I watched a few minutes of the Stillers-Browns 2.0 game last night. I guess I watched the wrong few minutes and missed all the action. The Browns 2.0 won but holy fuck, what was Myles Garrett drinking at the end when he hit a dude in the head with his own helmet? A dude who was knocked out cold in midair a few weeks back after being hit, no less. Fuck, he should be suspended for the rest of the year. What a dumbass.
On the ice, your winners were Carolina, Tampa Bay (who almost put up double-figures), Winnipeg, THE MINNESOOOOOOODA WIIIIIIILD!!!!!!!!, Edmonton, Dallas, San Jose, and Los Angeles. And across the pond, England and Portugal booked their tickets to the European Championships. The USMNT seeks revenge against Canada tonight. Or redemption. Or something. Who the fuck knows with that team anymore.
Overrated artist Georgia O’Keeffe was born on this day. As were the sonofabitch whose book Patton read Erwin Rommel, actress Beverly D’Angelo, guy who baseball was berry berry good to Pedro Borbon, rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and Mexican golfer Lorena Ochoa. That’s the list. Jeez, that was really weak.
Oh well, on to…the links!
Some asshole kid, who got his gun illegally, shot five people and then tried to kill himself but failed yesterday in California. It all happened in the span of a few minutes and all happened in a small area. But the cops still managed to trot out their ACPs and rifles and patrol around the entire area for hours like it was a war zone or something.
Does this count as interstellar racism? Or would it only count if it had been a white dwarf stopping a black hole from doing something? I want to stay ahead of the curve here before the SJWs set the narrative.
Cuomo gets an endorsement for President. Maybe he should jump back in the race. Or was he ever in the race? I can’t keep track anymore.
IF he jumps back in, he can take the spot soon to be vacated by Deval Patrick. That is, if this even gets reported by some of the “major” outlets. Christ, what an asshole. You want to see abuse of power? This is abuse of power.
I suppose this was inevitable. I’m sure BART will just settle. It’s not like the money will come out of their budget anyway.
Not so sure about the death penalty? Let’s see if this changes your mind at all. I wish they could fry the guy.
Now an aside: if and Dallas-Ft Worth area Glibs would like to meetup next week, I plan to be in the area all next week. I want to come home before the OSU-Penn State game to watch with my family, so Friday is most likely out. But I’ll be there Monday through Thursday night and haven’t booked my hotel yet, so could probably move it around for the meetup. I’m working in Arlington near Jerry World and would probably stay close to there, but could juggle that around a bit if needed. Or just take an Uber. Whatever works. But if anybody is interested, please let me know in the comments or by emailing me through the contact us tab (sorry, other founders if we get a few emails). I would very much like to meet a few of you I don’t know.
I’m wrapping the week up with another big male solo act from the 70s. I enjoyed this week. And yes, I know this wasn’t his biggest song. But the biggest has been overplayed. And this song is awesome anyway.
Have a great Friday and a better weekend, friends. I’m driving a few hours to pick up some stolen property from a police station to auction off.
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510 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
Someone who’d eat in such an unsanitary place as anywhere operated by the Bay Area Rapid Transit has got to be mentally unstable.
Not even a lime he found on the train?
Especially not something found on the train.
I was kidding. That’s a straight-up Eurotrash move, amirite?
If they could create penicillin from moldy bread, just think of the medicines that are lurking in those BART seats.
L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told CNN early Friday morning that surveillance footage showed the shooter entering the quad, taking out a pistol from his backpack and firing the first round.
The gun then apparently jammed, Villanueva said, and the shooter was forced to take time to fix it before firing a second round and then injuring the remaining four students. Then, he used the last round on himself.
Yeah, no reason exists to have armed teachers, right?
tHeRe wOuLd bE nO sHoOtInG iF gUnZ wErE iLlEguLl!
/gun grabbing window licker
Students must have been outside the gun free zone otherwise this couldn’t have happened.
Not seeing how armed teachers would have helped here, the odds that an armed teacher would have their gun on their person and be in the quad and would have been able to draw fire, and injure the shooter sufficiently to end the threat before he cleared the jam and got the extra rounds off are small at best. There are certainly some scenarios where an armed teacher would be of benefit but this shooting did not last long enough to likely be one of them.
Outside of this however even taking the massively inflated statistics presented in the article that there have been 30 school shootings in the US this year as true and then inflating the by 50% would give your average school a mean time between shooting incidents of 2000 years. Events that rare are barely even worth planning for and do not justify arming a million plus teachers (with ~100k schools in the US 1 million armed teachers still only gives an average of 10 armed teachers per school)
There’s no need to justify arming teachers. The government has no legitimate authority to disarm them in the first place.
THIS^^^^^^ is the threadwinner by far.
When was it justifiable to disarm the populace in the first instance that we need to discuss “allowing” teachers to be armed or “arming” teachers?
A lot of high schools in this country used to have shooting teams. Citizens can enlist and join the military at 18 and therefore be entrusted to use those crazy ASSAULT WEAPONS!!! but we’ve so infantilized the next generation that we’ve disarmed them and then have to take on the responsibility for protecting them at school.
It’s stupidity from start to finish.
My money’s on “everyone knew this kid was a whackjob and nobody did anything about it”.
My money is that this story will end up dead, and quickly buried, if they find out the kid is a rabid anti-Trump liberal/progtard with grievances about Climate Change not being taken seriously by the evil adults. I suspect he will be one of those.
The suspect shot himself in the head with his last bullet during the 16-second attack on Thursday morning, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, and was in “grave” condition, according to law enforcement officials.
Ask him tomorrow and you might find him a grave man.
The incident was the 30th shooting attack at a school this year, according to the gun safety group Everytown.
Yeah, sure…
Since Everytown includes every bullet that passes within several blocks of a school as an attack, even if the school was not in session, the people involved were not students, and so on, that there have only been thirty to meet their criteria means we’ve got a record low number.
So they use the same thresholds as SPLC?
Probably use the same person to do the tally.
To be fair, they are called Everytown, not SuperRaretown
Hey, shootings in areas within a block of a school that happen at 3 am count!
-Everytown spokesmodel
Spokesmodel pictured here:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cd/81/cc/cd81cc1731a197b4c3488ecb8b298386.jpg
I hope he lives, so he can get cruelly and violently killed after a few years of being abused by all the other inmates and the guards in prison.
I have friends whose kids graduated from that very school, btw.
Ask him tomorrow and you might find him a grave man.I
Aaahhh…..Shakespeare.
There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t
Great movie. Shot at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. Beautiful place. I suggest jumping off the Blackwater cliffs if they haven’t outlawed it already.
My buddy retired to Smith Mountain Lake. Lives there and now owns and runs the restaurant and boat rental place. If you’re ever of a mind, go visit. The place is just bucolic. And everyone who lives there will point you to the house where they filmed the movie. It sits out on a point and you can see it plain as day from a boat on the lake.
I was introduced to Neil Diamond music by my lawyer’s secretary as I was getting divorced in 1972. She did a splendid job of insuring I understood the lyrics.
…go on.
was her name Brandi?
She’s a fine girl.
What a good wife she would be…
But my life, my love, and my lady is the sea.
Her real life name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMt9SHRwsM
and AFAIK she is still living in NJ
Wouldn’t Rosie or Caroline be more appropos?
“I’m wrapping the week up with another big male solo act from the 70s”
Euphemistically?
Not that big.
I turned it off. The game sucked, and the referees made it even worse.
Fuck the NFL.
“The referees made it even worse”
Feature, not bug.
Assad the troll
“American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was killed several weeks ago, they said he had committed suicide in jail. However, he was killed because he knew a lot of vital secrets connected with very important people in the British and American regimes, and possibly in other countries as well,” Assad told the outlet, as translated by the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
That is not trolling. He might as well have said ‘water is wet’ and today is Friday.
trot out their ACPs and rifles
1911s ?
No, they’re carrying .380 ACPs, Cops can’t handle .45s
Apparently the shooter couldn’t handle his 1911 very well either. Some mass shooter, who shows up with 4-5 rounds at a target rich environment?
Edit faerie flutters by, shakes head, and keeps moving.
it was an honest question: I can never guess what the latest acronym is and fairly gave up somewhere between LST and SMDH
Retarded celebs react retardedly and on cue.
We must crush the NRA and eliminate this scourge of 100+ year old firearms tech.
Alyssa Milano✔
@Alyssa_Milano
Another day. Another school shooting.
When will we demand meaningful change? When will our voices mean more to our elected officials than their funding from the NRA?
How many children need to suffer? How many need to die?#NoRA
I guess the shooters 1911 was not Cali compliant.
Lady, Bloomers pours more cash into politics in a month than the NRA does in a year. If anyone’s buying politicians, it’s your side. There’s just a lot of voters who quite vehemently disagree with you. Leave your armed guards behind, come out of the urban bubble and talk to people.
Alyssa Milano can be relied upon to beclown herself within moments of any event she can use for political commentary. She’s like the Rock of Gibraltar for retarded hot-takes.
Ball gag plus silicone-based anal lube.
Problem solved.
You sir have a penchant for making painful solutions work flawlessly…
She does it often enough so it’s not like she’s learning or evolving on the issues. She believes what she believes and looks quite ‘unbright’ in the process. Reality is, many people agree with her in principle and so tolerate the more retarded side of her thoughts.
We all do this. When someone agrees with you, or even sounds like they agree with you, out in the public sphere, your mind more or less automatically turns off the critical filter and turns on the Team filter. Cause fighting your tribemates out in the wilds is really really stupid and lets the Other get you. When you get back to the safety of your home the filters turn off and all of a sudden the tribemate is an idiot again. Unfortunately I think our minds see the internet as the wilds.
Good analogy.
From now on I’m going to think of the office as the wilds and home as the hut of safety.
Unfortunately I think our minds see the internet as the wilds.
Not without good reason. It’s the wildest place most people (in the developed world) will ever go. And it probably is more mentally scarring than the real dangers out in the real wilds.
I think of all you Glibs as my tribemates.
oonga, boonga
But first, roo-roo!
That would mean my in-network witch doctor is… *shudders*
Have you actually met any libertarians? We have elevated fighting your tribemates to an art form
Rasilio you take that back you son of a bitch
*drops gloves*
This is sadly true. It may explain why our tribe always loses.
We’re the Irish of political groups?
You libertarians sure are a contentious people.
Stay classy, Michael Moore.
Are they about how his perfected laws were unable to stop this tragedy?
If he were an honest and intelligent man, they would be. But…no.
