Happy Frigedag! First, my apologies for not being around much this week and missing some terrific content from our great Glibertarian community. Things have been… complicated here. I’ve managed to have my first-ever interaction with city jails and bail bondsmen. I found the latter to be singularly humorless. And no, I was not the inmate nor was SP. Not yet, anyway.
There are, as usual, birthdays today, including the poxy one; a gymnopedist; the goat of Super Bowl III and the hero of Super Bowl V; and one of the dirtiest comedians ever, who may have actually deflowered the Olsen Twins simultaneously.
But enough of the preliminaries, let’s get to the news.
I know that this kind of stuff seems to fascinate everyone, but if you took all my interest in it and converted it to gasoline, there wouldn’t be enough to run a pissant’s go-kart around the inside of a Cheerio.
Speaking of which… the jokes write themselves.
I’m still amazed at the prices for just-OK Merlot.
Donald Trump supporters are much brighter and less cult-driven than AOC supporters. Or maybe not.
Man, it’s tough being an Orioles fan.
Old Guy Music today is an odd and fun one. Unless you’re exceptionally geeky, you likely didn’t know about this talent of the one-eyed Jewgro. Now you do.
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Mrs. A and I have done our part. Up to the next generation now.
The modern teen is too worried about global warming to get pregnant. Or maybe they’re all transgenders? I haz confused. But I’ll gladly help any of the (good looking) ladies who need some pointers. If EF doesn’t mind that is.
Well, none of my kids are teens any more. But the oldest has three kids, the second has one and one on the way, the other two will have their turns, no doubt.
So my plan to breed the world into submission is proceeding as planned. Muahahaha!
Mrs. L is no longer in that range, but I’m working on her to get a younger sister wife so I can keep doing my part.
Go on…
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton!
This man is doing it all for the benefit of humanity…
Is Mrs. L buying it Brett?
She said something about “meeting up with SP” and “browsing her rusty tin can lid collection”, so…
That doesn’t sound like she is appreciative or supportive of your sacrifice man….
Lord H occasionally suggests an Au Pair to help around the house. . . or he did when LH Jr was younger.
You tell him to take a long walk off a short pier?
Au Pairs from Brazil are preferred for such things.
GUSTOSO!
I’m just trying to make your life easier. ::sheepish grin::
Mmm… Heidi Lenhart…
Tell him yes as long as you do the hiring. See how excited when Carlos the 6′ 3″ gymnast weightlifter poolboy shows up to work in his uniform.
But we don’t have a pool!
But we’ve got one… on how long it takes you to figure it all out.
Nice (burn).
I blame compulsory education.
Between rape culture and Alabama, we should have those numbers up in no time.
Solid comment
Don’t fish have transfats
I noticed that my proposed route back through Ohio takes me past the City of Oberlin. Should I stop at Gibson’s bakery and buy something?
I’d recommend an unsalted roll made with white flour.
Too much flavor. – UCS
Pop up to Alaska, I heard the chicks are easy….
And the money for nothin’
Can I bang on my bongos like a chimpanzee all night long?
That ain’t workin’! That’s the way you do it!
Get your money for nuffin’ and your chicks with dicks for free! (wait a minute…)
I just want my MTV to play videos again.
Is MTV still a thing?
Be aware that by the time you get back to your car there may be a protest going on around it. Assuming you’re taking 80, there’s some much better places a couple exits east of there.
The whole point of making the detour would be because of the idiots protesting the shop.
So the elderly baker gets beat up by a shoplifter and friends and the commiekids protest him for ‘racism’ because the criminals were black… I wish those protesters long lives filled with misery.
Yes, tell them that you never would have heard of them if it hadn’t been for the kerfuffle. Say it loudly enough fo the protesters to hear.
But… that would require talking to people.
Were you planning on having your bakery order written down on index cards?
I’m not talking to the people, I’m talking to the display case…
Does it talk back?
No, why do you think I address inanimate objects. Though occassionally the person on the other side butts into the conversation.
*?
Damned people…
UCS I have bad news, we are all Tulpae, which are human beings, not AIs. You are talking to people.
Speak for yourselves, Jarflax.
A nose ring and hair dye? An I’m With Her tramp stamp? Some “outrage” gloves? Buyer’s market, man.
That’s what Koalas get for not being tasty.
Always with the global warming…
80,000 aren’t enough to produce another generation? And I thought Pandas were bad.
At one point there were less than 1400 homo sapiens specimens, and we managed to not just survive but thrive. Species that are not as adaptable will perish. Contrary to what the stupid libs want you to believe, Gaia is one harsh cunt.
At one point there were only 70 cheetahs mating. They are still so closely related that you can graft skin between them.
For some reason I read that with Zoidbergs voice.
Insert gif of Koala carrying a tiki torch.
I remember reading that nature has made over 1 trillion species extinct because they couldn’t adapt. The AGW cultists would likely claim that is all the fault of SUV driving people I am gonna guess..
“The tree-dwelling species has been ravaged by the effects of rising temperatures ”
Aaaaand the second paragraph tips me off.
The problem is that usually higher temperatures (unless you are in a desert) means more humidity and more trees.
This morning NPR was talking about how rainy this year has been and how that was “consistent with the results of climate change east of the Mississippi river.”
I was surprised to find out that Global Warming ™ stopped west of the Mississip.
Yeah? Well it’s raining west of the Mississippi.
I thought it was because of the Koala-chlamydia that was spreading through the population.
The Indians need the help this year, this Clevelander thanks you.
That looked like a thousand plays in rec softball to me. We used to call it “wrecked” softball for some reason. Boy oh boy, those Saturday morning games were brutal. I ran through a wooden fence chasing a fly ball one time while the right fielder was puking on the foul line. Fuck me those tournaments were fun, though.
Where are you going with the ball? The question you need to ask yourself before every bat.
ANY BASE in this case and he couldn’t even do that. I suppose the second basemen was hoping the runner would keep advancing and get a tag, then throw to first for a double play? that’s all I can give them.
I can’t really see the video, but if they brought the infield in, the manager is telling them to go to home plate if they get it on a routine grounder, not any base. Even if he got the double play he did the wrong thing and allowed a run.
All he had to do was toss the ball to first, or even second. Instead he tried to run down Lindor, didn’t go for the tag, and tossed the ball to first where the batter had already made it. The first baseman could have then thrown to home to at least prevent another run, but instead decided to try to run down Lindor for a bit first. Then threw to home too late to stop the guy on second from getting home.
Manager “We need to work on our running game”
Players: “Got it!”
Bases loaded, one out. Throw to second, get double play. Nobody scores. If the batter is fast, MAYBE you try to go home and sacrifice the DP for saving a run, but JFC, this is as routine as it gets for MLB…
OK, I saw the play now. (OMWC – never link to Shit Illustrated ever again. They didn’t have the video.)
There still wasn’t a lot of context on position before the swing, but I assume the infield was playing at double-play depth and it was a high chopper.
It’s actually a brilliant play by Lindor. If the second baseman goes to first right away, there is no force at second anymore and the first run will score even if the first baseman throws to second and gets the second out by tag. If he goes to second right away they never get the batter and the run scores. The utility guy playing second base is trying to do the logical thing by trying to keep the second out a force out because the run won’t count that way; Lindor is trying to be the second out to get the run in. The genius is the runner from second (and possibly the third base coach sending the runner) continuing for the second run. If anything , the stupider play was throwing home because it was far too late and they still had a shot at getting the out at second (although both runs would have scored); instead they got the worst possible outcome.
It’s not that easy of a play if you’ve never been in that situation before, which a utility player probably hasn’t. What Lindor did does not happen all that much; only the smarter middle infielders like him know to do that because more often than not the runner at first is usually instructed to get the longest possible secondary lead.
All these guys are super-competitive and trying to get the ideal outcome (double-play, no runs) instead of taking it easy and settling for a good outcome. My over-45 team usually beats over-30 teams because the younger teams consistently make similar mistakes. There’s maybe two or three guys on my team that would have done what Lindor did and I am not one of them.
I’m probably too late. I appreciate the analysis and I agree Lindor was smart to avoid the tag and waste time, but sorry I don’t buy that it’s a hard play for any guy at that level, utility or otherwise. It’s maybe not quite as routine as I suggested given the type of hit, but still. The second baseman would have a good view of the guy going home and whether he had a chance for that play, otherwise, your second move is to second. Going for the tag is just stupid. It wastes too much time and has too much room for error (dropped ball, missed tag, runner does what Lindor did…).
It’s all on Curly the second baseman. He had an easy tag and throw but he panicked.
Go Twins!
