While gathering material for the links, I see that there may be a world shaking event, impacting the Hat and the Hair.
So once I recovered from that shocker, I found some links for all of you to read and comment on… no, seriously! OK, a man can dream, can’t he? What’s that? Nightmares are dreams too? Yeah…I guess so. Anyway, have some links:
- I did not realize one of the Glibs had gone to London. We will see who is missing in the comments.
- Florida Man…I respect that he is still alive.
- Ah, Chicago….at least there are distractions available in Illinois now.
- Mexicans imperiled… weed becoming more available. No word yet on buttsechs.
Music link – for some reason I thought of Almanian! this morning.
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>>for some reason I thought of Almanian! this morning.
::Pours a 40::
Whenever I hear that tune it makes me wanna come down from the hills and kill someone or fuck a sheep. Either/or.
Porque no dos?
This is what one refers to as going the extra step….
YOWIE WOWIE!
Trump is at Buckingham Palace. It’s like the Battle of Britain was all for nothing.
I’d hate to be living in Harry’s skin right about now.
I think Markle said she was going to move to Canada if Trump got elected and Trump called her nasty or something like that.
Should make for some nice small talk over tea and crumpets, although the Queen might like Trump just fine for that.
She’s on “maternity leave” and won’t be present at any of the meetings.
Uh huh.
ORANGE MAN GOOD?
A gif used once? Ok. Twice? Annoying.
“The suspect – who was not a travelling passenger – was arrested on suspicion of possessing offensive weapons and making threats to kill. He is seen here waving his knives at police”
How was that supposed to work?
OFFS!!!
I did not realize one of the Glibs had gone to London. We will see who is missing in the comments. – don’t purge the user yet.
Present
::raises hand:: I’m still in Michigan, right-o chocks away me blessed aunt!
Here – my ass isn’t that fat. And I’ve never worn a track suit in my life.
I not only wasn’t clipped by the Limey’s, but I survived a meeting with UCS, Tundra and Leap!
Glib representative to America’s Polynesian outpost checking in.
If Trump is in London and a Glib is also in London, does that make Trump a Glib?
Trump has bigger issues
US Presido Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump don land for UK for im three days state visit.
Kontri pipo dey arrange protests for different parts including London, Manchester, Belfast, and Birmingham as im dey land.
Both di Stop Trump Coalition and Stand Up to Trump protest groups say dem go show face for di protests.
Oga Trump dey meet wit members of di Royal Family.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-48495003
The Hair 2.0?
Don’t let them be in the same room together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOk8dk-qaU
I kinda dig the slicked back version. Very W.W.E. I still think it’s funny when he has to sit through those prayer thingies. He always looks like he wants to be anywhere but there.
I’m in a bit better shape, dress with more flair, and have better taste in weapons then London man.
Potato peeler is a real man’s weapon
I’m more of a spoon aficionado.
I prefer the sword cane when traveling in London.
“Illinois residents over the age of 21 will be able to carry 30 grams, or just over an ounce, of marijuana flower (the plant itself), 5 grams of cannabis concentrate, like hash oil, and up to a half-gram of cannabis-infused products, like edibles.
Visitors from outside of Illinois will be allowed to possess half those amounts.”
If you visit from Indiana can you possess half a gun?
Nothing bigger than a NAA mini revolver.
I’m always afraid I’m going to blow my fingers off with those things.
That half gram of edibles seems tiny compared to everything else on that list.
Probably half gram of agent within the edibles, not the weight of the edibles themselves.
re: Chicago shooting; in all seriousness, it is just astounding (and horrifying…saddening…) to me. The last two weekends combined had almost 100 people injured and 15 killed. It’s literally like a war zone. SMDH
You know who else lived in a war zone…
Me?
…and no combat pay…
Seems like folks in Chi-town should be getting the guaranteed income just by living ’til the end of the month.
I am in the suburbs…but I was in Afghanistan for a year, then Iraq. I did get “imminent danger pay”.
Crack hos and blow?
And the politicians who use the violence as a political wedge are disgusting human beings.
I guess asylum seekers are not sent to chicago as they’ve seen enough violence
They think they have. Chicago will teach them differently.
Swizzy is doing his best to either make me barf or have a seizure (or both).
see? I can’t even post in the right place.
::sobs::
I think Swissy might still be drunk.
To much cocaine in the morning coffee
“Day of the Dancing Numbers”
Weirdest result of my DDG search for dancing numbers gifs.
Poor Mike S doesn’t get a dancing number GIF….
*hangs head…kicks 10 pebbles*
The last two weekends combined had almost 100 people injured and 15 killed.
That’s a terrible ratio. The yoots need more range time.
Or something like this…
Great and my wife just started a new job with a company up there and has to fly up tomorrow.
AOC Goes Back To Her Bartending Roots — For A Good Cause
“The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. That is unacceptable,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters. “Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job, it’s indentured servitude.””
Except if you don’t make at least minimum wage in combined tips and wage the restaurant is required to pay you standard minimum wage.
I served all through college at a casual chain restaurant and later at a high end. I easily averaged an hourly salary of $20 a hour at the chain restaurant, $25 at the high end. At the high end restaurant I worked with servers who worked full time and made nearly 6 figures, and this is in Kansas.
Well, she’s an idiot, so….
Stop picking on idiots by comparing them to her…
She’s not arguing in good faith. She’s well aware of the fact that a tipped job makes most of the money from tips. Doesn’t keep her from being evil.
In order to assume she’s arguing in good or bad faith, I have to assume she’s not retarded. I can’t do that, so…
She’s trying to help her former cohort onto the welfare teat. She wants them crushed and downtrodden and desperate so that they’ll vote for the Party of Free Shit.
Senator Sorority Girl is serious
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said that the National Rifle Association was the most effective organization in America — at spreading hate.
“I think the most outrageous thing that has happened to our democracy is how much fear and division and hate has been spread,” the 2020 presidential candidate from New York said when asked during a Fox News town hall how she would prevent mass shootings. “I think the NRA is the worst organization in this country for doing exactly that. They care more about their profits than the American people.”
The New York Democrat went on to say that “Americans need to stand up to the greed and corruption of the NRA.” She added that the organization showed that money in politics was a major issue at stake in the gun debate.
She promised her approach to fixing gun violence would include universal background checks, an anti-trafficking law, and banning a litany of guns and accessories, including “bump stocks,” large-capacity magazines, and “assault” rifles.
Gillibrand said getting money out of politics and publicly funded campaigns were also important parts of the gun debate.
The senator is currently polling at less than half a percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average for the Democratic primary.
Hateful divisiveness? It’s those damn deplorable gun nutz and their vast right wing conspiracy. Also money not being given to Democrats.
What does anti-trafficking have to do with guns?
Maybe she’s referring to “Fast and Furious”?
The NRA is a non-profit, and they do not sell guns.
Bump-stocks have been effectively banned, and “assault rifles” were previously banned for a period of 10 years with no effect. Likewise, banninf standard capacity magazines has not been shown to have any effect on the rate of firearm related deaths.
Gillibrand is a pandering, lying, moron.
What about the idiots that vote for her thinking what she is doing is to “help” them?
