Another fine work week draws to a close here. I still have a job (for the moment), it’s still hotter than fuck here, and every politician is still pissing me off, especially the retarded congressman who “represents” me. On the bright side, I will spend the weekend with my lovely wife (forestalling the rusty tin can lids) and Wonder Dog, hiking in the mountains where it will be marginally less hellish, and doing fun things in my home laboratory.
Speaking of pets, let’s all extend our sympathy to mexican sharpshooter, who lost his beloved Harry yesterday. Burial was in the back yard with his kids as pallbearers. Rest in peace, faithful friend.
Birthdays today include a rather unfortunate physicist; a painter who anticipated Disumbrationism; a much more fortunate physicist (whose work inspired my senior thesis); one of my all-time favorite guitarists; another asshole politician; and a guy who could have used a parachute.
Let’s move on to news stories so you good folks can pretend that there’s actually something here beyond an excuse for silicone titty pix of chix with bad tats and duck lips.
Here’s some prime candidates for the woodchipper. The judges AND the cops. Oh, and while it’s running, drop this guy in there as well.
“Tell me the principles you want me to have and I can do it!”
This won’t at all be used for covert spying on Americans. Oh no, that would be unconstitutional! So very much not gonna happen. Trust us.
Racist principal attacks Aryan.
Huh, who would ever have thought that the DC elite were actually raging assholes?
I swear this was Wile E. Coyote.
Disclosure: we’re not shareholders, but we ought to be. We had a fine dinner last night made with their Hot Italian sausage. And a Beyond Taco for lunch two days ago at Del Taco. Fight me.
And speaking of my weekend, here’s some Hank III, who sounds much more like his grandfather than his dad does. That is a compliment.
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587 responses to “Friday Morning Hot Links”
RIP Rusty. Good dog.
Dammit! Freudian slip! I had rusty can lids in my head I guess.
RIP Harry.
Harry is in a better place.
Sorry, for MS’s loss 🙁
Jews believe people don’t have an afterlife, but dogs do?
Dogs should.
Harry, however, was not a dog.
What was Harry then?
My balls?
A Wale
A desert tortoise. It just showed up one day in my back yard.
I guess I should hit refresh more often. Doh!
Do you have any idea how hard it was NOT to spill the beans on that little piece of info????
Harry is in a better place.
Yes. The alley behind my house.
It’s kind of rude to suggest that it’s better to be dead than to be your pet.
I’ve been accused of worse.
RIP Harry. Condolences to Mexi and family.
Another class mate, another funeral today. The Classmate Pool is shrinking, shrinking.
The good news is that in another week we’ll have a class reunion and count noses again. Small town America.
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RIP Harry.
RIP Harry. Good tortoise.
*awkward smile*
Would OMWC get mad if I posted “Mornin Banjos”? 🙂
Mornin’ Alex
Hi, Rufus!
I was listening to a record yesterday and this song came up, Made me think of you, OMWC.
In all seriousness, I think I was maybe 13 when I first saw them. I giggled incessantly through the show.
heh – via Wikipedia:
I had “Golden Filth” on vinyl way back when. Still listen to Slum Goddess and Saran Wrap every once in awhile. They were vulgar but ahead of their time.
SugarFree laughs.
“Could SugarFree write a story so vulgar that not even he could read it?”
… a mystery that has befuddled philosophers and theologians for many a year.
All those philosophers and theologians are in state hospitals now.
““Tell me the principles you want me to have and I can do it!””
And that he can do shit like this will make him more popular with the sort of people that never catches on that these sort of politicians are all unprincipled scumbag liars. But hey, they are THEIR teams unprincipled scumbag lying politicians!
Biden is one of those inflatable wonky-armed things that you see set up in front of disreputable car dealerships.
I don’t believe wonk and Biden belong in the same sentence.
“Boneless”? “Flagellating”? “Tentaculor”?
>>Dr. John, New Orleans music legend, dies from heart attack at age 77
Oh man – I absolutely love his album Gumbo. RIP
Only 77? I would have guessed much higher, and already dead.
We got to see him on a few different occasions playing live in New Orleans. What a performer he was! RIP.
We were in NOLA for a medical conference that just happened to coincide with the grand opening of the big Harrah’s casino there and also Halloween. Dr John played a free outdoor concert in front of the casino on the night before Halloween and it started raining. Casino employees started handing out free white Harrah’s rain ponchos to the audience. Soon the entire dark and stormy night was filled with an audience of white ghosts swaying to Dr. John.
I don’t know if I have another concert memory of any performer that can match that one mystical event.
Soon the entire dark and stormy night was filled with an audience of white ghosts swaying to Dr. John.
Sounds like the Klan rally from O Brother, Where Art Thou.
“Huh, who would ever have thought that the DC elite were actually raging assholes?”
So, now that it is coming out how corrupt these elites, while pretending their discriminatory admission policies for all but themselves, is a sham, will the plebes finally revolt? Seriously, we need a law that says that the law makers may not pass any law that does not apply to them first and foremost, and that any loophole provided to them, intentional or otherwise, makes said law null and void.
Our aristocracy is now far more inept, corrupt, and stupid than at any time before. Worse yet, they no longer feel obligated to hold back the fact that they have nothing but disdain for the plebes.
What makes me saddest is the plebes who continue to adore them. I draw strong correlations between that and the plebes in ancient Rome who were absolutely convinced that Julius Caesar was a man of the people.
Bread and circuses. The mob always loves them some free shit.
And the longer I observe politics the more I’m convinced the left only guiding principle is mob rule
As Gracchus said: “I don’t pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.“…
Nowadays we don’t even get that….
If there was a really crappy genie that could only grant wishes that would change (but not eliminate) Congress…
Congresspeople could not vote for any law that benefited them, and could only vote for laws that hurt other people as long as they themselves were also penalized by it.
Alex, this is a private school. There doesn’t seem to be any government involvement in this situation whatsoever. It’s a group or rich, asshole parents abusing the school’s guidance counselors because those counselors can’t magic up an admission to Harvard, Yale, etc for those parents’ kids. Sorry for the guidance counselors, sorta, but when you have a job like that working for people like that it doesn’t take long to figure out what you’ve gotten into.
I remember how pissed people were when Jimmy Carter sent Amy to DC Public (poor kid) rather than Sidwell Friends. It’s rather expected by the elite that their kids get to hobnob with presidents’ kids.
I am well aware this is a private school Tonio. But I think my point still stands that while they tell people they are creating an egalitarian system of admissions that fights such things as [add your favorite lefty trope here] discrimination, for the plebes, they do so while making sure their children can avoid the disaster they have foisted on the masses. Private schools like this exist because our elite need places to send their spawns that allow them to avoid the horrors they inflicted on the masses.
Add to it that for most of these idiots, they know it is all about the networking at the schools and maintaining the image of excellence, even if they themselves are raging morons.
I wish Tom Wolfe were still around to write about it.
Credentialed morons. That’s why they just KNOW they deserve the power, wealth, prestige, and the adoration of the unwashed masses. And when they don’t get that the problem HAS to be with the fucking ungrateful plebes.
I remember how pissed people were when Jimmy Carter sent Amy to DC Public (poor kid) rather than Sidwell Friends
Who was pissed about that? I mean besides Amy, and anyone who cares about her.
I know someone who is a teacher at an elite girls high school in NJ. She told me that one day a limo pulled up and Chris Christie got out and spent two hours touring the school because he was thinking about sending his daughter there. He ended up sending her somewhere else, and the teacher said they all felt like they had dodged a bullet. And that is probably an understatement.
I read that as “dodged a buffet” – and that seemed to fit.
Yeah, I would not want to get between Christie and a buffet.
Hell, you would think that any law like that would be struck down by the courts under Equal Protection. I’ve found pointing out all of the laws that Congress has exempted itself from just upsets the proggies.
But meanwhile, the top colleges in the country are doing their best to create admissions policies to keep kids from these super elite schools out, and get more plebes in. The big thing currently is you are extremely attractive to top schools if you will be the first in your family to attend college. Add this to racial, ethnic, and “hardship” preferences, along with enormous competition, and it’s damn hard for the typical rich white kids to get into Ivies and equivalent right now. As these families used to think acceptance at these schools was their birthright, no wonder they are panicking and bombarding guidance counselors.
It’s been a while since I watched hockey regularly. WTF happened to NHL officiating? Last night was a complete disgrace.
Payback for 2011, the year I quit caring.
Last time I could honestly call myself a Bruins fan, Cam Neely was on the ice. If that’s what I can expect to see, I’ll go back to not watching.
Worst trade in Canucks history.
It’s bad.
You haven’t been paying attention…the officiating has been horrible throughout. This time it went for my team, it was still a bad call. When the Sharks got a hand pass goal I wasn’t very happy but shit happens.
Bozak starting to complain about the obvious penalty he knew he deserved – right before the refs did nothing except watch them score a short-handed goal – would have been amusing if it didn’t change the outcome a finals game.
Meh. There were probably a dozen no-calls during the game – head shots, etc. The game is fast and refs make mistakes. Binnington made the Bruins his bitch last night.
Yes, it sucks when refs miss calls, but put the puck in the fucking net and don’t leave it up to them.
/tired of the crying about officiating
Oh, and I’d like to know why Acciari didn’t get up and stay in the play.
Because he was embellishing. Big Bad Bruins aren’t supposed to do that.
Drake wanta to throttle me right about now.
lol.
My thought at the time was “If you hadn’t been whinging about on the ice trying to draw a call, maybe you could have helped prevent that goal.” Maybe not, the goal came pretty quickly after the trip, but Bozak still had enough time to abandon his protestations of innocence and get back in the play.
Come on Drake. That’s LITERALLY how Marchand rolls.
Yeh, missed call but the Bruins are such whiny bitches going back to the Sinden days.
Neely is a clown.
Chara a bully.
Marchand a rat.
They’re the last team to complain.
As good as they are.
St. Louis plays aggressive and the more often than not they likely get the worst end of the calls because of it.
But they’ve adjust nicely.
Marchand literally spears the goalie and the crowd cheers ‘bull shit’.
Please.
*Drops Gloves*
Hugs Rufus and Tundra
Go BLUUUUUUEEEEESSSSS ♫♪
Put down the Blue-rose colored glasses Rufus. I’m so tired of the Bruins hate. It’s not hat I don’t understand it; it’s that it’s so tired it’s become trite. FFS, Marchand scores a hundred points and people still treat him like he’s Mat Cooke. The Canadian-run league is so anti-Big Bad Bruins of the 70’s that they can’t treat the current crop of scorers and skaters anything close to even-handed. I’m not saying that Marchand is a saint, but anyone who plays the game knows that ALL of those guys are masters with their sticks, particularly away from the puck. Sid the Kid chief among them. Hell, he chopped off a piece of someone else’s finger, but you’ll never see him get called to the League offices. Ever.
