some general shifting of the others.
One of my Senators was the first American to orbit the Earth.
One of my reps threw a no hitter in both leagues.
One of my senators is a twat.
No…. wait… that’s both of them.
Same here.
Me too
#metoo
One of my Senators ate salad with a comb.
When you say “salad”…?
One of my senators was the smoot in smoot-hawley
What are you even doing here?
Representing the wishes of the people that elected them? (Ostensibly…)
Agreed. Why would they return their slaves?
& would send chills down the spines of our Founding Fathers.
Not likely.
Considering that Alexander Hamilton said the EXACT SAME THING about Albert Gallatin because he opposed central banking while having a French accent…
POLIFACT SAYZ: Not true.
Contempt of Congress
Former congressman Trey Gowdy called House Democrats “feckless and irrelevant” Wednesday in response to a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress.
“Barr is ostensibly being held in contempt for not turning over documents he has no legal obligation to turn over. In fact, it would be against the law to do so,” Gowdy said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”
The House Wednesday voted to hold Barr and Ross in criminal contempt, saying they were stonewalling congressional probes into the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Gowdy said contempt of Congress didn’t matter after Tuesday, when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi violated House rules.
“Nobody cares what Congress does. What we saw yesterday — they can’t even enforce their own House rules against their own members. So, there used to be a stigma attached to being held in contempt of Congress. There ain’t no more,” Gowdy said. “So, I would tell Bill Barr, ‘Your reputation as an incredible lawyer is intact. Don’t give it another thought.’”
No more cool kids’ lunchroom table for you.
“Nobody cares what Congress does.”
I know I don’t. It’s mostly decorative now, the least relevant part of government.
It’s pretty much the Imperial Roman Senate at this point. At least they get to keep their perks.
I was going to do a Spot the Not for Tom Steyer, but I had to stop when I read this quote:
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Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated with them are technological.
***
[anguished Zoidberg groan]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7gxStnBfbg
Fun fact: his Farallon Capital fund invested heavily in one of the largest coal mines on the planet: Maules Creek
wiki sez
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A 2014 New York Times article said coal-mining companies which Farallon invested in or lent money to under Steyer had increased their coal production by 70 million tons annually since receiving money from Farallon, and that Steyer remained invested in the Maules Creek coal mine.
***
The more solar and wind plants there are, the more coal will be needed to take up the slack.
Brilliant!
Heyo, sir and wow that quote was…quite the friggin doozy.
Hey, you’re back!
Hail to the King, baby.
Here, have a Tom Steyer quote:
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Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.
***
Kenecott Copper or GTFO
Gowdy argued that the House of Representatives has lost its power under Democratic leadership.
“Congress has worked itself into obscurity [and] irrelevance. When you can go on the floor of the House as the presidents say ‘I’m going to do it with or without you,’ and Congress stands up and cheers, you have rendered that branch of government feckless and irrelevant,” Gowdy said. “Congratulations. The House doesn’t matter anymore. White House and Senate [matter], House doesn’t matter.”
Oh, come on. They’re entertaining to watch, like a bunch of clowns running around bonking each other on the head with giant plastic Fred Flintstone clubs.
Trump’s going to win in a landslide next year, isn’t he?
Among actual voters, probably.
It’ll look like a squeaker due to the margin of fraud.
If he does, will the reaction be an even more hilarious explosion of anger and tears, or just glum resignation?
The former. Definitely the former.
Yup. And I wouldn’t even be surprised to see the Russians blamed again (with another special prosecutor too).
When Bush II won his second (and horrible) term, I thought, at the time, it would finally shut the Dems up about his “illegal” (Florida, hanging chads) presidency. I learned a lot about politics since.
DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES!!1!
According to the MSM, there hasn’t been a Republican legitimately elected president since Reagan.
Tantrums.
Definatley more tantrums.
Well, the screeching hasn’t ceased but has escalated perpetually, so…
Do they have to be plastic?
Are same-sex couples being denied mortgages? A study says they are.
It’s all that Miata buying, clothes, and pansy flowers. It adds up.
Let me guess, they’re not comparing like financial situations.
That’s the catch.
