I am making sure these links are a bit more …comprehensive than the preview (non)post of last night. First, though, I ride my Catalan Hobbyhorse… the Trials of the Century are about as sluggish as the OJ trial was. A good summary here. If there are convictions and imprisonment – and the Catalans do not react with violence…I think it is safe to say the whole independence thing is over. The Catalan STASI are watching…
OK then. Horse having been ridden, now links.
- I kind of like seeing a Top. Men. job go unwanted. Or, at least unfilled. For now.
- GAH! I am not sure even HM would endorse this fetish. Well…maybe, if it involved an enormous amount of butter and garlic?
- Looks like (((They ))) might be off the hook. DNA testing and a “changed story”…ugh.
- Cops on meth! No, this is not a story about Florida. “Do you shabu?”
Come on in, Cacadia has spoken. Or whatever the cryptids say.
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GAH! I am not sure even HM would endorse this fetish. Well…maybe, if it involved an enormous amount of butter and garlic? – I thought those things were invasive, keeping as pets is not a good idea
Correct.
https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pest-animals/snail-and-slug-control
Also, ewwwwwww.
I’ll second that GAH!
Snail trails are disgusting.
Looks like (((They ))) might be off the hook. DNA testing and a “changed story”…ugh.
I have nothing to add really as I know insuficient of the case, but will look through the sidebar ….
Aaaand there we are thicc
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7296285/Demi-Rose-shows-ample-cleavage-racy-summer-look-hits-beautiful-beaches-Mykonos.html
and thin
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7296383/Rachel-McCord-flaunts-toned-form-tiny-black-bikini-outing-beach-LA.html
Why are you barging into Count Potato’s territory?
Romanian imperialism!
I don’t want to. The system is forcing me.
It’s not an official AM lynx until a Demi Rose post and Q with the titties
Malaysian police chief says tough to combat drugs with addicts on force
Then stop combatting drugs.
FTA: “Nevertheless, Malaysia is considering dropping criminal penalties over small quantities of drugs intended for personal use. Fines and jail time currently await anyone found using drugs.”
“I do not see how we can effectively ensure that the drug threat in this country is under control,” he added.”
Whether the cops are high or not, it doesn’t matter. You can’t control the drugs. Never could and never will. Quit trying.
See comment #3.
I kind of like seeing a Top. Men. job go unwanted. Or, at least unfilled. For now. – hell I’ll do it if I get a 100 thousand dollar a year pension for life, inflation adjusted. I am not even that greedy.
This how Ceaușescu got elected.
“The Spanish state “always ends up resorting to the sewers rather than parliaments,” he added.”
Distinction without a difference, really.
Sounds like Congress!
(laughs and cries into his sangria)
“Looks like (((They ))) might be off the hook. DNA testing and a “changed story”…ugh”
We need to stop to think about the chilling effect this will have on other rape victims
…and it can still lead to an important “conversation”.
Like how it’s not nice to run a train on a group of guys, regret it later, and accuse them and their buddies of rape? That kind of conversation?
She is suspected of filing a false complaint against the men because some of them filmed her during consensual sex without her permission
Video and DNA evidence. *SMDH* Also, pics and it did happen.
We need to stop to think about the chilling effect this will have on other rape victims
This argument never made any sense. It is certainly never applied to other crimes. For example, just because insurance fraud is prosecuted vigorously, it doesn’t discourage people from filing legitimate claims. It’s really just a lame excuse to try to allow women to avoid responsibility for their criminal actions.
Being the Devil’s Advocate here, I believe the chilling effect argument also assumes that rape cases where the victim made a valid complaint but the defendant was found not guilty would also be prosecuted as false accusations.
Now, I’ve never heard anyone argue that any rape accusations should always wind up with someone punished, but I’m sure there exists some screed somewhere on the internet that says just such a thing.
There is a big difference between insufficient evidence to convict and a false accusation. Again, why shouldn’t this same logic apply to all criminal accusations? For the false rape claim to be prosecuted, there needs to be actual evidence, not just ” the jury decided not guilty”.
With the push to define the term rape down, you start getting into areas where there is no physical evidence, leaving it just accused’s word vs. the accuser’s word. There’s a very thin line between insufficient evidence and a false accusation when the only real evidence is the accusation. I think this is why the very same people pushing to define rape down are the same ones saying you can’t prosecute false accusations.
Whycome they don’t give her name?
Not until charged and convicted, apparently.
How . . . civilized. Living in the US, you forget the perp walk and public conviction upon arrest isn’t universal.
That super-duper (((power))) got them off the hook. It must be nice to be part of a world-wide global conspiracy.
Try not to laugh
US President Donald Trump has denied being a racist after remarks he made about a black Democratic Congressman and the US city of Baltimore.
Mr Trump had attacked Rep Elijah Cummings, calling Mr Cummings’ mostly-black Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess”.
Several leading Democrats, including House speaker Nancy Pelosi, criticised the president for his language.
Mr Trump deflected the criticism, accusing Mr Cummings of racism.
“There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that Elijah Cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district,” the president wrote in one of several tweets on Sunday.
“Dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with facts,” he wrote.
Mr Trump has previously turned accusations of racism back on those accusing him, without evidence. He did not offer any examples of Mr Cummings being racist.
Let him who is without racism cast the first stone. Or something.
We can’t let him normalize racism. We must counter by making everything he does racist.
The monster insulted Baltimore’s rats.
And their Squirrels since he said “rat and rodent-infested.” That shall not stand.
I was listening to the radio this morning and they played a clip from some talking head show this weekend.
“His use of the word infested. It’s dehumanizing, is it not?”
Zyklon B kills mice, too.
It’s only gonna get funnier, he’s shitting all over Sharpton on Twitter right now
That last two quoted sentences are fucking amazing. How detached from reality do you have to be to:
1. not see the irony.
2. include it in a straight news article.
Yeah, those stuck out for me, too. The lack of self-awareness is stunning.
You mean Baltimore is a shining beacon of a city, one where people are flocking to move?
Give the Democrats a break, they’ve only been in absolute control of Baltimore for the last 50 years. It takes time to undo the damage done by the GOP.
“Mr Trump has previously turned accusations of racism back on those accusing him, without evidence.”
Note the “Mr.” I don’t recall previous Presidents being denied the title.
But mostly, I like the way the comma completely reverses the meaning of the sentence.
Comma chameleons.
Yea, but Trump is just the “current occupant of the White House”, or so I am told.
That’s what Keith Olbermann used to do with W, heavily emphasizing the “Mister”
Brits. The Economist style guide almost always denies the title, the BBC often does in print.
without evidence
Uh huh…
Isn’t sex with snails how you get brain eating bacterias?
IDK, but they guy who got rat lungworm did so by eating a raw slug. I’m pretty sure snails eat the same things which basically means turds, eggs/spores/cysts, etc.
re: the Catalan STASI; I wonder if some snitches will be gettin’ stitches?
A few accidents down at the ol’ station?
“Dpain’s public prosecutor has charged the nine defendants in custody with misuse of public funds, sedition, and violent rebellion—the latter being one of the most serious offences in the criminal code.”
Those Catalans are just lucky Honest Abe wasn’t in charge of the national government when they decided they wanted to declare independence.
“violent rebellion”
I totally remember when all those old Grandma’s were beating the shit out of those national police.
See!!! She’s drinking his blood like some crazed Syrian Rebel.
Let’s not jump to conclusions. It might just be that time of the month and she has had a LOT of face lifts.
Sweet. Pope J found the line and touched his toe across it. Thanks man!
I knew you were gonna post these. Nothing like a little Monday morning rage to go with my coffee.
I’m a horrible person for thinking her boyfriend needs to get to a Urologist ASAP.
Apostrophe abuse is violent.
It’s almost as if we do it on purpose, sometimes…
Why are we modern?
https://capx.co/why-are-we-modern/
. Incredible as it may seem in light of the ongoing Brexit shitshow, governments in modern liberal democracies are also astonishingly competent. The most able Roman prefect or Chinese mandarin — placed in a time machine and deposited in Whitehall — would be stunned at the lack of corruption, how we’ve succeeded in abolishing the sale of public offices, and genuine concern for what Davies calls “the general welfare”. Governments — with relatively few exceptions — were historically extractive superpredators. And even those that did not aspire to be (such as Rome and China for significant parts of their history) were nonetheless riddled with corruption and pervasive clientelism.