And all of this is the NHL’s fault, btw, for getting rid of the enforcer. Many of us, ahem, *older* folks have been saying that if the League tried to flense fighting out of the game, the stickwork would just get worse and worse – and Le Voila! Here we are. Full on Euro hockey with the attendant stickwork and on a smaller pond. It’s still a great game and I love the skating and speed, but they need a little more ice AND/OR to have the ability to punch out people who cross the line. And yes, that more than anything else would calm down the worst of Marchand’s antics (and many, many others who get a pass for the same shit). e.g. Sundqvist’s hit on Grz- whatever the fuck his name is – was a blatant, targeted boarding penalty. Imagine what you would be saying if that was someone from the Bruins who did that to one of your defensemen.
All good reminders of why I lost interest.
I can’t help it; I still play and I love the game. There have been so many amazing plays from both teams – just incredible displays of skill, vision, passing, skating… but it gets ruined when the officiating is shitty. The players continually test what they can get away with and the League doesn’t want it to turn into “special teams fest” – because that obviously favors one team over another. So, instead, this was bound to happen. St. Louis is a hard team, but they’re also a good bit dirty (ask San Jose fans) and in the playoffs, it’s clear the League will look away rather than have it decided on power plays. It’s too bad, really.
*licks up salty tears with gusto
A quick search will show you the stats of who the dirtiest team in the league is. Hint: NOT St. Louis.
Having not really paid attention in a long time, I was truly shocked when Sundqvist didn’t get his teeth punched down his throat by the team enforcer. No wonder cheap shots are common. Sundqvist missed a game, Grzelcyk may not return for the series. (Always thought that any player who broke a rule and caused an injury in any sport should be suspended until the other player is healthy).
Sorry, but no tears, Bacon. My life’s happiness doesn’t depend upon which professional team wins the Cup. I love the game regardless. When I lived on the west coast (military sent me there and later company work did) I found I could really get used to and like the “west coast” style of hockey, including the Kings with Gretzky in the 90s. I watch a fair amount of Bruins’ games, but I’ll watch the playoffs regardless of who’s in it. I like the Blues; if they win the Cup, I will not be heartbroken. But I also play and watch the game and I care about it’s long-term well-being. When Chris Nilan is raging on twitter about officiating, you know you’ve got a problem.
>>A New Surveillance Tool Is Coming to U.S. Skies
SKY SMITH HAVE LARGE TOOL TO DELIVER TO US SKIES
Ya mean this?
THAT JUST A TRACING…
I bet you do the actual “filling up” part, now dontcha Sky Smith?
The United States Constitution; enumerating “better practices” for 230 years.
Burying what little bit remains of the fourth amendment.
That was Banjos’s take on it (she sent me that story). My feeling was that Elvis left the building a long time ago and there’s really nothing left to bury.
These judges are a disgrace, but our legal system seems to be incapable of shame. Or reform. It would take every woodchipper John Deere produces just to make a dent in the problem.
“John Deere produces”
Crap products, just ordered another starter for my mower. Second one in about 5 years. I will just “Say No” to JD products in the future. Plus its an SOB to put on with out the special wrench
I went cub cadet this time when shopping for a riding mower. JD is pricey, Husqvarna has lost my business.
My makita leaf blower is nice, if I can ever figure out why it doesn’t work…
Electric, 2-stroke gas, or 4-stroke gas?
4 stroker, less than 10 hours on it. Does this.
I tore apart the carb last weekend and it looked brand new. Im starting from square one this weekend and assuming nothing.
It’s starving for fuel.
When you pull the trigger you’re opening the butterfly valve and letting more air in but the fuel is insufficient.
Try putting it on half or full choke and pulling the trigger. I bet the performance will improve somewhat.
So, that said, it’s one of:
– Bad fuel
– Clogged jet/dirty carb
– Wrong adjustment on high side air/fuel adjustment screw
Also possible that your fuel filter is clogged. Sometimes they have one in the gas tank that you never see until it causes you a problem. I’ll check to see if Makita has that.
Yes, there is an in-tank fuel filter on that unit. You can pull the fuel line off the carburetor and blow air back thru the line (carefully) to try to clear it temporarily. Make sure you crack open the fuel tank before doing so.
Hey scruffy, thanks for the help on this! I agree that it seems fuel starved, and that has been my focus.
So, I’ve replaced the fuel filter and the gas. The only thing I havent replaced is the fuel line, but it doesn’t seem obstructed and it’s in new enough condition that it didn’t seem the likely culprit.
As I tore the carb apart. I soaked everything in carb cleaner, including hitting the jets pretty good. Nothing seemed to be clogged by the time I was done. The only thing I didn’t do to the carb was replace the gaskets.
Anyway, I was kinda rushed at the end last weekend, so I’ll take some more time this afternoon to make sure everything is put back together. I didn’t get a chance to test it after the second time tearing the carb apart and rebuilding it.
Check the high side fuel adjustment screw if everything else is clean.
Seriously check the fuel line, especially in the gas tank. I’ve had a couple collapse recently, I don’t know if it’s poor material or ethanol that is causing the problem.
Replace the throttle cable. I know it sounds illogical but from your short video there is an obvious kink in the line. I ran brush saws for years and can guarantee that is the source of your problem.
Their consumer level mowers (i.e. the stuff you get a Lowes) are no better than any of the many brands MTD makes. They had to make them cheaper to get into that market. Nobody in the suburbs wants to pay what it would cost to get JD quality mower. I have a JD 318 circa 1995 and it is still worth about $1500. But that is a lawn tractor, not a lawn mower.
Yeah, my LT is a JD, only the shop can put on a power belt. Every thing is engineered, it seems, to go back to the dealer for repairs.
If I ever replace it I’ll go with a low end brand.
Hustler Mowers, worth the money.
I’m fine with this being the standard, with one minor correction. If you, as a government agent, violate my constitutional rights to obtain evidence, and you want to proceed against me using that evidence, you can do so, BUT you must first plead guilty to criminal violation of my civil rights, and be sentenced to whatever sentence I receive.
GLWT
^^^THIS^^^
How will the LEO community be able to do their jobs if they are so hampered???
/dramatic authoritarianism promoting douche
/dramatic authoritarianism promoting douche
Please try and save us on bandwidth and use the proper acronym: TULPA
Fuck that better practice. Fuck the judge, cops and prosecutors.
Don’t judges have to go to law school? I was a psych major and I know this is bullshit.
Akshully, no they don’t. And I think we’d be better off if more (any?) judges weren’t law school grads.
I’m not sure about the states, but there is no such requirement for federal judges, particularly some of the Article III “Administrative Law Judges” (ie, not real judges). However, I’m unaware of any federal judges in courts of general jurisdiction, or appeals courts, who were not practicing attorneys. In practice the bar association vets judicial candidates, at least at the state level.
Yeah, it’s hot..but it’s a dry heat. Like a pizza oven
I was always more comfortable training in the dry desert even with those crazy temperatures than I was in the steam-bath humidity of the Southeast.
In the Marines I did MCT (part of infantry school) in North Carolina in July and August. Then a bunch of us were sent to Twentynine Palms for radio school. The day we got there is 129 degrees and there were all kinds of warnings. We were all like “hey, this is kind of nice – much better than the swamp we were living in”.
I was hiking in Arches last year in August. Temp at the trailhead was like 110 or so, but it was far, far better than the high 80’s and 70s dew points back home.
High desert may be calling me.
I can verify that 96 in San Francisco is way better than 85 in NYC.
Those numbers above are beyond my ken, though.
doing fun things in my home laboratory
I’m afraid to ask.
https://youtu.be/g3E69dpurZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRqXBsgnYok
Better! I caught myself singing this tune to myself at work last night https://youtu.be/20z4edLGxHE. Was that you?
How much did it cost the tax payers to now have to take down these signs they paid to put up in the first place, all so the AGW warriors could grandstand about people being evil for not letting them take away more of said people’s freedoms and money in the name of saving Gaia?
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just put a different year on the signs.
Highly recommend you click through, but here’s the money quote:
Wait Tonio, are you saying that the warmist are using deceptive tactics to sell their shit?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Nobody ever got funded in government by being honest.
Speaking of government funding, a bigger problem than the signs is the force and threat of force to get people who never go to Glacier National Park to subsidize those who do. Why is this worth coercion? The National Park Service’s FY 2020 budget request (excluding money collected by the NPS such as fees, cut of concessions, etc.) is $2,741,687,000 for “Discretionary” spending and $733,428,000 for “Mandatory” spending. Source: page “Overiew-2” (not “overview”) @ https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/fy2020-nps-justification.pdf
Beat me to it. Nothing in the article about whether or not they are removing these signs.
Just make it open ended, problem solved.
I honestly don’t know if people will ever stop and say, ‘Gee, how many of your predictions have been wrong exactly? Fuck. Off.”
Most people make fun of the cults that predict the end of the world, and I – maybe in my naivete – hope that sooner than later people wise up about this whole “Climate Change” shit being nothing but another one of these cults hiding the fact that their claims to the end are naught but a means to implement totalitarian marxist global government. The thing that is striking is that your common guy, the one not indoctrinated at some institution of higher learning, gets this is a sham, while the people supposedly most educated and with the highest IQs (I am told), by their support for this idocractic bullshit, continue to prove those of us that point out they are not educated or experts, but credentialed idiots.
The thing that is striking is that your common guy, the one not indoctrinated at some institution of higher learning, gets this is a sham, while the people supposedly most educated and with the highest IQs (I am told), by their support for this idocractic bullshit, continue to prove those of us that point out they are not educated or experts, but credentialed idiots.
Clever people make better liars. Both to others, and to themselves.
They think they’re going to be the ones in the cult’s clergy.
That also flabbergasts me. Can’t they see that the cult can’t work with 40 million clergy and the only people not part of the clergy being those of us that want nothing to do with the cult?
12 years, Rufus! 12 yEarS!!!!eleven1!!!!
Reeeeeee!!!
Psychology, my muppet friend. Take your typical, low-info soccer mom – this group is reliably “pro-environment” (you know, for the children) and anti-nuclear. These people have been cheerleading for and promoting those gloom-n-doom predictions for years. They are not going to take the predictors to task because then the soccer moms would have to deal with others taking them to task. So it’s swept under the rug and they move onto the next panic.
It’s all about virtue-signaling. Always, all the time. Their insecurities require them to constantly and loudly demonstrate their concern for children, all children. And remember their final words when cornered: “I meant well.” or “If it saved even one child.”
A couple of months ago a parent was bragging to my sister about how she (an accountant) was part of a climate committee at her company.
Companies have fricken meetings over it as if they’re gonna ‘play their part’ in ‘fighting’ climate change.
Reeeeeetard!
You mean she has the key to the thermostat enclosure?