Until recently, same-sex couples were not contractually married in the eyes of the law, this affects the financial risk of issuing a mortgage to them jointly just like it would any other unmarried couple.
I’ll bet that if they looked at mortgage statistics for homosexual singles, they’re indistinguishable from heterosexual.
Or just look at mortgage statistics after same sex marriage became the law of the land.
Or compare same sex couples before the law to unamrried couples.
“transactions dating as far back as 1990”
They had to go back thirty years to get their “data” to say what they wanted?
Why the fuck would any financial institution refuse to take gay people’s money?
Of course, it goes back to 1990, or 25 years before same sex marriage was legal nationwide, so it totes represents how things work now.
Maybe one of the other factors is that those homos are the tip of the spear when it comes to gentrification. Some of those rejections might be because they were asking for loans in a super shitty part of town. Bankers might not be all that thrilled to end up with a shitty building in a shitty part of town if they have to foreclose?
Yeah, that’s fair. IFLS!
This isn’t getting any play in the US media for some reason (no guns?), but at least 33 dead in arson at animation studio in Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Animation is a pretty legendary animation studio. This fucking sucks.
Who looks at the actual links?
Jimmy Dean?
Bravo!
I have often made the argument that even without guns a person could commit horrendous mass murder with exactly what this guy used. I believe it is the shooting scenes in movies which motivate insane people in the US who are bent on mass murder to choose guns. If they put a little more independent thought to it there are many simpler and more effective methods.
And I could be proven wrong but I don’t expect that even knee-jerk Japan will try to restrict gas cans or gasoline sales to people with gas cans.
But if we do that, we can finally begin to free people from the shackles of the automobile-industrial complex!
And really, if it saves just one life…
I lived in Sri Lanka during the civil war. During my residence, in Colombo alone the Tigers got the President, the Minister of Defence, the commander of the Navy, a chunk of Armed Forces HQ, and a depressing pile of bystanders and commuters (almost including me). Aside from the Navy CO, every attack was car or suicide bombs.
If they put a little more independent thought to it there are many simpler and more effective methods.
Of course. The deadliest school massacre in US history was not a shooting, it was a bombing. The deadliest non-school massacres have generally involved bombs as well.
“I don’t think it works that you say, ‘We’re going to have a safe space for people who have been kicked off of other platforms because their speech is hateful and we promise that this safe space is going to be really civilized.’ How does that work? There is no such thing as civilized hate speech.”
Something something working backwards from the conclusion.
“You get turned down, and it’s not like they tell you, ‘We’re turning you down because you’re a same-sex couple,’ ’’ said Karen L. Loewy, senior counsel at Lambda Legal, which advocates for the LGBT community and people with HIV. “The reasons that folks are given are usually more innocuous, and I think folks don’t generally suspect that discrimination is playing a role.’’
All that hocus-pocus about whether or not you’d be able to pay the money back was just a smokescreen for their kkkorporate homophobia.
And yet when the next crash comes we will hear no end of greedy bankers handing out loans like candy.
A loan that never gets repaid* is worthless to the lender.
*favors or in-kind payments still count as a type of repayment.
A True American Hero
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who died at the age of 99 on Tuesday, was a Republican appointed by President Gerald Ford. But Stevens took a position that would make even many liberals blush: He called for repealing the Second Amendment.
Stevens made the argument for repeal in a New York Times op-ed last year, in response to the March for Our Lives movement that came out of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. He argued that for most of US history, the Second Amendment was interpreted narrowly — not placing a strict limit on federal or state governments’ ability to regulate firearms. But that changed recently, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms, Stevens wrote:
In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.
That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power. Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.
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The Supreme Court’s new reading of the Second Amendment reflects that [changed interpretation]. And from Stevens’s view, it created such an untenable position that he argued the amendment must be repealed.
Blah blah blah guns are bad and nobody who doesn’t work for the all-knowing all-seeing government should be allowed to have one. Gun confiscation is the only way to save the nation.
Stevens said it, it must be true.
TW: Vox
They’re more than welcome to try to amend the Constitution to repeal the Second Amendment. They never actually try to do so. Why? Because they know damned well that it would never happen.
has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power
Not to mention all the gun owners who can, you know, avoid being locked up for exercising their right.
