Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is as Mueller is set to provide testimony today.
NAACP votes to impeach Trump. In related news, Dunkin Donuts votes to subpoena Eric Holder
DOJ launches Antitrust probe into tech industry.
Google engineer goes public on camera.
Banjos, what’s a news story that describes the current state of California?
Researchers uncover how cannabis produces pain-relieving molecule.
Apple seeks tariff exclusion after moving the production of a part from Texas to China.
But who will fact check the fact-checkers of the fact-checkers?
Neil Armstrong, astronaut, a man no longer alive, gentleman, we cannot rebuilt him. We do not have the technology. We do not have the capability to build the first bionic man. Neil Armstrong will not be that man. Deader than he was before. Deader, stiller, useless. Let’s settle this suit.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Researchers uncover how cannabis produces pain-relieving molecule. – pain revealing sounds dangerous, like opioids.
Good afternoon glibs
Pain revealing molecules.
Album name?
STEVE SMITH BIGGER THAN MOLECULE! HIM REVEAL PAIN! AND BY REVEAL PAIN MEAN…
HIM NO REVEAL PAIN…NOT REVEL IN PAIN EITHER. HIM GIVE ACT OF LOVE!
Covalent bondage
*gapes in astonishment*
“Former special counsel Robert Mueller asked Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to swear in his longtime deputy as a witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday, according to multiple reports.”
Could he just bring a support animal?
I would like to bring my support Kodiak. He protects me from stupid by mauling people who say stupid things.
Are you saying he should get a ??
I don’t think this is a job for a lawnmower.
He could bring his spirit animal, the weasel.
I thought all of us had taken the honey badger as our spirit animal.
I am my own spirit animal.
No it’s the porcupine. When we start our Libertarian Hitler Youth program they can have the hedgehog.
A hedgehog humping pile of money would just look stupid.
Cousin It?
Mornin’ Banjos.
Sorry, Mr. Cook, you know about the tariffs when you made the decision. It’s not like you didn’t have a tariff-free option when it was rolled out.
Mornin’
“Apple Inc. has asked the Trump administration to exclude components that make up the forthcoming Mac Pro high-end desktop computer from import tariffs, weeks after planning to re-locate production of the line to China from Texas.”
Well, at least it looks like a computer again, instead of some weird black vase.
And it will come with special chips added by the Chi-comms that are totes not a security risk of any kind…
That seems like the exact opposite of the kind of thing that gets a tariff exclusion from the Trump Administration. In fact, it sounds like something they might put an extra-high tariff on. Cook should have just kept his stupid mouth shut.
“Dunkin Donuts votes to subpoena Eric Holder”
“Why don’t you people tip?”
There’s a bunch of holes in this story.
It is just how they roll
My eyes are glazing over at this thread.
I donut like this thread.
We’ll run out of puns in a timbit.
Puns are always sprinkled throughout the links
Now you’re just sugarcoating it.
I’m afraid I can’t make it any more eclair.
*narrows gaze*
Hard to narrow anything if you’re eating donuts.
*narrows glaze*
*golf clap*
US: 1
Switzerland: 0
I cannoli imagine how difficult this is for you.
Don’t get your jimmies rustled man.
*Sprinkles puns over Swiss*
Frosted and furious
Apple seeks tariff exclusion after moving the production of a part from Texas to China. – whatever view one may have on tariffs, it is ridiculous to even have the option for a company to ask for specific exemptions. It literally invites corruption, lobbying, favoritism and whatever.
Surely the exemptions will only be for small business. Not giants who can afford to lobby for them.
/regulatory capture
Feature, not a bug, at least in the eyes of the government.
“Trump’s misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson tweeted.
Blacks, like everyone else, are economically better off under Trump. Why does the NAACP hate black people?
What do you mean? Blumphfffff is literally putting black people into literal concentration camps.
Because if blacks have decent lives and get economically independant, there is no
needexcuse for the NAACP.Advancement of “colored people”, not black people.
Orange isn’t a color?
Touché, starchy one.
Speaking of, NAACP is now a triggering, racist org because the term “colored people” is in its name.
Trump’s misconduct is unmistakable and has proven time and time again, that he is unfit to serve as the president of this country
Citations, please.
*links to CNN*
“While the far right pounces by pointing out these are assertions without evidence, we rate them as ‘Mostly True’”.
– PolitiFact
Angie Drobnic Holan, the editor of PolitiFact, told Fox News she was not concerned that the blowback would impair PolitiFact’s appearance of impartiality. It’s one of several fact-checking sites used by Facebook to check social media posts before users can view them.
Facebook approved. Take that, haters. Go pounce somewhere else.
Id rather gambol. “La-di-dah and a merry old hey!” *clicks heels and then cartwheels across the glen*
As long as you don’t “Zipadee-do-dah” like some racist fuck.
What about Camptown Ladies?
Anything that can get stuck in someone else’s head is a hate crime.
Tom Bombadil was Middle Earth’s Libertarian.
The most out of place character that any good editor would have cut?
I’m not defending the author’s choices but he was pretty much a paint-by-numbers Libertarian. Leave me alone on my little piece of paradise so that I can bone the Willow-Daughter to my heart’s content and I’ll leave the rest of you to your shenanigans.
Researchers uncover how cannabis produces pain-relieving molecule.
I thought its pain reduction quality had been known for some time.
How it produces it, rather than the fact that its there.
“As a result of the widespread wildlife poisoning, nearly every prominent environmental group in the state is advocating for a ban on anticoagulant rodenticides.”
Yet, warfarin is prescribed to people.
I am not putting up with vermin to please smug watermelons.
Unless you come up with a more effective means of clearing out the rodents, fuck off.
I think we should arm the homeless with bb guns. They seem to have a lot of free time.
And give them some Tony Cachere’s and you will also have solved the problem with feeding the homeless too.
Fun fact approppo of nothing: Zatarains Red Beans & Rice low sodium has more sodium than the regular Tony Cachere’s Red Beans & Rice.
The annoying thing is what absolute hypocrites many environmentalists are in the private lives. I know a few.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
They give literal meth to young children. Many, many young children.
Ackchually, it’s dextroamphetamine.
The big question is will it bring down the weight without dropping out the teeth?
“In the United States, dextromethamphetamine hydrochloride, under the trade name Desoxyn, has been approved by the FDA for treating ADHD and obesity in both adults and children.”
So there’s still no help for the left-handed people.
Yeah, I’d stay away from the sinistro-amphetamine.
Maybe if you make a meme it will go chiral.
^ unappreciated thread.
Children are less important than wildlife
Ugh, I was on that for a year. Not recommended.
Anybody who bought the idea that Eric Schmidt was going to be politically neutral is an idiot.
And for some reason, people forget that Facebook gave the Obama campaign access to their entire database of voter info in 2012 free of charge. Yet, somehow Cambridge Analytical is the scandal.
Speaking of that, Netflix just dropped a documentary about it… it’s called the Big Hack. If I watch it and there aren’t nefarious Russians, I’m going to be upset.
You mean it’s not about the Spanish Flu?
It’s a damned joke. The only thing Analytica did wrong was take the data without paying for it. Facebook would have happily sold it to them.
However, we do have the technology to rebuild Neil Armstrong’s mailbox.
If we’re talking about the government doing it, it will most certainly be a “Six Million Dollar Mailbox”.
Hey kids, look, it’s Sloopy!
I’m like herpes. You may think I’m gone, but I still flare up from time to time.
“The intense burning means that you know NoSloop is working.”
“The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced it is opening a review into whether the United States’ biggest and most powerful technology companies have stifled competition or hurt consumers.”
It was largely due to taxes, regulations, and cronyism. This is like that golem story.
How to fedgov:
1. Create problem
2. Swoop in and “solve” it
3. Slew of new problems is created in your wake
4. ???
5. Debt
“don’t think about it, the kids will pay up with all the money they’ll make after free college.”
What a genius plan. Free everything for everybody!