No predictions were wrong. You just remember them wrong is all
The AOC line of defence, eh? ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD TAKE ME AT FACE VALUE.
They’re all dead serious until they’re called out and then….I WAS ONLY JOKING!!!
Remember Jamie Foxx bragging about ‘killing all the white people’ as if it was funny? By the way, Eddie Murphy did it first.
Reeee!
She was quoting an actual published report, so she wasn’t joking.
And I am keeping track:
https://glibertarians.com/2019/05/doom-but-now-we-know-when/
You just remember them wrong is all
The AOC line of defence, eh?
The communist line of defense (although I guess there’s some overlap). Orwell didn’t invent the memory hole, he just gave it a name.
“The AOC line of defence, eh? ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD TAKE ME AT FACE VALUE.”
And the thing is, you KNOW she already had this lined up when she said the “12 year” bullshit line. Not only did she expect to zig that zag but she knew the faithful would just swallow, smile, and adjust their kneepads.
That’s what computers are for. Especially if you saved it yourself instead of relying on the Internet not to update or take down climate-related predictions that are inconveniently true.
Maybe it would be cheaper to melt the thing.
This x about a billion.
Like the doomsday cult they really are, rather than take down the signs, there should be koolaid.
re: Beyond Meat. I am honestly happy that there are good alternatives for vegans and vegetarians. However, the day the nanny state assholes start forcing me to eat it instead of real meat is the day a “anti-eco terrorism movement is born.
My vegetarian wife likes their products. I tried it, it’s really good for what it is, but it’s not the same as real meat.
back in my vegan days I ate some fake burgers that were actually pretty good. But TVP (taken in excessive quantities) always tore my guts up.
These days I’ll take a filet mignon… or even a well-seasoned hamburger medium rare.
Always go for the indigenous vegetarian dishes. South- and East-Asian cuisines are rich in vegetarian dishes and are delicious.
Yeah, I could cook that every day, and when WebDom is here, that’s pretty much what I do.
INDONESIA, TAKE A BOW!
“Boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear.”
I thought they were OK. They sorta nailed the grilled flavor, but came up short on the actual texture. I’ve heard very good things about Impossible Burger. Only available at White Castle, though.
Why don’t they research growing an actual cow, just one without a brain or a nervous system?
Wait for it…
Too bad it tastes like Despair.
Here’s my favorite meat.
Not clicking just in case it is cock meat…
Alex, you hurt my feelings! My links are always safe.
…as far as you know…
I am sure they are MikeS…
Just like HM’s links..
Next you will tell me you will respect me in the morning or that you won’t come in my mouth or something…
…or something…
That’s the clip I always think about when I hear about meatless products.
And, phew, I haven’t been deglibbed, yet.
The B-Spot Burger (local Michael Symon owned chain) here in Cleveland was the first place I saw the Impossible Burger. I thought I had also read that Burger King was going to start rolling them out as well.
I like this:
Meet the meat.
At least they didn’t call it “Trans Meat”.
If you don’t eat it and enjoy it you’re a hateful phobic
“Trans Meat”
Second album.
“The only thing they discard is the testicles” can be the first single.
Biden: He evolved.
I hear Barry got a standing ovation at a Warriors game?
The modern day Cincinnatus, he is. Retired from public life, quietly plowing his fields and practicing animal husbandry on his Wookie.
I call bullshit.
I bet you Barry gets none of that Wookie ass. If anything happens, it is the Wookie strapping on a dildo and ridding Barry’s ass.
“strapping on a dildo”
Does that fit over or under her penis?
She likes to double penetrate brah…
You really think the Wookie needs to strap on a fake one?
i was just hedging my bet she might be post op and we just don’t know….
Revolting on so many levels.
I’m shocked that he doesn’t don a laurel wreath for his all too frequent public appearances.
But they act like he’s Cincinnatus.
COME BACK BARRY! WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
‘I’m right here. I’ve been everywhere. Christ, aren’t you people paying attention?’
Imma move to ‘Murica and get my free machine gun in the mail!
Reeeee!
When a dirty old man with a fake taco loves a little girl with a fake sausage does it still count as molestation?
Wouldn’t the old man have a fake sausage? ::confused::
Don’t you even Trans?
Well there was that time in Tijuana but I was drunk ‘n’ high, so I didn’t know! Pinky swear!
I hope there is not a requirement that you have had to have this sort of an experience to be a true libertarian, because otherwise my self-issued card (the only way you can tell you are a true libertarian) will be revoked.
Don’t worry, it was a cis-donkey.
True Libertarians don’t carry ID cards, so you are out.
DOH!
True Libertarians don’t carry ID cards
What about ribbons? Or rings? Or armbands? Or medallions? Or jaunty little hats? Surely there’s some identifier. How else will people know who to avoid?
What about ribbons? Or rings? Or armbands? Or medallions? Or jaunty little hats? Surely there’s some identifier. How else will people know who to avoid?
I thought that was the purpose of neckbeards?
It is difficult to parse, but I am assuming that Humbert was born male, and therefore has a real sausage, and fake taco, while Lolita’s little sis was born female and has a real taco, but a fake sausage.
Is the “taco” that you people are discussing a fish taco?
Srsly, Alex? It’s so sad when even the gay guy gets it.
As a lesbian trapped in a man’s body I get excited when the subject of fish tacos comes up, so you can forgive me for being cautious about getting all giddy and such, can’t you?
Phalloplasty, as I write at least weekly here, is rarely done because the results are underwhelming both aesthetically and functionally.
Vaginoplasty is not all that effective either from a functional standpoint, although aesthetically it can work. Turns out major surgery and nerve clusters don’t work well together. But I stand by my joke since OMWC specifically acknowledged the presence of both a fake taco and a fake sausage.
I’ve never been intimate with one, the fake ones that is. Some of the pictures I’ve seen look passable. I admire the skills of the surgeons who can do that, even though I think their time could be better spent.
Functionality seems to vary in the aftermarket vagina. Even if you can keep it from closing back up (as wounds what to do) you still have to use lube every time, unless you opt for the more costly version where they reroute part of the lower intestine to make it self-lubricating.
*Warning: Do not read SugarFree’s comment*
*abort abort abort*
Re D.C. families. Raging assholes like sports parents. MY BOY IS GONNA PLAY IN THE BIG LEAGUES.
I wonder how Bitchillary and Michelle Yeesh are at the school. Probably don’t need to be bitches but will be anyway.
No Dr. John music?
Florida Bird.
Years ago, my girlfriend at the time were walking down a trail and I remember saying, “why are those palmettos up ahead white?”. We walked a few steps further and ended up running away. It turns out the area under a popular buzzard roost is not a pleasantly fragrant place to be.
Florida Bird. – could be worse. could be pigeons.
Disclosure: we’re not shareholders, but we ought to be. We had a fine dinner last night made with their Hot Italian sausage. And a Beyond Taco for lunch two days ago at Del Taco. Fight me. – ultra processed food is bad for you. Then again so it a couple of bottles of wine.
In an article aptly named “Why Are Democrats Obstructing Justice?“, the following revelation about the whole Russian Collusion coup is made, on CNN, of all places:
““The Democrats have a clock ticking,” warned CNN analyst Phil Mudd on Tuesday. “If they can’t get things underway before the Department of Justice says, ‘here’s our report on how the [Trump campaign] investigation was initiated, they’re in trouble because the Department of Justice is gonna say, ‘when this thing got started, about the Trump campaign, it was pretty ugly.’ And then we’re off to the races.”
As if that revelation wasn’t enough to panic CNN host Don Lemon, Mudd continued. “I’m going to bet a paycheck when [dossier author Christopher] Steele gets in front of investigators and they say, how can you confirm to us that the information you acquired in that dossier is true, that he is not going to be able to answer.”
Here, Mudd admits two things: One, the attempt by House Democrats to harass Bill Barr over the Mueller report and threaten the attorney general with contempt charges are diversions from the real scandal—the corrupt origin of the Trump campaign probe largely based on a garbage political document. (Calls for impeachment also are a smokescreen intended to distract the attention of the American people.)
And two, the results of the investigation into how James Comey’s FBI launched and handled his agency’s counterintelligence probe into alleged Russian election “collusion” will not be pretty. In fact, it will be ugly.
I however find the assertion that it will be ugly to far fall short from what we need, which is some real jail time for all the crooks involved. Unless we want to keep going down the path to banana banana republic status, we need consequences for these fuckwads.
Seeing jail time for the fuckers who tried to institute a coup based on destroying relations with a nuclear power would be nice but I ain’t holding my breath. I hope Barr et al prove me wrong.
Not just a nuclear power. Right now they are one of two nations with manned spaceflight capability. Effectively the only one since China has done maybe two missions over a decade.
Right now only Russia has manned flight capability- we have no launch vehicle or crew capsule.
“To the kids that were murdered in senseless mass shootings. To Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and all the other children who became victims …”
I suppose I’m a racist if I say Tamir was a victim and Trayvon was not.
Take your beating like a good White (Hispanic) and shut-up.
After I do, can I point out how it’s disrespectful to Tamir to lump him in with Trayvon?
What about poor Michael Brown? Has he been unpersoned? The back story too embarrassing?
+1 Gentle giant
My favorite prog rock band.
You may. It’s a pretty important distinction.
I must be too in that case.
You can suppose you’re a racist if you’re white.
Knowing this place this was already covered but I laughed….
Former Ald. Cochran’s plea: Prison hasn’t stopped corruption — so don’t lock me up
“Since sending the previous aldermen to jail has not done anything to curb Chicago’s tidal wave of aldermanic corruption cases, there is no reason to think that sending Mr. Cochran to jail will,” the former alderman’s lawyer wrote.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2019/6/6/18655928/former-ald-willie-cochran-plea-probation-prison-corruption-federal-sentencing
You can say it’s certainly a unique defense…
Sometimes it’s about getting them off the streets. Call that punishment if you will; I’m okay with that.
Rufus is busy working, so I’ll link some Dr. John.
I’m not a big Dr. John guy so I’ll play the obvious one and let others add some deeper cuts.
I was expecting the Popeye’s jingle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obj1vr1SBC4&list=PLiVNmkdRthaPxVD3HZSlTLE-5DT293oBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRrXZP8b0I
Would be even better if somebody would edit Robbie Robertson out
I used to dislike Right Place Wrong Time and dismiss it as 70’s pop. Then I started getting into New Orleans jazz and came to appreciate it and Dr John. Unfortunately the Jazz Fest version is a poor quality video from the crowd, so here’s this
https://youtu.be/DDUAk1dWWiE
The Case for Killing the Campfire
Outdoor tradition or dangerous, polluting, wasteful relic of the past?
something something cold dead hands
isn’t a wildfire really just a big campfire?
So instead of sending out people to put it out, we should hand out sticks, marshmallows, Hershey bars, and crackers?
There’s nothing they won’t go after is there?
