Hey guys, happy Monday. I’ll bet you’re all surprised they let me out of prison on Saturday. I know I was! Just kidding. But seriously, fuck prison. Everything is standing around and waiting for the Man. Even when you go to visit. Also, I took my kids to see a movie this weekend, and everyone was well-behaved and sat through the whole thing. Not like the bitch next to me who had her phone out the whole movie and was talking with her kid like they were in their living room. Fucking hate going to the movies. But it was one of those dine and watch places, so I had a drink to get me through it.
The worst part about this is Russian “airport security” is far less intrusive than here in the “freedom loving” US.
Terminators are coming!
Well I’m sure this report on diet will confirm everybody’s biases.
Being on an open tech ecosystem has its pluses and minuses.
A little bit of fun from the Geto Boyz. Bushwick Bill never got to do his Phuck Cancer tour, but fuck cancer
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476 responses to “Monday Afternoon Links”
Slow commenters
I had titties all queued up for Mammary Monday, but delay until half past I must.
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Therd?
I will not call the city on my neighbors.
I will not call the city on my neighbors.
I will not call the city on my neighbors.
I will not call the city on my neighbors.
Goddammit, mow your damn margins already!
I never called on my neighbors. I did walk to city hall and show pictures of me standing in thigh deep thistles.
When snakes and deer start migrating into my yard, you have violated the NAP.
Well, the problem is, they mow the main lawn, but let the fence and the streetside margin grow wild. So it might just be a corridor for mice to end up in my house again (the last time I ended up with mice was after the same property under the previous owners let the lawn get overgrown)
Good thing UCS came to visit when my lawn mower was running. This week he’d be writing me out a ticket. If I tried to convince him it was haying time he’d have been looking for the cows.
I’m sure you could convince him that the hay was a cash crop, and not for personal use.
When snakes and deer start migrating into my yard, it’s called “moving to the exurbs in Texas”.
My neighbors were all together last Friday and we almost convened a mob with torches and chainsaws to take down an inconveniently placed bush that sits right in the sight lines for getting out of our neighborhood. Figured we should pound on the lady’s door first and ask nicely, but that means an auto-escalation to the county if she tells us to fuck off.
I don’t have that degree of justification, since the problem is mostly a mouse corridor to my house instead of a death trap.
The neighbor across from me in my old house had an overgrown tree that hung over the street. The day the garbage truck hit it and dumped garbage and broken glass at the end of my driveway, I went to the city and told the mayor (who happened to be in at the time — city of 5000, this stuff happens) that either they took care of the tree or I was getting my chainsaw out and cutting the whole tree down.
The garbage was cleaned up before I got home and the guys with the chainsaw on the end of the long stick were there a few hours later.
Asking your neighbor lady to trim her bush might get the cops called on you.
Have you tried knocking on the door and talking to them?
It’s an apartment building. Not owner-occupied. I can’t find the people who are responsible for that crap.
Buy a scythe. Wear a black hoodie. Knock on door and point at tall grass.
Then I’d get arrested for Menacing, even if I manage to talk the jury into believing my intent.
There are times I prefer Bender’s method.
Be careful, UCS. Your slob neighbor, might be the woke mayor of your city.
St. Paul’s mayor hasn’t been doing the shoveling and mowing at his rental property and his neighbors are not amused.
Deer migrating into my yard
Cool. I only have rabbits.
Also, bobcats.
Come to the Cleveland suburbs. The deer don’t exactly migrate into your yard, but rather eat any flowering bush, shrub, or plant (unless it’s daffodils, tulips, or marigolds). They don’t even fear humans anymore.
Fucking rats with hooves.
Fourth!
And while Im here, may as well hit that motherf’in THEME MUSIC!
15 ‘Nazis’ wanted riot at Detroit gay pride parade…
Those damn racists should have known better than to be born black!
Well, it looks like everybody learned something from Charlottesville, particularly mayors.
Nazis in Detroit? Are you sure this is a real story?
That sentence is now missing from the story.
Heh. Yep. I do wonder what the video will be like.
They were not master baiters.
Really? They memory-holed the racism of Antifa? Shocked, shocked I am.
I am waiting for someone to define ‘nazi’.
Lately it seems to mean ‘free speech advocate’.
These were real, no-shit, swastika-carrying, national socialist Nazis. For once.
The fact that he even has to ask the question means the DemOpMedia complex’s campaign of muddying the waters is working.
Working, in the sense that I now disregard 90% of what they “report”, and require some corroboration for the rest.
That bear identifies as an airplane.
When the shit jumps off what the fuck you gonna do?
wipe and flush?
2 down, 2 to go on interview process.
Good luck. I hate interviewing, regardless of which side of the table I’m sitting on.
Good luck. I’ve made it to the “last step” more times than I’d like this past year. Sincerely hope it goes better for you.
Two more towns, two more shows?
One of my favorite songs.
“MAJOR NEW RESEARCH FINDS THERE’S NO ONE PERFECT EATING PLAN FOR EVERYONE”
No. Fucken. Shit.
The gym were I go has metabolic testing (both RMR and VO2 Max). Just the number of calories burned in a day varies widely for each person.
“What you need is a banana protein shake after that run!”
“I’m allergic to bananas.”
“Now, now. Where you gonna replace them potassium? Ghosbusters?”
You have to eat a ton of protein to gain muscle mass!
Then how do cows get so fucking big?
Dr Ian Pearson believes robots will be deployed criminally as assassins or used for espionage by rogue states or individuals.
But he warned such robots will be capable of changing their appearance entirely, leaving police forces unable to trace the culprit.
Dr Pearson, a futurologist, told Daily Star Online: “Problems could arise such as robots used in crimes and not identifiable.
I seen it in the pitcher show. That’s true enough for me.
But can we fuck them?
Safety first.
I think I’d be more worried about that happening to my penis.
Bah. I have a garage door opener and a screwdriver. I can take ’em.
Not Terminator but city-wrecking size here for which that is the proper equipment:
Transcript: wordgirl.fandom.com/wiki/Bampy_Battles_Bots/Transcript
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=FnWKmdaBF-A
‘Futurologist’.
Sounds legit.
Probably got a Master’s in “Future Studies” from Directional State Woke U.
In Europe, a cup of coffee after dinner is the norm, whereas if you tried to adopt the habit stateside-
Is this true? I always have coffee after dinner.
So that’s why you’re awake until dawn.
Or is it the Meth?
It can be both.
It’s not unusual in fancier restaurants. I usually opt for decaf unless I have a long drive home.
My mom and dad used to have coffee after dinner when we went out. Of course, they also lit up a cigarette too, but that was a long time ago.
I was going to mention that. It was a coffee and an evening cigarette or pipe smoke. But again. That was in the old days.
No wonder they were so regular.
I only have it in the morning. Absolutely fucks up my sleep.
I don’t always have coffee after dinner but when I do, it’s from a Keurig machine.
I don’t get this either. I’ve seen this here as well.
In a lot of restaurants, sure, then offer coffee pretty routinely after dinner. I don’t think many Americans have coffee after dinner at home, but I really have no idea. I know we don’t.
Europeans drink coffee more than water. Every time I go, I’m frequently dying of thirst. No more espresso, god damn it, give me some water
Criminals in 2017 managed to get an advanced backdoor-
I’m a fan myself. What? It’s some nerd thing?
It’s a means of taking over a computer via a nonstandard channel without knowledge or concent of the owner.
