Yes, this morning’s links are intersectional: senility, Judaism, and Halloween. Well, not the actual links, they’re the same usual bullshit, but my overall theme. I mean, links usually deal with retardation of one form or another.
Speaking of which, birthdays today include a guy they named a dog after; a woman they named a food after; aguy they named a cereal after; and a woman they’re never going to name anything after.
Now news.
Wasn’t this an Arthur Brown song?
If you’re going to have a moral panic, may as well make the most of it.
I’m guessing these won’t be sold to Jews.
“FUCK! I thought I was gonna be the next Kamala Harris!”
“…and then weed fell out of his ass.”
Old Guy Music is a fun thing I found after an odd conversation with Warty yesterday. But then, it’s hard to have anything other than an odd conversation with Warty.
If you’re going to have a moral panic, may as well make the most of it. – at least it aint weed
Well, that’s that, then. – how is qualified defined? I am curious.
That POS is still living?
warren? yes
Biggest fascist who I think I can wring good deals from?
Also, you know who else was a well qualified fascist?
I’m guessing these won’t be sold to Jews. – to be fair no self respecting jew would live in Arizona
“…and then weed fell out of his ass.” – a real man would have just walked it off
Where’s the Raid? – you of all people attacking a child like that
Heloooooo? Anyone hereeeee?
Meeeeeee.
So, OM, how’s Warty holding up in the joint?
The resemblance is quite remarkable.
I’m here! ‘Mornin’, Pie!
So needy
unlike sex, commenting is not fun alone
Yelling and shaking your fist at the sky by yourself is therapeutic. You should really try it.
But over rated
I yell at the pigeons to get off my sidewalk. Feels good.
//cityboy
Nope, nobody here.
Present.
Best of the best right there.
Why on Earth would you want to watch people on the shutter?
Everything is somebody’s fetish.
German?
Half.
Just so you won’t think we don’t have legal battles in Romania, a high court just suspended and act of government allowing hunters to shoot 500000 larks in Transylvania. Why one would shoot a lark I don’t know. Probably not for the meat. Maybe they are seen as pests.
Also this is Gheorghe Zamfir singing Ciocarlia (the lark… or is it skylark? whateves.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ajKT9xzvU
And Enescu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Pn1X1_a64
Their tongues? Srsly, supposed to be some type of rich people treat.
reading more, apparently the hunting was mostly done by italian tourists not by romanians. What is wrong with italians?
Ask Rufus.
Enescu (Festival), and a different lark
The Enescu Festival is one of the actual good cultural thingies in Romania
Thanks. That one’s a little less…manic…for first thing (US EDT) on a Saturday morning.
Hilary should have been wearing a dress that had a greater contrast with her skin tone.
That Mormon Temple in Mesa looks like a federal courthouse, or perhaps vice versa.
Yeah, the one in Gilbert is architecturally more interesting. Of course, the DC one wins the Gaudy Trophy.
I lived next door to the one in San Diego for a few years. I always wanted to paint the lights green.
On the Capitol Beltway (outer loop, I think) there is a railroad overpass near the temple which has long borne the graffito “Surrender Dorothy.” At a certain point on the highway the temple is perfectly framed above the trestle giving a very “Wizard of Oz” vibe. A brilliant pun and one of the few pieces of graffiti I feel should be let slide.
Over 45 years since it first appeared and has a portion of a Wiki article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_Dorothy#Washington_area_graffiti
Gaudi. ?
Probably my favorite architect.
He was no Borromini.
There’s a diamond comoany here that built something that reminds me of that. I love it.
San Diego is very 1980s. DC is very 1970s. You should see the Provo and Ogden temples. Very atomix age. The temples are all the products of their fashion era.
Fun fact: fashion follows architecture.
Wasn’t this an Arthur Brown song?
Not just Arthur Brown
And it was heavily sampled by these guys.
/lyrics perhaps NSFW
“and a woman they’re never going to name anything after.”
Too late, we already have Clinton News Network.
There’s also a tulip, an airport, a library, a pavilion and a law school.
“and a law school.”
That’s ironic.
I say we make Clinton a defined word, like they did with Santorum.
Clinton, noun: A vile despicable female who marries an equally despicable male in order to pursue a career in politics.
Clintoning, verb: Doing things a Clinton would do.
Needs refinement, but you get the gist.
And using examples of her behavior to define her married name would make her seethe just a bit more.
I’m pretty sure when someone gets “Clintoned” (dies under mysterious circs after having ties to Bill and Hill) is already well-established in the vernacular.
I have been recently made awre the rugby world cup is still on. Damn it takes a long time.
Anyhow New Zeeland lost which I though was against the rules of the game
The officials did a good job, the All Blacks usually get away with more. But England took it right to them and never stopped. The scoreboard was kind to New Zealand, they basically got their asses whipped. With all due respect to what is still the best team in the world of course. But not today.
Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles ran out of money after some of the birds flew to Iran and Pakistan and their SMS transmitters drew huge data roaming charges
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781
Letters to the Local Rag: Loners Unite!
“FUCK! I thought I was gonna be the next Kamala Harris!”
It’s been tough keeping a straight face the past couple of days about this. I do a lot of work around the city. Whenever someone would ask me about the funeral or if I watched it, I wanted tell them what a turd he was for working tirelessly as an elected official to enrich himself and cronies and accomplish nothing else. If Trump caused this career politician’s early death, then orange man bad is doing something right. There’s a couple of other ones he should start a Twitter war with.
Thread fail. Fudge.
I’m surprised anyone in Baltimore actually cared.
People love him around here. Pelosi’s scumbag brother just died, too. He was a former mayor and there was no where near the amount of adoration as there was for Cummings.
Luigi Barzini said it best when he argue people WANT to be deceived.
“FUCK! I thought I was gonna be the next Kamala Harris!”
We’re VICTIMS! We’re all VICTIMS! STOP OPPRESSING US! Our city is Trans not a shit hole because we say we’re not a shit hole!
I see Elijah likes the younger set like Willie.
liked
oops
He was 68, she’s 48. Married in 2009, So, 58 marrying 38…. yeah she knew what she was doing.
Everyone around someone like that knows exactly what the deal is. Much like Willie Brown, everything is negotiable and carries a price.
I have a hard time getting upset about it. Historically it was pretty common. She had 3 kids, not his, before they were married and it looks like she’s been just a politician since. In her world, she’s doing really well. I’m willing to bet financially she’s doing very well too, not even counting all of the dependapotamus benefits she’s going to get.
Let’s be realistic here, if I were in Elijah’s position at 58, assuming she’s not a horrible human being, I wouldn’t exactly throw her out of my office.
So what you’re saying is, you’d have thrown her out of your office?
She once called Larry Hogan a white supremacist.
I realize in a midnight blue state like MD all repubs are hated but Hogan? He’s a Boy Scout.
Mrs. Cummings is just plain awful.
Now she has to find herself another daddy.
I read you people are again nearing a 1 trillion budget deficit. Have you considered spending less? Being frugal is a virtue you know…
What do you mean, “you people”???
degens in general
What do *you* mean, “you people?”