Yeah, it still is incredible to me that people actually vote for her, and for AOC, Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Maxine waters, etc.
There are a lot of shameless people driven purely by envy and anger at what others have out there, and people like the ones you mentioned play them like they are a Ozark banjo.
It’s weird; it’s almost like the people who commit gun crimes are indifferent to gun laws or something, and the gun laws only end up making the lives of law-abiding gun owners more inconvenient.
That’s by design. The fuckwads trying to disarm people want to disarm the law abiding citizens because they fear them. The criminals often are considered friends of the cause or a group to be dealt with later.
Either that, or these people are dumb enough to believe that a government ban can eliminate an undesired behavior. You know, like how the War on Drugs completely ended the use of illegal drugs in America.
I simply cannot get the money out of politics shtick. Beyond being one’s right to spend one’s money as they see fit. As long as you have a government with any power money will be involved. Directly or otherwise. Probably more transparent when you at least see who donates to what.
It’s the same impulse as businesses who lobby to be regulated. They want to regulate the competition away.
Exactly. Note that she is not asking for all money to be out of politics: just the money that is preventing the left from disarming the sheeple so they can really get down to their effort to give this guy a run for his money….
That will not happen as they are, in fact, the right top people
If the government is small enough and doesn’t get involved in shit outside of the actual delegated powers, no one will bother with “money in politics.”
One question I always have for the “money out of politics” crowd: assuming the intended target is those evil corporations using their dirty money to buy elections, wouldn’t changing campaign finance laws in this way end up yielding more politicians like Trump – i.e., those with significant amounts of their own money to spend – and fewer like Obama/AOC/etc., who are basically creations of private organizations like the DNC?
Also, I have to assume they haven’t considered that labor unions would necessarily fall under these rules too.
The end goal is no private money in elections.
By “private” you mean any money that doesn’t go to democrats?
It’s really hard to imagine the modern Democratic party actually going along with that; at least since Clinton’s presidency, they’ve made their peace with being just as corporatist as the Republicans.
E.g., I lived in California during most of Obama’s presidency, and it felt like he spent every spare moment fundraising somewhere in the state, even when there was no election campaign going on.
It means only the wealthy and politically connected or their family can hold office. Congratulations on ushering the aristocracy fuckheads.
That has been part of the plan by the elite as they realized actually delivering value meant doing hard work. Limiting who can get the job, and keeping them from ever being held accountable, is the new agenda.
She keeps a lower profile than many of the idiots, but I truly think she may be the dumbest member of Congress. She’ll say absolutely whatever her handlers tell her to say (and rehearse with her) then run down like a toy with a drained battery. Off-script she is worse than Obama – answering questions with either incoherent stuttering or a repeat of unrelated talking points.
Remember that she kinda, sorta fell into the job after being a fairly unremarkable Congresswoman that played a Blue-Dog for a few years.
Yep – I remember her pro-2A upstate moderate act when she was in the House. Who knows what she actually believes? Probably nothing really except that she should be President.
HBO’s “Veep” was closer to a documentary than most people realize.
I cannot watch it. The accurate portrayals of narcissistic sociopaths gives me the creeps.
It would work if JLD were funnier, but yeah, as it is the show is kind of unwatchable.
There’s a pretty brisk competition for that title.
It seems most of them are high scorers on the stupid spectrum, and we are talking a range of between 5-10 points (out of 125) on the dumber than dumb scale.
Hank Johnson says: “She is the dumbest one who is in America, but in the capital…you know the capital is a building in Washington, it’s where we go to make laws…so she lives in the capital and…what were we talking about?”
Way to set yourself apart from the crowd!
I’d get in on this except I’m represented by Charlie Crist…
**Puts down stone and backs into glass house**
A Democrat, an Independent, and a Republican walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “The usual, Mr. Crist?”
Incidentally the latest presidential candidate video on TOS is gold.
“Cold-stricken AOC loads up on the ‘most Puerto Rican DayQuil you’ve ever seen’ before posting rambling Instagram video about not being able to march in Pride Parade because of her health”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7097757/Cold-stricken-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-loads-DayQuil-attending-Queens-Pride.html
Most Puerto Rican DayQuil?
Cocaine?
Purple Drank?
I thought that was for LSU QBs.
Too soon!
I think that is when you mix it with some rum.
A cold keeps you from walking around outside?
I assume it is a knife.
At my friend’s wedding in Houston years ago. He married a lovely 2nd-generation Mexican girl, so lots of real live Mexicans involved in the wedding. At the rehearsal, there was a need for a knife, but no one had one.
Her father was so ashamed that with all the Mexicans in attendance and no knives.
Totes racist.
This never would have happened if we had single payer.
I was thinking of Almanian just yesterday. I am probably not far off from getting him to teach me the pipes.
That’s a heavenly euphemism
STEVE SMITH TEACH PIPES!! THAT A LESSON YOU NOT FORGET!!
The sound the hiker makes is roughly the same as a bagpipe.
STEVE SMITH PLAY “SASQUATCH THE BRAVE”!!
You people are wonderful.
Cock O’ the Woods
THE PIPES! ARE CLEAN!!!!
The last two weekends combined had almost 100 people injured and 15 killed. It’s literally like a war zone. SMDH
Those people would all have been saved by better background checks and longer waiting periods.
Ban bump stocks, and assault rifles, and stop the NRA from selling them guns!!!
It’s all those gun peddlers in the neighboring states!
I never understood this. The gun violence in Chicago is because the guns come from other states. If so, then why aren’t those other state’s cities just as violent too?
shhhhh…..
” those other state’s cities just as violent”
Because they sold all their guns to the highest bidder in Chicago because the IL laws are so draconian that no one there has access to guns other than going to an out-of-state supplier. Laws of Supply and Demand, totally ignoring the laws of Fast and Furious.
Same reason rural MN is a meth hot bed
I thought that was to dull the pain of the proggie idiocy coming from the Twin Cities.
Sudan forces wan use pawa pursue protesters
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-48494432
Security forces for Sudan take force enta di site of protesters for central Khartoum early mor-mor on Monday.
Pipo wey see as e happun tell Arab television say di security forces shoot gun and activists say dis na attempt to scata di protest outside di Defence Ministry.
Medical sources say at least eight pipo don die, but di Transitional Military Council (TMC) wey dey incharge since President Omar al-Bashir comot for April, say dem no use force to break up di main protest site.
Some countries are trying real hard to remain shitholes… It is sad really…
Which glib was this?
LOL
Name the man and I”l find the crime. Honestly that could be at least half of us but I’m leaning Fourscore.
Not me, I don’t like crowds but other than that…
It’s not half of us: it is all of us. Our legal system makes every one of us at least a thrice offender a day. And that is by design, so the state doesn’t have to bother when it really needs to put the screws on for whatever reason.
The guy who took that picture is a genius. He also gets a picture of that beautiful behind, but gets to say, “I was just taking a picture of the old perv!”
Not me, but it sure as hell will be in a few years.
Probably most of us…
The best part of being old. “Oh is that wrong? I don’t give a fuck.”
Brett gets it.
Married teacher, 33, who had sex with ‘stud’ pupil, 14, in class walks free from jail
Look at those eyes, there’s no regret there
That’s for sure. But there may be a healthy dose of insanity.