I really don’t see this part as being accurate.
“would be stunned at the lack of corruption”
Hahaha
“how we’ve succeeded in abolishing the sale of public offices”
Stop, you’re killing me.
“and genuine concern for what Davies calls “the general welfare”. ”
Oh I get it, you’re just retarded…
“Governments — with relatively few exceptions — were historically extractive superpredators.”
Sorry honey, but ain’t nothing changed.
Not according to Gillespie. Larger government has resulted in moar freedom.
I listened to that last night. I swear nick sounded like a burnout.
“Worring about the government just gets in the way of us leading our lives in the way we want to.” Or something like that.
I honestly didn’t get his point and I was trying. Something about how he doesn’t believe in principles, but thinks liberty is kinda cool.
He’s evolved from “We must shrink government to preserve individual liberty” to “Hey man, it’s totally going to be cool dude, just do your thing and it will be great”
There is only one explanation. The Jacket has either died or been replaced with an impostor.
He wasn’t wearing the jacket. Maybe there is a new host.
The Jacket was made from Corinthian leather and its age.
When all you want from liberty is the ability to smoke weed while ass-sexing Mexicans it is true that the Government has limited power to interfere. Shut your door, pull the drapes and get freakin’.
Obama and Trump broke him. Obama because he voted for him, twice, and there was no police reform, no scaleback of the surveillance state, and 5 or 6 new wars. Trump because, well, Trump.
If you voted for:
Bush 2 in 04
Obama ever
or Hillary
Y’ain’t a libertarian
They’re better at hiding it and/or selling it to the populace as a benefit.
Dammit.
Yeah, and Roman roads, aqueducts and viaducts are still in use. Show me in a thousand years what benefit the NHS had.
Sure, modern “democratic” governments have social welfare as a stated goal and one which they visibly attempt to address. But that’s where the corruption, which also includes incompetence, cronyism and patronage, kicks in. So while they may not be selling offices outright for cash, they are selling votes using jobs and services paid for with money forcibly extracted from others. IOW, they’ve done a better job of covering up the violence inherent in the system.
Morning, everyone.
+1 Autonomous Collective
+1 watery tart
If they walked around the palatial EU headquarters in Brussels, met the employees and Reps who are exempt from all local taxes, saw their lavish benefits and retirement packages – they would ask “why bother stealing?” They already stole everything they’ll ever need.
Governments — with relatively few exceptions — were historically extractive superpredators.
Yes, but the slice of a subject’s income that they confiscated was usually much less than today, which does not really support the point being made here.
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Speaking of Romania- I watched a littl thing about the “Romaniacs” motorcycle race/trial-by-ordeal last night. Those guys are nuts.
Romania is beautiful, but if I go, I’ll do it on four wheels.
I mean is any motorcycle racing not nuts?
I watched a littl thing about the “Romaniacs” motorcycle race/trial-by-ordeal last night. Those guys are nuts.
So they’re zany to the max?
Their totally insaney.
I saw garlic in the link and thought it was gonna be about Gilroy
48 hour rule, man.
You wouldn’t make humor about it, anyway. Just made me think of it?
How the dentist go? Tooth fairy visit you?
Good for now, thanks. Gotta go back for oral surgery Wednesday morning.
It was a reverse tooth fairy… I had to pay to give them my teeth
Did you know that vaping is more toxic than smoking an entire packet of cigarettes?
https://twitter.com/ToTheContrary/status/1155478196021866496
I call bullshit
PBS is a greater threat than vaping
Good move because it is bullshit.
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1UM0OL
There is nothing that will rally a population behind their corrupt and shitty leadership more quickly than sanctions and a threat of invasion.
Well, he’s not wrong exactly. Those are the kinds of situations generals and war boner presidents like to get get involved in.
Why would we bother to send in troops? Their government(?) is doing a great job of destroying themselves.
*fires up the popcorn machine*
Do you know what really grinds my gears? Non-drivers. This morning a woman stopped in the roundabout near my office to try to let me go ahead of her. Collisions happen because of retards like that. If you are in the circle you have the right-of-way. I don’t need this on a Monday. That is all.
You wouldn’t have this problem is they hadn’t put in a traffic circle.
Or if the person driving knew how roundabouts worked. Intersections wouldn’t work well either if no retards obeyed the right of way rules
The only roundabout I drive on is here. It’s been converted from a bigger traffic circle, and I try to avoid going on the inner part if at all possible.
The roads in my neck of the woods are badly designed for traffic.
That is about 45 minutes from where I live. Can confirm the roads are poorly designed for traffic.
That one isn’t so bad. However, the Hudson Valley is not designed to be a high traffic area, which is why the Woodbury Commons is such a clusterfuck.
The same with that 44/55, Route 9, Mid Hudson Bridge danger zone.
Otherwise called my daily commute
Beyond Libertarianism
The great JD Vance, everyone!
what the fuck? I shall repost this at the bottom.
Call it morning driving through the sound and
In and out the valley
*narrows gaze*
Yes. This is a primary driving lesson for my 16 year old son. If you have the right-of-way, take it. If you do something unexpected, you cause accidents.
The social aspect of driving is vastly underappreciated. I’m sure that contributes to the “people from location X are terrible drivers” phenomenon. Other than Boston, of course — those guys really are morons.
Philadelphia gives Boston a run for its money in that regard.
Last time I was there, it reminded me of driving in Central America where the all the street signs are merely suggestions.
Romania has a silly thing that on some intersection one of the streets has a give way sign / yield whatever you call it (red triangle) but the other street does not have a priority sign (yellow rhombus on white) so people stop to give way, but those who have right of way don’t know they do.
That being said I like roundabouts and wish there were more of them
People randomly stopping when driving are one of the things that just piss me off. All they’re doing is making it more dangerous for everyone else, and they’re not helping anyone. If you have the right of way, go. If you don’t, wait. It’s not that hard.
Go on…
Nope. Instead I’ll be thankful to a local business owner who helped my friend out on Saturday. We were on a bike ride, she caught a flat, and I couldn’t get enough air into the tire with my piddly travel pump (next purchase is going to be a couple of the CO2 cartridges for tire inflation), we were on a trail so we were walking the bikes. Staff of a local shop was rolling by, had a travel pump that had a foot stirrup on it and everything, and got it pumped up and going again in a couple of minutes.
/guess where I’m planning on buying my next couple of bike accessories?
Walmart? For the cheap prices!
Amazon, because you won’t have to look anyone in the eye to make your purchase?
Hitler-Mart?
These problems are all solved by raising the price of driving.
It’s called a Rotary. I have found that people who grew up in New England know how to navigate them. Everyone else is a menace in those things.
Like the Phone and the Club, the traffic pattern is obsolete.
Nah, the roundabout/traffic circle/rotary is 10x better than a 4 way stop. The only issue is that bad drivers tend to be even bigger idiots when they encounter a roundabout, either treating it like a 4 way stop or (for many foreigners) stopping in the circle. However, these are the same idiots that muck up 4 way stops, so it’s not exactly unique to roundabouts.
The beautiful thing about a roundabout is that your attention is focused on one thing. Is the circle clear to my left? If yes, go. If no, stop.
Compare that to taking a snapshot of the intersection, waiting for everybody to clear through. Oh wait, the idiot to the left cut in line and the truck across from me decided to turn left out of the righthand lane, and is it my turn? Hell if I know, but I’m going!
The issue is that at any given time 15-20% of the drivers on ANY piece of road have never been on it before and they are looking for street signs; most roundabouts are HORRIBLY marked for these drivers.
The main problem with roundabouts is that they are sign-posted with yield signs instead of stop signs. The yield sign is generally treated as a “player’s choice” card, which makes it worse than useless. At least with a four-way stop, everyone knows everyone else is supposed to stop. If they replaced the yield signs on roundabouts with stop signs, I’d like them more.
Ding ding ding!!!
