As always, my work has shifted from “hurry up and wait” to “why wasn’t this all finished yesterday?!!” So I’ll just drop these here.
Illegal immigrant no match for Florida Boy. Good on ya, kid, but maybe have a heart-to-heart with your mamma about her taste in men.
I think this is a measured and reasonable response.
A feel good story about a pitbull. Dog bites shark is news, right?
NYPD officer who choked Eric Garner to death fired. Its not justice, but its more than I expected.
Here’s a little college radio throwback for you.
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Deputies: Child used scissors to stab man attacking mom in Pinellas County
That kid is a real cut-up….
*narrows gaze*
What’s your point?
Eyes like a razor…
That gaze just cuts through our souls…
Kid was just pokin’ around
Also, the grill is lit, Jugsy is here, and Im gonna get into the Tall Cans
So go ahead and LET THAT ISH RIP!
Are we doing euphemisms?
Yes, I always thought ‘let it rip’ had something to do with cutting a voluminous fart.
The other child had to be treated at the scene for an anxiety attack, the arrest report says.
Treated at the scene how? Helped to take his own Valium? Officer Teddy Bear came out to reassure the kid?
Nitrous balloons.
Slapped until they stopped screaming.
Like this ?
I was thinking of the scene from airplane with the treatment of the panicking passenger.
Like this.
Never gets old.
You rock.
“You can’t take a swing at the cops when they show up. And that’s why we hit him with sticks for an hour”
Deplorable humor, 1997.
Let’s keep this thread running. Who else wants to take a stab at a pun?
I’m not feeling all that sharp this afternoon.
I need to hone my punning skills, I think.
I think you have the thrust of it.
C’mon, guys. Cut the crap.
You need a poop knife for that.
Very edgy.
That cuts me to the quick.
Shear exhaustion?
According to the sheriff’s office, the battery happened during an argument over text messages sent to the victim’s boyfriend.
Wut?
An arrest report says Karamanlis ignored the woman when she told him, “don’t do this in front of the kids.”
That tells me this isn’t the first time he beat her.
Swiss give a sharp rebuke.
It was a real narrowed graze
So from now on this kid is going to be known as “Runs With Scissors”….
Mr. Runs With Scissors
^^ this. The kid has bigger cajones than most 20-something men.
This story: 11 year old sees mom getting beaten, grabs scissors stabs aggressor. Saves mom.
Other Story: Boyfriend sees slightly creepy clown doll, calls cops.
“Reiki practitioner, and intuitive healer calls cops over doll” is not shocking to me.
And the union is pissed.
I’m sure that the cop will survive the two weeks it takes for him to get a job in a town somewhere in Westchester County.
Or to get his old job back, with back pay, of course.
I’m surprised they didn’t just let him ride a desk all the way to “retirement”.
A feel good story about a pitbull. Dog bites shark is news, right?
I larfed. That is very . . . pitty.
Dude didn’t look like he would need any help against any damn shark.
I thought the same thing. I’m surprised he didn’t just punch it back into the ocean.
Good boy!
“It is a day that’s five years too late,” civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton said.
“This is not some moment of pleasure or joy for the family that has lost so much.”
Eat shit racist, opportunistic mangler of words and names.
“Today we have finally seen justice done,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who came under fire for his administration’s handling of the case.
He added: “We can react with bitterness and division and be trapped by the sins of our past, or we can transform the suffering into progress, we can find redemption.”
Eat shit fat ass espouser of stupid socialism.
“Today we have finally seen justice done”
The dude kills a guy, and justice is he loses his job? de Basio is an asshole.
eye for an eye, asshole for an asshole
Deblasio spent five years ignoring this and now he pipes up. What a hero.
The coolest you should keep your house is 78 degrees, federal program
If you want your grandchildren to live you will follow these suggestions.
The DOE can fuck right off
Oh yeah. I’d like to know what temperature their DC office is. I’m guessing we’ll below 78.
They aren’t paying for it so of course.
They can fuck right off with that shit. 71 when home and 73 away.
Yeah, fuck no. 73 is perfection.
put the timer on, put the pieces in place, don’t be slow
you’ve got to move out fast,
before the pieces pop out,
before you’ve put in the last.
and that’s Perfection.
Perfection.
82 degrees to sleep? They can fuck right off with that nonsense.
Fuck that noise. I’m suffering enough with the temperatures I’m forced to accept due to electric bills.
*makes sure thermostat is set to a sweltering 68F*
Who the hell sets their thermostat warmer at night?
I keep mine at 58 24/7/365.
I keep my at 78 24/7/September through June.
At the old house, we had it programmed to be cooler from 9pm until 5am and then spike warmer until 8am before cooling down to a moderate temp. It worked great to get my lazy ass out of bed at a decent hour.
People who live where it’s humid? It doesn’t have to be set that low to dry the air.
i sweat a ton so it’s a constant battle against swamp ass: 73 day/68 night
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Anti Monkey-Butt Powder. For reals, yo.
Real men wear low rise briefs.
Real men go commando.
Duluth Trading has boxer briefs like that. I highly recommend them.
Ex Oficio is another free-breathing, quick drying choice.
We stayed with friends in Arizona once, and they kept theirs set in the 80’s. Couldn’t sleep the entire week I was there. So yes, I agree, they can fuck off.
When I lived in Arizona, I kept the thermostat around 80. It costs a small fortune to cool a house from 115 down to 80 let alone the low 70s. Every room in the house had a floor fan running to move the air around. It works pretty well.
When I lived in Yuma, around 80 was the coolest it was going to get in our apartment when it was in the buck-teens. It actually did feel cool, being a 35 degree change from outside.
