British novelist Daniel Defoe was born on this day. So were “chocolate” tycoon Milton Hershey, General “Blackjack” John Pershing, lovely actress Claudette Colbert, wonderful storyteller Roald Dahl, musical genius Ray Charles, “The Velvet Fog” Mel Tormé, character actor Richard Kiel, musician Dave Mustaine, Fiona Apple, and soccer player Thomas Müller. Whole lotta “meh” on today’s list, but a couple gems.
The Bucaneers beat the Panthers last night in a. game delayed by thunderstorms. And in baseball, the Astros lost their third game in a row to the A’s, and are fading from the best record chase. Other winners were: Cincinnati, Texas, Washington, Los Angeles, Philly, Boston, New York (AL), Pittsburgh, Chicago (NL), St Louis, KC, Milwaukee, and New York (NL).
That’s really all that happened. Some decent sports action on tap this weekend though. So enjoy it. But in the meantime, let’s get to…the links!
Looks like Andrew McCabe is gonna get indicted soon. I wonder if CNN will have a truck coincidentally parked outside his house when it happens. Just kidding, they can’t get that lucky two times in a row.
Remember the next time somebody tells you “nobody wants to take your guns” that this asshole most definitely wants to take your guns. By force. Well, he’s not welcome to mine. Or my other one. Or my other other one. Or…well, you get the point.
“Wow, what a greedy, horrible human being,” said nobody that ever created their own money and wanted to keep it. I wonder how long before New York starts to threaten people with wealth confiscation for moving from their shitty tax black hole to places that want people to keep more of what they earned and spend it as they see fit.
New York City panders to the retards. And in an odd twist of fate, the kids will actually learn more that day than they would have in a classroom.
Hippie town doesn’t like the sight of homeless people on the beach. So much for tolerance and respect. But now the locals can smoke their bowls in peace and not be bummed out by the sight of the people they say they care so much about. (Bonus point for “unhoused individuals” being trotted out as a term for “homeless”. Let’s see if it sticks.)
Ladies and gentlemen: I present you a prime example of the efficiency of government.
I’m gonna keep playing music from the greatest generation of music. I mean, not forever, but at least for one more day.
Now go enjoy your Friday and have a great weekend.
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543 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
Beto is a retarded child.
It’s worse than that. He is a retarded full-grown adult so he’s much more difficult to put a submission hold on. *ruefully looks at bite scar from just such a venture* Old Wilf wasn’t pissing down your back, man.
I doubt he’d be tough to takedown. Have you seen the fucker try to change a tire or cook burgers?
He has all the hallmarks of the profoundly disabled but obviously lacks the ape-like strength and stamina of his more evolved brethren. Yeah, I’d kick his ass and I’m not as spry as I used to be.
He’s such a pussy.
/Robby Soave
To be sure.
I actually think I despise him the most. But it’s really hard as their are many candidates in this cycle that are just horrific. The fact Joe Biden is one of the more palatable options is just hilarity.
Yeah, he has turned quite nasty, hasn’t he?
Buttercup’s holier-than-thou schtick is up there, too.
Harris is such pure evil. I despise Warren. Buttgieg doesn’t even round out like the top 5 worst for me. And believe me his schtick is tired. Tulsi, Williamson , and yang all pass the beer test. Booker is just such a phony clown he’s probably one of the more likable.
I think they are all just awful. At least Marianne and Tulsi are sincere (and easy on the eyes), even if wrong. And they would be people who you could negotiate with to find common ground or even convince that they are wrong. Everyone else is a power-hungry ideologue. A master troll would be for Tulsi and Marianne to run on a third party ticket.
A master troll would be for Tulsi and Marianne to run on a third party ticket.
How can Trump fund such an endeavor?
Definition of “gaffe”: When a politician accidentally reveals what they actually want to do.
Nah. He’s been trotting this out for weeks now. He’s all in on confiscation.
Fuck that guy.
The sad thing is that he actually thinks that this is a winning strategy. If he wants to try then he will be eating more than symbolic dirt.
Gun control wins Dem primaries and loses general elections.
I can see him riding along with the swat team on the first raid. He would wear a white tac helmet and vest and try to bash in the first ceremonial door that has been pre cut but still need additional help getting through the door.
Shades of Dukakis.
Would be really funny if that happened to be the raid the local deplorables decided to ambush.
“No fair” – Last words.
Legions of adolescent activists across the globe are expected to demand immediate action to combat climate change in advance of a major UN conference on the issue next week.
Demand away, li’l activists. I’m sure miraculous transformation will occur.
The Children’s Crusade II, Climate Boogaloo
I wonder how long those assholes who shut down the ship channel yesterday are gonna end up rotting in jail.
You know, the ones who used nylon rope and plastic helmets to protest petroleum products.
Dunno. I know Houston ain’t Berkeley. You live there, what do you think?
They’re not garnering much sympathy from any locals on twitter. Lots of “I’m no Trump fan, but somebody should have cut those ropes and let them fall” and “I’m liberal and even I know how vital fossil fuels are to our society” from what I’ve seen. And that’s from the left. The comments from the right are a bit more harsh.
Delicious!
This is what the pellet rifle is made for. Don’t cut anything, just have reactive target practice. You won’t seriously injure them with the pellets, but you will motivate them to come down.
Combat climate change. World peace through psychic emanations. Free everything.
Loons.
The Pentagon ain’t gonna levitate itself!
hut down the ship channel yesterday
What? I only know about the one in Poland. Did you see that video?
No. Let’s see it!
Here
Very much Children’s Crusade.
I WANT ALL THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES I WANT, AND DAMN THE BROCCOLI!
But, Broccoli made all the classic Bond movies.
Ugh. So lame. The CGI in those is just the worst.
/kids these days
So a massive influx of sex slaves in North Africa and the Levant?
Personally, I’d like to see their parents take away their allowance for a month to replicate the consequences of the policy they’re advocating for.
Take away the allowance, and all the comforts of modern civilization, forcing them to live in the dark ages they’re calling for.
Married at 12, Mom at 14, dead at 20?
I call it the OMWC Plan.
Yeah, but that wouldn’t be legal. A month with no allowance is legal and would probably be enough to convince them that the policy is a loser.
What? Switching off the breaker providing power to their electrical entertainments, forcing them to cook with a wood fire in the grill? how is any of that illegal?
Do you want to spend the rest of your life embroiled with CPS battles, because this is how you spend the rest of your life embroiled with CPS battles.
After the first few case workers disappear, they stop coming by.
Ok, back to the original, do you want ants, because this is how you get ants.
Or worms, I dunno. Scarabs?
Hilary Youth
Oh bravo
I wonder if Hugo Boss could supply the uniforms for them too
Beto was asked if he supported confiscating guns, which he said he did, qualifying “if it’s a weapon that was designed to kill people on a battlefield.”
That standard encompasses all weapons ever created.
“If the high-impact, high-velocity round, when it hits your body, shreds everything inside of your body because it was designed to do that so you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldiers,” he said.
Um…no.
“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47!” O’Rourke said. “We’re not going to allow it to be used against a fellow American anymore.”
That’s illegal and authoritarian horseshit.
“Folks who said, I would give that up, cut it to pieces, I don’t need this weapon to hunt, to defend myself. It is a weapon of war, so, let’s do the right thing, but let’s bring everyone in America into the conversation,” he said.
Someone needs to have a very long conversation with you about the Constitution and American law.
So scythes, pitchforks, and knives need to be confiscated as well?
You’ll pry my board with a nail through it from my cold, dead hands.
–Futurama
Simpsons reference
Phew. Sounds like pickaxes are safe!
So scythes, pitchforks, and knives
Oh, don’t worry. They will get around to that.
but let’s bring everyone in America into the conversation…except anybody that disagrees with me.
Fuck off, slaver.
Why should everyone be in the ‘conversation’?
And man is there one empty phrase that I’ve to hate with all my charcoal heart it’s ‘we need to start a conversation’.
Which to me means, ‘we need to make these hicks understand they’re hicks and we don’t like (insert issue here)”.
Their definition of a ‘conversation’ is a one-way dialogue.
Also, the presumption to define the needs of others. I find that a “No, I have no such need; that’s very smug and presumptuous of you” generally reduces them to spluttering apoplexy. They are used to claiming the moral high ground and not being challenged; change that.
Yesterday I bought a Marlin lever-action 30/30 Winchester (to go along with my St. Etienne 12 gauge shot gun). I’m a novice but if the average person who doesn’t own guns or is predisposed to wonder why anyone needs one would have been at the counter and seen all those guns their head would spin. ‘NOBODY NEEDS ALL THESE TYPES OF GUNS!?!?!’
I try to explain to people they’re being myopic and selfish when they argue for gun control because it impacts gun abiding and lawful gun owners much more than criminals. I’m glad ‘out of sight out of mind’ is a neat trick to play on yourself thinking you’ve done good for society with faux-virtuousness but in the end all you’ve accomplished is taken away rights from another group of citizens.
I love that your 336 is a “Winchester.” Technical history is just yummy, and, of course, we know what you meant.
Oops. Yes. Marlin 336 20. I originally wanted the SS. But they had that one with a short barrel and I liked it. So I took it. Then clubber the first woman I saw and dragged her by the hair to the cash.
shorter barrel.
and clubbed.
FFS.
Rufus, you made an excellent choice with both the brand and the caliber. Hats off to a man of taste!. Those critters gonna be tasty in your cookin’ pot.