Think a Stealth CYBER SMITH.
Can’t stand going to the movies too. Haven’t been in years.
In fact, few movies even interest me anymore. They all annoy me. Everything irritates me these days.
/Opens window yells at kids to get off my lawn. Quickly realizes it’s a daycare. Shuts window and quietly sits down irritated.
Have some codeine cough syrup.
Always here to help you people.
I’m with you. I can’t stand sitting still for a couple hours. Streaming video has spoiled me. I want to stop the movie whenever I want and start up again later.
On the other hand Brett is full of shit if he’s complaining about people talking in the theater. That is a stupid rule and I won’t follow it!
My kids and I are often much funnier to listen to than whatever crap movie is on the big screen.
/chews loudly shovelling popcorn in mouth.
OK. That does fucking drive me insane. Let’s call the whole thing off.
Go to Alamo Drafthouse where Texas finally gets something right.
I get some of my best sleep in movie theaters.
And you! A Canadian.
That diet article is a hot mess.
Gee, twins don’t have the same glucose response?!? Astonishing!
Wow. Thanks for that. I had no fucking idea.
I keep eating dairy even though I’m lactose intolerant. Yuk, yuk, yuk.
The more tuned-in to what your body is telling you, the healthier you’ll be.
What bullshit. I used to have a real sweet tooth. No way was eating that much sugar good for me.
Right? I know people that insisted they couldn’t function without meth…
I’m hungry right now. My body is telling me to go find some carbs and sugar to eat. My waistline tells me to get some tea and suck it up.
Going to the movies does suck, especially since it costs and arm and a leg. I will only go if there’s something really worth seeing, which doesn’t happen often.
My wife and I were gonna go over the weekend, since we almost never do. We started looking at what was playing and quickly remembered why we don’t go to the movies.
aayuuup.
Seriously.
The choices always seem to be fake-woke or ka-boom. Blech.
And when it’s a serious movie you can bet it has a stupid left-wing hook. I’d rather watch….
…porn?
Porn is like Hitler.
You know who else is like Hitler?
Al Gore’s alter-ego?
‘Imma ready to go all Hitler on climate change!’
…paint dry?
Honestly, gotta say
The New Godzilla movie was really good, the bad guys were even eco terrorists trying to bring about the end of the world to make up for Mankind screwing up the ecosystem
“They Will Not Grow Old” was a movie worth watching. Besides that, I can’t think of another recent one that I would go out of my way to see
When I went to see that at the theater, people acted as if they were in church. Very reverent.
Sigh. Yeah, even I didn’t talk to my buddy during that movie. It was very good.
Going out on a limb here, I’m going to guess that the crowd that would attend that movie would be a bit different from a general audience.
I figured the audience was a bit self-selecting.
There was no one in the audience yelling at the screen “don’t go in there!!”
Same. Only thing I’ve seen in a theater in about 3-4 years
1. The movies these days suck (or, are very far from my taste in films).
2. With huge TVs as cheap as they are nowadays, I don’t know why I would go to a dirty theater full of loud people with overpriced concessions instead of just sitting on the couch at home with a home-cooked meal and alcohol.
The last movie I saw in a theater was probably that Lauda-vs-Hunt thing. I rated it mediocre.
At least it didn’t have anything in it about teh kkkorporate kkkriminal kkkleptocracy.
I saw John Wick 3. I thought it dropped off a lot from 1&2. I’m not looking forward to 4
But, six is when the franchise makes a comeback
I loved tremors. 2 & 3 got progressively worse, then 4 came out and that shit was off the chain, dawg!
Seriously, though, the Rocky franchise took a nose dive until they did that sixth installment, which I think is as good as the original. The other Rocky movies are all entertaining (except Rocky V- screw you Tommy Gunn), but I and VI are cinema classics, imho
Dolf Lungren must break you.
Then maybe just skip it.
Free advice, 2 cents, pay the nurse.
Same here. Before that was They Shall Not Grow Old. Can’t remember the one before that.
Back in the day, it seems like we would go every weekend during the summer. Now, maybe 4 movies a year. Maybe.
I haven’t been in over a decade. One of the Harry Potters, I think. If something good comes out, I can wait.
We just go to a theater with good food, beer, and comfy recliners. I doubt we’ll ever go to a traditional movie theater again.
You’re old. That’s the difference.
My neighbors can all go piss up a rope.
I have great neighbors, they don’t bother me, I don’t bother them (intentionally).
Fucking hate going to the movies.
Took the son to see Detective Pikachu this weekend. He was fine and I didn’t hate the movie, but I did hate pretty much everyone else.
I guess all theaters do this now (?) but when you buy your tickets you select specific seats. I made the mistake of not going inside to a kiosk and we stood at the full-service window instead. I can see people being asked to select seats where there the theater is wide open, and they just stand there conflicted on what seats to pick.
Thankfully that hasn’t made it to the wilds of Indiana yet.
* Shoots pistols in air *
The problem is that the seat selectors only give you an idea of your view or closeness to the aisle, and the seats themselves are all identical.
It would be nice if they had checkboxes for “fat malodorous farting guy sits here” so you can plan accordingly.
It snowed/rained a bunch this winter/spring. that leads to flooding. So NPR hits the Hinterlands to find a few folks who might be global warming-curious:
https://www.cpr.org/news/npr-story/more-people-see-climate-change-in-record-floods-and-extreme-weather-will-that-mean
“We all owe Al Gore an apology.”
“NPR asked nearly two dozen people in Oklahoma and Arkansas who were experiencing the ongoing flooding about their thoughts on climate change.”
“Climate scientists and communicators in the largely conservative central Plains still see the ongoing flooding as an opportunity, though.”
Algore is gonna die never having seen Britain sink.
/sad trombone.
Relevant:
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/06/09/great-lakes-reveal-the-fatal-flaw-in-global-warming-science/
Considering that climate is continuously changing, that might be technically accurate.
Blaming minor rises and falls in those water levels on SUVs is hubris.
LOL. That says it all. Whole thing is a fraud.
“We are undoubtedly observing the effects of a warming climate in the Great Lakes,”
No shit Einstein. The Great Lakes are depressions in the crust left by miles-deep ice caps that have melted.
The Great Lakes, like all of the other massive lakes such as Lake Baikal and Tanganyika, were formed by continental rifts. The Great Lakes specifically were formed by the failed midcontinent and St Lawrence rifts. They were filled by glacial melt and try definitely have some features created and altered by ice sheets, but the lake beds themselves are the result of North America’s continental plate almost splitting in two.
“We all owe Al Gore an apology.”
Kiss my ass, we don’t owe that grifter jack shit.
“Dear Mister Gore, I’m sorry I thought you as dumb as a board. You have clearly been clever enough to grift millions of dollars from econuts. As such, I retract my previous statement regarding your intellect.”
“you’re still a mendacious piece of shit though.”
Remember, he’s only smarter than the people than the people who gave him money which doesn’t necessarily speak much for his intellect. I will admit he’s running a good grift though.
Now ask victims of home invasion how they feel about gun control.
“Climate scientists and communicators…” LOL
“…people see climate change in…” pretty much everything. They also see Christ’s face in burned toast.
I can’t believe they are still slinging this shit.
Wasn’t there a lady who collected chips that looked like people or something? Was it on Johnny Carson?
I forget.
I think it was potatos.
It was Carson. He scares the daylights out of her by eating a potato chip while she’s talking to Ed.