“Effective immediately, I’m putting a moratorium on the use of rodenticides around the 1001 I Street Building, “ CalEPA agency undersecretary Serena McIlwain said on June 19 in an email to staffers. “We will continue to monitor the situation daily and will work aggressively to find effective, less toxic alternatives.”
Offer the rats the option of state sponsored counseling. Offer them the chance for deep, mindful self examination.
Sounds like they are extending this moratorium as a professional courtesy to the rats.
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
https://quillette.com/2019/07/23/cometh-the-hour-cometh-the-man-a-profile-of-boris-johnson/
With his huge mop of blond hair, his tie askew and his shirt escaping from his trousers, he looked like an overgrown schoolboy. Yet with his imposing physical build, his thick neck and his broad, Germanic forehead, there was also something of Nietzsche’s Übermensch about him. You could imagine him in lederhosen, wandering through the Black Forest with an axe over his shoulder, looking for ogres to kill. This same combination—a state of advanced dishevelment and a sense of coiled strength, of an almost tangible will to power—was even more pronounced in his way of speaking.
I mean ehm… wow
I admire the dude’s chutzpa but why kneel before him and genuflect, random Quillette writer? Unseemly!
You know who else had a will to power?
Nicola Tesla?
Dunphy, noted powerlifter and dater of Morgan Fairchild?
Lydia Hearst ?
Old timey cottages with waterwheels?
Oh wait, I thought you said mill to power.
Didn’t the NAACP give Trump an award years ago?
Nevermind. Wikipedia says it was:
Ellis Island Medal of Honor in celebration of “patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and diversity” (1986)
Literally. Hitler.
But that was when he was a Democrat.
He became a racist the night he won the election
Retroactively
This came up on some other article I found.
“The NAACP has not given President Donald Trump an award. The confusion about this issue occurred when a photograph of Trump with Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks was posted on the Internet with an incorrect caption indicating that it showed them receiving ‘NAACP Medals.’ The medal Trump received was from NECO, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations”
Mornin’ Banjos! Yet another tune on regular rotation on my work playlist. Uncanny.
Mornin’
Good morning Banjos – or allow me to say Good evening from the other side of the big pond to the west!
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The needs of native wildlife appear be winning in this overwhelmingly liberal, environmentally conscious state. The California Legislature is poised to ban the toxins over the objections of well-financed chemical industry lobbyists and pest control operators, apartment owners and restaurateurs wary of rodent infestations.
Well funded kkkorporate lobbyists are fighting to preserve the right to poison your children. What has this country become?
I’m thinking about opening a restaurant in California, said no one.
Well, nobody wants to dine on contaminated rats. Discerning customers prefer the free range ones.
California is doing its best to resurrect Bubonic Plague.
AOC and Biden
AOC and Chick-Fil-A
Excellent.
Mornin’ Banjos, and thanks for linking.
Mornin’
So user Poll:
Should Pie write something on the distillery visits and if so more on the tours or more on the tastings?
Tours.
Yes! Seriously, please do so, focusing on either or both. I enjoy your writing regardless of topic.
Needs narration! I’m a straight dude but your voice brings all the boys to the yard.
It’s not gay if it’s a woman’s penis!
Personally, the tours are only interesting to me if they have something unique about them. The tastings on the other hand can help guide my alcohol purchases.
The diagnostic value of a tasting done by someone else is severely diminished by the differences in taste buds. I mean, Pie willingly drinks wine after all.
But I thought that he didn’t dink…Vine.
In veino, veritas.
Vertias was a terrible volume manager.
But knowing their taste preferences, and why they do or don’t like something can provide further information that I can compare to my taste preferences, and get useful information from. The girlfriend has diametrically opposite tastes to mine when it comes to drinks. If she likes something, there’s a very good chance that I’m going to find it far too sweet and syrupy. If she hates something, there’s a good chance that I’m going to enjoy it.
Before I went pro, but while I was planning to go pro, I did blind taste tests with friends. I would buy 2 commercial examples of style X to compare with my version. I would serve each person 4 beers and have them rate and rank them.
I didn’t tell them that 2 of the beers were the same. I had 1 person rank my beer 1st and 4th in the same set. That allows you to throw some data out.
As an FYI, I remember the exact results of my hefeweizen test:
1. Me
2. Sierra Nevada (but it was very close)
3. Flying Dog (very distant 3rd)
I didn’t include Weihenstephaner, because I like to have a chance to win. I knew I could go toe to toe with Kellerweis.
The homebrew blog Brulosophy does a triangle test for their testing. Two batches of beer, one variable being tested, and three samples. If a significant amount of the people can’t pick out the odd beer, then they point out that it hasn’t reached statistical significance, but still relay the survey data from the people who were correct. IIRC, the only variable that has consistently gotten to significance was fermentation vessels (keg, plastic carboy, bucket, glass carboy).
Yeah, triangle tests is what led me to do my double sample.
Yes please.
SI!
Pourquoi ne pas oui?
I agree the tastings should be upfront unless there was some unique or odd feature about the tour. I spent the whole time in Teelings distillery asking engineering questions to the facilities manager. This was before the tastings. The spirit safe was pretty cool to look at.
I just had the tour guide to ask questions of, and I went over her head pretty quickly at Teelings. The cocktail they served at the tasting was one where you’d probably get in trouble for telling the story of it’s name in the US: The Redleg Rebellion.
She said that the staff would be available to answer our questions and it was a work day. She went and got the guy for me. I was asking about the roof design and blast proof features of the building.
Plz.
As a note tasting will not be that relevant sadly as I did not take any tasting notes, I liked most of what I drank, and it is stuff that you will never get the chance to buy anyway… It will be more like what you can expect to get should you visit the same places as me. But I will see what I can do.
The balls of politifact.
Not that anyone is surprised but they really can’t have much credibility claiming their close to neutral now.
Environmentalists say there are other options to manage the state’s pests, such as making cities more sanitary (rodents are often drawn to the trash from the state’s growing numbers of homeless encampments, some experts say) and by using pesticides that are less likely to contaminate wildlife.
Kill the homeless.
Everything old is new again.
Georgia woman
illian Tarver ordered fries from the Garden City McDonald’s outpost on Tuesday, then returned soon after at about 2:45 p.m. because her order was cold, store employees and police told local television station WTOC.
Tarver then allegedly got into a fiery argument with an employee and the manager about her order, an employee told the station.
“She took her drink and threw it at me and the manager and then proceeded to come behind the counter,” employee Lynn Watson said.
The situation then descended into an all-out brawl over the cold french fries, Watson added.
“When she bent down, I grabbed her hair and just started slinging her across the floor,” Watson said.
Tarver then allegedly went out to her car and came back carrying a loaded handgun, Watson told the television station.
“She came to the back of the store walking like, you know, she was ready to shoot,” Watson said.
Police told the station Tarver squeezed off a single shot before leaving the fast-food joint. No one was injured.
well we are talking about cold french fries.
There are several sacred things in this world that you don’t mess with…
Keith David!
It’s sad that Keith David and David Keith were never in a movie together. Could’ve been a great buddy cop flick or a Defiant Ones parody.
I mean, they still could. They’re both alive.
Huh. Since it was a Georgia Woman story, I thought it was going to have GW make a claim that her gunplay was justified because the manager told her to “Go back from where you came from”.
Outpost?
It’s Georgia, so the tech level hasn’t been upgraded beyond log palisade structures yet.
This mountaineering mouse is the world’s highest-dwelling mammal
The yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse can live from sea level all the way up to the peaks of Andean volcanoes, surprising experts.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/07/highest-dwelling-mammal-mouse-volcano/
Cute little thing.
Since humans can live below sea level and were there to see the mouse it seems that “No other species does that,” says Steppan,” must be rated as untrue.
“COPPOLA: “I think the biggest problem here is just the overall lack of transparency that we have in our products today. Um, for example, if we had open source software, we would know why each answer was arrived at.””
I don’t think the government could demand they make it FOSS, but that would be interesting.
