You know Brett. He’s double booked between two clients trying to pick up product from him, the problem of course he only has enough product for one of them, and will likely make them fight to the death to see who gets the privilege of purchasing from Don Brett.
For the links!
The big news down south is coming from Argentina. Yesterday their stock exchange dropped a gut wrenching 48%. Why? This guy, no, not Peron. Peron is dead, but his dumbass ideas are not. The Argentines have compulsory primary elections and the current, pro-business president Macri and his policies of austerity, lost in the primary. Now the actual election is in October but he lost by a 15% margin. Which makes it Brazil–in reverse.
Speaking of Brazil, a well-known drug trafficker attempts to escape from prison by disguising himself as his daughter.
Around 300 protesters, mostly female, descended on the Mexican capital’s prosecutor’s office on Monday. Armed with pink glitter and spray paint, they advanced on the building, smashing its door and leaving a pig’s head outside. The protests were sparked by two recent rape cases. The first involves a 17-year-old girl who said four policemen raped her in their patrol car in Azcapotzalco, in the capital’s north, on 3 August. The second concerns a 16-year-old girl who said a policeman raped her in a museum in the city centre days later.
An interesting article on the lengths Venezuela needs to go to evade US Sanctions.
Here’s some tunes sure to irritate…probably all of you. Have a great day…
Comments
435 responses to “¿Martes en la tarde? Enlaces Mexicanos!”
Afternoon, Sharpshooter.
*opens eyes wide and tilts head back at UCS*
I just want to know who bought that Argentinian crap debt. They’ve defaulted 8 times since their founding.
Probably the US taxpayers.
Argentina is Marxi-core.
First sign you’re doing it wrong if you’re well-known in a clandestine occupation.
*narrows gaze at 007*
To be fair, he was convicted and in prison.
Where they apparently had Mission Impossible movies on continuous loop.
He was found hanged in his cell six hours later.
You know who else had their head of pigs in their capitol?
The Swine Republic?
Comrade Napoleon, Father of All Animals?
Damnit, I took too long trying to work in Animal Farm.
I think you mean 1984.
Lord of the Flies?
Those kids from Lord of the Flies?
Jimmy Dean ?
Now I want sausage.
SPQR?
Pinochet>Peron. Sure he killed a bunch of people but he knew his economics (or hired the right people at least).
When it came to death tolls, Pinochet was a piker compared to your typical leftist tinpot dictator.
Helicopters are expensive.
All that fuel per commie. It’s an extravagance.
Everywhere.
There’s a thing that’s always bothered me about the entire Pinochet issue. Okay, I’m willing to accept that he was a bad dude. That’s fine. The problem here is what would a good guy have done differently. The legislature was asking the armed forces to intervene, and Allende had already arrested the previous head of the armed forces because his existence was a threat to him. Allende’s government had brought in a bunch of Cuban “advisors” who were in the process of training an army answerable only to Allende and the socialists. I don’t really understand what Augusto Pinochet in “bearded Spock” universe would have done that would have been hugely different.
This. Allende wanted to go Che on his enemies and become the next Castro. Political violence was going to happen one way or the other.
Recall where Pinochet’s bad rep comes from:
Leftist Academia and the leftist media.
+1 Chomsky Pol Pot Apologia
In contrast with where Peron’s rep comes from….A movie starring Madonna.
Peronism is probably where the US will end up. Collectivism split between radical “left” and “right” with nobody paying the bills.
At least we can look forward to the taxpayer funded resorts.
Who pronounce his name like he’s French.
It would be funny to see someone make a movie basically lionizing Pinochet, only putting the Allende role to a superficially “Trump-like” figure. After Hollywood goes apecrap for it, the makers could dedicate the film’s accolades to “the greatness that was General Augusto Pinochet”.
They should start with a Broadway musical. It worked for rehabilitation the image of Hamilton, who is now an icon for dipshits who never paid attention in history class.
He’s borderline bad. He stopped a real commie revolution and purged the commies out of the government. That’s dirty distasteful work, but necessary if you want a free country. I have a bad feeling we are approaching a similar decision.
The old saying – you can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out.
I searched for the 100 million killed by communist stat and found a snopian nuh-uh, it was only 93 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
I have some books from Dikötter in my “to-read” pile.
Based on the reviews of those books, Dikötter’s work might increase Mao’s total, which I guess might also count as a Snopian nuh-uh.
That somehow read as “Dickdoctor”.
It’s a hard job, but somebody’s got to do it.
My dick doc took a glans at mine and told me that I should go pubic with it.
Playing doctor isn’t the same as going to the doctor.
Oh, so “mostly false”.
They’ve weaved a positive spin on Allende. He was elected you know.
Ain’t democracy grand?
Progs in a nutshell.
Allende elected!
Yay! Democracy works!
Trump elected!
Boo! Democracy doesn’t work!
Democracy would’ve worked and elected Herself — it was the Russians who interfered. Like how Stacey Abrams totally should’ve won if those dead people hadn’t gotten purged off the rolls suppressing the votes!
I’m torn as well. I hate the thought of killing people over disagreements, and despise any curtailment of speech. But once the Commies have the votes to take over what else do you do?
Well, look at it this way – which is the better place to live today, Chile or Argentina?
