Summer was delayed here but has finally begun with a vengeance. I’m sitting in my little office sweating like a kosher pig, the roadrunners are walking, the coyotes aren’t even bothering to chase them, Wonder Dog is looking hurt and betrayed that we moved her furry ass here, and my car is actually sinking into the molten asphalt.
So many great birthdays today! They include include a windy rhymer of whacking off lines; my favorite comedian; my first PhD advisor and a guy who was robbed of a Nobel because of politics; a guy who didn’t get robbed of a Nobel but drives worse than I do; an absolutely brilliant cartoonist; the drunkest quarterback ever; and the woman that SP aspires to be.
On to the news.
Shit like this is why I have contempt for Trump. Perhaps Smoot and Hawley came to him in a dream. “You can be the next Hoover!” The concept of “free markets” doesn’t get much traction in the Hat and Hair world.
A good start, but I’m afraid that it will end there as well.
I thought this was The Onion. Nope. There’s no point in even bothering with parody anymore.
Always a fun time here in Arizona!
Hey, Nikki, you’re so fine! Hey, Nikki! Hey, Nikki! Here’s $200,000 for the night!
Gee, Bernie, you’re surprised that a party you don’t want to join doesn’t want you to be their standard-bearer. Huh.
Someone didn’t wrap that rascal. Question: what possible fun is a hickey, anyway? Never understood that.
It would be fitting if he had a pork barrel for a coffin. The usual platitudes will flow. Personally, I’d be happy to piss on his grave.
Sloopy could have probably gotten double the price.
“Because GRE scores are unevenly distributed across race and gender, their use in admissions practices may be filtering underrepresented groups out of physics Ph.D. programs.” So chucking the exam is the proposed solution. Fuck the Chinese, amiright?
Old Guy Music, and it’s natural to question why an urban Jew is so fond of jazz and bluegrass. The answer is, fuck you. Oh, and if you don’t like this, you are clearly an inferior human.
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“Sloopy could have probably gotten double the price.”
So woke…
But the winning bidder would have paid in Confederate dollars.
That looks like a HM avatar there your holiness….
Is that anal fisting?
I think he’s punching an apple.
“Molecules Of U.S. Freedom”
I have to admit I laughed at that.
Brilliant trolling.
It is some good trolling. Could also call it “plant food”.
Have another hit
I would laugh, but then you hear the people he is mocking admit shit like this while still telling us we only have 12 years to save Gaia. Of course, the solution is always to let the global marxists steal our freedoms and money, and never, ever, anything involving any technological or engineering solution (like more nuclear power).
I find it interesting that one of the most pro-nuke people I know is also a commie, or at least a strong sympathizer. He’s a STEM graduate so will be interesting to see how long it takes him to figure out a) that if Marxists took over he’d be working for the same wages as a janitor and b) that the people who are pushing the CAGW narrative almost completely overlap with the anti-nuke hysterics.
Wifey grew up near the Hanford plant during the 70’s. She’s all in on the no nukes because of the scare tactics used back then. I can’t sway her so I don’t even bother any more. Mind you, I was pretty zealous about abortion rights until I met her (and with a helpful assist from you guys to see both sides of the issue) so maybe there’s hope. After all, I was able to convince her to sleep with me for 23 years and counting.
A little “roofie-colada” does not hurt either.
So I’m told.
I like to call her “Drowsy” when I’m feeling a little frisky.
Two thoughts
1) Hanford. There’s been one or two advances in technology and safety since that was built.
2) Now if you can just get her to put out….
Hanford is a prime example of government screw-ups.
The private sector is clearly superior.
What’s he going to call Uranium?
Sparkle Motion
I for one would never question his commitment.
Heavy Metal Justice
WIN.
Never mind that. What’s he gonna call Uranus?
What does he call yours?
Puppet pooper
Mitten
cock holster
Home?
Atoms of Justice?
Free tanning pills
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers for the win.
See above
No love for Philbert Desanex, aka Wonder Warthog?
The bike race between Wonder and his evil twin brother – Paranoid Punk Pig was fabulous.
…and Fat Freddy’s Cat, and Tricky Prickears, and (of course) the Cockroaches. Speaking of the latter I suspect those were the inspiration for Joe’s Apartment which was a really fun concept but didn’t justify feature-length treatment.
Going to dig out my collection of undergrounds soon.
Shout-out to Sug: Have you ever read “Tales from the Leather Nun?” Very Lovecraft.
OMG! Tricky Prickears! The time the Jews on the Police Commission sent him up to Harlem to speak on a street corner but told him he was addressing the UN General Assembly… hilarious.
Love for Wonder Warthog? What kind of [Lois] Lamebrains do you think we are?
“Fat Freddy’s Cat” is my spirit animal.
Group hug!
I loved those little throwaway strips at the bottom of the page. I think the best one was when he caught a bunch of roaches in the leftover dip after a party.
I was disappointed that the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers claymation movie never took off.
Where on earth did you find that? I would watch the shit outta that movie and i don’t even smoke dope anymore.
I don’t remember how I originally stumbled across it. But I made sure I kept in my YouTube favorites. I, too, would watch the shit out of that movie.
Yeah, thanks Animal. I’ve been watching it for hours on end and pining for what might have been. Grass Roots or The Idiots Abroad would make for a terrific film. Fun Fact – when forced to pick a religion to have stamped into my Army dog-tags, I chose Fundaligionist.
I wanted to have Bokononist stamped on mine, but they wouldn’t let me.
Now they’re going after the GRE?
At what point does the playing field level out I wonder? I suppose this means that undergrad programs are not successfully addressing the disparity in results upon admission. Isn’t that the point of admitting them so they can show how much they can achieve when given the appropriate opportunity?
And that’s certainly one way to devalue PhD’s in the hard sciences. The soft sciences were already ruined.
“Anthem.” That’s where we’re headed.
Harrison Bergeron.
Nobody wants to talk about the fact that affirmative action causes mismatches of students to institutions and programs which actually increases their likelihood of failure.
They do at the WSJ.
They will have their reparations one way or another. And it’s all feel-goody, hopey-changey and all.
When it’s a discussion of whether or not to offer reparations in monetary form, I get it. But this type of crap undermines the entire idea of meritocracy and leads to nothing good.
Meritocracy is just white supremacy. Don’t you even woke, brah?
Asian supremacy.
I’m pretty sure the Woketarians count them as white.
They, like Jews are Schroedinger’s PoCs. They are classified in whatever way is most useful for any given argument.
*Schroedinger’s PoC: you can’t know if they’re white or not until any given argument occurs
And when reality bites they will just do damage control and demand you believe them and not your lying eyes/ears.
That firm was politically connected and using an all-woman team to sell its services to the virtue-signaling dipshits in state offices. I hope they get sued into oblivion and the people who hired them get permanently banned from state office. But it won’t happen.
I guess engineering based on intersectionality still needs some work.
IIRC: Instead, the Florida Department of Transportation is getting sued in order to reach into the wallets of the taxpayers of one of the populous states in the United States. Based on a whistleblower voicemail to someone who was on vacation or sabbatical or something and on someone else being present at a meeting the day of or day before the collapse.
“At what point does the playing field level out I wonder”
It’s obvious that they feel that will be the case when the rules have become meaningless and government (meaning the left) is in full control of picking winners and losers so it can reward right-think (marxism/fascism) and punish wrong-think (capitalism and individualism).
When we are all reduced to hunter-gatherers.
When that “Shining City on the Hill” is the residence of our feudal lords and masters. AKA a castle.
The thing if that they try to couch this as equality of opportunity, but by the time your looking at a PhD program, that ship has sailed.
“At what point does the playing field level out I wonder?”
Never. Never has been, never will be.
“At what point does the playing field level out I wonder?”
The “playing field” is like water: it levels out on its own rather easily. Any attempt by an outsider to level it only makes it more unbalanced.
“Leveling the playing field” isn’t the goal anyway. The goal is “smug self-satisfaction”.
Has anyone tried analyzing the successful people from under represented groups and see what made them successful, instead of crying “not fair”?
Or they could try not pestering everyone to do/like/want/be good at the same damn things. STEM fields are cool. So are the Arts. So are the disciplines of the Trivium and Quadrivium. You do you. I’ll do me. Chips will fall where they may. Results have historically been good from this approach.
They did, but the answer that came back was generational sacrifice, hard work, and strong family and community bonds. Fuck that shit, just give me a check.
The general exam doesn’t serve much purpose, especially in science/math fields. The math part is still all algebra and geometry, basically the same stuff as the SATs. It’s mainly valuable as a filter: if somebody wants to pursue a PhD in Physics and *can’t* ace the math section, that’s a red flag.
