It’s only Tuesday. Holy crap. I feel like I worked two days yesterday. I made the mistake last week of telling my boss about what I saw coming down the line in our industry in the next 3-5 years, and how that might solve a problem for our client. I spent all day yesterday working on a presentation I have to give tomorrow about it. Maybe that’s why I feel like I worked so hard. I hate presentations. “Carve this complex idea down to 4 slides and 20 minutes.” So I have my elevator pitch, and my slides, and my backup slides.
I think SugarFree is bending reality with H&H. Everytime I read a story about Trump I see them. “You know what we need to get past this impeachment bullshit? Some terrorist killin’. I was gonna wait a year and kill these ISIS guys in 2020, but I gotta do something.”
Pro-Democracy advocate barred from democratic election. Err, “democratic”. I’m sure Jimmy Carter will be along to certify this election from his sickbed.
Republicans Pounce!
I think my favorite part of this, hard to pick one, is the idea that a senior officer in the NYPD pretends horror at the idea that anyone would think about using on-duty cops to move someone’s kid to college. I can only assume that his outrage is that it wasn’t charged as a Special Detail and given to hand-picked senior cops near retirement as overtime to bump their pension.*
Practicing for my presentation:
*My grandfather retired from NYPD in the mid-70s. I never met him, but my father and grandmother were always very matter of fact about exactly that last sentence being one of the unofficial perks of the job.
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254 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
I think Katie Hill, with a bit work, would be a nice addition to our little site.
“a bit of work” …as in uphill both ways?
She certainly seems to have a certain “zest for living” IYKWIM
From the pictures, I’d assume “a bit of work” to mean a tasteful boob job.
You might not have seen what I did there…
And hit that motherfkin THEME MUSIC!
(stuck in my brain since l0b0t made me think of it yesterday in response to Kim Wylde’s “Cambodia”)
How about we follow that with some of Katie’s theme music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EBvXpjudf8
Also highly relevant from Joan Jett.
#YUM
I was expecting AC-DC. The song, not the band.
Much
Tres Cool,
I opened the link you posted.
Until watching that video, I did not realize that actor Gary Oldman was part of a band from the eighties named ABBA.
Björn Ulvaeus has too many freckles.
However, Oldman as Sid Vicious was awesome.
Agreed, I’ll bring the hairbrush.
We have a lesbian porn site?
We are a lesbian porn site.
Just not a very good one.
Robby already put in a claim.
Robby needs to get a proper haircut, put down the fruit sushi, and change a damn tire.
C’mon, Robby, she’s a 5, maybe a 6 in good lighting. Don’t sell your dignity so cheaply.
Robby is more likely negging the ex.
Wait, you can sell your dignity?
You have to have some.
It’s kinda like selling your soul to the Devil — if you’re not using your dignity anyways, why not?
She’s an 8 to me. I add 1 point for every decade of youth less than mine.
Dignity? GTFO.
The main point is that she has horrifically bad judgement although I’ll cede to Soave that her boyfriend’s an asshole if he did what people think he did.
“To be sure, she was banging subordinates – right after Congress has made that a no-no, she was habitually drunk and missing events, lost the confidence of her leadership and lied about everything before being caught and admitting it….but she should have stayed in place!”
Yeah. Lots of people will want to make this about Republicans hating lesbians, but to me it was about the power dynamic. #MeToo isn’t just for men.
I do not care in the slightest about the power dynamic. We are overly puritanical. People, traditionally women, but let’s be inclusive, have traded sexual positions for social position since we crawled out of that primordial ooze. You may not like it, but you aren’t making it go away, and it is not remotely like rape.
Trading sex for business advantage is a textbook principal-agent problem. The agent is putting their own interest in getting sex over the principal’s interest in getting the best people/deal/whatever.
Agreed, but that is a separate issue. I’m talking about people hooking themselves to a powerful or wealthy lover, not trading sex for a promotion. I’m more thinking about Melania less about Kamala.