Then again, I think they can because of the omnipotent commerce clause, there are plenty of other federal process regulations (eg. how food can be made).
“I can’t stand by and watch this attack on our freedom of speech and the right to boycott the racist policies of the government and the state of Israel,”
Bold and courageous, Justin.
I would have done the same. This just has nothing to do with congresses’s delegated powers.
“Present” just feels weak.
Understood, but voting for or against in essence legitimizes this sort of extra-constitutional activity.
I mainly linked because someone finally used a picture of Tlaib looking crazy. But if Amash thought it wasn’t constitutional, shouldn’t he have voted against it? The Senate version actually had teeth and said the gov’t couldn’t do business with any company that wouldn’t work with Israel. That seems to be a free association issue.
Muellers still a thing??
Fucking hell
Impeachment hope springs eternal.
The real winner in the Trump economy is therapists.
According to a story linked last night, therapists are the real victims. Listening to patients bitch and moan and REEEEEE about Trump has nearly pushed them over the edge because they’ve been unable to process their own pain over the 2016 election. Won’t anyone think of the therapists?
I really can’t understand how this has lasted so long.
The total breakdown based on nothing. My mom can’t go 4 minutes without saying something about Trump or Republicans or whatever.
“Team Red Bad. Team Blue good.”
I heard about 10 minutes of this earlier while getting ready for work. It was every bit as insipid and uninformative as I expected it to be. On the other hand, I am fairly sure Sheila Jackson Lee had someone write her remarks for her, because they were almost totally coherent.
Anarchists Are Gathering in Denton This Weekend to Debunk Stigmas
I’m good with my preconceived notions, actually
They aren’t even preconceived.
We’ve talked to these idiots.
Invariably, these guys are anarcho-communists, i.e. morons.
Like, man, if we all just worked together then things would be fine. ::takes hit off of bong::
I’ve had that exact experience.
“And people will just make what everyone needs.”
“Who decides what they need?”
“No! There’s no rulers or anything. Everything is just provided for free”
“So what’s needed?”
“We decide that as a group”
“So someone’s in charge of direction of production?”
*Gazes back into the vault and remembers his own dalliance with communal living. Shakes head ruefully*
Denton? This Denton? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uMa8kOrRqmI/S7uwLKUSb0I/AAAAAAAADoc/RB28S8MUQTc/s1600/04061609.jpg
Home of UNT, Dan’s Silver Leaf, Peterbilt, and that’s pretty much it (Gateway to Oklahoma?)
And of Necessary Roughness!
How dumb do you have to be to not realize that anarchism and socialism are completely incompatible? They’re practically opposites.
show me where the -archy is in ‘socialism’. Moran.
Shikha Dalmia: Conservatives have an assimilation problem
While I am not a fan of tariffs in general, it’s disingenuous to suggest that America should maintain completely free markets across borders when literally no other country does so in return.
While I am not a fan of shooting myself in the foot in general, it is disingenuous to suggest than I restrain from shooting myself when literally no other person refrains from shooting themselves in the foot.
I stole this argument from Don Boudreaux.
So you’re of the opinion that continuing to allow China to demand American IP for access to their markets is sustainable or even acceptable?
No, I am of the opinion that tariffs hurt the citizens of the country applying the tariff. Tariffing China’s goods hurts us.
If I was a multinational company, I wouldn’t sell to China if they demanded my IP.
That ship has sailed unfortunately, and if we want to end the practice we will have to hold our nose and do the unpalatable. That or we can kiss our IP, and a lot more, mind you, goodbye.
I wonder why at least one country doesn’t abolish all tariffs and import restrictions, thereby enriching its citizens and proving to the rest of us how well it works.
Same with the economic miracles guaranteed to be wrought by open borders.
Because reality doesn’t bear out the assertions.
Hong Kong and Macau.
I think they both probably qualify as economic miracles. HK has other issues, but that is the result of not declaring independence from Britain while they had the chance.
If they had declared independence – The second the Brits left, the PLA would have landed.
No, declare it about 10 years before the Brits left.
But once they declared it the Brits would have left. At which point, without the risk of conflict with the Anglosphere the PLA rolls across the border. Independence is not a protection against invasion. Ask the Dalai Lama
You have to sign a treaty like we did with the British. And get the UK and the US to immediately acknowledge you as an independent nation and support your existence.
I guess 10 years would have been too early, it would have to have been done after the Soviet Union fell. But I don’t think China in the early 90s would have risked war over Hong Kong.
“Hong Kong and Macau.”
Two areas with no natural resources, so there’s nobody exploiting the resources nor is there anyone fighting to preserve them.
There are lessons to be learned from both, but it’s counter-productive to ignore the differences.
Also, not countries, so not examples of countries with no tariffs or import restrictions.
I’m more concerned about letting communists in.
If some country wants to subsidize its manufacturing so I get cheaper goods at the expense of their citizens… I have zero problem with that.
I’m not particularly concerned about standard trade imbalance BS. That tends to work itself out over the long run, see Japan.
Also, it is a mercantilist argument, which was discredited in 1776. If not earlier.
^^THIS^^
Which is the opposite version of what I said.
Maybe Pinoche had a point.
he had a t
Trump has basically given up on the free market.
I thought he had made it pretty clear that tariffs are a negotiation tactic for trade deals. I am a free-market person but you can’t have that internationally without reciprocation.
Chicken tariff.
I think tariffs as negotiation tactic work out about as well as predatory pricing. History suggests that examples of either working are hard to find.
Hard to say as Trump is the first POTUS in the over 100 years to actually negotiate, all his predecessors just acquiesced to score brownie points.
Sure, Dalmia. Meanwhile China has been “Daniel Plainviewing” the West’s milkshake for twenty-five years.
Nope – not even reading a blurb of her stupidity.
I, for one, am shocked at this development.
“In the detailed write-up about the interaction with Thomas, the officer noted that Thomas said Sparks “approached her (ran upon her) with clenched hands and pointing at her.”…
Police spoke with store management, witnesses, and reviewed surveillance video, describing that Sparkes could not be seen “with clenched hands in the video.”
Mr. Sparkes returns through the door and goes straight to the express lane where Ms. Thomas and her daughter were checking out. He points at the entrance of the express lane, possibly at the sign and they clearly begin arguing. Mr. Sparkes did not appear to be irate, nor did I see him with clenched hands in the video. He initially did enter Ms. Thomas’ personal space but backed as Ms. Thomas moved forward and around the counter toward Mr. Sparkes pointing her finger at him. Ms. Thomas advanced toward Mr. Sparkes a second time at which point, Ms. Murrell comes into the frame and waves for Mr. Sparkes to leave, which he did. Simultaneously, Ms. Thomas returned to the register, stated something to-her daughter and then paid for her items. I observed-Ms. Thomas’ daughter smiling shortly after. This confrontation lasted approximately 45 seconds.”
In other words, the footage shows that the Democratic lawmaker was the one with the aggressive, bullying body language. The supposed aggressor, on the other hand, appeared perfectly calm and even stepped back when the supposed victim approached him in what can be called an aggressive manner.
In fact, from the looks of it, Thomas did to Sparkes that which she accused him of doing to her.
That’s confirmed by an eye-witness report:
The store’s customer service manager told police she “heard Ms. Thomas continuously tell Mr. Sparkes to, ‘Go back where you came from!’” according to the police report.
At least the guy didn’t smirk at her.
I’m sure the news will make the necessary corrections.
And nothing else will happen.
Which the people that want to keep generating false events to service the narrative rely on to keep their scam going.
I would like them to check the footage and report back how many items she tried to jam through the express lane. That is the crux of the matter for me.
If she had 18 items in a line with a limit of 15, then I’m going to side with her and say that Sparkes needed an ass chewing for being a prissy “rules are the rules” asshole.*
If she had a whole cart, then she needed the shaming. There is some leeway, but if you jumped into the express lane because you thought you were too big and important to wait in the little people line, you should be confronted.
