Good afternoon, how’s everyone? I’m fine, but sat in a bunch of damn meetings.
Hell, I thought the Florida Panthers just couldn’t walk right because they were hockey players. I’m guessing they’ve been eating Florida Man again.
Poor SF, the Hat & Hair have gone beyond his attempts at parody.
I wonder how climate deniers caused this.
I hope this gets Sean Spicier tweeting again.
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Panther disorder = cougar crotch ?
Go home panther. You’re drunk.
Darknes falls upon the land
They’re re-re-releasing the NES?
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
Better than the evil of The Shocker
Was that the voiceover at the beginning of “Creature Features”?
Are you serious?
Is that the guy who sang “Johny B Goode?”
Eh do we really need a large predator? I mean, another large predator.
No one needs 23 kinds of apex predators
STEVE SMITH NEED 23 KINDS OF APEX.
large predator
“I prefer ‘amply proportioned’”
/Weinstein
Not when children are starving. There’s no meat on their bones.
Hmmmm….
A lot more predators would really thin out the obese kids and put a real dent in that “Childhood Obesity Epidemic” wouldn’t it? They have that fat/slow ratio that predators love.
Would a fat kid really be slower than a listless, starving kid? To be sure the fat kid would have more well marbled meat, which would make it a more attractive target.
I don’t need the help, thanks.
They’re already in Nashville and walking fine, or so I’m told.
I has beer:)
Today’s “just finished work-from-home day” selection is Hi-Wire Brewing’s “Bed of Nails” Brown Ale, 6.1%. Malty, tasty, not very hoppy at all.
I had this on draft from Hi-Wire the other day. was pretty good although I preferred the Great Lakes Oktoberfest.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31724/184030/
Hi-Wire makes good stuff. They are my favorite of the Asheville brewers.
I’m going to spend this evening with a buddy who is helping me with a welding project. He insists I bring him beer, and by beer he means Miller High Life. I intend to buy it as the unknown comic.
“it’s for a friend!”
“Uh-huh. Sure it is.”
Miller High Life is one of the better tasting low life beers.
True facts. It’s not hard to do worse if you’re on a budget.
No. It’s crap.
I couldn’t believe how awful it was when I tried it about a year ago.
Better than Miller Lite.
That’s my alcoholic bud’s beer of choice. At least it beats Bud Light.
WRONG
“Better than Miller Lite.”
The only thing more like water is Coors light. A glass of water with a slice of lime is more beer like.
Tastes great!
I’m drinking Miller Lite right now. Plus side, I can drink as many as I want without getting drunk. It’s fine.
I just don’t see the point in wearing our your kidneys sooner by drinking twice as much light beer. I have a couple cans of Sapporo in the fridge calling my name, but I might have to drive our friend back to his hotel room, so holding off.
“our” out. Edit faery!
Sometimes I just want to drink.
Make sure you wear two bags.
Burt would be proud.
Buy the High Life in the cans if possible to prevent skunky beer.
We have a dive like packages store near here where I can get the 18 packs of cans for $12. I like Miller Highlife, so I’ll stop in there every once in a while to stock up on cheap beer.
I get Milwaukee’s Beast Diet at Kroger for $13.99/30
Here’s the funny thing. There’s only one place in town that sells it, and they stock it solely for him. Last time I bought him some the cashier said, “I guess there are now two people around who drink this!” I had to inform her it was for the one she already knew about. And they only have it in bottles.
it’s my go to cheap lager
Miller uses a hop derivative product. It literally can’t skunk.
Good to know.
Don’t be ashamed of the Champagne of Beers!
It’s my go to beer when Strohs isn’t available, which is often, most places around here do carry the high life.
Ah Strohs… reminds me of summer picnics and a keg chilled in a ice filled metal trash can.
I can’t remember seeing Strohs in many years. I didn’t even know they still make it.
“They” don’t. I think Pabst is making it now, but it was the beer of my forefathers so due to tradition and stubbornness I still drink it even if it is no longer fire brewed or made with Detroit river water.
A guy named Mike Stroh lived down the street from us when I was a teenager in the Chicago suburbs. I don’t remember how he was related to THE Strohs, but their garage was always full of the stuff.
Pabst Brewing Co doesn’t make it either. They don’t even own a brewery. They own several labels (Pabst, Lone Star, Strohs and others) and contract Miller to brew their labels. That’s why the beers referenced taste so similar.
Champagne of Beers
How can they sell something so good for so little?*
The High Life is my go to beer.
* I think I stole that line from someone here.
You did. But it was a quote from my neighbor.
High Life is no Red Dog, but if the store is out of Red Dog I’ll drink High Life.
Hi Brett!
How am I? Well, I had an eye exam this morning and, as always, got those fucking dilation drops. Now, five hours later, my pupils are still huge and reading is giving me a headache
But hey, my vision is perfect – so there’s that.
Link-relevant song.
I usually refuse those. They don’t seem to mind.
Sounds like an excuse to leave the office early to me. Everyone who was in the office today that I know of, fled a couple of hours ago because of a parade in downtown Balmer this afternoon. I was already home so still not going anywhere.
Also relevant.
Seems like a lot to go through just to hide your ganja use, but you do you.
When I was 18, I swore I’d get lasik as soon as my prescription stabilized. Two decades later, I’m still waiting. I really hate glasses, and I can’t wear contacts. At least I sprung for a good pair of shooting glasses (Smith Optical) last time I had FSA money I needed to burn. I wonder if a spotting scope can be classified as a medical expense…
“I need it for my distance vision.”
I’m thinking about lasik myself if it would help. 20 years of coding has just killed my eyesight. I mean my far vision is just fine, but my reading vision just keeps getting worse.
Close work like coding usually hits your distance vision. In law school, nearly everybody got more near-sighted during the first year or so – it was a running joke.
I suspect your reading vision is just getting older. Lasik is unlikely to help much, but it might be worth checking. After I got Lasik for significant near-sightedness, I used readers for awhile. When I had to get glasses again, I went trifocal, so I still have readers.
One of the most annoying things anybody ever said to me was when my eye doctor, after I told him my near vision was going, said “Oh good, you are right on schedule”.
Five years later and I’m still annoyed.
Why can’t you wear contacts?
because when I put them in, my forebrain says “there is a small plastic lens in your eye” and my hindbrain OH MY FUCKING GOD THERE IS SOMETHING IN YOUR EYE GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT BURN IT WITH FIRE GET IT OUT GET IT OUT
I see.
I keep my contacts in most of the time. I never had that issue you have.
I have to side with Leap. The mere thought causes me agitation.
I wore them for years. The new dailies are fantastically comfortable.
I wore contacts until grad school. Then, all the reading and computer work and just plain exhaustion made them irritate my eyes. Now I’m on the computer all day and I just can’t. Oh well
I got LASIK two years ago and it was the absolute best money I ever spent.
I got mine in 2000 and it was awesome. I had to start wearing glasses again because of astigmatism a few years ago. The doc says if my eyes stabilize I can still get another round of lasik in. Unfortunately they keep drifting a bit more each year.
My eyes were too far gone for Lasik. I didn’t have any serious problems until I had cataract surgery. Then all kinds of problems showed up and many changes of glasses later I finally can see reasonably well. I even tested hard contacts over soft contacts . We discussed corneal transplants but decided that wouldn’t work either.
Mrs Fourscore got upset when she saw a 75 year old woman described as elderly. Good thing she never learned English profanity.
My wife’s lasik is finally wearing out after about 20 years. She’s on the verge of needing glasses again. As someone who’s blind as a bat without my specs, and has had them since age 8, I can’t say I’m overly sympathetic.
^^^^
You’re going to be too old for it very soon.
I go to Downtown Eyes for my annual vision check-up. The are in the skyway level of the Bancorp Tower on 8th and Nicollet. They have an option to forgo the eye drops and instead use some new-fangled machine. The use of the machine is not yet covered by most insurance companies, so I have to shell-out $39.00 for it. Worth every penny
Good to know. Thanks!
My old eye doctor (back in Louisville) had the machine that took a picture of your retina.
Pros:
No dilation drops.
They had a history of pictures to compare over time to see if there was any deterioration.
Cons:
Insurance didn’t cover it.
I paid for it every time.
That machine is in every eye doctors office, yet no insurance plan seems to cover it.
The eye insurance people are trying to screw over the auto insurance people, as the drops have to cause an increase in accidents.
I just did it. $39. My out of pocket was $99 but I got a year’s worth of contacts (I only wear one and it is of the toric variety) covered.
LSD is a helluva drug.
My eye doctor has a machine that will take pictures of your retina without drops.
Insurance won’t cover using the money so I have to pay the full cost out of pocket.
I pay that cost every time. It’s worth it.
I learn something new from my eye doctor each year. I actually look forward to the visit. It helps that it’s a very nice place located in a cute town.
https://www.madisoneyesnj.com
That’s a bit of a drive.
It is. I only have to go once a year though. I’ve been a customer for the past 25+ years. I used to be more local to them then, and they’ve moved twice since I started going.
They run a first class business, and I like them despite that they are located in NJ.
West Wing Story
My God. The comments.
What’s wrong with the comments? They seem to hate it as proper.
It just amazes me that people feel the need to chime in just to say the same thing everyone else is saying.
agreed
+1
Yeah!
I know, right?
#metoo
So unoriginal! This is true!
It is just awful when everyone needs to repeat their completely unoriginal sentiments.
I no rite?
It IS that bad, though.
That’s unbelievably bad. Like Aaron Sorkin started writing for the Simpsons bad.
Yup. Woke, political propaganda Simpsons blows.
I’m old enough that I can remember when Lisa’s strident environmentalism was mocked on the show.
And Marge kept a pistol in her purse.
Well said.
I have watched some of the earlier seasons with my kids, and they hold up pretty well. I can’t see anyone watching this again 10 years from now.