Seriously, what’s with his obsession with the NRA? I mean, say what you want about the wisdom or legal reasoning of RvW, but if a critic said that it gives a powerful propaganda weapon to Planned Parenthood, it would A) be a hackneyed turn of phrase, and B) ignore the much greater effect of guaranteeing legal access to abortion. Maybe the critic thinks that’s nothing more than butchering fetuses, much like gun grabbers conflate gun ownership with shooting up schoolchildren, but that makes the propaganda argument even more trivial and pointless.
Because the leftists are collectivists who can’t comprehend that anyone is capable of doing something without a rigid hierarchy directing them. That’s the way their side works, so they assume everyone is like that.
I don’t like speaking ill of the dead, but for a few people, I’ll make exceptions.
He argued that for most of US history, the Second Amendment was interpreted narrowly — not placing a strict limit on federal or state governments’ ability to regulate firearms.
Then I wonder how firearms became so integral to american society.
common use: which usually had zero to do with militia
Recent rulings notwithstanding, your right to anything, even guns, is better explained (not created!) by the 9A, which could have just as easily been written: fuck off, slaver
I agree with you that the irks me when someone says: you don’t have a right to own/do X when clearly I do and the government clearly has no power to do so.
That said I don’t believe the idea that the second amendment was about the ability of the state to arm a militia.
It says the “right of the people…shall not be infringed” in contrast to the “militia”.
Which is why the NFA was passed in 1794.
I thought it was the Militia act.
Fun facts; The British NRA predates the US one. Wiki sez
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The National Rifle Association was founded in 1859,[1] based on Putney Heath & Wimbledon Common, 12 years before its better known American cousin.
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Larf!
The US NRA was founded because it was discovered that Union soldiers for firing about 1,000 rounds for every dead Confederate.
You’d think liberals would be in favor of an organization founded for the purpose of killing white male Southerners.
wiki sez
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The National Rifle Association was first chartered in the State of New York on November 16, 1871[1][7] by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church and Captain George Wood Wingate. On November 25, 1871, the group voted to elect its first corporate officers. Union Army Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, who had worked as a Rhode Island gunsmith, was elected president.[18] When Burnside resigned on August 1, 1872,[19] Church succeeded him as president.[20]
Union Army records for the Civil War indicate that its troops fired about 1,000 rifle shots for each Confederate hit, causing General Burnside to lament his recruits: “Out of ten soldiers who are perfect in drill and the manual of arms, only one knows the purpose of the sights on his gun or can hit the broad side of a barn.”[21][22][23] The generals attributed this to the use of volley tactics, devised for earlier, less accurate smoothbore muskets.
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a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple
Then go for it.
What are his feelings on Warren v DC?
JPS- a scummy justice who used the power of the state to crush individuals, or at least attempt to.
Stevens is one more reason I’m glad that I voted against Ford.
Not that the guy who won was any better…
I’ve said it before, but one thing that sticks out to me about Stevens…
He was on the majority in Deshaney v. Winnebago County, which said, essentially, that the government has no duty to protect you.
He also dissented in Heller. So, he said, essentially, that you have no right to protect yourself.
That’s some evil shit.
He argued that for most of US history, the Second Amendment was interpreted narrowly — not placing a strict limit on federal or state governments’ ability to regulate firearms. But that changed recently, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms
Let’s see what Justice Story, appointed to the Court by the “Father of the Constitution” James Madison, says about this in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:
Seems to indicate an individual right to me. As to the purpose of the militia, rather than restraining the people’s use of arms, it was thought necessary to encourage it:
Well folks. I’ve hit a new low. I’m now officially bangin one of the church ladies.
Your wife joined a church?
is now employed by the church which we attend. Attending a church is not enough to be considered a church lady.
Do you still make her practice kneeling at home? I can borrow you some papal vestments if you are interested in spicing up your love life a bit….
Ew. Used vestments.
Gross, dude.
Does she make coffee cake? I will forever associate basement church ladies with coffee cake
That’s an odd euphemism.