I’d wager the “Lad” feels little remorse, as well.
I bet he cries himself to sleep every night because she got locked up.
He doesn’t get any more until he’s 17 and then it’ll be awkward, sweaty and weird.
A 14-year-old boy lasted a half-hour?
May have been more than once. The compensation a 14 year old gets for being quick on the trigger is a refractory period that only lasts as long as a good piss.
That’s pretty quick.
Langford told the lad to hide under a desk – did the sex stop?
He was teaching the kid to talk in tongues?
“Langford had also made some of her 14-year-old students “uncomfortable” by showing them a snap of her having oral sex with her husband Matthew[…]she used the picture with hubby Matthew to create “a more casual atmosphere” in her classroom.”
Now that’s a keeper.
Didn’t catch that tidbit.
Definitely got a wild streak there.
“Langford, whose husband stood by her”
Which bizarrely seems typical in these cases.
Guy I knew from the old punk days was a total dog when it came to women. He was 30 when he married a 19 year old – a girl he met while cheating on his then-girlfriend. A few years later and he would cheat on his wife all the time.
But when she cheated on him, he was shocked, shocked! and angry. Long story short, she ran away with another guy. Divorce, etc.
I was more like ::shrug:: infidelity, given this situation, shouldn’t have been a trigger for a divorce.
That was a pretty lame suicide-by-cop effort. D+
Music link – for some reason I thought of Almanian! this morning.
Very nice!
I bought Spawn 2 a practice chanter when we were in Edinburgh. She never did anything with it. Maybe in memory of Almanian it’s time for me to learn?
Mid-life crisis? I know you have a thing for sporty cars already but are you trying for divorce? j/k My roots are almost all Scottish and that music hits me when it really shouldn’t.
Lol. I even loved the Royal Tattoo!
It makes you want to declare war on someone, like Wisconsin.
Well, we Scots are a contentious people. https://youtu.be/i2q0T7QXETs
I was in London living in a boarding house with people from around the world. One night Robert, a Glaswegian, had a few of his Scottish friends over to drink Scotch and watch Braveheart. Yeah, by the end of the bottles and the movie, we were ready to take on the English. All of them…
I’m surprised we didn’t get arrested that night…
“He was hospitalized with minor injuries.” = D+ for suicide. Got it.
It has now been 36 minutes since the lynx dropped. Time for Mammary Monday!
https://thechive.com/2019/06/03/summer-heat-means-the-flbp-will-be-out-in-force-50-photos/
5, 8, 18, 22, 28, 34, 38, 47. Thanks and praise for the bountiful melons.
I’m 60, but my friends’ husbands keep hitting on me. How can I stop them?
If I remember correctly, Almanian had a GILF-thing going on.
That Viagara is a helluva drug.
Maybe stop being a fluesy?
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529
Humblebragging?
“Why do all these swingers keep hitting on me and my swinger husband?”
This site looks weird without images. Unfortunately, I couldn’t quickly find a way to only turn off gifs on one site.
So you Americans think you are better than Europe. So let’s test that. I need something to keep pigeons away from my house without causing other disturbance in general and without being to conspicuous. The fuckers are getting out of hand in Bucharest. Can the Great America provide such technology?
Are there not cats in Romania?
A fake owl with rotating head?
Does it work? Here everyone sells ultrasound stuff but I heard they don’t do shit.
yes… and no
https://sciencing.com/owl-work-scare-birds-away-4913851.html
Worked at a company that had one of those on the breezeway between the office and garage. I think there were a couple days that I didn’t see a pigeon perched on the head of that thing, enjoying the ride as the owl turned side to side.
Easy!
Yes that is totally inconspicuous and causes no disturbance
So picky. My first idea involved incendiary devices.
Flame thrower.
Here you go
Spikes installed on surfaces they frequent.
https://www.birdbgone.com/content/media/import/cache/1/image/350x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/p/l/plastic-bird-spikes_1.jpg
Open a McDonalds restaurant and start serving pigeon McNuggets?
Wrist rocket.
12 gauge with a silencer, oops, a suppressor
Get a falcon.
12 gauge…side by side….
Allow Renfield some small lives?
Oh bra-VO.
Nine people get dancing digits, but I couldn’t get a dancing 1,000,000 on my milestone post?
We are really bad at housekeeping. We should have had something bigger for our one year anniversary, thousandth post, etc. But while all those things would have been nice, the important thing is that we are still f*cking here, and still going strong. Seriously, who thought we would ever be here?
We were going to be somewhere.
But I think all the previous diasporas fizzled out.
My big fear was that this site was fizzle and that we’d scatter to a number of smaller sites, or try to find homes at places like townhall or whatever.
There was also another group that broke off at the same time as us. They are still out there and I wish them well. Not mentioning their name because they are very private.
We preserved the nexus of our community.
townhall?
I’m not certain I take enough drugs for that.
Suddenly Microsoft Office stopped loading pictures in the emails. So annoying.
SuddenlyMicrosoft Officestopped loading pictures in the emails.So annoying.FTFY
You forgot to strikeout the word “Office.”
Florida Men never die. We only take a short nap to recover from our meth and bath salt-induced rage to rise again.
Would you trust your future to this woman?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney for remarks Sunday at the California Democratic Convention where he said Medicare for All is “actually not good policy.”
Delaney, who was booed by the crowd for his comments, said “Medicare for all may sound good but it’s actually not good policy nor is it good politics.”
Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman lawmaker who has championed the progressive policy, said in a post on Twitter Sunday that it is time for Delaney to “sashay away.”
This country won’t be destroyed by an invading army. We’ll be eaten away from the inside by self-righteous morons.
“HOW DARE HE SAY BUYING VOTES BY PROMISING FREE SHIT IS BAD!”
I’d trust my future to a magic 8-ball before I’d trust AOC.
magic 8-ball
That is a very specific magic negro reference and I’m not sure why you think he’s the one you want helping you through the future.
*golf claps before shedding a single tear*
“Sashay Away”. So she’s calling him a fag?
Sounds like, Mary.
“I said M as in Mancy! “
How long does it take a man to collect his semen specimen in a busy infertility clinic?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143665?dopt=Abstract
Conclusions:
Median collection time in our sample was 11 minutes 57 seconds, with significant variability across the sample. Patients accompanied by their female partners required significantly longer time to collect their sample, while age does not seem to have an impact.
How busy? Like 2-3 guys per room? Cause that would probably change the average.
Depends on the guys, IYKWIM. 😉
I said change the average, I didn’t say which direction.
They need to hire that teacher upthread as an “assistant”.
Only if their donors are in the 13-15 year old age range?
Patients accompanied by their female partners required significantly longer time to collect their sample
Can’t watch the porn.
“shoots at cops in wild police chase”
Not me, I was once accused of poaching because a neighbor heard two shots.
“Two shots? No, wasn’t me then”
Seems sort of cruel to shoot momma and leave that faun to fend for itself.
It builds character.
Bambi turned out okay.
That is what they want you to think. Bambi learned a lot of bad habits from hanging out with Thumper. When those two hit puberty they fathered a lot of kids out of wedlock because they were fucking like rabbits.