Of course, nothing like getting informed through youtube comments of Groening’s connections to Epstein.
Given this revelation, you know, you would *think* given what happened with Epstein, Groening wouldn’t draw attention to himself.
Nope. TDS is just too powerful a virus. Let’s go political and make sure people call you out publicly.
I wonder if Groening is even connected closely enough to the show to know this was being planned. Regardless, I’m not upset that they dissed Trump and venerated the worst the Dems have to offer, I’m just turned off because they did it in an unoriginal, pandering, and unfunny way. Conan O’Brien must be spinning in his grave, God rest his soul.
So much this.
It wasn’t funny because it was meant to be didactic.
“Glibertarians brought me here.”
If I could kill every YT commenter who does the above I would be happy.
In Brazil, sudden darkness befalls Sao Paulo, baffling thousands
The nightmare corpse-city of Sao Pauloh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults. Until the Mormon immigrants wakened them
The Brazilians just can’t get with the program. It is of course the fault of their own BAD ORANGE MAN, Bolsonaro. They’ll catch on soon enough.
I’m fine, but sat in a bunch of damn meetings.
As I’ve said before, in meetings: “Hey, meetings pay, same as work.”
Since no one else had set one up yet…
Glibs Fantasy Football league
https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1032574/invitation?key=6002097debc65c9c&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=e6e665ca3bcd0590
Only if you take the Arizona smurf as your QB.
Are we talking Sedona Smurf wearing a Baja jacket, reeking of patchouli oil, and trying to sell us a session crystal healing, or are we talking University of Arizona Smurf wearing cut offs on her feet and daddy issues on her sleeve?
First round draft pick smurf.
Sedona and Shuttuppa Smurf.
I didn’t know Vhyrus was an option at QB?
EIGHT bench slots? There will be no waiver wire fodder. (Depending on how many teams enter)
I’m in. As Agent Cooper said, that’s too many bench slots. Most of the fun is in the waiver action. Doesn’t work if people are hoarding players like nuts for winter.
True Glib thankfulness. Someone does something and the first things people do is to tell them why they’re wrong.
I have joined. Less bench slots would be fine with me as well.
Also, the money from fines does not go into the center of the board for people to get for landing on Go. It had to be said.
The fact that anyone gives a flying fuck about who gets on Dancing With the Stars is hilarious to me.
ABC laughs all the way to the bank. Easy publicity.
Demonizing and delegitimizing anyone related to Trump and/or Republicans is the goal wherever the Left is in control.
And the judges started planning how to remove him the moment he was announced, right?
The proof is in the tweet!
It looks fine to me. I want examples. I know, examples are racist.
worst of all – poor people are eating healthier diets!!!!
“More poor people are eating meat around the world. That means they will live longer”
As opposed to what? Not eating food at all?
Once again, I’d like some data to back up that claim. But again, I know, racist.
As opposed to eating only plants and grains, I guess.
A likely bullshit claim if that is what the person is claiming. Of course, if you don’t like that claim, a study will be out next week proving the one you do like.
Probably true. Still, leaving aside the veracity of the claim, it’s instructive to see how these assholes are fretting that poor people in Third World countries eating better is a bad thing.
Well, I get that, another bullshit claim because saving the planet. They are just full of shit up to their eyeballs.
Save the noble savages and our National Geographic fantasies.
Doomsday cult
That means they will live longer, healthier lives, but it is bad news for the environment
I am going to be a bit controversial but:
The environment has no moral value except insofar as it improves the lives and happiness of human beings. Nothing does.
This, over and over
At least until another species arises that can consider the morality of our situation.
Press any modern environmentalist long enough and eventually they reveal themselves for the Malthusian death cultists they are.
The Economist doesn’t sound too happy about it.
Fuck off, slavers.
Poor panthers.
I just can’t really get my mind around the idea of feeling sorry for things that will eat your face off first chance they get.
Oh they won’t eat your face first chance they get. They always start with the entrails.
Serious question. Do predators eat the entrails? Us humans have to remove them as part of the processing of meat before eating.
It depends on the predator, a lot of them do, because the entrails contain nutrients they can’t get from other body parts.
As omnivores, we get those from plants – the same partially digested plants that supplement the carnivore’s diet alongside the liver and kidneys.
‘Us humans have to remove them as part of the processing of meat before eating’
Confirmed NOT a Scotsman.
Hippie, you got to remove them from the carcass to stuff the lungs in the intestines.
Sure, if you’re a pussy.
😉
Dicks on the other hand just turn the sheep inside out and hit it with a flame thrower.
It’s not proper haggis if you didn’t stuff the lungs, heart and liver into the
intestinesstomach. It’s like you don’t even cook.You cook your haggis?…..pussy.
Ha! Sorry, it’s Fantasy Football Draft night and I’m knocking them back early.
Not a true Scotsman, anyway.
A teaspoon of Geritol contains more iron than a pound of calf’s liver.
I was being Glib, butmy understanding is that most predators start either by licking up the blood, or by eating the kidneys, liver and other fatty organs. Probably not the intestines.
Easier to consume and digest compared to muscle tissue.
Orcas like to eat livers from the sharks. As appetizers before they tear the hunks of shark steak off the carcass.
Orca – the killer whale, is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with a relentless, terrible vengeance – across seas, across time, across all obstacles.
Yes, they eat the entrails and the contents of the entrails.
So that shit eating grin of a mountain lion really is a shit eating grin.
A gut pile disappears in a matter of days, only leaving the stomach contents. Wolves/coyotes/foxes/crows/jays/eagles/bears. If the skunks and raccoons haven’t hibernated they’ll want in on the action
Not an irrelevant point.
They will fuck you up.
Albeit expertly and efficiently.
If called by a panther,
Don’t anther.
Boo!
Melitha Harrith-Perry loves this joke!
Have you ever been to Barthelona?
I loved Nash as a child
but don’t tell the authorities
oops: just now seeing cool who-wrote-that thread below 🙁
Should I tell him to hold the lion?
Hold? No he should tow it.
The only thing more like water is Coors light. A glass of water with a slice of lime is more beer like.
You’ll never get me to weld anything for you, talking like that.
On the Sean Spicer Dancing with the Stars thing, the host of the show issued a preemptive apology of sorts:
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/entertainment/sean-spicer-to-be-on-upcoming-season-of-dancing-with-the-stars
Story includes the usual citing of tweets authored by people no one has ever heard of:
“Gabe Ortiz added, “Great job normalizing a white supremacist administration, guys.””
They’re upset about Spicer, while probable murderer Ray Lewis is on the show this season.
Damn you!
I thought it was established he didn’t kill anyone. He just was there and questions about his blood soaked clothes remain unsolved.
Or something. I always forget.
But point taken.
He was there, he knows what happened, and he helped to try and cover it up. And yeah, his suit was never seen again.
Yeh pretty bad. Cowardly.
But they’d never call him out.
Just another case of prog celebrities being unprincipled virtue signallers.
That’s because Sean Soicer won’t kill you when you confront him.
He was there, he didn’t kill anyone and the 2 guys who did kill someone were acquitted on the grounds of self defense.
See the morons who wound up dead started the fight in the club earlier that night, got kicked out by bouncers, waited around till Ray and his crew left, then jumped them smashing beer bottles over someone’s head and attacking with the broken glass.
Yes Ray tried to cover it up for about 24 hours, till he talked to his mom and she set him straight at which point he turned himself over to the cops and was a very cooperative witness against his friends who while thugs happened to not actually be guilty of any crimes. All accounts of the events of the fight have the only role Lewis played in the brawl was to try and break it up and act as a peacemaker.
So get your facts straight Ray Lewis is not a murder, there is no evidence he participated in any violent action, and no one was actually murdered that night, they were killed in justifiable self defense.
Oh, shit – they lost Gabe Ortiz!!!!
What’s hilarious is that Ray fucking Lewis is also going to be on the show. A guy who was an accessory to a murder will be a contestant, but Sean Spicer is the one they’re screaming about.
They’re VERY serious people!
FTFY
Rasilio = Ravens fan.
THIS IS FRIGHTENING!
When everything is frightening,
nothing is frighteningyou’re a pussy.What if you live in
R’lyehSao Paulo?If called by a panther,
Don’t anther.
Herman Melville, right?
Aesop
No it was Coleridge.
I thought it was Atlas Animal 451.
Aesop wrote The Cuddler’s Nipple. Or maybe that was Chaucer, come to think of it.
I thought it was H. P. Lovecraft?
She Stone Cold Steve Austin’ed My Ass” – Woman Crushes Two Beer Cans Then Beats The Crap Out Of Her Boyfriend For Saying She Drinks Too Much
lol k but she thiccc
The link is not thicc.
Diabetics shouldn’t be drinking all those carbs.
Approved
He must have heard the glass
Trump-Pelosi budget deal sends deficit soaring
lol I don’t believe it. The economy is great, we are winning the trade war with China, and the libs just can’t handle it.
The moral of the story is, if Obama is president, deficits good, if orange bad man is president, deficits the end of the world. It really does not go any deeper than that.
To a lot of the right the opposite is also true. That is the thing that keeps me on the libertarian side even when I read an article on Reason or by Cato and start hating the squishiness of the libertarian side.
That’s definitely one that goes both ways. The GOP only gives a damn about the debt when there’s a Democrat in office.
For sure.
The reality is that no one truly gives a fuck about debt.
Not yet at least
Well, not no one
None of them are going to do anything about it because a little financial pain that it may take to bring a balanced budget, may just get them unelected from their cushy do nothing job.
The difference is that the democrats will have their propaganda rags churning out article after article about now deficits are a good thing and then completely about face as soon as a Republican is president. They don’t even try to look honest anymore. Republicans just don’t care, but at least can keep their mouth shut about it.