Jealous much?
Letters to the Local Rag: Nobody Needs An Assault Drone
I need one.
A drone or a handcuff key?
Prison
12 gauge, #4 shot.
The simplest solution is usually the best one.
You would think the prison guards would enjoy blowing them out of the sky.
You know what prison guards enjoy?
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/former-montco-jail-guards-convicted-of-official-oppression/article_cf8bfb54-f735-11e9-b1dd-07425116aae6.html
Roughing up prisoners.
I don’t think the kinds of people who fly blow into a prison are going to register their drones.
something something common sense drone control
I’m waiting for the first big drone terrorist attack or assassination attempt. It’ll be interesting to see the horrific government crack downs and expansions of power that flow from it. The public panic and wall to wall news coverage is going to be pretty annoying too.
“Who could have ever seen this coming!?!?”
“We have to do SOMETHING now!”
Followed by the tried and true Government response of:
“Let no tragedy go to waste.”
Reminds me of talking to a DHS guy while I was on a job and he seriously was explaining to me about how someone with an RPG could just blow up that large fuel tank over there. All I could think to myself was “this is what is ‘protecting’ us from terrorists? How much do we pay these people?” He was on a ‘team of experts.’
They reach make at least 100k/yr. Plus pension and health benefits
I have a friend who has a couple. IIRC, he told me they do have to be registered with the FAA. And they have “tail” numbers. That may just be for over a certain size, though. I can’t be arsed to ask him or look it up.
Over .55lbs.
https://faadronezone.faa.gov/
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is legally changing his name from Sean John Combs to Sean Love Combs.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6082110/sean-diddy-combs-changing-name/
Somewhere less than 0.001 out of 10 on the Give-A-Shit-O-Meter.
Yeah, don’t even have any negative thoughts about this. He wants to change his name, not anybody’s business.
Letters to the Local Rag: We’ve Always Been At War With East Turkey
I have no fucks to give on this whole topic.
I bet you that person never followed Mid-East, Turkish or Syrian politics before Trump.
That reads like someone who did some ‘speed history.’
“Total capitulation. ”
This is a talking point phrase being used a lot. When were we at war with Turkey? What is the strategy here? To puffout our chests and act like the big dick in the lock room for no reason?
I say we nuke those rag heads, clearly they’re Russian stooges. 😉
I wouldn’t be surprised if Turkey doing this is making some generals and cia types very happy. Seems like a move that benefits us all around.
Everyone, particularly the military, should be disgusted.
Especially the ones who should be filling a body bag for Syrian sand.
So I end up taking four days off to go hunting, return to town early for the birth of a grandson, and now I end up working half a Saturday (at least) to catch up with all the crap people dumped on me while I was out doing battle with various ungulates.
How is that right, anyway?
“various ungulates” is definitely an album title.
Genre?
Anything with horns?
Well played.
If the season isn’t over take another 4 days off. Somethings are more important than others. Always time later for work
I would, but I have a flight back to (ugh) New Jersey tomorrow.
Uff da, you said the NJ word. Don’t remind me.
Today in Romania one of you american gallons of 95 octane gas is about 5 of your american dollar. A little over half of that is tax.
Why do you need 95 octane?
99 is pricier so I go for the 95 ?
Hell, 99 octane is good enough for high compression aircraft engines. 93 octane is typically the highest you’ll see in the states.
https://www.etuners.gr/fuel/
In Romania you get either 95 or 99/100. I haven’t seen lower than 95 in more than 10 years
I can get 85/88 where I live
That’s probably a metric octane rating.
You’d be more than welcome here in the Land of the Supposedly Free, you know.
you keep saying that but today there was an article in the local press, a usual type around here, about a romanian migrant coming back to Romania and saying how it is better then wherever. Today wherever was the US.
Some translations:
It is a very rigid society. If you are Romanian it is impossible to make and American friend as they label you third world and disconsider you.
Unlike Romania you have to respect laws and rules until you get high enough to manipulate them. People are very cold and unfriendly. It is better in Romania, Romania would be the best place to live in the world if only we had better economy and a better healthcare system. The police beats you up for no reason.
You can get shot at any time. The distance between skyscrapers and ghettos is like 3 meters. In New Orleans you got maps of the city and where it was red it was a no go zone.
The healthcare system is very good but too expensive. No matter how good your insurance it never covers more than 75% of costs. The food is cheap but unhealthy. Just 30% of the population own homes, the rest rent and the rent is too high. In Dallas the rent on a decent one bedroom apartment starts at 2000 dollars, very much.
Does not sound that good for us poor Romanians
In Dallas the rent on a decent one bedroom apartment starts at 2000 dollars, very much.
Lulz. $1600 got me a 2 bedroom with hardwood floors and a private yard plus two garages in Dallas
Yeah… I just rented my Uncle a place for $1100 and it’s REALLY nice, just a tad on the older side.
Also, when talking about ‘America,’ please don’t bring up a shit hole like New Orleans. I really like rural New Orleans, but the downtown area has much to be desired.
I lived in the French Quarter for more than a decade. I had a 2 story, 1200 sq.foot, 1br, 1.5 bath house (whole top floor was bedroom/bathroom/GIANT closets) with a shared courtyard and washer/dryer for $600 per month (cash only, given to the bodega owner on the corner). Moving to NYC, my rent doubled and my square footage was cut in half.
Your media sounds a lot like ours.
https://www.apartments.com/16-belmont-ave-quakertown-pa-unit-5/fjwdlct/
Here ya go Pie. Right near me.
“Romania would be the best place to live in the world if only we had better economy and a better healthcare system.”
There’s a lot of places this could be true. I don’t fault people for being proud of their Homeland. There are a lot of things true that he said. Police brutality is awful. The government treats you like a piece of property. Only the Rich can break the law.
I notice all of those claims are made about major metropolitan areas. They are largely inaccurate, but get outside of those awful places (in my opinion) and life is very different.
Yup. I only live an hour from Philadelphia, but the difference is staggering.
Specially in Delaware. Gas was $6 a gallon in Ireland last week.
yes but how close is the closest Michelin stared restaurant to you? Is your neighborhood walkable? Are there hipster coffee shops on every street? How are the wine bars? can you even write the next great American novel in the coffee shops of Colfax?
A lovesick German teenager outdid Shakespeare’s Romeo by scaling a 4m (13ft) prison wall and climbing up to his ex-girlfriend’s barred window.
But the 18-year-old refused to come down and the fire brigade in northern Germany used a ladder to rescue him.
German media report that the ex-girlfriend, also 18, had broken up with him shortly before his jail break-in.
He was half-naked, apparently to avoid snagging clothes on the barbed wire. He could face prosecution for trespass.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180775
Duh! That’s not going to impress a chick!
“apparently to avoid snagging clothes on the barbed wire”
It would not be clothes I’d be worried about snagging on the bobbed wire
I’m gonna need to see a pic of the ex gf before I pass judgement.