The unfettered power and corruption of the State.
Stuff that culturally left/hipster/urban people like? You won’t see an article talking about how much carbon transporting all the hops for those nasty-ass IPAs uses, only critiques of things they think are important to deplorables.
lol get fucked as AOSHQ has been prone to saying lately.
There are certain places I hiked where you did not want to have a campfire, if only for your own safety certain times of the year. You get used to it.
There are plenty of places where you can have a big ass bonfire without risking causing a major fire and doing property damage.
This shit totally pissed me off. The jackoffs ban ALL fires in the fucking state because it hasn’t rained enough this year. I camped at Monterey once and couldn’t have a fire. I was worried about being able to start one because every thing was so damp. You couldn’t start a wildfire there if you wanted to. The next stop, half moon Bay, had a private campground so fires were fine. Dumbass Rangers.
For much of this summer, most wilderness areas in those three states were under a total campfire ban. Outside of the metal fire rings in organized campgrounds, you could not have a fire on public land.
Misleading liars. Fire season has always closed down campfires outside of campground rings, along with a host of preventative and industrial restrictions. Most people going camping do not camp in wilderness areas (aka no motorized vehicles, no improved campgrounds, hike/bike/pack in). In most improved campgrounds, open fires aren’t allowed outside of the fire pits at anytime as part of the park rules.
I ended up in the comment on Reason lately and I see Rufus is still there bullying people
By accident? or are you two-timing us? Huh?!?!
I at least have the courtesy of switching handles. *Snickers*
“switching handles”
Is that like a reach-around? Asking for a friend.
I am not even sure how I got there
Sounds like you were roofied.
Now Pie can identify as a sexual assault victim.
Pics or it didn’t happen?
The correct term is “on accident”.
Are you the local grammar commie?
[golf clap]
Nope, just a Redneck that recognizes when folks are putting on airs.
Paging Swissy for the narrowed gaze!
According to the report, the plane’s owner installed sparklers in a pyrotechnic box located on the left side of the airplane near the fuel tank.
In retrospect, not a good idea.
Sometimes you wonder if we should go back to full on Darwinism and let nature take its course? Shit, fuel tank + sparklers is something most people with an IQ over 85 know is likely to be problematic. People like this is why we can’t have nice things….
Almost as crazy as not having a self sealing tank on the Zero.
Top. Men.
Uffda. The possee might be closing in on Ilhan Omar.
Minnesoda election board rules against Omar and orders her to reimburse her state campaign and pay a small fine for her use of campaign funds for personal business.
The super interesting thing though, is that Omar filed joint tax returns with Ahmed Hirsi (the father of her kids) in 2014 and 2015. That is important because she was technically married to mystery man Ahmed Said Elmi at that time.
I see that a national “pundit” (Michelle Malkin is a hack, but she is a national hack) is on the case. That isn’t good for Omar. The last thing she needs is people poking through her background.
Of course, I might be guilty of wishful thinking here.
If wishes were cat-butts then beggars would smell worse than they already do.
Sweet Jesus that’s a lot of lynx!
Good morning, Old Man!
In order: Indifferent, overrated, indifferent, very interested (the stringbender is sweet!), meh, sadness, rage, more rage, RIP, scorn, paranoia, more scorn, needs moar shotgun, needs less ivy, lolz, and *barf*.
Hank III found himself a fine banjo picker, but his voice still ain’t much. I listened to a couple more while I was going through the lynx and I think he’s in the right line of work, but I probably won’t be seeking him out.
Most importantly, RIP Harry. My condolences to the Sharpshooter family.
Hank III sounds a lot more like his granddaddy then his daddy.
When it comes to famous country artist spawn, I prefer Shooter Jennings.
No one better slander Hank Jr. around me!
My home town had a giant week long country music fest that started up when I was in high school. I worked at the Holiday Inn back then so I got to meet a lot of performers back then (my hometown is such a backwater that the Holiday Inn was the only national hotel in town).
Hank Jr. played the fest one year. He showed up drunk to the show and gave a horrible performance. The previous performer (Merle Haggard?) came back out and helped Hank get through the show.
BUT, Hank showed up the week before the music fest, stayed the whole week of the fest and then stayed another 5 days or so. He wore the Hank Jr. suspenders and everything as he staggered around the hotel drinking and partying. He had three different “girlfriends” on his arm during his stay. At one point, he bought a round for the hotel bar, if he was allowed to get his drink “right now” without having to wait.
In short, he lived the life of debauchery and decadence that I would have if I had any talent that could get me a gig in the entertainment industry.
*He was also unfailingly polite to all the staff at the hotel. And a big tipper.
He was 19 in this clip and this is one of those great examples of a cover that is far superior to the original.
https://youtu.be/ChzWmhI6Cy8
That’s not a backwater. It was 15 years after I left before my hometown got a holiday inn express.
Hank III even looks like a clone of his Grandaddy!
Apple-tree
Tibetan calligraphy: The Perfection of Wisdom in 100,000 Verses, 13th – 15th century. This contains the first 3 sections, around 10,000 lines. Written entirely in gold and silver ink on heavy, multi-layered paper, stained black and then varnished on the writing space
https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1136907557388337152
Translation: Fucking Chinese government. The Tibetans really did have some good insights.
Somebody hire that guy to write a deluxe edition of Dune
I really hope that takes off as the “cool” script for fools to get tattooed on their bodies instead of Chinese Characters. That way only a small, remote population (rather than 1/4 of the human race) will know that you paid somebody to permanently write “hog sex” on your shoulder.
My shoulder says sheep sex, not hog sex. I have some decorum.
Scott Rasmussen Explains Pollsters’ Flaws on Trump, Socialism
Well US conservatives do like calling everything they don’t like socialism
Sounds just like something a socialist would say…..
My takeaway is that 80 percent of Americans are retarded.
Mal-educated
Gee, I wonder why after 5 or 6 decades of indoctrination about socialism being totes cool and giving people free shit will not lead to any additional costs (especially when basic economics no longer is even thought) why so many people think socialism is just a cool thing they should like, and not a horrible totalitarian system where an unaccountable but all powerful government gets to pick life’s winners and losers.
I have long held that the Liberty movement does a poor job of explaining what socialism is and why it is a bad thing. Sure, we’ve got some really good but long-winded materials (looking at you, FEE), and there is a place for those. But what we really need is a series of 30-60 second pieces, and pimp those mercilessly.
That is actually a great idea, considering most of the people that probably think socialism is great are people with short attention spans and more influenced by commercial-like or meme-like information than actual well thought out but long winded discussions. Can you blame them however when all their side seems to be able to produce are very confusing word salads?
The left is really good at propaganda. Conservative Christians have a really comprehensive outreach effort – they sponsor after-school club activities in public schools. Economic conservatism has nothing like that. Libertarianism has nothing like that.
Considering how warm and fuzzy we are, it’s really astounding to me that we don’t.
*golf clap*
If I had a cartoon on Saturday morning, I think our image would improve immensely.
Economic Conservatism and Libertarianism are not religions. They are at most philosophies, and generally just aversions to having someone tell us what to do. Progressivism and Fundamentalist Christianity are both evangelical dogmatic faiths and have all the advantages that brings in terms of cohesiveness, willingness to proselytize, sense of mission etc. There is a reason we call powerful movements “Crusades”
Political socialism = Millions dead and one type of deodorant.
End of session.
Now let’s all read Archie.
Reeeeee!
The ends do not justify the means.
How droll.
Seventy rear old Paul Manafort being sent to Rikers Island and held in solitary:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/paul-manafort-to-be-moved-to-rikers-island
The guy’s a sleazeball and all but this seems a bit much.
The NY AG and NYC DA are putting the squeeze on him to turn on Trump. It’s medieval.
Make up shit to allow us to run that coup or else! And everyone else out there pay close attention to what happens if you dare defy the deep state!
Speaking of which…
Anyone else catch Rand Paul’s comments about the deep state slow wlaking Trump’s orders they remove Brennan’s security clearance?
Your typo is unintentionally accurate. It may end up topping a hundred before the guy dies.
I hope Trump pardons him.
Not that he deserves it but just to send a big fuck you to those pieces of shits who are no better than Manafort in my eyes for abusing power like this.
I don’t think the pres can pardon on state charges. He’s screwed.
That was one helluva jinx.
You owe me some coke.
What are you talking about? *Wipes nose repeatedly*
Just a riff on “Jinx, you owe me a Coke” if you’re not familiar.
Wanna play slug bug?
I mean later on when they do that sort of thing.
I don’t think he can on the state charges.
So when Presidents pardon it’s for people charged by the Feds?
Reeee?
Were I sent to Rikers Island, I would prefer it be in solitary.
When even Karla Marx starts squawking about how unfairly Manafort is being treated, that’s a pretty good sign that they’ve gone too far.
They are not thinking of what we used to think of is socialism and they are not thinking of it as a competition to free markets. In fact, 80% of people who like socialism also like free markets.
You know- morons.
Jeebus, that weather forecast is rough. I think we’ll top out at 104 in Tucson next week. Usually we’re not that much cooler than Phoenix. 104 in Tucson is actually not bad, as long as you can stay in the shade.
When I lived in Yuma, I thought up to 105 was quite pleasant. 105-110 was tolerable. Once it gets into the teens, though, it becomes ungodly hot.
There are times I miss Arizona, but I never miss the 115+ degree days.
Why isn’t it pronounced Tuck-sawn. Why Too-sawn? If you want Too-sawn. Spell it like Too-sawn. Toosawn, Arizona. See, Arizona is pronounced as it’s spelled.
Reeeee!
VA has a few oddities: Tazewell looks like it should have a long A, but it doesn’t, pronounced like Tazzwell. Staunton is pronounced like “Stanton” rather than “Stawnton”. A way to tell a native Virginian from a transplant is how they say Norfolk. If you grew up here, you say something along the lines of Nawfuck rather than Nor-folk.
As a native of loo-a-vul, I understand what you are talking about.
We neither drink, nor smoke, Norfolk
We are the Girls of Norfolk High,
We don’t drink,
We don’t smoke.
Norfolk! Norfolk!
“We may smoke, we may chew, we may go to bed with you, but Thetas…never…drink!”
Buena Vista, VA. The locals pronounce it “Bewna Vista.”
And Pulaski as “Pewlaski”
As a couple of us got to explain to UCS last night, there exists a shibboleth in Cleveland to determine if you’re from the East side, or from somewhere else. It’s all in how you pronounce the city named Mentor. There’s plenty of ways for us to pick out people from outside the area, with Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, and Ravenna.
Mackinac: say it so it rhymes with “law.”
+1 Keweena (Kee-wa-nah)
While planning for our vacay there last year, it took me a while to figure out I was spelling it wrong because I had heard it pronounced and assumed the double “e” had to be first.