What universe do you live in?
Well, if you can show me when the NYT or whatever rag is churning out defecits are good artciles now that Trump is in the whitehouse, I will admit I may be wrong.
There aren’t Republican or Trumpist propoganda rags?
“There aren’t Republican or Trumpist propoganda rags?”
Plenty. Claiming that deficits are the greatest thing since sliced bread? I haven’t seen any of them yet.
Politically I think the only thing you can do is to slow the growth of government to where the private sector grows faster than the government sector. Although you’ll get pushback with even that.
Absolutely. None of these shitheels actually cares about fiscal responsibility.
NY state trooper, Rome native pleads not guilty to nude photo coercion scheme
Thiccccccc
The “Man from Manlius” ploy?
We don’t see the pics? What a rip-off.
The real issue none of them are willing to deal with is that Trump, Obama, Bush none of them mattered in the least. The spending they engaged in or didn’t engage in amounted to little more than rearranging deck chairs on the titanic compared to the tsunami of spending baked into the budget every year.
Discretionary spending has been between 35 and 40% of the budget for the last 20 years and even in that a huge percentage of it is effectively mandatory (most defense spending, law enforcement, courts, government retirees benefits, etc.) when you get right down to it about $4 trillion of the Federal budget is for all intents and purposes untouchable politically and the politicians argue over whether to spend $400 billion or $600 billion on top of that. At the end of the day that extra $200 billion doesn’t matter, it is the $4 trillion we need to do something about because now that the Baby Boomers have started to retire en masse that $4 trillion is going to grow by at least 50% in the next 15 years regardless of what happens with the tiny portion of the budget the politicians argue about
this is why I’m of the firm belief that we crossed the point of no return 2 generations before I was born. Nothing is going to fix this except financial ruin. The only question is whether the momentum from the flagging steam engine that is the American economy can carry us another 10 years or another 100 years.
Yup. The best case scenario is sustained double digit inflation. Which a lot of people are too young to remember the barely double digit inflation we had for awhile, and which sucked cancerous donkey balls. We’ll need more than that to inflate the debt to something manageable.
The alternative is currency collapse, followed by economic and social collapse.
Joy.
According to the weather map, the big thunderstorm cell is about to go over my house.
Hope I don’t lose power.
the big thunderstorm cell is about to go over my house
Jealous. They always seem to miss mine and I like thunderstorms.
I like the ones we have here. Because they’re mostly just mild thundershowers, it’s sort of relaxing. But I don’t miss the midwest ones where your house blows away.
As long as I don’t lose power, I like thunderstorms too. That one binary element determines my reaction to them. I’ve found my light and spare batteries, so I’m good. I have plenty of food that can be eaten as-is.
… oh, Hail just bounced off my window.
Definitely time to panic.
Please keep us updated as your adrenaline spikes.
I’m actually very calm. The sound is soothing.
Darn
I’m trying to work-in “thunderstorm gloves” but I got nuthin.
That, and Im sober.
We even get a little buzz from the ozone: makes most folks slightly giddy.
Well, the cell has passed, now it’s just rain.
Darn.
Stand on top of your roof with your arms held up like what’s-his-face in the movie Titanic and yell “I’m the king of the world!”
That’ll show the T-storm who’s boss.
Bonus points if you do it barefoot and holding a copper rod.
There’s a three or four story apartment building right next door that will get hit first.
Hold up a 1 iron and you’ll be safe. Not even gawd can hit a 1 iron.
In the clear again 🙂
Though it looks like Manhattan is about to get hammered.
Ah, happy hour’s rolling around again.
Oh, never mind. Now I’ve got those fat cartoon clouds throwing out lightning bolts, surrounded by sunshine. And as I was typing that, it turned into a monsoon.
The
Britishwhite-supremacists are coming!During an appearance on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” network contributor Wajahat Ali criticized President Donald Trump by saying he was more than just racist but an antisemitic white supremacist as well.
Ali warned that “white supremacists” were “coming for all us,” and added that Trump would not win.
“What I’m telling everyone today is a very radical idea that Donald Trump is a racist president,” Ali said. “He’s also an antisemitic president. He promotes white supremacist talking points and what I want to tell all my Jewish cousins from other mothers is that the Muslims are with you, and we see through this. We’re not going to let him use Jews and Israel and antisemitism as a wedge to divide us along religious and racial lines. We’re in this together. We know he attacks black women, Muslims, women, Latinos, immigrants, and Jews and we know that white supremacists are the number-one domestic terror threat in America coming for all of us.
“We’re going unite. We’re going to have our disagreements about Israel. That’s fine. But we’re going to unite against the common threat that is coming against all of us which is white supremacy and Donald Trump, you will not win,” he added.
Some lies will never die.
Yes, the Muslims are definitely with the Jews. That is obvious.
I want to tell all my Jewish cousins from other mothers is that the Muslims are with you
baaaaahahahahahahahahahaha
So, let me guess, that bad limey man, Boris whatever, he’s got the white supremacists just crawling out of the woodwork?
Oh wait, I read the post. Orange Bad Man again, I should’ve known.
Ah yes, this trite and stale argument once again. Truly a professor of intellect.
Damnit, I meant this for the Duke “tRiCkLe DoWn No ExIsT” dude, but i guess it can work here too.
“Ali warned that “white supremacists” were “coming for all us,””
The white supremacists are going to be spread a little thin.
If the white supremacists are coming for you, you may want to buy a gun.
Nah man, we should only let the cops who are also a bunch of white supremacists be the only people who can access weapons.
Wajawhat?
I’m not hysterical, I’m just concerned
One of the biggest lies foisted on the American people is that as rich people get richer, we all benefit — the so-called trickle-down theory.
For decades, working families have been told not to worry about the growing wealth gap between the nation’s haves and have-nots. A rising tide lifts all boats, we’ve been told with encouraging smiles and pats on the back.
The magnitude of the deception borders on monstrous.
William Darity, a professor of public policy at Duke University, said it’s “nonsensical” to think that greater wealth for the rich translates to improved fortunes for everyone else.
——
“I have not seen anyone make a serious claim for a trickle-down effect with respect to wealth.”
Put simply, there is no empirical evidence — none whatsoever — that trickle-down economics delivers as promised, bringing more jobs, higher pay and better conditions to millions of people.
The reality is that as the rich get richer, the rich get richer, full stop. They buy more houses and cars and boats and stuff.
Blah blah blah. Speaking of tired old recycled talking points.
Rich people got rich by stealing from poor people. Oil up the guillotine.
If it’s from Duke, I assume it’s bullshit.
I love that he says, “full stop,” then goes on to disprove his point.
They buy them in special rich people sales that only employ other rich people. The rich people economy is closed.
The best yachts are handbuilt by other millionaires. Everyone who’s anyone knows that!
That is pretty priceless. Not even a new paragraph.
If the rich hadn’t bought those new houses and luxury goods, then the poor workers would have been able to keep them.
Because there are a ton of car manufacturing co-ops out there funded collectively by the workers.
Wealth isn’t only measured in money.
Wealth isn’t really money anyway, it’s just a way to talk about it, reduce it to a single number. That’s why stock and bond transactions and used goods don’t count in GDP. Only new stuff. It’s also why housing makes economists tear their hair out about how to account for it. We talk about a flow of housing services, but nobody is satisfied.
I remember when I was six years old and got angry when another kid got a GI Joe and I didn’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
Hahahaha, that was my son that got the GI Joe, with all the accessories. He went on to get a liberal arts degree, has a hard time to supporting himself.
True story
the so-called trickle-down theory
It is “so-called” because it is wrong. The real ‘trickle-down theory’ is centralized gov’t control and public funding, which is inept and corrupt.
Who is it that makes the houses and cars and boats and stuff?
The orphan slaves of the rich, of course.
Slaves, it’s like you don’t keep up with anything.
Gross fucking people in flyover country.
Obviously the poor serfs who aren’t even paid a “living wage” ala LA or NYC wages.
I remember when a luxury tax destroyed the yacht industry in the US throwing 10s of thousands of skilled laborers out of work. Good times for the Democratic Party.
The thing that gets me is that the trickle down theory was used to slander supply side economics. Supply side economics was a response to high inflation which basically says the cheaper you can make things the better life is for everyone and the lower inflation will be. So get government out of the way as government increases the costs to the producers and investors.
Pressured by Anti-ICE Activists, Big Banks Abandon Private Corrections Companies
They should be playing politics for US not THEM.
Now this could get ugly.
Politicizing the financial business heads nowhere good.
If only the financial sector wasn’t so regulated these attacks wouldn’t be so easy
I own some Bank of America stock. They should probably focus on their product, since my stock is worth about two-thirds of what it was worth 20 years ago.
Sure, that whole 2008 financial sector meltdown hurt a little, but still…
I had used BOA for many years and kept a fair sized balance in my account at the time. Hardly wrote many checks, etc. They wanted to put a monthly service charge on my account so I left about 20 years ago. Finally ended up with a balance check for .01 dollars. I still have the check so they will never be able to balance their books.
Didn’t they have some internal problems a few years ago with ghost accounts? Glad I’m out of there.
So you’re the one who tanked my stock portfolio!
The ghost account thing was Wells Fargo, I believe. Bank of America got into the don’t-do-business-with-gun-manufacturers game. There really isn’t a lefty pressure group they won’t genuflect to.
This is why I use a credit union. Fuck this garbage.
The welfare queens of the mid-west are apoplectic.
http://www.swiowanewssource.com/atlantic/business/article_c25eb0f8-36ba-5d7f-822e-64cfe846de86.html
“President Donald Trump’s decision to waive requirements for some small refineries to blend ethanol with gasoline has local ethanol officials furious and saying Trump may have lost the support of rural voters.