Al mono, La Mona se ve muy Buena.
Perhaps my favorite Spanish idiom.
“Yeah, but you got an ugly one.”/punchline to old joke
I dont know why, but that made me think of this from Young Frankenstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i55v-5WRADk
Best Brooks ever. YF > Blazing Saddles
“Puttin’ on the Ritz!”
Mornin’ neighbor
Obvious, but obligatory.
For fun, try watching the original Karloff Frankenstein keeping YF in mind – esp. the scene with the old man. Could not keep myself from cracking up.
That was in Bride of Frankenstein, you sexist shitlord.
That’s shitlady to you!
That was no lady, that was my wife.
https://reason.com/2019/10/25/theres-a-rapist-in-our-school-and-you-know-who-it-is/#comments
#believeher #metoo
Hide you kids hide you wives!!
Hide yo husbands.
Good morning to you, Old Man, SP, your lovely mother, and the rest of your degenerate followers!
The reporter in the shooting story has never spent anytime online in the caliber wars. If he/she/xe had, they would have gone to great lengths to find out the caliber, just for the trolling potential.
Fun Old Guy Music today, now with even more fetching young ladies!
Here’s what I’m listening to this morning.
Euphemism for “b-word”?
You are so daggone chipper in the mornings. I’ll have what you’re having.
(BTW, what are you having?)
Just happy that I woke up GT! My gramps always told me that ‘any day above ground is a damn good day’. I always liked that.
Also, coffee.
Make it a great day!
My daily bucket list, refill and fulfill daily.
Just coffee? Nothing fancy? French Press? Not Sumatran yak fertilized beans?
How pedestrian.
*slurps cheap coffee*
Good morning to you too.
It was cool, dry, and breezy out this morning, so after coffeeing up, I put on the headphones and took an actual stroll. This is almost nice enough to make up for the summer.
Fantastic! I’ll make sure to remind you when it’s -20 here, so you can really enjoy it!
I am guessing 9mm FMJ. Hard, pointy bullets that mostly punch small holes. It would be nearly impossible to hit someone 15 times with soft or flat nosed bullets unless you are shooting them while they are prone.
Very cool song choice, Tundra!
Good day to you, good sir! Hope you’re feeling better.
Both parties embraced the thinking of the Chicago school. Liberals complain about the ugliness of the “free market”, yet virtually every Democratic prez since JFK has been duly influenced by Hayek and Friedman.
https://twitter.com/Leonpmc/status/1187777998449037312
Well they weren’t marxists. But it wasn’t Hayek saying bail out those banks.
Unlike Romania you have to respect laws and rules until you get high enough to manipulate them.
Most excellent.
The Thin Blue Line Continues to hold strong…
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article236652688.html
why is a newspaper called bee?
“Buzz” being a reference for gossip maybe? Off to the duckduck i go!
“It’s been that since 1857 when James McClatchy founded the paper. An editorial on the first day of publication said: “The name of The Bee has been adopted as being different from that of any other paper in the state and as also being emblematic of the industry which is to prevail in its every department.”
So, the promise was a paper as busy as a bee. (Quaint, but not a bad marketing strategy, I should think.)
Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/site-services/marketing/scoopy/article2573418.html#storylink=cpy”
https://www.sacbee.com/customer-service/about-us/
This is new:
“bee noun
An impulsive, often illogical turn of mind:
boutade, caprice, conceit, fancy, freak, humor, impulse, megrim, notion, vagary, whim, whimsy.
Idiom: bee in one’s bonnet.”
This looks to be the closest reference to a newspaper:
bee (biː) noun
2. (especially American) a meeting for combined work and enjoyment
It’s never occurred to me to ask why we call it a spelling ‘bee.’
I dunno US journalists seem miserable
Because to buy the paper cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say.
So what is everyone drinking?
I ended up getting a bottle of Double Barrel Blended Malt, Half Ardbeg and half Mortlach, nonchill filtered natural color at 46%. Not bad at all, honey and peat as the bottle says
Caribou French Roast.
Mmmmm.
why are you people not drinking single origin Ethiopian coffee as is good and proper?
During (my) work week, we drink The Good Stuff from our buddy Joel, who roasts it himself. This week we have Tanzanian Peaberry, grown on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
^This^. Best coffee I ever had was roasted over a fire in what looked to be a hammered out hubcap in southern Ethiopia. I bought as much as I could carry and mail home to people as I thought I could get away with without having customs problems. Ethiopian coffee puts all others to shame.
Because Africa sucks
^^^ SE Asia or Latin America
Why do you hate Hispanics, man?
Edmonton tap water.
Meh.
Edmonton – never been. hows the weather?
Right now? -2° Celsius, very light dusting of snow. Typical for this time of year.
Winters are cold, but spring, summer and fall here can be glorious.
-2° Celsius, very light dusting of snow and not yet november? Sounds like kind of a shithole, no offense and all that. It is 20 celsius and sunny here today
Sounds like kind of a shithole
If you think that, then you’re gonna hate the Upper Midwest of the United States. Which would be a mistake, because it too can be awesome.
Winter’s just the price you pay for having four distinct seasons, none of which are boring in combination with the others.
Winter’s just the price you pay for having four distinct seasons, none of which are boring in combination with the others. – yes from december to february not from october to april.
gonna hate the Upper Midwest – were I ever to visit it would not be in winter. it is cold and silly things like ice fishing happen
yes from december to february not from october to april.
Some years. Others, more like December to March. Climate’s what you expect, but weather’s what you get, after all. And 95% of Canada has exactly the same conditions overall. It’s only the West Coast that (normally) doesn’t (although one of the reasons we decided to leave was that winter was increasingly showing up even there — snow on the ground for weeks if not months at a time, etc., plus the inability of the local governments to deal effectively with the situation, which made it much worse).
I’m no fan of winter, but if that’s your only reason for living/not living someplace, you’re really not looking at the whole picture. As just one example, Alberta’s probably the most libertarian province in Canada (or as one political wag put it, “The Last Officially Sane Province in Confederation™”). I’ll never live in B.C. again — I don’t care if the winters there become a Hawaiian Paradise.
Rent’s cheap but utilities would kill ya. Its a good place to be a Glib though. No one out and about to mess with the beauty of an Ansel Adams photo.
Keep repeating “shithole”, keeps the CA folks from wanting to come here and reminds the locals to head for warmer climes.
Fourscore: indeed.
And this is what I mean by a “light dusting of snow.”
The Horror. The Horror. ?
Any Edmontosauruses around?
Yes, we have our fair share of politicians.
Iced tea. Black. Meijer store-brand pekoe/orange peko blend.
$2.99/box.
Smoked bloody mary, extra shot. Airport drinking is fun, but expensive. It’s also 7:30am here.
Kevita lavender & melon flavored kombucha.
Home roasted Costa Rica Tarrazu Don Mayo Beneficio, thanks for asking.
Nothing yet. With dinner later, sitting outside, I’ll give a 95% chance of a syrah older than many of the commenters.
Orange juice.