She doesn’t do the baking for the church, she cooks (or at least plans) most of the meals, because this is MN and people are shit cooks around here.
“No one north of I-10 can cook worth a fuck.”
Quote from a cajun* on another site from about a decade ago.
*or some sort of Louisiana dweller.
Based upon my sampling of cuisines from vast swathes of territory north of I-10, I know I can disregard anything he has to say.
cooking quality generally diminishes as one heads north
and the quality of schools generally diminishes in proportion to their distance from the Canadian boarder – Moynihan
I’m not sure what Moynihan was trying to say, but the New York public schools I attended were shit.
That’s horseshit.
I’ve had great meals and terrible meals everywhere.
I know it is wrong, I just was amused by how little space had quality food according to him.
I’m on safari, and the up/down arrows are gone. Is this the same for everyone?
I’m not in the African bush, and the arrows are missing here.
If I was on safari, I would use a large bore rifle, not arrows (up, down or sideways). But you be you. I guess the Lions (African and NFL) got to get a win every once in a while).
I’m on safari, and the up/down arrows are gone. Is this the same for everyone?
Tell that elephant to get his own damn pajamas.
More:
At the same time, much of the evidence suggests that the US will at some point need to go further on guns than much of the current discussion suggests. The research indicates that the core problem in the US is it simply has too many firearms. The current policy proposals don’t do much to address this core problem.
It’s straightforward: Everywhere in the world, people get into arguments. Every country has residents who are dangerous to themselves or others because of mental illness. Every country has bigots and extremists. But here, it’s uniquely easy for a person to obtain a gun, letting otherwise tense but nonlethal conflicts escalate into deadly violence.
Universal background checks wouldn’t address this. Even an assault weapons ban wouldn’t, because the great majority of shootings — 70-plus percent of gun homicides, for instance — involve a handgun. That’s why I’ve argued for tighter restrictions on all guns, including up to all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns, and a buyback program that would confiscate these guns out of circulation (much like Australia did).
Much of that is not politically realistic today. But just as Democrats have over the years shifted debates over health care, climate change, college, and taxes on the ultrawealthy, they could get a similar discussion rolling on guns too. Perhaps Stevens’s call to repeal the Second Amendment is one way to get that conversation going, demonstrating that this is a view at least some respectable, mainstream legal scholars hold.
If nothing else, it could help balance the scales. The NRA has successfully worked against policies, like universal background checks, that are enormously popular with the US public. Perhaps an equal counterweight on the other side could, overall, push the country closer to the middle ground that most Americans already support.
Take the mask off. Reveal yourself.
“Now that you mention it, we really do want to take all your guns away, you goddam deplorables. Get on your knees.”
a buyback program that would confiscate
So you agree that “buyback” is a misnomer and really means compensated confiscation. Now we are getting somewhere.
that are enormously popular
Popularity is not a justification for the government to violate its founding charter.
“confiscate these guns out of circulation (much like Australia did).”
Last I checked they still only got about 20% compliance on that law passed more than 20 years ago.
Good (late) morning SP and the assembled horde!
Thanks for the lynx and for one of my fave rock bands. They are coming here in September, but I don’t think I can bear to watch them so old.
I’d rather remember them like this.
Ahhhh, the 80’s…
Reagan cut his teeth as a radio announcer – there is no question that he knew the mike was live when he made that “joke”. It was his way of poking the bear to see their reaction. Dangerous, yes – and probably foolhardy. But it did give us vital intelligence on how they would respond and what their capabilities were.
Cold war games were so much fun!
I remember when right-thinking people scoffed at the notion that the left was trying to mainstream pedophilia. And then…..
The Midnight Nambla
and a song for you Navy men
Is it any surprise? The pre-pubescent “drag kid” was featured on Good Morning America. Because we can all be sure the folks at Disney would be nothing but supportive if Bubba from Mississippi took his pre-pubescent daughter to dance provocatively for the customers of the local strip club.
I’m wondering the odds that the customers would proceed to bludgeon Bubba into a bloody mess.
I suspect they would. As the target audience should do to “drag kid’s” mother, if they have any self respect.