It causes droughts AND floods! It’s magic!
And earthquakes. Don’t forget the earthquakes.
No, the earthquakes are blamed on fracking.
Relevant since Cleveland got rocked with a ~4.4 magnitude quake earlier today. Where the epicenter was under Lake Erie…
FTFT
What, you don’t think they’re fracking 4 miles out in Lake Erie?
I’m just tired of the media dropping little fake-bombs like that in every. freaking. article. I’m almost like there’s a calculated campaign to keep the FUD circling in readers’ minds.
For a reference point, Lake County in Ohio has the smallest land mass of any county in the state. 75% of it’s area is Lake Erie (hence the name). If it makes you feel better, they mentioned that the nuclear plant in Perry (about 20 miles away, and been in operation since 1986) reported no issues due to the quake.
Big Papi update:
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Boston Red Sox star David ‘Big Papi’ Ortiz was shot in a Dominican Republic bar by ‘two cops hired by a drug lord who believed the baseball hero was having an affair with his wife’
Good video of the guy getting the shit kicked out of him.
Heard that earlier. Crazy shit. If he was doing that…wtf?
I assume the cops are getting a paid vacation?
That is some serious discount hit-manning. Drug lord deserves a refund
If it’s a hit that guy is gonna be fertilizer for Haitian crops soon.
I knew it had to be something like that.
Nice. Big warnings about graphic violence, etc. On an auto play video.
This is the same country where Americans are mysteriously dropping dead at their resorts and the authorities don’t know nothin’. Yeah, hard pass for me. Even if my name was “Big Papi” I’d stay the hell away from that shithole.
I am disappoint.
Nobody asked “is she hot” or posted a pic of the drug lord arm candy. Because I would bet she is flaming hot.
Indeed. The big question for Big Papi once he recovers will be: “Worth it?”
That’s been one of the best parts about binge watching Narcos recently – the show is loaded with gorgeous South American women.
“We all owe Al Gore an apology.”
That’s exactly what I was thinking as I was looking up the hill at the fresh snow in the trees, Saturday morning.
Are the ice caps finally gone?
No, we’re still in an ice age.
But the sea levels are up 20ft?
They adjusted the size of the “Oceanic foot” to reach that assessment.
I don’t remember who but I remember someone seriously reporting that the seas are rising 0.3mm faster. I think. I literally spit vodka out of my nose when I read that.
Sea levels are up 400ft, from when the ice caps started melting. 20,000 years ago.
And while I’m on the public radio beat, that religious baker ordered to bake a cake by the State of Colorado has another lawsuit on his hands:
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/masterpiece-baker-jack-phillips-is-up-against-yet-another-legal-complaint
This time it’s a transgender birthday/transitioning cake.
Well, the weasel ruling last time gave the unconstitutional government agency the magic words to ignore freedom of religion.
This seems fair. Honestly, how is this guy supposed to bake a cake that turns into a woman?
In the old days the woman merely popped out of a cake.
Imagine a contestant doing that for the Great British Bake Off.
You have seen English women, right?
Have you seen 20th century (not 2005-) Doctor Who?
Dr. What?
A TV show watched by a long list of Glibs about a dangerous guy who travels in time and space whose main superpower is that he is superhumanly smart. The original show’s first episode first aired November 23, 1963 and its last episode first aired December 6, 1989. Gives a misleading impression about the pulchritude of English women, but they needed a goodly supply of photogenic women to generate the illusion.
I’m going to spell it out for you. I can’t tell if you intentionally missed the obvious joke about the stereotype Englishwomen being somewhat homely and unkempt.
I also can’t tell if you really can’t tell if I was serious with my Dr. What comment. No, I don’t think you work for the NSA, CIA, or other government agency sent here to monitor what the trolls are talking about, nor am I certain you are not some kind of AI. Yes, I am aware of the existence of a British TV show called, “Dr. Who” that has been on air seemingly since the beginning of time.
If you couldn’t tell, it was a joke. I have never seen this show. I will likely never see this show, and confirm whatever preference for women you want to share with me. I simply have little interest in popular dramas, because the fact they are subject to the preferences to the same type of people that make things like Twilight, Harry Potter, or Big Bang Theory popular.
If you like it, or whatever ladies, men, chickens, aliens, or Victorian-era furniture you polish your rocks on….have at it.
What’s on second.
If you meant modern Airstrip One, there are these English women: Karima Adebibe, Gemma Atkinson, Kelly Brook, Jessica Jane Clement, Alice Goodwin, Keeley Hazell, Elizabeth Henstridge, Rosie Jones, Daisy Lowe, Danielle O’Hare, and Lucy Pinder.
Page 3 doesn’t lie.
Other Glibs note: the selection is approved by the resident expert.
I’m amazed that there is still only one bakery in Colorado, especially with legal weed.
[golf clap]
But we all know this is about punishing him for his views.
Phillips has said he also declines to bake cakes that are disrespectful of LGTBQ people.
He really sounds awful.
Hey, we’re never going to have a truly tolerant society until we ruin the lives of those with out-of-step beliefs.
Ah, I had missed the “transitioning” part when this was linked several days earlier.
Honestly, just once, I’d like to see a judge rule that he has to bake the cake but the plaintiffs will be compelled to eat whatever cake he prepares.
People need to learn not to screw with people who make things they put into their mouths.
“People need to learn not to screw with people who make things they put into their mouths”
Must…resist…urge…to make…filthy joke….
That’s no joke. I have stopped going to restaurants with more than one person who chronically bitch about their food and send it back. What kind of a dumbass does that?
This guy’s principles are expensive.
Just serve a hot dog covered in frosting, split it down the middle, and turn it inside out.
a transgender birthday/transitioning cake
So, on the outside it looks like a chick, but on the inside its all dude?
Easily done. Pink frosting on a blue cake.
“Pink frosting on a blue cake.”
But, now you’re stereotyping and assigning heteronormotative attributes to colors. Did you know that in the early 20th Century “red” was associated with boys and “blue” was associated with girls. This shows that these normotive attributes assigned to colors are as fungible as the concept of “gender”…blah…blah…blah. I went to college or something
…that’s actually what xey requested.
Corporations are too much involved in politics. I guess it’s a good thing now.
“We don’t want our workers taking time off to give birth” is now woke? Up really is down.
…and months of parental leave for both male and female employees, twenty-six years of paying health insurance for the kid, 2:00 AM ER visits for ear infections, etc.
Right?? What a drain on the economy.
I’m really looking forward to my 6 months of paternity leave when we get around to baby number 2. It’ll be a paid-for audition for a new career.
Yep. Better that we help our employees avoid those things by providing free access to abortions. Do they even realize when their hobby horses crash into each other headlong like that?
Look our management is super busy right now. They don’t have time to throw all our pregnant workers down a flight of stairs.
It’s only fair after you impregnated them.
Yeah, I pretty much read that to mean being pregnant and having kids “hinder[s] people’s health, independence and ability to fully succeed in the workplace.”
You could probably file an EEOC claim against those companies just for that statement creating a hostile work environment for pregnant people and women with kids.
Silly Dean! FedRegs don’t apply to Deplorables!
How many of those 180 companies have any employees and more than a token amount of sales in those deplorable states?
Lefties love corporations playing politics as long as it’s their politics.
Some of the same people in my life who decried the Citizens United decision also lauded the Dr. Bronner’s company for sponsoring a mandatory GMO labelling bill.