“who may have actually deflowered the Olsen Twins simultaneously”
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Nah, they’re kinda weird lookin’. Remember the creepy count-down clock to their 18th birthday? That must have been one of the OG trolls. Their sister on the other hand has a great rack.
So he has two dicks?
Q for the (((Glibs))).
This morning I heard someone say schmutzen. I have never heard it plural before. Is this a German dialect thing?
Schmutz is an uncountable noun in Yiddish. The person was probably using the infinitive form of the verb “to soil”.
ich denke: “en” is sometimes a gerund ending, but I can’t imagine a translations that means, say, I enjoy the act of getting dirty in the same way my people say I love fishing.
You might be thinking of “schmutzend” which would describe something that makes you dirty.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN GERMAN PORN?!?!?!
I thought they were just size queens. In all my years working for Germans, I still would have never guessed.
I don’t know much about porn in general: always found heels, skirts, or a raised eyebrow at the library hotter than blatant marital stunts on video.
+1 “You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together, and blow.”
Google Translator is your friend.
schmutzen = soiled
In context, they were referring to residue on a process chamber, so I’m pretty sure it was intended as a noun.
I didn’t know if this was some sort weird thing that happens when you have Germans and Ashkenazim working together with 58 other nationalities. Or some sort of graffito/graffiti thing.
You know what happened the last time there was residue in chambers where Germans and Ashkenazim were working together?
But did they call the residue schmutz or schmutzen?
I don’t know the vagaries of Yiddish, but in German, “schmutzen” can only be a verb.
OTOH, you could turn it into a noun “das Schmutzen” if you want, with a meaning something like “the act of making something dirty”, but I doubt it would have much use.
Aren’t there more versions of German than there are Arabic?
Culture and language here are work really is fascinating. The code-switching, use of English as a trade language, and the sheer rate of neologization could probably be someone’s thesis. Plus the abbreviations/acronyms. Dear God the TLAs. I went to a presentation where the text on one slide was nine consecutive TLAs. And it made perfect sense.
I have it on good authority that it means “soiled”. Bitte.
“Koala bears have been declared “functionally extinct,” the Australian Koala Foundation reports. The fluffy marsupial is down to just 80,000 wild species members, meaning there aren’t enough breeding adults left to support another generation of the pouched mammals.”
I’m sorry but the AKF is full of shit then.
Maybe the universe just hates fake bears. Pandas — exist only because humans keep breeding them. Koalas — functionally extinct. Drop bears — no longer seen in the wild.
Gummy bears are doing well though?
You never SEE drop bears and no one expects them, thus the name.
My guess is that the AKF may be able to save the Koalas but it will take a substantial donation from you and your neighbors. So get that checkbook out.
Wait, will I get a snazzy virtue signaling t-shirt to wear to show how woke I am for that hefty donation?
How the hell is 80,000 functionally extinct. Especially for an animal with an extremely limited geographic range?
I think almost all of them have the clap.
Besides being about as smart as DeBlasio.
If I had to guess, from memory and without researching or reading anything about it, I’d say the extremely specific habitat is the issue. Population is somewhat irrelevant to future viability if the habitat needs are so specific that the species of concern won’t survive elsewhere and the habitat is shrinking (this is where climate change comes in) and expected to be gone in a relatively short time frame.
Not a yarmulke, a MAGA hat. The shooter can single out women and people of color.Make it real.
I’m not sure they know what this means or anything at all about Ayn Rand, for that matter.
The quote itself was benign. About the NYC skyline… Unless she was sending a message about 9/11.
Anyway some staffer just got outed as completely ignorant.
They got outed when they got hired.
I think her post was that she’s more enthralled by man’s accomplishments than those of nature. Kinda earth first and we’ll strip mine the other planets later.
There you have it folks, anyone the left dislikes for any reason is a complete unperson and it is forbidden to quote them in any context. Also, note how she is automatically classified as “far-right” in both the headline and link.
Ayn Rand the strange-o kind of defies those labels that everyone foists upon her. I’ll go with megalomaniac, narcissistic sex-fiend.
I’d go with over-rated sludgy writer.
Agreed, heartily.
If you take out the 200 page speech, Atlas Shrugged is pretty good. And Anthem is a good sci-fi story.
To lazy to look it up, but isn’t it a quote about how the glorious works of man can exceed the glory of nature? A sunrise on a pastoral view might be nice but the industriousness represented by the skyline is more of a marvel.
Look, don’t come ’round here with your “far right” extremist drivel…
Nobody wants to bring a vulnerable helpless baby into Trump’s America.
Must be why they decided to import breeders more aligned with “I will vote for you if you promise me free shit” to make sure they can keep a majority.
Some of those imported breeders are hard-working people, and are not big fans of abortion. May not turn out as well as they planned.
My experience has been that the vast majority of the people coming to find work in the US, come here by themselves. And they desperately want to stay under the radar so they can actually do work. They bring no family, join no caravans, and definitely want nothing to do with the ongoing shit show at the border. These people coming for work, work hard and send the money to their families back home.
That trend has changed as of late, and most of those now coming now not coming for the work opportunities, but to take advantage of the free stuff the virtue signaling political class has straddled their productive tax paying serfs with. Even the religious ones, sure not to be fans of abortion and often holding some real backwards views of non traditional marriage, though seem to be more about the free shit than otherwise, and the politicians enabling more of them to come are counting on that.
I think we need a reform of our immigration system to allow people that want to work as well as those that are highly skilled to stay with more ease and stop bringing so many people here that the political class hopes do so for free shit and then will vote for the free shit promisers.
That was the whole purpose of restricting immigration to those with skills. Those with skills most likely want to work, those with no skills are only willing to work if they have to work their ass off to get around the immigration system. These caravans are people neither skilled nor willing to work.
I forget who here said it, but: “You can have open borders or a welfare state. Pick one.”
Ayup. The problem is that the people in charge want both because it benefits them in the short run, and they are not worried about what follows since they will already have gotten theirs and be long gone. Unfortunately at the rate shit is happening, I think these people are misguided in their belief they will be long gone when it all ends up collapsing.
It was Ann Coulter. lol
Occasionally she is right.
Actually it was Friedman. Coulter is just a retarded parrot.
But you would still hate bang her, right Scruffy?
I’m not really into dudes, at least not emaciated ones with stringy hair.
European model.
I have told a few of those virtue signaling Euros I know that this practice forced on the plebes by their masters in Brussels is how you get a resurgence of some of the old and really fucking scary shit of the last century, but they seemed to be immune to logic or facts if it interfered with their desire to virtue signal.
“Donald Trump supporters are much brighter and less cult-driven than AOC supporters. ”
I don’t see how it would make them less bright.
They are the same kinds of people, just two sides of the same coin.
Even though they are both religious in nature, I think believing in something clearly supernatural, and having an irrational belief that ignore real world facts, are two different things. Both Bach and Isaac Newton were fanatical Christians, and I wouldn’t call either of them stupid.
I don’t think OMWC was calling them stupid for being religious. I think he was calling them stupid for buying $50 medallions in order to be able to pray for Trump. Because that is stupid. If God exists and is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent he does not require you to be holding a medallion to figure out for whom you are praying.
How many Dongs will a Jim Bakker Trump Coin be worth in the year 2100?
Less than the Obama trillion dollar coin?
Girl dongs pr boy dongs?
Ok, that image . . . . pretty dang funny! So many ways to stab. . . .
It needs some alt text…
I had you in mind when I chose it.
Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.
So that’s what that high pitched yipping noise is.
Is that what you call it?
er yes?
many thanks!
“Reed, a 49-year-old grandmother, was the only cop in the village. She carried no gun and, after five years on the job, had received a total of three weeks of law enforcement training.”
Why no gun?
What happened to traditional village justice? Rapists should “Disappear” within a week.
Rural Alaska can be very dangerous.
Depends who your family is. Those remote villages are basically feudal systems.
I see the root of the problem.
“In the 60 years since Alaska became a state, some Alaska Native leaders say, a string of governors and Legislatures have failed to protect indigenous communities by creating an unconstitutional, two-tiered criminal justice system that leaves villagers unprotected compared with their mostly white counterparts in the cities and suburbs.
ProPublica and the Daily News asked more than 560 traditional councils, tribal corporations and city governments representing 233 communities”
Get rid of reservations, tribal governments, etc. and just privatize the land.
No, they created a law enforcement system that enforces the law in regular Alaskan territory. You wanted that tribal sovereignity, so don’t whine because you can’t properly manage your own affairs.
No shit. Send some cops up there and start enforcing the law and I will hear the shrieking all the way down here in Louisiana.
