Its a rainy day here. I took my wife to the mall to do some shopping for her birthday. Good Lawd, I saw some things there that made me wish I was 20 years younger and had a 7 figure bank account. Also, I like all the yoga pants my wife tried on. She’s still the best bang for the buck in the whole mall.
Here’s a classy story out of Texas about a woman trying to sell a young, female relative into sex slavery. I forget. Are libertarians for or agin this?
A guy who played a big role in my Saturday mornings in childhood has passed. Goodbye Mean Gene. I hope you’re calling those rasslin’ matches in the sky.
This poor person has a fucked up view of wealth, economics, and value. Its like Catholic Guilt without the confession.
This court ruling wasn’t the way Slate wanted it, so obviously the problem is that the court “doesn’t understand what it means to be trans”. Or, you know, that the CINC of the military can designate standards for military service that exclude people who probably will not be able to deploy due to medical issues resulting from transgender medical procedures.
Here’s some rainy day music.
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Rainy day music
Obvious:
https://youtu.be/DqNgHP5zgFg
C’mon now. This is obvious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N2PYbaQWAU
https://youtu.be/6s9M-52fRGU
https://youtu.be/M15y9NL3ANQ
https://youtu.be/M15y9NL3ANQ
Double tapped that last one.
More Rainy Day music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5IA8assfk
More rainy day music
Why do you hate us Ted?
“She’s still the best bang for the buck in the whole mall”… I….I just can’t.
*hangs head in shame*
I’ve lost my ability to make completely classless jokes!
Its a sunk cost at this point.
It’s a dead mall. She’s the only woman in it.
I’ve spent a lot of money on my wife at LuluLemon over the years. *fistbumps Brett L*
Look at money bags over here.
Black yoga pants/leggings from Target do just fine.
We use the cheaper Target product for cutting holes in the appropriate places such to satisfy the needs of Yoga and …. me
Yeah… I blow out the knees in all my pants, too.
I refuse to make the easy blowjob joke. Yup, I refuse.
You didn’t think of it, did you?
Swiss, you have more class than I do. Therefore…
“Also, I like all the yoga pants my wife tried on. She’s still the best bang for the buck in the whole mall.”
Hey, Brett, how much does your wife charge?
For me? Just half my stuff. You can probably get in on it for that price, depending on how much stuff you have that she wants.
20 bucks, same as downtown?
30 if Brett wants to watch.
Yet more rainy day music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA
Non-rainy day dancin’ tunez.
A Texas teacher was arrested Wednesday for allegedly trying to sell her underage relative for sex to multiple men in Morocco, according to authorities.
Selling for sex, or selling for scimitar practise?
That story infuriates me. The sheer stupidity of it.
I know a guy whose daughter was not just in Egypt, but staying just off the big square in Cairo where the female journo was assaulted, during all the protests and whatnot. And she went back after a brief visit home. What the everloving fuck, people? I get being young, stupid, idealistic, and convinced your activism is making a difference in some shithole. What I couldn’t believe was he bought her tickets and was all supportive.
There are people who encourage this dangerous practice –
https://twitter.com/0biJon/status/1081003468645634048
There were two scandanavians murdered in Morocco just a month ago.
That’s what I linked to above.
Oh, sorry. Had trouble seeing the details on my phone.
/getting old
You got to be old by not traveling in places overrun with religious lunatics with a fetish for heads.
And rape, don’tforret the pre-beheading rape.
Let’s not stereotype. Some of that rape may have been after the beheading.
Let’s not stereotype. Some of that rape may have been after the beheading.
SAND SMITH LEAVE NO HOLE UNRAPED, EVEN NECKHOLE.
/Tastes lunch again, shakes head
I have a coworker who is STILL considering an all girls camping vacation in Morocco. #millenialwomenarefuckingretarded
Jesus Christ, that account is a nest of crazy!
Hey, they’re doing the important work of figuring out if (((they))) are behind it.
Seems legit.
You should see how many travel agents are in my mom’s synagogue!
My hippie peacenik uncle did a stint in the Peace Corp during the ’70s in some Caribbean shithole and was robbed twice during home invasions. During one of those, the women Peace Corps workers were raped too.
He still thinks on average it was a good life experience. My father and other uncle just roll their eyes at him.
Easy to say when he wasn’t the one getting third-world raw dogged.
Exactly. I’d like to hear from his female compatriots.
He still thinks on average it was a good life experience.
Jeebus. What are his other life experiences, if that one is no worse than average?
Amazing how the Peace Corps hasn’t been outted in the #metoo/rape coverups. Your uncle’s experience is unlikely to be the only one.
That would be highlighting the very real rape cultured in the 3rd world…….they are busy focusing on the fantasy one in the first world at the moment.
they are busy focusing on the fantasy one in the first world at the moment.