Even my wife who claims to be freezing when I drop the temp to 72 at night wouldn’t do 82 in the house. I only got her to go from 75 to 72 because the kids were complaining that they were always hot at night, even with their ceiling fans on.
May we direct the DOE and the Energy Star people to a website fuckoffslaver.com
Actually exists.
aware, it’s a lovely site with some family friendly content. Even has a manners column from occasionally.
My house is at 77 full time, but that’s because I live in Florida and I’m trying to keep my AC alive and my electricity bill less than $1000 a month.
82 at night is insane.
I’d love to know what the temps are in their offices.
Depends on if they have menopausal women or not.
Poli-sci majors rather than EE majors, I assume.
How many offices are below, let’s say, 74 degrees? I doubt many.
It’s like you have never read a “why a/c is sexist” article. Plus computer equipment needs to stay cool.
The datacenter was the only comfortable room at the office when I had the access to just go in and stand in front of the vent whenever I wanted.
We have spot coolers in the subfab that are wonderful to stand in front of.
My office sits at 64-66 degrees. I have to wear a blasted fleece. In August. In Florida…
We set our thermostat at 78 day and night, except bump up to 83 when out of the house. Not because of the DOE, but because electricity costs money.
82 at night? Who the fuck does that?
78? What is wrong with you? That’s lethal temperatures.
People have told me that it actually takes more juice to go back and forth in temperature than it does to just maintain one temperature.
Depends on the size of your house and HVAC equipment, my shack for instance is so small yet well insulated that I can make adjustments very quickly, hell if I roast a chicken in January the furnace won’t kick on for the rest of the night.
1300 square feet and, yeah, it gets hot as hell in our downstairs when I’ve been cooking.
*notes reptilian tendencies
you want to see a quiet breakfast in my house where everyone is afraid of awakening the dragon? set that thermostat to 82 at night.
everyone is afraid of awakening the dragon
These euphemisms are getting kind of disturbing.
OK, here it is. The DOE is pulling a Art of the Deal move. Start off in crazy land and then when they say keep the house at 75 and then at 78 during the night it won’t sound so bad.
Never give in, never surrender!
60F in summer or bust!
Hell yeah. If I weren’t married, I’d live in a virtual meat locker.
65.
I just open the windows. It’s gorgeous here every day.
FUCK YOU
Laugh all you want. Wait til thermostats start appearing that won’t cool below 78F by design.
Just point a a hair dryer at the thermostat.
We had a location where building management wouldn’t fix the temperature controls. People would boil water in coffee mugs and set it underneath the thermostat just like that.
I’m ready.
There will be a thriving black market for thermostats then, and I will be an eager customer.
DIY with some off the shelf components will be big, too. Amazing what you can do with a $5 microcontroller.
Our electric company will come and install a fancy wifi thermostat for you free of charge. You can set it by your phone across the country!!! So cool.
The fine print says they can adjust the temp on you during periods of high demand and you can’t change it.
Yes, and no doubt next will be they will limit your total amount of kilowatts or gas per month, so that it goes off once you’ve hit what it should have been to keep your house at 80 degrees that month (or 64 degrees in the winter), so no matter what you do to modify your thermostat, you’re still screwed.
And oh, of course, fireplaces are now banned in new construction in California, so don’t expect to get heat any other way. Buy more sweaters, they’ll say, just like Jimmy Carter used to preach.
Already PG&E is cutting power here in northern CA on summer days when they feel the power lines might be at risk for causing wildfires.
We’ve had two blackouts over ten hours at our house already this summer.
Barbaric.
74 day, 72 night. Off when I’m not there.
What about the cats?
I was worried about that in the early days until I noticed they spend most of their time outside the AC anyway (I only have window units). They are practically desert creatures – they can tolerate more heat than humans.
And just to make sure I wasn’t talking out of my ass, I just looked it up.
Cats vacation in hell. So they are acclimated.
My dog is parked in front of the ac vent. The cat is in his cuddly bed in the sunbeam. When my ac went out last year, the cat was in heaven.
72-74. Fuck off.
I fully support these DOE recommendations.
I’ll be using them this winter.
The coolest you should keep your house is 78 degrees, federal program
That sounds great! But won’t it cost me an arm and a leg?
— Random Minnesodan in January.
One size fits all? Who knew?
Individuals are different. Geograhical locations are different depending on sunlight and humidity. And yeah, you can bet your ass their offices are set to suit them.
Fuck off DOE is right.
I set it to 64 and wear a sweater, because screw them that’s why.
Jensen, who owns a reiki and intuitive healing business in Ridgewood, did not want to take any chances.
Erm, this is already enough of a non-story to warrant taking away the author’s iPad and soy mocha latte, but this sentence came straight from non-sequiturville
Heroes, every one.
Or maybe it’s not their job to dispose of every misplaced toy that someone freaks out about, even possible pranks?
If it was a dog they’d know what to do.
The clown incident must have gotten her chakras all out of alignment and shit so sleeping with a knife might have been a good move.
I refuse to judge the woman in question.
“They [the police] left and then I burned the thing,” she said. “I tried to burn it with a lighter. The stupid thing would not light because it has the flame retardant.
Yes, because it’s a child’s toy and there would be hell to pay if it wasn’t because of the safety and regulatory state. Teachable moment.
Then I put olive oil on it. Still wouldn’t light. Then I put newspaper on it and light it up on fire.”
You don’t have gas for the mower, or lighter fluid, or anything?
Would be truly hilarious if she was then cited for some sort of illegal fire.
^This.
You don’t have gas for the mower, or lighter fluid, or anything?
She and her beta boyfriend called the cops over a clown doll. I’m guessing an electric mower or a lawn service. Probably no lighter fluid either. Too dangerous to Gaia.
Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
Way too long – seriously just because you can write long form doesn’t mean you should write long form – but a pretty good, fair piece. And then…
Deserve.
I think it’s moronic to ponder a different person’s version of manhood.
“My Joe Rogan experience ended because he wore me out. He never shuts up. He talks and talks and talks. He doesn’t seem to grasp that not every thought inside his brain needs to be said out loud.”
Or written. Pot meet kettle.
Did they have a 5th grader do that portrait?
Jealous soy boy.
If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good.
Yes, that’s how you become a better person. Judge and never, ever forgive the heretics who choose to piss on the Social Contract.
If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good
fuck you, asshole. You’re what’s wrong with the world.
Agreed. That’s not a flaw, it’s a virtue.
“Joe likes Jack. He likes Milo Yiannopoulos. He likes Alex Jones. He wants you to know that he doesn’t agree with much of what they say, but he also wants you to know that off camera they’re the nicest guys. If we all have fatal flaws, this is Joe’s: his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good. It comes from a generous place, but it amounts to careless cruelty. He just won’t write people off, and then he compounds the sin by throwing them a lifeline at the moment when they least deserve it.”
Oh fuck off.
“his insistence on seeing value in people even when he shouldn’t, even when they’ve forfeited any right to it, even when the harm outweighs the good.”
You would think this kind of thinking was reserved for Mass Murderers. But no. Just people I disagree with. And people think it’s hyperbolic to say that they wouldn’t give a shit about lining up deplorable against the wall.
You would think. But no more.
He just won’t write people off, and then he compounds the sin by throwing them a lifeline at the moment when they least deserve it.
Better to cast out the deplorable, irredeemable bigots. We should concentrate them somewhere. Maybe a camp. That way we betters can have progress.
This is the part that pissed me off:
I’m not sure the author really understands what empathy means.
Joe is the one with a lack of empathy? Oh, I was confused for a minute there.
“We need to think through the whole process of redemption for people in our society,” Harris argued. “What are the criteria for successful apologies and for forgiveness?” Rogan agreed, hard, and they discussed the case of Liam Neeson, who may have done lasting damage to his career by confessing to racist thoughts in his youth that he is ashamed of now. “They just wanna see him burned alive,” Harris said with real alarm. “And yet … these same people on the left are people who have as a genuine ethical norm the rehabilitation of murderers … There’s no way to square those two things.” These are both good, if imperfect, points to raise, but neither of them seem to grasp that a good point coming out of the wrong mouth doesn’t count for squat.
is he saying that Sam Harris’ critique of the hypocrisy of the left is invalid b/c it came from Sam Harris?
These are both good, if imperfect, points to raise, but neither of them seem to grasp that a good point coming out of the wrong mouth doesn’t count for squat.
This is absolutely horrifying. On the other hand, it’s a good description of the modern identity politics.
What’s the verdict on Evil ideas out of a Retatds mouth?
“it’s different when we do it”
I like the podcast, but not for Joe Rogan’s bullshit.
I’ve only listened to a handful of them, but I didn’t find him all that offensive. I just finished him interviewing MIchael Malice and thought it was pretty good.
He’s no libertarian, though.
he’s not a libertarian but it doesn’t matter. He interviews interesting people of all stripes which shocker turns out people like to hear what they have to say. The novelty of his show is he lets them talk about really anything they want to talk about and he talks about stuff thats happening in the news, pop culture, working out, and just general hobby’s. Turns out people like that interview format. It’s organic and unforced and noone is really killed or beaten up by him if they go off the rails.
THIS^^^^.
Hollywood used to know that this was better, too. Carson and even Cavett were operating within self-prescribed limits; and I’m sure in some/many cases the stars also knew they weren’t going to be ambushed and may even have had a preview of topics and questions – but so what? This idea of gotcha journalism that you’re obligated to ask the *hard* questions is just so much bullshit. The non-stop, in-your-face style, a la Sam Donaldson, isn’t that good. It doesn’t produce better results. As I reflected on it, it occurred to me that I only liked it for the schadenfreude of someone I hated getting ambushed on their way to their car or whatever. It didn’t add a single ounce of knowledge to the story, however. Now it’s the default for everything and if someone doesn’t do that now they’re *doing it wrong!* Like it’s Joe Rogan’s fucking job to do the interview that this putz wanted him to do. Riiiiigghhht.
It’s the best part of the format. His most recent conversation with Jordan Peterson was terrific. Peterson makes it very difficult to jump in but JR was great about not stomping on him or trying to stay on a particular track.
I think it would be really hard to do three hour conversations but he sure has a lot of them.
Liz of the Fauxhicans panders on all the colors of the wind.
On Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, unleashed a policy plan sending at least $10 billion to Native American tribes in what seems a bid to recover from her DNA test fiasco. Her policy also comes ahead of a presidential forum on the topic Monday.
Her 9,000-word policy paper calls for America to address centuries of broken promises to Native Americans and to “reinforce the solemn nation-to-nation relationships with Tribal Nations. Accomplishing this will require structural change.”
She explicitly promises $8.3 billion for this structural change, although it is reasonable to estimate at least $10 billion for reasons given below.
WTF is “structural change”?
That’s where just under $10,000 of the 10 billion get deposited in her bank account every day.
A fundamental transformation.
I get it… “smash the system”.
“WTF is “structural change”?
If I have to explain, Comrade…
They can use part of that 10 billion for this:
Report: Minnesota agency overpaid 2 tribes more than $25M
http://www.startribune.com/report-minnesota-agency-overpaid-2-tribes-more-than-25m/513511322/
The best part of that fiasco is that the Tribes have documentation where the Minnesoda bureaucrats told them exactly what to do. Now that the shit has hit the fan, the state has told the tribes “you fucked up. You trusted us. Give us the money back.”
