Happy Monday, all. My wife and I are vacationing sans kids for basically the first time in almost three years. So far, we’ve done a lot of sitting around in companionable silence, drinking adult beverages. Mrs. L found a puzzle, so I may be a puzzle widower for the rest of vacation. We drove down to the Gulf Coast through the parts of Florida worst hit last year. Seeing hundreds of acres of pine trees all knocked over the same way out there by Tyndall was crazy. Mexico Beach looks… empty. Saw perhaps a dozen or more people with campers parked in the cleared areas that used to be beach houses. Anyhow, we are enjoying the quiet, and not being awoken at night or early in the morning by our spawn, who are being half-spoiled from both ends by my wife’s aunt and uncle.
The Burnt Orange Heresy ought to be a movie about a University of Texas student trying to take up rooting for the Sooners to appease his dying father.
Hillary goes with Mussolini-style “we are stronger together” slogan.
Which one of you is this guy’s defense lawyer?
4 in 10 people regret how they lived their adult lives. The other 6 never married.
Animal’s excellent post put me in mind of this song.
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“it’s tragic and wrong that black women are more likely to die than white women.”
From abortion?
FWIW: they’re not
Father Time has been batting 1.000 for some time
But you have to cut Hilary some slack on that one. She heard that only the good die young and she is pretty sure that means she’s got eons left on her life if true.
Aren’t we all equally likely to die?
Everyone has a 100% probability of death. Do black women have a 150% probability or something?
a coward dies a thousand deaths
I thought the expected death rate was 100% for everyone.
Everybody, black or white, is going to die with probability 1.
“We have to recommit ourselves to love, and compassion, and empathy. We will have doors slammed in our faces. We will have eyes rolled at our rhetoric. We will have people dismiss and demean us, but at the end, standing up for those fundamental values is more important than scoring cheap political points,” Clinton said.
She went on to urge attendees to “keep the faith” because “we are stronger together,” invoking her 2016 campaign slogan.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again, Her Shrillness is running for president in 2020.
Hillary vs. Michelle.
Game of Crones
*golf clap*
“We will have doors slammed in our faces. We will have eyes rolled at our rhetoric. We will have people dismiss and demean us”
Guilty as charged. If you don’t like it, stop being awful.
And that’s just my mother!
If I lose, we all go down and that Fascist Fuck will have us swinging from nooses! What the fuck is wrong with you idiots?”
Trump has not delivered.
There is a great irony in her calling someone else a fascist.
“This time I’ll win or die trying.” – Her acceptance speech at the DNC primary (she keels over right after)
“What is dead may never die”
Well you never did see any black female Highlanders, did you?
Are we counting the TV series as canon?
Mexico beach was sitting in 13′ of water for a while. Still dealing with Florida Man and his lawyers on tons of claims.
Randy Galloway called Austin the “whiny orange,” which is even funnier than the Aggie accusation of “tea sippers.” But “Zero U” is the funniest idea he ever had.
There’s also 10wa for the obnoxious Hawkeye fans.
oh, if we leave TX, this goes on for hours!
What does the N on cornhuskers’ helmets stand for?
Nowledge!
Don’t make their women angry. Big, strong, and mean.
Midwest Melissa is a Nebraska fan and that explodes your entire theory. I’m at work, so I can’t link to her extremely NSFW site, but simple google search will bring you right there.
Melissa became famous when Lincoln cops cited her for indecency based on pics she had on her website that showed her topless in a local bar. (SFW)
I can’t handle a chick whose jaw is bigger than mine.
Hitler squandered the original batch by not drafting them.
At Northwestern we refer to Iowa football as Io_a because we always get the “W” against them.
4 in 10 people regret how they lived their adult lives. The other 6 never married.-
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I REGRET NOTHING!!!
Not even that hot girl in high school you could’ve banged if only you’d picked up on her signals?
I’m sorry, penthouses letters is over there.
I’ve always pined for a Mrs. Boberson. I’m a romantic. She’s never materialized. While I can get all wistful over this fact I often wonder if it’s providence and marriage would have turned out to be a terrible disappointment for me. Oh well.
/reaches for booze
You have to be mindful of the greener grass. I’m in a good place and I wouldn’t change anything because I’m happy. The enemy of good being better and all.
Yep. I’m never so happy as when I’m just getting into relationship and it’s all sex and affection.
I’m never so miserable after that wears off and I’ve got someone in my life who is absolutely no fun to be around at all. Single me is by far the most stable and centered person.
the first Mrs Escaped never escaped: does Fort Worth ever cross your mind?
awesome ass, but fair warning: she’s a Sig chick
Sig’s a good outfit. I am partial to Walther and S&W, but nothing wrong with Sig.
“she’s a Sig chick”
Good move dropping her.
*writes “Mrs Boberson” on side of fleshlight and mails to Bob*
You’re welcome.
Seriously though, I was very much on the fence about getting married, but I’m happy that I did. There are serious compromises and reductions in quality of life that come from getting married, but I think the benefits have outweighed all that crap. However, having experienced it, if I were in a position of being single again, the only thing (besides my religious convictions against extramarital sex) that would push me toward getting married again would be to have a suitable female role model in a close relationship for my daughter.