The subject area tests are much more useful.
I am so sorry to hear that you lack nerve endings.
“Shit like this is why I have contempt for Trump.”
At least orange man is trying to do one of the few things we would expect our government to do for us – stop what amounts to an invasion – even if you don’t like the methods he is employing because you think free trade is the bomb (and I am not so sure it is anymore after the evidence of the last 2 or 3 decades which clearly show how the US has been swindled by the people supposedly negotiating free trade agreements that all seem to have been far more favorable for others and their own pockets, but not the people in general).
Yeah, while I oppose tariffs as economic policy, they can be useful tools to sanction governments that are actively causing mischief against the US.
At least orange man is trying to do one of the few things we would expect our government to do for us
Steal our money via ad hoc taxation?
I don’t know about you, but I would prefer they steal our money by that adhoc taxation rather than just give it away to all these other foreign entities like they have been for the last 3 decades. At least there is a minimal change the money they took through taxation will benefit us. I am now convinced the money we have given away in these free trade deals have done far, far more damage than the economic benefits they have touted these unfair trade deals have created.
At least there is a minimal change the money they took through taxation will benefit us.
If by “minimal” you mean “zero,” I would agree.
Free trade is free trade. If money is being “given away,” other than in voluntary transactions, it’s not free trade. Crony deals labeled as “free trade” is an absolute lie.
“I don’t know about you, but I would prefer they steal our money by that adhoc taxation rather than just give it away to all these other foreign entities like they have been for the last 3 decades”
I’m sorry Alex but that makes no sense. Those aren’t exclusive. In fact they have to steal your money first in order to give it away.
“Tank the economy to own the libs.”
Alex. I am generally more in tune with your right leaning libertarianism than with OMWC’s slightly hippy tinged version (love ya OMWC, but I picture you as a slightly less odd Spider Robinson, minus his pinko traits), but defending Trump’s protectionist BS is just the reverse of TDS. Trump has done some good things. I am not unhappy I voted for him, and will again (unless team L nominates Mcafee or someone else good), but Bump stock bans and protectionist “They tuk r jerbs” crap is bad, it cannot be spun as good.
I am not defending the protectionism, just pointing out that after we were sold out by the people that made a killing with these bad trade deals we now have and so many suffered, I see no way to force a better deal than to make it painful for the people that took for granted they would always be the one fist fucking us.
Call me old fashioned, but I’m pretty sure the power to levy tariffs rested with the legislature. Congress should not be able to delegate that (or any of it’s powers) away as it would be a violation of the Constitution.
^
Yep. Far too often that little tidbit gets completely glossed over.
I brought that up in a chat with some of Glibs TPTB…we all had a good, bitter laugh.
That? It’s just a goddamned piece of paper.
It’s not even regular paper paper. It’s that crinkly yellow oldtimey sheep skin stuff.
Huh, I always just assumed it was a plant-based substrate.
Tariffs suck balls. People acting like countries such as China are “free market” trade partners make me less worried about tariffs. Once the free market is truly being observed by all parties it will and should be the proper form of trade.
Bacon-magic gets it. We don’t have free trade, or even the illusion/delusion of that. And in order to get free trade of any kind, we now need to make all the other trading partners that aware that the good old days of making deals that were good for them and their American counterparts, but not for the American people. Are behind us.
Free trade my ass.
The only reason the free trade agreements were in place to begin with was to get foreigners to purchase US bonds, thus depressing their interest rate. We like to think Volcker tamed inflation, but a big assist goes to the foreign trade deals that also took jobs with it. In other words, cut the goddamned spending (or at least raise it below the 10-year bond rate, consistently) and all this shit is moot.
You could even argue that the Chinese brought this on themselves the last few years by threatening to sell US Treasuries. Look, Charlie, you only got “free trade” by purchasing access to the US market – stop that purchasing and your free trade gets curtailed.
This was known from Day One, but never stated publicly, lest the rubes understand what was going on immediately. The rubes eventually figured it out. When it comes to federal revenue and spending, there hasn’t been a libertarian moment since the Federal Reserve Bank was created, and there never will be one until the central bank is dissolved.
It is not the amount of spending. It is how the spending is paid for. If the money is donated voluntarily, then you eliminate the kind of borrowing with payments paid by taxed.
IIRC, the US’s Federal Reserve was created 1913. IIRC, it was yesterday morning that the non-unanimous consensus of the Glibs was that President Coolidge stuck or mostly stuck to the constitution of that country. IIRC, that was 1923 to 1929.
“It is not the amount of spending. It is how the spending is paid for.”
I think our problem is actually that all the spending we do each year is not paid for in full, but all sorts of accounting tricks and schemes are used to pretend somehow it will be paid for in the future by someone (else). Vote buying requires a certain level of government largess that also goes far beyond what said government was supposedly allowed to levy taxes for and be in charge of, but for some reason pointing this shit out seems to only infuriate people that want free shit.
Part of requiring that spending be paid for by voluntary money is that spending be paid for (deals with debt problem). The other part is that the money is voluntary rather than by taxes or the two-step of borrowing and then making the payments with taxes. But then the bar for getting the money is higher than persuading a bureaucrat or politician to spend tax money (waste problem). Voluntary money is more moral (morality problem). For the United States, the national government could even do farm subsidies, Social Security, etc. without violating the old white slavers’ document with voluntary donations instead of taxes or borrowing on the credit of the United States (constitutionality problem).
The only person who can defeat Trump in 2020 is Trump, and he’s working hard at it. If he manages to kick the economy into a recession next year then he is toast.
An investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office found that the reenactment had a “profoundly negative effect on all of the students present — especially the African-American students.”
Two things? The NY Attorney General’s office had nothing better to do and I’m betting the white students found it kind of fun.
The NY AG is a grandstanding worthless piece of shit, like almost every other state AG.
I can’t believe that the #MeToo crowd can’t piggy back on this scandal. Did the White Boys not have any fine black girls to bid on? I’m sure the homely gals were all triggered by the bidding war as the boys tried to get their Tommy Jefferson on.
…You have an animated avatar?
It’s day of the commentators all over again.
Do NOT abuse the power… lest ye face the wrath of SP!
I have a healthy respect for rusty can lids.
They found two things.
Black kids didn’t like it BUT the white kids rather enjoyed themselves.
Especially the fat one in the back that kept going “yepppp” to bid people up.
Gawd damn I hate Dave Hester. What a fuck.
I’m going to have to be much nicer to FourScore. I’m guessing his honey harvest this year is going to be chock full of hookers and blow.
Glad to see Minnesoda legislators are being so fiscally prudent as to only fund this program for one year (instead of the original 3 years that were proposed).
Mandatory
*EDIT FAIRY ADDS*
Thank you, edit fairy!
::goes to cartoon bunk::
UCS is reported to be making an official Glib bee inspection today.
The Nucs took hold, looks like, and we salvaged out a damaged hive, had a live queen and and a good number of workers. Honey Harvest is on, waiting for my MN check though.
Doe he have his bee handling gloves ready?
*Hearty applause*
Whenever I see “OMIGOD, the BEES!!” I like to point out that honeybees are an invasive species introduced to North America by Europeans.
Ha! Nice. I’m using that.
Our parks here are overrun by members of the Virginia Native Plant Society who are On a Mission(tm) to eliminate all non-native vegetation in our city parks. They do the labor themselves which I approve of as it reduces the available hours they have for other mischief, but once they pull all the ivy and whatnot out of the public lands I know that they are going to go after private property.
You mean, they will weed your yard and gardens for free? Sweet.
Good luck getting rid of the Japanese stiltgrass, that stuff is like cancer.
So are earthworms. There was a NPR program claiming that earthworms wiped out maple trees in the southern U.S.
“Approximately 182 earthworm taxa in twelve families are reported from the United States and Canada, of which sixty (about 33%) are introduced.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworms_as_invasive_species
… NPR or Wikipedia. whom do I trust less?
Yes.
^ This ^
It’s magic that plants were able to grow before whitey brought honey bees here.
It is one thing if the state legislature votes to subsidize property owners doing something to their properties. But they should have to ask people to voluntarily donate money to pay for what they consider to be a wonderful program instead of funding it by taxes.
“On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP,” Trump wrote. “The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied, … ..at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow.”
Meh. I don’t have a huge problem with this. It is immigration enforcement by other means since he can’t get the full wall funding because Team Blue won’t negotiate. It should also encourage Mexico step up and do their part.