Just like when the IRS gives you bad advice, it doesn’t help your case at all. You still need to pay them.
Where the fuck have you been? I was about to send out the Swiss Guard to find you!
Long bad story involving my mom.
The short version is that she is in hospice care and her prognosis is a week to a month before the cancer finishes her off. I’m up in Detroit Lakes at the family home trying to help as much as I can.
Ah fuck, Jimbo. I’m so sorry, man.
Let me know if I can help out down here.
Hang tough.
Don’t cry for me Tundratina.
It has been a long time brewing. The end just came a lot more suddenly than anticipated. She seems mentally ready for the end and is living it up.
Maybe later I will go into more of the details, but for now, I’m still working on processing things.
OK. I’ll hoist a cold one for her, then.
All the best, dude.
Sorry to hear the news, Jimbo, but we all know the truth even when we try to ignore it. Still, our hearts are with you during the sad times.
Sorry 🙁
I’ll pray for your family.
Sorry Your Holiness.
Shit, Jim. I’m really sorry to hear that. Happy vibes from God’s Country.
If you need me to drive down there and let you buy me a beer to take your mind off things, you have my email.
“If I promise to give you enough taxpayer money, can you forget that I pretended to be an Indian for most of my adult life?”
Has she ever admitted she doesn’t have an Indian heritage? I mean she thought her DNA test proved she did have Indian ancestry.
1/1024 or some such nonsense.
In other words, paleface lie.
or 1/64th.
Or anywhere in between, depending on how many “greats” you have to tack on above 4 until you find the one injun in her lineage.
Of course, if institutional racism wasn’t pervasive in the education industry, none of this would matter.
But none of it from North America.
And that was central or South American, which is far from “Indian” as being perceived as north American. (She claimed Cherokee heritage.)
She pretty much just avoids the subject now. Last I can remember she still falls back on “family lore” as a shield against accusations that she was lying out of her ass.
How?
Hero Pulls Three Drivers From Flood in His Underwear, Loses Job
This man deserves the medal of freedom.
This man will be employed shortly.
^this^
The fact that he doesn’t slam his ex-boss, even while disagreeing with him makes him stand even taller
Who gives a shit about golf at a time like that??
Would.
The woman he saved was Hillary Clinton… And now you know the rest of the story.
Floods are no threat to Hillary. She can clearly walk on water.
Wait, I thought it was because she was an amphibious creature.
Reptile, not amphibian.
“I’ll always value human life over a piece of equipment.”
This little nugget of humanity was lost on his boss.
+1 I almost lost a four hundred dollar handcart
Interesting about the airbags. I didn’t know that submersion would trigger them.
Sensors can short.
His boss is a short-sighted fool. And not a marketing genius, I would guess.
Seriously. Who wouldn’t want such an employee to brag about?
I like that they never mentioned the name of the company (classy), but you can can clearly see it on the truck in the pictures.
I bet they are getting Lit. Up. right now.
New York Is the Least Friendly State in America, New Ranking Finds
Hey survey, go fuck yourself ya mook fuck ya.
“Pretty unfriendly but so polite about it.”
-Mike Mulligan.
Bullshit.
Minnesotans are just like everyone else: some great, most average, some complete shitweasels.
Leap will be along shortly to give his colorful opinion of Minnesota Nice.
“some complete shitweasels.”
I’M TRYING AS HARD AS I CAN!
And we appreciate your efforts.
*raises hand*
Ooo! Ooo! Pick me!
Go for it.
Subjective nature of such studies aside, Andrew Cuomo chimed in ordering EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY! “Except babies. They’re not a body until we say it is.”
STEVE SMITH MAYBE SPEND MORE TIME IN NEW YORK. MAKE NEW FRIENDS.
NH is 44th? I blame the Massholes.
Whatever. I don’t like “friendly”. I like “mind your own business”.
You would actually like Minnesota, then. Very surface friendly, but it can take outsiders a long time to make friends. Very small talk.
Yeah, I’m very “northern European” that way.
Lots of acquaintances, few close friends is how I think of Minnesota nice.
^ this ^
Heavy doses of genuine (sometimes superficial) politeness and niceness to strangers, but if the interaction drags on for too long…well it was good talkin’, we’ll be seeing ya!
Also, my North Dakota nice is stretched to the fucking limit when people (usually Minnesodans) call it Minnesota Nice. The Upper Midwest contains 4 or so other very friendly states…
Screw you. Idahoans are a damn sight friendlier than you dicks in North Dakota.
Go fuck yourself you tater tot!
Epstein signed an updated will 2 days before he died.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/19/jeffrey-epstein-signed-will-two-days-before-suicide/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&__twitter_impression=true
Almost like he knew he was going to die soon, or something.
Leaving all of his stuff to Bill & Hillary?
Bill: Keep the shoes. /Happy face, wink sticker.
Hilary: You got me. /crying out loud face sticker.
A boilerplate will that rolls the money into a trust. Presumably a trust that will make sure that certain things get released. Please, please, please…
Who cares. Epstein and his estate are now worm food and hush money, nobody important is going down.
I’m afraid this is true. Anything anybody else says, or any documents that come to light, will all be hand waived away as hearsay or unsubstantiated.
The Chicago Teacher Union rank and file seems unhappy with management’s decision to go to Venezuela and praise how wonderful everything is there.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-teachers-union-venezuela-trip-20190819-tbpa3lhjifduxgupdxfs3mosr4-story.html
I wonder what they’re teaching their students…
That sometimes TOP MEN don’t make the right decisions, but without TOP MEN everything would be anarchy and you don’t want anarchy because who would build the roads?
“You’re not welcome in the US any longer. Sad!”
I wonder what exotic diseases those tankies are gonna catch?
