These guys get it.
The Monday before baseball playoffs start and the only sports action is the Yinzers vs the Bungles? Those Yinzers are bad, but I’m starting to think the Bungles are Miami Dolphins-bad. Well, the NHL season starts tomorrow, so these dead days won’t be back for some time now.
Oh wait, ManUre and Arsenal played to a 1-1 tie, leaving the Red Devils in tenth and behind such heavyweights as Crystal Palace and Bournemouth. Heady days at Old Trafford, I gotta say.
Happy Birthday to our 39th President
The marginally-above-average-looking idiot Brie Larson was born on this day. So were: embarrassingly-bad PM Theresa May, funny man Zach Galifanakis, steroid aficionado Mark McGwire, baseball legend Rod Carew, the lovely Julie Andrews, master of disguise George Peppard, hero to home brewers Jimmy Carter, and outlaw Bonnie Parker. Well that was better than yesterday. Also, the more I read what Brie Larson says, the more convinced I am that she’s a performance artist. Because nobody could be that dumb and yet remember her lines.
I guess I’ll have to ponder on that another time. Because now I need to finish getting you guys…the links!
Afraid you might be getting a little too right-wing? Maybe all you need to do is stop exercising so much, shitlord.
Good luck, guy.
I really wish Hong Kong residents had a Second Amendment. This will get worse. It will get much, much worse.
What a dick. Also, I always get a kick out of articles like this where the phrase “they might have also used it for __________, researchers say” pops up with regularity. RANT: These researchers have no fucking idea what that giant dick-rock was used for. The have no idea if a “cult” really carved it. And they have no idea what it means for humanity.
Good thing there are no rocks here to impede pedestrians.
Thank God the hobos are free to shit and shoot up smack on that sidewalk again. Now the leftards who don’t let the homeless camp in their back yard can talk about what a great job they did helping them out because they’ll be able to shoot up and shit in front of other peoples’ homes. But the city has an idea!
I can’t possibly imagine this working. But I’ve seen crazier shit. The “mistake of fact” claim the defense has made doesn’t really wash. “Your honor, I was so fucked up that when I busted into the other person’s apartment, I thought there was a man sitting in mine eating ice cream, so I felt I was in imminent danger and unloaded on him.” Yeah, not sure that’s gonna fly.
So…fucking…triggering!
There’s probably over a billion people out there without reliable electricity or drinking water, yet these people will always find first-world shit to bitch about.
This is a story that we need Swissy to weigh in on. His updates during the earlier rounds of protests were illuminating. Hopefully as the date approaches, and it devolves into the inevitable shitshow, he will do the same.
Since nobody seemed to care for The Doors yesterday, I’m gonna move the clock forward a couple decades. Hopefully this goes over better, and hopefully it always stays true.
That’s it, friends. Have a great day.
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KNEW I shoulda copyrighted that!
I’ve noted and used it in at least one comment. Does that get me back in your good graces?
Typical male! You think using a woman’s body is some grand favor you have done her!
*flexes*
Sure, Festus. I am a benevolent & forgiving Goddess. Mostly. Nice list it is.
Those archaeologists have to dig deeper, there’s an entire giant lying under the ground. It’s just his dick sticking up through the soil
From further down in that article:
A lucky charm shaped as an erect penis and testicles
Are they magically delicious?
“Do too much, and the self-love develops a carapace of self-sufficiency. This is especially a problem for cyclists, who come to think of themselves as an off-grid warrior class, having performed their commute drawing on no more resources than their own glutes, and maybe a sports drink. Unavoidably, over time, this makes you more rightwing, as you descend into an aerobics-powered moral universe where only the weak need each other, and all the strong need is a waterpouch in their backpack that pipes straight into their mouths.”
WTF?
Word salad.
Not enough marxism…
Ride the bus/train, be a cog, be dependant upon others, don’t get shit done.
/translation.
OBEY!
Stop believing you’re self sufficient. Who built those roads and bike lanes you used for your commute?
WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER!
Until we’re not. Then you’re on your own.
Private contractors paid with gasoline taxes, usually.
Lol.
Genius in a retard way.
They fucking play with their toy bicycles right in the middle of the lanes that big people use to drive their big people cars to their big people jobs. If you can pedal around without disrupting productive people, good on you, but some of us gotta get to work, dammit.
^This. If anything those cyclists tend to be smug, anti-car leftists whinging for ever more bigger fancier expensiver cycling lanes which kill parking and reduce the number of lanes which motorists can use.
“Look at how woke I am”
/cyclist douchebag
families who knew their kids would never be international human rights lawyers could nevertheless imagine the scenario in which they became officers.
Bumper sticker for this elitist: My kid fragged your international human rights lawyer.
^Nice.
“International Human Rights Lawyer”
So this is the leftist dream for their kids?
Until we get actual commissars it’s the closest they can come.
She is right about cyclists in general.
“I may be on a bike but I have as much right to the road as every car!! Except, that I don’t have to stop at stop signs or red lights and I can pass you on the right when you’re trying to make a right turn.” Screw them.
She is trying to equate ‘prick’ with ‘individualist’. I have found far more collectivists to be insufferable, yet I agree with you about cyclists. She is wrong…wet streets don’t cause rain. They were dicks before they got on the bike.
Progjection
On Sunday night I saw some cunte whipping down the sidewalk on one of those power-assisted bikes nearly get mushed by a 5 ton cube van when I was leaving the bank. Directly across the street from our brand-spanking new, 50 million dollar Police station. And yes, they do have boulders in front of it.
Those ebikes are going to be a big problem.
Especially once Russia hacks them and sends them on murderous rampages.
Someone is going to figure out how to hack them to disable the speed governor. You’re going to see a lot more people using these as everyday transport, people who don’t ride bikes because they are too out of shape. So, large people going fast on electric motorcycles, ignoring stop signs, running down pedestrians.
I think it’ll depend on the riders. A lot of the low end ones seem to top out at around 20 mph on power alone, getting up to just under 30 mph with pedaling. I start getting nervous on downhills when I break 25 mph (spandex and a helmet isn’t a lot of protective gear). Part of the issue is going to be convincing people that bikes need to follow the same rules as cars. Don’t blow through lights, signs, etc. Yield when you don’t have the right of way, and pay attention to your surroundings.
If the courts won’t allow the homeless to be arrested, I don’t see how the courts are going to enforce rules of the road for bicycles.
Dude was riding on the sidewalk, no helmet (yes, that’s a law up here) and was obviously not the person that wheeled the expensive toy out of the bike shop. Cops do nothing but make things worse.
Bikers are the carless corollary to homeless people
Obviously, we shouldn’t allow self-driving cars until we first perfect self-driving bicycles.
Scooters are already an enforcement nightmare as the low-end ones don’t require license or registration here, and a lot of people don’t bother licensing ones that do.
She said join the herd. Individualism is toxic to the collective. Who is the enemy of the state? Individuals, that is who and we cant have anything outside the state.
It’s Guardian-town, don’t even try to make sense of it.
it’s the shorts: literally worse than Hitler
He has knees to die for!
The British knee is on the march!
Nice pull!
I have been writing a fitness column for a year and in this time I’ve digested very little about what exercise does for your body. I still have to Google what counts as maximum-intensity every time I feel moved to talk about it, which is all the time – but I know everything about what it does to your personality, and none of it is pretty.
At least she is self-aware that she is bad at her job?
Yep. Goes to the gym, observes the patrons with a gimlet eye, makes a few cursory notes and leaves to write her next manifesto.
“You can still rock in America” That song was from the eighties, when you could still rock in America.
You can’t even place rocks on the sidewalk in America, now.
Yes, but you can live on them, shit on them, and shoot up on them. Libertarian moment?
“You can STILL! Shit in America, oh yeah! all right!”
Thank god for that too, if more than two days go by without a good one I get pretty ornery.
I keep getting confused whenever I walk down that isle, spot a section marked ‘Venezuela’ and see food on the shelves. That’s not authentic modern venezuelan. It needs to be relabeled pre-socialist Venezuela.
I sure hope that guy never learns about Asiatown here in Cleveland.
Does your store have canoes?
Why do ethnic food companies market themselves as ethnic food, then? Sriracha doesn’t just call itself hot sauce. Mission doesn’t sell tortillas as bread. Kikkoman doesn’t sell soy sauce as brined soy beans.
Would it surprise you to learn that Zatarains and the like are in the Ethnic food isle up here in the Cleveland area?
In their defense, is there really enough imported up there for a “Coonass” aisle?
Considering if I go to certain grocery stores I can’t even find Andouille sausage here. No. No there is not. But we can find pierogies and kielbasa in every grocery store.
Why wouldn’t you find pierogies and kielbasa in every gorcery store?
Considering most of my coworkers in Memphis didn’t know what a pierogi was (full grown adults, American born), I have to believe the grocery stores down there are deficient. It has led to quite a few jokes when they have to travel up to Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo.
Apparently pollacks either burst into flame or are consumed by insects if they venture too far south.
Check out Lachowsky and friends in Arkansas. Little Rock is in Pulaski County.
But it’s a moist heat, at least.
You should see the “ethnic” food isles here. Even the Japanese don’t consider wypipo food “ethnic”.
Elaborate. What’s notable about the aisles? Where does ‘wypipo food’ get stocked, if at all?
It’s pretty much “brown people and yellow non Japanese food” in one aisle.
In my supermarket the Kikkoman and sriracha are stocked with the white-people food and the “international aisle” is all more obscure brands.
IOW it’s not 1950 anymore.
Around here, those brands are in both places. In fact their stocking strategy seems to be “have the product in all the places someone might go looking for it.” I can think of at least three places to find tortillas in the store, possibly four if there are any by the deli too.
In many cases it is the vendor’s driver stocking the shelves. They tell the retailer where the best locations are to stock the stuff for sales. Some drivers are brighter than others.
Funny you should mention that. It’s hard to find tortillas in grocery store here, but they have many different brands of “wraps.”
The Naan is by the bakery, the pita is by the deli, and there are three different spots for tortillas
/my regular store.
I’m talking about actual flour tortillas branded as “wraps.” The only brand of “tortillas” are mMission, which are garbage. There is a hoity-toity grocery store (Healthy Living) that has good tortillas (which is hie-larious because good tortillas are the opposite of healthy living. )
Naan, pita and lavash have more choices that tortillas in the regular grocery stores.
I can’t say I’ve seen any branded as ‘wraps’ maybe it’s the difference between the demographics across that half hour of highway from here to there.
I think I’ve told this story before:
When I first moved there, I tried the “Mexican” restaurant downtown. On the appetizer menu was “Cabrito Flautas.” Since I imagine that deep-frying goat would turn it into fiber suitable for ropemaking, I asked the waitress about them:
“Well, they’re corn tortillas stuffed with slices of veal…”
“Wait, there’s no cabrito in your cabrito?”
“Oh I don’t know, I don’t speak Spanish.”