Pinochet being a bad guy sure as hell doesn’t make Allende a good guy.
Here’s some tunes sure to irritate…probably all of you.
Huh. I was prepared to hate it, but that’s not bad…
It’s not as if I linked it….
This guy gets it.
Yeah – at least a marginal improvement on the original (Depeche Mode?)
Also, GBV was a good choice upthread.
Depeche Mode, summer of 1990 (so right after I graduated HS).
I can come up with much worse from that summer.
Ted, no one here doubts your ability to drop ear cancer on us. We all know & respect your talent in this regard.
I mean Michael Bolton? That’s close to a hate crime.
Favorite Micheal Bolton song.
Mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XASNM1XEQPs
I love New Order.
I love The Cure
I love OMD
but for some reason I’ve never been able to fathom, I don’t like Depeche Mode.
I don’t hate them, but they always struck me as kind of whiny. Or maybe that was their fans.
You also forgot Echo
Your first three have aged really well.
DM has not. At all. I still have a few old favorites (“But Not Tonight” still has it) but I rarely listen to them any more.
Titty Tuesday rocks, rolls and jiggles its way into your day.
http://archive.is/ZDCpX
#43
Is #18 a real person?
No, it’s CG
Yeah, but the eyes (at least) aren’t. I suspect it’s a real woman with either Photoshop, or as UCS says, CG enhancement.
GAH!
Conservative Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffered a resounding defeat in primary elections on Sunday.
The primary, in which presidential candidates from all parties take part, was won by his left-wing rival, Alberto Fernández.
Oh fuck. I was hopeful for Argentina turning around.
Malta, a Mediterranean archipelago that lies between Sicily and the coast of North Africa, has become a new ally of the Nicolás Maduro regime, allowing the dictatorship to transfer crude oil as contraband from ship to ship.
Malta used to offer a citizenship by investment program. The EU made them tweak the program. I wonder if Maduro is taking advantage of this program.
I had no illusions. Given their long standing tradition of fucking their creditors, I saw no reason they would change this time.
you’d think a country so rich in natural resources would have no problem managing itself to wealth and glory !
/ Kremlin
I mean, they were a colony of Spain, so they come by it honest.
Malta, Maduro’s New Ally Which Will Help Him Evade Sanctions
Okay, but where do the Templars fit in?
I’m sorry, but I don’t have Eddie’s email.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7353341/Demi-Rose-showcases-hourglass-physique-two-skimpy-swimwear-ensembles.html
What we really need to know is if she bleaches her asshole. The people demand answers!
Yes, I want to know if I should buy stock in Clorox.
Still as fat as yesterday.
Confident prediction: she’ll still be fat tomorrow.
“hourglass physique”
And all the sand has gone to the bottom.
2nd pic looks like a thin girl sitting on a bean bag chair.
Why does the US government have sanctions on Venezuela?
We’re trying to foment some change down there.
To what purpose? I thought foreigners meddling in elections was treason.
It’s OK when we do it.
*pushes glasses up nose*
Ackshyually, its not treason for a foreigner to meddle in an election, because they owe no loyalty to the country holding the election they are meddling with.
Well then it must be naziism.
It’s definitely racist.
BFYTW?
Don’t know. Maybe for nationalizing assets of US companies?
You mean like eminent domain or more like declaring it a historical landmark?
Its different when we do it because shut up.
Plus, the US government isn’t likely to sanction the US because the US government seized some assets.
Uh… the Monroe Doctrine?
That’s poor reasoning since we do business with China and Russia.
Whenever anyone is oppressed, whenever any dictator seizes the wealth of a nation to support his evil designs, there you will find the great hero! SANCTION Man! He swoops in trailing banners of virtue, clearly superior to his evil twin Intervention Man, and proceeds to starve the peasants. His motto “If things get bad enough, people will rebel”
The fact that he is pulling an o-fer in this is a vile calumny spread by Intervention Man, who prefers bombing those peasants to save them.
He’s double booked between two clients
+ 1 Eiffel Tower
+1 Pig on a Spit
+1 Kavanaugh Special
IT WAS A DRINKING GAME
Boof! There it is!
You’re sayin Brett is getting spit roasted? HAWT!
I don’t think it works with a dude in the middle. Think Sushi Sandwich.
There are at least a few Glibs who would disagree.
*taps nose*
I know what you mean..,
That song is just 3.5 minutes of the person trying to politely tell their partner to shut up.
Here’s some tunes sure to irritate…probably all of you.
I’m not irritated. I just wouldn’t listen if I saw something I don’t like.
Demi Rose version of an hourglass figure
Here’s another angle.
Also:
https://archive.is/XLihn/e8d7b5159f9d3253d770fed2a12a4b32a5f09835.jpg
Today, at the Home Depot
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7353517/Alison-Brie-ray-sunshine-bright-yellow-frock-arrives-Good-Morning-America.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7353085/Lily-Collins-looks-effortlessly-chic-two-stylish-ensembles-latest-TV-project-Emily-Paris.html
Annie’s boobs are back. She’s not as cut. Hallelujah.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7353223/Scarlett-Johansson-flaunts-beach-body-tattoos-fiance-Colin-Jost-Hamptons.html
No idea why she would think that makes her look better.