Eight O’Clock coffee in a French press. I just got back from the beer jobber with 2 new (to me) treats – Raspberry Truffle Abduction from Pipeworks Brewing and Sumi Cacao from Grimm Brewing, both are imperial stouts.
Evan Williams with hot Earl Grey tea and a little lemon and honey. A hot toddie to start College Football Saturday.
Newsom on Friday continued to lambaste the utility, arguing “greed” and “mismanagement” at PG&E led to maintenance and upgrade issues that precipitated its role in wildfires.
“They simply did not do their job,” he said. “It took us decades to get here, but we will get out of this mess.”
——-
“We are all in this together,” utility President Andrew Vesey said. “We must find solutions together.”
I’m trying not to root for total destruction.
I loathe that phrase ‘we’re in it together’. They usually say this when they want to push some stupid burdensome regulation or want to change habits (use public transit!) or when someone fucks up. Up until that point, we weren’t into anything together. But when shit hits the fan….why won’t you help?!
I’ll take that phrase seriously when someone helps out with the rent or mortgage.
It’s just the same old commie bullshit. The government is your parents, your children, your spouse. You see, we really are all in this together because we’re one big family. And all family members are equal, but some are more equal than others.
It’s really annoying every time one of these geniuses comes up with something new and it turns out to be the same old worn out shit that’s never worked and is never going to work.
“and a woman they’re never going to name anything after.”
WIWAC (Wipe It With A Cloth) (pronounced Wee-Whack) toilet bowl cleaner?
Me likey
In other environmental activism news, Lewis Hamilton gets ripped after a post on Instagram urging people to act in more environmentally friendly ways: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/50176037
His original post included the statement “Go vegan, it is the only way to truly save our planet today.”
Most of the current F1 drivers supported Hamilton but Fernando Alonso said, “I would never release a message like Lewis. You can’t send out a message one day and the next day do the opposite.
“We all know the lifestyle that Lewis has, and that Formula 1 drivers take 200 planes a year. You can’t then say: ‘Don’t eat meat.'”
His race car runs purely on electricity generated by a giant hamster wheel full of hamsters?
Needs a longer extension cord.
Eventually these idiots will learn: shut up and drive fast.
If you really want to make an impact, here’s a role model.
What kills me, is that a race car driver is trying to appease a bunch of environazis who are never going to watch the sport. Sort of like the NFL who are never going to have those people in their stadium seats or buying their merchandise. Really offending your own fanbase to bow to a tiny minority of the population, who are never going to be satisfied with anything you do, is just beyond reason.
What kills me he’s in a sport the left generally hates because of the emissions and noise pollution. The enviro-whackos in Montreal are always complaining about race car driving and F1.
Fabulously rich race car driver says go vegan for the environment. You can’t make this shit up anymore.
Is the cognitive dissonance epic, an epidemic if you will?
And of course, that doesn’t mean he’s going to do it, just that you should. People are going to eat what they want, which is how it should be, and all the signaling is just going to offend people or they’ll just ignore you, and maybe do just the opposite out of spite. The nudging won’t work, I think the left have already figured that out, which is why they have their brownshirt antifa in the streets and the dems have just completely thrown out the rule of law in favor of ‘do what you’re told, or else’, now give us those guns so we can oppress you.
I agree completely. Although I think oppression is just a waypoint. We will devolve into brutality before they’re is a reset.
*there*
Basically, the left want us to be Europe. We already fought a war over that and won.
Unfortunately Europe is not the way it was when I grew there. Europe is a lost cause, I fear.
Reading pieces of the original post, I think Hamilton is probably a true believer.
Oh, and his boss went into distraction mode the next day, talking about how Hamilton was scarred by racism as a child: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/50188137
(he doesn’t tie the environmentalism to the abuse).
Of course. Naturally.
Alonso is right.
Wtf Hamilton?
Go vegan. Shut up and drive. I’ll decide what to eat.
It’s a perfect illustration of what the environmentalist movement is really all about. It’s not about the environment, it’s a club to beat everyone with until you allow them to tell them how to live their life. The beatings shall continue until morale approve and you obey. I’ll eat what I want, kindly fuck off, nanny staters.
I will dedicate the cheeseburger I plan to eat today to this asshole.
A new pub opened up in the village just down the road. I was going to go down there last night, but the wifey wasn’t feeling well. They have all of these burgers with different meats, I saw that now they have Bison, Australian Red Deer, and Camel to name just a few, also they have all the fake meat stuff like Impossible Burger. Also see they had fried alligator bites, fried green tomatoes, and well over 100 beers on tap. I need to get down there soon.
Bison is good. But caribou is too pungent for me. Yuk.
Will pass on the camel, thankyouverymuch.
you prefer vaping?
Fun fact: one of my favorite novels takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. Among other things, it reveals the true origin of redheads.
https://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/Default.asp
That sounds awesome. Would love to try camel and the red deer. Never seen those before.
We’re having burgers on the grill tonight at a family gathering.
Everyone is excited – it’s October Fest! – and I will be sure to take an extra delicious bite for the nanny staters.
He should give me all his money and go live in a yurt somewhere.
“Vettel said: “It is very difficult for us to have acceptance from the outside because we don’t have the smallest [carbon] footprint. The races are around the world and we do have to travel.
“But I feel F1 should do more. It is a worldwide operating platform and we should send a more positive message.
“Everyone can do something, contribute a little bit and if the whole world acted like that it would make a huge difference. It is inevitable change is coming and hopefully sooner rather than later.”
Red Bull’s Alexander Albon added: “What Lewis said was really good. Just because we are in F1 doesn’t mean we can’t care about the environment.””
Sure, there’s truth in that.
But y’all about to give up your fame and wealth for earf just yet, no?
I found this an interesting read.
Opinions
not from me
They’re impeaching a sitting President without actually impeaching him.
So, under what crime would that fall?
Treason?
“So, under what crime would that fall?”
The Orange Man Bad! crime, of course.
Like I said, they are not serious about winning elections. People who want to and think they can win an election, so not resort to this type of buffoonery.
Until 2016, I never cared to understand the meanings of words like treason, sedition, and insurrection. Surely one of them applies to all the bullshit going on.
Which ever one applies to a failed coup attempt will be appropriate.
My biggest concern is that with such a divided nation, it will take police state tactics to stop it. These assholes are going to get the tyranny they so richly deserve, and we will all suffer for it.
Exactly this, which is why they’ve just dropped the mask and are outright telling you that you will turn in your guns, or else they’ll come take them. And that will go very badly for everyone.
I believe HM made the argument that it falls under sedition.
Well, there is plenty of evidence of crimes that Trump has committed. Examples:
Failing to bomb Syria into rubble.
Failure to expand the regulatory state.
Failure to push for more gun control.
Failure to apologize for everything the left accuses him off, including racism… and yeah, it’s all racism.
He’s a Nazi.
How may more crimes do you need, because I got all day!
He made crude comments about teh wimminz, which is to-o-otally worse than what Bill Clinton did because Team.