We don’t have a major Mexican population is this area.
You’re more likely to find Puerto Ricans, but I’m not sure how many want to work in a Mexican place.
And that reminds me, I miss the Jamaican food place where I got goat and plantains.
There was a yummy game meat burger place run by subcontinentals called “Burger-centric,” but I think it’s gone now.
I also like Dinosaur’s brisket fried rice.
I don’t care where they decide to put any particular item. I care when they suddenly decide to move everything around. It is such fun asking the Oh so helpful staff where X is. “Huh? I don’t think we sell anything like that”
I no longer know my way around the grocery store by my mother’s place because they rearranged things. Since only a small proportion of visits include having to go grocery shopping, I think my brain is still expecting the old layout, even though that was years ago.
LOL… I argue with management about our ‘re-sets’ every damn time. Our Dutch overlords have decided that it is a good thing for consumers to have to hunt and search for items that they could previously find. As the poor schmuck who has to put the groceries onto the shelves, I hate, hate, HATE it; it adds a good hour or so to my workday.
A store that constatly resets the layout loses my patronage.
Like, near the meat counter or dairy case? Yeah, nobody goes back there.
That perimeter is prime real estate in a grocery store.
Where you pick up the MILFs and GILFs?
Spain can’t/won’t leave the EU but Catalonia threatens to leave Spain.
Sumting wong.
Not woke enough?
This should be shoved in everyone of the EUophiles faces. Your evil confederation is the new “Prison of Nations” – Habsburgs be damned. EU’ers always moaning about oppression everywhere else on the globe…but in their own backyard? GO FORTH AND OPPRESS.
The Catalans are going to have to take up arms if they want to be free. They have no support from the EU or the government worshipers around the world.
The Coalition on Homelessness weighed in about the city’s Department of Public Works removing the boulders on Monday in a tweet.
“They should remove all the anti-homeless design and hostile architecture from the rest of the city while they’re at it — most of which are city-sanctioned,” they posted on Twitter.
“They oughtta.”
They oughtta STFU.
Up here there are businesses that blast opera music to keep the vagrants away. Another cool trick that I saw in a picturesque town was a nice little two feet tall barrier of upright logs running up and down the main drag with the tops cut at a 45 degree angle to discourage loitering. Our city’s bus benches have dividers on them.
It would be simple to make a portable bench that sat stably on that 45 degree wedge barrier.
Tiny touristy town with a reserve just outside the village. There is no bus service. It’s actually the first place that I saw the “opera solution” about fifteen years ago. It’s funny, the Micky D’s that I stop at every Sunday between shifts has instituted the policy and there is something like a no-go zone with a radius of about a hundred feet where the hobos dare not tread. Last weekend there was one really fucked up unfortunate nodding off against the wall of the drive-thru, holding a cardboard sign. Maybe he really likes Bizet?
Get rid of the houses, buildings, and roads that interfere with the free-range homeless. It’s the right thing to do.
But, their natural habitat is the spaces in between houses, other buildings, and roads.
Kinda like feral cats in some regards.
I’ll take the cats any day…
I don’t know. Feral cats reproduce faster than feral bums. Pretty soon you’re overrun with cats.
See Roman Colosseum circa 1990
Feral cats.
My Dad does catch and release. Takes em to the animal shelter to be fixed then brings em back home.
There are cats that live on his roof and in his trees that just wait for him to come out and feed them.
There’s always a hundred eyes watching you.
he knows they are waiting for him to die so they can feast on his corpse, right?
Ask the old cat ladies how this story always plays out….
Free to gambol…
[runs away giggling]
*shakes fist, narrows gaze*
Meh, take advantage of the coyotes moving into the city. Set out food bowls for them that are lined with homeless clothes. After a few months, stop putting food in the bowls.
I donno, bums might just kill and eat the coyotes.
Nah, sounds like work.
The homeless will eat the coyotes food, but you might get lucky and get them to start eating other homeless?
the self-love develops a carapace of self-sufficiency
OMG TOXIC INDIVIDJULISUM!
CRAB PEOPLE!
Taste like crab, talk like people?
Does that mean we can turn count potato into crab pierogis?
Rangoon.
No, not enough potato in an rangoon, and we were talking pierogies elsewhere in this thread.
Sister Christian, you’re motoring.
Yeah, heh, motoring!
Shorter Amber: “we’re cops, we GET to shoot people by mistake.”
Prosecutors argue that Guyger saw several numerous signs indicating she was on wrong floor and at the wrong apartment, including a skylight, a neighbor’s decorative planter, Jean’s red doormat and differences in the hallways.
I had to read and reread that story multiple times. That’s crazy. Bitch should be strung up.
I’m still not getting it. It wasn’t her “castle”. Or is she playing some form of chess I haven’t heard of?
She’s trying to cover up the fact she knew she’d gone into her ex’s place and gunned him down.
That makes her brave. *Not guilty
They’re using the “mistake of fact” part of the law. But that requires reasonableness in her mistaking the apartment as her own. And I’m sorry, but no reasonable person could have done so. Her toxicology results will make that point moot.
Perhaps the judge allowed it in order to keep her from using it in a subsequent appeal? I’m hoping so.
Still, Prosecutors argue that Guyger saw several numerous signs indicating she was on wrong floor and at the wrong apartment, including a skylight, a neighbor’s decorative planter, Jean’s red doormat and differences in the hallways.
I could see if the pin holding up the 6 on her apt number had fallen out and it flipped to a 9. That’s the Jack Tripper defense.
Like blundering in one of the girls while she is in the bath once a week? /Thinks back to Chrissy and Janet/ Yep, I’ll allow it!
Also happened to Clark Griswold In European Vacation.
That’s why we love you, Sloop. Just couldn’t put the correct memory to that scene and went with Three’s Company.
“My wife and I are looking for sex”
“SCHWEINHUND!”
By “mistake” FTFY
Dudes break into sign company and put porn on freeway video board for a half hour.
This was inevitable, of course. I wonder if you can just jack into the sign and gain access?
^ This was noted.
Don’t you mean jack off to the sign?
There’s the sign post, up ahead.
https://youtu.be/Bjjqmkk0fVo
The space bar is always the first casualty of a manufactured social media movement.
Preach it, sister!
Is that where you get space drinks and meet space chicks? I bet that in the bathrooms there, no one can hear you scream.
“Prosecutors objected to applying the castle doctrine because Guyger was in Jean’s home — not the other way around. But the judge allowed it and the defense leaned on it.
Guyger’s defense attorneys argue it is reasonable that she thought she was in her home and that it’s a mistake any ordinary person would make in such a situation.”
But wasn’t Jean in his underwear? Even if she thought is was her apartment, why would a burglar be in his underwear?
Hm, so I can break into my neighbor’s house, shoot him, and claim castle doctrine. Sure, sounds legit.
King’s Men, Dude.
Prima Nochte.
Means they can fuck whomever they want.
That’s insane. Let’s hope the jury sees past that nonsense.
Stop laughing at me!
“the judge allowed it”
Reminds me I have some brush I need to clear at the back of my lot.
“Glibertarians.com is in no way affiliated with Tonio. No threats intended or implied will be posted at glibertarians.com. Al references to woochippers are literal references to safe, legal and environmentally sustainable ways of rendering waste wood suitable for composting and organic farming “
Woodchippers? I thought Tonio was going to do a controlled burn.
I liked the John-o someone did yesterday –Capital Grater
A stupid decision by an idiot judge benefitting a moron ex cop. Would an average citizen receive this kind of consideration? Hell no.
Yes, I believe so. You let it in, but you have to put up the evidence. The jury is probably laughing it off.
Fewer clothing fibers for CSI to analyze. Once they realize that thread came from a pair of jeans at the mall and cross reference it to the database of all Jean wearers in the area, you’re toast.
The fibers match the carpet in the trunk of your car! Guilty! “But, I drive a Corolla…” What are the odds that someone else drives the same model of car? ” Um like 1:2?” Guilty!
Donald Trump’s Impeachment Threat. Nov. 3, 2016
It’s different when we do it.
Yeah, it’s different because orangeman bad!
It’s kind of sad that they really believe this.
It’s the cart leading the horse. *Since I wasted time making it, I’ll post it twice.
And they have been saying loud and clear every day since Nov. 2016 “Your vote doesn’t mean shit.”
^^^THIS^^^
If we ain’t the ones in charge, nobody is gonna be in charge….
That seals it. I am dyslexic.
Guyger’s defense attorneys argue it is reasonable that she thought she was in her home and that it’s a mistake any ordinary person would make in such a situation.
“Well you see, Your Honor, my client believed he was in his own home. That’s why he shot the cashier in self defense and took all the money out of the cash register.”
You see my honor, my client is a Cop. As an Agent of the State, all property is rightly considered his. So he raped and murdered the family because he thought he owned them.
“If you go to the ethnic food aisle, that is sort of the last bastion of racism that you can see in full daylight in retail America,”
Agreed. The watermelon belongs in the fruit section.
Because wanting to be able to find Asian or other ethnic ingredients in one convenient location rather than hunting all over the damn store is totes racist.
Christ, what an asshole.
Seriously though, where would you stock fried lo mein noodles if you had to get rid of the ethnic food aisle?
And what do you want to bet that if lo mein noodles were with the pasta, and soy sauce was with the other condiments etc., this assclown would be crying “cultural appropriations!!”
Well hell, how much call does he think there is for a quart of fish sauce in most American homes? Like the Goya guy said in the article, putting the “exotic” foods together makes them a “destination”, so to speak. Otherwise it’s just bottles and cans of random shit.
Goya is disgusting.
Like morally? I don’t know, I’ve only eaten canned beans of theirs and Adobo, so I have no idea what the rest of their product line is like.
Goya is a veggie that is bitter as hell and Okinawans eat it because nobody else will.
They make a pretty mean selection of tropical fruit juices, their coconut milk rocks and makes pina colladas da bomb, and their guava paste makes for a real nice jam.
For you to buy anything but Potatoes and Haggis is racist cultural appropriation. Come this way to the re-education camp.
Haggis?
I’m not Scottish!
Potatoes are themselves a cultural appropriation for anyone not descended from Central and South American “natives.”
Looks like the Irish get to starve then…
We tried that, not going to do that again.
Have a traditional parting gift, we already put it in your car. You’ll have a blast.
/totallynotaterrorist.
Yesterday my wife shopped the ethnic food section, looking for fried rice ingredients. An older white lady began questioning her as to how to make some Asian dishes, Mrs Fourscore happily helped her with her shopping, freely gave her instructions in preparation, for which the lady thanked her and everyone seemed to be OK after the trauma.
Mrs Fourscore complained that the ethnic food section was too limited and threatened to never shop there again, at least until the next day.
Mrs. Fourscore is a keeper!
Not all climate warriors are gay Straf.
Say wut?
Watermelon/ fruit Ok, they can’t all be funny.
Scratch that green exterior and find a commie asshat. I get that, but fruity is new to me.