Higher food prices – I am agin’ that.
It’ll hurt them more than it hurts you.
I don’t want anyone “hurt”. There are other ways to pressure Mexico, or do our own Border control besides making food (and other things) more expensive for our own citizenry.
It’s a dick move, don’t get me wrong. The new free trade deal hasn’t even been ratified yet. Trump has no choke.
I have a lot of problem with that. The president doesn’t have the authority to raise a new tax to pay for some pet project.
I thought we established under the previous administration that a pen and a phone provided all the authority needed?
EXACTLY!
And he promised Mexico would pay for that wall…
/sarc on that second part.
The precedent was set by President Pen and Phone. It’s stinks but here we are. Everything comes down to the Courts now because nobody is willing to compromise no mo.
I assume the discretion is left to the president by legislation passed by prior congresses/admins.
Congress has no power to Shadow amend the Constitution by delegating that authority away.
They have done so with war powers. I am not saying I agree with the law/policy, but I am operating in the current paradigm.
According to the article you can thank the asshats in Congress in 1977 for this.
It’s frustrating, because the courts will uphold the delegation, despite that being completely against the Constitution, and then we have all three branches ignoring their founding charter, what recourse do we have?
We sang a Requiem Mass for the US Constitution
yearsdecadescenturies ago.It has been emanations and penumbras even before the ink was dry on that dusty old document. The parameters get wider and wider with successive administrations. It’s governance by fiat no matter who holds the cards. Courts, legislature, presidency have all become as one.
and then we have all three branches ignoring their founding charter, what recourse do we have?
This is what the second amendment was actually intended to address.
My Campari tomatoes!
What an odd Bloody Mary variant.
So he’s taxing Americans to stop Mexico? Odd.
I’m guessing any slowdown in Mexico will speed up the numbers crossing the border. Funny how economics work. Hungry people do what hungry people always do, vote with their feet.
Most Mexicans crossing the border (except for the ones from the deep south of the country) come for work, leave their family behind, and send money home, so they will be taxed too (as will the Mexican economy – twice). It’s the non-Mexicans coming in caravans for free shit that are the problem.
“A teacher asked all of the African-American students in each class to raise their hands and then instructed them to go stand in the hallway, where the teacher placed imaginary chains on their necks, wrists and ankles. Those students were then instructed to walk back into the classroom and line up against the wall.
The teacher then proceeded to conduct a simulated auction of the students in front of the rest of the class, in an attempt to depict the sale of enslaved Africans to white plantation owners that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The teacher who conducted the lesson was fired.”
Oh my,….ha! I’m sure he had a point in there somewhere. Probably instilling ‘white guilt’ into the rest of the class. Glad it backfired on you, ya twat.
Yep, I bet he had woke intentions. Karma is a bitch.
Wait, I can make a gif file my avatar?! This changes everything! Oh, give me about a week for editing and then I’m going knock youz guyz’s socks off.
I’ve tried it before and it wouldn’t work. Maybe something changed at word press?
Either way, I’ll take it. Oooh…already the creative juices are flowing….Mwahahahaha!
Does it involve STEVE SMITH?
STEVE SMITH HAPPY HELP. BY HELP, MEAN RAPE.
*looks coyly at WTF*
……maybe?
I’m going to now have to apologize to Pat Morita.
giphy.com
^This
Anyone with judgement that bad needs to be kept far away from students and all other air breathing mammals.
If they wanted to be historically accurate they should have had half the black students capture half of the other blacks and then sell some to the Arab kid, which then castrates them and half to the white kids.
^ Yup.
I guess it’s back to the math tests, with questions like Jamal has 8 hoes in his stable, they are each capable of turning 3 tricks an hour for $20 a trick, how much cheddar can Jamal stack in 3 hours.
Make a sentence using the word “fortify”: That gangsta was dissing me, so I took out my fortify and busted some caps in his ass!
Solid musical choice, OMWC! Makes me want to venture outside and build things but alas, the neighbours wouldn’t like that much at 5 AM.
Well this could be taken the wrong way:
‘Hitler is coming’ note found at Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights
They probably just meant that Trump was going to visit the city.
[golf clap]
If the reporter had done his job, he would have found that on the back of that note it said “Are you spitting or swallowing?”
I, for one, am slightly disturbed by your fisting gif
I hate animated avatars in general.
Same here. Amusing for a moment, distracting and irritating forever.
So a perfect metaphor for glibs?
I think the more appropriate post of mine to complain about this would have been the one below where I linked to the story of the guy getting fined $500 for telling a cop his name was Ben Dover.
*I’ll replace the avatar later. For now, I’m just reveling in the glorious freedom to do something stupid and wrong.
Don’t replace it man….
It’s got a charm all of its own…
LOL Jesus Christ, your avatar!
Must be those notorious alt-right hordes of white supremacists Brooklyn is so famous for.
“The mainstream media and the DNC are colluding against the American people. That’s what it feels like. It’s the same thing all over again,”
President Bernie would move groundhog day to April 15.
Yo, strafe, your profile pic is showing as blank. That intentional? Not blank-blank but a little box with an “X” (like you’d use to close a window) and the text “straffinrun”
Okay, Mr. Fancy Boy, I see what you were doing. Cute but annoying.
Thx. I was wondering if it was showing up. It’s working for me. Guess you can’t use an animated gif after all. It was supposed to be this.
I see it. It works fine.
It’s a gif on my browser.
Funny, too.
Funny but distracting. Cut that shit out, Gaijin!
Mesmerizing, isn’t it? I’ll change it soon enough.
Don’t do it! I like it.
And I have an awesome animated gif on my home PC that I need to use as mine.
Ha! I found my animated avatar in one of my online stash folders!
Mine looks tasteful now. Thank you.
どういたしまして
I’m not bowing. I’m just going to say something that I’ve never said before in my life: Your joke is juvenile. I can’t scroll any more. I’m lol’ing and SMDH at the same time.
Gonna annoy UCS, that is for sure
Bonus!
In that case, gifs up!
My man!
This one fits this place better.
I see it
running FireFox with all the Glib add-on stuff
it’s great; don’t change it
Politicians in California Town Wipe Out Jobs and Businesses with Higher Minimum Wage
Data detailing these struggles noted:
*23% of food service businesses plan to leave Emeryville ‘in the near future
*48% combined had a ‘negative’ opinion of the ordinance and many within the 27% ‘other’ category expressed negativity
*67% of independent, non-franchise restaurant owners strongly oppose the measure
*52% noted a decrease in worker hours
*33% have decreased employees
Next time it will work.
Look, if you can’t pay an employee at least $15hr, provide health benefits, dental, child care and flexible hours then you don’t deserve to have a business.
/shit I hear from my prog acquaintances
Don’t forget paid sick time for high school kids being life guards at the pool.
You really want that crowd swimming in the pool when they have a herpes flare up?
I was chatting with another Dad last week at a lacrosse game. He owns a deli / catering service. After his son graduates next year he plans to flee NJ because $15 minimum wage is coming and he will go broke paying high school kids that much to make sandwiches.
But those high school kids need to be able to support a family of four on minimum wage! If he can’t afford to pay them, he shouldn’t be in business!!!
Well, he agrees with the last part.
You might think that the politicians would wise up what with so many of the productive class fleeing NJ, but they can’t cut back on any of the lavish public employee pensions and other goodies that gets them elected.
Ah, but if they could not tax people to pay for those “goodies” and lavishly compensated employees and had to persuade people to voluntarily pay for them (even if the goodies are going to people other than those paying for them)…
And move to ___________where he can elect the same Democrat politicians to raise their minimum wages….
Warren and Sussex county NJ is conservative Republican country. We used to elect a Liberty Caucus Rep until they gerrymandered us into complete irrelevance.
Probably the line I loathe and hate the most in arsenal of beliefs with illiberal ignorant asshats.
I once left a comment on the Mother Jones website a few years back on an article on business (i forget). I got into a brief talk with a girl. It was pleasant enough and I presented my argument saying along the lines of, ‘don’t conflate SME’s with large corporations…..’
She, supporting all kinds of typical left-wing draconian rules on business because ‘business bad’ asked, ‘what’s an SME?’.
Which reminds me of a bike shop I passed by in the Chelsea district in NYC. On the window there was a sticker saying, ‘Don’t blame me. I voted for Sanders.’
I highly doubt he’s paying his workers $15 /hr. And if compelled, I highly doubt he’d survive unless he jacks up his prices more. I cycling cap went for $27.99 USD. I just bought a couple for $17.99 CDN.