Note: there is no principal-agent problem when it is the business’s sole principal is trading favors for sex, of course. Of course, who the principal is in a Congressional office is not entirely obvious, to me. I don’t think a Congresser is the principal, so if xe is banging xir staff, you have a problem.
” I’m more thinking about Melania less about Kamala.”
That, right there, is why we’re a lesbian porn site.
That, right there, is why we’re a lesbian porn site.
But, as has already been pointed out, not a very good one.
It may be Puritanical, but i think there is a lot of good reasons to not bang subordinates. First of all it doesn’t matter how much of a “Friend” you think you are, when you are someones Boss you never know how much your position influences what they do for you. Secondly it create fraternization between you and the rest of your team, who knows what is going on. Also peoples secret sex lives create security concerns.
Do you think the smokeshows that work as receptionists in lawfirms, or as ‘assistants’ in medical practices took those jobs as a career path? Or do you think they are there hoping to marry a partner or doctor?
She resigned, though, right? Voluntarily? I mean, I suspect it’s illegal to bang your staffer, but I don’t know that to be the case. I do know, however, that if she were a man the tone of the conversation would be entirely different, which is a shitty double-standard. But there was nothing compelling her to resign instead of staying in office and defending herself or doing whatever the hell she wanted. So if she’s going to catch at least similar shit for something a man would be pilloried for, I’m fine with that as far as it goes.
Sounds to me like she was held to the same standard as Bill Clinton, in that almost everyone on the left is making excuses and the right is popping corn and talking about “if I’d done that…”.
She resigned, though, right? Voluntarily?
I understand she was told to by Pelosi. After Hill’s staffers confirmed that she was banging her legislative director.
I mean, I suspect it’s illegal to bang your staffer, but I don’t know that to be the case.
Its against House rules, and easy meat for a civil rights/discrimination complaint.
The more I read about Katie Hill… the more it seems like she should not resign, at least not without an investigation.
Her staff already confirmed she was banging her legislative director, a clear violation of House rules. She’s not resigning because she had a long-running threesome, listed herself on a wife-swapping site, or had pictures taken of her doing bonghits.
Sorry to break it to you, bro: No matter how much you white-knight her, she’s not gonna fuck you.
She sounds like Mitch’s wife (Juliette Lewis) in Old School.
There are also campaign finance issues …
Meh, the only reason she could have to retire would be that she knows any such investigation would reveal that of course she got frisky with a subordinate.
retireresignI hope she sees this, bro.
She’s a piece of work all right.
“Put that comment DOWN!”
Did I miss something?
“You know what we need to get past this impeachment bullshit? Some terrorist killin’.
Now I’m mad I didn’t think put that joke in tomorrow’s cartoon.
It’s not too late! IT’S NOT!!!
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘He gave me the Clint Eastwood flinty stare!’ Chainsaw sculptor and reality star Stacy Poitras tells how his famous father-in-law reacted when he asked for permission to marry his daughter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7605673/Stacy-Poitras-reveals-Clint-Eastwoods-reaction-asked-marry-daughter.html
Swiss is getting married?
That took some balls.
I’m no Eastwood. And I am already married.
You can move comments?! Burn the Witch!
We TPTB are flameproof.
That’s a shame. TPTB turned me into a newt.
Did you get better?
Yes, I got better.
Gussie Fink Nottle agrees. Newts are better.
Throuple?
Chainsaw sculptor.
Girl’s name.
Reality star.
He’s quite lucky all he got was the stare.
RE: Katie Hill. It’s always nice to blame the opposition when a scandal causes someone to resign, but if she got a lot of pressure to resign it was from her own party. The Republicans would have loved to challenge her in an election.
She barely won her seat in 2016 (with at least one allegation of ballot harvesting, but who knows), so Pelosi told her to go or they’d lose the seat.
