¡Buenos días Gliberinos! Sloopy had to go on a short trip. Hopefully it is as lucrative as he made it sound yesterday. I’m sure Sloopy is fine.
“Buenas tardes Señor Sloopy. Yo tengo un trabajo para usted.” Don Brett preguntó.
“A job? I am all for jobs, what does the job entail?” Sloopy answered.
¡Es una buena idea!
“Necesito que vueles con mi piloto, Murdock. Presente este manifiesto al inspector cuando aterrice.” Don Brett respondió.
“Murdock? You sure that is a good idea?
“Por supuesto, estoy seguro, pues.”
“Oh, well…he looks a bit short bus IYKWIM.”
“Solo dale al inspector este manifiesto cuando aterrices. Si tiene preguntas para usted, entréguele este sobre.”
“Whoa now, slow downo my Espanyolo is not so bueno.”
“Este sobre tiene su compensación y la de Murdock. No es mi problema lo que haces después de aterrizar. Murdock volará de regreso a Tampastan una vez que se entregue el paquete.”
“Murdock is doing what now?”
“Está volando a Tampastan.”
“There’s a volcano in Tampa?”
“¡Sube al avion!”
___
“You know, you’re not nearly the nut they make you out to be. In fact you haven’t really said anything at all.” Sloopy said, trying to end the awkward silence.
[[Cue music]]
“Do you hear that?” Sloopy asked.
[[Stares in Murdock]]
“Yeah, I can stare without blinking too. I give news to aspies as a hobby.”
[[Staring intensifies]]
“Shouldn’t you be flying the plane?”
[[More staring]]
“I take back everything I said about you not being a nut.”
“WOLVERINES!!!!!” Murdock yelled.
Murdock then donned a parachute, and jumped out of the plane….
…and now for the news.
Archeologists discover a new (to them anyway) Mayan ruin on the Yucatan.
Don Brett will be making even more off sales of cocaine.
Cuban entrepreneurs create a ride share app called, “Sube” with the expectation US tourists would download and use it. I’m not sure people are actually using it.
21 people were killed in a bus crash in Guatemala.
What are the chances they shift the narrative to Venezuelan collusion?
Here’s a tune sure to aggravate everyone. Well, not really.
Why wouldn’t I trust a random Cuban government application on my phone?
Why would you bring your actual phone to a communist country. They’re going to poke around inside it or steal it anyway.
Why would you bring your actual
phoneperson to a communist country? FTFYI don’t get those who enjoy watching others suffer. An ex-coworker of mine would want to drive through the shitty neighborhoods whenever he traveled. I don’t get that thought process.
I avoid the shitty neighborhoods so I don’t get robbed.
No one drives through my neighborhood. Maybe there is an explanation. Remember those roads where you hoped you wouldn’t break down? Rolled the windows up, locked the doors, kept your driving gloves on?
It could be the backroads you had to wander down to find your neghborhood.
Like when I would put a loaded Hi-Power under a newspaper on the seat next to me? Yeah, I remember that.
So you wouldn’t be out much money if they stole your gun too?
Hi-Power? More like Hi-Point amirite?
*high five + chest bump*
Aww, dammit, I mixed the two up.
I need more caffiene.
Well, to ‘fess up, it was a Hungarian FEG copy but it did have enough rounds to keep them occupied until I could break out the 12 gauge so I expected to live through whatever was on the play list for the evening.
Same reason people gawk at car accidents. And then of course there’s the true believers who want to revel in the purity, dignity, and authenticity of glorious communist poverty.
Fuck those people with dimensional lumber.
That is kind of weird. But getting a good, hard look at the poverty in a communist country is to be recommended as an object lesson.
They’re going to poke around inside it or steal it anyway.
Unlike the US where we have rights… oh wait, never mind.
Why did you give the cops your actual phone?
You don’t need to, your phone data can be gotten without physical possession.
And coming across the border, you may not have the opportunity to refuse physical possession when demanded.
That second clause indicates you carried your phone across the border.
The “border” thanks to the PATRIOT Act extends 100 miles when it comes to “enhanced search”.
“The “border” thanks to the PATRIOT Act extends 100 miles when it comes to “enhanced search”.”
In the past I read enough to agree with HM here.
Today I found this as evidence in support of our opinion.
“Many people think that border-related policies only impact people living in border towns like El Paso or San Diego. The reality is that Border Patrol’s interior enforcement operations encroach deep into and across the United States, affecting the majority of Americans.
Roughly two-thirds of the United States’ population lives within the 100-mile zone-that is, within 100 miles of a U.S. land or coastal border. That’s about 200 million people.
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont lie entirely or almost entirely within this area.
Nine of the ten largest U.S. metropolitan areas, as determined by the 2010 Census, also fall within this zone: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and San Jose.”
Just wait til they start measuring that 100 miles vertically.
What border is within 100 miles of Chicago?
The border with that barbarian nation of gun runners. Indiana.
O’Hare.
“Users also have an option of reserving a ride through the messaging app WhatsApp.”
“ride”
Because they will employ user-spying techniques developed in Silicone Valley?
That’s where Demi Rose is from, right?
Shouldn’t satellites have let us find them all by now?
You have to cut through the alien tech interference for that to work.
Interference? That network is…
*zips lips*
Right, the interference.
runs on Mac OS 7.5.2
Huh, shouldn’t Pie be here posting to himself?
I haven’t seen him for a while, has he been caught outside in daylight?
Something about an expedition to the South Pole and being caught during midnight sun.
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
Likely he is taking his yearly trip to Alaska
I will do no such thing.
Maduro and Sadam, twins separated at birth? Maybe we do have a twin in another universe or something. Nah,1 Fourscore is enough.
Or too many?
Nonsense.
People dumb enough to vacation in Cuba are easily dumb enough to download commie spyware.
Oh look, a thumb drive on the floor in the mall.
Free thumb drive! *plugs into pc*
Sees someone else’s vacation pictures
“This is a picture of Lake Superior. Here’s another picture of Lake Superior. This one is the hillside opposite Lake Superior…”
I laughed, understood completely.
*sigh*
I remember when most adware was manually installed.
I kind of assume anyone touring a country like that is doing it for the desperate hookers. Communism allows a few dollars of hard currency to take you around the world,
TFW the USD is “hard currency”
I suspect it was a euphemism.
Some fiats are better than others
The multipla looks like they mashed a minivan model into a sedan model and said “Done!”
Don’t judge, Jarflax…
Im waiting for the email from my local FFL to come pick up my latest boomstick… Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry
Finally good news. Hope it comes today, tomorrow you get a chance to bring in the New Year correctly
I took my lower back to the shop to get the bolt catch fixed. I hear a wheel get fired up. 15 minutes later, the guy come back saying it’s fixed now. I take it home, attach the upper. It’s not.
I only took the lower in because I didn’t want to be transporting a
death machine“assault weapon,” but I guess I should have brought the upper in under separate cover for diagnostic purposes.Blah. On the one hand, this isn’t the build I would prefer to be using, on the other it’s kind of freaking useless until it gets legalized.
Is this SBR or have we ascended to the level of full-auto?
It’s a class III flamethrower with attached rocket launcher.
Needle bayonet with black-tar reservoir.
Trashy seems like a Yankee Boogle kind of guy.
“Some US officials testified before Congress in the impeachment inquiry that Giuliani was a conduit for messages between the President and officials in Kiev, and that he was at the helm of a problematic “circumvention of national security decision-making processes.”
Giuliani has previously told CNN he has “no knowledge of any of that crap” in the whistleblower complaint.”
LOL
““circumvention of national security decision-making processes.””
Wahhh the president went around us! /Deep state bureaucrats
Cause that never happens. Anywhere.
Exactly. How can they undermine Trump’s policies if he doesn’t include them?
Yeah, total mystery on why Trump is using a personal envoy he trusts to a) do what he wants and b) keep his yap shut.
Setting up a half-assed e-mail server to avoid sending
evidencee-mail through State Dept servers is totes OK though.What part of chief executive do they not understand? His decision making process could be a coin flip and they can’t do jack about it.
It would have to somehow be a plot of Bolsonaro, we all know Venezuela would never sell out the revolution.
Hmm. You might be on to something.
Speaking of Pie…
Woman dies after being set on fire during surgery in Romania
could be worse could be evil private healthcare
If you or a loved one has accidentally been set on fire during a medical procedure dial 1-800—-
Lawyers are standing by to assist you in a claim. You don’t pay unless we collect…
That reminds me of this.
Linky no worky?
Is this better?
I don’t have my html clearances yet so don’t tell the bureau that I’ve been practising without a license.
ps – it’s the japanese lady who farted during some kind of surgical procedure performed with “lasers”
Did drugs fall out of her ass too?
Like a jiggly vending maching
machine
*sigh*
I thought maybe you were doing a bad messican accent.
“circumvention of national security decision-making processes.”
President Upstart strikes again!
Part of me wonders if the deepstaters know that they have subverted the republic and are just using the language of “save the democracy” to mean “save our prestige as an institution”. They really think that the State Department and the CIA are American Democracy.
A nurse threw a bucket of water on the 66-year-old woman to prevent the fire from spreading.
“You liquidated her, ehh?”
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7839687/Demi-Rose-slips-skimpy-yellow-string-bikini-sets-turtles-free.html
no
Aren’t you supposed to limit plastic on the beach?
Just think how bad the Great Pacific Garbage Patch would grow if she fell in.
“According to the WWF study, an average person potentially consumes 1,769 particles of plastic per week from water alone.
The study also found that 182 particles are consumed through shellfish, 11 from salt and 10 from beer per week – reaching a total of 1,972.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7839295/THE-REUTERS-GRAPHIC-A-plateful-plastic-Visualising-microplastic-consume.html
I find that difficult to believe.