That is, what he was selling for $27 I see the same ones for much less.
Yeah, but there was this one study in the 90’s that showed minimal to no effect. So obviously these studies are flawed.
I had an anesthesiologist tell me that all these jobs created under the Trump presidency aren’t good jobs. I’m sure for someone clearing a million a year they don’t look very appealing, but for the people who, you know actually took the job it must appeal to them.
It’s funny, because when Obama was president people working less than they wanted was good because thry got more leisure time.
The dude is a hardcore elitist, but big democrat. I’m convinced the rich that are democrat do that to assuage guilt they have for being successful.
Ah, the old McJobs argument from the Bush years (both Jr and Sr).
My opposition to higher minimum wages is that it has a greater impact on small businesses. And now we have some proof.
The same people driving these places out of business by demanding a higher minimum wage will be the ones complaining about how awful it is that there’s nothing but generic chain stores left in their neighborhood.
^^ This!
Let’s see, now: unkempt bassist and mandolinist, ferocious picking, Ranier can on a stump and a HHOF t-shirt.
Confirmed: awesome.
Yep.
“my favorite comedian” – I think you bollocks upped the link, it didn’t go to Bob Newhart.
Bob Newhart is a genius of comedic timing. He could do more with a pause than most comedians could do with a two-minute monologue.
Yeah, that is kind of weird when your favorite comedian was born in 1894.
Putting the “O” in OMWC…
No love for Norm?
Norm is the best.
I still can’t believe some mag ranking all-time greats had him at something like 95 out of 100.
Preposterously idiotic.
I see that, to no one’s surprise, Conte took the Inter job.
I’ll start paying attention to Serie A when it becomes competitive at the top again.
It’s still on par with any league. Don’t kid yourself. It may not be winning but bring over some teams from Liga, Bundesliga and EPL and see how they do in that bruising and tough league.
Serie A still does well even when at a low ebb.
Ronaldo even commented at how tough it is. You don’t free goals there.
I’ll be clearer: when someone other than Juventus has a chance at a title.
Yeah, some of the winning margins in Europe were ridiculous this year. There were a few that were close (Dutch, Turkey, EPL, Bundesliga) but a lot of blow outs. One of the lesser, but still wild, upsets was Grasshopper Zurich getting relegated.
Ajax had a nice run. Was very annoyed with Juve. They had the team to win. But Ajax really played well from the parts I saw. I watched the game against Real in Spain as it turns out.
Not surprised by Conte. Inter and Milan need to get it going. If they don’t, Serve A will struggle. They also need to upgrade their facilities. Once that gets in order, if it does, they’ll start spending again. Or maybe they’ll remain a 3rd or 4th league? Who knows? As long as they don’t fall below Ligue Un. That would be worse than climate change.
I haven’t watched much soccer since the rights migrated to pay per view. Fuck that.
The best bike race the Giro bar none barely gets a notice on TV which is a shame. What are these broadcasters good for?
Norm is the best
His recent interview show series was horrible, but we faithfully watched it just in case. The bright spot was Spade’s appearance: an hour of David hammering on Norm for being the acerbic but lovable wheels-off shitshow that he is. I feel perfectly vindicated in my love of Norm because all the other comics love him, love hammering on him, put up with him in spite of the fact that he can’t find third gear without a flashlight or so much as reserve a table for four without stepping into some sort of interpersonal, logistical beartrap. Norm’s a scream.
He’s authentic.
OK, Who had to drop out of the Beer it Forward because they were short of funds after paying court fines?
I get that 500 is less than suing the cops but this sounds like retaliation. I don’t believe the cop thought he was going to get hit. The cop was pissed that he got no respect. Basically a move along that got escalated.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has apparently started referring to carbon dioxide as “molecules of freedom” and natural gas as “freedom gas” , according to its latest press release.
Heh…
Freedom fries.
GRE Math section was a joke…it was basically SAT Math 4 years later.
The GRE Engineering math section, on the other hand, kinda kicked my ass.
Apparently they completely redid the GRE in 2011, so all my information on it is way out of date.
I did well on the engineering math. I still flubbed the French derived crap on the English section. Long live Latin and German. Fuck the French.
I’m a terrible student, but here’s my take on the quality of folk who take the tests. For me:
GMAT = 98th percentile
GRE = 75th percentile
I believe the tests.
I got a perfect score on the engineering math section, but not the general math section. My verbal or language or whatever score was “window liker” if I remember correctly.
I also like windows. You can open ’em, and get a fresh breeze. Or spy on your neighbors.
I rest my case.
I was perfect on the general math and the logic section, whatever they called it. The LSAT-lite section they had back in the day. My verbal was surprisingly good for an engineering student.
My overall engineering score was good, my engineering math score was okay, which was kind of disappointing.
My history with standardized testing is interesting. In elementary school I was placed in both remedial reading and advanced reading at the same time based on one test.
Apparently, the first half was for advanced reading and the second half was for remedial reading. I did the first half like normal, and got bored because it was a fucking scantron test. So I started spelling out every word you can make by permutation of “A””B”C”D”E” for the second half because why the hell not.
I ended up reading “Lord of the Flies” and “Where the Wild Things Are” in the same year, which I found really hilarious.
Senior year of HS I was in AP lit where we had to fucking read Crime and Punishment. Regular lit read The Hobbit at the same time, and somehow I got the Hobbit test. I didn’t read Crime and Punishment because I didn’t read anything that was assigned to us, so I didn’t know I had the wrong test. But I had read the Hobbit a few years before, so I turned that test in. I think I got a C+ or B-.
I did so well on the ASVABS+having Eagle Scout award that I got calls from military recruiters every summer “So, we just wanted to check and see how college is going. If it isn’t working out, we might have a program that will pay off your loans for you.” It was fun telling the Navy recruiter I was technically joining up with the NAVA because I got a job at NASA that would put me on a Navy base.
Apparently the “code transcription” section or whatever it was called is supposed to be so long that nobody finishes it in the time provided. I finished and was scored in the 99th percentile for accuracy. My friend sitting next to me fucked up the instructions and did something to invalidate his test. He spent 20 years with the USMC 😀
AH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!
LOL that is hilarious.
Until you realize they are paying her a shit ton of money to pretend she is not the poster child for what not to do.
As an example of how not to do cyber-security? Seems legit.
Wow! Sometimes I misclassify certain things as irony. Is that irony? Because it sure as hell feels like irony.
Heh, steer clear of FireEye. What cyber security company with any sense would pick her?
The ones seeking contracts with very specific government agencies.
The only explanation is that the firm was paying for some favor.
She gave the commencement address at Hunter College and whinged for half an hour about 2016. Isn’t the Address supposed to instill a sense of pride in accomplishment and a positive outlook for the graduates? Instead they get some blithering old hag bemoaning the time that Charles left her at the altar. She really has become Miss Havisham.
Even Alanis Morrisette is like “really?”
That pic of HIllary of looks photoshopped. I found the original.
See? Shit right there makes wonder if everything is just theatre and bull shit.
“Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will serve as a keynote speaker at the Cyber Defense Summit 2019, the cybersecurity company FireEye announced on Thursday.”
Sounds more like Fyre Fesrival.
“Capitalism is the greatest force for ending poverty and lifting up human beings in history,” Haley said. “America’s dangerous flirtation with socialism is in colleges, in the media and in Congress. We have an obligation to remind everyone that if you care about global poverty, you should support capitalism.”
I’ll be in my bunk.
Dreams of Nikki floating through your heads.
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ”
“Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. The routine defamation of capitalism by armchair leftists in academe and the mainstream media has cut young artists and thinkers off from the authentic cultural energies of our time.”
“We live in a strange and contradictory culture, where the most talented college students are ideologically indoctrinated with contempt for the economic system that made their freedom, comforts and privileges possible. Thus young artists have been betrayed and stunted by their elders before their careers have even begun. Is it any wonder that our fine arts have become a wasteland?”
– Camille Paglia, sexiest old lesbian in existence
“Close your eyes and think of Glibaria…”
sexiest old lesbian in existence
WTF? Are you forgetting about Hillary?
What the plural of cloaca? Cloacii?
Cloacae.
Bookmarked
I really need to get some of her books and make my kids read them.
So, it looks like Brooks has a bachelor’s weekend coming up.
“Trooper Plucker” got a chuckle from me.
Call me old fashioned but I think the police should be required to wear clothing while engaging in high speed chases.
RIVEN!!!!
You didn’t even read the article.
No way a classy gal like Riven would ever (or even joke about) chasing a cop.
The cop should be so lucky. She’s a cutie-pie.