“I’m just livid,” Elite Octane President and CEO Nick Bowdish said Monday. “The president went to Washington D.C. to drain the swamp and he’s really become the swamp. The only person that’s won here is Carl Ichan who got off not having to comply and saving about $190 million because he’s president Trump’s friend.””
Oh the swamp is the parts of the Government that don’t benefit ME. Sometimes I think we deserve everything that is coming.
“President Donald Trump’s decision to waive requirements for some small refineries to blend ethanol with gasoline”
Number one voting issue for realz.
He also claims ethanol is cheaper than wholesale gasoline (might be after subsidies and tax breaks).
Which if that’s the case, then why does the government have to mandate ethanol’s usage? If it’s so wonderful and cheap, wouldn’t they choose to use it anyway?
Because it’s a shit fuel that separates over time, varnishes carbs, and has less energy density than straight gasoline. I would gladly pay more for non-adulterated fuel.
Don’t forget increased wear on engine parts
It was a rhetorical question, but yes.
Ethanol sucks. It’s hydrophilic garbage that ruins fuel systems and reduces efficiency.
I was astounded that Ted Cruz campaigned (in early 2016) in Iowa and said in plain English to all the Iowans that he planned to get rid of the ethanol requirements.
I was amazed that he not only would dare say that in the Midwest, but was downright flabbergasted that he went on to win the Iowa GOP straw poll & primary/caucus thingy.
If only there were something useful to make with all that corn:
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/minnesota-is-home-to-the-nations-best-craft-vodka-distillery
‘Course we sure wouldn’t want to feed that corn to the meat critters, price of steak might come down. I worked in Iowa for a while, folks would figure out a use for the corn if ethanol hadn’t been invented/mandated.
I’m guessing the ethanol plants could be converted rather quickly into making something useful. See P-Nicks’s comment
Wawa here sells ethanol-free gas. More expensive than premium. I need to get a few tankfuls though and see how it compares in efficiency. Gotta be better, right? Just not sure if it’s better enough for the price.
Despite it being a shitty fuel, I think auto manufacturers have come around enough to make their engines/fuel system play nicer with it. I get ethanol-free for all my small engines, tho. (chainsaw, mowers, weed eater)
Thankfully, my truck is diesel.
There’s ethanol-free gas in my general area, but the cost is off-putting (and the fact that it’s not at a convenient location).
I’m not even sure I could find ethanol-free gasoline anywhere in Alberta. Or Canada, for that matter. It’s like Frank’s Red Hot Sauce — “They put that shit in everything.”
I don’t bother in modern cars. My old car and all my small engines get the good stuff, though.
Most importantly, Wawa has delicious sandwiches and apple fritters.
For anyone looking for the good stuff.
This is a great resource.
For BEAM
Lots of places!
Ethanol is half the energy for that 10% of the mix, so the mix is 95% of your otherwise “pure” “gasoline” whatever that is. So if you were getting 19MPG, you’ll move up to 20.
1 gallon of E10 has 96.7% of the energy of one gallon of gasoline.
Tundra: thanks, mang.
In Tesla we Trust.
Nothing regarding internal combustion engines is clear cut. No estimate of power output will ever be fully accurate. The fuel mixes are not exactly 10% for every given quantity. Maybe your tank gets a higher percentage of ethanol, or the first part does. The engine senses knock sooner and adjusts for it. Now your timing is dialed back and the mixture is fattened up. Now, it takes a while for the motor to reset back to where it was when the gas was burning better. For this period of time, you’re running worse than normal. It might be for a long time, depending on the weather, driving conditions, etc. I’ve had to increase jet sizes by two or three compared to pre-ethanol days. It just doesn’t act the same. I also noticed it goes bad much quicker and takes more rubber parts with it. There’s a lot of complexity to these things. A simple equation based on energy per gallon is not going to transfer directly to actual real world performance. The rounding is more likely to be against you than in your favor.
Btw, I live in California where we get extra shitty gas. One state formula. And we pay 30 % more than all of you, for the privilege.
I pay an extra 20 cents a gallon for ethanol free fuel. I usually have enough fuel reward points to cover the difference.
The Best Beers To Drink At An Outdoor Concert, According To Brewers
Not-so-thiccccccccc
“The Best Beers To Drink At An Outdoor Concert”
The ones that I like.
Oh yeah, what was I thinking, I mean we need experts to tell us which beer to drink! I hope that report comes out soon, I’m getting thirsty!
This brewer says something from the styles:
Saison
Witbier
Hefeweizen
or the like.
Founders All Day IPA is the clear choice – ITS IN THE NAME!
Or one of the now many beers targeted toward runners, like Boston’s 26.2.
Sparkling, session mead.
Disqualifed as not beer.
But, yeah, that would work.
not beer
That’s the whole point.
Guinness is a session beer.
Unless you pair them with a shot of Underberg Bitters. Oy.
Who Knew So Many Rolling Stones Fans Were Trump Supporters?
EVERYTHING IS ABOUT BAD ORANGE MAN, NOW YOU AGREE WITH ME OR YOU’RE A NAZI!
Well I did know that Rolling Stone music critics are all pompous douchebags.
It’s like they never left high school.
in these times of extraordinary duress for anyone who’s not a white nationalist or billionaire
I didn’t know my eyes could roll back this far!
You can see your own brain-stem, can’t you?
I am neither of those things but do not feel extraordinary duress.
Someone help whip me into a frenzy!!
That costs extra. Um so I heard.
Twenty bucks, same as downtown.
+75 (dollars… per hour)
Alright, which of you Glibs is spreading my price list, Er, I mean spreading vicious lies??
STEVE SMITH FEEL DURESS. HE FEEL DIS DRESS AND DAT DRESS TOO.
“but in these times of extraordinary duress for anyone who’s not a white nationalist or billionaire”
Seriously?
In the near term, the deficit for 2019 will be $960 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said. That’s an increase of $63 billion compared to the CBO’s estimate three months ago.
By next year, the deficit will top $1 trillion, and will steadily increase. By 2028 the government will set a new record at $1.479 trillion, topping the worst fiscal year on record in 2009, which was split between Presidents Obama and George W. Bush.
Debt held by the public will nearly double over the next decade, reaching $29 trillion in 2029. At that rate, it will be about 95% of America’s gross domestic product — a rate not seen since immediately after the mobilization effort of World War II.
Modern Monetary Theory will save us.
Just as soon as a Democratic is in the White House.
“Just as soon as a Democratic is in the White House.”
The one instant magic cure for deficits without doing a damn thing about them.
The “Blame the Poor” Playbook—Used by Republicans and Democrats Alike—Is Back With a Vengeance
Defend that, Libertarians.
Don’t have to. Precisely where in Article one are they authorized?
The stealing a dollar from someone else generates $1.79 in economic activity gets me every time…
1.79? that’s oddly specific for a complex system.
Luckiest roommate in history, Chris Hughes, likes to spread the $1.79 per dollar gospel. I just occurred to me that we have no reason to fear budget deficits – given the payback, who WOULDN’T want to spend more!
Speaking of the politicization of finance…
What do we suppose would have happened if an investment bank had dropped out of the Levis IPO and said, “I don’t think they’re serious about building the business and providing returns to investors. They should shut the fuck up about guns and focus on selling denim to anyone and everyone with ready money.”
Levi’s waded into gun grabbing too? Christ. Portland Timbers made an exception to their politics policy for that too. They called it a human rights issue, ignoring the obvious irony of trying to take away a tool of self defense and freedom.
If only they could find a way to get rid of the toxic masculinity in their product. Maybe only make red skinny jeans from now on?
Levi’s is WAYYY proggy. I refused to buy their clothing many years ago.
I stopped buying Levis decades ago for just this reason. One time in Bangkok I bought a pair of “Le-Dog” knock-offs just to spite them. Other than the name they were a direct copy – down to the little red tag on the pocket. They lasted for years as well.
MLB warns of stiff penalty as gas station sex pill problem spirals
Just go to Bluechew.com, you fucking idiots. Holy moly plan ahead.
You don’t even have to do that. You can buy all the viagara you want online, no script needed. What the fuck now, they want to make viagara a controlled substance? Dangerous 4 hour erections? What about aspirin and herbal teas? That stuff could be dangerous too!
Don’t give them ideas.
I don’t think they need any ideas, they already have them, just waiting for an opportunity.
Those aren’t my sex pills, baby.
MLB stands for Major League Bummers amirite?
1.79? that’s oddly specific for a complex system.
Shhhhhh.
Trust science.
Science turned me into a newt!
Did you get better?
So you’re an old, short, fat, white haired guy with a red bulbous alki nose?
James Dolan’s plan to build orb-like amphitheaters under fire
He may be a bad businessman (it’s truly a bad idea to build those orbs), but he is a great musician
The left wants to outlaw guns and white supremacy so only white supremacists will have guns.
Have pity on the working man
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders says he wants to double union membership and give workers the right to strike without the fear of their jobs being filled by replacement workers, ahead of a speech Wednesday to organized labor.
In unveiling his “workplace democracy plan” Wednesday morning ahead his appearance at the Iowa AFL-CIO convention, the progressive senator from Vermont said “corporate America and the billionaire class have been waging a 40-year war against the trade union movement in America that has caused devastating harm to the middle class in terms of lower wages, fewer benefits and frozen pensions.”
Sanders, who is making his second straight bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, vowed “that war will come to an end when I am president. If we are serious about rebuilding the middle class in America, we have got to rebuild, strengthen and expand the trade union movement in America.”
Sanders said if elected, he would aim to double union membership by the end of his first term in the White House in January 2025. His plan also calls for ending so-called “right to work” laws favored by Republicans and decried by organized labor for weakening a union’s ability to negotiate contracts.