* To take advantage of the item count leeway, you must also a) not have any hard to scan items, b) be ready with payment, and c) have no coupons or anything else that might slow down the line.
I had heard it was 20 in a 10 or fewer lane.
That is right on the edge. My personal reaction would depend on how alert and ready she looked. If she had the eye of the tiger and looked like she would be through the line in a sec, I’d say nothing.
If she was fucking around on her phone, jaw jacking with her daughter and not paying attention to the line, I’d probably call her out.
Near me, the lines now say “About X items”, which prevents this kind of thing.
I basically agree with this. On the other hand, there have been a couple of times when the express lane checkout person told me to come on through, even though I had several more items, because the lane was empty at the moment. Of course, as soon as I get mostly unloaded, another customer shows up, glaring at me because i had too many items.
I almost always self check out so as to not have to deal with humanity.
I’d back off too, she looks big enough to take him in one bite.
Progjection as usual
So what’s the deal with Boris?
The right people are super duper upset, from what I’ve seen.
I’m reserving judgement to see what he actually does.
I didn’t mean that to say I’m some fan.
I just saw some serious journalism reeeing and smirked.
At least there’s a shot he will slow down the BS internet censorship May embraced.
The Morning Edition guy was in near-hysterical rage during an interview with a Tory. “That’s a Lie!”
He might actually do what other politicians have only promised to do. That’s what they’re afraid of.
Holy crap – sounds like Trump.
Brexit is bad; EU is the shining light of goodness. Boris is a Brexiter, so he’s bad. But not as bad a Nigel Farage. But still bad. /something like that
Far-right leaders join Trump in welcoming Boris Johnson to No 10
etc
“Far-Right” now means putting the interests and desires of a nation’s citizens before other things like global socialism and Africans looking for welfare.
It’s only them Africans looking for welfare. Ain’t no white trash ever live off the government teat.
Oh there’s lots of them – but they still need to import more trash.
Here’s a depressing little travel report from a recent visitor to Southern Europe.
I learned – in Barcelona the penalty for pickpocketing is 50 euros – no matter how often you get caught. In Greece, thieves get no jail time unless they steal over 120,000 euros. I knew that the Greeks were compulsive tax dodgers.
They are being rather myopic in labeling everything far right.
sick burn
Just took the survey. At the end I got an ad to take a survey to help a puppy. I guess they didn’t realize it was a libertarian survey.
They didn’t tell me where the $0.50 was coming from, or the motices of the people spending it, so I didn’t.
I was looking for the other option: If you take THIS survey, we will shoot the puppy.
That would be on PoliceOne.
I was thinking more like this, but in reverse:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Natlamp73.jpg
What do you mean, the rules apply to me?
A gay U.S. couple is reportedly suing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for discrimination after the State Department denied citizenship to their daughter, who was born in the U.K. with help of a surrogate.
The New York Times reported that James Derek Mize and his husband Jonathan Gregg filed a lawsuit Tuesday after their daughter, Simone, was denied citizenship even though both of her parents are American citizens.
Simone was born in the U.K. last year using the donor egg of a British friend and Gregg’s sperm. She was reportedly denied citizenship when the family submitted an application after returning home to the U.S. Her tourist visa will expire at the end of July.
“I try not to think about ICE coming to our door and deporting our baby,” Mize told the Times, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “That is a pretty hard thing to think about.”
The State Department has a policy requiring that children born abroad through assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy must show biological parentage in order to obtain citizenship.
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The Times reported that in court documents the department has argueed that the policy does not discriminate and applies to opposite-sex and same-sex couples alike.
Under the State Department policy, cases where the source of the sperm and egg do not match married parents are treated as “out of wedlock” and require a higher bar to transmit citizenship, the Times reported.
Gregg, a U.K.-born citizen to an American mother, does not meet the five-year U.S. residency requirement, but the newspaper said the couples’ lawyers argue that would not matter if the couple had been treated as married.
So tiresome.
The mother of Mr Gregg’s child is not a US Citizen, Mr. Gregg has not been resident long enough to bring a bastard child into the country. End of story.
We got all the bastards we need already?
Sure. Just look at Congress…
I’m not falling for that trick.
Gregg, a U.K.-born citizen to an American mother, does not meet the five-year U.S. residency requirement, but the newspaper said the couples’ lawyers argue that would not matter if the couple had been treated as married.
Why should they be treated as if they are married when they are not? Gay marriage is perfectly legal in the US, so it’s not like they can’t be married.
I RTFA and while it goes into the details about Gregg’s citizenship issues it says nothing about his husband’s citizenship or the actual state of their relationship. If the other guy is an American citizen and they are legally married there shouldn’t be a whole lot of problems if they did all the paperwork which any other American has to do when married to a foreigner.
Since the article didn’t bring up the issues I point out above I can only assume that neither of them are American citizens or at the least they simply didn’t file the important paperwork on time. Living in a bureaucratic world sux but when you decide to emigrate to another country you are implicitly accepting the bureaucracy which comes with it.
Didn’t Trump sing into law First Steps?
Wonder if in just that one move he’s done more for blacks than the NAACP in the last 25 years or whatever.
sing into law
Sure, wipipo laws get signed in a formal ceremony. You want laws for black people to be enacted in a big song and dance number. What a shitlord!
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if he did actually sing on the desk in the Oval office?
Man, if he’d do an Al Jolson while singing First Steps that would have just about induce record number of strokes among the left.
With Jolson “Mammy” hands!
I’d buy that if Kanye could be talked into producing it.
Poltificact are clowns. They’re part of Clown world now.
Honk, honk!
We’re all part of Clown World, Rufus. Glibertarians is in itself a reposte to said world. Look at our avatars, you chose a Muppet, I chose a comically-shaven cat’s ass. All of our most beloved memes are in response to Clown World. We’re not dead yet.
And we Canadians are naturals at it!
“comically-shaven cat’s ass”
So many questions: Why is it shaved? How, exactly, do you shave an unwilling cat’s ass?
a story we covered yesterday but I liked the headline
‘Wax my balls’ is the new ‘bake the cake’
“Exposing Jessica Yaniv: Trans Predator”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_lXO7zrAQ
“I don’t think the average woman wants to be around a bunch of shlongs.” – Alex Jones
“Yes and no.” – Jessica Yaniv
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1153727609211015170
If they agree to shave his nut-sack will a bag of weed slip out of his ass and then Trump will FINALLY be impeached?
No, but we’ll tell you he was before you go.
That’s a comfort, Son.
I’ve also called the Cleveland Browns, to have 6 standing by…
They’re mincing around. The Golden Girls turned them gay.
They are frogs?
So Mueller rehashes the same things (some of it sanctimonious bs) and states that he cannot comment on the circumstances that initiated the “investigation”. This is a useless farce.
Nadler doesn’t understand “innocent until proven guilty”.
A few minutes in and I am tired of disingenuous, mendacious bs.
Holy shit. According to this woman the Russians have their tentacles in every facet of American politics and definitely wanted Trump to win. Now I am not even certain that I am not a Russian bot.
Nyet, Comrade! You must not doubt yourself.
A red under every bed, comrade.
Remember back when Congress used to legislate? Now they just rubber-stamp evermore spending and borrowing and spend the rest of their time on political showboating. I’m starting to buy into the idiocracy argument that we are becoming too stupid and poorly educated to continue operating the Republic we inherited.
The dancing Trump jif is semi-hypnotizing.
You may want to use different peanut butter.
Skippy?
Damn.
Peter Pan?
What’s with the Daily Mail and people’s daughters?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7278261/Uma-Thurman-Andie-MacDowells-daughters-attend-Time-Hollywood-premiere-LA.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7280419/Annie-Lennoxs-daughter-Lola-oozes-glamour-black-thigh-split-gown-Serengeti-premiere.html
At least these aren’t minors.
Wow Uma Therman had some rough miles there.
It looks like they cloned her.
She was top ten fine back in the Dangerous Liasons days, though.
I think she looks like a woman of her age for the most part. 49?