Wait wut?…..
They weren’t fucking each other. They were fucking the single does in the woods. Try to keep up Alex.
I guess Thumper was appropriately named, but I always assumed some asshat called Bambi was the catcher and not the pitcher…
I was the title character in my third grade’s production of Bambi. True story.
Minnesoda Gun Grabbers try their best to spin their defeat on gun bills this year.
Our guy!
Oh, and fuck whoever came up with the term “gun safety advocates”. It should be “civil rights rapists”.
And also “constitution violators”.
Warren lives a few blocks from me. He is very solid when it comes to civil liberties. He fought the good fight for years on Real ID.
The Nick Gillespies of STEVE SMITHS.
Yeah, that’s some euphemistic bullshit. Are they trying to make guns safer? No, they’re trying to control who has them.
“young voters growing up in an age of school shootings” that are unable to go deer hunting on week days because the administration won’t give them extra credit for a science program in conservation.
“…Gun safety activists…”
Right out of the gate a lie. Fucking liars. lying sacks of shit lie. It’s what they do.
The libertarian start-ups of the seasteaders are adrift from reality
The main objective is to squirrel away wealth without paying a fair share of tax
FT has always been a left-wing rag masking as an investment mag.
Chrystia Freeland was an editor there FFS.
MOTHER BASE when, lads?
unfairly extracted wealth
Wut?!
All money belongs to the government, it just allows you to keep some if you are a good boy
*wags tail, begs*
Their biggest challenge is that all existing landmass is already claimed by established states.
It is like they haven’t even heard of Liberland.
It is so hard to comprehend voluntary cooperation for some people
(1) Hypothetically, unless the seastead is in the Arctic, Antarctic, or within three miles of HM Fort Roughs (the Principality of Sealand), it is going to be within somebody’s “exclusive economic zone” or “territorial waters.” Hypothetically, it will be invaded unless the seasteader can deter it (Chinese military, WMDs, etc.) or they make a deal (as was attempted vis-à-vis French Polynesia).
(2) Hypothetically, said deal would involve a land-based nation getting paid.
(3) Hypothetically, if buying Sealand meant saving much in taxes on profits made on land and/or taxes on spending done on land, wouldn’t it have been bought by now?
(4) Hypothetically, an Antarctic seastead would have to include someone engaged in an activity intended for academic publication, but that could be feminist intersectionality of pre-Industrial Revolution art.
(5) Not the missing Glib.
I give the writing of this piece a solid F. It doesn’t really add anything beyond the observation that seasteading is impractical and kinda-crazily utopian. Which is not a very interesting observation.
I’m not usually into hippy dippy solutions, but I’ve tried those kombucha probiotic drinks the past few days and lemme tell you, the plumbing has been moving a lot more smoothly.
Just because it’s hippy-dippy doesn’t mean it’s ineffective. Gut health is yuuuuge.
I went through a bad patch last summer regarding this very issue. Costco’s Kirkland meal replacement shakes fixed that problem in about two weeks and I gained nearly all of the weight back that I’d lost, so much so that I had to cut back to one every second day. Fit as a fiddle, now.
Gut health is yuuuuge but we don’t know much about it
You can say that again!
— Harry Houdini
I’m not familiar. Could I enact your labor for a link?
This one is widely available
Target, Walmart, Costco all have this or others.
I am deeply suspicious of whatever is in that jar that guy is creepily cradling.
Hippies, Drake. Hippies.
??
Mass slaughter in your gut microbiome often has that effect.
I’ve had C diff so I know intimately how true this is.
Yeah, it really works well. Yogurt does the same thing, and a yogurt smoothly has the secret advantage of not tasting like kombucha
Yep. Fermented foods in generally really are great for this. I’d add pickles, sauerkraut, and kimchee to the list.
Mmm…kimchee!
The main objective is to squirrel away wealth without paying a fair share of tax
At least they’re willing to give the situation fair and unbiased consideration.
The first thing I noticed, was that they talk about isolation, when the idea is for people to actual group their individual floaters into communities (that you can dedock from and leave at any time).
It is the parenthetical that they don’t like. They are the East Germans.
Tired of negative stories?
Sunday supper: The American tradition that cuts across cultures
His story could be mine. I used to go to my Grandparent’s almost every weekend. Same deal, a ton of food and games with my siblings and cousins in the back yard. When my Gramps died and my Grandma’s dementia kicked it, it all disappeared. I miss it hugely.
For the last few years, Sunday night is my night to cook for the family. Now I want to add more people!
I’d love to. See you Sunday!
I got to spend Sundays with my dad and my grandparents on his side of the family. I still have fond memories of those nights eating pizza or lasagna my grandparents made with them.
Hell man, those Sundays alone were what got me going through a lot of my weeks as a kid.
Same thing – we used to go to my grandparent’s house (in a not-so-great part of town) every Sunday for dinner. Run around with my cousins in the backyard, where there was a small barn and even a chicken coop (but no chickens!). And my crazy grandpa had tons of books, a lithograph machine, fossils, rocks, and other things that kept us small kids interested.
Once he died, and my grandmother went, the weekly big family get togethers just stopped.
I still go to my parents about once a month, usually eating out. But last night we just had sandwiches and then started a fire outside near the creek. Very nice!
Last night Spawn 2’s boyfriend was over, so we had 4. At the end of the month, Spawn 1 will be back. When his girlfriend comes to visit I’ll be up to 6!
/momentum
Mom cooks a big Sunday dinner for everyone at my sister’s house (cause she’s the rich one and has the big kitchen and dining room) almost every week. We’re not a huge family – mom and dad, me, the wife, and our kids, and my sister, b-i-l, and their son – but it’s nice. Plus mom’s a great cook. These days I often find myself wanting to flee the rapidly progifying state of Virginia, but I do so treasure these dinners. I lived far away from the rest of them for 12 years, and I really missed them the entire time.
We started doing this when my wife started working again. Every sunday is church in the morning, and then we intentionally set aside the rest of the day for home stuff. I (and my kids, depending on what I’m making) make a weeks worth of food to put in the fridge so we can have real food for dinner most nights.
Now, just about every day on our calendar for the summer is full except Sunday, which is either clear or has us camping.
If you want to have my family over some Sunday, shoot me an email.
My grandparents were all gone when I was born. When you are camping locally come over for lunch/dinner. Mrs Fourscore will make some of her favorite Asian stuff. She gets tired/immune to looking at one (old) guy all day every day. She got bent out of shape recently when a 72 year old woman on TV was described as ‘elderly’.
Experience: I woke up from a coma speaking French
Was it accompanied by an unusual hatred of the Habsburgs?
Yeah speaking French is a bad idea. He has a significant injury and he has to struggle to get healthy again. Obviously French isn’t going to help in that fight.
He moved to Quebec, single payer, lived happily ever after
Burn it all down
Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton said Sunday Democrat Stacey Abrams should be governor of Georgia, and said she would be if the US “wasn’t racist.”
“We have a problem with racism in America today. If this country wasn’t racist, Stacey Abrams would be governor,” the Democratic presidential candidate said at a CNN town hall in Atlanta.