You know what we need to do? Throw more dope-smoking lowlifes in jail! That’ll fix everything.
https://spectator.us/big-dope-marijuana-benefited-slickest-pr-campaigns/
Blaming mass shootings on pot smoking is a new one. And not just one, if I’m reading it right – all of them.
I’ve been seeing a rise in reefer madness stories lately. No idea where it’s coming from.
BUT REEFER!!!!!!1!!eleventy!!!
Pharmaceutical industry?
Bingo. They funded the anti-legalization campaign in AZ a few years ago.
I’m blocked from the article now, but I recall it was about how we never had mass shootings before pot smoking became widespread in the ’60s, or something.
My first thought was: gosh, what else might have changed around then that might have led to more mentally imbalanced people roaming the streets?
You gave pot to deinstituionalized crazies?!
Ah. Good call.
I’d think the so cons would drop the reefer crap and put the blame on the overt hostility of our schools and media toward typical boy behavior. I know I do.
Now do sugar.
But first, maybe prescription anti-depressants?
But that actually appears legit.
Hiya Sloopy!
We made it. This shitty week is almost in the rear view mirror.
I have enjoyed the ’70s nostalgia very much.
You know what I don’t enjoy, though? Cops.
Oh, fuck off!
I hope your interaction with them is more positive. What kind of cut do they get?
Apparently feces and used needles are just hunky-dory, though.
Sounds like a typical Saturday night yuk, yuk, yuk.
Check out the new Ferrari Roma Coupe. Instant classic.
That is quite beaut!
The Ferrari Roma is for rich people who are afraid of Ferraris
Lol.
It’s ok. Doesn’t look like a Ferrari to me. All the tech makes me sad.
Sports cars are supposed to be dangerous.
Tundra – I caught your response too late last night to reply in the same thread, but so far, so good in St Paul (my kvetching about Minnesota drivers aside). I’ve gotta say I quite enjoy the Cathedral – it’s a gorgeous structure, especially when it’s dimly lit at night (which provides a nice contrast to the capitol building). I’ve not ventured out too much for food yet, but I quite liked the Polish restaurant/deli in Minneapolis.
This place?
Great to hear it! My sister lived in that neighborhood, too. It’s really nice.
Have you ventured to the X for a game?
Yup, that’s the one. I’ve not yet been to a Wild game. I’ve got a buddy up here who goes to games every so often, so I’ll likely make it there at some point this winter(*). I also think I need to pick up some North Stars swag – that color scheme and logo is badass.
(*)Full disclosure – I’m ostensibly a Hawks fan who had partial season tickets from about 2000-2015. In fact somewhere in my storage facility I’ve still got my Steve Sullivan and Tuomo Ruutu jerseys lying about. But I’ve not watched much hockey lately.
Great spot. Haven’t been there for a long time.
The Wild suck, but the arena is excellent.
And no worries about being a Hawks fan. When we lost the North Stars, I followed the Blackhawks until we got a franchise back.
Tough year for them, too. Brian Burke is right: long contracts are retarded.
Did anyone else have problems yesterday with Google , getting messages of “Secure Connection Not Available”. Seems that there was some unauthorized experimentation going on with Chrome, which I don’t use. I’m old and don’t understand these magic things.
Anyway, its all healed up today.
I have not. Then again, I don’t use chrome.
“I don’t use chrome”
Get this man a cigar.
I don’t smoke either.
Besides, since I decided that virtue signalling over good deeds done is crass and detracts from the deeds, I have to virtue signal over tribal totems.
Downloading the shells before you shoot the kids in your yard is NOT a good deed.
Lynx or GTFO amirite?
An old consulting buddy of mine loves using Lynx. According to him you can sit out at the client site for hours surfing the web and to the client it looks like you are doing something “computery”.
I have my terminal and ssh windows set up to green screen colors. (I find it easier to read than the washed out gray default) Not sure what people think when they see it. Probably something uncomplimentary.
He only uses cURL and parses the html in his mind.
That would be an awesome useless superpower
I spent a summer debugging a processor. I was able to read hex as fast as ascii after a few weeks. It was neat, but faded fast.
Oh, and I could almost read TCP/IP raw messages that it generated as fast as plain text, but never quite got there. Pretty close though.
There was a bunch news and complaints about this. Maybe related? Companies were complaining all over the place
Burris, who frequently files lawsuits against law enforcement agencies accusing them of misconduct, said the incident “was a small matter but an important matter in which there was disrespect for an African American man.”
Way to evaporate any trace of sympathy from me.
From the Breitbrt link:
“Hashtag activism”
Nice. From “I regret I have but one life to give” to #meanpeoplesuck.
One of these days we’ll be as civilized as Europe, and they’ll let us join the EU.
“Officials described the suspect as an Asian male student at the school whose 16th birthday was Thursday.”
I guess this is one of those situations in which Asian = white.
“The suspect shot himself in the head with his last bullet during the 16-second attack on Thursday morning, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, and was in “grave” condition, according to law enforcement officials.”
He shot himself in the head with a .45 and survived? Yeesh, he’s gonna be in bad shape for the rest of his miserable life.
“The incident was the 30th shooting attack at a school this year, according to the gun safety group Everytown.”
Everytown’s methodology:
https://archive.li/oJuQO/d34755a99d3ea39b4c4169937655007a2d5ef8fb.jpg
Half-white.
No “one drop” rule?
FTA:
When I was a quiet kid in high school, my friends would frequently joke that I was most likely to go postal. The quiet kid being the most dangerous was a meme 15 years ago. Either that, or I just had terrible friends.
#metoo
It was a meme ever since Columbine. Nevermind the columbine kids were hardly the quite loners.
Not so sure about the death penalty?
Revenge murder, subcontracted to the state? Who wouldn’t want that?
Yes, except that that is kind of the whole idea behind criminal law. It is all very well to decry the desire for vengeance but the move from private vengeance and the feuds, mistakes, and injustice it engenders to justice subject to law and administered by the State rather than the victim or their kin is one of the most important conditions for the rise of civilizations. Look at areas where the law doesn’t provide just vengeance. The alternative is not a vengeance free society, the alternative is honor rapes and murders and lynchings.
Sadly, necessity quickly becomes an excuse for incompetence, corruption, overreach, and a whole host of other ills. Sometimes it can seem as though the “civilization” it brought is just a shared delusion hiding the continued practice of barbarism.
I understand your point and our system is flawed, but even a cursory glance at actual private justice honor societies makes it clear that ours is infinitely superior even with all its flaws and corruptions. Look at Afghanistan, almost all of Africa, much of South America, and others. People punish rape by raping the perpetrator’s female relatives. They kill their sisters and daughters for bringing shame on the family. They accuse unpopular people of witchcraft and burn them alive. They decide that unpopular religious or ethnic groups must be the perpetrator when any crime occurs and go on genocidal sprees.
Yes, we fail to reach our ideals, at least we try.
I’ll admit that cases like this make me want to support the death penalty, but I don’t know where to draw the line on what deserves it and what doesn’t.
I have no ethical qualms about executing people who commit horrible crimes like this. What turned me against the death penalty though was the amount of people on death row who were being cleared by DNA testing. It was one of the things that turned me pretty much into a complete libertarian. Made me realize that the same State that can’t be trusted to dole out welfare without fucking up gloriously also can’t be trusted with an actual life and death decision.
Like I said, I don’t know how you can create a system where a monster like this kid (and the one that got me was the woman who drowned her kids in a car) can get the death penalty and double plus weed out the innocent.
If the death penalty makes the State a murderer, then Life Imprisonment makes it a gay dungeon master
Go on….
You may need to do an article, some 7 to 10 thousand words, about shower love in jail and work in some of the usual tropes…
>gay dungeon master
that was my nickname in highschool…. for my dungeon master… who was gay… Actually we just called him Chris and made fun of his lisp.
Did you put on the lotion?
Maybe he just preferred to get the hose again?
PRECIOUS!
Don’t hurt my dog…
Murder is unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought. So killing after due process is not going to count.
Also, revenge is a perfectly appropriate goal of criminal law.
I have no problem with the death penalty. I have a problem with a state that has the power of life and death over its own citizens. The slippery slope always points downward.
Obama: U.S. seeks ‘due process’ in drone strikes
Oh. Ok.
In a just world, Garrett would be banned for life (and we all know he would be if he had hit Tom Brady). Out in the real world, that’s at least 1st degree felony assault with a deadly weapon and possibly attempted murder.
Peter Rose gets (rightfully) banned for gambling, trying to kill someone should be on par.
I seriously doubt he’ll play or get paid again this season.
As I said in the late dead thread, I don’t expect Garrett back until late next season (if ever). Kitchens (and Mayfield) really needs to bring some discipline to the team, it’s been a problem all season.
The Players’ Union is just as effective and amoral as the police unions. He’s not getting banned and if he gets a long suspension, it will end up being drastically reduced.
Problem being, he attacked another dues paying member… they go to bat for this guy and all the “player safety” stuff is now a laughingstock.
you think logical consistency matters with Unions? The player safety stuff was always a laughingstock, the Union never gave a damn about it. Player Safety was just a moral bargaining chip they could use against the league
Bingo. The player unions *always* back the member who did something bad rather than the member who suffered. Maybe this time will be different… but I will believe it when I see it.
Wasn’t there an incident in hockey years ago where a player was criminally prosecuted for an especially vicious incident?
Yes. Marty McSorley chased a guy who he thought had “taken liberties” and then got him in the head with a stick. I thought it was a bridge too far that they prosecuted him. The NHL had seen a lot worse (historically speaking), but it was right at the time when the NHL was cracking down and going away from the old Charlestown Chiefs mentality.
I hope the QB learned an important lesson. Let your O-line do the score settling.
Friday Funbags comin’ in hot to smother you with pillowy goodness.
http://archive.li/BzsBE
15 is the winner. 1 has nice eyes.
#26 has a great sense of humor.
The Browns beat the Ravens and the Steelers this year, and still manage to fuck it up
Gone fishin’
President Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block New York prosecutors’ subpoenas for his tax records, setting the stage for a legal showdown over the separation of powers and his personal finances.
The president’s private lawyers are asking the high court to block New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s efforts to get eight years of Trump’s tax records. A New York grand jury issued a subpoena directed not to the president personally, but to an accounting firm that has long dealt with his personal finances, Mazars USA.
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Vance is investigating alleged hush-money payments made to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign. Adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal both said they had affairs with Trump — allegations the president has denied. The New York prosecutor says the president’s tax records could shed light on whether Trump or his employees falsified business records to hide the alleged payments.
[insert text of Fourth Amendment]
The SC should take that subpoena and ram it right up Vance’s ass. On fire.
alleged hush-money payments made to two women during the 2016 presidential campaign
Nobody fucking cares
Including the prosecutor. Obvious pretext. The idea that tax returns could shed light on whether the payments were hidden in some fashion is ludicrous.