Marriage works when both parties are equally convinced that they couldn’t do better.
/Starts evaluating to what degree narcissism has played a role in his failures, decides self-awareness is for losers and goes back to thinking about how awesome he is…….
Wow, I think you’ve uncovered the key to relationships!
Negative there good buddy.
I’m very happily married to a much younger woman who is in turn totally dedicated to he marriage and me, her husband.
I couldn’t be more happy in my marriage. I got extremly lucky, I admit, but here I am.
I married SP.
I’ll call that a win.
win-slash-felony, but a win.
I’ve always pined for a Mrs. Boberson.
It’s better than pining for the fjords.
No Ragrets.
I am twenty…uh…one? two? years into a happy marriage and we were together 5 years before we married. If I could go back I wouldn’t change a thing.
I was too young (24) the first time around. That is, too young for me. Should have waited another 5 years, would have saved a lot of heart break along the way.
Now 46 years into the second go around maybe I’ll grow up one day. Hope not
who are being half-spoiled from both ends by my wife’s aunt and uncle.
Um.
The front end I get, the back end OTOH…
I’m sure she’s wiping their butts for them.
So…the police defense. Sorry “civilian” it won’t work.
I would subpeona pigs who got away with such defenses and make the court say openly that pigs are a higher class than people.
I thought you were just a stickler for the ‘ , you’re also a comedian!
*wipes tear*
Exactly, nice try, but we all know “furtive movement” defense only works for our betters.
“Hillary Clinton is not a declared candidate for president, but she sure is acting like one.
She was in Atlanta on Friday to accept the “Realizing The Dream” award at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and after being introduced as “president”, Clinton took on the tone of a black preacher.”
Can you imagine being this in it for MyTeam mentality. I get it not calling Trump president, but slavenly sucking her off and calling her President? That’s deranged.
That killed me the most.
BTW, that website is a dumpster fire.
“a secret organization out to take control of the U.S. government”
Uh, no. Try “the permanent bureaucracy that already controls the US government”.
That’s their definition of the deep state?
Yep. The guy was a Qanon lunatic, but the existence of the Deep State isn’t really up for debate IMO.
Also
The existence of the Deep State is considered a conspiracy theory? I thought the concept was openly accepted by everyone. Even the progs have been calling on these lifelong teat-suckers to RESIST.
Only as framed by leftist media. Any honest person knows the reference is to the entrenched bureaucracy.
I prefer “Persistent Bureaucratic State”, sounds less conspiratorial.
Allegedly, the term “deep state” has the Turkish origin: the military that would kick out a prime minister from time to time. Erdogan prevailed over it.
“‘We are stronger together’: Hillary invokes campaign slogan during Atlanta speech”
Anyone want to try and convince me she isn’t gonna make another go at it? This is going to be priceless.
*runs to buy popcorn*
‘We are stronger together’
So is a fasces.
What about feces?
You know who else liked feces?
Almost every dog?
Dung beetles?
Shitlords?
Germans?
Coprophiliacs?
Septic tank companies?
Cleveland?
Creepy red cartoon bears?
HM?
I bet she kinda has to. Note that the Clinton foundation donations dried up. I wonder why… and they probably owe some favors.
Hitmen ain’t cheap.
Ahem. “Suicide Assistance Technicians” is the preferred nomenclature.
That’s rather presumptuous of her. She isn’t long for this world, as is the case for many 71 year old alcoholic women who are too fat to walk up stairs
And have some kind of undiagnosed lung and/or neurological disorder.
You both forget; she’s made a deal with Satan. He will not call her home until he’s done with her.
According to that Russian Facebook meme that changed the election, that would mean she made a deal with herself.
If Jesus can microwave a burrito so hot even he can’t eat it, certainly Satan can craft a contract so bulletproof even he can’t extricate himself.
That was a Niven short story. Sorta.
Convergent Series, I think.
Hey – Angela Merkel can still do the jitter-bug!
The two of them could go on the road with a song and dance show.
She’s running, the bought and paid for DNC will beg her to and she’ll step in at the last minute for the good of the country.
I can hear it now: “Biden is a good man and he’s been a fine public servant, I just feel that he isn’t the best candidate to prevent a two term Trump presidency and, because of this, I am obliged to run for the good of the nation.”
Followed soon after by Trump Inauguration II.
If she does run she might actually be the most sane of the D candidates.
Which might be the point, from the DNC’s perspective. Push through a group of candidates so awful they make Hillary look good.
I thought this strategy was so obvious that nobody had to actually spell it out. The clown car which is the current DNC candidate vehicle has pulled so far left that it has jumped the curb, plowed through the ditch and continues to lumber through an open field. Even some lefties I know are quietly scratching their collective heads.
“so I may be a puzzle widower for the rest of vacation”
Assert your dominance. Hide 3 pieces.
In his pants?
2 birds, one stone.
*checks medical textbook*
I would have expected 2 stones and one bird, but I guess I shouldn’t assume your genitalia.
I’ve got your corner right here!
I like my life insurance uncollected.
I figured she was busy playing the newest Candy Crush Saga knock-off.
Hide 3 pieces.
Amateur. Swap out those 3 pieces with ones from a different puzzle.