In response to a question about dismantling systemic racism in America, he called for a “new Voting Rights Act” and said “people of color are being systemically denied the most basic right in a democracy, which is the right to vote.”
Yeah, cops with attack dogs and fire hoses were stationed at all the polling places.
That these people feel they can lie to this extent in the age of the internet is just baffling to me. Maybe the problem is with me because I take facts, logic, and my credibility as seriously while they come from the school of “tell a lie enough times and it will become the truth” and can’t be bothered with any of that stuff.
1. It’s not a democracy, it’s a republic.
2. How did such a racist country elect Barack Obama to 2 terms as President?
This. Also, if you think the US has a uniquely awful problem with racism, you might find travel through Asia or Southern or Eastern Europe very eye-opening.
Oh yeah, I learned some time ago that most Europeans are casually racist in a way that most Americans would find shocking.
I don’t think this is true for a couple of reasons, but I’ll admit that my experiences are more amongst the educated and the employed Europeans of the west (never been east of Krakow).
a/ The few sentiments I’ve heard were directed entirely at behavior or culture and not per se racist. I’ve never heard an iota of the “they can’t be taught” or “they’re all dirty” or whatever. Most of the Europeans I know think most Americans are racist.
b/ Europeans simply aren’t prudes. They talk about things that would make many Americans blush. This openness to discuss racial issues comfortably might seem like they are abiding or approving the very notions they actually reject (I’m projecting . . . this happens to me constantly).
c/ Americans aren’t shocked by race in any regard and aren’t naive about Europeans.
I think it depends on what part of Europe you’re talking about; I haven’t seen as much of it in north-eastern Europe (i.e., UK, Germany, France). But Eastern Europe or the Mediterranean countries? Yikes.
Freedom of speech, the right to self-defense, protection against unwarranted searches and seizures, freedom of religion… all hardest hit.
What an asshole.
*let the hate flow through you*
Things that should not be said out loud…
Maybe a POC vote should count for 5/3 of a regular vote.
The most persuasive argument that Stacey Abrams was cheated is the class with which she has led her life since the election. Her humility and acceptance of the results has shown me that she has the traits of a good leader.
Hey, Seth? Go fuck yourself, dickhead.
Georgia had both it’s largest turnout and black turnout in state history for that election. I guess living in Massachusetts is why Rep. Seth Moulton doesn’t read the Atlanta Journal Constitution every day. I do, but only because I lived and worked in Atlanta some years ago.
So I did something impulsive I am already regretting and even booked some places to stay. Bought plane tickets for Glasgow in July. I always wanted to visit Islay… I am going alone as I never had anyone to go to most people I know want warm and sunny in holidays. This greatly complicates things and raises the cost. Also July is in season I think I would have been better off to go sometimes in the winter. To late now because some of the stuff is non refundable…
Have fun. Write us a travelogue.
That sounds great, man! I was in Scotland in August and it was lovely. You’ll have a blast!
I’m going to Finland in July. It doesn’t seem like there’s much to do in Helsinki. But genetically I’m a quarter Finn and have never been to Finland–I have that excuse. My partner had to be pressed to travel along with me.
Couple pieces of advice for Finland in July.
Make certain your hotel rooms are on the north side of the building.
Take a sleep mask for your eyes.
Scotland is one of the few places I’d get on a plane to visit, and then just to see if I’ve still got any family living in Kilmarnock. And, yeah, now that you mention it, it seems like “warm” and “sunny” aren’t good descriptors for anywhere in Scotland. Then again, I appreciate the financial sense in going places on the off-season, which is why I usually go to New Orleans in the summer.
I have just one word for you
Eh, but this time of year if you drink too much and pass out you won’t freeze to death. So you’ve got that going for you.
For a trip to Scotland, I think summer is the way to go, actually. I went there in July many years ago, and found it surprisingly chilly. Can’t imagine what the winter would be like.
In any case, enjoy the Lagavulin.
Never been to Scotland, but I have been to Ireland seven times and once in the winter. I have no plans to ever go back there in the winter. I think your summer trip will be worth the extra bit of cost.
Florida Glibs can be real dicks to the po-po
I bet the reason they put in the extra time to get em was because he called to brag….
That links to “Today in History for June 3.”
“Easy to go after random forklift operator on Facebook. Not so easy to go after a celebrity with 1.5 million twitter followers with these fights. Very brave.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1135533078015893504
Doxxing people over shitposting might be legal, but it’s still wrong.
TPTB really don’t like it when us uppity plebs mock any of them.
Which is probably why Nick Monroe got banned.
OT – Reason 1,001 Japanese is so painful…
Don’t give up yet on giving and getting in Japanese
Found this in today’s scan of the news from Japan. I can’t begin to describe how painful giving and receiving is in Japanese. You deal with your relationship to the giver and receiver, BUT just as importantly you also have to deal with your relationship to whom you are speaking.
“Drag an African-American day laborer into the spotlight and try to ruin his life because he made a trivial video about Nancy Pelosi. The only worse part is how you’re celebrating yourselves like you did something brave and important. Nauseating.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1135030189858205696
One more reason no adult man should ride a moped
I had no idea that there was a Erection Hardness Score. I’m assuming a Grade I erection is naked Lena Dunham.
If that’s the case, a Grade 1 Erection must be inverted.
A Naked Dunham is when your genitals seek shelter inside your body cavity.
You have to be more specific. Naked Lena Dunham and Naked Jeff Dunham are completely different. NLD is -as you say- where your genitals tear themselves off your body to run shrieking into the night. NJD is where you end up with a giant woody in your lap.
Like a scared turtle!
That’s some pretty turgid prose.
STEVE SMITH HAVE GRADE IN-FINI-TY ERECTION
Rory. Tingle. Of course that’s his name.
Nice family you married into
That must be some pussy….
“NEW POLL: Nearly half of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade ”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1134528494073987072
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/446367-poll-nearly-half-of-americans-say-supreme-court-should-uphold-roe-v-wade
Forty-six percent of respondents said the high court should uphold the ruling in Roe if the issue comes before the justices, while 36 percent said the Supreme Court should modify the 46-year-old ruling. Eighteen percent wanted the ruling to be overturned altogether.
What would an alternative headline look like?
Only 8 percent said abortions should be permitted up until the third trimester, and 6 percent said the procedure should be allowed “up until the birth of the child.”
“Nearly all Americans are not sure exactly what they want”
“6 percent said the procedure should be allowed “up until the birth of the child.”
WTF is wrong with those people?
They think they will get laid more if sluts don’t have to worry about having to take care of a baby.
I’m going to pretend that they think that in the case of some wild, last-minute revelation of imminent physical harm to the mother some crazy Bible-thumping doctor would just let the mother die to save the baby without giving her a choice in the matter unless there are some strong legal protections which don’t currently exist.
“Nearly half of Americans say Supreme Court should continue to ignore actual Constitution in favor of precedent”
What would an alternative headline look like?
Well according to the new Democracy for Everything norms, this isn’t a majority. Sorry, folks!
“The poll actually says that a majority of Americans want Roe overturned or modified and 92 percent oppose late term abortion. This is possibly the most disingenuous headline of the year so far (and that’s saying quite a lot).”
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1135217398628442113
Further down he retweets this:
Her entire feed is a dumpster fire.