The Euros are busy importing rape culture from the 3rd world.
Shut it down. Fuck the rest of the world.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peace-corps-failing-to-protect-volunteers-from-sexual-assault-government-watchdog/
TW: CBS “News”
I’m a hell of a lot more inclined to believe this than the 5/4 chance of being raped they say girls in college have.
I mean, they’re not wrong. If your volunteers are going to be sent out into the world but they are going to require extra protection, it would be more economical not to send them at all. Or, at the least, just send the protection by themselves with the training to do whatever the corps members do, but now you’re back to square one where the people being sent out have to be proactive about their own safety. The world is a dangerous place, and if you don’t want to risk danger you need to be proactive about your safety or stay home.
He still thinks on average it was a good life experience.
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”
Dude, thousands of men are work overtime, starting savings accounts 20 years in advance, and remortgaging their houses so their daughters can go to college campuses, where 5 out of 4 women get raped. At least in Egypt it’s only 4 out of 5.
Are libertarians for or agin this?
Sounds like she was just pimping her, not trying actually sell her. If she was splitting the take with her “young relative”, I would say why not?
/not really
No rain up here, at least until early next week. Snow has finally appeared on the 10 day forecast again though.
42 degrees as the high for today, and sunny it was.
Small man wants to fight 72 year old:
I do not want the Democratic candidate to challenge Donald Trump to a fight because I believe that our president should be someone who can win a fight. I want them to do it because Donald Trump, an evil racist narcissist baby, has conned millions of people into handing him ungodly power by pretending that he is the sort of man who will win a fight. And he’s not. He will never take you up on that fight offer. He will holler and moan and change the subject and hurl petty insults back, but he will not fight. I know this because he is a bully, and deep down nothing scares him more than being exposed and humiliated. To fight would be to open himself to the very real possibility of humiliation.
Oh the amount of power the President has is “UNGODLY” now is it?
Only a god, like Obama (praise be his name), should have that power.
No one would dare fight him and his pink weights.
And mom-jeans.
Dude, he was raising awareness – 2 and a half pounds at a time.
That line stood out to me as well. We all know how to fix that, but the writer would probably disapprove.
It’s only ungodly NOW, see? When Obama was president, Congress kept hamstringing his noble aims. He didn’t have enough power.
. I want them to do it because Donald Trump, an evil racist narcissist baby
The projection is strong enough to run an IMAX theater
Progjection.
“My new year’s resolution is if your store prices something so that with tax it comes out to just enough to make me break a larger bill like “$5.07” or something, I’m going come back later and steal something. It’s 2019 and we have calculators now so use one you monsters”
https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan/status/1079436511018393600
Christ, what an asshole.
I wonder if he thinks the store adds the tax on its own.
These are the people who have been on an anti-bullying campaign for years that demanded a zero tolerance policy for fights in the school yard. Now that it is Trump they think it is OK to beat people again?
They didn’t like bullying when it was gay kids or atheists or trans kids or any other victim group. Bullying is just fine otherwise.
I want them to do it because Donald Trump, an evil racist narcissist baby,
Am I right in thinking the basis for calling Trump a racist is his stance on immigration?
I just…..can’t even…..
on behalf of every hardworking Mexican immigrant or Muslim American who’s been yelled at by someone in a MAGA hat,
All six of them? Also, can those people not do it? Why? Are they less than he is? Somehow not quite meet his definition of “personhood”?
Jell-O cheeked motherfucker
Band name?
handing him ungodly power
If only there was a way to fix this. Maybe we should stop treating the presidency like a para-dictatorship. The trouble is that leftists want a dictatorship. They want to be ruled. It just has to be “their” guy.
Just give your excess to charity and STFU.
Actually, it looks like they’re explaining basic economic theory to guilt riddled liberals who say they don’t deserve their wealth, but whose revealed preference is to not give it away.
Interesting question, with answers and verdicts on predictions made by environmentalists in the 1990’s, by Scott Alexander.
What happened to 90s environmentalism?
Alexander examines 7 areas of concern and widespread panic for environmentalists in the 90’s, then presents data on what has happened with each area, how much of the original concern was alarmism, what positive measures and outcomes have taken place, and what is still of legitimate concern.
As per usual with Slate Star Codex, it’s long and well-linked, but worth the read.
The problem is that during the 80’s and 90’s, we were repeatedly told “by the year 2000″…
We weren’t told by the enviros that the Brazilian rainforest would be gone in 200 years, the number was 20.
Moar music.
Looks like driving around Toronto 30 years ago was way less of a clusterfuck.
Yeah, I remember that “Sam The Record Man” store. Vinyl lovers today would’ve lost their sh!t at that place. It was awesome.