Even if true; do we have any solid evidence that this is detrimental to people’s health? If so, in what way?
It is known by the State of California.
“It is known by the State of California.”
Nice.
Clearly it’s not, since no one is keeling over from accumulated microplastics.
Me too, mostly because I suspect it’s utter horseshit.
You probably contain something like 2x 10^16 ‘particles’ of Uranium, if we define particles as atoms and my morning fuzzy math was correct.
That’s where my superpower comes from.
Relevant
The study also found that 182 particles are consumed through shellfish, 11 from salt and 10 from beer per week – reaching a total of 1,972.”
I don’t eat shellfish, and i don’t drink beer.
Also, why is the World Wrestling Federation doing microplastic studies?
Did you miss the pics posted of Chyna?
i wonder how many particles of sand we ingest every week. This seems kind of similar.
It’s likely true. And likely meaningless.
And then of course there’s the true believers who want to revel in the purity, dignity, and authenticity of glorious communist poverty.
I have heard people in meatspace say, “I want to go down there and see it before kkkapitalism wrecks it.”
It’s hard not to start throwing things.
There are plenty of other places to visit that lack functioning economies if they miss their chance; Afghanistan, the Congo, North Korea, Western Sahara. A cornucopia of success stories!
“Kansas cop, 23, resigns after admitting HE wrote ‘f***ing pig’ on his McDonald’s coffee cup, took a photo of the label and then blamed the ‘vulgar message’ on his drive-thru server”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7839061/Kansas-cop-resigns-admitting-wrote-f-ing-pig-McDonalds-coffee-cup.html
Christ, what an asshole.
It seems like it all came down to having the video surveillance. If it had been just the cop’s word against the employee’s, would that employee would still have a job?
Probably not, but don’t worry that cop will get hired by the county over and be fine.
#bluelivesmatter #agreatertruth #speakinghoaxtopower
Right? McDonalds assigns you a number out of fear their employees will screw up you name. It is so easy to pretend they got you sick by spitting in the coffee. That cop got greedy.
I don’t often go to starbucks but I think 2019 was the first year a Starbucks employee got my name right.
“Half-caf pumkin spice mocha latte for Judy is Unified.”
ALOL. I live over an hour from the nearest ‘bucks but I’m tempted to see how that request turns out next time I am in civilization.
“Upside down, carmel, mocha-frappachino, with extra whip cream for Unlicensed Sex Abuser.”
It’s limeytown.
The order would be “whoopsy-charlie strugglebum half-flandered knockersnozz.”
I’ve never been in a starbucks, let alone one east of the atlantic. I just threw together something from the random noises I picked up from other people to lead to the joke about messing up the name again.
‘murican Starbucks are better in my limited experience. Basically the same but with better customer service – maybe because we don’t tip over here. One girl once short changed me by £5, which at the time was roughly $7, I believe. Called her on it immediately and got it back – her reaction made me suspect it was on purpose. Bolshevista barista!
Funny how those mistakes almost only go in one direction.
If it were random, half the time you’d be getting an extra £5.
Um, I don’t know how to put this delicately, but you just requested that someone [OBSCENITY] your [OBSCENITY] by pouring a [RESTRICTED] and [HATE SPEECH] [OBSCENITY] repeatedly while [OBSCENITY] in your father’s [RESTRICTED] with a [HATE SPEECH] on the next coincidence of St. Hilary’s day and the apogee of the Lunar cycle.
I’m just giving you a heads up that it might not be wise to say any of that in mixed company.
Oh man this new legislation on acceptable speech is [OBSCENITY] [HATE SPEECH]. I can’t believe I’m unable to express [RESTRICTED].
Serious question: Could you be picked up for writing [OFFENSIVE] stuff on US websites, say, this one?
I’m certain I could be – since I am posting from the UK, and that could be read by someone in the UK, and indeed I’m sure many other countries that have similar legislation may be able to initiate some sort of legal proceedings. I’m not sure of precedent, and I’m not sure what the technicalities of the Count Dankula case were, which is the case that immediately springs to mind. With a criminal justice system that is often just a charter for judicial activism, and a judiciary that seems totally out of touch, and entirely statist, it’s difficult to tell where the boundaries are.
That’s bad op-sec JD. I always give my name as “Stiltskin. R. Stiltskin”
Nice. Well, I have on occasion given some random names just for fun. At one job I used to amuse myself on slow afternoons by heading down to the nearest ‘bucks, if I could find anyone else to go with and join in, and we’d see what we could get away with. Another friend of mine once asked for Mozart and got Beethoven, which is one of my favourites, but I don’t recall much of what I did so it can’t have been that good.
You’ll be shocked to discover the picture of this cop shows him to be overweight and wearing 2 desecrated US flags
In order to use the Cuban app, I’d first have to travel to Cuba, which would entail pumping money into a murderous Communist regime. No dice.
Spicy Latinas on Titty Tuesday.
http://archive.is/XOGbr
The article states you can use it from the U.S.
Still not interested in propping up any part of it.
10 deserves her number. I’d overthrow an unstable regime with 25 IYKWIM.
There is nothing rock about Billboard’s Top Charting Rock Songs of the Decade
Spoiler alert: there’s a lot of Imagine Dragons
https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/12/billboard-top-rock-songs-of-the-decade/
Never heard of them.
You have to imagine.
*falls down*
That’s because “Rock” is more or less meaningless as a genre designation. Anything with a vague connection to blues or rock’n’roll songwriting conventions – which is to say everything that’s been on the radio in the last 60 years – can plausibly fall under the “rock” banner.
But none of those songs can.
Harsh but fair.
https://twitter.com/ZacMabry/status/1211348692881547265
Fortunately, Trump backed away from that bullshit.
Ha ha ha ha ha
Happy New Year
Protesters attacked the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday, scaling the walls and forcing the gates of the compound, as hundreds demonstrated against American airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq.
Two sources at the demonstration witnessed the attempt to break into the premises — the US’ biggest embassy in the world — adding that security personnel fired tear gas to repel the attack. Video footage shows demonstrators smashing windows, burning items outside and throwing rocks over the walls.
——-
US President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that the airstrikes were a response to a recent attack that killed a US contractor. He blamed Iran both for the contractor’s death and Tuesday’s attack on the embassy.
“Iran killed an American contractor, wounding many. We strongly responded, and always will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held fully responsible. In addition, we expect Iraq to use its forces to protect the Embassy, and so notified!” Trump tweeted.
Great. Countdown to MSNBC saying it’s an attempt to divert attention away from the impeachment…
I’m ever so glad for our continued involvement in the Middle East.
“I’m ever so glad for our continued involvement in the Middle East.”
Having watched most of the Democratic “debates” this time around, QC, it is my opinion that most of their candidates imply what you have typed here.
Should have blamed a YouTube video. Anyway, WDATPDIM?
Fake news. Obama ended the Iraq occupation in 2009 as promised.
“As president, I’ll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team.
I’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions – never for tweeting – but the rest of the time, I’ll be where a leader should be: with the team.”
https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1211781268922359810
Nanny Bloomers – Ever the Micromanager.
Only a micromanager would think that telling everyone his plans on how he is going to physically set up the office is something that would catch the eye of employers during the job interview.
If he wins, I’m going long on “WeWork”, could be a lot of subsidies there.
So he really is a monster.
Not that I was planning to vote for him, but offices that do this are truly evil.
But he would be inflicting it on a bunch of bureacrats… So maybe we should consider it….
Government bureaucrats should be free to watch porn from their smartphone in the quiet comfort of their cubicle. There, I said it.
It’s the least awful thing they do, even if the porn is illegal.
All Bureaucrats should have to get their promotions via hunger games style fights to the death.
Why is everyone in this office dying of poisoning? There must be something in the paint. Better get the EPA to check it out!
This – what an asshole.
Fuck you and your open office.
LOL
my favorite comment to this was “If I was president I’d turn the East Room in the West Room. Just lift the building and turn it around”
J-F’in-C, he really is a jumped-up hall monitor, isn’t he.
According to the WWF study, an average person potentially consumes 1,769 particles of plastic per week from water alone.
*shrugs*
It must not be all that bad for me.
I’m sure Medicare for all would fix this right up.
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2019/08/07/a_solution_for_the_us_doctor_shortage_and_the_medical_school_bottleneck_110347.html
I don’t trust any group whose name starts with “Real Clear”. I get the vibe that they’re trying to decieve.
Very Obfuscatory
American medical schools deliberately limit the supply of physicians to keep the AMA fat and giggly and the solution is to solicit prospective physicians from foreign medical schools. Of course it is.
Funny how things like “Breaking up the insurers” and Nationalizing insurance or even healthcare, are always floated. But you’ll be damned if someone says something about relinquishing the stranglehold of the AMA.
Apparently since joining in 2007 Romania payed 20 billion Euros to the EU and got back 54 billion.
Imagine if they’d used a real currency!
They should have given you lei.
Also government debt is expected to pass 100 billion USD next year
Also cigarette tax increases bu 10 US cents a pack
It’s more than 30 min, and frankly would this ever be off-topic here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhQAV_RF5Q
So if I’m understanding correctly, Dolly Parton could dual wield M60s?
DON’T YOU MAKE FUN OF DOLLY!
Plastic furniture on an AK?
Well, that just tells you it’s a modern vintage. Wood is oldschool, fiberglass is middle age, and plastic is new knockoff crap.
I’m pretty sure that would be East German furniture.
It’s hopped up on steroids?