Thanks. We welcomed her into the family by sitting her at the dinner table. She’s so charming. And polite!
It’s also happening. Constantly. From the editorial sections of newspapers, articles in media outlets, the comment boards of those outlets, social media – this stuff is being discussed and debated (usually loudly and incoherently) constantly.
Was this the same appearance where he called on credit card companies to refuse to process guns or ammo transactions? Because that is so authoritarian it makes my blood boil.
The new fascist/marxist movement no longer requires the reeducation and death camps of yore to punish and get rid of the dissenters. These days the movement prefers to just destroy their enemy’s ability to make a decent living and/or be able to conduct regular business transactions. It’s so much cleaner than pilling up bodies that can then be counted or forced to toil in misery which can then be used by the resisters to point out how evil the collectivist movement is.
“These days the movement prefers to just destroy their enemy’s ability to make a decent living and/or be able to conduct regular business transactions. ”
Straight out of the National Socialist playbook.
“We’re not going to allow it to be used against a fellow American anymore.”
That’s a great way to encourage it.
From a man that has never been on a battlefield that’s really tough talk. He needs to be on the negotiating team with North Korea. He can talk man talk to L’il Kim.
Good news everyone: Hollow Points, explosive Rounds are good for civilian use.
Truth be told, one of the semi-automatic rifles I own is little more than a totem and I doubt I will ever fire it. It is an accurate (as far as I was able without the NFA tax stamp) recreation of the M-16A1 I was issued in boot camp and carried on active duty. I painstakingly sourced all the correct parts to build it as perfect as possible.
I don’t need it to protect myself and my family because I have numerous other, better weapons for that situation. I would not use it for hunting. I doubt I will even use it for plinking or target shooting.
And no, I will not be handing it over to Beta or his proxies no matter what laws he manages to get passed.
The .45 was used with great success on the battlefield:
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile
someone (maybe you?) posted that a while back and I read it. I’m happily reading it again.
goddamn.
Cam Newton has the accuracy of Hellen Keller.
That’s easier to notice now that he is older and more beat up and can’t run like he used to anymore.
Home field seems to matter with the Astros and Yankees.
Yankees love that short fence in right field.
Not always…
Every couple of years, it’s beautiful.
Oh, totally agreed but they build their team to suit the ballpark.
For the Yankees especially.
Debbie Harry is a boomer. Blondie was a rock band from the seventies, so yeah, you’re right.
Lots of crossover to new wave with Blondie. Sorry, we get to claim them as well.
Like Tom Petty…..and The Cars….and The Clash…..
::Kif Sigh:: This will be the third time that I’ve posted this video in the last few days https://youtu.be/OId0OkGluTo
Thanks. I love early new wave.
I wish girls would wear dresses like she used to again. Well sorta a dress, to be honest. 70’s chicks ruled.
(Channels Ed McMahon) – “You are correct, sir!” Halter-tops, tube-tops, If You Dare Wear Short Shorts, NAIR For Short Shorts!… oh baby, bring ’em on.
She was soo smoking back in the day.
Ted Bundy thought so as well. https://youtu.be/Y3Iha7d0g-Y
She truly was.
Another reviewer on Google gave the same star rating, writing that he was “appalled” to find the once-spotless beach filled with trash He added it was filled with “people who do not seem to care what they are doing to a special landmark.”
“I left and probably will not return. What a loss,” the local guide concluded. City leaders and residents expressed health-related concerns due to a surge in fecal matter littering the sand at both Main and Cowell beaches.
It’s a tragedy.
Put out a litter box and what do you expect a cat to do?
Now do San Francisco and Portland!
“…once-spotless beach…”
Really?!? That must be new. When it was my weekend haunt in the early 1990s, we had massive bonfires every weekend, with kegs and liquor and everything. The usually devolved into drunken brawls between USA and USMC, then the locals would show up and it would turn into drunken brawl with USA/USMC teaming up to fight the Cali kids.
Any popular beach around here you need to wear at least swimmer shoes or sturdy sandals to gaurd against the broken glass. It’s not as bad as it was years ago but glass doesn’t really go anywhere. Once it’s in the sand it’s there pretty much forever (no tides).
NYC Parks Dept. uses these really cool tractors with a digging/sifting device to clean the beaches every day during the summer. They get down to about 8 inches and scoop it all up, ejecting the sand while binning anything larger than a marble.
A literal beach comb?
Yup. A whole fleet of them in Blaze Orange. NYC knows how spend its citizen’s money.
I’m less offended by them combing beaches than other things they do.
These guys?
I’ve been informed they use a product called a Surf Rake from Barber Inc. – https://youtu.be/Sw09ugOQLyQ
Nope. These guys https://youtu.be/ENMOwXwRTZU
Clearwater, FL has those as well.
WOW! Thanks for the CBC goodness, Festus. I haven’t seen that show in decades.
Found anything yet?
Sunday night tradition when you have but one channel.
Haha wow, I’m glad I don’t live in that money-wasting dystopia of NYC.
Sincerely,
Resident of a town that just dropped over a million dollars to change the “city colors” which will consist of repainting lightposts and fire hydrants and other places where these colors are displayed
I highly recommend Roald Dahl’s novel My Uncle Oswald which (I believe) I first read excerpts from in “Playboy.” Very snarky, and would appeal to many of you. His humor has been a big influence on my writing.
And apologies for yesterday when I eulogized author Joseph Heller in response to an obit to which someone linked for a different gentleman of the same name. The recently-deceased Heller also seems to have been a capital chap, and one who I would have enjoyed knowing.
Whew…I remember when people were mistakenly saying Lou Reed had passed!
*ducks*
When you ducked did a bag of weed fall out of your ass?
…as I was let down by the Cleveland Browns.
Did the gun in your waistband go off and the bullet hit you in the family jewels?
And told Switzy as he laid dying that no one was making puns in the comment section so he could die happy.
The Lad dyeing laid dying after laying a lad who was ladying. He laid her on a ladder.
Right after Trump was impeached.
Fine. I’ll play some birthday boy music.
Symphony. Yes, I linked the demo on purpose. I like the raw sound of the bass.
A French lesson
Hello
I used to like Megadeth well enough but Mustaine always looks like there is a drop of saliva just waiting to fall off his lower lip. He’s like those kids from elementary school that always had that white, crusty build up at the corners of their mouths or the ones with a permanent orange “Tang Mark” on their upper lip.
But he knows how to write kick-ass tunes. If I let musicians’ personalities (or politics) affect my listening pleasure, it would be awfully quiet around my house.
Or I’d listen to nothing but Wagner.
?
You know who else….hey, wait a minute?!
I doubt he’d be tough to takedown. Have you seen the fucker try to change a tire or cook burgers?
Snatch the tire iron out of his hand and whack him on the kneecap with it.
He’ll do whatever you say, after that.
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Buttigieg: ‘Life Begins When A Person Registers As A Democrat’
LOL!
I too used to laugh at these parodies. Now however, they hit too close to the truth for me to do so anymore…
I especially liked the new democratic party front-runner’s take on things…
My sign would be: Climate Change! Water is wet!
Climate Change! Yeah, it do!
I’m going with:
Climate Change! I don’t give a fuck!
Climate Change, an idea so bad only an intellectual would believe it!
Climate Horror! Its not someone who sells HVAC systems!
Mine would be I’m With Stupid ⬅︎➡︎
Change we can believe in.
Kamala Marx discovers her pen and phone
During Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) responded to charges that she wouldn’t have the authority to issue some of the executive orders on guns that she has promised to issue if Congress doesn’t act by stating, “instead of saying, no, we can’t, let’s say, yes, we can. And yes, we can.”
Moderator David Muir asked Harris about fellow 2020 Democrat former Vice President Joe Biden’s charge that the president doesn’t have the power to issue some of the executive orders on guns that she has promised.
Harris responded, “I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, no, we can’t, let’s say, yes, we can. And yes, we can. Because I’ll tell you something, the way that I think about this is, I’ve seen more autopsy photographs than I care to tell you. I have attended more police officer funerals than I care to tell you. I have hugged more mothers of homicide victims than I care to tell you. And the idea that we would wait for this Congress, which has just done nothing, to act, is just — it is overlooking the fact that every day in America, our babies are going to school to have drills.”
Harris responded, “I would just say, hey, Joe…
…where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?
Beat me to it. I guess age does have its advantages.
OT – OMWC – I think I’m resigned to either never buying an AVR or buying the cheapest one possible as I expect them both to be POS with the exception that one only cost $299 and not around $1,500.
How does the used market look?
That’s an option, all the AV portions don’t seem to age well. Video input boards (usually caps) and DSPs (BGA solder) seem like they have a 10 year life. You’ll note Amir’s old Pioneer the DSP crapped out. On my AVR it’s video board section.
The analog amp section seems to do much better.
What do we think? Will Beto’s wife divorce him before the election?
I’m sure she’s fucking someone else; but she won’t leave until he drops out of the race.
Sometimes I wonder if Justin’s wife is banging people on the side. For the wife of a drooling douche who loves the limelight, she sure seems to be out of the news and spotlight. These people love attention so I find it weird.
There are rumours Justing cheated but I don’t believe it. He’s too much of a cuck.
Which gender are the rumors about?
GREAT QUESTION!
Justin cheating is him sitting on his hand for five minutes and applying “The Stranger”. That Sophie may be a vapid cunte but she does have her milfy charms…
She’s straight out a kook.