“two-tiered criminal justice system”
It’s well known that whites get a fair shake in reservation law enforcement.
That seems to be a blanket statement.
A smallpox blanket statement?
I have reservations about the smoke signal you seem to be sending with your blanket statement. I wish to lodge a complaint with the council and if you won’t smoke the peace pipe I am going on the warpath until I get either your scalp or a pile of wampum.
Well, you ruined that.
Always interesting to get reports on what the wildlings are up to.
I thought everyone in Alaska had a gun.
far-right author Ayn Rand
Well, everything to the right of Karl Marx is “far-right”, I suppose.
The tweet was deleted later Thursday morning, but Hizzoner’s office could not provide a reason for the change of heart.
Because even nonpolitical statements by “far-right” individuals are verboten.
These days anyone who doesn’t want to belong to the hive is “far-right”
This. The statement is so benign, that I doubt anyone would know it came from Rand, if they hadn’t attributed her. But we most unperson and remove from history every wrong thinker.
She hated socialism, therefore she’s far right. QED
“When I asked the Lord, ‘Why the coin?’ he said ‘Because when you take the coin, it’s a point of contact,’” Wallnau said in the recording. “So your faith is being released with a million other believers to pray protection and peace and wisdom and counsel over the president of the United States and over his family.”
Meh. Grifters have been manipulating the rubes for financial gain through the veneration of undeserving people for over a thousand plus years. I’d have to do some digging but I swear that I remember an eighties televangelist selling commemorative Reagan dinner plates because he ended the ‘Scourge of Atheistic Communism in Russia’.
*edit
An early nineties televangelist
*Forlornly looks at pewter Franklin mint figurines on mantle*
The only thing I remember my parents ever ordering from a quasi/not sold in stores infomercial/extra long commercial.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmgMOXSap50
I adored those books. They helped nudge me into an affectation for the written fantasy genre.
I dated a girl that collected Disney and Franklin mint junk. She asked me if I collected anything. I said yes.
“Yeah? What do you collect?” *eyes light up*
I dug a dollar bill out of my pocket and held it up. “These”.
She wouldn’t go out with me again after that.
Nice. Does it work if you pull some umbilical cords out of your pocket?
Dude. That is so wrong. Everyone knows that you use umbilical cords as necklaces. You hang your Trump coins on them for bling.
Keep them in your pocket. I can’t even..
Properly visualized. Thanks for that.
I was expecting a gun.
I got my first Prayer Hankie in the mail the other day, and was quite disappointed to see it was paper printed to look like a hankie; I was expecting at least a thin, cheeseclothy piece of fabric. When I first read about those years ago in a William Gibson novel I thought it was a joke.
Now do magic underdrawers!
LOL. I recently read an ad on a dating site where a woman specified “LDS preferred or at least not bothered by LDS undergarments.”
There is actually a site, mormonboyz dot net, that fetishisizes the whole Mormon thing. Clean-cut models with no tattoos (totally rare in porn, maybe ‘shopped), conservative attire such as worn by Mormon missionaries, and, of course, the Mormon underwear. It’s funny af.
I have no idea what Mormon underwear is.
I assume it’s large.
They’re called temple garments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
Ha! That’s awesome. I expect it’s entirely fictitious, but still awesome.
Those are so fake. But Homer Hankies are totes legit.
Libertarian roasts Trump White House’s plan to get ‘conservative snowflakes’ unbanned from social media
“It’s tempting to merely laugh at this sort of absurdity, to gawk at the blubbering fools who spent years ranting about easily-triggered liberal ‘snowflakes’ only to literally make it a federal matter when their Facebook account gets suspended,” she writes. “And sure, the self-owning MAGAservative chorus of ‘No one liked my tweet, I must be shadowbanned!’ is a special delicacy.”
That’s rich considering the fact she tried to ruin the life of somebody for telling her to make a sammich.
Christ, what an asshole.
Reason and their contributors always seem to live down to my expectations.
“That’s rich considering the fact she tried to ruin the life of somebody for telling her to make a sammich.”
So. Much. This.
The rot spread fast and deep at TOS, to be sure…
I wouldn’t smash her with Fruit Sushi’s psuedo-penis.
I’m not familiar with this. Link or explanation?
Not to rest on my laurels, but she learned that from her husband. Remember that?
The issues are not first amendment ones, but twofold – first, they are not applying their own written rules equally. Second, they are being improperly treated as a platform when they are acting like a publisher.
Correct the second, so they can be sued for the contract violations resulting from the first and the problem is corrected.
She’s just being a mendacious bitch. I’m sure she’s aware of all of that and, if she isn’t, she’s much more ignorant of the situation than the average commenter on this site.
Getting eyeballs is her prime consideration. She has no ethics and precious little moral compass. She’s a one-note flute that always plays slightly off key.
That’s what kills me the most. She knows damn well that her Magaservatives are just using her own logic against her but she plays it off as hypocrisy. You reap what you sow, lady.
I’m not sure I buy into this new soundbite that moderation=editing/publishing, but I am willing to be convinced.
I’m not buying the claim that it’s mere moderation.
I think it all hinges on what differentiates “moderation” from “editing”. And I’d like to know if that is a differentiation recognized in law.
I stopped reading at ‘Nolan’
Yada yada yada about Liz. Whatever. The headline said a Libertarian roasted the White House….now tell us about that.
*I don’t recall anyone advocating or actually censoring the liberal snowflakes. We just laughed at them…we still laugh at them.
“Libertarian”
I read the piece. She started with a false equivalence and was widely derided in the comments.
She’ll be singing a different tune when she’s the one getting banned.
many Republicans want us to think it’s a First Amendment violation for a private company to dictate the terms of service on a private platform
her other shortcomings aside, she’s simply correct both about private commercial conduct and about Republicans not being able to take a punch
Shut the fuck up, libtard!
KILL THE PIG! KILL THE PIG! KILL THE PIG!
What about when those private companies are knee-deep in with the government, to the point of getting hauled in front of Congress to explain why they aren’t purging crimethink?
Again, Repubs never seem to think that’s a problem when we’re talking about the defense industry.
QFT.
Why is a news site writing an article solely based on an article in another news site? I see this shit all the time now. The article already exists; no need to put quotes around passages and sprinkle some descriptive sentences in between. I know there are a lot of column inches to fill on deadline these days, but try harder.
My favorite on TV is when reporters interview reporters or anchors interview reporters.
And this is a problem why?
Where muh gubmint?
I dunno. Having to disarm a raving lunatic in one of those places kind of made me wish there was some alternative. I just walked up to him and grabbed the rifle, emptied the chamber, picked up the bullets and went back to my motor home. My arsehole was tighter than a fist but I didn’t really think things through while it was happening.
You obviously didn’t want to do that thing as a full time job. Were you willing to pay someone who would?
It seems amazing that there can be so many non-lethal violent interactions. Is it because there would be a blood feud if someone shot the raving drunk with the rifle or is there just an extreme value placed on human life?
“Is it because there would be a blood feud if someone shot the raving drunk…”
My guess would be that he was related to a significant number of people in the village.
Dude, he was shooting at my dog and there were about a dozen little kids around. There was only one option. No, I was only related by marriage (tangentially), not blood. I was a hard-ass boss so it’s surprising that I never got burned out of that place. Deepest Appalachia’s got nothing on what happens on those fucking reserves.
I was assuming the drunk was related to the locals. I thought that was the reason why you didn’t do much more than dis-arm him.
He was. I wasn’t, hence the rode out of town on a rail thing. They hate white-eyes with a burning fury but…
It sounds like the body count is much lower with no cops around.
The rape, murder and incest rates are through the roof but I can’t see that stationing a cop there would do much good. They’d just spike his tires and make sport of him.
Russian Mission? Is there no end to their meddling?
Adapt. Overcome>
Around 200 “barges, sailboats, and other mostly decrepit vessels” are now being used as an alternative to housing in the city.
“It’s not a free ride. It’s a lot of effort to be out here,” Kristina Weber told the Journal, noting that she had to buy the 54-foot vessel for $15,000 because she could no longer afford the rent for a studio apartment in a town north of San Francisco, which cost $3,000 a month.
The move to live on barges and makeshift boats is also occurring due to housing prices that have made homeownership in the city near-impossible even for fairly well-off residents, thanks to the technology industry boom.
The median price for a single-family home in the San Francisco Bay Area has nearly tripled to $940,000 from $327,000 just 10 years ago, according to the Journal citing the California Association of Realtors.
But as people began moving toward the bay to live there on the boats, a backlash from existing residents ensued.
The neighbors say that with the homeless came crime and poor sanitation, even as the local government is spending millions on programs to contain the problem.