Laughable even. Nixon sitting with a 1 Million in cash in the White House safe 40 years ago and now some think there’ll be a Misc. receipt paid out 200K to an “entertainer” in the Donald’s tax return?
The idea that my state’s tax dollars are being thrown at this horseshit is infuriating.
Not just a separation of powers but a states’ rights issue.
I don’t even have a quip for this.
When Mr Corbyn was asked by LBC whether he also considered the the death of Baghdadi a tragedy, he replied: “If we preach internal law and international legal process through the international court of justice and The Hague, then we should carry out.
“And if it’s possible to arrest somebody and put them on trial, then that is what should have been done and that is what I said about the death in 2011 and will continue to be my principle.
“If we believe as we do in international law and justice and the power of the international court of justice then we should do everything we can to bring people where they deserve to go on trial to be put on trial.”
When asked whether the death of Baghdadi was a good thing, Mr Corbyn replied: “Him being removed from the scene is a very good thing.
“If it would have been possible to arrest him, I don’t know the details of the circumstances at the time, I’ve only seen various statements put out by the US about it – surely that would have been the right thing to do.
“If we want to live in a world of peace and justice, we should practice it as well.”
I’ve heard more British citizens are fighting with ISIS than against ISIS. Maybe you just work on that, Corbyn
Do native British people know how to fight anymore (outside of hooligans)?
They killed all the ones who did in WW1.
And even the hooligans got their share of beatings.
OK, let’s give Mr. Corbyn training with the firearms of his choice – as well as any number of his peers (no assigning military personnel to this) and the next time we have solid intel on the location of a similar terrorist put Corbyn and his buddies on a helicopter and let him arrest the guy. You want somebody to take that kind of risk then put YOUR flesh and blood where your mouth is.
I’m sure if there had been a safe way to capture the guy wearing a bomb vest to interrogate him for intel, the special forces guys would have done so.
^^^^THIS^^^
But the political class thinks they can make it deadly and impossible for the disposable grunts on the ground, all so they can grandstand and virtue signal, and everyone that is not a knuckle dragging moron (i.e.e a progtard) would see thhat as a good thing..
I don’t know in what realm or planet these people live in or on. Are they deliberately naive or just cynical? Or both?
Corbyn is damned moron playing to the Islamic vote in Britain.
If so, then how about you honour the result of Brexit before you preach?
Leftists are the absolute worst kind of hypocrite.
“Proles don’t know what’s best for them.” -Every commie ever.
“If it would have been possible to arrest him, I don’t know the details of the circumstances at the time, I’ve only seen various statements put out by the US about it – surely that would have been the right thing to do.
“If we want to live in a world of peace and justice, we should practice it as well.”
Am I allowed to agree with this in a vacuum but think it’s insanely stupid in context? Because that’s how I feel.
Meh, Soldiers are not police. Soldiers should probably accept heightened risk to minimize casualties among innocent civilians (and do), but asking them to accept heightened risk to keep an enemy combatant alive? He wants to live he surrenders.
I have absolutely zero doubt that the instructions to spec ops were to capture for questioning, or in other words, arrest. He was wearing a fucking suicide vest. He killed himself when cornered (we are told). In no universe was he going to be captured.
Borbon was the winning pitcher in the first MLB game I ever attended. Bench hit a homer and Morgan stole a base. That is about all I remember.
I was about to turn the TV off with about five seconds to go because I had enough of that low QBR fuckterfest of poor football until the fight began.
That’s like a player swinging a stick at a player in hockey a-la McSorely. They through the book at McSorely and they should throw Garrett out of the league for the year. Heck, the Browns should cut him. That could have had serious consequences. And screw every single human who absurdly scream, ‘But Rudolph started!’ Maybe they need a helmet hit to the head.
The Browns are some kind of thuggish and indisciplined team. Worse than the Bengals even. I forget the player who hit the Steelers receiver ridiculously late. Dude, was bleeding from the ear. Wonder if he had a perforated ear drum or if it was just a cut.
I didn’t like what I saw. The Browns were ready to lose that game all because they lack professionalism. Kitchens is lost man.
threw the book
Damarious Randall was the one ejected earlier for the helmet to helmet hit with the bleeding receiver. I’m not going to argue with that ejection, but I don’t think it was a malicious hit. From the angle he was coming in, I could see him thinking the receiver made the catch. I can’t excuse him lowering the helmet to lead with though.
My breakdown on the brawl. You had a late hit from Garrett, trash talking on the ground (from both sides reportedly), Rudolph trying to pull Garrett’s helmet off (at this point there should already have been flags on the ground, and refs breaking this up). Then Garrett pulls of Rudolph’s helmet (up to this point, I can see defending Garrett). You then have two Steelers try to push Garrett back, at which point he swings the damned helmet at Rudolph, hitting him. The two Steelers start punching Garrett in the face, knock him to the ground, and Pouncey starts kicking him in the head. Ogunjobi comes up to break it up, knocks down Rudolph, and tries to break up the fight.
I predict Garrett suspended for 6-12 games, Pouncey suspended for 1 game, and Ogunjobi suspended for 1-2 games (this one I would argue is unfair, but I think the league wants to send a message).
As I said upthread, discipline for the Browns has been a problem all season, and for that I blame Kitchens (and Mayfield to a lesser extent).
Well, they signed Kareem Hunt, who, unlike Tyreek Hill, actually did what he was accused of doing.
Hunt served an 8-game suspension. I don’t condone what he did, but that’s what the NFL levied and this is his second chance.
I agree with the assessment and saw that little bit on the ground. For anyone who has played sports, we all know there’s a story behind the overt action. Still….Garrett went over board.
Yeh, Randall. Maybe not a malicious hit per se but being late on a defenceless player is an act of maliciousness in of itself. I don’t see how can the players can be defended in the end. We can understand where they were coming from but the end result was not good.
They were in control of the game. The Steelers were going nowhere. They almost gave it away because they lack discipline and as you noted up top (and you know this team better than me obviously) it’s been a problem all year. They have to gain control of this team.
Punishments have been announced.
Garrett – Suspended indefinitely (minimum of the rest of the regular and post season)
Pouncey – Suspended for 3 games
Ogunjobi – Suspended for 1 game.
All three fined, and both teams fined $250,000.
Seems… reasonable I guess. I don’t like the suspension for Pouncey being that long, but that might just be my lizard brain that roots for the Steelers clouding my rational brain.
Back in the ’90s Memphis State and (I think) Arkansas were playing and there was a bench clearing brawl. As the fight ended and both teams went back to their benches, there was one Tiger receiver laid out unconscious in the middle of the field. Turned out he had run into the brawl without putting on his helmet. He didn’t do well trying to fight a mob of guys who all did have helmets on.
But yeah, swinging a helmet at someone else should get the Big Ban Hammer treatment.
It looked like a hockey game c. 1974.
Back when the Cleveland AHL team was still the Lumberjacks, near the end of the second period, there was a bench clearing brawl against the Solar Bears. The ice was littered with gloves and sticks. Funniest thing I saw was some Solar Bear offensive guy line up against the Lumberjacks’ goalie, drop gloves and hit the goalie in the mask. The goalie took his blocker, and backhanded the Solar Bear guy, then just sat on him.
What the heck is a solar bear?
Lol.
Never mind. Looked it up. They’re from Orlando. Solar. Bear. Get it. Love the logo of the bear with sunglasses and the stick. Too funny.
An ursine who doesn’t leave the private dining room of a medieval house?
People (Sooners fans) on my Facebook page are pinning it all squarely on Rudolph for “starting it “ and calling him names etc.
Team above all mentality. Garrett made his decisions about how to react. He should take the consequences
He planted Rudolph well after he got rid of the ball in garbage time with 8 seconds left. I can’t understand anybody who says Rudolph started it.
Five Points business owner battling human feces problem
California is leaking.
If it’s not their problem, then they have no grounds to go after the business.
Boulder was always Cali light, now it’s spreading to Denver. Fuck that place.
This is why Mrs. Animal and I are planning our ColExit.
Sounds like a new form of prostrate exam.
Which is strangely apt.
By admitting he knows that it’s biohazard waste he’s just screwed himself. Look for the city to require him to hire hazmat-certified specialists for that task.
Growth oppo for ServPro and other companies that provide specialty cleaning services.
Too reactive of a business. What about a more proactive fix? A company who will monitor your alley and when someone squats to take a dump an employee will rush out and shove a cork right up the ass of the offender.
Employee would wear a GoPro cam and the biggest revenue would come from selling streaming subscriptions to people.
“selling streaming subscriptions to Germans.”
Be sure to create an online forum for them to go with it, so they can complain all day every day about Muricans. Damn Muricans, they don’t understand the way economics work! We pay more taxes, so things here should be cheaper, not more expensive! But we have a way higher standard of living than those unwoke Americans! No, there’s no irony there!
Birdshot, thermal scope, suppressor.
Let’s walk first before we try to run?
” Jawaid Bazyar”
Why do they hate immigrants?
Vox will tell you what you need to know
Around age 3, Luna Younger started asking to wear dresses. Since the age of 5, she has insisted she is a girl. Now Luna is 7, and during court hearings, physicians, school staff, and family members have all testified that Luna has consistently, persistently identified as a girl.
While Luna’s mother respects her daughter’s gender identity — letting her wear what she chooses, whether it’s nail polish, dresses, or longer hair — Luna’s father does not. He insists Luna is not transgender. These polarizing differences over how to raise and treat a child are why trans families and advocates, as well as conservatives, have been closely watching the custody battle over the Coppell, Texas, trans girl.
After 15 months in court, on October 22, the jury awarded Luna’s mother, Anne Georgulas, full conservatorship of her daughter. It was a decision that brought relief to the trans community and outraged conservatives who believe supporting a trans child’s gender identity is tantamount to child abuse.
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The ruling has brought more questions than answers: When one parent honors her child’s gender identity and the other does not, what does that mean for the child? More specifically, what will it mean for her socialization, her mental well-being, and who she’s allowed to be?
Trans advocates say Cooks’s decision is a dangerous misstep. “Transgender children are among the most vulnerable members of the next generation,” Gillian Branstetter, media relations manager at the National Center for Transgender Equality, told Vox. “We know they experience any variety of godawful barriers to their own success, including bullying and harassment, including psychological distress, often resulting from such harassment, [and] family rejection. … It does a serious disservice to those kids to give any incentive for a parent to reject their child for who they are.”
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Und so weiter.