Sam the Record Man on Alexander and Ste. Catherine’s street in Montreal.
Our Tower Records.
Loved going there.
Yeah we just used ….Tower records. On the sunset strip.
But you guys had way better donuts and access to hockey equipment.
Canadian Tire…for all your hockey and automotive needs…
And superfluous items you don’t need but can’t resist buying.
CT is a Canadian institution greater than Parliament.
My BIL jumps from the couch like a puppy whenever someone needs something and it’s a chance to go to CT. One time I went with him and as he entered the store he took a whiff and said, “Ahhhh. Auto batteries….”
I remember going into the city on a class trip to see ‘Phantom of The Opera’ when I was 12 or 13. We had some time before the show to walk up the street to that Sam Store …. it was like the size of a Wal-Mart and to my youthful bumpkin experience, seemed out of this world.
#metoo
That was cool M.
Montreal and Toronto have had a cultural and financial rivalry for decades with often Montrealers – the cool city – looking down on T.O. Personally, I never agreed with it and always enjoyed going to Toronto.
But even then the rivalry is meaningless now. Toronto is far and away the leading city in Canada. Quebec decided to play politics with the separatist movement and the English language and have paid a heavy price despite what nationalists think.
How much so? Over the holidays we were looking at cities in North America and the number of tourists each received. The usual suspects got their tens of millions (ie Chicago 54 million, NYC 63, LA 52 etc.), Toronto was right up there with 43 million.
Montreal?
10 million.
Even Boston which is roughly the same size got…21 million.
/sad trombone.
I’ve been to Montreal. I thought it was lovely.
Also, my brother served his mission in Montreal. When he went to France, the Parisians thought his Quebecois accent was adorable.
Bin la!
I’ve heard that both Quebec French and Canadian/American English stagnated following separation from the mother countries such that they sound much more similar to old French and old English than they do to the modern counterparts. Which could explain the response from the French hearing the Quebecois – it sounds old fashioned.
One could say the same thing about American English versus Received Pronunciation British English.
It’s a nice city and generally a natural cool vibe. It’s definitely more hedonistic than Toronto. We’re Catholic after all.
Yeh, they also call it ‘country’ French. As in it’s an accent from 19th century rural France.
To get an idea of what Montreal was like ‘City Unique’ does a fabulous job:
https://www.amazon.ca/City-Unique-Montreal-Nights-1940s/dp/1896941427/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546639279&sr=8-1&keywords=city+unique
My relatives in Normandy think something about the Quebecois accent too. ”350-year-old country bumpkin” is more like it (Quebecois is minimally changed from the Norman forms of French spoken back in the 1600s, where most of the ancestors of modern Kaybeckers came from). Every time one of my cousins hears a Quebecois say “oui,” he almost can’t help but smirk, since it sounds like a duck quack to his ears. ;-)
How do they say “oui”?
I am a fan of one Quebec band and their French just sounds like any old French to my ignorant ears. Maybe they shift to “standard French”? I don’t know if doing that is a thing in Quebec or not.
My wife still talks to some of her counterparts in Quebec during conference calls. ”Oui” sounds more like a duck quack — quite closely, imagine the word “wah” but with the requisite abrupt squawk inserted.
What band?
This. Though it seems to have only been a one-off side project of their main band which was always English-only.
That’s surprising. I’m always hearing how boring Toronto is (I’ve been many times and I wouldn’t say that) and how great Montreal is (never been).
OTOH every resident of every city bitches and moans constantly about tourists (I don’t – the more the merrier… ???) so maybe Montreals should count their blessings.
I think you have to be a big tourist destination to start bitching about tourists. We generally laugh at their surprise when they find out that we have good food and drinks here (and how cheap the property is).
Fair enough – I was presuming the “big tourist destination” part.
My point is we were once neck and neck. Two Alpha male cities. Now it’s Alpha and the Beta.
Trump and Trudeau if you will.
Montrealers tend to brag a tad too much for what we are in my opinion.
Yes – I recall reading that Montreal was actually the bigger economic powerhouse, up until the 70s or so? I guess when the separatist stuff ramped up.
The infamous date is 1976 (our 476 A.D. lol) when the Parti Quebecois were elected. It was all downhill – or at least it hastened the decline – from there.
We had it all and we fucked it up.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
And for a city like Montreal 10 million is low since it considers itself ‘world class’. Vancouver got 10 million too for crying out loud. In fact, technically, 10.3 and more than Mtl.
I was warned that the only people that Quebeckers hated more than Americans were Torontonians.
I only rarely experienced this, and sometimes it reversed, like the time a bitchy frommageuse suddenly lit up when I asked is she had any epoisses.