That problem is rampant around here, and not limited to roundabouts. We’ve put in place a series of laws and protocols to make driving more predictable, since most accidents happen when something unpredictable happens. Whether it’s the left lane camper, the way too polite driver, or the jackass that things he’s filiming an episode of Top Gear featuring his 10 year old Evo, these people are sand in the gears.
Hong Kong protests are going to:
Turn into a full riot.
End tomorrow with nothing changing.
End with hk being out from under China’s thumb.
Be disappeared
All except freedom for Hong Kong.
Ive been a little surprised with the video coming out. I would have thought they’d clamp down more.
Too many furriners there. They cannot clamp down like mainland areas.
Also, they don’t really need to be in a hurry. Time is running out. 20 more years? They just bit off a bit too much this time. Back to slowing absorption mode.
This – the Reds have already won. The protests are just the death-rattle of freedom.
Expanse fans rejoice: https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/27/amazon-the-expanse-season-5/
*There was much rejoicing!*
Huzzah!
Nice!
Just the facts, Ma’am
At a time when unemployment is near historic lows and the economy is flourishing, the 2020 election could turn on the question of whether Americans turned off by Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric will give him a pass because they and their loved ones are doing better financially. Places like Macomb County outside Detroit, where CNN will host the second Democratic presidential debates on Tuesday and Wednesday, could serve as a useful barometer for whether Trump can once again sweep Midwestern states like Michigan and Wisconsin, which delivered him a victory in 2016.
That rotten bastard Trump is trying to buy their votes by putting them back to work.
Why can’t they see that they should be standing on their principles and selling their votes to the Random Generic Good Guy Democrat?
Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric
Gotta love how they report unsupported opinions as facts.
At a time when unemployment is near historic lows and the economy is flourishing-
The federal government passed a spending bill that raises debt ceilings, reinstates Trillion dollar deficits, holds interest rates far below historical standards, and continues ahead at full speed on the path to bankruptcy.
Even the Keynesians know this is retarded.
It is your fault really for trying to save money. Spend like there is no tomorrow. Buy yourself some new designer clothes.
Keynes’ original proposal was that you overspend during recessions/depressions, and save during times of prosperity. Everybody only remembers the spending part.
I mean it was still bad but not as bad
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/bernie-sanders-campaign-union-strife-is-what-he-proposes-for-the-whole-country
HAHA on Bernie.
“I do not see how we can effectively ensure that the drug threat in this country is under control,” he added.
Barbaric treatment of junkies didn’t work? Shocking.
More CNN-
Like many other voters here in Macomb County, which is 81% white — Gaither, an independent, shrugged off the recent controversy over Trump’s suggestion that four minority congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Gaither underscored that he doesn’t agree with everything Trump says. But “I’ll take progress over a few shitty words that are said here and there,” Gaither said. “The guy says stupid things, but as long as things are going good, I could give two shits.”
“Until he says a literal N-word or something like that. Then yeah, I might be pissed, but that is beyond irrelevant to me,” said Gaither, who is white, referring to the uproar over the President’s comments about the congresswomen.
White guy from white district doesn’t care about racism, proving America is racist to the core.
Where is your outrage, America? Why don’t you hate Trump with every fiber of your being, as a true patriot would?
White people are the white people of people.
I don’t remember if I asked this before but which ones of you would ?
https://www.instagram.com/cindytraining/?hl=en
Looks like Dwayne Johnson with basketballs glued to his chest.
Would not.
No way. She Kegels more than I squat.
That’s the worst silicone I’ve ever seen.
jfc you are so juvenile.
I’ve heard that women who inject high levels of male hormones have commensurate increases in their sex drive, if that changes the calculation for anyone.
…and an overwhelming urge to peg their male partners.
an enormous amount of butter and garlic
Eat more
chickensteak.It’s time to restore a sense of common purpose and bring people together. We need leaders that want to heal divisions, not deepen them. Read my op-ed at @CNNOpinion on why we need mandatory national service.
https://twitter.com/JohnDelaney/status/1155581414798237697
I mean US youths could use a bit of discipline
I’m “serving” the country by not working in the parasite sector.
Don’t you know? If you’re not paid with money forcibly taken from taxpayers, then you’re not doing good.
Fuck off, slaver. (For real this time)
Apparently the proper phrase is “Eat my whole ass” which people say to this guy apparently but I have no idea why as I do not really closely follow the multitude of people wanting to be emperor of USistan
I see that now that you have pointed it out. I don’t get it either, but it sounds appropriate.
“mandatory national service.”
I had this conversation yesterday. Someone knows not what service means.
To: Mr. John Delany. You first. I will come out of retirement to be your CO…
Winner winner, ass for dinner
mandatory national service
“Free” Country.
this is not a story about Florida
Apparently Malaysia is the Florida of Southeast Asia.
I feel cheated by this story about a Minnesoda man paddling all the way from Duluth to the “Arctic Ocean” on a standup paddleboard.
He went 920 miles on the thing, but the “Arctic Ocean” was really James Bay (the very southern bit of the Hudson Bay). Sure, I guess once you are there, you are technically connected to the Arctic Ocean.
“I feel cheated by this story”
That’s the news business in general.
That’s like calling Lake Superior the Atlantic Ocean.
Shit, I paddled half a mile into a 15 mile headwind on the dead-flat St. Joe Bay and there were little muscles in my shoulder reminding me how much they hate me for 4 days. Turns out, you’re just a giant sail on those things. I still nearly sneaked up and beat Mrs. L (in a kayak) to the boat slip, but she caught a glimpse of me as I was coming up and managed to out paddle me.
Why stop there? We haven’t had polar ice caps since 2014 according to scientists.
So I somehow ended up with this article…
Abandoned house trashed by termites turns into real estate gold at hotly contested auction
https://www.realestate.com.au/news/abandoned-house-trashed-by-termites-turns-into-real-estate-gold-at-hotly-contested-auction/
With just 365sqm on title — on the smaller side for the area — selling agent Sam Abbas of Raine and Horne-Rockdale said the main appeal for buyers was the location up a cul-de-sac 750m from Banksia train station.
Honestly, at 2500 per square meter it does not seem that outrageously expensive to make the press. You can almost pay that much in Bucharest for prime stuff, I would expect for Sydney it’s even less weird.
I heard there was a new Bad Orange Man outrage this weekend. So, naturally, This is CNN.
A guy cried, so obviously Baltimore is not fucked up
Cool story about some kids catching a huge sturgeon in a tiny creek. The excitement in the kids voices in the videos is great.
That sort of reminded me of my buddies and I when we were kids fucking around in the streams and lakes. Of course, we didn’t have a giant sturgeon (or any adults hanging around). We also had all sorts of spears and gaffs to harass the local sucker population with.
I heard that over the weekend. They interviewed the DNR guy who praised the kids and also expressed how happy he was that the kids were so excited. Very cool.
Abandoned house trashed by termites turns into real estate gold at hotly contested auction
For some reason, this reminds me of those people who pop up on my teevee after a big fire in California, boo-hooing about how “Muh five million dollar house just burned down.” when in reality, it was a $300k house, on a 4.7 million dollar lot, and the fire just saved the next guy from having to pay to tear it down.
Listen up, bitter clingers: Barack and Michelle Obama offer rare rebukes of Trump over attacks on Baltimore
I guess if the Obamas ran a city, it would look like Baltimore.
Whatever you do, don’t blame the politicians who remain in office for generations and yet achieve nothing of benefit for their constituents except some handouts.
Sure, there’s a long tradition of bowing out gracefully and letting the next guy operate unhindered, but Trump made unkind comments about Baltimore.
Moments of Pleasure: A Preliminary Classification of Gustatory mmms and the Enactment of Enjoyment During Infant Mealtimes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31338045
File under “The Kids These Days.”
It seems to me that radio announcers are vastly less competent than I remember them being. While continuing to unpack from the move, I found the script for a radio announcer audition tape I made back in 1998. I’ve scanned in the second page. Remember this is for a classical music station in Broken Arrow, OK
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/script-p2.pdf
My experience growing up in rural OK was different than the stereotype. At that time, being a farmer or rancher was not incompatible with being an arts aficionado. I’m assuming that came later with politics and television becoming the primary method of entertainment and the decline of amateur artistry.