#BELIEVEHER
James has said whatever his mother wants to hear to make her happy. Whenever she is not around, he is perfectly happy to be who he is – a boy.
“Now Luna is 7, and during court hearings, physicians, school staff, and family members have all testified that Luna has consistently, persistently identified as a girl.”
Yet when given the choice of whether to attend school as a girl or boy, “Luna” chooses boy.
And family members all testify he is a girl? I swear his father says otherwise.
Who are these family members? I seem to recall them turning away relatives who were going to testify to the opposite.
Duck season! Rabbit season!
This. Who the hell knows “the truth” here.
I do know Vox’s track-record though, which is lie, lie, lie.
Didn’t this kid just recently register for school as a boy, and consistently presents as such in every context where the mother isn’t present, at least according to the father and other third parties? Could be that taking one parent’s word over the other as it regards the permanent medical disruption of their body is fucking stupid even in cases where it concerns their sanctified naughty bits.
It’s not just conservatives. It’s anybody who’s got some common sense and also those whose oxen are being gored. See: women athletes, TERFs, and LGBs.
You got a penis? Get out of the spaces that rightfully belong to the vagina-and-estrogen crowd. No, you can’t have periods. No, you didn’t have children by the fact that you incubated sperm. No, you didn’t have a woman’s experiences. No, you don’t compete with XXs on a fair playing field. No, people should not treat you like a woman if you’re not dressed like one.
WE are not focusing on your genitals. YOU are, and you are trying to rub our noses in your crotch.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU OR YOUR IDENTITY. People CARE about going about their lives.
Whatever happened to the old “liberal” chant of “Stay out of my bedroom!”?
Now it’s “you are compelled to look at me in my bedroom and applaud ! Perhsps even pay for my treatment!”
You assume that coming at these asshats with logic and sanity will result in anything but more attacks against you – personally – from these lunatics and a demand for you to have your ability to make a living removed/curtailed, as a means of punishing you for daring to resist their demands for things that are going to basically make society a lawless morass of stupid.
So in my book, I have a secondary villain with a secret. Secondary villain’s married to a woman who knows this secret and uses it to keep secondary villain on a leash.
I have no idea what this secret is or why it’s bad enough for him to tolerate his wife’s antics.
SPOILER WARNING FOR GT AND CANNOLI:
I thought, “What if I make ‘him’ a ‘her’ who is crossdressing so as to have male power in the high middle ages and can’t have the secret out at all?” Then I thought, “No, because I’ll be accused of transphobia. Trans can’t be villains.”
Today I decided to do it anyway.
Your version is better than the cower and kowtow version, and suits the setting.
I think its a great idea.
A “good” villain is often the most interesting person in the story. If anyone bitches, ask them why they don’t think a cross-dresser can be the most interesting person in a book? And, did you notice the way societal discrimination against women is the driving force behind the cross-dresser going to the dark side?
This is a secondary who gets killed without the secret ever coming out (comes out in the second book). He is the heroine’s father and is interesting only as to how he molded the heroine.
Not quite sure what you mean.
“Since the age of 5, she has insisted she is a girl.”
Umm… SHE thinks SHE is a girl? Where am I?
is tantamount to child abuse
What else would you call chemical castration?
Kids say/do crazy/weird things. It is the job of adults to teach and raise them.
I’m pretty sure as a kid I wanted to be a pegasus (or a mermaid, or a witch, or…). Everyone knew it was just make-believe.
The slightly more realistic but still crazy things we said we wanted to do (tattoos, piercings, weird hair colors, name changes – my sister wanted her name to be Crystal Sapphire Diamond Rose) my parents just told us “when you’re 18”, and shockingly we grew out of it.
Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way
Crystal Sapphire Diamond Rose
Stripper name! One thing I noticed (and commented on which got me grief lol) was the stunning similarity in clothing, color, love of sparkles, names, and other ‘taste’ elements between girls between the ages of 5 and 7 and strippers. It is almost like strippers are girls that stopped maturing mentally pre puberty.
I’d never thought about it, but I could buy that theory
my sister wanted her name to be Crystal Sapphire Diamond Rose
That’s the most stripper name ever.
Isn’t it? In her defense, she was 4
In that case I’m thinking Jarflax might be onto something.
I wanted to be a dump truck when I was 6 years old. I’ll let you know when I grow out of it. Dump trucks are fuckin cool.
The author is a trannie who ran a gofundme for its operation.
While typically an ad hominem is an invalid argument, would you expect anything that even approaches the truth from that person?
Mornin’, Glibbies. Been a decent week overall, but very, very busy, hectic, and discombobulating. It is not over yet. Busy and hectic I can deal with. Discombobulating I cannot.
I’m ready to call it quits and go home.
But I’ve already been out two days this week, and we’re past deadline.
I am so ready for this week to be over.
You’re only the 2nd person I’ve ever witnessed in real life use the word discombobulating, discombobulated…
The last time, I was at a local pub, maybe a month ago and I overheard a lady at the next table say something like ‘and I was discombobulated’. And I’m thinking ‘wow’, I’ve been on this planet all these years and never heard that word actually ever used before in a real life situation.
I say it out loud whenever the situation warrants it, and at least once this week. My whole current life situation is discombobulating. Discombobulated is a great word because it is neutral, not good or bad.
Which is to say, bad stress is stressful. But good stress is also stressful and there is little physiological distance between the two.
My work yesterday, started yesterday morning at 9am and concluded at 2am this morning, and started again this morning at 7am. The only break has a quick lunch at my desk, a quick dinner at my desk, a commute home, 4 hours of sleep last night , and quick breakfast at my desk.
I don’t feel discombobulated. More like, ‘come on 5pm, I’m headed down to the pub for beers’.
No, that’s not discombobulated, that’s just temporary hell. This, too, shall pass. Like a kidney stone, but it will pass.
Monday: Brother comes into town, which is always an Event. Whole fam goes out to eat (not routine schedule).
Tuesday: Mom has cardiac ablation (ugh), but it fixes her severe atrial fibrillation and 2 flutters (yay!). I spend the night at the hospital. I accidentally yanked her bursitic elbow, which was painful, but apprently jerked it in sich a way that it took her pain away and gave her full mobility back.
Wednesday: Brother buys a car, wants to register it in Missouri. Husband and I participate in this adventure. I go back to the hospital to await mom’s discharge, which is 4 hours later that they said, but exactly what I predicted.
Thursday: I go out to run 1/2 hour’s worth of errands. Brother got his rental car towed. I carted him around for the rest of the day getting that straightened out, then went and looked at a rental property. One of my errand contacts doesn’t show.
Friday: Today, DMV. Brother goes back home. I still have errands to run (purging, taking shit to the thrift shop, packing).
All things to good ends, but I have clients to tend to. I have a book to publish on December 1 and it’s only half proofread, and haven’t even been able to sit down at my computer. Routine just blown.
Ooops. Didn’t mean to write a novel. Note to self: Nobody really cares.
Funfact – We also don’t care if you do write a novel for a comment, we’re not easily offended.
And I did read it, but had nothing to say.
Eh, I didn’t expect a tesponse. I saw the wall o’ text and was embarrassed by my utter mundanity and boringness.
Actually, I do care. It’s good to know that it isn’t just me whose life seems beyond control or even influence of the person living it.
I just sat through a half hour with the spousal unit (somewhat softly) asking why I didn’t get X, Y, and Z done this week – with me biting my tongue to not reply “Because you filled my week with “A, B, C, D, E, and F”.
Ah, yes. I kind of did that to my husband last night. I had put something on the calendar weeks ago for last night. I planned my whole day around that event (trade school orientation for XX). We had discussed it three times earlier in the week. We never discussed logistics (my fault? I don’t know). He forgot and got home (running errands on the way home) too late to go, so I was pissed off.
I assumed he would get the calendar notification and plan accordingly, then come home on time and we could go. Didn’t happen that way.
So I guess it was my fault for not arranging the logistics and confirming the schedule.
I don’t know about your relationship dynamics, but my husband would not have remained silent if I had run down what he didn’t get done of I’d kept him doing other things all week.
My wife is dealing with a) helping her dad run his company while he is supposed to be handing the reins over to the new manager (something which he is allergic to) and b) dealing with her mom who stopped eating a couple weeks ago and went from assisted living to a hospital and being fed by IV.
She has enough on her plate emotionally so I give her as much space as possible.
Oh that is rough. No wonder, and what a good hubby to understand. Mine would do the same.
I feel very blessed to have mine.
Morning Mojeaux, sorry about the discombobulation, hope things settle down soon.
Thanks! It’ll go back to normal this afternoon.
It feels good to recombobulate after being discombobulated.
I’ve always said that airports should hang up a sign just past the TSA area that said “recombobulation area”, where you get you belt, wallet, laptop, etc. back in the right place.
Exactly. I always joke with people in line about how we’re once again in the race to see how fast we can get dressed after being undressed by TSA. I’ve also joked with/threatened TSA folks that Im going to start coming to the airport dressed in nothing but a clear plastic garbage bag with arm holes cut out, a rope around the waist, and some flip flops. See how they like that: my total commitment to airport security.
“Now an aside: if and Dallas-Ft Worth area Glibs would like to meetup next week, I plan to be in the area all next week. I want to come home before the OSU-Penn State game to watch with my family, so Friday is most likely out. But I’ll be there Monday through Thursday night”
Well, shit. I’m in Seattle all next week!
“Some asshole kid, who got his gun illegally, shot five people and then tried to kill himself but failed yesterday in California.”
Unpossible! CA has common sense gun control! Oh, I forgot, it wouldn’t have happened if they had gun buy backs. And when they get that, and it happens again, they’ll move the goalposts again and sign into law a door to door confiscation. And then when it happens again, goal posts will be moved again.
Hence the pivot to “Americans are violent bad kill-people”.
The Austrian army says a 31-year-old soldier appears to have been killed by two service dogs he was tasked with feeding.
The army said an officer spotted the two Belgian Shepherd dogs running loose at the barracks south of Vienna early Thursday. The fatally injured staff sergeant was subsequently found inside the dogs’ kennel.
https://www.stripes.com/austrian-army-says-soldier-mauled-to-death-by-service-dogs-1.607245
Not only is Belgian beer bad, their dogs are dangerous.
I guess this is what is meant by suffering from success.
Milkbone underwear and shortrib collars seem like hilarious gag gifts, but they’re really not.
Man, those Belgians know how to hold a grudge, huh?
“IF he jumps back in, he can take the spot soon to be vacated by Deval Patrick. That is, if this even gets reported by some of the “major” outlets. Christ, what an asshole. You want to see abuse of power? This is abuse of power.”
Some animals are more equal. Feature, not bug.