“Who said you could do that?”
“IT WILL TURN THE FROGS GAY“
Or the Koalas anyway.
>>The median price for a single-family home in the San Francisco Bay Area has nearly tripled to $940,000 from $327,000 just 10 years ago, according to the Journal citing the California Association of Realtors.
Dammnnn – good sellers market though.
Here’s what I don’t get – who is looking to buy a million dollar shipping crate in a literal shithole?
Look, just because nobody will pay a million dollars for something doesn’t mean it’s not worth a million dollars.
*touches earpiece*
Oh. I’m being told that’s exactly what it means.
Money launderers?
It’s like the story of the poor guy selling pencils for a million dollars during the Depression. When asked if it was harder to convince someone to pay a million bucks for a pencil, he replied, “Sure, but I’ve only got to sell one!”
THE DREAM OF WATERWORLD IS UPON US!
Sigh. That lie just won’t die, will it?
Jim Bakkers’s still alive and grifting? Good for him, I was thinking he died years ago for some reason.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown, a writer for the libertarian magazine Reason
If you say so.
There are four words in that sentence you could be referring to.
I think everyone is being to sensitive about Ayn Rand being called Far-Right. She was radical. And I think she would have taken exception with being called just another moderate right wing thinker.
“’I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York’s skyline.’
It’s like that joke from Roxanne. “I’d rather be here with you today than some of the best people in the world.”
My understanding is that she rejected any kind of left-right political paradigm; though I agree that she would have laughed and/or gotten pissed off at the characterization. She had no interest in being part of any conventional movement, she wanted to transform politics and the way people thought.
I’d agree but we all know what the connotation is here: that she’s a racist Nazi.
^^^THIS^^^
Speaking of Connecticut- apparently a group of concerned citizens is pleading with the state government to raise their taxes.
Justice will prevail.
That’s awfully nice of them. Something tar something feathers
Until they start voluntarily donating money to the government, they’re a bunch of hypocritical pussies.
And add tolls, because ROOOOOADZZZZ
I recently saw an add – paid for by tax payers even – telling the citizens of “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” that they should lobby their state government to bring back the toll booths (the very ones they promised to get rid of and never bring back if we let them get a very short term/temporary state income tax in place almost 3 decades ago) because these would mostly hit people traveling through our state and bring much needed revenue they promise this time to use to fix roads even though, like the current gas tax intended to be used to fix roads but being used by programs intended to buy votes from those that vote for a living, this money too will go into the general fund.
These cunts have no fucking shame.
Same as hotel and car rental taxes. Pols love to use them to pay for shit that is completely out of scope for govt (stadiums) because they know people won’t object because those taxes mostly hit people who can’t vote against them.
“I have a plan to rob travelers” would be a much more accurate title for these tax bills.
The problem here your holiness, is that the claim that it will mostly be outsiders that pay these tolls is plain bullshit. Best case scenario studies have shown that around 35-45% of the tolls will be from out of staters. More realistic studies have shown that number is less than 25%. That means the people of the state moving around (going to and from work especially will be fleeced, yet again, AND ALL SO THE POLLS CAN GET MORE MONEY TO GIVE FREE SHIT TO THE LARGE “VOTING FOR A LIVING” BASE THAT KEEPS THEM IN POWER.
And the out-of-staters are usually trucks which just use the tolls in their calculations on the cost of doing business. If the state effectively raises the price of shipping into or out of the state by $20, every carrier is going to raise their freight rate for origins or destinations in the state. So the citizens in the state still wind up paying at least 50% of that.
Also, the net effect is that shippers will leave the state, although I assume Connecticut has pretty much finished chasing all their interstate shippers away years ago. The effect of that is carriers shipping into the state have no chance to pick up any nearby loads so they have to deadhead for a longer distance. That means the rates being charged go up even more due to the added inefficiencies.
It’s funny how government scum and the economists that fellate them always want to talk about “multipliers” on their spending schemes and pretend that there is no multiplier on tax schemes.
Concerned citizens…from what state? And how much are they getting paid?
Citizens of Russia getting paid 970 rubles per hour.
Something that I was unaware of, Trump killed our participation in a UN civilian arms control treaty last month:
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/16/barr-trump-un-gun-control/
Occasionally that lummox manages to get one right.
OK. I can’t pretend I didn’t see that. I will give him 10 points for that.
Oh, the outcry from the left! New Jersey’s Bob Menendez, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wailed that in taking this “disturbing” action, Trump was “[jeopardizing] U.S. security.”
By adhering to the governments founding charter that stipulates that the government cannot disarm the populace?
Restricting civilian possession of firearms only to those “at the lowest risk of misusing them.”
• Limiting sales and other transfers of firearms only to commercial transactions at licensed “sales premises” (in other words, no transfers at gun shows).
• Only persons licensed and periodically re-licensed by the national government could possess firearms.
• All firearms must be registered with the national government
• All persons wishing to possess a firearm must pass a rigorous exam administered by the national government.
• All firearms must be stored in locked containers separate from ammunition, and “bolted to a heavy or immovable object.”
• Only a pre-determined number of firearms and rounds of ammunition may be possessed by a properly licensed civilian.
• Magazine capacity is limited to 10 rounds.
• No firearm could be possessed before at least a seven-day waiting period.
• No civilian could own or possess a firearm for self-defense unless they first demonstrate a clear and convincing need.
• Individuals licensed to own firearms are subject to periodic and random inspections of their homes or businesses
• In order to be granted a license to possess a firearm, an individual must secure recommendations from “responsible members of society,” attesting to their “suitability to possess a small arm.”
None of those provisions would be legal for the US government to enforce.
Molon labe, motherfuckers.
RE: “Baby bust”.
I’m convinced that the only reason this gets any attention at all (not just here, but in Europe and Japan) is that the liars and cheats that run our respective countries know they need their tax cattle to keep breeding so that their pathetic Ponzi scheme programs don’t die quite as quickly. One can safely consider anything coming from a mainstream outlet to be some variety of agitprop, and it’s pretty obvious our pond scum “leaders” are displeased that their livestock are not producing enough product.
The funny thing is, like the Soviets, I expect prog-socs to eventually flip on a dime and support banning abortion for just this reason; maybe in 50 years or so. Open borders will also become a necessity not for transforming the ideology of the electorate (by then it will already be complete) but to desperately try and provide enough grist for the mill to keep the whole clown show going.
You are correct in your assumption that these people speaking with forked tongues – on the one hand they tell you not to breed and make kids because they kill Gaia, and on the other they are panicking because they need tax payers to prop up the Ponzi schemes – are concerned only in so far as what this means for the lucrative system of power they have created and what it means for their prospects of keeping both power and wealth for themselves.
The best part is the new standard income tax deduction does away with deductions for “dependents”. Will only accelerate the collapse of the ponzi schemes, just have the figure out how to survive the resulting shitshow.
‘Open borders will also become a necessity not for transforming the ideology of the electorate (by then it will already be complete) but to desperately try and provide enough grist for the mill to keep the whole clown show going.’
Do as the Romans do.
Same dynamic as smoking. Publicly they will decry the evils of tobacco and lament that anyone is addicted to cigs, but at night they go to sleep thanking doG for making something so addictive that they can raise taxes as high as they want.
It is one of the reasons they are so anti-vaping. They haven’t figured out how to get their cut of money from that yet.
“In the 60 years since Alaska became a state, some Alaska Native leaders say, a string of governors and Legislatures have failed to protect indigenous communities by creating an unconstitutional, two-tiered criminal justice system that leaves villagers unprotected compared with their mostly white counterparts in the cities and suburbs.
I thought the reservations were sovereign nations, responsible for their own governance and law enforcement.
But what do I know?
You know nothing, Jon Snowball.
My life in sex: the man who goes to cuddle parties
Alternate Headline:
“Area Man Has Never Seen a Vulva Up Close”
“Area Man Has Never Seen a Human Vulva Up Close.”
FIFY
“Area Man Has Never Seen a Live Human Vulva Up Close”
The last time this dude had pussy is when pussy had him…..
It’s like they think they invented orgy’s
Orgies*
That is just… pathetic.
::gives Tonio a big man hug::
Buy a pacifier or get a security blanket, Linus.
Jesus Christ on toast. Personal boundaries, Man!
Cuddling is great. I really enjoy cuddling a lot. It’s a great way to rest up after the third round and gather energy for rounds four and five.
That’s how you humblebrag.
I guessed it was the Guardian before I hovered.
What do I win?
A subscription to The Guardian?
Meanwhile the mailman is “cuddling” with his wife…
“People make long lines like spoons nesting in a drawer…”
What happens when one guy needs to flip over to his other side? Does the whole line do it?