Note: None of these companies are headquartered in Alabama.
Thirty minutes have passed and now Mammary Monday may continue!
https://thechive.com/2019/06/10/just-a-reminder-that-bad-girls-bend-at-the-waist-51-photos/
Time to close my office door.
26 has the best booty IMO.
34 was closest to my tastes overall.
This is the kind of post that has me seeing double.
WRONG! The only diet that works for everyone is the Master Cleanse!
Is that the one where you put a pressure washer up your ass?
Yeah….no…. Freak.
The Survivor Diet seems to work on everyone, but you’ve got to go to a remote shithole and eat nothing for a long time.
I am terribly offended that you didn’t use MY favorite Geto Boys video.
Look at how nice and cool it looks there. Thats not PHX fo sho
MIL has the TV on in the kitchen. From what I’m overhearing, John Dean continues to confirm that he is (a) a horrible person and (b) still desperately seeking absolution by the establishment.
I haven’t watched any of it. The whole debacle reeks of desperation. Really, what can John Dean possibly say that is relevant?
“here is an old guy that once knew someone who got a president to resign under circumstances completely different from today”
John Dean was the snitch. The Dems still dream of finding someone who can credibly snitch on Trump for some reason.
I can’t find the exact quote, but at one point in the trial Liddy told Dean he was a pussy and none of them . would be in a jam if he had just kept his mouth shut.
Liddy was running with dumb-asses, so the CRP checks were always going to blow up on him . . . at least on someone who would then roll over.
Dean is a bitch, but some rat had to be the first off a sinking ship. Liddy (on top of being a felon) is a moron for not guessing it would come apart.
Liddy is, in manyrespects, a pretty horrible person….but also fascinating. I’ve read his autobiography several times and enjoyed it. As much as he hated Dean, he hated Jeb Magruder even more.
One of his comments was that Trump was Nixon on steroids. Also, if he (Dean) could channel Nixon, he thinks Nixon would tell Trump to change his ways.
Seriously, Dean should go read about what John Profumo did after resigning from office:
“After apologizing to the prime minister, his political party, and the general public, he became a volunteer at an East London anti-poverty charity, where he quite literally scrubbed toilets. After that first self-flagellating penance as a quasi-janitor, Profumo continued volunteering there in administrative and fundraising roles. Right up until his death at age 90 in 2006, Profumo gave not one single interview — no mea culpa profile, no humble photo shoot. Others — including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — spoke about him, and praised the re-dedication of his life to charity, but in a world of the swiftly-issued apology (or denial), Profumo’s own deafening silence is now almost unthinkable.
You’re entitled to your skepticism about the low stakes inherent in a man with vast inherited wealth being able to volunteer for the rest of his life, but the fact remains: Profumo’s charity atonement took place without the “story-straightening” soul-baring interviews, or the big symbolic “welcome back” to public life, and lasted decades, for the rest of his life. For a man who once wielded such agency, whose voice carried such weight, mute self-exile feels like the ultimate renunciation of male power.”
Mark Steyn’s obituary of Profumo here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/making-the-best-of-a-sticky-wicket/304870/
Thanks for posting that. I think that was what I was originally looking for. I believe Steyn talked about it on the air one day.
One of his last moments of possible newsworthiness. Can’t blame him for taking it. Still a POS.
I have great neighbors, they don’t bother me, I don’t bother them (intentionally).
Mine are not like that. If they bought property on a private unpaved road without doing their homework, that’s not my problem.
*prepares popcorn*
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/06/10/she-cannot-be-this-stupid-axios-apparently-has-reason-to-believe-that-aoc-might-be-getting-too-big-for-her-britches/
And Q teases us and leaves us hanging, just like a hack writer.
According to Axios, AOC may be looking at a possible Senate run … against Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand…
Oh, please, oh please…
Well, Gillibrand will be Preezy, so that seat will be open …
So, Brett L, what movie was it?
* actually read Brett L’s contribution above the first comment *
A certain sequel to a kids’ movie came out this week.
Note to self: don’t have any drinks at the mini-bar in DR.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9259245/fourth-mystery-death-in-dominican-republic/
Better yet: skip that shithole altogether.
I thought TWSH, too, when I first read about this several days ago. Surprisingly, the Dominican Republic has a robust and stable economy, unlike their neighbors in Haiti.
We went there a couple years ago and had a great time, but I don’t feel the need to go back.
Still, I wonder how many people drop normally. I mean, they all just flew – if there was a clot or something ready to go, it stands to reason that a few people would drop from that.
I remember reading similar things about Mexico awhile back.
I made the decision after visiting Cancun many moons ago that there are plenty of other sunny, warm locations with beaches that, despite costing a little bit more, are significantly less likely to lead to a crippling intestinal infection and/or gruesome death.
We took the kids there a bunch of times and always had a lovely time. Of course we stayed at nice places and never left the grounds…
Turks is my current love. I hate long plane rides so the Caribbean is about my limit.
Turks rulz.
I count that in the more expensive but safer/cleaner category.
Are you ever going to try Baha Mar?
I’m hoping the massive increase in hotel capacity will drive down prices all over the Bahamas.
That’s on the list, but like you say, it’s stupidly expensive.
Aruba was pretty great and may be a bit closer than Turks. Not sure it’s all that much cheaper though.
I went to Aruba in 2002-ish. I stayed in the one inland hotel on the whole island – no beach, no restaurant, no activities. But the room was fine, it cost about a third as much as anything else, and a 15-30 minute walk got me to anything I wanted.
Aruba su ano.
And they are on vacation, so party hardier than they normally would. And presumably they flew there and air travel increases risk of embolism, etc, etc, etc…
Could be mistaken, but I think two of the deaths were a couple who dropped dead very soon after going into the minibar. DR Coroner ruled them both natural deaths. One person I get, but chances of both halves of a relatively young couple dying simultaneously of natural causes? Not buying that, and it seems the coroner just doesn’t give a shit.
Coincidentally, the coroner works for the Ministry of Tourism.
And, in the typical all-inclusive resort, everything in the minibar is free and replenished daily, so it’s hard to imagine the vacationing couple who wouldn’t have used the minibar. It’s like saying the couple at the beach resort who waded in the ocean.
You know what needs to come back? Drive in movie theaters.
I have had a lot of fun at the drive in. Not just inappropriate fun with gals who have questionable morals. Also just fun place for stupid kids to blow off steam on a summer evening.
Happy Days!
We have one in our town. It’s one of the last few dozen in the US. It’s still fun. But damn, do you get home late after a double feature.
There’s one here where I work. They always show a double feature. In the summer, we get 16 hours of daylight. They don’t start the movies until it gets dark.
I have yet to go.
We would back our trucks in, set up lawn chaises, and work the rest of the evening from a cooler.
Agree 100%. Those were a blast.
Ours still plays that “Beep Beep” song, and shows the animation of the hot dog jumping into a bun. Love it.
Old school euphemism.
How about a drive-in with an attached hotel?
http://www.bestwesternmoviemanor.com/movie-manor/
They pipe the audio into your room.
Was having inappropriate fun inappropriate? The lack of morals seemed more fun than questionable morals. Who has the time, unless its a double feature.?
Now with coolers the beer would stay cold longer too.