It looks like she has another snaking under her left breast.
Proving once again that movie stars without the makeup, clothes, lighting, and airbrushing are almost without exception pretty ordinary-looking.
I don’t find her that attractive with all those things.
That has long been my theory. They are a blank canvas for the make-artist.
Rather unfortunate
EF is older and has better legs ‘n’ behind than that. /just saying
C’mon man, don’t make me do this…
Pics?
EF has her lawyerly dignity (ha!) to uphold.
She hasn’t looked good since ‘Mannie and Lo”.
The Fredo story just gets better, since it has sent people to the Fredo archives where this tidbit surfaced:
SCENE: Fredo is being interviewed by Alisyn Camerota on CNN, who in her typical bareknuckled fashion when interviewing a Dem, asks him about his shirt.
Wow, just wow.
Damn. Wearing Daddy’s Fidel shirt and talking up communism. He’s even more of a dirt bag than I thought.
Can I hit this asshole in the neck with a machete? I am not a lawyer, but I’m thinking there should be some wiggle room.
Maybe just take him fishin’?
What a shitheel
We should do a series of articles about fashion, like the Daily Mail.
“Brett L flaunts dad bod in t-shirt and shorts”
“SugarFree stuns in butt-down shirt and jeans”
“Lachowski rocks work coveralls”
This comes to mind.
Cool, but a little pricey for me…
UCS
dazzlesshows up in beige driving gloves.I’ll edit it if Gilmore and Naptown will write it
I’m here to help.
I can rock my Hugo Boss leather jacket. /you know who else
Fashion by Assberg’ers of Hollywood!
Scruffy asked in last thread who bought the Argentine bonds:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-13/720bn-fund-suffers-biggest-crash-2008-argentina-implosion
Idiot, should have had the Clintons in on the deal.
“including the country’s infamous 100 year bond due 2117”
Hahahahaha
Idiots.
90 years after climate change destroys us all. Ha.
and apparently at least one pigs’ head. Which seems a real waste now that I’ve been introduced to the joys of jowl bacon.
+1 Head Cheese
I had pig cheeks braized in Malbec at a now closed restaurant. So good!
I guess it’s braised.
How was your dinner at the BF?
Mighty darn tasty; thanks for asking. But the best part was dining with my brother and a dear family, decades-long friend, both currently living in the SF Bay Area (Burlingame and Oakland respectively). Both have post-docs and while I don’t hold higher eduction to be a marker of quality in a person, these two guys are world-traveled and a shit-load of fun. Great senses of humor. The pig cheeks were had at Brasserie Zentral on 5th and Nicollet (now Mercury) before it closed in 2016, which had great food in very small portions at unjustifyingly high prices. No wonder they went out of business; markets reward value.
Ox cheek is the bomb.
Always found this Laurie Anderson song interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
Welcome to the Danger Zone: The Story Behind Kenny Loggins’s ‘Danger Zone’
Nah
I can only imagine how wild that scene was.
+1 Archer
And a tactical turtleneck.
I’m Terrified to Have Sex Because Everyone Lies About STDs
It’s all over, you old bag. You peaked at 19 and it’s been downhill ever since. Do us all a favor and just end it – we are tired of looking at your old body.
Condoms?
Neg her all you want, she’s still not going to fuck you Crusty.
Ummm I am disease free…
She has that covered: “I know some men may not even know if they have an STD.”
No he means he just gives them away.
And she is writing this why, exactly? Either you stay home with your cats and sex toys or you are on the market. Which is it?
Cries
“Either you stay home with your cats and sex toys ”
But you repeat yourself.
*hurk*
*hurk*
*hurk**hurk*
*vomits hairball on the floor*
I’m sick of all these damn incels whining!
LOL
“Is there any way out of this box?”
Have you tried opening a box of condoms?
And lube, lots of lube
All she needs is some shirtless 70s Burt Reynolds and shirtless 80s Tom Selleck and she will be gushing.
Trust me.
Yes. It’s called marriage. If you’re doing it right, you’ll have someone who continues to find you attractive and v.v. and bangs you until you’re much older.
It’s this kind of empathy and understanding that brings me back to glibertarians.com over and over again.
The owners of the site, as well as everyone who posts here, wholeheartedly endorse every comment I post.
silence is consent !
/ not #MeToo
Fuck you Tulpa!
Drive-in sex booths proposed for Berlin’s historic Tempelhof airport
It’s called capitalism!
“Kochland” Examines the Koch Brothers’ Early, Crucial Role in Climate-Change Denial
Put the Kochs and their families in prison and seize their wealth in order to help pay for climate change initiatives.
FIX THIS MISTAKE WEBMASTER!! STOP MESSING UP!!!
Dude. Just take your Gilmoring like a man and move on.
I am not responsible!
We can tell that. But as long as you accept the consequences of your irresponsibility we are cool with it.
Sounds like a driveway to the danger zone
I, too, tried to keep a thread theme going. Alas.
Keynesians are today’s flat earthers.
https://centerforindividualism.org/keynesian-economists-are-todays-flat-earthers/
There are no Keynesians.