My husband’s porn addiction is hurting our sex life: Ask Ellie
Viewing porn is one thing. Group chatting about it is weird.
I didn’t know that was a thing.
Something else you didn’t know was a thing
Will. Not. Click.
Oh my God.
Classy!
I knew that but I’m a history geek.
A man’s (or woman!) porn viewing habits are his (or her!) own private kingdom.
LH should know!
But not their glib account.
Unless you are chief justice of the Supreme Court and a critical vote on national healthcare is coming up. Then it’s the FBI’s business.
Viewing porn is one thing. Group chatting about it is weird.
Commenting on Q’s Chive links is, like, totes different.
Contact ZARDOZ, he always seems to have good advice in such situations.
In this case I’d rather listen to Winston’s Mom IYKWIMAITTYD.
Funny you should mention that…I think he is up tonight.
She’s searching his history and not liking the results. Huh. Grandma warned against listening at the key hole because you might not like what you hear.
Grandma told me about private windows.
So you grew up in a brothel, too? Huh, small world.
I thought the whole point of entrance exams was to filter out certain types of applicants. Dumb people really ought to be underrepresented in science.
A man can dream, can’t he?
“filter out certain types of applicants. ”
This is literally like a literacy test!!!! RACIST!
We’ll have to let the insurance market do what the application policies will no longer do.
Shit like this is why I have contempt for Trump. Perhaps Smoot and Hawley came to him in a dream. “You can be the next Hoover!” The concept of “free markets” doesn’t get much traction in the Hat and Hair world.
This is Trump’s single worst topic from a libertarian POV. He has plenty of other issues where he’s shit, but his pro-tariff inclination is top-to-bottom idiotic.
I read some old 1980s Playboy interview with him – enlightening – even back then he was pro-tariff. Also wanted to run as a Democrat for president since he wanted to represent the working man. Word.
He is Dick Gephardt reborn.
Hamilton Nolan, still an asshole:
We must also go to where rich people cocoon themselves, and break that shit up.
Have your protest marches in the rich neighborhoods. Make your noise in the restaurants where rich people are. If you must riot, riot where the rich live. If you write graffiti, write it on a building that houses the rich. Rally in Hudson Yards. March in Beverly Hills. Play incredibly loud protest music in Pacific Heights. Make it socially unacceptable to live in a towering cocoon of wealth. Make the rest of the city so good that people must come out and visit it. Enact rent control. Build more housing. Regulate Uber. Raise wages. Unionize everything. Let normal people have the best parts of the cities. Protect and expand public space. Refuse to visit your friends in doorman buildings. Fuck your doorman. Fuck your security guard. Go outside. Be outside. Boycott the luxury stores. Don’t join Equinox. Go for a fucking run. And run through the lobby of glittering high rise, in dirty shoes.
Wow yes, can’t wait to see those rich people on their hands and knees scrubbing the floor.
What an egg-headed ginger asshole
too vague to rise to the level of incitement but some Splinter asshat is going to get their shit tuned up following this advice.
I was going to say burning it all down is also not very environmentally friendly. But then again, that’s basically what the GND is, so I don’t know anymore.
>>Let normal people have the best parts of the cities
rightttt
Where would all of the freaks live then?
glibertarians.com
“Make the rest of the city so good that people must come out and visit it. Enact rent control. Build more housing”
One of these things will destroy the others.
I saw that too.
“Raise wages. Unionize everything.”
Unions don’t raise wages, they concentrated them.
Venture a guess who is at the tail end of the mob when this revolution comes to fruition and people are actually rioting in the streets.
Love the big banner ad for luxury furniture.
I believe that is irony.
Why does he want fewer people to have jobs?
Also, why does he insist that people have sex with their doorman?
Lonely doorman need lovin’ too…
Backdoor or frontdoor?
How’d that get in there?
“Rally in Hudson Yards.”
Because it was stolen through eminent domain, right?
Fuck your security
Rent-a-cop’s are not exactly rich.
Boycott the luxury stores.
And fuck the lower income people that work there, right?
Boycott the luxury stores.
But be sure to click through on our banner ads.
Fuck your doorman. Fuck your security guard.
can’t wait to see those rich people on their hands and knees scrubbing the floor
Also, fuck the farmers, and fuck the miners, and fuck the automotive workers, FUCK EVERYONE TRYING TO EARN A LIVING BECAUSE THEYRE JUST PROPPING UP THE INDUSTRIOCAPATRIARCHYarglebarglefooferahhhhhHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!11111oneoneoneoneonee
+1 What An Asshole
that’s some good jammin’. nearly stopped it thinking it was just another bluegrass session but then the kid broke in sounding like Sturgill Simpson talking bout meth. too bad those deflated ears are killing his young Mike Ness vibe.
Climate change denial dooms too many of us
Really by killing all deniers, we will be saving lives…
At least Bill Nye just wanted to lock them up.
that old fat lady would be dead in a week if she had to rely on wind and solar, couldn’t drive anywhere, and couldn’t eat meat.
Tornadoes NEVER happened in the 19th century. It is known.
Storks?
Most of us have a thing against geese, because, you know, HATEBIRDS.
This guy has it out for storks.
ethical responsibility to be good stewards of our planet
Then burn more carbon. The world needs it.
SHATTERED I TELL YOU, SHATTERED.
remember yesterday’s research published in Quillette showing “national journalists” that had social networks heavily entwined with Antefa activists? yeah well he has been suspended from Twitter: https://humanevents.com/2019/05/29/twitter-bans-analyst-who-revealed-journalists-antifa-connections/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
Good job twitter, keep on digging deeper.
He violated community standards: he revealed factual information that reflects poorly on the Left.
Enact rent control. Build more housing. Regulate Uber. Raise wages. Unionize everything.
It could work.
Man busted in underage sex sting got Kentucky deputy job 12 years later
When your only requirement of applicants is “creepy upper-lip caturpiller” and the job involves locking people into the back of a windowless van, what do you expect?
STEVE SMITH DATE MONICA BELLUCCI
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7090019/Monica-Bellucci-54-stuns-quirky-floral-print-dress.html
AND BY “DATE” MEAN……
“Kim Jong-un EXECUTES his man in America: Special envoy to US is killed by firing squad for ‘betraying the supreme leader’ over failed Trump summit along with four other officials (and the interpreter is sent to a labour camp)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7088941/N-Koreas-Kim-Jong-Un-carrying-purge-Hanoi-summit-collapse-Chosun-Ilbo.html
Pour discourager les autres?
Socialism seems to work here and elsewhere
Does Socialism not entail owning the means of production any more? Did I miss something? How can you have capitalism and socialism at the same time?
I would consider the institutions he lists as part of a social safety net, voted into effect via a republican system of gubmint. Is that now what socialsim is, merely having social safety net programs?
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, progressive income tax, Veterans Administration health care and so on
These things are welfare…
happiness that is much higher than ours
Subjective and therefor irrelevant.
Scandinavia, all of which have functioning capitalist systems, and socialism at the same time!
They are market economies with hefty welfare systems. Capitalism and socialism are literally not congruent.
Attended spawn #2’s high school graduation ceremony last night. She struggled mightily through most of school so we’re very proud of this one. Fortunately she had a top notch resource (special ed) teacher who guided her through high school.
Her graduating class had 56 students. Even though it’s a public school, there were TWO prayers, and the “J” word was thrown about. There are a lot of high achievers in her class (national honor society, honor roll, etc.), but still only about 50% are going on to college. There are several going into the military, trades, and work. (I was really happy to hear about the trades). Of the ones going to college, most are either going to community college or the local branches of Purdue or Indiana University. So maybe people are actually rejecting the “everyone should go to an expensive college” bullshit.
56? I thought my high school class was small at 212.
We had 18, and one was a foreign exchange student.
Canadians don’t count.
His “girlfriend”.
You wouldn’t know her.
Quit abusing stats CPRM!
There were 600 kids in your school, but only 18 graduated. That is how Wisconsin works.
Congrats, TOK and that sounds great. I also hope only more families do the same.
Well done, TOK! Another rung on the ladder!
“Her graduating class had 56 students.”
That sounds like a small school.
Mine had 63. About 250 entered the ring and by Grade 11 we were winnowed down to 120. School was tougher then but you could get a job at one of the mills if you were connected.
Elementary, middle school, and high school all in one building. It is tiny. But it’s a great school and the reason we moved where we did. We are some of those evil white supremacists who have deprived a shitty school district of our tax dollars.
Tip-o-the Top Hat!