Such a story I have for you people. Some day…
We used to go to the all night marathons….zombie movies, kung-fu movies, soft porns, all kinds of B movie junk….I saw this at a drive-in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Island_(film)
and this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Spiders
The Midnight Movie on Saturday night on base when I was stationed in Memphis was an absolute blast (for me) because it was a bunch of people shouting shit at each other and acting up.
They showed Krush Groove for about six weeks straight and the audience got funnier and funnier each week.
An art film with universal appeal to human nature, which I suspect will be particularly appreciated by you people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilsa%2C_She_Wolf_of_the_SS
True art that film is.
There’s a drive in somewhat nearby, but it’s way out in the sticks. I’ve never been.
My buddy tells a great story about the day his dad said “honey let’s take the kids to the drive in double feature. Dean Martin and Marlon Brando”
The first was a Matt Helm movie. The second was Last Tango In Paris.
Get me the butter for the popcorn.
Pretty lucky around here. Theres still a great drive in. Only way I’ll watch a movie.
Wait, they’re still trying to sell Fallout 76?
Yes. Yes they are. I’m a huge Fallout fan, and once I heard “Multiplayer, online only”, I wrote it off. Fallout 2 and Fallout New Vegas are still the highlights of the franchise.
For all the soccer fans:
Sri Lanka v. Macau WC qualifier cancelled after Macau refuse to travel citing safety concerns
Why does Macau care so much about an attack on Easter Worshipers? That must be an alt-right country or something
It’s racist to not want to get suicide bombed.
It’s also strange that they have no problem playing in China, though. Do people not know who runs China?
Too close to home. Their coach would probably be disappeared if they complained about the Mainland.
Do people not know who runs China?
It is easier to buy one’s safety from a mob boss than a religious fanatic.
In China the mob boss is also a religious fanatic. His deity: the Chinese Communist Party
If it were Mao or some-such, I’d agree, but the current autocrat seems to be more concerned with power in itself and not so much with realizing heaven on earth.
Lie! Thomas Friedman is not the leader of China.
To be fair, China is currently reasonably safe – especially for outsiders.
I won’t go back, on principle, but I wouldn’t be afraid to.
Journalism = copying salacious Reddit threads.
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a27890745/penile-trauma-masturbation-injuries-reddit/
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/30/40327614/cities-must-ban-lawn-mowers
Stupid is as stupid writes.
Must….Destroy….Western….culture.
They have to take a shit on everything. It was just a matter of time before they got around to this.
Dear author:
KYS.
kthxbai
“…that has no other function than its signification to others who are of the same class.”
Calling out others for virtue signalling. Perfect.
“…that has no other function than its signification to others who are of the same class.”
Unlike, say, attending a protest.
They’re, like, changing the WORLD man!
*takes long toke*
*dry cleans pussy hat*
Go fuck yourself.
Let’s check the comments…
Go fuck yourselves.
I love a nice lawn.
It bothers me not one bit that these people choose to live in urban high rises, so what the fuck business is it of theirs that I have a lawn?
Huh. All that grass in Tokyo must just cut itself. Same with the leaves. And if a lawnmower is disturbing, better not actually live in a big city. The constant noise would drown out a lawnmower, and it doesn’t end.
Bonus video
One does not love a mowed lawn for itself
Sure as fuck do.
It’s like they’ve never been to a place with lawns. People will seriously start getting shot if lawns start getting taken away.
The American middle class dream of having a safe place for your dog or kid to play, and where you can entertain outside without annoying street lunatics wandering in.
^^^Bourgeois reactionary racist Nazi.
The amazing thing is that cities in America are not growing. That’s a myth. The ten largest cities today are still below the population of the ten largest cities fifty years ago. At best, American cities have stagnated in population over the past twenty years, which is an improvement from bleeding out.
Suburbs continue to be the fastest growth areas in the country, so the idea of lawns remains a quintessential American middle class dream. How many more times do the American people have to reject this European model of multi-unit dwellings without lawns before these effeminate fascists shut-up with this crap?
They’ll shut up when they’ve initiated land reform that makes ownership of a detached home illegal.
And then everyone will say “oh yeah, that’s why there’s a Second Amendment”
Not only that, but even the cities considered so successful and thriving are becoming bereft of children. People do NOT want to raise children in major cities.
NYC would beg to differ. So would LA and several others that are at their highest population ever. But yes, most of the urban growth is in the suburbs because that’s where the room is.
My version of heaven has a mowed lawn. And a golf course with no golfers.
I do. Even if I lived where no one else would see it, I would still like having a mowed lawn. The act of mowing the lawn is another matter, but I like the fruits of the labor.
I am confused. I thought that the proper Glib answer to wanting to eat the fruits of labor but disliking the labor is to delegate the task to orphans.
I don’t mow the margin and the sidewalk because I care what others think. I mow it for the same reason I wash the sink, sweep the floors, etc. Because it’s my property, and I want it to be in good shape.
People do tend to obsess over their grass though. My neighbour is approaching retirement and with it goes his obsession with his grass. He cuts it every four days and it’s fricken annoying to have to listen to him start that thing up the second you sit down to have a nice quiet beer on a Sunday afternoon.
He’s really grown to be a pain in the ass having already approached me about the weed on my grass – which he knows I’m about to overhaul. He has time to sit around all day putzing around his yard. I don’t. He’s a great guy and all but I’m starting to see problems up ahead.
I hate mowing the lawn and do think it’s a waste of time but grass is part of the house-scape. I hope down the road to move and have minimal grass.
But fuck that asshole. He’s just another smug moron.
I think he’s jealous of your weed. You should roll him a doobie next time he’s over.
Ha, my lawn nut neighbor has learned that I am a hopeless cause. When I first moved in, he stopped by to talk to me about spraying all the dandelions in my yard.
I politely told him that I thought spraying my yard with chemicals when I had small children and a dog running around on it all the time was not a good idea and I wouldn’t be doing it.
And I will put up with the noise of him mowing for the entertainment of watching him mow as I drink a summer beer on my deck.
*He once saw me working on some landscaping project and came over to ask if I was OK and wasn’t having some psychological break (only semi-joking)
I once asked my neighbour why he didn’t like the purple and yellow clash of my weed. My wife loved it but too bad it’s weed!
Anyway, I’m getting new grass. And then I’ll let that rot as I plan to move. Lol.
“Saw me working on some landscaping project” and called the city to see if I had filled out the proper paperwork and paid for a permit
FTFY
Around here, not dealing with dandelions gets you letters from the city. Your lazy ass does not have a right to let your dandelion crop infect all of your neighbors lawns. It’s a big issue here.
The wife of our previous neighbor would not let him use any chemicals on the property. As a result, it always looked like shit, because he would wait until the weeds were tall enough to be easily pulled. And he would spend a couple of hours with a back pack sprayer, spraying each, individual dandelion.
My grass is nothing to brag about. About half of it is clover and other weeds, which is fine by me – at least it’s green.
Bringing back the natural prairie grassland is how I spin that at my house.
Same as you, if it is sort of green, I’m happy.
Uffda. I am about as lazy of a lawn guy as you can find. I should be hugely sympathetic toward any argument that spending time on your lawn is silly and a waste of time, but that guy goes way too far.
It is a classic example of “I think something is stupid, so no one should ever be allowed to engage in that activity.”
My neighbor loves fucking around on his lawn. He won’t even let his kids mow because he doesn’t trust them to do it right. His lawn looks awesome, but I think he’s crazy for spending that much time on it. He probably thinks I’m crazy for neglecting my lawn so I can go fishing.