She got that bluecheck tho.
She’s a credit to Twitter for sure.
She ran for Congress in Colorado. She is a bona fide racist.
Why don’t people have respect for journalists? It’s a mystery.
” nearly half ”
So less than 50%.
Lies. Damned lies.
Change a few words, and you could apply this analysis of Mueller’s predicament to the New York Times itself, along with the rest of the fact-centric, non-propagandistic news media. No reason to stop there. A range of crucial institutions – political, judicial, military, civic – are struggling to maintain the shape and content of democratic culture as Trump and his MAGA legion thrash away at it.
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Trump has the support of a political party that embraces lies in the service of power. He has a propaganda infrastructure that will amplify virtually any falsehood. And he has a base of supporters who prefer Trump’s crude fraud to more complex, and sometimes compromised, truths.
Hysterical blather about Public Enemy Number One’s war on truth. Save us, Mueller!
Maybe the reason Trump’s “incessant lying” has no particular effect on me is because I have always, since I became politically aware, assumed politicians spend every waking hour lying shamelessly in service of their quest for power and self-aggrandizement. I suppose, if you were the sort of gullible dimwit who thought Barack Obama only took the job of President with great reluctance, strictly out of a sense of duty and sincere desire to serve the nation, you might find the transition to Trumpmerica somewhat jarring.
And, of course, a concept with which one does not agree is not necessarily a lie, but don’t try to tell them that.
Progjection
^^^^THIS^^^^
At this point it is the criminals that used the 3 letter agencies to try and rig an election for Clinton trying to run out the clock so they can avoid any kind of justice (meaning they get jail time for their crimes).
I’d love to see Francis’s list of those organizations.
A fairly stunning claim there.
Pelosi doesn’t want the truth to come out. If she loses that battle, well sorry not sorry, Dems.
Obama is the black Cincinnatus, and we should all admire how he returns to till his farm with nary another word of seeking higher office of impinging on public opinion.
Trump has the support of a political party that embraces lies in the service of power. He has a propaganda infrastructure that will amplify virtually any falsehood.
So he’s just like every other President in my lifetime?
*spit take*
“Journalism principles aren’t complex: go report on people, agencies and corporations that wield actual power and leave ordinary, powerless citizens alone unless they engage in serious wrongdoing. Anonymously mocking Dem politicians you revere doesn’t count as serious wrongdoing.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1135217929325125633
That’s like hard and stuff. I can just show everyone how much better I am than this poor by using my hundred-thousand-dollar education to point and laugh at him.
Of course, when your journalism is mostly recycling or commenting on Twitter posts, you aren’t really going to write much on people, agencies and corporations that wield actual power, because (with, perhaps, the notable exception of Trump) their Twitter accounts are managed to give you nothing of substance.
First, They Came for Mark Twain. Now, They’re Coming for Mel Brooks
You knew it was coming.
*facepalm*
Mel Brooks, he of the Ukrainian Jewish heritage, is totally a Nazi. It is known.
https://babylonbee.com/news/notorious-nazi-leader-ben-shapiro-outed-as-jew
Are Nazi and of the Jewish faith mutually exclusive? https://babylonbee.com/news/notorious-nazi-leader-ben-shapiro-outed-as-jew
* sharpens pitchfork *
Wait until these people discover Shakespeare.
He was some white dude in high heals, a wig, and lots of makeup!
“Huckleberry Finn is banned in most school libraries”
Is this really true? Mark Twain would be laughing his ass off at that. Offending delicate sensitivities for well over a century!
And anybody who reads Huckleberry Finn or watches Blazing Saddles and comes away thinking they promote racism is a fucking moron.
Yes. Anyone who reads Huck Finn and can’t tell that Jim is far and away the most sympathetic, decent character is too dumb to breathe.
And Huck’s internal struggle with coming to terms with this.
(It’s been a while since I read the book).
According to the American Library Association, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain made the top 10 of books successfully or unsuccessfully attempted to be banned for 2002 and 2007, not for the rest of 2001-2018. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10
There are apparently schools that tried to get students to ready Fifty Shades of Grey, according to that list.
No way.
Why the fuck can’t they MENTION the word “nigger”?
The word is so magical that it’s impossible even to quote others or to type that word just to mention that it’s been used in another context? Power Word, Racist?
It turns the speaker into an instant racist.
Keeping it going from Saturday:
Someone didn’t learn anything.
And yet if someone said they’d run up a quarter million dollars in credit card debt “building [her] life,” nobody would have a single second to spare for her.
*sigh* Okay, plenty of people still would. She’d be the victim of predatory lenders. She only wanted what’s best for herself and her children. She couldn’t have guessed her lenders would someday want their money back. She was too poor and dumb (BIRM) to understand.
after pursuing 3 degrees
Fuck you, you can’t have my money (whether directly or indirectly) because you were a perma-student. WTF did you think was going to happen?
Stands on corner with a sign, “Will Teach for Food”
I’m $280k in debt because of in school deferments and building my life
*shudders*
We need to fix this system. Student loans need to be bankruptable, all federal guarantees should be eliminated, and banks should be allowed to say “no”
The fact that this loon could get her hands on almost $300 on credit is an indictment of the system as a whole.
Talk about ‘predatory’ lending…with the Universities and Fed complicit.
Kickin’ it with Da McAfees: Numero Uno
I have no words.
He could have been our POTUS, but nooooo. Sigh…
Unless Amash is the LP candidate next year I’m 100% writing in McAfee. Just not sure whom to write in as his VP. STEVE SMITH? They seem like they’d go well together.
JB, shame you were not here afternoon of May 30, 2019 for discussion of hypothetical breach of fiduciary care class action against publicly held Dick’s Sporting Goods and publicly held SalesForce for their anti-2A stances.
Oooh. That was right up my alley. Been too busy for this place lately. Been too busy to breathe lately.
My guess is no for both (assuming both are DE corps), but I’d have to research it.
Waaay back in the day, corporations couldn’t donate to charity without shareholder approval. While this lawsuit wouldn’t be strictly on point with that rule, it would be a throwback to those halcyon days when corporations were run solely for the benefit of shareholders.
Not sure how I missed that discussion, myself.
passed out?
*checks calendar*
That explains it. I was, what’s the word? Oh, yeah. “Working.”
UnlessEspecially if Amash is the LP candidate next year I’m 100% writing in McAfee.Yeah, I’m still pissed at Amash carrying water for the Deep State.
Since I’m sick of having that discussion, I’ll say I disagree with your analysis and leave it at that.
This is the internet, dammit. We can’t just agree to disagree!
Getting into pissing matches over how one person casts his one vote is fundamental to healthy civic discourse.
Someone didn’t learn anything.
It’ll work, this time.
Woot!
Another artisan has agreed to do some glibwork for me. Hopefully in 2-4 weeks I’ll have something worth showing.
“Excited to reveal we are now proud sponsors of Pride in London! We are working closely with them and our charity partners to celebrate the diversity within the LGBT+ community and Fly the Flag for everyone at the #PrideJubilee A taste of what’s to come…
Magenta is for same-gender attraction, blue is for attraction to genders other than your own, and lavender (a mix of the two) represents attraction to your own and other genders, though some interpret it differently.