Fruity = gay. I was making a joke about not all watermelons belonging in the fruit section. It flopped.
Oh, I got your joke.. I just wanted to bust your ballz brah.
Did that joke yesterday, MikeS piled on.
Tonio gave us the Swiss treatment.
Gay.
Good morning, Sloopy!
And good morning to the rest of You People®!
Man, those are some depressing lynx. I read that the cops clipped someone with a real bullet in HK, but that may be bullshit. It’s inspiring how people fight for freedom – until they have it for a generation or two. I truly wish our aspiring slavers would tear themselves away from NPR and watch what’s happening in other countries.
Man, I haven’t listened to NR in many, many years. That album came out in 1983, right smack dab in the middle of my high school years. And that is by far the best song on the record. I’m on my third time through and my nostalgia meter just pegged hard right! Fucking awesome!
From their previous album.
Good luck out there today, y’all. It’s really stupid (but make it a great day, anyway!).
Don’t tell me you love that song.
More importantly, the young lady in the car with me loved that song.
So, hell yes, I love that song!
Toxic ethnicity?
I just can’t keep up.
You’re not supposed to keep up. You’re supposed to be fodder for virtue signalling psychos.
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty between the Ukraine and the United States of America. Forwarded to the Senate for consent by President William J. Clinton, 1989.
1989? Bubba wasn’t president then.
Woops – 1999.
Beware the pedants, Drake! Here there be Tygers!
I’ve got my eye on you!
Just the one?
Wopps 1999? Is that some sort of sci-fi mafia show?
Jesus Christ, Chang is an insufferable whining baby. He’s LOOKING to be hurt. It’s the Apu guy all over.
And to be honest, I remember my mother taking me to Italian specialty shops (which still exist and I frequent) when I was a kid because back then grocery stores weren’t exactly staking their shelves with many Italian products; never mind the quality being not of what was expected. I embrace that and it was nothing but fond memories.
I understand the average person couldn’t care less that I want certain products and that’s who the grocery stores cater to. Which is why I have no problem with how they organize their shelves. People need to KNOW exactly where everything is in a store. They don’t have time to go and track down 17 items for a Mexican taco. That’s why ‘kit foods’ are popular. To the average hipster doofus this is beneath them, but guess what? They’re not the target market. They can go to their local Cabanos for their hand made tortillas.
Shelf management was something I used to talk to my FIL and his brother a lot because they were professional grocers with the brother having been an owner.
He used to tell me his company (the biggest in Canada at the time) would spend millions studying purchasing habits of customers. An activity that was almost futile because they never really could figure out reliable patterns. But they did figure out how to stock the shelves and where the best place to put them in the store. It’s a crazy moving target science. He was so good at it, American companies used to call him to go train their workers about how to used bar codes efficiently and was even given an honorary Order of Engineering here he was that influential.
Re racism specifically, the only thing he told me was some owners may have ‘blind spots’ but they weren’t racist. It was because they didn’t understand their demographics which today would be interpreted as ‘racist’. The prevailing belief was ‘they will buy what we put out’. It was insensitive at worst. Often when he’d be called in to increase sales he’d discover it was as simple as ‘well,, you’re in a Chinese neighbourhood, have some bok choy’ sort of thing and he’d get the blank stare back. And boy did he have stories about the unions and how beyond uneducated and retarded the bosses were.
We have a Super Store here that’s set smack-dab in the largest South Asian enclave in the city. They stock all of the Indian and Chinese stuff that you would ever need. It’s a mystery really… Some marketing guru must have dreamed it out of ass while he was lighting his farts with hundred dollar bills. Fuck that cunte.
I meant Chang, not you of course, beloved Muppet.
I know.
“unions and how beyond uneducated and retarded the bosses were.”
Redundant. Unions are for the union bosses, get money from the members and threatened the company with mischief and then wonder why the company went out of business. The members are left to their own devices
Actually, let me amend the union part. You guys might enjoy this. The union boss was an American. Artie was an old school son of a bitch unionist hired to represent the workers. He drove the company bananas always calling for strikes. Well, it came a time when the company knew it was going bankrupt and it was time to renegotiate contracts. Artie was on a rampage and not listening making demands that couldn’t possibly be met. Already the commitments were playing a role in the collapse. Finally, he demanded he would only speak to one person: Johnny who respected. My FIL. So my FIL had to become a labour negotiator at the behest of the owner (to whom he was loyal and #1 ranking right hand man). Artie drove Johnny hard. They hammered out a deal but my FIL said it won’t last and said, ‘One day Artie you’ll be sitting on my side and you will see how foolish you are.’
A few years later Artie bumped into Johnny at a conference in the U.S.. where he moved back. Walked up to him and hugged him. ‘You were right’ he said.
Turns out Artie ended up owning some chain outlets and found himself dealing with unions who used the very same tactics – on him.
Sorry. The story is coming back to me in pieces. The reason why my FIL told him he was foolish because he’d one day be in his position is because Artie had confided to him ‘off the clock’ sharing a drink he wanted to own his own store. So my FIL warned him.
Yeah, what’s he talking about there not being an Italian section? In the three local grocery stores near me there’s a particular rack for the “authentic” Italian stuff. I guess he just figures Paul Newman’s Marinara is as authentically Italian as imported strained tomatoes. If it helps him feel better, they’ve got the gringo tortillas in the taco kit section next to the canned soups. The good shit is in the Mexican/Caribbean section. The really good shit is in with the dairy.
And another thing!
Most grocery stores around here have a British section in the ethnic food aisle. So fuck David Chang.
It’s right next to the german section, and if you turn around you’ll be facing the jamaican section.
Why the fuck do I have the layout of my grocery store memorized?
Confession time. I write grocery lists in order by location as you move counterclockwise through the store such that the last section is the meat and frozen foods, ensuring that they’ll stay colder longer. And that’s why I have the layout of my grocery store memorized.
I walk back and forth across the entire store multiple times while shopping. Most because I’m going through a mental ingredient list. I don’t mind, I need the exercise.
That’s what I do when I’m really just trying to get a few minutes of peace from the family.
Don’t feel bad Bill, I do the same thing. I’ll even modify it based on which store I’m going to.
Yes indeedy. The local Kroger has one aisle that has Asian and Hispanic (or Latino or whatever they use, don’t really know) foods, and then another “International” aisle that has British, German, Caribbean, Indian, Greek, and yes, Cajun items.
Selling Kimchi next to sanitary napkins makes sense to me.
Which reminds me. Organizing stuff along ethnic lines is actually good. For example, sometimes I find myself in the Asian section and actually taking the time to look at the products. Sometimes I take a dive and try something. It’s how I discovered Kimchi years ago. The brain can’t sort items it doesn’t know exist. But put them in order of ‘ethnicity’ and it becomes easier. It’s not racism. It’s brain functionality. For example, let’s say they store kimchi with pickled stuff. If I don’t go into the aisle, I don’t know it exists. Put another way. You see kimchi on the Food Network. You want some but you ask yourself where the heck will I find it? I bet you the first thing people think is ‘Asian aisle’ because you have no idea otherwise where they’d put it. You’re guessing at that point. And people guessing = loss sales.
Some may say well just ask a person but it doesn’t work that way. People going into stores generally know what they want and want to get out fast. Chang is not aware of the psychology behind it because he’s self-absorbed. It’s easy for him to think you can ‘reprogram’ people but it’s not that easy. Believe it own not, store shelves are highly studied and are set up the way they are for a reason.
Bah. What do I know?
Heh. More than me. I searched every fucking aisle tonight for tortillas. Ended up making Salsa and guacamole mexican naan wraps for dinner tonight.
Pan Mexican Naan!
The sombrero covers the dot.
Nah. THEY just throw things out there willy-nilly to confuse the proletariat. It’s part of the larger plan. Who the hell needs 23 different brands of deodorant? Those wankers can’t even decide whether they prefer Ketchup or Catsup.
Only 23 brands? What sort of choice deprived socialist hellhole is this?
*Ugly cries* It used to be Canada…
” why I have no problem with how they organize their shelves.”
I do. My local store doesn’t put the canned coconut milk in the ethnic aisle. They don’t put it in the canned goods aisle. They hide it in the baking aisle. WHY? It trips me up every time.
I’ll have to check to see if there’s any in the baking aisle at my local. I know it’s in both the jamaican and thai section.
Bonus points, they sell bottled coconut water in the Jamaican section. It’s… okay.
After one time, I blame you.
If you don’t buy something regularly, it’s not unreasonable to forget they put it in an odd spot.
The guy is pissed off. That must burn some neuro pathways.
Look I usually do my grocery shopping
a) hung over
b) while fasting
c) while pissed off (it’s kind of a perpetual condition)
Never do it while high (ancient Festus wisdom).
It’s been there for 50 years / grocer’s son
Not kidding: canned milk’s for baking. The biggest meltdown I ever saw was a ZM freaking out about my dad moving chitterlings next to X-whatever in a high traffic area, which I promise you made better sense down in the Delta. Chain stores make allowances in their plan-o-grams now, but back in the day they held it to a minimum. Our Kosher Kroger is pretty standard with really only one aisle dedicated to (((those stuffs))). . . . happy new year?
Coconut milk isn’t milk. It’s also more commonly used in jamaican and thai sauces than in baking. It comes in cans here because its shelf stable that way.
You got to the heart of what I was trying to say only better and more succinct.
Canned + milk = condensed milk = baking supplies duh!
Now, now, don’t go mixing up condensed milk with evaporated milk.
That’s funny, the Republic of China was founded in 1928.
One of these decades the Red Chinese rebellion will be put down.
R.I.P. R.I.P. Napoleon Chagnon. He followed the data instead of engaging in PC spin.
Oops Link
He’s probably very likely right if he was considered ‘controversial’ by left-wing anthropologists. If memory serves me right, I read an essay a few years back about how ideological the field had become. And by that, corroded by left-wing ideology and the writer of the essay was troubled by it.
Stealing Tundra’s thunder here but so much for gamboling…
“asserted that tribal societies were not typically peaceful, challenging a widespread view.”
Widespread among whom? Retards?
The majority of woke academic anthropologists, so, yeah.
Spend a week in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and get back to me with that thought.
Can shrunken heads have thoughts?
Well, not normally, since they’re made by removing the skull and brain, then rolling heated stones around the interior until the flesh shrinks.
But then again, these people might not have much use for their brain, so they could probably continue to put out articles and papers.
Advice sought: I have an iPhone which I use for music while traveling. I fucking hate iTunes and I’m sure its successor will be even worse. Is there a decent app which makes importing songs from my PC (as opposed to buying them from Apple) a relatively easy and transparent process? Or is the iPhone so inherently fucked up that there’s no conceivable app that would make file transfer as simple and easy as it is in the PC drag-and-drop world?