Find me a heterosexual guy who is old enough to vote and has never made crude comments about women.
You’d have a better chance of finding a 30 ct. diamond while tilling your garden.
I wouldn’t trust a heterosexual man who hasn’t made crude comments about women. Worse, I’d find him boring – the unforgivable sin.
+1 GT.
’nuff said.
One caveat: ideally, the crude comment should be funny. I’ll forgive much if you make me laugh.
due to all the talk of letterkenny and not this I think this clip relates…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU65nwwlvT8
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“…you’re gonna lose a digit in that sort of snapper!”
Made me laugh.
I shut down a conversation about that comment once.
A couple of butthurt soy dudes were calling Trump a rapist to garner beta points from some feministsas.
I basically said that he doesn’t need to grab women by the pussy. He’s a billionaire, plenty of women are willing to put the pussy in his hand.
Have these people never heard of groupies?
They weren’t attractive enough to get backstage.
I missed it.
It was a brief comment in a thread on a post a few weeks back.
Good article. My thoughts are this. I think saying Trump asking to look into Biden is legit because *now* there is a criminal investigation is a bit specious. There should have been a criminal investigation *then*. I think the house is on its power to conduct an impeachment according to its rules, and laws. It’s playing a stupid game if it thinks subverting the rules will be for any gain in the long term and appears myopic. Perhaps they believe they will control the house till the end of time.
I’m sure they are telling themselves that Trump is a “special” case, and that this process will never be used on “real” politicians.
“Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1835: “A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.”
Dude was as prophet.
Here! Thanks to everyone’s kind words.
Surgery was today and went very well. Still have rehab to do but every doc was thrilled with how the op went. Out of the hospital already thank the lord.Myself and docs meet on Monday to go over everything to see how shit needs to progress. So I’ve got at least 40 hours to relax and chill. Left arm connected to IVs. Right part of my head is feeding brain blood into a jar.
Thanks again. Still hurts but it already feels so much stronger. Many bone fragments held together with worked titanium. My hips have metallic company at last…
Yays! Good news! Cheers and best wishes.
Hang in there. Good luck.
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
That’s amazing and awesome! Please keep feeling better and better!
Atta boy!
Good to hear, Evan. Get better fast!
What? No bionics? J/K
Good luck with your recovery.
well what does not kill you makes you closer to cyborg. Hope trans-humanism is your thing. Best of luck.
Good to hear. Hope your recovery is uneventful and complete.
Great news. I got to the article late, and thats some pic.
Heal fast.
Sounds like you are on the mend. We’ve been worried about you for a while when we were getting no input for you. Now get with a speedy recovery and keep us up to date. Good show, Evan !
Awesome news Evan! Sounds like you’re going to be the next new X-Man:) Hoping for a speedy recovery! Listen to those doctors orders man.
I hope your recovery is speedy and full. Now I’ve got to go find the article to find out what happened.
Kick ass! Rest up and get better soon!
Great news!
Drinks are on us.
I too spilled some wine
Obligatory
Love.
Live!
Glad to hear that Evan, really glad.
Now stay off of the goddamned bikes.
YAY EVAN!!! Was thinking about you last night.
That is great news. I wish you a full and speedy recovery.
Dammit, between you and Festus… well, very happy that you’re doing better.
That’s great to hear, Evan!
Late to the party, but wishing you the best. I’ve had several friends and acquaintances who’ve had head injuries — all of them make me cringe. Sounds like your medical team’s on the ball, which is good.
Great news, Evan! May your recovery be speedy and lunatic drivers in your vicinity find a resting place in a ditch (without hitting anyone).
There’s an “investor” born every minute
If you’re an investor with ardent social beliefs — and you aspire to put your money where your mouth is — you’re in luck. Today, on Wall Street and beyond, socially responsible investment options abound.
For those distressed by gun violence, new weapon-free funds divert dollars from firearms manufacturers and large gun retailers. If climate change is your biggest concern, there are funds that dodge investments in oil and gas giants. And for the staunchest animal advocates on the market, a Vegan Climate Index vows that investor dollars will not, under any circumstances, harm a living creature.
Increasingly, investors are taking pains to align their portfolios with their personal values, and activists are urging financial institutions to divest from companies implicated in everything from climate change and gun violence to worker exploitation. This year, 85% of individual investors surveyed indicated interest in ensuring that their money backs companies with sustainable practices, according to a Morgan Stanley poll. This is up 10 percentage points from just two years ago.
Driving this uptick has been interest among millennials: 95% signaled an interest in sustainable investment, according to the poll, with many citing their belief that their dollars have the power to alleviate poverty and slow climate change.
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“If you’re just a person looking to invest your savings and you don’t want that money to go to the destruction of the planet, it’s really hard to figure out what is a truly sustainable investment or not because ESG is not well defined and well regulated,” Cushing said.
It’s a problem that is only becoming more urgent, experts say, given the growing demand for ESG products.
One proposal, introduced this summer by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., attempts to address one aspect of the issue by requiring all publicly traded companies to report their exposure to climate-related risks, as well as how they’re planning to address them, to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The plan has drawn rebukes from Republicans in Congress, who say that mandating such disclosure would stifle competition and burden companies with unnecessary regulation.
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Cushing said the onus should be on companies, not consumers.
The “climate crisis is deepening by the day,” he said, and firms have a responsibility when it comes to shifting trillions of dollars away from fossil fuel economies and into clean energy solutions, like wind and solar power.
“At the very least, they should not be marketing funds as ESG when they contain fossil fuel companies and pipeline companies.”
Millenials ruin everything.
When I think of what makes a fund (or individual stock) a “sustainable” investment, I just try to determine whether or not it will be worth more than I paid for it, in the future.
“When I think of what makes a fund (or individual stock) a “sustainable” investment, I just try to determine whether or not it will be worth more than I paid for it, in the future.”
Well, I think that is the entire point. Bad investments are not going to help those dummies or anyone else. Sort of like the 60 grand wasted on a worthless degree. I suppose they’re going to need another bailout on top of their student load forgiveness to absorb the shock of bad investments.
Reading Hyperion’s link, I rammed head first into this:
The Mueller report noted that no court has ever concluded that information is a “thing of value,” and the Justice Department has concluded that it is not. Such an interpretation would raise serious First Amendment concerns.
So- no more insider trading prosecutions?
Maybe that was supposed to be in the narrowest context of election law.
They’re impeaching a sitting President without actually impeaching him.
So, under what crime would that fall?
Treason?
Hunting witches out of season.
It’s not witch season ?
Since it’s Saturday morning…
Lewis Hamilton is an excellent F1 driver, and a smarmy little douchebag in all other respects. And I’m not convinced he’d have been all that successful in F1 without the careful nurturing of Ron Dennis.
*repeatedly pounds head into wall*
My vape bill is approximately 1/4 of what I used to spend on cigarettes.