Floor Fighting?
I LOL’d. That’s great.
Cuddle parties. JFC. Clearly masculinity isn’t toxic enough.
Wasn’t it just yesterday that someone linked that cuddle parties are just strip clubs for male feminists?
Trump is going nuts on Twitter. Even for him.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
The man’s on a Diet Coke bender! Someone take his keys!
Thanks for monitoring Twitter so we don’t have to.
I don’t make the rules. Just following what society pukes up.
” acid washed ”
I’m pretty sure those are jeans.
Or Hendrix headbands.
Ho boy, it’s time to give the Hat his heroin fix.
The Hat has got ahold of the twitter-maker again!
Crooked Hillary deleted and acid washed 33,000 emails AFTER getting a most powerful demand notice for them from Congress?
AKA permanently deleted documents under subpoena. The man has a strange way with words…
Trump really needs to stop making his main Twitter photo Brazzers-worthy.
Or, in this case, Men.com-worthy.
Brozzers
Would Ellizabeth Nolan Brown make a sammich for her husband’s boyfriend?
Inquiring minds, et c.
Of course not. Her husband would make a sandwich for a snack after she and his boyfriend are finished having sex.
[hearty applause]
I think he has some clean up duties to attend to first.
An intersectionality LSAT question.
‘That’s a lot of empty kindergarten rooms’
So you’re saying schools need more funding.
Chicago is a bunch of lame copycats. The NoDaks already did this kill & cut bit. And to really rack up Glib points, that same story also ties into a second story (that I read) in the links. The boyfriend in the story was doing his very best to get that birth rate up.
*BTW, the victim in the Fargo story was an Indian woman, and I think they trump Mexicans in victimhood points.
Depends how much Native American the Mexican is.
Friday Funbags provide teaser material for you to overcome your disgust, do your duty and impregnate your wife. No matter how distasteful you find it.
https://thechive.com/2019/05/16/its-a-very-very-squishy-world-46-photos/
6, 18, 33. Lots of nice and comfy squishy there, Q. Much love.
Wow the level of stupidity of this girl.
https://youtu.be/07bjyxgxG94
She’s doing a real good job persuading me she’s in the right.
An officer that seems to understand property rights. Good on him.
I remember a professor at a different school stealing a similar sign a few years ago, and I don’t think anything happened to her.
Did You steal his sign?
Ummm… I was right until you showed up. Now I just moved it.
Her reactions are just delicious.
She’s a child. Emotionally at least.
I have more respect for the ones that own up to what they did even if they don’t regret it.
Precisely. She responded the exact same way my nine year old does when I catch her redhanded doing something she isn’t supposed to be doing.
“I was gonna give it back.”
That’s just embarrassing.
At least when she mouths idiocies like this it is obvious she knew what she was doing was wrong…
She bought the Marxist horseshit her profs have been shoveling. Those are her values. She can’t understand why the cops aren’t beating the shit out of the people she disagrees with.
Have fun chick.
That’s prime first Wife material, right there. *Festus thinks back to his early 20’s and ruefully cracks another beer*
Her parents must be so proud.
Hopefully this will be an important life lesson teaching her tolerance and respect for other peoples property, and right to expre – *cracks up*
Couldn’t do it with a straight face.
Can we get that cop his own reality show?
RE, bail bondsman: Sounds serious. Good luck.
FIRST NAME NOT STEVE
Arizona woman escapes ‘sex dungeon,’ forced to sleep in a cage, police say
“forced the woman to sign a contract that required her to sleep in the cage while wearing a shock collar”
Ultimate alpha move.
Also, Arizona Man has been giving Florida Man a run for his money lately.
Maybe it is me, but I am not sure what sort of pleasure on derives from this sort of shit.
Me, either. And this is an ethical problem for me. People at the far end of the BDSM scene are no-shit psychopaths.
Tonio, I will never feel I have the need/right to tell consenting adults what they can or can’t do with each other, but I will agree with you that the extreme BDSM people seriously challenge my resolve to mind my own fucking business when it comes to this stuff.
It kind of goes back to the question of if you can sell yourself into slavery. Personally, if everyone is a willing participant (and have safe words and such set up), it’s none of my business.
The pleasure of having power over another person is way more satisfying than sex to some.
STEVE SMITH LIKE BOTH
Is that like sport fucking then?
Because you are not a sadist Alex.
That’s correct Suthen, but usually I can put myself in other people’s shoes and try to understand their motivations. Not in this case.
Smith’s home had a BDS-style dungeon
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar drop their panties and swoon
Picking up homeless women? Classy.
I suspect that these are the sort of people who tend to drift into things like this. Most people need to hold down a job.
I have to drive down the stroll on the way to work and it’s just heartbreaking. That’s someone’s Grand-daughter.
Being homeless at the time
Homeless chicks have cell phones?
From the nothing left to cut department: Inmate runs prostitution ring from jail.
Short story, cops nab a hooker and finds out her pimp is currently in jail a hundred miles away. Her cell phone has tons of texts from him telling her who to go bang and where to send money.
Kicker:
Uffda.
This pimp needs to be honored by some chamber of commerce. He was being productive despite government getting in the way.
A pimp’s SMS is different than that of a a square.
Where is your slide show?
U-P-G-R-A-Y-D-D, spelled thusly. The double D is for a double dose of his pimping.
Is he Dutch or something?
It was just a cuddle party!
I like the Japanese approach:
Osaka’s Tobita Shinchi red light district to be closed for G20 summit to ‘avoid causing disruption’
Cause those elite cucks would just “gum up” the works?
the jokes write themselves.
Fish tacos are like the Hawaiian pizza of tacos just as trans women are, well, not women.
If you don’t like fried fish with chiles, sauce and pickled vegetables, I’m afraid there’ not much hope for you.
Ocasio-Cortez confronts CEO for nearly $2K price tag on HIV drug that costs $8 in Australia
Can anyone find actual facts on this? The media does a terrible job of that. How much of the research was subsidized by the government? The generic is $8 in Australia, I presume that is after government subsidation?
Are those eight real dollars, or eight Aussie dollars?
USD, but payable in Koala pelts.
Relevant context is racist, sexist, and probably homophobic, you bigot.
One is the name-brand under patent protection, Aussie have generic…at least what he responded to her.
Climate Change and the New Age of Extinction
Most species of NA critters populations are up. There are probably more white tail deer alive today than have lived at all over the last 10K years. our alterations to the environment benefits some species and others not so much.
eventy-five million acres of “primary or recovering forest” have been destroyed.
Is this like the “x amount of forest has been harvested!” thing where much/most of it has regrown or been planted?
Hard to say what they mean, since I can’t be bothered to track down their definition. But they probably consider primary forest as previously unharvested forest (at least by modern humans) and recovering as second (or third, etc.) growth forest. The destroying definition is also likely to include harvest with actual deforestation, which is replacing forest with something else on a relative permanent basis. Think parking lots or agriculture. It’s propaganda with a kernel of truth.
Also, 75 million acres is roughly the size of Arizona or New Mexico.
The forests of Arizona and New Mexico are splendid.
I agree. Some of my favorite forests. Generally brush free and open for pleasant hiking.
…wait, you were making a funny again, right?
Only partly, I knew that there are some forests there, but that the states are widely known for being rather deserty.
Here are your bonus tits since I may or may not be around for my article later.
http://archive.li/RlpAX
Please go off topic as quickly as possible. Better yet, don’t read it at all and skip straight to discussions of rare tropical diseases and/or that time in college when you puked on a girl’s nethers while attempting to provide oral sex.
Wait…how’d you find out about that story? Who told you?
You know what is grosser than Raph puking in that girl’s nethers after eating an entire can of mixed veggies?
The poor bastard who was with her later that night who licked a few peas and carrots out of her snatch.
But you soldiered through and finished the job.
I was raised to always clean my plate.
That last paragraph, Q, totes beautiful. I’ll try to do you proud.
First of all, it was high school, and second of all, I didn’t know that hyperextending your tongue would trigger the gag reflex.
I was gonna go with the story wherein the girl puked on me but your’s is better.
“Grumpy Cat is DEAD: World mourns as internet’s most famous feline passes away aged seven after amassing a $100MILLION fortune and sparking countless memes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7040569/Internet-sensation-Grumpy-Cat-passes-away.html
Wait… people gave them actual money?
Only 7? Was it grumpy because it had an underlying medical issue that eventually killed it?
Oh it’s in the article probably should read it next time. Derp
Inbred animals don’t often live long.