Been reading Huxley I see?
Some asshole kid, who got his gun illegally, shot five people and then tried to kill himself but failed yesterday in California.
In newsrooms all over America, people are saying, “Damn. If only it had been a ghost gun.”
Uffda. I’ll have to bring this outrage at the next secret meeting of White Shitlords. How can Mary make more than Joseph? That isn’t right.
And a big dumb ox out earns everyone?
I played King Herod.
I played Pontius Pilate.
It was a long show.
If you work in finance and make 38k in pounds you are doing it wrong. bank teller is not ‘working in finance’
“Now Luna is 7, and during court hearings, physicians, school staff, and family members have all testified that Luna has consistently, persistently identified as a girl.”
Yet when given the choice of whether to attend school as a girl or boy, “Luna” chooses boy.
And family members all testify he is a girl? I swear his father says otherwise.
It’s hearsay and speculation, all the way down.
Cracked teapot found in Dorset sells for £1m after auctioneer makes accidental discovery
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/12/cracked-teapot-found-dorset-sells-1m-auctioneer-makes-accidental/
Why does the article not show the supposed imperial stamp?
Because
onlinenewspapers are garbage?Oh no! A bad sugar beet crop is going to doom us all.
Maybe – and I know this is a crazy idea – we could just eliminate the tariffs on sugar from places outside the US? And not only would there not be a shortage, but the cost of sugar would actually go down. Even crazier would be to permanently eliminate those tariffs. If those Finns in NW Minnesoda can’t compete with their sugar beets maybe they should be planting something else.
An endanger our stategic sugar reserve?!
I supposed we need to conquer the Caribbean islands.
And have to deal with their problems?
Don’t be ridiculous, the real solution is to ban sugar.
Put it on the controlled substance list!
HFCS for the win!
Hilary Fucking Clinton … What is the S for?
Feature, not bug.
Those damn tariffs got us saddled with Hawai’i.
President Bloomberg can ban containers of sugar that hold more than 4 ounces.
We’ll have police killings of people selling loose sugar.
Cuomo was right: no one needs more than seven tablespoons of sugar to bake cookies.
Needz moar Strawman. Big Sugar.
Leave the sugar beets in the ground!
No new molasses pipelines!
Require food companies to meet ever decreasing calorie limits! We’ll call them CAFE standards!
Oh, so you want molasses tankers to spill and flood the streets again?
I shot a mule deer in NW NoDak one year that had been in feasting on a crop of sugar beets. I’m not saying the venison was sweet, but it wasn’t the normal sage smell/taste you normally get from muleys in that area.
Wait, we’re supposed to be uspet that the population of Boston decreased?
“Wait, we’re supposed to be uspet that the population of Boston decreased?”
Yes, because that probably means more Massholians near you, me.
Truth > Facts
The former vice president, who is already trying to salvage his foreign policy credentials after revelations about Hunter Biden’s wheeling and dealing overseas, launched a new website on Thursday to spin the narrative emanating from the inquiry.
The site, in particular, attempts to push back on allegations that Hunter Biden’s service on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian oil and gas giant, intersected with the former vice president’s political influence in eastern Europe. To that end, the site aggregates news stories from maistream media outlets such as NBC, ABC News, and The Washington Post portraying the Biden’s conduct as ethical—under a “facts” header.
The site, which is titled ‘Just the Facts, Folks proclaims:
“There’s a lot of misinformation and lies out there, so welcome to the one stop shop for the facts about Joe Biden. Stay informed about the truth Trump and his special interests are trying to distract from.”
Despite the lofty goal, the website has the appearance of a campaign ad rather than a fact sheet. Rather than addressing the alleged conflicts of interest between Hunter and Joe Biden head on, the site attempts to pass off the opinions of partisan figures, like former Obama administration speechwriter Jon Favreau, as “facts.” Added to the mix is that half the front page is devoted to television ads the Biden campaign has recently launched, most of which deal in generic campaign themes.
Dr Alexandria: Or how i learned to stop worrying about the facts and be morally correct.
So the go-to narrative is that Joe Biden was meddling in Ukraine’s affairs to root out corruption (seriously?). But I’ve yet to see a plausible explanation for why Hunter Biden was working at Burisma. And if this is all on the up-and-up then surely father and son would have talked about how work was going.
Gosh, I’m sold.
So, if Biden threatening to withhold funds from Ukraine unless they did something relating to corruption investigations is ethical, why are we impeaching Trump for withholding funds from Ukraine unless they did something relating to corruption investigations?
Because Biden (D) but Trump (R).
ORANGE MAN BAD!
This is nothing but another in the string of desperate moves the unelected bureaucratic class members that feel Trump is destroying their weaponized power – created by the Obama administration, and done by design – and poses an existential threat to their ability to retain power AND unaccountably they hope results in a coup.
No TW: Breitbart?
thicc?
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/11/13/jane-seymour-68-not-every-designer-dress-someone-my-age/4187525002/
Boner?
This is why Mrs. Animal and I are planning our ColExit.
I sure as Hell wouldn’t move back, but it seems like the Western Slope would still be mostly okay.
I once lived in a single-wide on top of a mountain between Cripple Creek and Woodland Park. That whole area has always been my retirement goal. Sigh…
Kansas City is preparing for its Denverization, which will be soon followed by Californication (my husband the Wonderful Assimilator and converted libertarian [yes, I did that] is the exception).
As my brother said, Kansas City has a personality, arts, sports, and it’s pretty. It had an identity. St. Louis got nuthin.
We thought about the Yampa Valley for a while (in the words of Hal Borland, it’s high, wide and lonesome) but we decided some years back, you know, fuck this state. We looked around in Wyoming, Utah and Idaho; all those places have stuff going for them.
Then we saw Alaska and we were sold. That’s our goal now.
I’ve fought my political fights. I’m getting old, and want to retire more or less in peace and quiet.
I’ve fought my political fights
It is a consolation to reach a stage where (when?), although you understand that you will not live long enough to see things get much better, there is not enough time left for them to get much worse.
Damn right.
A couple of years before he died, the Old Man (born 1923) told me he thought he and Mom (born 1928) saw America’s best years. This is man, mind, who grew up in the Depression, and who served in WW2, along with his brother and his brothers-in-law.
You know what? He was right.
cool charity auction alert:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/283665656938?_trksid=p2471758.m4704
bidding currently at $200 for a 6-8 hour basic pistol course taught by the Washington Free Beacon’s Stephen Gutowski. proceeds benefit charity Home For Our Troops.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11553
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barr-releases-first-ever-semiannual-report-fix-nics-act
very bottom of the Fix NICS progress report..
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection entered approximately 13 million illegal or unlawful alien records into the NICS Indices in October 2019.
Despite the lofty goal, the website has the appearance of a campaign ad rather than a fact sheet.
You could knock me down with a feather.
So to those of you who got me into Web Diplomacy, thanks a lot. I was up till almost 2 playing a 5 min/phase gunboat game. People who stop entering orders when they are losing suck, And it is really hard to switch from offense in Scandinavia to defending Britain when the French stab you in the back.
The French always stab you in the back.
Before or after they surrender?
You’re welcome!
And yeah, going NMR when you’re losing is a bitch move. I’d need to search for it, but there’s a legendary game where a player came back from one SC to wind up with a solo win.
Wait…what? Where do you find this?
They’ll be in the upper left corner of the page if there are any open for joining (or you could always create one). Gunboat games have no press, and no negotiations, just moving your units. I’m personally not a fan, I prefer the negotiation aspect of the game.
I don’t know, there is a surprising amount of ‘communication’ with support orders etc. And I am not sure how much I like the negotiation, I feel kind of guilty about it when I reread things I have said and realize I didn’t hedge as much as I meant to and arguably lied.
Yes, and there’s a lot that can be done with standard openings and implied threats/support based on build orders and the like. For me, it’s a matter of separating what happens on the board and in negotiations with the real world. It’s always entertaining watching someone who holds a grudge through the endgame and throws a victory to someone else instead of sharing it with someone who betrayed them earlier.
I think that is why I like gunboat games. And you can do a lot of negotiating but making illegal moves with pieces that are holding anyway. SMY supports BRE to LON.
Stab the French first!
One of us! One of us! One of us!
That is what we’ll all be chanting to OMWC if this company isn’t all just hot air
If real, I’m sure the next big thing for Progressives will be to defend plant rights and OMWC will be shamed just like he was one of us carnivores.
All elements present in meat are already found in the air.
The blurb didn’t say they were using air as the starting material in the process.
Though technically, raising cows does start with carbon dioxide and water being transformed into plants…
I count two kinds of non-air-based ingredients:
which are then blended with water and mineral nutrients to create a base. Using renewable energy and a probiotic production process (fermentation),
Meaning this is complete horseshit:
consists only of elements found in the air
Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and particulate minerals can be used to make a lot of molecules.
How vaginas are finally losing their stigma
Don’t be such a pussy.
Huh. I’ve always been pro vagina.
Please, please, please tell me that the museum is in a cave.
“it’s surprisingly hot and humid down here”
ECHO!
Iceland? With a population totaling less than Tulsa? This group of depressive fermented shark eating inbreds having a penis museum is of significance to you?
And there are hundreds of vagina musuems. They’re called nudie bars.
Something, something, lack of statistical significance.
Stigma? Like putting the pussy on a pedestal?
It makes it easier to look at.
Whatever man…..
If you’re jealous of penises in jars, you’ve got issues.
Iceland also has a penis church: https://www.penguinandpia.com/en/where-to-stay-in-reykjavik/
I thought this was settled years ago in the theater when The Puppetry of the Penis was touring America. Vagina Monologues opened for them.
Stunning and brave.
Did they not consider Pike Place market?
A rebuttal from the penis fan bois (not sure if this is HM or Straff)
Given the lascivious descriptions of the little girl you may be overlooking the obvious candidate. OMWC.
Also, what the everloving hell was that?
I once lived in a single-wide on top of a mountain between Cripple Creek and Woodland Park. That whole area has always been my retirement goal. Sigh…
When I was on college, the population of Cripple Creek was probably less than 300. And then… “Place yer bets, ladies and gentlemen.”
No, not the N-WORD!
Racist graffiti was discovered in a building on the Syracuse University campus Wednesday, days after racial slurs were found in a residence hall in a separate incident that prompted a response from the governor of New York and a sit-in by students.
The Syracuse University Department of Public Safety said in a statement Thursday it is actively investigating a bias incident reported at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.
“Graffiti using language that is derogatory to Asian individuals and vandalism were discovered in a bathroom stall in the Physics Building,” the statement said. “There are no suspects at this time.”