Black is for asexuals who don’t feel sexual attraction to anyone. Grey is for grey-asexuals, who sometimes feel sexual attraction, and demi-sexuals who only feel it if they know someone well. White nods to non-asexual allies, and purple represents the whole community.”
https://twitter.com/BudweiserUK/status/1134491737920065536
Light yellow is for beer that’s pretty much water?
Which color is “kill the Jews?”
Charcoal
* chokes on coffee a bit but gets it down *
Whoa.
I was gonna go with feldgrau, but you went a shade darker
Mine’s more subtle, but you win.
Goddamn.
I would have gone with “ash gray”.
Prussian Blue
The teeny bopper/formerly white supremacist singers, or the stuff you’ll need after Russian agents poison you with thallium?
The color of the stain Zyklon B makes on concrete walls.
It was an established color for paint and whatnot long before the Nazis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue
all of them?
UK ad companies are really trying to outdo each other these days.
Nothing screams “diversity” like assigning everyone to their own “color”.
“You there! Drop the red, you’ve been assigned to yellow!”
“Every color is separate and beautiful!”
They should round up the people that spent time coming up with this shit and make sure they don’t procreate and pollute the gene pool.
If you pay 4.5 million bucks to eat lunch with Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett, do you have to pick up the tab for the food, too?
Along with the Covington kids, I hope this guy doxxed by TDB gets cherry pro-bono representation to sue the shit out of them, Facebook and that Poulson asshole personally. This shit isn’t gonna stop until the little people start punching back. And don’t accept a settlement, engage in total lawfare; sue everyone that can be sued. Keep going until they are financially ruined and begging for it to stop. Then sue them again.
Journalists are scum.
Trump calls London Mayor a stone cold loser. Lol. He is a loser.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/donald-trump-called-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-stone-cold-loser-before-landing-for-state-visit
Best timeline.
That loser started it, too. He didn’t think Trump would fire back?
“Unprompted”. LOL.
I’d tell him….’Khaaaaaan!’
‘Go ban spoons you loser’.
RE Trump’s Hair: You guys have read what the Hat does to innocent cantalope, what do you think he does to the Hair when he’s stuck on him for hours on end? I don’t blame the Hair for being out of sorts.
EEEEEUWWWW!
Wait, I thought the Hair was the one with the fruit fetish.
If this isn’t fake news, it’s just too perfect.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/life-imitates-memes-democrats-chant-orange-man-bad-at-trump-impeachment-march/
A “verified nobody” in her underwear:
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1135379211777191942
Whoever she is, she’s aight
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1135374454236729344
Some bluechecktard actually took the time to tally up all the nudity that David French saw while watching Game of Thrones.
That was generated by discussions of David French getting the vapors about Trump having framed the cover of a Playboy issue in which he was interviewed.
But French doesn’t watch GoT for titillation. He watches to keep abreast of the culture.
He should start counting the boobs on the internet. We need an accurate accounting.
Start with all the boobs who instantly respond to every Trump tweet, for or against.
And snatch that job away from you?
Don’t box him in like that.
There are so many new boobs being added to the internet that you could have hoards of Q’s counting the bewbs and still come up short.
Fortunately, hordes of Qs would happily volunteer for such work, so there’s a cost savings, right there.
But does his calculator have enough mammary?
It’s almost as if there is an agenda these people follow or something….
“Ill-timed”? Yeah, just a coincidence.
And anybody who reads Huckleberry Finn or watches Blazing Saddles and comes away thinking they promote racism is a fucking moron.
I watched Young Frankenstein recently.
That movie is nothing but a vehicle for slut-shaming independent, empowered women.
There’s a joke in there about “self-made” women, but I can’t quite get a handle on it.
+1 Inga
Once again, the most effective policy to reduce immigration to the United States is as follows-
1. End modern day prohibition.
2. Kill the welfare state.
Prove me wrong.
My immigration policy:
1. Do those things.
2. Let whoever the fuck wants into this country in, provided they go through a proper vetting process (background checks and the like).
Whether or not that would reduce immigration is up for debate, but it’s sound policy IMO.
If we somehow managed to eliminate or even vastly reduce the welfare state (which is not happening) and ended the war on drugs and opened the border up to anyone that could pass a background check and a medical check we would see a massive increase in our population in a short time. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that within ten years we could add 40-50 million at least. I can’t see that as being largely positive.
Yeah, me neither.
My immigration policy would probably start with a moratorium on new visas and citizenship applications. Renew and process what we already have, and let’s take a moment to really have a serious debate about what kind of immigration policy is in the best interest of America’s citizens. Personally, I don’t think its open borders.
Our current immigration policy is driven, it seems, by two things: what’s good for foreigners (which should be a total non-issue) and what’s good for business (definitely part of the answer, but only part).
I actually think the proposal Trump put out isn’t that bad (aside from The Wall silliness). We need a pretty serious re-working of our immigration from what is now mostly a family re-unification system to one that is more merit and skilled based.
My wife is from Britain and has a 40 something sister that lives in Oz. She is a skilled worker who has a long work history. Her mother is in her 80’s and has had cancer. We could bring her mother over immediately on a visa and she could immediately sign up for medical benefits. Bringing her sister here to work would be a multi year pain in the ass that might or might not succeed. Just one small example of how the current system sucks.
Being at the bottom of the economic ladder in the poorest county in NM is still better than being at the bottom in Mexico; ergo, every demographic coming before would still keep coming.
But I have no problem with your recipe, immigration arguments notwithstanding: implement it immediately.
It might not slow down the flow (the utility of which, in and of itself, is debatable), but it would adjust the incentives in a positive way.
And you’re right; independent of immigration, his solutions are ethically proper anyway.
Being at the bottom of the economic ladder in the poorest county in new Mexico would suddenly create an incentive for poor new Mexicans to do the jobs that old mexican migrants are currently doing and would thus push immigrants out of the market, if the welfare state was killed.
Plus, Mexico would be a better place to live for Mexicans if it’s border towns weren’t controlled by violent drug cartels that exist solely due to market incentives created by U.S. prohibition.
absolutely correct
whereafter the US would still be uphill from Mexico and they’d keep coming
It’s already too late with the cartels. If we legalized all drugs tomorrow it would certainly hurt their bottom line some, but they are already so entrenched that I don’t think it would do much about the violence. But yes, we should do so anyway for a bunch of reasons.
I forgot to add. Quit killing people and destabilizing countries in the middle east. That would help tremendously with the Muslim refugee issue.
I was talking to a dual US/Iranian citizen this weekend. He has plans to go visit family in December.
As politely as I could I told him he might want to reconsider, particularly since I think he’s previously worked as a Christian missionary in Africa.
Did he correctly condemn you for your white savior complex?
I think we should do that for its own rightness, but I don’t think it would do much at all to stop the refugee tide.
My reading lately has all suggested that the asylum loophole is the chief problem, and that we wouldn’t have to respect any obviously-bullshit asylum claim coming from the southern border if Mexico signed an agreement of some sort that established it as a safe place to claim asylum (b/c asylum seekers are expected to stop at the first safe nation?).