Bakelite is classic…
First time I’ve seen “leftugee”. I like it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/leftugees-red-states-must-defend-themselves-from-the-blue-state-exodus
It doesn’t form a word that’s easy to say, like rapefugee.
Is that what made Lauryn Hill go crazy?
Other than when it comes to Drugs, Prostitution, Alchohol, Smoking, Police Abuse, Porn…
Yes, but those things are For the Children. Why do you hate Children, you monster?
I’m all for drugging the children, it’s traditional, but some of those other things don’t seem like they’d be appropriate.
I’m told smoked child can be delicious.
Kid, they said kid!
The best part about reading The Federalist/National Review/etc is the daily reminder that the right is full of authoritarian assholes too. They’re much less dangerous than the left’s authoritarian assholes – for the moment.
Popular Drink Fallen Into Obscurity – “Flip” From The 1820’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S04mZtUjTyA
the looks thoroughly disgusting…
The alcohol kills the salmonella.
Flips are delicious.
Any place that takes cocktails seriously makes flips.
Carlos Ghosn has managed to escape the evil that is the Japanese legal system. They jailed him and tried to destroy his life over a merger they didn’t like.
Good on him but I’m interested in finding out under what passport and how he pulled that off.
Private arrangement. This is Lebanon we’re talking about.
He still had to get through Japanese immigration officials. How he pulled that off would be interesting to me.
News is saying a private flight. Snuck him on board. Never know with their news, though.
In a box according to the one I saw.
I don’t know what Japanese private airports are like, but it would be easy to do from an American small airport with a private jet and the authorities unaware.
+1. Love to know how they pulled this off.
あけおめ!
Not sure the Japanese really cared. They accomplished what they wanted – ruined the man and stopped the merger.
There’s probably at least two different groups at play, the Nissan centric one that wanted him out and neutralized and the legal system one that wanted a fair impartial trial followed by imprisonment.
According to Wikipedia, he is a citizen of three countries: Brazil, Lebanon and France. Transliteration often gives an option to spell the name differently, so perhaps he used his Lebanese passport.
Sharon Stone was shocked Sunday night when her online dating profile was deleted — while the world was stunned to learn the “Basic Instinct” star can’t find a date.
“I went on the @bumble dating sight [sic] and they closed my account,” Stone groused on Twitter.
“Some users reported that it couldn’t possibly be me!” she added.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/heres-why-sharon-stone-cant-get-a-date/
To be fair, they probably shut down many, many fake profiles. Accidentally getting a real one is understandable.
I rarely watch any TV/movies, so I would likely be totally clueless if someone I went on a date with was a famous person. Plus women are can look so different based on how they do their hair and makeup.
100% certain that this is a publicity stunt.
Surprisingly sensible, for Slate
Why are we parents so loath to set financial limits on our kids’ college ambitions? Maybe because it seems crass to bring money into their reach-for-the-stars dreams. Maybe because we cling to the hope of generous scholarships and lavish financial aid packages that will make our money worries moot. Maybe because we deeply believe the destiny of smart teenagers is to attend their dream school, and ours is to finance it. To do otherwise is to fail at middle-class parenting.
So we finance it, or our kids do, 45 million of us owing a collective $1.6 trillion in student debt that not even Bernie Sanders could make disappear. You know what makes it disappear? Death. A friend whose husband died unexpectedly of a heart attack a few years ago told me that the major upside of being a widow in her 40s was that his death canceled out his more than $100,000 in student loans. “I thought we’d be paying that off forever, and then it was just gone,” she said with a breath of relief. When death is the bright spot in your financial life, things are bad.
So my husband and I decided to go ahead and become the villains in a John Hughes movie. One day when Ella was a sophomore, we laid out our financial situation. We told her we’d saved about $40,000 in a 529 to pay for her college. Between that, a part-time job, and some serious scrimping (“You like ramen, right?”), we could probably afford to send her to an in-state university, or maybe a really cut-rate private college with two years of community college first. Art school in New York? Not going to happen.
tl;dr-
“Money IS an object.”
My GF worked her ass off in high school to get a full ride for college.
#humblebrag
I remember being a kid and asking my parents about college. They straight up told me that they hadn’t saved up and that if i wanted to go i’d have to get a scholarship and pay for myself.
#metoo
ROTC scholarship for me.
So you payed for college thru indentured servitude, just like me?
*$250K education, shoved up your ass a nickle at a time.*
You know, your husband could’ve just joined the Army. #Imjustsaying
Antifreeze in his coffee was much quicker and she didn’t have to PCS to Ft Shithole every year or so until his service obligation was up and then bully him into leaving so he could make real money like her Facebook wives’ club’ husbands do.
This fall she applied to exactly two universities, in the Venn diagram overlap between “schools we can pay for” and “schools where she actually wants to go.” They’re not art schools, but both have stellar art programs. Her guidance counselor, whose only focus is getting in and not paying up, thinks she’s crazy to limit her options like that, but we’re thrilled that the highest tuition at either is around $16,000. Not chump change, but probably doable.
So $64k in tuition (seems like we’re not counting room & board) for an art degree is winning? Even sensible Slate is still stupid.
Kill the guidance counselor.
It’s the only way.
The discussion with my parents never came up but I just figured that if a career in the Marines didn’t work out the GI Bill would be my “plan B”. That, with an academic scholarship I picked up on the way was my “education funding”.
40K would cover two years (including room and board) at my university. Throw in a part time job and a partial scholarship and she’d be all set.
The relatively inexpensive and good-quality schools in NC were a major reason my brother moved there a decade ago (3 kids)
The state school I attended in 1974-1977 cost $700 per year in tuition.
Current tuition is $12,000 per year. Of course, I couldn’t get admitted these days if I were in the same situation (no high school after grade 10, but high SAT and NMSQT scores).
“You know what makes it disappear? Death.”
And we have a rash of spousal murder on the horizon.
Soros’ War Against the Jews – The shame, hatred and megalomania driving the world’s wealthiest anti-Semite.
That is one fucked up real-life Bond villain.
“The Patriarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous
Women who drink too much need help. But we don’t need to give up our power.
The truth is, A.A. may be the foundation of global recovery, but it wasn’t made with everyone in mind. It’s a framework created in the 1930s by upper-middle-class white Protestant men to help people like them overcome addiction. Its founders believed the root of alcoholism was a mammoth ego resulting from an entitled sense of unquestioned authority.
A.A. was a miracle for those men who, until then, had almost nowhere to turn for help. It was radical in that it was free and it was fueled by an ethos of service. But it grew out of a fundamentalist Christian organization, the Oxford Group, and as a result, it is undergirded by the same belief system that asserts Eve grew from Adam’s rib.
The values baked into its founding continue to shape the way the organization works, and it still has too many echoes for my liking of the ways women are expected to blame themselves, follow instructions and fall into line in a patriarchal society.
Participants are expected to accept the tenets of A.A. without question, and there is a common refrain that the program “works if you work it.” In other words: Don’t ask questions, and any failure is your own fault. The 12 steps include things like admitting powerlessness, turning one’s will over to God, cataloging defects of character, asking God to remove those defects and making amends for any wrongdoing.
This program, which was designed to break down white male privilege, made sense for the original members: It reminded them that they were not God and encouraged them to humble themselves, to admit their weaknesses, to shut up and listen. Perhaps these were much-needed messages when it came to the program’s original intended audience. (Keep in mind, this was just 10 years after women’s suffrage, at the height of the eugenics movement and 30 years before the dismantling of Jim Crow.)
But today’s women don’t need to be broken down or told to be quiet. We need the opposite. I worry that any program that tells us to renounce power that we have never had poses the threat of making us sicker.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/27/opinion/alcoholics-anonymous-women.html
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1211721158845857792
Something something pride something something fall
Toxic masculinity knows no bounds
Obviously shit-lords made the alcohol taste so good to oppress the womens.
Men are alcoholics by choice because they have agency. Women are alcoholics because men force them to drink and won’t let them get sober.
Here is the link from which CP quoted. The article is concise.
Although I disagree with what I consider to be Ms. Whitaker’s main point, I am glad to mention her recognition that the program has been and remains valuable for thousands of individuals: “To be sure, A.A. works for many people, including many women, and has saved millions of lives. I don’t want to see it dismantled or discourage anyone from trying it out – I simply want more people to recognize it’s not for all.”.
I have some experience with this, and this is just yet another retarded take from an SJW. I was just talking to someone whose main meeting fell apart over the fucking pronouns used to refer to god. This was in Portland, Ore. Can you just imagine fucking up a program that saves lives because the pronouns are not woke enough. These people are evil.
– James Thurber
This program, which was designed to break down white male privilege, made sense for the original members: It reminded them that they were not God and encouraged them to humble themselves … But today’s women
But women are God, and are perfect so like it doesn’t work for us…
I suspect it doesn’t work for the men either, but they carefully avoid any possibility of data collection to avoid that being exposed.
I believe the unofficial stats are a success rate of ~20%, same as most programs. I think it has more to do with the person then the program.
You Can Thank Facebook for Bourbon. You Can Thank It for Ruining Bourbon, Too.
https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/drinks/a30298851/bourbon-boom-facebook-black-market/
Is this a joke or do they actually believe this shit?
If its not about pocket squares or women in ever so slightly transparent white t-shirts, there’s no sense in reading Esquire.
I remember when the writing in Esquire wasn’t all awful social signalling. That was quite a while ago, sadly.
I am grateful to the internet and blogging boom for opening my eyes to just how stupid humanity really is. I mean, I already knew most people were stupid, but I really had no idea as to the extent.
Ditto. It really opened my eyes to the fact that, yes, I really am even more weird and out-of-step than I thought I was in highscool.