Looks like she’s avoided the knife and fillers and is aging naturally.
Oh – and she passed her tits on down to her daughter.
“REVEALED: Intimate photos Jeffrey Epstein ‘took of his underage sex slave in NYC, New Mexico and London as he flew her around the world so he and his famous friends could rape the teen’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7278175/Intimate-photos-Jeffrey-Epstein-took-underage-sex-slave-NYC-New-Mexico-London.html
I’ll save everyone from clicking- there aren’t any intimate photos in that article.
Awwwww….. (saved us from another list)
This is a useless farce.
Oh, come on. There will be a couple of good Orange Man Bad soundbites mined from Mueller’s “testimony”.
Uffda. HM should get in on the ground floor here. Not only could he learn Lakota and keep it from dying, but he could hang out with Mike and hit all the big party spots in NoDak.
I’m a bit worried about their prospects though when the top picture shows a gal in a hijab working on learning to speak Lakota. Are the terrorists trying to pull a Windtalkers code thing on us?
FTFY
I still find it interesting that there are still thousands of Navajo who do not speak English – some never learned it and many never use it enough and have forgotten it.
I love that Trump gif.
“One moment you’re dancing the Hotline Bling, the next you’ve got command of the nuclear codes. Life comes at you fast.”
0000000000000….
“Nuclear Launch Deteacted”
“Deteacted”??? Is that when you finally throw away your parents old reel-to-reel tape deck?
State and local laws push more registered sex offenders into low-income Colorado communities
Data shows disproportionate number of offenders live in impoverished neighborhoods, and community organizers aren’t happy about it.
Maybe some sort of camp…
How to make Scruffy tune out almost immediately.
Rapists need a living wage too.
That said, the over-application of “sex offender” is a problem.
And restrictions post-incarceration smack of indefinite punishment.
Gosh, it’s helpful of them to protect their wards like this.
“This BS is not mainstream BS. Do you still want to enter?”
I’m surprised it is just a button click. If I ran FB, my popup would say something like “This story has been flagged as potentially misleading, please enter the name of your favorite car company to continue”
Why not mine the dumbass users for even more marketing info on them that can be sold?
Ford Escort!
Deusenberg!
Collins Manufacturing Co.
It’s pretty bleeping bad when Facefuckenbook flags you.
Face. Book.
That editor should resign. You can’t recover from crap like this. I know I’ll never refer to it. Not that I did in the first place but now it’s a fait accompli.
How can she not think this damaged PF?
You got it backwards Rufus. FB didn’t flag PF for that nonsense. What they are saying is that if PF flags any story as false, then FB users need to click something acknowledging that they want to look at fakey news before they are allowed to see it.
FB is still PFaf all day, everyday.
It won’t be too long before FB starts censoring users who click the “fake news” button too many times.
‘You have it backwards!’
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
Jon Miller was getting shafted by that stuff too even though the “fact-checkers” didn’t show or mention anything that had to do with his targeted video. What a fuggin joke.
“BREAKING: Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign has been hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers.”
https://twitter.com/BLaw/status/1153752825148727296
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/sanders-white-house-campaign-hit-with-federal-labor-complaint?utm_medium=lawdesk&campaign=5185B15C-AD82-11E9-B01F-FB722AECE977
It’s amazing how they believe this commie can do no wrong.
HE’S A COMMIE. He’s all about being a bad human.
By they I mean his fans.
Babylon Bee: Sanders Campaign Raises Pay To $700 Per Hour By Laying Off Everyone Except Bernie
“NEW DETAILS: Police report disputes Georgia lawmaker’s account of Publix incident
Witness: State Rep. Erica Thomas told Eric Sparkes, ‘Go back where you came from’
A witness to a heated grocery store encounter between state Rep. Erica Thomas and a man she accused of uttering racist comments told authorities she didn’t hear him make those remarks, according to a Cobb County police report.
A Publix employee told a Cobb County officer that she witnessed part of the conversation and heard Thomas “continuously tell Eric Sparkes to ‘Go back where you came from!’” but did not hear Sparkes utter those words to Thomas.”
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/cobb-police-charges-will-filed-georgia-lawmaker-publix-dispute/fp9t5RJLXVSOTaMnVLmHEP/
So what happen was the exact opposite of what she initially claimed.
Progjection
Not even that. She’s just a straight up opportunist liar.
Is there there really a difference at this point? They believe their own lies. See: Russia collusion.
She Smolleted it!
Global warming ruins everything
In fact, the federal government spends, on average, about $8 billion a year subsidizing crop insurance for farmers.
That number could be a lot bigger this year. Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture are expecting up to $1 billion in “prevented planting” payments to farmers in Henry’s situation. At the end of the season, more claims will arrive from farmers who planted seeds but ended up with poor harvests.
Some people fear that this year’s flooding is a taste of the future. Henry is hoping that it’s not. “It could be global warming, but I don’t think so,” he says. “I think we’re in a cycle of wet, and we’ll cycle out of it and we’ll be dry again.”
There are billions of dollars riding on this. Scientists, of course, say climate change is happening, although the precise effects — for example, on rainfall in the Midwest — are harder to predict.
A team of researchers at the USDA just released a study of how the changing climate could affect those crop insurance payouts.
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His study is attracting attention though, partly because there’s a risk that this type of work may not continue — at least not right away, or not within the USDA.
The USDA’s Economic Research Service, where Crane-Droesch and his colleagues work, is getting relocated from Washington, D.C., to the Kansas City region. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says it’ll save money and bring “important USDA resources closer to many stakeholders.”
Critics call it an attack on independent research. The move, they say, has been carried out in such a rush that it’s forcing employees to quit rather than uproot their lives.
Most authors of the new report either have left the agency already or are planning to do so.
Those poor
farmers“scientists”.“You cannot expect us to live out in Rubeland!”
the federal government spends, on average, about $8 billion a year subsidizing crop insurance for farmers.
There is an easy fix to this.
When you think of it. Trump is an island onto himself. He has no support of any kind outside his ‘base’. Nothing. He’s fighting an entire system. Where Obama could rely on the media, agencies, the bureaucrat class and fervent fan base to hide his shenanigans, Trump has no such luxury. He’s on his own.
Dude would have been a true, hard core Roman. By that i mean, against all odds, Rome prevails.
‘Insufficient evidence’ but ‘not cleared’.
These people are appalling.
It’s a prosecutor’s job to bring charges if the evidence is compelling. The prosecutor doesn’t get to decide whether the defendant is cleared.
Christ, what an asshole.
I have no clear evidence that Nadler fucks sheep, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t in fact fuck sheep. There is no proff that Nadler never fucked a sheep.
“proof”
These people are appalling.
Yup. I managed to stomach enough of the Mueller clown show to hear one rep correctly state how this ‘Insufficient evidence’ but ‘not cleared’ standard flies in the face of the foundational principle of American law, i.e. “innocent until proven guilty”.
How good is the economy? Minnesoda town can’t hire enough lifeguards to open swimming hole.
This town is about 15 miles from Fargo/Moorhead so it isn’t out in the boonies somewhere. When I was growing up getting a city lifeguard job was the best summer job you could get. Sit in the sun and try to get over your hangover while pretending to give a shit about the swimmers.
Lifetime ban!
He said they will also look at raising wages. This summer, the park was offering $13.70 per hour for lifeguards. Like this year, the park will also offer to cover the cost of training.
$15 or bust.
You forgot: ogle girls in bikinis.
I’ve been away the past couple of days, so I’m not sure if this little piece of Ohio news got related:
Alternate title: “If I go limp, you must acquit!”
Was covered. Was amusing.
Great little video clip.
SJWednesday: I’m A Rapist, He’s A Rapist, She’s A Rapist, Wouldn’t You Like to Be A Rapist Too?
STEVE SMITH SHOW YOU THE WAY.
EVERYDAY!
Oh, baby I like your way.
In high school, the boys played a game called “nut check” in which they’d go around and grab or hit each other in the groin area. I have no idea who or what started this – the devil, probably – but it was routine.