+1 where I spent the majority of summer vacations growing up 🙂
The best part is the island is Mackinac and the city is Mackinaw.
Kayaderosseras = Kay-der-ross
Versailles, KY is pronounced correctly, unlike the Frenchie version.
I don’t even want to know.
I pronounce it the French way.
Probably pronounced just like the one in Ohio. It’s right near Russia and Frenchtown.
Yup, same way.
Ver-sal-les
Actually, Ver-Sales
Ver-Sales
I live near Lake Orion and pronounce it correctly, unlike every other person in this state who says Lake Or-re-un.
more stupid TX shit
Llano = lanno
Pedernales = Per duh nall us
San Jacinto = San Ya sinto (German) or Sanny Sinty (Irish)
Salado = Suh lade oh
New Braunfels = Nue Bron fels and, anyway, why isn’t it Neu Braunfels?
Refugio = Ruh fuer ri oh
Muenster = Mun ster
El Dorado – el do ray do.
I say it: el del rah do
The town in West Texas is pronounced el do ray do.
There’s another one in the area with goofy pronunciation, but I’m blanking on it.
At least they spelled it “Waco” instead of the original Spanish “Hueco”
Manor = may-ner
Guadelupe = waddle-loop
I had a 914 Porsche when I lived in Tucson. When the temps got up to 90-92 F it was Heaven with the top off. With no humidity that was perfect weather.
You drove around in a Porsche at 3 am? Dude, we gotta party more.
You mean “when the temps got down to 90-92 F”.
Well, it was April so…
I’ve been lucky the last 2 weeks. Last week I was in Tucson when the weather was 80’s and 90’s. I come back to Va and expect 80s and swamp-ass, but it has been around 70 and nice.
I always have to initiate sex with my husband. What’s up with that?
The guy is gay but wanted to hide it?
could be asexual, a ignored demographic
The wife weighs 425 lbs. and smells like sour milk.
Yeah, but when she initiates it he supposedly acts like he likes it. I can see someone doing that when they are gay, not when they have to fuck a dumpster.
He’s successfully internalized that initiating sex is toxic mascullinity whitecisheretopatriarchical rape.
So a super-beta?
I can buy that explanation…
“volcel”
Ouch.
That’s beautiful, Swissy!
Since my judiciary commentary last night, a thought’s occurred to me. One of the key elements of democracy is that it “legitimizes” the leader in terms of demonstrating raw political power. The winner in an election has to be taken seriously because he’s (or she’s) demonstrated that he has a large base of support. You’re not just dealing with the politician. You’re dealing with all of the people who are backing that politician.
But, that’s led me to consider what I think might be a real standard for judging the success of politicians. Who, if they needed to, could put people in the streets in support of them? Donald Trump, I think, can. As much as I don’t like him, so could Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton? Not so much. Nor John McCain. Or Mitt Romney. Ronald Reagan could. Probably not Jimmy Carter. Or Gerald Ford.
Now, looking at that, it puts the Democratic field in perspective. If the candidate is Joe Biden, they’ll lose. Same with Kamala Harris. And Liawatha. Sanders could win. He could put people in the streets. So, probably, could Buttegeig.
Any thoughts?
The mayor of a small-midsized town in Indiana can put people on the streets? The South Bend Streets and Sanitation Department?
Sanders would put us all in the streets.
Could Buttegieg though? I’m not seeing the name recognition that Sanders has. Sanders symbolizes something to a lot of the left, even the non-Progressive left. Sanders fills the role Trump does in the Republican party. He’s an anti-establishment populist, not himself an “everyman” but claiming to represent the regular ol’ guy or gal on the street. I think especially how he got done by the party sort of reinforces his underdog, outsider image and motivates his supporters. I’m not seeing that with Buttegieg yet.
my judiciary commentary last night
was very well thought out and written
but I didn’t get around to saying so at the time
the practical and social aspects of government and leadership are seldom addressed thoughtfully
Regarding “At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.” And “Valedictorian says her microphone was cut after she mentioned Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice”:
FTA: “At Sidwell Friends, one of America’s most famous Quaker schools,”
From Wikipedia: “Emmett J. Conrad High School is a public high school located in Vickery Meadow, Dallas, Texas. Emmett J. Conrad High School, which covers grades 9-12, is a part of the Dallas Independent School District.” En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_J._Conrad_High_School
Let us assume that the three categories of metrics by which the results of “K-12 public education” should be judged are money spent per full time equivalent (FTE) student (less is better), how much the children learn (more is better), and safety (death, injury, theft) both on campus and on those off-campus occasions when the students are in theory under school supervision (less death, injury, and theft the better). Based on current and recent State of the Schools reports from government superintendents of schools to government school boards, emphasizing these three appears to be a radical notion. The reality, the fact, is: on average, non-charter private and non-charter parochial schools in the United States outperform non-charter government-run schools in all three. The evidence about charter schools is mixed. A combined about 1/5 of full time equivalent (FTE) students in government-run K-12 schools are either not in households or in the about ¼ of households at or below the poverty line. That leaves about 4/5 of FTEs. There are at least five reasons that “federal spending on K-12 public education” for those about 4/5 should be $0: (1) moral (having a 3rd party, even government, to use force or threat of force to do mugging and/or a protection racket when it is not a ‘necessary evil’ situation); (2) ‘paid for’ does not contribute to deficits and debts; (3) requiring the beneficiaries of a government-run program to either pay for the program themselves or find others who will voluntarily pay is a decentralized incentive-driven approach to greatly reduce waste, fraud, corruption, and abuse; (4) please give the actual numbers of the Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America under which the federal government may tax and/or borrow to pay for “federal spending on K-12 public education.” Hint: the justification is not in the text but by Implied Powers Doctrine and/or Living Breathing Constitution Doctrine, both of which are unconstitutional; and (5) if the government-run option stops being free to the parents and/or guardians, then this will incentivize them to consider transferring the children to cheaper, safer, better educating schools.
Public schools are government agencies and operate according to incentives that are alien to non-government businesses or organizations…one might even say “perverse”. When a government agency spends less than its budget it usually receives less in the future, since it doesn’t need the money and cannot generate a profit. So, there’s an incentive to spend as much money as possible without appearing to blatantly waste money so that the budget remains the same or, even better, is increased the following year. This necessarily requires some creative justification, paperwork, meetings, which requires man-hours, maybe even a specific position or positions dedicated specifically to managing budget justifications. A cynic might suppose this could be abused to do things like get lots of perqs paid for via state money or even expand the size of the workforce so that management positions are created or elevated, justifying a pay increase. A more charitable perspective is that the people who are approving budgets might not appreciate the need to maintain some cushion in case emergency expenditures arise, and so spending a bunch of cash at the end of the year on technical references and conferences is a lesser harm than having to wait six months to get a computer for the new hire because the year prior you hired a guy who used his own hardware, or because there was a fantastic sale at Dell when he came on board.
This applies more broadly, too. If a private school graduates kids that can’t spell, they lose attendees and go out of business; if a public school graduates kids that can’t read, they get more money. Private school gets shot up? Parents pull their kids out and send them elsewhere. Public school becomes a hangout for crackheads? They get a SRO or two for security.
Alright, Smartypants. What’s the libertarian take on this?
https://www.facebook.com/sueretta.emke/posts/1726917217453753
Dude, if you’ve got John-itis, it’s perfectly normal (even though you are a disgusting human). Just embrace your feeling and love the chub.
Would not. Land whale.
She’s got at least one kid. I cut her at least 20 kilos of slack for that.
eeewwwww I guss?
GC can set whatever dress standards it wants for its customers and employees. GC can refuse service to anyone at any time for any reason.
Fair enuff. Apart from their right to do that to her, it still seemed like an assholish move.
That’s true, too. But there’s a lot we don’t know. I’m thinking either undisclosed behavior on her part, or a complaint from a church lady.
That tattoo just ruins it for me.
Son, you got kicked out of GOLDEN CORRAL!?!? Seriously!
In seriousness, though, she’s making the classic mistake overweight people make when they decide they’re going to stop being ashamed of themselves. She’s dressing for a body she does not have. You don’t have to flail yourself with a cat o’ nine tails every night because you’re not at an 8 BMI, but pretending that you’re not overweight will not help your self-esteem. Keep the weight or lose the weight, just dress in a way that’s flattering. Also, short curly hair is not flattering for women carrying extra weight.
And, dammit, even if you’re a 10 that sort of clothing is tacky as hell in any situation other than the most casual. The only places that would be appropriate would be an amusement park or a beach. Or on a boat.
And, dammit, even if you’re a 10 that sort of clothing is tacky as hell in any situation other than the most casual.
While this is certainly true we are talking about Golden Corral, and I believe the only stop on the casual bound train line after GC is the soup kitchen
Arguably, the first faux pas is entering Golden Corral in the first place. I mean, it’s named “Corral” and you eat from a trough.
Touche!
Gc doesn’t want anyone seeing the results of partaking in their wares. Smack dealers don’t want new customers seeing ghetto junkies either. Heroin chic supermodels? No prob.
Her in a couple of months
Well she has managed to keep the weight off so…Kudos?
You know what? She probably isn’t though. She’s just gonna be in the $10 bj, maybe $50 bussecks market.
How trashy do you have to dress to scandalize the Golden Corral?
You can see for yourself here: https://www.cbs17.com/news/national-news/woman-kicked-out-of-golden-corral-restaurant-for-wearing-crop-top/2055980025
Also, FTA: “Emke said she’d spoken to a district manager who apologized and promised to send her gift cards to compensate for the incident, as well as staff training to prevent future such incidents from occurring.”
Holy shit, how did I miss that she was there FOR HER SON’S BIRTHDAY.
When I think, “Well, it takes all kinds” I’ve always thought, “Yeah, that person doesn’t like cilantro, but it takes all kinds…” or “Ok, so that person thinks The Big Bang Theory is funny, but I suppose it takes all kinds…” I’m not prepared to extend that sort of understanding or acceptance far enough to encompass that woman or people like her. Sorry, but somebody’s got to be judgmental and I’m perfect for the job.
…after eating at Chuck-ee-Cheez earlier the same say.
I would say something like “glad you liked it” about providing that link, but I am not sure “glad” is your reaction. The local CBS affiliate provided a more complete picture than the version of events floating around cyberspace.
I’ll put it like this. It just reaffirms to me the importance of setting good examples as a parent.
No. Just stop with this.
I have no take. I don’t pay much attention to other people in public. They are just kinda there….I wouldn’t give that girl a second look. How she dresses does not affect my life in any way.
Don’t use facebook?
Whole lotta burl.
burl = wood knot
Random thought. I am very disappointed by the Minneapolis kids.
Why have no civic minded kids vandalized these signs? If I was still a punk kid, I know my buddies and I would have changed Bde Maka Ska to Bde MAGA Ska on all those signs by now. Just to see the squares get a giant case of the vapors.