Are you my brother? THIS IS WHY WE’RE NOT CLOSE!
Stronger together.
LOL. I think this is Hillary testing the waters. It was supposed to be her turn to sleep but she has to reign 1000 years out for turn because the evil lycan Drumphitler.
Like a bundle of sticks.
Fag
Going more for the Fasces, like that Italian fellow who was into public transportation.
Thanks, UCS.
You know who else was really into public transportation?
Just about every leftist that’s ever lived for some reason?
That guy who fondles himself at the back of the bus?
Bernie Goetz?
Drunken 22-year olds?
Miller from Repo Man?
“The more you drive, the less intelligent you are”
Howard Payne?
Rosa Parks?
Whose axing the questions around here?
I remember Ben Cartwright using that analogy on bonanza.
Savage
Indeed, that was brutally on-point.
found this over at IowaHawk..
https://autoweek.com/article/supercars/official-2020-midengine-chevrolet-corvette-here?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=autoweekusa
the new 2020 midengine vette does look like a Ferrari.
Especially when you look at the price tag. As cool as it looks I think I’d rather blow that kind of money on a Porsche and have some hope for better reliability.
Paging Tulip. Tulip to the lobby, please.
Once upon a time, wealthy families considered matrimonies akin to mergers; they were coldhearted business opportunities to expand a family’s financial power. Even in the late 19th century, marriage was more practicality than rom-com, whereas today’s daters are looking for nothing less than a human Swiss Army knife of self-actualization. We seek “spiritual, intellectual, social, as well as sexual soul mates,” the sociologist Jessica Carbino told The Atlantic’s Crazy/Genius podcast. She said she regarded this self-imposed ambition as “absolutely unreasonable.”
If the journey toward coupling is more formidable than it used to be, it’s also more lonesome. With the declining influence of friends and family and most other social institutions, more single people today are on their own, having set up shop at a digital bazaar where one’s appearance, interestingness, quick humor, lighthearted banter, sex appeal, photo selection—one’s worth—is submitted for 24/7 evaluation before an audience of distracted or cruel strangers, whose distraction and cruelty might be related to the fact that they are also undergoing the same anxious appraisal.
The unbearable freedom of dating.
Back in the good old days, your family and friends shopped you around.
While I begrudge nobody their freedom to choose a mate for themselves, I think there is a point to be made there. Marriage used to be far more about utility than happiness. While the culture has changed in too many ways to make a simple value judgement on which is better, I do sometimes wonder if on the whole this makes us better or worse off.
That only works when there are brothels in every town and wives conveniently look the other way.
I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there.
That reminds me o the time it was late, we were in Sioux City, IA and went into a place to ask directions. Turned out to be a gay porn shop. It was like that scene from “My Own Private Idaho”.
https://www.collectors.com/entertainment-item/068-keanu-reeees-my-own-private-idaho-barechested-on-gay-ma/5526297440602350240
I found out recently that the foundation of the “Valley Hotel” was not far from my parents house in my hometown. Evidently this roadhouse served as the town brothel for generations up until the 40’s-50’s. You may have a point there.
I have seen no proof those marriages were happier.
I think the point is that happiness wasn’t the goal, so they were successful marriages, but modern marriage happiness is the goal and they are failing.
I’m reasonably sure I know who my parents would’ve married me off to had that existed in the late 20th century.
From seeing her Facebook (back when I was on Facebook), I’ll never wonder that. I know we’re better off the way things are now. At least I am.
Same, I don’t think I’d have fully trusted my parents to marry me off to someone I was attracted to/compatible with. On the flip side I’m currently dating a woman who’s ex is a douche nozzle her parents had reservations about from the beginning who didn’t feel like it was their place to say anything. She deeply regrets that they didn’t.
You’re not dating my sister, are you?
(my parents didn’t say anything. I told her he was an asshole though. So did my brother. Didn’t work.)
It never does.
You cant save people from themselves.
^^this.
Yep.
Marriage used to be far more about utility than happiness.
I’d venture part of the problem is that people expect marriage, in itself, to make them happy.
Which is why you should never date anyone who expects that. The only person who can make you happy is you.
That’s why we’re sending Bob the Fleshlight.
Don’t cheap out OMWC. Buy him one of these instead.
Well, you’ll never have to ask if it was good for her…
Bob the Builder After Dark.
Of all the lies we tell our children as we raise them — “Happily Ever After” — is the greatest lie of all.
Marriage is full of down times that require patience and hard work.
^THIS^. ‘Happily ever after’ is one of the biggest disservices a well-intentioned person can do to a kid
Wait….so you are saying there is no Santa Claus?
*begins sobbing*
Don’t cry, you still have the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.
I’d say better. It is a sign of rising individualism.
Possibly. Sometimes I wonder if, rather than close friends and family influencing those decisions we now have the social media generations choosing partners, in part, on social currency values. (Not saying EVERYONE) In lots of ways I think we’re sliding toward a Brave New World morality in which fidelity is becoming an irrelevance anyway.
I see parallels to the U.S. presidential campaigns.
A lot of Korean still have arranged marriages. And even if they pick their own potential spouse, the parents usually vet the other family to make sure that no one is a super obvious gold digger.