Hard would
Hand strategically placed to block view of toe fungus.
Nailed it.
You sly old fox, you! Grasshopper has much to learn.
Why do such a position in the first place? Or just wear socks?
Are exposed feet that hip?
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING ON YOUR FEET?
/foot fetish freak
“I bet you I know where you got your shoes?”
/Half of the grifters in the French Quarter
Friday Funbags cap off a horrific week.
http://archive.li/syUHZ
Related.
Purrfect.
Liz of Fauxhicans betrays sacred text.
“We have a Congress that is beholden to the gun industry, and unless we’re willing to address that head-on and roll back the filibuster, we’re not going to get anything done on guns,” Warren said.
“I was in the United States Senate when 54 senators said, ‘Let’s do background checks, let’s get rid of assault weapons,’ and with 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster,” she continued.
“Until we attack the systemic problems, we can’t get gun reform in this country,” she added, calling to “go straight against the industry.”
“We’ve got to change Congress so it doesn’t just work for the wealthy and well-connected– so it works for the people,” she declared.
She’s got the rhetoric, profile and zeal of a cult leader.
Plus the arms and legs akimbo body language of a manic, street-corner preacher. She’ll go far.
“We have a Congress that is beholden to the gun industry, ”
Well at least they aren’t beholden to the Constitution, or you’d be fucked.
Hm, a right specifically noted in the original bill of rights is merely a “systemic problem” to you. Oookaaay…
Warren’s claim is very misleading anyway. In that vote, banners did not have a majority. It would have failed regardless.
Well, they were banners in their heart but because they had taken an oath decided to follow the law instead.
It’s funny how the pro-gun side is made out to be some sinister cabal of “big money” fatcats when they are frequently outspent by the anti-gun side.
Speaking of movies-
The other night I happened upon one of the bestest movies ever made: We’re No Angels.
An awesome cast (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Leo G Carroll, et c), great story, and superb dialog. I have seen that movie at least two dozen times, and still laugh like a fool all through the “Somebody should rush in there and warn Uncle Andre” part.
“Well? Did you tell him?”
“He knows, already.”
I thought Sean Penn and DeNiro were in that movie.
The original is good, but the remake is actually quite solid as well.
That is indeed a wonderful, wonderful movie. Basil Rathbone is also a total delight in it.
No shit, Sherlock.
That’s the Guy.
My regular hang out has a shelf with six or so those big headed figurines Bogey, Babe Ruth, Bob Hope, John Wayne etc.. When asked who they are by yutes the bartenders always list them by their names save Basil they always say he’s Sherlock Holmes, I tried to explain it once but it was futile.
My AR is ready for you Robert Francis
What a silly-billy.
LOL what a Nancy
Lori
@NWBiscotti
9h9 hours ago
“well regulated militia” emphasis on the well regulated part.
Kris777
@KrisOverton
8h8 hours ago
The people are the militia.
big lu ??
@Kinowolf
8h8 hours ago
No, the militias were organized and regulated by states as opposed to the federal government. We call them the National Guard now.
Shall we ask George Mason?
“I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.”
– George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
Shall we consult the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia?
a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state, therefore, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringe
Curious…
“… the right of the people to keep and bear arms….” Emphasis important. Not the right of the militia. The people.
Exactly this! The militia really has nothing to do with it, it’s simply part of the explanation as to why the pre-existing right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Arguing over who the militia is made up of is completely irrelevant to the discussion.
Yes, but it could be useful to point out the “muh-militia” crowd of gun-grabbers exactly who the militia is. Of course the sentence is clear until you obfuscate it, but you can win the argument even when they obfuscate it.
It’s the National guard, guntard!
We call them the National Guard now.
No, we don’t. The National Guard is not a state militia. It is a federal auxiliary force that is on loan to the states. The National Guard can be called into federal service at just about any time, and NG units have participated in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Last time I checked, neither of those places were U.S. states.
The closest modern thing we have to the organized state militias of old are the state defense forces. But, not all states have SDFs, some don’t even arm their SDFs, and the SDFs are a lot smaller than the National Guard.
That having been said, there has always been and should always be an unorganized militia consisting of all able bodied adults. As to what qualifies as “well regulated”, that is for them the people to decide not the government.
Put another way, if the government gets to regulate the unorganized militia, then the ability of that militia to ensure the security of a free state has been stripped away. The government answers to the people, not the other way around.
You can find countless examples of that phrase being used to mean “in good working order” countless times in other writing from that period.
Mine all got lost in a boating accident, but did you ever see Homeward Bound? Yeah, guns are like wood and metal pets.
Well, we know they have agency, spitting out bullets whenever they want.
Sorta like 757 airliners.
At least the airliners can take aim.
“Until we attack the systemic problems, we can’t get gun reform in this country,” she added, calling to “go straight against the industry.”
“We’ve got to change Congress so it doesn’t just work for the wealthy and well-connected– so it works for the people,” she declared.
She has a plan. Something something we had to destroy democracy to save.
The wrong people kept getting what they wanted.
The funny thing about Beta is how desperate he is. Let’s see: pretending to be a minority didn’t work, videos of my dental cleaning and skateboarding didn’t work, what else can I try…
This is in the same vein, and just as effective as a hardcore SoCon polling 1% coming out in favor of banning sodomy and pornography and requiring establishment of national Christianity. Sure, it’s red meat for some small cross-section of the base, but in reality it’s a pathetic Hail Mary cry for attention.
Good analogy.
Videos of his pathetic drumming where he pretends not to know that he’s being filmed
Rudy Giuliani✔
@RudyGiuliani
Dems have gone nuts. Yang wants to give people $1,000 each from his campaign funds. What? It’s illegal. This is why Progressives (Retrogressives) ruin cities almost always. The best thing you can say they have no common sense. They are too dangerous to govern.
They are too dangerous to govern.
Perhaps they should have to apply for a license to govern.
We really need to listen to Rudy, because, he’s forgotten more about how to rule in law-breaking and authoritarian manner that creates terrible outcomes and puts good people under the thumb of incompetent toadies than we will ever learn.
He’s to bad governance what Peter King is to material support for terrorists.
I kind of miss the old bastard. Deblasio is doing far more damage to the city than Giuliani could dream up.
Rudy looks better in drag than O’Rourke.
I can’t find the clip but SNL Season 4, Episode 1 has Mayor Koch doing the cold open wherein he thanks the taxpayers of the USA for bailing out a bankrupt NYC, he promising to do better, and that the people of the USA would “get their money’s worth”. We need more mayors like that.
Harris responded, “I would just say, hey, Joe, instead of saying, no, we can’t, let’s say, yes, we can. And yes, we can. Because I’ll tell you something, the way that I think about this is, I’ve seen more autopsy photographs than I care to tell you. I have attended more police officer funerals than I care to tell you. I have hugged more mothers of homicide victims than I care to tell you. And the idea that we would wait for this Congress, which has just done nothing, to act, is just — it is overlooking the fact that every day in America, our babies are going to school to have drills.”
tl;dr: “The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper.”
This is who wants to save us from the capricious authoritarianism rampant in Trump’s America.
“Hey, Joe?” One can imagine the feminist outrage if Biden had said “hey, Kammie.”
Since he does generally go by ‘Joe’, there is another distinction to be made.
You better do the right thing, Donnie.
The president, who spoke Thursday with senators advocating for stricter background checks, said after that meeting that he was working with them to “come up with something that is acceptable to everybody,” and that there would be additional meetings Wednesday and Thursday.
“So we’re looking at background checks and we are looking at putting everything together in a unified way so that we can have something that’s meaningful at the same time,” the president said.
Following a 40-minute call with Trump and his staff Wednesday, Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., said they were told to expect something from the White House on Thursday, though the president had not specifically signaled what bills he was likely to support.
“It was a very engaging conversation for quite a period of time and everybody was able to have their back-and-forths on this and the president is still very encouraging,” Manchin said. “I believe he sincerely wants to move forward and do something. We’re going to know, hopefully by tomorrow, if there’s something that we can all agree on, and once we agree on something we’re going to hold to it and fight for it, so we’ll see what happens.”
You better do the right thing, Donnie.
Is there a single vote that will stay at home or go blue regardless of what he does on guns?
The funny thing is that the other side’s problems mean that this guy can have whatever administrative problems and authoritarian tendencies he wants, and zero will happen to him.
This is a phenomenon that plays out here in MA. Almost all if not all of the awful victim disarmament laws on the books here were signed by Republican governors.
The permanent ‘assaulty rifle’ ban was signed by Romney for example. The message is “go ahead vote for the Democrat”.
My vote doesn’t count, so I tend to go LP just to signal.
That means I don’t need to soil myself by voting for the knuckle-dragging Republicans of the South that are the only line against prog legislation. Sadly, we see the great freedom-loving Team Red waiting on word from the White House on the extent to which they will now renege on their supposed principles.
The Senate should save us, but they are entirely dickless.
And MD. Not that the Dem governors aren’t worse, but everybody who was hoping Hogan would be good on guns was rather disappointed when he signed the “red flag” law. I wasn’t surprised, but I wasn’t happy about it, either. Naturally, somebody was killed under the law just a couple weeks before the election, nobody gave a shit, and Hogan was soundly reelected.
I’m considering voting for Trump because the LP is a joke and the Democrats are insane. If he passes a gun ban or supports confiscation, I’ll leave president box empty when I vote.