To be honest, I didn’t bother trying to figure out how to make the phone play music and just bought a Walkman. (Sony still uses the brand name for its mp3 players. Though it would be funny if it at least looked like a tape player)
I didn’t bother trying to figure out how to make the phone play music and just bought a Walkman.
We really need a list of the most UCSiest statements.
At one point I had an iPod mini and a Nokia. Once I got an Android I basically stopped using the phone part and used it as a texting and emailing device that played music and loaded websites poorly. Oh, and as an e-book reader. To this day I could drop the phone functionality and never miss it.
I’m not sure because it’s been a long while since i did this with an I-phone, but i think you might be able to just Drop the file into the music folder on your phone? I could be way off base here, as i know that works on Android, and it’s been years since i’ve imported music onto an I-Phone.
Nope, Apple locks that down. It can only go in with a complex procedure involving iTunes, Air Drop, and several dead toads. They want you to buy music, not load on music you already own.
Are you often in areas with no reliable phone signal? I use Plex; the server software runs on your home computer and allows you to stream any media to any connected phone/tablet/TV/computer. The free version only allows streaming on one’s own network but the paid version allows worldwide streaming. IIRC, the entry-level plan is $4.99 per month but After a few months, I liked it so much I dropped the $125 for a lifetime subscription.
Aren’t you a grocer? C’mon, man. Give us some insight into racist shelf stocking.
I just don’t even grok the racist claim. It’s so nonsensical it reminds me of people who complain about the existence of certain holidays – Who cares! Go enjoy your day off, ya schmuck.
I don’t use the iPhone at home, it’s for music playing when I’m traveling, e.g., on a plane. So I need local storage.
At home, fuck Apple, I use JRiver on a PC.
I haven’t used it in awhile because I abandoned my old collection in favor of Spotify, but Google Play Music was pretty simple to import music into.
Will it work on an iPhone?
Yes, although I think Google might be killing it off for youtube music, and I have no idea how youtube music works.
/browses Apple apps store while remembering to thank CPA if it works…
I mean, if you don’t mind installing borderline malware on your phone, I’m sure Google Play is fine.
Google music works on iphone and will will store files locally. I have android and the brats have iphones. We all use a single account.
Amazon Music App works with streaming from the Amazon music service as well as locally on your device. I like it better than Itunes. It will work on your iPhone
You can switch off the mobile service with ease in the settings.
Heh, I know one of the lead programmers for iTunes. He would probably agree with you.
I just drag tracks into the iTunes window (though it’s called “Music” now) and they automatically copy to my phone when I connect it to my computer.
the People’s Republic
It ain’t for the people and it ain’t a republic.
It’s a Republic. Republic’s are not inherently democratic or free, they just don’t have a Monarch.
They usually just have some dude pretending to be a monarch and winning any elections – if they bother with that shit at all – by 98% of the vote though, right???
It’s a Republic.
It’s not a Republic. While you are correct that Republics aren’t inherently democratic or free, they do require at least a large portion of the people have representation in government, which China does not. China is an oligarchy, everything is controlled by a small group of people.
I’m considering joining the local gay sports league as a way to meet other men, but it’s pretty… lame. Volleyball season is over. Kickball (yes, really) season is over. Which leaves dodgeball. I don’t know if I can debase myself that far, and honestly the type of guy who would do that as a league sport prolly not my type. The org also has an Adventure Club but the schedule includes things like dancing and escape room; ice skating does interest me, rock gym is admirable but not for me.
I thought you had a boyfriend.
Not since July, 2018. I didn’t mention that here.
My social network is tapped out as far as dateable guys, Growlr isn’t doing it for me anymore, and I’m typical antisocial Glib.
Can’t imagine any advice I would have that would help. Can think of some that wouldn’t.
Would said advice bring humor?
Wasn’t expecting you to call me on that. I’d have as much luck picking up a dude as…
Huh. I would have thought that there would be a high demand for gaijin and their enormous penes in Japan.
The demand curve slopes downward to the left.
What’s the Nihongo equivalent of BBC?
Big Black Cock? Dunno.
I thought South Park covered that?
I’m considering joining the local gay sports league
So when did you start developing these fascist sympathies?
We talked about the WNBA yesterday.
I have no experience playing gay kickball, but co-ed leagues really are centered on people trying to meet each other (or just bang it out). I was in it for the kickball, because I like to sports.
I would imagine it would be like any other adult league. The only difference being who is macking on who.
My BIL met his wife in one of those. I went with my wife once to a game they had, and it was lame, but lame by my standards which are admittedly not universal. I was annoyed that so many people were just dicking off and not really competing. If you’re going to cut into my drinking time, you better make it worthwhile.
hard to find good men today
I mean these days …
Oh, it has always been difficult finding good men. And dating over fifty is like trying to find the least broken, least smelly thing in a bad thrift (used goods) store.
This applies to womenz as well.. And my experience has been that when you do find one (a good woman or man in that older bracket) that they are single for very obvious reasons. Then again, occasionally you can find someone that makes it worth it.
I know four good women, smart, good jobs, no debt, childless, educated, cute, and NOT feminists of any stripe who are lovely people. Their problem is they’re fat and one has a harelip.
If men want nice women maybe they should stop looking for hotties. Otherwise they’re just giving lip service to wanting nice women who are not crazy. They are barely even on the hot/crazy matrix they’re so not crazy.
They are “one of the guys”, “friend-zoned”, “sister-zoned” types.
Yes, I know that people shouldn’t be shamed into not wanting to sleep with who they aren’t attracted to, but sometimes they can grow attracted to someone they initially weren’t.
How fat are we talking? There’s a spectrum from “Ruebenesque” to “Landwhale” which impacts how much of an issue it is.
More than rubenesque, not even approaching landwhale by any stretch.
sometimes they can grow attracted to someone they initially weren’t.
True, but sometimes by the time party A grows attracted, Party B has placed Party A in the “like a brother” category.
you mean they’ve initiated a plot to have them assassinated?
/too much crusader kings 2 recently.
Just grumbling about a personal experience. Pay me no mind.
Yes and BTDT on both sides of that fence. It’s hard to shake that.
Cuntes & Cods really needs to be titled Friend Zoned.
Yep. I’ve been with the wife for 20 years. She’s not as hot as she once was if I were to think about it. But why would I? Through fights and and good times we’re still together. Why people think a newly divorced 50 year old should be able to get a sane, young hottie is beyond me.
A buddy of mine was single his entire life having a good old time here in Japan. At 58 (still very fit – doing mountain bike competitions) he had a minor medical issue and was hospitalized for a couple weeks. He got to know one of the nurses (half his age) pretty well and they were married a couple months later. Pumped out three kids in short order and they’re very much the ideal couple.
Your results may vary. Just saying be realistic.
Why people think a newly divorced 50 year old should be able to get a sane, young hottie
For the record, the answer is: because it’s easy and yummy
You log on, they’re in your inbox, and before you know it, all the other guys have taken themselves out of the game and you’re stuck dating all these girls half your age. . . . somebody’s gotta do it. It’s not my fault that everyone else is ignoring his financial security, smoking dope, playing video games, and can’t have an adult conversation. Chicks know what they want, and who am I to argue. They will knock themselves out for you, work around your dad weekends, meet you halfway, whatever . . . if you’re remotely decent. Even bald engineers can win this very easy game.
Just sayin’.
Oops. That was one helluva Gilmore.
“I know four good women, smart, good jobs, no debt, childless, educated, cute, and NOT feminists of any stripe who are lovely people. Their problem is they’re fat and one has a harelip.”
Don’t get me wrong: I value personality and responsibility a lot, but if I work hard to look good at my age – especially considering the fact that most people with my level of injuries suffered would likely today avoid any sort of physical activity – I do expect the same from any potential partner (at least before I consider a relationship and hopefully even after). Yeah, I work hard at keeping myself in shape and am actually a catch for my age (not my words: those of the ladies) cause I make a great living professionally and have only drinking as a vice.
And as UCS points out, the term “fat” has a range with the low end being somewhat tolerable (thicc) while the top range usually means you need to roll them back into the ocean. I am not expecting these ladies in my age group to be svelte and compete with girls in their late teens/early 20s. I have however managed to always end up with the ones that do take care of themselves. I did recently find me that one person that felt like a unicorn, mythical in every sense of the word, and am wondering if she will be the one to tame the beast.
Wishing you luck, Alex. I think the point is that a few pounds on the ol’ belly isn’t that bad. We all get old and it would be good to find someone to spend that last half of your life with. Personally, I just enjoy people that make me laugh. But I’m not in your shoes, so you do you.
There is a lot of data out there showing that men are MUCH less picky when it comes to looks than women are. At least when it comes to first dates.
I’m not saying that women are exempt from this. Not at all.
As for the women I know, I just now remembered their first criteria which kinda moots my point: have to be Mormon.
As for the young hot set in my church, the first thing she asks is “Where did you serve your mission?” Say you didn’t serve one, it doesn’t matter how much of a catch you are, it’s over.
I have equal disdain for this behavior but the hot girls control everything.
I was absolutely in love with a girl in school. But she wouldn’t date outside the LDS.
And that bugs the shit out of me. Mostly at the church for teaching the all-or-nothing approach and mad at the girls that they can’t/won’t day “screw you” to that indoctrination.
I found Mr Mojeaux directly after telling God I wasn’t going to tow the lion anymore. I had done what I was promised would bring me blessings and he wasn’t holding up his end of the bargain.
Um….I am just some lay Protestant….but I don’t think it works that way. 🙂
“they are single for very obvious reasons”
So much this. Or they were screwed over by someone and are broken from that.
The best scenario would be someone widowed, but that comes with its own set of issues.
“If you don’t like it that way and I don’t like it that way, why do you keep organizing it that way?”
“That’s the way [dead spouse] liked it.”
I asked a relatively young widower once how hard it was to marry a relatively young widow and he said even with all the kids in the mix, they had each proven themselves capable of commitment and knew how marriage worked.
Ding, ding, ding! That’s right, it’s no fun playing second fiddle to a ghost.
I’m not going for fat acceptance.
I’m saying if a dude isn’t even a 5 and he STILL lands on the hot/crazy matrix, maybe he shouldn’t assume the problem is with the girl.
I think it is safe to say that people who are single and still looking in their 50s generally have baggage. Either baggage that kept them single past their sell by date, or baggage from whatever event returned them to the market. People in general, not just men, or women, or straight, or gay. I know I bring a trunk full, of course I am not really looking.
FWIW these women are much younger than I am.
Also, I did have to lose quite a bit of weight just to get to thicc to find a husband, but I also am not ugly so there’s that.
I just was never deluding myself that I was a catch when I knew exactly what my problem was. I just had to find the right diet.
I am thinking less of a bit of flab and more that we get set in our ways.
“A hard man is good to find”
Might be Ted S. territory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gwPDpQGOQo
That all sounds really gay.
Inorite? Except for the volleyball.
Volleyball is played by Brazilian women in shorts. Find your own sport!