That was straight up disgusting.
That kid is being pimped out by his parents and the media has celebrated it.
And let’s be clear. They’re celebrating it because they want to be seen as a friend to a minority that is perceived as oppressed. Their desire to virtue signal has led them to celebrating the overt sexualization of children by their own parents for profit. It’s sick.
They’re celebrating it because they want to be seen as a friend to a minority that is perceived as oppressed.
That’s the part I don’t get. For years we’ve been told, in no uncertain terms, that homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia. The entire act here seems to fly in the face of that claim.
I sense a split in the homosexual community over this. The “queers” are running the show now and to them, anything goes, particularly if it’s offensive to “mainstream America”. It’s only a matter of time before we see more and more of a divide between those who think that moral human behavior should have some limits and the lunatics.
probably so
there’s always a split coming in everything, even when churches merge
I argue this all the time with leftists: if you’re platform is #resist instead of principle, then you’ll have crazy people in your tent just because they #resist too. When you take up principle and abandon #resist, then it no longer matters what collective you identify as . . . should such a world ever arise
* cringes *
that thing I did: will Ted’S see ?
The “community” was taken over by Marxists in a process that was more or less complete by 2000 or so. Same as many other American institutions.
I’m pretty sure that’s already called “the child beauty pageant circuit.”
Yep, which is equally disturbing. The difference is that most media types covered the child beauty pageant circuit in a fairly negative light (and rightly so IMO) while cheerleading for the drag princesses.
Well, there is a class element at play.
-1 JonBenet
“according to current research, pedophilia is an unchangeable orientation….”
Oooooooo…. can I try?
According to current research, murderous feelings are an unchangeable orientation.
I saw that episode of Star Trek.
Sodom and Gomorrah, here we come.
I agree with the general sentiment that it’s probably genetically coded into some unfortunate individuals (probably much like zoophilia). As long as those thoughts and feelings remain only thoughts and feelings and don’t translate to actions, it’s none of my business. I’m not in the habit of policing people’s thoughts.
HOWEVER, this whole “let’s celebrate it!” bullshit and trying to equate it with healthy sexual drive is beyond absurd. It’s NOT normal. It’s NOT healthy. It SHOULDN’T be celebrated and/or accepted. People who have those thoughts and feelings SHOULD be distressed by them and try to get treatment.
This also dovetails into the absurdity of outlawing child-like sex dolls. If you truly have these immutable sexual urges, you know you can’t act them out morally, then I can see how tortured such a person might be. Give them a damn child sex doll so they can satisfy those urges harmlessly!
Yep. The move to excuse/tolerate/celebrate everything as “genetically predisposed” is a way to avoid making any moral choices.
bravo
it can’t be put any better or more plainly than that
100% in agreement. I don’t doubt that a deep-seated pedophilic urge is a horrible thing for someone to be afflicted by and, revolted as I may be by such people, there should be a clear bright line separating urges and fantasies from actual actions, but those actions will always be an abomination.
And yeah, if a kiddie doll can help, then I don’t see a problem with it.
there should be a clear bright line separating urges and fantasies from actual actions
SHITLORD SUPREMACIST BIGOT!!!,,!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
It’s a TEDx talk. Any retard can give one.
Fair enough. I never watch TED anything so I don’t know the particulars of these things, just have a vague notion that they’re some kind of would-be intellectual thing.
Snopes calls this True
See?
Not Fair
New Jersey is suing the Internal Revenue Service, challenging new rules that would block states’ attempts to get around a new $10,000 cap for state and local tax deductions.
The state’s governor, Democrat Phil Murphy, announced the lawsuit on Wednesday morning, naming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin among the defendants.
“As I said when the IRS rule was finalized in June, it was nothing more than a gut punch to the middle-class New Jersey families who know that the Trump tax plan is a complete sham,” Murphy said at a press conference in South Orange, New Jersey.
“It was a complete and total utter politicization of the federal tax code,” he said.
You can’t weaponize the tax code for political gain. That’s our job.
If your taxes are so atrocious that “Middle Class” New Jersey residents are paying over $10,000 a year in state and local taxes – fuck you, cut spending.