I don’t even know if they hate Americans. They like the exact same things. As one guy put it, ‘Quebecers are Americans who speak French’.
I forget. Are libertarians for or agin this?
Is it a voluntary transaction by all parties? (Not in this case).
This poor person has a fucked up view of wealth, economics, and value. Its like Catholic Guilt without the confession.
What the…?
*smashes coffee table to smithereens with fireplace poker*
Damn you, Brett! Damn you to Hell.
I started Melting Asphalt in 2012 as an exhaust pipe for my intellectual life…
Checks out: that post is full of poison
TGIF and TGIT!
http://archive.vn/j6tkc
I’ll let you figure out for yourself what the last “T” stands for.
Did they name this collection ‘Bad Ideas for the weekend” because some of those girls appear to be on the borderline of legal age?
If there’s grass on the field, the game is fair.
If there’s grass on the infield, it’s time to play ball.
If there’s not, just scrimmage.
Tito?
I will go out on a limb and say 33 is your choice.
But don’t let her out on a limb. . .
3 has crazy eyes.
13 has seductive eyes.
16 skeptical of my life choices.
24 pities me.
25 seems nice.
35 has a sense of humor. And, 38, yowsa. -> Winners.
I read a comment in the WSJ today that referred to to Elizabeth Warren as Grey Beaver.
So the carpet matches the curtains?
LOL
Im about to start on the crappy 24 oz beers; time to get sedated .
Trump warns Democrats he’ll keep government shut down for months, ‘even years’
Be still, my heart.
I know it’s nothing more than negotiating bluster, but I still get a little smile out of hearing a president say something like that.
‘FOR RENT’.
Any agency/employee we can live without for years should just be eliminated.
All of them?
/ancapistan
Are we talking up against the wall or free helicopter ride eliminations?
I mean, I’m good with either though it’s cheaper to film the former and the later is more entertaining.
“We are committed to keeping our border safe. That has always been our principle to honor the oath of office that we take to protect and defend our country and our Constitution. We can do that best when government is open.”
Pelosi really is a master of Double Speak.
We can do that best when A TINY PART OF government is open.
FIFH
but I still get a
little smilesemi out of hearing a president say something like that.Fixed it.
Those judges don’t understand what it means to be trans? The fucking retards at Slate don’t understand what it means to be in the military.
Although I don’t see why MTF couldn’t do the same jobs women do.
Are they going to be down six weeks for gender reassignment surgery? Is not having reliable access to their hormone treatments on deployment going to prevent them from going on certain deployments? Epictetus said, “If you choose to be a philosopher, you cannot be a Senator”. Sometimes your choice on one thing limits your other choices. I don’t have any problem with their transgenderism. I also don’t have any problem with a military that is basically turning away recruits excluding them.
There are lots of other people who get turned away. What makes trannies so special?
“Are they going to be down six weeks for gender reassignment surgery? Is not having reliable access to their hormone treatments on deployment going to prevent them from going on certain deployments?”
Those are reasonable questions. Just like it’s reasonable to ask if cis women are going to get pregnant, require hormonal birth control, regular gynecological exams, etc.
Nor am I saying that the military should accept transgender people, as they clearly reject people based on other medical criteria. I’m just thinking of some of the people I knew who served in the military. Such as this woman in the Navy whose work wasn’t different than any different than any other office job, except she was dressed to hide in a pile of blueberries.
Btw, “transgenderism” refers to a social or political agenda (which many transgender people do not support.)
Okay, what’s the term for people who are currently or seeking to be physically altered to have different genetalia/secondary sex/hormonal systems than what they were born with? Not arguing, just curious.
“transgender”
It used to be “transsexual” but it was neither medically accurate, nor inclusive enough.
Otoh, “transgender” is arguably too inclusive in common usage as it is frequently used to describe people without gender dysphoria (and also to describe people with gender dysphoria who do not transition).
“Transgendered” is a word that can be used to describe someone who both had gender dysphoria and transitioned, but from what I can tell it isn’t commonly used to make those distinctions.
Thanks. I see no need to be rude or misuse words just because I am not a full-throated advocate of the transgenderist agenda.
How many real trans people are out there who want to be in the military?
Or – as I suspect – are there a bunch of pre-Ops who want the military to pay for their expensive transition surgery?
What Brett and Jimbo both say.
The current guidance said they have to be medically stable for the last five? years.
The ongoing medical requirements make a post-op person basically undeployable, which means they can’t actually serve the the purpose you’d bring them into the military for.
And transitioning a person is voluntarily making them undeployable.
Oh, no. TSA slugs are staging sick-outs because of the “government shutdown”.
“Why don’t you all go on strike, and see if anybody misses you?”