‘The Hunt’ Director Breaks Silence on Film’s Cancellation (EXCLUSIVE)
!!!!!!!! I’M JUST ANGRY !!!!!!!! !!!!! ART IS SOMETIMES NUANCED !!!!!!! !!!! ANGER!!!!!!!
Cancelling the movie was dumb, but the company can do what they want.
“Cuse is a registered Republican who nevertheless gave to Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2017. ”
Sounds like he might be mildly retarded.
Harvard grad
Retardation confirmed.
Next Top Model scout Jean-Luc Brunel flew poor 12-year-old triplets in from France as a BIRTHDAY PRESENT for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse, unsealed documents claim
Most of the details that have come out so far seem to be from the one victim, so…you know…but also…jfc.
I really hope there are courageous people who thoroughly investigate what the heck is going on.
Imagine if it all leads to the infamous ‘pedophile ring’ Corey Feldman and Alex Jones have been talking about.
Or perhaps the real truth about Jerry Sandusky and why the Penn State administration bent over backwards to accommodate a man they almost certainly knew was a pedophile. There was a rumor at the time that Sandusky was pimping out the boys from his charity to big-money Penn State donors and that’s why the school repeatedly covered up for him.
So why is he still alive? Sounds like he can take down some heavy duty people. Maybe not like Epstein could but still.
or not?
Absolutely nothing will come of this. Hush money will be doled out and the whole thing will be swept under the rug.
Happens. Every. Time.
Given what we know about other rings, I think it’s more likely than not Corey Feldman is telling the truth. I feel bad for him.
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And this will be dropped as soon as a Democrat is elected.
Faux-virtuous nonsense.
The newspaper which reported “nothing to see here” in the CCCP and once printed an article ridiculing Chinese men because nobody can tell them apart? That newspaper?
We haven’t had time to forget, what given how you never shut the fuck up about it.
“Why is Joe Rogan popular”
I ask this question often. If I want to listen to some bald guy pretend to be smart I’ll put on some Tool.
Pretend he has hair.
What would it be like to be on a planet smack in the middle of two galaxies smashing together?
Would it be all fire and chaos, would local physics warp, or what?
It would mean almost nothing. Galaxies are mostly empty space and the chances of even two stars colliding is….astronomical.
It would be a slow warming with a melting of the glaciers and then after about 12 years the planet will end in a fiery cataclysm.
You probably wouldn’t notice it. The time and distances involved are huge, millions of years and hundreds of thousands of light years.
Oh, in 2 to 3 billions years, the Milky Way (our galaxy) and the Andromeda Galaxy are probably going to collide.
I’ve read more than one SF novel about this very issue.
I assume SugarFree galaxies collide in the most perverted way imaginable.
“Rectum hell, damn near killed him.”
Of course. You know what galaxies have?
That’s right. Tentacles.
The Astronaut’s Wife?
Curious as to how they know there were “ripples in time”?
https://www.foxnews.com/science/black-hole-devouring-neutron-star-detected
Why am I not surprised?
Rep. Pete King is the first Republican to sign on to the assault weapons ban
Fuck New York
Are car bombs still legal?
I pretty sure the local pub will make you a Irish Car Bomb if you ask politely.
Peter King is just peachy with scary black rifles so long as it’s the IRA who has them.
But enough about politicians.
“I don’t see any need for them in everyday society,” King said.
Now do welfare recipients and disable persons.
I don’t need you telling me what I need, Petey.
He’d been falling behind, but Peter’s right back in the race for “biggest asshole in the House with the surname “King””.
King is one of the biggest shitstains in Washington.
He’s an authoritarian sack of shit and has been for years.
Let’s face it, the Vikings didn’t need assault rifles when they were sacking Western Europe and saving civilization by raping all our women ancestors.
Look what the Mongols did with the recurve bow. Ghengis Khan’s descendents are all over Asia.
Don’t forget that the point was that it was technologically superior to what their enemies had.
So were their skill levels. The ability to ride and shoot at the same time was devastating.
Surprise
Fired NYPD cop Daniel Pantaleo will sue Police Commissioner James O’Neill in a bid to win back his job, his lawyer said Monday.
Pantaleo will file a suit under Article 78 of the state Civil Practice Law and Rules, lawyer Stuart London said.
The provision allows people to appeal decisions by government officials or agencies through the courts on grounds that they were “arbitrary and capricious.”
If successful, Pantaleo would get reinstated to the NYPD and be awarded damages for lost wages.
Totality of circumstances. Due process. Arbitrary and capricious.
Garner ruined that officer’s life.
As if this wasn’t obvious. Sometime in mid-2020 he’ll be awarded his job back, with back pay (including lost overtime). All of us who’ve been following this since the Balko at Reason days know the story because it happens so goddamn often.
This
It would be most unfortunate if mister Pantaleo should suffer a catastrophic accident while cleaning his glock.
Arbitrary and capricious, unlike the murder of Eric Garner…
Why not turn them into newts, while you’re at it?
The city of Sacramento has filed an unusual lawsuit to ban seven men considered to be a “public nuisance” from a popular business corridor.
The lawsuit alleges the men are “drug users, trespassers, thieves … and violent criminals” who have illegal weapons and ammunition and have forced police to dedicate an “excessive amount” of resources to the Broadway corridor.
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“The City of Sacramento will seek injunctive relief when criminal activity in an area has become excessive when compared to similar neighborhoods, and other enforcement remedies have not proven successful,” she said. “In this case, the residents and businesses along the Broadway corridor have been subjected to ongoing criminal activity from a relatively small group of people. The suit looks to address that issue head-on and protect the safety of everyone who lives in or visits the area.”