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
The NEA does not approve.
“The Nordic country, which shares an 832-mile border with Russia, is acutely aware of what’s at stake if it doesn’t.”
Russia. The Father of all lies.
critical thinking. -which can mean whatever we want it to mean
Post-critical thinking.
It means “agree with me or else”.
You keep using that word
Research has found that women, more so than men, need to be liked to be elected, as Vox’s Ella Nilsen has reported. And some polls have found women like Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren lagging behind their male counterparts when it comes to likability.
But a new national poll of 1,912 likely Democratic voters shows both Warren and Harris matching or outscoring men on measures of likability, including whether voters are excited about candidates or would like to hang out with them as friends. The poll, conducted in July by communications and strategy firm PerryUndem and provided to Vox exclusively ahead of publication, also found Warren and Harris beating some of their male competitors in terms of favorability. More than 40 percent of those polled had a strongly favorable view of Warren and 32.5 percent said the same of Harris, compared with 27.7 percent for Sen. Bernie Sanders and 24.2 percent for former Vice President Joe Biden.
Harris? Warren? Likeable?
*shudders*
Or your average Dem voter likes to be harangued and belittled; like the M in S&M.
Somebody has to win team blue’s nomination. Tulsi with Yang a distant second for me. The rest can move to Baltimore for all I care.
Tulsi & Yang sounds like a new age music duo.
No one likes a shrill harpy.
Research has found that women, more so than men, need to be liked to be elected, as Vox’s Ella Nilsen has reported.
The majority of voters are women, so if women candidates are judged more harshly it’s other women doing the judging.
Warren also performed well when voters were asked which candidate they’d most like to hang out with as a friend. The Massachusetts senator was the top choice for 12.8 percent of voters, followed by South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg with 12.2 percent, Harris with 11.4 percent, Sanders with 10.6 percent, and Biden with 9.9 percent.
*weeps silently*
Jesus Christ
There are a surprising number of masochists in this world. I’d rather hang out with a Viagra crazed STEVE SMITH than Elizabeth Warren.
STEVE SMITH SAY THAT CAN BE ARRANGED!
Wow. Mayor buttstuff, Kamala the cop, and the Indian fascist. The dems are really outdoing themselves this cycle.
So the campaign theme song this year is definitely going to be YMCA?
Actually Biden would probably be the coolest of the lot. Especially at a strip club.
That being said, sharing a beer with Warren is as authentic as it comes.
Can Warren hold her firewater?
Just remember that polls are not accurate for many reasons, foremost of which is the people like me who refuse to take them, ever, to deliberately ensure their inaccuracy.
sounds legit:
Bishop defends claim gays ‘created’ by pregnant mums having anal sex
I enjoyed that book
So he is saying don’t use lube?
Sounds like he’s a real neophyte when it comes to modern views of homosexuality.
He left out the getting hit by a bus part!
Do I even want to know how bisexuals are created?
How about you and I get a few cases of Bud Light lime and go fishing for a weekend and I show you…
I prefer bear hunting
Winston’s gay?
IFLS
*Sensible chuckle*
Biden is by far the most experienced politician in the 2020 Democratic field. In most professions that is an advantage. In politics, it can really be a negative. The Beltway is where intellectual originality goes to die. Biden first got to D.C. when grown men were wearing brightly colored bell-bottoms. The originality portion of his brain atrophied long ago.
Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep’s experience could have been a wellspring of ideas for what he would be like as president. Instead — as Business Insider notes — he is merely repeating Hillary Clinton’s one-note epic failure message from 2016:
In a crowded field of almost two dozen contenders, Biden has claimed the mantle as its most anti-Trump candidate. And he’s made rejection of the 45th president the core part of his campaign message. At the same time, he’s cast himself as a pragmatic politician who would restore bipartisanship in Washington and as the likeliest one to beat Trump in the 2020 election.
The Biden campaign’s laser-like focus on Trump resembles the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, which also tried portraying Trump as a singular threat to the nation’s fundamental values.
Experience can be an asset when you actually have, you know, accomplishments to point to.
David Simon is having a meltdown on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AoDespair
LOL, the Democrats rule the big cities with iron fists and lock out all political competition. Totes the GOP’s fault.
Guy writes a TV series demonstrating how machine politics works and in one tweet totally disowns his own work. TDS is a helluva drug.
Also, I may be misremembering…but the character Clay Davis in The Wire was supposed to be based on Elijah Cummings?
Clay Davis was a state senator, not a US congressman I think.
US Reps do not deliver municipal governance
No, but they do deliver federal tax dollars targeted to their districts in the form of grants, ie grants for a road project, etc. Congresscritters do by adding “riders to unrelated bills — IOW, I will vote for your Iowa Hog Farming Improvement bill if you let me attach a bill for 15 million for a new bridge in my district.”
So while they do not directly deliver, they definitely have their hands in.
Um, that actually IS directly delivering.
Ah. Yes. They’re going to spin around the issue of Baltimore’s sort state to make sure Trump is a racist.
I see one too many ”t’s true Trump is a racist’ and ‘Trump’s racism’ and ‘it’s clear Trump is racist’ for my liking.
You have to be one gigantic dolt to believe this without hard evidence.
All they do is conflate a statement with racism. Rinse/repeat.
It doesn’t even matter. Even if Trump is a racist, Baltimore is still a shithole and Cummings is an ineffective politician that’s been firmly lodged in place for the last 23 years.
Given that it’s Baltimore we’re talking about, we can probably safely assume Cummings is corrupt as sin as well.
And that’s why Simon is disingenuous.
See, also – Detroit.
White flight! Blockbusting! It’s always still the 1950’s with these types.
Apparently “Crime-infested” is the new N-word. I think that says more about the people melting down over Trump’s use of the term than it says about Trump.
Trump has never had a Twitter meltdown like Simon’s. It is incredible.
Rank: Matt Helm, James Bond, Derek Flint.
no Travis McGee?
I wasn’t aware there was a film from that era, but sure, throw him on the list. The important part is to pointless rank something unimportant.
ah the movies – yeah, the Matt Helm films with Dino were nothing like the hardboiled books.
Yeah. It’s clearly a movie ranking. Get it together.
You are not a pleasure unit…
GS-14, Commander, GS-14.
Toivanen, the chief communications specialist for the prime minister’s office, said it is difficult to pinpoint the exact number of misinformation operations to have targeted the country in recent years, but most play on issues like immigration, the European Union, or whether Finland should become a full member of NATO (Russia is not a fan).
Only Russian bots would express reservations about surrendering sovereignty to the EU, or indiscriminate immigration. Everybody knows that.
The Republican Party Is Transforming Right Before Our Very Eyes
If you call everyone who doesn’t agree with you on policy a racist, eventually those people get ticked off and vote a giant middle finger to you into office as a rebuke.
“n the 1890s, America went through a similar set of convulsive wave elections as the country dealt with the economic changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution,”
Interesting but her narrative doesn’t line up with history. The industrial revolution had been in full swing for decades by that point.
Zito is still the smartest in the room. Also, don’t discount secondary effects. The boom we’re seeing now (in the US) is very much the main stream finally adopting computerized data analysis. Think fracking, pharmaceutical modeling, etc. Fracking was first done successfully in 1977. Property modeling of complex molecules has been done since at least the late ’90s. What has changed is the quality of the data, the cost to do the analysis, and the wide-spread promulgation of efficient techniques. That has created the sort of wealth that allows people to open breweries that charge $6/beer in random towns across America. The analytics didn’t make the beer. It drove down the prices of more necessary things, and created jobs that paid more than the necessary for a large(r) segment of the population to have $6/beer wealth. I imagine the 1890s were similar in the way that it was a time when the wealth and production capacity truly started to change the way average people not in the city or some innovation hotbed lived.
Yes. People need to remember that the majority of the population lived in rural areas through WWI. There are sections of what is now the city of Chicago that did not have indoor plumbing until the 1920’s.