For real, let people remember what flying was like before we went all in on that tiger-rock
Record low levels of contraband make it through security checkpoints.
The remaining TSA cretins will make sure you miss them, because they’re not going to just skip giving you the cavity search when they’re short-staffed. They’ll make you stand in a 6-hour line to get your cavity search.
TOS has a post by Suderman claiming the trade war is dragging down the economy. While I’m reading it the radio is going on about how very robust the economy is. Then, I remember the last administration and how much bs I heard propping up the anemic numbers and how drastic the transformation was as soon as the messiah was gone. Both in numbers and in reporting styles. Crazy how unashamed these people are.
Local progressive site actually ran a bit where they talked about Trump’s trade war harming Cargill. Cargill reported profits that shrank 20% (probably because of the trade war uncertainty).
So it was profits, not revenue. Also mentioned was the fact that last year was a record year for Cargill (hard to maintain). And (ohno!) demand for ethanol was down!
How dare they turn off the crony-corn-gas spigot!
I am stunned that they are feeling bad for Cargill. They have been a constant target because they are one of those Big Ag monsters that are always raiding family farms and burning their crops and raping their wimmin. Only Monsanto is worse. But I guess if they can help throw shade on Trump, we can feel bad for them.
Uffda.
Surprise! Mueller’s grand jury has been extended for another six months because his fishing expedition just needs more time to TOTALLY NAIL BAD ORANGE MAN!
Followed by two more 6th month extensions so they can finally
drag it out through the electionget everything they needTW- “academic studies “
MIT’s Peter Diamond and Berkeley’s Emmanuel Saez relaunched this debate with a landmark 2012 paper that argued for a 73 percent top income tax rate in the United States.
This conclusion relies on two subsidiary points. One is the notion that for the very rich, the subjective value of an extra dollar is essentially $0. In other words, while a poor person’s life may get a lot better if he gets a little bit of extra money, someone like Mark Zuckerberg isn’t going to care at all.
It follows that regardless of how much money we think the government should spend, we should be squeezing the richest people as much as possible to keep taxes lower on the less wealthy who will miss the money more. They then do empirical calculations that lead them to estimate that a rate of 73 percent or so would maximize revenue — higher than that and taxation becomes counterproductive because people work less.
In a separate paper that Saez wrote with Thomas Piketty and Stefanie Stantcheva, the authors argue for an even higher rate on somewhat different grounds.
Their argument is that, empirically, CEO pay and pretax inequality is higher in countries with lower top marginal tax rates. In lower tax countries, they believe, CEOs work really hard to maximize their own pay whereas in higher tax countries they accept lesser compensation, which leaves more money left over for other people.
An even more aggressive 2016 paper from Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl argues that confiscatory taxation would be good for the economy because it would discourage talented people from entering lucrative lines of work. In a world of low taxes, they show, talented people have strong incentives to work in legal or financial professions rather than be teachers or research scientists. But the social reward to having really good traders or corporate lawyers is either low or negative, whereas the social reward to having excellent teachers and scientists is high.
We designed our studies to confirm our preconceived conclusions. Taxes are too low. Because society.
As if “maximizing revenue” is the ideal standard for a tax rate. Fuck off, slavers!
Everyone knows that there is a permanent money pie – you just slice it differently and everyone is happy, duh.
One is the notion that for the very rich, the subjective value of an extra dollar is essentially $0.
Only people with no imagination could honestly believe this. I’ve never been rich, but I can’t imagine each dollar would be worth less to me if the situation changed. In fact, I could imagine a situation where each dollar would be worth more: so many more things would be within reach and each extra dollar earned would be a step in that direction. As I am now, I will never be buying anything worth more than $300K, and you only need about $1M for retirement, so any $ above that has little utility to myself (although it will still have utility to my family, so keep your hands off). If I were making bank, however, it would be reasonable to start budgeting for things with price tags in the millions, so the threshold beyond which any $ would have little utility for myself would be much higher than it currently is.
regardless of how much money we think the government should spend
Less spending, less taxation. Stick to the Constitution, assholes.
Mueller’s grand jury has been extended for another six months because his fishing expedition just needs more time
A three hour tour
a three hour tooooooouuuuuurrrrrr…
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a evil twit
That started from a RUSSIAN bot and was complete bullshit.
The weather started getting rough when Hillary’s ass got tossed. If not for the courage of the DNC, the narrative would be lost……
The narrative would be lost.
Brilliant!
A Billionaire, and his wife…
A porno star, Krugman and
Mary Jane,
Some sportzball news: NFL-ers are competing in professional curling.
What? No 3-time Pro-Bowler Steve
McNair?