I’m failing to see how 80,000 individuals results in an inbred population, unless the Koalas never leave the tree in which they were born.
Ah crap, I mistook this for the other story.
Sorry.
In the story I linked, they claimed that their populations have become disconnected and they live in isolated pockets.
Grumpy Koala.
“Owner Tabatha then quit her job as a waitress at Red Lobster to manage Grumpy’s career and said the phone ‘never stopped ringing’ from then on in. “
$100,000,000.
Even if that’s bullshit, they won a $750,000 lawsuit.
I don’t think she needs to pick up any more shifts at the Red Lobster.
Never heard of the cat, the fame, the movie (?!). Feh, some people just fall into money.
“Mother, daughter and boyfriend are charged in the murder of a pregnant Chicago teen whose baby boy was CUT from her in sickening ‘womb raider’ plot – as the child fights for life in hospital
Clarisa Figueroa, 46, is the alleged mastermind of the murder plot
A woman, her 24-year-old daughter and her husband have been charged in the murder of a pregnant teenager who was found strangled behind their home on Wednesday after having her baby boy ripped from her belly in a sickening, womb-raiding plot they allegedly hatched over the course of several months.
Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her daughter Desiree Figueroa, 24, have been charged with the murder of Marlen Ochoa-Uriostequi and with the aggravated battery of Marlen’s baby boy who is fighting for his life in the hospital after being cut from her womb once she was dead.
All three are due in court for bond hearings on Friday.
According to neighbors, all three lived in the basement of the house which belongs to Clarisa’s parents, Jose, 70, and Angelita, 60.
Marlen had been missing since April 23 when she went to meet Clarisa after meeting on a Facebook group for women in need. Clarisa claimed she was also pregnant and offered to give the young married mother free baby clothes.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7038903/Woman-46-three-charged-killing-pregnant-Chicago-teen-womb-raider-plot.html
That is just awful.
What’s a womb raider plot, they keep the baby and say it’s theirs?
I assume so.
Yeah, someone should have put that story into the links this morning.
Poor OMWC! “I never get no respect!”
Slacker
Huh, apparently she didn’t explain it all.
“Bill de Blasio isn’t his real name, he’s a climate fanatic who takes three SUVs to the gym and his wife was a lesbian until they got together: inside the weird world of Trump’s new 6’5″ rival”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7038253/Inside-weird-world-Bill-Blasio-latest-Democrat-challenge-Trump.html
Haven’t they been perpetually unhinged since November, 2016 anyway?
The bill prohibits abortion except when the life of the mother is in jeopardy or the unborn child has a “lethal anomaly.” The bill makes it a felony for doctors to perform or attempt to perform an abortion.
In her statement, Ivey acknowledged that the law might not be constitutional under the Supreme Court’s notorious 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. But she noted that the bill’s sponsors hope the bill will prompt the court to revisit this issue…
Before the decision, the issue of abortion was the prerogative of the individual states, determined democratically by their duly elected representatives. The court’s fiat was not only erroneous on its face; it tyrannically divested the authority of the states. This federal judicial travesty sparked national acrimony over abortion. Judicial tyranny, where it occurs, is just as bad as executive despotism.
Here we are almost 50 years later, and the court still hasn’t overturned Roe. But when any of the sovereign states dares to pass a law outside Roe’s parameters, liberals become unhinged, huffing hysterically about the state’s audacity to deviate from the court’s ruling.
Yet every day, liberals around the nation enact measures they know violate existing constitutional precedent with the undisguised intent that they serve as test cases and that courts, under relentless pressure from their activism, will change the law. When liberals do it, it’s noble activism; when conservatives do it, it’s anarchy.
The Guardian, for example, framed the Alabama law in racial and gender terms. Why not? That’s what liberals do. It’s almost all they know anymore. “These 25 Republicans — all white men — just voted to ban abortion in Alabama,” the headline reads. The law, according to the article, “will disproportionately affect black and poor women, because they are more likely to seek abortions, and less likely to have resources to obtain an abortion out-of-state.”
Why do leftists hate black babies?
Margaret Sanger has got to be having a load of giggles wherever she is.
Why the fuck don’t people just mind their own business? You do your thing, I’ll do mine and stay the fuck off my property.
I like the assumption that the fathers don’t give a shit.
I have no idea who this is.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7038751/Christina-Milian-flaunts-toned-abs-pert-derriere-tiny-mint-green-bikini.html
She had a few hits about 15 years ago. Haven’t heard that name in a long time. She’s a pretty good looking chickie,
I don’t know either, but she’s got a nice bootay.
I don’t think the writers at The Daily Mail know what the definition of “pert” is.
Yeah I wouldn’t kick her out of bed but there’s a bit of “brain ass” starting there.
That’s a new one! We used to call it “cottage cheese bum”.
I mean “pert” should be referenced for ballet dancers.
“Pert” used to mean the ballet dancers and gymnasts bums. Small, tightly muscled and forever out of reach. I’ll be in my bunk.
Well that was odd. Retarded squirrel?
You and I think alike Festus.
For you
A lot of thin women even have that. It depends on their skin more than fat, etc.
She should fire her PR person for having the Daily Fail post unretouched photos.
Train wreck
The state has only about $20 billion available for the project at this time, far short of the estimated $77 billion it would take to complete it.
Newsom has characterized Trump’s threats to the project as retribution against California for resisting various Trump administration policies.
It’s good to know they have their priorities straight. It’s not like a paltry sum like 77 billion dollars might be put to better use elsewhere.
Especially when you have some of the worst public schools in the country
A train nobody wants connecting places nobody wants to go that nobody will ride.
Cut your losses Governor Dipshit.
How much poop could San Francisco pack onto that train?
None, the train doesn’t go near San Fransisco.
It does connect places people want to go, but not at the choo choo price or speed.
How many of you who sit and judge me have rode the train from Bakersfield?
… I rode the train to Bakersfield.
I then tried to figure out why the tracks ended.
In Bakersfield’s defense, the road into their airport is Merle Haggard Drive.
I have.
The people that donated to his campaign are expecting to get paid. So this boondoggle will keep going to the bitter end.
For that kind of dough they could build a city for Cali’s homeless and give them a healthy ration of King Cobra every day. At least that would have a positive effect that people could see.
So many states live paycheck to paycheck. We really need some minimum taxation revenue.
Nonsense, just take away the credit cards, pare down the spending to just the basics, and bitch-slap anyone who suggests spending on anything else.
Newsom is an authoritarian prick. He violates the law and the limits on his power as an executive far more than Trump yet for some strange reason, he never gets called out on it.
Chile – Venezuela
Warning: Spanish.
What’s Spanish for “Helicopter rides”?
Veultas en El Helicoptero
waka waka waka
*golf clap*
LOL, first response, “it’s not socialism”.
From the Totality of Circumstances desk:
City Attorney Tom Carr said firing Smyly would have led to a drawn-out appeal and potentially allowed him to keep his job.
Under the agreement, Smyly resigned his police role on May 9 but will remain an employee through February without performing any work. He will receive “commensurate pay and benefits” during that period and “a single, lump sum” payment for any accrued and unused vacation time when his employment officially ends Feb. 9.
Carr said the resignation agreement “allowed the city to provide the community information more quickly, and it transitioned Officer Smyly out of a law enforcement career.” The city’s bargaining agreement with police officers requires an appeal for any disciplinary action and could have allowed Smyly to return to duty, he added.
Serve and protect, motherfucker.
*I’m going to make you read the story to find out why Noble Officer Smyly was encouraged to seek another line of work.
Too lenient but at least they got rid of the guy.
Trespassers are known to pick up trash around the premises where they are trespassing. If you guys were cops and not civilians, you might know that.
They (cops) would try to take you through the legal wringer even if you shot someone and it was apparently justified.
“…“commensurate pay and benefits” during that period and “a single, lump sum”…”
If I had been involved in drafting that agreement the small print would set the “lump sum” at 15 Fijian dollars. (Basically, a paltry sum in an obscure currency with less value than the cost to convert it into something useful)
Hint: highly trained, qualified, et c. Not like some panicky civilian.
I’d love to have a new GT500, but once again I’m reminded why I’m not a fan of modern vehicles and I’m willing to put up with the weaknesses of old designs.
How Ford Made the Mustang Shelby GT500 the Right Kind of Loud
Active noise cancellation is a wonderful thing, but this new trend of adding “vroom, vroom” sounds through the “infotainment” system is not where I thought the automobile was going. Mind you I won’t refuse a next generation mid-engine Corvette or the flat plane crank Mustang GT350, but it doesn’t invoke the emotion that older and simpler automobiles have for me.