The industrial revolution had been in full swing for decades by that point.
The terminology is clunky, but the 1880s/1890s does qualify as the heart of the second wave of the industrial revolution. The first wave (1820s/1830s) was the beginning of the steam revolution, but the second wave is where the modern world really starts with gas engines and electricity being introduced.
It’s not the GOP changing. The DNC is – for the worse as it pulls left. And this has been demonstrably illustrated by THREE publications: Pew, The Economist and The NYT.
The Strange “Bathtub Illusion”
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2019/07/27/the-strange-bathtub-illusion/#.XT7srXtRVaR
Because it’s a photo and difficult to get proper depth perception on a 2D photograph. Doesn’t seem very ground breaking work here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnxd8UZ-LTI
Police officer who accused McDonald’s staff of biting his sandwich for being a cop admits forgetting he ate it himself
What fool would actually do that when hocking a loogie onto said sandwich is so much harder to catch?
/thinks back to the people I worked with at McDonald’s in the 90’s
About half the staff of the restaurant (including managers)?
He also didn’t want a large farva, he wanted a liter of fuckin’ cola.
FHP trooper arrested for having sex with 14-year-old, deputies say
What, no paid leave?
Smooth as butter
+1 butterbox fold
Hot buttered buns for the win
oh so much fun to spank
Nah, he’ll cop a misdemeanor plea and go work as a deputy in some county.
Nice work by the brotherhood in blue to set him up for a lesser crime. If she can’t consent, she can’t have a consensual relationship. At best, he didn’t use force or the threat of force (although for a non-cop, if there was a firearm such as his service weapon present, force would be implied) to engage in sex with her.
Let’s check in on West Baltimore: At least 5 homes catch fire in Edmondson Village
At least 5 fires have been confirmed in west Baltimore following reports of a shooting early Monday morning.
Baltimore fire officials have been working to put out fires since around 1:30 a.m. across the Edmondson Avenue Corridor of west Baltimore. Officials confirmed five fires within a 1 mile radius of each other.A woman whose home caught on fire believes it was intentionally set.
“Why, I have no idea why somebody would do that to somebody that’s living in a house,” said Crystal Christian. “All these empty houses, set them on fire. I hope whoever is doing it, I hope their heart feels good, because mine doesn’t. Mine is hurting right now, because you took my whole life away from me.”
Those MAGA hat hillbillies are at it again.
Chris, you
ignorant slutmendacious hack.WALLACE: You say it has zero to do with race – there is a clear pattern here, Mick. The fact is that before his inaugural – before his inauguration, the president tweeted about John Lewis, a black congressman that he should — this is before his inauguration, he should spend time in his crime-infested district.
Then, two weeks ago, he goes after these four members of “The Squad,” all women of color, and says they should go back to the crime-infested countries from which they come. Then he talks about Elijah Cummings and he says his district is rat and rodent-infested. Infested. It sounds like vermin. It sounds subhuman. And these are all six members of Congress who are people of color.
MULVANEY: I think you’re spending way too much time reading between the lines.
WALLACE: I’m not reading between the lines. I’m reading the lines.
MULVANEY: Does anyone watching this program dispute the fact or the possibility that if Adam Schiff has said the same thing about the border, that the president would be attacking Adam Schiff the exact same way today?
WALLACE: I don’t think he’d be talking about his crime-infested, rodent-infested district.
MULVANEY: He very well could. It has zero to do with the fact that Adam is Jewish and everything to do with Adam would just be wrong if he were saying that. This is what the president does. He fights and he’s not wrong to do so…
WALLACE: You’re completely comfortable with him saying that this is a rodent-infested district and no human being would want to live there? You’re comfortable with that personally?
MULVANEY: Have you seen some of the pictures on the Internet? Just this morning from the conditions in Baltimore, Maryland. Have you seen them?
WALLACE: You can do that in any inner city in America.
MULVANEY: You absolutely could.
WALLACE: And you could argue, why doesn’t the president do something to stop it?
MULVANEY: The richest state in the nation, the richest state in the nation has abject poverty like that. A state, by the way, dominated for generations by Democrats. I think it’s fair to have that conversation.
Chris, you
ignorant slutmendacious hack.WALLACE: You say it has zero to do with race – there is a clear pattern here, Mick. The fact is that before his inaugural – before his inauguration, the president tweeted about John Lewis, a black congressman that he should — this is before his inauguration, he should spend time in his crime-infested district.
Then, two weeks ago, he goes after these four members of “The Squad,” all women of color, and says they should go back to the crime-infested countries from which they come. Then he talks about Elijah Cummings and he says his district is rat and rodent-infested. Infested. It sounds like vermin. It sounds subhuman. And these are all six members of Congress who are people of color.
MULVANEY: I think you’re spending way too much time reading between the lines.
WALLACE: I’m not reading between the lines. I’m reading the lines.
MULVANEY: Does anyone watching this program dispute the fact or the possibility that if Adam Schiff has said the same thing about the border, that the president would be attacking Adam Schiff the exact same way today?
WALLACE: I don’t think he’d be talking about his crime-infested, rodent-infested district.
MULVANEY: He very well could. It has zero to do with the fact that Adam is Jewish and everything to do with Adam would just be wrong if he were saying that. This is what the president does. He fights and he’s not wrong to do so…
WALLACE: You’re completely comfortable with him saying that this is a rodent-infested district and no human being would want to live there? You’re comfortable with that personally?
MULVANEY: Have you seen some of the pictures on the Internet? Just this morning from the conditions in Baltimore, Maryland. Have you seen them?
WALLACE: You can do that in any inner city in America.
MULVANEY: You absolutely could.
WALLACE: And you could argue, why doesn’t the president do something to stop it?
MULVANEY: The richest state in the nation, the richest state in the nation has abject poverty like that. A state, by the way, dominated for generations by Democrats. I think it’s fair to have that conversation.
Weird, don’t know how that happened. But I though double posting was prevented here.
Now you’re literally worse than Hitler.
“Psst. You wanna make a gay baby?”
Why are you being a homophobe?
It was either that or, “I can feel your nuts”.
I was saying anytime a woman refuses anal she’s clearly a homophobe.
The ol’ Mueller one-two?
It sounds like vermin. It sounds subhuman. And these are all six members of Congress who are people of color.
Uh, Chris, you’re the one likening them to vermin.
It sounds like the voices in Chris Wallace’s head are feeding him his lines again.
there is a clear pattern here, Mick.
Um, isn’t Mulvaney an Irish name? And did Wallace actually call Mulvaney a “Mick”?
OMG SO RACIST!!!!
He did, he “started a conversation.” Isn’t that the highest form of action for these guys?
Why is Tlaib a “woman of color” but I’m white, even though our families are from the same place?
FYTW
males are the white people of peoples of color.
Parenthesis privilege?
Shorter Wallace: “If I select six people out all the people Trump abuses on Twitter, and just focus on those six, it sure looks like Trump is a racist to me.”
Justin Amash and the Libertarian Future
Lucy Steigerwald in The New Republic!
Spare me. Libertarianism, or more specifically the Libertarian Party, is destroying itself by putting hacks like Sarwark and Johnson in charge.
I cannot take the LP seriously. I’m still registered Libertarian, mainly because I haven’t gotten off my ass to change it. After the last election and after LP leadership has tried to outdo Trump in saying ridiculous shit on Twitter I’m pretty much convinced that it’s not a serious political party.
LP leadership has tried to outdo Trump in saying ridiculous shit on Twitter I’m pretty much convinced that it’s not a serious political party.
By that logic the Republican and Democratic parties aren’t serious either, so the LP is just like them.
Just like them except for demonstrating anything like a successful, long-term electoral strategy, sure. Maybe it’s a case of “Caesar’s wife” with the LP versus the other two, but their nominees are a mess, their conventions are freakshows, and they’re not working to shed the image of a bunch of anarchist hippies as Ayn Rand called them. Which is fine and totally their prerogative, but you don’t win elections that way, and you don’t advance your ideological causes unless you win elections.
So you’re happy with the direction sarwak wants to go in.