I’m paying $12k in property taxes and whatever the hell 6.37% of our joint income is.
I pay $2-3k, I’d have to check my last statement.
What’s the assessed value on your property?
I don’t remember. Probably in the neighborhood of $450k.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one in Essex County paying taxes.
Newark mayor’s wife, who was caught dodging taxes, just got more probation time
She sounds nice.
My first thought was: How bad did he have to screw up to get 8 years?
Then I saw he stole from his father’s “nonprofit”.
How do you get a job as a legislative aide with an active criminal record? I hate this stuff.
I pay ~$7k a year, and that’s considered outrageous in this part of the state. A few extra hundred bucks on the mortgage payment keeps a lot of buyers out of this suburb.
and excise fees on local purchases, so at least 5% on a quarter of income?
Murphy is a such a cringe-inducing idiot. He was all pissy a few weeks ago when the legislature would pass a millionaire’s tax to chase more people out of the state. But he’s mad when the exact same people can’t write-off their $30k in property taxes.
would not…
We can make it all up with various taxes on firearm ownership!
While the vast majority of people took the standard deduction, and didn’t need to itemize.
They really should have just scrapped itemized deductions and moved everyone to standard…but then what would we fight about?
I guesstimated that you had to be making somewhere north of $125K in order to be impacted by the SALT cap. Granted, that sort of income doesn’t go as far in those areas of the state that are most impacted by Democrat policies which raise the cost of living. I wonder why they aren’t addressing that side of the equation.
I was in the NY/NJ area a few months ago for work and tolls were $135 on a Mon-Fri trip.
That and the stupid gas pumping law kind of blew my mind.
The clerk came out after I had already started pumping and was impressed that I could handle the credit card panel and fuel my own car.
When we drive up to Long Island to visit my family, it costs almost $100 in tolls just for that one-way trip. The return trip is less, but still nothing to sneeze at.
I took a wrong turn that resulted in me crossing the border into New Jersey. It cost me $1 to get back out.
Entering NJ is free, but they always charge you to leave. It’s true for the Outerbridge Crossing, the Goethals Bridge, and the GWB in NY, the Ben Franklin Bridge in PA, and the Delaware Memorial Bridge in DE.
There is at least one crossing without a toll, but I was on I-80 and needed to meet people at a Diner within the next half hour or so.
The Diner was in Pennsylvania.
Entering NJ is free, but they always charge you to leave
Talk about knowing your market.
free Cascadia !
but, seriously, I think you can pump your own gas in Portland now
STEVE SMITH PUMP YOUR GAS TOO. AND BY PUMP YOUR GAS MEAN…
Am I missing something?
The change for some is to $10k from $22 in deductions, so $12k
on which those folks pay 25% or so ?
so this squabble is about $3k net increase in taxes, a rounding error on living in NY or NJ ?
There are millions of things that hurt those folks more than $3k that no one is doing anything about, aren’t there?
Why should I get to pay less in Federal income tax than if I lived in Florida?
What exactly is this chick’s job, anyway?
ILHAN OMAR INTRODUCES PRO-BDS RESOLUTION, ANNOUNCES VISIT TO ISRAEL
What the hell does any of that have to do with the 5th District in Minne?
Psh, she wasn’t elected to actually, you know, represent the interests of her constituents. She was elected to be a communist activist and crush her constituens under an iron shod boot.
She represents party ideologues, not the people that elected her.
When all you have is a hammer yadda yadda
“confiscate these guns out of circulation (much like Australia did).”
Last I checked they still only got about 20% compliance on that law passed more than 20 years ago.
Shush, you. You’re just muddying the waters. Once we pass the law, all guns will magically vaporize.
or gun owners will criminalized. Defend yourself with a gun? That’s a prison sentence.
“it seems shovel sales spiked after than ban was put in effect. I wonder why?”
“Here in Florida over a million guns have been reported lost in boating accidents. Will no one think of the manatee?”
Forget the Manatee, it’s the heavily armed Meth Gators you have to think about now.