It was also sexual assault.
You failed the “nut check”.
If hitting your buddy in the nuts because he wasn’t paying attention is sexual assault, then every boy everywhere now needs to be on some sexual predator list.
And let’s not even get started with the Kancho.
*clenches butt*
That turns your bung hole into Chinese finger cuffs. You have to try to not clench.
Dong chim in Korea
We saw somebody do it on a Korean drama and my wife sputtered that it is totally made up. Of course my boys thought it was totally funny and started doing it to each other and their buddies.
STEVE SMITH APPROVED GAME.
Dong chim, which translates as “poop needle” in Korean
Sounds like a San Fran.
A “Portland”.
W
T
F
That’s what we used to call “booty finger”
Herein lies the problem with calling everything sexual assault. How do you differentiate between drunken sex and brutal rape.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!!!!!!
All sex must happen completely sober – also filmed and with consent forms signed.
In disappearing ink.
But one party has unlimited time afterwards in which to change their mind.
And sobriety is a guarantee of nothing. It just means you were coercive or cajoling.
Bring on the settlements, assholes!
“You are a somewhat less plain than average woman.
Can we have sex?”
I see what’s happening. Rather than develop sex-robots, they want people to just act like it.
Nice.
Or the joyless sex appointments in Zamyatin’s We. Go register your intent to have the sex, administration will opaque your partner’s walls for half an hour.
Cacao
Tiny Apartments and Punishing Work Hours: The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests
Wait, isn’t that just Progtopia?
Yeah, that’s it. Cramped conditions are why there are protests now in a place where the Kowloon Walled City existed in its last form for 40 years. Definitely not because of the commies.
Is there nothing Trump can’t destroy?
I caught maybe a minute of Mueller’s preamble this morning. He cautioned the committee that he wouldn’t be answering any questions regarding ongoing investigations. Nice implication, dude. Then he stated he wouldn’t touch on the Steele dossier, either. I’ll bet.
‘Insufficient evidence’ but ‘not cleared’.
He refused to appear before the tribunal of kangaroos and prove his innocence.
Guilt irrefutable.
Mueller circus is on tv right now. Ah, the fruits of losing 40 seats in 2016 because you had a terrible ground game, many of your supporters were too lazy to vote, and you couldn’t act dignified in the face of childish and ridiculous criticism from whiny losers.
This period in American history, one would think, won’t age well.
How can it?
Historical accounts, free from dumbass liberal historians, will be more sober I reckon.
Do not mock The Great Awokening.
How long do you think Mueller’s had dementia because I think he has dementia? It’s just sad.
No joke, he really does look mentally addled, like Uncle Junior in the last season of the Sopranos.
The NJ GOP was exterminated through gerrymandering and creative vote counting. Not sure if that’s how it was done elsewhere.
Dreamy immigrant candidates that you just have to vote for is how it was done here.
In VA, it’s done simply – just keep increasing federal spending to lure in the northeastern locusts.
That’s poor ground game. In Penna., the GOP ignored Supreme Court races in 2016 and paid the price when the new Dem majority justices then forced a re-districting map on the state, in direct contravention of the state constitution.
“Ah, the fruits of losing 40 seats in 2016”
That was inevitable.
Now I can’t help but wonder, “Is there a kangaroo filter which could be used for Congressional hearings?”
I see a market opportunity.
How processed food makes us fat
Overweight man before switching to whole grain bread and cereal.
Same man one year after switching to whole grain bread and cereal.
The results speak for themselves!
Gat dammit: Overweight man before switching to whole grain bread and cereal.
University of Texas first to offer ‘free’ tuition. And so begins the battle of colleges outwoking each other….hopefully into oblivion.
https://www.academia.org/university-of-texas-offers-free-tuition-for-low-and-middle-class-students/?utm_source=AIA%20Email%20List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AIA%20Email%2023-Jul-2019
First?
I don’t think so.
Berea College charges no tuition to any student and they have been doing it forever.
It’s funny how Democrats don’t mention they exist and that they’d like to perhaps help those institutions. Nope. They want a one-size fits all Federally mandated free tuition for all in all colleges.
Well, that’s how it seems anyway.
Yeh not sure why I wrote that because it’s not in the article.
In 1987, when I graduated High School, Berea was too liberal too even consider. There were woke well before the term existed.
While to many all these Democrat ideas are impractical if not plain idiotic, it’s worth remembering all the institutions and agencies that make decisions are mostly run by Democrats or progressives. So while we may laugh and say, ‘ha ha! Free tuition!’ it was already being considered in colleges. Same with ‘free medicare’ and free ‘whatever.’
The key is to reduce the power and influence democrats and progressives hold across the cultural and governmental landscape.
Too late
Way too late it sounds like.
It was ceded to them without a fight.
Bob Hope wasn’t enough.
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties
– Iowahawk
That “free” education will be little more than a leftist indoctrination camp issuing degrees that are totally worthless in the job market.
“totally worthless in the job market”
Not true; they’ll be essential to become paper pushers in the enormous bureaucracy that free healthcare, free college, UBI, etc. will require.
Either that or an activist in an NGO funded by leftist billionaires.
And “Diversity Coordinators”.
And while you’re on the waitlist to get in, you can earn an associates in auto tech at the local community college for well under a grand a term. I mean, you won’t get that cushy job making minimum wage as a woke studies TA, but you might buy your first house in your twenties working as a mechanic.
One of my son’s high school buddies is a mechanic. It is funny when they get together during summer. The college boys (will be seniors next year) are all working part time jobs and drinking cheap beer and driving heaps.
The mechanic has his own place a nice car and buys fancy beer. All because he has a good paying job and is making bank.
My cousin-in-law’s ex dropped out of college in his second year and works as a driver for UPS. After two years he bought a brand new Charger and a decent-sized house on half an acre.
This is why we need Fight for Fifty. To undercut all these people making it on their own.
Good point. Why does nobody talk about blue collar privilege? Not everyone is good working with their hands. In fact, it’s pretty ableist all around. How many wheelchair mechanics do you know? And what about people who aren’t literally incapable, but can’t possibly work outside an air conditioned office? Where’s their reparations?
How many wheelchair mechanics do you know?
Road Warrior.
My nephew skipped college and does HVAC work.
He is 23, I think, and doing good.
An old friend of mine from California never spent a day in college and makes a helluva lot more than I ever have. He’s a master diesel mechanic.
This s all true. But, college is still the gatekeeper for management and professional jobs. And, honestly, I think that’s going to have to change. I just don’t see how you can make a system where either the workers make a lot more than the manager because they’re more valuable to the employer than the Woke Studies major you stick in the management role or you pay the worthless Woke Studies major more than she can possibly merit can work.
Free “tuition”.
Here’s your $20k invoice for room and board, along with all sorts of non-tuition fees. For example: safe-space fees “$1,200 per semester.”
Anybody want to get into the wedding limo business? Uber?
*Bahoooooga*
Oh, my Uber must be here.
I officially signed up for the teaching position. Successfully negotiated my salary upwardly. Will have my own classroom. Not at all scared of teaching, but I am still fearful for the hours. This is the first time as an adult that I’ve routinely worked first shift. Jesus. A decade of second shift. That’s going to be the hardest part. But Lady has the same schedule so I’ll have a backup to my alarm.
I start orientation August 1.
If anyone mentions the Cubs I will stab them in a voodoo ceremony to sacrifice their soul to ease the Cubbies’ current ineptitude.
The Cubs?
tf is second shift in teaching? Everyone knows you only teach students from eight in the morning to three in the afternoon. That’s how it’s done at America’s hugely successful public schools.
Glad to hear you’ve got yourself a job again. Personally, even after working first shift for a decade, I still set multiple alarms with at least a 10 minute gap between them. Now I’m usually up before them, but they’re still there just in case.
We took our son to a Cubs game for his birthday this year. Took the L and everything. Fun time. Our family being from the sticks, was exposed to all sorts of fun stuff like a drunk and possible mentally handicapped person get forcibly removed from the train at the depot. Eye opening for the kids.