That would mean abandoning the hippies and cosmos with all their attendant insanity and attempting to draw in some actual support from middle America. The LP platform isn’t that bad, it’s the people surrounding it.
They’re not going to do it, ever.
DON’T TALK ABOUT LUCY!
Has Trump had people who criticize him audited?
Amash’s main problem, and why I suspect he will lose reelection, is that he chose the dumbest of all possible hills to die on. Buying into the Russian collusion conspiracy is not going to win him more votes on the left than he will lose on the right.
Yup. Amash has been a TDSer from day one, so it should be no surprise he done what TDSers do.
Shame, really. There was a lot to like, but supporting a soft coup ranks right up there with supporting gun control in my book – its full disqualification.
The age of consent in Florida is 18.
SRSLY?
I would have guessed 12 – given all the meth.
Florida is like STEVE SMITH, consent is not a consideration.
okay then…
Experience: I tried to exorcise my sexuality
Was it really that hard to come out in 2000’s London?
English lesbians? Maybe…
So, trust fund.
I’m no longer religious. I do yoga, I light candles, I have a relationship with a higher power.
That’s still religious. You’ve just changed religions.
Beyond Libertarianism
My favorite:
We must do something! FOR THE PEOPLE!
“then you need to be willing to use political power when it’s appropriate to actually solve those problems”
If you think X is a problem then you need to be willing to inflict violence on anyone and everyone who gets in your way of fixing it.
“then you need to be willing to use political power when it’s appropriate to actually solve those problems”
I am willing to use political power when it is appropriate. It is appropriate when:
1. used to protect the nation from invasion
2. used to protect persons and property from criminals
3. used to enforce contracts.
So if the reason people are not having kids is because the Canadians have attacked and are preventing childbirth, or because roving gangs are forcibly administering birth control you have my permission to use political power to fix the situation.
That is the exact type of reasoning that leads to mass graves.
What I love most about being a libertarian is the immense power we wield in society.
I think Mr. Vance should get an MRI, stat! I think he’s having a stroke.
Well Mr. Vance, if you feel that people are making destructive choices, go about doing the hard work of convincing them of this, rather than advocating for an expensive government program that will ultimately prove to be ineffective.
“That sounds like work – and it won’t let me put the boot to people who do things that annopy me”
What I’m going after is the view that so long as public outcomes and social goods are produced by free individual choices, we shouldn’t be too concerned about what those goods ultimately produce.
Lost me at “social goods”.
We should be concerned that our economy is geared more toward developing applications than curing terrible diseases. We should care about a whole host of public goods, and should actually be willing to use politics and political power to accomplish some of those public goods.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
This is where conservatives and liberals go wrong. We should be concerned about X. But it does not follow that we should use force to fix it. This is the “because I can” philosophy. No social I’ll is fixed cause you violently threaten people. It’s fixed by convincing people to live differently.
Uffda. They caught me. Instead of wasting all my time writing web applications, I should have been curing terrible diseases. I mean, those two things are basically the same thing and require the same skill set.
Do you know who else wanted to use political power for the public good?
No.
^^^^ winner
WRONG. That’s not how you play. *takes ball and leaves*
Only the one?
You know who else only had one ball?
Lance Armstrong?
That guy from “Sons of Anarchy?”
We should be concerned that our economy is geared more toward developing applications than curing terrible diseases.
Okay, let’s just sort through the threads of stupidity in this comment.
1. Developing applications and curing terrible diseases are not substitute activities. They’re radically different skill sets. That guy developing apps probably didn’t have, as his back-up research biologist.
2. Curing terrible diseases is something that is really hard and really rare, no matter how many resources you put into it. Developing apps is something relatively achievable with fairly limited resources.
3. Developing apps may well do more to prevent terrible diseases, and maybe eventually find their cure, than most government research initiatives. Advances in data science are proving incredibly helpful in medical innovation. And the technology came from those icky web app developers.
For number one, I’m going to charitably assume that he means we should foster a culture that encourages people to aspire to working in the eradicate-terrible-disease field over creating apps. However, cultures aren’t created by government force.
I had the same thought as you for number three — there are apps coming out with increasing frequency that tell people about their health status (eg – an app that notes irregular heart beats), to note just one area of health-related app development.
Union slams NYPD commissioner after deadly block party shooting
Shocking that the people aren’t eager to listen to a vast collection of overweight, disrespectful bullies
NYPD union communications are REALLY ENTERTAINING!
““None of it is funny, 12 people were shot, someone is dead, and cops were hit with water.”
This has got to be Babylon Bee right?
Official NYPD Union > any silly satirical website.
They’re having trouble controlling the level of THEIR VOICES!!!
We should be concerned that our economy is geared more toward developing applications than curing terrible diseases.
Mandatory public servitude will fix this.
If we get enough kids digging ditches, it will cure cancer. You just have to believe.
The funny thing is that if you try to force it away from app development and towards curing diseases you’ll wind up with no apps and no cures.
From Buzzfeed comes: Protect Your Parents From The Internet Week
What To Do If The Older People In Your Life Are Sharing False Or Extreme Content
“What do you do when your parents go from posting Minions [memes] to posting hard-right memes about cement milkshakes?”
That makes it all better. He wasn’t in favor of alt-right anti-semites, just leftist anti-semites.
And cement milkshakes? Never seen those memes.
Well it is the information super highway, perhaps we should have a license to operate a computer on it?
Just refer them to a reputable site like Vox or Snopes, they’ll set them right.
I thought was agreeing with the horrible bombing of a hospital in Palestine
and that is better?
Trump is going after Sharpton now. We have a president that DGAF.
Never forget Freddy’s Fashion Mart!
He somehow made the Democrats become pro rat, maybe he can trick them into taking a stand for lying about crimes and fanning the flames that lead to murder now.
The more the shit-slinging continues, the more I believe Trump should have put in Chris Christie as his attack dog and kept for himself some dignity to the President’s job. Even with the media and TDS derangers against him, a Reagan-like Trump would be so far ahead in 2020 it would be no contest. Let Christie chew off the Squad’s asses while Trump acts presidential.
He didn’t get elected the first time by “acting presidential”.
Teddy Roosevelt flushed dignity to the office down the toilet and it never came back.
Coolidge? Hoover?
Until he pulls his dick out in public, he hasn’t reached the level of lbj so he is fine on dignity.
He’s just having fun right now. I’d expect him to reign it in closer to the election.
The Dems will have a problem withdrawing from their own antics and he’ll look like the sane one in the room.
All he said was that Sharpton is a conman who hates whites. That is as controversial as saying fire burns.
Last week I visited the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki and noticed this entirely uncontroversial passage on one of the displays:
I thought it would be there success during the winter wars?
Scandahoovians are very proud of their groupthink, even honorary Scandahoovians like Finns.
They could use a man like Pol Pot.
If that’s their most indisputable source of pride they’re in serious trouble.
If it’s indisputable, why isn’t it voluntary?
Please, the real source of pride in Finland are saunas, Sisu, and Simo Häyhä.
And Teemu Selanne
….and Pia Pakarinen
My sister married one. This checks out.
Hundreds of thousands of people moved into towns or even to Sweden in search for work.
*gasps* Not . . . Sweden?!
I have a question for glib lawyers. If someone is tresspassing, then captured and held prisoner for a few days before either being released or escaping, does that count as kidnapping, or a different crime?
Not a lawyer, but false imprisonment, perhaps?
Are you talking like a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness or Baltimore?
In writing more Tarnished Sterling stories, I’m thinking about the situation where the costumed crimefighter sneaks into the bad guy’s workshop, gets caught and restrained (because so far this particular villain has only committed misdemeanors and murder is way more of an escalation than he’s going to accept).
False imprisonment?
Side question: when does a workshop become a lair?
When it is at least 3/4 underground.
When it’s also a site of occupation. If the guy just travels there to work on projects, but resides somewhere else, it’s not a lair.
Is it something that could be construed as a misunderstanding, or does the person know they’re falsely imprisoning a hero?
I’m reminded of a bar question where a shopkeeper held a shoplifter for 3 hours before calling the cops. It was a question whether it fell into the “shopkeeper’s privilege” exception to false imprisonment.