Maybe because you weren’t vaping the ever so popular hipster brand? It’s sort of like beer. If I want to drink the new hipster juice beer, I can pay $9 a beer instead of $3.50 for a glass of Stella at the pub. But you know, the hipster brew in my glass will let me signal that I’m ‘one of them’ and we can all don our vagina hats and go outside to scream at the sky.
It says Juul in the quote. Unless someone is trying to verb that noun (I refuse to do that in this case) and she found something more expensive (there isn’t anything more expensive that I’m aware of), she’s full of shit.
“she’s full of shit.”
That’s a basic feature of anyone on the left. Or of a lot of people in general.
My son was so full of shit once I had to take him to the hospital.
Lefty? I’m so sorry.
From my recent perusal through his phone, he is not a lefty. That’s the silver lining.
Oh god. I can’t imagine mom going through my phone.
She’d roast me for my lame memes.
Yeah, well, my kid has … issues. Let’s just say he’s lucky he didn’t get arrested Monday.
Sadly, he did not.
Yyyyyyyyyikes. Sorry.
Hopefully, he doesn’t have a lifetime subscription.
Holy Mother of Pearl!
Different school district, different guidelines for a kid whose mouth runs with not-good words coming out of it.
Rofl.
I hope you use that whenever he’s being a twit.
Tax authorities are salivating at the thought of taking that other 75% back.
“A woman they’re never going to name anything after.”
How about a song?
https://youtu.be/eauZzwt8Ci8
is there a place on earth where the temperature is never under 8 celsius and never over 28?
Highlands in Central America at the right altitude, Panama for example.
My living room.
What’s that in ‘been to the moon’ units?
that was 50 years ago get over it.
Or never!
/Moon conspiracy theorist
This is the correct answer.
I lived in Playa del Rey for a couple of years. Never turned on the heat and never needed AC. I’d say we never left those parameters. Kind of boring really. Some morning in the “winter” I would debate whether or not to wear shorts – then drive past kids wearing snowsuits at the bus stop.
is there a place on earth where the temperature is never under 8 celsius and never over 28?
Try San Diego. Try not to get cholera, tho0ugh.
Also trying to not be in Cali at the same time would be nice.
Yeah, pretty much the entire coast of California.
This just popped into my head:
“We’re all in this together. Some of us are in a little deeper than others, though.”
Kinky
That’s a perfect response to that little cliche.
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS IN ALL THE WAY.
“Teachers and parents in Oakland are crying police brutality after they stormed a recent school board meeting to protest privatization and charter schools in the district.”
Just look for the union label…
Public sector unions should be abolished.
Mob storms barricades and stage disrupting public function. Cops attacked unprovoked.
Somehow this doesn’t jibe.
And parents?! Man, they are brainwashed something awful over there. Here in NYC the parents are protesting Deblasio’s anti-charter bullshit.
Re Tardis’s comment about Clinton above.
They should write a horror movie.
The Clintoning.
“The Departed” wasn’t really a horror movie about the Clintons, but at least it was accurate.
Somewhat related….
Didn’t I read somewhere that there is a White Bulger Biden connection?
Yes, yes I did.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/asleep-at-the-switch-giuliani-blasts-obama-for-failing-to-investigate-biden-and-son-hunter
Good grief. You can’t make this shit up.
I should not read this stuff. I delayed renewing my BP meds, and I’m out.
Did a damn good job of it, too. This the the first I’ve heard of the Biden/Kerry/Bulger connection.
When the 4th estate is running interference for you, you really don’t have to. Lately I think that I decided that, as much as I loath the political class, I hate the fucking media even more.
Talk about a smoking gun… This just… went un-reported… WTF?
What do you think Sugar free is working on?
The unbearable burden of worrying about what other people might do with their money
Fears of a too-big inheritance are, overall, likely quite rare, given that most inheritances in the U.S. are not extravagant. Data from the Federal Reserve shows that about 85 percent of inheritances are smaller than $250,000, and the majority of those are $50,000 or less. But a small segment of the country passes down a disproportionately large amount of money. While only about 2 percent of inheritances from 1995 to 2016 were larger than $1 million, that 2 percent accounted for roughly 40 percent of the money inherited during that period of time. Some of the wealth-management experts I spoke with said that they wouldn’t expect many families with a net worth below $10 million to think like Chen-Zhang. But in the U.S., a not-insignificant number of families are above that threshold: A wealth-management consultancy called the Spectrem Group recently estimated that about 1.4 million American households have $5 million to $25 million to their name, and another 173,000 hold wealth in excess of $25 million.
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Matthew Wesley, a colleague of Allred’s at Merrill, told me that he heard this question a lot when he was working as an estate-planning attorney in Silicon Valley, advising families with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. “About four or five years ago, I finally came to an answer that seems to work well,” he said. “The answer is: as much as you prepared them for. It really puts the emphasis on what should be the emphasis, which is not the amount of money, but rather the readiness of the children to receive that money.”
One such element of preparedness is familiarity with the world of money and business. “I think there’s a common notion out there that wealthy kids inherit cash and stocks and bonds, but they don’t—they inherit structures, [like] trusts and foundations and LLCs,” Wesley said. “You have to know how the foundations and the structures and the LLCs work.”
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The standard alternative to giving money to one’s family members is to donate it, and affluent families do a good deal of that; some high-profile, ultra-wealthy people such as Buffett, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg have publicly pledged vast chunks of their wealth to charitable causes. But the half a dozen wealth managers I spoke with said that when wealthy parents figure out how much money to leave to their kids, they tend to be guided by what they perceive to be best for their kids, as opposed to what they perceive to be best for society.
Rachel Sherman, a sociologist at the New School and the author of Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, is not surprised that broader societal concerns, particularly rising economic inequality, aren’t altering many people’s philosophies on the inheritance component of the estate-planning equation. “Since no one can predict the future, it makes sense to keep or pass on as much as you can, because you never know what might happen,” she wrote to me in an email. “In a society like ours, in which health care or elder care can bankrupt even rich people, there is all the more reason to hang onto/pass down everything they have.”
Sherman also suggested that there is a rigidity to how people think about what will happen to their money after they die: “I think conventional ideas about money and accumulation, which are reiterated by financial professionals, make it hard for people to imagine doing something else with their money other than accumulating as much as they can and passing it down.”
“I’m not jealous, I just want what’s best for those kids. That’s why I think their inheritances should be given to the government, for the good of society.”
OFFS
Not just inheritances. The local rag carried an interview with one of those billionaires who founded the billionaire group that wants its taxes raised. Curiously, the interviewer never asked why he thought there was some law that prevented him from writing huge checks now to the the U.S. Treasury. We need to keep after those who talk the talk but won’t walk the walk.
But a small segment of the country passes down a disproportionately large amount of money.
Disproportionate can only be determined by reference to some benchmark. What’s the benchmark here?
Is this the whistleblower? Doesn’t get any deeper state than this guy.
https://youtu.be/-VKzO7CnaEk
I had to turn it off half way through. A) these are fucking kids, who have no idea that the world existed before them. I have Kleenex boxes with more time than their degrees b) it’s more incestuous than a European royal family or a hillbilly family reunion.