Obama was half Keynesian because of his father.
https://www.aier.org/article/revolution-1948-and-its-reversal
I find it interesting that he hates the New Dealers yet is full of praise for FDR’s Secretary of State. Also he helped create the United Nations and convinced Al Gore Sr. to be enter Federal politics.
Also that the views on trade of Lincoln, FDR and Wilson get glossed over. ORANGEMANBAD you know.
Interesting that Hull turned back the St. Louis and was a prominent Tennessee Democrat for 40 years. Hmmm….
OMG. It’s beautiful.
The best timeline.
Chris Fredo played right into it.
Yale’s finest.
If you were Fredo’s PR gender-neutral PR publicist what would you tell him to do?
-Pretend it never happened and move on?
-Use CNN and double down about the rise of white supremacy and this was proof?
-Accept it and HAVE FUN WITH IT?
I would have recreated the scene from the movie, laughed and told the guy to have a nice day.
The best response.
“Hey, you remember that scene? Its awesome. I remember Fredo’s lines, do you think you do Pacino’s lines?”
If I were Fredo’s gender-neutral PR publicist, I’d kill myself.
https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/latinos-for-trump-tee-1
The couldn’t print “Latinas” for the women’s shirt?
She’s wearing her boyfriend’s shirt?
You think the neo-nazi printing shop they used knows the difference between Latino, and Latina?
Latinx for Trump!
Are there really that many Transgender Latinos?
So sad when the skin craves love. Is there any way out of this box?
What’s a little syphilis when you’re 100% certain to be murdered by a lunatic with and assault weapon the next time you go to the grocery store?
Fuck it, live a little.
All she has to do is find a man she likes and lock him in her basement while she waits for the results of his STD tests to come back.
The cats will eat before then.
She knows from experience.
Eat ‘him’ before…
The #MeToo Case Dividing Wall Street “I didn’t believe my filing this suit would damage my career as much as it has.”
A woman her age should just be happy someone willingly touched her. Gross.
“My psychotherapist says that I am the best compartmentalizer she’s ever met,”
I think that wasn’t a compliment.
Effing Christ, she files a questionable #MeToo lawsuit against her employer, and she surprised it has damaged her career? You’d have to be complete idiot to hire her at this point.
The Kochs’ secret sauce, as Leonard describes it, has been a penchant for long-term planning, patience, and flexibility; a relentless pursuit of profit; and the control that comes from owning some eighty per cent of their business empire themselves, without interference from stockholders or virtually anyone else.
Oh, horror.
For The Athletic subscribers:
Bourne: Why today’s NHL stars look far different than those that dominated decades ago
He lays out a lot of stats – the decrease in slapshots and hits among them – and highlights how the best players, in addition to being more complete, are amazingly effective liars.
So will they become politicians?
I’m a fellow subscriber. I really like most of the content they put out.
Good stuff. Thanks.
Sidney Crosby is the closest thing to Gordie Howe in the NHL. Which is why he’s often called ‘over rated’.
The game today is all about skating. If you can’t skate, you’re done. Back in the day you could get away with it by just being a super smart positional player. But you can’t do that with a guy like McDavid in the league.
Remember guys like Ron Flockhart? They could skate like the wind but without much skill. Lafleur was the full package though. The Flower would protect himself against the Bruins and Flyers.
God bless Lafleur:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12-x70nq0vI
THOSE were my Habs.
Meh – I’ll take Bobby Orr.
or Pavel Datsyuk (to be more modern)
You sound like my father (God rest his soul) about Orr.
Bobby fricken Orr.
never saw Orr
Zubov was the best I ever saw: flawless skating and passing
Gretzky was the best I ever saw. Mediocre skating, weak as a little girl and an absolute magician.
Niklas Lidstrom is also one of my faves of all time. Did everything well.
With you on all counts.
Gretzky’s dominance is beyond astonishing given what you said.
Nothing beats the time me and a friend were watching the Oilers and he passed the puck to the other side of the ice seemingly without thought and then out of nowhere came Kurri to smash the puck into the net.
They were the greatest team I ever saw.
Lidstrom was amazing
Escaped Jr got Howe’s autograph around 2004, was sporting a cast on an arm at the time; Mr Hockey takes five minutes kibbitzing with the kid about his similar injury. Few people live up to their reputations, but Howe seemed to really enjoy his fans.
Not just his fans. From an Athletic story last week:
I only saw Gretzky play a few times as I don’t really follow hockey.
I always thought Gretzky was too pretty to be a hockey player.
I’ll take Howe. Saw him play with the Vipers.
I think this has to do with year-round training. Hockey players used to have a job during the summer. And a lot of them were not in great shape by today’s standards. But now there is baseline physical conditioning, speed, and skills that every player must have just to get on a roster.
Yep, and another good reason to just leave the fucking rinks alone. Lack of space and time makes for a creative and awesome game.
Wrong. We need Olympic Ice like yesterday. The players have outgrown the rink.
It’s just not my day. 2 speed camera tickets arrived in the mail, I realized (upon opening) that I inadvertently purchased deodorant instead of my preferred antiperspirant, and I dropped an unopened freshly purchased liter of Wild Turkey 101 onto the kitchen floor resulting in a sea of Bourbon and glass on my tile (that I just mopped this morning). I think I’m gonna just go to bed.