The random chunk of plot running around my head involves the bad guy in question deactivating and stealing the hero’s transformation trinket which provides their powers, so no misunderstanding. He just knows that a stack of misdemeanors isn’t worth running from a murder charge for the rest of his life.
From long ago substantive law class, kidnapping (at least in my state) is moving someone from one location to another, and the threat of force (although that might have for a higher degree of the crime). So moving someone against their will from one room to another could be charged as kidnapping.
Asking for a friend?
Well, asking for Syd.
Grabbing a state at random (“Missouri”), I looked up what the action qualified as.
Without a deathtrap, or enabling another felony, or ransom.hostage situation, it’s Kidnapping in the Third Degree, a misdemeanor.
Really depends on the jurisdiction. It could be considered kidnapping, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, and so on. Just depends on how the laws are written.
Pretty much this.
It could be citizen’s arrest, but if they aren’t turned over to law enforcement at the earliest opportunity, then its a crime.
Please, the real source of pride in Finland are saunas, Sisu, and Simo Häyhä.
Kimi Raikkonen.
Tom.
Looks like some lunatic shot up a festival in CA. More of these rabid dogs need to be put down unceremoniously.
He’ll be in some real trouble if he used unlicensed ammo.
“There are no serial numbers on these bullets! Ghost bullets!”
And a self-defense free zone again.
You mean, California?
Ok, even more self-defense free zone. They had metal detectors and security screening to get into the festival.
Meanwhile, a local church has their 60 some year annual BBQ picnic yesterday, where anyone can roll up and somehow the only red sauce splattered around was tomato based.
I was under the impression that CA had commonsense gun control.
Here’s some background on the shooter. Probably not entirely accurate.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/santino-william-legan/
Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?
Hmmm… so pretty much your garden variety CA Democrat.
Speaking of Kimi-
Kimi goes lawnmower racing
That’s some real “hold my beer” type racing.
They should be riding on the unmowed part.
Apparently as much connection to actual lawnmowers as stock cars do to, well, stock cars.
Another wax muh ballz situation.
Sure, Adam.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said President Donald Trump stonewalling Congress in their investigations might become an impeachable offense.
Schiff said, “He is violating a different provision of the Constitution by obstructing the Congress in its lawful and constitutional duty. That would not be a crime, that would be a misdemeanor. And the founders had a different idea of what misdemeanor meant. It’s not a lesser crime, but it’s demeaning the office. And I think violating the separation of powers would be such a misdemeanor. So this is why I say the President is doing everything he can to push us into an impeachment because if we can’t get adequate answers from the court in time, that in itself will be an impeachable offense.”
He added, “We will either get the answers that we need or the president’s obstruction will be so complete that that itself becomes a grounds for his impeachment.”
Modern politicians misconstrue and mangle the plain meaning of the constitution in every other clause, why not the impeachment part?
His refusal to work with our politically motivated investigations is enough evidence to convict
Some “obstruction“:
Pretty sure he’s referring to the misc. Congressional hearings that the administration is declining to participate in.
That’s obstruction of “clown show” not “justice”.
Schiff is so cute when he pretends to be an expert on the Constitution and the Founders.
Anything is impeachable. It’s a political act, not a legal one.
So you either have the political support to do it, or you don’t. If you don’t, shut up and fuck off.
Hey, remember this?: What Is He Hiding? Inspectors General Say Obama Administration Obstructing Justice
Obama is a Chicago machine politician. He governed exactly as you would expect.
As ever, if this were a principled position, rather than one of partisan convenience, I could be convinced to support it.
But its not, so I don’t.
Whatever else you may think of Andy McCarthy (and there is much not to like in his views), he a)is not a Trump fan b)knows what’s he’s talking about when it comes to the legal nuts and bolts, and he was spitting hot fire at Mueller and his minions after the farcical hearing.
So why would exceptional, aggressive prosecutors adopt a risible interpretation of the OLC guidance that tied their own hands,
Well, they adopt that interpretation sometimes, and not other times.
Like in the report, which references the guidance in a footnote, but never actually says “we din’t indict him cuz guidance”. Barr smoked them out in his memo, which as I recall says he wasn’t indicted because they couldn’t prove up the elements, not cuz guidance.
A couple of times in the past I have express my disgust for “reality” shows like Braxton Minstrel Values and Growing up Minstrel in Atlanta, because of how they stereotype black folks and provide hideous role models for black kids. Now I do not watch these shows, but I do catch the commercials for them. Well this weekend, I saw an ad for the worst one yet. I do not recall the name of the show, but it’s on WE TV and it follows six black strippers in Atlanta that glorify stripping in clubs. What the fuck kind of message is that giving to young black woman? “You don’t need and education girl; all you need is a pole.” Un. Fucking. Real.
I’ve believed for a long time that inner city ghetto culture (glorifying violence while denigrating education and work) are at least partially responsible for the disparities between blacks and whites on measures of well-being. And this is something that has been echoed by people like Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, and Bill Cosby, so it’s not just something I copied from a KKK pamphlet or something.
I know it raises uncomfortable questions, but these problems will never end if we are forbidden from examining the underlying causes.
but these problems, which are very convenient for our ruling class, will never end
I firmly believe it’s a cultural issue. One of my previous jobs, there was a stark difference between the culturally poor workers (of all colors), and the ones who were working to improve themselves. The real fun came when a black (improving themselves) supervisor would call out a slacking (culturally poor) black employee.
The main problem with roundabouts is that they are sign-posted with yield signs instead of stop signs. The yield sign is generally treated as a “player’s choice” card, which makes it worse than useless. At least with a four-way stop, everyone knows everyone else is supposed to stop. If they replaced the yield signs on roundabouts with stop signs, I’d like them more.
But- but- that would defeat the purpose of roundabouts, which is the effortless non stop mesh of traffic traveling in different directions without icky idling emissions.
*I laughed, too.
There is a Mythbusters episode about roundabouts. Once the drivers got used to them (which happened pretty quickly), the throughput was significantly higher than a four way stop.
Our town is really into roundabouts for some reason. There are 5 or 6 now and they keep adding more. I like them, they do seem to move things along a lot quicker. My MIL hates them, though. She’s still not sure what to do when she gets to one.
I’m not opposed to them, provided they make them big enough for rated truck traffic to get around without crowding out the lanes.
The first time I encountered a roundabout was in England, where we were driving a stick shift, in the “wrong lane”, and hit a roundabout going the “wrong” direction.
When I went to downshift, I tried to use my right hand (as Allah intended) and punched the door. Hilarity ensued.
I am opposed to them in all instances.
Too much trouble to swap out your driving gloves for your roundabout gloves?
When properly built and signed, they do make things easier. However, there’s a lot of people who just panic when they see them, and behave poorly. The real fun comes with Lyft/Uber drivers. One of the common places I get a ride to requires you to get off the freeway into a roundabout. I’ve learned to give them a warning about it coming up, and try not to watch too much to avoid yelling at the driver.
So, what you’re saying is, true roundabouts have never been tried, and this time it has to work.
queue “Yakety Sax”
never thought about the shifter on the left, awkward I assume
I think it’s a state fetish, Kev. A couple new ones sprouted up in Lafayette the last couple years.
*nods vigorously*
I grew up in Fishers and worked in Carmel a few years during undergrad. Neither of those towns have seen an intersection they couldn’t turn into a roundabout.
Having learned to drive them and having driven in an area where people know what to do, I much prefer them to stop signs.
+1 Spring Mill Road
I used to work at 106th and spring mill. I lived at 146th and allisonville. Looking at the map, there are now even more roundabouts in that commute than there were when I was there.
Heck, that 106th and spring mill area is unrecognizable compared to 10 years ago.
Most of the train stations have a giant roundabout in front of them. You pretty much have no choice but to follow the rules because the traffic pushes you that way.
We have a bunch of them. I love them, if only to drive around them as fast as I can, shooting out the other side.
They are fun.
“Once the drivers got used to them”
Another example of half-assed system testing. You are guaranteed to have novice drivers on them in a busy enough area.