Why thank you. This weekend we are taking her to Monocle Row for her first fitting, then off to the orphan auction.
Choose wisely! They do tend to grow which may become bothersome in future.
I was in a class of 54. All boys private school.
Must have got sick of doing the Locomotion after awhile.
In my high school they separated the sexes for gym class so the girls would be down on the main floor and the boys were in the upper. I feel sorry for my teachers trying to keep us away from the railing whilst the girls were playing volleyball. All those testosteroney cat-calling guys would freeze up and start reeking of 14 year old boy flop-sweat when it came time to merge the classes for disco dancing lessons. “Do The Hustle”!
I noticed this last year when the step-kid graduated. The percentage of kids “going away to school” dropped below 50% for the first time. Even the parents of smart kids getting 50% tuition scholarships have figured out that they still can’t afford the rest of the cost. Junior college saves a LOT of money, and commuting is a hell of a lot cheaper than room and board. I’m getting word that some of the kids who did go away are now getting stressed out about the loans that will start coming due in four years – guess meeting 22-year olds that tell them the reality is more convincing than mathematical advice from older adults.
Also, my brother in law teaches at a couple colleges and one scam the schools are pulling is offering a kid a scholarship – the kid and parents don’t read the full deal and only after one semester do they realize it was only a one-year scholarship offer. It used to be commonplace to specify “one year” in the cover letter and now they only mention it in the multi-page details. Word may finally be getting around on that.
Nice to have separate confirmation. Hopefully this is part of a larger trend.
A lot of people are wising up that college is not that great of an investment unless the one going is actually going to learn something that then makes them employable, and these days very few programs actually do so.
Congrats TOK!
My youngest will be graduating soon and his class is around 500 kids. Try sitting through that nonsense. I’ve survived two other graduations and I’ll probably make it through this one as well, but it will cause a lot of pain.
Congrats to both of you, Kevin!
“I haven’t changed, I’m who I said I was. I’m a principled, constitutional conservative who has stayed consistent regardless of whether we have President Obama in office or President Trump,” Amash said at a town hall event Tuesday.
I am not sure “principled” or “constitutional conservative” means what he thinks they mean.
Judging by the rumors regarding his Chinese holdings I’d venture that he’s very “principaled”.
Not being concerned with the deep state spying on a presidential candidate using a very shaky premise doesn’t equate to being principled.
Yeah, seriously. What about the abuse of the FISA court does Justin find perfectly acceptable in this instance?
is there a constitutional way to use an unconstitutional “court?”
(not joining the Amash fray: don’t care who MI03 sends to DC)
Well, you know, there’s that minor, niggling little point, too, of course. I would happily send $100 to help pay for a parade in the man’s honor if he said something like, “I think Trump is the scum of the Earth but that doesn’t justify FISA.”
hope my tone wasn’t short (I screw that up here a lot)
we almost never disagree
No, we’re in total accord on that point. I was being sarcastic; Amash should be jumping up and down with his hair on fire about the principles involved here and all he can do is be upset about Trump.
I wouldn’t care as much if Smash just started the impeachment process.
DOOOO EEEEEET!
Has Amash even tried to address the libertarianism or the constitutional conservatism of the investigation in the first place? The government lying on warrants and citing people they know to be frauds to investigate U.S. citizens and then leaking the target’s private information seems like a lot bigger a problem from those perspectives, at least to me.
Of course, I don’t have a bunch of people whispering in my ear that I could be the Libertarian nominee if I pretended otherwise.
That’s what is irritating me about Amash recently. If he were torching Trump AND the ridiculously invasive, illegal nature of the investigation, I wouldn’t have any problem with what he’s saying. Right now though it’s just Trump Trump Trump from him. ORANGE MAN BAD!
Take your meds.
There’s a bigger point here. Trump often seeks to distance himself from the behavior of those who work for or support him by saying things like he said Thursday morning: “I don’t know what happened. I wasn’t involved.” It’s his standard reaction to things like former KKK leader David Duke’s endorsement of his presidential campaign. Or to questions about how he repeatedly played on racial animus and stereotypes for political benefit during the campaign, and whether that emboldened white supremacists ahead of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
On their face, Trump’s denials and disavowals are literally correct. He didn’t order that the USS John S. McCain be moved so that he would never see it during his trip to Japan. He didn’t hold a torch and march through Charlottesville’s streets chanting “Jews will not replace us.” But that isn’t really the point. Because in both those situations, Trump set the tone — in his administration and in the country — where people felt empowered to take those actions.
Don’t believe me? Ask yourself this: If Trump had simply said “John McCain and I don’t agree on every issue but I respect and admire his service to our country” and never anything else, do you really think someone in the White House Military Office would send an email to US Navy officials asking them to make sure the USS McCain is never seen by the President?
The answer, if you are being honest, is OF COURSE NOT.
“He didn’t do it but it’s still his fault!”
Don’t believe me? Ask yourself this: If
Trumphad simply said “John McCainThe Tea Party and I don’t agree on every issue but I respect and admirehis service to our countrytheir right and commitment to protest policies they see as wrong” and never anything else, do you really think someone in theWhite House Military OfficeIRS would send an email to US Navy officials asking them to make sure the USS McCain is never seen by the President systematically undermine their ability to exercise their rights?The answer, if you are being honest, is OF COURSE NOT.
Perhaps Trump needs to read the papers more often.
“Set the tone” is how your personal distaste masquerades as hard fact. It’s the imaginary number of your proof that in this case Donald Trump is the cause of everything that’s wrong in the world.
One of the things I like most about Trump is that he dares to call out McCain for being a complete and total asshole.
This Strange Gun Fired Millions of Bullets for Russia, China and North Korea
“The DP not only uses 7.62 x 54R millimeter cartridges, but it is a gas-operated light machine gun”
reminds me of that great Yachov Smirnoff one-liner:
in Soviet Russia, rifle DPs you!
Man, looks really aren’t everything. That looks like something you’d put together from a kit in your backyard.
No the eastern European DP I was looking for today, but it’ll do.
Irony thy name is…
On Thursday, the cybersecurity company FireEye announced one of its keynote speakers will be none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of State infamous for keeping classified information on her home-brew email server.
This is no small snafu. FireEye is a publicly-traded company founded in 2004. FireEye “has been called in to investigate high-profile attacks against Target, JP Morgan Chase, Sony Pictures, Anthem and others.” According to Deloitte, FireEye is the fastest-growing cybersecurity firm.
In a shameless push to get butts in seats, this very prominent cybersecurity firm is hosting Hillary Clinton. When the company announced this on Facebook, at least 1,365 people reacted with a laugh.
FireEye is so woke. So brave.
In a shameless push to get butts in seats, this very prominent cybersecurity firm is hosting Hillary Clinton.
Are they planning to execute her, on stage? Because i’d go.
Somewhere Preet is getting a woody.
I’m hoping surprise special guest John “password” Podesta introduces her.
Oh, that would be too much.
Give her the Carrie treatment, but with a big box of Trump ballots.
Bigfoot says only you can stomp out wildfires
ENCOUNTER WITH STEVE SMITH CAUSE BURNING, BUT NOT FROM WILDFIRE.
Wildfire safety education by Oregon’s fire marshal might be good or not. But forcing people to pay taxes to pay or it is bad.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1134226137935204352
LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOL
Why the weights for Gillibrand? I don’t get that one.
Me neither.
She posted a workout vid a few months ago.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6016568350001/#sp=show-clips
I like June. She reminds me of my stoner cousin from high school.
Dragging this morning and I see animated avatars now. That’s not going to get abused at all.
Make sure you take your seizure meds before you read the links.
Mine change is bound to annoy. Will change again.
where do our profiles and avatars even live? How can I ever be MakeMexicoPayTariffsApolgist if I don’t know these things?
Log-In, then Profile (partway down the left side).
thanks
but I don’t have any left panel; I think the WordPress stuff gets hidden in my FireFox configuration and add-ons. I lose the button to the WordPress data and to release comments for weeks at a time
I’m more a carburetor guy
Profile picture update is on the right side for me. Then click the submit button on the bottom of the page – after the gif or jpg is loaded.
Click on any reply. Click on your name. It’s in the upper right corner.
thanks for trying
I’m lost, both Edge and FireFox
no hyperlink in my name; no left or right panel; stuff got pretty weird for me after the last GreaseMonkey etc round, but I like the zipped up threads too much to undo it
I will too. Just having fun with it for a little while.
just you wait, bub. I’ve got big plans, YUUGE plans for mine. Gonna take awhile though. Handmade editing and overlaying of gifs with a transparent background on top of another gif is a real pain in the ass but it’ll be worth it.