“5,000 ISIS militants with AIDS, hepatitis and ‘organs spilling out of open wounds’ plead to be sent to their home countries – including Britain – as they rot in Syrian prison hellhole”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7626779/5-000-ISIS-militants-plead-sent-home-countries-rot-Syrian-prison-hellhole.html
So worse than the streets of San Francisco?
Are we supposed to feel bad for them…? I mean yes as a christian i should feel chairtiable and pity their situation, but i don’t see any need to blanket take them back. You sow, and then you reap.
So what are the current odds that Britain will let them back in?
Justin that prick will let them back in.
I’d feel better about this if I wasn’t pretty suspicious that not everyone in that prison is actually ISIS.
I dunno. Dick Cheney vouched for them.
I’m not seeing anything in the article that makes me especially sympathetic to them. And I doubt their prisoners would be treated even that well.
If they keep complaining they might end up being turned over to the tender mercies of Assad. It looks bad but what do you expect when you join a brutally murderous terrorist group and you lose the war?
If you are in a Syrian prison and you have an open wound through your abdominal wall, you aren’t living to make it home to Britain.
Have you ever been in a
TurkishSyrian prison?Hi Brett!
Good luck on the presentation. The preparation can be nerve-wracking but i still enjoy them. Every once in awhile, someone in the audience thinks of something you didn’t and things can get interesting.
I love that.
I’ve done a lot of sales in my career, but never experienced anything like Baldwin. I’ve only had one boss threaten me – the CEO fired him a couple weeks later. Booooring.
I once had a sales guy (from another company) contact my boss cause i yelled at him for calling several times a day for weeks leaving no voicemail. He sent the expletive laden recording to my boss. Of course My Boss then found his boss and returned the Email telling him how inappropriate it was for his sales people to be harassing people and then attempting to get them fired.
I was in sales for a while, but was not very good at it. I never saw anything as blatant as Baldwin, but the undertone was there.
Holmes through her own free will commits adultery and acts inappropriately but it’s the ‘vast right wing conspiracy’s’ fault. Sure. Whatever.
Marco! Polo! Marco!*
*Obscure Old School reference.
Hill. Oof.
*scientologists knock on Rufus’s muppet box
Katie Hill. Katie Holmes was the one brain washed by Tom Cruise.
Yeah, but I guess Rufus seen her nekkid in that shitty movie with Cate Blanchett and Greg Kinnear.
So he’s projecting.
HAWT!
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ncaa-begins-process-to-allow-athletes-to-profit-off-their-name-image-and-likeness/
“Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot – Now he is also Dead!,” Trump said on Tuesday.
Hasta la vista, baby.
We do use killer robots, so that is likely an apt description.
If we do live in a Terminator universe, it surely is Terminator 3, the only one as stupid as our own timeline.
Still, kind of reminds me of when we kept killing the “number 3” man in Al-Qaeda
That’s a bad job to have, like playing keyboard for the Grateful Dead.
Or drummer for Spinal Tap
Hasta la vista, baby.
a “coordinated campaign” by Republicans and rightwing media.
Coordinated messaging is a totally new phenomenon.
When the DU does it, it’s for the good of everyone, donchano!?!
Fun times! Our race car died at the last test day with a suspected wiring problem. I poked and prodded at it a bit, but I knew I had weeks to solve it before the next race, which is this weekend, so I procrastinated. Turns out, after really investigating last night, we blew an apex seal. So I have to rebuild a new engine and have it in the car and running by Friday morning at the latest. We also have a leaking differential seal to replace, an alignment to do, some actual wiring problems to fix, a crank/cam angle sensor to modify, a telemetry system to install, and who knows what else will come up before we have to roll out Friday morning. I just paid a fortune to get some engine parts overnighted to me. Once I get off work in 2 hours, I’m going to have some serious ass busting to do. Fortunately my boss let me take the rest of the week off. I’m beginning to believe the old adage that, “If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
Lol. That is absolute truth.
Good luck!
P Brooks can help you with your plumbing supplies.
we blew an apex seal.
There’s a joke about a penguin…
“No, I just ate some ice-cream.”