I’ve gone from rebuilding and hopping up Ford 302s in Fox bodied Mustangs in high school to a guy that owns and enjoys a Tesla Model 3,
Ja – when BMW started piping in engine noises…. sigh.
Question – can you turn that off?
Not easily – at least for the BMW you have to bypass a plug, or do a computer code change.
The idea is to order the car with spoked wheels. Then you get a couple of clothespins and some baseball cards…
I vaguely remember clipping some plastic thing on my bicycle that made a variety of different sounds all driven by the spinning wheel.
I’m not sure I see the problem. They’re trying to undo the problem caused by the government fuel efficiency mandates.
Certainly it’s not as stupid as John Kerry forcing Toyota to emit fake sounds from the Prius because it’s too quiet.
Yes and no. Some of it is done just for marketing purposes and the effect.
Some of it could be because the most efficient designs produce noises that are annoying.
I’m not sure how to think about the fake sounds on electric cars. Given the amount of brain dead texting fools in NYC crossing the street I get the reasoning, but I’m not sure that we shouldn’t let Darwin work his magic… I believe Toyota added this voluntarily, I seemed to recall reading that it won’t be mandatory for a few more years.
I heard it was more due to organizations for the blind and visually impaired raising a stink.
Good point!
Naturally I don’t believe they standardized the sound. So the visually impaired will have to learn all the various tones. Some make “swooshing” sounds whereas the latest Audi makes something more like a traditional internal combustion motor.
Eventually it will be mandated music from a list including “L’internationale” and various Pete Seeger songs.
The Fisker-Karma pedestrian alert noise is particularly weird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQgz0YdbIPk
A guy at my brother’s yacht club* has a Fisker-Karma – beautiful car, I think he bought it 6 months before they went out of business.
*sounds snootier than it is – parking lot is a mix of work trucks and luxury cars. It’s a nice mix, very few douchbags.
Just read the Alabama abortion law – J.F.C.
(6) SERIOUS HEALTH RISK TO THE UNBORN CHILD’S MOTHER. In reasonable medical judgment, the child’s mother has a condition that so complicates her medical condition that it necessitates the termination of her pregnancy to avert her death or to avert serious risk of substantial physical impairment of a major bodily function.
Stupid Party living up to its name.
like from having to go pee every 10 minutes?
Who actually writes this shit?
It’s a must-read – bonus points for mentioning the Holocaust, Khmer Rouge, Gulags and Rwandan genocide as justification.
Are you saying there is a ‘you know who else liked abortion?’ clause?
From the actual law:
It is estimated that 6,000,000 Jewish people were murdered in German concentration camps during World War II; 3,000,000 people were executed by Joseph Stalin’s regime in Soviet gulags; 2,500,000 people were murdered during the Chinese “Great Leap Forward” in 1958; 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 people were murdered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia during the 1970s; and approximately 1,000,000 people were murdered during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. All of these are widely acknowledged to have been crimes against humanity. By comparison, more than 50 million babies have been aborted in the United States since the Roe decision in 1973, more than three times the number who were killed in German death camps, Chinese purges, Stalin’s gulags, Cambodian killing fields, and the Rwandan genocide combined.
Yeah, it’s a doozy. The thing is, the law itself even acknowledges that it, like existing Alabama law banning abortion in the absence of medical necessity, is unenforceable because of Roe. It specifically says that the point is to force a challenge in the Supreme Court.
Not exactly, the text notes the current law is unenforceable as it criminalizes abortion. The new law does not hold a woman criminally culpable or civilly liable, hence the potential SCOTUS challenge.
I have always respected the pro-life movement, although I do not share their views. In general, I’m not disturbed by the so-called heartbeat bills (including the recently passed Iowa law), but I find the Alabama law reprehensible.
Wouldn’t the evidence to convict the doctor necessarily violate the privacy of the patient, which is the crux of the Roe decision to begin with? IANAL, obviously, but based on what I’ve read I’m not seeing where the difference exists beyond who would be charged.
I’m with you as to the rest. Personally I think the heartbeat bills might go too far; I’m more comfortable with setting the limit to 24 weeks. But really, my main gripe is with the 14th Amendment. It doesn’t seem appropriate here, and it certainly hasn’t done anything to settle the debate.
At my kid’s awards for school yesterday a young man was dressed as trump…down to the USA hat….I applaud his trolling
’d love to have a new GT500
I want one of those flat-crank 5.0s. You can keep the Mustang. I’ll find something to put it in.
So yesterday I had the good fortune to be with a client who insisted on representing himself.
Which means he had to tell the judge he’d prefer to be self-represented. He had to (of course) say it in latin, which he didn’t do well.
The judge started to ask him legal questions, like, “how many jurors can you excuse when you select a jury?” Client (of course) answers “I don’t know.”
Judge : “I see by your criminal history you have seven prior felonies, did you represent yourself in those?” Client: No, I didn’t.
On the plus side, client didn’t try to throw me under the bus and say I hadn’t done a good job representing him.
Sigh. . . . I can’t wait to have a trial with this bozo.
It sucks hanging with the lowest of the low. I hope you at least make some good coin for that gig, Sister!
So only this time per se he was pro se?
*Looks at watch, wonders how long Elspeth will stay in criminal defense*
Property lawyer (oil leases, land, timber, timber sales, land sales, title research) that I use easily rakes in 1/4M per year. Good lawyer too….if you can catch him sober.
Bless you for doing the right thing, even when you have to deal with morons like this. You should ask idiots like this if they demand to fly the airplane they booked a commercial flight on or to do their own brain surgery, and see if maybe this sinks in…
Mehr. If it goes wrong he can just file a writ of hocus pocus.
Tom Teknos, who leads the noise, vibration and harshness team for Ford Performance vehicles.
I wonder if he’s the guy responsible for making those big turbodiesel Ford pickups sound exactly like a toilet flushing on the upshifts.
Why the fuck don’t people just mind their own business? You do your thing, I’ll do mine and stay the fuck off my property.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Captain Anarchy.
What are you, some sort of Somali pirate warlord?
Just Epictetus
NNNNNOOO
Grumpy Cat dies aged seven: ‘Some days are grumpier than others’
Where are the pics/memes with the corpse?
https://giphy.com/gifs/ostrich-6vwq0wHrKBi6I
An interesting interview with Michael Franzese, a former made mafia guy (~30 min):
https://youtu.be/zc1YM9fNATQ
It’s entertaining stuff, the guy’s a good storyteller.
He was even mentioned in Goodfellas, in the famous scene where Henry Hill’s voiceover introduces all his wiseguy associates. Another bit of trivia from that scene: the guy introduced as “Fat Andy” was played by a retired NYC cop named Louis Eppolito, who was trying to break into the entertainment business. Years later, Eppolito and his former partner were convicted of working for the mob, including several hits.
I can’t help but like the guy…it’d be a pleasure to have my legs broken by him.
Trespassers are known to pick up trash around the premises where they are trespassing. If you guys were cops and not civilians, you might know that.
The guy had a stick.With a NAIL in it! Unimaginably lethal.
I can’t imagine why adopting the policies of Europe over its own historical culture would make Switzerland less appealing.
Decent Matt Walsh tweet, labeled as hate speech by Facebook:
Not so good Matt Walsh tweet:
That’s some fine logic there Lou.
He must have been drunk when he posted that one.
I suspect he was NOT drunk… He would have known better if he was drunk…
I’ve already lived through enough flare ups in the abortion debate to not even need to pay attention anymore. TL;DR version. “It’s a baby!” “No, it isn’t.” All the other stuff is meaningless.
Now do Israelis-Palestinians.
“I was here first!”
Awesome. It’s like an adult version of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.
I picked up a copy of Mad the other day while waiting at the checkout. Foldin was still on the back cover but the rest of it seemed emptier. Or I’m no longer 11 years old.
You sure that wasn’t Buttigeig’s autobiography?
See, now that’s humor!
“But you left!”
Basically. I think it’s easier to avoid demonizing either side if you come to grips with that. If you believe that a fetus is a person then abortion is necessarily murder; of course you’d be against it. If you don’t, then abortion is a medical procedure that ends a woman’s pregnancy before the fetus has finished becoming a person; that’s an intensely personal matter involving a woman’s decision to continue her efforts as part of the process of creating another person. As passionate as both sides understandably get, I don’t think it’s useful to break it down to a case of baby-killing nihilst sluts versus misogynistic, totalitarian religious zealots.
I always misread that dude’s name as Matt Welch to begin with. Then I realize that there is no way Welch would say anything that ballsy.
Same here
I was picturing this guy and was confused.