And also I’m frankly better than 99% of the population. For example, I know that bourbon predates Facebook.
Bourbon predates the telegraph.
Esquire was my father’s porn, along with True magazine, True Crime, etc.
Maybe your father’s or grand father’s as well. Playboy saved us younger guys.
Those True Detective covers were softcore BDSM for sure.
So yesterday i saw a CNN clip that had the talking heads (not the band) going on about how Butigieg totally was mean to Biden for calling him out on his Iraq War vote. It was funny and irritating. One bimbo was like “Well of course Butigieg would take that tone, he needs to appeal to fellow millennials, and taking a hard progressive anti-war stance is one way to do it”. I wanted to yell: Progressivism is not inherently anti-war! In fact it is historically pro-war. Most anti-war people reside in political realms that no on on CNN would be caught talking with them. It wasn’t the progressives that were being called or are still called “isolationists”.
Things we like = progressive.
Things we don’t like = white supremacy.
“So yesterday i saw a CNN clip…”
Leon,
Would you mind providing a link for us?
I couldn’t find it, but i did some more digging around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BizW8GTNPI8
Here you go.
Leon,
Thank you for the link. I understand that the clip is not the original one you were thinking of yet it seems to convey the gist of your original comment.
The Buttmeister pulls out his miltary creds, as miniscule as they are, whenever its convenient. Laughable
Mmmm, finger foods.
Maybe they should just offer to make him a box whenever he comes in. Would be less wasteful.
“A drooling and pungent homeless man made double-dipping look like child’s play at a Midtown Whole Foods, grabbing from the hot food bar with his bare hands to stuff his bearded face — as employees just chuckled and said they were powerless to stop him.
A Post photo editor had just plunked down $17 for a jerk chicken dinner at the store across from Bryant Park Sunday night when he spotted the grungy gourmand ignoring numerous “no sampling” signs to treat the bar like his personal feed-bag.”
OFFS!
Joe Namath did that in a movie, 40 years ago.
Gustave and Straff said some not-unkind words about me last night that boiled down to “No, he’s not a paedophilic scumbag, just an asshole like me.” The response was “He seems alright but he IS a Glib…” I am verklempt!
I think they make a cream for that.
This was noted and listed.
In my defense I would have chimed in with some words attesting to your character in a similar vein but I was otherwise occupied and not available.
Likewise noted and listed.
That’s my boy!!
Fourscore,
If you are still here I would like to share a sentence or two with you regarding one of your posts last night.
Still around, CE
Try latvia2112 and use the yahoo thing with cabin in the subject
One of my original points was derived by that
You have friends in low places.
I apologize Festus. I shouldn’t have impugned your character for cheap transitory laughs.
So I watched all the Mandalorian… Holy shit, why is Star Wars writing SOOOOO freaking bad. It’s so stupid, nothing makes any sense.
As typical with Star Wars, there is zero consistency with how weapons work or how droids work, literally everything is broken from one scene to the next.
However, baby Yoda does live up to the hype.
I’ve seen the first two episodes. It looks great, but not much plot.
Remember what George Lucas said:
Pat,
From your link: “… You’re about to enter the real world. You’re moving away from your parents. You’re probably scared, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Here’s what you should pay attention to: Friendships, honesty, trust, doing the right thing. Living on the light side, avoiding the dark side. ”
If I recall correctly, Mr. Lucus read some or much of Joseph Campbell’s work (c.f., “The Hero’s Journey”).
I stopped with The Return of the Jedi….in 1983.
I’ve actually never seen all of Empire but Return was terrible.
I wouldn’t sat it was terrible, but the seeds of the series’ destruction was certainly evident with the fucking Ewoks. Everything after Return was utter shite and I’d rather watch the Plinkett reviews than the actual movies.
What? You don’t like murderous man-eating teddy bears?
I’ve never watched that part of the movie without wishing them all dead.
Why the heck do the stormtroopers just stand out in the open all the time? Never use cover, just stand in a big crowd to make easy targets?
Star Wars always gives emotions to the droids and the characters are sad anytime something bad happens to *their* droid, but never hesitate to murder “innocent” droids that did not thing wrong.
“Mando” (the main character) routinely slays dozens by himself or w/ 1 teammate throughout the series, never seems to be really a problem. Ok, cool, that’s fine. But then on the last episode there’s a scene with LITERALLY 6 stormtroopers opposing them and then Mando’s entire team of expert soldiers are like “welp this is the end, no way out of this one” – WHAT THE FUCK?! WHO WRITES THIS SHIT
It would make more sense if stormtrooper armor weren’t shit.
*my* talking robot pal has sentimental value, those toasters over there do not.
I resemble that remark,
Was gonna say, It’s because their DEVO costumes don’t move very well.
What irks me is they have all these crazy light saber fights and they never really kill each other. If you’re gonna fence for a half hour, someone should win and kill the vanquished, dammit.
That’s why Lucas gave them lazer swords instead of lazer guns. He wanted them to be able to duel without killing each other, just like Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks did.
The trope that has been really really bugging me lately is the relative value of named character lives and extras. How often have we watched the hero butcher his way through countless thousands of spear carriers then display his nobility by sparing the life of the named villain? So what is the message conveyed? It is ok to gratuitously slaughter draftees, but even the most vile Top Man deserves mercy?
Spoiler alert:
The movie that crystallized this for me was Aquaman, the final battle scene is basically the hero proving his right to rule by stopping a battle. Ok, that is a good and noble endeavor, but he does it by basically unleashing a WMD in the middle of the battlefield and killing huge numbers of both sides, then he spares the guy who deliberately, and for fully evil motives, caused the whole thing.
See – Ancient and Medeival Warfare.
Agreed.
That’s what irks me about our “wars” since WWII. If you go to war, go to conquer, devastate the enemy (this means everybody), and do it quick. In the US’s case, don’t do it to be imperialistic.
a) We go to “war” for specious or ill-defined reasons or both (none of which includes adding to an empire, even), which means we have no reason to be there, much less moral reason.
b) Our manner of warfare (selective bombing so as not to hit civilians) is acknowledgment that we shouldn’t be there.
I was thinking more of a parallel with the effort to capture alive ransomable rich people and not give a crap about the poor infantry. I wasn’t actually doing any philosophical thinking at the time.
b) Our manner of warfare (selective bombing so as not to hit civilians) is acknowledgment that we shouldn’t be there.
Meh. The idea behind strategic bombing (ie blowing the shit out of civilian population) was that it was supposed to weaken the resolve of the populace. Prior to WWII many military theorists were saying that “The Next Big War” was going to be resolved in favor of whoever could bomb the civilian population first because then they would demand the leaders stop.
Thats not how it worked out. Bombing Civilian populations seems to strengthen the resolve of countries to keep fighting.
Because some abstract cassus belli over there isn’t going to fire up the spirits, but bomb *my House* and threaten *my People*, we will make you pay.
Right.
So you wipe them out so they can’t come back.
See Henry V and the Battle of Rouen.
I’m not in favor of war; quite the opposite. The point is to go to war ONLY to defend ourselves, conquer completely, do it quickly, leave them defenseless, and then LEAVE THEM ALONE, the message clear:
Don’t fuck with us.
After 9/11, the ME should’ve been turned to glass immediately.
“This is what happens to people who attack us on our own soil. Please don’t do it again.”
See I partially agree with you and partially disagree strongly. Making war on civilians is murder. Yes, any war will inevitably involve civilian casualties, but war is only justifiable as a defense against aggression and that aggression is usually from the top, not from the society as a whole. Doing more harm to the enemy civilians than is necessary to end the aggression and the war is not justified, which makes it murder. Strategic bombing is extremely problematic for me. If you are directly bombing the industrial base you are hitting military targets and that may ell be justifiable, but terror bombing, which most of the WWII bombing was even if we tried to pretend it was strategic, is just doing awful things to civilians hoping to sap the enemy’s will.
I agree with your argument that it is murder. My point is to not do anything at all until attacked directly.
But here’s the counterpoint. Even after the first bomb was dropped on Japan, the Japanese didn’t stop. What then?
Now, from my girlhood, I remember my ancient relatives bitching that FDR knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor before it happened because he wanted us to get into the war and allowed it to happen to achieve his own ends.
He’s the murderer. There was no need for that.
And then Churchill had the balls to say, “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing—after they’ve exhausted all other options.”
Fuck you, Churchill. Why do you need us to save your ass?
And why should we?
Especially after WWI, which we ALSO should not have involved ourselves in.
Politicians gotta keep the constituents happy.
I agree with your argument that it is murder. My point is to not do anything at all until attacked directly.
Even then I think morality requires restraint. If you attack my house I have a right to kill you, not your tax deductions. Collective punishment is wrong. Just war has to be about something other than punishment. It has to involve some element of making what is wrong right again, and I don’t think you can do that if you butcher the innocent with the guilty.
I get the visceral desire to build a pyramid of skulls. I share it. I spend a decent amount of mental energy fighting my impulse to hate Muslims instead of just despising Islam, and I don’t always succeed. I think it is a vile religion that has caused misery and evil since it was founded and hearing sanctimonious twits babble about “the Crusades” infuriates me, but the part if me that feels that way is not the good part of me.
Move over, I’mma come sit with you.
To your point, you need extras and you can’t name everybody and you (generally) can’t kill a character with a name because the audience has an emotional investment in them.
Or, as Mr. Mojeaux says when I scream about WHY DID THEY DO THAT STUPID THING?!
“Plot.”
Just watch the original 3 movies and then go read Galaxy’s Edge books.
This guy is apparently tied to Abigail Disney, continuing from yesterday’s PM links:
The New Yorker article almost made it seem like The Patriotic Millionaires was a larger group.