Cubs lost, btw.
Congrats Evan!
We sell our house on Friday. After a week vacation at the beach, we continue our homelessness with a 2 month house rental in Evansville. I can work remote and my daughter can do her feeding therapy until my job ends on Sept 30.
Hopefully by then I will have my new city figured out.
You last stayed at St. Mary’s, right? At least I think that was you.
Where abouts will you be staying, if you don’t mind? It’s been a decade since I’ve lived there. Still fond memories and the east-side street smarts of someone from the southeast side.
Good luck with your daughter. I had my first hip transplant at St. Mary’s. They literally did G_d’s work. Not my fondest memory, but an important one.
It’s Wednesday and you know what that means!
http://archive.is/EixOS
Ass Glibs get special fapitude!
RE: Kalifornia.
I have to admit, while sad it will be because of the human suffering, I will probably get a pretty big chuckle when the Plague starts ravaging the streets of LA.
I’ve got friends in LA and family in San Diego, so I’d like to evac them first. Really, I wish they’d just get their shit together, because I’d love to live in California.
I first lived in California in 1994-95 as a college freshman. Loved it. I had to transfer for financial reasons, but as soon as I was done with school in 1999 I moved back. It was already speeding downhill at that point.
Southern California in terms of climate is the closest thing I’ve ever experienced to heaven. I get why it’s so expensive to live there. We just did a week in the mid-90s with 85%+ humidity, with the “RealFeel” hovering around 110F. My BIL and his wife were in town visiting family and could not wait to get back to La Jolla, where it was a nice, dry 75F or so.
I lived in LA (& the valley) from in 97-98, and it was great. I’d love to go back but not until some things really change there.
The plague? Hantavirus? TYPHUS?
Fucking A, what kind of middle ages hellhole has Los Angeles turned into?
“Kids, today we have to talk about Krusty brand Chew Goo Gum-Like Substance. We knew it contained spider eggs, but the hantavirus– well, that really came out of left field.”
If any of you have experienced numbness or comas, send proof of purchase and five dollars to PO Box 14..
It’s got about the same climate as Lebanon – which also used to be one of the richest places on Earth. I imagine LA will resemble Beirut in a couple of decades.
Paris of the West Coast?
I saw we let it play out to see who ultimately wins, the CA Rats or the FL Iguanas.
But won’t the pythons eat the iguanas?
Then we just release mongooses to eat the snakes. Duh.
We allow the iguanas to be armed.
Anyone else watch RLM’s BotW last week? The clips from Roar were super unsettling.
What’s a RLM? Or a BotW?
Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst series.
I’d never heard of this movie and I wonder why not. Fuckin’ hippies.
Ah I love Red Letter Media. Will check it out.
>>The Roar
btw, Melanie Griffith in the movie “Night Moves” (1975) was most excellent – in the buff.
She was 16 in that movie and was naked quite a bit. I can’t imagine someone even attempting that in a movie today.
And yeah, she looked terrific, but damn I feel sleazy watching that one (but it’s a great movie).
Ditto Blame it on Rio. Not sure how you can legally have full-frontal nudity on someone underage. It guess its “art”. But, yeah, that movie isnt.
Only needs parental permission.
The plague? Hantavirus? TYPHUS?
Fucking A, what kind of middle ages hellhole has Los Angeles turned into?
Don’t forget cholera.
I got what I believe was cholera once when I was in a Colombian port town and it flooded. Three days after the flood, during the halftime of Brazil versus France World Cup game I went out to smoke a joint with a couple. By the time the game was over I was feeling terrible. I’ve had a few tropical stomach things before and salmonella once but this thing threw me upside down. For five or six days I was on the toilet with a garbage can in front of my head. I was starting to hallucinate things. Somehow I made it to some clinic a few blocks away and they stuck me on a gurney next to some guy who was screaming in pain. I went through four IV bags and they shot me with some antibiotics. Felt like being revived from the dead, but it still took several weeks to get healthy. Lost thirty pounds.
I see an infomercial in your future. 30lbs in 30 days!
Secret Colombian Weight Loss Trick!
“With just one dose of this fully organic , fair trade miracle drink from the depths of the South American rain forest, you too, can melt away belly fat and drop pounds like Juan Valdez unloading his burro.”
Today I learned: Mueller’s deputy, the guy he toted along to today’s hearing, was the lawyer for Hillary’s IT guy. That sounds completely legitimate!
Can’t make this shit up.
Today I learned that Mueller testified about WMD’s in Iraq during the run-up to the war.
Nope, can’t make this shit up.
He took time out from his busy schedule of botching the anthrax investigation to do so.
This guy really failed his way upward.
Sounds like the swamp gets drained just by pulling Mueller’s finger from the dyke.
My cousin-in-law’s ex dropped out of college in his second year and works as a driver for UPS. After two years he bought a brand new Charger and a decent-sized house on half an acre.
Sounds like a racist.
He did confess to me at a wedding that he always sweats around white people.
Today I learned: Mueller’s deputy, the guy he toted along to today’s hearing, was the lawyer for Hillary’s IT guy. That sounds completely legitimate!
The best legal minds are always in high demand.
I stopped watching the Mueller farce a while ago but Stephen Green noted this exchange with Jim Jordan:
Mueller: “I don’t agree with your characterizations.”
Jordan: “I’m reading from your report.”
Tried watching it. Mueller sounds senile and I’m not being hyperbolic. He’s barely hanging in there and kind of answering some questions at times. Other times, he’s just muttering half sentences. This scene with Gohmert is going to go viral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsPsfrkZxiE
“I won’t get into that…I don’t recall recalling…”
Dems: Mueller is going senile.
For once, I believe the Democrats. Mueller sounds like they pulled a random senile old man out of a nursing home, put a suit on him, and sat him down in front of the mike.
I thought something seemed off. He is having trouble keeping up.
“We need a redo.”
the Google engineer interview is fine. dude is calm and a nerd. i suspect he’ll be fired by lunchtime.
one funny point he raised to exemplify the bias was that 20% of all Trump searches on Google return a CNN article which half the country think is fake news.
I’m off to Vacationland for about a week.
No loud parties and trash day is Thursday. Try not to burn the place down while I’m gone.
I am BEZOS- destroyer of worlds
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday the Justice Department is right to be looking into Amazon’s practices as part of its antitrust review of big technology companies.
“I think if you look at Amazon, although there are certain benefits to it, they’ve destroyed the retail industry across the United States so there’s no question they’ve limited competition,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s “Squawk Box. ”
“I think it’s very good that the attorney general is going to look into this. I think it’s an important issue and I look forward to him reporting back to the president and hearing his recommendations,” said Mnuchin.
“Destroyed”? That’s a bit of an overstatement, I’d say.
We just need to make it illegal to buy anything from a retail supplier more than twenty miles away. For the moms and pops.
Who is fucking over retail? Is it amazon? Or is it dollar general?
I can’t keep all the hysteria straight anymore.
Give me an app that finds me comfortable jeans from measurements I feed it and I’ll never step inside a clothing store again.
Ditto drive-through grocery pickup.
I can’t do that grocery pickup stuff. Don’t trust others to pick out decent produce for me.
I do grocery pickup for packaged items only.
Plus, I dont like produce from Walmart and they have the best grocery pickup locally.
Our local Kroger usually does a good job with the produce. Not always the best, but good enough to not make it worth the hassle of going inside anymore, especially while dragging kids along.
I don’t trust them to select steaks or brisket, but I much prefer Costco regardless for that.
Are you pleasingly compact or a giant lumbering oaf (the Glibs have a bi-modal distribution – you must be one or the other).
If the former, I’ve been pleased with the pants from https://www.petermanningnyc.com/ – the “5 pocket stretch twills” are awesome, and I want them in more colors.
Your question made me think of this.
Fairly compact. 5′ 11″ with a 34-6″ waist (depending on which pairs of jeans are lying to me).