There’s no flag football? I know there are flag football leagues around town (my sister and b-i-l played in River City whatever until they had their kid) so I would have assumed there was a gay league.
Dodgeball is a sport of violence, exclusion, and degradation…
Have to come up with a new 5 Ds for gay dodgeball, so Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive..and Date?
I think if you wind up with 5 Ds from gay dodgeball, it was a slamming success.
*golf clap*
Stereotypical and Actual Associations of Breast Size with Mating-Relevant Traits https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31562583 TLDR: People think boob size predicts sexual desire but it doesn’t.
https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/status/1178782708929052674
There are no pictures in those links!
Huh, weird.
Going purely on personal experience, I would have associated big breasts with frigidity. It seems like a woman with a highly desirable sexual attribute like that wouldn’t jump at the chance to have sex since she can do it all the time and probably gets as much as she wants, where as a flat-chested woman might feel the need to be more promiscuous to make up for her perceived shortcoming in the titty department.
Harvard Constitutional scholar
The tweet was a quote from Robert Jeffress, a Southern Baptist pastor who gave the comment during an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend. Trump added his own parenthetical aside to Jeffress’ quote, in which the president asserted that Congress won’t be successful in their impeachment efforts.
The president’s tweet was immediately met with backlash, and Harvard Law professor John Coates argued that the social media post itself is an “independent basis” for lawmakers to remove him from the White House.
“This tweet is itself an independent basis for impeachment – a sitting president threatening civil war if Congress exercises its constitutionally authorized power,” Coates wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Trump says he will lead the Deplorable Battalion up the steps of the Capitol and slaughter all within!
Not only was he not threatening civil war, he was also correct.
HLN is always on in my work’s cafeteria, and I saw yesterday that they had what couldnt have been more than a 15-second segment on the whole hair-cutting incident turning out to be fake news. How utterly pathetic. I missed the initial reporting on it, although I did see some of the major networks casually dropping in the fact that Mrs Pence works there (guilt by association, I guess). They’re completely shameless at this point.
I read an article on a Romanian blog claiming high school kids who study a lot and get good grades tend to be more progressive and high school underachievers tend to be more libertarian because the former (grades) are not so much representative of performance as of conformity, and now the same conformity leads them to prog thinking. I find the claim somewhat dubious. Off course, the Romanian word tocilar means something specific, someone who is not necessarily smart (although can be) who studies and memorize a lot. I am not sure you have an equivalent word in english, although some would translate it as nerd, I think the nuance is slightly different.
Now is that a k-like ‘c’ or s-like ‘c’ in tocilar? I can c it both ways.
It is pronounced like the “ch” in “chip”
Maybe “studious”? Typically though you’d assume someone who is studious is also intelligent.
risky confession: I never studied; I sat in thermodynamics and calculus and watched them work stuff out and just thought: oh, I get it; always wondered how they did that . . . neato.
I always thought studying was for guys who couldn’t hear or read something and then bank the ability fairly straight away
I never studied. When in school I found I could absorb most by listening to lecture.
Odlly, of late I can’t anymore and have to actually implement or work though something to understand a concept.
Or, it could just be that lectures on PeopleSoft are especially useless. Because I still absorb information from audiobooks pretty well.
I was the same. Studying as such never really did much for me. Reading the same thing twice just made it less relevant, like I’d start to lose track of the concept and just remember the actual phrasing. It never helped me fit the topic into a larger system, so it was just like memorizing trivia rather than learning the thing.
In math or mathy-type subjects practice helped. In other subjects I’d do better just sort of thinking about the concepts and working them out as a system, or as a narrative, or both, and then going back to reference material to fill in gaps as needed. That’s why history has always been one of my strongest subjects, because it can easily be understood as a story no matter what level of zoom you’re looking at it, so to speak.
Processing objective things quickly has always been helpful.
Processing subjective things quickly hurt me in school in classes that required essays. I would lose the sense of novelty, of what was course content or what was now to me just general knowledge. So I would completely lose perspective on what the professor needed to read in my answers. I’d start and finish at the wrong level of interest, often, and entirely miss the scope of the class or assignment from time to time. Critiques would say things like “didn’t include enough baseline work” when I thought something was so obvious as to not be worth writing down. Eventually I learned that the first step to every management scheme should start with “get out of bed, brush teeth . . . “
The first math class I had trouble in was diff-eqs. I floundered in differential equations in college, and it wasn’t until trying to manually land a spacecraft in a videogame decades later that some of it finally clicked.
The multiple continually changing variables of mass, velocity and accelleration in trying to get that lander to reach ground level at less than 6m/s (the safe impact tolerance for a lot of parts on the lander) just made more sense than the lectures.
I think it was because I took physics at the same time as calc I and II, so I had a conceptual grounding, but then took diff-eqs as a standalone.
lol ur old
I was born old.
Meh, sounds like bullshit.
Traditionally tocilar was an itenerate tradesman who went from village to village sharpening things
Sounds more useful than the modern concept parroter.
Hmm, interesting, since the English equivalent is grind. Paging HM we have an interesting linguistic parallelism here!
Grind used to mean that. Us under achievers mocked the grinds. My SATs and Cs got me into college with less effort than your 4.0 😛
There are too many definitions for grind as it is. I’d rather appropriate tocilar.
Or is the iPhone so inherently fucked up that there’s no conceivable app that would make file transfer as simple and easy as it is in the PC drag-and-drop world?
I remember when Macs were simple and PCs were nightmarishly complicated.
Apple is notorious for making it overly difficult to leave the ecosystem once you’ve bought in, ‘tis known.
I’m considering joining the local gay sports league as a way to meet other men, but it’s pretty… lame. Volleyball season is over. Kickball (yes, really) season is over. Which leaves dodgeball. I don’t know if I can debase myself that far, and honestly the type of guy who would do that as a league sport prolly not my type. The org also has an Adventure Club but the schedule includes things like dancing and escape room; ice skating does interest me, rock gym is admirable but not for me.
That all sounds… awful.
Quit your job and find another
onedating pool.I’m retired now Brooksie. But I had a strict “don’t shit where you eat” policy when I was working. Saw too much drama at work — affairs, breakups, etc.
That is wise.
Tell me about it. Workplace romances are not ideal at all. Even when they were working on different floors or in completely different buildings, when things went south, it was a lot of drama. I did however find a great workaround to the coworker problem: I met and started dating a coworker that worked in a different city and came on a schedule to my town. the down side is she now wants me to move to where she lives in Minnesodda. Of course, anywhere is better than “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”, especially considering our new governor plans to straddle us with about $1 billion of new taxes every year of his tenure.
FWIW, my husband moved here to marry me and has never regretted it.
He came from SoCal though so he wanted to get out.
The Minnesoda contingent (and the NoDak boys, honorary members) welcome you to the land of ice and snow.
From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow?
We have 4score’s honey
And tater-tot hotdish
And smoked salmon
And high taxation
With Daffy’s lower body cut off in that AM linx front page picture, I am left wondering what Daffy is doing considering his arm seems to be making these jerking motions and he has a silly grin on his face….
No spud, I don’t think he is asking you for any linx to that big-assed chick you constantly link tabloid stories of.
That’s what I thought!
Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2752328/unprocessed-red-meat-processed-meat-consumption-dietary-guideline-recommendations-from
Eat yer meat, so you can have pudding.
Tard Tuesday: Treason Turnabout Is Not Fair Play
Ha! Before I hovered over the link I read the first line in the quote and thought, “That’s gonna be DU.”
he is trying to send that message to his mentally challenged base
His base is AntiFa?
Maybe America is ready to surrender its democracy, it’s freedom, it’s sense of justice
DU certainly is. See 1A, 2A, well really all the A’s.
He is claiming, with no right what so ever, that he should be able to confront his accuser.
Are we talking about campus “rape” tribunals, now?
We went over this yesterday. The “whistleblower” is not the accuser. And since they, curiously, removed the need for a first-hand account, he’s not even a witness.
Accuser = witness. That is who you get to confront, witnesses in a legal proceeding. It is not a general right to get in people’s faces when they talk about you, it is the right to challenge evidence presented against you in court.
Can the Democrats please call Guiliani in to testify? I would watch live.
Oh my god, I would take the day off and go watch it at a bar.
How I’ll always view Guiliani.
The other day Tyrus compared Giuliani to Dwight Schrute. I LOL’d.
CHAIRMAN: Mr. Giuliani, your response?
GIULIANI: something something 9/11 something something
RE: Grocery layouts. Econtalk had had a couple good episodes on this topic – economist Mike Munger on milk, and Brendan O’Donohoe of Frito-Lay. The Munger episode was fun because there was some claim about grocers putting dairy in the back of the store to force customers to walk through the whole gauntlet of impulse purchases. I larfed; the real reason is quite simple – it’s far easier to put the refrigerated product in the back, where all the plumbing infrastructure is, than to put coolers in front and run 1000s of feet of overhead piping.
Isn’t that why they stack the cash lines with items like chips and chocolate? To get you to buy that one last impulse item?
It works from time to time with me when I reach for that Kit-Kat. We all need a break.
Also, so the dairy cases can be stocked from the rear. I believe that the dairy cases in my local groceries are the front of a large walk-in where they keep refrigerated stock.
Larger markets haves started putting a breakfast items grab and go refrigerated case near the front of the store – milk, eggs, OJ.
Yeah, just look through the display some time, it’s the front of a refrigerated room, rather than a refrigerated case.
“a refrigerated room”
Known as a walk-in (fridge or freezer) in the grocery, restaurant and commercial foodservice industries.
What are they doing letting people walk in there? Have a stocker robot do it. Loading cartons and jugs of milk into the display is the perfect spot to automate.
But it is a cramped, dark miserably cold space. Why do you want to deprive the orphans of their job?
I see you’ve never gone into the reefer in a restaurant to scream at the top of your lungs.
Or to cool down after slaving over a hot commercial range.
Now I miss the server room. It was the only comfortable spot in the office.
Never worked food service, and the restaurants took a dim view of the general public trying to walk into their food storage.
You have missed out on one of the great experiences, then.
Smoking a quiet cigarette in the walk in on a summer night with 400 people crammed into the bar… Hell yes, awesome experience! Silent, cold, and alone are attractions you don’t understand until you’ve been in a 100 plus degree nightclub with the music deafening and the crowd lined up 5 deep trying to yell for your attention.
Yes! It is truly a great experience. When I was a little kid visiting my grandparents in Florida, I used to hang around my grandpa’s beer and liquor store. It would get ungodly hot in the summer, and I used to take my little folding chair back into the walk-in and just chill, grabbing some Handi-Snacks from the barrel by the counter on the way.
Great memories.
I’m not sure I’d call it “great”…
For some reason when I worked fast food, they picked my skinny ass (5′ 10″/125 lb) to be the one to be drafted for truck unloading duty. One McDonald’s store can go through a literal ton of fries in a five day period.