Apex seal? On a wangle that’s unheard of…
/former RX8 owner
Cam sensor on a rotary?
Anyways, Soave would still be waiting for his girlfriend to come change the tire.
Think piston ring.
That’s the apex seal. Rotaries don’t have cams.
My bad thought you were talking about the apex seal!
That’s what it’s called, for some reason, even though it’s clearly an eccentric angle sensor.
On the output shaft?
The eccentric shaft is analogous to the crankshaft on a piston engine. The angle sensor does the same thing: it tells the ECU where the engine is in its rotation so the ECU knows when the fire the coils. That gizmo sticking up through the rotor in my avatar is the rear end of the eccentric shaft. The CAS is driven by a gear on the other end.
Thanks. I owned one, but happily never had to dig into any of that.
Fortunately, they’re easy to rebuild. Unfortunately, you need boxes and boxes of new seals and gaskets and o-rings, a tube of Hylomar, and a jar of Vasoline.
I forgot you mentioned you had one! It would getting all uncanny in here if I liked hockey.
A long time ago. 1984 GSL-SE, white with burgundy leather. Loved it.
Sold it to pay for my last year of college. I should have kept it!
Ooooo, first gen fuel injection!
I had an ’84 GXL I gave away a few years ago to a guy who uses them to teach a track driving school. I gave up trying to make it pass emissions in here.
Emissions are the devil.
You don’t need to pass the Spit, do you?
No, the Spitfire is pre-smog! Once I get some time next week (assuming I ever want to look at a wrench again) I’ll get the new master cylinder in and get it over to my shop. I have a big box of bushings and seals ready to go in. The brake lights aren’t working. (Surprise!) but I think that’s because it’s a pressure switch off the master, and since the master isn’t building any pressure…
Hurray!
It’s probably a fucking ground. They were originally grounded to the shitty pot-metal fixtures. I grounded them to the body and boom! Lights all around.
Ooo, that’s a great tip, Thanks!
I got a new catalog from Moss Motors yesterday and I’ve been drooling on stupid things like Triumph shop signs, and Union Jack license plate frames.
I drove a Triumph once. That was a surreal experience.
Deadline? Is this an episode of Fast ‘N Loud?
I’m beginning to believe the old adage that, “If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”
A J Watson used to say, “If you’ve got two weeks, it takes two weeks. if you’ve got two hours, it takes two hours.”
Murphy’s law of time: Estimate how long a task will take, multiply by two, then move up to the next higher unit of time measurement.
If you wait til the last minute to do something, it only takes a minute to get it done.
House Democrats Unveil Text for Impeachment Inquiry Resolution
The eight-page resolution released calls for open hearings and requires the intelligence committee to submit a report outlining its findings and recommendations. House Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-MA) said the resolution provides “a clear path forward” as the House begins a public phase of the impeachment inquiry, which has largely been conducted behind closed doors.
The resolution directs “certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, president of the United States of America, and for other purposes,” the document says.
The document gives House intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) the lead role in the investigation, giving him power to organize the questioning of witnesses. The committee will take over the probe, which until now has been handled by three committees, including intelligence, foreign affairs, and oversight and reform.
“The evidence we have already collected paints the picture of a president who abused his power by using multiple levers of government to press a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election. Following in the footsteps of previous impeachment inquiries, the next phase will move from closed depositions to open hearings where the American people will learn firsthand about the president’s misconduct,” House Democrat leaders said in a joint statement.
So it’s still their view that you can break any law you like so long as you’re running for president.
So it’s still their view that you can break any law you like so long as you’re running for president as a Democrat.
No. Only you if you’re a Democrat in good standing*.
*It wouldn’t work for Tulsi Gabbard either.
I guess it was piss or get off the pot time.
Without having read the resolution, I get this odd sense it lays out processes for something hasn’t actually been approved yet.
The evidence we have already collected paints the picture of a president who abused his power by using multiple levers of government to press a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election.