I have the exact opposite problem at work. They want to dumb-down web pages so that novices can use them without considering the fact that 100% of the users of the web pages will be on those pages 7 hours a day. Give them a few hours of training at install time and they will be happy – dumb the pages down so they have to click 12 times instead of twice and they will be pissed and start looking for replacement software.
They just added a roundabout in my town to replace a 4-way stop. There was a time when that part of town was pretty quiet and there was little traffic through that intersection, but it had gotten so busy in recent years due to new construction on the other side of town that the 4-way stop was a constant clusterfuck. The roundabout will be a big improvement.
Now it will be a constant clusterfuck backed up for miles and littered with the carcasses of broken cars because the tow trucks can’t get past the people stuck waiting.
Once the drivers got used to them (which happened pretty quickly), the throughput was significantly higher than a four way stop.
Which are the slowest of all possible intersections, and only really appropriate for an intersection that hits a pretty narrow window of “too busy in both directions for two stop signs, and not busy enough for a traffic light”.
The better comparison would have been roundabout v. traffic light.
Yep. Another example of phony-baloney “cost-benefit analysis”.
In the US, we have way too many traffic lights on low-congestion intersection, and they are much less efficient than a 4 way stop.
Although, I did really enjoy the plethora of 3 ways stops near my when learning to drive in Western PA. Because its all hills and small mountains, you often had one road on level ground and one road going up/down the hill. The direction coming down the hill had no stop sign and the right of way just so people would never go out in front of someone with their brakes gone out.
Its a really nice bit of design for failure.
On low-congestion intersections, traffic lights are a dumb idea. Various traffic measures work better in different situations.
In the US you, you have to realize that road “improvements” are 100% done for currying favor with construction unions. Efficient traffic flow has ZERO consideration whatsoever.
Roundabouts are great once everyone gets familiar with them. They are a nightmare when some jackass plops them down in rural USA where a standard T-intersection and a pair of Yield signs would work better because there is no learning curve for them.
It is my familiarity that has bred my contempt of this misuse of pavement.
The center of pretty much every Massachusetts small town has a rotary (roundabout). Flow through them is just fine as long as everyone knows what they are doing. Always turn right and yield to the traffic already in the rotary is the simple rule.
They work, but they can be a bit harrowing in heavy traffic with aggressive drivers. I remember gritting my teeth through a few in Miami, and I was very used to that kind of driving. You know, dangerously cutting right in front of somebody to get on the highway because absolutely nobody slows down to let you in, that kind of thing.
Roundabouts have been popping up like crazy along with diverging diamond on-ramps. In theory both sound great but there are too many bad drivers to make them work.
The zipper merge too. I’ve given up on them. Now I get over ASAP, otherwise I spend an hour waiting for someone to let me merge.
Lol. They tried signs here to encourage the zipper merge, but it was an abject failure. Minnesotans are way too passive aggressive to let someone get by them.
Assholes.
It’s bad here too. People won’t even give room for others to pull into traffic when it’s backed up. They always have to stop bumper to bumper no gaps so someone can pull in from a parking lot.
Once you let one person through, everyone behind him will keep cutting you off, preventing you from advancing.
I give enough room for 1 vehicle to pull in. Never had an issue with someone trying to force their way in. I’m sure it will happen eventually though.
I’ve seen more than once a person, usually in a pickup or SUV, try to ram thmselves into a half carlength space in a traffic jam.
People do that to Mrs. Dean, who drive a big yellow FJ (so they can’t say they didn’t see her), and has massive aftermarket bumpers (total weight – north of 500 pounds) that bolt directly to the frame. About as bad a passenger car to get in dustup with as there is on the road.
I keep meaning to get her a bumper stick that says “My Crush Zone is Your Car”.
They tried signs here to encourage the zipper merge
Same here. Between the old people, the college students, and the drivers who have a more freewheeling, shall I say third world, style, also an abject failure.
I was changing lanes when the lane ahead of me was going away (a zipper situation), had plenty of room, and just as I changed the guy behind me floored it and tried to prevent me. He actually went on a full road rage, pulling up next to me and giving me both middle fingers. I laughed at him, which had the desired effect. Sure enough, he got behind me and started following (probably his route anyway).
I drive by a sheriff’s office on the way home. I figured if he was still following me by then, I’d pull into their parking lot to see what was on his mind. He turned off before then.
Zipper merge? In Chicago they are trying to get rid of them and call them “suicide merge”,
I thought suicide merges were traffic merging from the left.
We have several of those here too, but they can’t do anything about them as they were the only way to cram them into the existing roadways. The Chicago Loop at one point had 12 left-side entrance ramps – they took out half of them but I’m not sure its going to cut down on accidents.
As Tundra said, people are just way too passive aggressive and feel personally slighted that a car dare get in front of them for any reason. That’s why the tailgating is so much worse than it was just 20 years ago. I think drivers were mellower when people smoked cigarettes; now that cigs have been replaced with prescription anti-depressants that portion of drivers are loaded with unchecked hate and rage.
How well the zipper merge works in heavy traffic would be an excellent way to measure the AQ (asshole quotient) of the local driving population.
There is a Mythbusters episode about roundabouts. Once the drivers got used to them (which happened pretty quickly), the throughput was significantly higher than a four way stop.
I actually believe this, although as you say, one confused neophyte throws everything into total disarray. There was a four way stop intersection not far from my house in Indpls, and in the morning, it functioned pretty well as a slow motion mixmaster. The local residents who went through there every day had the walking speed mesh figured out, but every now and then somebody who didn’t understand the pattern or didn’t understand the concept of right-of-way would bring everything to a standstill. Then one day, some genius “traffic engineer” came along and decided that intersection needed a traffic light. Then, instead of a steady mesh, the first person who wanted to turn left would stop everybody behind him unti the light changed and he could turn. This caused traffic to back up about a mile, sometimes. Eventually, they redid the intersection and put left turn lanes in. They should have left the four goddam stop signs there.
The other thing about roundabouts is when somebody in the inside lane decides to chop across your bow to get out.
Multiple lanes on a roundabout is a bad idea.
It can be put more succinctly:
If properly designed, a second lane for a protected right turn is fine, but most 2 lane roundabouts aren’t properly designed.
There will be problems with drivers who don’t know how to use them, but in my experience, that doesn’t happen very often anymore. Now that they’re showing up all over, you’ll get fewer and fewer people who haven’t seen one.
I wonder if they’re on the drivers test yet?
It has nothing to do with having been in one or several. It’s about being in the right position to EXIT the damn thing. Drive Main Street north into downtown Crown Point through heavy traffic with the intent of getting onto 231 without intentionally cutting someone off. It can’t be done. That may not “technically” be a roundabout, but in effect that is what many of them are.
I think it’s a state fetish, Kev. A couple new ones sprouted up in Lafayette the last couple years.
They’re putting them everywhere, in Carmel.
Fun Carmel roundabout story: I was home from school one May and was driving through Carmel. As I approached one of the zillion roundabouts, I hear a screaming roar from the other side of the circle. I look ahead to see a blur of a 2 seater indycar ripping through the roundabout and taking off in the opposite direction.
Only in Indy.
Fucking hell on Earth. 52 dead.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7298167/Prison-battle-rival-gangs-leaves-52-dead-Brazil-jail.html?ico=pushly-notifcation-small
anyone else watching The Boys on Amazon Prime? I’ve seen the first episode so far and I’m hooked. Violence, funny dialogue, unique plot, good acting.
The very fact that it’s being hyped makes me not want to see it.
oh no, it’s good.
Too late, it’s already past the “not going to watch it” threshold. And raving about it counts as hype.
The fact of the matter is, just recommending a work reduces my interest, and builds opposition to it. Not sure why.
you should watch it before it’s ruined by spoilers.
I’ve been very uninspired for my late evening watching. I’m going to give it a look.
It better be as good as everyone says, or somebody’s bunny is going to get boiled (no euphemism).
Nothing is ever as good as everybody says.
Get your pot of water ready.
think of how good everyone is saying it is.. and then double it. it’s that good.
No thanks. Any more of this and I’ll have to hate it on principle.
you shouldn’t watch it. it sucks.
you shouldn’t watch it. it sucks.
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