An ex-coworker from India (one of the brightest women I have known) had an arranged marriage as well. She said her husband was the 25th guy her parents trotted out.
“She said her husband was the 25th guy her parents trotted out.”
What a slut.
Nope. Her problem was she was a wild eyed Indian feminist (aka about what a feminist in the ’60s would be) that didn’t take shit off Indian men.
She said most of the men her parents brought by were appalled that she wouldn’t fawn over them or agree with everything they said.
The best part of having her work for me was when I could turn her loose in a meeting on a bunch of other Indian developers who were trying to pull one over on us. She would give them a culturally appropriate ass chewing that was so fun to watch.
I went to school with an adopted Indian girl. She was a smoke-show but there was always something a little off about her. You could flirt to a point and then she’d turn into an ice-queen. I always figured it was because she came from a very strict Catholic family and sex was verboten so flirting made her uncomfortable. After graduation she had a nervous breakdown, turns out her brother had been sexually abusing her for years. It was awful and a tragic start for a very smart, beautiful young woman.
+1 Huge Tracts of Land
I don’t want my family interfering in my personal life too much, but wouldn’t mind the occasional ‘invite a friend along to introduce you to’.
I thought the expected death rate was 100% for everyone.
Some people have a more specific time frame than others.
I had a battle with a contractor company and was ultimately successful in getting what I was owed. I was happy to hear they have gone out of business today. Unfortunately many people had their money stolen, but at least they won’t scam anyone else. Interestingly the government agency responsible for their license had no interest in investigating this fraudulent company. Funny that.
Wut? Unpossible! Without government licensing, it’d would be total anarchy – a sea of untrustworthy contractors. Customers would be on their own and have to do things like check references. Totally unworkable.
(I’m shocked by the number of people who don’t ask or check references when hiring GCs).
I learned some valuable lessons, like if they claim a certification, just with that party directly. Also, the best references are word of mouth.
Agreed on the word of mouth, but good contractors will have former clients who are happy to talk to you.
Also, a truism – if they’re really busy, they’re probably good. If they have plenty of time to talk to you and can start right away, be wary.
Our go-to guy is awesome, but swamped. He’s raised his prices and I’ll still use him because I know it will done correctly without having to chase after him.
The contractor I hired after has a wait list. I wait.
Ditto. Time invested in waiting for good workmanship is repaid with interest.
Until the same folk reincorporate and do it again. It’s what the bad ones do.
My parents got ripped off very badly when I was a kid.
Their lesson stays with me today. The contractor did jail time, but that didn’t get them their money back.
I can hope. Luckily I’m very tenacious and was able to get what I was owed, but the people who didn’t demand and push and cajole got left holding the bag.
This dude spent all of the money. No chance for restitution.
What was even more egregious was the risks he took. He recorded a fake insurance policy at the county recorder’s office. If anything happened to one of the workers on the job site… bye bye house and life savings.
Mammary Monday crushes you under the weight of its massive mounds.
http://archive.is/7LDMQ
I think I’m 1-and-done. Yow.
and I think 14 is also her?
I think so too.
Good choice.
19 all the way
Marriage used to be far more about utility than happiness.
I blame Frank Capra.
I’ll just go ahead and say it: I didn’t get to be 63 years old without ever having been married, *by accident*.
Brooks: Poon Assassin extraordinaire.
Where muh country gone?!
The CEO of German industrial giant Siemens says that President Donald Trump is becoming a symbol of intolerance following his attacks on four female members of Congress.
“I find it depressing that the most important political office in the world is turning into the face of racism and exclusion,” Joe Kaeser said Saturday on Twitter.
Kaeser’s remarks are the most prominent criticism from the business world in reaction to Trump’s rally last week in North Carolina. The US president attacked Somali-born Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar and the crowd chanted “Send her back! Send her back!”
The rally followed a series of racist tweets in which Trump suggested that four minority congresswomen “go back” to their home countries. Three were born in America and all four are US citizens.
Kaeser suggested that Trump’s attacks do not reflect the America he knows. He worked as chief financial officer of Siemens Microelectronics in San Jose, California, during the 1990s.
“I lived in the USA for many years and experienced freedom, tolerance and openness as never before,” he said in his Twitter (TWTR) post.
Allegedly racist.
there is no racial component to “love it or leave it”.
Quiet you.
ORANGEMANBAD, ORANGEMANRACIST.
‘Love it or Leave it’ is for whites, ‘Go back where you came from’ is for POC, He showed his hand, his instincts told him that brown people aren’t true ‘Muricans and thus have somewhere to go back to, that’s the racism.
We were unaware of the received narrative before you educated us.
I’m here to help.
Eh, I think he’s right. *gag* go back where you came from is clearly aimed at recent immigrants.
Anti-immigrant? Yeah. Tone deaf? Probably. Poorly thought out? Definitely. Racist? Ehhhh, I’m not sure Id go that far. However, I caveat my answer with the statement that I haven’t actually read Trump’s actual words.
“I lived in the USA for many years and experienced freedom, tolerance and openness as never before,”
Never before? Maybe you should fix your own country first…
Merkel criticized Trump for this last Friday. She had a press conference and was asked about it. Now all good Germans are falling in.
They’re good at that.