Isn’t it crazy, realizing in hindsight, that the only reason why the Religious Right in the 90’s was unsuccessful was because they weren’t rich and not because they were scolds?
This should have been pretty obvious since in the past the abolitionists were almost always prohibitionists (Spooner was a notable exception), Suffragettes tended to prohibitionists and socialists and the English puritans were opposed to Aristocracy, Absolutism, Established Church and were a key part of the urban merchant class.
What? You might want to reconsider some of the generalizations you made.
Which ones? Care to refute some of mine?
One example would be that abolitionists were not prohibitionists by default and there was little to no overlap between their two movements in terms of dates. Abolitionism, unlike the other movements that you noted, in the US was almost exclusively a rural (primarily Midwestern) and religious movement.
The other movements were tangentially related to religion, but they were not informed by religion, like abolition was. These other movements tended to be secular, urban, and primarily driven by the upper-middle classes.
I don’t see the connection from abolition to prohibition. While early feminists who had supported abolition supported prohibition, these women were only marginally devoted to abolition as many of them opposed letting African Americans vote if women were not also allowed to vote via an amendment to the Constitution.
Also, the Klan was a huge supporter of prohibition. A bunch of abolitionists were not going to make common cause with the Klan in the name of prohibition.
Prohibition was informed by feminism and anti-Catholic bigotry. That’s about it.
The prohibitionist movement has a long history predating the Progressive Era.
Here is CATO on the subject. Need I remind you that CATO is very sympathetic to the abolitionists?
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/abolitionism-slavery-sin
Supporting temperance is not the same as being part of the abolition movement. There were people who opposed slavery that were not part of the abolitionist movement.
Also, finding Protestants who oppose alcohol consumption (especially in the 1800s) is like shooting fish in a barrel
True but I did specify “abolitionists” as opposed to “anti-slavery”.
True but the point was that there were quite a few of the abolitionists who in both camps.
Anyway my point is that this sort of “social conservative” behavior has a long history especially from those who were not “conservative” and it is silly to libertarians get so shocked at the social views of SJWs as if those views are anything new.
“My neighbor loves fucking around on his lawn”
I got my wife to do it doggy style last night. You wouldn’t believe how many drinks it took to get her out on the front lawn.
‘Hey Maude, the neighbour is fucking his wife on the lawn again! She looks like she really took some Tequila tonight! OOO-NELLY!’
That’s not all she’s taking. Hi-yo!
That is one reason Montana marriages tend to last. Very easy to talk that Montana blonde into going out onto the front lawn.
That and the fact that most Montana husbands wear cowboy boots. Why is that important? Because while the wife is grazing on the front lawn, the hubby can just slip her hind legs into his boots and then she can’t run away.
Have you tried Rodeo Sex with your wife?
What about Cuck Rodeo Sex? (That is where you hide in a barrel, while some clown distracts your wife until he can lead her away)
“This is how your momma likes it!”
All three of my neighbours are DIY maniacs. Tink, tink, tink. Clank, clank, clank. Rev, rev, rev. It never stops. One guy changes the tires on all four cars in his family. His two kids are pushing 30 FFS.
They belong elsewhere but the suburbs. Some of it is redundant and unnecessary in my view. They all own toys they don’t really need or actually use all that much. Boats, motorcycles, snowmobiles, etc.
They’re keeners and all good guys I get along with. I’m not a lazy guy and they make me feel lazy.
*Hides factory five order form*
Ha. My buddy rebuilds Hot Rods. That’s different.
That I would.
Now that you can build them with all new parts, it’s very appealing. I’m shooting for 01/2022 to start my build.
*fingers crossed*
I bet they’re also the sort of assholes who would take their snowblower over and clean your driveway off before you got a chance to shovel it yourself.
Bastards.
Aunt Polly’s mighty particular ’bout her driveway
Meh. I don’t get worked up about my neighbors hobbies. One across the street is a lawn obsessive, but he doesn’t care that mine isn’t perfect. I don’t mind the Harley riders on my block, most of them ride during the day, and don’t get too annoying in the evening/night. Hell, I probably spend enough money on home brewing, gaming, and alcohol to equal what they do on their hobbies.
“Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe.”
I guess the stuff available in one’s neighborhood to complain about has trailed off a little.
LOL gotta be satire.
And Charles Mudede is exactly what I expected. He is from a culture that despises western culture and mowed lawns are particularly hated in much of the undeveloped world. They see it as part of ‘colonialism’, whatever that means.
Fuck you Charlie. My property is cultivated in a way that my house/yard can’t be seen by anyone. Around my house is a fairly well kept lawn of mowed grass and various plants. I am not signaling to anyone. My grandchildren play there. My children eat, socialize and play there. Come for my lawnmower and see what happens next, asshole. Go back to where you came from and scratch fleas motherfucker.
I enjoy a mowed lawn for itself. Tempted to link a King of the Hill clip here. Unlike Hank, I don’t enjoy upkeeping the yard and we have a lot of property. One of my indulgences is hiring a yard guy to take care of it. Happy compromise with the best of both worlds.
I mow about 60 feet out from the house and 30 feet out on both sides of the drive. Everything else got planted in acorns and pecans.
Speaking of soccer Herbert Spencer thought soccer was barbaric:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/258
Blockquote> A nature which generates international hatreds and intense desires for revenge–which breeds duelists and a contempt for those who do not seek to wipe out a slight by a death, is not a nature out of which harmonious communities can be molded. Men who rush in crowds to witness the brutalities of football matches, who roar out ferocious suggestions to the players, and mob the umpires who do not please them, so that police protection is required, are not men who will show careful consideration of one another’s claims when they have agreed to work together for the common good.
Rugby is a hooligans’ game played by gentlemen and soccer is a gentlemen’s game played by hooligans.
In England that holds.
Not elsewhere.
Everywhere else soccer is a boring game played by people I don’t know.
English soccer blows.
And their fans and media blow harder.
Did I forget to duck?
I like watching EPL, but I’m not about to disagree about the fans and media.
Knowing what Spencer thought of the aristocracy I’m not sure I would call that a defense.
Rugby players are f*cking hot. That is all.
I know you are speaking from a different perspective but…
I used to play for a club team. After Thursday practice we’d go directly to a bar (no showers or changing). It was kind of funny how some women were completely repulsed by young men is good shape actively sweating and bleeding. Others were on us like moths to a flame.
“Others were on us like moths to a flame”
Those were the ones on day 14 of their cycle.
The probability is those who were repulsed were on the pill. There are demonstrated changes in patterns of attraction between those on unaltered hormonal cycles and those in the perpetual faux-pregnancy.
Huh. Interesting.
My anecdotal evidence conforms to this finding
Additional anecdote:
Girlfriend on the pill: refused to swallow.
Had to go off the pill due to sides: became voraciously cum-hungry.
Couldn’t explain it herself either other than just a craving.
Do you need an explanation for everything?
Some things are best left to be enjoyed.
Evidence, Rufus. EVIDENCE.
Let’s also give the rugby shirt its due in that assessment. All I’m saying is that that is probably one of the more attractive sports outfits, similar in appreciation to the female volleyball shorts (much beloved by the heterosexual man).
That’s probably a good analogy.
“female volleyball shorts”
Beach volleyball bikinis or GTFO.