This is the saddest story ever told.
I’m sorry this happened to you.
Thoughts & prayers.
Dang. Sorry, dude.
Sorry.
2 speed camera tickets arrived in the mail,
I recall reading that in AZ, at least, mailing those things doesn’t count as actual service, and you have no obligation to respond. You have to be personally served for them to stick. You might look into in your state.
a sea of Bourbon and glass on my tile
Careful you don’t cut your tongue.
(that I just mopped this morning).
You caught a break there, really.
If you just mopped this morning, it’s fine to lick it off the floor.
The bourbon is antiseptic, so there really shouldn’t be any problem licking it up.
And then you can just sleep right there.
Double win!
Yikes! Sorry.
Surely one of the Democrat candidates will feel your pain and promise to do something because being unlucky violates one of your human rights.
Yes, they’ll raise taxes on bourbon.
Mr. President, we must not allow a bourbon gap!
Sorry you committed misdemeanor alcohol abuse. At least you didn’t cut yourself.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/13/priyanka-chopra-row-over-kashmir-shows-all-problems-with-celebrity-activism
I am.
Racist.
Mr. slave driver over here.
Not that celebrities . . . shouldn’t be taken seriously.
I laughed.
‘American Factory’ Trailer Examines a Culture Clash in the Rust Belt
Or they can just rent the Michael Keaton vehicle, “Gung Ho.”
What is Ron Howard’s best film? Gung Ho or Solo?
Also this is Howard’s latest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly_Elegy_(film)
Opie films, ranked:
Apollo 13
Backdraft
A Simple Mind
Splash (may have been my first movie boob! There are visible boobs! And buttocks!)
Parenthood
Night Shift
The Paper
Backdraft was one of the biggest piles of bullshit drivel to ever contaminate the big screen. I put it on par with Ishtar.
But without it, Iron Chef wouldn’t have its soundtrack.
It was entertaining bullshit.
From a technical standpoint, it was so bad, that I spent half the movie yelling at the television.
Quentin Tarantino Defends ‘Arrogant’ Portrayal of Bruce Lee in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
“If I say…” Oh how quaint, Quentin.
Damn Quentin. Inglourious Basterds and Django where getting you woke points and now you have to say that a white man beating an asian man is okay…
Sounds like a spot on depiction of Bruce Lee
I might have gone with: “That’s not really Bruce Lee. That’s an actor playing Bruce Lee, who actually died quite awhile back. See, this is a story, fiction, where one fictional character beats up another fictional character. Happens all the time in movies. You should check one out sometime. ProTip: nobody really gets hurt.”
Barstool Sports Founder Threatens to Fire Employees Engaged in Unionizing, Which Is Against the Law
We need to bring back the Pinkertons.
Oh my goodness.
Go fuck yourself. thx
AOC is sooo 2018. Like Trudeau is 2015.
Oh the optimist…
Yes, Pelosi really reined her and the other harridans in.
AOC is our collective future. Only up here she’ll be a flabby 40-something white harridan.
I like this guy.
I had no idea he was still around.
No kidding.
And he thinks Megan Rapinoe is a great role model for his daughter.
Because she can spout nonsense and alienate millions of potential fans of a marginal sport?
The Ringer is surprisingly successful, mostly with podcasts
Justice Dept. Says Two Epstein Guards Placed on Leave; Jail Warden Temporarily Reassigned
They’re reading the Catholic church’s playbook.
If they’re still getting a paycheck, it’s still the cop playbook.
Time to hang the Mission Accomplished banner.
Additional actions may be taken as circumstances warrant,
Translation from bureaucratese: If people keep talking about conspiracies and murder, these two $15/hr. GED employees are taking the fall.
The New York State Department of Labor also weighed in on Portnoy’s comments, noting in a tweet that it’s illegal “to take any unfavorable action,” including termination, against employees for union-related activities under the National Labor Relations Act. “New York is a proud union state,” the department said. “We say no way, no how to intimidation, threats and union busting.”
I find this problematic.
The New York State Department of Labor
“New York is a proud union state,”
Totally a neutral government agency.
President Trump on Tuesday disputed that he’s profiting off the presidency
if you’re wealthy it doesn’t matter
so why the bitching ?
Just like the Clinton’s didn’t.
whataboutism ?
What about it?
Posted while watching the new Obama movie on Netflix?
Questions for the Glibs in hiring positions. When someone you interviewed emails you a status/timeline update on hiring. Do you respond? In what cases do you respond?
I had a phone interview a month and a half ago, with the hiring manager. The interview lasted an hour and a half, which I took time off work for. Manager said a lot of things hinting I would get an in person interview and that they were moving fast. Two weeks roll by no call so I send a friendly timeline update request email. Still no response, and the job shows as open on their website. Is it unreasonable to expect a response even if it’s a rejection, given I took a lot of time out of my day?
I wouldn’t think a thing about it, expect anything, or ask for an update.
There are a million things that could have happened, but if they think you’re the guy, that’s not going to change with time or because you called/wrote.
There’s also a fair chance that the holdup is something he can’t talk about anyway. Or everyone is just busy as hell.