The local Kroger USED to do this, but they turned that case into something else, to my eternal anger. Now I have to trudge all the way to the far back corner when I just need to pick up a carton of milk.
Kroger sucks donkey balls. The Staples Mill store is clean and seems well run but they have a sucky selection as far as my needs go, and I keep having stockers tell me “they didn’t send us any of [item]” this week. The Willow Lawn store is just dreadful: terrible employees, better theoretical selection but often out of stock.
Yes, I’ve noticed that the Staples Mill location (which we go to frequently because it’s the most convenient store to our house) is really slow at restocking shelves.
Publix is a great store, but it’s significantly more expensive than Kroger so we go there infrequently. Typically, I try to do as much as I can at Lidl and Aldi, and then hit up Kroger for items not available at those two. We go to Tom Leonard’s once a week for lunch meat because their price on Boar’s Head cold cuts is so much better than anyone else’s.
A giant penis statue — measuring an impressive 21 inches — has been unearthed by archaeologists in Sweden.
So you’re saying that it is a sturdy erection.
21″ is a giant statue? Isn’t that just a statuette at best, only a bit more than a figurine?
It’s the scale relative to life size. And with the length to girth ratio, that is a micropene for a giant statue.
Dude, it’s cold up there. Shrinkage!
I am half expecting some geologist to come along, examine it, examine the prevailing winds and the acidity of the soil and announce that it is a rock that used to be buried a bit deeper and eroded into that shape.
Occam’s razor says it’s a dildo.
Huzzah! I just got a complete run of Benson and I’m only 1 season shy of a complete run of Soap. Still having very little luck finding Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Fernwood 2nite, and America 2nite. Sigh…
I loved Fernwood Tonight. It was pitch-perfect parody of small town local programming.
Also had a huge crush on Martin Mull back in the day.
“If you go to the ethnic food aisle, that is sort of the last bastion of racism that you can see in full daylight in retail America,” David Chang, the man at the helm of the Momofuku empire, said on his podcast this summer. “It is something that’s got to go.”
Something is racist and it ain’t the food aisle.
So, I have a proposal. A supermarket chain should take Mr. Chang up on his demands. With one stipulation. Mr. Chang has to agree to compensate the chain, out of his own pocket, for any resulting loss of sales from complying with his demand. If it’s just a matter of not being racist, I’m sure he’d have no problem signing off on such an agreement.
Speaking of the threat of white supremacist rebellion
From the Voice of America:
According to a report released Monday by New York-based nonprofit research group The Soufan Center, more than 17,000 people from 50 countries, including the United States, have traveled to Ukraine in recent years to fight both for pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces.The vast majority, about 15,000, have come from Russia. But the remaining 2,200, researchers warn, bear watching.
“A very significant number are white extremists,” said Jason Blazakis, a senior researcher at The Soufan Center and a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS). “The bulk of those foreign fighters are coming from the near region,” he added, pointing to 800 fighters from Belarus and hundreds more coming from Germany, Georgia, Serbia and dozens of other countries across Europe. “That’s, in some ways, not too different than what you saw with ISIS,” Blazakis said, using an acronym for the Islamic State terror group.
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And what Syria did for jihadists, Ukraine is doing for white supremacists. “It’s had a galvanizing effect,” Blazakis said. “It’s given them, for lack of a better word, a playground in which there is turmoil and chaos, a kind of playground that doesn’t exist in a conventional sense in places like the United States.”
These people are obviously training under the direct supervision of Donald Trump, in preparation to the Great War of Whiteness which will be the inevitable result of the Russian usurpation of the American Republic.
There can be no other interpretation.
So all the white supremacists are going off to fight for white supremacy against white people in a white country who are themselves frequently accused of white supremacy? And you care because?
Yeah, doesn’t make much sense. If they are fighting on both sides, they would end up with fewer White Supremacists. I could see maybe that war in what used to be Yugoslavia – I always forget which ones were the Muslims, but you could be on the other side(s).
Because the left’s narrative has long been that white supremacists, although heavily-armed, were no match for the military because inherently morons since white supremacist. Now they have a scenario where white supremacists get (para)military training and perhaps weapons. Much pants shitting. Fever dreams of armed takeovers of democratic countries.
They really do a great job of ignoring who makes up most of our Infantry troops, how the are trained, and where they fall in the political spectrum.
White supremacists are taking sides in a Russian v. Ukraine thing? Just when I had modern racial theory figured out…
Aren’t both Ukranians and Russians slavic peoples?
You realize the whole Bosnia thing was Slavs killing Slavs.
In all sorts of flavors. Primarily Bosnians vs Croats vs Serbs, but smatterings of Kosovars, Macedonians, and every other kind of Slav you could come up with.
But I don’t think there’s a whiteness matrix which only counts some slavs as white, it’s typically all or none.
I think its shorthand. Lots of Nazi’s in the national socialist style in ukraine. I think that then somehow translates into them being white-supremacists. Not good dudes, but i think it might be a tinge of “well in america all the nazis are white supremacists so its the same everywhere”. Similar to how in the US Liberals are akin to the UK Labor party.
Is really much fun to be a white supremacist in a country that’s 100% white?
There are literally white-supremacists everywhere. Which is obviously why brown people want to come to the US.
Wouldn’t Trump be an Orange Supremacist?
Apparently there were a fair number of Nazi type groups involved in the Ukrainian revolution that Obama and Biden supported, but that was dismissed as Russian propaganda because it went against the preferred narrative.
Just like most of the shit that goes on in that region, there are no good guys, just lots of victims.
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper
Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris joined AC360 on Monday where she called for the suspension of Donald Trump’s Twitter account.
On Sunday, following last week’s impeachment inquiry announcement, the president quoted a Fox News guest in a tweet that said his removal from office would cause a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation.”
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Harris then explained why she thought the thought president’s account should be suspended. “There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that he is irresponsible with his words in a way that could result in harm to other people. And so the privilege of using those words in that way should probably be taken from him.”
This isn’t Harris’s first time taking on the President’s Twitter account. After this summer’s mass shootings, Harris accused Trump of “tweeting out the ammunition.” And, on CNN Monday, Harris continued to raise safety concerns around the president’s words.
Something something “FIRE!” in a crowded nuthouse
And this woman wants to be President? Scary.
“And so the privilege of using those words ”
A privilege. Using words is a privilege, not a right. A privilege that Harris can take or give on her whims.
This is the kind of shit that I am talking about when I say we dodged the biggest bullet in history when the left lost the last election. They are galloping full speed towards totalitarianism.
Harris then explained why she thought the thought president’s account should be suspended.
Can it be? I mean, if Trump can’t block people from his personal Twitter per a federal court, can Facebook block everybody from his Twitter?
That’s an interesting point. It seems like it would follow logically that if it is a public forum, Twitter no longer controls it and cannot shut it down, even if Trump violates the TOS.
the privilege of using those words
Christ, what a cunt.
Christ, what a cunte.
C’mon, Rebel. Tow the lion.
with cuntes woun’t it be towing the loin?
ZOMG!!1 17,000!!!!!
But almost all from Russia. Still, 2200 neonazis aren’t anything to sneeze at.
800 of those are from Belarus? And the remaining 1400 are divided between at least 48 other countries?
…why is this a story again?
Trump sponsored it according the Shiff’s latest riff?
He secretly funded it and then managed to blame it on Soros.
He is truly a mastermind.
But, in the end, Harris cautioned against spending too much time discussing Trump’s tweets. “What’s most important is we not indulge his delusions and that we bring him back to reality. I think the impeachment process will do that,” explained Harris.
Que?
WE WILL GET RID OF BAD ORANGE MAN WHO HAD THE TEMERITY TO WIN TH ELECTION THE ESTABLISHMENT HAD RIGGED FOR HILLARY!
Oh, it’s going to bring reality back alright, but Trump isn’t the one needing it.
…why is this a story again?
If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of a tin cup rattling, in the background.
Who is insuring these timebombs?
We needs sensible sword control
That Dallas cop trial is insane. It’s legitimizing an argument that one could break into your home and kill you because that person thought it was their own home……well, so long as that person is a cop. “Sorry, my bad!”
No one on earth who is not in possession of a badge would ever be allowed such a defense.
The double standard is on full, open display here. Where is the legacy media? That’s right, ignoring actual government malfeasance and digging for scandals elsewhere.
“…digging….” That is an interesting way to spell ‘inventing’.
But, Tonio, Trump made phone calls to other countries. PHONE. CALLS!!!!!!!!!!
Whoa, whoa, there, Tonio. Do you want me to have to go full Hyperbole on you and smart-splain why you’re an idiot for saying that?
They’re just giving the people what they want!
It doesn’t seem hard, though, right? In Texas they can simply convict her of manslaughter, which this plainly is, and she can get something a smidge more than the minimum: ten years, out in four or something like that.
Unless there’s some backstory that can prove motive, I don’t see how this is complicated.
Oh, there is a back story. I am not buying the ‘I thought it was my place’ nonsense. We may never know what it is, but there is a back story. Those two had some kind of history. An affair? A dispute? I don’t know what, but it was something.
I completely agree. Who the hell doesn’t realize when they’re in the wrong apartment? Leaving aside the fact that it’s not even the same damned floor, once you open the door you don’t notice that the decor, furniture, etc is completely different from yours? Bullshit.
I thought there as a prior romantic entanglement and acrimony on her part? I could be wrong, I only follow this stuff when it pops up here, there is enough misery and drama to deal with in my own circle of acquaintance so i don’t really need to go looking for extra.
Yes, they could convict her on a lesser offense, but this is clearly more than just manslaughter. At least for anyone not a kings man.
It’s a stupid decision to allow a that defense and it gives SYG a bad name. Hopefully the jury will correctly disregard it.
I think the judge is just trying to appeal-proof the trial. If the jury lets her off on that defense, they were going to let her off anyway.
If the defense laywer can convince 12 people that a completely rational person could walk into an apartment and not realize it’s not hers when she walks in, then he’s earned his buck.
completely rational person
Isn’t the defendant a woman?
*ducks and hides
“This tweet is itself an independent basis for impeachment – a sitting president threatening civil war if Congress exercises its constitutionally authorized power,” Coates wrote on Twitter on Monday.”
At this point they are just preaching to their own deranged choir, trying to whip them into a frenzy. I am not unconvinced they believe that civil war is the only way that they can acquire the power they so desperately desire.
preaching to their own deranged choir
the new national past-time, works for all flavors
Fine, but she still thinks living on her congressional salary as a single is a struggle.
Where to start…?
The only thing I don’t see as a problem is the 350K. There are a lot of problems but the income isn’t one of them.
Isn’t this half-wit in favor of raising taxes?
$24k for preschool for one kid? $29 k additional for child care? Making up numbers to make the budget come out with result you preselect is BS.
The marketwatch story is old and full of flaws. I was more interested in the fact that AOC thinks $350k for a family of 4 is a lot, but $174k for a single is not.
The incremental overhead per person isn’t the same as individually supporting that additional person in their own place.