——
Sanders’ proposal would also give every union worker the right to strike and ban the replacement of striking workers. And the progressive senator also pledged to sign an executive order to prevent large corporations from engaging in union-busting and outsourcing jobs, while preventing companies that pay workers less than $15 per hour from obtaining federal contracts.
Utopia, here we come!
*Does that “give every union worker the right to strike” include cops?
Isn’t this coming from the guy who had trouble paying his own staff $15 an hour?
Do as they say, not as they do.
Just tell them, we will have the same minimum wage as the Nordic countries.
And the same 60% income tax and a 25% VAT tax on everything. So your $15 will come out to roughly $6 an hour. Enjoy your new found wealth.
True, but the funny thing is that the Nordic countries have no mandated minimum wage. Germany didn’t have one until 2014.
Granted the welfare state acts as a de facto minimum wage as no one will work for less than then can get from the welfare state but it’s a fun fact to throw at the leftist.
The left are completely clueless when it comes to comparing the USA with countries like Sweden and Norway. They don’t understand demographics, or human nature, or well, anything at all.
Demographics huh? Nice dog-whistling you white nationalist.
Yeah, I know, demographics is racist and you forgot Nazi. You gotta step up your game, you’re letting orange bad man win!
“Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders…”
I stopped reading right there. Has been. Isn’t going to be. Nothing he says is of any importance. Go away Bernie.
But Bernie is Bae! Don’t you speak millennial?
Baenie ?
Fingers crossed.
Screw you for your taco privilege avatar.
Hey, how come I don’t see a moose in that taco?
Bill Burr to Drop New Netflix Special Next Month
Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Paging Straffin.
And maybe SF, too.
Oh yeah… that’s weird… you best include HM on that page.
It doesn’t mention her ass being eaten by the tentacles tho.
I’m sorry, but with one exception (a cat I knew many, many years ago named “Tundra” that was an outstanding individual), cats are dumber than shit.
Yeah, I said it.
They’re really good at training humans, though
So the CAT named Tundra was an outstanding individual. I just wanted to make the clear so there would be no confusion.
Funny how that works, huh?
Do the Japanese not know how to stick a foot out from under the blanket?
Tentacles are comforting, if you’re Japanese I suppose. Those bombs really have had some lingering effect.
That image is priceless. Of course it comes from Japan. Of course it does.
I’m willing to give Asian chicks a noodle to help them sleep. And I’d charge less than 16800JPY.
I don’t think a limp noodle is going to help them sleep.
Twitter loves Hillary Clinton’s ‘epic’ ‘Truth Hurts’ tweet: ‘I just took a DNA test…’
I’m pretty sure those minds were lost long ago.
When Chelsea joked about getting a DNA test of her own, Hillary suddenly turned serious and said, “maybe you shouldn’t.”
I just took a DNA test, turns out, I’m 100% the Epstein killer.
You’re Epstein?
Or Poppy.
Huh, I haven’t heard from her in a while. She’s still over at good old YouTube doing her weird shit.
Raphael is herpes. You heard it right here.
I have no idea what any of this is about. And I imagine Hillary doesn’t either, as it was probably one of her twenty something social media twits that posted it.
It’s not just you, I have no idea WTF I just read.
It’s a pop song, and one of the lines is “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% ‘that bitch.’” Pretty good line, actually. And I’m sure Scruffy is right, and Hillary has never heard the song before.
Is that a thing the young people say these days? I was introduced to the word, “fit”, as in, responding to an invitation: “I’m fit”, meaning “I’m in” or “I’m down”. The person saying this was a young hipster who’d just moved to Brooklyn. He was roundly mocked by his entire family, including a cousin from San Diego who has never not worn board shorts.
Urban dictionary says it’s from 2010, lol.
If Hillary knows who that broad is I’ll eat my hat.
She is sooo gonna announce is she?
Oh, puh-LEEEEZE let it happen. PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE. I promise I’ll be good for the rest of 2019 and 2020!
PLLLLLLEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
“Beach bums! Laid-back Bill and Hillary Clinton get away from questions over whether he went to Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedophile Island’ with a casual stroll on the shore during Hamptons vacation”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7379341/Laid-Bill-Hillary-Clinton-causal-stroll-beach-Hamptons.html
So guilty. Much cankle.
That’s odd. I didn’t think they had been in the same state much less each other’s presence in years.
Photo op. When the trip is over, Bill will go back to his Little Rock townhouse and Hillary will go back to NY.
“Donald Trump says he plans to end ‘ridiculous’ birthright citizenship with an executive order because ‘You walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations – the baby is now a U.S. citizen’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7380439/Donald-Trump-says-plans-end-ridiculous-birthright-citizenship-executive-order.html
Not gonna work
You’re probably right, but I didn’t think Obama could legislate DACA from thin air either.
Giving shit away is always legal
No kidding.
He shouldn’t have. But FYTW is always and everywhere a possibility.
Sorry, but Obama had a pen and a phone. Makes all the difference. Too bad for the dems he didn’t think to do away with the electoral college with his pen and phone.
Courts will shoot that down quick.
I sympathize with the meeting thing. Tomorrow is nothing but meetings. *dread*
Tuesday is typically the worst meeting day for me. Monday and Thursday can be bad also. Friday is typically the lightest meeting day, no one seems to want to meet when it’s almost the weekend.
Tuesday and thursday are the meeting-light days. Monday, wednesday and friday are the most popular.
The C.E.O. didn’t care what day it was, as long as it was 5pm. “Hey, I need to see you and so-and-so in my office.”
Man, Babylon Bee is going thermonuclear
If you need background, Snopes put out this nonsense.
“Thinks Snopes is the name of a rapper.” LMAO
With regards to snopes the problem isn’t that people think parody is real, that is the symptom. The problem is that people can’t tell the difference.
Out of the park again. Funny stuff.
Lol. Snopes is concern trolling now. They really are outgunned in this fight.
To think Snopes is part of the ‘credentialed’ class on social media.
What a joke.
The whole world is run by and for jokers.
Too many incompetent asshats who ether fell into fortune or got elected are steering this ship. Captains of Industry my ass.
Like every other corner of media, they’re afflicted with people who think their opinions matter.
Honk honk
In some (most?) cases, the Babylon Bee is closer to the truth than Snopes.
Despite the fact-checks on Snopes.com clearly being “labelled fact-checks,” many people were taken in by the site’s ruse.
This is too good… bravo!
“So Antifa starts threatening my local event, which takes place only a few miles from my house, then claims they are acting in self defense?
I fucking live here
Get the fuck out of my area and stop threatening us”
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1164166249544204289
“Antifa are insane.
Most of the speakers participating at the Minds IRL conference are leftists.
No one is a white supremacist or neo-Nazi.
They’re literally just upset that Sargon & Dankula are visiting and have chosen to throw one of the most laughable hissy fits imaginable.”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1164284871558225920
Welcome to Clown World! Honk! Honk!
That led to this:
“After the procedure, Milano said she found out a few months later that she was pregnant again. And “once again I made the right decision to end the pregnancy,” she said.
Milano said the reality of anti-abortion legislation has forced her to reflect on how different her life would’ve been if she hadn’t had access to safe and legal abortions.
“I would not have my children – my beautiful, perfect, loving, kind and inquisitive children – who have a mother who was so very, very ready for them,” Milano said about her son Milo, 7, and daughter Elizabella, 4, with husband David Bugliari. ”
Two abortions in one year, and she’s thankful because she has kids now that she likes.
Those other kids would have been assholes.
-Alyssa
“You kids better settle down back there! Don’t think I won’t stop the car have a post birth abortion!”
I mean, is she aware that there’s a metric shit-ton of birth control methods, drugs, and devices available for anywhere from cheap to free? I imagine she wishes she knew there was such a thing as the birth control pill in the, what, 90s? It’s only been around since the 60s, but, you know, she could’ve grown up in a basement or something.
Well, basements are great for raising mushrooms…
“I would not have my children – my beautiful, perfect, loving, kind and inquisitive children – who have a mother who was so very, very ready for them,” Milano said about her son Milo, 7, and daughter Elizabella, 4, with husband David Bugliari. ”
Nary a word to be said about her other two kids rotting away in a medical waste bag tossed unceremoniously into the local landfill.
Fuck these ghouls.
My wife is stressing over trying to reschedule dog grooming today. Its 112 with nary a bit of wind in Vegas. Our AC unit can handle it but its a stretch. I told her to let the customer know we are in an excessive heat warning and for the health and safety of the dogs we will reschedule.
Sounded reasonable to me…
Absolutely! If lawn services won’t mow on rainy days, no reason she shouldn’t do similar when it’s not safe. Last thing she or the dogs need is for the dogs to have extra stress during a grooming.
I put off yard work due to heat and humidity. Then I was waaay behind. I just paid someone to catch me up and am enjoying a guilt free yard. Aah.
I’m drinking a margarita because I’m frustrated with work. I’m stuck working with a guy whose understanding of regression is that of a dumb undergrad and he’s very argumentative. Plus, there’s been lots of notices about collegiality lately because at another location/center two mathematicians got into a fist fight over a proof. So, I’m not allowed to punch this idiot.
Happily, for the last team meeting, I found a stalking horse who was more than happy to tell the project lead and the idiot that the idiot’s suggestions were stupid. I’ve already clashed with the idiot, so having it come from someone else was great
I . . .
. . . fist fight? Mathematicians?!?
There are no words.
We’re getting all these memos, it took a few days to get the scoop. I laughed. I have also had two screaming arguments in professional contexts and both were over proofs, so I actually sympathize with the combatants. I was later embarrassed both times.
I’m in a large group and constantly get emails basically saying “don’t be an idiot”. Thanks Top, I’ll take it to heart.
Proofs are a fighting matter.
Yes they are. We’re talking about TRUTH here.
I have MY truth.
Prepares to punch Florida Man
*puts in mouth guard*
Let’s do it!