Also love how HR McMaster has turned into a complete swamp creature. Apparently Dereliction of Duty was a how-to manual.
Hard to fight the urge to want to see them all hanged.
For a little comic/boring relief, this is what is on my mind as I’m chilling with my husband watching “our” TV shows, meaning, the ones that don’t make me want to poke my eyeballs out:
1. Moving. Packing. Storage units. How to pack a storage unit in the most efficient manner. Going to Walmart to get moving boxes. Decluttering and purging (that’s damn near orgasmic). I haven’t done this in 14 years.
2. The fact that Amazon’s print-on-demand is demanding changes in material that has been the same since the last time it was approved.
3. I have to clean my office. I have paperwork to do. I have a very complex ebook to format (actually can’t wait to dig into that project).
4. How much I like 90s fashion.
Huh. So they won’t just print anything?
That is weird.
They will, but I just have to ignore the “warning,” which bothers my OCD.
They’re having subjective problems with how the print on the covers is done. It’s only been that way for years. When Amazon had CreateSpace, CreateSpace didn’t have a problem with it. Amazon ported everything over to its digital publishing arm and now when I’m just correcting typos and re-uploading, there’s a problem. Ingram doesn’t have a problem with it. Why does Amazon?
Unfortunately, the problem with Ingram is that they charge $40 every time you change a file, so books coming from them have typos.
Morbidly curious re: what “your” TV shows are. (If you’ve said before, I’ve forgotten.) Last night, in true Friday night fashion, I nodded off in front of Mysteries of the Abandoned on the Science Channel. (TW: autoplay video)
NewWife watches gay guys making wedding dresses when I’m not around.
I watch lectures on C-SPAN when she’s not around.
Saturday is all SEC all day, us against the world, the main thing we agree on.
Saturday is all SEC all day, us against the world
SEC teams are scheduling non-cupcake away games now??
that was for appetizers
unfortunately, entrees normally require cannibalism
and dessert is a month away
God Friended Me (very sweet, but the failure of any character to punch the do-gooders in the face is wearing)
Young Sheldon
The Good Place (we’re out, though—way beyond its sell-by date)
Prodigal Son (
Manifest
The In-Between
Evil
Things I can tolerate just to hang out with my husband:
9-1-1
American Housewife
Fresh Off the Boat
NCIS
Stumptown
Schooled
Black-ish
That is just off the top of my head.
Generally speaking, I don’t stay with a program past the first 2-3 episodes. If I make it past that, it’s not usually beyond the second season.
The one we’re trying out now is Almost Family. I am so out, not even halfway through the pilot.
The only one I really miss is Limitless. I binge-watched Dead Like Me very long ago and mourned that it only had 2 seasons.
Law & Order SVU makes me puke.
At some point in my adult life, I lost interest in just about all live-action sitcoms. Last one I remember enjoying was My Name is Earl. (Jaime Pressly = best chick drunk evah.) Re: Black-ish – never seen, but when I saw promos for Mixed-ish, shark jumping came to mind.
I watched the first handful of seasons of Big Bang, and that was about when I stopped watching network tv almost entirely. I have no idea about what shows are on anymore. It feels strange.
Ditto. Seasons 1 and 2 were good. I was out by the end of season 2. My wife likes the middle seasons (3-6 or so), and we watched them together in syndication. The end seasons sucked to a level that made the middle seasons look good.
The only reason I know what any of those other shows are is because of the promos during football. Channeling my inner Suthen, I can’t hardly watch the scripted stuff on network TV these days. Most of the stuff I watch these days was made in the 50s-80s.
I liked the original L&O, until the last couple of seasons, and Criminal Intent but I can’t stand SUV.
Dead Like Me was one of the best things to ever grace the Western World’s airwaves. And I too miss Limitless, and was confused by its being cancelled after only one season.
Yet I’m watching less TV every year I’m alive. I’m more sensitive to my time preferences as I get older, and mass entertainment has to be very captivating for me to even attempt to watch it any more.
I’ve watched a few episodes in syndication and like that show too. Mandy Patinkin may be an asshole in real life, but I like him on screen.
I used to be addicted to HGTV. Never mind the limitless reruns, it got too painful to watch. “I’m a butterfly releaser for weddings and my wife refinishes vintage china and our budget is $4M.”
I also used to watch alien shows—excuse me, ancient astronaut theorists—Bible history, Nostradamus prophecies, American Picker, How It’s Made, Abandoned, stuff like that, but also, reruns, and finally, I’m in the middle of writing/editing/publishing books and I need silence or mood music for that.
I hear ya on HGTV, Moje.
For background TV, its hard to beat the Barret-Jackson and Mecum car auctions.
I haven’t caught up with Preacher yet. There is a TV in my office I got solely for baseball, after the Royals tricked me. Bastards.
Ditto on the purty cars for eye candy over dinner.
Also. after all my major house problems, watching all the sweet decorating is also painful. Wish I could afford the luxury of putting all my knickknacks out without fearing their ruination by leaking pipes.
How It’s Made reminds me of the films the sub would show if your teacher didn’t leave any lesson plans.
IKR?!
Tangentially, anybody remember this?
That one musta got past me. This is a bit of my fave film from grade/high school days. My teachers musta been pretty hip.
Same here. A couple of episodes here and there. And if I get a whiff of sanctimonious political bull shit I’m out. Or if there’s some bull shit shenanigans like with Roseanne (boy did that girl – whatshername? – back stab Roseanne or what? You got your show honey eh?) or TDS screeching from actors.
I don’t really sit to watch programs anymore. I’d rather watch Magnum or Rockford Files reruns than the shows of today. At least those had irreverent charm and didn’t take themselves seriously.
Law & Order SUV is definitely pukesville. It was really good in the 90s with Lennie.
L&O had Lennie, not SVU.
I place the blame for the rape and snatched children reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing that’s been going on for as long as it’s been on.
Lennie Briscoe is my spirit animal
Yes I know. Didn’t bother to make the distinction.
Law & Order SUV
Focussing on carbon criminals?
In fairness, it’s an easy mistake to make.
I loved watching Rockford from start to finish when it went on Netflix.
I binged Dr. Who and Boardwalk Empire on Amazon Prime.
I am mad at them though because fewer and fewer things I want to watch are available with Amazon Prime.
Buscemi is irresistible: I can’t stop watching him.
Right?!
Although it was weird for me going from Nucky Thompson to “How do you do, fellow kids?”
Wasn’t weird for him to go from goofy psycho characters to Nucky Thompson though.
He will be beloved forever by this country for his stint working with his firehouse after 9/11.
Oh, I binged Ru Paul’s Drag Race while I was sewing one night. The level of despair on that show was palpable.
Don’t shoot, I’m on your side!
The other day, President Donald Trump tweeted: “The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!”