You are crazy. Female volleyball shorts are a national treasure. I use to attend volleyball games in college just to hit on the girls on the team. By far, my favorite sport and I still don’t understand line changes or even how points are scored
X2
Well, dang. Bushwick Bill from the Geto Boys has died.
(rap lyrics likely NSFW)
https://www.sacbee.com/article231373418.html
“California will become the first state to pay for some adults living in the country illegally to have full health benefits as the solidly liberal bastion continues to resist the policies of Republican President Donald Trump’s administration.”
“The agreement means low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in California illegally would be eligible for California’s Medicaid program, the joint state and federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled.”
Why do you hate poor people and refugees?
“joint state and federal”
Be interesting to see if that creates a problem.
I think CA is going to have to get federal permission. The feds pay for 2/3 of Medicaid, after all.
If they really gave a shit about the poor, they would slash gas prices.
https://www.theonion.com/fiscally-im-a-right-wing-nutjob-but-on-social-issues-i-1819584759/amp?__twitter_impression=true
I remember when The Onion was funny.
Those were good days…
I don’t get it. Are we supposed to lambaste the Onion for letting reality outpace their satire? That was evident at least three years ago.
Company outing this afternoon. Did an escape room. First time. As much as I despise forced socialization, it was kind of fun. It was escape from a prison.
Escape room was one of the funniest episodes of It’s Always Sunny.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for it.
I was partial to the jockey one.
My personal favorite is Dennis and Dee go on Welfare.
Will robot criminals have a right to lawyer up?
Yes. Amazingly, we will continue to say that the sick and mentally handicapped are on some lesser plain of “life”, whereas the robot is a “human”.
This raises an interesting question: will robot euthanasia be legal? How about robot abortion?
I’m not even joking when I think the future will consist of wide scale euthanasia whereby informed consent will be an afterthought (much like it already is in many parts of Europe). But, I do think that people will wrestle with the morality of euthanizing a perfectly fit and capable robot.
Reality resembles parody more and more each day and since we continue to commit the same mistakes over and over again, I legitimately think this scenario will likely happen in the future.
Reality resembles parody more and more each day and since we continue to commit the same mistakes over and over again
When you put it that way, I think you might be right.
Your Honor, Copotron clearly violated the 4.3.2 Amendment when he accessed my client’s ram via an improper NFC scan.
Yes, go on . . .
Well, if some progressive’s had their druthers, they’d be subject to taxes. If that comes to pass, why shouldn’t they robots have the right to legal representation? After all, they’d be taxed as Individuals:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/sunday-review/tax-artificial-intelligence.html
https://babylonbee.com/news/obama-says-it-way-too-easy-for-americans-to-get-hands-on-constitution
Now that’s funny.
Onion: take notes.
Except it is making fun of gun-grabbers and implying that Obama is a tyrant which the Onion will not suggest.
And I will put up with the noise of him mowing for the entertainment of watching him mow as I drink a summer beer on my deck.
The guy across the street from me in Indianapolis had a riding mower, even though the yards in that neighborhood weren’t very big. It was one with two blades, side by side, for a wide cut. I don’t know if he hotrodded it on hos own, it if it was stock, but the tip speed on the blades was approaching supersonic. When he ran out onto the street to turn around for the next pass, that thing made a godawful howl, like it was about to lift off. It was kind of amusing.
I was expecting that anecdote to end with the guy wanting to spend more time on the mower and just mowing every lawn on the street.
https://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/2014/09/mowing_the_route_22_brings_rea.html
Still at it in 2019.
The worst lawn nut I ever saw was the neighbor of a fishing/drinking buddy. That guy was certifiable and I’m sure my buddy caused the nut to lose a lot of sleep because he didn’t work on his lawn at all.
One spring we saw the Lawn Nut take his shop vac down along the front of his property to hoover up the gravel/sand that had been put down on the street in winter by the city. It was one of the craziest things I have ever seen.
My father has such a neighbor. He complained to the HOA that my father doesn’t wash his truck often enough. I saw him walking around his yard picking up individual dead leaves that has strayed into his yard.
I dug up two Sweetgum trees and potted them. I gave them to my father. He planted them about ten feet from the property line dividing him and the lawn nut. Lawn nut also has a swimming pool a few feet over the line.
My late BIL had about a 10 X 10 foot lawn in his back yard in Laguna Nigel. Mrs would bring out the shop vac and pick up the very few stray leaves that somehow got on the ‘lawn’. Didn’t take long
My lawn is 3/4 of an acre. I have no problem letting leaves sit until I’m ready to mow. And living in a neighborhood of 1 acre properties, the sound of multiple lawn tractors is a sign of warm weather.
Well clearly this is just because of all the great sex they’d have to look forward to.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7125343/Majority-American-women-age-18-54-prefer-socialism-living-capitalist-country.html
Strong case against women’s suffarage
I am gonna guess that is a bullshit lie. Oh, and Hillary has a 97% chance of winning the election.
This Colorado baker story isn’t going to end until he’s out of business. They’re just trolling him.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/10/masterpiece-cakeshop-sued-third-time-refusing-make-cake-conflicted-owners-religious-beliefs/
Just to recap, self-described liberals were yelling “bake the cake” at this guy just a few years ago. Now all of sudden those same people have been screaming “freedom of association” to people who even remotely criticize social media purges. I suspect these same people will ignore this story now.
It is the liberal that discredits liberalism. And no one else
They’ve successfully rendered the term meaningless. Every time someone discovers that it’s just garden variety Communism they’re peddling, they have to rebrand.
They’re progressive now, you don’t want to be against progress do you?
First they made progressive a dirty word so they rebranded by stealing liberal which was popular at the time. Now that they’ve turned the word liberal to shit they’re going back to their old term. I suppose they’ll just go back and forth as people forget.
I’m referring to those who dub themselves “classical liberals” who suffer from the same intellectual inconsistencies as progressives.
The tyrant is calling from inside the house
I recall Lenin supported freedom of association: while he was in opposition mind you since this allowed him to purge the Mensheviks.
The “compelled speech” part trips them up.
Presumes his cakes are speech.
It’s not a speech issue in my mind, it’s a religion issue. If the 1A prevents the government from enacting an official religion I think it stands to reason that it can’t force people to do things that violate their religious beliefs assuming those beliefs do not themselves cause some greater harm, i.e. murder, torture, etc., because that is essentially favoring one set of values over another.
Interesting: a 900-year old grape seed has been found to have the exact genetics of a currently grown variety, demonstrating a continuous use of clonal propagation by viticulturist for this type for nearly a millennium.
So little progress in grape genetics.
I demand GMO grapevines!
Common sense grape control?
That has already happened, my friend. Of course, the people doing it back then didn’t wear scary white lab coats and have a deep understanding of genetic manipulation like the evil bastards modifying nature nowadays, so it was totes cool.
https://www.feastmagazine.com/drink/features/article_9f36933e-29c8-11e7-9a7d-effeecb28e31.html
Ugh, I’ve been hanging around here too long. I’ve read that first as rapeseed.
That’s the Steve Smith of seeds.
That actually doesn’t surprise me. Think about how long wine has been being made.
Grapes have been a dietary staple for longer than we have been human.
The sound of a lawnmower and the smell of freshly cut grass is very pleasing to me.
I really really wish Spud were here right now.
Do we have a Spud signal?
I think it’s a mule
Or a deep fry basket.
Is he a known lawnsexual?
He gets erect when he sees flame. You wouldn’t believe the scarring on his dick.