Whenever educated Europeans discuss American affairs, they always regurgitate the same DNC talking points they picked up from their media that translated it first from the stuff published in the NYT and similar sources.
Of all the lies we tell our children as we raise them — “Happily Ever After” — is the greatest lie of all.
Yeah, I tried to tell somebody the best one can probably hope for is a “happy beginning” because that “happy ending” stuff is bullshit.
She wasn’t buying it. Same with the one about “Two imperfect people in an imperfect world.” That conversation went downhill in a hurry.
I should point out that I have been married to the same women for 43 years, and I consider our marriage to be a success.
We’ll get her opinion on that if you don’t mind.
She hasn’t left and plundered my 401K.
We’ll call that a stamp of approval.
Just keep checking your coffee before you drink it, that’s all I’m saying
I can’t believe it! Special K is being accused of juking her financial stats in order to look stronger.
Klobuchar has delayed paying her campaign workers at least twice this year to make those numbers look good. I wonder what she would say if some big corporation like 3M or Target decided that they’d delay a payday for their employees by a week so their numbers looked good?
Once again, they expect their enemies to be unscrupulous assholes because that’s exactly what they are.
“It is very disappointing if this came at the expense of the workers,”
I think you’re missing the point, lady
Klobuchar is saving the world. What has 3M done except give us the post-it?
Scotch tape?
Federal employees die in the streets if their payday is a day late, so she was expecting to thin the herd, she underestimated the heartiness of free grazing tax cattle.
Slow rolling payments to suppliers is usually a sign that an org is on the rocks.
And poor Amy. What’s she going to do when she realizes it isn’t 1968 or 1984 and no one gives a shot about a candidate from MN?
Brooks: Poon Assassin extraordinaire.
Not hardly.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13470
Oberlin judgement keeps increasing. this time 6.5M for lawyer fees on top of the 25M for damages to Gibsons Bakery.
and Eric Sparkes of insane-Georgia-lawmaker-racism-hoax fame is now considering lawyering up.
https://www.cbs46.com/news/cobb-man-might-sue-georgia-lawmaker-who-claims-he-told/article_bc8042a2-acaa-11e9-81ac-eba8b865262b.html
Rashida Tlaib says the hell with $15 – the minimum wage should be $18 or $20!
Why stop there? Why not $50? Why not $100?
Why not one hundred billion?
https://invidio.us/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw
*holds pinky to mouth*
One BILLION dollars per hour!
MWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA!
Milk prices have gone up! Egg prices have gone up! Wages needs go up! Repeat cycle!
Where’s my shocked face? You mean $15 was only the beginning?
“It could be $100 if those damn Jews didn’t horde it all” – Rashida, probably.
If not her, then Omar. Or AOC.
Why stop there? We could all be Trillionaires!
the hell with $15 – the minimum wage should be $18 or $20!
Everybody should get the median wage. That would be fair.
Gay.
https://www.askmen.com/subscriptions/grooming/care/i-got-a-brazilian-wax-for-men-and-this-is-what-i-learned.html
-1 70’s porno
Local lefty web site: Trump has said Somalia is ‘broken.’ So what is his administration doing to fix it?
Uffda.
Take up the White Man’s burden!
Well, lord knows those skinnies haven’t a prayer of fixing their own messes without us stepping in.
Illy will fix it. After all, Somalia is way better than the USA so fixing it should be easy.
Well he’s trying to send Omar back to do just that
Very good.
Not
Our
Problem
I should know not to read the comments:
Which is why they attack random shipping traffic.
They rape, murder, and pillage to feed their families.
This is true though. Also the inevitable outcome when your government (the thing that is supposed to supply a navy to protect those seas) collapses due to socialism (read: bad luck)
Lol. I thought one of the basic tenets of the anti-American left is how America destroys countries and intervenes all the time.
We libertarians can fix it when we’re all sent over to our favorite country, right?
“Alan, please do some additional research all out Somalia. For example, the much-derided Somali pirates have a legitimate origin based on the protection of Somalia’s resources. Their fishing stocks have been plundered, and off seas shoreline devastated by illegal dumping of trash.
Only in America can we call someone in a foreign country sticking up for their country a terrorist, while people with the same motivations in America can self-describe themselves as patriots without noting the irony that they are Republicans.”
Except they attack rob NON-SOMALI ships. How is this legit?
“First, climate change sharpens disputes over already-scarce resources between warlords . . . Second, the relationship between the proliferation of illegal armed groups and the severe droughts in Somalia is evident in the case of al-Shabaab. The group has been successful in attracting young people who are affected by famine and food insecurity and who face no job prospects. Those youth end up joining al-Shabaab in a bid to survive, finding no other option than to get involved with the extremist group.”
Ah. The environment forces people to become criminals. Not personal agency.
Climate change. What CAN’T IT DO?
Good thing climate change is limited to just Somalia, otherwise youths everywhere would be following the same path.
WATCH OUT FOR MUPPET PIRATES FROM CANADA.
Captain Rufus, terror of the St. Lawrence.
Meh. Toss him overboard. He’ll get waterlogged and sink.
Zoidberg groan
‘You just killed a mob boss! Not a deep state agent!’
‘D’oh!’