/fail
Ellen is getting dragged on Twitter by people with rose emojis in their name and “Straight Ally” in their bio because she had Kevin Hart on her show today and said he should be reinstated as Oscars host.
The internet is a shameful place and we all deserve punishment for taking part in it.
What did he do again? I can’t keep up.
(PS. Who is he?)
I’m lost but not that lost.
Even I know who he is.
Hint. He doesn’t play for Bayern Munich.
He’s a comedian, who once was popular, but apparently, he made some ‘faggot’ jokes/tweets once so now he’s bad, although encouragingly some libs like Ellen seem to be joining team ‘Lighten up Francis’
Admittedly, I’ve heard of him. That’s it. Looking over his wikipedia page, I see that he has an uncanny knack for choosing projects I have no interest in.
He’s actually pretty funny imo.
Cool. I suppose I have lost most of the interest that I used to have in “comedy”. Now that I am middle-aged and living alone, if I’m not actively interested in something – I’m not gonna know much about it.
USA up 2-1 against Russia.
Full house. If there’s any question about Canadians and their love of hockey there it is. The Junior tournament gets it most support from Canada. Once upon a time the games were set only in Europe but because Europeans didn’t attend, they tried Canada. The rest is history.
That I am well-aware of.
Nail-biting time.
Who is carrying the game down there?
They did it.
Keith Primeau – Toronto’s son – is pretty happy. How many former NHLers from Canada have kids in USA hockey? It’s amazing.
Good for USA.
The Russians are taking it hard.
You know. The era of this tournament belonging to Canada/Russia seems over.
It’s USA’s to lose now these past few years.
Impressive.
NHL Network
Ah. This tournament was the best kept secret in hockey for over 30 years. It’s criminal how little exposure or interest it had. It was/is without doubt the best hockey.
I’m glad to have watched every tournament since 1982.
I’ve watched every one since 2017-18.
lol.
He’s actually pretty funny imo.
But he seems to always play the same character. He is like a black Dane Cook. That said, I liked him in Central Intelligence
He’s no Norm MacDonald but he’s good for a laugh or two.
Cook doesn’t take his craft to the level he potentially could I think.
Dane Cook
Dane Cook Impression by Anthony Jeselnik
There’s no way USA will lose gold to either SUI or FIN.
None.
No, just put down Twitter, I’m not part of this internet thing of which you speak
LOL.
The only way to deal with the perpetually grieved is to tell them to fuck off and then laugh in their faces. This hurts them twofold because they are used to being listened and cowed to and laughing in their faces would shatter their self image of being serious people with serious ideas.
^
My nigga.
Did this get posted earlier? https://twitter.com/JimmyPrinceton/status/1081194700076392450
I know the tariffs/trade war issue seems to be going back and forth a lot, but it seems like the net is still going to be good for us at the moment – but at the same time – it might be due to the specific circumstances/situation/individuals involved right now rather than general principles.
Similarly – I am impressed by how well we appear to be doing in regenerating relations, etc with India, and most recently Brazil (I recall just a few years back BRIC (Brazil Russia India China) was the next big thing and things have completely fallen apart there).
Last note – anyone else find the comments of China re: Taiwan somewhat disturbing? All the moreso because in spite of their protestations towards free expression, etc – they’re already actively beginning to impose additional regulations in HK in violation of their constitutional principles.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-46733174
Sink an air craft carrier, then see what happens
China only has one, if I am not mistaken. For all intents and purposes, we control the seas. It is no contest between us and the next several countries combined.
great rejuvenation of the Chinese people
Do you know who else?
The Spratlys and the Paracel islands beg to differ, they can sink a carrier
I would bet that we could come pretty close to sinking the Spratlys and the Paracel islands.
We already sank a chunk of the Bikini Atoll.
STEVE SMITH SINK CHUNK IN BIKINI, AND BY SINK CHUNK MEAN…
*1/4 canteen cup of whiskey on an open flame
They’ve been blowhards on Taiwan for decades. I don’t know if it’s any different this time or not.
There are certainly warhawks in the People’s Army ranks who think that Americans can’t take the casualties.
I’m not convinced. Taking casualties in what most Americans see as a pointless war is one thing — there’s little support for that. But sinking (or even attempting to sink) a couple of U.S. Carriers (not to mention their various support vessels) defending an ally? I gotta funny feeling that if the Chinese tried that, most of their navy would end up at the bottom of the South China Sea within a day, and most Americans would be cheering the U.S. Navy on.
ISTR that Bin Laden thought the US was a paper tiger, too & we’d fold after the 9/11 attacks.
The few Taiwanese I know (good friend’s wife, among others) live in perpetual fear of China rolling over the island and just taking it by force. Not without reason. They would / will if they think they can get away with it.
thought the US was a paper tiger
Japan made that mistake as well.