Ha, ha! I guess I count as incredibly geeky cause I believe I have even linked that Sammy clip here at one point. I’m a pretty big fan of his though, the man was an unbelievable talent. If any of you hep cats haven’t seen the PBS documentary about him that showed recently it was really good.
You’re incredibly geeky. Here’s a virtual cookie.
*nom, nom, nom*
I liked it – I had no idea he was a real percussionist. The shot at Sinatra was funny, too!
Tommy Pischedda : Excuse me… are you reading “Yes I Can”?
Limo Groupie : Yeah, have you read it?
Tommy Pischedda : Yeah, by Sammy Davis, Jr.?
Limo Groupie : Yeah.
Tommy Pischedda : You know what the title of that book should be? “Yes, I Can If Frank Sinatra Says It’s OK”. ‘Cause Frank calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh… Sammy is coming out of the Copa… it’s about 3 o’clock in the morning and, uh, he sees Frank? Frank’s walking down Broadway by himself…
[Nigel raises the limo partition]
Sinatra was a real asshole to Sammy, which is not really surprising I guess.
Is there anyone Sinatra wasn’t a real asshole to?
Marty DiBergi : You know, Frank Sinatra, it’s a different world that they’re in.
Tommy Pischedda : You know, it’s just that people like this… you know… they get all they want so they really don’t understand, you know… about a life like Frank’s. I mean, when you’ve loved and lost the way Frank has, then you, uh, you know what life’s about.
I have a special edition of “This is Spinal Tap” and there is probably another 5 to 8 minutes of Joe Pesci that didn’t make the film.
Bruno Kirby?
Drat! That’s right.
My cat ate a spider this morning. I killed it with a shoe and he ate it as I was getting tissue to pick it up. Both of them eat insects when they catch them, but spiders have venom. Idk if I should be worried about it.
You need to feed your cat to an old woman.
Gotta go through the horse first, no?
Ha!
I had a cat in Austin who liked to kill and eat the little scorpions. It never seemed to do him any harm. He would toss those fucking things around until they were in pieces and then munch the pieces.
One of my cats is so gentle that when he catches a spider he just kind of corrals it and every once in awhile licks it. After it stops being a fun playmate he eats it. He’s an awesome Kitteh!
My cats won’t eat bugs. They’ll bat them around for awhile but just leave the corpses for me to find.
That wasn’t a cat it was a honey badger.
Snake! It’s a Snake!
If you ever want to see some prime disappointment you should watch him break a moth-toy. Remember those balsa wood gliders that lasted about 15 minutes?
My balsa wood gliders (and rubber band powered) planes usually had a rocket assist, in the form of a bottle rocket with the explosive part cut off.
I’ve never seen a scorpion in the wild. Vinegaroons, sometimes.
Wow, shouldn’t have looked for pictures of that on the Internet. That…was a mistake. At least I know what I’ll be having nightmares about for the next couple of days.
They’re nasty looking but harmless. Unless you got it in the eyes, maybe.
Cats are natural predators to scorpions…thats why we have one lovong in Vegas. Otherwise she is useless
I had a dog nearly die from eating a spider. Apparently it is not terribly uncommon for dogs to die from that. I have no idea about cats but I would keep an eye on the cat.
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason. – Thomas Sowell
You know, this guy was absolutely prescient.
Chris Cillizza being dense again.
Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
Carter Page, via FISA warrant that was approved and then re-approved 3 times by by a FISA court, was surveilled because the FBI had reason to believe he was being targeted by the Russians and was susceptible to those entreaties.
Do you think he’s intentionally missing the point or is he really that stupid?
https://twitter.com/CillizzaCNN/status/1129362636070629379
Accidental reply, but it works will WD’s post anyways.
https://youtu.be/zu0rP2VWLWw
I can’t wait for the scene where Cillizza tells me, “I now know why you cry.”
And here’s the scary thing, Cillizza is someone at the top of the journalism profession. Thousands of people take him as a significant voice on the topic of politics.
If you understand that like too many others he feels his job isn’t t tell the news but advance the team blue narrative and hide anything that hurts that while lying about how bad the other team is, then it becomes obvious why he does what he does (and others too).
Intentionally stupid.
For his sake I hope it’s intentional.
It’s intentional, but he thinks he is actually being clever and manipulating the stupid proles.
Yes.
OT Fun Fact:
Bde Maka Ska is Dakota for Lake Calhoun!
It’s ‘Lakota’ shitlord.
They are doing this here, too. They changed the name of our largest park where the city was born to something unpronounceable and everyone still calls it “The Park”.
In my fantasy somebody from the tribe brings out their 92-year-old grand-dad to see the lake and gramps (who actually grew up speaking Lakota) asks – “Why did you call it Lake hemorrhoid?”
My hero:
Duluth’s 97-year-old hockey legend Mark Sertich keeps on skating
One of the guys I skate with is 73. Amazing to think he may still have 20+ more years on the ice.
nobody thought they’d be covering his expenses for the next 18 years.
So, is he Scottish or Jewish?
Why not both, like me?
Scewish?
We prefer the term “frugal”.
Show me that gold or I am not believing you are!
I’m not a fucking leprechaun, mate!
Ok, you got me, yes, I am.
still skating 3Xs a week! awesome stache too.
I don’t know if you looked through the pics, but he carries an old-school bag and still jumps the boards. Unreal.
clone his hip genes.
That’s awesome!
Voxsplanatory
Fortunately, Thunberg is just one of many great minds helping us summon moral clarity to address the tricky problem of framing the climate crisis. That includes the writers David Wallace-Wells, George Monbiot, and Anand Giridharadas; the historian Jill Lepore; and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), among many others.
As we dump more carbon into the atmosphere and the planet cooks, their arguments about what we’re up against — and why we must act now — are essential to cutting through the ties that keep us quiescent.
Great minds, indeed. I am humbled by their omniscience.
The tricky problem of framing the climate crisis. Uh huh.
As the planet cooks. I am sure it is tricky as the thermometers don’t seem to notice that cooking part.
Bigger liars: Warmistas or gun grabbers?
(the only correct answer is ‘yes’)
Take a wild guess what the real reason is.
They don’t want to be caught on camera visiting their mistress’s apartments?
Bull-fucking-shit. No self-respecting MENA person is going to wear a purple and black keffiyeh.
Related to OMWC’s baby-snatchers story; Gloria Allred is an idiot:
Yes, Gloria, it is a real shame that in the Trump era there are no laws against murdering pregnant women.
Or that the murdering in this case was done by what seems to be illegals?
That Vox climate article is a treasure trove of dumb arguments:
As Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, has explained, “win-win” growth often hides a very dark logic. In practice, it means that poverty can only be reduced if the rich also make money from it. In a world that recognizes the realities of resource limits, we have to make more moral trade-offs that don’t favor the interests of today’s rich and powerful.
If the rising tide lifts all boats, we’re just going to have to torpedo some of them. For justice.
if you have the power to decide and enforce a “moral trade-off”, then you are one of today’s powerful. tomorrow you may be shot (see: Rohm) but today you are what you despise.
Would it be wrong to have this clip running on a loop, with their eyes taped-open, a’la the Ludovico Technique?
Thunberg is just one of many great minds
That’s far as I made it.
News you can use – during a party I found out that my born-in-Sweden neighbor is 5’8″-ish but she has a 34″ inch inseam. It’s like spider legs when she walks.
Legs all day. Nice. Is she hot?
She’s knocking on 40, a little out of shape and has her blonde hair cropped medium short. I bet she was really cute back in the day; some working out and makeup would help now.
But her personality – Type A doesn’t even begin to describe her – would put me off.
I hear ya
Au pair?
You develop a vision of politics that puts ordinary people at the center and gives them a tangible stake in the country’s future, a share in its enormous wealth, and a role to play in its greater purpose. Then organize people around that vision and demand it from elected representatives. If elected representatives don’t push for it, make sure they get primaried or defeated. If you want bipartisanship, get it because politicians in purple districts and states are scared to cross you, not because you led them to the sweet light of reason.
That’s the only prospect I know of for climate action on a sufficient scale.
this is a cult.
DRINK THE KOOL-AID BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE UNBELIEVERS!
puts ordinary people at the center and gives them a tangible stake in the country’s future, a share in its enormous wealth, and a role to play in its greater purpose
That’s the only prospect I know of for climate action on a sufficient scale.
What a colossal non sequitur.
If by extinct you mean a large number of breeding individuals by the standards of most species, and if by experts you mean grifters who are putting out a bullshit narrative to get suckers to send them money, then sure.
They’re like, literally, like extinct.
“Far-right author Ayn Rand”
*twitches*
Oh, The Inanity!