I know that manually loaded firearms we not banned so theoretically there should still be ammo sales for those. But I wonder, if there was some way to estimate how many firearms were not banned, if current ammo sales would seem out of proportion to the number of manually loaded firearms supposedly in circulation.
I was down there (in Australia) just a couple months ago. When I make it back I might just wander into a gun store and strike up a conversation just to steer it towards this idea.
Only criminals have guns in Australia.
What was the number of guns turned in recently in New Zealand? Something like 300?
i saw 700…
out of an estimated 2,000,000 now-illegal firearms.
Whoa! Those boats must be flipping right out of the water. I blame climate change!
RE: pr0n doxxing.
One might be tempted to say that these girls were horrendously naïve for thinking videos of them having sex with strangers wouldn’t make it to the internet. You’d be mostly right.
However, if doxxing anonymous political meme creators is wrong, doxxing these women is wrong too (hell, doxxing in general is wrong). Even though 18 is legal adulthood, on average people that age are incredibly stupid. I frequently thank G-d that smartphones/the internet weren’t around when I was an adolescent with all the stupid stuff my friends and I did. Youthful stupidity shouldn’t define a person for life, but that’s the world we live in. I don’t know what is to be done though, the toothpaste isn’t going back in the tube. All someone can do is try to educate young people that no matter how fun/harmless/exciting something may seem in the moment, you need to remember that it will be out there forever. Like I read once from a porn actor, if you can’t handle your grandmother seeing it, don’t do it, because she probably will someday.
Or worse, you might see your grandmother.
While I agree with you that doxxing is wrong, you really shouldn’t put your face out there if you don’t want it to happen to you.
There’s a presumption that those who remain behind an alias and do not show pictures of themselves desire to remain anonymous. If I run out screaming into the street buck naked, it’s unlikely anyone will respect my wishes to remain unknown.
you really shouldn’t put your face out there if you don’t want it to happen to you.
What are we talking about again?
Doxxing is absolutely wrong and I don’t blame these women for being upset about it. That said, how goddamned stupid and gullible do you have to be to put yourself in this position? Anyone who consents to be filmed in the act who doesn’t assume that the video is going to be watched by viewers she/he never intended is either dumb as a brick or willfully naive, or both.
BTW, on a shitlord note, it’s amazing to me how attractive a lot of the girls in those videos are. You’d think that, if they wanted the money that badly, they’d just put out for sugar daddies.
But those guys are old, and keep wanting additional attention.
My problem is that when does it become self-doxxing. My impression is that these girls willingly and knowingly starred in a porn video. The only thing they were misled about was the extent of the distribution. So, they want to be porn stars but not be recognized as porn stars. At least when its inconvenient.
The example that comes closest to political doxxing would be someone who makes themselves very well known for a political cause getting upset that she gets fired because her boss found out about the cause.
I’ve got an idea. Let’s just blame the government. If the names and government identification of every actor and actress who acts in a porn didn’t have to be made publicly available upon request, it might be juuuuust a little bit harder to dox these women.
Cocaine Mitch
“I think it’s time to lore the rhetoric related to that subject all across America – everyone knows that’s nonsense,” McConnell replied to Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo when addressed with the accusation.
“I was there when Martin Luther King gave that ‘I Have A Dream’ speech. I was there as an observer when President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act,” McConnell continued. “Look, I’ve got nothing to apologize [for] on this front. We ought to tone rhetoric down across the country. Throwing around words like racism, routinely applying it to almost everything – let’s talk about the issues.”..
“[The Squad] wants to take America into a socialist country – I think it’s important to remember that you don’t need to have a military coup to have a socialist country, most countries have voted it in,” McConnell said. “ …They’re giving away free this, free that, free that – who do you think is going to pay for that? All the rest of the productive parts of society. So, the president’s on to something here.”..
“[The president] is right about the Squad wanting to turn us into a socialist country, [but] what he should have added, however, is that it’s a lot broader than just the four of them,” McConnell said, noting that prominent Democrats such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the majority of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have embraced socialist programs like the Green New Deal and Medicare-for-All.
“We’re having a big debate now and next year about what we want America to be like. Do we really think socialism applies here? At a time of great prosperity, 50 year low unemployment?” he continued. “That’s what the election, I think, is going to be about.”..