Kicks Florida Man in the nuts
IT IS SO CAUCHY!!
https://youtu.be/r_4jrMwvZ2A
I’m having a hard time why anybody in an applied setting of any conceivable description would be screwing around with mathematical proofs, which to my (obviously woefully-underinformed) mind are astonishingly fundamental and thus should have been done and dusted about fifteen years earlier in the process of using math to do anything useful at all in the real world.
We sometimes do proof of concept stuff – especially at that location – or develop new methodologies, in which case showing it works in this case and in general (the proofs) is necessary.
Wow.
Back in the day, we’d outsource that to Uni profs and their grad students; once they provided us the necessary info, we’d move on to using it IRL. I’d never imagine people would bring that stuff in-house.
Think tank.
We are where you outsource that stuff.
Ah, my bad.
Although all the people I knew who did that kind of work were quite chill. I would’ve been appalled if two of them had gotten into a fist-fight over something like that.
Hence the memos. Still funny.
There are a few projects I am peripherally involved in where people hope to publish and the proofs will be necessary for that. My involvement is mostly in helping with the proofs since I’m actually good at that. There’s a reason my grad school colleagues called me proof queen. I do struggle with finding new applications, but can be clever in finding a way to write the proofs
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Was waiting for this. Thanks
But when you found it was it Beauty?
Yeah, I think I threw down one time in geometry class… I’m *pretty* sure it wasn’t over a proof, however.
Somebody stole your protractor?
That was pretty funny. But no, I wish I could say it was over some pretty young girl’s honor, I recall it was some kid who just wouldn’t stop fucking with me. I also seem to recall it had something to do with me being on the wrestling team and a suggestion that “wrestling wasn’t shit in fighting” or something like that. I got tired of talking about it and decided I had a more direct way to test the hypothesis. #Science
Margaritas are my summer-time weekend drink while grilling. I even salt my glass first.
“I’m drinking a margarita because I’m frustrated with work.l
Tulip. *whispers* You don’t need a reason to drink margaritas.
A friend on Facebook was commenting on the Amazon forest fire, and threw out that boldinario is a “dummy-dumb dumb”
Why do Americans who can’t keep track of their own politics comment so blithely on that of foreign countries?
Because they’re dummy-dumb dumbs?
The media have been linking him to Trump since day one.
American Exceptionalism?
I follow the Economist out of habit (which is no longer a beacon of liberalism and despises Trump) and ever since that guy took office they’ve been plugging the idea that the Amazon rain forest is going bye bye. Apparently he has loosened restrictions on logging or something.
I haven’t had much chance to research how true these claims are, but it’s interesting because I haven’t heard dick about the dying Amazon since my school made me do a report on it in the 1980s.
Apparently the world was about to end back then but we staved it off.
Ask them how America got rich enough to replenish our forests.
I swear the research I had to do in the 1980s claimed that the Amazon was about to die out any minute.
Apparently it survived by rebranding itself as an online shopping and delivery company.
Now I feel like the Amazon is pretty ubiquitous. Just today the Amazon sent me a bunch of crap that in all honesty I don’t even really need.
Did you ask them to send it?
Probably. That happens a lot when I drink.
I used to love The Economist‘s “Schools Briefs.” Then they turned to shite.
Haven’t read ’em since the mid-1990s. Dip in briefly every so often and pull back aghast at what I’ve just touched.
I am far from a Patriotic guy but it seems they go out of the way to deliberately misrepresent American politics.
Don’t know much about Brazil but I’m automatically suspicious.
They used to have a great, Glib level snarky photo caption writer.
It’s not just Americans. Plenty of Europeans as a for instance have a lot to say about American politics. The floating baby Trump springs to mind.
Rick drum roll:
https://twitter.com/FooFightersUK/status/1162470155852623872
What’s with everyone holding up their phones at concerts all the time now?
And airline food? What’s up with that ?
It’s an experiment to see how close to fæces you can make food and still get people to eat it.
(Full disclosure: I don’t eat airline food, regardless of how long the flight is; I consider international flights to be an exercise in fasting . . . )
Supposedly it has to do with how altitude or air pressure or something affects taste.
It’s so they can have a video that they’ll never look at again.
I never liked photographs and now everyone has to video-document every freaking moment of their lives. Ugh.
I don’t like getting my pic taken either. The last thing I need is someone stealing my soul and keeping it in a small box they carry around in their pocket.
+1 Amish
I agree. Fucking soul stealers
That’s why I keep my soul backed up on the cloud.
I sold mine. Problem solved.
I just wonder if it occurs to people, on their deathbeds, that they never actually saw anything important, except through a viewfinder or phone screen.
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1163868334821167106
That’s not his thumb!
I LLOLed.
Interviewing Gun Control Supporters In San Francisco
I’m guessing retarded
Pretty much the same old shit on a different day. “I’m feeling things and I have no idea about that which I am talking! But we HAVE to DO SOMETHING*!!!”
*Of course that ‘something’ is likely constitutionally illegal, impractical or otherwise ineffective but we have to because reasons.
Why do you hate the children so much?
Hope he got audio
https://www.foxnews.com/world/musician-killed-by-grizzly-bear-in-canada-during-sound-gathering-project-reports
When STEVE SMITH makes a pass it’s best to not resist.
Seriously though, RIP guy, that’s not a good way to go.
Don’t need to hear it. Heard a bit of the “Grizzly Man’s” grizzly death. Don’t need to again.
That’s not who we are.
Why in the fuck would you not bring a .44 magnum with you and have it ready at all times? Bears expected, big guns coming with me.
To hell with a .44 magnum, I want at least a Casull, and would prefer .500. Grizzlies are large.
I’ve found that the best option is to not go where grizzly’s live.
For the Aussie Rules fans
Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!
Goddammit, he’s one of their best players. Everything’s going wrong with the Pies lately.
Oh, yes. Ow!
That a rather unpleasant way to bust a nut.
Just when I got a subscription to the TV channel that shows AFL matches. I even scheduled a recording of the Collingwood vs. Essendon match this afternoon to try to understand the game.
You’re in luck – the game is dead simple. Kick or toss ball to your teammate. Don’t hold on to it too long. Kick it somewhere between the uprights. Score 1 or 6 points.
I’ve watched a YouTube video that contained the basics. Hopefully, I’ll understand a bit more next time I watch a game.
Fmr MSNBC Host: ALL Hillary Commentary Had to Be “CLEARED” by Network President
1) WOOD
2) Refreshing honesty and reflection (for both of us…).
3) Would again after re-hydrating.
“vince kelly
Oh poor Krystal , did you hear about her suicide next week?
1 day ago”
Listeria hysteria: One Person Has Died And More Than 100 Are Ill Due To Listeria Outbreaks Across The World
That’s almost a 0.0000013% chance of getting it! 0.0000013%!!!
Oh man, we’re all GONNA DIE
I thought we were all dead from Net Neutrality repeal.
Nope. Tax cuts got me.
Oh Fuck. I ate chicken for dinner yesterday.
:Sobs: I don’t wanna die. Not yet.
Are you a senior citizen, pregnant or an infant? If so, it was nice knowing you.
Chicken sashimi?
In multiple countries. I think this is an occasion to celebrate the safety of our food supply
I wonder how much of the rise of cancer deaths is a result of our basically eliminating all the old standby causes of death. We don’t starve, die of food poisoning, die of infectious diseases, die in childbirth, freeze to death, or die from the heat, or do so far more rarely than before, so most of us live into the “three score and ten” range, and yet we do all die in the end and cancers seem to be largely a matter of genetic predisposition coupled with rolls of the environmental dice. Longer lives mean more rolls.
And how many cancer deaths are attributed that wouldn’t have been just because we can diagnose it better?
1920s Man 1: My Pa done died last.
1920s Man 2: How?
1920s Man 1: At home.
However childhood cancer rates are increasing. Granted it is still rare, the rate of occurrence since the 1980s is increasing. I can’t imagine cancer diagnosis has changed that much in that time frame.
Diagnosis may not have changed since the 80s, but how often parents take their kids to a doctor surely has. I’m not saying it all comes down to that; but I’d say that’s a factor. More recorded instances of something does not necessarily mean more instances. That’s my only point.
Changes in something as diffuse as the suite of diseases we call “cancer’ almost certainly involve multiple causes.
Woohoo!
Won a Gunbroker auction.
?
Have a steak!
Nice, congrats on the win and the new piece.
How are you enjoying being in mostly the same timezone as most of the Glibs?
I just finished a godawful Japanese class. Be happy you studies are done…
Yeah, I’m enjoying it, albeit I sometimes forget I’m on normal schedule. I’m still used to catching AM links when I’m about to hit the sack.
Shame about the Japanese class though, hope the next one goes better, my man. Everything else all right though?
Yeah, no worries. I have to decide if I want to self study for a while. I’ve been doing this something like 8 years and it I starting to wear thin. I start work at 7:30 work until 5:40 go to class and get home at 9:30 or so.
Makes for a long day.
Oh jeez, that’s a pretty tough schedule. I’m impressed you made it work for that long though. I wouldn’t have lasted that long, that’s for sure.
Sympathies. I refer to it as electroshock therapy.
The best is when the teacher just keeps asking the same question. I didn’t understand it the first time you asked it. Repeating over and over isn’t going change that.
I feel like it is the Japanese equivalent of if I just say the English slower the foreigner will get it.
My fav is reading out loud and just going blank midway through. I’m suddenly just staring at the characters and there’s no recognition and stage fright like feeling start kicking in.
“Be happy you studies are done…l
Dude, Japanese class is out. You can say your “r”s now.
Congrats! Now I’m getting distracted looking at guns I can’t afford.
What did you get?