Does Hillary actually have a shot? Is this her being deluded or does she have ‘internal polling’ that suggests this time she can win?
Are Americans going to fall to their knees in joy if she comes riding in on a horse? I guess at this point this can be literally given it’s Clown World now.
I’m having a hard time here.
Herself taking her rightful place is the only way to erase the wrinkle-in-time that was the reign of OrangeManBad. Upon Her coronation everything will go back like it was in the before time and the sun will shine and the grass will grow again.
She probably thinks that Biden will flame out sooner or later, as he always did in his previous presidential campaigns. And then the pro-capitalism lane in the Democratic party will be completely empty.
Yes to both but what makes her think she can win?
Hubris? Actual data?
Look, Rufus, it doesn’t matter if she can win. It’s HER TURN.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if she hires Russians to make her win?
That backfired last time she tried it.
This time she won’t be so ladylike. Last time she treated Trump with too much respect and voters – being total shitlords – took that as complete weakness (just because she was a woman).
She’s grifting. She’s also trying to position herself as a power broker for the DNC, because the Obama’s have supplanted Billary as the kingmakers.
Sadly, she might be the best qualified Democrat if she ran. However, how dumb do you have to be as a Dem to let her win the nomination?
Think of the howls that would happen if Trump appointed a special prosecutor after she won the nomination to re-open the email server debacle, or to look specifically into the GPS Fusion/Hilary campaign ties?
“Did you pay Steele to produce the dossier on Trump”
“You mean with a check or something?”
She has a 97% chance of winning! Don’t you listen to the polls?
Well this time the DNC knows how many fraudulent votes they need.
They cheat like hell on the popular vote…the one that doesn’t mean anything. It is near impossible to defraud the EC, thus their desire to get rid of it.
Are Americans going to fall to their knees in joy if she comes riding in on a horse?
If she’s naked, I’ll be on my knees, gouging my eyes out.
You kids and your euphemisms.
I knew Canadians played a role in the moon landing but didn’t realize how significant.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/meet-the-canadians-who-helped-america-win-the-race-to-land-a-man-on-the-moon-1.4513803
I WILL NOT TOLERATE LAME CANUCK JOKES.
Only Newfie jokes will be accepted.
I didn’t know they had freeze dried poutine on the Apollo mission.
Considering that Neil Armstrong’s first words when he stepped out of the Eagle lander wasn’t “sorry ’bout that, eh”, I can only assume their contributions weren’t too big.
Actually, you bring up a good point. While there were a few Canucks involved, was it as significant as the article suggests or less so? It’s always best to guard against excess pride I guess.
Still. Chamberlin and Maynard sound like interesting geeks.
Curling was a direct result of the space program. You’re welcome.
“A Newfie is walking home kicking old bottles, when a genie pops out of one. “I can grant you three wishes,” says the genie, “so choose wisely.” The Newfie says “Give me a beer that’ll never run out.” A bottle appears in the Newfie’s hand and he downs it, but when we pulls it away from his mouth it’s still full. The happy Newfie continues walking home. The genie says “Hey, you still have two wishes left!” “Oh,” says the Newfie, “gimme two more of these then!””
LOL. Mike and Q. LOL hard.
Isn’t that a Polak joke?
I thought it was an Irish joke.
2 Newfies walked into a bar. The 3rd one finally saw it.
I would never make a joke about the great nation that contributed the CanadiArm to space exploration.
Sarc hard!
Advice needed from fellow degenerates. I’m guesting on a podcast about cheap booze. My “choice” of bad booze was MD 20/20. To class it up, I decided on making a Mad Dog Margarita, using a ratio of 4/2/1 Mad Dog/Triple Sec/Lime Juice. First experiment last week produced something awful that started going down real well at the end, but the problem was that it was too cloyingly sweet. Can anyone think of something to add to this that would improve the terrible concept? I’m thinking of upping the acidity, but it still feels like it’s missing something.
Thankfully, my liqour store guy knows me well enough not to question it when I walked out of the store with ten pints of MD 20/20.
Scope mouthwash should fix it
Nonsense. Men of culture only use Listerine.
I yried mouthwash, hoping the minty taste would improve the situation. Results were not positive.
Maybe throw a tequila shot in there.
So, I think using tequila kind of ruins the point of the whole affair. That said, for experiment number 3, I tried adding in a shot of vodka. Little change in taste, but I’m now on the third experiment before the podcast even begins. It should be a long night, and a rough morning.
MD 20/20 bottle number three has just been opened!
Grapefruit juice.
This suggestion worked a bit better.
Judging by the debris left overnight by the bums, a gallon of antifreeze.
if you don’t have your heart set on that particular drink a 1:1 mix of blackberry MD 20/20 and iced tea is a nice drink on a hot day.
I don’t have a fix, but for an encore you could do clamato and cheap beer. Poor man’s bloody.
Oh, so you’d met my Mother?
Chelada esta muy sabrosa.
MD 20/20? Just no.
Even if he doesn’t say anything, the liquor store guy is still judging you
https://drinks.seriouseats.com/2011/07/drinking-the-bottom-shelf-md-2020-bum-wine.html
Does help, but funny
Oh they have different flavors now? Used to only be grape which I had once like close to 40 years ago and it was gross. I can vouch that crunk juice is the best tasting energy drink I’ve ever tried although I can’t say I’m an expert.