“We have to make an argument, that’s what a campaign is about – we have to make the argument,” McConnell said. “If we can’t successfully make the case against that kind of stuff, we ought to go into another line of work.”
GOP PACs should spend their money getting this exact message far and wide. Ads with a background video of suffering proles in Socialist utopiae and a foreground of the various prog proposals and how well they went in various other Socialist countries.
Due to a water main break, we have zero water pressure at all here at work. This is a good enough excuse to work from home for the afternoon, right?
Only if you listen to people like OSHA.
You work? The hell kind of Glib are you?
Tell whoever it might be who has authority to send you home that you are having bowel issues and would rather not stink up the office.
not to endorse overarching government, but it’s unlikely that it’s even legal for you to remain at work under such conditions
That is my understanding. Either they get porta-potties there ASAP, or they have to send everyone home.
So, I suggest getting the hell out of there before the porta-potty delivery trailer gets there.
Last time something like that happened, we all got a message from building management that it was okay to use the toilets, just don’t flush. Somebody replied to all asking how he could prevent the automatic toilets from flushing. Funny stuff.
drop an upper decker and get back to us.
This is the correct answer
Going OT…
I have been thinking about writing up some contributions for the site. Not sure how much interest in the ideas I have.
One would be a one or two issue write-up on the Japanese sword. Just a kinda potpourri of facts and historic tidbits.
The other would be a series on my backpacking trip across the face of the Eurasian continent from Paris to Hongkong in 1993.
Any interest?
Heck – either sounds interesting to me.
My suggestion is shorter articles and simply split it into parts.
Yes to both!
If I’ve learned anything is that there are few topics that won’t be of interest to this crowd, or at least a substantive subset of it.
This ^ There is a very wide range of interests here, and also a large number of people who like learning for learning’s sake.
I’ve had an idea rolling around in my head for some articles about random obscure historical that I think are interesting. If anybody’s interested I could write those up as well.
Do it
Yes!
OK, well… I’ve been committing both topics to ASCII over the past couple days to see what the scope might be while shaking the dust and cobwebs off my memory on these subjects. I’m a bit surprised at all the details I can still remember about my journey. And the information from a half-century of interest in blades in general and Japanese blades in specific seem to snowball – so I will endeavor to keep those down to points of something more than nerd-level interest.
I’d read the backpack trip for sure
Both sound cool
Both, por favor!
Heck I once an article about honey, and I don’t even keep bees or have an interest in honey production. It was more of a moral of government intervention.
However, if doxxing anonymous political meme creators is wrong, doxxing these women is wrong too (hell, doxxing in general is wrong).
Unquestionably true. But a woman who flies cross country with the expressed intent to fuck a stranger (for money?) on camera is on pretty shaky ground, outrage-wise.
I have more sympathy for “girlfriend porn victims” who engaged in acts which both parties agreed at the time were to be kept private, only to have them released into the wild, afterwards.
Also-
As a heartless cynical bastard, I cannot help wondering whether that pornhub lawsuit is driven less by shame and remorse than by a desire to get a better cut of the action.
I am (mostly) blissfully ignorant about this stuff, but it also seems that a great deal of doxxing drama boils down to the *wrong people* retweeting stuff to other *wrong people*.
“Well, yeah, of course I was making fun of you hicks, but only for the amusement of my friends. Don’t make me take responsibility for my actions. That’s not fair.”
Police Don’t Catch Serial Rapists because they don’t investigate. More than 7000 untested kits in Cleveland.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/an-epidemic-of-disbelief/592807/
And FUCK this guy
“Thank God we have DNA,” Dan Clark, one of the Cleveland investigators, says. “Because trying to put together a pattern where there is no pattern is impossible. It’s no wonder we didn’t catch that many people.”
You didn’t catch many people because you didn’t do your job.
Am I sorry, kids?
Was the plug-in I need to use for the top, bottom, next, previous links on the left side updated and broke? Not just for us, but for everyone who uses it? Is it back now, kinda sorta and will it stay that way? Do I really have any more time to devote to this today?
She’s gone into full judge Nap mode!