Coincidentally, something like 70% of millionaires are self-made. I wonder how much overlap there is between “inherited millions” and “joined The Patriotic Millionaires”.
The Patriotic Millionaires group tries to help regular people by harming themselves – raising taxes on the rich, paying their employees more,
That seems like they are more interested in harming other people, not themselves. If they really cared they could donate the money to the government.
Also, the name, somewhat appropriately, evokes the Patriotic Nigras
I read that as Ninja.
And thought of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO-E-0oxgQ8
The majority of millionaires are self-made. You’d have to be a deluded junkie-fool to join that group.
Is there a current definition for “millionaire”? A couple of middle class corporate managers making $100k each who paid down their mortgage and contributed to their 401k should be well north of a $million on their balance sheet in 20 years.
And they’re a group I doubt would want to pay more taxes.
Rightfully so. All along the way they paid their ‘fair share’ I’m guessing.
We’re talking about limousine liberal uber-millionaires with a shit ton of guilt in that article.
And lo and behold, it comes with the usual ‘Trump is gonna bring riots’ nonsense and Democrat donors.
That’s why I get very suspicions of promises to raise taxes on “millionaires”. I am one if I sold everything I own (at least before the incredible tax bill that would generate).
Just as I suspected. Uber-rich people with too much time on their hands to feel guilty about their wealth. And all they can come up with is the use of one of the most inefficient tools in taxes to ‘fix’ income inequality? The group sounds like a bunch of people who are guilty about their wealth. They’re kinda paranoid like Alex Jones in some ways because they think Greek style riots are coming. They seem to be trying to get ahead of it by doing stuff like this; maybe they think the pitchforks will pass them by. I know one thing about rich people. They can always work around things. It’s only when the Jacobins come around do they have to worry. That’s why if there’s anyone they need to keep an eye for it’s not vague concepts like ‘income inequality’ but people like Elizabeth Warren (who they foolishly support because they foolishly think taxes are the answer) and Bernie Sanders. They’re the reactionaries who would say, ‘Hey thanks for all your hard work but you’re still rich. So….’ as he points to the guillotine.
For example,
“…After lunch, I spoke with William (Buz) Battle, a technology executive who told me that he had been raised in a Republican household but that the Trump Administration had driven him to the left. “With the way we’re headed, we need to do more. I need to do more,” he said. I asked him what worried him most. He glanced at his wife, Anne, who was standing next to him. “We could have—I don’t want to say it, but, riots,” he said. “ ‘Social unrest’ may be a better way of putting it. We’re making life bad for a lot of people. And it’s getting frigging nasty.”
Well, his name is ‘Battle’.
“…When I asked Payne how hard it was to persuade rich people to join, she said, “I think the last time I checked there were about three hundred and seventy-five thousand taxpayers in the country who make a million dollars a year in income”—there are now almost half a million—“and we have a couple hundred members.” She laughed. “If you ever needed a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many of America’s élite are concerned about the basic well-being of their fellow-citizens, that should give you a rough estimate.”
Why can’t they be enlightened like me? Why do they work against everyone’s interest?
Or maybe, you know they simply don’t agree?
As for Abigail, she has a lot of guilt to work out.
The article reads like she’s really bothered by it. Well, then go full St. Francis of Assisi then.
No?
This is the part I pulled out yesterday that is just stunning:
Disney and I discussed another Patriotic Millionaires member, Chuck Collins, the Oscar Mayer heir, who, in 1985, at the age of twenty-six, gave his inheritance away to various environmental and civil-rights organizations. In Disney’s twenties and early thirties, she had considered doing the same. “Honestly, the only reason I didn’t do it was that I was chicken,” she said. “I wish I was a more courageous person.” Over time, she told me, her wealth has grown, and she’s been able to give away much more than she would have if she’d donated it all back then.
I pulled out five or six but figured you guys would know which ones if you read the article.
There are some doozies.
“…The dinner was held in the community room of the Old South Church, on Boylston Street, in Boston. After a guided meditation and a rap-and-saxophone performance by the trans activist and musician Jay-Marie Hill, Disney was to be presented with U.F.E.’s inaugural Class Traitor Award….”
“…She’s passionate, she’s fearless, she’s fierce,” Lapham said. “She’s an inspiration to so many other rich people to become class traitors.”
They make it sound like they’re being noble.
I wonder how fulfilled she’ll actually be.
“Her parents were conservative. “My mother was Fox News before there was Fox News,” she said. When I asked Disney about her own politics, she said, “I really don’t know why I care about this. I really shouldn’t, given my upbringing. There is no reason why I should give a shit about poor people.” As an undergraduate at Yale, she was swept up in leftist movements on campus. “At first, it was about being among the cool people,” she admitted. A woman gave her a T-shirt featuring Che Guevara and the words “Viva Los Sandinistas,” the Nicaraguan socialist political party that the U.S. had tried to overthrow by backing the right-wing Contras, leading to a decade of civil war in Nicaragua. She wore it constantly. “By the time I graduated from college, I understood that Ronald Reagan was not a good person,” she said. “And my parents worshipped the ground he walked on, so that became a very painful thing.””
Drops mic.
She sounds like an idiot who can continue to be stupid because her parents left with with a shit ton of money.
And giving it away doesn’t work. Ask Mansa Musa about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_I_of_Mali#Islam_and_pilgrimage_to_Mecca
Where’s that video where the millionaires bluster and lie when confronted with why they don’t just cut a check themselves? Oh right, because they want to force others.
The New Yorker article almost made it seem like The Patriotic Millionaires was a larger group.
They are great in spirit. If only we would listen to their sanctimonious drivel, they will show us the Light and the Way.
Totally not a selfcongratulatory douchebag kaffeeklatsch.
Merry New Year!
Year 2000 is almost over, it’s almost year 2000.
*internal chronometer error*
“Year 2000 is almost over, it’s almost year 2000.”
Off Topic: What do you remember as being most significant to you in 2000 AD/CY?
My internal chronometer broke.
“My internal chronometer broke”
I am glad that you recovered from that temporal anomaly. Tis a good thing that your external chronometer seemed to be functioning.
It still feels like it’s the year 2000 unless I check a calendar. 1980 is only twenty years ago.
Dafuq? 1980 was only six years ago.
A fat bonus for “working” NYE, just in case anything went horribly wrong.
It was fine, since all of my friends were also working (IT geeks unite!). We just played Half-Life deathmatch for hours and ate the free food provided.
“My internal chronometer broke”
I am glad that you recovered from that temporal anomaly. Tis a good thing that your external chronometer seemed to be functioning.
Oops.
“A fat bonus for “working” NYE, just in case anything went horribly wrong.
It was fine, since all of my friends were also working (IT geeks unite!). We just played Half-Life deathmatch for hours and ate the free food provided.”
slumbrew,
Was that the time that many individuals thought that the 1999 transition to 2000 would “end the world”?
Yes, planes falling from the sky, etc.
The Y2K scare was a full-employment act for old programmers. The Y2038 Scare should afford some nice pre-retirement income for me.
(TFB – there _were_ things that would have broken when the clocks rolled over to 2000 and they really did need to be fixed, but the doomsday scenarios were always overblown)
I think I’m eligable to retire in 2039.
🙁
Judging by the Y2K scare, they’ll start throwing money around a couple years before your retirement date – perfect timing.
But not to me. I’m a salaried state employee. I’d have to have retired before 2037 to get consultant cash when the panic buys hit.
Yeah, I remember COBOL and RPG programmers coming out of retirement (and not always the voluntary type) just for Y2K, and making massive amounts of money.
I was on some of our company’s Y2K committees, and thought the whole thing was incredibly overblown. It was a good time to get some stuff done, though. Necessary updates to crappy old software that went years without getting done because the CEO would blow a fuse after finding how much it would cost, suddenly got immediate approval if they were connected to Y2K.
Behold, the future!
“Thankfully we can report that there are no injuries, and everyone is safe and sound,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN affiliate WABC. “An investigation into how this incident happened is underway.”
The wind turbine, which is more than 150 feet tall, was installed in mid-December but had not yet been activated, according to WABC. Debris was strewn across the shopping center below that houses a gas station, pharmacy, paint store and other businesses. All the stores were evacuated, according to the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB).
WIND TURBINE COLLAPSE: This is the top of the wind turbine erected Dec. 11 to 13. One of the blades is still attached to the central unit, another lies alongside in the 500 Baychester parking lot. @FDNY officials told the Times the third blade landed on a car across the street. pic.twitter.com/doJIF8lUpL
— Co-op City Times (@coopcitytimes) December 30, 2019
“Our preliminary inspection at the scene found that a wind turbine affixed to the monopole structure became unstable, causing a portion of the monopole structure to collapse,” Abigail Kunitz, the agency’s deputy press secretary and publications editor, told CNN.
“DOB issued the property owner two Class-1 violations for failure to maintain both the monopole structure and the adjacent sign, and also issued a full stop work order and a full vacate for the building, affecting the three commercial businesses.”
The wind in the area reached 15-20 mph, according to CNN Meteorologist Gene Norman. It was so intense that it broke state Sen. Jamaal Bailey’s umbrella as he was addressing reporters at the scene.
“This wind is very serious,” Bailey told The Co-op City Times at the scene. “But again, a wind turbine shouldn’t be taken down by the wind.”
15-20 mph? Seriously? That’s considered, “calm” around here.
Our preliminary inspection at the scene found that a wind turbine affixed to the monopole structure became unstable, causing a portion of the monopole structure to collapse
Thanks Sherlock.
“It blew over”
Hope the car owner was insured against irony.
I was really hoping that it was an electric car.
It’s a Toyota something.