#metoo
#methree
Yep. There are a lot of votes who will skip it if Trump betrays them. If he lets Ivanka talk him into some kind of social-score bullshit, I’ll certainly skip.
Somebody commented that Walmart’s strategy of offending their customer base to appease people who’ll never shop there is a bad idea. Same goes for any kind of gun-control that Donnie comes up with.
Yeah, that’s where I’m at, too.
That is not worried citizen. You must vote in every block or your vote is void
Even then we’ll just make up the results anyway.
I’m still not worried, but I am completing every GOA form letter they email me.
Word round the campfire is that Don-Don’s internal opinion polls are saying that tacking anti-gun means kissing 2020 good-bye.
I thought Sean Penn and DeNiro were in that movie.
They swiped the title, jacked it up, and slid a completely different (shitty) movie under it.
That version was Mamet as well, no?
I don’t recall it being that bad.
I had to wear a sweater to drop the kids off at school. I’m giddy for Fall; the high today is forecast to be 72°F.
It will only take another 3 months for the subway stations to drop below 80F!
Not as giddy for fall as I might have been. The insurance company denied our claim so I will soon be buying heat strips for the north side of the house and religiously shoveling the roof every time the snow gets more than a couple of feet deep. Fucking ice dams man. How do they work?
Heat strips? Ice dams? I don’t know what any of those things are?
The price of civilization.
I’ll remember that when you’re bitching about scraping your windshield in January as I wait for my tee time while wearing shorts on the driving range.
You’re the savage who chose to live in the uninhabitable zone south of winter.
Meh I’m not Utah and I still have to worry about that shit and still have no civilization.
I put several feet (eight?) of rubber matting under my shingles in north Texas. The roofer said I was crazy, but shut up and do what I’m paying you to do.
That’s a tall roof.
/sarc
almost 20 feet because it was cedar originally, so figure 30 feet of shingles from crown to eave
I should have phrased it as “that’s a thick roof” so the joke would be more obvious.
not at all: we got you
it just was a tall roof and worth discussing; I think the rolls are four feet long and I thought one was not enough so I ended up with two
Our warranty ran out a year or two ago and just now we discover fine print in the contract. We’re fucked because we rushed into this without consultation and we were pretty desperate at the time. Now the hens have come home to roost ten years later and I’m left thinking I’m too fucking old for this shit. FML.
In NTX, youre lucky to get gutters, let alone any sort of winter weather proofing.
exactly
when I was speccing my re-roof, the guy barely knew what I was talking about
and I’m supposing you’re joking? you know how they work?
We’re not well off people, Don. We bought the house naively thinking that the roof would stand the test of time and winter. As soon as possible we’ll be putting a metal roof on but our finances are stretched wafer thin at the moment. And no, I’m not fucking joking.
oh, I followed that; I’m nothing but sympathetic to anyone trying to outsmart this life
it was just the “how do they work” part
Do you even ICP? Understood, it’s just that my nerves have met the limit of their tensile strength. Bowling with the Chicken Ladies tonight is sure to be a balm to my fractured psyche. Every decision that I have ever made has delivered me to this one particular spot. There is no do-over button.
https://youtu.be/wZFuyATj5EI?t=823
If only you had watched!
Supposed to hit 90 today here, with thunderstorms. I hope the storms miss us, I’ve got tickets to the Indians game tonight.
/waves at MikeS
Twins are doing their damnedest to piss the division away. It would help if we could get -and stay- healthy. And not lose anymore pitchers to PED bans. ?
We do have an easier schedule down the stretch, so that’s nice. 7 games against KC is kind of tasty.
We’ve got three against the Tigers, and three against the White Sox. But the Indians seem to play to the level of their competition. The wild card race is really heating up. Looks like you’ll be facing a different closer this series as well.
104° today. I am the opposite of giddy.
When I lived in AZ I used to love those brief cold snaps like that after the Summer temps break.
It’s actually chilly here in the Northeast. Overcast and very fall like. Next week will be back to the 80’s for some Indigenous People Summer.
So watching this doc on whether the German car industry will survive. It’s arguing electric is here to stay and will eventually defeat the combustible engine which effectively will kill Germany’s auto gig. What I would like to know is it’s been argued the production of an electric car comes with some negative impacts on the environment. So much so, it more than offsets whatever ‘clean’ gains electric claims to have. If true, if we go ‘electric’ will we be getting ‘you fucked up, you listened to us because electric production is not green’ articles in the future and are current traditional combustible engine production cleaner?
In terms of toxic waste, emitted pollutants, and utility, the electric car is worse in pretty much every way.
^
It took VDA ten years to pick R-1234rf as the next refrigerant; the world waited because VW and Daimler know best? rf was unacceptable for a decade because it’s flammable, that whole kilo of it you’re adding to the car . . . which already has 30kg of flammables on board. Then, suddenly, rf is the thing. Well, okay then.
The EU won’t outlaw internal combustion: they defer to experts; in the end, VDA will decide Europe’s fate. The shame of it is: delivering what the clients want isn’t primary to them.
R-1234RF is perfect if you have Honeywell in your 401k- shit is EXPENSIVE.
boggles my mind how R134a that would sit in cars for 20-30 years before release/recovery is now VERBOTEN, and yet that “canned air” whose sole purpose is to be released into the environment is sold by the 6 pack
You’re not thinking far enough ahead. Step 1: ICE to electric
Step2: electric deem harmful
Step 3: electric cars banned
Step4: mass transit mandatory
Step5: all mass transit nationalized
Step6: deplorables banned from mass transit
When do I get shipped to the camp?
That’s the catch 22. You’re a deplorable, but you’re not allowed on the train.
The Trail of Tears re-enactment?
Now you’re getting it. You don’t have to house and feed those that don’t make it.
I think that’s step 4
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” You won’t be riding in some cushy cattle car to your final destination. It’s gonna be Trail of Tears shank’s mare from here on in, Son.
On a sadder note, they won’t need camps if they can control your movements. What are you going to do? Walk to work.
We will have a shooting war before we see that stage.
Plus implementation of that set of rules will result in epic famines that would make Mao and Stalin proud.
Yeah, but it’s only wrong thinkers that will starve. They aren’t even people.
Heh – sure. It’ll never occur to wrong-thinkers to destroy bridges, tunnels, water systems, and electrical transmission lines into major cities.
The thing that gives me solace is that these people can’t even manage to run a stealth campaign pandering to the middle and then go batshit once elected. So I’m not too worried that they’ll ever get power.
Also, I can’t see the police forces in most of America enforcing their insane policies quickly enough for the population to correct course and get them out of office. And the military wouldn’t dream of carrying out confiscation.
Yeah, I am pretty much where you are.
These freaks are going total batshyte insane – somehow believing that the echo chamber they live in has grown to encompass a huge swath of Americans. They are no longer working for baby steps, believing they can take all they want. In the current environment there might be some chance that they could make some incremental progress but with their calls for “licenses for gun owners” and door-to-door confiscation they are going to lose any possible support they might have had.
More like not work at all. Should make it much easier for Islamofascists to take over if they so choose, since there will hardly be a discernible difference to bother resisting.
I get where you guys are coming from.
However, I will remind you that Donald Trump won both the Republican nomination and the general election in 2016.
As a result, I have Forsworn making rational predictions about politics.
What shocked me about 2016 was that Michael Moore got something right (when he predicted a Trump win and why)
Short-term predictions are pointless, I agree. But the long-term trends are obvious,especially at the local levels. I’m not sure Trump was elected on any platform of personal liberty and responsibility; he essentially won on a less hateful flavor of “gimme gimme”. The SALT cap probably cost the GOP some of their remaining seats in blue states. From a POTUS/electoral college standpoint it’s meaningless, but at lower levels the blue states aren’t losing seats fast enough to stem the socialist tide.
Drops tears into can of beer like a strategic bomber…
The interesting thing is the railroad industry already figured all of this out 80 years ago. The fuel efficiency drives everything, and electric isn’t the most efficient except for some specific uses.
First you had the steam ICE. Good for distance, but long trains tended to be impractical. Then electric trains came in – large increase in efficiency except the capital expense for infrastructure more than doubled. The Diesel-electric hybrid locomotive took over and nothing has really beaten it in terms of value for long trains and long distance. Electric and maglev have some niche uses, generally where frequent stops and starts are necessary (short hauls, basically).
No reason to believe automobiles won’t discover the same thing.
I could see ride share electric working in high density cities with a solar depot for recharge. CNG for bus fleets maybe. ICE for suburbs and rural. One size fits all rarely works for anything.
duty cycle is everything
I’ve long fantasized about long-haul trucks that had a turbine around 150kW driving a dynamo and battery set. The problem with trucks is the structure: component dimensions just don’t change. If you want room in the frame rails, get ready to design your own axles and everything.
In the city, the magic is stop and go. Regenerative braking is far from perfected, but some sort of electric for the low end torque will be normal for garbage trucks and street buses sooner or later.
The value proposition of automobiles is their flexibility. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that as government eats away at the value of automobiles, people find ways to maintain their standard of living without owing as many automobiles (Amazon, Uber, etc.). What is maddening about places like California doing everything they can to eat way at the value proposition of Amazon, Uber, etc. is that the only result is a reduced standard of living; the population there will only decrease and/or get poorer.
It is worth noting, too, that every long distance Amtrak train causes at least another 100 trucks to cruise the interstates. Why? It takes up a “slot” on the railroad system that could be used by another freight train carrying 100+ containers.