+1 “Gingerville”
I’m honestly surprised they kept the sign up after the first year of rearrangements.
No two-tone patterns on them? Back in my day there would probably be a half dozen ska bands all using a variant of that name.
Canister lupus familiaris > homo stultus.
Godspeed, old doggy.
Hey Fourscore, sorry for the mix-up yesterday. I was long asleep before I saw your responses and the fault was my own. Working all night and drinking too many beers can make Festus an ornery Glib. Anyway, here’s a tale that might amuse. On Wednesday night someone mishandled a small shipment of bees at the postal plant and about a hundred of them escaped. When the supervisor asked if anyone had allergies about half of them left the floor to go hide out in the lunchroom. Granted this is a union shop and every one of the “allergy” sufferers were gold-brickers. I know this. I watch them work.
What are the odds that half of any population at a given time would have an allergy to bee stings? Maybe at an Appalachian family reunion but come on.
UCS was here for 5 minutes and the bees loved him, or at least 1 did, according to UCS. That’s 100 %, right
We’re back on track, Festus
Good to know, Friend! I lost some sleep knowing I overreacted.
Addendum – Did UCS don his bee gloves?
UCS was still whining about all the bee affection he got at your place when we met him the next day.
Something about you have some sort of kung fu bees that have learned how to sting without having their stinger pull out, so they can sting multiple times.
“The made me scrub a parking lot down on my knees
Then I got fired for being scared of bees”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9iIqRV5fi4
I listen to that tune weekly! “And when I got drunk,I’d give the girls a pinch but I don’t think they even noticed me”
I just saw him in concert last Satdee. He still rocks at 73.
Lucky!
Sanders could win. He could put people in the streets. So, probably, could Buttegeig.
Buttegig strikes me as a complete nonentity. To me, the idea that he could summon a crowd of enthusiastic followers seems preposterous. You’re probably right.
After 1992, I learned I have no idea what other people like.
Sure, put people on the street just like every major city on the west coast of the continent.
Also-
Sanders has enthusiastic fans, but when push comes to shove, I think there are more people who have something to lose than there are with something to gain, under a Sanders administration.
I’m probably wrong about that, too.
Call me Ismael. Moby McAfee.
The President we need.
Bless that man and his adventures.
McAfee is the sanest man in the LP today and they don’t deserve him
Did you watch/listen to his first podcast? Hilarious!
No. But, now I have to. What is the name of the podcast?
Here you go!
You know, if you made a movie with McAfee as a fictional character, people would find it too outlandish.
His taste in women is questionable but who am I to judge? He did cop to fucking a whale.
Experience: I was hospitalised with a sex headache
My partner was gleeful at the diagnosis. ‘Hold on, I almost blew your mind?’
Somebody I know (me) gets those on occasion.They’re immensely painful and make a migraine feel like a mild hangover in comparison.
I get them in the early Spring when the pressure starts changing. Lasts all day, sucks all day.
My “partner”
?
“Listen, I really think there’s an opportunity to expand into the casualwear vertical…”
“Look, never mind all that, I’ve got this raging headache.”
“A Florida neighborhood is beginning to look a lot like one of those terrifying scenes from the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller ‘The Birds.’” Florida Men are bred in the place where this happens.
It’s just another day in the life of a Florida Man.
London to get ‘world’s first’ infinity pool with 360-degree views
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1136634362194210816
Every pool I’ve ever been in has allowed me to turn all the way around.
Speaking of bizarre fixations
Jeffco School District in Colorado is asking the community for their opinion on whether Columbine High School should be torn down and rebuilt due to the increase of others ‘morbid fascination’ with the school, a letter from the district says.
In 1999, 13 people were killed by two students in a mass shooting at the school in Littleton, Colorado. Nearly two dozen others were injured.
“The tragedy at Columbine High School in 1999 serves as a point of origin for this contagion of school shootings,” Jason Glass, superintendent, says in the letter. “School shooters refer to and study the Columbine shooting as a macabre source of inspiration and motivation.”
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“Since the morbid fascination with Columbine has been increasing over the years, rather than dissipating, we believe it is time for our community to consider this option for the existing Columbine building.”
The letter goes on to say the administration is exploring the concept of asking voters for an additional $60-$70 million in funds to build a new school.
The new school would retain the name, school mascot and colors along with the preservation of the Hope Library, which was built after the shooting. The old building would be demolished and replaced with fields, the letter says.
We’ll teach that building a lesson!
Also- in unrelated news, we’re working on our wish list for a fabulous new school with lots of administrative office space and state of the art conveniences for our dedicated and hard working staff of professional educators.
The new school would retain the name, school mascot and colors along with the preservation of the Hope Library, which was built after the shooting.
What’s the point then?
As P. Brooks noted, fancy new digs for the administration, duh!
And a sweet cost-plus construction contract for somebody’s brother-in-law.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/447394-key-figure-that-mueller-report-linked-to-russia-was-a-state-department
“In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.
But hundreds of pages of government documents — which special counsel Robert Mueller possessed since 2018 — describe Kilimnik as a “sensitive” intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters.”
And
“The incomplete portrayal of Kilimnik is so important to Mueller’s overall narrative that it is raised in the opening of his report. “The FBI assesses” Kilimnik “to have ties to Russian intelligence,” Mueller’s team wrote on page 6, putting a sinister light on every contact Kilimnik had with Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman.
What it doesn’t state is that Kilimnik was a “sensitive” intelligence source for State going back to at least 2013 while he was still working for Manafort, according to FBI and State Department memos I reviewed.
Kilimnik was not just any run-of-the-mill source, either.
He interacted with the chief political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, sometimes meeting several times a week to provide information on the Ukraine government. He relayed messages back to Ukraine’s leaders and delivered written reports to U.S. officials via emails that stretched on for thousands of words, the memos show.
The FBI knew all of this, well before the Mueller investigation concluded.”
“tRuST tHE iNteLliGeNcE cOmMuNItY”
– “respectable” people
Jesus
So how long is Mitch going to wait before he uncorks on Mueller and pulls his Herman Muenster ass into Congress?
They have to be making a political calculation here.
McConnell doesn’t care. He was probably privy to what was going on. This has less to do with party and more to do with the fact that Trump was an unknown quantity who said crazy things during the campaign like “NATO serves no purpose anymore” and “we should have better relations with Russia” and “why are we in Syria?”.
If and when an inspector general report is released the reactions from people will be another clarifying moment. Those who line-up to defend the intelligence community, because orange man bad are literal fascist apologists and should be regarded as such. You don’t get a pass for defending the honor of the intelligence community, because that’s what all the cool kids think.
A little buzzed here. Let’s see if I got this right: The big Russian connection was actually an informant to the FBI and was pro Ukraine at a time when the Russians were annexing Crimea? My head is spinning.
“and was pro Ukraine at a time when the Russians were annexing Crimea”
Same as Manafort, although we already knew that. His lobbying work was on behalf of the EU.
For context, see Banjo’s https://glibertarians.com/2019/06/spygate-a-summary-of-events/
She wrote a good synopsis.
That she did! For the uninitiated it was a very useful primer regarding the skullduggery going on at the DNC and the alphabet agencies. Sloop is a lucky man.
I read that. Better than all the MSM’s, including Fox’s, coverage combined.
I’m thinking about copying the text and emailing it to my wife saying that I found it on Slate or something. It’ll get more mileage that way.
Funny how all these supposed Russian links to Trump have ties to US intelligence agencies. Very strange.
It gets even more interesting when you realize the links these Russians and some other real bad actor Russians have are primarily to the Clintons, and that some real illegal and downright shit was facilitated in the pay-for-play shit the Clinton Foundation engaged in.
This is about the 15th such item found in the Mueller report, where either by omission or manipulation, information was “massaged” – including the hiding of exculpatory evidence – in order to produce language that would paint anything and everything in the most negative possible way for the Trump team. Anyone doubting that this 448 page piece of shit was not created as a political bludgeoning device that basically invented a news legal status (not not guilty) is missing the point. Had they found any real evidence of criminal activity – of any kind – what we would have had was a report accusing the Trump team of that crime and a clear request for an indictment.
New Hardcore History Addendum is out – Caesar at Hastings – What if Caesar faced off against William the Conqueror?
Tough one: I would give the slightest nod toward Caesar – Roman troops were more disciplined compared to the more rabble-like Medieval fights. But of course Norman would have archers and chainmail and armored calvary … hmmm… depends on the size of each army. Romans would have – historically speaking – fielded a larger one.
Freaky Friday: Submitted Without Comment
would?
Well she’s a fuckin’ weirdo, but she’s probably in fantastic shape.
I like the dog running past her like “Ugh, god, you suck at this.”
… pay for her future back surgeries?
Would you give her a jump?
Nice caboose, so sure, why not
Nope. Too X-Tro for this cat.
Don’t stick it in crazy.
Neigh.
What she identifies as a horse, I identify as a chimp.
You have internalized Japanese racism?
I can only cum when I have sex with superior races. Used to be the opposite.
The master has become the student.
Giddyup!!
This just brings to mind the weird sensation I get when I’m back in the US and see the average woman’s posterior and my internal reaction is – “Am I supposed to saddle it or brand it?”
Ordinarily, the evidence found here would be excluded. But because the government had so much other evidence of probable cause, and had already planned to apply for a warrant before the illegal entry, the evidence is admissible.
This bothered me in law school and it bothers me now. There should be no back door to getting around illegal searches. Cops illegally search, all evidence is inadmissible, period. Oh, and the cops should be personally liable to any victim of the crime.
They should also be made to destroy all evidence gathered by the illegal search.
They should also be made to
destroyreturn all evidence gathered by the illegal search to the rightful ownerYeah. I was thinking more like illegal wiretaps or notes about items within a house or something.
Isn’t there some poisonous tree thingy?
Much like free speech, religious liberty, and the right to bear arms- it’s all fantasy and unequally enforced. Principals first, because principles are the last refuge of a Nazi or something
Yes, but there’s also an attenuated taint.
Another example of the “attenuation doctrine” occurs where an officer doesn’t have a legitimate reason to stop someone but discovers that the person stopped has an outstanding arrest warrant.
Take a chance if the guy looks like the type that would have an outstanding warrant. Also, “attenuated taint” sounds painful.
Great album name.
After a couple decades away from the US it struck me that “law enforcement” were being allowed to present evidence for infractions which were beyond the scope of the warrant. Get a warrant for drugs and any evidence for firearms violations or kiddie porn became fair game – that was not the case before. Ever since that line was crossed it seems that there are no restrictions at all.
Indeed. Have no dealings with the agents of the state if you can help it. It was different when we were little kids. You’d see the cop walking his beat and it was always “Hiya Joe!” Now they act like everyone that is not them wants to murder them.
Self fulfilling prophecy. It’s my next submission.