That’s me. I’m a proud “Never Trumper Republican.” I’ve been a conservative Republican most of my adult life. I joined the Federalist Society in 1983, and remain a member to this day. I have worked at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and today I work at a center-right think tank, the R Street Institute. I served as the first deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, as a political appointee in the George W. Bush administration, where, I assure you, many activists did not view me as a raving liberal. And, perhaps most notable for our purposes today, I served as a senior counsel during the Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation of President Bill Clinton, which led to his impeachment in 1998.
Nevertheless, I have opposed Trump’s political ambitions almost from the beginning: I warned against his election in early 2016, I deregistered from the Republican Party in May 2016 when his nomination was guaranteed, and I declined a couple of opportunities to be considered for positions in his administration. In November 2018, I helped found a group called Checks and Balances that has called for conservative lawyers to defend the rule of law against presidential assault; I’ve signed a letter with more than 1,000 other former prosecutors arguing that Trump has committed criminal obstruction of justice; and I’ve publicly called for his impeachment and removal. Though I am sure that Trump does not know me from Adam, I am confident that when he speaks of Never Trumper Republicans who are human scum, he means me.
What makes me human scum? Evidently, a belief in enduring American ideals, like the rule of law and the value of a free press. A belief in a system of governance that enshrines the principle of checks and balances in our Constitution—a system in which Congress and the judiciary serve as limits on authoritarian executive overreach.
I kneel before your moral superiority.
Oh, wait- no I don’t. Go fuck yourself, you sanctimonious twat. Those slavering morons you’re so desperate to impress don’t care about your moral preening. They still hate you, and they always will.
And a public sector parasite, despite his purported beliefs.
Hey! Okay, fair enough.
I think there’s a distinction between someone putting food on the table for their family and someone climbing the greasy pole to gain power over others using the reins of government.
S/B “twatte.”
(Just made that up.)
LOL Love it!
No accent on the “e,” or, if any, definitely grave, not aigu.
Excellent.
twattè ?
Oui – comme ça!
What makes me human scum?
Your narcissistic self-regard, lack of principle, and moral weakness?
Just spitballing here. ;-)
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772266241/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-climate-change?utm_source=pocket-newtab
A few months ago, I was standing at the sink in the kitchen. Suddenly my daughter, who’s seven, said, “You’re lucky you got to have your adulthood before the planet was completely destroyed by climate change.”
Just out of the blue, like swearing. Wonder where she picked it up from? Well, not really.
A few months ago, I was standing at the sink in the kitchen. Suddenly my daughter, who’s seven, said, “You’re lucky you got to have your adulthood before the planet was completely destroyed by climate change.”
And you said “Who is filling your head with this garbage? Because that’s a complete falsehood. Whoever told you that is a bad person. They say bad things, and they should feel bad.”
This shit makes my skin crawl.
Sure she did. ?
Kinda dated, but with ‘inflammatory speech’ in mind….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pz5NPe7xPU
Closed captioning has notable gaps during rants. : )
How’s the view from up there on your moral high horse, Kamala?
Harris was scheduled to speak Saturday at the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum at Benedict College, a historically black college. However, she reneged after the school honored Trump on Friday, saying she would not be complicit in “pandering” to the president’s record on racial issues.
“As the only candidate who attended an [Historically Black College or University], I know the importance that these spaces hold for young Black Americans,” said Harris in a statement Friday.
“Today, when it became clear Donald Trump would receive an award after decades of celebrating mass incarceration, pushing the death penalty for innocent Black Americans, rolling back police accountability measures and racist behavior that puts people’s lives at risk … I cannot in good faith be complicit in papering over his record.”
If anybody has a nuts-and-bolts understanding of the criminal injustice system…
Kamala’s complete lack of shame in accusing others of what she did while AG of California never ceases to amaze me.
decades of celebrating mass incarceration, pushing the death penalty for innocent Black Americans, rolling back police accountability measures and racist behavior that puts people’s lives at risk
I’m honestly not aware of Trump doing any of that. What have I missed?
1. Pro law and order 80s democrat
2. Central park 5
3. Withdrawing from some consent decrees Obama had made
4. Not bombing Syria
All except 3 are a bit of a stretch.
Woah, didn’t even recognize you RC…
Now get off my lawn.
Yeah, he changed a few days ago.
Been busy. Iliterally didn’t know what to do with myself today. First time I’ve has real free time in a month, so I’m wasting it here.
Nobody’s avatar shows up anymore, not even mine on the WordPress banner.
Clear your cache.
And talk about projection.
“I know the importance that these spaces hold for young Black Americans,” said Harris ” i.e. “under some circumstances, I approve segregation” said Harris.
Uh, well yeah, she went to a historically black college.
I’m honestly not aware of Trump doing any of that. What have I missed?
He pushed the Central Park Superpredator ( where did we get that one from?) narrative pretty hard, but other than that, I don’t think he’s the racist they try to paint him as. Something about not wanting to rent apartments to black people. Maybe they couldn’t pass the credit check.
He pushed the Central Park Superpredator ( where did we get that one from?) narrative pretty hard
Ah, back when he and Hillary were on the same page.
“I’m a butterfly releaser for weddings and my wife refinishes vintage china and our budget is $4M.”
*stands, applauds vigorously*
I anyways translate that to mean their parents are buying.
^^THIS.
Woah, didn’t even recognize you RC…
He’s incognito. Like the rest of us.
Wait- did everybody but me get the avatars back?
It fixed when I hit the reply button.
Running regular chrome. They’re all still blank for me.
Clear your cache.
Still no luck. : ( (Windows/Firefox)
Damn! My avis never went away.
It fixed when I hit the reply button.
Nice try.
I have a chore for Lackadaisical, since he’s bored:
My mother saddled me with her vintage china. She said, “Sell it.”
Well, mom, here’s how you do that. Unpack it. Photograph each item. List each item on Etsy or eBay with a description of each piece’s flaws.
It’s a 4-piece place setting. TWELVE of them. And all the support pieces.
I foresee a box sitting on a Goodwill loading dock.
6 boxes
My gma left her a collection of Hummels that my parents struggled to buy for her for birthdays and Christmas when they were the in thing.
Mom sold them for $5 each at a garage sale. My dad had a thing for green glass. With the internet, collectibles of yore … aren’t.
“Well, you know all about those computer thingamabobs, Dear so I thought it would be be easy for you!” Thanks, Mom!
Neh. Mom’s 75 but she COULD do this. She’s never gonna learn to code, but she can do stuff most people can. She just doesn’t want to.
I call that “learned helplessness.” My MIL’s got it, bigtime. One of the advantages of moving away from the coast and back to Alberta is that it’s gotten my MIL off her ass and doing things for herself again, much to my wife’s annoyance (“Why the Hell couldn’t she do that while we lived there?””You really don’t know the answer to that?”).
Nooooo. She is very clear about what she will or won’t do. Also, she is very busy and she has had two surgeries on broken bones this year so she’s using a walker right now. And she has a cardiac stent procedure scheduled for next month.
But she goes out and does stuff for church and cleans her house. She said she keeps busy because if she didn’t, she’d feel like she gave up.
But she’s still a helluva driver, but she can’t do a cross-country road trip alone anymore. That makes her sad.