Our “Energy Minister” tweeted out a photo of him having to wait at a a railway crossing because a train loaded with tanker cars was interrupting his commute. This is the same government that has basically hobbled every effort to build pipelines in Canada. You can’t make this shit up.
He was probably offended that they kept extracting petrochemicals anyway.
Was he driving a Tesla?
You can whine and stamp your feet and get a day off? Yeah, that’s a great lesson.
In our house, we are desperately trying to reinforce the exact opposite of that lesson. Son’s tantrum last night because he got shower instead of bath was really, really epic.
lol? I *loved* the switch to showers. I hate baths.
Baths are for relaxing, not washing.
+1 Human Soup
I’m sitting there in a tepid pool of my own filth…
Jerry, when Kramer invites him over for a soak in the hot tub: “No way am I getting in that human bacteria frappe of yours!”
This is why Japanese completely wash outside the bathtub before getting into it. Yeah, there is bound to be some small amount of residue but mostly the bath water stays clean.
#metoo Well, I do love a nice hot bath (with lots of Epsom salts because old, tired, and sore) but that comes after a cleansing shower and involves whiskey and a water pipe and book or a movie.
There’s nothing better than taking an ice bath after jogging on a hot day. Feels good man.
Next time, we’re not gluing the pieces back together.
After a long ride, I just want a shower to rinse off all the road dust, sweat, and grime. I have a feeling if I tried a bath, the water would turn grey relatively quickly.
Oh, it does get murky pretty quickly. I stand up and rinse off under the shower when I’m done.
That’s the toxins coming out!
No, it’s mostly dirt and old skin.
We got our daughter on showers early, which she liked because of the novelty. Now she gets a choice: bath, shower, or shower-bath, the latter of which is just plugging the tub and turning the shower on. She had absolutely no problem with the shower once she realized that she could sit on the floor and play, and the association with adults helped, too.
My wife and I clash on that point often. I refuse to budge an inch, but since my daughter is just as stubborn we’ll lock horns and get nowhere. My wife will try to deflect and distract her until she winds up doing something close to what we wanted her to do anyway, but the problem there is that our daughter knows that’s on the table and will drive the conflict towards the point where Mom breaks and offers a compromise, then she’ll get what she wants and push back on the part where she holds up her end of the deal. Which is why she’s already gotten to the point where she won’t even bother to ask me something she thinks I’ll say “no” to and just goes straight to ol’ Soft Touch.
Poor Naptown! Forever more to be known as the “Party of No”.
I’m basically the Ron Paul of parenting.
*Raises one clenched fist in commiseration*
Audit the Bed[time]!
She has such great ideas though.
I don’t understand people, so maybe that ad works, but if I’m running the campaign I would just string together video of their own words.
That’s an own goal like Nixon’s Goldwater ad. Rank stupidity.
The ad is pathetic, but not racist.
They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people, but ugly doesn’t mean smart.
Michigan police officer fired for Klan document seen at home
Odds he sues, wins, and gets rehired?
Wait, was it his application or was he just selling a historical document?
That was my question as well.
Well that would require some real journalism there wouldn’t it? I think we are fresh out of that.
A buddy of mine in high school’s dad had a whole room dedicated to German WWII memorabilia that nobody was allowed to enter. The joke was that he’d go in there, close the door, play Deutschland Uber Alles, and stare mournfully at a portrait of Hitler.
History is just as racist as the Klan.
Zero. Racism is worse than rape or murder.
Wrongthink is unforgivable. Murder is caused by the evil gun and not really the killer’s responsibility so we should be merciful. Seriously how have we gotten to a place where holding unpalatable opinions is regarded as worse than actually harming people?
“Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson has said the results of the city’s inquiry will determine whether the shooting will be re-evaluated”
This sounds like a procedural pit, guaranteed to induce a court order to put him back on the force.
If you are beating someone with blunt objects, you aren’t unarmed.
Get a load of this bootlicker.
/just busting your balls
Freedom of association used to be a thing. So was the study of history.
On a barracks inspection one day, the Battery XO noticed a copy of The Communist Manifesto on my bookshelf. He was rather cross but became even angrier when the 1st Sgt. (who was not at all fond of the XO) chimed in – “Sir, how do we defeat an enemy if we don’t understand them? I think every soldier should be reading Marx.” The inspection party quickly left our room and we stifled giggles until they were off of our floor.
Sup Redleg?
Air Defense, but we were part of DIVARTY (and I did Basic at Ft. Sill) so, close enough.
History, the real shit, not the made up woke pseudo-marxist rewrite of it, gets in the way of the narrative and the ability of the elite credentialed leadership class from being able to change rules on the fly to handicap and punish anyone not kissing their fucking asses.
104° today. I am the opposite of giddy.
Woozy?
Brian Eno is dead? Does Lou Reed know?
Well, they did prevent the emu from being shot by hunters
No, it’s that 80’s comedian with the funny haircut.
The brilliance of Emo Phillips:
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!”
He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.”
I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said,
“Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said,
“Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.”
I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too!
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or
Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.”
I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879,
or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.”
I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.
So yesterday I was listening to a Jordan Peterson podcast where he mentioned Karl Marx’s early poems. He read part of one … and wow.
some examples:
In another poem, Marx writes of his triumph after he shall have destroyed God’s created world:
Then I will be able to walk triumphantly,
Like a god, through the ruins of their kingdom.
Every word of mine is fire and action.
My breast is equal to that of the Creator.
And in his poem “Invocation of One in Despair” Marx writes,
I shall build my throne high overhead
Cold, tremendous shall its summit be.
For its bulwark — superstitious dread
For its marshal — blackest agony.2
https://mises.org/library/marxs-path-communism
He really was a pathetic loser with delusions of grandeur. Did he write this in his Mom’s basement?
He was a lazy bum who shirked resposibilities his entire life, abandoned his wife and children to fend for themselves, and lived off handouts from rich friends.
We talking about Bernie Sanders now?
No, but Bern is really cast in the same mold as his idol.
He was evil. The more I learn about the guy, the more I realize he really wanted a body count so he could climb that mountain and dance on those corpses.
He was more the 19th century version of that couch-surfing buddy that stays over too long and drinks all the beer in the fridge.
And refuses to chip in with anything.
*nods, sagely*
Even worse is the buddy who bought beer *one time* and then gets all defensive;
“HEY! I CHIPPED IN! YOU REMEMBER!”
At least you can shame the out-and-out bum
“Don’t judge me, Man!”
Soooo.
Is the Sarwak/Smith worth listening to at all or should I just skip?
STEVE SMITH ALL ACTION NO TALK
It’s basically a battle between “do what you have to do to get votes” and “stick to actual libertarian principles”. There’s not a whole lot of new commentary/analysis on libertarian issues, but it was satisfying to see Nick get so heartily smacked down by Dave. My favorite part was when Dave called him out for being so eternally condemning towards someone who merely said racist things (and never harmed anyone) but being forgiving and conciliatory toward warmongers (who have actually gotten mass numbers of people killed).
It frustrated me that Dave even had to go there. IMO the better question was “Who are these racists that need to be purged? Please show me some evidence that the Charlottesville alt-righters were claiming libertariansism” From what I saw Nick had to invent them by smearing the unfashionable, unwoke libertarians.
If the people of whatever stripe leveling accusations of racism would bother defining the term I’d be more willing to care enough to rebut.
If:
Racism = believes there may be statistical differences between ethnic groups. Let’s look at the data
Racism = believes that group x should be deprived of rights. If you show me evidence that someone believes this I will condemn them
Racism = believes white people should be able to do the same things that black people do and vice versa. Ok, so fairness is racist? Guess I am a racist.
“Racism = believes that group x should be deprived of rights. If you show me evidence that someone believes this I will condemn them”
^This. The whole argument was stupid because if someone believes this they are, by definition, not a libertarian.
You don’t have to be racist, you just have to defend the rights of racists. Libertarians are all about guilt by association now, apparently.
Barbark vs Cave Piss?
Meh.
Ill sum it up. YOURE A RACIST! YOURE A WARHAWK!
I’ve been called worse.
Yeah. I listened this morning and I was less than impressed. I felt like Dave came off as petty for challenging him on ever single sentence he said rather than letting him make is argument and the dismantling it (which would have been easy to do).
Well said.
Because of or in-spite of the typos I manage to make every time I post?
Because of.
Nothing involving Sarwak is worth listening to. Seriously. That man’s portrait should be in the dictionary as an illustration of the word “irrelevant”.
“Water down what we believe to the point that it’s utterly meaningless. Broad appeal achieved!!!”
The crazy thing is that they sacrificed their principles for nothing! The whole idea was we’ll broaden our appeal, take advantage of the hatred of Trump to get new voters to vote for our party’s candidate, and some of them will stay.
How’s that plan working out? Developed a groundswell of grass-roots support? More good press for the LP? Are these new voters sticking around and voting for other LP candidates in state elections? Are they recruiting family and friends?
Got that positive energy going?
I wish I had been wrong when I cynically predicted that all they would get for their antics was precisely nothing, that they had exploited the opportunity given by people’s dissatisfaction with the duopoly. But the reality is that they basically squandered their moral authority for nothing. They aren’t educating anyone. They aren’t winning elections. They literally are so worthless that the only publicity they get is when the LP says something that can be used to hammer quasi-libertarianish Republicans or Democrats.