Rebait and recast: maybe you get a new nibble, maybe the old nibble comes back to strike. Doesn’t matter: follow your original plan.
I think Don nails it.
No, it’s not unreasonable, but some places never update. It may be they are still deciding and they don’t take the ad down until they hire. Sorry this is happening to you.
I’m sure that that academic job is going to let me know any day now. I mean 15 years is enough to decide, right?
I had one drag out over six weeks. Guy called and offered me the job. I told him I just accepted another position that week. He acted like I should have called and told him right away. It’s like dude, six weeks, really?
Don’t nag them. Be chill.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/13/climate-crisis-mental-health-environmental-anguish
Hysteria?
Prosperity-driven retardation?
Pyromania?
High and Dry
Trump Jr is Tweeting about the Barstool union, so I predict this will knock F–do off the front page
Our local supermercado (Stop & Shop, Arverne) just had a firearms incident. Hundreds, literally hundreds of cops (including 2 SWAT teams), firefighters and people in US Army BDUs(?!?) milling around the parking lot and dozens of customers standing in the opposite lot. Sigh…
Lots of folks getting some sweet sweet overtime?
Tundra, Lord H (and anyone else who’d like to listen) here’s a band I first rec’d to Rhywun: The Organ‘ Hearts Sinking. I love the bass line on this song. It’s kind of gothy, so if you hate the Cure, don’t listen. Other “hits” off their album include “Brother” and “Steven Smith” (not a joke).
Also,Still Corners‘ Black Lagoon.
Both very nice! Never heard of them – will be exploring Still Corners a little more.
Thanks, BP!
I love Black Lagoon. Ethereal, multiple layers, just really well done.
Also, the lead singer is decently hot.
Boy goth sure has gotten upbeat since my kids were in high school. That’s downright chipper:) Seems more like pop to me.
‘Dream pop’ I believe the cool kids call it.
I can’t keep up with all their jive slang.
What the Left Can Learn from the Right About Winning Elections
Slightly verbose, but, you know, interesting and stuff.
You know what would help also? Not being an atrocious writer.
Seriously
Yeah, I can’t stay awake long enough to read either quote.
Indeed. The quoted passages could be reasonably summed up as “The ‘Right’ starts from different intellectual assumptions than the ‘Left’ (and the ‘Left’ doesn’t get that).”
It’s dumbassed, facile, Emperor-has-no-clothes ‘analysis’ like this that made me give up my aspirations back in the 80s to be part of academic cultural life. Haven’t regretted that decision for a single day since.
Populist conservatives on Fox have achieved this feat by delimiting their respective communities as exterior to institutions of American governance as opposed to those communities who seek the resources and protection within the very same institutions, e.g., the Supreme Court and the public square.
I’m getting a distinct whiff of bullshit wrapped in fancy words and atrocious sentence structure.
Hot today, hot tamale.
This reminds me of when I was looking for a house. I called my search the parade of ugly homes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hels/status/1161331748661334017
Yeah, I don’t know how anyone thought that was a good design.
It tame compared to some of the houses I saw. Shudders.
I still have the avocado green cabinets and sink in my bathroom.
Our house had a dining room the color of Pepto Bismal when we moved in:) lol. Painting that was the first thing on the list.
I like the old man sized urinal in the floor tho…
HBO Max Could Pay $1.5 Billion for ‘Big Bang Theory’, ‘Two and a Half Men’ Streaming Rights
We have bad taste.
Why would anyone pay top watch those? I don’t even want to spend my time, let alone cash.
I don’t even have a TV (he smugged) so I’ve never seen either, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that people will pay to watch them because they enjoy watching them.
I don’t have a TV, but I do have friends and family. What I’ve seen of both is that they are at best cringy, and not funny,
Why no tv? I can think of lots of shows you would like.
Years ago, I realized I wasn’t watching it.
I don’t watch TV except for occasionally glancing up while my wife is watching it. We’ll watch some murder shows or some movies together occasionally. I’ll be watching Buckeye football though!!! Been sticking up on booze:)
I really dislike Big Bang Theory. It’s incredibly misogynistic. I am not that sensitive to misogyny, but that is waaay misogynistic.
Plus, it’s not funny.
Neither is The Office, and that worked out for them.
I will admit to laughing at most of these shows on occasion (except “Two and Half Men” – never seen it, never will), but I have little to no desire to see any of them again. They are not classics.
The BBC one has its moments.
But it makes people feel smart.
I don’t really see that. The guys are the duffuses of the show. How often do these “smart” guys have to go to Penny for advice. The girls are like the straight “men”
The way they talk to her, the way they view women as alien. It gives me the creeps.
the way they view women as alien
Well, they are supposed to be really smart.
I think that’s one of the main story lines of the show though. They know math and science, but can’t figure out girls.
Yes, and it’s gross
The premise is women not rational, not understandable even by geniuses. Barf
I see it more as “geniuses in physics and engineering, but dumbasses when it comes to the opposite sex.”
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
Uhhh…
girls are like the straight “men”
That’s certainly how I see it. I never got into comic books or obsessed over sci fi tv, but I’ll tell you what I appreciate about it: they nail the clueless male. I was never as bad as Sheldon, much more a tall, fairly attractive if not both academic and woodsy Leonard: girls were around, and I figured it out well enough, certainly no late bloomer.