Asking a foreign country to investigate credible allegations of corruption involving the relatives of a former Vice President who happens to be a Presidential candidate is “interfering in an election” now? I assume that’s the best they’ve got. If so, holy shit that is weak.
Collusion 2.0? That’s what they’re going with?
Global search-and-replace Russia::Ukraine.
He ain’t even a presidential candidate. He’s a candidate for the Democratic nomination. I doubt he’s going to even win that.
What about running for the Democrat primary makes him immune from some crime he committed in the past.
Every criminal should just run for President.
Not even that. Running for the DNC nomination grants your entire family immunity!
CNN, on a white steed
There’s plenty to parse regarding the news about Hill. But one of the most important elements is this: Forgiveness, when it comes to the messiness of politics, is a privilege not evenly distributed. More specifically, it’s disproportionately withheld from women and Democrats.
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[insert list of Republican malefactors, Trump included]
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Put another way, men, particularly those of certain political persuasions, are often given redemption arcs, while women who dare to challenge norms — such as Sandra Fluke, who in 2012 was slut-shamed after she testified before Congress in an effort to persuade Georgetown University to include birth control in its health care coverage — are expected to buckle to biases and, ultimately, bow out.
In addition to uneven standards — and the fact that Democrats, at least in the post-Bill Clinton era, seem willing to hold their own accountable to a degree Republicans aren’t — there’s something else that shouldn’t be overlooked in the Katie Hill debacle: that she also appears to be the victim of revenge porn (which is illegal in both the District of Columbia and California).
No Democrat ever got away with anything.
Toss in that revenge porn bit. It conforms to that pre-existing Democratic argument about how revealing factually true information (which makes them look bad) to the little people isn’t fair.
That’s so far from reality you’ve got to wonder if the author has ever left CNN’s offices. The list of Democrats who are given a pass for everything from violating security policies to killing people (sorry, Ted K., allowing people to die) is endless.
We really can change voters’ minds. Take it from these Nobel Prize-winning economists
I used to have a high opinion of the academic economists of this statue…
Wow, they really scienced the shit out of those fucking yokels.
the degree to which a person deeply identified as white
Science!
the dominant story in the United States has been the open rage against immigrants,
You have got to be kidding me. Immigration is not even close to being the dominant story, and what does get published is pretty consistently pro-immigrant.
The victory of someone who expressed overt anti-immigration views had freed respondents up to openly give money to an anti-immigrant group
Wouldn’t it have been a lot easier to just see if donations to anti-immigrant groups actually went up after the election?
If anything, all they have demonstrated is that the relentless hostility in the media to “anti-immigration” views caused those holding such views to be cautious about expressing them, while Trump’s victory gave them some confidence that their views were not that unusual. What they haven’t shown is that more people actual hold “anti-immigration” views since Trump was elected.
“the dominant story in the United States has been the open rage against immigrants”
Man, this country is so hostile to immigration. You know, we should immediately being allowing a large number of legal immigrants into the country every year. Let’s say, 1 million? That’s WAY more than anybody else, so that should do it, right?
I’m also curious which “anti-immigrant” group they used. Anti-immigration or anti-illegal-immigration? As for the former, I’m aware of only the Center for Immigration Studies, the one headed by Mark Krikorian. But even they claim to be “Pro-immigrant” while “Low-immigration” on their website.
NumberUSA? FAIR? The Colcom Foundation?
The second one seems to be a media watchdog. The third one is an environmentalist organization that’s against overpopulation.
I guess NumbersUSA can be described as “anti-immigration” but even they claim not to be anti-immigrant: “To choose a lower number does not imply anything negative about the immigrants already here legally in this country.”
Anyway, I definitely follow these organizations less closely since I got my green card, which was years ago.
I’ve taught courses on language planning and policy before, so I do keep track of these guys. All three groups at certain times have called for a moratorium on all immigration for various reasons. Even the CIS has bizarrely argued against the admission of international students to the US . F-1 visas, like tourist visas, are, by legal definition, “non-immigrant” visas. When one has problems with something as milquetoast as exchange students, I have no problem labeling one “anti-immigrant” (even though, as I pointed out, ‘xenophobic’ would actually be more accurate in this case.)