Winners get respect. People who stand for something but nevertheless lose get respect. Brownnosers who lose (and that’s what Sarwak is, he’s a brownnoser) don’t get respect. They merely get used.
And, frankly, the LP is so irrelevant that even his most desperate, boot-licking, efforts to say something that the mainstream media will promote get ignored.
Utterly irrelevant.
To build on that a little, the idea of capitalizing on the hatred for Trump (that you noted) was that they could win large numbers of votes from Democrats and so Johnson/Weld and the party officials moved left. This seemed to me to be tactically obtuse. It was unlikely that large numbers of Dems were going to abandon Hillary whereas it seemed more likely that chunks of Republicans would have abandoned the Trump-led Republicans.
Probably impossible to be prove of course.
I think the LP did capture some disaffected Republicans. Unfortunately, being disaffected didn’t make them libertarian (or conservative, for that matter). Then, to add to the problem, a lot of people are shifting left, if a lot slower than the radical Democrats, in opposition to Trump. They will bleat about conservative or libertarian principles not being heeded by Trump, but then they won’t show such principles themselves. They are using another man’s hypocrisy as an excuse for their own. I feel as though we’re heading into an age of iconoclasm; the LP may well be nonexistent in a decade’s time, having no purpose to service once the Republicans get to untether themselves from conservatism post-Trump.
Tarran is landing the haymakers!
The LP needs to fade away and new third parties rise to take its place. It now has nothing to succeed at; even its tangential purpose of securing ballot access having been chipped away by the major parties.
this guy gets it
To him and his followers, the Great Barrier Reef is a part of the Yidinji Territory, a self-declared nation spanning more than 6,000 square miles in the northeastern part of the continent, which Mr. Walubara formed in 2014, but to which he says sovereignty was never ceded.
Five years ago, after realizing that as an Indigenous man he was not recognized by Australia’s Constitution, Mr. Walubara quit his job as a political reporter and renounced his Australian citizenship and former name, Jeremy Geia. He returned his passport, public health care documents and driver’s license to their respective government departments, he says, and destroyed his Australian bank cards.
“I had assumed that I had true and correct membership inside the Commonwealth of Australia,” Mr. Walubara, who is now 45, recounted writing in the accompanying letters to each government department. “I have made a mistake: I’m no longer eligible for the benefits of your society,” he wrote. “Here are your instruments back.”
That’s pretty hard-core. I wonder who feeds him? Up here we have native bands claiming territory that you know their ancestors never set a moccasined foot upon and the neighboring tribe saying, “Nuh-uh! That’s Grandfather’s mountain!” Native tribes in B.C. claim about 150% of the the entire province. The Government didn’t sign treaties with them in the 1800’s. How do you even try to negotiate with these people now in these ultra litigious times?
“All tribal claims are void. The war’s are over – you lost. You’re Canadian now, and the deeds in place are the starting point going forward.”
Works in Ulster
* hears twig snap, looks over shoulder for Choctaw *
Illustrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQFli6zMh4
The same way the judge negotiated with that “I am the natural man” guy?
I like the cut of that guy’s jib.
Slate is aghast
It seemed inevitable that O’Rourke’s call to ban ownership of military-style weapons would rile up the guns=distilled liberty true believers online, but it was, perhaps predictably, an elected Republican official—from the state of Texas no less—that led the way over the cliff. Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain tweeted a not-so-thinly veiled threat at the presidential contender, tweeting “My AR is ready for you Robert Francis,” calling O’Rourke, whose nickname is Beto, by his first and middle names.
The O’Rourke campaign said it reported the 34-year-old state rep’s tweet to the FBI. Twitter took down the tweet saying it had violated its terms of service. “It violates our rules for threats of violence,” a company spokesperson said late Thursday night. “You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people.”
Cain, however, was unrepentant.
That bad man said mean things!
Forgive me if I’m less than scandalized when someone who is targeted by a politician for the use of deadly force declares his intent to #resist.
“You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people.”
And what of the implied violence of Beta’s mass-disarmament of peaceful people?
Government violence is righteous.
“You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people.”
I bet I could go on Twitter right now and find at least 5 instances of people wishing death or violence upon Trump.
Deplorables aren’t People
– Twitter Trust and Safety Committee
New ‘SNL’ cast member Shane Gillis offers to apologize for racial slur
This is disgusting. He must be canceled.
Back in my day we had good, clean, fun comedy like this, and I say we should once again celebrate similar humor.
BUCKWHEAT!
podcast recordings from just last year have threatened his position with the sketch show.
Let me guess. They found out he was funny?
If they were smart and funny – two things they are generally believed to be – they would have a sketch where the new Asian character beats Shane up, or something along those lines. And then no one cares, because even though no one cares, we have to pretend we care, because we care, even though we don’t care.
Sounds like a stupid Mic.
Never apologize.
I’m sorry, what?
Good Lord, I watched that when it aired.
Christie Brinkley, 65, puts on a leggy display in barely-there spandex shorts as she arrives for another round of Dancing With the Stars rehearsals
I think we should all just take a step back and appreciate the fact that she exists.
And that a troll like Billy Joel was able to Parlay musical ability into a relationship with that.
Kind of makes us all better by proxy.
Say what you will about Billy Joel (and Elton John) – those two old fat fucks know how to put on a great show.
How do I know? Have I seen them live? Huh? SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
*runs away*
Can we start a gofundme to buy Crusty meds?
-30 mg methylphenidate
-40 mg fluoxetine
-100 mg sildenafil
Thanks!
That’s . . . a remarkably specific list . . .
The heart wants what it wants.
He needs the 30 mg methylphenidate to stay up all night, the -40 mg fluoxetine to keep him happy, and the -100 mg sildenafil, to keep him really happy.
Thank you.
I have seen Billy Joel four times. He was absolutely amazing all four times.
Heck, I saw Kool & the Gang. I’m not going to hide from seeing the piano man.
Not seen him live, but “Last Play at Shea” captures a lot of his energy.
You mean the Piano GOD! –NSFW
Being born on Long Island means that I am genetically compelled to like Billy Joel. It’s like Springsteen with Jersey.
Recalls one of my more favorite celebrity jokes:
“I love you just the way you are..”
“Shut the f**k up! You’re married to Christie Brinkley!”
The Mail covers the world’s greatest city:
Five NYPD cops are injured trying to break-up a massive brawl in Manhattan sparked by teenagers who attacked a cab driver they said ran over their 16-year-old friend
Brooklyn’s war on rodents sees authorities snare rats in ALCOHOL-filled traps as resident spots one of the huge ‘vicious’ pests foaming at the mouth
Just like the old days.
OFFS
Because they like the plague?
I’m not a bigot or anything. I mean I can like a rodent in a one on one situation but when they get together in a group? No thanks! I just don’t like the culture.
https://youtu.be/eYEgYVyBDuM
I guess he’ll be using his ticket now.
As much as I love getting Ronnie Spector to sing on Take Me Home Tonight, my two faves are
https://youtu.be/o0JqC2UDpoE
https://youtu.be/7FdYRq8-6kM
I’d like to spend Endless Summer Nights with Blair Valk, IYKWIM.
Was just about to post that…
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/eddie-money-dead-dies-1203334855/
Wow, thank God we still have Lou Reed.
If obit = true:post comment 231
Four tickets to paradise.
Daniel Johnston died the other day…
https://pitchfork.com/news/daniel-johnston-dead-at-58/
Gah! They play that song nightly on the classic rock station here. Every night. The only good part is Ronnie’s vocals.
Give ’em plenty of rope, I say
President Trump’s reelection campaign scoffed at the Democratic presidential field after Thursday night’s primary debate, saying the event served as an “informercial” for the Trump.
“Democrats’ big government socialism would force a government takeover of healthcare, eliminate private insurance, provide free healthcare to illegal immigrants, kill millions of jobs by ending the fossil fuel industry, disarm the American public, and raise taxes to pay for their radical agenda,” said Kayleigh McEnany, Trump campaign national press secretary.
“President Trump’s record of accomplishment easily eclipses any of these weak candidates. Thank you to ABC and the Democrat Party for another infomercial for President Trump!”
Tell us everything you want to do, Democrats. Ridicule and vilify the people who just want to live their lives and not be part of your grandiose socialist crackpottery. They’ll vote for you, anyway.
This is basically right though. The Democrats really have been the best case for Trump’s re-election. If the Dems were running just a mainstream moderate liberal field, I’d say Trump would have cause for worry. But, what does it tell you that one of the more liberal Congresswomen and a guy running on giving everybody $1k per month are outliers on the field because they’re too moderate?
I was truly impressed by what I saw.
Kamala Harris had already racked up the astonishing total of 4.5 trillion dollars per year in new spending, and now she is tacking on a 2% tax on wealth to pay for a 2 trillion dollar payout to historically black colleges.
And her rationale was even better. You see, historically black colleges make black teachers. And Kamala Harris went to a historically black college. So we need to invest to trillion dollars in historically black colleges.
Also, teachers need to stick to teaching their own race.
Neo-segregation is all the rage it seems
She’s Black? I thought she was some kind of Indian?
Daughter of an Indian doctor and Jamaican professor & spent HS in the wealthiest town in Canada. Listen to her, she knows what she’s talking about.
Westmount is the Beverly Hills of Canada. Ask Rufus, he lives in the shadow of it. Where do you think The Twink In The North hails from?
Was the Jamaican prof black?