Bookends
New York is in a State of Decline.
Despite the nation’s longest economic expansion, the Empire State is actually losing population, an analysis of US Census data released Monday reveals.
The total state population as of mid-2019 was 19,453,561 — a drop of 76,790, or 0.4 percent, from the previous year, according to the study by the Empire Center for Public Policy.
New York was one of only 10 states to suffer a total population decline in 2018-19 — its fourth consecutive annual decrease after five years of growth, and the largest population drop of any state.
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“You’d think with a strong economy, New York wouldn’t be losing population,” said the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon, author of the report.
He surmised that the high cost of living may be catching up with the Big Apple region, historically a magnet for newcomers that offset population losses in economically struggling upstate.
Not anymore.
New York’s population has been stagnant over the past decade, with a modest 75,459 increase in residents since 2010, a growth rate of just 0.4 percent, ranking 46th-lowest out of 50 states.
Stagnant growth has real consequences.
“Just a few more laws, and we’ll get this place turned around! The rubes will be coming in droves. Run some more of those business development ads.”
I suspect I will not be able to offload my house when I flee the state. Good thing it’s cheap.
Nah, the Leviathan will always need housing space.
Expect to see California and New York Dems floating the idea of adding more seats to the House of Representatives. sure, it won’t stop them from loosing a proportion of power in the hose, but at least that way all the reps get to keep their jobs.
Sure, Jan. Let’s yet again conveniently ignore the increased standard deduction which covers a single person up to about $125K. And the fact that New York was not actually a hotbed of growth before 2017.
Yadda Yadda Skipping discussion about the SALT deduction elimination. Its funny that NY pols (the ones railing for the need for ‘Higher’ taxes on the rich are upset that people are paying more in taxes. It’s almost like he is getting pressure from his constituents about the high taxes the state puts on them.
Cuomo’s been talking out of both sides of his mouth like that during his entire reign. And why not – it’s not like his job is in any danger.
Bo-ho – the rest of the country no longer subsidizes your exorbitant state and local taxes.
Shouldn’t they be happy that the SALT cap forces more people to pay their fair share?
A: It’s them being forced to pay more, and B: It’s making people realize the state is overtaxing.
The tax cattle have broken through the fence. Send the boys out to round them up.
How much would it strain credulity to have two land masses that are the rims of giant impact craters that flooded? It’s the best explaination for the shapes of the land. One is an incomplete ring, the other intact, save for the crack by which the sea got in.
As long as you mention that the seas rose because of Global Warming, you’ll be fine.
This is for “On Unknown Shores” One of the land masses in question does make an appearance in map form towards the end of “Beyond the Edge of the Map”.
What I’m really trying to figure out is how long ago the impacts would have to have happened for the mountains to still be tall, but life to not have been eradicated. One of these craters stretches from the arctic to the tropics.
Something that big hitting the planet would obliterate said planet, go with a Yucatan sized crater and it was filled with magma like the seas on the Moon maybe?
Oooorrrr…. it wasn’t an impact for the big one, but the site of the fracturing of the “Orb of Winter” (a divinely crafted artifact that had held the world in an ice age) that pushed outward with a slow expansion rather than an explosion because the scions of the god that made it were trying to keep it intact.
This is a fantasy setting, I should just embrace it some times.
Imagine the Gulf of Mexico, but dried out, the Yucatan impact would explain it, there’s an answer, remember, Magama incursions!
Why are you trying to fill in the crater with rock? That’s supposed to be water.
Something that size would break through the crust, it can be what ever you decide, not my story, I just read them..
My totally uneducated reaction to that is there is no way you could have an impact crater that size without the planet basically being reset to pre-life molten ball state. Why impact craters? You could reasonable have the same shape with just tectonics and vulcanism.
Rule of cool.
Without knowing the underlying tectonics there is no way of knowing if it’s plausible or not, so it should work for the reader.
As for Abigail, she has a lot of guilt to work out.
The article reads like she’s really bothered by it. Well, then go full St. Francis of Assisi then.
“To be sure, this level of wealth leaves me feeling vaguely uneasy, but come on. I’m, not going to do something crazy like get a job at Krispy Kreme. That would be stupid. I’ll just sit up here on my pile of gold and talk down to the unenlightened poopyheads.”
I know a couple millionaires and you probably do too. Their assets (the house they bought 40 years ago type of thing), investments, savings, long stable careers put their net worth at a million. They still live frugally, are charitable within their own family. They are not rich but enjoy a comfortable life without financial worries. Something most of us struggle for and hope to attain someday.
She didn’t have to struggle hence her guilt?
this site is full of them. “A million dollars” isn’t what is used to be and really wouldn’t last all that long – you’re certainly not set for life in many areas of the country.
There’s a big difference between having a net worth of a million-plus and annual income of a million-plus – I tend to think of the latter when I think “rich”.
Sometimes I forget we live in a sci-fi world now. Then the company photographer wants to take pictures of something with visual appeal.
ToF SIMS: https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/scifi.png
Purdy.
“plastic in your food”
Margarine, people. It’s called margarine.
Festus, you’re awesome in my book.
Hey, Mojeaux, I highly suspect I sent you a goodreads friend request.
Got it and accepted. Generally, I only use Goodreads as a database and don’t look at friend requests, especially if they’ve got many times more friends than books, so it’s a good thing you told me because I would never have noticed.
Given the nature of your writing, that’s a compliment I’d be bragging about.
You’re ALL going to end up in a book eventually, trust me.
Will you tell us, or force mass wild guessing?
Mass wild guessing would require everyone to read them, and what I write is not geared to this well-stocked bar of a man-cave.
So, no, I won’t tell anybody because it would mean nothing. You ruin the joke when you explain it.
Not if you want those books to sell…
If you write romance novels with a bunch of fat grumpy curmudgeons in them you will not please your audience.
I suspect we’re background characters.
Red shirts.
Statistically speaking, red shirts had the highest survivial rate of all extras in the original Star Trek TV series. It was just that they were also the most commonly seen extras, so the number of on-screen deaths of red shirts was higher than other shirt colors.
Ah. Fluffers.
NRCs?
Well yeah, who’d want to read about the romantic excapades of this lot.
*shudders*
I’m not fat.
Good morning, everyone!
#metoo
Good morning.
That’s my boy !!
Make me the plucky new female DA, unjaded by life.
You’re the middle aged guy who goes around self-identifying as a female DA, but holds no such office. It’s played for laughs until the police get fed up. Then you have a heartfelt hospital scene.
I get an abortion? I could pull that off.
One is an incomplete ring, the other intact, save for the crack by which the sea got in.
In the Galapagos, there is a water-filled ring such as this, which is the remnant of a volcano. Not very big, though.
This peppermint cheesecake is good and I only had half of a small sliver, but I should not have had any before laying down a bit of protein first. I haven’t even had that much. And my sinuses are not pleased. I’m rethinking making a peanut butter and chocolate one for Mr. Mojeaux’s birthday, because XY doesn’t like mint, XX is sick as a dog, and mom doesn’t like cheesecake at all. It’ll be up to me and Mr. Mojeaux and it’s gonna take a couple of weeks.
That said, I’ll make it again next Christmas and skip the madness and chichi prices that are Cheesecake Factory.
“These right-wing cheerleaders fail to mention that it was the Washington Republicans’ asinine SALT cap who raised taxes on New Yorkers at this time — not the state,” said Cuomo senior adviser Richard Azzopardi.
“Well, maybe I did shoot him. But it was the coroner who declared him dead.”
What’s the problem? It’s a tax on the rich, isn’t that what the left wants?
Not THOSE rich people!
LOL!
Ah, good, not just us.
Really. Still not sure which one is which.
Can’t believe CBS News is showing a picture of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings w/ Congressman John Lewis’ name as they talk about Rep. Lewis’ recent announcement. Get it right! @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/au1d9tO90I
— Stephon Ferguson (@StephonFerguson) December 31, 2019
Darling, if it surprises you that a news agency got a picture wrong…. I’ve got a bridge to sell you..
That’s great!
I started up Kerbal Space Program again on Sunday. I hadn’t played the game in a long time. Damn it’s fun.
I finally landed on the Mun without a MechJeb module.
Man was that a stressful descent.
Nice. I think i did that once, and then accidentally knocked the rocket ship over when the Kerbal got out…
I’ve also stranded many a Kerbal in Orbit of the Mun cause i didn’t have enough fuel to de orbit.
It took me to the Mk 12, with each iteration aimed at experimentally improving the reach of the rocket.
I almost didn’t get the Mk 12 back to Kerbin. I realized I didn’t have a stack separator under the heat shield, so I had to do several rounds of aerobraking, and burned the last fuel to get an airspeed under the burn threshold, then ejected the heat shield to drop the lower stage and be light enough for the parachutes.
I haven’t even played Kerbal but this xkcd makes me laugh.
It’s fun.
And it finally helped me understand the concepts behind diff-eqs.
No fat chicks.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/meet-the-two-professors-leading-the-way-in-fat-studies/
Broadly speaking, the two scholars are working off a thesis that postulates the voices of obese individuals are absent or sidelined in contemporary research on obesity and health.
Oh, I don’t know. I suspect that the “voices” of fat people who have a command of biology, anatomy, nutrition and medicine receive plenty of attention. It’s just that the entire world isn’t waiting in line to help an English professor and a Sociology professor impose their neuroses onto discussions of their physical health.
Having spent a bit of time on college campuses and interacting with medical researchers, I can personally attest to the fact that obese individuals are well represented in contemporary research on obesity and health.
That’s not what these two are actually after. They’re trying to insert post-modernism into the field.