Anyway, it makes me wonder if Trump’s goal for the tariffs is to force Mexico to sign such an agreement. Do that, we can reject all asylum claims. Do that, and things basically go back to normal broken.
Trump calls London Mayor a stone cold loser. Lol. He is a loser.
I’m not sure the truth is an unassailable defense, in Britain. Probably not here, either, in the 21st century.
I’m not sure the truth is an unassailable defense, in Britain.
It isn’t in Canada, and Canada gets its jurisprudential “bias” regarding slander etc. from Commonwealth legal tradition. Veracity of libel/slander can be used to ameliorate damages, however.
Black is for asexuals who don’t feel sexual attraction to anyone.
Gotta be racist.
Saw Rocketman yesterday. With my mother (by her request for Mother’s Day). Who didn’t know there would be gay sex scenes in it.
At least she liked the movie overall.
LOL
On one hand I don’t know how you can do a Elton John Biopic without showing the drugs and sex on the otherhand I really don’t want to see the sex. Call me old fashioned.
I could see it being a tightrope. I saw an interview with Elton where he expressed a similar concern about it. He seems aware that most of the movie going audience doesn’t probably want to see gay sex but he was like a big part of being a rock star is the drugs and sex and he didn’t want people thinking he just went home to his hotel to sleep after the shows.
Presidential candidate of whom Americans are blissfully unaware is booed for not enthusiastically supporting socialism…
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/john-hickenlooper-booed-for-saying-socialism-is-not-the-answer
He did redeem himself though, by saying…
“As president, I will make healthcare a right, not a privilege with a real public option.”
…because that’s how rights are created.
and then a bag of dope fell out of his anus
I keed, I keed: I’m not on enough to make fun of anyone else
Damn Melania is fine.
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/galleries/x701/384959.jpg
The one in the middle?
Why does the queen carry a handbag? Does she have nuke codes in there?
She’s still rockin’ the 1950’s.
Tissues, gum, hard candy. You know, grandma stuff.
Werther’s Originals!
Walther PPK.
Windsor, Elizabeth, Windsor
If there’s a license to kill numbered 007, there must be one numbered 001. And I think I know who has it.
Video evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6El6zchXX4
That’s where she keeps her Life Alert unit, but instead of calling 999 it calls a local Special Air Service unit:
“Help
I’ve fallen and I can’t get upwe are most displeased and we require this asshole be removed from existence.”Does the Royal Family ever have yard sales? I mean, look at all that shit all over the place.
Saw a couple of pics of the Queen awhile back. One was from the ’50s, and the other was current. She was wearing exactly the same jewelry in both. I don’t think the royals ever get rid of anything.
If you’re not going to use your position working with yootz to try and sexually exploit them, then what’s the point?
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2019/05/31/kentucky-elevate-pastor-sought-sex-threesome-minors-police-say/1297598001/
well they were female so it is not a sin
Report: Satire Is Great, As Long As It Never Targets Any Of My Own Beliefs
Sandy disappointed to learn “free markets” aren’t grocery stores where you don’t pay for anything.
Funny how with these people goring other people’s sacred cows is funny, but when it is done to their cows it becomes hate speech, huh?
Or maybe not.
https://babylonbee.com/news/inspiring-painter-creates-moving-art-pieces-showing-jesuss-influence-on-the-trump-presidency
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post a dick pic just to be on the safe side
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Why does the queen carry a handbag?
She needs a way to carry one of these discreetly.
Wot?
Progressives are no longer content to just regulate capitalism – instead they’re going after capital, seeking to dramatically transform wealth itself. That is the lesson of Bernie Sanders’ most ambitious policy yet, announced last week: a plan to reshape ownership of business so that workers share in the wealth they create.
On both sides of the Atlantic, an alternative is now visible. In place of an extractive and unequal economy, the fight is on for one that is democratic and sustainable by design, rooted in new models of ownership.
Although the details of Sanders’ plans are still to be decided, the outlines are clear. The policy would require businesses to transfer a percentage of their shares annually to a fund controlled by employees. The fund would then pay a regular dividend to workers while giving them a powerful voting bloc in corporate governance. Growing over time, the funds would be a new way of socialising the economy from the inside out.
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The greatest benefit, though, is not greater income, but more collective power. Few of us, whether in the US, the UK or elsewhere, own shares directly. While household savers might be indirect shareholders, voting rights are controlled on their behalf by large financial institutions who often fail to act in the interests of the saver – and extract vast rewards for themselves in the process. In other words, most of us lack meaningful control over where we work, and existing structures of ownership fail to deliver it.
The Sanders plan would transform that, giving people the power to collectively and directly shape their company. Instead of private capital monopolising corporate decision-making, workers would now have a voice. By rewiring ownership, we can reshape power.
It really sucks that it’s illegal for employees to have an ownership stake in their companies. I wonder when that law was passed.
Wait- it couldn’t be that these “labor advocates” are looking for authority without responsibility, could it? That would be uncharacteristic of them, and totally surprising.
So much for the capital markets, then. How companies would raise equity capital when the stake of anyone who invests will either be confiscated by the worker’s collective or diluted over time is a mystery. The only way to raise capital will be to borrow money, thus transferring power not to workers but to the banks.
Note that the stock won’t be owned by employees, but by a “fund controlled by employees”. Meaning, I suspect, not really controlled by employees at all, but by a quasi-union apparat.
Since management of publicly traded corporations long since slipped the leash of shareholder accountability, I have no idea what he is talking about.
Wal-Mart encourages it’s filthy plebes to buy shares, but since it isn’t forced it’s seen as a money making scheme by the kkkorperation. Crafty KKKapitalists.
Related: KDW on the left’s love affair with corporatism.
The policy would require businesses to transfer a percentage of their shares annually to a fund controlled by employees.
Yes, because when employees have a significant portion of their net worth tied up in a single company, nothing bad ever happens.
Not to worry. Unlike health insurance, the employee shares won’t be tied to or accessible by individual employees. They’ll be under the thumb of a board, directed toward Democrat campaigns and political pissing matches with management, and your status as a shareholder won’t bear much on your hiring or firing. It’ll never pay out dividends, and your vote will never matter.
your status as a shareholder
Employees won’t even be shareholders. There will be a “fund” that is the shareholder. Naturally, managing that fund won’t be free, so if any dividends are paid, they will go to paying the expenses of the fund “managers” before any distributions are made to employees. The fund will be operated to benefit employees in precisely the way unions are operated to benefit employees, which is to say, only incidentally.
Exactly. It would be impossible to treat employees as individual shareholders. Does a new employee buy in? Is she paid out when she leaves? The fund will of course be paid for indirectly by reduced wages and benefits, but with enough separation to deny employees any claim on “their shares.” The program will simply be a bartering chit, an administrative sump fund for a new class of union bosses, and another avenue for channeling campaign donations to Democrat candidates.
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Alright, I’m off to meet this UCS feller. If I don’t return, AVENGE ME!
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mightwill always remember you!Regarding Trump’s hair style, anyone else remember the contretemps over Jimmy Carter changing his part from right to left ?
“When Carter in 1979 changed his hair part from right to left and added a little tint, Pitts was aghast, confiding to friends, “That guy is not going to last.””
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,537709,00.html