But the crashes were epic and often both obvious and avoidable in retrospect. And, like Leonard, women made me a much better me: blow by blow revealing to me my myopia and self-absorption. Good news: there are very yummy reasons not be so self-absorbed, and, it turns out, some soft things can (and continue to) be much more fun than rebuilding carburetors.
2.5 Men is similar: I don’t see Charlie as a hero, but as a loser. His brother’s withering critiques are hilarious. But most women I’ve dated (mostly born after 1970) think it’s about Charlie and hate it/him. I laugh at Charlie because he’s laughable, and I’d argue that the scenes with his therapist are some of the funniest on tv in the past two decades.
My husband watches occasionally since it’s filler for half an hour and I’d say it gets better in later seasons, when Penny’s not the only female around and the butt of their “wow we so smart, she so stupid” jokes. The other guys become more normal, so really only Sheldon remains a douche.
I suspect some of it is through sheer intimidation by the writers since Mayim Blalik is an actual PhD, so they couldn’t really make the women the dummies after she joined the cast.
Even before. There’s an episode early in the series where Penny dated Leonard for a short while and then they broke up, and she’s dating another guy and trying to explain some physics concept to him (Schrodinger’s Cat, I think), and he’s completely flummoxed by it. That moment right there cemented the Penny character for me as smart but started out either naive or uneducated about certain ideas, whilst being very worldly otherwise.
I have a female buddy who can’t watch the show, but not because she finds it misogynist — rather, she actually works with men who remind her way too much of these guys, and their various monomanias drive her nuts. She doesn’t want to be exposed to it outside of work.
Looks at politicians…
Speaking of TV, I binge watched the boys this weekend and really enjoyed it.
The George Bush Ground Zero speech was super timely but probably in there since the comic was probably written awhile ago. Seems very dated now.
Very NSFW: Joey Diaz talking about playing hooky and going to porno theaters in 1970s NYC.
https://youtu.be/wYPIEQYQ7N4
Funny stuff…
“I got doxxed. Address & number.
I’m actually scared.
Gonna take a break from the internet for a while..”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1159589712522170368
“Found out it was Jessica Yaniv who doxxed my address.
Let’s talk.”
“Jessica Yaniv Doxxed Me.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SYY4fGgtyU
She’s in Los Angeles.
Applied to get a gun in the next 6 months?
That’s too bad. She should fix that.
She’s also a lousy shot. Although she did hire security.
She has a gun:)
I don’t know who either of those people are.
“Jessica”* Yaniv is a strong contender for “Worst Person on the Plant Who Has Not Been Convicted of a Violent Crime. Yet.”
*Not his real name.
https://glibertarians.com/2019/08/snp-32/ Frames 4-7. A pervert who’s using “trans” BS to get a chance to molest young girls.
Dammit: https://glibertarians.com/2019/08/snp-32/
Whoa. That was real?
Yes.
Blaire White is transgender woman (M-to-F) with a lot of conservative and or libertarian opinions.
Pretty sweet silenced 9mm
https://youtu.be/LzPVYglh5xs
Original Welrod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12AjvEsaHg
Sweet. Cool background..
Yeah, so I’m wondering if the guy saying the pistol was “designed for veterinarians” is having a laugh or actually believes that.
He is referring to demo ranch, Matt is a veterinarian.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1161364204697333768
LOL
Lol
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Just like Liz.
Awkward!
“De Blasio campaign event in Iowa draws roughly 15 attendees”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1160629468010024962
https://nypost.com/2019/08/11/de-blasio-campaign-event-in-iowa-draws-roughly-15-attendees/
There were 13 people, but one was pregnant, and another was there to get De Blasio to start the reactors because Mars needs air.
The rest I’m sure hated him. Steve Smith has a better chance in Iowa as a write in.
lolwut
She’s as sharp as a tack, that one.
They were probably his campaign staff.
That was quick: A Trump Pence campaign website is selling Fredo Cuomo merch.
https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/fredo-unhinged-tee-1
That’s how I hide drugs in my ass.
Online dating dispatch: there are many men that want to make early conversation all about what they want. I want a woman that will love and trust me and I her. I am becoming adept at shutting that down. Let’s figure out if we share any interests and maybe actually like each other. Then we can have the heavy conversation. I get that values matter, but this isn’t really about values. Instead, I think these guys have a script in mind and just want to slot some woman in.
Sounds like they’re approaching the whole thing as a job interview.
They’re looking for a woman’s slot for sure.
By boring her into submission
Boring into her slot.
It’s hard to compete with the Boring Company
I thought dates were supposed to be fun. You know fishing, hunting, gun show, car show, monster jam, strip club. Something everyone enjoys.
I told bad idea guy I would have been all over him in my 20s but that I now have a security clearance to protect. He’s all ‘here’s my address, we can snuggle in secret’. I need to quit drinking, or I’ll end up calling him
You sound like me. I always have this inner monologue of “yeah this is dumb and it won’t work, you should walk away.”
That’s usually less than 48 hours before the hook-up and about 4-6 weeks from the
“Yep, that was stupid”
Lik I said, I need to quit drinking
Still sounding like me
I’m 50 and single. I…..don’t make good choices.