I mow the lawn every four days and edge every two weeks. And I cut the grass just as often.
I live in a neighborhood where keeping your shit reasonably dialed is expected.
Same. Mow every four days and trim every other time. My wife is a landscaping savant, so I really enjoy driving up to the house this time of year.
I’m here!
Good. The lawn needs mowing.
That was yesterday. Along with pruning all the shrubs.
I manscape on Sundays too.
Too late. I think most of that gas is gone, otherwise it would have been an epic hotbox.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/06/07/street-artist-sabo-lampoons-miley-cyrus-licking-abortion-is-healthcare-cake/
Heads up: graphic abortion picture
Now THAT’S how to troll.
That’s blasphemy and thereby “hate speech”
Goddamn…
Speaking of prohibition we can thank a lot of Ontario’s liquor laws to this man:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Horace_Temple#Temperance_crusader
He was also a democratic socialist and trade unionist who attacked the Conservatives for being lackies of brewing interests,
Always and everywhere the same. Our problem is that the vast majority of human motive is to control other humans. We are never going to run out of these bastards.
I had a lamb gyro sandwich. I ate most of it then set it down to read. After a minute or so I forgot about it, got up and went out to smoke. Five minutes later when I came back I noticed the wrapper empty and lying on the floor. I leaned over and picked it up. Out of the corner of my eye I saw my biggest Catahoula drop his head into the guilty dog hang. I am a dummy.
“Jack, what happened to my sandwich? Did you see who stole my food?”
*He rolls over on his back and timidly taps his tail*
If that gyro was spiced to my palate preference your dog is going to regret eating that in about 3-4 hours.
Mine are more into defiance when caught. Kind of a “yeah, what about it” attitude.
Mine default to hiding in the corner and looking deeply sad until they get the temperature of the room when I come home, provided my wife isn’t there and isn’t the first one in the door. She’s good cop, so it doesn’t matter how many dishes they’ve pulled out of the sink, children’s toys they’ve disemboweled, litter boxes they’ve excavated, or big steaming piles they’ve left in the living room. I’m bad cop, so they open with sincere apologies and just hope I’m in a good mood when I find whatever they’ve done.
Gary Johnson’s whole little “bake the cake” game looks even more insidious now that the baker is being sued for the THIRD time.
Right before the exodus from TOS tarran explained how Johnson’s entire 2016 run was just a pretext for paying off his previous debts from his prior run for the presidency despite swearing he wouldn’t allocate any contributions for that. Yes, how he went about doing that was perfectly legal but lying about it to secure more money exposed him for the grifter he is.
Give me a few minutes to track down the details and provide a link or two.
It was obvious all along that his run was a ruse to get money. Embarrassingly so.
Here’s a couple of brief articles on the subject:
https://www.fec.gov/updates/public-funding-repayment-for-2012-gary-johnson-presidential-campaign/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thelibertarianrepublic.com/gary-johnsons-massive-campaign-debt-should-be-a-concern-to-every-libertarian/amp/
Wasnt it the same for the 2nd Harry Browne campaign?
Authoritarians gonna authoritarian.
Gosh, I wonder why that is?
Now Oregon has too much weed. We need a Cash for Munchies stimulus.
Security camera captures creepy creature and everyone has a theory
Had to look up Dobby. Whoever is on that camera did a great impersonation.
From a link in the article: https://mashable.com/2017/02/21/nasa-announcement-not-aliens/
It won’t matter what they say, the alien crowd wants to believe. Plus the economy needs a boost.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/index.php/2019/06/10/canadas-prime-minister/#comments
Turdeau Jr.: We’ve switched to paper water bottles
Who votes for that fruitloop?
Upper-class urban Cosmopolitans? Rufus’s fellow non-francophone Montrealers?
Also Cytotoxic.
I forgot about that nutcase.
“Oh yeah, watch this!” *plunges face into lake and starts chugging. Outflanks Trudy.
Facebook has banned the word “Honk” for violating community standards:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-10/facebook-has-banned-word-honk-violating-their-community-standards
*honk honk*
My wife is slowly, very slowly, becoming redpilled? How? By participating in Facebook groups for our immediate neighborhood. In one day she managed to see a vehement anti-Trump neighbor demonstrate that his support for diversity begins and ends at posting paintings of ethnically diverse crowds on his timeline, as he launched into multiple, incoherent screeds against a local young black postgrad student who’s running as a write-in (Democrat) against an establishment Democrat known mainly for being deeply involved in the city’s Democratic party machine and paying off city inspectors to ignore the various slums he rents to illegals in our ward. In under three hours, she then saw two unhinged residents of the local public housing go off their meds and scream accusations of racism at people suggesting that a third woman do something other than release balloons into the air at her cousin’s funeral service because a.) it’s illegal and b.) the balloons wind up in the creek, river, and Bay depending on how far they travel before they deflate. Despite the generally respectful tones and expressions of condolences on the part of nearly all the commenters, the admin closed the thread after a quick bit of virtue signalling. She left the group, and I suspect she’ll drop off Facebook soon enough.
CZ Shadow 2 reliability update:
I had my second malfunction with the pistol, a failure to eject at round 3377. It cleared and finished the next 79 rounds in the box. Current reliability >99.9%
I love my CZ, they’re very underrated pistols.
It makes me think I’m a decent shot. And then I pull out my Sig P365, and the truth slaps me with a large, heavy, smelly object.
How’s the Sig trigger, pretty stiff?
Honestly, I don’t have a good “trigger palate.” I think Glock triggers are just fine.
I can pull the Sig’s without moving the sight picture.
Sig P365 = not a target pistol
Want a pistol that shoots like a rifle? Get one of these:
https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/model-41
Or one of these:
https://www.smith-wesson.com/firearms/model-617
Then put about 10K rounds through it.
I was going to make fun of the ocd round counting, but then realized you’ve been shooting way more than I have been recently. Now I feel shame. Thanks, dick.
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I keep a
lab notebookshooting logTFW a straight, white man tries to start a sentence with “As”.
Eric Swalwell
@ericswalwell
As the brother of two cops, I’m keeping police safety in mind but moving firmly forward to address racial injustice and police use of force in communities of color.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ericswalwell/status/1137894000994738176
Lol
Pretty sure the neighbor dumped a dead deer at the end of my driveway. A big buck about 2 days old from the look of it.
It grew up in two days? :-p
I had a two-pointer in my back yard yesterday evening.
This guy was missing one of his antlers. What he had was still fuzzy, no real points yet.
I went out to look at it after my wife noticed it. I figure it had been dead about two days already so it was like WTF, zombies?
Like as a message? Is he a cat?
Oregon is working a bill through their legislature that will allow victims of “racist” 911 calls to sue for damages:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oregon-racist-911-calls_n_5cf979d5e4b06af8b5059e13
I don’t know how this could possibly go wrong.
AKA The Mind-Reader Act of 2019.
Fucking stupid.
“There’s a man of a race I refuse to disparage extracting the reparations he deserves from my house.”
“And how would you describe your assailant?”
“…um, well, young. Tall, about 6 foot…”
“…what else?”
“…uh…bl–, I mean, swarthy? Really, really tan?”
“Watch it…”
“Male?”
“Right, you bigot, we’re sending the police! Just stay on the phone and we’ll do this the easy way.”
Nice, by POS that wasn’t content to let her interaction with the police go, but used her position to extract an apology from the original caller. In the past bullies were looked down upon rather than extolled.