The other night I jumped in on a GunBroker auction for a Gewehr 98. Almost all parts matching: a few small parts were mismatched. Original finish (receiver and bolt in the white, the rest blued) which was in pretty good shape. Stock in good shape. All proof marks intact. Pre-WWI date (1911). Spandau arsenal if I remember correctly.
Bidding got expensive fast. I dropped out as I placed bids on items for the September Rock Island auction and I plan to place some bids for this weekend’s Amoskeag Auction.
The Gewehr 98 sold for $2200. I dropped out well before that.
Remember when they advertised those things in the back of magazines for $79 delivered to your house? And dumbass me never bothered ordering one.
Big 5 used to similar in their stores. Dumb dumb dumb.
That’s a little before my time. When I started buying up guns, Mosin-Nagants were the cheap ones. $70 or so. I bought my 91/30 for $90 because it was a former sniper and in surprisingly good shape.
I see the ad in your link for a Lee-Enfield No. 5 for $24.95. I think I paid $250 for mine, which was a good price for the time. There were a lot of cut-down No. 4 rifles being passed off as No. 5 as you could get a No. 4 for about $100 or $120. You had to be careful if you wanted a No. 5. Now-a-days a No. 5 will sell for less than a No. 4. Weird.
I bought my K-31 when they were just coming into the country for $200 or so. A year or two later the price dropped to about $100 or so. Now they go for $400-$500.
My wife is the lucky recipient of a never fired Colt Python. Pretty sure my father in law got it out of the back of magazine, back in the day. He used to partake in shooting competitions with his .38 trooper.
My first Kimber.
It will probably make an appearance with some steaks in the near future.
Excellent. I look forward to seeing it.
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1163784370215432192
LOLOLOLOLOL
Member when socialism wasn’t cool?
Yes?
South Park reference
How do they manage to stay alive? Its triggers all the way down….
If I had that much public anxiety or agoraphobia, I sure as shit would not be a delegate to a political convention.
Similarly, if I decided to change gender, I’d pretty much realize I was making a huge life changing decision and that requires sacrifices, such as giving up on competitive sports.
These idiots are throwing around their “block” spells and “wands” and “shields” to each other like it’s a friggin role playing game.
Role playing games are triggering. You have a role and are like totally stereotyped and there is literal violence all the time and it gets competitive… and what am I wasting my time for? It is absolutely impossible to parody these people. They had a heated debate over background noise and the use of the word ‘guys’, they have safe rooms where even noticeable scents are barred. They do jazz hands unironically.
These people are a movement that you could defeat with a pack of firecrackers and a bottle of perfume.
And if you’re a straight white dude, you can destroy them by just existing there.
“Wands”
Euphemism?
These are the types of people Lenin would’ve wasted in the early days of his reign.
They are kind of useless, aren’t they?
They’re not even useful idiots, smdh.
They had their use.
It’s cute that they even call each other Comrade.
I mean in a same way it’s cute that Neo Nazi’s say Heil Hitler
Not to say these people are children in adult bodies, but I did hear some bad audio edits in there, so keep in mind this is entirely in context. But damn is it funny.
*not entirely in context.
The Truth About GIRLS
Calvin approves.
Would.
Can confirm.
Pan roasted chicken breast, sliced, topped with a slab of Taleggio and under the broiler. Caprese and fresh local corn on the side. Chimay Cinq Cepages was a nice accompaniment.
And now, whiskey and a little Glibs to round out the day.
What kind of whiskey?
Right now, Baker’s bourbon. I haven’t had it in quite a while and I recently read a good review of it. I think in that price range though, that there are other better quality bourbons. Not that I would kick it out of bed for eating crackers.
I bought blade & bow because a friend recommended it and the clerk informed me that it is going away, so I’m glad I got it. however I won’t cry into my drink when it’s gone.
First off, is it ok to now do an and and an and in the same sentence without doing without one and and adding a comma? I am not up on current acceptable sentence structure and grammar.
Also, I have a hard time believing, after a short skim of comments that I’m the fist one to bring up of course the young cats walk like they are stoned out of their heads. Florida Men do drug drops in the Everglades which is where Florida Panthers live. Cat was stoned after eating someones stash.
No kidding. They definitely look stoned.
You just did it like 5 times.
EXACTLY! But and was the subject. If I type a sentence using and as a conjunjtionatorator or whatever the fuck it is can one now follow another? I find this to be a breakdown of society.
It would have been easier to follow if after the word “loss” they had put a comma followed by the word “by”.
It makes it more parallel too.
After watching them move the first thing that popped in my head was the neurological disease, I forget what it is, that affects wild ungulates. Perhaps these cats caught it from eating infected deer. Pretty sad really. Those individual kitties are doomed but the population will bounce back.
And I am off to bed. G’night all.
I am sad no one, NO ONE, on Glibertarians! out nerded me regarding the cauchy comment. I mean HayekExplosives? OMWC? No one?! Sad.
I looked it up, but didn’t really get it.
Hangs head
Maybe you should have used a Poisson kernel joke since it is corn season. Not that I have any idea wtf you are going on about I am with FM.
I’m just flattered that Tulip had Great Expectations that I could out nerd her.
At least I think that’s a compliment…
Back in the day when I could catch it, I would have expected it to be spelled Коши.
Oh come on, cauchy distribution, cauchy sequence, cauchy inequality? I refuse to be the nerdiest person on Glibertarians.
WHAT IS SHE TRYING TO SAY?
I got it. I’m just not smart enough to come with a normal response to it.
Oh Fuck! I’m the nerdiest person on Glibertarians.
This is why I’m single! Argh!
Then I suggest this dating site.
We don’t tolerate French math here. We like you so we just ignored it.
We just B Say’n …French Economists on the other hand.
Ecstasy of Gold – Acoustic
Not acoustic.
I can’t believe Trump LITERALLY compared himself to the Son of God. Jesus would have brokered a fair trade deal by now.
+1 money changers
Not to mention lead free wine flowing through the faucets in Flint.
I think that was a little tongue in cheek.
Fuck those women trying to get ahead
Money Quotes:
Your Job sucks. I’d rather you starve.
Sounds like more middle earners have more disposable income to spend on nail jobs. Or… wait, do these people assume manicure and pedicure jobs are something someone falls back on when their higher income gig disappears?
Where do people come up with the money to spend on vanity consumption like a spa day except for an expanding economy?
Or do they think manicurists and pedicurists are spending good chunks of their income patronizing one another?
Also, why do they hate foreigners getting jobs in America? Fucking bigots.
My wife’s friend was a massage therapist for 5 years while raising her daughter. She also taught pole dancing.
She did these two relatively low paying jobs so she could get her X-ray tech degree.
She did these things to get ahead and they gave her flexibility.
Let’s make sure that she has some more hoops to jump through like licensing and fees. That should make her life easier.
At least she was an instructor. Hopefully she didn’t have to get leered at too many times herself.
What counts as leering, anyway? If I happen to see a lady who’s wearing yoga pants or a low-cut blouse, but I’m not going AWOOGA and slapping my pate and punching my chest while my eyeballs pop out of my head, is that still leering?
Wait… All that other stuff is leering?
It’s a fitness class not just stripper training.
Flexibility for sure. From the pole dancing.
I’ve said this before; but I’ve been attacked (not in real life, but on the internet) when I’ve talked about paying people $50 an hour, because it wasn’t full-time. No one needs extra cash! Every job should pay a living wage or not exist!
So our client rescheduled the groom…wife is a little less stressed. We are trying to horn in on the more ritzy clientele…and this one live across from Mike Tyson’s mansion.
Crisis averted…beer consumption can commence
Walsh to primary Trump
Mr. Trump’s advisers have been mindful for over a year that primary challenges can expose weaknesses in re-election efforts, and can conclude with messy delegate fights on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
Walsh might run, but there will be no messy delegate fights
Delegate fights will be spirited chants of “Great Taste!” “Less Filling!” for 15 minutes followed by the actual kegger.
The Eagles’ Joe Walsh would have a better chance.
surely
Why lump Walsh in with the Eagles when none of them could carry his jockstrap?
Joe was a neighbor for a while; I saw him for the first time around 1988 (scratches head, wonders if Jimbo was at that show), and his approach to the power trio remains my favorite.
I’m aware of the Eagles hate round here, just wanted to make it clear whom I was referencing.
oh, fitting in isn’t one of my virtues
and, anyway, I learned the whole three chord recipe thing listening the Eagles
but Walsh is a hero since Walk Away; not on my Rushmore (I don’t think), but a great original
Funk 49 fuck yeah!
Ah, the soundtrack of my childhood.
I thought we had this as the soundtrack to our childhoods?
Why is it Tears for Fears has this music video, which is fine but doesn’t add a lot to the song, but there’s no music video for Life’s Been Good, which is just begging for one?
Because Joe Walsh was too fucked up to make a video?
“Why is it Tears for Fears has this music video”
Because it’s the only decent song they ever made. One hit wonder.
Wrong.
So wrong.
You guys have to stop watching that Euro commie stuff. Get some real American music. I’ll check it out later.
Not to mention, SHOUT!
SHOUT? I really hate that song. I like Everybody Wants to Rule the World. But SHOUT? It sort of reminds me of that Stand song by R.E.M.. Yeah, sort of like sucks.
Wrap it up Hyperbole. You are no longer the Wrongest person on this board. Shout is Fantastic.
Did you even click the link bra!?
“Did you even click the link bra!?”
No, not yet dude. I’m just all sort of zoned out right now. I was just fucking with you guys, I’ve only heard a few songs by them. I’ll check those out tomorrow when I’m more coherent.
“Wrap it up Hyperbole. You are no longer the Wrongest person on this board. Shout is Fantastic.”
Now you’ve went too far. You mean ‘intentionally wrong if it means being a contrarian’.
Pretty sure UCS has that one locked down by a couple miles.