My problem is my chunky thighs. Goddamn skinny jeans will usually button up fine but look like sausage casings.
Banana Republic has what they refer to as an “athletic” cut for slacks and jeans, which is a slight taper in the legs but added room in the thighs as compared to their regular pants. I’m in the same boat as you, and those fit me pretty well.
Sweet. I’ll check them out.
The solution has long been available
Where I thought you were going.
Wrangler.
I won’t make any effort to go find products that I am sure exist in one store or another locally. I just check amazon on my lunch break, and stuff shows up at my house a couple of days later.
We use SHIPT, delivered to our door. Sure, you have to tip, but it’s worth my time.
I buy my own produce and fresh fish, meat, etc.
Those guys were too successful. We can’t have that.
That’s completely ignorant. Half of Amazon’s sales are made by non-Amazon sellers. Small to medium retailers have been one of the biggest beneficiaries.
This.
Everything Amazon is doing – excepting their web services business – was being done by Sears Roebuck 100 years ago. Somehow we survived.
“You mean I can just have the telephone operator patch me through to Montgomery Ward and I can order a buggy whip and a commode to be delivered to my ranch without having to take Nellie out of the stable and ride her 10 miles in the rain to the general store on the muddy thoroughfare?”
Proof that there are really “boating accidents” that lead to missing guns.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-pulls-uzi-submachine-gun-083103844.html
Alternatively; proof that the local criminal element found a place to dump murder weapons.
I guessed “New Zealand” but was wrong.
That has to be a typo – everyone knows that Massachusetts’s strict gun laws would prevent anyone from even having an Uzi.
Try the Netherlands
https://youtu.be/isbren9cw4c
The hell is this bullshit?
Students and faculty participating in a University of Houston-recommended diversity activity are given the identities and occasional biographical info of 12 individuals and tasked with deciding, as a group, which eight of them to save in the event of an apocalypse.
Divide and conquer.
Nothing brings people together like the apocalypse
Until some devil possesses one of them and tells one of the others he is gonna titty fuck em.
What do you win for being at the front? asking for a friend.
An extra round of struggle sessions.
The funny thing is, I followed the links and I couldn’t come up with a full eight I’d consider saving.
It’s a trick question anyway. The survivor flight was canceled due to carbon emissions and how they might affect doomed Earth.
On the other hand, the Glib escape craft left on time. It was powered by forsaken orphans and had to teleport through Hell to reach its destination. The diversion kept us from murdering each other until the debate about land taxes came around again.
There were no survivors.
This is the B Arc, right?
I would let them all die.
Fairness, pure and simple.
Eight? You can’t repopulate with eight.
And I’d wager most of their listed available choices are people who are worthless in a rebuilding scenario.
Students and faculty participating in a University of Houston-recommended diversity activity are given the identities and occasional biographical info of 12 individuals and tasked with deciding, as a group, which eight of them to save in the event of an apocalypse.
No farmers. No electricians. No mechanics. No hunters. Just diversity consultants and grant writers.
We can get society right, this time.
Golgafrinchan Ark Ship A
Steve Green is on fire today with this Mueller circus:
Oh come ON.
Mueller says that although he could bring charges against Trump after he leaves office, he hasn’t decided whether he would.
This is just a continuation of the Sow Doubt Campaign he’s been waging since before the report was released, in lieu of being able to do anything more with the evidence he collected for two years.
Uh – he’s a private citizen now isn’t he? Pretty sure he will be in 2025..
It’s about time
Experts Now Recommend Nuking Everything From Orbit
If SMOD won’t come, we’ll have to do it ourselves.
Congress critter: “Do you agree with the joint statement you issued with Barr?”
Mueller: “I’d have to see the statement.”
The guy has lost it.
And we are giving him how much money?
It is like the time Charles Barkley claimed he was misquoted in his autobiography
The band Social Distortion sucks – change my mind!
EF has clearly stolen LH’s account.
Story of My Life…
Ball and Chain
Mommy’s Little Monster
I’m not sure I can but check out :
Don’t Take Me For Granted
When The Angels Sing
Far Behind
Reach For The Sky
Mike Ness is one of my heroes.
To each his own – but to my ears the songs just plod along and the lead guitar work is uninspiring. I _used_ to own their first two albums and had no problems, after many listens, selling ’em.
Do they get points for covering “Ring of Fire,” or lose points because they didn’t do it well? Or should they not lose points because noone could do it better than the original?
Mike Ness makes good music. but i guess it’s not for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIWHlIhvt3Y
I see your point but they are really good live.
They never did much for me. I saw them in 1987. Warzone opened up.
More Kalifornia:
So, as sad as it is to see what was once a great place be laid so low, it really is the fault of the voters. Keep voting for the same shitty candidates with the same shitty ideas and expect different results; definition of insanity and all that.
This is why I have such a hard time with the “pox on both houses” philosophy. Kali is a one-party, Team Blue state. They run the state unopposed. If you want to see how life would be if Team Blue got whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted, you need only look West to see.
I am far from a Team Red partisan, but it is an inescapable conclusion that most (all?) of the shittiest places in the country are Team Blue one-party jurisdictions. Say what you like about Team Red (and boy howdy do they suck in a lot of ways), but I don’t see any Team Red areas experiencing the reemergence of medieval diseases while simultaneously taking away people’s ability to fight said diseases.
And they’re fleeing to states like Texas and Florida where they will vote for the same shitty candidates.
I’d like to offer a counterexample using a Team Red state but I’ve lived in Maryland all my life…
Agreed team red states have some stupid just not on the level of team blue.
Mississippi?
That’d do it.
My family on one side were Californians . My mom and sister were born there. Lots of entrepreneurs and successes. Now they’ve pretty much all left. We have a small chunk of land for sale and that will about do it.
It pains me shine because I loved it so much as a kid. But that’s Progress, right?
Team Stupid v. Team Evil. Stupid meanders into squalor. Evil is a bullet train to shanty town.
Jim Jordan suffers no fools.
Alternative theory: Mueller is playing at being incompetent/senile. He wants out of the public eye, not, like Comey, spending the next couple/several years answering questions about the investigation. (Not to mention the legal implications, but who am I kidding.)
‘pubs aren’t going to pursue it any further and Dems will want him buried after this. Mueller skates out of town under a cloud of ignominy, never to be heard from again.
The Uncle Junior technique
My old business partner actually had an Uncle Junior. The tales of his adventures were legion. I should write up a few of them.
He’s right about everything expect for “the good news” part. I don’t hold out any hope that Barr or Durham are going to take anyone down. At least not anyone of consequence.
I, too, am skeptical.
I just love the “Sure, he lied to us multiple times, but I won’t get into the reasons why we didn’t charge him.”
Other non-responses include:
I was unaware that responding to questions under a subpoena was optional, unless you plead the Fifth. Why Armstrong didn’t push him, I don’t know.
If the Dems thought this was going to help them on impeachment, etc., I think they are sadly mistaken.
Is that my Armstrong? R-ND?
Yes it was:
My problem is my chunky thighs. Goddamn skinny jeans will usually button up fine but look like sausage casings.
What you need
??
Nice.
The band Social Distortion sucks – change my mind!
You’ll have to produce one, first.
Sounds like the Mueller show isn’t the slam dunk the Dems thought it would be. They just keep getting angrier but never do any damage. It’s like watching a bull fight. If people aren’t calling Trump “Teflon Don” by now, they should be.
Teflon isn’t classy, what’s a real fancy non-stick coating?
As it happens, I invented one last week. My trademark application is still pending, but if it is accepted, I’m going to market is “Drumpflon”
Looking forward to this one.
She was a real life badass (she ran a spy network during the war and also led troops in the field) that if they try to keep the virtual signalling to a minimum, it could actually be good.
Looks pretty straightforward. I mean, she’s wielding scary gunz and everything.
I don’t trust them to select steaks or brisket
*calls for Spartan article on brisket selection*
RIP Rutger Hauer