A few dozen students gathered in a campus center Wednesday in protest of the university’s response to a separate incident last week involving racist graffiti and vandalism at a residence hall. The university did not disclose what the racist graffiti was in that incident, but The Daily Orange student newspaper which was first to report on the vandalism, said the racial slurs were written against black and Asian people.
Renegade Magazine, which describes itself as a platform for black college students, also said it involved the N-word.
Gov Cuomo is on the case. Call out the National Guard.
“Graffiti using language that is derogatory to Asian individuals”
Slant Eyes! Chingy Lingy! Yellow Peril!
Wait… I thought Asians are the white people of people of color, and have too much privilege. So, isn’t it OK to insult them?
Guess we need to ask Cuomo, he all wise, much knowing.
“If you read this, you have a small dick”
N-word
Naggers?
Nihilists?
Nihonjin?
Nattering nabobs of negativism?
Nervous Nellie?
I believe it is always wrong to say “the N-word”. Just say nigger. Don’t be a pussy.
Right, it’s MENTIONING the word, not using it. What’s the fucking problem saying it when reporting about someone else’s use of it?
Is ANY other word like this?
No, but it is only this way because we have given power to the offended.
If you call someone a nigger and they kick your ass for it, well…
But if you use the word in passing or discussion, it’s a ridiculous assertion that you should be censured for it.
Is ANY other word like this?
Eric Ciamerella?
Well, the FBI is busy looking for the criminals who put up the “it’s ok to be white” fliers.
Did they at least give out her phone number?
For a good time call???
Graffiti … discovered in a bathroom stall
Here I sit in the bathroom stalls
Rolling my shit in little balls
Those who read these words of wit
Eat those little balls of shit
I saw that in a stall of a latrine trailer at Camp Doha twenty years ago and still remember it. Not much to look at while waiting for your insides to finish getting outside.
Here I sit
On the pooper
Giving birth to an Anti Bias Trooper
Here I sit
Broken hearted
Came to shit
But
only fartedI’m retardedSome come here to sit and think.
Some come here to shit and stink.
I come here to scratch my balls.
And read the writing
On the walls.
So now that “incidents of racism” have been reduced to vandalizing bathrooms, can we just high five and say we fixed it?
have been reduced to minorities vandalizing bathrooms
Has there been a single one that was done by white people?
It’s ALL done by white people, even if it is done by people of color.
“Once notified of the actions, the chief of the department of public safety, the chief diversity officer, the dean of students, and an administrator told the residents on the floors to not spread any photos or videos of the incident,” the magazine reported.
After last week’s incident of graffiti became public, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday directed the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force and the state Division of Human Rights to investigate.
“I’m disgusted by the recent rash of hateful language found scrawled on the walls at Syracuse University, where students from around the world are drawn each year in the pursuit of higher learning,” Cuomo said. “These types of hateful and bigoted actions seek to splinter and segregate our communities, and they have no place in New York — period.”
“I’ll do the ostracizin’ around here.”
Look, if you are Syracuse you got to get on that shit pronto! If you don’t it is only a matter of time before people remember that your mascot is the Orange (and used to be the Orangemen). Then they will figure that makes everyone there a secret Trumpster. And no wonder minorities are being lynched on the quad in broad daylight.
You are sitting on a powder keg.
It won’t matter if it turns out that all the graffiti was written by said minorities “to start a conversation”. You will forever be known as Trump U.
My bet is that this plays out to be another hoax. But they will bury the story instead of prosecuting the asshats that did it…
I’m disgusted by the recent rash of hateful language
“Also, white people are the greatest threat to mankind.”
No kidding. He routinely uses that same line on anyone exhibiting wrongthink.
Another Big Male Solo Act From the 70’s
Rich people- how we hate them
Elizabeth Warren is taking her clash with billionaires to their home turf.
The Democratic presidential candidate launched an ad buy Thursday on CNBC, a network that frequently hosts the billionaires whose wealth she wants to tax.
Warren used the ad blitz to make the case for her wealth tax while simultaneously calling out her billionaire critics for their own actions.
The commercial, which aired on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Thursday morning, highlighted billionaire Leon Cooperman’s insider trading troubles, Peter Thiel’s role in bankrolling President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the lofty compensation former Goldman Sachs (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein received during the financial crash.
All three have been vocal critics of Warren’s aggressive plan to fight America’s very real inequality problem. The top 1% of US households now control $34.7 trillion of the nation’s wealth, according to the Federal Reserve. The bottom 50% of families only control $2.1 trillion.
Aiming to level the playing field, Warren wants to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and use the proceeds to pay for ambitious programs, including ones that would eliminate student debt and make all public colleges tuition free.
Those fucking bastards. How dare they think they can do as they wish with their own money? Put a muzzle on them.
And that Thiel character, giving money to Public Enemy Number One? We need to put a stop to that, for certain. The First Amendment was never meant to protect that.
inequality problem
Why is it a problem? People are individuals who are inherently not equal.
^^^This.
SOCIAL JUSTICE!
We are all drones serving the collective…
It’s a problem because it’s a useful problem to have for politicians.
Aiming to level the playing field, Warren wants to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and use the proceeds to pay for ambitious programs, including ones that would eliminate student debt and make all public colleges tuition free.
By taking money from the top 1% and giving it to the top 50%?
Aiming to level the playing field
Redistribution is not “leveling the playing field”. That’s about equality of opportunity, redistribution is about equality of outcomes.
I remember when meanings had words.
Even equality of opportunity sucks. Equal treatment under the law is what I want.
Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes.
Equal rights do not guarantee equal opportunity.
Yeah, good luck trying to get the elite to pay anything but lip service to the “equality under the law” bit. They want special privileges and exemptions to the rules they want the rest of us to follow.
all public colleges tuition free.
Thus, making the value of a college education worthless.
Yeah, this sure as hell seems to be the “unintended consequence” that is intended by these asshats…
I don’t legit care about any of these people.
There’s a reason envy is one of the deadly sins.
I was up way too late last night playing some Hearts of Iron.
Fuck the British man. How do they fucking have people Everywhere. And Fuck Germany. They have fucked up the war so bad…
I don’t know what my major mental block is with HoI but I can’t make the leap from the tutorial to actually playing the game. No problem with CK2 or EUIV.
Playing Multiplayer with a friend has helped a lot, he’s shown my some of the different things that are important.
The tutorial in CK2 was both broken and useless.
Also, I hate the fucking Claims system with a fiery passion. Once the war has started, if I’ve curbstomped your petty kingdom, I’m not going to give it all back just because I only had a fabricated claim on a border county. I’ve won, I’m chainging my war goals to annexation.
I’ve won, I’m chainging my war goals to annexation.
Sounds like you should be playing as one of the less civilized nations. Your ability to wage war in that game is restricted by your culture – if you are a warmonger civ (vikings, mongols) you can launch wars to grab whatever you can get. If you lead a nation that believes in rules of ownership beyond mere might, you must follow them (or at least pretend to – fabricating claims and murdering opponents is open to all).
History says, that’s still laughable. Sure the war started trying to decide who rightfully owned plot A, but once my sabaton was upon your neck, I could dictate terms beyond the excuse that started the fight. Or just execute you, your entire family, and install my own puppet vassal.
But that would break the theme of the game to allow that. While it has always been possible to use a might-makes-right approach, most wars have been fought on some justification, and most have been fought with less than total domination as the goal or result, and in the middle ages especially it was very important to have claims, however tenuous, in order to take land in Europe. The game does a splendid job of modeling that. Yes, it is frustrating to run into those limitations, but if they didn’t have them you’d never have to deal with the espionage and diplomacy systems (i.e. every game would play as a viking or mongol run, but half the fun is trying out the different cultures and dealing with their strengths, weaknesses, and limitations).
I can cope better with the claims BS than I can with the enemy rebellion nonsense.
I go to all the trouble to get an invasion casus belli against the infidels to achieve the reconquista, and when I’ve got them on the ropes, they suffer a rebellion, including territories I’ve fully occupied that I suddenly no longer occupy, but which are hostile to me except I can’t reoccupy them because the Umayyid rebels are not the Umayyids, so I’m not at war with them, except I am still fighting them, and I can’t declare war with them because I have levies raised for the war I’m already fighting with them that isn’t a war, so I end up with ribbons of Iberia, and have to send the levies home before refighting the war against the Rebels slice by slice because I no longer have an invasion cassus belli because the umayyid rebels are not the umayyids…
That is a fair complaint. I agree that it is stupid that you can’t raise levies before declaring the war. There’s already a fatigue system to counter keeping a standing army, so there’s no need for a further (un-thematic) restriction.
The only way to play HoI is to play as Germany, and use cheat codes. You can eventually mow over all your enemies, then use parachutists to go so far into Russia that they sue for peace.
Or play as America, which is like using a cheat code while following the rules.
Fuck the British man. … And Fuck Germany.
So I take it you are playing as either Italy or Japan?
He wants a challenge – he plays as Luxembourg.
Heading to Boston tomorrow to AvGeek and meet my crush. Not sure how I’ll sleep or eat between now and then.
Real AvGeeks get proper crew rest.
Tryin, man! I got about 5 hours last night (normal for me is 8-9), so I went and got some Zzquil for tonight.
I couldn’t eat or sleep in the two days leading up to my first meeting with a guy I had been talking to daily for 2 years, who had wanted to meet me far earlier, but I was too nervous, so I totally understand how you feel.
Good luck and good vibes sent your way.
I know it’s not the same with women, but maybe have a little alcohol in your system so you’re not all nervous and twitchy.
Why don’t I see you on the Tweeters these days???
He’s drunk?
That avatar is top-notch.
Hey, anybody remember that incident a while back where cops burst their way into a house where they were expecting a grow operation (detected by a drive-by van with heat-detecting equipment, I think), but when they broke in the door the guy’s lawyer was sitting in a chair waiting for them?
I want to read it again just for the nice warm feeling.
And they didn’t shoot the lawyer?
Not that I recall. I think he handed them a legal document.
What? do you think this is Henry VI?
No, just the lawyer’s dog.
Which was at the lawyer’s house.
So they had to drive there, knock down the door, and kill the dog.
Dooood…I need to read this as well!!
I’m pretty sure I read about it at TOS. I may try to search their H&R archives.
The Daily Orange student newspaper which was first to report on the vandalism, said the racial slurs were written against black and Asian people.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if it turns out the culprits were blacks and Asians talking trash about each other. Of course, the story will be quashed after that.
The important part is that it started a conversation about how bad white people are.
How dare you underestimate Puerto Ricans!
“I’m historically illiterate, and I can prove it.”
Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt argued that there has “never been an act of corruption” like President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukrainian leaders to investigate his political rivals, slamming GOP lawmakers for “lying” in their effort to defend the president.
Schmidt, who previously worked on the campaigns of prominent Republicans such as President George W. Bush and the late Senator John McCain, made the remarks during a segment of MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Tuesday. Despite having worked for leading Republican politicians, the strategist officially renounced the party last year, saying it had become “corrupt” and “fully the party of Trump.”
“There has never been, in the entire post-World War II period of history, from [President Harry] Truman through [President Barack] Obama, until Trump,” Schmidt said, “there has never been an act of corruption by an American president quite like this. It is extraordinary and severe.”
Uh huh. He stole that election from Hillary, and we shall neither forget nor forgive.
Steve Schmidt. Isn’t that the guy who was talking up Obama while he was working on McCain’s campaign? Has this guy ever served any purpose in Republican circle other than to give Democrats talking points? I’d suggest that Republicans give about as much weight to what this guy has to say as Libertarians should give weight to what Bill Weld has to say.
What a coincidence. The Ukrainian then-president said the same thing.
Even though I’m not inclined to venture over to The Nation, this piece, excerpted on Lew Rockwell, is quite good. One of the things that strikes me is that, technically, we’re more of the aggressors with regard to Russia than vice versa.
“We” sure helped fuck that place up by the numbers. McCain and Clinton fingerprints were all over the coup in 2014. Then they used $ billions in “foreign aid” to enrich themselves, their defense contractor pals, and friendly corrupt locals. It’s disgusting and shameful what “we” have done there.
“We” duly noted and conceded.
America desperately needs an actual period of isolationism just to help weed out some of the corrupt dirtbags in our foreign policy circles.
Saving the soul of democracy ain’t free
New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is deciding whether to launch a Democratic presidential bid, is pouring $100 million into an online advertising campaign attacking President Donald Trump.
The campaign, which targets voters in four general election battleground states — Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — begins running on Friday, according to Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter.
News of the massive investment was first reported by The New York Times. The former New York City mayor has already filed paperwork in at least two states to appear on presidential primary ballots.
Money in politics isn’t all bad, as long as it’s being put to good use.
ABC News – heh.
As long as he doesn’t buy $1500 in Facebook ads, we’re good.
Warren’s tax plan just gets better and better:
Note that the 150% tax rate is federal only, and doesn’t include state taxes.
And people wonder why the big money donors to the Dem Party are warning them against nominating her.
You guys don’t get it. Warren is actually a Genious. By penalizing profits at the 6% rate, she’s actually encouraging investors to invest in more profitable things that generate higher returns. This will actually stimulate the economy be keeping people from making bad investments in low performing areas.
I am suddenly reminded of a local bread company. It had a reliable profit margin and stable demand for their product but kept getting dumped by owners because they couldn’t manage to make it more profitable due to market saturation with competition. They’re still in business, still turning a modest profit, but have gone through multiple frustrated owners who can’t appreciate reliable returns.
If you can’t turn a profit with a punitive wealth tax, you don’t really deserve to be in business.
(5 months later)
Whycome no one will hire the most poorest people in our society? We need to tax the rich more to give those they won’t employ an affordable lifestyle.
You would think the next new owners would realize this and pay a price that makes the RoR acceptable.
If the bread company makes a steady $1MM per year and you want a 10% RoR, then dont pay more than $10MM for it.
Duh.
Looking them up now, it appears they’ve been acquired by a baking conglomerate which only owns bread producers. So maybe this management will have a better grasp of the market realities.
What happens when the wealth tax rate exceeds the average rate of return? Hmmmm…….
That’s the feature she is going for Scruff. It’s about creating the veneer of legitimacy to their wealth confiscation scam.
The attacks on wealth are enfuriating. People work very hard towards the goal of one day achieving financial independence, and to do that they need to be able to accumulate wealth. It’s almost as if Warren and her ilk don’t want anyone to be independent of Big Daddy Goverment.
This. I also look to the income tax as a model. It started as a small tax on only the wealthiest, but within a couple decades became a stifling tax on all productive members of society. Same will happen with a wealth tax. It’ll become the gateway to no shit, oppressive communism.
Here’s the most pernicious part. You’re essentially enslaved to the state. Compound interest works both ways, and a 4% wealth tax on a $2M estate will thrust responsible retirees into grinding poverty in a matter of a few years. Nevermind when it gets up to a 15% wealth tax. Equality of outcome? Well be getting it in droves. Good and hard.
Oh, Warren doesn’t plan to fleece all billionaires the same way. The ones that bow to her power and help her cause will get some cherry exemptions. The others, the enemies of the state, will be not just fleeced, but then properly punished by sending them back into the wild with nothing but the shirt on their backs and not a chance to make a living. Pour encoureger les autres…
“Deer Wearing Dog Collar Gores Franktown Man”
https://www.9news.com/article/life/animals/domesticated-buck-wearing-dog-collar-gores-man/73-0656d2ba-c107-41de-bb89-d1f2ad7d5c3f
“”I get into the paramedics’ ambulance and they’re like, ‘How you feel,’” Jordan Winn said. “And I’m like, ‘I feel like I just won the Super bowl. My heart’s racing a million miles an hour. I’m really hyped up.’””
Today I read the summary of a book that looked interesting. At the bottom was a trigger warning that consisted of “mild cursing.” As a rule, I am against trigger warnings. Go on the ride the author wants to take you on. It’s not as if you can’t get off by closing the book and throwing it at the wall.
Today I decided this will be my trigger warning: “There is lots of bad stuff going on in this book. You will need lots of Kleenex, caffeine, chocolate, and PTO so you can stay up all night to read.”
“Mild cursing”? Who gives a shit about mild cursing?
Believe it or not, lots of people. There is a whole subgenre of romance out there that is “clean, wholesome.” Sells like hotcakes. This includes no cursing, no even the mildest sort, and certainly no taking the Lord’s name in vain. These are NOT religious books, though. Religion is no more welcome than cursing or anything beyond sweet kisses.
Fuck that. 😉
I suspect there isn’t much of that going on either… Cause if you want to read about people fucking, but don’t want to have cursing going on, I think you have some serious fucking problems…
That’s what I said!
I… can’t really judge because it’s so far out of my area that I’m lost.
Uffda. Do you have an Extra Mild version of that cursing?
Mild is a little too much for us Minnesodans.
True story:
Growing up in Northern Wisconsin, Mrs. Dean’s family considered ketchup to be a spice.
Cool bit of trivia. The original reason for ketchup was to cover up the taste of rot in meat.
Bullshit. Nobody ate rotten meat if they could avoid it. The sickness and vimitting makes it a worse proposition than going hungry. They certainly didn’t create sauces or hunt spices to make it easier to get sick.
No one ate it at the stage where it was crawling with maggots maybe, but they sure as hell ate meat that had gone off. Beef has to be very very rotten to make you ill. Poultry and fish not as much.
You’re going to need a whole pile of citations to try to prove A the myth that people would stomach meat that had gone off on the regular enough to make sauces for it and B that ketchup was one of those sauces.
UCS, smell a piece of prosciutto sometime. Meat starts to spoil almost immediately. Refrigeration delays that, prior to refrigeration people ate meat that you would turn your nose up today, they didn’t kill an animal, eat one meal and throw out everything left, they smoked parts of it (which slows decay but does not stop it), and they ate it up to the point (which I suspect varied with the food supply) at which it was too foul. Condiments and spices extend the point where the taste is too nasty, which has little to do with the point where it makes you ill.
You seem to be operating under A: a different definition of rot and off, and B: that people didn’t make extra effort to use perishables before they went off.
I had always heard that the British introduced curry into the Raj to hide the smell of the “bad” meat that they would give to the Indians. I can say this with confidence: I’ve eaten meat in Afghanistan that would make most normal people vomit. You see it when you’re driving through the village – a big carcass hanging there in the sun, flies buzzing all over it, who knows how long it’s been there, but they don’t have refrigeration – or ice – out in the tribal areas. I know someone who was very early on the ground post-9/11 and he said they ate with some Afghans they linked up with and that night everyone was shitting and vomiting themselves and they thought for sure they’d been poisoned. Turns out it was just the meal they had with their new “friends.”
Curries were introduced to britain because returning EIC officers missed the food they had on the subcontinent.
Thanks, I’ll bring this up to my wife who loves the stuff.
Don’t spread the lie.
Does Mrs. Dean’s family also consider Sloppy Joe’s to be nothing more than hamburger cooked in ketchup and then served in the whitest hamburger buns known to mankind?
*More daring eaters will put the same hamburger/ketchup recipe on a taco shell for some exotic Mexican eating.
Ms Fourscore exposed…
Want to have some BBQ?
LOL is that real?? Never seen it.
Yes it is real. Showing the multiple brands of Extra Mild salsa is on the standard tourist checklist in Minnesoda (right behind the Mall of America)
“How do they have no ricotta cheese, but four kinds of extra mild salsa!!!!” my wife at the grocery store.
“ricotta cheese”
You mean cottage cheese right? (You ain’t lived until you’ve has lasagna made with cottage cheese)
What…
Those two are not substitutable!
*Lies on the ground, twitching, white foamy drool escaping his mouth*
That’s hilarious. I’m not a Hot spice guy but I would never sink to Extra Mild.
I have the same feeling about “Full disclosure” remarks. My favorite full disclosure however is the one on Zero Hedge.
Isn’t that kind of like the PMRC sticker? It sure sold a lot of records.
I told my wife last night that I might take my 11-year-old boy to see the movie Midway this weekend (I know, I know, the trailers make it look like a CGI ruination of an interesting piece of history, a la Titanic and Pearl Harbor, but I’m hoping it spurs some interest in history on the part of the boy).
My wife looks the movie up on a parental website to see if it’s appropriate. The website lists some potential problems, such as foul language, violence, etc. It also notes that there are not very many women in the movie. A WW II movie about an aerial attack on the Japanese Navy.
Gladiator movies hardest hit
Gladiatrices were a thing, but I also recall they might have fought unclothed.
Dontchaknow you’re supposed to retcon in the unbeatable ace who’s a crippled lesbian of color?
They should’ve unnecessarily shoehorned in a love interest in there a la Enemy at the Gates.
No women? I thought it was requisite that every war movie had to have the hero involved with a hot nurse back at the base with her performing at least one act of intercourse before said hero goes off to meet his fate?
+1 Kate Beckinsale
I haz a serious disappoint in her choices of men to date, but holy shit, is she smokin’.