I’ve never tried any of it. The color scares me off.
Varnish or paint thinner to improve flavor.
Pour it down the drain then pour some Maker’s Mark.
Ice, fruit, and club. Make it a wine cooler Barttles and James style.
You need Boone’s farm wine for that
Switch to night train?
My opinion is that Al Franken resigned so fast because there was a lot more and worse ready to come out. But he’s whining that it wasn’t fair, and Gillibrand is a big meany. I mean he liked that job waaa.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken
Thanks Tulip, but I’m afraid that is way more words about Al Franken than I would ever consider spending time on. How do they do that??
Tribalism
See, that’s the kind of brevity I go for.
I think this article is meant as a rehabilitation/comeback set up. He’s not getting much traction because lots of democrats just say ‘eh, the seat is still democrat and now it’s held by a woman, so who card’s. Hah!
He actually cries, so get ready to collect those tears
Chuck Schumer cried too.
I figure anyone on the left, any emotion is an act. Hey Al, lying liars lie.
Schumer tears have been proven to cause cancer.
I think his tears are genuine. Being a senator was pretty sweet. Plus, he thought they liked him and it turned out, that nope.
Yeah, I remember when my sister’s clique of bitchy friends turned on her in high school. She really really thought they were her friends.
Fuck the gym with a rusty hammer. First day in probably a year and a half, and I’m already bored 10 min in.
What, you’re not a hamster?
If only. Maybe my pudge would be cute.
I can remember 90 – 120 minute cardio being attainable, both physically and mentally. Hell, I’ve run a marathon before. It’s intensely frustrating to be mentally cooked after 10 minutes.
Squat Moar.
Or this
https://youtu.be/0yuFy_qjolU
COME FOR WORKOUT AT STEVE SMITH GYM. NO RUSTY HAMMERS NEEDED, AND NEVER BORED.
You are going to the wrong gym.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSfl0z-5OXA
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/kMrya
Noyce
Do I need to get out more? I have no idea what that means.
That’s the Transformers character Optimus Prime.
Ok.
???
Cross-referenced with Amazon Prime Day.
Suthen, you’ve been laid up and (hopefully) medicated, so I’ll lay this out. Amazon has a day once a year called Prime Day where they sell certain things at a decent discount to customers who are Prime members ($100 a year gets you free shipping and some other perks).
Optimus Prime is the leader of some cartoon robots.
So, playing on the Christian complaint about forgetting the reason for the season…
Who died in the first 80’s Transformers movie, and then was resurrected.
Ok. I get it. Thank you.
It’s a blasphemous joke comparing a eighties cartoon character who in some stories dies to save humanity and Amazon prime days a once a year sale to Jesus and Xmas. Some Christians bemoan the consumerism that has replaced spirituality during Xmas, This is being parodied here. It’s edgy.
https://youtu.be/VBUN123WYlA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/22/jo-swinson-liberal-democrats-rebirth-lib-leader-england-brexit
Anyone make sense of this goobledygook? At least the Dems trashing Jefferson and Jackson ate honest in their loathing of classical liberalism.
Don’t read the comments. Bootlickers and imbeciles clamoring for Euro Mosleys. Come to think of it, the original Mosley was wishing to permanently subjugate Britain to continental Europe as well.
Given the source, the truth is probably the opposite of whatever it’s saying anyway.
I do find it interesting that liberals reject nationalism when it was the liberals who supported nationalism in the first place. In response to the faults of nationalism they are responding by supporting internationalism which has much of those same faults.
The faults of nationalism appear to be merely utilitarian in nature for them.
Yeah the real reason for supporting internationalism is that it allows TOP MEN to rule the whole world and nationalists oppose said TOP MEN so nationalism is bad.
HM did say that they are two sides of the same coin which is pretty accurate. “Internationalists” can be pretty nationalist when it suits them: “Liberal Values” of whatever country, defeating Hitler, Defeating the CSA, ending segregation, opposing secession, jobs, etc.
Trump being a Russian stooge who hates American values is a pretty nationalist argument. But that it okay since Trump sucks. Oh and American values sucks when that is convenient argument to make.
Yea, it’s purely situational.
I remember Obama blathering about “economic patriotism” in response to American companies keeping their assets overseas to avoid the punitive levels of taxation that they would face if they repatriated those assets.
“Liberal World Order” is my new least favorite phrase. First is the hypocrisy of it since those very same acolytes will go on tirades about Nam and Iraq, global warming, slavery, sexism, white privilege, homophobia, etc. which would suggest that the “liberal world order” might not be so Great after all.
The people surveyed were Brits. I’m surprised it wasn’t 9 of 10.
“I regret working me whole life while all these other tossers where on the dole.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/22/nigel-farage-donald-trump-talking-tech-revolution-automation-populists#comments
Shorter Guardian: the solution is not Trump or Farage but Free Shit. Obviously.
Save yourself and end it now. It’s just easier that way.
You Know Who else wanted politics to be predictable?
The Kim family?
Why does the Center for American Progress hate brown people?
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/07/22/trumps-focus-rule-law-winning-immigration-debate-says/
Because they are progressives?