That said, I could support a family of four on my $92k without a problem. So I donno where she’s pissing away her congressional salary.
I support a Family of 5 on 70k
But then again i don’t live in a major metropolitan area.
Yes, housing is very expensive in the DC area, but anyone who can’t make $174K work is a fucking idiot.
A fairly reasonable estimate for a 1BR apartment in DC is $3k a month. That’s $36K a year on rent. That leaves her with $138K for everything else, and she can’t live on that?
You’re being generous. I’d bet campaign money is being used on all DC expenses.
Ah yes, that is ridiculous.
I think she thinks $350k is too much for you and $174k is too little for her. Family size is not a consideration.
Congressional Representatives should not make 50% more than their median constituent
For those counting, that would make her salary ~85k. She currently makes ~330% more than her median constituent.
Jarflax nails it. Remember the commie motto: What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.
Also, between the 401k and principal paydown on the mortgage they are salting away $60k/ year even with crazy high expenses. This is just stupid look at me BS. If you are living this lifestyle and still chalking up $24k in equity and $38k in investments every year you are doing quite well, not barely getting by.
Also saving in 529s and have a $2k/month food bill.
How many people are you feeding?
I didn’t say my food bill was that much, it was the marketwatch family.
How many people are they feeding?
I mean, I know how much I spend (and overspend) on food, so I’m wondering if they can’t economize a bit.
Oh, still a family of 4.
2 and 4 year old, they spend 70$ a day on food for two adults and two toddlers, they could cut that in half easy.
What? And eat the shit the plebes eat? Unconscionable!
This shit again?
That cop-
Wasn’t there some story line about how she was “distracted” by sexty messages to/from some other cop? And hadn’t there been a “relationship” with the neighbor?
She was in such a fever to get out of her knickers and rub one out that the muscle memory took over, and she beelined it to his place. He said no, and she plugged him. It could happen to anybody.
I’m really starting to look forward to Trump getting impeached over the Ukraine call. I like Pelosi’s fast track – vote by the end of they year on this one issue (which I think is what she said before the House took a two week break – much urgent, so crisis).
Because then it goes to the Senate, which is controlled by the Repubs and Cocaine Mitch, who has shown a pleasing tendency towards playing rough since McCain died. McConnell has said he will absolutely take up impeachment (which he almost has to; otherwise it would carry over until after the election when the Dems might have control of the Senate).
A Senate impeachment trial comes with full subpoena powers, testimony under oath, the whole nine yards. So let Trump have a broad scope for defense and a panel of pipe-hitting trial lawyers, and let’s go. His defense is, of course, that the whole thing is a frame job, and an extension of the failed Russian collusion frame job. Subpoena Comey, Mueller, Strzok, Page, Schiff, the whistleblower, FusionGPS, whoever changed the whistleblower rules to allow hearsay, hell, subpoena Hillary and her campaign staff, even Obama and the White House staff who were unmasking intelligence intercepts. Make it a full inquiry into the failed coup attempt, and do it during the 2020 Presidential election season.
This country needs a good, full-on, no-holds-barred, decisive and cathartic battle. Its going to have one sooner or later, I think, so lets do it now. It will be glorious.
Offer immunity deals.
This comment should be bookmarked. I like you RC, but I think there is a nontrivial chance that this turns into an actual battle at some point, and I do not want to see that.
Yeah, taking the training wheels off the process puts everything up in the air. The deep state would work behind the scenes through both parties to put down a challenge. They control the machinery.
If the deep state can rig a Senate impeachment trial, in the full light of day, then we are already doomed. I see no downside to a bare-knuckles brawl in the Senate over this.
Every electronic communication over the last 15 years or so has been intercepted and stored by NSA. I don’t know that any Congresscritter has been blackmailed, but I am pretty sure they all could be.
If so, let’s find out. If a Repub-controlled Senate votes to remove Trump over the Ukraine phone call, I think we’ll know. And if our government has been taken over by the functional equivalent of the love child of the Stasi and the KGB, I’d like to know.
I think there is a nontrivial chance that this turns into an actual battle at some point
I agree, and I would rather that battle be fought with words in the Senate than with weapons in the street. That’s why I’m hoping for a cathartic Senate trial. Let’s get this shit out of our system (in every sense) and, what’s the phrase? Move on, already.
I have felt all along that Americans are too fat and comfy to ever start a hot civil war, but who knows? I guess there could be a breaking point if people feel that the system is illegitimate and arrayed against them.
“I would rather that battle be fought with words in the Senate than with weapons in the street. ”
That is a big ‘no shit’ from me, but I am sure Krugman and the likes would love all of those broken windows.
I was talking to a woman at church who said something in passing about “I know my sons will HAVE to go to war and I want them to be prepared for that.” I said, “Are they enlisting?” She gave me a I-don’t-know-if-I-should-trust-you-with-my-politics look and said, “No. But there’s going to be one and they will have no choice.”
Of course, that opened the door and yay! friend!
Peace is too sweet, life too dear. I doubt people would actually go to war at this point. It’s one thing to break away when you are thousands of miles and several months away, and completely different when you are next door.
It’s one thing to break away when you are thousands of miles and several months away, and completely different when you are next door.
What’s the distance between Richmond and DC? Or between Madrid and Seville? You are right that it makes a difference, but if people become too divided it doesn’t matter how close they live to one another.
Some of the most horrific battles came to pass between neighbors…
Longer blog post along the same lines.
So last night I was wondering who would be congratulating the ChiComs on their 70 years of murder and oppression. Good job Trump. Just the sort of thing I’d expect from you.
I wish he had done it in exactly those terms.
But I think the ChiComs are still real touchy about status and whatnot, so its probably best to smarm all over them in public while grinding their companies into the dust with tariffs.
Did any of you read that exercise article. Holy crap. Some of the worst, rambling nonsense I ever read.
Not surprised that doing something good that increases your mental and physical health drives one right into the arms of nazis though.
Working out also is good for your brain. Helps stave off insanity.
Yea, that there was some brain fart writing.
I’ve read other articles that say that fitness enthusiasts tend to be right-wing, and I don’t doubt that part. Exercise does not lend itself to complaining and entitlement mentality. You’re not entitled to shit – you get what you work for. But if you work hard and focus, you can do incredible things. And yes, you will be proud of it, and that’s not a horrible thing as the dipshit author implies.
Be right back, I need a cold shower after doing 2.5 miles out there in 92 degrees.
So in looking at online recipes for pierogies, I’ve noticed that the common dough ingredients are flour, egg, salt, and sour cream, but the ratios varied wildly. Does anyone have a favorite they’d be willing to share?
Not pierogies, but here is my favorite pasty recipe:
https://www.theculinaryjumble.com/spicy-beef-and-onion-homemade-pasties/
They sold REALLY well at deer camp last year
Useful information. I’ll file the recipie away, but I’m still looking to make pierogis.
Not surprised that doing something good that increases your mental and physical health drives one right into the arms of nazis though.
ARBEIT MACHT FREI
Not only was he not threatening civil war, he was also correct.
But do you know who actually threatened civil war?
Also- re: RC:
Seeing Obama get subpoenaed for an impeachment circus in the Senate would be awesome.
I would spontaneously orgasm if he tried to plead the Fifth.
Remeber that time Lois Lerner made a huge defense of herself, and then pleaded the Fifth.
Can you imagine if they offer Obama immunity for his testimony? Pin him down by running him through the proffer process, give him immunity, and if he doesn’t live up to the proffer, well, the optics just get worse and worse for him.
[unzips]
I left my snack on the counter at home today…I think. Will my cats die if they eat nuts, cranberries and cheese?
I think they need to be put down if they do eat that.. Cats are not into that sort of shizz.
I have felt all along that Americans are too fat and comfy to ever start a hot civil war, but who knows? I guess there could be a breaking point if people feel that the system is illegitimate and arrayed against them.
My assumption is that we, as a whole, have much too much to lose to get drawn into a for-real civil war. But I could be wrong.
And that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be a genuine upsurge of political violence by the disaffected fringes (right and left).
I think that’s probably about right, with this caveat:
Once violence gets started, its really hard to control. Competing armies clashing on the battlefield to determine which of two putative sovereign governments will rule is (very remote), but a nasty, ongoing, grinding “insurgency” – not out of the question.
One thing that I do see happening — non compliance.
You already are sanctuary cities for various things springing up. On both sides.
The feds are really going to struggle to contain it all.
Gee, it’s almost like there should be some document that lays out which powers go to the feds and which to the states. If such a document existed and everyone followed it, we might have a pretty good system.
The thing I love is sanctuary cities against gun laws or other such federal overreaches. If you’re the one following the constitution, who is really breaking the law?
Going into the wrong house is a mistake. Not realizing what happens and jumping immediately to using deadly force is murder.
Damn…. wrong comment.
Depends on whether she was telling the truth or not.
There is a 0% of civil war right now. The richest country in human history is not going to start risking their children because of some fucking politics. Let the socialists unravel our way of life for 20 years and then maybe when we have less to lose.
I would think when you have more to keep or more to gain (materially), you’re more willing to fight to keep it or get it.
Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela… where’s the civil war in these places now? They had their civil wars when they DID have something to lose.
20 years? Have you heard what those loons are saying? It will take them 20 months at most. They want to deliberately turn the entire economy into rubble. They want to use an iron fist to control every aspect of your life.
You’re overestimating their efficiency and how long it will take to unwind our way of life.
While I think you are correct in your assessment as to the probability of events, it should be noted that historically being rich and relatively secure was no barrier to civil war based entirely on politics (or religion). Nations that were at their time the richest in human history frequently devolved into civil wars over politics – heck, the American colonies were the richest (per capita) and freest portion of the British Empire (the richest nation) at the time they decided to throw down. And right now Hong Kong is in semi-revolt, and it is one of the richest territories on earth. The point is, a lot of people value some things more than wealth or security and are willing to fight about it.
And perhaps it’s the wealth and security that they’re fighting to keep.
Well, we’re dead-thread now, but in both 1775 and 1861 the underlying sentiment of the seceding areas was “we don’t want to be treated like colonies”.
And my sense of the current split in the US (progs/hicks, or urban/rural, or however you want to frame it) is the same.
So yeah, it’s not too different.
The FBI released its 2018 crime report yesterday and violent crimes across the board plummeted almost 7%.
Also knives were 5x as deadly as all rifles combined.
I feel the former at least should be getting more press. It’s excellent news about systemic issues in The US.
It’s not “excellent news” if it doesn’t advance the narrative.
/snark
Amber Guyger found guilty of murder (she’s the cop in Dallas who went into the wrong apartment, said she thought it was her own, murdered the occupant and then tried to claim self defense).
Will be waiting for it to be overturned on appeal.
Wow. I thought they were reaching with the murder thing.
Wow. How long did the Jury deliberate?
A few hours. Not very long.