What? You have to fight the power! No submission! THIS IS GLIBARTA!!!
That’s “Glibaria”. Like Narnia with orphans, weed, buttsex and the Lion’s head on a spike.
I suppose the only thing in my favor – as I go about my business when I’m in the US – is that I have no ink, no piercings, clean shaven, short hair, physically fit – so I look like part of their team. When I stand in line at any retail outlet I sure get the feeling that everybody else thinks I’m a cop – and the cops probably think I’m a Fed.
Ditto. I’m basically Shitlord Alpha: no tats or piercings, conservatively dressed, 40, tall side of average height, a shade stocky but generally good shape, short beard, a high fade, and sometimes a baseball cap. I say “sir” and “ma’am”. Especially around here I get offered a military discount a lot.
This bothered me in law school and it bothers me now. There should be no back door to getting around illegal searches. Cops illegally search, all evidence is inadmissible, period. Oh, and the cops should be personally liable to any victim of the crime.
What always bothered me was the complete disconnect from justice in our way of handling it. A cop violates the most fundamental, sacred law of our system and the ‘punishment’ is to free the criminal from the punishment for his offense? Rewarding the victim of police misconduct neither gives justice to the offending cop, who should be personally punished, nor to the victim of the underlying crime. Violating fundamental rights should be directly punished.
What a rube Andy Griffith was!
Doesn’t that just boil down to “They did the wrong thing, but they could have done the right thing, so we aren’t going to punish them?”
Does that make sense to anybody?
“Penaltax”
Are we the Stupidest Generation?
I hope and relish the moment when the future generations rip my generation a well-deserved one.
We’re the “meh” generation. Have a Coke and a smirk.
Finished the latest season of Black Mirror last night. Pretty damn disappointing in comparison to their past work.
I’ve only seen the first two. Thought the first one was very good, the second one not so much.
I’ve got them downloaded for travel next week. I want to finish up the third season of Preacher this weekend. In order to watch the show though, I’ve needed to divorce all of the characters from their comic inspirations. They fucking changed Tulip’s backstory. It didn’t need changing.
Yeah, that was a shock for me, too. I like it, but I just have to keep telling myself that it’s inspired by the comic, not a direct adaptation.
It’s just a show with the same name, no relation to the comic.
Ennis gave them a perfect story with a completed storyboard. And all they managed to do was piss in their own asses for three seasons.
It makes me terrified of what’s going to happen to Y: the Last Man.
When the transwomen don’t die, jump ship.
Still, it’s good to veg to.
“I am beyond pleased that Connecticut will join the rest of the country in licensing eyelash technicians, estheticians (July 2020), and nail technicians (Jan 2021). #GettingThingsDone #2019Session”
https://twitter.com/Jilchrest/status/1136302898160099333
Christ, what an asshole.
It’s about time! A manicure once killed my mother. True story. Thank god this outstanding public servant has gotten things done!
The governor of Texas (yes, Texas) tweeted “we got this.” which is being taken to mean that he will not let the law requiring licensure of plumbers to sunset. There is even talk of a special session of the legislature, but I do not know the odds of that happening. Anyone here for letting just anybody get paid to fix plumbing? http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-texas-plumbers-remain-concerned-about-industry-becoming-deregulated
They would put our tire guy out of business because he runs it as a sideline even though he has 40 years experience and runs it out of his shop beside his house. Dude’s got a state-of-the-art hoist and balancing machines and charges about a third what the chains do so long as you pay in cash. When I was growing up fully half of my friend’s Dads had something like that on the side burner.
Behind every great comsumer protection law is a legislator salivating over increased
tax revenuecampaign donations.If that’s what you call “getting things done” you should be beaten within an inch of your life.
She’s getting shredded in the comments. Even ENB is on the case.
Thanks @Megamandad for that good laugh.
And i brooks’d, blergh that was obviously for the Count.
One of the popular things now is to call for the break up of the big tech companies. I don’t have a problem with the size of the companies, and I think breaking them up ignores the biggest problem, which is that they are collecting and sharing/selling data from users without their knowledge, and using that to manipulate people. I heard a suggestion that we have a HIPAA law for digital data, one that severely limits what data can be collected and shared without express consent of the user. I’d love for it to also apply to government agencies. Anyone have thoughts on this?
Back in the days when there was a call to break up Microsoft (it turns out it wasn’t necessary, as WE all knew), the proposals were all wrong anyway. They wanted to split them into an OS company and an Office company and etc.
IF (pretend this is an SLD article) you were going to split them, that is the wrong way. The right way is to split them into say 3 companies that each had all the technology. So you would have Microsoft, Microhard, and Macrosoft, all of which started with the exact same code base, with shared copyrights and etc. All 3 were OS companies, all 3 were Office companies, all 3 were SQL Server companies, and then you let them deviate from that point.
As I said, there wasnt a reason to do that.
I do not want govt to break up the big tech companies. That won’t lead to anything good.
The market is working on alternatives. Tim Berner-Lee’s Solid project is an interesting concept.
The crux of the matter is that people love them some free services (gmail, google docs, etc). How do they expect Google to pay for those massive data farms?
That is the drawback to Solid. You can protect your privacy, but you will need to pay someone to host your pod and my guess is that users will also have to pay a premium to other services in lieu of letting them sell your data.
Worth reading:
https://inrupt.com/blog/one-small-step-for-the-web
People will pay for this kind of quality and assurance.
Needs citation.
That is the flaw in his thinking. I don’t know how you can compete with free*. He also assumes that this new approach to the web won’t be twisted to monetize it the same way the original web was. Like a politician, he thinks a new law will fix everything, then is amazed when people find loopholes.
*It isn’t really free, they are selling your data, but nothing comes out of your pocket.
From what I understand, there is nothing about it that is against monetization.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of Solid. I have had a few ideas that I have thought would fit well into a solution using Solid.
I just think it is going to have a hard time getting traction. Unless it can find a way to facilitate people watching pr0n (don’t laugh, that is what made the web a powerhouse).
You are correct about the crux of the matter. I’ve heard it put this way, in regard to Facebook: People think they are the customer, but in reality, they are the product. Facebook makes a ton of money, but none of the users pay a dime.
People think they are the customer, but in reality, they are the product
EPMD hardest hit.
Which is why people fundamentally misunderstood the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The issue was not that people were having their data/profiles scanned. Facebook does that every damn day. It’s that Cambridge Analytica was doing it without having to pay Facebook for the full rights. Facebook got screwed out of a bunch of money.
People forget that Facebook gave the Obama campaign everything back in 2012. It was celebrated as a coup for the modern age of politics.
I’m agnostic on the issue of breaking them up, because I don’t think they are a private company (they do the bidding of governments throughout the world, including the Chinese, and Google’s work for the US government’s drone program cannot be FOIA’d), but I don’t think they are some factitious “public forum”. I just think that liberalism is over and the hypocrisy of liberals has brought this about. The people screaming the loudest about “freedom of association” were literally saying “bake the cake” just a few years ago and these are the self described “classical liberalism”. So, frankly, I don’t look at this from the lens of liberalism, because that’s a dead idea. This is all just raw power from every side now and it got that way because they people who talk a good game about “principles” always always put “principal” before any “principle”.
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
“gOoGle iS A pRIvAtE coMpANy”
Here’s a good overview of Google’s regulatory capture strategy.
I part ways with you on the idea that classical liberalism is dead; I believe the criticism you’re making applies more to the cosmotarians and the Progressives who’ve tried to hijack the term “liberal”. But I totally agree that to pretend that Google is just a regular ol’ private company just minding it’s own business is to ignore how deeply it is in bed with our own government and others. I still genuinely believe that the only way to attack regulatory capture is to reduce regulation, and where regulation is necessary institute it at the lowest governmental level possible.
What I’m trying to say is that I’m agnostic on the issue. Even if we reduce domestic regulation, these companies will still do the bidding of the EU and other countries, which will still effect American consumers. I think it’s a losing battle at the end of the day, so I don’t really care either way.
I do think liberalism is dead, though. And I would not just simply dub that it’s the Beltway Libertarians and Progressives who have brought this about. Nationalists are part of the problem too.
If liberals had stayed consistent in their principles under orange man then there would not have been so many people who grew disillusioned with liberalism. The constant inconsistencies of its devotees is what doomed it to failure and spawned these nationalists and progressives.
That may be pessimistic, but that’s how I feel nowadays.
I would share a bunk in the gulags with you, though, Bill. We can discuss this more thoroughly, as we sift through our lunch of gruel.
As we sift through our lunch of gruel and snap lice for each other. See, Communism works!
I heard a suggestion that we have a HIPAA law for digital data
Aw, hell no.
I’d like there to be a solution in giving people property rights in their data. The difficult part, for me, is that much of the data isn’t created by the users of a service, it is created by the owner of the service, and is about the user. If you create something, it seems like it should belong to you. That’s why medical records are the property of the doctor or hospital, not the patient.
If everyone owned information that is about them but is created by someone else, that’s a nightmare.
This article with McAfee is great.
https://thecoinshark.net/an-interview-with-the-legendary-dean-of-the-cryptocurrency-movement/amp/
This answer alone made me nod my head:
We recently discovered that you have a Doctorate Degree and yet you never reference or use that title, even in your bios. Why is that?
The degree is an honorary degree from my Alma Mater based on my work in the field of Computer Science. Since I did not do the difficult academic work required of most PhD candidates, I simply dropped the title. In any case, titles are meaningless appendages left over from feudal days. I see no societal benefit from displaying them.
i’m convinced that most interesting man in the Dos Equis commercials is just McAfee.
Today in uniting people:
Here’s an off-the-cuff hot-take from one of the folks rallying for… whatever it is they think they’re rallyng for:
It’s always upper middle class white people who talk about this stuff. If Biden were to lecture coal miners about their white privilege his approval rating among college kids would go through the roof, because upper middle class white lack self-awareness, apparently.
That’s “Ipecac Strong” virtue signalling.
What kind of person willingly offers their child up as a racial sacrifice?
The same people who are pro-abortion up to infanticide?
People who see their kids the same way they see their pets, as a lifestyle accessory.
The “children’s agenda” would be Chuck-E-Cheese, pizza, video games & ice cream. What is this guy on?
Too bad the parents are turning it into something akin to the Children’s Crusade (and we all know how that fart-waffle turned out).
I’ve been reading a few science books – popularized science, that is – from the 70s and 80s. Like Ascent of Man, Cosmos, and The Day the Universe Changed. They have a pro-Western Civilization slant, with the idea that humanity is just going to get wiser and better in the future.
Maybe I’m cynical, but I think those past days were our (hopefully temporary) peak. Now I see the beginnings of dark age, one knowingly brought on by those in the pursuit of power. – or maybe I think the left has more influence than I think they do?
The postmodernists are firmly in charge now.
They make you yearn for the days of obnoxious atheists like Sagan and Dawkins.