I just added a couple of proggy tears to my cocktail. Dee-lightful.
Wait, Spelling “Coconut” With Your Hips During Cowgirl Sex Is Actually Genius
H – E – double hockey sticks yah!
It’s got the word NUT in it, guaranteed to deliver every time.
Have you know I just learned this particular piece of vocabulary. Sadly only in theory not practice.
騎乗位: きじょうい
(n, vulg) sexual position where the man lies flat on his back and the woman sits on top, cowgirl position
Oh, you have learned something quite 素晴らしい。A classic tried-and-true position.
As long as the chick doesn’t go too crazy and start bending it the wrong way.
But that’s when the fun starts.
Teacher jailed for sex with boy, 13, ‘says its all his fault’
He is a monster!!!
Is she taking conjugal visits?
She has a bit of a Scarlett Johannson look going on.
I like the Voodoo Ranger series from New Belgium brewing, this is no exception,
Liquid paradise,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/bnSJ2FBJ518Pv8XV7
Good stuff
I’ve been digging their 1554 Black Ale recently.
The Coming Socialist-Libertarian Feudalism
What’s dumber? Allying with the DSA to get open borders and “free trade” or supporting TOP MEN to save us from the progs and globalists?
I don’t know about the libertarian-socialists in that guy’s head, but I support property rights including the right for someone to develop whatever the hell he thinks the market wants with his property. Which may or may not include “destroy[ing] tranquil residential neighborhoods”. You know, the way things always operated up until the early 20th century when zoning froze everything in place.
The idea that socialist agree on that same concept of freedom is ridiculas. They would centrally plan what goes on every lot and the collective would own all of the land.
Commies out of power can sound pretty libertarian. We need open borders but once we get in power than you are property of the people and we need tight border controls to prevent fascists and kulaks from undermining the system.
True. Neither them nor the “American greatness” types can claim to support “freedom” here.
I could be generous and Assume he is talking about the cocktail party circuit but I think his beef with libertarianism is bigger than that…
Where are all these “densification” libertarians apart from the author’s head?
Suitor admits phoning in fake bomb threat in bid to get date with flight attendant
He persists!
Ya know, 35 years ago, that would have made for a great slapsticky rom-com. Maybe a Bachelor Party prequel; mmm… Wendie Jo Sperber and Tawny Kitaen.
Totes a stable genius.
Finally, someone with even less game than I have
OMG we’re doomed.
Would, wouldn’t, would, would.
You would bang Kamala Harris?
Meh, I’d do them all.
Kamala would have to have her face in a pillow so I don’t have to listen to her voice.
I thought that was assumed:)
She would just need to be facing away. And I’d whisper something about constitutionalism to her after.
Until you were done, then she’d want a promotion.
Would
Would
Would, with Rebel’s dick
Would
Curtain behind them, would after 4 or 5 beers
GD Demi looks great.
Hope you and the missus have a great and relaxing vacation, Brett.
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/21/turning-back-on-history-fits-society-losing-common-purpose
Nice concern trolling…
Being self-reliant, independent, and having personal accountability aren’t values, but relying on a bunch of bureaucrats who constantly shaft you is a value.
1. You destroyed the institutions, so it’s hardly surprising nobody finds any worth clinging to.
2. Stop calling everybody you don’t like a nihilist. Nihilists are people who adhere to nihilism. If somebody doesn’t consider himself a nihilist, calling him one is childish.
3. This is an awful lot of words to say “I have no idea who actually voted for this, but I’m sure it’s the same cabal of shadowy and unscrupulous forces I blame for all of the other problems in the world”
4. The public sector hasn’t had to “tighten its belt” since the 1990s.
@HM: Is a Cambridge certificate really as good a a CELTA?
Qanon activists have become regular attendees at Trump rallies, often carrying cardboard Qs.
Do they include pictures of hot women?
#5, #9, and #18 please and thank you.
NYPD cops get drenched by buckets of water
lol. I wonder if there will be retribution…
Don’t bring buckets of water to a gun fight.
I can’t wait to pay for the next suicide by cop.
“Everybody’s outraged,” an NYPD source said.
I’m not.
And isn’t it funny how the cops are immediately able to produce video when they think it will make them look good, but when they think it will make them look bad either there’s a malfunction or they claim they can’t release it because of an ongoing investigation?
I hate everyone involved.
Anthony Weiner moves back in with Huma Abedin as he’s spotted in a tank top and shorts using a trolley to roll in designer garment bags, a hockey stick and suitcases into his family home after prison stint for sexting 15-year-old girl
What a legend. The dude most know how to lay pipe.
She’s standing by her man. I don’t understand either.
Aren’t they divorced?
I hope every person interested in a mate takes a long hard look at these two. There truly is someone for everyone.
“So this Jewish guy decides to hook up with this Islamic woman, see?”
Opposites do attract but both of these people are probably afraid to go to sleep at night
Wow. Huma has quite the resting bitch face.
She splits her time between him and Hillary.
Or still has a copy of Hillary’s server.
Best cover song ever.
You’re evil
I thought it was obvious it was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZJ4ESU52U
I mean best cover song.
No no no no no no! No!! Noooooo!
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Watch out, Endgame.