Dots, not feathers.
She’s whatever the fuck she needs to be to win elections.
She’s whatever the fuck she needs to be to win elections.She’s fucks whatever she needs to win elections.
FTFY
You guys know that I have been apoplectic about the subversion of the media in the United States in 2018 DNC propaganda machine.
Last night gave me more Grist for the mill.
The commentators and analysts on ABC covering the debate exclusively referred to the Democrat candidate selection, DNC policy objectives, and defeating Trump as “we.” None of their reporters even made a pretense of referring to the Democrat Party and its objectives in the third-party as an ordinary reporter would do. They all refer to themselves as a part of the defeat Trump machine.
From the Department of a blind man could have seen this coming, I read the ABC News fact check article about the debate. They fact-checked a claim that the Obama Administration did not put illegal immigrants in cages. After recounting that there was some incidents where the Obama Administration put detainees in cage like structures, they went on to say that unlike the evil Trump Administration and its policy of intentionally separating infants from their mothers and leaving children to care for each other, the Obama Administration never separated families.
Of course, this is patently false. The policy of separating families began under the Obama Administration as a result of a court order stemming from a left-wing activist lawsuit about locking children in the same prison with adults. So, so much for fact-checking.
(paraphrasing) “The world is going to end in ten years. How are you going to save us?”
“How are you going to stop the epidemic of white nationalism that is a feature of Trump’s America?”
etc. etc.
Yeah they were totally objective.
*cracks yet another beer, farts and wishes for SMOD*
And what of the implied violence of Beta’s mass-disarmament of peaceful people?
It’s not violence when the government does it. Now get on the ground, or we’ll pacify you some more.
+1 “should have followed orders”
That was a pretty huge Applause line.
It was not that long ago that simply suggesting any sort of national-level program was equated with a national ID card and immediately dismissed. Now we have gotten to the point where violating the right to keep and bear arms by forcibly stealing the property of American citizens is a huge Applause line.
I wish there had been a way to bet on this 30 years ago. I could have put down a penny and won a trillion dollars. Nobody alive in the 70s would have believed any of this would be possible.
Hell, there were tons of Articles written ridiculing the slippery slope over the last 10 years, saying nobody is coming for your guns.
I would like to point out that there is a difference between the people who willingly attended the debates in person and the cross section of the nation.
So I’m not going to take their applause as indicative of anything beyond that room.
I think it’s indicative of how ambitious and ruthless the left has become in this country. In a few years we’ll be reading chin-tuggers at Slate positing “Is it wrong to SWAT my gun-toting neighbor?” “Should you call CPS if you think the father next store hasn’t turned in his AR-15?”
Hey, there’s Bob! He knows the score! *finger guns Bob*
Then people in the 70’s weren’t paying attention.
https://time.com/5169210/us-gun-control-laws-history-timeline/
The Nixon administration floated plans for handgun bans, serial numbers on individual rounds of ammo and full national gun registration. There is no new thing in tyranny.
What’s interesting is that almost all the gun violence comes from handguns, yet Americans have gotten steadily more opposed to regulating them.
nobody in the 70s ?
I smelled a rat a long time ago.
Guns aren’t for poors. They’re for the elite to go pheasant hunting and bodyguards of the elite.
Back in the good old days when right-thinking people were frightened by cheap, easy-to-conceal handguns.
No one gave a shit about rifles. Can’t conceal those fuckers.
Sure you can.
*picks up cardboard box*
This is what makes me a bit angry.
Hand guns are clearly and obviously more dangerous when it comes to murder or violence than rifles. (and I’m not saying they should banned. it’s just true).
Yet, our narrative is somehow opposite.
..
Why does it make me angry?
Because it’s clear how much our political agenda in this country is driven by the media’s ability to manipulate people with sensationalized tragedy.
That and the Fudds at the NRA are just lying back and taking it.
Support for gun bans in the U.S. is actually dwindling over time, although you might not realize it.
There was a nice story on this last night. I think one of the National Review columnists.
Pompeo Urges Hollywood to Reject Chinese Censorship
Our generation’s Kissinger speaks.
How you know they are all part of the propaganda machine, part 2:
Joe Biden answered a question about slavery reparations by pivoting to education. In this answer he spewed forth an incoherent mix of half finished talking points. Among these was “you need to have them listen to the record player at night. They need to hear words.”
Ordinarily this 35 years out of place reference and it’s nonsensical recommendation would have been one of the highlights of the night, disqualifying any candidate making such a bizarre claim. But in the world we live in, this exchange did not even get mentioned. Instead, the coverage has been about Castro attacking Joe Biden on his age and a debate over whether or not Castro was factually incorrect In His attack.
So now you can see where the split is. Some are on team Biden. Others have put their chip down on another DNC candidate. So we see battling coverage to set the narrative one way or the other, depending on if you think Joe needs to get out of the race so that a different candidate can prevail.
But nobody actually covered the fact that Joe was 3/4 senile for half the night.
It’s utterly unsurprising to me. They’ve been Democrat operatives for decades, Trump has just driven them around the bend to the point that they dropped the mask. Fortunately, trust in the national press is at an all time low so the people aren’t nearly as stupid as they would have you believe.
I wouldn’t be so sure. The Trump-hate runs deep and long with many of these people. If we’re lucky, RBG finally keels over and he gets another Supreme pick before everything goes to hell in a handcart.
Every time I read this band name I crack up!
The Oral Cigarettes
Hey Kids – The Oral Cigarettes
https://youtu.be/-retejC9qeU
Which simply raises the question, is there another type of cigarette?
Well I have seen some smoking asses.
There’s the kind smoked through a tracheal tube.
/addiction is brutal
You’ve obviously never been to Thailand.
Looks better when you “can’t” read it – ジ オーラル シガレッツ
Funny thing is that cigarettes in Japanese are simply called “tabako” or tobacco. Also one of the only foreign words I know in Japanese that is written in hiragana – たばこ.
Jazz cigarettes?
The commentators and analysts on ABC covering the debate exclusively referred to the Democrat candidate selection, DNC policy objectives, and defeating Trump as “we.” None of their reporters even made a pretense of referring to the Democrat Party and its objectives in the third-party as an ordinary reporter would do. They all refer to themselves as a part of the defeat Trump machine.
That’s crazy. They mean “we” in the context of “all good Americans, loyal and true, united in our goal of saving the Republic from the racist authoritarian monster in the White House”.
A Sex Scandal Teacher First Ballot Hall of Famer is Free
Sharing just for the photos. Heavens to Betsy.
As David Lee Roth saying, Lord knows my homework was never quite like this.
And no Google, I did not want you to change the word sang into saying.
Where do I sign up to be traumatized her?
You’re too old for her.
I look young for my age! She can dress me up in whatever teenagers wear these days if it helps
How do you do, fellow kids? https://youtu.be/98k05_bM2e4
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what’s referred to as a “smoke show”.
Very much unlike Crusty’s mom.
We had a teacher like that at my school. Drove a candy apple red ’67 Corvette. No, none of us tasted of her wares… She could have been anything. Why did she choose to teach hormone-addled pimply teenagers? I think I just answered my own question.
Jailing her for sharing herself with a lucky teen boy is like jailing people for feeding starving children.
They do that too.
As is typical for these cases, my only response is: why? Why does a woman who looks like that need to go dumpster-diving with teens for companionship? Lord knows that a 15 year-old has no idea what he’s doing in general and definitely has no idea what do with a woman like her.
Because she can.
Tommy Robinson is released from prison after doing 66 days for… uh… something.
Filming in a public locationspeaking wrongthinkDoes anyone know if Robinson really is racist? These days, you can’t really tell from what’s reported in the news.
I’ve not seen any evidence presented. Unless you go by the definition where pointing out the rape gang problem is regarded as Racist.
Does it matter? I guess I’m the UK it does.
Now that I think about it, they did crominalize “Inciting racial hated”, and I don’t think they’ve managed to convict him of that.
If you’re not towing the lion of the State and/or the lefties, you are by default a racist. Everyone knows that.
He really racist for pointing out the fact that certain people really like to rape underage girls. The proper thing to do is ignore the whole business.
Does it matter?
It shouldn’t. But, I’m a little bothered by the whole thing. Sympathy for the guy has been completely obliterated by the narrative that he’s a racist. But, I haven’t seen evidence that even that’s true.
I don’t know personally, of course, but from what I gather the “racist” bit is the backlash against British nationalism and possibly cultural chauvinism, although I gather folks like Sargon are more invested in the latter than Robinson.
OT: I watched some old South Park last night, the one where Mr. Garrison gets a sex-change operation. I’d forgotten how ahead-of-it’s time that episode was and how decidedly unwoke it is.
“Mrs. Garrison: That means I’m not really a woman! I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis!
Doctor: Basically, yes”
How long until Comedy Central starts memory-holing episodes like this?
They generally have made sure to be patently offensive to anyone of any political or other stripe in every episode.
I’m not sure how they made it this long.
If you think the alphabet people offense is bad, I will refer you to the death of Chef episode.
South Park just got renewed for another 3 seasons.
And to my knowledge only one episode has been memory-holed. Super Best Friends which showed Muhammad as part of a Super Friends like team up of Buddha, Moses, Joseph Smith, Krishna, Laozi, “Sea Man”, and the aforementioned Muhammad,
Don’t forget Jesus Christ, who used his carpentry skills to build the scaffold used in the creation of the giant animated John Wilkes Booth golem critical to defeating David Blaine’s evil animated Abraham Lincoln statue.