“the professors have argued for the incorporation of “standpoint theory” into fat studies. “Standpoint theory,” according to the two, stresses “the importance of situated-knowledge and the epistemic advantage of marginalized groups.”
There are “alternate ways of knowing things” other than science, people bad at science say.
But, pulling things out of your rectum is easier than coming up with a falsifiable hypothesis and setting up tests to prove it wrong.
That’s exactly why post-modernism is destroying academia, and even the hard sciences aren’t safe.
Has killed. Past tense. Academia is dead.
“standpoint theory”
These assholes never tire of coming up with new, more inscrutable ways of muddying the waters. I thought “critical theory” was bad enough.
While it is true that if you are a fat woman, if you have a broken arm, the doctor will say, “You need to lose weight and it’ll take care of itself.” And doctors (and many dietitians) haven’t a clue about nutrition. So in that respect, it’s u helpful and very damaging.
On the other hand, however, as a fat person, always been fat, these people embarrass me. You have your genes, upbringing, and personal choices to contend with and it is not easy and you will lose many job opportunities (in a competition for an admin job, a beautiful black woman will ALWAYS be chosen over the fat white woman) (“beauty privilege,” if you will), and sometimes it really ISN’T your fault*, but that is your lot in life and you can either find a way to change it or order your life around it.
But unless you’re doing nutrition research and sharing what works for you, with the expectation that everyone is different, STFU and do something productive.
Sometimes you just have to accept your lot in life.
*When XX was born, I went to a pediatrician who was slim with a figure to die for. Six months later, she was a fat mess. I don’t know why, but I suspect steroids because you don’t get that fat that fast without some major impetus.
I get your point. And I’m not necessarily trying to discount it. But, these women seem like they’re more out to be validated than to make any actual contribution to anyone’s health. Yeah, someone saying “losing weight isn’t a panacea for health” or “the BMI wasn’t created to discuss individuals, it’s a population metric” would be useful. Someone saying “obesity is just a social construct” really isn’t helping anybody.
I totally agree with you. That’s what I’m trying to say.
According to my BMI, I’m obese. I’m under 10% body fat.
BMI is a seriously flawed, yet doctors still treat it like gospel.
Not just docs. Insurance companies are using it to jack rates.
I’m currently obese. I have previously (and recently damnit) been in the culturally approved shape. In my current shape minor activities are difficult and strenuous activities are impossible. In my former culturally imposed preference shape I rowed (erg not water) a marathon, and routinely, as in several times a week, rowed 20-27 k sessions. In that former shape my clothing fit well, I looked better, slept better, felt better, and was happier. Allow me as someone who has recent experience of both to say that being fat is not a superior life experience.
I would like to try the thin life experience, but so have have fallen short of goals.
I went from 320 to 170 over the course of 4 years of ups and downs and then maintained it stable for a year. It was a struggle all the way and I never really succeeded in making the new mode of life into ‘just how I live’ it was always discipline I imposed on myself and during a particularly stressful period I let it slip away and have not been able to get myself back on that horse for almost two years, during which I have put much of the weight back on. I believe that losing weight and maintaining a healthy wait are prime examples of things that are simple, but not easy.
I’mma tell you something about (a woman’s) thin life, after having been morbidly obese and then just chubby, never getting to thicc, much less thin.
At a certain, still unacceptable weight, and it’s always the same number, I magically turn from looking fat to looking thicc. I don’t know why, but it’s magic.
I’m pretty. Or at least, I’m no butterface. (Or I was pretty. Now I’m totally invisible because I’m older.) I got male attention I was not prepared for and didn’t know how to handle.
Nothing bad or harassing or anything, just subtle flirting I wasn’t sure was directed at me or he was punking/making fun of me or how to respond or how to keep it in check or … anything. I did not have social skills I should have learned in high school. It was overwhelming and almost frightening because I really hurt a lot of men’s feelings and I totally didn’t mean to.
You think you’re going to enjoy being catcalled, objectified, and then a stranger is staring at you and, seeming dead serious, IN FRONT OF HIS BUDDIES, proposes marriage. No lie, that happened to me. “You’re beautiful. Marry me.” His friends did not laugh. I smiled and laughed and said something like, “Oh, that’s so sweet. Thank you!” and some other things so as not to hurt his feelings, and he went on and I went on, but it was at once validating and disturbing to my thinking/feeling habits. I had to learn to think of myself in a drastically different way and it was painful.
I doubt I would see that type of attention. I’m just sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You’d see some of it. I did and I’m older and just as curmudgeonly. But yeah, waking up in the morning and not staggering around like a drugged elephant for the first half hour was nice.
I know exactly the tipping point where I went from “non-threatening fat suburban dad” to “why are is this 20 year old girl looking at me like she’s on psychedelics?”
Several years after the doctor denied me, he approved me. “No comorbidites … yet.”
Anyway, he looked at me and said, “You look very young. You know when you lose weight, you will start looking your age.”
“Yep. Just wanna be able to climb ladders more easily.”
Sure enough. I lose it in my face and clavicles first, then what little boobs I have go. My face thins out, but so does my neck and there is no way to fix that.
Eventually, I ended up getting surgery, but it was difficult because I had no comorbidities. None. And I accidentally let it slip to my doctor (who needed to sign off on the surgery for insirance to lay for it) that I was climbing ladders and doing DIY and could walk and work like I didn’t have any extra weight.
Yeah, I have a lot of muscle mass and I’m strong and I can climb ladders and don’t have diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, not easily winded, and the only problem is my big belly gets in my way, but—
“Nope. No surgery for you.”
Actually, come to think of it, my only medical problems are because of the surgeries I’ve had.
Try being old. No cure for that. Well, OK, a cure but not one with a positive outcome.
You look good, USC, smart with all the associated skills plus your own gloves.
I’m really pushing the self-discipline thing on my oldest son. He’s got poor habits, and if he doesn’t correct them, it will affect his adult life.
He hates milk. Tough shit. Drink it anyway.
He’s 11. His 8 year old brother is as tall as he is.
From the fattie professor sidebar.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/columbia-professor-who-fled-communism-resigns-says-university-is-becoming-communist/
Serban, who was the director of the hiring committee, says that he was told that it could not be someone like him because he is a man that has been “married, a heterosexual man who has children.”
Yeah, because if there’s any group that is woefully under-represented in the theater world, it’s gay men. Hey, maybe they can hunt out a real rarity and find one who is interested in musical theater.
Cripes, you can’t make this shit up!
Why am I just seeing this now? And it is vastly more ballsy than tagging a subway car.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/04/asia/russian-polar-bear-t-34-spray-paint-intl-hnk-scli
2020’s Predictions
Feel free to add yours below
Politics and News:
2020: Presidential Election occurs.
2021: Winner of 2020 election is President.
2022: Hillary Clinton “Dies”, Her soul is transferred to Kamala Harris.
2023: Chemical Disaster destroys entire section of Utah and Nevada.
2024: Epstein is found alive in Berlin. In twist of fate he dies when jumping off a building trying to escape from cops.
– Kamala Harris Runs for President. Looses.
– Trump runs for Speaker of the house, in a District from Florida. Wins.
2025: Progressives have gone full circle and begin to advocate for reinstatement of 18th Amendment
2026: Idaho declares Independence, when rebellion breaks out in Boise. It’s the “Spud heard round the world”
2028: Democrats pass law skipping 2027, allowing Presidential election to occur sooner.
2029: Ruth Bader Ginsberg goes to hospital for 10th bought with cancer.
2101: War was beginning…
2102 SMOD
2020 onwards: news cycle still absolutely full of garbage in a continued effort to destroy any rational or productive discussion, good faith, and trust within the portion of the population who are overly reliant on the hollowed-out walking corpse of the MSM, which is a zombie kept alive only by some sort of dark magic that saps energy and the will to live from humanity to feed the monster?
2073: AI and Sexbot technology advances to the point where sex between a bot or a real person is indistinguishable.
2175: Last surviving human dies sealing extinction.
2176 – First World Council of the Sexbot Empire convenes, sets intergalactic colonization agenda.
That’s more or less the background of Saturn’s Children
That’s also sort of part of the distant backstory to Blindsight – most of humanity has chosen to just plug in and ignore reality.
I found that to be a deeply, deeply creepy book.
Charles Stross posts world’s biggest “told you so”.
2020 Mankind unplugs from Twitter, FB and other Social Media. People wander in the streets saying, “What the hell were we thinking?”
when rebellion breaks out in
BoiseStar? Kuna? Definitely not Boise unless it’s the revolt of the California Hipsters.Tamara Keel was reposting old gun jokes, and this one made me think of Animal:
Clip on ponytail and highway pegs, love it!
Apple iR-15: Only works with proprietary ammunition. Made of sleek, white plastic. Has to be sent to an authorized service center for field-stripping and cleaning.
Genius!
Glib G-15, meticulously hand crafted and hyperprecise, but prone to going off on tangents, and triggered by seemingly random items. Too dangerous to keep loaded.
*wild applause*
Too dangerous to keepAlways loaded after 5:00 pm.*thunderous applause*
Sold sans sales tax, but expect a levy on the unimproved value of your land.
I larfed.
Most models come with the thing that goes up. As a result, the few that do not are considered far more valuable.
The ergonomics are very different on }}those{{
You need to grab them by their
I assume you buy a muzzle devise for the HD-15 that makes it significantly louder?
They can take it from the fucker in the lane next to me at an indoor range last time I went. That had a muzzle brake on his 10 inch .308.
I hate that. Even with doubled-up ear protection my fucking head is pounding by the time I leave.
So you’re saying I shouldn’t bring this to our first shooting range date?
https://youtu.be/lTo6_kx7u_k?t=734
Bring it, by all means! But we’re shooting outside!