The suit is filed against Sean Conner, Michael Dibiasio, Dimitriy Gologyuk, Troy Green, Kelvin C. Peterson, Joseph Soto and Kenneth Whitlock. Some of the men are believed to be homeless and efforts to reach them Sunday were unsuccessful. It also wasn’t known if they had lawyers who could comment on their behalf.
“Homelessness is not a crime, and this lawsuit does not seek to make it one,” Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement to The Bee. “What the city is attempting to do is safeguard the public safety and well being of residents and businesses in the Broadway corridor who have been subjected to ongoing criminal activity by a relatively small number of people, some of whom also happen to be homeless.”
It’s worth a shot. Maybe they just didn’t realize they weren’t allowed to hang out downtown and commit crimes all day. I’m sure they’ll leave, now that they have been asked nicely.
the men are “drug users, trespassers, thieves … and violent criminals” who have illegal weapons and ammunition
If they’re all that, why aren’t they behind bars now?
Here’s why. It’s very long, and a rehash of a lot of things everybody knows – but TL;DW: it’s because California et al. want it that way.
*sigh*
A few days ago, one of our employees had to run into traffic when a stranger outside our office followed her and threatened to kill her. On other occasions our employees have arrived at work only to be menaced by individuals camping in the doorway,” Tim Boyle wrote.
Go fuck yourself Boyle. You’ve been supporting this progressive nonsense.
I bet Columbia Sportswear has a no firearms/no weapons policy for their employees too.
If Sacramento is anything like other California cities I imagine they are showering millions of dollars on homeless drug users every year. You mean, that doesn’t help?
couple Proud Boys in NYC convicted for kicking the shit out of masked Antefa a year ago. potential prison time 15+ years.. for a street brawl that Antefa instigated.
HONK HONK
welcome to Clown World
It’s not a crime when the presi…. I mean, a leftist…. does it.
Geez. I bet those antifa guys are glad they wore masks.
Well you have racist, fascist, white supremist far-right wing Nazi Proud Boys (as reporting completely uncritically by all the media reporting on the demonstrations) versus peaceful anti-fascist protestors. The legal outcomes are inevitable.
I keep hoping that those two LARP groups get together and just kill each other. That’d be nice.
Be nice if they just all keep their shit to Portland and Berkely.
+1 why dueling should be a thing…….it doesn’t just need to be between individuals. I’d support a voluntary thunder dome I think.
Yikes!
Sacramento civil rights attorney Mark Merin told The Bee he would fight the lawsuit, calling it “a huge assault on civil liberties.”
Huh.
Good day my fellow miscreants.
Checking in after a brief hiatus now that I’m done hemorrhaging money on book purchases for this semester. I’m eagerly awaiting my return to the indoctrination machine we call “higher education” in two weeks- I subject myself to it between my daily bouts laboring in the Florida sun.
Hope everyone is well!
What are you studying?
I’m on my way to a Bachelors in Business and Management with a concentration in Project Management. I’m a full time industrial electrician looking to get out of the field. Plan on going to law school after but at least I’ll have a backup plan if I don’t end up pursuing a law degree.
Lol. I bet there is a lawyer somewhere looking to become an electrician. At least I know a few white collar people that wish they worked with their hands. Good luck with school.
*raises hand*
Don’t get me wrong, they pay me enough to not regret going to law school. However, paper pushing is a soul sucking endeavor, at least it is for me.
When you start thinking more seriously about law school, let me and the other lawyer glibs know. I participate in a law admissions forum on a somewhat regular basis, so I know better than some what to look for in a school and what to ignore.
Fun with Agile? Or more on logistics side?
PM can be hell, you may wish you were back in the field at some point, good luck
Is FL one of those states that requires apprenticeships & licensing for industrial electricians like regular sparkys?
Yup. Licensing is also done at a municipal level. It’s a supreme shitshow that leads to a lot of laughs when resi journeymen and MEs walk onto industrial jobs thinking they’re Jesus Christ and they don’t know shit.
Oh you have ten years experience putting recessed light fixtures in?
Hop on that excavator!
Sounds like you’ve never been on a military construction site….
“MSgt: Can you operate an excavator?”
“I’m an electrician.”
“That’s not what I asked you….”
“What makes you think an electrician can operate an excavator?”
“Show me your license” (I had excavator, forklift, bucket truck, dump truck, and backhoe on my license)….”GET ON THAT TRACKHOE”
I tell the new guys “this is real work”
Reminds me of a co-worker years ago who had done time in Viet Nam
Co-worker climbs into helicopter
Grunt: Here’s your .30 cal machine gun
Co-worker: I’m a radio mechanic
Grunt: Radio ain’t broke. Here’s your .30 cal.
This goes with the “Shake Hands With Danger” short I linked to the other day.
Well, I done gone and broke into the Oktoberfest beer over a month too soon. I should still be drinking schwilly domestics and Mexican beer but the temptation overcame me. Thats ok though because by the time October 1st rolls around the only seasonal beer available will be Winter Warmers and Christmas ales.
Yeah, the local Wegmans has all the pumpkin beer out on display. I see Spam now has a pumpkin spice version. I love pumpkin pie but the fad is way overdone. What next, pumplin flavor toothpaste, pumpkin hemmoroid cream?
Pumpkin Hemmroid cream
/Shudders
If you are at Wegmas you should be able to get Southerntier Brewing’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale. While I also find most pumpkin stuff somewhere between underwhelming and nauseating, I really enjoy that beer in the Fall. This evening I’m drinking Sierra Nevada’s Oktoberfest which never disappoints.
Both their Pumpking and their Warlock are two of the better ones out there.
It’s not even close to being time to drink Octoberfest style brews here. I’m still drinking Heineken and Stella. Yeah, yeah, I know, just pretend that it was some less hoppy less mop buckety style of shitty IPA. 96 F today and 62% humidity. Gotta keep it all Pilsner/Lager like for the near future. I start enjoying the more flavorful beers when I see come chilly morns and days in the 70s.