Pretty much what I meant, we would erase them with ease
Not sure about the “with ease” part, but yeah, it would be an incredibly bone-headed move by the Chinese leadership, not the least because it would destroy the “invincible Chinese nation-race” narrative they’ve been building up with their own people for many decades now. Gotta think they’d be at least a little worried about the domestic destabilization that might cause amongst a billion+ people.
With ease, no. With certainty, yes. Then again, they have nukes so let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
The do seem to have increased the pressure lately. Recently bought a product that had “made in Taiwan, a province of China” written on it. China has definitely been applying pressure to foreign companies
Wow. That’s a bit alarming.
“I just read the instruction manual,” he says. “That’s all there is to it.”
What he’s trying to atone for is taking too much (salary and perks) in exchange for too little (skill and effort). Society has overcompensated him, so he’s left in its debt — hence the guilt.
I think you have something backwards here because I am pretty sure your company makes money via voluntary exchange with part of that voluntarily compensating you (your company giving to you as an exchange, not ‘society’) for your time/effort/knowledge/skill/etc.
It’s a little more involved than that, actually. Like any fucking skill.
Are libertarians for or agin this?
You can’t
rapeenslave the willing.the military can designate standards for military service that exclude people who probably will not be able to deploy due to medical issues resulting from transgender medical procedures.
Not only that, the taxpayers should not be on the hook for elective surgery
Recalls how many service members mil-wives he knows who got tits on the tax payers dime…….
(I hear the mil-wives free boobs got the breaks put on them once the casualties of the WoT started rolling in)
Because I gt inspired upthread:
Just sit right back
And you’ll hear a tale
A tale of an fishing trip
That started from a dossier
That was complete bullshit
The matewas a deep state G-man
The skipper was one too
Five passengers set sail that day
For a +3 year, a +3 year tour
Politics started getting rough
when Hillary’s ass got tossed
If not for the corruption of the DNC
The narrative would be lost, the narrative would be lost
The ship set ground on the shore of this
banana republic isle
With Zebley
and Mueller too
A douchebag, and his mistress
All of Hollywood
Comey and Brennan
Here on banana-republic Isle!!!
Hmmmm…..should have said
….”A porn star, Hollywood and the MSM, here on….”
Oh well
Nicely done.
Not totally OT: took the kiddo to open skate at a local indoor rink. I know the family who owns the pro shop inside the rink, and they’re brave enough to display a few varieties of hats saying “make America skate again,” red with white embroidery. That’s been going on since Trump was elected. Now, they have 2020 pucks! Top half: Trump 202, bottom half: make America skate again.
I thought pissing off half of your customers was considered a bad business practice in these parts.
That’s only when the other side does it. “Owning the Libs”, on the other hand, is a siren call for all honest, salt-of-the-earth types to come and patronize said place while shitting on a picture of Jeff Bezos.
Go woke, Go broke!…Go Own-ey, make Mon-ey!
I’m sure they’ll get their storefront busted in for their troubles. Meanwhile MasterCard can pressure Patreon and PayPal into dropping deplorables. It all evens out…. somehow.
The Lord takes another soul.
“I grew up in a broken household so I really didn’t know my value or my worth,” she said. “I discovered early on that if I was naked in the presence of men that I was going to get what I didn’t get at home — and that was affirmation.”
De La Mora switched over to acting in porn at age 18 when two Los Angeles producers approached her at the strip club. “You’re beautiful, you’re destined to be a star,” they allegedly told her.
Eventually, De La Mora turned to heroin and cocaine to cope with her dissatisfaction. After three years, she hit her “breaking point” and returned to church with her grandfather where she “met Jesus as my Lord and Savior.” Things took a dark turn, however, when “another man” came into De La Mora’s life “who turned out to be a pimp.” This would lead her back to porn for another three and a half years until she experienced another spiritual awakening.
“I went to go film a porn scene in Las Vegas and brought my Bible with me on the airplane and I was reading scripture,” De La Mora told Fox News. “At which point I really felt that [God was telling me], ‘Brittni, this isn’t the life that I have for you…know that I have something so much greater in store for you but I need you to give me a step of faith today. I need you to quit the industry and I promise you, your life is going to turn around.’”
“So I quit the industry that day and I’ve been out since December 2012.”
Over six years later, De La Mora is now a proud wife of a pastor named Richard. The two most recently penned a two-part book called “Fire and Fresh” to address couples who have “lost the excitement” in their relationship.
I take it pastors buy used cars that were previously rentals.
Pastor ?
She made A LOT of porn through the 2000’s. Good for her, I’m sure her life is on a much better trajectory now. Still you gotta wonder the circumstances that lead up to her getting with the pastor…..