The funniest part is when Garrison changes his mind a few episodes later so they regrow a penis on a mouse and then the mouse gets loose. “Eeek a mouse!” floppa floppa floppa
Car nuts, racers, race fans- a public service announcement:
There is a documentary about Matra on Amazon. Definitely worth watching, if for no other reason than the historical footage and banshee wail of normally aspirated V-12s.
Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is planning to release a digital token for others to invest in his contract
Tech bros, quit being excited about fleece season and explain whether or not this will be a profitable move for the player. Thanks.
I don’t know if he will be allowed to offer that sort of investment vehicle. I am fairly certain that runs afoul of federal law.
Buying an athletic contract is not a new thing though. The company I used to work for bought a couple of NBA contracts.
Basically, you apply a discount and they get a lump sum up front. It is a fairly sophisticated investment vehicle, not for the ordinary investor. It requires a raft of lawyers expert in the field.
We tried to offer and investment fund based on these types of sophisticated and risky Investments. Our normal conduit to funding was exempt investors with over a million dollars at risk. Turning this into a mutual fund was a multi-year Enterprise which required input from the FTC, the SEC, and state and local and who knows who else.. In short, if the government takes notice I don’t think he’ll get away with this.
The first incorporated man!
From the sidebar of the kiddie climate activist article: Eddie Money will be playing a benefit gig with Lou Reed soon.
No musical genius, but he got my teen toes a-tappin’.
This just in: Prince and Tom Petty added to lineup.
David Bowie is doing a cameo.
And Jerry Garcia will be filling in on guitar.
I know this has been linked linked here a dozen times or more, but it’s your fault for making me do it…again.
Mrs. TOK is a big Prince fan and has been playing that for the last week for some reason. The man had talent.
Ugh. You may think less of me for this but I hated Prince. Just loathed his music. Generic crap.
Cary Grant OUT Gif here.
Gah! It’s Friday but the work insanity has somehow concentrated itself to one glorious DERP of miscommunication, bad setup, and general stupidity. Plus a boss who can’t pick up the phone or walk over but instead wants me to use the Slack chat app. THERE ARE TOO MANY CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION.
Excuse me, Slack improves internal communication, and there is literally no downside to using it.
FIFY
^^THIS^^
It is so much easier than a phone call or email or face-to-face visit.
No, it’s not.
Are you forgetting who you’re “arguing” with?
Tulpa?
Sounds like something Tulpa would do.
“Sounds like something Tulpa would do.”
Like your mom?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
I like Slack. It helps organize conversation whereas email (which can be organized by folders but is a PITA to set up rules) is all over the place.
David French, Sohrab Ahmari, and the Battle for the Future of Conservatism
I don’t generally care about the conservative movement, but it’s rapid descent into outright authoritarianism because of religion is very worrisome.
what a working-class conservative politics might look like if it set aside the lodestar of individualism.
Not conservatism? Seriously, screw any one true Scotsman critiques. If you discard the lodestar of individualism what is left cannot possibly be conservatism (in America at least). You have to actual want to conserve some element of the political tradition in your society to be conservative, and individualism is the basis of this nation.
What it might look like if the movement set aside its fundamental tenets. It would look like collectivism and authoritarianism, dummy. Good luck with that.
Um, you mean “compassionate conservatism?” Not a new idea, or a very good one, either.
A million shining lights.
Working as intended?
https://twitter.com/PeterRQuinones/status/1172219895922266113
Only 26? That’s a high false negative rate.
Basically, you apply a discount and they get a lump sum up front. It is a fairly sophisticated investment vehicle, not for the ordinary investor. It requires a raft of lawyers expert in the field.
Every time I see one of those J C Wentworth(?) ads, I imagine how much fun it would be to explain net present value to some random dunderhead.
JG Wentworth wouldn’t be buying your annuities if they didn’t expect to make more out of it than they pay you.
gotta pay for those 877 cash now commercials too, of course
Retail they go for anywhere from 13.5-19% – so credit card rates. They securitize somewhere between 6-9%, depending, for the A traunch on a bond that has about a 10-20% reserve for a B piece that only gets paid after the A piece is finished. That second slice goes for maybe 13% or more – being more risky. At least it did before the financial crisis. I haven’t been in the game since they started issuing those sorts of securities again…. that market completely died with the financial crisis.
Anyway, to your point, there’s a lot of room in there for profit.
But you need a hundred million dollar line of credit to build up an asset base – and you gotta pay for that. Plus you have advertising and a couple of hundred employees to pay for. Plus tons of lawyers …. those transactions require a court order because of the insurance lobby. (they don’t want people being educated about present value because they use it to their advantage in lawsuit settlements – “we’ll settle for a million dollars! (paid over 20 years)”..)
I sympathize. I have often explained what I do as a lawyer as “I spend my days explaining stupid laws to stupid people who want to to do stupid things.”
Or have done stupid things. Stupid people not as smart as us lawyer people…
Send bachelors and come heavily armed.
That seemed more threatening.
Ugh. You may think less of me for this but I hated Prince. Just loathed his music. Generic crap.
I was heckling this guy I knew for going to a “artist formerly known as Prince” concert. He got all pissed off, and said Prince was one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I said, “Based on what they play on the radio, how do you expect me to believe that?”
I wasn’t a big fan either until I read his biography. He was way more than just a pop singer.
I had the advantage of hearing him pretty much my whole life.
There was nothing generic about the guy.
Well that’s where we differ. You like treble and I prefer bass. We can all get along in this great big soup of a world.
Very true.
When you don’t like the style and won’t listen close enough to get the nuances and sub-genres, anything can be perceived as “generic”. Many people call hair metal generic. As someone who grew up listening to the genre, I know it isn’t anymore (or less) generic than any other genre.
I didn’t like Prince’s music either, however I can admit that not only was he an extremely talented musician, but producer and talent scout as well.
I would like to visit an alternative timeline where he decided to be a rock star and showed off his guitar talents in every song.
That would be a very cool universe! Instead we got “Raspberry Beret” and “Kiss”.
I know, man. We wuz robbed.
I get the Minnesoda “homer” love for the guy but his music just does not move me. He had some skills but where is this genius part that I keep hearing about? Just another 80’s style dance band with a good front man. In all honesty I would have liked him more without the eyeliner and and showmanship. Shut up and play yer guitar.
said Prince was one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
You would never know that from top-40 radio.
But watch youtube videos of the guy playing live. He was amazing.
And his mixing of styles. He could out-Sly Sly, could write a gorgeous soul ballad and could shred harder than most punk bands.
The guy was just really gifted.
And he was a gamer.
Even in this clip, he displays a versatility and showmanship that I really haven’t seen from anyone else.
Nah, maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but the guy was special.
I will fight to the death anyone who talks shit about Prince. The pop stuff he got on the radio is great, but when you hear him on guitar at concerts or just playin’ with some random guys he’s an animal. His story is really interesting, and I wonder how much he was held back musically because of his back-and-forth with the music biz.
Sounds like the virtual cage match of the century! “In this corner, representing the Man in the Purple Suit, The Baltimore Stallion, Naptown Bill! In the opposite corner from far-flung Canuckistan, The Pretender On A Bender, The One, The Only Festusssssss!”
Ok, that shot where he wipes the rain off his face with his right arm while still fingering the solo out with his right hand, yeah.
errr, left hand
Knowing Prince it might not have been rain…
“Rain is just God’s Golden Shower, EEeee!” *dance pose*
I might have Prince mixed up with Michael Jackson, I dunno.
That’s what bugged me about him, other than the ripped off funk riffs.
OT – Why do some websites mistake infinite scrolling for good design?
To be clear as to what I mean – you load the page and get X amount of content, then try to scroll down, but can never reach the bottom of the page because it keeps loading more and more until it eats up all your memory. I’d much rather reach the bottom and have a ‘next page’ option for more content.
THANK YOU!
For some reason I get asked to incorporate infinite scrolling in any context I can, and I swear it’s worse than carousels. Pagination is a hell of a lot more usable, it’s easier on browser resources, and it doesn’t break when you don’t use JS.
I guess the idea is that pagination is outmoded. We aren’t viewing books, most of these sites will never get printed on paper, so why paginate? Of course, even the first people to experiment with no pagination realized that it had its limits (scrollbars have diminishing utility as the viewport grows in size). There’s no good UI feedback for infinite scrolling now, not to mention a way to skip around or find what’s interesting/important. But, if you think about, that kind of fits with the content model. You’re not supposed to go too far into the past, it’s all about the now and the new.
In that case, infinite scrolling is outmoded, as that was the model before we developed proper codexes. Just unroll a little more and roll up the excess on that scroll… We’re not in the bronze age any more.
Something, something, everything is cyclical.
There’s also the fact you can’t bookmark or otherwise save your place on an “infinite scroll” page (sans permalinks). If you go forward/back to one, you’ll just start over at the beginning. They can be done without eating up tons of memory (just unload the content above what’s currently in view), but when the whole idea should be scrapped, making it work better seems pointless.
You guys are making me feel my age. Stop doing that!
Isn’t there a way to create anchors on the page for each section so hitting a keystroke (Say TAB?) would cycle you through the section headers? Maybe going back is hard. I don’t know.
How many users know of that function? How many developers?
This seems to be the new rage, and I despise it.
Here’s the most recent bit of stupid I’ve seen.