As an aside, it’s also worth noting the close connection of the Colcom Foundation and Margaret Sanger. It is intellectually honest to call them a Progressive organization and fun to watch certain heads explode.
By calling them racist bigots? Gosh, I don’t see the connection!
Or maybe “I’ll give you a dollar if you let me call you back and ask more questions” is not enough?
Response: “Jesus Christ, I’m sorry I answered the phone this time!”
No shit. How many times do I have to tell the people at Sirius XM that if my wife wants to subscribe in her new car she will call them? I think I’ve blocked at least 12 of their numbers on my phone.
Good grief! The hyperbole.
The shit weasels need to experience a taste of actual rage.
Whadido?
Something rage,,, something,,, my apologies.
Just before the 2016 election, the researchers told respondents they would receive a $1 bonus if they would let them make a $1 donation to an anti-immigration organization on their behalf.
So, did they actually make any of these payments? Or were they just lying the whole time?
It’s possible. Deception of subjects is allowed at the discretion of an IRB if the researchers can prove to their IRB that the harm to the subjects from such deception is minimized to the greatest degree, the deception “does not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects”, and the research could not be conducted without use of such deception.
Its pretty much required for a double-blind study.
From what I understand, if on the informed consent form, you inform the subjects that there is a chance you could be in the control group, then it is not considered “deception” – the subjects are aware before they agree that there is a chance the treatment could be placebo.
We’re not running any double-blinds just now. Next time one comes up (they are pretty rare here) I’ll have to check.
And-
such as Sandra Fluke, who in 2012 was slut-shamed after she testified before Congress in an effort to persuade Georgetown University to include birth control in its health care coverage
What the fuck does Sandra Fluke have to do with anything? She was never an elected or appointed government official, she was just another grifter riding the free shit rails.
Slut shamed?
I recall her being mocked for being an over-privileged idiot.
Since the 2016 election, however, the dominant story in the United States has been the open rage against immigrants, which goes well beyond purely economic resentment.
ORLY?
Maybe one of our deep-red state glibs can furnish an example of the open rage.
I have no doubt that a story about angry “anti-immigrants”* can be found. What beggars belief is that this is the dominant story of the past three years.
*Very, very few people are anti-immigrant. A pretty good number are anti-illegal immigrant. Give the Left credit for once again devaluing our language and discourse.
Usually from about January to April, and mostly towards Michigan and Ontario plates.
That gizmo sticking up through the rotor in my avatar is the rear end of the eccentric shaft. The CAS is driven by a gear on the other end.
At half speed? (I know next to nothing about rotaries)
Two turns of the eccentric equal one rotation of the rotors, so, yes, the CAS turns at half speed.
I drove an RX-7 from Salt Lake City to Kansas City, Missouri. I don’t know what the fuck was going on with the front end, but all the way across Wyoming and Nebraska, it seemed to want to sprout wings and take off.
My room-mate had one that did that at about 120.
How fast were you going?
~90 or so, give or take 10 mph.
Mine had the front fairing that helped a lot at speed.
Bad for winter, though!
The lover, the father figure, the guy who just wants to play with his magic balls.
That calls for an internet time out. No internet for 10 minutes for you, young lady!
Awwww, rats!
Everyone (like, even your grandfather) knows that the Goblin King played a huge role in the sexual awakening of millions of adolescents.
Everyone but me, apparently.
WTF?
Yes. Everybody but you.
It is the ultimate (and only, that I know of) movie that portrays a teenage girl’s coming of age while also portraying her in the hero’s journey.
Well, it’s a girl thing…
Everyone knows that there are no LW.
I was ignoring that bit.
The current Star Wars parody films Force Awakens and Last Jedi also do this.