This guy looked to be about 25, had no-joke $20,000 worth of meme guns with him*, and couldn’t reliably put rounds on a human-sized silhouette at 15 feet.
In addition to the custom AR-10 SRB mentioned above, he had a Deserttech MDR, a Daniel Defense AR-15, a SCAR-H, a Zev glock, and some custom job M9, among other overpriced stuff.
Wow. That’s impressively bad.
(Wouldn’t mind the SCAR, though…)
I would be happy to accept any of those, other than the AR-10 pistol.
InRange proved that short barrelled .308 is in fact slower than 7.62×39 in the same barrel length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2dtJsXLIOI
Nobody on their right mind wants a short-barrelled .308. I shot one of those tacti-cool M1A Scouts once and hated it. Took everything I loved about the M14 and made it suck at high volume.
Cheers!
Happy new year, straf!
Thanks. ^v You all enjoy your night!
Kanpai!
あけおめ!
I’ve been thinking about my favorite news related thing that happened in 2019.
I keep coming back to the fall of Creepy Porn Lawyer. It was so epic and over the top.
What was your favorite news related thing in 2019?
-60 Labour Seats, -1 Jo Swinson.
But I’m oddly invested in Brexit as a spectator.
I’m hoping it’s wildly successful, leading to Scexit, Catalexit, Calexit, Texit, Cascadexit and many other exits.
Epstein.
Blues winning the Cup.
Doom reproducing.
Oh yeah, and you guys get to pay a nickel per plastic bag starting tomorrow.
We have a different sort of bad law looming in NY.
I ordered boxes of my own plastic bags that I’m going to take to the store with me. I’m not going to be told what to do by downstate politicians.
With your name, address and email, in case I find one I can return it to you.
‘You guys’?
Only EaP and 0x90 get hit by that piece of shit ordinance. The rest of us are in the ‘burbs, the hinterland, or ghetto-adjacent.
Thought it was statewide. Start a bonfire when you get enough saved up.
Nope. Legislature actually said no to cities banning plastic bags, hence the nickel fee in Mpls.
My new hobby is going to be finding increasingly outlandish reusable containers for the downtown Wholefoods.
I wonder if I can find a burlap sack with “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself” printed on it.
Here you go!
No, if I use a canvas tote, its going to say “To Make This As Sanitary as a Plastic Bag, This Tote is Washed with 7 Gallons of Water and Phosphate Detergent After Every Use”
LOL!
I’d buy one.
Actually, I have a friend who may be able to do that…
You should actually wash it in phosphates. Available at Home Depot. 1 tsp in every load of dishes and laundry.
My understanding is you don’t need a container at Whole Foods. Just use your hands.
Playa – what product does one look for? I only see phosphate coated screws when I looked online.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/SAVOGRAN-1-lb-Box-TSP-Heavy-Duty-Cleaner-10621/202935861
https://www.surplusammo.com/products/saa-ar-15-dust-cover-ejection-port-door-epstein-didnt-kill-himself.html
Another
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I think the complete shattering of the Russia Narrative was amazing too. If i was the gloating type i would go back to all my friends who thought i was a Trump Supporter and say “I Told you it was all bulshit”.
Especially the whole “Raiding Michael Cohen” stuff. Remember that. Remember how raiding a lawyer of the president was so important because he could be guilty of committing some nefarious crimes. I remember because it was one time that i took a stand at work and said “No that’s bulshit” and my friends thought i was crazy. All i said is “We shall see”.
So yeah, what did they get him for? “Lying” to congress?
I’m going to ask this here, and then if it dead-threads I’ll do it again…
I’m looking for good on-line libertarian-centric US and/or World History courses for homeschooling high-schoolers. Well, mostly Mrs. Tree is. Anybody got any recos? Videos or podcasts, or whatever.
We’ve done home-made versions for years for the older kids (Bastiat, Sowell, etc.), but are always looking for better and more comprehensive ones. Thx in advance.
Hmmmm…
I’m not sure. There’s the History of US books, though they are a bit dated now.
http://www.joyhakim.com/
Of course it might not meet the Libertarian part, but they are pretty good.
Have you looked at the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum or Liberty Classroom? Tom Woods hocks courses like that all the time.
https://libertyclassroom.com/
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Conflict
Austrian Economics Step by Step
The History of Conservatism and Libertarianism
Freedom’s Progress: The History of Political Thought
Introduction to Logic
John Maynard Keynes: His System and Its Fallacies.
U.S. Constitutional History
U.S. History to 1877
U.S. History since 1877
Western Civilization to 1500
Western Civilization since 1500
Trails West: How Freedom Settled the West
The History of Economic Thought
Have you looked at Prager U?
Subaru Theater?
For World History i Highly Recommend any books by Susan Wise Bauer.
I believe it was raven nation that recommended Alan Taylor’s American Colonies for early history. Well written but a bit modern academic nutjobbery sprinkled in.
Watch out for Chips’n’salsa, I think they home school.
This guy.
send your child to a government school like a good citizen
Thanks y’all.
I’m just gonna come out and say it:
Baby Yoda is an abomination. It is a metaphor for what the Star Wars franchise has become.
Barf.
This is cute, though.
My sentiments exactly.
It is a metaphor for what the Star Wars franchise has become.
A joke?
People can have preferences and what not. I’m just gonna tell them that they are wrong. I have some Friends on facebook of the “Woke” variety who think the newest StarWars is one of the best, beating out Return of the Jedi.
I’d say that even the prequels were better than this crap, because at least they had a coherent storyline (ok maybe not phantom menace). The Latest is literally like Disney throwing nerd shit at the wall and saying “Whycome you don’t want to pay for my movies?”. And yes the Disney movies have made a lot of money.
Of course you might get some idiotic, economicaly illiterate journalist claiming that Disney has recouped it’s 4 billion dollar purchase of Lucasfilm, because the films have grossed 4 billion dollars.
I guess they don’t teach Net vs Gross in Journalism school
They paid off the initial investment, but are still seriously in the red for making and marketing movies.
They made it all back on licences consumer items in the first year. Lucas sold at below market value because he expected Disney to be good stewards of his baby.
I’m going to have to see some evidence on that.
Hmm. I hadn’t heard that. In fact i had heard that Lucasfilm was sold Above Market value (that Disney only valued it at 3.5 Billion.)
Because Star Wars was never about the toys and franchising opportunities before
Jar Jar was an abomination. I enjoyed baby yoda and I’m not typically one for cute-sy things though. Er, wait a minute, I also liked Detective Pikachu. Ya know what… nevermind
But who is cuter, baby yoda or pikachu? lol
Well, I can’t stand that electric rat, and haven’t had to deal with the other one.
The only way Labour can win is by ditching ‘Labourism’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/31/only-way-labour-win-ditch-labourism-corbyn
No other party can ever represent the working class, and any political movement that is not subservient to either unions or party is to be treated with the greatest suspicion.
While i get what they are saying, what incentive does any major party have to allow any splinter groups? The reason why you see the fiercest fighting between parties of the same ideology is because they are not differentiable, and each loss to the other party is a loss to their power. When you are dealing with parties with different ideologies, there is less a threat that your people will leave to go to the other party.
Any party that represents the unions is fighting against the working class.
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I guess it’s too bad for them that it’s mostly the London elite buying their nonsense now.
Delusional. Never change, The Guardian.
Under these circumstances, any sane person might conclude that the obvious thing to do would be for Labour to form alliances with other parties against their common enemies: the Conservative party, their media allies and an electoral system that is always biased in favour of swing voters in “middle England”
I don’t know the specifics of Merry Ol’ Englands electoral system, but i’m pretty sure that an any voting system, the people who are willing to change their vote are the ones who get pandered to.
My poor planning just caught up to me. My family (including SIL and cousins) chartered a fishing boat out of Redondo for today. All day, anywhere we want to go. There are fish EVERYWHERE. Some bluefin were spotted near Catalina recently.
I’ve been so busy with the flu, holidays, and family in town that I completely forgot that today is the last day of the year.
Instead of fishing on a beautiful day, I’ll be doing my annual tax harvest. This sucks.
A 1971 Interview With Alejandro Jodorowsky on ‘El Topo,’ the Psychedelic, Genre-Bending Midnight Movie
https://cinephiliabeyond.org/1971-interview-alejandro-jodorowsky-el-topo-psychedelic-genre-bending-midnight-movie/
I’m looking for good on-line libertarian-centric US and/or World History courses for homeschooling high-schoolers. Well, mostly Mrs. Tree is. Anybody got any recos? Videos or podcasts, or whatever.
Does Hillsdale have an on line curriculum?
Haven’t looked, but will, thx. Some good recos above as well that she wants to check out.
Gustave was correct above that I recommended American Colonies. It’s an excellent survey, but not libertarian-centric.
FWIW: I would tend to try and pair books. I haven’t read or listened to libertarian history in detail. But some of the ones I have reviewed tend to be something of an over-reaction to current academic trends. Woods is probably an exception. I haven’t listened to his liberty classroom but, based on his podcasts, he tends to be fairly even-handed.
FWIW: I would tend to try and pair books.
I assume you mean differing viewpoints. An excellent idea.
Yep, that was what I was trying to get across. I understand that libertarian and/or conservative authors try to promote a different interpretation. But, they usually do so coming from a base of knowledge that their audience doesn’t always have.
The dude I linked traced the original class distinctions/struggles of the north and south, and some other minor squabbles back to turf wars in middle England in the 16th and 17th centuries. He spent a good deal of time in book 1 explaining English history and internecine warfare, and how it was exported here.
We’re no good, we’re no good, baby, we’re no good!