The worst idea that Christianity ever gave to the West was the concept of a linear view of history. Ancient civilizations viewed history as cyclical and I think that makes a lot more sense, outside of technology. If technology is the only source that we are using to gauge progress than every human era has seen great progress. Which is not true, because most of us would agree that abolishing slavery and ending gladiatorial games is “progress”, but both advances had nothing to do with technology.
Technology was a significant factor in abolishing slavery in the U.S.
Technology had everything to do with ending slavery. Slavery was never a moral issue until technology made it less financially viable. Before that it was an economic issue.
And we still have gladiatorial games.
Yes and no. The cotton gin made slavery profitable again. There is an argument to be made on both sides. I’m saying that gauging progress solely in terms of technology would lead to the conclusion that the Medieval Era was progress from the Roman Era.
American gladiator does not count
Laser hardest hit
I feel that way sometimes too.
maybe I think the left has more influence than I think they do
In academia, media, and government, they have every bit as much influence as you think they do. And since much scientific research is done in academia, I would expect that it, too, will be corrupted by the left.
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1136996359654060032
An encapsulation of progressivism in a single Tweet thread
There is nothing wrong with coding
Agreed
There’s nowt wrong wi’ gala luncheons, lad! I’ve had more gala luncheons than you’ve had hot dinners!
I’m assuming that you are doing some sort of American accent, but I really can’t grasp which one.
But, I’m going to say I agree
Yorkshire accent. Obvs
And if dont know monty pythons northern playwright sketch you should see it
I am ashamed
Like Ascent of Man, Cosmos, and The Day the Universe Changed. They have a pro-Western Civilization slant, with the idea that humanity is just going to get wiser and better in the future.
Those books/shows were awesome. I think there was a time when people were happy to have “conquered” nature; making life easier and better for humans was unquestionably a good thing.
Now, we have doomsday cultists who have invented a perverted mythos which centers on humanity as a pestilence on the earth.
In the 70’s, there was still an acknowledgement of how close to nature we actually are and how brutal it is. We’ve lost that in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcZ_5uCldg
I miss documentaries like that.
Miserable people preaching the gospel of angst. I’m as unhappy as the next person but I haven’t made it my life’s work to spread the pestilence.
Now, we have doomsday cultists who have invented a perverted mythos which centers on humanity as a pestilence on the earth.
I’ve heard it said that the Millennials are the most educated generation in American history. That may be so, but they strike me as the most poorly educated generation in American history. They go along with the death cult, I believe, because they have no conception that life can be other. So, they believe they can indefinitely virtue signal about man as a pestilence on the earth and still rely on getting their updated iPhone and going to Coachella and taking a holiday in Peru. Somehow or other, things will work out and they’ll be spared. That’s just how the world is. And any deviation from it means that they must be the victim of a nefarious actor. There’s no understanding there of the absolute squalor, misery and suffering that has characterized the overwhelming bulk of human history. There’s no understanding there of the utter miracles that modern science has given us.
Western civilization bad comrade. Much exploit. To much freedom. Electricity overrated
Those cultists have existed since the time of ancient Greece. The notion that man is a parasite on the planet is repeated throughout history.
Man runs over geese in Chicago with his Jaguar. No word from Swiss?
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/4099910-man-who-hit-and-killed-a-family-of-geese-says-his-brakes-were-malfunctioning/
It was him but he’s got diplomatic immunity.
If it was Swiss he would have shot the goose multiple times and turned it into Swiss Goose (full of holes).
How did he cook them? Some nice red wine would work
Yes, if you mean drink the wine and throw the hate birds away.
Oh come on roast goos is great if you dont overcook it
Not Canadian geese. They are vile.
You can break your tooth on a hockey puck?
This is news?
Are they trying to track down the assailant so they can give him / her a medal?
Good grief
Start packing for my trip — black and navy suit, a pair of black heels and my red Moms Demand Action T-shirt. In a perfect world, I’d dress more sassily, like Nancy Pelosi, but because of my lack of creativity, I just buy clothes in dark, monotone colors — kind of like an adult version of Garanimals.
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Watch the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on red flag laws while retweeting photos of our Moms Demand Action volunteers who showed up to watch the proceedings. I get asked all the time if I do my own social media — yes, that’s all me. I love to scan Twitter in waiting rooms, in grocery lines and while waiting on runways. Some people play Candy Crush, I tweet.
NYT sloppy, nauseating tongue bath for Shannon Watts, of Moms Demand Action.
Much brave.
Fuck
off,
slaver.
doing good ain’t got no end.
if she’s at the “wear orange” gun control rally in my city tonight, then i will try my darnedest to get a picture with her. here’s the shirt i’m wearing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DX9H9LW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I can’t roast her on Twitter anymore. She blocked me. And now I’m blocked by half the country because they use her list.
Well, the really bad news is . . . you’re on Twitter.
But the good news is that he knows which half gets the bullet! j/k Preet.
Participate in a Harvard panel about women and activism for the school’s Women’s Law Association. Great questions from some of the brightest (lady) legal minds of the future.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
I dunno man there are to many women judges in my country. The problem is it is not the bright ones
Back in the before, in the long, long ago “lady” was a perjorative. Kinda like “queer”.
It’s all Trump’s fault.
The carmakers are addressing a crisis that is partly of their own making. They had sought some changes to the pollution standards early in the Trump presidency, but have since grown alarmed at the expanding scope of the administration’s plan.
Mr. Trump’s new rule, which is expected to be made public this summer, would all but eliminate the Obama-era auto pollution regulations, essentially freezing mileage standards at about 37 miles per gallon for cars, down from a target of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The policy makes it a near certainty that California and 13 other states will sue the administration while continuing to enforce their own, stricter rules — in effect, splitting the United States auto market in two.
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A White House spokesman, Judd Deere, in an email put the blame on California, saying the state “failed to put forward a productive alternative.”
Mr. Newsom said he is not interested in a “midway” deal requiring California to loosen its rules. “A rollback of auto emissions standards is bad for the climate and bad for the economy,” he wrote in an email. “I applaud the automakers for saying as much in their letter today to the President. We should keep working towards one national standard — one that doesn’t backtrack on the progress states like California have made.”
Murdering the planet. Destroying Obama’s legacy, just for spite.
How is it bad for the economy?
I want my GTI to get 40 mpg and my fj to get 6.
What does that translate into litres per 100 kilometers? My car does 11 of those
I run the fj on hours at this point. Highway? 3.25 hours to empty.
City? 3.25 hours to empty.
“fuckin jeep”?
Murdering the planet? Not cool. Destroying Obama’s legacy? Whelp these tires ain’t gonna burn themselves.
LOL
The right leaning accounts are re-tweeting Vox links.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1136736649310810112
ohhhhhhhh i get it. b/c the Vox union is on strike everyone is sharing their content written by scabs.
For example, automakers would have to demonstrate that the average mileage of all the cars they sell in California is much higher than in states like Utah, where the new Trump standard of about 37 miles per gallon would be in effect.
But because Americans increasingly prefer SUVs over thriftier vehicles, manufacturers might have to significantly cut prices on electric vehicles in the high-mileage states, a potentially money-losing proposition, while raising the prices of gas guzzlers. At the same time, auto lots in low-mileage states might hold a completely different mix of vehicles at different prices.
It’s almost as if California wants the rest of the country to subsidize their social signalling.
Which is strange and unneeded since there are no poor people in california.
Everyone in CA is a millionaire or else they don’t exist
Poor manners for American millionaires to shit in the street. This is why Europe is better
Ha ha. Well done
Simple solution:
Stop sending low-mileage cars to CA. Expand dealerships on the correct side of the border around CA, and stock up on low-mileage cars there. Maybe run busses from the CA dealerships to the border dealerships.
If there’s one thing the Commerce Clause is good for, its preventing states from prohibiting the import of goods bought in other states, so there wouldn’t be a damn thing CA could do about it.
If there’s one thing the Commerce Clause is good for, its preventing states from prohibiting the import of goods bought in other states, so there wouldn’t be a damn thing CA could do about it.
So CA would definitely be able to prohibit their import. Only way the CC would kick in is if someone in CA tried building a car from scratch out in their fallow wheat field.
Robby Soave
Verified account
The same people who opposed the coercive directive “bake the cake, bigot!” now support the coercive directive “platform Crowder!”
I’m beginning to believe that when the Kochs make their donations to Reason there is a clause that stipulates that none of their writers are to ever gain self-awareness. This takes some major major major gall for someone who writes at Reason to use this analogy against someone else.
sorta also Robby:
The same people who supported the coercive directive “bake the cake, bigot!” now oppose the coercive directive “platform Crowder!”
I kinda think that someone at Reason is not really the best messenger on this issue. Reason has taken so many contradictory positions on freedom of association that it would be unfair to conclude that they even understand what that means.
There is hypocrisy going on on both sides, but Reason refuses to acknowledge that they are one of the worst offenders
platform Crowder
Exactly. Platform. Youtube, Facebook and Twitter all call themselves platforms, but if they are going to get into the business of deciding what content is on their platform, they have just become a publisher.
There is a big difference between being a platform and a publisher.
Today, at Home Depot
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7116179/Rita-Ora-sends-temperatures-soaring-skimpy-red-bikini-relaxes-tour.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7115241/Elsa-Hosk-goes-braless-white-tank-flares-takes-low-key-stroll-NYC.html
“Everyone has a right to free speech, even Milo”
https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/828021197451452416
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/everyone-has-a-right-to-free-speech-even-milo/515565/
2017 was a more innocent age.
I was innocent of the fact that this shit would still be boiling over in current year. I thought that they’d cry themselves out and go the fuck to sleep for a few hours like any normal toddler would do but no…
No kidding. I really thought the temper tantrum would burn itself out, but its the new normal, I guess. So, Tiresome.
Well, we have Trudeau as PM for the foreseeable future so their is that.
*there* Tired and buzzed, sorry Ted.
“While other businesses choose to promote abortion, Wendy’s chooses to promote adoption. The brilliance of this, is that anyone who boycotts Wendy’s over promoting adoption looks like an absolute asshole.”
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1137016122186829829
https://decisionmagazine.com/wendys-chooses-to-promote-adoption-not-abortion/
Mmmmm… Wendy’s Bacon Mushroom Melt! (Homer gargle)
story says Dave was adopted. good stuff.
Mac Rebennack heart attack.
Reba McEntire still OK.
NuTek Salt is salt with less sodium (and more potassium)
JFTDCOCC, Morton’s has been selling KCL in a shaker since time immemorial.
I “salt” with a mix of salt-salt, KCL, and Accent MSG these days. Then I soak in some seawater while eating a whole can of olives. Fight me. Caution, Contact May Exacerbate Hypertension.
MSG
For me, that’s headache in a jar.
even when you don’t know about the MSG?