Parody? Is that missing a sarc tag for those of us who pretend there was nothing after Return of the Jedi?
Me neither. I never heard of it before.
#meneither
I had to look that up. Didn’t see the movie.
It may be a good movie to watch while consuming certain psychoactive fungals…
Or so I’ve heard.
Young Jennifer Connelly.
Young Jennifer Connelly.
Sexual awakening confirmed.
My sexual was already wide awake when the movie came out. I do recall watching it, very intently, when it was on the cables.
You have never heard of Labyrinth?
OK, it turns out I’ve seen it. Probably 30 years ago. Was that the movie with Bowie walking around with a giant bulge in every scene?
Oh, yes. Yes, it certainly was.
I have a rant about this movie I’ve probably ranted about before, but if you didn’t know it existed, then it wouldn’t make sense.
rant
Tomorrow for lunch maybe ? I’m in. Rant away.
Just asked the wife about the “bulge”. She said she doesn’t remember that. I do. But then, I remember having to explain dirty jokes to her.
More a rant about a women’s studies professor who watched the movie as an adult with her two tween sons and COMPLETELY missed the ENTIRE point of the movie. I was so appalled I shamed her on her blog. I just couldn’t hold back.
Yes. Yes, it was indeed a sausage fest with phallic symbols everywhere. Did you not get any of the OTHER symbolism, O Dr. Women’s Studies Spousal Hire?
It would make for a great article.
W/ many pics, pls.
Srsly? A girly movie deconstruction and a take-down of a clueless feminist?
Sure. Why not?
What I mean to say is, that would be interesting to you?
pssst. Nobody reads the articles.
Sure, why not?
I like the labyrinth, so I would read.
pssst. Nobody reads the articles.
Nobody reads YOUR articles.
True.
@Hyp
Yes they do. You can’t prove that.
Nobody reads the articles.
Some of us have to work!
We gobbled up the Charmed reboot recaps.
We willingly read SF Subaru stories.
Nuff said.
I find the Anthrax stuff from Ozy almost spell-binding, though he’s being a tease in playing it out this long. Fer cryin’ out loud, I’ve already got a case of blue balls!
I figured the rant was about something else. I just threw the the package comment in as an afterthought. I saw the movie before I was married, and then watched it again later with my wife at her request. I guess we missed most of the symbolism; or I did and she did not discuss it with me. It seems like a long time ago. But that’s okay, it’s on the queue now that I mentioned it.
Speaking of car stuff- I finally managed to get the motor back in my truck, yesterday. At this pace, I’d better ask Santa for a pair of snowshoes.
I love that “thunk” they make when the splines on the input shaft and clutch disk align and the motor slides all the way back to the bellhousing. Now, off to the store for some new screws.
So. Many. Euphemisms.
Yes! You spend forever twisting and prying and lifting this end (but not that one). Aurgh! That’s you’re home! Don’t you want to go into your home!? Then, suddenly, THUNK. It just slides in easy as pie.
Eupehmism. OVERLOAD.
I need a cigarette.
Ooooooohhhh, baby.
I know that sound. Quite satisfying to know it all lines up like you hoped.
Woo, finally vacation time. Driving up to upstate NY again early tomorrow morning for about a week of chilling, catching up on reading/movies and checking out new breweries, etc. Might even try a little hiking this year.
hmmm, what do i need to do to update my avatar again? I have the original file but apparently we’ve changed the format?
“Image” at very bottom of Profile page, I think. Not “Profile Picture” unless you want to use Gravatar.
Promotion?
Back in Sep – but I haven’t been posting much ;p
Lookit the cockroaches running when the light comes on.
Yeah, he’s a scumbag.
They got Trump now.
Yep, until 2024 prolly.
I eagerly await the impeachment of Trump for doing exactly what so very many others have done in DC.
In all honesty, a knowing criminal violation of campaign finance laws by a President would be impeachable (the Constitution specifically lists bribery, after all). The FEC’s long history of waiting to sanction campaigns until long after it matters may be laughable, but it does create a record of campaign finance violations by Presidential campaigns.