Not super complicated. No question she killed him in his own home while he was minding his own business. The only issue was whether she could credibly claim that doing so was an honest mistake. You either buy that one argument, or you don’t. They probably took two hours just so they could get a free meal.
It was definitely a mistake. That’s why I thought murder was a reach.
Going into the wrong house is a mistake. Not realizing what happens and jumping immediately to using deadly force is murder.
If you think you’re defending yourself from an attack but you’re wrong, is that murder? Possibly. I don’t know enough about the legal definitions.
There was no attack in this case until the defendant drew her weapon and fired.
She thought she was being advanced upon though. Or claimed that.
I’m not sure if I buy that, but if it’s true is it murder?
If you think you’re defending yourself from an attack but you’re wrong, is that murder?
The standard is “would a reasonable person have thought they were in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm”.
She wasn’t being attacked. I think the choice to use deadly forced carries a huge responsibility. Being punished for using it wrongly is part of that responsibility. She didn’t Accidentally kill him, so manslaughter really doesn’t apply. Just because she got into the situation through mistakes/bad choices, does not take away from the fact that when it came down to it she consciously decided to kill him. That is why she is guilty of murder.
I agree that using deadly force is a huge responsibility and that it wasn’t manslaughter.
I think most likely she did murder him because the flipped out and overreacted. I think RC Dean makes a good point. Was it “reasonable” to think she was in imminent danger? Seems questionable.
It’s tough though. I don’t think she’s that big a danger to society either. So I don’t know how sentencing for that works. But I definitely don’t think she should be a cop or carry a firearm anymore.
Whoa, an actual murder conviction?
I share your cynicism. Had they gone for manslaughter it might have actually stuck. Wonder if she’ll get a new trial so the prosecution can again bumble that?
The appeal got harder to win when the judge allowed the castle doctrine as a defense.
Link for the inquisitive: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2019/10/01/amber-guyger-convicted-of-murder-for-killing-botham-jean/
Thank you, I was just about to ask for one.
ZOMG! Texas redneck hick rethuglicans are such misogynists!!! A man never would have been convicted!!!
Typical white supremacists. Convicting a white woman for killing a black man.
Well, since it’s Texas, everyone knows they’re racist(!!1!1!!) too, so this makes perfe- oh, hunh. Wait a second…
Ranger guy gave it his all:
I don’t believe that for a fucking second. 46 agreed to agree and get rid of the fucking cop.
I haven’t lived in an apartment building, but it does seem unlikely that fully 1/6th of the residents have both gone to the wrong floor and put their key in the wrong lock.
The closest I have come is hotels. When I’ve gotten off on the wrong floor, I knew it immediately. I’ve never gone to the wrong room on the wrong floor and tried to open it.
That part of the defense was pretty convincing. Apparently literally nothing is labeled and everything looks the same. She definitely walked into the wrong apartment. I don’t think that’s the legal question and the prosecutor didn’t try to argue against it.
The use of force was the question. Absent an actual threat, gunning another person down is still murder.
At least in a hotel, assuming you could get into the wrong room, the interiors look pretty much the same. There is no fucking way two people in the same apartment building just happened to decorate their apartments exactly the same way. Sure, the rooms may be in the same places in each apartment, but nothing else would be the same.
The trigger-happy cop is basically arguing: “My GOD! This menace to society not only broke into my apartment, he changed all the furniture and rearranged everything!!!” I’m surprised the defense didn’t come up with the “lack of proper training” excuse.
I’m not sure what the relevance of that is, but I like it.
Also, I thought Amber’s hysterical weeping on the stand made her seem completely insincere.
I predict a hoax perpetrated by the owner. Maybe business wasn’t going as well as she hoped and thought some sympathy would improve things.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/09/30/racial-slur-left-black-owned-n-word-mississippi-restaurant-hattiesburg-vicki-laynes/3823539002/
errrmmm…
Methinks she overestimated the growth potential and underestimated the costs of the lease/etc, and is trying to gin up publicity/sympathy cash.
Yeah, but had the 46 walked in and then not realized they were in the right spot? The rangers on this case were certainly pulling for her.
I think this will be her best avenue for an appeal. If she can convince the appeals court that the Trial Judge erred in not letting this be presented as testimony, it might have helped her case a lot.
Did the trial judge block the testimony?
Is it admissable, even? Its his opinion, not a statement of fact. And its a conclusory opinion. Typically, you have to be qualified as an expert (under the rules of evidence) to give opinion testimony, at least in civil trials. Not sure in criminal trials.
The trial judge blocked the testimony and AFAIK it’s not admissible, for the reason you stated.
Yeah, you went same place I did. No effing way (1) any sane judge allows that kind of opinion evidence, or (2) any sane appellate court overturns a conviction over that kind of opinion.
INAL, but i do know that boot lickers will awlays be able to fuck you over, no matter what the rules say.
You mean allowing someone to offer opinion evidence of her innocence? That’s never admissible. So no, that’s not going to be very helpful on appeal. (Decent) Judges do not let cops comment on “I think he’s guilty/innocent” – not if they want the outcome to stand.
The alternative is that it’s some kind of smuggled-in “expert” testimony, but again, an expert in the field of “people mistaking one floor for another in an apartment building?” Again, not gonna happen – not at least with the rules of evidence and the law of evidence as it stands now.
Look. you bunch of lawyers types, with your “Rules of Evidence” and “Procedures”. I don’t know what i’m talking about, i just wanted to contribute to the conversation.
When did you last stay at a Holiday Inn?
How many of the 46 then shot whomever was inside the apartment?
All of them.
You would think they would get that fixed by now.
Well, it’s Texas, so there’s no zoning. Whachagonnado?
In Dallas there is. I think that’s Houston.
(I live in Dallas where we have been inundated with news on this case for weeks and case)
Can you explain the highways there? I’m still confused, and it’s been well over a year since I left.
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper, cont’d
The Democrats running for president this year seem to be converging on a new and notable consensus for the party: Innovative policy ideas are not enough. The “system” needs reform. Most notably, several candidates are strongly—and correctly, in my view—calling for the elimination of the Electoral College. Some candidates have also gotten behind proposals to pack the Court and to eliminate the filibuster, all strategies for overcoming what they see as a fundamentally dysfunctional system of government.
But hovering over the Democratic debate are incredibly tough circumstances for any structural reforms at all. After all, whatever presidential candidates may promise, they must surely know how weak the powers of the presidency are, especially with regard to domestic issues, unless there is a fully cooperative Congress. Had Hillary Clinton won the presidency (and Mitch McConnell remained majority leader of the Senate), there is no reason whatsoever to believe that she would have been successful at attaining any of her objectives, save for those that might have been achieved through pushing the envelope of executive power every bit as much as President Donald Trump has.
And that, too, is a big part of the problem, for a very simple reason going back to 1787: The Senate violates any principle of “one person, one vote” that ostensibly structures the American polity at least since the “reapportionment revolution” of the 1960s. Gerrymandering, of course, grievously affects the House of Representatives, but the Senate’s disproportion is, quite possibly, worse. Just nine states—meaning 18 Senate votes—are home to roughly 52 percent of the American population. The remaining 41-state minority enjoys 82 votes. By 2040, it is estimated that 70 percent of the population will live in 15 states—30 Senate votes—while the remaining 30 percent of Americans will have 70 senators. The presence, and importance, of the Senate thus raises fundamental issues of political legitimacy akin to those raised by American patriots in 1776 who rejected the authority of the British Parliament.
What’s the point of being President if the established structure of the government won’t allow you to impose your dictatorial whims on the peasants? I guess when you’re a “professor of government” you explicitly assume government should have the power to control every single thought and deed of the rabble.
Live, and let live? that’s just crazy. These fucking idiots willfully obscure the difference between “voters” and the people. If elections have consequences, consequence number one is a dictatorship of a minority of the general population.
True democracy would best be implemented by this: any election not won by a majority of eligible citizens (as opposed to a majority of eligible citizens who bother to vote) would be illegitimate, and not binding. The Capitol would be a lonely, lonely place.
The Senate violates any principle of “one person, one vote”
Luckily it is protected in the constitution, and not amendable.
Ahahahahahahhaha!
*gasps*
Ahahahahahahhaha!
I mean, i guess they could go ahead and do it anyway, and courts could uphold it, but then nothing would matter anyway and arguing about anything being constitutional would be an exercise in navel gazing.
…. Oh shit….
The stupid thing about this whining is that there’s already a body of Congress where members are apportioned based on population. It’s called the House of Representatives.
The reason they have both is because they want any new laws to have not only a high rate of popular support but also appeal to a broad cross-section of citizens. Otherwise, politicians would just pander to the urban population and tell the rest of the country to fuck off (oh wait, that’s exactly what “progressives” want to do).
ust nine states—meaning 18 Senate votes—are home to roughly 52 percent of the American population.
It’s right there. You want to see elections and government that doesn’t care about 41 of the states in the union, then let those 9 states rule the country. These people fetishize majority rule to the absurd level. They have not care for their fellow man, to the point that having to work with them is distasteful
Apportioning the Senate by population and getting rid of the Electoral College would be the surest road to splitting the country up.
I don’t think enough of the small states are stupid enough to ratify that.
By 2040, it is estimated that 70 percent of the population will live in 15 states—30 Senate votes—while the remaining 30 percent of Americans will have 70 senators.
You mean, there might have to be a consensus in order to pass a law? Horrifying.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Had Hillary Clinton won the presidency (and Mitch McConnell remained majority leader of the Senate), there is no reason whatsoever to believe that she would have been successful at attaining any of her objectives
You mean to say that the President is subject to the will of the people and the states as found through congress? How horrible that she would have had to go through the democratic process. She WON damint, she should be able to do whatever the hell she wants.
Some candidates have also gotten behind proposals to pack the Court and to eliminate the filibuster
Unless they really get their eternal majority, which history teaches is unlikely, then this would just be a recipe for great instability. Sure, they’d get universal healthcare (which they’re probably going to get anyway in about 20 years) and that would be entrenched, but on issues such as abortion, guns, taxes, and even welfare spending the pendulum will swing enough for 51% to pass a law and then 51% to repeal it and pass a diametrically opposed one. The system is designed the way it is for a reason.
That’s how you get civil war.
I have said before and will again, they want a dictator. It just has to be “their” dictator. Everything they are proposing is just flat opposition to the structure of the government. It is a power grab. And this fucktard writer doesn’t even understand that the senate is supposed to be the house of the states, separate from that of the people. The problem is, therefor, that people are voting for senators when senators are supposed to be appointed by the states.
Some candidates have also gotten behind proposals to pack the Court and to eliminate the filibuster, all strategies for overcoming what they see as a fundamentally dysfunctional system of government.
So they are turning to court-packing because they think the SCOTUS has become too political — duh, court-packing is by its nature a political “solution.” Imagine the court getting packed to, say 11, members by the Dems in 2021-2024, then the Pubs win in 2024 and then pack it to 13 to regain “a majority” — where would it end?