Hmm…
Pope Jimbo has already set the bar.
Styling and profiling, like a Minnesodan!
Does anyone want to see Lena Dunham naked?
https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/1133793957727444994
I involuntarily clicked.
*chops off hand*
She gave that tattoo artist bulimia.
That might be deserved as those are awful tattoos.
You try tattooing with your eyes closed.
NOT CLICKING
TBH, she’s just another fat chick. I’ve got some of those in my family (Not here. In the US). Her personality just makes you throw up because it matches her body.
Yeah, but I don’t want to see the other fat chicks naked either.
Not particularly interested in something that would bring on an irresistible urge to gouge out my eyeballs with a spoon.
I’ll be in my bunk!!!
What a weird place to keep your arsenic.
Nah, gun under the pillow. Gotta blow my brains out now, obviously.
Naw, fam. Hard pass.
Better or worse the Demi Rose?
Tough crowd around here. Demi is a would, even if the thicc is a bit unnatural.
Lena is set yourself on fire and drive off a cliff.
Yeah, she’s merely a slob. Demi works at her look.
And here I thought my new avatar would be the grossest thing posted…
If it’s not one thing, it’s another
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security chief has been accused of sexual misconduct and making racist and homophobic remarks about Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, and members of his staff, NBC News has confirmed with a spokesperson for Zuckerberg.
The allegations against Liam Booth, a former Secret Service officer now serving as the Facebook founder’s personal security chief, were brought by former employees of Zuckerberg’s household staff via the law offices of The Bloom Firm. They were first reported by Business Insider.
Lawyers representing the employees — a former member of Zuckerberg’s household staff and a former executive assistant to Booth — sent letters regarding the allegations to the law firm that represents the companies that provide security for the Zuckerberg family, according to Business Insider.
As usual, there is no useful information, just broad ominous smears of “racism” and “homophobia”.
Zuckerberg needs to get an asexual wisp with a man bun to keep him and his wife safe.
Kind of guaranteed to be a drunk and a freak.
“Moby cancels book tour after Natalie Portman controversy ”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/entertainment/moby-book-tour/index.html
Bro, stop, you’re making us all look bad. If you’ve got to be beta at least don’t be *desperate*, too. Although, truth be told, if I thought I had a shot with Natalie Portman and botched it it would haunt me to my dying day.
Sure, but I wouldn’t write about it. I mean maybe tell your golf buddies but to get shot down in such a spectacular fashion must burn like the guy on the White House lawn.
Oh, no, I’d take that secret to the grave. Although, there’s something to be said for daring to dream big, I guess, so long as you go down gracefully.
Zuck link, take two
“The allegations against Liam Booth were brought to the office’s attention for the first time by The Bloom Firm after both former employees had left employment by the family office and engaged legal counsel,” he continued. “As soon as The Bloom Firm presented these allegations, the family office engaged Munger, Tolles & Olson, an outside law firm, to conduct an investigation of all allegations made by The Bloom Firm to determine whether the claims have merit.”
What a world we live in.
“Sun-Maid raisins pulls sponsorship of baseball team over Ocasio-Cortez ‘enemies of freedom’ video
Raisin company Sun-Maid announced Wednesday it was pulling its sponsorship of a minor league baseball team that played a video depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) among “enemies of freedom” like dictators Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro.
“We are deeply disappointed by the Memorial Day tribute video the Fresno Grizzlies aired on Monday,” Sun-Maid said in an email sent to The Sacramento Bee. “Sun-Maid does not support the views or sentiments expressed in the video, nor does it condone the airing of it.”
“While the Grizzlies have apologized for this mistake, we are standing on the side of what we believe is right and terminating our sponsorship of the team,” the company added.”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1134160819267211266
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/446132-sun-maid-raisins-pulls-sponsorship-of-baseball-team-over-ocasio
Oh boo hoo
Ok, so with the caveat that everyone is doing what they’ve got every right to do here, this is why it’s an old tradition in many families to never discuss politics or religion among mixed company. When everything becomes an “opportunity” for a political statement, you get stupid shit like this.
Yes, although I get the frustration that only one side of the political spectrum is allowed to be supported by businesses without meaningful consequences.
I don’t think I’m making an original point here when I say that this is a key difference between conservatives, classical liberals, arguably the old left, and Progressives. One of those groups is incapable of sectioning off politics from the rest of their lives.
What if the grizzlies had just kneeled when AOC’s picture came up? Totes protected by the 1A then, right?
Nah brah. Misogynistic, racist against Latinx, and probably homophobic and anti-Muslim somehow.
To be fair to the Grizzlies, if AOC’s policy preferences were implemented in a hypothetical country, what score would it get on either the Human Freedom Index, Freedom in the World, Index of Economic Freedom, etc.?
Much Brave.
I thought the video was a stupid thing, too, but this is even stupider.
A winning strategy.
In his education plan, Biden stated that he wants to ban semi-automatic firearms, despite the fact that the 1994 assault weapon ban had virtually no impact in reducing crime. Here’s Biden’s full statement:
“Defeat the National Rifle Association – again – in order to make our schools safer. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about whether their kids will come home from school, and students shouldn’t have to sacrifice themselves for their friends days before graduation. We cannot let gun violence become an acceptable part of American life. Biden knows that arming teachers isn’t the answer; instead, we need rational gun laws. As President, he will secure passage of gun legislation to make our students safer, and he knows he can do it because he’s defeated the National Rifle Association twice before. He’ll begin by again championing legislation to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines – bans he authored in 1994. In the months ahead, he will release additional proposals to address the gun violence epidemic in our country.”
See, this is why I send the NRA a few bucks now and again. It’s not because of their stellar record on promoting the second amendment, it’s because they’re a proxy for gun rights. They’re symbolic more than anything. Really, they may as well be a P.O. Box somewhere. They’d still represent private gun ownership to everyone on either side of the debate.
I donate to GOA. More consistent, more principled, .000001% of the junk mail.
Anyone who lives in Virginia should be a VCDL member.
I live in WV where, despite their insane union-influenced politics on the state/local level, has passed (repealed really) some decidedly good gun legislation. We went from Sheriff issued Cc licenses to constitutional carry a couple years back.
I do, too, and the Second Amendment Foundation. I think GOA is the best of the bunch, though.
I guess we’ll all just have to fire our pump shotguns up into the air like normal people.
Once again, the mask comes off. Whatever isn’t prohibited, must be mandatory. There’s no need to arm teachers, just stop prohibiting them or others from lawfully carrying if they choose to do so.
It’s kinda weird that some don’t trust their teacher to responsibly handle a firearm, but they can responsibly educate their child.
My wife is a school counselor and says she wouldn’t trust the majority of the staff with a firearm. Really says something about government schools.
That band has good taste in crappy beer. Vitamin R is my go to cheap yellow beer.
If it’s being done by a calculator, it must be true.
https://elizabethwarren.com/kids/?source=childcal-twitter
I didn’t see a button for “No, and I resent paying for other people’s child care”.
This.
If Elizabeth Warren is that enthusiastic for it, let us see her get people to voluntarily pay for it.
Do you have kids?
No.
Do you want kids?
No.
Shut up and pay for other people’s kids!
No.
Give us your kids, what could go wrong?
This is most interesting.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/31/deepfake-porn-ethics-able-watch-whatever-imagination-desires-9526079/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=53&v=cQ54GDm1eL0
So the Margot Robbie-Mila Kunis-Kate Upton threesome I’ve wanted to see is now possible? Sweet.
Robby pounding Nick
Good God! You’ve got a dark turn of mind! Deadwood movie premiering tonight! Woot!
It’s a race to the bottom here, but it was my turn to win something.
Open the fuckin’ canned peaches, Johnny!
*golf clap*
I can’t watch it tonight because I don’t have HBO anymore, but I’ll have to sign back up for a month so I can see it. Can’t believe it actually happened after all these years. Hope it lives up to my anticipation.
#me too. My absolute favorite TV show. I won’t get to watch until Saturday.
I read down a few paragraphs in that story. Apparently, in order to defeat this scourge, DARPA has gotten involved. I guess we need advanced research to protect our celebrities.
I’ve watched a few of my favorite actress. They are amazing but still creepy and not really worth it.
Great Old Guy music. I had to really fight the urge to let out a rebel yell or two.
YIP-YIP-YIP-YEEEHAAAAWWWWWW!
Something which occurs to me: How many pages long is the nondisclosure agreement you have to sign to be a member of the Zuckerberg “household staff”?