We are in a classic low-trust dilemma, though. Nobody trusts anybody in DC to declare a new standard to get Trump, and then stick with it going forward.
If you listen very closely, you can hear keyboards clattering as the Dems revise their impeachment “process” resolution.
Ok, but do these documents reveal Obama’s last name?
….satan?
Something (((stein)))?
No wonder he was so hostile to Israel!
Just to throw us off the scent. *taps side of nose, winks*
Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale. Winning.
It is one of my desert island beers.
Concept:. You get a six pack of bottomless beers, but that is all you get for the rest of your life. What are the 6 beers?
Sam Smith but brown
Two hearted
Fuller’s esb
Weihenstephaner hefeweissbier
Chimay grande reserve
HP Oktoberfest
I really need an 8 pack, couldn’t fit in
Cantillon gueuze and
Uerige dopplesticke
Whitey strikes again..
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/10/29/dont-white-exhibit-toxic-whiteness/
Next in cognitive dissonance:
(1) Only white people can be racist.
(B) Race is a social construct, so anyone who identifies as white can be a white person.
I still maintain the Irish aren’t white.
Well, duh. They’re called “black Irish” for a reason.
So does everyone don’t they?
Wogs start at Calais.
Irish and English are all Viking Mutts.
And Roman Mutts for that matter.
Aren’t Indians “white” anyway?
Which ones?
The ones from Massachusetts?
Thread winner!
That one is actually from Oklahoma.
“Of Indian descent”, as stated in the link.
Ah, those indians are taupe, maybe caramel.
Working in IT, I’ve seen every hue. My last boss was almost as white as I am.
Some are for sure
https://www.wherewomenchaseyou.com/top-20-hottest-indian-women/
A little googling reveals that the old race scienticians considered them Caucasians while the US census calls them Asians.
Maybe it depends on how they do on their SATs.
I would actually go to Starbucks for the first time in years to get one of these.
Their coffee tastes like it was roasted by the devil and brewed in hell so why not?
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/court-rules-pittsburghs-new-gun-control-laws-invalid-under-pennsylvanias-preemption/
“Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced a victory in its case against the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Mayor Bill Peduto. FPC was joined by co-plaintiffs Firearm Owners Against Crime (FOAC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), and three individual gun owners. The plaintiffs were represented by Joshua Prince of Civil Rights Defense Firm, P.C. The opinion and order issued by Judge Joseph M. James, holding that “Ordinances 2018-1218, 2018-1219, 2018-1220 are void and unenforceable,” is available online at PittsburghCase.com.”
?
Yeah, not gonna happen.
Still, good news. Funny how courts can enforce state pre-emption laws, but not the Second Amendment.
Yeah, I’m not holding my breath on that one.
Overall though, this is a solid win.
https://pabaconfest.com
I might have to go check this out this weekend.
Looks like PayPal has deplatformed Sabo for wrongthink and will hold money in his account for six months as punishment.
Linky thing:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/paypal-de-platforms-conservative-street-artist-sabo-holds-his-funds-for-six-months/
No offenses from the wrong side of the political aisle will be tolerated. Also that seems like it’d be illegal, either hand the money over or refund it.
Why are they holding the funds, anyway? Is something going to happen in the next six months that will change who is entitled to the money? If not, then I can’t think of a reason to hold onto it.
Couldn’t that be considered theft?
Yes, Paypal can associate with whom they want. That does NOT mean they can keep their money.
Maybe there’s a “we can steal your money” clause buried in the contract.
A lot of the right winger Youtubers use Subscribestar, a Patreon alternative that’s based in Russia, doesn’t deplatform people, and actually pays out. He should go there but it won’t get him the money PayPal’s holding.
DAMMIT!!! I LOVE his work!!!
Yeah, he does some funny stuff. I imagine there must be some kind of language in their contract that allows them to hold the money. Don’t know if that would hold up against a legal challenge.