How was your hangover, hyp?
What hangover?
Are you my long lost brother?
I drink Stella. I have no desire to hunt around for some magic beer that I can only get at one place that’s marginally better. Stella is decent, attainable and plenty strong enough. I’m glad you guys have 23 flavors of way too hoppy, but I’m plenty happy with some Stella. Thank you very much.
My dad was disappointed that the local wegmans no longer sells Genesee cream ale. He always picked up a case or 3 when he visited.
They sell it here at one of the package stores. I’t completely disgusting, lol.
Genny is OK on draft. I don’t get the point of it, though, it’s like the decaf of beer.
Crocodile tears.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tlaib-emotional-omar-congress-israel-travel-restrictions
They said she could go visit her grandma. They only rejected the initial itinerary of 100% protesting Israel’s existence.
The cunts are liars. Every word they say is a lie including “and” and “the”. If they said it was sunny outside, I’d check before leaving the umbrella behind.
Also just to be they put ‘Palestine’ as the country on the travel request.
Heh, I forgot about that.
They really are the most shameless, shit stirring two bit grifters I have ever seen.
“As a young girl visiting Palestine to see my grandparents and extended family, I watched as my mother had to go through dehumanizing checkpoints – even though she was a United States citizen and a proud American
But enough about airport security and clearing customs & immigration returning to the US.
Palestine? Then why did she file with Israel?
Stirring shit. Stirring shit.
She is in the spotlight, isn’t she? It worked.
It’s good the Democrats refused to call her out on her anti-Semitism
You have to get Israel’s permission to go to the West Bank. There is no country called Palestine.
They sure have some chutzpah to peddle that much bullshit.
This is the type of bullshit the democrats now support as part of their official platform, along with antifa. Tells me all I want to know about them.
In the 50s, my mother was living in Europe and really wanted to meet her paternal grandmother in Romania. She applied for a visa and was turned down. She never got to meet her. Tlaib, who wants to implement a similar system here, can suck it.
Libertarian Comedians: A No Doubt Incomplete List
I’ve never watched Last Man Standing, but the clips look pretty good.
It is. My wife watches it from time to time and it grows on me.
It’s cute and fun. The new Mandy sucks.
Yup
“Adam Carolla”
Carolla is fucking epic. Too bad his old sidekick is such a giant pussy.
Some of those guys aren’t even really comedians. However, there is a good number of comedians who, because of the forced-p.c. climate, realize how important freedom of speech is.
For example, Jim Norton is almost certainly not a libertarian, yet he does a fine job espousing values that if aren’t exactly a libertarian standard of free speech are pretty closed to one while in a discussion with Judd Apatow (who is a bloody hemorrhoid). I think mainstream – or however mainstream a satellite radio show can be – is a much better way for comedians to come close to espousing libertarian values. And there are plenty of people, people even like Rogan, who are very pro 1st amendment, and people like him matter so much more. I guess Carolla falls into that territory too. Also, does Tim Allen still do stand up?
I like Dave Smith – and the Legion of Skanks is about as free speech as it gets (Compound Media is the we don’t give a shit network, but also there aren’t many, if any, libertarians on there) – but someone with his platform and listeners doesn’t really make a difference unless to group who pretty much agrees with his views.
For those of you who really dig despicable humor, here’s the LOS guys with Cumia making jokes about an actual baby rape.
I mean goodness gracious.
Oh, that’s something else.
I’ll pass
Tim Allen always parks in the alley (risking a ticket) when he gets coffee at the local Starbucks, that I know.
Has anyone heard any update on the 2 guys who went fishing off the FL coast on Friday afternoon and just never showed back up again? Foul play? A storm? They eloped with some mermaids?
Lost at sea seems likely. I get amazed by the amount of hikers who get lost. I’m sure it is common for boating.
I seriously cannot ponder how someone can get lost with all the navigational equipment and GPS and cell phones that exist today. I suspect foul play.
Not lost lost. Accidents happen. Fire could have started on the boat. Engine failure.
No cell phone calls to anyone?
There may not be coverage. Or, things can go south fast.
Can, of course, I am just not buying it. Also the wife is acting strange, she doesn’t seem to be upset at all. If my wife would disappear like that, I would be completely despondent, there is no way I’d be acting like that or even talking to anyone. Something is wrong here.
They found their tackle box floating in the ocean and the boat has a history of engine problems.
Never go off shore on a single engine craft without a good radio.
/lifelong Florida Man
So, if any gamers out there tonight, anyone tried Rebel Galaxy Outlaw yet? I mean it was just released today, just asking. Thinking about getting it, I love the first one, especially the soundtrack.
Why don’t you take a seat over there…
and watch this video:
“I Got Jessica Yaniv To Confess On Tape”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbINkdXvQfs
“NEW VIDEO: I got Jessica Yaniv to confess on tape + revealing I knew the “agent” the entire time. This is NUTS, pun intended.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1163495874254659589
Who?
She shot herself in the nuts and a baggie of dope fell out her ass.
Well, I mean there are only so many ways to fame, you can’t always be so picky. Wait… she had nuts?
“She shot herself in the nuts”
That would be doing human evolution a favor though I’m not sure who would breed with that thing.
The tranny who sued a bunch of small waxing shops because they wouldn’t wax her female testicles. Basically a racket to rip people off. I put her in episode 32 of SNP. Yaniv has also talked about “helping” young teenage girls with sanitary products, leading to speculation that he/she is actually a pedo using trans identity as a cover.
Gross.
According to Blaire, Yaniv admitted harming young girls.