I did a quick search for ‘Jenna Presley’.
Checks out.
She sounds kind of rudderless if you ask me. Every time “another man” comes into her life, she does what he says.
A pornstar rudderless?!?! Get outta here….
I had to pretend to put on my shocked face when I saw her name was “Brittni.”
In the “that’s a feature, not a bug” file, the Dems in the House are proposing a new “ethics” bill that would require those running for president to release 10 years of their tax returns – a measure they know will go nowhere in the Senate:
This is, of course, political posturing. Even if passed, I’m just a tad bit skeptical it would pass constitutional muster. And even if the Dems win the Senate and White House in 2 years, the reality is it would just silently go away.
The more curious aspect of all this is that they still think this is a winning issue for them. That attacking Trump the businessman is the ticket.
I don’t know if I mention my love of SMBC enough. No other comic makes me laugh out loud as often.
Tacking down #30 with a colossal hangover… not cool.
I… I don’t even know what that means. I mean, I know what a hangover is. You’re sailing somewhere?
Roofing felt. I suck at it, it’s cold, it’s awkward, and hungover on top of that is dumb and I’m a dumb dummy.
Hangover? Ouch.
Check your email, when convenient.
That’s self inflicted, right there.
I just realized something.
Did Ellen ever come out to defend Roseanne?
Right.
She’s full of shit.
I feel I’m wandering into Q’s lane a bit here, and you all may have already seen this, but 2018 Sex Scandal Teacher Starting Lineup entertains.
Can’t tell if culture’s circling the drain… or getting awesome. OTOH, hot teachers sleeping with students… OTO, college girls getting rape vibes if you blink at them wrong.
Only individually, so thank you. Or rather, thank for helping me remember how shitty high school was. Now I find out I could have been ploughing a hot teacher (except none of our teachers looked anywhere near as good as those).
*shakes fist at sky*
I like the one holding the mackerel. There’s just something about a woman who likes to fish.
Well, the voting isn’t open until tomorrow, but the Viva Las Vegas Pin Up Contest pictures are up. I would advise opening the pictures in a new tab, as the page randomizes the order of the pictures every time the page reloads. Some appear to be just hopeful people who don’t quite understand what a Pin Up is, while there appear to be ones for any who appreciate the female form. If I’m around tomorrow, I’ll share this link again and people can vote on this.
“Louis CK Under Fire For Being… Louis CK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRlqFZQ9lzA
Louis CK was offensive, but he tended to be offensive one way. In a way that was acceptable to the smarmy progressive crowd. And he was all in with them politically. Then #MeToo happened, and he was thrown under the bus. I refuse to make that guy some kind of martyr. He’s a comedian. He’s made me laugh and he can keep making me laugh. But I’m not going to play any tiny violins for the guy if he doesn’t make it back.
And I’m skeptical when he starts calling things as they are after the fact. There’s an element of truth in the prog attack on him in that that set he did was shifting towards the sort employed by the anti-SJW’s/younger conservatives.
It took balls to skewer a leftist icon (lol) like The Hogg. He could have just slunk out there and tried to play it as safe as possible. He chose to risk the ire of the mob, and for that he deserves some respect. Anyway, his transgressions were pretty much non existent. I mean, he fucking asked for permission goddamit. Boo-hoo that SOME of the girls were lower level intern-ish types. The word no is not unknown to them.
It was a set at a small club. He was practicing new material. He may have been naive enough to think it wouldn’t get leaked. And even then, he may be smart enough to realize that to move forward he might have to appeal to a smaller subset of his audience or maybe even a new audience entirely.
As for what he did, the only version of the story I know is what Deadspin printed years before the Trumpening and #MeToo. And those stories involved him kind of cornering women and masturbating. I was skeptical then and remain so now. But I don’t care about that crap.
I see a guy who was pretty silent while other comedians took hits for being politically incorrect (politically incorrect as in the old Soviet usage, against The Party – not just an off-color joke). And it wasn’t just silence. He slanted his humor and played to the shit he’s trashing now.
Great comedian. Makes me laugh. But I’ll also laugh if never makes it back. The best comedians may be flawed, but they tend to have something resembling principles or coherency rather than expediency.
Broke: Punching a nazi
Woke: Bombing a nazi
Man, I hate reboots!
Nothing bad in Europe has ever started in Germany. Nothing, ever.
Dog bites man.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/2018-sex-scandal-teacher-starting-lineup/
Always tempted to go for the clean-up hitter, but #3’s NSFW video surges her into the lead.
*ahem*
Brah….look up
You think anybody reads the links around here?
The very idea!
I see some minor water damage… ooooohhhh that’s what you mean.
Q was out-Q’ed.
If that’s her, the video is amazing.