The just sign the facebook terms of service, which gives Zuck more control than an NDA.
My wife is a school counselor and says she wouldn’t trust the majority of the staff with a firearm. Really says something about government schools.
How else will we weed out the worst of the worst?
“So chucking the exam is the proposed solution”
Scientists doing science is so old fashioned, man. What the world needs now is scienticians doing #Science!
“Ranger Brad, I’m a scientist. I don’t believe in anything”.
+1 dancing skeleton and a cat lady.
We love that fucking movie and Animala is a stone fox! “She danced. Oh how she danced!”
I’ve ‘seen’ that movie once, in that it was playing at like 4:00 AM as part of a 48 hour movie marathon, and I sat through it drifting back and forth between awake and alseep. I don’t know how much of what I experienced was that movie, and how much of it was dreams influenced by that movie, but it was pretty fucked up.
I’ve made short films in that same style, if it weren’t that doxxing were a thing one had to worry about…
“quit it, Tammy. quit it…”https://youtu.be/HvnEyrVNNG4
Darn https://youtu.be/HvnEyrVNNG4
We already have that. And not just the politicized stuff (climate change, evolution, etc.). Did you see the Glib coverage of supernova caused bipedalism?
“why an urban Jew is so fond of jazz and bluegrass.”
For OMWC (or HM).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZGnh94uNyQ
Isn’t “urban Jew” redundant?
Kibbutzers?
There are Urban Jews and Suburban Jews, but are there Rural Jews?
40 years in the wilderness = a road trip through the Midwest.
“This is for the Bloombergs!” That’s proof of the Global Conspiracy right there!
All-American Despair
For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers
Penny Dreadfuls.
I read that as “Penis Dreadfuls”.
potato/potatoe
Nice to see Jayson Blair got a new gig.
“They didn’t use guns. ”
Man, the suicide rate in Japan must be really low then.
Pretty sick, using a legitimate issue as fodder for your activism.
The suicides among white males has absolutely nothing to do with large numbers of their fellow Americans and nearly all the media (especially including RS) telling them they are evil, though. It’s all because of the damn guns.
Do you think a lot of white dudes care about mainstream media? My guess is lots of PTSD soldiers and culture of men being stoic individuals who aren’t allowed to share their emotions with the stigma attached to mental healthcare.
I guess my point was that it sure as hell isn’t the guns. And that maybe the media (whether white dudes care or not) should tone down the “bad white man” trope a bit.
Fuck, it starts way earlier than that. Boys are taught to be girls with dicks. They know it’s wrong, but they are marinated in the beta sauce for so many years they end up completely conflicted, depressed and yes, suicidal.
A lot of this. When even Meryl Streep says “hey, maybe that whole toxic masculinity thing is a bad idea”, then its probably a really bad idea.
I am appalled at the feminization of young men – not just their clothes, but their affect, gestures, etc. I have to believe it isn’t healthy, at all.
It’s very noticeable in a lot of TV commercials now, especially anything targeting millennials.
Go to a college campus. Its kind of disturbing.
You left out Trump.
guns, poverty and isolation
One of these things is not like the other.
a Buddhist mortician whose cries for help were met by scorn in a cowboy county
I’ve lived in cowboy counties and in cities. You are much more likely to get help from your “cowboy” neighbors than in a city.
“mythical marauders”
Interesting framing: white guy lives in parent’s basement, drinks vodka, and watches Fox (what a loser and an asshole, amirite?). Poor Buddhist guy is victimized by the apathy of his Trump loving neighbors (what a bunch of heartless assholes, amirite?). Rolling Stone is a fucking cesspit.
the author is kind and compassionate – like this:
Christ, what an asshole
Look, we know they’re entitled pieces of shit but someone cares about them.
I think he just admitted that he likes bashing people’s friends, brothers and husbands.
Wut? That doesn’t even make sense.
That’s called giving your customers what they want. Or whatever customers you have left, anyway.
We are basically traveling from motel to motel right now across California and see a lot of despair, families trapped with good jobs but no way to save because motel rates and no real way to cook. It’s a hard life, but life is hard anyway, suck it up and move on Cowboy…….
fueled by guns
Luckily my guns are not sentient and in my ear nagging and daring me to off myself.
fueled by guns
Some great mind was recently tweeting about the ethics of guns. I observed that people have ethics, not objects. Her reply was the trendy “wut.”
“If your friend borrows your dildo without your consent, has your dildo been unethical and cheated on you?”
You know what got me elected?
I wish that had better audio, saw it yesterday and got a sad that I can’t use if for a cartoon, it spurred so many ideas that are now for naught.
He ain’t wrong.
He’s negging the Press when he does this. No one can hear the questions over the sound of the helicopter thus he gets to frame the answers. That’s pretty fucking crafty.
I just realized Trump is Brock Lesnar.
If President Donald J. Trump is the Beast, then where is the Mark?
It’s all over
What kind of economic system is most conducive to human wellbeing? That question has come to define the current era, because, after 40 years of neoliberalism in the United States and other advanced economies, we know what doesn’t work.
The neoliberal experiment – lower taxes on the rich, deregulation of labour and product markets, financialisation, and globalisation – has been a spectacular failure. Growth is lower than it was in the quarter-century after the second world war, and most of it has accrued to the very top of the income scale. After decades of stagnant or even falling incomes for those below them, neoliberalism must be pronounced dead and buried.
If Joe Stiglitz says it, I have no alternative but to believe. We’re fucked. Bring in the tankies.
Can’t bring himself to go back as far as the LBJ administration, and won’t mention “gold standard” either. So he’s a fraud, plain and simple.
What a ridiculous comparison. Let’s destroy half the industrialized capacity of the planet and see if we get a Krugnutsian Bounce.
Growth is lower than it was in the quarter-century after the second world war
Oddly, government in the industrialized world was smaller then, too. But let’s not look at that correlation.
lower taxes on the rich, deregulation of labour and product markets, financialisation, and globalisation
I’m pretty sure the “rich” are paying as much or more taxes than they used to. Lower rates ain’t necessarily lower taxes.
On what planet have labor and product markets been deregulated?
Financialization – not sure how this is a product of government policy.
Globalization – you mean, the interconnection of markets that is reducing extreme poverty? That globalization?
Growth . . . has accrued to the very top of the income scale.
Bullshit. The rising tide really is lifting all boats, broadly speaking. The fact that the deeper waters allow the rich to buy bigger yachts doesn’t change that.
Planet Strawman
So what your saying is, the Fat Man was good for growth?
*Krugabe Intensifies!*
“Growth is lower than it was in the quarter-century after the second world war”
Good point. Because there were no extraordinary circumstances from 1945 to 1970 that might have caused that growth, right?
This is great: Remember that list of “manly” skills that cuck said we need to forget about? Babylon Bee has a list, too:
12 Obsolete Manly Activities And What You Can Replace Them With
Grill your face. Lol
Something like this?
Isn’t that a Grateful Dead album?
+1 Antifa
manly skills
Turns out my parents had this pocketknife that had been my backup when I was fourteen; I mislaid it in those days, they found it and put it in a drawer, and four decades went by. Now found, I flipped open the stockman: all three blades razor sharp still.
IOW: the last time I knew what I was doing was when I was 14, before Salon was making the rules.
The Bee is the best!
I miss Vhyrus.
When I walk into the kitchen the pickle jars open themselves. Out of fear, and I like to think out of respect, too. But fear will do.
No group in the history of the world has been given and squandered more than the white man.
Whatever, dude. Take your meds.
Trump’s tariffs – not my choice of the policy tool to reduce the waves of migrants coming up from Latin America. I would have looked at the aid we currently send to those countries (which isn’t helping anyone but the apparatchiks anyway; cutting it won’t hurt the poor and make more of them head our way) and at the NGOs organizing the caravans. You’d think our massive intelligence and law enforcement communities could take those apart no problem, especially since there is overlap with the organizations supporting antifa, BAMN, and miscellaneous activists committing all kinds of (petty) crimes. Shut down those networks because they support criminal activity, and I think you would see real improvement in a lot of areas.
You make me smile, RC. You’re that cute!
“You’d think our massive intelligence and law enforcement communities could take those apart no problem”
But if they succeed, then they won’t get their budget increased very much. If they fail, they get shitloads more money.
“You’d think our massive intelligence and law enforcement communities could take those apart no problem”
Even if true, why would they? Because Trump told them to? But even if they did sign on, how much could they actually do? We’re talking about stuff happening in other countries. There’s only so much they can do without the support of those countries. Countries which have had ZERO incentive to do so.