Yeah. Just finished the video.
I also would call Yaniv a “tranny”. As far as anyone can tell, he doesn’t have gender dysphoria or done anything to transition.
Do any of you know someone who is adept at Wikipedia, and would accept compensation for creating a page?
A friend from med school’s wife is a top plastic surgeon, who has invented some devices and procedures that are in use worldwide, and she is very well known in her profession — but not the type of famous that the average person is going to make a page about her without prompting. He’s seen other wiki pages about some prominent docs on Wikipedia who have been up for years, docs who can’t hold a candle to his wife’s accomplishments, so it’s totally appropriate that she be on there.
Problem is, he’s not very computer-savvy, and when he looked at how to submit a page to the site, he gave up a minute in. Yet he’s willing to write the copy for the entire page, with all the links and references, he just needs someone who knows what they are doing to upload and get it up and running. And he’s willing to pay handsomely.
I told him that I had no idea, but had to imagine there’s people who do this for pay. And I did know of a certain web community who had posters with an incredibly wide range of knowledge and expertise, and at least one of them would know what to do……
Feel free to answer here, or contact me privately at c.anacreon at gmail — thanks!
SP? WebDom? You two listening in right now?
Wiki markup is easy, the problem with Wikipedia is its editors. They could easily change or delete the page.
^^This. The “editors” scouring Wikipedia are, by and large, complete effin’ assholes.
Why You Should Stop Comparing ‘Seinfeld’ And ‘Friends’
How about our civil war concentrates on Friends vs Seinfeld so we can put an end to political discourse and finally get down to brass tacks.
Likable characters? Have they seen Seinfeld? I thought part of the point was that these were terrible people.
Yes, it was one reason that I couldn’t get into Seinfeld more than I did, even though I liked the show, is that I want to have a protagonist I can root for — and when everyone’s an asshole, it’s hard to do. Even Homer Simpson in the Simpsons glory days, though a dimwit, was a pretty nice guy who wanted to do the right thing, and most of us could relate to him in a way (this of course disappeared when the writing plummeted in later years and they made him into solely a buffoon instead).
Likable cast not characters.
The terrible people were on “Sunny in Philadelphia” Sienfeld had moderately annoying people.
I don’t, since Seinfeld is 100 million times better.
It’s still a better show, that doesn’t mean the characters were all that likable. Every show is kinda about how they can’t connect with anyone outside their little clique – because they are terrible. Still funny.
Funny and nice are two different things. It’s like I always tell people, NFL players are entertainers, they are not saints or your kids’s role models. People seem to have a really hard time separating realities.
Just in their professional lives, George and Elaine are the assholes who screw things up yet float from job to job, often getting promoted for their incompetence. There’s a lot to relate to there.
In their personal lives too. Nice isn’t interesting on tv. Most shows are driven by people being jerks. Seinfeld took it to a new level. The characters aren’t situationally bad, they are always assholes. I think it was brilliantly done. But, the characters aren’t people I like.
The best episode is the one with the Rye bread and the beeferino eating horse, lol. I don’t think I ever laughed that hard before. ‘Let go of that bread, you old bag!’.
I didn’t like Seinfeld when I was younger. Now I enjoy the hell out of it. I think it takes life experience to appreciate how brilliant it is.
Agreed. The characters, though, are assholes. That’s what drives the show.
Cheers
Yes, Diane was a pseudo-intellectual snob. That often drove the plot points. Etc.
But she has a big giant head, birds crashing into it and shit.
I certainly relate much more to the bar relationships.
My dad’s former accountant back in the day looked like Norm. I mentioned that once, and the guy actually thought that was funny.
I never started comparing Seinfeld and Friends. Why would anybody do that? They are completely different shows.
Exactly. I enjoyed them both – as well as Cheers and a bazillion others.
Although one of you assholes (Tulip?) called my attention to the fact that Magnum is on Prime, so that has been my pre-bed ritual for the last week…
Seriously, why the hell do I watch shows I’ve already seen?
Same reason you re-read books?
Next do Simon & Simon!
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember the episode where Simon & Simon were on Magnum?!?
Now that was quality tv!
Hell yes. IT was good.
Did you ever see the Rockford Files episode that Tom Selleck was on? Not as Magnum, but as a P.I. from Hawaii.
Ah shit, just realized I’m about to necro-post. Oh well.
Why did I suffer so long? Apparently, it’s possible to turn off Google Assistant on my phone. I never wanted to use it but the Assistant would always pop up when I squeezed the bottom of the phone or if I inserted the phone into a car phone holder. But the last straw was a travel confirmation email I received not so long ago. I wasn’t the intended recipient (somebody unrelated to me has the last name very similar to mine). Google kept bombarding me with alerts about check-in times, flight delays and so on. And it was only the first segment out of three.
https://www.howtogeek.com/319490/how-to-disable-google-assistant-or-at-least-take-its-shortcut-back/
Though, the settings on my phone looked rather different.
I hate the Bixby button on Samsung phones.
^^This. Bixby can lick me.
Good grief I hate that too. And if you swipe the wrong way on your main screen it becomes Bixby, and it won’t allow you to remove that.
Thankfully, I’ve got an old phone that doesn’t have Google Assistant.
So maybe my mom didn’t drop me on my head, she just drank a lot of water.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/08/19/study-suggests-fluoride-water-supplies-may-harm-iq-children/
Study X….suggests….may….
Suggests that it may.
Allow me to translate: Study finds X does not.
I thought the fluoride conspiracy nuts went away decades ago.
Hmmm…did you have a gay pet frog when you were little?
His frog watched too much Golden Girls.
She was trans, that isn’t the same.
By giving them bad teeth? I grew up on well water and have to have fluoride treatments growing up. I still have crappy teeth.