You had me at
>There is lots of bad stuff going on in this book. You will need lots of Kleenex
but your list doesn’t include tube socks or hand lotion so now I’m not sure…
Haunted by ghost guns
States that sued over the administration’s settlement with Austin-based Defense Distributed said that allowing people to print untraceable guns at home would put law enforcement officers at risk. The company argued that posting the information was a matter of free speech.
“Given the agency’s prior position regarding the need to regulate 3D-printed firearms and the CAD files used to manufacture them, it must do more than simply announce a contrary position,” Lasnik wrote in his decision.
Lacking such an explanation, the reversal was an “arbitrary and capricious” violation of the federal Administrative Procedure Act, according to the ruling.
The administration of President Barack Obama had blocked the company’s effort to publish the files for years, arguing that it would violate an arms-export law. But the State Department in June 2018 gave Defense Distributed the green light by settling a lawsuit with the company in a Texas court. The company’s website called it “our most famous victory.”
Chad Flores, a lawyer for Defense Distributed in Houston, said the company will appeal.
“The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech from all abridgment, including indirect censorship efforts like this one,” Flores said in a statement. “And states aren’t allowed to commandeer the federal government to do their unconstitutional bidding, even under the guise of statutory technicalities.”
That “puts law enforcement officers at risk” argument is so infuriating it makes my brain ache.
It’s all so fucking stupid.
The left has been using wink-and-nod handshake agreements with federal agencies for two decades. Some left wing activist sues an agency staffed with administrators that want to make a policy change but know it won’t make it through the rule-and-comment process. the agency settles out of court giving the activist exactly what the agency wants, and they both walk away happy.
This is the first time I’ve heard of any push back on it in any form.
“Given the agency’s prior position regarding the need to regulate 3D-printed firearms and the CAD files used to manufacture them, it must do more than simply announce a contrary position,” Lasnik wrote in his decision.
Is the statement “The position held by the agency was unconstitutional” not good enough for the judge?
File under “Who Hasn’t?”
Florida woman bit boyfriend’s penis ‘out of frustration’
Related…
https://nypost.com/video/3-foot-long-hot-dog-devoured-by-food-blogger/
Hey, she used her teeth and chewed that hot dog up! I thought thinking she would swallow it whole.
I haven’t been this disappointed since I watched the Women’s breast stroke race in the Olympics.
She looks like she has a strong jaw. Not good.
There was some kid on youtube (probably been excised, by now) who was making zip guns out of galvanized plumbing pipe and fittings. If somebody wants a projectile weapon badly enough, no G-men will be able to prevent it.
The IRA was (in/)famous for turning pickup trucks into one-shot mortars by filling the bed with dirt and then embedding 6 or 8 or whatever steel tubes in there. Then load ’em up, have them primed, drive the truck to a road overlooking an area where they knew the Brits would be patrolling. Guy gets out of the truck, sets a timer, hops in his buddy’s car and they drive away and the “mortars” go off 10-15 minutes later. Only one fire and not very discriminating or even that deadly, but it sure will scare the bejesus out of the troops and near impossible to defend. The (shitty) Afghans did something similar with old 107mm Russian rockets to avoid our counter-battery radars. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated technology gets, there is always a way to fight back, even if it means fighting dirty.
Hey R C Dean!
White House unveils rules requiring online disclosure of hospital prices
This seems like a good thing. Is it?
“List” price versus negotiated in the healthcare world is a really complicated sticky issue. I’m not sure a White House rule can cut across all the conflicting layers of federal and state regulations.
The hospital knows all their negotiated prices. If customer puts on insurance info, it should take them to correct amounts.
I just went through this with an MRI. There was a $1200 difference between two scenarios. It was nice to be able to price compare and I didn’t give a shit who actually performed it.
Medicare does a lot to fuck up the pricing system just by itself.
Excuse me, Mr Kroger, how much is this load of bread?
K: just buy it and I will bill you in 30 to 365 days.
I saw that. Its bullshit. A brief overview:
Hospitals have something called a “chargemaster” which lists “prices” for every single frickin’ thing. Its a relic of the days when hospitals were regulated like utilities and had to get their price increases approved. It had a brief period of declining relevance when insurance contracts were for a percent of chargemaster pricing. Now, everybody gets paid as a percent of Medicare rates. Nobody, but nobody, pays chargemaster pricing. Worst case, you are uninsured and your nominal bill is based on chargemaster, we give you a huge discount and a payment plan to try to get something.
Chargemaster price transparency, then, is completely meaningless. The prices that matter are the prices that the third party payors negotiate (or impose). Around half of all hospital bills are paid by Medicare or Medicaid. For Medicaid, there is literally zero copay, deductible, or any payment by the patient. Medicare varies, depending on whether you have straight Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan. But, government payors don’t negotiate prices, they impose them, and that entire price list is published by the government already.
That leaves commercial insurers. They, too negotiate prices with hospitals. Those prices are confidential. To the extent we are forced to publish those prices, it will either have no effect, or lead to some increase as the hospitals who have low-paying commercial plans see that the local market will actually bear higher pricing, and negotiate accordingly.
“Price transparency” assumes the patients shop for hospitals by price and/or negotiate pricing. Practically nobody does. Pricing is negotiated by insurers. The patient share is dictated by the insurance plan, and is downstream from the price negotiated by their insurance company. Publishing managed care pricing in any way will change the dynamic of the negotiation between hospitals and insurers, but in ways that are currently illegal under anti-trust law – business-to-business competitors aren’t allowed to tell each other what their0 negotiated pricing is because if they do, pricing goes up, not down.
The fine is $300/day, or just over $100K/year. Probably less than it would cost us to actually comply.
People do price shop, when they know the prices. Especially when using an HSA or similar.
See Tundra above.
Price to the consumer is mainly affected by two things: in-network or not, or in-hospital or not.
Once you hit your deductible (easy to do with hospital care), the deductible is irrelevant.
Your co-pay is a co-pay of the price negotiated by your insurer.
The only thing that matters is the price to you. Which is a function of your coverage, not hospital prices. Publishing hospital prices is meaningless to patients.
Now, good functionality on what your out-of-pocket will be under your coverage is what people need. Publishing hospital prices is irrelevant to that.
No body is able to.
Exactly. When we can, we do.
And when we do, providers have to economize on price. You might even say.. bend the cost curve.
Interesting.
Thank you for the explanation.
I seem to recall an Iron Law about foreseeable consequences.
Around half of all hospital bills are paid by Medicare or Medicaid.
But it’s a free market failure!
Believe it or not, lots of people. There is a whole subgenre of romance out there that is “clean, wholesome.” Sells like hotcakes. This includes no cursing, no even the mildest sort, and certainly no taking the Lord’s name in vain. These are NOT religious books, though. Religion is no more welcome than cursing or anything beyond sweet kisses.
Kissing anywhere below the clavicle strictly verboten, I presume.
You’d include neck kisses?
Scandalous!
I bet he looks at pictures where you can see Ankle too.
That’s no fun.
This guy always kisses above the clavicle
Too bad this guy is Canadian because otherwise I think he would have a real shot at being nominated for the Supreme Court.
I miss 2005.
Pete Buttigieg✔
@PeteButtigieg
We don’t yet have all the details of the horrifying events in Santa Clarita. But we do know that in America today, children are scared to go to school. Parents and teachers are terrified. And that can’t stand. It is time to hold the NRA and our leaders in Washington accountable.
Because he was an NRA member and/or trained to kill by the NRA?
My kids go to small Catholic school. I’m not concerned at all.
I’m more afraid of what they’ll learn in public schools than shooters.
But we do know that in America today, children are scared to go to school.
Just a question. And Pardon my ignorance, but has anyone stopped to ask “Why do these kids go to school and shoot them up?,” It certainly couldn’t be because Schools are like prisons where these kids are required to be at, many times being Hell Holes for certain children. And if kids are scared, is there a reason why? when the chances of this happening are 1 in a million? Perhaps we should focus on teaching kids not to be afraid, rather than trying to manipulate them to get your political ends.
Or teach them statistics.
Knowing the odds doesn’t trump “someone is going to be that one, and I don’t want to be it.”
Perhaps we should focus on teaching kids not to be afraid, rather than trying to manipulate them to get your political ends.
What would be the political advantage of that? If people aren’t afraid, how will they be convinced to submit to a strongman?
“children are scared to go to school. Parents and teachers are terrified.”
Assumes facts not in evidence.
More on the Roma.
As Big As It Is Ugly: Ferrari’s New Key Fob
Good stuff.
True class is being inconspicuous about your consumption. IE, not seeking approval and approbation of others regarding your choices.
If you where to draw a Venn diagram of “people with class” and “people with a Ferrari”, are you suggesting the Venn diagram looks more like the view port of a telescope than binoculars?
Huh… I heard it looked like a Gypsy Wagon.
We don’t yet have all the details of the horrifying events in Santa Clarita. But we do know that in America today, children are scared to go to school. Parents and teachers are terrified.
Call me crazy, but maybe we should lay off the fearmongering, and see if that helps.
In all honesty, it’s probably one of the most attractive Aston Martins this author has seen in years.
That’s funny. I took one look and said, “Nice Jaguar.”
Breaking news: Roger Stone guilty on all charges
Who?
What were the charges? Other than being an icky conservative?
Another school shooting.
Some Boise High School students face possible criminal and school consequences after a BB gun was discharged off-campus.
Boise Police said a report of shots fired came in at about noon. Officers found the suspects quickly and performed a high-risk traffic stop.
Five people were detained from the car without incident. Officers searched the car and found two BB guns.
“The occupants, who were all juveniles, could potentially face misdemeanor crimes,” BPD said. “The investigation remains ongoing.”
As a precaution, two schools in the area were put in “shelter in place” mode but were never found to be in danger.
In a letter to parents, Boise High principal Robb Thompson said the gun was discharged while some students were on their lunch period.
There was no safety risk at school, Thompson said in the letter. The students are cooperating with Boise Police, he said.
Another case of domestic terrorism. No wonder kids are afraid to go to school.
I hope Moms Demand Action can find a way to have a substantive positive influence. Maybe offer to release those kids’ pent up tensions. For the good of society.
a high-risk traffic stop
No, they didn’t.
Officers searched the car and found two BB guns.
“The occupants, who were all juveniles, could potentially face misdemeanor crimes,”
Retard Twitter is going crazy because Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders announced the ‘Green New Deal for Public Housing Act’…. Which i have no idea what that means.
Wattle and daub made from San Fransisco needles and feces.
Have you seen “The Money Pit” – it’s like that, only with hundreds of billions of dollars and a lot of happy public sector union workers.
I live in a money pit.
Free shit paid for by unicorns and fairy dusty.
Green New Deal for Public Housing