I know women who would wildly disagree with that assessment. They’re about 50:50 on the “married:single” binary distribution . . .
Well, hello there.
That’s crazy talk.
Drinking is how I met my wife.
Hey! Me too!
Why are you drinking with Playa’s wife?!
Dare I say that it continues to help my marriage?
Damn you. I missed that.
I was just minding my own damn business and my wife tagged me and bagged me.
A friend once gave me a man catching kit. It was a bread pan and a rolling pin. I was supposed to our the man into range with the smell of fresh baked bread, then club him with the rolling pin and drag him back to my lair. I’m still single.
Huh. Any woman could lure me into range with a good baguette. But then I’m genetically, incorrigibly French when it comes to bread and cheese. (Sigh. Now I want some Pont-l’Évêque . . .)
Lol.
I, too, was set up and taken down without knowing what happened.
I was friends with her college roommate and she totally was playing matchmaker.
A sincere thank you to Michele.
Bob Boberson on August 13, 2019, 07:47 PM
Why are you drinking with Playa’s wife?!
Playa Manhattan on August 13, 2019, 07:48 PM
Dare I say that it continues to help my marriage?
Cuck
Just make sure you pick the right week to do it.
I get the security clearance thing. But this is not a dating site. Though I am drinking. If you live in The greater Nashville area…
I may be visiting in late October or late February.
Click on my handle if you wanna msg me via Etsy.
“Click on my handle”
The euphemisms are getting pretty straightforward these days.
Remind me when we get closer. I’ll probably say I’ll be in the area.
They are just trying to qualify the lead.
“I want a woman that will love and trust me and I her”
Whatever happened to “Let’s get fucked up, and do fucked up shit”.
That was my 20s.
I hear ya. There were girls from my past where I was like, we have a lot of fun but we’d probably end up living under a bridge together:)
Have you tried flirting?
https://youtu.be/WwfVaehcdfE
Well yes, but The Late P. Brooks keeps running away.
Lol. How could you even converse with him? I would think he would always by responding to whatever you say 5 minutes later in the conversation:)
Yeah…. does he talk under the table?
He’s a wimp. Well, and city-phobic.
I just ordered Pizza Hut for dinner.
Fight me.
More BOTs tonight. Tomorrow I’m taking tomatoes to work. I’ve eaten so many my lips are burning
Is there no dominos in your area? There Hawaii pizza is great.
I like their mariachi beef.
I HATE the delivery driver that works there Sun-Mon-Tues.
He’ll take 20 orders at a time and stiff the other drivers, and then drive around for the next hour delivering them.
If I’m ordering garbage pizza with a shelf life of 40 minutes, I don’t want it delivered in 90 minutes (or more).
I’ve even ordered at 8pm, and he doesn’t show up until 1030. Get the fuck off of my property.
What a dirt bag
He’s on my top 10 list of enemies.
You had one job, a-hole.
“I don’t want it delivered in 90 minutes (or more).”
Don’t they have some sort of time guarantee?
It’s fine hot.
What in the actual fuck?
This popped up on my bill when I ordered the pizza
You choose to live in California.
Lol. Sucker
https://www.cerescourier.com/opinion/editorial/pizza-hut-makes-it-clear-california-bad-business/
Oooh, I like that strategy!
You’d think they would just charge more for the pizza. This looks like they’re shaming you instead.
Not at all. Read Mad’s link.
Did. I get it. Still think it’s a little too cute. I would ask for a breakdown of exactly what that “fee” is paying for.
Played Manhattan more like it.
You haven’t truly scraped the bottom of the barrel until you pay the $5 for the lunch buffet.
The “Bunch-o’-Lunch?” I had a buddy back in the late 70s who used to eat the sh!t out of that. He looked like it, too . . .
If you are looking for an off the charts cents to calorie ratio, I don’t think it can be beat. It may even be lower than Golden Corral
I went to a Golden Corral a couple months ago and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of food.
I almost took the kids to the Round Table Pizza buffet for lunch today. It’s not $5, but I can definitely eat more than it costs. Can, but shouldn’t.
Do you have Cici’s? Jesus I hate going there because I always walk out about 5000 calories heavier.
Haven’t heard of it.
Round Table is the “gourmet” pizza delivery joint around here. The large pizzas are in the high 20 dollar range, with the calories to match.
The famous one is the Italian Garlic. Cream sauce instead of tomato.
https://www.roundtablepizza.com/menu/
https://www.cicis.com/
Mac and Cheese pizza?
Bold strategy.
Please. I know people who’d be face down in Mac-‘n-Cheese pizza all day long.
Can’t argue. We have Idaho Pizza Company here and I order deliver a couple of times a month. It is definitely ‘Muhrican pizza.
There are times when it’s absolutely appropriate, which for me, is about every other week.
I was amazed at how terrible the pizza is here. Fortunately, there are a couple (as in two) places that make a good pie now.
Wait they start imposing service fees like Playa has to pay.
Hi everyone!! How y’all doin’?
Also, MexiSharp, how do you talk about Mexican weather without linking to Ozzyman’s Yanet Garcia compilation???
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePG6zUYvUZg
Brilliant.