The whole album “The Hurting” is great.
It is.
Life’s been Good is circa Carter: suitable for a full-length motion picture ala Kids Are Alright
but MTV is Reagan
Yeah, no doubt helps if people have actually heard of you. My best advice to this guy, pick someone named Weld as running mate and get some naked dancing fat guys on stage as soon as possible.
Stable genious has second thoughts about tax cuts
President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that his administration will not cut taxes to turn aside an economic slowdown — only a day after he said he would consider tax policy changes.
Only Tuesday, Trump said he was “thinking about” indexing capital gains to inflation — a move generally expected to reduce the tax burden on wealthy people. But he added he was “not talking about doing anything at this moment.”
On Wednesday, he criticized the proposal, saying “it’s not something I love.”
It sends a message that he thinks there may be a recession on the horizon.
Very reassuring.
Pussy GateRussia GateJames ComeyMichael AvanettiBob MuellerJefferey EpsteinThe economy will surely take Trump down!I find it reprehensible that the media and democrats are purposefully trying to cause a recession, hurting most americans (while the rich instigators are immune), just to win an election.
I’m not sure there is a recession coming, but man they are ready to cum if there is one, and yes, that is disgusting.
I just started my job in a recession-sensitive industry, so I’m pretty sure there’s a recession right around the corner. Probably tomorrow. Or maybe last week.
Also, I’m about to get fired. Probably tomorrow. Maybe last week.
That’s one of the cunning
linguistthings about a recession, you don’t know if one happened until you’re in it, and by the point you know you’re in it you may be out of it already.A well off and free people do not need to depend on the state. Dependence is what they need to succeed, they need desperation and misery. And they’re willing to do anything to get it.
They’re not even capable of actually causing one, but they’re really hoping for one. They don’t give a shit about you or your family’s well being. They want to rule, a wealthy USA or 3rd world shithole, makes no difference, they just want to run your life and live like royalty while at it. That’s what commies do.
I think my prediction that Trump doesn’t want to be a 2 term president are coming true. I think he’s spiking his chances intentionally. Lately he’s been spewing out the extra crazy.
The crazy is his most appealing trait. It pisses off the establishment and viscerally connects with the blue collar/labor Democrats that won him the election.
“I think my prediction that Trump doesn’t want to be a 2 term president are coming true.”
Yep, just like the prediction that he would never even take office and that he would just resign after a few months. We’re stuck with Trump for 5 more years, for better or worse. Probably for better since, you know, just look at the field of democrat candidates. One old corrupt as the day is long dude and a shitload of commies, no thanks.
Sure, Scaramucci. You’ve got him this time!
Wait… what, I thought that they had the pee tapes and that Mueller took him down… that didn’t happen?
WTF is wrong with that guy anyway? Him and the hillbilly chick’s husband. Trump fucking all those women? Diet Coke must really be the shit.
Do the fandango!
Where my brain goes when his name comes up as well.
I don’t get it. I always think of the mafia when I hear his name, sort of like when I see anyone named Cuomo.
I’d link Bohemian Rhapsody here, but apparently you’re not clicking on music links.
Thunder bolts and lightning
Very, very frightening, me.
You could link Bohemian Rhapsody, but I wouldn’t get a link to that and Fandango. Fandango is an album by ZZ Top. It’s been a long day man, hard to explain. Brazilians and shopping, nothing good can ever come of that.
OH! Thanks, Mike S. Now how … Scaramucci and … I still don’t get it. Forget it guys, I’m zonked out here, my brain stopped working an hour ago.
*Does the bass ‘Galileo’ and Mikes does the falsetto ‘Galileo’*
Comedia dell’arte is the actual source.
Magnifico!
Well, good grief, I finally get it, Scaramouche… OK, I get it.
Like I said, long day. It’s hard to explain. Have you ever had Brazilian family? Obsessive compulsive shopping disorder is the only way I can try to explain it. It’s deeper than that, there’s just no way to explain it.
https://archive.is/phU0b/83e82c626866600949970e2f57e3cd6dbb4167de.jpg
NSFW.
Dude, that wasn’t even safe for the den.
https://archive.is/RKvng/be0b5b211996e4204ba4814b3e6e43d37c983f89.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/08stv/d00a938ae08b0b9b9717ee885879f429f30e7ac9.jpg
NSFW.
I’m not clicking on that one. Wifey will be walking buy and think I’m surfing pr0n. Then she’s going to think I’m wanting sex right now, when the sad truth is I’m just really tired as hell. Sigh…, sucks getting old.
Q is off in his own T&A multiverse.
Way better.
NSFW
It’s thicc or I don’t click. NSK, no skinny chicks.
There’s no accounting for taste.
Well, let’s be honest, taste is one’s own, not a collective borg like thing.
I see you met the future Mrs. Chafed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/faithless-elector-a-court-ruling-just-changed-how-we-pick-our-president/ar-AAG8tdZ?ocid=spartandhp
From the world of abolishing the electoral college: the court just ruled that states cannot force electors to follow their mandated vote. So electors get to actually be electors again.
“A federal appeals court”
Sounds totally final to me and now rule of law.
Doesn’t the constitution say that states get to choose their owns rules for elections? So how can a state ruling be unconstitutional?
I dunno. I rarely understand legal opinions in these cases, as they often fly in the face of plain English.
But in this case they may have been going with original intent. The function of the electoral college was originally as a buffer against the popular vote going completely bonkers. Like, for instance if the people were to elect a reality TV star as president… the electors could step in…
Further proof that TDS has robbed the world of a sense of humor:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/21/donald-trump-give-himself-medal-of-honor-1470950
Politico is claiming that Trump actually wanted to grant himself a Medal of Honor. Can’t wait for Snopes to weigh in on this one!
Trump never served in the military and was granted five draft deferments — four for college and one for bone spurs in his heel.
Which is why that was funny.
Shhh. Don’t explain the joke to them. They’re never gonna get it anyway.
And if Snopes can’t figure out that a parody site labeled as satire and even using the moniker “fake news” is a joke, I really doubt they’ll be able to suss this one out.
Fact checking jokes, vying for space with Snopes I see.
Teach your children courageous bravery.
Wow.
Yeah… That about sums it up. Wow.
No Goosebumps?!
*memories of elementary school float by*
WT actual F?
Texas puts an end to an innocence project case by executing their client.
https://reason.com/2019/08/21/tonight-texas-is-executing-a-man-for-a-murder-and-rape-experts-say-he-didnt-commit/
They found some questionable stuff, but I’m not convinced that the state got the wrong guy.
I’d have to hear a lot more of the story, but that article is a little disturbing to say the least, that they might have executed an innocent guy.
You gotta break a few eggs to keep the masses in check
-Stalin
I’m not convinced that the state got the wrong guy. – I don’t think that is how it is supposed to work
Sure it is, according to every prosecutor, everywhere.
To me, libertarianism is the fundamental belief and understanding that humans are flawed and how you can coexist with those flaws. Capital punishment by the state is the ultimate declaration that the state must be respected for not being wrong. If they can fail and still kill an innocent person, then the state is god. An evil god. Some people deserve killing, but the incompetence and misaligned incentives that permeate the state guarantees that some innocent people will be killed.
Well put.
It’s no accident that the alternative try to deny that human nature is a thing.
*alternatives
“But, why does God need a Starship!?”
Jefferson or Cobra?
Sybok.
I’m sticking with Leighton Meister.
That was a hell of a good scene in an otherwise mediocre movie.
Mediocre….. wow, that’s really generous.
No early morning post?
Good morning glibs
How is it in beautiful Romania today?
just like in any other work day…
There will be in the morning, the murican morning, you dirty fernur!
For a second there, I thought you called him a “dirty femur”.
I vote the next time you have a long weekend you take a trip to Liberland and act as our Foreign Correspondent.
I’ve commented on this before. Unless you have a tract of land where you can raise all the food to feed your population and a seriously scary ass launch pad of nuclear tipped ballistic missiles pointing straight as Moscow, Shanghai, and Washington DC, your survival expectancy is somewhere around that of a fruit fly.
Script written. Time for another beer.
My brain shuts down at this point. I can’t do any useful work past 10:30.
For me it is usually 8 30… That is why I start at 7 in the morning
“That is why I start at 7 in the morning”
Working, or drinking? Both?
well I suppose it depends on your definition of work in the end
I have trouble writing any earlier, as my medications shut down my creative brain, and that doesn’t come back out of hiding until I’ve gotten to reasonable level of intoxication.
Damnit, stop that! I have to drive to the city tomorrow. No more beer *sad feelz, much not woke, no brave*
Inslee drops out of the clown car.
But it was going so well.
Too bad, now he’s going to run for governor again.
USA! USA!
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-statement-energy-star-thermostat-report
I’d rather see, “It is the position of the DOE that this department should not exist, and per the mandate of the Constitution this department is hereby dissolved”
Yeah, but Rick Perry is a decent alternative.
This.
Is there no end to Trump’s perfidy?
Woo hoo! Clearly the DoE head has had to deal with perimenopausal women.
When I mustered out of the Army, I moved back in with my mom and kid brother for the Summer before heading off to college. Mom was going through the changes and had the (SW Florida) house air-conditioned to a steady 66°. It was absolute Heaven. Now, my kids balk when I set the AC below 72°.
Sounds like someone got a talking too.
Huh. I guess ? is warranted.
Sick burn.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/08/21/solid-burn-babylon-bee-hits-back-at-snopes-with-its-own-concerning-survey/
Class A trolling.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/08/21/rob-smith-2020-democrats-pay-reparations-now/
None of them want to pay personally or directly. They want to use the largesse of big gov to reward who they choose.
The opposite of Davy Crockett’s response.
Also see the clip where purported millionaires for more taxation refused to send money directly to the treasury on a voluntary basis.